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Best textures 4.33?
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Hey all. BMS newbie. I have seen the large lists of mods in the other forum posts but they are a bit overwhelming. What I am looking for from you BMS gurus is… Additional 4.33 compatible textures one would download to make this game the visual best it can be. Land, cloud, cockpit.
I am trying to convince some of my virtual squadron mates to make the leap from DCS to BMS and I'm pretty sure the only thing holding them back is "but DCS is so pretty" So any advice on getting BMS to its max prettiness would be very much appreciated.
Thanks very much for your time, and big thanks to the BMS crew… Just awesome what you all have done.
Best texture set is the stock one. ATM is it the only one providing auto gen.
Thanks Dee -Jay. I will hold off experimenting with the other tile sets. Thanks for the response.
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Yep, community tilesets were done for 4.32, and Stock 4.33 is pretty amazing anyway
I agree. For the age of the original engine, down right amazing.
I am trying to convince some of my virtual squadron mates to make the leap from DCS to BMS and I'm pretty sure the only thing holding them back is "but DCS is so pretty"
Some people like to fly a combat flight sim and others actually fly a COMBAT flight sim
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Well how about that. Already got three squadron members on board and all they had to do was actually see the regular game in action. Just remarkable work BMS crew. Now I just need to figure out why my buddy can click and dream his mfd exports and I can't.
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Hey all. Don't want to start a new thread so… Unfortunately f-16, block, and weapons are pretty generic search words… Could someone point me to where I can find out what block type can carry what weapons and equipment? One of the manuals or somewhere on the Internet? Thanks!
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So there is no list anywhere then according to your response. That's a bummer.
Go and search in the Avionics manual, maybe you find something
Did as many types of ctrl-f as I could and skimmed/read the avionics. Did not see a list. No biggie, just surprised there isn't a one stop shop for Block type information. Thanks for the responses razo.
So made it to the -34. Seems each weapon lists what block it can be installed on. Looks like I'll have to make my own excel. Drinking from a fire hose.
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the Mil boats now look so nice I feel bad about dropping bombs on them, and all ground troops are very nicely updated, the smoke, shade, ambience, ground trees and terrain start to look like the real thing a bit.
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MÜLLER-WILLE, Ludger and Bernd GIESEKING (eds), 2… – Études/Inuit/Studies – Érudit
MÜLLER-WILLE, Ludger and Bernd GIESEKING (eds), 2008 Bei Inuit und …
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Volume 32, Numéro 2, 2008, p. 195–197
"Captain's Log:…" Most people will recognise this as the standard beginning of almost all episodes of the TV science fiction series Star Trek: the captain of the Enterprise recording an entry for his official or personal diary. One wonders how these entries would sound if they were not the captain's but—for instance—the ship's cleaning lady's, janitor's or cook's. Surely, they would introduce quite a different perspective on the adventure of exploring the unknown. Precisely such a perspective is now provided in a new book edited by Ludger Müller-Wille and Bernd Gieseking presenting the collected travel-logs and letters of Wilhelm Weike—the servant of the late 19th century's great anthropologist and scientific explorer Franz Boas. The book consists of a carefully and well edited transcription of Weike's diaries and letters, written in 1883-1884 and presented here in chronological order. It also includes a short introduction, a time table of the voyage, detailed information about the language and the applied rules of transcription, and finally a long essay by the editors explaining and interpreting the presented material.
Weike wrote his diaries when he accompanied Boas on his famous expedition to the Inuit of Baffin Island. Today this expedition is considered to be a groundbreaking research project and a fundamental experience for Boas that shaped his entire notion of anthropology and his views on the need to preserve Indigenous cultures. In the perspective of his servant, Boas' scientific exploration adventure to the Inuit presents itself in truly a new light. That is not to say that Weike was ignorant of what Boas tried to accomplish scientifically. In fact, to a certain degree, he was trained to work as an assistant and the two men became something like friends during the voyage, staying in close contact until Weike's death in 1917. However, the diaries and letters that Weike wrote—explicitly forced to do so by Boas—clearly present the non-scientific point of view.
It begins with his language, a late 19th century working class German with many colloquial elements, today forgotten expressions and a slightly strange grammar. More important, however, is the fact that Weike's log offers a detailed insight into precisely those aspects of exploration and anthropological field-work that are largely left out in Boas' or any other scientist's accounts of their expeditions. Here we a have the voice of the constantly complaining servant who is astonished and sometimes clearly irritated by the amount of energy, bodily work and downright suffering that it takes to explore and survive the unknown. Especially in his letters, Weike underlined the unpleasant aspects of the project his boss was pressing forward and even dared to make fun of him when the great Boas himself seemed exhausted at times.
This changed quite substantially when they arrived in the village of the Inuit where they were to stay for several months before returning home. Here, Weike rather quickly adapted himself to the circumstances, settled and tried to make himself as comfortable as possible. Thus, in opposition to Boas, who approached the Inuit with a liberal, but primarily scientific interest, Weike actually lived among them. Weike was in frequent and close contact with at least 50 of the 300 Inuit of the village, mentioning all of them by name in his diaries. With only minor signs of a racial or civilisational bias, Weike dived into and, to a certain degree, embraced the foreign culture he was confronted with. On several occasions he was thus able to clear difficult situations and to smooth conflicts between the great scientist Boas and his research object, simply because Weike had a far greater insight-knowledge about the Inuit's daily affairs.
That is not to say that Weike was the better anthropologist. His writings about daily life among the Inuit, about their habits, religious beliefs and social gatherings display a certain curiosity, but centre mostly around Weike's own doings and perspectives. However, he described the very same culture that Boas observed scientifically, only with the eyes and the voice of a forced tourist. Moreover, Weike was certainly more open-minded than Boas when it came to actually participating in the daily routines as well as in the cultural rituals of the Inuit. As always in regard to those early anthropological research projects, one can of course only speculate as to the fun that the Inuit themselves must have had with two such distinguished European characters living among them. Today, it is often said that Boas trip to the Inuit was the birth of ethnological fieldwork and the method of "participant observation." After reading the diaries of Boas' servant, it becomes at least unclear who of the two should really be praised for that innovation.
All in all, the book is surely of limited value in regard of the anthropological data it offers about the Inuit culture of the late 19th century. But it is of great importance for the history of early anthropology and of scientific explorations around 1900. For it reminds us that any scientific discovery is always also a social action taking place in a specific historical context and by no means independently from that background. Sometimes it takes the perspective of a servant from lower-class Eastern Westfalia and his very peculiar, even odd views on a different culture, to acknowledge these social origins of scientific insights; origins that Boas and many other great explorers tend to obscure in their own writings, when they draw their clear-cut scientific conclusions from, in fact, quite contingent experiences: "Captain's log supplemental…."
Par Janet Mancini Billson
Par Laakkuluk Jessen Williamson
Geulen, Christian. « MÜLLER-WILLE, Ludger and Bernd GIESEKING (eds), 2008 Bei Inuit und Walfängern auf Baffin-Land (1883/1884): Das arktische Tagebuch des Wilhelm Weike, Minden, Mindener Geschichtsverein, 321 pages. » Études/Inuit/Studies, volume 32, numéro 2, 2008, p. 195–197. https://doi.org/10.7202/038225ar
Geulen, C. (2008). Compte rendu de [MÜLLER-WILLE, Ludger and Bernd GIESEKING (eds), 2008 Bei Inuit und Walfängern auf Baffin-Land (1883/1884): Das arktische Tagebuch des Wilhelm Weike, Minden, Mindener Geschichtsverein, 321 pages.] Études/Inuit/Studies, 32(2), 195–197. https://doi.org/10.7202/038225ar
Geulen, Christian « MÜLLER-WILLE, Ludger and Bernd GIESEKING (eds), 2008 Bei Inuit und Walfängern auf Baffin-Land (1883/1884): Das arktische Tagebuch des Wilhelm Weike, Minden, Mindener Geschichtsverein, 321 pages. ». Études/Inuit/Studies 32, no 2 (2008) : 195–197. https://doi.org/10.7202/038225ar
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We Sell on eBay!: January 2011
eBay Mentoring Program
When I first started selling on eBay in February of 2008 I would have loved a personal mentor. I had to learn the ropes myself, figure out how to make professional listings, price my items effectively as well as stand out from the competition. Now I'm lucky to have that learning curve behind me, but a personal team to help me strategize would have been a dream!
There is a lot of great information to be learned from various eBay groups and boards, but many so called "experts" are willing to help for a fee and I've seen many new sellers disappointed with the subpar information.
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Steam Usernames | WWII Airsoft Association
Steam Usernames May 25, 2015 16:13:06 GMT -5 via Tapatalk
Post by daehahn on May 25, 2015 16:13:06 GMT -5
Hello, there probably is already a thread about this, but I couldn't find it, so I am making a new one. I am aware there are a lot of people here that play on steam, yet I do not know there usernames. If you could please post your steam username or add me, that would be great.
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Nectar has both medium- and low-density foams in its convenience layers, making it a slightly cooler choice than other memory foam rivals on the marketplace. The Nectar does utilize more breathable products in its cover, TENCEL �”� lyocell and cotton – . These materials provide much better breathability than other typical cover materials, such as polyester or rayon.
The Nectar mattress performed as we anticipated in our edge assistance screening (). Like other all-foam mattresses, we discovered significant sinkage when resting on or sleeping close to the edge. However when compared to similarly constructed bed mattress, it did perform a bit better than average, which gave the mattress a slight leg up in our ranking for this criteria.
This is a common trait of all-foam bed mattress (). Noise from a mattress is typically associated with a coil system in the support core or comfort layers. Because the Nectar includes an all-foam design, we found absolutely no noise issues with the bed. Combined with remarkable movement isolation, the absence of sound makes the Nectar a great option for sleepers who are quickly interrupted during the night.
Some sleepers discover this sinkage makes changing positions tough, which can make sex more difficult. That said, with much deeper sinkage comes more traction, so if changing positions isn’t as essential to you, the mattress can offer this as a benefit. The Nectar’s building and construction makes it produce no sound and hence extremely discreet throughout sex.
Now, let’s discuss our sleeper ratings for the Nectar Mattress. The ideal firmness and thickness settings for a mattress mainly depend upon a sleeper’s body weight, shape, and chosen sleep position. In order to much better inform our readers and avoid subjectivity in our review, the Tuck team examined the bed with sleep testers of varying physique and position preferences.
Congrats to 2017 Eastlake 8/9/10 Division All-Star team for capturing the District 42 Championship. Stevie Cabral threw a complete game 4-inning shutout. They advance to the Section 7 Tournament. First game is Saturday July 8 at 1:30pm vs. District 22.
The 10U, 11U and 12U Eastlake All-Stars teams all had games at Imperial Beach Little League on June 30, 2017. It was a great night for Eastlake teams and fans as they all moved on with big wins.
The 10U Eastlake All-Star team had a very competitive game against CVA Little League. In the end, they pulled out the victory 3-1 in an 8 inning extended game. Dante Millan pitched a great game and Stevie Cabral homered for Eastlake. Their next game will be on Sunday July 2 at SVLL at 10:30am for the District 42 Championship game!
The 11U Eastlake All-Star team won their 2nd game winning 13-0 vs CVA. Their next game will be in the District 42 Championship game on Sunday July 2 at SVLL at 11:00am! Some highlights from Coach Mark Wells below.
Eastlake LL 11U All-Stars defeated Chula Vista American 13-0 on Friday as three pitchers combined to throw a shutout. Noah Libed struck out #23 to finish off the game.
Noah led Eastlake LL 11U All-Stars to victory by driving in five runs. He went 2-for-3 at the plate. Noah drove in runs on a single in the second and a grand slam in the third.
Eastlake LL 11U All-Stars captured the lead in the first inning. Charlie Singleton drove in one when he homered in the first inning.
Eastlake LL 11U All-Stars scored seven runs in the third inning. Eastlake LL 11U All-Stars ’s big inning was driven by a walk , a single by Logan Caldwell, a grand slam by Noah, and a single.
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Stratpoint CEO MR Dela Cruz on ANC Market Edge
Stratpoint CEO Mary Rose dela Cruz sits down with ANC Market Edge's Michelle Ong to talk about Stratpoint's role in the digital transformation of its customers, how the market is ripe to level up its tech initiatives, how the IT industry can contribute in managing a pandemic, and being a role model for women in tech.
Stratpoint CEO Mary Rose dela Cruz sits down with ANC Market Edge's Michelle Ong to talk about Stratpoint's role in the digital transformation of its customers.
In the News: Demand for cloud services seen rising in 2021
Mar 10, 2021 | AWS, Blog Post, In the News
Stratpoint and AWS expect to serve the high demand for cloud platforms and technologies, as shared by their executives in this piece from the Manila Standard.
In the News: PH's cloud adoption rapidly growing in 2021
Mar 5, 2021 | AWS, Blog Post, In the News
In this piece published in The Manila Bulletin, Stratpoint and AWS share their thoughts on the growing cloud technology adoption in the Philippines.
How to Reduce AWS Costs by Up to 50%
Learn about how cloud management tool nOps enables you to cut down on AWS spend while helping you maintain an infrastructure that is secure, reliable, efficient, and operationally excellent. Presented by Stratpoint, nOps, and AWS.
Companies have no choice: they must invest in tech
Oct 20, 2021 | Blog Post
Here are some highlights in the Stratpoint CEO's interview on ANC Market Edge
7 Best Practices in Outsourcing Software Development
Sep 29, 2021 | Blog Post
We put together outsourcing best practices that we've developed over the years and that we find are vital to the success of our projects.
Staff Augmentation or Dedicated Team?
Sep 21, 2021 | Blog Post
When engaging a third-party in an IT project, what is the right service arrangement? In this article, we explore the pros and cons of staff augmentation vs dedicated team.
Don't get buried in technical debt
Sep 9, 2021 | Blog Post
Technical debt is the cost of fixing an application in the future because you chose a cheaper, quicker, or more convenient but limited solution today. Learn how you can avoid incurring it with OutSystems.
Stratizens Work Collaboratively with the help of Google Workspace
Sep 2, 2021 | Blog Post
Documents, sheets, powerpoints, and everything else essential for work can be found in Google Workspace. Even before the pandemic happened, we in Stratpoint have been using Google Workspace for almost everything. If you're wondering what "Google...
In the News: Reimagining Cloud Adoption in Philippines, Asia-Pacific
Aug 31, 2021 | Blog Post
Migrating the business to a cloud infrastructure, businesses expect high availability, scalability, security, and savings. Stratpoint delivers these benefits to the Philippines and Southeast Asia with cloud management tool nOps.
Retail tech trends in a digital economy
Aug 27, 2021 | Blog Post
Mobile shops and e-commerce sites are now a bare minimum in the digital economy. To compete for a share in the consumers' e-wallets, brands need to keep up with technology trends in retail.
Leveraging code reusability
Find out how a biotech company was able to launch a COVID app overnight by leveraging code reusability. You can do this too with the help of OutSystems and Stratpoint.
Security best practices for mobile app development
Data breaches announced by big brands like Facebook and Google tell us that cyber threats have become too commonplace and dangerous. Protect your brand by keeping abreast with security best practices.
Stratpoint CEO recognized in Channel Asia's 2021 Women in ICT Awards
In the 2021 Women in ICT Awards hosted by Channel Asia, Stratpoint CEO, Mary Rose dela Cruz, was named a finalist in the Achievement Award.
Cross-Functional Collaboration in Application Development
To launch applications fast and right, IT and business must work together in a multi-disciplinary application development team. OutSystems enables this cross-functional collaboration.
Jul 23, 2021 | Blog Post
When humans see an image, we interpret and recognize its components. How can we teach machines to automate seeing and how can we use this to make some of our tasks more efficient? Find out in this post about Amazon Rekognition.
So… What is an MVP?
Jul 16, 2021 | Blog Post
An MVP is central to an Agile approach to software development. But what is it, really?
In the News: How Cloud Technology Helps Companies Cope with Today's Challenges
The pandemic has drastically changed the way businesses operate. But there were notable enterprises that barely flinched amid the lockdowns since their operations have integrated cloud technology.
Jul 9, 2021 | Blog Post
To understand what Agile is, we turn to the Agile Manifesto and its 12 principles. In this blog post, Stratpoint takes a look at what is NOT Agile, to make sure that we are always true to the Agile spirit in our software development projects.
Jul 2, 2021 | Blog Post
Launching your first mobile app? We put together a step-by-step on how your brand can get on the fast-moving train of mobile applications.
Jun 25, 2021 | Blog Post
Thinking of starting your own Software Factory? Learn from Best Practices of this modern approach to software development.
What's the fuss about software factories?
Jun 10, 2021 | Blog Post
While much of the industry has turned agile, software factory is still a relatively new approach. What is a software factory? Mobile developer Stratpoint shares in this blog post.
Is it time to get on the low-code train?
If you are still hand-coding your apps today, you may be falling behind. Find out how a low-code platform like OutSystems can help you catch up.
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Now that customers are mostly online, you need applications to handle the demand. If it takes your company 6 months or more to develop software, you may already be lagging behind. Stratpoint and OutSystems will help you catch up.
Apps Stratpoint Built Fast and Right on OutSystems
As a certified OutSystems Sales and Delivery partner in the Philippines, Stratpoint has built enterprise apps fast, right, and future-ready.
Finding Flutter: Our Cross-Platform Journey
Apr 30, 2021 | Blog Post
In Stratpoint's search for the holy grail — a perfect cross-platform development tool — we explored different solutions, each with their own pros and cons, and found ourselves ready to wield Flutter, our new battle-ready weapon in developing quality applications fast and cost effectively.
Going Agile is like mountain biking
Much like mountain biking, businesses need to be ready to adapt in any situation and to adopt new practices. They need to be agile.
Stratpoint is proud to be Pinoy
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More women should be in IT
Mar 29, 2021 | Blog Post
Stratpoint CEO MR dela Cruz tells us why more women should grow and lead in IT.
Now over 20 years old, OutSystems has proved to be more than just another trendy enterprise application. Today, it is a recognized leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant both for low-code and for multi-experience platforms. And companies love it and appreciate its benefits for app development.
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Stratpoint wins AWS 2020 Social Impact Partner of the Year Award
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Cary Santos as Agile Mover
Oct 1, 2020 | Blog Post
Cary Santos is one of Stratpoint's leaders and AGILE MOVER. With over 20 years of experience in varying leadership roles and exposure in the industry, he drives innovation in the organization, igniting the change through the AGILE FRAMEWORK....
Yesterday, July 10, Kevin, Pao, and Lyndon were invited to the Mapua University Makati Campus to give graduating students a series of technical talks. These graduating students are from different programs such as Bachelor of Science in Information...
We are super proud of our Stratpoint team - Cla, Tin, Axl, Zoe, and Sarah, who was declared as the Grand Champion at Accenture's 2-day all-female hackathon, DevelopHer. Competing against 16 teams of 3-5 women, these women developers were tasked to...
Dec 31, 2018 | AWS, Blog Post
2018 has really been a great year. Just last Friday, December 28, during the last day of work for the year, we received a great news from our friends at Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) - Stratpoint is now an Advanced Consulting Partner in the...
Dec 20, 2018 | Blog Post
Mantua Consulting just held its Christmas Party last December 18, 2018, at the Makati Shangri-La Hotel. One of the guests invited is the Chief Executive Officer of Stratpoint Technologies, Inc, MR Dela Cruz. Mantua Consulting is an IT...
Last December 5, 2018, at the ISC Mezzanine Hall of Centro Escolar University (CEU) in Manila, Stratpoint's Chief Technology Innovation Officer, Jay Sabido, Ph.D. was invited to be one of the speakers of CEU's Management Review to discuss...
The Computing Society of the Philippines (CSP) in partnership with the University of San Carlos, Talampan Campus, hosted the 17th Philippine Computing Science Congress (PCSC2017) last March 16-18, 2017 in Cebu City. One of the speakers at the...
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sakurascorpion Depression, Diary June 6, 2013 June 6, 2013 3 Minutes
Another day begins and brings with it fresh winds of relief intermingled with grains of despair. As always, I wonder why I am here. What is my purpose in creation and in the grand scheme of life? What kind of cog am I in the machine known as the universe? What am I here for?
Religion would tell me it is to live as God wills and to live well and piously, worshipping Him. Science would tell me there is no real purpose. I am simply the result of the human urge to reproduce and am just another of millions. I think that both views are correct but missing something more defining for me. Not to be arrogant, but everything has a purpose, so I must too. I just wonder what mine is.
In the darkest times, I wonder if I am the one creation that has no purpose, made up from a bit of excess energy and molded together absentmindedly. I wonder if my existence is a mistake, or if the choices that have lead me to become who I am were all mistakes. I wonder why I have been given so much and can make so little out of it, whereas many have much less and have done so much more with their lives. I wonder why I am not good enough to excel at anything, just better than mediocre. I can never achieve the heights I long for, no matter how hard I happen to try.
And yet, I am blessed with individuals who value me. I have to do my best to remember that part of my life more. Regardless of how little worth i see in myself, my few friends and family actually value me greatly. I am truly blessed with them. It is thanks to them I can keep going every day.
My driving force has always been the desire to make a difference in the world. I want so very badly to leave behind amazing footprints in the sand. I want to become someone that is valued not just by a few, but by history and humanity. I don't know how I am going to accomplish that, but it is who I yearn to be. And it isn't just for that acknowledgement of existence, but for the actual accomplishing of a significant act. I want to help people in a big way, I just don't possess the brilliance to do so. As a result, I am always at war with myself.
And the crux of it all is, I feel so betrayed by so many I have loved in so many ways that I no longer like human-kind in general. And yet, I still want to ease the suffering of the masses and the annihilate the unspeakable evil that dwells so freely in every nook and cranny of this world. The stories of heinous crimes haunt me every day. I wonder, every time, why it wasn't prevented, why people would do something so horrifying in the first place, why someone had to suffer such a tragedy, and why those left behind would have to deal with it.
And so I count my blessings yet again. Even if most of the people I care for infuriate and hurt me, that is normal. I have to accept that they have shortcomings, and so do I. I don't know why I forget one half of that deal on many occasions. If I could constantly remember that, then I could at least minimize my disappointment in myself or other people. It would keep me feeling less anxious, more stable, and a little happier.
I hate that my happiness is often the cause of some sort of grief for others in my life. I hate that my parents can't accept me and my decisions. They always want to mold me to fit in their picture of the world. When I refuse to conform any longer, they act like I have never valued them or their input and that I choose to hurt them rather than do what they say. I can't help how they view the situation, but I know I can no longer let them control me. I am myself, my own person, and I plan to live that way my whole life. I am just sorry it causes them pain.
Yesterday was a good day. Today has been okay. I am hoping for a good night and a better tomorrow. Who knows? Maybe the monsters within will rest, and I will be happy. 🙂
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Hands-On with Voigtlander's 10.5mm F0.95 Nokton | Broadway Camera Blog
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Hands-On with Voigtlander's 10.5mm F0.95 Nokton Written by Broadway Camera
Micro Four Thirds, Voigtlander 4 Comments Supplying quality optics since 1756, Voigtlander is just about the oldest camera manufacturer still active in 2015. Their latest release, the 10.5mm F0.95 Nokton (21mm full-frame equivalent) for Micro Four Thirds arrived earlier this week and I took it for a quick test drive.
Like with most Voigtlander lenses, the 10.5mm Nokton is incredibly well-built. Although it's quite small, being a Micro Four Thirds lens, it's quite heavy for its size. No plastics here, it's one solid piece of metal and glass. Even the lens hood is a solid piece of metal, held on with a screw-down clamp rather than a bayonet or screw mount like most.
There are 13 elements in 10 groups with at least one aspherical element since it says "ASPHERICAL" right on the front of the lens but there's no mention of how many of the elements are aspherical in Voigtlander's specs.
The 10.5mm Nokton is manual focus only with a minimum focusing distance of 0.17m. Combined with a wide-open aperture of F0.95, depth of field is razor thin.
F0.95, 1/250s, ISO 160 | Voigtlander 10.5mm
Focus is on the face so notice that the front of our model's tiny camera is out of focus and it's probably no more than a couple centimeters in front of his face. Wide open at F0.95, the Nokton doesn't seem very sharp or perhaps it's because the focal plane is so tiny that it's hard to judge. With 10 aperture blades, out of focus elements are rendered smooth.
F2.0, 1/250s, ISO 160 | Voigtlander 10.5mm
F2.8, 1/250s, ISO 160 | Voigtlander 10.5mm
Stopping down slightly to F2.0 is a huge improvement in sharpness already and it's excellent at F2.8, at which point you get diminishing returns on sharpness stopping down further.
If you don't mind manual focusing, the Voigtlander 10.5mm Nokton is an great low-light, wide-angle option for a Micro Four Thirds shooter.
Shooting at F0.95 is quite special looking, close to what a F1.2 or F1.4 looks like on a full-frame setup. Photographers that think they can't get shallow DOF with a wide angle on Micro Four Thirds don't need to look any further than this lens.
The Voigtlander 10.5mm F0.95 Nokton is available now at Broadway Camera.
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iOS App Shows You What Voigtlander Lenses Look Like On Your Camera
Reply to Pieter June 28, 2015 at 10:50 pm This lens is not a Voigtlander lens, it's a Cosina lens of Japanese origin, it's not a lens out of Germany. Cosina simply owns the right to use the name Voigtlander, plain and simple…..it's been that way since 1999…..
Reply to Joshua July 1, 2015 at 8:10 pm Not exactly pieter. Cosina didn't just buy voigtlanders naming rights. They bought voigtlander itself. Voigtoander no longer exists as a seperate company but is simply a segment or brand under cosina. That is why they are called Cosina Voigtlander. From my understanding now all of voigtlanders lenses are manufactured in japan. There is no german voigtlander anymore.
Reply to Ash June 29, 2015 at 7:20 am Any chance you'll test it out on stars at say 1.4? I'm curious to see what kind of coma/ chroma it will show at an infinite distance (stars/ milky way).
Reply to Broadway June 29, 2015 at 9:09 am I only had the lens for a short time in the office so probably not. That's why this is just a quick hands-on and not a full length review or anything. -Ed
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Cheryl Fernandez-Versini "so happy" for newly-engaged Stevi, Chloe-Jasmine - Celebrity News News - Reveal Like92kFollow @RevealMag52.4K followersFollow
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X Factor judge Cheryl Fernandez-Versini has confirmed that she will attend Stevi Ritchie and Chloe-Jasmine Whichello's wedding. Stevi and Chloe announced their engagement over the weekend, making them the first X Factor couple to get engaged. © WENN / Rocky
Chloe already told The Sun that she'd been in touch with her former mentor Cheryl. "I sent Cheryl Fernandez-Versini a message to thank her for bringing this amazing person into my life," she said. "She texted back saying congratulations, and she was so happy for us both. I'd definitely invite her to the wedding if she wanted to come."Well now it looks like Cheryl has just confirmed her attendance...Taking to Twitter last night, Cheryl tweeted: "I know @CHLOEJASMINEW texted me with the special news. So happy for them both. Congratulations #needtofindahat."I know @CHLOEJASMINEW texted me with the special news so happy for them both. Congratulations #needtofindahat https://t.co/dbCx6UuJ1G— Cheryl (@CherylOfficial) July 13, 2015An elated Stevi soon replied: "Hi Cheryl, thank you so much for your tweet, glad you're coming to the wedding."Due to their close bond on The X Factor, Stevi is hoping his former mentor and head judge Simon Cowell will also be able to attend his special day. He tweeted soon after: "So we have @CherylOfficial coming to wedding now I just need my friend @SimonCowell to come to our wedding."As contestants on the ITV talent show, romance blossomed for Stevi and Chloe just before Christmas.
© Supplied by WENNCheryl mentored Chloe-Jasmine on The X Factor in 2014.
Appearing on ITV's This Morning on Monday, Chloe said: "I think that's what love is, it comes when you least expect it… the minute I leftThe X Factor, I missed him every day. I was so sad not seeing him everyday."Stevi said the pair are now looking at a summer wedding. "We are thinking next summertime... And yes, I want my daughter as a bridesmaid. I never thought I'd end up with a posh girl! Never in a million years."For exclusive competitions and amazing prizes visit Reveal's Facebook page NOW!Cheryl and Jean-Bernard Fernandez-Versini divorce: ex-couple have been granted a decree nisiTOWIE's Megan McKenna on Cheryl and Liam Payne: "If the baby rumour is true, I love it!"Cheryl in Paris: Fans on bump watch as she's pictured for first time since pregnancy rumours
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Cosplay.com > Cosplay by Series/Genre > Anime/Manga > Hellsing > Alucard's Hat
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TwilightAmelia02-23-2008, 08:32 PMYeah, yeah. I searched the forum and all the Hellsing threads were like 2 years old or about Seras Victoria. Can someone who has done an Alucard costume help me out? I'm making it for a sewing-illiterate friend, and while I have a usable pattern for the duster, the hat is causing me some trouble. I would greatly appreciate any help.
Tia02-23-2008, 11:26 PMI did help with an Alucard costume, but I didn't make the hat. I can tell you what the person who made the hat did, though. He basically took a hat that normally fit him and dark red felt. He fitted the felt around the cap portion of the hat as much as it possibly would go and sewed the back together to make it stay. The brim of the hat isn't too difficult to do, just take another piece of felt and cut it in the approximate shape. Then put the other piece on top of it to trace around where the hole on the brim piece should be. Cut that out and sew the two pieces together. Then, put the felt hat back on top of the normal hat to give it shape (hopefully a hat you either bought at a thrift store or don't care too much about) and stiffen it. I suggest you use some type of glue that you just soak into the fabric, or polyester resin. I did a test of it on some felt a little while ago when I was planning to make a pirate hat and it worked well to stiffen but not make the fabric completely inflexible.
TwilightAmelia02-23-2008, 11:41 PMThanks. I want the hat to be good since I see a lot of Alucard cosplayers who get the hat wrong and then the whole costume looks off. The whole point of my friend doing this costume is because he has the perfect body for it. Which puts a lot of pressure on me to get the fit of the coat right, as well. ;___;
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I work in the medium of stoneware clay and make hand-built pottery, primitive sculpture, hamsas, and a variety of other forms. My work celebrates and pushes the plasticity of the medium. The content of the work follows an inner landscape of biological obsessions, psychic damage, and bouncy cartoon animals.
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Bith Musical Instruments
I recently made some clay wall hangings in the shape of the members of Figrin D'an and the Modal Nodes, the Bith band in the cantina on Tattooine in Star Wars Episode IV. I also made the musical instruments to go along with them. The instruments are well documented in the Star Wars universe although they're hard to see in the film itself.
The Bandfill:
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I was hoping the experience of making flat clay versions of alien musical instruments would be fun and exciting and it was somewhat tedious, except for the bandfill, which I like.
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and here is a shot from the film, with the kloo horn, fanfar, and fizz visible. You can also see part of the ommni box on the right.
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Since switching to track the south Londoner has won the world junior title, reached the semi-finals of London 2012 and won Commonwealth 100m silver. This was his best yet, the accepted calculations used by athletics statisticians indicating that his run was worth a theoretical 19.90 seconds in still conditions and 19.82 with a tailwind to match that he was running into.
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how to make external hard drive bootable [duplicate]
How do you create a bootable partition on a USB drive? I have a 250G external hdd, I would like to make it bootable to install Ubuntu along side win7, but how can I make my hdd a bootable thing. What I did is to use diskpart utility and copy Ubuntu iso files into hdd, and change bios boot order to boot from usb external storage first, but it always says missing mgr... what should I do? boot share|improve this question asked Feb 5 '11 at 18:01
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marked as duplicate by Mokubai♦, slhck, Not Kyle stop stalking me, alex, Sathya♦ Jun 2 '11 at 11:19
possible duplicate of How do you create a bootable partition on a USB drive? and Can I make USB drive bootable and install multiple OSes from it?
If you first set the partition to active, then copy the ISO to the disk (assuming you mean extracting the files), this will only boot in to the Ubuntu Live/Installer environment (If they haven't changed it).
You will also need to choose the boot device at startup.
Instead, what I recommend you try is the Linux Universal USB Installer.
If however you want to actually install Ubuntu full to the external drive (not just live), as the boot order can change and sometimes you may not have the external drive, I would recommend disconnecting your primary drive, or choosing disabled in the BIOS, then installing it normally to the external drive.
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Copying the ISO images to a HD will not work. ISOs need to be burned to a CD or DVD (Windows 7 does it natively - right click and choose burn disc.) Then boot off the DVD and through the install select your external HD. The setup will guide you through partitioning it and it will make it bootable. There maybe be a way to burn the ISO to the HD by making it think its a DVD drive, but that'd be way more complicated than just burning a DVD.
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Hey Soloz ...
Can you forward me some reading/review info on the Buffalo? I searched around and all I could find were vendors selling the boards and DIY kits (sans enclosures and what not) ... and there were so many variants that I sort of got lost in the minutia.
If you have any good reading sources, please PM me. I'm just reading everything I can find about everything I can find at the moment. Far from decided on anything at this point. Will most likely research for another week or two.
http://www.head-fi.org/forums/f6/twi...re-dac-317919/
I've heard a zapfiltered Opus and it was great, better than the modded Zhaolu I had before. The Buffalo has better specs and from what I've heard should be even better.
It is balanced so you can have both single-ended and balanced outputs, as well as have several inputs and outputs since everything is modular.
The basic setup with IVY will run you around $300, add a nice transformer for say $25, a nice enclosure for $50, and say anther $50-75 in misc stuff and you've got a killer DAC for less than the other ones you're looking at.
The boards are all populated already so you've just got to do the case work and wire them up. If you don't feel comfortable and that's how you want to go let me know as I'll probably be placing an order from TPA in the next month.
I'm seriously considering getting a Buffalo myself, but then again I think I might just go simple and get either the Alien DAC or Opus USB module and use either as a stand-alone mid-range DAC to feed my Millet Max. I haven't decided... it's only money right?
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5/24/08 at 11:38am
I'll join in on the fun. My new 0404 USB is set to be delivered on the 28th, and by then I should have the MPX3 fully paid and all I have to do is wait for Jacob's lovely toaster to arrive.
Oh, I should probably mention that I'm going to see if I can host my own meet in the 'burbs of Chicago, probably in late June or July. I'll be posting on Head-Fi if it becomes a sure thing. Joel - any DJ friends in Chi-Town as well ? Lmk.
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5/24/08 at 11:41am
Very good stuff. Just don't set it for July 2nd, that's my birthday and I'll be a bit busy...
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5/24/08 at 12:57pm
No Chicago DJ bros ... Andy (aka "champa") worked with me here in Houston for a number of years at a certain after hours dance club (house/drum and bass/etc.) called Club Some.
It was Houston's premiere after 2am spot for over a decade. All sorts of heavies came through that club and it's sister club, Hyperia (oakenfold, perry ferrel, etc.). Was a hoot working there for so many years; I tended bar.
I've never been much into techno/electronica but I like most of the stuff that Andy's turned me on too over the years (Amon Tobin, Trans Am, Thievery Corporation, Rhythm and Sound, etc.) ... all very tasteful, groove oriented electronica.
I'll give him a word tonight about Chicago and let you know ...
BTW: here's some of Andy's recorded jams at his homepage: LOVEISINTHEMUSIC.
If anyone wants lossless or 320kbs versions, just give me a PM.
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5/24/08 at 10:16pm
Bryan, you've known for a while ive wanted a mini-meet. If your Grandpa was gracious enough to host it, I'd be all over it.
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5/25/08 at 2:00pm
Pulled the proverbial trigger on my lower priced fav DAC last night, the Musiland MD-10.
Don't know when it will ship but will post some thoughts post burn in.
I was going to opt for a more expensive tube DAC (re: earlier posts) but the surf came up last night and I had to set aside 50 bucks for gas ( ), just to get to the beach and back, and that sealed the deal.
Figured I'd go with the relatively cheaper DAC and thereby have some more money left for more surf trips in the future.
Anyway ... looking forward to checking it out.
Here's a very lengthy thread at Head-fi discussing it: Musiland MD-10.
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5/26/08 at 8:37am
Congrats Joel .
Looking forward to impressions, as always.
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5/26/08 at 1:47pm
Well, I am ready to get rid of my Bose triports for home use. So I ordered a pair of Audio Technica AD700's. I used to use speakers all the time but ever since getting this sound card off Woot ($55) I have found headphones sound way better and the audio is better than with speakers. I find it to be cleaner sounding for me.
So this Thursday, I will be using my new pair of Audio Technica AD700's
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5/26/08 at 2:26pm
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5/26/08 at 8:47pm
Nice. The AD700's weren't for me, but they definitely had their strong points. They're airy and light, very nice for lighter acoustical stuff.
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If you could cross an encyclopedic legal reference with the down-home philosophy and wit of a Will Rogers you might come up with a book like Fifty and Beyond. Astoundingly exhaustive in its range of subjects, Fifty provides accurate, to-the-point legal advice wryly enriched by poetry, humor, and existential musings aimed directly at the baby boomer generation. It might well have been titled "Zen and the Art of Legal Planning. -- Bifocal, Volume 20, Number 1, Charles P. Sabatino
Written by University of Arizona law professor Kenney Hegland and fellow Tucson elder law attorney (and friendly competitor) Allan Bogutz, "Fifty and Beyond" neatly avoids one of the problems so often faced in legal writing for a general audience. Although much depends on local or state laws, much is also common among different states Hegland and Bogutz have generalized where necessary, but never at the expense of useful and detailed information...Most importantly, however, "Fifty and Beyond" is fun to read. The lively sense of humor never condescends or trivializes, but always contributes to understanding of the legal issue under discussion...Hegland and Bogutz have provided truly useful and understandable information...And you can actually enjoy the process of learning about all of these issues, thanks to the lively writing, the wry sense of humor and the easy-going approach to problems of great magnitude. -- Elder Law Issues, September 27, 1999
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Neonatology - Neonatologist - Montgomery jobs
Neonatology opening in Montgomery, Alabama. This and other physician jobs brought to you by DocCafe.comEnvision Physician Services is looking for a Neonatologist to complete our Level III NICU team in Montgomery, AL. A partnership track is available for the right individual after being in the group for 2-years. The practice consists of 4 Neonatologists who cover three facilities that are within 15-minutes of each other: Baptist Medical Center East, Baptist Medical Center South, and Jackson Hospital. See details about the opportunity below: Opportunity Highlights:
Work/life balance with call from home and 24/7 NNP coverage in the Level IIIs
Competitive compensation with a partnership track and bonus potential
Staffing Model: 4 Neonatologists
Flexible scheduling includes call from home
Provide Coverage at 3 facilities (not all 3 simultaneously)
Baptist Med Center --- East
Level III NICU (28-beds)
Busiest delivery service in Montgomery with MFM support via telemedicine
Baptist Med Center --- South
Level III NICU (40-beds)
Regional Perinatal Center with majority of census being transfers-in
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?Primarily newborn nursery coverage with small special care population About Envision:With over 30 years of high-quality Women---s & Children---s services and more than 100 service contracts, Envision Physician Services is a trusted strategic partner for established hospitals and health systems. Combining a national infrastructure with local support, our breadth and depth of clinical and operational resources allow our physicians to spend more time on what matters: delivering high-quality care. We offer competitive compensation, a robust benefits package effective on day one, and malpractice insurance with tail coverage. - Montgomery, AL Company InformationQuality people. Quality care. Quality of LIFE.(TM) [Click Here to Apply] itemprop="name"> Envision Physician Services is a national physician-led practice management company. This publically held company provides outsourced clinical department recruitment, staffing, management and billing/collection services for hundreds of hospitals and health systems nationwide. Known for its unique structure, Envision Physician Services develops local practices, supports them with regionally-located clinical leadership and operational personnel and provides them access to unprecedented national resources. Each Envision Physician Services practice has its own unique culture, but all sites recruit and hire clinicians who share the company's core values of being patient-focused, customer-centered and caregiver-inspired. Envision Physician Services is a family of companies, each of which has clinical staffing needs. Full-time, part-time, and independent contractor opportunities are available through Envision Physician Services. Candidates considering a career within the Envision Physician Services family of companies will find a variety of community types (from small towns to major urban areas), practice settings (small hospitals to major academic health systems), job levels (entry level to senior management), and competitive pay with exceptional benefits. Specialties supported include Emergency Medicine, Hospital Medicine, Women?s and Children?s, Surgery, Anesthesia and Radiology/Teleradiology. Envision Physician Services is proud to be an EOE/AA employer. Envision Physician Services is a dynamic, physician-led organization which has been offering exceptional career opportunities since 1972. With more than 14,000 affiliated providers coast-to-coast, Envision Physician Services is nationally-recognized for delivering clinical excellence supported through innovation, integration and exceptional leadership.Whether you are considering full-time, part-time or independent contractor opportunities with Envision Physician Services, you can rest assured you will be working for an industry-leader who delivers a vast array of benefits unmatched within the industry, including: Physician-led organization Strong leadership on a local, regional and national level Exceptional quality of practice backed by comprehensive support services Optimal staffing ratios and flexible scheduling options ---A--- rated professional liability insurance Extensive variety of practice settings coast-to-coast Competitive compensation including several benefit options Opportunities for professional development, mentoring and career advancement Comprehensive education and training on leadership, management and clinical best practices, including a wide variety of CME programs Colleague referral bonus program--*Benefits vary by division, clinical specialty and employment status Keyphrases: neonatology jobs, neonatologist jobs, neonatologist nurse jobs, pediatric neonatology jobs, pediatric neonatologist jobs
Keywords: Envision Physician Services, Montgomery , Neonatology - Neonatologist, Other , Montgomery, Alabama
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The entertainment business is one of the most promising industries in which a person may easily make a lot of money with their ability in a short amount of time if they have the support of thousands of people who are interested in their art.
Some of these rising stars in the business might serve as inspiration to viewers since they did not let their height or stature prevent them from achieving success in the entertainment industry.
In this post, we will tell you about five superstars who, despite early setbacks, did not let their tiny stature stop them from generating money through entertainment.
1. Stephen Atanga is a well-known Ghanaian actor and comedian who is known as Don Little due to his small stature.
Don Little was born in 1997, and although he began his acting career as early as 2011, he struggled owing to his stature. He never gave up, and now he is one of Ghana's most entertaining actors, earning a living via entertainment.
Read Also See how money has transformed the amputee water seller who went viral.
2. Osita Iheme is a Nigerian actor and businessman who is best known for his performance in the 2002 film Pawpaw
Osita Iheme was born on February 20, 1982, and has worked in the Nigerian entertainment industry for more than 20 years. The 39-year-old has amassed a sizable fortune from acting, and he is diversifying his assets by purchasing several houses and making multiple investments.
3. Firdaus Iddrisu, often known as Shatta Bandle, is a prominent Ghanaian media figure.
Shatta Bandle rose to prominence on the internet when footage of him flaunting his money and boasting that he is wealthier than Aliko Dangote went viral. He kept utilizing the same technique to create a large fan base, and he is today a successful entertainer.
Read Also Social Media user exposes Sonnie Badu for lying about his countless PHD's and degrees
4. Samuel Nana, often known as Yaw Dabo, is a renowned Ghanaian comedy actor who was born in 1998.
Despite his tough beginnings, Samuel has found success in the entertainment industry and has established himself in a variety of enterprises. He is the proud owner of three football teams in Ghana's lower league divisions, which include competitions for under 10, 14, and 17 years old.
5. Victor Nwaogu, often known as Nkubi in the entertainment business, is a renowned Nigerian actor and comedian.
Despite being mocked for his stature, the guy known as Small Stout has achieved success in the entertainment industry.
After sharing pre-wedding photographs a few months ago, Nkubi has now achieved success and is ready to marry a lovely young girl.
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Phoenix House Counselor PRN (bilingual preferred) in Austin, Texas
Are you looking for an exciting opportunity? We invite you to join the Phoenix House team in Austin! We are in the process of our greatest transformation in our company's 50 years of operation. If you are looking for a company with a new approach to treatment then this could be the opportunity for you!
We are currently seeking a per diem licensed counselor at our Austin location. The counselor works directly with the clients to deliver Therapeutic Community programming, model positive behavior, maintain clinical records according to licensing and Department guidelines, and work with the rest of the treatment team to maintain a safe, respectful, trauma-informed therapeutic community within the facility.
We are currently seeking an experienced / qualified Master's Degree Level Counselor to join our team.
•Bachelor's Degree Required. Master's degree preferred
•All applicants must have a current valid license to provide counseling and/or substance abuse services with the state of Texas: LMSW/LCSW.
Please forward your resume, cover letter of interest and experience and salary requirements to [email protected] and reference position: Counselor- Austin PRN.
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Moroccan King, Buhari sign 15 bilateral agreements | The Guardian Nigeria News - Nigeria and World NewsNews — The Guardian Nigeria News – Nigeria and World News
Moroccan King, Buhari sign 15 bilateral agreements
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King Mohammed VI of Morocco and President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday met at the Presidential Villa to facilitate discussions aimed at strengthening bilateral and economic ties between the two countries.
Buhari and the visiting King were expected to sign about 15 bilateral agreements, specifically touching on trade and the oil sector.
The brief event was preceded by a 21-gun salute.
He, thereafter, accompanied Buhari to the National Mosque for Jum'at prayers before they returned to commence talks.
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyema, told State House correspondents on the sideline of the event that at the end the three-day visit, Nigerians and the citizens of Morocco would benefit immensely from the renewed diplomatic engagement between the two countries.
On what Nigeria stands to gain from the King's visit, the minister said: "Hopefully, in the short and medium terms, it could run into billions.
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Call the Midwife to feature 'heartbreaking' new backstreet abortion story, reveals Helen George | Woman & Home |
Call the Midwife to feature 'heartbreaking' new backstreet abortion story, reveals Helen George
Helen George speaks about Sunday's episode, which sees Trixie's pal forced to take drastic action… with appalling consequences
Call the Midwife had a massive response to their backstreet abortion plot earlier this series and the BBC1 drama will revisit the topic in a tragic new storyline in this Sunday's episode.
Nurse Trixie Franklin (Helen George) holds one of her famous exercises classes and her pal Jeannie Tennant is her star pupil.But mother-of-two Jeannie then takes a funny turn and Dr Turner (Stephen McGann) reveals that she's pregnant again.
Jeannie (Molly Chesworth) doesn't believe she can cope with a third child and asks for a termination.
"Jeannie, a young married mum, is pregnant but doesn't want anymore children," explains Helen George, who plays Trixie.
However, of course this is 1964 and abortion is still illegal, except in life-or-death circumstances, so Dr Turner refuses her request. And, although Trixie and the rest of the midwives, would love to help, there's nothing they can do.
"Trixie's her friend so it's heartbreaking, but the midwives feel helpless as their hands are tied by the law," adds Helen, who spoke to TV Times.
Desperate and with nowhere apparently to turn, Jeannie ends up taking matters into her own hands and the result is tragic in this Sunday's episode.
Talking about how the show was tackling the subject of abortion, Helen says: "We look at the legal and medical arguments from every point of view and let the viewer decide. There's a taboo still, so it's an interesting debate."
Jennifer Kirby, who plays Valerie, adds, "The midwives feel a duty of care for these women - it's unsafe and the law puts women in danger. We've been in tears filming and feel so deeply about it. This series has already opened up more conversation, which we're pleased about. I love that Call the Midwife never shies away from difficult subjects."
Viewers were moved to tears earlier in the series when Cath (Emily Barber) was seen in huge distress following an illegal abortion in the first episode.
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WCP & Bassik Present Yellow Claw + Cesqeaux, Dirtcaps & Mike
WCP & Bassik Present Yellow Claw + Cesqeaux, Dirtcaps & Mike Cervello
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Winter Circle Productions & BASSIK Present
The Barong Family Tour ft Yellow Claw
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What started as a way of exploring the gap between Hip Hop and EDM turned out to be a successful concept at the Jimmy Woo nightclub in Amsterdam, and developed into one of the most surprising and refreshing DJ projects the world has seen in a while. A big part of Yellow Claw's success is made up of all-round skills, audience interaction, music videos, a clothing line, their own record label and a sound that crosses boundaries and mixes up genres. It's become a signature sound that has led to collaborations with great artists as diverse as Diplo, Flux Pavilion, Skrillex, Waka Flocka Flame, Pusha T, Martin Garrix, DJ Mustard, Ty Dolla $ign and Ti?sto.
In 2014 Yellow Claw toured around the globe, playing primetime gigs on the biggest stages like EDC Las Vegas, Tomorrowland and Mysteryland. During an ever growing gig schedule they managed to set up a fast selling apparel line in cooperation with streetwear label Daily Paper called Blood For Mercy. The Barong Family record label was inaugurated in May of 2014. Playing alongside Skrillex and Diplo's Jack ? at Madison Square Garden on New Year's Eve was probably the best way to end the year.
With that being said, 2015 turned out even more successful on the global festival circuit. Yellow Claw were hitting stages at the speed of a heartbeat. They kicked off the year at Future Music Festival in various Australian cities, followed by all spring breakers' beloved Ultra Music Festival in Miami and California's annual trend-setting Coachella. For the ultimate summer celebration, they joined Spring Awakening in Chicago and EDC Las Vegas. Back in Europe, Yellow Claw hosted huge stages at Amsterdam's Kingsday Festival and at Tomorrowland, where they stole the show together with the other Barong Family artists and made everyone go wild. Besides the busy festival schedule, Yellow Claw had a successfull residency at the Wynn Las Vegas and produced a lot of new tracks.
In November they delivered their highly anticipated and sharp sounding full-length debut album Blood For Mercy on Mad Decent, followed by a massive US tour. Featuring many big name guest appearances, it went straight to #1 on Billboard's Heatseeker Albums as well as Top Dance/Electronic Albums charts, and also reached #3 on Beatport.
In 2016, Blood For Mercy won the Edison award (Dutch equivalent of the Grammys) for dance music in the Netherlands. The single In My Room , made in partnership with DJ Mustard and featuring Ty Dolla $ign and Tyga has so far clocked almost 7 million views on YouTube and over 72 million streams on Spotify (not counting remixes). After EDC Las Vegas in June, Yellow Claw's longtime MC, Bizzey, left the group to spend more time with his wife and young son. Jim and Nils continue together, busy as ever, both on stage and in the studio.
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It adopted the name of “Chivalry-Now” (also known as CN). It also incorporated knowledge and moral lessons derived since the Age of Chivalry, buttressed by intellectual and cultural.
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This wonderful book is primarily a review, more personal than historical, although exhaustive, of the Charlemagne cycle. Many of the heroes and anti-heroes of French High Romance are studied in detail through their Medieval stories and poems.
Gautier, although looking at French Chivalry from a modern viewpoint, is obviously in love with 5/5(1). Jan 11, · Modern chivalry: containing the adventures of a captain, and Teague O'Regan, his servant by Brackenridge, H. (Hugh Henry), Publication date Book, leather; front cover nearly detached, covers worn, spine chipped Bookplate: Private library of.
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Predictions by Probability Density Distributions
Actionable data to support or automate decision making is used by predictive and prescriptive analytics. Prediction of a quantity i.e. regression is required by many use cases. The actions based on the predictions is more important than the actual quantity predicted. Predictions of future events in the context of predictive and prescriptive analytics needs a full probability density distribution. The predictions might give some estimated value of expected fluctuations, but details will still be hidden in the full probability density distribution. In this case, advanced predictive models can be used to derive best point estimator for a given scenario.
Read more at: http://www.blue-yonder.com/blog-e/2015/07/20/predictions-as-a-probability-density-distribution/
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Future Should Be 'Green' For Designing Buildings | ACHR News
Home » Future Should Be 'Green' For Designing Buildings
Future Should Be 'Green' For Designing Buildings
BOCA RATON, FL — Douglas Mass, P.E., has heard many definitions of "sustainable green buildings." They're not all accurate.
"I know some who thought 'green' buildings meant you should make money," said Mass, president of Cosentini Associates, New York, NY. "Or, green buildings bring green [money]. But really, it's a lot about common sense."
In his presentation "Designing Green Hvac Systems" at the recent Sheet Metal and Air Conditioning Contractors' National Association (SMACNA) convention here, Mass defined what goes into a sustainable design, focusing on new hvac technologies, including a system that's hard to sell to a room full of sheet metal contractors: underfloor air distribution.
"In order to get to the point of building a green building, there must be owner, architect, engineer, and contractor integration," stressed Mass. "I can't make a green building. The architect can't make a green building You can't make a green building. It has to be a seed that is planted early on in the project. Building a true, green, sustainable building is a process."
Douglas Mass: "Building a true, green, sustainable building is a process."
A sustainable, green design must factor in the environment, energy use, materials, reuse of resources, renewables, and future flexibility of the building. There are many reasons for "going green," said Mass, including possible tax rebates, reduced resource consumption, and reliability. The result, a healthier building, is what matters.
"When you build a healthy building — when you're bringing in better fresh air, better filtered air, better lighting — people will be more productive," he said. "You will have less absenteeism and a more productive workforce in a green building."
Mass noted that the U.S. Green Building Council has produced a working definition of, and devised a rating scale for, green building design. Its Leadership to Energy Efficient Design (LEED) Program and rating scale gives certain points for a building's water efficiency, materials and resources used, indoor environmental quality, site sustainability, and energy and atmosphere.
"You are going to hear more and more about this," said Mass. "It's the best definition we have today, and it's a good, working plan."
On his list of innovative strategies for sustainable design, Mass included fuel cells, passive single-wall systems, natural ventilation, wind power, solar power, geothermal, peak shaving, cogeneration, photovoltaic, and hybrid systems.
"The evolution of the sustainable design of hvac systems involves applications of new technologies, as well as the application of conventional ideas and systems in a sustainable 'smart' manner," he said.
Thanks to today's fast-paced working environment, hvac changes need to be made in a hurry, he said. Due to flex hours, for instance, he noted that more overtime cooling is needed. He also noted that supplementary and 24-hr cooling are on the rise for technology rooms, conference rooms, and high-load areas.
Add in the human factor: the fact that employees seek more fresh air and control over their own environments. Mass said the way to meet all of these needs is via sustainable design.
"Changes in technology equal changes in load distribution," he said. "There also have to be developments of pathways to deal with load migration.
"In the end, we have to have systems that respond to modifications to the physical work environment and that provide fast, low-cost changes."
Regarding system improvements, Mass said utility costs and availability must figure into the green equation. This entails addressing increased utility costs and potential interruption of service, increased system energy efficiency, and most importantly, improved operating strategies.
"I can design and you can build the most energy-efficient system in the world, but if it is not operated properly, it doesn't do any good," said Mass. "I draw the analogy of having your foot on the brake while the other foot is on the gas pedal. That's the way some buildings operate."
When affordable, Mass said owners should look into having multiple energy sources or hybrid hvac systems. "We want to reduce our reliances on imported energy," he said. "That's part of being green."
Included in the design mix, he said, should be more attention to the commissioning process. He stressed that communication between the designer and operator should be attended to from the beginning, not at the later stages of building development.
Delivering "a fully functional and verified hvac system that complies with the design intent … calls for everyone being on the same page from the beginning, from the design process on down," he said. "This also means providing adequate training to building personnel that will allow them to properly maintain and operate these systems. This means turning over proper documentation, showing how the system was designed, installed, and intended to operate."
Mass pointed out several sustainable design case studies, including Four Times Square in the heart of Manhattan. Included in this skyscraper are PV and fuel cell systems; low-emission, CFC-free chillers; a specially designed ventilation system that provides good IAQ; ample facilities for recycling office waste; and tenant-controlled air-handling units.
He also discussed the underfloor air distribution system at Owens Corning's world headquarters in Toledo, OH. Much to the dissatisfaction of his audience, Mass described the system as "the system of the future" because it improves air movement and lets occupants regulate airflow and temperature. This, in turn, can lead to increased productivity, he said.
Added benefits include increased ventilation effectiveness, a cleaner environment, easy access for maintenance, and additional air-side free-cooling hours.
The icing on the cake is the fact that an underfloor system allows modular power cabling and modular data telecommunications distribution to go under the floor, too.
"The underfloor system actually takes less energy and lowers maintenance costs," said Mass. "They [Owens Corning] have a very, very flexible system. They don't have to tear down walls or move ductwork. They don't have to wait months to change. All they have to do is move some grilles and partitions."
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Public Citizen | Auto Safety Group | Auto Safety - Firestone Tire Defect and Ford Explorer Rollovers: Testimony of Public Citizen's President Joan Claybrook to the Transportation Subcommittee of Appropriations
Statement of Joan Claybrook
On Firestone Tire Defect and Ford Explorer Rollovers
Before the Transportation Subcommittee
I am pleased to accept your invitation to testify today on the Firestone tire defect that has killed at least 88 and injured 250 people, most of them in Ford Explorers. I am President of Public Citizen, a national public interest organization founded by Ralph Nader in 1971 with 150,000 members nationwide. I served as Administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration from 1977 to 1981. This agency is responsible for administering the recall of the Firestone tires. The Firestone 500 recall occurred when I was Administrator.
Much has been written in the past month about the lethal combination of Ford Explorers and Firestone tires. This is a design defect exacerbated by the fact that Ford required a low inflation pressure because of rollover problems with these vehicles. Firestone tires inflated at 26 psi overheat with highway use, causing the tread to separate and the SUVs to crash, not infrequently rolling over and causing catastrophic and fatal injuries. This tragedy is teaching the public as well as policymakers a number of lessons. I would like to comment on five issues and make recommendations for more effective enforcement of the nation s motor vehicle safety defect laws.
1. Ford and Firestone covered up safety problems with the tire/SUV combination for a decade. Coverups will continue without corrective action by NHTSA.
The Ford Explorer was first offered for sale in March 1990. Ford internal documents show the company engineers recommended changes to the vehicle design after it rolled over in company tests prior to introduction, but other than a few minor changes, the suspension and track width were not changed. Instead, Ford, which sets the specifications for the manufacture of its tires, decided to remove air from the tires, lowering the recommended psi to 26. The Firestone-recommended psi molded into the tire for maximum load is 35 psi.
Within a year of introduction, lawsuits against Ford and Firestone were filed for tire failures that resulted in crashes and rollovers. At least five cases were filed by 1993, and many others followed in the early 1990s. Almost all were settled, and settled with gag orders prohibiting the attorneys and the families from disclosing information about the cases or their documentation to the public or DOT. When lawsuits are filed against a company about a safety defect, the company organizes an internal investigation to assemble information and analysis about the allegations. Top company officials are kept informed about all lawsuits against the company, particularly when they accumulate concerning one problem. There is no question the companies knew they had a problem. But they kept it secret.
In 1996, several state agencies in Arizona began having major problems with Firestone tires on Explorers. According to news reports, various agencies demanded new tires, and Firestone conducted an investigation of the complaints, tested the tires and asserted that the tires had been abused or under-inflated.
In 1998, Ford and Firestone were in discussions about tire failures with Middle Eastern, Asian and South American countries. Tires were tested and analyzed. Ford eventually decided to conduct its own recall without Firestone and replace the tires in the various countries in 1999 and 2000. It also instructed Firestone to add a nylon ply to the tires it manufactured in Venezuela for additional strength and it made suspension changes to the Explorer. Ford did not specify adding the nylon ply for U.S.-made Firestone tires nor did it change the Explorer suspension at this time. In May, a top Ford official in Venezuela was quoted in the press as saying the company was replacing the tires because in Venezuela "the highways allow drivers to travel at high speeds for a sustained period of time, leading to the loosening of the rolling surface of the tire, its consequent blowout and the accident."
Last week, the Venezuelan safety regulatory agency, Indecu, concluded after an investigation that Firestone and Ford "met to plan ways out of a situation that was affecting their commercial interests, at the price of causing damage, destruction and death," and is recommending possible criminal enforcement for involuntary manslaughter. Neither Ford nor Firestone informed the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration of this recall, euphemistically labeled a "No Charge Service Program Award Notification."
Incidentally, there are a number of parallels between this recall in 2000 and the 1978 recall of the Firestone 500. Most particularly, there was a documented coverup by Firestone of the 500 defect, spurred by the lack of a Firestone replacement tire. When the coverup was disclosed, the top management of the company was replaced as Firestone was severely damaged in reputation and economically. But a key difference is that the Firestone 500 was used on passenger cars, which rarely rolled over with tire failure. NHTSA documented 41 deaths with the 500, a recall, involving seven million tires.
Once again, when confronted with accusations about the performance of the tire, Firestone has misleadingly claimed owner abuse (i.e. under-inflation, rough use or improper repairs).
2. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration needs additional legislative authority to assure that manufacturers obey the law, report safety defects and recall unsafe products.
To prevent coverups of safety defects in the future, the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act should be amended. In March 2000 the agency sent legislation to the Congress which would make some improvements, but additional authority is needed. The Congress should:
a. Increase civil penalties for failure to recall a defective vehicle or part or withholding information from the agency. Now the maximum penalty is $925,000, hardly a deterrent for multinational corporations. The penalty for each violation should be increased from $1,000 to $10,000 (as at the Environmental Protection Agency); the violation for withholding documents should be per day rather than per document as it is now (no matter how long it is withheld). There should be no maximum penalty.
b. As in the Food and Drug Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency laws, there should be criminal penalties for knowing and willful refusal to recall a defective vehicle or part or for withholding information that results in deaths and injuries. Chairman John Moss, after reviewing the Firestone 500 debacle, recommended criminal penalties be added to the NHTSA statute.
c. As recommended by NHTSA s proposed bill, a company should be required by law to test its products before self-certifying for compliance with the agency s standards. Such testing is not now required by law.
d. The statute of limitations for NHTSA to mandate a recall is now eight years for vehicles and three years for tires from the date of manufacture. It should be extended, as the agency recommends, to 10 years for vehicles and five years for tires.
e. There is disagreement about whether the current law requiring manufacturers to send NHTSA copies of all notices sent to dealers and owners about a defect is applicable in this case. Ford sent notices to foreign dealers about a defect in a product made and sold in the U.S. and also sold abroad. Does the fact that the notice was sent to foreign dealers negate Ford s responsibility to notify NHTSA? I don t think so, but certainly the law should be clarified that this is a company s responsibility in this age of globalization.
f. NHTSA s budget needs to be larger, particularly for enforcement. Ninety-four percent of transportation deaths occur on the highway, yet NHTSA has only a tiny percentage of the Transportation budget. Although it has been increased in recent years, and I thank this Subcommittee for that, it is still 30 percent below, in real dollars, what it was when I left the agency at the beginning of 1981. Its enforcement budget is about one-half of the 1980 budget. It has fewer than 20 engineer/investigators working on vehicle safety defects for the entire country.
3. The Firestone/Ford recall should be expanded to cover all ATX, ATX II and Wilderness tires to protect the public from this catastrophic defect, and all data and information should be made public to restore public trust.
Much of the data on which Ford based its analysis of Firestone claims data is still not public and subject to outside scrutiny (such as how many tires were made at each plant and when -- an important factor since the defect appears to emerge after two to four years of use), and it is based on information through April 2000. None of the recent information that has been pouring into the companies and NHTSA as the public is getting informed about the problem is included. It also covers only claims data -- claims for compensation for injury or property damage. It does not cover warranty claims or adjustment data for tire failures. It also does not cover any information known to Ford (although there will be duplication between Ford and Firestone data). It also does not cover new information now known by NHTSA about claims.
NHTSA last week analyzed data (complaints, lawsuits, injuries, including information submitted to date from Ford and Firestone) and determined that the recall should be enlarged to cover another 1.4 million tires. NHTSA said it is still investigating to determine if the recall should be enlarged further. It issued a consumer advisory because Firestone refused to enlarge the recall, an indication of Firestone s attitude toward a safety defect that gives the consumer no warning and can result in death and severe injury when the vehicle is operated normally. This same attitude was evident in Firestone s offer made on August l6 in public newspaper ads that it would reimburse owners who bought other tires, but the offer ended on August l6. Had it not been for a temporary restraining order issued by a federal judge in Louisville preventing the company from discontinuing the one-day offer, Firestone might have faced a massive consumer revolt, picket lines, more consumer lawsuits and more disputes with its largest customer, Ford Motor Company, which is pressing to get the tires replaced quickly with tires from other manufacturers as well as Firestone.
There is every indication that this problem is a design defect that affects all the tires produced. In the Firestone 500 case, the company at first asserted that only 400,000 tires were defective, those produced in the Decatur plant. But during NHTSA s investigation, as more data was available and company documents were secured and analyzed, we found that the tread separation on the 500 was a design performance defect. The company knew about it for at least three years and never informed NHTSA, and it was at the same time making running changes on the production line to correct the problem in new tires.
There are other indications that the companies should expand the recall. An analysis released last Friday of about 90 lawsuits or claims about to be filed showed that 37 percent covered non-recalled tires. In several of the foreign recalls, l6-inch tires were included (but are not recalled in the U.S.).
There are a number of documents and data that are still secret, either in submissions by the companies to NHTSA or gag orders in lawsuits that should be made public. This may be painful for the companies, but it is essential given the broad public debate about this defect and the need for the companies to regain public trust. This information will probably leak out over time anyway, so it makes sense to release it now.
4. NHTSA failed to discover this defect because it lacks a proactive program to discover safety defects.
a. NHTSA was caught flatfooted because it rarely pushes companies to obey the law. The Department allowed GM to resist recalling its 5 million defectively designed pickup trucks with side-saddle gas tanks that explode in side-impact crashes, and Ford to resist recalling its vehicles equipped with ignition modules that frequently failed, causing vehicles to stall. It allowed Chrysler to label its correction of its minivans with defective rear-door latches that pop open in rear crashes, (throwing occupants outside), a "service campaign" and not a safety recall. And it rarely imposes penalties when it learns companies have slithered around its request to produce documents.
The auto manufacturers have rolled the dice in this coverup and usually win. This time they are the losers as the media spotlight forces the story of the sorry state of manufacturer compliance with the law and safety defect enforcement into the public consciousness.
b. NHTSA also has no early warning system in place and has not been proactive in using sources of information that are on the pulse-beat of current information about vehicle performance. They can and should routinely get information from: auto repair facilities; fleet owners, including national, state and local fleets; lawyers representing deceased and injured family members who find out about defects through discovery and cross examination of manufacturers; insurance company data; and also from the companies themselves.
In this case, State Farm Insurance Co., the nation s largest insurer, sent an E-mail and called NHTSA in 1998 about 21 cases of Firestone tire tread separations, but the agency ignored it. Another 30 cases were sent in 1999, and the agency ignored them as well. How could this happen? How often does the agency check complaints dutifully filed by consumers through its hotline and in letters to spot trends? They are all on a computer list by make, model, and alleged defect. Even if this happens routinely, it s not enough -- as this case illustrates, because most consumers don t bother contacting government agencies.
The agency should require, as does EPA, that a company notify the agency if it gets 25 complaints about the same alleged defect, and require, as does CPSC, that the company notify the agency if three or more lawsuits alleging the same safety defect are filed.
The agency has also used a highly inappropriate system for evaluating whether a safety defect exists, looking at statistical data which are rarely adequate. If it cannot establish a statistical basis, the agency does not find a defect. The courts have held in a number of cases that if a safety element of the vehicle fails and can kill or injure, there is a failure of safety performance sufficient to find a defect, and there is no need to find dead bodies on the highway first.
In short, NHTSA has not been the tough cop on the regulatory beat. When it is, the companies are more safety-conscious, the public is protected, and in the end it is less work for all parties. The Firestone/Ford case shows what happens when safety is not Job 1 in the companies or in the government.
5. Essential safety standards are severely out of date, were scrapped or delayed in the Reagan years, or are prohibited by law because of industry lobbying.
a. The tire safety standard is 32 years old and not fully effective for testing radial tires. Both Ford and GM have recently stated they favor an improved standard. The current standard tests for strength, endurance and how well the tire remains on the rim. Radial tires last much longer than bias ply tires and should be subjected to a tougher standard.
b. The Uniform Tire Quality Grading standard applies only to car tires, not truck/SUV tires. It is a consumer information requirement rating tread wear, traction and heat resistance with the rating molded into the tire. It should be expanded to cover truck/SUV tires.
c. The roof crush standard is 30 years old. It is a static standard requiring weight to be placed on the roof of the vehicle (applied to SUVs beginning in model year 1994) equal to 1.5 times the maximum unloaded weight of the vehicle. In many of the Ford Explorer/Firestone rollover cases, the roof crushes into the vehicle, severely enhancing the likelihood of injury and death. A dynamic rollover crash worthiness standard should be issued addressing roof crush, door lock and hinges, side glazing materials and head protection. Crash protection in rollovers must include effective safety belts with pretensioners.
d. The first petition to NHTSA for a rollover prevention standard was filed by Representative Timothy Wirth 15 years ago. Others followed. In 1991 the Congress required NHTSA to conduct a rollover prevention rulemaking. The agency made an initial effort at developing a safety standard, but then dropped it and instead proposed a consumer information requirement. The auto industry then got the Appropriations Committee to prohibit issuance of a consumer information rule until after a study by the National Academy of Sciences about the usefulness and presentation of consumer information. Finally in May 2000 the agency proposed to conduct New Car Assessment tests for rollover based on a static measurement of track width and center of gravity height, but once again the manufacturers objected and the Appropriations Committee has placed a requirement for yet another study by the NAS before it could be issued. This bill is now in conference.
Our coalition of consumer and health groups and insurers favors dropping the study and letting NHTSA issue the consumer information test. A 1998 Harris poll conducted for Advocates For Highway and Auto Safety show 62 percent of thepublic wants such information. But we also want a rollover prevention standard. It is long overdue. About 9,500 highway deaths annually occur in rollover crashes -- almost 25 percent of all highway deaths. This problem must be addressed, particularly with the advent of SUVs with their susceptibility to rollover.
e. The agency should issue a rule for a tire inflation indicator on the dashboard, as I proposed 22 years ago. It was eliminated by the Reagan administration. The companies complain that tires are not properly inflated but then lobby to undercut consumers ability to properly maintain their tires with accurate information.
f. The tire manufacturing information now molded into the blackwall of the tire should be placed on the whitewall or outside of the tire so a consumer doesn t have to crawl under the car to find it. This was part of my rulemaking plan more than 20 years ago, but it was never issued after I left.
g. The tire reserve load consumer information requirement eliminated in the Reagan years should be reestablished to inform consumers of the maximum rated load capacity of the vehicle, so they know when they should inflate their tires for maximum load carrying.
h. The agency should be alert in this case to whether its requirement for record retention of only five years should be extended, since the critical evidence in this case extends over a decade.
i. Three elements of legislation are needed that are relevant to this case:
First, the 1982 legislation eliminating the responsibility of independent tire dealers to report the names and addresses of tire purchasers to the manufacturer for notification in the event of a recall should be changed back to requiring such recordkeeping as during the period from 1970 until 1982. Independent dealers with computers today can readily supply such names to the manufacturer. The current law only requires the independent dealer to give the consumer a card to mail themselves. A 1986 NHTSA report showed only 11 percent responded. Thus, in this case, most buyers from independent dealers will not be notified by mail.
Second, the current law requires tire owners to return the tire within 60 days of a recall notification (which, I presume means if a manufacturer has no contact information, a consumer would have to rely on news reports) or 60 days after tire availability. Car owners in recalls don t have this limitation. It is confusing enough to get tires replaced without this added complexity. It should be eliminated.
Third, the current prohibition in the law on a NHTSA rule requiring a continuous buzzer to alert occupants to buckle up should be eliminated. Among car companies, only Ford, I believe, now has a continuous buzzer. The current law only permits NHTSA to require a four to eight second buzzer. Belt use is essential in rollovers. It should be encouraged in every way, including when the vehicle is in use.
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Marxism is a pseudoscientific field of social studies that began as a revolutionary movement developed by the German scholar and activist Karl Marx and his collaborator Friedrich Engels. Marx's approach is indicated by the opening line of the Communist Manifesto (1848): "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles." Marx believed that capitalism, like previous socioeconomic systems, would produce internal tensions which would lead to its destruction. Just as capitalism replaced feudalism, capitalism itself will be displaced by communism, a classless society which would emerge after a transitional period in which the state would be nothing else but the revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat. Marxists are said to await "the revolution" with a religious fervor reminiscent of Christians awaiting the Rapture.
1 Current Marxist states
6 Quotes on Marxism
6.1 Quotes from Karl Marx
6.2 Quotes from National Socialist's Heinrich Himmler
6.3 Quotes from Lenin
6.4 Quotes from Stalin
6.5 Quotes from Leon Trotsky
6.6 Quotes from Mao
6.7 Quotes on Kim Il-sung
6.8 Quotes from Pol Pot
6.9 Related Quotes from Others
Lenin, as the head of the state, helped to smash workers' popular, control over those instruments and to substitute for it control by the managers. And, of course, the managers of individual plants became subordinate to the big managers, to the boards and bureaus directing entire sectors of industry and governing industry as a whole. The managers under the new state included many who had been managers under the old "capitalist rule". Lenin and Trotsky poured scorn on "infantile leftists" [2] who were against making use of the "services" of the "bourgeois specialists.". Favorable terms were given to foreign "bourgeois specialists" who were willing to come to work under the new regime.[3]
Cultural Marxism is a branch of Marxist ideology formulated by the Frankfurt School, which had its origins the early part of the twentieth century. Cultural Marxism comprises much of the foundation of political correctness. It emerged as a response of European Marxist intellectuals disillusioned by the early political failures of conventional economic Marxist ideology.[4] While Marx's Communist Manifesto focused on the alleged class struggle between bourgeois (owners of the means of production) and proletariat (workers), Marx did address culture, which he intimated would change after his economic vision was implemented. Patrick Buchanan argues that Cultural Marxism succeeded where Marx failed.[5]
Following the writings of Marx and Engles, along with other Marxists, Marxism stands in opposition to the institution of marriage.[7]
"It matters not if 90% of the Russian people perish so long as 10% bring about a world revolution."[8]
Kim Il-sung took the communist cult of personality to a new level.[9] "In Korea, the Americans have far exceed the Hitlerites!"—by Kim Il-sung[10]
"Socialists ignore the side of man that is of the spirit. They can provide shelter, fill your belly with bacon and beans, treat you when you are ill, all the things that are guaranteed to a prisoner or a slave. They don't understand that we dream - yes, even of some time owning a yacht."[11] -- President Ronald Reagan
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“Things were happening. I was moving things,” says Jenny. “I would go up to a drawer to open a drawer and before my hand would even touch it, the drawer would go ‘shhew’ and open."
Jenny Weaver always thought dabbling in witchcraft was harmless fun, until she discovered something much more sinister.
“Lights would bust and break when we would start talking about the demonic realm, glass fall all over us,” says Jenny.
Jenny grew up on Florida’s gulf coast with seven siblings. Her home was dominated by abusive parents, who handed out punishment for the slightest offense. It wasn’t much better at their church that didn’t teach about a loving father, but a vengeful, angry God ready to condemn sinners to hell.
“I was always thinking God’s disappointed in me. God’s upset,” says Jenny. “So, I was really filled with shame and condemnation.”
Then her father walked out, leaving 13-year-old Jenny, her siblings, and their mom destitute.
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Feeling powerless and unloved, Jenny started cutting and smoking pot. Then she saw a movie about teen witches that showed her a way to take charge of her life. Soon, she was pouring over books about witchcraft, Wicca, and the occult, and trying spells with her friends.
“Wiccan religion is, ‘Do what you want, but do no one any harm.’” says Jenny. “It’s kind of like, ‘Oh, it’s the good witch.’ I felt like I had power,” says Jenny. “And, so, I’m looking at this like, ‘Oh, this is the most amazing thing ever.’”
But that power and control were only an illusion because the turmoil in Jenny’s home, and within herself, remained. At 17, after a fight with her mom, Jenny ran away and dropped out of school. Bouncing between friends’ homes and drug houses over the coming years, she got into harder drugs, sometimes blacking out for days.
“And I was so broken and so hurting all the time, that I engaged in just the craziest things you could imagine, and just gave my—gave myself away to whoever, whenever, whatever,” says Jenny. “It didn’t matter.”
Then she moved in with a girl who came from a family of witches. Her new friend showed her the things she thought were harmless and fun opened the door to a dark, sinister, and very frightening world Jenny only thought existed in books and movies.
“You would feel demon spirits literally walking by you like a human being was walking by you,” says Jenny. “Touching you. Scraping the wall. It went from, ‘Oh, this is gonna be really fun,’” says Jenny, “into, ‘I’m gonna choke you out until you die. I’m gonna take your life.’ All the time. Constantly tormented.”
Terrified, she stopped practicing witchcraft, but the demon of addiction would continue to haunt and torment her for years to come.
“I would just say, ‘If I just die now, I just die now.’” says Jenny. “And-and I would just lay there and go, ‘I-I just hope I just die. I hope these drugs—they—these are the ones that just take me out this time.’”
At 26, she was living with her boyfriend, Stephen, and hopelessly addicted to meth. Then she got pregnant. One day, seeing no hope for her or her baby’s future...
“I just fell on my knees and I screamed out as loud as I possibly could, ‘God, help me!!!’” says Jenny. “And it was like the loudest, longest scream. I remember just like groaning, ‘Ohhhh, please.’ And I didn’t see lightning, I didn’t see any of that, but I felt a peace,” says Jenny. “And that was the first time I felt the Lord saying to me in my heart, my heart, ‘I’m gonna help you. I’m gonna help you.’”
Jenny says that help came in an unexpected way: two days later she was arrested, sent to jail, and ordered to complete a drug treatment program. There, she began to hear about a different God, a heavenly father who was loving, merciful, and ready to forgive through his son, Jesus Christ. One night, Jenny whispered a prayer.
“I just cried, and I said, ‘God, I-I just want You to help me.’” cries Jenny. “I really want to love people, but there was such a hardness. And I just asked the Lord to take it. And I said, ‘God, I’m just gonna give You my life today,’” says Jenny. “And I surrendered to the Lord.”
“And I knew that everything that I had gone through, everything that I had done, had been forgiven,” says Jenny. “And when-when Jesus did that for me, it changed everything. Everybody that threw me away, He-he came, and He healed that.”
The day of her release, Jenny gave birth to a healthy baby girl, Cameron. Later, Stephen also got clean and accepted Christ, and the couple married in 2013. But, a part of Jenny’s past wasn’t letting go, and for a few years she still sensed a dark presence in her life. Then at a deliverance service at church, a woman led her in prayer to renounce witchcraft.
“I would say, ‘I renounce,’ and if I would try to say it at first, it was like ‘Wwww,’ and they wouldn’t let me,” says Jenny. “It was like my mouth was—I couldn’t even get the words, and they would say, ‘Rrrr, we’re not—we're not leaving, no.’ And they would curse and spit,” says Jenny. “It was very, very, very crazy.”
Finally...
“I knew there was a release,” says Jenny. “I could tell, I could feel it. I knew, I was like, ‘Okay, I’m free. They’re gone. They’re gone.’ And I was just, ‘Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus,’” says Jenny.
The past far behind her, Jenny went on to develop a close relationship with her mom. She was also able to reconcile with her dad a few months before he passed away. Today, Jenny is a homeschool mom, entrepreneur, and worship leader, sharing her music and her passion for the Lord.
“Jesus came running after me,” says Jenny. “When I cursed at Him, when I literally said the worst kind of words you can imagine at God, and the whole time Him calling my name saying, ‘No, she’s my daughter. I’m coming after her.’”
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For at just the right time Christ will be revealed from heaven by the blessed and only almighty God, the King of all kings and Lord of all lords.
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Bhi Bhiman Interview: 'Peace of Mind' Album and Podcast | Billboard – Billboard
Bhi Bhiman doesn't shy away from difficult topics in his music, and with Peace of Mind, he's created an outlet for his new songs -- and for the discussions they deserve.
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Bhi Bhiman doesn't shy away from difficult topics in his music. And with his new album, he's putting a twist on a familiar medium to encourage the discussions his subject matter deserves.
The singer-songwriter chose to release his latest body of work, Peace of Mind, not as a traditional album, but through a podcast of the same name on the Critical Frequency podcasting network. He'll present the music through the nine episodes that dissect his musical choices while also walking through the album's inspirations with a commendable roster of guests. Snippets and stems of the song will filter through conversations with author Dave Eggers; Dale Ho, director of the ACLU's voting project; commentator, author and producer Reza Aslan; and others as they unpack the political, cultural and sociological themes that shape Bhiman's work.
The music itself is "Pink Floyd meets Curtis Mayfield" as Bhiman describes it, a heady breed of protest psych-rock that follows the DIY spirit of Tame Impala and the War on Drugs. "They're a huge influence, not only in their music, but how they create and how they do it by themselves, and it's largely how I did this album," he explains.
Below, Bhiman tells Billboard about the inspirations for the project, how it's changed his listening habits and what other musicians can learn from his experiment. New episodes of Peace of Mind hit every Friday on SoundCloud, Apple Podcasts and other streaming platforms.
The initial idea came from my wife [Katie Ross], who's also my manager. She's a huge podcast fan and actually involved in the podcast business already with a lot of true crime podcasts. I was a slower adopter. She believed in the idea before I believed in the idea. I didn't have the full vision of it. The album was done a year ago. I wrote the album before; it's not like I made the podcast and am writing songs just to fit the thing. I wrote the songs first and foremost, and they all had to do with a political theme. It's something I've always written about. I've always had politics or social commentary in my music. This is super natural to me and right in my wheelhouse. Each song has these different themes — immigration, voter suppression, Russia, etc. Because of the popularity and the strength of political podcasts and society and culture podcasts, it kind of fits in there somewhere. It's fun to experiment. It's fun to see where it's going.
Part of it was out of not ever having been really approached seriously by a label. I've done some pretty big things: I've played Carnegie Hall, been on Jools Holland on the BBC, toured with Chris Cornell and done lots of different things. I haven't been approached seriously by a record label. If I didn't think I was any good I would've given up a long time ago, but I think I have something to offer, a perspective to offer in the same way Hasan Minhaj has a perspective to offer in comedy, or David Chang — he's a chef and he's as American as apple pie. You come to learn how American they are because they've explained it to you. That's been super appealing to me: When I've felt misunderstood, I've gotten lots of looks and stuff like that, but there's something where I'm not passing an American authenticity test sometimes in people's eyes.
This was a way for me to be like, "I'm from St. Louis, Missouri, my name is Bhi Bhiman, this is how you say it" — that was super appealing, right there, to me — and I could do what I want because the podcast landscape is the wild west right now. It's brand new. It's super exciting. It's addictive. It's a way to explain myself very clearly and let people know who I am without assuming I'm coming from maybe an angry place, let's say. I've been editing these episodes, and there's definitely a feel to them: the music is coming in, the stems are serving as sound design and musical beds for the interviews. There's an honesty where I'm trying to find something and show people something in the way Anthony Bourdain kind of did — totally different medium, but I'm coming from the same place. But I'm looking at America, specifically.
Why do you think that is, that people are gravitating toward podcasts in this moment — and why they'd be open to discovering new music this way?
How did this approach — releasing these songs in a podcast format — change the way you consume, write or listen to music?
The podcast has been owning my life recently, so I haven't been writing a lot of music, but it's changed the way I hear things. There's a meaningfulness: You know people will come away with something here, because some of these interviews are very moving. By end of the series, the album is released — all nine episodes — [and] it'll be a pretty far-ranging thing. We'll talk about all of these different problems going on in America. The podcast opportunity was a very good one. It made me listen a lot more intently.
It sounds like I know exactly what I'm talking about when I'm writing these songs — and I know quite a lot! — but with each of these interviews, I learn so much. I was the dumbest person in the room every single time. I'm talking to people like Dale Ho, the ACLU Voter Rights Project senior member, he's fighting for these gerrymandering and voter suppression cases in the highest levels of courts — and I'm just sitting back and listening and realizing [that] this has certainly expanded my world to a great extent. These were hour-and-a-half conversations with people I don't get to have necessarily in my every day. I learned a ton.
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An art buyer friend who is equally as enthralled with orchids as I am, recommended that I visit Orchids by Hausermann in Villa Park, IL. Strolling through greenhouse after greenhouse filled with every shape, color and pattern you can imagine, absolutely took my breath away! All I could think of was, "how fun would it be to surround yourself with this kind of beauty every day?" The inspiration for this piece came from an orchid filled with buds. It graces my studio and should prove to give me countless opportunities for growth both with the orchid, and in my art.
Always trying to push the medium, I experimented with different techniques. In this case, I added both black (on the left) and dark purple acrylic paint (on the right) in the background by using an etching tool creating strokes within the wet paint. There is interest on every level, from the details within each flower to the texture of the background.
With Christmas less than a month away, it’s safe to say it’s pretty close now. With only a few weeks to go it’s time to start fully preparing for the big day, organising my Christmas shopping, and have a few Christmas parties along the way. I’m always a pretty last minute person when it comes to Christmas gifts, even now it’s the end of November and I’ve not bought a single gift, oops.
I don’t know what it is about Christmas shopping, but it makes me panic. When buying gifts for everyone I always feel like it has to be extra special. If you go into any shop around Christmas time you’ll find hundreds of gift sets, so there’s no shortage of ideas. Something I like to do is to is to make my own gifts for everyone. It started one year when I was unemployed as a way to save money on gifts, but then I found that everyone really enjoyed my homemade presents so I’ve started to create more. The only down side to creating homemade gifts, is you have to start preparing them quite far in advance. I’ve only made a few so far, so I need to get a move on!
Of course there’s not just Christmas gifts to think of at this time of year, but Christmas parties! I’ve got most of my Friday and Saturday nights booked up in December for Christmas parties and get togethers with my friends. Instead of going out for dinners and having big parties, my friends and I like having little get togethers over dinner and mulled wine while we exchange gifts.
When I have my friends over to mine I always make sure my flat is looking super pretty and festive. As well as decking the (halls) whole place out in tinsel and fairy lights, I find a huge bunch of flowers can make the place look really cosy and warm, making any home look very festive.
Do you have anything you like to use or make to prepare for Christmas? What’s your favourite thing about gifts and parties?
Painter in oil of portraits and landscapes. Born in London, he was educated at Cambridge University, later living and studying art in Paris. Whistler was an early influence. Kelly was an enthusiastic traveler, visiting among other countries Spain, America, South Africa and Burma, where he painted some of his most characteristic and charming figure studies. He became known as a sound academic painter of attractive children and elegant women. His sitters included Somerset Maugham, whom he painted several times, and he undertook numerous state portraits. Kelly is represented in many public collections, including the Tate Gallery, which holds seven works. He had retrospective exhibitions at the Leicester Galleries in 1950 and in 1957 at the RA. He was elected RA in 1930, was the Academy's keeper 1943-45 and President, 1949-54. Kelly held a number of official positions, such as his membership of the Royal Fine Arts Commission, 1938-43, and was knighted in 1945. Between 1909 and 1970 Kelly exhibited over 300 works at the RA. During his lifetime his work became well known through popular prints. Since his death however - and in spite of his technical brilliance and colourful, wide-ranging subject matter - his reputation has stagnated. The artist John Napper worked as his assistant.
William Rothenstein was born into a Jewish family in Bradford, West Yorkshire and studied at the Slade School of Art (his teachers included Alphonse Legros) and in Paris, where he met and was encouraged by James McNeill Whistler and Edgar Degas. He was a friend of caricaturist and parodist Max Beerbohm. Rothenstein became known for his portrait drawings of famous individuals and was an official war artist in both World War I and World War II. He was a member of the International Society of Sculptors, Painters & Gravers.
Rothenstein maintained a lifelong fascination for Indian sculpture and painting, and in 1910 set out on a seminal tour of the Subcontinent's major artistic and religious sites. This began with a visit to the ancient Buddhist caves of Ajanta, where he observed Lady Christiana Herringham and Nandalal Bose making watercolor copies of the ancient frescoes; and ended with a stay in Calcutta, where he witnessed the attempts of Abanindranath Tagore to revive the techniques and aesthetics of traditional Indian painting.
Rothenstein was Principal of the Royal College of Art from 1920 to 1935, where he encouraged figures including Jacob Epstein, U Ba Nyan, Henry Moore and Paul Nash. He wrote several books, including English Portraits (1898) and the autobiographical volumes, Men and Memories. He was knighted in 1931.
William Rothenstein was the father of art historian Sir John Rothenstein, who was the director of the Tate Gallery from 1938 to 1964, and the highly respected British printmaker Michael Rothenstein, whose divorce from Duffy Ayers caused a major controversy in British society.
"Misery Trophies" is the second single from the new album, A Gift for the Obsessed, by THE ABSENCE (out 3.23.18) on M-Theory Audio.
Order CD and (limited colored) Vinyl now at www.m-theoryaudio.com/store or www.theabsenceofficial.bandcamp.com
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How Loyalty Programmes aid customer retention | Williams Commerce How Loyalty Programmes aid customer retention | Williams Commerce
Loyalty programmes – The not-so-secret weapon behind building brand loyalty and customer retention
Home How Loyalty programs aid Customer Retention
Loyalty programmes are great for businesses looking to improve their retention strategy and build loyalty from within the existing customer database. There's also a chance to acquire new business.
But with a variety of approaches and options out there, it can be tough finding the right path to go down when it comes to choosing the right loyalty programme model for your business.
Our latest blog answers some of the major questions we hear about loyalty programmes, and offers some ways your brand can embrace their potential.
Why do people like loyalty programmes?
Of the reasons given for subscribing to a loyalty programme, discounts and offers stand out as a big draw according to YouGov. Programmes that offer rewards, free products or services, and prize draws were also highlighted as key reasons.
One peculiarity of the loyalty programme world is that often subscribers want a reward from a partner brand, rather than the brand they sign up with.
So for example, businesses like banks, supermarkets or petrol stations are seeing greater success from loyalty programmes once they partner with another brand to deliver a more appealing set of benefits to the end customer.
It's worth noting though that loyalty programme subscribers are also more likely to spend with that brand and recommend that brand to friends and family according to YouGov.
Who do loyalty programmes appeal to?
- 77% of UK adults are subscribed to at least one loyalty programmes
- 72% think loyalty programmes are a great way for businesses and brands to reward loyal customers
- 59% of UK adults think all brands should offer a loyalty programme
Other findings from YouGov include that loyalty programmes appeal more to older people. For example, 83% of people over the age of 55 are part of a loyalty programme, compared to 61% of 18-24 year olds.
What sectors are loyalty programmes working in?
Supermarkets are seeing big traction in the loyalty programme space, with YouGov's research finding that 65% of people who are subscribed to a loyalty programme have done so with a supermarket.
Retail is another strong area, with loyalty programmes in this sector proving particularly effective at appealing to younger customers. This is likely due to digital disruptors such as Amazon Prime, as well as subscription models.
What types of loyalty programme are there?
There are a few options available. An obvious starting point is a basic rewards programme – i.e. spend X amount and get Y as a reward.
There are also brands that look to run 'refer a friend' programmes, where customers are rewarded for bringing more potential business the way of the brand.
VIP programmes are another strong selection. These are often set up in a tiered structure, whereby brands offer customers the chance to build towards new levels of rewards and move into new tiers based on their loyalty levels. This is a great way of building community and needn't necessarily focus exclusively on discounts. The VIP model can easily centre around early access to new products, or free shipping for example.
What loyalty programme model is right for me?
Naturally every business is different, but we've seen brands in verticals such as fashion and health and beauty really benefit from loyalty programmes.
For each brand considering implementing a loyalty programme as one of their marketing strategies, a few key questions should be answered to determine the best type of loyalty programme to choose:
Do you need more support on acquisition or retention, or a mix of both?
Can you afford to reward customers with a variety of perks, including creating a more complex structure of discounts and providing added value?
How big is your current customer database?
Are you a business that relies heavily on repeat purchases (or is this something you want to drive more of)?
Answering these questions will help you choose the right type of loyalty programme – whether that centres around rewards, VIP tiers or refer a friend.
The next step is defining the mechanics behind the programme to ensure that they make sense commercially. That means finding the best platform to implement the programme via.
The final, and most important step for ensuring the success of your loyalty programme once it's live, is to promote, promote, promote.
You need to ensure that your audience is aware of the new rewards they can benefit from by sharing the news via different marketing channels, such as social media or email.
It's also a good idea to have an engaging, dedicated landing page on your website. This provides a space that can encourage customers to sign up and you can explain the way in which the programme works and why they should join it in the first place.
How can you implement a loyalty programme for your brand?
There's a host of excellent loyalty platforms out there, many of which are directly linked to leading ecommerce platforms and can be pretty easy to implement if your site runs on one of these.
For example, Magento have their own version of rewards and refer a friend schemes, while there is also the Amasty and Mirasvit loyalty programme modules available.
Shopify also works with the Smile rewards and loyalty tool, while for WordPress you can consider Gratisfaction if your store runs on WooCommerce.
However, we're big fans of what Swell brings to the table. They're a great choice for VIP programmes, as well as more basic options for loyalty programmes.
Swell customers include skincare and beauty retailer SoKo Glam, who run a VIP programme that has brought about 20% higher customer engagement from those involved. Essential oil retailer Edens Garden has seen 72% increase in total revenue from repeat customers so far this year, while Kopari Beauty ran the Kopari Clique VIP programme and saw a 20.8 increase in return on investment in 2018. This all shows the extent to which loyalty programmes can enhance the overall customer experience.
Williams Commerce is a partner with Yotpo, the company that acquired Swell in August 2018. That means we're in a great position to help you embrace the world of loyalty programmes and engage with your existing customers on a whole new level.
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I love the tv show How to Get Away with Murder. I use RedRum for the show instead of that long title.
I watched the season finale this weekend and it was good until the end. I may have to quit watching the show if it gets even stupider. They messed up their own timeline. The end suggests that Annalise’s son is alive. Well in past episodes Frank didn’t know the accident he caused hurt the baby until he saw Sam in the hospital. Then later on Annalise finds out Frank caused the accident and he left. If Frank knew about her son, why didn’t he tell her? In the season finale, Frank acted like he wasn’t surprised. Plus where had been all this time and who told him?
A better storyline would be that Wes faked his death. Earlier they were concerned because his body went missing for awhile.
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Mason's Nose | Son of Stuck Funky | Page 2
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Today's strip about Free Comic Book Day finally being over happens on the actual Free Comic Book Day. Makes sense…
What is DSH all consternated about? Money? Bankruptcy? As best I can tell, the only thing he paid for in this whole Free Comic Book Eon Day was transportation and insurance on Holtron. All indications are that Pete, Durwood, and Flash showed up as a favor. Mason definitely showed up as a favor. I'm pretty sure Les and "Batton" just showed up uninvited (Really, who would invite them anywhere?). Heck, based on what we saw, DSH didn't even give out any free comic books. If buying pizza for eight puts Komix Korner into bankruptcy then it was going into bankruptcy within the month anyways and/or he never should have spent money on Holtron (though both crane rentals and multi-million dollar umbrella insurance policies can run as low as a few hundred dollars).
Maybe he was referring to how long this Free Comic Book Day thing has been going on, though I would argue we are closer to chapter 78 than 11.
Tagged as badly taped signs, Batman, Batom's bizarre comic book fantasy world, Batton Thomas, Crazy, Crazy Harry, Darin, Flash Freeman, Free Comic Book Day, Holtron, John, Komix Korner, Les, Mason, Mason Jarr, Mason Jarre, Mason's Nose, Montoni's, Mopey Pete, Pete, properly hung banner without haphazard tape, smirk, traveling green shirt
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Rick Ross' Lawsuit Over LMFAO's "Party Rock Anthem" Has Been Rejected | Complex
Rick Ross' Lawsuit Over LMFAO's "Party Rock Anthem" Has Been Rejected
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In 2014, Rick Ross and Jermaine "Mayne Zayne" Jackson, one half of The Runners, sued pop group LMFAO for copyright infringement. Rozay claimed that the phrase "everyday I'm shufflin'," from 2010's "Party Rock Anthem" infringed on his 2006 hit "Hustlin'," where he raps, "everyday I'm hustlin'." LMFAO's publishers Kobalt Music Group and car company Kia Motors America (who helped license "Party Rock Anthem" for commercials) are also defendants.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Ross actually filed for three different copyright registrations. "The first application came on Feb. 28, 2006, from an entertainment attorney for the production team seeking registration for an unpublished musical work. The second came on June 28, 2006, from a Warner Bros. entity seeking registration for a published musical work. And the third came on Feb. 28, 2007, from a Sony entity."
When a judge sent questions to the U.S. Copyright Office about these registrations, Register of Copyrights Maria Pallante responded that her office should have refused all three attempts because the applications were inconsistent and therefore defective. TMZ reports that a judge made the decision that the inaccuracies in Ross' applications forced his case to be thrown out of court.
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I have a pt. that was given Bactroban and area was covered with gauze. I have the HCPC code for the gauze (A6216). I'm trying to find a HCPC code for the Bactroban. Haven't had any luck so far. Anyone have a suggestion? Thanks.
Usually oinments and/or gauze are not billed separately. They are bundled with a procedure or an office visit. I would check with the carrier's policy first.
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Investigation of Structural and Optical Properties of InP Thin Films Developed by Using Spraying Method Funda Aksoy, Refik Kayali, Mustafa Öztaş, and Metin Bedir Citation: AIP Conference Proceedings 899, 231 (2007); doi: 10.1063/1.2733121 View online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2733121 View Table of Contents: http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/proceeding/aipcp/899?ver=pdfcov Published by the AIP Publishing Articles you may be interested in Physical properties of Cu2ZnSnS4 thin films deposited by spray pyrolysis technique J. Renewable Sustainable Energy 5, 023113 (2013); 10.1063/1.4795399 Structural, optical, and electrical properties of Yb-doped ZnO thin films prepared by spray pyrolysis method J. Appl. Phys. 109, 033708 (2011); 10.1063/1.3544307 Influence of the oxidation conditions on the structural characteristics and optical properties of zinc oxide thin films J. Vac. Sci. Technol. A 28, 1344 (2010); 10.1116/1.3484243 Growth, Optical and Electirical Properties of In2Se3 Thin Films by the (SILAR) Method AIP Conf. Proc. 899, 579 (2007); 10.1063/1.2733320 Physical Properties of Thin Film Semiconducting Materials AIP Conf. Proc. 795, 196 (2005); 10.1063/1.2128326
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Investigation of Structural and Optical Properties of InP Thin Films Developed by Using Spraying Method Funda Aksoy*, Refik Kayah*, Mustafa Oztas** and Metin Bedir** *Nigde University. Faculty of. Art and Sciences.Department of Physics, NlGDE **Gaziantep University. Department of Physics Engineering, GAZIANTEP Abstract. Structural and optical properties of InP films developed with the solutions prepared with InCl3 and C12HP04 salts having different rates by using spraying method have been investigated using the data obtained from UV spectrometer and XRD (x-ray difractometer). Band gap energy values of all samples obtained by using UV spectrometer are found in 1.60-1.85 eV range. It was observed that basic piks of all samples are in (200) plane and have a fee structure in the XRD analysis. In addition, grain size of the samples increases with the rate of indium included in samples and it is seen that the crystallization in surface structure tends to become more homogenity. Keywords: InP, spraying method, UV spectrometer, XRD PACS: 70
Semiconductor crystals have been intensively investigated recently due to their novel properties that are markedly different from those of the bulk solids [1-2]. Among them, III-V group semiconductor nanocrystals, with more distinct quantum confinement effect, are likely to be the most promising candidates for fabricating nanoscale optoelectronic devices. Up to now, many researchers who have studied on InP fabrication using different methods have been reported [3,4]. In this work, we report the structural and optical properties of InP thin films prepared by spray pyrolysis method.
FIGURE 1. Optical transmittance T (%) spectra of InP thin films deposited at different ratios of indium and phosphat.
A weak change in the absorption edge is observed towards higher wavelengths as the ratios of indium increases. The transmission decreases from 80% at In:P;3:l to 68% at In:P;10:l. It is seen that as the ratio of indium of the film increases the interference effects also become prominent. The transmission of InP thin films is strongly influenced by the ratios of indium and phosphat. It is observed that the transmittance of films increase as the ratios of indium increases. It can also easily be seen from Table 1[4]. This improvement can be attributed to the perfection and stoichiometry of the films. The absorption coefficient was calculated and plotted for allowed direct transitions (neglecting exciton effects) by using the expression as a function of photon energy [5].
The thin films of InP were deposited with spraying solutions prepared with different rates of In and P onto a 1 cm2 heated glass substrate at 500°C substrate temperature. The structural properties of the films were studied by X-ray analysis with a Rigaku D/MaxIIIS model X-ray diffractometer $,=1.5405 A0). The optical absorption spectra of the films were obtained using Perkin Elmar Lambda 25 UV-VIS-NIR doublebeam spectrophotometer having a wavelength range of 240-2400 nm.
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION Optical characterization Optical absorption studies of InP thin films deposited on the glass substrates were carried out in the wavelength (X) range 750-1350 nm at room temperature. The optical transmission spectra of the films prepared at different rates are shown in Fig.l.
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TABLE. 1 Structural and optical properties of InP thin films at various substrate temperatures. In:P
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FIGURE 3. X-ray diffraction patterns of InP thin films grown at different ratios of indium and phosphat: (a) 3:1, (b) 5:1, (c) 10:1 and (d) 10:5 Energy (eV)
FIGURE 2. (ahv) 2 versus hv for InP thin films deposited at different ratios of indium and phosphat: (a) 3:1, (b) 5:1, (c) 10:5 and (d) 10:1 The values of optical band gap, Eg have been determined by extrapolating the lineer portions of respective curves to (ahv) 2 -^ 0. It is seen from the Table 1 that the band gap energy is decreased from 1,80 eV to 1,60 eV as the ratios of In and P are increased from the 3:1 to 10:1 respectively. These results are in a god agreement with the other results[5].
InP thin films have been prepared by the spray pyrolysis method on glass substrates with different rates at 500°C substrate temperature. The X-ray diffraction measurements of the obtained thin films showed that the crystalline state of InP is improved with the increasing the ratio of indium. However, optical measurements featured that the optical band gap decreases from 1.80 to 1.60 eV when the ratio of indium increases. From this study, it can be concluded that the ratio of indium and phosphat has a strong influence on the structure and consequently the optical properties of InP thin films [7]. The influence of the different rates of In:P on the structural and optical properties of InP thin films like a window material will be useful for the formation of InP-based heterostructure for the application of optoelectronic devices.
X R D characterization The as-grown InP thin films deposited at various ratios were characterized by the XRD technique scanned in the 26 range of 20°-50°. The diffractograms were obtained for the films grown on the amorphous glass plates (Fig. 3). The diffractograms depict that the deposits are polycrystalline for all the ratios. The spectra clearly show that the films formed at different ratio at the 500°C substrate temperature exhibit a strong peak around 30.36° corresponding to the (200) plane of polycrystalline indium phosphide, whereas the intensity of its reflection increases with the ratio of indium. Thin films fabricated at these conditions are rather homogenous, and their crystalline state improves when the ratio of indium increases [6]. This increase can be correlated with the increase of the grain size as shown in Table 1. A well matching of the observed and the standard '(i-values' confirms the formation of compound InP
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Grace Santorini Hotel is a 5-star stylish property offering a sundeck, a swimming pool and a library. The hotel was opened in 2008 in a 7-story Venetian building and renovated in 2012.
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Bracewell Adds Sutherland Energy Pro In DC
Law360, New York (May 12, 2011, 7:03 PM EDT) -- Bracewell & Giuliani LLP said Thursday it had boosted its energy practice with the hire of a former Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP partner who will add her experience in the oil and gas industry and energy regulation to the firm's Washington office.
Kirstin E. Gibbs, who specializes in Federal Energy Regulatory Commission compliance and enforcement issues, as well as policy and legislative matters involving natural gas and oil, said she was excited to join Bracewell and expand her practice.
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CMITN383 - Chesapeake Math & IT Academy North High School
CMITN383
Fall Bridge Diagnostic Assessment
Student Meals for Virtual Learning - FNS is committed to meeting the nutritional needs of each and every student during the upcoming school year. Grab and Go meals will be served two (2) days per week. Serving Days: Monday - Students pick up two (2) meal packages Wednesday - Students pick up three (3) meal packages. Note: Serving days may change with inclement weather and holidays. Meal packages consist of a full breakfast and a full lunch. Breakfast = Breakfast Item(s), Fruit, and Milk Lunch = Entree (Meat/Meat Alternate & Grain), Vegetable, Fruit and Milk. Supper meals will only be offered at state approved locations. For up to date info, please check the link below: https://www.pgcps.org/foodandnutrition/ If you have any questions, email me at [email protected]
Darryl Hailstock Support Manager CMIT-N High School Cafeteria
Follow CMIT-N High School on social media. Follow us on Twitter: @CMITAcademy Follow us on Instagram: cmitacademy Subscribe us on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPuPgTO2ZyC2WQoTOgBislA?view_as=subscriber Should you have any questions feel free to contact me at [email protected] Mr.Bayram Program Coordinator STEM Coordinator
Good morning CMIT families, Starting Monday, September 14th, students will be taking the Fall Bridge Diagnostic Assessment for several of their courses. The results of the Fall Bridging Diagnostics Assessments will be used by teachers and staff to implement and improve instructional practices. The assessments will cover the four major content areas: Mathematics, Reading/English/Language Arts (RELA), Science, and Social Studies. The purpose of these assessments are as instructional tools for teachers and no grades will be assigned. Each test will be during the student's class period on the assigned date. CMIT North HS Schedule: Monday, September 14th: Algebra 1, Geometry, Algebra 2, Quantitative Modeling Tuesday, September 15th: Biology, Biogeochemistry, Chemistry Honors Thursday, September 17th: English 9, English 9 Honors, English 10, English 10 Honors, English 11, English 11 Honors, AP Literature, English 12 Monday, September 21st: US History, US History Honors, AP US History, Government, Government Honors, AP Government, World History, World History Honors, AP World History *Please note that these are the only subjects that will be testing. If a class is not listed here, it will not be a tested class. How to prepare for the test prior to September 14th: 1. YOU MUST DOWNLOAD TESTNAV ON YOUR PERSONAL COMPUTER/CHROMEBOOK/LAPTOP. This needs to be completed by Friday, September 11th! -Directions to download TestNav: https://sites.google.com/pgcps.org/dl-parentresources/testing?authuser=2 UNDER TESTNAV INSTALLATION 2. YOU MUST KNOW YOUR PGCPS LOG IN. This must be the student account used to sign into SchoolMAX. YOU CANNOT USE YOUR PARENTS' LOG IN INFORMATION. -Your username is [email protected]. If you are having password issues, please contact Ms. Gaudette ([email protected]). 3. Please view the student tutorial - https://sites.google.com/pgcps.org/dl-parentresources/testing?authuser=2 Things to know for the test: 1. You will have one class period to take the test. If you have accommodations for testing, please speak with your teacher to set up your accommodations. 2. You will go onto your Zoom class at the start of your class period. The teacher will give you instructions. You will log out of Zoom and go into TestNav. TestNav will lock down your browser. If you are having any issues, you will need to Save and Exit the test, go back into your Zoom to speak with your teacher, get the problem resolved and then go back into TestNav to finish the test. 3. No cell phones, smart watches, or other personal devices besides your testing device should be used during the test. 4. Parents and guardians should ensure that students are taking the test seriously and in a productive testing environment but not assisting with questions. The test is to help guide instruction. Students will not receive a grade for accuracy for the test. For more technology assistance from PGCPS: Use one of the 9 Parent Support Centers across PGCPS. Parents and Families will be able to receive help with technology, navigating online platforms, and other troubleshooting related to distance learning. Centers will operate Mondays and Wednesdays from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Parents may call 240-696-3315 during these hours to receive live assistance. Use the Distance Learning Hotline Monday through Friday from 9 a.m to 5 p.m. for live assistance regarding technical/equipment issues and/or instructional guidance and support 240-696-6229.
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Greetings families: Each school year Prince George's County Public Schools (PGCPS) requires parents/guardians to fill out a Publicity Release form for each student. Throughout the school year PGCPS and the Prince George's County Board of Education conduct activities that may be publicized by local or national news media or used to promote the school system. Publicity activities include interviews, photographs or videos of individuals or groups of students, or student works (including, but not limited to, artistic works, athletic activities, performances and competitions) that may be used in websites, social media such as Facebook and Twitter, print or online publications, or videos. Please fill out the attached Electronic PGCPS 2020-21 SY Publicity Release Form by checking only one of the boxes to GRANT or NOT GRANT PERMISSION. This Form will remain in effect through September 2021. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/11vp6zITFHL1TPbI5a7aUzcf0zWbwSuDbp9uJA210mQM/edit
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Rules for providing sample reports to a potential customer | AppraisersForum.com
Rules for providing sample reports to a potential customer
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A commercial loan officer wants to add me to his list, but he needs sample reports. I've seen some people provide a copy without getting approval from the original client. They simply blacken out sensitve information and provide it to the prospect. Can you do that, and what sensitive information is crossed out? :? :?
When you're talking about "confdential information or assignment results" you're covering an awful lot of ground. For instance, the technical portion of the appraisal assignment is defined as including analysis, opinions and conclusions. This type of information is specific to the subject property and the assignment at hand and is not available elsewhere. Where do you find analysis, opinions and conclusions in an appraisal? Basically, anywhere in an appraisal report where it says "analysis" or "comments", which is pretty much everywhere in the appraisal report.
There are those who believe that you can submit a live appraisal report as a sample without the client's permission simply by eliminating either the confidential information (which includes all the analysis, opinions and conclusions) or by removing all reference to identify which property this confidential information being passed on belongs to. Either of these methods may be possible, but both are basically self-defeating because if there is no analyses, opinions or conclusions in the report or it is there but cannot be compared to a specific property then the client has no way of determining whether the work is reasonable. The potential client has no way to compare the work under submission without having it in it's entirety.
This is why it's easier to comply with these requests either by doing sample reports that are not live assignments for clients (build-to-suit), submitting old reports where the appraiser knows the client is finished with them (like they did the deal or the report is really old) or else get permission from one of your clients to use a report that they're already finished with as a sample. Any other method is really a half-measure.
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MissPres News Roundup 3-19-2010 – Preservation in Mississippi
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MissPres News Roundup 3-19-2010
By W. White on March 19, 2010 • ( 7 )
My apologies for not producing my usual in-depth News Roundup for this week; the normal News Roundup will return next week. Of course, I am on vacation and used some of my vacation time to create last week's News Roundup, starting a long discussion which brought all the Oxonians out of the woodwork like so many termites (please write all your angry replies to this MSU student's sarcastic statement in the comment box below). And here is the news.
The Vicksburg Post was a wealth of preservation-related news this week. The continuing saga of Ceres Plantation is playing out. According to the Post's March 16 article, the Warren County Port Commission has tabled competing offers to demolish Ceres. The article mentions the proposal to preserve the plantation in situ and the fact that proposal had been dismissed. The Post reports that an offer has been made to purchase and relocate the house, to become the centerpiece of a new residential development. This plan, according to another source, would move Ceres to Madison County. From a preservation standpoint, this is the equivalent of a legislative compromise. Such an acclaimed wordsmith as Sir Mick Jagger stated succinctly, "You can't always get what you want…"
The March 11 edition of The Vicksburg Post contained two stories of interest to MissPres readers. The first article on March 11 pertains to stimulus money and preservation. $1.7 million in stimulus funds are earmarked toward restoring the interior of the Shirley House, the only surviving antebellum structure in the Vicksburg National Military Park. While officials at the Military Park requested more funds, the funds received should allow them to perform a large amount of restoration.
Wexford Lodge (Shirley House), Vicksburg National Military Park, photograph taken in 1868, courtesy of Historic American Building Survey (HABS)
$400,000 has been granted to Alcorn State University to restore Belles Lettres Hall, a designated Mississippi Landmark. This has already been reported in The Vicksburg Post and here at Preservation in Mississippi in October but it is good to refresh our memories about such projects.
The second article on March 11 states that the annual structural report on the U.S. 80 Bridge in Vicksburg has cleared the bridge for further service. Bridges are an important, if often ignored component of preservation. After eight decades of use, the fact that this bridge is structurally sound and aesthetically pleasing should encourage its preservation. Deferred maintenance is the enemy of bridges, in many cases; the money is not spent to maintain bridges. Then, the bridge becomes structurally deficient and must be replaced, at the cost of millions, or tens of millions, of dollars. Money that could have been saved by proper maintenance.
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March 19, 2010 • 9:14 am
Engineers employed by the county sometimes just pock the $ and duplicate the prior report without ever inspecting the bridge. Down the road its picked up because the decay is noticed by citizens…boards of supervisors delay fixing it and bridges wind up having to be replaced at greater cost. It doesn't happen a lot in Mississippi. ;#|^+ but nationally it becomes a problem…until you have stimulus money.
Heavenly speaking the star Ceres has moved into Capricorn so that might benefit the antebellum mansion by that name.
My math on the ' first preservation campaign' was waaay off…thats why I worked as a librarian so I could escape calculations and hopefully correct folks facts. :))
March 19, 2010 • 12:37 pm
Glad you noted that such corruption doesn't happen in Mississippi :-) Only positive Mississippi spoken here, right?
March 19, 2010 • 11:28 am
Another story from this week is in the Sun Herald regarding historic Markham Hotel in Gulfport. http://www.sunherald.com/2010/03/16/2031075/clean-up-markham-or-it-could-be.html
Tuesday, the city voted to "use a state law created for Gulfport that allows the city to expeditiously deal with unsightly property."
The city considers the building a potential health and safety hazard and the local Downtown Association and Main Street program president "said the Markham impedes revitalization and serves as a poster child for ugly buildings."
March 19, 2010 • 12:34 pm
Saving the Markham really needs to be a priority for both Gulfport and the state. Too many landmarks have already been lost to Katrina. There is no excuse for the demolition of the Markham. A multi-story community center? How about making it a hotel once again?
March 19, 2010 • 12:36 pm
Oh brother, I seem to recall that same Gulfport Main Street also came out in favor of demolishing the Gulfport Library a couple of years ago too. Somebody needs to remind them that Main Street is a National Trust program to revitalize historic downtowns by preserving them not by tearing them down. If they want to be a chamber of commerce, then fine, but don't take National Trust money and call yourself a Main Street to do it.
As in most cases, it takes vision and imagination to move a building from underutilized and "ugly" (which I agree could be used to describe the Markham in its current state) to a community landmark and center of activity. I keep going back to the King Edward, which was in much worse shape than the Markham and doesn't even have as great a view as the Markham. The people who should be putting forth that vision are the Main Street people, but something's gotten turned around and instead their vision is lots of empty lots waiting for . . . .
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PAII CEO, Jay Karen and Lisa Kolb, owner of Acorn Internet Services, met at the Washington B&B Guild Annual Meeting earlier this week. Due to the impact of Hurricane Sandy and the relatively little information we've been hearing about impacted B&Bs and inns, the two thought a more public-access information sharing site would be helpful.
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JS: Yes. I wouldn't say it was just a linear progression, I'm not just going backwards, but yes I suppose I've felt freer and freer to use older and older material. Actually the dominant core of my work comes from a specific time - dated specifically from about 10 years before my birth and 10 years after, the forties and fifties. This is the point, the thing is you don't really know why you're interested in any particular image and if it was that I went around the world selecting images to conform with a program I had, that would be a completely different enterprise - I don't do that. When I find an image... I can give you a very current example, here you have a flaming gypsy caravan, and I know that will be in my work. I have no program that includes thoughts about gypsies or anything like that. I just know that is going to find it's way into my work. I think a lot of artists are fascinated by worlds from which we are absent but with which we can make some contact. Everyone tries to project forwards and backward to worlds literally beyond ourselves. "Garden", as a body of work, I suppose, is an attempt to describe such a beyond-world - a prehistory or post-history of creation. I'm looking for a space in which the mythic can coexist with the real.
B: What I'm interested in is your highly personal way you talk about the imagery you choose. In other words, is there any contradiction between this basic idea of mass culture - images everywhere that everyone uses - and the personal choice of image? JS: I hope I'm not emphasising personal choice. It wasn't the drift of what I was saying earlier. What I'm emphasising is actually quite the opposite - I don't have any choice - and it is definitely not personal. Almost the reverse - the images choose me, rather than I choose images. I see certain images like orphans awaiting discovery; give them homes, they've been overlooked by everyone, and that might sound very personal and it is - I find what I am as a person through the images I use, rather than having a personal agenda of some kind and using the images as form. That is not the point. The work is about trying to probe self but out there, in the images of the world and I'm not sure it's self I'm probing but perhaps something more ephemeral and collective.
B: So do you see yourself as an archaeologist, a beach comber on the urban beach, on the shoreline of twentieth century image culture? JS: Images left by the high tide... absolutely cool. You've got me down to a tee. Yes, I'd love to be that, yes, sort of West Coast. Certainly I'm chasing obsolescence, though I don't think its quite junk art. Redundancy is important for me though. I'm aware of it as a perennial irritation: I find the moment I can specify an interest in a particular kind of image that inevitably the image source dries up: the Spanish photo-roman magazine ceases production or nudist magazines switch to colour, or worse they become collectable. I've realised I've spent a lot of time searching for what are aberrations in image production and thus areas of redundancy.
JS: In a sense all images are death. What I think I'm searching for are those points where one can feel that in an image - like a shiver, a shadow passing over one's grave. I sometimes feel something like that when I encounter a found image. It seems to tell you're only here for a short time like itself.
B: The technology of the prints that you seem to choose is pretty much a dead technology, whether it's cheap black and white or 50's colour?
JS: I think one of the things about 50's imagery is that its the last point of connection between a sort of formal... I mean you look at the background of one of those film star's images, bright red, bright blue - this was the time when abstract expressionism, post-painterly abstraction was appearing in America. The connection, the immediacy when someone opens their picture magazine in the 1950's... it was a totally novel thing and it's something like the same sensation when people go to see a Barnet Newman. All I'm trying to do is bring those two things together, those two sensibilities, and yes it's something that can't be repeated, will never be repeated. We now see the world through a cibachrome haze - that sense of the colour, the brightness of the red and what Barnet Newman was doing, to me they're connected. At that time when I was doing that kind of work, it was about sort of trying to make hidden connections between things, really the thing about being a collagist is that you don't actually create your own images. The images are there in the world.
JS: No on the contrary. To begin with one didn't lie around one sat up perfectly with straight back and by the time we got our first T.V. set I was no longer a child. My experience of cinema was even more limited as I was not allowed as a child to go to the Saturday matinees. Funnily enough the images which I collect for my film still collages are precisely the ones I used to gaze at as a boy - the ones used to advertise the films in showcases outside the cinema. I also tend to use British film stills on the whole. I prefer the images from British rather than American film noir. It comes down to the textures and materials of the period and place.
B: It's also that it hasn't been so exploited so much in terms of artwork isn't it? I mean how much work has been done using Hollywood films? I mean are you doing something similar but choosing a slight tributary?
JS: The periphery has a way of informing interestingly on the centre. More than tributary I like the idea of a backwater. Anyway my work isn't about informing on anything let alone about making comment on the world of mass culture or any such thing. I'm simply trying to negotiate a way of producing images (in the sense of being an artist) in a culture of images.
JS: I started working on these Iris prints because I was frustrated with the scale of the collages. I was attracted to the computer for the ability to image-enhance photographic enlargements as they had never satisfied me: it's very flat. The new technology allows me to work very close and at a larger scale simultaneously. B: It seems to me the small collages using real postcards... a bit of pencil showing or a real postcard with a slightly dogged edge on a real fifties still... I mean, look at the "Mask" series... you follow the line of an orange mountain which lines up with someone's shoulder or something and there has to be a leap of imagination. You have engage with the work. You are quite aware it's a postcard on top of a film still, once you've engaged in that you are complicit in the arrangement ... it seems to be more what you're about than this large scale. Maybe that's a red herring, I don't know? JS: I see the point: there is inevitably something more physically direct in the experience of found images in the collage, though it perhaps links the experience too much to the literalness of the postcard or the film still. I also like to cut the image off from its ties to the original. The source of image as mysterious also appeals to me. In the current work however there is a stronger reason for enlargement connected with body scale.
JS: I collect images, I suppose locally I'm known most for the images I collect, because I support various charity shops. I'm after 'Lifesaving for Teenagers' as if my life depended on it, I come back with my haul, I open my plastic bag... I mean isn't this how all artists should work?
B: Is it like Philip K Dick in Counter Clock World where all the people wake up from their graves. Time's going backwards - squads of people wear earphones and they go and listen for people waking up from their graves.?
JS: Oh yeah, Stanley Spencer is my favourite artist. He was aware that painting was resurrection.... finding the mythic and everyday - making it illustrate the mundane and abject. And even his relationship with Patricia, you know the woman with the meat, all of these things are about a realisation of Christianity within the heart of the culture he was living in. He was regressive, yeah, its the same thing...my favourite artist. Perhaps our ideas of an Eden are not Spencer's but in many ways a new genesis is more imminent to us culturally. It's the idea that we're creating our new genesis now, just the way we can manipulate species - I mean we are on the brink of a new genesis.
B: Are you talking about progress, going towards this new Eden? But you don't really believe that do you?
JS: I suppose at this current point in time we are in the position God was. We can create our own life forms in fact it's not only that we can, but we have.
JS: I hope that is what I'm doing in the new work - I like the idea that work has the ability to time-travel. It's worth pointing out that the images I use in the "Fall" and "Cross" series, which come from artists handbooks of surface anatomy, are posed (and composed) in relation to pre-existing images: Adam and Eve, Saint Sebastian etc. Mythology is embedded in the images ( as well as the history of mythic representation). I took a perverse pleasure in using images which were after all designed for artists use. There is something awesome about the ability we have to annihilate history-time. That kind of reality is something that is horrific and real. In fact, for example, if we eat trout every day of the week, we're eating the same trout. I was talking to an angler and he said in reality all you're doing is fishing from the reservoir, the odd one's allowed out. It's just not real any more. There're all the same fish. If you stop a species developing evolutionarily you're stopping time - I suppose it must still feel like fishing, but in reality you're catching the same fish over and over.
JS: The same fish has been caught for eternity. I mean there is no nature. Face it. Genetically coded clone.
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I love you, Karen :). I fall prey to the ‘been there, done that, now I’m an expert trap.’ Your response was perfect. Brainstorming. Coming alongside. Deep down, I think people know how to solve their problems and which direction they should take–they just need someone to listen to them work it out. I’m learning this–slowly.
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Developing employees
Deep Smarts
Your best employees’ deepest knowledge can’t be transferred onto a series of PowerPoint slides or downloaded into a data repository. It has to be passed on in person—slowly, patiently, and systematically.
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Dorothy Leonard
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Walter Swap
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Dorothy Leonard
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Walter Swap
From the Magazine (September 2004)
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When a person sizes up a complex situation and rapidly comes to a decision that proves to be not just good but brilliant, you think, “That was smart.” After you watch him do this a few times, you realize you’re in the presence of something special. It’s not raw brainpower, though that helps. It’s not emotional intelligence, either, though that, too, is often involved. It’s deep smarts.
Deep smarts are not philosophical—they’re not “wisdom” in that sense, but they’re as close to wisdom as business gets. You see them in the manager who understands when and how to move into a new international market, in the executive who knows just what kind of talk to give when her organization is in crisis, in the technician who can track a product failure back to an interaction between independently produced elements. These are people whose knowledge would be hard to purchase on the open market. Their insight is based on know-how more than on know-what; it comprises a system view as well as expertise in individual areas.
Because deep smarts are experienced based and often context specific, they can’t be produced overnight or readily imported into an organization. It takes years for an individual to develop them—and no time at all for an organization to lose them when a valued veteran walks out the door. They can be taught, however, with the right techniques.
Drawing on their forthcoming book Deep Smarts, Dorothy Leonard and Walter Swap say the best way to transfer such expertise to novices—and, on a larger scale, to make individual knowledge institutional—isn’t through PowerPoint slides, a Web site of best practices, online training, project reports, or lectures. Rather, the sage needs to teach the neophyte individually how to draw wisdom from experience. Companies have to be willing to dedicate time and effort to such extensive training, but the investment more than pays for itself.
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The Idea in Brief
It takes years for your company’s best people to acquire their expertise—but only seconds for them to walk out the door when opportunity beckons. And when they go, they take their deep smarts with them. Deeply smart people make intuitive decisions fast and spot problems and possibilities others miss. Informed by almost preternaturally sound judgment and a gut sense for interrelationships, they see the big picture—rather then getting bogged down in details. Their wisdom is crucial to your company’s survival.
How to capture the deep smarts residing in your organization? Turn your experts into knowledge coaches. Knowledge coaches use learn-by-doing techniques—guided practice, observation, problem solving, and experimentation—to help novices absorb long-acquired business wisdom.
Knowledge coaching not only spurs transfer and retention of vital wisdom; it yields breakthrough product ideas and more efficient business processes. Can your company afford not to invest in it?
The Idea in Practice
Consider these knowledge coaching techniques:
Guided Practice
Novices practice skills under the watchful eye of knowledge coaches, who then provide feedback that allows them to refine their new capabilities. Example:
At SAIC, new consultants learn their trade from seasoned colleagues through a “see one, lead one, teach one” process. First, they observe an expert helping a client solve a specific problem. Next, they practice their skills by leading a client session, receiving feedback from the knowledge coach. Then, they teach those skills to another consultant.
Guided Observation
This technique takes two forms—shadowing and field trips. Through shadowing, novices absorb deep smarts by following experienced, skilled colleagues, and then discussing their observations with those colleagues. One junior consultant who sat in on client meetings and then analyzed his observations with an older colleague contended, “I learned more from those debriefs than in four years at my prior company and two years of business school.”
During field trips, novices break out of rigid mental habits and expand their experience through exposure to novel ways of thinking and behaving. Example:
On field trips to Mexico, Korea, and a U.S. specialty toy store, teams from retailer Best Buy observed young people engaged in communal play focused on a product (such as a doll) or technology (such as video games). These visits spurred ideas for providing socially oriented experiences in Best Buy stores. For instance, the company’s engineers developed “PCBang,” which enables teens and people in their early twenties—much younger than Best Buy’s typical customer—to play computer games and socialize.
Guided Problem Solving
Knowledge coaches and protégés work on problems jointly, so protégés learn how to approach problems. Example:
A senior engineer renowned for his ability to bring multiple perspectives to the design of complex products had his protégé spend several months on the assembly line tackling problems with a test technician. The senior engineer joined many of these sessions, adding perspectives the technician lacked—such as customer preferences. The protégé acquired comprehensive know-how about the product, from design to production to fulfillment of customers’ needs.
Guided Experimentation
Knowledge coaches help novices set up modest experiments that speed learning. Example:
Start-up company ActivePhoto had developed a technology for instantly downloading and cataloguing digital photographs. To determine its most profitable market, the firm conducted pilot studies with three promising customer bases: public emergency services, insurance-claims processing, and on-line auctioning. Through discussions of each experiment’s results with knowledge coaches, ActivePhoto quickly eliminated the first market.
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When a person sizes up a complex situation and comes to a rapid decision that proves to be not just good but brilliant, you think, “That was smart.” After you’ve watched him do this a few times, you realize you’re in the presence of something special. It’s not raw brainpower, though that helps. It’s not emotional intelligence, either, though that, too, is often involved. It’s deep smarts, the stuff that produces that mysterious quality, good judgment. Those who have deep smarts can see the whole picture and yet zoom in on a specific problem others haven’t been able to diagnose. Almost intuitively, they can make the right decision, at the right level, with the right people. The manager who understands when and how to move into a new international market, the executive who knows just what kind of talk to give when her organization is in crisis, the technician who can track a product failure back to an interaction between independently produced elements—these are people whose knowledge would be hard to purchase on the open market. Their insight is based more on know-how than on facts; it comprises a system view as well as expertise in individual areas. Deep smarts are not philosophical—they’re not “wisdom” in that sense—but they’re as close to wisdom as business gets.
Throughout your organization, there are people with deep smarts. Their judgment and knowledge—both explicit and tacit—are stored in their heads and hands. Their knowledge is essential. The organization cannot progress without it. You will be a more effective manager if you understand what deep smarts are, how they are cultivated, and how they can be transferred from one person to another.
Very few organizations manage this asset well, perhaps because it’s difficult to pin down and measure. Such neglect is risky. Individuals develop practical, often organization-specific expertise over the course of many years but can walk out the door in only a minute, taking their smarts with them. As the baby-boom-retirement tsunami approaches, lots of valuable employees and leaders will do precisely that. By 2006, for example, half of NASA’s workforce will be eligible for retirement. It’s not easy to harvest future retirees’ knowledge, since much of it depends on context. Those with deep smarts know your business, your customers, and your product lines, both overall and in depth. And much of their insight is neither documented nor even articulated. You may not know you have lost it until you feel the cold breezes of ignorance blowing through the cracks in your product or service architecture.
As the baby-boom-retirement tsunami approaches, lots of valuable employees and leaders will walk out the door, taking their deep smarts with them.
Smaller-scale losses occur when employees with deep smarts are transferred to new locations, functions, or roles. A marketing director we know was promoted to a general management position, which encompassed new functions and required new skills. Her predecessor was scheduled to be on a plane to take a new position in Thailand within two days of the promotion, so she needed to learn about engineering, manufacturing, finance, and sales—fast. She couldn’t possibly pick up the necessary skills in such a short time, but her superiors didn’t even consider the costs of forcing her to muddle through on her own. Much of her predecessor’s knowledge was lost.
When veterans leave, it is painful to lose strategic capabilities partly because growing them in the first place is extraordinarily challenging. Deep smarts are experience based. They can’t be produced overnight or imported readily, as many companies pursuing a new strategy have discovered to their dismay. But with the right techniques, this sort of knowledge can be taught—if a company is willing to invest. Brad Anderson, the CEO of Best Buy, recently decided that the future success of his company depended on building an internal capability to innovate continuously. His employees were bright, hardworking, and terrific at delivering on set goals, but innovation had never been part of their job. Exhortation alone would not change the DNA of the organization. Anderson needed to have some deep smarts about the innovation process transferred into the company. He hired the consulting firm Strategos to coach a cohort of employees through a six-month innovation journey. He hoped participants would gain enough experience to start embedding innovative practices throughout the organization.
Best Buy’s deliberate decision to build companywide expertise is unusual. In most organizations, deep smarts develop more by chance than by intent—and often in spite of management practices rather than because of them. Leaders toss people willy-nilly into new situations, incurring the costs of trial-and-error learning instead of those associated with more carefully planned transitions. But it is neither effective nor efficient to cultivate experience-based know-how in such an ad hoc fashion or to rely on a company’s existing processes for transferring knowledge. Most organizational practices are not grounded in a fundamental understanding of how people learn. Furthermore, most companies’ training and development programs are designed to transfer explicit technical or managerial knowledge—but not deep smarts.
We learned to appreciate the importance of deep smarts when we studied how novices acquire complex managerial skills. Over two years, we conducted research at 35 start-up companies in the United States and Asia, looking most closely at how experienced coaches helped novice entrepreneurs. We also examined a number of mature organizations, including Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and Best Buy, in which managers were struggling with how to cultivate business wisdom. We interviewed more than 200 people (including each of the novice entrepreneurs and their coaches) twice, a year apart; sat in on dozens of meetings; shadowed one experienced leader as he made rounds to various protégés in India; and reviewed scores of videotapes made by people undergoing the intensive knowledge transfer effort at Best Buy. In the following pages, we draw on this field research to illustrate how organizations can develop and sustain profound institutional knowledge among their employees.
How Did He Do That?
Let’s look in particular at two examples of deep smarts—one technical and the other managerial.
In the 1980s, two companies were competing for a multibillion-dollar, decades-long government contract for tactical missiles. Neither had a performance advantage. The stalemate was broken by a scientist in one of the companies who was not a member of the project team. His reputation as a technical wizard (based on more than 20 years of experience developing missiles) was such that when he called a meeting of the primary project participants, they all came. For several hours, he enthralled them with a detailed proposal for design changes that he had worked out over a single week of dedicated effort. Without notes, he walked them through the redesign of an entire weapon. To put the extensive software, wiring, and hardware changes he suggested into production, as many as 400 people would have to work full-time for up to a year and a half—but the expert’s audience saw immediately that the modifications would create tremendous competitive advantage. His proposal precipitated a frenzy of activity, and his company won the contract. More than 20 years later, it is still reaping the harvest sown by this man with deep smarts.
Deep smarts are most easily recognized when, as in the previous example, they are based on technical knowledge. Managerial deep smarts are harder to identify, but we know that people who have them are compelling leaders. Take the case of a CEO who, in an unusual reversal of roles, had to talk his board of directors out of allowing the company to miss its earnings commitment. In early 1997, Intuit had just sold off its bill-paying operations. The board met to consider a new strategic direction. Because revenues were down, the sentiment around the boardroom table was that the company would have to miss its earnings commitments not only for that quarter but for the foreseeable future. Board members were further resigned to a drop in stock price when the earnings were announced.
CEO Bill Campbell argued passionately against this fatalistic viewpoint. Wall Street analysts, he said, had already discounted the slower growth and the resulting decline in the top line. Lower revenues would not hurt the stock price. But deliberately deciding midway through the quarter to miss earnings was contrary to good management practices. Perhaps even more important, Campbell pointed out, if the stock dropped, employee options would be worthless—and some critical individuals might well leave the company. Such defections could hurt Intuit even more than the financial blow per se. It was pure baloney that they could not make the bottom line! He knew how to cut costs—and where to start.
The board members were persuaded by Campbell, and the next few months proved him right. Managers cut expenses and hit their quarterly financial targets, and the stock stayed steady. The course set out in the board meeting was successful for Intuit, and Campbell’s promise to employees that the stock would double within a year was fulfilled. What smarts did Campbell have that allowed him to make the right decision—and to sway his board? He knew, of course, the details of his company’s operations well enough to pinpoint areas for potential cost cutting. But he also understood the big picture, the financial environment within which he operated; he knew how resilient Intuit could be and how to release the company’s untapped energies. He could foresee both Wall Street’s reactions and those of his employees. And finally, he understood group dynamics and the personalities of his board members well enough to offer persuasive arguments.
Both the missile expert and Bill Campbell demonstrated an ability to do systems thinking and to dive into the details. The former, who redesigned a whole weapon by himself, knew a lot about each piece of software and hardware—but also about how they had to interact and which parts might need to be suboptimized in order to make the whole system perform better. Campbell could pull operational details about his company out of his head, but he also was emotionally intelligent about his organization as a collection of people and understood the larger financial milieu in which Intuit functioned.
The Science Behind Deep Smarts
Experience is the obvious reason that such deeply knowledgeable individuals make swift, smart decisions. We would all rather fly with a pilot who has taken off, flown, and (especially) landed in all kinds of extreme weather than with one who has always enjoyed smooth conditions. Similarly, if we’re about to go under anesthesia, we don’t want to hear the surgeon exclaim, “Wow—never seen one of these before!” And when launching a new product, we would prefer a boss who understands design, marketing, and manufacturing over one who sees the world through only one lens. But what is it about experience that separates novices from experts?
Think about something you are really, really good at—chess or cooking or interviewing job candidates. Chances are, if you are not just competent, but truly expert, it took ten years or more to develop that expertise—in which time you’ve come across countless different situations. With so many of them under your belt, you have likely found some common ground and discovered a few rules of thumb that usually work: “Control the center of the board” in chess, for instance, or “Err on the side of letting people go early rather than late” in management. However, as an expert, you have the perspective to go beyond generalizations and respond to unusual situations. You know when facile rules don’t apply, because you’ve seen so many exceptions. When confronted with a setback or a surprise, you can modify your course of action by combining elements from your menu of familiar options. In short, you can exploit an extensive experience repertoire.
Experts who encounter a wide variety of situations over many years accumulate a storehouse of knowledge and, with it, the ability to reason swiftly and without a lot of conscious effort. Those with keen managerial or technical intuition can rapidly determine whether current cases fit any patterns that have emerged in the past; they’re also adept at coherently (though not always consciously) assembling disparate elements into a whole that makes sense. They can identify both trends and anomalies that would escape the notice of less-experienced individuals. When you ask your financial wizard how she decided so quickly that there was something wrong with the numbers on a page, she may not be able to tell you exactly how she homed in on the odd figure. In fact, when asked to explain a decision, experts often cannot re-create all the pathways their brains checked out and so cannot give a carefully reasoned answer. They chalk up to gut feel what is really a form of gut knowledge.
Of course, the experts aren’t always right. Their confidence can lead to myopia or arrogance, blinding them to truly novel solutions or causing them to reject contributions from others. They can underestimate the extent to which knowledge is actually a set of beliefs and assumptions. When a physician confidently prescribes an acid suppressant for a woman who is in fact having a heart attack, not indigestion, he may be fitting her symptoms into a schema built on research about men. No chest pains—ergo, no heart attack. Only as research reveals that women’s heart attack symptoms differ from men’s, and as medicine builds enough knowledge to characterize these differences, will the physician be prepared to recognize the danger of his snap judgment.
Making Sure the Catcher Is Ready Before You Pitch
Many times in our lives, we need either to transfer our knowledge to someone else (a child, a junior colleague, a peer) or to access bits of wisdom accumulated in someone else’s cranium. But before we can even begin to plan such a transfer, we must understand how our brains process incoming information.
What we already have in our heads determines how we assimilate new experiences. Without receptors—hooks on which to hang new information—we may not even perceive and process the information. It’s like being sent boxes of documents but having no idea how they could or should be organized. Scientists who study specialized functions of the brain note that specific areas link our perceptions to long-term memory. For someone to capture complex, experience-based knowledge, his brain has to contain some frameworks, domain knowledge, or prior experiences to which current inputs can connect. Otherwise, the messages and information sent remain relatively meaningless suggestions. To a person who is unfamiliar with finance, the following advice is merely a string of words: “If you borrow money to buy back a lot of stock, you increase return on equity, but not in a way that those hawks at Moody’s would approve of.” Take a nonbusiness example: “What three-dimensional avatar would you like to be in the next MUD you enter?” To many people, that question is almost unintelligible—but not to an online gamer who has represented herself in cyberspace as a three-dimensional object (an avatar) while playing in a multiuser domain (MUD). Even when the terms are explained, however, a nongamer will not know what criteria to use in selecting an avatar. Someone who has not played such games lacks the receptors to process the query intelligently.
This cognitive limitation exists at an organizational level as well. When GE Healthcare sets up or transfers operations from one location to another, for instance, it appoints an experienced manager and team to be the “pitcher” and a team in the receiving plant to be the “catcher.” These two teams work together, often over a period of years, first at the pitcher’s location and then at the catcher’s. To ensure a smooth transition, the pitcher team needs to be sensitive to the catcher team’s level of experience and familiarity with GE Healthcare procedures. When a veteran operations manager arrived at a growing GE Healthcare plant in China, the local team was getting ready to move raw materials from the manufacturing facility into a warehouse. The operations manager could see numerous potential problems with the chosen site, but he knew that simply vetoing it would have transferred little knowledge. So he helped the team develop a list of critical-to-quality (CTQ) factors against which to evaluate potential sites. (Although this analytic process is standard operating procedure at GE, the Chinese plant hadn’t adopted it yet.) The list included such factors as proximity to the manufacturing plant, easy access for large trucks, road conditions between facilities, and basic amenities for employees. List in hand, the catchers visited the selected site and could see that it met few of their criteria. They then understood the reasons for using the CTQ model for even apparently simple choices; they had a framework and some basic experience on which to build future decisions.
In many situations requiring the transfer of deep smarts, new people are thrown in to sink or swim. Sometimes they make it. They’re often quick studies and have other adaptive skills. If they come into the job with few preconceptions about what does and doesn’t work, they may suggest smart changes. So a deliberate decision not to transfer knowledge to the newcomer can have advantages. But usually, the sink-or-swim strategy is inefficient and—more important—ineffective. It is far better to deliberately create receptors by providing frameworks and tools or other types of mental structures to which experience can be tied.
Transfer Techniques
Receptors, of course, are not enough. The most valuable part of deep smarts is the tacit know-how (and often, know-who) that a person has built up over years of experience. This knowledge cannot be easily documented and handed over in a filing cabinet or on a CD. Managers are sophisticated; they recognize that documentation and software are inadequate to capture deep knowledge. Why, then, do they persist in relying on a thick deck of PowerPoint slides, a Web site of best practices, a repository of project reports, online training, or even in-person lectures for the transfer? Even the smartest people have difficulty gaining insight from such materials, because so much of the knowledge they need is tied to specific contexts and has tacit dimensions.
The central paradox in transferring deep smarts is that constantly reinventing the wheel is inefficient, but people learn only by doing. So what’s the best way to get them up to speed? In our research, we identified a number of techniques used by what we call knowledge coaches—experts who were motivated to share some of their deep smarts with protégés. While some played the traditional mentor role of helping their protégés navigate organizations or providing personal advice, the coaches primarily served as teachers transmitting experience-based expertise.
The central paradox in transferring deep smarts is that constantly reinventing the wheel is inefficient, but people learn only by doing.
As the exhibit “Moving Toward Deep Smarts” suggests, approaches vary considerably—and predictably—in how effectively they address the deep-smarts paradox. Most of these modes are well understood. A number of books have been written about storytelling, for example, as a potent way to convey nuanced information. And Socratic questioning is pretty common. Queries such as “How do you know?” and “What would happen if…?” stimulate reflection and active learning. However, the learning-by-doing methods are not as familiar to many readers. They require active engagement from both the teacher and the student, they take time, and they usually happen one-on-one.
Recall that deep smarts are based on an extensive experience repertoire. While it’s true that merely describing experiences to people (or telling them what to do or giving them rules) may create some mental receptors upon which to hang experience, the tacit dimensions of an expert’s deep smarts have to be re-created to take hold. That is, the novice needs to discover the expert’s know-how through practice, observation, problem solving, and experimentation—all under the direction of a knowledge coach. In the process, the smarts of both the expert and the novice are deepened.
Guided Practice.
The old adage is right: Practice does make perfect—or at least better. But mindless repetition can hone the wrong skills. Better is mindful, reflective practice, in which outcomes are assessed and the method adjusted appropriately. But best of all is practice under the tutelage of someone who can guide the reflection and provide performance feedback. This is where an experienced coach comes in.
At SAIC, a consulting firm in San Diego that works primarily with the U.S. government, consultants learn their trade from a seasoned pro first by watching the expert help a client pick up a particular knowledge management process, next by leading a client session and receiving feedback from the coach, and then by teaching another consultant how to work with a client. This “see one, lead one, teach one” approach is one of SAIC’s most useful knowledge transfer tools.
Guided Observation.
Another powerful technique, guided observation, can be used for two very different purposes: to re-create deep smarts and to challenge ossified assumptions that may be based on outdated experience.
If your goal is to re-create deep smarts, you can have a “catcher” shadow an experienced, skilled colleague and arrange for the two to meet afterward to discuss what the catcher observed. A top consultant was once asked where and how he learned his skills in closing deals with clients. He explained that when he joined the company, an elder statesman in the firm asked him to sit in on client meetings. “You don’t have to say a word,” the older consultant told him. “Just listen and learn.” The junior consultant rightly took that invitation as more than a suggestion and sat at the back of the room. After the meetings, he and the older consultant discussed what had occurred. “I learned more from those debriefs,” he said, “than in four years at my prior company and two years of business school.”
The combination of shadowing and feedback sessions works because, as we have said, deep smarts are based largely on pattern recognition and are highly contextual. Because there are so many tacit dimensions to this sort of insight, the individual possessing it will not always realize what she knows until a particular challenge calls her knowledge forth. This makes it difficult for her to give her protégé absolute, detailed directives to follow in general. She might not be able to tell a novice what the response should be to a particular situation, but she can show him.
What if the issue is not so much teaching new skills but convincing individuals to unlearn what they take for granted? We can’t deepen our smarts without challenging our beliefs about our clients, our organizations, our services. Field trips—playing anthropologist for a few days to observe behaviors at other sites or companies—can help. Exposed to foreign ways of thinking and behaving, people not only extend their experience repertoire but are often shocked into questioning their own complacent understanding of the world.
When consultants from Strategos guided teams from Best Buy through the intricate steps of identifying, exploring, and prototyping new business opportunities, they first challenged the team members’ assumptions about the company’s uses of technology to attract typical Best Buy customers—young males who purchase powerful, feature-rich electronics. The consultants then sent team members on the road. Best Buy’s Toby Nord took a trip with some colleagues to American Girl Place in Chicago that proved invaluable, though initially unsettling. American Girl specializes in a line of dolls representing historical eras. More of a destination than a retail outlet, the store features doll-centric activities: You can get a new hairdo for your doll, for example, or have tea and scones at the American Girl Cafe, where dolls sit at the table. Nord and his male colleagues were pushed out of their comfort zone. But Nord realized that the dolls at American Girl Place were a kind of platform for intergenerational socializing among grandmothers, mothers, and daughters. The store was entertaining, and its business focused tightly on a community built for a given demographic: women and girls.
The Best Buy team combined observations from this trip to Chicago and others to Mexico City, the Amish countryside in Indiana, and Seoul, South Korea, and began to see behavior patterns. All these visits stimulated thinking about social, communal behavior focused on a platform, product, or technology. The team began to generate ideas for products and services that would offer an experience or a social happening. Inspired by the groups of teens they saw in Seoul gathering to play video games, the Best Buy folks came up with a youth-centered entertainment concept: a “PCBang,” where teenagers and people in their early twenties (a demographic group younger than Best Buy’s typical consumers) will be able to play computer games together and socialize.
Guided Problem Solving.
Guided problem solving serves different purposes and requires more active engagement from the protégé than does guided observation. A knowledge coach may or may not already know the answer to a problem. But either way, if he works on it with his protégé, the novice can learn how to approach the problem. That is, the knowledge coach transfers know-how more than know-what. During their residencies, newly minted physicians convert their book smarts into deeper, experience-based smarts as they work beside veteran doctors over a period of years.
Apprenticeships in business are less formalized—but they do occur in companies where managers are alert to the need for re-creating tacit knowledge. In an engineering company, a highly experienced design engineer was asked to train a younger colleague in the kind of systems thinking for which the older man was renowned. One of the senior engineer’s most valued skills was the ability to bring multiple perspectives to any design—not just engineering knowledge about every component (software and hardware) in the complex systems the company manufactured, but also an understanding of how the systems were to be produced. He was famous for detecting and avoiding potential assembly problems and performance shortfalls. To transfer his understanding of the overall product architecture and his respect for manufacturing constraints, he had his protégé go down to the assembly line and work on problems with a test engineer for several months. The senior engineer joined many of these problem-solving sessions, adding information that the test technician lacked, such as historic customer biases and preferences. While the protégé gained specific knowledge about component parts, the more important know-how transferred was the ability to look at the whole system, see how the interfaces worked, and understand how different functional priorities led to specific design flaws. The protégé also got to know and respect the knowledge of people working on the assembly line. This experience enhanced his organizational know-who, altered his belief systems, and contributed to his technical expertise.
Guided problem solving combines many of the best features of the transfer techniques mentioned previously: focusing attention, sharpening process skills, giving feedback, providing an opportunity to mimic an expert, engaging the learner actively in developing her own deep smarts, and building an experience repertoire.
Guided Experimentation.
In the first few years of their lives, children learn at a fantastic rate, partly because they are constantly experimenting. (Of course, that’s what makes parents of toddlers so nervous.) Too often in organizations, we assume that experimentation is both a risky and an expensive way of learning. It doesn’t have to be. The best entrepreneurial coaches in our study of 35 start-ups encouraged their charges to set up deliberate but modest experiments. This was the case with ActivePhoto, a company based on a software system that instantly downloads and catalogs digital photographs for use in a business process. In search of its best market, ActivePhoto initially considered three promising customer bases: public emergency services, insurance claims processing, and online auctioning. The tiny seven-person firm would ultimately have to choose one or two markets, but in its first few months of life it experimented with all three. Pilot studies, along with discussions with knowledge coaches, allowed the ActivePhoto people to evaluate the results of each experiment and quickly eliminate the first market.
Most retail companies use pilot markets to test new products—rolling them out in one area of the country before going national. When Whirlpool was considering custom-built appliances, the company was advised to find out whether customers were interested and whether customization would generate more market share or more profit. In a fairly simple and inexpensive experiment, Whirlpool selected two retail outlets in each of two cities (Dallas and Philadelphia) in which to set up tests for custom appliances. To draw crowds, the stores funded local advertising campaigns (“Come build your own Whirlpool refrigerator down at XYZ Appliances”). Computer kiosks in the stores allowed customers to choose from a variety of appliance features, and workers in the back busily assembled what people ordered. What did Whirlpool learn? As expected, customizing helped in the share game, at least for these four outlets. But the experiment also produced an unanticipated outcome: Customers ordered more features—approximately $70 more per refrigerator.
Coaches can offer good advice about where and how much to experiment—and more important, they can improve a team’s attitude toward adding to deep smarts through experimentation. The Toyota Production System is admired for its efficient manufacturing and has attracted imitators worldwide. But researchers who have investigated the deep smarts underlying TPS have discovered that the explicit techniques so widely copied (kanban cards, andon cords, just-in-time inventory delivery) do not account for the true advantage that Toyota has. The real secret to Toyota’s success is the mind-set of its employees: to constantly hypothesize about possible improvements and test those hypotheses in experiments. (See “Decoding the DNA of the Toyota Production System,” by Steven Spear and H. Kent Bowen, in the September–October 1999 issue of HBR.) This sort of mind-set is possible in any industry, including service. At any given time, Bank of America’s innovation and development teams are conducting more than two dozen experiments in operating branches, such as “virtual tellers,” video monitors displaying financial and investment news, computer stations where customers can upload images of their canceled checks, and kiosks staffed by associates ready to open accounts or process loan applications.
But Does It Cost Too Much?
In our world of fast brain food, one might think that guided experience is passé at best—or at least too costly. We have heard an executive from a well-run Fortune 100 company say, “The days of apprenticeship are over. We don’t have enough people to mentor newcomers.” Many who share this view will nonetheless willingly spend millions of dollars and years of effort on data repositories and formal training. We certainly do not wish to suggest that all such investments are wasteful. But we’re convinced that guided experience is the only way to cultivate deep smarts—and that managers need to be realistic about how much tacit, context-specific knowledge can be created or transferred through other means.
Fortunately, guided experience can deliver two benefits simultaneously and thus is not as costly as it might seem: first, a lasting asset in the form of transferred know-how, and second, delivery of a new business process, product idea, or capability. The learning happens on the job, so the business situations are real and relevant to today’s problems. SAIC’s training of U.S. Army personnel in the “peer assist” technique, for example, not only transfers process knowledge but does so in the context of a real problem—how to improve the performance of contract officers. Similarly, Strategos consultants were not only training Whirlpool and Best Buy employees to develop innovation processes; they were also showing these clients how to identify new business opportunities.
Guided experience increases value exponentially—it promotes dual-purpose learning and builds on all that we know about how people accumulate and retain knowledge. How can companies afford not to invest in it?
A version of this article appeared in the September 2004 issue of Harvard Business Review.
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Dorothy Leonard is the William J. Abernathy Professor of Business Administration Emerita at Harvard Business School and chief adviser of the consulting firm Leonard-Barton Group, which conducts workshops on this and other related topics. She is the author or coauthor of four Harvard Business Review Press books, including Critical Knowledge Transfer (2015).
Walter Swap is Professor of Psychology Emeritus, former Chairman of the Psychology Department, and former Dean of Colleges at Tufts University. He is the coauthor of three books, including Critical Knowledge Transfer (Harvard Business Review Press, 2015).
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Wise Counsel Interview Transcript: An Interview with Patt Denning, Ph.D. on Harm Reduction Psychotherapy for Substance Abuse and Addiction
Dr. David Van Nuys: Welcome to "Wise Counsel," a podcast interview series sponsored by CenterSite, LLC, covering topics in mental health, wellness, and psychotherapy. My name is Dr. David Van Nuys. I'm a clinical psychologist and your host. On today's show, we'll be talking with Dr. Patt Denning about an approach to addiction known as Harm Reduction. Patt Denning, Ph.D., is Clinical and Training Director of the Harm Reduction Therapy Center. Dr. Denning worked in San Francisco Community Mental Health as a clinician and Program Director from 1978 to 1993. She developed specialties in differential diagnosis, psychopharmacology, psychotherapy with seriously disturbed patients, HIV, and substance use disorders.
In 1993, she founded Addiction Treatment Alternatives, a comprehensive assessment treatment and training program based on Harm Reduction. She has a book on the subject, "Practicing Harm Reduction Psychotherapy," and is the author of several articles. Another book, this one for the general public, was released in the fall of 2003, "Over The Influence: The Harm Reduction Guide for Managing Drugs and Alcohol." You can find out more about Dr. Denning in our show notes.
Now, let's go to the interview. Dr. Patt Denning, welcome to the "Wise Counsel" podcast.
Dr. Patt Denning: Thank you very much. I'm very excited to be able to talk with you.
Dr. Van Nuys: Me, too. Let's start out with your background, you know, where you grew up, how you got into the field of psychotherapy, where you went to school, and all of that good stuff.
Dr. Denning: Sure, sure. I, actually, grew up in a small town in eastern Ohio - Steubenville, Ohio - which is famous for coal mines, steel mills, and football players.
Dr. Van Nuys: I've heard of Steubenfield.
Dr. Denning: Yes.
Dr. Van Nuys: Was it the title of a novel or a play or something? It's ringing a bell.
Dr. Denning: There is Steuben Glass, which is a big factory and everybody thinks that it's in Ohio, but, I think, it's still, actually, in Germany.
Dr. Van Nuys: Maybe that's the association I'm having.
Dr. Van Nuys: Yes. So, excuse the interruption. You can go back to your story.
Dr. Denning: That's OK. After high school, I went to St. Louis University and was unclear about whether I was in pre-med or psychology or music. It became pretty clear that I kept breaking laboratory equipments and so I was not going to end up in medical school. It also became clear that while I could perform singing in public, I couldn't play the piano in public. So, there went my music career. So, by default, I ended up in Psychology.
Dr. Van Nuys: OK. Now, somehow, you become highly identified with an approach to addiction known as Harm Reduction. So, how did that come about?
Dr. Denning: After getting my master's degree, also in St. Louis, I moved to California because I wanted to be part of the Community Mental Health Movement. I really wanted to be able to provide a public health, mental health perspective on broad issues that people were facing. One of the things that struck me, it's the first time I ever noticed this, is that there was a clear divide between mental health and substance abuse. It had never made much sense to me. I think, partly, that's because as a child of the '60s, I had some of my best and some of my worst growing up experiences using drugs. It just didn't make sense to me that we would separate those two, and yet, that was the way it was.
Dr. Van Nuys: You say separate those two. I lost track of what those two.
Dr. Denning: Separate mental health from substance use.
Dr. Denning: We were getting more and more into this dichotomous way of thinking that using drugs is bad and being absent from drugs is good. Again, I think, partly, because of my own personal experiences and partly because of the politics of the '60s, that that approach didn't make sense to me. I was aware that drug use is much more complicated and that people use drugs for reasons, and that those reasons were often very compelling. Now, the way I think about it is that there's really only two reasons people use drugs. That's either to increase pleasure or to decrease pain. Over time, I've also come to realize that the more a person uses drugs to medicate as opposed to recreate, the more likely they are to get into trouble. That's where the emotions come in. That's where feeling bad and wanting to feel better comes into play. The more you try to medicate away difficult situations or difficult feelings, the more likely that you're going to rely on that method over and over again. That's where drug use becomes a problem for people.
I was thinking about all these things, but not really doing much about it professionally until the HIV epidemic hit. I was the Director of a large psychiatric out patient clinic that was located in a public health center in The Castro, which is San Francisco's gay male neighborhood. We started seeing a lot - our patients were dying all over the place, so were our staff - but we also started seeing this horrible increase in alcohol abuse and the abuse of other drugs as well. It was very clear that the trauma of massive losses and fear and grief were driving people to be using more drugs and alcohol.
Dr. Denning: I started referring some of our mental health patients to substance abuse treatment, which is what we were supposed to do rather than try and treat them ourselves. But, most of the men would either not go or they would get kicked out or they wouldn't like it, and I'm like, "I don't understand this." So, I did a journey through a number of different substance abuse treatment programs and attended probably 50 or 60 Twelve Step meetings to see if I could figure out what was going on with these guys and how I could make referrals better. I was both personally and professionally appalled at what I saw.
Dr. Van Nuys: How so?
Dr. Denning: The treatment programs used an enormous amount of confrontation. They would yell at people and belittle them and tell them they were in denial and force them to sort of get in line.
Dr. Van Nuys: I had an experience with Synanon when I was in graduate school and kind of checked out Synanon, which was what they call a square - not that I was an addict - but the idea was to bring squares in to interact with the addicts. Boy, you talk about attack therapy, that was something else.
Dr. Denning: Yes, and it's really built on this idea, first of all, philosophically, that there's an [inaudible 180] of them. Those addicts, those people, as opposed to us, that we're a society that uses drugs, whether that be legal or illegal, and we all do it for the same reasons. So, to separate people who have drug problems out from the rest of us didn't make any sense to me. Again, partly, that was my own personal experience, but partly was also just realizing that when we start talking about us and them, we started making decisions that, historically, result in things like racism and sexism. I was seeing that same kind of a division between addicts, and I just hate calling people "Addicts." The language of it is really appalling to me, but it's those people rather than us, and then we can do anything we want to those people.
Dr. Van Nuys: Is there some other way that you prefer speaking, if not using the word "Addict?"
Dr. Denning: I talk about even though it's a little bit more cumbersome, I talk about people who have problems with 'substance use.'
Dr. Denning: Sometimes for shortcut, I will use the word "Substance abuse," sometimes I'll even use the word "Addiction," as long as I sort of clarify that what I mean by 'addiction,' is sort of a generic term for somebody's who's got a out of control problem with the way they're using drugs.
Dr. Denning: That they're suffering harm in their lives, they're causing harm to other people, that's what addiction is about. It's a complex process, it's not a disease. Calling addiction a "Brain Disease," is overly simplistic.
Dr. Van Nuys: Isn't that the dominant model today, or not?
Dr. Denning: Yeah, that's the only model in the United States. I mean, it's called the "American Disease Model," around the rest of the world.
Dr. Denning: I think that there is a recognition that while absolutely their brain chemistry changes, and neurological changes that happen with the constant use of psychoactive drugs, that saying that it is merely a "Brain Disease," makes no sense given the social and the psychological aspects to it that begin the persons use to begin with. I mean, people didn't necessarily have a brain dysfunction, and they went looking for drugs to solve it. Although maybe we could come back to that, because as a psycho pharmacologist, I do have a lot of belief in the changes that happen to the brain, but let me go back more to the development of some of these ideas.
So, I got to the point where I just felt like I could not professionally refer to these drug treatment programs, nor could I really recommend that people go to Twelve-Step meetings, because what I saw there was a kindler, gentler version of what was happening in formal drug treatment.
It was still this sort of requirement that one tell one's story in the same way, which is, "I got involved in drugs and alcohol. My life fell apart. I got into AA. I became abstinent, and now my life is better." It was like hearing a religious mantra, over and over and over again.
Dr. Van Nuys: They have to confess essentially to being a sinner at some level.
Dr. Denning: Yes, and it is confessional. I mean, the origins of Alcoholics Anonymous lie in predominantly the Oxford Group, which was an evangelical Christian group that was formed by businessmen for the most part, who were really striving to combine Christian development and moral development with capitalism. They believed that a good Christian made a better businessman. So, the Oxford Group, it was partly about this moral development. They had a series of steps that included admitting that you were powerless over urges to sin, taking a moral inventory, telling people of the wrongs that you committed.
Then, when Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob became alcoholics themselves, they used some of the Oxford Group as a way of helping themselves, and as a result wrote "The Twelve-Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous," which are based almost completely on the Oxford Group. So, there is a religious, it was meant to be a religious and spiritual fellowship. It was meant to be a suggested path of development for people.
It became... And I don't want to get in too much into the history, this wonderful, wonderful history written by Charles Bufe called "Alcoholics Cult or Cure?" and it talks about the history of the development, and how AA changed over the years from being a spiritual fellowship that had some suggestions for how people could overcome an alcohol problem, to this modelific business in the United States. It's a very, very fascinating and eye-opening read.
So, I just started basically not referring people out to drug treatment and saying to my staff, "We're going to work with these people now, right here in our clinic. We're going to use the same psychotherapy techniques that we use with everybody else, and we're going to see what happens."
Dr. Van Nuys: The word on the street at that time... I use the "On the street," mostly, actually the word in academia was "Nothing else work, only Twelve-Step Programs work."
Dr. Denning: That is still sort of the battle cry of both professionals and non-professionals right now, despite all of the research that indicates that Twelve-Step is not particularly successful, that formal drug treatment, which in this country is now called the "Minnesota Model," and it came out of Hazelton. The Minnesota Model is a combination of a Medical Model and the Disease Model, and it uses predominately Alcoholics Anonymous as its basis for treatment. As years have gone by, they've added other things, Family Treatment and Trauma, and this and that, but it's all based on the Disease Model.
And that's still 95% of the treatment in this country is based on the Minnesota Model, despite the research that shows really appalling outcomes, a maximum success rate of 35%. The range in outcome studies is usually between 18% and 35% success for these treatments. The other interesting thing about the statistics is that most people who are doing the research don't count people who drop out of treatment.
So, of the people who stay in treatment, and that is often fewer than half that actually entered, so of those people who complete treatment, only 18% to 35% of them are successful if you call abstinence the success. Now, they're drinking a lot less, they're using fewer drugs, they're holding onto their jobs and their families, they're contributing to society, but they're counted as a failure, because they're not completely abstinent.
I started reading these things. I started reading research that showed, "Oh, we actually do know what doesn't work, which is confrontation. We're getting an idea of what does work, which is empathy, and cognitive behavioral interventions."
I met then Edith Springer, who I consider to be the 'grand diva' of harm reduction. She and Allen Marlap, who is my other mentor, he's up at the University of Washington in Seattle as an internationally known researcher on drug and alcohol. They both separately went to Amsterdam to see their Needle Exchange Programs, to see what this word "Harm reduction" meant, because it had been adopted as the public health philosophy in the Netherlands. And they came away from that realizing that there are fundamental values that the Dutch government had put into place, that they were calling harm reduction.
And one of the values was everybody is worth saving. Everybody has something to contribute. And, it's our job to protect people and help them deal with the harms that they may be causing, as well as to help society and help families deal with this. And they setup needle exchange programs. They setup medical vans to take care of drug using people who had medical problems who were being discriminated against. And they were having huge successes.
Dr. Van Nuys: Boy, that's a very different attitude, isn't it, then we have over here.
Dr. Denning: Absolutely, absolutely. And I think the politics of it at this point are really scary. But, when you think that harm reduction is based on the idea that everybody is worth saving, and in our country, we seemed to have made some decisions about who is not worth saving.
Dr. Van Nuys: -huh.
Dr. Denning: And if you look at our prisons, those are the throw away people. And the vast majority of people are in prisons because of non violent drug offences.
Dr. Denning: So, it's really frightening - and people often say to me "You know, Patt, you are a psychologist. You are a therapist. Why are you talking about all this politics?" And I am talking about politics because you can't separate our drug policy from our criminal justice system and from our treatment.
Dr. Denning: Because it's all woven together.
Dr. Van Nuys: Yes. I can really see that.
Dr. Denning: Yeah, yeah. It's quite frightening. But so, with the encouragement of Alan Marlatt and the inspiration of Edith Springer, I decided to become more academic in my approach. And Alan opened up his extensive library to me up in Seattle. And I began researching: What is it that has worked in drug treatment? What are people talking about? And I was both excited and enraged at what I saw because - I had a lot of schooling. I like school. I loved to read. And I had never come across any of the literature that I was reading now. It was all about things called motivational interviewing and cognitive behavioral approaches to behavior change - the whole stages of change model of Prochaska and DiClemente. All of this stuff out there that these people were doing that we knew worked. And none of it was taking place in our treatment programs.
So, I just started combining - you know, I was trained as a psychodynamic therapist.
Dr. Denning: I was also trained earlier on as a rogerian. And I had a lot of interest and had a post-doc in psychopharmacology. So, I was really ready willing and able to put together a multilevel and multidisciplinary theory as well as practice. And I did that over a number of years and finally Alan Marlatt said "You know, there's nobody writing about harm reduction treatment. We are all writing about research. We are writing about needle exchange. We are writing about public health. Nobody is writing about treatment. And so that's your job, Patt."
Dr. Denning: And I am like "You got to be kidding. I have been setup"
Dr. Denning: I swore after I finished my dissertation that I would never write another thing.
Dr. Van Nuys: I hear you.
Dr. Denning: Oh... bored. But, I was convinced that it seemed to be true that there wasn't anybody else developing a theory of psychotherapy or a model of psychotherapy for drug problems. And so, I wrote "Practicing Harm Reduction Psychotherapy," which is my first book. And it outlines - it starts out with a critique of traditional treatment. And then outlines a multidisciplinary assessment and treatment approach that I just sort of... I think it was Andrew Tatarsky actually who is in New York who first coined the phrase harm reduction psychotherapy. I don't think that's mine.
Dr. Denning: Pretty sure that he used that phrase. And then we've all kind of taken it up.
Dr. Van Nuys: So, that wasn't the phrase that wasn't being used in The Netherlands then or by Alan Marlatt?
Dr. Denning: No, no. They didn't have treatment. They didn't have formal treatment that was using harm reduction.
Dr. Van Nuys: OK. And when we say harm reduction, lets spell out what sorts of harm are we talking about and for whom is the harm being reduced?
Dr. Denning: Right. The global definition of harm reduction is any attempt to reduce drug and alcohol related harm to the individual, to their families or to society at large.
Dr. Denning: And as psychotherapists we tend to focus on the individual - but not always. You know, when we are mandated to report suspected child abuse that's harm reduction for the child.
Dr. Denning: It may not be harm reduction for the parents or the adult. But it's certainly harm reduction for that member of the family, the child. When we legislate seat belt laws, that's partly harm reduction for the individual, but it's also partly harm reduction for others, for the community at large so that if somebody runs into you, you don't get killed because you don't have a seat belt on. So, that's a broad idea of harm reduction in our public health interventions. And in terms of most of the public health interventions Well Baby Clinics, vaccinations things like that - meal programs in schools. All of those are harm reduction strategies and are mostly not controversial. It's only when we start talking about drugs and alcohol and harm reduction do people get a little nuts. And we tend to lose some emotional balance when we think about reducing harm that's related to drugs and alcohol. Because we have this just say no and zero tolerance policy in this country.
It's either all or nothing. You either don't use drugs. You quit. You never start. Or, you are a horrible nasty addict and you are a criminal.
Dr. Van Nuys: Yes. In your book on harm reduction you have a chapter proactively titled, "Is it OK to get high" Is it? [laughs]
Dr Denning: Right, exactly. Well, that's a moral decision. It's a moral decision that society makes as well as individuals make. I think, getting high really means altering ones consciousness. I don't know if you remember, but I did this as a kid - spin around in big circles and get really dizzy and fall down.
Dr. Van Nuys: Oh yes. And also learn to knock ourselves out to go unconscious.
Dr. Denning: Yes [laughs] That's right, that's right. Exactly. And so, that's getting high. That's altering ones conscious.
Dr. Denning: And it seems to be a basic human drive.
Dr. Van Nuys: It's pretty universal across cultures and time.
Dr. Denning: Yes, it really is. And I think the whole idea of pleasure also comes into it. That being high or intoxicated is often seen in our culture about pleasure. Certainly, there is a lot of religious intoxication that goes on in different cultures. But, in terms of social intoxication, it's associated with pleasure. And what you think about the pursuit of pleasure is going to influence what you think about getting high. Is pleasure something that we are supposed to actively pursue as part of life, as part of celebrating life as a way to counter balance all of the problems in life? Or is pleasure something - "Well, it's OK to take part in if it happens to come along, but you shouldn't pursue it." Or is pleasure the work of the devil, and should we avoid it?
Those kinds of values, some of which are based on moral values, some are based on religious, but those values help us define what we think about getting high. In our society in the last 30 years, we've decided that getting high is wrong. I'm not exactly sure historically how we decided that, but we certainly decided that getting high is wrong.
So, when you start trying to think of a treatment for people who have developed problems with drugs or alcohol, you can't lose sight of that sort of natural desire to get high. It's certainly gone array, it's gotten all messed up with people.
Dr. Van Nuys: Yeah, but in some earlier societies it was channeled more in terms of religious traditions and rituals, and so on.
Dr. Denning: Yeah, there were boundaries around the use. You drank a lot of wine at certain occasions, or you took psychedelic drugs at certain occasions, and it was standardized into the cultures. Prohibition did a lot to cause us alcohol problems, because with Prohibition and the banning of alcohol, for the first time people started drinking alcohol without any other social context to it. Ordinarily it was with dinner, or it was out in public with friends, and now all of a sudden you had to do it very secretly.
Dr. Van Nuys: Yes. Well, it's a right of passage for younger and younger children.
Dr. Denning: Right, absolutely, absolutely, yeah, yeah. So, I think that our demonizing of alcohol and drugs continues to make them very alluring for young people.
Dr. Denning: It is clear that the younger the person starts using drugs or alcohol, the more likely it is they're going to run into trouble, because their judgment isn't fully developed, their impulse control is not fully developed, and so a 13-year-old starting to smoke pot is going to have a very different experience than a 19-year-old smoking pot.
Dr. Van Nuys: Yes, and probably there are issues relating to brain development, and so on.
Dr. Denning: Oh, absolutely! I don't think we know what they are, because nobody is studying that, I'm not sure. I mean you'd have to do prospective studies, which nobody is really doing prospective studies in terms of drug use, at least as far as I know, but I would imagine, sure. That you're developing all sorts of connections into your frontal lobe during adolescence that help improve judgments, and impulse control, and abstract thinking, and who knows how some of these drugs may interfere or may enhance - who knows? Our fear of course, is that it's going to interfere.
Dr. Van Nuys: Yes. I want to make sure that you have a chance to talk about the Harm Reduction Centers that you run in San Francisco and Oakland. So, maybe you could tell us a little bit about that.
Dr. Denning: Sure. I decided to quit working for Katy Mental Health in 1993, because I could see sort of the managed care and restriction of services starting to happen, and that just really bothered me. So, I quit and went into private practice, where I was much more able also to more fully develop this treatment model called, "Harm Reduction Psychotherapy." I met a colleague, Jeannie Little, who's a social worker, who was a group specialist, and had started a Harm Reduction Group at the VA Homeless Vet Center in San Francisco. She was wanting to get into private practice and do groups, and I'm like, "Oh, great, because I don't do groups. We need groups."
She and I started talking more and more, and realized that we both missed community based work. We missed being able to work with a full range of people. In private practice, you've got to charge a fair amount of money in order to pay your bills.
Dr. Denning: So, we really wanted to have something in addition to a private practice, and so we started the Harm Reduction Therapy Center in the year 2000. Now, unfortunately, that was not a good year to start getting private donations, since everything, we were in quite a financial crisis in 2000 as well.
Dr. Van Nuys: I was going to say, it's probably better than this year.
Dr. Denning: Yes, absolutely better! [laughs] It took us a couple of years to develop it and get started, but we officially started seeing clients in 2002. We have our main office in San Francisco, and we also have offices in Oakland. What then happened over time is that we started-we do a lot of professional training, and a lot of consulting in organizations, because the Public Health Department of San Francisco declared Harm Reduction to be the policy for all city programs.
Dr. Van Nuys: Yeah!
Dr. Denning: Yeah, and this happened, I can't remember exactly when, but probably in the year 2000, maybe in the year 2002. So, all of these programs had to learn about Harm Reduction, and we were the only people doing it. So, we did enormous amounts of training, and staff development, organizational consulting, to help people change their agencies from 'not' Harm Reduction friendly to Harm Reduction friendly. So, which includes things like, "OK, you now have a policy that says you have to be 30 days clean and sober in order to get services here," that's no longer allowed. So, you can no longer have that policy, now what are you going to do?
Dr. Denning: So, as we developed more and more organizational consultation, as well as more clinical training, we were invited into more and more agencies in San Francisco. Then, people started saying, "Well, how about you do some direct service with our clients?" So, we now have therapy teams that we train. We have a two year Post-Masters or a Post-Doc training program in Harm Reduction Therapy. We train the therapists, and then in addition to working in the private practice model, we place them in a small Harm Reduction Therapy Center clinic in the community.
So, like at Tenderloin Health in San Francisco, which is one of the largest social service drop-in organizations, they see sometimes up to 300 people a day in the drop-in community center. We have a Harm Reduction Center team there with three or four therapists, a supervisor, a part-time doctor, and part-time psychiatric nurse practitioner.
So, we do medications, we do therapy, for the most disorganized and chaotic folks in San Francisco, mostly seriously mentally ill, active drug use, serious medical problems, and we do most of it on a drop-in basis. It's exactly the same method that we use in our private practice.
Dr. Van Nuys: Now, are you doing any kind of research to help document the effectiveness of this?
Dr. Denning: Yeah, yeah we are. That was something that was really important to me at the beginning, it's unfortunately because of funding and admin time has not gotten off as well as possible. I formed a research advisory team for us, and we came up with a research protocol that includes five different measures, outcome measures, that indicate increased motivation for change, increased changes, and decreased specific harms, and have all the measures in the packet. We give those to every new client who comes in. And then, we are supposed to do them every six months thereafter. And it's that second part that we've being having trouble administratively getting. We now have a volunteer research assistant, who is going to start getting those second and third batches in and start doing some data analysis.
We did a quick and dirty, an archival, data collection about, I think, four years ago - I am not sure. And what we found was pretty astonishing. Well, first of all we labeled drug use a little differently than is in the manual. We talked about recreational use, maintenance use which could be a person who is actually dependent on alcohol, but they are using it in a regular kind of way and it's not interfering much with their life, but they are still using way too much in term of medical consequences.
And then, we also had a category called chaotic, which means just really out of control, suffering a lot of harms, having no success in moderating or quitting their use. Just really out of control.
And then we listed from a chart review three drugs that a person might be using. We listed a maximum of three. Drug number one, which is the client self identified major problem. And then, drug two, which seemed secondary and drug three. And we did the outcomes on just the use of those drugs. And the amazing thing that we found is that almost half of people who had a chaotic drug use were abstinent from that drug at the end of treatment.
Dr. Denning: It's amazing.
Dr. Van Nuys: Yeah, it is.
Dr. Denning: Given that, nobody came to us saying that they want to quit drugs. They all came saying they were hoping to moderate or whatever. But, up to 50% had decided on their own - well, with our help - that the best harm reduction strategy for them at least from that number one chaotic drug of choice was abstinence.
Dr. Van Nuys: OK. So, how hopeful or optimistic are you about this approach spreading to other parts of the country?
Dr. Denning: You know, I am very optimistic about it at this point. I am working with an organization in Boston. We are working with large organizations in Chicago that are redoing their entire programs over to harm reduction. And these are agencies that include a lot of social services, housing, supportive housing, case management as well as treatment, mostly residential treatment. And they have embraced the idea. And they are just really needing those clinical training and the organization development to do that. And it's been really wonderful to work with folks, because, when you think about individual therapy, there's a lot that you can do in individual therapy that is very creative. Hopefully, is to the better of your client. It's not hurting anybody else.
But, when you talk about residential, when you talk about people living in community, how then do you do harm reduction in a way that you can respect both the individual and the community?
So, if you are not going to kick people out for active drug use. How do you take care of other people who are in the facility who want to abstinent and are upset by somebody's use?
Dr. Van Nuys: Ah-ha.
Dr. Denning: So we do a lot of training about what's the meaning of craving and triggers. How there are wonderful treatment approaches, absolutely successful approaches to use to help people manage triggers and cravings.
Dr. Van Nuys: Well, this is all very inspirational I must say. I am glad to hear that these kinds of alternatives are out there. We probably should begin to wind down here.
Dr. Denning: OK.
Dr. Van Nuys: Where can listeners get more information on harm reduction?
Dr. Denning: Well, you can certainly go to our website, which is, harmreductiontherapy.org. And we have a lot of resources listed there. And we also have - well my original book is there - but there is also a lay person's version called "Over the Influence". And that's a book that Jeannie Little and I and a colleague wrote in - let's see now - 2004 I believe it came out. And it's basically taken the clinical model and has explained it for the general public. So, that you can use it as a self use book, or you can use it as just a way to begin thinking about your own use or thinking about somebody in your family. There's a chapter in that book 'Over the Influence' for family members. And how family members can use harm reduction for themselves when they are dealing with a loved one's drug addiction.
There is also a whole section on drugs. Pretty much every drug we could imagine and how it's used. And why people use it. What are the greatest harms that are associated with it and how you can begin to reduce the harm if you choose to keep using it. So, it's everything from alcohol to ketamine to iowaska to heroin.
Dr. Van Nuys: OK. well, that sounds like a wonderful resource.
Dr. Denning: Yeah. And there are lots of resources. There are websites in the back of that book "Over the Influence." There are resources all around the country - lots for reading, yeah.
Dr. Van Nuys: Excellent. Well, Dr. Patt Denning, thanks so much for being my guest today on Wise Counsel.
Dr. Denning: You are welcome. Thank you very much.
Dr. Van Nuys: I hope you learned as much I did from this conversation with Dr. Patt Denning. Her approach makes a lot of sense to me. The US spends a huge amount of money keeping substance abusers behind bars. I am wondering if there is any chance that the current fiscal crisis might drive a change in the political winds regarding substance use and abuse. It's not a question I got around to posing in the interview, but that might be one bit of silver lining to emerge from our financial mess. One can hope. You've been listening to Wise Counsel, a podcast interview series sponsored by CenterSite, LLC. Until next time, this is Dr. David Van Nuys and you've been listening to Wise Counsel.
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Henrietta Street, Bath 2 bed ground floor maisonette to rent - £1,850 pcm (£427 pw)
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Georgian splendour fused with cool contemporary in the heart of the City with this Grade 1 Listed, 2 bedroom furnished maisonette complete with its own private southerly-facing courtyard garden. It has just been fully re-furbished to an exceptionally high standard and comprises the ground and lower ground floors of this elegant Georgian townhouse. This property offers well-proportioned rooms, all tastefully decorated throughout in neutral Farrow and Ball tones, and with large windows allowing plenty of natural light. A new combination boiler in the utility cupboard provides underfloor heating throughout the entire lower ground floor and to the feature raw metal radiators upstairs.
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Boosting your productivity is knowing what saps it in the first place. Here are four reasons your to-do list might be suffering, along with strategies for making sure you stay focused on the job.
Everyone has days where they struggle to accomplish even the most minor task. You start to work bright and early only to look up and realize it's nearing lunch and you've barely managed to finish an email.
These types of days can be frustrating when you run your own business. As an entrepreneur, startup, or solopreneur, your time means money. If you're not getting anything done on the job, you could fall short of your weekly or monthly income goals, and that can put your business in jeopardy.
Part of boosting your productivity is knowing what saps it in the first place. Here are four common reasons your to-do list might be suffering, along with strategies for making sure you stay focused on the job.
It might be a cliché, but a lack of adequate sleep can be a major drain on your productivity. Many entrepreneurs think they can accomplish more by running on a few hours of sleep a night. In reality, skipping sleep or trying to power your mind on caffeine can backfire.
According to researchers from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, there is a strong link between going without sleep and diminished cognitive function. Even more alarming, studies have shown that insufficient sleep destroyed brain cells in mice. Scientists who studied the mice said that sleep deprivation caused the neurons in mice's brains to become damaged. Over time, the neurons died off.
While caffeine can offer a temporary jolt of alertness and focus, the effects eventually wear off. Worse, caffeine can cause negative side effects, such as jitters and rapid heart rate.
Health experts also say it's better to consume water when you're feeling sluggish and tired. Medical experts say up to two-thirds of people in the United States may have chronic dehydration, which can lead to long-term health problems, including difficulty concentrating. Water can give you the boost you need to accomplish a task, and there aren't any side effects to worry about.
In the long term, however, you should do your best to revamp your sleep routine. The National Sleep Foundation says most adults should be getting between seven and nine hours of sleep each night.
You can also improve your sleep by making your sleep environment more comfortable. For example, set bedtime each night and stick to it by going to bed at roughly the same time every night. You can also help induce better sleep by dimming the lights about an hour before you're due to go to bed. Health experts recommend staying off phones and avoiding watching television a couple of hours before bed, as the light from these devices stimulates your brain, which can make it harder to fall asleep and stay asleep.
In addition, most people sleep more soundly in a colder environment. You might find you get a better night's rest if you turn down your thermostat before bed.
2. You're Distracted by Social Media
It probably doesn't come as a surprise that checking social media can pull you away from work and make you less productive. Many people start out by telling themselves they will take a short break to check Twitter or look on Facebook, only to end up spending an hour or more scrolling through photos and news.
Furthermore, researchers have found that both good and bad news stories can negatively impact an individual's ability to focus.
When it comes to bad news stories, studies show the human brain processes negative news by amplifying an individual's personal anxieties. In other words, when you consume negative stories, you perceive even small personal threats and concerns as much bigger than they are in reality.
Unfortunately, it's also true that negative stories tend to get more clicks and views than positive ones, so you're more likely to see these types of news reports in your social media feed. This is because humans evolved to constantly scan for danger as a defense mechanism. The primitive parts of our brains want to be aware of any potential threat so we can prepare for it. In modern times, however, what should be a defense mechanism can end up putting you in a bad mood, which hurts your ability to get work done.
Interestingly, good stories on social media can also serve as a distraction. When you read something positive, your body can experience a rush of dopamine or adrenaline. If your excitement level gets too high, it can be tough to stay focused.
To avoid getting distracted by social media and online news reports, you can try setting aside short bursts of time for social media breaks. Many people find it helps to set a timer for these breaks. If you go into it knowing you only have 15 minutes to scroll, you're less likely to get lost in hours of mindless scrolling.
Some people even put their phone in a drawer, bag, or some other location out of immediate reach. If your phone isn't within easy access, you're less likely to reach for it as a source of distraction.
One of the biggest challenges of being an entrepreneur is trying to balance multiple roles. When you're launching a startup or running a small business, you don't typically have the budget to hire a large staff or work with contractors. This means taking on a lot of tasks.
While being a successful entrepreneur often means being willing to hustle, trying to do too much can actually leave you doing less over the long haul. In one study, which examined the relationship between speed and stress, researchers discovered that people who were routinely interrupted as they worked ended up working more quickly but ultimately produced less finished work.
Researchers also found that interruptions, which mimic the environment of multitasking, cause parts of the brain to produce the stress hormone, which triggers the release of adrenaline in your bloodstream. This can leave you too anxious and jittery to truly focus on work.
Unfortunately, many small business owners don't have a choice when it comes to multitasking. Without an extensive budget, they're left balancing multiple tasks all at once.
If you're bogged down with work, one strategy for minimizing your stress is to focus on controlling the things you can. For example, you can wear earbuds or noise-canceling headphones to reduce noise while you work. Other people use apps or software that stops them from checking email or looking at social media as they're working.
It can also help to work in a coworking environment rather than trying to work from home. While it can be convenient to work out of your dining room or basement office, working from home can also pose a challenge. For example, it can be tempting to turn on the television or throw a load of laundry in the washer.
Working from a coworking space like Venture X Dallas can help put you in the mindset of work, providing a much-needed division between your home life and work life. If you find yourself multitasking because you're trying to balance all the tasks of your personal life along with work obligations, having this separation between both sides of your life can be a game-changer.
4. You Dislike a Task or Project
No matter how much you love what you do, the reality is you're going to encounter a task or project that feels like pulling teeth or is simply unenjoyable. In some cases, work is truly work, and it can drag you down. When you come across something you dislike, you can lose focus and end up with flailing productivity.
For example, you might constantly delay accounting tasks or sending out invoices. These can be busy work tasks that fail to offer any real inspiration. When a task like this comes around, some people end up browsing social media, rearranging pens in their desk, or stepping out for a snack.
It can be tough to tackle a task you just don't want to do, which is why productivity experts recommend doing these types of tasks first. You can make a to-do list and put them right at the top. By getting them done quickly and first thing as you begin work, you get them out of the way and enjoy the boost that comes with knowing you don't have to dread those particular tasks for the rest of the day.
Of course, this might not work as well for a bigger project that demands more of your time. In that case, you can try breaking it up into smaller, more manageable chunks and scheduling time to work on it when you know you're at your most focused.
This is another area where using a coworking space can help. If you have a project that is both time-consuming and challenging to take on, working from a coworking space can be extremely helpful. If you need a lot of focus time, you can work when it suits you best, whether this is first thing in the morning or late at night. You can also get a quiet space to focus and develop your project free of distractions.
Good productivity can be key to running a successful business. In many cases, increasing your productivity is an easy fix, such as getting more sleep or moving your workspace to a coworking space so you can focus more and get more done. Your business will benefit from it, and you'll end up feeling more confident about the direction your business is moving.
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Low Cal Cocktails for a Cool & Confident Summer | the urbane life
Low Cal Cocktails for a Cool & Confident Summer
June 22, 2012By Stephanie GivensPin ItIt happens every year – all that hard work over the fall and winter months is kissed goodbye after a weekend or two of beerpong by the pool. If you're like me, the waist band expands as the temperatures rise and that's not the look anyone is going for poolside. Here are a few bikini-friendly cocktails that are sure to keep you cool and confident all summer long.
Cherry Smash: 161 calories
Best when made with Traverse City Cherries. Divide cherries, mint leaves, and sugar among 4 glasses. Mash everything together with the back of a wooden spoon. Stir in rum and lime juice. Fill glasses with ice and top with seltzer. Garnish with fresh mint. Monkeylada: 228 calories
A twist on the classic and calorie laden Pina Colada. Puree bananas, diced pineapple, pineapple juice, coconut milk, and ice in a blender. Stir in rum. Divide among 4 glasses. Garnish with pineapple wedges.
Farmers Market Margarita: 130 calories
1.25 ounces Patron Silver
Add all the ingredients in a mixing glass with ice, shake and serve over the rocks in an 8 oz. glass. Garnish with a lime wheel and pickled okra.
If you prefer to imbibe outside of your humble abode be sure to try What Crepe?'s signature Cucumber Martini or Gemmayze's refreshing red or white sangria.
Do you have favorite cocktails around Metro Detroit to recommend? Share them in the comments section below and please drink responsibly. No one likes "That Guy" or girl.
Stephanie GivensStephanie is a publicist, free lance writer and bad actress living and socializing in downtown Royal Oak. Originally from South Carolina, Stephanie moved to Michigan to attend graduate school at Wayne State University. She writes her own blog, The Smallest Pepper, about food, fashion and fun in Detroit and beyond. Enjoy more of her charming wit at smallestpepper.blogspot.comMore Posts - Website the urbane lifeUSA [email protected]: cherries, cocktails, margarita, pina colada, summer, what crepe? This entry was posted on June 22, 2012 at 12:16 pm and is filed under Eat, uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Sponsored By: Local Bike Paths The Urbane Life on TwitterThe Urbane Life has 13128 followersopheliamUStruthBSoutherntrecommuConduitMAUEN_BusDrYorikoDeniseJuPooPrintechoebusLandingALambkinKKasey051ReachGlepeggymar Get the The Oakland Press : Serving Oakland County widget and many other great free widgets at Widgetbox! Not seeing a widget? (More info)
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At Vacation Bible School this summer, our Argyle Kids learned that God’s heroes have power, hope, wisdom, and courage—and that each of us has a super-calling in God’s kingdom.
One young lady in particular, Ella Stoops, found transformation through serving in her Stepping Out 5th grade mission group. Ella and her friends answered God’s call to love the widow, the orphan, and the stranger by stepping out into our community and caring for a local widow’s garden. According to Ella, “people always said that missions always made them feel really good, but I didn’t think much of it until I actually did it.” Even though she had grown up hearing that serving others is good, this was the first time she experienced her “heart being warmed” by sharing God’s love with a stranger.
Ella learned that even the small act of caring for someone’s garden can make a “huge impact” in God’s kingdom by transforming the hearts of all involved.
Parents, at Argyle UMC we invite your kids to join us in our mission to transform the world one life at a time by participating in meaningful opportunities tailored specifically for them. You can always find upcoming opportunities at argyleumc.org/events or learn more about what we’re up to by liking us on Facebook at facebook.com/argyleumckids.
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Museum To Opel Holden Manufacturing Exhibit | GM Authority
Holden will close a long, historic chapter this October when the brand officially ceases manufacturing cars in Australia. However, memories and Holden's history will be honored in a recently-announced National Motor Museum exhibit.
According to ABC Radio Adelaide, the museum, settled in Adelaide Hills, will suspend six cars from the ceiling in a replica of the Elizabeth assembly plant's production line.
"We're looking at suspending six cars from the ceiling in the museum, so it's going to be quite a big display — it will be quite striking I think," Holden corporate affairs manager Sophie Milic said. "We're going to focus on the cars that we've built over the last few years."
One of the six cars is true piece of history: the 50,000th Holden VF Commodore to roll off the assembly line. The car was built in 2014.
The display will open in September ahead of Holden's final day of manufacturing. The entire exhibit will cost $600,000 AUD (about $478,000 USD) and funds are being contributed by Holden itself, long-time Holden suppliers and the state government.
"This is history in the making; this is a moment in time and we're there to help document it," museum director Paul Rees said.
Australia is one of 13 countries around the world that has been capable of building a car entirely from scratch—an accomplishment the museum plans to honor for generations to come.
"South Australia has a very proud history of car manufacturing and it is appropriate that we support a lasting legacy to ensure future generations understand how important automotive manufacturing is to our state's history," Automotive Transformation Minister Kyam Maher said.
Holden will cease manufacturing on October 20, 2017, just shy of its 70th year of production.
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Would be interesting to know the 13 countries that have the ability to develop and build a car from scratch…. I'm guessing Australia, China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Russia, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the USA, but lost as to who the other 2 might be? Brazil? Canada? Malaysia? Spain?
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African Mask Design Lesson Plan for 5th Grade | Lesson Planet
Fifth graders design and create an African mask using black paper and oil pastels.
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Young scholars make an African mask. In this culture and heritage lesson, students view samples of African masks and learn about the importance of these masks. Young scholars visit the African Art Museum website to view the styles of...
Students investigate a variety of African mask types, design several masks, and create an example of an African ceramic mask in this 5th grade through High School Art instructional activity. The instructional activity can take anywhere...
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Courtney’s nail-biting eventually became so serious that she once bit her thumb nail completely off. It never grew back properly, resulting in a persistent bruised and purplish discolouration.
Since her shock diagnosis in July, Courtney has undergone four surgeries. Sadly her thumb had to be amputated just one week ago. “I also had two lymph nodes taken out for them to test whether or not the cancer had spread. The pigmentation from my thumb had travelled so it was dark but none of the malignant cells had travelled yet,” Courtney, who lives on the Gold Coast, told The Sun.
“Literally everything we’ve caught, we’ve caught it on the cusp of it going to the rest of my body – the timing has just been everything.”
Courtney’s passion for writing has been affected by her thumb amputation, and she's also had to defer her university course to recover.
"I’m still waiting for that set of results from the surgery last week and if it’s clear then the surgeon watches me for the next five years and I get regular scans and bloods," she said.
"There’s not enough research to say what the survival rate is or what the likelihood of it coming back is because – we just don’t know much about it. I’ve just cried every time it’s been brought up. The location of the cancer in my thumb is unknown so if it still shows up then they’re just going to have to keep cutting away until we get a clear result."
Following the surgery, Courtney's mother, Sara Whithorn, revealed to Marie Claire that high school bullying was the cause of her daughter's severe nail-biting. She hopes that Courtney's ordeal can be a lesson to everyone about the extreme trauma - both mental and physical - that bullying can lead to.
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Logility Acquires Optiant, Inc. | Supply and Demand Chain Executive
Award-winning Inventory Optimization Software to Become Key Component of Logility Voyager Solutions Suite
Logility will incorporate the Optiant products into the Logility Voyager Solutions™ suite branded as Voyager Inventory Optimization. The addition of Optiant further strengthens Logility Voyager Solutions as a comprehensive supply chain solution marketed to midsize, large, and Fortune 1000 companies in the consumer goods, life sciences, process manufacturing, discrete manufacturing, wholesale distribution, and high-tech industries. Like other components in Logility's suite, Voyager Inventory Optimization can be deployed as a stand-alone solution or as a part of a broader supply chain initiative.
"With this acquisition, Logility Voyager Solutions becomes the first best-of-breed full suite solution to deliver award-winning inventory optimization capabilities to manufacturing and distribution businesses that manage complex, multi-echelon supply chains," stated Mike Edenfield, Logility president and CEO. "We're providing a solution suite that helps businesses significantly lower inventory while improving customer service levels in both good and bad economies."
"Traditional enterprise approaches to inventory management like economic order quantities and statistics-based safety stock bring balance to the tradeoffs between inventory and cost or service. However, these are difficult to aggregate into business-level targets, especially for complex supply chains with multiple stages of inventory," continued Edenfield. "Optiant provides advanced techniques that complement existing ERP and supply chain systems to drive strategic value across complex product lines, manufacturing strategies and distribution networks."
Technology: Developed by researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology working with industry-leading supply chain practitioners, the award-winning Optiant products model and identify interdependencies across the entire supply chain network, from raw materials suppliers and supplier-managed inventory through manufacturing and distribution stages to vendor-managed inventory at customer sites. The solutions help companies reduce inventory costs, shorten lead times, evaluate sourcing alternatives, handle supply uncertainty, and balance demand variability with key business objectives.
Organization: The Optiant sales, support and development team will join Logility and continue to focus on providing industry-leading optimization expertise across the Logility Voyager Solutions suite.
Customer Base: Optiant has helped transformed supply chains for respected industry leaders including Black & Decker, Procter & Gamble, Kraft, HP, Nestle, and Boston Scientific. These companies will benefit from new research and development investments and the great customer service Logility is known for.
"We are excited to become part of the Logility team, and have long admired Logility's robust supply chain suite, large and satisfied customer base, and proven track record of financial stability which will provide an excellent platform for additional growth and innovation," said John Ruark Ph.D., chief technology officer and co-founder of Optiant. "There is tremendous synergy in the types of companies we serve and our customers will benefit from access to a comprehensive supply c
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The total replacement cost is R12 million From a down payment that we have made CIS has supplied conveyor belt pieces measuring 12 kilometers and more deliveries are expected soon said Mr
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High Ridge F.D. Chief Tries Out the Library's New Fire Truck - Around Town - Fenton-High Ridge, MO Patch
The High Ridge Rotary Club played Santa early this year, when they delivered and set up the new Early Childhood Learning Center toy collection at the Northwest Branch of the Jefferson County Library, according to director Pam Klipsch in a news release.
The High Ridge Rotarians applied for a $2,000 grant from Rotary International to fund the purchase of the toys for the library. High Ridge Rotary President Retta Susan Tuggle, also serves on the Jefferson County Library Board of Trustees. "When I received word of the grant program this year," Tuggle said, "I immediately contacted Pam Klipsch to find out if there was something we could do for the library."
Klipsch suggested the toy collection for preschoolers at the library. "I spent sixteen years as a children's librarian," Klipsch said. "The library where I worked had a small early learning play area for preschoolers when I arrived, and we added to it considerably over the years I was there. The parents and children loved having the toys there, and the play area was always in use."
Klipsch explained that early learning toys are designed to foster the developmental needs of small children, such as gross and fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination, spatial relationships, logic and language development. Some of the toys will be available in the children's area of the library for independent play. Other toys will be used as part of small group programs that children's librarian Molly Schmitt will offer for parents and children at the library.
JCL has a similar collection, donated by the Boemler family in honor of Loretta Boemler, housed in the children's area at the Arnold Branch Library. "And we would love to find a donor willing to fund a similar collection at our Windsor Branch," Klipsch hinted.
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Andrea Baronchelli, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, City, University of London.______ From Washington DC to Wall Street, 2021 has already seen online groups causing major organised offline disruption. Some of it has been in violation of national laws, some in violation of internet platforms' terms of service. When these groups are seen to cause
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Banter of a Blond Republican Couple: What you don't want to hear on the radio:
Joyce June 25, 2009 at 9:16 PM
Wow, that is hot, MacKenzie. It got to almost 90 here today, and tomorrow it could reach 95. That is too hot for me. I like it around 75 or so. Give my son heck for bringing you back to Texas, ha! Try and stay cool, okay?
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About this time every year, I start wishing I lived in Tibet. Alas and alack, no cool mountain region for me this year.
Do you work 9-5? I was wondering if you would want to help me work label organization magic on my apartment. And provide some inspiration and ideas for getting my kitchen back in shape. I'm having a hard time figuring out how to finish out the Pantry Challenge with what I've got without cooking really odd food.
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Join myself, Charlie Sharpe and a small group of like-minded trail runners for a week of trail running improvements and breakthroughs in 2019. I've combined my knowledge and experience from over 100 ultras and 8 years of successfully coaching hundreds of clients in my training business, into an intensive coaching week where we will discover together what it takes to take your performance to the next level.
Me and my team have a great knowledge of the area to ensure we hit the best trails along with a fantastic chalet and talented staff to look after us and prepare high quality meals, all included It's going to be a great week where you can leave the stresses of everyday life and purely focus on running and enjoying the holiday!
And... It's timed specifically for those that might be looking to get a solid block of training in for the big summer races.
You might just want to enjoy a fantastic week of trail running with like-minded people in (hopefully) nice weather!
We have all the logistics and planning taken care of, meaning all you need to do is pack your bags and book your own flights and then enjoy the running!
We'll be staying approx 1 hour from Geneva Airport, close to the Swiss/ French boarder surrounded by fantastic trails and stunning scenery in the valley.
You'll just need to get to Geneva airport, we'll bring you over to the chalet. Meals are included except for one night where we usually go to a local restaurant, approx (€20) so you might need a bit of spending money for any souvenirs or odd snacks and drinks that you fancy, but that's it. Full details regarding menu etc are finalised nearer to the time (we have catered for those that can't tolerate dairy products etc)
Each day there will be a short discussion/ workshop on a different aspect of running, a mobility training session in the morning, different running sessions each day which can be adapted to your personal goals each with a different focus, hill training, descending, speed training, long runs and a couple of additional easy runs for those who want to. You'll have plenty to do but also some time to relax and enjoy your holiday of course!
You'll be running through some stunning scenery including technical trails and some fantastic, varied terrain.
Ideally you should be comfortably able to run 10 miles in one go as a minimum and be running 3-4 times per week at least. There is time to increase your fitness from now until June but if you're not sure, please just ask, I'll personally be jumping on the phone with each applicant to check we're a good fit and to ensure this really is going to be a great week for you, There's no pressure here and of course nobody will be left behind in the hills! We've not lost anyone yet ;)
If this sounds like something you might be after, use the contact form below and Charlie will be in touch to have a chat with you about different options and prices available and to see if it's going to fit your needs. If you have any specific queries, please use the comments section as you fill out the form.
I personally use skyscanner.net to find the best flights. If you're booking in from the UK flight prices can be surprisingly cheap (usually easily under £100 return) from the main airports at this time of year. Flight time is sub 2 hours from Manchester, London, Birmingham. Bristol, Liverpool to Geneva!
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You don't have to be skinny to be sexy or beautiful. Beauty is the size of your heart, not the size of your waist. Confidence is sexy!
There's been a lot of confusing and conflicting information over the years put forth as to whether or not exercise is a useful tool for weight loss. And not only has debate raged over whether or not it's exercise or diet that's a useful weight loss tool.
If one wants to take the exercise approach, for example, there are many arguments as to just what kind is best, both from a fat burning perspective and a health and safety one.
And none of these arguments are without merit. Any type of weight loss program should not be entered into lightly, in order to protect one's health, time, and money. It's easier to burn through cash than it is body fat trying to reduce waistlines.
All of this should be considered before taking up the A4 Size Waist Challenge. The challenge of course, as chronicled on China's Weibo, is to reduce waist sizes to the size of a vertically held sheet of 8.3 x 11.7-inch-wide (21cm wide) A4 piece of printer paper. Is such a feat possible?
To get that A4 size waist, or achieve weight loss of any significance, various approaches have to be looked at. The key, of course, is to burn up more calories than one takes in, resulting in a reduction of body fat. Watching what one eats definitely helps. However, exercise is the best way to achieve lasting weight loss.
Why go to all the effort of shrinking down to an A4 size waist if you can't keep it? But as this data from the internationally famous Mayo Clinic shows, not all types of exercise get the same calorie burning results. One of the listed forms of exercise that does? Running.
Humans have been running since the time they began moving around on two legs, although admittedly they were first doing it for survival, either running from megafauna, or themselves hunting.
Running as a form of sport showed up in ancient Greece and Britain as a part of religious ceremonies thousands of years ago. And running as a means of training for other sports has been around for hundreds of years as well. But it wasn't until the publishing of a book called Jogging in the United States in 1962 that the general public began to truly understand the many benefits that running could offer them.
A daily running program has not only been shown to burn off calories, and burn up body fat, it improves mental and emotional health, improves the quality of one's sleep, and even enhances sex drive!
The short answer to this question is that it depends. More specifically, it depends on what you are doing in addition to running. Remember, a running program's biggest contribution to weight loss is that it helps to keep lost weight from returning.
The single biggest factor that contributes to weight loss is taking in fewer calories than you're burning up when exercising. So to truly make progress in waist shrinking, you need to combine your running regime with a specific calorie diet.
But one must be careful. You're not going to be enjoying, and others won't be admiring, that A4 size waist if you get ill or worse by not safely combining diet and exercise to achieve it.
While there are lots of carbs included in this suggested diet, these foods are important in order to stay healthy and be able to continue running. You must burn off about 3,500 calories in order to lose one pound, so adjust the amounts of these recommended foods accordingly, in order to be able to run off what you eat.
Remember to stay well hydrated as well. Water not only acts as an appetite suppressant, it protects your body's various systems while exercising. Avoid so-called "energy drinks" while exercising. These products tend to be high in sugar and caffeine, and not much that's going to be helpful in achieving that A4 size waist.
And after running, don't fight off your body's tiredness and the urge to sleep. Studies have shown that a lack of sleep can result in the body retaining and even gaining weight.
So while running, combined with reduced calorie intake are your best hopes of shrinking the waistline, remember that it has to be a dedicated, daily, running program of five miles or more to really see results.
There's nothing wrong with indoor or treadmill running in poor weather either, as long as you increase treadmill time to compensate for the ground that you're losing by not actually moving.
Non-running tips include giving up alcohol, a beverage whose high calorie count is very "sobering". Taking a Vitamin D supplement on a daily basis has been shown to trigger weight loss in users.
And accepting that you might not reach your A4 size goal in running and exercising, and hey, that's all right, can be helpful as well. Those with positive, cheerful outlooks tend to get the best results with both weight loss and exercise programs.
So if one treats the A4 Size Challenge as a "maybe" goal, and treats running as a great form of relaxation and exercise rather than a means to an end, one might find that they've achieved their goal without even trying.
Whether you think the A4 size paper waist challenge is simply absurd or if you are paper thin, we have only this to say.
Singaporeans are health conscious yet adventurous when it comes to trying out emerging trends. While the trend of running is growing, so are other fitness activities gaining popularity. Today, let's check out some of the current fitness movements that you must absolutely try when they eventually find their way into Singapore's workout centres.
Don't settle down in this island nation if your idea of fun is lying around and snacking on fattening food. Singaporeans are passionate about healthy living, and you won't have to look too far for proof that everyone has the fitness fever. Various types of exercise programs have captured Singaporeans' imaginations, so you might think there isn't room for more, but don’t bet on it because you won't win. We found 10 interesting types of exercise/fitness experiences that promise to tone your body and uplift your spirit. Your job is to discover the one that best suits your personality and goals.
Some of these fitness trends have already hit Singapore while others might still be in the works. You can find out more at your local fitness centres.
What it is: A dynamic, full-body cardio workout pairing simulated drumming with light resistance exercises.
Why it could be popular here: Pounding is like a smorgasbord of exercise for Singaporeans who get bored easily and want as much variety as possible packed into an efficient, 45-minute workout, so expect everything from isometrics to cardio and Pilates to plyometrics done to the pounding beat of rock and roll. If this workout doesn't hype your heart rate and burn fat at warp speed, you're not doing it right!
What it is: Channel your inner sex kitten by indulging in pole dancing to increase your endurance and strength.
Why it could be popular here: Who doesn’t want to refine their seduction skills while indulging in one of the most exotic types of exercise on the planet? People discovering the wonders of pole dance workouts aren’t shy about touting its benefits because the moves they master not only improve their bodies but expand their seduction repertoires as well. Want muscle? How about definition? Who doesn’t see the benefits of an exercise program that can re-energize one’s love life? Not us.
Why it could be popular here: Not everybody has the wherewithal to stick with an exercise regimen that's repetitive, but you’ll never face that if you give in to the Bokwa Fitness craze. Here's how it works: You draw letters and figures on the ground while burning up to 1,200 calories per session to the beat of some of the hottest dance music on the planet. Keeping time with the music while composing your own alphabetic/numeric equation can fool your head into thinking it’s doing math rather than exercising. Your gain? Kiss 1,000 calories goodbye.
What it is: An exciting new ballgame capable of leaving every other stress ball workout in the dust.
Why it could be popular here: Do you love gimmicks, props and exercise toys? Proclaim yourself a Ugifit convert. Use a reinvented stress ball to get the quickest comprehensive workout imaginable. Train with an Ugi master eager to introduce you to new moves using the squishy ball that helps you work through hamstring presses, planks and tricep pushups. If you've retired your old ball because you couldn't make things work, retrieve it to give your body 30 minutes of cardio, strength and core training. Your ball will love you for putting it back to work.
What it is: A dance fitness program that involves dance and aerobic elements with choreography incorporates hip-hop, soca, samba, salsa, merengue and mambo moves demands a look-see.
Why it could be popular here: Shakira is right: Hips don't lie. Yours won't if you're one of the few people who has yet to sample this lively, addictive fitness class that pushes you into a frenzy of calorie-burning aerobic exercises. Even the hip-hop tunes used to fuel the beat are salted with percussion instruments as you samba, rumba and shake your booty to the beat. Everyone around you has so much fun doing their thing, no one notices who has or hasn't mastered the moves, so dance away with wild abandon. One warning: Zumba is addictive and fun especially if you make friends with like-minded Singapore Sling enthusiasts for post-workout libations.
What it is: If pole dancing doesn't get you high enough, aerial yoga, silks and hoops will do the job.
Why it could be popular here: When was the last time friends bragged about a fitness program requiring them to dangle from the ceiling to build strength and flexibility? If the answer is never, be the pioneer in Singapore, spinning tales of a workout menu that includes traditional yoga poses and stretches, all while suspended from the ceiling. Obviously, aerial workouts won't fly with folks suffering from acrophobia, but you can improve everything from your breathing to your flexibility with classes focused on high-flying maneuvers. Wave to the earthbound souls beneath your feet as you fly yourself to fitness.
What it is: A clever new fitness aid replaces hefty, metal bars for a more versatile, strength-building experience.
Why it could be popular here: Dragging around metal dumbbells and bars is a drag, but if you substitute sandbells, you’ll discover a clever new workout delivering comparable results: an exercise routine that delivers full-body strength building without relying upon heavy dumbbells to complete the circuit. Fairly new to the Pacific, sandbells are trending in the UK, so it's only a matter of time before they show up at your favorite workout facility. Want to be the trend setter in your crowd? Search the Internet for sandbells and replace your existing equipment with these lighter, versatile aids.
What it is: This program offers a completely different workout every day of the week to stave off boredom.
Why it could be popular here: The word 'repetition' takes on new meaning if you enroll in a CrossFit program. Yes, you will do a million reps but since you only do them one day per week and move on to new moves the following day, you won’t find yourself yawning. CrossFit seems to be male territory, attracting the testosterone crowd, but if you're a woman with something to prove or you want to meet Mr. Buff, by all means, jump in. Intense? The word doesn’t begin to describe the CrossFit circuit. There's a reason military special ops guys undertake this training before they head into combat. Think of this as pole dancing for dudes.
Why it could be popular here: The hydro-spinning craze originated in France and moved to New York City, but keep an eye on the Singapore exercise scene and you'll be ready to try this quirky exercise program once it lands. The ideal audience: Singaporeans who will abandon their spin classes and bikes for a lower stress option. This imaginative workout requires special bikes encased in water pods. Fans of hydro-spinning say doctors recommend this exercise to those in need of lymphatic tissue therapy, but it's also lauded for reducing cellulite in the lower extremities. Besides, you don’t have to know how to swim to pedal away.
What it is: A socially vibrant exercise option invented by former National Ballet of Canada principals.
Why it could be popular here: This exercise hybrid is a fascinating mix of tai chi for health and balance flavored with yoga and Pilates. It's a cousin of the Esmonde Technique that offers to change the shape of your body via gentle, flowing movements that won't require you to down aspirin by the handful due to post-workout aches and pain. Develop muscle in a gentler, easier way and feel energized but not exhausted. No leggings, tutus or toe shoes required to reap the benefits of this artistic form of exercise either. There's a reason Essentrics sounds a lot like eccentric. This form of exercise isn’t for everyone, but it could be the right fit for your fitness personality.
It's easy to get caught up in new trends, but if you're eager to make a commitment to good health, you owe it to yourself to investigate new workout methods. Must you try them all to find the right one? Probably not. Look at it this way: Your body will tell you when it has found the ideal workout match.
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Vikings: The time of the Northmen
They suddenly appeared at the end of the 8th century and terrified Europe for almost 300 years. But the Vikings are much more than fighters without fear or mercy. See and read for yourself!
People live together in small tribal groups along the Scandinavian coasts. Lured by rich booty and adventures, they set off on their first voyages of conquest in the middle of the 8th century. They go on "viking", hence their name.
Frisians found the Haithabu trading center, which will soon become the trading hub of the north. At the end of the 8th century, the settlement was conquered by the Danes.
On June 8, Vikings raided Lindisfarne Monastery on the east coast of England. For many, this raid began the history of the Vikings.
after 793
Viking raids on the coasts of Scotland and Ireland. Charlemagne, ruler of the Franconian Empire, sets up a pirate defense force in the estuaries of his empire.
Harald Klark was the first Viking king to be baptized in Mainz - and took missionary Ansgar with him to Denmark. He becomes bishop of Hamburg from 831.
Vikings erect the Oseberg ship grave at the Oslofjord, which was not dug up again until 1904 - the most famous Viking grave.
Vikings attack for the first time with large fleets of around 60 ships. In the following decades they start several raids, first into the Franconian Empire and then along the east coast of England. From 851 the Vikings established themselves in England.
When an imperial delegation from Constantinople visited the Frankish Empire in what is now Turkey, Viking traders from Eastern Europe are also there. So it becomes clear: the Viking trade network extends to the Slavs. There the Vikings are called "Rus". The term Russia is derived from this later.
Vikings found Dublin, now the capital of Ireland.
Vikings destroy the bishopric of Hamburg; Paris is buying itself free from the Vikings with 7,000 pounds of silver.
Norsemen from Norway and Scandinavian settlers from Ireland and Scotland settle in Iceland.
The cities of Cologne, Bonn and Trier are now also victims of the warriors from the far north.
King Harald Fairhair is said to become the first king of Norway.
King Alferd of Wessex begins to retake parts of England from the Vikings.
Viking leader Rollo is allowed to settle with his people in the Seine Valley in what is now France - the Normandy, i.e. Northman rule in the Normandy named after them begins.
The first Althing takes place in Iceland - a kind of popular assembly in which men pass laws or settle feuds.
around 933
Harald Fairhair dies. His successor as King of Norway is Erik the Blood Ax. Five years later, however, he was driven from the throne by his brother.
Erik Blutaxt becomes King of York, but also expelled here after six years. It is the end of Viking rule in this part of England.
around 965
Denmark's King Harald Blauzahn is baptized and promotes the Christianization of Denmark.
Vikings begin sacking England again.
Erik the Red lands on Greenland with his people.
Harald Blauzahn is subject to his son Sven Gabelbart, who becomes the new King of Denmark.
Leif Eriksson sails from Greenland to the east coast of North America, which he calls "Vinland".
England's King Ethelred II orders the Danes living in the country to be killed. Sven Gabelbart then sends a fleet to England to retaliate. It is the beginning of a new war of conquest.
Sven Gabelbart invades England and takes the throne. Shortly before the coronation, however, the king dies. This is how Ethelred II, who fled to Normandy, can return.
Canute the Great ruled England, Denmark, and later Norway.
A Swede named Ingvar travels across the great rivers of Russia, presumably as far as Central Asia. The entire expedition perished there, rune stones tell.
Harald the Harte rules Norway.
A Slavic army burns down Haithabu.
The English King Herald Godwinson defeats Harald the Hard near the Stamford Bridge. Many consider this defeat to be the end of the Viking Age.
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With TESTRANO 600, OMICRON has developed the world's first portable, three-phase test system, which supports all common electrical tests on power transformers. Weighing just 44 lbs/20 kg, it is ideal for routine and diagnostic testing on-site and during factory acceptance tests (FAT). In addition, its innovative design significantly reduces wiring efforts, cutting down testing time to one third compared to conventional single-phase testing.
TESTRANO 600, OMICRON's portable three-phase power transformer test system. The integrated three sources and the simple wiring concept speed up and simplify power transformer testing.
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Benefits of using the supplements for abs | | Supplements for Abs
Benefits of using the supplements for abs
Supplements for abs play the most important role in muscle-building. More and more fat reduction leads to rapid muscle growth and keeping this fact in mind you should start taking abs supplements as they help in burning off fats. Available reviews on abs supplements can surely enable you in knowing unthinkable contributions of these supplements towards mass production.
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• The hunger needs to be controlled first and then only you can concentrate on your workouts. If you are a foodie, then you will not be able to stick to your boiled diets for long rather will soon get frustrated. But if you take abs supplements then not only your diet will be supported, but you can also receive great reserve of nutrients. Whenever you feel hungry, you can have these supplements instead of any solid foods and your hunger will be instantly filled up. Ghrelin is such a hunger-creating hormone, and it gets adequately controlled by these supplements.
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• Physical-output can be definitely increased using taking these supplements. When fat burns high-level energies are being created, and those energies eliminate fatigue so that you can work for long hours. Uninterrupted workouts can also be conducted especially intensive training, and these exercises lead to abs creation.
Abs supplements are nothing but a blast of vitamins, minerals and proteins. These valuable nutrients help in recovering muscle weakness or injuries to develop robust and healthy muscles in a natural way.
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A couple of hours later the three men greeted Sofia and followed her to a late-model Mercedes four-door.
As soon as they were on the road, headed toward the foot of Mount Orbelos, Georgio said, "L'ironia non è perso su di me"
"No fair," Augie said. "Speak English."
Roger said, "He told her the irony was not lost on him. I'll bet we're closing the loop on all of this in Trikoupis's own car." "It's true," Sofia said.
When they arrived and walked past the Baptistery of St. Lydia on their way to the church, they passed a busload of tourists leaving the outdoor chapel. Augie said, "I'll be right there," and stopped to examine trinkets offered by an elderly matron. He gave her three euros for an ichthus ring no thicker than a wire, then hurried to catch up.
The others were waiting at the stairs leading to a triple-arched entryway. They filed into the narthex, which featured a painting of Hagios Paulos (Saint Paul) holding that very church in one hand and a white Bible in the other. Next to a marble cabinet, which held candles for sale, sat a tiny priest in all black. He had tied back the long, straggly hair that protruded from a chimney pot-style hat, and he sported an untrimmed patchy white beard. He sat so still that he could have been a carving.
Roger knelt before him. "Remember me, Yuri?"
The old man blinked. "The voice," he breathed.
"Yes! You remember my voice! Imagine me with my bushy gray beard."
Finally Yuri focused and smiled. "Klaudios said you would come," he managed, crossing himself right to left. "Rest his soul. I will need help getting downstairs."
Yuri accepted Roger's outstretched hand and slowly pulled himself upright. The four followed him down a narrow staircase to a small office where he unlocked a cabinet to reveal a rough-hewn wooden box measuring about twenty-four by twenty inches. The initials RM had been penned atop it in lavender ink.
"Got to be sure this is it before we haul it out of here," Emmanuel said. "Mr. Zodiates, do you have a screwdriver or a hammer?"
Yuri rummaged through an old metal desk and found an oversize pair of scissors.
Roger hefted the box from the cabinet, and Emmanuel carefully used the scissors to work at the top pieces of wood. When he finally broke through, he gingerly lifted out the bubble-wrapped stack of about five hundred sheets of ancient parchment.
"Please," Augie said, "don't anyone touch them."
As if on cue, everyone pulled out their cell phones and began shooting pictures, even the old priest.
Finally Georgio said, "This isn't standard operating procedure, but shouldn't someone pray?"
The five of them held hands and Augie said, "Father, we are overcome. We feel unworthy, yet blessed beyond measure. When we think of the man who penned these pages and what he endured for Your sake, we are reminded of what Your Son endured for us. We say with the Apostle Paul himself, who wrote to the believers in this very city: 'Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though He was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but made Himself nothing, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.
"'And being found in human form, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. Therefore God has highly exalted Him and bestowed on Him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.'
"Thank You in the name of Jesus the Christ, our Lord and our Redeemer. Amen."
As they made their way back to the car, Roger—tears streaming— carried the box. On the flight back Georgio used a satellite phone to announce to his superiors the procurement of the memoir. They arranged a press conference for the following morning. There Roger officially presented to Italy the most valuable antiquity ever discovered.
Roger and Augie received checks for two hundred fifty thousand euros each. "Depending on how soon you cash this," Roger told Augie, "it should net you somewhere between three hundred thirty and three hundred fifty thousand dollars."
By late spring Luke had succeeded at both his most glorious assignment—helping Paul complete his personal memoir—and his most odious: keeping his dearest friend alive only so he could be put to death.
As Luke had pored over the hundreds of pages covering many events he had personally witnessed, he discovered insights that continued to amaze him. His friend was the most cogent thinker he had ever met. Paul had a way of ferreting truth from every anecdote. And whatever God had taught him, especially during the three years of solitude following his conversion, manifested itself in ideas easily understood by any reader.
That was why Luke insisted—much to Paul's dismay—that every word of the memoir, even the very last pages that brought the story fully up to date, be written in Paul's own hand. The old man insisted that no one would care. "They will know these are my thoughts and that you, my friend, served as my amanuensis at the end."
"I'm not going to do it," Luke said. "This is an important document the brethren will cherish all the more because it is your own."
"But my hand is unsteady, my writing sloppy!"
"All the more meaningful and unquestionably authentic."
And so Luke lugged sections of the manuscript back and forth with him every night. He had additions and deletions to suggest, but the actual writing was done by the old evangelist himself. Luke interviewed Paul, urging him to write every detail he could remember from his earliest days with Jesus' disciples.
When it was finished, Luke was filled with pride. Paul, naturally, thought it "a mess. Whatever import or gravity it carries in the beginning will be lost on the reader in the end due to the distraction of ink blotches and the illegibility of an ancient man's hand."
Paul's execution was scheduled for three days hence, so that evening Luke brought the complete memoir with him—an unwieldy stack of parchments wrapped in a bag. Equipped with plenty of oil for his lamp, he and Paul went over the last few portions page by page. "I remain opposed to the handwriting," Paul said.
"And you must know by now that I have stopped listening."
"Or caring."
"Don't you dare say that," Luke said, suddenly overcome. "Not in jest, not in anger, not even to make a point. It is too close to the end for you to even imply such a thing."
Paul rose, opening his arms to Luke. "Forgive me, my friend. You know how I exaggerate."
As the doctor embraced Paul and drew him near, he longed for him to enjoy the glorified body promised him in paradise. Paul had nearly wasted completely away. Luke didn't know how the man could stand or walk, let alone be led miles out of Rome on the Ostian Road for his execution.
"I will never be able to thank you, Luke, not this side of eternity. I will watch and wait for you there, and perhaps in that beautiful dominion I will have the capacity to tell you all you have meant to me."
"Stop!" Luke said. "I will miss you as if a part of me has died."
"I am a part of you, my friend, for we are closer than brothers. We are united in Christ."
Luke heard the scrape of the wood as the covering over the hole was pulled away. He was relieved when it was Primus who descended.
"Hide the manuscript," he whispered urgently. "The execution has been moved up to tomorrow. They are coming now to move you to a cell above ground tonight."
"You must take the parchments," Paul said. "We cannot risk their being found with either of us."
"I have nowhere to hide them, Paul," Primus said. "I remain under suspicion. I had long before arranged for my day off to coincide with your execution—."
hen it was changed, I told them I wanted my day off changed too. My superiors are demanding to know why tomorrow is so important to me."
Luke heard voices above. "They are here already!"
"Give me the manuscript," Primus said.
Luke quickly stacked the pages in the cloth sack. "What will you do with it?"
"Hide it in the wall for now. I'll slip in here as soon as I can and take it home so you can have it."
As the guards above positioned themselves to drop into the dungeon, Primus quickly slid out the block of tufa, set the sack into the opening, and pushed the stone back. To Luke it didn't appear as flush as the day before, but no one seemed to notice. Paul beamed when his manacle was removed, but he looked unsteady as three men pulled him to his feet and then up through the opening.
Luke followed him to a holding cell about a tenth the size of the dungeon, but torches both warmed Paul and offered him light. He immediately began to preach to the guards. When one tried to shout him down, he said, "Come now, friend. Surely you can grant a condemned man the opportunity to practice for tomorrow when I will address all who come for the spectacle."
Most executions of Roman citizens were done without fanfare. The condemned was dragged outside the city, and wherever it seemed convenient, a swordsman would quickly do the deed.
The procession scheduled to leave the prison at eleven the next morning, however, would be accompanied by throngs. For weeks the emperor had daily sent tributes throughout the capital to announce the event, assuring citizens they would not be disappointed. "Nero has caught the snake by its head, and this will be no ordinary execution!" they said. The strongest man in Nero's army would behead the man with a five-foot sword.
Paul was to be bound and prodded along the route to where a small hillside provided natural seating and a clear view. Even people who had not heard what was to happen would be attracted by the sheer pageantry of Nero's men in full dress.
Luke arrived at dawn and found his friend sitting with his eyes closed, quietly praying. "Did Primus bring you the parchments?" Paul said.
"He did not. He said the dungeon was full all night. Apparently it is being prepared for the next prisoner."
"Prepared?" Paul said with a sad smile. "New draperies and bed coverings? Perhaps a bowl of fruit as a welcoming gift? Wait, I know! A fresh coat of slime."
"Whatever they're doing, Primus will get down there as soon as he can. But Paul, I have bad news."
Paul grinned. "Oh, Luke! What could be bad news on the day I am to die?"
"I'm just so sorry. But there is no time to get word to Timothy or Mark. They had planned to arrive two days from now, and when they do …."
"I will be gone. Tell them I knew of their intentions. I cherish knowing I will see you all again."
Luke looked up, alarmed to see men lowering bricks and mortar through the hole. When he noticed Gaius, he asked what was going on.
"They noticed cracks between some of the blocks," he said. "Rather than replace them, they're reinforcing the walls with a new layer of bricks all the way around. New bench. New chain. New everything. The dungeon will be about a foot narrower on all four sides."
Luke hurried out to find Primus, who had just arrived in civilian clothes. "You must get down there before they seal the manuscript away forever!"
Primus rushed inside and dropped into the dungeon. He returned quickly, looking grave. "It's already done," he told Luke. "That block has been thoroughly covered."
Luke closed his eyes. "We cannot tell Paul. All that work for naught. What a loss!"
"You can recreate it, Luke!" Primus said. "You have a good memory, and you know how he expressed himself."
Luke knew he could never produce anything like the original. Only dread over what was happening to his friend kept him from obsessing over the loss of the memoir. When he returned to Paul, the old man said, "You have kept your promise to spare me for this day. Just tell me again that you will not let the parchments fall into the wrong hands."
Luke studied the expectant eyes. "I will do everything in my power."
Half an hour before the procession set out, the clamor of the troops and the crowds reached inside the prison. Luke couldn't hide his distaste for the fanfare.
"You hear a celebration you cannot enjoy," Paul said. "I hear an excited crowd. If only I can capture their attention, then I can engage their minds and, I pray, win their hearts."
Ever the optimist, Luke thought. He tried to pray for the success of Paul's efforts, but his eyes filled and his throat constricted.
"Say your good-byes, Doctor," Gaius said as he arrived with the executioner. "You will not see Paul again, except from a distance."
Luke's face contorted as he turned to his old friend. "Godspeed to you," he whispered, lips trembling. "I pray it will be quick and painless and that you will awaken in heaven."
"Oh, dear Luke! You need not request that last, as it is certain. Pray I will be allowed to preach, and then that the sword is swift."
"You have proved that in countless ways, my friend. Do not despair. Encourage the brethren, console the downhearted, but above all continue to spread the good news: Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever."
"Time's up," Gaius said. "Doctor, please step out. Paul, this is Quintus."
Luke embraced Paul fiercely, certain the man would never have endured this long without the extra rations he had brought him daily. What a travesty that Nero should turn his death to sport.
Luke stepped outside the cage as the huge soldier went in and sat next to Paul. The physician was shocked at the softness of the executioner's voice and the gentleness of his manner. It was as if he truly wanted to be of help to Paul.
"The walk will be difficult," he began. "Unfortunately the horsemen have been told not to impede the people, should they want to get to you. They will throw things and some will try to strike you. Just keep moving. Now, as for the deathblow itself, I want you to know that I have done this many times and know how you can make it the easiest on yourself. As you kneel, you may find it hard to remain still, but you must. I will not torture you by delaying. The blade is so heavy that even I find it hard to lift, and it has been sharpened to its maximum. If you do not flinch or duck, I will end it with a single blow. I want you to know, sir, that I have no interest in making this more difficult for you than it needs to be."
"Just one request. I will be preaching when I am kneeling before you. I do not expect you to wait long for me to finish, but if I am in the middle of a point, would you allow me to complete it?"
"I've never been asked that before, but yes, if I can I will. I must say, most of the men I have talked with in your situation have been too distraught to even speak, let alone discuss arrangements."
The death walk was worse than Luke feared. Thousands had been drawn to it as Nero gloated over besting one of his greatest adversaries, claiming Paul had been the mastermind behind the arson that had destroyed so much of Rome.
Paul was pushed, poked, jabbed with sticks, pelted with rocks, and shouted down all along the route. Luke could not understand where he found the strength to remain upright. He could only assume the man had been living for this day for so long that he was determined not to spoil it by collapsing.
Luke prayed that the crowd would become still when the procession reached the killing ground, but he was stunned when his prayer was answered. As the people found their places on the hillside, they actually shushed one another. Perhaps they simply didn't want to miss Paul's demise, but for whatever reason, during the several minutes it took for them to find places to sit, the only sound was the nickering and stamping of horses.
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ed to kneel on flat, dusty ground. It pained Luke to watch as Paul, hands and feet still bound, came down hard and tumbled onto his side. He thrashed trying to get up until Quintus reached under his arm with one hand and pulled him to his knees.
The soldier ceremoniously pulled the monstrous sword from its sheath and held it aloft so the long blade gleamed in the sun. The crowd cried out, but when he lowered it they fell silent again.
Seemingly to everyone's surprise, Quintus stalled. He faced Paul, set the tip of the blade in the ground, and rested his hands on the hilt. Paul thanked him, lifted his head, and began.
At first Luke could not believe the vigorous quality of his voice. It was as if the Paul of twenty years before had reappeared. Preaching from his knees, hands behind his back, he mustered the strength to proclaim loudly enough for everyone to hear:
"Despite my circumstance, I kneel before you today thanking God Himself for the unspeakable privilege of declaring to you the gospel of His Son, Jesus Christ. I deliver to you that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day. I am the least of the apostles, not worthy because I persecuted the church of God. But by the mercy of God, His grace toward me was not in vain.
"I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God, granting salvation to everyone who believes.
"Now to Him who is able to also save you from your trespasses and sins, according to the gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery kept secret since the world began but now made manifest, and by the prophetic Scriptures made known to all nations, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, for obedience to the faith—to God, alone wise, be glory through Jesus Christ forever."
Paul looked directly at Quintus, bowed his head, and remained perfectly still. The big man deliberately lifted the massive sword, spread his feet, and unleashed a mighty swing so fast that Luke heard the whoosh before the gruesome thud that sliced Paul asunder.
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Toshack is the target in Welsh blame game
Depressed Wales know they can forget the World Cup finals now with the blame game in full swing.
New boss John Toshack took the blame for the late substitution which cost Wales this group six qualifier.
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But nobody is holding their breath on that one.
Toshack accepted he made a big mistake in his first competitive match as manager in taking off midfielder Simon Davies, thus gifting the Austrians time and space to expose Robinson and Fletcher.
He said: "It's my responsibility, not the cleverest decision I have made. What in theory looked right was not right in terms of the late substitution. Maybe I should have left things alone for a bit longer.
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Wales wasted a string of chances, Giggs, Hartson, Robinson and Fletcher all should have scored, but Austria were more physical and better organised to take advantage of any gifts, and Toshack certainly gave them one with his late substitute. Both goals rattled in within minutes.
On the future, Toshack said: "I don't see it as a bigger job than I thought, I was under no illusions when I took over."
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Swan Lake Redux – Journey of the Heart
I vividly remember bringing Zibin to his first ballet, Swan Lake, back sometime in 2000 (i think). He barely managed to stay awake. I think he would have had more to comment about if he had watched Matthew Bourne's male version of Swan Lake instead.
Although I usually dislike modern re-interpretations of gold classics, Bourne's Swan Lake could be an exception. It helps, of course, that Adam Cooper makes a beguiling lead Swan. *heh* But the choreography is pretty cool too!
Do you remember the famous Act 2 scene of the four little swans doing the "pas de quatre"? Here's a refresher:
Now check out Matthew Bourne's four little masculine swans. I think they're good!
And, to end the post with even more humour, here's Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo's parody of the same scene with male dancers in drag!
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Warm and Tingly (No, it's not pee) | everyday not so adventures
Posted on April 18, 2017 April 18, 2017 by AW
I want to talk about things that make me feel good and also the fact that my title may or may not represent my feelings towards peeing.
I'm literally sitting on the floor in the living room, gazing out the closed window at the beautiful weather outside (but it's actually not even that nice outside. It's actually very chilly out despite the sun shining down. The deception!) and I begin to think about what things make me happy or make me feel all warm and fuzzy on the inside. Every now and then I do this not only to keep myself sane but also because being/feeling happy is very important for a person's well being. Especially if you've had a rough day, if you stop and think about the things that make you happy (e.g. like puppies!) I guarantee you you'll feel 75% better.
Anyways, here is my short and sweet list with some brief explanations/experiences:
Puppies! Obviously this would be the first thing on my list. I would say that I am an avid furry animal lover. Bring me a cat or dog and I will pet it no questions asked despite the fact that I will probably die from allergies, but minor details. Whenever I see a dog walking on the street? Instant happiness. To me, all dogs are puppies no matter how big they are. Dogs = Puppies and nobody can tell me otherwise. Just like how Cats = Kitties. Same principle here.
Hugs. Now, I went through a time where I found hugs to be really awkward. I think it's just because I never used to give/receive too many hugs before but I'm so glad that it has changed (I mean, it hasn't changed exponentially or anything but you know, 1 is always better than zero right?) I remember at the end of the summer on the last day of summer camps (which I was a camp supervisor for) I said my goodbyes to my amazing staff, gave em all a cute personalized card and words of wisdom (e.g. you guys were f***ing amazing and I couldn't have done any of this without yous! Now live long and prosper and get out of here). You know, that's it. I don't really give hugs to people I'm not super close with – it's just not what I willingly offer to do. But anyways, I'm standing there sorting some last minute paperwork and I hear a little countdown on the side. I look up and I am immediately surrounded in a giant group hug with all my staff. It was quite a touching moment to be honest, and they all yelled "BEST SUPERVISOR!". Like, thanks guys. I didn't want to cry on my last day but here I am.
Food. I mean, I don't even think this one really needs an explanation
Being Outside in Nice Weather. In my youth I would spend all day, everyday outside doing whatever I could just to be outside. I wouldn't really say I'm super adventurous where I'd climb Mount Kilimanjaro just to get my dose of the outdoors but I do appreciate sitting outside on a patio. Even walking outside wearing sunglasses keeps me pretty satisfied.
People I like hanging out with/Friends. I'd say my list of tolerable people (just kidding, I actually love you all) is pretty small but if I'm down to spend a few hours or days with you at a time, you're pretty damn special to me.
Well, I hope you take some time out of your day to think about the things that make you feel warm and tingly (and if it's pee, then you do you boo! Ain't no judgment being passed here…okay maybe a little)
STAY HAPPY AND THINK POSITIVE. because there will always be food or puppies to cheer you up when all else fails.
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← 5 Ways to Quickly Qualify Prospects
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Posted on April 7, 2015 by Robert Hartline
It's time to re-evaluate the way you hire.
Even if your hiring strategy is just a few years old, you're likely missing out on valuable prospects. Hiring great salespeople in 2015 requires tapping into the potential talents of the emerging younger generation. This new generation of millennial salespeople has different qualities and skills, and they're seeking jobs that go beyond just making money.
Don't miss out on the exact employees you want to attract, and don't just assume they can do what they say. Make these 5 steps the foundation of your hiring process.
1. Make the sale.
Evaluating prospects is no longer enough. Before you start rating prospective salespeople, you need to sell your organization in a way that attracts potential employees.
If we want to raise the bar in our workplaces, the Millennial generation requires us to change the way we hire. They want social recognition and added benefits in the quality of their work environment. Money is important, but it's not the only focus. Prospective employees should understand why their new role is important, what your organization stands for and what they can earn in the future.
2. Conduct a thorough interview. (Then follow-up.)
Did they do any pre-interview research? Ask what they know about your organization.
Do they really know how to have a conversation with strangers? Ask them to share stories about using their strengths during a difficult sales pitch.
Make a list of the traits you value in your best salespeople and see if your candidates respond in the same way your top associates would.
After you conduct an interview, it's time to start searching. That candidate seems great, but can they really do what they say? Call the prospect's references. Do their bosses or previous co-workers have good things to say? Do their stories match up?
Finding a mutual contact is another useful tool. Perform a simple LinkedIn search to connect with someone else in your field who knows the job seeker. They can offer another perspective about the person's character and habits.
Sometimes the evidence you find about a candidate's work performance is ambiguous. In this case, it's time for a trial run. You need to determine exactly how the new employee performs in the unique conditions of your workplace.
There are a few ways to do this. First, you can hire them at a competitive rate for one week-long project. Tell them if you're satisfied with their work, they'll earn the opportunity to take a long-term position at your company. Another option is to have the new person shadow a current employee. See how well they interact with your staff members and how they react to your working conditions. If the trial goes well, you can invite them to more official training sessions.
These methods will help you avoid wasting time and money in training someone who lacks the fundamental qualities you're looking for.
Once you decide a to conduct a trial run, be sure to follow up on your candidate's performance. If you really want to know how effective they are, call up their last few successful sales.
Ask for honest feedback about the customer's impressions of the salesperson and if they did everything that they promised. Next, ask your trial salesperson who they felt their best customers were and why — contact them too if you haven't already. This method allows you to see if your new prospect is making the right impressions in the field.
5. Choose experienced applicants when possible.
If you really want to get the best new employees, it's always safer to pick someone who has at least two years of experience in sales. Inexperienced people can still become valuable assets to your business, but the risk of choosing the wrong person is much higher. If they don't have a minimum two years of successful sales experience, be careful taking a chance on them.
This entry was posted in Management Tips and tagged CallProof, Hiring new salesperson, Hiring tips, Sales manager, Sales people. Bookmark the permalink.
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