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Monica Lewinsky was sitting in a Manhattan auditorium last month, watching teenage girls perform a play called "Slut." Ms. Lewinsky was in blue jeans and a blazer, her hair pulled out of her face with a small clip. She was wiping away tears.
In the scene, a young woman was seated in an interrogation room. She had been asked to describe, repeatedly, what had happened on the night in question — when, she said, on their way to a party, a group of guy friends had pinned her down in a taxi and sexually assaulted her. She had reported them. Now everyone at school knew, everyone had chosen a side.
"My life has just completely fallen apart," the girl said, her voice shaking. Her parents were in the next room. "Now I'm that girl."
The play concluded, and Ms. Lewinsky fumbled through her purse for a tissue. A woman came and whisked her to the stage.
"Hi, I'm Monica Lewinsky," she said, visibly nervous. "Some of you younger people might only know me from some rap lyrics."
The crowd, made up largely of high school and college women, laughed. "Monica Lewinsky" is the title of a song by the rapper G-Eazy; her name is a reference in dozens of others: by Kanye, Beyoncé, Eminem, Jeezy. The list goes on.
"Thank you for coming," Ms. Lewinsky continued, "and in doing so, standing up against the sexual scapegoating of women and girls."
She walked back to her seat after speaking, and a woman behind her leaned forward. "I saw you, but I didn't realize I was sitting next to Monica Lewinsky," she said.
A line of girls soon approached. "Thank you for being here," said a teenager in a striped shirt and gold hoop earrings. She asked if she could take a photo, and Ms. Lewinsky winced a little, then politely told her no. "I totally understand," the girl said.
When she was asked later about her reaction to the play, Ms. Lewinsky said: "It's really inspiring to hear people bring awareness to this issue. That scene in the interrogation room was hard to watch. One of the things I've learned about trauma is that when you find yourself retriggered, it's helpful to recognize when things are different."
A LOT IS DIFFERENT for Monica Lewinsky these days, starting with the fact that, until last year, she had hardly appeared publicly for a decade. Now 41, the former White House intern once famously dismissed by the president as "that woman" holds a master's degree in social psychology from the London School of Economics.
She splits time between New York and Los Angeles, where she grew up, and London, and said it's been hard to find work.
Mostly she has embraced a quiet existence: doing meditation and therapy, volunteering, spending time with friends.
But the quiet ended last May, when she wrote an essay for Vanity Fair about the aftermath of her affair with Bill Clinton — the story a result of a years-long relationship with the magazine and its editor, Graydon Carter. (She was first photographed in its pages by Herb Ritts in 1998.)
In the essay, which was a finalist for a 2015 National Magazine Award, she declared that the time had come to "burn the beret and bury the blue dress" and "give a purpose to my past."
That new purpose, she wrote, was twofold: it was about reclaiming her own story — one that had seemed to metastasize — but also to help others who had been similarly humiliated. "What this will cost me," she wrote, "I will soon find out."
It hasn't appeared to cost her, at least not yet. In fact, the opposite has occurred.
Over the last six months, she has made appearances at a benefit hosted by the Norman Mailer Center (she and Mr. Mailer had been friends), at a New York Fashion Week dinner presentation for the designer Rachel Comey, at the Vanity Fair Oscar party and as her friend Alan Cumming's date at an after-party for the Golden Globes. (Mr. Cumming has known her since the 1990s.)
Recently, she took part in an anti-bullying workshop at the Horace Mann School, and joined a feminist networking group. ("I consider myself a feminist with a lowercase 'f,' " she told me. "I believe in equality. But I think I'm drawn to the issues more than the movement.")
Perhaps most interestingly, in October, onstage at a Forbes conference, she spoke out for the first time about the digital harassment (or cyberbullying) that has affected everyone from female bloggers to Jennifer Lawrence to ... her: "I lost my reputation. I was publicly identified as someone I didn't recognize. And I lost my sense of self," she told the crowd.
She just took that declaration one step further on the main stage at TED in Vancouver, British Columbia, on Thursday, where she issued a biting cultural critique about humiliation as commodity. The title of her 18-minute talk (and, perhaps, the line that best sums up her experience), which received a raucous standing ovation: "The Price of Shame."
THIS IS NOT Monica Lewinsky's first attempt at reinvention. But it's also not the Monica of more than a decade ago: the one who created a handbag line and tried her hand at reality TV.
This iteration is a bundle of contradictions: warm yet cautious. Open yet guarded. Strong but fragile.
She is likable, funny and self-deprecating. She is also acutely intelligent, something for which she doesn't get much credit. But she is also stuck in a kind of time warp over which she has little control.
At 41, she doesn't have many of the things that a person her age may want: a permanent residence, an obvious source of income (she won't comment on her finances), a clear career path.
She is also very, very nervous. She is worried about being taken advantage of, worried her words will be misconstrued, worried reporters will rehash the past.
She is prepared, almost always, for doomsday: the snippet of a quote that might be taken out of context; questions about the Clintons, whom she declines to discuss. "She was burned ... in myriad ways," said her editor at Vanity Fair, David Friend.
Ms. Lewinsky wouldn't call this a reinvention, though. This, she says, is simply the Monica who in spite of the headlines, in spite of the incessant paparazzi-style coverage, "was seen by many, but truly known by few," as she put it on the TED stage.
"This is me," she told me. "This is a kind of evolution of me."
I had approached her after the Vanity Fair essay in part because I was intrigued, but also because I had a tinge of guilt. I had come of age in the Lewinsky era; my first job out of college was at Newsweek, where the story of the reporter who had uncovered the affair — then saw his story leaked to the Drudge Report — was legend.
I distinctly remember my high school self, wide-eyed, poring over the soft-core Starr report with friends.
None of us had the maturity to understand the complexities, or power dynamics, of the president's affair with a young intern. When I was 16, one dominating image of Monica Lewinsky seemed to overshadow all others: slut. Of course, that 22-year-old intern was only a few years older than me.
And so I emailed her. I told her I was interested in her effort to re-emerge, and had been particularly fascinated by the reaction to it, as if there were a kind of public reckoning underway. Feminists who had stayed silent on the first go-round were suddenly defending her, using terms like "slut-shaming" and "media gender bias" to do it.
The late-night host David Letterman was on air expressing remorse over how he had mocked her, asking, in a recent interview with Barbara Walters, "With some perspective, do you realize this is a sad human situation?" Bill Maher said of reading Ms. Lewinsky's piece in Vanity Fair, "I gotta tell you, I literally felt guilty."
And young women were embracing her: rushing up to her after public events, messaging her on social media, asking if they could take selfies. ("Meeting her felt like meeting a pop culture icon," said Amari Leigh, 17, a cast member in the "Slut" play. "It's crazy to think that one thing she did, when she was not that much older than I am now, impacted her whole life.")
"However you felt about the actual event, the way it played out was pretty grotesque," said Rebecca Traister, a senior editor at The New Republic who was just out of college when the Clinton scandal broke and wrote about it later.
Ms. Traister said she was taken aback when she reread her own article: "Whether it's guilt, or sophistication, or thinking a little harder about sexual power dynamics, I think people have started to think: 'Oh right, she probably does have a right to tell her story. And that's a good thing.' "
This time, Ms. Lewinsky appears determined to tell it on her terms. She has a P.R. agent screening requests and approaches media as one may expect: with the caution of a woman who has been raked over the coals.
She has reason to. Just weeks ago, a short interview with the artist Nelson Shanks was published online. In a question about which portrait subject he had found most difficult to capture, Mr. Shanks noted that his painting of Bill Clinton, which hangs in the National Portrait Gallery, had a shadow as a metaphor for Ms. Lewinsky — created from the shadow of an actual blue dress he had placed on a mannequin. The piece posted on a Sunday. By the next morning, it was everywhere.
Ms. Lewinsky woke up to a flooded inbox and panicked.
She was really, really sorry, she told me, but she simply couldn't move forward with an article.
We exchanged emails and calls. The article was back on, no it wasn't, yes it was.
You want to know what it's like to live in Monica Lewinsky's world? This is it.
I MET MS. LEWINSKY the following Tuesday at her apartment.
She was rehearsing in front of a small metal music stand. Her speech coach, Pippa Bateman, was on Skype from Britain.
I quietly sat on the couch and noted the details in the room: a bookshelf blocked off the bedroom area; on it, photos of friends and family, Monica as a child. On an end table were roses, crystals and a lit candle.
She handed me a script. "It's changed a bit, so you can follow along," she said. (By the time she appeared onstage at TED, in front of a packed room, she was on Version 24 of her speech.) On the back, she had scribbled a reminder: "Push in arm muscles, engage back and neck."
She was working through the middle of the speech, where she would describe her questioning by investigators in a room not unlike the one we saw portrayed in "Slut." It was 1998, and she had been required to authenticate the phone calls recorded by her former friend Linda Tripp. They would later be released to Congress.
She glanced at the script, then looked forward.
"Scared and mortified, I listen," she said.
"Listen as I prattle on …
"Listen to my sometimes catty, sometimes churlish, sometimes silly self, being cruel, unforgiving, uncouth …
"Listen, deeply, deeply ashamed to the worst version of myself." She paused. "A self I don't even recognize."
"How did that feel?" Ms. Bateman asked. "You've got to own it."
Ms. Lewinsky doesn't have a speechwriter; she wrote the speech herself. But she has plenty of advisers: journalists, editors, new friends, old friends, her lawyer, her publicist, her family. Which is great, if everyone is in agreement. Except that no one is ever in agreement.
The major disagreement was over the opening: a joke about a man 14 years her junior, who hit on Ms. Lewinsky after she spoke at Forbes.
"What was his unsuccessful pickup line?" she would ask rhetorically. "He could make me feel 22 again. Later that night, I realized: I'm probably the only person over 40 who would not like to be 22 again."
It was funny, yes (even hysterical, judging by the reaction at TED). But did the joke sexualize her off the bat? For a woman ingrained in the public psyche as a "tart, slut, whore, bimbo," as Ms. Lewinsky put it onstage, should she try to avoid the innuendo?
Maybe she should cut that part and go straight to the next line, somebody suggested: a question for the audience.
"Can I see a show of hands," she would ask, "of anyone who didn't make a mistake or do something they regretted at 22?"
Ultimately, she stuck with the joke. (The question would stay, too.)
She performed that opening later that day in a practice session downtown, then again a few days later in front of a large gathering of friends, over wine and cheese. She would practice the speech walking down the street, running errands, on a flight from Amsterdam to Oslo. As she joked on Twitter: "If you see me walking down the streets of nyc muttering to myself, don't worry ... just practicing my TED Talk."
TED approached Ms. Lewinsky about speaking at the conference, whose theme this year is "Truth and Dare," after watching her Forbes speech. Kelly Stoetzel, TED's content director, said, "Part of what I think makes this story interesting is that people will get to see all the dimensions of Monica, not just the person who was reported on 17 years ago."
The idea had been marinating for years. Ms. Lewinsky often thought about the toll that shame had taken on her own life; in graduate school, she studied the impact of trauma on identity.
Then Tyler Clementi, the Rutgers freshman, killed himself after being recorded by his college roommate being intimate with a man. It was 2010, and Ms. Lewinsky's mother was beside herself, "gutted with pain," as Ms. Lewinsky said onstage, "in a way I couldn't quite understand."
Eventually, she said she realized: To her mother, Mr. Clementi represented her. "She was reliving 1998," she said, looking out over the crowd. "Reliving a time when she sat by my bed every night. Reliving a time when she made me shower with the bathroom door open."
She paused, becoming emotional. "And reliving a time both my parents feared that I would be humiliated to death."
"It was easy to forget," she said, "that 'That Woman' was dimensional, had a soul and was once unbroken."
She doesn't like to talk much about the past, but she will talk about residuals of her trauma: having to leave the movie theater every time a cop on a screen flashed a badge (a flashback to being ambushed by federal agents in the food court of the Pentagon shopping mall); the studying and reading about it, as a way to ease it.
"I had to do a lot of healing work and rehabilitation to get to what transpired over the course of the past year," she said. "Anybody who has gone through any kind of trauma knows it doesn't just go away with a snap of the fingers. It lives as an echo in your life. But over time the echo becomes softer and softer."
And yet this isn't simply about her story, she said. This was about using it to help others. As she put it, shame and humiliation have become a kind of "commodity" in our culture — with websites that thrive on it, industries created out of it, and people who get paid to clean up the mess.
What happened to compassion? she asked up on stage. "What we need," she said, "is a cultural revolution."
THE WAY MS. LEWINSKY tells it, she was "Patient Zero" for the type of Internet shaming we now see regularly. Hers wasn't the first case ever, but it was the first of its magnitude. Which meant that, virtually overnight, she went from being a private citizen to, as she put it, "a publicly humiliated one."
"She couldn't go to a restaurant and order a bowl of soup — literally — without it being reported the next day," said Barbara Walters, who said her interview with Ms. Lewinsky was one of the most watched segments in television history.
The story was the perfect combination of politics and sex. "It was like reading a really wonderful dirty book," Ms. Walters said, "except it was her story and her mother's story and her aunt's story."
It was before the days of the Internet sex tape, but barely: Princess Diana had been photographed with a hidden camera while working out at the gym; Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee's honeymoon sex tape was stolen from their home and bootlegged out of car trunks.
"It was at the tip of the spear of this invasive culture," said Mr. Friend, who is working on a book about the 1990s.
And so it went from there. Ms. Lewinsky was quickly cast by the media as a "little tart," as The Wall Street Journal put it. The New York Post nicknamed her the "Portly Pepperpot." She was described by Maureen Dowd in The New York Times as "ditsy" and "predatory."
And other women — self-proclaimed feminists — piled on. "My dental hygienist pointed out she had third-stage gum disease," said Erica Jong. Betty Friedan dismissed her as "some little twerp."
"It's a sexual shaming that is far more directed at women than at men," Gloria Steinem wrote me in an email, noting that in Ms. Lewinsky's case, she was also targeted by the "ultraright wing." "I'm grateful to [her]," Ms. Steinem said, "for having the courage to return to the public eye."
Had the Lewinsky story unfolded today, certainly the digital reality of it would have been worse (or at least more pungent). "They would have dug up her private photos," said Danielle Citron, a law professor and the author of "Hate Crimes in Cyberspace." But there would have also been avenues to push back: more outlets, more varied voices, probably even a #IStandWithMonica hashtag.
"If it happened today, I think the consensus that she deserved to be thrown under the bus would be considerably weaker," said Clay Shirky, a journalism professor at N.Y.U. who studies Internet culture. "And the key thing that's changed is not information — there were credible press reports about Cosby for years, just as Clinton's denial was ridiculous on its face — but the ability to coordinate reaction."
In that respect, Ms. Lewinsky may finally be in a unique position to tell her story. "I don't know … exactly how you combat cyberbullying," Ms. Walters said. "But at least she's fighting back. … I do think it's about time we gave her a chance."
THE NIGHT BEFORE TED, Ms. Lewinsky began a ritual. She lit candles. She set up a table of crystals. She debated which necklace to wear, then ordered dinner and tea.
She would be in bed by 9:30 and up at 5 a.m.; Amy Cuddy, the Harvard researcher whose TED talk on body language clocked nearly 25 million views, was meeting her in the morning. They would power-pose together.
Ms. Lewinsky had a friend from Los Angeles there with her, and Ms. Cuddy stopped by to wish her luck. The two had never met in person.
"If you had told me a year ago I was going to be delivering a TED talk, I would have laughed in your face," Ms. Lewinsky said, seated on the carpet.
She looked at her friend.
"A year ago. …" she choked up. "Well, you were there. It was so, so hard. There were times I thought I wouldn't make it."
"I'm just so grateful," she said. "I'm at once grateful and surprised."
Earlier, I had asked Ms. Lewinsky what she hoped to accomplish with a platform like TED. She asked if I had read the David Foster Wallace book "Brief Interviews With Hideous Men." In it, there is a chapter about suffering, and the story of a girl who has survived abuse.
What the young woman endures is horrific, said Ms. Lewinsky, but by going through it, she learns something about herself: that she can survive.
"That's part of what I thought I could contribute," she said. "That in someone else's darkest moment, lodged in their subconscious might be the knowledge that there was someone else who was, at one point in time, the most humiliated person in the world. And that she survived it."


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After reviewing the most recent adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, I thought I'd review the novel's other big screen adaptation, which came out in 1940. Some may be interested to know that the film was co-written by Aldous Huxley, the author of Brave New World. The film got quite a positive reception at the time of its release but it isn't very well-known these days and doesn't tend to be very well-regarded by Austen fans. In fact many Austen fans hate this film and the common criticisms of it are perfectly valid. This is a film that could have been so, so good since Laurence Olivier and Greer Garson are in it but it's not an accurate adaptation and they change lots of stuff in it throughout. It isn't Austen's Pride and Prejudice at all.
My review of this film isn't going to be in much depth because I last saw it about 4 or 5 years ago. I do remember that the costumes are terrible in this film though and not at all accurate to the time period! The film was made on quite a tight budget so rather than getting in expensive and historically accurate costumes they simply loaned some costumes off the set of Gone with the Wind instead. At least that's what the rumour is. I don't know if the rumour is true but I do know that they weren't nice costumes! And why did they make Darcy so nice at the start of the film?! It misses the whole point of his character! About two seconds after insulting Elizabeth at the Meryton ball Darcy changes his mind and asks Elizabeth to dance with him! The film also leaves out the Pemberley scenes and we don't get to see Georgiana Darcy. Also, the final scenes bear very little resemblance to the book as the events have been re-written so that everyone is happy at the end. Lady Catherine actually APPROVES of Darcy's decision to marry Elizabeth and is a very affectionate aunt!
I'm too much of an Austen purist to love this film. However - and I know I'm putting my credibility on the line here - I still enjoyed this film a lot more than I thought I would. Yes it would have been a much better film had they got better costumes and attempted to be more faithful to the book. Nevertheless it has a quirky charm and the carriage race and archery scenes are genuinely quite funny. The acting is good and I liked Olivier and Garson too, especially Garson. I just don't think this film is Austen's Pride and Prejudice and I don't see it as a proper adaptation. This film won't be to everyone's tastes and if you're looking for a faithful adaptation of the book then you'll be disappointed. However if you're looking for a funny comedy that has a resemblance to Pride and Prejudice then you may well enjoy this film.
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Posted on September 29, 2017 in Commercial & Residential Services
There are certain things that we see daily and use daily that we do not notice much. But without these items in their place, it would be very difficult for us to lead our lives in the way that they should go. Locks would belong to this category. When an average day in a person's life is taken into consideration, one would be able to see that there would be many types of locks in usage.
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You should always stand up for what you believe in. You should not think about other people judging you when you do something. Even if you are standing alone it will still be worth it because you will feel better about yourself. This is a life skill that you must learn. When you stand up for what you believe in you will take control of your life and you will be the person who is in charge of your life. It can be scary to stand up for what you believe in but it is something that you must learn how to do.
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After you appoint the agent for acting on your behalf, the state department will get in touch with them and discusses the application. You will be required to furnish some additional information regarding yourself as and when required to the agent.
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Posted on September 13, 2017 in Commercial & Residential Services
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Surely a tree removal program needs more helping hands and a lot of strength. Besides, it is a time taking task. So it is better to hire a tree removal service. They will help you a lot. Such a service will save your time and energy. Besides, after spending a long hectic week nobody wants to ruin their holiday by working. So, here are some benefits of such services.
- Save your time and money:
Perhaps you are thinking that hiring such a service may cost you highly. But, that's a myth because such a service will not charge high if you have hired them for removing more than two or three big trees. Besides, a tree removal is not your cup of tea. It is a really hard task. If you try to do it with your own then you need to spend a lot of time for a single tree. Whereas, by hiring a tree removal and stump grinding service you can save your money and time both.
- They will complete the work safely:
As you don't have enough experience of removing big trees, so it will be quite difficult for you to complete the whole task by maintaining proper safety concerns. But, when you hire tree removal experts, it will serve several trained workers who know how to cut a big tree without harming themselves.
- They are properly equipped:
Another benefit of hiring such a service is that they are equipped. If you go to simply pruning or trimming trees even then there is high chance of getting injured. So when it comes to the matter of removing trees, you should be more careful as it is not like simple pruning, but more difficult than it. As those tree removal workers are properly equipped so they can finish the whole work quickly and easily without getting injured.
- They know where to dispose:
As they are professionals they know where to and how to dispose the whole tree. Certainly, after cutting a big tree there scatters a lot of pieces. You need not to worry of cleaning the area as it is their duty to clean the whole area after finishing the job. Besides they carry the different parts with them to dispose it in a proper place.
- They know where to dispose:
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Our exploration of Hartise maps continues in the sparsely populated northeast. What it lacks in human numbers it makes up for in natural wonders:
- Asbray. Ruins of the siren's college. It was initially destroyed during the 4113 overthrow, but supposedly restored during Dremm's Rebellion. Another attack in 4146 left no survivors.
- Colossus Range. Most vast mountain range on Ontyre, it's nearly impenetrable, mostly unexplored, and stretches north into the frozen lands. Still, some live there.
- Rift River Canyon. Another land feature that protects Hartise. Much of it consists of sheer walls plunging more than 1,000 feet to the river, but in southwest Sttons it narrows to a stone's throw, the height still great and the water a torrent.
- Twistaria. The largest human settlement in the Lost Hills, a region that's technically outside Hartise.
- Beacon Peak. So named because it dwarfs all surrounding mountains and thus aids navigation in the region.
- Lorne. Ruins of the seeker's college that's literally built in the eastward facing Cliffs of Pressa.
- Temron. Prosperous city that's best known for its location where the Repose River drops over the Falls of Kryorphia to join with the Rift River.


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Maureen began her career in beauty editorial and left a lasting impression; at Harper's Bazaar she was the first editor to incorporate health content into beauty pages, and at Vogue she forecasted trends to America's top fashion designers. She also made her mark in the beauty industry; at Shiseido she led new product development, packaging and studying how trends effect purchase decisions. Maureen went on to become a spokesperson for major beauty brands including Clairol, Dove, and P&G, and an on-air personality for ABC-TV's "Live with Regis Philbin." Maureen not only performed the first televised makeover, she also completed over 2,000 transformations around the country. And her weekly segment wasn't simply focused on the external -- she worked with women on exercise and diet, body image and self-esteem. Throughout her career, Maureen has been a trailblazer in studying women, inside and out.
Maureen founded Lippe Taylor in the early 1990's, motivated by the lack of PR/marketing innovation she witnessed as an editor. By developing creative strategies for connecting with consumers, Maureen has successfully launched more than 100 brands. She has provided high-level, brand-building solutions for global leaders including Procter & Gamble, Clairol, IKEA, Johnson & Johnson, Allergan, Galderma, Revlon, Elizabeth Arden, The Gap, Kmart, Sears and Nordstrom. From product development and consumer product marketing, digital communications and issues management, Maureen has helped her clients decode the female consumer to build brands and grow sales. Most recently, Lippe Taylor partnered with a leading social influencer platform to introduce the "Lippe Taylor She Speaks Women's Buying Behavior Index," which continues as ongoing research. With this proprietary research, Maureen continues to study women's purchasing habits and anticipate trends.
Maureen is deeply committed to cause-related marketing and providing brands with charitable connections. In addition, she was the only non-physician member of the Skin Cancer Foundation, former board member of Fashion Group International, Cosmetic Executive Women, and the Women's Venture Fund, and was recently honored by the United Cerebral Palsy Foundation as a Woman Who Cares. Maureen also sits on the board of the PR Council and is a member of the Arthur W. Page Society.
Maureen wants her colleagues and clients to walk into Lippe Taylor and feel like they've stepped into their second homes. To do so, she has considered every detail of her unexpected and innovative loft offices, which have been featured on NBC Live, Time Out and mediabistro.com. As a mother and wife, Maureen knows the importance of a work/life balance and encourages colleagues to have lives outside of the office. Not surprisingly, Lippe Taylor continues to win the "Top Places to Work in PR by PR News. A strong believer in mutual trust and respect, she has created a unique culture of consideration that begins within the agency staff and extends to all of her clients.


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Like making sure you have the right soil for the plants in your garden, an innovation culture needs a strong leader to make it grow.
But building a culture of innovation is not easy. Any change initiative is challenging building a culture of innovation is one in which many organizations fail. At the center of it all is the leader.
We have spoken before about supportive leadership when running a successful innovation program. But when you are building an innovation culture, the leader is like Atlas who holds up the world – essential. Exceptional leaders are masters of building culture.
Having the Right Mentality
For a leader to change the way an organization approaches innovation, they must have the right mentality. Traditional leader involves selling a future state of the company to their employees, but that approach does not work when you are trying to create a culture of innovation. Instead of pitching a vision for the future, leaders that inspire change must ask "How can I create an environment for innovation to occur." These leaders must be able to tap into the collective wisdom of every employee in the organization and be able to generate new growth from these slivers of wisdom.
Setting the Rules of Engagement
Leaders that drive change can inspire a willingness to innovate within the community by building the right rules of engagement. We share here and here about the relationship between engagement and innovation. Setting the rules of engagement ensures that everyone agrees on the purpose of innovation, while at the same time, keeping everyone focused on activities that foster innovation.
In a mismanaged community, the pursuit of innovation can actually create more silos and conflict. The rules of engagement help to relieve those tensions and allow employees to trust each other while empowering them to think with data and the bigger picture in mind.
Building Innovation Capacity
A leader who wants to build an innovation culture needs to be able to help employees build their innovation capacity. One of the most challenging aspects of building an innovation culture is how to change the mentality of employees so that they are constantly looking out for ways to improve the organization or building innovation capacity. Leaders must be able to give employees the freedom they need to explore and pursue their ideas while helping them identify key areas for improvement.
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If you're a FOSS enthusiast who keeps fit by exercising or playing sports, it's time you used an open source application to track your activities. With these programs you can get a good overview of your exercises or create diagrams and statistics for specific time ranges and sport types.
SportsTracker is a good place to start recording your sporting activities. It is not bound to a specific kind of sport — you can create categories for any sport type, such as cycling, running, swimming, or tennis. Once you have a category, you can use it to log the time you spent doing that activity.
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This article is part of our Energising Small Businesses series, powered by Opus Energy. To find out more about how you can energise your SME, check out this link .
Productivity has been the business buzzword of the last few years, and to understand how to increase productivity you'll need to get a handle on employee engagement.
Engagement is the measure of how happy and motivated your employees are and it can impact their output at work.
Low levels of employee engagement can have a negative impact on your business for a range of reasons. Reduced productivity, lack of cohesion and team work and so on – these will have obvious detrimental effects for your business. Low engagement is also of wider detriment to the UK economy, according employee engagement company Perkbox.
Employee engagement affects perceptions about work and leveraging this can help you to increase engagement at your own business, driving improved performance.
What causes low engagement?
It helps if you're familiar with Maslow's Pyramid of Needs. This tool, used in psychology, helps you to understand motivation and performance, starting at the base with basic needs for survival and rising through to self-actualisation.
To reach the tip of the pyramid, there are certain conditions needed – and it's only at the top of the pyramid that top performance can be achieved and sustained. This makes the Pyramid a useful tool for analysing business and personal performances, particularly in terms of employee engagement.
Low engagement can be caused by any number of factors; poor management, unsatisfactory salary or rewards packages, personal conditions, and so on. Understanding why an employee is engaged or disengaged can help you to understand performance and make changes to improve.
Improving engagement
For many people, the opportunity to progress in their career is of significant appeal. This is particularly true of millennials, cited in many studies and whitepapers, who want to progress quicker than their predecessors.
There are, of course, other aspects at play. Pay, alignment with career goals, and workplace culture are all hugely important factors for any employee and can all contribute to overall feelings of happiness and engagement.
The type of the work being done is perhaps the most important. Enabling your employees to work on projects or tasks that most closely align with their professional and personal interests is a sure-fire way to keep them engaged with their work.
There are plenty of examples of initiatives that can be used to drive engagement and improved performance. Google, Netflix and Facebook, for example, encourage flexible working to empower employees in their roles, increasing engagement. Competitive perks and benefits can also drive engagement; Netflix allows employees to take as much annual leave as they like, with no upper limit.
Workplace perks like the above can help to foster a sense of togetherness amongst employees, drive engagement and improve productivity.
Get sociable and say thank you
When you're at work, you've usually got your head down and your focus on something important, but that shouldn't impact the social side of things. Make the most of the opportunities that you have to bond with your colleagues by coming together in social contexts to improve team work.
Organise activities where colleagues can bond and invite suggestions from your staff so that everyone gets a say in what's organised.
Social get-togethers are great ways to keep the team spirit up and build rapport. You can also introduce employee engagement initiatives to maintain motivation.
Rewarding your employees doesn't need to break the bank – thanking people for a job well done or calling out good work in team meetings can help to let people know that they're appreciated, that their work is key to the business.
Occasional team lunches – particularly when welcoming a new-starter – are a nice touch and a great way to get everyone to get to know each other.
This article is part of our Energising Small Businesses series, powered by Opus Energy. To find out more about how you can energise your SME, check out this link.
As the UK's leading independent business energy supplier that specialises in powering small businesses, Opus Energy knows how important it is to support their customers. That's why the team established Brighter Business – our online hub offering advice and information to our customers. For more than 15 years, Opus Energy has been supporting SME customers as they've tackled the challenges of running their businesses. Get in touch today to see how we can help you.


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The 'kit' lenses supplied with Canon's DSLRs have certainly improved over the years, but if you want to take your Canon photography to the next level, you'll need a standard zoom with longer reach, faster apertures and snappier focusing. So we're testing the most appealing lenses from Canon, Sigma and Tamron, while covering Canon's other 'standard' options – all of which should offer an improvement in image quality.
We've split these lenses into two categories: one for Canon's smaller APS-C format DSLRs and one for its full frame models. Sometimes you can use a full frame lens on an APS-C Canon to good effect, for example, with telephotos, but here the 1.6x crop factor of the smaller sensor gives full frame 'standard' zooms too long an effective focal length for them to be useful here.
Kit lens options for full-frame cameras tend to be a little more limited than for their APS-C format counterparts, and there's more choice when it comes to Canon own-brand upgrades. As in the APS-C format camp, one major reason for upgrading is so you can grab a lens with a wider aperture, typically of f/2.8, that remains available throughout the zoom range. This enables faster shutter speeds under dull or indoor lighting conditions, without the need to bump up your ISO setting too much.
A wider aperture also enables a tighter depth of field, so you can make the main subject really stand out against a blurred background. Alternatively, you can compromise on a 'slower' f/4 aperture and enjoy a lens upgrade with a more compact, lightweight build, or a bigger zoom range that stretches further into telephoto territory.
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Canon's EF-S 17-55mm f/2.8 is the top APS-C lens, while the EF 24-70mm f/2.8 wins for full-frame bodies. Both give class-leading performance and image quality, and especially in the APS-C arena, where the Canon has a much more pro-grade feel than its competitors.
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1. Canon EF-S 17-55mm f/2.8 IS USM
A veteran APS-C format lens, with high-quality build
Effective zoom range: 27-88mm | Lens construction: 19 elements in 12 groups | No. of diaphragm blades: 7 blades | Minimum focus distance: 0.35m | Filter size: 77mm | Dimensions: 84x111mm | Weight: 645g
This is the closest thing to a pro-grade, L-series 'EF-S' lens for APS-C cameras that Canon has ever built. Unlike Canon's f/2.8 standard zooms for full-frame cameras, this one features an image stabilizer. Yet it's an old version of the technology and only gives three, rather than four, stops of advantage in fending off camera-shake. Compared with the autofocus systems of other APS-C lenses on test, it's faster and quieter, if not near silent as in Canon's STM or Micro USM lenses. Lab scores for sharpness proved underwhelming for this particular test sample, but we've always been impressed by the lens's clarity in our wide-ranging real-world tests and how other samples have performed in the past.
2. Sigma 17-70mm f/2.8-4 DC Macro OS HSM C for Canon
A new and improved edition of Sigma's 17-70mm lens
Effective zoom range: 27-112mm | Lens construction: 16 elements in 14 groups | No. of diaphragm blades: 7 blades | Minimum focus distance: 0.22m | Filter size: 72mm | Dimensions: 79x82mm | Weight: 465g
Sigma's Contemporary line of lenses aim to be compact, and the 17-70mm is no exception. At 79x82mm and 465g, it's smaller and lighter than any other lens on test. Centre-sharpness isn't quite as good as from Sigma's 17-50mm lens but sharpness towards the edges and corners of the frame is more impressive at wide aperture settings, especially at the short end of the zoom range. Autofocus speed is a little quicker, while the optical stabilizer is similarly effective. This lens comes with a petal-shaped lens hood but, unlike the other Sigma lenses on test, it's not supplied with a padded soft case. Overall, this newer Contemporary lens is the more appealing of the two.
3. Tamron SP AF 17-50mm f/2.8 XR Di II VC for Canon
Tamron's updated 17-50mm lens adds stabilization
Effective zoom range: 27-80mm | Lens construction: 19 elements in 14 groups | No. of diaphragm blades: 7 blades | Minimum focus distance: 0.29m | Filter size: 72mm | Dimensions: 80x95mm | Weight: 570g
This updated version of Tamron's constant-aperture f/2.8 lens for APS-C format cameras adds the company's proprietary tri-axial optical stabilizer or 'VC' (Vibration Compensation) system. It's effective to about four stops, beating the stabilizer in the competing Canon 17-55mm lens. Handling is adversely affected by the focus ring spinning during autofocus, so you have to be careful where you put your fingers. Performance is good overall but, towards both ends of the zoom range, levels of sharpness are disappointing around the edges and corners of the image frame. At wide-angle settings, image corners remain soft at all available apertures. Even so, it's a good buy at the price.
4. Sigma 17-50mm f/2.8 EX DC OS HSM for Canon
A bargain – but things aren't quite what they seem
Effective zoom range: 27-80mm | Lens construction: 17 elements in 13 groups | No. of diaphragm blades: 7 blades | Minimum focus distance: 0.28m | Filter size: 77mm | Dimensions: 84x92mm | Weight: 565g
This Sigma lens appears to offer most of the same advantages as its Canon counterpart, but at less than half the price. Whereas both of the Canon and Sigma lenses have ultrasonic autofocus systems, the Canon's is ring-type, whereas the Sigma's relies on a small motor. On the plus side, this helps to enable a more compact construction, but the autofocus system isn't as near-silent and lacks full-time manual override. Image quality is sharp across most of the image frame but quite soft in the corners, especially at short to mid zoom settings when using apertures wider than f/5.6. Living up to its claims, stabilization is slightly more effective than in the competing Canon 17-55mm lens, but autofocus speed is a little slower.


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Little Missy was invited to a party at the Color Cafe in Hyde Square.
It is such a lovely venue for a girl's party.
|All set for ceramic painting
That's where the mothers stepped in. (With much more enthusiasm!)
It was a lovely way to spend a Saturday morning, while the girls had a ride on their scooters and played with their balloons.
|The birthday girl at the far end of the table
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(A kind lady from The Color Café painted in the face afterwards)
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This was a lot of fun for the girls, and Little Missy can't wait to get her painted fairy. It needs to be collected afterwards.


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AT&T Becomes Latest Company to Use Plastic Made from Sugarcane
AT&T Becomes Latest Company to Use Plastic Made from Sugarcane
Just in the last few years, we've seen a surge in companies experimenting with plastics derived from sugarcane. Procter & Gamble, for example, began using sugarcane-based plastics for some Pantene Prov-V, Covergirl and Max Factor products. Heinz also said a few months ago that it would license The Coca-Cola Company's PlantBottle technology for use in its ketchup packaging.
Sensing a market opportunity, Dow Chemical has launched a joint venture in Brazil to make bioplastic using ethanol made from sugarcane, we reported last month. The company claims it can do this at a competitive price-point.
Now we can add AT&T to the list. The telecommunications giants said yesterday it will begin using sugarcane-based plastic in packaging for its branded wireless accessories, such as cell phone cases and power cords that hit the shelves beginning Oct. 2. As much as 30 percent of the packaging will come from ethanol made from sugarcane.
The company has also been working to use less packaging for its products. AT&T has avoided more than 500 tons of paper and plastic since 2010 as it transitioned to using less packaging for wireless accessories.
AT&T isn't the only wireless company to target cell phone packaging. Its smaller rival Sprint, which is fighting AT&T's proposed purchase of T-Mobile tooth and nail -- has also been working to trim the packaging footprint of its products. It nearly ditched plastic altogether for its Samsung Seek phone, opting instead for paper-based materials made from 90 percent post-consumer recycled paper.
In the case of sugarcane-based plastic, however, AT&T is claiming an industry first. Here's a statement from Jeff Bradley, AT&T's senior vice president for devices:
"We are excited to be the first U.S. telecom company to use this plastic in our packaging and we hope other companies will join us in finding ways to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels. We are actively working with our accessory suppliers to incorporate both less packaging and more sustainable plastic and paper."
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Dear Friends,
There was a sign in front of the VFW building where I grew up. It said simply, "Lest We Forget." It's easy to forget. We get caught up in our own lives, our own worries and routines and anticipations. We forget those who sacrificed and died so that we could live freely. We forget that there are men and women right now who have put their lives on the line to protect us from enemies, foreign and domestic.
One man who never forgets is Bob Kausen. And Bob does his best to make sure I don't forget, either. He loaned me a book by Oliver North, American Heroes on the Homefront, the Heart of Heroes. It tells stories that are impossible to read without crying. Every story ends with either lost limbs or a lost life. The courage of these young men and women and those who love them and care for them is truly inspiring.
Ollie North closes the book with a story about his return to Vietnam. He was one of the lucky ones, who returned from that war wounded but otherwise whole. When he went back to Vietnam in 2006, he met a man who lost a leg in that war. The man he met was an officer in the North Vietnamese Army. He was the enemy. But he was the enemy no longer. They were now friends. They were looking at a map together, and it became apparent that Ollie North's new friend was having a hard time seeing. So he gave him his reading glasses, the kind you can buy for $15 in one of our pharmacies. For the first time in a long time, this man could see.
In 1969 we tried to kill each other. We both lost comrades we revered and we left the battlefield wounded. He had a single crutch, but no prosthetic limb. Age and privation made him nearly blind, but he had no glasses to help him see. Six years after he was disabled, his nation's army vanquished the nation we went to defend. Yet this former enemy soldier bore no animus or arrogance. As we parted he said, "I am a Christian now. Thank you."
Wars one day will end and that scene of reconciliation will be played out on a grand scale. But until that day, don't forget. Remember and thank our brave veterans this Memorial Day and every day.
In Christ,


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Sherrese Smith Joins D.C. Law Firm
Sherrese Smith, former chief counsel to former FCC chairman Julius Genachowski has joined the D.C. office of law firm Paul Hastings LLP as a partner in the firm's telecom and media practice, including help boost their growing data privacy and security business.
Smith, the last of Genachowski's original team of legal advisors to exit, left in March after having served as chief counsel and senior legal adviser to the chairman.
Before joining the FCC in June 2009, Smith had been VP and general counsel at Washington Post Digital and before that was a member of Arnold and Porter's Intellectual Property Group.
Among the firm's recent telecom and media clients were MetroPCS in its merger with T-Mobile and LIN Media's acquisition of 13 TV stations from New Vision.


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How does Samba compare with NetWare in file and print serving?
How does Samba compare with NetWare in terms of efficiency in its file and print serving?
Another tough question to which the only answer I can give is: That depends!
You see, in terms of raw file serving there is mixed feedback about comparative efficiency. Some sites have claimed that Samba is faster, others that there is not much difference on the same hardware. No recent benchmarks are available to prove this one way or the other.
So far as file system intrinsics are concerned, NetWare has a file system that is far richer in terms of file attributes stored than a Unix file system. Samba is limited by the intrinsic capabilities of the native file system it sits on top of.
One area where Samba pays a very high price is in the handling of 8.3 file names. Samba implements a method of file name mangling to dynamically create 8.3 file names. Additionally, Unix/Linux file systems are case preserving and case sensitive -- under a Unix environment Samba has to implement case insentive file name handling itself. This is user-space CPU intensive. NetWare is built for this type of file name handling, does this in kernel space, and thus with lower overhead.
So in real world benchmarks I would expect (on the same hardware) that in raw file serving Samba may outperform NetWare, but on filename resolution NetWare would run rings around Samba.
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Palo azul tea is a popular South American beverage, but its unique nutritional profile and health benefits have caused it to rise in popularity in recent years.
What is Palo Azul Tea?
Palo azul tea is an herbal detoxification tea brewed with the bark of the palo azul plant, scientifically known as Eysenhardtia polystachya. Also known as kidneywood, this herb has been used in traditional medicine for thousands of years, and the bark is known to contain some very unique nutrients. When you purchase palo azul, it typically comes in the form of wood chips of the bark, which you can then steep in the water to release the flavonoids, sterols, and ketones contained in this powerful plant. These active ingredients can have a range of effects in the body, but this tea is particularly well known for its ability to detoxify the body. In recent years, it has become very popular for those who need to pass drug tests, as it is believed to speed up the metabolization of certain recreational drugs, such as marijuana.
Palo Azul Tea Benefits
The primary benefits of palo azul tea include the following:
- Protecting kidney health
- Reducing inflammation
- Aiding weight loss
- Preventing chronic diseases
- Improving mental health
Let us look at the benefits in detail below:
Kidney Health
The primary use of palo azul tea throughout history has been as a detoxifying agent for the body. This tea can lower your risk of kidney stones, promote healthy urination and the rapid expulsion of toxins from the body. It can also reduce swelling in the kidneys as a result of infection.
The active components of this tea are known to minimize the pain and discomfort of arthritis, as well as other inflammatory conditions, such as gout and headaches.
Mental Health
With the ability to impact mood and lower stress hormone levels, while also soothing the nervous system, this tea is an excellent booster for mental health.
Weight Loss
As a metabolic booster, this tea can help your body burn calories and fat more effectively, which can aid in weight loss.
How to Make Palo Azul Tea?
You can make palo azul tea at home quite simply if you can find the palo azul wood chips at an import store or specialist grocer. Let's take a look at the simple instructions given below to make Palo Azul tea at home.
An Easy Recipe to Make Palo Azul Tea
- 1 ounce of Palo Azul Bark
- 6 cups of water
- To make Palo Azul tea, bring 6 cups of water to boil in a large pot.
- Add 1 ounce of Palo Azul wood chips to the water.
- Cover the pot and allow the wood chips to boil for an hour.
- Remove from heat and remove the bark, which should be floating on top.
- You can drink this resultant tea either warm or cold. If you wish to drink it cold, refrigerate it for a few hours.
Palo Azul Tea Side Effects
There are very few side effects associated with Palo Azul tea, and there are no reported cases of toxicity. However, some people do experience gastrointestinal distress, and this tea is not recommended for pregnant or nursing women, given the lack of solid research on its potential impact.


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Tender for the industrial site was launched on 29 August 2012 and closed on 26 September 2012. The land parcel was offered for sale on a 30-year lease term. Details of the awarded land parcel and the successful tenderer are provided below:MAXIMUM GROSS PLOT RATIO (GPR)TENDERED PRICE
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(Louisville, KY) – SmartBox, one of the Louisville area's fastest-growing companies, was honored on Tuesday as one of the best-performing businesses in the Louisville metropolitan area in 2017.
Local magazine Louisville Business First honored 19 companies in six different categories and celebrated each business during a gala at Seelbach Hilton Louisville. The magazine will also release a special publication profiling each winner. SmartBox was listed as one of the best medium-sized companies of the year.
"We have been working hard throughout the year to expand our services and continue building a company that will help dentists thrive across the world, so we're proud to be included among the best companies in Louisville," said SmartBox CEO Colin Receveur.
SmartBox, which started in 2001 as a patient attraction company for dentists, has been recognized by Louisville Business First this year as one of the best places to work and as one of the 50 fastest-growing companies in the area.
SmartBox also recently completed a renovation project that doubled the size of its facilities from 6,500 square feet to 13,000 square feet, and the company plans to add up to 100 new jobs by 2022.
For the Business of the Year Awards, each participating company filled out a form describing its company culture while outlining major accomplishments, challenges overcome, long-term goals, and future business goals.
"I started SmartBox as a solopreneurship and certainly experience a fair share of growing pains, but now I'm proud to employ some of the leading professionals in the digital marketing field," Receveur said. "Each team member takes ownership of their role in the company to help our dentists thrive."
Receveur is the author of many best-selling books: "The Dentists' Strategy Guide to Video Marketing," "How to Stay In Front of Your Patients Until They Are Ready to Buy," "Web 3.0: What Every Dentist Must Know to Thrive in the New Economy," and "Attract More Patients in the Next 6 Months than in the Past 6 Years," available at www.MoreAndBetterPatients.com.
His newest book, "The Four Horsemen of Dentistry: Survival Strategies For The Private Dental Practice Under Siege," has tips for dentists who want to retire in five years, dentists who are teetering on bankruptcy, dentists who are doing great but want to take their practice to the next level, and dentists just starting their careers.
Receveur is a nationally recognized speaker, author, and internet marketing expert. He has developed the unique Patient Attraction System™, Patient Attraction Podcast™, Patient Attraction Magazine™, and Inside Patient Attraction™ webinar series. He has been featured in numerous dental publications, including Dental Economics magazine's Dentistry IQ Video series and on the cover of The Profitable Dentist. SmartBox also has had numerous features in Dentaltown, the number one dental trade magazine.
SmartBox's office is at 821 Mount Tabor Rd., Suite 300, New Albany, Ind., and can be reached at (866) 731-1776.
For more information about Receveur or SmartBox's Patient Attraction SystemTM, visit the company's website at www.smartboxdental.com.
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Episode 1 and 2 of an epic murder mystery, visual novel adventure in which you become the Honourable Miss Phryne Fisher, the glamorous and stylish super-sleuth!
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the underlying mechanism of customer co-creation in service recovery (co-recovery), and investigates the impact of initiation on customer post-recovery evaluations and behavioural intentions.
Design/methodology/approach – Researchers used a 3 (no co-recovery vs employee-initiated co-recovery vs customer-initiated co-recovery)×2 (male vs female)×2 (western vs eastern customers) between-subject experiential study in a hotel setting.
Findings – When a service employee initiates a co-recovery, customers perceive higher justice, greater satisfaction and a higher tendency to repurchase in the future. But if the customer initiates such a co-recovery, little improvement on these outcomes is found compared to a recovery entirely managed by the company. The effect was moderated by culture: western customers were more sensitive to initiation in the co-recovery process than eastern customers.
Research limitations/implications – Written scenarios using a hotel setting and a technical error were used, and may reduce the applicability of the findings to real life or other service categories or types of error. Subjects used may not be representative of other population groups. Further studies using real life situations, human error and a more diverse population group are recommended.
Practical implications – A positive co-recovery can be achieved by service employees taking initiatives when a problem occurs.
Originality/value – This study extends previous research on co-recovery by investigating the effect of initiation by service employees on customers' perception of co-creation. Service companies can improve customers' post-recovery evaluations by inviting them to co-create a feasible solution, and potentially reduce the company's compensation costs.


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When I look at your face, it's hard to remember that there was ever a time I didn't have it memorized. Your colorful eyes—brown, blue, and a little bit of gold—that completely light up in an instant. The dimple halfway up your left cheek. Your eight (and a half) tiny, little teeth.
A little over a year ago, I was in labor, and I remember that my most frequent thought was what you would look like. Would your have your daddy's dark, thick hair? My blue eyes? You would certainly have our olive skin.
Roughly 30 hours later, I understood the most wonderful thing the moment I saw you: everything about you made perfect sense.
As I watch you grow and learn every day, I still can't believe you're mine. I can't believe your dad and I get to kiss those cheeks every day and be on the receiving end of your giant hugs. I still can't believe we get to squeeze your adorably chunky thighs and count your tiny, little toes. I will never understand why we are so lucky that we get to snuggle you in the rocker every night while we read your favorite books, like Jamberry and In The Night Kitchen.
Someday you'll have a little brother or sister, and I'm sure this love I don't think can ever grow will multiply. Amplify. Blow my mind.
Until then, I'll spend countless hours a day staring at your long, thick eyelashes and watching you beam with pride when you finally try (and easily achieve) that new thing you've set your mind to. I'll continue picking you up at random to squeeze you in my arms and tickle your tiny "Buddha belly" (as your daddy calls it).
I look at you and it amazes me every time that you were the one who gave me that first tiny kick at midnight while I watched "Dirty Dancing" and your dad was away at training, or that you were the one who got hiccups I could feel in my tummy every afternoon at 2pm.
The bigger you get, the harder it is to believe I carried you for 41 and a half weeks. And the more perfect I realize you are.
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Here's what I was up to last week. Just a little sneak peek of a few… Not only was I photographing this shoot, but I also had a hand in styling it. A HUGE thanks to the amazing vendors I worked with and pulled it together on such short notice. And thanks to our "bride" Katie who was an amazing model!
venue: Highfield Hall, Falmouth
styling & floral design: Courtney Dunbury – Courtney's Floral Creations, Falmouth
cake and cake truffles (yum!): Lisa Raffael, Delicious Desserts
linens and table settings: Becky Nye – Rentals Unlimited, Hyannis
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Greetings, Gina! I notice you haven't been active at Atheist Nexus lately. <sigh> Sometimes it can seem a bit fragmented, with different groups for every interest. Please consider a group for socializing, where we talk about whatever's on our minds, Hang With Friends. :D You might feel more at home.
I'd bring a copy of "The God Delusion" and conspicuously read that. I often do that, during my downtime at work.
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The ubiquitous transcription factor Nuclear Factor-kappa B (NF-kappa B) plays an important role in controlling gene expression in cellular inflammation, immunity, cell proliferation and apoptosis. In mammals, NF-kappa B comprises of a family of five protein subunits, NF-kB1 (p50/p105), NF-kB2 (p52/p100), p65 (RelA), RelB and c-Rel. These NF-kappa B subunits share an N-terminal Rel Homology Domain (RHD) of about 300 amino acid, which contain regions for the dimerization of NF-kappa B subunits, nuclear translocation and DNA binding.
In most unstimulated cells the majority of NF-kappaB subunits, either hetero- or homo-dimers, are retained in an inactive form in the cytoplasm through association with members of a family of inhibitory proteins, known as IkB. IkB proteins all contain an ankyrin repeat of 30-33 amino acids, which can bind the NF-kappa B RHD region. Cellular exposure to a variety of stimuli leads to a rapid phosphorylation, ubiquitination and proteolytic degradation of IkB freeing NF-kappa B dimers to translocate to the nucleus and initiate gene transcription. The degradation of IkB is achieved through the actions of the IkB kinase (IKK) complex. Target gene specificity is determined by the specific NF-kappa B complexes present in different cell types, the kB target site binding specificities of different NF-kappa B complexes and the particular protein-protein interactions and post-translational modifications that NF-kappa B complexes can undergo in different contexts.
Extracellular stimuli that can induce NF-kappa B activation include proinflammatory cytokines (e.g. TNF), bacteria, physiological stress conditions, physical and oxidative stress, environmental factors, therapeutically used drugs, modified proteins, apoptotic mediators, mitogens, growth factors and hormones, and chemical agents, many of which have been implicated in the development of autoimmune and inflammatory diseases.
The reports of the involvement of NF-kappa B in chronic inflammatory diseases have dramatically increased in recent years. Diseases such as, Multiple Sclerosis, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Atherosclerosis, Chronic-inflammatory Demyelinating Polyradiculoneuritis, Asthma, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Helicobacter pylori -associated gastritis and Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (SIRS).
This research topic aims to explore the effects of the NF-kappa B signalling pathway in the pathogenesis of neurological diseases, and investigate NF-kappa B regulation in context of disease and genetic factors influencing the NF-kappa B pathway. Most importantly it is aimed to foster discussion on NF-kappa B related therapeutic design in neurological diseases. Research work and review articles are all encouraged for submission.
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