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Here is the opening Plenary speaker, Carol Coletta, speaking on owning the road ahead of you. (link will take you to video on APAP website)
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Tudor Lodge provides some of the best hotel rooms in Porthmadog. Why not visit us for a friendly welcome and comfortable stay?
All our bedrooms are designed and furnished to give you maximum comfort during your stay. Modern en-suite bathrooms with hot showers, comfortable beds with warm duvets and bounce-back pillows, all dressed in tasteful colour-coordinated linen ensure that you will have a good night's sleep. Hospitality trays with tea, coffee and biscuits, hairdryers and FreeSat TVs featuring 200+ popular channels are located in every bedroom. There is free FibreOptics WiFi available in all rooms and public areas. The comments in our visitor book show that you won't find better hotel rooms in Porthmadog.
We have singles, twins, large twins, doubles and large doubles, so there is the perfect room for all requirements.
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The edges of slate are generally rugged and roughly square, hewn straight from the quarry and shipped by the manufacturer. In the case of backsplashes it becomes necessary to bullnose the outside edges of the slate tiles where they are exposed, allowing for a perfectly rounded edge that will enhance any kitchen backsplash and transform your kitchen into the most aesthetically pleasing room in the house.
Adjust the speed of the grinder to a low setting and apply gentle pressure against the edge of the slate. Use the roughest pad in the polishing kit in conjunction with the 4-inch hand-held grinder to begin smoothing the edge of the stone as you move the pad along the edge of the stone. The reason you begin with the roughest pad is due to the fact that the finer pads are reserved for polishing, not contouring. In addition, if you start off with the finer, softer pads the rough contours of the stone will shred the pads.
Avoid applying heavy pressure due to the softness of the stone--you may create a dip or too much of an angle along the edge, which can happen if you apply too much pressure. Create a slightly rounded edge by applying gentle pressure and pushing the grinder pad along the entire edge of the tile at roughly a 45-degree angle. Create a more rounded edge by rocking the pad of the grinder from side to side in a gentle arc as you work your way along the edge, varying from a 25- to 45-degree angle, depending on how much of a curve you are looking for. The more pressure you apply and the more passes you make, the more rounded and deeper the edge will be. Start with gentle pressure at first and make only one or two passes. Increase the number of passes if you think you want a more rounded edge.
Pay attention to the angle if you are polishing slate tile that is already installed, as too much could push the pad into the wall or surrounding cabinets, damaging those surfaces. If in doubt, simply put a piece of cardboard between the surface and your grinder for protection.
Use the softer pads in the kit if you want a polished sheen to the edge. The softer the surface of the pad, the greater the sheen you can create. If you want a rugged, natural look you should only use the roughest pads in the kit and simply smooth out the roughest sections of the edge. If you want a polished look, work your way down through the pads from rough to soft. It will take multiple passes with different pads to achieve a polished sheen.
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- All materials and tools can be purchased or rented from your local home improvement store, such as Home Depot or Lowe's Home Improvement.
- If your exposed edges are a small enough area, you can use a simple handstone and sandpaper to achieve the same results as the polishing kit and grinder.
- The best course of action is to polish the edges of the slate tile prior to installation, but you can also polish tiles once they are in place.
- Always be sure to wear safety glasses and a dust mask when working with a polishing kit.


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A great gift to give to your crush is the Reasons I Love You Stones. It's a great way to express how you feel to the person you like, or maybe even love. Each stone displays a cute reason why you have a crush on someone. Leave a stone at your crush's doorstep or on their desk.
Another way to let your crush know how you feel is to send a Sea of Love Message Gift Bottle with Scroll. The bottle contains sands, shells, and a message written on old parchment. It has traveled across the seas to be read by your secret crush. A similar gift that is just as romantic is the Valentine Message in a Bottle. Create your own SOS message of love and send it.


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Sometimes I talk myself out of buying exotic ingredients. Whether they're expensive (meyer lemons), difficult to locate (farro), or just plain scary (uni), I can come up with many reasons to avoid a potentially awesome dish.
I had talked myself out of making macaroni with cream and cheese, Gourmet Feb. 05, for some of the above reasons. It had a number of red-button items in the ingredient list; it called for over 1 pound of chili peppers (I'm scared of spicy things, though I do often like them), and two types of Mexican cheeses: queso fresco (a firm, crumbly cow's milk cheese, similar to a mild feta), and crema (like creme fraiche, but more viscous).
While the recipe was not on the top of my list for those reasons, I happened upon all of the ingredients in my trusty SpaHa Associated. After buying some, I realized I had forgotten the serrano chiles but decided the poblanos would be spicy enough. (I was right, though I've heard the serranos are not quite as aggressive as they could be)
The recipe was incredible, the balance between the chile heat and the mild, creamy cheese made it totally worth it. Roasting the chiles was another first experience for me; I probably could have charred the outsides a bit more, but I was afraid I'd overcook them. The chiles came out tender and gave the dish a significant cumulative spiciness, but nothing unbearable.
At the end of the meal I was left with 3/4 of the queso fresco wheel. For a day or so I considered remaking the macaroni, but then the Feb. 07 Gourmet came. And with it, another intriguing recipe containing about a half-pound of queso fresco: an Andean potato stew. The editors billed it as comfort food, and considering the extreme cold it sounded ideal.
The achiote seeds seemed like they'd be difficult, but I found them, surprise surprise, at the same supermarket in the spice section. And the bottle was about 25x larger than I needed, so I'll be set with achiote for a while. Let me know if any of y'all need to, say, color some American cheese or dye some textiles (other popular uses include Mayan warpaint)
Preparation was easy and the product was satisfying. I'd say I increased the total poundage of potatoes to about 5; with the original 3 1/2, the potato stew was somewhat paltry on the potatoes (though I may have stretched it into more meals than the recipe foresaw …). For clarity, the additional potatoes were cubed, not mashed. The queso fresco muted the mild achiote heat and looked quite handsome topping the stew. The avocados were crucial.
All of that left me 4 oz queso. I ate 2 oz standing over the range waiting for the potatoes to boil, and sliced the rest and topped it with red wine vinegar (kind of gross; balsamic would have been better).
One wheel of queso fresco, 8 meals. (It might have been 10…)
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Anhui Conch Cement, the largest cement producer in China, plans to invest CNY10bn (US$1.5bn) this year to upgrade technology, undertake mergers and acquisitions and reduce emissions, reports China Business News, citing company chairman Guo Wensan.
Conch Cement achieved market leadership through capacity expansion in the Yangtze River Delta and the Pearl River Delta regions, the two most important markets in China, during the period of the 11th Five-Year Plan. During the same period, the company sought to enter into the markets of west China.
According to the report, the recent growth of China National Building Material Group Corporation in the cement sector through mergers and acquisitions is threatening the market leadership position of Conch Cement. This has led to Conch Cement pursuing mergers and acquisitions.
Guo said that Conch Cement will expand capacity by more than 10 per cent in 2011. At present, the company has a cement capacity of 140Mt of cement and has affiliates in about 20 provinces and cities.
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For businesses without a storefront, local search can get tricky.
Google wants to avoid businesses appearing in local search results if that business does not have a physical location in the city searched. They address this in the Google Places Quality Guidelines, where they disallow PO boxes and fake addresses.
The only known exception to this guideline is a business with general service areas. In this instance, businesses are to create a listing under one physical location. They are then allowed to designate those service areas. However, listing the designated service areas may not be effective in those areas with heavy competition.
In order to begin ranking in local search, we recommend the following tips and tricks.
1. Focus on Organic
In competitive industries especially, you'll want to take the path of least resistance. Other than Places and G+ Local having first page priority, organic local search results that are worthy and relevant are also listed.
A great example of an organic local search result is Yelp. National sites like Yelp can rank for endless local search queries while you can focus on specific searches (ie., oil change Lee's Summit).
2. Avoid Using a Virtual Address
In the past, someone might have advised you to list a virtual office space in order to rank in local search. Well, unless you are using your virtual space for legitimate business purposes, we strongly discourage this.
This is a sticky situation for Google because it is difficult to tell if this is real or someone is trying to pull a fast one. While there's a small chance of being able to get away with it and fudge a verification, the reward is certainly not worth the risk. I'd say getting delisted or suspended from Google search is marketing suicide.
3. Get a Real Address
Easier said than done, right? If it's worth gaining local and lifetime customers through local search, getting a real address will prove valuable. While this probably isn't the most simple solution, it certainly is a viable one. This is best for those businesses targeting a specific city in a highly competitive industry.
4. Continually Optimize
Setting your target location and creating a page is certainly not the whole story. Once you've done these, you'll want to build your credibility with customer testimonials. Add names and location for each to indicate areas you typically do work.
You'll also want to boost your geo-signals by adding photos and videos to your site that are geotagged with your target location. Additionally, encourage ratings on relevant review sites that credit your location. Both offsite and onsite geo-signals will be helpful in local search.
5. Zip Codes
Reiterating what was mentioned before, when it comes to ranking organically in local search, small businesses need to be looking for the road less traveled. Most businesses are going to select a radius to specify their service areas.
By listing zip codes, you are able to avoid spreading yourself too thin. For businesses that really want to focus on local search rankings for specific areas of their city, this works great. For businesses that don't need or want to limit themselves in local search, the circle radius may be the best.
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For riders who can walk/trot and canter safely on their own. Effective warm-up and intro gymnastic exercises for rider and horse. Open to riders who do not have a horse or riders who wish to bring their own mount. Parents can watch student from the warm viewing room during the cooler weather. Age: 12-Adult. *jumping boots required.
Come join us and learn how fun riding and taking care of horses can be. Country setting with trails, indoor/outdoor arenas and a warm viewing room for visitors to watch students during cooler weather. English style riding for balance (bases for all riding disciplines), helmets provided and boots are required with 1 inch heel (cowboy boots ok).
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Production of the original compact-block began in the fall of 1954 for the 1955 model year with a displacement of 265 cu in (four.3 L), increasing incrementally over time to 400 cu in by 1970. Apart from the option in the design and style of body kits there is also a choice of the material applied in generating them. They are so substantially in demand that the physique kits manufacturing industry has grown to develop into an crucial component of common automobile sector. Chevy production big-blocks range from 348-ci to 454-ci in passenger cars, but have also been presented in other displacements for distinctive applications. What's more, full Chevy engines are proudly supplied by major-rated sellers on eBay, so go ahead and shop with self-assurance.
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Im surprised that MSU hasnt announced any new signings for next years team. Hopefully this week!!
I guess someone should start one. I'll begin by grumbling about payment being due much earlier this year on season tickets. Ever since I've had mine, I've paid for them in August. This year we have to pay by the end of May or risk losing our seats. I'll do it, but I'm not happy about it, just on principle.
My guy is a hard-nosed hockey player who is not afraid to crash the net. Your guy is a goon who runs the goalie.
Im surprised that MSU hasnt announced any new signings for next years team. Hopefully this week!!
Well, you only have to put a deposit down by the end of May. You're still paying some, but not the whole amount.
I get why they are doing it though. The Athletic Department is hamstrung when people don't commit until 2 weeks before the season. It's nearly impossible to sell any more season tickets with that little bit of time before the season.
Mess with the bull, you get the horns.
Now that we've established that, someone put my mind at ease - Our last 2 award-winning freshman goalies (Stephon and Huggy) both had lousy sophomore seasons. Is it going to be different this year, and if so, why?
So, what's everyone's reaction to changing Saturday game start times to 6:07? I'm not terribly happy with it. I may be old, but the idea of dinner at 4:30 to be able to make it to the game on time isn't very attractive to me.
My guy is a hard-nosed hockey player who is not afraid to crash the net. Your guy is a goon who runs the goalie.
Overall, I think it's a good thing. With the 7:07 starts, I'd see a few students drifting away in the third period to start their drinking, and a few little kids starting to nod off.
Mess with the bull, you get the horns.
NHL schedule is out. Wild at Nashville October 24, then Mavs at Huntsville October 25-26. Now I just have to convince the wife.
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FWIW, MSU has been transparent with the other 6 league members of the new conference that it will leave for the NCHC if asked. Sounds like Miami would be the team that would swap with MSU in the new league doesnt sound like anything too imminent, but the new conference was the first step towards joining the NCHC it eliminates Miami having to travel to AK or AL, and gets them back to a primarily Great Lakes conference.
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It looks as though Tucson will have Rich Rodriguez to kick around until 2019. The University of Arizona and the Wildcats head coach have come to an agreement on a contact extension that will go through the 2019 season. This is pending approval by the Arizona Board of Regents.
Arizona and RichRod came to terms to a two-year extension agreement that raises his base salary to $1.9 million. That is on top of $500,000 that he receives for what are described as "peripheral duties" such as TV and radio appearances, and additional incentives, which include $1 million should he win a National title as the Wildcats' head coach.
Rodriguez has gone 16-10 in his two season at Arizona, including wins in the 2012 New Mexico Bowl against Nevada, and the 2013 AdvoCare V100 Bowl against Boston College.
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Gettysburg National Military Park fire managers are preparing for a prescribed fire on two days from late March to late April, weather permitting. The plans call for burning portions of a 215 acre burn unit between Devil's Den and South Confederate Avenue. Fuel and weather conditions must be within certain parameters and that will determine the exact date for each of the one-day operations.
Prescribed fires allow fire managers to conduct a safe burn under optimal conditions with sufficient resources available to meet specific objectives for the management of battlefield resources. Gettysburg's overall objectives are to maintain the conditions of the battlefield as experienced by the soldiers who fought here; perpetuate the open space character of the landscape; maintain wildlife habitat; control exotic invasive species; reduce shrub and woody species components; and reduce fuels in wooded areas to reduce fire hazard.
Temporary Road Closures Planned: During the prescribed fire, multiple roads will likely be closed for portions of the day including South Confederate Avenue, and Sickles Avenue at Devil's Den. Closures may last two or three days. Pedestrian and equestrian trails located within the burn area will also be closed.
Additional roads, trails and areas may be closed temporarily if smoke conditions reduce visibility to a level that would cause visibility problems and public and firefighter safety concerns. Up-to-date information on this and any other closures and fire activity will be posted on the park's website, www.nps.gov/gett, and social media sites, using the hashtag, #GettysburgNPS.
The timing of the prescribed fire is dependent on conditions being within required weather parameters such as wind, temperature, and relative humidity. The prescribed fire will be conducted from approximately late morning through the afternoon, followed by patrol and monitoring to ensure the fire is completely out.
A combination of lawn-sprinklers, hoses, mowed lines, and fire engines will be used to create a buffer and fire break to protect monuments and other cultural resources in the burn area. National Park Service staff will monitor air quality and smoke impacts as well as visibility on nearby roads.
More information including maps of the project areas and the park's Fire Management Plan can be viewed here.
Gettysburg National Military Park preserves, protects and interprets for this and future generations the resources associated with the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg, during the American Civil War, the Soldiers' National Cemetery, and their commemorations.
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Kosha Dillz, better known as Rami to his friends and family is an LA transplant via New Jersey // Israeli background. The independent emcee who believes in his musical journey and much as being Jewish, starting gracing legendary stages of Nuyorican Poets Cafe in the early 2000's before entering a state of dereliction and drug dealing addiction. Before you knew it, his lifestyle led him to multiple jail stints in the midst of promising NCAA Division Iwresting career at Rutgers University.After cleaning up his act in the mid 2000's, his ho career began working into what Source Magazine calls "The hardest working man in Hip Hop." How can that be you may ask? His stories are part of the most unbelievable stats reigning true. Imagine recording tracks with everyone from the Rzato Matisyahu, and do shows around the world with acts like ASAP Rocky to Macklemore and even Yo Gabba Gabba. His tracks, mainly produced via Jesse Shatkin (Sia, Murs, Santigold) have landed in various placements from Bud Light Superbowl commercials to the upcoming Sundance 2016 select The Skinny. He is even a playable character in NBA 2k11 / 2k13alongside Drake and Snoop Dogg, and his music has appeared on every website from Brooklyn Vegan to Billboard Magazine. He raps in Spanish, Hebrew, and English.If that doesn't impress you enough, not many rappers can say their website was hacked by ISIS. Yes you heard that right. Just look it up. And If you believe in his self proclaimed Adventure-Core music, follow Kosha Dillz on his path, as he is more than likely to pop up anywhere you may look with a microphone in hand as his famous stickers reign true; Kosha DIllz is Everywhere. On January 15th, he will be on stage at the Brooklyn Bowl right before the legend Slick Rick.
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Dr. V.A. Shiva Ayyadurai visited the campus of Sathyabama University in Chennai, India on Wednesday, July 17, 2013. Dr. Shiva presented a very inspiring speech about innovation and overcoming hurdles on the way to achieve it. He called upon students to further innovation and entrepreneurship, telling them that they are the future of the country and India looks to them for equitable and socially just development. Dr. Shiva reminded the students and staff on the importance of self-belief in trying to fulfill one's destiny and calling in life. Dr. Shiva interacted with students and staff after his speech.
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The Affordable Care Act used a carrot-and-stick approach to get healthy people to sign up for coverage. The stick is the individual mandate and the penalty for going uninsured; the carrot is a system of subsidies to help people afford their premiums. Under Republicans' watch, the stick is getting a lot weaker while the carrot is looking more and more delicious.
What's happening: We're ending up in a place where the poorest consumers can get even cheaper coverage than the ACA intended, especially if they choose less comprehensive care, while wealthier consumers increasingly don't have much incentive to get covered at all. Those trends will only grow more pronounced if Republicans successfully repeal the individual mandate in their tax bill, leaving the law with only its carrot, and no stick.


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There is a Hasidic story about how a student of Rabbi Mordecai of Nadvorna approached his teacher prior to Rosh Hashanah in order ask permission to be dismissed. Rabbi Mordecai asked him, "What's your hurry?" to which he responded: "I am leading the services back in my home village and I need time to study the prayer book and put my services in order." Rabbi Mordecai then said to him: "The prayer book is the same as it was last year. It would be better for you to study your deeds and put yourself in order."
Well, if Rabbi Mordecai said that to me this year, I would say to him: "That's what you think, Rabbi Mordecai! Obviously you have not had a chance to look at any of the pilot services from the soon to be published new Reform High Holy Day prayer book, MISHKAN HANEFESH!"
Whether or not Rabbi Mordecai has had a chance to take a look at MISHKAN HANEFESH, and I doubt that he did, considering the fact that he lived in the 19th century, you – the members of our congregation – will get a chance to look at it, and pray from it, tomorrow morning. I suspect that some of you may love it and some of you may loathe it and the feelings of many of you probably will fall somewhere in between. But this I can promise you: It will offer us a High Holy Day worship experience which will be dramatically different from what we are used to after years of praying out of GATES OF REPENTANCE.
What can I tell you about the book? Will the service be longer? I know that is a question on many people's minds. To be quite honest, I just don't know. The fact that this particular service booklet has over 190 pages is not encouraging. However, the format of this book is so different – in some ways, but not in every way, similar to our Shabbat prayer book, MISHKAN T'FILAH – that many pages does not necessarily mean a long service. What about music? This service definitely has more music than the Rosh Hashanah morning service in our current prayer book. Of course music is a matter of taste but personally I like the music that has been added. I also can tell you that there are some English alternatives offered to traditional prayers that are unlike any text you probably would expect to encounter on the High Holy Days. The book also offers some surprises like various opportunities for study sessions in the midst of the service and wait until you see what they have done to the Shofar service. Love it or loathe it, one thing is definitely certain. This book will provide us with a new High Holy Day worship experience.
Now I know that when we encounter something new, often it takes a lot of getting used to. There is some¬thing about human nature – not for all of us but for most of us – which instinctively resists the new. So many of us far prefer to wrap ourselves up in the warm, cuddly, familiar blanket of the old ways.
Many of you might remember, back in 1996, when Bob Dole was the Republican candidate for President. In his nomination acceptance speech, he framed his campaign around the concept of building a bridge to the past; to an era more familiar and, at least in memory, more pleasant. Many found that approach very appealing. However, his opponent, Bill Clinton, was soon to counter that ideology by stating that it was not his intention to build a bridge to the past but rather to build a bridge to the future. And we know who won that contest. The book from which we have prayed this evening is Reform Judaism's bridge to the past. The book from which we will pray tomorrow morning is Reform Judaism's bridge to the future.
When you think about it, as new and as different as tomorrow morning's service may be, it is all very much in keeping with the essential spirit of this holy day. For Rosh Hashanah is all about that which is new and our committing ourselves to a process of personal and communal renewal. Indeed, one of the significant traditional greetings for Rosh Hashanah is the greeting of "Titkadeish! – May You Be Renewed!"
For our tradition looks at the New Year as just that – a new year. It is a time to start our lives anew; to embrace new experiences; to make of ourselves new and better people. It is a time for renewal. To renew old dreams which somewhere along the way may have been laid aside. To renew old relationships which, for one reason or another, we may have left dormant. To renew our energy, our lust for life, our joy in living. To renew our commitment to our positive values – justice, right over wrong, caring, love, responsibility. To renew our connections to our Jewish identity, the Jewish people, and most importantly to God. It is a time for us to say, "Today need not be a carbon copy of yesterday, and tomorrow need not be a carbon copy of today." To say it and to mean it. What better gift can we give to ourselves on the New Year than to start to make of ourselves a New Me?
Yet change is almost always a challenge. Habits are hard to break. Habits – that is what we allow our lives to become. We tend to live our lives habitually; doing the same things day in and day out; thinking the same thoughts, responding in the same ways. Throughout our lives we gather and acquire certain attitudes and perspectives and behaviors and we transform them into what become almost instinctual responses. How many parents have said to their children, "Go ask you father! Go ask your mother!" rather than grapple with the request their child has placed before them? In our household, that is still the Cantor's and my instinctual go-to position – actually more mine than the Cantor's – and our youngest child is 21 years old! It is as if we have our own personal catalogs of multipurpose answers and reactions, and we draw upon them as we seek to respond to whatever life hands us. And the content of those catalogs remain the same year in and year out.
In the end, it is all about growth, or lack thereof. It is a fundamental part of human nature to grow. Little children grow into full size adults, some fuller than others. With years of education and life experiences, most of us grow more knowledgeable and perhaps a bit wiser. Everyone of us, if we don't fall victim to fatal accidents or terminal diseases, eventually grow old. When it comes to our bodies, growth is a lifelong process. So also should it be with our minds, our hearts, our attitudes and perspectives. But too often, for too many of us, somewhere along the line that growth is arrested, and what once was evolving within us somehow or other becomes carved in stone. We may even justify it by saying such things as "I am who I am." But would it not be better for us to say "I am a work in progress and I look forward to what I will eventually become."?
So Rosh Hashanah calls upon us to actively engage in seeking out change in our lives; to strive to become a new and better self. How do we begin to accomplish this? First off, I suggest that each and every one of us think back and remember last Rosh Hashanah and honestly ask ourselves, "Am I in any way, significant or otherwise, a different person today than I was then? If I am different, then how am I different and is that difference for the better or for the worse?" There will be those among us who will acknowledge that little if anything has changed from then until now. There also will be those among us who will be able to note definite changes. Yet as they consider the nature of those changes, they will come to recognize that those changes were not a matter of personal choice but rather as a matter of circumstance. God willing, there also will be those among us who will be able to say of themselves, "Yes. I am a different person today and I am different because I chose to be different, and hopefully the differences are for the better."
If we are among those who have not changed, or who have experienced changes as a result of circumstances rather than of choice, then we need to challenge ourselves to make it possible that come next Rosh Hashanah we will be able to offer a different response; that we will be able to say, "Yes, I have changed because I chose to change, and I have changed for the better." Even if we are among those who have experienced positive change over the past year, we still need to challenge ourselves to continue that process of positive change, for none of us is perfect. There always lies before us more of this road to travel.
Now at the same time, we need to be realistic. True change, lasting change does not happen all at once. Crash diets never sustain themselves. Durable change is an incremental and a gradual process. We need to start small and slowly, carefully, build one change upon another. There is a book on teenage suicide, entitled WHEN LIVING HURTS, which, at times, we have used with our Confirmands. Recognizing that adolescent – parent tensions can certainly contribute to teenage thoughts of suicide, one of the suggestions that the author offers is that the teenagers try a 1 week experiment in dealing with their parents. In this experiment, they should seek out ways to compliment their parents and also opportunities to volunteer to take on even small household tasks without being asked. As the experiment progresses, they should note whether or not the way their parents relate to them also changes for the better. I share this with you to illustrate that the type of change we seek can start with simple acts such as finding nice things to say to and about the people in our lives or by offering to do simple but nice deeds for them even before they ask us to do them. We can choose to make small changes which we can find will result in big differences; big differences in our lives; in our relationships; in the ways in which we interact with the world around us and in the ways in which the world around us interacts with us. As we do this and reap the benefits that these changes will bring, we will find that one small change will lead to another and another and another, as our pleasure in life continually grows. And it will grow because people who make themselves better also make themselves happier; happier with their life and with the person they are becoming – the new person they are becoming.
Just as tomorrow morning we will renew the way we worship on Rosh Hashanah, so should we, today, tomorrow, and all the tomorrows before us, seek to renew the people we are and the lives that we lead. May we embrace the High Holy Day blessing of "Titkadeish!" May each and every one of us be renewed as we seek to renew ourselves.
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Putting the New in the New YearOctober 30, 2014
There is a Hasidic story about how a student of Rabbi Mordecai of Nadvorna approached his teacher prior to Rosh Hashanah in order ask permission to be dismissed. Rabbi Mordecai asked him, "What's your hurry?" to which he responded: "I am leading the services back in my home village and I need time to study the prayer book and put my services in order." Rabbi Mordecai then said to him: "The prayer book is the same as it was last year. It would be better for you to study your deeds and put yourself in order."
The Undiscovered CountrySeptember 18, 2012
My memories from high school are scattered and few. In fact I am sure that if my daughtes, Shira and Helene, were here, they would be quick to say, "Well, Dad, that explains why you tell us the same stories over and over again!" Anyway, my high school memories are scattered and few, yet come to think of it, so are my college memories, but I suspect that there is a reason for that. Nonetheless as scattered and few as my high school memories are, some do stand out. One centers around when I was studying Shakespeare's "Hamlet."
For some odd, and perhaps even mystical, reason, "Hamlet" touched me in ways far more profound than any of my other studies. Indeed, I literally absorbed the play. As I read it, I instantly memorized it. If someone recited to me just three words from its text, I could not only complete the quote but also identify the act and the scene in which it appeared. Trust me, I could not do that with any of my other studies but I could do it with "Hamlet." I can not do that now with "Hamlet" but in those days, I could. There was just something about that play that seemed to resonate with my youthful imagination.
Not surprisingly, my favorite part of the play was the famous "To Be or Not To Be" soliloquy. That being said, the part of that soliloquy that grabbed my imagination the most was not the opening "To be or not to be" lines but rather the following text: "The Undiscovered Country, from whose bourn no traveler returns, puzzles the will and makes us rather bear those ills we have than fly to others that we know not of."[1]
"The Undiscovered Country." What was the undiscovered country Shakespeare was talking about? I wondered about that then and I still puzzle over it now. When we discussed the question in class, all those years ago, my English teacher was quick to share the standard interpretation that the "Undiscovered Country" was death. After all, death is main focus of the soliloquy – "To be or not to be" – to live or to die. But even then, I was not satisfied with that answer, for there was a certain inconsistency in the text. For if death indeed was the "Undiscovered Country from whose bourn (whose boundary) no traveler returns," then how do you explain the fact that earlier in play, the ghost of Hamlet's father does in fact return and speaks with him?
Nor was that inconsistency the only aspect of the quote which troubled me. For if the "Undiscovered Country" was death, then why would the knowledge of our own inescapable death "make us rather bear those ills we have than fly to others that we know not of"? One would think that if we know we are going to die no matter what, then that knowledge would liberate us to break with our everyday trials and tribulations – "those ills we have" – and experiment with the unknown; indeed to "fly to the others that we know not of."
Pondering this text, eventually, I came to the conclusion that perhaps the "Undiscovered Country" was not death, but rather the future. For unlike Hamlet's father, who returned from death, no one returns from the future – except of course Michael J. Fox and and Christopher Lloyd. Our lives are lived linearly and mono-directionally; past, present, future. Nor is it fear of death that drives us to "bear those ills we have" – to lock ourselves into the established patterns of our lives; to live our lives unchanged and unchanging. Rather it is our fear of the future which leads us to fear to "fly to others that we know not of" – to fear change; more precisely to fear how change may alter our future, perhaps for the better but maybe also for the worse.
So why do I speak to you of Shakespeare on Rosh Hashanah, rather than of Torah or Talmud or Midrash or the teachings of our great theologians? Because Rosh Hashanah is all about the Undiscovered Country and how we will face it. It's all about the future; our future, both as individuals and as we live our lives in the company of others.
When considering the Undiscovered Country, Shakespeare cannot help but wonder – it "puzzles the will," to use his own words – what it is about the Undiscovered Country that leads us to resolutely cling to the established patterns of our lives, even if they do us harm, rather than open ourselves up to the possibility of making changes in our lives. Granted that with change comes the risk that new ways merely may be a matter of exchanging one set of ills for another, still, on the other hand, they may also lead us to living better, happier lives and becoming better, happier people.
These are the exact same challenges that Rosh Hashanah and the High Holy Days present before us as Jews. This day calls upon us not to cower in fear of the future; not to permit our fear of the future to paralyze us so that we run to the comfort of the familiar patterns of our lives but rather to march bravely into the future, insightfully understanding that in the Undiscovered Country of the future, there is the promise and potential of a better life and a better self if we are but willing to overcome our fears and risk changing our ways; if we are but willing to grasp that promise and potential and work at making our lives better and transforming ourselves into better people. Let not our fears of the unknown keep us as prisoners of the past but let our dreams of a better tomorrow, of becoming better people, of living in a better world, liberate us so that we can build that better tomorrow, that better person, that better world.
All this is not to say that the Undiscovered Country does not contain reasons for fear. Of course it does. There will always be lurking in the unknown valid causes for our fears. As we welcome the year 5773, none of us can know of a certainty what that year will hold. Some may think they do, but they really don't. None of our expectations for the year to come are etched in stone, and they most certainly are not yet sealed in the Book of Life. They are nothing more that hopes, plans, and expectations. They not givens. For some of us, this may prove to be a wonderful year, filled with love and laughter and joyous surprises, health, happiness, and perhaps even material success. For others of us, this may prove to be a disastrous year, filled with pain and failure and tragic loss, personal suffering, the suffering of loved ones, and perhaps even death. Which will it be for us? We gather here this evening, and none of us can truly know the answer to that question. It may be one. In may be the other. And it can be anything in between.
And the truly frightening part is that so much of it – for good or for ill – probably will be beyond our control. There is so much of our lives which simply is out of our hands. Just ask anyone who has been the victim of a natural disaster. We can no more stop or change the course of a tornado or a hurricane than we can alter the phases of the moon. I suspect that there are many among us who have known people who have seriously striven to live physically healthy life styles, being meticulous about their diets and disciplined in their exercise regimens, yet in spite of it all, one day they collapsed of a fatal heart attack or were diagnosed with terminal cancer. As the old Yiddish saying goes, "Man plans and God laughs." There can be no denying that the Undiscovered Country is just that – undiscovered, uncertain, and therefore filled with uncertainty. Out of uncertainty can easily be born fear.
Yet with all that being said, our fear is no excuse for our stubborn refusal to consider change in our lives. Yes, there is so much that is beyond our control, but yes, there is still so much that is within it. At the end of the day, we have to accept the fact that we cannot control what we cannot control. But what we can control is how we choose to live in the face of that frightening reality. Perhaps one day we will be planting in our garden and strike gold. That would be wonderful, but it is out of our hands. Perhaps one day we will be driving along, obeying all the rules, and some moron will run a stop sign or a traffic light and demolish our car and perhaps its passengers as well. That would be horrible, but it also is out of our hands. Those types of things we cannot change, so there is no point in worrying about them. Knowing that such things can happen at any time, still we must live our lives, acting as though we possessed no such knowledge. We must live our lives focusing our attention on those things that we can control and not wasting a moment's thought or an ounce of our energy on those things we can't.
When it comes down to it, where do we possess the most control? We possess it over ourselves. We choose what we will do, what we will say, where our values lie, how we will interact with others; we choose the type of people we are and the type of people we will become. That is our power. We cannot control other people but we can control ourselves. We are the people we are today in great part – maybe not in all but in great part – because of the choices we have made. We will become the people we will be in the future – as we journey forward into the Undiscovered Country – because of the choices we make today and tomorrow, and everyday afterwards. If we think that we can be better, and we want to be better, then we must choose to be better. We must choose to change; taking chances by following paths until now untrod by us and therefore unknown to us, hoping and praying that they will lead us to rewards that outweigh their risks.
Rosh Hashanah does not just call upon us to do this. It begs us to do this. It weeps, pleading "Please! Don't come to this holy day, read the words of the prayer book, listen to the sounds of the shofar, and then leave this sanctuary the very same person you were when you entered. Please don't come and sit and close yourself off to the possibility that there can be a better you, and with a better you, a better life. For there can! It's in your hands! No one else's."
Rosh Hashanah is all about change. The year is changing. The seasons are changing. And it calls upon us to change as well. It is so easy for us to enfold ourselves in the warm and comfortable blanket of "I am who I am. This is who I have always been. This is who I will always be." But Rosh Hashanah knows, as we truly know in our heart of hearts, that we can be so much more; that it can be within our power to make of ourselves better people – kinder people, gentler people, friendlier people, fairer people, more caring, more giving, healers of body and soul, and not just our own bodies and souls but the bodies and souls of others, both near and far, friend, stranger, and even foe. And Rosh Hashanah challenges us to make the change. Yes, it is frightening to leave behind familiar ways and strive to do things differently, but the benefits far outweigh the risks. For as we change, we become bearers of light; light into our own lives and light into the lives of others. We can make our own lives better, and believe or not, in our own small, and not so small, ways, we can make the life of the world better as well.
So let us this day choose to leap into the Undiscovered Country, with a resolve in our hearts to transform that Undiscovered Country into a Paradise – a Gan Eden – filled with love, caring, justice, and grace. And let us all say:
[1] Shakespeare, William, "Hamlet," Act III, Scene 1.


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Won't get into the reasons behind this little comic. Just figured rather than be all salty on the internet maybe I could try to make a few of you laugh. These screen caps are from the movie Amelie. Original scene.
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Thomas Tugendhat is the author of The Fog of Law, published by Policy Exchange. He was previously Military Assistant to the Chief of the Defence Staff.
As the provisional results suggest, Gen Abdul Fattah al-Sisi will be elected President of Egypt. First by force and then through the judiciary, Sisi has neutered his principal rivals – the Muslim Brotherhood. While they won the vote in 2012, this time they weren't even be on the ballot paper.
But if the Army thinks the election will mark their victory, they're wrong. It will only cap the Brotherhood's defeat. Former president Mohammed Morsi's followers are no longer the threat they once were, but this isn't a good thing for the Army, instead it makes the real enemy harder to stop.
Since their abortive and disastrous rule, the Brotherhood's support base has collapsed and its social networks are eroding. They are a shadow of their former selves even before any votes are left uncounted. They have been replaced by something much worse – Salafism and chaos.
For decades the Brotherhood relied on two sources of funding to provide schools and clinics and buy support: one a form of voluntary taxation from all party members, the other from wealthy expats in the Gulf. For years their different interests never clashed. After all, the leaders never had the power to deliver anything but small local projects.
But just like the Liberal Democrats, a brief spell in office is all that was needed to fracture the alliance. It was never going to survive. One side wanted protection for small businesses against the over-powerful state industries; the other wanted to replace the state monopolies with their own. The two could never be satisfied.
So today the clinics and classrooms the Muslim Brotherhood backed are running out of funds and the social support is being exhausted. Combined with the poor government, this has seen confidence in the Brotherhood evaporate and their supporters turn to others.
Making up half the country's population of 80 million, Egypt's illiterate poor cannot be ignored but since a coup overthrew Morsi they no longer have a stake in the political system – and their shadow government has vanished.
They no longer have a leadership structure nor an avenue for local dispute resolution or problem solving. They no longer have adequate service provision from any state or semi-state structure and no longer have any peaceful method of advancement.
But nature abhors a vacuum, and salafist preachers, self-organising militias and organised crime has filled the space. Without access to anything else, people are turning to these groups for everything from social services to medical help, and that is driving their recruiting just as it did for the Muslim Brothers.
This makes the country much more unstable. The old opposition was largely united and could be controlled by pressuring its leadership which had something to lose – that's why the Brotherhood was so slow to join the revolution. Now a bunch of thugs and extremists whose legitimacy comes from their violent resistance to the government or their criminal acts runs the Upper Nile and the Delta and they are too diverse and with too little a stake in the established order to make any deals worth making.
No where is this more clear than in the Sinai Peninsula where tribal militias are playing host to al-Qaeda affiliated groups while at the same time conducting smuggling operations with impunity. Years of corruption while remembering an old victory in stopping the Israelis from capturing Cairo – after the Israelis had already taken the whole of the Peninsula – have left the army is largely powerless. The generals appear more interested in protecting their massive financial interests than in defending the nation.
So Sisi's job will be much harder than any of his predecessors'. He won't be taking over a divided country but a fractured one in which al-Qaeda-linked Salafists compete for influence with mafia-type gangs and tribal militias. In which the police are both the frontline of defence and part of the problem. And one in which the level of violence will steadily increase while the tolerance for any crackdown has diminished both at home and by international partners.
As a military man so reliant on the US, Sisi will no doubt have heard them say: "the enemy gets a vote". It's true again in Egypt's election – not at the ballot box but on the street.


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Archive for January, 2014
Hello DASH families,
Track practices will start with a bonus Saturday morning practice on March 8th at 9:15 AM. We will then settle into our usual Tuesday and Thursday, 6:15 PM, practice schedule at Hart Park in Wauwatosa. I will have the meet schedules posted soon. You can always check the DASH Team Calendar for the latest.
Please start spreading the word about the DASH team. Tell your friends about how much fun we have, and tell their parents how affordable it is – just a $30 donation is all we ask. For returning middle school athletes that already have a jersey, we request only $20. It is simply the best deal in homeschool sports! Please feel free to pass my contact information on to anyone with interest.
In just a few weeks we will once again be getting together on a weekly basis. Our off-season will be over and the DASH fun will begin! Until then, everyone should be studying hard and staying healthy.
Take care,
Jim Caspers


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This blog isn't an argumentative blog. There are plenty of those types of blogs around, if that's what floats your boat. We feel that a woman's heart isn't necessarily a combative one – at least it wasn't meant to be that way. Since Tess and I, from the very beginning, intended this blog to be an encouragement to women who already believe and ascribe wholeheartedly to the Catholic Faith (although we welcome all women…and men, in fact…of all faiths to be fed and encouraged by it), we didn't intend to post a lot of controversial material.
But that doesn't mean we shy away from a fight that's in our face. There is such thing as holy anger and sometimes I can't help myself, especially when the garbage going around these days has to do with women's roles in the Church. It's just exasperating to read what the non-catholic media comes up with when writing about Catholics – especially at a time like this when Catholics are vulnerable. They report on the actual facts of the conclave for 5 seconds and then spend 20 minutes airing personal diatribes and launching full-scale attacks on the laundry list of beefs they have with the Church. Women's ordination tends to be one of the top "problems" within the Catholic Church these days, so journalists get away with saying things like women don't have the ability to be priests and are thus barred from the Church's high ranks, from holding any power whatsoever simply because they are female.
First off, what is this obsession with "high ranks" within the Church? I suppose for the majority of un-churched reporters and journalists, life has to be about power, money and high rank – what else is there? (Ok, that being said, I'm certain that there are flawed individuals within the Church, who highly value power, prestige and rank.) But that was certainly not Jesus' way, and that's not the life he calls his followers to. In fact anyone who knows even a little of how Jesus 'rolled' knows that he cared very little for those things. So I find it utterly bizarre to hear media talk of who's got the "power and sway" or who's who in the "upper echelon" of the "ancient and stolid patriarchy". Maybe they need a little bit of schooling on who and what this Church actually values. Exactly how many CEO's or billionaires are canonized saints? Exactly none – that I know of. I could tell them about a Church that has been built up on the backs of uneducated doormen, leper-workers, the ugly, the stupid, the mistreated and the poverty-stricken. THESE are the celebrated ones - the underdogs – not the rich and powerful. Riches and prestige were often seen as great hindrances to true relationship with Christ. Furthermore,"Priests are not power brokers or managers," says Peter Kreeft in the book Women in the Priesthood, "they are sewers. Like Christ, they drain off the world's sins. They are spiritual garbage men…they clean up our spiritual garbage. They wash feet – dirty, smelly souls – ours. The Pope, priest of priests is…servant of the servants of God." So to drone on and on about the power and prestige of high-ranking Church offices is silly. I'd be willing to bet that ninety-nine percent of those bishops and cardinals within those offices would prefer not to be there.
Second to that, the women leading the fight for women's ordination don't seem to be doing so out of humility. They use the language of 'power' and 'prestige' – brushing off theological and biblical justifications with the "explanation" that the Church hates women and discriminates against them. I have just to quote the words of Alice von Hildebrand in the book Women and the Priesthood – she said it best when she wrote, "God's work is accomplished not by efficiency and talents, but by holiness, and there is no holiness without humility and awareness that 'without Christ we can do nothing.' Indeed we are useless labourers." Dr. von Hildebrand also continued on to say that we should realize that the "problem is not an intellectual one; it is a moral one. No one will ever accept the validity of an argument he chooses not to accept; purity of heart is indispensable in order to be convinced by a solution which is unpalatable to one's pride and rebelliousness."
And just why is it the assumption that the Church thinks less of women because, if they cannot be priests, cardinals and/or pope, their value is diminished? Not only is this falling into the error of functionalism (reducing personal worth to what a person does not who they are), but this has simply not been my experience. Women are, and have been, regarded with much respect and great love with the Catholic Church. It was a woman, the Virgin Mary, who was chosen to be the Theotokos, or God-Bearer – the most blessed of all women and second only to the Trinity. The resurrected Christ appeared first to a woman, and Jesus himself treated the women with whom he came into contact with great kindness and respect, despite the sometimes-obvious personal sin. (It was the men like the Pharisees who elicited strong abhorrent reactions from him.) Pope John Paul II, in his apostolic letter MulierisDignitatem said the Church "…desires to give thanks to the Most Holy Trinity for the 'mystery of woman' and for every woman – for all that constitutes the eternal measure of her feminine dignity, for the 'great works of God', which throughout human history have been accomplished in and through her. …Thank you, every woman, for the simple fact of being a woman! Through the insight which is so much a part of your womanhood you enrich the world's understanding and help to make human relations more honest and authentic." That sounds like high regard – and an affirmation of the intrinsic value of femininity - to me.
Sure Jesus did have many female followers and held women in high esteem (more so than the society around him did) yet he did not call women to be priests. He called men. The Church, in her Wisdom and Tradition, has maintained this position from the very beginning, not because stodgy old men in high ranks feel like keeping it that way (it would be much easier in some respects to relent and allow the ordination of women) but because they are deeply convinced that God wishes it to be this way. The rich and ancient symbolism of the liturgy depends on the priest being male. So much of the symbolic core of the Catholic liturgy would be rendered ridiculous and defunct if women were to assume the role of priest…which is a fact that's annoying for Catholics who do not fully understand the faith and boringly unimportant to by-standers who care nothing for Catholicism, but it is frankly of great doctrinal import to those of us who do care.
Women and men are fundamentally different in their very persons – unequivocally equal in dignity and worth – but offer different gifts and talents and have hearts for different things. Yet at the same time we "...desperately need both the masculine and the feminine principles", says Alice von Hildebrand. "They complement each other. They belong together." And it's this fact – the fact that the sexes require each other and belong together for wholeness, that makes it abundantly clear that women's gifts are needed within the Catholic Church. If there is to be any flourishing of the Faith in the future, the Church absolutely requires the women of faith to humbly lay their gifts and talents down in service. Even the Vatican Offices may be opening up to more women in the future as Argentine Cardinal Leonardo Sandri said in a recent interview that it's "only right that women should have more key positions in the Vatican administration where they can make a very important contribution because of their qualifications. But they also must be co-participants in the dialogue and the analysis of the life of the Church and in (other) areas, even in the formation of priests, where they can play a very, very important role."
In the end, women are no better or worse off because they can't be priests. There's no 'big party' they're missing out on, nor are they looked down upon as second-class 'citizens' because they cannot be ordained. Things are what they are because of two thousand years of Wisdom and Tradition passed down to us from Jesus Christ himself. Sure there are some things within the Church that can change, but as Peter Kreeft says, "God is the one who invented the priesthood and who calls to the priesthood. The Church did not invent the priesthood, she received it." In this case, the Church does not have the power to allow the ordination of women. To do so would seriously compromise much of the Deposit of Faith, not to mention shake the faith of believers everywhere.
Lets all keep those fighting for, and those confused about, the ordination of women in our prayers.


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Your Guide to Planetary Energies for
July 6 to 12, 2015
By Pam Younghans
Photo: Auroras over Marquette, Michigan, USA, on June 23, 2015 (credit: Shawn Malone, posted on SpaceWeather.com)
THE SUN aligns with the fixed star Sirius this week, while also opposing Pluto on Monday and squaring Uranus next Sunday. These aspects form bookends on our week, sending us a reminder note that the transformational influence of the Pluto-Uranus square is still reverberating.
Sirius is usually the brightest star in our night sky. But for 70 days each year, Sirius rises with the Sun, and so is hidden from our view by the Sun's bright light.
ESOTERICALLY, Sirius is called "the cosmic heart of our physical Sun"; the alignment each year can be seen as representing an opportunity for us to experience and enhance the union of our physical and spiritual perspectives.
The theme of cleansing and renewal is also associated with Sirius Rising. Before the High Dam at Aswan was built, the Nile River flooded every year during the weeks that Sirius and the Sun aligned, inundating the arid land with life-giving water. As the river receded, it left behind rich silt that fertilized the soil, marking the beginning of ancient Egypt's growing season.
AS THE SUN opposes Pluto and squares Uranus during its alignment with Sirius, we are not only supported in aligning with our divine nature — we are compelled to do so by the challenges that lie before us.
The website www.divineharmony.org shares these insights about the effects of these alignments:
"Major openings occur between the 3D world and spiritual, mystical, transpersonal experience. Intense experiences burn away the dross — whatever is left standing is what is True and Right. We can turn base metal into gold … but we need to keep up with our Inner Work and be willing to question and take down the structures, limitations, dogmas and traditions that are not valid for our lives."
WITH PLUTO exactly opposite the Sun on Monday, we will be especially in tune early in the week with the powerful themes brought forward by the "dwarf planet" — cleansing and purging of old patterns, revelation of truths previously hidden, and transformation of old forms on the road to rebirth. This is one of the bookends of the week — and the one that may feel the most overwhelming due to its need to go deeply into our psyches to "burn away the dross."
At the other end of the week, we have the Sun-Uranus bookend. Like Pluto, Uranus is a harbinger of change — but with the added theme of potential breakthrough.
IT IS TRUE that Uranus can bring about surprises, instability, and breakdowns as first steps on the way to the breakthrough moment. But since the planet also represents Higher Consciousness, the uncertainty it initiates also provides the opportunity for us to access unexpected insights, higher level information, or unique solutions.
Our challenge, with Uranus squaring the Cancer Sun, will be to move beyond our comfort zone, our traditions, perhaps even our need to feel safe. Uranus in Aries is the explorer of unknown territories, and does its best work when not constrained by rules or fears.
A SCRIPT for this week might go something like this:
• The Pluto-Sun opposition on Monday makes us more clearly aware of patterns that do not belong in the future we are creating — fear-based patterns that we are needing to release and purge.
• As Mercury and the Saturn form a quincunx on Tuesday, we come to terms with the need to take better control (Saturn in Scorpio) of our thinking and our tendency to over-think (Mercury in Gemini).
• On Wednesday, the Mars-Neptune trine helps us better align our actions and our desires with our spiritual perspective.
• With Mercury squaring the Moon's Nodes on Friday, we will need to find a better balance and objectivity (North Node in Libra) to help us rise above the fluctuating mental-emotional realms (Mercury in Cancer).
• By the time of Sunday night's Sun-Uranus square, we'll hopefully have established a strong enough balance — mentally, emotionally, physically, and spiritually — to take advantage of the insights and breakthroughs that are available.
In peace,


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Each year, we invite noted scholars to present current research to faculty and graduate students in the Sonoco International Business Department at the Darla Moore School of Business. Below is a list of scholars who have presented research projects to us:
Nan Jia, University of Southern California, September 15, "The 'Strategic' Use of Political Connections: The Role of Political Connections in Firms' Location Choices"
Ernesto Dominguez Lopez, University of Havana, October 13, "Cuban politics and relations with U.S. in the age of Obama and Trump"
Myles Shaver, University of Minnesota, November 11, "Building a Headquarters Economy: Managers, Mobility, Migration, and Minneapolis' Experience"
Andrew Schrank, Brown University, March 17, "Private Sector Perceptions of Public Sector Performance"
Gary Gereffi, Duke University, April 21, "Trump's protectionism and its impact on global value chains and the US economy"
Christopher Yenkey, University of Chicago, January 23, "Tribes and (Dis)Trust"
Stephen Tallman, University of Richmond, February 12, "The Geography of Learning: Ferrari Gestione Sportive 1929-2008"
Peer Fiss, USC-Marshall School of Business, March 8 - 12, 2015, "QCA Workshop":
"First, we (the field) are so ingrained to think linearly and work under assumptions of independent affects. So I want the group to see how conceptualizing and analyzing an interacting system doesn't imply forgetting about rigor. Second, most all the phenomena the department faculty examine are multilevel. Actors at some level embedded in institutions at another level. Most often it is organizations or organizational subunits embedded in national industry systems. And the interest in not simply understanding the multilevel affects by also incorporate a comparative component as we look across contexts. That is the big picture objective from my perspective."


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Artist Jane Hsi discusses race aesthetics in art and how she made a conscious effort to create more diverse representations in her own artwork.
Jane Hsi is a senior at the University of Oklahoma triple-majoring in Biochemistry, Letters, and Studio Art. Although this seems like a strange combination of majors, Jane enjoys how the diversity of these fields allows her to use both the analytical and creative sides of her brain. Thanks to the incredible dedication and patience of her professors—from both the science and the art departments—Jane has found a passion for art academia and for oil painting. She hopes to continue working with her community and with fellow artists to challenge aesthetic standards in art and society. She is currently curating an exhibition at OU that will showcase artists from around the nation with the theme of the works being the relationship between race and aesthetics. Although she tries to keep herself busy with classes, student organizations, and studio work, Jane does find time to relax by reading a good novel, biking in cold weather, Skyping with her family in China, and speed-napping between class


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The purpose of the Leadership Skills seminar is to strengthen your current management skills with a powerful, more distinguished dimension. In other words, Leadership Skills has been designed to enhance and build on your current leadership abilities. It is understood by most leaders that effective management is a prerequisite to being viewed as a great leader. And, because of the dynamics of the Global market within the last several years, the focus on leadership has intensified from an interest to a need.
Leadership is built on solid management skills. This foundation provides the essentials necessary for supporting and sustaining your management qualities and performances. Maintaining a balance between achieving results and developing your people is the key to successful management.
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At Jordan Touch Communications, we strongly believe that, Leaders are made not born. If you have the desire and willpower, you can become an effective leader. Good leaders develop through a never ending process of self-study, education, training, and experience.
To inspire your workers into higher levels of teamwork, there are certain things you must be, know, and, do. These do not come naturally, but are acquired through continual work and study. Good leaders are continually working and studying to improve their leadership skills; they are NOT resting on their laurels.
Leadership is a process by which a person influences others to accomplish an objective and directs the organization in a way that makes it more cohesive and coherent. Leaders carry out this process by applying their leadership attributes, such as beliefs, values, ethics, character, knowledge, and skills. Although your position as a manager, supervisor, lead, etc. gives you the authority to accomplish certain tasks and objectives in the organization, this power does not make you a leader, it simply makes you the boss. Leadership differs in that it makes the followers want to achieve high goals, rather than simply bossing people around.
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Leadership is an important function of management which helps to maximize efficiency and to achieve organizational goals. The following points justify the importance of leadership in a concern.
Initiates action- Leader is a person who starts the work by communicating the policies and plans to the subordinates from where the work actually starts.
Motivation- A leader proves to be playing an incentive role in the concern's working. He motivates the employees with economic and non-economic rewards and thereby gets the work from the subordinates.
Providing guidance- A leader has to not only supervise but also play a guiding role for the subordinates. Guidance here means instructing the subordinates the way they have to perform their work effectively and efficiently.
Creating confidence- Confidence is an important factor which can be achieved through expressing the work efforts to the subordinates, explaining them clearly their role and giving them guidelines to achieve the goals effectively. It is also important to hear the employees with regards to their complaints and problems.
Building morale- Morale denotes willing co-operation of the employees towards their work and getting them into confidence and winning their trust. A leader can be a morale booster by achieving full co-operation so that they perform with best of their abilities as they work to achieve goals.
Builds work environment- Management is getting things done from people. An efficient work environment helps in sound and stable growth. Therefore, human relations should be kept into mind by a leader. He should have personal contacts with employees and should listen to their problems and solve them. He should treat employees on humanitarian terms.
Co-ordination- Co-ordination can be achieved through reconciling personal interests with organizational goals. This synchronization can be achieved through proper and effective co-ordination which should be primary motive of a leader.


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