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To start with, I want to endorse Jeff Dunn's recent rant on iMonk. He said this: "Jesus is not a self-help guru. He is not interested in you becoming a better person. He could not care less with you improving in any area of your life. Because in the end that is your life. Yours. And he demands you give it to him. All of it. An unconditional surrender. He did not come to improve you, or encourage you, or spur you on to bigger and better things. He came to raise the dead. And if you insist on living, then you're on your own.â€
This is not just true, it is important, even crucial.
AND – not but, AND – I am going to expand our consideration of the Christian life. It's still true, as Jeff said, that in ourselves we are dead in our sins. Any program we subscribe to is just prettying up a corpse. Any program that's offered as a substitute to being born again into the new life of Christ is a highway to hell.
I now want to take up the Christian life at Chapter Two. Chapter Two is that part of the Christian life that comes as we are resurrected into union with Jesus. It's the life that we live once we've staggered out of the tomb and begun struggling with our winding sheets. It can be a pretty long chapter. Most of us are not like the thief on the cross, whose literal and spiritual death and rebirth happened in the course of an afternoon. Most of us are going to live for years being remade into the image of Christ. We are going to strive for "a long obedience in the same direction.â€Â (I love that phrase, although it was Nietzsche who first said it, not Eugene Peterson.) Infused with our new life, we are going to have to work, to train and exercise and perform acts of goodness.
Yes, I know. I've been told many times by evangelical Christians that grace is all that is necessary to the Christian life. In a way that's true. Our resurrection from sin is grace, pure and simple, radical, appalling grace. But when I was younger, many of the Christians I knew stopped there. They said nothing substantial about the life we were to lead as resurrected Christians, about how grace works after we have begun the journey.
As a consequence, I spent years with nothing to do. I felt that I had been issued a ticket to Salvation and now I was supposed to sit on the platform and wait for the train. Oh, I could read a bit, and there were some fellow passengers to chat with, but it was an odd, in-between life nonetheless. I was marking time between the two important realities of the spiritual life: becoming a Christian (receiving the ticket) and going to heaven (getting on the train.) And there was no plan that I could see for the long years on the platform.
I wondered, could I walk ahead down the tracks for a bit? No, church people told me, I might miss the train, and besides, I'd never get to Salvation by my own efforts so there was no point trying. Could I go do some other things in the town I'd left until the train came? No, stay with your fellow travelers and stop thinking that there's anything you can DO.
Well, I'd ask, what's Salvation like, anyhow? Is there any way I can prepare myself? Some exercises, maybe, or a course of study? The answer always seemed to be "Sit there and read your Bible.â€Â But I've read it! "Then read it again.  And wait for the train. Oh, and whatever you do, don't lose your ticket.â€
I was bored. Bored to the point of falling off the platform in a stupor and landing on the rails. One more Bible study video course did nothing for me. One more women's prayer group, pleasant though it was, failed to bring light to my grey existence. The sermon series, the parenting series, all the programs Jeff was talking about, became about as life-changing as the billboards on the train platform. Is this all there is? I had thought that the Christian life was hard, and challenging, and important, and occasionally (dare I say it?) fun. But it was just a safe, dull, dimly-lit waiting area. If this was the Kingdom of Heaven, then maybe Talking Heads was right: heaven is a place where nothing ever happens.
I don't want to blame any particular church or denomination for my doldrums. I wouldn't be surprised to find that other people in the church I attended at that time were leading exciting, growth-filled lives while I was just sitting around.
But I am going to ask this question again: Isn't the Christian life supposed to be hard, and challenging, and important, and, occasionally, fun? Were The Narnia Chronicles, the lives of the saints, The Divine Comedy, and Pilgrim's Progress all lies?
Part of the reason for the exaggerated passivity of some Christians is an extreme attitude about the relationship between our own sinfulness and God's grace. Because we can do nothing toward our own salvation, these extremists counsel, we should do nothing at all, even after being saved. All healthy, outgoing activities, like fasting, pilgrimage, or acts of mercy, they would immediately quash, because in doing those things we might mistakenly think we can impress God or change his mind. I've heard and read a lot of that and found it baffling and discouraging. Welcome to Christianity. Here's your seat. Don't move.  Blah.
Well, I don't want to be driven by wretched urgency. I strive to avoid the sort of pride that assumes that God can't get the world saved without my input. But I still want to do something with my life. I want to begin the eternal journey of obeying what Jesus commands, to begin being perfect. Not in order to be perfect in the abstract, but to be like him, and to be with him.
I want to be prepared – for life with God, for heaven, for the Judgment whenever it comes. I am delighted that I can trust in God's mercy. Now I want to do something in response. A scene from Anne of the Island, the third of the Anne of Green Gables books, has stuck with me for years. Anne is talking with Ruby, a dying schoolmate, who says, "I'm not afraid but that I'll go to heaven, Anne. I'm a church member. But – it'll be all so different. . . .Heaven must be very beautiful, of course, the Bible says so – but, Anne, it won't be what I've been used to.â€Â   And Anne makes a resolve. "It must not be with her as with poor butterfly Ruby. When she came to the end of one life it must not be to face the next with the shrinking terror of something wholly different – something for which accustomed thought and ideal and aspiration had unfitted her. . . .The life of heaven must be begun here on earth.â€
I'm reminded of when I was preparing to go overseas with Peace Corps. Many of us volunteers did lots of preparation. We bought practical gear, read books, worked out, took a first aid class, talked to people who had lived where we were going, got our finances in order – we worked hard. None of our work made our departure date come any sooner, of course, but it did have two benefits. First, it gave us a purpose and a joy while we were waiting; second, it prepared us for the new life we were going to face. In fact, in a small way we began living the new life even before it had entirely arrived. Other volunteers did no work in advance but only threw some things in a bag the day before they left. Most of them didn't stick it out. Most of the prepared ones did.
Or if you prefer a biblical illustration to a personal one, think of Cornelius. He did not yet have in its complete form the faith that comes by hearing. God in his grace sent Peter to tell him the Good News and to baptize him. But Cornelius is described as "devout and God-fearing; he gave generously to those in need and prayed to God regularlyâ€Â (Acts 10:2).  He was beginning to live the life of God. And God's messenger told him, "Your prayers and gifts to the poor have come up as a memorial offering before God.â€Â His works didn't save him and were no substitute for grace and the Good News, but they were pleasing to God, and in doing them Cornelius began down the path that Grace had laid for him.
It's true, that sometimes we need to be reminded about "being,†not "doing.â€Â But that isn't the only imperative of the Christian life. It can't always be evidence of weak faith or overweening pride to "do.â€Â Consider the parable of the talents recounted in Matthew 25:14-30. Let's face it: the first two servants did something with what they were given. They weren't earning their position as servants, because they were already members of the Master's household. But he had left them alone for a long time – had left them in an in-between time, between joining the household and receiving their reward. They didn't just sit around and talk about their unworthiness to work and therefore, indirectly, the Master's unworthiness to be worked for. They worked with what they had been given, in order to achieve something for their Master. The third servant, on the other hand, resented the supposed arbitrary nature of the Master and buried his money. He did nothing.  And his reward was nothing.
I know God needs nothing from me. I love Milton's "On His Blindness,†and I'll stand and wait if that's the action God requires. But while I'm waiting I want to prepare myself for the place I'm going. I want something hard, and challenging, and important, and fun.
I want training. The Greek word for training is askesis. We get the English word asceticism from it. Asceticism is the training of the Christian athlete for the Christian life, now and in eternity. If we haven't tossed out all Christian tradition, we can see that the last two thousand years have provided us with a wealth of wisdom about how – and how not – to practice askesis. Asceticism doesn't just mean hair shirts and flagellation. I think you'll find, as I am beginning to, that the ascetic disciplines are hard, challenging, important, and, oddly, fun.
I'd like to come back to this idea of Christian training in subsequent posts. I won't be the first to be saying any of these things – which is good, because I have no intention of being original. Richard Foster, St. Teresa of Avila, St. Benedict, Brother Lawrence, St. Isaac of Syria, John Bunyan, Mother Teresa – all of them could say it better than I, in life as well as in words. But over the next few weeks I will add my voice to the chorus, in homage at least. Some of the ascetic disciplines I'd like to touch on will be ones outlined by St. Benedict in his Rule: humility, obedience, silence, chastity, prayer, work, stability, poverty, and hospitality.
I can't say much about how to practice these disciplines, since I am a neophyte myself. I can, I hope, offer encouragement to other Christians to consider them – to you Christians who are tired of sitting on the platform, who have always secretly hoped that there would be dragons to kill, quests to fulfill, journeys to struggle through, and acts of love and mercy to perform; you who hope to hear "Well done, good and faithful servant!†when the Master returns, not "You wicked and lazy servant!â€
There is work for the Christian to do. We can't just sit on the platform waiting for our train to come in. In fact, let me let you in on a secret. There is no platform. You're already on your journey.  We all are. The question is just where you're going and how prepared you'll be when you get there. Pack well. Count the cost. As long as it is day, we must do God's work; night is coming, when no one can work.
L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1915. pp. 140 and 144.
The Holy Rule of St. Benedict, 1949 Edition. Translated by Rev. Boniface Verheyen, OSB, of St. Benedict's Abbey, Atchison, Kansas. Electronic text (with added scripture references) prepared by Br. Boniface Butterworth, OSB.


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MONTREAL — The police in Longueuil have opened a file to find the perpetrator of a hate note against a couple flying the rainbow flag.
The couple came home late Sunday to find a note on the door of their apartment in Vieux-Longueuil concerning a flag hanging on the balcony. The rainbow flag has become the symbol of the LGBT community.
"We don't want a person of your type in our community" is the rough translation of the French wording of the handwritten note on a lined pad page.
"Take it down, be quiet and you will be spared. And you can live your abominable life without prejudice."
Police were called and the elements of intimidation and threats are enough to open a file, a spokesperson said.
"It wasn't even visible from the street, this was on the back balcony facing the parking lot," said Longueuil police officer Gyslain Vallières.
"Thankfully, there is not a lot of this kind of intimidation in our community but this is how it starts," the officer said. "This is 2014."
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According to the 2019 US Census Bureau, Delaware has a total population of 973,764 people across the state. With a calculation combined with percentages from the Yang-Tan Institute on Employment and Disability at the Cornell University ILR School (2015), the prevalence of disability for working-age people (ages 21 to 64) in Delaware may affect 27.7 percent of the minority families in the state. I am expanding a phone app for multilingual health coaching to address the need for support in culturally competent ways.
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PORT SAINT JOE, Fla (WMBB)–An arrest has been made in a Gulf County murder investigation. One man was killed, and the shooter is still on the loose.
Sheriff Mike Harrison says it happened Monday morning.
The suspect, Stephen Smith, 25, of LaGrange, Georgia shot and killed Daniel Upton, 30, of Lakeland, Florida.
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The Groundbreaking BIPOC Actors Who Pioneered Diversity In Hollywood
Since the 1920s, BIPOC actors have worked extraordinarily hard to carve a space for themselves within Hollywood. In the early years of the industry, Black performers often found themselves cast in roles that were based on harmful stereotypes. Appallingly, some, like Butterfly McQueen and Hattie McDaniel, found they couldn't even attend the premieres of their films when they were hosted in "whites-only" theatres. Lincoln Perry, born in 1902 in Key West, Florida, is widely considered to be the first African American movie star. Performing under the stage name Stepin Fetchit, Perry was born to a Jamaican father and Bahamian mother. As an adolescent, he sang and tap danced, travelling around the US with carnivals.
Following his move to Los Angeles in the 1920s, a talent scout for Fox Studios offered him a screen test, heralding his entry into Hollywood. Over his career, Perry worked on more than 40 movies, receiving a contract with Fox to appear in the studio's films as a featured entertainer. His pinnacle of fame occurred in the 1930s, when he notably became the first Black actor to become a millionaire. Pretending to be "The Laziest Man On Earth" to make audiences laugh, Perry played a similar character in multiple films. Beginning in the 1930s, civil rights leaders harshly condemned Perry's representations, criticising him for promoting racist stereotypes.
During this period, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was lobbying to get film studios to give equal pay and billing to Black and White actors, and to stop portraying Black people damagingly. Perry was denied equal pay and billing from Fox, and left Hollywood by 1940. In his later life, during a 1968 interview, the actor said, "Just because Charlie Chaplin played a tramp doesn't make tramps out of all Englishmen, and because Dean Martin drinks, that doesn't make drunks out of all Italians… I was only playing a character, and that character did a lot of good." Even considering the controversies that surround Perry's legacy, many agree that he opened a door for Black actors in Hollywood.
The achievements of African American actors in cinema continued to be a monumental climb. Pioneers like Dorothy Dandridge, Lena Horne, Harry Belafonte, Ruby Dee, Sammy Davis, Jr, Butterfly McQueen, Diahann Carroll, Pearl Bailey, Louise Beavers and Lillian Randolph were all critical in the representation of of BIPOC bodies and lives on screen. Despite their success, in the Academy Awards 89-year history, less than 40 acting accolades have been offered to African Americans, the majority of which were awarded in the past decade. A child of two slaves, Hattie McDaniel became the first African American ever to win an Oscar in 1940. Portraying the head slave Mammy in David O. Selznick's Gone with the Wind, McDaniel was forced to accept her award for Best Supporting Actress in a racially segregated hotel.
In 1964, Sidney Poitier became the first Black man to win the coveted Best Actor prize for his role in Lilies of the Field. Poitier's first credited film role was Dr. Luther Brooks, a Black doctor who treats a bigoted white criminal, in No Way Out, 1950. The movie established a significant pattern both for Poitier himself and for the Black actors who followed him; by refusing roles that played to racial stereotypes, Poitier pushed the restrictive boundaries set by Hollywood and made inroads into the American mainstream. Almost 40 years would pass until Denzel Washington became the second African American actor to win an Oscar. In 1990, he won the Best Supporting Actor award for his role as a defiant Civil War soldier in Glory. Washington made history again in 2002, with his Best Actor win for Training Day, making him the first African American to have won multiple Oscars.
While some believe that the institution of Hollywood has truly changed, with BIPOC actors like Halle Berry, Morgan Freeman, Octavia Spencer, Lupita Nyong'o, Viola Davis and Mahershala Ali, among others, making an enormous impact on the film industry and Academy, and directors such as Spike Lee and Tyler Perry, who cast all African American films, becoming household names, there remains a long way to go. Still relevant today, as Manohla Dargis and A.O. Scott wrote in their hotly discussed 2011 The New York Times article, "Race in American cinema has rarely been a matter of simple step-by-step progress. It has more often proceeded in fits and starts, with backlashes coming on the heels of breakthroughs, and periods of intense argument followed by uncomfortable silence."
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Nick Jivkov claimed victory over an Iowa state record 426-player field to bank $104,974 at Mid-States Poker Tour Meskwaki Casino. The win counts as the second-biggest score of Jivkov's live career after his 2012 World Series of Poker bracelet win in Event #5: $1,500 Pot-Limit Hold'em. The Des Plaines, IL, native exorcised an old demon, as he finished runner-up to Terry Ring at Meskwaki back in 2013.
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Notable Finishes: Phil Mader (11th - $5,341), Ralph Massey (15th - $4,108), Todd Breyfogle (26th - $2,547), Nick Pupillo (41st - $2,054), Nik Stone (42nd - $2,054)
Both players began Day 2 among the top 20 stacks, but it was Lang who quickly asserted himself and grabbed a commanding chip lead when he took a monster pot on a flop. An opponent shoved all in with the , only to be shown the by Lang. That gave Lang more than 400,000 in Level 16 (2,000/4,000/500).
Lang continued to increase his chip lead over the field as notables such as Rodger Johnson, James Mackey, former MSPT Meskwaki champ Jonathan Olson, European Poker Tour winner Tim Vance, "Minneapolis" Jim Meehan, and Joe Illingworth fell before the money. When Jeremy Dresch got lucky and hit a flush to burst the bubble, the remaining players found themselves in the money.
Once there, Nick Pupillo was an early victim of bad luck as Lang put a bad beat on him. Others following Pupillo to the payout desk included Nik Stone, Todd Breyfogle, Yossi Azulay, Jeff Bryan, and Ralph Massey.
Lang, meanwhile, pushed the issue with overcards one time too many and dumped his chip lead when he jammed a ten-high flop with only to be snapped off by Andy Van Blair's . Soon thereafter, Phil Mader got the last of his chips in with the and was run down by the of John Reading, and the final table was set with Ken Rosheisen toting a chip lead and Jivkov narrowly trailing in second. Lang was in the danger zone with just 11 big blinds, and the average stack at this point was still relatively small, around 20 big blinds.
The comeback began for Lang when he was able to outdraw Robert Noe's by hitting a boat with the all in preflop.
Jivkov, meanwhile, rocketed to the top of the counts when Brandon Smith shoved all in from early position for 275,000 and was called by Jivkov in the hijack. Van Blair then shoved for about 450,000 in the blinds, and Jivkov called.
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No more jacks remained in the deck, but the worst hand quickly became by far the best as the flop brought , giving Jivkov a nearly unbeatable flush. The turn meant the hand was done, and a finished the board out, eliminating Van Blair in ninth and Smith in 10th.
A miniscule-stacked Noe was next to go in eighth, sparking a flurry of eliminations as he was quickly followed by Day 1a leader David Gutfreund in seventh and Dresch in sixth.
Another major boon followed for Jivkov when his three-bet of a Reading open prompted the latter to shove all in for about 900,000 during Level 27 (25,000/50,000/5,000). Jivkov quickly called with the and discovered he'd been shoved on light by an inferior . No help materialized for Reading.
Lang then turned to ladies to leap up the counts, first shoving over a button open from Rosheisen, who held the , and then three-betting another button open from Darren Ficek, who had the second-best position of holding . He also failed to catch against the queens, ending his tournament in fourth.
Three-handed play lasted 15 minutes, and that's when Jivkov finally made a misstep. He completed the blind, and Rosheisen made it 260,000 to go. Jivkov announced he was all in, and Rosheisen quickly called off his stack of about 2 million.
Jivkov muttered that a miracle was needed, but he didn't have to wait long as the flopped. A turned, and Jivkov's rail called for a queen. Instead, it was the on the river — just as good — and Rosheisen could only shake his head in disappointment.
Heads-up play progressed slowly for a while as each player held small leads, but neither could take real command. The two combatants seemed content to tread water, mostly trading blinds, until a limped pot proved to be the decider. Jivkov checked from the big blind on a flop, and Lang over-bet the pot with 200,000 into 180,000. Jivkov came back with 500,000, which was met by an all-in shove. Jivkov called without much hesitation, tabling the for a flush, which was well ahead of Lang's . When Lang failed to improve, he was left crippled, and Jivkov finished him the next hand.
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Check into your hotel. The rest of the day is free for you to explore Italy's ancient capital using your CosmosGO app. This evening, meet your Tour Director and fellow travelers.
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Williams boys battle back to play in today's state championship game
A potentially back-breaking own-goal trickled into the Williams High School net and with it Jacksonville tied the Bulldogs with 22 minutes to play in the Class 3-A East Regional final Tuesday night.
One thing immediately came to Williams midfielder Chris Gutierrez's mind.
"I was just thinking of 2008 when (coach Jeremy Krist) had his team (in Burlington) against Jacksonville and him talking about the own goal (in that game)," Gutierrez said. "That's like history repeating itself. Then I realized we had to step up our game."
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These Bulldogs were unbothered, sticking to their game and finding a way.
"The boys, they don't drop their heads. You can hear a couple of boys saying, 'It's all right. Let's go. We got this. There's plenty of time left,' " Krist said. "Typically, when you're holding on, people are always looking at the clock, and in this case they are, but they're looking at that as we have time to get it back, which is a nice feeling."
Brennan Lagana answered the call, slotting a free kick into the top left corner of the net with 8:46 to play. It provided the game-winning goal in a 3-2 victory that sent the Bulldogs to today's Class 3-A state championship game against Charlotte Catholic at Koka Booth Stadium at WakeMed Park in Cary.
"We didn't put our heads down. We just focused more on scoring another one. We never gave up," Williams forward Jorge Alfaro said. "We scored an own-goal but that doesn't mean we can give up. We kept fighting and fighting until we got another one."
How would Gutierrez, a senior on this season's team, know about a 2008 game?
It happened earlier that day on the 3-plus-hour bus ride to Jacksonville.
"I was telling a story. Our alumni come back a lot, and they take bus trips with us, so I'm always telling kids stories to try to keep building the tradition. I was telling the story of the game, about how I thought we were the better team in 2008, how they had the state Player of the Year," Krist said. "How I thought we handled him as best as we could. I was just telling the details of the story and that we've just got to fight. It's absolutely crazy."
Jacksonville ended up winning that 2008 game by a 2-1 final score, advancing to the state championship game where it lost to Charlotte Catholic, of all teams.
"In the exact same fashion that we had (Tuesday night). Ball is hit in from distance, keeper is behind it, because it's got a few seconds to get there," Krist said. "At the last second, and you can't blame him for doing it, and it hits him and goes the opposite direction. The keeper tries to plant to get there and just can't get there."
Charlotte Catholic enters the state championship undefeated with a 25-0-2 record.
"I think they play a super offensive kind of game," Krist said. "They've got at least one forward that's a stud. They've got a bunch of pace like Jacksonville. They've got a center back that's really good. I think it should be a good match."
That type of opposing style has suited Williams well thus far during its playoff run.
"We've played three straight playoff games against teams that play exactly the way Catholic does," Krist said.
To win it all has always been the goal, Williams players said. Now the time is here.
"We're so happy about it," Alfaro said. "We're still in the mindset that we're going to win it and that's all we think about."
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This report captures what was shared at an October 2019 Conference about the challenges of teaching social and emotional learning (SEL) in afterschool programs. It provides a brief history of the growing focus on SEL, along with a summary of remarks by national leaders.
This report is the third edition that investigates how the early childhood education (ECE) field is cultivating leaders within the field. Based on a survey, it examines the role of 57 self-identified leadership development programs in supporting staff learning of leadership skills.
Shaping Summertime Experiences: Opportunities to Promote Healthy Development and Well-Being for Children and Youth
This report examines evidence on outcomes and the effectiveness of summer experiences for youth on academic learning, social and emotional development, physical and mental health, and safety.
With an emphasis on equity and inclusion, this white paper outlines promising practices for engaging families in STEM as a means of increasing youth participation and retention in STEM pathways. Parents play a critical role in engaging youth in STEM activities and careers, especially for girls, youth of color, low-income youth, and youth with disabilities.
State Priorities for Child Care and Development Block Grant Funding Increase: 2019 National Overview
This report summarizes findings of a Child Trends survey to learn how states are using the additional federal funds to expand services for eligible children and implement CCDBG Reauthorization requirements.
This guide compares purpose, structure, content, and technical properties of assessment tools for out-of-school time programs.
This classic report clarifies the cost of quality out-of-school time programs, based on data from 111 quality programs in six cities. It provides the mean and range for hourly and daily cost per slot, with an analysis of factors that bring differences to cost.
This resource provides a review of tools that programs can use to measure youth outcomes. The outcomes selected include communication, relationships and collaboration, critical thinking and decision-making, initiative, and self-direction. The review includes cost and evidence of reliability and validity.
This report aims to challenge the prevailing discourse about Black children from one that overemphasizes limitations and deficits to one that draws upon strengths, assets, and resilience.
Through a survey, this research study explored what Out-of-School Time (OST) program staff need in order to feel better prepared to support the inclusion of school-aged children with special needs in their programs. Results indicated that professional development on inclusion is key to success. These findings can inform policy and programmatic decisions on professional development.


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I'm preparing material for a new talk and want to ensure that the way I talk about typical clients resonates with as many accountants in the audience as possible.
One thought I've had is to use the following broad groupings:
- Complex clients - those that require advice to resolve issues on a regular basis
- Ambitious clients - those that recognise they benefit from your business advice
- Typical OMBs - the majority of 'Owner Managed Business' clients
- Sole traders, consultants, contractors - those swapping their time for money and whose growth is therefore limited by the hours available.
Should I expand this list to allow for other client types? Could I reference these groups in better ways?
NB: This is quite a distinct approach as compared with ABCD client types I have referenecd before:
- A = Best clients (however you define them)
- B = Those with the potential to become A clients
- C = Those who are no trouble but are unlikely to become A clients
- D = Those you'd rather not act for.
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For us we simply have:
- clients, and
- former clients.
All our clients follow a similar "mould", and if they grow too much we recommend they move on.
With those who are clients, we assist with everything. Have been burnt in the past with clients who do their own X & Y, and just require our assistance with Z. Inevitably when we come to do Z we uncover issues with X/Y which then need unpicking.
Only clients we have who don't fit the mould are legacy clients from the early days where they've been keen to stay and we've kept them on for both nostalgia and as bit of variety for staff.
I like the idea of nostalgia clients, could also embrace
collecting some vintage or antique ones.
To be honest I would love some decent size manufacturing clients, ideally with a bit of tech and a lot of plant to look at and watch, something that converts say sheets of metal into whatever.
These days (being Edinburgh) I see none of that type of work whereas as an apprentice in Glasgow I was far more exposed to interesting accounting records, challenges re stock costing etc though I doubt even Glasgow has that much left now as it all seems to be business parks these days.
Edit- above has also now brought on a hankering for a good old fashioned car dealership with sales, trade ins, servicing, fuel and with commissions earned on nearly everything.
Irritants, non-irritants.
My clients are all a variation on compliance. Compliance is a high element with each client. I generally don't have rapidly growing clients.
Where would we be without a bit of categorisation?!
Looking at the OP's list, there could be overlap; e.g an ambitious client who is a 'Typical OMB.'
Following on from that, I think a distinction has to be made between different clients in terms of their attitudes and efficiency, and so on, in dealing with accounting issues arising, and their businesses in terms of complexities.
As a rough guide (and I have just picked the following categories out of the air), clients might be competent, passable, or incompetent. Businesses might be straightforward, complicated or highly complex.
It is then a case of matching client and business: e.g. competent client and complicated business; incompetent client and straightforward business; or, night-mare scenario, incompetent client and highly complex business.
Or exciting, interesting, boring re what they do.
So category one has lion tamers, category two has engineers with oily bits and category three has accountants.
Or exciting, interesting, boring re what they do.
What this demonstrates to me is generally people set up in accountancy for one of two reasons:
1) they love accountancy work. DJKL likely fits this. You want to be challenged, to come across different things you haven't seen before. You probably won't like delegating much, unless it's really dull/mundane stuff.
2) they want to build a business, and perhaps with limited creativity they opt to do it in accounting as that's their skill set. Generally these people will want to delegate as much as possible, systemise things, and specifically _not_ want variety, as that means complications.
Nope, I fought the law (parental choice) and for a change the law didn't win.
Accountancy was my fall back career, I was initially doing a BSc in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering,
for various reasons (well never ending simultaneous equations and I could not get my head around Kirchoff's laws and Thevenin's theorems for a start) I changed course and institution and ended up with an MA in humanities; this was not, of course,that popular with prospective employers in 1983 , "we are really not interested in your being able to compare the Miller's and Reeves tales with other fabliaux tales of the period/earlier" so career progression was limited.
So given parental disapproval (touch of deja vu here as my daughter is now > 6 months out of St Andrews and devoting herself to self scanning in Asda) at my chosen career of pouring (and drinking) a lot of beer I returned to uni for the joys of a PG conversion course into a relevant ( for ICAS) accountancy qualification (the essence of a degree but done in a year), something respectable but not law.
Accordingly I am hardly an accounting zealot , more one who arrived here by chance rather than by planning.
Self-employed lion tamers? Seriously?
It is often a very short career .
I use my universal traffic light rating system. This works for clients, pubs, hotels, towns, bands, pies etc etc.
Red = never again - you don't want this client
Amber = don't care either way whether they stay or go
Green = happy to continue acting
Ultimately it is a binary question, do you want the client or not?
I am not sure of the point of the broad grouping by type that you suggest. How would you use this info?
Mmmm, pies...
Priced Right - Good client who pays going rate and appreciates what you do, recommends you to others etc.
Priced Tight - Wants the basic service but squeezes you on price but pays on time.
Priced [***] - Wants champagne service for beer money, never refers, pays badly, thinks tax returns can only be done in January and expects 6 months credit.
24 hours on, I'm struggling to get rid of the image nicely provided by DJKL of "engineers with oily bits"!
I'm confused. Does the new classification 1 to 4 replace the old classification A to D?
Or are they to be used in conjunction eg A1, A2 etc all the way down to D4s? If the latter, will that require a pivot table?
Its obviously based on the new mini leagues for European football friendlies, my other half was trying to explain how it worked last night but I think I fell asleep.
Mark Lee is your other half?


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Maharshi Gets A New Release Date:- Superstar Mahesh Babu is shooting for Maharshi, a family entertainer directed by Vamshi Paidipally. The movie's shoot is taking place in Pollachi and will be wrapped up this week. The next schedule will take place in Abu Dhabi from the first week of February. Pooja Hegde is the heroine and Allari Naresh will be seen in a crucial role in Maharshi. The movie is made on a massive budget and has been announced for April 5th release.
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Roll a beeswax candle - Family Activity
Event Information
Wednesday 28th October 2020
When: 11am
Where: Abbey Museum
In this session you'll warm up your hands and learn how to role beeswax candle into a traditional shape including the wick from real beeswax sheets. Then why not colour in a badge template and using the badge maker, create your very own badge.
All included in admission price, no need to book.
This is a family activity; all children must be accompanied by an adult throughout the session.
This activity takes place on Wednesday 28th October between 11am-1pm in the abbey museum.


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LG 2019 TV Lineup Begins Rollout
LG Electronics announced that its 2019 premium TV lineup will begin its global rollout this week, hitting the U.S. and South Korean markets. Unveiled at CES 2019 earlier this year, the lineup includes advanced OLED and NanoCell TVs featuring LG's latest Alpha 9 Gen 2 intelligent processor and deep learning technology.
According to LG, demand for OLED TVs is expected to grow to 3.6 million units this year, 7 million units by 2020, and 10 million units in 2021. With those figures in mind, the Seoul-based manufacturer has structured its TV lineup in a way that ought to ensure its success as consumers more-frequently adopt the display technology.
"LG continues to push the boundaries of TV technological innovation, as can clearly be seen from our premium TV lineup for 2019," Brian Kwon, president of Mobile Communications and Home Entertainment companies, said in a statement. "LG's advanced AI technologies to improve picture and sound enrich and expand the viewing experience."
Rob Stott is corporate communications manager, Nationwide Marketing Group


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Dear LG Focus.
The potential ramifications of the $7 co-payment for Indigenous Australians, pensioners and low-income people have been widely canvassed but their dire implications for men's health have largely been ignored.
We all know how hard it is get men to the doctor's, even when they're obviously sick.
The proposed Medicare $7 co-payment puts another barrier in their way, especially when it comes to having a general check-up, something men are often reluctant to do.
Some men, it seems, would rather die than go to the doctor's and have their blood pressure, cholesterol, heart, weight and overall health checked out so yet another reason for men not to go for a check-up is of great concern.
I suffer from Type 2 diabetes, which I put down to lack of exercise and a poor diet some decades ago.
I was very physically active when I was younger, in fact for ten years back in New Zealand I rowed competitively.
Then I slowed down and did not take enough care of myself.
My diet wasn't anything to write home about either.
Now I'm on a mission to persuade men to look after their health. It's why I put my hand up for the Community Wellbeing Councillor Portfolio role at Wyndham City.
It's also why I'm keen to persuade a lot more men to sign up to Sons of the West, the Western Bulldogs initiative supporting men living and working in Melbourne's West to lead healthier lives.
Inspired by the example of Liverpool Football Club's successful men's health program, Western Bulldogs provided grants to five local government areas across the western region, including Wyndham City, for Sons of the West. The aim of this year's trial phase has been to involve approximately 2,000 men in a 12-week program run in each of the five local government areas.
Between 20–40 men in Wyndham have been turning up to the weekly sessions and taking part in exercises classes, edible gardening workshops, and healthy eating information sessions.
I'm hoping that a lot more Wyndham men will become involved as the program rolls out. Around 70 percent of men my age, 71, are overweight.
Men's health in Wyndham is below the state average.
We're less likely to be exercising sufficiently or eating enough fruit and veggies, an awful irony given that Wyndham's market gardens produce ten percent of Victoria's vegetable output.
Collectively we should all be opposing the $7 co-payment, no matter how we vote.
It's bad news for men's health across the board.
Councillor Bob Fairclough, Wyndham City Mayor
Dear LG Focus
A great August issue for those of us active on refugee and asylum seeker issues, well done!
You may like to encourage local government participation in this international initiative; see the 100 Resilient Cities Challenge.
Editors note: Since our last edition, Adelaide City Council has become the 100th Refugee Welcome Zone in Australia.