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Lone wolf's days of wandering are over
May 15, 2012
When I last wrote about the wolf in August 2011, the silvery black creature was somewhere in the rolling tundra east of Deadhorse, having traveled more than 1,500 miles from its former home in Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve on the Yukon River last summer. The wolf was on a journey of great risk/reward, said John Burch, a biologist who fitted it with a collar that transmitted GPS coordinates to satellites every few days.
Seth McMillan of the National Park Service recovers the body of a male wolf that roamed more than 2,000 miles in seven months. The wolf died of starvation; McMillan is pictured where he and John Burch found it beneath a spruce tree near the upper Kanuti River.
The big Yukon-Charley male seemed to have had some luck at the latter, at least for a while.
"He appeared to settle down for a bit on the North Slope," Burch said. "I would guess he found a mate for a while. But they broke up for some reason and he headed south again."
After a few weeks of stability in the northern foothills of the Brooks Range, the wolf headed south as winter set in. It loped through a low mountain pass and padded down the Chandalar and upper Koyukuk river drainages. The wolf continued south to once again cross the Arctic Circle a few hundred miles west of where it last May passed the imaginary line going northward.
The satellite transmitter told Burch the wolf wandered to a manmade barrier border it never crossed — the Dalton Highway — and then retreated a bit northward to the Kanuti River, about a mile east of the road. There, last October 18, signals from the satellite collar indicated the wolf had stopped moving. Burch and Seth McMillan went out to recover the collar from the wolf. They found it curled up under a spruce tree, dead.
"He was really emaciated," Burch said. "He weighed 69 pounds from the 103 he weighed when we collared him."
The wolf starved to death. Burch knows this from its body condition and because Alaska Department of Fish and Game veterinarian Kimberly Beckman examined the wolf and didn't find any debilitating injuries or a crippling load of parasites.
"I think (starvation in wolves) is more common than people think it is," Burch said. "I think there's some misconception about wolves being able to kill whenever they want to. Sometimes wolves can kill anything they want any time they want. Sometimes they can't."
The wolf had felt the ache of deep hunger before. A few months after his mate in Yukon-Charley and he were both fitted with collars, biologists noticed that the pair kept coming back to the same moose carcass, even after little remained but scattered bones and hair. The female died there, also of starvation. Soon after, the male took off northward on his impressive journey.
Burch found it interesting but not surprising that in its 2,085 miles of travel in half a year, the wolf never seemed to cross a road, though it probably came close enough to the Dalton Highway to hear the groan of trucks and smell burned diesel.
"He may never have encountered a road or vehicles," Burch said. "Wolves are cagy and reluctant with things that are unknown. It helps them stay alive."
The lone, wandering wolf has again showed Burch, who has studied wolves for decades, a few things about their behavior; one of them is that though life in the pack is good for many wolves, non-dominant wolves that don't get to breed will often split. And even dominant wolves take off.
"Biologists choose to capture and collar the alpha or breeding pair that are least likely to disperse, but still, even they disperse sometimes," Burch said. "It makes you think, 'Man, there must be a lot of wolves dispersing all over, all the time.' Those dispersing wolves are looking for a place to live, and it doesn't take long to repopulate an area once wolves have been killed. It's a big factor in wolf population dynamics.
"And it's not that wolves are doing something different," Burch said. "It's that we're able to see it now (with GPS collars in addition to radio collars tracked by airplane)."
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So my least favorite event from the entire run of The Walking Dead comic finally made its way to the small screen with the season finale of season six of the show. Some comments, speculation and of course spoilers for the show and the comic after the break.
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Today's News: Our Take - Michelle and Jim Bob Duggar Trying for Baby No. 20
19 Kids & Counting stars Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar are trying to have another child, Michelle tells CelebrityBabyScoop.com.
"I would hope, but we are not expecting right now," she said. "I would be so grateful if the Lord blessed us with another one. We're trying at this point and we shall see if that is a possibility. If not, we are so thankful and grateful for the ones that God has given us so far. We are also definitely enjoying our grandbabies! They are so precious." The Duggars have three grandchildren from their oldest son, Josh.
The Duggars distributed photos of their miscarried baby at memorial
In November 2011, the couple announced that they were expecting their 20th child. However, Michelle suffered a miscarriage a month later during her second trimester. The couple held a memorial service for the child, who would've been named Jubilee Shalom Duggar.
Earlier this year, the Duggars said they were "open to the idea of adoption" following a family trip to China.
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Jesus spent much of His three years of ministry sharing word pictures with all who would listen. Some asked what the parables meant, others shook them off as crazy. We think God still speaks to us in word pictures, or metaphors as we often call them.
We've decided to spend some time sharing different metaphors with you. Our hope is that the pictures described will help us see ourselves in a different light. The first one we heard from our pastor in yesterday's service.
Metaphor #1
Imagine you're out to dinner at a really nice restaurant with your spouse. The lights are dimly lit, the food is served hot and delicious. The conversation is just beginning to deepen when it happens; you spill something on your shirt! Your first thought is you'll never get it out! All attention is given to get the stain out as quick as possible.
Why are we so quick to remove a stain from our clothes, but tolerate stains on our hearts?
John Owen said, "Be killing sin, or it will be killing you."
How true. Consider lust. It is never satisfied. It's not something we can control. By God's grace the only thing we can do to be free from its grip is to kill it. We are called to put off the old man and his ways:
- sexual immorality
- impurity
- passion
- evil desire
- covetousness (idolatry)
Our culture dresses up on Easter Sunday, but God isn't interested in how we dress on the outside. He wants us to be more concerned about what's on the inside in our hearts. He wants us to be clothed with:
- compassion
- kindness
- humility
- meekness
- patience
(cited from Colossians 3)
Our pastor continued, "Many times our old man and new man hang out together. They shouldn't. Is Christ your life? Then, consider – Jesus doesn't slander; Jesus doesn't gossip; Jesus doesn't harbor bitterness; Jesus doesn't hide sin. Old ragged clothes that don't fit us anymore should be tossed. Like "old clothes," anger doesn't fit us anymore, because Christ has set us free to live a new way, a new life, as a new man."
Think of how our marriage could be changed if each of us went after the old man in our heart and put on the new man each and every day. This is Christ at work in us, our hope of glory.
We want to finish with this question–Do you excuse yourself from going after sins in your own heart because your spouse isn't going after the sin in their heart? If so, know that you're nursing sin, not killing it. Let us examine our own heart and be willing to go first. This is where lasting change is cultivated, one stain at a time.


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Is it just me?
If it is, then I should feel pretty vulnerable and embarrassed after this. I'm sorry mom. I really do try and make you proud.
Is it just women?
It's hard to say but I don't think so. I do think requires more skill on behalf of the woman, I would think. Then again I wouldn't know, I've never peed into one of those "specimen catchers" standing up. It seems like all you have to do is aim and shoot. Though I imagine splash-back could be a problem. Also I've heard dudes talking about the "split stream", which would make producing a clean catch pretty tricky. But that happens to the lady folk too. So I'm a making a leap of faith in assuming I'm not the only one who has issues here. Right? Guys? Right guys?
I've had to give so many urine samples via those small plastic lidded cups over the last ten years, you'd think I'd at least have a technique mastered by now. But there's just so little prediction in the direction that things will go once the golden exit begins.
You know the order of operations. First you go a little to see what direction your body has decided for the sample to go that day. Cool, you have a good idea. Place the cup in position. Aaaand begin. Aaaaand what is happening.
It starts to go awry when a renegade stream breaks off from the group for no reason at
all. Whyyyy. I can't yell at my pee mid stream and direct it on where to go! It doesn't respond to verbal orders or worried yelling. Why would half of this small waterfall decide to break apart from the its fluid crew and travel backwards? Return to the team you idiot!
Obviously, things don't get better from there. The cup can't catch the rebellious run off and the original stream simultaneously because they're too far apart, so now I have to guess which one has a higher volume and catch that one. And because I'm indecisive, I start to get a little panicky, I can't tell which is better. Now I'm going back and forth with the cup between streams because I'm worried the collection isn't enough, and I'm right. I often miss more than I catch in the chaos. Great. Now there's pee in places I'd rather there not be pee. It's just my hand don't freak out. (I'm talking to myself now) I mean urine is sterile, so I hear. That was the whole point of those deep breaths I took before beginning the process. You can do this Mary, just pretend it's a game at the carnival, you're a competitive gal.
I liken the stress to that of being on a motor bike and panicking that you're going too fast but in the frenzy you keep hitting the gas, gunning it, instead of the break. You increase in speed until you crash and your shoe flies off. That actually happened to my friend Cody and I once. My shoe really flew off!
Anyway I guess it's just the stress of getting it right and knowing there's a limited amount
of material to work with that I end up internally yelling with my head down "WHAT. IS GOING ON DOWN THERE?! GET. IT. TOGETHER!" It's like yelling at some kids I'm babysitting who I can hear are misbehaving in the basement. I hope I'm not accidentally
yelling that out loud in the stress of those 30 seconds. I can just see the nurses faces upon hearing the racket inside the bathroom, shaking their heads in resignation, Where did we go wrong with our children?
Now I have to place the cup on the counter, but why is the counter always wet? Is that someone else's renegade pee? Impossible to know. Also, eeeew. So I awkwardly wipe down the counter, (still squatting on the toilet by the way), place the cup down, screw on the lid, make sure that's wiped down and examine my sample. It's like I want the nurses to be impressed with it. "Wow, did you check out Gelpi's specimen cup? Not even a droplet on the outside!" I realize they're wearing gloves and couldn't care less about any of this.
Then you open that little stainless steel door to drop off your cup, and you see all the other specimens. Woah! I'm always surprised by the array of yellow colors that make up peoples urine. It's like 50 shades of pee in there! I can only hope mine is the right shade of neon.
It feels like an unnecessarily stressful event that I've had to do so many times, I just can't figure out why I'm not better at it. Is there some method I'm unaware of? I had to give a sample yesterday just like I did last week and the week before that and a month before that, for all kinds of fun reasons. And still, I entered that bathroom, wrote my name on the cup, took a few deep breaths, and once again the urinary chaos began.
At least this time I didn't fall. Yes, that is a true and exceptionally unfortunate story. It happened in the E.R. and I'm pretty sure they gave me a horse tranquilizer or something close to it prior to calm down the excessive adrenaline. I was in SVT (Supra Ventricular Tacchacardia) and flopping around like a fish out of water. Then I was tranked and expected to give a sample without help! So yeah, I fell. Let that image settle in and make the rest of your day happy.
Anyway, maybe I'll develop a better method over the next few months. Or maybe giving urine samples will always just be one of those things we all have to do that are oddly more difficult than they should be, like hanging curtains. Don't worry, because I know you might, I'll let you know if there's improvement. Stay golden yall! (I had to)
Health, Happiness, A Clean Catch


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As Ash and friends walk to Lilycove City, a tree comes crashing down in front of them—pushed over by Team Rocket in their newest giant robot! They have Pikachu in hand, when the robot begins to sink into the ground and crumple. It explodes, sending everyone flying.
The kids find themselves stuck in a tree—without Pikachu. Team Rocket is lost, and Meowth is nowhere to be found. Pikachu and Meowth wake up next to each other, and to Meowth's delight, Pikachu has no memory. Meowth convinces Pikachu that it was a part of Team Rocket and that the two of them are best friends.
While the pair makes it may back to Team Rocket's secret base, Meowth witnesses Pikachu saving a Zigzagoon, not being scared of a high ledge, and even sharing an apple with Meowth. Eventually they make it back to the base, and Meowth updates Jessie and James.
Ash and friends track down Pikachu to the cabin, where Team Rocket has Pikachu attack Ash. They try to get away in a balloon, but Ash grabs on. James orders Pikachu to use Thunderbolt, and they end up crashing. Ash and Pikachu land in the river and wash ashore. When they awake, Pikachu has its memory back.
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Some spices are statement flavors that speak for themselves. They're the big-name headliners that sell recipes the way A-list actors sell movie tickets. They may be subtle and unassuming like basil and sage or bold and brash like cumin and pimentón. They're the first name on the ticket, generally well-liked. Friendly, even. They play well with all sorts of flavors and ingredients, crossing culinary boundaries while always remaining the star.
Asafoetida is not that kind of spice.
To the uninitiated, its flavor and aroma can be downright alarming. Its origins and processing—it's the dried and powdered resin from a tree—make it one of those ingredients, like cheese, that make you wonder how we ever turned it into food. Historically it's been used as a medicine for all sorts of ailments—sometimes a promising sign for an ingredient, but always a weird one. Unlike many Eastern spices that have worked their way into Western cuisines, asafoetida (often called hing) has stayed mostly confined to its roots. Westerners from France to Turkey have coined all sorts of unpleasant names for it, of which devil's sweat is one of the more polite.
But oh what a wonderful substance it is! Asafoetida is one of the most distinctive spices in South Indian cuisine that transforms a dish (and the kitchen, and maybe the room adjacent to it) into something magical. It's one of the most interesting and memorable aromas you encounter when entering a South Indian restaurant or kitchen. When used judiciously the effect is nothing short of transporting; your forays into Indian cooking will benefit immeasurably from its use, for which there's no substitute.
What Does It Taste Like?
"You can think of it like Parmesan, meaty collagen, or soy sauce"
It's not as strange as it's made out to be. You can think of it like Parmesan, meaty collagen, or soy sauce: It gives dishes a super-savory element otherwise lacking in South Indian fare, which is almost exclusively vegetarian. And since it's always cooked in fat first, it yields a full, smooth, and satisfying mouthfeel that you may not be able to pin down but would miss if it wasn't there. A long list of obscure spices in an Indian recipe can be discouraging, but this one is definitely worth seeking out. This isn't an A-list spice, but it's one of the world's best supporting stars.
While the aroma of raw asafoetida isn't exactly what I'd call pleasant, everything changes when it's introduced to hot oil or butter. Usually one of the first aromatics added to a dish, its initial pungent and camphorous funk mellows out and is replaced by musky aromas that evoke a sense of place—a South Indian village—more than any comparable flavors. It's hard to describe asafoetida, but you know it when you smell it, and if you're a fan of this style of cooking it'll be right up your alley.
Asafoetida is mostly sold pre-ground and is available at any Indian grocery. You won't need any more than the smallest of containers because a pinch or two per dish is sufficient. Keep it very well sealed unless you want your whole cabinet to smell like it.
How to Use Asafoetida
Asafoetida isn't a spice to use in everything, but that doesn't mean it isn't a good everyday spice. It compliments most commonly-used Indian vegetables: potatoes, onions, cauliflower, peas, and quick-cooking greens. Whether making a more involved vegetable curry or a simpler sauté a pinch or two (or if your container is like the one above, just a squeeze from the top) added at the beginning will go a long way. It's also a common element of tarkas, the flavored fats made and poured on dishes right before serving. Either way, once your oil or butter (preferably clarified) gets hot, add your asafoetida and let it incorporate for about 15 seconds before adding other spices and aromatics. Your nose will tell you when it's ready.
Asafoetida is best used as a background note for other complimentary spices, like cumin, mustard seeds, dried chiles, curry leaves, ginger, and garlic. Add any combination of these things to your tarka to drizzle over beans, stewed vegetables, or anything at all. Or start your dish with asafoetida. As a dish cooks the asafoetida graciously recedes into the background, though while it lets other flavors develop it never disappears. The end result is an intensely aromatic dish with layers of flavor and a full mouthfeel. Consistently getting those layers and that texture seem like a challenge for many home cooks, myself included. With asafoetida that's just a pinch away.


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First of its kind event will bring together all of Georgia's breweries
ATLANTA- On March 22, 2014 Georgia's craft brewers will convene under the banner of the "Georgia Craft Beer Fest" to celebrate the state's flourishing craft beer community. From old guard breweries to brand new upstarts, over 25 GA breweries have been confirmed to take part in this all day event. There will informative tours, food trucks, live music, and the best craft beer the Georgia has to offer.
The GCBF will benefit the Georgia Craft Brewers' Guild, a non-profit organization that works to support the brewing community, inform consumers, and encourage growth in up and coming craft beer-based businesses in our state.
The festival will be hosted by the state's oldest craft brewery, Red Brick Brewing Co. President Bob Budd had to say about the event, "We are beyond thrilled to be hosting this event because, honestly, some folks thought it might never happen. As one of the founding members of the Georgia Craft Brewers' Guild, one of our goals has been to mentor up and coming breweries. So to have over 25 Georgia breweries under one roof shows the progress that the community at large is making."
The GCBF will be held from 1-6 pm on March 22, with VIP opening at noon. It will be held at Red Brick Brewing Co, 2323 Defoor Hills Rd, Atlanta, GA, 30318. Tickets are $40 for general admission and $75 for VIP. For more information, a complete list of breweries, and to purchase tickets, visit www.gacraftbeerfest.com.
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Rizzoli & Isles Exclusive First Look: Who's Got a Gun to Paddy's Head?
Maura's father, mob boss Paddy Doyle, will finally head to trial next week on Rizzoli & Isles, but it looks like he has a lot more to answer to than murder charges.
In this exclusive first look at Tuesday's episode (9/8c, TNT), Maura (Sasha Alexander), Jane (Angie Harmon) and Korsak (Bruce McGill) find Paddy (John Doman) pinned up against a bathroom sink by none other than Cavanaugh (Brian Goodman), who's holding a gun to his head (look closely).
Rizzoli & Isles' Sasha Alexander: It's a big year for Maura
"[Paddy] has a history with Cavanaugh, it turns out, and that is a major reason Maura has to take a step back and choose a side: her biological family or her professional family," Alexander tells TVGuide.com. "Whether what happened [between Paddy and Cavanaugh] was done consciously, it's just more proof that Paddy's done enormously shady things in his life and he's not a man that you can trust."
What do you think their past is? Might it have something to do with how Cavanaugh's wife and son died in a house fire back in the day?
Rizzoli & Isles airs Tuesdays at 9/8c on TNT. Check out the photo below:
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Hingham man puts replica battleship up for sale
COHASSET – A 20-foot-long World War II battleship replica weighing nearly a ton isn't a common sight on the water – never mind alongside Route 3A in Cohasset.
The destroyer escort model on display is the work of Steve MacDonald, a marine engineer from Hingham. MacDonald spent three-and-a-half years on the intricate replica that closely resembles its inspiration. It even has cannons that release smoke and sound effects to mimic a battleship.
"I studied the blueprint, and it's pretty much identical. There are a few modifications so you can get inside it, but it's pretty close, and you can actually drive it and everything works," he said. "Every time you bring it into the water all these people flood around you and you feel like a celebrity. It's like a paparazzi of boats."
As a child growing up in Quincy near the Fore River shipyard, MacDonald, 50, said he was fascinated by the ships he saw built there.
"When I was 5, I was taking Popsicle sticks and putting sails on them," he said with a chuckle. "I had every ship and boat, and anything that would float I would use."
Built between 2009 and 2012, the destroyer escort is MacDonald's fourth full-scale model.
When the USS Salem, which was built at Fore River and launched in 1949, returned to the former shipyard in 1994, MacDonald was inspired. He did some historical and architectural research, then spent five years drafting, getting patents and building replicas of the USS John Adams and USS John Quincy Adams.
MacDonald said he settled on the destroyer escort for his most recent model as a way to honor military members who served the U.S., particularly during World War II.
"If if wasn't for them, we wouldn't be here right now. Germany would. So it's for what those men went through for us to live and live free," he said. "I've heard a lot of great war stories and the veterans are always very grateful."
The boats in 2000 traveled from the docks behind the Clipper Apartments on Palmer Street in Quincy to Scalisi Marine in Weymouth.
MacDonald said a second battleship owned by one of his friends sunk because of damage, prompting him to put his up for sale.
"It's fun with two people and you go out as a team and battle with them. It's like being a kid again," he said. "But it's like anything else. Who wants to go parachuting or hang gliding by themselves?"
MacDonald's battleship replica is on display in a friend's yard, across from Cohasset Imports Auto Sales on Route 3A. He said he'd like to receive $10,000 for the replica ship.
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It was 50 years ago today, Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play and one of the faces you can see on the famed cover of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club band above can be yours.
No, seriously, one of the props on that cover of The Beatles' iconic album that dropped in the United States on this day in 1967 is available in the newest Heritage Auctions sale running now until June 17.


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Cindy is a solo female traveler who likes to make decisions without feeling a lot of pressure.
She has always been skeptical about accommodation, spending countless hours in reading reviews, comparing room amenities and contacting hotel staff.
But when she saw this Airbnb ad in a travel mag, she was moved with compassion.
Image via nytimes.com
Pulling on her heart strings this advert addressed her need to feel at home while traveling. Her emotional intelligence said, "There's no place like home."
Emotional intelligence (EQ or EI) is the ability to be intelligent about your emotions. It does not mean being emotional. According to Dr. Daniel Goleman, author of NYT best seller 'Emotional Intelligence', it comprises of five components:
- self-regulation
- empathy
- social skills
- motivation
- self-awareness
Cindy's decision to book Airbnb was based on emotional intelligence as explained in the following diagram:
Why Does Emotional Intelligence Matter?
Daniel Goleman's 'The Brain and Emotional Intelligence: New Insights' discusses brain biology behind the elements of EQ.
The book lists several characteristics in an individual that make up emotional intelligence, which is different from intelligence quotient (IQ). Among the characteristics are:
- motivation
- empathy
- interpersonal chemistry
- persistence
- drive
- creativity
- ethical radar
- rapport
Back in 2013, US researchers mapped out a 3D structure depicting the presence of emotional intelligence inside the brain.
General and emotional intelligence were found to have a positive correlation.
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Intelligence depends on cognitive abilities. Goleman cited research studies that talk about unique brain centers governing emotional intelligence, which distinguishes it from general intelligence (math, spatial, verbal) – known cognitive abilities. Emotional intelligence can be acquired and increased overtime, unlike personality traits or IQ.
Why does the brain accommodate growth of emotional intelligence, you wonder?
Because it creates new stem cells that form connections with other cells to make neural circuitry. This is a natural process called neurogenesis, and it adds power to the understanding of intelligence; the brain reshapes itself according to the emotional experiences according to research findings.
If you are acquiring emotional intelligence as a SaaS customer – say trying to get better at analytics – then the circuitry will increase accordingly. The findings indicate that the brain is built to adapt to in response to experiences (good or bad) more than any other organ.
Consider your own experiences for a moment: have you ever booked the same flight that gave you a bad flying experience, or have you ever taken a chance at something you experienced as unsafe, even though the facts marked it as safe?
This was the development of your emotional intelligence, the responses you had stemming from past experiences stored in your brain.
Many of us ignore this intelligence in favor of logic and rationality, which means we operate with only half of the capability to make valid decisions. True emotional intelligence is being able to obtain information from the emotional centers of the brain, and then balance that information with rational centers of the brain.
As Byron Stock says, you can use the information to make effective decisions about what not to do (or what to do). EI will help you make better choices in-the-moment.
Jean Greaves and Travis Bradberry's publication 'Emotional Intelligence 2.0' offers steps to boost emotional intelligence through self-awareness, social awareness, self-management and relationship management.
These are the same fundamental elements of emotional intelligence Goleman initially introduced.
Without emotional intelligence, a customer can come off as selfish, arrogant and rigid.
These traits can halt or slow their decision making process.
Since trust is essential for eCommerce businesses, being perceived as unreliable can damage prospective relationships. If you believe you cannot approach a client because they appear rigid or volatile, the outlook of your product/service and your marketing efforts can be negatively affected.
Emotional intelligence: Mapping the Terrain for Ecommerce
Research reveals that the future of business is based on an emotional connection with the client. Clients who like the companies they do business with are more likely to continue to buy.
In user experience, mobile access, customer service interaction, and product features, customers will subconsciously or consciously rely on emotional intelligence to decide if it's positive for them. This is why enterprises, regardless of their state of business, should put themselves on pause, understand what their clients are feeling, and then act.
Through a study, Forrester discovered that emotion has a bigger impact on client loyalty than any other factor. As a result, the author of the study expects enterprises to jump in with both feet on the 'emotional bandwagon' to deliver a positive customer experience.
The research suggests that businesses are already investing in emotional intelligence, with companies like Deloitte purchasing user experience and design agencies such as Doblin.
Michael Gazala, VP research director at Forrester, states:
"Customer experience is of often thought of as being driven by right-brain practices – making things more effective and making processes more efficient. But there's a whole left-brain element of customer experience that we think is going to be a greater focus as companies try to understand how to deliver emotionally compelling experiences."
The statement tells us that emotions are the breadcrumbs enterprises can use to find what is truly important to the customer.
That said, emotional intelligence needs to be fostered in your enterprise, not just for the customer relationship team, but from the CEO to bottom down.
Studies have shown that employees who have undergone EI training have higher sales, deliver strong customer service and create a better customer experience than those who have not. The former are able to put the customer needs ahead of their own agendas. Such a culture can be achieved by training employees in emotional intelligence competencies.
Emotional Intelligence Case Studies
Cosmetics giant L'Oreal started factoring EI in its recruiting process for salespeople. Those hired for their higher emotional intelligence sold over $90,000 more than their peers did, resulting in a net revenue increase of $2,558,360.
They also had 63 percent less turnover than their typically selected counterparts. So the emotional skills of your personnel will have a profound effect on the relationship between your customers and your organization.
Genos reported that the fourth largest pharmaceutical company in the globe, Sanofi-Aventis, wanted to study whether the emotional intelligence of their sales personnel could be improved and whether the increase would have a direct impact on sales revenue.
Genos designed an emotional intelligence development program for sales representatives and managers at the company. It taught one group how to utilize emotional intelligence skills in their profession, while another group was assessed in terms of sales performance and emotional intelligence only.
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The result? EI of sales managers in the development program group increased by 18 percent.
As the graph above indicates, the increase in emotional intelligence was followed by a 13 percent improvement in sales performance on average. A 7.1 percent increase was witnessed in the first month, a 15.4 percent improvement in the month after and a 13.4 percent increase in the following month.
The feedback revealed the program helped participants form a better relationship with customers as well as each other.\
European Banks
McKinsey's research in Italy, Germany and Belgium identified key moments for customers and which banks responded appropriately to them.
The moments occur when customers face a problem (such as a loan denial or a hold on telegraphic transfer) or receive good or bad financial advice.
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The emotional intelligence of frontline employees in these organizations had a clear impact on customer experience.
They delivered a positive customer experience, which led to 85 percent of customers investing more of their assets or purchasing more products.
Why Does Emotional Intelligence Impact Customer Experience?
Look again at some of the studies above. While these results may seem bizarre and irrelevant to your business, the truth is, they're not.
Each result is rooted to the concept of emotional intelligence. The enterprises simply took something primal to the customer psyche and trained their staff to fit what their clients wanted.
Why do customers develop a positive perception of emotionally intelligent organizations?
Below are some specific reasons:
Customers Acknowledge When Corporations Respect Their Intelligence
Across the board, clients expect you to deliver the best experience possible. Before they buy they are already thinking:
- How will you treat me?
- What if I don't like your product?
- What if your service doesn't deliver the results I'm after?
They have 'emotional expectations' before emotional intelligence steps in.
An emotionally intelligent organization listens carefully (shows empathy, embraces change, etc.) and comes up with a solution to create a positive experience.
Customers then use their personal (self-management and self-awareness) and social (relationship management and social skills) competence to make emotionally intelligent decisions, which results in customer loyalty.
Groove and its customers serve as an example. The company's founder Alex Turnbull wrote a post on how the company pissed off its customers on various occasions, but managed to create a positive experience through emotional intelligence.
For instance, when it killed its live chat software product (one of its two core products), some clients weren't happy.
Alex points out that they were saved by the honesty and transparency of their decision, rather than selling the 'enhancement' of the existing product to the clients, as most companies do.
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Customers appreciate when their intelligence is respected and you want to come up with something better for them.
Customers Love Being Spoon Fed
EQ gives you the ability to carefully handle each client by understanding their emotional involvement with your company. You'll be in control, since you'll be managing your emotions as well as emotions of the customer while creating a customer experience.
When customers receive the kind of experience they want, when they want it, you'll win loyalty and engagement, points out a MIT study. Spoon feeding customers will enhance their emotional intelligence; scratch their back and they'll scratch yours.
CEO of The Party Goddess! Marley Majcher shared a negative customer experience with a service provider who wasn't emotionally intelligent. She states that by giving clients what they think they need is best is achieved via emotional intelligence.
Zappos invests in emotional intelligence, and that's why customers love their service. When a Midwestern college student called Zappos to buy a pair of Ugg boots, the company's customer service agent started chatting about the city where the student was considering a move.
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The call lasted 10 hours, with the rep staying on the phone for as long as needed to deliver a positive customer experience.
The author of 'The Complete Leader Audiobook' Brian Braudis states that if you can't create an upsell make the call basically productive and congenial. When this kind of experience is blanketed over the entire organization, the emotional intelligence of customers takes notice.
Customers Trust Emotionally Intelligent Organizations
Emotionally intelligent enterprises make customers the priority without hesitation. Gaining their confidence builds relationships and building relationships gains their trust, which is important in the eCommerce arena as pointed out in studies.
When EI is widespread in your company, you can build trust by withstanding pressure, staying composed, taking personal responsibility for delays, and regulating reactions to complaints. Customers then rely on their own intelligence to keep doing business with companies who showed reciprocity and watched out for their needs on a proactive basis.
Joshua Paul, marketing and strategy executive at Socious, shared how Hubspot gained their trust. When they started using Hubspot's calendar function, it didn't allow them to change the date on an item already added to their calendar. For them this was an oversight, so they reached out to Hubspot with their feedback. Hubspot told them they would fix it and Socious believed them.
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It was trust that made the difference; Socious trusted them to get it right and were willing to wait until a fix was made. Paul states that when customers trust a company, they're willing to give it a grace even when a solution performs below par. Emotional intelligence is the reason.
Final Thoughts
Gartner pointed out that customer experience will be the battleground for businesses over the next two years.
This means that now is the time to focus on improving your customer experience across all devices and channels. Using emotional intelligence to find out why customers react in a certain way and how to cater to their emotional expectations will be the way forward.
About The AuthorDan Virgillito is a storytelling specialist, blogger and writer who helps digital startups get more engagement and business through online content.
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If you're the general manager of a team that drafts the right quarterback -- like the Steelers, who took Terry Bradshaw in 1970, the Cowboys, who picked Troy Aikman in 1989, or the Colts, who picked Peyton Manning in 1998 -- you will feel that you have a significant practical and psychological edge over every team you face for at least a decade. That's a nice thing to take into the office, and the stadium, week in and week out.
The quintessential example of "getting it right" was what the Indianapolis Colts did in the 1998 draft. The team had just hired Bill Polian to take over football operations, and the franchise had the first pick in the draft. Polian was faced with choosing between two blue-chip quarterbacks, and though his decision may seem like it should have been obvious in retrospect, it was anything but at the time. On one hand, there was Tennessee All-American Peyton Manning -- a coach on the field and a well-known film-room junkie whose stock fell slightly during his senior year simply because his team didn't win the national title and he didn't win the Heisman Trophy. Then there was Washington State's burly Ryan Leaf, who, at 6-foot-5, 245 pounds, had the prototypical physique for a pro pocket passer. Many scouts thought Leaf was less polished than Manning but had significantly more upside. (Manning still bristles, more than a decade later, at how he felt when he was told at age 22 that he didn't have much "upside" left.)
Had the team based its decision solely on game scouting from the previous fall, the Colts likely would have selected Leaf. But in the months leading up to the draft, Polian hunkered down in his new office and spent most of his time -- roughly 500 hours -- watching film and analyzing the comparative strengths of the two quarterbacks. He and his staff watched each of Manning's 1,505 college passes and each of Leaf's 880 throws, viewing the passes from the 1997 season twice over again. From that epic act of over-analysis came a deeper level of understanding.
"From a pure scouting standpoint, you would have taken Leaf in a heartbeat," Polian said. "Now, as it turns out, when you really got into analysis, even the physical, there were perceptions about Manning that were untrue. There were perceptions about Leaf that were untrue, but your eye sees what it sees and your ear hears what it hears, so scouts came back and said, 'Manning has a weak arm.' When you analyzed every pass they threw for the years that they were in school, that wasn't true. But no scout has the ability to do that. You can only do that in the offseason, when you can put together all the film. I remember remarking to Tom Moore the [Colts' longtime offensive coordinator] how astounded I was by the fact that Peyton threw a heavier ball with many more revolutions per second than Leaf. Even the physical part of it, the initial reports were wrong, and the conventional wisdom and hype was 100 percent wrong."
And, of course, Polian's selection was 100 percent right. Manning started from his first game as a rookie; though the Colts went 3-13 that season and Manning threw 28 interceptions, it was clear that Indianapolis had its franchise quarterback.
The true difference between the two quarterbacks was clear when it came to emotional maturity and work ethic. Like everyone else, I was enamored with Leaf's physical skills and had bought into the idea that Manning lacked "upside." I was with the Vikings at the time; because both quarterbacks would be long gone by the time we selected at No. 21 (where we ended up snagging Randy Moss), evaluating them was an academic exercise for our purposes. Still, you do your homework on players like Leaf and Manning because in the age of free agency, you never knew when they might become available.
On the way to the NFL Scouting Combine, I happened to be on a flight next to Ryan Leaf, also on his way to work out at the combine. He looked a lot bigger in person than on game film, so I asked him how much he thought he weighed. He said he had not been working out as regularly as he had during the season, but guessed he weighed between 235 and 240 pounds.
The next day, as I sat in the back of the room watching the quarterbacks being weighed and measured, Leaf -- seeing a familiar face -- gave me a smile as he jumped on the scales. "Two hundred sixty-nine pounds," the scout in charge of weighing players yelled out. Leaf shot me a look of total surprise.
The next time I visited Leaf was later that year, prior to our last preseason game against the Chargers. He had looked good in the preseason and the expectations for him were sky high. I asked him how he was doing and he said, "I don't know what all the fuss is about NFL defenses. I have seen about everything they can throw at me and it's no big deal." You like confidence, but ...
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Three short years and 36 interceptions (compared to just 14 touchdown passes) later, the young Mr. Leaf realized that he didn't know what he didn't know -- and that it was a big deal. Today, the Chargers are still catching grief for drafting Leaf, which is a bit unfair. Even if you had Manning slotted above Leaf on your board (and not everyone did), almost everyone in pro football projected Leaf as a top-five pick.
At least the 1998 draft got to the 50-50 mark in terms of a hit-and-miss ratio on quarterback prospects. The very next year, Tim Couch, Donovan McNabb and Akili Smith went 1-2-3 in the draft. In the 2002 draft, the top two "can't miss" QB prospects were David Carr (No. 1 to Houston) and Joey Harrington (No. 3 to Detroit). So much for 50-50.
Part of the problem is that need warps our judgment. Former St. Louis Rams general manager Billy Devaney was part of the scouting group for the Chargers back in '98 and remembers the red flags that Leaf raised. "We did all the psychological profiles," Devaney said. "There was a guy that we hired at the Redskins -- and they're still using this guy at the combine, Harry Wachs [an optometrist who specialized in a field called visuo-cognitive evaluation]. It's a visual thing. His batting average is pretty good. We asked the Redskins if we could use him just for Ryan, and they said yes. It turned out the testing hit him to the letter. Still, we thought we could work through all that. Sometimes you can get in your own way trying to justify or refute all the different data you get."
Remember, it's not just rookies who are hard to evaluate. My first regular-season game as head coach of the Baltimore Ravens was in St. Louis in 1999. On the field before the game, I shook hands with Dick Vermeil, who wished me luck. Dick was still grieving over the season-ending injury of Trent Green two weeks earlier in the preseason, thinking that his potentially explosive offense had been shut down. He said they were going to try to get the team's third-stringer, an Arena League alum named Kurt Warner, to hold the pieces together until they could teach new backup Paul Justin the offense.
Vermeil didn't know what he had in Warner -- and that's not meant as a criticism, because nobody knew what he had. Warner was the league's MVP that season, leading the Rams to a Super Bowl win and launching a career that, after also leading the Cardinals to Super Bowl XLIII, might land him in Canton. He didn't exactly make the typical move from college to pro star. You often can't tell what sort of quarterback someone is going to be until he starts in the NFL -- and, of course, when up to a third of the league's head coaches can get fired in any given year, they can't really afford to experiment at great length. And yet, think of the Pro Bowl quarterbacks in recent years who started out as backups or retreads: Warner, Tony Romo, Matt Hasselbeck, Jeff Garcia, Trent Green, Rich Gannon, Matt Cassel, Matt Schaub. ... The list goes on.
We will almost certainly see two quarterbacks taken with the first two picks in the draft. Both Andrew Luck and Robert Griffin III are consensus "sure things." If everyone is right, the Colts and Redskins won't have to worry about the quarterback position for another 12-15 years. But that's what the Chargers were telling themselves in 1998.
Much of the material above has been adapted from the book, "More Than A Game: The Glorious Present and Uncertain Future of the NFL," written by Brian Billick and Michael MacCambridge. Follow Brian Billick on Twitter @coachbillick


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In the name of Allah, most Gracious, most Merciful.
After falling asleep reading my Twitter feed which was filled with Anti Muslim sentiment in light of recent events around the country, I was pleased to wake up to these verses…
'And do you be patient, for your patience is but from God; nor grieve you over them: and distress not yourself because of their plots. For God is with those who restrain themselves, and those who do good'. – Quran 16:127-128.
Recite Quran, understand your recitation and embrace the divine guidance!
May Allah grant us patience during these testing times.


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Sept 21 WordPress Daily Prompt: Autumn Leaves
Changing colors, dropping temperatures, pumpkin spice lattes: do these mainstays of Fall fill your heart with warmth — or with dread?
I have mentioned that politics do not dominate my landscape per say. But I have to admit, when I read this prompt, I couldn't help but think of politics and how the mid-term elections are coming up. I have also heard that mid-term elections typically have poor turnouts, which I understand, as I myself have skipped a few over the years.
I have to tell you, I am now making it my business to know who is running and who I am voting for. We have got to start instilling some change in this country, in the way problems/issues/legislative actions are approached and then dispositioned, in the way those who WE elect into office represent us once they are elected, and in the way we are actually represented overall as a whole – a constituency.
This takes a lot of research and a lot of time, but I am dedicated to it. I can't afford not to – none of us can! Complacency leads to neglect, which leads to contempt – I can promise you, not because I want it to, but because it does.
Regardless of how you vote, and what your ideologies are – you have to ensure you educate yourself and make your voice heard. The "Old Guard" just doesn't have their hand on the pulse of America, and they certainly aren't hearing us.
Just something I was thinking about . . . ☮


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I kept seeing these sidewalk barbershops as we traveled the roads of India – often too late (our van had already whizzed by). On our last couple days in India I set a goal – get a few shots before it is too late.
Config: Canon 5D Mark III, Canon 28-300mm f/28 USM. Having the 300mm helped.
I think that the blue chair might be a barbershop standard.
This is the only barbershop that I spotted inside – on the way from Jaipur to Delhi.
Incredible India! I just loved having a camera there.


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Mary E. Freeman
Mary E. Freeman, age 79, of 25721 M-86, Sturgis, Mich., Nottawa Township, Mich., passed away Wednesday afternoon, May 22, 2013, at her home.
She was born May 24, 1933, in New Haven, Conn., daughter of the late James J. and Bessie (Filo) Foley.
Mary resided in Sturgis since 1994 when she came to Sturgis from Connecticut to live with her daughter Esther and grandchildren Ashley Justine Barr and Nathaniel Edward Barr.
On Aug. 7, 1954, she married Edward Freeman at the Church of the Assumption Catholic Church in Ansonia, Conn. He died April 4, 1989.
Mary was a registered nurse dedicating 25 years of her skills to nursing homes and she was also a private duty nurse.
She was a member of the Holy Angels Catholic Church in Sturgis and loved time spent with her family.
She is survived by four daughters, Linda Marie (Rudy) Baras of Torrington, Conn., Donna Bell Henry of Shelton, Conn., Mary Bernadette Freeman of Naugatuck, Conn. and Esther (Bobby) Miller of Sturgis; 10 grandchildren including Ashley Justine Barr and Nataniel Edward Barr; 21 great-grandchildren and 2 great-great-grandchildren.
In accordance with her wishes, cremation has taken place. A memorial graveside service and burial of the ashes will take place at the St. Peter and Paul Cemetery in Ansonia, Conn. at a later date.
The Hackman Family Funeral Homes – Hackman Chapel, 114 S. Nottawa St., Sturgis, MI 49091, 269-651-2331 is entrusted with the arrangements.
The family suggests those wishing to make a memorial donation in Mrs. Freeman's memory consider Hospice of Sturgis, P.O. Box 126, Sturgis, MI 49091.
The obituary is also at www.hackmanfamilyfuneralhome.com where personal messages of support may be left for the family.


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Webster 1913 Edition
plasticus, Gr. [GREEK], fr. [GREEK] to form, mold: cf. F.
Having the power to give form or fashion to a mass of matter;
as, the.
plastichand of the Creator
plasticNature working to his end.
Capable of being molded, formed, or modeled, as clay or plaster; – used also figuratively;
as, the.
plasticmind of a child
Pertaining or appropriate to, or characteristic of, molding or modeling; produced by, or appearing as if produced by, molding or modeling; – said of sculpture and the kindred arts, in distinction from painting and the graphic arts.
Medallions . . . fraught with the
plasticbeauty and grace of the palmy days of Italian art.
J. S. Harford.
Plastic clay
one of the beds of the Eocene period; – so called because used in making pottery.
Plastic element
one that bears within the germs of a higher form.–
Plastic exudation
an exudation thrown out upon a wounded surface and constituting the material of repair by which the process of healing is effected.–
Plastic foods.
See the second Note under–
Plastic force.
See under–
Plastic operation,
an operation in plastic surgery.–
Plastic surgery,
that branch of surgery which is concerned with the repair or restoration of lost, injured, or deformed parts of the body.
Webster 1828 Edition
Definition 2023
See also: plàstic
Alternative forms
- plastick (archaic)
plastic (plural plastics)
- (obsolete) A sculptor, moulder.
- (archaic) Any solid but malleable substance.
- A synthetic, thermoplastic, solid, hydrocarbon-based polymer.
- 2013 July 20, "Welcome to the plastisphere", in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:
- Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field. Dr Mincer and Dr Amaral-Zettler found evidence of them on their marine plastic, too.
- Any similar synthetic material, not necessarily thermoplastic.
- (colloquial) Credit or debit cards used in place of cash to buy goods and services.
- 2008, Lily Allen, The Fear:
- It's all about fast cars and cussing each other / but it doesn't matter cause I'm packing plastic / and that's what makes my life so **** fantastic.
- (slang) Fakeness, or a person who is fake or arrogant, or believes that they are better than the rest of the population.
- 2004, Rosalind Wiseman, Tina Fey, Mean Girls:
- Cady: You know I couldn't invite you. I had to pretend to be plastic.
Janis: Hey, buddy, you're not pretending anymore. You're plastic. Cold, shiny, hard plastic.
- Cady: You know I couldn't invite you. I had to pretend to be plastic.
- 2011, Emily Kapnek, Suburgatory:
- Tessa: Pretty ironic that a box full of rubbers landed me to a town full of plastic.
- See also Wikisaurus:moldable
Derived terms
synthetic thermoplastic polymer
any similar synthetic material
colloquial: credit cards or debit cards
plastic (comparative more plastic, superlative most plastic)
- Capable of being moulded; malleable, flexible, pliant. [from 17th c.]
- 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, page 103:
- the rage […] betook itself at last to certain missile weapons; which, though from their plastic nature they threatened neither the loss of life or of limb, were, however, sufficiently dreadful to a well-dressed lady.
- 1898, Journal of Microscopy (page 256)
- Plastic mud, brownish tinted, rich in floatings.
- 2012, Adam Zeman, 'Only Connect', Literary Review, issue 399:
- while the broad pattern of connections between brain regions is similar in every healthy human brain, their details – their number, size and strength – are thought to underpin our individuality, as synapses are 'plastic', shaped by experience.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, page 103:
- (medicine, now rare) Producing tissue. [from 17th c.]
- (dated) Creative, formative. [from 17th c.]
- Prior
- the plastic hand of the Creator
- Alexander Pope
- See plastic Nature working to his end.
- Prior
- (biology) Capable of adapting to varying conditions; characterized by environmental adaptability. [from 19th c.]
- Of or pertaining to the inelastic, non-brittle, deformation of a material. [from 19th c.]
- Made of plastic. [from 20th c.]
- 1963, Margery Allingham, "Foreword", in The China Governess:
- A canister of flour from the kitchen had been thrown at the looking-glass and lay like trampled snow over the remains of a decent blue suit with the lining ripped out which lay on top of the ruin of a plastic wardrobe.
- Inferior or not the real thing; ersatz. [from 20th c.]
- 1969, Lowell D. Streiker, The gospel of irreligious religion, page 83:
- The Hippie has been replaced by the pseudo-Hippie, the plastic Hippie, the weekend Hippie
- 2007, Daniel Sinker, We owe you nothing: Punk Planet: the collected interviews, page 238:
- People always try to say that we're garage rock, but that scene is so plastic. Some dude in a band has tight jeans, dyed black hair, and a starving girlfriend with bangs, and people call it indie rock. It's so gross.
- 2008, Matt James Mason, The pirate's dilemma: how youth culture is reinventing capitalism:
- Frustrated by a globalized music industry force-feeding them plastic pop music, hackers, remixers, and activists began to mobilize...
- (slang) Fake, snobbish. Usually refers to a person.
- 1966, Calvin C. Hernton, White papers for white Americans, page 67:
- He kissed the white woman once, and it was so artificial, so plastic (that's the word, plastic) that one wondered why did they bother at all.
- 1973, Eric Berne, What do you say after you say hello?, page 120:
- In fact it seems as though there are two kinds of people in the world: real people and plastic people, as the Flower Children used to say.
- 2004, Rosalind Wiseman, Tina Fey, Mean Girls:
- Janis: See? That's the thing with you plastics. You think everybody is in love with you when actually, everybody HATES you!
- 2006, Catherine Coulter, Born to Be Wild, page 71:
- But I don't think she would be happy in Los Angeles — it's so plastic and cheap and they expect the women to be whores to get anywhere.
Derived terms
- plastic beauty
- plastic explosive
- plastician
- plasticity
- plasticizer
- plasticine
- plastic surgery
- thermoplastic
capable of being moulded; malleable, flexible, pliant
medicine: producing tissue
biology: capable of adapting to varying conditions
of or pertaining to the inelastic, non-brittle, deformation of a material
made of plastic
slang, of a person: fake, snobbish
Borrowing from English plastic.
plastic m (plural plastics)


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Felton is back! This is as close to a full roster as the Knicks have been all season and might be for the rest of the season. Should be interesting to see how they look. Comment below as the game goes on.
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Finally get to see Amar'e/Felton again.
Gonna be interesting if we actually get to see a lineup of Felton, Shumpert, Melo, Amar'e, Tyson.


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What's written below, was written over two and a half years ago, but I guess I never published it. I don't even remember writing it, but I do remember the incident with the lizard and am glad he's/she's immortalized here.
So much has happened in those 2 1/2 years! There's been a whole lot more life and death in our garden and in our lives. Both of my parents passed away, our first "daug-ter" died of cancer, and we got a new dog who has either solo or team-caught over 30 gophers and moles in the last six months! What a great help. We've also added five beautiful hens (their coop is the former mist-house of our former nursery) and now I carry aphids, slugs and snails down to them. I am happy to have bugs to feed to the girls, and still amazed that they can take that stuff and turn it into "perfect protein" the next day. And just last week I spotted two lovely long-tailed alligator lizards chasing each other through the citrus house. Hurray, life over death!
So on a beautiful spring day, which happens to be our 18th anniversary, I'll head outside again to check on the strawberry pot I just planted. The pot was one thing I saved from my parents' yard in those last minute decisions before the estate sale. The bareroot plants were just purchased on our anniversary weekend trip, so together we've turned a tough memory into a good one. I've learned a lot more about life and death in these last two years, and I'm sure God is not finished teaching me still more.
About 2 PM today I realized I'd spent a good part of my day killing things. What a revelation for someone who wants to grow and enjoy beauty and good food! I guess good things come at a price. It's a few hours later and I'm still undecided on how to proceed. Coupled with my murder-in-the-second-degree (it was an accident!) of a lovely alligator lizard last week who was hiding in my snail trap) I need to make some changes. Maybe next year…
- I will forget about trying to grow a winter garden of brassicas that are a magnet for cabbage butterflies and their green looper babies.
- I won't bother to start anything by seed directly in the ground so that the birds, slugs and earwigs won't just eat them or mow them down before they even have a chance.
- I'll just wave the white flag to the gophers and voles. Tracy claims that there's only so much they can eat and that to be less stressed I need to accept a certain amount of "damage". The problem here is that gopher "damage" is usually terminal and since I've been the one catching them I know what we'd be up against next year if I had not done-in the 20 or more this year. In this regard, a barn cat is looking ever more attractive to me if we can keep it from eating our songbirds poolside while they bathe…
- I'll fight the urge to squish every cucumber beetle and earwig. So they eat the pollen in the flowers and notch the nasturtium leaves – they can have them (maybe).
- I'll stop stepping on snails and eco-baiting for slugs.
- I'll give up growing winter squash and pumpkins since they take up so much room and the gophers kill the plants. We don't even eat that much of these things, but it's good for us and if I grow them we're more likely to eat better, so…
- I'll just wait it out and whatever is left I'll propagate more of and re-plant, maybe.
Well, it sounds good anyway, and certainly maybe worth a try…
As a special gift to me today, while watering the bed where I buried that lizard, another one scampered away from the spray. Between that and the five tree frogs and the kale, sweet peas, roses and dahlias, there's still plenty of life in the garden, too.


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Author: Mary A. Pérez
Genres: Christian Living, Inspirational, Memoir, Nonfiction
Tags: Mary A. Pérez, Memoir, Running in Heels, New Release, Book Club Edition
Publisher: Stellar Communications
Publication Year: 2016
"More than a memoir—this book is a promise of hope for anyone who was abandoned as a child, to anyone who woke up hungry and went to bed hungrier every day, for every wife who has loved a husband who left bruises on her heart and on her body."
Somewhere between stealing cold cuts from stray cats and watching a stranger leave her mother's bed after breaking in through their bedroom window, Mary figured out that her family was dirt poor. Worse than her empty stomach, she was hungry for acceptance and love. She thought she found it when her baby sister was born and she became her "mommy", taking care of her needs as best she could at the age of seven. Then she had to say goodbye over a small white casket.
Mary's grandparents, first generation immigrants from Puerto Rico, took her in and gave her a glimpse of faith and stability. For a brief, shining spell, she had a real home—until they decided that Mama needed her. They may have been right, but Mama needed more than a little girl could give and Mary lost her way again.
Just out of Juvy Hall, Mary found a knight in shining armor to take her away. She became a teenage bride to a man twice her age—a man as deeply enslaved to booze as every "step-dad" she'd had as a child. She loved him anyway, even wearing the bruises he gave her, even when she tried to leave him to give their children a better life. Despite her fear and loneliness, she never imagined it would take a gunshot in the middle of the night to teach her courage. She was even more surprised when rediscovered faith paved the path to forgiveness after so many years of pain.
Running in Heels is a memoir of the grit and grace that carried a young girl through the shadows of her mother's choices and on through an abusive marriage. Mary A. Pérez narrates an incredible story of survival in the face of hopelessness, and learning to forgive against all odds.
A story of coming of age, and coming into grace.


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Editor's note: This editorial has 272 words in emulation of President Lincoln's concise oratorical masterpiece delivered 150 years ago today in Gettysburg (reprinted below).
One-hundred-and-fifty years ago today one of our greatest presidents brought forth in this state hope for a new birth of freedom and survival of our democratic republic.
Now we look back and answer the question he raised on that sad November day in Gettysburg: Can any nation so conceived and so dedicated long endure?
The answer, emphatically, is yes.
It can endure. It has endured.
It has survived and thrived. It has slipped the bonds of slavery that made a mockery of the highest ideals in our founding documents.
It has survived famines, depressions, wars that threatened our nation's survival.
It has – too slowly – expanded civil rights to women, blacks, gays.
It has freely elected a president who in Lincoln's day might well have been a slave – and who, sadly, was not planning to attend memorial services in Gettysburg (we pray for a surprise visit).
In a larger sense, we have completed much of the 'unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.'
We have taken 'increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion.'
The casualties of Gettysburg – and other Civil War battles and other world conflicts – did not die in vain.
And government of the people, by the people, for the people, has not perished from the earth.
It has flourished. It has spread across our globe.
It has given hope and a 'new birth of freedom' to mankind.
'The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here'?
Thank God Abraham Lincoln was wrong on that one count.
The Gettysburg Address Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, on this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived, and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives, that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate – we cannot hallow – this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us – that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion – that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain – that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.


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Imagine a smartphone that can go weeks without needing its battery recharged.
Apple owns the patent for a fuel cell system to power a portable computer, and that patent may be one to watch as the company rolls out new versions of its iPhone, according to a new report from Thomson Reuters. Apple filed for the fuel cell patent in August 2010.
Another smartphone technology that may be coming from Apple could involve new ways of interacting with text, said the report, by Thomson Reuters analyst Bob Stembridge. An Apple patent, filed in January 2010, covers technology that allows smartphone users to touch a word on their screen and have a picture, or potentially other media, come up on the screen to assist the user with the meaning of the word.
Apple is scheduled to introduce the fifth version of its iPhone on Wednesday.
The fuel cell patent jumped out at Stembridge as something with big potential for the mobile phone industry, he said. While car manufacturers have explored the use of fuel cells in electric vehicles, "it's quite a challenge to implement that technology on the iPod or iPhone scale," he said.
The second patent, for touch-based linking of text to other media, could have several educational uses, Stembridge said. What Apple seems to describe in its patent is a type of text-based Siri technology, he said.
Looking at Apple's patents may be a way to look into the future of the iPhone, Stembridge said. "If a company takes the time and trouble to fill out a patent application for a technology, there's at least an interest in pursuing that," he added.
Stembridge's report also noted that Apple has aggressively defended its patents in recent years.
Apple has filed for about 1,200 mobile-related patents, including 416 smartphone-related patents, since introducing the iPhone in 2007, the report said. The company has filed for 279 mobile camera patents, 232 user interface patents and 149 image display patents since then.
Before 2007, Apple had applied for just 17 mobile patents, the report said.
From 2008 to July of this year, Apple has been involved in 479 patent lawsuits, including 263 as a defendant, 120 as a counter-claimant and 51 as a plaintiff, the report said. In 2011, alone the company was involved in about 150 patent lawsuits, and in 2012, the company has filed 19 patent lawsuits, compared to 12 in each of the full years of 2010 and 2011, and less than five in each year between 2007 and 2009, according to the report.
The "patent wars" between Apple and several other mobile phone vendors aren't likely to cool down soon, Stembridge predicted. An "ultra-competitive environment will continue to fuel IP-related (intellectual property-related) litigation for the foreseeable future," he wrote in the report.
Grant Gross covers technology and telecom policy in the U.S. government for The IDG News Service. Follow Grant on Twitter at GrantGross. Grant's e-mail address is email@example.com.


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Month: December 2016
119 in Dog Years
Ever had that faithful friend who was so in-tune with your feelings, the quiet companion who just watched you, followed you around, sat by you if you were feeling bad, was ever-ready to join in on your playful mood. That was Shep – a black lab/shepherd mix we found as a puppy.
Someone had dumped him and three puppy siblings out in the country. They were living in a drain pipe next to the railroad tracks. That was almost seventeen years ago.
Fox and I drove by and saw them. I immediately pulled the car over and two of the puppies bounded over to see me. Shep was a little more shy. And then the last puppy was too scared to even come out of the drain pipe. We had to come back later with something to bribe her out with.
We took the four puppies home and immediately fell in love, knowing we couldn't possibly keep all four! Shep was the one who followed Fox around. Fox, my son, was almost two years old at the time and he and Shep were pretty close in size. Shep was the one who chose us. And we fell in love with his warm brown eyes and his temperament – playful but not too wild, precocious but not too troublesome, attentive, and so darn sweet.
Shep and the boys quickly became inseparable. All three would lay on the carpet in the living room watching cartoons. Shep learned to tell time by Nathan's comings and goings – the early morning rush to the school bus and the afternoon walk down the street back home after school. Shep would watch by the window and always greeted us at the door when we came home. He was a constant presence, a comfort. For almost seventeen years.
Shep was a member of the family. And yesterday we sat with him as a family and said goodbye. His eyes now old and slightly cloudy, his muzzle gray, we talked to him and petted him while he quietly slipped away.
Now there's a gapping whole where he once occupied our lives. Rationally, we know that dogs can't live forever. He was 119 in dog years! But our hearts are broken.
Farewell, Shep.
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One of the most lovely and unexpected results of writing The Cut Flower Patch has been the people I have met as a result. I had no idea when I started out on the whole process of creating a book that people would take the time and trouble to send me lovely emails once they had read it. Last September one such email came from a lady saying she loved growing grasses too and would I like to visit her garden. It turned out that Kate didn't live too far away from me, in the stunning Wye Valley, so a few days later Wellyman and I found ourselves discovering the most fabulous garden, tucked away in the lush countryside of Gloucestershire. We arrived and found a note on the door telling us to find her in the back garden, along with a map and sheet of paper describing the garden. We found Kate, trowel in hand, weeding. I felt a little guilty when we left three hours later that we'd taken up valuable gardening time, but Kate was a delight to talk to – passionate, knowledgeable and generous with her time. Now I'm partial to including grasses in my garden and quite a few pop up on the cut flower patch too, but I'm the first to admit my small number of grasses don't really do the plants justice. For true drama grasses need some space and to be planted in quantity and this is what Kate has done at the Barn House Garden where a variety of grasses have been planted en masse to create a bold and dramatic impact.
I love grasses despite the fact that I'm allergic to their pollen. As Kate says, 'isn't a love of wild grasses/cornfields innate? To me, grasses sing of woodland margins and meadows.' I'm very much with her on this. Her first experiences of growing grasses on an ornamental scale came when she lived near Kew Gardens where she was fascinated by their grassery and watched the Bamboo Grove being renovated. 'These were lessons on how to tame the biggest grasses of all', she says. Kate's love of grasses grew when she spent time in the Far East. 'The best thing about Taiwan is the hilly walking country and the miscanthus grasses. Then there's the miscanthus which lines the rail-side of the bullet train in Tokyo and the bamboos colonising hillsides in Thailand. We grew bamboo on balcony gardens in Bangkok (several) and then London (hundreds!), to screen out unsightly views, noise, pollution', Kate explains. After years on the move and then tending a small London plot. Kate and her husband Hitesh settled in the Wye Valley. 'Never mind the nice house, we were looking for the right garden', she says. They moved to the Barn House nine years ago and the house and garden have been transformed in that time. It's been an epic undertaking. It took over five years to complete the landscaping of the main parts of the garden. Storm drainage has been installed, and to create level planting areas over 100 tonnes of red sandstone were removed. It's incredible to think that what now looks like such an established garden is one where much of the planting is only three years old. This was one of the reasons behind Kate's choice of grasses to create the structure and interest in the planting scheme – grasses tend to be quick to produce a mature look to a garden.
The back garden – an area which wraps around one side of the house – was tackled first. This gave Kate the chance to work out what they wanted from the rest of the garden. It's a space which has an exotic feel to it, inspired by Kate and her husband's time in the Far East. Towering bamboo and lush planting thrive with shots of vibrant colour from plants such as crocosmia and cannas. I love this sort of planting which envelops you and transports you to another place.
One of my favourite spots was the terracing which leads down to the main aspect of the house and a seating area. Using local red sandstone terraced beds were created allowing Kate to plant in what had previously been a rocky part of land with little soil depth. The grass Calamagrostis x acutiflora 'Karl Foerster' looks fabulous. Planted in clumps along the terrace beds they look like rockets or fireworks shooting up towards the sky. Kate has also used Miscanthus sinensis 'Malepartus' as a dramatic 70 metre long hedge and the smaller Miscanthus sinensis 'Starlight' to screen a seating area.
Kate uses grasses in the way many of us use shrubs as a foil to other plants, most notably herbaceous perennials like rudbeckias, persicarias and veronicastrums. Most of us imagine a garden planted with grasses only has a short season of interest and that a garden based around grasses would be at its peak in September but these photos show how stunning Kate's garden looked for her midsummer NGS open day last weekend.
Kate has discovered that there are grasses which come into their own early in the year and has cleverly planted bulbs, evergreen grasses, multi-coloured cornus and beautiful specimen trees to provide year-round interest.
It's not a surprise to discover Piet Oudolf has inspired Kate. Noel Kingsbury, Anne Wareham's garden Veddw, just down the valley and Roger Grounds, an early pioneer of using ornamental grasses, have influenced Kate's ideas too. One of the joys of growing grasses is discovering how easy they are to propagate. Kate grows many of her own plants from seed. And her next project – a stylised meadow – has been planted with home-grown deschampsia and molinia interplanted with perennial flowers. I can't wait to see this come to fruition. If you'd like to see Kate's garden the Barn House Garden is open by appointment from June to September with money from the openings going to the NGS. There's no minimum group size and teas and plants are available to buy. It's a stunning part of Britain if you fancy combining a visit with a weekend away. (I'm not on commission from the tourist board!! I just feel very lucky to live in this beautiful, somewhat undiscovered part of the world.) For more details you can visit Kate's website. I can heartily recommend a visit to her website anyway as Kate is writing an online journal about growing and the changes to the garden, which makes a fascinating read and there are some gorgeous photos to drool over. Her next post, I'm reliably informed, is to be about the bamboos she saw growing alongside the Thai – Burma railway's notorious Hellfire Pass & the incredible Australian Museum. And whilst you're on her site have a look at the page about the history of the Barn House to discover more about this intriguing place.


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OCHAS by Wynton Marsalis Part VI: Oya September 20, 2014 Rose Theater Since the late 1990s, Jazz at Lincoln Center has celebrated Cuban music with collaborations with some of the island nation's finest musicians like Celia Cruz, Israel "Cachao" López, Candido Camero, and Bebo Valdés. Continuing this tradition, the 2014-15 season opened with a world premiere commissionfrom Wynton Marsalis featuring influential pianist, composer, and arranger Chucho Valdés; star percussionist and vocalist Pedrito Martinez; and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis. Together, they blended jazz with the traditional folkloric music of Cuba and the Santería religion to create a work that illustrates the ability of music to elevate us from social and political unrest to the greatest heights of humanity. Personnel: Sherman Irby - Alto saxophone Ted Nash - Alto saxophone Victor Goines - Tenor saxophone Walter Blanding - Tenor saxophone Paul Nedzela - Baritone saxophone Vincent Gardner - Trombone Chris Crenshaw - Trombone Elliot Mason - Trombone Greg Gisbert - Trumpet Kenny Rampton - Trumpet Marcus Printup - Trumpet Wynton Marsalis - Trumpet Denise DeJean - Vocals Amma Dawn McKen - Vocals Pedrito Martinez - Bata / Vocals Roman Diaz - Bata / Vocals Clemente Medina - Bata / Vocals Dan Nimmer - Piano Carlos Henriquez - Bass Ali Jackson - Drums Subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP108sGgYT_TlG2YRColGcg?sub_confirmation=1 To learn more about Jazz at Lincoln Center, visit us at http://www.jazz.org


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Celebrity Knitters
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Charlize Theron was said to knit on the set of Mad Max: Fury Road with co-stars, Nicholas Hoult and Tom Hardy.
Celebrity Knitters
Posted in Uncategorized on May 11, 2015
Celebrity Knitters
Posted in Celebrities on December 23, 2013
The "Unconditionally" singer mentions knitting as one of her favorite pre-bedtime rituals.
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Trendy Tuesday
Posted in Fashion on December 10, 2013
Sonia Rykiel Fall/Winter 2013-2014 Women's Knitwear
Theme: Relax and Take It Easy and Playful
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Snowflake Beaded Bookmark Knit Pattern
Posted in Patterns on December 8, 2013
December is Read a New Book Month (and no, I did not make that one up) which is perfect for when the weather is chilly outside and great for staying indoors and for curling up with a good book. For this reason, I have designed a knitted bookmark which is the third bookmark that's been featured in this blog. It makes for a quick project and a thoughtful gift for that beloved bookworm to put to good use. Its palette is light-colored to mimic the frost that blankets the outdoors during winter. I chose a snowflake pattern in which there are no two alike in nature representing how unique each and everyone of us are.
Coats and Clark's Aunt Lydia's Crochet Thread #10 (Bridal Blue) or other equivalent cotton thread.
Size 1 (2.25mm)– I use a couple from a set of dpn;
Size 12 (1.00mm) steel crochet hook (or any size that would fit through bead hole)
Size 2 (2.20mm) steel hook (for inserting cord)
6/0 Czech glass E-beads (White Pearl)
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2 pencils
5 1/4" x 3 1/4" (13.3cm x 8.3cm), without cord
Knit, purl, m1 (method is described in the pattern, knitting with beads (method is described in the pattern) and making a cord (method is described in the pattern)
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Food for Thought Friday
Posted in Quotes on December 6, 2013
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
~Nelson Mandela (1918-2013)
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Posted in Fashion on December 3, 2013
Calvin Klein Collection Fall/Winter 2013-2014 Men's Knitwear
Theme: Urban Formal Sports Classics
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Twitter-Powered Knitting Machine
Posted in Knitting in the News on November 29, 2013
Knitting machine, Knitbot, is Budweiser's way of promoting UK's designated driver program with their take on Christmas jumpers (sweaters). Each time the hashtag, #jumpers4des, is sent via Twitter, Knitbot knits more of these red and white jumpers.
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Posted in Humor on November 27, 2013
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Although scientists have long known that the toxic sap that flows through milkweed veins, called cardenolides, can make a bird very sick if it attempts to eat a Monarch caterpillar, it was unclear whether the butterfly's acquired adaption to the toxicity was a side effect that allowed the caterpillar to eat the milkweed or had developed separately as a defensive mechanism against predators. A Cornell University study recently published in Proceedings B of The Royal Society Publishing reveals that they have indeed evolved to weaponize milkweed toxins! Thank you so much to Maggie Rosa for sharing "The Scientist" article and you can read more about it here.
"Monarch butterfly caterpillars have evolved the ability to store toxins known as cardenolides, obtained from their milkweed diet, specifically to make themselves poisonous to birds, as has at least one other species of milkweed-munching caterpillar, according to a study published Wednesday (November 4) in Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
"This finding is fascinating and novel," Stephen Malcolm, a professor at Western Michigan University who studies cardenolides but was not involved in the new research, wrote in an email to The Scientist. "It is exciting to have evidence for the importance of top-down influences from predators." Continue Reading
Please join me Thursday evening, November 12th, at 7pm at the Sawyer Free Library for my illustrated talk, Beauty on the Wing ~ Life Story of the Monarch Butterfly. Looking forward to seeing you there!
Meadow Anderson and Milkweed Caterpillar