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The significance of Duruthu Full Moon Poya
by Premasara Epasinghe
@ The Island / Dec 2009
Duruthu is considered as the first month of the Sinhala calendar.
The important significance of Duruthu Full Moon Poya Day, marks Gautama Buddha's first visit to Sri Lanka. Twenty-five centuries back, nine months after his Enlightenment, the blessed one visited Mahiyangana, in the Uva Province of Sri Lanka. His mission was to restore peace, to create a state of freedom from war or violence. The old chronicle Mahavamsa records and states "To free the beautiful land from the evil doing Yakkas". On his first visit to Sri Lanka, the awakened one, arrived at a spot, where now stand the Mahiyangana stupa. When the great teacher - the Buddha was to depart after the conversion of the Yakkas of Bintenna, Mahiyangana area, for which purpose he had arrived, Sumana - a titular deity who posses a certain title or position but no real authority of this region, requested the Buddha to give him - Diety Sumana, a souvenir to which he could pay his offerings and homage. Thereupon, the Gautama Buddha, the Great Master, offered Deity Sumana, some locks of his hair. He placed it in an urn as a valuable Relic in the Mahiyangana Stupa.
The battle gongs were sounded the battle drums beaten. The Yakkas poised for combat when they noticed a stranger in yellow robes - Buddha appearing in the midst. The Yakkahs fled to the nearby jungles. Later, a few of them returned. They listened to Buddha's Discourse. They laid aside their battle axes and paid reverence to Gautama Buddha. Having preached his message of PEACE, restored calm among the Yakkas, the incomparable one, returned to Jambudipa or India.
Anyway, the focus of Duruthu Festival is centred round Kelaniya, the hollowed ground where the annual Duruthu Perahera is conducted by the Kelaniya Raja Maha Viharaya. The historic vihara stands on a small mount just by the Southern Bank of Kelani river.
After Buddha passed away at Kusinara, in India, the Arahat Sarabhu Maha Thera, brought the collar-bone Relic of Gautama Buddha, and deposited it in the Mahiyangana Thupa. The Prince Uddachulabhaya, brother of King Devanampiyatissa, further enlarged the stupa.
First visit
Buddha, the exalted one's visit to Sri Lanka was considered as one of the most unparalleled events in the history of the land. The documentary sources Deepavamsa and Mahavamsa, records the visits of the blessed one. The event of Buddhism took place in 247 BC, with the arrival of Emperor Asoka's only son Arahat Mahinda. In the pre-Mahindian history, the greatest blessing to this beautiful island was Buddha's first visit to Mahiyangana in the 9th month of his Enlightenment, on Duruthu Full Moon Poya Day.
Second visit
According to the ancient chronicles, the Buddha's second visit was to Nagadipa, in the Jaffna District. The awakened one, Buddha, visited nagadipa to settle a dispute between Mahodara and Chulodara, uncle and nephew respectively, who were about to wage war, to gain the ownership of a gem studded throne. Buddha, saw this, and arrived in Nagadipa, emphasising the value of harmony and ill-effects of hatred and settled the dispute without bloodshed.
Third visit
The chronicles states that Northern area in Sri Lanka had been ruled by the Sinhala kings of Anuradhapura. Since the reign of King Devanampiyatissa, people in Nagadipa and around became devotees of Buddhism. As a result a number of Buddhist temples had come up in this area. In his third visit, he, arrived in Kelaniya. It is stated that King Maniakkikha of Kelaniya, met Gautama Buddha, on his second visit to Sri Lanka (Nagadipa) and he was anxious that Buddha visit his kingdom Kelaniya. Through love and compassion to all Sri Lankans, the Great Master, Thathagatha arrived at Kelaniya on a Vesak Full Moon Poya Day. Subsequently, the Buddha arrived at Sri Padana, at the invitation of Deity Sumana Saman.
Royal patronage to Mahiyangana Stupa
King Dutugemunu (BC 161-137) with his four fold army consisting of elephants, cavalry, chariots and infantry passing through Gutthalaka (Buttala) and Malayarata Forests country arrived at Mahiyangana, modern Aluthnuwara, where Dutugemunu faced his first encounter with Chattha, whom he detested. When the king saw the great damage to Mahiyangana stupa, he renovated it. Voharikatissa (204-225 AD), built a parasol Mahiyangana stupa. Sena II (885-896), Kassapa IV (896-913), Vijeyabahu I (1059-1114), Parakramabahu I (1410-1468) were some of the kings who save their royal patronage to the improvement, renovations and developments of Mahiyangana Maha Seya.
Sixteen important Buddhist places of worship
The Sri Lankan Buddhists consider 16 important places of Buddhist worship. The devotees recite a stanza. In this stanza or verse, Mahiyangane Chetiya is ranked as the number one place of worship. It reads:-
Mahiyanganan - Nagadipan
Kalyanan Padalanchanan
Divaguh‡n Digavapi
Chetiyan Muthiyanganan
Tissamaha Viharancha
Bodhi Marichavattiyam
Thuparama Bhayagirin
Jethavanam Selachaittyam
Thatha Kalara Gamakan
Ethe Solasa Tanani
Ahan Vandami Muddana.
On the blessed day of Duruthu Poya, the devotees who flock to Mahiyangana Chaitya, will pay their homage to the blessed one reciting the stanza given below.
Lankayan Yattha Pataman
Sugato Nisajja
Yakkhe Dhamesi Nija
Sasana Palanaya
T‡ne Thahi Nihithi
Kuntala Geevadhatu
Vandami Sadhu Mahiyangana Thup‡raja
Morality, panchaseela and tolerance
Let all of us adjust our way of life according to the five precepts; abstain from destroying living beings; abstain from taking things not given; abstain from sexual misconduct; abstain from anything that causes intoxication or heedlessness, they can live happily and peacefully in this world and on the other hand, help others to live likewise. A person without virtue not only endangers himself but also others around him. Even Buddhists should observe these five precepts in order to elevate himself morally and spiritually. Remember, morality is the first step in the path towards eternal bliss. It is the basic spiritual foundation. Without this base, there can be no human progress and spiritual advancement.
The teachings of Buddha are deeply imbued with the spirit of peace. The two cannot be separated. To live a life free of violence, fear and hatred is the wish of the vast majority of ordinary people; peaceful ways, intentions characterize the way of life of those aspiring to Enlightement; and an Enlightened person is described as a sage of peace and Nibbana as the peaceful state. Buddha's teachings contain many other states closely related to peace. With the dawn of 2010, let us all aspire Calmness (sama), Tranquillity (samatha), Contentment (santutthi), Harmlessness (ahimsa), non-violence (Avihimsa) and Peacefulness (Vipasama).
Buddhism - a religion of tolerance
Rev. Joseph Wain once remarked that Buddhism taught a life of beauty and as a consequence, it was a religion of tolerance. It was the most charitable system under the sun. Never and nowhere had blood been shed for its propagation. It has never persecuted or maltreated. Those whose beliefs were different.
From glimpses of world history
According to the glimpses of world history written by Indian Prime Minister Pandit Shri Jawaharlal Nehru, Buddhism is the religion of the greatest number of people in the world and Prince Gautama Siddhartha, was the greatest son of India. Today, Buddhism is one of the major religions of the world. I presume, there are about 600 million Buddhists in the world.
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On Christmas Eve, 1913, 73 people died in a stampede after a false cry of Fire! at a children's Christmas party in northern Michigan. There was no fire and the event marked the turning point in a bitter labor dispute in a large mining community. Two questions always arise: How could such a thing happen and why has this story not been more widely told in the past 101 years?
The northernmost part of Michigan's Upper Peninsula is known as the Copper Country, after its thriving copper mines which led the world in production at the turn into the 20th century. While the mines wallowed in profits, workers – mostly recent immigrants – made a few dollars a day and had few rights. The Western Federation of Miners organized and gained enough membership to call a strike in the summer of 1913. They struck when the mines refused to collectively bargain and the mines shut down when the miners walked off the job.
The mines refused to negotiate. Outside forces tried to get the parties to settle but mine management held the position that talking with the union meant recognizing it. To shore up their position, the mines brought in strike breakers. These men worked for agencies that specialized in busting heads and breaking up pickets and soon there was violence in the region.
A boardinghouse in a town called Seeberville was shot up in broad daylight by some of these strike breakers and two strikers were killed. The victims were unarmed and the shooting was unprovoked. Although the gunmen would face prosecution later, the sheriff helped them evade justice by spiriting them out of the county and putting them in a safe house. Such was the way justice worked in the Copper Country in 1913.
By Christmas, the strike had dragged for months with no end in sight. Union benefits were sparse at best and the season promised little by way of cheer. The women's auxiliary of the WFM decided to throw a party on Christmas Eve for the children of the strikers. It would be held in a well-known union gathering place, the Italian Hall.
The Italian Hall was a two-story building with a saloon and general store on the first floor and a large gathering place with a stage on the second. To reach the top floor, visitors had to climb a tall, single flight of stairs which covered a rise of 14 feet. Parents and their children began arriving the afternoon of Christmas Eve and soon the upper floor was crowded. Perhaps 700 people were in the hall at the peak of the party. Songs were sung and presents were given to the children by Santa who sat on stage next to a meager Christmas tree.
Then, a man entered the building, climbed the stairs and stepped into the main room. He yelled "Fire!" twice, at the top of his lungs twice, in English. He then turned and as panic set in behind him, he ran away. There was no fire but there was an instant panic. Masses swarmed toward the exit at the top of the stairs, pushing and shoving to escape the onrush of people from the hall. Someone tripped and fell on the stairs and more people pushed from behind. More people fell. Soon, there was a pile on the stairs of a hundred or more people, mostly children.
The commotion inside the building attracted attention on the street and someone called the volunteer fire department. They arrived quickly and soon realized it was not a fire they were dealing with, but a stampede and crush on the stairway. They entered the building through a fire escape and began trying to rescue those on the stairs. Some they could save. 73 could not be saved.
The number of deaths overwhelmed the community. The victims were taken to a temporary morgue and soon plans needed to be made for a massive number of burials. Undertakers ran out of caskets and had to appeal to nearby communities for more, particularly children's caskets.
The union president sent a telegram to the governor, asking for an official investigation into the tragedy. When word got out that he had done that, a group of men - probably working with the sheriff - beat, shot and kidnapped him.
They threw him on a train and told him he would be killed if he ever returned to the area.
Services were held at several churches and then the local cemetery where many of the victims were placed in mass graves which are unmarked to this day. At graveside, a union speaker – responding to criticism of the union for rejecting charity offered by the mines – said, "It is not charity we want; it is justice."
But who was at fault? Rumors swirled that the man who had raised the cry had been a strike breaker and had been wearing a button which identified him as an ally of the mines. The sheriff – the same one who helped the Seeberville murderers hide after their crime – half-heartedly investigated and then decided to let the coroner take over. This was an interesting decision because the coroner's only job was to assign a cause of death. Everyone knew how the victims died. It would have made more sense to arrest the man who cried Fire and put him on trial.
The coroner went through the motions of investigating but there is no question he was not trying to solve anything. He brought in witnesses who were not in the building, and called witnesses who spoke little English without providing interpreters. After three days, he and his hand-picked jury concluded that the victims had died after a false cry of Fire and the cry had been raised inside the Hall. Which, of course, everyone knew. And a grand jury – also hand-picked by mine management – refused to indict anyone for the Italian Hall (although, comically, they indicted the president of the union for his union activities while refusing to indict them men who shot and kidnapped him.)
The strike petered out in 1914. The Italian Hall had been the turning point in the minds of many. How could one soldier on after seeing such devastation? Among the 73 dead were 60 children. Three families lost three siblings each. Mothers and fathers perished while children lived. Everyone in town had either lost someone or knew someone who had been lost. Families pulled together but they could not stay out on strike any longer. The strikers tore up their union cards and decided it was more important to live and fight another day.
When it happened, the Italian Hall disaster was big news. It was on the front page of the New York Times. Just a few years later, Oliver Wendell Holmes conjured the image of falsely crying Fire in a theater and was most likely referring to the Italian Hall.
In Calumet, the town where the Italian Hall stood, the tragedy is well known even though no one remains alive today who was there that night. The Hall itself was torn down in 1984. A park remains, with the arch from the Hall and a historical marker. Every Christmas Eve locals place candles on the site and a few gather to remember the event.
In recent years, the Italian Hall disaster has been getting a little more attention. PBS broadcast a documentary last year called Red Metal which told the story in the context of the strike. It still is not mentioned in most history books, not even those used in Michigan. Perhaps that will change some day. It is a story of Michigan and of labor. But most of all, it is simply a story of human tragedy. On this Christmas Eve it would be appropriate to reflect for a moment on the Italian Hall. It must never be forgotten.
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Steve Lehto is an attorney and writer and wrote, Death's Door: The Truth Behind the Italian Hall Disaster and the Strike of 1913. He was also historical consultant on Red Metal: The Copper Country Strike of 1913, which aired on PBS.


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CD Choice: The Promise Sony ****
In a short interview on his website, Bruce Springsteen makes it plain that to understand his 1978 album, Darkness on the Edge of Town, you have to understand the period in which it was recorded. He talks about the movies that were popular then, citing Martin Scorsese's ominous Taxi Driver, but he doesn't speak of himself and the changes he was going through, except in generalities.
The Promise is a double CD assembled from the bits and pieces that didn't make it onto that pivotal album. It's easy to see why, at this remove, these songs didn't make the final cut. It is not so much that they are poor relations (there are some mighty vintage Springsteen tracks here) but Darkness, as he makes plain in the interview, went through the wringer: songs, versions, cover art changed as he sought to create something that mirrored the profound changes he, and the world around him, were going through.
Springsteen was edging towards 30; he was a rock
star who had just survived a career-threatening lawsuit, and the chains he thought his characters had loosened in 1975's Born to Run were still firmly attached. The resignation of Racing in the Street is the reality check for Born to Run's upstart, working-class escapism. Interestingly, Springsteen binned another, more explicit answer song (The Promise), which updates in grim tones the innocent heroes of Born to Run's Thunder Road.
Everything about Darkness, from the title to the songs, from the apprehensive cover portrait to the sombre colour palette, points to a wary, questioning, worldview. Yet the live shows of the time were an unbridled celebration, a rollercoaster of light and shade. Many of the more romantic, playful, pop songs of The Promise would have been at home in those epic sets. Indeed, the blend on 1981's The River would match a combination of Darkness and The Promise.
But Springsteen knew what he wanted, and so the swinging good-time, bar-band, pop-soul of Ain't Good Enough for You, the mesmeric faux tragedy of The Brokenhearted, the swollen Orbisonesqe pop epic Someday (We'll Be Together) and 18 others had to wait 32 years for their day in the sun. They are worth the wait.
This double album is also included in The Promise box set, a collection of three CDs and three DVDs, including a documentary on the making of Darkness on the Edge of Town. See brucespringsteen. net


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Now that Food52's Managing Editor Brette Warshaw has stocked her First Kitchen, she's ready to throw parties in it: no-stress weeknight parties for anyone, anytime, and (almost) every kitchen. You're invited.
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You need an excuse, maybe, to make a rib roast. To make a towering layer cake. To bake bread, to make lobster, to fry up a batch of beignets.
You never need an excuse to throw a taco and margarita night.
Celebrate that it's summer. Celebrate it's a Monday. Celebrate you were able to convince people to come over, even though it's hot and their to-do lists are as long as your air conditioning bill. Celebrate that you have a tableful of guacamole and tacos and chocolate-chili ice cream sandwiches, and pitchers of margaritas to drink along with it all (because margaritas, as you know, pair with everything).
The Menu
Lemon Lime MargaritasRoberto Santibanez' Classic Guacamole + chipsMango Salad with Fennel Frond PestoCoconut Lime Pork Tacos with Black Beans and AvocadoDouble Chocolate and Chilli Cookes + vanilla ice cream
The night before: Bake your cookies and make your mango salad -- they'll be just as good (if not, better!) the next day. Get all the juicing of your lemons and limes out of the way, and make your crushed ice (it's fun, I promise).
When you get home from work: Make the onion-chile-salt-cilantro paste for your guacamole, and store it in the fridge.
A half hour before your guests arrive: Cook the filling for your tacos, and leave it, covered, on the stove.
When your pork's cooked and there's still a few minutes on the clock before the party starts: Mix up a batch of margaritas. Pour yourself one.
When your guests arrive: Chop up your avocados, folding most of it into your paste for the guacamole. Juice some lemon or lime on top of the rest, and save it to garnish your tacos. Set out the guacamole and chips, and serve your first round of margaritas.
Right before dinner time: Heat your taco filling, gently. Warm up your tortillas.
Dinner is served: Bring out your pork, tortillas, some cut-up limes, your mango salad, and another pitcher (or two) of margaritas.
When dinner winds down: Bring out your spicy chocolate cookies and vanilla ice cream. Make ice cream sandwiches. Be happy it's a Monday.
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This dreamy still above is from a small film clip made in part with an amazing designer but I cannot remember who…ahhh…I will find it and include it but below is a clip with the serene Audrey Tautou starring as Coco avant Chanel (Coco before Chanel), a film that came out recently (as far as I can tell) about Coco's life from her start as a seamstress to her renowned fame as one of the leading couture houses in the history of fashion. My grandmother only wore Chanel No. 5 perfume. There is no substitute for its classic scent.
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Coleman Carlsbad 6-Person Darkroom Tent w-Screen Room
Carlsbad 6-Person Darkroom Tent with Screen Room
Sleep in after the sun rises or put the kids to bed early while the sun is still up with a Coleman® Carlsbad™ Fast Pitch™ 6-Person Dome Tent with Screen Room. The Dark Room™ technology on this tent blocks 98.4% of sunlight to keep the tent darker if you want to sleep while the sun is up, and it also reduces how much the tent heats up during the day by up to 11.4%. You can grab a drink and an outdoor chair, and watch nature unfold before your eyes while you relax in the screen room. It's a great way to stay away from bugs while enjoying the great outdoors, and with a full floor you can use it for extra sleeping space on warmer nights. The Fast Pitch™ system uses pre-attached, color-coded poles and hub, fast fit feet and snag-free Insta-Clip™ suspension to let you set up your tent 50% faster than a comparable Coleman® tent with conventional setup. If it rains, the WeatherTec™ system with its patented welded floors and inverted seams will help you stay dry. Awnings over the windows create ventilation without letting in any rain. Illumiline™ reflective guy lines are more visible at night so you don't get tripped up if you need to take a walk in the dark. When it's time to head home, the tent fits into an included carry bag for easy storage and transport.
- Dark Room™ technology blocks 98.4% of sunlight for sleeping in or early bed times
- Reduces up to 11.4% of heat in tent versus a comparable standard Coleman® tent
- Screen room with full floor for bug-free lounging and added sleeping space on warm, dry nights
- Up to 50% faster setup than a comparable standard Coleman® tent with conventional setup
- Fast Pitch™ system with pre-attached poles and hub, fast fit feet, and snag-free Insta-Clip™ suspension
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- Window awnings let you keep the windows open, even in the rain
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A powder coating machine is a device that applies protective coatings on metal parts similar in finish to conventional liquid paint. The main difference between the two processes is the method by which the coating is applied. In the case of powder coating, a stream of positively charged powder is applied to a grounded or negatively charged metal surface. This electrostatic method creates a better coating to metal bond than is possible with conventional paints as well as offering several other benefits not possible with liquid coatings. There are several different powder coating machine types in general use with the most common being the corona and tribo spray gun variants.
Powder coating is the process of coating metal items with layers of powdered thermoplastic or thermoset polymer. The process is an efficient and highly effective method of coating a wide variety of consumer products ranging from domestic appliances to garden furniture. These finishes are applied with several different powder coating machine types including spraying, electrostatic disc, electrostatic magnetic brush, and fluidized bed systems. Of these, the spray types are the most widely found in most commercial applications. The corona and tribo spray coating machines see the most use.
The corona gun powder coating machine consists of a powder dispenser, a high voltage generator, a corona spray gun with powder feed hoses, and a negative or ground connection. To operate the corona gun system, the ground connection is attached to the workpiece and suitable powder coating material is loaded into the machine's dispenser. The high voltage generator energizes an electrode in the gun, thereby imparting a powerful positive charge in the powder and creating a high energy electrical field between it and the workpiece. This electric field serves as a motivating agent which draws the positively charged powder to the surface of the workpiece. Upon contact, the powdered coating bonds to the metal surface, thus forming an even layer.
The tribo type powder coating machine also relies on a electrical field to bond the powder to the metal surface but uses compressed air to transport it through a Teflon® tube and nozzle towards the workpiece. The positive electric charge in the powder is imparted by friction between it and the surface of the Teflon® tube and bonds the layer of powder to the metal in the same way as the corona gun method. After coating with both systems, the workpiece is often heated to allow the plastic coating to spread out more evenly and complete the bonding and curing process.
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Grand Prix Gold: 1991 British GP
Wind the clock back 21 years ago to the height of Mansell-mania and the sunstroked Silverstone crowd witnessed the first of two conquering British Grand Prix victories with the Williams-Renault FW14. This is Nigel Roebuck's report on one of 'Red Five's' most famous wins
The Best of British
It went almost exactly as planned, and they cheered his every lap as if the last. Nigel Mansell did not merely win the British Grand Prix; it surrendered to him.
From Magny-Cours, the Formula 1 circus upped sticks and high-tailed it up to the Channel ports and across the water to England. To the land where Magny-Cours winner Nigel Mansell is a national hero.
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The limited scope of working to which the line organization is liable, has given raise to another type of organization called "Functional Organization" otherwise known as "Functional Foremanship". This system was organized by F.W. Tailor, the father of Scientific Management.
Having realized the fact that it is practically impossible for one leader, however skillful, experienced and qualified he may be, to successfully cope with all the functions of an enterprise. Taylor proposed this functional system of organization which gives place for specialization in the organizational structure. As Taylor puts it, the functional system was evolved on the following basis.
- To make use of the principle of specialization.
- To bring out organizational balance.
Nature of Functional Organization:
The functional system, as the name suggests divides the whole work into various functions. Each function is entrusted to a functional foreman who is generally a specialist in that particular function. The worker should receive instructions from all of them. Each functional foreman is placed at the same authoritative level.
Taylor's plan of Functional Foremanship is illustrated below:
Taylor divided the supervisory functions into two divisions viz.,
- Office or Planning division, and
- Factory Division.
The functions of the two divisions are performed by eight foremen.
Foremen in the Office Division:
The office or planning department consists of the following foremen.
1. The Route Clerk: The route clerk is responsible for ascertaining the actual route through which whole work process travel from conversion of raw materials into finished products.
2. Instruction Card Clerk: He prescribes the exact method of completing a work according to the route specified.
3. Time and Cost Clerk: He specified the standard time for the completion of the work and also fixes the time schedule for each element of the job. He also looks after the work relating to payroll and cost. Recent tendency is to split up the functions of this clerk into two separate units – the pay roll department and the cost department.
4. Shop Disciplinarian: He acts as a personnel manger and deals with the cases of indiscipline and absenteeism. Thus, his primary function is to maintain orderliness in the factory and office.
Foremen in the factory Division:
The factory division consists of the following four foremen:
1. Gang Boss: The gang boss is concerned with the preparation of work for the machine such as the set up of machine, moving work from machine to machine and from machine to stores.
2. Speed Boss: He is in charge of technical supervision of the work. Such as correcting the speed of the work, flow of work from one place to another, etc. Now-a-days he is designated as Assistant Foreman.
3. Inspector: The inspector is entrusted with all inspection and testing works. He is responsible for the quality of the product.
4. Repair Boss: The repair boss is entrusted with the task of proper repair and maintenance of the equipment and up-keep of the plant.
While developing the concept, Taylor suggested that it is unscientific to over load a foreman with entire responsibility of running a department. He advocated that the direction of work should be decided by functions and not by authority. Hence, his main emphasis was on functions.
Functional organization can also operate at higher level management. The whole work of the organization should be divided into various departments viz., purchase, sales, finance, production, etc; The respective managers will be responsible for carrying out the various activities of their departments in the organization.
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Fictional financial predator Gordon Gekko famously proclaimed in Oliver Stone's "Wall Street" that "Greed...is good." Twenty-three years later, many on the real Wall Street are proclaiming that "Gridlock is good."
But is it? Will the logjam expected to develop in Washington after Tuesday's elections actually result in a rally on the notion that split control between Democrats and Republicans will block politicians from doing anything else to hurt the economy?
While the notion is a popular one, history suggests otherwise.
With a slew of vital issues looming such as unemployment, taxes and health care just to name a few, a do-nothing Congress could be just what the economy doesn't need now.
"The biggest thing they're going to jump at right off the bat is extending tax cuts and which ones to extend. If there's gridlock and they can't reach any kind of a deal, then all the tax cuts go," says Ken Goldstein, economist at the Conference Board. "If you think gridlock is good, be careful what you wish for."
To be sure, the market could rally immediately after the election if investors think the end of Democratic rule will help propel the economy forward.
But the effect would be short-lived if Congress fails to address issues near to the hearts both of Wall Street and average Americans.
"The perception initially will be that gridlock is going to be good because it will take some uncertainty off the table. It will be less likely that we see sweeping legislation coming through Congress," says David Twibell, president of wealth management at Colorado Capital Bank in Denver. "Looking a little bit longer term, we need to have the government playing a positive role in some of these issues. If what we get is just a lot of arguments I question whether that's really a good thing."
Standard & Poor's has evaluated the data of what actually does happen to stocks during a divided government, and the answers might be surprising. The study examined three conditions: Total unity, when one party controls the White House, Senate and House of Representatives; partial gridlock, where one party controls both houses of Congress and another the White House; and total gridlock, when Congress is split.
Of the three scenarios, the best comes not when government is divided but actually during total unity, under which the S&P 500 has seen a 10.7 percent post-World War II return. The worst? When there is total gridlock, when the benchmark has gained just 3.5 percent.
Looking at the numbers more internally, there is a tie for best performance when looking at party control. Both complete Republican control, and a Democratic president and Republican Congress have had returns of 15.1 percent. The latter scenario was best seen under the Clinton administration and often serves as the template for the "gridlock-is-good" crowd.
After pursuing a leftist agenda for his first two years in office, during which Democrats controlled both chambers, Clinton saw the economy languish while the stock market did little. But Republicans took over after the 1994 elections, and while the two sides bickered for the next six years the dot-com bubble hit and stocks ultimately exploded 208 percent during the Clinton years.
"I believe investors look to Washington for leadership, not obstacles," Sam Stovall, S&P's chief equity strategist, wrote in a note accompanying the data. "Should a split Congress be the result of the November 2 elections, the resulting uncertainty may just end up adding one more stone to this already high wall of worry..."
At the onset, at least, leaders from both parties are likely at least to talk up unity, even if any honeymoon is short lived.
But both investors and voters may grow impatient with Congress if it doesn't make quick decisions on whether to continue the Bush tax cuts that expire at the end of the year, as well as whether the ObamaCare health reform plan stays intact.
"The good thing with perceived gridlock is at least bad things for business won't be coming out of Washington anymore," says Steve East, chief economist and market strategist at Height Analytics in Washington, D.C. "To take a longer-term view, gridlock is not good. The country has big problems. It would be better for the intermediate and long-term health of the economy and markets if we could deal with it before it becomes an outright crisis."
For consumers, things still feel like they're in a crisis mode, so they're unlikely to be patient with Wall Street inaction as well. A survey from the Conference Board this weekon consumer confidence showed a slight increase over the previous month but continuing pessimism about the economy.
"Essentially consumers are saying we don't care what the egghead economists are saying, this still feels like a recession," Goldstein says. "It doesn't make any difference whether Washington raises our income tax by five bucks or if the City Hall raises the dog licenses by five bucks. We've only got one pocket."
So whether gridlock will be good likely will depend on whether those pockets are feeling any fuller after the new regime takes hold.
"There will be a tremendous amount of uncertainty if we don't have policy action," Twibell says. "So I don't know if gridlock gets rid of the uncertainty. I think it just shifts it around when all is said and done."


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On the Boost discussion group there is a discussion started about High Cost of MS "Safe" STL for Release Builds. It is an interesting look at the massive differences between "safe" and "non-safe" options in Microsoft STL.
I don't think there has been a clear look at the efficiencies and inefficiencies in the MS-STL implementation, especially with the different options (iterator debugging and safe options). There have been some looks at comparing different STL implementations but it always difficult to do a good comparison, the main problem being comparing the correct "latest versions".
Going back a while I was justifying the use of STLPort instead of Microsoft STL supplied with Visual Studio. Simply, it was a performance thing with both memory and efficiency. Certainly with the new STLPort visualisers for the Microsoft debugger it is an even playing field for ease of use.
You can read those here:
* Visual Studio 2005 - Lets Break Everything! - a bit about how to switch off some of the more annoying "features".
* Development - STLPort versus Microsoft STL performance - A quick summary of my observations on the performance in a real-world complex application.
* More on STLPort and Microsoft STL performance - A little more background.


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10 comments:
- Johanna said...
Hi! I really, really love all your videos, they are so inspiring! The only bad thing is that now I just wanna runt out and SHOP! :)
Have a great time in NY!
- October 3, 2010 at 10:13 PM
- melly said...
hi cindy!
i really enjoy your mix of fashion, beauty and personality! and i just love love love that you support animal charity and speed-read the hell out of so many books - you have character.
- October 4, 2010 at 12:05 PM
- Katy said...
So cute! Love it all!
- October 4, 2010 at 2:34 PM
- ariane said...
I'm not sure if you've read it, but I recently finished reading "The Glass Castle" and fell in love with it. I lent the book to my mom afterwards and she loved it as well. So if you haven't already read it, make sure to check it out. It was amazing!
- October 4, 2010 at 8:09 PM
- stephanie said...
LOVE the Isabel Marants! but you knew that already ;) too funny too cause i just filmed a video of my fave fall pieces and i speak of the Isabel Marants and the Joes jeans booties i got instead and i swear we say pretty much the same thing about both pairs lol! you're probably going to laugh when you see it ;)
you look beautiful here lady :)
Also LOVING the Langton tee! I think you're right on the Kate note. I still have my gift card. im gonna fall your fall pieces synopsis from Aritzia...because i might just mail you my gift card so you can get a piece or two for me ;) maybe?....too bad they dont have a website!
hope nyc is a BLAST!
- October 4, 2010 at 9:05 PM
- Alexa said...
AMAZING boots!!!! Best birthday gift ever???
- October 6, 2010 at 12:02 AM
- hélène said...
Lady, i have to say i frickin love your videos (i'm one of your youtube subscribers ;) And i am seriously living vicariously through you and your constant shopping extravaganzas! ps those isabel marant boots - DAAAYUM.
- October 6, 2010 at 8:40 PM
- Veronicahhh said...
hi cindy
your marant boots, would you say that they run true to size? did you get to try them on before buying?
- October 9, 2010 at 2:18 PM
- Yevgeniya Yelkina & Peter Stevens said...
great video. love the IM shoes! great blog xoxox
- October 11, 2010 at 2:30 AM
- Rackk and Ruin said...
Cindy- if you Ever decide to sell that zara jacket Please let me know!!! Xx molly
- October 11, 2010 at 8:35 AM


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Villa Beji Mawang has emerged from the extensive travels of a couple around Indonesia and other parts of the world – distilling from their experiences an ideal for the location, design and building of a villa in Bali that they, their family and friends would truly enjoy. Months of searching led to the village of Lodtunduh, near Ubud, to find the land for the villa and then engage a well-respected Balinese architect to transform their ideas.
The couple became captivated by the site, its calming environment, its spiritual connection to the holy spring temple by the Ayung River which the villa overlooks, the cool air flow from the valley and the villa being embraced by the warm friendship of the local village community of Mawang.
Villa Beji Mawang offers graceful and luxurious living in a serene and virtually secluded setting, with a picture-book view of the Ayung River. It is just 15 minutes' drive from the centre of Ubud, the thriving cultural and artistic heart of Bali and yoga capital of South East Asia.


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"You are but a dog, and I am your master!"
— Thalmor Soldiers showing a particularly brutal version of this trope, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Okay, the first thing I noticed was that everyone who had a solid vampyre tattoo was incredibly good-looking. I mean, it was totally insane. Yes, I knew that vampyres were attractive. Everyone knew that. The most successful actors and actresses in the world were vampyres. They were also dancers and musicians, authors and singers. Vampyres dominated the arts, which is one reason they had so much money- and also one reason (of many) that the People of Faith considered them selfish and immoral. But really, they're just jealous that they're not as good looking. The People of Faith would go see their movies, plays, concerts, buy their books and their art, but at the same time they'd talk about them and look down on them, and God knows they'd never, ever mix with them.
Okay, the kids weren't as gorgeous as the adults. Sure, they were nice-looking- interesting actually, with their crescent moon outlines, and their uniforms that looked more like runway designs than school clothes- but they didn't have the glossy, inhumanly attractive light that radiated from inside each of the adult vampyres.
— Zoey, the narrator of Marked
"Human law and vampire law are not one and the same. Humans have no jurisdiction over us."
"Why?" I'd asked.
"Because humans and vampyres are not the same. There are, indeed, more of them than us, but we few hold greater wealth and power as individuals than they can ever hope to attain. We are stronger, smarter, more talented, and more beautiful. Without vampyres, their world would be nothing more than a snuffed candle."
Davian Thule: Alien witch! You despoil our chapel with your presence!
Taldeer: Your Emperor is an illusion, human. I can hardly blaspheme against something that isn't divine.
Davian Thule: You dare...!
Taldeer: Unless, of course, you pray to something else altogether from this ruined temple...
Davian Thule: We will send you back to your craftworld in a tomb!
Taldeer: I have known my death for ten of your lifetimes, captain. Don't think to scare me with it.
Davian Thule: The Blood Ravens will not be driven back by one such as you!
Taldeer: Take solace at least in facing defeat at the hands of your betters. There is no ignominy in that.
Davian Thule: We have yet to meet our betters, alien. Certainly not on this forsaken world! All we have seen here are deluded tyrants, heretics and alien scum!
Taldeer: You should have looked beyond your mirror, then.
—Dawn of War: Dark Crusade
Mao: *to Seiran* Y-you Class President!
Seiran: Um, what do you mean by class president?
Mao: You have the look of a class president.
Seiran: *looking displeased* The look?
Mao: Besides, you elves take the stand of, "you vulgar, inferior races shall obey our beautiful and noble kind!" Don't you?
Seiran: Please refrain from saying things that misrepresent whole races!


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MANSFIELD, Mass. - Folllowing a month in which they posted a 6-2 mark, all in cross-divisional Northeast-10 Conference action, the Le Moyne Men's Basketball team has been selected as the NE10 Team of the Month for January, 2017.
The Dolphins were awarded the honor following a vote the NE10 conducted on its social media platforms (Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter), in which more than 400 people voted.
Le Moyne received 43% of the total votes that were submitted, with the Adelphi Women's Basketball team and the Bentley Women's Basketball team each finishing second with 27% of the votes.
During the month, Le Moyne won six times, including conference wins over Stonehill, Assumption, Saint Anselm, Merrimack, Saint Michael's, and Franklin Pierce. Both Stonehill and Saint Anselm were a part of the 2016 NCAA East Regional field.
2016-17 NE10 Team of the Month Honorees
September - LIU Post Field Hockey
October - LIU Post Football
November - Le Moyne Women's Basketball
December - Assumption Women's Basketball
January - Le Moyne Men's Basketball
The NE10 is an association of 15 diverse institutions serving student-athletes across 24 NCAA Division II sports. Together we build brilliant futures by embracing the journey of every student-athlete.
Each year, 4,500 student-athletes compete in conference championships, making the NE10 the largest DII conference in the country in terms of sport sponsorship. Leading the way in the classroom, on the field and within the community, the NE10 is proud of its comprehensive program and the experience it provides student-athletes.


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Historically, real estate has been a relationship business where individual agents call on, or respond to, home and property owners to represent them in finding qualified buyers. With the advent of the internet and other technological advances, many of the methods of representation will change, but the need for developing sound business relationships, based on marketing skills, will not change significantly.
A current challenge to new agent survival is that brokers, managers and agents, as a whole, are enamored by all the new technology and look to it as a substitute for selling skills. In reality, over the last ten years, in spite of the advances of technology, the failure rate of new agents has remained constant.
Bottom line: agents still need to be trained … still need to be coached … and still need to be led. The right training … the right coaching … and the right leadership … will produce significantly better results.
Some important philosophy and background about Direct Sales.
Here are some thoughts regarding Direct Sales and the keys to success for individual salespeople and, ultimately, company success and profits.
1. Professional selling is NOT something we do TO people – it is something we do FOR people.
The majority of 'salespeople' do not sell. They take orders. They offer products or services and let prospects buy. The counter clerk at Tim Horton's happily claims he sold someone 12 dozen donuts, but in actuality a customer ordered them. The same is true in most situations where a product is involved. It's especially true where the product has great appeal, as in a fad like pet rocks, hula hoops, or now, iPods.
In the real estate business, most agents seldom 'sell' a house. Instead, they take potential buyers on tour until the prospect says he/she will buy one … or not. Subconsciously, most salespeople think that asking people to buy, or even suggesting they do, is 'doing something to them'. Conversely, there are skilled agents who seldom show more than three homes to make the sale and seldom show homes to prospects who do not buy from them. How? They sell the prospective buyers on getting specific about wants and needs, pick three good options and help the buyers select one. That is doing something for people. This skill can be taught.
2. The only difference between a con-artist and a top salesperson is delivery of the goods.
Consider the con-artist. He intends to collect money but deliver nothing. The bag will be empty. Knowing this, the con-artist must make a great first impression, by dress, grooming, bearing, leadership and words. Especially the words. He develops great opening lines, asks great attention getting questions, qualifies perfectly, paints great word pictures of the ultimate benefits and closes with great skill and urgency. He must do so quickly because the bag will be empty.
The average salesperson, having seen a con-artist at work in movies and maybe real life, decides to just show the product or service and let the prospect make their own decision. "I'll let the product sell itself," is their philosophy. Master salespeople, on the other hand, decide to emulate the con-artist on all points – first impression, dress, grooming, bearing, leadership and words – but deliver a full bag of benefits and value.
Related point: your car is a-moral. It is nether good or evil. Just a vehicle. You can use it for good or evil. You can use it to take an elderly neighbor to church on Sunday or as your get-away vehicle to rob a bank.
The sales training techniques I teach to salespeople are a vehicle. They can be used to create great sales and provide great benefits, or they can be used to con people into bad decisions. The philosophy of the company I train agents for will be the determining factor. Do they want a bunch of order takers or skilled salespeople who deliver the sales to the company and the benefits to the customers? If the goal is the latter, the client company must be willing to examine the needs for true and complete sales training to the same degree they have analyzed the rest of their Business Plan. Charles Kettering, an early founder and President of General Motors once said, "Understanding the problem is half of the solution."
Too many salespeople fail unnecessarily.
The National Association of Realtors in the US reports that 83% of all new recruits fail within 3 to 5 years; that 60% fail the first year. In Canada, the statistics are similar. Life insurance, auto sales, and most other sales fields also have similar statistics.
This situation has gone on for so long, most people take it as 'normal'.
On the other hand, there are real estate companies who can show that 75% of the new agents they recruited 5, 10, even 15 years ago are still active in the business and most are very high producers. The questions to ask are: what did they do differently and how can we replicate this?
There are two major problems that cause the massive failure rates for sales people in all fields. My experience is with residential re-sale real estate agents, so my comments will focus there.
1. The single greatest reason why salespeople fail, or fail to get beyond mediocrity, is because they do not learn the 'language of sales' fast enough to survived, or well enough or completely enough to reach their potential or even modest goals. Selling, especially an intangible, such as the service of listing and marketing property, requires words. Napoleon said "we can rule the world with words."
The 'Culture is the Culprit'. Tragically, our very culture is a major part of this problem. We think that if we give a budding salesperson some product knowledge about our business, and the general idea of what to say, they will put it in their own words and eventually become good at selling. That doesn't work. Too many otherwise capable people fail. We don't ask a music student to write their own music to make a living as an entertainer. Why should we ask budding salespeople to write their own scripts and dialogue?
2. The second greatest reason why salespeople fail, or fail to get beyond mediocrity, is because they don't do, on a daily basis, the very things they need to do to succeed. Dr. Cliff Baird, PhD, a Canadian educational psychologist, believes that people, as a whole, are 'addicted to avoidance behavior'.
Basically, he is right. As humans, we react to danger by running or fighting. 'Fight or flight' is a human instinct. We learned that from our caveman ancestors who discovered that some of their potential food fought back.
We tend to fight when we think we can win or are desperate and need to win. Otherwise we run.
Now, consider the average new salesperson. We send them out to hunt (prospect) by calling on strangers (who probably won't like the interruption) and ask the stranger to spend money (give up part of their food) for our benefit (and risk rejection and humiliation – "I don't know you. You just want to get your hand in my wallet/purse so you can get a commission").
Worse, we send the budding salesperson out with no tools or blunt spears. Giving new agents a 'few sales tips' of 'general ideas' is giving our new hunters very blunt tools indeed.
Bottom line, as humans, we avoid risk. Risk can be physical … or emotional. We avoid rejection; we avoid situations we perceive as potentially humiliating because we are not prepared and don't know how to get prepared. And, as franchisers, brokers, managers and trainers, we wonder why salespeople don't make enough calls, or don't ask for the order when they do.
The fault can be remedied.
As noted above, 83% of new real estate agents fail. The average production or U.S. and Canadian real estate agents is about 10 or 11 transactions a year. Remove the top 10% of those agents and their production from the equation and the average production of the bottom 90% is about 3 transactions per year. That's not enough to live on, therefore the massive failure rate.
Conversely, there were and are a handful of real estate firms that can boast an average production of 30 transactions per year with no agent producing less that 20 transactions annually, and enjoy an agent survival rate of 75% for 5 years or more,
Some years ago, two young brokers took my Advanced Listing Course and decided to make it the core of their training and listing system. For the next four years I provided one five-day course every year in their city. They provided the coaching follow up and, because they had personally learned the system first, they could inspect their agents' skills. As a result they grew from 10 agents averaging 10 transactions annually to 81 agents averaging 33 transactions in under four years.
Part of their success resulted by establishing four key requirements. To join the company, the agents must agree to enroll in the Advanced Listing Course and pay for it (we financed the agent on our unique pay-as-you-earn plan … except for a small registration deposit to cover some course material and initial costs, the balance was payable at 10% of each commission earned. Until they received a commission, they did not have to pay); they had to agree to participate in the coaching program every week without fail, and, to stay in the company, they had to maintain 3 transactions a month. A transaction meant a well priced listing or a sale. Finally, they had to earn a certain amount a year. If they did not take the course, attend the coaching or meet the production and earnings minimums, they were required to transfer their licenses elsewhere.
One of the benefits of raising the bar was that it became easier to recruit agents. Experienced agents wanted to come 'where the action is'. New agents wanted to become part of a winning team.
Important note for brokers, managers and in-house trainers: you do not have to master the training content or training method to lead people. Think like the conductor of a symphony. Conductors don't have to know how to play every instrument, or any instrument at all. They must have a good ear for music and a good ear to hear who is off key or off the beat. If you have the first five pieces of the puzzle in place, and you can read the training material, you can measure skills and hold people accountable for becoming the experts they need to be to be on your team.
Robert Kennedy, in his famous speech to young South Africans, said, "Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation."
To paraphrase Kennedy's statement, 'No one salesperson will make or break your company, but each of them can change a small portion of events and in the total of all those acts, under your leadership, will be written the history of your company.'
Making sure that new agents, and experienced low and modest producers, receive training, coaching and leadership built around complete and precise listing and selling language can cause a tidal wave of achievement that will carry your company to a size and reputation beyond today's expectations. You can become bigger and more profitable than most people conceive.
If any of the above makes sense, I will be happy to provide details.
What do you want your history to be?


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And Bike Boy rang from work to say that he feels rather like dog poop too.... Great. Just what this house needs - more sick people!
Bummer! Sorry you are so ill, hope you and the Baby get better soon... We have those '7-11' clinics here too, usually end up having to use them on the weekends cos kids always wait to get sick on the weekend and regular doctors are not open... and yes, we pay through the nose for the priviledge of going then too~! And we wait hours too..... luckily for me (maybe) last time I needed a Dr I just took myself to hospital and they took me right away, might have had something to do with pissing bloody all over their darn floor, ha ha ha!
That's what stress does to you.
It's amazing how much better you feel when you're lying in mummy's bed.
Feel better soon Kek :)
Liz ;)
I hope you are all feeling better soon. Hugs all round (from a distance). Blowing kisses.. catch them?
For those not in the know.. last time I stayed with Kek her boys had germs and I caught some truly vile Aussie flu that I could not get rid of and, weeks later, ended up getting a prescription for(of all things) sleeping pills, so that I could knock myself out and finally sleep it off.


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If you own a home, perhaps you want a change within your kitchen, or you want to remodel the kitchen of a house you have recently purchased. In this article, we will share some kitchen remodeling ideas to help you achieve the look that you are going for within your space.
1. Open Your Space With Shelving
Do you need more storage space within your kitchen? If you want to keep your room open and welcoming, opt for shelving in place of upper
cabinets. Place your shelves roughly 18 inches above your counters, and store items on these. This is a wonderful way to help a smaller kitchen look larger and more inviting.
2. Update Your Hardware
This is an inexpensive way to change the look of your kitchen while still making quite the visual impact. Update the hardware on your cabinets and drawers, and allow everything to be cohesive by choosing hardware from the same family of style.
3. Give Your Ceiling Some Love
One area of the kitchen that is often overlooked during a remodel is the ceiling. Give your ceiling a fresh coat of paint, or if you like, really make your space pop with ceiling tiles. These mimic the look of antique ceilings from days of old. Ceiling tiles can be painted any color you wish, and they fit together easily, so give them a try in your new kitchen.
4. Pull Out the Paint
If you don't want to completely replace your cabinets and counters, try giving them new life with a fresh coat of paint. Choose a bright color to warm up the space and make it more welcoming, or simply touch up the existing color if you still love it, however, a pest control parsippany nj based company said it would be a good idea to reface or rebuild your cabinet to check on bug infestation.
5. Add a Chalkboard
Throw out the old shopping list pad and go for a chalkboard! With chalkboard paint, creating a board to write on and erase at will has never been easier. You can make a small chalkboard out of a mirror or picture frame, or if you are feeling truly daring, you can turn a whole kitchen wall into a board to doodle on and erase.
If you are looking to remodel your kitchen, try these wonderful ideas to give your space a boost. Each idea is inexpensive, simple, and will bring new life to a kitchen in a short period of time. Kitchen remodeling has never been easier or more fun.