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Sochi… less than 365 days to go. To most people that simple statement means absolutely nothing, but to the hundreds of winter Olympic hopefuls it means everything.
1 year
12 months
52 weeks
365 days
8,760 hours
525,600 minutes
Or 31,536,000 seconds… until that one moment, that one opportunity, that one blink of a second we have been working and waiting for pretty much our entire lives to represent something so much bigger than ourselves on the world's stage.
To the average person, when you mention to them "a year's time," it seems like eternity, a plethora of holidays, four changing weather seasons, multiple sports seasons and championships to spectate, a few long weekends and/or vacations here and there, birthdays celebrated and parties attended. That's a lot of time passing, isn't it? Well when speaking to an Olympic hopeful and athletes training for an Olympic Games, we think of things in quads (four years at a time), so when it is mentioned that we are one year away from the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games, it's a huge reality check and now crunch time! Specifically as a bobsled pilot, we are in a sled for about one minute per trip; two-three trips a day; five-six days a week; for approximately 16 weeks out of the year. To save you the trouble of doing the math, that's less than three-and-a-half hours of actually bobsled pilot seat time left to perfect my skills and maximize my potential before the 2014 Olympic Winter Games races. For a bobsled push athlete/brakeman, it is even less as they push a sled for a maximum of six seconds and rotate their time pushing a sled with other brakemen during the week throughout the season. Imagine if you only had three-and-a-half hours to do one year's worth of work before a test, presentation or competitive/major event? (I just got goosebumps!)
One of the advantages that many international sliding sport teams had this season was to spend two weeks in Rosa Khutor, Russia (about an hour from the city of Sochi up in the mountains where most of the skiing and sliding sports will be hosted during the Sochi Olympic Winter Games). Team USA was very fortunate as they schedule the training and test event during the time the actual Games will be taking place. The first week was just an international training week where there was an allotted six days with two training trips per day for each pilot to learn, practice and test equipment on the Olympic track. The Russian community is filled with a sense of pride and excitement to host all nations on their soil. They are literally building two cities from the ground up in order to host what is projected to be the most expensive and extravagant Olympic Games since Beijing 2008. We were greeted by a number of volunteers as soon as we got off the plane and through customs, then driven by bus to Rosa Khutor on a one-way windy road through mountains made specifically for the Olympic Games. Throughout the two weeks training at the Sanki Sliding Center, IBSF (International Bobsled and Skeleton Federation) wanted to mimic as much as possible the processes that will occur for athletes, coaches, physios, trainers, spectators and workers at the 2014 Winter Games. All who entered the facility had to have their ID badge, go through screened security, ride buses/vans to all check points, follow specific protocol, etc.
For me, as I will be vying to attend my first Olympic Winter Games, this visualization process was crucial and important for my preparation one year out. Throughout the two weeks I became very comfortable with my surroundings, envisioned the area one year from now filled with all the international flags, Sochi posters, millions of people surrounding the area, the spirit of the Olympics, international unity and so much more. I visualized during my training at the track, off the track, in transportation around the area and really focused on my mindset in order to prepare for adversity, chaos and performance pressure that will occur in less than a year.
I heard a quote recently, asking "What are you going to do with your ONE and ONLY life?!?!" For me I ask my fellow 2014 Olympic hopefuls, "What are you going to do with this ONE year remaining before you're on the world's stage?!?!?"
My personal answer to that is… "Make EVERY second count!"
As of today, I have less than 30,067,200 seconds to make it count… I better get going!


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Hubble: Galaxies Across Space and Time - 2:51
An Award-Winning IMAX®
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We no longer have this film available for loan.
A wonderful confluence of events has given the team that operates NASA's Hubble Space Telescope a unique opportunity to display Hubble's universe on the biggest of screens.
In March of 2002, during the final completed flight of the Space Shuttle Columbia, astronauts installed the Advanced Camera for Surveys aboard Hubble. This new instrument is now providing images of such resolution and clarity that large-format film screens are an ideal medium for displaying them.
With the generous support of David Keighley Productions 70MM, Inc., an IMAX company, we have created Hubble: Galaxies Across Space & Time, a journey across 9 billion years of cosmic history that takes a mere 2 minutes 51 seconds, short enough to be spliced into the "trailer space" before a main feature.
Awarded "Best Short Feature" in the Large Format Cinema Association's 2004 Film Festival, the film is available for showing at institutional IMAX theaters in the USA and Canada at no cost. At the moment we have 5 prints available. We have the soundtrack on DTAC disc; other soundtrack formats can be procured at cost directly from the IMAX Soundtrack Mastering Facility.
The highlight of the film is a fantastic computer-generated flight through a field of over 10,000 galaxies that takes audiences on a journey back through time to an era when galaxies were newly formed. Viewers will see the universe as it appeared when it was young.
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Porny listens to someone who can sing
Every time someone breaks Adele's heart she is a mess. Then she writes great songs. And she's still a mess. But through writing and performing she recovers. Only to repeat the process all over again. But at least there's some growth out of it. And a gift to music.
Every time someone breaks Jessica Simpson's heart she is a mess. Then she sits around and farts. And then another dude comes along and she gives him her credit card, doesn't care that he has no job or no desire to go to school, and they both sit around farting together while she pretends to run a billion dollar business.
Last night, Adele played LA. Porny went to see her. Of course the fiancé was there. What else does he have to do? Look at his freeloading face. Look at the dipsh-t way he walks around, without any worries, happily living off a dumbass who begs him to love her every single day. I want to punch him for the way he wears his pants.
As for when they're getting married - Jessica says no one yet has guessed it right but that the date has indeed been set and that she wants privacy. Porny, please! Here's what someone who really wants privacy would do: get married on Saturday. Everyone, I don't understand why, is fixated on that Kardashian person's wedding on Saturday. That's how I would do it then... if of course privacy was really, really my primary focus. Which...
This obviously doesn't apply to anyone Simpson.
Some people are speculating November 11, 2011. You know who's been looking lonely and scruffy and miserable lately? John Mayer. A part of me doesn't believe he's ever really gotten over her. Whether or not that's mostly sexually motivated or not, I wouldn't doubt if you told me he thinks about her a lot more than he'd care to admit. John Mayer stops the wedding on November 11, 2011. Is that worthy of your Gossip Genie?
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|25 Tips For Succeeding In Your OCD Therapy
25 Tips For Succeeding In Your OCD Therapy
- Fred Penzel, Ph.D.
1. Always expect the unexpected - you can have an obsessive thought any time or any place. Don't be surprised when old or even new ones occur. Don't let it throw you. Be prepared to use your therapy tools at any time, and in any place. Also, if new thoughts appear, be sure to tell your therapist, to keep them informed.
2. Be willing to accept risk. All life is risky business. Risk is an integral part of life, and as such, it cannot be separated out. Remember that not recovering is the biggest risk of all.
3. Never seek reassurance from yourself or others. Instead, tell yourself the worst will happen, is happening, or has already happened. Reassurance will cancel out the effects of any homework you use it on and prevent you from improving. Reassurance-seeking is a compulsion, no matter how you may try to justify it.
4. Always try hard to agree with all obsessive thoughts - never analyze, question, or argue with them. The questions they raise are not real questions, and there are no real answers to them. Try not to get too elaborate when agreeing – simply say the thoughts are true and real.
5. Don't waste time trying to prevent or not think your thoughts. This will only have the opposite effect and lead to thinking more thoughts. Studies have shown that you cannot effectively suppress particular thoughts. Your motto should be, "If you want to think about them less, think about them more."
6. If you slip and do a compulsion, you can always turn it around and do something to cancel it. Try to not be a black-and-white all-or-nothing thinker who tells themselves that they are now a total failure. The good news is that you are in this for the long haul, and you always get another chance. It is normal to make mistakes when learning new skills, especially in therapy. It happens to everyone now and then. Accept it. Even if you have a good sized setback, don't let it throw you. Remember the saying, "A lapse is not a relapse." This means that you never really go back to square one. To do that, you would have to forget everything you have learned up to that point, and that really isn't possible. Also remember the sayings, "Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat," (F. Scott Fitzgerald) and as they say in AA, "You can always start your day over."
7. Remember that dealing with your symptoms is your responsibility alone. Don't involve others in your homework (unless specifically told to) or expect them to push you or to provide the motivation. They won't always be there when you need them, but you are always with you.
8. Don't get too impatient with your rate of progress, or compare yourself to someone else. Everyone progresses at their own particular rate. Try, instead, to simply focus on carrying out each day's homework, one day at a time.
9. When you have a choice, always go toward the anxiety, never away from it. The only way to overcome a fear is to face it. You can't run away from your own thoughts, so you really have no choice but to face them. If you want to recover, you will have to do this eventually.
10. When faced with two possible choices of what to confront, always choose the more difficult of the two whenever possible.
11. Review your therapy homework assignments daily, even if you think you know all of them. It is easy to overlook them – especially the ones you don't look forward to doing.
12. If your therapist gives you an assignment you don't feel ready to do, don't be shy about saying so. As half of the team, you should be able to have a say in your own therapy. The goal is for the homework to produce moderate anxiety you can get used to tolerating - not to overwhelm you with it and cause you a setback. On the other hand, don't be afraid to stretch yourself a bit whenever you can.
13. Procrastination is a feature of many people's OCD, so start your homework assignments the day you get them. Don't wait for the perfect moment to start. The perfect moment is whenever you begin doing them.
14. Perfectionism can be another feature of OCD. You may find your OCD telling you that if you don't do your homework perfectly, you won't recover. If you do find yourself obsessing about having to do your homework perfectly, you risk turning it into another compulsion. Watch out for having to do your homework according to the same rigid rules each time you do it. Also, don't do your homework so excessively that it takes up your whole day. Remember that you still have a life to live.
15. Make the effort to read over your homework assignments at the start of each day. Don't assume that you know them all and will not forget them.
16. Be careful when carrying out assignments to not undo them by telling yourself that "It's only homework, and the things I'm saying and doing don't count and aren't real," or "My therapist wouldn't ask me to do something that would cause harm to me or others," or "I'm only doing this because I was told to, so I'm not responsible for anything bad that happens."
17. Try to not let yourself get distracted and tune out when doing certain assignments, so that you don't have to feel the anxiety. People sometimes let the homework become routine and do it in a very automatic way as a kind of avoidance. Also, don't do homework while you carry out other distracting activities. Give it your full attention, focus on what you are doing, and let yourself feel the anxiety. You are building tolerance to what you fear and for that to happen, you have to be in the moment with it.
18. When faced with a challenging assignment or an unexpected challenging situation, try to look on it as a positive, and as another opportunity to get better instead of saying, "Oh, no. Why do I have to do this?" Tell yourself, "This will be good for me – another chance to practice and get stronger."
19. Try to not rush through your therapy homework so that you don't have to feel as much anxiety. Take your time, and see if you can view it in terms of all the good it will do you. Getting it over with as quickly as possible is not the goal. Raising a moderate level of anxiety and staying with it, is.
20. If your homework doesn't really produce any anxiety, tell your therapist about it. If your exposure homework doesn't cause at least some anxiety, it isn't going to be effective in helping you. On the other hand, try doing all new assignments for at least a week before deciding that they don't make you anxious. Some assignments can cause delayed reactions and it may take doing them a few times before the anxiety occurs.
21. It is sometimes possible for OCD to try to make you doubtful about your homework. It may tell you that you are not in the right treatment, that your assignments cannot possibly make you better, or that you really don't understand what you are doing and won't be able to make it work. Remember that OCD was known as The Doubting Disease, and will try to cast doubt on anything that is important to you. To fight this, you may have to agree with it by saying, "Yes, that's right. I really won't get better."
22. Never forget that you have OCD. This means that you will not always be able to trust your own reactions or sensations, especially if they seem to be telling you very negative and extreme things. If you are unsure if something is really a symptom, treat it as a symptom. Better to err on the side of doing a bit more exposure than not enough.
23. Remember that in OCD, the problem is not the anxiety - the problem is the compulsions. If you think the anxiety is the problem, you will only do more compulsions to get rid of it (which will only create more anxiety). If you recognize that the compulsions are the problem, stop doing them, and stay with the fearful situation, then the anxiety will eventually subside as you build up tolerance.
24. Always take a moment to endorse your own efforts and recognize your successes. It's a good way to help keep up your motivation. Look back at earlier assignments that are no longer challenging if you believe you aren't making progress.
25. Overall, never forget that OCD is very paradoxical. The things that you thought would make you better, only made you worse, and the things you thought would make you worse are the very things that will make you better.
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Monday, September 29, 2014
September's Playlist
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Tuesday, September 23, 2014
Floral and Denim
Floral Dress: Zalora Thailand
Sunglasses: Vintage
Shoes: H&M
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Thursday, September 18, 2014
My Wrap Story
Diane von Furstenberg once said she created her first wrap dress when she was 26 in 1974. The wrap dress was a major breakthrough in her life. It enables her to become the woman she wanted to be. Diane is one of the most powerful woman in fashion industry and a big inspiration to women everywhere including me. I was truly inspired by her extraordinary life and have a great admiration for her accomplishments, how she's know what she wants, not afraid to live her dream and take a big leap to become a successful fashion designer and continue to empower all women through her work. Her attitude and designs were the main reasons I decided to apply for a job at DVF (Thailand). I am proud to be part of DVF team and feel so grateful to be able to work closely with this epic fashion brand with so many inspirational stories to tell the world. What more can I say...I love my job!
This is such a big year for DVF! It's the 40th Anniversary of the iconic wrap dress and Diane von Furstenberg is encouraging women all over the world to share their impressive story about the iconic wrap dress. So if you are a fan of DVF make sure to be part of this fabulous celebration and share your picture and story on www.dvf.com/wrapstory.
"I am wearing the mini wrap dress. Not only is it figure-flattering, but it makes me feel comfortable, more confident and effortlessly chic! The wrap dress is definitely a timeless and versatile work and play fashion piece that worth invested in as a staple to every woman's wardrobe".
Outfit Details
Wrap Dress: DVF
Pink Clutch: DVF
Shoes: Zara
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Friday, September 12, 2014
Gaysorn's The Sanctuary of Thai Designers
It's the press conference of grand opening of The Sanctury of Thai designers zone at Gaysorn Plaza. I've to admitted that I was running late for the event, so I missed a chance see the show from Talented Thai fashion designers such as Poem, Klar lov, MUSE by good mixer, TAWN C, PICHITA, The collage, and many more. By the way, sorry for the poor quality photos. I literally left my camera in the car ;P
Outfit Details
Red clutch: DVF
Shoes: Topshop
Prior the press conference day, I've received email from Gaysorn Plaza team inviting me as a bloggers to take part of the Sanctuary of Thai designers project and giving me an opportunity to participate in the behind the scene photo shoot of Thai fashion designer brand "Poem BANGKOK" with his celebrity Muse Khun Opal at Benedict studio.
Poem's muse Khun Opal in jaw dropping black gown designed by Khun Sean.
Also, I've got a chance to wear Khun Sean Poem designs during the photo shoot with Khun Sean Poem himself. This was part of Gaysorn's Sanctuary of Thai designers press conference that has been held last week.
The behind the scene picture of Khun Sean the designer of POEM Bangkok and I.
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Sunday, September 7, 2014
Nude leather on leather
Even though the weather in Thailand is super hot, it couldn't stop me from donning leather pieces.
Today's outfit I decided to play with different leather fabrics for a cosmopolitan look. I opted for a clean cut slightly loose fitting sleeveless leather top and tugged it in stylenanda vinyl mini fitted skirt I got it from my last trip to Korea back in May, never had a chance to wear it yet, so this was my first time wearing it! Created a touch of feminine with matching heel sandals from stradivarius and a minimal gold accessory like simple necklace, YSL arty ring and bangles. My Charles & Keith sunnies help modernise the whole look and protect my eyes from direct sunlight. And this is how I rock leather outfit in summer. Show me yours!
Nude Vinyl Skirt: Stylenanda
Heel Sandals: Stradivarius
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Monday, September 1, 2014
August's Playlist
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Blue Pearl Bay
Blue Pearl Bay is located on the north-western side of Hayman Island in the Whitsundays Group. Popular with tourists and locals for snorkelling, diving and sightseeing, Blue Pearl Bay is known for its coral and fish life including a resident Maori Wrasse. Day tours and overnight boats visit Blue Pearl Bay for snorkelling and or scuba diving. Visitors typically swim directly off their vessel, or tender into the southern beach and enter the water from the coral beach.
Diving depth is from three to 18 metres. Diving visibility is typically from three to 15 metres.
Best coral cover to be seen in shallow water off the southern beach. Scattered bommies with silty sand bottom at five to 18 metres, dropping off to coral rubble and silty sand below 18 metres. Best dive off southern beach, near Castle Rock. Shallow coral ledge (two to three metres) dropping off as descent wall to 10 to 15 metres. Wall has narrow canyons and caves making for great exploration. Strong corals near Castle Rock have some striking gorgonian fans at eight to 15 metres as well as whip corals. The shallow waters are predominately staghorn coral. Good protection from all winds except north-westerlies.
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There was many video game consoles that never made a release, so lets take a look at the top 20 unreleased video game consoles and discuss it right here. Some of these are really interesting.
There was many video game consoles that never made a release, so lets take a look at the top 20 unreleased video game consoles and discuss it right here. Some of these are really interesting.
So, let me get this straight you know there is a sticky post for your YouTube channel yet your still going to make a new thread for every video?
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My DP Refs MaximumRD Classic Gaming and Computing Me in a Nutshell (NOT LITERALLY!) http://about.me/maximumrd
Good lord, what a terrible video! I love the audio on this. Not only is it made by a wannabe Angy Video Game Nerd, he even has the audacity to throw him in the video also. Not only that, but there isn't any reason made to the reasons why these are listed in the order they are. You can tell he's reading a badly written script badly. Oh, and do some research too. All of your information on the Atari Panther is way wrong. Gotta' love how "Nobody Knows Why Atari was working on both a 32bit system and a 64bit system at the same time". It's called R&D. Many companies use it. Your reasoning on the Panasonic M2 is weak as Hell too. The video sucks, sorry. Some info is right, but most isn't and the bad, second rate AVN jokes just kill the whole thing. The Apple Pippin crap is a great example. To quote you and add something to it, "(AHEM) if I take your videos mixed with your horrible dialogue, I get Liquid shit and it makes me want to take a shit." Yes, totally brilliant!
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In any event, I don't mind someone offer up what they have right off the bat rather than 'force' participation in discussions for the sake of 'breaking themselves in'. I can see if they were spamming one video after another and being rude, but so long as they're not flooding the forum and the content that they submit if relevant I don't mind.
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I couldn't even get through number 17. The audio was horrible, as someone else mentioned. Did I hear you changing note cards?
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I haven't watched the video and could care less what other people think about it. But to have a top 20 countdown of unreleased consoles just doesn't make sense to me. I'm sure nobody has played them to judge and put them in a top 20 list. Are you going by "cool factor" or how well you think they would sell?
And why are there so many angry/irate/pissed-videogame geek fanboys out there? Does every videogame related youtube video have to be compared to that garbage? He certainly didn't create videogame related videos so why bring the name up in every other thread?
I have a better understand now of why people are put off, gamingpalooza.
I'll grant you some members may have come at you in a cynical way, but one upping them and calling them whining losers probably isn't the best way to respond. There is a certain etiquette here I suppose, but I don't think it's your lack of your posting history here that's the issue so much as the way you spread yourself about with so many video submissions. I seems a bit spammy to some people, understandably.
I think we should maybe all try to tone down the hostility a bit. Whether someone's new here or a veteran, it's just not good form to be so confrontational. One of the things I like about Digital Press is that there's less flaming than a lot of other gaming forums.
Let's stick to taking shots at some of the freaks at Nintendo Age. :^)
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I enjoyed watching the video despite your hamfisted delivery. I actually didn't know much about unreleased consoles pre-1985 or so, so a few of them were interesting. If I were to make a correction, I'd say that the Sega VR was not a console/system unlike all the others. It's a peripheral just like the ROB or Power Glove. The Genesis still did all the calculations and game display... didn't it?
And how about cutting out your overuse of the word "trolling"? Disagreement and criticism backed with logical arguments are the diametric opposite of trolling. Just 'cause you're on the receiving end of criticism doesn't make everyone else a troll and you a defender of whatever...


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Woman wants stricter distracted driving laws
HARTFORD -- Dawn Jeffrey's pain has ebbed and flowed during the 10 months since her boyfriend was struck and killed by a distracted teenager driving a sport utility vehicle.
Some days, the loss of Kenneth Dorsey, 44, of Norwalk, seems too much to bear and she considers abandoning her fight for tougher penalties.
But Monday afternoon, in dramatic testimony, Jeffrey urged state lawmakers to create tougher fines and possibly add points toward revoking the licenses of people who text while driving.
Lawmakers, however, seemed divided on whether harsher fines will be on the legislative agenda this year.
Jeffrey told lawmakers that Brianna McEwan was more interested in viewing the New Canaan High School website on her smartphone than she was watching the road when her Toyota 4-Runner struck Dorsey while he was jogging.
Jeffrey spoke in favor of a bill that would increase the current $100 fine for drivers' use of handheld cellphones to $150 for a first offense, $300 for a second offense and $500 for a subsequent offense.
"I dare any one of you to drive for more than five minutes without seeing someone with a phone behind the wheel of a car," Jeffrey said to the Transportation Committee.
"I would like the laws to continue to be stricter and cause more penalties, whether it is higher fines or the loss of license privileges. However, what is really needed are more public-service campaigns showing the devastation that distracted driving results in."
McEwan, 17, was sentenced last year to a suspended prison sentence under a youthful offender program.
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Lovingly restored gabled merchants' houses, splendid city gates, imposing towers and an impressive fortress dominate the appearance of the city. Restaurants, art and many events add extra colour and turn any shopping trip to Ingolstadt into an enjoyable outing. Festivals and markets are held throughout the year, with museums, concerts, exhibitions and theatre performances rounding off the attractions on offer. Audi Forum Ingolstadt with its 'museum mobile' and the exclusive outlet shopping centre Ingolstadt Village are other firm favourites. As is the picturesque old quarter, best accessed through the splendid Kreuztor gate. This is the most beautiful of the remaining town gates and used to be part of the extensive fortifications. Today it is Ingolstadt's most famous landmark and a delightful example of medieval architecture. Beyond the gate, some magnificent sights await the visitor, such as the New Palace, the Asam Church with its famous Lepanto monstrance, the Alte Anatomie and the Old Town Hall. Next to this stands the city's oldest parish church, St. Moritz. A Romanesque church tower rises on its northern side, while to the south stands the slender Gothic Pfeifturm, formerly a city watchtower. Two hundred steps lead up to the top of this tower, which offers outstanding panoramic views across Ingolstadt including the impressive late-Gothic minster. As the largest hall church in southern Germany, it's hard to miss. The university, which had close links with St. Moritz, was founded in 1472 as Bavaria's first state university. Thanks to this seat of learning, the city flourished and became the intellectual and cultural centre of Bavaria for more than three centuries. To this day, Ingolstadt retains the essence of that era of charming traditions and heady romanticism. It fits in with this picture that the Illuminati, the quintessential secret society, were founded in Ingolstadt in 1776. You can get a strong sense of this atmosphere on a mystery tour or on a türmerey, a one-hour guided walk through the city after dark led by a 'genuine' medieval nightwatchman telling tales and singing songs.
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This story appears in the October 2001 issue of Entrepreneur. Subscribe »
It was 1933. Charles Guth, president of a candy company, was desperately trying to get rid of a long-unprofitable product. He approached his nemesis, rival candy company president Ernest Woodruff, held up the white flag and offered to sell. Woodruff probably laughed. Guth was hawking a lousy brand with no future. So Woodruff refused, and the product lived on.
And that's why we're still drinking Pepsi.
Competition. Its praises are as plentiful as Pepsi. Typical are the words of Bill Dueease, an entrepreneur coach and owner of The Coach Connection in Fort Myers, Florida: "When a company focuses on crushing the competition, they take sight off what the real objective is-which is to improve themselves. You want competition. You have to have competition."
Dueease has a point. Competition can be your friend. But if you were to find a spiritual medium and contact Ernest Woodruff's soul, the former Coca-Cola CEO would probably own up that he made a colossal mistake in not crushing Pepsi when he had the chance.
So for those of you who aren't content to merely survive, but who want to take the offensive and obliterate the company stealing your sales, your employees and your customers, here's the first rule of crushing the competition: If a rival company is lying there on the floor dying like a little bug, step on it.
It only sounds mean. "Our attitude is that you have a moral responsibility to crush the competition," says Jay Abraham, a consultant and author of Getting Everything You Can Out of All You've Got: 21 Ways You Can Out-Think, Out-Perform, and Out-Earn the Competition (St. Martin's Press). "You have that responsibility if you care more, if you provide more value and if you revere the client at a higher level."
You don't have to go to the dark side and cut your competitor's phone lines or go into a bathroom and write, "For a good time, call [insert competitor's CEO's name here]." But if you believe you're Luke Skywalker and that your rival makes Darth Vader seem like a stand-up guy, then grab your lightsaber and get ready to destroy the Death Star.
There are many ways to slaughter competitors. You can slam them in your ads, highlighting their weaknesses and your strengths. Or, if you run a retail operation, you can move across the street from a rival and lure its customers away.
In-your-face tactics are one way to take on your nemesis, but experts agree there's a better way: Creep up on the creep. Or, to quote that famous rabbit hunter Elmer Fudd: "Be vewy, vewy quiet."Use your marketing plan to map out your competitive strategy. Read our marketing plan tutorial for help.
"Next to a battle-less victory, this is the ultimate way to fight," says Mark Joyner, CEO of search engine Aesop.com and author of the e-book 1,001 Killer Internet Marketing Tactics. Joyner, who worked in military intelligence for the Army in the Korean War, says, "Surprise is of such supreme importance that it makes strength almost insignificant. A small man with a knife could kill a Mike Tyson, if Mike didn't see him coming."
Stalking your competition is a matter of "business espionage," says Ray Vargo, associate director of the Institute for Entrepreneurial Excellence at the University of Pittsburgh. He contends you can't beat competitors if you don't know anything about them.
Send fake customers to your competitors, says Vargo, and have them register bogus complaints. "See how they react to the demands. Sometimes you can find out more about that business than the owner would probably like you to know."
Then take the battle to your competitors' suppliers. Talk to them, and find out how much volume your competitors are ordering from them and how often they send shipments. Park your car outside the competition's place of business and observe how often customers visit and how frequently suppliers make their rounds. "If you're not doing this on a regular basis, then you are not keeping in touch with the market," says Vargo. "You need to evaluate your competition consistently. You need to find out what materials they have [and keep] close tabs on their marketing efforts."
The Attack
Once you have the inside information, use it. That's what Andrew J. Birol does best. Birol, 42, owns Pacer Associates Inc., a Cleveland-based business consulting company, and is the author of Focus. Accomplish. Grow. The Business Owner's Guide to Growth (Pacer Associates). He seems like a nice enough guy, as long as he's on your side. His strategies may not destroy a competitor, but being on the receiving end of them is likely as pleasant as enduring a shark attack.
One of the oldest and best tricks, Birol says, is to "selectively raise prices on high-maintenance, low-margin customers." If you have an undesirable client, jack up that customer's prices 25 percent. "Five or 10 percent, they might understand and try to absorb," says Birol, "but 25 percent is tantamount to telling your client they have ugly children. They'll go."
And to whom will they turn? Your rivals, of course. "While your competitors are rushing in-and regretting it later-you can concentrate on poaching their customers," offers Birol. "If you can move the bad apples onto your competitor and ultimately raise the competitor's costs, it's almost like infecting them with a bad virus." Ouch.
Another strategy, says Birol, is "the fake-out." Birol worked with a manufacturing firm that learned its competitors had been spying on the company by counting the number of trucks hauling products from its warehouse. (See, this sort of thing happens all the time.) Birol advised the company to "fool [the competitor] into believing their new product was a runaway hit." They scheduled 30 trucks to leave the warehouse every day, instead of their normal four. So the competition put its workers on extra shifts to make more-and ended up with a factory full of products nobody needed.
And once, one of Birol's clients, a chemical firm-let's call it Company A-had a traitor in its midst who was feeding secrets to Company B. Since the traitor had signed a contract stating he wouldn't give away trade secrets, Birol's clients made certain the employee would be able to steal an important formula for a new product. Shortly afterwards, the employee went to work for the rival firm, and the stolen product hit the market. "The lawyers started licking their chops," says Birol. Company A sicced its lawyers on Company B, which learned that it couldn't manufacture the product without going to jail; meanwhile, Company A was able to hit the market with its original and legal formula and make a fortune.
So is there a trick to coming up with these tricks? "You know what I think it is?" says Birol. "Recognize that you're dealing with people's egos more than you're dealing with rational behavior, and structure strategies that will provoke-and, frankly, fool-people who are likely to let their egos get in the way of their brains."
Case in point: One of Birol's clients worked with a manufacturing rep who declared, "We won't let you carry this line unless you drop all competing products." The client could have bowed to the rep's wishes, but instead it created "a shell company," says Birol. The company had its employee pretend to quit and strike out on his own, assuming (correctly) that the rep would run into the arms of the newly independent company. "But what do you know?" says Birol. "Eight months later, our [employee] decided to rejoin the company and fold his company back into this one." The rep, having already established ties to the employee's new company, was forced to bring its account to the parent.
So you're desperate to obliterate your competitor? Here are two suggestions-but check with your attorney before proceeding.
- Make your competitor see another type of green: If your nemesis is polluting the skies or planning to raze a meadow to build a warehouse, start a grass-roots campaign against the company. Talk to the press; place ads. Get the public angry. Get them to hate your competitor and love you for caring about the woods and the sky. Talk fondly of Thumper and Bambi, and of your children's health. Weep openly.
- Sacrifice your family: When your least capable, most bungling family members call you to ask for a job, release a heavy sigh about the shaky economy and then cheerfully tell them about the job openings at the competition.
Bury the Enemy
You don't have to be quiet about your attack. Maybe that's not your nature. It wasn't the approach Paul Hanlon, 43, took. Hanlon, author of Strategies of an Ordinary Multimillionaire: Simple Ideas to Achieving Magical Success (Paul Hanlon), made no secret of his desire to destroy his competition.
For more than a decade after founding Folio, a Massachusetts-based trade show exhibit company he sold four years ago, Hanlon watched competitors topple, simply because he hired away their top talent. "People want to work for companies that are totally committed to making the employee look good," maintains Hanlon, who for years wasn't the highest-paid employee at his own company. "My employees came first, my vendors came second, and my clients came third," he says. "I promoted it; I preached it; I fired clients who were abusive to my people." So top talent was more than happy to work for Hanlon, generating sales of $30 million and weakening his competitors.
But Hanlon stresses, "I didn't really put people out of business as much as they put themselves out of business."
He has a point. As long as you're not cutting competitors' phone lines or framing rival CEOs for murder, your guilt over putting opposing businesses out of business should be minimal. Because in the end, if you crush your competition, it means you did something right. And when you're running your halo-cleaning business in that great corporate world in the sky, curious entrepreneurs won't be sending a spiritual medium your way, only to shout, "What were you thinking?!"
Normally, Geoff Williams wouldn't even crush a fly. He's a freelance writer in Cincinnati and can be reached at email@example.com.
Contact Sources
- The Coach Connection LLC
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- Paul Hanlon
- Institute for Entrepreneurial Excellence, University of Pittsburgh
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- Pacer Associates Inc.
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It has been brought to the attention of the Washington State Emergency Management Division (EMD) that many of you have received phone calls in the recent weeks from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) or its contractors. The callers, supposedly from DHS or its contractors, are asking for very sensitive information regarding security measures and infrastructure locations. While the State of
Washington is participating in the DHS Buffer Zone Protection Program (BZPP) and other critical infrastructure activities which lend themselves to collecting sensitive information, please be vigilant about who you release information to.
Within the last two weeks I received two phone calls from concerned security managers (one was a local hospital and the other was a regional energy company). Both managers told me the callers identified themselves as DHS employees/contractors but the way in which they were asking for the information is contrary to post 9/11 teachings. We have been in communication with DHS to try and resolve this situation but DHS consists of 22 agencies and countless contractors, which makes it difficult to resolve.
EMD urges local government and private business to be cautious of people requesting information in regards to your security, critical infrastructure or any other sensitive information. As a local government or private business you are aware of who your contacts are within your field but when you are contacted by someone who you are unfamiliar with, try to verify the person's identity, agency and reason for request. If you are still suspicious or want to verify the request before responding, please do not hesitate to contact EMD who will coordinate with DHS to try and verify the caller's identity.
Please contact Alec Chapman with the Emergency Management Division's Homeland Security Section at (253) 512-7044 or [email protected] if you receive such phone calls.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - A group of retired educators are working to honor a Mexican-American scholar who is celebrated across the country but is virtually unknown in New Mexico, where he was born.
An ad hoc committee is pushing a series of projects aimed at honoring the late-George I. Sanchez, a scholar credited with helping bring attention to the plight of poor Mexican-Americans in the 1930s. Those projects include naming a street and building after Sanchez, said Luisa Duran, a retired University of New Mexico bilingual education professor.
In addition, New Mexico state lawmakers are scheduled Tuesday to read a memorial about the pioneer scholar's contributions to Latino education.
For the Sanchez family, it's a stunning reversal of his legacy in a state where lawmakers once denounced him and forced him to leave because of his then-radical views on desegregation, said granddaughter Cindy Kennedy, 49, a Santa Fe teacher. "I think it's fantastic," Kennedy said. "It's about time he's being honored here nearly 40 years after his death."
Duran said the committee is working on more ideas to honor Sanchez, who wrote the 1940 classic book "Forgotten People" about Mexican-Americans in Taos. The group of educators formed the committee after reading a story by The Associated Press last year that Sanchez was relatively unknown in his birth state and in Albuquerque, an area he worked as a young school teacher.
"It's important that we remember him because he was so important," said Duran, 71. "He was actually writing about the town where I'm from and was probably talking about my parents."
A dozen or so schools in Texas and California are named in honor of Sanchez - including the School of Education building at the University of Texas where he taught for many years - but not a single school in New Mexico bears his name. Few New Mexico educators or activists know much about him, according to historians and educators. No plaque exists to show his birthplace or the school where Sanchez taught. He is not listed among the state's notable figures in New Mexico Centennial guidebooks.
A son of an Arizona miner, Albuquerque-born Sanchez worked his way out of poverty as a rural public school teacher in New Mexico to become a pioneer scholar and education activist. Sanchez developed his theories on school inequalities using New Mexico's Hispanic and Navajo populations as examples. He argued that bilingual students were discriminated against by monolingual school systems. He testified in landmark court cases about the negative effects of segregation, and IQ testing on Hispanic, American Indian, and black children.
But Sanchez clashed with the state's governor for pushing a state equalization funding formula for schools and came under fire from some lawmakers for helping with a University of New Mexico professor's survey on racial attitudes in schools.
Kennedy said her grandfather never sought much recognition while he was alive.
"But I'm glad New Mexico is finally beginning to honor him," Kennedy said. "He's finally coming home."
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Deputy opposition leader Julie Bishop has defended her decision to meet with one of the key figures in the Australian Workers' Union slush fund scandal.
Ms Bishop met for 10 minutes with former AWU official Ralph Blewitt in Melbourne on Friday seeking access to documents to inform her questioning of Prime Minister Julia Gillard in parliament this week.
Mr Blewitt, who lives in Malaysia, has publicly admitted to participating in a fraud in the 1990s involving the AWU Workplace Reform Association but is seeking legal immunity from prosecution.
Ms Bishop on Tuesday said it was a "chance meeting" that only came about following a telephone call from former Sydney radio host Michael Smith.
She said Mr Smith, who had gone with Mr Blewitt to a police station when he made statements about three AWU related matters, had asked her whether she wanted to meet him.
"I spoke to Mr Blewitt for about less than 10 minutes and I left," she told reporters in Canberra.
Ms Bishop said her meeting did not compare with Ms Gillard's "four-year personal friendship" with Mr Blewitt who worked with her then partner, AWU official Bruce Wilson.
"Surely the prime minister is not suggesting that I shouldn't spend 10 minutes with a man that she considered one of her closest friends over four years and for whom she did free legal work," Ms Bishop said.
She said part of her conversation with Mr Blewitt was about a call Mr Blewitt received from members of his former army regiment, the 2RAR, who are serving in Afghanistan.
"The only interest I had in meeting with him is he'd met with police and I wanted to know whether he produced any further documents," she said.
"I understand that he waived legal professional privilege over any advice that current or former partners of Slater & Gordon gave to him when he was Ms Gillard's client and I wanted to know if he had any documents.
"And he said anything he said to police he wouldn't repeat to me, so that was the end of it."
Ms Gillard, when a lawyer with Slater & Gordon, provided legal advice on the incorporation of the AWU association but has denied any wrongdoing or involvement with the entity beyond that advice.


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From spacecraft design to software integration, many engineering projects today have unprecedented levels of complexity due to increases in size and scope, amount of data, and number of disciplines involved. There is a great need in industry for systems engineers who have a breadth of engineering expertise and can oversee multifaceted, interdisciplinary projects.
In the past year, Stevens has completed an award-winning project, Body of Knowledge and Curriculum to Advance Systems Engineering (BKCASE), to formalize systems engineering practices, education and curriculum. Led by Stevens School of Systems & Enterprises (SSE) Distinguished Research Professor Art Pyster in partnership with Dr. Dave Olwell, professor at the Naval Postgraduate School, the BKCASE project identifies the newest and most effective systems engineering methods, helps universities to better prepare students to enter the field of systems engineering, and supports the growth of this critical field.
The BKCASE project, which launched in 2009, involved two separate initiatives – the creation of a Systems Engineering Body of Knowledge (SEBoK) and an Advanced Graduate Reference Curriculum for Systems Engineering (GRCSE).
The SEBoK, which was published in September 2012 is the recognized and authoritative source of information on the systems engineering discipline, consisting of hundreds of articles, glossary terms and links to resources.
"With the SEBoK, we organized the knowledge for systems engineering so it is understandable and has a clear taxonomy and structure," Pyster said. "There are articles about each major topic in the discipline, more articles on how they relate to each other, and information on the primary references for systems engineering."
GRCSE, which was published in December 2012, provides a standardized set of curriculum and content recommendations to align academia with current systems engineering research and to guide the development and improvement of graduate degree programs in systems engineering.
"GRCSE is for people who are starting systems engineering master's programs or who want to refresh a program to make it as good as it can be," Pyster said.
Both the SEBoK and GRCSE were published online, with the SEBoK in Wiki format, enabling them to be easily updated, constantly kept fresh, and reflective of the latest knowledge and best practices from the systems engineering community.
"The BKCASE project is a revolutionary advancement in the continuing maturation of the field of systems engineering," said Stevens School of Systems & Enterprises Dean Dinesh Verma. "By creating a master reference database of the most up-to-date systems engineering knowledge available, and an associated reference curriculum, the BKCASE team, led by Stevens own Dr. Art Pyster, is helping to improve systems engineering practice and pedagogy of systems engineering worldwide. We are incredibly proud to have been involved with this project."
The BKCASE project was conducted through the Systems Engineering Research Center (SERC), a U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) University Affiliated Research Center (UARC) led by Stevens (Pyster is the deputy executive director) which works to improve the application of systems engineering within government and industry. The project required the collaborative effort of numerous companies and universities. Both the SEBoK and GRCSE were authored and reviewed by a leading group of 70 systems engineers from across the world, working in a collaborative, voluntary process over the three-year period. Contributors from Stevens include Nicole Hutchison, Dr. Alice Squires, and Devanandham (Deva) Henry.
"This was really a labor of love for a lot of the contributors," Pyster said.
The International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE), a nonprofit organization which develops and disseminates the interdisciplinary principles and practices that enable the realization of successful systems, is also a partner on the project. Other partners include the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Computer Society, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) Systems Engineering Division and the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE).
The DoD sponsored the project, with direct involvement from Steve Welby, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Systems Engineering; Kristen Baldwin, Principal Deputy to the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Systems Engineering; and Nicholas Torelli, Director of Mission Assurance in the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Systems Engineering.
The next phase of the BKCASE project is the transition to use. A governing board made up of representatives from INCOSE, the IEEE Computer Society and the SERC will work to evolve the SEBoK and GRCSE and disseminate them widely within the systems engineering community.
"The SEBoK and GRCSE team have done an outstanding job in the development of this SE repository of information and training guidance," said INCOSE President John Thomas. "The world's systems thinkers and engineers are already benefiting from these efforts. INCOSE is proud to have provided many experts to assist in the success of this endeavor."
The SEBoK – which will now function much like an academic journal with Pyster and Olwell serving as co-editors, responsible for soliciting new articles and refreshing or excising old material – is already being adopted. INCOSE is using it as a main source of material for the official handbook of the professional society, which is used as the basis for knowledge and testing for the certification of professional systems engineers. The IEEE Computer Society is also using the SEBoK as a guide as it develops a competency model for software systems engineers. Meanwhile, a number of universities, nationally and internationally, are currently considering adopting recommendations from GRCSE as they launch new systems engineering graduate programs.
"This project will have a wide-ranging and deep impact on the practice of systems engineering," said Dr. Dave Olwell of the Naval Postgraduate School, co-lead for BKCASE. "It was completed on-time, on-budget, and exceeded expectations. The success is due to the leadership and vision of Art Pyster, and the tremendous support we received from our partners, sponsors, and most especially, volunteer authors."
Given its impact thus far and potential to further advance the discipline of systems engineering, the joint BKCASE-SEBoK-GRCSE initiative was recently selected for the 2012 Product of the Year Award by INCOSE. The Product of the Year Award is given annually to the INCOSE product that provides the most significant value to INCOSE's stakeholders.
The INCOSE 2012 Product of the Year award was formally presented to Pyster and Olwell at the annual INCOSE International Workshop from Jan. 26-29, 2013 in Jacksonville, Fla.


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Anyone else got a custom moon glow project they want to share?
Just to elaborate as to what's going on with the lanyard tube there and why it needs flared- the factory tube is held in by its ends being flared inside the G10 scales, to get it out it pretty much either has to destroy the scales or be drilled out so it doesn't, not wanting to damage the factory scales I drilled it out and have replaced it with a piece of Ti tubing that I flame anodized (to match the clip) and I'm going to install it with a flare tool the same as factory, that's why it's looking a little deformed ATM, I don't have the right size die till I get over to my buddies house.


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drivensubstance necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 850 diseños de 166 diseñadores freelance.
Motion Health
Client has an established company Reform Group Pty Ltd. The current business operates an upper class physiotherapy, Pilates & Massage clinique in one location.
The new business is designed to operate under a potential franchise/multiple location type structure and they will eventually be branding their services & potential products in the near future see http://www.lesmills.com.au/lmap/home/LesMills/
for an example.
Other logos they like are:
http://www.gordonramsay.com/mazemelbourne/ - like font and use of logo and website
http://www.rogerseller.com.au/ - like creativity
- see attached logos they mentioned they like.
They attract both males and females aging from 18-60+ but predominantly females aged 35-60.
They want to attract middle to upper class demographics including sports people both males and females. They want to portray a fresh, professional, personalised experience for their clients
Client requires for Motion Health:
- Logo (business name to be simple somewhat block type font and the logo to symbolise movement, nature, earth, professional yet warm type feel) They really like the look and feel of "Aesop" type branding (See attachment)
- TAG LINE: move well. live well.
1. Pantone 296 UP (C:98 M:59 Y:33 K:47) they like bluish black
2. Pantone 4755 UP (C:6 M:14 Y: 20 K:1) They like the "putty" colour
3. Pantone 7530 UP (C:9 M:16 Y:22 K:26) They like the warm grey kind of look
- Business Card (90x55mm) 5mm bleed, double sided with appointment schedule on back and logo, name, position title, address, phone, fax, mobile, email & web address etc on front
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* The logo CAN represent movement, nature (tree, fern, leaf etc BUT not animals) this is not a pre-requisite but it is what the client has mentioned in correspondence.
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- To make sure that the 2 brands aren't too different from one another, so the client wants either a Motion Health Logo design that correlates with the Reform Group branding or that there is an adjustment to the logo to Reform Group to correlate with Motion Health.
- Please keep existing TAG LINE: physiotherapy. pilates. massage. As per attachment.
*The brief is subject to change according to clients wants so feel free to be creative however try and stick to some degree to the above guidelines.
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In his Risale-i Nur collection, the 13th century (Hagira style) mujaddid Bediuzzaman Said Nursi places particular emphasis on certain years and events that will take place in those years. A look at the events that took place in 1956 reveals yet again how accurate and perfect Said Nursi's such predictions were.
"The hypocrites are in the lowest level of the Fire. You will not find any one to help them," (Surat an-Nisa', 145)
... If the shadda is taken as two nun letters, and if silent signs and (ye) are counted it makes 1376 (1956-1957), this cruel dissension (this hypocritical system based on irreligiousness and oppression) will be reaching the silence degree (will be silenced)...
(Emirdag Addendum (1), Letter No. 15)
In his work known as the Emirdag Addendum, Bediuzzaman Said Nursi says that the numerological analysis of Verse 145 of Surat an-Nisa' indicates "THE YEAR 1956." Bediuzzaman's reference to "this hypocritical system based on irreligiousness and oppression being silenced" MEANS THAT 1956 IS OF GREAT IMPORTANCE ACROSS THE WORLD IN TERMS OF MUSLIMS AND THE WORLD OF ISLAM. According to Bediuzzaman, the climate of oppression, heresy and discord that prevails until that year will begin retreating after it and, by Allah's leave, come to an end.
|"Remember when Allah made a covenant with the prophets: "Now that We have given you a share of the Book and Wisdom, and then A MESSENGER COMES TO YOU CONFIRMING WHAT IS WITH YOU, you must believe in him and help him." He asked, "Do you agree and undertake my commission on that condition?" They replied, "We agree." He said, "Bear witness, then. I am with you as one of the witnesses." (Surah Al 'Imran, 81)
3 January, 1956
Sudan declared its independence as a republic.
20 March, 1956
Tunisia achieved independence from France.
23 March, 1956
Pakistan became the world's first Islamic republic.
7 April, 1956
Morocco declared independence.
5 February, 1956
According to the State Meteorological Affairs General Directorate, THE RIVERS MERIC AND TUNCA FROZE OVER.
13 February, 1956
FANNED BY THE WIND, A FIRE BREAKING OUT IN ANKARA SPREAD, destroying a government residence, the main court, gendarme, post office, military and state bank buildings.
April 1956
Floods in the River Seyhan and in the basins of rivers Great Menderes, Gediz and Ceyhan.