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It's the start of 2013 and time to post in the new year at B2C with a product review of the slightly oddly named Testimonial Monkey.
I wanted to review Testimonial Monkey for two reasons:
- Those of you who follow my personal blog will be aware of my interest in the design and performance of Landing Pages. One of the key elements of a when building trust with a user is the testimonial, and it's something that I look for in a well designed landing page.
- My wife runs Gilhoolie, her own business, creating bespoke lampshades and teaching people how to make them, so I understand the pressures of marketing a small business.
- Having worked in the real world for quite a few years now – on the agency and client side of the fence – I know that turning your consumers into advocates is no easy task.
Testimonial Monkey is a service designed to help organisations of all sizes gather and share testimonials easily, so it sounds like it might be the answer to our problems, but the $64,000 question is: does it work?
Getting Started
Setting up your account with Testimonial Monkey is a simple business. Creating a profile (of which you can have a few) is a simple matter of entering contact details and some basic preference information, and it can be completed in a few minutes. You've then got the option of further personalising the service through some additional options, such as uploading a logo, setting your testimonial requirements (do you want to collect job titles, do you want to show all testimonials or just positive ones, etc). It's easy to use and you're prompted to complete actions through some basic gamification techniques, such as an account completion progress bar and a list of 'To Do' items (see left). They're a welcome addition, but I couldn't help but think that this approach could have been taken further, so that it was a more integral part of the set-up process, rather than an aside.
Once your profile has been set up, you're ready to send your first request.
As you would expect, Testimonial Monkey provides a number of options for requests: you can send them manually on an individual basis, upload emails in bulk, or – as most will probably do – set up automatic requests.
The individual requests are simply a matter of entering a name and email into a pre-populated form. It's easy, but for the majority of users will be a last resort, as sending individual requests will become time-consuming. I used it for my testing purposes only. The bulk option allow you to upload a series of email addresses to be used.
In both cases, you can select a questionnaire that will be appended to the email. These questionnaires can be created through the administration tools, and add depth to the data you can collect. Be aware though, the more information you ask a user to complete, the less likely it will be that they will comply. If you want to collect more structured data, it may be worth doing this separately.
Finally, the automatic requests can be configured through the use of a personalised email address created for your account. This email address can be bcc'd on any email communication you have with your customer. Once the blind copy has been received the system will automatically send a request a number of days later. Like a lot of the integration features available on Testimonial Monkey, its easy to use and set up.
Although it does have the questionnaires, Testimonial Monkey doesn't have features that some of the competitors do (including the ability to record audio and video testimonials), so you'll have to make a call as to whether that's important to you or not.
Sharing your success (or failure)
So you're all set up and you've sent out your first request for a testimonial, even better, you've actually got a response; so how do you share it? This is where things can get onerous if it's a manual process, but Testimonial Monkey covers the bases with a range if options that are flexible enough for most needs.
You get a hosted reviews page as standard, but the flexibility comes with the integration options. Dependent on your package, there are standard connectors for Twitter and Facebook, two or three widgets – including badges – to allow you to display the latest testimonials directly on your website, and an RSS feed for general use.
Each of these can be set up to display testimonials with a minimum rating (so only 4 or 5 star ratings for example) and there are basic theme options available too.
Regardless of the options selected, the integration is seamless, with posts appearing a regular intervals once received. It's easy to use and requires no further interaction – which is perfect.
Packages and features
As with most services, Testimonial Monkey comes with a range of packages, ranging from Lite to Enterprise.
There is some confusion on the site in respect to pricing, as the Plans and Prices page shows a different set of one-time costs to the 'Free Trial' page, which quotes costs on a per month basis. I'm sure this will be cleared up.
Regardless of this, the features don't really start kicking until the Professional level. It's here that the vast majority of functionality becomes available. The Enterprise level adds the ability to completely white-label the product, removing the Testimonial Monkey branding that is otherwise displayed throughout (including customer emails and review pages). I haven't seen the Lite/Essential version working, but without the ability to share via the social networks, it won't be as useful to the majority of businesses (as they bring social media marketing into their marketing mix).
Does it work?
Yes, overall it does. The set-up is fairly easy to complete and the site does a pretty good job of keeping you on track. The site isn't perfect, I think it could be slicker and more streamlined in taking you through the initial set up, and it would be nice to have more inline help available at times, but it's a satisfactory experience.
It would be good to have some better advice on how to use the testimonials you collect. There's functionality available that allows you to limit the amount of testimonials you publish through each of the channels (five Facebook posts or five Tweets for example) and this is more important than it seems. New users might be tempted to push all their positive testimonials out of the door and into the public limelight, but it is judicious use that is more effective. There's space here for Testimonial Monkey to be our guide, not just our conduit. This approach is hinted at in the free eBook you receive when signing up and the appointment of a 'Success Manager' for Enterprise customers, but it could be more obvious.
Would I recommend it? Would I give them my testimonial?
In the spirit of testimonials, here's one to finish.
Testimonial Monkey is effective at delivering and sharing testimonials with minimum effort and input. A little more polish on the administration side would help, but it doesn't detract from what is a well-thought out and focused product. 4/5.
James Gardner, 10th January 2013
Have you used Testimonial Monkey or a similar product? How did it work for you? Have you seen an increase in conversions or responses? Let me know your experiences and thoughts in the comments.
Disclaimer: This is an independent review based on a professional account supplied to me for the purposes of reviewing the service. I have no business relationship with TestimonialMonkey. I have not received any direct monetary incentives or payments, but they have allowed me to keep the account if I so desire for no cost. I don't need to write this bit, but I think it's always good to be completely transparent.
This article was originally published here.


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- "In the passage quoted here from Monteverdi's madrigal [Cruda amarilli, mm.9-19 and 24-30], one sees a tonality determined by the characteristic of the accord parfait on the tonic, by the sixth chord assigned to the third and seventh degrees, by the optional choice of the accord parfait or the sixth chord on the sixth degree, and finally, by the accord parfait, and above all, by the unprepared seventh chord (with major third) on the dominant."
- Joseph Fétis, (1844). Traité complet de la théorie et de la pratique de l'harmonie contenant la doctrine de la science et de l'art, 2d ed., p. 166. Brussels and Paris.

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Analysis: The end of Indian IT staffing as we know it
India's IT outsourcers are promoting "mini CEOs" capable of running businesses on their own, while trimming down on the hordes of entry-level computer coders they normally hire as they try to squeeze more profits out of their staff.
The shift by Infosys Ltd and others is symptomatic of a maturing industry that wants more revenue from its own intellectual property instead of providing only labor-intensive, lower-margin information technology and back-office services.
For young graduates who see the $108 billion IT industry as a sure pathway to modern India's growing middle class, the transformation is unsettling.
Dozens of industry aspirants who were recruited on campus by No. 4 player HCL Technologies recently protested outside its offices in several cities. They were offered jobs in 2011 before graduating last year but have not yet been given joining dates - or paychecks.
"Dear H.R. You were also a fresher... once," read a sign carried by two protesters in a photo in The Hindu newspaper.
HCL's December quarter profits and revenues rose while staff numbers shrank - a rare trick in an industry that has long aspired to break the linear relationship between headcount and revenue growth.
Just 20 percent of the 5,000-6,000 campus recruits offered HCL jobs in 2011 have been taken on board since graduation last summer, and HCL said it made no offers in 2012 to students who would graduate in June 2013.
Slower growth, fewer people leaving, greater demand by customers for experienced staff, and increased productivity through automation and software have put pressure on all recruits, according to HCL, which said it expects to accelerate bringing entry-level staff on board from August.
"It's not that the demand doesn't exist. It exists for different skills," said Ajay Davessar, HCL's head of external communications.
"Typical roles which a student thinks, 'I'll just go there and start coding, and have a good life,' are being tested to reality... Any applicant, be it fresher or senior, will have to have flexibility in applying the skills elsewhere."
Tech Mahindra Ltd, the No.5 player, is naming 100 of what it calls mini-CEOs who will be given broad latitude to run their parts of the business.
"We're moving towards a situation like the developed economies, where we're asking the people to be more deep," said Sujitha Karnad, who heads human resources at Tech Mahindra.
"We want more solution architects to be here. We don't want the coding coolies anymore, that's clear," Karnad said, employing a term commonly used in India in association with menial laborers.
While plenty of Indian back office work such as technical support, processing insurance claims or staffing call centers will remain labor-intensive, software services firms are looking to move up the value chain, which means relying less on the time and toil of staff.
Growth in revenue per employee across the industry could expand to 5 percent a year in the next two years from about 3 percent over the past five, said Forrester Research principal analyst Frederic Giron. The growth rate is likely to accelerate from around 2015 as intellectual property-based work accounts for a growing share of the total, he said.
India's IT services industry grew in large part because of the availability of cheap skilled labor, an advantage that is eroding as wages and other costs in India rise.
In years past, it was cost-effective for IT companies to hire new graduates by the thousands and keep a portion on the "bench" awaiting deployment on a client project.
But budget-constrained clients now demand shorter lead times. IT vendors that might have hired people six months in advance of an expected contract are now working with a one- or two-month window, said Surabhi Mathur Gandhi, senior vice president at TeamLease, a staffing consultancy.
Traditionally, about 30 percent of Indian IT services industry staff are on the bench at any given time, often in training, as they await deployment to client work.
In the December quarter, about 70 percent of Infosys staff and less than 65 percent at No. 3 provider Wipro were deployed on billable projects. At Tata Consultancy Services, the largest Indian IT services company, the figure was 72 percent, within what Ajoyendra Mukherjee, its human resources head, calls the comfort range of 70 to 74 percent utilization.
"I think we can push it up to 75, 76," he said.
Another IT services company, iGate Corp, envisions a future where just 10 percent of staff sit on the bench, said Srinivas Kandula, its human resources head, who predicts that the size of its bench will shrink by 2 or 3 percentage points a year over the next five years.
Shorter benches mean a smaller share of hiring is direct from campuses, as seasoned professionals moving from a competitor would be less willing to wait to be deployed and firms are reluctant to pay them to do so.
Companies are also binding hires, especially experienced ones, with three-month notice periods and no-buy-out clauses, compared with one-month notice periods previously.
Among top-tier companies that are most actively trying to push non-linear growth where revenues are not constrained by the size of the work force, about 70 percent of employees are experienced staff, up from 60 percent in 2008, said Rajiv Srinivas, an associate director at Tech Mahindra, who expects that to rise to about 90 percent in the next two or three years.
At Infosys, while the net quarterly addition of employees fell from 4,906 people in the March quarter last year to 977 in the December quarter (excluding an acquisition), lateral recruitment held steady at an average of about 4,300 staff per quarter through December, meaning the percentage of campus hires was much lower.
"Earlier, the focus was more on career ... You get into a job, you start learning, and slowly acquire knowledge over a period of time," said Sunil Gupta, who joined Infosys as vice president of quality about six months ago from the Indian unit of CGI Group's Logica Plc.
"Today the value of a professional is judged by how quickly you're learning, how quickly you're adapting yourself and changing along with the environment," he said.
For young Indians who saw IT as a ticket into the middle class, the change means that career path is becoming less clear. Those who do break in and build valuable skills will remain in demand, but the days of young IT staffers brandishing five or more competing offers are over.
Yet that hasn't necessarily translated into slower wage growth. Mercer LLC expects industry salaries to grow 12 percent this year, the same as in 2012. As India's economy diversifies, graduates have more attractive career options, including at multinationals with a growing India presence, such as Google Inc, which means IT vendors must fight to stay attractive.
"We see IT companies as a back-up," said S. S. Jayaram, a final-year engineering student in Bangalore who says he chose a job in India with Mu Sigma Inc, a fast-growing U.S.-based data analytics company, over offers from IBM and TCS.
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About N Zone Sports
Industry | Children's Businesses |
Related Categories | Children's Fitness Programs, Miscellaneous Recreation Businesses, Children's Education/Enrichment |
Founded | 2010 |
Parent Company | N Zone Sports of America |
Leadership | Tony Westbrock, President |
Corporate Address |
8402 Laurel Fair Cir. Tampa, FL 33610 |
Social | Facebook, Twitter |
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Franchising Since | 2011 (13 years) |
# of employees at HQ | 8 |
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# of Units | 53 (as of 2022) |
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- In the schedule day view we extended the end time range to fully display overnight shifts.
- Modified the session code that didn't work properly with action result messages and user preferences in some setups.
- Added an option to change calendar and employee for a template shift in Schedule Templates module of the Pro version.
- Added a new REST API end point to find available employees during a certain date and time range.
- Added a delete shift email notification for employees and managers/admins.
- BUG: Calendar filter in schedule view didn't work due to error in version 4.9.44.
- BUG: When a shift copied to another employee, the new employee didn't get a notification.
- BUG: Couldn't create shifts for a selected employee due to error in version 4.9.44.
- BUG: Shifts of archived employees and calendars were not visible in the schedule view.
- BUG: Custom fields module may have produced a critical error (Pro Version).
- Minor fixes to ensure compatibility with PHP 8.
- Minor fixes to display better for RTL languages.
- BUG: Copy To Another Employee link was visible to users who were not allowed to do this action.
- Minor fixes.
- Added an option to choose shift, time off or both in when sending reminders.
- BUG: In Administration, Employees, various actions were not working properly for the first item in the list.
- BUG: footer custom date picker in the schedule view didn't work properly.
- Copy & Change Employee option from the Change Employee screen moved to a separate acton Copy To Another Employee.
- In the shortcode "calendar" parameter can accept negative value to skip specified calendar(s), for example [shiftcontroller4 calendar="-123,-321″]
- Added an option to make a copy of schedule template (Pro Version).
- Added an option to edit time in template shifts in schedule templates (Pro Version).
- Minor fixes.
- For Schedule Limits module, if an employee has individual limits, they override possible common limits set for all employees (Pro Version).
- Minor fixes.
- Minor fixes.
- Minor fixes in upgrade from legacy version 3 module.
- Added Custom Number of Days option for shift schedule templates module (Pro Version).
- Include custom fields too when copying a shift to another employee.
- Added new options for the "hideui" shortcode parameter: filter, pagetitle, pagemenu.
- Added an option to copy shift to a new employee.
- Added a setting to specify the max end date for iCal feed.
- PHP 8.2 compatibility fixes.
- BUG: The date picker input might not be working for employees.
- Minor fixes.
- BUG: If an employee wasn't allowed to view Everyone's Schedule, their date selection form didn't work in the My Schedule page.
- BUG: If an employee wasn't allowed to edit published shifts, but allowed to create published shifts, they still could unpublish a shift, edit it, then publish back.
- Added an option to make a custom field required (Pro version).
- Added a setting to define the date range when employees can create shifts for themselves. For example, from the start of the current week to the end of next month.
- Added a shortcode parameter hideui="bulk" to disable bulk actions for shifts (Pro version).
- Added a setting if to enable slim view for month schedule grouped by calendar or employee.
- Minor fixes.
- Minor fixes.
- BUG: The feed export file had broken columns if different shifts had different set of columns like custom fields or break time start/end.
- Minor fixes.
- BUG: If shift was with a break, the break time didn't display in notifications.
- BUG: If a custom field contained options with special characters, they didn't display corrrectly.
- Added an option to query custom fields in the API and export calls.
- Added bulk actions for employees in admin view.
- BUG: wrong links were given in Profile:iCal Sync, Administration:Shifts Feed, Administration:Reminders, Administration:Shift Pickup Request Reminders.
- After creating shifts from a week template, it gets back to this week schedule rather than to the current week.
- Don't send a confusing "pick up request cancelled" notification to the original employee of the shift after the shift has been picked up by a new employee. (Pro version).
- Added a setting to display n (3,4,5,6) weeks in the schedule view.
- BUG: managers (not admins) weren't allowed to create shifts from schedule templates. (Pro version).
- Added the filter detail if any to the print view of the schedule.
- BUG: The order of shifts in schedule templates didn't follow the Week Starts On setting, always starting from Sunday. (Pro version).
- BUG: False conflicts with changing employee of an existing shift, the bug appeared since 4.9.16.
- A bit of modification for version 4.9.17, when doing pickup and employee assign bulk actions on grouped open shifts, pick only one of the grouped shifts as otherwise it would create overlapping conflicts for the employee. (Pro version).
- BUG: If open shifts were grouped together in the schedule view, the bulk action process handled only one of them rather than all. (Pro version).
- Added a shortcode parameter to display shifts with or without conflicts.
- Added "Shifts With Conflicts" filter option for the schedule view, available for logged in users only.
- BUG: It might display "new shift" and "new time off" links in schedule list view for users whose permissions didn't allow that.
- BUG: There was an error related to timezone settings with PHP 8.1.
- Default shift duration can be selected with half-hour steps (was full hour before).
- Custom fields for shifts in schedule templates, and they can edited too before making new real shifts from template. (Pro version).
- Shift order in schedule view now also considers the employee sort order.
- BUG: Shift create from REST API might fail with the Pro version.
- Added bulk actions for calendars in admin view.
- Do not display calendar label in schedule view if only one calendar exists.
- Changed a bit misleading "Shift Type" naming to "Shift Time".
- Added break start/end times to shift export file.
- BUG: Custom fields were not displayed for calendar managers when creating a shift.
- BUG: Error when displaying a schedule day view for a disabled day of week.
- BUG: When displaying shifts with the same time, their sort order wasn't following the calendars sort order.
- Added 2 week view.
- BUG: Time reports may have been calculated incorrectly with overnight shifts.
- BUG: Changes in version 4.9.9 broke the timezone setting in the iCal output.
- BUG: Custom fields were not copied then copying an existing calendar to a new one (Pro version).
- BUG: It didn't allow a valid mobile phone number if it was shorter than 11 digits.
- Custom fields can now be copied from another calendar (Pro version).
- BUG: Custom fields might not be displayed in the JSON feeds output.
- Added an option to copy settings from an existing calendar when creating a new calendar.
- Added SMS text reminders for employees for the next day shift.
- Minor bug fixes.
- BUG: Labels of shift types ending in 12:00am (end of day) weren't displayed in the schedule view.
- BUG: Viewers (view only managers) were not able to view shifts of their calendars.
- BUG: 4 week view showed today's date for all days
- Weekly reminders can now be sent on any day of the previous week, not only the last one.
- Minor bug fixes.
- Added Danish language.
- Minor bug fixes.
- BUG: schedule template shifts could not be created if the calendar had only one employee.
- Added {EMPLOYEE_ID} and {EMPLOYEE_NAME} to reminder subject templates.
- Modified Limits module to allow setting limits per specific employee. (Pro Version)
- Modified Limits module to allow min hours or number of shifts. (Pro Version)
- Modified Schedule Templates module to allow selection of available employees for open shifts. (Pro Version)
- Minor bug fixes.
- BUG: wrong markup in admin config for reminders that might cause the form submit failure on some sites.
- BUG: employees might have less permissions than defined in some configurations
- BUG: weekly and monthly reminders were resending every day if the cron job ran daily.
- Added monthly reminders for the Email Reminders module.
- Added Shift Pickup Email Reminders module which sends out daily, weekly or monthly reminders of shifts with pickup request.
- Added "Change Date" option for shifts.
- BUG: fixed session and REST errors in WordPress SiteHealth.
- Added Email Reminders module.
- BUG: if employees were allowed to edit their shifts, the time change didn't work.
- Added default schedule view type and group by settings.
- Automatic notifications when changing shift employee: Shift Unpublished for the old employee, and Shift Published for the new one.
- BUG: An error in session function that lead to double action result messages and caching of form values.
- Added pickup shortcode parameter to display shifts that have (or have no) pickup request.
- Minor fixes.
- Added a few more settings for REST API shifts list interface.
- Separate internal schedule preference settings storage for admin area and front end schedule, otherwise it might have produced issues.
- Minor fixes.
- Added short time formats like 8pm or 8p, no minutes if time is like 8:00pm.
- Don't show shift conflicts for not logged in users.
- BUG: In schedule limits module shifts in the last day of the range were counted incorrectly.
- Added REST API and WordPress Filters API for shifts.
- Added an option to change shift type on existing shifts.
- Added the "year" range in the Schedule Limits module (Pro Version).
- BUG: Schedule Templates module may produce a fatal error after a calendar was deleted.
- For Custom Fields added an option to allow edit for visitors (Pro Version).
- Updated translation files.
- PHP 8 compatibility fixes.
- BUG: draft shifts were not accessible for visitors even if permission settings allowed it.
- In Schedule Limits added a setting if to take into account premliminary shifts (in the new shift process).
- Enhanced permissions in calendars – to "Create" we also added "Edit" and "Delete" permissions.
- Schedule Limits module: changed number and duration inputs to allow any number (Pro Version).
- Redesigned the admin New Calendar Manager page to group users by WordPress role to work better with a large number of users.
- Added Swedish translation.
- Added Schedule Limits module (Pro Version).
- Fixed iCal issues when description and custom fields contained multiple lines.
- Added Schedule Templates module (Pro Version).
- Added calendar description to iCal export.
- BUG: newlines in comments could break iCal export.
- Shift types now can have the same start/end times if they have different lunch breaks.
- Added an option to list shifts for an exact date and time, including current time.
- BUG: The front end page with shortcode didn't properly redirect to login form if an authenticated user is required to view the page.
- BUG: Localized datepicker may have worked incorrectly
- Added display sort order configuration for calendars and employees.
- Added radio and checkbox custom fields (Pro Version).
- BUG: Fixed bugs with false links to new shift/timeoff when the current user isn't allowed to perform these actions.
- Added JSON shifts output feed option (in Administration/Shifts Feed).
- Optimized week and month schedule views so it should be rendered faster.
- ShiftController's ownership is changed to plainware.com
- Added Next/Previous labels for schedule navigation links.
- Added labels for new shift/timeoff links in the schedule view.
- Make new shift/timeoff links visually muted for past dates.
- Added a setting if to disable using of Draft shift status.
- Moved Everyone Schedule / My Schedule to separate links in main menu
- BUG: "loopback request" error in WordPress SiteHealth.
- Added a setting if a conflict is considered for overlapping shifts only in the same calendar.
- BUG: there was a "REST API" error in WordPress SiteHealth.
- Added label for textarea custom field in the admin area.
- When creating a shift or assigning new or another employee, unavailable employees are displayed below available ones.
- Added a setting for default shift duration.
- In the admin calendars list view we added the quantity of notifications and permission options enabled for each calendar.
- The schedule view remembers last filtered calendars and employees.
- Added an option to filter our open shifts from a display, i.e. see assigned shifts only.
- Added a new 4 weeks schedule view.
- Added employee description to the shift details view.
- Added My Profile link to the schedule view on a shortcode front end page.
- Make it compatible with Polylang multi language plugin – if a front end page is set to a language, then we switch to that language.
- Calendar permission settings were not working correctly for visitors (not logged in users).
- Added the timezone setting.
- BUG: Notifications still sent the shift type title even if it was disabled (instead of the time).
- Added a permission settings per each calendar if to allow employees from other calendars see shifts in this calendar. It configures the feature added in version 4.5.5.
- BUG: Custom fields were not saved when repeating a shift for multiple days (Pro Version).
- BUG: Employees could see shifts from other calendars that they are not allowed to participate in.
- Added a setting to define the time increment for time selectors (5, 10, 15 etc minutes).
- Added a setting to define if the lunch break input is needed.
- BUG: A calendar manager could not create open published shifts.
- BUG: Open shifts from different calendars were also grouped which was wrong.
- New setting if to automatically create a pickup request for open published shifts. (Pro Version)
- Disabled rich text/HTML editor for custom fields if edited from front end. (Pro Version)
- Group multiple open shifts for the same time in the schedule view.
- New setting if employees are allowed to create shifts for themselves with conflicts (overlapping existing shifts).
- BUG: compatibility issue – the date picker might have failed to work with some front end themes.
- BUG: The weekly repeat function included the current day of the week even if it was unchecked (Pro Version).
- Removed hyphens and underscores from the abbreviated labels if the full labels contained any.
- In the month schedule view the shift widget now displays abbreviated label of the calendar title or of the employee name, depending on the grouping selected.
- Modified the permissions part so that if an employee can't see others shifts in a calendar, so this employee can't also see others employees names.
- Added "Every 2 Weeks", "Every 3 Weeks", "Every 4 Weeks" shifts repeat options (Pro Version).
- BUG: The Email From Name setting was not taking effect.
- BUG: Backward schedule navigation button worked incorrectly in the day view.
- BUG: Minor translation related and other fixes.
- Schedule header with date labels now sticks to the top when scrolling down the schedule view.
- BUG: Another attempt to fix a fatal error in print view in some configurations.
- Changed calendar description field to a wysiwyg editor. Also WordPress shortcodes are now processed in this field.
- A small change when creating multiple shifts: for example if there are 2 new shifts for 1 Sep and 1 Oct, after submit you return back to 1 Sep calendar, rather jumping forward to 1 Oct.
- BUG: Attempted to fix a fatal error in print view in some configurations.
- Changed how links to shifts in calendar are displayed. That allows other links in custom fields if any to work properly.
- Schedule navigation links now in the footer too.
- Custom textarea fields now use rich text/HTML editor (Pro Version).
- Shifts duration summary view now separates shifts and time off.
- BUG: Wrong URLs if the server address was configured with a port.
- If from the schedule week or month view switching to the day view, for the current week/month it shows today rather than the first day of the week/month.
- Added an option to select all employees when creating a shift.
- Added "viewers" for calendars – users who can only view shifts.
- Added a setting to change email sender name and address.
- New notification to all employees when other employee picks up a shift (Pro Version).
- BUG: Repeat shifts function didn't work after 4.3.9 version update.
- Modified "X Days On / Y Days Off" automatic repeat option to accept manual entry that enables any repeating shift schedule.
- Internal code change to enable WordPress' apply_filters() function call ShiftController functions.
- BUG: forms with multiple action buttons may not have worked properly in some installations.
- Edit custom fields in one form rather than save button per each field (Pro Version).
- New notification to manager when an employee picks up a shift (Pro Version).
- Added an option to import existing WordPress users as employees.
- Added an option to select calendars when creating a new employee.
- BUG: Wrong urls for our plugin if the website was configured for a port other than 80.
- BUG: Multiday shifts were not shown if they begin before the displayed range.
- When repeating a shift with custom fields, these fields get pre-filled with the current values from this shift.
- Added several automatic repeat options (like weekly, biweekly, etc) when creating a new shift (Pro Version).
- BUG: in 4.3.5 we used a function that is available since WordPress 5.0 that broke setups with earlier versions.
- BUG: Error when creating multiday shifts when choosing a start date that was not initially appeared on screen.
- Added calendar description to the new shift form.
- Redesigned the multiple days selector so that the checkbox and the date label are stacked rather than shown on one line as sometimes the date got truncated on narrow screens.
- For localized installations prioritize our translations over the ones from the Translate WordPress site as the latter may appear incomplete.
- Added "Toggle On" options when assigning employees to calendars in the admin area.
- BUG: There was an error when creating a new shift from a front end page with the filter parameter for multiple calendars.
- Added a link to the administration options in the front end page.
- Added "sh4-bulk-form" CSS class for the bulk form so it can be hidden in the front end if needed.
- Minor code fixes to remove warnings in PHP 7 in iCal exports.
- Added from/to date parameters for shifts feed output.
- BUG: Managers were not able to view or edit custom fields (only admins could).
- BUG: Employees could pickup past shifts.
- BUG: Shift titles on mouseover were without spaces.
- BUG: When in a front end page configured for "My Schedule", after any action on shifts it returned back to "Everyone Schedule".
- BUG: In WP 5.0 time selector was not working in a front end page.
- BUG: There was an error when saving a post with ShiftController shortcode in Gutenberg or some other page builders like Elementor.
- Added the all week select in the shift repeat and new recurring shift screens. (Pro Version)
- Added French translation.
- Minor fixes to address possible errors with shift break times.
- Minor fix to make sure jQuery is loaded in the front end for WordPress 5.0.
- BUG: custom fields didn't show up in the iCal feed. (Pro Version)
- Updated the translation file.
- Added the date label when selecting a shift type after calendar view.
- Minor fix in the view when selecting repeating dates for new shifts.
- Added a week number in the schedule week view.
- Added a setting if to send notification emails in HTML or plain text.
- BUG: Employees could delete their published shifts if they were only allowed to create draft shifts.
- If employees/visitors are not configured to view others shifts in all calendars, then the Everyone Schedule view is not available for employees and visitors.
- BUG: Minor error notice "Undefined index: cfield_details". (Pro Version)
- BUG: Custom fields were not included in email notifications after shift create. (Pro Version)
- Added a setting if to hide hours counters in the schedule view.
- Added the "Toggle Selected" button in the bulk actions form. (Pro Version)
- Added shifts duration summary per day in the week view.
- BUG: An error occured if WordPress timezone was set to an UTC relative option (like UTC-7 etc).
- BUG: Creating new shifts from a front end page failed if the "type" shortcode parameter was used.
- Added a new drop down type for custom fields. (Pro Version)
- Custom fields are now also included in the iCal export. (Pro Version)
- BUG: Shifts view permissions may be processed incorrectly for employees' iCal export.
- BUG: Schedule download didn't work properly in WordPress front end.
- BUG: After reschedule notification emails still displayed old time.
- BUG: Error in the iCal export feed for employees.
- BUG: It didn't allow to update a custom field if there was already another one with the same label in another calendar. (Pro Version)
- BUG: Overlap conflicts function may show false alerts sometimes.
- Schedule day view now shows 7 days at once.
- Optimizations to improve speed for heavy schedules with many employees and shifts.
- BUG: "Not allowed" error when trying to create new open shifts.
- BUG: Date labels were not visible in the print view.
- BUG: Calendar type (shift/timeoff) was reset after editing a calendar.
- Added the description field for employees which is also displayed when creating shifts or changing employees.
- BUG: The shortcode parameter route="myschedule" doesn't bring up the correct view.
- BUG: The repeat function didn't correctly added shift lunch breaks (Pro Version).
- BUG: the shifts were not showing in the week/month view for the last day for the week/month.
- Redesigned the new shift process so that shifts can be created for multiple employees at once.
- Shortcode can now show the My Schedule page, the shifts of the currently logged in user.
- Added a shortcode parameter to disable the link to the shift details (hideui="shiftdetails").
- Custom fields added to notification templates (Pro Version).
- BUG: it wasn't allowing to create a lunch break for overnight shifts, like shift 11pm-3am and break 1am-2am.
- Added the day shifts calendar view.
- Added a setting to specify min and max time, which is convienient if you don't need 24 hours.
- When creating new shifts, the initial visible dates calendar extended to 4 weeks.
- BUG: a date wasn't preselected in the Select Dates view when adding a shift from calendar (Pro Version).
- BUG: bulk action form to change employee was displayed even if it wasn't allowed for the current user (Pro Version).
- BUG: filtering for "open shifts" was not working in the schedule view.
- Added several shortcode parameters to configure the front end view.
- BUG: lunch break was not removed if the checkbox was unchecked when changing shift time.
- BUG: error when an employee tried to create own shift even if it was allowed.
- BUG: custom fields added to the export download did not work properly if multiple calendars were using custom fields. (Pro Version)
- Added a function to change or assign employee for multiple shifts at once. (Pro Version)
- Custom fields are now added to the export download file too. (Pro Version)
- Updated JavaScript files to help avoid conflicts with other plugins and themes.
- Added a setting for a calendar if it is for time off. This lets to create 2 separate buttons for new shifts and time off. Also the shifts in the time off calendars are not counted for the totals results in the schedule view.
- Added a check to avoid shift types with duplicated start and end times.
- BUG: Timezone was not properly set in the iCal feed.
- BUG: Full day shift type title was not shown in the schedule view.
- Added custom fields module for the Pro addon.
- BUG: error when creating a new shift type (on a site with PHP 7.1).
- BUG: error when creating a shift for a calendar which had only one, custom time shift type.
- Added shift detailed information on mouse over in month schedule view.
- Added CSV feed of upcoming shifts (in Administration, Upcoming Shifts Feed), it can be used to export shifts to other applications.
- BUG: error after trying to change employee (appeared since 4.0.7).
- Added an option to create multiple open shifts at once.
- Display current timezone in the iCal details page.
- Added links for iCal feeds per employee.
- Added an option to skip notification emails on shift create or update.
- Added an option to hide certain days of the week.
- Added a description field for calendars, the calendar description is displayed in the shift detailed view.
- BUG: several calendar permission settings might work incorrectly.
- Fixed a few translation issues.
- Added a configuration if to show shift type title in the calendar.
- BUG: Time off were not imported if upgrading from v3.
- Enabled HTML editor for email notification templates.
- BUG: Fatal error when deleting a calendar.
- BUG: Language file wasn't get loaded properly.
- Added an option to turn off/on email notifications per user.
- Modified the admin schedule view so it's a bit faster now, not reloading the whole page after shift update.
- BUG: The repeat action wasn't creating shifts properly (Pro version).
- BUG: The shifts on the last day of the week were not shown in the week view.
- BUG: The shift type title were not recognized in the calendar view for overnight shifts.
- A slight visual adjustment in the calendar view to make grid borders a bit more prominent.
- Added schedule month view.
- Added an option to create custom time shifts.
- Added an option to edit shift time.
- Added duration column for the CSV/Excel download file.
- Added the shift detailed view window.
- BUG: Upgrade from v.3 failed if there were several employees with the same name.
- BUG: Upgrade from v.3 didn't work properly.
- Added the shift pickup module for the Pro addon.
- A new major update.
- Fixed the ical feed that might have failed with certain timezones.
- Minor code updates and fixes.
- Fixed the non working Shift Templates button in the shift edit form.
- Minor code updates and fixes.
- Removed potentially vulnerable own copy of PHPMailer library.
- In the admin view added filter options: filter by status and by type (shift/timeoff).
- BUG: iCal sync link was not working for some devices.
- BUG: timeoff list didn't show if grouping by location was set as a default view.
- BUG: setup failed if one of WordPress roles contained spaces.
- Added a configuration setting if to send notification when a released shift is picked up.
- In the "Shift available" notification after shift release removed the old employee name that was confusing.
- Added a global BCC field to send copies of all automatic notifications.
- User can now save the current calendar view configuration as default.
- Pro: shift comments are added to the iCal export.
- Pro: when a shift is realeased, notification can be sent to all staff members.
- Added French language.
- Minor code updates.
- Added Danish, German and Dutch languages.
- Minor code updates.
- BUG: certain actions were giving a 404 error if the admin panel was used in the front end with a shortcode.
- BUG: If ShiftController was activated but not yet setup, editing user accounts in WordPress gave error.
- Minor code updates.
- BUG: For iCal output if a shift had a break it was giving a wrong end time.
- BUG: Employees can not release shifts from their control panel.
- Minor PHP compatibility fixes
- Making "add" links appear constantly rather than on mouse over that caused issues on several platforms.
- BUG: Preferred availability setting could give a fault conflict alert.
- BUG: fixed the "range" shortcode parameters like "2 weeks" or "8 days" after they stopped working properly in 3.1.0.
- BUG: the shifts copy function didn't make use of the selected date, copying just to the next week.
- Not grouped month calendar is displayed in detailed view.
- BUG: it was not possible to click on an open shift in the "group by location" view.
- Added a configurable option for employees to view draft shifts, create and edit shifts.
- Added an option to copy shifts from a certain week (or month) to another week, so this feature can be used as a sort of schedule templates.
- Added an option to disable certain days of the week. So for example if you don't work on Saturdays and Sundays, it will not show them in the calendar leaving more screen space for work days.
- Colors for locations can now be manually picked rather than assigned automatically.
- Added the day view with timebar for a better visual overview.
- Changed CSS and font icons libraries to greatly reduce CSS and icon files sizes – faster speed and smaller distrib size.
- Employees can edit their own availability preferences if allowed by the admin.
- BUG: If the shortcode is set to "by=staff" or "by=location" then the front end can not change to the view without grouping by.
- BUG: The "Disable Email" setting was not taking effect.
- BUG: Ajax actions didn't work in the admin panel for https websites.
- BUG: Appeared after 3.0.7 after adding the shift break option. When entering a shift and the shift end time is the next day, error "The break should not be longer than the shift itself" was returned.
- Added shift breaks option, the duration of a break is not counted toward the total hours worked.
- Following introduction of shift breaks, timeoff icon changed: coffee is for lunch breaks now, timeoff is marked with the away icon.
- Added reports page to display number of shifts and time worked.
- BUG: Print view was corrupted when clicking the printer icon button.
- Sync users from WordPress with their display name rather than first/last name
- Replaced JavaScript timepicker by a regular dropdown because it was causing too many compatibility issues.
- Added location change option in the bulk edit form [Pro].
- Redesigned Ajax calls that should greatly improve the load speed for many actions.
- BUG: The start and end time inputs were not working when opening the bulk edit form in the Shift Series tab.
- BUG: The delete action didn't work in the bulk edit form in the Shift Series tab.
- BUG: After the delete action in the With All bulk edit form the calendar view was not properly refreshed.
- BUG: Error if filter the shifts by location in the calendar.
- Added the iCal export option (to Google Calendar or any other application capable of receiving iCal feed).
- Moved the Users menu under Configuration.
- BUG: Fixed the print view in Chrome.
- BUG: The link to the WP page to edit a user account was not working.
- BUG: When in the shortcode by="location" is used the logged in user cannot see their own shifts.
- BUG: Setup on new installs might fail under certain configurations.
- Now comments are added to notifications emails too [Premium].
- BUG: In the bulk form when opening and closing the subforms several times their inputs became disabled.
- Added a setting if to show the shift end time.
- Made the shift view text a bit larger.
- New shortcode parameter to hide certain user interface elements.
- BUG: Shift Release and Shift Pickup settting menu items were not localized.
- BUG: Fatal error when trying to delete a user account.
- BUG: "User deleted" message was not localized.
- Remember the last choice of the "Comment Visible To" option.
- Modified the timepicker library to avoid possible conflicts with other libraries from other plugins.
- BUG: Fatal error on new setup caused by a change in ver. 3.0.1
- Fixed the help page on shortcode parameter within the admin panel.
- Added a few more params options for the shortcode.
- BUG: There was an empty, unlabelled drop down box in the admin area in Configuration > Settings
- Modified the datepicker library to avoid possible conflicts with other libraries from other plugins.
- The add links in calendar now lead directly to the shift creation, without the shift/timeoff selection. Timeoffs are now created in the Timeoff Requests area.
- In the shift create form the location and the time are now on the same page to make the process quicker.
- Fixed success message after timeoff creation (was saying "shift added" rather than "timeoff added").
- Remember the last choice of several options in the shift creation form: status, skip notification email.
- Re-added shift templates.
- Added draft shifts for the admin todo page.
- Added the "With All" shift group action to perform bulk actions on all displayed shifts.
- Added an option to assign multiple staff members at once when creating a shift.
- Added a red triangle for open shifts for easier notice.
- A new major ShiftController update, almost completely reworked!
- A small fix in code that might break redirects with WP high error reporting level.
- A fix for multiple staff ids in the shortcode param.
- A slight optimization on login/logout internal process.
- BUG: On plugin complete uninstall might delete all WordPress tables.
- BUG: (Pro Versions) multiple shifts could be deleted when deleting a single shift created as non recurring from shift edit form in the Delete tab.
- An option to color code shifts in the calendar according to the location
- Added the "within" parameter option for the shortcode to display shifts that are on now and within the specified tim
- Configuration option to set min and max values for time selection dropdowns, that will speed up time selection.
- Drop our database tables on plugin uninstall (delete) from WordPress admin. Also release the license code for the Pro version so it can be reused in another installation.
- Backend appearance restyled for a closer match to the latest WordPress version.
- Cleaned and optimized some files thus reducing the package size.
- Shift pickup links didn't work for staff members on the everyone schedule page (shortcode page).
- JavaScript error when staff picking up free shifts from everyone schedule page (shortcode page).
- A fix in session handling function that lead to an error on first user access of the system.
- Archived staff members are now not showing in the stats display if they have no shifts during the requested period.
- In the shortcode if you need to filter more than one location or employee, now you can supply a comma separated list of ids, for example [shiftcontroller staff="1,8″].
- Also if you do not want to show the list of locations in the shortcode page, you can supply the location parameter as 0 so it will list shifts for all locations [shiftcontroller location="0″]
- Added more options for shortcode to filter by location or by staff, as well as specify the start and end date and how many days to show.
- Extended options for the shift notes premium module, now one can define who can see the shift note – everyone, staff members, this shift staff or admin only.
- If more than one locations are available in the "Everyone Schedule" then it first asks to choose a location first.
- Added the description field for locations. If specified, it will be given in the "Everyone Schedule" and "Shift Pick Up" parts if more than one location available.
- Redesigned the "Everyone Schedule" (wall) page view so that lists all upcoming shifts in a simple list. It is supposed to eliminate all the compatibility issues for the shortcode page display as the calendar output would look cumbersome under certain themes.
- If there are open shifts in more than one location, an employee is asked to choose a location first, then the available shifts in this location ara displayed.
- Minor fixes and code updates
- Added an option to supply parameters to the shortcode to define the range (week or month) and the starting date, please check out the Configuration > Shortcode page
- Minor fixes and code updates
- Minor fixes and code updates
- BUG: In the schedule list view, if you choose filtering by location, the shifts for all locations were still displayed as if there were no filter applied.
- BUG: When creating a new shift, if you selected one or several employees to assign right now, but there was a validation error (no location selected, or the start and end times were incorrect), it showed a database error.
- Fixed an issue with shortcode that might be moving into infinite loop for admin and staff users
- An option to color code shifts in the calendar according to the employee
- An option to hide the shift end time for the employees
- An option to disable shift email notifications
- Minor fixes and code updates
- Reworked the calendar view controls – now the list and stats display can also be filtered by location and by employee.
- Fix with the timezone assignment
- Locations are sorted properly in the form dropdown
- Wrong employee name when a time off was requested by an employee
- when synchronizing users from WordPress you can append the original WP role name to the staff name
- Configure which user levels can take shifts
- Assign employees to shifts from the calendar view
- Fixed a problem with irrelevant email notifications
- Select multiple staff members or define the required number of employees when creating a shift
- Fixed problem when shortcode was not working properly
- Shift history module
- More convenient schedule views (show calendar by location and by staff member, week or month view)
- Updated view framework (Bootstrap 3)
- Minor code optimizations and bug fixes
- Login log module
- BUG: Select All in Timoffs and Shift Trades admin views were not working
- BUG: Repeating options were not active in the Premium version
- Minor code optimizations and bug fixes
- Fixed bug when email notification was not sent after publishing just one shift
- Remove location label if just one location is configured
- Shift notes view in the calendar
- Archived users do not appear in the dropdown list when creating or editing shifts
- Shifts month calendar
- Shifts list in a table view and CSV/Excel export
- Custom weekdays for recurring shifts
- Display shifts grouped by locations
- Public employee schedule calendar and minor bug fixes
- Bug fix: error when creating a new user in the free version.
- Completely reworked calendar view and the premium version.
- Bug fixes: time display, forgotten password and password change, email notification on a new timeoff.
- Bug fixes after not complete form in setup and error after timeoff delete.
- Initial release
Thank You.


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In February, 2010, James Caviezel made his sixth pilgrimage to Medjugorje, and afterwards travelled to Vienna where he gave an interview to Christian Stelzer for the magazine Oase des Friedens. The following is taken from the Croatian translation, published in the latest edition of the Medjugorje parish magazine, Glasnik mira.
• Jim, can you tell us, how did you hear about Medjugorje?
My wife came to Medjugorje while I was in Ireland, shooting the movie "Monte Cristo." Things were not that great, although I worked seven days a week. One day she called me, and I could notice in her voice that there was a change. She started talking about Medjugorje, and how one of visionaries was about to come to Ireland. I interrupted her by saying: "Listen, I really have some serious stuff to do. I am not able now to go into anything with any of the visionaries." Besides that, I thought that, as a Catholic, I didn't have to necessarily accept Lourdes or Fatima or Medjugorje. That is how I thought. I remember that in the Catholic school I attended earlier in my life, when we heard about Medjugorje we were thrilled, but we soon found out that the local bishop was objecting and considered the apparitions to be false, and so we lost our interest immediately.
The visionary Ivan Dragicevic came to Ireland, and I knew straightaway that I would not have time for him, since I had to work all the time. One day my movie partner Jim Harris wasn't feeling well, so I got the day off, and I was able to attend an apparition. I stood at the very back of the packed church, and I wasn't quite sure about what was going on. But when the man next to me in his wheelchair fell down on his knees at the time of the apparition, I was deeply moved. I thought, This handicapped man, despite all of his pains, is kneeling down on the cold stone floor, and he is praying! Today I realize only God could have known me so well. He knew where exactly He needed to touch me to get my attention!
Although it might sound strange, on the following Sunday, I got another day off, and I was able to meet with Ivan, which was my wife's special wish. During the time of apparition, I knelt close to him, and I said in my heart, "Okay, here I am. I am ready. Do with me what you want." In the same moment, I felt as something was fulfilling me. It was very simple, and yet unique. When I got up, tears were running down my cheeks, and I started to cry with all of my heart.
Ivan told me, "Jim. Man always finds time for what he loves. If somebody who doesn't have any time finds a girlfriend and falls in love with her, he will always find time for her. People don't have time for God, because they do not love Him." And he continued, "God is inviting you to pray with the heart."
I asked him: "How am I supposed to do that?"
"By starting to pray," he replied. In that moment the doors of my heart were opened. I couldn't have even dreamed of that being possible. We went to a restaurant, and I must admit that the wine and food I had was never as tasteful as on that particular night.
Something started to change within me. My wife wanted to teach me on many occasions in the past how to pray the rosary, but I always refused to learn. Now I wanted to pray, but I did not know exactly how to do that. I just felt that my heart was opened. One morning, as I was driving to work, I said to the driver who was taking me for filming every day, "I don't know how you feel about this, but I would want to start to pray the rosary." To my amazement, he just replied, "Okay, let's pray."
In the warm light of love that I felt within me, I was able to realize where I really was, how many temptations I had, what my feelings were, how weak I was, and how strictly I judged other people.
• When did you come to Medjugorje for the first time?
After filming was completed, and that was in Malta, I decided to come to Medjugorje. When I was 20, an inner voice would say to me that I should become an actor. When I spoke about that with my father, he used to say, "If God wants something of you it is for you to become a priest. Why would He want you to become an actor?" I did not understand either at that time.
Again, I asked myself the same question, Does God want me to become an actor to make lots of money and to become rich? I was aware of the imbalance in the world between those who have a lot and those who barely have enough for survival, and I knew that was not what God wanted. And was I to make a choice to seek wealth, which does not provide permanent happiness, or to serve God, Who wants to guide my life?
At that time, Medjugorje reminded me of Bethlehem, and I thought, Just as Jesus was born in a small place, in the same way, the Mother of God is appearing in a poor village in between hills. Those four days I spent in Medjugorje, at that time, were my turning point. In the very beginning, I was still amazed at how much people prayed in Medjugorje. Everything reminded me of basketball camp. There you do not play just one match a day, but continually. The same as in school, where you do not read just once a day, but always, repeatedly. In those first days in Medjugorje, I felt inner unrest while I was praying, because I was not used to praying that much, and I was asking God to help me. After four days the only thing I wanted to do was to pray. Whenever I prayed, I felt connected with God. That was an experience I would wish for every Catholic! Maybe as a child, I felt something similar, and I forgot about it. Now it was given to me again.
The same experience continued back at home. In our family, we live the sacraments together. As we drive the kids to school, we pray the rosary together. Sometimes when I don't start to pray, my son starts first.
When I came to Medjugorje for the second time, I expected to have those first, initial experiences again, but it was different. After lunch one day, some pilgrims invited me to go with them to visit Fr. Jozo Zovko in Siroki Brijeg. That was also my wife's desire. I didn't know Fr. Jozo personally, but I was very much impressed by all stories I heard about him. I met with him. He laid his hands on my shoulders. I laid mine on his shoulders. He laid his hands on my head. I laid mine on his head. In that moment, I felt the words within me: "I love you, my brother. This man loves God." Fr. Jozo spontaneously turned towards his interpreter and asked her who I was and said that he wanted to talk to me. That was beginning of a lasting friendship.
That was the time immediately after we finished shooting the "Passion," and around that time, I was able to experience all conflicting forces within me regarding that movie.
• Can you tell us why you felt that way, and what was the connection between that movie and Medjugorje?
You are probably familiar with expression "to cross the Rubicon." That means it is not possible to go back. You reach the point of no return. The "Passion" was such a Rubicon for me. When shooting started, I was 33 years old, just like Jesus. I always wondered if I was even worthy to play Jesus. Ivan Dragicevic encouraged me and said that God does not always necessarily choose the best, which is something he sees in his own situation. If it wasn't for Medjugorje, I wouldn't have ever agreed to take that part, because it was in Medjugorje that my heart opened to prayer and to the sacraments. If I wanted to play Jesus, I knew I needed to be very close to Him. Every day I went to Confession, and I attended Eucharistic Adoration. Mel Gibson was coming to Holy Mass, as well, with the condition that Holy Mass was in Latin. That was good because in that way I learned Latin.
There were always new temptations from which I needed to defend myself, and in those inner battles, I used to feel great inner peace – for instance, in the scene where the Mother of God approaches me, and I say to her: "Look, I make everything anew." We repeated that scene four times, and I felt every time that I was standing too much in the forefront. Then somebody hit the cross, and my left shoulder was dislocated. Due to that sudden and sharp, intense pain, I lost balance, and I fell under the weight of the cross. I hit the dusty ground with my face, and blood gushed forth suddenly from my nose and mouth. I repeated the words Jesus said to His mother: "Look, I make everything anew." My shoulder was in incredible pain when I took the cross again and felt how precious it was. At that point, I stopped acting, and you could only see Jesus. He came forward as to the answer to my prayer: "I want people to see you, Jesus, not me!"
Thanks to continuous prayer of the rosary – I can't begin to tell how many rosaries I said during the time of shooting – I was able to experience a special grace. I knew I wasn't supposed to use bad language. I knew I couldn't be rude if I wanted to say something to members of the crew. Most of them did not know about Medjugorje. They were all great actors, and we were lucky to get them. But how was I to bring Medjugorje to them, if not by my own life? Medjugorje, for me, means to live the sacraments and be in unity with the Church. Thanks to Medjugorje, I started to believe that Jesus was really present in the Eucharist and that He forgives my sins. Through Medjugorje, I experienced how the rosary is a powerful prayer and what a gift we have when we attend Holy Mass every day.
How could I help other people to increase their faith in Jesus? I realized that this can only happen if Jesus is present in me through the Eucharist, and so people would see Jesus through my life. When we were shooting the scene of the Last Supper, I had an inner pocket made in my clothes where I placed some relics of saints and a relic of Christ's Cross. I had a strong desire for Jesus to be really present, and so I asked the priest to expose the Blessed Sacrament. At first, he did not want to do that, but I was persistent in asking, because I was positive that people would recognize Christ more, if I myself was looking at Him. The priest was standing with the Blessed Sacrament in his hands next to a cameraman, and together with him, he approached me. When people watch the movie and see a shimmer in my eyes, they are not aware that they really see Jesus, a reflection of the consecrated Host, in my eyes. The same was in the scene of the Crucifixion. The priest was there; he held the Blessed Sacrament in his hands, and I prayed all the time.
The biggest challenge in the movie was not, as I originally thought, to memorize all the texts in Latin, Aramaic, or Hebrew, but all the physical efforts I needed to overcome. During the last scene, my shoulder was sprained, and it became dislocated every time somebody hit the cross. While we filmed the scenes of the scourging, I was twice caught by those whips, and I had a 14 cm wound on my back. My lungs were full of fluid, and I had pneumonia. Chronic sleep deprivation should be added to that, since for months, I had to get up at 3:00 in the morning, because make-up would take almost eight hours.
Another special challenge was the cold weather, temperatures hardly above zero, which was especially difficult to endure in the Crucifixion scene. My whole costume was made of one single piece of light fabric. While we were shooting the last scene, the clouds were very low and lightning struck the cross to which I was tied. Suddenly everything was silent around me, and I felt my hair standing on edge. About 250 people who were around me saw my whole body being illuminated, and they all saw fire on the left and on the right side of me. Many were shocked at what they saw.
I know that the "Passion" is movie of love, maybe one of the greatest of such movies. Jesus today is subject of many controversies, more than ever before. There are so many factors that threaten this created world, but faith in Jesus is the source of joy. I think God is calling us in a special way in this time, and we need to answer that call with our whole heart and whole body.


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Scientists have isolated a new type of energy-burning fat cell in adult humans, which they say may have therapeutic potential for treating obesity.
Called "beige fat," the cells are found in scattered pea-sized deposits beneath the skin near the collarbone and along the spine in adult humans. Because this type of fat can burn off calories – rather than store them, as "white fat" cells do – beige fat cells might spawn new therapies for obesity and diabetes, according to researchers led by Bruce Spiegelman, Stanley J. Korsmeyer Professor of Cell Biology and Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
Spiegelman is the senior author of a report published online July 12 in Cell.
The study found that beige fat is genetically distinct from "brown fat," which also burns calories to generate heat. Brown fat is found in small mammals and human infants, where it protects against harm from cold. White fat, on the other hand, stores calories, and excess white fat contributes to obesity.
Existence of this third type of fat (in addition to white and brown) had been proposed in a paper by Spiegelman's lab in 2008, but this team is the first to isolate it and to determine its unique genetic profile. In the new report, Spiegelman's group, led by research fellow Jun Wu, also found that beige cells are specifically targeted by the hormone irisin, which muscle cells express during exercise.
In 2009, three research groups reported that the deposits found in adult humans contained brown fat, but the new research has identified them as beige fat by their genetic makeup.
"Going forward, it means that what you want to study for potential therapies are the beige fat cells in these 'hotspots' we're all walking around with," said Spiegelman.
Even in small amounts, brown and beige fat can burn large amounts of calories.
"The therapeutic potential of both kinds of brown fat cells is clear," the authors write, "as genetic manipulations in mice that create more brown or beige fat have strong anti-obesity and anti-diabetic actions." Researchers are already seeking ways to exploit human brown fat for human benefits.
Both types of fat contain energy-burning organelles called mitochondria, which contain iron and are the cause of the brown and beige hues. A key difference is that brown fat cells express high levels of UCP1 – a protein required by mitochondria to burn calories and generate heat – while beige cells normally express low levels of it. Beige cells can, however, turn on high levels of UCP1 in response to cold or certain hormones like irisin, enabling beige fat to burn calories nearly as effectively as brown fat.
Spiegelman has published a series of discoveries about the different fat cell types. Brown fat cells, he found, are born from stem cell precursors that also produce muscle cells. Beige fat, however, forms within deposits of white fat cells from beige cell precursors.
Earlier this year, he reported the discovery of irisin, produced by muscular exercise, and which can convert white fat to brown fat. In the new report, Spiegelman says that irisin specifically stimulates white fat to produce beige fat. Dana-Farber has licensed both discoveries to Ember Therapeutics, a biotech company founded by Spiegelman, which plans to develop irisin as a therapy for obesity and diabetes.
The research was supported, in part, by grants from the National Institutes of Health (DK31405 and DK90861) and the American Heart Association.
Spiegelman is a shareholder of and consultant to Ember Therapeutics.
Adapted from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute news release.


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2012 Yeosu EXPO HYUNDAI MOTOR GROUP created by media artist group : Jonpasang.
Hyper-Matrix is a kinetic landscape installation created for the Hyundai Motor Group Exhibition Pavilion in Korea, the 2012 Yeosu EXPO site. The installation consists of a specially made huge steel construction to support thousands of stepper motors that control 320x320mm cubes that project out of the internal facade of the building. The foam cubes are mounted to actuators that move them forward and back by the steppers, creating patterns across the three-sided display. Comprised of what at first appear to be three blank white walls, Hyper-Matrix installation quickly comes to life as thousands of individual cubic units forming a field of pixels begin to move, pulsate, and form dynamic images across the room, creating infinite number of possibilities in the vertical, 180 degree, landscape. In addition, as the boxes are arranged at only 5mm narrow intervals, the wall can also be a nice moving screen for the images projected on to it.
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Nipobow Ko
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Nipobow Ko, also known in the fandom as D'Lorn, is a furry lifestyler and fursuiter from Baraboo, Wisconsin, U.S.A. As of 2006, he is a full time student at UW-Parkside, located in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
Nipbow's character is a lop-earred fabbit (fox/rabbit hybrid) modeled mostly after his behaviour and personality, including his subconscious personality. He is often on various forums as his character, and rarely on chat systems. He is on Second Life as DLorn Fielding.
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