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April 2009
My Favorite Cartoon
I've always had a thing for the cartoon show Scooby Doo. It's not the greatest show in history but it's funny, has great characters and how can you not like a talking dog. Right, Raggy? (I guess the Scoob voice doesn't work too well in print but it's not really a dog anyway.)
On top of that, Scooby and I share the same initials (SD) so I have to like him for that reason too. Also with the same initials is Scooby's nephew, Scrappy Doo. Scrappy was always the one who wanted to fight the big, bad ghost no matter how stacked against him the odds were. He was always ready to challenge somebody and always believed he would win. And it's scrappy that brings this blog back to baseball.
I've called this Naturals team scrappy all year long and last night's game is maybe the biggest example we'll have of that for the entire season. Down 8-0 in the 2nd, the Naturals fashioned the biggest comeback in franchise history finally knocking off Springfield in 12 innings 9-8 thanks to 2 Cardinal errors in the 12th.
This 2009 Naturals team NEVER QUITS!
Down 8 runs in the 2nd with your starting pitcher already out of the game is a real easy time to throw in the towel but not these guys. 5 runs in the 3rd got the game a little tighter and the bullpen did its thing to give the offense the chance to rally.
Kyle Crist steadied the ship out of the pen and then Carlos Sencion (4 IP), Greg Holland (2 IP) and Chris Nicoll (2 IP) put nothing but zeros up on the board. Corey Smith would finish the comeback with an RBI double in the 5th and then tied in the 7th with a 2-run bomb.
Finally, Springfield caved in the 12th inning after Brian McFall worked a lead-off walk and was bunted to 2nd. Back-to-back Card errors sealed the deal to move NWA within a game of 1st.
There will still be some rough moments throughout the season, but this group no matter what knocks there may be against their size of level of talent or consistency is going to take the field every day and scrap and best they can to earn a victory.
That's the kind of effort that Scrappy-Doo and baseball fans in Northwest Arkansas can be proud of.
Bizarre Game
Last Night was a strange game at Dickey-Stephen Park as the Naturals beat the Travelers 2-0. It was the first shutout of the season for NWA and both teams threw it well.
In fact, the Naturals very nearly got no-hit. The lone knock came in the 5th on a blooper into short right by Chris McConnell. Travelers' 2nd baseman Ryan Mount nearly made a basket catch sliding on his back but couldn't hang onto it as he was sliding on his back.
It's great that the Naturals can win when the offense is not clicking (due in large part to great pitching) but it wouldn't hurt for the offense to pick things up again.
The bats have been either real hot or real cold of late. In the last 6 contests, the Naturals have had some of their poorest offensive games this year, with hit totals of 1, 4 and 5 in three different games. But have also had double-digit hits twice including a season-best 13 on Tuesday when they scored 9 runs against Corpus Christi.
Hopefully the offense can start to heat things up again tonight as they go for back-to-back wins over the in-state rivals.
Streaks Snapped
Big win today for the Naturals and in the process snapped a couple of streaks. Obviously, the two-game losing streaks ended but on the pitching staff, there was good news as well.
Anthony Lerew garnered the first win of the season for a Naturals starting pitcher. Considering it was the 12th game of the season and the 6th win, it took quite a while. Now the Naturals pitchers just got their pitch counts stretched out to 90 pitches so they should be able to go a little deeper into ballgames and hopefully can pick up a few more victories.
Also today, the Naturals got their first save as Chris Nicoll recorded the final two outs of the contest with the tying runs on base. There really shouldn't have been a save opportunity today, but after the Hooks had scored 4 in the 9th to pull within two, it was good to see Nicoll come in and slam the door.
Hopefully, the Naturals can carry the momentum from this win (in front of the 4th biggest Naturals home crowd ever) down to North Little Rock this weekend for the first series of the year against the Travelers.
We'll check in with an update from the Rock…until then, enjoy the off day and Go Naturals and Royals!
What a Rally!
If we've learned anything about this '09 edition of the Naturals so far, it's that this group is going to be exciting to watch on a daily basis.
They will play hard and scrap until the final out is made and if they get it done like yesterday then they are rewarded with a win.
There have been some rocky moments so far, see 11 actual errors in the first 3 games and several other plays that could/should have been made, pitching that at times has been less than expected but on the plus side, they've shown good aptitude at the plate.
This was not a team that was expected to score much offensively or show much power, but the offense has been a bright spot so far and it was the power game yesterday that created the come-from-behind win as the Naturals rallied from 4 down.
While it's still to early to call it a trend, it's good to see the homerun ball from the Naturals early in the season. Brian McFall (3 doubles, 2 HRs so far) lined a 3-run shot off the foul pole in left to cut it to a 1-run game. Then leading off the 9th, Jeff Howell homered the opposite way to tie it and cap his 4-4 day at the plate. And finally Mario Lisson's lead-off bomb in the 10th turned out to be the difference.
That's now 5 homers for NWA in 4 games this year and some very bright signs from these young hitters at the plate.
Credit also the Naturals pitching yesterday. After a rocky start, Blake Wood retired the final 10 hitters he faced and really looked dominant in those final 3-plus innings. Gilbert de la Vara and Greg Holland each tossed two scoreless innings in relief allowing for the offense to get it going.
After the way a couple of the games in San Antonio went, yesterday's victory, especially how it happened, was a very welcome feeling.
Oh, and for those of you wanting to hate on our traveling party, the weather is absolutely perfect again here today. Temperatures expected in the upper-80s, light breeze, no clouds, low humidity. And to top it off, I have a spectacular view of Corpus Christi Bay as I look out my hotel window. Enough bragging for now, talk to you later this week.
It's Only One
Last night was obviously not the the way the Naturals would have liked to start the 2009 season, but it's still only one game. Every team is going to have bad games throughout the season, but the key is not let those games linger.
5 errors and a rough outing from returning pitcher of the year Dan Cortes could rattle the team's confidence a bit, but this team seems to realize that in baseball anything can happen on a daily basis and I would expect them to be ready to go again tonight.
Former major leaguer Anthony Lerew, coming back from Tommy John surgery, starts for NWA, while the Naturals hitters will have to face San Antonio's Will Inman, who led the Texas League in strikeouts last season.
First pitch is 7:05 tonight.
Today's the Day
It's finally here! Opening Day for the Naturals!
7:05 tonight from Wolff Municipal Stadium in San Antonio as the Naturals take on the Missions. The game broadcast is available with yours truly on KURM 790 AM or on the internet by visiting nwanaturals.com
RH Dan Cortes, a postseason Texas League All-Star last year starts for NW Arkansas against RH Steve Faris for San Antonio.
Maybe Today
The April weather messed the baseball world yesterday, but hopefully things will be better today. For one, the Royals and White Sox will try to open the season again this afternoon in Chicago. Gil Meche gets the call for the Royals around 1:00 today in the Windy City.
The Naturals will try to get out on the field today as well. The cold temperatures and wind yesterday limited them to playing catch and taking groundballs outside. All other work was done in the batting tunnels next to the clubhouse.
At least the weather won't be a concern when the team hits San Antonio to open the season. The forecast for Texas League Opening Day on Thursday is a cool 90 degrees in the Alamo city. Should feel like baseball weather right off the bat.
The boys will be on the bus all night tonight as they head South to get things started. The Davis Report will check in from San Antonio and set the scene for the opener in S.A.
It's scheduled for a 7:05 p.m. first pitch at Wolff Municipal Stadium. The broadcast will be available on KURM 790 AM.
My Apologies but It's Almost Here!
Sorry for the lack of blog updates this past week, but that we've been busy. The Naturals office has been hopping this week as we prepare for the season. Phones have been ringing, tickets have been selling and on my end, the radio broadcasts are almost ready to go.
As I type this, season ticket holders are at the ballpark right now picking up their tickets. (It's not too late to get yours…visit nwanaturals.com or call 479-927-4900) And the team is coming into town this weekend after breaking Spring camp in Surprise, AZ.
If you haven't heard who is on the Naturals roster for this year, 11 players return from last season including Texas League post-season all-star Dan Cortes. The details of the roster are in this press release. This is still a preliminary roster and could have a change or two in the next few days depending on the trickle-down effect from the major league club's roster moves.
The '09 Naturals and 2nd year skipper Brian Poldberg will open a workout open to the public Monday night at 6:00. Come check out the Naturals in their first official practice as a team. See you at Arvest Ballpark Monday night!
Happy April Fools!
No jokes here, just serious work in the Naturals office as we get ready for baseball season. It's getting to "go time" as we call it with team due to arrive soon. The season officially opens in 8 days with a game at San Antonio and then of course, the home opener is scheduled for Thursday April 16th at 6:00 p.m. Arvest Ballpark is ready rock for year two of Naturals Baseball!
Some tickets are still available. You can get yours by visiting nwanaturals.com, calling tickets.com at 877-444-2637 or by coming down to the Arvest Ballpark box office.
The next week will really get things in motion for the season. Here's a schedule of how things will go.
Players will arrive in town throughout the weekend, with some driving and some flying, their arrival times will vary.
Monday is the first official activity day as player will meet the media in the afternoon, then conduct a workout that night. The workout will start around 6;00 p.m. and is open to the public at no cost.
The team will workout again on Tuesday before hitting the road for San Antonio. The bus will leave at around midnight Tuesday for the long bus ride south. Once in the Alamo city, the Naturals will workout again Wednesday at Wolff Stadium and then get a good night's rest for the season opener Thursday.
With Spring Training wrapping up, there should be a roster to announce soon. Competition for jobs has been intense this spring and there are a lot of tough decisions to be made still about team assignments and possible organizational cuts.
We will be back on the radio this season, with all 140 games airing on KURM 790 am with yours truly. Some games will also be simulcast on 100.3 FM as well.
We're proud to also announce an addition to the broadcasts for this season. Ramsay Fulbright will serve an internship this season and will provide on air assistance with pre and post game work, color commentary and some play-by-play. Ramsay is a student at the University of Arkansas in broadcast journalism and is the TV voice of the Razorback hockey team. He will be on the broadcasts for most home games.
More additions to the radio team will be annouced soon, so stay tuned.


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Mikey likes charts. He likes lists. He likes to know what's next. He would like to check boxes if given the opportunity. Anyway, he came home one day demanding to make a behavior chart after school one day. We had to do it RIGHT NOW!! And so since the whole thing was to hopefully help him behave better, I dropped what I was doing to go to Target to get some poster board and construction paper. He was pretty excited about it!
He pretty quickly got annoyed with this one and regretted wanting it, but we are still using it. I think maybe it has helped some when I remember to use it instead of just yelling. 🙂
We had a really bad morning yesterday. Hopefully the worst morning of the school year. Mikey just can't/won't do anything without me telling him over and over and over. And yesterday morning, I just lost it. I've been sick for days and Phillip was home sick too, but that's not a good excuse. Anyway, in an effort to NOT have another morning like yesterday, I decided to make this chart while Mikey was at school.
Pretty cute, right?? And this morning it worked great! He was so excited about moving his little Mikey to the next spot. He got ready quicky and on his own and I didn't have to tell him anything. Yay!! He even told me that I should have made this chart a long time ago. So while he was at school today, I decided to make one for after school too. I also decided to give his little Mikey arms and legs.
I knew that I would need some wild card type cards for the things that change from the routine of the chart. I think we'll try this and see how well it works. I need to laminate these and get some sticky tack so I can stick the orange cards on there without having to use the little Mikey.
So I guess we'll see how long this helps. Even if it only helps for a few weeks, it's worth the effort. I'm hoping this will help him get the routine stuck in his head and get used to doing things without having to be told by me. He seriously hates when I yell at him and I don't blame him, but sometimes it seems to be the only way that he follows through. We're both sick of that! For now, I'm not going to mess with a weekend one. We'll just maybe use this as we can on weekends or just not use a chart at all.

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A bill in Michigan would create a dental therapist to increase access to care for underserved populations.
This page was updated on June 13, 2016, to correct the name of the midlevel dental provider from advanced dental hygienist to dental therapist and again on June 20, 2016, to better define the role.
Legislation has been introduced in Michigan to allow midlevel dental providers, a move that follows the lead of Alaska, Minnesota, Maine, and more than 50 countries. Michigan is one of at least 15 states that are considering adding these types of providers to help address dentist shortages and increase access to care.
State Senator Mike Shirkey (R), chair of the Senate Health Policy Committee, sponsored S.B. 1013 to create the dental therapist, a midlevel dental provider, similar to a physician assistant, who can perform the most commonly needed services, such as filling cavities.
Dentists are unevenly distributed across Michigan, so millions of residents have difficulty accessing care, especially those in rural areas, low-income families, seniors, pregnant women, and children on Medicaid.1 The consequences are poor dental health for many of these vulnerable residents:
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A look back…
The Rays called up Fernando Perez and John Jaso now that the rosters can be expanded…Where is David Price?
Right now, Price is getting ready to pitch the opening game of the IL playoffs for the Bulls. But more importantly, the Rays do not have an immediate need for Price. The starting rotation is 5-deep and the bullpen is about to get an extra arm in the form of Troy Percival. In addition, there is a nice gap between the Rays and the Red Sox and the Yankees are roadkill. So King David is not necessarily needed to slay Goliath. And with two players on the DL, the Rays still have the option of adding 2 players to the roster and still be eligible for the post-season. Joe Maddon did say call-ups would happen in two waves, with the second batch coming after Durham concludes their season. So we could see Price in a week or two, but we are still not convinced that will happen…NOT NEEDED
With the Rays calling up Fernando Perez, John Jaso and Juan Salas…Are you surprised nobody else was called up?
Even though the Rays could have added as many as 15 players, nobody ever expected more than 4 or 5. Still, we are not sure anybody thought it would be as few as 3. Even though his numbers were awful, we were surprised Kurt Birkins did not get the call to add a third lefty to the 'pen, especially with JP Howell being scaled back to give his arm rest. And if not Birkins, why not another reliever? It was only a couple of weeks ago when Maddon had to use all 7 relievers in 1 game, leaving the bullpen depleted the next night…ONE MORE RELIEVER WOULD HAVE HELPED US SLEEP BETTER AT NIGHT
The Rays decided to promote John Jaso instead of Mike DiFelice despite having an open slot on the 40-man roster. The Rays then decided to release DiFelice…Was this the right decision?
We said all along that our preference was to have DiFelice on the playoff roster in place of Shawn Riggans. But Maddon has confidence in Riggans, even though the only runner he has thrown out this season came on a missed hit-and-run. The Rays say they chose Jaso because they do not plan to use the 3rd catcher as anything other than a late-inning pinch-hitter. DiFelice was released so that he would have a chance to hook up with another club for the last month. Noble, but worrisome. What happens if Riggans or Dioner Navarro goes down with an injury? Jaso is all of the sudden the Rays backup catcher. What if Navi is the one to go down? The two catchers on the playoff roster would be Riggans and Jaso, both of whom are below-average defensively…NO
It has long been hoped that Evan Longoria would be back in time for the Yankees series. He will not play in this series and there is no word when he will return…Should we be worried?
With the lead in the East and the comfortable lead over the teams in the Central, the Rays may just be holding off a few more days to make sure he is 100% and to make sure he does not aggravate the injury. On the other hand, wrist injuries are particularly fickle and there is a little worry the break is not healing as fast as the team originally hoped. If we do not see Longoria taking batting practice in the next couple of days, then he might not be back until the Rays next home stand which begins with the Red Sox on the 15th. And even then, this injury may leave Dirtbag with less power for the rest of the season…YES
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A look outside the box…
With the Rays facing the roadkill Yankees…what other series this weekend should RAYSHEADS watch closely?
There is no easy answer this week. First you have the Red Sox at home against Baltimore. Any win by the O's in that series is bonus. So let's look to the wild card. The Rays magic number to clinch at least a wild card berth is now 19. The Twins are in Toronto and the White Sox are in Cleveland. We still think the White Sox will put away the division at some point, so any loss by the Twins is a game closer to clinching for the Rays…TWINS @ TORONTO
100 wins for the Rays…
The Rays are now on pace to win 101 games and have a good shot to become the first team to ever have the worst record in baseball one season and then the best record in baseball the next season. Only one other team went from worst record to first place, the '91 Twins, and only one team has ever gone from 95 losses to 95 wins, the D-Backs in '99. However, the schedule will not be kind to the Rays. Looking at the schedule, which includes 12 with the Red Sox and Yankees and 4 with the Twins, our best unbiased guess is 15-12 down the stretch. That is 99 wins…UNDER
0.5 starts for John Jaso in September…
If and when the Rays clinch the division (not just a playoff spot), look for many of the regulars to get a day off. And with Riggans playing a lot recently, that means Jaso could get a start that day, with Riggans splitting time with Dioner Navarro with the remaining games…OVER
1.5 wins for the Rays against the Yankees…
This is not going to be easy. We don't trust the Rays young lineup against Mike Mussina tonight. Matt Garza might have to throw another shutout. Carl Pavano goes to the mound tomorrow and he has pitched well in his first two starts after missing nearly 4 years. Still, a toss-up with the suddenly ace-like Edwin Jackson going for the Rays. We feel better about Sunday. The key to us is tonight. If the Rays can get a win tonight, with a likely Red Sox win at home against the Orioles, that will be the final nail in the Yankees coffin. That would deflate the Yankees for the rest of the series. A win tonight and the Rays will sweep the series…OVER
On deck…
Almost two years ago, you did a comparison of the payrolls of just the starting lineups in a game versus the Yankees. The starting 10 of each team was $7.6MM for the Rays and $127.7MM for the Yankees…With the Rays now sitting 12 games in front of the Evil Empire in the standings, how do the starting lineups compare now?
Putting out the fire…
The Yankees will field a starting lineup tonight with a combined salary of $140MM…What happened to all the injuries Hank Steinbrenner was complaining about?
In the Yankees defense, Babe Ruth, Mickey Mantle and Lou Gehrig are unavailable tonight…WE REALLY HAVE NO IDEA
The Red Sox schedule looks easier than the Rays…Will the Red Sox catch the Rays before the end of the season?
The only way this happens is if the Red Sox win at least 5 of the head-to-head matchups. Possible? Yes. Likely? No. The Twins and the White Sox are worried about each other. If the Red Sox put a few games between themselves and the wild card runner-up, we think they will ease up on the gas a bit…NO


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October 25, 2013
"Us" v. "Them"
Pastor Stuart
Helping people is hard to do. Before you even start, it takes a lot of maturity to actually want to help people in need, because it means taking something that you have (whether money, time, resources, energy, whatever) and giving it to someone else who needs it. But then it's even hard to know how to help: you don't want to help out the "wrong" way, and you certainly don't want to make things worse. So what do you do?
October 17, 2013
Following Jesus: Crazy, Hard
Pastor Stuart
Our lives will be better the more we follow Jesus. We know that and we say it, but it's actually hard to put it into practice because the way of Jesus is totally different from the rest of the world. For the first people who followed Jesus, his disciples, he called them to a life […]


text: FireEye has pioneered the next generation of threat protection to help organizations protect themselves from being compromised. Cyber attacks have become much more sophisticated and are now easily bypassing traditional signature-based defenses, such as next-generation firewalls, IPS, anti-virus, and gateways, compromising the majority of enterprise networks. The FireEye platform supplements these legacy defenses with a new model of security to protect against the new breed of cyber attacks. The unique FireEye platform provides the industry's only cross-enterprise threat protection fabric to dynamically identify and block cyber attacks in real time. The core of the FireEye platform is a signature-less, virtualized detection engine and a cloud-based threat intelligence network, which help organizations protect their assets across all major threat vectors, including Web, email, mobile, and file-based cyber attacks. The FireEye platform is deployed in over 40 countries and more than 1,000 customers and partners, including over 25 percent of the Fortune 100.


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From World Cup XC domination to lunch ride hot laps, Specialized's S-Works XC mountain bike shoes are an essential part of your XC kit. They boast Specialized's Powerline carbon soles for jaw-dropping pedal efficiency, Boa and Velcro closures for a custom micro-adjust fit, and Specialized's famous Body Geometry ergonomics for ride-all-day comfort and support. The thermoplastic tread offers great traction when you're off the bike, and the Adaptive Fit upper supports your ankle without bulk, meaning the shoe stays light and easy to wear. Before your next dash for the podium or mid-day shred, treat your feet to these treads.
In lieu of standard Velcro straps, these shoes use the innovative Boa lacing system. The micro-adjustable Boa dials and wire laces evenly distribute pressure for a custom fit, maximum comfort, excellent pedaling efficiency and even hot-spot prevention. Plus, the dials are easy to use and rebuildable, too.


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So the Cardinal and I have a new apartment, and we'll be able to paint the walls — which I'm very excited about as this will basically be the second time in my entire life I've been allowed to choose any wall paint color. Humor me.
I made the mistake, however, of scouring interior design blogs and the current "thing" seems to be all about stark white walls that fashionable white people then dangle tattered American flags, Navajo blankets, metal hexagons, and animal skulls on. Which isn't really our thing.
I actually do like the idea of BOLD COLOR, but how bold should BOLD COLOR be?
We'll have a total of 5 closed-off rooms (2 bedrooms, 2 bath, 1 very small "den"), and then an open-space kitchen that flows into the living room by way of an intermediary area that could sort of be used as a dining room. Instead, I want to use that area for our turntable table instead, as we can just use the kitchen counter as a "breakfast bar" (I hate that phrase, so let's call it the Lunch Counter instead or something). Similar to one of these, but ours is better:
Technically I guess you could say we like a '60s aesthetic, but not quite as starkly "midcentury" as appears to be popular right now (or a couple of years ago)
So here's what I'm thinking:
For our bedroom, I want to go with a nice, rich purple. But I do want to know if anyone thinks that this might become too dark or too overwhelming over time. This is the color we're looking at:
I'm worried that it may be a little "overwhelming," especially if we're not 100% about furniture just yet.
2nd bedroom I have no real idea, except that I want to use it as a "TV room" for the time being, but I'm not sure what would work for that.
Bathrooms I'm completely blank on. They have a little bit of yellow-whiteish tile, but I feel like the pale blue/cream thing might be my best bet.
For the "den," I want to make that a reading room of the silliest order, so I'm going with this color:
But finally, the real question is — what to do with a living room/music room/kitchen/hallway mish-mash? Should that maybe just be a stark, plain white?
I feel like I'm asking too many questions, but maybe it's best if I ask you to give me a feel for how many bold vs. not bold colors/rooms I should go with, or how you might arrange your own palette.


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Brett Poirier has been guiding outdoor tours for thirty years – walking, bicycling, and canoeing – in the U.S., Central America, southern Europe and Britain. An avid outdoorsman since his teens, he has a passion for outdoor recreation and natural history. After studying outdoor recreation and natural history in college, he found his first perfect job - guiding biking and hiking tours - at an outdoor center in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. He has also worked as an interpretive park ranger in Denali and Grand Canyon National Park. In recent years, Brett has worked with VBT Bicycle Tours and Country Walkers, Wonder Walks, Blue Water Kayaking, and Point Reyes National Seashore Association. His longtime interest in the plant kingdom eventually led him to the study of soil science and mycology. Brett lives in Bolinas and enjoys studying, searching for and cooking mushrooms.
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With the expansion of Amazon has come a corresponding hiring spree, with the conglomerate adding thousands of new jobs in fulfillment. When many prospective employees consider a career in fulfillment, the expectation is simple: long hours in a warehouse, few chances for advancement, and mundane manual labor.
While this component of the fulfillment industry does exist, this viewpoint is limited. This list is a compilation of some of the many career opportunities in the fulfillment industry that job-seekers may be surprised to learn are available.
And if you find a company that dabbles in the fulfillment that seems to be a good fit, don't hesitate to contact them and demonstrate how you can add value!
1. Web Development
Many fulfillment companies cover various components of the supply chain, but there is a great deal of overlap between them. As a result of intense competition, web development opportunities abound.
Creating a stable, attractive, and client-friendly website is essential for careers in the fulfillment industry, and talented web developers are in high demand. The best part about this high demand is that you will largely have the freedom to work with a firm that will enable you to adhere to your creative vision.
2. Graphic Design
Imaging and branding go hand in hand, and with the glut of competition, fulfillment companies are constantly in need of creative people who can help message their services creatively and engagingly.
Graphic designers who work in fulfillment will also have more autonomy as opposed to other industries – many graphic designers will be the sole departmental employee in even a moderately large fulfillment company. As a result, you will have the opportunity to have a very strong hand in articulating brand direction.
3. Machine Learning
The Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence craze has already taken the automotive industry by storm, but there are far many opportunities beyond that.
Automation is here to stay, and creating systems that optimize processes or automate them intelligently is going to be vital in the future of fulfillment and logistics.
The logistics industry has its roots in optimization and data reconciliation, and algorithm development informs many inventory management systems and optimized routing systems. Cutting-edge fulfillment companies who aspire to grow and compete with industry titans will be eager to recruit talented candidates in these fields.
4. Account Management
B2B customer service is significantly different than the B2C experience that many job seekers shudder at in revulsion. Whereas B2C customer support jobs are often designed to burn out employees, B2B customer service can best be understood as account management, and this is especially true in the fulfillment industry.
As an account manager, you will have a book of clients that will identify you as the face of the company to them. You will help them understand your company's platform, build a relationship based on trust, and advocate for them to various other departments.
Account managers are key to retention, and job seekers with this skill set are in high demand at every fulfillment company.
5. Media Relations
Fulfillment companies typically serve eCommerce clients nowadays. One of the best ways to reach these prospective clients is to have your brand referenced in a blog, magazine, or podcast that they engage with.
As a media relations employee in the fulfillment industry, you will be tasked with a variety of challenges including identifying these publications, soliciting quotations from team members who can offer valuable insight, and building relationships with reporters, bloggers, and podcasters so that when the opportunity for inclusion arises, you'll be there!
Any successful fulfillment company will need someone in media relations to build and maintain this bridge.
6. Marketing
Marketing opportunities abound in the fulfillment industry. From email campaign creation to on-page and off-page SEO building and everywhere else in between, marketers are responsible for driving the message and outreach of the company and are instrumental in cultivating brand identity.
You will have the opportunity to utilize SEO and SEM techniques, understand how successful ad campaigns work, develop email outreach strategies, create content for your blog and other publications, and coordinate messaging with clients to ensure high retention rates.
Any fulfillment company without a solid marketing team will likely not be in business for very long, so this is a skill in extremely high demand.
7. Trust and Safety
The trust and safety industry is growing quickly since platforms — which includes fulfillment companies and inventory management solutions as well as the eCommerce firms they support — are increasingly besieged by fraudsters and baseless detractors whose sole aim is to tarnish the brand of a company.
As a trust and safety analyst, you will have a background in loss prevention, community management, investigation, and preferably dashboard structuring.
8. Operations
Many graduates holding degrees from Industrial Engineering and Operations Research end up working in consulting firms or the financial services industry.
However, if you want to apply your learnings, you will find that the processes present in the fulfillment industry will provide you ample opportunity to demonstrate your ability to optimize processes and procedures.
If you are the type of person who prefers to be actively involved in the process — there in the warehouse or fulfillment center with your co-workers, as opposed to spending the majority of your time secluded from the fruits of your labor — this type of career opportunity might interest you.
9. Human Resources
If you have an interest in growing your career as a human resources professional, you might find the fulfillment industry to be a good match for you. The simple truth is that fulfillment presents a set of challenges unique to the industry, but highly desirable and translatable elsewhere.
Many fulfillment companies hire a mix of salaried employees, hourly employees, and independent contractors. The labor laws surrounding these distinct groups are largely blurred, and it will be your job to communicate to executives the difference between how these groups must be handled.
You will also have the chance to impact employee and executive relations and be a major part of cultural development. With turnover rates in the fulfillment industry historically high, you will have a decent chance of making a case to a fulfillment center why they should consider hiring you as their HR specialist.
There are many other opportunities in the fulfillment industry for industrial engineers, accountants, human resources, etc. However, this list also hopefully reminds you that many industries are far more intricate and have significantly more opportunities than might ordinarily seem apparent.
Fulfillment is one of those industries, and you can find wonderful career opportunities with industry-leading companies today.


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This week, my good friends Ted Seides and Brent Beshore join me to discuss the future of asset management and a ton of fun side topics. While we are all passionate about investing, we've had very different careers: Ted in alternatives, hedge funds and fund of funds, Brent in lower middle market private equity, and my own in quantitative equities. What we share is a passion for investing in general, and a deep interest in where the asset management business and profession is going.
This conversation starts like most episodes—a somewhat structured exploration of the investing business –but morphs to be a bit more fun and informal as we work our way through a bottle or two of wine. In the later half, we talk about how to dissect an industry, common features of good businesses within a given industry, books we'd like to write, books we wish existed, and things we've learned in our careers.
Links Referenced
The Base Rate Book (Michael Mauboussin)
Books Referenced
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
How to Double Your Profits in 6 Months or Less
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World
The Systems Bible: The Beginner's Guide to Systems Large and Small
Making Sense of God: An Invitation to the Skeptical
Show Notes
0:00 – (first question) – Ted describes structural headwinds that hedge funds face today
1:20 – The future of asset management, the fee structures and where it might be heading
5:45 – What would lead to a natural tendency towards capital deployment
11:22 – Is it possible to pick the best pickers
12:47 – How much was size a factor in identifying good stock pickers
15:19 – Looking at edge and how the fight for informational edge has changed over the last few decades
19:09 – The signals that are starting to pop up today that will have some staying power
20:09 – The future of the corporation and what impact that will have on how valuation is determined
23:29 – What role industry dynamics play when making an investment decision, and why components of a core business can be attractive
27:42 – Looking at the disruption in the media business
29:43 – The way in which change impacts investing decisions
31:51 – What are the setups that would be conducive to a true long term investing strategy
36:49 – What long held beliefs have changed for everyone over the last few years that was a surprise
39:44 – The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
43:19 – Topics for books that they would explore
47:00 – Exploring the idea of business hygiene
47:10 – How to Double Your Profits in 6 Months or Less
50:21 – What book topic do you want to produce that doesn't exist yet
50:48 – Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
59:26 – The Base Rate Book (Michael Mauboussin)
1:01:17 – Will businesses be purged by rising interest rates squeezing their margins
1:07:26 – Exploring the role of intuition
1:10:26 – Who would you trust your money with
1:15:59 – What does retirement look like for this crew
1:21:20 – If you had to share a book, article, or person with unique ideas, what would you share
1:23:10 – The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World
1:24:05 – The Systems Bible: The Beginner's Guide to Systems Large and Small 1:26:06 – Making Sense of God: An Invitation to the Skeptical
Learn More
For more episodes go to InvestorFieldGuide.com/podcast.
Sign up for the book club, where you'll get a full investor curriculum and then 3-4 suggestions every month at InvestorFieldGuide.com/bookclub
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The Future of Business: When business gets smart on age…
When we are failing the old and the young, our society has come to a pretty pass. Where we are failing, however, is in an understanding of and empathy with what it means to be both 17 and 71. Today, our challenge is not so much to understand old age, or youth, as separate entities, but to understand age itself as a whole.
With far less knowledge and no data whatsoever, ancient societies seemed to both understand and accept different life stages. The 20th century recognised it. The 21st century has forgotten it. In all our technology-fuelled wisdom, we refuse to acknowledge the traits, issues, problems and opportunities of the young or the old. It is as if we were born middle-aged, with no before or after.
Within all this, it is how we perceive ageing that really needs our attention. Fear of looking at old age isn't just silly, it's dangerous, resulting in a society backing into its future, not walking into it. While individuals and society work together to deny and defy age, people in their 60s are increasingly unprepared for the new lives they are entering into. This has to change – and businesses are best placed to help with this.
A compelling factor here is that, by current projections, UK employers will need to fill 13.8 million job vacancies over the next decade, according to the National Voice for Lifelong Learning. During this period, only 7 million young people will leave school and college. In short, there is room for both young workers and old.
Through sheer necessity, this will be a great opportunity for businesses to help us ditch the model in which people are too old after 50 – meaning that all other characteristics, idiosyncrasies and personal history are erased.
Besides employment, businesses can help change attitudes towards old age in many other ways. From flexible working to mature apprenticeships, business has a key role to play in defining a new vision for later life. It needs to complement public services, civil society and all of us as individuals in taking advantage of the opportunities and to successfully navigate the challenges of later life.The public good is no longer the add-on it might once have been. Today, the public good is an essential, profitable ingredient of new business models.
The value of the older market is not to be ignored (though the advertising industry is particularly good at doing so). The over 50s make up 35% of the population and have the highest disposable income of any age group. They spend a lot on going out, on hi-end tech, and are as likely as the young to experiment with new products and services.
This older market is forecast to grow by 81% from 2005-2030, whereas the 18-59 market is forecast to only grow by 7%. Older people are very valuable to businesses as a consumer market that is currently massively under-served.
It would seem to make sense to build regular consultation with older people into a business model. This would help to respond to older customers' social and consumer needs and develop new products and services that support older people's social participation. How about an 'age friendly' audit of the business to identify how well they are meeting older customers' needs?
Reframing retirement will increasingly be down to businesses – from both an employment and consumer perspective. Success in both could help resolve a host of connected societal issues impacting the over 50s, including the need: to ensure healthier, more active lives and a greater sense of wellbeing; to make available more inclusive life-long learning opportunities both inside and outside work; to alleviate loneliness; and to plan in a more timely way for costly care provision in later life.
If old age is to get the re-brand it desperately needs, behaviour change must start with organisations large and small. In providing employment opportunities, offering relevant products and services, acting as a catalyst to social inclusion and participation, embracing ageing and all that comes with it, it will be businesses that move us from anti-ageing to smart ageing.


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8/09 Warren County Radio Club meeting
- Call to order / roll call of members present
- Members Attending: KC2TLS, W2RZ, N2VU, KC2RXD, KB2ZSP, KC2SDS
- Treasures Report
- none reported
- Secretaries Report
- request 2-3 meeting topics in advance
- Old Business
- Club Membership application review, ratification
- Done
- Discuss ARRL Affiliated Club Application
- in progress
- Club Membership application review, ratification
- New Business
- Membership Drive
- data entry from Mike's list
- Field trip to antenna site (Prospect) For next meeting?
- ?
- investigating repeater issues
- before it snows
- Charlie will
- Membership Drive
- Adjourn formal meeting for open discussion
- Len – circuit board etching
- Adam – Station Grounding
- Jeff
- Upcoming events
- Saratoga Ham Fest, County Fair Ground, Sept 12th, 9am(?) VE session @ solar building
- Adk Distance Fest - Schroon Lake - Sept 20th, contact Claude Premo, firstname.lastname@example.com, 518-891-3580
- SMARA President Michael T. Maloy reports of a large public service event, Sunday September 27th 8am in the Village of Altamont, NY for a Benefit supporting the Altamont Free Library. They are looking for 35 to 40 radio operators. I will have more details as we approach the event. If any of your members are interested, please have them contact me directly at 518-986-6186 or at email@example.com
- Field Day 2009
- MS Bike 2009
- Thanks Joe & Mike!
- NYSDOH drill
- Ironman
- Upcoming events
- Roundtable discussion
Note: We will choose the next informal meeting topic at the END of the informal meeting, rather than during the formal portion.
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Abstract: Ever stopped to think how you may be emotionally and psychologically preparing your children to fight?... Every day, without knowing it, we prepare our children for war. We do things and we say things that prepare them mentally and emotionally to fight. We do this calmly, even rationally; and we do it because we love them and because we think we're doing the right thing. Have you ever asked your 8-year old child what is his or her political affiliation? Are they an ANC supporter, or do they identify more with the centralist liberal ideology of the DA? Perhaps they consider the ANC sell-outs, and yearn more for the fiery rhetoric of the SACP? Of course, you're not going to ask them because they're far too young. How is an 8-year old supposed to understand the subtle and twisted shifts in politics? Besides,
Preparing our children for war
Reality check: The world isn't binary
Hearts on our sleeves
Abstract: How can we expect to win by 'working together for a better South Africa'? We each need to take our respective bows... As far as international sport is concerned, August was a month of mixed blessings for South Africa: We were emasculated in Sri Lanka; in Athens we scored what SABC radio news called a 'haul' of medals (less gold medals than a single swimmer - Michael Phelps - and only a few more in total than we collected 12 years ago in Barcelona); and yet we powered our way to victory in the Tri-Nations. Does this mean our cricket team are pathetic, our athletes kind of so-so, but our rugby team are kings of the world? No. But it does convey the impression that magic muti works. Think about it. Other than sheer bulk, what is it that our rugby team had
When 'gut feel' goes big
Abstract: There really is a powerful 'emotion' that comes from the stomach... Regular readers of this column will know that I have been afflicted with a most colourful malady - I tend to become infected with words and phrases. I doubt if there's a cure for it, and the last time I visited my doctor he literally threw the book at me - it was a rather large copy of the Oxford English Dictionary. Leaving his office, with said book bouncing off the back of my head, I heard him shout, "Come back to me when you have something more worrying than a dose of visceral morality!" This 'visceral morality' thing had been bugging me for a while. Whereas some words and phrases are like burrs and hook themselves to my conscience during my daily stroll through life; others are like lint, coalescing near


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How Can Pressure Washing Help Relieve Your Allergies?
Pressure washing is an interesting way to create a healthy and safe environment of your house.
This method is cost effective to increase the value of your property. You can get a surface free of tannin stains from sticks and leaves, rubber marks, irrigation rust, oil, mildew, mold, dust, and dirt. All these elements can cause numerous health problems.
What is Pressure Washing?
Pressure washing requires the application of huge pressure of water. Special pumps produce this pressure, and this spray is 100 times powerful than the pressure of a garden hose. If your house is paint free, pressure washing can be a safe method of cleaning for you. Washing your home will help you to get rid of harmful mold and numerous other contaminants that may cause an allergic reaction.
Pressure Washing for Commercial Buildings
Pressure washing will help you to clean your parking areas, house, sidewalks, swimming pools, gutters, garage floors, fences, patios, and decks. Mildew and mold don't need a warm atmosphere to thrive. Some damp environments are enough to colonize and grow, such as commercial buildings.
If you want to remove mold from your commercial building, you can get the advantage of pressure washing. Specific detergents are used to reduce the spores. Instead of waiting for gray or green spots on your walls and green organic matter on your sidewalk, it will be good to organize seasonal washing services.
Professional Pressure Washing Services
You can rent the pressure washers to complete this job, but the professionals have their washing equipment, safety gear, specialized training, and detergents. The professional knows how to protect the environment and landscaping around your building. Pressure washing for a commercial building will help you to maintain the curb appeal of your property. If you want to relieve your allergies, you can get the advantage of pressure washing.
Having an expert company pressure wash your property is a very important task. For more information about pressure washing at your home, contact the local experts at Katy Pressure Washing Pros. We are conveniently located in Katy, TX and proudly serve The Greater Houston area!


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Recall news
The following recalls have been announced:
DETAILS: Shelly's Diner Collectible Ceramics distributed by Enesco, LLC of Itasca, Ill.; sold at holiday stores and gift shops nationwide and online at amazon.com from July through September 2012. The product is part of the Department 56 Original Snow Village collection of lighted buildings and comes with a traditional power cord that lights the interior and a separate power adapter that lights the exterior. The collectible is a ceramic building shaped like a diner and is approximately 10 1/4 inches long by 6 1/4 inches high and 4 1/2 inches deep. The collectible ceramics were manufactured in China.
WHY: The diner-shaped ceramic's power adapter can overheat and melt its plastic housing, posing a fire hazard.
INCIDENTS: Enesco has received two reports of power adapters partially melting due to overheating. No injuries or property damage were reported.
HOW MANY: About 1,600.
FOR MORE: Contact Enesco, LLC at 800-436-3726 Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. EST, or visit the firm's website at https://www.department56.com/recall .
DETAILS: Classic by Easy-Rest Foam Core Mattresses imported by Easy-Rest Inc. of Portland, Ore.; sold at mattress and furniture stores from September 2011 through September 2012. The Easy-Rest "Classic" model mattresses were sold in twin and in full sizes. Some mattresses were also sold with a foundation. The mattresses have a red, zippered fabric cover over a 5-inch foam core. "Classic 5," the model number and the date of manufacture are printed on the federal label attached to the mattress. The lot number is printed at the bottom of the state label attached to the mattress. "Easy-Rest Inc." is printed on both tags. The mattresses were manufactured in China.
WHY: The mattresses fail to meet the mandatory federal open flame standard for mattresses, posing a fire hazard to consumers.
INCIDENTS: None reported.
HOW MANY: About 3,800.
FOR MORE: Contact Easy-Rest Inc. at 602-442-6609 Monday through Friday from 12 to 8 p.m. EST, or visit the firm's website online at https://www.easyrestinc.com .
DETAILS: Mattresses and mattresses with foundations manufactured by American Mattress Manufacturing of Atlanta; sold at Bren-Wil Mattress Wholesale of Millbrook, Ala.; A&R Furniture of Macon, Ga.; Ahnn's Mattress of Hampton, Ga.; Blair Village Pawn Shop of Atlanta, Ga.; E&S Mattress Discount of Columbus, Ga.; General Furnishing of Loganville, Ga.; HRC Furniture of Jackson, Ga.; Mattress for Less of Macon, Ga.; Mattress 4 Sale of Riverdale and Forest Park, Ga.; Starlite Furnishing of Chamblee, Ga.; and Mega Mattress Outlet of Jackson, Miss. from December 2010 through September 2011. The recall includes renovated twin, full, queen and king-size mattresses, and mattresses with built-in Bunkie boards. The used mattresses were stripped to the springs and rebuilt in a variety of fabrics and colors. They have a yellow tag with "American Mattress Mfg. Co., 1899 Metropolitan Parkway, Atlanta, GA 30315" on them. The mattresses were manufactured in the United States.
WHY: The mattresses fail to meet the mandatory federal open flame standard for mattresses, posing a fire hazard to consumers.
INCIDENTS: None reported.
HOW MANY: About 1,500.
FOR MORE: Contact American Mattress Manufacturing at 855-628-6344 Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. EST, or visit the firm's website online at https://www.americanmattressmfg.com .


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From MMDNewsWire.com:
As national Sunshine Week begins, Californians interested in using their laws to keep an eye on city hall and other local and state public agencies can get a free 50-page how-to guide from the state's premier open government resource center.
Californians Aware (CalAware), the nonpartisan, nonprofit advocate for "open government, an inquiring press, and a citizenry free to exchange facts and opinions," is offering--without charge through April 15--its newly published Citizen Watchdog.
This accessibly written primer on what the state's transparency laws say--with tips on how to use them confidently and effectively--is subtitled "A Bell-Proofer's Investigative Checklist."
The Californians Aware is a member of NFOIC. --eds


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Mini-Newsletter 2014 No.22
Saturday 17th January 2015: "Trident - the case against building a new generation of Trident nuclear weapons". A talk by Bruce Kent at 7.30 pm in The Friends Meeting House, 8b Summerfield Road, Wolverhampton WV1 4PR. Organised by the Fellowship of Reconciliation and Pax Christi. All welcome. Enquiries to Erik Pearse at email@example.com
Sunday 18th to 25th January: Christian Unity Week see www.ctbi.org.uk/682
Sunday 18th January: Peace Sunday - resources from Pax Christi: paxchristi.org.uk
Sunday 18th January: Homeless Sunday - resources from Housing Justice and an excellent website with advice on how to take part: email email@example.com
Saturday 24th January: Ecumenical day of prayer on the 300th Anniversary of Birmingham Cathedral, encouraging all people to participate. Please consider joining Restore refugee friends in the Anglican Cathedral from 11am-12pm on for a 'Many Voices' contribution.
Tuesday 27th January: Holocaust Memorial Day: Keep the Memory Alive (27th January marks the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau and will also be the 20th anniversary of the Genocide in Srebrenica, Bosnia).
Sunday 8th February: Day of Prayer for Victims of Human Trafficking see www.stopthetraffik.org
Sunday 15th February: Church Action on Poverty Sunday – "Vision of a Good Society" hundreds of churches will share visions of the Good Society, and raise vital funds for work to make those visions a reality. Resources from www.church-poverty.co.uk
Friday 20th February: UN World Day of Social Justice see www.un.org/en/events/socialjusticeday/
Thursdays 26th February and 12th & 19th March: "Who is fleeing persecution and seeking sanctuary?"
Restore, a project of Birmingham Churches Together, supporting refugees and people seeking sanctuary, in 3 training sessions for those interested in asylum issues or becoming befrienders. From 7.15 to 9.15pm at Carrs Lane Conference Centre, Birmingham city centre, B4 7SX.
Restore's training is offered to all those who are interested in becoming volunteer befrienders of asylum seekers and refugees. Anyone wishing to gather further information on asylum and refugee issues is also welcome. (NB. There is no obligation to volunteer with Restore at the end of the course!)
Mini-Newsletter 2014 No.21
Birmingham RC Diocese Justice and Peace Commission Lenten Retreat 2015
Here is advance notice of our Lenten Retreat to be led by Fr Brendan Callaghan SJ Jesuit Master at Manresa House, Harborne, on Saturday 21st March 2015 from 10am to 4pm, at St Paul's Convent, Selly Park B29 7LL.
It is open to everyone in our Diocese free of charge so we hope that you will want to attend; to register your intention please let me know, preferably by E-mail or by any of the means below.
Tea and coffee will be provided very generously at the Convent but please bring your own lunch.
Please pass this information to anyone who may be interested.
Postings from the Commission Administrator
August 2019


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A upright, clump forming perennial with green leaves. Height 45cm. Bright yellow flowers with a yellow central cone, are produced from July to August. Prefers a fertile soil in sun.
An upright growing perennial to 75cm high. Crimson, daisy-like flowers with bright yellow highlights are borne in July and August. Needs a fertile soil in sun.
A perennial of upright habit growing to 90cm tall. Yellow, daisy-like flowers splashed orange and red, with brown cenrtres are borne throughout summer. Needs a fertile soil in sun.


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Civil War
Short Story by: SRDarling
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Every Sunday of my life, save maybe...four, were spent outside of a church. Forteen out of sixteen years I spent each night telling my self stories to rest my mind before going to sleep rather than praying. I never believed in God, much like my Atheist parents, trapped within a Christian and Southern Baptist family. I spent my short life listening to my parents talk about their experiences in church, and about how vile religion seems to be.
Not until my own observences did I come to realize many things.
I play viola, really I do, and I play with groupes, mostly around Christmas in churches. I've played in a Presbyterian church, Baptist, German Church of Christ or something or other, and many others. I've sat through mass and such with an open mind, because I believe in my heart that is the only way to live. I'll get to that in a moment. In each of these places, I was shocked by one thing or another. I, in all honesty, find religion, all religions, beautiful and peaceful. However, I was still shocked. The ritualistic ways of a Catholic wedding, beautiful, but it's odd being the only one who doesn't take comunion. Not to mention, I thought I'd be gray before I got out. The Presbyterian, was interesting because the sermon was given my a woman, but it was about how miserable 'this life' is and about how we won't be truely happy until we die and go to heaven. She said that we should slave away this life to God so that we may thrive in Paradise. The Baptist church's sermon was about the many down falls of the Jews, which was typical I came to find out. However, I began to realize half way through the first service how odd it was, since in the arrangement of Christmas music we were playing, was Hark! The Harold Angels Sing. This may be completely insignificant to many, but I'm sure that the director of music and the pastor didn't know that Felix Mendelssohn was a Jew. The Church of Christ was about non-believers, blacks, and Jews.
I had just about lost all faith in religion at this point, except for one friend I have. A non-denominational Christian, Renaissaince faire go-er, and equestrian. Never have I met such a strong person. My dear friend, I won't mention her name, is devout as anything, prays, attends church, honestly believes that Jesus was the Messiah, and yet, is the most loving, open-minded, liberal person I've ever met. She alone reconstructed my faith in religion. She holds on to her own fatih, but does not use it to hold anything against anyone, and she is just strong. If it wasn't for her, I would share my parents' views about Christianity.
My mother was raised Southern Baptist, while my father, some denomination of Christianity. My mom, a wonderful person, is conciderably open minded, and really only has qualms with her old religion. She says often she 'just doesn't have a need for it', but doesn't bash other religions. My father, however, is vocal about his dislike for religion. All of it. He makes fun of Christians, says bad things about Catholics, and laughs at the Jews. Other than this, I normally find my father to be a very intelligent person, just very closed minded.
In my experience, religion is wonderful. Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, Catholicism, Christianity, it's all wonderful. I often times say that I love God but fear his followers. Not all of them, just some of them. I may be politically incorrect, but I target no one. I view all people as brothers and sisters, and I believe that everyone is worth something and nice deep down inside, even if their souls seem to be black and empty. I believe that forgiveness is the most beautiful thing, even when it's very hard to find. John Lennon was right, love is all you need.
Now, where am I going with all of this? Well, even from my end, it's hard to say.
A few years ago, I put aside my athiest upbringing and began to research Judaism. This sparked my interest in world religions. I was very interested at once in this particular religion. The beliefs are absolutely fitting to what I believe as a person, and I try to live my life by them. Tzedeka, man's duty to take care for his fellow humans, right down to how God is not one being, but is everyone and everything, and how when you are alive, 'this life', on this earth, is when you are with God. No one knows what lies afterwords, and it's not really important as long as you live 'this life' to the best of your abilities. There really is something behind L'Chaim as I have found.
Now, as I believe, religion is a very personal thing, and no one should be able to tell one how to study, how to believe, or what to believe. I was told the latter of the three. I was taunted for years about it, and received, pardon my French, but tons of shit for it, mostly from my dad. He told me I was stupid for it, that the only reason I turned to it was because plain old white kids don't have a culture, so I went to Judaism. I was told that even by conversion I would never be accepted.
Haha, well, silly me. Believe in something. At any rate, I studied, I read, I prayed. My parents and my self all have clinical depression, which comes and goes, and for those of you who have read my poems and short stories, probably understand now. Haha, well, Judaism and my fruitless studies helped me get through it. My mom understood, my dad didn't though. Didn't and never did, even though most of my anxiety and depression was caused by him. My mom now realizes this.
I'm not writing this to search for 'oh poor you's and wallow in self pitty, I'm writing this to clarify my own thoughts and to bring forth some statements I want people to know.
At any rate, along with this, I have quite a pechant for history. My sister does as well, and made a genology for our family. I always loved it, and have read it several times. But it never really meant that much.
I have another friend, a wonderful girl, who has been convinced since I met her, (note that she knew nothing about my studies, I tried to confine my thoughts to only a few people), that I was Jewish. I never said a word about it, she just came to me one day and was like, "You look like Anne Frank."
I responded with my normal response, as I'm used to getting random things like that from random people, "I'm not Jewish I'm Eastern European. My family's Polish and Lithuanian."
She looked at me and smiled, "shut up, Jew."
So, silly me went and looked up my last name and the last name of my great-grandmother, who's mother and father were Lithuanian. My great-grandfather was German. Well here's what I got.
(I feel like Arlo Guthrie in Alice's Resturant-- have you reabilitated yourself yet?)
More over, RARE POLISH JEWISH LAST NAMES.
Well then. Not only that, but I have a few more pieces of the puzzle.
My great-grandma and great-grandpa would not allow any German spoken in their home. They, along with that, successfully erased all of their former culture from their home. My great-great grandmother changed her name to a more American sounding name when she arrived here with her family from Europe.
So she spoke Lithuanian, but bore a Polish last name. Germany, Poland and Lithuania are all next door neighbours though. My great-grandfather was in Germany, but also bore a Polish last name.
So, Polish and Lithuanian is, as it seems, synonomous with 'Jewish'. Lihuania did lose the largest number of people in the Holocaust, not to mention the Jewish population of Warsaw alone pre-WWII was over several million, and post-WWII was only about ten thousand. My family left Europe before WWII.
It does not seem impossible to me that Jewish families who's faith was not particularly strong would abandon it completely, especially if coming to America, where white-Protestant is the norm, or is viewed as the norm.
And so, the entire point of this thing is...
I have drawn from conclusion, records, research, and family accounts that my father's side of the family is indeed of Jewish origins. So, though only a quarter, I grant myself the god-given right to study and convert. And damnit I will if I so choose, if I so feel like it. Haha, take that antagonistic forces! Geneaology has triumphed over the forces of good and prejudice.
I thank you greatly for reading, enduring if you will. But this has been bothering me. For a very long time.
L'Shalom, my lovelies.
I promise this won't interfere with my exceedingly morbid, neo-Victorian poetry.
I am proud for my origins, and, even though it's only a quarter, it's the majority of my herritige. Everything else is not more than a sixteenth or such.
Submitted: July 05, 2009
© Copyright 2020 SRDarling. All rights reserved.
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I would like to add that Catholisism is the main church of gentile Polish citizens. So, why would they become Christian when they came to the US when Catholic churches were just as redily avaliable? Hmmmm....and so the confusion continues.Sun, July 5th, 2009 10:37pm


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Net4kids, a Dutch foundation that provides specific, professional aid to children in Asia and Africa, believes that a better world starts with children. When we help children to make use of more and better opportunities they can look forward to an independent, autonomous future, a better future for both themselves and their country. This will ensure that a next generation of children will enjoy an improved life – an improvement that will benefit us all.
The mission is to offer more underprivileged children a promising future.
There are too many children in our world who have no choice, no opportunities, no options and no prospects to improve their life. Net4kids intends to help these children, with integral, sustainable and specific shelter, schooling and healthcare projects. This will prepare them to look forward to the future full of confidence.
For many years Giarte, via Net4kids, has given a large number of children in Kathmandu, Nepal, their future back. The primary objective of the school for the very poorest of Nepal Matri Griha (NMG) is to offer underprivileged children a future by enabling them to go to school in a safe environment. The children receive a primary school education and their families receive special support in health, hygiene and other issues. Net4kids regards every donation as an investment, as donors giving support may expect something in return. It's an investment in yourself, your organization and society. Giarte selected this project and remains involved in developments.
In November 2015, Marco Gianotten, within the context of Corporate Social Responsibility, travelled to Africa for Net4kids as Net4kids ambassador:
"We went on our first Net4kids project visit today, a visit to the Watoto Wema Centre in Nairobi. It's fantastic to see how more than 100 children are lovingly given shelter and schooled. Watoto Wema is a safe haven for children who had problems at home and who could have ended up on the streets. With its small-scale agricultural farming and health clinic Watoto Wema is already in part economically self-sufficient. Innovation in sustainable child care. "We brought a welcome present with us, a cake the children ate to the very last crumb."
Giarte provides many of the workshops and presentations and advice without charge, in exchange for a donation to Net4kids and other sustainable child care aid projects. We have opted for this approach as we wish to help children without investing in the overheads of NGOs. We wish to support projects in the most direct and transparent method that is possible. Net4kids' methods are completely compatible with our vision of sustainable, specific aid.


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With the 149th pick in the 2009 NFL Draft, the Ravens selected tight end Davon Drew from East Carolina.
Here's his bio:
Drew took advantage of ECU's climb to national prominence early in the season to improve his draft stock. The honorable mention All-Conference USA pick is an ideal H-back candidate because of his size and receiving skills (43 catches for 695 yards and three scores). Came to college a successful high school quarterback out of North Carolina and played quarterback his first two seasons at ECU, so he's still learning his new position. Scouts think his best football is yet to come. Had an arm span of 34 1/8 inches and a hand span of 9 1/2 inches at the combine.
High School
Helped lead Bears to back-to-back state championship appearances in 2002 and 2003 … Compiled a 30-3 record as a starting quarterback under the direction of coach Chip Williams … The Big East Conference Co-Player-of-the-Year as a junior … A two-time all-conference selection and an all-state pick during senior campaign … Completed 99 of 203 passes for 1,709 yards and 20 TDs while only suffering nine interceptions as a senior … Rushed for 492 yards and eight scores on 107 carries …An All-America selection by PrepStar Magazine … Ranked among the top 25 quarterbacks in the nation according to ESPN.com's Tom Lemming … Also rated as the 24th-best prospect in North Carolina by PrepStar Magazine … Earned a total of nine varsity letters (four in basketball, three in football and two in track).


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Video of the Day
Mange Begins With Mites
Tiny mites burrow into the skin, where they thrive and live off nutrients from the dog. It is on the skin where these microscopic mites reproduce, lay eggs and multiply. These parasites multiply at an extremely fast rate. This activity causes intense itching for dogs, and results in extreme scratching, hair loss, bald spots, and red and often infected areas of the skin.
Sarcoptic and Cheyletiella Mites
Two types of mange, sarcoptic and cheyletiella, are the most contagious, and can be spread through both direct and indirect contact with a dog or other animal affected with sarcoptic or cheyletiella mites. Sarcoptic mange is the most serious, as it can produce life-threatening skin conditions by spreading to all areas of the body. These mites are microscopic; they cannot be seen with the naked eye. Cheyletiella mites are large enough to be seen without the aid of a microscope. A dog does not have to come in contact with another dog affected with sarcoptic or cheyletiella mange to contract mange. When either of these types of mange are present, a dog that comes in contact with bedding or any tangible item that an infected dog has had contact with is susceptible to contracting mange. Dogs infected with either of these types of mange should be quarantined from other animals until they can be treated. Both sarcoptic and cheyletiella mange are highly contagious, and can affect both humans and other animals.
Demodectic Mites
Demodectic mites cause another type of mange that is generally less worrisome for most dogs. Demodectic mange results when mites from the mother are passed to their puppy. These mites live in the hair follicles, and are essentially "part of the dog." Most of the time, these mites live on dogs without engendering symptoms. However, under certain condition--such as a compromised immune system, abundant stress, or when other unhealthiness issues are present--demodectic mites may cause scratching and hair loss. Typically, dogs with demodectic mange do not need to be isolated from other animals, as humans and cats are not suitable hosts for these mites and demodectic mange is not considered contagious.
Preventing Mange
The best way to prevent mange is to maintain proper hygiene for the dog. Pet owners should provide fresh bedding, keep vaccinations current, initiate flea prevention and worming, and feed their pet a quality and nutritional dog food. Additionally, spaying females is recommended, so that hormonal changes, pregnancy and birthing do not add additional stress.
If Mange Is Suspected
Any pet suspected of having mange should be seen by a veterinarian for proper diagnosis and treatment.
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Wednesday, February 29, 2012
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Hugs to you. I hope this month and all the rest are good for you all. xxReplyDelete
I am so sorry to hear about your stressful month. Your scare with your baby, and your poor older daughter, these are such difficult issues alone, let alone together. You are an amazing mom, and such a great role model to your children. I hope you get to treat yourself after all the stress calms down, and you regroup. xxReplyDelete
I wrote you a huge reply, and my connection is so crap that it wouldn't post, so I got disheartened and left it...but I've got to connect with you on this one. It's SCARY when babies are sick, and there's been one time in particular when we took a baby to hospital, and I was sitting in the back thinking that I was holding a dead baby. Absolutely terrifying. That being said, have you ever heard of Tissue Salts? They're a homeopathic remedy for just about everything, and I've found them great with fever in particular. They just help keep it managable so the fever can do it's job and you don't have to freak out. Can also relate to a lot of people not being there when you need them, even though you think you have a large circle of helping friends, but it seems a lot of folk are uber busy and caught up in their own drama's at the moment. And bullying sucks too. Had large doses of it with no.1 daughter, and it's heartbreaking, especially when it's coming from the teachers. Good luck with all of it, sounds like you got onto it all quick as quick and are dealing, but I'm thinking of you, and I reckon you're absolutely amazing to do what you do with such style and beauty:) Keep on trucking mamma! Sending you lots of love and blessings from over here!!ReplyDelete
This still makes my heart sad every time I read it. :(ReplyDelete


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The Dietary Guidelines for Americans is a publication of health oriented recommendations that are written every five years, first debuting in 1980. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Department of Agriculture (USDA) are responsible for producing these guidelines. The objective to these guidelines is to provide "authoritative advice for people two years and older about how good dietary habits can promote health and reduce risk for major chronic diseases." These guidelines emphasize that eating right and being physically active shouldn't be viewed as a diet or weight loss program, rather as essential tools to a healthy lifestyle. These guidelines provide broad "key" recommendations and specific ones for certain age groups/populations.
Some of the "key" recommendations/guidelines include:
- Weight Management: "To maintain body weight in a healthy range, balance calories from food and beverages with calories expended."
- Adequate Nutrients within Calories needed: "Consume a variety of nutrient dense foods and beverages within and among the basic food groups while choosing foods that limit the intake of saturated fat, trans fat, cholesterol, added sugars, salt, and alcohol."
- Physical Activity: "Engage in regular physical activity and reduce sedentary activities to promote health, psychological well being, and a healthy body weight."
- Food groups to encourage: "Choose a variety of fruits and veggies each day. In particular, pick from all five vegetable subgroups (dark green, legumes, orange, starchy veggies, and other vegetables) several times a week."
- Fats: "Keep total fat consumption between 20-35% of calories, with most fats coming from sources of polyunsaturated and monounsaturated fatty acids, i.e. fish, nuts, and vegetable oils."
- Carbohydrates: "Choose fiber-rich fruits and vegetables, and whole grains often."
The Guidelines continue for a while and I just mentioned a very small portion of it. Following these guidelines would set you in the right direction for losing weight and being healthy. I encourage you to visit the website and look at all the Dietary Guidelines for Americans and start to incorporate them into your life. Don't get overwhelmed reading all of these, and possibly seeing many of their recommendations that you may not be doing…baby-steps! Slowly incorporate these guidelines and keep adding new ones once you have mastered others.
Keep in mind that these guidelines are updated every five years. New guidelines will be published in 2020.


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Perricone MD Blue Plasma Orbital Daily Peel Review
If There Is Life on Mars, They're Using This Eye Treatment
It's a well-known beauty fact that you should keep harsh scrubs or acidic treatments far away from the under-eye area, but Dr. Perricone has found a way to exfoliate the most sensitive skin on your face with its Perricone MD Blue Plasma Orbital Daily Peel ($65). The blue gel looks like something from outer space, and the technology is far ahead of its time.
Salmon egg enzyme helps peel away dead skin cells, plankton extract decreases puffiness, and something called pterostilbene brightens (it's actually derived from blueberries and has similar effects as resveratrol). Because I have a darker skin tone, hyperpigmentation is always a problem, especially under my eyes. So, anything that will increase the cellular turnover and lighten up those grayish circles is a godsend. This gel is cooling on contact, doesn't have a sticky texture, and there was no burning (which is what I expected from a peel). Now if only teleportation technology would catch up to this skin care advancement.


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Diploma of Accounting - FNS50217
CASS Training International College
Type of institution: Registered Training Organisation
Level: Pre-degree
This qualification reflects professional accounting job roles in financial services and other industries, including tax agents, accounts payable and accounts receivable officers, payroll service providers, and employees performing a range of accounting tasks for organisations in a range of industries. Individuals in these roles apply solutions to a range of often complex problems, and analyse and evaluate information from a variety of sources. They apply initiative to plan, coordinate and evaluate their own work and provide guidance to others within defined guidelines.
- 11 units: 6 core
- 5 elective
- Provide management accounting information
- Provide financial and business performance information
- Prepare and administer tax documentation for legal entities
- Process financial transactions and extract interim reports
- Prepare financial reports to meet statutory requirements
- Comply with financial services regulation and industry codes of practice
- Apply legal principles in contract and consumer law
- Apply legal principles in corporations and trust law
- Implement and maintain internal control procedures
- Apply economic principles to work in the financial services industry
- Process salary packaging arrangements and additional allowances in payroll
- Interpret and apply knowledge of taxation systems relevant to payroll
- Process complex employee terminations in payroll
- Identify situations requiring complex ethical decision making
- Establish and maintain accounting information systems
- Apply ethical frameworks and principles to make and act upon decisions
- Interpret and use financial statistics and tools
- Prepare tax documentation for individuals
- Evaluate business performance
- Process superannuation payments in payroll
- Prepare financial reports for corporate entities
- Manage budgets and forecasts
- Apply legal principles in property law
- Develop and use complex spreadsheets
- Prepare financial forecasts and projections
- Lead effective workplace relationships
- Interpret and apply knowledge of industrial regulations relevant to payroll
- Work effectively in the accounting and bookkeeping industry
- Prepare financial reports
Study information
|Mid year intake
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This homemade costume for girls entered our 2016 Halloween Costume Contest.
A word from Leslie, the 'Frozen Elsa' costume creator:
Before my daughters birthday she requested to me if i can make her an elsa's dress,i told her i'll try. When i make costumes i do not use machine all of my costume are handmade stitchches because i cannot afford to buy a machine. But with God has given me i think this is the best gift that i have given to her that day.