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1 Nephi 4:6
1 Nephi 8:33
And great was the multitude that did enter into that strange building. And after they did enter into that building they did point the finger of ascorn at me and those that were partaking of the fruit also; but we heeded them not.
1 Nephi 11:35-36
And the multitude of the earth was gathered together; and I beheld that they were in a large and spacious abuilding, like unto the building which my father saw. And the angel of the Lord spake unto me again, saying: Behold the world and the wisdom thereof; yea, behold the house of Israel hath gathered together to bfight against the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
And it came to pass that I saw and bear record, that the great and spacious building was the apride of the world; and it bfell, and the fall thereof was exceedingly great. And the angel of the Lord spake unto me again, saying: Thus shall be the destruction of all nations, kindreds, tongues, and people, that shall fight against the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
1 Nephi 15:24
And I said unto them that it was the aword of God; and whoso would hearken unto the word of God, and would bhold fast unto it, they would never perish; neither could the ctemptations and the fiery ddarts of the eadversary overpower them unto blindness, to lead them away to destruction.
1 Nephi 19:7
For the things which some men esteem to be of great worth, both to the body and soul, others set at anaught and trample under their feet. Yea, even the very God of Israel do men btrample under their feet; I say, trample under their feet but I would speak in other words—they set him at naught, and chearken not to the voice of his counsels.
2 Nephi 2:11
For it must needs be, that there is an aopposition in all things. If not so, my first-born in the wilderness, righteousness could not be brought to pass, neither wickedness, neither holiness nor misery, neither good nor bad. Wherefore, all things must needs be a compound in one; wherefore, if it should be one body it must needs remain as dead, having no life neither death, nor corruption nor incorruption, happiness nor misery, neither sense nor insensibility.
2 Nephi 4:15
And upon athese I bwrite the things of my soul, and many of the scriptures which are engraven upon the plates of brass. For my soul cdelighteth in the scriptures, and my heart dpondereth them, and writeth them for the elearning and the profit of my children.
2 Nephi 4:17-19
17 Nevertheless, notwithstanding the great agoodness of the Lord, in showing me his great and marvelous works, my heart exclaimeth: O bwretched man that I am! Yea, my heart csorroweth because of my flesh; my soul grieveth because of mine iniquities.
18 I am encompassed about, because of the temptations and the sins which do so easily abeset me.
19 And when I desire to rejoice, my heart groaneth because of my sins; nevertheless, I know in whom I have atrusted.
2 Nephi 4:34
2 Nephi 9:30
2 Nephi 9:39
O, my beloved brethren, remember the awfulness in atransgressing against that Holy God, and also the awfulness of yielding to the enticings of that bcunning one. Remember, to be ccarnally-minded is ddeath, and to be espiritually-minded is flife geternal.
2 Nephi 10:23
2 Nephi 25:23
2 Nephi 25:26
2 Nephi 26:24
2 Nephi 26:29
He commandeth that there shall be no apriestcrafts; for, behold, priestcrafts are that men preach and set bthemselves up for a light unto the world, that they may get cgain and dpraise of the world; but they seek not the ewelfare of Zion.
2 Nephi 26:33
For none of these iniquities come of the Lord; for he doeth that which is good among the children of men; and he doeth nothing save it be plain unto the children of men; and he ainviteth them ball to ccome unto him and partake of his goodness; and he ddenieth none that come unto him, black and white, ebond and free, male and female; and he remembereth the fheathen; and all are alike unto God, both Jew and Gentile.
2 Nephi 28:29-30
Wo be unto him that shall say: We have received the word of God, and we aneed bno more of the word of God, for we have enough!
30 For behold, thus saith the Lord God: I will give unto the children of men line upon line, precept upon aprecept, here a little and there a little; and blessed are those who hearken unto my precepts, and lend an ear unto my counsel, for they shall learn bwisdom; for unto him that creceiveth I will give dmore; and from them that shall say, We have enough, from them shall be taken away even that which they have.
2 Nephi 29:3, 10-11
And because my words shall hiss forth—many of the Gentiles shall say: A aBible! A Bible! We have got a Bible, and there cannot be any more Bible.
Wherefore, because that ye have a Bible ye need not suppose that it contains all my awords; neither bneed ye suppose that I have not caused more to be written.
11 For I command aall men, both in the east and in the west, and in the north, and in the south, and in the islands of the sea, that they shall bwrite the words which I speak unto them; for out of the cbooks which shall be written I will djudge the world, every man according to their works, according to that which is written.
2 Nephi 31:20
Wherefore, ye must press forward with a asteadfastness in Christ, having a perfect brightness of bhope, and a clove of God and of all men. Wherefore, if ye shall press forward, feasting upon the word of Christ, and dendure to the end, behold, thus saith the Father: Ye shall have eeternal life.
2 Nephi 33:6
2 Nephi 33:10-11
And now, my beloved brethren, and also aJew, and all ye ends of the earth, hearken unto these words and bbelieve in Christ; and if ye believe not in these words believe in Christ. And if ye shall cbelieve in Christ ye will believe in these dwords, for they are the ewords of Christ, and he hath given them unto me; and they fteach all men that they should do good.
11 And if they are not the words of Christ, judge ye—for Christ will show unto you, with apower and great bglory, that they are his words, at the last day; and you and I shall stand face to face before his bar; and ye shall know that I have been commanded of him to write these things, notwithstanding my weakness.
Jacob 2:17
Jacob 2:28
Jacob 4:10
Jacob 7:11
And I said unto him: Then ye do not understand them; for they truly testify of Christ. Behold, I say unto you that none of the aprophets have written, nor bprophesied, save they have spoken concerning this Christ.
Enos 1:2-4
And I will tell you of the awrestle which I had before God, before I received a bremission of my sins.
3 Behold, I went to hunt beasts in the forests; and the words which I had often heard my father speak concerning eternal life, and the ajoy of the saints, bsunk deep into my heart.
4 And my soul ahungered; and I bkneeled down before my Maker, and I ccried unto him in mighty dprayer and supplication for mine own soul; and all the day long did I cry unto him; yea, and when the night came I did still raise my voice high that it reached the heavens.
Omni 1:26
And now, my beloved brethren, I would that ye should acome unto Christ, who is the Holy One of Israel, and partake of his salvation, and the power of his redemption. Yea, come unto him, and boffer your whole souls as an coffering unto him, and continue in dfasting and praying, and endure to the end; and as the Lord liveth ye will be saved.
Mosiah 2:9
And these are the words which he aspake and caused to be written, saying: My brethren, all ye that have assembled yourselves together, you that can hear my words which I shall speak unto you this day; for I have not commanded you to come up hither to btrifle with the words which I shall speak, but that you should chearken unto me, and open your ears that ye may hear, and your dhearts that ye may understand, and your eminds that the fmysteries of God may be unfolded to your view.
Mosiah 2:21
I say unto you that if ye should aserve him who has created you from the beginning, and is bpreserving you from day to day, by lending you cbreath, that ye may live and move and do according to your own dwill, and even supporting you from one moment to another—I say, if ye should serve him with all your ewhole souls yet ye would be funprofitable servants.
Mosiah 2:41
And moreover, I would desire that ye should consider on the blessed and ahappy state of those that keep the commandments of God. For behold, they are bblessed in all things, both temporal and spiritual; and if they hold out cfaithful to the end they are received into dheaven, that thereby they may dwell with God in a state of never-ending happiness. O remember, remember that these things are true; for the Lord God hath spoken it.
Mosiah 3:7
Mosiah 3:17
Mosiah 4:9-10
Believe in aGod; believe that he is, and that he bcreated all things, both in heaven and in earth; believe that he has all cwisdom, and all power, both in heaven and in earth; believe that man doth not dcomprehend all the things which the Lord can comprehend.
10 And again, believe that ye must arepent of your sins and forsake them, and humble yourselves before God; and ask in bsincerity of heart that he would cforgive you; and now, if you dbelieve all these things see that ye edo them.
Mosiah 4:14-15
And ye will not suffer your achildren that they go hungry, or naked; neither will ye bsuffer that they transgress the laws of God, and fight and cquarrel one with another, and serve the devil, who is the master of sin, or who is the devil spirit which hath been spoken of by our fathers, he being an enemy to all righteousness.
15 But ye will ateach them to bwalk in the ways of truth and csoberness; ye will teach them to dlove one another, and to serve one another.
Mosiah 4:16-19
16 And also, ye yourselves will asuccor those that stand in need of your succor; ye will administer of your substance unto him that standeth in need; and ye will not suffer that the bbeggar putteth up his petition to you in vain, and turn him out to perish.
17 Perhaps thou shalt asay: The man has brought upon himself his misery; therefore I will stay my hand, and will not give unto him of my food, nor impart unto him of my substance that he may not suffer, for his punishments are just—
18 But I say unto you, O man, whosoever doeth this the same hath great cause to repent; and except he repenteth of that which he hath done he perisheth forever, and hath no interest in the kingdom of God.
19 For behold, are we not all abeggars? Do we not all depend upon the same Being, even God, for all the substance which we have, for both food and raiment, and for gold, and for silver, and for all the riches which we have of every kind?
Mosiah 4:27
Mosiah 5:13
For how aknoweth a man the master whom he has not served, and who is a stranger unto him, and is far from the thoughts and intents of his heart?
Mosiah 18:8-10
And it came to pass that he said unto them: Behold, here are the waters of Mormon (for thus were they called) and now, as ye are adesirous to come into the bfold of God, and to be called his people, and are willing to bear one another's burdens, that they may be light;
9 Yea, and are awilling to mourn with those that bmourn; yea, and comfort those that stand in need of comfort, and to stand as cwitnesses of God at all times and in all things, and in all places that ye may be in, even until death, that ye may be redeemed of God, and be numbered with those of the dfirst resurrection, that ye may have eternal life—
10 Now I say unto you, if this be the desire of your hearts, what have you against being abaptized in the bname of the Lord, as a witness before him that ye have entered into a ccovenant with him, that ye will serve him and keep his commandments, that he may pour out his Spirit more abundantly upon you?
Mosiah 24:11-12
And Amulon commanded them that they should stop their cries; and he aput guards over them to watch them, that whosoever should be found calling upon God should be put to death.
12 And Alma and his people did not raise their voices to the Lord their God, but did pour out their ahearts to him; and he did know the bthoughts of their hearts.
Mosiah 26:30-31
Yea, and aas often as my people brepent will I forgive them their trespasses against me.
31 And ye shall also aforgive one another your trespasses; for verily I say unto you, he that forgiveth not his bneighbor's trespasses when he says that he repents, the same hath brought himself under condemnation.
Mosiah 27:14
And again, the angel said: Behold, the Lord hath aheard the prayers of his people, and also the bprayers of his servant, Alma, who is thy father; for he has cprayed with much faith concerning thee that thou mightest be brought to the dknowledge of the truth; therefore, for this purpose have I come to econvince thee of the power and authority of God, that the fprayers of his servants might be answered according to their faith.
Mosiah 29:26-27
Now it is not common that the avoice of the people desireth anything bcontrary to that which is right; but it is common for the lesser part of the cpeople to desire that which is not right; therefore this shall ye observe and make it your law—to do your business by the voice of the people.
27 And aif the time comes that the voice of the people doth choose iniquity, then is the time that the judgments of God will come upon you; yea, then is the time he will visit you with great destruction even as he has hitherto visited this land.
Alma 1:26
And when the priests left their alabor to impart the word of God unto the people, the people also left their labors to hear the word of God. And when the priest had imparted unto them the word of God they all returned again diligently unto their labors; and the priest, not esteeming himself above his hearers, for the preacher was no better than the hearer, neither was the teacher any better than the learner; and thus they were all equal, and they did all labor, every man baccording to his strength.
Alma 1:27
Alma 1:30
And thus, in their aprosperous circumstances, they did not send away any who were bnaked, or that were hungry, or that were athirst, or that were sick, or that had not been nourished; and they did not set their hearts upon criches; therefore they were dliberal to all, both old and young, both bond and free, both male and female, whether out of the church or in the church, having no erespect to persons as to those who stood in need.
Alma 4:10
And thus ended the eighth year of the reign of the judges; and the wickedness of the church was a great astumbling-block to those who did not belong to the church; and thus the church began to fail in its progress.
Alma 5:14
And now behold, I ask of you, my brethren of the church, have ye aspiritually been bborn of God? Have ye received his image in your countenances? Have ye experienced this mighty cchange in your hearts?
Alma 5:46
Behold, I say unto you they are made aknown unto me by the Holy Spirit of God. Behold, I have bfasted and prayed many days that I might know these things of myself. And now I do know of myself that they are true; for the Lord God hath made them manifest unto me by his Holy Spirit; and this is the spirit of crevelation which is in me.
Alma 6:6
Nevertheless the children of God were commanded that they should gather themselves together oft, and join in afasting and mighty prayer in behalf of the welfare of the souls of those who knew not God.
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Q: Describe the difference between African slavery and American slavery, from the point of an African.
A: Well, you see, Equiano's family must have had their own slaves, because every family of rich men had slaves. From research on the way slaves were treated in Africa, I know that slaves were treated almost like everybody else. There are certain things that the slaves are not allowed to do. But they live in the compound, eat the same food. Their children go to the stream and fetch water, all together. They go to the forest and cut firewood. Everybody does what everybody else does.
But the thing is the...lack of freedom is there. And the slave was not free to leave the compound or homestead of his owner and go to another homestead, or go home to his parents. And if he attempted to escape, he would be perhaps sold or killed or whatever. So, it was difficult for slaves to escape.
But then, by comparison to what happened to people who were considered slaves in Europe and America, the people who were being handled as slaves in Africa were in heaven. So I am saying that, Equiano himself must have been living with slaves, playing with the children of slaves in his father's compound, in his village, going to the stream, fetching water with them, making friends with them, eating with them. So, this of course would not have disposed him to begin to imagine the kind of thing that would happen to him outside Africa. So he would never have imagined the kind of thing that happened to him. After he was removed, after he was captured, the worst he was expecting was death. But what his what he got eventually was worse than death.
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Thursday, February 19, 2015
The Strategy of Permanent War. . .
The most interesting (and tragic) part of this strategy is that for a long time now, Western leaders have been quite intentionally aggravating so-called Islamic extremism with the clear knowledge that they need this "enemy" to drive their economy of war and their politics of fear. The grandest deception of modern times is the portrayal of Israel as "victim." But the focus of political Zionism has been fairly clear from the beginning. The creation of Israel was orchestrated by violent "terrorists" like the Stern Gang who intentionally created as much conflict as possible with Palestinians in order specifically to create an image of Middle Eastern Jews as victims. They did this because it was the only ideological shield that they could use to hide behind as they took more and more Palestinian land. This strategy among Israeli leaders has continued unabated now for generations. Take Palestinian land, lock them up in giant prison camps and then portray yourself as a victim on the defensive every time the Palestinians fight back, meanwhile continue to take Palestinian land (in clear violation of international law) while everyone is looking at and blaming the Palestinians. It is a strategy has even deceived many Israelis as so well illustrated by the Israeli peace activist Miko Peled.
But our own leaders have more or less adopted the very same strategy. Part of this has been the simple and clear knowledge that failure to support the Palestinian people will continue to feed the ranks of desperate and angry groups who actively, and understandably, use any means at their disposal to fight back. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have also been central to this strategy. The strategy is this - create conflict, ignore or exploit religious and ethnic differences, arm and incite these groups either directly or through proxy states like Saudi Arabia, and then use these enhanced conflicts to further expand war, military spending, and increased security powers in our own countries. It is, in fact, an age old military/political strategy; create conflict and then use that conflict as the excuse to enhance your power, military might, and surveillance or our own population.
It is a sad strategy in every possible sense. It destroys lives, creates chaos and death, and it is easily sold to a surprisingly gullible population. Part of the problem is that there is a significant conceptual deficit among people when it comes to the issue of power. Most people have only a one dimensional view of power which sees power moving in only one direction and misses the subtleties of how it is used to deceive and how it moves through structures and can expand backward toward the source. Thus, people in the West will, for example, demonize Islam or Islamic nations, failing entirely to see how Western nations not only created these countries (mostly during the First World War) and then exploited thees nations to enhance the need for continual war. It really is just a more complex version of using provocateurs, which governments and capitalists have been doing forever.
Arguably the worst by-product of this strategy of fear and one dimensional view of power is bigotry. You see it all the time and it is profoundly frustrating. People will see the terrible actions of 'the other,' (in this case Muslims) as the main source of conflict and evil, meanwhile they will ignore not only our own Western history of violence and evil, but completely ignore the active part that our governments and arms dealers play in the sustaining this history of violence etc. Thus people will ignore the fact that George Bush started a war almost solely for personal vengeance that killed over half a million innocent people, but they will drone on and on about a single murder perpetrated by 'the other.' This is the kind of ignorance that our leaders are actively promoting.
As Bertrand Russell once said, "Most people would rather die than think; many do."
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- Pamela Mac Neil said...
The communication of choice Kirby of Western governments is the continuous repeating of myths. I happened to listen the other night to Ilan Pappe, the Israeli historian, on you tube. He said when he was doing his PH.D he went to England to read the actual archives, which had just been released after 30 yrs, about the 1948 war of Israel and Palestine. He found that everything that Israel taught in it's schools about this period was a complete lie. As you mentioned the Israeli narrative was that they were the victims and in fact they said they could be victims of another, holocaust. They also presented themselves as being like David slaying Goliath, when in fact the Israeli's were the ones with superior weaponery and a better armed military.There is more to the narrative, but you get the idea. Pappe said that he and all Israeli's
education was a sham. He of course searched for the truth and found it and has been writing about it ever since. Far from being victims Pappe concludes that Israel is actually performing genocide on Palestinians. "The Strategy of Permanent War" can only be sustained through myths.Once a person starts to question the myths that we are taught, instead of the knowledge that we are not taught, they're real learning begins and what a learning it is, particularly when it comes to understanding America's foreign policy and it's real agenda. So pervasive are these myths that they permeat almost every facet of western governments. Promoting justice and equality is done by individuals or institutions created by individuals. I know of no western government that fights for justice and equality.Myths are really just dressed up lies. Permanent war is a creation of those in government who pursue power and use it to control and dominate others. Harper very much want's to be a part of the alliance that practices permanent war. He's trying to prove himself by sending Canadian pilots to bomb ISIS in Iraq. It is interesting Kirby that you put permanent war in the context of a strategy. This means that governments plan and execute wholesale state violence, a sort of premeditated murder, but on a grander scale. Your identifying permanent warfare as being a strategy is truly frightening. Aristotle said "know thy enemy" for those whose self imposed ignorance contributes to their unquestioning acceptance of whatever their government tells them, they are the real enemy.
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El Barco Beans from Avila
- 自治州 : Castilla y Leon
El Barco Beans from Avila are noteworthy for their excellent cooking qualities and good organoleptic properties.
El Barco beans from Avila are dried beans from the 'Phaselous vulgaris, L' family. There are 7 varieties (White round, White kidney, Purple long, Purple round, Arrocina, Flat and Large Barco beans) destined for human consumption. Their cultivation has always been traditional in this area. They are sown during the second half of May, at the same time as all other varieties. Depending on the size and weight of the variety used, between 80 and 100 kg of seed are sown per hectare. The water (without lime) used to irrigate the plants produces very thin skinned beans, which reduces the amount of time required to cook them, as well as softening their texture. They are most often harvested manually, pod-by-pod, without uprooting the plant. This method provides a higher quality product.
- 産品の種類: Pulses
- シーズン: Consumed year-round, but especially in winter.
- 産地: The production area is located in the south-west part of the province of Avila, in the region known as Barco de Avila-Piedrahita. It also covers the town of Tejado, in the province of Salamanca.
- お勧めの飲み物: El Barco Beans from Avila, almost any way they are prepared, are excellent with crianza red wines.
- 種類: The morphological characteristics of each of these varieties regarding colour, shape and size of the bean are:
- 'Blanca redonda': white in colour, eliptical shape.
- 'Blanca de riñón': white in colour, oblong shape.
- 'Morada larga': purple in colour, kidney shaped (long and flattened).
- 'Morada redonda': purplish in colour, spherical shape.
- 'Judión de Barco': white in colour, oblong shape.
- 'Planchada': white in colour, kidney shape.
- 'Arrocina': white in colour, spherical shape.
- Energy: Average
- Cholesterol: 0
- 注意: Rich in Carbohydrates, Fibre, Calcium and Iron.


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Professor of Computer Science at the University of Nottingham (UK). Currently the Vice-Provost (Research and Knowledge Transfer) at our campus in Malaysia. I am a member of the Automated Scheduling, Optimisation and Planning (ASAP) Research Group. My interests include Operational Research, Evolutionary Computing, Scheduling (particularly sports scheduling), Timetabling and Games (both games in the usual sense of the word as well as mathematical games such as the Iterated Prisoners Dilemma).
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The primary cause of client complaints and employee issues is not technical skills. People perform poorly because they lack soft skills.
Your employees might be strong technicians, sales, or operations people, but they fail when their behaviors could be better.
Their failure damages client relationships, lowers productivity, motivates good employees to quit, and often costs $10,000 or more in just one month!
And that might be only one employee with poor soft skills.
The truth is every one of your employees needs to improve their soft skills for your company to be its best.
What Are Soft Skills?
Soft skills are more about how you act rather than what you know. Examples of "soft skills" are attitude, manners, collaboration, problem solving, conflict resolution, documentation, time management, and communication.
The world has changed. Strong soft skills are now a requirement for highly profitable companies, not an option.
Unfortunately, the majority of an IT managed service providers' attention when hiring is each job candidates' technical skills; and with existing employees, the focus of professional development is only to increase technical skills.
This is a big mistake. As in all aspects of life, there needs to be a balance.
The truth is, these "soft skills" are just as crucial to business success as the more recognized technical, or "hard" skills.
44% of U.S. executives listed
soft skills
as their top concern about job applicants...
... twice the level of the second highest category, technical skills.
Employers are more concerned about weak soft skills
than low technical skills.
Inc. Magazine, February 17, 2016 - 2013 Adecco Staffing survey
A MUST For Every Employee
Dave's Charm School teaches essential behaviors your team needs to know to improve professionalism, work better together, and increase customer satisfaction.
These courses are a result of over ten years' of work developing the soft skills of hundreds of I.T. help desk and field engineer employees and managers, plus other employees in their companies. Each course is designed specifically for managed service providers and other IT entrepreneurs. Every training includes accountability exercises to develop new habits and demonstrate them consistently.
Share them with your team, watch the training videos, and use the talking points to discuss how your company can improve. Onsite training is available.
Use Dave's Charm School to:
- Traing a new employee
- Address a specific weakness within a team
- Help an employee improve a specific behavior
- Reinforce your company values & culture
You pay thousands of dollars for technical and sales certifications, and/or for your people to attend industry events… but then your people make Clients upset.
Now is the time to invest a small amount of money to improve soft skills.
How long is each course?
Courses are 40 minutes to a little over 1 hour each.
Should I do an entire training at once with my team or an individual?
Dave's Charm School challenges existing behaviors and deeply held habits. We suggest you work with your team to train, discuss, roleplay, and pilot new behaviors based on 1-2 lessons of a course at a time. Deeper training to develop new habits is more effective over time than speeding through the material.
Do we get any future updates?
Courses are updated on a regular basis. As long as you are subscribed to Dave's Charm School you receive the most updated course material.
Are there any limits to how many people can use these courses?
Yes, your subscription limits the amount of people at your company that can view courses and complete exams. Distributing the files or any links outside of your company and/or with people outside of your company violates your subscription.
Are these courses written specifically for I.T. / managed service providers?
Yes. Course materials and examples are related to real-life scenarios of our Clients.
What if we disagree with what is taught?
We are not aware of any instance where an I.T. / managed services provider has totally disagreed with anything in Dave's Charm School. However, we do encourage you to personalize each key training points by discussing real service tickets and typical scenarios that have occurred in your organization. You may want your people to do things slightly differently, but Dave's Charm School remains a great tool to have those discussions of how your organization is unique. Also, we welcome any feedback, so please feel free to send your thoughts and suggestions to email@example.com.
How do we judge the ROI of Dave's Charm School?
Soft skills are often not directly related to revenue, costs, and profits, but soft skills hugely impact your financial results. We recently read a lament of an executive recruiter who had a brilliant candidate who was unplaceable because no one wanted to work with him. Even though brilliant, it was too costly to deal with his lack of soft skills.
Here are a couple ways to consider the ROI:
#1 – Consider one specific behavior you want to improve. Maybe you have six technical people who each learn how to save 10 minutes of time a day. Multiplying 10 minutes across a team of six techs equals one hour a day. If a tech bills at $125/hour, and there are approximately 260 work days a year, then that is $33,125 ROI from just one behavioral improvement.
#2 – Ask yourself, "What is it worth to our company if our people strengthen one client relationship and that client buys more from us, or just stays with us longer?" Hint: A lot of money…
Dave's Charm School is training that should have been part of your organization from the beginning, but it's not too late. Subscribe today and schedule training time for your team before someone upsets another team member or client.
Dave's Charm School has been key to growing my company and bringing my engineering staff up to a consistent level of customer service.
Before we had engineers that were good at technical tasks and not that good with customer service. Now our engineers treat our customers the way they prefer. (Our millennials especially enjoy the classes.)
We have actually measured the success of using Dave's Charm School with CSAT scores, and we were blown away with how happy customers are now.
John Wilson, CEO, NRTC
We were early adopters of David's 'soft skills' training because we saw a huge, unfilled need with our own team of technicians and engineers, and I can say it's been great.
We have great folks, highly proficient at troubleshooting and resolving problems, but they had never had formal training on dealing with customers.
We put them through the Charm School curriculum of video training and they emerged better armed to deal with the sort of customer service challenges (and opportunities!) they face daily. I couldn't recommend the courses enough.
Luis Alvarez, CEO, Alvarez Technology Group
In a service based business, how you interact with clients is key to continued success. The bookends of a client experience are critically important.
But how many of us have stopped and trained our people exactly how we want it done and then taken the time to give them the skills to execute well?
Dave's Charm School is an effective tool to empower your staff to consistently deliver that great client feeling you want clients to experience every time.
Robert Betzel, CEO, Infinity Network Solutions
Technical skills are easy. Vendors require them. There are plenty of options to obtain that type of high quality training.
Soft skills is a different story. There used to be nothing for a managed service provider. Lots of generic stuff, and most of it really poor. We wanted something with examples of how to work together in a technology services company.
Dave's Charm School is the only comprehensive training to develop the soft skills required by our Clients these days.
It not only helps our technical folks, but we do some cross-departmental training to help our people work more effectively together. Topics like No Drama and Communications 101 give you an idea of why our employees enjoy Dave's Charm School courses. Yours will too.
Harry Curran, COO, Vertikal6
I heard of another MSP who had a tech go onsite to a client. The tech checked in with the receptionist. Did his work on the servers and left. My buddy called one of the partners at the company to ask if they were happy with the service. The partner replied, 'Was one of your people here yesterday? I don't think any of our people saw him.'
One of the reasons this would never happen with our tech team is because Dave's Charm School helps us train all employees the soft skills side of business. There are actually courses on meeting (and exceeding) client expectations on remote and onsite service calls. Plus a dozen others. We train existing employees in Charm School and it's part of every new employee onboarding plan.
Dan Paquette, Managing Partner, Key Methods
Let me be candid: We use Dave's Charm School to teach existing and new employees soft skills for one reason: It works.
I don't have time to put this type of training together. Neither do you. So when I've got employees arguing, I send them back to the No Drama course on conflict and anger management. If I have someone who lacks empathy, I send them to that course. If my millennials are not grasping basic business etiquette (shocked, aren't you), then a manager works through that course (AGAIN) with them.
The big takeaway for us is Dave's Charm School starts the conversation with excellent knowledge transfer and learning exercises. Then we take it from there.
Ed Anderson, Managing Director, Dyrand Systems
Dave's done it again with the Charm School learning system. He's figured out an innovative approach mixing technology and the ability to customize our delivery of his soft skills training for our team. We can use video, audio or customize PPT content and choose desired games or exercises to reinforce with. I glad he invested his time to garner 20+ years of people management and client facing expertise and organized it into great content (one less thing on my to do list).
I know any MSP/IT shop like mine that gets through just a portion of the content will either increase their CSAT scores or identify the personnel that doesn't match their culture. We are using to help us continue to grow our consultative nature and earn higher rates for younger team members, communicate better and grow as a team. We are a metrics driven firm and find we are always more successful when we remember technology services is all about the people.
Steve Meek, Founder and President, The Fulcrum Group
What makes one MSP better than another? We all have an ability to work long hours, find solutions for difficult problems, and engineer systems that provide the uptime our clients need. However, we all have trouble with communications. Face it, IT folks are not good at communicating.
Our company is no different, so we use Dave's Charm School as required training for all technicians. Our people have responded very positively, and when we talk with a potential client we always bring up our industry weakness and discuss what we do to overcome it.
Just recently we hired a senior level tech and he watched close to half of the videos. He came back and said he was overwhelmed with the content and how spot on it was when dealing with techs. He said he found himself doing many of the things that the videos said we should avoid.
In my opinion we all have the knowledge, tools and processes to win over and maintain our clients. However, we don't always have the soft skills to help win our customers over. These videos really helped our team learn how to speak non-IT lingo. Highly recommended.
Brad Wilson, CEO, Iris Solutions
We win new business because the soft skills of our sales AND technical people are better than our competition.
We keep Clients longer because the soft skills of our technical team are better than the competition.
We have better soft skills because we regularly discuss Dave's Charm School courses.
Please do not buy Dave's Charm School. I prefer to continue to beat my competition, including you.
Todd Bollenbach, President & CEO, GNT Solutions
ProTech is successful because we focus on talent and technology, not just the latter.
One of our challenges over the years has been developing the soft skills of our people. This is incredibly important to our success, yet we have had to do the heavy lifting of finding and developing content to teach our people more professional behaviors until Dave's Charm School.
We use Dave's Charm School on a regular basis with new and existing employees to train business soft skills' basics, develop communication and relational skills, improve attitudes, and reinforce our standards for providing a consistently positive client experience.
We recommend Dave's Charm School as a very cost-effective way to make certain the soft skills of your people match or exceed their "hard" skills in technical, sales, or operational areas.
Chris Bradley, VP Manage/Cloud Solutions, ProTech Systems Group
These are just a few of the people who have really appreciated Dave's Charm School.
Contact us today if you would like more information.


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"you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ." 1 Peter 2:5
Wednesday, August 8, 2012
Back here in the Boring and Ordinary
I have classically struggled with short-term mission trips. I have seen again and again the benefit that these trips have on those that take part in them, yet I still wrestle in my spirit with them. I am far from having the "correct" position on what missions should be, but God has done a tremendous work in my life in regards to local mission. When I was still a very young Christian another friend regularly challenged me to get involved in some type of service locally. The "me" of that time thought that there was entirely too much emphasis placed on service and not enough on proper teaching of scripture. (Like I said, I don't and obviously haven't always had all this figured out) Nevertheless, I decided to take him up on his offer one week and come down to hang out at the Refuge of Hope. I was in love. It clicked for me and I felt home. I made some good friends there and experienced some real Christian community. That experience has lit a fire in me to look locally when it comes to mission. While my life has been quite full between full-time work, working on seminary full-time up until graduation this past May and oh yeah trying to be a good husband, I have not been able to be involved in much locally. I have had to learn to balance and to prioritize and I'm still learning. Nevertheless, I am still very good at deciding for others that they need to be serving where they are, locally that is.
Last week I listened to my two very close friends, the pastors of our church, tell of their experiences and convictions after their trip to Ecuador with some of our young adults. Here's my confession, as I sat there listening I began to experience an overwhelming, unsettled feeling. I left without much to say on the ride home and it wasn't until we got home and were preparing lunch that I could start to make sense of what I was feeling. With the help of my wife, we drug the rain cloud out of my spirit. I just heard my friends speak of these amazing, God experiences they had and all I could think about was the busy, stressful week I had at work. I felt like, "well that's great, but back here in the boring and ordinary I've been working and trying to grind it out." It was entirely selfish and entirely unnecessary. I also found myself wishing I was there with them. I wanted those experiences. And I missed those experiences at Refuge. If only I could experience that here back in "regular life."
The thing about any type of mission is that it is never about the person serving. Yet we have a great temptation to make it about ourselves. We find things that make us feel good so we can "serve God". We tweet about causes that are important so we feel like we did something. We grumble about "those people" that don't get it and are doing it all wrong. We look at others that have felt a call to do something for God and say that it isn't genuine because it is not what we would do, since we obviously have it figured out right? We get in a rut of endless experiences, whether it is trips or connectivity to some legitimate need to create a nice, boxed-in, Disneyland Christian experience. We try to carry it over into our "regular lives" but soon realize that, that is very difficult. We don't get that same fire experience sitting at our desk day after day. We don't feel like we are serving God by doing something so mundane. We run towards safety. We avoid risk. We play by the rules. We say God, faith, church or spirituality instead of Jesus.
The truth is, is that the "boring and the ordinary" is where we have the greatest potential of impact. What lame opponents we make for the enemy of God when all he has to do is get us to believe the lie that we are plopped in a job, in a community, in a family or in a circle of friends that is not important enough for the Gospel. We believe this lie and feel that unless we are out on the fringes with the rest of the people that are really making a difference for Christ then we aren't doing anything worth noting. We are truly on the front lines in many ways in the boring and ordinary, because it is where people are and it is the world in which they live. It is also that world into which Jesus entered and therefore the world into which we enter as His disciples.
If a mission trip lights you up for Christ, understand that the fire comes from obeying God's call to you to serve Him. That can happen at home too! If God sends you on a trip to figure that out, than be quiet and listen up. Or if God calls you to be a full-time missionary or to start an orphanage (one girl said she felt that God confirmed that for her), then do it! As Christians we are missionaries wherever God has placed us. You live in the county, the town, the house that you live in for a specific purpose and that purpose is God's purpose for you. You work where you work for a reason. You go to school where you do for a reason. Your family and friends are yours and in your life for a reason. God is a master project manager. Every single one of our lives has been masterfully engineered by Him for a particular purpose and He wastes nothing.
So here I sit in the "boring and ordinary" feeling convicted over my unsettled spirit a week ago. How easy it is to feel like I need to have a chat with God and help Him understand that I appreciate His efforts, but He should probably let me plan out the next few months. Why is that? Well if you are anything like me, we slip into discontentment, always wanting to do more for God. In fact, what we may need to do is be obedient right where we are at. Be a good employee, a good student, a good grandson, a good neighbor and the other things you may be and do those things with a heart desiring to serve Jesus Christ. Oh yeah and speak up for Christ when He prompts you to, do not be afraid!
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"What lame opponents we make for the enemy of God when all he has to do is get us to believe the lie that we are plopped in a job, in a community, in a family or in a circle of friends that is not important enough for the Gospel." Wow... Absolutely convicting brother. For those of you that don't know, I'm the one who is supposedly the guest author... I guess I'll start with a comment and work my way up the ladder. I was struck with the thoughts of satisfaction on a short-term missions trip. As you said Nick, it stems from the fact that in some way we have bent our will toward our Father's and sacrificially given time to see what He is doing in this world. Upon seeing, we join. This equation can be applied in any area of life. In fact, wouldn't it prove to be more rewarding, with a higher sense of fulfilling God's will if we applied this at home? I would pose that our missional efforts at home have the potential to be broader and deeper than any short-term mission trip. We leave those trips saying, "I wish that I could go back." In the "boring and ordinary" we can go back... everyday. Praise God for the everyday.ReplyDelete


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How Acupuncture Helps Victims of Fire Disaster in San Diego
With the blazing Lilac fires of San Diego destroying more that 4100 acres, there are many in shock from not only the destruction of their homes but also those who have tried to help firefighters and of course the firefighters themselves. When trauma happens, acupuncture can help! Why We Use Acupuncture for Trauma Prevention
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Citi hit in Brazilian hacker attack; bank says no data breach
A computer hacker group on Friday continued a wave of attacks against Brazilian financial websites, hampering the sites of Citigroup Inc. and other prominent institutions.
The group, which dubbed itself Anonymous Brasil, took aim at a series of websites, launching "denial of service" attacks against the pages of the Brazilian banking federation, called Febraban, as well as Banco BMG, Banco Panamericano and the pages of Citigroup both in Brazil and in the U.S.
The websites of those institutions were operating intermittently on Friday, and the hackers said they had extended their attacks to other websites in the afternoon. The hackers say they aren't trying to steal data or money.
A Citi spokesman in New York said, "On Friday morning, Citi's consumer website experienced a temporary interruption in service. Our online team worked immediately to address the issue, and operations were restored within one hour. We are continuing to monitor the system to ensure continuity of services. At no point were there data integrity issues or a compromise of client account information. We apologize for any inconvenience."
A spokesman for Febraban said there was an unusually high number of accesses to the group's website. Banco BMG and Banco Panamericano confirmed that they received an overload of accesses that caused delays on their sites, but didn't confirm whether the problems were caused by hackers.
The hacker group also claimed on its Twitter account to have briefly targeted the central bank's website early Friday, though the bank didn't confirm the website problems were caused by hackers. "During the morning there was an overload of accesses to the central bank's website, bringing instability and delays," the central bank said. "No bank systems or transactions were affected."
The central bank, which is responsible for banking regulation in Brazil, said it had no immediate action planned to respond to the latest attacks.
The group, which purports to be promoting a campaign against corruption, earlier in the week claimed responsibility for crippling the websites of Brazil's largest state-run and private-sector banks, including Banco do Brasil SA, Itaú Unibanco Holding SA, Banco Bradesco SA and HSBC Holdings PLC.


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40"x 28". Woven in France. This tapestry was designed by Edward Burne Jones and woven by William Morris and Company in 1895-1896 It is one of six panels illustrating the story of the Holy Grail representing King Arthur and his knights at the round table. The original is on display at the Birmingham Museum.


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Woo hoo the day is here to show ya'll our new downstairs bathroom. I'm sitting here wondering as I write this post…is it sad how many times a day I stop to admire my new bathroom? That's totally what it is…it doesn't even remotely look anything like it did before. It amazes me how much bigger it seems…
I'll quit blathering on and get to the nitty gritty. As ya'll saw from an earlier post I had a plethora of colors to choose from in the Benjamin Moore Aura paint series (if you didn't see that post you can look here…if you're new and have NO idea what I'm even talking about you can also find the before pics here).
I had so many mini projects to put into this one small bathroom I don't even know where to start….I'm sure my pics aren't even doing it justice either! First and foremost I want to thank the Academy…no, no the Buzz Agent people and Benjamin Moore people who got my booty shakin' to get this project started and completed (not to mention the free paint)!
Before I started anything I had to pick a color…this was no easy feat with the thousands of colors to pick from ( I finally chose a yellowy green color called Anjou pear)…once I started narrowing the colors down I was able to find my beautiful new valance (by Waverly from Lowes) and start looking for accessories. I knew I didn't want to spend a fortune on decorating but wanted a Pottery Barn/ cottagey/ shabby chic type look.
I found all kinds of stuff at home that I wasn't using or in other rooms of the house…not to mention repurposing stuff I bought. The new shelf is actually a Pottery Barn shelf that I refinished with homemade chalk paint. The light fixture was one we had from one of the rental properties that I painted (with Rustoleum in oiled bronze).
I had to take my time to do this room…the walls were in horrible shape. This was the very first room when we initially got this house that I bandaged up a bit for us to get by. Needless to say it got put to the wayside. I pretty much had to skim coat the whole room…did I tell ya'll that I had to do the ceiling as well….joy, joy!
This paint was amazing with low smell and great coverage. Like I said in my sneak peak the other day…I was beyond concerned after the first coat that a) the color wasn't what I picked out and b) it wasn't going to cover that dark green (they guarantee 2 coat coverage). I was SUPER relieved to say the least! I do have to say I balked at the price of the paint initially, but when you consider how well it does and that it includes the primer…it's not too far off base. The company also guarantees that the color will match the paint chip.


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Obama Replaces "Allah" with "God" in Edited Transcripts of Orlando Killer's Calls
This is sickening.
The Obama administration replaced "Allah" with "God" in the edited transcripts of the Orlando killer's calls during his siege on the Pulse nightclub.
Infowars reported:
The Justice Department replaced references to 'Allah' with 'God' in an edited transcript of the 911 call Orlando jihadi Omar Mateen made during the Pulse night club attack.
During the call, Omar Mateen made an Islamic prayer in which he said:
Praise be to Allah, and prayers as well as peace be upon the prophet of Allah [in Arabic]. I let you know, I'm in Orlando and I did the shootings.
In comparison, the edited DOJ transcript says:
Praise be to God, and prayers as well as peace be upon the prophet of God [in Arabic]. I let you know, I'm in Orlando and I did the shootings.
It's obvious the Obama administration is doing everything it can to downplay the Islamic connection to the attack, all while demonizing Christians and gun owners.
Omar Mateen pledged allegiance to ISIS in a phone call to the newsroom of Bright House cable News 13 in Orlando.
The ISIS Amaq News Agency claimed responsibility for #Orlando attack.
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The party has become embroiled in a world and dimension-spanning competition for the Radiance, a dangerous artifact that could cause the destruction of the world of Mystara. Below is a synopsis of what they have learned so far. Of course, they could always throw in the towel and sail across the Sea of Dread in search of treasure.
The Radiance – A source of dangerous power that has the ability to bend space, time and magic. The glowing, many-legged creatures of Corran Keep and withered limbs of members of the Brotherhood of the Radiance suggests it also can cause mutations in living creatures. It creates repeated space-time rifts and portals and its presence can cause spells to go awry with bizarre consequences – Arcanists have come, unknowingly, to refer to these side effects of the Radiance as "the Wyrd." Experienced Arcanists can manipulate it to empower their castings. However, Rheddrian warns using its power to do so actually drains magic from the fabric of Mystara and, if abused on a large enough scale, could drain magic almost entirely from Mystara killing its many magical races and causing untold havoc. Its overuse could also unbalance the Spheres of Power and rip reality apart. The party witnessed both of these dangers in Prince Stephen d'Amberville's mausoleum – Niko successfully manipulated the Radiance via the Mirror Shield to drain magical life force from Rathanos and the unleashed forces of the Spheres of Power violently shredded the tomb and its pocket dimension.
To date, the party has not located the Radiance, but, in ancient Blackmoor they discovered that its presence was associated with black, twinkling stone scattered across that land. They learned those stones were most concentrated near ruined, elven Uvaeren and the Valley of the Ancients – home to the City of the Gods. A falling star both destroyed Uvaeren and carved out the Valley of the Ancients centuries before the founding of Blackmoor.
Four thousand years later, in their own time, the party experienced the Wyrd in an around The Broken Lands. Subterranean dwelling Shadow Elves also attempted to use its power to destroy Alfheim utilizing "Soul Crystals," which are of the same black, twinkling stone as encountered in Blackmoor. King Doriath of Alfheim reported Shadow Elf prisoners divulged they mined their richest veins of Soul Crystals somewhere under Glantri.
Arwan suspects that placing the modern location of the Valley of the Ancients will lead the party to the Radiance. He reckons the tunnel found under the, now ruined, d'Amberville ancestral home in New Averoigne, Glantri may lead to the Radiance. Possibly, the tunnel Azar Kuul mentioned in the speech that was never delivered to the gathered throngs at the Fighting Pit is the same tunnel. He described it as impossible for his warriors to pass, as it proved "full of blue elves who are very dangerous in the dark, deadly wasting energies, dead that find no rest, and steel titans." However, Arwan has yet to reconcile his suspicions of the tunnel with the "Great Engine" sought by Azar Kuul's cultists behind the walls of Glantri City.
Rheddrian has asked the party to find out whatever they can about the Radiance and its location and has expressed his fears the growing global war on Mystara may be a result of Immortal competition to obtain it.
Rheddrian – A benefactor of the party, they originally discovered Rheddrian in Corran Keep trapped in the Mirror Shield – an effect caused by the Radiance. Upon being released, he grew large, green and disappeared. They then encountered him again in Blackmoor (normal-sized, but with a slightly greenish tint), a captive in the Temple of the Frog (a place filled with strange technological magics). Returning to their own time, Rheddrian sought out their aid with Mystara's growing troubles.
His memory fuzzy from his thousands of years trapped in the Mirror Shield, Rheddrian and the party pieced together that he arrived to Mystara from across the stars. His ship malfunctioned and crashed into the planet. He was awoken from a long sleep by mutineers and ended up their prisoner in the Temple of the Frog. The mutineers were intent on using the Frog cult to build an army to capture further magics from the City of the Gods before the party disrupted their plans and rescued Rheddrian and his shipmate Rafiel. When he learned of this, King Uther of Blackmoor offered the party great reward to lead an expedition to the City of the Gods, but they turned him down in favor of returning to their own time.
In a bid to gain their loyalty, Rathanos told the party that the "man in the shield" had been made immortal by his sojourn there and his exposure to the Radiance and that he could do the same for them. The horrific immolation of the man Rathanos had strapped to the Mirror Shield in the d'Amberville tomb suggested Rathanos had yet to perfect the technique.
Blackmoor - In spite of their unwillingness to assist King Uther of Blackmoor in recovering the magic of the gods, the party, called the "Far Travelers" in Blackmoor's legends, learned from the elders of elven Rovaeren that they inspired the men of Blackmoor to quest for it themselves. The discovery of the "magic" of the gods in the Valley of the Ancients drove Blackmoor's civilization to new heights of technology, power and conquest. Blackmoor grew into an empire and, before its collapse, it's civilization had even reached the stars.
Corruption took hold in Blackmoor's society and its death was sudden, violent and it came from the heavens. Millions died in this "Great Rain of Fire," which was followed by a "Long Winter" and starvation. Some chaos-tainted survivors of Blackmoor even made war on the elves of Rovaeren. One fleeing tribe of those elves detonated an ancient, terrible weapon of Blackmoor to drive off their pursuers inadvertently creating The Broken Lands. This calamity drove the tribe underground to later become the Shadow Elves.
Immortal Conflict – Rheddrian is deeply concerned that the world war breaking out across Mystara, pitting Glantri and Thyatis against Alphatia, runs deeper than typical political turmoil. He thinks it represents a war being fought among the Immortals, particularly because of the suspicious way in which it started. Adding credence to this theory, whilst in the tent city of Sayr Ulan on the hunt for The Master, the party encountered his Vizier Ikol – whom they later realized was in fact Loki – an Immortal of the Entropic Sphere! They learned from Loki that three factions of Immortals are warring among themselves – Star, Fire and Shadow.
They learned that the Shadow faction, a collection of Entropic Immortals seeks only to exacerbate the conflict between the Immortals of Star and Fire and their nations of followers. Hence, Loki, masquerading as the Hulean god Bozdogan, allowed another member of the Shadow faction, later discovered to be Alphaks, to "borrow" The Master and his Desert Nomads to make war on the Known World. When the party finally defeated The Master, Alphaks took his vengeance by slamming a meteor into Glantri and Darokin, likely violating the Immortals' self-imposed rule against directly interfering with mortals. The party later tracked Alphaks to a remote mountain in the ocean off the coast of Norwold where he had taken on a mortal form – perhaps to escape Immortal justice. It was discovered he had opened a portal to the Sphere of Entropy to cover Norwold in deadly fumes to stoke a war amongst Alphatia's allies. The Shadow faction hoped such a conflict would slow Alphatia's inexorable march to Thyatis' shores thereby prolonging the global war. However, after a long, arduous and tragic journey through a distant part of the galaxy, the party decisively thwarted Alphaks destroying his poison mountain, his portal to Entropy and his fiery, demonic mortal form.
Earlier, having tracked the Mirror Shield to the hidden tomb of Prince Stephen d'Amberville, the party learned that the Fellowship of the Star is led by the Immortal Rad, who took the mortal disguise of the first Prince of Glantri, Stephen d'Amberville. Naturally, therefore, the Star faction patronizes Glantri, Thyatis and the Heldannic Knights in their war with Alphatia. Its members include Rathanos, whom the party fought for control of the Mirror Shield, Vanya, patroness of the Heldannic Knights, and the "man wearing spectacles," whom Arwan concluded may be Rafiel, patron of the Shadow Elves and possible shipmate of Rheddrian. According to Rathanos, the Star faction seeks to use the Radiance and Radiance-sensitive objects to create Immortals and overturn the existing Immortal hierarchy. Their proxies, the Brotherhood of the Radiance also indicated they hope to turn the Radiance into a weapon for Glantri to use against Alphatia.
Rathanos charged the Ring of Fire, and its leader Ixion with seeking to enforce old fashioned traditions and hierarchy, which ultimately enslaves mortals to the wills of the Immortals. As the Fire faction opposes the Star faction, they patronize Alphatia in its war against Glantri and Thyatis. Its membership also includes, at least, the Alphatian Immortal Koryis, who sought to guide the party to success in their quest to bring peace to Norwold, and Ilsundal, patron of elves, whose Alfheim was targeted for destruction by the Shadow Elves – proxies of the Star Faction. It is possible other Immortals are at work to directly further the aims of the Fire faction.
It is likely the party's thwarting of Rathanos, recovery of the Mirror Shield, exposure of the mortal disguise of Rad, killing of members of the Brotherhood of the Radiance, saving of Alfheim and preserving peace among the Alphatian allies of Norwold have earned them the enmity of the Fellowship of the Star and the patronage of the Ring of Fire. These actions might also hasten or ensure the victory of Alphatia over Glantri and Thyatis.
Naturally, the party has earned the undying enmity of the Brotherhood of Shadow by thwarting Alphaks and cheating Hel in the Forge of Stars. Even Loki turned on them after they persisted in their relentless quest for a "god-killing weapon." He lured the party deep into the Astral Plane and set a deadly Astral Dreadnaught upon them. However, they managed to turn the tables on the Prince of Deceipt, evading that titan and, after defeating Loki in the mortal form of an angry, red Storm Giant, capturing Titan's End – the "head" of a massive construct created eons ago by men attempting to supplant the gods. With a "god-killing weapon" in their hands, the party may now no longer just be tools in the Immortal Conflict. <!—/data/user/0/com.samsung.android.app.notes/files/share/clipdata_180930_210618_683.sdoc—>
Chaos – In addition to the battling gods of Mystara, it appears the cultists of malevolent extra-planar interstellar beings are also seeking the Radiance. Rheddrian surmises they seek to use it to open an inter-dimensional rift that would allow them to land an unstoppable, horrific invasion force that would consume all of Mystara.
Recently, humanoid warbands flying the Black Sun banner of Chaos poured forth from The Broken Lands to lay siege to Glantri City exacerbating that beleaguered country's misery. Those hordes seek an artifact they call the "Great Engine" within Glantri City with which they mean to summon the avatar of their god Gta'hunai the Destroyer.
In another cultist plot, the party discovered mad, corrupted dwarves in the Forge of Stars, in Ostland, devoted to Abholos the Infinite Blight seeking to summon that malevolent entity using Eibon's Rod. The dwarves and Abholos' sphere of evil power were buried deep under the collapsed mountain Vallkurod's Mound, but a plague that had issued from it may have been carried to Vestland, the Heldannic Territories and may still be spreading across the Known World – perhaps as far west as Trintan in Glantri.
The forces of Chaos, called by many names, such as Warp Demons, the Elder Gods, the Great Old Ones or the Other Gods, are always lurking at the edges of civilization. They seduce vulnerable minds prone to evil and corrupt them with offers of power. Ultimately, however, few mortal minds can handle the aberrant horror of these beings and their sanity and bodies succumb to madness and deformity. Typically, such cults pop up only to come to an end in orgiastic bloodshed. What makes corruption most dangerous is that, once its taint takes hold in a civilization, it can spread through it like wildfire. Therefore, the taint of chaos must be stamped out at all costs. As the party recently learned, Chaos' pull was powerful enough to bring down the mighty empire of Blackmoor.
The Elder Gods themselves exist apart from the structure of the universe and the Spheres of Power, but are often associated with the corruption or extreme exaggeration of a specific sphere. For example, the Nithian followers of Amon-Gorlath became fire worshipping fanatics, as that being is connected to the Sphere of Energy, the sphere associated with magic and fire. The love of gunpowder and steam engines exhibited by the hordes devoted to Gta'hunai represent a corruption of the Sphere of Matter, the sphere associated with the power of the earth. The plague-bearing followers of Abholos represent a corruption of the destructive force of the Sphere of Entropy.
Followers of the forces of chaos can often be spotted by the signs of corruption their bodies bear or their lack of sanity. Devoted cultists often also sport a blackened sun as a symbol of their allegiance.
Brotherhood of the Radiance - A secretive group of wizards seeking after objects associated with the Radiance, such as the fabled Mirror Shield, which they stole from under the party's nose. Rheddrian was concerned what they might learn from it and hoped for its return – which the party accomplished. In pursuit of the Shield the party traveled to Glantri City (where some of the initiates of the Brotherhood attended the Great School of Magic). Little was known of the Brotherhood before the party ventured to Glantri City, except that some of it members wore a particular Pendant.
However, the party ultimately learned a number of startling facts about the Brotherhood in Glantri, an alternate reality Averoigne and the hidden pocket dimension of Prince Stephen d'Amberville's tomb. Most surprising, they learned that not only was Prince Stephen d'Amberville, Prince of Glantri and Grandmaster of the Great School, the head of the Brotherhood of the Radiance, but he was also the mortal disguise of the Immortal Rad. Rad had been using this mortal disguise to manipulate the Brotherhood and the Shepherds of Rad to further the aims of the Fellowship of the Star. Before his demise, Pennar revealed to the party that the Brotherhood hoped to learn how to use the Radiance as a weapon in Glantri's war against Alphatia.
Naturally, these revelations delighted Prince Malapietra – Prince d'Amberville's chief political rival – who encouraged the party to carry on their investigation and campaign of murder and intimidation against the Brotherhood. "Prince d'Amberville" subsequently disappeared from public life leaving Malapietra the most powerful and ruling prince of Glantri.
Now the party must decide what to do next…
Potential leads the party has are:
- A mad duke in Vestland whose madness may be a sign of the corruption of Chaos
- A potential Radiance sensitive object, the Star of Vanya, stored within the walls of Freiburg – a city afflicted with a mysterious, corrupting plague and best by mind flayers
- The humanoid forces of Chaos who have besieged Glantri City in pursuit of the "Great Engine" who hope to open an eldritch gate deep under "Firestorm Peak" in The Broken Lands
- The remote mountain temple of a dragon cult of great power
- A deep pit and tunnel under the ruined Chateau d'Amberville leading who knows where
- The trouble with giants, who have been said to consort with strange "blue elves," that is afflicting the Kingdom of Norwold
Upon returning to their time, well, close anyway, from Blackmoor, the party found that their world was sliding rapidly into war. Arriving home in 1005 AC, they find that the previous year's events (occurring while they sojourned in Blackmoor) had taken a dark turn. Here is a timeline of the events of the war so far:
Spring 1004: Thyatian Revolts – The Isle of Dawn is divided between Thyatis and Alphatia in a very cold peace and has been for some time. During the Spring of 1004, Thyatian soldiers and sailors in an around the Isle become more confrontational than usual. This flexing of muscle and national pride is accompanied by an increase in the lavishness and frequency of Thyatis City's gladiatorial games. The crowds seem to love it, but see a steady decline in their ration of bread. Eventually, an enormous riot breaks out. The legions within Thyatis City turn out to be too poorly-trained and fed to quell it. Legions from outside the city must be brought to bear to end the rebellion. This results in scandal and the exposure of widespread corruption and decadence among the empire's leadership. A number of hardliners point the finger at the fashionable, like Helena Larameides, nicknamed Helena "Agapi" or Helena "Love" by her detractors, for declining Thyatian backbone and weakness. Others blame addiction to the zzonga fruit. Many heads in the political and military establishment roll and Emporer Thincol I declares Thyatis will return to its days of martial glory – some say at the urging of his lover and advisor Anya Liontari, a self-made Kerendian warrior.
Spring 1004: Alphatia's Pride – At the same time, many of Alphatia's eccentric wizards have been boasting of their own prowess. They have been particularly disparaging of Glantrian wizard's abilities. Usually placid, some prominent priests of Alphatia have been accused of contributing to this nationalist fervor.
Spring 1004: A Spy Perishes – The body of a popular elf named Troikithus is found floating dead in a Glantri City canal. After a brief investigation, it is revealed he was a Alphatian spy.
Summer 1004: Alphatian Proclamation – The Alphatian Council of Wizards issues a document countersigned by Empress Eriadna accusing the Glantrian Great School of Magic of harboring followers of dangerous, forbidden magic and Entropic Immortals. Prince Etienne d'Ambreville, Grandmaster of the Great School, bemusedly responds that there are no followers of Entropic Immortals because all Immortal worship is outlawed in Glantri and no magic is forbidden.
Summer 1004: Death of Torenal – A party of Glantrian adventurers travel to the Alphatian capital, Sundsvall, with a message for the Empress. They are last seen chatting with one of her elite generals, Torenal, before he ends up dead. The adventurers are found drunk in an Alphatian tenement with his ashes. They proclaim their innocence and strange, conflicting memories of the event are revealed under questioning.
Summer 1004: Heldannic Missionaries Killed – Heldannic missionaries, warrior monks of Vanya, on a mission to the Ethengar Khanate are found dead riddled with arrows.
Summer 1004: Assassins Escape – The Glantrians accused of murdering General Torenal escape from the Alphatian Imperial Palace's dungeons.
Fall 1004: Glantrians Assassinated – A group of Glantrian nobles are obliterated by an onslaught of magical attacks during a dinner. The perpetrators escape, but the sole survivor Prince Innocenti di'Malapietra testifies they were dressed as Alphatians.
Fall 1004: Thyatis Intrudes – The Glantrian princes send a message to Alphatian Empress Eriadna demanding the assassins be turned over to their justice. Emperor Thincol I of Thyatis sends Empress Eriadna of Alphatia a stern warning that the attack on Glantrian nobles was an obvious assassination and that Thyatis will not allow Alphatia to extend its territory through treachery. Some Senators protest the move arguing that Thincol I's belligerence is a result of Anya's whispering in his ear.
Fall 1004: Heldanners Attack – Heldanners send punitive raids into Ethengar territory, reputedly slaughtering men, women and children.
Fall 1004: Asterius' Temples Burned – In Alphatia, dozens of temples of Asterius are burned. Authorities capture a group of Glantrian elves of Erewan. They claim they were envoys from Glantri to Darokin when they fell asleep and woke up in a burning temple. Magical probing reveals they too have conflicting sets of memories about the event. Peaceful Asterius' clergy actually advocate on behalf of the imprisoned Glantrian elves. Still, Empress Eriadna rushes the case through the court and the elves are sentenced to death.
Winter 1004: Alphatian Armada Burns – The Glantrian adventurers who had previously escaped Alphatia's dungeons were hiding underground. But, in a daring raid, they free the elves accused of burning Asterius' temples and flee. They steal an Alphatian sky-ship from the city of Aasla. In their escape, they set fire to the Alphatian sky fleet and it burns almost entirely before it can brought under control.
Spring 1005: War is Declared – After the burning of its sky fleet, Alphatia declares war on Glantri. Glantri declares war in turn and so do its newfound allies the Empire of Thyatis and the Heldannic Knights.
Spring 1005: Master Seizes Sind – The Master of The Great Hule, a fanatical theocracy, seizes Sind on the borders of Glantri and the Republic of Darokin.
Summer 1005: Empires Build Forces – Thyatis and Alphatia spend the summer mobilizing for war.
Summer 1005: Alphatia Sends Monsters – Unable to attack Glantri directly yet, Alphatia appears to settle for the tactic of summoning monsters to Glantri. Prince Etienne d'Amberville takes the lead in coordinating defensive efforts.
Fall 1005: West Portage Falls – The Thyatians are shocked when the citadels of West Portage on the Isle of Dawn fall to Alphatian troops. It stiffens their resolve to recapture their fighting spirit. Some militant Senators call for the confiscation of estates of socialites like Helena Agapi to put towards the war effort, since they accuse them of dissipating Thyatian resolve.
Fall 1005: Nomads Invade Darokin – In a surprise attack, The Master's forces invade western Darokin and quickly capture the city of Akesoli before marching on towards Akkoros. The Master claims he is the instrument of Bogdozan's will on Mystara.
Winter 1005: The Master Hammered – The Master falls at the hands of Daro adventurers calling themselves the "Raven's Companions." In the aftermath, a vengeful meteor slams into southern Glantri and northern Darokin. The Principalities of Caurenze and Erewan in Glantri are devastated and the resulting ash cloud threatens the harvest in Darokin. Some speculate that the meteor may have been hurled by The Master's vengeful patron.
Spring 1006: The Master Retreats – With the loss of The Master, his forces retreat in the face of Darokin's army and their elvish, Traldaran and dwarven allies.
Spring 1006: Sabotage in Alphatia – Glantrian patriots make their way to Alphatia to conduct sabotage campaigns in the Alphatian capital of Sundsvall. The damage is negligible, but the Alphatians are troubled. Some of the Alphatian Council of Wizards accuse Etienne d'Amberville of organizing the attacks.
Spring 1006: Free Traldara Declares Neutrality – With their troops soon to return from the war against The Master, the revolutionary council of Free Traldara declares neutrality in the war between Glantri and Alphatia. No one is surprised given that the Traldarans recently gained their independence from Thyatis.
Fall 1006: Twisted Trees of Alfheim – With the coming of fall, the trees of the Canolbarth forest begin to darken, twist and mutate in sinister ways. The sickness afflicting the forest has spread beyond the Trees of Life. The elves are still at a loss to explain it, though some point to the meteor ash cloud, as the forest becomes increasingly inhospitable. Reportedly, adventurers discovered that a subterranean nation of Shadow Elves was trying to destroy Alfheim and replace those elves on the surface in the name of their immortal patron Rafiel. These "Raven's Companions," thwarted the Shadow Elves' designs and saved the forest of Alfheim.
Fall 1006: The Abandoned Nation – Following the the return of their troops from the Second War of the Desert Nomad, the dwarves of Rockhome disappear deep within their mountains and shut their vast iron gates tight behind themselves.
Winter 1006: Ethengar vs. Heldann – The hordes of the Golden Khan of Ethengar, driven by anger at the raids of "Vanya's Lions" and driven by hunger caused by the Glantri meteor ash cloud, launch of full-scale invasion of the Heldannic Territories. They lay seige to the capital of Freiburg, which houses the knights' fortress temple of Vanya.
Winter 1006: Redstone Besieged – On the Isle of Dawn, the Alphatian army attempts to secure the center of the island, turning its attention to Redstone Castle.
Winter 1006: Ylari Raid Darokin - Taking advantage of Darokin's weakness in the wake of The Master's war, a brazen Ylari emir has begun raiding into western Darokin. The emir's followers are whipped up by a zealous prophet of Al-Kalim calling himself the "Desert Rose" and their lightning raids catch the Daro completely off guard. Within a matter of days, they seize the nearly defenseless city of Akesoli when the civilian authorities surrender to avoid massacres. It is said one of the emir's followers, a cruel Sheik Ismail, has sent some prisoners back to Ylaruam in slaver's chains.
Spring 1007: Ethengarians Swarm – In the Heldannic Territories, the capital of Freiburg is still under siege. The armies of the Golden Horde continue to pour into the Heldann Territories, and some spill over into Soderfjord and Vestland, looking for more food and booty.
Spring 1007: No Heldann/Thyatis Treaty – While being honored in the court of King Ericall of Norwold, the party learned that a rumored treaty between the Heldannic Knights and the Empire of Thyatis never materialized. The treaty would have formalized their alliance in opposition to Alphatia (and in defense of Glantri) and would have shored up Thyatis' northern border against any incursions by Alphatia from its Norwold colonies. King Ericall chuckled to the party that the Thyatian Legate assigned this important mission turned out to be "a bumbling old fool who got lost on the way! Can you believe it?!"
Summer 1007: Thar Looks to Glantri - Thar, the most famous orcish warband leader of The Broken Lands, lead the largest humanoid horde assembled in living memory to invade Glantri. In a surprise move, they sidestepped traditional invasion routes and defenses and encamped in The Great Crater to use it as a base to pillage southern Glantri and harry northern Darokin – two regions already badly battered by recent events. So far, Glantri City has managed to escape being overrun, but the siege is at a stand-off. Some blame the inexperience of Glantri's Prince Malapietra for his not being able to mount an effective counterattack.
Summer 1007: Newkirk, Redstone Fall – Stymied at the walls of Redstone Castle on the Isle of Dawn, the Alphatians send reserve forces further north in a surprise attack against Newkirk. They smash through the city's defenses and occupy the city. A heroic defense by the Eastern Thyatian Legion allows a majority of Thyatian troops to evacuate to Dawnpoint in the Duchy of Tel Akbir in Thyatis proper. Within a couple of weeks, the commanders of Redstone Castle realize their situation is hopeless and surrender leaving Alphatiain control of the central parts of the Isle of Dawn from West Portage up to Redstone. The morale of Thyatian troops continues to deteriorate as Alphatia's advantage in manpower begins to take its toll.
Fall 1007: Ylari Withdrawal – The Ylari's raiding western Darokin withdraw across the mountains to safety of the desert fastnesses. Possibly, they were satisfied with their plunder or decided not to run the risk of facing the hordes marching under the flag of the Black Sun.
Winter 1007: Plague Hits Freiburg – In the Heldannic Territories, the Knights' encircled city of Freiburg is ravaged by a sudden and swift-spreading plague. The Ethengar break their siege and flee in the face of epidemic. Rumors heard in the Northern Reaches say the terrible disease warps and twists the bodies of victims in unnatural ways.
Winter 1007: Possessions Revolt – Merchantmen returning from the east have brought news that the former Thyatian-controlled nations of Ochalea and the Pearl Islands have taken advantage of the war to regain the independence that they lost 1000 years ago. In Ochalea, a resurgence in interest in the Eight Celestial Immortals led by Lan Yi-Xiong, The Prince of the Sun, sparked nationalist fervor. The loss of those nations' auxiliaries will likely weaken Thyatis' army and navy. It is said that Thyatis may be contemplating an invasion while others suggest it would be in Thyatis' best interests to recognize the former colonies' independence in exchange for their continued military support.
Spring 1008: The Stalemate is Broken – In a surprise attack, Alphatian forces reinforced by a fleet arriving from Norwold, overrun the city of Helskir, a nominally independent ally of Thyatis, on the northern Isle of Dawn. Hoped for allies from the Northern Reaches never arrived in Helskir to reinforce it. Alphatian forces quickly moved south smashing remaining Thyatian forces between them and their troops in the center of the Isle of Dawn. Within days, all of the Isle of Dawn fell under Alphatian control. Eruul Zaar, the warlord of Helskir, was crowned King of Helskir by the Alphatians. A planned Thyatian diplomatic mission to Eruul Zaar never arrived from the Northern Reaches either. With the Isle of Dawn firmly in their grasp and with no threat presented by the now independent Ochalea and the Pearl Islands, many believe it will not be long before Alphatian troops land on the continent of Brun in the Known World. A growing sense of desperation pervades Glantri.
Spring 1008: Shires Reinforce Darokin – The halfings of The Five Shires send warriors and scouts to reinforce the men of Darokin in the face of raids from Thar's hordes along the Daro border. A number of them arrive to Corunglain given its proximity to the Great Crater and reports of small groups of Black Sun spies and assassins entering that city.
Summer 1008: Massacre in the Khanate - Word begins to spread among the inns, taverns and roadhouses of the Known World of the grisly vengeance of the Heldannic Knights. Reorganized after the siege of Freiburg, and apparently unaffected by the corruption that descended on Heldann, they rode out of their northern citadel in early Klarmont. Plunging into the Sea of Grass, they found many of the warriors of the Khan's Golden Horde had either succumbed to or fled before that same plague. They avenged themselves upon whatever warriors they could find, but did not stop there. They rode down the elderly, women and children. Hundreds, perhaps a thousand or more perished. The most imaginative tellers of tales report that the Knights took hundreds of heads back to their Chapel to Vanya in Freiburg.
Summer 1008: Plague Reaches Glantri - Prince Di'Malapietra officially announces that the plague that has been ravaging the northern regions of the Known World has reached the borders of Glantri. Most likely, Ethengar merchants or Ethengars fleeing the might of the Heldannic Knights brought it west across the Sea of Grass, though perhaps it also travelled with the hordes of The Broken Lands. In a surprise announcement, the Grand Prince reveals the Council of Princes has voted to revoke Glantri's laws banning organized religion. The Council determined the threat of plague outweighed the threat of persecution by churches, inquisitions and witch hunts. Prince Malapietra also cited the actions of a group of adventurers known as the Raven's Companions and their pious dragonman in staving off the plague (and marauders) in the border town of Trintan.
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6 Responses to "MYSTERY MAN:"
The mystery man in question is boxer Henry Cooper….. GREAT site too….. Regards to all… bingomusic.
Radio Luxembourg studios, London, 8th July 1964. John and George ducked out of the privilege of receiving the National Benzol trophy from 'Enry.
'Enry "splash it all over" Cooper, famously floored Cassius Clay (but still lost).
Pardon me, folks…
"Sir Henry Cooper"
(Good job, Derek. I think he was the FIRST to knock Cassius Clay to the floor)
Why, if it ain't old "Our 'Enery". Boxer. He put Ali to the floor in '64 (which rhymes). He lost (which doesn't).
I think the fight was stopped because of a cut on Cooper's eye. Unfortunately…that is a 'loss' in boxing.