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Update: to read my complete 27 product full review of The Ordinary please click HERE.
Today is no ordinary day. This morning, Victoria Health exclusively launched The Ordinary from DECIEM and to quote their fellow Canadian Drake, nothing was the same (sorry, couldn't help myself lol). In all seriousness, this is one of the biggest skincare launches in the history of the beauty industry and excited doesn't even begin to cover how I feel or how important this is, not only to me, but to the industry as a whole.
Reading the September newsletter was a revelation and it left me speechless. The Ordinary came as a complete surprise to everyone (me included!) and I couldn't read Gill's words fast enough. Despite the name, there is nothing ordinary about what this new skincare concept is doing. This is huge news. What they have effectively done is lift the veil of secrecy surrounding the skincare industry and bravely declared what I, and I'm sure many of you have always suspected, which is that skincare products should not be this expensive. The Ordinary are giving us so-called cutting edge technology (they're not), at the prices they should be. To see ingredients like retinoid, niacinamide, Vitamin C and Matrixyl being sold at well under £10 each is a skincare revolution. While these ingredients may not be as ground-breaking as many brands make them out to be, they are highly effective and they do provide excellent results, they just don't need to be sold at such a high price.
As many of you will know, I struggled with my skin a few years ago and spent thousands (I am sadly not exaggerating) over a period of two years trying every single product that launched and believing every brand's claims because I was so desperate. I was naive and vulnerable and believed anything the sales associate told me because I wanted it to be true. I wanted the product to be a miracle cure and to see overnight results, but 99.9% of the time it never happened. My skin didn't get better until I started educating myself on ingredients, which first led me to the wonderful world of green beauty and then to the specatular world of DECIEM thanks to Victoria Health launching the now legendary CAIS over a year ago now.
The Ordinary is all about "clinical formulations with integrity" but it is more than that. It is with a kindness, generosity and honesty that is rarely (if ever) seen in the mass market skincare industry and I am eternally grateful for it. DECIEM are doing what should have been done years ago and telling the truth. They are giving us the best tools to achieve the best skin, without trying to rip us off and that's what makes this launch such a special one.
Below is a quick overview of each new product detailing what they do, who they're for and what popular products they compare to. There is something for everyone and even more to come! Enjoy!
100% Organic Cold-Pressed Rosehip Seed Oil 30ml £9.00
Ingredients: Rosa Canina Seed Oil.
Rosehip has been a favourite oil of mine ever since I discovered the amazing Pai BioRegenerate Oil a few years ago, so this product has made me very happy. I see noticeable results and improvements when using Rosehip because it contains linoleic acid, linolenic acid and pro-vitamin A, all which work to reduce scars, stretch marks, wrinkles, sun damage and even the skin tone. It promotes hydration and encourages skin cells to produce collagen. This is a fantastic ingredient if you have acne prone skin or hyperpigmentation because it will help tackle both as well as promote hydration, fight free radicals and boost the skin's UV blocking ability. I know our little skincare community is mad for oils and we all have at least 3 or 4 or more, but check and see if any that you have contain this one high on the ingredients list and if not, definitely add it to your stash.
Advanced Retinoid 2% 30ml £8.00
Ingredients: Aqua (Water), Ethyl Linoleate, Propanediol, Glycerin, Cetearyl Isononanoate, Bisabolol, Retinol, Hydroxypinacolone Retinoate, Tasmannia Lanceolata Fruit/Leaf Extract, Dimethyl Isosorbide, Inulin Lauryl Carbamate, Glyceryl Stearate, Ceteareth-12, Ceteareth-20, Cetearyl Alcohol, Carrageenan, Acacia Senegal Gum, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Cetyl Palmitate, Sucrose Laurate, Polysorbate 20, Behentrimonium Chloride, Disodium EDTA, Dehydroacetic Acid, Benzoic Acid, Ethylhexylglycerin, Phenoxyethanol, Chlorphenesin.
As you will know from my Instagram and previous posts, retinol and retinoids are an important part of my skincare routine and I have been obsessed with the VERSO Super Facial Serum for months now. Across the board it seems that retinol products (Sunday Riley, VERSO, Paul's Choice, Dr. Dennis Gross etc) are generally priced exceptionally high and that's because they actually work very well, but at the same time, I don't think the prices are fair or justified and this just proves it. This combines two forms of retinoids for a 2% (in weight) innovative and advanced formula that will deliver better results than any other product out there (to quote Gill). Just for some perspective, this only costs £8, while my beloved VERSO serum costs £95/$120. Of course, the ingredients are not the same but what I'm buying both for is the retinoid and if both are going to give me the same results, why would I spend 10x more than I need to? I'll be using this once a week to start and I look forward to seeing how my skin reacts.
Alpha Arbutin 2% + HA 30ml £7.00
Ingredients: Aqua (Water), Alpha-Arbutin, Polyacrylate Crosspolymer-6, Hydrolyzed Sodium Hyaluronate, Propanediol, PPG-26-Buteth-26, PEG-40 Hydrogenated Castor Oil, Trisodium Ethylenediamine Disuccinate, Ethoxydiglycol, Phenoxyethanol, Chlorphenesin.
Arbutin is an excellent but underused ingredient in the western skincare world (it's very popular in Asian Beauty products), and I believe it's only present in my Oskia Renaissance Brightlight (high on the inci list) and Sunday Riley Tidal Cream (middle of the inci list). It is amazing for hyperpigmentation because it prevents the formation of melanin by blocking tyrosinase (enzymes in melanocyte cells that cause brown spots). I'm sure it's one of the main reasons the Oskia serum works so well and I can't believe it's not in more products. Considering that tyrosinase are activated any time the skin is in contact with UV rays, now is the perfect time to introduce it in to your routine to reverse any summertime damage you may have developed. Arbutin is very gentle in comparison to other skin lightening ingredients and because this product contains Alpha Arbutin (better than just Arbutin and Beta Arbutin, obviously), you should see great results. I'll be using this in the morning to protect and repair my skin.
Buffet 30ml £12.70
Ingredients: Aqua (Water), Glycerin, Lactococcus Ferment Lysate, Acetyl Hexapeptide-8, Pentapeptide-18, Palmitoyl Tripeptide-1, Palmitoyl Tripeptide-7, Palmitoyl Tripeptide-38, Dipeptide Diaminobutyroyl Benzylamide Diacetate, Acetylarginyltryptophyl Diphenylglycine, Sodium Hyaluronate Crosspolymer, Sodium Hyaluronate, Allantoin, Glycine, Alanine, Serine, Valine, Isoleucine, Proline, Threonine, Histidine, Phenylalanine, Arginine, Aspartic Acid, Trehalose, Fructose, Glucose, Maltose, Urea, Sodium PCA, PCA, Sodium Lactate, Citric Acid, Hydroxypropyl Cyclodextrin, Sodium Chloride, Sodium Hydroxide, Butylene Glycol, Pentylene Glycol, Acacia Senegal Gum, Xanthan Gum, Carbomer, Polysorbate 20, PPG-26-Buteth-26, PEG-40 Hydrogenated Castor Oil, Trisodium Ethylenediamine Disuccinate, Ethoxydiglycol, Sodium Benzoate, Caprylyl Glycol, Ethylhexylglycerin, Phenoxyethanol, Chlorphenesin.
Simply called "Buffet", this product is a peptide rich powerhouse that combines probiotics, amino acids and hyaluronic acid complexes to address all signs of skin ageing. This is the most complex product in the range, which is why it is so "expensive" compared to the others, but I think it could be great for boosting hydration and skin health, as well as help the other products work even better. I don't have anything like this, so I'm really excited to incorporate it into my skincare routines. I'll probably use this in the morning to begin with and then see how it goes.
Niacinamide 10% + Zinc PCA 1% 30ml £5.00
Ingredients: Aqua (Water), Niacinamide, Zinc PCA, Tamarindus Indica Seed Gum, Pentylene Glycol, Carrageenan, Acacia Senegal Gum, Xanthan Gum, PPG-26-Buteth-26, PEG-40 Hydrogenated Castor Oil, Ethoxydiglycol, Phenoxyethanol, Chlorphenesin.
I am such a huge fan of niacinamide and it is one of my all time favourite ingredients. It's the reason why I love the Oskia serum and why I saw such great results from it. Niacinamide is not only amazing for hyperpigmentation, but it also works really well for blemishes and congestion. This should help balance sebum, brighten skin tone and with the addition of Zinc PCA, condition and heal the skin due to it's antimicrobial properties. Just like the Retinoid, the price point of this has really blown my mind. The Oskia serum that I have loved for most of this year costs £85 and this is only £5. Let that sink in. Even with the addition of the Arbutin serum, the total cost is only £12. I know that the Oskia serum has a lot more going on with it and has a whole host of incredible ingredients, so there's really no comparison, but what I love most about it is the niacinamide and the arbutin and again, if I can get the same results for cheaper, why wouldn't I? The combined price of my VERSO and Oskia serums is over $200. That's a car payment, groceries for a week or two, a return flight to see family or just money that can be spent on anything else. If your skin can handle niacinamide (I remember a couple of people saying they had a bad reaction to it) then I can't recommend it enough because I have seen such great results.
Hyaluronic Acid 2% + B5 30ml £5.90
Ingredients: Aqua (Water), Sodium Hyaluronate, Sodium Hyaluronate Crosspolymer, Panthenol, Ahnfeltia Concinna Extract, Glycerin, Pentylene Glycol, Propanediol, Polyacrylate Crosspolymer-6, PPG-26-Buteth-26, PEG-40 Hydrogenated Castor Oil, Trisodium Ethylenediamine Disuccinate, Citric Acid, Ethoxydiglycol, Caprylyl Glycol, Hexylene Glycol, Ethylhexylglycerin, Phenoxyethanol, Chlorphenesin.
Hyaluronic acid is important for boosting hydration and this one is not only pure, but also vegan. I'm pretty sure we are all familiar with what's so great about this wonder ingredient, but this one has the addition of B5 to increase surface hydration, meaning your skin should look and feel hydrated from the inside out. It's 1/5 of the price of the cult Hydraluron and even cheaper than the hyaluronic acid products from Hylamide. This could be a fantastic product for those with dry/dehydrated skin and then even if you have combination skin, give it a go to see if it helps keep your skin balanced.
Lactic Acid 10% + HA 30ml £5.80 and Lactic Acid 5% + HA 30ml £5.50
Ingredients: 10% – Aqua (Water), Lactic Acid, Arginine, Potassium Citrate, Glycerin, Triethanolamine, Sodium Hyaluronate Crosspolymer, Tasmannia Lanceolata Fruit/Leaf Extract, Acacia Senegal Gum, Xanthan Gum, Pentylene Glycol, Trisodium Ethylenediamine Disuccinate, PEG-40 Hydrogenated Castor Oil, PPG-26-Buteth-26, Ethylhexylglycerin, 1,2-Hexanediol, Caprylyl Glycol. 5% – Aqua (Water), Lactic Acid, Glycerin, Arginine, Potassium Citrate, Triethanolamine, Sodium Hyaluronate Crosspolymer, Tasmannia Lanceolata Fruit/Leaf Extract, Acacia Senegal Gum, Xanthan Gum, Pentylene Glycol, Trisodium Ethylenediamine Disuccinate, PEG-40 Hydrogenated Castor Oil, PPG-26-Buteth-26, Ethylhexylglycerin, 1,2-Hexanediol, Caprylyl Glycol.
I am so happy that there are two strengths of lactic acid serums because I absolutely love it (wait). Just kidding! Haha! As many of you will know by now, I am allergic to lactic acid and avoid it at all cost, but I know that it has worked incredibly well for a number of you and these will come as a much welcomed addition to a lot of people. Lactic acid is an excellent exfoliant because it's gentle, hydrating and less irritating (to some) than glycolic or salicylic. For those who love and use Good Genes, the 10% could be a great cheaper alternative and for those interested in adding it to their routines, the 5% would be a great place to start. Both formulas are half the price of Bravura's much loved Lactic Acid Peel and 20x cheaper than Good Genes. They both contain purified Tasmanian pepperberry to reduce inflammation and sensitivity, which means you should get all the benefits of the lactic acid with none of the side effects.
Matrixyl 10% + HA 30ml £9.00
Ingredients: Aqua (Water), Glycerin, Butylene Glycol, Palmitoyl Tripeptide-1, Palmitoyl Tripeptide-7, Palmitoyl Tripeptide-38, Sodium Hyaluronate, Hydroxypropyl Cyclodextrin, PPG-26-Buteth-26, PEG-40 Hydrogenated Castor Oil, Polyacrylamide Crosspolymer-6, Trisodium Ethylenediamine Disuccinate, Carbomer, Polysorbate 20, Ethoxydiglycol, Phenoxyethanol, Chlorphenesin.
Matrixyl is a wrinkle busting high-strength peptide developed by the French company Sederma that uses two versions of Matrixyl (3000 and Snythe'6) to combat static and dynamic wrinkles. I'm not at wrinkle age yet but I have heard great things about this ingredient and I know many brands charge high prices for products that contain it. Prices range from around $30 (Derma e) all the way up to $280 for a 3 Lab WW Eye Cream. This should be excellent for older consumers who need something that will be highly effective and may help boost the results of other anti-ageing ingredients. If anyone gets this, please let me know what you think.
Vitamin C Suspension 23% + HA Spheres 2% 30ml £4.90
Ingredients: Ascorbic Acid, C13-15 Alkane, Isodecyl Neopentanoate, Dodecane, Isononyl Isononanoate, Acrylates/Ethylhexyl Acrylate Crosspolymer, Ethylene/Propylene/Styrene Copolymer, Silica Dimethyl Silylate, Ethylhexyl Palmitate, Coco-Caprylate/Caprate, Sodium Hyaluronate, Glucomannan, Butylene/Ethylene/Styrene Copolymer, Bisabolane, Trihydroxystearin, BHT.
I have a bit of a love/hate relationship with Vitamin C. When Hylamide first launched their C25 Booster my skin loved it, but after a few months it started to cause breakouts and I couldn't use it anymore. I do want to eventually use it again because it's such a powerful antioxidant and is highly anti-ageing and skin brightening, and when I do, this is the product I will get. Vitamin C products are shockingly expensive (due to the need to create a stable formula) and range from $48 (Ole Henriksen) to $80 (Drunk Elephant) to $163 (Skinceuticals) and all the way up to a whopping $281 (SkinMedica). For a mere £5, this product is a great way to test the waters and see how your skin reacts without the anxiety of spending a lot of money that may end up going to waste.
Of all the current ten new products that have launched I am getting five – the Rosehip Seed Oil, Retinoid, Alpha Arbutin, Niacinamide and Buffet. The first four are ingredients I already know and love and the last one is a product that I'm excited to see what it will do for my skin. I you haven't signed up for Victoria Health's newsletter or follow them on Instagram, you really should. I have discovered so many amazing products and brands from them and when it comes to DECIEM, no one writes about them like Gill. She is the ultimate NIOD fan and together with Brandon form the ultimate skincare fairy godparents and I can't thank them enough for everything they are doing to change the industry.
You can check out my full review on these products over at The Ordinary Review Part 1 and The Ordinary Review Part 2 and if you want to read more about Deciem products you can check out the following:
- Copper Amino Isolate Serum 1% Review
- Hylamide C25 Review
- NIOD Flavanone Mud Masque Review
- NIOD Non-Acid Acid Precursor 15% First Impressions
- NIOD June Favourites
- Deciem x The White Company Collab


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No one knows why Beethoven accepted composer Anton Diabelli's invitation to write a variation on his humble waltz.
At first the genius ignored the request, but at some point, he became obsessed by the challenge. Indeed, as his hearing failed and his illnesses mounted, the great master put aside working on the legendary Ninth Symphony in order to write not one but "33 Variations" on this modest theme.
Finding the reason for this fascination becomes a raison d'être for brainy musicologist Katharine Brandt in Moises Kaufman's wistful drama. Suffering from Lou Gehrig's disease, aware that her own time on the planet is running out, she becomes determined to prove that Beethoven was driven to turn the mediocre composition into a masterpiece.
While this Tony-nominated play suffers from predictable elements, it also spins a seductive mystery about the connections between past and present, art and life, hope and despair in director Robert Kelley's delicate and handsomely staged production, a regional premiere that runs through Oct. 28 at TheatreWorks.
Kaufman is not as deft weaving history and drama together here as he was in "Gross Indecency" or "The Laramie Project," but he has crafted a formidable role for an actress of a certain age. Played by Jane Fonda on Broadway, Katherine, played here by Rosina Reynolds, is made of iron mentally, even as her body deteriorates. The playwright subtly suggests that change is the key of life, that death is just another variation on existence.
The nimble-witted scholar has little patience for her daughter, Clara (a wonderfully wry Jennifer Le Blanc), a costume designer for whom career is not the pinnacle of life; for other musicologists who have differing theories about Beethoven (played by the incomparable Howard Swain); or indeed even for her own frailty.
At a time when most people would devote themselves to family, Katherine buries herself in the Beethoven archives in Bonn, hoping to crack the mystery before she dies.
Reynolds charts Katherine's tenacity and her will to hold onto her dignity with nuance, but the family drama seems a little formulaic. There's more freshness and wit in the disarming romance between Clara and her mother's nurse Mike (Chad Deverman) or in the tart advice doled out by Gertie (Marie Shell), the woman who manages the archive.
Certainly, Katherine's journey is often upstaged by the fury of Beethoven.
Swain is simply marvelous as Ludwig. The veteran actor captures both the swagger of the genius and his vulnerability in a performance shot through with insight into the artistic temperament. While there are times when the text edges into melodrama, Swain's performance has such symphonic richness that it always feels earned and genuine.
Michael Gene Sullivan (a San Francisco Mime Troupe veteran) adds a touch of elegance to Diabelli, the small-time music publisher who unwittingly unleashed the full force of Beethoven's imagination.
The maestro riffed on the waltz endlessly, turning it into everything from a march to a fugue. At the end of his life, as deafness engulfed him, poverty dogged him, and his music fell out of favor, Beethoven clung to the variations, to the secrets he alone heard there.
Kaufman's insights into that process, the way an artist becomes who they are through their work, buoy this play. Listening to the music (played by William Liberatore) as we watch Beethoven parse Diabelli's 16 little bars into a magnum opus is a study in art as a dialogue between the artist and the observer.
Beethoven's sketches (projections by Jim Gross) are mesmerizing in their celebration of the chaos of creativity. Soup stains, scribbles, water marks and crossed-out notes give us a glimpse into the messy birth of the sublime.
Contact Karen D'Souza at 408-271-3772. Read her stories at www.mercurynews.com/karen-dsouza, follow her at Twitter.com/KarenDSouza4 and like her at www.facebook.com/Dsouzatheaterpage.
'33 variations'
By Moises Kaufman
Through: Oct. 28
Where: TheatreWorks, Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts, 500 Castro St.
Running time: 2 hours 30 minutes, one intermission
Tickets: $23-$73, 650-463-1960, www.theatreworks.org

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If you're tired of feeling alone and not understood after an argument or conversation, then here's what you need to do to keep your communications with the people want to open.
Empathize with the people around you. You might consider that when these people do things that get to you that maybe they did not intend to do it. Now if you know that the attack was intended then you need to ignore it all. Because if a person can make you angry whenever they want to, they can control you.
But if it is not intentional, consider that the other person does what they do because of a weakness that they have. They might need your help to get some things sorted out.
Situations and circumstances that involve anger are sometimes not easy to deal with.
Soft answers
I bet you did not know that you can get someone to stop being angry by speaking soft and kind words to them. It is important that you recognize this for your relationships because when you show anger to someone, you could expect that in the majority of cases they will return that anger back to you in the form of anger of their own.
So the anger will have to stop somewhere and stopping anger will involve the use of soft answers going back and forth between the people involved.
Your hope and effort is that this way of dealing with anger will be picked up by all involved and that the angry situation would become less of an issue because of the goodwill and cooperation that soft answers are able to produce.
Do you want your relationship?
Another thing you will want to do is really consider if the relationship you are dealing with is important to you and what you are trying to do in life.
If you check it out and find that the relationship is right and you want it, then you will find this reason alone one of the biggest motivators for the persistence that is necessary for success.
If you check and find that the relationship is not worth your time then you will not have the strength to overcome the difficulties that are there. You still do not want anger to destroy it, but then maybe this bad relationship may have something to do with your anger in the first place.
Anger management classes
You do not need to wait until something drastically bad happens before you do an anger management class, so do one. Do an online class. 95% of people with anger problems benefit from taking an anger management class in as little as two months. And anger management classes do not cost much; not even half as much as losing the respect of the people you care about, and the classes can be done very conveniently in the comfort of your home or office when they are done online.
But the bottom line is that if in your heart you feel as if your relationship is threatened because of anger an anger management class can help you get your anger under control and give you a real shot at saving your relationships.
You should seriously consider carrying out these anger management techniques, you will begin to see your anger start to come under control. Angry people sometimes don't get what they need from their anger management techniques. As for you, start applying these tips, and get yourself controlled today.


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Earnhardt Jr. to miss two more races, replaced by Jeff Gordon
INDIANAPOLIS - Dale Earnhardt Jr. will not race again this month because of concussion-like symptoms and the No. 88 car will be turned over to trusted former teammate Jeff Gordon for the next two weeks.
Hendrick Motorsports announced Wednesday that Earnhardt has not yet been cleared to drive by doctors and will miss Sunday's Brickyard 400 as well as next weekend's race at Pocono. NASCAR's most popular driver has been battling balance issues and nausea since a July 2 crash at Daytona.
Earnhardt pulled himself out of the car last weekend in New Hampshire and was replaced by Alex Bowman. After another medical evaluation Tuesday in Pittsburgh, doctors told Earnhardt to take more time off.
"Our focus is giving Dale all the time he needs to recover," team owner Rick Hendrick said. "There's nothing we want more than to see him back in the race car, but we'll continue to listen to the doctors and follow their lead. What's best for Dale is what's best for Hendrick Motorsports and everyone involved with the team. We're all proud of him and looking forward to having him racing soon."
While retirement talk for the 41-year-old Earnhardt might be premature, his history of concussions is clearly a concern. He had two in a six-week span in 2012 and missed two races. The latest symptoms surfaced after a mid-June crash at Michigan International Speedway and the wreck at Daytona. Earnhardt said he felt steadily worse, believing it was allergies at first. A neurological specialist later confirmed Earnhardt had sustained a head injury.
"I've struggled with my balance over the last four or five days, and I definitely wouldn't have been able to drive a race car this weekend," Earnhardt told fans in a recording made Sunday night. "I made the decision I had to make."
A team spokeswoman said Earnhardt will not take questions this week or next and that Gordon is not expected to speak publicly until Friday in Indy.
The move comes at a time that Hendrick's powerhouse team has been out of sync. Its drivers have been shut out of the top three finishing spots in four consecutive races. Hendrick is now turning to Gordon, the four-time NASCAR champion who retired at the end of last season. He's a five-time winner at the Brickyard, which has struggled with sluggish ticket sales in the lead up to Sunday's race at a track that is just a short drive away from his childhood home in Pittsboro, Indiana.
Gordon has not competed since retiring after the 2015 season finale.
The 44-year-old Gordon will get one more chance to become the first driver to reach victory lane six times at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
He also counts a record six wins at Pocono among his 93 career Cup victories, all with Hendrick's team.
"Jeff's a team player," Hendrick said. "I know he'll be ready, and I know Dale has incredible trust in him. It's going to be an emotional weekend (at Indianapolis) with Dale not being there and seeing Jeff back behind the wheel. (Crew chief) Greg (Ives) and the team did a great job at New Hampshire, and they have the full support of our organization."
Gordon steps into Earnhardt's No. 88 Chevrolet at a time when Axalta, a longtime primary sponsor of Gordon's, is scheduled to sponsor four of the next five races for Earnhardt. He will be racing against his much more familiar No. 24 car, which Chase Elliott drives.
"That will be a really weird feeling because the only car he ever drove was the 24," Fox Sports commentator and three-time Cup champ Darrell Waltrip said Wednesday. "To climb in another car and compete against your old car - I can't imagine what that must feel like, but it's probably one of those surreal, out-of-body experiences."
Not having Earnhardt in Sunday's starting lineup also will be odd. The North Carolina resident has started every Brickyard since 2000.
But even without one of NASCAR's top drivers, Indiana fans will have two storied drivers to watch - Gordon's comeback and what is supposed to be Tony Stewart's grand finale on his home track. Stewart, a three-time Cup champ and two-time Brickyard winner, plans to retire at the end of this season.
''We wish the circumstances were different, but we're thrilled anytime we see Jeff Gordon on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway oval and know our fans will love seeing him race again," speedway President Doug Boles said. "Between Jeff making a return visit and Tony Stewart making his final Brickyard start, this will be a legendary weekend for Hoosier race fans at IMS!"


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College of Religious Instruction records
Identifier: UA 584
Scope and Contents
Includes the official correspondence of Bryan Belnap, David Yarn, Roy Doxey, and Daniel Ludlow, all deans of the College of Religious Instruction. Includes correspondence from Chauncey Riddle, Assistant Director of Graduate Studies.
Dates: 1937-1973


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Carol A. Hand
Normally, I avoid posting more than one article on my blog in a day. Recently, I rarely post more than once a week. But I just received the Monday Report my Congressional Representative, Rick Nolan, shares with his constituents. Below is an excerpt with crucial information that is important to share because the mainstream media may not.
Rick Nolan's
Monday Report
From Minnesota's 8th District Congressman
"A Wish List for the Rich"
House GOP Budget Targets Medicare, Social Security and Medicaid to Fuel Tax Cuts for Wealthy People and Corporations
Dear Ms. Hand,
So much for President Trump's campaign promise not to cut Medicare and Social Security. Trump and House Republicans last week signed off on a catastrophic budget plan to slash Medicare by $500 billion over ten years and turn it over to costly the private insurance industry. Traditional benefits would be replaced with a yearly voucher check, leaving seniors on their own to find insurance they can afford. Republicans reportedly also have a plan afoot to raise the eligibility age for Social Security to 70, and impose drastic cuts to benefits for disabled workers and other especially vulnerable recipients.
Moreover, this House GOP plan doesn't achieve one penny of deficit reduction by closing tax loopholes for super-rich people and businesses on Wall Street. Instead, Republicans hand a shameless and needless trillion dollar tax cut to millionaires, billionaires and wealthy corporations and pay for it with devastating cuts to Medicaid assistance for the elderly in nursing homes, the poor, the disabled, and for students with special needs. Small communities and hospitals would be especially hard hit. Many small hospitals would be forced to close. And community services like Meals on Wheels that help seniors live at home and avoid expensive nursing home care would find themselves in real trouble.
Instead of reinvesting in America and our people, the GOP budget plan would continue to fund endless wars of choice in the Middle East to the tune of $75 billion for "overseas contingency operations."
And while undermining diplomacy with deep cuts to the State Department, House Republicans would provide the Pentagon with an extra $19 billion above the president's $603 billion request.
The carnage doesn't end there. The GOP budget plan also targets medical research, heath care for our military Veterans, public education, childhood nutrition, transportation, environmental protection and homeland security just to name a few.
To be clear, this proposal by President Trump and House Republicans is just that a proposal. In essence, it's a wish list for the rich at the expense of working middle class families, seniors and folks in need. We can and must to better for the American people, and that will continue to be my focus here in Congress.
We will keep you posted as events proceed. Meanwhile, I want to hear your thoughts. Feel free to contact any of our offices listed below or send me an email.
I plan to contact Congressman Nolan to thank him for the information and for his continuing efforts to work for the well-being of his constituents.


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The planet is hot and getting hotter. But while most plans to use geoengineering to alter the weather have been rather hypothetical, now a pair of Harvard engineers have announced that they intend to spray thousands of tons of particles into the sky to block the sun's rays—within the coming year.
The pair plan to launch a balloon to ascend 80,000 feet over Fort Sumner, New Mexico, before pumping out tens or hundreds of kilograms of sulphate aerosols into the sky. The idea is that the particles will reflect sunlight back into space, helping decrease the temperature of the Earth.
In theory, they're replicating the effects they've observed as volcanoes spew out similar sulphates into the atmosphere. In practice... well, there is no practice, because nobody's ever done it before. David Keith, one of the scientists, explained to the Guardian:
"The objective is not to alter the climate, but simply to probe the processes at a micro scale. The direct risk is very small."
Save big with this Samsung sale
If you're ready to drop some cash on a TV, now's a great time to do it. You can score the 75-inch Samsung Q70A QLED 4K TV for a whopping $800 off. That knocks the price down to $1,500 from $2,300, which is 35% off. This is a lot of TV for the money, and it also happens to be one of the best 4K TVs you can buy right now, according to Gizmodo.
Yeah, right. But however confidently he says that, in reality he doesn't know. It's hardly surprising, then, that the plan has its fair share of opposition, from scientists who believe that the experiment could have unpredictable—and therefore quite possibly negative—effects. Still, that doesn't seem to bother Keith or his partner James Anderson too much. In fact, they're keen to push forward with the project and plan to put it into action within the next twelve months.
In truth, it's difficult to decide if the idea is a good one or not. It's easy to speculate about how effective geoengineering projects can be without ever actually putting one into action. So in that sense, it's good to see someone bite the bullet and give it a try—here's hoping it works out. [The Guardian]
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Wednesday August 17, 2011
Heirloom Meals Radio:
Michael Tesoro
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According to This Denver TV Station, Paula Broadwell Wrote a Book Called All Up In My Snatch
Via the folks at AmericaBlog: When Denver's ABC affiliate put together a piece on the ever-devolving Petraeus affair yesterday, the station needed an image of the cover of Paula Broadwell's Petraeus bio All In to show its viewers. So it naturally went to the internet, which was a big mistake.
The reporter thought he was just grabbing an image of the cover of Broadwell's book, but he actually grabbed one that had been doctored by some hilarious internet wag to read All Up In My Snatch (lol get it?). And then he put it on TV, next to an image of Broadwell.
The station's news director told us: "Yes it happened. It was a mistake."
Here's video of the segment.
Update: The station has released a fuller statement explaining the error and pinning it on a rushed editor.
It was a regrettable and an embarrassing error. We are mortified this appeared during our 5 p.m. news broadcast. The editor pulled the image of the book cover from the Internet without realizing it had been doctored. We sincerely regret the error and have corrected the story to avoid any recurrence of its broadcast. We are following up internally as well to avoid a repeat of this inexcusable oversight.


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Provo • A couple of defensive players are taking a leap of faith at BYU's spring football camp this year, but coach Bronco Mendenhall says it is not as big of a gamble as it would appear.
Defensive back Mike Hague and defensive end Eathyn Manumaleuna are practicing without knowing for certain that they will be eligible to play this fall. The seniors have petitioned the NCAA for an additional year of eligibility because they suffered season-ending injuries in the fourth game of the season last year, against Boise State.
"It just depends now on what the NCAA says, but from what I can see, it looks like we will get it back," Hague said. "I can't be certain on that, but when you are probably 90 percent [guaranteed to get it back], you have no choice but to go 100 percent in practice."
Manumaleuna also believes the NCAA will deliver a positive ruling.
"The papers have been processed and are ready to be sent in," he said. "I just have to wait for it, but it looks good."
Mendenhall said he will be more than surprised if the NCAA denies either player.
"If I were betting, and I don't, I would bet that they are coming back," he said.
Hague suffered a 7-centimer tear in the soleus calf muscle in his right leg; Manumaleuna blew out his knee, which cleared the way for fellow senior Ezekiel "Ziggy" Ansah to become a full-time starter.
Ansah is now projected as a top-10 NFL Draft pick.
"I should be careful about saying that I started ahead of Ziggy," Manumaleuna joked, although it is true.
While Hague has fully recovered and is participating in all the contact drills and team sessions possible, Manumaleuna is taking it more slowly.
"I have been limited," he said. "I have just been doing a lot of individual stuff. No team, no one-on-one yet."
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Justin Sorensen is expected to handle the kicking chores again this season, but if the senior struggles again or experiences more problems with his surgically repaired back, the Cougars have a backup plan. Tyler Jackson, a transfer from Itawamba Community College (Miss.), is in camp and already showing off an impressive leg.
"Really good height on his ball," Sorensen said of the sophomore. "It is great to have him here, because we are kinda weird. We are the only ones who understand a lot of kicker things."
Jackson was called on to kick a 47-yard field goal as Wednesday's practice wrapped up, but was wide left.
Mendenhall said projected starting LB Spencer Hadley had offseason shoulder surgery (torn labrum) and is not participating in contact drills at spring camp. … The offense got five possessions in team sessions at the end of practice. Sophomore Taysom Hill was the QB in three of those; Ammon Olsen and Christian Stewart got one apiece. Another QB, Jason Munns, suffered a concussion last week and was held out of contact Wednesday.


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Mozilla will ship Firefox 12 tomorrow with a key component of its years-long silent update project.
Firefox 12, which got the green light from Mozilla last week, is slated to release on Tuesday, April 24.
Among the changes to Firefox 12, the most noticeable to Windows users will be the disappearance of the UAC, or "user account control," prompt on Vista and Windows 7 during updates.
UAC is a security feature introduced in Vista -- and in a less-intrusive form, tucked into Windows 7, too -- that requires users to agree to most program installations.
Firefox 12 will be the first edition from the open-source developer that sidesteps UAC.
"[UAC] makes things like automated software updates hard to do without user interaction," Brian Bondy, a Firefox platform engineer, wrote in a March blog post. "If we don't have access to write into Program Files to perform an update, then we have to ask for elevated permissions. We ask for elevated permissions today when applying updates."
In effect, UAC stymies no-user-action-required updates, or "silent updates." UAC-bypass has been one of the five pieces in Firefox's project to introduce silent updates, which is nearing completion but won't wrap up until this summer.
Firefox skips UAC by substituting a Mozilla-created Windows service for the traditional installation process.
Google's Chrome, which has featured silent updating since its 2008 debut, installs its code in the user's folder within Windows to avoid UAC. Mozilla rejected that route.
"We chose not to because it can be an administrative headache for some people who manage updates themselves and have to maintain an installation for every user," Bondy wrote.
Mozilla has said that sidestepping UAC makes sense.
"The repeated prompting is unnecessary because the first time that you accept the prompt you indicate that you put your trust in Firefox," the company said in a February blog post on silent updating. "After you have granted Firefox permission to update it should continue to be able to update future versions of Firefox without prompting you again."
The final component of silent updating, responsible for launching and completing the update entirely in the background, will land in Firefox 13, scheduled to ship June 5, or Firefox 14, set to ship July 17.
Mozilla has been working on silent updating for nearly two years. At one point, it thought it could add the feature to Firefox 4, which shipped in March 2011, but abandoned work when that version was delayed several times for other reasons. Late last year, it said it was shooting for silent updating in Firefox 10, which debuted in January. Those plans were also scrapped.
Implementing silent updating would make Firefox only the third browser to offer the feature, after Chrome and Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE).
Last December, Microsoft jumped on the silent update bandwagon when it announced it would automatically upgrade IE to the newest browser suitable for each version of Windows. Before the new practice began in January 2012, Microsoft had asked users for their permission before upgrading IE from one version to the next, even if Windows' automatic update service was enabled.
IE's automatic upgrading kicked off in Brazil and Australia only, but Microsoft plans to expand the practice worldwide this year.
Also tomorrow, Mozilla will push Firefox 3.6 into retirement. The company has been dunning users with pleas to upgrade for weeks, and will take the unusual step of automatically upgrading version 3.6 to Firefox 12 after the latter's release.
According to Web metrics company Net Applications, Firefox 3.6 accounted for 13% of all copies of Firefox used last month, down from 79% one year earlier.
Gregg Keizer covers Microsoft, security issues, Apple, Web browsers and general technology breaking news for Computerworld. Follow Gregg on Twitter at @gkeizer, on Google+ or subscribe to Gregg's RSS feed . His email address is email@example.com.
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text: An apparent attempt to prove that fart jokes and conceptual explorations of fate can coexist in a kids' movie, Holes adapts Louis Sachar's popular children's novel about a kid (Shia LaBeouf) wrongly convicted as a juvenile delinquent, and the Kafka-esque rehabilitation camp where he discovers the historical forces that brought him there. Forcefully directed by action director Andrew Davis from Sachar's own script, Holes is an ambitious undertaking, but not a successful one: It unfolds with the studied determination of a grade-school book report. Struck from above by a pair of stolen shoes, LaBeouf winds up in the middle of the Texas desert, where the young inmates do penance by digging one big hole a day. "If you take a bad boy and make him dig a hole every day in the hot sun," says camp overseer Jon Voight, "it will turn him into a good boy." That logic originally came from warden Sigourney Weaver, and has been passed down through camp counselor Tim Blake Nelson, then more or less accepted by each of LaBeouf's fellow inmates. When not questioning this supposition, LaBeouf reflects on his family's history and a curse stretching back to the Old Country that may be responsible for his misfortune. Meanwhile, Holes does some flashing back of its own, recounting the region's history, the town that once flourished at the camp's location, a romance between original settlers Patricia Arquette and Dule Hill, and the intolerance that brought it to its tragic end. With so many overlapping timelines and intersecting stories, Holes begins to resemble a failed collaboration between Atom Egoyan and the Nickelodeon network. Sachar's novel has been compared to Catch-22 for kids, but that's just one of several tones the film assumes. Mostly, the satire gets back-burnered in favor of the frenetic, unpleasant business of the plot, which drags on forever without giving viewers any reason to care about the secret behind all those holes, or even whether LaBeouf and his friends make it out alive. The movie does, however, feature lots of digging.


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The addition of yogurt makes this a dairy salad, and therefore perfect for this time of year.
3 apples, chopped (can be a combination of Granny Smith and Fuji or Gala)
1 (8-ounce) can sliced water chestnuts, drained and chopped
2 stalks celery, chopped
½ cup dried cranberries
3 tablespoons crystallized ginger, finely chopped
½ cup vanilla yogurt
¼ cup mayonnaise
2 tablespoons sugar
¼ teaspoon ginger
¼ cup chopped toasted pecans
In a large bowl, toss together apples, water chestnuts, celery, cranberries and crystallized ginger. Whisk together yogurt, mayonnaise, sugar and ginger. Pour over salad and mix well. Refrigerate until serving time. Sprinkle with pecans.
Fruit salads are just right in the summer time; for variety try this one also.


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Last night's game between the Red Sox and and Angels was not good, man. Not good at all. The Sox got shut out in a 5-0 loss. Jon Lester allowed three runs in six innings, and Ramon Ramirez allowed two. The offense only had four hits and they committed three errors! Ergh. It was not good. Not the greatest way to start off the playoffs, but hey. We've seen this team work miracles before. I should not start panicking, but I really don't want to have to cheer for any other team than the Red Sox this postseason.
Come on, guys, keep your heads up. You'll get them today.
Josh Beckett is pitching, and we all know how incredible he's been in the postseason. Let's hope that he'll be able to even things up for the Red Sox tonight.
The Dodgers won again last night, which is very frustrating. Get it going, St. Louis!!
When I opened up the newspaper yesterday morning, I found some very perplexing news. Marcus Giles was arrested because his wife said he had assulted her.
Oh boy. Before the season started, I blogged a little about Brian Giles' situation. His ex-girlfriend accused him of abusing her, and there was a whole mess of that situation. Brian countered that she had abused him, and it was pretty crazy. Brian barely played at all for us this season, and it's extremely likely that this was his last season in a Padres uniform.
Now, Marcus is getting into it! I almost can't believe it. He's been married for quite a while, and they have three little girls. This is just crazy!
Marcus played for one season with the Padres, and I loved him. He got to play with his brother and all that, plus he played pretty well for us. The Padres relased him after that season, though, and he hasn't played in the majors since. Oh dear.
Well, the Padres made a few moves yesterday, nothing too exciting. Cha Sueng Baek, Cliff Floyd, and Shawn Hill were waived. All three were fails this year. Baek was supposed to be a big part of our rotation, but he got hurt and was out all year. Pretty much the same story for the other two dudes. We actually had a lot of guys who that happened to before the season. It was not good. Like Mark Worrell, one of the pieces in the Khalil Greene trade, the side-armer. The Padres really liked what they were seeing…and then he had to have Tommy John surgery. So much for him.
We've got some exciting postseason baseball going on right now. Wow, it's been amazing! Hope you all are having a lot of fun watching it 🙂


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Jeremy Meeks' 'hot' mug shot goes viral
A handsome mug shot of a Northern California man has gone viral on social media, drawing comments praising his high cheek bones, chiseled face and striking blue eyes.
Jeremy Meeks, 30, was arrested Wednesday on five weapons charges, one gang charge, and one street terrorism charge, according to Officer Joseph Silva, a spokesman for the Stockton Police Department.
In addition to being dreamy, Meeks is also a convicted felon ... and married.
No previous arrest photo has garnered so much positive attention since the Stockton Police Department set up the Facebook page in March 2012, Silva told The Associated Press.
"I have not seen that many likes for a photo before," he said.
Meeks, who remained behind bars Friday in lieu of $900,000 bail, said he found out about his surprising popularity when his wife told him.
He was one of four men taken into custody during Operation Ceasefire, a multiagency mission to curb a recent increase in shootings and robberies in the Weston Ranch area. Four firearms were confiscated during a sweep Wednesday involving the Stockton police gang unit, the FBI, the U.S. Marshals Task Force and other agencies.
Silva called Meeks "one of the most violent criminals in the Stockton area," though he declined to provide any details on the crimes that Meeks is believed to have been involved in.
When a reporter interviewed Meeks in jail he said he appreciated the attention.
Shaking his head and smiling, Meeks added, "I just want them to know that this is really not me, I'm not some kingpin."
Meeks is scheduled to be arraigned Friday afternoon.
The Stockton Police Department sent out the following press release on the case: "WESTON RANCH OPERATION CEASEFIRE ENFORCEMENT MISSION
Due to a recent increase of shootings and robberies in the Weston Ranch area, the Stockton Police Department just completed a multi-agency Operation Ceasefire enforcement mission. Through an Operation Ceasefire analysis of the recent shootings, we identified a new active group in the Weston Ranch Area. In response during these challenging times, this type of collaborative response through the use of allied resources is an invaluable tool to reducing crime in the City of Stockton."
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Snow Shoveling Practical Joke Will Leave You Laughing (And Glad You're Inside) [VIDEO]
They say the shortest distance between two points is a straight line, which makes this video all the more ridiculous.
In this clip, snow is cleared, but not in a way that is convenient for people trying to get into the nearby building.
Let's hope the folks who had to walk this labyrinth had a sense of humor!


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In accounts there were many instances when an Organization receive debit note or it has to issue a debit note to its suppliers, customers, employees, third party and so on.
when you receives a debit note, from a third party, you have to credit the account of the issuer of the note and debit the related expenses /item account.
suppose you have purchased an item at a rate of Rs.100 however by mistake your supplier had billed you at a rate of Rs.95, then your supplier may issue a debit note for balance of Rs. 5 plus vat and other applicable duty. In such a case, you have to debit respective purchase and duty amount as narrated in the debit note and credit the supplier account.
Similarly if you have issued a debit note to your customer, you have to debit your customer's account and credit the related account.
I am highlighting some major circumstances under which you may issue or receive a Debit Note
1) Rate difference in sales/purchase invoice
2) Difference between billed and actual quantity of the invoice
3) Interest on late payment to and from suppliers/customers
4)Recovery interest or any amount from employees due to loss or damage to company's assets or any other cause.
5)Wrong credit or debit entry in the books of account of either party.
6) Quality difference
7) Any other circumstances which requires to issue a debit note
What is Debit note and Credit note? What is the purpose? How we create?
1. A transaction that reduces Amounts Receivable from a customer is a credit memo. For eg. The customer could return damaged goods. A debit memo is a transaction that reduces Amounts Payable to a vendor because, you send damaged goods back to your vendor.
2. Credit memo request is a sales document used in complaints processing to request a credit memo for a customer. If the price calculated for the customer is too high, for example, because the wrong scale prices were used or a discount was forgotten, you can create a credit memo request. The credit memo request is blocked for further processing so that it can be checked. If the request is approved, you can remove the block. The system uses the credit memo request to create a credit memo.
You can use credit memos in Sales and Distribution (SD) for assigning credit memo requests to the open invoices and in Financial Accounting (FI) for assigning credit memos and payments to the open invoices and carry out clearing with them. If you use both Financial Accounting (FI) and Sales and Distribution (SD), there is a 1:1 relationship between the credit memo request and the credit memo item posted in Financial Accounting (FI). As soon as you bill the credit memo request together with other sales orders, or distribute the items of one credit memo request to several billing documents, the assignment is no longer valid and the system will not process it.
For credit memos, credit memo requests, and payments, you have the following assignment options:
- Assignment to a single invoice
- Assignment of a partial amount to an invoice
- Assignment to several invoices
When you post credit memos, the payment programme processes them automatically. If the credit memo is specifically related to a particular open invoice item, the payment program automatically attempts to offset the credit memo against the open item. If it is not possible to completely offset the credit memo against an invoice, you can post a debit memo to the vendor, who is to reimburse the amount. Then you can apply a multilevel dunning program.
3. Debit memo request is a sales document used in complaints processing to request a debit memo for a customer. If the prices calculated for the customer were too low, for example, calculated with the wrong scaled prices, you can create a debit memo request. The debit memo request can be blocked so that it can be checked. When it has been approved, you can remove the block. It is like a standard order. The system uses the debit memo request to create a debit memo.
4. As mentioned above, creating a credit or debit memo request enables you to create credit or debit memos based on a complaint. For this first create a sales document with the order type for a credit or debit memo request. You can create the debit or credit memo requests in the following ways:
– Without reference to an order
– With reference to an existing order
Here you enter which order the complaint refers to.
– With reference to an invoice
Here you enter which invoice the complaint refers to.
In all cases, you specify the value or quantity that should be in the credit or debit memo
5. You can block the credit or debit memo request from being billed in Customizing. Go to Sales -> Sales Documents -> Sales document header -> Define sales document type and select the billing block field in the billing section. This request can later be reviewed along with similar ones, - if necessary, by another department. The request for a credit or debit memo can then be approved or rejected.


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Bryce Bickford and Ty Hamsher named students of the month at Garaway 7-12
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Bryce Bickford and Ty Hamsher have been named November students of the month at Garaway 7-12.
Bryce Bickford is in eighth grade and a member of the National Junior Honor Society. He is the son of Brent and Shannon Bickford and lives in Dover.
Ty Hamsher is a freshman and plays on the varsity basketball team. He is the son of Bruce and Jocelyn Hamsher of Sugarcreek.
The honor recognizes students doing the right things both inside and outside of the classroom, thereby providing leadership to Garaway.


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You never forget a good teacher… The lovely Mrs Lowe managed to communicate the importance of good dental hygiene, where dentists and countless ad campaigns had failed. Her humble props of a jar, an egg and a litre of cola were enough to convince us kids not to wait for decay and use Colgate today.
As a manager, I'd have missed her contribution to the school. As a knowledge manager, it would be the regret at losing her expertise, assumptions, values and insight that would inevitably occur when Mrs Lowe finished her class for the last time. You see this all the time of course – workers, good workers like Mrs Lowe, with years of experience, leaving an organisation in planned or unplanned ways with little or no thought about how this knowledge loss could be mitigated.
KM practitioners could be thinking communities of practice and mentoring programmes, but what if these don't exist formally or even informally in your organisation? They're also not much use if that person is leaving in days and weeks and not months and years.
When bossman asked me to look into creating a procedure for tactical knowledge retention, I was only too happy to help. Perhaps the start and tail ends of an employees lifecycle are the most crucial periods, both in terms of how they are supported and the steps taken to mitigate critical knowledge loss. I'll attempt to provide an overview of the exit process.
Knowledge Retention?
Related terms include, 'Knowledge Elicitation' and 'Knowledge Harvesting', although the latter phrase was something that brought genuine fear into the eyes of the first person who volunteered to take part in one. After reassuring them that no brains would be sucked out at any point in the sessions, I decided to communicate it as the less racy 'Knowledge Retention' from then on.
Knowledge retention is a response to the crucial knowledge lost when key personnel leave an organisation. It would still be unrealistic to expect that the entire knowledge built up during months and years of a worker's tenure can be captured in sessions that may amount to hours. Knowledge retention is therefore a damage limitation exercise at best, yet still infinitely better than asking people to volunteer their expertise by writing down what they know, relying only on gathering documents and records they may have created or worse still doing absolutely nothing.
Even with the best will in the world, many experts 'don't know what they know'. Therefore, an effective way of capturing and transferring meaningful knowledge is through structured interviewing to help systematically surface know-how and 'deep-dive' on content that an individual or team wouldn't have considered capturing on their own.
My first foray into knowledge retention was to specifically capture and transfer some crucial learning between a subject matter expert who was leaving and a new starter who would be in a position to take some of the previous incumbent's responsibilities.
Deciding When
Before embarking on this exercise it makes sense for all involved to understand to what extent their participation should be. Knoco refers to this as 'High Grading' the knowledge risk. For example, is the work continuing? Does anyone else have the knowledge? Or, has the knowledge been fully documented previously? Depending on the response, possible solutions could be to simply create optional self-help documentation. If however they're identified as the only subject matter expert with key operational knowledge, as was the case of the first person who participated in this session with me, then more needs to be done. In a single point failure situation like this, a structured knowledge retention exercise was the only option.
Prior to a session, it seems logical to define certain roles and responsibilities. Katrina Pugh describes these very effectively as part of her 'Knowledge Jam' process. For example, a sponsor (in my case my boss) would act to fund and select knowledge retention subjects and advocates in favour of knowledge retention event.
The 'Knowledge Originator' would be the subject matter or domain expert with know-how potentially useful to others.
A 'Knowledge Seeker' would be the person in search of the knowledge. They should also take part in the knowledge retention process if they are available while the knowledge originator is. Here they can play a role in shaping the direction of the knowledge captured to by requesting any specific information that would help them.
I took the role of facilitator to explain, coordinate and structure the knowledge retention exercise, as well as capture the outputs of the event between the originator and seeker. While it would depend on resources, a dedicated scribe could also work alongside the facilitator and knowledge seeker to help augment any dialogue and capture other such that was missed, noting down who said what.
The Process
The knowledge seekers need a structured method by which to share their knowledge, in other words, something to help tell them to tell their story. Indeed storytelling methods themselves could be incorporated into any sessions. If, like me, you subscribe to the notion that experts 'don't know what they know', a key purpose of the knowledge retention exercise should be to help surface this knowledge from them. A 'pre-interview' session to determine key points would help here. Routine admin type stuff can be taken out of the way and a request for fundamental reference documents, contacts and the structure of their working year taken.
Providing a context to help the knowledge originator tell their story is a useful starting point in the main interview session. An existing methodology or strategy will act as a logical basis to structure questions on. The first participant I undertook this with was a trading professional that was expected to adhere to a company mandated sourcing methodology. The various stages of this methodology were used as a framework by which questions could be formulated and structured conversation encouraged.
More generic questions could include, "what product/process/strategy do we have today?" Or, "how did the politics of your networks influence how you went about these?"
During the pre-interview stage, it helps to ask the originator to describe in a couple of word's what they feel the crux of their job is about. With the first participant, this was essentially how they managed the customer and how they made the saving. Both these concerns were then structured into the main interview session questioning.
As a teacher in a previous life, my guru used to tell me that intelligence comes from within and our role was less as tutors and more to facilitate the elicitation of responses from students. A learning background is an advantage in any facilitated sessions, however probing questions to press for specifics could include:
– What would you do if?
– What usually happens?
– What are the things to watch out for?
– How could this be made easier to understand?
– Why do you do that?
– Where do you go for further details?
– Describe a situation where it didn't go to plan?
– What are the critical success factors to achieving success in that part of your job?
A sequence of asking questions – exploring those answers, summarising the feedback and developing new questions – to help produce recommendations for the next person doing similar work should be the method of operation here.
The session doesn't need to be limited to capturing only text either. During one session a knowledge originator became quite excited about explaining the management structure of a customer and resorted to using the whiteboard present in the room. It's fine to go with the flow within reason and I took a quick snap afterwards that was included and annotated in the final report.
Recording any proceedings was something that I personally don't opt to do, figuring that it could inhibit the flow of conversation and make both the knowledge originator and seeker feel more self-conscious. However, discrete audio clips embedded into session documents can work well as a way of enriching the final explicit knowledge created.
At the end of the sessions, it also makes sense to distribute any reports with both the knowledge originator and the seeker to verify the facts and to let them add anything that may have been missed.
Demonstrating Value
Knowledge seekers, Knowledge originators and perhaps most importantly my boss could see clear benefits of performing this activity. If you are faced with a particularly incredulous financial director, work by Dr Hoffman from the Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition laboratories could strengthen the idea of knowledge retention becoming a strategic imperative in your organisation.
– Consider five people in your organisation who have knowledge that is critical and remains undocumented.
– For these people think of five critical job functions they perform
– For each of these functions, estimate the frequency with which it has been performed and the approximate time it takes for the expert to accomplish primary goals.
– From here the total operational costs of achieving all these critical functions can be calculated.
– For each of the functions, list 5 consequences to the organisation if the function was lost
– From this estimate, the following questions can be answered: "When would the revenue stream dry up if the organisation lost that expertise?"
– For each of experts, how many years of salary and training costs did it take the organisation to grow the expertise in the first instance?
– Based on this figure, the total cost of regenerating that expertise over 10 years can be calculated.
Knowledge Empathy
If the process of Knowledge Retention doesn't sound too difficult, then it isn't meant to. Regardless of how much the process is refined or how well a facilitator practices the art of eliciting answers, although the success of the entire process balances on the emotions of the knowledge originator and to a lesser extent the knowledge seeker involved.
As part of the process, you can talk about moving proceedings offsite and promoting a safe environment for everyone to contribute. I was fortunate enough to see successes with knowledge retention candidates who although leaving their respective organisations, were grateful for the experience and had simply found opportunities that appealed to them more. As a result, they contributed wholeheartedly and made excellent participants.
Problems arise when an organisation talks redundancy and expects those same people to disclose their knowledge with enthusiasm and full cooperation before they walk out of the door. It goes without saying that overworked, undervalued and generally unhappy workers do not make good knowledge retention candidates.
In the current economic climate, redundancies are becoming unavoidable for all sectors. It's still in management's and HR's gift to manage the process with as much empathy as possible to make people feel a part of the organisation right up to their last day. It will pay dividends and not just from a knowledge transfer perspective.
So how would a knowledge manager win hearts and minds in situations like this? The first candidate who took part mentioned how the sessions helped him to capture, categorise and transfer the tacit knowledge he had been building up, helping his exit and giving him a sense of legacy.
Offering a sense of legacy may be the only real benefit this exercise could offer to some people. The organisation will of course profit from this knowledge. Personally speaking (and biased as I will be), there is no bigger compliment than having your knowledge become an organisations knowledge, embedded to change the way of working for the betterment of everyone and successive employees and a much greater enticer than any enhanced redundancy package.
Of course, had I had this know-how as an urchin of a kid, I would have asked Mrs Lowe to explain her tooth decay exercise for far more commercial reasons. We could have marketed it to revolutionize the dental industry and made a fortune (or at least enough to let me buy that Scaletrix set that I always wanted). If only I knew then what I know now.


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WASHINGTON – U.S. sales of previously occupied homes rose in 2012 to their highest level in five years, spurred higher by record-low mortgage rates and steady hiring.
The National Association of Realtors said Tuesday that sales reached 4.65 million last year. That's up 9.2 per cent from 2011 and the most since 2007. Sales are still below the roughly 5.5 million that are consistent with a healthy market.
Sales dipped in December to a pace of 4.94 million, down from 4.99 million in November. November's figure was revised lower, but was still the highest in three years.
The supply of available homes is shrinking as sales rise. That's pushing up prices. The inventory of homes for sale dropped to 1.82 million in December, the lowest in 12 years.
Still, the housing market is recovering and most analysts expect that should continue this year.
Steady hiring, record-low mortgage rates and a tight supply of new and previously occupied homes available for sale have helped boost sales and prices in most markets.
A measure of U.S. home prices rose 7.4 per cent annually in November, real estate data provider CoreLogic said last week. That's the biggest annual increase since 2006, when the housing bubble began to burst. CoreLogic forecasts that home prices will rise 6 per cent nationally this year.
Rising demand for homes has persuaded builders to step up construction, which adds to economic growth and hiring.
U.S. builders started work on homes in December at the fastest pace in 4 1/2 years, the government said last week. And builders finished 2012 as their best year for residential construction since the early stages of the housing crisis.
The gains in home building helped boost construction hiring in December by 30,000 jobs — the most in 15 months.


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Welcome in the land of the smiles:-) Let's see the Thai life style through a "farang"(foreigner in Thai) man's vision. It's a crowded and chaos country. Incredibly laid back. No one seems particularly bothered by anything in particular…The lifestyle is loud. In all honestly, we can learn a lot from the way that the Thai people go about their life. It's fascinating… you gotta admire them for it… They don't seem to be too overly serious about world issues.
In fact, the capital's official full name is "Krungthep, Maha Nakorn,*Amorn Ratanakosindra, Mahindrayudhya, Mahadilokpop Noparatana Rajdhani, Burirom, Udom Rajnivet Mahastan, Amorn Pimarn Avatarn Satit, Sakkatuttiya Vishnukarm prasit" which may be translated into English as follow : "The city of angel, the great city, the residence of the Emerald Buddha, the impregnable city [of Ayutthaya] of God Indra, the grand capital of the world endowed with the nine precious gems, the happy city, abounding in enormous royal palaces which resemble the heavenly abode where reigns the reincarnated God, a city given by Indra and built by Vishnukarm". Due to its over a hundred romanised letters, the capital earns a listing in the Guiness Book of record as the World's longest place-name.
Your first few days in Bangkok will be unforgettable...hyperactive transport,
striking street vendors, the trucks and motorcycles always run and make big
noise, at the night the city is totally change. When the banks close, start the
night market where you can find everything, open small street restaurants, just
on the pavement, and you can feel the exotic aromatic of the testy thai food,
which you can find everywhere on the street. Bangkok never sleep, so maybe about
this they call it The angel city. But there you can find amazing thing
that will you surprise you... Being in Thailand is just like being on some
island with pretty girls! Seem like women is more from the men, because
everywhere on the street you can see a lot of young girls. Actually, Bangkok is
made up of two words, namely ; "Bang" and "Kok", signifying a "village" or
"district" on the river and a "wild olive like fruit" respectively. Thus, it
means the "village of olives" which was formerly just a smell fishing villa
ge. Unually Thai people call their capital by its short form "Krung Thep" which means "City of Angels".
Thailand is a big country with a diverse landscape. Well, there's many good reasons to visit Thailand. And one reason in particular that I notice over and over in my travels around Thailand is what I call the 'beautiful friendliness' of the Thai people. Thais are generally shy people and few are likely to walk up to you and engage in conversation.
One of the main reasons people travel is to explore other cultures and establish how other countries and cultures do things. It is then quite remarkable then to see people wandering around the kingdom imposing their cultural approach on the situations and events they encounter.
Thailand's capital and gateway city is Bangkok which was founded in 1782 by King Rama I [Phra Buddha Yodra chulaloke]. The capital is located at the geographic centre of the country and on the banks of the Chao Phraya River, "River of King", which rises in the hills of the North and flows through the flat central plains on its way to the sea in the Gulf of Thailand.
Bangkok has approximately 10 million population and it is
considered one of the biggest city in the world. It is now the country's
spiritual, cultural, diplomatic, commercial and educational hub. It
covers an area of more than 1,500 square kilometres, and it is home to
approximatlely ten million people or more than 10% of the country's
Smoking in the street is illegal – you can be fined 2,000 Baht.


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Publication Type: Abstract Only
Publication Acceptance Date: 10/28/2012
Publication Date: 10/31/2012
Citation: Liu, Z. 2012. Development of next generation biocatalyst for lower-cost ethanol production from lignocellulose. 8th International Symposium on Biocatalysis and Agricultural Biotechnology [abstract].
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Technical Abstract: Economics of fermentation-based biotechnology rely extensively on microbial performance. For renewable ethanol production using lignocellulosic biomass feedstocks, two major technical challenges exist. First, inhibitory compounds liberated from lignocellulosic biomass pretreatment interfere with microbial growth and subsequent fermentations. Secondly, the traditional yeast used is limited in pentose conversion, which restricts efficient biomass sugar utilization, especially for pentoses which are rich in lignocellulose materials. Using systems biology approaches, we developed tolerant industrial yeast strains with competitive xylose utilization capabilities. The new yeast strains are able to in situ detoxify major biomass pretreatment inhibitors while producing ethanol. This technical advance eliminates inhibitor removal steps by physical, chemical or biological procedures thus reducing cost of cellulosic ethanol production. We synthesized a unique yeast xylose isomerase gene and genetically engineered it into the genome of the tolerant yeast by chromosomal integration to enable its xylose utilization. Genetic incorporation of heterologous xylose transporter genes in the industrial host strain further improved its xylose utilization efficiency and ethanol yield. These new genotypes are not only able to grow on xylose as sole carbon and energy source but also competitively ferment mixed sugars of glucose and xylose under oxygen limited conditions at significantly increased rates. Unlike commonly observed glucose repression on xylose utilization for genetically engineered yeast strains, the new genotypes displayed little diauxic lag in consumption of a mixture of glucose and xylose. Reprogrammed pathways for in situ detoxification involved in glycolysis and pentose phosphate pathways were uncovered and key mechanisms of the yeast tolerance illustrated. Challenges towards next generation biocatalyst development for advanced biofuels production will also be addressed.


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7 Common Snowbird Scams
Con artists head south to prey on older seasonal residents
It's not just retirees who flock to warm-weather states such as Florida and Arizona as the temperature drops up north. During snowbird season — November through April — scammers also head south to prey on the half-year residents.
"Absolutely, during snowbird season there's an increase in scams — and many are done by organized outfits ... who specifically target older seasonal residents," says Joe Roubicek, who spent 20 years investigating scams as a Fort Lauderdale police detective before writing Financial Abuse of the Elderly: A Detective's Case Files of Exploitation Crimes.
If you're among the thousands about to migrate to a warmer climate, beware of these common snowbird scams:
1. The malevolent mechanic. They wait outside shopping malls or supermarkets, watching for snowbirds (often recognized by out-of-state license plates) to park and go inside. If the car's older or left unlocked, they can pop the hood and disable the vehicle by pulling wires. "When the elder returns, they offer help getting their car started — after driving them to the bank for money to pay for the repair," says Roubicek. "Their main target: women in their 70s or 80s."
Your best option, if you're not a AAA member, is to call a friend or police to give you a hand.
2. Pickpockets. Organized gangs work flea markets and the aisles of stores near retirement communities for a week or so, then move to the next community, says Bob Arno, a former pickpocket-turned-comedic counselor on street crimes. Snowbirds are especially targeted because they tend to carry cash, wear looser-fitting clothing and may have slower reactions.
If you're in a crowd or you see strangers ahead, keep your hand on your wallet or tightly clutch your handbag. Be especially careful when approached by "lost" duos in need of directions. (One distracts you — sometimes with map in hand — while the other dips into your bag.) If possible, keep wallets in a buttoned pocket or in a safety pouch worn beneath clothing.
3. ID theft. Roubicek warns of store clerks who capture credit card numbers with cellphone cameras or pen and paper and then make fraudulent purchases. It's a good idea to use only one card — with the lowest credit limit — for snowbird season purchases and go online regularly to keep close tabs on its activity.
4. The bank examiner scam. Milling around outside banks, con artists pose as bank officials or law enforcement agents who are investigating a corrupt teller. They ask you, as a trusted customer, to go inside, withdraw some money and hand it over. Don't worry, we just need to check serial numbers and mark the banknotes, you're told — we'll redeposit them right away to see if the teller steals any. Of course, they and the cash quickly disappear. Real banking examiners and police don't need your money for their investigations.
5. The lottery winner who can't collect. In a parking lot, someone approaches you claiming to hold a winning lottery ticket. Only problem, the "winner" is in the United States illegally and can't go get the money. Just pay me a portion of the jackpot, you're told, and you can have the ticket. Its number may be "verified" by a passerby — "I saw it announced on TV last night." In reality, this person is an accomplice.
It's one of many so-called pigeon drop scams, in which a stranger offers to share a fortune (found money, an inheritance, etc.) once you make your "good faith" contribution. Forget good faith; use good judgment instead.
6. The condo caper. Unannounced visits by self-described utility workers or contractors should always sound internal alarms of a possible scam. But a request to enter your home can have more credence when the front-door fraudster claims "the condo association sent me."
The crooks often work in pairs and also pose as exterminators. One may "accidentally" spill liquid or even spray pesticide on you and divert your attention by helping with the cleanup while the other stealthily steals valuables.
"If there's one guy, the 'accident' can be to lubricate your hand so he can slip a ring off your finger — or offers to clean it for you," notes Roubicek. "Some then just pocket the jewelry and run off, knowing that many elders are timid and won't stop them."
So unless you initiate contact or the condo association gives prior notice, never let these folks inside your dwelling.
7. Telemarketing cons. Snowbirds can expect an uptick in phony phone calls claiming that they've won a sweepstakes or that a grandchild is in a jam and needs a quick wiring of cash. Why? "The energy of boiler rooms moves to snowbird communities" in the winter, says Roubicek, as scammers buy calling lists of communities that are swelled by thousands of seasonal residents. If you own a condo or second home, it's easy to get personal info such as your name and age, information that's dropped into the come-on to make it seem more legitimate.
Just hang up!
Sid Kirchheimer is the author of Scam-Proof Your Life, published by AARP Books/Sterling.
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