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Staying in a W hotel was on my wish list for quite some time. The brand from Starwood Hotels & Resorts is known for their cool, trendy design, which makes them also the favourite of music celebrities and influencers. For these reasons - and many more - I was super happy when I found out that the annual event of the company where I work would be held in Barcelona and that the hotel chosen was the W Hotel Barcelona.
The W Hotel Barcelona is shaped like a sailboat, all covered with mirrored glass reflecting the blue of the sky and the sea. The hotel is located in the district of Barceloneta, meaning it's right next to the beach and with an incredible view of the Mediterranean sea. This 5 star hotel also has spas, terraces, gym, restaurants and swimming pools.
On its 26th floor, the W Hotel Barcelona has the Eclipse, a bar/ nightclub that gets crowded on the weekends. Hotel guests have free access to Eclipse and earn a vip bracelet. Right in the hotel entrance - which is super trendy and full of young people - you can find the Mediterranean restaurant Wave and the W Lounge where resident DJs play the best of deep house while you enjoy a great cocktail. In addition to Eclipse, Wave and W Lounge, the W has the Salt Restaurant & Beach Club and Bravo24, a restaurant specializing in Catalan cuisine prepared by chef Carles Abellán.
Breakfast at the W is a real dream: you can choose whether you want an international breakfast, which is served at the Wave, or a regional breakfast, served at Bravo24. As a big fan of Spanish cuisine I obviously opted (every day!) for Bravo. In addition to traditional breakfast foods such as croissant, bread rolls, cakes and fruits, I also enjoyed tapas, Iberian ham, Spanish tortilla ... in short, there were more than 130 choices of food served daily.
My room was also a show apart: the King Size bed was extremely comfortable and on the nightstand I had a button called "WOW", and when I pressed it, different lights were lit on the walls which left me super surprised. Also, I had a Nespresso coffee machine at my disposal and Bose sound systems, which I could connect to my cell phone via Bluetooth. The bathroom had a waterfall style shower and the only thing I did not like was not taken full advantage of the room since I stayed for very little time (I was there for work, after all). Best of all: the view! I had a view of the sea and port of Barcelona and despite being super tired for having 3 extremely busy days, waking up at the W Hotel Barcelona was the motivation I needed to start one more day.
P.S.: all photos are from W Hotel Barcelona's website. To see my own photos and videos check out my stories on Instagram (@bemviajada).


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Fly North first sightings
Well it's been an exciting and event filled month here at WE'AR HQ, as we welcome our brand new capsule collection Fly North into stores and online! We rung in Earth Day celebrations with Auckland Yoga Academy last week with live music, raw treats and tasty yoga couture sale finds, and recently took part in Island Style (run by our sassy Waiheke chiquita Lou) with our new range hitting the runway and models looking the part in gorgeous WE'AR spoils. Needless to say this month has 'flown' by (sorry..) and now we are ready to bring Fly North to all of you! The range takes an easy, utilitarian approach to urban living with function, comfort and movement core to the design of every garment. WE'AR founder and designer Jyoti Morningstar says "This season's off duty look is one of relaxed sophistication. 'Fly North' is telling the tale of innocent luxury revealed in natural textures, inviting you to feel light and radiant in your own skin".
Earlier this month friends and family were invited to a VIP evening as we unveiled a sneak peek into our new range. Preluded by some media drop in's by both familiar and new faces (parting with a gift of our yogi tights) the day was abuzz with beautifying our lofty upstairs space and fawning over the cosy new styles emerging from the stockroom! Guests were treated to delicious morsels from Ripe Deli and Petal Cupcakes and the wine was flowing thanks to Soho. A relaxed and friendly evening, we had some great feedback from those in attendance and music was vibe-ing due to Mark and his skills on the decks. Plus it was a great chance to catch up with our awesome customers and yogi comrades! Here are a handful of party pics from Waiheke staffer Bianca and our hostess with the most-ess Jess...
Busy bees Michelle and Maria stocking shelves, Jess and Nik pre-party ready
Our resident DJ Mark setting up
Jess wearing our Painters Smock, and Nik in Fame top and Off Duty skirt
William admires our Bateau Scarf in Jazz red
Melissa Carroll and Erin O'Hara
Fiona Liu from Hot Yoga Auckland and Kylie Harris checking out our Fly North range
Oh yes, end of the night selfies were inevitable (and totally necessary)...
Our Fly North collection is available in stores and online now. Warm woollen tweed, raw silk and organic terry cotton are some of the fabrics to look forward to - stylish yet always practical pieces to mix, match and layer for the coming chill! A big thank you to Jess, Nik and Michelle who put together the event with such aplomb x
Remember guys, come visit us in store, peruse online and keep up to date with all of our pics and events on our facebook page!
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LONDON (ZDNet UK)--It isn't often that I find myself standing on the sidelines, cheering for the bad guy; but I might make the exception for AOL, which is (everybody says) sabotaging a bright new business tool--Instant Message Unification.
The usefulness of instant messaging can't be denied, especially in the new online office with virtual workers. But I'm not convinced that unifying it is a good idea.
More and more of us are working from home, or being moved into different buildings from our colleagues. This leads to the growth of bureaucracy, meetings, schedules, memos and people generally getting out of touch.
So, increasingly, people who are in closely-knit groups, but geographically dispersed, are keeping in touch with little chatboxes on their screens. They aren't really chatrooms as such: the difference is subtle, but may be important.
Take a product like Yahoo! Messenger, for example. You and a dozen or so of your workmates set up accounts and define each other as "friends", then each day, when you log on, you see who is online and who isn't. Then, in exactly the same way that you can in an office, you can swap messages instantly with one or several of your colleagues.
Take my word for it; this is useful. But the problem is that in order to use Yahoo! Messenger, all the people in your group have to have YM accounts. In order to use ICQ (I Seek You), everybody has to have an ICQ account. And the same goes for AOL's Instant Messenger (AIM) and MSN's Messenger, too.
What seems to have happened, however, is that MSN decided to join the AOL club by giving its members access to AOL messages. And AOL responded by re-designing the software so as to exclude MSN. A battle ensued, which ended with all of the major suppliers restricting access to their own subscribers only.
Several people have since tried to produce a unified messaging service. Examples include IMICI (very promising) and Jabber (probably the most useful, since it's XML-based). None is actually ready for release yet; they're in beta, and have a lot of work to do.
Their dream is to have an open messaging product, so that a group of people can have "friends" among any or all of the different suppliers. The dream, when you try it out, turns out to be a nightmare.
The small problems are just irritating. Like, you can do it, but you need everybody to have their own subscription to every other service--as well as to the unified service. Or you can have a list of all your friends, but the MSN ones can't talk to the AOL ones or the ICQ ones; only to you. Also, the extra features are all missing; only the basic features, common to all IM products, are available.
But the real problems, thank goodness, are never going to plague us. That's because the true integration of instant messaging will never happen. If it did nobody would use it again, because it's only the existence of the little problems that is saving us from the real problems.
Imagine if it were possible for one person to send an instant message to anybody who had an IM client. All they would need to know would be your identity; and instantly, lots of "important special offers" would be available to you.
Reuters has just done a deal with instant messaging service ActiveBuddy. The joint agreement allows Reuters to use ActiveBuddy services to "convert that instant messaging window into a marketing platform and one that builds a direct relationship with the instant message user", according to its announcement. In other words, it's discovered another vehicle for advertising spam.
It has to be insane. The main reason I use instant messengers, rather than email, is to avoid the flood of meaningless offers of Viagra, debt rescheduling, clairvoyance or pictures of young females who have lost their clothes, which seems to be all you can get on email these days. If IM services turned into nothing better than email, why would anybody use them?
Keep your instant messenger services small, please; I don't want the whole world muscling into my chatrooms with irresistible commercial opportunities.


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"Holy, holy, holy,
Lord God Almighty,
Who was and is and is to come!"…
"You are worthy, O Lord,
To receive glory and honor and power;
For You created all things,
And by Your will they exist and were created." Revelation 4:8, 11
Who is God? What is His character and attributes? There are scriptures throughout the Bible that describe Him and who He is. For this post, I will use the Book of Revelation to try to share who God is. He is the great, almighty God who is worthy to receive all of our blessings and worship. He has given us everything. He created us and He loves us.


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The LTA are making changes to Mini Tennis
Some exciting changes are being made to Mini Tennis which will come into effect on 1st September 2016 and below is all the information you need to know about the improvements.
Why are the changes being introduced?
The improvements are being made following a significant research project into Mini Tennis and junior competition which involved listening to feedback from players, parents, officials and coaches. The outcome of this work pointed towards the need to focus on more local, team based and fun competition opportunities, as well as making changes to reduce some of the unnecessary pressure experienced in mini tennis competitions.
What are the changes?
1. Removal of Mini Tennis red ratings
All Mini Tennis red players will have their red rating removed and we will no longer issue Mini Tennis red ratings to new players. This is to ensure the focus at this age is on fun and learning to play without the pressure of moving through a ratings system. Once a player has played 40 red matches (previously 66 to reach red 1) and is in their second to last or last competition season, they will receive an Orange 4 rating and can start to compete in Orange ball competitions as well as continuing to play in Red ball competitions. We will be introducing new rewards for young players to help recognise their progression at tournaments including providing a t-shirt once they have played 20 red matches.
2. New one match tie break scoring and more court helpers for Orange ball
Mini Tennis orange grade 5 and 6 events will be played using the one match tiebreak scoring format with flexibility for organisers at grade 4. This change in the scoring format will help players with an easier transition from red to orange ball competition and Round Robin boxes can be used more often. Grade 1 – 4 competitions will still be able to use the existing scoring formats of the best of 3 tie-breaks to 7 or one short set.
The LTA will also encourage orange ball tournaments to use court helpers on all courts wherever possible to help young children score and to take the pressure off scoring and calling their own lines.
3. Green ball after the age of 10
Venues will be able to use the green ball for 12U to 18U junior competitions (grade 6 and 7 only), such as match plays, which are appropriate for inexperienced players leading to a better experience. Grade 6 and 7 events that wish to use the green ball will need to promote that green balls will be used on the LTA Competition Search.
4. Removal of competition leader boards and the U9s National Tour
The LTA will remove both the Regional and County Tour leaderboards for 9 & Under and 10 & Under age groups to help simplify the competition measures and reduce pressure at such a young age.
In addition, the LTA will be stopping the 9 & Under National Tour and replacing it with friendly regional team matches.
5. Launch of new team competition
The LTA will launch a new team competition in September 2016 which will be locally delivered and focused on players having fun in a team environment. The LTA are aiming to create 100+ clusters across GB in the initial roll out. This new team competition will be for mini tennis and junior tennis players.
For more information on the changes, please visit the LTA website: LTA mini Tennis Changes


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Nuon Chea is now awaiting an atrocity crimes trial at the UN-backed Khmer Rouge tribunal.
Professor Sum Chhum Bun says the literature, arts and culture during the regime were used for Marxist-Leninist ideology.
The film, which is shortlisted for the Oscars and recently screened in many theaters in Washington.
At least 20 different Cambodians have shown their work at the gallery.
It has been screened for professors of political science, human rights, law, genocide and Southeast Asian studies over the past weeks.
Two toddlers, aged three and four, were saved from drowning, authorities confirmed early Tuesday.
The festival of boat races will last through Monday, when the moon is full, the largest collective revelry in the Cambodian calendar.
The scene in question shows a group of masked, wealthy businessmen bidding for a beautiful woman. A man takes her for $5 million.
The film won the Special Jury Prize at the Sundance film festival in January and has been released in the US, Europe and Asia.
Today this Buddhist temple is tranquil, but when the Khmer Rouge ruled Cambodia between 1975 and 1979, it was anything but.
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Dry cleaning of garments with perchloroethylene or petroleum solvents avoids saturating the fabric with water. While the clothes are immersed, the solvent does not penetrate the fibers of the fabric, thereby avoiding the possible swelling and shrinking that can occur with water saturation. The garments are inspected and pre-spotted for stains and heavy soiling by a trained "spotter". After pre-spotting they are sorted by types of fabric, color and weight and then machine-cleaned in solvent containing detergent. The solvent is removed from the garments by draining, spinning and tumble dying with hot air. The recovered solvent is filtered and purified for reuse by a distillation process.
A typical wetcleaning cycle consists of numerous successive batch operations using detergents, soaps and bleaches, followed by a rinse operation. As in the drycleaning process, the garments are inspected and, if necessary, pre-spotted. Garments made of delicate fabrics are immersed in water containing detergent and gently hand washed, while heavier fabrics may be scrubbed. The garments are then rinsed, dried in a machine dryer, or hung dry and finished.
The factors determining the cleaning method used whether a garment is cleaned in water or solvent are: The types of soil present. The fiber composition and garment construction. The dye present in the fabric and the nature of the various trims, linings, or other findings that may be used in the garment.
The various dyes used to color fibers and fabrics can often determine whether or not an article is washed or drycleaned. In general, man-made fibers are solution-dyed and respond equally well to either process. Dyes used for rayons, on the other hand, respond very poorly to water. Silk and wool dyes often respond poorly to water, and silk garments are normally drycleaned rather than laundered or wetcleaned. Other types of dyes may respond well to water, but not so well in drycleaning solvent.
There are three basic types of soil:
Water-soluble soils often consist of body fluids, salts, or sugars and are best removed by water.
Solvent- soluble soils are oils and greases, including natural oils secreted by the body, that dissolve readily in solvents and are best removed by drycleaning.
Insoluble soils do not readily dissolve in either water or solvent and are normally removed by mechanical action and flushed away from the fabric.
Laundering and wetcleaning processes can be modified to remove some solvent-soluble soils with the addition of detergents or soaps. Detergents used for laundering are normally formulated with mild caustic materials. Because only milder detergents can be used in wetcleaning, the process is somewhat limited in its ability to remove oils. Similarly, drycleaning solvents can be enhanced with the addition of detergents to remove water-soluble soils. The degree of removal is dependent on the detergent used and the careful control of moisture during the cleaning process.
Fabrics are made of fibers. Many fibers respond well to both wetcleaning and drycleaning. There are exceptions such as wool, linen, silk and rayon which are subject to shrinkage and felting when in contact with water. In addition, protein fibers like wool and silk tend to degrade after contact with even the mildest alkalies found in the wetcleaning process.. Wools also do not respond well to excessive heat typically used in the laundering process. The scaly nature of wool fibers tends to collapse when subject to heat and mechanical action, producing irreversible shrinkage and felting of the fabric. This problem is enhanced in garments with a loose fabric construction, which tend to relax if the article is washed and shrinkage results. These effects can be minimized using a wet-cleaning (i.e., hand washing process.) Most fiber types are compatible with the drycleaning process because drycleaning solvent does not swell fibers and the clothes are cleaned at room temperature.
Most garments have trims (e.g., buttons) of some sort that can determine how the garment is cleaned. In addition, various linings and other findings (e.g., felts, interfacing, pads) often are used in garment construction that can present problems when cleaning. If, for example, any differential shrinkage of tailored articles (e.g., men's suits) occurs during processing, undesirable distortion and puckering can occur. This happens because the felts or linings used in the construction respond differently to the care process than the shell fabric. In general there is less chance for damage using the drycleaning process in place of wetcleaning.
Finishing processes used after wet and drycleaning vary, depending on the garments being processed, but generally involve steaming and pressing. Steam is used to relax wrinkled fibers. After steaming, the fibers are pressed and cooled to keep them in place. Pressing is the most important step, requiring considerable skill and training. As a general rule, finishing after wetcleaning is more labor intensive than that of drycleaned items.
Many factors determine whether a drycleaning or a wetcleaning process is compatible with a particular garment or textile article. Your professional cleaner, therefore, must use his or her professional judgment to determine which process will restore the garment to a condition that is as close as possible to its "look like new" state.


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I'm super happy about the boots: flat and comfy, with trendy decorative holes, they can be worn all year round (at least in Paris with its mild temperatures). The jacket was also a great find - lightweight and beautifully shaped, it can be rolled up into a tiny cushion ideal for carrying in a bag ...and travelling! ;)
Jacket: Marie Lund
Top: Guess
Jeans: Guess
Boots: Venezia
Bag: C&A
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Anyway, one of my coworkers for the past year, a Baby DA who filled a grant position in my office, is leaving this week after the funding expires. According to long-standing office tradition, anytime there is anything significant in someone's life, we have either treats (trial win, work-related anniversary, etc.) or a "pig out" (leaving the office, birthday, etc.). Tomorrow is the pig out for my coworker, a proud Southerner from Knoxville, Tennessee. Given the circumstances under which he leaves, he requested "comfort food" as a theme.
There are two coincidental events justifying me bringing something: Birth of child and 10-year anniversary of working for the State of Wisconsin. So, in order to meet the theme and celebrate my personal milestones, I agreed to cook a pork butt.
I prayed for good weather, and realized while at the hospital last weekend that early leave was perfect for an overnight smoke session, resulting in pulled pork for the office lunch. I did some research, and decided to use my smoker to cook two Boston Butts totaling about 15 pounds. Sam's Club provided the bone-in butts, and internet forum searches led to a recipe for rub, mop, and treatment.
Yesterday I made the rub, which is a nice combination of sweet and heat, and applied it to both butts this morning. Here's the "before" picture of my rubbed pork -- that's a 9x13 baking pan for reference:
With the pork prepared, I had to set up the cooking equipment. I used a Brinkman "Smoke 'n Grill" I bought at a garage sale about 6 years ago:
Following advice from an internet forum, I layered charcoal briquets and chunks of oak and hickory in the fuel pan of the smoker:
Placing the pan in the bottom of the smoker, I lit the starter coals in my chimney:
Assembling the charcoal, grates, and water pan, the smoking began promptly at 5pm:
A friend of mine arrived after about an hour, so I lifted the lid to show him the setup:
The cooking continued past nightfall, and eventually I was alone on the patio.
After 6 hours, the time came to rotate, switch, and flip the pork. This is just before swapping the lower and upper pieces:
As I write this, it is 3:11 a.m., and other than ensuring the charcoal doesn't burn out, the hard work is done. I'll tend to the smoker until the meat reaches 190 degrees, which should be around 9 a.m. We'll hold the meat in a cooler until I can get it to work and pull it apart for what ought to be a delicious and special lunch.


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Double Precision Floating Point unit had dedicated regs which need to be saved/restored across context-switch. Note that ARC FPU is overly simplistic, unlike say x86, which has hardware pieces to allow software to conditionally save/restore, based on actual usage of FPU by a task. Thus our implemn does this for all tasks in system.
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> > > > > > Visually-challenged computer users can now explore technical drawings > > IST Results, Belgium, July 26, 2005 Marketing speak presented with no commentary. > > Digitised technical drawings are typically presented and edited on > > standard Digitised drawing are generally editted with vector graphics software, or higher level diagramming software, that as well as using vector graphics, understands connectivity between objects (Visio is a general purpose tool of this kind, but there will be application domain specific tools). However, because off the shelf browsers don't support even open vector graphics standards (I'm excluding the embedding of PDF) such diagrams finding themselves onto web pages are normally converted to bitmap format losing a lot of information (I've seen this in academic material, although semiconductor manufacturers use PDF to preserve the vector nature, if not the higher level information). There has been free software, for a long time, that will try and convert line art as bitmaps back into vector form, but its an inexact science. Converting text needs OCR and OCR tends not to be free. What's not at all clear from this marketing blurb is whether this is a tool that can actually convert low quality bitmaps, from the web, back into the high level relationships between objects, or whether it only works at the vector level, or the even higher level where the relationships are still explicit.Received on Sunday, 31 July 2005 09:21:14 UTC
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text: Brad and Denise's wedding takes a wrong turn when the priest who is marrying them is suddenly arrested for harboring illegal aliens. Alan Shore takes on the Father's case, but when Denise goes into labor, Brad frantically searches for someone to marry them so that their child is not born out of wedlock. Meanwhile, Jerry Espenson defends a woman who is being evicted from her apartment because of her pet duck - who serves as emotional support to help her anxiety -- and Alan is puzzled when he discovers that Denny Crane has the Stanley Cup in his possession.


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Industry Wine Bottle Rack
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- Overview
Blackened metal bands and rich wood pair up in our wine rack's industrial design. The sides are finished to replicate planked pieces, and the bottle holders feature visible rivets.
- Made of pine wood and flat steel.
- Stack up to two wine racks.
- Holds 12 bottles of wine.
- Sits securely in place by positioned rivets.
- Spot clean.
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6-bottle Rack
- Overall: 10" wide x 8" deep x 12.5" high
- Opening For Bottle (6): 3.5" diameter
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- Overall: 12.5" wide x 10" deep x 15.5" high
- Opening For Bottle (12): 3.5" diameter
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We can arrange for next day delivery to most destinations within the contiguous 48 states, for an extra charge of $26.00 per address. If we receive your order by 6pm PT Monday through Friday, you'll receive your order the next business day; orders placed on Friday after 6pm PT through Sunday will arrive on Tuesday. Note: Next Day Delivery service is not available for some oversized items, White Glove Delivery, out of stock items, personalized items or for items shipped directly from the manufacturer.
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By: Jeff Hoffman
You might be a horrible leader, but if you stay in sales long enough, you will be promoted to management.
However, your chances of ascending higher — to a VP or Director of Sales position — are zero. Only successful sales managers become sales executives.
To excel as a manager (and someday make it to the C-suite), avoid these four significant failures.
1) Communicating Change the Wrong Way
Sales managers must frequently hand down directions from above to their reps. However, most managers completely miss the mark when they do.
Rather than allying themselves with company leadership, they try to take their team's side.
Suppose the C-suite decides to shift from a geographic to vertical-based territory system. The sales manager wants to show she "gets it," so she echoes what she thinks her salespeople are feeling with statements like:
- "I know this is hard but … "
- "If it were up to me … "
- "I'm asking for quota relief … "
This is an extremely dangerous path to go down. After all, the manager can't reverse the change. Her attitude makes her team members resistant to something they can't control.
Instead of taking an "us versus them" stance, sales managers should represent change as positive. The manager in this example might say, "Great news. We're moving to verticals — which will make lead assignment much easier and open up new accounts. This is one of the best moves the company has made all year for us."
Now, her reps are far likelier to embrace the change.
What if you truly think leadership is making a bad decision? It's fine to question an idea before it's been realized. Once it's in action, you must publicly adopt it no matter how you feel. Have a private conversation with other managers and executives, but never communicate your uncertainty to your team.
The reality is, great sales managers aren't transparent. Your ultimate job is marshalling your team to hit an aggregate target. If you broadcast every concern you hold, you won't be able to achieve that goal.
2) Not Proactively Coaching Your Reps
Some sales managers are reluctant to, in their words, "micromanage." When they were on the floor, they didn't need reminders or motivation to make enough calls, set a certain number of meetings, ask for referrals, etc.
In fact, as reps they may have resented managers who tried to coach them. The common mentality is, "I already know how to do my job."
Now that they've been promoted, these managers only get involved with a deal when it's 75% likely or higher to close. They don't realize most of their salespeople actually need reinforcement to hit those leading metrics.
With that in mind, don't ignore your reps because you're hesitant to be too controlling. Shadow your salespeople, pinpoint their weaknesses, and give them the support they need to improve — whether that's saying, "Spend the next hour emailing prospects" or "Let's work on your questioning strategy."
3) Neglecting Your Firing Skills
There's no doubt recruiting is a huge component of the position. I recommend dedicating an hour per day to filling your candidate pipeline: Searching for potential hires on LinkedIn, asking your network for referrals, having coffee meetings, and so forth.
What many sales managers never grasp? Your firing abilities are even more critical than your hiring abilities. Every low-performing rep harms your team's potential to hit or exceed quota; plus, they're bad for morale.
Devote time and energy to recognizing when people aren't succeeding or don't have the right skills. The sooner you part ways with them, the healthier your team will be.
If you're not sure how to spot these tells, look at the last 10 salespeople who were terminated. Did the majority of them lack a specific ability? When and how did they start showing signs of poor fit? (This is also a good exercise to identify areas for coaching and training.)
4) Championing Hopeless Causes
Grab a pen and paper and write down the top three internal campaigns you're waging.
Most sales managers are fighting similar battles: They're trying to get more (or better) leads, redistribute the marketing budget, secure certain features in upcoming product releases, and so on.
These are the wrong conflicts. You're never going to win the lead, marketing, or product wars. If you want to be a great sales manager, channel your time, energy, and resources into ones you can win, like running competitive analyses, getting more training, and rewarding your salespeople for their victories and progress.
Steer clear of these four mistakes, and you'll be ahead of the game. There may be a corner office in your future.
This blog originally appeared on Jeff's Hubspot Blog in 2017.


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Given that Valentine's Day is coming up we are all thinking about our relationships. Have you read the book He's Just Not That Into You? The premise of the book tells women readers that if you are interested in a man and he's not making the effort to pursue you, he is just not that into you! If a man is truly interested in a woman, or if a woman is truly interested in a man, he/she will make the time and put in the effort to pursue you. Do you believe that? We see it all the time in our relationships – romance, family, friends, colleagues, leadership, etc. You have a relationship with everyone around you. It may be at different levels in different environments, but the relationship exists. Here's how it often goes down in the business world: You just started as the VP of Talent Acquisition for your company. Requisition cycle times are 60 days+, turnover has increased to 43.5%, your hiring managers travel 75% of the time and you lose top candidates because your team is taking too long to secure the offers. It's a talent acquisition nightmare. You hear about HireVue's digital interviewing platform and ask for a demo. During the demo, you internally formulate strategies and understand how HireVue can solve your talent acquisition pain. You get excited and present the idea to your Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO). You complete your presentation and the CHRO declines the idea of HireVue. He does not see true value in it. He's Just Not That Into Vue. What happens now? How do you help the CHRO understand the true value of HireVue? How do you establish a relationship where he trusts your thought leadership? Let me break it down: Give it Time: It takes time to build trust and it takes time to establish your professional reputation. Sometimes we feel the need to walk into a new company and prove ourselves right away. We go in, force solutions and relationships that have not had a chance to naturally form, and many times that's just not the right fit for that company culture. A better way to approach a new opportunity to shine is to slowly build your reputation, build rapport and build trust. Your work will speak for itself and the rest will follow. As you work through your business objectives and meet those goals, your leadership team will instill trust in you. Your colleagues will instill trust in you. Your team members will instill trust in you. And at the end of the day, as you gain a solid reputation as someone who executes to meet business objectives and provide solutions, people will seek you as a consultant, not just look at you as an employee with a lot to learn. Listen and learn: Epictetus quotes "We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak." No matter what position you hold, you can always learn from others. By listening, we gain insight into what's important to the other person and we use that knowledge to help them reach their personal objectives. In turn, others will listen to you and help you meet your personal goals. It's a win/win situation. Learn about yourself and learn from others. This is critical to your success. There is No "I" in Team Rome wasn't built in a day and it takes a village to raise a child – you've heard all the anectdotes before but it is really true. To become successful you need to get your team to work together – if you think of it in terms of the recent Super Bowl, be the Seahawks, not the Broncos. Good and consistent communication, delegation, recognition and motivation will get you the well-oiled machine your Talent Acquisition department will become. At the end of the day, you will succeed because your team succeeds. Present HireVue to your CHRO again now that you have shown business value in yourself. This time, he knows you. He trusts you and he listens. Even though He's Just Not That Into Vue, if you are into Vue, you should be audacious, persistent and a thought leader. You need to understand what your audience cares about. What is in it for them? You can win over the relationship if you put in the time and effort. You can make him see something in the Vue that he never noticed before. Stay tuned for my next blog "How to Get Him to Say I Love Vue." Have questions for Sodavy? Email her at email@example.com and connect with her on LinkedIn and Twitter- @hirevuesodavy.
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Christ Church Schenectady Prayer Table Report, Saturday, January 28, 2012, 9:05 – 10:30 a.m. Torre Bissell from Christ Church Schenectady and Carol MacNaughton from St. Michael's Colonie.
+–indicates received a wooden cross made by Dennis Adams of North Carolina
H–indicates received a hat
M–indicates received mittens
G–indicates received gloves
S–indicates received a scarf
A pair of hand-knitted woolen socks was donated by a woman in Norway.
Prayed for a man walking on theother side of the street limping.
+Nancy — She is traveling by bus to Pennsylvania and by plane to California. We prayed for travel mercies and that her "family will keep together."
+Luke (young man from Haiti) — We prayed for a job and then confessed his sins and once again accepted Jesus as Lord and Savior and accepted God's forgiveness. We also prayed for a wife for him and that he would not make any more "mistakes" about the women he goes out with.
+Thomas — He asked prayer for his daughter Zayana who is 8 months old and has been sick at least half of that time. He said, "It is getting over-whelming." We prayed he would know how to be the man and the father God is calling him to be.
+Joe — We prayed for him and his girlfriend for good health. He has a job interview this week.
+H Darius — He asked prayer for a new beginning and gave his life to Jesus.
+Christopher — He asked prayer for peace and for a friend who just died.
+HH Gary — He asked prayer for a renewed relationship with his sons.
Joseph — for his daughter Evea
+Christopher — He asked prayer for relaxation. He then gave his burdens to Jesus.
++Eric — He asked prayer for health for him and his family.
Desdemona — She was on her way to the Macedonia 7th Day Adventist Church on Swan St. with her adult son +Louis who goes to a "Sunday" church in New York City. We prayed for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit on Macedonia and on Christ Church.
++Ethel — She asked prayer for her fianceé and for peace.
+Dale — He asked prayer for his 5 grandchildren.


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John Abraham takes up cause of tiger conservation
Panaji, Nov 27 (PTI) Bollywood heartthrob John Abraham has joined hands with three-time Green Oscar winning filmmaker Mike Pandey to produce a feature length documentary about the plight of tigers in the country.
"It's a fiction on a tigress and her three cubs which deals with the current scenario of haphazard forest management," Arjun Pandey, promoter of the film, told PTI.
The Bollywood actor will be financing 30 per cent of the production cost and the filmmakers are looking for investments from other sources also. "The documentary is budgeted at Rs 8 crore," Pandey, here for the International Film Festival of India (IFFI), said today.
The film is expected to kick off a national 'Save the Tiger Campaign' in the country, which houses half of the global tiger population, he said.
"The world has about 2,500 tigers left and half of them are in India.
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Ananda is a global movement based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda, who showed how everyone can realize God in their daily lives as a tangible, loving reality.
Founded in 1969 by Yogananda's direct disciple, Swami Kriyananda, who passed away in 2013, Ananda's primary goal is to help people achieve Self realization. To assist in attaining this goal, Ananda has created communities and centers welcoming all sincere seekers, regardless of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, or disability. We are committed to providing an inclusive and openhearted environment for everyone to pursue their search for God.
Swami Kriyananda's spiritual successor, Nayaswami Jyotish who, along with his wife Nayaswami Devi, continues to serve and uphold Kriyananda's ideal that Ananda exists to help people grow spiritually. Whether you are seeking more peace in your life, or a deeper connection with God, Ananda offers support and friendship for your spiritual journey. The emphasis is on the individual quest for Self-realization, the unifying reality behind all spiritual traditions. The basis of this teaching is universal. It is a state of mind: the consciousness of inner joy. It is a growing awareness of the presence of God, touching every aspect of our lives.
The teachings at Ananda encompass both Western and Eastern spiritual traditions, particularly the ancient, scientific practice of Raja Yoga from India and the original, mystical teachings of Christ, brought to America in the early 1920s by Paramhansa Yogananda, author of the spiritual classic, Autobiography of a Yogi.
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Date: Jan 3, 2020
Location: Woodcliff Lake, NJ, US
Company: Kiewit
Requisition ID: 84980
Kiewit Engineering Group, Inc is a full-service consulting and engineering firm serving the infrastructure and engineering markets. Our combined staff of more than 1,300 engineers and design professionals have expertise that spans all major engineering disciplines to serve transportation, power, water/wastewater, mining, building, and oil, gas & chemical markets. Backed by 130 years of construction experience, our construction-driven engineering focuses on constructability and safety in the earliest phases of projects to ensure on-time and on-budget project delivery.
Our rapidly growing Infrastructure Design Department, which includes structural, geotechnical, civil, drainage, roadway, transit, and materials disciplines, is a multi-faceted and leading-edge division of Kiewit with best-in-class technical expertise focused on the design-build delivery of infrastructure projects.
We are an innovative team of design engineers that supports projects throughout the company. Our staff leads and collaborates with Kiewit's construction teams to approach construction-driven engineering with a focus on safe, cost effective, and innovative designs that achieve client expectations and further Kiewit's legacy of excellence.
On our team, you'll have the opportunity to see more, touch more, and do more than you ever imagined. Working hard will not only bring you satisfaction from a job well done, but it will help propel your career forward faster than you might expect. Kiewit's culture encourages training, developing your skills, and tailoring your experience and knowledge to allow you to take on projects that impact millions across North America. With top-notch health benefits, a wealth-building 401k plan, and unbeatable growth opportunities, by joining Kiewit, you're ensuring a lifetime of success.
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Kiewit Infrastructure Engineers is seeking a Mid-Level or Senior Level Structural Design Engineer for our Construction Engineering Services (CES) in the Woodcliff Lake, NJ office. The ideal candidate will be a part of a growing team that supports all aspects of the construction process by performing innovative design engineering through brainstorming conceptual designs, performing and/or reviewing structural calculations, developing plans, scheduling tasks to meet client needs, as well as mitigating risk to keep our construction crews safe. The Structural Design Engineer should have at least 5 years' experience in engineering plan production, be technically advanced and familiar with current technical tools/programs/software, and relevant structural codes and construction industry standards.
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The first time St. Pat's snuck up on me was back in two thousand and three. I was sleepily arriving at my day job, I was a web programmer back in those days, and expected another day of coding and testing, nothing more. The lamp posts were still lit in the dim, early morning light and nary could a noise be heard. It was just your average, monotonous, achingly boring Monday. Or so I thought.
Then something caught my eye as I turned the key of the office door. I looked over my right shoulder just in time to watch a three-hundred-pound man across the street vomit (loudly) into a garbage can. Nothing like a good whiff of puke to get you off and running in the morning.
I scrambled inside, half horrified, half afraid, half grossed-out (yes, I know that makes 3 halves - I was very distraught, you see). I bolted the door and watched through the blinds as the mystery hurler spewed several more liters before being carried away by two other intoxicated buddies.
Little did I know, this was a common occurrence in my college town. Saint Patrick's was not just a day to celebrate the British Priest who taught the Irish about the holy trinity, nor to recognize the injustices suffered by Irish immigrants in America during colonial times. (What?? Even I read Wikipedia sometimes). In Wisconsin, Saint Patrick's Day was to celebrate the holy addition of GREEN BEER, stupid little top hats and "Kiss me I'm Irish" t-shirts to our lives, and praise their jovial ways.
T'is not so here. Everyone is sober. It feels wrong that the French are wasting this opportunity to uncork. I'm missing my Bday-girl in the states, and the drunken crowds in the streets this Wednesday. I took the simple charm of drunk college kids for granted when it was just a part of my day. Au revoir green dyed beer. Adieu Patty-Parties and lime jell-o shots. You shall be missed.


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In cattle farming, reputation is everything. And in the late 1970s, Kentucky cattle were rapidly becoming the Chevy Corvairs of the national beef industry.
The problem? Calves sent from Kentucky farms to western feedlots were too often sick or dying before harvest. Kentucky needed a solution – fast.
Officials and farmers came up with the Certified Pre-Conditioned for Health (45) program, which better prepares calves for back grounding or feedlots.
Thirty-three years later, the CPH45 blue tag in the center of a cow's right ear means not only that the animal is healthy, but that it is likely to command a higher price at sales.
"I think it has really helped the industry," says Preston Seals, a Berea farmer with around 60 cows certified through CPH45. "I hear a lot of people at the feedlots make comments that they like to see those blue tags coming in."
Without CPH45, calves are often sold "green," meaning they are sent to a buyer immediately after being weaned. They go to a feedlot having only had food from their mothers and water from ponds. When they get to a lot, they're stressed from being away from their mothers and traveling long distances and are exposed to countless new animals that could harbor new diseases. They're also offered food from bunks and water from automatic waterers for the first time, and the animals are typically dangerously slow to adapt.
With CPH45 certification, farmers are required to hold on to the calves for 45-60 days (the average is 50) after weaning. Cows are vaccinated and trained to eat bunk feed and drink from automatic waterers. They are also castrated, dehorned, dewormed and get a steady diet of important minerals. The cattle still go through some stress. But after two weeks or so separated from the mother, they're usually able to adapt.
"This program is a little bit different from some; some just give them a round of shots," says Roy Burris, extension beef specialist and an extension professor for animal sciences at the University of Kentucky. "This program is meant to do everything we possibly can to improve their chances in a feedlot."
All that added preparation can mean some nice black numbers on balance sheets. In a good year, a CPH45 farmer can add $50 to $100 in value to a typical calf.
For Seals, who keeps 50 or 60 cows, that can mean as much as $6,000.
"That's real money," Seals says. "And that's money that you would have left on the table."
The program especially adds value for small farmers who can't command the higher prices that large lots of cattle get at market. Kentucky officials started offering a marketing component that allows CPH45 cattle to be grouped together at sales. Cows from several CPH45 farmers can be grouped together for buyers who will pay a premium for large lots.
There's always some risk after putting in more work and money that beef prices will fall at the end of 45 days. But in 33 years, Burris says CPH45 farmers have come out behind only three times, usually because of some kind of national problem such as a bovine spongiform encephalopathy scare.
"Three years that have lost money out of 33 years," Burris says. "That's a pretty good track record."
Those odds feel good to Troy Ellis, a CPH45 farmer in Hadley, who keeps about 120 cows. He estimates that after extra feed and materials, he brings in $100-$150 and profits $50-$100 per calf. He said he's only come out behind in two out of the last 10 years.
"That's pretty good on any farming project," Ellis says.
Ellis suspects that standards similar to CPH45 will become more rule than exception. More and more buyers and consumers are going to want products from conditioned, well-treated cattle.
Seals feels the same way. He said he doesn't just participate because of the added value per calf.
"I'm trying to furnish the food service industry out there with a good product," Seals says. "I'm putting good beef out there for the consumer. I think I can almost guarantee that the beef that comes off my farm is healthy and clean and about the best you can find."


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In the headlines today, a 'family friendly' Queen's speech (ITV) is being promised. The government says there is plenty they want to do to help alleviate some of the pressure we're all feeling right now. And yet this report from HR magazine paints a picture with a totally different brush. So does the Queen really intend to announce a reduction of maternity leave to jsut 18 weeks? Is this really a family friendly proposal?
Kylie is blogging about this today over at Not even a bag of sugar. Her son was born premature at just 27 weeks gestation and as a new mother, she faced weeks and weeks of extended travelling to and from the hospital every day. With just 18 weeks maternity leave, she would not have been able to form essential bonds with her son. In today's blog post she writes:
"I would have used 13 weeks leave before my baby was even due, leaving just 5 weeks left. When my son was 5 weeks corrected he wasn't even 7lb. He was still frail."
So the government want women like Kylie to leave their babies when they need them most?
What would this mean for mums who did see their pregnancies through to the end? Ghostwritermummy was created as an outlet after the traumatic birth of my son, who was born at 41 weeks and two days. He was born blue, limp and lifeless. When he was plucked from my body I was asleep. He was alone.
I spent the first weeks of his life moving through the days in a murky bubble. I couldn't believe, at first, that he was even my baby. I had missed his birth. I hadn't heard those first cries or felt his little body against mine. My arms were dead when they placed him in them and my eyes were blurred when I tried to see him. I struggled, and I mean struggled to love him.
When my son was around eight months old, I ventured out to seek help. That's around 34 weeks after his birth. But my maternity leave had started four weeks before his due date, 5 weeks before he was actually born. With proposed new maternity leave, I would be returning to work when my son was 13 weeks old. Where was I when my son was 13 weeks old?
I was not a mother to him. I was a mess.
My son's health also suffered. At the age of 13 weeks he was referred to a specialist at the hospital, and today- two years on- we are about to attend another appointment for him. At the age of 13 weeks, my son was sleeping for no more than 40 minutes at a time. In between, he was crying, and so was I. My son and I were strangers.
Imagine if I had gone back to work then? How would I teach a room full of children when I was barely able to hold my own baby without an ocean of emotions washing over me again and again and again and again and again? Where would my son and I be now? What would our relationship be like now?
Kylie ends her post today with a statement about her anger. How it wasn't her fault her baby was born prematurely. How the proposed changes would mean she is forced to miss out on so much of her precious son's life. I have to echo these feelings. It wasn't my fault my son was born the way he was (at least, today I don't think it was…but that's another blog post). I am angry that women like me could be forced back to work at a time when they are so vulnerable and so frightened. That is NOT good for the family.
Today, I still live with the knowledge that I owe so much to my son. With a new baby in the family, lots has changed but so much still remains. I missed the most important days of my son's life. I will never get those days back again and I refuse to let the government take them away too. And for women, like me now, who delivered their babies healthily and happily? Would I be happy returning to work in a few weeks time? No way. My daughter needs me. Breastfeeding aside, she is TOO YOUNG to be left whilst I go back to work. As Kylie ends her letter to the minister:
"This isn't the last you will hear from me"
and you know what? It's not the last he'll hear from me, either.


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It's quite a thing of shame that this story of a snake swallowing some beautiful amount of #36 million naira from Jamb office that if given to me right now would do some unbelievable things in my life right now like starting off my dream business, going to my dream school amd chasing y dream course, getting a decent apartment away from Ibafo, somewhere probably at Ikeja axis yet they tell me a snake, ordinary reptile swallowed that money...
Few questions to ponder upon
1. What and why was such an amount doing at jamb office??
2. How did the snake get there???
3. In what was the money put into??
4. Isn't there surveillance camera at jamb office?
5. What next or the way forward??
Let's be real guys, I think it's high time we stand up for our rights and also build a better Nigeria for ourselves cause if it was a rat that chased BUHARI out of his office the last time, and now Snakes, I wonder what next, probably Roaches eating off our ballot box as my cousin said...
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ISAAC THE ALCHEMIST by Mary Losure takes a fascinating look into the life of Isaac Newton.
This work of narrative nonfiction immerses readers in the life of a boy living in an apothecary's house. Readers will be particularly intrigued by the connections between magic and science during Isaac's time period. The book concludes with information about Isaac's notebooks, science, and additional sources.
Librarians will find this well-written biography to be popular with both children who enjoy narrative nonfiction as well as those simply looking for good report material. The short chapters, discussions of magic and science, and interesting primary source visuals will appeal to reluctant readers. Look for this title on "best of children's nonfiction" lists for 2017.
Published by Candlewick on February 1, 2017. ARC courtesy of the publisher.


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Parental Rights and the Public Schools
...there is no fundamental right of parents to be the exclusive provider of information regarding sexual matters to their children, either independent of their right to direct the upbringing and education of their children or encompassed by it. We also hold that parents have no due process or privacy right to override the determinations of public schools as to the information to which their children will be exposed while enrolled as students. Finally, we hold that the defendants' actions were rationally related to a legitimate state purpose....In summary, we hold that there is no free-standing fundamental right of parents "to control the upbringing of their children by introducing them to matters of and relating to sex in accordance with their personal and religious values and beliefs" and that the asserted right is not encompassed by any other fundamental right. In doing so, we do not quarrel with the parents' right to inform and advise their children about the subject of sex as they see fit. We conclude only that the parents are possessed of no constitutional right to prevent the public schools from providing information on that subject to their students in any forum or manner they select.Additionally, I found these paragraphs disturbing:
Although the parents are legitimately concerned with the subject of sexuality, there is no constitutional reason to distinguish that concern from any of the countless moral, religious, or philosophical objections that parents might have to other decisions of the School District -- whether those objections regard information concerning guns, violence, the military, gay marriage, racial equality, slavery, the dissection of animals, or the teaching of scientifically-validated theories of the origins of life. Schools cannot be expected to accommodate the personal, moral or religious concerns of every parent. Such an obligation would not only contravene the educational mission of the public schools, but also would be impossible to satisfy.The main problem that I see here is that the 9th Circuit Court decided to not only rule against the parents in this situation, but to take the opportunity to set forth a precedent that states that parents have absolutely no right to be the exclusive provider of education regarding any subject that the state feels should be included in their curriculum (notice the subjects open to public educational curriculum in the above paragraph include "guns", "gay marriage" and evolution). This clears the way for the state to include any type of educational training in their curriculum without informing the parents of their intent. How did I arrive at that conclusion? Remember that this case was about the withholding of information to parents regarding questions of a sexual nature that would be asked to their children participating in a study aimed at "establish[ing] a community baseline measure of children's exposure to early trauma (for example, violence)." The problem the parents had was that while they were consented on the goals of the study, they were not given the details regarding what types of questions would be asked, several of which were of a sexual nature. So, what we have here is a court ruling that paves the way for school districts to teach whatever they desire to our children, without consulting parents or even giving them a heads-up in regards to the curriculum. Could this mean that even religiously informed views like those regarding same sex relationships could be usurped by the school systems? Where are the advocates of religious freedom on this one? Shouldn't Americans United For Separation of Church and State be up in arms? Is it still any surprise that Christians who are serious about giving their children an open-minded education no longer want to send them to public schools? And to think, the most controversial topic we discussed in high school was evolution, which our parents knew full well we were being taught. There is no telling to what a precedent like this could be applied.
As the First Circuit made clear in Brown, once parents make the choice as to which school their children will attend, 15074 FIELDS v.PALMDALE SCHOOL DIST. their fundamental right to control the education of their children is, at the least, substantially diminished. The constitution does not vest parents with the authority to interfere with a public school's decision as to how it will provide information to its students or what information it will provide, in its classrooms or otherwise.


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Navy Shadow Dodging & Defense Drill
This is a great drill we saw Navy running before their playoff game this weekend. It's a simple, effective way to get all your players ready to move their feet on Offense and Defense for game time!
This is a great drill we saw Navy running before their playoff game this weekend. It's a simple, effective way to get all your players ready to move their feet on Offense and Defense for game time!
Use this simple Speed, Agility and Quickness Drill with your lacrosse players to develop athleticism plus get some conditioning work done at the beginning of practice!
We saw this super simple Speed, Agility and Quickness (SAQ) drill at MLL training camp last year. You can work on dodging, change of speed and direction, and conditioning all at the same time in just 5-10 minutes at the beginning or end of practice!
This is a classic drill that many coaches use in practice and pregame warm ups to get their Defenders' feet and sticks moving, ready to play good 1-on-1 Defense, and also to pick up loose balls and move them down the field right away.
Defensive footwork is one thing coaches and players overlook in practice all the time. Use this quick and easy drill to teach your players how to "Approach"- get out to guard the ball quickly, then back in to help cover the middle in settled and unsettled situations. Plus get some Speed, Agility & Quickness work done at the same time!
Want to show up for the 2016 lacrosse season in peak physical shape, ready to make a statement at tryouts? Use these 5 simple measurements used by college coaches to judge your overall physical fitness and see how you measure up to your teammates!
Use this simple game of tag at the beginning of practice to do a little conditioning work. We use this game at all our camps to get the kids moving, get the blood flowing, and get a little bit of competition going. Even top college teams use this game during their Preseason conditioning.
Lacrosse is all about speed, change of speed and direction, and recovery time. Lacrosse players need to be explosive, fast, and able to recover quickly. Get your conditioning done in practice in just four minutes with Tabata sprints. You can even have your players carry a ball so they can work on dodging, cradling and field vision while they do it.
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Halloween may be over, but if you didn't get your fill of scares, I've got the perfect activity for you: reading through 1,401 pages of pure Medicare gobbledygook. Screaming yet? (Or should I check back at around page 500?) I kid, of course; there's no need for you to slog through this year's extra meaty Final Rule—which details the Medicare fee schedule and other important Medicare regulatory and reimbursement changes for physical therapy, occupational therapy, and speech-language pathology—because we've done all the slogging for you. (That way, you can save your appetite for a nice, tender slice of turkey—Thanksgiving is right around the corner, after all.) Here's what PTs, OTs, and SLPs need to know about the 2017 Final Rule:
The new CPT codes for PT and OT evaluations and re-evaluations are officially a "go."
As we previously explained here, the new set of evaluative codes for physical and occupational therapists replaces the following codes:
- 97001
- 97002
- 97003
- 97004
PTs and OTs must code for evaluation complexity in 2017.
A set of six codes (three for PTs and three for OTs) will replace 97001 and 97003. Why three codes in place of one? Because the new evaluation CPT codes require PTs and OTs to code for the complexity of each patient evaluation, and there are three possible levels of complexity:
- Low
- Moderate
- High
Additionally, there will be two new codes to replace 97002 and 97004. (For a full list of all of the new codes—along with detailed descriptions of each—head to this blog post.)
But, they will not receive higher payments for more complex evals.
Not surprisingly, CMS did not divert from its proposal to apply the same valuation to all three codes (despite the fact that the codes were originally intended to have stratified values in accordance with increasing complexity). While, as we previously reported here, that doesn't sit particularly well with a large portion of the therapy community, CMS reiterated its numerous concerns with adopting differential payments based on therapists' coding decisions. Specifically, the authors of the Rule pointed out that:
- Uncertainty around the utilization distribution of the three types of evaluations "make it difficult for us evaluate the HCPAC's recommended values or to predict with a high degree of certainty whether physical and occupational therapists will actually bill for these services at the same rate forecast by their respective specialty societies." (In other words, it would be nearly impossible for CMS to budget appropriately.)
- Offering higher payments for higher-complexity evaluations could incentivize upcoding (i.e., therapists may characterize some evaluations as more complex than they actually are in order to obtain higher levels of reimbursement).
- CMS felt that before therapists received differential payments based on complexity, they needed more time to "gain familiarity and expertise in the differential coding of the new PT and OT evaluation codes that now include the typical face-to-face times and new required components that are not enumerated in the current codes."
There will be no change to the RVUs for PT and OT evaluation codes.
The current work RVU for both 97001 and 97003 is 1.20, and CMS finalized its decision to maintain that RVU for all six of the new evaluation CPT codes, offering this explanation: "We proposed this work RVU because we believed it best represents the typical PT and OT evaluation…Additionally, a work RVU of 1.20 is the longstanding value for the current evaluation codes, CPT codes 97001 and 97003, and thus, assures work neutrality without reliance on particular assumptions about utilization, which we believed was the intent of the HCPAC recommendation."
However, the RVUs for the PT and OT re-evaluation codes are higher than originally proposed.
Many people who submitted comments on the Proposed Rule urged CMS to reconsider its valuation of the re-evaluation codes in accordance with significant changes "in practice…for the work of physical and occupational therapists." After reviewing input from those commenters and further researching their arguments, CMS decided to assign the codes for both PT and OT evaluations "a work RVU of 0.75—the HCPAC-recommended work RVU for the PT re-evaluation and the PT low complexity evaluation."
Furthermore, CMS included a paragraph reminding therapists to review the criteria for appropriate use of re-valuation codes, noting that "to be separately payable, the re-evaluation requires a significant change in the patient's condition or functional status that was not anticipated in the plan of care." (For a more detailed explanation of when it is appropriate to bill for a re-evaluation, check out this blog post.)
PTs and OTs are off the hook for proposed documentation changes related to the new codes.
Several commenters also requested that CMS either:
- delay the implementation of the new codes entirely—most requested a delay of one year—to allow providers, coders, and billers ample time to practice, or
- delay the enforcement of new documentation requirements related to the new codes.
While CMS has decided to move forward with its plan to implement the codes in 2017, it did agree to "delay changes to our current manual instructions for documentation for evaluations and re-evaluations in the Medicare Benefits Policy Manual (MBPM), chapter 15, section 220.3."
The new codes are considered "always therapy" codes.
This means that regardless of what type of provider performs the services, the codes must be submitted with a therapy modifier—either GP or GO—to signify that the services were "furnished under a PT or OT plan of care, respectively." It also means any related charges are subject to MPPR and the therapy cap.
The misvalued codes saga will continue in 2017.
Several years ago, CMS announced that it had begun work on an initiative aimed at identifying and investigating potential misvalued codes—specifically, a list of 10 rehab therapy codes that may require valuation revisions. This year, the news on the misvalued codes is, essentially, that there is no news. Per the Final Rule: "While we understand that, in some cases, it may take several years to develop appropriate coding revisions, we are, in the meantime, seeking information regarding appropriate valuation for the existing codes…We will include a valuation discussion during CY 2018 rulemaking of those codes for which we receive RUC recommendations by/at its February 2017 meeting."
Curious as to which codes are on that list? Head to page 620 of the Final Rule and check out Table 24.
The Therapy Cap will increase—slightly.
As in previous years, CMS has bumped up the cap amount by a small margin. For 2017, the cap is $1,980 for occupational therapy services and $1,980 for physical therapy and speech-language therapy services combined. Additionally, the Rule extends the therapy cap exceptions process through December 31, 2017.
The manual medical review process has changed.
CMS also extended the manual medical review process—which affects claims submitted above the $3,700 threshold—through December 31, 2017, albeit in a slightly different format, per the recent MACRA ruling. As CMS explains, in contrast to previous years, "not all claims exceeding the therapy thresholds are subject to a manual medical review process as they were before. Instead…we are [now] permitted to do a more targeted medical review on these claims using factors specified in section 1833(g)(5)(E)(ii) of the Act as amended by section 202(b) of the MACRA, including targeting those therapy providers with a high claims denial rate for therapy services or with aberrant billing practices compared to their peers."
There's still no clarity around how—or if—rehab therapists can continue to report PQRS data.
As we reported last month, CMS indicated in its recent MACRA ruling that it will "allow non-eligible providers to participate in MIPS on a voluntary basis during the 2017 and 2018 reporting years." While we hoped the 2017 Final Rule would provide details on the logistics of that voluntary participation, CMS instead dismissed the subject as "out of scope for this final rule"—though the agency did acknowledge receiving requests for guidance regarding the quality-data reporting future "for EPs, such as rehabilitation therapists, who are currently subject to PQRS, but will not be subject to MIPS until 2021 at the earliest."
Changes to the physician fee schedule positively impact rehab therapists.
Compared to the 2016 fee schedule, the 2017 fee schedule will result in a very small—as in 1%—positive impact on total allowable charges. It's not much, but every bit helps, right?
Whew—that's a lot of juicy regulatory goodness, amirite? Now, before you slip into a food—er, Medicare policy—coma, be sure to register for our free December 15 webinar with guest co-host Rick Gawenda of Gawenda Seminars. He—along with WebPT President and Co-Founder Heidi Jannenga—will provide a detailed tutorial on how to use the new CPT codes as well as a review of other therapy-pertinent components of the Final Rule. See you online!
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|Tropical and sidereal
One technical difference often cited as a major divide between traditional western and Indian astrology is the choice of the tropical and sidereal zodiac, respectively. The zodiac is a belt extending some 9° to either side of the circle of the ecliptic and divided into twelve equal parts. These twelve parts or signs get their names from twelve actual constellations found along the zodiac, although the signs are not identical with the constellations (which are unequal in size).
In the earliest definitions of the twelve-sign zodiac, found in Mesopotamia in the 5th century BCE, the zodiac is fixed in relation to the constellations. In other words it is sidereal, or 'derived from the stars'. In this zodiac, the position of the Sun at the time of the vernal equinox (around 21 March each year) was defined in one system as 10° Aries (the first sign), and in another as 8° Aries. Although the Babylonians did not know it, in a fixed or sidereal zodiac, the solstice and equinox points – which mark the seasons of the year – regress slowly through the twelve signs, completing a full circle in some 26,000 years (a phenomenon known as precession).
The early Greek-speaking astrologers continued to use a fixed zodiac, and after Greek astrology was transmitted to India in the first centuries of the Common Era, so did Indian astrologers – a practice which continues to the present day. In the 2nd century CE, however, Claudius Ptolemy as the first astrological author (following the astronomer Hipparchus some three centuries earlier) argued that the Sun's position at the vernal equinox should be used to define the beginning of the zodiac, or 0° Aries. This definition constitutes the tropical or moving zodiac, which is fixed in relation to the seasons but has the constellations slowly progressing through the signs.
Ptolemy's reform was part of his striving to make astrology conform to the science of his time by anchoring it firmly to seasonal changes and the fourfold qualities of hot, cold, moist and dry. In so doing, he formulated definitions which are in fact applicable only to the northern hemisphere and thereby make astrology less universal. The Sun's passage through Cancer and Leo may mark the hottest season of the year around the Mediterranean, but this is simultaneously the coldest season in New Zealand; and in areas close to the equator, there are no seasons at all in Ptolemy's sense.
The difference was of little practical consequence in Ptolemy's day, when the equinox point was in fact approaching the beginning of Aries in the fixed zodiac; but today the two definitions have grown around 25° apart (depending on which star or stars are used exactly to define the sidereal zodiac), so that the tropical signs are now almost wholly out of alignment with the constellations after which they were originally named.
The tropical zodiac was not an immediate success. For several centuries after Ptolemy, the fixed or sidereal zodiac continued in use; and there is even evidence of Arabic authors in the 8th–9th centuries using tropical and sidereal tables side by side to calculate planetary positions – for one and the same chart! The simple fact is that authors of earlier times were not always aware of precession, and often defined the zodiacal signs simultaneously in relation to the fixed constellations and in relation to the seasons. Eventually, however, Ptolemy's tables, calculated in the tropical zodiac, became the standard outside of India; and by the time Arabic astrology was adopted by the Latin west in the 11th–12th centuries, the memory of the sidereal zodiac had faded away – although perhaps not completely.
As late as 1573, Francesco Giuntini (known in Latin as Junctinus) in his Speculum Astrologiae advocated the use of sidereal positions in annual revolutions, ascribing the idea, ironically enough, to Ptolemy:
My personal preference is for a fixed or sidereal zodiac, which (like Giuntini) I find both more theoretically valid and more useful in practice. If employing such an 'Indian' zodiac with astrological techniques known today as 'western' seems strangely eclectic or untraditional to some, it would not have appeared so in Baghdad or Saurashtra a millennium ago, nor in Alexandria a millennium before that.


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AASDD As a service Driven Development. Everything is as a service these days. IaaS PaaS SaaS etc… As a service Driven Development is Software Development as a Service as a Service Driven Development.
ASD Agile Software Development. Hire good people and trust that they know what they're doing. Embrace change. Don't get too obsessed with documentation. Experiment with better ways of doing stuff. Stand around whiteboards a lot. Invest heavily in nerf based weaponry. (Ok, I paraphrase. See disclaimer below. Hold off the hounds please.)
ADD Accounting Driven Development. Development guided or forced in a certain way by internal company cash flow constraints. See also Tax Driven Development.
ADD Alcohol Driven Development. Coding under the influence. Also see Alcohol Driven Deployment.
ADD Alcohol Driven Deployment. Ops guy says, "It's OK to deploy this code drunk. The developers were obviously drunk when they wrote it."
BDD Behavior Driven Development. BDD was coined in 2003 by Dan North in response to the shortcomings of TDD. Its use features clarity through natural language tests and involving stakeholders. Duh!
BDD Beer Driven Development. See Alcohol Driven Development.
BDD Bug Driven Development. Development of programs by fixing bugs. If a program has a lot of bugs, the development can be "switched" to bug-driven development. (via urban-dictionary)
CASE Computer Aided Software Engineering. Do you remember the nineties? Nirvana, OS/2, Pulp Fiction. CASE was so hot back then.
CDD Cloud Driven Development. You must use the cloud to be cool.
CDD Coolness Driven Development. Writing cool code to be cool is so cool. Cool code in the cloud is even cooler.
CDD Caffeine Driven Development. Is there another kind?!?
CDD Community Driven Development. 10 tips of user driven development. Give people what they want.
DDD Driver Driven Development. Coding in the car. Highly illegal. Not to mention dangerous.
DDD Documentation Driven Development. Also see, Readme Driven Development.
EDD Ego Driven Development. a.k.a Asshole Driven Development. When the biggest shit on the team gets their way.
FDD Feature Driven Development. Developed by Jeff De Luca in 1997 and written about in 1999. Go read about Agile, then go read about Waterfall. Feature Driven Development is somewhere in between.
FDD Failure Driven Development. Basically. You suck.
- Develop
- Fail
- Repeat
FDD Facebook Driven Development. See Google Driven Development.
FDD Faith Driven Development. "I believe this code works."
GDD Google Driven Development. Coding in the hope that your startup will be bought by Google.
H&CDD Horse and Cart Driven Development. Development done in nearly dead languages. E.g. COBOL, Fortran, Basic, Pascal
HDD Hate Driven Development. It's when you come to hate working on something so much that it inspires a surge of productivity that leads to completion Hate Driven Development Coined by rafeco in 2009. Also rediscovered by others
HDD Hammock Driven Development. Rich Hickey who created Clojure talks about Software development, problem solving, really thinking about what you're doing, using the background processing capabilities of your brain Hammock Driven Development
IDD Insult Driven Development. Code littered with expletives.
JDD Jenga Driven Development. JDD Developing against a codebase that is so complex and fragile that any change is dangerous.
MDD Metrics Driven Development. The Etsy team know how to do good stuff. Learn from them you can. Respect. Metrics Driven Engineering at Etsy Slides by Mike Brittain
MDD Manifesto Driven Development. Blindly following the [insert favorite] software development methodology to the letter.
PDD Procrastination Driven Development. Coming soon…
PDD Palace Driven Development. A great fable about CSC. Catastrophic Scope Creep.
PMDD Project Manager Driven Development. See Failure Driven Development. 🙂
RD Recursive Development. See Recursive Development.
RDD Readme Driven Development. Lightweight implementation of Documentation Driven Development.
RBD Resume Building Development. Picking shiny new technologies just to build experience rather than for any discernible business reason.
SDD Sleep Driven Development. Also known as Sheep Driven Development and Subconscious Driven Development. In essence, in the last 5 minutes before you go to sleep, think about a problem you're working on. Let your brain chew on it overnight and with a bit of luck the inspiration will come to you the next morning. Or sometimes at 4am. Write it down.
SSDDD SSD Driven Development. Stop wasting your life. Buy a Fucking SSD. Wise words from Artur Bergman
TDD Troll Driven Development. This is in reference to code written so poorly, that I have to imagine it was written as a joke or with the intention of provoking others. (Dan Martin)
TDD Tax Driven Development. Making technical decisions for taxation based reasons, not technical ones. Offshoring, Outsourcing, Third-World Driven Development is closely related. See also Accounting Driven Development.
TDD Test Driven Development. TDD was written about by Kent Beck in 2002
- Write a (failing) test.
- Write some code that makes the test pass.
- Refactor and improve the code.
- Repeat.
UDD User Driven Development. See Community Driven Development.
WM Waterfall Model. Go read about Agile. Now… don't do that.
No offense to anyone is intended. (Except perhaps to Project Managers, and even that isn't real. Love your work PMs…)
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Kyra Bussanich of Kyra's Bake Shop joined to me to make my FAVORITE one of her treats: Hazelnut Gluten-Free Financiers with Dark Chocolate Ganache.
Mildly sweet and nutty, these little bites are the perfect segue into fall, and the showstopper dessert on your holiday table. Serve them with a dollop of dark chocolate ganache (or use chocolate-hazelnut spread, it's a simple cheat that's way delish) for a decadent treat!
Don't let the fancy name scare you – it's really like making incredibly delicious muffins with filling. But they are SO. MUCH. BETTER. Kyra makes all kinds of treats – I've been known to hide her GF ding dongs from my kid – but if she's making something just for me, she knows these gluten-free financiers are what I'll ask for.
Hazelnut Gluten-Free Financiers with Dark Chocolate Ganache recipe, courtesy Kyra Bussanich, 4X Cupcake Wars winner + my soul sister
Gluten-Free Financiers With Chocolate Ganache
for the Dark Chocolate Ganache:
- 2/3 cup dark chocolate
- 2/3 cup heavy cream
for the Financier batter:
- ¾ cup butter
- 3 Tablespoons of butter, melted
- 1 ½ cups ground hazelnut meal
- 1 ½ cups powdered sugar
- ¼ cup potato starch
- ¼ cup tapioca starch
- 1 teaspoon salt
- egg whites from 5 large eggs
Dark Chocolate Ganache
- Place the dark chocolate pieces in a glass or metal bowl. In a small sauce pot, scald the cream until the edges of the pot are just starting to bubble. Do not boil! Pour over the chocolate and let sit for a moment, to melt the chocolate. Stir slowly to incorporate the cream and chocolate together. It should start to thicken up as the chocolate gets melted completely and incorporated into the cream. Set in the fridge to chill and thicken even more. You are aiming for the consistency of peanut butter. Meanwhile, make the financiers.
Financier batter
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit. In a small pot, heat the ¾ cup of butter over medium-high heat, occasionally swirling the pan until the butter begins to bubble and turn brown. Set aside to cool.
- Using a pastry brush, spread the 3 tablespoons of melted butter into 30 cavities of the mini muffin tins. Set aside.
- Whisk together the hazelnut meal, powdered sugar, potato starch, tapioca starch and salt. Add the egg whites and whisk to combine. While whisking vigorously, pour the browned butter into the batter and blend to a uniform texture. Using a small food scoop, fill each of the prepared muffin cavities 2/3 full. Bake 4 minutes to begin to set the financiers. While the little cakes are baking, fill a small pastry bag with chilled chocolate ganache. Pull the cakes from the oven, squeeze a small dollop of ganache into the center of each cake, and return the cakes to the oven. Drop the oven temperature to 350 degrees and finish baking until lightly golden brown and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, about 8-10 minutes.
- Remove onto cooling racks and let cool at least 10 minutes before you eat them (so the ganache doesn't burn your mouth!). Enjoy!