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What I Learned through This Journey and Some Parting Words
July 23, 2012 I started writing about a chapter of the Bible every day. I was about to enter my senior year at the University of Vermont. On October 24, 2015, the mission was complete. 1189 days in a row certainly didn't make me into a perfect Christian, but there are a few things that stood out to me on the macro level that I want to share with you now from this journey.
- God is at the center of it all.
I think that there is a certain temptation that we often fall into where the chief purpose of the Bible is to be a self-help book. I need a proverb to give me advice. I'm not sure that is quite true. The Bible is a very helpful book, but it doesn't seem like that is the chief purpose. Rather, it seems to me that the purpose of the Bible is to tell us the story of God. From the beginning of creation to the end of time, we hear about what God has done, is doing and will do. We hear this in the form of narrative, wisdom, poetry, prophecy, biography or parable.
This stood out to me as I looked at the various tags I have applied to each one of my posts every day. The top two are "God" and "Following God." The Bible was primarily written to tell us about God.
- We need to respond to that knowledge.
If the Bible was written to tell us the story of God from beginning to end, we need to figure out what that means. God has made Himself known to us, but that could ultimately not make a difference in our lives. After all, the Bible could be nothing more than a piece of fiction. If it is that, maybe it has some entertainment value or some interesting thoughts to consider, but it ultimately will not change our worldview.
However, the Bible itself does not really give us that option. It requires that we make a decision. Whether we are looking at Abraham being willing to sacrifice Isaac or Jesus claiming to be the Way, we are not called to complacency. Rather, we need to decide whether we are going to follow God or not.
God is at the center of it all, but it is not enough to simply recognize that He is the protagonist. Rather, the knowledge that we learned about God necessitates a decision about whether or not He is worth following or not. The Bible was written to tell us about God, but some of the things we learn force our hands. Romans 3:23 brings out the problem and John 3:16 emphasizes the solution. We need to act.
- We need to be willing to work.
One of the top tags as I was writing through the Bible turned out to be "Controversy." I did not break down how many times I used it as a descriptor of in-house debates between Christians or external debates with other religions, but there is plenty of controversy to go around when talking about the story of God.
I mention that in my highlights here because if the Bible is as controversial as I seem to think it is, then we're going to run into plenty of people who disagree with us. That should not be surprising. However, what that means then is that we need to be prepared to have these discussions. We need to learn why we believe what we believe. 1 Peter 3:15 speaks about having a reason for the hope that we have as Christians.
If there is controversy, then it also means that there are not always easy answers. We all agree on what color the sky is because the answer is easy. The Bible is a little bit more difficult. However, if the Bible also is the story of God and demands that we make a decision about whether or not God is one worth following, then we need to be willing to do this hard work.
Parting Words
I hope that this blog has helped you out as much as it has helped me out. I know that I have learned more about God by doing this, and I hope it has given you something to think about as well. I really appreciate everyone who has read, commented and shared over the years. You are all such an encouragement, and I appreciate the support.
I'm going to be taking a brief hiatus from the blogging world. As some of you know if you read my bio page, I am currently an online student at Houston Baptist University, and this spring I will be working on my Master's thesis before I graduate in May with my MA in Apologetics. Given the amount of time that I will need to dedicate to reading and writing for that endeavor, while I will probably still write and post on other outlets occasionally, I don't know that I will have the time to write on the regular basis that running my own website would require. Down the road though, I am sure I will have a new project, but I am still in the idea stage for anything like that.
If you remember nothing else I have ever written, please remember this:
God is the center of the Bible, and God is the center of history. Jesus Christ is the most important man who ever lived, and He is the one and only Savior. By believing in Him, anyone can have eternal life. It takes a decision, and it is easily the most important decision you will ever make. We all have to answer that same question that Pontius Pilate asked, "What shall I do then with Jesus who is called Christ?" What will you do?
Revelation 22: Finding Our Satisfaction at Last
Revelation 22 provides more evidence about the joy that is waiting for us when we to heaven. We hear about the river of life, and beautiful fruit trees that are going to heal the nations. There will be no more curse, and we are going to be serving God for all eternity. God will reign for ever and ever, and we will enjoy His presence forever.
Doesn't that evoke something within you? Doesn't that make you excited? It makes me feel like John as he closes out this book asking Jesus to return.
Rev 22:20 He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Rev 22:21 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.
CS Lewis wrote about this powerfully. He wrote about how remarkable it was that we have appetites and things that will satisfy those appetites. We're hungry, and there is food. We're thirsty, and there is liquid.
As you read about heaven here at the end of Revelation, I would hope that you felt the same kind of hunger I had for wanting to be in the presence of God. There is that appetite, and there is something that will satisfy. In fact, there's only one thing that will satisfy.
You might think that heaven is just a fantasy. It is just a daydream of people who want to escape from the misery of reality. They want to hope that there is some ultimate justice, so they create a place of perfection where all of the good will make up for all the evil present in our world today.
In closing, let me then suggest this thought in response to this kind of hypothetical explanation. As we have learned, Christianity rises or falls on whether or not Jesus Christ was who He said He was. If Jesus was indeed the Son of God, we then have His word that He is preparing a place for us. There are many dwelling places in the house of God. If He is who He says He is, then heaven is real. That's the bottom line.
If heaven is real, we're going to find that satisfaction. As followers of Christ, that appetite for the presence of God is going to be satisfied. Someone once said that if you would be happy in heaven without God there, then you probably will not be in heaven in the first place. As Christians, that is where our desire is at. Sure, beautiful places and golden cities are excellent things, but being with God is what it is all about. We fellowship with God here on the earth, and we're going to do it in person eternally.
Does it really get any better than that?
Revelation 21: Is Following God Worth It?
For many people around the world, it is not easy to be a Christian. It is a considerable sacrifice and risk. Some pay the ultimate price. It certainly makes you wonder then whether or not the entire thing is worth it. What could possibly justify not going along with the wide path of the world? Revelation 21 begins to give us a picture of that beauty.
Rev 21:2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
Rev 21:3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.
Rev 21:4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
As Christians, we believe that God is good. We believe that God is beautiful. In fact, St. Thomas Aquinas speaks about God as the ultimate in goodness in his famous five ways. God is the superlative of everything. He is not just good; He is the most good. He is not just beautiful; He is the most beautiful.
Living in the presence of perfection is something I simply cannot fathom, but look at the results it brings about. There will be no more sorrow or pain. Why would there be any reason for despair when we are in the presence of the all sufficient, perfect God?
I know that there are terrible things that happen on earth. I don't mean to diminish that whatsoever when I say this. No matter what evil we face on earth, it is a drop in the bucket as compared to the infinite perfection goodness of God that we are going to experience for all eternity.
I don't know about you, but as I read this passage, it is clear that it is worth it. Everything that we might go through because of our faith on earth is worth it. The finite troubles are no comparison to the infinite perfection. God is good, and living with Him eternally is going to be remarkable.
Revelation 20: Still about Faith
Revelation 20 brings us to the ultimate consequence of our belief in God. We have the judgment at the great white throne.
Rev 20:11 And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.
Rev 20:12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
Every one of us deserves to be judged by our works. That intuitively make sense. There are consequences to actions, and some of those have eternal repercussions. We all deserve eternal separation from God. If God is perfect, then we, as people who are not perfect, would not generally have access to God. After all, how can something imperfect enter into the presence of someone who is perfect?
Jesus Christ did that. Through his sacrifice, we are able to be saved. We're justified by our faith.
Eph 2:8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
Eph 2:9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.
That is where we see the difference at play here. We are not saved by our own works. In fact, being judged by our works alone leads to disastrous results.
Rev 20:15 And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
We need to be written in that book of life. We are saved through faith. It is so important to understand this concept. It is not enough to be a good person because I know many good people, but all of them have done things that are wrong. No one is perfect, and without the gift of salvation through faith in Jesus Christ, we are told that works are not enough. We're also told that we are going to be judged by our works. It is not as if God has changed the criteria from the time that Paul wrote Ephesians. It is impossible to have enough works, then we need something else are we are not going to see heaven. Faith is still what matters.
Revelation 17: The Blood of the Martyrs
Revelation 17 shows us what evil looks like, and we actually get some interpretation from one of the angels about what this vision means. While this obviously is not an attractive image, there is one thing that stands out that ought to be particularly troubling for Christians.
Rev 17:6 And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.
When people become drunk, it seems that there are a few general reasons why they might do that. They might really enjoy the beverage. Some people really enjoy the taste of alcohol, and they consume it to excess. If the woman portrayed here has that kind of appetite for the blood of the followers of Christ, it is naturally troubling.
Some people become drunk because they are addicted. They simply have become hooked on the consumption of alcohol, and it has become a habit for them. Similarly then in this situation, if this woman is addicted to the blood of martyrs, it is similarly tragic.
Why do I point both of these things out when there are interesting prophecies that we can talk about in this chapter?
No matter which of my thoughts above is accurate, or if neither one is accurate, an easy conclusion to draw is that there is an adversary, and this adversary has consumed plenty of the blood of the followers of Jesus Christ. We need to be aware. Jesus promised that those who followed Him would be hated that for His sake. From the first martyr, Stephen, to the final martyr who has not yet been challenged for his or her faith, there is an enemy who wants nothing more than the destruction of the people of God.
The good news however is that even though the adversary certainly can end lives here on earth, itcannot take us out of the hand of God, and Christians know that one of the rewards of the Christian faith is that to be absent from the body is to be present with God. Even with that knowledge though, thinking about all of those who have sacrificed their lives for the cause of Christ is difficult, and it does challenge me to think about what I would do in some of these situations.
Revelation 14: Corrupting Others
Revelation 14 begins speaking about Babylon. I know that some people view Babylon as being literally rebuilt and fallen, and some people will not take it as the literal city but more as a symbol. However, regardless of your perspective, look at what we learn about it.
Rev 14:8 And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.
Let's try to get a picture of the imagery here. Babylon has a cup full of wine. The wine is incredibly evil. Babylon has made other nations drink from that cup. Babylon is being punished.
This makes me think of the Garden of Eden. Satan convinced Eve to take the fruit from the tree. Eve and later Adam should not have done that. They should not have taken a drink from the cup to extend the metaphor. Obviously, they were punished for breaking the law of God, but Satan was punished as well for his role in the activity kind of like the way that Babylon is being punished here.
This of course raises questions about responsibility. It is wrong to lead someone to do something wrong even if you do not do it yourself. Babylon we know whether literal or metaphorical is a symbol of wickedness. However, in this particular passage, they are not being condemned for their own wickedness specifically. They are being condemned here specifically because they also corrupted those around them. Satan was evil before Adam and Eve fell, but he was specifically condemned in the relevant passage in Genesis for causing the corruption of Adam and Eve.
Of course, that raises questions for you and I as well. Are we helping those around us or are we driving them farther away? Through our actions and our speech, could we possibly be causing damage? We need to be careful here. Every person is certainly responsible for his or her own actions, but as followers of Jesus Christ, we would not want to do anything that would drive people away from Him. God does seem to appreciate that given these two examples.
Revelation 13: Choosing Your Side
Revelation 13 brings us to the beast. I know the interpretation of this can certainly vary depending on your eschatological views, but there is something that stands out to me about who the beast does not have control over.
Rev 13:7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.
Rev 13:8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
Rev 13:9 If any man have an ear, let him hear.
Rev 13:10 He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.
The world is going to fall in love with the beast, but those were following the Lamb will not be following this beast. In other words, it is not possible to be committed to two masters here. If you are following the beast, that is where you are putting your hope. If you are following Jesus Christ, your hope is in a different place.
Spoiler alert. God wins. As we recognize that there is this ultimate divide between those who are following what is right and those who are following what is wrong, think ahead to the end of the story even though we had not read it yet together. God is going to ultimately triumph and it is not going to end so well for the beast.
Therefore, we are faced with a choice. If what the Bible says is true, it should be rather obvious what side we want to be on. Don't we want to be on the one that leads to eternal joy rather than the one that leads to destruction? It seems rather clear to me.
Revelation 12: Our Adversary
Revelation 12 begins with a picture of a woman and a dragon. The woman is about to give birth, and the dragon wants to devour that child. The dragon also has an army which is at war with Michael the Archangel after the woman is taken away to hide in the wilderness for 42 months.
Rev 12:7 And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,
Rev 12:8 And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven.
Rev 12:9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
I am choosing to highlight this passage because of the one phrase in verse nine that speaks about how Satan has deceived the entire world. This stands out to me because I think that sometimes we think we are above deception. We think that we have everything lined up, and that can lead to a sense of idolatry. We can make ourselves into idols and forget about God which is never a good thing.
I don't remember who said it, but I have heard it said that the greatest deception Satan ever pulled off was convincing the world that he does not exist. In our society that is steadily losing a belief in the reality of good and evil, I have no doubt that Satan is thrilled. After all, now he is an acceptable alternative to God; he is simply just another choice. When people take away the idea that evil is wrong, evil is what wins.
Consequently, I know I did not talk much about the imagery of this chapter, but it seems highly significant to me to always keep in mind that we have an adversary who is smart. We have an adversary who has in fact deceived all of us; all of us have sinned at some point. We need to be careful that we are following God and make sure that that relationship is in the right place.
Revelation 9: In the Dark
It amazes me how stubborn people can be. In Revelation 9, the earth is not in a very good place. They have now been hit by terrible plagues, but there are still people who don't realize the error of their ways.
Rev 9:20 And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:
Rev 9:21 Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.
They have seen the horror around them, but they don't recognize the consequences of what they had done. They don't realize why all of this is happening, and as a result they remain in the darkness.
It makes me think of CS Lewis in The Last Battle. We read about the rebellious dwarf army. The constant refrain is that the dwarves are for the dwarves. Even though they see the world of Narnia falling apart around them, they choose to remain in darkness and remain stubborn.
It makes me think about our world today. If you think about all of the evidence we have that not only Jesus was who He said He was and also the evidence we have in creation that it seems incredibly improbable that everything happened by chance, God seems to be a probable hypothesis. However, some people are so bent on maintaining their naturalistic worldview that they dismiss where the evidence is actually pointing.
That is the challenge then that we face in the world around us. Even with all the evidence around them, there are people who are simply not going to believe. We simply have to be the best witness we are capable of being, and God will take care of the process of conviction.
Revelation 6: The Cry of the Martyrs
Now that we have established Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God, as the only one who is capable of opening the seven seals, Revelation 6 shows us what happens when the first six are open. The four Horsemen of the Apocalypse rode out as the first four were opened, the martyrs cried for justice as the fifth was open and a giant earthquake that literally rearranged the earth accompanied the six. I want to focus on the fifth seal.
Rev 6:9 And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:
Rev 6:10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?
Rev 6:11 And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.
This passage brings us to a somewhat sad conclusion. The martyrs who had been killed for believing in Jesus Christ ask for justice. However, it was said to them that justice would not be done until all those who were going to be killed were killed.
Martyrs are not a thing of the past. I think that in America it is so easy to take what we have for granted. I know there are legitimate concerns about religious freedom, and I don't want to discount that, but in general terms, it is relatively easy to be a Christian in the United States.
No matter what your eschatology, I think that this passage is interpreted in essentially the same way. Christians are going to be persecuted until the end of time. The number has not yet been accomplished. This ought to encourage us all the more then to pray for the persecuted church. There certainly will be justice in the end, so we don't need to worry about that. However, we can still pray for the strength of those who have to endure.


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Vastavam web: Veteran Pakistan goalkeeper Imran Butt has accepted that India have an edge going into the mouth-watering clash between the arch-rivals in the Commonwealth Games here tomorrow.Definitely India will have an edge as they have been playing a lot of hockey. Indian hockey is growing and so is its performance. But you can never predict the outcome of an India-Pakistan match as five minutes can change the whole scenario. It can be anybody's game then, Butt told Bhasha over phone from Gold Coast.
It will be a contest of how well you cope up with the pressure of this big encounter. Which ever team will control emotions and do not succumb to the pressure, will win. There will be counter to counter hockey and both the teams will have additional motivation to win, said the goalkeeper who is making a comeback in the team.Their last Commonwealth Games face-off happened in the 2010 Delhi edition where Indian won 7-2.Imran is confident that tomorrow's match will not be a one-side affair in favour of India.
I can only say that it is no way going to be a one sided match. It will be the best match of CWG . Although our target is not CWG and we are preparing for Asian Games so that we can qualify for Olympics. We will play India in the first match of Champions Trophy also so CWG will be a learning experience for our team, he said.Roelant has been with Indian hockey for a long time and has given his services to Pakistan hockey in the past. He has vast knowledge of Asian teams and he is in process of rebuilding the structure of our hockey, he said.He also opined that playing each other early in the tournament will benefit both the teams.

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World Respect Life Day 2013 - Head Girl's Address
Todd Atkins was one of the Republican senates campaigning with Mitt Romney, against Barack Obama, who was so pro-life he said that even if you've been raped or abused you should still respect life. After this statement, his popularity declined and because of the constant pressure, he had to quit the race. Today, my Christian Community, sometimes we may have to suffer in different ways to stand up for what is right.
Welcome again to this sensational event. Let me first say thank you for your civility and respect for life.
A quote from Tumblr.com says: "Respect Life and Life will respect you. Love life and life will shower blessings on you." How much do we value our lives? Who among us uses contraceptives? Who among us has had an abortion? Are these relevant questions? Are we going to point fingers today? We have to make individual choices to choose to preserve the precious present of life and encourage others to, despite their transgressions. My fellow citizens, the decision begins with us.
It has already been outlined for us: Respect God, respect ourselves and respect others, following the saying: "We must first respect ourselves in order to respect others." But what really is expected from us? My peers, let us understand that we must first stop and think of our actions. Are we promiscuous? Do we drive people to the suicidal cliff when we bully them? Do we overdose on drugs or alcohol? Do we commit to other immoral behaviours that can lead to detriment of our life and that of other?
I once heard on a movie: "We have to leave the life we planned to receive the life God has in store of us." Living means embracing Jesus, the Living Water and source of all life. It means accepting our uniqueness. It is said in Job 1:21, "the Lord gives and Lord takes."
When we are excessively sinful, life becomes unmanageable. Believe it or not, God gives us second chances. This year to promote peace, love and hope we have to have faith.We are given the opportunity to change into respectable members of society by our faith. Are we going to let it slip away?
And what should we do to show we respect our friends? Not giving into negative peer pressure, including promiscuity, pornography, bullying, possibly murder, abortion or substance abuse.
Using our talents to spread peace would be one of the most lucrative methods of showing our respect for life. God gives everyone a variety of talents. They are like different combinations to the safe of our souls. So I urge everyone to show their respect for others. We have already begun by uniting today. It is time to fight against war and destruction by nurturing those severely threatened by death: the soldiers, the unborn babies, the elderly, the downtrodden, the starving, the outcasts and spiritually, physically and emotionally ill. By then, we would be showered with respect and blessings.
As we move along with our Carnival Celebrations, let CHS set the foundation to stand up for peace, discouraging violence and its causes. With the Holy Spirit, who ignites the lamp of God's strength and grace in us, Let us respect life in all its forms, moving in one direction as One Nation and One Convent High School Community.


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I hope you've all been watching the Olympics - not just the swimming but as many sports as you can. There have been some truly inspirational performances from British athletes, Mo Farah, Jess Ennis, Bradley Wiggins, Victoria Pendleton and just about any rower you can think of!
What you may not have seen, or paid much attention to is how in the post event interviews all of the GB athletes said how amazing the crowds have been and how their support spurred them on to go harder, faster and for longer. So this got me thinking about a proven psychological concept of external motivation and how people generally perform better with encouragement during their performance than without.
So that raises a series of interesting questions (which I don't have the full answers for).
1 - Why do we need external encouragement to push ourselves to the maximum?
2 - What would happen if an athlete ALWAYS trained in front of a loud, encouraging crowd during physically demanding training?
3 - Are there athletes who are able to push themselves absolutely to the maximum without having a crowd?
A coaching friend friend of mine has a great analogy for this idea that external forces can make us push ourselves harder. He talks about how our mind is like an over protective parent, telling us "trying this hard might be bad for us, and we're not used to it so we should stop". The crowd or coach or self motivation in great athletes is like the voice of that cool uncle who tells you "it's OK to do some stupid things, go faster, go further, make it hurt". Maybe we should listen to the cool uncle a little bit more and ignore the sensible voice in our heads telling us to stop because training is hard??
Who will you listen to?
Swimmers >


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VIP Buildings and Grounds
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(Normally, this would be in our Family Blog, The Sand Trap...but its been much easier to maintain one blog now :)
We love our job, and quite honestly, there's nothing in the world we'd rather do. But, with that said, it sure is nice to have an occasional weekend off. This weekend we enjoyed spending time with our dear friends, the Wrights. Garrett and Nolan have been friends since high school and we've all been through major milestones in our lives. After church we had lunch at my parents home in Cleveland (Tennessee not Ohio). Tabor and Heather were also there, but had to leave early...we'll get a picture together soon! It was a beautiful crisp autumn afternoon and after lunch we took the kids outside to wear them out. But they wore us out.
The whole team.
Graycen with Grandma and Grandpa.
Doesn't this look like an LL Bean ad?
What a beautiful fall afternoon.
Benjamin was working hard pushing Sydney and Graycen. He kept saying, "I can't, it's too heavy!"
Graycen in the swing.
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Volunteer at cycling fundraiser
American Diabetes Association will host the Wine Country Tour de Cure, a cycling fundraiser June 28 to June 30 for set up, registration, driving, route signs. Marshals. medical support, cheer squad and clean up. Contact Sarah Wong at 510-654-4499, ext. 7461.
Drivers and gardeners wanted
Food for Thought Food Bank is looking for volunteer drivers older than18 with a valid driver's license and up-to-date car insurance to deliver groceries to homebound clients for two to three hours a week. Volunteer gardeners also needed to help maintain the food bank's organic garden Wednesdays and Saturdays. Contact Helen Myers at 707-887-1647, ext. 103.
Festival volunteers needed
Healdsburg Center for the Arts needs volunteers for the Healdsburg Art Festival from June 21 to June 23. Open positions include information booth, artist lounge, state emcee, art zone and greeter. Shifts are 5-9 p.m. June 21, 11 a.m.-7 p.m. June 22 and 11 a.m.-4 p.m. June 23. Contact Andrew Akufo at 707-431-1970.
Lend a hand at the front desk
Catholic Charities' Rainbow House provides transitional housing, counseling, case management, parenting classes and employment services to single mothers in Napa. Front desk volunteers greet, answer phone and provide resources four hours per week, between Mon. and Fri. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Call Emily Thiessen at 707-528-8712, ext. 160.


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First off….It's been one month of Class And Trash! AWOOT! So now that there are a bunch of posts here, please share share share the blog! We want to be here to stay! We would love to make this bigger and better one-day but that needs YOU! ANYWAY on to the post…
February 14th…… A day that all couples look forward to. It is also a day that all single as shit people dread. Whether we want to admit it or not. I don't really grasp that excitement that couples have, so this is for all my single ladies (and gents out there) to nod and snap their fingers to in agreement; and for all the couples to take note about why we feel salty when you talk to us about it….
So here we go:
5 Ways to Not Piss off Your Single and Bitter Friends on Valentines Day:
1) Don't Ask.
Bitch you're my friend. You know I don't HAVE any romantic partner in my life. I don't even have a fake text message boo. What in the entire heck do you think I'm going to do today but sit and try to avoid being on social media?!?!?!?! For most single people, this day is just another day. We wake up and try not to think about it…… and then….. then y'all want to start asking too many damn questions. "So what are you doing tonight?" "Ohhhh noooo!!! Don't just stay in by yourself!" Which brings me to number two.
2) "Well why don't you hang out with us?"
Oh. OKAY. This sounds like a PERFECT Valentines Day to me!!! And it's on a Friday this year? PERFECT way to kick off the weekend! SO while you are lovey dovey in the corner with the man or woman of your dream, I'll just sit here and eat more bread at the restaurant. Or maybe I'll hold my own hand at the movie. Ooooooh wait I'll just buy my own chocolate and gifts! YASSSS! (note alllllll the sarcasm)
You get the idea….. The point is I'd rather sit, eat chocolate, and drink cheap bottle of wine. Alone. Trust me it's OKAY. I will be OKAY. This is NOT the first time at the single rodeo. The fake pity party is not needed today. I know you're trying to help but it makes me get all into my feelings.
3) Congrats on your flowers, cards, chocolates, etc.
Listen. It's Valentines Day. We know that your going to receive a present while the single clan waits for the sale on the 15th…but do we need to see the Facebook Status, Twitter, and instragram (with filter) shared up and down on the timeline?!?!?! It's just extra. How many stuffed animals, flowers, and boxes of chocolates do we need to see? (DRINKING GAME ALERT! Take a shot every time one of these status or images rolls across your timeline!) I rather scroll down and see messages about snow and what an idiot Justin Bieber is today.
4) I'm sure you'll find someone soon.
Okay trick. This one right here. That statement will make me flip a table and lose it. Why? Because I'm working on it. Maybe I'm picky. Maybe my standards are too high. Maybe my checklist is too long. But i'm working on it. What I don't need is fake sympathy tho. So now go on and enjoy your day! Call me tomorrow and we'll will turn up! Kthanks
5) Don't Apologize to me
I know I'm single. It ain't your fault. Really. No explanation on this needed.
Okay that sounded a lot more bitter than it was meant to be. I'm really not super pressed as I've grown accustomed to this life. That and my mom will forever be my one true valentine So there's that. It just gets real frustrating. ESPECIALLY new couples; Trollop you were single yesterday…get off of my timeline with that tripe.
With that being said. Hope all my couples truly have a magical day! But just keep it with your boo/if your friends ask you about your day. And to my single friends…there has got to be a club for single people to go shimmy and flirt, right? Let all find that. Put on that sexy outfit and stay away from the thirsty single tricks who are just trying to get it in…that's how you catch diseases.
Ladies? ……Say I …look so good tonight!
HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!!! We love you like XO!


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There are a couple of webcams on the Bristol Channel that I quite like. The Porthcawl webcam has long been my favourite (the above was a screenshot taken during one of the October storms), but a close second has always been the Ilfracombe webcam.
Ilfracombe remains one of Dad's favourite destinations with Calstar, and following our last trip there this summer with the Lyndey Yacht Club mob, I think this year it's probably become one of mine.
They've just installed new cameras for the latter, and the image is superb. For a webcam, that is.
Having spent an idle few minutes watching it today, I was suddenly struck by how empty the harbour is a this time of year.
Then I remembered it is, of course, late November. Most sensible people around these parts are off the water now till next spring.
The last photo was taken back in August from up above in the town overlooking the harbour. Calstar is grounded alongside another bilge-keeler (a lovely couple visiting from Newport that same week) furthest but one boat to frame-left, by the bottom of the slipway.
I'm not actually sure when we'll get the chance to revisit. I doubt again this year now, with so little of it left, the weather turning cold and daylight growing short. And although jury is still out as to whether we move to Plymouth or Torquay next spring (in my mind, if not, admittedly, in Dad's), regardless of the choice, we'll probably just sail straight past Ilfracombe on the way down, intent on getting straight to Padstow or St Ives before rounding the corner.
It's almost a shame, but there is at least the comfort of new adventures to be had.


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With Acclaim Lighting's new Color Ray LED luminaire, it's easy to cast a palette of changing colors on building exteriors, statues, landscaping or any outdoor area. A robust color-changing effect, the Color Ray features three high-power 1-watt LEDs (red, green, and blue) that can produce an extremely bright flood of color whether used outdoors or inside a building.
What's more, no matter how harsh the weather or environment, the Color Ray's color wash won't be a washout. The fixture features a high ingress protection rating of IP 65, meaning it can withstand dust and rain for safe, reliable outdoor use.
"The Color Ray is a rugged LED color-changing fixture that works as well outdoors as inside," says Eric Loader, director of sales for Acclaim Lighting. "In fact, the '6' in its IP is the very highest rating given for protection against solid objects, which means it can't be penetrated by any type of particle, even very fine dust. The second digit '5' signifies that it can stand up to water coming at it from all directions. Plus, the weatherproof power/data cables and connectors integrated into the unit allow for quick and reliable installation."
The Color Ray's high-intensity RGB LEDs can be operated individually or in combination to produce a variety of rich hues, which can be changed at any speed and interval.
The fixture can be operated with a DMX-512 compatible controller, or it can be used as a stand-alone unit. For use in the latter mode, it comes equipped with 10 preset programs with speed and fade time selection. It features a 10° standard beam angle for maximum output.
Measuring 5.3"L x 3.9"W x 6.3"H and weighing just 2.6 lbs, the Color Ray draws five-watt maximum power consumption at full RGB intensity, the output equivalent of a 50W halogen lamp. Housed in a sturdy die cast aluminum case with powder coating, it can be operated in temperatures ranging from -20°C to +50°C. and the fixture is CE certified.
An optional controller that can drive up to 20 Color Ray units, the Ray Power, is also available (sold separately). The suggested retail price of the controller is $299.


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Testimony of Naomi Zauderer, Chair of the CFB's Voter Assistance Advisory Committee, to the New York City Charter Revision Commission
Thank you for the opportunity to provide testimony about how the Campaign Finance Board fosters civic engagement by encouraging New Yorkers to participate in their democracy. We believe that participating in elections is essential to being an active citizen, whether that is through registration and voting, contributing to a candidate, volunteering for a campaign, engaging in nonpartisan voter outreach activities, or running for office to represent your community.
Voter engagement is a key element of our agency mission, and it is written into the Charter that the CFB "encourage, promote, and facilitate voter registration and voting by all residents of New York City who are eligible to vote." We conduct this work through our NYC Votes initiative, and we are pleased to highlight the work we have built since voter participation was added to our mandate through the 2010 Charter revision.
The Voter Assistance Advisory Committee and the City Charter
Prior to the 2010 Charter revision, the Voter Assistance Commission was a 16-member body with a small staff located within the Mayor's Office. The 2010 Charter Revision Commission noted in its preliminary report that VAC and its work was limited by a lack of resources. They recommended that VAC be dissolved and reformed as the Voter Assistance Advisory Committee within the Campaign Finance Board, because the CFB shared the mission of voter education and had staff and resources to add vibrancy to the work. This proposal appeared on the ballot along with several other government reforms, and 87 percent of those who voted on the question voted in favor of it.
VAAC, which is a nine-member advisory board appointed by the city's elected officials, advises the CFB on several mandates outlined in the City Charter. VAAC's responsibility is to encourage and facilitate voter registration and voting by all residents of New York City who are eligible to vote, and recommend methods to increase rates of registration and voting. More specifically, we identify underrepresented groups throughout the city and suggest methods to increase their participation. Additionally, we coordinate with city agencies, in compliance with Section 1057-a of the New York City Charter, and with nonpartisan voter registration groups, community boards, and government agencies, and educate youth about the importance of voting. Through its annual report, VAAC makes recommendations on how to increase voter registration throughout the city. We also undertake activities to encourage voter registration and voting by all residents, including eligible voters who are limited English proficient.
VAAC meets every other month, and holds two public hearings a year where we hear from voters about their experiences registering and going to the polls.
The importance of nonpartisanship in voter outreach
Our government has a public interest in engaging its citizens, so New Yorkers can elect those who truly represent their interests. It is therefore critical that government play a role in conducting outreach to voters, regardless of political party, particularly in an age where campaigns can more narrowly target prime voters and when local media coverage of neighborhood politics is shrinking.
The CFB is ideally situated to fill this role because we are an independent, nonpartisan agency. Our independence from City Hall allows us to focus on mobilizing voters without the imperative to consider the political interests of any given administration. Our nonpartisanship means that we reach out to all New Yorkers, regardless of party affiliation, to ensure everyone's voices are heard. We take seriously our Charter mandate to reach out to voters who may be overlooked by campaigns that are rightly interested in turning out voters who support them, and to assist those who face additional barriers when registering to vote or turning out to the polls.
We have dedicated resources to this mission, and established a deep expertise on voter outreach, policy, and election administration. We are a trusted, unbiased source of information voters rely on to help them navigate an archaic election system and make informed choices at the polls. We have conducted research into participation patterns and the barriers that prevent people from voting, which we use to inform our work on the ground.
Our voter engagement activities
NYC Votes undertakes a number of activities to encourage people to register to vote and cast their ballots, including registration drives, voter education, Get Out the Vote activities, and advocacy for voting reforms.
Voter registration
Through NYC Votes, we bring new voters into the political process. While New York City has more registered voters than ever with 4.6 million people on the rolls, there are still 715,000 people who are eligible but not registered to vote. This is 13 percent of the city's citizen voting age population.
Each year, we register thousands of voters at voter registration drives. We partner with community organizations who can connect us to the neighborhoods and groups that we most need to reach, and we register new citizens at naturalization ceremonies. We provide Train the Trainer presentations to community groups, who are responsible for registering thousands of new voters each year. We recently worked with City Hall and the Department of Education to coordinate Student Voter Registration Day in city high schools, where we collected over 10,000 voter registration forms. We have served as the organizational lead for New York City on National Voter Registration Day, and have been first in the country for the past three years for the number of new registrations collected on that day.
We also work with city agencies to conduct voter registration. We have partnered with the Department of Homeless Services to register voters living in city shelters during our volunteer-driven Days of Action. We also conducted voter registration in domestic violence shelters this year, where residents face additional hurdles to register safely. We train frontline staff at city agencies covered by Section 1057-a of the New York City Charter, which requires staff at 25 city agencies and all 59 community boards to assist voters with completing their voter registration forms. To further expand registration opportunities for voters with limited English proficiency, we worked with the Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs (MOIA) in 2016 to translate the voter registration forms into 11 new languages beyond those required by Section 203 of the Voting Rights Act.
Voter education & Get Out the Vote efforts
As we work to make sure every eligible voter can register to vote, the real challenge in New York City is getting people to turn out to the polls. In the 2017 citywide elections, 3.45 million registered voters stayed home in the general election, compared to the 715,000 who weren't registered in the first place.
Earlier last year, we conducted public opinion research into why voters participate in presidential elections but sit out for local elections. Our major finding was that voters who do not participate in local elections care deeply about the issues that affect their communities, but lack the information they need about upcoming elections and the candidates who are running for office. Our priority each election is connecting voters with the information that they need to be informed when they go to the polls.
For city elections, we send a print Voter Guide with candidate profiles to every registered voter and have done so since 1989, and also record candidate video statements to air on local cable channels and stream online. We also publish a Guide online for state and federal elections. Realizing that there was still a gap between the educational materials we provide and citizens accessing that material, we widely advertised the Guide and our voting information platform, voting.nyc, through a Get Out the Vote advertising campaign in public transit and outdoor locations, in print and on TV, and on social media in 2017. This campaign tripled the number of visits to our online Guide between 2013 and 2017, with 225,000 visitors in the primary and 303,000 visitors for the general election. We plan to invest more to promote the 2018 general election that will include ballot proposals from this Commission.
The CFB also administers the Debate Program for candidates running for mayor, public advocate, and comptroller. Any candidate who participates in the public matching funds program and meets the certain objective criteria is required to participate in a debate. In the 2017 election, we also ran a pilot program in open City Council districts where we partnered with community organizations to sponsor candidate forums. This provided an opportunity for voters in these districts to get to know the candidates in an unscripted setting. We anticipate scaling this program up in 2021, when there may be as many as 40 open Council seats.
In addition to sharing information with voters through NYC Votes on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, last year we implemented a new text and e-mail outreach program. Over 2,300 voters signed up to receive election alerts about upcoming dates and deadlines in advance of the 2017 election, and we are working to expand this list to reach more voters. We also began to create new multimedia resources for these platforms to further educate voters. Before last year's election, we made explainer videos to help voters better understand the responsibilities of each of the city's elected officials, connecting them to the issues that voters care about in their communities, such as jobs and wages, housing, and education. We are expanding this series for the state and federal elections this year. We also collected and sorted news coverage by race including content from community newspapers.
NYC Votes conducts outreach through Get Out the Vote phone banking to newly registered voters before each election, letting them know about what is on their ballot and where their poll site is located. We were able to make 13,000 phone calls in advance of the 2017 general election, and we continue to build our capacity as we recruit more volunteers and partner organizations that are interested in phone banking both at our office and off-site. We also work with NYCHA and lead volunteer groups to knock on doors in public housing developments, where we have face-to-face conversations with voters about their elections.
Through the work of our Youth Voter Coordinator, we focus on engaging the youngest voters and future voters in their elections. We conduct workshops in city high schools and at Summer Youth Employment Program orientations with the Department of Youth and Community Services. We also engage youth through the arts, so they can explore the importance of voting. We are in the tenth year of our Youth Poet Laureate program, where young poets compete with compositions about voting and civic engagement. We also recently did a voter-themed mural community service project with NYCHA and a youth leadership council on the Lower East Side.
Voter Advocacy
In our VAAC hearings and in the course of our work, we hear from voters about the difficulties they face going to the polls and how important it is to improve the voting experience in New York. To address these issues we make recommendations for voting reform each year in our annual Voter Assistance Report.
New York has been slow to catch up to other states when we should be leading the way and removing barriers to voter participation. Year after year, we trail the country in voter turnout, yet we have failed to enact many reforms that have made for an improved voting experience in other states. For the past five years, we have taken citizen volunteers up to Albany to meet with their state legislators and advocate for reforms such as automatic voter registration and early voting. During that time, we have seen voting reform pick up momentum and get more attention from the state legislature, but we still have a long way to go before we create a 21st-century voting system that allows all New Yorkers to participate.
Opportunities and recommendations
We urge the Commission to consider how the voting experience might be improved through the City Charter with the understanding that we are somewhat limited by state election law. We also have some specific recommendations for how to improve voter engagement in New York City.
Recommendations for VAAC
The CFB has added resources and built expertise to expand the work of VAAC since it was moved into our agency. The move has allowed us to take a comprehensive approach to educating voters and encouraging democratic participation. To strengthen this work, we recommend the Commission look at the structure of VAAC and consider areas where we might add expertise.
In particular, many city agencies and offices work with populations that have specific barriers to voting and are often underrepresented. These agencies include but are not limited to the Department of Education, the Department of Youth and Community Development, the Department of Homeless Services, NYCHA, the Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs, the Mayor's Office for People with Disabilities, the Mayor's Office to Combat Domestic Violence, and the Department of Corrections. If the role of agencies serving underrepresented voters were formalized in the Charter, they could regularly report out on efforts to reach their respective populations and provide advice to the Board and to our staff about best practices to conduct outreach.
Formally bringing these agencies into the work of VAAC would leverage city government for the crucial task of engaging voters and add unique strengths to this important work.
Additional recommendations
As others have testified in prior hearings, we believe we could do more to reach voters with limited English proficiency (LEP). Currently, the languages required for translation are determined under Section 203 of the Voting Rights Act and local law. The Board of Elections must provide services in Spanish citywide; in Chinese in Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queens; and Korean and Bengali in parts of Queens. The CFB also translates voter education materials such as the Voter Guide into the VRA-covered languages. As previously mentioned, we worked with MOIA to translate the voter registration forms into 11 additional languages.
We believe more can be done to reach LEP voters, and that the VRA should set a floor rather than a ceiling on the services that the city provides. Many cities go above and beyond what is federally required of them, and a city as diverse as New York should do more than the bare minimum. At VAAC hearings, we frequently hear from those who serve in LEP communities about the barriers voters face at the polls, particularly if translation services are not available. Even though their names are in the poll books, we have heard about voters who have been turned away from their poll site or who voted using an affidavit ballot simply because of a language barrier. We recommend the Commission consider how it might direct us to expand services and outreach to these voters, including translating more material into additional languages or providing translators at the polls in communities where it is needed.
We also recommend that the Commission look into ways to use technology to reach more voters and improve the voting experience. For example, the CFB is currently building an online voter registration platform that can accept electronic signatures, which the City Council added to the Charter last year. This will allow us to dramatically scale up the number of voters that we can register in a given year, so that we can focus our person-to-person outreach resources on the hardest-to-reach populations. We believe electronic transmission of voter registration is a necessary step to making the process seamless and error-proof. The Charter also requires the Board of Elections to inform voters of upcoming elections via text and email, which is increasingly how voters get their information in a digital age. As mentioned above, we have had success with informing voters using these methods, and support leveraging technology to better engage and inform voters.
Thank you for the opportunity to testify today, and we are happy to provide you with any additional information that you need.


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Enbridge's permit and approval process for the Great Lakes Tunnel Project is off to a fast start with the USACE now determining our application is complete.
Enbridge filed the application April 8, 2020, with the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy (EGLE) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE).
Enbridge is partnering with two world-class firms for construction, design and engineering on this $500-million private investment.
Thermal imaging technology confirms anchors are stowed on all nighttime shipping traffic
Public support for our Line 5 tunnel plan has come from elected officials, policy experts, media columnists and editorial boards—from Michigan and elsewhere.
We're doing everything we can to protect the health and safety of our employees and the public. Nothing is more important.
Safety is not just a core value at Enbridge. Ensuring the safety of communities and the environment will always be our top priority—and it's the foundation of everything we do.
Shutting down Line 5, even temporarily, would have immediate and severe consequences on the economies of Michigan, Ohio, Ontario, and elsewhere.
Line 5 moves products that heat homes and businesses, fuel vehicles, and power industry throughout the state.
A Line 5 Straits of Mackinac tunnel would be state of the art, with enhanced safety features, further demonstrating Enbridge's commitment to protecting Michigan's natural resources.
Enbridge will need time to fully evaluate the Attorney General's filing.


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Here's an easy stir-fry featuring juicy pineapple and fresh ginger that the whole family will enjoy from Wellspring Camps, the leading weight loss organization for young adults and families across the U.S!
Ginger Pineapple Chicken Stir Fry with Snow Peas
1 pound of boneless skinless chicken breast
1 red bell pepper
1 cup fresh pineapple chunks
2 cups fresh snow peas
3/4 cup sliced shiitake mushrooms
1 red onion rough chopped
1 tablespoon chopped garlic
1 tablespoon minced fresh ginger
½ cup soy sauce
1 tablespoon sesame seeds
Spray non-stick frying pan with a non-fat cooking spray. add to pan sesame seeds, chopped garlic, and chikcen strips. saute for two minutes.
Add red pepper, onion, ginger, and mushrooms. continue to saute for 1 minute.
Add soy sauce, pineapple, red pepper flakes, and snow peas. cover and let cook for 1 minute.
Uncover and stir until chicken and vegetables are covered with sauce and chicken is fully cooked.


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Landscape Workshop is thrilled to welcome Kelli Cohen to the team! Kelli joins us as Assistant Controller in our corporate office in Birmingham. Prior to joining LW, she worked in public accounting and served as a senior accountant for over 3 years at Education Corporation of America. Kelli earned a Bachelor's Degree in Accounting from the … Read More
Month: January 2019
New Year Goals – Landscape Edition
The leaves have fallen, the grass is sparse, and a flower in bloom is a rare sighting. January is here, ushering many of us indoors with its bitter temperatures and grey skies. Even so, property management remains in full swing. You may be asking yourself, "What needs to be done to a property where … Read More
New Team Member | Micah Chambers
Please join us in welcoming Micah Chambers to the Landscape Workshop team! An industry veteran of 8 years, Micah joins LW as an Account Manager in our Huntsville branch. Micah earned a B.S. in Psychology from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and previously served as Operations Manager for DJC Landscape & Horticulture in Cullman, Alabama. He … Read More


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Full Report - 10 volumes
The three Tribunal members opted to allow the report to speak for itself.
Addendum 16th June: - The Principal Conclusions document has 9 Chapters. Chapters 6 to 9 offer a detailed account of much of the history of Northern Ireland from the Government of Ireland Act 1920 to the weeks just prior to 30th January 1972. The Chapters are replete with hyperlinks to more detailed references and these Chapters merit a full reading in order to obtain a fuller understanding of the situation which came about in Northern Ireland.
Historical Enquiries Team). It is to be hoped that this report will go some way to assisting the process of reconciliation which is so necessary if Northern Ireland is to prosper in the future.
Addendum 16th June: - The UK Human Rights Blog has taken an interesting look at "Bloody Sunday, Human Rights and the duty to investigate deaths". Of course, Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights existed at the time of Bloody Sunday but what is now different is the clear obligation on States, which is implicit in Article 2, to carry out a thorough investigation. This is sometimes referred to as the "procedural aspect" of Article 2. The duty to investigate was set out by the European Court of Human Rights in McCann v U.K. (1996) 21 EHRR 97 and was clearly incorporated in English law by the House of Lords in R (Amin) Home Secretary [2003] UKHL 51.
Coroners have to investigate "how, when and where the deceased came by his death". The House of Lords has ruled that the word "how" includes "by what means" AND "in what circumstances" - R (Middleton) v West Somerset Coroner [2004] UKHL 10.
These developments provide a good example of how, over recent years, Human Rights law has improved the situation within the U.K.


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A great twist for a rehearsal dinner
Are you looking for a new and different way to get everyone together, get to know each other a little better and have a really good time? I met the coolest guy, who runs the coolest business…
Murder for Hire is a great and interactive way to have your family and friends get together and "do" a murder mystery dinner, (this is not dinner theater!)
You and your guests are the stars, the script is written, the plot thickens as you add your friends as the suspects. Each guest gets a part to play, someone is the murderer and someone is the "corpse".
Check out the site…www.murderforhireinc.com, as for Tom, tell him Dorelle sent you!
Have a flower filled day!


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This is the third post in our ongoing series: The First 90 Days. When you're coming into a company as the first-ever IT manager, you have to hit the ground running. The work you do in the first 90 days is what sets you up for success for the rest of your career, but it's also a huge challenge. To help, we put together this advice on the process and mindset culled from our team's extensive experience running IT for top Silicon Valley companies.
In the last post in our series on succeeding as a new IT manager, we talked about the situation audit, AKA the thing you need to do first before you do anything else. This might actually be all you get to in your first 90 days on the job.
But for the purposes of today's article, let's assume you complete your audit in record time. And let's say your workload is manageable enough you can be proactive rather than reactive.
While we're at it, let's also imagine you have perfect abs without having to exercise, your breath stays minty fresh at all times, and your Spotify playlist always chooses perfect tunes and never subjects you to Fred Durst. But still let's assume you're always going to get hit with a lot of unforeseen work—we want to keep this fantasy at least somewhat plausible.
How do you know what to tackle first? And how do you set reasonable goals so you can make measurable progress and finish more or less on target, even when the universe conspires to screw it up?
That's what we'll be discussing in today's post. We'll take a (very short) look at planning for IT departments—prioritizing projects, goal setting, and juggling short-term and long-term work—and give you some advice on getting it right. A later post will go more in-depth on the day-to-day scheduling of tasks. Today, we'll look at the big picture.
The Zubat problem, or: why do I need an IT work plan?
Some of you are probably already tuning out. You might be thinking: "Well, that's all well and good for the perfect abs scenario where there's time for long-term projects. But I have so many open tickets right now that any schedule I make is going to be closer to wishful thinking than planning. Why should I waste time making plans I know I can't follow?"
You know what? You're right! It is not possible in IT to create a 100% accurate work plan. Many IT managers can't predict what they'll be doing in the next day with much certainty, let alone in the next 90 days.
Yet this actually makes planning even more important.
To understand why, I'd like to briefly talk to you about Pokémon.
In the first generation Pokémon games, Pokémon Red & Blue, there is an area relatively early on called Mt. Moon. It's a cave that separates Pewter City and Cerulean City, and the player's character has to go through it to get to the Water Gym so he can challenge Misty for the Cascade Badge on his way to becoming a Pokémon Master.
As dungeons go, Mt. Moon is not actually that large—there's only three screens, and only the first one is of appreciable size.
Yet Mt. Moon feels like it takes hours to traverse, because of one enemy:
This is Zubat, and Mt. Moon is absolutely crawling with them. The encounter rate in this area is so high that it seems you get into a random battle every four steps, and each time there's a 90 percent chance that you'll be fighting the same Zubat you fought four steps ago.
An individual Zubat is pretty weak, and you'll dispatch it in a couple of turns at most. In aggregate, however, they're a huge time suck and the main barrier to your progress through the cave.
To make matters worse, it's really easy to get lost. Graphics on the Original Game Boy weren't exactly HD under the best circumstances, but Mt. Moon didn't do the 2.6 inch, 160px × 144px, 4-color screen any favors with its gray-on-gray cave tileset.
Between the lack of visual landmarks and the constant interruptions, my memory of trying to get through this cave the first time as a kid was one of losing my bearings and wandering around in circles, fighting Zubats the entire time, until I finally got frustrated enough to turn the game off and go outside for a walk.
You know what finally got me through that cave? A map. I downloaded a map of Mt. Moon off the internet (pour one out for GameFAQs) and referred to it whenever I got out of a Zubat fight, so that I was always walking in the right direction. The Zubats were still frustrating, but by sticking to the most efficient path I didn't have to fight as many of them, and pretty soon I was browsing bikes I couldn't afford in Cerulean City.
You probably see where I'm going with this. In this tortured metaphor, the map is the IT work plan. Those tickets and random panicked Slack messages from your boss that keep you from the work you'd planned to do? Those are Zubats.
You can't plan for every task, anymore than you can have a map of Mt. Moon that tells you where every Zubat will be so you can avoid it.
But having a plan lets you maximize progress in the time between Zubats. It means no matter how many times you're interrupted, you know where you're at and where you're going, and you can track the progress you're making. Without a plan you're flying blind as, well...
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Getting started on your plan: deciding what's important
The first step to creating a good plan is to take stock of what actually needs to be done. Fortunately, the situation audit you just did probably revealed a bounty of landmines that are just waiting for you to defuse them. The great thing about IT is that when you're looking for trouble, you don't need to look very far. Usually it will find you.
It's a good idea to start by with a rough idea of the relative importance and size of each project or task, irrespective of other particulars.
You might think this is obvious, but don't skip this step—you are probably wrong about both the importance and size in ways that won't become obvious until you see all the projects laid out side by side. I recommend doing this exercise on paper. It's tool-agnostic, though. If you prefer a spreadsheet, a Trello board, or some other project management solution, go for it.
First, what are your non-negotiables? These are projects that absolutely, positively, must get done. They're usually pretty obvious—often it's something you've specifically been told is non-negotiable. If there's a real, specific deadline and it's not something you or your boss made up, that's another good indicator that you're dealing with a task in this category. Examples might be an office move, a phone system that has to be implemented before the sales team begins a hiring surge, or a security audit.
You can set these projects aside for this step. Since they have to be in the plan, they're less a part of the planning process and more of a constraint on it.
Next, rank what's left in order of importance, most important thing first. Since "importance" is subjective, here are some questions to ask yourself about each item to help suss it out:
- What work will be saved later by doing this now?
- If I don't address this now, will the size of this problem grow?
- Is it possible to attach a dollar amount to the impact of this project, even if I don't know what that amount is?
- What is the worst possible outcome of not addressing this issue?
- Is this something that might affect customers?
- How many people in the company would be affected by this project?
- If I fix this and say nothing, will anyone notice? Who will notice?
- How likely is it that this will present as a problem in the next 6 months?
- Will I be personally inconvenienced by not addressing this? Will other people? How often will this happen in a given week?
If you're really stuck on how to assess the importance of something, an excellent way to do this is to compare it specifically to another item you're already reasonably sure about: if you had to rank it, would the item in question go above or below the one with the known value?
You can even rank the entire list with this method, essentially doing a bubble sort. Although this isn't a computationally efficient sorting method, the advantage is that you can do it without a computer using nothing more than your subjective impressions. While humans tend to be pretty bad at assigning an absolute value to a single item, many psychology studies have shown that we're surprisingly accurate when making relative comparisons between items, especially for more complex judgment calls like evaluating workplace performance.
Getting started on your plan: Forecasting workload
Once you've got your list of projects ranked by importance, the next step is to predict the size of each project and how long it will take. It might be helpful to include the non-negotiables you set aside in the last step, or you might want to take each project and parse it out into its constituent work tasks so you can evaluate it separately.
It's helpful to do this as a second step because importance can warp your perception of time, and vice versa. It's really easy to convince yourself that you totally have the capacity to take on an important-but-time-consuming project, or that a task you can knock out in an hour will have a big impact simply because you know you'd get it done. You have a limited amount of time in which to work, so accuracy counts here.
We can rely on the same relative comparison trick we used in the last step to get a reasonably accurate forecast of how long each task will take. This is a technique that often gets used in agile project planning & forecasting, and it's most accurate if you use a consensus-based method like Planning Poker to take advantage of the wisdom of crowds effect.
But it also works if you're doing it solo, and we'll give a simple method for that here. This method works really well if you write each task on an index card, but again, a spreadsheet, Trello, or whatever tool you like will work, too.
- Figure out which project you think will take the least time to complete. Are there any other tasks you think will take roughly the same amount of time? If so, you can group these tasks together with it. This is your base, your 1x group.
- Next, look at the rest of your tasks and ask yourself which tasks will take roughly twice as long as your base task. Group these together as 2x.
- Do the same comparison between your 2x group and the rest of your tasks to create a 4x group. Keep doing this for 8x, 16x, 32x, 64x, etc., until every task is in a group.
- There might be a few that it's really hard to categorize this way. It's usually best if you try to sort them into one of these main groups, rounding up. It lacks precision, but since we're trying to create a ballpark estimate so we can plan, it's good enough. If you really dislike that, though, feel free to stick them between two categories, e.g. "This task is between 4x and 8x as long as the first."
From here, there's two ways you can go forward with this. The easiest is simply to assume a default duration for your base group (30 minutes works well). Since this is probably a pretty small task, though, another way is just to time yourself doing it and work from that.
Either way, once you have an estimate for your base task, you also have an estimate for ALL of your tasks. That is to say, if your base task takes 30 minutes to do, then your 2x group takes an hour, your 4x group takes two hours, your 8x group takes about a half a workday, your 16x takes a full day, and so on. If you couldn't resist creating intermediate groupings, this still gives you an estimate— in the last example, something between the 4x and 8x group is going to take 2-4 hours.
Putting it together: turning estimates into a plan
Now that you've got a good idea of what the most important tasks are and a rough estimate of how long they'll take, it's time to actually plan the work you'll take on.
There's roughly 480 hours of work in 90 calendar days. So that's the best case scenario for how much work you can get done in a quarter, assuming you don't put in any overtime and you also work to plan for every single second you're in the office. But in addition to being something out of a dystopian nightmare, that kind of work schedule is not especially realistic. Among other things, it assumes there will be no Zubats.
And as we all know: there's always Zubats.
If you start from an assumption that you'll spend a large amount of time each week on unforeseen, urgent tasks and another big chunk of time on non-negotiables, you'll have a better idea of how much you can reasonably expect to take on. Armed with your time estimates and your impact ranking, you're in a better position to figure out which projects you should choose to fill the available space.
It's best not to try to get too precise with your accounting of projects. You don't need to account for every single hour of every single day. Just start by taking each of your non-negotiable projects and plotting out their timelines on the calendar.
This will give you a better understanding of where you're already full up with work and where you potentially have more space for other projects. If you've got weeks where there seems to be less that has to get done, either because you'll be in between deadlines or you'll be waiting for responses back on work you've already done, that's a good place to start scheduling your more ambitious tasks.
Don't get too precious about this, however. You should plan to be working on a mix of projects at all times, with the expectation that you may not get to everything if a flock of Zubats decides to bum rush you.
As far as project mix goes, it may be tempting to front-load all of the highest-value stuff from your list, even if they're all complex projects that will take a while to bear fruit. Resist that, however. You do also want to stack up some short-term wins as well, both to keep yourself motivated and so that you can begin raising your profile with demonstrable progress. (More on this in a later post)
Limit your planning to relatively large swaths of time, e.g. create a 30, 60, and 90 day plan. What do you want to spend those periods working on, and what do you want to have accomplished?
It's okay if the near term is more fleshed out than the long term—the 90 day plan will sometimes feel more like a wish than a goal. Do be realistic, however. Your plan is what you'll be communicating to superiors and using to evaluate yourself, so you it's better that it be unambitious than unachievable. In IT, reality is usually closer to your worst case scenario than your loftiest dreams, and your plan should reflect that.
Ultimately, planning is about staying reasonably grounded in your work, and making sure you're not becoming overly focused on any one thing to the detriment of the rest. Your plan is like a map -- it's more important that it be useful for getting you where you want to go than that it be precise in every particular.
Once you start planning, you might feel discouraged by how little time you seem to have for work you want done. In the beginning, it's not unreasonable to expect your breakdown will look something like this:
- 40% of your time: Fighting Zubats.
- 40% of your time: Accomplishing non-negotiables.
- 20% of your time: Other high value projects.
This is perfectly fine! If all you have is 20 percent of your time to spend on high-value projects, then that's what you have. The important thing is that you not let the Zubats steal even that from you. The goal is for the work you do in that 20 percent of the time to make the work in the other two categories easier, so you can then spend more time on time-saving work in a virtuous cycle.
In the next post in the series, we'll zoom in a bit and talk about scheduling your day to day, as well as strategies for triaging projects, so you can decide which Zubats you should stomp and which you can safely run from.


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On our way to Lee's Ferry NM, we (John and I plus Nancy and Greg, RV friends staying in Page while we are) saw the Vermilion Cliffs, as well as some cool "balancing rocks".
Lee's Ferry is the one place you can enter the Colorado River safely to travel by boat or raft in the Grand Canyon. All river trips begin here.
There is no ferry here now, everyone just drives to this side of the river. This was originally built by a Mormon, Lee, who was wanted for killing a group of settlers (not Mormon) who he feared would harass/kill his family. So this must have seemed like a pretty out of the way place to escape detection. Eventually he did get captured and executed, but his wife pretty much ran the place even before then. As time went on, others used this place.
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