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In the midst of relocating across the country to a town where I know no one, I couldn't have chosen a better guest to remind us that connections are everywhere. It's up to us to be proactive, and choose when and how to create connections. Natalie Siston grew up in a pop.600 town, but says anywhere we go can feel like a small town. She's on a mission to bring back 'small town' meaningful relationships and leadership to the world.
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Podcast Transcription
Rana Olk (Host): Hello Everyone, Hi! As I am speaking right now, it is a beautiful Saturday morning. I am looking out at the peaceful day in my neighborhood and I am cherishing my last days here. I went on a walk around the block, around our little pond, and I was just looking at it going "Oh my gosh! I am not gonna be here much longer" and my office that I am sitting in right now is half empty because we have been getting rid of things and there are piles of books and boxes everywhere. So, as you can probably guess, what I am saying is, we are moving. And we are not just moving but preparing basically to relocate from Florida all the way across the country to Southern California and let me tell you this place is a mess. I am excited, but I am also a little nervous. Because, well Southern Cali is beautiful. For those of you out there, from there, yes, it's..it's gorgeous. I love it. I love mountains and in Florida, a speed bump is about as high you are gonna get, as far as height goes. There is no hiking here. I can't wait to go hiking and exploring. Truthfully, there isn't a lot I am going to miss about South Florida other than my friends. What I am going to miss though is the energy of living in or at least really close to the city. I'm a city girl and the nearest big city for us once we move is going to be San Diego and that's over an hour away. So, not gonna see any high rises, no miles, and miles of streets or big city lights. I like those things. Obviously though, most important is that it's probably gonna take some time for me to create new connections and friendships. And I think about that and then I go…but on the other hand, being in a smaller town, will probably feel cozier and make connecting to others easier. We'll see. That's what a lot of us want. Connection and intimacy, right? So, I'm excited and nervous which pretty much sums up, I think, a lot of things in life. At least in my life. So, while I am here talking about how far from the city I am gonna be and the "small town of actually 100,000 people" that I am gonna be living in, my guest is probably chuckling or even maybe laughing her head off right now because my definition of a small town and hers are surely not matching. Natalie Siston knows about small towns because she grew up in a really small town and so she learned everything she ever needed to learn, there. I'm gonna let her tell you more about herself. Why the work she does matters? What led her to it? And, what we all can learn from small town ways even if we never lived in a small town. And, I am hoping, a little selfishly, perhaps, that she is gonna have some good pointers and lessons for me. So, here she is, after that introduction, Natalie, welcome! How are you?
Natalie Siston (Guest): Oh, thank you so much! What a great tie-in. I had no idea where you were starting, where you were going, but it's, it's magical. So, thank you for that terrific introduction. And yes, we are gonna use this time to get you all set and prepared for that move.
Rana Olk (Host): Great! Thanks! So, let's start with that. What do you think about a small town of 100,000?
Natalie Siston (Guest): I do laugh because I grew up in the town of Republic Ohio; Population, 600. It's technically not even a town. It's a village but small village leadership didn't have the same ring as small town leadership. Thinking about what I would be doing, and I think, right now, I live in Dublin, Ohio which is a suburb of Columbus and I don't even know the population off the top of my head, but Dublin is nowhere close to being 100,000 people. So, I, yes, I do chuckle, but I think small town is always a state of mind too. So, I think that is really what you are bringing up for me is; that small town is a state of mind and that's why the tagline I have created for smalltown leadership is "Making our big world feel like a smaller place".
Rana Olk (Host): That, okay, so I love that you said that "small town is a state of mind". So, describe to us, first of all, you have the blog "Small Town Leadership" but, elaborate on that. What do you mean by "small town is a state of mind"? Describe that state of mind for us.
Natalie Siston (Guest): Absolutely. It might help to back up a little bit, just to start with where small-town leadership originated and then dig into the small town state of mind. So it was about 3 years ago when I decided I was at a point in my career where I was going "ehh.. I don't know what's next? you know, I'm itching a little bit. So, I hired a coach and she helped me get through, dig up like, what is it about your childhood and growing up that you don't do anymore, that you miss? And, I told her, I love to speak and write, and she was like "okay we'll go do more of that" and so I was going down that path; and one night, you know we always get our great thoughts at midnight.
Rana Olk (Host): Of course!
Natalie Siston (Guest): I know, I was like… I said, "I know what this is". Because whenever I speak or write, it is usually linking with what I am doing right now with that small town upbringing. And I said that this thing, this feeling I am having is called small town leadership. So if I were to describe my leadership, the silo would be derived from this small town state of mind. This idea that we are all connected. This idea that community is everything and this idea that one smile and one connection, no matter if you are doing that in a city of 1 million or in your town of 600, that's all that matters at that moment. And because I experience so many of those moments of one to one connections growing up, because quite literally, many times that's all you had; was that you walked into a store and you were the only other person there. So, you had the conversation with the storekeeper kind of thing, that's the feeling I wanted to bring to the world through small-town leadership. And that's where I think this whole small town state of mind comes from; is we can be wherever we are in the world and if we just stepped back and realize that whoever we are standing in front of or whoever we are speaking to on the phone at that point in time, that's really all that matters in that moment.
Rana Olk (Host): Oh my gosh! You are describing something that I have found in talking to strangers, people are yearning for; and so it's, I wonder when you look back on how you grew up and that small time mindset, do you miss that? Or do feel like you still have it? Or, what's going on there?
Natalie Siston (Guest): Yeah, that's a really good question. There are certain things about small-town life that I certainly miss. See, I think I miss that idea of you go somewhere and everybody knows your name or in my case, everyone knew who my parents were and my grandparents, my aunts, uncles. I think that's what I miss the most, is that feeling that if you can go somewhere, and people know who you are. I don't miss the things you are not having. Access to the wonderful resources that I have being in a bigger city or just being around or being closer to more people, right? That is one of the benefits of being in a larger area is that the pool of people with whom you can connect gets larger. You know, I, this is me, I guess, the 20th anniversary of moving to the big city. I graduated high school 20 years ago. I'm the proud class of 1998. I missed my 20th reunion last week. But that's okay. I celebrated with them in spirit. But after I moved to Columbus, Ohio to go to Ohio State, I never went back home. I didn't even go back home to live for the summers because I was eating this place up. And I knew that once I made it here I could make it anywhere and I think that….
Rana Olk (Host): So, let me ask you Natalie because you brought something up that's important. You say the small town, that is a state of mind and like you and like me a lot of people and a lot of you out there listening, I'm sure you are gonna relate to this. We go to school and nowadays it's so easy to pick up and build the life halfway across the country, all the way across the country, all the way across the globe if need be. People are not staying in their small communities anymore as much. So, we are losing. No matter what, we are losing that "oh I'm, you know, everybody knows my name, everybody knows what I am up to, the neighbors are people that I can just stop in on", we don't have that anymore. So how do we create, without those things, how do we create the small town feel that you describe when we move someplace completely new and don't know anybody?
Natalie Siston (Guest): I love the loaded question because I know it is gonna help you with your move. No, it's a good one.
Rana Olk (Host): There gotta be a way cause, I mean we have to take the initiative, right? I have to take the initiative. I can't wait for other people to you know to bring pies to my door.
Natalie Siston (Guest): You know that you can't. Let me tell you a story. This is one I have shared on the blog and it's the experience of my husband and I moving into our first house. You know being from a small town where I am, my mom would have made a casserole for the people before they even moved in and had it waiting on the doorstep. That's the type of place I grew up in. When we moved into our first house, we were,1) we were super excited, we were very proud but not a single person came over to introduce themselves. We lived in a very small cul de sac. And I was just flabbergasted and just went "oh my gosh!". But you bring up a really good point. We have to be the ones to take that initiative and so I sat around in that moment being all huffy and mad that no one was coming over and introducing themselves to us when I realized you know, somewhere took me a while to come to the conclusion that it was up to me to go knock on the door. And so I think if we all have an awareness of this, right? If we see that new person moving in, remember what it was like to be the new person. Then we are a lot more likely to go and introduce ourselves, bring them a casserole, bring the pie, invite the family over for dinner, whatever the case might be. And if we find ourselves in that scenario, we move in and no one appears on the doorstep magically with an apple pie then we, you know, we take a deep breath, we pull our shoulders back and we go start knocking on doors ourselves. And I want to tell you that is probably one of the hardest things for us to do and that's why we have gotten to the point where we have gotten to feeling isolated and disconnected. It's because I think we are all sitting around and waiting for somebody else to do you the thing.
Rana Olk (Host): So that brings up something good which is near and dear to my heart as well. And I'm so glad you are here to talk about this with me because I feel like we are on the same wavelength. It is hard to do. And I talk to strangers. So I know that people are yearning for this kind of connection and that they are feeling isolated and alone and that it feels " weird" to talk to people we don't know even when they are our neighbors. This is the world we live in, right now. People are yearning for it but afraid to take the initiative and create that. And you are describing small town living and you are also missing that. But at the same time, you admit it's hard to recreate that. Why do you think this is? What do you think is the real reason for our state of disconnection and how is this happening?
Natalie Siston (Guest): I think there are two things at play. So, 1) I think is we all have this fall sense of connection because of social media, because of digital whatever, because we carry a computer around in our purse every day with our phone. So I think we have a fall sense of connection so we might say "oh I don't need that". Right? I've got, I just checked this morning,1100 LinkedIn connection and I know most of my LinkedIn are not just random people who I connected with. So combine that with 100's of Facebook friends and the 100's of Instagram followers and whatever, add it all up and you feel like "oh I'm good", right? I don't need to worry about connecting with more people. So I think that's one thing and so we have this fall sense and we don't take action. But I think the bigger thing is that we have forgotten who we are.
Rana Olk (Host): Ouch!okay.
Natalie Siston (Guest): Because we are so busy being this person online or so busy trying to take the next great photo or shoot the next great video. I'm as guilty of this as the next person and that somewhere along the line we forget who we are. So, therefore you don't know how to show up as yourself. So, even when you do take that effort to go shake the hand, knock on the door, or send that email or text message, if you are not in your own skin and you are not believing who you are you might as well not be taking that action.
Rana Olk (Host): Wow, so we are online so often and online you don't want to be the negative person, you don't want to be the Debbie Downer, you don't want to be the messy person. Though in a way all we are showing is, and everybody knows that we are showing the highlight but its so easy, so easy to hide the messier parts of being human, right? And the more we hide those aspects of ourselves, the more we end up forgetting and losing those aspects of ourselves which is completely inauthentic. Is that right?
Natalie Siston (Guest): Oh a 100%. And I think that's why we walk around every day and a typical interaction is "hi, how are you, great, awesome, have a great day" and you move along. Because people are afraid to be a little vulnerable to step into that when they aren't having a good day to say "yeah, its kinda rough today", or…
Rana Olk (Host): And how do we react though? I can't remember. I have had so many of these conversations lately but when somebody says I am not doing well, I have to admit, okay, if I run into my neighbor across the street, she.. I do actually know my neighbors; her name is Mary Jane and I love her and so if I see her and say "hey, how are you" and I just happen to be taking the garbage bin to the curb right? If should were to say "Oh my gosh, I'm having the worst day", I don't know what I would do sometimes. I mean, I think here is where, oh gosh this is so hard to say but there are times when I'd be like "oh come on in let's sit down and chat about it" but then are times when I'm like "oh God, I just wanted to take the garbage out. I have only one minute and I've gotta get back in to work". Our priorities have changed, right?
Natalie Siston (Guest): Yes
Rana Olk (Host): And how am I gonna disengage from this? Oh my gosh is this going to be 2 mins or is it going to be all day?
Natalie Siston (Guest): Right, right. And I think you hit on the third, that is probably getting in our way, which is we are "busy". We are so busy and I think that's when you just have to step into humanness and admit if "Oh gosh, Mary Jane, I'm really sorry to hear that you are feeling that way today. I have an appointment waiting for me but you know were to find me and can we get together later?" You know that is acknowledging it and then determining if you want to step into that later or if you just have to gracefully bow out. And that's, you are probably right, that's why Mary Jane likely shakes her head and says "Great" because she doesn't want to put the other person in an awkward position
Rana Olk (Host): But see this is how we react. We can't really separate our behaviors from, you know, it's like, if I am acting without thinking at all about the other person how they might take that, it might just become such a mess. The reason why we don't say what's really going on with us is because we don't want to put someone else in that position of thinking "oh God, not now" right? So we don't say anything. I don't say anything because I don't want to be a bother. And yet when I need somebody, then I complain that there is nobody there for me or that there is no one to talk to. So we are all walking around in this state of loneliness and disconnection and it's just not right. It's not right So if I was in Mary Jane 's place in this scenario, right? If someone said to me "oh gosh Rana, not right now, come later" or "I don't have time for this but I really care about you so let's set up a meeting why don't you stop by tonight after dinner?" I would not take that personally. I wouldn't be upset. I'd be like "oh, awesome". But everybody always assumes that the other person will be upset if they are honest. You know what I mean?
Natalie Siston (Guest): Wow, right! You just played that back in the opposite way and that's not true. So perhaps we just need to be comfortable in our own shoes and in our own truth and not worry about the other person's reaction. I think that, to your point, is the hardest part of all this. What if, for a day, we can forget what the reaction's going to be. So if we think about it, that's why we are putting all those beautiful pictures on Instagram and Facebook because we want the little hearts, we want the little thumbs up. It feels good, we get a little kick from that. Which is the same reason were we say I'm doing great, doing awesome and..
Rana Olk (Host): It's vulnerability. To be honest and who you are and not care about the rejection. It's vulnerability. We are all afraid to be vulnerable and it seems like in today's day and age it's getting even harder.
Natalie Siston (Guest): Absolutely! One of my favorite authors is Brene Brown. And she has been a really big inspiration for the latest series I have been writing in my blog which is "52 Weeks of Meaningful Connections". I read "Daring Greatly" right before I started that series and in the middle of it I read "Braving the Wilderness". And these are two of her key points. It's just how do you talk about courage and vulnerability and I think what it was to me was this idea of authenticity and being okay with being who you are. And I think, you know, going back to this whole small town state of mind is, you can't hide in a small town, right? So, whether the brand you are cast in from a young age is right or wrong, you are known, right? You are known by the thing you did when you were six. Because everybody in the town found out or or you were known as the kid who was good at sport or good at math or not good at those things or the troublemakers or the goody two shoes and I think because of that, I think I was able to lean into who I was growing up. I was proud of who I was growing up. I was proud of my family and probably a lot of people living in small towns have that opposite feeling than me. They felt bad about how they were cast and that wasn't helpful but that helped me be authentic when I was there. And I think just slowly over these twenty years that I have talked about, from when I haven't lived there, is when I started to fall out of that authenticity which is when I feel like I realized and woke up one day and said: "Gosh, I think I'm lonely".
Rana Olk (Host): Let's talk about that. First of all, you brought up the " 52 Weeks of Meaningful Connections" and that's why I wanted you here because that's the magic, meaningful connection. So I perked up when somebody referred me to you. But you talk about loneliness and why you created that as well. So could you elaborate? What's the loneliness?
Natalie Siston (Guest): Yeah, I think the loneliness trigger didn't happen until partway through writing this series. So I'll back up a little bit and tell you about writing this series. It was another one of those moments of a flash of an idea. I was taking a walk one day at my lunch hour and I wanted to write something else. I wanted to put something out on a thematic basis and it just came to me. What we are all craving are these meaningful connections and I think at the same time I realize that there is no magic bullet to any of this stuff. There is no secret sauce, right? People would not be listening to this podcast or any podcast or books for that matter if we just had it all figured out. So I thought, what if, for 52 weeks I can put something out into the world that talks about this idea of meaningful connections. And so, you know, I definitely think that it's something if anyone is interested in, they should check out. But about halfway through this process of writing I stepped back and I said "oh my gosh", I think the real reason I wanted to do this wasn't because I felt like I was living in a cold world or I saw that people did not know how to network. I saw that I was lonely. And this was somehow my antidote to how I was feeling.
Rana Olk (Host): And how does it become an antidote?
Natalie Siston (Guest): Wow, because I think from that point on, from the time I realized that "Gosh, I think that I'm lonely", the way I wrote that series has shifted.
Rana Olk (Host): Interesting. This shift that you feel?
Natalie Siston (Guest): The shift has been talking more about this idea of authenticity, talking more about this idea of vulnerability, of being yourself, of not being afraid to share the words, sharing the sad parts of your life and sharing the stuff you are going through.. I think it was my real wake up call of , if I don't start living this way for myself how can I be a good role model for my two daughters who are 6 and 8? How can I even put my stamp on something called a "Meaningful Connection" if I am not out there in the world building a meaningful connection and by showing up as myself and offering that up to others . And so I think that the writing for me went from a place of "hey, here is tips on networking, there is research on why its important", which is all great. Like, it still works, it still all truthful but it shifted to be way more personal about what it's like to make friends when we are adults. Which you and I talked about. It's hard. It's hard to make friends when you are an adult. Or how do you make space for the people who show up in your life and you realize "oh gosh, they are meant to be here". But I haven't made space for them because I have packed my day with work and kids stuff and more work and extracurriculars and all these things and all of a sudden someone shows up in your life and you realize, "gosh, I want to make space for this person".
Rana Olk (Host): Wow! So, there is so much to unpack there. It's almost as if I have all these thoughts in my head and I'm gonna try to make sense of them. But loneliness is, obviously we, I think most of us and our listeners right now, know. I'm sure many of our listeners actually have experienced this because if we look at the statistics a good portion of us are lonely. Even though we are surrounded by people. So, the real antidote to loneliness doesn't have as much to do with how many people are around us. It's how many people actually.. It's still our responsibility. We want to be seen and we want to be known for who we really are but if we continue to hide our vulnerabilities, if we continue to not be vulnerable, we can't be known and that is what makes us lonely. So we are almost the cause of our own loneliness. If we can't be vulnerable, if we can't show ourselves, we cant be seen by anybody for who we are , right? The feeling, the sense of loneliness is, I want people to know me and that comes, that is related to why it's harder to make friends when you are older. Maybe because part of knowing me is knowing who I am , my history, sharing many of the experiences with me and its hard to create that with somebody knew.
Natalie Siston (Guest): It sure is, especially when you can resort back to the comfort zone. You can resort back to the people who do know you. When whether or not you fell very close to them, it's just easy, its comfortable, you got a place there. And I think, you know, you and I both went to the same coaching school and I have just been amazed by the number of friends and deep connections I have made through that experience. And I didn't go into that thinking that I was going to come out with this whole new group of friends or connections or people quite literally, I could call in the middle of the night, if I needed to, and they would answer the phone and talk to me for however long I needed to. That's the depth of the relationship that I've been able to experience by going through this whole process myself, is just saying it's okay. You gonna get all of me.
Rana Olk (Host): You just brought up an amazing point. We went through that same training and for those in the listening audience who don't know, this is ..you start out and let's just talk about the first weekend, okay? It's a three day weekend where you have no choice but to take off the masks. Cause I think one of the first exercises is, it's worded differently, What is your greatest vulnerability? The things you do not like about yourself. And if you aren't 100% authentic you are gonna show and there are anywhere from 10, 15 to 45 in that room and everybody is just spilling it. And these are strangers to you in the beginning. So, out of that, by the end of those three days, just those first three days, that's just the beginning of the training of several months , you feel like you have known these people forever. And so that is the key to making meaningful connections then, isn't it? That its not the matter of how long somebody knows you, it's about how vulnerable have you been willing to be, how much of your facade or you know, mask had you dropped and exposed and how much of your inner self, have you exposed, then you are known and then you have intimacy and like you said, I came out of that with lifelong friends as well.
Natalie Siston (Guest): I couldn't agree with you more. I'll say, I had quite a little bit of a different perspective. So, I love how you just said that. If I had to do it all over again that's how I would do it. But I still had a mask on when I started. This was 2 years ago when I started the program and I have a very dear friend who was the one who shepherded me into the program and he and I met two days before I left for my training, which I did in Dallas of all places, because I'm obviously in Ohio, but I had a good friend in Dallas and he said "your life is about to change". And I was like "Oh! Amen, that's what I want. I want my life to change. I want this magic bullet, this antidote thing". So, I went through the three day experience, and yet met wonderful people and felt like I formed at least relationships. I wouldn't say connections but relationships, but I left that following Monday and I said, "my life didn't change". Because I was expecting this magic bullet experience because I know people have had that happen for them. However, fast you forward a year later, oh that's when it hit me, that's when the change happened. So I think it just took me a while to take the mask off.
Rana Olk (Host): You know, I am so glad you brought that up because its true. For some people it was a little harder, I think and no matter what, I think, it's kinda like peeling, we always talk about peeling back the layers of an onion, right? Sometimes it takes going through that kind of an experience, it's that first weekend, so to speak, or any kind of experience where you are laying it all out, laying it there for people, to realize how much more there is. And maybe you did your best and you walk away going "oh my gosh, I had masks on that I didn't even know I still have". So, it could be partially that. All of this I think it is to say that, learning how to be vulnerable and I'm also gonna say I think earlier I said part of the reason it's harder these days in this age to be vulnerable; is because we have all these social media connections and all these people whose judgment we fear now. It's a lot more. It's like we are always on display. So there seems to be so much more to lose if you screw up, right? Or there is so many more people watching, paying attention, so we think but meaningful connections require vulnerability. I think that's the lesson here.
So, tell us about where people can find you online and why they should check out " 52 Weeks of Meaningful Connections"
Natalie Siston (Guest): So people can find me at smalltownleadership.com. That's the easiest place to go. All my social links are there. So, smalltownleadership.com or Natalie Siston on all things, LinkedIn, Instagram or Facebook. You will find a link on smalltownleadership.com directly to "52 Weeks of Meaningful Connections". I would definitely suggest checking it out because it's bite size pieces of things that you can do to help chip away whatever you are feeling on your scale of 0 being "I don't need any meaningful connections" to 10 "I'm booked full of meaningful connections". I think you can be on any level of that spectrum and take something away from each week of content that will help you assess how you are doing, as someone who is showing up authentically, who is trying to connect with others and how you can make other people comfortable about showing up and connecting with others as well.
Rana Olk (Host): So what's the change that you would like to see Natalie? What inspires you? Why are you doing this? You are doing it for others, not just for yourself.
Natalie Siston (Guest): Absolutely, I am doing this for others because I want to make our big world feel like a smaller place. Because I do want people to feel like they are in Republic Ohio. It's the feeling I am aiming for every day in any place I go. Whether I am here at home or traveling for work, that kind of thing, I want to make that place feel like home. And I think one action that everyone can take every day, and you are a great role model for this, is to talk to strangers and wherever we are going , just a smile and a hello can go so far to making someone feel that they are acknowledged and they are seen and taking that even a step further to having some sort of small conversation and you never ever know where that's gonna go. And I think that's were the magic happens. It's sitting in the plane seat and taking the headphones off for a change and having a meaningful conversation with a person next to you.
Rana Olk (Host): And not being afraid after a little while to say "okay, I'm gonna read my book now"..
Natalie Siston (Guest): Absolutely and retreating back to the laptop, if its time. Absolutely.
Rana Olk (Host): Just being yourself.
Natalie Siston (Guest): Just being yourself. Absolutely. I think that we all just need to start with that, hello and a smile because that could be the spark that breaks down the artificial barriers that we are all experiencing; that have led to this loneliness, disconnection, antsy place that the world feels like, a lot of times.
Rana Olk (Host): Gosh, I love that. I love that you beat me to it. That one small action is something that we ask about, you know at the end of every episode; and so for those who didn't hear that quiet right let's repeat it because I think it's so important. You can start this now today and in your very next outing. Get off your phone and actually make eye contact with the cashier, with your neighbor or with the person at the DMV who is probably crabby. But ask her what her highlight of the day was or something. Put a smile on someone's face. Do something novel and unexpected and make their day because I love that. Ever since I started doing that, and I am sure you do it too, how often do you get that "oh my gosh, you made my day" or somebody's face just lights up, right?
Natalie Siston (Guest): Right, and it didn't cost you a dollar more or a minute more of your time. You just brought a different energy . And maybe that's what we are after here. Just bring a different energy, right? It's just shifting the thought of, people are bad to people are good; and shifting the way to say "I'm good on my relationships" to, "I always have room for more relationships". It's that shift in, were our minds are, that can lead to all of this change and the energy will also then shift with you.
Rana Olk (Host): I love that. I love that. I think it's a great place to allow our audience to go out and think about some of this and ponder it and absorb it. I really enjoyed this conversation. Natalie, thank you so very much for being here and I hope we get to talk to you again when your "52 Weeks of Meaningful Connections" are over. I would love to bring it back and talk to you about what else you've learned.
Natalie Siston (Guest): That would be wonderful. I appreciate the opportunity to be here. Thank you, very much and good luck on the move. You are going to have a million friends waiting for you when you get there.
Rana Olk (Host):: Thank you! Well, I definitely might consider that pie idea that kinda just popped out. I might say hello to the new neighbors. Who I hear, are pretty decent.
Natalie Siston (Guest): There you go.
Rana Olk (Host): Alright everybody, well, you know how to find Natalie. All the links will be up on the website and I hope you will think about saying hello to a stranger or making eye contact and figuring out how you too can create more meaningful connections in your life. Okay, any questions? Just send them to us on the website. Talk to you later. Bye


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text: It is well known that political systems are constantly changing, states are being redrawn, new companies are opening up and some are closing down. In all this constant turmoil, one thing is the constant need for women to beautify themselves. So it is not surprising that the French cosmetic brand Bourjois is the longest-running brand in the world. It survived all the world wars and economic crises. At the time of its creation, the makeup was not worn by "decent women" but by actresses, starlets, singers and entertainers. The first product of this company was intended for theater. It was designed by Paris-based actor Joseph-Albert Ponsin with the help of his business partner Alexandre-Napoleon Bourjois. The makeup at the time was like wax crayons today – sticky and impermanent. It has become synonymous with kan-kan and the famed Parisian cabaret Foliese Berger. What followed was the history of modern make-up: face powder made from the finest ground rice, the first compact blush for cheeks (1881), the first lipstick in a stick, fragrant extracts for soaking wipes. 1898 Bourjois had over 700 products. These products were sold in more than 120 countries around the world in the 1920s. To this day they have managed to preserve the spirit of Paris shaped by their imaginary muse Babette.Bourjois has been present in the cosmetics market for 157 years.


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It's like 4am so I'm going to keep this short. I painted this dude up today as a test model for Laz's Lawbringers, the Night Lord warband that I detailed in my previous ToGG post. I still have to figure out small details like squad markings and any other additional free hand I want to do, but otherwise I'm pretty happy with the time/quality payoff I can get out of this scheme!
I used these as a guide: Armour, Lightining. I swapped out the black wash for drakenhof as I wanted the blue to be deep as hell.
Now to wait till October!


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Years ago I took the Tony Robbins "Master of Influence" classes. Every evening for weeks.. amazing stuff. You tend to forget most of it but a few things stick. One concept I found to be particularly useful in day to day influence… how people sort things. Say you ask in conversation "how do you know you did a good job?" The answer will in most cases determine how people sort thoughts. Some people will say "well, people tell me", or "I got promoted". The other half will say things like "I just know inside when I have done a good job. It feels good."
Wouldn't it be useful to know this about people you are trying to see things your way? In many cases, if you know the person well you will know this. Here's how it is useful (simplified):
Internally thinking people will be motivated by phrases like "When you decide to buy this you will feel good" or "you know well yourself you made the right decision." Or "buying this car will make you happy and you will appreciate the performance. You'll get a kick out of driving it."
The other side: "This car will show everybody you have made it. That you have worked hard and you have earned it."
In my opinion, this is very powerful. Many people simply don't care what others thing about them or what they have. No way you could motivate them by pitching that other people will think. You might turn them off. Remember what it said on the home page – people want to be understood.


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Nazi war criminal Dr Aribert Heim, thought to be still on the run, actually died nearly 20 years ago. The revelation comes from an investigation by Germany's ZDF television and The New York Times, which discloses Heim fell victim to cancer. Before his death Heim had been secretly living in Cairo. He had converted to Islam and changed his name to Tarek Farid Hussein. Friends were stunned to learn of his terrible past.
Heim became infamous for injecting toxins into the hearts of concentration camp inmates and watching them die. He also famously removed organs without anaesthetic and kept a human skull as a paperweight. Reports surfaced that Heim was still alive and living in South America. This investigation reveals he has been buried in an unmarked pauper's grave in Cairo.


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Show Pics: Chaos in Tejas – Ted Leo (5/31)
Chaos in Tejas is that thing when you get ready for a show by not showering.
It is also that thing where randomly selected indie-punk-pop acts get thrown on stage in between hardcore and punk bands. In this case, The Mohawk featured Nathan's man-crush, Ted Leo, had a set between Japanese thrash by Reality Crisis and old-school punk from The Mob.
To further confuse my ears, I stopped in for a bit of Big Freedia's set at Club DeVille.
Reality Crisis had an equipment crisis, started twenty minutes late and then let the crowd have it. Full on mosh circle, there were several up front singing every word back to the two leads when not trying to get air into lungs being crushed into the stage.
Ted Leo is a constant – sweat bands and effort. Definitely a ratcheted up festival set to suit the room. Many of the harder core in attendance retreated upstairs, but were drawn back down to hang out with the indie kids. Ted put the guitar down for most of "The Ballad of the Sin Eater", just vocals in front of the rhythm section driving home the message. Very cool.
The Mob delivered vintage Brit-punk. A few audience memebrs I spoke with bought passes and came to Austin for the first time just to see them.
Big Freedia was surrounded by AZZ.
There are a few more pics at the photo site…


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Posted: Friday, October 24, 2014
A new OECD report on the space industry and the economy around it shows how countries with long-established space programmes are having to adapt as lower costs and technological advances draw more countries and companies into the sector and give rise to a burgeoning commercial space industry.
The Space Economy at a Glance 2014 shows that while space budgets in the 34 OECD countries totalled USD 50.8 billion in 2013, down from USD 52.3 billion in 2008, the combined space budget of the BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India and China) swelled to USD 24.0 billion from USD 16.5 billion over the same period. Supply chains for spacecraft, launchers and parts are increasingly globalised, IT companies are becoming satellite operators and rapid growth in small satellite launches will mean more commercialisation of earth observation data.
This will increase the opportunities for start-ups and emerging economies to get into the space sector, according to the report, but it means governments should keep up their spending on space R&D, which can yield big returns in the form of new technologies, and invest in industry niches where they can be competitive in this new space race.
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The disorientating subject/object relationships at work here bear a relationship to visionary painting. Condon's paintings tread lightly over this now widely celebrated, but once peripheral part of modernism: the romantic, visionary impulse. If we reach back into modernist history, we'll find Condon's affinity for rich color, bold lines and near ecstatic reverence towards the natural world often found in the paintings of Charles Burchfield and Georgia O'Keefe.
Jason Stopa, Domestic Aesthetics (catalog essay)
Condon's injection of feminine elements into the predominantly male "grand gesture" of large-scale abstract painting manifests a feminist acknowledgment of individual experiences. Recalling Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's proclamation, "I have chosen to no longer be apologetic for my femininity,"[i] Condon's paintings permit birds, flowers, and decoration to sit alongside expressions of angst and tensity, as well as beauty, as part of women's, and human, experience.
To produce her latest canvases, Condon has experimented with some new approaches that, in effect, have made the production of her variety of abstraction as much the subject of these new works as the birds, flowers and other recognizable, if stylized, images that pop up in them. If an air of works-in-progress collectively wafts through them, it is not because these paintings are unfinished — not at all — but because among their main themes are abstraction's enduring vitality and malleable expressiveness. As finished works, they feel at once tightly controlled and open-ended.
Edward M. Gómez, Hyperallergic
Elisabeth Condon has long been a visual gourmand and her appetites only ever increase. Her latest work at Lesley Heller shows her incorporating wallpaper patterns into a stock of tropes that already included Chinese scroll paintings, botanical diagrams, gestural abstraction, discotheque lighting, and divers borrowings from the whole world's history of landscapes.
Franklin Einspruch, Delicious Line
The paintings are displayed against a backdrop of red toile wallpaper, which features drawings from Ms. Condon's sketchbooks. Notes from Shanghai wallpaper includes imagery of paper lanterns, bicycles strapped with boxes and goods, elements of the natural landscape, and skyscrapers of the Shanghai skyline.Juxtaposed with the red wallpaper are Ms. Condon's brightly colored paintings, created with poured ink, oil, acrylic, watercolor, glitter, and in some cases mineral elements. Recognizable elements from the cityscape appear within the organic shapes and abstractions created by the bleeding paint, like the iconic Oriental Pearl Tower in Electric LotusLand (2014) or the bow of a ship from the harbor in Elephant Path (2014). "Elisabeth Condon's new paintings are spectacular," said Ms. Erf in a statement. "They convey a deep understanding of Chinese literati and postwar American painting traditions that's surprisingly fresh and completely her own."
another to suit your thoughts, inside of a single sentence. You might
begin in English for the sake of clarity, then change to Chinese for an
apt metaphor, then over to French for color and texture, then to Italian
for a bit of structure. Elisabeth Condon can do this, in paint.
The power of Elisabeth's paintings has something to do with
paradox, I think. They're exuberant but peaceful, joyous but rigorous, full of
movement but also very still. They're informed by scholarship – her patient
study and deep love of Asian art – but their creation, which often begins with
pouring paint onto the canvas, is intensely physical and engaged. Each piece
has a dramatic initial impact, but the more you look, the more you see of the
subtleties of color and shape and flow. These are paintings you can keep coming
back to – individual, expressive, strong, and moving.
[Oliver Sacks] might describe Elisabeth Condon's paintings as a purposeful adventure in synesthesia.
The result feels like a dream or memory suddenly, if fleetingly made visible.
Oh, yes, Condon mentioned China at Yaddo, how she stole from its art, both high and low, over and over, and then it stole her. But China is not her only referent--her mind Seusses and warps around leaves, motorbikes, birdhouses. I know software that would be envious. And color! This Elisabeth "Color" Condon exhibits no fear of bold pink or salmon or rust or aquamarine or vivid slithery green. She's gone serious on a love affair with water and color and collage. Where does all this color go? No plane is safe, it bends, rounds corners sometimes even outside installation, it gets sculptural and then collapses. And what's left--her emptiness haunts, almost Dali. Forget about go, stop. What we see is how we live. So flashy-Miami, so gorgeous rococo, so Fragonard, so Takashi Murakami, so now. Watch Condon celebrate all life-in-a-frame with delicate flourish.


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Married people and singles alike are having less sex than ever. Busy schedules, increased use of devices in bed and a myriad of stress-related factors are decreasing libidos across demographic divides. If you've noticed a drop in drive, read on to learn about five ancient herbs that can improve your sex life.
Ancient Aphrodisiacs
Chinese and Ayurvedic medicine have relied upon herbs for centuries to treat various ailments, as well as heal and rejuvenate the body. These five ancient herbs have been used as aphrodisiacs, or substances that help increase your sexual energy and vitality. For best results, consult with a practitioner of Chinese medicine to ensure the most accurate dosage for you.
Chinese Ginseng
Ginseng is a powerful tonic for the nervous system, helping to regulate stress and stimulate the body. It is not an immediate-action sexual stimulant, but can increase sexual vitality when taken long-term. These effects are enhanced when ginseng is taken in combination with other herbal aphrodisiacs. The recommended dose of ginseng is 200 milligrams two to three times per day.
Pine Pollen
Pine Pollen usually comes in powder form, and is collected from pine trees to be consumed as a tonic for the endocrine and immune systems. Pine pollen helps to balance the ratio of the sex hormones estrogen and androgen. Frequently used as a testosterone booster, it is especially beneficial for middle-age adults as testosterone diminishes as people age.
It does have a piney flavor and is best mixed with beverages, or it can be used as a flour as is common in Asian countries. Pine pollen tinctures are also available. Recommended dosage varies based on product.
Epimedium or Horny Goat Weed
The name tells you everything you need to know! Horny Goat Weed (which is also known as Epimedium) is a leaf that can be steeped into a tea and enjoyed throughout the day. It is thought to work by stimulating the nervous system, especially nerves in the genital area. Epimedium is also thought to increase sperm production in men. It's usually combined in an herbal formula with other complementary herbs.
Cordyceps is a fungus that has been used medicinally in China for centuries as a general health tonic. Traditionally it is consumed as a tea but can be found in powder form for mixing with any food or beverage. Cordyceps is said to increase sexual vitality over time.
Maca Root
Maca root is thought to be natural Viagra for women. It is thought to work by increasing libido and sexual energy, increasing sexual desire. Studies in male rats have shown significant improvements in sexual performance markers, making maca a natural male enhancement. Maca is available in powders and capsules, and is a great addition to beverages and smoothies.
Many factors affect sex drive, but there are several things that can be done to reduce stress levels and get in the mood. Herbs and supplements can help boost your libido naturally, and it is best to work with a physician to determine what formula is best for your specific needs.


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This blog entry on The Old New Thing reminded me of my own "bus girl".
(Though I didn't propose to her; she faded out of my life after our office moved and I no longer took the same bus. Though by that time I had at least worked up the courage to talk to her.)


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In a heartbreaking incident, a woman was found dead along the railway tracks in Damoh district, Madhya Pradesh, with her toddler crying near her corpse, trying to breastfeed.
The Hindustan Times report surmises that the woman must have fallen down from the train with the baby clutched tightly to her chest; because when the police finally found the 35-year-old's body, the baby was unhurt.
A railway police officer told HT:
"She was injured but probably conscious... She opened a packet of biscuits and gave some to the child. She breastfed her child to ensure he survives."
Sudhir Vidhyarthi, chairman of the child welfare committee (CWC), Damoh, who was called in by the railway police, told The Times of India:
"The sight of the baby trying to wake his mother up his dead made all the spectators cry."
But the tragic story seemed to have left the government hospital unmoved, because when the CWC workers took the baby to the hospital, they refused to admit him in, because he could not pay ₹10 as the fee.
"Hospital employee was bounded by his order. It was only after a ward boy gave the requisite money that the baby was taken in," Vidhyarthi told TOI.
Now, while the mother's body has been sent for autopsy, the 14-month-old toddler has been shifted to a children's home.
The woman's identity is yet to be identified, and therefore, the CWC is going to publish public notices for the baby family to take him back.
"If his family members come, we will verify their credentials and hand him to them," Vidyarthi added.
(A video of the heartbreaking incident has also surfaced online. Viewer discretion is advised.)


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The National Association of General Practitioners has called on the Government to reverse FEMPI.
They are holding their AGM in Maynooth this weekend, and say financial emergency measures in the sector must be scrapped.
The union also says FEMPI is a key factor in the high emigration of GPs in this country.
President of the NAGP, Dr. Emmet Kerin, says the industry is suffering.
He said: "We're certainly recognising that the FEMPI cuts imposed on General Practices, which equates to 38%, is really a stranglehold on the functionality of General Practice.
"That has come home to roost now when you see mass emigration of trained GPs or early retirement of GPs and the service itself has been degraded because of a lack of resourcing and funding to allow the practice to be functional."


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This week David Cameron chaired a meeting, as part of his role as Chair of NCS Trust's Patrons Board, with members of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference (HMC) to discuss National Citizen Service (NCS), and how NCS could better engage and work with independent schools.
NCS is the country's flagship and largest youth programme for 16-17 year olds. Last year 100,000 young people benefitted from having the opportunity to participate in a NCS programme – meeting new people, gaining key life skills and sharing new experiences. NCS is proud to be open to all and bringing young people from very different backgrounds together is central to the mission of a more cohesive society.
Currently, young people from independent schools are much less likely to take part in NCS as those from the state sector. This means that significant numbers of young people are missing out on this national 'rite of passage' experience. The roundtable brought together senior representatives from NCS Trust with guests from the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference and the Girls' Day School Trust schools, with the aim of making NCS more attractive to young people who attend independent schools.
The discussion resulted in a commitment on the part of the schools to do more to promote NCS and help NCS shape the future of what is now an important national initiative for young people from different backgrounds.
More information about NCS can be found at: https://www.ncsyes.co.uk


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[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-1220?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ] Greg Roelofs updated MAPREDUCE-1220: ------------------------------------ Attachment: MR-1220.v1b.sshot-03-jobdetailshistory.jsp.png MR-1220.v1b.sshot-03-jobdetailshistory.jsp.png screenshot of the jobdetailshistory page (uber-job complete) This was taken before the setup and cleanup tasks were moved inside UberTask. The UI didn't get updated for that, IIRC, so I think it shows lots of zeros on the top and bottom lines now. (Another TODO item...) Note also the wrappable column heading, courtesy of "<wbr>" pseudo-tags. (Browsers optionally break there, but cut-and-paste doesn't pick up a spurious space. Highly recommended for other fat table cells such as counter names and types, job names, hostnames, etc. I should file a separate JIRA...) > Implement an in-cluster LocalJobRunner > -------------------------------------- > > Key: MAPREDUCE-1220 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-1220 > Project: Hadoop Map/Reduce > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: client, jobtracker > Reporter: Arun C Murthy > Assignee: Greg Roelofs > Attachments: MAPREDUCE-1220_yhadoop20.patch, MR-1220.v1.trunk-hadoop-common.Progress-dumper.patch.txt, MR-1220.v10e-v11c-v12b.ytrunk-hadoop-mapreduce.delta.patch.txt, MR-1220.v13.ytrunk-hadoop-mapreduce.delta.patch.txt, MR-1220.v14b.ytrunk-hadoop-mapreduce.delta.patch.txt, MR-1220.v15.ytrunk-hadoop-mapreduce.delta.patch.txt, MR-1220.v1b.sshot-02-jobdetails.jsp.png, MR-1220.v1b.sshot-03-jobdetailshistory.jsp.png, MR-1220.v2.trunk-hadoop-mapreduce.patch.txt, MR-1220.v2.trunk-hadoop-mapreduce.patch.txt, MR-1220.v2b.sshot-01-jobtracker.jsp.png, MR-1220.v6.ytrunk-hadoop-mapreduce.patch.txt, MR-1220.v7.ytrunk-hadoop-mapreduce.delta.patch.txt, MR-1220.v8b.ytrunk-hadoop-mapreduce.delta.patch.txt, MR-1220.v9c.ytrunk-hadoop-mapreduce.delta.patch.txt > > > Currently very small map-reduce jobs suffer from latency issues due to overheads in Hadoop Map-Reduce such as scheduling, jvm startup etc. We've periodically tried to optimize all parts of framework to achieve lower latencies. > I'd like to turn the problem around a little bit. I propose we allow very small jobs to run as a single task job with multiple maps and reduces i.e. similar to our current implementation of the LocalJobRunner. Thus, under certain conditions (maybe user-set configuration, or if input data is small i.e. less a DFS blocksize) we could launch a special task which will run all maps in a serial manner, followed by the reduces. This would really help small jobs achieve significantly smaller latencies, thanks to lesser scheduling overhead, jvm startup, lack of shuffle over the network etc. > This would be a huge benefit, especially on large clusters, to small Hive/Pig queries. > Thoughts? -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira
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Okay, so, last month, Conor McGregor, the UFC's featherweight champion and biggest drawing card, lost to lightweight Nate Diaz, a late replacement for McGregor's originally-scheduled opponent, lightweight champion Rafael dos Anjos, in a welterweight fight; the UFC, smelling money, booked a McGregor vs. Diaz rematch for July's UFC 200 extravaganza, which they're promoting as their biggest ever; McGregor then announced his retirement; it turned out that he wasn't really retired, but had been pulled off the card for not wanting to fly from Iceland to Las Vegas to do a couple of pressers he could as well have done via Skype; it further turned out, unsurprisingly, that the real conflict was in fact about McGregor wanting money and power and using his status as the UFC's biggest drawing card, set to headline a big-money show, to make a play for it; McGregor announced that he was back on the card after all; the UFC denied it; the UFC sent a delegation to Good Morning America, of all places, this morning, and announced that the new main event for UFC 200 will be a rematch of a Jon Jones vs. Daniel Cormier fight from last year, which was originally scheduled for this past weekend until Cormier was injured in training and carries its own strange complications, among them that even though Jones convincingly defeated Cormier in their last fight and has in fact never lost a fight (not counting one he lost on a technicality), Cormier is the (fake) light-heavyweight champion because the UFC stripped Jones of the title after he hit a pregnant woman's car with his own and then fled the scene—after which Jones was spotted running back to his car, shoving cash in his pants, and then fleeing again (which events followed on him vanquishing an alleged substance abuse problem in 24 hours after a series of events too complicated to recount here)—and then put the light-heavyweight title, or anyway a light-heavyweight title, up for grabs between Cormier and Anthony "Rumble" Johnson, a notably awful person; in all, the real champion is the challenger here, and the fake challenger is the champion, and the two are fighting in July, specifically, because UFC figurehead Dana White and his bosses want to make the point that no fighter, no matter how popular, is too big to be subordinated to the UFC and its imperatives; for all that, this is an excellent thing because the fake champion is the true no. 1 contender for Jones's non-existent championship by any measure, and while Cormier couldn't match Jones's stamina in the last bout, Jones has been powerlifting recently, which has cut down on his own stamina and may lead to this being a straight test of technique, intelligence, and heart, one in which Cormier wouldn't be favored, but could win.
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I am very conservative in real life: Deepika PadukoneDec 19, 2015 IANS
Mumbai, Dec 18 (IANS) Actress Deepika Padukone, who depicts the role of Mastani in the forthcoming historical romance film "Bajirao Mastani", says she doesn't endorse the character personally as she is very conservative in real life.
Mastani, a Muslim lady, was a court dancer with whom Bajirao fell in love and married later.
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Brad Pitt & Angelina Jolie: How They're Working Together To Give Kids 'Structure & Stability'
Co-parenting at its finest! HollywoodLife.com has EXCLUSIVE details on how exes Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are working together to give their six adorable children 'structure and stability.'
Brad Pitt, 53, and Angelina Jolie, 42, will always put the kids first. Keeping the family together in the middle of a divorce can't be smooth sailing at all times, but these two power parents are making the necessary sacrifices. "They're both cutting back on acting commitments," a source tells HollywoodLife.com EXCLUSIVELY. "Brad is more concentrated on producing while Angie is more focused on directing. They will still act in the occasional project if it catches their interest, but they're more interested in being behind the camera these days. Above all, they want to be able to spend more time with the children even if it means leaving the spotlight for a bit."
Don't worry guys, the Mr. & Mrs. Smith stars will always be the epitome of Hollywood. They're not going anywhere far. "The kids are growing up so fast, and given the traumatic events of the past year, Brad and Angie want to provide them with as much stability and structure as possible," the source continues. "Brad misses his old home life so much, it breaks his heart not being able to see the kids every day. But, he's making the most of the time he does get with them, and he's working on slowly building bridges with Angie."
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Ka Oca of the Coconut Industry Reform Movement (COIR) appeals to lawmakers for the passage of a measure on the implementation of the Php71 billion coconut levy fund that would benefit small coconut farmers during the roundtable discussion on the coco levy fund held Tuesday (April 7, 2015) at the University of Asia and the Pacific (UA&P) in Ortigas, Pasig City. Also in photo is Dr. Rolly Dy of the UA&P who host the event. (PNA photo by Rico H. Borja)


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Attitude and Motivation towards a Working Language: Case of East Timorese Students in the Philippines
This study explores the attitude and motivation of ten East Timorese students in the Philippines towards English, one of East Timor's two working languages. Five themes corresponding to the research questions emerged from the semi-structured interviews conducted in this qualitative study: (1) English as a favored language, (2) English as an indicator of competence, (3) English as a vehicle for communication, (4) English as an edge in the workplace, and (5) English as a global/international status marker. Results point to the participants' favorable attitude toward English because of its value as a linguistic tool, an instrument in the achievement of personal and career goals, and a utilitarian language. Based on a proposed four-fold typology, the researcher found that the participants are driven because of their favorable attitude and instrumental motivation toward English. The results challenge EFL teachers to consider the difference between English taught as a foreign language and English learned as a foreign language, as the former is conservative and to a certain extent prescriptivist, whereas the latter takes into account the attitudinal and motivational aspects of language learning which are a necessary component of any successful learning of a language.
Keywords: English in East Timor; language attitudes; language motivation; typology; working language
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I think Andrey is not alive already. The stakes were too high in the game in which the computer genius mixed up because of his avarice. The team with whom he worked is probably also liquidated. And this is the reason why I decided to publish this mysterious and strange article. And I would like to emphasize that I don't assert anything, I just tell facts and enumerate strange coincidences that developed into the awful chronology. God save the soul of Andrey and the souls of victims perished in the WTC disaster.
He called me in May 2001 and asked for an appointment. When we met in a cafe in Moscow's Arbat Street, he introduced himself as Andrey. He was a tall dark-haired young man with his left brow nervously twitching. Andrey waved the smoke of my cigarette aside with disgust and spoke in a rather confused manner. At first, it seemed he was an ordinary madman with some defects connected with his passion for technique. But as the conversation proceeded I realized the man was sane. And some of the facts Andrey nervously told me were further confirmed with events that actually happened. And now, when the man is very likely not alive, I think I have a right to tell about our conversation.
- You see, I am a hacker. But I'm a hacker of the upper ten, to be more exact, an informal leader of a group consisting of highly qualified hackers. We can crack absolutely everything; I think there is hardly a safety system that could resists us. Some of the team live in Russia and others abroad. We know majority of the team by nicknames only.
First of all, how can you prove that you are the leader of a super hacker group? And second, even if it's so, why do you need me, investigating journalist?
It is quite easy to prove I'm a hacker. Take the disk and have a look, there are lots of interesting things on it. (I opened my laptop and was extremely surprised to see some of my personal files with dossiers on Kremlin officials, there was also my confidential electronic correspondence on the disk). It is no problem to crack your home computer. Before calling you, I looked into your computer. And your second question why I need you requires a very long answer and probably sounds absolutely crazy. But the life will clear things up.
Andrey and I talked for several hours. And not to waste time, I will give an abridged monologue of my interlocutor; I excluded computer terms, foul language and different digressions from the main topic.
- Within the past time me and the guys accomplished no trivial machinations, such like credit cards and money transfer from banks. We worked for influential clients, big businessmen, Russian oligarchs among them (certainly I won't mention the names, they are well-known people). We collected information; for instance, we could erase information from computers of competitors, download bank transactions documents, and so on. Several times I saw results of our work in newspapers. A couple of times we cracked servers of your colleagues in different editorial offices. And we were paid wonderfully for this work. But events that recently occurred seriously scared me.
A month ago, in the middle of April 2001, some men contacted me as a leader of a group of international hackers. I'm absolutely confident of my intermediaries, we have been getting orders through the people within the past two years. But that time the intermediaries violated the rules for the first time and organized a face-to-face appointment with prospective clients.
The appointment was in a restaurant; I saw four middle-aged men. One of them was of an Arabic appearance and two were Mongoloids (I cannot discern Japanese, Chinese and even Uzbeks from each other). The fourth man was Slav, and as I understood from his accent, he was an Ukrainian. The latter introduced himself as Igor and immediately asked if I could speak English. When I said that certainly we could speak English, he whispered something to the rest three men and said it was he who would to speak on behalf of the rest of the company. And it was an important condition to speak in English so that other men could understand as well.
The task the man were speaking about was as follows: my guys were to crack the network of a New York bank, a branch office of the bank was in one of the WTC towers. The bank's computer base was located there as well. My guys were to disperse themselves over different countries, hack the bank and transfer 1.5 billion dollars from the bank accounts to accounts of different offshore companies. At that, Igor said that we would get all necessary information about the bank: accounts, passwords, and so on. Obviously, a man from their group was working in the New York bank. For this work we were to get 5% of the sum that we would manage to transfer.
It is strange, but Igor warned me that we had five months for preparations; the operationwas to be held early in September 2001. One more fact worried me extremely at that moment: we were not asked for taking any particular security measures in the operation. Igor told me that nobody would seek for money or for us; he added that at that very period some events would happen which would exclude any possibility of finding hackers or money, not to mention the addressees who would get the money.
I was quite embarrassed with the information, but at the same time I had a strong wish to performthe last order and retire for taking up some serious work. Igor warned at once that if we refuse to take up the order we would have problems, as he and his partners revealed too many secrets to me. I agreed and said it was important to discuss the issue with my guys to start preparation for the operation. When Igor and I met next time he gave me an advance payment to cover our expenses, 50 thousand dollars. We needed money for moves, renting apartments and on equipment. When we work, we have to change places and even move from one country to another. When the work is over, we often have to destroy equipment with which the work was done.
And I decided to contact you, a journalist, because I seriously doubt that Igor and his people will keep us alive, as the sums involved in the machination are incredible. The other day I learnt that the people appealed to some more groups of hackers and made the same order, at that they paid money in advance as well. I think that 50 thousand dollars are an insignificant sum as compared with the money the people expected to transfer from New York. I think that Igor and his people wanted to act the following way: they hired several hacker teams (three or five) which start preparation for hacking of the bank; then Igor picks out only one of them, the best prepared one, the rest groups are to be liquidated to foul the trail.
I came to you because I'm scared; I don't understand how they will organize the events which, as they say, will guarantee our safety. I cannot even imagine what this can be as it is practically impossible to guarantee our safety. And I have some feeling that Igor is just a man of straw, there are some more influential people behind the plan. Probably these are the people whom I saw at our first meeting in the restaurant.
You see, if something happens to me, you can publish the story and people will understand. Let's have it this way: if I feel some serious danger I will send you some signal; let it be the word "digger".
In five months I practically forgot my meeting with Andrey; he never showed up and nothing extraordinary occurred since that time. Then September 11 came: WTC towers in New York collapsed in a moment. At first, I couldn't even imagine that the American tragedy might be somehow connected with the story told by my computer acquaintance. Next day I had a telephone call, it was Andrey, he almost cried: "Do you understand that they have dared to do it? Do you understand? I couldn't even guess, I had no idea…I'm on the other end of the planet, but they will find me all the same, they don't want me to be alive." End of connection.
I was awfully shocked at that moment: everything coincided, five months passed since we met with Andrey before the NY catastrophe occurred. The operation center of the bank Andrey spoke about was in one of the WTC towers. And it is quite natural that nobody will investigate how and where 1.5 billion dollars were gone from the bank as a result of the terrorist attack. Everything coincided.
Certainly I cannot affirm that the New York blasts were connected with activity of the hackers and a criminal group who wanted to steal (or probably even did it) 1.5 billion dollars. But several coincidences put a number of questions, to some of them I still have no answers. It is unlikely that I may get them one day.
Seven months later after that I had no more proofs to confirm or to refute the above mentioned story. But in the middle of April 2002 something strange occurred to me and I decided to publish the story. Someone cracked my home computer and embedded a virus destroying the system and the programs. The computer went mad. It seemed to be an ordinary failure, but my every attempt to repair the computer was in vain: the only one word "digger" came up to the screen of my computer constantly. The word was the code Andrey promised to send me if something happened to him.
There were several Russian highly qualified computer specialists working in American commercial and bank structures who died in the 9/11 tragedy in the WTC towers.
Oleg Lurier, KurierWeb
Translated by Maria Gousseva
Read the original in Russian: https://www.pravda.ru/science/35602-hasker/
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Just received the latest trailer for Hercules: The Legend Begins (2014) and noticed the latest TV spot for Grudge Match (2013), which I thought I'd also update fans of Manly Movies with. So… this Hercules movie. It's directed by Renny Harlin (Die Hard 2, Cliffhanger) and it has one of the Expendables 3 noobies (Kellen Lutz). Supposedly… "When prince Hercules learns of his real identity, he must choose to flee with his true love – Hebe, Princess of Crete – or to fulfill his destiny by overthrowing the tyrannical rule of the king and restoring peace to a land in hardship." This could go either way, I like the Gladiator/300 hybrid feel and the fact that it's Renny Harlin, but there's some nasty CGI backgrounds in there.
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