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Why it's critical to stop the silent cancer of many marriages from spreading through your ministry
As a Christian leader, you are more than likely dealing with
marriages on a regular basis. You may have seen marriages destroyed by adultery, alcoholism or sexual addiction. Although devastating, the dissolving of this type of marriage, due to the circumstances, makes sense.
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But there is another type of marriage that slowly dies and it's harder to put a finger on the problem. This marriage often looks good on the outside for decades. The husband and wife may have been singing in the choir or served as cell group leaders, deacons and Sunday school teachers for years. They are raising their family, and some of them are doing a variety of marriage-related ministries.
Dropping the Divorce Bomb
When this couple walks through your door, you think you're going to be talking about something light or about ministry. Instead, they drop the divorce bomb in your lap. They will probably tell you that they have tried counseling, but they didn't follow through. They don't pray together, connect emotionally, have limited touch and haven't had sex in years. They've had a no-name cancer tear through their marriage. They didn't know what to do, so they prayed and plodded along hoping it would get better. But it didn't, and it became intolerably worse.
One spouse states feeling married and alone, like a roommate. This person describes his or her spouse in ways you can barely imagine because you have seen the public image of this wonderful man or woman. You're now befuddled—and feel powerless—to stop this disease from killing a marriage. The good news is that there is a name for this cancer—intimacy anorexia. I have been treating this cancer for more than 15 years, and I've seen marriages healed and reconnected.
Intimacy anorexia is the active withholding of emotional, spiritual and sexual intimacy from a spouse. Looking normal, the anorexic can have positive relationships outside the marriage. But at home, this person is intentionally different. There are several characteristics of intimacy anorexia, so that you can become discerning of this cancer when you hear couples describe their marriage. There are also causes and helpful things that couples can do to save their marriage from eventual death.
Traits of Intimacy Anorexics
The first characteristic is being too busy. The anorexic stays so busy that there is no time for his or her mate. This person can be busy outside the home with ministry, sports, extra jobs or helping others in some manner. The anorexic can also be busy in the home cleaning the house, reading the paper, playing on the computer, making telephone calls, reading emails, having Facebook time or other projects to help justify avoidance of the spouse. This couple rarely goes on dates, and they have no consistent defined time together.
Blaming is the second characteristic of intimacy anorexia. The anorexic will blame his or her spouse for all or almost all of the problems in the marriage—leaving only one logical solution: his or her mate is the problem.
The third characteristic is withholding love. Each one of us knows exactly what makes our spouse feel loved. The anorexic knows this, intentionally withholding this from the other person to create pain. This person will say it's not intentional, and will make his or her spouse feel loved to reconcile during a fight. Once the storm is over, the anorexic actively withholds this loving behavior toward the other person.
Withholding praise is the fourth characteristic. Again, this will only show up toward their spouse. The anorexic can praise others—Christian leaders, even the couple's children—but this person will withhold praise directly toward his or her partner. Many spouses of anorexics have told me that the last time they heard their spouse praise them in a heartfelt manner was years ago.
Healing the Hidden Addiction
The fifth characteristic is withholding sex. To be clear, many male intimacy anorexics will have sex regularly, but they will be disconnected during sex. They have their eyes closed during sex, won't talk during the intimate time and prefers lights off so they don't have to connect. Some anorexics really do withhold sex, and won't have sex at all or punish their spouse before, during or after sex in some manner. Some anorexics will also feel like a roommate, brother, sister or a good friend, but not a lover to their spouse.
Withholding spiritually is the sixth characteristic. Anorexics can quote the Bible publicly, counsel others, be altar workers or even preach and pray beautiful public prayers. However, they are totally prayerless and spiritually distant with their spouse at home. They don't discuss their spiritual struggles with their spouse or minister to their mate when the opportunity arises.
The seventh characteristic is withholding feelings from their spouse. Anorexics' agenda is to avoid intimacy in their marriage. They will rarely talk about their feelings, which means sharing not just information. Anorexics can go weeks or months without sharing the heart or emotions of their spouse. This lack of emotional connection drives their partner away in anger—a technique I call "starving the dog."
Control through silence or anger is the eighth characteristic. Anorexics can control their spouse by not talking to them for hours, days or weeks. I had a couple in my office recently when it was disclosed that a Christian man didn't talk to his wife for three weeks while living in the same house. Anger can also be used to push the spouse away intentionally creating distance in the marriage.
The ninth characteristic is criticism. Anorexics will regularly point out shortcomings of their spouse. This criticism is often ongoing and regularly ungrounded, but it is effective at creating distance. Criticism may also not be spoken, but the spouse can feel the internal judgments of the anorexic mate. These criticisms are painful to live with on a daily or regular basis.
The last characteristic of intimacy anorexia is controlling or shaming about money. Anorexics can spend and do what they want with money, but their spouse has to justify expenses or gets shamed for purchases.
Stopping the Silent Killer
There are four main causes for intimacy anorexia. First, anorexics may have suffered sexual abuse in their past. Second, they can be sexually addicted to porn, engaged in self-sex behavior or involved in extramarital sex (a large factor for most male anorexics). Third, anorexics could lack attachment to the opposite gender parent. Lastly, they could have experienced no attachment or role modeling of intimacy in their family while growing up.
So what do you do now that you find this silent killer of marriage in the flesh sitting in front of you? First, while in your office, have the couple pray together out loud in your presence. Then have them share two feelings with their spouse. These feelings should have nothing to do with their spouse. Next, have them give each other two praises toward each other, and let the receiver of the praise say thank you.
Then request that they do this exercise daily, and have the anorexic initiate this. The anorexic needs to come up with a consequence if he or she doesn't initiate this daily. This consequence gives the anorexic pain for withholding instead of giving his or her spouse pain. When the anorexic has pain for withholding, then the system can change and bring healing to the marriage.
You can help this cancer from spreading through your ministry. Early assessing is much better than getting the divorce bomb.
This cancer slowly tortures the spouses of anorexics until they hit a breaking point. To evaluate someone you think may be an intimacy anorexic, there is a free test at www.intimacyanorexia.com that can be taken. If the spouse of the anorexic answers yes to five or more of these characteristics regarding their husband or wife, it is probably intimacy anorexia they are struggling with. They can also call my office and get a free assessment from a therapist over the phone.
I have known many couples riddled with this silent cancer who have been able to rebound to having a great marriage and continue to do authentic ministry.
Dr. Doug Weiss, Ph.D., is the executive director of Heart to Heart Counseling Center in Colorado Springs, Colo., and the author of Intimacy Anorexia. You may contact Dr. Weiss via his website www.drdougweiss.com, by phone at 719-278-3708 or through email at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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You're probably familiar with haptics even if you haven't heard the term. Haptics are systems that create a touch feedback as part of a computer interface. A simple example is the vibrating motor in most smartphones. The motor spins a weight, creating a vibration in the phone. This can alert you to incoming messages or augment experiences such as games or other applications.
Today, scientists are looking to create new haptic interfaces. One of those is SkinHaptics, a system that scientists at the University of Sussex developed with funding from the European Research Council and the Nokia Research Centre. The cool thing about SkinHaptics is it doesn't use any vibrating parts to create the touch feedback sensation. It uses sound.
Specifically, SkinHaptics uses ultrasonic frequencies with time-reversal processing, which sounds like something out of a science fiction film. What it means is that an ultrasonic emitter can send sound waves from the back of your hand through your flesh to create haptic feedback on your palm. To you, it would feel as if something is touching or vibrating on the palm of your hand, even though the device would be on the back of your hand.
Why would you want something like this? It could be part of a larger system. Imagine that you're riding a bike or driving a car outfitted with sensors wirelessly connected to the SkinHaptics device. These sensors can detect objects from any direction, not just the one you're looking at. If the sensors pick up something that could pose as a hazard to you, you could get an alert on your hands, perhaps even in such a way to indicate the direction of the incoming threat. It'd be like you have Spider-Man's Spidey-sense!
Another application involves turning your hand into a touchscreen. A projector could create a display on your hand. As you interact with the display, the ultrasonic emitter could create haptic feedback to enhance the experience. And because you don't need to have a surface in physical contact with your palm to create a haptic sensation, there's nothing to block the projection against your hand.
It's possible that in the future we won't be carrying around smartphones. It'll be our hands that become smart technology — and you'll be able to feel it.


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A half-hour with FDG Entertainment's Slayin has convinced me that the action role-playing games I enjoyed as a much younger man were woefully inefficient.
Imagine all the things I might have accomplished if I hadn't spent hour after hour traveling expansive maps, poking things with my pixel sword in order to gain the power to poke more powerful things. The time wasted wading through dialog or checking for more powerful equipment at the local village store could have been applied to much more productive pursuits. Why, I might be a doctor right now — an official one, and not just a guy that printed up his own doctor business cards at Fedex Kinkos.
But no, that time is gone and I'm just writer boy standing in front of an audience girl (many of you are male, but collectively), suggesting she might have a good time playing Slayin, an entire action RPG on one half of a screen.
There's not much to say about the game that you won't see in this video.
You move left and right, pointing your sword in the direction of monsters. You jump to avoid them (or at least your starter character does) or hit high-flying enemies. Occasionally a shopkeeper appears, letting you pop in for a quick upgrade before wading back into the action. Regular boss fights happen.
When you die you are dead, left with nothing but fond memories of your former glory and accumulated currency, used for unlocking new characters, controller skins and tombstones to share with your friends.
Now I wouldn't trade a grand action RPG like Secret of Mana or The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past for Slayin. It's not a replacement; it's a supplement, a means for gamers without the time to relive the classics to get the sensation of playing without the time investment. These days, with minutes at a premium, I really appreciate the condensed experience.
In closing, this right here.
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If you buy Beech-Nut classics for your little ones, check your cabinets to see if you have the 4-oz. glass jars of "Stage 2 Beech-Nut CLASSICS sweet potato & chicken". The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service announced that 1,920 pounds of baby food products may be contaminated with small pieces of glass, and they issued a recall.
The product subject to recall bears the establishment number "P-68A" inside the USDA mark of inspection. The affected product expires in "DEC 2016" and includes product numbers "12395750815" through "12395750821". These items were shipped to retail locations nationwide.
You can view pictures of the labels HERE. If you have more questions, you are to contact the Beech-Nut Consumer Hotline at (866) 674-4446.
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Cultural Event
Mar 28 2015
Running a cultural event is always enjoyable where participants reconnect to their roots and at the same time learning the new culture. Drawing, singing and playing any kind of musical instrument is rewarded.
Event Type
The Arts and Music – Exhibitions
Event Address
Friary House, Friary Park Friern Barnet Lane, City of London, Barnet, N20 0NR
Event Contact Details
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's-Hertogenbosch. It's the classy name for the city that we normally call Den Bosch. This capital of the province Noord-Brabant is a green hub in a land of marshes. It is an old town, with lots of ancient beauty. And: plenty of green spots.
I know Den Bosch (in 1184 it got city rights) quite well as I grew up next to it, I've got family roots here and my father lives in the center.
My the favourite green activities here:
- hiking in the nature around town
- making a boat tour on the partly covered canals through the historic town
- walking on the Parade, a rectangle square surrounded with chestnut trees, next to the famous Saint John Cathedral (Sint Jan) with a precious Maria chapel where people bring flowers every day
- shopping at the vivid Saturday market with flower stands
- browsing in the specialized shops, the little squares and streets and the arty spots. Come along:
Fresh in town is Oerwoud, a shop that is a jungle, a tea room, a lunch spot and sometimes a workshop or yoga space. I really like the vibe.
Find yourself a way through this cosy forest.
Oerwoud is great for small green gifts like an airplant (Tilandsia), a pin (got myself a Monstera Leaf) or a larger cactus, succulent or hanging basket with some exotic nature stuff.
Present for a dear friend.
In the Verwerstraat there's a lot to see, like the art museum. For some green inspiration the shop Westside is a recommendation.
Westside is selling a mix of retro furniture, art books, fashion, plants, flowers, and divergent paraphernalia.
- Koekwaus, a concept store where they embraced the cactus.
- Willem II is a concert and exhibition location with a nice lunch room and place to see free art.
3. Outdoor terrace in the Verwerstraat.
4. The Bastionder is one of the renewed green spots in the city.
5. Nice plant idea on a shop in the Vughterstraat, not far from Oerwoud.
6. The Dieze is the river that runs trough the city.
Great for a hike, just out of town: the marshlands mega close to the center, the Bosschebroek. See the dramatic clouds!
Hiking from the Bossche Broek to the nearby lake IJzeren Man.
In the former military terrain Fort Isabella (1617), now all kinds of small business is developing in the former barracks. There's a nice lunchroom called 't Stroopsoldaatje and there's also a restaurant, De Pure Keuken.
Green 'Duketown', as Den Bosch is called sometimes.
Pavement garden on a hidden little square.
Have you got some more green tips on Den Bosch?
Tell me about it.
Information on green Den Bosch
- Make a boat trip and discover hidden corners and 'city wild life' seen from the water.
- All the basic info you'll find on the Visit Den Bosch website (in Dutch and English).
- Nature on top! The city council is promoting 'green roofs', which means that inhabitants can ask for a fund to turn their roof into a nature spot. Take an online tour to see what's going on on top of the buildings.
- Enjoy the crowdfunding video of Oerwoud:


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Once known as the "Playground of the Stars," Palm Springs retains much of the charm of the era when it was home to some of Hollywood's most glamorous film stars.
Will You Like Palm Springs?
- Take a look at our Palm Springs Pictures.
- Palm Springs is popular with anyone who likes the desert or playing golf. It's also a center for mid-century modern (also known as 1950s) architecture and decor and a good place to shop at the furniture consignment stores.
Palm Springs also has a large gay community and is popular with gay tourists.
Best Time to Go
Palm Springs weather is best in the winter. Summers can be extraordinarily hot.
While February may seem like the perfect time to go to Palm Springs, timing can be tricky. The Date Festival, Modernism Week and the Presidents Day long weekend, sometimes happen all at once, driving hotel prices toward the stratosphere.
And then there's the dirty little secret no one in town likes to talk about: The Coachella Valley is prone to windstorms in February, which can blow so much dust around that you may feel like you're being sandblasted. And even worse, roads can be closed because of the blowing sand.
We can't find any data about how frequent this is overall, but during three out of three February visits to Palm Springs over the past dozen years, we've encountered high winds, which kicked up a sandstorm. A quick check of Youtube videos turns up at least one a year, most of them in January or February. When the Gal Pal visited in late February 2015, the weather was perfect, but it's worth checking the weather before you go, just to be sure you aren't caught in one.
Don't Miss
Lots of people like the Palm Springs Aerial Tram and your buddies may be astonished if you don't go. Find out more in the Aerial Tram guide.
More Great Things to Do in Palm Springs
There's plenty more to keep you busy in the list of Top Things to Do in Palm Springs.
Annual Events
Tips for Visiting Palm Springs
- If you use options other than our hotel guides to find a place to stay, be sure you research your choice carefully. Palm Springs has quite a few gay-only hotels and clothing-optional resorts, which may (or may not) be where you want to stay.
- Palm Springs is very busy in mid-winter. If you can go in early fall or late spring, you'll get better hotel prices, and the place will be less crowded.
- Make the most of Mid-Century Modern architecture with this guide to seeing some of the city's most gorgeous places.
Palm Springs is Great for a Girls' Getaway
Palm Springs is a great place to go with your gal pals. After all, the top thing to do is "nothing" and the hotels have some great swimming pools to lounge around.
- Shop 'til You Drop: You can spend a lot of time browsing the shops along Palm Canyon Drive downtown, or for more upscale goods, Palm Desert's El Paseo brings Beverly Hills to the desert. The Cabazon Outlets also have lots of great places to browse around.
- Spa-a-a-h! Area hotels often offer Girls Getaway packages that include rooms and spa services.
- Dance the Night Away: Palm Springs has lots of dance clubs. At Zelda's, you can book a VIP table. Or try the Palm House, especially on Decades Night where you can get your groove on to the 80s and 90s music.
- Become your own Lady Luck: Agua Caliente Casino is in downtown Palm Springs, or you can both gamble and take in a show at the Morongo.
Best Bites
A weekend getaway is a great time to enjoy a leisurely brunch. We like cheerful Cheeky's for brunch (or for breakfast anytime).
Where to Stay
The hardest thing to find out about any location is the practical information you need to find the best place to stay for your taste. Before you go looking for a specific hotel, here's what you need to know:
The greater Palm Springs area includes a string of towns that stretch along CA Hwy 111, forming an almost continuous string of habitation. It can take more than half an hour to drive from one end to the other, which can be inconvenient if you choose a hotel at one end of town and all your planned activities are at the other.
Some online reservation services will include all of them when you search for Palm Springs hotels, but at others, you may have to search by the individual town names. Roughly from north to south, they are: Palm Springs, Cathedral City, Palm Desert, Rancho Mirage, Thousand Palms, Indian Wells, Bermuda Dunes, La Quinta and Indio. Also nearby, across I-10 is Desert Hot Springs where you'll find a large number of hotels and hot springs spas.
You'll need more than just a place to sleep while you're in Palm Springs. Take a look at things to do in Palm Springs for a weekend getaway.
Find your Palm Springs lodging like a pro. Use the same process we use to choose our recommended hotels. However, you'll need to know a few things about Palm Springs hotels first:
- Palm Springs has all the big chain hotels, which are mostly what you'll find if you consult the typical hotel reservation websites. However, using those resources alone, you'd never find some of the lovely, smaller renovated hotels and motels that have much more character.
- To find out about these hidden gems, consult the hotel listings at TripAdvisor - you'll find they're often the highest-rated places around. While they all have websites, quite a few don't offer online reservations, instead asking you to email, fill out a form or call to find out if they have space available.
- A large percentage of local boutique hotels have only one bed per room. If you need more than that, be sure to confirm that the hotel has rooms that meet your needs.
- Some properties charge extra "resort fees" which are not always easy to find out about and can increase the total cost. Take extra care about this when using sources such as Priceline and Hotwire which don't give you the hotel name in advance.
- Whether or not you're looking for them, Palm Springs has a number of clothing optional lodgings and some that cater to gay clientele.
Once you've picked a few good candidates for your trip, apply all the best tricks to get the lowest possible rate.
Mid-Century Modern Lodging in Palm Springs. You'll find quite a few places to stay that have that great retro style. Use this guide to find the perfect mid-century Palm Springs hotel.
Bed and breakfast inns can be harder to find without spending countless hours going through their websites. Bedandbreakfast.com gives you a handy place to check on many of them at once.
Getting to Palm Springs
Palm Springs is 140 miles from San Diego, 107 miles from Los Angeles. Use this guide to find out how to get from Los Angeles to Palm Springs.


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Power to the people
What do you mean by renewable community energy?
Fabian Faller: The whole idea of community energy is that local people use their own resources, i.e. finances, time and knowledge, to provide the community in which they are living with renewable energy that they produce themselves. This idea typically refers to a number of households producing energy jointly for their own consumption, e.g. by jointly setting up a wind park. If all households had sufficient energy from their own production that would be great. However, industry needs energy as well, and this could be excess energy from local communities. So the potential for community energy projects is great.
And what do you do in the project?
Fabian Faller: In the partner regions of our project we are developing what we call renewable energy cooperative partnerships, or RENCOPs. Our partner organisations use a lot of the funding to hire street workers who get the equipment and time to go out and inform citizens about the opportunities of renewable energy production. They organize local events where they demonstrate to regular people and local decision makers the financial potentials of renewable energy and they point out options to form partnerships.
Are communities interested in renewable energy production?
Fabian Faller: There is big variety in the Baltic Sea region. In Denmark and Germany community energy is well developed. There are numerous German energy cooperatives. This is a specific legal entity, a cooperative business scheme in which people have the same share and the same say, independent of the amount of money they actually invest. Together they set up projects such as bio gas, photovoltaic or wind power plants to produce electricity or local district heating systems. Roughly 50 % of all renewable electricity generation in Germany is held by such community projects. In Finland there is a long history of citizens cooperating in the heating sector. In disperse settlements, people always had to team up and develop heating systems together. There, it's rather an idea of togetherness and community. In other regions, e.g. in the Baltic states or Poland there is not really much awareness of this particular type of energy production and so we thought the idea needed to be promoted.
Why do you need a transnational project for this sort of local work?
Fabian Faller: On the one hand, the project is about motivating people on the local level: we bring together the local people and develop blueprints and strategies on how to set up RENCOPs in the local or regional context of our project partners. On the other hand, people from different regions learn from each other, because we establish regular exchange among the RENCOPs. So we need more advanced and less advanced regions to have an effect - and we find them in different countries. In addition, we want to dive a bit into research: What are drivers and barriers of community renewable energy in specific communities? And on a more practical side, we try to improve the situation for renewable energy deployment based on our observations. We want to look at different situations in different countries to draw meaningful conclusions.
Are there currently any cross-regional structures for community energy in place?
Fabian Faller: No, to our knowledge in the project consortium, there has not been any exchange on this micro scale level. There is BASREC, the Baltic Sea Region Energy Commission, but this is high level policy mainly dealing with connecting grids and building large scale infrastructures. On the micro level like in our project, local people are actually starting to work together. By this, you can create a sense of community and a sense of cohesion. To get to know people that are doing the same in other countries helps bridging borders in many ways, not only in terms of content, but also in terms of particular prejudices which you might have about other countries.


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This post is part of my EuroTrip 2016 series on the blog.
Cheers from Edinburgh, where I actually have more time and less external stimulation to reflect on London, even when I experience a new place in the U.K. I thought that it would be nice, for the purposes of this blog, to take a categorical inventory of all the places I went to in London, with just a few words about each. That way, if any of you, readers, are planning a trip to the U.K. soon, this can be a quick + curated reference!
Without further adieu, here are the sights I saw, the art I experienced, the food I ate, and the libations I drank.
Regents Park – I was impressed by the number of outdoor areas there are to experience in such a metropolitan city. Regents Park was an excellent first one and led us straight to downtown.
The Lloyds – N aptly described it as "what 1980s architects thought the future would look like." The Lloyds are a series of banking buildings with cranes permanently lodged atop them. This architectural landmark literally looks like the guts and intestines of a building, with elevators and pipes on the exterior for all to see.
St Paul's Cathedral – Not too old, but exquisite to look at.
The Tower – Here began my tour of my beloved Philippa Gregory books. While the area around it was quite touristy, the sight itself was the pinnacle of well-preserved history.
The Thames – To exit the Tower, I proceeded to take a long, solo, contemplative walk along the River Thames. It was absolutely beautiful with grand bridges with even more historical significance.
Westminster Abbey – While I didn't go inside Westminster, I did get a good vibe for its grandiosity and continued function to this day. The coolest part of seeing historical monuments in London is that they are living history; many of them are still in use! Seeing as it was a Sunday, I got to see the guard of Westminster lock the gate.
British Museum – This is an ironic name for a museum because it is really a global museum of art from all around the world. I could go back ten more times and still not see everything.
National Portrait Gallery – I loved the small room Bronte exhibit that is going on until April, I believe. Located at a side entrance to the National Gallery, it is a very accessible and manageable museum to see a variety of focused art.
National Gallery – This museum was definitely on par with, if not larger, than the Met, if the Met had even older goods + art.
Victoria + Albert Museum – This was definitely our favorite because it was a museum of real, usable artifacts that spanned time periods. It all felt perfectly curated.
Fortnum + Mason – This unbelievable shop of tea, everything that could possibly be associated with tea, and beautiful stationery was actually the highlight of my whole London trip. Breathtaking + energizing = bliss.
Foyles – While this was a five-story-tall bookshop, I spent most of my time there at the cafe, which was definitely the best bookstore cafe I'd ever been to! I had a delicious crushed ginger tea! Also, the cafe is right next to the bookstore's art gallery. Very cool for book lovers, tea lovers, and art lovers alike!
Fifty-Five Bar – I got my first of two smoking cocktails there, called "The Zombie" (i.e. a flaming corpse reviver); this place is located in Camden Town.
NOPI – One of Ottolenghi's finest restaurants with unbelievable food. A highlight was getting to see the kitchen right from where we sat!
Hawksmoor – We ordered an insane full-on English breakfast for two there. When I say insane, I mean it was the fullest platter of breakfast meats (many of which I did not know actually existed) I'd ever seen! Like I said when I went to Cuba, I had to say it again…goodbye, vegetarianism.


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Bonafide launches 'Amazon-style' shopping portal
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Long-term goal, short-term goal and then Why MBA.
I would like to share a technique for answering the goals questions, Why MBA, and Why This Business School.I feel it really helps the listener follow your vision.
I call it the inverted pyramid technique.
1 – LONG TERM GOAL We start with the long-term goal – the big vision – and enroll the listener into that. This is generally the most inspiring aspect of what you have to share, so you can hook them with this. What I mean to say is that it's easier to rally your listener around, let's say, the artificial intelligence solution you plan to create to help handicapped people – than working for McKinsey.
Discuss why you are inspired to act upon this goal – answering the question WHY always reveals your values. And when you speak on the level of values, you reach your listener on an emotional level. This is important. No admissions committee member pounds the table to convince their colleagues to admit someone because of their GMAT score or a GPA, but they do for someone with whom they share common values.
2 – SHORT TERM GOAL So here is where you bridge the gap between "inspiring goal" and "current reality." In my opinion, when you discuss your short-term goal first, the reader simply doesn't know where you are going with this. The reader is missing the long-term goal, of course, but also missing the all-important experience you already possess that shows how that experience connects to your long-term goal.
If your interviewer asks for your goals, So I would encourage you to mention the how the short-term goal will take you from where you are now to where you want to be. The idea is to showcase what you DO have going on, and then mention what you are missing to achieve this big, Elon-Musk-esque inspiring vision that has opened their heart to you.
So if you are seeking to start a company that creates an Artificial Intelligence solution for handicapped people, you might mention how it would benefit you to first work for Tesla, because you would like to understand the organization that brought about a self-driving car and is working to bring them into mainstream society. You could mention how learning from the leader in the artificial intelligence space would benefit you and help your chances for success.
3 – WHY MBA I feel that this is the most effective, powerful time to talk about why you need an MBA, and why you need it now. The listener has all the context for this (goals) and is therefore, primed to learn more about how they can help. Why MBA is the business school equivalent to "AND HERE'S HOW YOU CAN HELP." When you see a Feed the Children or rescue animal commercial, they don't start with a stark plea for your money with no context, against a blank screen. They first share pictures, success stories, the upside, the vision realized. This way, you can envision success and you're emotionally invested. This motivates you to help them (or maybe not, but – this has substantially increased their chances.) Carrying through the previous example, "I am an Electrical Engineer with experience in automation, however I don't have any business or entrepreneurship skills. I would also like to learn how to lead employees to they are motivated and happy working for my company."
4 – WHY THIS SCHOOL This is like an inverted pyramid, because you start with several years out, having amassed all this experience, and then dial it from the 5-year goal to the 3-year goal, and then ultimately, where you could start with this in business school. Carrying through the previous example, "I would like to attend Wharton because it's possible for me to take UPenn classes outside of the business school. I think it would benefit me to understand some of the legal issues surrounding artificial intelligence inventions. Also, I realize that as an entrepreneur, I will need to become a marketing expert in order to be successful. I like that Wharton has strengths in both finance and marketing. They healthcare emphasis at Wharton will be helpful as my invention is likely to be marketed through those channels. And finally, Wharton offers me the ability to start my company while I am in school. I would greatly benefit from the living laboratory that is Wharton." Now that the listener is on board with your vision (long-term goal) and your practical plan to get there (short-term goal) they can appreciate your rationale for you've chosen their school. This, of course necessitates that you do the proper research to leverage the opportunity. However, if you had started the interview off with information about Wharton strengths and their offerings, it sounds like you're vomiting up the website.
Your answer to Why this School is compelling to the degree that you apply what the school offers to YOUR GOALS. Apply what they offer to your specific situation. That is vital to your chances of success.
Putting this into practice.
If your interviewer asks about your short-term goal before your long-term goal – ask them if you can first share your long-term goal. If they ask, "Why MBA" before you've had a chance to share your goals – I encourage you to ask them, "to better answer your question, I'd like to first give you some context but discussing my goals first. Would that be OK?" If you are saying to yourself, "Oh no, I am intimidated, and just want to be meek and compliant. I don't want to rock the boat, I will just answer the questions in the order given" then I say to you that business schools are looking for leaders and innovators. Not yes-men, sheep, or government workers. The interviewer is likely to respect that you have a plan, and the presence of mind to navigate the interview in a way that will best lead the listener to the information they are seeking. They are likely to respect that you are acting deliberately rather than reactively, and say yes to your request. If you sequence the questions in this way, the interviewer will see you as having a clear plan that connects the dots. You will appear to be focused and also, marketable to recruiters.
I hope this is helpful to you – wishing you the very best of luck in your MBA interviews!
Reach out if you need help.


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The philanthropist: Eve Branson
The charity: The Eve Branson Foundation
The cause: The mission of the Eve Branson Foundation is to improve the lives of women in the Atlas Mountains, through access to business, education and healthcare.
As the old proverb goes, give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime. Eve Branson, otherwise known as Richard's mum, has taken this to the next level. Instead of a man, it's a village (several, actually) in the Atlas Mountains. And instead of fishing lessons, she's teaching a community of women long-term skills to create a sustainable economy in a remote area of Morocco. It's one of the reasons that the stunning Kasbah Tamadot, Richard Branson's luxury resort exists today, as Eve's passion for the Atlas Mountains influenced her son to build the quietly elegant resort. At the local school that's been established by the Foundation, women and girls learn to make crafts, many of which are sold at Kasbah Tamadot. Eve's Foundation has brought purpose, pride and hope for a future to women and girls. It's hard not to get caught up in the emotion on a visit to the school, where you can spend time with the girls and, of course, drop some worthy coin on their beautiful handicrafts.
How to get involved: The Foundation supports itself through donations, fundraising events and proceeds from the sale of goods produced by the girls. It was a surprise to us that, while Richard is known to have a few resources himself, the Foundation critically relies on external funding. The Rock the Kasbah fundraisers in L.A., London and Toronto have brought in heavy hitters like Charlize Theron, Salma Hayek and Richard himself. New to their events calendar is a polo match in Los Angeles, in April 2014. For more information, check out Foundation website.
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50k Overpaying Loans, Payday Ad Banned, 1D Easter Eggs Reduced…
1000s overpaying student loans
A report by the Students Loan Company (SLC) has found that over 50,000 graduates are overpaying their student loans each year by an average £570.
This is because HMRC (the lovely tax people) only update the SLC once a year, even if you have changed job.
Those most likely to have overpaid are graduates who have already paid off their loan, or had a pay cut. If you think this affects you, give the SLC a ring and request a refund – you get interest, too!
Our take: £570 is a lot of money when you think about it – but many wouldn't question how much their instalments are as graduates owe a lot of money (but still not as much as the graduating class of 2015… thanks, Government!). It's great that the SLC decided to investigate the matter themselves instead of a possible scandal and independent inquiry… does that mean they really do care about us after all?
Payday loan's student ad is 'irresponsible'
An ad by the payday loan lender (who we decline to mention) has been deemed 'irresponsible' by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) because it targeted students.
The ad had no mention of the APR charged (turns out it was really high – no wonder they hid it!) and had a prize promotion to win a term's rent. The ASA have ruled that the ad can no longer appear in its current form.
Our take: Students are an obvious market as we are famous for having no money – but it's just wrong to play on our financial vulnerabilities, or anyone's for that matter. Of course it's irresponsible! Payday loans are not, and cannot, be the norm – they can encourage more debt which we don't need. Find out about the truth about payday loans here and if you're really struggling with money, there are options – we have oodles of tips and tons of guides here.
East Coast trains privatised
Virgin and Stagecoach have bought the train service provider East Coast, which had been in state control for the last five years.
It has now been renamed Virgin Trains East Coast (or VTEC for short, as it's a bit of a mouthful). There are fears that there will be reduced competition between train companies, leading to higher train fares for customers.
Our take: It's not nice knowing train fares will undoubtedly rise because of this – when East Coast was owned by the state it generated money for the tax payer and helped keep things fair. You may want to take a gander at our tips for cheaper train travel.
NUS delegates want jazz hands for applause
The National Union of Students have announced (and been ridiculed) that some delegates want to abolish clapping in case it triggers anxiety. Their suggestion instead is interesting and dramatic…. They want to use jazz hands.
As well as reducing anxiety, it would also mean there would be fewer interruptions during speeches. The question is – you clap louder when you really really agree with something, but how can you enthusiastically do jazz hands without injuring yourself?
Our take: It sounds like a joke, but the NUS are just trying to ensure members are happy – anxiety can affect someone's confidence and lead to depression, and that's not a joke.
Lidl reduce One Direction easter eggs
In case you hadn't heard – Zayn Malik has quit One Direction. Dry your eyes, lean on our shoulder – we're there for you, it's affecting us too.
But – good news! Because of this, Lidl have reduced the price of their One Direction easter egg by 20% - that's 1/5 in case maths isn't your strong point – because there are now four members. The egg now costs 79p.
Our take: Whether you want to drown your sorrows in chocolate, or just eat ALL THE CHOCOLATE, you can now do so cheaply. Thanks Zayn! We can now cope with the news of your departure.


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I cannot tell a lie—I am a Halsey stan. My appreciation for 23-year-old Ashley Nicolette Frangipane comes in waves—sometimes I'm infuriated by everything she does (for a while,) and in other moments I think, "Wow, no one has ever understood more, how is she so young?" That is...not how stans operate (I'd argue lifelong loyalty usually includes a bunch of forgiveness, and tons of cognitive dissonance over problematic faves when they do something problematic. I usually lose interest the moment something even begins to feel unforgivable.) On Friday, February 2, 2018, I am on her team again, because of her ballad "Sorry" from last year's hopeless fountain kingdom and the new music video that accompanies it.
Halsey writes great songs. She has a personality and life experience that a lot of young pop stars should be envious of—everyone loves a story. She's also whip-smart, and that comes across in her lyricism, her poetry. But Halsey is not known for her vocal virtuosity. "Sorry," is the best of all her worlds, and one she's never really entered before—here, on this track, my girl belts.
In a video, in the midst of a car crash and the destruction she caused (or is it a metaphor for survivor's guilt? There's a lot happening here) Halsey sings about her own self-destructive tendencies, falling out of love with someone who loves her, or confusing those feelings for something they're not. She clashes crystal-clear phrases to build something that is, like, super complex and frustrating, beautiful and heartbreaking.
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I also am part of the group that is instrumental in establishing a subject pool for my department. The thing is, it is hard to do research for people who do lab-based linguistics. I have connections with the Psychology Department, but one goal that I and a few other people that are in my department want to accomplish is to establish our very own subject pool. We have tried, and there are some teething issues, that we are trying to iron out.
Anyway, I don't think there's much to blog about, so I will just leave you all with a rather interesting comic, as shown above, taken from PhDComics.com which nicely illustrates what inter-disciplinary research is about. I have experienced this first-hand. One caveat, however, is that unlike the pessimistic tone that the comic has, I do know where I belong.


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When you drive onto Montpellier de Tulbagh you get transported back in time with the vineyard Chapel on the right, driving down the lane of "bloekom bome" and entering the big garden and impressive manor house.
|The Vineyard Chapel
Lucas van Tonder, Advocate of the High Court in Johannesburg, bought the property around twelve years ago to realise a dream. When you talk to him the passion and love for the farm is tangible. When you see the renovations and constant upgrading of the historic facilities you fall in love with the romance of this wine farm.
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Another step towards future growth was the appointment of young, energetic ex-Val de Vie winemaker, Harold Versfeld. He joined Flip Smith as winemaker in September 2014 and brings new ideas and plans to revamp and structure the range of wines. Although the Estate is planted with around 11 cultivars there will be a restructuring of the range of wines. The focus will be on certain cultivars that does well consistently. The Montpellier Shiraz has been one of those wines winning Gold at the recent Michelangelo Wine Awards.
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Harold and I are very excited to be working with this historic property and taking it to new heights with the passion and love that Lucas has for Montpellier. You can be sure to hear a lot more of Montpellier in years to come. Be sure to visit their website www.montpellier.co.za to read the wonderful story of the farm. One of the oldest wine producers in South Africa and still under South African ownership!! Here's to another 300 years and more...
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