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Wake up to A Fresh New Beginning and start the day off with a fresh cup of herbal tea and walk in a glistening garden. A colorful medley of assorted brilliant blossoms brim with radiant pleasures and cherished memories ahead. Joyous smiles and bold laughter are always a sign of good times ahead!
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Add a little bit of charm into their life. Pastel blossoms in delicate shades of shimmering white and sunkissed yellow come together like a spring song of melody to highlight and extra special touch to that unforgettable occasion.
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Make a bold statement with a flair of futuristic fashion meets flowing elegance. There is nothing more eye-catching than The Boldest Colors! Brilliant shimmering blooms shout a fashionistic twist of radiant purple and sunkissed yellow to make for that picture perfect dashinjg statement. Inspire that special someone this fashion season!
Delightfully decadent, this arrangement of two-dozen rich and velvety roses is sure to illuminate any room and heart. Nestled among gorgeous greens, these precious petals are a perfect way to pamper someone you care about.


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Rimma Boshernitsan is the founder and CEO of DIALOGUE, a San Francisco-based agency, focused on helping companies gain a competitive advantage by designing experiences of human connection. Prior to founding DIALOGUE, Rimma was a strategic advisor to CEOs of emerging businesses and Fortune 500 companies, working with some of the most well-known brands: Deloitte Consulting, Apple, Aesop, Levi's, Kraft Foods, and Chevron. @Rimmabosh
Rimma was recently interviewed by Nishika de Rosairo for our Ask an Entrepreneur series…
With more and more startups in hyper-growth coupled with billions of dollars in funding, companies are at risk of losing sight of the most important aspect of conducting business: human connection.
Human connection is not only important in analyzing and understanding the consumer, it is just as important in creating the end product.
As an entrepreneur and business owner, how do you enable 'connection' in a way that paves a path for innovation and drives potential?
Create Meaning Through Shared Values – Always Introduce Difference
The more clear you are about what your company stands for, what the belief system is, and what the non-negotiables are, the easier it will be to create meaningful relationships with the right customers and hire the right employees.
In our work, we've found that shared values, yet potentially differing points of view, contribute to the most diverse opinions, the most innovative thinking, and a high likelihood that the end product has the true impact.
Hiring for just shared values alone is not enough. Hiring people who can challenge each other and embrace the variety of opinions at the table ensures for a rich dialogue that will better inform the reason your company exists and the problems it solves for your customers.
Promote and Enable Curiosity as a Cultural Value – Think Big Picture
This is easy to say, yet hard to do when things are running at 100 miles per minute. Quickly understanding your company's 'why' will drive your people and product towards better results and insight into what truly matters.
Why are particular customers being pursued? Why should they care about the product? Why are the mission, vision and values important? What purpose does the product serve in the world?
Whether understanding the reasoning for a colleague's decision or empathizing with a customer in a rough situation, keeping the 'why' in mind naturally leads to increased curiosity, deeper knowledge, and a greater emotional connection — both at an employee level, and more importantly when designing the customer experience.
By leading with curiosity, you bring human connection back to the forefront and establish it as a core principle by which your company operates.
Design For Intention – Cultivate Collective Intelligence Through Dialogue
Collective intelligence is built through human connection. Yet, we are more often than not attached to our devices, running to the next meeting and answering the next most urgent email.
In this day and age, our productivity around connection happens by way of technology, often times with our devices rather than with our colleagues. What if we could measure our goals by how connected we are to one another? Or by how many different ways we discussed a problem? And then of course, by its ultimate solution?
What if we went back to being humans, connecting to one another for resources and ideas, rather than just to technology?
If our intention is to be more connected to one another, ourselves, and the larger goal for the organization, then we have to intentionally design for human-to-human connection. By doing so, we activate and amplify collaboration and creativity. We create opportunities to really see our clients, our colleagues and ourselves in a new light. To enable greater intention, it is important to tie the type of relationship (and therefore the type of connection you are seeking to create) to the core values of the organization.
Below are a few tips on how to shape your 'connection':
- Create opportunities for cross-pollination of ideas to occur.
- Create forums for dialogue amongst customers, employees and thought leaders both within and outside of your company.
- Promote face-to-face interactions between colleagues and clients.
- Enable people to go beyond the "dailies" to truly get to know one another. Email, Slack, Asana are great, however, what's the opportunity cost of not moving beyond digital communication?
- High touch, intentional moments of exchange can go a long way. Part of creating meaning and setting intention is building on our curiosity as humans, building on what motivates and drives us as a species rather than just thinking about "us" in the context of the company. What are the small ways to make a big impact? What impact is that experience trying to achieve? How can the interaction you create amplify the vision of the company and more importantly, can it amplify brand loyalty from your customers?
By connecting to one another, we make the invisible – visible, and take ourselves and each other to the next level.

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How do we make sense of a trusted expert or mentor in our field exhibiting behaviour that completely dissolves the trust and admiration that we felt? There may be no definitive answer. "Experts" often get put on pedestals, but the reality is that they often become experts not because they are the most knowledgeable, have the most integrity or because they are best suited for a particular postion. It is because they have a particular kind of currency and power. Using a recent example, that effects the field of trauma directly, are the allegations against Bessel Van Der Kolk and his subsequent firing from the Trauma Centre in Boston. Van Der Kolk is a white, cis-gendered, man who fits our paradigm of what an expert looks like. Because of this, he is more likely to get grants, to be promoted, to be heard, to be admired, to be put on the pedestal.
When we put all our stock in the research that is funded and the science that is a derivative of that, we miss out. We know that there are other sources of knowledge, wisdom and expertise that may completely dissolve what we think we know. Research doesn't happen in a vacuum and its aligned with very powerful forces and vested interests. It's important to remember this when we feel deeply entrenched in our paradigm, our "science", our experts. It's important to remember that research might support certain paradigms, but it never proves them. Most of our beliefs are dissolved with time and new theories emerge decade after decade.
There is a deep reservoir of knowledge that we are not in touch with, because there are so many voices that have been silenced.
Let's listen to the voices that haven't always been amplified. There is a dismantling and a re-structuring that needs to occur. On both a micro and macro level, the hierarchies that currently guide us only distance us from a more embodied and collaborative wisdom. We invite you to join us in unearthing different ways of knowing, learning, hearing.
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The Southington Library has announced a number of upcoming programs. All are welcome. To register, contact (860) 628-0947, ext. 6552 or visit www.southingtonlibrary.org and click on 'Calendar of Events.' For children's events, call ext. 3.
Here are some upcoming events:
- Summer Hours are in effect. Through Labor Day, hours are as follows: Mondays through Thursdays, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Fridays, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed on Saturdays. There will be no Saturday Morning movies during the summer.
- Vanda Koceva is the August Artist of the Month. Paintings by Vanda Koceva of Bristol, a native of Poland and former architect. Her favorite subjects are scenes of the Bible, churches, people, and flowers created using watercolors and acrylics. She also likes to create hand-painted greeting cards. The exhibit is on display during normal business hours.
- Stellar Summer Party (Teens). Wednesday, Aug. 16, 3:30 p.m. Summer reading program culminates with games galore, including Giant Jenga, Hungry Hungry Humans, King-sized Kerplunk, and more. Winners will be drawn for the summer reading program gift cards.
- All Day Solar Eclipse Event. Monday, Aug. 21. Continuous showing of NOVA's "Secrets of the Sun" in the library meeting room (10 a.m., noon, 2 p.m., 4 p.m., and 6 p.m.) Arrive early. Before each showing there will be an opportunity to make a simple card projector for viewing the solar eclipse as well as materials for building a northern hemisphere sundial.
- Teen Movie Matinee – 'Night of the Comet.' Wednesday, August 23rd, at 3:30 p.m.
- Cooking the Books: Picnic Foods—Dishes to Make and Take. Thursday Aug 24, 6:30 p.m. Registration required. Come to the program ready to share a dish and discuss your experience. "If your experiments yield disastrous results, that's okay. Bring it along, anyway." Participants are encouraged to bring your own plate, utensils, and serving spoon. Dishes should arrive ready to eat as there is no kitchen facility on hand. Please also bring 12 copies of your recipe to share. Everyone who attends will receive a binder to store their recipes.
- Anime Club (meets weekly). Thursdays, 3:30 p.m., in the library meeting room. Open to students in grades 7-12 (aged 13-18). Join the teen librarian, Nicole Kent, to watch new episodes of classic and contemporary anime. Not sure what anime is? Come by and see what all the fuss is about as the library screens episodes of legendary Japanese animation series such as Naruto, Attack on Titan, Cowboy Bebop, and more.
- Cake Pan Collection. Are you celebrating a special holiday or do you have a fan of dinosaurs or cars? Visit the Southington Public Library to see the display of novelty cake pans now available to borrow. The pans are located in the children's department.
- Exhibit space for local artists (Free). The Gallery at the Southington Public Library provides a venue for local community residents to share their artistic talents in the visual arts with the general public. The Gallery is located on the main level and viewing of the exhibits is available during the library hours, Monday to Thursday, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Friday and Saturday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Call Jeanne Chmielewski at (860) 628-0947, ext. 6513 or at firstname.lastname@example.com.
- Two-gether Tales. Mondays, 9:30 a.m. to 10 a.m. or 10:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. Registration required. This story time is meant to engage 2 and 3 year olds, along with siblings and adults.
- Read, Rock & Rhyme. Tuesdays, 9:30 a.m. to 10 a.m. Registration required. This story time is meant to engage 10 to 23 months old, along with siblings and adults.
- Budding Bookworms. Tuesdays, 10:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. Registration required. This story time is meant to engage 3.5 to 5 years old, along with siblings and adults.
- Behavioral Health Information. Mondays, 10 a.m., or Wednesdays, 5 p.m. Wheeler Clinic senior community health outreach coordinator Justine Micalizzi will offer behavioral health information and connection with services available for local residents. For private consultations, contact Justine at (860) 414-1235 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
- Pages to Color Workshop. Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10 a.m. to noon; Tuesdays, 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., on the mezzanine. No registration required. The coloring sessions at the Library are a free, unstructured time for adults, 18 and over.
- Southington Sassy Skeins. Mondays, at 6:30 p.m., and Thursdays, at 1 p.m. Library sponsored knitting and crocheting group welcomes all levels of experience in both crafts to share and learn. Mentors will help get you started. The library offers needles and yarn in addition to instruction books to borrow.


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Collection Development Committee Group (CDC)
NOTE: Beginning July 2013, the University of California Libraries launched a revised advisory structure. The groups within the previous structure are no longer active, including this group. For information about the current structure, see: UC Libraries Advisory Structure (UCLAS).
The Collection Development Committee (CDC) is comprised of one representative from each campus library system appointed by the University Librarian, one representative from the California Digital Library (CDL), one representative from the UC Libraries' Shared Print Program, and one representative from the Librarians' Association of the University of California (LAUC).
The CDC is an all-campus group reporting to SOPAG. The CDC Chair is selected by the membership for a two-year term. The CDC:
- Advises SOPAG on collection development issues.
- Coordinates systemwide activities relating to collection development with the California Digital Library (CDL) and the Joint Steering Committee on Shared Collections (JSC).
- Coordinates systemwide activities relating to preservation, special collections, and archives with its subcommittees Preservation Advisory Group (PAG) , Heads of Special Collections (HOSC), and the University of California Archivists Council (UCAC), respectively.
- Serves as a discussion group among the members on collection development issues.
- Communicates with other all-campus groups, SOPAG, appointed task forces, and other common interest groups on collection development issues.
- Coordinates UC bibliographer consortial groups.
- In conjunction with the Directors for Shared Digital and Print Collections, arranges funding for systemwide or multi-campus acquisition of resources as appropriate.


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William Wyler: Constant Chameleon and The People's Auteur
Posted by Jill Blake on September 30, 2017
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In reflecting on the history of Hollywood filmmaking, William Wyler undoubtedly remains one of the greatest and most influential directors of his time. Twelve Academy Award nominations for Best Director (the record for most nominations of a director), winning three times for Mrs. Miniver (1946), The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) and Ben-Hur (1959). He directed some of Hollywood's finest talent, including a three-film collaboration with Bette Davis, in arguably her best work, earning her Academy Award nominations each time and a win for her performance in 1938's Jezebel. Out of her working relationship with Wyler, Davis believed that she learned to become a better actress with him behind the camera. Her thoughts on working under Wyler's direction were not unique; most of the actors who were fortunate enough to collaborate with him, especially those who did so multiple times, recalled the director as tough and professional, drawing the absolute best performances out of his cast. To achieve his idea of perfection, Wyler demanded multiple takes, which many of the actors, at least in the moment, felt excessive and borderline obsessive. But when the final cut was on the screen, they knew exactly why their director wanted more.
In the early 1920s, William Wyler emigrated to the United States from Europe and got his start working for his mother's cousin, Carl Laemmle, who was then head of Universal. Wyler worked a variety of odd jobs at the studio's New York location, eventually relocated to Los Angeles, was promoted to assistant editor and assistant director and worked on Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925), starring Ramon Novarro. Under contract to Universal, Wyler continued directing silent short films, eventually working his way to feature-length pieces, including Hell's Heroes in 1929, the excellent A House Divided (1931) and Counsellor-at-Law in 1933, starring John Barrymore. On the set of A House Divided, Wyler met John Huston, the son of the film's star, Walter Huston. Wyler hired the younger Huston to help contribute to the script, in what was one of his very first assignments in Hollywood. It's out of this first collaboration that Wyler and Huston became close friends, with Huston often considering Wyler his professional mentor.
After fulfilling his obligation to Universal, Wyler began working for producer Samuel Goldwyn in a legendary partnership that lasted a decade. This partnership with Goldwyn also brought together Wyler and the great cinematographer Gregg Toland for six collaborations. Together, Wyler and Toland created visual storytelling that inspired countless movies and later generations of filmmakers. This period is often considered to be Wyler's most prolific and more importantly, when he established himself as the greatest director in Hollywood, with the exception of his directorial peer, the great John Ford. Ford, who also experienced an incredible creative output during this same time frame, is often given the slight advantage when it comes to historical importance over Wyler by film critics and historians. Over the course of ten years, and not including uncredited and co-directed projects, Wyler made seven films for Samuel Goldwyn, in addition to a handful of projects for Warner Bros. and MGM (including Jezebel, The Letter [1940] and Mrs. Miniver). As part of their ongoing "Directed by" series, Filmstruck has made all seven Goldwyn-produced Wyler films available to stream. The titles include the following: These Three (1936); Dodsworth (1936); Dead End (1937); Wuthering Heights (1939); The Westerner (1940); The Little Foxes (1941); and The Best Years of Our Lives (1946). Having all of these films available together in one place is exciting for many of us classic film lovers, as several of these films are difficult to find. And with the exception of a couple of them, these films are also out-of-print on home video.
If you look at these seven films, in addition to the rest of Wyler's impressive work, it's clear there isn't one consistent theme or stylistic approach. William Wyler was constantly reinventing himself, never content to remain in one particular genre or storytelling technique. Over the years, I've read various criticism on Wyler's directorial work and his apparent lack of a distinct trait or style, and how that ultimately holds him back from achieving the so-called elite "auteur" status. Well, in the immortal words of veteran journalist Dan Rather, I'm calling "bullshine." Wyler not only created some of the greatest films of all time, but his work reached far and wide, pulling in a broad audience and giving them something that was entertaining, heartfelt and genuine, all while demonstrating his artistry as a filmmaker. And most importantly, doing so without pretension. That might not fit the rigid definitions of what constitutes an auteur, but who decided that is the sole requisite for being a great artist and director? Wyler kept his actors and audiences, as well as critics, on their toes. You can never quite pin down what makes his work so incredible. It just is. And that's why William Wyler's vast accomplishments remain unmatched today, almost fifty years after his final movie.
Over the next several weeks, I'll be writing about all of the Wyler-Goldwyn films available on Filmstruck, with the exception of Dodsworth, which I wrote about last year. William Wyler is one of my favorite directors, and I look forward to sharing my thoughts on these wonderful films, as well as observations on the careers of many of the actors who worked with him.
Jill Blake
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22 Responses William Wyler: Constant Chameleon and The People's Auteur
Posted By swac44 : September 30, 2017 8:12 am
The Westerner is also airing on TCM on Saturday, Oct. 7, for those of you (like me) without Filmstruck.
Posted By kingrat : September 30, 2017 12:15 pm
Wyler is one of my favorite directors, too. He has a distinctive way of shooting scenes that show someone's back; this makes the audience frantic to see how the character will react. A couple of examples: Walter Huston in DODSWORTH when he learns that his wife is leaving him and Bette Davis in JEZEBEL when she learns that Henry Fonda is married.
Wyler's objectivity and lack of sentimentality are always welcome to me, and I have no problem ranking him higher than John Ford. If you want to see Wyler direct like Ford, there's always FRIENDLY PERSUASION.
COUNSELLOR-AT-LAW would get my vote as one of the half-dozen best stage-to-screen adaptations, and DETECTIVE STORY isn't shabby in that regard, either.
Posted By Emgee : September 30, 2017 3:55 pm
A man that seemed incapable of making a bad movie; a true artist.
And yet: i bet if you ask anyone who's not a true film buff who made Ben-Hur or Roman Holiday, i'll bet there will be a lot of blank faces. Or is that the fate of most directors?
Posted By Jill Blake : September 30, 2017 4:25 pm
It's no question that Wyler's collaboration with Gregg Toland made him an even better filmmaker. But even with those great deep focus shots (like the bar scene in BEST YEARS) and shots from behind, Wyler wasn't a particularly flashy director. He told the story in a straightforward way. And that suits me just fine.
And as much as I appreciate John Ford, Wyler is number one for me, too.
Posted By Jill Blake : September 30, 2017 4:32 pm
That's a great point. I really think most people aren't bothered with knowing about the creative and crew behind a film. The movie experience is limited to the two hours spent to watch it. And that's it. So it's up to us movie lovers, film historians, TCM, and Filmstruck, etc., to keep legacies like Wyler's alive.
Posted By Jill Blake : September 30, 2017 4:34 pm
Thanks for the airdate reminder. It's a great film, and I hope all of you are able to catch it, either on Filmstruck or TCM.
Posted By Doug : September 30, 2017 4:51 pm
Jill said,"Over the years, I've read various criticism on Wyler's directorial work and his apparent lack of a distinct trait or style…"
Perhaps actors aren't the only ones who do not want to be 'typecast'.
Posted By Randy : September 30, 2017 7:04 pm
I'm very excited that Filmstruck has more William Wyler movies! I had never heard of him until your blog post about Dodsworth last year. That was actually the first movie I watched on Filmstruck, and I loved it. I'm looking forward to watching more of his films.
Posted By George : September 30, 2017 7:22 pm
Most directors aren't known to casual, occasional movie viewers (the vast majority) unless the director is a tireless self-promoter such as DeMille, Hitchcock or Tarantino. These directors turned themselves into brands, as did Spielberg.
It probably helped that DeMille hosted a radio show for years, and Hitchcock a TV show.
Over the last decade, fanboys on the internet have worked overtime to promote Christopher Nolan as the Greatest Director Who Ever Lived. But I don't know how well his name is known to people outside the film buff and comic-book geek communities.
Posted By Susan Doll : September 30, 2017 7:56 pm
Counsellor-at-Law, which I first saw at a TCM Classic Film Fest, is one of my favorite pre-Code movies. Highly recommend it to everyone.
Posted By Doug : September 30, 2017 9:06 pm
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Posted By Christine in GA : October 1, 2017 5:14 pm
I have a great appreciation of William Wyler. I always look forward to his films no matter how often I may have seen them. Thanks for the fine article.
Posted By George : October 3, 2017 4:12 pm
Doug: Nolan can't be blamed for The Shadow. That was directed by Russell Mulcahy.
I agree that Nolan is a good director, but he's far from the best. The fanboys' slavish devotion to him (which surpasses even their worship of Tarantino) is puzzling.
Don't get me started on all the twenty-something males (and they're all males) who think The Boondock Saints is one of the best movies ever made.
Posted By George : October 3, 2017 4:16 pm
I'd rather not create Sarris-style hierarchies where Wyler is ranked above Ford, or vice versa. Let's just say they directed a lot of great movies and some misfires. (Wyler's The Children's Hour, made in the supposedly more permissive climate of 1962, is a less interesting movie than 1936′s These Three.)
Posted By swac44 : October 3, 2017 4:51 pm
I think Doug was referring to how a lot of the mythology laid down in Batman Begins (ie. going to Tibet) was liberally borrowed from the saga of The Shadow who went to the Himalayas to learn the ancient secrets of how to cloud men's minds.
Posted By Doug : October 3, 2017 7:08 pm
Ding ding ding! swac44 has hooked the brass ring! Not just in that both Cranston and Wayne are seeking wisdom 'from the East' but also the fact that their arch enemy is well versed in the same stuff. And the architecture of both movies is similar.
Posted By swac44 : October 3, 2017 7:18 pm
I like both as well, although I feel a lot of Tim Curry's subplot wound up on the cutting room floor. Also, I feel like the "Batman in Tibet" idea came from recent comics, perhaps with a nod to Deadman, but couldn't nail that down.
And now the discussion has been completely derailed…
Posted By George : October 3, 2017 9:20 pm
Sorry I misunderstood you, Doug. I liked that Shadow movie more than a lot of people did. It wasn't great but it wasn't bad. (I also had a good time watching the 1996 Phantom movie.)
I liked Batman Begins, thought I'm indifferent to The Dark Knight and didn't like The Dark Knight Rises at all.
Posted By doug : October 3, 2017 11:33 pm
It's all right, George-the main point for me is that Nolan sure seemed to like a lot of the elements found in "The Shadow".
Posted By Jill Blake : November 3, 2017 12:58 am
Hi Catherine–
Thank you so much for stopping by and taking the time to read my piece. Streamline has moved over to the Filmstruck Tumblr blog. It's very easy to subscribe. There's a tab where you can click to receive notifications, but I'm not sure if it can be sent to your email.
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text: A GWAR-Themed Bar is in the Works By Shawn Christ | May 29, 2014 | 5:00pm Drink News Gwar Share Tweet Submit Pin Shock-rockers GWAR continue to follow the marketing prowess of KISS—the band has announced plans to open a GWARbar in Richmond, Va. The alien metal band created their own barbecue sauce, GWAR-B-Q, and released GWAR-B-Q Brew (billed as "the only thing that GWAR won't spew" in a hilarious commercial) last year. Their new venture will be a GWAR-themed restaurant that, well let's just let the band's press camp take care of this one: "GWARbar will not merely be a place to gorge on delectable food-stuffs whilst hoisting endless flagons of liquid glee…it will not be just a shrine and showcase to the undeniable visual impact of the world's most infamous metal band…the opening of the GWARbar will be the singularly most important culinary event to occur since the invention of the spoon!" To make this gory nightmare a reality, the band enlisted the help of GWAR nation through an IndieGoGo project to raise money. Rewards for contributing range from the band's "undying scorn" (a bargain for $1) to a cooking class with guitarist BalSac ($750) to a private party at the bar ($10,000). According to the project's website, the bar was a concept that Dave Brockie, frontman for band as Oderus Urungus, never got to see through. But with some humor (see above) and a little bit of support from their fans, they hope to make one of Brockie's last dreams come true. GWARbar will feature GWAR-B-Q sauce, GWAR-B-Q Brew and "meat sandwiches," which isn't nearly descriptive enough for a band who routinely puts its fans through a grinder contraption during shows. Tagsdave brockiegwar


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Louis Vuitton in Climate Project Journeys
Louis Vuitton, the French luxury fashion and leather goods brand and company, has launched a new advertising campaign connecting the concept of Journey, support of The Climate Project with photographs of Sean Connery, Keith Richards, Sofia Coppola and Francis Ford Coppola, taken by photographer Annie Leibovitz. The Climate Project (TCP), founded by Al Gore in 2006, is an organization dedicated to calling attention to what it believes are global problems associated with climate change, providing seminars, training and educational presentations worldwide.
There are journeys that turn into legends. Bahamas Islands. 10:07.
Some journeys cannot be put into words. New York. 3 a.m. Blues in C.
Inside every story, there is a beautiful journey. Early evening. Buenos Aires. Argentina.
The Climate Project campaign was developed at Ogilvy and Mather, Paris, France, creative director/art director Christian Reuilly, copywriter Edgard Montjean, art buyer Laurence Nahmias, account director Laurent Janneau, group account director Samuel Giblin, and photographer Annie Leibovitz. The campaign won a Gold at the Epica Awards 2008.
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text: A comprehensive biography of the Confederate guerrilla leader (1833—1916), with an emphasis on his Civil War exploits. Ramage's (History/Northern Kentucky Univ.; Rebel Raider: The Life of General John Hunt Morgan, not reviewed) well-documented volume charts the progress of Mosby from a boyhood victim of playground bullies to an icon of the Confederacy. Proceeding in fairly chronological fashion, Ramage focuses on Mosby's stunning career as a guerrilla leader, a man who was shot several times (once in the groin—the bullet remained in his body), who quoted Lord Byron while he harassed the Union troops relentlessly despite repeated attempts to capture or kill him. Ramage is most at ease in these sections, moving steadily (if unspectacularly) through descriptions of strategies and firefights that generally end with Mosby's men stealing Union horses and supplies (which they divided among themselves), killing enemy soldiers, and disappearing into the woods like, well, gray ghosts. The author credits Mosby with innovations in guerrilla strategy (e.g., in close combat, his cavalry used two handguns each instead of the traditional saber) and more than once characterizes him as "one of the most brilliant minds in the history of guerrilla war." The final 66 pages deal with Mosby's long post—Civil War life. He was, among other things, a private attorney, US consul in Hong Kong, an employee of the US Interior and Justice departments, a popular lecturer and writer. He even portrayed himself in a lost silent film. Ramage sometimes slips into the biographer's trap—admiring his subject so thoroughly that he can utter only a rare discouraging word about Mosby, who owned slaves and once shot an unarmed classmate. Also unconvincing is the cereal-box psychology Ramage applies to Mosby—viz., his boyhood battles with bullies explain his ferocious fighting spirit. A volume that will become the standard reference on Mosby—intelligent and thorough, but at times flattering rather than analytical. (32 b&w illustrations, 7 maps, not seen)


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The One Series w/ Simon Shackleton
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Simon Shackleton's One Series - One DJ, One Room, All Night - returns to San Francisco for the first time in a year after selling out Publicworks last fall with close to 1000 people in attendance over the course of the night.
Simon's One Series sets are deep and compulsive journeys, seamlessly blending, morphing and building throughout the night to create something far greater than the sum of its parts. His open-hearted sets tell stories on a grand scale, provoking emotion and movement in equal parts, whilst he revels in the journey alongside a devoted and passionate crowd.
"What an amazing night - excellent performance, great crowd, and an all-around awesome vibe! I could barely restrain myself from going full-out fanboy on Simon at the end of the show, lol." [DEN014]
The One Series at Publicworks will most likely Sell Out given previous shows in the City. We would strongly advise ensuring your place down the front by booking an advance ticket ASAP.
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A hobby rediscovered
Hand-carved palm crosses bring joy, peace and comfort to people at home – and around the world
In the midst of downtown Seward, Nebraska, sits a rather unassuming woodworking shop. The shop, home to sanders and table saws, smells of sawdust and varnish, and comes to life each morning when a group of retirees shows up for work. Their job? Hand-carve wooden crosses.
Seeking purpose in retirement
In 2010, years after Clayton Kent retired from his grocery business, he began to grow weary of his relaxed workweek.
On a visit to his hometown of Hastings, Nebraska, Kent saw his brother and nephew making hand-carved wooden crosses to give to sick or hurting members of their church. Kent was inspired to dust off his high school woodworking skills. His brother and nephew helped him get started with the right equipment, "and the woodworking just came back to me," Kent says. The first cross Kent made was for his granddaughter's confirmation.
In May 2010 he and his friend Herb Holtz started carving crosses in Kent's garage. They began referring to themselves as the Cross Makers.
"It's all volunteers, volunteers, volunteers. We couldn't do it without volunteers. Some work a lot of hours, some just come one morning a week."
Unexpected growth
It wasn't just the two of them for long. Kent told friends about the Cross Makers, and they came to help. Within a few months, about a dozen men and women were gathering in the garage four mornings a week. Kent's original plan was to give all the crosses away to churches, friends and funeral homes. But word spread fast, and the group members soon realized they needed money for supplies. So later in 2010 the Cross Makers officially became a 501(c)(3) nonprofit with the corporate name, Cross of Life.
They developed a website that expanded the group's customer base. "The first order we got online was from a town in England," Kent says. "We were thrilled."
In 2013 they moved to a donated building in downtown Seward. Today there are 40 volunteers who dedicate time weekly to cut, sand and polish the wooden crosses.
"We've made 82,000 crosses," says Kent. "It's all volunteers, volunteers, volunteers. We couldn't do it without volunteers. Some work a lot of hours, some just come one morning a week."
Stories that feed the soul
The crosses are carved from cedar, walnut or oak – much of which is donated by farmers. All the crosses are unique in shape and size. Particularly popular is the palm cross, designed with smooth rounded edges to fit comfortably in the palm of the holder. These crosses come with a card that describes the love of Christ.
The crosses bring comfort to sick or grieving church members. They make a heartfelt gift to people in hospitals, in nursing homes and in the military. And people who are depressed, anxious or worried find comfort in the contemplative nature of the crosses. Kent hangs thank you letters on the walls of the shop and has file folders filled with notes from grateful recipients.
The Cross Makers are not paid for their work – at least not monetarily. "It's just so wonderful to do something like this without any pay or any benefits," says Kent. "Our reward comes from the letters we receive from people who have enjoyed the crosses. It's the stories that keep you going."
Any proceeds not used for materials and equipment go to local charities.
From hobby to passion
These days Kent has taken a step back from his work at the shop. At age 83, his health requires a break from daily woodworking. He still visits the shop regularly and continues to be in awe of what began as a retirement activity to keep him busy seven years ago.
"This started as a way to spend my extra time, and it's turned into a way to share blessings with a lot of people," Kent says. "I never expected that this little hobby could do that."
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A full crowd received plenty of souvenirs after 16 foul balls reached the stands at UFCU Disch-Falk Field in just the first inning of Texas' match up with Texas Tech on Saturday.
But Longhorn fans hoped more of those foul balls reached the fair side of the field for Texas batters during a second straight 2-1 loss to the Red Raiders.
"We've been playing pretty good lately these past two days against Texas Tech," redshirt junior pitcher Morgan Cooper said. "We didn't play bad, we just came up short. It sucks."
Despite scoring a run during the first inning on an error by the Red Raider defense, the Longhorns couldn't gather a hit through the first four innings of the game. The team finished with four hits in the game and remained scoreless after the first inning.
With runners on second and third base during the seventh inning, Texas hoped to pull off a late-game rally for its first win in the weekend series. But Red Raider pitcher Jacob Patterson chased the Longhorns away with three consecutive strikeouts to end the inning with the 2-1 Texas Tech lead still intact.
"In that situation, we really need to stay relaxed and put the pressure back on the pitcher," head coach David Pierce said. "He was very calm and in control and he made pitches. We had pitches to hit right then. We just didn't get it done."
During the following inning, Pierce brought in his best batter redshirt sophomore catcher Michael McCann — who is hitting a team-best .458 — to pinch hit with two runners on base. However, McCann played into a fielder's choice and stranded both baserunners to end the inning.
"When you leave ten guys on base in clutch situations against a very good, seasoned team, that's what we get," Pierce said.
Pierce recognizes his team's youth as a factor in coming up short against a veteran Texas Tech ballclub.
"That's a seasoned team, that's a team that's been to Omaha," Pierce said. "We're a team trying to get back to Omaha. There's some veteran moves that were made on the field and we tightened up at home plate. We have to just understand we're young, we're going to make some mistakes but at the same time, we've got to take the pressure off of ourselves."
But as a veteran himself, Cooper can't accept his team's youth as an excuse for falling short to the Red Raiders.
"I don't think we're young," Cooper said. "They were just one run better. Yeah, they've been to Omaha, I've been to Omaha. That doesn't matter. We're out here playing baseball. … I don't care what they've done, we've just got to win."
Although Cooper threw 5.2 scoreless innings for the Longhorns, a two-run blemish in the third inning costed him the game. Cooper picked up his first loss of the season during his nine-strikeout outing.
After two straight one-run losses to the Red Raiders, the Longhorns look to bounce back Sunday to avoid getting swept in their first series of conference play.
"It comes down to who wants it," Cooper said. "Do we want to sit back and get swept, or do we want to put our foot down and say we're not getting swept at home? ... I know everybody in there is hungry and everybody wants to win so I guess we'll see tomorrow."


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Breathe: A book reviewSaturday, February 01, 2014
I know firsthand just how hard it is as a busy mom to fit in a daily devotional, let alone trying to find the time to sit and breathe! So when I heard about Jaimie Bowman's new book, Breathe: 31 Moments with God {for Moms}, I had to give it a shot. I mean she says moments...
And this devotional does give you 31 days worth of daily devotions that will pull your focus on God, even while balancing a busy mom schedule. Another plus, you can start this devotional at any time, it's not month dependent, you could even jump around to different days if you felt so inclined.
- Scripture readings - a few verses are listed, you have to go to your Bible and look them up - an effort to make you really focus on God
- Jaimie's personal thoughts on the readings
- Prayer - short prayer based on Jaimie's discussion
- Reflection questions - three questions designed for further personal reflection
Personal Likes:
I really enjoyed reading Jaimie's personal reflections and thoughts, the bulk of the devotions as her style was free and relaxed. It was obvious that Jaimie has a personal relationship with God and that she has spent time acquiring Biblical knowledge and yet I didn't feel preached at - a bonus!
Plus, each devotion was extremely quick to read. And seriously, isn't that the goal for a mom's daily devotional? I was able to get through each devotion in about ten minutes, even looking up the verses in my Bible.
Personal Dislikes:
Again, this is just me, but when I add on a daily devotional, I'd rather have the scripture printed in the book as I also spend daily time in my Bible. Although I understand Jaimie's purpose for making you look them up, for me personally I'd rather have them printed.
And I was disappointed in the reflection questions. None of them were very mind-bending, or surprising for me. I felt like I'd been asked each one at some point in different devotionals or studies. But that could just be where I am right now, reading a ton! So I am not sure this would even be a thought for most readers.
Reasons to pick this devotional:
I really do feel that the biggest reason to pick up this particular devotional is that the prayers inside are wonderful models for when you feel that your prayer life has stalled out. Or if you feel like you aren't sure how to really pray. Jaimie does a wonderful job of making the prayers conversational, and yet succinct in purpose. And I know that there are many moms, myself included, who often feel the need for help in spicing up our prayer lives. There is nothing like getting a peak into someone else's prayers in order to inspire your own.
Reading List Rating:
I had a hard time rating this book, as in some respects I feel there are very valuable tools inside, but overall, this devotional needed more originality in content for me to give it a better rating. If you are serious looking for a little help in praying better and looking to do so in a few short moments a day, then consider this a much higher rated book.
My suggested audience:
I feel this is the perfect devotional for moms who are looking fro a quick daily devotional. And for any mom who is looking for some tips on how to improve her prayer life.
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What's next for social intranets?
The first is a blog post from the Intranet Connections blog called "What is next for Social intranets" in it the author reports on a blog post which discusses the struggles of trying to get organisations (enterprises) to adopt social software. The author has an excellent piece of advice, which is:
"Jumping into social networking for the enterprise is a challenge and often requires a major shift in culture for an organization. A great piece of advice I took away from a Webinar was to focus social interactions around a business goal or campaign. Leverage the use of social tools to facilitate business"
This is definitely something I would encourage any organisation considering implementing a social intranet to look at. The second blog post was from the Intranet connections blog again. In this post called "5 Ways to Harness the Power of Social Tools on Your Intranet" the author lists five ways in which you could use social media tools to align your organisations corporate culture. These are listed as follows:
- "Allow it to shape and manage your company culture: Use your intranet to reinforce the values, goals and ideas that you have for your organization"
- "Allow it to help you strengthen change management initiatives: Be transparent with your employees and let them see what the organization is working towards"
- "Allow it to help you improve execution of corporate strategy: Get your CEO connected with employees in an open forum on the intranet"
- "Allow it to let you better facilitate corporate communication: With a social intranet you can reach out to your coworkers to share business tools, ask questions and learn from one another"
- "Allow it to let you better manage and increase employee engagement: Empower your employees on the intranet and give them the ability to personalize their own intranet work space"
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I hope you had a fantastic weekend!! Do I dare say happy Monday? The weekend is over and now back to work and reality. Working and getting back to reality gets me thinking about exercise and how hard it is to fit it into our busy schedules. I would like to help with that by giving you some ideas on how to plan exercise into your day.
Exercise is my drug, I need it every single day. I hit the gym and lift weights 5 times a week, I run 4-5 days a week, and I walk every single day. Exercise clears my mind and allows me to focus. It is what a lot of people call my zen time or my "me" time.
How am I able to fit this in every day? Well, simply I put it on the top of my list. Well, it's not at the very top, coffee is at the very tip-top of all of my list. I don't care what list it is, coffee is on it! All kidding aside, making exercise a top priority is why I am able to do it every day. Let me give you 5 examples of how you can plan more exercise into your day.
If you are not a person that exercises at all making baby steps are all it takes. Now that Spring is upon us it is easier to take walks outside in the evening after dinner.
You could schedule a 15 or 30-minute walk around the neighborhood and that would be so great for your mind and body. Get the whole family involved. Not only is it good for you, it's good for the kids to get moving and run off some that extra energy they have built up before it's time for bed.
If you are a morning person. Try hitting the gym before work. Start out by scheduling an hour of gym time. The great thing about gyms is, they are usually equipped with showers, blow dryers, and big mirrors so you can get ready for work after your workout.
Pack some clothes before work and throw it into the car. After you're done with work head to the gym and release all of your frustrations out on the equipment. My husband and I meet at the gym after work on Monday, Wednesday, and Thursdays. We spend about 2 hours there doing cardio and weights. This is so great because it is something we are doing together. We don't consider this date night by any means but it is something we do together.
If you want to make working out a priority the having a buddy system will help. You are more likely to head to the gym when you're meeting someone there. You don't want to let your workout buddy down.
Set Up A Workout Schedule
Yes, I cannot stress this one enough. If you have a schedule then you are setting yourself up for success. I have a rotating schedule for weights.
Depending on the time of year I will have a running schedule (I sign up for a few races a year, so my training is off and on). If you are interested in weight training, Bodybuilding.com is a fantastic website full of exercises and training plans.
Also, I have put together a little workout planner for your too. You know how much I love to plan, I thought I would share my workout planner with you. It is a blank planner but this is what I use to as my daily workout schedule.
I keep track of the food I eat, how much water I drink, how much cardio I do, and my weights. I like to keep track each of these to see my progress from week to week.
There you have it, my tips on how to plan exercise into your day. Are you ready to get out there? Do you put exercise at the top of your list? I would love to hear your thoughts below! Thank you so much!!


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Technical Memorandum – A Training Evaluation Framework for PSTC MilObs Course
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- A current Applied Research Project (ARP) of the Collaborative Performance and Learning Section (CPL) at Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC) Toronto explores moral and ethical decision-making (MEDM) in Canadian Forces (CF) operations (16kk, 16re02). A major focus in this program of research has been field studies conducted at the Peace Support Training Centre (PSTC) Canadian Forces Base (CFB) in Kingston. CF personnel preparing to deploy as United Nations Military Observers (UNMOs or Mil Obs) undertake a number of training activities meant to enhance and develop their skills particular to Peace Support Operations (PSO). Over the course of a month long training program, CF personnel receive intensive preparation, using a combination of classroom training and scenario-based training. One such scenario-based exercise simulates a human rights violation. In this scenario, unarmed trainees attempt to negotiate the lives of civilians who are being verbally and physically abused by two armed police. Our research program to date has examined a number of psychological processes during this scenario, such as aspects of moral intensity (physical proximity of the victim, MEFS I), emotion (MEFS II) and teamwork (MEFS III). The current work provides PSTC instructor requested materials that are drawn from the results of these studies. First, we created a set of PowerPoint slides that detail the most critical findings in the three field studies. Second, we generated a list of the op
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- moral and ethical decision-making (MEDM);Canadian Forces (CF) operations;Peace Support Operations
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- DRDC-TORONTO-CR-2009-159 — Contractor Report
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tiki-admin.php?page=packages page. The Packages admin page has four sections, displayed in tabs — Packages Installed, Install Other Packages, Packages Bundled, and Diagnose. These sections are described below:
Packages Installed
This list shows packages that have been installed via this feature. The details for each package include package name, version required, status, and version installed, plus a remove button for each. The version required is the minimum version required by Tiki, so the version installed must be that version or a newer one. If the Packages feature hasn't been used yet, then of course the list will be empty.
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Even polar bears can't handle the polar vortex
It's too cold out even for polar bears, thanks the to polar vortex that has descended on North America. Zoo officials in Chicago, also known as #ChiBeria, are keeping their polar bear indoors during the city's below-zero temperatures. DNAinfo reports that the bear doesn't have the insulating blubber that would keep an animal in the wild warm:
Anana, the Lincoln Park Zoo's lone polar bear, is keeping warm in a "climate-controlled" area in the wake of the city's below-zero temperatures, according to zoo spokeswoman Sharon Dewar.Read the full story here.
"She doesn't typically enjoy the very cold much," Dewar said of the 12-year-old polar bear. "Few of us are accustomed to this cold."
As Sarah Laskow at Grist observes, "You know it's cold when the polar bear wants to go inside and snuggle up." When it's not instantly-face-numbingly cold out, Anana does enjoy the snow, as you can see in the quick clip from the Lincoln Park Zoo.


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AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - U.S. authorities filed criminal charges on Wednesday against a JetBlue pilot who screamed over the radio, pounded on the door of the cockpit and was tackled by passengers during a chaotic flight from New York forced to make an emergency landing in Texas.
Flight 191 was diverted to Amarillo, Texas, on Tuesday, following what federal authorities described as erratic behavior by captain Clayton Frederick Osbon, who passengers said was restrained after he pounded on the locked cockpit door.
A U.S. attorney in Texas filed a complaint charging Osbon with interfering with the crew. It is unusual for a commercial airline pilot to be charged in this way, and a U.S. official said he could not recall a similar case in recent years.
Osbon, 49, remains in a guarded facility at a hospital in Amarillo, and U.S. Attorney Sarah Saldana said he faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted.
Osbon was suspended while the FBI investigates the incident, the airline said on Wednesday.
"He has been removed from all active duty and responsibilities pending further investigation," JetBlue spokeswoman Tamara Young said, declining to comment further on that investigation.
JetBlue, which had said on Tuesday the flight was diverted due to a "medical situation" involving the captain, said Osbon was a 12-year veteran of the airline.
An affidavit by an FBI agent shows that trouble for the flight started before the Airbus A320 took off from New York City's John F. Kennedy International Airport. Osbon was late arriving at the airport, and missed the routine pre-flight crew briefing, agent John Whitworth said in the affidavit.
Whitworth said problems continued as the Airbus A320 was taking off.
"Osbon talked about his church and needed to focus," Whitworth said in the affidavit. "Osbon began talking about religion, but his statements were not coherent."
The rest of the flight crew began to get nervous when Osbon told them that "things just don't matter" and began yelling over the plane's radio system, telling air traffic controllers to "be quiet," according to Whitworth's account in the affidavit. "The First Officer became really worried when Osbon said, 'We need to take a leap of faith'," Whitworth said in the document. "Osbon started trying to correlate completely unrelated numbers and he talked about the sins in Las Vegas. At one point, Osbon told the (first officer), 'We're not going to Vegas,' and began giving what was described as a sermon."
Passengers who were on the plane described a chaotic mid-flight scene in which a man in a JetBlue uniform, apparently locked out of the cockpit, began banging on the door and demanding to be let inside. Passengers subdued him.
"People behind me, a bunch of big guys, started going up there and trying to help, and we found out that the guy banging was actually the pilot, and he was trying to get into the cockpit because the other co-pilot had locked him out," passenger Grant Heppes told Reuters.
"Everybody seemed pretty nervous," he said. "Nobody was sure what was going on. Everybody seemed very concerned."
JetBlue has said that following a medical situation with the captain, another captain who was traveling off-duty entered the flight deck prior to the landing and "took over the duties of the ill crew member once on the ground."
JetBlue chief executive Dave Barger said there had been no earlier signs of problems with the pilot.
"I've known the captain personally for a long period of time, and there's been no indication of this at all," Barger told NBC, adding that the pilot was a "consummate professional."
The incident was the second to involve erratic behavior by a JetBlue crew member since August 2010, when a flight attendant upset after an altercation with a passenger bolted from a plane by deploying and sliding down the inflatable emergency chute.
Lawyers for the flight attendant in that incident, Steven Slater, later told reporters he had acted in part out of frustration with the chaos of air travel and that he was under stress because his mother was suffering from lung cancer.
The incident also came just two weeks after a female flight attendant started ranting about a possible crash over the public address system of an American Airlines plane. She, too, was subdued by passengers and crew as the plane returned to the gate at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport.
Additional reporting by Dan Whitcomb, Susan Heavey, Jim Forsyth; Editing by Cynthia Johnston and Greg McCune


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A while back, I did a series of posts on finding and living your life passion. (If you haven't read them, check them out: parts one, two, three, and four.) In the series, I talk about ways to discover what you are passionate about, and also how to begin living those passions once you discover them.
Passion for something is a wonderful thing. It makes us feel alive; it gives us a sense of purpose and drive. But if we're not careful, passion can smolder and eventually die. Sometimes this will be a natural thing, as our dreams and passions definitely change as time passes. But sometimes the loss of passion happens because we lose focus or because we are no longer taking action.
I've found this to be the case for me lately. I haven't taken enough action toward my dreams. I really haven't engaged in enough action, period. As a result, my life feels smothered, lifeless, and I feel myself losing all sense of passion for the things I once loved. I don't want that to happen, so it's time to make a change.
As I read back over my series on finding life passion, I saw a common theme: passion requires action. Just as our physical bodies require action (i.e. exercise) to prevent atrophy and the breakdown of the body, our minds and hearts do too. Even if you were living your life deliberately and with passion a few months ago, if you do not take the necessary actions right now, you won't feel the benefits now. I'm at just such a place, so I need this reminder.
What is holding me back from living my life the way I know I want to? Here are some of the biggest ones:
- Fear. Passion and purpose can be scary, because you might fail. You might not get what you want, so it can be easy to rationalize that you don't really want to go for it. Or that you will take action later. It's true, your dreams will always be around, but if you don't take action NOW, you may be missing out on some amazing opportunities.
- Complacency. Do you know why we get stuck in ruts? Because they're comfortable. They're easy. You don't have to extend yourself or make a lot of effort. Sometimes you need a little break where you are comfortable. But if you stay comfortable in life, you aren't moving anywhere or growing your soul.
- Distractions. I say distractions, but what I mean is distraction, because my main distraction is the Internet, and I freely admit that. I'm not proud of it, but I'm coming clean and saying that the Internet is my biggest time waster and I want it to stop!
So what do we do? How do we start taking action toward our goals and dreams? How do we push past fear, complacency and all the distractions out there? I'm not certain we can ever fully beat these monsters, but if we don't fight them by taking action, they take over and we lose. Is that dramatic? Maybe. But if we don't take action now, before we know it life will be over. All we have is today. So...here's what I pledge to do, starting today.
- I pledge to act on my feelings. Sometimes I think to myself, "I should call so-and-so" or "I should start playing guitar again." Well, needless to say, I don't often actually DO the things I think about. When I get a prompting, I will act on it.
- I pledge to actively live my life, every day. By this I mean that I will enjoy the moments I have right now. I will seek out new experiences, do instead of think, and actively BE the person I know I am meant to be.
- I pledge to cut distractions from my life. This is a hard one. I use the Internet for work, for communication, for entertainment. But it also wastes my precious time. I'm going to find ways to get it out of my life as much as I can. I'll detail this in a future post. Instead of allowing my mind and heart to be distracted, I want to be active, to live, to be.
Do you have things holding you back from your passions? Tell us in the comments what is holding you back and what you pledge to do in order to live your best life!


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Sometimes beets in the market have beautiful, unblemished, tender greens attached. When that happens, blanch the greens and toss with beans and vinaigrette, using some of the beets to garnish the salad, as in this recipe. Use the leftover cooked beets for other dishes. If you buy beet greens on their own, you can make the salad just with them. Either way is delicious.
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Good Tuesday morning, and welcome back.
Situational awareness: For the fourth year in a row, the Cleveland Cavaliers and Golden State Warriors meet in the NBA Finals — the first time in North America's four major team sports that the same teams made the championship four times in a row. (NBA.com)
- It's LeBron's eighth consecutive finals. (ESPN)
1 big thing: A global women's liberation movement
A record number of women running for office in America. The #MeToo movement taking down men worldwide. Ireland voting two-to-one to legalize abortion. Some Silicon Valley companies promising to make 50% of their workforce female. Young women increasingly dominating men in high school and college classrooms.
- What's happening: Everywhere you look, women are rising and forcing results.
- Why it matters: It's sparking debate about whether this is a landmark, '60s-style liberation and empowerment — but on a global stage.
- Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), who successfully pushed for legislation mandating sexual harassment training in the Senate, tells me: "[T]here was bound to come a moment when the unfairness of it all bubbled over into electoral success. ... [W]hy does it suddenly feel like a mass movement — a.k.a., a global juggernaut? I would say that a lot of women have been waiting in the wings wondering if they can do it, and suddenly they are."
- Katie Couric, who recently examined gender equality in a National Geographic episode called "The Revolt," adds: "It feels like a historic, watershed moment. ... Think of what we can accomplish when more than half the population has a real seat at the table."
- It's not just politics. Tech companies are trying to improve their perpetual gender imbalance, the Financial Times reports, by "training staff in unconscious bias, ... insisting that shortlists include women, improving referral incentives, ... enhancing maternity rights and showcasing female role models on social media."
The data:
- After upsetting headlines about harassment in Silicon Valley, women feel increasingly empowered and hopeful. Tech companies are taking steps to improve figures for women in their workforces, which range from 45% at Pinterest to 35% at Facebook to 26% at Microsoft, according to Recode.
- Women will account for 55% of the full-time undergraduates in U.S. colleges this fall, according to a Department of Education projection, a trend that led The Atlantic to call men the "new minority on campus."
- A record number of women are running for Congress this fall, and the N.Y. Times calculates that roughly half of the women running in primaries have won so far. Cook Political's David Wasserman says this Democratic primary season "is defined by women trouncing men," with women winning in 69% (45 of 65) of races where they faced a male non-incumbent.
- From the Senate, Klobuchar cites this stark statistic: More than 1,900 men have been U.S. senators. Only 52 women have been senators in the history of the country — and 23 are serving today.
Axios future editor Steve LeVine says the trend looks like a third spike in the century-long women's revolution:
- The themes — the rise of women politicians, outrage against sex crimes, the secularization of Europe — aren't new. If you include Anita Hill's 1991 Senate appearance during the confirmation hearing for Justice Clarence Thomas, they go back decades. But they are a culmination.
- Leandra Zarnow, a history professor at the University of Houston, traces it back four decades, "reflecting persistent activism by women to make inroads into politics and policy, before and ever since women leaned on the United Nations to declare 1975 International Women's Year."
- Zarnow tells us that what we are watching is different, a long time coming, and around the world — "a global upsurge of outrage and engagement around women's rights that feels different because of its hefty volume and tone."
- The first wave, going back to the 19th and early 20th centuries, brought women the right to vote. After the suffragettes, the second acknowledged wave started in the 1960s and took up pay, sex, reproduction, abortion and general equality.
- After that, gender historians divide, identifying third and even fourth waves. But we're clearly witnessing a distinct and powerful societal shift.
Be smart: Despite the promising current surge, equality for women remains elusive and distant. As Leandra Zarnow, the history professor, put it: "The 21st century is not a post-feminist era. More work needs to be done."
2. Trump 101
A trio of new stories give useful glimpses into how President Trump operates:
- N.Y. Times, "With 'Spygate,' Trump Shows How He Uses Conspiracy Theories to Erode Trust": "[T]wo former aides said Mr. Trump had resisted using the term 'deep state' for months, partly because he believed it made him look too much like a crank. But Mr. Trump saw that it played well in the conservative news media, and so in November, he began using it."
- WashPost, "With new West Wing cast, Trump calls shots": "Rather than struggling to manipulate the president to follow their personal agendas, the senior staff members of Trump's Year 2 — or 'Season 3,' in Trump's reality television parlance — focus on trying to curb his most outlandish impulses while generally executing his vision and managing whatever fallout may follow. Most of all, officials said, they 'get' Trump."
- The Daily Beast, on the alliance between Trump and Harvey Levin, founder of the celebrity site TMZ: "Even before Trump's political ascendancy, TMZ landed 'exclusives' with him ... [During the campaign,] the website and TMZ's Fox TV show went from covering celebrities and scandal to covering Trump in a favorable manner. ... After Trump was in office, Levin benefited with a series of 'exclusives' that he published on TMZ."
3. Freeze frame: Day 494
What we learned on Monday, May 28, 2018 — Day 494 of President Trump:
- Reuters: "North Korea has dispatched top officials to the United States and Singapore, ... the latest indication that an on-again-off-again summit with U.S. President Donald Trump may go ahead."
- Bloomberg: "What Letter? Trump Proceeds Like Summit With Kim Is Still On ... Tweet makes no reference to Thursday's decision to pull out."
HHS Deputy Secretary Eric Hargan issued this statement on the Unaccompanied Alien Children Program: "These children are not 'lost'; their sponsors — who are usually parents or family members and in all cases have been vetted for criminality and ability to provide for them — simply did not respond or could not be reached when this voluntary call was made."
- Wait! What? Backstory from the N.Y. Times, "Did the Trump Administration Separate Immigrant Children From Parents and Lose Them?": "Losing track of children who arrive at the border alone is not a new phenomenon. A 2016 inspector general report showed that the federal government was able to reach only 84 percent of children it had placed, leaving 4,159 unaccounted for."
- Be smart: The fact that it's not new doesn't make it OK.
4. Pics du jour
White House Chief of Staff John Kelly and his wife, Karen, pay Memorial Day respects to their son, Marine Second Lt. Robert Kelly, lost to a land mine in Afghanistan in 2010 at age 29.
- See our new map of the hometowns of the 6,940 U.S. service members who have died since 9/11. Average age: 26½.
5. What's working in Dem primaries
Candidates who support a single-payer (government-paid) health care system — or at least some expansion of government health coverage — are winning important Democratic primaries, Axios' Caitlin Owens reports:
- Why it matters: Republicans see this as an advantage, and a shift too far to the left for voters in swing districts. And the Democratic establishment had backed more moderate candidates in some of these primaries.
- The big picture: Single-payer supporters are still a minority within the Democratic Party, but they've pulled off some successes so far and gained more ground than they've ever had before.
- The problem for Dems: To win the House majority, Democrats will need to flip several suburban or swing districts that tend to elect moderates.
- What's next: California and New Jersey hold their primaries a week from today. Between them, those states include more than a dozen competitive seats, making them a crucial part of Democrats' strategy.
- 2020 outlook: Most of Democrats' leading presidential prospects have endorsed some form of single-payer.
6. The talk of tech: "Founder friendly" era boosts startup stars
"Silicon Valley financiers are losing leverage to star entrepreneurs ... Founders of highflying startups are increasingly wresting control of their companies from venture-capital backers and extracting huge pay packages tied to going public," The Wall Street Journal's Rolfe Winkler and Maureen Farrell write (subscription):
- State of play: "Venture capitalists had long called the shots in startup boardrooms and continue to be the primary backers of private companies. But in recent years, they have had to compete against new classes of investors including mutual funds, sovereign-wealth funds and now Japan's SoftBank Group Corp., which has a $92 billion fund investing in startups."
- Why it matters: "VCs say empowering founders — through special voting shares, governance rights and other tools — frees them to follow ambitious long-term strategies once their companies go public without having to worry that poor performance will bring pressure from activist investors."
- The data: "Last year, 67% of U.S. venture-backed tech companies that staged IPOs had supervoting shares for insiders ... The proportion of nontech U.S. venture-backed IPOs with supervoting shares stood at 10% to 15% every year ... 72% of founders of U.S. tech startups valued over $1 billion that had IPOs over the past 24 months have supervoting shares."
7. 🏎 Sign of the times: "Race to a trillion"
The Financial Times has a new tracker, featuring race cars and a 🏁, "Track the market cap race to a trillion: Will Apple, Amazon, Microsoft or Alphabet reach the 'quatro commas' club first?" (Subscription)
- The paper today begins a series, "Race to a trillion": "Leading tech companies have enjoyed surges in market capitalization, as revenues and profits have powered ahead and investors showed an insatiable appetite for their shares."
- "Apple is closest to becoming the first [public] company to achieve a $1tn valuation, but Amazon, Alphabet and Microsoft are not far behind."
8. Here's who to blame for rising gasoline prices
At an average of almost $3 a gallon, pump prices are 60 cents more than last Memorial Day, and the highest in four years. In her weekly energy column, "Harder Line," Axios' Amy Harder reveals the culprits:
- President Trump for his decision to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal.
- OPEC and Russia for cutting oil production in 2016.
- The EPA for requiring cleaner and more expensive gasoline blends in summertime.
Drill deeper with Amy's full column in the Axios stream.
9. The real America
Politico health care reporter Dan Diamond tweeted Sunday: "I went by the Newseum's wall of 50 state newspapers, with front pages from around the nation."
- "The most common health care story today? Local stories about the impact of the opioid epidemic — as usual."
- Dan tweeted examples from Chicago, Raleigh, Richmond and Huntington, W.Va.
- Why it matters: "Sunday is usually each paper's showcase for biggest stories. Looking at 50 front pages is a useful, if imperfect sampling. But best of all, it's a reminder — especially to this DC reporter — that the nation often has bigger concerns than the stories gripping Washington."
10. 1 fun thing
"'Spider-Man,' a Migrant in Paris, Scales Building to Save a Child" — N.Y. Times' Aurelien Breeden and Alan Cowell, in Paris:
- "The 4-year-old boy seemed to be suspended from a balcony."
- "[A] man hauled himself hand over hand from one balcony to another, springing from one parapet to grasp the next one up. A crowd that had gathered before he began his daring exploit urged him ever upward, according to onlookers' video that was shared widely on social media."
- "[A]fter scaling four balconies, the man reached the child and pulled him to safety. "
- "The man, identified as Mamoudou Gassama, 22, is a migrant from Mali ... without documentation."
- "On Monday, ... he met with President Emmanuel Macron. Now, he will get the requisite documentation to live legally in France."


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KISSIMMEE, Fla., September 27, 1:00 p.m. – Kissimmee Utility Authority (KUA) announced today that it will cut electric rates by 4.6 percent beginning Oct. 1 because of lower fuel costs, saving the typical residential electric user in Kissimmee nearly $5 a month. October marks the third consecutive month of rate reductions for KUA customers. Since… Read more »
Monthly Archives: September 2006
KUA CEO Joins Conference Faculty
KISSIMMEE, Fla., Sept. 27, 12:00 p.m. – Kissimmee Utility Authority president and general manager Jim Welsh has joined the faculty of the American Public Power Association's 2006 Management and Leadership Workshop. Held in Tucson, Ariz. on Oct. 2-4, the workshop is designed to train rising CEOs and senior managers from utilities throughout the U.S. Participants will… Read more »
KUA Dedicates New Power Plant
KISSIMMEE, Fla., Sept. 25, 1:00 p.m. – Kissimmee's newest power resource was dedicated to the public in an official ceremony held last Friday in Key West, Fla. Kissimmee Utility Authority (KUA) and 14 other city-owned utilities worked together through the Florida Municipal Power Agency (FMPA) to build the $30 million, high-efficiency electric generating unit in… Read more »
Young Artists Wanted for Calendar Competition
KISSIMMEE, Fla., Sept. 22, 10:30 a.m. – Kissimmee Utility Authority (KUA) is now accepting artwork entries for its 2007 Calendar of Electrical Safety. The contest, the 13th in the annual series, is open to Osceola County students in kindergarten through sixth grade (including home-schooled children). The contest is designed to educate students and teachers about… Read more »
Lacerte to Speak at National Utility Conference
KISSIMMEE, Fla., Sept. 14, 9:30 a.m. – Grant Lacerte, Jr., vice president and general counsel at Kissimmee Utility Authority (KUA), will speak at the American Public Power Association's 2006 Business & Financial Conference on Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2006 in Minneapolis, Minn. Lacerte's presentation, titled "Implementing a Code of Ethics Policy," will include examples of business… Read more »


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Possession of Methamphetamine (Health & Safety Code 11377)
Possession of methamphetamine for personal use is governed by Health & Safety Code section 11377(a). Although the code allows a violation of this section to be charged as a misdemeanor, in Kern County, the reality is that it is ALWAYS charged as a felony, even on a first offense. While being charged with section 11377 by itself will normally make the accused eligible for either PC 1000 (Drug Diversion) or Prop. 36 probation, any additional charges in the same case that are not solely drug related can render the accused ineligible for either of those programs. Additionally, the District Attorney's Office may charge you with either Possession for Sale (H&S 11378) or Transportation (H&S 11379) in an effort to keep you out of these programs, depending on the particular circumstances of your case.
Drug cases, in particular, require the services of an experienced criminal defense attorney. Oftentimes, there are issues with the legality of the police conduct in detaining or searching the suspect that can result in the dismissal of the entire case.
Health & Safety Code Section 11377
(a) Except as authorized by law and as otherwise provided in subdivision (b) or Section 11375, or in Article 7 (commencing with Section 4211) of Chapter 9 of Division 2 of the Business and Professions Code, every person who possesses any controlled substance which is (1) classified in Schedule III, IV, or V, and which is not a narcotic drug, (2) specified in subdivision (d) of Section 11054, except paragraphs (13), (14), (15), and (20) of subdivision (d), (3) specified in paragraph (11) of subdivision (c) of Section 11056, (4) specified in paragraph (2) or (3) of subdivision (f) of Section 11054, or (5) specified in subdivision (d), (e), or (f) of Section 11055, unless upon the prescription of a physician, dentist, podiatrist, or veterinarian, licensed to practice in this state, shall be punished by imprisonment in a county jail for a period of not more than one year or pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 1170 of the Penal Code.


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We continue publishing some examples of Russian ingenuity. Russians themself think that their ingenuity mainly comes into play when the situation becomes drastically desperate, and when things go normal there is no need for this. Well, this time people got in some kind of close situation. Here is a small story.
To understand it better you need to know how is usually looks like an appartment in just constructed house in Russia. As a rule, Russian constructing companies don't sell the appartments that you can just furnish and live in. They sell the bare concrete box, just the walls of brick or concrete with no electricity lines, no pipes, no wooden floors – just concrete slabs down and up, and often there are no any separation walls inside one appartment too. Many people like this approach because they can create anything in the give flat space, though they have to put everything there by themselves. This is what happened in this case, construction works at this 18-stored house have just finnished and people have got their new concrete boxes to process further, but the elevators – it's also a common thing in Russia in freshly built houses – were not functional, this usually happens because the bureaucratic system that gives approvals for use of elevators is a whole different story for the construction itself.
So people had no elevator but had to put all the materials that would be used to make their walls, floors, ceilings etc to 18th floor. Hiring the crane is expensive, buying small crane or hauler is also expensive. So look what they have done with their car and some rope. With it help they managed to deliever all the stuff to their flat and probably helped the neighbours too.


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On a sunshiny day on the Isle of Mull, 'Síne Bhan', sister skiff to 'Eala Bhan' was launched yesterday.
'Síne Bhan', meaning 'Fair Jean' was floated with plenty of local support into the clear waters of Ulva Ferry. She sports a similar white hull and orange sheer strake of 'Eala Bhan'.
'Have a Go' rows were available during the afternoon as well as some lighthearted racing, before retiring to Dervaig for post launch chat and a little bask in the glory of 'Second Skiff Success'.
Isle of Mull rowing are pleased to have a second skiff ready in plenty of time for their annual regatta, to be held later this year, on the 4th, 5th and 6th of September. Following their inaugural regatta last year, the club are hoping to accommodate up to eight visiting skiffs this time round, and are looking forward to a range of races from evening sprints on Friday to a 6 km race around Calve Island on Saturday.
Keep up to date with the latest St.Ayles Skiff launch and regatta plans by following Isle of Mull coastal rowing's facebook page.
'Sine Bhan' is boat number 92 on the Craft Register, where you can also listen to Ann Mackin's wonderful Gealic pronunciation.
Our very big thanks to Lynne Addy for photographs of Saturday's launch.