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A single poor quality deliverable can create not only a problem with the customer, but an internal cycle of low performance whereby an environment is created where project quality is not valued as it should be. Project team members then get into the habit of avoiding the extra effort to produce top quality products.
In the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK), Control Quality falls under the Monitoring & Controlling process group.
Quality Control vs. Quality Assurance
This distinction is commonly misunderstood. Quality Control is the measurement of outputs to determine whether they meet the accepted criteria. Quality Assurance, on the other hand, analyzes the processes and systems that are producing the outputs. If you're measuring the systems, it's QA. If you're measuring the outputs, it's QC.
Measuring Outputs
Quality criteria should have been identified during the planning phase (PMBOK: Plan Quality Management) for each project deliverable.
When project deliverables are produced, they are subjected to quality control before they are delivered to their end user. That means they need to be measured and compared against the standard that's been identified in the project management plan. If you don't know the quality of your outputs, you cannot make effective business decisions.
Sometimes outputs are singular in nature, like a project report, which doesn't lend itself well to quantitative measurement against a standard. But there are always quality standards that apply, for example when the reader of the report notices technical errors or excessive spelling mistakes it is clear that they are applying a quality standard to your work. What is required to meet this standard? The project management plan should identify things like expert review, grammatical review, management review, and the like. Then, when the review is done, quality control has been completed.
Examples of quality control include:
- Inspection of products leaving the production line.
- Expert technical review of reports.
- Trial runs prior to plant commissioning.
Quality Metrics
The project management plan will identify what will be measured and the pass/fail criteria. For example, in the case of a manufacturing facility for a new line of pens, you might measure whether they draw a straight line without problems, if they come apart after using them for 10 minutes, or if the ink dries up after leaving them open for 4 hours. You would choose to take a predefined number of pens off the assembly line for testing. The results would be graphed or otherwise presented to the stakeholders.
Some basic knowledge of statistics is helpful. Determining the standard deviation, mean, median, or mode of a data set helps to visualize the impact and severity of the results. Many other statistical tools are available, and in fact the term quality control sometimes includes extensive statistical presentation of the results. Although the analysis of the results officially falls under quality assurance instead of quality control, there is a large overlap when alot of statistical analysis is done (are you presenting the data or analyzing it?).
Here is a list of possible quality metrics:
- Failure rate
- Defect frequency
- on-time performance
- on-budget performance
- Reliability
- Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF)
- Mean Time to Repair (MTTR)
Prevention vs. Inspection
It is important to note the distinction between prevention, which keeps errors from happening, and inspection, which keeps errors out of the hands of the customer. Inspection is generally the domain of Quality Control, while prevention is concerned with improving the processes so that problems do not occur, thus it is Quality Assurance. But there is an overlap, particularly when Quality Control identifies issues with the end product and the systems and processes need to be updated.
Tolerance vs. Control Limits
A few definitions which should guide your world view in the area of quality:
- Tolerance is the range of acceptable results. If a result is out of tolerance, it must be rejected.
- Control limits are boundaries which represent acceptable variation for the purpose of controlling and manipulating the process. A result can be within acceptable tolerances, but signify a process which is out of control and/or requires additional development.
Attributes vs. Variables Sampling
When taking quality control measurements, the data can be collected based on the following two methods:
- Attributes sampling contains a single pass/fail criteria. The product either passes, or fails.
- Variables sampling contains a sliding scale criteria. The product is rated on a scale of 1-10, class A-C, or similar.
Planned vs. Actual Data
For some projects, the planned results should be identified and then actual results tracked side by side to ensure the conformance of the deliverables. This type of comparison helps tremendously in the identification of schedule and cost related to quality improvement.
The 7 Basic Quality Tools
To solve quality-related problems, the project manager utilizes the seven basic quality tools, also known as 7QC:
- Cause-and-effect diagrams, also known as fishbone diagrams and Ishikawa diagrams, place a problem statement at the center and attempt to trace the source back to its actionable root cause.
- Flowcharts illustrate a process and its various steps to break it down and further analyze each piece.
- Checksheets organize facts in a manner that will facilitate the effective collection of useful data about a potential quality problem.
- Pareto diagrams are excellent for isolating the one or two issues which are causing the lion's share of the quality problems.
- Histograms are a special form of bar chart which illustrate the central tendency, dispersion, and shape of a statistical distribution.
- Control charts compare the data with the upper and lower specification limits to determine whether or not a process is stable.
- Scatter diagrams, also called correlation charts, compare the change in an independent variable, Y, to a dependent variable, X.
Project Changes
In project management, the identification of quality control problems must result in project changes. These must be documented in the project management plan, which requires updating and approval by the relevant authorities. If the project schedule, cost, communication needs, or any other item must change, these must be documented.


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A romantic relationship should be a source of life and vitality, but sometimes, it's just the opposite. Sometimes, it can drain you, deplete you, and damage you over time.
And sometimes, a relationship can even kill.
This isn't a quick, dramatic event. This is a slow decline brought on by years spent in a toxic relationship. This is the gradual breakdown of body and mind, caused by stress, financial problems, depression, and too much sacrifice.
And worst of all, you may not even realize it's happening.
It's easy to give our romantic partners a pass when it comes to our own unhappiness, but this is a mistake. Sometimes, we mistake abuse and mistreatment for the typical ups and downs of a relationship—and others times, we simply think that we deserve it.
No one deserves that.
The pain of a long-term, toxic relationship can take years to heal, and so it's better to get out sooner than later. To help you recognize this, let's look at a few traits of a deadly relationship, and how it could be killing you.
It's Stressing You Out
Stress kills. Literally.
Are you and your romantic partner always fighting? Is your partner suspicious of you, possessive, or vengeful? Has the relationship become a constant tug-of-war, where every argument is about winning rather than about finding a solution that makes both parties happy?
If this sounds like your relationship, you're probably experiencing chronic stress as a result.
This affects your body by causing the release of stress hormones into your bloodstream, which normally helps you to respond to dangerous situations quickly. But your body isn't designed to operate in this mode indefinitely.
When stressed, your fight-or-flight response goes into overdrive, increasing your heart rate, blood pressure, and muscle tension, and releasing fatty acids and blood sugar for an immediate energy boost.
Over time, this causes damage to bodily tissues which results in inflammation. You'll find yourself with headaches, a sore neck, ulcers, and a decreased sex drive. Your aging will begin to accelerate, and certain parts of your brain will shrink, leaving you less able to concentrate and memorize.
Eventually, this will kill you—mostly likely through coronary disease related to inflammation and high blood pressure.
If you're in a relationship that's causing you constant, uncontrollable stress, get out. Just go. It's not worth the slow decline that chronic stress will bring.
It's Making You Poor
Financial hardship affects every part of your life, including your health. Being in a relationship that makes you constantly poor is a recipe for physical decline.
Perhaps your partner is always borrowing money from you. Or maybe the two of you live together, and you find yourself paying all of the bills—bills you can't quite afford.
Whatever the reason, if your partner causing you financial hardship, and isn't willing to try to remedy the situation, it may be time to leave. Remaining in dire financial straits can kill you.
Think about it: not having the money for healthy food, healthcare, education, and housing all directly affect your health. When you can't afford fruits and vegetables, you'll go for ramen and other cheap, carbohydrate-loaded foods. When you can't afford health insurance, you're less likely to go to the doctor for preventative care. When you can't afford a safe, clean place to live, you find yourself in squalor.
Any one of these things could shorten your life, but together, they amplify each other, putting you into a downward spiral from which escape is difficult.
Don't allow a toxic relationship to put you into undue financial hardship—get out before your health starts to falter.
It's Ruining Your Mental Health
Your mental health is just as important as your physical health—the two are intrinsically linked. That's why a toxic relationship that causes chronic depression and anxiety can have deadly consequences.
Are your partner's words and actions constantly making you feel bad about yourself? Are they making your self-image an overwhelmingly negative one? Is your relationship weighed down by emotional abuse, distrust, and negativity? Do you never feel good enough for your partner?
If these sound familiar, your toxic relationship is putting your mental health at risk.
When you're constantly being criticized, manipulated, or yelled at, you're not enjoying your life.In fact, this kind of environment is one in which depression and anxiety thrive—both of which can lead to self-destructive coping behaviors, stress, and even suicide.
If you find yourself being mistreated by your partner in these ways, and your thoughts constantly dwell on fear and sadness as a result, your mental health is suffering. If your partner isn't willing to change his or her ways, it may be time to cut ties and go be good to yourself.


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Inspired by Mexico the Beautiful Cookbook's recipe on p. 208
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- 1 lb small new potatoes
- Half a stick of butter
- 1 T oil
- 4 cloves minced garlic
- Salt and pepper
- Juice of half a lemon, plus more to taste
- Tabasco sauce to taste
- Boil potatoes in salted water just until tender (about 20 - 25 minutes). Drain. When cool enough to handle, smash each potato with the bottom of a drinking glass. Or, boil them the day before and smash when ready to cook. In a large skillet over medium heat, saute the potatoes in butter and oil until golden on both sides (about 8-10 minutes). Lower the heat and add the garlic, salt, pepper, lemon juice, and Tabasco. Swirl around to mix and cook for another 2 or 3 minutes, being careful not to burn the garlic. Serve hot.


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Khloe Kardashian clearly is going through something. In the past year, she's gone through a split with her husband, Lamar Odom, and a breakup with her boyfriend, French Montana. During all of this, Khloe's appearance seems to have undergone a transformation as well. The Keeping Up With the Kardashians star has become a gym rat, constantly posting photos of herself exercising at the crack of dawn. She's also been the subject of many plastic surgery rumors, due to the fact that her lips and butt look a bit different these days.
And now Khloe has changed her appearance once again. The normally ombre-haired beauty has gone and dyed her hair blond. Yep, Khloe's got bright blond hair now. And it looks fantastic. Check it out:
Love this new brighter 'do. Koko's still got a little bit of the ombre going on, but overall, her hair is much lighter. It looks fantastic, and she looks so much sunnier -- and, weirdly, happier -- with this color. Gorgeous.
More From The Stir: Khloe Kardashian's Crazy New Hair Will Make You Do a Double Take (PHOTO)
Out of all the Kardashian sisters, Khloe seems to change her color the most, and I kind of love that. Instead of sticking with one that she knows works (ahem, Kim), she mixes it up once in a while and has fun with her locks. Why not, right? She's certainly got the cash flow to change things back if she winds up not liking it. However, I say Khloe keeps this beachy, bright shade for a while. Such a sexy change of pace. Hot mama!
What do you think of Khloe's new hair color?
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Disclaimer: I am not a foodie, not in the truest sense of the word. I don't really enjoy the process of creating meals. No sense of smell and a limited palate make it difficult for me to really reveal in all the sensory delights cuisines have to offer. I can cook, and I definitely enjoy eating, but what I enjoy even more is being fed. In Penang, I was fed.
Having sated my desire for Western foods in Kuala Lumpur I moved on to Penang because of its foodie culture. Situated 365 km from KL and listed as one of THE Islands to visit, explore and eat on before you die, I wanted to discover new and exciting dishes and taste new things. Malaysian food is a fusion of Chinese, Indian and Malaysian tastes and textures that are all new to me. I couldn't find anything even remotely similar to my British experiences of these foods, and I really didn't want to either. This was the real deal.
My first new discovery was breakfast. I set out on my first morning in search of a way to break my fast that didn't involve airport food like the day before. Just up the jalan (street) from my hostel was a row of heritage shophouses, all kitted out as cafes. After a brief reccy and a moment's hesitation, I chose the busiest one, which had some females eating in it. Cafés in Asia seem to be male dominated, a place to meet and set the world to rights (at least in Myanmar) and I didn't want to blunder into an awkward situation. Of course, I was welcomed with open arms and invited to take a seat at a melamine-coated wooden table in the center of the long, thin room. The place had a faded air about it with old newspaper clippings on the wall, and scratched plastic seats, but it also felt homely. When I asked about breakfast I was told I could have toast, a boiled egg and tea or coffee. I marveled at how simple it sounded and plumped for tea. While my order was taken through to the kitchen out-back I was entertained by a gentleman on a nearby table who told me the 'history' of the 'antique' table I was seated at. Apparently a tycoon had wanted it and had bartered a price for it, only to die before he could own it. His young companion was laughing while the man told his story but I played along and we chatted for a while. It was only after he had left that I noticed one of the newspaper cuttings on the wall mentioned a tycoon in its headlines…
Another gentleman, possibly the owner, came and placed a plastic plate before me with four brown paper parcels on it. These parcels seemed to be on every table. 'Try it'. He grunted. On further investigation I discovered that the package held a banana leaf containing a curried rice mixture and a small piece of fish. I was halfway through it when my original breakfast order arrived. Of course, it wasn't as straightforward as I had imagined. My tea was made using condensed milk but I had gotten used to that in Myanmar. My toast was sweet, filled with butter and coconut jam, and my boiled egg was so runny it came in a cup! And it was all really nice. I added pepper and soy to the egg, dipped in my toast and managed to devour the whole lot very quickly. I didn't quite manage to finish the nasi lemak, as I learnt to name it, and I was asked if it was too spicy. It wasn't, but curry for breakfast, accompanied by more sweetness than I'd eaten in a month had become a bit much. I was given a quick lesson in Nasi Lemak varieties (there's also prawn, chicken and lamb on each plate) and then I paid a whole 4RM for it (approx.. 70p or $1). Amazing!
My next experience was the Heritage on a Plate walking tour. I'd found this on TripAdvisor and booked to join a group to do a tour around the old-quarter, Georgetown, a UNESCO World Heritage site. I wish I could regale you with all the names of the different things we tried but I'm going to have to confess I couldn't retain half of them, and my ability to grasp any ASEAN language is pretty poor. I find things really hard to pronounce, and therefore remember. But I know I enjoyed it! I certainly tried everything: mango lassi, ambarella (which is a sour and salty plum juice), Chinese fried foods including tofu, prawn, crab cakes and sausage, an Indian omelet thing (see what I mean about remembering names!) in both beef and chicken, a wonton noodle soup, pancakes and puthu. I even tried a century egg! (Eggs that are preserved in a clay/ash/quicklime coating for months until the yolk turns grey and the white becomes a sort of brown jelly. Yum!) The only thing I didn't like was puthu. It is a dry rice pudding served with grated coconut and a special brown sugar that reminded me of molasses. Now, while I drink coconut water and eat coconut curries, since a child I have always hated it on its own. It may be a texture thing, but the whole combination was wrong! The rest of the experience however, was lovely, and gave me greater confidence to try street food and enter local eateries.
I haven't done that so well in Myanmar. Mostly because many of the places don't look clean and also because the food, which either seems fried or watery, looks unappetizing and beige. Additionally, on the few occasions when I have tried the traditional food, I have been very sick afterwards, while others that shared the meal with me remained perfectly well. It makes me think that there is an ingredient, maybe a spice or possibly the oil, that is habitually used, that doesn't agree with me.
I had no such reservations in Penang though. The following day, I revisited the Tang Bistro, the starting point for the food tour and a heritage café/ hotel, to indulge my need for chocolate brownies (with ice-cream). Before that I had also had a curried lamb wrap that was simply superb and a calamansi freeze. Not so street or heritage, but very nice and an indication that anything goes regarding food here, as long as you enjoy it.
In the evening, I wandered until I found the hub of Chinatown's street food. There, a nice vendor introduced me to the concept of choosing and cooking my own skewers of clams, tofu, chicken and mushrooms (and lots more besides) by dipping them in boiling water, then, when cooked, smothering them with satay and sweet or hot chili sauce. As a rule, I don't generally mix sauces, if I have them at all (my limited palate means sauces make everything taste the same!) but I went with it and actually, I started to enjoy it! As an appetiser, it was good, and I devoured it on the street with relish. To pay, he counted the colour-coded sticks I handed to him and I handed over a ridiculously tiny sum for a plate full of seafood!
Moving on to another part of the street, I chose seafood fried noodles and sat at a table to wait for my meal. These are hawker stalls, meaning the table is owned by one person, who will supply you with a drink that you pay for on delivery. Then, your food will be delivered by a young hawker from whichever food stalls you've visited, and you'll pay them on delivery too. The noodles were good, which I duly told the owner when he enquired! I looked for a pancake stall to finish, but was sadly unable to find one, so I walked home in the rain, full up, on about £2 worth of good food.
On another evening, I visited Little India and indulged in a chicken biryani claypot and lots of mango lassi. Delicious!
My view while eating a tasty biryani.
On Penang Hill (really not worth a visit) I tried Char Koay Teow, which is an iconic dish of garlic, prawns, noodles, egg and cockles. It was whipped up before my eyes in a little food court at the top of the hill and was consumed just as quickly. The beauty of street food is, of course, watching the creation of your meal. Chefs have choreographed a rhythmic ballet of chopping, stirring, swirling and serving that creates art on many different levels before your eyes. It is beautiful, and mouth watering!
At Miami Beach, around Batu Ferringhi, at a tiny roadside stall, on a sliver of land between the road and the sea (there was no beach, the tide was in!), I was offered Laksa, a spicy soup with thick noodles that warmed me right up after getting drenched in an unexpected downpour in the nearby National Park.
In fact, wherever I went, a vast array of foods was available to me, and I really didn't hold back. In fact, my only difficulty was in deciding what I wanted to eat each day. And, before you call me a pig, I should point out that portions are not large in Malaysia. Nothing is supersized here. There is enough to satisfy but not so much that you can't walk on a little further and try something else if the fancy takes you.
It has been an education. I have been very well fed and had my enthusiasm for food renourished thanks to my Penang trip. My only regrets are not staying longer, and eating more!


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well... I know this week i wasnt too good about blogging, and to be honest i just didnt want to blog. i also didnt want to clean, do homework, play volleyball, go to mutual, or get on the computer this week. i have no idea why, but somethin' is up.... the doctor said its a very popular, but yet not contagious virus that i will not be able to get rid of for a few months. There is no medicine to cure it, i just have to wait till it goes away. the only true cure for it is... GRADUATION!!!! yes, ladies and gentlemen. I have SENIORITIS!!!! YIKES!! whatever shall i do?
ok but seriously. I think i have had it since before Christmas break. like not even kidding. i know i'm the queen of exaggeration and all, but i'm not kidding this time. and its really hit me hard this week. i not only dont want to do my homework, or go to school. i just dont want to do anything. i really dont know anything that strikes my attention right now. idk? oh well. i think i can make it till the end of the year. I think once i come back from France, i may have a little more push to get me through the end of the year. well lets at least hope i will. anyways, back to my week...
Monday i cut my hair, and that was about the highlight of my day.
Tuesday i went to a dear leader's house and had about a 3 hour talk with her. I needed someone to go vent to, and she was convienently there waiting for me to come to her and cry my eyes out. and yes, i did exactly that. But no worries, she repaired me, and i am put back together again. but i'll give you two words... HIGH SCHOOL!!! so now you know all my problems and struggles. but we're making it with my heavenly father, my family, and my church family. thanks every one of you!!
Wednesday, was a great day! so every-other day, i have the opportunity to take Jesika Page home from school, we started talking about school that day and how it was so amazingly creepy that our lives were like twiners!! so we started talking and she said, "let's go out to ice cream, how 'bout?" so we were off to sonic, cuz i FREAKIN LOVE HAPPY HOUR AT SONIC!! :) so we got our slurpies and talked and talked our mouths off. it was great. it was fun. it was great fun. i then got gas, and then took an adventure off to the world of walls and marts. wal-mart. got nail polish for our mutual activity that night, and then went home. but while i was in the car at sonic, i got a txt from my great friend Krissy, and we were going to the Columbia and Skyview baseball game together and she was reminding me of that. so i dropped off Jesika, got ready for the baseball game, left over to Skyview, froze my booty off, and cheered for both Skyview and Columbia.... hehehehe. long story. :) then ran, well not literaly, but you got the message, back over to my house. scarfed down my nummy yummy to my tummy Taco Soup and then slipped on my pj's, grabbed my nail polish, and once again ran over to Sister Bird's house for a night of relaxation and pedicures. oh man. that was heavenly!! loved every single minute of it. i got to soak my feet, scrub my feet, and i got a massage from Sister Bird, miss cosmetologist, herself and that was the best thing that i have received in a very long time. wow. then we painted our toe nails, and i might say, my toes are the cutest toes, now, in the town of Nampa. haha. very very cute. then i went home, did my homework, and took in some ZZZZZZZZZ's.
Thursday, i came home from school, then shipped my lovely ponytail off to Locks of Love. sad day. but it felt good. then i took advantage of Happy Hour once again, and this time, to get me motivated to get my room cleaned!!!!! it worked quite well too. then, once my room was clean again, i got some homework done, got ready for volleyball, and took in a few hours of the best sport on this planet. it was great.
Friday, i woke up at 6 stinkin 30!!!! if you know me, on B days, i wake up at about 7:15 (just enough time to look decent, and be at school at 7:40) and on A days, i wake up at about 8:30 ish(i have an open period first and dont have to be to school till 9:12). so waking up this early at 6:30 was very very difficult. but i made it. I had my S.A.L.T. (Skyview Athletic Leadership Team) meeting and have our picture taken for the yearbook, our trophy case, the newspaper, and time magazine (okay just kidding on the last two). it was great. but because i had open this morning i just chilled, ate breakfast, and did my math homework in the cafeteria until the bell rang. then, when i came home from school, i slipped on my slippers, and ran (once again not literaly) over to Lungren's to babysit their kids. fun night!! gotta love 'em!! and now here i am blogging. i guess i will have to finish off my week in a few more days. but thats my week so far, that i just had to get in here before i forget and i get on my i-dont-want-to-do-anything-mood. =]
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Back in 2012, summer-fall, reports came from Australian/Pacific/Oceania servers that situations is rather grim, player numbers were dwindling. Keep in mind this issue existed even when the game was subscription based, so the "free2play" model didn't helped this server/region at all. There is a massive topic on SWToR's official forums debating this issue.
BioWare has finally put a plan in motion that allow players from this servers to transfer for free on a different server of their choice. Note that last month, BioWare said the transfers will be restricted to West Coast North American servers - they've changed their minds.
Be prepared! On 4th of June, free transfers will be open to APAC players
Eric Musco, community manager at BioWare said:
I know you have been waiting a bit for an update and I wanted to pop in and do exactly that. Starting on Tuesday, June 4th, you will all be allowed a free one time transfer for each character you have on an APAC server. In the last update I gave I told all of you that we were expanding where your one-time transfer could go to include all NA-West servers. After seeing quite a few requests to expand it further, we are going to allow you a one-time transfer to any SWTOR server. To reiterate, starting on Tuesday, June 4th, you will be allowed a one-time transfer for each character you have on an APAC server to any other non-APAC server.
Editor's comment: wondering who's next on the chopping block :)


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There has been immense controversy surrounding the possibility that the US would provide sanctuary to refugees from Syria, and every presidential candidate has weighed in on the issue. The propositions from the conservatives have been vile, xenophobic, racist garbage spewed forth to win favor from the most disgusting parts of the Republican Party. Candidates like JEB Bush and Ted Cruz have both said that the US should only allow Christian refugees into the country because of security concerns. And they won themselves a strange, liberal ally.
Author, neuroscientist, and anti-religion advocate Sam Harris declared: "Given a choice between Noam Chomsky and Ben Carson, in terms of the totality of their understanding of what's happening now in the world, I'd vote for Ben Carson every time… Ben Carson is a dangerously deluded religious imbecile… but at the very least he can be counted on to sort of get this one right. He understands that jihadists are the enemy."
I guess someone should let Sam know that Chomsky is not running for president. But he continued: "Take the personalities of the people on the right out of the equation. Is it crazy to express, as Ted Cruz did, a preference for Christians over Muslims in this process? Of course not. What percentage of Christians will be jihadists or want to live under Sharia law? Zero. And this is a massive, in fact the only, concern when talking about security. We know that some percentage of Muslims will be jihadists inevitably… So it is not mere bigotry or mere xenophobia to express that preference."
First of all, let's clarify something here. The United States is the home to numerous Christian terrorist organizations that carry out acts of violence in the name of Christianity: the Ku Klux Klan, the Aryan Nations, Rescue America, the Army of God, and others. The Southern Poverty Law Center has a dedicated list of 21 "Christian Identity Hate Groups" which are "fundamentally racist and anti-Semitic," several of which have committed acts of domestic terrorism. Are we supposed to pretend that these groups would not impose some version of Christian Sharia law if given the opportunity? This just shows that Harris's premise is myopic, ahistorical, and shortsighted. The Planned Parenthood shooting in Colorado only underscores the religious extremism that leads to terrorism in the US.
Additionally, I think it would be a complete waste to quote statistics about the number of Syrian refugees in the US who have committed acts of terrorism—which is zero—or the number of mass murderers and serial rapists in this country who were raised Christian. I think it would also be lost on Harris to explain how state terrorism is the official foreign policy of the United States. The U.S. Code of Federal Regulations defines terrorism as "the unlawful use of force and violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives." Subjugation and suppression of the populations in Palestine and Afghanistan and Iraq and Syria clearly meets this definition. Yet, Harris is a tireless apologist for killing civilians and torturing terror suspects, which the United States has done to a greater degree than any terrorist organization on the planet. In what Harris calls the battle of civilization vs. un-civilization, we can count the death toll and see what real terrorism looks like.
I think it is appropriate to criticize religion on many grounds, and we can have a nuanced discussion about religion and the way it influences people's lives. I think Harris is correct when he asserts that religion is a system of indoctrination, almost always forced upon children who are uneducated and can't make decisions for themselves, and then must live out their lives with the intellectual baggage of religious dogma. I also agree with Harris that religion has been used as a justification for violence, war, misogyny, and racism. Religious thinking is, in many ways, a delusional misrepresentation of reality. But Harris is wrong about Islam, its relationship with Christianity and the West, what constitutes religious delusion, and terrorism.
Where these proponents of New Atheism misunderstand religion is in its effects. We can't presume to know the true intentions or thoughts of any person; we can only observe the effects of their actions. Religion is delusional only insofar as it distorts people's understandings of their material conditions because religion has historically been used as a way to pacify or divide the working classes. As I wrote earlier this year, "The mass appeal of religion, as an ideological tool, could be used to harness or direct the revolutionary potential of the working class. Historically, that revolutionary fervor has been turned against itself in order to limit the working class' power." Religion demonstrates, almost in its very nature, that a natural hierarchy exists and must be adhered to every turn. Religious leaders, including pastors, priests, and popes, and any people who claim authoritative knowledge of religious texts or prophecy, teach followers that there are certain rules that must be followed and protected.
Religion, as an institution, is founded upon several overlapping hierarchies. On one hand, the spiritual hierarchy may be constituted as subjection to a god and that god's prophets. On the other hand, social hierarchies may be constituted as subjection to god's representatives on Earth, including religious leaders, but also in terms of rules concerning who holds legitimate leadership. For example, in most Judeo-Christian-Islamic traditions, the male head of household is imbued with a religious mandate to be the familial authority. This has several social implications, including the institutionalization and normalization of patriarchy and misogyny.
As history has demonstrated, religious sects have battled for millennia over who should serve as a god's legitimate prophet. For example, the founding of Christianity taught Christians that Jesus and his disciples should displace Jewish religious leaders as the representatives of God and the holders of legitimate religious knowledge. Abandon the old hierarchies, embrace the new hierarchies. The Catholic Church and all subsequent Christian sects contain this same fundamental belief: that there are certain humans who hold legitimate knowledge about God, scripture, and the nature of the universe.
Religions, as transmitters of hierarchy and tradition, often prevent the working class from attaining class consciousness, and these religious conflicts have manifested in several ways. For instance, sectarian conflict between Catholics and Protestants[1] is well documented in American labor history, where Irish and Italian immigrants in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries were disenfranchised and suppressed by their Protestant peers. There is no working class cohesion or consciousness when Christianity's competing traditions prevent workers from realizing they have more in common with each other than with the rich bourgeoisie with whom they may share religious ideology. This is why I call religion a delusion of material reality: it is an obstacle to class consciousness, and as such, it has been successfully deployed by religious elites as a means by which to diffuse revolution.
Moreover, here we isolate one particular piece of what could be called the logic of religion. By instituting a social hierarchy and defending that hierarchy's legitimacy through spirituality and scripture, religion teaches complacency and acceptance of material conditions. Of course we know that many religious people may reject a church's hierarchy but accept the broad religious dogma (for example, Cafeteria Catholics). However, still inherent to this belief system is a submission to a divine authority or supernatural understanding of fate, which may have the result of disempowering resistance to other forms of authority. It may be easy to fall into the epistemological trap of believing that God has a plan and therefore accept material conditions as if they are predetermined.
One last criticism of religion is the effect it has on people's beliefs about their time on Earth. I believe this follows the religious logic I previously outlined about adherence to legitimate religious hierarchy. Scientists, regardless of their own religious affiliation, are often excluded from religious legitimacy because their profession is outside the scope of religious doctrine. For example, many religious people, and particularly conservatives in the US, oppose efforts to combat global climate change. They are opposed to scientific advancement of our understanding of the universe and our place in it. Other religious beliefs characterize some Americans' principles: resistance to access to abortion, preservation of the US as a "Christian Nation," opposition to LGBTQ rights, etc. These are modes of oppression (of women, of non-Christian minorities, of LBGTQ people) that exist primarily because of religion, and these discourses must be attacked if we believe in liberty, emancipation, or any other number of lofty goals. This point should appeal to both Liberals and Marxists.
I have outlined several objections to religious thought. But I refer to Marx's proclamation about the nature of religion, that it is the "sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, the soul of soulless conditions," and Howard Zinn's characterization of the positive aspects of Marx's religious thought. Religion is not inherently evil, and it provides a great deal of comfort to those who languish under the yoke of oppression. In the midst of late capitalism, and the degradation of the Earth and its poorest inhabitants, religion gives its adherents a reason to live, act, and find happiness. The effects for many societies up to this point in history may have often been to inspire violence, war, and oppression. Religion has motivated communities to attack, kill, maim, and brutalize scores of people. But religion has also been a comfort to the victims, a refuge for those whose souls have been attacked by the ruthless conditions fostered by capitalism and other forms of oppression.
In a revolutionary sense, some theological developments like Liberation Theology encourage a reinterpretation of religious beliefs in order to address social and economic injustice. These beliefs are the kinds of proletarian energies that can be directed towards dismantling capitalism and overthrowing established hierarchies. It should be no surprise to us that some religious figures, like Martin Luther King Jr., advocated a kind of liberation theology that would deconstruct structures of power like racism and classism. It's also important to note that King embraced democratic socialism. And Malcolm X, a Muslim, said in 1964, "all of the countries that are emerging today from under the shackles of colonialism are turning toward socialism. I don't think it's an accident…. And if you find a person without racism and you happen to get that person into conversation and they have a philosophy that makes you sure they don't have this racism in their outlook, usually they're socialists or their political Philosophy is socialism."
What becomes evident is that for some people, their religion becomes an impetus for emancipation. For others, religion keeps them complacent and closed off to consciousness. For these reasons, I reject Harris's criticisms of Islam on the grounds that they lack any nuance or understanding of the ways many people experience their religion. It is obvious that ISIS presents a legitimate threat to many people living in the West, and it should be opposed because its violent ideologies have had the effect of justifying the murders of thousands of people. These ideologies are religious in nature, but they are not characteristic of religious experience as a whole, for all Syrians, all Muslims, or all religious people. And we should not ignore the vast majority of Muslims who condemn ISIS and other terrorists. We should instead observe the way that this particular, limited version of Islam deludes its adherents into rejecting a unified goal of anti-colonialism with other Muslims. Members of ISIS have much in common with Muslim anti-colonialists, yet they target people they see as apostates rather than using their revolutionary energy against colonialism.
Harris's well-documented feud with Noam Chomsky is instructive here. Harris advocates and defends military actions with high civilian casualties on the grounds that civilian deaths are justifiable, either because of imperfect technology, flawed intelligence, or the elimination of actual combatants. Chomsky, a longtime critic of US foreign policy, responds with several moral claims about the victims of terrorism. Referring to the bombing of al-Shifa in Sudan authorized by President Clinton, Chomsky retorts, "The acts can be excused, then, only on the Hegelian assumption that Africans are 'mere things,' whose lives have 'no value,' an attitude that accords with practice in ways that are not overlooked among the victims, who may draw their own conclusions about the 'moral orthodoxy of the West.'" In reference to the American military, Chomsky argues, "of course they knew that there would be major casualties. They are not imbeciles, but rather adopt a stance that is arguably even more immoral than purposeful killing, which at least recognizes the human status of the victims," and he continues later in the exchange, "it just didn't matter if lots of people are killed in a poor African country, just as we don't care if we kill ants when we walk down the street." Ultimately, Chomsky reiterates that he is not drawing a moral equivalence between American terrorism and Islamic terrorism, but rather that Americans shouldn't allow themselves to be deluded into thinking that they are the moral paragons in a deteriorating world.
Sam Harris's own views on religion are clearly the same kind of material delusion that constricts the energies of many religious people. His blind hatred for Muslims prevents him from recognizing the historical and material circumstances that have produced terrorism and violence. US military attacks against civilians are used as recruitment propaganda for al-Qaeda and ISIS, so we shouldn't be surprised when people become terrorists. Moreover, Harris has more in common with the civilians in Sudan and Afghanistan than he does with the military apparatus that is dead-set on killing them. At the heart of the matter is survival in the face of terrorism, whether it is state-sponsored or religious. This is not to say that Harris is some kind of alienated proletarian yearning for connection to his brethren; rather that the interests of civilians and Harris are conspicuously aligned: end terrorism, end violence, end oppression. But Harris is too focused on his fear of Muslims to realize that Muslims across the globe also want to end those things.
Harris refers to this battle against Islamic extremism as a battle between the civilized world and the uncivilized world.[2] It's not. It's an ideological struggle over the nature of religion, its revolutionary potential, and the soul of humanity.
[1] I refer to Christianity specifically because it is the religion with which I am most familiar. I think it is worth noting the sectarian conflict between Sunni and Shi'a Muslims is also relevant here. Rather than uniting under the banner of Islam, or rather than presenting a united front as what could be called "colonized peoples," some Muslims are consumed with killing other Muslims. A huge majority of ISIS's victims have been Muslims, after all.
[2] Noting the attendant colonialist discourses of power over marginalized peoples.


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CX designer Adam Miller, a veteran of Oracle and Citrix, will lead a worldwide practice in support of the new product. Every Avoka office will have staff in place to assist customers with CX Design for Banking.
"More often than not, banks orient their application experience around their own internal processes, instead of on what matters most to their customers, often with unintended consequences," Mr. Miller said. "Banks must switch their mind-sets and adopt customer-centric thinking when it comes to building their digital onboarding and sales processes or risk watching customer loyalty move to the competition."


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Oh, The People You Meet!
This guy (to the right) was Charlie Westgate, and I had the privilege of learning how to sail under his tutelage as a 9 year old boy. Later, in the strangest turn of events, I served as his "Boss" when I assumed the role of Camp Director at the age of 26. I learned under him, alongside him (as a staff member) and later he taught me a lot about how to find joy and humor in even the smallest things. He fell just one year short of serving 50 years as a counselor at Mishawaka, when he was overcome with a staph infection.
But between all the jokes he told, the sailing instructions he bellowed from his perch atop Mulford Pier, one piece of advice stands out. He told me, as a camper, that you should be nice to everyone because, in the end, everyone needs 6 friends. At the time I had no idea that he meant a person needed 6 pall-bearers, but as I heard him offer the consul to others, and again to me in my various roles at Camp Mishawaka I came to understand the full import of what he was offering. Besides needing 6 friends to complete the physical act of carrying your corpus to any after life, a person needs 6 (or more) friends to carry him or her through this life.
Anyone who knew Charlie will remember him for his quick wit, love for music, knowledge of sailing, devotion to his wife, Eleanor, and family, and a frugality that can only come from a thick line of Scottish heritage. It is a fact hard to imagine that he and his wife Eleanor made the down payment on their charming Reservoir Hill home in the heights above Tulsa by selling their bicycles. When he would leave Camp in the fall, he would always drop off the left-over food that he and Eleanor could not finish- right down to the paper-clipped salad dressing containers that were first opened many weeks before. But for all the frugality that ruled his fiscal policies, he spent freely of his time and talent, and as a result had hundreds of friends- far and wide, deep and strong.
He later offered the sage advice to me that in order to make a friend, one had to be a friend. For me, and thousands of others, there is no more fertile ground than Camp Mishawaka. Friendship is not so much "requested"- as we have come to know it in social media parlance-but developed over time and through adventure. There are times we can help, and times we need help-and friends always seem to know just which one is needed. Camp allows us all to do both- to make ourselves simultaneously vulnerable and able to help. And that, I have come to believe, is the genesis of all true friendship. Charlie, I suspect, knew this, too. And, of all the things we try to impart at Camp Mishawaka today, I know that this is one of the most enduring.
I remember the time that he asked me to help him take his Catalina 22' sailboat out for the season- a process that involved running the small motor dry of fuel. He circled King's Bay over and over as he tried to empty his tank. As fate would have it, he ran out at the farthest arc in his circle (adrift in the middle of the Bay, not at all like he had planned) and shouted back to me at the landing, 'I am now officially out of gas'. I shook my head, pulled the truck back to Camp, got in a boat and towed him to the landing. I don't recall being grateful at that time, but nor do I recall being the least bit angered. Today, that it is one of my most treasured memories of this man.
A friend in need, is a friend indeed.


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Friday, January 23, 2009
Odds and Ends
7 comments:
- Artfulife said...
You are sew amazing, hahaheehehe. Sorry I just couldn't help myself. I love the jammie pants. They are super cute. What's the big surprise? I can hardly wait.
- January 23, 2009 at 1:18 PM
- nicola said...
cute and i have used the same set of kid pants instructions for numerous pairs of kid pants. love the reuse of sheets. i do it myself!
- January 23, 2009 at 8:58 PM
- A Day That Is Dessert said...
You are incredibly industrious - great work! I'm with you about shorts; I always feel a bit embarrassed when I wear them. I live in sundresses most of the summer.
- January 23, 2009 at 9:21 PM
- beemahoney said...
those are the best pj pants. I would where them all day *)
- January 24, 2009 at 10:04 AM
- Kate said...
oh, that skirt is so very cute. I am thinking I need to invest in a sewing machine and learn how to make such things myself...
- January 24, 2009 at 5:51 PM
- Dana said...
I've been meaning to try those type of pants but fear I won't understand the instructions. Were they easy?
- January 25, 2009 at 7:33 PM
- lil songbird mama said...
cute skirt and pants!
- January 29, 2009 at 5:41 PM


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Two goals to Greg Cheshire and one from substitute Jarryd Gore has sealed a 3-0 win to Rochedale Rovers over Capalaba in their Brisbane Premier League clash on Saturday night.
A defensive error in the Capalaba defence attempting to play out from the back lead to the home side's first goal. Cheshire was able to gather the loose ball and with only Capalaba keeper Sam Chandler to beat, was able to successfully navigate around him and place into an open net from near six yards.
Both sides were then forced into early substitutions. Firstly the Bulldogs when Luke Watson went off and then Rochedale made a change midway through the first half. With key players Phil Davies and Scott Sargent missing the match, right back Daryll Grant was stretchered off with what appeared to be either a lower back or hip injury.
Chances were few and far between in what was a battle of the respective midfields that Rochedale were able to edge.
On the half hour though, Capalaba's Sam Fellows was able to get in behind the defensive line and size up Rochedale gloveman Brandon Cuminao who blocked the shot.
Rochedale's second came from the next phase of play. After the referee initially ruled a goal kick, he received further advice from his assistant and changed the decision to a Rochedale corner. From the corner, Capalaba were unable to clear within the six-yard box and Gore was on hand in the crowded box to make it 2-0.
A chance for Capalaba to reduce the deficit on the halftime break came when an attempted Rochedale defensive clearance went wrong. Tim Dunn was able to find a way through the mess but Cuminao was on hand to stop the Bulldogs getting on the board.
In the ten-minute period of the resumption after the halftime break, Cheshire had two opportunities to extend his side's lead. Firstly Gore passed on for him and with Chandler still down on the ground after punching away an earlier save, he couldn't take advantage of the situation.
A minute later, Cheshire broke free of the defensive line and found himself one-on-one with Chandler but the Capalaba custodian shut down the play.
If there were any doubts that Capalaba thought they were out of the match, they certainly didn't show with Andy Thompson sending a bullet just wide of the post before Yuji Hirayama forced Cuminao into a wonderful save.
The killer blow to any Bulldogs comeback resulted when Cheshire once again was able to exploit the defensive line and his one-on-one with Chandler was rewarded this time.
Further salt was rubbed into the wounds when Capalaba were reduced to ten men with Sam Fellows dismissal in the 77th minute.
Cheshire almost collected a hat-trick in the dying minutes only to be denied by Chandler.
The win will almost certainly see Rochedale back in the top four come the round's end.
Rochedale 3 (Greg Cheshire 8', 70', Jarryd Gore 33') v Capalaba 0
Rochedale: Brandon Cuminao, Robert Armstrong (Will Eaton 78'), Lewis Cameron, Greg Cheshire, Ryan Faichnie, Daryll Grant (Jarryd Gore 23'), Luke Howell, Paul Mooney, Uryu Nagata (Luke Bearman 90′), Seiji Shizuno, Nick Wilson. Sub not used: David Floyd.
Capalaba: Sam Chandler, Ahamad Azzawi, Zack Coulson, Tim Dunn (Oliver Smith 66'), Sam Fellows, Joey Fields, Liam Fisher, Yuji Hirayama, David Roby, Luke Watson (Andy Thompson 16' – Sam Basnett 81'), Sam Wall. Subs not used: Delors Tuyishime, Connor Jones.
Referee: Ashley Beecham


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SOMERVILLE, NJ - Mayor Brian Gallagher will gavel Monday's Borough Council meeting to order just as he's done every other Monday for the past 14 years, but this time, the banging of the gavel at the close of the meeting will punctuate the end of his 17-year career serving on the Borough Council.
Steve Peter, a Democrat and Borough Council president, is also moving on to higher office, having been elected Somerset County Clerk in November, defeating Republican Brett Radi, who had served in that capacity for 25 years. It will be his final meeting as council president.
Gallagher ran in November's election for a seat on the Somerset County Board of Chosen Freeholders, and won decisively; on Jan. 5, he will be sworn to the county board, replacing a Somerset County political legend, Peter S. Palmer, who is retiring after serving in various elected offices on the local and county level for the past 55 years.
Gallagher, elected to Borough Council in 2001 and as mayor in 2003, will preside one last time at the Borough Council's annual Reorganization meeting Jan. 1, which begins at noon in the Somerville High School auditorium, 222 Davenport St.
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Gallagher has sole discretion appointing members of the Planning Board and Library Board of Trustees; all other appointments he proposes will have to be approved by members of the council.
Members of the Downtown Somerville Alliance are appointed by the Borough Council; the mayor is precluded from that process.
Peter, who will be sworn in as county clerk early Jan. 1, will attend the Somerville Reorganization meeting to swear in two of his fellow Democrats to the Borough Council, longtime Councilman Dennis Sullivan and his running mate, newcomer Fred Wied V.
Wied was in fourth grade when he joined the chess club in 1996 at the former Central School on High Street - where he was mentored by Sullivan, who taught at the school for nine years. The school, adjacent to the Middle School, was closed in 2000 and was demolished about five years ago.
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text: Gluten-Free Diet Not Linked To Higher Risks Of Heart Diseases, Claims Recent Study By Dipannita | May 05, 2017 06:20 AM EDT The British Medical Journal states that according to a new study, gluten is not associated with greater risks of heart diseases. On the contrary, a gluten-free diet might harm the heart as this diet discourage the consumption of whole grains that actually promotes better cardiovascular health. This, however, does not apply to people who have celiac disease. A new study debunks the theory that gluten is associated with higher risks of heart diseases. Andrew Chan, an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and also an author of the study has said that foregoing gluten, which is a protein found in whole grains, is not a good idea. He states that unless a person has celiac disease, going gluten-free would ironically harm the health of the heart, claims Consumer Reports. Well, this is because a gluten free diet discourages the consumption of whole grains, which are known to promote the well-being of the heart. Watch video As a part of the study, the team that comprised of researchers from Columbia University and Harvard University studied the data of 45,303 men and 4,714 women. The participants had reported from 1986 to 2010, about their food habits every four years and none of the participants had celiac disease. Another nutrition science professor, Alice Lichtenstein, who was however not involved with the study has also said that theoretically, there is no evidence or reason relating foods containing gluten and heart diseases for people who don't have celiac disease, Women's Health noted. Andrew Chan further emphasizes that the results of the study will actually make people rethink their decisions of following a gluten-free diet. The reason is that it suggests foregoing whole grains which are not only packed with nutrients but also with a lot of fiber. Additionally, gluten-free foods are packed with a lot more fats, salt and sugar, which might actually heighten the risks associated with heart diseases.


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Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History, by Katy Tur
Katy Tur was stationed in Europe for NBC News when she received a call asking her to come to the US to cover the Donald Trump campaign. This was a short time after his announcement. The field of candidates for the Republican nomination was already large. The presumption was that Tur would follow the campaign until Trump quit and then she could go back home to her apartment in Paris.
It didn't turn out as planned. Instead, Tur received an assignment that ended up lasting over 500 days, flying in planes chartered by the press entourage and sleeping in hotels. Worse still her life was threatened by angry Trump supporters.
Trump's first interactions with Tur were spent trying to lure her into being supportive of the campaign. When that failed the candidate began mentioning her in speeches as "little Katy" while she stayed in a "press pen" with other reporters, usually separated from a booing audience by no more than a row of bicycle racks. This despite multiple incidents of protesters being assaulted by Trump supporters while the candidate egged them on. The barrage of threats by Twitter and email led the Secret Service agents to tell her that they were going out of their way to make sure she was safe. Eventually NBC hired ex-agents to act as bodyguards.
Tur followed Trump through election day and suddenly found herself the main candidate to be the White House correspondent, a job traditionally going to the reporter who followed the campaign of the winning candidate. She turned the job down and currently reports from New York City.
In addition to her story of following Trump, including stories of an unwanted kiss and that she was the one to tell Trump about the release of the Access Hollywood tape, Tur also gives an insider view of traveling with a press crew. The life is one mostly of boredom and lack of Internet access on planes followed by a dump of information on landing that has to be dealt with. In between there are stories of reporters finding friends-with-benefits liaisons, desperate reporters trying to make sure they can take their hairspray on a flight, and even one reporter trying to slide down the aisle on a tray during takeoff.
Tur also tells of her being raised in a family of freelance journalist parents, the first to have a helicopter available to cover live car chases on LA television and there are some interesting, perhaps even accidental, insights into the life of a TV journalist.
If you followed much of the campaign for the many months before the election many of the stories will be familiar, though it's considerably different in perspective through the eyes of someone on the scene and occasionally dragged into the story by the person she covered.


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Jeter Is Said to Hire Warriors' Bowers as Marlins Business Chief
(Bloomberg) -- The NBA champion Golden State Warriors are losing one of their top executives.
Chief Marketing Officer Chip Bowers is joining baseball's Miami Marlins as president of business operations, reporting to part-owner and Chief Executive Officer Derek Jeter, according to people familiar with the personnel move.
The people requested anonymity because the move hasn't been announced. It is Jeter's second executive hire since taking the reins in September. Earlier this year he also added David Oxfeld from Jeter's longtime agency, Excel Sports Management, where he worked on client sales and business development.
Jeter was part of a group led by Bruce Sherman that paid $1.2 billion for the Marlins, who lose tens of millions each season. As the new owners try to create a profitable franchise, Jeter has emphasized corporate partnerships. He is also cutting costs, angering fans with his trade of 2017 home run champion Giancarlo Stanton to the Yankees. Stanton's contract called for the slugger to be paid $295 million over the next decade.
Bowers will oversee many of the efforts to boost revenue, including finding a new naming-rights partner for Marlins Park and negotiating a new local television contract. The current deal with Fox Sports, which pays the team about $20 million a season -- below what other teams in comparable markets get -- expires in three years.
A spokesman for the Marlins declined to comment. Bowers didn't immediately return a voice mail seeking comment on the job change.
Bowers is in his fifth season as marketing chief of the Warriors, for whom he oversees all marketing and corporate sales. He joined the team after four years as the vice president of corporate partnerships and marketing for the Orlando Magic. He began his career in professional sports as a sales executive with MLB's San Diego Padres.
The Marlins averaged 20,395 fans last season, third-worst in baseball.
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So far, this week is turning out like a mirror image of the 2014 postseason. Hopefully the Birds can turn the tide and pick up at least two (preferably three) games against Detroit this weekend, to cap off what would have been quite a successful homestand before heading off on the dreaded west coast trip.
Let's see what everybody is saying about our O's.
The Orioles, in doing what they did at the trade deadline, laid bare not only their intentions to keep trying to contend in 2017, but to try again in 2018 as well. Camden Depot's head honcho Jon Shephard goes through the positions in a sort of state-of-the-Birds post.
Thoughts on the Trade Deadline and the Future
Want more on both the deadline and what comes next? BSL's Rob Shields has you covered.
Bird's Eye View Episode 211: Deadline Drama
On Monday, Jake was kind enough to let me sit in for Scott (who was with his wife as she gave birth to their third child – congrats, Magnesses!). We talked about the moves the O's did – and didn't make – played some fantasy boss, and of course blew the save. Give a listen, would ya?
Joey Rickard a Surprise Inclusion Among Game's Top Outfielders
Joey's defense has been much improved this season, and the Baltimore Sun's Jon Meoli has the advanced stats to back it up.
Nick Markakis Hits 2000th Career Hit
Congrats to Nick the Stick!


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Hello Year 2016. I still can't believe it's 2016 yet although we are already 3 days through 2016.
My holiday withdrawal is really kicking me hard and I haven't been on my usual cheery mood whole morning, so I thought it's time for me to look at these photos which remind me of my good old times in 2015.
1. A simple dinner
Because any meal after a long nap seems satisfying.
And it feels amazing to stroll on the streets in the evening with D where time was not the limiting factor, and not knowing what to expect.
Although it was a really simple meal,
it was one of the happiest meal I have ever had with D this far.
2. D's companion to my annual dinner
Because I want to spend every moment with D if possible,
and D is such a good sport,
he always agrees to be my plus one,
and is always more than happy to accompany me everywhere I go.
He even dressed up so well for a normal event, it melted my heart.
And also million thanks to his effort in helping me to take great photos that night.
Seeing all the sweats dripping down his forehead wetting his shirt,
made my hear cringe and at the sight of it.
D always give his 125% to keep me happy.
3. Pies
Because we are both pie lovers!
But that's not quite the main happiness here.
D was such a patient man, he knew I had work to do,
so he followed quietly and helped me with all he could.
He snapped photos so patiently and carefully,
and he helped me so much from driving me around to jotting down names for food.
D is such an all-rounder BF!
4. Coincidental matching outfits
Because that's how great minds think alike.
I was under a great amount of stress that day,
but the moment I saw D got off his car with a purple top and a pale pants,
I was surprised because my ensemble if an exact opposite of yours.
And I do not have that many purple clothes and he has only one.
So the chances for such coincidence were virtually nil.
It's amazing how D could always read my mind,
and make great predictions!
I am impressed!
5. These breakfast set
Because D knows how much of a big fan I am for eggs and toast,
and he looked all around the place just to get us here,
so we could try their renown breakfast set.
As much as I love eating eggs,
I found eating half-boiled eggs such a hassle,
but D got it all covered.
He would peel off the egg shell nicely and season them with the best proportion of soy sauce and black pepper while all I had to do was to devour them!


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|Bobbejaanland Selects Fortinet to Deploy Park-Wide WiFi Infrastructure for Visitors and Staff
|Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2015 01:43:50 PM
The Most Popular Amusement Park in Belgium Chooses Fortinets FortiGate, FortiAP and FortiPresence Integrated Solutions to Capture Visitor Intelligence and Drive Sales
Sunnyvale, California, March 25, 2015 - Fortinet® (NASDAQ: FTNT) a global leader in high-performance cyber security solutions, today announced that Bobbejaanland, the most popular attraction park in Belgium, has selected Fortinets FortiGate® security appliance, FortiAP access points and FortiPresence wireless analytic solution to implement an innovative approach of using WiFi to capture intelligence and drive sales. The Belgian attraction park chose Fortinets solutions over the competition due to their advanced features, such as a customer engagement engine, presence and positioning analytics, robust security and ease of management.
Founded in 1960, Bobbejaanland Family Park has grown to become one of the most popular amusement parks in Belgium. The 56-acre attraction park features over 40 rides and entertains between 750,000 and 800,000 visitors per year.
Recognizing the important social and behavioral trends being brought about by the mobile revolution, and faced with the ongoing challenge of growing attendance and while also being creative to try to continue to improve profitability, Bobbejaanland decided to deploy a new park-wide Wi-Fi infrastructure for visitors and staff, providing an important new method for increasing per capita sales, improving operational efficiency and boosting visitor engagement and loyalty.
After conducting a thorough analysis of the different solutions available on the market, Bobbejaanland identified Fortinet as a preferred vendor capable of providing a complete solution, including both inside and outside access points, robust WLAN security, advanced WLAN features, centralized management, real-time location metrics and trending, total visitor traffic, dwell time duration, visitor contact information, PCI-DSS compliance among others.
In April 2014, Bobbejaanland deployed 30 of Fortinets FortiAP access points throughout the park to enable Wifi connectivity. Sixty percent were outdoor access points mounted on poles, while the rest were located inside restaurants and indoor amusements. This resulted in Wi-Fi coverage across 90% of the park, and provided PCI-DSS compliant connectivity for all of their fixed and mobile point-of-sale terminals.
Controlled by one single FortiGate security appliance, which also serves as a Wi-Fi controller, the wireless system provides self-service Wi-Fi access to visitors through a social Wi-Fi login from visitors mobile devices. Completely segregated from point-of-sales and staff networks, the guest network gives visitors secure Internet access by opting-in using an email address or Facebook ID.
On login, visitors arrive at a landing page, where Bobbejaanland can make real-time offers promoting anything from high-margin merchandise to food and beverage discount coupons, even venue-specific offers which encourage visitors to go to certain rides or shops.
Working with Fortinet, Bobbejaanland is building a qualified list of customers with zero cost of acquisition. During its off-season, the attraction park can leverage that customers list to promote season passes, upcoming events and new attractions. And when repeat visitors return to the park, Bobbejaanland is able to combine presence and big data analytics, to further profile their visitors, enabling even more targeted offers in future. We have only scratched the surface of what we can do with the opt-in list and visitor analytics the Fortinet Wi-Fi system allows us to capture,. comments Niels Meeus, IT Manager at Bobbejaanland.
In August 2014, Bobbejaanland deployed Fortinets FortiPresence, a real-time visitor presence analytics system which, controlled by a FortiGate security appliance, allows them to track visitor density minute-by-minute on site. It works by passively detecting the presence of Wi-Fi enabled mobile devices and plotting heat-maps to show where visitors are distributed around the park. The attraction park can therefore examine average dwell time, traffic flows and more.
Around 60-80% of visitors have Wi-Fi enabled on their phones, notes Meeus. The Fortinet solution gives us amazing data for making real-time decisions. Throughout the day, park operations staff can watch the heat-maps, and direct mobile vendors, entertainers and cleaning crews to service high-density areas. While in low-density areas, they can delay opening a ride, lower ride frequency, or close early, reducing operational costs and equipment wear and tear.
We are pleased to count Bobbejaanland among our customers, which further proves our solutions are ideal for meeting the growing security and connectivity requirements of the retail industry, said Patrice Perche, senior vice president of sales and support for international region at Fortinet. Our Fortinets Presence analytics solution uniquely combines statistical analytics with a sophisticated customer engagement engine, giving retailers like Bobbejaanland vital intelligence for activity planning but also enabling new-media marketing by driving engagement and sales through social Wi-Fi opt-ins.


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Joy turned to tragedy on Saturday night, when the terrorist group called the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) detonated a bomb at a wedding in the city of Gaziantep, Turkey, near the Syrian border.
A boy no older than 14 carried out the monstrous suicide bombing, which left more than 50 people dead, according to The New York Times, which cited Turkish officials.
Saturday's bombing is just the latest spillover from Syria's brutal civil war. There have been 15 attacks in Turkey alone since last year, according to The Times, and these attacks have left over 330 people dead.
The most recent bombing targeted Turkey's Kurdish ethnic minority, which has been active in the fight against ISIS in Syria. Meanwhile, Kurdish rebels have also been fighting Turkey's government for greater independence.
That's just a small part of the complex and shifting alliances going on in Syria and neighboring countries. How did this all get started? And what's happening now? Here are the basics:
The war started in Syria, which is a large country off the Mediterranean Sea in the Middle East. But it's spilled over into Turkey, which is to Syria's north, and Iraq, to Syria's east. To a lesser extent, the war has also had some impact on Syria's other neighbors of Lebanon, Israel, and Jordan.
The Syrian civil war is really three wars in one, as Le Monde explained.
The Syrian civil war began in 2011 as a peaceful uprising against the undemocratic and often brutal regime of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, who's ruled the country since his father's death in 2000. It followed on the heels of similar uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Bahrain — a movement called the Arab Spring.
But Syria quickly became a proxy war — a small war that much bigger countries use to scuffle for power instead of fighting each other directly. For example, the U.S. and Russia are each using Syria as a proxy war to fight the other for influence. So are Saudi Arabia and Iran, who are huge regional enemies.
Finally ISIS and other groups have turned Syria into a religious war. ISIS wants to set up its own nation where it can impose its twisted interpretation of Islam — which is at odds with the vast majority of the world's Muslims. It's used the chaos in Syria to do that.
There are four main sides in the Syrian civil war, all set in a complex web of shifting alliances where everyone's looking out for their own interests, as Vox pointed out. It's like Game of Thrones on steroids — but with real, and awful, consequences.
The first is Assad. He and his family are Alawites, a religious and ethnic group that belongs to the Shia branch of Islam. Because of that, Assad is supported by Iran, the Middle East's largest Shia power, and by Hezbollah, an armed Shia political party based in Lebanon. He also has the support of major world powers Russia and China.
The second is Syrian rebels who oppose Assad. Some of these groups, like the Free Syrian Army, are made up of former members of the Syrian military who now oppose Assad. Others, like the Syriac Military Council, are members of individual religious and ethnic groups fighting to defend their own. Still others, like Jabhat Fateh Al-Sham, are extremists with ties to terrorist groups like Al Qaeda. Some of these groups are variously backed by the United States and European countries, along with large Sunni — the other major brand of Islam — powers like Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Jordan, and Turkey.
The third is Kurdish rebels. They've carved an autonomous area in northern Syria, and they're on the front lines of the fight against ISIS. The United States has supported Kurdish fighters in Syria. Meanwhile, Turkey, another U.S. ally, has complained about that support as some of those same fighters carry out terrorist attacks inside Turkey, where Kurds have fought a decades-long war for greater independence. Meanwhile, Turkey bombed Kurdish fighters in Syria instead of bombing ISIS.
And ISIS
Finally, there's ISIS, a terrorist group that has carved out vast territory in Iraq and Syria from which it has launched attacks on targets around the world. In Syria, ISIS has spent most of its time fighting Kurds and anti-Assad rebels rather than the Assad regime, according to Vox. There's some evidence that Assad secretly supported ISIS and other extremist rebels early on as a way of discrediting all the rebels. He may also have bought oil from the terrorist group after it seized control of oil wells in Iraq and Syria.
As you can see, the civil war in Syria is extremely complicated and multi-layered, and this weekend's attack which left 50 dead is just the latest casualty of the unrest.
Related: What Is ISIS?


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The Local – A Modern-day General Store and Coffee House made its downtown Enumclaw debut June 4.
The new shop is under the guidance of owners/managers Amy Lundeen and Beckie Kahne. The two met over coffee 17 years ago, have remained friends and even served in each other's weddings.
Among other attractions, their shop offers Stumptown Coffee and has cold brewed coffee on tap. The owners strive to put local products – made in Washington – on their shelves, adding to the "old-time" general store feeling.
Address: 1616 Cole St., Enumclaw
Phone: 360-625-0600
Hours: 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Wednesday; 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday through Saturday; and 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday.


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Teen Texting:
Part II: The Texting Talk
by Linda Shaw
Have you ever felt left behind when trying to decipher your teen's texting slang?
Do you have a need to know what the thumbs are texting?
Most parents feel more than a bit baffled by today's texting lingo. How do you decipher the disconcerting from the acceptable when you can't crack the code?
Teens have always created for themselves a world apart from their parents. Not only does texting allow for furtive communication, but it also it proves to be both quick and easy on the thumbs. Rather than plucking out the letters of an entire phrase, letter acronyms have found place in our vernacular. Some of the more common phrases include:
- LOL (Laughing out Loud)
- PAW (Parents are Watching)
- KPC (Keep Parents Clueless)
- TTYL (Talk To You Later)
- B2W (Back To Work)
- L8R (Later)
- CU (See You)
- OTB (Off to Bed)
- PIR (Parents In Room)
- BRB (Be Right Back)
As a parent it's important to respect our children's texting, but we also need to keep an ear to the texting track and protect them from 404 (being clueless). So often they want to KPC (Keep Parents Clueless), but in this fast paced world, wise parents will text a 459 (I love you) by learning to keep up on the new texting 411 (information).
Here are a few websites that will keep you ADVD (advised).
- http://www.netlingo.com/acronyms.php
- http://news.cnet.com/Cracking-the-code-of-teens-IM-slang/2009-1025_3-6135457.html
- http://www.noslang.com/
- www.Teenchatdecoder.com
- www.teenangels.org
What do you think of all the new text language?
How has it affected your family communication?


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The other day I went to visit my best friend. While I was there, I noticed that she had a product in her shower called Wen. I had never heard of Wen before, but it sounded like something I should try. Naturally, I jumped out of the shower and immediately asked my BFF about this hair care product. Boy, was I glad I did. She could not stop raving about how fantastic and life-changing Wen is.
For those who don't know, Wen hair is an all-in-one shampoo, conditioner and styling treatment. With this product, you will be left with voluminous hair. That's why it is recommended for those with thin hair. Of course, those with thick hair can use WEN Hair too.
One of the main reasons why I love using Wen hair is that it was created by a real professional. Chaz Dean is highly regarded in the hair care industry as someone who knows his stuff. Dean has been seen on various television channels promoting his products such as QVC and HSN. With him, you know that you are purchasing a product that will really work and transform your mane into something beautiful.
Wen is able to bring real volume to your hair because it hydrates your strands. This product won't dry out your mane, which so many other products do. If you are hesitating whether or not you should purchase WEN Hair product on Amazon, don't. I'm telling you from personal experience that this product is worth every single penny. When you use Wen, you won't be able to get over how good your locks look.


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The court has dealt with more than 80 cases each term under Judge Scalia who recently passed away.
There is no policy or any law as to how cases are to be finalized should the presiding judge pass way. In this case, the new judge would continue to hear arguments and make decisions accordingly. Unresolved cases remain pending and become a backlog.
One of the Senate majority leader has stated that the position for the judge should not be filled until the new President is elected as this is the election year. The GOP (Republicans) might reconsider if there is opposition to Obama's choice for the appointment to replace Judge Scalia. Nine of the thirteen U.S. courts have been appointed by the Democratic Party.
The equally divided court has the power to support Obama in selecting the new Justice with the Republican Party. The Constitution or the law clearly assigns the task of selecting the new judge in the hands of the President. The Senate advises and gives permission to the President in decision making. This means the Congress and the White House can resolve the deadlock and the President has the power even though the Republican controls the senate.
It is believed by the parties that the President would select a moderate candidate and, once the candidate is selected, his/her name would be submitted in the D.C Circuit Court of Appeals to Judge Sri Srinivasan, an Indian immigrant and the first Hindu on the High Court. He is a Republican Judge appointed by the Senate in 2013.


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Few months ago, it was revealed that Karrueche Tran filed a restraining order against her ex boyfriend, Chris Brown, after she claimed he threatened to kill her. The judge has now granted her request, ordering that the restraining order is to stay in place for the next 5 years. According ...Read More »
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Chris Brown shared these beautiful photos of his daughter, Royalty Brown who just turned 3 years old. She is so adorable! Happy Birthday to the cutie.Read More »
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According to Chris Brown's lawyer, his ex Karrueche Tran is 'lying about her abuse at the hands of Chris for fame'. Mark Geragos told TMZ that the 28-year-old model is just one of a number of people making fake allegations against the singer for self promotion. 'A lot of people ...Read More »
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Chris Brown, has debunked a report by TMZ who alleged that he feels jealous of the speculated romance between his ex, Karrueche ,and rapper Quavo of Migos. The father of one, who took to Instagram to shut down the report, claiming he's not bothered. Here's what he wrote; "If you ...Read More »
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Karrueche got involved and added her two cents, essentially saying the whole Twitter beef is stupid and corny. �This isn't cool or funny," the 28-year-old Tran writes. �It's draining not just for me but for everyone. There's so much more out there in life then 'Twitter beefs.' But anyways.. second ...Read More »
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