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Don't you just love it? The HOLIDAYS! I do, I do.
I love the excitement in little one's faces as I speak with them about Santa, Rudolph and presents while I'm waiting in line at the grocery store.
I love to decorate the house, bake my heart out..cookies, fudge, Waldorf Astoria Red Velvet Cake (which I just removed from the oven), lefse and a huge standing ribeye roast for dinner tomorrow. That roast cost me more than a week of groceries!
I love the excitement of the students at work. The excitement of Christmas, of Christmas Break.
I love to watch Tyler and Troy pick through the cookie platter, arrange and rearrange the presents under the tree, talk out the Christmas festivities..they love it as much as I.
It's a wonderful time.
I hope you are all enjoying the Holidays as much as I am.
I guess I took some time off here. Now going on seven years blogging and I had never taken over a week break. I guess it was time. I've been busy. Working full time at school and part time at Macy's, coaching beginning runners and my online clients, getting in my own running and lifting..and getting ready for the Holiday's.
In the past month Tyler turned 18! 18! I can't even believe it. Next week I'll turn 45! Wow. Many of my friends are turning 50+ and they are showing me that it is looking damn good :) Remember how awful I felt about turning 40? Thank goodness that business is in the past. I look forward to each year now.
I'm still enjoying the miles on the trail, on the road, wherever I can get them in. I've been snowshoe running lately. From tonight to Friday we are supposed to have 14-20 " of snow. I hope so!
Last week I went downhill skiing for the first time. It was a total blast. The boys were amazed that I didn't suck. I suck at snowboarding so they were expecting the same rate of suckage.
Thank you for all of the emails asking how I was doing and checking in, all of the Holiday wishes. I appreciate it!
Happy Holidays to all of you!
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
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Merry Christmas! I love your site. I got off track this year but kept on reading as you ran and inspired. I hope you and your family have a wonderful holiday together. Thanks so much for being such a bright spot on the web. You're awesome!
Happy Holidays Julie! My oldest just turned 18 on the 23rd! Glad you are back to blogging! I was going through Julie withdrawl!
- SteveQ said...
Merry Xmas! And, if you don't post again before New Years, happy birthday, too!
- Olga said...
Happy Holidays to you and yours, Jul!
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Through the legs: Coric's 'tweener' draws bows at Davis Cup
Through the legs: Coric's 'tweener' draws bows at Davis CupBorna Coric of Croatia celebrates after defeating Steve Johnson of the United States during a Davis Cup semifinal singles tennis match between Croatia and the United States in Zadar, Croatia, Friday, Sept. 14, 2018. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)
ZADAR, Croatia (AP) -- Borna Coric pulled off a through-the-legs lob shot winner that had the crowd bowing in admiration during the Davis Cup semifinals on Friday.
Early in the third set of a 6-4, 7-6 (4), 6-3 victory over Steve Johnson, Coric ran down a lob and replied with a shot known as a ''tweener'' that flew over the head of his 6-foot-2 (1.88-meter) opponent and landed within inches of the baseline.
Later, sixth-ranked Marin Cilic gave Croatia a 2-0 lead over the United States with a 6-1, 6-3, 7-6 (5) victory over Davis Cup debutant Frances Tiafoe.
Carlos Ramos, the chair umpire who penalized Serena Williams in the U.S. Open final, officiated the second match without incident.
The 21-year-old Coric, considered one of the top up-and-coming players in the game, said he had never before even come close to landing such a difficult shot.
''I normally go somehow around my back,'' he said. ''But I just felt that I can do it. It was not such an important point, so I just did it. Honestly I never do it in practice as well, so I don't know how it was that good, to be honest. It was really luck.
''I did mean it (to be a lob) but I thought I'm going to miss by a lot,'' Coric added. ''But I made it.''
U.S. captain Jim Courier, a four-time Grand Slam winner as a player, was impressed.
''It was special. That was a great shot. That one will be on a highlight reel for a while,'' Courier said. ''Of course he lost the next point, and it counted the same, so I always remind myself that though they look good they only count the same as the next point coming.''
Moments earlier, the 18th-ranked Coric had landed a delicate forehand drop-shot winner to close out a close second-set tiebreak.
''He came up with some good stuff today,'' Johnson said.
Cilic breezed through the first set in 26 minutes, but Tiafoe pushed the 2014 U.S. Open winner over the second half of the match.
''In the third set he showed that he's capable of playing great tennis. He was serving really good and also hitting well from the back,'' Cilic said. ''I was definitely a little bit lucky toward the end of that tiebreak to win it.''
With his 37th Davis Cup victory, Cilic moved atop Croatia's all-time list, one ahead of Ivan Ljubicic.
''In these later stages of my career I enjoy it so much to play Davis Cup,'' Cilic said.
In Saturday's doubles, Croatia's Ivan Dodig and Mate Pavic will face Mike Bryan and Ryan Harrison with a chance to clinch the best-of-five series. The reverse singles are on Sunday.
The winner on an outdoor clay court along the Dalmatian coast will meet either France or Spain in the final.
Croatia is looking to extend its perfect record over the U.S. to 5-0.
''They're good at tennis,'' Courier said. ''They've been good at tennis for quite a long while and they certainly know how to come together as a team and when you have the depth that they have you're tough to beat.''
More AP tennis coverage: https://www.apnews.com/tag/apf-Tennis and https://twitter.com/AP-Sports

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Texas Comptroller reports big jump in revenue
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The state comptroller estimates that Texas will generate $96.2 billion in general revenue in 2014-2015, a major jump in tax collection from the last two-year budget cycle.
Republican Comptroller Susan Combs on Monday was releasing her biennial revenue estimate. The crucial number sets the limit on what lawmakers can spend for 2014 and 2015, when Democrats and teachers hope to reverse, or at least bandage, deep cuts in the current budget that included $5.4 billion slashed from public education.
Combs reported Monday that the state collected $8.8 billion more revenue during the current 2012-2013 revenue cycle than she initially forecast, giving lawmakers breathing room in settling a $5.2 billion deficit in the current budget.
"Texas experienced a very strong rebound from a severe recession," Combs said.
Over the next two years, Combs expects more than $3.6 billion will automatically go into the Rainy Day Fund, which is available to lawmakers when needed. That will leave $92.6 billion for lawmakers to divvy out.
But that doesn't mean they will spend all of it.
Lawmakers don't have to spend all the money Combs says is available — and chances are they probably won't. Gov. Rick Perry and Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst have promised to limit any increase in state spending to a sum of population growth plus inflation, or 9.85 percent.
Under current conditions, their plan would create a general revenue budget of $89.29 billion. Combs' estimate in January 2011 was $72.2 billion in general-purpose spending available.
Texas' economy is humming again after lawmakers in 2011 wrote a cut-to-the-bone budget as the nation lurched out of the Great Recession.
At the time, unemployment in the state was the highest in a decade and the Legislature faced a $27 billion shortfall. But unemployment now is at a four-year low of 6.2 percent, sales tax receipts are skyrocketing and money is pouring into state coffers behind a new energy boom.


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NASAA President Joseph P. Borg to Testify Before U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging
WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 30, 2007) – North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA) President and Alabama Securities Commission Director Joseph P. Borg will discuss ongoing efforts of state securities regulators to protect senior investors from misleading "free lunch" seminars and professional designations in testimony Wednesday, September 5, before the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging, chaired by Sen. Herb Kohl (D-WI).
"On behalf of NASAA, I commend Chairman Kohl for his Committee's ongoing investigation of investment fraud targeting our nation's seniors," Borg said. "State securities regulators share Chairman Kohl's outrage at the practices used by unscrupulous brokers and other predators who swindle seniors out of the hard-earned money they need for a secure retirement."
Borg will be among the witnesses called to testify at a hearing entitled "Advising Seniors About Their Money: Who Is Qualified – and Who Is Not?" The hearing is scheduled for 3 p.m., September 5 in Room 628, Dirksen Senate Office Building. Additional details about the hearing will be available on the Committee's website. Borg's testimony also will be available on the NASAA website here.
"This Committee's examination of investment fraud against the growing senior population is an important step in highlighting a serious problem and working toward solutions," Borg said.
NASAA is the oldest international organization devoted to investor protection. Its membership consists of the securities administrators in the 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, the provinces and territories of Canada, and Mexico.
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Mapping technology took a giant leap backward when Apple released iOS 6, casting aside Google Maps in favor of their own Apple "maps". Grammarly, those quote marks are there for a reason.
9:23PM EST December 10. 2012 - SYDNEY (AP) — "Australian police are warning the public that errors in Apple's much-maligned mapping application are leading drivers headed to the southern city of Mildura to take a potentially "life-threatening" wrong turn into the middle of a remote state park."
Source: "Police: Apple Maps has dangerous Australian error". USA Today. http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2012/12/10/apple-maps-australia-error/1759991/
Mashable reports there is a mini-fix, but we aren't holding our breath:
Mr. Myrt and I noticed mapping errors on our iPhones while traveling cross-country in the US this fall.
Fortunately none proved potentially fatal.
Happy family tree climbing!
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Hello Friend,
I advise you to read this interesting article recently published in the Annals of Family Medicine.
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Julie Miller, Enterprise columnist
Posted: 10/17/2009
(Permission was granted to me, Barbara Poole, to publish her excellent article)
Identifying females is one of the hardest challenges genealogists face.
It might be that only the first name and married surname are known. Or perhaps a daughter disappears from census records and it is not known whom she married. The biggest obstacle when researching women is that their name changed when they married. This is compounded by fewer records. Before the 20th century, women did not have the same rights as men and, therefore, they generated considerably fewer records. Although few research problems are as difficult as finding the identity of females in our family history, there are records and strategies that can be used to overcome the challenges.
Often the answer to identifying a woman can be found in the records of her husband, son or brother. Men owned the land, they ran the businesses and their lives were recorded in more detail than women`s. Look for clues about women in the records of the men in their lives.
Records relating to a child`s birth, marriage and death will often give the mother`s maiden name. Even a child`s name can be a clue about a mother`s maiden name. Children are often named after grandparents, uncles and aunts. A clue to a maiden name might be in a child`s unusual first or middle name when the name is typically a surname.
Women can be found as witnesses on records. Marriage, baptismal and other legal documents are all examples of the types of records a woman might have witnessed. Making a connection between the woman witnessing the event and the names in the documents can lead to finding a woman`s identity.
Some records that can be useful in finding female identities are:
1. Marriage records are the most obvious place to look for a maiden name and names of parents. This could be a civil marriage license or bond, a church marriage record or marriage announcement. If the name of parents is not included, be sure to check the marriage records for all known siblings, since they might have information not included in the record for your direct line.
2. Death records usually include the maiden name of the deceased. They also might include the mother`s maiden name. Again, checking for all the siblings of your direct line will increase the odds of finding the names of parents.
3. Church records usually list the maiden name of the mother in the baptismal record and the maiden name of the woman in a marriage record. A closer examination of church records will reveal that women were often witnesses for the baptisms and marriages of close family members.
4. Land records frequently show the passing of land ownership from one generation to the next. These records provide the names of wives and married daughters, and in some cases, the names of the daughter`s husband.
5. Wills and probate records are one of the most useful records when looking for a woman`s identity. Parents usually named each child in their will and it is common for each child to receive a portion of the estate. A woman also could have been named in the will and probate of grandparents and other relatives. Married names are usually used, and the name of their spouse also might be listed.
6. Pension files might include the maiden name of a pensioner`s wife. They also can include affidavits from close family members who might be related to the wife. Widow pension files should have the maiden name in the proof that the woman was married to the pensioner.
7. Obituaries frequently list the maiden name of females or give the names of their parents. Additionally, a married name will be given when a woman is listed in her the obituary of her father, mother or sibling.
8. Letters and diaries can be a source of information about females and their families. These are usually found in family records, either immediate family or that of a collateral line. If you suspect letters and diaries exist for a female in your genealogy but have not located the items, perhaps they have been donated to a repository. Check for these treasures in the National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC), which is available online.
9. Census records are easily accessible and are full of information on female ancestors. Although census records do not ask for a maiden name, they give many clues about a woman`s origins. It is common to find children living with parents directly after they marry and for parents to live with married children as they age.
10. Cemetery records might list maiden names and they often hold clues about a family. People often bought cemetery lots close to other family members or bought lots large enough to accommodate extended family members. Look for the relationship between the deceased and the owner of the cemetery lot, which may be listed on the cemetery record.
Females make up half of our ancestry, yet they are often neglected. Be sure you don`t shortchange the females in your family just because the research takes a little extra effort.
Julie Miller is a certified genealogists. She is a genealogy researcher, lecturer, and writer. If you have a genealogy question, send it to firstname.lastname@example.com.
My blog has been changed to make it more appealing for those who have New England ancestors and want to see the area through photos. Things I'll include are typical white New England churches, libraries showing their genealogical collection, historical societies, cemeteries, war memorials, in general, anything to do with history.
For four years I've blogged mostly about my personal genealogy in New England (Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, and New Hampshire), New York, New Jersey, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, and the Eastern Townships of Quebec, Canada. I still will, can't forget my own roots.
Please check out the labels on the right side for articles. The header tabs at the top are a work in progress.
Thursday, October 22, 2009
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Today on the way home from work, i heard the skreech. You know the one. The one you hear in anticipation of the big car crash. Well i finally heard that crash. It was so satisfying. Almost as satisfying as saying the word "CONTAINER" – It just rolls. I hope it was some yuppie fuck coming back from Fresh Fields in their new Mercedes. Ha! And next time i will have my MiniDisc recorder ready.
Tonight Mom brought back stuff from Fresh Fields for our weekly dinner. Yum…those $4.99 anything you want in a sandwhich is the bomb ass digity. And she bought be Chocolate Soymilk. Cos I had been talking about how much i'd been drinking over at Emily's place. My god. My Mother rules. And she seems to like those same chips that Emily likes so much. Weird.
i would just like to display my utter disgust with adam wayne lehman
Then after dinner I went to the Giant to get my new prescription filled for Clarinex. Yum. And some jolted 16 year old told me to come back after 25 mins. So i went to the video store to get some videos for when Emily comes over later. I then got a call from her and she cathartically complained about her mother for 20 minutes. Her problems with her mother are the same as with my mother and her father. It's uncanny. The stubborn-ness factor is sick. So i got some movies (Queer as Folk vol 1 & The Time Machine) and the popcorn we both love. It's that Blockbuster popcorn that comes in the tub. It's soooo good. And it's microwavable which i hate. So after Blockbuster i went back to Giant to pick up my meds from that disaffected youth and waited another 20 mins. Yeah, didnt you say 25 mins? Fuck you. But while I was waiting I saw that girl from high school who had the kid. She looked really cute walking in there with her mother and her Nike shows and flared jeans. Makes me feel ok for living with my rents so long. Eh. What am i talking about, i have no quams with it. Anyways…So i got my meds and came come to find Mrs. Zalcman there talking with the Moms. So we chatted for a bit. And I told her to give Emily a hard time at her first Sedar next week. Or something.
why the fuck does dictionary.com sometimes never work
So the woman (mad MILF) I have a big crush on was talking with me and Laura about when we move in together. It turns out she lives in same neighborhood and has a dog that needs walking for when the husband goes on vacation. Yup yup! I get to be that guy. Heh. And she couldnt stop talking about my new hair cut. Everyone also thought I took yesterday off to get a haircut. I think that is funny. And I had no problem telling them I took a Mental Health Day. We all need more of those.
And yes, i got to use my RADISH trivia when we listened to the new Ben Kweller at the Music Director's weekly listening party. The Program Director was either impressed or disgusted. I think a little of both. To my benefit I will never know.
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Re: Re: More /.{I->-1} craziness. Schools are conservative. So are [people]
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- From: Andrzej Kozlowski <akozlowski at gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 05:41:19 -0500 (EST)
On 21 Jan 2010, at 10:51, Richard Fateman wrote: > David Park wrote: >> Again, I have to strongly disagree with AES and RJF. > You are entitled to. AES says he has 50 years of experience; I have 35+. "One foot in the grave" is not necessarily the best stand point for viewing the future ;-) While I find myself in an unusual situation of agreeing with most of what follows (except of course RJF's) I think David Park specifically had in mind Mathematica's 6 and 7 "Dynamic" functionality. This is something in which Mathematica currently has no competitors among CAS systems and in fact in practice its only competitor is Java. This functionality is entirely lost if you replace an .nb or .nbp file with a pdf. Its usefulness obviously depends on the area one applies it to. For example, it is almost incredibly useful in the area of financial mathematics but not at all in algebraic topology (just two examples chosen from personal experience). In others the mileage will very. Since I agree with David that printed journals also have one foot in the grave (perhaps more) and online publishing is the future, most of the comments below do not appear to be relevant. Andrzej Kozlowski > > Active, dynamic >> textbooks and papers backed by a good CAS will displace static documents. >> They are better for learning, teaching and communication. I will repeat my >> arguments again, > > .. arguments snipped out... > >> >> AES and RJF look for flaws in Mathematica (and certainly it's worthwhile to >> have skeptics and critics) but what about flaws in present practices? > > The problems of adoption of software as you advocate are NOT especially > dependent on the problems or flaws that we point out. Indeed, most > people who fail to adopt this software are not even aware of these > flaws, but simply say the programs are too expensive and would require > additional time to learn or teach, or would take extra time in courses > to teach, and would require extra people, and how about the cost of > computer labs, and anyway I'm too old to learn a new program, etc. > > > > >> There >> are plenty of them and they are glaring. > > Which makes you wonder if anyone reads them, and furthermore why would > anyone care if they had computer programs-- they might be buggy and no > one would know either?? > > > .. more snip... > > of explanations of why David Park is advocating nice things. > >> >> Now to your questions and objections. >> >> I readily admit that there are HUGE problems to solve to make these ideas >> work. (Universal ability to read notebooks, early training, preparation of >> adequate material.) That doesn't mean it wouldn't be worth it. > > I think there are lots of possibilities for long-term improvement of > education that will not happen because of short-term inhibition. I > think there are even more specifically for Mathematica. >> >> I don't know of any studies to test if this will work. I doubt if any such >> test has been done. I don't know how one could set up such a test without >> the preconditions above. > > See Murray Eisenberg's note. >> >> I don't think that a professor should be told to teach Mathematica instead >> of quantum mechanics. Unfortunately, that is what happens now! My point is >> that students should know Mathematica BEFORE they take the quantum mechanics >> course. > > There are lots of things that students SHOULD know that they don't > (about alcohol, drugs, music, sex.) Mathematica per se is WAY down the list. > >> >> An Extra course might help, in freshman year. But students with a potential >> for a technical career should be introduced to Mathematica in secondary >> school. > > I cannot see this happening, even if you substitute "computer algebra > system" for the word "Mathematica" > > > > >> I wouldn't attempt to convince printed journals to accept Mathematica >> notebooks. > > If I encounter a reference to on-line Mathematica notebook that purports > to be a technical contribution on a subject of interest to me, I will > generally NOT read it via Mathematica. I will instead look for a PDF or > other static presentation. And I HAVE Mathematica at my disposal. > > So far as I can recall, I've downloaded a .nb only ONCE, and I didn't > run it to the end. > > Off the top of my head, here are some of the problems. > > 1. I want to read the deliberately extracted, summarized, and > carefully- written exposition of the subject matter. I want to read it > in a linear fashion, not with out-of-sequence links to references or > footnotes or programs. Good technical science writing is a skill, > though now much in decline, and peppering a document with links is no > substitute. > > 2. Programs generally are hard to read. They are especially hard to read > when they are poorly written, which is most of the time. If I want to > see them, I am willing to look for them. > If the point of the paper is "look at the programs" and the programs are > polished, that is a different paper than one that says "look at the > math." It is sort of like a fine dinner, where there are some delectable > items on the plate. You don't ordinarily welcome (on the same plate) > evidence that the animal you are eating was grass fed -- here is its > stomach --. > > > 3. I would be willing, as a teacher, to consider a textbook-like online > object with computer links, but I would first seek some evidence that > this was an excellently-composed object, by an authoritative and skilled > expositor. (e.g. reviewed by a reputable person). I would be eager, as > a researcher, to find such an object which was a reference book and also= > was interactive. There are probably some such worthy books > (Zwillinger's Differential Equations comes to mind.) > > While it might help to have tools such as those promoted by David Park= > (or WRI), it is by no means an assurance of quality. The presence of a > ".nb" after a file name is no assurance that the contents of the file is= > worthwhile. And if one returns to the notion that .nb implies > Mathematica [some version or other] and its notable flaws at least to > date, the .nb notation is almost a guarantee of some "gotchas" and hence= > I would especially avoid .nb objects, and most especially on topics of > numerical analysis, where the design flaws are, in my opinion, so > fundamental. Example (mathematica 7.0): > {x >== 1, x > 1, x > 0, x} > evaluates to > {True, False, False, 0.} > > can you construct x? > > RJF > > > One possible answer, below.... > > > x==0``-.5 >


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Waving signs and cheering loudly, hundreds of Second Amendment supporters gathered on the south lawn of the Alabama Capitol on Saturday to voice their opinions about gun control.
Several speakers addressed the audience, explaining how proposed gun control legislation would restrict their rights. A recurring message of the day was that responsible gun owners should be left alone.
"The current administration wants to control every aspect of our lives," Agriculture Commissioner John McMillan said to the crowd. "We need to use our state motto -- 'dare to defend our rights.'"
Rallies at statehouses nationwide were organized by Eric Reed, an airline captain from the Houston area who in November started a group called "More Gun Control (equals) More Crime." Its Facebook page has been "liked" by more than 17,000 people, according to the Associated Press. The rallies were held days after President Barack Obama unveiled a sweeping package of federal gun-control proposals.
As word of the "Guns Across America" effort spread across social media, Bianca and Stephen Burton of Birmingham decided to organize an event in Alabama.
"We are overwhelmed with all the support," Bianca Burton said. "These are just genuine, good Alabama people who love their country."
She said although the event was about supporting the Second Amendment, it also was an opportunity to counter misinformation on a national level. Attendee Tracy Sanders of Elmore County echoed that sentiment.
"The general consensus from most of the people out here is that it's a conspiracy to eliminate firearms because the coverage is one-sided," Sanders said. "We just want to get the facts out there."
Michael Hart, who hosts a radio talk show out of Birmingham, served as emcee for the event, introducing each speaker while captivating the crowd. Hart didn't shy away from the title of conservative, receiving applause after stating his political affiliation.
For Chris Robinson, who is originally from North Carolina but currently stationed at Maxwell Air Force Base, the day wasn't about politics but about having his voice heard in an engaging conversation.
"We want to use this forum to show we don't all agree," Robinson said. "Our elected leadership needs to listen to what their constituents have to say. Those that oppose us are louder with their opinions, and they're entitled to them. We just want to show our support for the elected officials who respectfully disagree. There doesn't need to be any mud-slinging. There needs to be an educational debate."
People at the rally were given the opportunity to sign petitions, which will be sent to their U.S. senators. The rally was sponsored by state Sen. Scott Beason, R-Gardendale.


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What can a group of MIT students do together to galvanize community service initiatives? Well, when there's a challenge involved, much more than anyone expected.
This year, Greek and residence communities on campus have rallied their immediate community to help others in significant ways while strengthening community bonds within their fraternities, sororities, independent living groups and dorms (FSILG&D) in the inagural year of the FSILG&D Community Service Challenge, sponsored by the 484 Phi Alpha Foundation and the Undergraduate Association and organized by the MIT Public Service Center (PSC).
During the five-week challenge — from Feb. 28 through April 1 — students were challenged with identifying public needs, exploring opportunities and initiating relevant service projects. "Volunteering brings lots of people together and develops an altruistic attitude that improves the community," says Next House resident Antuan Weeks, an MIT freshman who, along with other residents, held benefits for the Japan earthquake and tsunami disaster, volunteered at animal shelters and at the MIT Relay for Life.
Brothers of Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE) were motivated to participate in the challenge by their service chair, sophomore Scott Landers. "We took this as an opportunity to give other brothers the chance to experience service that they hadn't before," Landers says. The Boston Museum of Science, Habitat for Humanity and Big Brothers Big Sisters have all benefited from SAE service.
The fraternity of Phi Delta Theta (Phi Delta) mobilized when the earthquake and tsunami disaster struck Japan. Three days after the earthquake, the brothers of Phi Delta hosted one of their largest fundraisers in recent years. Brothers collected donations at a booth in the student center. "We reached out to all of our friends and several local media outlets to educate people on the disaster and how donations can be a big help," says sophomore Brian Bell, community service chair of the fraternity. With a grant from the PSC, Phi Delta raised more than $8,600 for Japan.
When Theta Delta Chi was looking for a cause that the brothers could unite around they found an answer in which they each had a personal stake. Their Resident Advisor suffers from a brain tumor and needs continuous chemotherapy. As well, the son of their chef had recently recovered from brain cancer. Ten brothers, with the support of a PSC grant, traveled to Camp Sunshine in Maine to volunteer with children who suffered from cancer.
Throughout the challenge, student team leaders of the participating FSILG&Ds encouraged and tracked the service involvement and philanthropic contributions of their team members. On Wednesday, April 20, these service activities will be judged and the team with the biggest community impact and student learning will be awarded the 2011 Service Cup. The winning team will be announced at a celebration dinner at 7:30 p.m. in Twenty Chimneys. The winners of the Service Cup will earn bragging rights as service leaders on campus, until next year when they'll need to defend their title by again rallying their fellow students to engage in community service.
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In July 2012, responding to allegations that the video-chat service Skype -- owned by Microsoft -- was changing its protocols to make it possible for the government to eavesdrop on users, Corporate Vice President Mark Gillett took to the company's blog to deny it.
Or at least he -- or the company's lawyers -- carefully crafted a statement that could be defended as true while completely deceiving the reader. You see, Skype wasn't changing its protocols to make it possible for the government to eavesdrop on users, because the government was already able to eavesdrop on users.
At a Senate hearing in March, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper assured the committee that his agency didn't collect data on hundreds of millions of Americans. He was lying, too. He later defended his lie by inventing a new definition of the word "collect," an excuse that didn't even pass the laugh test.
As Edward Snowden's documents reveal more about the NSA's activities, it's becoming clear that we can't trust anything anyone official says about these programs.
Google and Facebook insist that the NSA has no "direct access" to their servers. Of course not; the smart way for the NSA to get all the data is through sniffers.
Apple says it's never heard of PRISM. Of course not; that's the internal name of the NSA database. Companies are publishing reports purporting to show how few requests for customer-data access they've received, a meaningless number when a single Verizon request can cover all of their customers. The Guardian reported that Microsoft secretly worked with the NSA to subvert the security of Outlook, something it carefully denies. Even President Obama's justifications and denials are phrased with the intent that the listener will take his words very literally and not wonder what they really mean.
NSA Director Gen. Keith Alexander has claimed that the NSA's massive surveillance and data mining programs have helped stop more than 50 terrorist plots, 10 inside the U.S. Do you believe him? I think it depends on your definition of "helped." We're not told whether these programs were instrumental in foiling the plots or whether they just happened to be of minor help because the data was there. It also depends on your definition of "terrorist plots." An examination (PDF) of plots that that FBI claims to have foiled since 9/11 reveals that would-be terrorists have commonly been delusional, and most have been egged on by FBI undercover agents or informants.
Left alone, few were likely to have accomplished much of anything.
Both government agencies and corporations have cloaked themselves in so much secrecy that it's impossible to verify anything they say; revelation after revelation demonstrates that they've been lying to us regularly and tell the truth only when there's no alternative.
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There's much more to come. Right now, the press has published only a tiny percentage of the documents Snowden took with him. And Snowden's files are only a tiny percentage of the number of secrets our government is keeping, awaiting the next whistle-blower.
Ronald Reagan once said "trust but verify." That works only if we can verify. In a world where everyone lies to us all the time, we have no choice but to trust blindly, and we have no reason to believe that anyone is worthy of blind trust. It's no wonder that most people are ignoring the story; it's just too much cognitive dissonance to try to cope with it.
This sort of thing can destroy our country. Trust is essential in our society. And if we can't trust either our government or the corporations that have intimate access into so much of our lives, society suffers. Study after study demonstrates the value of living in a high-trust society and the costs of living in a low-trust one.
Rebuilding trust is not easy, as anyone who has betrayed or been betrayed by a friend or lover knows, but the path involves transparency, oversight and accountability. Transparency first involves coming clean. Not a little bit at a time, not only when you have to, but complete disclosure about everything. Then it involves continuing disclosure. No more secret rulings by secret courts about secret laws. No more secret programs whose costs and benefits remain hidden.
Oversight involves meaningful constraints on the NSA, the FBI and others. This will be a combination of things: a court system that acts as a third-party advocate for the rule of law rather than a rubber-stamp organization, a legislature that understands what these organizations are doing and regularly debates requests for increased power, and vibrant public-sector watchdog groups that analyze and debate the government's actions.
Accountability means that those who break the law, lie to Congress or deceive the American people are held accountable. The NSA has gone rogue, and while it's probably not possible to prosecute people for what they did under the enormous veil of secrecy it currently enjoys, we need to make it clear that this behavior will not be tolerated in the future. Accountability also means voting, which means voters need to know what our leaders are doing in our name.
This is the only way we can restore trust. A market economy doesn't work unless consumers can make intelligent buying decisions based on accurate product information. That's why we have agencies like the FDA, truth-in-packaging laws and prohibitions against false advertising.
In the same way, democracy can't work unless voters know what the government is doing in their name. That's why we have open-government laws. Secret courts making secret rulings on secret laws, and companies flagrantly lying to consumers about the insecurity of their products and services, undermine the very foundations of our society.
Since the Snowden documents became public, I have been receiving e-mails from people seeking advice on whom to trust. As a security and privacy expert, I'm expected to know which companies protect their users' privacy and which encryption programs the NSA can't break. The truth is, I have no idea. No one outside the classified government world does. I tell people that they have no choice but to decide whom they trust and to then trust them as a matter of faith. It's a lousy answer, but until our government starts down the path of regaining our trust, it's the only thing we can do.


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DNR executes controlled burn to prevent grass fires
Warmer weather means barbecue pits are fired up and bonfires at night. Meanwhile, others are at work taking steps to lower the grass-fire risk in southeastern Wisconsin.
Thick white smoke billowed above the trees in the Kettle Moraine State Forest in Waukesha County on Monday, but the flames were stoked with a purpose as the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources executed a controlled burn.
Walking along Highway 67 near the town of Eagle, Fire Chief Justin Heim kept close watch on the work as hundreds of acres of state forest land was set on fire in an effort to help minimize the fire risk later in spring.
"Well, we've been pretty fortunate so far. As we're getting out of winter into more of a spring season, things are starting to dry out. We've got a lot of dead growth in not only the forest lands but in the fields and close to homes," Heim said. "With the winds we've had recently and things starting to dry out, the risk is always there."
The high fire risk this time of year is not from a lack of rain but rather fueled by dead and dry brush left over from the winter.
"The undergrowth becomes highly flammable, so they want to back-burn a lot of this not only to stimulate new growth for new ecology, but then to also take care of any fire risk that may be building up underneath the trees to keep the fire risk to an absolute minimum," Heim said.
Heim said there is a great threat for grass fires right now because the area is in the crucial time period when the weather starts to warm up, but everything has yet to green up.
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Hongjin Park is a 2011 graduate of Penn Law LLM program. He worked as a policy coordinator and lawyer for government Ministries of the Republic of Korea, including Korea Fair Trade Commission, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Prime Minister's Office, and Ministry of Strategy and Finance. Before Penn Law School, Hongjin was a 2009/10 Hubert H. Humphrey fellow at the Morin Center for Banking and Financial Law of Boston University. He earned his LLB and Master's degree from Seoul National University College of Law.
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- Regulation of Shadow Banking System
- Safety Net for Nonbank Financial Institutions
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- Efficiency Defense in Merger Law Enforcement (Master's Degree Dissertation)
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Lots of dreamy, drone-y stuff. I joined Spotify a couple of weeks ago, which has made such a huge difference, so much better than Pandora (my only complaint being the advertisements for super pop-y dance music that interrupt every now and then, which are incredibly jarring when nudged between the mellow music I prefer). A few new-to-me artists/bands I'm loving: Chelsea Wolfe, Widowspeak, Barn Owl, and Still Corners, SUN O)))). Basically anything that's melodic and maybe a little dark is perfect for work, I have a hard time concentrating when there's too much going on in a song.
Lawless. So brutal, so good. I will watch Tom Hardy on screen any day of the week, and I didn't realize until now that that Nick Cave wrote the screenplay, which makes it even better. We also just finished the first and only season of Undeclared, which has made me nostalgic for the late 90's and early college.
I just finished The Vanishers which was strange and different but completely read-able. Now I'm about three-quarters of the way through Freakonomics, which I'm also enjoying.
Excited About:
I've started taking a yoga class twice a week and I love it! I cancelled my gym membership last month, and while I'll probably join a new one after the holidays, yoga has been the perfect accompaniment to my running routine. Ideally, I'd love to not have to join a gym again, so my next goal is to purchase a set of weights and a kettlebell. As much as I find the gym motivating, I have to literally drag myself there, but when I'm left to my own devices, it's much easier to schedule work-outs. I'd love to set a regular, at-home routine for myself.
I've been feeling super inspired fashion-wise lately, too. Especially in the thrift shopping department. The other day I realized that I've been a little lazy lately, in my off hours and at work-- relying on the same old combinations, when some of those combinations aren't really my style anymore. I've been pinning lots of outfit inspiration and keeping a fairly specific list with me when I'm out at thrift stores. Chris and I made a little thrift trip yesterday and I'm really excited about what I found. I love thrifting in Pennsylvania!
I get to see my family soon! I'm so, so exited to be going to Maine this month!
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LETTER- Top Ten uses for Halsey's Landmark hotel
It's been lately to the point of becoming hackneyed that crisis is a chance for opportunity; case in point being the Landmark hotel [March 12 news, "Hotel default: Bank sues Minor over Landmark loan,"]. The following are our top ten uses for the empty building.
10. Just ignore it.
9. Give it to UVA and Martha Jefferson Hospital so they can duplicate more expensive health services.
8. Don't ask the City Council or the Planning Commission what to do with it.
7. Ask Coran Capshaw what to do with it.
6. Lease it to the botanical garden group, The Landmark Hanging Gardens could be created.
5. Give it to the homeless for do-it-yourself SRO housing. They can get the material from other stalled construction projects.
4. Make it a haunted house for Halloween.
3. Lease it to the YMCA.
2. Make a glassed studio for Rob Shilling so the City Councilor could see him when they walk down the Mall for lunch.
1. Hang Halsey Minor and Lee Danielson in effigy for all to see.
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Figgins sits one out
Chone Figgins was in an unfamiliar position at his locker on Sunday morning.
For only the second time this season — not since April 26 — he wasn't getting emotionally prepared to start a game.
"I'll be ready for whatever they need," he said. "But I don't like sitting. Mike [Scioscia] knows that."
Scioscia also knows everybody can use a breather now and then, so Maicer Izturis was in Figgins' familiar role, playing third base and leading off, giving the manager a chance to play all three of his talented middle infielders – Izturis, Erick Aybar and Howard Kendrick.
"He's played a lot," Scioscia said. "I don't know how many games in a row [he's played], but a day off can refresh him a little bit. He's a gamer. It's a good time to get him to re-charge a little.
"There's nobody in that room who's not resistant to a day off, but you need to mentally re-charge."
Figgins' streak of consecutive starts ended at 92. He'd last sat one out on April 26 against the Mariners, with Aybar taking the leadoff spot.
Before the season, Figgins said his goal was to "play all 162," referencing iron man Cal Ripken Jr. Maybe he'll settle for 160.
Izturis and Figgins are locker neighbors in the home clubhouse, with Bobby Abreu on the other side of Figgins. Izturis is the least talkative of the threesome, but he's always smiling.
"Izzy is my boy," Figgins said. "If anybody's going to take my place, I'm glad it's him. He keeps me together."
Izturis looked over and, naturally, smiled.
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Tell Figgins if he doesn't want to sit he better start hitting again. Have you seen his batting average the last week? I'll just say it makes Jeff Mathis look good. The Angels are better with Figgins playing but this offense is a mess right now. Time for the whole team to get going. This Texas series was one gigantic disaster. Horrible baseball. I want to know why Morales and Napoli were given the day off though. That wasn't good.
I don't grudge Figgy a day off. I would like to see him get some hits. But Figgy leads the league in runs scored and I wish he played today and got another day off. I continue to have confidence in Scioscia's judgement and Figgy's ability to play ball.


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New Year Festival is a fairly new and more of Soviet oriented holiday for us Mongolians!! It is celebrated on December 31st, every year, all over Mongolia, even out in the herder's dwelling called "ger". Besides the Christmas tree, Santa Claus, street light decoration, the most important concept of New Year festival in Mongolia is about partaking in a company or organizational night party event which is purposed to tie coworkers, ...
Our national team of eight eagle-hunters, led by the head of the Department for Environment and Tourism of Bayan-Olgii aimag participated in the Third International Festival of Falconry, which ran recently in Abu Dhabi for the 3rd International Falconry Festival which was taken place in last 13 – 13th of December 2014.
Happy Birthday to Mongolia's capital city Ulaanbaatar! The first stones of the city were placed some 300km west from current location, and the city moved for 20 times as a true nomadic city before settling into today's location in 1778.
Yeah! Such great news! After a change in visa regulation, Mongolia is more accessible than ever. Find out if you need a visa to Mongolia here! Mongolia's immigration department has relaxed tourist visa requirements for 42 nationalities, including: Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech, Denmark, Estonia,
Grace Jacobsen is a successful blogger on wordres shttps://itsgracejacobsen.wordpress.com/ mostly write about facts, things that she experienced in her life. Recently she posted ab article on her blog about "10 facts people should know about Mongolia" based on her 4 years of live in Mongolia. This is a very interesting article & offers a great read. Here are some quick preview, she mentioned on fact # 1 – "It is in Asia not Africa", #2, "They speak Mongolian, not Chinese", #6 "There are people, not just animals" and so on. Please continue read the 10 facts below in detail.
Kazakh people are one of the biggest tribe in Mongolia who lives in very far western Mongolia – Bayan-Olgii province. During a hard time back in 1900s, a few Kazakh family from Turkmen asked to live in Mongolia and Mongolians let them to live in Mongolian territory and tell where they live and herd their livestock – it was Bayan-olgii province - one of the last true wilderness areas of Asia, the stunning beauty of the magnificent Altai Mountains will be the backdrop for this extraordinary Eagle Festival, today.
The academics, from Columbia University in New York had done some research and analyzed the trees in the Khangai Mountains of Mongolia and revealed that Central Mongolia saw one of the wettest and warmest periods for 1000 years - between 1211 – 1225 – the exact time of the Great Mongol empire rise of Genghis Khan. "He was one of the most feared warriors in history, waging bloody war across Asia and Europe. But Genghis Khan's 13th-century rampage may have never happened had it not been for a spell of good weather. The leader of the Mongol armies ...
Everybody, especially avid travelers might know about Wanderlust Travel Magazine – a British travel magazine covering adventurous, cultural and special interest travel. Recently, at the end of the 2013, Wanderlust Travel Magazine announced "Wanderlust Readers' Travel Award 2014". The Reason why we're talking about this award was Mongolia has been named as the "Top emerging destination" at the Wanderlust Travel Awards 2014. Find out why, and start dreaming about your Mongolia travel - we are here to guide you!
At Selena Travel always strive to offer our helping hand wherever we can. As we've posted on our website, we've started 2013's charity work to donate toys & books for the rural area's kindergarten. We've asked for our tourist to bring some their children's spare toys and books and we collected the toys & books until 31 Aug 2013. Thank you so much for all of travelers of Selena Travel who've chosen with us their tour ground organizer and travelled with us, staying with us for our charity and donation work for 2013.
Are you wondering whether it is safe to travel alone in Mongolia or not? Many of tourists ask this question from others on online community before they travel their first visit of counties including Mongolia. Here is an example: "I'm 20 years old female and never tried traveling on my own, and would like to be independent. Am planning to visit Mongolia on my own for a month, but is it safe?…
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Keep Your Eyes Open
There are many kinds of dangers that can befall your grounds equipment. Hoses can leak, belts can wear thin or bearings can corrode. In the course of performing preventive maintenance on equipment, there are several steps to follow. These include changing fluids and servicing the engine on a regular schedule, keeping the chassis of the machinery greased and giving your machine the once over every day.
The key here is to understand how to read your equipment and how to read visual clues that lead to problems. This can often prevent problems from escalating to downtime.
One common problem is fluid leaks and locating them on your equipment, but stopping them is usually straightforward. Let's say you have a mower that is equipped with a liquid-cooled engine, hydraulic deck lift and hydrostatic drive, and is powered by a diesel engine. This piece of equipment is used heavily, and when you see a puddle of fluid on the floor, you might begin to worry about possible downtime and what that could cost your business. Upon raising the hood, you discover there are no low fluid levels, and yet fluid is coming from somewhere. How do you find out which fluid is leaking? There are a couple of different methods that work quite well. First, clean the machine thoroughly, remembering to exercise care when using pressurized water around bearings, transmissions and other components that can be damaged. Using a hot water washer is usually the best strategy for clean-up, since the hot water cleans better and there's less need to rely on pressure alone.
Once the machine is clean, place a drip pan underneath the machine to check for leaks. Drip pans are found at auto parts stores and are simply oversized, shallow drain pans. You can also use a large sheet of white paper — large enough to reach all the way from the front to the rear of the machine. Next, turn on the engine, let the machine warm up and operate the hydraulic deck lift. Look for any immediate leaks on the paper or in the pan and trace them visually from there. In the event that it's not that simple, let the machine sit overnight and check for fluids on the paper in the morning.
Another method is to put a special dye in the various fluids in your engine and use a special light to look over the machine in the dark. The dyes glow under the light, each type of dye glowing a different color. (You can use a different dye in the coolant than in the hydraulics and so on.) This method was once quite expensive and was limited to use in car dealerships, but like many other diagnostic tools, the price has come down considerably.
When checking for hydraulic leaks, be sure there is no chance of an attachment or implement falling in the event of a sudden line failure. Always use caution when searching for hydraulic leaks. If you must check for leaks while the machine is running, wear eye protection and use a piece of cardboard held near the suspect area to find the leak. If you accidentally inject hydraulic fluid into your bloodstream, it can be a real danger. Take every precaution to ensure this doesn't happen to you or one of your crew members.
Of course, if machinery is kept clean, leaks are easier to find, so adding routine cleaning of the undercarriage of your equipment to the scheduled maintenance routine is a good idea.
Record keeping is probably one of the most underutilized maintenance tools at your disposal. Each piece of machinery needs its own "permanent record" — a book with every problem and repair written down along with the date the problem was repaired and what caused the problem in the first place. With such a record of each piece of equipment, spotting and preventing recurring problems will be much simpler.
When a spindle on a mower decides to lock up, quit or begins getting noisy, it is time to do more than just replace the offending part.
In the example of a noisy spindle bearing, the first step is to look at the maintenance history of the machine and see if this part has been replaced before. If it is a new part, perhaps it has a warranty. It also might be a recurring problem that needs to be looked into.
Let's assume the records show this spindle was replaced 100 hours ago and the parts warranty has expired. Still, 100 hours is a very short life for a spindle on a piece of commercial equipment, so before unbolting the old one and replacing it with a new one, look for the reason it failed. Spin the shaft — is it bent? Is the shaft straight, but the blade bent? No matter how good the bearings are, none of them will stand the extra side load a bent blade or shaft places on them for long. This will cause the balls to flatten, resulting in excessive noise and heat.
If no evidence of bending is noted, look to see if the machine has been greased on a regular basis, and also look for excessive grass or debris buildup around the spindle on both the top and bottom. A lot of debris buildup causes heat buildup, which is death to bearings.
When using water to clean equipment, it is imperative that all traces of it be removed from the area of bearings either by blowing the unit off when done, or at least running the mowing deck to dry it out after cleaning.
Failure to do this results in moisture making its way inside the bearings, and this eventually causes corrosion on the bearing surfaces, resulting in noisy or failed spindle assemblies.
Moisture may also find its way into the fuel, or into electrical connectors, where corrosion can set in and cause all sorts of intermittent electrical problems. In fact, when diagnosing an electrical problem, it's not a bad idea to check all connectors for corrosion and tightness. Many machines have been repaired because of this solution.
It is a fact that belts are a wear item, especially on a mowing deck, where they are subjected to side loads that make being a fan belt on a family car look easy by comparison. When looking at a failed belt, take the time to look at more than just how to replace it. Try to determine the cause of the failure.
Is the belt broken cleanly? If so, chances are it was a sudden stop that broke the belt, perhaps caused by hitting a surveyor's peg at 10 mph. Is the belt oil-soaked? Multiple failures occur, and if the engine is leaking oil onto the belt, replacing it won't do a lot of good until you find and stop the leak.
Is the belt torn, or grooved oddly? These are signs that the belt was running out of line. Perhaps a bent idler or misaligned tensioner is to blame, or a piece of foreign material, like a stick, got caught in the belt. Always remove all covers and clean the entire belt path when replacing a belt.
A belt that is slick on the sides has been under-tensioned, a mistake that leads to squealing and premature failure. Over-tensioning a belt can result in serious damage to shafts, pulleys and the like, which can be bent by the excessive added stress.
One other area of concern when evaluating belt failure is idlers. Many machines now use non-metallic idler pulleys, and these pulleys sometimes develop a groove or indentation that can cause a replacement belt to fail quickly. Likewise, the bearing the idler pulley rotates on is subject to wear as well, so any time a belt is replaced, it pays to check all pulleys for wear and damage.
These are some of the most common problems you may run into in the maintenance of grounds equipment. Problems and solutions may vary with the type of equipment in question, but failures always occur for a reason. By keeping complete records on each piece of machinery, keeping the machinery clean and servicing it on a regular basis, you can minimize downtime. Just remember, your most valuable maintenance tools aren't in your toolbox — they are in your head.
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It's the 2nd week of Leading Strategic Innovation in Organizations and the focus this week has been on individual constraints to innovation. According to Owen's there are three main individual constraints to innovation: perception, intellection, and expression.
I've taken a cue from the last course I took (#edcmooc) and I'm making an attempt to define what I've learned this week visually (see the image above). But what I've really taken away from this week's content are the following three bits:
Lesson 1: "There is no such thing as a creative personality."
In other words, creative people aren't born, they're made or developed by their learning and experience. Numerous studies have shown that children are naturally open to experience and creative. But arguably our education system and life experience shapes or constrains this ability to be creative. We are taught the proper way to solve problems or how to keep our ideas and thoughts in check.
What Owens does argue is that there are personality traits conducive to creativity, and these are:
- Agreeableness
- Extroversion
- Conscientiousness
- Openness
Logically, if you are open-minded to multiple ways of seeing a problem you'll come up with a number of different ways to solve it. If you're agreeable and able to connect effectively with others, you're better able to explain your solutions to them. Neurotic behaviors and thinking on the other hand can negatively affect one's ability to be creative here's an example of how neurotic thinking can prevent creativity and innovative problem solving.
"I can't share that solution or express that that in front of others, they'll think I'm a.)wrong, b.)stupid and I'll just embarrass myself."
In order to be a truly effective at innovation, you need to be able to share your ideas freely without fear of being judged. Perhaps that's ultimately what makes Woody Allen one of the most creative storytellers of our time. He's portrayed himself as the lovable neurotic, but he has never flinched at attempting to portray this neurosis in stories that examine the human condition from different perspectives.
Lesson 2: It's important to always approach the problem from multiple perspectives.
In reading through Chapter 2 of "Creative People Must be Stopped, I ran across the story of a playwright who purchased different "odd magazines" for hobbies or topics foreign to her. Her purpose was to "see" things from that particular magazine audience's views and therefore reinterpret what might be seen in her own vision portrayed in her plays. Of course, your savvy marketing professional would simply call this focusing on your target markets, but there's something so simply empowering about this approach to seeing other's views of the same situation or problem you're attempting to solve.
Here are some questions to ask yourself when you're analyzing a problem:
- How would someone who is completely polar opposite to me see this problem? How would they describe it?
- Why might they not see it as a problem?
- What solutions may they came up with?
Lesson 3: It's not how cool your idea is, it's how you sell it to your audience.
Sometimes, and I admit I'm guilty of this as well, when you come up with what you think is a 'great idea' its logic seems to inherently obvious to you and therefore everyone else should see it that way. However, other's way of viewing things may NOT be aligned with your own. I feel that this is one of my greatest Individual Constraints to innovation. I'm not always adept and explaining or selling my solutions to others. In actuality, I am really the Asian guy in the image above from Kathy Sierra's blog post from years back. I often have hunches or feelings about when things are right or wrong, but I'm not always able to explain them to other people around me. This is where exercises and questions from my previous lesson would come in handy. Or…
Developing a 'common language' might be helpful.
I had to laugh when Owens made a dig at using 'buzzwords.' As he noted, they may make you feel important, but they're not a great way of gaining common understanding of both the problem and your proposed solution. At one of my former jobs, a former colleague of mine and I played a game called B.S. Bingo in meetings that seemed like more verbal exposition than development or planning (or action). Though arguably, these same buzzwords are the common language used by people in the corporate world to talk with each other. I do agree with Owens that when they're bandied about to elevate your business klout or savvy they're simply about posturing. However, I should consider that if this is the 'speak' that's being used by people who are using this language, I should develop translations of my ideas in this language.
I've decided to create a template for writing out my ideas to better articulate them. It's pretty simple. I would take the idea as I see it and then translate it into at least three or four different perspectives including the intended audience or end user, my peers, my boss, and my boss's boss. This may take a little more discipline than I'm used to.


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First and foremost, I'd like to thank you guys for all the support although I haven't posted in the last couple of weeks! I am truly sorry…:-( I wasn't really aware that the time had flown THAT fast…
Aside from being a busy mum with a website to work with, this blog, and much more; I have a newly found "beauty busy-ness". I've been namely asked to be a part of the committee of a prestigious beauty pageant Mutya ng Pilipinas Scandinavia. So my thoughts were occupied by the arrangements to be done for this pageant these last few weeks.
I will not bore you with details. You could just visit this site I have created for this pageant, if you want : www.mutyascandinavia.wix.com 🙂 And the blog associated with it : geefaces.wordpress.com
I want to share you though these images of sumptuous gowns from Mutya ng Pilipinas 2012 Coronation.
All Terno (from the Spanish word meaning "to match") are designed by Renee Salud.
I like the embellishment on this above featured gown.
This one's interesting: mermaid-ish, sexy and stunning blue shades.
These Ifugao inspired costumes, esp. the one with the long skirt, are simply beautiful .
I LOVE the turquoise outfit worn by candidate number 17 too!
These are Mutya ng Pilipinas 2012 Top 5 Designers ( source = http://elysplanet.com ):
June Angeles (Grand Winner)
Philip Tampus
Jun Lee
Dino Lloren
Vincent Sityar
And this people, is what I'd be busy with this coming months. So if I'm "missing in action", try GEEFACES or www.geelicious.net 🙂
Happy weekend !!!
Thanks to www.pageantcity.wordpress.com and fabmanila.com for sharing these photos!


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Looking at your work is like eating a nice big meal- so very satisfying.ReplyDelete
Its impressive how you keep the design intent so close to the digital comp. I don't know how you could have gotten it closer to the original comp, or what qualities are missing in the final.ReplyDelete
Great to see this finnished. As a personal oppinion I start to prefer your pure watercolors over the digital version. They are so light, as if the color just floats over the paper.ReplyDelete
Wanna do some dinosaurs ? ^^Replies
I always want to do dinosaurs! One of these days I hope to get around to doing some Lost World imagery...Delete
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Justin, I know the frustration of my art not quite reaching what my mind saw or heard. So, I definitely understand... but I also have to say... this piece is wonderful and I especially like the digital version. I hope it prints as well for you :o)ReplyDelete
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What process do you follow for getting the Bristol paper ready for the watercolor. Do you soak it first? Tape it down dry? I have been trying to soak the paper first, but after stretching it, it buckles like some crazy rolling hills. I'm using the 400 Series Srathmore vellum. Perhaps I need to be using the 500 series?
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I use 500 series and rarely ever have to tape it down! I don't soak it or anything either. 500 is indestructible and holds up far better than the 400. I only ever use the 400 series for dry media.Delete
Thanks Justin! I shall certainly go with the 500 series. In regards to the digital vs traditional discussion, you had talked earlier in the year about applying more washes to push the value range of your work. I find also fight with the lack of intensity with my traditional work,and push to digital. Is the issue value, color, or both?ReplyDelete


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Asleep At The Wheel
Mitglieder: Ray Benson, Gesang, Gitarre- Chris O`Connell, Gesang, Gitarre- Tony Garnier, Bass- Danny Levin, Fiddle, Mandoline- Lucky Oceans, Steel Guitar- Leroy Preston, Gesang, Gitarre, Schlagzeug- Link Davis,Jr., Fiddle, Saxophon- Floyd Domino, Keyboards- Bill Mabry, Fiddle- Gene Dobkin, Gesang, Bass- Reuben Gosfield, Steel Guitar- Richard Casanova, Fiddle- Scott Hennige, Schlagzeug- Ed Vizard, Tenor Saxophon- Patrick Ryan, Saxophon, Klarinette- Chris York, Schlagzeug- Andy Stein, Fiddle, Saxophon-John Nicholas, Gitarre, Piano, Gesang- Spencer Starnes, Bass- Fran Christina, Schlagzeug
Record Labels: United Artists, Epic, Capitol, MCA
Erster Hit: Choo Choo Ch'Boogie (1974)
Erster Top Ten Hit: The Letter That Johnny Walker Read (1975)
Asleep At The Wheel, eine 1970 in West Virginia gegründete Western Swing Band, die später nach San Francisco und schließlich 1974 nach Texas zog. Am Anfang noch ganz der Western Swing Tradition verpflichtet, begann die Gruppe später mit Elementen aus dem Jazz zu experimentieren, ohne jedoch den Swing ganz abschütteln zu können- dafür sorgte immer wieder als Gast der Ex-Texas-Playboy Johnny Gimble. Neben Commander Cody und seinen Lost Planet Airmen war Asleep At The Wheel Anfang der 70er Jahre maßgeblich an der Wiederbelebung des Western Swing beteiligt. Mit dem Ende der 70er Jahre war die Gruppe dann kaum noch im Gespräch. Erst 1986 erschien wieder eine neue L.P. von Asleep At The Wheel, die jedoch wenig Aufsehen erregte und die auch kaum an die Qualität der Einspielungen aus den 70er Jahren anknüpfen konnte. 1987 dann, zurückgekehrt zu Epic, brachte die Gruppe ihre Musik wieder auf den Punkt und hatte Erfolge.
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Take Me Back To Tulsa
In these times when absolutely every note that Bob Wills, Milton Brown, and Cliff Bruner recorded is available on Bear Family and other labels, it's worth remembering that, in 1973, western swing was woefully hard to find on records. A few various artists' compilations and budget albums were about the extent of it. Bob Wills' then-current albums on Kapp were no incentive for anyone to go in search of his music; a bigger incentive came from Merle Haggard's 1970 album 'Tribute To The Best Damn Fiddle Player In The World.' The San Francisco western swing/honky tonk revival noted by a 'Billboard'correspondent in mid-1972 had already seen revivalist albums with a counter-culture twist released by Dan Hicks and Commander Cody. Just behind them came Asleep at the Wheel. On the east coast, they'd opened for Alice Cooper and other acts before the Commander told them to come west. "I demoed Asleep at the Wheel for Jerry Wexler at Atlantic," said group leader Ray Benson. "We sent it in and I got it back and he said, 'It's very nice but the lead guitar player needs work.' He was right. So I went to work." Then, in aninterview a couple of years later, Van Morrison said, "...there's some relatively unknown group around that I really dig. Asleep at the Wheel plays great country music." That was enough to send the record labels in search of the Wheel. Former Cricket Tommy Allsup landed the deal for United Artists.
Like many of Bob Wills' best and best-known songs, Take Me Back To Tulsa had been a fiddle tune, known as Take Me Back To Texas before Wills moved to KVOO Tulsa. He recorded it during several days of Dallas sessions in February 1941 that resulted in a plethora of transcendently great music. Of course, Ray Benson couldn't hope to match the droll, inebriate charm of Wills' vocalist, Tommy Duncan. Who could? Soon after the Wheel's first LP came out, Willie Nelson persuaded them to join the nascent Austin scene. "He heard this young band, a long-haired band, was playing Bob Wills' music," Ray Benson said later. "He was just very curious. That was in '73, and he was one of the guys who convinced me to move to Texas. We were living in California at the time. He put us on shows and introduced us around." Forty-two years and one hundred band members later, Asleep at the Wheel is still at it, and still based in Austin. Their 2009 album with Nelson, 'Willie And The Wheel,' reached #13 on the country album charts and won a Grammy.
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NEW YORK/HONG KONG (Reuters) - American International Group Inc (AIG.N) will sell nearly all of aircraft leasing business ILFC ILFC.N to a Chinese consortium for up to $4.8 billion, in a deal that gives the fastest growing aviation market easier and cheaper access to planes.
But the sale is at a far cheaper price than AIG sought and will lead to a substantial loss, the insurer's price for getting out of its last major non-core asset following the U.S. government bailout of the company in the financial crisis.
Chinese firms have previously shown interest in aircraft leasing, and the deal would give China access to a global network of about 200 airlines in 80 countries. China is already ILFC's largest market with 180 planes operating there, giving it 35 percent market share.
"It's the biggest deal we have in the aircraft leasing world and it's very ambitious," said Paul Sheridan, head of Asia at aviation consultancy firm Ascend Advisor. "We believe there are not enough aircraft on order in China at the moment. It will help Chinese airlines get more aircraft."
The world's two largest plane makers — Airbus, owned by aerospace group EADS EAD.PA, and U.S. rival Boeing (BA.N) — have predicted demand for $4.5 trillion worth of passenger jets over the next two decades, with about two-thirds of new planes sold in the Asia-Pacific region, and China as the biggest single market in value terms.
Analysts say China tends to balance its orders between Airbus and Boeing, partly for political reasons. This means China pays an effective premium for planes as the two manufacturers don't have to compete as heavily for orders.
ILFC's order books could mean cheaper planes for China, industry experts say.
The Chinese consortium is made up of New China Trust, which is one-fifth owned by Barclays Plc (BARC.L); China Aviation Industrial Fund; and P3 Investments Ltd; with outside advice provided by Credit Suisse CSGN.VX
It will buy 80.1 percent of ILFC for $4.23 billion, with the option to buy another 9.9 percent. An arm of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (1398.HK), China's biggest bank, will join once the deal has regulatory approval.
P3 Investments is led by Wing-Fai Ng, co-founder of the now defunct pan-Asia fund Primus Financial Holdings.
The deal reinforces China's appetite for foreign mergers and acquisitions, taking the country's 2012 tally to $56.8 billion, according to Thomson Reuters data, the biggest since 2008.
In the past few days alone, Canada agreed to allow CNOOC (0883.HK) to buy domestic energy company Nexen Inc NXY.TO for $15.1 billion, and China's privately-owned Wanxiang Group won a politically sensitive auction for bankrupt electric car battery marker A123 Systems Inc AONEQ.PK, partly funded by the U.S. government.
AIG, which had said on Friday it was in talks about a sale to Chinese buyers, will submit the offer for review by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, or CFIUS, which vets foreign deals for security concerns.
In September, the U.S. Treasury cut its stake in AIG to below 16 percent of the outstanding shares from around 53.4 percent. It may have an awkward situation to address, though. Besides being AIG's largest shareholder, the Treasury also chairs CFIUS.
Chinese state-backed investments in some sectors have stirred a political backlash, but aircraft leasing is seen as less sensitive than natural resources or telecoms equipment.
"ILFC's portfolio is not heavily in the U.S. It's an American-owned asset, but a lot of their aircraft fly outside the U.S.," said Ascend's Sheridan, adding he did not expect the U.S. government to block the deal.
If the deal is not approved and closed by May 15, 2013, either side will have the right to back out, AIG said in a regulatory filing on Monday. Citigroup acted as AIG's financial adviser on the deal.
AIG received a $182 billion U.S. government bail-out following the global financial crisis, and has been selling off assets worldwide as part of a wider divestment plan. ILFC was considered the last major piece to be sold off.
AIG shares fell 1.6 percent to $33.59 in morning trading on the New York Stock Exchange. Analysts said it was a good deal for the company but nothing to inspire investors, given the loss AIG will record on the sale.
"We applaud this move, as it will reduce balance sheet leverage and enhances liquidity if consummated," S&P Capital IQ analyst Cathy Seifert said in a note to clients.
The company first filed for an initial public offering of ILFC in September 2011, but market conditions since then made the IPO untenable. In selling ILFC directly, AIG is also accepting a far lower valuation that it had sought — just two-thirds of book value, rather than the full book it had long wanted.
The deal, expected to close in the second quarter, values the leasing business at $5.28 billion, against its latest book value of $7.9 billion. Publicly traded peers Air Lease Corp (AL.N) and AerCap (AER.N) trade for 1.04 times book and 0.71 times book, respectively, according to Thomson Reuters data.
AIG said it would record a non-operating loss of $4.4 billion on the sale, including a charge for tax-related items.
Founded by aircraft leasing legend Steven Udvar-Hazy, who sold the company to AIG in 1990, ILFC is among the world's biggest owners of passenger jets. Its main rival is GECAS, an arm of General Electric Co (GE.N).
ILFC will retain its current management and continue to be based in Los Angeles. It will appoint a new board with a majority of U.S. and European representatives, AIG said.
In its near-four decades, ILFC has bought more than 1,500 passenger jets from Boeing and Airbus. It has a portfolio of more than 1,000 owned or managed aircraft. It has on order 239 new fuel-efficient planes, including Boeing 787s and Airbus A320neos, and the rights to buy an additional 50 such aircraft.
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"Sightseeing" seems like such a passive word; Massachusetts sightseeing should really be called "sight-experiencing". How else would you describe retracing the steps of the colonists, soaring through the trees on a canopy tour, reliving the excitement of the Revolutionary War, quacking like a duck on an amphibious land vehicle, seeing Boston by Segway, cruising Buzzards Bay, or taking a spooky Dead of Night Ghost Tour? You can even munch your way through the Cape Cod Potato Chip factory tour, take the most delicious ride during a Bike Farm Table weekend, or treat yourself to the Boston Brew Tour. Hey, is there such a thing as sight-eating?
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DWTS Season 16 Cast Rumors – Singer Jordan Hill To Dance?
Not sure if this tweet means anything, but, one never knows, right? She could be just going to a party and is extra excited. In case you don't know Jordan Hill, she's a singer. You can check out her official website here or go to Wikipedia. Note too at her twitter page, she was just recently in Los Angeles. Hmmmm….
I'd be all for this if true. What do you think and who do you see her partnered with?
UPDATE: Thanks to Heidi doing some digging, this rumor is not true for our Dancing With The Stars. You can take a sigh of relief.


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E. Wyles Johnson Jr. has been certified by the National Elder Law Foundation as a Certified Elder Law Attorney, and the North Carolina State Bar Board of Legal Specialization as a Specialist in Elder Law.
Johnson received this certification by NELF � the only organization accredited by the American Bar Association to offer certification in the area of elder law � by having a minimum of five years of practice and 16 hours per week devoted to elder law practice handling at least 60 elder law matters during the three years immediately preceding application, and successfully completing a six-hour certification exam.
He also passed a peer review process, having completed at least 45 hours of continuing legal education in the three years immediately preceding certification, and must undergo a similar elder law certification process every five years. There are only 14 certified elder law attorneys in North Carolina.
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Johnson�s practice is substantially concentrated in Elder and Special Needs Law, in which he focuses on issues unique to the elderly and disabled and advocates for their right to public benefits such as Medicare, special assistance and Medicaid.
He also represents the elderly and disabled against those with whom they have a fiduciary relationship, such as a trustee, guardian, or attorney-in-fact under a Power of Attorney, for breach of fiduciary duty.
He focuses on issues confronting war veterans in need of medical assistance, and is accredited for the preparation, presentation and prosecution of claims for veterans benefits before the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Johnson earned his Bachelor of Science in business administration in May of 1981 and his Masters in Business Administration in December of 1982 from Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Va. He received his Doctor of Jurisprudence degree from Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law at Campbell University in December of 2001.


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As a non-profit 501c3 association we support the community, families and individuals through charitable services, donations, poker runs, and other motorcycle related activities. We work, pay taxes, and get involved in our community. We began holding "Breast Fest" in 2009, which has become an annual event held the third weekend of July. Proceeds from "Breast Fest" are donated to the "Save the Ta-tas Foundation" which supports independent scientific research of breast cancer.
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The first idea of The Iron Skulls Motorcycle Association started off as many ideas do; Two friends sitting around at a bar bullshiting about what a great time they were having on today's ride and how cool it would be if some more of their friends were out with them. Unfortunately one of those friends passed away in the spring of 2007 (RIP Nate). Nothing was mentioned about starting any sort of group until later that summer during a canoe trip in Wisconsin. After two days of partying (this is where the greatest ideas come from) it was decided to look into the whole idea a little farther. One week later 20 friends met in the basement of our future President and the Iron Skulls Motorcycle Association was born.
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