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A couple of weeks ago, I was attending #BIF8 conference, organized by Saul Kaplan and his team. I was there 2 years ago, when Keith Yamashita from SY Partners did his fabulous talk on "Should I Dare to be Great?"
With hindsight, I found that that 2010 edition of BIF was better curated and had a more consistent level of high quality of speakers or "story tellers" as they are called at BIF.
Whereas 2010 was great, 2012 was good. This year, I was missing that consistency in quality. But there was clearly a theme emerging from the different talks. Initially it was a bit blurry for me what the theme was: companies are communities, creators of serendipity, human community movements, platforms for movements,… ?
In any case, it was clear that something deep is changing about what a company is all about. It made me think about the 1997 (yes, 1997!) book "The Living Company: Growth, Learning and Longevity in Business" by Arie De Geus (Amazon Affiliate Link).
The foreword by Peter Senge highlighted the big shift that is described in this wonderful book:
"The contrast between these two views – thinking about a company as a machine for making money versus a living being – illuminates a host of core assumptions about management and our organizations"
"Seeing a company as a living being leads to seeing its members as human work communities"
Most decision makers in our organizations have and still are trained in the model of the organization as a money making machine. Because this model almost completely ignores the fact that organizations are made out of people, human beings of flesh and blood and emotions and not "human resources" that you can just move around on the check board like physical resources, this has created in many companies an almost toxic environment with little room for happiness.
"Corporate health is experienced as work stress, endless struggles for power and control, and the cynicism and resignation that results from a work environment that stifles rather than releases human imagination, energy and commitment. The day-to-day climate of most organizations is probably more toxic than we care to admit, whether or not these companies are in the midst of obvious decline"
In addition, most of our marketing and strategy managers have been trained in fundamentals like the 4 P's, the 5 C's, etc by management gurus like Drucker and Kottler.
Andrew Stein recently posted a blog in defense of Kottler and Drucker, in essence claiming that the marketing fundamentals have not changed.
I tend to disagree, and here is why.
An important piece of the why argumentation came my way during the #BIF8 conference, by two storytellers:
- The first was Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos, the shoe company acquired my Amazon last year (one of my other heroes companies)
- The second was Susan Shuman, CEO of SY Partners, yes the same company that Keith Yamashita from "should I dare to be great?" is working for
I was really blown away by Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos (Shoes) acquired last year by Amazon.
Tony was talking about Zappos' Downtownproject and the slide deck he used was more or less the same as what is on the slideshare here
The story kicks off when Zappos was considering building a new HQ Campus like Google, Apple, Nike, Microsoft etc,
Instead of venturing in yet another megalomaniac luxury campus with everything on-site from shops, restaurants, doctors, and central central incubator garages, he decided to become deep integral part of the city fabric and to create collisions and serendipities. He is investing about 350 million USD in local start-ups, local small businesses, education, arts, culture, and residential & real estate.
It is an amazing story circling and hovering over what are probably the five or ten or whatever number of C's of the hyper-connected and learning organizations of this new era:
- Curated content
- Community (Culture of openness, Collaboration, Creativity, and optimism)
- Co-Learning, Co-Working, Co-Creation
- Collisions (Colliding communities, serendipity, etc)
- Connections
As in a real roller-coaster, Tony Hsieh took us from one sensation to another:
- "We are creating a space where innovators, dreamers, doers, and though leaders from around the world can come to share ideas to enrich the community, to inspire us all. Call it a residency program"
- "We want to make you/us smarter"
- "Culture is to a company what Community is to a City See"
- "Vibrant, interesting and community focused"
- "Short term ROI vs long term ROC Return on Community"
- "A learning community" aka "A learning organization" aka "An agile community"
And then it suddenly crystalized for me:
"Companies are Movements"
The sort of movements to change the world.
I reached out to one of the books in my library; very recent one about change management.
Or should I say transformation management?
The book is by Jurgen Appelo and is titled How to Change the World: Change Management 3.0 where he proposed four dimensions for change:
- Dance with the system: Plan, do, check, act
- Mind the people: Ability, Knowledge, Desire, Awareness, Reinforcement
- Stimulate the network (instigators, early adopters, early majority, late majority, laggards)
- Change/Transform the environment: Information, Identity, incentives, infrastructure, institutions
It's all about being part of the system you are trying to change. But change or incremental innovation is not good enough anymore in this fast moving world. The keyword is "transformation": bringing into a new state where there is no option back, a risk to fall back into the old toxic habits. It is about a humanization of our organizations; a transformation at deep people level.
This is where my other #BIF8 hero comes in: Susan Shuman @susansyp, CEO of SY Partners.
She did not talk about the executives and the middle managers.
She talked about
"the forgotten middle"
the people who actually do the work in companies.
Some participants to the conference found she was too much in pitching mode, pitching her company. That may be true, but the story of what her company does is a very strong one.
I love the tagline "we help companies design their future". This is a transformation story of Seeing, Believing, Thinking and Acting in meaningful and impactful new ways:
- See = Fore-sighting, seeing the options vs constraining the options
- Believe = deep sense of what is possible
- Think = new solutions, prototyping, fail fast and wisely
- Act = liberated in pursuing value driven opportunities
It's about transformation management (not "change" management). It's about a new way for creating strategy, grounded in complexity thinking and opening the options versus closing them, seeing through the lens of possibility not the lens of constraints, making visible and enabling options for collaboration.
The sort of collaboration and learning experiences that enable greatness, viral change from the top and from deep in the company fabric. It enables a modern way to look at strategy, an emergent strategy, where we not only look at short term revenue streams, but also for new capabilities and strengths. A different way of content curation, facilitation and design, leading to new collisions of expertise, and long lasting transformations.
The sort of collaboration that exists in great team where "duo's" or "triads" of highly complementary people create greatness. Teams don't just happen.
Teams are designed
You have to design for team magic
That's also why moving around "human resources" from one team to another does not move around the greatness with it.
It's about a new set of tools to let teams perform at their very best, a network of individuals dedicated to each other's success, a tribe of humans that envision, believe in, and fight for greatness. It's about a new practice for value creation.
It is not a coincidence that Innotribe's updated mission statement includes a couple of these key components for the modern organization: "To enable collaborative innovation for the financial industry and create new value for the people it serves"
Companies are movements
Movements for greatness
Innotribe enables those movements and transformations.


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Gothenburg, Sweden, 8 April 2015: The SKF Group will publish its results for the first quarter on 17 April 2015 and welcomes investors, analysts and members of the media to take part in a conference call, which will be held in English, at 09:00 (CET), 08:00 (UK time).
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2 Runs, 2 Ejections
For the ninth time this season, Charlie had the "regular" starting eight in the lineup. For the umpteenth time this season, the offense couldn't produce enough runs for a win.
Two runs in 16 innings produced a second straight defeat. Two more ejections of Phillies by this umpiring crew. Heck, the umpires had as many ejections last night as the Phillies had runs.
When you have long extra inning games, many times strange things happen. The Astros scored two runs in the top of the 16th without hitting a ball out of the infield.
Cole continues to pitch great and lose. In 12 of his 26 starts, the offense has scored two runs or less 12 times. When the Phillies scored in the sixth inning, it was the first run in 25 innings while Cole was on the mound. Since his last win on July 11, he has eight winless starts and an offense that has produced 11 runs.
Most visiting teams wind up on the losing end at Citizens Bank Park. Not Houston. Astros have the best winning percentage among the enemy (.667) thanks to a 14-7 record.
Phillies have trailed the Atlanta Braves by 2.5 innings every day since August 16. When we win, so do the Braves. When we lose, so do the Braves.
What's up Doc?
Happ versus Doc Halladay tonight in game 3 of the four-game series. Series ends at 1:05 Thursday afternoon.
Prior to that game, Phillies will salute Doc and his family for his May 29th perfect game. Senator Jim Bunning, who threw a perfect game for the Phillies in 1964, will be there to make one of the numerous gift presentations.
The Phillies are the only National League franchise to have two pitchers throw perfect games.
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If you caught Access Hollywood's Guest Correspondent Mike Sorrentino at the Grammys, you'll know that pretty much all of Hollywood knows about "The Situation." So it should come as no surprise then, that the star of MTV's "Jersey Shore" is working on heading back home to share tales of his journey to stardom at his Staten Island alma mater.
"Yeah, supposedly I'm trying to work on possibly going back to my high school," Mike told Access Hollywood on Sunday night following his stint alongside Access' Shaun Robinson on the red carpet. "I think it's either [for] their senior week or their prom or their graduation or what have you. We're in contact with somebody in that realm to possibly speak to the kids."
So what does "The Sitch" plan to tell America's promising young minds?
"I'd probably say to them, make sure you keep doing your sit ups," he laughed, adding, "I'm joking, I'm joking.
"[I'd tell them] to pretty much believe in yourself — no matter what," he continued. "At the end of the day, stick up for yourself whether you have spiky hair, long hair, blonde hair, black hair, whatever it is, stick up for yourself and you know, go for your dreams because at the end of the day, you can pretty much accomplish anything if you put your mind to it."
As for his own accomplishments, those are set to grow as The Situation recently signed on for Season 2 of "Jersey Shore" alongside Season 1 cast mates including Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi and DJ Pauly D (Delvecchio).
"Season 2 — I'm pretty excited for," he said. "We're all pretty much friends, sort of (laughs) in real life and we all have roles and relationships, so I'm pretty excited. Everyone knows my role in that house in that whether I'm the leader, or I run the house, or what have you."
Although the full original cast has signed on for Season 2 (minus Angelina), when asked if he'd be interested in mixing up the house with a new face, Mike said he'd enjoy that.
"You know, I wouldn't mind a new roommate to maybe stir things up, you know. And we'll see because I'm pretty excited," he said. "It's definitely going to be pretty crazy because the first season was pretty crazy from start to finish."
And speaking of crazy, even the Sorrentino family is having fun with the things that have come Mike's way.
"My mom and dad are just so excited. I mean, they can't believe their little boy's [become] very, very famous, very, very quick," he said. "Between the offers and the money and the fame, it's insane. And between America, you know, I can't go out in public without people chasing me and fans screaming, 'I love you,' and you know, I love that."
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CHIPLEY � The City Council was not happy with the LaRouche Political Action Committee�s visit to Chipley.
CHIPLEY � The City Council was not happy with the LaRouche Political Action Committee�s visit to Chipley.
�People were knocking on my door before I was even up,� said Councilman Ellis Reed at Tuesday night�s City Council meeting. �I told them, �I�m on the move!��
Volunteers with the Lyndon LaRouche Political Action Committee were in Chipley on Monday in front of the Post Office, calling for the impeachment of President Barack Obama, the passage HR 129, and selling memberships to the PAC.
Part of their display included a sign reading �Impeach Obama� and a photo of the president wearing a Adolf Hitler mustache.
Frank Mathis, a LaRouche PAC representative from New Jersey, said they were touring the Panhandle. �This is where (U.S. Representatives) Jeff Miller and Steve Southerland are,� Mathis said. �In 2011, Miller said he would not support restoring the Glass-Steagall Act. We want to know what he thinks now.�
Mathis said the Glass-Steagall Act was enacted in the 30s and protected banks and bank customers, but it was overturned in 1999 by President Bill Clinton and a Republican Congress.
The group�s platform supports reinstating the Glass-Steagall Act, which limited commercial banks� investment activities. HR 129, if approved, will bring that back and protect Americans, Mathis said.
�That paved the way for the meltdown in 2007,� Mathis said.
�Lyndon LaRouche and LaRouche PAC are what stand between you and an otherwise inevitable collapse of civilization,� the PAC�s website states.
City Council members, City Adminstrator Dan Miner, and Police Chief Kevin Crews all received phone calls about the LaRouche volunteers, who were soliciting donations and selling memberships on the sidewalk in front of the Chipley Post Office.
�Every time we went down there, they started quoting federal laws and Supreme Court rulings,� Miner said. �If we make a decision, we want to make sure it is the right one.�
Miner said the LaRouche PAC had been travelling across the Panhandle, stopping in cities and seeking donations. �One day they were in Bonifay, and the next they were in Tallahassee,� Miner said. �You can bet they have done this enough to know all the loop holes in the law.�
�Our ordinances don�t really have the teeth in them to let us enforce them,� said Police Chief Crews. �Normally, when we arrest someone, we use the state statute, and we�re dealing with criminals.�
Miner said toward the end of the day, he and Crews had decided that arresting the LaRouche representatives was really the only way the city could respond, and that had the potential of opening the city up to a lawsuit.
�Ultimately, we made the decision we did to keep the city from being sued,� Crews said. �They were hiding behind federal laws to do what they were doing.�
�I contacted our attorney and asked her to look into it,� Miner said. City Attorney Michelle Taggart said she was researching the situation for the city.
�When she finds out what can be done, I think we should bring this ordinance back to the council and fix it,� said Councilman Kevin Russell.
Councilman Reed said he saw one person write a check to the LaRouche people for $200. He asked for a copy of the membership form that Mathis was having donors complete, but was refused a copy.
�I was there for about two hours, and every time they got a donor, he would fold that form up and put it in his hip pocket, then he would put the check in his front pocket,� Reed said. �Then they would laugh about it.�
�I just want the people of Chipley to know that this council does not support anyone degrading the President of the United States,� said Mayor Linda Cain.
�I think it�s time the council looks at the laws of the city,� Council Member Karen Rustin said. �If we�re going to write ordinances, we need to have the teeth in them to back them up.�
�When we get something from the attorney, we can look at that ordinance and go from there,� Councilman Lee Dell Kennedy said.
�We�ll be ready if they come back,� the mayor said.


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Welcome to the new and improved Dark Horse Observatory Web site. I have made use of a professional web design and hosting service. The site runs with a database behind it which now allows me to easily assign an image to multiple categories. This should help my visitors find what they are looking for more easily.
The original intent has not changed. This web site was created to share the images that I have taken myself or have collaborated on. It is my hope that it provides my visitors with both aesthetic pleasure and with new knowledge. I plan to share some of my learnings along the way as I make progress in mastering this challenging hobby. Not all the pictures are ready for display on the NASA APOD site and some are pretty poor by my current standards. I leave them on the site so that you can see where I came from as well as where I have progressed. If you are interested in starting this hobby, I think that it will be comforting to see how humble beginnings can grow. I intend that this site will grow, so please return often to see what is new.
If you are wondering about the name, Dark Horse Observatory, or the logo I offer this explanation. It has at least three levels of meaning to me. The first, as you can see from the logo, is that it reflects the Horsehead nebula, which has always been one of my favorite objects. Second , the checkerboard pattern in the background is intended to reflect my interest in chess, not to mention that a black knight resembles a dark horse. Finally, I thought that it was a long shot (another expression for this is "a dark horse") that I would ever get an observatory. But as you can see, dreams do come true. Bottom line, I liked the name and I liked the logo that I designed and they go well together! I hope you take some enjoyment from this site. 21 August 2008


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If you are on a budget or looking to get on one, tracking your finances plays a major role in how successful your budget will be. A personal finance spreadsheet is a great way to keep track of your income and expenses. By using a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet or a Google docs spreadsheet you can easily see exactly how much you are spending and how much you are saving each month.
The great thing about personal budgeting spreadsheets is they can easily be modified to fit your budget. You can enter the exact categories you use monthly for your income and your expenses. These categories can be really detailed such as having individual credit cards listed by name or they can be broad such as having one group named credit cards for all your credit card bills.


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text: Aging IssuesThe idea of living out your life enjoying the "Golden Years" while fishing, golfing, traveling, etc., has faded from possibility in most boomers' minds. Instead, we wonder about how we can pay for health insurance, will our retirement money last until we die, how long will we have to work, will social security be around to help with income, will I be a burden to my children, will Medicare still be in existence, will I need to move out of my house into an assisted living arrangement, etc., etc., and even more etc. People are now living longer through the development of new medications and medical procedures forcing us to face issues that many of our parents and grandparents did not have to face. We are now up against different environmental factors that were previously not a concern, i.e., global warming. Health issues such as heart disease, diabetes, cancer, depression, dementia, and nutrition are now more under control than ever before; allowing elders to focus on other issues that are more out of their control. Issues, like financial abuse, have now become more prevalent as we age. With an estimated 5 million elder financial abuse cases each year, and with only 1 in 25 actually being reported, it is no wonder that financial abuse is a major concern in their lives. Living through decades of change, struggling to get through life's hardships, and needing to face our own mortality has often forced elders to be skeptical about life. In reality, today's elders, just as in the past, want life to be positive, people to be trustworthy, and everything to "work out." Yet, with the many "other" non-health related issues mentioned above, older folks have become susceptible to the various opportunities that scammers come up with that sound good and thus feed into the somewhat "Pollyannaish" mentality and can spell financial ruin for far too many elders. As we age, we often seem to forget to be on our guard for the scam artist who can so readily come up with a new version of a well-used scam. The "it's-to-good-to-be-true" scenario seems to hold course more often than not, and even when told to have the "buyer beware" attitude, these slick scammers very often find their prey willing and ready to give up all they worked so hard to obtain to someone they not only don't know, but also who present no hard evidence of the quality of their company or their products/services. Fraud and identity theft (I've lived through identity theft three times – no fun ride there) are here to stay and as such, we must protect ourselves from this form of abuse. Below, courtesy of www.elderresponseteam.com are a few contacts to know if you feel you or an elder close to you thinks you/they may have been a victim of identity theft or financial abuse: Contact all creditors and let them know of the situation. Contact the Federal Trade Commission at 1-877-IDTHEFT. Call the three credit bureaus (fraud division). Equifax, 1-800-525-6285. Experian, 1-888-397-3742. TransUnion, 1-800-680-7289. Alert all your banks. Contact your local police. Contact your attorney. As always, being proactive is the best way to safeguard against financial abuse, and any other issues that may be lurking in the darkness to run havoc with one's life. On a more somber note, I would like to personally send my deepest sympathy to Phyllis Rosen's family at the recent loss of Phyllis. Not only was Phyllis one of our first franchise owners, but she was Visiting Angels biggest cheerleader, and a very good friend to all who knew her. Phyllis will be missed in so many ways . . .


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Canada is the second largest country in the world; the land area of our country is almost 10 million Km2. What is often forgotten is that our country also includes more than seven million Km2 of ocean and more than 200,000 Km of coastline!
We utilize the ocean for many purposes and we enjoy a wealth of benefits from it. Unfortunately, the way we use the ocean can often be harmful to wildlife and wild habitats. The use of the ocean, its resources and its aquatic inhabitants and its living and non-living resources, is unavoidable. What is avoidable is the careless and unsustainable use of the ocean and this is what we work toward.


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To save money, walk a bit farther
Bus stop changes worry some folks
Students in the Northside Independent School District may have to tie their shoelaces and trudge a little farther to catch the bus to school next year, a change that concerns some parents.
After watching her son Josarrio Mendoza climb the stairs into the rumbling yellow bus heading to his pre-kindergarten class at Driggers Elementary last week, mother Gina Gonzalez said moving the bus stop farther away could be a safety issue.
"I feel that, because of their age, it's kind of dangerous because they tend to run," Gonzalez said.
Last month, Northside's board of trustees voted to chop $2 million from next year's transportation budget. The cut — part of a package of cost-saving measures totaling $61.4 million — is equivalent to decreasing this year's transportation budget by more than 6 percent. Northside and other area districts are scaling back their budgets in anticipation of state cuts to education funding next school year.
Northside plans to increase the distance a student would have to walk to the bus stop from 0.1 of a mile to 0.2 of a mile for pre-kindergarten and elementary pupils, said Brian Woods, the district's deputy superintendent. Middle and high school students, who walk up to 0.2 of a mile, may walk up to 0.35 of a mile next year. Even after the changes, Northside's home-to-stop distance will still be shorter than some others in the area.
The district transports about 60 percent of its students, which means about 60,000 students could be affected by the change as they ride to class on Northside's fleet of about 800 buses.
Other area school districts, such as Judson ISD, Southside ISD and Schertz-Cibolo-Universal City ISD, have also considered altering the distance to some bus stops next year, which may mean some students will walk farther.
Texas school districts are not required to operate a transportation system for students, said Suzanne Marchman, spokeswoman for the Texas Education Agency. Regardless, when Northside Superintendent John Folks discussed increasing distances to bus stops with board members last month, he acknowledged that the move might rankle some parents.
But making the trek on foot a little longer for students means Northside can eliminate some bus stops and shorten the time it takes a driver to complete the route. In some instances, the district may be able to consolidate routes and eliminate about two dozen, Woods said.
All of these changes equate to less time the district has to keep buses running and less time it has to pay drivers. The goal is to create three-tiered routes in which the same driver in the same bus picks up elementary, then middle, then high school students.
The district plans to reduce the number of bus drivers next year through attrition and may not have to buy as many new buses, which cost about $85,000 each.
For next year, Woods said, the district has asked some elementary school principals to be able to accept and supervise students at 7 a.m., 15 minutes earlier than the current drop-off time. The change means buses will have 15 more minutes to complete a secondary school route afterward.
Updated bus schedules and routes will be posted on the district's website in early August, according to a district news release.
Pre-k mom Kelly Sueltenfuss said she feared increased risk of students potentially coming into contact with child predators if the bus stop is moved farther from home.
Woods said the district would address safety concerns as they arise.
After cheerfully picking up and dropping off 10 Driggers pre-k students, Northside bus driver Sonia Garcia said, "If it were my son or daughter, I wouldn't mind them walking another block."
Another along Garcia's route agreed. Lisa Reyes, a baby sitter who takes a pre-k student to the bus stop each day, said the change might mean both of them get a little more exercise.
"I don't think the transportation issue will have as big an impact as cutting teachers," Reyes said. "We'll be fine. We'll walk."


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|Acceptance and OCD
|Written by Administrator
|Thursday, 14 April 2011 12:51
Acceptance and OCD
by Frederick Penzel, Ph.D.
Those of you reading this newsletter probably think a lot about "change." That is, changing your compulsive behaviors, changing your obsessive thinking, changing the way you live, etc. Change is a fact of life. We all are in some state of change at any given time, whether we realize it or not. In many treatments for OCD, there is also a constant emphasis upon change. With all this changing or thoughts about changing going on, it would be very easy to overlook something equally important and without which change would not and could not happen. This is something called acceptance.
Acceptance means agreeing to something, believing in it, and viewing it as true or real. Accepting something doesn't mean liking it or grudgingly giving in to it. There are many things whose existence we accept that we do not like. OCD is a good example. There are many out there who suffer with the disorder who simply cannot acknowledge or accept that they have it, or that it is really having a very negative impact on their lives. Typically, when it comes to their disorder, these people do not change very much. If they finally do go for therapy, they cannot seem to bring themselves to follow through with treatment. The psychoanalyst Carl Jung once said, "We cannot change anything unless we accept it."
Much of what you need to know about acceptance and change (and therapy in general) is summed up in the Serenity Prayer (familiar to those who go to AA meetings):
God grant me the serenity to
Accept the things I cannot change,
The courage to change the things I can,
And the wisdom to know the difference.
I sometimes think that the mental-health field has become obsessed with the idea of change. This would be fine if we care givers could change everything about the disorders of the people who come to see us for help. Actually, there is a whole list of things we cannot change or help you change. For instance, we cannot presently change the following facts:
- You have OCD.
- OCD is chronic - it won't simply go away on its own.
- You will have unpleasant obsessive thoughts and will sometimes respond to them using misguided compulsive solutions.
- Others will have a right to live free of your symptoms, and do not have to participate in, or cooperate with them.
- No one can "make" you better. You have to learn to help yourself with informed guidance.
- You will never "perfect" your symptoms, that is, getting all your compulsions "just right," and still being able to live like everyone else.
- As part of your illness, you may have problems figuring out how risky certain things are or how responsible you are for others.
- You had no choice in having OCD. It is neither fair nor unfair, it just happens to people according to the laws of chance.
- Getting well takes time and patience, and is hard work.
- In order to confront your disorder, you will experience anxiety and discomfort at times.
- Progress toward recovery doesn't always go smoothly.
- Being in recovery doesn't mean you will forever be 100 percent symptom-free. Once in recovery, you will continue to work on your OCD each day, although not as inten-sively as time goes on.
- You can slip sometimes and still keep your recovery.
- You may have lost some previous part of you life to the disorder and may not be able to get it back.
When you don't accept any or all of the above, what generally follows is some type of emotional disturbance such as anger, anxiety or depression. My own observation is that these disturbances then lead to bringing about the opposite of what you really want - you create a paradox. Some good examples of the kinds of paradoxes people create are seen among people who -
- are so angry and upset simply about having OCD that the stress they create makes their symptoms worse;
- want to get well through a quick fix without having to confront their symptoms, or feel anxious and so don't improve and end up feeling even more discomfort;
- want those close to them to help them feel less anxious by cooperating with compulsions, which ends up driving these people away, makes them upset and angry and causes them to withhold their support for the sufferer;
- unrealistically expect that in recovery they will never have a lapse or symptom flare-up, and when they do, get so depressed and angry at themselves that they have an even worse setback; and
- are so upset about having lost part of their lives to OCD, and they lose even more time due to the depressed and angry mood they create within themselves.
In actuality, change and acceptance are not exclusive of each other. They are linked together. Acceptance can actually be one of the most effective ways of bringing about change. The biggest problems within OCD are the sufferer's misguided and illogical strategies for coping with obsessive thoughts - what we refer to as compulsions. Compulsions can only provide short-term relief from anxiety Over time, and through habit, they become the problem itself. Becoming a more accepting person would include letting go of the unwinnable struggle to control obsessions via compulsions, and turning to more effective solutions, such as behavior therapy and medication.
So how does one become more accepting? One way of achieving acceptance is to truly understand that many things in life cannot always be exactly the way we want. They may only be the way they are. We human being are very wishful creatures, and while there is nothing wrong with wanting things to be different, we are not in the Godlike position of being able to demand that things be as we say they must be. Resisting such demands is especially difficult for those with OCD, as they often have difficulty in the way they try to over-control themselves, people, and things in their lives. Remember that acceptance doesn't mean liking something, but just seeing it as what is real.
Another path to acceptance would be through living in the present. By this I mean not looking backward toward the past. Some insist that things shouldn't have happened the way they did. Other OCD sufferers often sit and continually obsess about past events, agonizing about what might or might not have happened, and whether or not they were responsible. You cannot change the past.
The other side of this is not living in the future. People with OCD tend to use the phrase "what if" a lot. They anxiously waste time trying to predict or control future events to prevent harm from coming to themselves or others. This, of course, is fruitless, as obviously no one can predict the future or prepare for every possible outcome.
All you can reasonably expect to do is to concentrate upon living in the present and do the best you can to fully involve your-self in whatever you need to accomplish at any given moment. The idea is to achieve a focus that enables you to let go of all other considerations and direct all your mental and physical energies toward your goal. If you don't think you can do this, consider that when you were wrestling with your symptoms at their worst and trying to control the uncontrollable, you were already doing this, but in a negative rather than a positive way.
Finally, it is vital to have an understanding of just what it is you need to specifically accept. I propose the following list, which I call "The Five Acceptances."
1. Unconditional Self-Acceptance
Seeing yourself as an acceptable, ordinary mistake-making human being who cannot
be rated as a whole on the basis of a few selected characteristics or symptoms.
2. Unconditional Acceptance of Others
Seeing them as ordinary imperfect beings also, and understanding that they don't have to do as you say, or support your efforts if they do not choose to.
3. Accepting Your Illness and its Nature
Understanding that your symptoms are what they are; that they are chronic; that it isn't "unfair" that you have them; that as a result of them you may have poor judgement when it comes to risk and responsibility; and that they can be recovered from even if there is presently no cure.
4. Accepting the Nature of the Task of Therapy
Knowing that you are responsible for your own recovery; that therapy is hard work, takes time, and may involve discomfort; and that obsessions must be confronted and compulsions resisted.
5. Accepting the Nature of the Task of Ongoing Recovery
Learning that recovery is an active work-in-progress and something that must be practiced each day; that there may be lapses along the way; that you may have to take out time to grieve for what your illness has cost you; and that recovering means that you are now free to live in the same imperfect world facing the same problems as everyone else.
What I have outlined here may seem like a tall order, but it is achievable. Just talk with someone who has made a good recovery and you will see that they may have done most of these things without even being aware that they have names or descriptions. If you are working on the acceptance of change portion of your recovery, keep in mind the need to stubbornly refuse to quit. As the famous 18th century OCD and Tourette's sufferer Samuel Johnson said, "Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance."
If you would like to find out more about what Dr. Penzel has to say about OCD and related disorders, take a look at his self-help book - "Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders: A Complete Guide to Getting Well and Staying Well," (Oxford University Press, 2000). You can find out more about it at www.ocdbook.com
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- Acceptance and OCD
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- Call Me Irresponsible (OCD and hyperresponsibility)
- Coming To Terms With The Lost Years
- Contamination and OCD ("Stronger than Dirt")
- Do-it-Yourself Therapy: Self-Directed Treatment
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- How I Treat Violent Obsessions
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The consumerist orgy that annually masquerades as Christmas is upon us and—maddeningly awful Mariah Carey Christmas songs aside—preparing to exchange gifts can be a hassle monetarily and sentimentally. Luckily there is some consolation to the annoyance summoned by this spending spree. If you're reading this, chances are you have a few musically inclined folks on your list: Enter the vinyl record, the X-mas shopping fun-maker.
If you don't mind, I'd like to talk about myself briefly. With my LP collection in need of wrangling, last month I called a furniture maker to discuss some custom storage. "Are records back?" he asked. "Because lately I've made several cabinets for LPs." Yes, they're back. CDs are a moth-eaten middleman rendered irrelevant several years ago by the MP3. Records—which never went away for some—bided their time through the '90s, and are once again the favored physical format for music.
Records make great gifts and they're inexpensive, averaging between $5 and $50 in most stores. Below are my favorite places in Albuquerque to acquire vinyl. In addition to giving the gift of music, by shopping at these local, independently owned businesses you run little to no risk of hearing any goddamned Mariah Carey.
Charley's 33s & CDs (and vintage clothing)
7602 Menaul NE • 296-3685
Hours: Monday through Thursday 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., Friday and Saturday 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., Sunday 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
While I don't like that Charley's shrink-wraps used vinyl, preventing pre-purchase inspection (and previewing the music), the store does have an impressive selection of reissues. Plus, you can also purchase a vintage outfit to match your music's era.
Mecca Music & Books
1404 Central SW • 243-5041
Hours: They vary—call first.
Mecca is Downtown's only music store and carries a smallish but choice variety of in rock, soul, jazz, hip-hop, "
Hours: Monday 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., Sunday noon to 6 p.m.
Albuquerque's oldest independent record store moved to a new location in eastern Nob Hill earlier this year. With this change of locale seems to be increasingly excellent vinyl offerings.
Nob Hill Music
3419 Central NE • 266-4200
Hours: Wednesday through Sunday noon to 6 p.m.
One of Nob Hill's newest retail additions, this friendly shop has a little bit of everything, but specializes in rock, jazz and congeniality.
We Buy Music
5203 Lomas NE • 256-2524
Hours: Monday through Tuesday and Thursday through Saturday 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Sunday noon to 5 p.m.
We Buy Music has a large stock of blues, jazz, rock and roll, and other genres, but beware: If you buy a certain amount of records you'll be sent to a back room vault where you must dig through and pick out more for free.


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Bourbon Geranium is considered the finest type of Geranium. It comes from the island of La R?union (previously known as ?le de Bourbon), 500 miles east of Madagascar, in the Indian Ocean. The island has the ideal climate and soil conditions for production of geranium.


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Way back when I first started using Emacs, I read email with it. A friend had some script which modified his .signature file with a random quote every 30 seconds. I thought that was kind of neat, but I wanted every email to get its own, random, quote. At the time I didn't know how to get a random number in a simple shell script, so I started writing something using Emacs directly.
A random signature wasn't enough though, I then wanted to be able to have different categories of quotes and send different people quotes from those different categories. From the documentation:
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;; Sam. With this mode, upon sending a piece of mail, the email
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Magnum Photos, 60 Years
Since I have been neglecting my duties to 5B4 by spending many of my writing hours (11 pm to 2 am) attending or recovering from events during the recent Magnum 60th Anniversary Festival, I thought it appropriate to write about a small book I stumbled across during the celebrations.
Magnum Photos, 60 Years from the outside looks a bit like a day planner book with its plain white cover, gilded red page edges and black page marker ribbon. What it is in actuality is a pleasing collection of short text pieces that create a telling history of this remarkable photo agency over the past 60 years. Ironically, no photos appear anywhere in this book but considering how much has been published from Magnum members, they are not missed. We know most of the great photos by now, the story, through these short anecdotes, is now center stage.
As the first entry reads: Initiated by Robert Capa, the very first Magnum Photos meeting took place on 17 April in the restaurant of the Museum of Modern Art on West 53rd street in New York. With Capa were David "Chim" Seymour, William and Rita Vandivert and Maria Eisner. Henri Cartier Bresson and George Rodger were not present: The former was in California, the latter in Cyprus en route for Africa. The basic principles of the cooperative had already been laid down and the choice of name is said to reflect Capa's love of champagne. Magnum Photos Inc. officially came into existence on May 22, with its offices at 21 East 10th street in New York and 22 Rue de Pontoise in Paris.
Down below most entries are small notations of who, in that year, became members, left the agency, was elected President, or became a Contributor. Under the entry above it is noted that Rita Vandivert was established as the first President of Magnum.
Magnum Photos has been described as many things, part eyes of world events, part dysfunctional family, it has held together as an oasis for the rights of its photographers to hold onto their images and avoid the corruption (read: greed and gluttony) of the current and past markets towards copyright issues and ownership.
Many of the entries in this book are centered around the individual projects or books that brought each member attention on a grander scale.
It was Henri Cartier-Bresson who told Josef Koudelka to show Robert Delpire his work on the gypsies. When he was living in Czechoslovakia Koudelka had learned to love gypsy music and even tried his hand at the violin. He met a gypsy poet as well as sociologists and linguists with an interest in the gypsy lifestyle, but his reasons for photographing them lie elsewhere. "I worked on the gypsies a lot. They had a way of living that put the emphasis on the essentials. I made up a rule for myself; what I don't have, I don't need." Published by Delpire as Gitans: La fin du voyage in 1975, the book appeared the same year under the Aperture imprint as Gypsies.
Other entries address the changes the agency has undergone.
The entry for 1988 reads: The nomination of Englishman Martin Parr as a Magnum member generated particularly stormy debate within the agency. With their mix of causticity and humour, aggressive colours and tight framing, his documentary/vernacular photos of his compatriots, consumer society and globalised lifestyles were considered excessively parodic. For some members Parr's admission would mean the end of Magnum Photos, while others saw it as a great opportunity to open the agency up to "more contemporary" photography. But in the end no one walked out. "I'm shaking the pillars of the temple," Parr admitted, "and at the same time I'm proud to belong to it." He finally became a member in 1994.
The director of this interesting history project was Julian Frydman and the texts were written by Phillippe Seclier. The design by Atalante, Paris is clean and well conceived. Being sans photographs, it is as much a typographic accomplishment as a fascinating read. Unfortunately, this book was only published for the immediate and extended Magnum "family" and is not available to a wider audience.
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Liberty erases early 2-0 deficit, earns split at Stony Brook
January 12, 2014 | Hauppauge, N.Y.
Playing its second game in five weeks in a span of 15 hours at Stony Brook, Liberty University's ACHA Division I men's hockey team recovered in time to salvage a split against the Seawolves with a 5-3 victory Sunday afternoon at The Rinx in Hauppauge, N.Y.
Senior goalie Blair Bennett came off the bench to make 37 saves, allowing only one goal after Stony Brook senior forward Wes Hawkins netted back-to-back goals two minutes into the game.
"Blair played really well tonight and gave us a chance to win," Liberty Head Coach Kirk Handy said. "Blair had a huge save with about five-minutes to go. It was a game-stopper."
A day after starting the new year with a 7-4 setback, the Flames (21-4) returned to form, getting goals from five different players to earn the 300th win of Handy's 14-year career.
"The key thing for us is contribution and guys understanding the situation we were in," Handy said. "We needed a win tonight and were able to get it, even though we had a shorter lineup tonight. The guys who did play all contributed, which was great to see."
As a testament to Liberty's extremely balanced attack, the Flames managed to come out on top without getting a goal from seven of their eight leading scorers on the season. Besides senior forward and captain Andrew McCombe, the team's third-leading scorer who put Liberty up 3-2 with a follow of his own shot midway through the second period, the Flames' scoring came from sophomore forward Danny Logan, freshman defenseman Chase Harris, sophomore forward Bram Erickson, and sophomore defenseman Brandon Cox, who recorded the game-winner six minutes into the third period.
"Logan, (junior forward) Ryan Kerr and Erickson was probably our best line tonight," Handy said. "They were able to establish our style of game. They played really, really well."
Logan started the scoring for Liberty by finishing a short feed from Cox with a shot from the right circle, trimming Stony Brook's lead to 2-1 with 9:00 left in the first period. Erickson capped the scoring by beating Brendan Jones with his shot from the right wing, all but sealing the victory with 4:16 left in regulation.
A day after multiple penalties and skirmishes on the ice led to a couple ejections and three power play goals for Stony Brook (15-4-3), both teams stayed under control and were called for just seven penalties on the afternoon.
"Our discipline was a lot better tonight," Handy said. "For the most part, we stayed out of the box and that was one of the things that made the difference. We only allowed one power play goal, which was key. Our penalty kill was strong. It played really, really well."
Though fatigue was a factor on both sides, the Flames, the No. 4 team in the latest ACHA DI national rankings, had the extra burst of energy in their legs and determination in their minds to avoid being swept by the No. 9 Seawolves, as they gear up for a trip to challenge No. 1 Arizona State on Thursday.
"We played a very solid game tonight," Handy said. "The guys were able to block (Saturday's loss) from their memory and come back. They rebounded and got back to our style of game. It was great, especially after falling down two goals early, to be able to battle back and get back in the game."


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Towards a Critically Performative Foundation for InquiryHartmann, Rasmus Koss (Frederiksberg, 2014)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The thesis sets out to study regulatory innovation inside government from the perspective of user innovation and to do so in a way that is critically performative. The empirical subject matter is 'laboratories' (Da. Styringslaboratorier): a form of innovation process focused on developing 'regulatory innovations' (i.e. administrative innovations used for purposes of regulating public sector organizations) in collaboration between regulators and users. This particular form of innovation process has been the subject of considerable debate in Denmark and been suggested as a way forward in public sector modernization after New Public Management. It is, however, also an underspecified phenomenon: while it is attributed some potential, it is unclear what this potential is and what it is about laboratories that make this potential plausible. We have only vague ideas about what gets done when people do laboratories. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8978
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Understanding ERP Usage as Complex Responsive Processes of Conversations in the Daily Practices of a Special Operations ForceChristiansen, Ulrik; Kjærgaard, Annemette; Hartmann, Rasmus Koss (Frederiksberg, 2011)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Organizations are met with increasing demands for being in strategic control. According to conventional managerial wisdom, clearly defined tasks, uniform processes, thorough documentation and strategic oversight are all perceived as part and parcel of making large and unwieldy organizations manageable, transparent and efficient (Johnson, Scholes, & Whittington, 2008; Kaplan & Norton, 2008). To live up to these demands, numerous efforts have been undertaken, including the design and implementation of management information systems. These systems, as epitomized in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, seek to bring the organization under strategic control by creating a unified infrastructure for collecting and analyzing data from virtually all fields of organizational operations to enable planning and monitoring of activities (Kallinikos, 2006). Expectations of these systems at all levels of the organization are high as they are expected to create organizational transparency and oversight for decision making (Hanseth, Ciborra, & Braa, 2001). In this paper, we explore how ERP systems are used and impact local practice in a specialized unit within The Danish Defense. Specifically, we ask what role SAP R/31 plays in enabling and constraining everyday local practice and the handling of complexity and uncertainty at the organizational front‐line. We draw on a case study conducted in a special operations force unit within the Danish Defense, "The Frogman Corps". The case illuminates the difficulties of using ERP systems for management control in organizations experiencing complex operational conditions, including tension between centralized control and uniformity on the one hand and unpredictability and need for decentralized decision making on the other hand. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8364
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I have been involved with textiles since I was five and three quarters.
Since 1985 I have been a member of both the Northern Ireland Patchwork Guild and the Northern Ireland Embroidery Guild.
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In 1986 I made my First Events of the Year Quilt. There are now 27 of these, each has 20 panels depicting world events. I lost interest in them. Anyone interested in showing them as a complete entity? Please contact me.
For the past few years I have made pieces using black and white stripes to make optical illusion hangings. I also have a large number of pieces to do with political issues such as starvation, environment, climate change and conflict as it affects families. Many of these are on loan to Roberta Bacic, curator and human rights campaigner. She has taken them to all sorts of venues and many countries where I would not normally have my work shown.
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Social science group elects three Princeton faculty
Three Princeton faculty members have been elected to positions in the American Academy of Political and Social Science.
Douglas Massey, professor of sociology and public and international affairs, was elected the academy's president. He will begin serving a three-year term in January 2006.
Paul DiMaggio, professor of sociology, and Sara McLanahan, professor of sociology and public affairs, were named fellows of the academy.
Massey, who is a past president of the American Sociological Association and the Population Association of America, was named a fellow of the academy in 2004.
The academy designates a group of fellows each year "to recognize and honor individual social scientists for their distinguished scholarship in the social sciences, sustained efforts to communicate that scholarship to audiences beyond their own discipline, and professional activities that promise to continue to promote the progress of the social sciences."
Each fellow is designated to a position named after a distinguished scholar and public servant who has written over the past century for the academy's bimonthly journal, The Annals of the Academy of Political and Social Science. DiMaggio was designated as the David Reisman Fellow and McLanahan as the James S. Coleman Fellow.
The academy, founded in 1889, seeks to promote the progress of the social sciences and the use of social science knowledge in the enrichment of public understanding and in the development of public policy. It has 300 members across the country.


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They are brought together by a single tantalizing feeling: President Obama has in their eyes gone from hero to zero in a short 13 months, meaning Democrats are running scared ahead of the 2010 mid-term elections.
Meeting at a giddy Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington, conservative activists and presidential hopefuls are painting a picture of a party in resurgence.
"[Obama] had more mojo than any president that I remember when he was inaugurated a year and a month ago.… But now, the master-mesmerizer has lost his mojo," Rep. Steve King (R) of Iowa told about 1,000 attendees at the annual conference. "And if we stand our ground as constitutional conservatives, he's not going to get it back." [Editor's note: The original version of this paragraph listed the wrong US representative.]
But if Republicans are playing the role of Dr. Evil stealing Austin Power's mojo, there's always the concern that Obama can, in fact, steal that elusive something-something back in time for the closing credits, er, the 2010 mid-term elections.
Can independents be drawn in?
And the GOP's bluster at CPAC belies a big question: Amid the red-meat speeches and Democrat-bashing, what does the GOP actually stand for beyond bromides about smaller government and muscular foreign policy? Will key independents ultimately buy into the party's newfound fiscal discipline – or be turned off by what critics call the wingnut factor?
Listening to Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty urge Americans to emulate Tiger Woods's wife Elin Nordegren and "take a 9-iron and smash the window out of big government," critics like Gail Collins at the New York Times and Mike Lux at the Huffington Post point out how too many CPAC Republicans revel in violent imagery to get their points across.
"While there has always been a crazy streak in the conservative movement … the most wild extremists have never taken over the movement lock, stock and barrel before," writes Mr. Lux. "Today they are thoroughly in control."
And Obama himself seemed to sense the divide between partisan cheerleading and dire realities in Washington this morning when he invited Republicans to a healthcare summit but added, "I don't want to see this meeting turn into political theater."
More middle-of-the-road critics say Republicans are ultimately hawking the same tired small government message, seemingly oblivious to the fact that deficit reduction may require tax increases along with spending cuts.
"Intellectually honest conservatives are homeless," writes the Atlantic's Marc Ambinder.
Ground shifting for CPAC
Nevertheless, the ground does seem to be shifting for conservatives at CPAC.
Founded in 1974, CPAC is today a sort of culture war relic, epitomized by Gov. Pawlenty on Thursday citing God as the first of four conservative principles. Nothing wrong with that, except many Americans might read that as commentary on divisive social issues such as abortion and homosexuality.
On the other hand, Rep. Mike Pence got far greater ovation by staying on the kind of fiscal message that the "tea party" movement took to the streets to exhort last year.
"We're in the fight for fiscal discipline and limited government, and we are on the side of the American people," Mr. Pence said. "This is our moment."
Mr. Pence wasn't the only one to witness the tent poles getting wider at this year's CPAC.
"[I]t was striking to see in speech after speech many of the wedge issues that so preoccupied the most recent GOP majority – Terry Schiavo, abortion, stem cells, gays, family values, religion in government – sublimated to the GOP's laser-like focus on the economy and to see the CPAC's attempts … to widen their tent," writes Jay Newton-Small in Time.
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Have you ever found yourself stuck in a rainstorm and wondering if the tires on your bike will get you home safely? The Cruz tire's All Weather tread pattern wicks water away from the key contact points on the tire while the shallow tread blocks facilitate an efficient, low resistance roll. So, enjoy an extra cup of coffee at the cafe knowing that you don't have to race the storm home...you'll be cruising home with confidence. Features Urban Barrier Protection. Usage: Urban, Recreation, Utility Conditions: Pavement, Bike Path Compound: Fast Rolling Bead: Wire - 26" Flat Guard: 1018g, Flat Guard casing
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When you're out on a ride the last thing you want is to be limited by your tires in any way. Surly's ExtraTerrestrial tires were designed to let you ride without limits by following a simple tenet for tire design: make 'em high-volume and kick-ass. The ExtraTerrestrial tire was meant to serve as a heavy-duty off road touring tire that shines on hard pack surfaces. It uses a nylon breaker in the sidewalls for cut protection, a molded pattern for anti-cut propagation, and a Kevlar cap under the tread to protect against flats. The ET tire uses a distinctly directional tread pattern and its width yields more traction than you might expect from a tire with such little rolling resistance. The tread is low profile with a file tread in between blocks. The ExtraTerrestrial tire has enough width and traction for the soft stuff and won't bog you down on smooth or hard surfaces. It's made to be durable and versatile and is at home on tour or on the trail. - Bead Seat Diameter: 559mm - Casing: 60tpi, tubeless-ready bead (928g)
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Stony Brook, N.Y.—Freshman midfielder Pat Young (Ewing, N.Y./Christchurch School) broke a 12-all tie by scoring with 2:39 remaining and visiting UMBC won a critical America East Conference contest, 13-12, at defending champion Stony Brook at LaValle Stadium.
The game featured ten ties before Young took a feed from senior A/M Joe Lustgarten (Wading River, N.Y./Shoreham-Wading River) and buried a shot from nine yards out.
Stony Brook had one last opportunity, but UMBC netminder Wes DiRito (Odenton, Md./DeMatha) made a save on a deflected shot with 28 seconds remaining.
"I think our guys rose to the occasion and won a tough road game down the stretch," head coach Don Zimmerman said. "The team has remained positive throughout a very demanding season and the dividends are starting to pay off. We will enjoy the win, but we need to be ready to move forward next week and play a terrific Albany team at their place."
Freshman M/A Nate Lewnes (Arnold, Md./St. Mary's) led a balanced UMBC attack with two goals and two assists. Young, senior attackman Matt Gregoire ((Crofton, Md./South River) and senior midfielder Scott Hopmann (Annapolis, Md./St. Mary's) each scored two goals apiece for the visitors.
UMBC won back-to-back games for the first time this season and improved to 2-1 in America East and 5-6 overall. Stony Brook dropped back-to-back contests for the first time in 2012 and slipped to 1-2 and 6-6 respectively.
Neither team led by more than one goal in the second half. The Retrievers trailed, 7-6, at the break, but Nate Lewnes and Young gave the visitors an 8-7 advantage very early in the third quarter. But SBU went on a brief 2-0 run before Hopmann closed the stanza with a score in close quarters as 35 seconds remained.
The Seawolves took leads of 10-9, 11-10, and 12-11 in the fourth quarter, but Gregoire, Lustgarten and senior midfielder Dave Brown (Coopersburg, Pa./The Hill School) responded each time to knot the score for UMBC. Brown's unassisted goal tied the score at 12-12 with 4:11 to play.
Junior Phil Poe (Harwood, Md./DeMatha) won the ensuing draw and UMBC called a time-out before Young's game-winning goal.
The Retrievers dominated time of possession, as Poe won 18 of 29 draws, and the visitors outshot the hosts, 47-23.
Senior midfielder Jeff Tundo led all scorers with three goals and two helpers. SBU freshman netminder Dan Shaughnessy made 10 saves in the cage, while DiRito countered with five for UMBC.
UMBC outshot Stony Brook, 26-13, in the first half, but only put nine attempts on goal. The Retrievers trailed 1-0 and 2-1, but did take a brief 3-2 lead on Gregoire's score with 4:03 to play in the first half. The Seawolves scored twice in an 11-second span in the final minute of the stanza and led 4-3 after 15 minutes.
After Nate Lewnes tied the score near the midpoint of the half, the hosts went on a 3-0 run to take a 7-4 advantage with 3:19 remaining in the period. But senior defensive midfielder Neill Lewnes (Arnold, Md./St. Mary's) ended the run by blasting a shot past Shaughnessy with 1:28 to play in the half. UMBC took the momentum into the break as sophomore middieDerek Bertolini (Madison, Conn./Choate) slipped inside and converted a Brown pass to bring the visitors within 7-6 with 13 seconds left.
UMBC faces No. 12 Albany (3-0, 9-3) at John Fallon Field on Friday evening, April 19.
Notes: The Retrievers won on the road for the first time in 2013 and snapped a six-game road losing streak that dated back to 2012,..In its tenth season of league play, UMBC won for the 38th time in 50 America East regular season contests… The Retrievers committed no penalties in the game, while SBU was whistled for one 30-second foul… UMBC is 2-0 in 2013 when tied after three quarters-they outscored Mount St .Mary's, 3-1, in the final 15 minutes in a 10-8 victory on March 23… The Retrievers snapped a three-game slide vs. Stony Brook and improved to 12-7 all-time vs. the Seawolves.