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SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif. & SEOUL, South Korea--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Seagate Technology plc (NASDAQ:STX), the world leader in hard disk drives and storage solutions, and Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a world leader in digital consumer electronics and information technology, today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Seagate and Samsung will significantly expand and strengthen their strategic relationship by further aligning their respective ownership, investments and key technologies. Major elements of the agreement include:
- Samsung combining its hard disk drive (HDD) operations into Seagate
- Extending and enhancing the existing patent cross-license agreement between the companies
- A NAND flash memory supply agreement under which Samsung will provide Seagate with its market-leading semiconductor products for use in Seagate's enterprise solid state drives (SSDs), solid state hybrid drives and other products
- A disk drive supply agreement under which Seagate will supply disk drives to Samsung for PCs, notebooks and consumer electronics
- Expanded cooperation between the companies to co-develop enterprise storage solutions
- Samsung receiving significant equity ownership in Seagate
- A shareholder agreement under which an executive of Samsung will be nominated to join Seagate's Board of Directors
The combined value of these transactions and agreements is approximately $1.375 billion USD, which will be paid by Seagate to Samsung in the form of 50% stock and 50% cash.
These transactions and related strategic agreements will enable both companies to better align their current and future product development efforts and roadmaps, accelerate time-to-market for new products and position the companies to better address rapidly evolving opportunities in markets including, but not limited to, mobile computing, cloud computing and solid state storage. In connection with its strategic alliance with Samsung, Seagate expects also to strengthen its relationship with TDK Corporation/SAE Magnetics (H.K.) Ltd. Together, these transactions and agreements broaden a strategic relationship between Seagate and Samsung that began with a joint development agreement announced in August 2010.
"We are pleased to strengthen our strategic relationship with Samsung in a way that better aligns both companies around technologies and products," said Steve Luczo, Seagate chairman, president and CEO. "With these agreements, we expect to achieve greater scale and deliver a broader range of innovative storage products and solutions to our customers, while facilitating our long-term relationship with Samsung."
Seagate expects these transactions and agreements to be meaningfully accretive to non-GAAP diluted earnings per share and cash flow within the first full year following the closing, and Seagate does not expect any material restructuring costs in connection with them.
"Delivering value to the market and consumers is the primary goal of the extensive agreement announced today. Samsung looks forward to extending our existing strategic ties with Seagate, to deliver creative technology solutions for a broad diversity of consumer, business and industrial applications," said Oh-hyun, Kwon, president of the semiconductor business of Samsung Electronics.
The transactions and agreements significantly expand Seagate's customer access in China and Southeast Asia. In addition, the mutual supply agreements enable Seagate to secure an important source of leading-edge NAND flash supply as the company expands its SSD and solid state hybrid product offerings, and position Seagate to be a more significant supplier of disk drives to Samsung. The agreement also gives Samsung a significant ownership position in Seagate.
Under the terms of the agreement, Samsung will receive consideration consisting of 50% Seagate ordinary shares and 50% cash. Upon closing, Samsung will receive Seagate ordinary shares valued at $687.5 million (45.2 million shares, or approximately 9.6% ownership of Seagate, which is based on Seagate's 30-day volume weighted average stock price prior to signing), plus $687.5 million in cash. Samsung will have a right to designate a nominee to join Seagate's Board of Directors following closing.
The agreement has no financing contingencies, and is subject to customary closing conditions, including review by U.S. and international regulators. The transactions are expected to close by the end of calendar year 2011.
Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated served as financial advisor and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Professional Corporation served as legal advisor to Seagate in connection with the transaction. Allen & Company LLC served as financial advisor and Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP served as legal advisor to Samsung.
Conference Call
Seagate will host a conference call at 5:30 a.m. Pacific Time to discuss the transaction. In addition, Seagate will discuss its third quarter 2011 financial results on the same call.
The conference call can be accessed online at http://www.seagate.com/investors or by telephone as follows:
International: (617) 786-2904
Participant Passcode: 22585275
About Seagate
Seagate is the world leader in hard disk drives and storage solutions. Learn more at www.seagate.com.
About Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. is a global leader in semiconductor, telecommunication, digital media and digital convergence technologies with 2010 consolidated sales of US$135.8 billion. Employing approximately 190,500 people in 206 offices across 68 countries, the company consists of eight independently operated business units: Visual Display, Mobile Communications, Telecommunication Systems, Digital Appliances, IT Solutions, Digital Imaging, Semiconductor and LCD. Recognized as one of the fastest growing global brands, Samsung Electronics is a leading producer of digital TVs, semiconductors, mobile phones and TFT-LCDs. For more information, please visit www.samsungelectronics.com.
Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. When used, the words "anticipates", "believes", "expects", "may", "should" and similar expressions are intended to identify such forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements included in this press release include, but are not limited to, statements regarding the expected benefits from the proposed transaction, the financial impact of the proposed transaction to the company's financials, statements regarding the parties' ability to consummate the proposed transaction, satisfaction of closing conditions precedent to the consummation of the proposed transaction, the parties' expectations with respect to integration, and the timing for closing the proposed transaction. These forward-looking statements are based on information available to Seagate as of the date of this press release. Current expectations, forecasts and assumptions involve a number of risks, uncertainties, and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated by these forward-looking statements. Such risks, uncertainties, and other factors may be beyond the company's control. Information concerning risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause results to differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements is contained in the company's Annual Report on Form 10-K, Form 10-K/A and Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q as filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on August 20, 2010, October 6, 2010, November 3, 2010 and February 3, 2011, respectively, which statements are incorporated into this press release by reference. These forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as representing the company's views as of any subsequent date and Seagate undertakes no obligation to update forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date they were made.


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HELSINKI (AP) -- Nokia Corp. says it has entered into a new license agreement with Canadian smartphone rival Research In Motion which will end all existing patent litigation between the two struggling companies.
Nokia said Friday that the agreement includes a "one-time payment and on-going payments, all from RIM to Nokia," adding that the terms were confidential.
Last month, the Finnish company sued the Blackberry maker for breach of contract in Britain, the United States and Canada over cellular patents they agreed on in 2003.
Major manufacturers of phones and wireless equipment are increasingly turning to patent litigation in the rapidly growing lucrative smartphone market.
Nokia is among leading patent holders in the industry. Last year, it received a $565 million royalty payment from Apple Inc. to settle long-standing patent disputes.

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The Associated Press Monday, 01 July 2013 05:56 PM EDT
The price of crude oil gained 1.5 percent and finished just below $98 a barrel Monday on rising concerns about Middle East tensions and their possible impact on oil supplies.
Some analysts speculated that the higher price also reflects some traders' expectations that weekly oil supply data due Wednesday will show a sizeable drop.
Benchmark crude for August delivery rose $1.43 to close at $97.99 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Oil was as high as $98.28 in the morning.
Protests in Egypt aimed at ousting Mohammed Morsi, the country's first democratically elected president, continued Monday. Traders were concerned that the protests in Egypt and the civil war in Syria could affect the production and transport of oil supplies in the Middle East and North Africa.
In London, Brent crude gained 84 cents to end at $103 a barrel on the ICE Futures exchange.
Brent, the benchmark for international crude oil, tends to react more strongly to potential disruptions to Middle East supplies. For some analysts, the sharper gain in the U.S. benchmark suggested that some traders are looking for news from the Energy Department of a big drop in U.S. supplies.
"We are looking for a total crude supply draw of around 3 million barrels (per day in) Wednesday's EIA report but we wouldn't be surprised by a significantly larger decline," wrote Jim Ritterbusch, president of energy consultancy Ritterbusch and Associates, in a note to clients.
Reports on manufacturing in the world's two biggest economies gave opposite impressions.
U.S. manufacturing activity grew in June behind a pickup in new orders and stronger production. The increase suggests factories could rebound in the second half of the year and help the economy grow.
Meanwhile China's manufacturing sector weakened again in June amid a credit crunch and slower U.S. and European orders, two surveys showed. The findings added to signs that growth in the world's second-largest economy is decelerating.
U.S. drivers continue to pay less to fill up. The nationwide average for a gallon of gasoline fell below $3.50 a gallon for the first time since early February. At $3.49 a gallon, gas is about 12 cents cheaper on average than a year ago, although it still costs about 16 cents a gallon more than at this time last year.
In other energy futures trading on Nymex:
— Natural gas rose 1 cent to finish at $3.58 per 1,000 cubic feet.
— Heating oil rose 1 cent to end at $2.87 per gallon.
— Wholesale gasoline added 2 cents to finish at $2.74 per gallon.
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Record heat sees Australia map upgrade
Extreme heat in Australia forced the government's weather bureau to upgrade its temperature scale, with new colours on the climate map to reflect new highs forecast next week.
Central Australia was shown with a purple area on the latest Bureau of Meteorology forecast map issued for next Monday, a new colour code suggesting temperatures will soar above 50 degrees Celsius (122 Fahrenheit).
The bureau's head of climate monitoring and prediction David Jones said the new scale, which also features a pink code for temperatures from 52 to 54 degrees, reflected the potential for old heat records to be smashed.
"The scale has just been increased today and I would anticipate it is because the forecast coming from the bureau's model is showing temperatures in excess of 50 degrees," Jones told Fairfax newspapers.
Australia's all-time record temperature is 50.7 degrees, set in January 1960 at Oodnadatta in the state of South Australia.
The nation as a whole experienced its hottest day on record on Monday with the average maximum temperature across the country hitting 40.33 degrees, surpassing the previous mark of 40.17 degrees set in 1972.
That record was likely to have tumbled on Tuesday, Jones said, with scorching temperatures across much of southeastern Australia including in Sydney where the mercury topped 42 degrees.
More than 100 fires blazed in New South Wales, Australia's most populous state, where officials described the heat, wind and dry vegetation conditions as among the worst the state had ever seen for wildfires.
"We had the hottest day on record for Australia (on Monday) and today it looks like we may well go better again," said Jones.
"This really puts the national dimension of this heat event into bigger context."
Aaron Coutts-Smith, the weather bureau's climate services manager, said the heat's extent was unprecedented.
"What makes this event quite exceptional is how widespread and intense it's been," he said.
"We have been breaking records across all states and territories in Australia over the course of the event so far."
Speaking about devastating wildfires that razed 100 homes in the southern island state of Tasmania at the weekend, Prime Minister Julia Gillard warned this week that Australia would see more extreme events due to global warming.
"Whilst you would not put any one event down to climate change, weather doesn't work like that, we do know over time that as a result of climate change we are going to see more extreme weather events and conditions," Gillard said Monday.
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Published on Digestive system.
The palate is the upper part of the mouth, separating it from the nasal cavities. It is also called the roof of the mouth. Matter, which comes from Earth, gets digested in the mouth, in the form of food. It is the palate that prevents matter, which was at the lower level, from being taken up (to the brain), to Heaven, to a higher level. The power of the Earth is represented, in the family, by the Mother, and the power of Heaven is represented by the Father. Problems in the palate show the person's confrontation with the memory of what took place within the family. "I cannot swallow this! I need a much bigger mouth!"
A child born without a palate shows that there is a conflict between the two parents. What the body is showing is that the child's palate is far too small. It shows the person has to swallow a much bigger chunk in order to be able to survive. It shows that the person needs a lot of space to be able to digest what he needs to digest.


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Understanding Message Classifications
Applies to: Exchange Server 2010 SP3, Exchange Server 2010 SP2
Message classifications are a Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 and Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 feature intended to help organizations comply with their e-mail policies and regulatory responsibilities. When a message is classified, the message contains specific metadata that describes the intended use or audience of the message. Outlook 2007 or Microsoft Office Outlook Web App may act on this metadata by displaying a user-friendly description of the classification to senders and receivers of a classified message. In Exchange 2010, the Microsoft Exchange Transport service may act on the metadata if there's a transport rule that meets specific criteria that you have configured.
The following list provides a brief description of some of the message classification fields that you can set:
Display name This property specifies the display name for the message classification instance. The display name appears in the Permission menu in Outlook 2007 and Outlook Web App and is used by Outlook and Outlook Web App users to select the appropriate message classification before a message is sent. The display name is also displayed in the recipient description that appears in the InfoBar in an Outlook message. The parameter name for this property is DisplayName.
Sender description This property explains to the sender what the message classification is intended to achieve. The text that you enter for this field is used by Outlook and Outlook Web App users to select the appropriate message classification before a message is sent. The parameter name for this property is SenderDescription.
Recipient description This property explains to the recipient what the message classification was intended to achieve. The text that you enter for this field is viewed by Outlook and Outlook Web App users when they receive a message that has this message classification. The parameter name for this property is RecipientDescription.
Locale This field specifies a culture code to create a locale-specific version of the message classification. For more information about the locale field, see "Localizing Message Classification Instances for Different Languages and Locales" later in this topic. The parameter name for this property is Locale.
After Outlook 2007 is enabled to accept the default message classifications, users can apply message classification to messages that they send. Senders see the sender description in the InfoBar in Outlook 2007. By using the Exchange Management Shell, you can customize the sender description for each message classification and locale.
Outlook Web App requires no special configuration to display or use message classifications.
Three message classifications are enabled in Exchange 2010 by default:
Attachment Removed This classification notifies recipients when attachments have been removed from the message.
Originator Requested Alternate Recipient Mail This classification notifies recipients that the message has been redirected from delivery to the original addressed recipient.
Partner Mail This classification notifies recipients that the message was encrypted and delivered through a secure connector.
Users can't add these classifications to messages.
In the initial installation of Exchange 2010, all message classifications are informational only. They aren't associated with any transport rules and only provide additional information about a message to the message recipients. By default, in Exchange 2010, the Microsoft Exchange Transport service doesn't take any special action on the message.
However, you can create transport rules based on message classifications. For example, you can configure a transport rule that checks all incoming messages for a specific message classification and direct that these messages be delivered to a designated recipient. For more information, see Create a Transport Rule.
Message classifications can be logically separated into two classes based on how they are attached to a specific message:
A message classification can be manually added by the sender of a message before the message is sent.
A message classification can be added as the result of a rule. For example, when the Attachment Filter agent removes an attachment from a message, the Attachment Removed message classification is attached to the message. When the sender receives the message, Outlook 2007 displays an explanation of why the attachment was removed in the recipient description in the InfoBar. As the Exchange administrator, you can customize the recipient description.
Looking for management tasks related to message classifications? See Managing Message Classifications.
Localizing Message Classification Instances for Different Languages and Locales
Precedence and Retention of the Message Classification
Providing Read Access to Message Classifications
Message Classifications in Transport Rules
Managing and Deploying Message Classifications
Localizing Message Classification Instances for Different Languages and Locales
In some scenarios, your business needs may dictate using different languages for message classifications for different groups of users, regions, or locales where your business operates. After you create the default message classification instance, you can create more than one message classification instance for different languages.
You can also use a message classification instance to change the content of the sender description and recipient description to reflect differences in regulatory requirements for different jurisdictions. If a message classification for the locale of the recipient exists in Active Directory, Exchange will attach the localized message classification to the message.
For example, health care-related companies that operate in the United States and in Europe may have to comply with Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) regulations in the United States but not in Europe. Therefore, the display of message classifications that are HIPAA-specific should only be enabled for employees operating in the United States. You can set Read permission on classifications so that only appropriate users can view specific message classifications.
Each localized version of a specific message classification is a new message classification instance. The Locale parameter defines the locale for a particular message classification instance. The Locale parameter takes a data type of CultureInfo. When you create a localized version of a message classification, you will reference the default instance of the message classification and create a localized instance of the existing message classification.
For an example of a localized message classification and more information about how to create localized versions of message classifications, see Create Localized Versions of Message Classifications.
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Precedence and Retention of the Message Classification
By default, a message classification travels with a message for the life of the message until it leaves the organization. Therefore, if a sender sets a message classification on a specific message, the message will retain the message classification as long as other rules don't remove it.
Each message classification can be assigned a relative priority to other message classifications. This sets the precedence on a specified classification and how it's displayed to the recipient in Outlook. The message classification with the highest precedence is shown first, and subsequent classifications with lesser precedence are displayed in the appropriate order thereafter. You set precedence by using the DisplayPrecedence parameter on the Set-MessageClassification cmdlet in the Shell.
For each message classification, you can specify whether the message classification is retained when a recipient replies to or forwards the message. You can specify whether a classification is retained by setting the RetainClassificationEnabled parameter on the Set-MessageClassification cmdlet in the Shell.
For more information, see Set-MessageClassification.
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Providing Read Access to Message Classifications
When you create a message classification and enable the computer on which Outlook runs, the new message classification will be present in the Permission menu of Outlook and Outlook Web App.
You can control read access for the message classifications presented in the Permission menu of Outlook 2007 if you configure the message classifications that you export into the Classifications.xml file. For more information about how to create and use the Classifications.xml file, see Deploy Message Classifications for Outlook 2007.
You can control read access for the message classifications presented in the Permission menu of Outlook Web App if you configure the Read permission on the message classification object. By default, all message classifications are created with Read permission for any authenticated user when you grant Read permission to authenticated users on the message classification object in Active Directory.
It's important to understand that the Read permission set on the message classification object doesn't control whether the sender can use the message classification. Read permission on the message classification only controls whether the message classification is displayed in the Permission menu in Outlook Web App. Outlook 2007 users can send message classifications even if the user doesn't have read access to the message classification. Advanced users can still send classified messages by editing the Classifications.xml file installed on their computer to enable message classifications Outlook 2007.
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Message Classifications in Transport Rules
After you create a message classification instance, you can associate a transport rule with the message classification. You use the Shell to create a transport rule and add the message classification as a condition. For information about how to use the Shell to create transport rules, see Create a Transport Rule.
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Managing and Deploying Message Classifications
Before Outlook 2007 users can set and view message classifications, you must deploy the message classification configuration files and create an Outlook registry key on the end-users' computers. The Outlook message classification templates are .xml files that you must generate after you create and configure the message classifications.
You manage all message classifications by using the message classification cmdlets in the Shell. You can bind message classifications to transport rules by using the Shell or the Exchange Management Console (EMC).
For more information, see Deploy Message Classifications for Outlook 2007.
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It's move-in day, and you finally have the papers and the keys for your new home. But do you have the passwords?
That's one of the questions homebuyers and renters should be asking themselves now that connected devices like locks, lights and thermostats are growing more common, according to the Online Trust Alliance. The industry group joined up with the U.S. National Association of Realtors to compile a checklist for anyone moving in or out of a connected home.
Built-in Internet of Things gear can make a new residence like a gadget you'd buy from an electronics store, with the added complication that someone else configured and used it before you did. Access to connected-home devices can mean a view into intimate information about how someone lives, or how they lived before they moved out: Door locks and thermostats might record when you're home, lights note what rooms you spend your time in, and security cameras keep an eye on you.
That information may be stored in the cloud, where anyone with access to the account for that device can gain access to it. Even if they've logged out and moved on, the system may retain their privacy settings, which might not match your preferences.
Most consumers are used to setting up and shutting down devices, but those tasks are easy to forget when the equipment is just there in the background. OTA President and Executive Director Craig Spiezle said it even happened to him when his family moved out of their house.
"We had a connected thermostat, and I didn't even think about it until the new owner asked me a question about it," Spiezle said. "I realized I still had access to their thermostat."
There's a wide range of devices to be aware of when you move in to a smart home, including door locks, alarms, security cameras, garage-door openers, lighting systems, smoke detectors, and irrigation systems, as well as modems, gateways and hubs that tie them all together. Large appliances like refrigerators, washers and dryers also increasingly are connected.
Though less than 20 percent of U.S. homes have these kinds of things built in, adoption is growing from the high end of the market, according to research company Parks Associates. Parks estimates 32 percent of homes larger than 3,000 square feet (278 square meters) have at least one smart product.
The new checklist is designed to help consumers make sure they're ready to move, and the NAR will use it to inform its members so they can help their clients.
The first tip on the OTA checklist is to make an inventory of all the connected devices in the house, as well as all the manuals, websites and vendor contacts that go with them. Next, residents should review the privacy and data-sharing policies associated with those devices.
The next step is critical: Getting confirmation from whoever's moving out that they no longer have administrative or user access to any of the devices in the home.
Then the list recommends sending new ownership and contact information to manufacturers; changing usernames, passwords and access codes; and making sure all the devices have up-to-date software.
That last step could save you from a home-security disaster. Hackers who take advantage of a vulnerability on one device could find their way into everything else on the home network. While a house with that kind of security hole may be very connected, it's not a smart home at all.


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Survey: Two in Three Americans Endorse Setting Limits on Carbon Pollution from Power Plants that Drives Climate Change
WASHINGTON (July 18, 2013) – To help battle climate change, 65 percent of Americans endorse setting limits on dangerous carbon pollution from the nation's power plants, according to a new national poll conducted for the Natural Resources Defense Council.
The poll finds that even 49 percent of Republicans favor the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency establishing standards to curb power plant carbon pollution. The support among Democrats is 84 percent and 56 percent among independents.
Furthermore, fully 61 percent of Americans back the major climate action plan President Obama unveiled on June 25th, according to the poll, the first conducted on all elements of the plan. In addition to tackling the unlimited carbon pollution released by power plants, the plan would improve vehicle fuel efficiency, boost energy efficiency for homes and businesses' and invest more in wind and solar power.
"It's important that this is not a generational or regional issue—people in all age groups and in every region of the country endorse this plan. Simply put, Americans want to see something done to counteract climate change, and they say setting limits on power plant emissions is an important step," said Jay Campbell, senior vice president at Hart Research Associates.
Hart Research, which often works with Democrats, conducted the poll for NRDC jointly with Chesapeake Beach Consulting, a firm that often works with Republicans.
"The public wants Washington to address the issue of climate change, including Republicans who indicate strong support for each of the individual components of the plan. Not taking action is not an option the public will accept," said Chesapeake's President Robert Carpenter.
From July 1 through 7, 2013, the polling team surveyed 808 registered voters nationwide; the poll has a margin of error of 3.5 percent. In addition to gauging support for power plant standards and the president's climate plan, the survey found sizable backing for each part of the president's plan and rising intensity of concern about climate change.
"Across our country, Americans feel obligated to protect future generations from the damaging effects of climate change," said Peter Altman, NRDC's Climate and Clean Air Campaign Director. "Americans also overwhelmingly support President Obama's plan to do something about climate change now. Most importantly, they stand strongly behind the president's common sense solutions, led by using the Clean Air Act to clean up dirty power plants. These plants today face no limits on the dangerous carbon pollution they dump into the air. That must stop. Our future depends on it."
Today there are limits on soot, arsenic and mercury allowed into the air and water. But there are no federal limits for carbon dioxide emissions. As a consequence, roughly 1,500 power plants in the United States release about 2.4 billion tons of carbon pollution into the air each year.
Americans also strongly support other climate change solutions outlined by the President on June 25th:
- 79 support increasing fuel efficiency standards for new vehicles.
- 78 percent support increasing investment in renewable energy sources such as wind, solar and hydroelectric power.
- 78 percent support stronger energy efficiency standards for appliances and new buildings.
- 76 percent support the United States taking a lead role in encouraging countries such as China and India to expand their efforts to curb carbon pollution.
- 75 percent support strengthening communities against the effects of climate change, such as creating new flood reduction plans for areas hit by Hurricane Sandy, and drought and wildfire preparation plans for the Midwest and West.
Support, meanwhile, for the entire climate action plan is not only broad, it remains high even when Americans hear the main arguments for and against the plan. Respondents were told:
"SUPPORTERS of this plan say that cutting carbon pollution is essential to keeping our air and water clean, protecting our kids' health, and reducing the devastating effects of climate change. President Obama's plan represents a reasonable and comprehensive approach that will help our economy to continue to grow and recover while sparking innovation in energy technology and cutting our dependence on foreign oil.
"OPPONENTS of this plan say it will seriously harm our economy just as it is starting to improve. This plan will mean higher energy costs, making it more expensive for companies to do business and leading to thousands of job losses and higher prices for consumers. All this without having any real impact on climate change, because big polluters such as India and China do not limit pollution from their power companies."
Hearing both views, Americans still support the President's climate plan by nearly two-to-one: 59 percent support the plan; just 32 percent oppose it. That included 84 percent of Democrats, 53 percent of independents and one-third of Republicans.
Finally, the strength of backing for the president's plan is underscored by the fact that the public's concern about climate change is on the rise. A Hart Research poll last December showed 31 percent rated "very serious problem," while now 39 percent view it as a very serious problem.
For Memo from Hart Research / Chesapeake Beach Consulting, "Findings From Survey On Carbon Pollution And Climate Change," click here: http://docs.nrdc.org/air/files/air_13071801a.pdf
For Slideshow, "Americans' Views On The President's Climate And Carbon Pollution Plan," click here: http://docs.nrdc.org/air/files/air_13071802a.pdf
To listen to the telephone press conference discussing this polling, click here: http://www.hastingsgroupmedia.com/071813ObamaCarbonPlanPoll.mp3


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cosmetic brand GA-DE came out recently with a new collection called Crystallic
Matte Nail Color.
formula of the nail polishes in this collection contains micro particles which
creates a 3D effect with a unique texture that reminds sugar.
already saw similar collections with this sugar/sand texture, like Sally Hansen
Sugar Coat, OPI Mariah with the Liquid Sand finish, China Glaze Texture
collection and more, so when I received the polishes from this collection I was
very curious to see GA-DE's interpretation to this trend.
Crystallic collection contains 6 different shades and I have 3 of them to show,
so let's start:
L to R:
Coral Sugar
Gold Sugar
Blue Sugar
Sugar – a coral pink with beautiful gold glitters. This shade of pink is tricky
and although it seems "innocence" in the bottle, it came out pretty
"bold" on my nails (yes, of course I liked it J). I wish the gold
glitters were more visible in regular lighting, but still, it's a beautiful
shade of pink.
GA-DE - Coral Sugar
Sugar – Well, this one has the Wow factor for me. You all know I'm not a big
fan of gold but I definitely going to use this one again and not just for
swatches. Gold Sugar is gold with tons of silver chunks and it's the only one
out of the bunch with big chunks of glitters. I think surprisingly it was my
favorite out of the three, maybe because it's really special…
GA-DE - Gold Sugar
Sugar – The names in this collection are a big shock, ha? Well…..Blue Sugar is
a medium blue with tiny silver glitters. It's a beautiful shade of blue and you
can see it sparkles on your nails very nicely. I wish it had also some gold or
pink glitters inside, I think it could be more special this way, but I also
like it as it is.
GA-DE - Blue Sugar
for the formula of this collection, it's very pigmented and on the thick side
so it works great and now you'll hear me saying something I've NEVER EVER said
on this blog before – as far as Coral Sugar and Gold Sugar – DO NOT apply more
than one coat. Yes. You heard me right – the three of them are opaque at one
coat so you don't need the second one, but while Blue Sugar is also good in two
coats, the other two looks their best in one coat. When I applied the second
coat it looked bumpier and the sugar texture was ruined a little, so yes, I
recommend you don't apply more than one coat.
Overall, I think GA-DE pretty much nailed it in this collection - texture, glitters, one coat - can we ask for more? Maybe just for some more colors....
– for those of you who read my Facebook Page, you probably saw me talking a lot
about some new packages I received lately (one I already showed you in the last post), and one of my favorite things lately, is amazing glitters stickers which
arrived in one of the packages, so I made a quick mani to show you – what do
you think?
Well, that's it for today, I hope you enjoyed it and Happy Black Friday
to you all J
Are you planning any special purchases?
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July 9, 2014
Proportionality and Other Matters
There is a widespread – but very erroneous – impression that if an enemy attacks, a proportional response means a nation can only return what was received and no more. That is, the mistaken impression is that if Hamas shot one rocket, we could only shoot one rocket back.International law, however, defines proportionality very differently: it is a question of legitimate military goals and intentionality. Put very simply, we would not be restricted to only shooting one rocket back at Hamas, but rather doing what is necessary (within certain defined limits) to ensure that Hamas does not shoot any more rockets. That is a legitimate military goal.
Luis Moreno-Ocampo, who was the Chief Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court in 2003, wrote this about proportionality:
"Under international humanitarian law and the Rome Statute, the death of civilians during an armed conflict, no matter how grave and regrettable, does not in itself constitute a war crime. International humanitarian law and the Rome Statute permit belligerents to carry out proportionate attacks against military objectives, even when it is known that some civilian deaths or injuries will occur. A crime occurs if there is an intentional attack directed against civilians...or an attack is launched on a military objective in the knowledge that the incidental civilian injuries would be clearly excessive in relation to the anticipated military advantage (principle of proportionality)."
Read Wikipedia on Proportionality
The proportionality has to do with the relationship between the damage inflicted and the legitimate military goal. What must be assessed, wrote the Chief Prosecutor, is:
(a) the anticipated civilian damage or injury;Another way of phrasing it: former president of the International Court, Rosalyn Higgins, explained that proportionality "cannot be in relation to any specific prior injury - it has to be in relation to the overall legitimate objective of ending the aggression."
(b) the anticipated military advantage;
(c) and whether (a) was "clearly excessive" in relation to (b).
Read: A World of Understanding - Israel's Proportional Response
The sort of bombing we are doing is entirely legitimate and proportional to our military goals of making it impossible for Hamas to launch rockets at our people. If in the process some civilians in Gaza are hit, our military action remains entirely legitimate. Do not believe otherwise. In point of fact there are bound to be civilian deaths because Hamas uses civilians as human shields and places its arsenal of weapons in civilian areas.
Were Israel to decide to carpet bomb Gaza to make Hamas stop launching rockets, that would be clearly disproportionate civilian destruction in relation to the goal of stopping Hamas. But that, of course, is something we would never, ever do. We are, in fact, extraordinarily careful to avoid civilian deaths whenever it is possible to do so. We actually place phone calls to homes, warning families to get out, before we bomb the houses.
What is not legitimate according to international law is the sort of deliberate targeting of Israeli civilians that Hamas is doing day in and day out. Here the intentionality is to hit civilians.
And yet, as we see day in and day out, the international community draws an outrageous moral equivalency between Israel's actions and those of Hamas.
When the State Department calls on both sides to "act responsibly," you know what a joke this is.
But it's actually much worse than this, as Israel is – incredibly – turned into the aggressor. As Human Rights Watch reported:
"UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon refuses to name the perpetrators of the attacks 'from Gaza.' No mention is made of 'Hamas.' And while the rockets should 'stop,' what is really bothering the UNSG is alleged Palestinian victims. 'The Secretary-General is extremely concerned at the dangerous escalation of violence, which has already resulted in multiple Palestinian deaths and injuries as a result of Israeli operations against Gaza.'
"...As for the notoriously anti-Israel UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay, she had this to say: 'From a human rights point of view, I utterly condemn these rocket attacks and more especially I condemn Israel's excessive acts of retaliation.'" (Emphasis added)
Read: Hamas rocket attacks skyrocket as UN & Obama administration focus on "restraining" Israel
I share here a video that effectively (and amusingly!) presents the situation we confront (with thanks to Raima S.)
Part of what the international community does is attempt to pin the blame for Hamas's violence on Israel, because Israel has not attended to the "legitimate rights" of the "Palestinian people." (As if deliberate targeting of civilians by Hamas would be acceptable even if this were the case, which it is not.)
We see this with Ban Ki-Moon, who said, "the unsustainable situation in Gaza will also need to be addressed in its political, security, humanitarian and development dimensions as part of a comprehensive solution."
Philip Gordon, a special assistant to US President Barack Obama and the White House coordinator for the Middle East, at a conference sponsored by (surprise!) Haaretz, made it clear that the Obama administration still expects a negotiated settlement between Israel and the PA, based on the '67 armistice line. Now he says this? Inconceivable that he ignores the current violence from Hamas, and the fact that it is part of a unity government. But there it is.
"Jerusalem," he declared, "should not take for granted the opportunity to negotiate" a treaty with Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas, who has proven to be a reliable partner.
Read: Top Obama official blasts Israel for denying Palestinians sovereignty, security, dignity
Daft. And maliced.
So let's take a look, just for a moment, at Fatah, which is Abbas's party.
Palestinian Media Watch tells us that Fatah put up on its Facebook page today an announcement that:
"One god, one homeland, one enemy, one goal" unites Hamas, Fatah and Islamic Jihad.
While Khaled abu Toameh writes that:
"At least two Fatah armed groups announced that they had started firing rockets at the 'settlements' of Ashkelon and Sderot, cities inside the pre-1967 borders of Israel, with another Fatah group claiming responsibility for firing 35 rockets into Israel since Sunday."
Read: "Moderate" Fatah Also Firing Rockets
The use of the word "settlements" is a tip-off to the fact that Fatah considers Jewish presence even within the '67 armistice line to be an illegitimate "occupation," i.e., they want it all.
Abbas, our "reliable partner," says Israel is committing "genocide" in Gaza. Sigh...
The Elder of Ziyon put up a posting about "What Reporters Need to Know" during the current Gaza operation. But I think the points are so good that everyone needs to know them.
His major points:
1) It is a mistake to assume that all casualties are the result of Israeli airstrikes.Do see the entire posting.
Traditionally, the number of Gaza rockets that fall short and never reach Israel, or that explode as they are fired is over 35% and sometimes as high as 80%!"
Then there are "work accidents" and civilians killed when guns are shot off during funerals.
2) It is a mistake to assume that casualties and damage are the direct result of Israeli airstrikes.
Many airstrikes hit weapons caches and explosives that cause a larger explosion than the strike itself.
3) It is a mistake to believe that casualties are civilian when they are not.
Terrorists, who are combatants, most frequently wear civilian clothing. And Hamas is eager to inflate the "civilian numbers."
Read: WHAT REPORTERS NEED TO KNOW during Operation Protective Edge
Be aware as well that pictures put up about the war in social media are sometimes deceptive:
The war goes on.
They are still launching rockets at us – including at the center of the country and even farther north. Rockets have landed just south of Haifa, in Hadera, Zikhron Ya'akov (where someone was mildly hurt), Casaerea and Hof Bonim.
In some of the attacks that are farther away, Iranian long-rang missiles such as the Fajr5 and M302 are being used.
Needless to say, the south – particularly Sderot and Sha'ar Hanegev - is being hit hard.
More than 225 rockets have been fired at Israel since the beginning of the operation.
But we are hitting hard inside of Gaza, as well.
According to Minister of Defense Moshe Ya'alon, who spoke today to Army Radio:
"We'll continue with strikes that will exact a very heavy price from Hamas. We are destroying arms, terror infrastructures, command systems, Hamas institutions, regime buildings, terrorists' houses, and killing terrorists of various ranks of command.Read: Almoz: IDF has thousands more targets in Gaza
"We will continue to hit Hamas and other terror groups in Gaza Strip from the air, sea and ground to ensure the safety of Israel's citizens."
Saying "from the ground" obviously implies a ground operation. There are multiple hints about the fact that this is about to occur, but we're still not there. The reserve troops still have to take their places in Judea and Samaria, to replace the regular troops who must be moved to the border with Gaza.
The IDF spokesman said today that the next stage is being prepared and that this will be a long operation.
And then there is this astonishing statement from Intelligence Minister Yuval Steinitz:
"Despite the fact that it will be hard, complicated and costly, we will have to take over Gaza temporarily, for a few weeks, to cut off the strengthening of this terror army. If you ask my humble opinion, a significant operation like this is approaching." (Emphasis added)
And so this sounds very serious indeed.
But there remains unease here in Israel that the operation will be terminated before it should be, that the ground operation will never be actualized, and that talk such as Steinitz's is simply a form of verbal saber rattling – a threat. After all, this was just his "humble opinion."
For we have Netanyahu's words today, after the Security Cabinet met. He is still saying, "the operation will expand and continue until the fire toward our towns stops and quiet returns." But the idea is that we are supposed to remove their capacity to hit us again! Not just make them stop now.
And there is the fact that, while we announce we have destroyed the homes of key Hamas leaders, we deliver a warning first so that families are not hit, and many of the leaders themselves are still walking this earth.
Several reports are encouraging with regard to the concerns I've expressed here.
Khaled abu Toameh tells us that for all the bravado of leaders of Hamas, they are stunned by the power of Israel's attack and reeling.
Read: Stunned by Israel's fierce response, Hamas sends distress signals
Apparently Egypt is unlikely to mediate a ceasefire as it has in the past. This situation "comes at a time of mounting tensions between the new government in Cairo and Hamas. [Hamas backed the Muslim Brotherhood in its battle with Egyptian president Sisi.]
"'There is no mediation, in the common sense of the word,' said Egyptian foreign ministry spokesman Badr Abdelatty."And then we have this:
"A senior Hamas official pledged that militants would not 'surrender' in the face of the latest air strikes on Wednesday.Read: Egypt Urges Calm, But Unlikely to Mediate Ceasefire
"There are no ceasefire talks, in the conventional sense. There are ongoing contacts. The Israelis are not interested in mediation, they are looking for surrender,' said Osama Hamdan, who is based in Beirut." (Emphasis added.)
This, then, may truly be an operation that is qualitatively different.
"The Israel Air Force has destroyed more terrorist targets in Gaza over the past 36 hours than it did throughout the whole the 2012 clash with Hamas, a senior security said Wednesday."Read: 'IAF destroyed more targets in 36 hours than in whole of 2012 clash'
Security is on high alert because Hamas is hoping to initiate a major terror attack as a way of shifting the balance.
Yesterday five Hamas terrorists entered Israel via the Mediterranean at a beach near Ashkelon and were killed by the IDF.
Read: Frustrated Hamas seeks a 'quality' terrorist attack
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USRowing Northwest Youth Championships
- May 18, 2018 To May 20, 2018
- sprint
- Vancouer Lake
- Vancouver, WA (USA)
- Hosted By: USRowing
- 2018 Owned Regatta
In addition to the entry fees, a $7 volunteer fee is charged to each athlete. The total collected from this fee will be divided among clubs who provide volunteers to work at the regatta. If you, or any supporters of your club, are interested in volunteering and earning some money for your club, please go to https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30e0e4eaca92fab9-2018 . Any questions, please contact Molly Evjen at [email protected].
Each organization is required to provide the number of volunteers listed on the table below to assist with the regatta on Friday morning (7:00am-12:00pm). Additional volunteers are also needed, but it is critical that these positions be filled. Please have your designated number of volunteers go to and sign up for open positions on Friday morning https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30e0e4eaca92fab9-2018 . Crews that do not provide volunteers or if those volunteers fail to show up for their allotted time may be excluded from racing at the discretion of the USRowing NW Regional Coordinator, James Rawson.
# of volunteers required from each club Friday morning:
Bainbridge Island Rowing Club 2
Couer d'Alene Rowing Assoc. 1
Commencement Bay Rowing Club 2
Eastside Preparatory School 2
Everett Rowing Association 3
Green Lake Crew 3
Holy Names Academy 2
Lake Oswego Community Rowing 3
Lake Stevens Rowing 2
Lakeside School Crew 2
Mt. Baker Rowing 3
North Cascades Rowing 2
Olympia Area Rowing 2
Olympic Peninsula Rowing Assoc 1
Orcas Island Rowing 2
Oregon Rowing Unlimited 2
Pocock Rowing Center 3
Rogue Rowing Club 2
Rose City Rowing Club 3
Sammamish Rowing Association 3
Seattle Rowing Center 2
South Eugene Rowing Club 2
Vancouver Lake Crew 2
Vashon Island Rowing Club 2
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LONDON >> No more heartbreak for Allyson Felix. No more silver, either.
Denied twice on the world's biggest stage, Felix won the Olympic gold medal she's been yearning for, taking the 200 meters today to fill the last, and biggest, hole in her otherwise stellar resume.
Felix won the race in 21.88 seconds, topping Jamaica's Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, who won the 100 four nights earlier, by .21 seconds. American Carmelita Jeter added bronze to go with her silver in the 100 meters.
One more spot back was Jamaica's Veronica Campbell-Brown, who defeated Felix in the Athens and Beijing Games and was trying to become the first woman to win the same individual track and field event in three consecutive Olympics.
Instead, the Americans were the ones celebrating three straight, their own 15 minutes of fame: Felix, followed quickly by Aries Merritt in the 110 hurdles and Brittney Reese in the long jump.
"Track and field is the best sport for Americans," said Jason Richardson, who finished second to Merritt in the hurdles as part of a seven-medal day at the track for the United States. "We are always aware of what the medal count is. I know track and field can close that, let the world know the Americans are the best track and field country."
Felix won easily, leaving nothing to chance — or a coin flip — as she burst ahead of Fraser-Pryce with 40 meters to go.
It was the third-place tie in 100-meter qualifying at U.S. trials earlier this summer that hovered over Felix's run-up to these Olympics — forcing her to defend herself off the track for the first time in an otherwise-pristine career.
Her tie with Jeneba Tarmoh for the third and final spot in the 100 forced USA Track and Field officials to scramble for a solution. One possibility was a coin flip; instead, they settled on a run-off. But Tarmoh begged off. Felix, never a serious medal contender for the 100, had to defend her decision not to give up the spot, and she went on to finish fifth.
The three heats in the Olympic 100, she said, were the perfect tuneup for the race she really wanted to win.
"Everyone just expected me to give up this spot, because I think lots of people … know me and they know that I'm seen as this very nice girl," Felix said with a chuckle a few days before the start of track and field in London. "But it's not just about me."
On this night, though, it was.
Twice before, Felix came into the Olympics on even footing, or even a slight favorite, against Campbell-Brown. Both times, the American ended up disappointed — and the last time in Beijing, choking back tears, she called it "deja vu, and not in a good way."
This time, there would be no regrets.
On a calm, cloudless evening in London, Felix broke out of Lane 7, hugged the line on the curve and found herself slightly behind Fraser-Pryce as they rounded into the straightaway with about 60 meters to go. That, however, is when Felix — not the 100-meter champion — kicked it into another gear, drawing even and then pulling away.
She adds this gold to the two individual silvers and one 4×400 relay gold from the 2008 Olympics. She's a six-time national champion at 200, a three-time world champion and — in a sport that has nearly buried itself in the United States under the weight of doping scandals and performances that seem too good to be true — she's the athlete who has consistently stood out as a smiling, trustworthy exception.
She put at least a brief stop to Jamaica's relentlessness in these Olympic sprints. Before the Felix victory, Jamaica had won seven of the last eight Olympic sprints, including relays.


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Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Servant Leadership
Tony Parham posted a comment comparing Management and Leadership, quoting the work of John Kotter and Colin Powell.
"MANAGEMENT: Control mechanisms to compare system behavior with the plan and take action when a deviation is detected.
LEADERSHIP: Achieving grand visions. Motivation and inspiration to energize people, not by pushing them in the right direction as control mechanisms do, but by satisfying basic human needs for achievement, a sense of belonging, recognition, self-esteem, a feeling of control over one's life, and the ability to live up to one's ideals. Such feelings touch us deeply and elicit a powerful response."
- John P. Kotter, Professor of organizational behavior at the Harvard Business School
"LEADERSHIP is the art of accomplishing more than the science of MANAGEMENT says is possible."
- Colin Powell
My experience is that as long as a leader unites a team with a clear common goal and enables the team to do their work while supporting their self-esteem and their decisions about scope/time/resources, people thrive. Even recent medical evidence suggests that "Honey" and the positive support of a leader yields healthy, productive, and happy staff. Lack of such a leader can lead to negative health and reduced longevity. It seems intuitive that our moods are linked closely to our job satisfaction and that positive mood improves health, but now we have evidence to prove it.
Katherina Holzhauser, a fellow Stanford graduate from the Czech Republic wrote to me about Servant Leadership as part of her philosophy of favoring "Honey" over "Vinegar".
The important take home lesson about Servant Leadership is the classic organization chart really needs to be rewritten, making staff who interact with customers the most important people in the organization. The role of a leader to serve and support those staff so that they have the resources and processes they need to optimize customer experiences. I completely agree with the statement that the highest priority of a servant leader is to encourage, support and enable subordinates to unfold their full potential and abilities. This leads to an obligation to delegate responsibility and engage in participative decision-making.
The goals of a servant leader - listening, empathy, healing, awareness, persuasion (which I call informal authority), conceptualization (which I call continuous self re-examination), foresight, stewardship, commitment to people (which I call loyalty), and building community - are what guide my day to day interactions in all aspects of my life.
As we take on more work in less time at faster pace than every before, let's all strive to be servant leaders for the benefit of those who do the work and serve on the front lines healthcare and healthcare IT in our quest to alleviate human suffering caused by disease.
6 comments:
- Wordherder said...
Servant leadership is something that many of us in the religious community are working on. I'm working toward becoming a Methodist pastor and my focus is on how to have congregations own their church community and be the hands and feet (of Jessus Christ) as we like to say. It's difficult in a world that likes the CEO model to express servant leadership in a way that most people "get." But if we are to model ourselves on the lessons of Christ, we're left with no choice but the servant leadership model. I do believe it is a powerful and effective model once all involved come to truly understand it.
- January 11, 2012 at 5:25 AM
- TheGr8Chalupa said...
John. This post really touched me in a few ways. Lately, I've been struggling to reflect on my own motivational triggers - how am I motivated most effectively - and this post helps me intrinsically justify my longing for positive reinforcement. I'm learning more and more that I am, in fact, a very competitive individual, however, a negative competitive environment kills my spirit, and ultimately my health.
From now on I will make more of a conscious effort to be a servant leader. When those around me are positively motivated, they will only bring the rest of the team up to their potential and the positivity will be shared exponentially.
Thank you. - January 11, 2012 at 7:14 AM
- jamzo said...
my two-cent addition to the leadership discussion
leadership is working with others to identify and remove obstacles to achieving goals, fulfilling roles, solving problem..... - January 11, 2012 at 1:04 PM
The best working environment I was ever in could be described as a Servant Leadership situation (All Children's Johns Hopkins Medicine). Those of us that worked in the trenches as clinicians and front-line managers were given the kind of support you describe John. I was so lucky to have had great role-models in Administrative Director and VP positions that valued my opinions and gave me latitude to do what needed done, and to innovate new ideas. This "style" has stuck with me. I believe it is one of the best leadership models for healthcare. I always felt supported but also stretched-- which led to personal growth. Patients truly came first and I NEVER recall being chastised for missing a meeting if there was a patient care crisis!! We were performing patient/family centered care before that term ever existed. Servant Leadership works at every level in an organization..."What can I do to help or serve YOU".
Sharon Wentz RN - January 11, 2012 at 5:01 PM
- Unknown said...
For a long time have searched for positive models of leadership, to take the best of these models and improve on my own style of leadership. It is difficult in today's working environment, with all that is required to be accomplished, with fewer resources, to maintain a good, if not great leadership mindset. It is very easy to fall back into managing instead of leading. On some level it's much easier to be a manager than to be a leader. To manage is to make sure that the path is clearly demarcated and that no one deviates from that path. Sometimes it's easy and sometimes it's like herding cats, very difficult if not impossible.
I like what has been said about servant leadership here. It takes a very self-confident and self assured individual to be a servant leader. To many leaders, CEO's and the like, service is demeaning and humiliating. Servant leadership is far from that notion. I embrace Jim Collin's definition of leadership in the description he has made of Level 5 Leadership. I believe Jesus to be the consumate Level 5 leader and His style is definitely Servant Leadership.
Let's embrace this style and lead and not drive our teams. - January 12, 2012 at 7:31 PM
Great post! This entry definitely supported many of the lessons I was taught in college about what it takes to be an effective leader, and definitely reinforces what I have seen in the past when I was part of a group for either school or work. I wanted to get your thoughts on a subject that is not as often addressed when talking about managers and leaders, and that is on mistakes. I agree with Kotter's argument when he says a manager's goal is to make corrections when a plan is deviating, and a leader's job is to "achieve grand visions;" but how effective can you be as a manager or a leader in terms of trust from employees after you make a major mistake? I recently came across an article in Forbes(http://www.forbes.com/sites/joshbersin/2012/01/18/5-keys-to-building-a-learning-organization/2/) , which talks about the 5 keys to building an organization. One of their points is that mistakes are one of the greatest ways an organization can grow, because as the individuals learn and grow from their mistakes, so will the company. Do you agree? Is it the same in a hospital setting?
- January 19, 2012 at 8:10 AM


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I wanted to share the steps to making Cathy's Baskets.
This quilt is 35" square so it is the perfect size to hang on the wall or to become a table topper.
I made a 10" square pattern for my basket design from freezer paper.
I like working this way, it allows me freedom as well as guide lines to work from.
I find it is much easier to square things up after I have pieced them and if I start with a guide I get better results.
Supplies for this project are:
- 2 yards of gradation Raspberry fabric
- 1 yard of Limey Avocado fabric
- Freezer paper
- mechanical pencil
- glue stick
- 40" square piece of batting
- 1 yard of backing fabric
- Quilting thread of choice
I drew my pattern on the mat side of a piece of freezer paper.
- I marked out a 10" square and divided it in half in both directions.
- I marked my basket triangle on the bottom half leaving about an 1 1/2" from the bottom to add two triangles for the base. This can vary.
- I made sure I left between 1/5" – 1" from the edge of the square for the triangle basket.
- I cut out all the shapes right on the inside line to use as templates as I make the baskets.
- I left 1/2" on the outside as extra to be trimmed away later when I square up the blocks.
To get started:
I started by dividing up the Limey Avocado fabric into five strips.
I just cut it apart where the fabric changed color.
This will become my baskets, handles and part of the stripy units on the border.
To Start:
- Cut the green sections into 2-3" wide strips.
- Sew two strips of green together with a 1/4" seam.
- Cut each of these units randomly at an angle
- Add another piece of green to the random angle to create very scrappy looking basket pieces.
- Make 10 of these units.
- Cut out the base triangles from these units, allowing a 1/4" seam allowance all the way around the freezer paper shape.
- Place the shiny side of the freezer paper against the front of the fabric and press with a hot dry iron.
- Use a rotary cutter and ruler to cut around the paper pattern.
I used my dress makers curve to create a smooth arched handle on my freezer paper pattern.
- Cut out the exact shape of the handle from the freezer paper.
- Place the freezer paper template shiny side against the fabric and ironed it to the fabric.
- Use these freezer paper templates over and over again for all the baskets.
- Cut out the rest of the basket templates from the freezer paper.
- Leave a 1/2" seam allowance around the outside edge of the drawing but cut exactly on the lines for the inside pattern shapes.
Place the freezer paper templates on the raspberry fabric.
The Raspberry fabric grades from light to dark. I place my templates to utilize the gradation and work from the light end to the dark end as I create each row of three baskets.
- For the top two templates that will create the area for the handle cut out leaving a 1/2" seam allowance on the inside and outside of each section.
- Cut out the inside curved areas using a rotary cutter. Leave a 1/2" seam allowance. You need a more than 1/4" seam to glue and sew these sections.
- Use a pencil and mark the inside curve right next to the paper on the top pink section and the bottom of the green handle. This is the pressed seamed line that will be your sewing line. I also mark the bottom edge of the pattern pieces to give me a guide when I go to trim up the bottom finished edge of this top unit.
In order to glue all of the curved pieces together before sewing I clip all of the seam allowances about a 1/2" apart around the curve. Make sure not to go right to the edge of the paper when clipping.
Finger press this seam back against the paper and finally press it with a hot dry iron. I don't glue any of these seams to the paper.
- Do this to all three pieces of the top of the basket section, the top, the handle and the bottom half circle under the handle.
Notice that I drew a center line down the middle of the pattern so that when I go to alien all of my pieces I have a mark to guide me.
- Run the glue stick along the turned back edge of the top pink basket section seam (the edge facing you).
- Alien the green handle piece snug right under the top pink section.
- Open up the top edge of the green handle piece and using a hot iron press this seam over the top of pink top section seam securing them together. The glue will hold the pieces together for sewing.
- Run the glue stick along the top of the turned back edge of the bottom of the green handle.
- Line up the pink circle under the green handle piece.
- Open up the pink pressed edge to lay over the top of the bottom of the pressed curve of the green handle .
- Press these two seams together using a hot dry iron
- This will secure the bottom pink section to the bottom of the green handle.
Once these pressed seams have cooled carefully remove the freezer paper templates.
You can use these paper templates again on all the basket squares.
- Sew these sections together placing the green handle section against the sewing bed and the top pink section up to see the pencil or fold line that you will sew on.
- Sew slowly and carefully along the fold mark or pencil line.
I use a small scissors to hold the edge on the right side while I open up and guide the left side with my hand.
- Once the curves are sewn make sure no tucks were create.
If there are any tucks correct them now.
Trim the 1/2" seam allowance to 1/4" and press both seams to the inside of the handle.
Notice on the bottom left I also marked with my pencil the bottom line of each pattern piece as a guide for when I trim this bottom edge up. I will trim leaving a 1/4" seam allowance.
I really like working with freezer paper and glue this way. I don't have to be so precise when I cut my pattern pieces and in the end when I trim it all up I still get very straight and clean lines.
I'll show you the rest next time.
Happy Quilting.


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A mind is a difficult thing to change: Part 5 (The quiet years: tanks vs. pears)
[For links to earlier posts in this series, please see the right sidebar under the heading, "A mind is a difficult thing to change."]
I thought this post would be relatively easy to write. After all, the years between 1975 and September 10, 2001 were fairly quiet for me, at least politically speaking, especially compared to the bitter and personal struggles of the Vietnam era. But strangely, it's that very quietness that has made this post harder to write than I ever thought it would be--in fact, far harder than the previous ones--because of the absence of such drama.
I don't want to bore you all to tears. I could summarize the whole era by saying I was otherwise engaged. But, in the end, that would be too simplistic. After all, I'm writing this to try to understand and explain what was going on for me, and for others, in the psychological/political sense: what led to change, or failed to lead to change.
So, exactly what was I thinking about, politically, during those years? Was I even thinking at all, or was I more or less on automatic? And was my experience idiosyncratic, or was it typical, representing a general trend of the times?
In other words: was I like Karel's mother? (And who, you might ask, is Karel's mother?)
I confess that I have been an inveterate New Yorker reader for the last thirty-five years or so. I've even kept my subscription in the face of my neocon conversion and the resultant fact that I can no longer stomach their political articles. I recall that the New Yorker published excerpts from expatriate Czech author Milan Kundera's novel The Book of Laughter and Forgetting shortly before the book came out in 1978. All I had to do was read the very first paragraph of the work and I knew I was in the presence of something extraordinary. I read with mounting excitement and total concentration, and when the book was available I immediately bought it and read it from cover to cover. It merged the political with the personal in a free-form style like no other--gripping, entertaining, profound, and totally idiosyncratic.
Certain images in that book made a deep impression on me. I've already discussed one of them here, in my post "Dancing in a ring." The image of the circle dance was memorable, although it was only many years later that I even began to understand what Kundera was saying.
But the story of Karel's elderly mother and the pears--that, I understood from the start. Here it is:
One night, for example, the tanks of a huge neighboring country came and occupied their country [a reference to the 1968 Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia]. The shock was so great, so terrible, that for a long time no one could think about anything else. It was August, and the pears in their garden were nearly ripe. The week before, Mother had invited the local pharmacist to come and pick them. He never came, never even apologized. The fact that Mother refused to forgive him drove Karel and Marketa crazy. Everybody's thinking about tanks, and all you can think about is pears, they yelled. And when shortly afterwards they moved away, they took the memory of her pettiness with them.
But are tanks really more important than pears? As time passed, Karel realized that the answer was not so obvious as he had once thought, and he began sympathizing secretly with Mother's perspective--a big pear in the foreground and somewhere off in the distance a tank, tiny as a ladybug, ready at any moment to take wing and disappear from sight. So Mother was right after all: tanks are mortal, pears eternal.
That's an exaggerated version of what seemed to happen to me (and others) during those years: the tanks didn't disappear, but they receded into the distant background; and the pears loomed, large and ripe, in the foreground. And who wouldn't want that to happen? Who would choose to focus on tanks when they could think about pears instead? Most people seemed only too happy to throw themselves into life itself, and to leave the interminable political discussions to the politicians and the policy wonks.
The military draft had ended in 1973, and Saigon had fallen in 1975. The men of my generation no longer had to face the possibility of putting their lives on the line in that difficult and ultimately tragic cause. The news from that part of the world no longer screamed in blaring headlines, but drifted in on the tide, like the boat people fleeing the Communist regime that had taken over South Vietnam. The news was not at all good. But it no longer had the personal immediacy it had had during the late 60s and early 70s, when the draft had forced us to confront it up close and very very personal. Terrible, wasn't it, what was happening in Cambodia; and awful about the poor boat people, but what could you do at this point? The tragedies in Southeast Asia began to recede into the generalized din of human suffering all over the globe. It seemed it could not be helped; it was the human condition.
There was a general retreat from political activism. Of course, this was not true of everyone, but it certainly was true of a sizeable portion of the generation that had been so activist just a few short years before. Remember the catch-phrase "the 'Me' decade," to refer to the 70s? There seems to have been a certain truth to it. With a sigh of relief, people concentrated on good times and on the self, not unlike the Roaring Twenties which had followed the horrors of World War I and the influenza pandemic that took so many lives at that war's end.
I was only too happy to pull back from thinking about politics. I got married in the mid-1970s, and my husband and I were concerned with starting out in jobs and finding a place to live, making new friends and adjusting to life beyond college and graduate school. I remember the oil crisis mostly because it happened around the time of a trip I had planned, making it hard for me to travel by car. It was both a nuisance and a warning bell, but I was driving a small foreign car anyway, and the financial pinch wasn't too hard, and then it was over almost as soon as it had begun. I remember the sickening feeling of watching the 444-day Iran hostage crisis, but my perception was filtered through the fact that I was very late in my first pregnancy when it began, and the mother of a barely-walking one-year old when it ended.
Starting a marriage and a family is an all-consuming period of life for most people, and it certainly was so for me, along with many of my friends. I was a stay-at-home mother for many years, devoted to the care of my child, and exhausted much of the time. I still managed to read the Boston Globe most days, and the New Yorker most weeks, and watched some TV news (I recall that Nightline got its start covering the hostage crisis). I had a vague sense that events in Iran boded no good, and watching the Iranian women don their chadors I wondered why they would be so eager to go back to what seemed to be medievalism. But what did it matter to me if they wanted to wear black robes and have a cleric for their leader? It seemed to be their choice; was it any of my business?
I could go into detail writing about this or that event, and my reaction or non-reaction (or mild reaction) to it. But more important than all of that was the fact that I had come to accept a certain level of turmoil in the world. I felt bad about it, but I no longer thought there was much I could do about it, except give money to a cause such as Save the Children or Amnesty International (which I joined over twenty years ago, back when it actually did appear to be devoted to the cause of helping political prisoners around the world). It seemed as though human misery was in a sort of steady-state mode: about the same level existed from year to year, with a dramatic surge here and there in one third-world place or another, but the overall amount seemed stable.
Part of this attitude of mine (and so many others) was the phenomenon of growing older and seeing that problems were not going to be solved overnight, if at all. Part of it was the aforementioned attention deficit: for many years, the pressing demands of family left me little time for the leisurely study of world events, and when I did have a spare moment, I wanted to relax and enjoy myself. In this I think I was probably quite typical of everyone except political junkies.
This situation fostered maintaining the status quo. If I (and others) had little time to study events in any depth or detail, there was no way my political opinions and/or my interpretation of those events were likely to undergo any changes. How could they? As I moved through my thirties and forties, I considered my political opinions to be fully formed, anyway. It never occurred to me that they might change or might need to change, any more than the color of my eyes might change at that point. They were part of who I was. I was no child or teenager in a state of searching, no young adult solidifying my sense of self; I was middle-aged, and although I didn't think I was stagnant, I was certainly set.
What's more, I don't think I had ever personally known anyone whose political opinions had changed after the age of thirty or so. My parents, and the parents of most of those around me, had reached adulthood during the Depression and the Presidency of FDR. They were liberal Democrats and proud of it, and nothing in the intervening years had caused even a glimmer of a change in their points of view. Nor did I see changes in my friends--not that we ever talked about politics much, because we did not.
Nevertheless, in retrospect, I felt certain stirrings. Maybe "stirrings" isn't the right word, since it indicates too much motion and awareness. They were more like glimmerings, moments of slight dislocation and questioning so mild that they only disrupted the smooth surface of my thoughts for a short while. But they did occur every now and then when an event made a deep emotional impression on me, and especially when there was some sort of cognitive difficulty on my part in understanding the meaning and/or the cause of that event.
The greatest of these dislocations occurred with the fall of the Soviet Union. The USSR had been a constant for my entire life, and had loomed particularly large in my childhood. When I was born, the Soviet Union had already been in existence for over forty years, making it seem to me at the time as though it were as ancient and enduring as Greece or Egypt. Since WWII, it had been the principle threat to the US around the world.
When the Soviet system collapsed, it seemed to me that the end came very suddenly. Oh, there were rumbles during Gorbachev's tenure-- something was indeed happening--but in 1989 it seemed as though the entire Iron Curtain came down so precipitously you could almost say it evaporated.
My question was: how can an Iron Curtain evaporate? And, even more to the point, why didn't any of the 'experts" see it coming?
The latter question plagued me at the time. Perhaps I was able to give it more attention because the events were so very dramatic, and involved an issue that had been a constant for all of my life. Perhaps the fact that my child was older now and his needs not so labor- intensive gave me enough energy to actually do some thinking about it. I knew that I hadn't paid proper attention to the news in recent years, so for a while I wondered whether I had missed something. But when I tried to read more about it, I couldn't find anything that made sense to me; when I tried to ask other people whether anyone had seen this coming, I was met with resounding silence, indifference, shrugs.
Perhaps somewhere there had been some excellent analyses of the situation, even some that had predicted the events with some accuracy. Perhaps these brilliant and prescient articles had been published in a journal such as Foreign Affairs, or something of the sort. But I wasn't reading journals then, nor were most of the electorate. The mainstream media (I didn't know that term at the time) hadn't demonstrated any foresight about these developments, nor even much of a grasp of why they might be occurring at this point. All they seemed to be able to do was to describe the events of the moment.
Surely, I asked friends and family, the Soviet experts at the NY Times or even in the State Department or at Harvard, surely they had seen this coming, right? If not, then why not?
It would be an overstatement to say I became obsessed with this question. But it certainly was the world event that engaged my interest more than anything since Vietnam, and my puzzlement about it was profound. If the experts--academic, governmental, and media--had been unable to foresee this, then how could I trust them to guide me in the future? In retrospect, it was probably the first time I began to distrust my usual sources of information, although I certainly didn't see them as lying--I saw them as incompetent, really no better than bad fortunetellers.
What they seemed to lack was an overview, a sense of history and pattern. Newspapers could report on events, but those events seemed disconnected from each other: first this happened, then that happened, then the other thing happened, and then the next, and so on and so forth. In the titanic decades-long battle between the US and the USSR, there had been a certain underlying narrative (yes, sometimes that word is appropriate) that involved the threat of Armageddon, and the necessity to avoid it at almost all costs, while stopping the spread of Communism. Although T.S. Eliot had said the world would end "not with a bang but a whimper," who ever thought the Soviet Union would end in such a whimpery way, and especially without much forewarning? It seemed preposterous, something like that moment in the Wizard of Oz when Dorothy throws the bucket of water on the Wicked Witch, who dissolves into a steaming heap of clothing, crying "I'm melting, melting."
But if the Soviet Union was the Wicked Witch, who was Dorothy? Reagan? The media acted as though he'd been as clueless as Dorothy had been when she threw that bucket, and at the time I knew of no reason to think otherwise.
At any rate, I was happy about the fall of the Soviet empire, very happy. I watched the joyous scenes of Eastern Europeans celebrating, and even bought a (supposedly authentic) chunk of the Berlin Wall. Was this indeed the end of history? In a way, yes; it felt as though the big questions had been settled; all that was left was ironing out the details. Some of the darkest forces of the 20th century seemed to have run their course, and what was left to think about, politically, were humanitarian concerns around the world, possible future energy and fuel shortages, the environment, and domestic policies such as health care, welfare, and taxes.
The Gulf War of early 1991 seemed to mark some sort of return to 'history," although I thought (and hoped) that perhaps it was an anomaly. But by that time certain other events had taken over in my life (as they so often do in people's lives), that once again made it very difficult for me to pay much attention to anything except the general outline of events.
In December of 1990 I had sustained a series of nerve injuries that caused severe and unremitting pain. (For anyone who might still be concerned about me now, I'm tremendously better.) Neuropathic pain is of a type that is difficult to describe. Suffice to say that, for quite a long while, I could barely concentrate on anything--not my beloved books, not even television; each minute was very difficult to get through, and I was severely sleep-deprived. It was at this point that the Gulf War began.
I watched the bombing on TV, pacing and fretting, unable to get comfortable for a moment. The thought of the suffering I knew must be occurring as a result of those bombs seemed to intensify my own suffering. I could hardly look. I understood the rationale for the war, and the necessity of it, but watching it and thinking about it seemed more than I could bear.
Although the details of my situation were particular to me, I think the general principle is a universal one. Many people move from crisis to crisis in their lives--survival, whether it be financial, emotional, of physical, then takes the lead and shuts out other considerations to a great degree.
The next year, I was improved enough to begin part-time study for my Master's Degree in Marriage and Family Therapy. With my family obligations and the substantial demands of coursework and seeing clients, my attention was well occupied, and politics took a small role--although as a Democrat, I was happy that finally, for the first time in sixteen years, "my guy" had been elected (although, interestingly enough, I was never a Clinton fan--I voted for Paul Tsongas in the 1992 New Hampshire primaries).
But there were other distant warning bells sounding. Some were not so distant at all. The first World Trade Center bombing certainly grabbed my attention in 1993. It "only" killed six people, but it was different from previous Islamic terrorist attacks in two ways. The first was that it occurred on American soil and targeted civilians; the second was the scope of its ambition. I read about the attack in some depth, perhaps because it moved me as a native New Yorker who remembered the building of the Towers. I was stunned to discover that the intent of the bombers had been to topple the building and kill many thousands, and that it was only through chance and incompetence that they had failed to achieved their goals.
This sobered and frightened me--as did another article (again, I no longer recollect the periodical in which I read it, or the exact time of its publication), about a bunch of Middle Eastern terrorists (Osama?) whose stated aims were to launch a series of devastating attacks against the United States.
And these were not the only disturbing rumblings from the Middle East. I remember reading about changes in the Palestinian educational system after the implementation of the Oslo Accords (again, I recall that this article appeared in the New Yorker, of all places, although I've had some difficulty tracing it). I had originally thought that the Oslo Accords, of which I had only a glancing knowledge, were a hopeful sign. It seemed that now even the Palestinians and Israelis were starting down a path that would end up with, if not reconciliation, then a certain tolerance, a relatively benign and peaceful coexistence.
But this article chilled my blood when I read it. It detailed, for the first time as far as I knew, the intense and vicious hatred that was being inculcated in young Palestinians towards Israelis and even towards Jews in general. I did the calculations--the generation being carefully nurtured in this destructive propaganda were in the early primary grades now. They were due to come to maturity around the time of the millenium, and I felt a tremendous sense of foreboding. But what could be done about it? I couldn't think of a thing, and the article had no suggestions, either.
What did I do with these fearful thoughts? I put them away, as I had so many years earlier tried to put away the fear of an impeding nuclear holocaust from my childhood mind. I had learned that most of the things I worried about never happened, and that much of what I read in the paper seemed exaggerated and calculated to alarm.
And so time passed. When the millenium came, people seemed much more worried about the threat of the millenium bug than the millenium bomber who was caught before he could carry out his plans to blow up LAX.
A big pear in the foreground and somewhere off in the distance a tank, tiny as a ladybug, ready at any moment to take wing and disappear from sight.
Except in this case, instead of taking wing, the tank crept towards us silently and stealthily, getting closer and closer, until its guns were pointed at our backs.
And then it fired.
[ADDENDUM: For the next post in the series, Part 6A, go here.]


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By H.G. Dr Geevarghese Mar Osthathios
"But when Pharoah saw that there was a respite, he hardened his heart and would not listen to them: as the Lord had said," (Ex. 8: 15), "and the Lord hardened the heart of Pharoah, as he did not listen to them; as the Lord had spoken to Moses," (9:12). To the writer of Exodus, both these verses meant the same thing. Whatever happens in history, it is Jehovah who acts.
"The Lord will have war with Amalek from generation to generation (17: 16); "and the Lord sent thunder and hail and fire ran down to the earth and the Lord rained hail upon the land" (9: 23).
The Hebrews were extremely religious people to whom the Lord God was behind every natural phenomenon. They did not raise the modern question, 'would a good God do evil?' It is in the face of Jesus Christ that we see God as He is. The O. T. revelation of God was partial and fragmentary (Heb. 1: 1). Our Lord used to point out the sin hidden in the disbelief of hardened hearts (Mb. 6. 52; 8; 17).
The Islamic faith in predestination of everything by Allah (kismet) was the faith of the Hebrews in the time of Exodus and so even the hardening of the heart of Pharoah was the doing of God. St. James makes it clear that God does not tempt any one. "Let no one say when he is tempted, 'I am tempted by God'; for God cannot be tempted with evil and he himself tempts no one: but each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire." (1: 3)
Sin would harden our hearts and we are asked to be vigilant. "Exhort one another everyday, as long as it is called, 'today', that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sins." (Heb.3: 13) Many such passages like the hardening of the heart of Pharoah in the O. T. then must be interpreted as the faith of that particular time of the writing of that particular book and not as the eternal truth revealed in the N. T. by Jesus Christ, the only Son of God.
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