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Another View -- Nick Pappas: NH teens, young adults will be hurt by a minimum wage hikeNICK PAPPAS
April 10. 2014 10:51PM
Young people in New Hampshire have always been raised to "Live free or die." We don't like when other people, least of all Washington politicians, try to tell us what to do. As a lifelong resident of this state, I was really disappointed to see representatives in our House push for a bill to raise the minimum wage.
We just passed a bill on this issue less than three years ago, but, as special interests make a national push for another wage hike, some in Concord evidently feel that we should be taking our cues from Washington and not listening to New Hampshire's own young people. We're already dealing with ridiculous amounts of student debt and the highest sustained youth unemployment numbers since World War II. My generation in particular simply cannot afford a minimum wage increase.
If the upper chamber passes its own version of House Bill 1403 without changes, it will become law. Young people should be especially worried because this bill disproportionately affects us; we're the ones most likely to lose our jobs when businesses can no longer afford to employ as many workers. Politicians often try to pretend that most minimum wage earners are trying to support families while working these jobs full-time. This is just not true — the vast majority of minimum wage earners in our state are young citizens working part-time or entry-level jobs to make some extra cash after school or just gain work experience. In case you haven't noticed, it's tough out there for young people trying to break into the labor force; a minimum wage hike only serves to raise the barriers to entry.
We often hear politicians paint a picture of millions of workers toiling away for years and years at low-paying jobs while trying to support their families. While there are undoubtedly some older Americans struggling to make ends meet, raising the minimum wage would do very little to help them, and it would do a whole lot to harm young people. Nationally, about two-thirds of minimum wage earners are under 30. The majority of minimum wage earners receive a raise within the first year. Young people looking to enter the working world have a considerably harder time doing so in states with higher minimum wages. These same young people will also go on to earn less money for the next decade because they were deprived of opportunities earlier in life.
Doesn't my generation have it tough enough already? Youth unemployment is nearly 16 percent and has remained at historic highs for the past five years. Seventy-four percent of New Hampshire college graduates are saddled with student loan debt — $32,698 on average, the second highest in the country. We're also being unfairly asked to subsidize an older, wealthier generation's health care though the Cover New Hampshire state health care exchange.
Young people in the Granite State take great pride in our freedom and independence. We are skeptical of big government programs that supposedly work to our benefit, especially those that emanate from Washington with little regard for our state's unique needs. A minimum wage hike falls into this category — it is nothing more than a tax on our future dressed up as a raise. Young people are fed up with politicians pushing legislation that takes advantage of our generation. If you're a crony politician who cares more about advancing a national agenda than representing the young people of our state, don't be surprised if you learn a lot more about unemployment yourself this November.
Nick Pappas, 28, of Manchester, is the New Hampshire state director for Generation Opportunity, a youth advocacy organization.


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Marketing your work can seem more challenging than actually finishing it, but that's just because you might not know where to start. A while back, Lauren Parker wrote a great post about creating a press in 5 Steps. With all the recent requests for guidance about self-marketing your work, I thought it would be a great time to highlight Lauren Parkers's helpful post. I'm certain that her advice will help you get the word out and get your book the attention it deserves. Enjoy!
In the world of blogs, tweets and social networking, creating buzz around your book is easier than ever. But how do you reach reporters from traditional media? The traditional press release is still a great way to let people know of your newest book project.
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AREA agreement could cost GoffstownBy KATHY REMILLARD
Union Leader Correspondent
March 11. 2013 11:22PM
GOFFSTOWN - Voters will decide the fate of an Authorized Enrollment Area (AREA) Agreement with Dunbarton and New Boston when they head to the polls today.
The current agreement among the three towns expires in June of 2014, and while New Boston has no plans to leave the agreement, Dunbarton has provided its voters with a choice for which school district will educate their middle and high school students - Goffstown and Bow.
While the school district has not specified what the tax impact would be, officials have said that losing Dunbarton students could result in $2 million loss of revenue for Goffstown.
Budget Committee member Ivan Beliveau said the tax impact could be significant.
"It's going to raise property taxes, if there isn't something done on the expense side," he said.
Beliveau said a yes vote in Dunbarton could be an opportunity for the district to reduce expenditures by $2 million, namely by reducing compensation.
"That does not mean cutting staff," Beliveau said, but added that it could include staff furloughs, or a reduction in benefits.
Beliveau said if an employee in the school district gets health insurance through a spouse, they receive compensation.
"I would eliminate the cash out, that's over the top," Beliveau said. Budget Committee member John Burt said cutting $2 million from the school budget shouldn't be hard.
"There is a tremendous amount we could tighten up on," he said. "If we can afford $35,000 for studies that don't tell us anything, 20 Smart boards and a pickup, we can absorb this if we do it right."
School Board member Dian McCarthy said the goal has always been to have Dunbarton remain with the Goffstown school district.
"First and foremost, our purpose and has been to craft an AREA agreement that would benefit all three communities," she said. "Goffstown absolutely wishes to maintain the agreement with Dunbarton and New Boston, and that's been our course of action."
McCarthy said representatives from Hooksett have toured facilities in Goffstown after expressing dissatisfaction with class sizes in Manchester.


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Mikal Simonson
District Judge 1994-2010
Southeast Judicial District
Cases reviewed
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Born in 1947, Portland, OR. Raised in Watford City, ND. B.S., Valley City State University; J.D., University of North Dakota School of Law. Engaged in civil practice/prosecutor for nine years. Served as Barnes County Judge from January 1986 until elected district judge in November 1994; reelected 1998 and 2004; defeated 2010. Activities include: Chair, Judicial Conduct Commission; Executive Committees, Judicial Conduct Commission; North Dakota Pattern Jury Instruction Commission; Barnes County Bar Association;
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Bar Association; Rotary Club. Married: wife, Mary. Two sons, Nick and Ben.
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Bill Casey still remembers vividly the day he learned he had skin cancer.
It was in June 2006 and a committee meeting he was attending on Parliament Hill wrapped up early. Instead of going back to his office, the former MP chose to go to a screening clinic being put on by the wife of the late Chuck Cadman, who had recently died of malignant melanoma.
"It's a day that saved my life," Casey said. "I could just as easily have turned left and went back to my office, but I chose to go get checked to support Chuck's wife's campaign. I didn't know anything was wrong until the doctor said 'we have a problem."
Casey underwent two surgeries to have the cancerous mole removed and he's had no further issues since then. He also battled prostate cancer a couple of years later.
"I had no idea anything was wrong. I had no symptoms, there was no itching and no irritation, but the doctor said I was five out of five. If I hadn't gotten it checked I might now be here today," Casey said.
Casey, who is now retired from politics, said he is not surprised that the most recent cancer numbers show malignant melanoma as one of the fastest growing cancers in Canada.
"I think it's a big surprise, particularly in our region. One of the biggest challenges we face here in Nova Scotia is public perception and assumption that we have lower skin cancer because of our climate," Kelly Cull, the manager of government and partner relations for the Canadian Cancer Society, said. "Not only are our rates high, but among women they're the highest in the country."
Skin cancer is the most common cancer in Canada, with an estimated 6,500 new cases of malignant melanoma and another 76,100 cases of non-melanoma skin cancers expected to be diagnosed in 2014.
Melanoma is the deadliest form of skin cancer, with 1,050 Canadians expected to die from it this year.
Cull said the cancer society is working to change perceptions about skin cancer as well as to education people on how to be skin safe when it comes to exposure to the sun and tanning beds.
Casey said he knew little about skin cancer before he was diagnosed.
"When I was a kid the first thing you'd do was get a big sunburn and you never wore anything like sunscreen," said Casey, who will be sharing his personal cancer story at Amherst's Relay for Life fundraiser next week. "You just never thought of those things. Now, you have to be vigilant all the time when you're out in the sun and if you see something that's not normal go get it checked right away.
In most people, skin cancers develop slowly and behaviours as a young person may impact someone decades down the road.
"This is about a behavioural change and a cultural shift," Cull said. "We are approaching this as a denormalizing campaign. A lot of people equate tanned skin with beautiful skin, especially among our younger demographic. These are harmful assumptions. We need to shift our thinking to our natural skin is beautiful skin."
Cull said everyone should have a sun protection plan that includes protective clothing, seeking shade, wearing sunglasses and applying sunscreen regularly.
She said it also shows the importance of continuing fundraising events like Relay for Life.
"We in Nova Scotia are very affected by cancer and we still know Nova Scotia has some of the highest cancer rates in Canada," she said. "Two in five Canadians will be diagnosed with cancer and one in four will die. Participating in relay not only helps support the research but also supports people who are living with cancer."


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21 Mar 2014 08:17:13 AM
The Pay-Per-View Buyrate Estimates for UFC 169 and UFC 170 Are Not Awesome
(Ronda Rousey might actually be the biggest star the UFC has. Unfortunately, that's not saying much. / Photo via Getty)
According to Dave Meltzer's latest pay-per-view buyrate column on MMAFighting.com, the first two UFC PPV events of 2014 didn't exactly blow the doors down.
Let's start with UFC 169: Barao vs. Faber 2 on February 1st, which featured two championship fights (including a featherweight title bout between Jose Aldo and Ricardo Lamas in the co-main event), and a solid heavyweight feature between Alistair Overeem and Frank Mir. That show took in just 230,000 buys, by Meltzer's estimates — the lowest total for a UFC PPV since last summer, when UFC 161 and UFC 163 completely crapped the bed. It's worth noting that the first time Urijah Faber and Renan Barao headlined a pay-per-view (UFC 149), it pulled in a nearly identical number. Maybe the California Kid isn't quite the superstar we've made him out to be.
Holding an event on a weekend when so much attention was focused on the Super Bowl gives the UFC a convenient excuse as to why UFC 169 may have underperformed. But it still doesn't bode well for the promotion's ability to sell pay-per-views for events headlined by male fighters under 155 pounds. UFC 169 featured Renan Barao, Urijah Faber, Jose Aldo — the only absent sub-155 star was Dominick Cruz — and they still barely cleared the UFC Mendoza Line of 200k buys.
The good news (or bad news, depending on how you look at it) is that Ronda Rousey is a bigger draw completely on her own than Barao, Faber, and, Aldo put together…Read More DIGG THIS


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Doris Cellarius - an active member of CEESP and SEAPRISE with a leadership role working on biofuel issues - was presented with the 2010 William E. Colby Award, the Sierra Club's highest award for service to the Club itself; it "honors an outstanding record of leadership, dedication, and service to the Sierra Club as typified by William E. Colby" (Sierra Club Director and Officer 1900-1949; founder of the Club's Outings program), at the annual Sierra Club Awards Dinner in San Francisco on Saturday, September 25, 2010.
In presenting the Award, Robin Mann, Sierra Club President, said the following:
Doris Cellarius has been an active and highly effective Club leader at the group, chapter, national and international levels for more than 40 years. The committees, task forces and delegations she has been involved with are too numerous to name, but Doris has been regularly trusted to chair important committees on the leading edge of our conservation campaigns. She led the way in compiling the Club's Conservation Handbook and was the primary author of the Club's policies on hazardous waste management and pest management.
Doris is one of the Club's most knowledgeable experts on toxics, endocrine disruptors and volatile organic compounds, and has helped countless activists understand and battle these deadly pollutants across the United States. She has led the Club's efforts to help clean up the Hanford Nuclear Reservation and the Puget Sound.
As a member of the Club's Water Sentinels Team since 2003, Doris has been instrumental in helping build the program from 7 project sites in 6 states to a nationwide program of projects and partnerships in more than 40 states.
Over the years, Doris has not only been a leader on important work, but in the process she has inspired and encouraged many new, engaged and educated volunteer leaders.
We are delighted to present this award to her tonight.The attached photo shows Doris (right) receiving the award from Robin Mann, Sierra Club President.


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Even if you don't have a ticket to the sold-out Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, don't worry because the festival will be broadcast live on AXS TV for the first time during the second weekend while the first weekend is free on YouTube.
Both the television and web broadcasts will feature Jason Bentley, music director of Santa Monica public radio station KCRW and host of the influential show "Morning Becomes Eclectic," festival organizers announced on April 2.
Those who want to be part of the mega festival experience can visit youtube.com/Coachella or Coachella.com for the T-Mobile stream during the first weekend, April 11-13, to watch select live performances, performance highlights, interviews with artists and footage from behind the scenes.
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Grandmother's Singer Treadle Sewing Machine
This machine is in spotless condition and never was restored. In addition, the attachment set is new and all documentation (manuals, list of prices, purchase contract , etc) Sara, my Grandmother bought the machine in February 1, 1930 in the Singer Sewing Machine Company office from Tandil, Argentina.
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- Karen dijo...
A lovely Singer with the "Tiffany" style decal set... Looks as though Grandmother did not sew a lot either! Every one of these I've ever seen has had most of the decals worn completely off - at least on the bed. A nice, nice, machine. Keep her away from moisture and too much sunlight and she will last in working condition for another hundred years!
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- la sombrilla viajera dijo...
So, you speak Spanish, don't you? It would be easier for me, but anyway, I can speak a little bit of English as well. We have a Singer sewing machine at home. It is date in 1874. My grandfather bought it in a street market, second hand. You know, we still use it to sew, and my mum says she will never, ever use a different machine, (not even an electric one). Of course, our singer is not in "spotless" condition. It is a pity, but most of its decorative motives has been erased and blurred. I can send you some photografs if you are interested, but I couldn't find any contact e-mail or so.
Great pics, and terrific the set of accesories!
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Minutes of Community Calls
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Community Meeting
|Meeting Title:
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|Link to information on Wiki:
|COSMOS Main Page
|Date & Time:
|Wednesdays, at 1000 ET / 10:00am ET
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Agenda (Jan 28, 2009)
- COSMOS schedule Review where we are in the schedule
- COSMOS Release Plan Review the weekly status. Is everything on track this week?
- Integration build announced for this week? Tests run? Can we create builds without Saurabh?
- Week 2 test status
- Iteration 2 plan Many of these say that we're not started. Do we need to look at deferring these?
- Converting Jason into the Architecture Lead and a Project Lead - done. It's now official. Jason spoke with Mark re: what his responsibilities are? (Draft below from Ruth and David.)
- Around the room
Architecture Lead and Project Lead responsibilities
- Architecture Lead responsibilities
- Lead architecture call, driving agenda
- Initiate and facilitate iteration and release content
- Drive technical quality standards (e.g. process for QA, unit test, coding standards, inspections)
- Project Lead responsibilities
- Approve deliverables as being ready for release (code, documentation, etc.)
- Represent project to PMC
- We can copy more of this from Eclipse process I would think --DLW
- Architecture Lead responsibilities
- COSMOS Legal page
- Document Review Instructions
- Draft: COSMOS Committer Responsibilities
- Roles and Responsibilities/Component Owners Document
- Weekly integration builds and status
- COSMOS Development Process
- COSMOS Weekly Project Plan
- Project Status
- http://wiki.eclipse.org/COSMOS_QA_Criteria
- http://wiki.eclipse.org/COSMOS_Performance_Testing
2009 Minutes of prior meetings
2008 Minutes of prior meetings
November 26, 2008 -- Canceled due to American Thanksgiving
February 22, 2008 - i9 Checkpoint
2007 Minutes of prior meetings
November 27, 2007 - COSMOS i7 Close Down Meeting Minutes
2006 Minutes of prior meetings
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A story in the paper yesterday said that white evangelicals do not march in lockstep and that some of them just might vote for President Obama. So, the Obama campaign is trying to woo the Christian extremists. Good luck.
I think that some of them might consider it their Christian duty to be fair to "that socialist in the White House," but in the end they'll vote for the Mittster, even though he's part of that "fringe" group, the Mormons.
More likely, in my opinion, the white evangelicals will stay home and not vote at all. They lost their boy Saint Rick Santorum and the convert Newt Gingrich. Who's left? Nobody.
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WILLIAMSBURG, October 19, 1770.
This being the day appointed for interring the remains of our late beloved Governour, at one o'clock the Church, College, and Capitol bells, began tolling; and the company repaired to the Palace, according to invitation, precisely at two. At three, the corpse being placed on the hearse, the procession began to move, in the following order, to the church, both sides of Palace Street being lined with the city militia, and those of York and James city counties. The Hearse, Preceded by two metes, and three on each side the hearse, Outward of whom walked the pall bearers, Composed of six of his Majesty's Council, and the Hon. the Speaker, and Richard Bland, Esq; of the House of Burgesses. His Excellency's servants, in deep mourning. The Gentlemen of the Clergy, and Professors of the College. Clerk of the church, and Organist. Immediately followed the hearse the Chief Mourners. Gentlemen of the Faculty. Mayor, Recorder, Aldermen, and Common Council, of the city, with the mace born before them. Gentlemen of the Law, and Clerk of the General Court. Ushers, Students, and Scholars, of William and Mary College, all having white hatbands and gloves. And then the company, which was very numerous, two and two. At the western gate the corpse was removed from the hearse, and, carried by eight bearers, the Gentlemen appointed supporting the pall, placed in the centre of the church, on a carpet of black. The altar, pulpit, and his Excellency's seat, were likewise hung with black. Then the service began; and an anthem, accompanied by the organ, was sung, conducted by Mr. Woolls. The Rev. and Hon. the Commissary then delivered a discourse, from Psalm xiii, part of the 7th verse, Put thy trust in God, which joined to the deep affection felt by the whole audience for the loss of such an excellent man, and so good a Governour, drew tears from many. Sermon being ended, the corpse was again placed on the hearse, and the company moved in the same order to the College, entering at the front gate, and so proceeding through the College to the chapel, where the corpse was deposited in a vault, the militia firing three vollies at the interrment. The coffin was of lead, with a cover of common velvet, adorned with silver handles, and a large silver plate, on which was this inscription: NORBORNE Baron de BOTETOURT, Ob. xv 0ct. MDCCLXX. AEtat. LIII.
Virginia Gazette (Purdie & Dixon) October 18, 1770
A Supplement, published on October 19, 1770.
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Lord Botetourt's funeral procession and ceremony describes the funeral customs for the equivalent of a "state" funeral in the colonies. When Colonial Williamsburg re-enacted the funeral, this description provided the necessary details for staging the elaborate procession. The silver coffin plate was stolen when the vaults were broken into in 1862 by Federal soldiers and was returned to Virginia in 1888 by a jeweler in Albany, NY who had purchased it from the widow of a Federal soldier.
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The mystery of the Big Head on Campus continues to burn across Facebook pages and Twitter feeds.
The mystery began on Monday when a giant foam-and-plastic head was pulled from the Hudson River by a Marist College rowing crew on Monday. The battered, Greco-Roman style head has sat since then on campus, attracting international attention and generating a number of social media-rooted leads:
It belongs to a sculptor who has land off the Taconic Parkway north of Red Hook.
Or, It was last spotted stuck in the trees along the Hudson River, near the railroad tracks between Tivoli and Germantown. It's nearly 20 years old.
Or, it once graced a New Jersey magazine after making an appearance at Saks Fifth Avenue.
Take your pick. Marist College spokesman Greg Cannon said Friday morning no one has claimed to the mystery bust, though he's loving the attention.
"If only I could get a fraction of the attention we've gotten for some interesting research or student accomplishments," he said wistfully. "But you take what you can get."
Theories abound on origin of giant floating head found in Hudson River
The mystery of the Big Head on Campus continues to burn across Facebook pages and Twitter feeds.


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WESTCHESTER COUNTY, N.Y. – The annual Geminid Meteor shower has been called one of the best meteor showers to see, but the best hours to see it are in the middle of cold December nights.
According to NASA , this meteor shower is the "most intense meteor shower of the year," lasting for days, and can be seen from almost anywhere in the world. The week of Dec. 10-16 is the best time to see this meteor shower, with the peak time overnight Dec. 13-14.
You'll be likely to see at least one or two meteors throughout the night, but your best chance to see large numbers will be between 11 p.m. and 3 a.m. when the constellation Gemini is fully above the horizon.
What makes this year's shower even more spectacular than usual is that there will be no moon to dim any of the meteors on Dec. 13. Without the moon, experts at NASA and Earthsky.org say, people will more likely be able to see the shower. The National Weather Service is also predicting clear skies.
The shower was first observed in 1862, and appears to be coming from the area of the Gemini constellation. On average, watchers see about 80 to 120 meteors an hour.
Your best bet to see them is to get as far away from excess light as you can. NASA will be hosting a livestream and chat during the peak hours of the Geminids.
For those who can get to a dark space, here are some tips for watching the shower:
- Stay warm. The weather forecast for the area says that the low for Thursday night is likely to be in the low 30's.
- Find Gemini in the sky. According to Earthsky.org you'll see meteors even if you can't find the constellation, but you'll see more if you know where it is.
- Give yourself some time to let your eyes adjust to the darkness.
- Stay away from bright lights. Turn off all the lights around you or go to a park.
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Midnight in Paris
I am looking to buy a perfume that is long lasting (6+ hours minimum) and something newly released. Nothing too old from stone age like fahrenheit, drakkar, cool water etc.
Perhaps something released after 2010 or so.
I am 32 years old and I will be wearing this perfume to work everyday so I need something easy on the nose and smells fresh.
To give you guys an idea of smells I like, in the past I used perfumes like Angel for men, Versace dreamer, Jean paul gartier, dolce gabbana for men and enjoyed every one of them.
Jean paul an dolce gabana for men were my favorites.
Lookin to spend $80 to $180
Midnight in Paris
After 2010 is quite a requirement, but I guess you mean "not a 1980s powerhouse". And I guess the "fresh" requirement excludes leathers, which to me are the genre with the best persistence. (Rien, Knize Ten)
Vetivers are very fresh but are usually persistent (unlike other fresh substances that are gone in no time). Perhaps Sycomore by Chanel, a fresh vetiver with a touch of woods and smoke (Encre Noire would be in the same style, though I find it a little sharper and synthetic than Sycomore).
If you take the 2010 requirement strictly, there's $$$ Portrait of a lady, a rose-patchouli that still feels very modern and clean (within the price range for the 50ml but not for the 100ml bottle).
Would Aventus by Creed fall in the criteria?
What you guys think about this one?
The 2011 batches of Aventus supposedly all last a long time. My 2011 batch lasted 13 hours.
"I am a robot and I like cheese"
Top 5:
1. Axe Kilo
2. Lectric Shave
3. Vicks Vapor Rub
4. Febreze Pour Homme
5. Preferred Stock
I just ordered a 2.5 oz bottle of Aventus by Creed from buy.com
they have it on sale for $193.
It has very high ratinngs and everyone speaks very higly of this one so I had to give it a try.
Thanks everyone for their recommendations.
I will post what I think about this one later on after I try it on.
Dior Homme Intense
Blue du Chanel
Lumière Noir pour Homme by MFK
Current Top Favorites:
1) Portrait of a Lady original formula (EdP Frédéric Malle)
2) Giorgio for Men vintage/V.I.P. for Men (Giorgio Beverly Hills)
3) Dia Man vintage edt (Amouage)
4) Anat Fritz Original Formula and Classical (Anat Fritz) - tie
4) Lalfeorosa (O'driù) - tie
6) Les Nombres d'Or Vetyver (Mona di Orio)
7) Captain vintage (Molyneux)
8) Tzora (Anat Fritz)
9) Javanese Patchouli (Zegna) - tie
9) Monsieur de Givenchy vintage (Givenchy) - tie
9) Coeur de Vetiver Sacré (L'Artisan) - tie
9) Polo vintage (Ralph Lauren) - tie
9) Patou pour Homme Privé (Jean Patou) - tie
9) Oud Shamash (The Different Company) - tie
You will be very happy with Aventus. It lasts a whole day on me and projects alot! Definetaly a great fragrance!
Top 5 Favorite Fragrances:
1) Creed Aventus
2) Creed Millesime Imperiale
3) Kiton Black
5) Gucci Pour Homme II
I used perfumes like Angel for men.
hopefully you like aventus. I just ordered a 2011 batch from a split with Kron. Can't wait!
good choice ... a wonderful experience awaits you
How could I tell which batch I bought?
I just put it on this morning.. Sprayed 3 times.. my first thoughts is it smells very much like drakkar at first (which i think is for older people, i m 32) didnt smell anything fruity like how people describe it on here. I was a bit dissapointed at first but my wife did like the smell so thats good I guess
Its been about 2 hours since i sprayed it on and I am at work, I can still smell it on me so it definitely stays on and it doesnt smell like drakkar anymore.
Frederic Malle Granium Pour Homme
Chanel Platinum Egoiste - smells like it was made in 2013, next year
Chanel Allure Homme - timeless designer masterpiece IMHO (though a lot of BN'ers hate this and find it - at best - ordinary)
Yves Saint Laurent L'Homme - longevity is only problem here, some don't get more than 5-6 hours.
Creed Green Irish Tweed - a more refined version of Cool Water, not as fresh though, but smells expensive
Creed Aventus
Creed Silver Mountain Water
Creed Himalaya
Guerlain L'Instant de Guerlain Extreme
Bond No. 9 Bleeker Street
Bond No. 9 Chez Bond - unisex version of Cool Water, very nice
Frapin L'Humaniste
Lolita Lempicka au Masculine Winter/Lolita Lempicka au Masculine Fraicheur or L'eau version/Summer
Mont Blanc Individuel - smells like Creed Original Santal, very close, closer than GIT & Cool Water
Prada Amber Pour Homme Intense
Claus The Danish Viking
Dior Homme Intense
Pure Havane
The EDP of Terre d'Hermes (2009) lasted about 14 hours on me.
Euphoria intense
Mugler Pure Havane, Creed Aventus.
everything you look for ticks boxes with this scent PRADA Infusion d Homme


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The Grimmway packing plant in Arvin, California, a drab farmworker town fifteen miles southeast of Bakersfield, is where carrots go to be reborn. After months of being coaxed and weeded in the nearby fields, the vegetables are yanked from the ground by a mechanical harvester. A convoy of open-bed trucks carries them to the plant, a cluster of tan, windowless buildings with mysterious-looking pipes and gadgets protruding from the sides. Here they are washed, sliced, sanded and emerge as "baby" carrots–the snackable treats in the cellophane bag familiar to health-conscious shoppers everywhere.
Once the carrots pass through an opening in the side of the main building, they enter a world that seems miles away from the fields and orchards outside. Dozens of machines fill the chilly air with a deafening noise. Employees wade through pools of water several inches deep on the plant's rubber floor. There are carrots everywhere–scattered on the floor, piled inside carts and vats, in heaps at the base of the metal equipment.
At the grading tables, the new arrivals float by teams of Latinas in masks and hairnets who separate the good ones from those with imperfections. Supervisors stand by to time bathroom breaks of no more than seven minutes and to scold the women if they speak or glance up from their work.
Here, surrounded by the rhythmic thwack-thwacking of the machines, Beatriz Gonzalez stands for eight hours a day and sorts. Wearing rubber gloves and down ski pants to keep her warm, she deftly reaches into the orange tide, plucking out defective specimens and tossing them into a center tub. Years of performing the repetitive motion have swollen her forearms and left her with arthritis in her knuckles. When she started working in the Arvin plant, she earned the state minimum of $6.75 an hour. Four years later, she makes $7.30.
A petite woman with fluffy bangs and rounded features, Gonzalez studied law in her native Mexico but left school for the United States in search of wealth. "Now," she says sadly, "I have neither money nor education."
Gonzalez's workplace looks like any number of packing sheds in California's fruit and vegetable industry, where the state that grows half the country's produce has for decades relied on a low-paid immigrant workforce to tend and harvest its crops. But this is no ordinary plant–Gonzalez's employer is a leader in the organic food business, an industry that prides itself on a gentler approach to the land and the people who work it. Her experience illustrates just how far the organic food movement has yet to go to fulfill its promise of a more socially just food system.
I visited Grimmway because I was curious about organic food and the people who grow it. I grew up eating vegetables from my mother's garden. Fresh-picked zucchini blossoms fried and stuffed with cheese, homemade bread soaked in the juice of heirloom tomatoes–these are some of my most vivid childhood memories. And when I go grocery shopping, I'm drawn to fruits and vegetables that look like the ones on which I was raised: real and imperfect, sometimes a little dirty, but looking and smelling like fruits and vegetables rather than waxy widgets that just fell off an assembly line. In other words, I buy organic, and I feel good about the decision, even if it means spending a little more.


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Killing creativity: An illegal 'sign' in North HamptonEDITORIAL
January 24. 2013 10:38PM
A New Hampton restaurant famous throughout New England for its lobster and ice cream is in court over a statue of a lobster holding ice cream. That never should have happened.
The Beach Plum restaurant sits across the street from North Hampton State Beach. It is a valuable community and state asset - so valuable, in fact, that the State Parks website advertises the restaurant as an amenity available at the state beach. The Board of Adjustment for the Village District of Little Boars Head, in whose jurisdiction the Beach Plum sits, feels differently, however.
The board worries that the Beach Plum's decor might lower property values. To prevent that, the board ruled that the restaurant's two statues of red lobsters holding a huge ice cream cone in each claw are signs. Lo and behold, if they are signs, the board can regulate them. How convenient.
The North Hampton Planning Board had already determined that the lobsters were not signs. "We determined that they were, in fact, not signs at all but works of art," Shep Kroner, Planning Board chairman, told this newspaper. But the village board of adjustment has different artistic judgment. It has ordered the lobsters removed, and so the award-winning restaurant has wound up in court to save its creative crustaceans.
Sign ordinances, no matter how tightly written, usually result in subjective judgments by boards tasked with enforcing the rules. The trick for these boards is to avoid using sign ordinances to stifle creativity by arbitrarily imposing the subjective tastes of a few upon everyone else. Alas, such arbitrary imposition is exactly what the Little Boars Head Board of Adjustment appears to be doing.


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My name is Margo. I have been avidly reading this site as well as a couple other bento sites. I have made bentos unknowingly for a while, and wanted to learn more things I could do for lunches.
I currently have a fit and fresh lunch on the go kit that I use, and just ordered a set of lock & locks to expand my bento containers (curse you amazon for being out of stock and won't deliver until early may!).
Since I am unemployed (yay) and working on things mostly from home, I don't make lunch as much as I used to. I have mostly been experimenting with recipes and learning how to prepare things for when I do get to make myself lunches again.
On the exciting side - I am a tupperware consultant, and have access to the best little tupperware things in the world: smidgets! Only consultants can get them, and sadly enough - they were the reason I became a consultant because I love them for bento use.
If you are not familiar with smidgets, click below for a picture:
(also pictured there are midgets, the larger container types, the size of a shot glass)
I use the smidgets for almost everything - perfect size for some wasabi. Also, I have sometimes used them for my vitamins so that I don't forget to take them with my meal! They make my bentos so much easier, because I can't find enough sturdy airtight containers to hold liquids and such.
So yeah, hello!
Hi there, welcome to Just Bento.
My blog is Food and Shoes
Hello Margo,
Welcome to the land of innovative Japanese box lunches!!!
Are midget and smidget new on the market, they would be very handy for storing and
organizing small items.
My wife would be happy to get some for her collection of garden seeds and dried herbs.
BTW, I drive a Forester X, 5 speed.
Everyone that I know that has a Forester loves it. I hope you like yours! I drive an older LX coupe, but she is fun.
Midgets are available through consultants and ordering online, but the smidgets are only available through consultants. I buy tons of them because whenever I meet anyone with bentos they end up buying some for themselves.
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WASHINGTON The automatic budget cuts set to take hold this week were roundly condemned Sunday as governors, lawmakers and administration officials hoped for a deal to stave off the $85 billion reduction in government services.
Suggestions intended to instill a spirit of compromise included bringing all sides to the bargaining table, where they could act like "adults, a presidential summit at Camp David and even a field trip to watch "Lincoln."
The alternative, as the White House outlined, is a damaging impact on everything from commercial flights to classrooms and meat inspections.
With Friday's deadline nearing, few in the nation's capital were optimistic that a realistic alternative could be found. Instead of dealing with problem at hand, both sides made assigning blame a priority as the clock ticked down.
"Unless the Republicans are willing to compromise and do a balanced approach, I think it will kick in," said Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo.
No, it's the Democrats who are to blame, the GOP countered.
"The reason there is no agreement is because there's no leadership from the president on actually recognizing what the problem is," said Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla.
The administration warned of the approaching economic fallout.
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said travelers could see delayed flights. Education Secretary Arne Duncan said 70,000 fewer children from low-income families would have access to Head Start programs. Furloughed meat inspectors could leave plants idled.
Some governors said the impasse was just the latest crisis in Washington that is keeping businesses from hiring and undermining the ability of state leaders to develop their own spending plans.
Obama has not been able to find success for his approach of reducing deficits through a combination of targeted savings and tax increases. House Republicans have said reduced spending needs to be the focus and have rejected the president's demand to include higher taxes as part of a compromise.
LaHood warned travelers could face delays because the Federal Aviation Administration is in line for $600 million in spending cuts.
"We're going to try and cut as much as we possibly can out of contracts and other things that we do," said LaHood, a Republican serving in the Democratic Obama administration. ''But in the end, there has to be some kind of furlough of air traffic controllers, and that then will also begin to curtail or eliminate the opportunity for them to guide planes in and out of airports."
There are fewer signs of urgency among congressional leaders, who have recently indicated their willingness to let the cuts take effect and stay in place for weeks, if not much longer.
The cuts would trim from domestic and defense spending alike, leading to furloughs for hundreds of thousands of workers. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has said the cuts would harm the readiness of U.S. fighting forces.
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., called those defense cuts "unconscionable" and urged Obama to call lawmakers to the White House or the presidential retreat of Camp David for a last-minute budget summit.
"I won't put all the blame all on the president of the United States. But the president leads. The president should be calling us over somewhere — Camp David, the White House, somewhere — and us sitting down and trying to avert these cuts," McCain said.
LaHood, who served as a Republican representing Illinois in the U.S. House, urged his colleagues to watch "Lincoln," Steven Spielberg's film about President Abraham Lincoln's political skills.
"Everybody around here ought to go take a look at the 'Lincoln' movie, where they did very hard things by working together, talking together and compromising," LaHood said. "That's what's needed here."


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Med Ad News Announces Episode 2 of Webinar Series for Life Science Marketers
Enabling the New Marketing Model - "How to Leverage Technology, Automation and Data to Deliver a High Touch Strategy" on March 20, 2013
Feb 14, 2013, 02:12 EST
SANTA MONICA, Calif., Feb. 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Leading pharmaceutical business and marketing publication Med Ad News, and Appature, the leading software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider for life science marketers, are excited to continue the Med Ad News Webinar Series: Enabling the New Marketing Model, sponsored by Appature. This series addresses how Marketing teams and Commercial Operations are building the capabilities needed for a new, more complex era of data-driven marketing.
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The second episode in the series, How to Leverage Technology, Automation and Data to Deliver a High Touch Strategy, Wednesday, March 20, 2013 at 12:00 p.m. ET (11:00 p.m. CT, 9:00 a.m. PT), brings together three experts from different domains – relationship marketing strategy, commercial operations, and marketing technology – to outline the key steps needed to build scalable, personalized and high touch marketing programs. Attendees will learn how to apply automation to manage the customer experience, use data to plan and optimize campaigns, and identify gaps in the organization's current marketing technology capabilities to mitigate competitive threats and ensure effective performance in 2013 and beyond.
Episode 2: How to Leverage Technology, Automation and Data to Deliver a High Touch Strategy
This Webcast will feature presentations by John Eitzen, Senior Director of Marketing Services and Commercial Projects, Shire; Daniella Koren, President, DKI Healthcare Relationship Marketing; and Bob Harrell, Vice President of Marketing, Appature. The Webcast concludes with a live Q&A session moderated by Chris Truelove, Director of Content, Med Ad News and UBM Canon, Pharmaceuticals.
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Explosion.com: "Netflix took the big leap into premium television this weekend by releasing their first ever original series, "House of Cards," by putting the entire first season on all at once. Netflix believes that viewers tend to digest shows in large lumps and that their new series should be digested all 13 episodes in a row, or as close to it as your body can handle before your brain shuts it all down and forces you to sleep. "
Well....I guess it's an exclusive show. I guess gaming can learn from that.....?
Yeah, no, this article is a stretch.
I get what the author is trying to say. At first glance it may seem scary to have such technology advancing to such a state but right now it's only used to provide seemingly what the majority wants. House of cards is decent and I like it, I prefer LilyHammer myself though, but it's not something technology can trick me into loving. I have an option not to watch whatever they think I may like. I found this article informative and I'm glad someone brought up Netflix. Why? Because I hear people talk about Amazon Prime Video being better. I finally tried it and...I am disappoint. Seriously, I don't know what those people are smoking because imo, Netflix beats it by miles. The only thing really sweet about Amazon Prime is the free 2 day shipping and that would be the only thing I'd use it for.
"Netflix believes that viewers tend to digest shows in large lump"


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They say you can never have enough defenseman, not in an 82-game NHL season which is more like a war of attrition than anything else.
Is the same true for the Flyers?
When the Flyers officially announce defenseman Mark Streit's 4-year, $21 million pact - which is expected to come on Thursday or Friday - they will suddenly have eight NHL defensemen on their roster.
In other words, if the Flyers are going to be making major trade news at some point prior to Sunday's draft in New Jersey, expect a defenseman to be involved.
"Do we have too many defensemen? I don't know," Flyers general manager Paul Holmgren said when asked on Thursday. "I don't know if you can ever have enough. But I do know that we have a lot of money tied up there."
The Flyers currently have $27,675,000 committed to seven defensemen for next season:
Kimmo Timonen - $6 million
Mark Streit - $5.25 million
Braydon Coburn - $4.5 million
Andrej Meszaros - $4 million
Luke Schenn - $3.6 million
Nick Grossmann - $3.5 million
Bruno Gervais - $825,000
That is north 43 percent of the Flyers' overall $64.3 million limit, yet defense only normally accounts for 30 percent of the 23-man roster limit in terms of bodies.
It's a number that needs to come down.
It's also a number that has a potential to rise. Defenseman Erik Gustafsson is coming off his entry-level contract and needs to be re-signed. Holmgren said Thursday negotiations had not yet begun, but added that Gustafsson's is likely to be the most tenuous out of the team's restricted free agents, even though he anticipated it wouldn't be a problem.
Gustafsson, 24, earned $900,000 last season. He's played 60 NHL games and represented Sweden in the World Hockey Championships. It's fair to suggest he's earned a raise to somewhere in the $1.2 million neighborhood.
Gustafsson's agent is Ritch Winter, who also represents Ilya Bryzgalov.
So, let's peg Gustafsson at $1.2 million. That brings us to $28,875,000 for eight defensemen - or 45 percent of the cap.
Those cap numbers also do not include Chris Pronger, who will once again be added to the long-term injury list once the season starts, thus removing his $4.91 million cap hit.
The Flyers have a problem in the sense that they're paying No. 5 and No. 6 defensemen money that second-pair defensemen should be earning. That isn't going to work in the salary cap world, where each position should be budgeted out accordingly.
So, what can the Flyers do?
Believe it or not, the best-case scenario would be that Andrej Meszaros is not healthy enough to play this season and he can be added to the long-term injury list. It probably wouldn't be that hard to convince Meszaros, 27, that he isn't healthy enough to play, since he admitted that all of his injuries have been mentally draining.
One Flyers front office member said it's "hard to count on Meszaros" after all of his injuries (Achilles, back surgery, shoulder surgery).
He still won't be fully cleared to play until late July for a surgery that was performed on April 2 to repair a torn left rotator cuff. He also missed the bulk of the 2008-09 season with the Lightning because of an injury in the same shoulder.
Meszaros is in the final year of his 6-year, $24 million pact (signed in Tampa Bay) anyway. The Flyers would LOVE to move him to another team, but that will be hard to do given his injury history - he's played just 72 out of the last 141 Flyers games (52 percent).
Let's pretend, though, that adding Meszaros to the LTIR list is not possible. And that he's 100 percent healthy for the start of the season.
The Flyers still need to shed salary.
Who's next most likely to go?
Braydon Coburn will draw a lot of interest this summer. Coburn, 28, does have a modified no-trade clause, and I believe that he can submit a list of teams to which he will accept a move.
There are rumblings that Calgary has been pursuing the Alberta-born Coburn, who also spends the bulk of his time in the summer there. Such a deal could include Calgary's No. 6 overall pick.
Coburn, the longest-tenured Flyer and one of only four remaining from the 2010 Stanley Cup final, seems like the wrong guy to trade. For a team that lacks speed, he is probably the Flyers' best skating defenseman (other than maybe Streit) and he isn't old.
Fans may gripe about his salary cap hit ($4.5 million) or his inconsistency on the ice, something that rankles the Flyers, but he might be one of those players that you regret trading in the long run.
Understandably, Coburn is the Flyers' easiest defenseman to move. Luke Schenn follows next in that category, but I don't get the sense the Flyers have much interest in moving Schenn, who played quite well toward the end of his first season in Philadelphia and has a manageable salary cap number.
A defenseman the Flyers should consider moving to make cap space is Nick Grossmann. Yes, Grossmann was the Flyers' best shot-blocker when he was in the lineup, but he has also missed a lot of games because of injury.
Grossmann missed the final 18 games of last season with a concussion. Holmgren said Grossmann is now cleared, but it was serious enough that Grossmann did visit Pittsburgh concussion specialist Dr. Micky Collins twice for consultation. He also missed time with a knee injury during his first run with the Flyers.
Grossmann, 28, is not old. But he isn't fleet of foot, either. And a premium should be placed on speed, something the Flyers were clearly lacking.
The Flyers probably jumped the gun a bit on signing Grossmann to a 4-year, $14 million extension just weeks after acquiring him in 2012, one that included a modified no-trade clause.
So, to recap, here are the Flyers' options to trade:
Andrej Meszaros - often injured.
Braydon Coburn - modified no-trade clause.
Nick Grossmann - often injured, modified no-trade clause.
It doesn't look all that promising. If I had to bet, I'd say Coburn is the most likely to be changing addresses.
It's just one thing to keep on an eye on this weekend at the NHL draft.
For the latest updates, follow Frank Seravalli on Twitter: @DNFlyers
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Moritz Götze (Halle)
Berlin History
Berlin History: for adventurous discovery, both in and outside the room. A drawing over the bed features ironic motifs of Berlin in the artist's hallmark pop-art style. This is opposite a reliquary with real objects from the Prussian past to the present day, framed by the artist within enamelled paintings. By the window: an enamel skyline created by the artist with all the key orientation points, including the top floor of the hotel with a view of the Spree, the Reichstag building and the Chancellery. Next to the window is a shelf with selected Berlin literature and a telescope for remotely discovering the history-laden surroundings.


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Abnormal cells present in the uterine lining
Dear OncoLink "Ask The Experts,"
If I have abnormal cells present in my uterine lining, do I need to be concerned for my partner to be exposed or can he contract anything during intercourse? I am going for a second opinion by recommendation of my GYN physician, so I haven't been diagnosed with cancer as of yet.
Christina S. Chu, MD, Assistant Professor of the Division of Gynecologic Oncology at the University of Pennsylvania Health System, responds:
Without knowing the diagnosis of the "abnormal" cells, it is difficult to answer your question. However, if you underwent an endometrial biopsy, any abnormalities that were detected are unlikely to be of a contagious, infectious nature. Endometrial biopsies are usually done to check the uterine lining in cases of abnormal vaginal bleeding, to rule out cancer and hyperplasia (precancer). In the absence of those two things, many other problems may cause abnormal bleeding. Some of these include endometrial polyps, uterine fibroids, anovulatory cycles, endometrial atrophy (very thinned lining in the post-menopausal woman), and endometritis. Endometritis is inflammation or infection in the lining of the uterus which may be treated with antibiotics. However, this is generally not considered a sexually transmitted infection that you can pass to your partner.


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Self Development
Purposeful Work: The Six Barriers To Fulfilment In The Workplace
If this is the case, then why do so many individuals go to work without purpose?
What drives people to be purposeful in their work?
All organisations desperately require each of us to come to work to give our very best because we love what we do – using our hands, minds and hearts – and take others along on the journey. This is the essence of work that is purposeful and meaningful.
If this is the case, then why do so many individuals go to work without purpose?
Barrier 1: Personal issues – comfort zones, our trap
When opportunities for personal evolution come knocking at our door, rationally we may be aware that it is in our best interests to evolve, but emotionally we may be resistant.
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It is important to know that there will be moments when you feel very uncertain and want to turn back. This is, however, the time when you need to get very clear and focused on your goal, have a great plan, a strong support system and want to reach your destination with every ounce of your being.
Your hunger for it has to be greater than your fears.
Barrier 2: Doing a job rather than fulfilling your passion
Time is our most valuable asset. You should not feel as if you are mindlessly wasting your life away.
Enjoying what you do can make you feel unstoppable and as if nothing can obstruct you from achieving greatness.
Your passion ignites your work and like a rocket, it accelerates you past any road blocks.
You accept obstacles as part of life and find creative solutions for dealing with them. Search for something you are passionate about and don't give up until you find it.
Barrier 3: Ego
Arrogance, pride and ego can destroy a team, a family, a career, an organisation or a relationship. They are mere smokescreens that try to cover up low self-esteem.
On the other hand, although humility is a beautiful attribute, leading with too much humility can be seen as a weakness. It is important to maintain a balance of well-founded confidence.
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Barrier 4: Lack of trust
Trust is the foundation of any successful relationship, both personal and professional and when it is broken, it is extremely difficult to repair. A workforce that has high trust is a more engaged and committed workforce, which in turn sparks innovation, high performance and increased revenue.
If you are suspicious of others and their intentions, you are less likely to share information. This affects how you show up and, ultimately, it negatively affects the organisation that you work for.
Barrier 5: Poor relationships
In the best sense, the quality of your relationships at work is meant to contribute to an "all hands on deck" mentality where everyone focuses on achieving results. In the worst sense, poor-quality working relationships divert attention from results.
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The following are three ways to proactively develop positive work relationships:
- Reinforce positive behaviours and outcomes – be proactive in letting your peers know when a successful collaboration resulted in a positive outcome.
- Influence – go out of your way to show an interest in your peers and their work, assist them and build stronger working relationships.
- Hunt for opportunities to communicate face-to-face. Not only is this the best form of communication, it also demonstrates that they are worthy of your time.
Barrier 6: Lack of motivation (recognition)
Motivation is the force that converts intention into action. In a work setting, it is the drive that helps maintain goal-directed performance. It is crucial to listen and respond to team members' needs to ensure high levels of engagement throughout the organisation.
Spotting the warning signs of demotivation early and addressing them quickly can help encourage contentment and foster talent retention.
Do others recognise passion, love and joy as you go about your work? What do you need to do to display those traits more obviously?
Being purposeful at work might be lying dormant already, but you need to connect to it. You need to understand what it looks like to be purposeful in your specific situation and work on getting there!
Self Development
Re-engineer Your Performance Culture To Avoid Disruption
52% of the companies on the Fortune 500 in the year 2000 no longer exist today. Simply put, they were disrupted. If you want to survive and thrive, you need to learn to be the disruptor, and that starts with your employees.
"It's been discovered that traditional performance reviews trigger the same threat networks in the brain as those that are triggered when we are being attacked by a lion in the wild."
Developing a performance culture
Performance management is not just about a system, it's a culture. At its very core it shows what a company values and what it does not. It's a means through which we reward and encourage certain behaviour and provides a process that enables us to correct behaviour that is not considered helpful in the business.
If a company rewards both quality of client relationships and sales targets for example, it displays a different culture to a company that only rewards sales targets. The way in which companies reward behaviour, be it individual bonuses, team bonuses or incentive trips demonstrates what values they hold.
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It's therefore imperative that businesses begin this process by first defining what they want their performance culture to look like. What does 'good' look like and how do we recognise it? I recently read that the best way for top talent to figure out if they want to work for a potential employer is to ask the interviewer how they reward and recognise talent.
This will indicate the type of culture a business has and whether you may be a good fit. From a business perspective, it will determine what types of employees you attract, and how customers are treated by your organisation.
There are a lot of reasons why more than half of the Fortune 500 companies from the year 2000 no longer exist today, but one of the most important is that their decline is simply indicative of disruptive times.
In disruptive times we experience changes in the workplace that fundamentally shake up and change how we do business. The most disruptive times force us to take an honest look at ourselves and reconsider what we need to change to survive. Those that do not adapt often die. But it's also true that in moments like these industries, societies and cultures move forward.
Be in-tune with your company's performance culture
One of the biggest areas of reflection for businesses in recent years has been our traditional methods of managing performance. Performance management is considered to be one of the most important functions of a business, no matter the industry or size.
The outcomes of how we manage performance may be the most impactful events in how we get the best out of people, define and execute strategy and ultimately survive as a business. As times change and we move into the next industrial revolution, the pressure has started to mount on many companies that have to reengineer a dated system.
They are being asked to align it with the actual dynamics of work and reflect the nuances of how business has changed. This is even more important when we consider that most of today's traditional yearly target-review processes stem from the first industrial revolution, which occurred a century ago. A survey of global executives recently admitted that they had only a 4% approval on current performance management processes.
Performance reviews trigger fight or flight
If we consider that most employee performance review techniques are linked to a basically antiquated system, then how we understand the brain can determine what modern-day performance management should look like, starting with how we review our employees.
A major breakthrough in neuroscience has led the field in reengineering performance. It's been discovered that traditional performance reviews trigger the same threat networks in the brain as those that are triggered when we are being attacked by a lion in the wild.
When these networks are triggered the brain does not prioritise its higher-order thinking and rather resorts to instinctual, unconscious behaviour in order to ensure survival. This has commonly been known as the fight or flight response. In this state the brain's best thinking is not prioritised as the brain relies on the quick and instinctive thinking needed to ensure survival.
What's important to remember here is that the brain uses the same neural networks for both physical and social threat. This explains how the same areas of the brain light up when we feel socially threatened in a performance review and when we hurt ourselves physically. It also explains why social isolation is used as an effective form of punishment in prison.
How to achieve a successful performance review
The challenge with performance conversations is that a crucial outcome of the conversation is for the brain to be at its best to prioritise its best thinking. A successful performance review occurs when individuals think reflectively about performance feedback and are able to adjust behaviour and move forward with a plan of action.
The problem is that most performance conversations do not achieve this result successfully because traditional performance reviews trigger a threat response that prevents the brain from being at its best.
Our work at the NeuroLeadership Institute has cumulated in a model of social triggers that can be used to better understand how these social triggers play out. The SCARF model was developed by Dr David Rock and focuses on what triggers a threat state in the brain and what can be leveraged to put the brain into its best state. These could be summarised in the questions:
- Am I being valued and respected? (Status)
- Am I in the loop? (Certainty)
- Do I have a sense of control? (Autonomy)
- Do I belong? (Relatedness)
- Am I being treated fairly compared to others? (Fairness)
A typical performance conversation is started with something along the lines of "Come in, let's do your performance review," or if you would like to start the conversation, "I need to give you some feedback." This may trigger all five of the SCARF triggers and put the brain into a natural fight/flight mode.
There is no sense of what the conversation is about and no degree of control and there is a clear distinction made between manager and feedback receiver. However, by being aware of these triggers we are able to structure the same conversation in a different way.
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You could begin the conversation by saying, "I need to give you feedback about X and I need 20 minutes of your time. What time is good for you today?" This conversation puts the brain into a state where it can prioritise its best thinking and is better prepared to actually think differently when given the feedback — the desired outcome of most performance management conversations.
How you can re-engineer your performance culture
At the NeuroLeadership institute we have found that many of our clients are trying to reengineer their performance culture and change the three most critical stages of the performance cycle.
These are Goal Setting, Performance Feedback and Rewards. The changes have largely been influenced by an understanding of threat states in the brain. There are a number of ways that companies are experimenting with changing performance that include removing performance ranking and decoupling bonuses from performance discussions — some of the things that actively trigger the brain's natural threat network.
We recommend starting the change where you are in your performance journey. Some industries and cultures are more fertile for more radical changes, while others are not. In some cases, you cannot take away ratings or individual targets as the business model does not allow for it.
Some cultures are not always ready for 360o-feedback right away and some remuneration schemes are not always ready for group or shared bonuses. Further technical and system constraints may also impact what is possible. One thing everyone is ready for is to improve the quality of conversations and have them more often.
Why are you conducting performance reviews?
When we think about the performance conversation, we have to remind ourselves what the point of it is. They often deteriorate into conversations that attempt to justify performance or fight for an increase.
This is why a lot of businesses are decoupling bonus or remuneration outcomes from the outcomes of conversations. When we do so, what do we really speak about then? Performance and behaviour change, not a fight or an attempt to justify a salary or performance.
We have found that it's useful to separate conversations. A salary discussion should ideally happen once a year and check-ins and progress conversations should happen more often. There should be more conversations about performance in a year, done in a brain-friendly manner.
It can sometimes be more stressful for the feedback giver than the feedback receiver and that is why we often delay a conversation until it's necessary to have one and it becomes a tough conversation.
Figure 1 demonstrates the benefit of having more frequent conversations. When you have regular check-ins you are more able to catch behaviour when it is moving off course and correct the trajectory of growth so that targets are achieved and there isn't a big surprise between planned and actual performance.
Self Development
Why Stress Can Actually Be Good For You
For years we've been told how unhealthy stress can be and how important it is to manage our stress. Turns out, everything we thought we knew about stress might actually be wrong.
As a high-performing entrepreneur, there are few things more irritating than being told to work less and manage your stress. You're building a business, which by its very nature requires a lot of time and is stressful.
Here's the good news. Health psychologist and author of the best-selling book The Upside of Stress: Why Stress Is Good for You, and How to Get Good at It, Kelly McGonigal, has one mission: To help people be happier and healthier. For many years this meant sharing the message that stress makes you sick. It increases the risk of everything from the common cold to cardiovascular disease. Basically, she turned stress into the enemy.
But thanks to some ground-breaking studies, Kelly changed her mind. As it turns out, stress doesn't kill you. Thinking that stress will kill you is the real killer.
Don't view stress as harmful
Kelly's opinion of stress started shifting after a ground-breaking study in the US tracked 30 000 adults for eight years. At the start of the study, participants were asked how much stress they had experienced in the last year, and if they believed stress was harmful to their health. They then used public death records to find out who died.
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Here's the bad news: People who experienced a lot of stress in the previous year had a 43% higher chance of dying. But that was only true for the people who also believed that stress is harmful.
People who experienced a lot of stress but did not view stress as harmful to their health were no more likely to die than people with absolutely no stress in their lives. In fact, the focus group who had experienced stress but didn't view it as harmful actually had the lowest risk of dying of anyone in the study.
Change your response to stress
Other studies have revealed that changing your mind about stress can change your body's response to it. You can make stress good for you. In one Harvard study, participants were placed in a stressful situation but told that the stress response was good and would help them cope with the situation. Briefed that all the physical signs of stress were helping them to stay focused and perform at their peak — including a heightened heart rate — the participants had a different physiological reaction to someone who believes their stress response is bad.
In a typical stress response, your heart rate goes up and your blood vessels constrict. Constricted vessels are a factor in cardiovascular disease; chronic stress is sometimes associated with heart attacks. It's not healthy to be in this state all the time.
But in the study, when participants viewed their stress response as helpful, their blood vessels stayed relaxed. Their heart was still pounding, but their cardiovascular profile looked more like what happens in moments of joy and courage. Over a lifetime of stressful experiences, this one biological change could be the difference between a stress-induced heart attack at 50 and living well into your 90s.
Stress also releases oxytocin, which fine-tunes your brain's social instincts. It primes you to do things that strengthen relationships by making you crave physical contact with your friends and family, enhancing your empathy, and making you more willing to help and support people you care about. So, when oxytocin is released in the stress response, it's motivating you to seek support.
How will knowing this side of stress make you healthier? Oxytocin also acts on your body. One of its main roles is to protect your cardiovascular system from the effects of stress. It's a natural anti-inflammatory that also helps your blood vessels stay relaxed during stress. It even helps heart cells regenerate and heal from any stress-induced damage.
Pulling it all together
The harmful effects of stress on your health are not inevitable. How you think and act can transform your experience of stress. When you view your stress response as helpful, you create the biology of courage. And when you choose to connect with others under stress, you can create resilience.
Stress gives us access to our hearts, from the compassionate heart that finds joy and meaning in connecting with others, and to the pounding physical heart, working so hard to give us strength and energy. When you view stress this way, you're not just getting better at it, you're actually making a profound statement that you trust yourself to handle life's challenges and that you don't have to face them alone.
Read next: 4 Stress-Management Tips For Reducing Anxiety And Getting More Done
Watch Kelly McGonigal's Ted Talk on how to make stress your friend:
Self Development
It's OK To Not Be OK
First, acknowledge your feelings. Then, follow these tips to do something about it.
We live in an age of image projection. Instagram gets over 95 million posts per day. You can find hundreds of thousands of pictures of engagement rings, new puppies, exotic dinners or washboard abs at any given moment.
Even LinkedIn is probably sending you dozens of notifications each month reminding you to congratulate your high school acquaintances on their job-iversaries. It's easy to get caught up in the general tendency of creating an illusion that we have our lives perfectly together. After all, people are watching. So, what happens when you are not OK?
When depression sets in, when negative self-talk gets too loud or when you get let go, get dumped or lose a loved one. What do we do when we don't have a solution?
During hard times, most people want to skip past the moment of acknowledging that they aren't OK and go straight to working toward a resolution. Resolutions – even tough ones – make us feel in control.
Admitting that you're struggling doesn't feel as manageable, or fit in with the sense of perfection that most people get blasted with on social media. But the ability to sit with a feeling of failure can be one of the most important skills you learn, both in life and in work.
The power of saying "I'm not OK"
Embracing tough moments, instead of swiftly moving past them, can be incredibly powerful when practiced correctly.
Framing the situation correctly is validating; you acknowledge that your feelings are justified, and that even though your situation is not ideal, you accept there is nothing wrong with the fact that you're struggling. This is not about accepting and ignoring, this is accepting and moving through.
A study from Montana State University found that people who are authentic and honest with themselves can overcome feelings of shame – which would otherwise cause them to devalue themselves.
Dwelling on a feeling of failure is paralysing. It will keep you from asking for help when you need it or making good choices.
Understand that sometimes your emotions take precedence over finding a solution. We often discount the value of feelings especially in the workplace – but you need to remember that in the end, emotions are simply information.They are facts of life like any other. Emotions exist, and when you're making decisions, you'll have to factor them in.
Everyone has points in their career where they make a major mistake or feel overwhelmed by their workload. Women in particular are usually taught not to talk about it.
But according to the sociologist Arlie Hochschild, suppressing negative feelings can cause an "emotional load" that causes you to burn out faster, give up more easily and ultimately be less successful.
As an entrepreneur, professional woman and recovering perfectionist, I've realised I need to give myself permission to be not OK sometimes. I accept that there isn't a solution right now, and I tell myself that that's OK. That attitude is what has given me the stamina to accomplish everything that I have, even when times felt dark.
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4 Ways to ground yourself when you're feeling overwhelmed at work
Enduring uncertainty isn't easy. It's a professional skill that needs to be fostered like any other. I have four main tactics I personally use in order to stay centred during challenging times.
1. Breathe
You may have heard it a hundred times from your yoga teachers, but it bears repeating: Breathing is the single best way to get yourself centred. There are many different therapeutic ways to breathe, but here's a simple one I enjoy: If possible, lie on the floor, knees up but feet planted. Otherwise, find somewhere where you can be seated.
Take one hand and put it on your belly and the other on your chest. Inhale for three seconds breathing through your belly, then an additional two seconds filling the chest with air. Hold the breath for a moment and exhale through the mouth completely.
Breathing effectively can literally cure the physical aspects of anxiety. It's an underrated skill when we talk about what contributes to professional success, but it can make a huge difference.
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2. Find a mantra
You might not consider yourself a "mantra" kind of person, but positive affirmations have been consistently shown to make a major positive impact on confidence and performance.
That said, there's no need to start memorising inspirational quotes or learning Buddhist scripture. Create your own mantras, ones that resonate for you. Figure out what it is that you need to hear in order to feel stronger.
Some things I find comfort in saying are "I am whole. I am safe. I am here." Or as Thich Nhat Hanh writes, "Breathing in, I know I am breathing in. Breathing out, I know I am breathing out." These are just simple sentences, but I find them to be powerful in their ability to bring me to my current state.
3. Move
I am huge fan of going for walks when work gets hectic. It's a valuable way to let your body influence what your brain is doing, instead of the other way around. Try using the power of your steps to help calm your mind and reconnect with the immediate present, so you can keep things in perspective.
The way you hold and move your body can also legitimately influence your sense of person ability. In social scientist Amy Cuddy's famous TED Talk, she talks about how body language influences confidence.
I teach the power of posture and a strong mind-body connection in the first part of my four-part workshop series, Developing Executive Presence. The goal is to help students develop their own authentic presence as a base necessity for the workshops that follow.
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4. Talk about it
Sometimes, you just need a third-party opinion in order to keep things in perspective. Reach out to your loved ones, friends or even coworkers.
Holistic psychotherapist Kat Dahlen deVos has some great thoughts on the subject: "Sometimes, when we are experiencing fear, sadness or any other painful emotion, our tendency is to feel very alone – like no one understands or can relate to us.
As a result, we isolate, which can actually increase the intensity of our suffering by activating our stress response (a.k.a 'fight or flight'). When we're talking to a loved one about what we're going through, we're doing two things that can actually help us to move through the difficulty: Allowing our vulnerability to be witnessed, and building the capacity to tolerate painful experiences."
Other people might be able to make a point that you hadn't considered, or they might just listen and validate what you're feeling. Either way, talking honestly about how you're feeling will ground you, and it might even convince your listeners to be more genuine with themselves about their emotions, as well.
We're conditioned to think that we always need to give a sense of perfection, but in my experience, that hurts more than it helps us. Humans are flawed, and they struggle in their work life just like in their regular lives. The people who end up being the most successful aren't the ones who don't struggle. They're the ones who know it's OK to not be OK.
This article was originally posted here on Entrepreneur.com.
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A family of six, including four children, was displaced in an early morning three-alarm fire on Dominick Street that destroyed the home, caused heat damage to seven others and totaled two cars.
Fire Lt. Patrick D. Salmon said that when firefighters arrived around 4 a.m., the two-story, single-family, wooden 1900s home at 13 Dominick St. was engulfed in flames. Around 10 minutes later, he said, the building collapsed.
The family was not home at the time and no firefighters were injured, he said.
"The house was fully involved when we arrived and collapsed 10 minutes later," Lt. Salmon said. "Once it collapsed, we had it under control in half an hour."
Firefighters continued wetting down the pile of debris to make sure all hot spots were extinguished, he said, and left the site around noon.
Seven other homes in the densely populated area sustained heat damage to their siding and garages, he said, but the damage was contained to the exterior of the homes, and the families were not displaced.
The intense heat also totaled two cars and damaged a third, he said.
The American Red Cross provided the family with children elementary-age to teenage children, with vouchers for clothes and food and provided assistance to 45 firefighters at a canteen it set up.
The family, the Red Cross said, will stay with relatives in the area.
Two of the family's pets died in the fire, but the family had one with them that is safe, the Red Cross said.
Hopkinton, Franklin, Hopedale, Bellingham, Southboro, Ashland and Medway responded for mutual aid.
The cause, Lt. Salmon said, is still under investigation.