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Johnny Depp - Just cause he's a brilliant actor and insanely gorgeous.
Denzel Washington - Obvious Reasons... Sexiest 55 year old on the planet
Pharrell Williams - His weird artistic flair and crazy musical skills.
Wasalu Jaco - The most brilliant and informed, gorgeous revolutionary I have ever set eye and ears upon.
And he's my favorite rapper... Plus he skates
Jeremiah Felton - The way he tickles the ivory's is insane and sexy.
Willard Smith - Went from goofy to Oooh weee and stayed there... iRobot anyone?
JB - Could probably argue me under the table and mind fuck me into a coma.
Daniel Radcliffe - Harry Potter, need I say more... I really wanna see him in Equus though
Taylor Lautner - Don't judge me, he's hot.
Mehcad Brooks - Walking, breathing sex!
Cullen Jones - Swimming, stretching sex... He does have the long 's' sometimes and that bothers me but the man is hot and a positive role model.
Lance Gross - Single dark chocolate goodness.
Travis Lazarus McCoy - Alternative perfect. He makes his own lanes in music and I love it.. And @ 6'5" 200+ that's a lot of DAMNNNNNN! right there.
Tim William - That curly mohawk and silky voice are all that matters... Sadly he's taken super sad face ={.
PFC Carter - My first love and shit so he's on the list by default *kanye shrug*
Chester of Linkin Park - The screaming, the thin-ness and the tatts.
Mike Shinoda - The voice and production abilities.
Dwight Howard - 6'7" mountian of goofy cute muscle.
Derrick Rose - Cute b-ball phenom, even though he sounds like he plays basketball.
Dwayne Wade - My first NBA wowzers moment... He's messy in his affairs so that's kind of a turn off
Antoine Reed A.K.A Mikey Rocks - Indeed he does.
John Leguizamo - My most favorite PR-Columbian mixed actor EVER... Super Mario Bro's? Shut Up.
Victor Rasuk - Second favorite PR actor... Raising Victor Vargas, Lords of Dogtown, How to Make it in America... Bomb
Rick Gonzales - Third favorite Spanish actor, his fluffy cloud of curls is what pillows feel like in my dreams.
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Yes, the nominations are in for the Incredi-Contest. Make sure your voice is heard in the decision… scroll down to the voting panel on the right side of the screen, and put in your selection. Don't bother trying to stuff the ballot box, it's tamper-resistant. (I won't say it's tamper-proof, because I don't really want to invite someone to hack the site to prove me wrong.)
The nominees are:
Jo Hole (Current site: Reynedecoupe – Nominated by Juddhole
Michael Slowknitter (No current site) – Nominated by Slowknitter
Nightmare54 (Current site: Nightmare54 – Nominated by Nightmare54
So there you have it. Voting will end at 6:00 PM central standard time on Christmas Eve, December 24th. Make sure you get your friends to vote by then. The winner will be posted after the poll is closed, and the winner will be contacted to set up the site.
Last year, HRT walked away with a landslide victory, thanks to what many called "cheating" but what he would likely refer to as "skill." I can't wait to see who the winner is!

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Son of Roots: William Alexander Haley
The publication of the book Roots made a huge difference in my life, perhaps more than anything it was an imagined celebrity status. Folks more often than not would introduce me as the son of Alex Haley or the son of Roots. I must admit that this was quite a blow to my ego. My father once asked me if it were difficult being his son, I thought of the loss of my identity and replied yes it is difficult. Dad with his signature laughter: a high pitch chuckle put his big hands on my shoulders looked me in the eye and said, "The next time you feel that way, just think of Jesus, if he can be the son of God and surely you can be the son of Alex Haley". I never had a problem with identity after that.
My childhood memories are filled with the incessant sound of a typewriter, and small notebooks lying around filled with handwritten notes about a variety of subjects. I can remember my father always wrote about our family and that many of those stories written in the fifties and sixties became a part of the book called Roots, which started as a book to be called Henning, about our family and the characters that inhabited the town; it evolved, to a title called Before this Anger and finally the novel we know as Roots. Dad would often hold court with friends and acquaintances telling stories about grandma, Aunt Liz and Cousin Georgia and a host of others that I could hardly imagine were real. He would tell stores that sometime caused him to whisper so that these young ears might not understand what was being said. He and his friends would laugh so hard that they had to hold their breath to contain it. But they couldn't and would bust out in unrestrained glee; we would laugh also which resulted in dad raising his eyebrow in a menacing manner saying "what you laughing at boy?"
In the mid 1950s on our way to his new assignment in San Francisco I first learned the story of Chicken George a free slave, but not from Dad, rather from Cousin Georgia whom spun the oral histories of our family from the front porch in Henning with grandma and Aunt Liz. Cousin Georgia lived in Kansas City now and was the keeper of the family history. In the days that followed, Dad related to us stories about his side of the family that we had never heard. In retrospect, I guess he was cushioning us from the fact that we couldn't get hotel accommodations in many of the places we stopped. He made up a story about us camping out. I remember walking with him to the side door of restaurants to get food on our trip west and his upbeat attitude while smothering his pride and ego for our sake. Often, when looking at the picture of the family and our new station wagon in Kansas City, I fixate on his uniform hanging in the car window and his distance from us in the photo. The uniform, I learned from him later was to let observers know that he was on active duty and not being uppity. We had a great adventure because Dad absorbed information everywhere that we traveled; the Grand Canyon; Indian reservations; the Rocky Mountains and all the wonders of the Wild West. His stories and his strength kept us going, mother and he withstood the visors of the adventure and brought us safely to our destination, my mother and father will always be my heroes and that I owe them both a debt of gratitude. My father summed it up best when he said in his article The Power of Thank You, "I realized that from the moment of birth we are steadily receiving someone's love, guidance, help and friendship."
Thank you, Dad.
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Race to Prevent Second Wave of Deaths – UNICEF NZ
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UNICEF NZ (UN Children's Fund) Media Release Race to Prevent Second Wave of Deaths in the Horn of Africa – UNICEF NZ Emergency Appeal www.unicef.org.nz or 0800 800 194 – One hundred days have passed since famine was declared in parts of southern …UNICEF NZ (UN Children's Fund)
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Race to Prevent Second Wave of Deaths in the Horn of Africa
– UNICEF NZ Emergency Appeal www.unicef.org.nz or 0800 800 194 –
One hundred days have passed since famine was declared in parts of southern Somalia and against a backdrop of conflict UNICEF (UN Children's Fund) and partners are doing their utmost to prevent a second, potentially more devastating, wave of deaths from disease.
"The current rains will bring some relief to drought-affected areas in Somalia and neighbouring countries. They however also increase the risk of disease outbreaks and hamper the distribution of aid," said Elhadj As Sy, UNICEF's Regional Director for Eastern and Southern Africa.
"Escalating fighting across the South of Somalia is also making it even more difficult for our partners to safely deliver life-saving support to children and their families. UNICEF will expand its efforts to reach children wherever they are and minimize the impact of the deteriorating situation. We appeal to our donors to ramp up their invaluable support," he added.
In Mogadishu, a UNICEF and WHO-supported measles vaccination campaign began this week for 750,000 children between six months and 15 years old. Since the declaration of famine in July, more than 1 million children have been vaccinated against measles in Somalia.
"Across the country, tens of thousands of children have died in past months, and hundreds more die every day. Any delay or disruption in the delivery of assistance is a matter of life and death," said Sikander Khan, UNICEF's Representative in Somalia.
"I urge all parties to the conflict to meet their moral and legal obligation to provide safety and security to children and women already facing a disaster," he added, from Nairobi.
Severely malnourished children are 9 times more likely to die from infectious diseases such as measles, cholera and malaria than healthy children. Measles cases have increased dramatically this year – in July, when famine was first declared, there were more than 7 times as many measles cases than the same month in 2010.
Large numbers of people on the move, extremely overcrowded camps for displaced people, low immunity and poor water and sanitation infrastructure are also major risks. The onset of the rainy season generally leads to spikes in the number of people suffering from water-borne diseases such as acute watery diarrhoea and malaria. The disease caseload is also high in neighbouring Kenya, where there is an outbreak of dengue fever.
Fighting and heightened security in the border area have led to a significant decrease in the number of Somali refugees crossing into Kenya to 100 people during the week 17 to 23 October compared to 3,400 in the previous week.
Despite the temporary suspension of all but life-saving humanitarian activities in the refugee camps at Dadaab in Northeast Kenya (following the abduction of two aid workers) UNICEF is committed to continuing support for severely malnourished and ill children as well as providing safe water, education and protection services through its partner organizations.
Since the declaration of famine on July 20, almost 110,000 severely malnourished children were treated at UNICEF-supported centres across the region. More than 2.6 million people were provided with access to safe water and over 1.5 million were reached with hygiene awareness and supplies. Since July, 8,700 metric tons of life-saving supplies were delivered by air, land or sea to South and Central Somalia.
The international community's response since the famine declaration was tremendous," said As Sy. "But the magnitude of the crisis is such that we are far from reaching every child."
UNICEF's Horn of Africa appeal for operations in 2011 was US $425 million. The need for 2012 will still be in the hundreds of millions and contributions will be urgently needed so that feeding programmes can assist children and their families in need without any break.
For Somalia alone, UNICEF needs US$300 million in 2012 to ensure the current level of support and to scale up where needed. "We need to get these funds as early as possible to secure the pipeline of critical supplies keeping children alive," said Khan.
Life-saving measures are not expensive with a packet of therapeutic food costing just 70 cents. Please donate now at www.unicef.org.nz or call 0800 800 194
About UNICEF
UNICEF is on the ground in over 150 countries and territories to help children survive and thrive, from early childhood through adolescence.
The world's largest provider of vaccines for developing countries, UNICEF supports child health and nutrition, good water and sanitation, quality basic education for all boys and girls, and the protection of children from violence, exploitation, and AIDS.
UNICEF is funded entirely by the voluntary contributions of individuals, businesses, foundations and governments.
Every $1 donated to us is worth at least $10 in the field thanks to the way we work in partnership with governments, local NGOs and other partners – www.unicef.org.nz
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Ever have the feeling that children today know nothing about history and what matters from the past?
How far would you go to change that?
"Well Wishes," my contribution to Out of Our Minds: Tales from the Comics Experience, asks those questions of Denny Gallows, a milquetoast librarian who is just waiting for the clock to strike nine...
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In case you didn't know, my first novel in the Osguards series, Homecoming, received 'Honorable Mention' at the 2011 Hollywood Book Festival Contest. My wife, Karen and I, flew out to receive the award on the weekend of July 22, 2011. We were excited. It was our first award, and we were riding on the national 5-star review from Midwest Book Review. We felt like teenagers going to the prom.
We arrived at the airport, bright and early that Friday morning. We were…Continue
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Chapter 2 - Spring on the Easter Seaboard
We started south after we passed through West Freehold in northern Jersey, the people there were as always, downright…
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"Adventurous white folks joined long, dark lines to get into the 'black-and-tan' clubs, which daringly welcomed an integrated clientele. The pre-fight partying extended to whites-only establishments as well, where revelers raised numerous toasts to a champion who would not have been allowed past the front door had he desired to join the festivities." So reads a…Continue
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After a few tweaks and my Partner Eric's supervision we have The GALTOW poster by Jay Aguilera! In the online store
Along with a sale on the Fantastic Keylon Jakes statue by Eric Nocella Diaz for just $40:
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In September 2010, 12 aspiring comics writers from North America and Australia completed Andy Schmidt's "Introduction to Comics Writing" course, producing original five-page stories. The writers then worked with artists from literally all over the globe to create Out of Our Minds: Tales from the Comics Experience.
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Chapter 7 - Heart to Hart
Ms. Hart, The Hell Hart, that was what she was called over two hundred years ago. Two centuries ago, no one would have believed she would be tending someone near to death, praying for their recovery. Then, her reputation as a swords-woman, in an age where women did not use a…
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A Tale of New Earth
"Now don't get too close, Martha. We just want a picture of you and the trees." My hands were shaking as I took the picture of my wife next to these very special trees. We had read about them in the lastest issue of Life Magazine. The article was called "The Predator…
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Chapter 6 - Loa
"Did you understand me, child? Remember."
The voice that spoke to me was as much of a question as why I woke with a mouth full of sand, in a place hotter than…
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Chapter 5 - Sunstruck
The Sun rose over a desert. This is not your Sun. Hotter, more pure, the essence of sunlight. Fiercely white-hot, if you found yourself here, you would be nearly blinded for a time. A light so bright it bleached the color out of the world. Once you adjusted you…
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I was a little shocked this morning when I was checking emails and upcoming events and realized that I was in the future.
The new black is now.
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My eyes started to open about the 5th grade. We lived in the new projects built on a fresh landfill. It was sweet for a while, then we got our own house where I became a teen. Looking back I saw the pattern how the urge of care produced a big bang of built progress, but no sustainability in people.
We'd all cry out "unfair!", get smoothed over with fanfare, then slide again into despair. I remember castoff teachers and bullies in school. How I wished I could blame them today, my…Continue
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For those of you 'jonesin' for your favorite Goddess in mortal guise, the Priestess is back! The Aesir Chief is searching for his men, but the Slave-Trader King and his sorceress Aunt are looking for him as well! Can the Chief find his men and get them out of the Citadel of Aduni before the King's forces find him? Will the Chief encounter the 'Man in the Black Mask' the Valley Knight warned him about and if he does, will the Chief stop at nothing to free his men? Find out in the latest phase…Continue
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Chapter 4 - Room with some views
I was going to try to describe what I saw but I am not sure I have words for it. Put on a blindfold, cover your eyes, turn out the lights, and then head out to sea on a cloudy night. That is the kind of darkness we are talking about. I have never known…


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Every computer has a clock that beats out the working cadence of the CPU and the components that feed it. Each time the clock ticks - 2.26 billion times per second before Sylvia stepped on the gas - the CPU spits out another calculation. The quicker the clock goes, the quicker the computer runs. A pumped-up PC perks up any application. More to the point, it smokes the competition in a first-person shooter like Quake, which is really what this is all about. No one risks frying his CPU for a zippier spreadsheet.A chip's rated speed isn't a hard-and-fast limit; it's just the clock rate at which the manufacturer guarantees optimal performance. Before Taiwanese motherboard maker ABIT released its IT5H board in 1997, however, tweaking that rate meant unsoldering a machine's original clock and installing a new one - a tricky operation that daunted even skilled technicians. The IT5H let you accelerate right from the keyboard. By typing a few instructions during the PC's boot cycle, you could change the front-side bus multiplier - the parameter that governs how fast the CPU communicates with main memory - and shunt more voltage to the processor. ABIT's board appeared at an opportune moment. Soon afterward, Intel split its product line between the high-speed, high-ticket Pentium and the cheapo Celeron. Suddenly, users who mounted Celeron chips on ABIT boards could create a "virtual Pentium." The convergence of easy hacking and affordable hardware turned an obscure geek hobby into full-bore macho mania. Once they're hooked, overclockers kiss the budget good-bye as the compulsion to put the pedal to the metal smashes the usual restraints of time and money.As Spider-Man learned, with great power comes great responsibility. The more electrical current a chip draws, the hotter it becomes. Without a cooling system, an overclocked CPU's delicate microlithographed circuitry burns out. Thus, cooling is an obsession among overclockers, who trade tips and post benchmarks at online hangouts like HardOCP.com (the Hard Overclocker's Paradise) and Futuremark.com.
Obviously, Estrada's real reason for evasiveness is the fear that if some senators knew what his views are, they would vote against him. However, this kind of high-minded bluster is a powerful weapon in the ongoing judicial wars. Over the past couple of decades, talk like this has intimidated many a senator who aspires to a reputation for thoughtfulness. And it does sound swell. Until you think about it.Potential judges should not reveal their views on legal issues because a judge should have an open mind? Hiding your views doesn't make them go away. If the problem is judges having views on judicial topics, rather than judges expressing those views, then allowing people to become judges without revealing their views is a solution that doesn't address the problem. And if the problem is judges who fail to put their previous views aside, rather than judges having such views to begin with, then allowing judicial nominees to hide those views until it's too late is still a solution that is logically unrelated to the problem.
[T]he problem is how to keep a judgeship candidate's opinions hidden until he or she is safely confirmed for a lifetime appointment, and the phony issue of "prejudging" is a strategy for doing that....Judgeship nominations bring out the hypocrite in politicians of both parties, but the Republican hypocrisy here is especially impressive. When Bill Clinton was appointing judges, the senior Judiciary Committee Republican, Sen. Orrin Hatch, called for "more diligent and extensive . . . questioning of nominees' jurisprudential views." Now Hatch says Democrats have no right to demand any such thing. President Bush fired the American Bar Association as official auditor of judicial nominations because the ABA gave some Republican nominees a lousy grade. Now Hatch cites the ABA's judgment as "the gold standard" because it unofficially gave Estrada a high grade.The seat Republicans want to give Estrada is open only because Republicans successfully blocked a Clinton nominee. Two Clinton nominations to the D.C. Circuit were blocked because Republicans said the circuit had too many judges already. Now Bush has sent nominations for both those seats. Hatch and others accuse Democrats of being anti-Hispanic for opposing Estrada. With 42 circuit court vacancies to fill, Estrada is the only Hispanic Bush has nominated. Clinton nominated 11, three of whom the Republicans blocked.
Had Bush run on a platform to eliminate all taxes on investment income and to make America safe for inherited wealth, we'd be discussing the budget proposals presented last week by President Gore.
Just 38% approve of the way George W. Bush is handling the economy--– the lowest percentage since he has been in office. BUSH'S RATING ON HANDLING THE ECONOMY Approve: Now 38% 1/23/02 [Ed: I think that should be 03] 44% 2/2002 54% 3/2001 55% Disapprove: Now 53% 1/23/03 49% 2/2002 37% 3/2001 28%
[L]ook at the president's proposals taken together, and you see what's going on. He's trying to make income from investments tax-free, which would radically transform the cherished notion of a progressive system -- that people who have done better, thanks to what this country has to offer, should pay taxes at a higher rate than the less fortunate. People get that nice glow contemplating how much this plan or that plan would save them, not realizing that the warmth they feel is the water temperature rising.
So this could be described as … enlightened? After all, it shows a lesbian couple overcoming fear and reproach. Perhaps there's something positive about the world's youth learning to embrace non-heterosexual pop stars. But the story of t.A.T.u. and their sexual inclinations turns out to be even more mysterious than the capitalization and punctuation strategy in their name. The original creation myth went like this: The two girls, who are now age 17 and 18, are childhood friends who, in early adolescence, fell in love. They performed together in a teen band, then auditioned for one Ivan Shapovalov, who is billed as a filmmaker and former child psychologist. Shapovalov then packaged the pair for mass consumption, first in Russia, then Europe, and now the United States. (They recorded in Russian when they started out in 2000, but last year recorded a couple of songs in English, working with producer Trevor Horn on "All the Things She Said" and other tracks on the mostly English-language version of their album, 200 KM/H in the Wrong Lane.)
More recently, reports began to surface that the girls are not actually lesbians at all. Shapovalov was quoted by the British press referring to t.A.T.u. as an "underage sex project" and saying that he got the idea for the band after looking at porn sites. "At first, the idea was just underage sex," he told Blender, the music magazine, adding that he came to realize that this by itself wasn't enough. "Every time, the audience needs new images—for this project, new images were lesbian teenagers." In other words, t.A.T.u.'s place in the pantheon of breakthroughs in mass acceptance of gays and lesbians falls somewhere between a Howard Stern bit and the current Miller Lite "catfight" ad. Could you ever believe such a perfect surprise? But the story of the Lolita couple's rise only becomes truly perverse when you consider how obviously flimsy the lesbian packaging is: Shapovalov and his charges have hardly bothered to persuade anyone that they're on the up and up. Even the band's official bio comes off as a parody of the Svengali manipulator formula that recurs through pop history. ...Even Malcolm McLaren would be impressed at the Great Lesbian Pop Tart Swindle.
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A new computer worm has surfaced that purports to contain revealing photos of Catherine Zeta-Jones and other celebrities but actually installs a backdoor program that could allow someone to take over the computer, anti-virus company Sophos said on Thursday. Users of the Kazaa file-sharing service and IRC instant messaging are at risk, although there have been no reports of infections yet, U.K. Sophos Plc. said. The worm-infected file claims to contain compromising photos of female celebrities including, Zeta-Jones, Britney Spears and Shakira. Once the file is opened, a backdoor "Trojan horse" is downloaded onto the victim's computer. The use of Zeta-Jones' name comes as she and husband Michael Douglas are waging a legal battle against a U.K. tabloid over unauthorized wedding photos, the company noted. Zeta-Jones was also recently nominated for an Oscar for best supporting actress for her sultry role in the film "Chicago."
Marque Perry scored five of his 25 points in the final 13 seconds and maneuvered inside for the game-winning layup with 3.2 seconds to go as host Saint Louis upset second-ranked Louisville 59-58 Wednesday night.Reece Gaines scored a season-high 28 points for the Cardinals.This was by far the lowest scoring total for Louisville, which is averaging 84 points.
In some ways I enjoyed VII more than VIII. IX I quit about 1/4 of the way in. I am presently running around X doing the side quests before completing the game. It's fantastic.
Personally, I felt that FF IX was the best of the PSX/PS2-era Final Fantasy games. The overwhelming angst of the main characters in FFVII and VIII got really weary, and X was thoroughly uninspiring. FF IX was a sendoff to the 'old school' FF games, and there was a lot of heart in that game.
I thought that VIII was the best of the PSX Final Fantasy games. It had the most interesting character development. They're all good, tho.
Console RPG's are mainly made by Japanese companies. The "meat" of these games is provided by character development and long convoluted plots. The games are very similar to anime, having similar plots and very similar art. Anime and Japanese RPG's are intertwined a great deal. Fans of one are generally also fans of the other. The development of plot-heavy and character-heavy content in these RPG's is easy to understand when it is examined alongside Anime.PC RPG's are very different from the Anime-related console RPG's. They emphasize simpler plots with branching story options and complex gameplay. The reason for this disparity is easy to see when you look at the PC RPG's roots. PC RPG's developed mainly from two sources: computer strategy games, and pen and paper RPG's. One of the oldest genre of computer games is strategy games. Wargames especially have maintained the same format for many years. This gives the PC RPG its complex gameplay. The variety of encounters, the massive skill systems, and the arsenal of equipment in PC RPG's all stem from the link to strategy and war games. The emphasis on a non-linear plot that the player has control over is taken from pen and paper RPG's. Pen and paper games required the game master to have a general plot idea in mind and adapt based on player actions as the session progressed.
There was an era when a mechanically captured memory was a rare and precious thing: a formal photo, a faint recording of someone's voice. Nowadays it's all you can do to avoid leaving a recording behind as you go about your day - especially as hard drives get bigger and devices more ubiquitous. The average American is caught at least a dozen times a day on surveillance cameras: at bank machines, above intersections, outside tourist spots, on the dashboards of police cruisers. Businesses log every keystroke made by their employees; help centers store audio of telephone calls, as does 911. DigiMine CEO Usama Fayyad, a computer scientist turned data mining entrepreneur, calculates that the data storage curve is now rocketing upward at a rate of 800 percent per year. "It makes Moore's law look like a flat line," he says. "Companies are collecting so much data they're overwhelmed."You may know the feeling. Since Kodachrome made way for JPEG, pictures accumulate on hard drives like wet leaves in a gutter. If you wanted to, you could make a fair-quality audio recording of everything that reaches your ears for a month and store it on an iPod that fits in your pocket. Though, of course, you'd need another month to listen to it. Whence the rub: If life gets recorded in real time, it hardly counts as a record at all. It certainly has less impact, and in extreme examples it's self-defeating.


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Recently, I was in the mood for an old-fashioned deli sandwich. I was looking for someplace I had not been before and found an ad for the Starving Artist Café.
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The first thing you notice walking in is that it appears to be a throwback to a 1960s coffeehouse. (I actually had a brief flashback to 1967 in a place called 'Somewhere Else' in Butte, Montana.)
The walls are emblazoned with psychedelic posters and hangings. There is even a sign that says "Hippies Use Side Door." (There is no side door.)
The staff also looked the part. And from the first moment I contacted Tim, the owner, I found everyone there to be extremely friendly. It's the kind of place where you're comfortable right away.
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I arrived after the primary lunch time and so had no difficulty finding a table. However, online reviews indicate that this is a very popular restaurant, so you may want to consider that if you want to enjoy the ambiance.
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You don't need to formalize it beyond that. Men, especially, don't like to go to the doctor. The police culture is a male culture, with women making up only 10% or so of the profession. Get too formal and you'll get the backlash from people raised in the police family to suck it up and move on.
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Police Officer Stress Creates Significant Health Risks Compared to General Population, Study Finds
Landmark study of police officers in Buffalo, N.Y., reveals increased incidence of chronic disease, finds suicides higher among those still working
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Release Date: July 9, 2012
BUFFALO, N.Y. — The daily psychological stresses that police officers experience in their work put them at significantly higher risk than the general population for a host of long-term physical and mental health effects. That's the overall finding of a major scientific study of the Buffalo Police Department called Buffalo Cardio-Metabolic Occupational Police Stress (BCOPS) conducted over five years by a University at Buffalo researcher.
"This is one of the first police population-based studies to test the association between the stress of being a police officer and psychological and health outcomes," says John Violanti, PhD, professor of social and preventive medicine in the UB School of Public Health and Health Professions, and principal investigator on the study, funded by the National Institutes of Health.
"Usually, health disparities are defined by socioeconomic and ethnic factors, but here you have a disparity caused by an occupation," says UB's Violanti.
The research, which is in press this month in a special issue of the International Journal of Emergency Mental Health, reveals connections between the daily stressors of police work and obesity, suicide, sleeplessness and cancer, as well as general health disparities between police officers and the general population.
The study was prompted by the assumption that the danger, high demands and exposure to human misery and death that police officers experience on the job contribute to an increased risk of cardiovascular disease and other chronic health outcomes.
"We wanted to know, in addition to stress, what are other contributing factors that lead to cardiovascular disease in police?," says Violanti, a former New York State trooper.
The study found, for example, that shift work is a contributing factor to an increase in metabolic syndrome, which is a cluster of symptoms that includes abdominal obesity, hypertension, insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes and stroke. Nearly half (46.9 percent) of officers in the BCOPS study worked a non-day shift compared to just 9 percent of U.S. workers.
"We found that as a group, officers who work nights have a higher risk of metabolic syndrome than those who work day shifts," says Violanti.
Four-hundred-sixty-four police officers participated in the study. Among the findings:
— 40 percent of the officers were obese, compared with 32 percent of the general population
— more than 25 percent of the officers had metabolic syndrome, a cluster of symptoms believed to increase the risk of heart disease, stroke and diabetes, versus 18.7 percent of the general population
— female and male officers experiencing the highest level of self-reported stress were four- and six-times more likely to have poor sleep quality, respectively
— officers were at increased risk of developing Hodgkin's lymphoma and brain cancer after 30 years of service.
— Suicide rates were more than eight times higher in working officers than they were in officers who had retired or left the police force.
"This finding challenges the common assumption that separated or retired officers are at increased risk for suicide," says Violanti, noting, however, that the need for suicide prevention efforts remains important for both active and retired officers.
The BCOPS findings demonstrate that police work by itself can put officers at risk for adverse health outcomes.
"Usually, health disparities are defined by socioeconomic and ethnic factors, but here you have a health disparity caused by an occupation," says Violanti, "highlighting the need to expand the definition of health disparity to include occupation as well."
Violanti adds that while police officers do have health insurance, the culture of police work often goes against the goal of improving health.
"The police culture doesn't look favorably on people who have problems," he says. "Not only are you supposed to be superhuman if you're an officer, but you fear asking for help." Police officers who reveal that they suffer from a chronic disease or health problem may lose financial status, professional reputation or both, he explains.
"If you have heart disease, you may not be allowed to go back on the street," he says. "That's a real threat. If you go for mental health counseling, you may not be considered for promotions and you may be shamed by your peers and superiors. In some cases, your gun can be taken away, so there is a real fear of going for help."
The answer, Violanti says, is to change the training of officers in police academy so they understand signs of stress and how to get them treated.
"Police recruits need to receive inoculation training against stress," says Violanti. "If I tell you that the first time you see a dead body or an abused child that it is normal to have feelings of stress, you will be better able to deal with them; exposure to this type of training inoculates you so that when it does happen, you will be better prepared. At the same time, middle and upper management in police departments need to be trained in how to accept officers who ask for help and how to make sure that officers are not afraid to ask for that help," he says.
The BCOPS study is based on extensive and rigorous medical testing and integrates a broad range of psychological, physiological and subclinical measures of stress, allowing for correlations between on-the-job stress and stress biomarkers that reveal the potential for adverse mental and physical health outcomes.
Violanti and his co-authors note: "This study would not have been possible without the cooperation of the Buffalo Police Department administration, the Police Benevolent Association and the exceptional men and women of the Buffalo Police Department. Our sincere thanks to them, as we look forward to our follow-up study."
Co-authors with Violanti were: Michael E. Andrew, Cecil M. Burchfiel, Luenda E. Charles, Desta Fekedulegn, Ja Kook Gu, Tara Hartley, Clauda Ma, Anna Mnatsakanova, all from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as well as Lindsay M. Smith of West Virginia University, James E. Slaven of Indiana University and Bryan J. Vila of Washington State University.
In addition to Violanti, co-investigators on BCOPS are Jean Wactawski-Wende, PhD, professor of social and preventive medicine and vice provost for strategic initiatives at UB and Joan Dorn, PhD, professor emeritus of exercise and nutrition sciences, both in the UB School of Public Health and Health Professions, John Vena of the University of Georgia, Athens and Bryan Vila.


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A former Wells Fargo employee has said that she alerted the bank about fraud cases several years before the scandal that's currently plaguing the bank.
Yesenia Guitron, speaking to "CBS This Morning," said she noticed oddities in customer accounts after she started working at a Wells Fargo branch in St. Helena, California, in 2008.
"I started noticing what I thought were honest mistakes. But then these honest mistakes, you know, became a very clear pattern," Guitron said. "People ending up with 10-to-15 debit cards that they didn't request," she said.
"For one customer," Guitron added. Guitron said her complaints to the management were essentially ignored. When she persisted in complaining, the manager at the St. Helena branch where she worked told her she was fired and escorted her out the door.
Guitron filed a lawsuit against Wells Fargo in 2010, saying she was fired for expressing concerns over "opening accounts without the consent or authorization of the prospective clients."
Former Wells Fargo employee says she flagged fraud YEARS earlier than CEO acknowledges – CBS News https://t.co/yCKeZQ6jYW
— Becky_Petron (@Becky_Petron) October 4, 2016
"I felt similar to the case with Erin Brockovich, you know, here's this little me against a big powerful Wells Fargo bank. Nobody's going to believe what I'm saying," Guitron said. A judge dismissed her lawsuit, saying she didn't "meet her sales goals, and that she was thus not performing her job satisfactorily."
Wells Fargo is currently mired in a scandal for taking advantage of its customers by opening as many as 2 million bank accounts without their prior consent. About 5,000 workers were fired in the aftermath.
Former workers told NPR that wrongdoing was rampant, including in the company's San Francisco headquarters. CEO John Stumpf has been defending himself in congressional hearings, saying he didn't direct employees to provide services and products to customers they didn't want.
"Wrongful sales practice behavior," Stumpf said recently, "goes against everything regarding our core principals, our ethics and our culture."
But one employee said that claim is bogus.
"That's the whole foundation of Wells Fargo is cross-sell, cross-sell, cross sell," the woman, who remained anonymous, told NPR.
"Everybody needs a ridiculous amount of products," she told the public broadcaster, adding that some workers in the corporate headquarters engaged in deceptive practices. "That completely contradicts what he's saying."
This week, the state of Illinois announced it will suspend its annual $30 billion in investment activity with Wells Fargo for at least a year, USA Today reported.
Last week, California Treasurer John Chiang announced the state would suspend key banking relationships for 12 months amid allegations the firm is "fleecing its customers."


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World Series Game 5: Roberts pregame interview
Q. Your team has done some incredible things this year, especially coming from behind and winning, like last night. Do you sometimes get a feeling or a hint that it's going to happen when it happens?
DAVE ROBERTS: We do. We always talk about seeing it happen. Our guys, to see it happen, but also to have it happen before, obviously it gives guys confidence. And last night was a testament to the guys of just playing 27 outs. And the big hit by [Hernandez], and obviously Logan, that two-out hit, kind of let us exhale a little bit, and the at-bats in the ninth inning were huge for us.
Q. Your team has done some incredible things this year, especially coming from behind and winning, like last night. Do you sometimes get a feeling or a hint that it's going to happen when it happens?
DAVE ROBERTS: We do. We always talk about seeing it happen. Our guys, to see it happen, but also to have it happen before, obviously it gives guys confidence. And last night was a testament to the guys of just playing 27 outs. And the big hit by [Hernandez], and obviously Logan, that two-out hit, kind of let us exhale a little bit, and the at-bats in the ninth inning were huge for us.
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Q. Today's lineup with Justin at DH after coming out of last night's game, just what his condition is? And if this game at Dodger Stadium, would he be in the lineup?
DAVE ROBERTS: If it was at Dodger Stadium, yes, he would play. It was just kind of weighing his calf versus being comfortable being the DH. Charlie never DHing before, Corey would really rather play the field. I think if you put everything in and trust the defense, second base, at third as well, so it's sort of a no-brainer for me.
Q. If you had to use Maeda tonight, how much do you think you can use him?
DAVE ROBERTS: If we had to use him, I think it's a one-plus situation. How much more past that, probably not much more. But in talking to him, Kenta feels good, and the day off obviously did him good.
As far as Brandon, he's available, but try to stay away from him, if we can.
Q. Shawn Wooten is known a little bit as having a good relationship with Cody Bellinger and Corey Seager in particular. How much impact has he had in having him on the Big League staff during this postseason?
DAVE ROBERTS: Shawn has been great. He's been great. He's known these guys for quite some time as far as through their Minor League ascension, and has a great relationship. And there's a lot of talking about mechanics. Those two guys in particular are mechanics-driven hitters. And so to be able to speak the same language with those guys is big. And the comfort level, the trust that he has, and they have in each other I think is a great thing. For Turner, Tim, to really empower Shawn and to kind of allow him to do what he does with these players says a lot about him, as well.
Q. How much is the clubhouse culture strengthened by having so many guys that have overlooked, who have been cast off other teams, who have been cut, journeymen, how much does that strengthen what you have inside there?
DAVE ROBERTS: Ironically I think it's great in the sense that you have guys that essentially play with a chip on their shoulder, but the great thing about our guys is the two guys that are probably the most decorated, if you look at Clayton and Chase Utley, are guys that weren't that type guys, but have that DNA type. So now when you have essentially guys who have the most decorated baseball careers are that blue-collar, grinder, chip-on-your-shoulder-type player, and you get guys like [Enrique] Hernandez, Austin Barnes, Logan Forsythe, guys like that, that really helps this ballclub tremendously, Rich Hill.
So it's a nice mix of not only youth, but veterans. But at the core, though, the guys do have a certain pedigree as far as just grinder types.
Q. Perhaps the only decision you've made in the World Series that might have raised some eyebrows was taking Rich out early in Game 2. Your thoughts about going back to him in Game 6?
DAVE ROBERTS: I wouldn't change it. I would do it again. And Game 6, he's going to start Game 6. And once Game 6 starts, we'll see. We'll evaluate. We'll watch how it goes, how he's throwing the baseball, how the pen is, how the usage is at that point in time and what's at our disposal. But right now I'm just focused on tonight.
Q. I also have a clubhouse culture and unity question: Yesterday before the game all the players, including yourself, got together in a big huddle in the dugout. I saw a lot of smiles. I saw Clayton yelling a lot, it was obvious listening in. There was a mention on Darvish's Instagram that players said to him, "Hey, we'll get this one for you."
DAVE ROBERTS: Was it Y-u or y-o-u? Bad joke, sorry.
Q. Anyhow, Yu Darvish was very grateful toward his teammates for such comments. About the huddle, what can you tell us about it?
DAVE ROBERTS: It's a tight group. And I think to the guys' credit they embrace the moment. And it's baseball; you've got to have fun. And I don't know who was the ringleader right there, but it was fun to see Corey in the middle, Clayton yelling and Yu with the big smile on his face. And everyone was there. And I saw those guys there, so I had to jump on somebody's back. And it was just kind of the fun, what you do before a game and kind of get the energy up, if it already wasn't up.
But it was fun and getting guys ready to play. We've done that before and it was good to see.
Q. It didn't work yesterday, so --
DAVE ROBERTS: (Laughing) I'm sure they'll do it again today, I'll be in there.
Q. When did you recognize what a weapon what you had in Brandon Morrow? And what makes him so effective?
DAVE ROBERTS: Well, we knew what we had in Brandon. That's why our guys acquired him. But in Spring Training he was very good in Spring Training. You see the plus, plus velocity. And you always think of in a shorter stint, will his stuff play up? And so he really embraced coming out of the pen this year, and he did that for our Triple-A club. Had an out clause. And came up to us and really dominated. And so went back down, came back up and it didn't go back down again.
But it was clear early. Then it's a matter of me just kind of gaining that trust in him in higher-leverage situations. And as the season goes on, you've got to test him and see how he responds. But everything we put in front of him he responded really well. And so now you look at the way we kind of manage things, outside of Kenley, he's in the highest-leverage spot. He's created every opportunity for himself.
Q. Pitching coaches and players from both teams have talked about the difference in the baseballs being used in the World Series. Get some thoughts from you about that?
DAVE ROBERTS: Yeah, it's interesting. It does seem like the balls are jumping more. And you look at the numbers. The pitchers talk about it feels different in their hand. The one component is the slickness and guys at different ballparks rub it up differently. So I really can't speak to that.
Sort of feels the same to me. But it's hard to argue the numbers. You know there's more velocity. Guys are swinging harder. I know in Los Angeles the air was light. It was hot. The ball was flying, carrying more than typically. But, I hesitate to try to give you any insight because I really don't know.
Q. You've been pretty consistent how you've used your bullpen after the playoffs. After a month of high-leverage situations pretty much every time someone goes out. Do you sense any tiredness in your guys? And if so, how they've responded or handled it, only two more games, obviously push through it?
DAVE ROBERTS: I think they responded to every situation. I would expect everyone on the field to be tired at this time of year. So it's a long season. So to expect any player, reliever, starting pitcher isn't tired at this point is out of the question.
But I think on a micro level you look at how we've used Brandon Morrow the last four days. He's probably more fatigued than the next guy in the pen. So I'd definitely take that into consideration. But when you're trying to win a championship, sometimes taking the long view isn't a luxury. You have to kind of win that day.
So our guys are in and the focus is to win tonight, but ultimately, yeah, two more games.
Q. When managing Clayton tonight, do you have to take into account the possibility of using him in 6 or 7?
DAVE ROBERTS: I won't take into account the uses of Clayton in 6 or 7. But obviously if you look at whatever happens and the potential side day that he might have, there's no other games left, potentially, yeah, it's been there. But at the forefront of my mind, I just want to watch Clayton. I expect him to pitch well, like he did in Game 1, and go from there.
So I think that this is the most important game of the season, and we have our best pitcher. And I'm going to manage it accordingly.
Q. Your pitchers seem very aggressive on strikes, different than other teams, is that something you really try to work on to get to that point, because in the long run it saves them pitches?
DAVE ROBERTS: Yeah, it's clearly obvious that when you do get ahead of hitters, that you fare much better. And it's also clear that these guys are aggressive. So the idea of throwing a get-me-over slider or a fastball that gets a big part of the plate, is not the plan, obviously. You're still trying to execute a pitch on the first pitch. But our guys do a very good job of throwing strikes, not walking guys, missing bats in the strike zone with the fastball.
So to be where we're at right now, that's a lot of the scouting, signing guys and all that stuff. So we have a certain type of pitcher, I guess, that we look for. And strike-throwers are one thing, and obviously you've got to have big stuff, too.


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Saturday, April 4, 2015
Again, not crazy about the quality. Case in point is the sentiment. I guess I just prefer solid lines, so I'm not sure if they are supposed to be like this or if I'm doing something wrong. This was fun to color anyway!
Stamp Set - Michael's/Art Impressions
Card Base - Stampin' Up
DP - Scraps
Other Stuff - ProMarkers, pastel pencils, burlap string.
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- Dotty Jo x said...
Great card! Jo x
- April 5, 2015 at 2:55 AM
- Carol Dee said...
Too much fun. (I think it is the stamp and not you, I have had that happen, too.) Enjoy a relaxing Easter day.
- April 5, 2015 at 3:13 AM
- chingaling ling said...
This is brilliant!! Hmm, I too prefer solid lines. It's probably quality of the acrylic stamp? It's why I prefer rubber to acrylic. Hmm, maybe you could go over the lines in the sentiment with a fine line marker? It seems a shame to not use this set. It's totally hilarious!
When did you get this set? I just wandered through Michaels this past week after a 4-5 year crafting hiatus and was shocked to see how little they carry now. I guess while I was away, the paper crafting industry died. :(
- April 11, 2015 at 1:08 PM
- Jeannie said...
Hi chingaling ling and thanks for you comment! I just picked up this stamp set a few weeks ago. I'm not sure that all of the Michael's stores carry the same products? Anyway, yes unfortunately the paper aisles are getting and smaller and smaller there, but I sure manage to find all kinds of places to still spend money on supplies :)
Take care!
- April 12, 2015 at 7:13 AM


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The Supreme Court on Thursday adjourned the hearing of a suit filed by former National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd), till January 25, 2018.
Dasuki is challenging his continued detention for alleged involvement in the sharing of $2bn arms procurement funds during ex-President Goodluck Jonathan's administration.
He was also accused of awarding phantom contracts for the purchase of helicopters, fighter jets, and ammunition meant for military campaign against the Boko Haram sect.
He is equally on trial before the Federal High Court in Abuja on charges bordering on money laundering and his alleged illegal possession of fire arms to combat terrorism in the North-East.
The ex-NSA was arrested on November 3, 2015 by the Department of State Service (DSS), though he was released on bail by the three courts, Dasuki has been in detention since.
The ex-NSA was on December 29, 2015, re-arrested by operatives of the DSS immediately he was released from Kuje Prison upon perfecting all his bail conditions.
On June 15, 2016, the Court of Appeal in Abuja ruled that the continued detention of Dasuki did not flout the court orders granting him bail.
The judgment of the Appeal Court was one of two separate appeals by Dasuki against the earlier rulings of Justice Husein Baba Yusuf of a High Court of the Federal Capital Territory in Maitama, Abuja and Justice Adeniyi Ademola of the Federal High Court, Abuja.
Dasuki, through his lawyer, Joseph Daudu (SAN), had sought in the motions dismissed by the two High Court Judges, orders prohibiting all the prosecuting agencies of the Federal Government from further trying him pending when they would release him from detention.
Dasuki had contended in the motions that this re-arrest shortly after he was released from Kuje Prison, Abuja, on December 29, 2015, upon fulfilling the bail conditions granted him by the two Judges with respect to his ongoing trials and his continued detention by the DSS was in violation of the court orders for the bail.
He also maintained that his continued detention by the DSS constituted an affront on the courts that granted bail to him.
But the five-man panel of the Court of Appeal, in a unanimous judgment, affirmed the High Court Judges' rulings to the effect that Dasuki's re-arrest and continued detention did not flout the orders granting bail to him.
In the lead judgment, Justice Abdul Aboki, who led the panel, held that Dasuki's appeal was incompetent and dismissed it.
The court noticed that Dasuki was, after his arraignment, detained in Kuje prison and when he perfected his bail, was released on December 29, 2015 from the prison by the Controller of Prisons.
It further noted that the warrant of release was directed, by the court, at the Controller of Prisons. There was no controversy about this.
Justice Aboki ruled: "Once the appellant was released from prison on December 29, 2015, the order of court admitting him to bail and releasing him from prison, where he was detained, has been complied with.
"The order was not complied with by the EFCC as it was not the subject and it was not directed at it. For this reason, it is fallacious to argue that the EFCC did not comply or had disobeyed the court order for bail. The order was discharged by another agency of government – the Controller of Prisons.
"The power to punish for disobedience to court order is quasi-criminal, and by Section 36(9) of the 1999 Constitution, no person is guilty of any act or omission that was not an offence at the time it was committed. In the instant appeal, the trial judge in his ruling, giving right to this appeal, said he did not make any order against Dasuki's re-arrest," the Appeal Court held.
Dasuki had also dragged the Federal Government before the the ECOWAS court, claiming that his fundamental right to freedom of liberty was being trampled upon by his continued detention since 2015.
The West African court had in a judgment on October 4, 2016, ordered his immediate release from detention, an order the Federal Government refused to comply.
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The Supreme Court on Thursday adjourned the hearing of a suit filed by former National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd), till January 25, 2018.


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Collaboration creates award-winning initiative for departing passengers23 Jul 2015
Customs and the Aviation Security Service (Avsec) have received the State Services Award for Excellence in Achieving Collective Impact, in recognition of their collaboration with Auckland International Airport to streamline the process for departing passengers.
Customs Comptroller, Carolyn Tremain, says the 'single flow' initiative is believed to be a world first, combining customs and security checks for departing passengers into a single queue.
"Both agencies took a shared approach to continuous improvement, focusing on customers and the system, which has resulted in innovative thinking driving major change.
"Working side-by-side with the same customer base provided the opportunity to gain insights and improve separate processes that are inextricably linked."
"A 'single flow' for customs and security checks on departure delivers a better traveller experience by reducing queuing time and the time it takes to complete the departure process," Ms Tremain says.
Avsec General Manager, Mark Wheeler, says Avsec is thrilled that the achievements of the cross-agency team and operational staff have been acknowledged.
"Collaboration between project team members from the various agencies was characterised by mutual respect, shared aspirations, and collective action."
"This seamless interaction at the project team level was then reflected among staff on the floor, ultimately driving an improved passenger experience," says Mr Wheeler.
The organisations were supported by the State Services Commission's continuous improvement team using an approach they've developed to improve services for New Zealanders. The joint agency team used this to cut across organisational boundaries, proving that looking at services through the eyes of customers can fundamentally improve performance.
Our ambition for this collaboration is a multi-year effort and this award is recognition of the first step. A full trial of the departure process begins this month to identify how this success may be rolled out across the country.


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1 Samuel 16:1-12
I recently "friended" a college classmate on Facebook and then called him to catch up on years gone by. He spent part of our conversation bemoaning the appearance of young men today and said, "Joe, I'm tired of seeing young brothers with dreadlocks down their backs wearing baggy jeans and loose sneakers! Don't they know that they can't get jobs looking like that and that people will be suspicious of them because of how they look?"
I just said "Hmmm" to avoid laughing as I responded because my classmate – who's now a very successful accountant – was very much into the "Black Power" movement in our college days and was known for an Afro hairstyle the size of a small shrub, multicolored African Dashiki shirts, medallions the size of hubcaps and seriously high platform shoes!
My friend isn't unique, because every adult generation comes down with "convenient amnesia" and thinks that the younger generation is totally weird in dress and attitude. I still remember, however, what my mother said when I came home from college looking like the archetype of a 1970's Black Power activist – "Wear whatever you want on the outside, but make sure that what's on the inside is good."
My mother's advice is still helpful as we size up those that we encounter from day to day. Our human tendency is to judge – and sometimes disparage and discount – the worth of others because of their outward appearance.
We'd do well to remember that God sees beyond outward appearance and knows our hearts, minds and spirits. God knows the good in the worst of us and the bad in the best of us and saw fit to offer all of us salvation through the gift of Christ Our Savior.
Cultivate the wisdom as you go through life to see all of those that you encounter as wondrously made creations of God, regardless of outward appearance. Some of them may still be struggling with the "issues" that we all face in various ways or going with what's trendy and popular, but when we treat others as we'd like to be treated we'll touch and change lives, offer encouragement to others and see success stories that remind us of why one modern songwriter said in praise of the Lord, "You grace and mercy brought me through."


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