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Gwyneth Paltrow in her skivvies is as good a reason as any to tune into the new trailer for "Thanks for Sharing," the sex-addiction film starring Mark Ruffalo, Tim Robbins and pop star Pink, a.k.a. Alecia Beth Moore.
The feature film debut from "The Kids Are All Right" screenwriter Stuart Blumberg debuted at 2012's Toronto Film Festival and was scooped up by Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions for a September 2013 release date.
Cowritten by Matt Winston, "Sharing" tracks the lives of four sex addicts, played by Ruffalo, Robbins, Moore and Josh Gad ("Book of Mormon"). Paltrow has a supporting role in the film, playing the love interest to Ruffalo's long-single character (or as many Marvel fans have noted: Pepper Potts is dating the Hulk).
While the trailer has a feel-good vibe bolstered by the Imagine Dragons song "Demons," the film treats sex addiction as a real disease, exploring its myriad temptations and letting the audience in on 12-step meetings.
In an interview at the Toronto festival Ruffalo said he found his character, Adam, who at the beginning of the film is five years sober and leading an almost monastic lifestyle, a big challenge.
"I almost find him grotesque in the beginning. He's so staid and controlled and oddly phony. Then you see him get turned on and all of a sudden you see, 'Oh, that's Adam too.' I wondered if, performance-wise, I could do that," he said.
The film opens Sept. 12.


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Oceans are big wet blue things that cover quite a lot of the earth. They are very salty, extremely polluted and contain many delicious edibles.
Oceans formed over the course of millions of years after the shiny new Earth cooled enough for water to settle on its surface and fill up the holes. As the crust drifted about, continents and supercontinents formed and moved around; the spaces in between these land masses would be individual seas. Pangea was the most recently formed of these supercontinents and split 250-150 million years ago,[1] dividing the large Tethys ocean into several smaller oceans. The Atlantic Ocean is the youngest of these; as measured by the record of changes in the magnetic field in the rocks below it — it is thought to date back less than a hundred million years.
In historic times, the oceans posed an insurmountable barrier to most cultures. During the Middle Ages, better shipbuilding techniques finally enabled regular, safe crossings. The result of this was that five or six small countries on the northeastern Atlantic coast were able to carve up most of the world into a few massive empires, the consequences of which are still readily apparent today.
According to some Young-Earthers, the amount of salt in the ocean suggests they formed 62 million years ago[2]. The young Earthers make their argument based on a starting point of zero salt, which isn't true — the oceans actually used to be saltier than they are today. This is due to the fact that a large amount of salt is deposited on the shore when seawater evaporates outside of the ocean — the first great lowering of salinity occurred in the late Precambrian, when huge amounts of salt were deposited in Neoproterozoic evaporite basins. These deposits result in a mineral known as "evaporite".[3]
In other evidence for the extreme age of the oceans, not long after they formed, iron-manganese nodules started forming, incredibly slowly — see here for more information.
The greatest variety of life occurs in coral reefs, but the vast open ocean has the most productivity.
There are plenty of fish in the sea - the oceans contain more than (insert really big number here) species. They also teem with plant life and invertebrate animals, and many species of aquatic mammal, including dolphins and whales. Most of the really weird stuff, however, is in the deep sea trenches.[4] The deepest recorded sea trench is the Mariana Trench which is thought to be roughly just under 11,000 m, or about 36,000 ft.
The oceans have also provided food for seagoing communities (a resource currently being depleted faster than it can be replaced), and are also used as a huge rubbish dump. Both of these may well have a permanent effect on sea life — it is possible that jellyfish may become the sea's dominant life form after all the fish have been eaten or choke on plastic bags.[5]
Whales are probably the most famous example of overfishing (overmammaling?). The result is this:
Critically Endangered
Lower Risk
Lower risk
Lower Risk
* The Atlantic population of gray whales went extinct in the late-17th century. It is not listed as a part of IUCN's red list.[24]
Despite the mess whaling made of the marine mammal population, people still do it (even though commercial whaling is banned by international law). As of 1987, Japan has been whaling for "scientific purposes", which apparently include distributing the meat of what may be the second most intelligent species on Earth to school children for lunch, and (one can safely assume) resurrecting commercial whaling.[25]
Relevance to global warming[edit]
Oceans store a 90% of the "additional" energy retained by the greenhouse effect. Even years that are not "hottest on record" for surface temperature changes tend to be "hottest on record" for the oceans. [26]. In addition to this, sea level rises and ocean acidification are among the most prominent and damaging long-term consequences of unchecked climate change.
Sea also[edit]
- ↑ This is the duration of various phases of breaking up, not a ridiculous uncertainty. After all, drift is slow, you don't wake up to find the Earth completely resurfaced overnight!
- ↑ A young Earth indeed.
- ↑ ScienceDirect
- ↑ Weird stuff. From Greenpeace. It's just a video, so just open it.
- ↑ Invasion of the jellyfish
- ↑ http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/41713/all
- ↑ http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/8099/all
- ↑ http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/2477
- ↑ http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/2478/summ
- ↑ http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/41711/summ
- ↑ http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/41712/summ
- ↑ http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/2475/summ
- ↑ http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/6335/summ
- ↑ http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/2483/all
- ↑ http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/41755/summ
- ↑ http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/2482/all
- ↑ http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/2467/summ
- ↑ http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/8098/all
- ↑ http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/8153/summ
- ↑ 20.0 20.1 http://cmsdata.iucn.org/downloads/cetacean_table_for_website.pdf
- ↑ http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/11048/summ
- ↑ http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/13006/summ
- ↑ http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/11047/summ
- ↑ Eschrichtius robustus (Grey whale) Geographic Range IUCN Red list of threatened species
- ↑ Greenpeace
- ↑ Advances in Atmospheric Science 2018 Continues Record Global Ocean Warming


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Every time we get a new batch of students in our dojo, I am given the opportunity to relearn my basics. And guess what? I learn something each and every time I teach, and sometimes the points are so fundamental that my basic way of moving is changed.
Of course, I enjoy working on advanced kata with advanced students. But I think that I learn more by teaching basics to beginners.
Last night I was teaching chudan shuto uke. I realized that one of the keys is immediately tucking the back arm as you move forward into the next shuto. It is such a basic thing, but so important. You have to tuck the arm smoothly and with no slack. Then the shuto will be clean, fast, and powerful.
Even after many years, we learn little by little.
Charles C. Goodin
Relearning Basics
Every time we get a new batch of students in our dojo, I am given the opportunity to relearn my basics. And guess what? I learn something each and every time I teach, and sometimes the points are so fundamental that my basic way of moving is changed.
Posted by Charles C. Goodin on Thursday, March 15, 2012
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Part 2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jI6A8Bxld7o&feature=plcp&context=C3fd7390UDOEgsToPDskJu8PKtIb9PRl6F-c10YtH_)
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Part 5 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySGsFmHKEsc&feature=plcp&context=C39f625aUDOEgsToPDskJAGdwtVBp4Elo734QSJkmG)
Charles C. Goodin
Posted by Charles C. Goodin on Saturday, March 03, 2012
Lecture Video is Online!
Thanks to the hard work of Sensei Angel Lemus, please see:
Our lecture (Karate in the Ryukyu Kingdom, Okinawa Prefecture, and Hawaii. How is Okinawan Culture Spread through Karate?) was broken into five parts.
I will create a page at the Hawaii Karate Museum website to more fully describe the lecture, but I wanted to let you see the videos as the last part was just uploaded tonight (Hawaii time).
Please let all your friends and contacts know about this online lecture. You are welcome to link to the page or videos. It is possible that a single online video might be available at a later date (but it would be about 95 minute long).
It was a true honor for me to be involved in this lecture with my good friend and senior, Sensei Pat Nakata. We both are very grateful to Lemus Sensei for his expertise and hard work. As you will see, he seamlessly blended our Powerpoint slides with the lecture, so that you can see and hear exactly what the audience saw and heard that day.
Nakata Sensei and I hope that this lecture might encourage more people to practice Karate and to explore the rich history and culture of the Ryukyu Kingdom and Okinawa. All Karate students share this legacy... and the responsibility to preserve and pass it on.
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David Disher is an artist known for his strikingly composed, provocative, often highly political work. He won the 2007 Sulman Prize for his painting Axis of Elvis, a witty, satirical piece in which he re-enacts President Richard Nixon's notorious 1970 meeting with Elvis Presley at the White House – staged by Disher in front of a mosque decorated with pictures of Elvis.
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DEAR BRUCE: While vacationing in Las Vegas back in February, my fiance and I bought a time share at a local resort. We thought it would be a good deal and would be beneficial as our family grew. Now, after owning it for about eight months, we are finding that we don't have the time to make it worthwhile.
DEAR BRUCE: While vacationing in Las Vegas back in February, my fiance and I bought a time share at a local resort. We thought it would be a good deal and would be beneficial as our family grew. Now, after owning it for about eight months, we are finding that we don't have the time to make it worthwhile.
Is there anything we can do to get out of this? Or are we stuck paying the monthly amount, plus the annual dues, for the next 10 years on something we most likely won't use? We are not looking to make a profit, and we would be willing to forfeit the amount we have paid so far, as well as the free trips they gave us.
Any advice would be helpful. Love your column in the Yakima (Wash.) Herald-Republic.
R.D., via email
DEAR R.D.: It would appear you had a wonderful vacation, but I have bad news for you. Many of us, including this writer, have sat through the time-share speeches. These guys are very good at what they do, as you have learned. They persuaded you that this was a deal you couldn't pass up. The fact is, you signed a contract, and they will do their best to hold you to it.
You say you're not looking to make a profit. I have news for you: If you can get out with your whole skin, you will be lucky. In most cases, time shares cannot even be given away, let alone sold.
Just to be sure about where you stand, have an attorney review your contract. I think, however, that you will find you're out of luck.
DEAR BRUCE: In the business section of the Richmond Times-Dispatch, you recently responded to a question about probate on a will. My mother-in-law passed away recently, and as I watch my husband struggle to go through probate, I'm wondering what I will be up against when my 88-year-old father passes away.
My stepmother died three years ago, making him a widower. They set up a trust for their account, leaving me as the executor of the estate when he dies. I've heard that trusts don't require probate if all titled assets and the will itself specify how things should be divided among heirs. To back up that hearsay, your article mentioned that trusts operate outside the will and outside the purview of probate court.
My question is: What steps need to be taken to settle an estate trust?
Reader in Richmond, Va.
DEAR READER: As I indicated in the column you refer to, trusts pass outside of the probate court and are private, as contrasted with a will, which is a public document. That said, there are no easy answers.
You mentioned that a trust has been formed and that there is a will of which you are the executor. The first thing you must do is find out the terms of the trust — what kind of trust it is and what it is set up to accomplish. Most folks of modest means set up trusts simply to avoid probate.
You also must find out the identity of the trustee —the person who makes the decisions for the trust — and what assets are involved. Talk these things over with your dad, assuming he is willing to confide in you. There are decisions to be made concerning taxes and other variables.
I know this is not the firm answer you would like, but unfortunately, these issues are never one-size-fits-all. Get all the facts together and then sit down with your dad and a tax attorney, or possibly a CPA who specializes in tax and estate matters.
DEAR BRUCE: For years, we have not been able to write up a will. We both know this is critical for multiple reasons. We're older, and retirement is around the corner. We both have pensions and joint properties. Two are in my name only, from before our marriage. We've met with our financial planner, who has tried to help, but perhaps our next step is to get an arbitrator or an attorney.
My thought is perhaps a divorce attorney. He or she could look at all our assets, which are substantial since our marriage, and say how much each of us would be entitled to if we were to divorce in this state. To me, that would lay things out in black and white. We could then proceed to get a will written fairly and live out the rest of our years with things in order.
We don't plan on divorcing, but there is and has been tremendous pressure and continual draining of funds throughout the years with the spouse's children from a previous marriage. I can deal with what an attorney or you say, but I am maxed out on "the kids." I am totally outnumbered here. Your thoughts, please.
Reader, via email
DEAR READER: You say you don't plan on divorcing, but the types of difficulties you're discussing, particularly the fact that your spouse wants to continue to support adult children, may lead in a direction you don't anticipate.
There is nothing to prevent you from entering into a postnuptial agreement that shows how the assets would be divided upon the death of either of you.
Is your state an equitable distribution state or an equal distribution state? In an equal distribution state, everything is divided down the middle if you get divorced. An equitable distribution takes into account who contributed the most, although that doesn't seem to be the issue here.
In the contract, you also should agree on how funds will or will not be distributed to outsiders like stepchildren. This is a matter for an attorney, but not necessarily a divorce attorney.
There is no point in putting this off. It's only going to get worse as you go along unless your spouse agrees to stop supporting or giving money to the children. If your spouse does continue, perhaps you ought to go ahead and divide the assets now in your own names. Then your spouse has access only to whatever portion of the money is his or hers after the expenses of this marriage are met.
I know this sounds convoluted, but your problem is exceptionally difficult. What seems to be the greatest contention is the pressure that's been on you for many years to pay expenses with which you don't agree.
DEAR BRUCE: I follow your column in our local paper and find your advice to the point and helpful.
I have gone back to school after working for several years. I am single, and I saved for living expenses during my school years. While working, I accumulated a small 401(k) of about $20,000. Since I will not have income during the next couple of years, should I convert my 401(k) to a Roth IRA? If I go with a broker, the small amount in the 401(k) will likely not earn much in today's economy, while my former employer's 401(k) is a much larger pool and should earn more. Does the tax advantage from rolling over while I have no income make sense? I think the IRS will take about $3,000 of my 401(k).
B.C., via email
DEAR B.C.: Congratulations on going back to school and providing for your expenses. That says a lot about your maturity.
You didn't say how long you've been in school, but it's possible this is your first semester and you worked for perhaps half or more of 2012. If that is the case, you have income this year, meaning this may not be the appropriate time to convert your 401(k) to a Roth IRA. You might be advised to wait until next year. I would talk to a professional accountant regarding your best strategy.
I can neither applaud nor disagree with your observation regarding whether you should go with a broker or, as you put it, "a larger pool." Examine how your 401(k) is currently doing. Some employer choices are doing well, and others are not. The same thing can be said about brokers. A broker may find ways to outperform the employer's pool.
Most important is that you made a wise move in going back to school and have provided for your expenses so you won't be digging a big hole.
DEAR BRUCE: I saw your column in the Lexington Herald-Leader and have a question for you.
I recently received a notification in the mail from a previous employer who is offering to buy out my retirement plan with a one-time lump sum. I can roll it over into an IRA or 401(k) or cash it out. I was with the company for 19 years. If I were eligible (old enough), the retirement would pay me approximately $1,500 a month. I will be 49 in January, so I have a few years before I would be eligible to receive the benefits. Can you provide some insight? — Reader in Lexington, Ky.
DEAR READER: You have an interesting and somewhat complex decision to make. Unfortunately, you left out one very important piece of information: What is the lump sum payment that has been offered to you?
You mentioned that you will be 49, which probably means you will have to wait 10 to 12 years before you could collect from this retirement plan. If you took the cash, whatever that amount might be, you would have the use of it for that extra 10 to 12 years. The variable here is how much the lump sum is and how you would invest it in terms of risk.
The key ingredient in this transaction is how much income this money would generate for YOU. If you are one of those folks who want absolutely no risk, then the income would be next to nothing in today's environment. The recent presidential election seems to indicate that the administration will continue the pressure for very low interest rates. That isn't to say there aren't investments where you can get a good return, but risk is a variable.
You most certainly should talk to a financial adviser about specific avenues open to you. It's a nice situation to be in.
DEAR BRUCE: I am retired military and contributed to Social Security for more than 22 years while on active duty. After military retirement, I was hired as an employee of the state of Illinois, which does not contribute to the federal Social Security system.
I have been told by the state that by law, when I retire I will lose part of my federal Social Security because I am considered a "double dipper." I do not see why that is possible, because these are two different pension retirement systems. Can you explain the origins of this situation and what, if anything, I can do about it?
W.K., via email
DEAR W.K.: The origins of your situation are relatively simple to answer. A lot of people think one pension from the government should be enough. That is why "double dipping" has been looked down upon and many times eliminated. Whether there is any type of appeal available to you is beyond my knowledge.
It seems to me that if you have paid into Social Security, as you have indicated, you should be eligible to receive benefits without regard to what else you are doing. It's hard to rationalize why you should not receive the same benefits as your co-workers, but if you're looking for rationality and fairness in law, you are looking in the wrong place.
I wish I could be of more help, but all I can do here is sympathize. Perhaps my readers will have something to share. I invite them to comment.


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Not Guilty: The Unlawful Prosecution of U.S. Senator Ted StevensBy Rob Cary
Written by one of the lead attorneys for U.S. Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska, Not Guilty: The Unlawful Prosecution of U.S. Senator Ted Stevens describes the litigation before, during, and after the trial charging Stevens with corruption. Stevens was found guilty by a jury, but the judgment was immediately overturned following revelations of gross violations of Brady and other misconduct by the prosecution team of the Public Integrity Section of the Department of Justice. The verdict, however, led to Stevens' loss of his seat in the Senate.The book is instructive in its intricate detailing of defense strategies and prosecutorial missteps, particularly in regards to Brady discovery, and author Rob Cary notes that less-privileged defendants commonly face challenges similar to those in the Stevens trial. Cary also comments on the Schuelke Report, a special investigation of the Public Integrity Section ordered by the trial court and released in 2012. As a result of his experience during the trial, Cary prescribes a number of initiatives to level the playing field between criminal defendants and the government, particularly with respect to discovery, handling of witnesses, and ways to address prosecutorial misconduct.
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Endorsements:"The public learned of the outrageous prosecution of Senator Ted Stevens several years ago, but here are the astounding details. Defense attorney Rob Cary has done a public service with this exposé, a personal odyssey as layer after layer of official corruption is laid bare. It is a shocking, deeply sobering tale that every American worried about the concentration of power in the federal government should read and study. No one is safe, not even a powerful, well-connected legislator with 40 years in the United States Senate like Ted Stevens." - Bob Woodward, associate editor of The Washington Post and author of 17 national best-selling books
"This riveting account from one of our country's great lawyers shows how vulnerable any citizen can be to prosecutorial abuse. But for the heroic efforts of a talented legal team and a courageous judge, the Department of Justice's concealment of exculpatory evidence would never have come to light. If prosecutors can cheat a U.S. Senator and get away with it (almost), they can cheat anyone. This must-read book makes a persuasive and urgent case for criminal justice reform that can be implemented tomorrow." - Barry Scheck, co-director of the Innocence Project
"This is an extraordinarily important book, a must read not only for lawyers, but federal judges. Cary goes behind the stunning headlines -- prosecutors' withholding exculpatory evidence, presenting false documents, a wrongful guilty verdict of a sitting senator. He shows how the prosecutor's failures skewed the defense, the openings, the closings, the examination of witnesses. And the failures resound in white collar cases in particular -- where crimes are vaguely defined, where acts are characterized as illegal after the fact. No one reading this book will see Brady v. Maryland obligations as an abstraction, a technicality. And everyone should be chilled; if it could happen to a well-represented public figure, it could happen to any of us." - Hon. Nancy Gertner (Retired)
Disrobed: An Inside Look at the Life and Work of a Federal Trial JudgeBy Frederic Block
Written for the legal community and the general public, this book explains in practical terms, the perspective behind some of the most newsworthy and sensational cases of the last 20 years. Few, if any, judges have commented on the cases that have appeared before them. Judge Block critiques some of the historical practices of the legislature and the bench; educates readers about the death penalty, racketeering, gun laws, drug laws, discrimination laws, race riots, terrorism, and foreign affairs; and intimates the more humble aspects of being on the bench, e.g. the choice to use humor, death threats against members of the bench, brushes with celebrities, witnessing how popular sentiment can override the facts of a case, racist underpinnings of the drug laws, and more.
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Commercial Real Estate Lawyers Are Efficient In Real Estate Deals
Background of Commercial Real Estate
Basically, the commercial real estate law covers a wide range of activities. It is normally applicable in dealing with real estate property or building which is employed for doing business. Commercial real estate law administers immovable properties like land, fixtures, office buildings, hotels, retail centers, vacant property under development or apartment complexes. A large chunk of real estate law mainly focuses on legal contracts that are lengthy and complex by nature.
Commercial real estate also involves income propagating properties such as shopping malls, offices, industrial parks, retail stores, factories and restaurants. It could also include leasing out an office area, selling out a real property as a part of the sale of a business, residential properties or owning an apartment complex. Unless the real estate property is known to be a residence where the homeowner is actually living, the entire land is considered as a commercial real estate. Therefore, to handle commercial transactions, it is very important to hire commercial real estate lawyers that have adequate experience for dealing your case.
Importance of Commercial Real Estate Lawyers
Commercial real estate lawyers own the experience regarding all the aspects of commercial real estate law. These small business lawyers are capable of assisting you with any issue that is related to the commercial real estate. Due to the complexity of the commercial real estate law, substantial money is involved in the entire process. Also, the party which is acting in this process has to protect their investment when it comes to real estate business dealings. In many cases, the parties in the acting phase of commercial real estate contract will be forced by the contract agreement and will be liable for all kinds of failure to perform. Thus, it is highly imperative to comprehend the legal terms of the contract and proceed further with the process. Nonetheless, the real estate lawyers have the experience and knack to tackle certain cases. They also have the power of drafting, negotiating and interpreting a commercial real estate contract and throw an estimate on the valuable resource for the acting parties.
Legal property concerns can affect the bottom line of a business industry or as a matter of fact slow the process of a government firm making it in inept to meet its mission. If you seek to resolve your real estate issues effectively, looking out for efficient commercial real estate lawyers is a sound option.
Commercial real estate lawyers play a vital role in dealing and succeeding with various real estate deals. They help you save your time and effort which you give in running behind legal cases. Thus, regardless of your position and level of capitalization, small business lawyers are there to manage all your legal issues and cases. They are good advisors on real estate transactions and help you resolve disputes cropping from property rights and inheritance. You can always count on them for knowledgeable, professional and responsive services. Such real estate lawyers cover extensive matters that involve small investments as well as large amounts of money.


text: Shortly after the release of the 21.5" iMac these forums, and other corners of the internet, were a flutter with "teardown" images. Have no machines ended up in the hands of those people who are, no doubt, eager to tear them open and have a look inside? It seems like the 27" has had a more clandestine release than its little brother: some people are getting them, some aren't. Currently, the Apple site says that iMacs aren't shipping until January; rather than an offical release, the iMac seems to be trickling out. There is nothing wrong with people being made to wait for a product (it builds character ), but I know that many people are still on the fence about buying a new iMac due to concerns about the details of the 27-incher's internals. Will it be easier to replace the HDD in a 27" than in a 21.5"? Is there extra room for an additional drive somewhere? Will OWC find some way to drill an eSATA port into this machine as well? I would certainly like to see some "teardown" porn featuring this machine, and I imagine that I am not alone. Hopefully, one of these lucky early recipients has a penchant for deconstruction and a camera close by.


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First published in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, February 2010
Separating the U.S. civilian and defense missions
The State Department and USAID are in the midst of conducting an unprecedented Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review (QDDR), which is intended to bolster the civilian capabilities of U.S. statecraft. It is taking place in the context of calls by Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Mike Mullen to enhance our civilian capabilities in order to avoid the "militarization" of U.S. foreign policy. This, of course, is a positive step forward.
But I'm worried. I'm worried because instead of focusing on national strategy and the country's civilian mission, the QDDR has addressed the problem somewhere in the middle, focusing on how to build State/USAID capabilities so that they fit with a "whole of government" approach to U.S. foreign policy.
Any 'whole of government' effort at inter-agency cooperation needs to be based on the reality that the missions of the civilian agencies are not the same as the missions of the military."
"Whole of government" is an attractive bumper sticker. But it seems as though State isn't asking fundamental questions about strategy and mission: What is the "whole of government" supposed to be doing, and what is the civilian mission in that mix? Without answering these questions, "whole of government" runs the risk of meaning, "Let's fix the problems we had in Iraq and Afghanistan."
In other words, a QDDR centered on this mission is likely to focus on programs that solve the Pentagon's problems in places such as Afghanistan and Iraq (e.g., training foreign militaries, police, and security forces), instead of focusing on the civilian mission of supporting good governance, poverty reduction, and stronger international partnerships. Indeed, an early draft of the Pentagon's Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) was explicit about such a focus: "Years of war have proven how important it is for America's civilian agencies to possess the resources and authorities needed to operate alongside the U.S. Armed Forces during complex contingencies at home and abroad."
But the problem extends beyond program focus. It also is a problem of defining the State/USAID mission and providing both agencies with the capability to perform their missions. The first place to start: Give State/USAID missions of their own, rather than missions set out by the Defense Department. Only then can the QDDR create a capability that puts the civilian agencies on par with Defense at the policy-making table, allowing them to help the president set and implement the country's foreign policy and national security agenda.
At the moment, Defense is defining that agenda, which is understandable. Defense and the military are the most focused planning, strategic, and operational institutions in the U.S. government. So they are taking the lessons of 9/11, the conflict in Afghanistan, and the Iraq War and applying them to the rest of the globe. Consequently, as the forthcoming QDR will make clear, Defense is reconstructing the military to focus on counterinsurgency, counterterrorism, and stability operations and on how to build State/USAID capacity to help them do so.
This kind of "nation-building" has a very specific, combat-driven meaning to Defense and the military: stabilizing and reconstructing the countries that the United States has invaded (such as Iraq and Afghanistan) and training their security forces and anyone else in the country that might help us confront terrorist organizations. Where they've needed help is in winning civilian hearts and minds through short-term economic and governance projects--a task they want State and USAID to take on.
Without a clear civilian mission defined in the QDDR, this is exactly what State and USAID could end up doing, with the capabilities necessary to establish good civilian governance, long-term development, and global partnerships getting secondary priority.
Obviously, it would be foolish to ignore global realities. Terrorist organizations do want to harm the United States, and weak, fragile, and failing states could provide them with safe harbor, presenting a major problem for international security. But there is a real downside to torquing the QDDR to fit Defense's mission.
While it's true that Defense has a lot of people, money, and logistical capabilities--not to mention a global reach--policies and programs for governance, reconstruction, and development aren't its core strengths, as the lessons of Iraq and Afghanistan demonstrate. There, the military effort to strengthen governance and economic recovery was--and is--focused on the short-term. Not surprisingly, the results have been uneven and unsustainable. They might meet the near-term "hearts and minds" needs of counterinsurgency (though the jury is still out), but the programs aren't designed with Iraqi and Afghani governance and development needs in mind.
There are also serious near-term downsides to a mission that ties the civilian capability to the Defense mission. First, because the focus is on short-term results, we could become intertwined in the internal affairs of countries where stability is an issue, but the conditions for success are minimal. I'm thinking here of Somalia. Second, even with a civilian attachment, U.S. engagement presents a military face. Therefore, "host" countries such as Yemen wonder whether Washington is truly investing in its long-term needs or simply intervening to protect U.S. interests. Finally, after decades of teaching foreign militaries that their proper role is to stay in their barracks and to eschew any involvement in politics and business, we now seem to be saying that the military is the most effective institution for governance and economic growth.
So what might the appropriate civilian mission be? How about some version of the following: "Advance freedom for the benefit of the American people and the international community by helping to build and sustain a more democratic, secure, and prosperous world composed of well-governed states that respond to the needs of their people, reduce widespread poverty, and act responsibly within the international system."
Who said such a thing? Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in 2005. Not a bad mission statement, it gets to the heart of the role civilian institutions can play in the twenty-first century, rather than focusing on how these institutions can help the military. In fact, by placing an emphasis on governance, development, and international responsibility, such a mission has the potential to provide a true "whole of government" chapeau to U.S. foreign policy, allowing the White House to assign the military its proper role in achieving more specific national security aims.
Additionally, it can provide guidance as to how to integrate diplomatic efforts to ensure a more "responsible" international system, with foreign-assistance programs that will help build stronger and more effective governance in weak states, stimulate economic development, and reduce poverty. All it really needs is some language about the goal of preventing and resolving conflict.
Of course, the previous administration's policies were totally inconsistent with Rice's statement. Three examples: It decided to invade Iraq; it made terrorism the centerpiece of U.S. statecraft; and it weakened the international nonproliferation regime, among others. And rather than strengthen the civilian institutions, the Bush administration greatly expanded the Pentagon's role in carrying out the U.S. nation-building and counterterrorism agenda. Sadly, State conceded this institutional leadership to Defense and did little to build the capabilities that could carry out the civilian strategic mission they defined.
The QDDR could pick up this task. And if support for effective governance, economic growth, conflict prevention and resolution, and international partnership were at the heart of the review, it could lead to very different capabilities, personnel, budgets, and programs for State and USAID.
Practically speaking, I envision one element of such a scenario working like so: Governance would be the centerpiece of State/USAID. As such, there would be a major investment in State and USAID so that they could provide assistance for the rule of law, the reduction of corruption, administrative and political processes, and civil society. A much smaller U.S. civilian capability would exist to work alongside deployed U.S. military forces, but the goal would be to make such deployments unnecessary. (And Iraq and Afghanistan aren't the prototypes; both were U.S.-led invasions with regime change in mind.) For instance, such a mission focus could lead to sending civilians into many African countries with stronger governance in mind, and a small number of military personnel for security force training, under State policy guidance.
The responsibility for these programs and activities could be given to a reformed and strengthened USAID, an important way to rebuild that shrunken agency. Overall planning and policy would be handled jointly between USAID and State. When contingency planning for short-term deployments in conflict resolution and prevention is involved, analysis could be shared, and the deployments could be made without Defense participation. As a result, State/USAID personnel training would need to change so that future foreign service officers can build such knowledge into their career expectations and be rewarded for such experience.
The bottom line is that any "whole of government" effort at interagency cooperation needs to be based on the reality that the missions of the civilian agencies are not the same as the missions of the military. With that in mind, what we really need is a healthy debate about strategy and mission, with a civilian set of missions clearly defined. It's a mission that State and USAID need to shape before they can bring the case to the interagency discussion.
The QDDR can be central to defining this mission, creating recommendations for capabilities (personnel, budgets, authorities, and programs) that are different from one that focuses on shaping civilian capabilities in the framework of Defense missions. Otherwise, a credible, effective, strengthened, and focused civilian foreign policy establishment won't emerge from the process--to the detriment of the country's security.
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Paul, Rubio face 2016 bind
Sens. Rand Paul and Marco Rubio are facing a big obstacle if they seek the White House in 2016 — and it's not each other.
State laws could force the two GOP senators into a difficult choice: run for president or run for reelection to the Senate that same year. Because in their home states of Kentucky and Florida, neither Republican can be on the ballot for both offices at the same time.
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It might seem like a technicality, especially so far out from 2016. But these seemingly arcane state laws could have real-world consequences for the two men — and their party's chances of winning the White House, or taking back the Senate.
A number of states allow public officials to run for two offices at once. Joe Biden ran for reelection to the Senate in Delaware at the same time he won the vice presidency in 2008. Same for Paul Ryan in 2012, who was reelected to the House from Wisconsin even as he went down in defeat as Mitt Romney's running mate.
Paul's dilemma is trickier: Kentucky's election laws are more restrictive than those in Florida. Under current law, the tea party freshman would need to file for one office by late January 2016. He could try some maneuvering to circumvent the restriction, though that could open him up to litigation or political blowback.
Rubio has more breathing room: He could wait to see whether he's crowned the party's nominee at the Republican National Convention before abandoning his Senate bid. But if he were to lose in November, he couldn't go back to the Senate.
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In a recent interview, Paul declined to discuss the legal hang-ups facing an increasingly likely presidential run.
"We haven't made any official decisions on what or how we'll do things — until 2014," Paul told POLITICO.
Rubio was similarly mum when asked about Florida laws.
"You've done more research on it than I have," Rubio said in an interview. "I haven't even thought about it, to be honest with you. I'm pretty busy here on a full-time basis. … My term ends in 2016 and sometime before that, I'll have to decide whether to run for reelection, or run for something else or not run at all. … There's plenty of time between now and then; a lot is going to happen."
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Election law experts in both states said the laws on the books couldn't be clearer.
"It's a resign-to-run statute, really," said Jon Salomon, an attorney who has represented the Kentucky Board of Elections and the Kentucky secretary of state. "I don't really see a way around it, short of amending the statute."


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Charles Edward "Buddy" Rogers (13 August 1904 – 21 April 1999) was an American actor and jazz musician.
Rogers was born to Maude and Bert Henry Rogers in Olathe, Kansas. He studied at the University of Kansas where he became an active member of Phi Kappa Psi. In the mid-1920s he began acting professionally in Hollywood films. A talented trombonist skilled on several other musical instruments, Rogers performed with his own jazz band in motion pictures and on radio. During World War II, he served in the United States Navy as a flight training instructor.
Nicknamed "Buddy", his most remembered performance in film was opposite Clara Bow in the 1927 Academy Award winning Wings, the first film ever honored as "Best Picture."


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Prescribed Burn Set at Mount Rushmore Memorial
KEYSTONE, S.D. (AP) - A prescribed burn will take place Tuesday at Mount Rushmore National Memorial.
The park says the burn is needed to reduce accumulated slash piles.
The burn will begin at 9:00 a.m. and will cover approximately 30 acres.
Visitors to the park may see drifting smoke and haze throughout the week because of the burn.
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This movie presents a visualization of the interacting galaxy group known as Arp 273. This unique three-dimensional view presents a visual reminder that the objects in Hubble images are not all at the same distance, but rather spread across light-years of space. The two-dimensional Hubble image has been combined with a wider, ground-based image of the region around Arp 273. To create a three-dimensional scene, the foreground stars and background galaxies have been separated out of the combined image. The shape and geometry of the interacting group is based on scientific knowledge and intuition when possible, and artistic license as needed. Astronomy and computer graphics combine to create a visual representation of a natural scene that can not be experienced in person, but which inspires the imagination.
This version of the movie is presented in anaglyph stereo 3D and is viewable with glasses that have a red lens over the left eye and a cyan (a.k.a. blue-green) lens over the right eye. Such glasses are often made of cardboard and have been distributed in numerous 3-D promotions. An internet search for "red cyan anaglyph glasses" will provide many options for obtaining such glasses.
NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon, T. Borders, L. Frattare, Z. Levay, and F. Summers (Viz 3D team, STScI);
Image: A. Block, Mount Lemmon SkyCenter, University of Arizona, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
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MIDDLEBURY — The Middlebury selectboard at its Tuesday evening meeting voted 6-0 (with Selectman Brian Carpenter absent) in favor of some amendments to the town's ordinance for the "daily closing of parks."
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MIDDLEBURY — The Middlebury selectboard has been asked to pave the way for future municipal budgets to be voted by Australian ballot instead of at the annual town meeting. The request comes just a few weeks after local residents agreed to enact the same voting change for their elementary school spending plan.
MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury residents on Tuesday, April 28, will vote on proposed amendments to the town charter that would lead to elimination of the elected position of town auditor.
BRANDON — Selectman Dave Atherton is Brandon's new town manager.
The Brandon selectboard announced its decision to hire Atherton at a busy selectboard meeting Monday night.
Heeding input from voters over the last month, the selectboard chose a local candidate to fill the position that became open when Town Manager Robin Bennett resigned last month.
Atherton will have to resign from the selectboard before taking the new job. His town manager contract will take effect April 20, after two other board members return from vacation.
BRISTOL — A potential new firehouse in Bristol is taking shape as an architectural firm last week presented a plan for a two-story, 11,456-square-foot building that in an ideal sequence of events could be built by next spring.
Bristol residents and firefighters packed the municipal office conference room Wednesday evening to hear Cushman Design Group of Stowe present its design, which was created using input from a volunteer committee of firefighters and community members.
BRANDON — Brandon Town Manager Robin Bennett has resigned after reaching a $12,578 settlement in principle with the town that officially closes the book on her 18-month tenure.
The deal was announced following a brief executive session of the Brandon selectboard on Monday morning at the Brandon Town Hall. The move comes two weeks after the board placed Bennett on administrative leave following a performance evaluation over several weeks.
BRANDON — The Brandon selectboard has placed Town Manager Robin Bennett on paid administrative leave.
"It means that she's going to take the week off and figure out how dedicated she is to the town of Brandon," Selectman Devon Fuller said last week after the board made the decision at a March 9 meeting. "It's all part of her performance evaluation, which we began in February."
MIDDLEBURY — The town of Middlebury selectboard has sent a letter to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) confirming its support for what is being called the "Middlebury Upper Hydroelectric Project," a water turbine that would be installed near the Otter Creek Falls.
This is both a personal and professional endorsement for Doug Bailey to be elected to the Brandon selectboard. Having dealt with Doug since the early 1980s at First Vermont Bank and been a friend of his for almost that long, I know very well the person who will represent us.
Susan Smiley, a long time resident of New Haven, is running the New Haven selectboard. This is a post to which Susan will bring an abundance of talent and experience. Susan and her husband farmed and gardened on the River Road for many years. Her knowledge of the town and its history is extensive. She is thoughtful and sensitive to the issues that concern residents; she is committed to finding solutions that will benefit New Haven now and into the future.
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The Dangers of Getting Jobs Through Friends
Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure. "Oh, I already have a friend there. I'll just contact him." In the job market, it's one of the more common things we hear...Filed under Featured, Finding a Job, Job Market 4 Comments
The Importance of Planting Seeds: My Experience with the Scientologists
"And when much people were gathered together, and were come to him out of every city, he spake by a parable: a sower went out to sow his seed: and as he sowed, some fell by the way side; and it was trodden down, and the fowls of the air devoured...Filed under Featured, Getting Ahead, How to Succeed 5 Comments
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Career Advice
Your résumé is an extremely important document. There are entire books written about how to craft them. I have written at least one myself. There are scores of résumé consultants, companies, and others that will work on your résumé for a fee. Hiring one of these services can be useful and can improve your résumé. Nevertheless, most résumés can improve dramatically by following the below advice.
Too many people approach their job searches from the perspective of their own needs. They need a job, they need to make more money, they need flexible working hours and benefits. This is not the way to get a job. In fact, this "me-too" method of job seeking is unlikely to get you anywhere.
In this article Harrison discusses the importance of using association websites in your job search. One of the best places to track down jobs which (1) few people know about and (2) you stand good odds of getting an interview if you apply, is association websites. Associations are not experts in advertising themselves, and so the jobs on their websites are far less likely to be found by people looking for jobs online. The people you are competing with in the job market generally are not researching association websites for job opportunities and leads. Employers typically like posting jobs on association sites because applicants from association sites tend to be serious about their profession. If you are in the job market, using association sites for research is highly recommended.
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The Kick-Ass Marketing Secret of the Most Successful Job Applicants and EmployeesBy Harrison Barnes on May 20,2019
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In this article Harrison explains how unlearning can make us happy and help us grow. One of the most important forms of growth is unlearning. All learning we do, in a sense involves unlearning. The more we can unlearn, the more likely we are to experience the sense of growth and progress we so desire. Imagine how much more productive your life would be if you could unlearn many of the beliefs and behaviors that have caused you so much stress. You and your life would be utterly and completely transformed. This would result in an incredible sea change in the way you approach and live your life.
Information sharing, as exemplified by the internet, is changing the world for the better and is the way of the future. You must also become a force for sharing information in order to experience progress and achieve your goals.
Do not judge or blame others for the way they live, things they say, or the manner in which they act; they are usually behaving in whatever manner they are because of their circumstances. Nobody has the right to establish parameters of acceptable behavior for others. Understand that nobody is perfect, and learn to accept others' imperfections in a kind, considerate manner.
Your résumé is an extremely important document. There are entire books written about how to craft them. I have written at least one myself. There are scores of résumé consultants, companies, and others that will work on your résumé for a fee. Hiring one of these services can be useful and can improve your résumé. Nevertheless, most résumés can improve dramatically by following the below advice.
Your thought process is a powerful determinant of your success or failure. Find a connection or unifying bond among the millions of thoughts that cross your mind every day, and use them to the greatest possible effect. Rather than dwell on negative thoughts that could undermine you, strengthen your mindset by asking yourself empowering questions; you will find that the answers to these questions constitute excellent career advice.
In this article Harrison discusses that you need to pay the cost if you want to have the life and career you are capable of. There are a lot of people who are not willing to pay the price for the things they want in their lives. People are unwilling to pay the price to advance in their careers. They want a shortcut. They try to make a quick buck instead of providing long-term value. You need to be willing to pay the price to do well at anything. Most successful people pay all the prices to get ahead. You have to give your job everything you have, you have to create value, and then you will be rewarded accordingly. Everything costs us something.
Many people make the common mistake of making their lives and work more complicated than they need to be. Interviewer, for example, are interested solely in your fit for the job rather than long-winded stories about you. Present yourself and your skills in a simple, easy to understand manner for best results.
In this article Harrison discusses the significance of conditioning yourself to develop behaviors that will elevate you in your life. One of the most difficult things for anyone to do is to get leverage over themselves and condition themselves to go in a new direction. Very few people are ever able to make very fundamental transformations in their lives and become someone completely new and completely improved—and stick with it. Major improvements in our lives come only when we condition ourselves over and over again in one direction. You need to get leverage over yourself and condition new habits and behaviors within yourself to make any sort of fundamental and lasting change. The conditioning needs to be part of your lifestyle. You need to condition yourself to adopt new patterns in your life.
Successful people manage their minds well; your mindset is the prime determining factor in anything and everything that happens to you. Just as you strive to become and stay physically fit, you must ensure that your mind is stable and moving in the direction of your goals in order to achieve happiness.
You can easily make your vision of yourself more real when you start to do the things the person you want to be would do. Your life is defined by your beliefs and convictions about who you are. You can always change your behavior, but never your perception of who you are. The first step to making a meaningful change is to become aware of your unconscious beliefs about who you are and change them. You need to be able to believe and think positively about yourself and your capabilities and not be held back by negativity. Negative beliefs about yourself will harm you.
Opportunity used the wrong way can destroy everything. Cheating, even in small ways, can add up to cause ruinous damage. You must account for every action you take with your employer and in your life, and realize that every action carries consequences. With so much invested in your job and career, you must act with integrity in everything that you do rather than risk the consequences of taking the easy way out.
It is absolutely vital to be in control of your life and career. When you fail to control your life, someone else will step in to do so and fit your life into their plans. Understand that it is in others' interests to establish control over your life and work, and instead exert control yourself over your life and the events around you.
Companies necessarily seek to employ positive, forward-minded people. A firm's success depends on their employees, and they seek people who will enhance them rather than merely contribute to the bottom line. People with positive natures, who contribute to a healthy social environment, prove essential to the growth and success of their employers.
I've tried to provide you with as much information as possible about mistakes to avoid when you are interviewing. Mastering these elements can ensure your success when interviewing and make you more likely to get the job.
You can better market yourself by taking a stand against something. Peoples' personal beliefs, including the things with which they do not agree, define who they are as people. Standing against something differentiates you from the crowd; when done in the correct manner, without disrespecting others' opinions, such a stance can help you land your dream job.
There is always a third party of some kind at the root of the conflicts in your life. Conflicts with others are an inevitable part of your life and career. When you analyze the conflicts in your life, you will often find that they are unjustified and created by others rather than by your own internal issues. When you identify a conflict in your life, determine whether the source is internal or external to you; once you identify the source, you will be able to quickly resolve these conflicts and remove impediments to your own career.
An ability to control worry is a common trait of many of the most successful people. Worry, for the most part, does not do anyone any good, as it makes people constantly look to various past alternatives. Rather than worrying about the future, you must focus on life now and not wait until a distant date to live and enjoy your life.
In this article Harrison suggests that you need to be in favor with the right people. These people have an ability to control what happens in your career. People with strong and influential opinions exist within all companies and organizations. It is important to cater to and get the approval of people who have the ability to influence the opinions of others one way or another. When you go against people with the power to influence others they can turn against you and make your career and life much more difficult. You do need to be aware of the game going on and you do need to play it, or at least play along with it to get ahead.
Focus on what you are doing, not what others around you are doing. There are people to take action towards their goals, and then there people who sit on the sidelines and comment on the first group of people. People who are mostly interested in gossip and watching others usually lack the confidence and determination to take action themselves. The most successful people go account and accomplish things rather than sit back and watch others make things happen.
Determine whether you are a global or specific person. Most people are either too general or too specific in the way they treat information, and overly detail-oriented people risk losing sight of the bigger picture. General people are more comfortable in managerial positions, while detail-oriented people prefer everything to conform to a logical sequence. Understand which sort of person you are, and seek work that best harnesses your natural inclination.
In this article Harrison talks about the external and internal world. We have some–but certainly nowhere near total control over what happens in the external world. However, we do have control over the internal world. The internal world is comprised of our own emotions, how we think and feel about those events that occur in the external world. It is important that we do everything within our power to control our internal worlds. We should guard our internal world and take care to use it for ourselves, and not against ourselves. Problems are always going to be there. You can't always stop them. What you can control, however, is your response to the problems that come up. Your nature of response is a key indicator to your control over your internal world and ultimately to your happiness and well being.
If you are very good at something, you should improve on it (try to stay inspired) and continue doing it. The biggest mistake you can make is abandoning something that is working. Do what you are good at.
You can change your life forever by harnessing the power of persistence. Think about the people in your life, and whether they empower you or hinder you in achieving your goals. You must win at all costs, and persist until you succeed.
Just as a Unique Selling Position (USP) is important to sell a product, your own USP is vital for marketing yourself to potential employers. You must define your USP before even creating your resume, as it comprises the basic product that you are trying to sell in your interview. Focus your USP on a specific niche, for which there is market demand, and make it thoroughly persuasive.
The answers to these seven questions are essentially the same as your response to "Tell me about yourself." You need to see yourself and your answer to every question from the employer's point of view. Interviewers are looking for the best long-term fit for each job. Anything you say that supports this is likely to get you hired and anything that does not is likely to mean you will still be looking for a job.
Recognize a pervasive, universal spirit or oneness, and harmonize with it in order to leave a lasting mark on the world. Many people may be intelligent or popular, yet fail to leave their mark because they lack this sense of oneness. People with a developed sense of universality can touch others in a unique way, and change the world in a way that others cannot. Tap into this sense of universality to unlock your true power and potential.
You can never become too comfortable if you wish to be successful. Your success will largely depend on your ability to become dissatisfied with your current position. Successful people are never satisfied with the status quo, and constantly push beyond their comfort zone. When do you this and succeed, you set a new standard for normality in your life. Be continually dissatisfied, and always pushing yourself beyond your comfort zone.
Creating a sense of urgency is one of the most important things you can do in your job search. Understand that your career is itself a commodity and you need to sell yourself, and your salesmanship will determine your career success. Creating a sense of urgency will always help you close your sale.
The influence of relationships can inhibit business growth and lead to disaster. At the same time, however, relationships constitute your greatest assets in your career. All aspects of your job search and your career depend on the relationships you cultivate, so you must strive to form the best relationships possible. You must engender affinity and genuine connections with those around you to achieve success.
Your mood is a major determinant of success in anything you do. You should never enter an interview or any other high-stakes situation in a negative frame of mind. You can needlessly lose many opportunities simply because you haven't been "up". For example, job seekers find considerably greater success when interviewing on Fridays, perhaps due to the fact that people tend to be in a better mood towards the end of the week. When people are relaxed, they are in a better "buying mood".
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Paris: Christian McBride was once, as he puts it: "Everybody's favorite young acoustic jazz traditionalist bass player."
He was only 19 when the late Ray Brown asked him to join his "SuperBass" group in 1991. Fifty years earlier, while still a teenager himself, Brown had been hired by Dizzy Gillespie. McBride became the bearer of Brown's torch.
So when, after having been "afraid of negative press" for years, McBride began setting up his electric bass on stage, he got looks from the audience that said, "'you're not going to play that thing are you?'"
Actually, the electric bass was his first instrument. McBride switched to the bass fiddle at the age of 11 and by 13 was already creating a buzz in Philadelphia, his home town. Awarded a scholarship to Julliard, he moved to New York, "only to discover that Wynton Marsalis had already put the word out on the street about me," and he went right to work instead. He worked with Roy Hargrove, Joshua Redman, Diana Krall, Pat Metheny, Joe Henderson, D'Angelo, Kathleen Battle, Herbie Hancock, Quincy Jones, Natalie Cole and Milt Jackson. He was in Robert Altman's film Kansas City, and he became a leader in his own right.
McBride's electric quartet is currently on an extended tour of Europe and North America. Their new album Vertical Vision (WB) is a refreshment of that 1970s mixture of rock and jazz called "fusion." For him it's a major career move, a decisive break from the past. Influenced by more than derived from fusion, the textures and grooves are, however, perhaps a bit closer to Weather Report than McBride is ready to concede.
Either way, his mood was, if not bitter, frustrated. His voice is deep and resonant, his diction excellent, his choice of words precise and he obviously thinks a lot about all of this: "Jazz critics said that my CD is trying to be a Weather Report record but it doesn't have the same nuances and fire. They say I'm recycling Jaco Pastorius licks. I can't help laughing because while here they are telling us we'll never be as good as Weather Report, I remember in 1978, Down Beat gave one of their best albums Mr. Gone only one star. At least we got two. We must be doing something right."
McBride recalled a "1995 feature article in the New York Times, the premise of which was that Miles Davis ruined every musician who came into his company after he electrified with Bitches Brew. Miles 'ruined John McLaughlin, Wayne Shorter and Joe Zawinul and had Branford Marsalis not played with Miles, he might never have joined Sting's band.' There was a sort of diagram with it, a kind of corruption tree with John Scofield and all these people hanging from it. Oh, come on!"
It is hard to believe that the same jazz/rock, acoustic/electric controversy is still raging in the world of jazz. It should be clear by now that the increasing frequency and creativity of many stylistic mixtures is inevitable. "Swing was different from dixieland and bebop was different from swing and that's okay with most people," McBride explained. "Since then it's become political. To a lot of people, jazz became an idea more than a music. The idea is to hold on to the familiar. They wonder who are these guys who don't wear suits and ties and use electric pianos, electric basses and a backbeat and turn it way up loud? When this band first started playing this music live, people would come up to us and say they loved it but 'I wish you guys were still playing straight ahead.' And I would say: 'We are playing straight ahead.' This is our music. Some critics think that playing electric bass is selling out. We're making advanced music.
"If selling out means to do something insincerely to make money, in my case that would be playing traditional jazz. If I were to unplug and put on a three-piece suit and play Cole Porter and George Gershwin all night long I could make money hand over fist. Then everything would be nice and neat like it was 50 years ago and they could say: 'Chris McBride is back to playing real jazz again.'
"Now, that would be selling out."
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Christian Is Doing The Right Thing. 1 of 2 Alan Chase March 24, 03
First of all, thanks to Mike Zwerin for this insightful piece. Second, cheers to Christian McBride for having the courage of his convictions, and for pursuing his current path. There is still too much of the electric versus acoustic nonsense going on in jazz. Good music is good music, period. And Christian makes good music whether it be jazz, funk, electronica, whatever. Ridiculous comparisons of one persons music to another, earlier group are moot. We should applaude the efforts of musicians like Christian McBride, John Scofield, Dave Douglas and others for doing what they can to move the music forward. One last comment. If you were to ask any of these musicians if they have forsaken jazz of the past, I'm sure they would say "no". Any one of these musicians have already proven that they can swing their butts off. We have plenty of musicians out there who have dedicated themselves to preserving the best jazz traditions of the past. Let's not continue to denigrate those who look forward rather than backwards.
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Hubble Sees Giant Lensed Galaxy Arc
Thanks to the presence of a natural "zoom lens" in space, this is a close-up look at the brightest distant "magnified" galaxy in the universe known to date. It is one of the most striking examples of gravitational lensing, where the gravitational field of a foreground galaxy bends and amplifies the light of a more distant background galaxy. In this image the light from a distant galaxy, nearly 10 billion light-years away, has been warped into a nearly 90-degree arc of light in the galaxy cluster RCS2 032727-132623. The galaxy cluster lies 5 billion light-years away. The background galaxy's image is over three times brighter than typically lensed galaxies. The natural-color image was taken in March 2011 with the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3.
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Dynamic C Plugins
C plugins register objects that implement the C_Actor interface. The plugin itself -- and even the C_Actor implementation -- may be C++ classes (using static methods). In this case, I implemented everything in C, just to ensure the system supports pure C plugins (there were a few compilation gotchas before it worked). The C plugin registers a single monster called MellowMonster. The header file of this quaint monster is presented in Example 4. This is a C object, so there is no class definition only the global functions MellowMonster_create() and MellowMonster_destroy(), which correspond to PF_CreateFunc and PF_DestroyFunc. The names are qualified with the monster type because, in general, a single plugin may register monster types with different pairs of create()/destroy() functions and in C we can't hide them in a namespace or as static methods of a class.
#ifndef MELLOW_MONSTER_H #define MELLOW_MONSTER_H #include <plugin_framework/plugin.h> // static plugin interface void * MellowMonster_create(PF_ObjectParams *); apr_int32_t MellowMonster_destroy(void *); #endif
Example 5 presents the actual monster. It's just a struct that contains a C_Actor member and optionally more monster-specific data. Not much of a monster so far.
typedef struct MellowMonster_ { C_Actor actor; /* additional monster-specific data */ apr_uint32_t dummy; } MellowMonster;
Example 6 is the implementation of the C_Actor interface and consists of two static functions (not visible outside of this compilation unit) -- MellowMonster_getInitialInfo() and MellowMonster_play() -- that correspond to the IActor methods. The big difference is that the C++ methods get the object instance as the implicit 'this' pointer. In C, you must pass a C_ActorHandle explicitly (well, not you, but the PluginManager) and the C functions laboriously cast the handle to a MellowMonster pointer. When the C_Turn object is used in the play() function, you must pass it its own handle too.
void MellowMonster_getInitialInfo(C_ActorHandle handle, C_ActorInfo * info) { MellowMonster * mm = (MellowMonster *)handle; strcpy((char *)info->name, "MellowMonster"); info->attack = 10; info->damage = 3; info->defense = 8; info->health = 20; info->movement = 2; /* Irrelevant. Will be assigned by system later */ info->id = 0; info->location_x = 0; info->location_y = 0; } void MellowMonster_play(C_ActorHandle handle, C_Turn * turn) { MellowMonster * mm = (MellowMonster *)handle; C_ActorInfoIterator * friends = turn->getFriends(turn->handle); }
Example 7 contains the MellowMonster_create() and MellowMonster_destroy() functions and ties up loose ends. The MellowMonster_create() function allocates a MellowMonster struct (using malloc, of course), assigns the pointer to the handle member of the actor field (without checking if the memory allocation failed, boo :-), and goes one to assign the MellowMonster_getInitialInfo() and MellowMonster_play() functions to proper function pointers. Finally it returns the MellowMonster pointer as an opaque void pointer. It is important that the C_Actor interface be the first member of the MellowMonster struct, because the PluginManager (via the adapter) casts the returned void pointer to a C_Actor pointer and treats it as such from then on.
The MellowMonster_destroy() frees the memory. If there is any need for destructor-like cleanup, it can do it too.
Let's check the initialization code of the C plugin in Listing Four. It looks just like the C++ plugin. This isn't surprising because it is a C function that needs to prepare a C struct and call yet another C function. The only real difference is that the registered programming language for MellowMonster is PF_ProgrammingLanguage_C. That tells the PluginManager that it's dealing with a C object and it should adapt it.
#ifdef WIN32 #include "stdafx.h" #endif #include "c_plugin.h" #include "c_plugin.h" #include "plugin_framework/plugin.h" #include "MellowMonster.h" PLUGIN_API apr_int32_t ExitFunc() { return 0; } PLUGIN_API PF_ExitFunc PF_initPlugin(const PF_PlatformServices * params) { int res = 0; PF_RegisterParams rp; rp.version.major = 1; rp.version.minor = 0; // Regiater MellowMonster rp.createFunc = MellowMonster_create; rp.destroyFunc = MellowMonster_destroy; rp.programmingLanguage = PF_ProgrammingLanguage_C; res = params->registerObject((const apr_byte_t *)"MellowMonster", &rp); if (res < 0) return NULL; return ExitFunc; }
As you can see, working at the C API level is much thornier. You need pass explicit handles around, cast a lot, pay attention to function names, and hook up free functions to your monster C_Actor interfaces. It's not fun, but it's survivable if you must work with C.


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I decided last minute that I did not want to let the exciting Digital Scrapbook Day pass me by, and so I have made this little kit that I'll be giving away over the weekend. Be sure to stop by and see what's happening because the links won't be up for long, and once they're gone...well you know . I'm sure there will be lots of exciting things happening around the web, and if you want to post links to great things you've found please head to this thread.
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Scorpion genome decoded
Arachnid's DNA reveals how the animal survives its own venom
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This may sting a little: Scorpions have about 10,000 more genes than humans do.
The Chinese golden scorpion, Mesobuthus martensii, has at least 32,016 genes, Zhijian Cao of Wuhan University in China and colleagues report October 15 in Nature Communications. Humans have just over 22,000 genes.
The researchers found 116 genes that encode neurotoxins, including 45 previously unknown ones. Many of the neurotoxins paralyze proteins in cell membranes that open and close to generate electrical signals, which nerve cells use to communicate. Mutations in the scorpion's own membrane protein genes make the arachnid immune to its own venom.
Scorpions also have 160 enzymes that help them digest fats and detoxify plant chemicals from the herbivorous insects they eat. Some of these enzymes transform a chemical called coumarin into fluorescent compounds that make the animals glow blue under UV light, the team found.
The animals also make a type of light-sensing protein called Mmopsin3 in their tails. The protein senses ultraviolet to blue light. At least 20 other proteins made in the scorpion's tail help transmit the light signal from the skin to the brain, the researchers discovered.
Z. Cao et al. The genome of Mesobuthus martensii reveals a unique adaptation model of arthropods. Nature Communications. Vol. 4, October 15, 2013, p. 2602. doi: 10.1038/ncomms3602.
R. Cheung. Gene might help sponges see. Science News online. March 23, 2012.
N. Seppa. Scorpion venom neutralized. Science News online. May 13, 2009.