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SurveyMonkey is now offering improved benefits to the contract workers and third-party food service and janitorial staff that work in its San Mateo, Calif., headquarters as it offers to its full-time workforce.
Since January, but announced last week, the polling company has been providing what it calls "gold standard" medical, dental and vision benefits, extensive paid time off and transportation subsidies for approximately 50 freelance workers from Clean & Green, Bon Appétit Management Co., and Eastridge Workforce Solutions. The benefits kicked in Jan. 1.
(The exact number of contract workers fluctuates for some short-term project workers.)
SurveyMonkey and its benefit broker partner drafted benefit benchmarks for their vendors that are "extremely competitive and similar" to those healthcare, PTO and transportation subsidies offered to its full-time employees,
Under the medical plan, 80% of claim costs are paid by its insurance carrier and the third-party employer pays 85% of employee premium and 50% of dependent premium. Contract and third-party employees are entitled to 80 hours of vacation and 40 hours of paid sick leave per year, including seven paid holidays, 12 weeks of paid parental leave per year and 12 weeks of paid medical leave per year. These workers can also receive a monthly subsidy of up to $260 for public transit expenses.
See also: How SurveyMonkey's new chief people office engages employees
Starting late last year, SurveyMonkey worked with its benefit broker, i2i Benefits and Insurance Services, to develop standards for the benefits offered to Clean & Green, Bon Appétit and Eastridge. SurveyMonkey and i2i will work with third-party service providers it uses for its Seattle, Portland and Ottawa offices.
The idea for extending employee benefits to the support staff came from workers at SurveyMonkey. According to Chief People Officer Becky Cantieri, the company conducted an internal survey before last fall's open enrollment season, and in it employees suggested that the janitorial and catering staff receive the same benefits as full-time employees.
"Our employees pointed it out and wanted us to get involved in helping set a better standard, so we did just that. These onsite employees were offered benefits through their employers, but they just weren't to a standard that was directly comparable to our own employees, and that's the gap we sought to close," says Cantieri, who was EBN's Judges' Choice Benny Award winner in 2017.
"This was really driven by what you might call an embarrassment of riches on the part of our own employees," she add. "We have the luxury of generous benefits, but our partner teams didn't have that luxury."
Such generosity is in SurveyMonkey's DNA, says Dan Maass, president of employee benefits at i2i Benefits, the Redwood City, Calif., based brokerage that has overseen employee benefits for the polling firm for the past decade.
"This is the type of company that [SurveyMonkey] has been from the start, but it's very unique in the marketplace to have a company focused on contractors and vendor partners," he says. "We would love to see other companies look at this population and really focus on where their benefits are."
While Cantieri admits that it might have been easier to hire these workers outright, she says that running a catering and janitorial firm is not in SurveyMonkey's core competency.
"Rossi Vargas [CEO of Clean & Green] and her team are experts in what they do, and it doesn't always make sense to hire these resources in-house," she says. "It's not just always about cost; it's about who has the best expertise to do the work so it's not just a cost equation."
Cantieri believes this offering — she says Microsoft has a similar plan in place for its contract workers — could become standard as the gig economy gains ground in the U.S. workplace.
"The world of work is changing, and we're all going to be challenged to respond to it in a way that meets the needs of the business and the talent that we all desire to hire," she says.
"I think it will continue to evolve, but we are certainly learning a lot and thinking differently about the world of work based on these changes," Cantieri adds. "We have to."


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Recently I was thinking what should be my first code contribution to the WTL project? And here it is: a seemingly simple COM initialization mechanism. Continue reading
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Recently while having some discussions on a forum populated with very good C++ developers, I started to realise …
Many of them do not see the reality same as I do? Most of the discussions are simply because of reality checks that developers have to do all the time. Especailly if they are in this IT industry where constant change is the name of the game.
Simple example : STL. Discusion exploded arround the issue of using or not using the STL in the code? A drastic example of an reality check missing. Here is why:
- STL does not exist any more. At least two years.
- STL is replaced with stdlib : standard library for C++
- Standard C++ has stdlib at its core. It is based on stdlib.
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University of Houston law professor to help oversee historic Harris County bail deal
A federal judge Tuesday approved the choice of a Duke University law professor to oversee Harris County's historic bail reform agreement that governs what happens to thousands of people arrested on low-level offenses.
Chief U.S. District Judge Lee H. Rosenthal ordered Brandon L. Garrett, from Duke's Center for Science and Justice, to serve as monitor for implementation of the seven-year consent decree. The judge also approved Sandra Guerra Thompson, a former New York prosecutor who teaches at University of Houston Law Center, as deputy monitor for the settlement.
On HoustonChronicle.com: Federal judge gives final approval to Harris County bail deal
The deal approved by a Democratic majority of county leaders last summer and finalized in December establishes new protections to level the playing field for the thousands of people arrested each year on misdemeanor charges. Rosenthal ruled that county judges had imposed "wealth-based detention," jailing poor people by default and sometimes forcing people to enter guilty pleas while allowing those with money to await trial at home. The county spent more than $9 million fighting the 2016 class action brought by indigent defendants. In November 2018, a Democratic sweep of county offices and the misdemeanor bench shifted the tenor of negotiations, ending in a resolution of the lawsuit.
Garrett has a background in criminal justice, policy-making and reform, according to a biography on Duke's website. His research and teaching has focused on criminal justice outcomes, evidence and constitutional rights. He has also studied DNA exoneration, eyewitness identification and corporate crime.
Guerra Thompson, a native of Laredo, is an award-winning professor who directs the university's Criminal Justice Institute for the UH law program, according to the UH website. Her scholarly work includes articles on wrongful convictions, eyewitness identification, forensic science, civil asset forfeiture, federal sentencing, discrimination in jury selection, prosecutorial ethics, police interrogations and immigration-related crimes.
She has played a key role in the transition to office for Mayor Sylvester Turner in 2016 and Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg in 2017. She was a founding board member for the Houston Forensic Science Center and was tapped in 2009 by Gov. Rick Perry to serve on the Timothy Cole Advisory Panel on Wrongful Convictions.


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– D.C.'s population continued its upward trend in 2013, growing by 2.1 percent. Fun fact: D.C. has a bigger population than both Wyoming and Vermont. (City Paper, 12/30)
– Big Developments Are Coming to D.C. in 2014. But Who Will Benefit? (City Paper, 12/30)
– The Post reflects on the 13 year tenure of District CFO Natwar Gandhi, who retires today. (WaPo, 12/20)
HOUSING | Greater Greater Washington examines the tension between preserving housing affordability and enabling family wealth creation when homes purchased with housing subsidies are re-sold, and recommends a "shared-equity" model for D.C.'s affordable homeownership program. (GGW, 12/20)
HOMELESSNESS | They city of Phoenix recently announced that it had successfully moved every homeless veteran in the city into housing. Their model for accomplishing this is being held up as one that should be applied to homelessness throughout the country. (Atlantic, 12/26)
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TRANSIT | This Atlantic headline pretty much sums up the rate of the federal commuter tax benefit for 2014: If You Ride the Subway to Work You're About to Get Screwed (Atlantic, 12/30)
Happy new year!
50 years ago Isaac Asimov wrote a New York Times op-ed describing his predictions for 2014. Some of his ideas (electroluminescent walls instead of windows; flying cars) aren't exactly widespread, but a lot of what he suggests sounds pretty familiar.
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5 school buildings inaugurated in Badakhshan
5 school buildings inaugurated in Badakhshan
FAIZABAD (PAN): More than 3,000 students would benefit from the construction of five school buildings in a remote district of northeastern Badakhshan province, an official said on Sunday.
The buildings constructed for Kharandaz, Payan-i-Shahr, Chap Chi Yardad, Sakhaw and Rabatak in Baharak district were inaugurated by Governor Shah Waliullah, said education official Syed Musadiq Dehqan.
The buildings were constructed at a cost of about $386,000 (17.5 million afghanis), provided by the Central Asia Institute, he said. There are about 26 schools in Baharak, where 17,271 students are enrolled.
Fifty percent of the 657 schools in Badakhshan lacked proper buildings and students attend classes under tents or in the open, the education department head, Abdul Mabood Wadoodi, told Pajhwok Afghan News.
On the other hand, students complained they had no qualified teachers. One of their major problems was the shortage of competent teachers in the province, said Shakira, a student at the Chap Chi Yardan School.
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In August 19th, held a grand temple buddhist college preparatory classes twelve graduation ceremony. The day was invited to attend the graduation ceremony of the Ningbo Public Complaints Bureau deputy director Gu Weiwei, President of the Buddhist Association of Ningbo city and Ninghai prefecture were Cheng Xinda, Secretary Ren Jianping, President of the Buddhist Association of Ninghai county has the circle mage.
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I closed the big black wrought iron gates. Stared hard back at the home I'd helped build, I painted that house. It was a beautiful home, but one that housed so many sad memories. It reminded me why I was going. I didn't want to leave, I simply had no other options.
I had already said goodbye to my friends at school. It had all happened so quickly. One minute I didn't have a care in the world, my focus was on next seasons rugby and the place I'd earned on the 1st XV. Then suddenly I was told I couldn't remain at the school. My parents could no longer afford the school fees.
I never really believed this and as I stared through the gates I shook my head thinking at the double standards as my sister remained in her school. If one of us had to give it up, then I am glad it was me, but the devastation I was feeling knowing I would never again feel the exhilaration of playing in front of the school, representing the greatest schoolboy rugby team in Wales. An honour I had worked thousands of hours training for. I can never put this feeling into words. It was simply unbearable.
I opened the door, climbed in the car and faced forward. This was the end of everything and everyone I knew. I felt the resentment, like fuel pouring onto a burning fire. I was raging. I still am if I think about it.
I was never to return to Garden Cottage in the same capacity. I lost all my personal belongings, my identity, apart from a cricket bat, a photograph and a diary I do not have one a single thing that is pre-1986 in my possession. My parents sold the house shortly after to buy a hotel, all my belongings were thrown in a skip, so I never got to close that chapter of my life.
Its an emotion I use to power me through life, it gives me a drive that I still have never witnessed in anyone else I have met. I don't mean to belittle anyone elses drive, as so many people achieve so many great fetes, however I genuinely believe that the sequence of events that unfolded created a strange combination of hulk like properties that are truly imbalanced and disproportionate running through my veins. I have searched the globe to find a kindred spirit and continue to do so.
For many years I went from one disaster to another. No matter how hard I tried to be successful, my emotions were so extreme I was unable to win small, and consequently when I made mistakes I'd lose BIG. My father called this the snakes and ladders principal.
Then one day it changed. Meeting a girl in Manchester with the same surname as my late grandfather's football team, I looked upto the sky, and nodded. The difference between coincidence and destiny is simply your outlook. A "cup-half-empty" person sees "coincidence" and "cup-half-full" character sees "destiny." This was destiny, off the scale. The girl I refer to is 10 years my younger and still is funnily enough, she is my now wife Gail. She saw something in me that no one else saw and she is the only girl who has the strength of character to harness the passion in side of me, giving me direction and something to fight for.
It is this focus that determines whether or not people like me are absolute failures or absolute successes. Together we have both leant so much. We have become proud parents and I look back at Garden Cottage a house that I once thought as the ultimate dream that never was and I look now at my 2 girls bouncing around this place with my 2 dogs Indie and Lara dancing to Abba. Funny isn't it, eras change, people change, different places, yet I cant seem to escape Abba.
I remember something Richard said to me on on Necker about his own personal drive. He said something along the lines that he is a different person now than he was 20 years earlier. He never conceded that he had less drive or determination, he is far too competitive for this.
Consider this, my runs with Richard Branson were all well over 2 hours in length. He was 59 years old at the time, now 60. Imagine what his drive was in his youth. I believe what gives Richard his youthful spirit and determination is the fact that he is still pumped full of testosterone and he is clearly proud of the fact.
Driving down the hill that day a tear rolled down my left cheek. I brushed it away with my shoulder. I remember every heart beat. I looked left at the huge garden wall unable to see a thing as the tears rolled uncontrollably, I gave up trying to wipe them away shaking my head slowly. I will never forget this feeling. The feeling of having everything taken away from me. I don't want to forget the feeling either. The pain. This is the very same pain that drives me harder than anyone else on the planet. This is the drive that I now have learnt to love. This is the emotion my wife learnt how to harness. She knows how to open the furness door. She knows when to shovel in more coal and which direction to head me in. She also understands that once I have started, there is no stopping me and this trait makes the initial target so important.
I love a target. I love to compete to the bitter end. I love winning and I even love losing because I know I will have competed beyond comprehension. I just love fighting. I love pain, there is solace in pain. I remember on the rugby pitch I never lost my cool. Once in the USA, in New York I went to watch Pete my best friend play rugby. The oposing team was a man down. I put on a shirt to help the opposing team, and Pete walked off the pitch. He was very calm, but said, "there is absolutely no way I am playing on the opposite team to Loz." They were curious at what Pete meant. Pete was always shrewd and suggested, "well if you want to see what I mean, pick anyone from the backs on our team and we'll swap him." We rejigged the numbers, they took the biggest guy and a I ended up playing for Pete's team. We destroyed the opposition, we systematically dismantled them limb from limb. I organised the backs and the forwards into a military unit. I held everyone accountable and everyone one on our team knew what it was like to fight within an inch of your life.
There are a bunch of Americans who will never forget that day. It was a day they had never worked harder. A day they raised their standards where everything they tried just came off. Somehow these guys who didn't grow up going to sleep with a rugby ball in their bed and weren't drilled like Pete and I, played out of their skin. The pitch was hard and the blood and hits were extraodinary. It was an amazing occassion, one that I cherish. I made some great friends that day on both sides of the park.
How you harness the power inside of you is crucial. Your future balances delicately between success and failure in everything you do… but it doesn't have to.
Firstly you need to understand your strengths and weaknesses. Strengths deployed at the wrong time are sometimes peoples downfall. I am lucky, I have Gail. I not only let her choose the destination, everything I do, I do it for her. I take it personally.
Secondly you need to understand what drives you, what motivates you. What events in your past really stir up emotion. Quite often these are your "limiting beliefs" and they are actually the things that are holding you back. For example, if enough people tell you you wont be good at something, eventually this will rub off and effect your performance. You have to listen to this then stand up for yourself and tell yourself "you are great," then use the negative comments of others to drive you. Stuff everyone else's belief in you. You are amazing, truly amazing. Be inspired, be properly inspired you only get one chance at this life and this is your opportunity. Switch off your television, go and give your wife girlfriend, boyfriend, husband, children, friend, in fact give everyone a massive hug. Embrace everyone, embrace life. Get your running shoes on and get off the sofa and stop reading this blog and go and run and try like you have never tried before.
If you are looking to learn how to motivate others or you want to come and join me on my quest, pick up the phone and give my team a call. I am waiting to hear from people just like you. Thank you for reading. Be inspired. Loz


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When we think of facials, we visualize ourselves lying down on a soft mattress in a dimly-lit room listening to some soothing music. This is probably why you won't particularly cherish the idea of having someone rub an ice cube on your face or splash ice cold water on it. But believe it or not, ice facials are the new 'in thing' for beauty treatments, primarily because they provide some amazing health benefits in the most inexpensive way possible.
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So I was pitter pattering around my condo trying to force myself to get my marketing plan done for Oracle Launch when it hit me – what do I love to do? Blog! What do I hate to do? Work. But if I mask work with blogging it becomes something much more palpable!
Anyways that was my genius idea for the day… so now you too get to learn how to create a "come hither" marketing plan!
The Come Hither Marketing Plan…
Have you ever been sitting at a bar, or coffee shop if libations aren't your thing, when across the room you notice a lady or gent giving you the look. It's called the come hither and it is usually far more effective than if they just walked up to you and said "hey, buy me a drink".
There is a certain art to the come hither, you don't want to look desperate but you also don't want to seem too aloof, you must be coy but enticing… this is a key to winning in the dating game yet the subtle nuances of the come hither work amazingly well in marketing too!
Just as you wouldn't go across the bar and say "you, buy me a jack & coke" you also shouldn't march into someone's business and say "you, buy product X that I'm selling". This is what made the guy who created the "no solicitors" sign a very rich man.
1. Defining Your Target Customer
If you shoot an arrow into the air it will hit something – but most probably nothing of consequence. This is the same as marketing a business (or even having a business) where your target customer isn't defined down to the shoes they wear (well maybe not that far). The point if you DEFINE your target customer/market you will do 95% better than your competition. Here is a cheat sheet:
- Does your target market have a specific location?
- Does your target market have a specific job and or hobby?
- Does your target market have a certain yearly income?
- Does your target customer have a desperate need?
- How does your target market like to be communicated with a certain way?
- Do they prefer to pay online, via check, via credit/debit or automatic billing?
- What is your target market's vanity? If they think they are experts in X you want to tell them "you're great at X, so let me help you with Y because of 1,2 & 3" this both pats their egos & promotes the values of your product.
2. Networking
Do people know you? If not how can they want the lovely X you are selling? If they don't about what you do yet you must network like crazy, but not network crazily. Example: casually commenting on someone's book in a Starbucks that leads to you two striking up a conversation is good… approaching every person at a networking event with "My name is Maren, here's my card, I do social media stuff" is bad. Treat networking like you treat relationship building because that is exactly what it is.
My suggestion is either join a few groups in your area that are specific to your interests or join few groups in your area that are specific to the interests of your niche (i.e. if your market is lawyers but you like beer pong – go to the lawyer meet ups because frat parties won't help stimulate your business).
If you want to learn more about networking awesomely I suggest you check out my friend's eBook by that exact name here… it is jam packed with 200+ pages of some of the best networking advice I've ever read.
Super E Tip: If you are truly motivated start your own networking group. I am in the midst of doing that right now to truly speed up the process of me meeting lots of quality connections and gaining their trust uber fast – people love party planners so if you throw a killer shindig for others in your niche you'll not only be well loved but you'll be the go to guy next time they need your services.
3. Strategic Partnerships
My main business is Oracle Launch a company that does social media marketing campaigns, builds websites and helps people find virtual assistants. But more than anything we do social media and online marketing, so I focus on that when it comes to strategic partnerships.
Here is how I do it: so lets say I have three great products to pitch to small & medium sized businesses that all have to do with online, social marketing. I could do it all myself or I could think "hmmmm… who else is in contact with my target customer all the time" (light bulb moment) "Marketing, PR & Website design companies!".
Now it is my turn to create a written manifest of what Oracle Launch does and why these firms should white label my services and sell them to their own clients. Well 1) it doesn't cost them anything 2) it's high quality – I will prove this by offering them to try my services free for a month within their own company 3) it's another stream of income.
So I call up these firms, set up meetings or email them with more info and hope that some take me up on the strategic partnership… those that do I will do an amazing job for and use them as 'examples' for the next batch and so on and so forth.
So if you make brownies go to super markets and ask them if they'd carry your yummy goodies. If you teach a defense course go to the local gyms and offer to do your thing there twice a month, etc. etc. You get the point!
Super E Tip: Try offering your products or services to be white labeled only to a select few within a certain demographic, then pit them against each other. So I'd say "Yeah we are doing white labeling of our SM services to only 3 marketing firms in LA…" casually and this lets them know that if they don't take me up on it then someone else down the line will, possibly their competition.
4. Viral Video Campaign
Videos often seem like the last frontier in marketing that hasn't been over saturated, but in our continually changing world we know there will always be another. That being said viral videos are a great way to make your mark and climb up the search results in competitive fields – I am going to come out with a series of videos aimed towards my target marketing business owners who are interested in marketing online. The trick is to give them value, but not the whole enchilada – then at the end say "learn more about me and my X service/product at www.MyUrl.com". Ta da!
Super E Tip: Spend the time to get good at VSEO, video search engine optimization, it is WAY simpler than traditional SEO and knowing the basics of how to promote a video on Youtube is time well spent.
5. Your Blog Platform & Freebies
Your blog is your platform for business and personal branding, if you don't have one right this second it is critical that you go out and set up something. I have gotten more gigs and formed more amazing partnerships through this blog than through all the sales call, networking events and outside connections I've made put together.
It's amazing, someday soon I think the personal blog will replace the resume as the #1 means of showcasing your abilities. So get a blog, build it up around your 'personal brand' and let your voice be heard!
Freebies are another great way of marketing without marketing. Set up a course on wherever your expertise lies, then offer it to your TM at no cost. Give them a lot of great info but not EVERYTHING, leave enough off that they are desperate for more.
You can end your presentation with "if you'd like to learn more, contact me on X" or you could just not say anything if you're ballsy. This leaves room for only your most raving fans to come approach you on helping them further – meaning that they really want your product and will be loyal 'sneezer' fans to the end.


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Celebrating Diversity
Recently there has been much talk about revival, especially through social media….some for it and some not (mostly being through misconceptions of the word "revival" or from bad "revival" experiences). Here's the deal, revival is not an event, a meeting or a hyped up word to reflect an emotional encounter, and it is certainly not a brand/movement that one person/ministry has ownership of over another. Revival is the renewal of our hearts turning towards our first love, individually coming fully alive to who and who's we are……and this has many facets, expressions and comes in many forms. Yes, I can see how the word revival to some, and in some cases can and has been a dirty word, but the truth is, it's simply a word we use to describe what we believe the Father is doing in us, others and the regions. Revival is never intended to be a means to an end within itself (if that makes sense), but the catalyst for reformation and transformation.
One thing I have learned on this journey of faith, is that there are many streams, but only one river. What I mean by this, is that no one movement, church or ministry has the whole package (though at times we like to think we do). We all have strengths and emphasises, and believe it or not, we also have blind spots. As Bill Johnson would say "Jesus is perfect theology"…..not the church/ministry we attend or affiliate.
We accept that the world is made up of many different cultures, races and expressions….but we tend to pigeonhole the kingdom to a certain style and interpretation that we often think is the only right way. What if we recognised our differences as a "positive" and began to embrace our differing strengths, championing and honouring one another, even when our "pet theologies" don't see eye to eye (obviously there are core foundations that must align i.e. Christ is the son of God, who died, rose again and only through him is salvation obtained, etc.).
Personally I'm not particularly into banner waving and shofars, but I can see the beauty in it when they are released by someone who loves this expression of worship unto the Father, so how dare I speak against it, be cynical or pass judgement. Whilst I'm talking about myself, I will let you know a little secret….. I don't align to a particular brand of Christianity i.e. "Pentecostal", "Charismatic", "Evangelical", "Conservative", etc. to me these are manmade names to describe the camps we sit in, they build invisible walls between the body and stereotype us (you don't have to agree with me on this…..or take offence). At the end of the day, if I was asked to describe my "Christian alignment" I would simply say "I'm a son of the king, a citizen of heaven and an ambassador of Christ (with an apostolic call to equip and build the saints)", I want the whole kingdom, and to embrace every expression and facet it carries (including sound doctrine).
I also know that my outward enthusiasm can at times cause offence to those who do not express themselves in this same way. But I also know my "spiritual ADHD" encourages others and releases a culture of freedom and expectation (to which the Father receives great pleasure from). Which expression is right?...both are (it's a heart matter). I love the corporate gatherings and the intimate 2-3, both energise me (as He is in our midst in both settings). If you're ok with someone going crazy and being full of passion at a sporting event, but not ok with it when we gather as the Church, and you want to label this as hype ,than that's not ok. Personally I don't have a favourite sports team, TV show or hobby, my life is Christ's, he's my interest and my outlet for passion (though there is nothing wrong with having a hobby or pursuing a dream in these areas…..it may just be the destiny He has for you to make him famous). I would rather be a wild horse that needs some bridling (not too much….need to keep that raw edge), than a dead horse that needs flogging.
I've waffled on long enough now…….I'll finish with this:
"let's be intentional about preserving the unity of the spirit, embrace our diversities, reserve judgement, champion/prefer one other (even in disagreement), cover each other's backs (the only part of the amour not mentioned in proptecting), and allow the strengths of others to shield our blind spots".
Eph 4:1-6
As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received. 2 Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. 3 Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace. 4 There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to one hope when you were called; 5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism; 6 one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.
Blessings Jase.
PS. This article is not in reaction to anything or aimed at anyone in particular……but rather something that has been brewing in my heart.
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Lawsuit filed over '09 police shooting
Spokane police and sheriff's investigators examine the scene and cover the body of Jason Poss, who was shot on July 10, 2009. (SRphoto/Jesse Tinsley)
A federal lawsuit has been filed by the parents of a man shot and killed by Spokane police in 2009 after he attacked a woman with a skateboard and stabbed a dog.
The suit alleges that either Spokane police Officer Kellee Gately or Officer Jason Curtis fired the fatal bullet – testing apparently was not able to determine the gun of origin – after 23-year-old Jason Poss had already been shot once, knocked down and disarmed of his knife.
The suit alleges that Gately and Curtis violated Poss' civil rights by using "excessive force, deadly force, and/or inadequate training."
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I had been falling behind a bit but mostly with my blogs so I have finally caught up and updated both my blogs, my web gallery and my website. I have both of my November and December blocks done and blogged about. The photo gives you an idea of what my project looks like so far.
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Hamleys heralds a less sexist era of retailing
Ruth Mortimer is Marketing Week's associate editor and a prolific blogger. She won a PPA Award for her forthright and insightful columns on marketing.
Are girls hardwired to love Barbies, while boys would rather get their hands on Hot Wheels? Hamleys is gambling on gender-specific toy retailing being a thing of the past, reorganising its flagship store away from the traditional blue-and-pink approach.
Until now, Hamleys has had separate colour-themed floors for boys and girls. In the girls' section, you were directed towards cooking sets, while the boys' areas housed the construction sets.
But no more. Hamleys has now decided that to improve "customer flow", it will simply state the type of toys available on each floor, rather than suggesting which gender should play with them.
To me, this is an entirely logical step for the following reasons:
First, gender preferences are now being questioned by scientists. Does your sex really predispose you to like everything from a type of toy to a certain colour? It seems far more likely that it is cultural norms that are to blame.
To quote Ben Goldacre from The Guardian: "Back in the days when ladies had a home journal (in 1918) the Ladies' Home Journal wrote: "There has been a great diversity of opinion on the subject, but the generally accepted rule is pink for the boy and blue for the girl.
"The reason is that pink being a more decided and stronger colour is more suitable for the boy, while blue, which is more delicate and dainty, is prettier for the girl."" So, back in the day, we all thought pink was manly.
A study by Professor Melissa Hines at Cambridge University also casts doubt on how much of our gender preferences are in-built from birth. One study shows that if you ask children under two, they show no preference.
Which leads me to my second point. If there are no real gender differences biologically (although let's face it, scientists are still arguing about this) then why divide your potential retail market in half? If I am a toy car manufacturer, I would rather try and get a percentage of 100% of children to buy me, than the male 50% of the population.
Of course, some marketing works better when you exclude consumers, rather than include them. Some boys will buy robots simply because they hopefully exclude their annoying younger sister. Some girls will buy Barbies to practice hairstyling because their brothers won't let them crimp their barnets. But this mindset should come as a result of careful targeting analysis, not lazy gender biases.
Naturally, there is a personal dimension to my argument here. I genuinely believe that in this day and age, women and men live similar lives in many Western countries. Women are likely to have careers, just like men. Which means men will also be caregivers for children and doing housework.
So the type of toys that are heavily promoted to only one gender seem to me to be entirely behind the times. My son loves his cars and trains. But he also loves a pink plush toy and pushing a very small pushchair – something he has seen his father do just as frequently as his mother.
In searching for his ideal gift this Christmas – a child-size vacuum cleaner – I found that almost all of them were pink and modelled by girls. In the end, I got him a minature Dyson, but was annoyed to see that yet again, the packet showed a small girl hard at work vacuuming.
So bravo to Hamleys for challenging the status quo. My hatred of unnecessary gender-specific marketing (see my former blogs here and here) is looking like it will be just as strong in 2012 as 2011. It's pleasing to see that some brands are ready for a new approach.


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Information about the course Research Data Management.
Adequate research data management is at the basis of research quality, integrity and reproducibility. A researcher should be in control of his or her data through the entire research data life cycle: from study preparation and data collection, data processing and data analysis, to publishing and archiving. Both AMC and funding agencies request a data management plan and publishers increasingly require data to be available. But, what is actually a data management plan? How to enhance the quality of data collected during research? And how to share a dataset?
This course addresses the broader concept of Research Data Management through the biomedical research data lifecycle. Participants will be guided through current concepts, working procedures and tooling on data management with examples for different types of data (clinical, OMICS, imaging). They will learn how to define, collect and process your data in order to deliver a reliable data set for data analysis and future reuse.
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Because of the COVID-19 regulations all face to face courses of the AMC Graduate School been cancelled.
The course Research Data Management edition May 2020 is replaced by the e-learning Research Data Management in the AMC Leerportaal.
The course is composed of a basic and an optional module. Before the start of the basic module, an e-learning module needs to be completed.
The basic module (e-learning and day 1) is mandatory for all participants. The optional module focusses on clinical data (days 2 and 3). You can optionally subscribe individually to the basic module (including e-learning) only, or the basic module ánd the optional (clinical) module.
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- October 5, 6 and 7, 2020 (e-learning)
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Basic module:
- What is research data management, FAIR principles.
- AMC procedures on research data management.
- The Research data lifecycle.
- Study preparation: privacy aspects, reuse of data, data capture systems, data storage
- Data collection: data validation, change control
- Processing & analysis: version control, statistical analysis plan
- Writing & publishing: linking data to a publication
- Archiving & open data: tooling, open/restricted access
Session 1:
- Summary of Research data lifecycle, questions and answers.
- Demos of finding existing data and samples collections.
- Privacy aspects.
- Practice: FAIR data management.
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- Practice: write your own Data management plan.
- Practice: write a Statistical Analysis Plan for a case study.
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Target Audience:
The basic course addresses topics of interest to any researcher that deals with data, while module 1 targets clinical data. We advise to take the course in the beginning of your PhD trajectory.
To qualify for the certificate, a participant must complete the e-learning and attend all lectures of the selected module(s). Attendance will be registered.
Study load:
2-3 hours for the e-learning. 7 hours for the basic module (including homework) and 7 additional hours for module 1.
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Itv chiefs are dumping comic Brian Conley, pictured, and Hugh Laurie from their peaktime weekend slots in a bid to revive flagging ratings, it was announced today.
Laurie's comedy drama Fortysomething saw a viewer exodus, losing a third of its audience for the second episode on Sunday.
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Last night I had another dream about Anthony, but this time I knew it was a dream and that my son is dead and that I had only a little time with him. We talked about all kinds of things. I asked him if he was ok and he said, "I'm Gucci," which is slang for "I'm good." And he smiled at me. I woke up crying because I tried so hard to stay asleep to have as much time with him as I could.
So because of that, I didn't play music while taking my daughter Flea to school. Instead I let her talk my face off and I soaked in every second with her.
The Truth About Grief
The truth about grief: you just wake up sometimes and it's a purple day. My therapist and I came up with that label for my bad grief days, because I often feel bad for having them, which leads to ignoring my feelings. Saying "It's a purple day" helps me with that.
Anyway. I'm happy, I've had a great week, my three youngest kids make my life amazing, and I am grateful for everything I have. But still, grief is taking this day. I miss Anthony. I have cried off and on since I woke up. I will probably cry all day. I sense the hole in my day where he should be.
And I'm supposed to be on the radio this afternoon. Grief is unpredictable and it threatens to take you all the way out when it hits like this. This is level ten purple.
I don't think people realize what it is like to function at level ten purple. What people see is me drinking this latte, typing on my phone, and reading this status, but on the inside I am on my knees next to my son's dead body screaming for him to please come back to me. That moment is what I'm living on the inside even while on the outside I'm ordering lattes and reading a book.
This is why we have to be kind to people. We never know who is inwardly living the worst moment of their life, who's at level ten purple, even if what we see is a person just doing normal life things.
On level ten purple days, I always ask: Who needs prayers? I've got to offer some of this up.
Leticia Adams is a writer living in Texas. Her personal website is Leticia Ochoa Adams and her Patheos blog Through Broken Roses. She is working to create the Red Door Foundation and writing a memoir about her life and how she found healing through therapy and Catholicism even as things kept crashing down in her life. Her previous article is My Son's Grave Reminds Me.


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The hot air they've expended has not done a lot for climate change – or, for that matter, in addressing the subject in hand, as the chronic overcrowding at Britain's main hub airport, Heathrow, goes to show.
No sooner has one government come up with a solution, than the next one to be elected rips it up. The most recent example of this was the aviation White Paper published in 2003, which recommended new runways at Heathrow and Stansted. Their findings were rejected by David Cameron, who feared an election backlash in areas where the Conservatives could not afford to alienate swing voters.
The upshot is that big projects fall by the wayside and Britain continues to slip down the World Economic Forum's rankings for overall quality of infrastructure. Currently, the UK is lying 24th; embarrassing for a G7 nation.
There has been no shortage of reports identifying this problem. But few have had quite the positive reception from business as the latest from Sir John Armitt, one of the architects of last year's London Olympics in his role as chairman of the Olympic Delivery Authority.
His key recommendation is music to the ears of anyone fed up with endless political drift: he wants Britain to set up an independent National Infrastructure Commission, empowered to look 25 to 30 years ahead and recommend which energy, transport, water and telecoms projects we need to build. In short, he wants to take long-term infrastructure planning outside the five-year electoral cycle, removing from the equation MPs, who are more worried about keeping their seats than taking tough decisions.
The House of Commons would still have to approve these projects – whatever Sir John's commission recommended would still be put to a parliamentary vote before anything got built. But, crucially, the commission would shape the national debate, help build consensus – and provide the sort of project certainty that would allow promoters of schemes to pull in private finance.
It would, for example, look at what infrastructure Britain needs to cope with an extra 10m people by 2035 – a figure that is in the official statistics but successive governments prefer not to think about.
Of course, none of this could stop capricious decisions by the government of the day. But it's a step in the right direction – and better than that £300bn hotchpotch of projects masquerading as strategic thinking in the government's National Infrastructure Plan. It's little wonder it's having such trouble getting many of them off the ground.
Sir John's review was commissioned by Labour, which historically has been as much at fault as the Coalition in taking a short-term approach to infrastructure development. It would be a pity if party politics were to stand in the way of a long-overdue recommendation.
Scottish business must engage on independence
Sir Mike Rake used his first major speech as president of the CBI to argue that business will benefit if the United Kingdom remains intact. If Scotland votes for independence in next year's referendum it could create significant economic dislocation, he told an audience in Glasgow.
Actually, his argument was slightly more subtle. He pointed out that the Scottish government has failed to build a coherent case for independence – indeed, some would say has barely engaged in the economic debate at all.
"The CBI is not convinced of the economic case for independence and has asked some important questions of the Scottish government," he said.
"These need to be clearly answered so that the Scottish electorate can make their decision with full knowledge of the potential business and economic implications of independence".
Sir Mike itemised some of the questions raised by the Treasury about the costs of independence, including maintaining different cross-border tax and regulatory systems; the vexed issue of whether an independent Scotland would be allowed to keep sterling; the effect on an integrated infrastructure system.
These are all valid questions with profound implications. In raising them at a dinner for 600 business leaders and politicians, he was articulating the suspicions of many in his audience: that, by failing to engage fully in the debate, the Scottish government is hoping to fight the battle on emotional grounds rather than encouraging voters to reflect too deeply on the practical consequences of independence.
But it is not only SNP politicians who can be accused of dodging the debate. The same goes for many of Scotland's business leaders. Privately, they will tell you that they have no time for the cause of independence – indeed, that it would be a disaster – but that they are scared to put their heads above the parapet. They will win no friends by taking sides; indeed, they are more likely to attract vitriolic abuse.
However, neither they, nor the Scottish government, can avoid the debate indefinitely. The SNP's independence white paper will be published this autumn and Sir Mike expressed the hope that it would address the economic arguments at the heart of the debate. It is to be hoped that more of Scotland business leaders will feel empowered to do the same.
Labour of love for a new Yahoo! logo
What's in a name? Or, to put it a different way, what's in a logo?
Marissa Mayer, the much-admired chief executive of Yahoo!, clearly thinks there is plenty riding on the image it presents to the wider world.
Confessing to having spent a weekend "geeking out" with colleagues, she "had a ton of fun weighing every minute detail". That might be what passes for fun in Silicon Valley, though most of us can think of better ways of spending our down-time.
Still, we should wish Ms Mayer well and hope that the 30-day beauty parade of alternative logos – dubbed the march of the losers – has served its purpose in preventing a corporate calamity of the type that has bedevilled other chief executives who decided it was time for a fresh image.
"Whimsical, yet sophisticated" is her verdict on the new look. Perhaps beauty is indeed in the eye of the beholder.