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Clarifying your value proposition… and your elevator pitch
Forty-seven minutes. That is how long it took me to drive home from Downtown Vancouver to back here in Maple Ridge. Through the fog every mile of the journey… that is until I got to my front door.
You see, I live out here on the edge of a Mountain, slightly elevated above a very scenic commuter community. For those who are not local and would not know, there is a low pressure inversion blanketing the Lower Mainland. Our home is above it. When people ask me why I live out here, I often have standard answers: more affordable housing, a small-town feel, wider parking spaces [which is great for small children]. However, I now have another answer to give.
"Living in the suburb provides you with more opportunity to clarify your value proposition, practice your elevator pitch, and come out of the fog."
You see… I had one of those days of meetings and networking. I met a former colleague for lunch to catch up and talk about the latest business projects, what's new, what's different and how we are going to change the world. A quick hop into Starbucks [London Fog Latte… it seemed appropriate] to work on a business plan that I was preparing for the late afternoon's First Round Capital's Office Hours. Then a meeting with a business partner to discuss development plans on one of my ventures (TeeTimes.net). Followed by the aforementioned Office Hours [I pitched an angle of Texts.com, not the business plan I was preparing earlier]. Followed by a quick dinner (responding to a day's worth of emails while eating). Followed by networking at the Vancouver Entrepreneur's Meetup. Followed by a late night coffee with a few other entrepreneurs and genuinely nice people that I met tonight (here, here, and here). And then the drive home.
All day long, I practiced my elevator pitch (or on a day like today I should say, "pitches"). And all day long I listened to others explain their business models and communicate their value propositions. Some were well done, and others like the presenter from the Investor's Group who must have misread the 30 second pitch guidelines as 3 minutes… not so much.
But the drive home provided me with 47 minutes to rehearse my pitch and think about what resonated with my day's companions, and what left people in a fog. Well actually it was only 45 minutes. The first 2 minutes were spent listening to the radio to hear that the Canucks blew another game.
So here is what I learned from tonight:
- Texts.com – One of the things that I like about good quality generic domain names, especially when it is your company's name, is that it leads your audience into your pitch before you open your mouth. At the Entrepreneur's Meetup on my name tag, I scribbled "John" and beneath it I wrote "Texts.com". From here, depending on the audience, I could adjust my pitch to one of the following:
- "Texts.com provides international text messaging and SMS Marketing services. With our international text messaging service, we save money for those who wish to send an SMS message internationally. Rather than paying your standard carrier a message rate that reaches as high as $0.50 per message, we can deliver a text message to your overseas friend or family for as low as $0.10 per message. In other words, we simplify international text messaging." … or…
- "Texts.com provides international text messaging and SMS Marketing services. Our SMS marketing services focus on the smaller local merchant. A typical short code that is required for mobile marketing campaigns costs anywhere from $15k to $30k per year and takes 12 weeks to set up. This is not practical for a small business. Likewise, a merchant could lease a shared short code, and while this is more affordable, if a person unsubscribes from a campaign that happened to be on the same network, you lose that customer. Instead, we are implementing technology to let a person "Call-to-Subscribe" to a mobile marketing campaign at rates that are much more affordable than the cheapest shared short codes. Small businesses now have an affordable option to participate in mobile marketing."
So in hindsight (and one 45 minute drive later), how did I do? I think it would have been better to simply lead with a single message around local SMS Marketing. Next time I would start off with the key value proposition of our SMS marketing and how we differ from existing systems. Full stop.
- TeeTimes.net – A few times tonight I had the opportunity to talk about another one of my ventures, TeeTimes.net. Once again, the domain name says a lot about the business. A person who has any sort of understanding about golf, would know that this business has to do something about TeeTimes and they would probably even conclude that it is a place for online golf reservations. So how did I do?
- "We operate a web-based golf reservations business that allows golfers to book their tee times online for more than 1,000 golf courses across North America."
People got this. They understood what we did. It was simple. In some instances, I delved deeper into the business model and our execution strategy that made us unique, but for the most part, I stopped it after the first sentence. In other words, to paraphrase Jerry Maguire, "You had me at Hello".
What other messages did I hear tonight that I liked?
- Elizabeth Southall of PowerhouseCopy (a direct response copywriter) — "I specialize in direct response copywriting for the web that helps you convert more of your visitors into paying customers." Cool. Sounds good. I could use that.
- Tom Gibson of OutsideIncredible (a product marketing consultant) — "I'm a product value specialist. I help companies make their products and services resonate instantly with buyers." He even had that exact pitch written on his business card. Nice touch.
- Derek Bell of Tynt… "We enable people to Graffitti up the web, sharing their thoughts via the social web"… At least I think that was it. In any case, I got it right away… but perhaps this is just because I have always been a fan of the website PostIt note model since I came across Third Voice many, many years ago.
For everyone else that I met tonight… I look forward to seeing you again real soon.
Vancouver Entrepreneurs' Meetup at TheNetworkHub.ca
Here I sit on a warm Friday evening, drinking a Grande Java Chip Frappuccino. It finally tastes like summer. Things were hot last night as well at the Vancouver Entrepreneur's Meetup hosted by Minna and Sam over at TheNetworkHub in their trendy, edge-of-Gastown offices. It was a little warm, but it was nothing that a cool drink couldn't take care of.
This was the first time I attended this get together and it definitely is good to see the spirit of entrepreneurship alive and well in Vancouver. I had some great conversations, heard about some new business models (I like what Daniel Flippance had to say about his forthcoming Inhabit Street venture… to be unveiled officially at Launch Party next week). I also have to apologize to Minna and Sam for staying around waaaay too late discussing domain names, internet marketing, and incubation models (though I also blame Pete Quily, an Adult ADD Coach, for this one … Oh and Pete, I started to take the Adult ADD test on your site, but I got distracted by this post).
One of the things that surprised me a little bit is that this little journal of mine has started to pick up some readers (as a couple of people in attendance indicated that they had read some of my thoughts over the preceding weeks). Someone commented [might have been Pete above] that he didn't like seeing blogs that the person who was writing it was not forthcoming about who they are and what they stand for. For that reason, I will be building out more about who I am and the projects that I am involved in [if they can be disclosed due to client confidentiality] right after I finish this post.
For those too busy (or lazy) to follow a few links and read the "about me"… my name is John Lyotier and I am a veteran of the Vancouver software scene, mostly working at the cross roads of marketing and technology (e.g., internet, domain names, web strategies, marketing automation, product marketing automation, etc.) My bio is public on my resume site here. I am presently working as a consultant to early-stage companies and entrepreneurs advising them on marketing, internet, and launch strategies (while at the same time incubating a few of my own entrepreneurial ventures). My consultancy is currently under a placeholder domain over at LaunchPoint.ca. And no, I haven't done anything to that domain to market it, promote it, or optimize it for search (it will be disappearing soon as I bring my practice under the LaunchExperts brand… one of the concepts that I am developing).
There, now that that is off my chest, I think I will go finish my Frappuccino before it has completely melted.


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From the Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/karen-dionnby Karen Dionne
On Buying Books
According to a survey commissioned last spring by Random House Inc., 28 percent of Americans purchase between 11 and 20 books every year. The figure is slightly higher for Canadians: roughly one-third (34%) report buying themselves at least one book per month. 36% of non-reading Canadians said they had bought a book as a gift during the previous year.
Not bad for an industry rocked by declining sales, massive layoffs, acquisitions freezes, and severe reorganizations.
But included in the Canadian report is this curious statistic: Proportionately, heavy readers purchase the lowest amount of books.
Let me say that again: The most enthusiastic readers buy the fewest number of books.
With all the talk about the overall decline in reading, one would think voracious readers would be the backbone of the publishing industry. Instead, the relatively small group of dedicated book buyers cited above represent 76% of the total number of books sold; a whopping 70% of the monetary value of all industry sales.
I didn't used to buy books. While we always had great stacks in the house, the books we owned tended to be given to us, or books we picked up at yard sales. Occasionally, we bought one new from a bookstore, but for the most part, if we wanted a book, we went to the library. At one point, I carried six different library cards in my wallet.
Recently one librarian gave me a retired "Date Due" card as a memento: heavy lined stock with two columns -- one to sign your name and the other where the librarian stamped the date the book was due before inserting the card in its pocket in the back of the book. The card shows that between June 1989 and July 1994, my son checked out The Big Beast Book by Jerry Booth 13 times. I remember the librarian telling him that if he borrowed the book 20 times, he could keep it. Apparently, he took her at her word.
The card is a charming reminder of a little boy who loved dinosaurs so much that he repeatedly trekked to the library to check out this and other favorites. But looking at the card now, I have to wonder: Why didn't we just buy the book for him?
It's a good question. Why don't more book-lovers buy books? It may be because buying something that's only going to be used once feels excessive, indulgent. Or possibly the resistance stems from the days when a personal library was the province of a privileged few: when books were rare and expensive, their ownership was treasured. Now that books are available and affordable, their preciousness is diminished.
I started buying books after I began writing them. When my debut thriller sold to Berkley, a number of authors agreed to read my novel with a view to a possible endorsement. In appreciation, I bought their books. I began with paperbacks, then graduated to hardcovers. I quickly discovered I liked owning books. The books I bought felt different, smelled different, than the books I was used to. They were mine. No one had handled my books but me. Reading them, I felt a stronger connection with the author. I wasn't just enjoying their stories; I'd invested in them when I bought their books.
In a few short years, my book-buying habit has become so entrenched that even though I moved to a new city four years ago, I still haven't taken out a library card.
New York Times bestselling thriller author Lee Child says he writes his popular Jack Reacher series to a 4th-grade reading level in order to reach the people who are on the fringes of reading. It pleases him when they say, "Great book! I finished it."
Similarly, the 87 million Americans who bought less than 10 books last year could be said to be on the fringes of book buying. Since my novel published, I've met some of them. I know they're of this group because they begin the conversation by saying, "I bought your book!" as if their purchase was a big deal. And it was remarkable. Not because they can't afford it -- my novel published in paperback, and these are people who commonly spend the equivalent amount on a morning muffin and latte -- but because they're not in the habit.
As an author, I'm grateful for their support. And while I don't say it, as one of the converted, secretly, I hope their purchase marks the beginning of a long and satisfying addiction. If more book-lovers become book-buyers, perhaps the publishing industry's woes will ease, and the 14% who purchase more than 20 books per year -- my category -- will explode the next time Random House takes a survey.

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I love the energy of Tank and The Bangas! The camaraderie reminded me of Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeroes even if they're very different musically.
That video won the NPR Tiny Desk Contest this year. So they were invited to play in their offices: another beautiful performance
Bonus: Sofar Sound with another track.
Loved them so much I just bought both their albums: Think Tank and The Big Bang Theory: Live at Gasa Gasa
Always Love Yourself
I don't even need you
I never tried to cry
I used to ask so many questions like that famous one, 'Why?'
Do you know him?
Does he know you?
Did you do a little hanky-panky off at the San Diego zoo?
Did you see the koalas?
Did you see the tigers and the bears, the wolves, the-
the things you shouldn't see
Did you hold his hand in a park?
Did you go to a movie?
How dare you have someone you cared about before me
It's so right
For me to get jealous
'Cause I gotta think of you as a piece of property
I've gotta hold on to you
When I say you're my girl
It really means that I own you inside of my mind
She thinks that's sexy
'Cause she thinks that's cool
'Cause love should be based on insecurity, my fools
I know it's true and it feels so good to be
Slightly addicted to someone that you feel you can't learn about
But don't worry now
'Cause there's more
A-kissing and a-smooching and a-smooching and a-kissing and a-smooching and a-maybe just a little bit of fuckin
And you gotta do it right
Listen to what they are saying
Their body will respond in time, in kind and you will understand or glean
Oh yes you'll glean
'Cause gleaning is a thing we can do if we really open up our listening
Oh yes, I feel how lovers like to entwine in the moment
'Cause there's always a discrepancy between the biological lead
To procreate
But sometimes it gets confused with the idea, the construct that society lays upon this world, yeah
You watch a movie, you think it's like that, yeah
You watch a TV show, you think it's like that, yeah
You read a book and you think it's like that
But it hasn't been like that for very long
Because society hasn't developed
The technology to place their stories in constructs in the philosophical medium that's entertaining for us to understand
And plus there's so many of us here on this planet
We need a system to organize ourselves in a way that makes us feel like we come from a tradition of culture
It's so cool, but it's scarier
To get your things in order
And understand there's no order
We're all improvising
And any way it makes you happy
Is truly the way that you should survive
Because otherwise you're living under systems that don't match who you are
And you'll be fighting that all of for the rest of your life.
Anyways just be happy
Just do everything with love
And you'll see everything will B-E a-ok
Just do what you need
Take that time to do the in between
The in, the in, in, in between
Don't use those things
Against another person
Remember every person
Is an opportunity
To learn more about yourself
'Cause you are listening
To where they're coming from
And they represent a reflection of yourself
As long as you understand
That there's more to this life
There's always so much more to this life
Hey, hey, oh baby
I like the way that you smile at me
It makes me feel so good
It makes me feel like anything's possible, yes
As long as I don't lie no more
To myself or to others
It feels so much better 'cause when I was younger, I could lie, let me tell you, I could lie like a motherfucker
And that is good
Because you gotta experience the darkness
'Cause the darkness is important to understand inside yourself
It's not always about being good
It's understanding why you're being good in the first place
Oh, empathy's a bitch
Once you feel it, you can't get rid of that itch
It's true
Just remember to all, all, all, all, always love yourself.
Audiogramme du vendredi 1er Avril 2016
Mes émissions continuent sur Radio Liban 96.2 mais je ne suis pas sur de vouloir continuer à les mettre en ligne. C'est un travail prenant et fastidieux.
Je ne mettrai en ligne que les "spéciales" ou celles qui m'auront plu pour une raison ou une autre.
Entre temps, vous trouverez plus de 130h d'emissions sur Mixcloud. Enjoy!
1. Kemal Rachid and Ses Ottomans – Narguilé
2. Mohamed Mazouni – Ecoute Moi Camarade
3. Camille – Paris
4. Bonobo – If You Stayed Over
5. Handsome Boy Modeling School – I've Been Thinking feat. Cat Power
6. The Cinematic Orchestra – To Build A Home feat. Patrick Watson
7. Mercury Rev – Holes
8. Aaron Neville – How Could I Help But Love You
9. Grandmagneto and Blundetto – Everybody's Talkin
10. Gefilte Joe & The Fish – Walk On The Kosher Side
11. Fat Freddy's Drop – Ernie
Audiogramme du jeudi 31 Mars 2016
1. Edson Cordeiro – Kiss
2. Bill Ben and Baggio – Pusherman
3. Cymande – Brothers On The Slide
4. Amadou & Mariam – Je Pense À Toi
5. Shinehead – Billie Jean
6. Pat Bowie and Charles McPherson – Feelin' good
7. Bill Withers – Grandma's Hands
8. Esther Phillips – Home Is Where The Hatred Is
9. Jackson Sisters – I Believe In Miracles
10. Phyllis Dillon – Close To You
11. Lefdup and Lefdup – 15h38mn
12. Terry Callier – Love Theme From Spartacus
13. Isaac Hayes – Do Your Thing
14. Greyhound – Move On Up
15. Shuggie Otis – Miss Pretty
16. Tindersticks – People Keep Comin' Around
Audiogramme du mercredi 30 Mars 2016
1. Viviane Arnoux François Michaud – Mission Impossible
2. Salamat – Mambo El Soudani
3. Ali Hassan Kuban – Habibi
4. Fun Lovin Criminals – Scooby Snacks
5. Glen Brown – Lay Lady
6. A Tribe Called Quest – Steve Biko (Stir It Up)
7. The Pharcyde – Pandemonium
8. The Roots – Proceed
9. Fugees – Fu-Gee-La
10. Finley Quaye – Sunday Shining
11. Freak Power – Turn On, Tune In, Cop Out
12. Daft Punk – Around The World
13. Blackstreet Feat. Dr. Dre – No Diggity
14. Tricky – Overcome
15. Smoke City – Underwater Love
Tricky – 'Overcome' (Official Video)
Audiogramme du mardi 29 Mars 2016
1. Abdullah Ibrahim – Namlhanje (Radio Nova's edit)
2. Ahmed Fakroun – Nisyan
3. Dahmane El Harrachi – Ya Rayah
4. Bonga – Boto Boto
5. Marvin Pontiac – Small Car
6. The Fatback Band – Wicky Wacky
7. Chromatics – Looking For Love
8. Dee-Lite – What Is Love
9. Inner City – Big Fun
10. Morphine – The Night
11. José González – Hints
12. Terry Callier – Lazarus Man
Audiogramme du lundi 28 Mars 2016
1. Zap Mama – Take Me Coco
2. Carleen Anderson – Mama Said
3. Human Spirit – Rien a Peter
4. Les Negresses Vertes – Face a la Mer
5. Cesaria Evora – Cabo Verde
6. Joyce – Taxi Driver
7. Suzanne Vega – Blood Makes Noise
8. Stereo MC's – Connected
9. Young Disciples – Apparently Nothin'
10. Digital Underground – Freaks Of The Industry
11. Cypress Hill – Pigs
12. A Tribe Called Quest – Check the Rhime
13. Yellowman – Hit The Road Jack
14. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan – Mustt Mustt (Massive Attack Remix)


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Gluten-free Chocolate/Chocolate-chip Muffins – Yumm!
For various reasons (mostly health-related) we've been trying to cut down on gluten consumption in our household. Mostly that means changing the sort of meals we eat so that bread and bread-like stuff (pizza etc) just isn't a part of it (I have no intention of spending crazy amounts of money on tiny dense loaves of gluten-free bread!) But the thing I'm famous for is homemade muffins for breakfast on weekends. I wasn't quite ready to entirely give up on that, so I came up with this gluten-free recipe that's quick and easy and amazing and moist and rich and yummy....Read More
Coconut-Cranberry Oatmeal Banana Muffins (Gluten-free)
It's Saturday morning, the middle of winter – which means I really want something warm for breakfast. Two extremely brown bananas (but not quite to the point of fermentation) sit on my counter (where they were supposed to remind me to peel and freeze them about a week ago, when they would have been perfect for Green Smoothies (still my work-day staple for breakfast and lunch)). The obvious conclusion? I need to make banana muffins this morning. We've been largely gluten-free for months, and I've sort of settled on an amazing Saturday-morning muffin recipe that...Read More
Raw 'Sandwiches' – This must be what summer tastes like!
My husband has just finished a 10 day juice fast (for health reasons), and isn't ready to start eating 'normal' food again quite yet. So we've been experimenting with various raw foods for supper (which I'm thrilled with, because it's giving me great ideas for the next raw-detox I do, probably sometime later this month – in the past it's always been the suppers that I have trouble with, because they've felt so much like, well, rabbit food :-(). And we've hit on one that is a definite winner (even my kids like these, although...Read More
7 Steps to Great Skin – Step 3: You Are What You Eat
As you may have noticed, I started a 7 part series, 7 Steps to Great Skin quite a while ago. Suddenly, life got busy, and I never got around to finishing it. Step 3 was always planned to be "You are what you eat". So you can imagine how happy I was when Daisy Raybould, of Revitalize Your Health offered to write this article for me, since it fits so well into my series. Thank you, Daisy! Siobhan * * * 5 Foods To Help You Achieve Beautiful Skin Everyone wants beautiful skin; some women spend hundreds of dollars for expensive creams and lotions that promise to make their skin soft,...Read More
What's for Brunch? Try Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Loaf Cake
I guess everyone has their own idea about what makes a perfect lazy, Sunday morning breakfast. Sometime around noon, ideally. For me, it's never been about eggs, bacon, sausage, or any of those traditional Sunday breakfast foods that always leave me feeling just a little un-well afterwards; I'm a muffin person. Waffles are ok too; banana nut-loaf is good. Raisin scones… I can toss together an original muffin recipe (made up from whatever I happen to have lying around the house, based on a simple recipe from my very first cookbook, received as a birthday present when I was...Read More
Looking for Sunday brunch ideas? Look no further!
Welcome to the March 25, 2012 edition of Healthy Eating- Nutritious and Delicious. In this edition, please submit suggestions for wonderful Sunday brunch meals. Fresh baked scones, fruit salad, eggs, hot chocolate… Whatever you think would make a delicious (and nutritious) meal for your family (and friends?) to enjoy together one Sunday morning. * * * Naturally Radiant offers a delicious, moist, rich breakfast loaf, made with pumpkin, walnuts, chocolate chips and, yes, lentils. Try it! Karyn Tripp presents Things that make you say: "Mmmmm"!: Roasted Butternut Squash Soup...Read More


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On Friday, May 27th early in the morning our little Miz was born safe and peacefully in our home. What had taken almost forty weeks to build up suddenly became reality: we became a family of four! Since then, we're getting to know each other and are taking it really slow. Hence, the silence here on the blog which I hope you don't mind. Thanks so much for baering with me while I am adjusting to being mother of two under three…soon I will post more frequently as there are for sure plenty of stories that I'd like to share with you.
All the best from Mamaland…XXX


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Instructional Clinic: Soccer clinic is held in the fall (September to November) and spring (April to May) on Saturday mornings at Memorial Field in Douglaston. This is an instructional clinic for 4 and 5 year olds. Children are taught basic soccer skills to prepare them for competitive play, which begins in first grade.
CYO Teams
Team competition is offered through the CYO program for all boys and girls in grades 1 through 6. Teams can be entered for older children if enough interest exists. Depending on number of children enrolled, teams may be co-ed, all boys, or all girls. More then one grade may also be combined if necessary. All children are eligible to play, assuming they meet the age requirements and there is room on a team. There are no try-outs. The Fall Season runs from September to November and the Spring Season for limited teams runs from late March to May.
Generally practices are held once a week at Memorial Field in Douglaston. Times vary and are determined by the individual coach.
Teams compete against CYO teams from other parishes. There is generally one game per week, although occasionally there could be two. All games are held on the weekends. Locations vary depending on the team that is being played.


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A possible operation against Qandil
Let's say military elements under the TAF did carry out an operation against Qandil. What would happen? What would such an operation bring? What would this operation need to achieve to be considered successful?
An operation against Qandil, and just before the elections too, is not out of the realm of possibility. The situation the AKP-Erdoğan regime has found itself in in Turkey with the elections is too important to be explained away with classical references to election logic and balances. It is clear that two plus two isn't four in this instance, but it is a time when the result can't be foreseen. That is why, when Erdoğan loses it won't be just an election he lost. Political Islam ideology is 'AKP incarnate', and is currently paralyzed due to wrongful policies caused by anti-Kurdish sentiment, and Erdoğan losing the election will be the spiritual and ideological death of it, its profiteering, power-seeking regime and the anti-democratic fascistic structures it built. Add that to the fears about Erdoğan's physical presence. So, it truly is a matter of life or death for Erdoğan.
Muharrem İnce and Meral Akşener are aware of how seriously Erdoğan takes the situation. They are concerned how much more of a monster this matter of life and death will bring out in Erdoğan, and how far it will drive him mad. Both presidential candidates are at a position where they can't fathom the extent of this, and are trying to calm Erdoğan down with comments like, "Go to your corner and retire", "take care of your grandchildren," or at least not agitate him further. They assure him: "We won't put you on trial, we won't pose an existential threat."
At such a time, it should be expected that Erdoğan will resort to anything. At the top of that list is an operation against Qandil.
The issue of an operation against Qandil is both an election operation, and the binding force in the AKP-MHP alliance. The operation against Qandil, which Bahçeli speaks of more than Erdoğan or the AKP, is the precursor for the Cumhur ("Public") Alliance for Bahçeli. Nobody should doubt for a second that the "success" of dragging Turkey into an operation against Qandil will be used by Bahçeli more than Erdoğan. They will attempt to give a second life to the alliance with such an operation.
The motivations of the chauvinist nationalist wave, which started with the demolition of cities during the Self Government resistances and civilian massacres, and climbed high with the invasion of Afrin, will be upheld again. They will say, "Terrorism is the bane of this country, and nobody else but us can fight this." With these arguments that leave the CHP defenseless in the political arena, yet another nail will be hammered to further build the social consciousness, already prepared to believe that Erdoğan will pave a 4-lane highway to the Moon.
Actually, an operation against Qandil is not the first choice for Erdoğan. The first choice would be to target one of the high-ranking PKK officials. Erdoğan has ordered his staff very clearly on this matter that he wants "one or several of top officials to be assassinated before the election, no matter what." But it seems that there is a several-layer plan set in motion as precaution for various possibilities and the disappointment created by such plans. If there is an attack against top ranks, they will be satisfied with that. If not, the operation against Qandil will be put in motion and the main goal in the operation will be to target the top officials. If none of it works, a lightning operation will be carried out against symbolic targets for show.
Süleyman Soylu has taken his place behind the curtain as per the arrangement made within the AKP for this. It looks like Erdoğan saw the confidence problems and the faltering the MİT had about the issue and gave the task to Soylu. Soylu is working together with the MİT in this process, and is implementing the plan to push the HDP below the 10% election threshold on one hand as he meticulously stresses over the military operation against Qandil. A while ago, the allegations of an assassination against Erdoğan were tested to see how the society would respond to them. These alegations are the product of the same special war mentality. We can expect new allegations to be put forth on the matter.
Yes Turkey has the conditions to carry out a military operation against Qandil now. But don't fool anyone. Because these conditions have alway been there. For the AKP, speaking of a victory and a position gained is a complete hoax in this matter, the important part is to focus on the outcome. What would happen if there is an operation against Qandil?
Here are the possibilities:
This operation will correspond to something in the regional balance. And this act is not compatible with the foreign policy of any of the regional actors. This way, the operation will be one more point in the long list of defeats in foreign policy for Erdoğan, who has been gathering protest in the region for a long time. In the Middle East, the loser is Erdoğan and the winner is the PKK. Developments in the region will continue to add to the PKK in the region particularly in the diplomatic arena.
For the administration of KDP, who have been losing prestige under the title of national policy, this will not create a release but intensify the crisis in the party further (whether the KDP is a part of this plan or just turning a blind eye). The sentiment among the people of the South that emerged after the ZAP operation will reemerge, and KDP policies will be identified as collaborating and treacherous, while PKK will be seen as the true protector of Southern Kurdistan and the people. The growing spirit of national unity can even surpass the KDP.
Because Qandil has a special position in the political landscape, the "win-win" equation will benefit the PKK at this particular time and place. On top of suffering heavy blows in the military sense, the tired old line that they "would enter Qandil and eradicate terror" would disappear. The idea that the PKK can be ended will receive another blow and the idea of an invincible PKK will achieve another victory.
Oh, and Suleyman Soylu would be unemployed.


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I need to be able to watch directories on our servers, and track changes to files as part of our audit compliance. I have adjusted auditd to watch the directories, and send all writes and attribute changes to syslog (which immediately forwards on to my splunk server)
this is helpful, it shows who changed a file, but does not actually show you what was changed. If I do a "vi app.conf" and make a change, it will just show that I wrote the file.
I have looked briefly at both AIDE and etckeeper, but I need to track about 2 dozen servers, and that seems rather manual.
For my networking equipment, Rancid has been awesome, with its automatic emails of Diff's. (its actually saved our bacon more than once too)
Is there such a thing as a rancid like tool for linux to monitor directories remotely?


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Saturday, March 06, 2010
Historic Hotels Embrace British Tea Traditions
Historic Hotels of the Rockies Embrace British Tea Traditions
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The West may be wild, but it is also refined. Historic Hotels of the Rockies, a collection of classic hotels that date from the early frontier days, give visitors the opportunity to indulge in the lovely British tradition of afternoon tea. Historic Hotels of the Rockies including the Castle Marne, the Delaware Hotel, the Nagel Warren Mansion, the Historic Elk Mountain Hotel, the Plaza Hotel, the Hotel Colorado and the Grand Union Hotel are a few places where stopping in for a spot of tea will satisfy the stomach as well as nourish the soul.
Traditional afternoon tea usually begins between 2:00 and 4:00 PM. The tea is served with both lemon and milk; cream is considered to be too heavy to accompany tea. For nibbles, afternoon tea combines both sweet and savory choices such as fresh scones served with lemon curd, clotted cream and preserves, quiche or savory tarts, fresh fruit and delicate finger sandwiches. All of these are artfully arranged and presented to guests amid Victorian-era or other historic settings.
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Improvement in Survival Following Successful Percutaneous Coronary Intervention of Coronary Chronic Total Occlusions: Variability by Target Vessel
Author + information
- Received February 14, 2008
- Revision received April 8, 2008
- Accepted April 9, 2008
- Published online June 1, 2008.
Author Information
- David M. Safley, MD, FACC⁎,†,⁎ (dsafley{at}cc-pc.com),
- John A. House, MS⁎,
- Steven P. Marso, MD, FACC⁎,†,
- J. Aaron Grantham, MD, FACC⁎,† and
- Barry D. Rutherford, MD, FACC⁎,†
- ↵⁎Reprint requests and correspondence:
Dr. David M. Safley, Assistant Professor, University of Missouri—Kansas City, Saint Luke's Health System, Mid America Heart Institute, 4401 Wornall Road, Kansas City, Missouri 64111.
Objectives This study compared the survival benefit of opening a chronic total occlusion (CTO) of the left anterior descending (LAD), left circumflex (LCX), or right coronary artery (RCA).
Background Previous analyses demonstrate improved survival following successful percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for CTO.
Methods Eligible patients underwent attempted CTO PCI in a single vessel. Procedural success rates were calculated for each vessel. The primary end point was survival at 5 years, compared across target vessel groups stratified by procedural success.
Results There were 2,608 patients included. The LAD was the target vessel in 936 (36%), the LCX in 682 (26%), and the RCA in 990 (38%) patients. Angiographic success rates for LAD were 77%, LCX 76%, and RCA 72%. Baseline demographics and comorbidities were well matched, though there were significantly more males in the LCX compared with LAD or RCA groups (80% vs. 75% and 73%, respectively, p = 0.005). Procedural success compared with failure was associated with improved 5-year survival in the LAD (88.9% vs. 80.2%, p < 0.001) group, but not in the LCX (86.1% vs. 82.1%, p = 0.21) and RCA groups (87.7% vs. 84.9%, p = 0.23). In multivariable analysis, CTO PCI success in the LAD group remained associated with decreased mortality risk (HR: 0.61, 95% CI: 0.42 to 0.89).
Conclusions The data suggest that PCI for CTO of the LAD, but not LCX or RCA, is associated with improved long-term survival. This information may assist in selecting patients for attempted CTO PCI.
Chronic total artery occlusion (CTO) of a coronary artery is identified in 13% to 23% of all patients referred for coronary angiography and accounts for 7.2% to 15.6% of all percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) attempts (1–4). Successful recanalization of CTO by PCI is associated with better symptom relief, lower risk of subsequent myocardial infarction (MI), and better long-term survival when compared with unsuccessful PCI (5–7). Other recent studies dispute these findings, particularly in patients with occluded infarct-related arteries (8–11). To date, no study has examined the potential for differential benefit of CTO recanalization depending upon the target vessel (e.g., left anterior descending [LAD], left circumflex [LCX], or right coronary artery [RCA]).
The current study was designed to determine procedural success, in-hospital outcomes, and long-term survival in patients undergoing PCI of a single CTO and to compare these outcomes across each of the 3 major epicardial coronary target arteries stratified by procedural success.
Patient population
Patients were identified using the PCI registry at the Mid America Heart Institute. All patients undergoing attempted PCI of a single CTO between June 1980 and May 2004 were included in this analysis. Details of data collection for this registry have been previously published (5). Dedicated personnel prospectively recorded information, including baseline demographics, clinical and procedural characteristics, and in-hospital outcomes. Long-term survival was ascertained using hospital records and the U.S. Social Security Death Master File, which has been shown to be equivalent to the National Death Index (12). All patients gave informed consent, and the local Institutional Review Board approved the study.
Chronic total occlusion was defined as a lesion that displayed Thrombolysis In Myocardial Infarction flow grade 0 to 1 on initial angiography. Patients with acute MI within 7 days pre-procedure, CTO of a venous or arterial bypass conduit or left main coronary artery, or undergoing multivessel PCI were excluded. Patients undergoing multivessel PCI were not eligible for inclusion. Each patient was included in all analyses only once, based on the earliest procedure recorded in the database. The target vessel was assigned as 1 of the 3 major epicardial vessels if the PCI was attempted on that vessel or 1 of its branches (e.g., attempted PCI of an obtuse marginal branch of the LCX was included in the LCX group).
Angiographic success was defined as successful balloon dilation of the lesion with or without stent placement and <40% residual stenosis. Procedural success was defined as angiographic success with no in-hospital major adverse cardiac event, defined as death, MI with new Q waves on electrocardiogram, or urgent target vessel revascularization (including both repeat PCI and coronary artery bypass graft [CABG] surgery). Non–Q-wave MI was defined as elevation of creatine kinase-myocardial band fraction to >3 times the upper limit of normal with recurrent ischemic symptoms following PCI. Severe angina was defined as Canadian Cardiovascular Society (CCS) class III to IV, and renal insufficiency as any serum creatinine >1.5 mg/dl. Current smoking was any active smoking within 1 year. Stroke was defined as new-onset neurological symptoms lasting >24 h with radiographic and/or neurologic confirmation of an event. Hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, and diabetes mellitus were recorded in patients on medical therapy or who self-reported the diagnosis. The number of diseased vessels was assessed by the physician performing PCI. A vessel with >50% angiographic stenosis was considered diseased.
A PCI was performed using the standard over-the-wire technique as previously described (13). Over time, the technique underwent significant modification, including marked improvement in devices, case selection, and adjunctive pharmacotherapy. Post-procedural electrocardiograms were routinely assessed for new Q waves; however, cardiac troponin, creatine kinase, and creatine kinase-myocardial band fraction were not routinely collected.
Statistical analysis
The overall group was divided into subgroups based upon the target vessel. In order to display any differences in subpopulations, baseline characteristics were then compared between vessels using the Student t test for continuous variables and chi-square or the Fisher exact test for discrete variables. Data are presented as mean ± standard deviation for continuous variables and as percentages for discrete variables. The primary end point for this analysis was 5-year survival. A priori, the groups of interest were defined by procedural success/failure for each vessel subpopulation. In order to protect against multiple comparisons, a survival analysis with a vessel by procedural success interaction was performed first. This interaction term was statistically significant, so further survival analyses using log-rank tests were used to compare the survival curves between procedural success/failure groups over time for each vessel. Kaplan-Meier curves were used to depict survival for groups by target vessel and subgroup of procedural success. Survival analyses using log-rank tests were used to compare the survival curves between groups over time. Baseline demographics were compared between those with and without angiographic success to identify significant differences between groups that may affect the primary outcome. A survival analysis using the Cox proportional hazards survival model and adjusted for age, gender, current smoking, prior CABG, number of diseased vessels, angina severity, and glycoprotein (GP) IIb/IIIa inhibitor use was performed to assess the independent contribution of successful CTO PCI to long-term outcomes. Secondary end points included a major adverse cardiac event during the hospital admission for PCI. To assess the impact of clinical variables on procedural success, a multivariable analysis was performed including multivessel coronary artery disease (CAD), male gender, smoking, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, prior PCI, prior MI, history of congestive heart failure, history of chronic renal insufficiency, prior CABG, or GP IIb/IIIa inhibitor use as variables of interest and performed separately for each target CTO vessel. All analyses were performed using SAS version 9.1 (SAS Institute, Cary, North Carolina) with p values ≤ 0.05 considered significant.
Baseline demographics
A total of 36,095 PCIs were performed between June 1980 and May 2004. There were 2,979 (8.3%) attempted CTO PCIs during this period. Of these, 2,608 (88%) were eligible for this analysis. Among all patients, 20.6% had CCS class I angina and 58.9% had CCS class III to IV. By target vessel, CTO PCI was performed on the LAD in 936 (36%), LCX in 682 (26%), and RCA in 990 (38%) patients. Baseline patient characteristics by target vessel are presented in Table 1. Male gender and prior CABG were significantly more common in LCX patients, but current smoking was more common in the RCA group. Mean left ventricular ejection fraction was significantly greater in patients with a RCA target vessel compared with LAD or LCX (0.37 ± 0.24 vs. 0.37 ± 0.25 and 0.40 ± 0.24, respectively, p = 0.006). There were no differences in angina severity across groups.
Procedural characteristics
Overall, 468 patients (18%) received stents, most commonly in the RCA group (Table 2). Use of other adjunctive therapies, including directional or rotational atherectomy, laser, and GP IIb/IIIa inhibitors, was relatively uncommon and did not differ by target vessel.
Angiographic success rates varied across groups (Table 2). In the entire study group, patient characteristics among those with angiographic success were similar to the group with angiographic failure. Among the LAD subgroup, however, those with successful CTO PCI were younger, less often male, had lower prevalence of smoking and prior CABG, and had a higher mean ejection fraction compared with those with unsuccessful PCI (Table 3). Among LCX patients, history of prior CABG was more common in the group with procedural failure than success (29% vs. 21%, p = 0.03). There were no significant demographic differences between the RCA patients with success versus failure.
In-hospital complications
In-hospital complications, including death, target vessel revascularization, and major adverse cardiac event rates, were more common in the LAD CTO group (Table 4). In-hospital CABG was most common in the RCA CTO group. Procedural success rates for the LAD, LCX, and RCA groups were 75%, 75%, and 71%, respectively (p = 0.06) (Table 2). Overall, in-hospital mortality among patients in the LAD group was significantly greater than the RCA or LCX groups (Table 4). Because all deaths are considered procedural failures, the in-hospital mortality rate in patients with unsuccessful CTO PCI of the LAD (n = 234) was 7.7% (n = 18).
Predictors of procedural success
In the LAD group, smoking (OR: 0.60, 95% CI: 0.42 to 0.85), increasing age per 10 years (OR: 0.86, 95% CI: 0.75 to 0.99), and multivessel CAD (OR: 0.43, 95% CI: 0.29 to 0.61) were associated with a lower likelihood of procedural success, but GP IIb/IIIa use (OR: 2.23, 95% CI: 1.17 to 5.05) was associated with increased success. Among those in the LCX group, prior CABG was associated with decreased procedural success (OR: 0.61, 95% CI: 0.41 to 0.92), but GP IIb/IIIa use was associated with increased success (OR: 2.57, 95% CI: 1.07 to 6.17). Glycoprotein IIb/IIIa use was associated with increased procedural success in the RCA group (OR: 2.56, 95% CI: 1.36 to 4.80).
5-year survival
Average follow-up was 10.5 years for LAD patients, 9.8 years for LCX patients, and 9.9 years for RCA patients. Procedural success compared with failure was associated with improved 5-year survival in the LAD (88.9% vs. 80.2%, p < 0.001) groups, but not in the LCX (86.1% vs. 82.1%, p = 0.21) and RCA groups (87.7% vs. 84.9%, p = 0.23) (Figs. 1A to 1C). There was no significant difference in 5-year survival among those with angiographic failure stratified by vessel attempted (p = 0.49). Overall, pre-procedural severe angina was associated with decreased 5-year survival (CCS class III-IV 84.6% vs. CCS class I to II 87.3%, p = 0.046).
Multivariable adjusted predictors of long-term survival are presented in Figure 2. After adjusting for demographic and procedural differences between the success and failure groups, successful CTO PCI remained associated with improved long-term survival in the LAD group (HR: 0.61, 95% CI: 0.42 to 0.89). The difference was not significant in the LCX (HR: 0.84, 95% CI: 0.53 to 1.32) and RCA groups (HR: 0.95, 95% CI: 0.63 to 1.44). Severe angina did not significantly affect survival in adjusted analyses. Age (per 10-year increase) predicted mortality in all 3 groups, but multivessel CAD and GP IIb/IIIa inhibitor use predicted mortality only in the LAD group. Current smoking predicted mortality in the RCA group (Fig. 2).
Our findings suggest a survival benefit of successful CTO PCI of the LAD (as compared to CTO PCI failure) that is not evident in the LCX or RCA subpopulations. Procedural success was associated with an improvement in survival only among those with LAD CTO. There was no similar improvement in survival following successful CTO PCI of the LCX or RCA. To our knowledge, our study is the first to identify a differential benefit by CTO vessel treated in a large group.
Our hypothesis that the survival advantage conferred by successful CTO PCI depends on the culprit vessel was based on previous studies suggesting that LAD occlusion either in acute MI (14,15) or chronic stable coronary syndromes (16) is prognostically significant, whereas lesions in the LCX and RCA are less so. Finding this association between procedural success and improved survival in the LAD but not LCX and RCA groups supports this hypothesis. We also identified increased risk in the LAD group, with a high cost (i.e., in-hospital mortality) of CTO PCI failure. Although overall in-hospital mortality was 1.9% in the entire group, it was 7.7% among patients with failed attempt at CTO PCI of the LAD. This observation also raises questions about how to optimally select patients for CTO PCI in the future.
Prior studies have given discrepant results when evaluating long-term survival following CTO PCI. Recently, investigators at the Mayo Clinic reported technical failure of CTO PCI was not associated with increased 10-year mortality (10). Although these findings differ from others (5,6), they highlight the need for further study to optimize medical decision making.
In the current study, the prevalence of severe angina did not differ between patients with procedural success or failure or by target vessel. Overall, 5-year survival following attempted CTO PCI was poorer among patients with severe pre-procedural angina. However, in multivariable analysis, angina class had no significant association with long-term survival. This differs from prior reports, in which increased mortality correlated with severity of angina in stable outpatients (17), and improvements in left ventricular function following CTO PCI correlated with angina severity (18).
It is possible that some of these clinical variables are related directly to procedural success, thus influencing survival. Although our primary interest was not to define clinical variables associated with procedural success of attempted CTO PCI, our data do provide interesting observations. First, GP IIb/IIIa antagonist use was associated with procedural success in all 3 study groups. In the LAD group, smoking, increased age (per 10 years), and single-vessel CAD were associated with decreased procedural success, but in the LCX group, prior CABG was associated with decreased procedural success. Multivessel CAD has previously been associated with technically unsuccessful CTO recanalization (7). Other factors that may impact success, such as lesion length and morphology, calcification, and collateralization, were not evaluated in this study.
It is the task of the interventional cardiologist to incorporate this sometimes discordant data into the decision-making process when faced with a patient presenting with a CTO. The presence of a CTO on diagnostic angiography is known to impact selection of treatment strategy, decreasing the likelihood of PCI (19). There are several potential reasons why PCI may be deferred, 1 of which is the presence of collateral vessels. However, the "protection" offered to at-risk myocardium is limited, with a normal coronary flow reserve in only 7% of collateralized vessels, and coronary steal syndrome in one-third of interrogated vessels (20).
Another potential reason for deferring CTO PCI is the absence of severe angina. In multivariable analysis, angina severity had no impact on outcomes in our data. However, approximately 60% of patients included in this study had severe (CCS class III-IV) angina, and all patients included were referred for angiography for clinical indications, including angina, MI, and high-risk noninvasive testing. A limited number of patients in this study (20.6%) had CCS class I angina. Due to these limitations, the current findings may not be generalizable to asymptomatic patients or those with mild angina.
Prior to undergoing attempted CTO PCI, patients should be assured that the potential benefits justify the risks of the procedure. For instance, radiation exposure is significantly higher for CTO PCI than for non–CTO PCI (21). Although some studies suggest that overall survival is improved by successful CTO PCI, the benefit may be limited to certain subgroups. For instance, our group has previously shown no improvement in survival among diabetic patients with successful compared with unsuccessful CTO PCI (22). The current study extends this observation to the target PCI vessel. Those with CTO of the LAD had a 39% relative risk reduction in death at 5 years (p = 0.01). The relative risk reduction was 14% in the LCX and 18% in the RCA (p = NS for both) groups. Clarifying the potential survival benefit will hopefully improve communication between physicians and patients and add to the assessment of the potential benefits and risks of CTO PCI by the physician and the patient, increasing the dataset upon which therapeutic decisions may be based.
Improving survival is not the only potential benefit of CTO PCI. There are also improvements in clinical outcomes such as reduced incidence of MI, reduced need for CABG, and significant reductions in angina burden after CTO PCI (7,23). Improvements in regional and global wall motion are evident on myocardial perfusion scintigraphy, echocardiography, and left ventriculography following PCI of CTO (18,24,25). Positive effects on left ventricular remodeling have been reported in patients undergoing cardiac magnetic resonance imaging up to 3 years after CTO PCI (26). These potential benefits may justify attempted CTO PCI despite a lack of significant improvements in survival in some patient subsets.
Optimal timing of CTO PCI is becoming evident in recent publications. In the OAT (Open Artery Trial) (11), PCI of infarct-related arteries 3 to 28 days after MI did not reduce death, recurrent MI, or congestive heart failure over 4 years. The TOSCA (Total Occlusion Study of Canada)-2 substudy (9) reported no improvement in left ventricular function at 1 year. Given these findings, it may be best to allow recovery from acute MI if the presentation to the interventional suite falls within this time frame.
Although the survival benefit associated with successful CTO PCI may be limited to the LAD, there are multiple other benefits of coronary revascularization that need to be considered when recommending therapy. By incorporating the current data with prior reports into a discussion with the patient, it is our hope that health care providers will be able to provide meaningful informed consent. This will encourage the formulation of a treatment plan consistent with the wishes of patients after consideration of all relevant treatment options. It takes a thorough review of the case history, comorbidities, anatomy, and noninvasive testing to enter into a discussion with the patient regarding the procedural risks and benefits. In appropriate situations, CTO PCI can deliver benefits to the patient, including decreased angina burden, improved ejection fraction, and possibly improved long-term survival. It is left to the treating physician to have a thorough dialogue with the patient to arrive at a treatment plan, including CTO PCI when appropriate.
Study limitations
This was an observational study. Hypothesis generation and analysis were retrospectively conducted on prospectively collected data, creating potential post hoc analysis bias. This is an assessment of the benefits of successful CTO PCI as compared with failed CTO PCI. As such, there is no medical therapy group for comparison. These data should not be interpreted as a comparison of PCI and medical therapy in the treatment of CTO. Technology has evolved substantially over the years during which the data were collected. For example, only 18% of the patients in this analysis underwent stent placement, and drug-eluting stents were not available during the study period (only 3 patients in this analysis received drug-eluting stents). During this time, the database was modified to collect more covariables than originally included, thus potentially excluding important predictors of outcomes not recorded in the early experience. Additionally, there are a limited number of anatomic- and lesion-specific variables recorded in the database, including collateralization and specific lesion location, thus limiting our ability to analyze the impact of detailed vessel characteristics on procedural success or long-term survival and potentially biasing our results if there were a disproportionate number of side-branch or distal vessel PCIs in the LCX or RCA groups. The duration of CTO was not known for the entire group, although patients with evidence of MI within the 7 days before the index procedure were excluded from this analysis. Cardiac troponin and creatine phosphokinase data were not routinely collected following PCI during the study period, but only when there was clinical evidence of MI. Electrocardiograms were routinely screened for new Q waves.
Although thorough review of databases from large tertiary care centers provides some insight into the effect of CTO PCI on long-term outcomes, a randomized clinical trial would be necessary to adequately control for the differences between patients with procedural success or procedural failure. Retrospective analyses should be interpreted for with some caution, for while they do provide useful data, they may be subject to unforeseen, unidentifiable confounders that can only be adequately addressed in the setting of a randomized trial.
Our data suggest that successful CTO PCI is associated with an improvement in long-term survival as compared to CTO PCI failure in the subpopulation of patients with LAD CTO. Therefore, attempted PCI of LAD CTO may be justified to improve survival. This improvement is not evident among those with LCX or RCA occlusion, and no comparison to medical therapy is possible with these data. CTO PCI should be attempted only after a detailed discussion of the potential risks and benefits of the procedure.
The authors would like to Josh Murphy for editorial assistance and Jose Aceituno for preparation of graphics.
This study was funded by the Saint Luke's Hospital Foundation, Kansas City, Missouri.
- Abbreviations and Acronyms
- coronary artery bypass graft
- coronary artery disease
- Canadian Cardiovascular Society
- chronic total occlusion
- glycoprotein
- left anterior descending
- left circumflex
- myocardial infarction
- percutaneous coronary intervention
- right coronary artery
- Received February 14, 2008.
- Revision received April 8, 2008.
- Accepted April 9, 2008.
- American College of Cardiology Foundation
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Raising Christian World Changers
Elementary Chapel
You are welcome to come worship with us!
Students don't sit passively in the service, but participate by leading pledges, taking offering, and helping with song motions. Every spring, 5th graders act out the story of Esther for the other students.
Pastors, children's ministry directors and missionaries are among those invited to speak to the students during chapel, coordinated by the office. If you would like to speak in chapel, please contact elementary secretary, Debbie Jewell. Our students enjoy having their pastor in our chapel services!
We train our students to be givers - each month the focus of the chapel offering is a different local ministry, such as the FCS Mexico mission trip, Craftsmen for Christ, A Woman's Friend and the local Twin Cities Rescue Mission.
Secondary Chapel
Family is invited - come worship with us! Friday 11:20- 12:15am
At the secondary chapel service each Friday, you'll notice the students also taking an active role. Here the chapel program is under the direction of our High School Chaplain, Rick Daugherty. Rick works with the Student Council Vice President, who serves as our Student Chaplain, to plan and implement the chapel program. This year our Student Chaplain is Lydia Crist.
The Student Chaplain gathers a team of fellow students to form a worship band to lead the student body. There are so many students who want to be a part of the worship team that a rotating schedule is used to ensure everyone gets an opportunity to serve. What a blessing to see students develop and share their various talents and skills as they learn how to lead in worship!
Students are also encouraged to participate by sharing personal testimonies, mission experiences or scripture readings. Mr. Daugherty organizes speakers for each week who include area pastors, youth ministers and teachers from our own faculty.
As a part of the regular chapel schedule, the first Friday of every month is set aside as Unity Group Day on the secondary campus. After a time of worship, the students break into their assigned small group and under the direction of one of faculty they share prayer requests, discuss questions on a particular subject and generally just get to know each other better and encourage one another.
The week after Spring Break each year is designated as Spiritual Emphasis Week. Chapel services are held every day with different speakers and guest worship leaders every day.
If you would like to speak in Secondary Chapel, please contact our chaplain, Rick Daugherty.
Faith Christian School seeks to develop students who have a love for God and who serve one another. Step into any chapel service on either campus and you will see this happening right before your eyes - Faith Christian students rockin' the worship!


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Following the success of The Avengers, which pulled in a
monstrous Hulking $1.5 billion at the global box office, attention has turned to fellow comic book publisher-turned movie studio DC and their own superhero team-up film. As Marvel plots out phase two of their shared cinematic universe, DC is just now attempting to connect their upcoming film properties - in the interest of delivering an equally profitable (and hopefully satisfying) Justice League movie.
Studios are aware that, eventually, the superhero movie bubble could burst and with only Man of Steel in full-scale production, DC is left with basically two options: 1) green light a number of standalone hero films with a Justice League movie roughly four-to-five years out or 2) start with a mega-blockbuster team-up and then spin-off worthwhile solo films afterwards. While option one resulted in one of the most memorable superhero movies of all time for Marvel, insider reports out of Warner Bros. seem to indicate that the studio appears anxious to get Justice League into production ahead of further standalone projects.
Admittedly, in addition to Henry Caville's Superman, other previously established DC movie characters could see a return in the Justice League. Regardless of the standalone film quality, Ryan Reynolds as Green Lantern is a possibility - and, given the right script or a lot of money, DC could potentially pull a Batman out of Nolan's trilogy franchise (even though all signs point to a Justice League reboot of the caped crusader). That said, even if a few familiar faces return, a good chunk of the ensemble will be unfamiliar to a lot of moviegoers. At the very least, viewers (especially casual filmgoers) wouldn't outright know the intricacies of each character, even if they know the basic premise for each hero, which could lead to a convoluted Justice League experience.
In our one-on-one interview Marc Chu, ILM Avengers Animation Director, asserted that Marvel's approach to the superhero mash-up, introducing the characters in their own standalone films first, was essential in making the ensemble work - since the intricacies of each character had already been established before they "assembled." Instead of bogging viewers down in exposition, The Avengers ensemble succeeded because each character ducked in and out of the overarching story and action set-pieces, providing audiences with a "nice little wine tasting," as Chu describes it, of the diverse team of heroes:
It was like a nice little wine tasting of Iron Man. And it was like that for all the other characters. I think it was a good balance of how they introduced the characters [through individual films in the shared universe]. In that final battle, it was a balancing act when you have all these superheroes competing for screen time. I think Josh did a great job in making sure that they all had their voice and we weren't missing them too much.
Following up on the challenges of an ensemble superhero movie, we asked Chu for his thoughts on DC's shared universe approach - specifically the rumors that many characters in the proposed Justice League film would be introduced as part of the team only to receive standalone films after their appearance in the mash-up film.
Oh, that's interesting. I don't think it would have worked as well. I think the success of this movie is purely built on Marvel and Kevin's vision to get to that goal. To introduce you to this group who has pulled together. You've seen the movie, they're not one happy family right at the beginning they're all fighting with each other, they all have issues with one another. So I think it was only fitting to have them be united by a common enemy - forcing them to deal with each other. I mean The Hulk punches Thor right? It's like "Okay I hate you, you're a good ally but I still hate you for what you did to me. So I don't think it would've worked because you don't have the back story of the characters, because they do function so independently and they all have their own worlds. If I just saw a movie that would start off with all of them I'll be like, "So Thor is a God, but how did he get to earth and where's he…" So you kind of need to tell those stories to tell how they got there. It's like, "Okay So Captain America was created from a super soldier project in World War II, but how is he here in modern time? You can't tell that without explaining the origin story.
Chu's sentiments echo concerns voiced by comic book, and movie fans, regarding DC and Warner Bros. approach to a Justice League shared universe - which, on the surface, lacks the patience and investment that payed off big time for Marvel. It's certainly possible, with the darker toned DC script and the right director at the helm, that DC could pull double-duty and deliver a quality Justice League film experience that also sets the stage for standalone spinoff films. Though, as Chu hinted with his "wine tasting" analogy, there's also a tremendous risk for lesser-known characters to get lost in the shuffle - potentially spoiling the chance that they'll ever see their own films outside of the ensemble.
The relationship between Loki and Thor added a lot to The Avengers, as did Captain America's "fish out of water" shtick. Most notably, the death of supporting player, Agent Coulson, is ultimately responsible for uniting the superhero team - a testament to just how important prior continuity and inter-connectivity was in Marvel's efforts.
Of course Chu isn't saying a good Justice League movie would be impossible without standalone films: there's no written rule for superhero mash-ups and nothing that says DC needs to follow Marvel's footsteps; however, time and time again, we've seen superhero movies crushed under the weight of two many competing character stories (Iron Man 2, Batman & Robin, etc.) - so it's hard to argue with Chu's logic. Most moviegoers are rooting for a DC shared universe and will likely line up for a Justice League film - even if the ultimate experience doesn't hit Avengers quality. However, DC probably does need to be mindful of the longterm effects of whatever approach they take - as rushing a Justice League movie with only a few (possibly one) shared universe characters could hurt their chances of bigger box office money (and further movie experiences) down the line.
For more on ILM's contributions to The Avengers be sure to check out The Avengers Blu-ray (read our review) and check back soon for more Avengers interviews.
Follow me on Twitter @benkendrick for future interviews, as well as movie, TV, and gaming news.
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Until late last year, First Command Financial Services' presence on the social Web was pretty much nil: No corporate Facebook pages and no business-related postings by its 400 registered investment advisors (RIAs), although they could have personal accounts.
Last December, that changed. The company launched corporate pages on Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter and started a blog called "Your Money Matters" on MilitaryTimes.com. By year-end, 50 RIAs will start interacting with clients via Facebook, LinkedIn or Twitter, with 100 more scheduled for next year, according to Katherine Kirkpatrick, First Command's director of social media.
But before all this could happen, a team of compliance, IT, marketing and legal people spent months developing policies and an infrastructure for managing social media usage, surveillance, retention and e-discovery in compliance with stringent federal regulations and internal rules, Kirkpatrick says.
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Patty believes that breastfeeding exclusively is best for new babies but understands that for some moms this is impossible. Patty's primary priority is to aid new mothers in any way she can. Patty is available to give tips and techniques for latching issues, milk production issues, support to dads and their new roles, learning how to use breast pumps, and how to deal with sore nipples.
Patty and Antares Institute have come together to support mothers when breastfeeding challenges arise. Clogged ducts are a common issue for nursing moms. It can be difficult for moms to clear the clogged ducts themselves. In some cases, this can turn into a bacterial infection called mastitis. Patty recommends seeking assistance from one of our physical therapists, within the first 24 hours, if the mother is unable to unclog the duct herself. From here, one of our licensed physical therapist can assist in the treatment of the breast.
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What type of treatment does physical therapy have to offer?
It is recommended that a mother seek out treatment from a qualified physical therapist within 24 hours if she is unable to clear the blocked duct herself. Treatment will include moist heat and ultrasound to soften the tissue around the clogged duct. Hands on manual therapy with appropriate essential oils is initiated to unclog the milk duct. The session finishes with manual lymphatic drainage to reduce any localized inflammation in the breast. Patient are recommended to come daily until the blocked ducts are unblocked. Mothers are also educated on self care techniques to avoid future issues with clogged ducts.


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Since Phil mentioned Me'Shell NdegeOcello earlier this week, I wanted to highlight her in the last QMF before the election. Here's "If that's your boyfriend":
Queer music Friday - Me'Shell NdegeOcelloFollow alexblaze
Here's "Leviticus: Faggot":
And here's a live performance of "Faithful." (One of the best things I love finding when surfing YouTube is a professionally-recorded live performance of a musician who can perform.)
And here's Me'Shell on promiscuity among gays and lesbians:
I think that promiscuity in the gay and lesbian community is because we're made to feel ashamed of who you are. No one should be able to judge you in that way
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she is an extraordinary talent - i saw her live once a number of years ago, just amazing
thanks for posting the video, it has been a long time since I have seen them
Oh, YEAH! I love this! I'm a serious fan. Years ago, she was behind me in line at the Loew's hardware store in Burbank. I couldn't believe it.
Well, her son was in the line first, about ten years old at the time.
Beautiful boy...was flirting with me!
When she arrived, she asked me if he was making trouble.
I said, only if he was over 21 and she would do well to keep a sharp eye on him.
As an artist, all I could think about was what a gorgeous mother/son portrait I could make with those two.
Yep, she's all kinda talent. Wonder if her son inherited it. THAT would be really cool.
OmG I love her. My allllll time favorite song is "Beautiful". When someone can make the line... "Such pretty hair" sound that smexxxy it's a done freaking deal.
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This Australian house rotates around a central pivot point. "It also encapsulates many aspects of ecologically sound building principles, such as optimising on natural light and heat, while rotating 180o to take advantage of sunshine and shade at different times of the day and year."It might look radical and 'out there', but Buckminster Fuller had this idea sewn up, a good 60 years ago. Plus his home was self powered, and much more besides. Talk about Prefab - his Dymaxion house was packed into huge tubes and transported to the site by air blimp. The guy was a genius, half a century ahead of his time. But back to today. The Everingham model is a 24 m (79') diameter octagon with a 3-metre (10'), 360-degree verandah. It weighs 50 tonnes, but can rotate a full 360-degrees, around a central core of plumbing and electricals. Within this core is also a geothermal piping system (120 metres long and 2.5 metres deep), supplying a constant 22oC to the house. ::Everingham Rotating House


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One of the hardest things to adjust to since my move north has been the temperatures. I grew up and lived most of my life on the South African highveld. Winters are short and relatively mild. I remember attending school wearing bobby socks and a skirt. Our legs were cold, but we managed. Winter nights were spent cuddled under blankets and wearing flannel pyjamas. We used to use heaters for a few weeks to keep us warm and, in a very short time, we used to do without any sort of heating.
Winters in Toronto are much longer. Cool days begin in October with the changing of the leaves. Our first year here, we felt that winter had already arrived and it was only October! We soon learned that those temperatures were only the beginning of the cold days ahead, discovering that temperatures below zero are commonplace during the winter. We quickly found out that they right type of clothing is needed in order to be comfortable. Our first winter here we went boot shopping and coat shopping – as well as shopping for gloves, hats and scarves.
My children adjusted quickly to the cold and I am now able to withstand colder temperatures better than I used to. I still do not enjoy the cold, however, and in the coldest winter months still long for the warm winter days I experienced as a child growing up in the Southern Hemisphere.
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CodirectorsCarlos L. Arteaga, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Nashville, TennesseeVirginia G. Kaklamani, UT Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TexasC. Kent Osborne, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
This Symposium is designed to provide state-of-the-art information on the experimental biology, etiology, prevention, diagnosis, and therapy of breast cancer and premalignant breast disease, to an international audience of academic and private physicians and researchers. Celebrating the 40th anniversary of SABCS in 2017; the program is a must-attend event for academic and private physicians, researchers involved in medical, surgical, gynecologic, and radiation oncology, patient advocates, and other health care professionals throughout the world.


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Wednesday, 23 January 2008
Famous Faces: Hanan Turk
7 comments:
- Anonymous said...
I love her outfit!
- 5/2/08 06:56
- ah ya sho2 :) said...
i love hanan soooooooooooooo much ..... and love her abaya
- 24/2/08 16:06
- Anonymous said...
Masha'allah 3alieha.....
She's so beautiful either way, with or without the hijab. She's also very elegant. I've always respected her, and now I respect her even more......
May Allah bless her and protect her.
- 2/4/08 22:18
- Anonymous said...
mashallah she is so pretty with the hajiab.
i just hope she sticks to it
- 28/8/08 15:38
- Qays Layla said...
i like her white sheyla style. Yany the white loose top. Can you show me how to wear that style? Thanks!
P/s: I'm talking about the sheyla style in the all white outfit, not the one with the blue hejab :)
- 27/10/08 07:48
- Anonymous said...
I love this Egyptian style of wearing the scarf (the one Hanan Turk is wearing) i was just wondering where i could get it because i live in Belgium and there in't much yuo can buy here of muslim clothing so if anybody has any suggestions pliz pliz pliz pliz pliz pliz pliz pliz plkiz send it to my E-mail its email@example.com thanks.BIG UPS TO ALL MUSLIM wOMEN OUT THERE by the way excuse my english i am not that good just 14 years old.
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- StillxBreathing said...
Hey, can someone pls tell me where I can get this hooded shirt in the first picture?
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New York | August 20, 2008
Many people in our community were very much against what CBGB's turned into. They felt Varvatos was a corporate sell out of everything that PUNK and CBGB's stood for. I met you at Billy's. I learned that you had worked your way up from a stock boy, and I had decided to give you a chance. I went to your opening. First you treated Billy as just another jerk at the door, so it took us about 15 minutes to get in. I could have gone straight in, except I wanted to wait for Billy, which meant standing outside in the line giving you credibility. I know the main core of radicals protesting your store. In fact protesters, as well as, reporters look to me for guidance and advice or information on a number of political and neighborhood issues. I have had my share of media on such matters.
I am working on my 3rd LES history book. I have accumulated the largest LES photo archives taken by a single individual. I am sure over a million pictures. The archives also includes videos and other ephemera. I have many really exciting CBGB's videos. I have been arrested many times as an activist. A movie was just made about a part of my archives. Not to say that all of this means anything more than OK good for you, but I assure you, I did come to you in good faith. I came with my hand extended to yours. To get a glimpse of local protest spots take a look around your block. I went with one other person to make peace with the Bowery Wine Bar- that protest is over. Another protest that is just getting started is the Haring Wall. If you look at that wall you will see my name on it. I am helping to strategize that struggle by getting media and other high level people involved. That problem is likely is going to take time, will eventually cost someone hundreds of thousands of dollars to solve, and most of what is going on will not been seen in the public eye. They want to fight. I got that Haring history into the NY Times, as well as, other media.
Some local people were unhappy that the New Museum came into the area between Houston and Delancey and never met with any of the old time creative establishments. I got museum people to reach out, and we worked out some of the stress. Since this friendly side showed up people are happy enough, so I agreed to show the movie there, otherwise I would not.
The LES world has changed and the old and the new has to meet, get along, or not. Let those who want to fight, fight.
One of our agreements was we were to have a face to face meeting. That was 5 months ago. I invited you as an honored guest to my movie screenings. I thought that we could possibly work something out between you and the community. I am not looking for a photo exhibition in the Varvatos store. Anyway your response is FUCK YOU- so my response to you is FUCK YOU BACK- not sure why you want this but whatever. Fuck you means fuck you in any language.


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This is how the kitchen looked when I toured the apartment. This apartment was a model for the studio apartment, hence the red accessories. I don't think it was staged particularly well and I certainly don't care for white walls. But here is the before photo with their accessories.
When I moved in, the walls were white of course. White walls = renter, lol. Of course you know that I would not live with white walls for long. Give me 24 hours and a can of paint and they'll be gone. Dad took Dear Son at 7:30 on Saturday night so I got started painting my kitchen. It felt like an episode of Trading Spaces in terms of the time crunch since I only had 24 hours to move everything out, sand the walls, wash the walls, tape them and then paint. It's not a large space just lots of detail since there aren't any full walls. I simply used the same paint that I had in my former apartment. I had some left so it was easy. I did run out though and purchased two little testers to finish it off today.You know that I wouldn't live with walls that weren't totally painted, right?
I really like this color because it's fresh. When I paint a room, especially an apartment, it makes it seem more like a home. I really can't understand people who leave their walls white. Here's another picture of the kitchen as they staged it before I moved in.
And here it is after I painted it. Of course, I like mine better, lol. You know that when I move, I have to paint it white again but really, why live with white walls because of that.
The lower half of the pantry looks like this. Sorry about the blender but the glass part was in the dishwasher when I took this photo.


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