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The sexiest drone in its line: that's how DJI bills its new release, the DJI Phantom 4. And I'm not here to doubt that. I'm just asking if sexy is the best quality for a drone. Pamela Anderson's character on Baywatch may have been a sexy lifeguard, but did she know CPR?
The big draw of the Phantom 4 is its many automated processes that make it accessible to less- experienced users. Given the responsibilities of operating drones, coupled with a reticence on the part of the public and of regulators, is this such a great idea?
How Phantom 4 Flies Itself
So, how does all this automation work? Well, first, Phantom 4 has much better visualization capabilities than previous camera drones. It goes well beyond GPS, with, in addition to its main camera, front-facing optical sensors.
These are what allow the Phantom 4 to "see" obstacles and to automatically veer around them. With this wrinkle, a user can get close-up photos of blue jays, capture exhilarating video zipping between trees or skimming above the roof of an abandoned building.
But it goes way beyond that. Another key feature, TapFly mode makes things much less technical and makes the user much less of a pilot-by-proxy. In TapFly, the operator goes to his tablet, phone, etc., simply taps the screen, and thus sends the 4 humming in a particular direction. If the tap sends it straight at a wall, and all goes as planned, it will screech to a halt.
Great for Beginners: Great?
Now, my concerns over this automation don't center around how well they work. Some obstacles, it may not process as such, and it may not always have time to stop in front of an obstacle it can't veer around. But let's leave those issues aside for a moment and accept that whoever wants to own the 4 can deal with these issues.
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The problem is the "beginners" concept. Making flying easier and attracting users who haven't learned to actually pilot the drone is dangerous. Here's what some novice drone operators don't know: it all happens a lot faster than you think.
This is particularly true when you are just tapping a screen, sending the drone, perhaps, a lot farther than you realize. Keep in mind that the Phantom 4 includes a "sport mode," in which it can race at up to 45 mph and rise at as much as 20 feet per second. Also, the Obstacle Sensing System does not work in this mode, so if a user is in this mode (perhaps without even knowing it), there could be big trouble.
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A Los Angeles Times writer, Mariel Garza, decided to test out a drone without the proper training and reports that she lost control "Within seconds." She writes, "I had no idea how far it could fly once it left my vicinity." Garza's drone slammed into a line of trees and fell a few days later due to high winds.
But she made this flight in a residential area, so it would've been as likely for the plane to eventually make a dent in someone's home as the journalist tried a scary landing. The speed and agility with which these craft move make them harder to handle than most people can readily understand.
The Rule Book
That is partly why, as Garza's story shows, too many new users commit a major mistake: flying where they shouldn't. Even if common sense prevails and a hobbyist leaves residential areas, dangers remain. A lot of drone operators have a fondness for flying near airports. Now, regulations ban people from doing that—you can't get within five miles of airports.
But how many people know this? The New York Post reveals that, nationally, 650 drones were reported near airports from January to August of 2015. They often hang out near runways, and can also get sucked into the engine of a jet, which would cause a catastrophe.
Of course, the capabilities of the 4 also increase the likelihood of drones crashing into one another.
All of this leads to the question: should these drones be set up like video games? Should they be navigated by touch screens? Or, to put it another way, while the open market will have its way, will the outcomes of this freedom be positive?
The TapFly mode, early indicators show, is often used by kids, often with a parent standing next to them. This presents a bit of a barrier from reality—it's just a screen, and the scale is of course misleading. It would be all too easy for someone to be unaware of where he or she is really sending the craft.
Ultimately, it's common for products of all kinds to acquire new and better safety features throughout their lives. It may be the case that the Phantom 4's OSS will improve and that the touch screen can be tweaked to allow a finer granularity of control—a more realistic connection between the screen and reality.
However, the best thing people can do is to take safety into their own hands. Parents need to be well experienced with the piloting of any craft they put into the hands of their children. And users of all ages should ease in.
While the Phantom 4 can be used by beginners, perhaps the best way to remain safe is to treat it just the opposite. An automated craft like this may be best used only by more experienced users. We all owe it to the community of drone operators to not five each other a reputation as being disrespectful of the safety of others.
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"The Fry Cook Games" is the second segment of the 39th episode of SpongeBob SquarePants.
It's the day of the annual Fry Cook Games, which Mr. Krabs and Plankton have competed in for several years, each winning several medals. This year, SpongeBob is representing the Krusty Krab. While he is training, Patrick appears and, after SpongeBob explains that he's training for the games, excitedly asks if he can join in. SpongeBob tells him that he has to be a fry cook to compete. Patrick says that it must be pretty easy to be a fry cook, which angers SpongeBob because he takes his job seriously. This begins a rivalry between the two.
Plankton then appears and introduces his competitor, who at first appears to be a terrifyingly huge and muscular fish which the audience is even scared of, but he is only carrying the real contestant strapped on his back, who is none other than Patrick Star, who got a job at the Chum Bucket in order to compete, only having worked there for 5 minutes.
The competitions include fast food-related versions of actual Olympic sports, such as the "Deep Fry Pole Vault" (Pole-vaulting over a deep-fryer) and the "Chocolate High-Dive" (Diving from a springboard to a vat of chocolate, making the diver look like ice cream), among others.
Finally, after a short montage, SpongeBob and Patrick's scores are tied when they face off against each other in the final event, "Bun Wrestling", which is just regular wrestling only on a bun. Mr. Krabs and Plankton instigate by saying: (Mr. Krabs) "Don't forget he called ye yellow" and (Plankton) "Don't forget, he called you pink!" To intimidate Patrick, SpongeBob bites a chain and grins with the chains wrapped around his teeth looking similar to braces. To intimidate SpongeBob, Patrick rips a lemon in half and pushes the halves into his eyes, then screams. SpongeBob rips his robe off revealing a large muscular body. Patrick follows by ripping his robe off, revealing only a business outfit. He realizes his mistake and tears of the suit revealing a body similar to SpongeBob's. As the bell sounds for the fight to begin, they jump into the air yelling.They collide and begin fighting. Patrick decides to throw away his ambition to fight for the Chum Bucket by saying, "Forget the Chum Bucket. This is personal." He takes off SpongeBob's shoe and then he licks his foot which disgusts SpongeBob out and causes him to yell out. In retaliation for this, SpongeBob erases the "Pat" in "Patrick" on Patrick's nametag. Patrick responds by yelling, "My name's not Riiiiiiiiiiiiick!" Towards the end of the fight they get into a grapple stating how much they hate each other. Suddenly their pants rip revealing underwear similar to each other's skin color. Both of them cry, "You do care!". Afterwards they vow to never fight each other again and leave the stadium. Mr. Krabs and Plankton demand that they "Get back here and kill each other!". Patrick says, "You're my best friend ever SpongeBob". SpongeBob responds by saying,"You too, Patrick." As the episode ends with the two walking down the road into the sunset, Patrick says "You know these were white when I bought them", referring to his underwear.
- In some airings, SpongeBob and Patrick are shown holding each other's shoulders instead of each other's hands.
- The huge guy carrying Patrick on his back is a reference to a scene in "Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls".
- When the Realistic Fish Head describes the Fry Cook Games, the background music is The Bonnie Blue Flag, a Confederate song.
- For the crowd sequences, only 6 character models are used, repeated many times over in different spots in the bleachers.
- The EBS Color Bars after the failed attempt of the torch are also seen on the ending of Shanghaied, after Patchy attempts to make the viewers to walk the plank. A similar one is seen in Ugh, when Patchy loses his balance whilst riding a fake dinosaur. It is also seen in Once Bitten on the TV screen in the TV shop during the news broadcast, as well as Whelk Attack. Another instance is The Secret Box when SpongeBob shows Patrick his "secret channel", and Tentacle Acres when Patrick changes the ad for Tentacle Acres and saying "I hate this channel".
- This is the 3rd episode where SpongeBob and Patrick are "ex-best friends". The original, 2nd, 4th and 5th (and final) would be Naughty Nautical Neighbors, Valentines Day, New Student Starfish, and Battle of Bikini Bottom.
- The Fry Cook Games is a spoof of the Summer and Winter Olympic Games
- When Patrick yells MY NAME'S NOT RICK! has became an internet meme.
- Throwing a big straw in cola is a reference to the javelin throw.
- When Patrick took off SpongeBob shoe, he appears to be wearing socks that only have a strap around the foot leaving the rest bare.
- Patrick probably licks SpongeBob's foot to tickle him but instead disgusts him, causing him to scream.
- When Patrick is seen licking SpongeBob's foot, SpongeBob's shoe can be seen right next to SpongeBob.
- A deleted scene of SpongeBob and Patrick leaving the stadium holding hands was cut. However, before they leave they are holding hands.
- In this episode, SpongeBob is able to do push-ups. However, in MuscleBob BuffPants during Sandy's workout, he breaks his arms after attempting to do just one.
- In this episode, SpongeBob is quite muscular, but he was shown to be very weak physically in "MuscleBob BuffPants", to the point that he needed to buy inflatable muscles to look strong.
- Plankton says that square is "the shape of evil." Coincidentally, his computer wife Karen has been shown to be a square firescreen, or a cube which is considered a three dimensional (3D) square.
- The captions refer the 21st Annual Fry Cook Games as the 12th Annual Fry Cook Games.
- When SpongeBob and Patrick are leaving, Patrick is on SpongeBob's right, but moments later, he is on the left. They could have decided to change sides when walking out.
- When the fish holding Patrick arrives he breaks the wall. But when he screams after Patrick and SpongeBob scream, the wall is put back together.
- When Patrick was holding SpongeBob's foot, his sock was the same length as the other. But when Patrick was licking it, it was longer than the other.
- In the Netflix version if you put captions when the Realistic Fish Head said for the first time "the 21st annual fry cook games" the captions read "12th annual fry cook games."
- When Patrick took off SpongeBob's right shoe the toes on his right foot are switched around making it look like he has 2 left feet.
- SpongeBob's foot normally has 4 toes. But when Patrick was licking it, his foot had 5 toes.
Home video releases
- SpongeBob SquarePants: The Seacape Cappers
- SpongeBob SquarePants: The Seacape Cappers
- SpongeBob SquarePants: The Complete 2nd Season
- SpongeBob SquarePants: The First 100 Episodes


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Myself and my boss, John Cerilli, really want to see The Expendables, so we were a little bummed that its release has been pushed four months to August, 2010; however, we immediately looked for the upside...
Ben: The release date for The Expendables got moved back four months
John: Dammit! I want to SEE it!
John: Probably good news for it?
John: That it can compete in the summer?
Ben: Maybe...or it could just be that they're not happy with what they've got and need to keep editing
Ben: You've got a good point though
Ben: Usually if it's not coming along well they'd bump straight to the fall, not the summer
John: I mean, it's LATE summer, but look what Basterds just did... Not too shabby
Ben: I guess we'll see
Ben: Hopefully this delay will allow them to add Jet Li, Mel Gibson and The Rock to the cast
John: YES!
Ben: And Mr. T
John: And Herve Villechaize!
John: They NEED a midget!
John: oh, wait... he's dead.
Ben: Is that the guy from Fantasy Island?
John: yep
Ben: I'm really proud of myself for knowing that
John: You should be.
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New 'family farm' status to benefit some 100,000 farmersBy TPN/Lusa, in News · 10-08-2018 14:58:00 · 0 Comments
Portugal's Ministry of Agriculture has estimated that around 100,000 farmers, representing 40% of the country's total, will benefit from being classed as family agriculture (Estatuto de Agricultura Familiar), under legislation that has now taken effect.
"Family agriculture represents over 240,000 farms, so 94% of total farms, covering 54% of the total agricultural area in use and more than 80% of total agricultural work," said the ministry in a statement. According to the National Statistics Institute, it added, around 30% of family-run farms have never received any European Union direct aid under the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).
According to the ministry, the programme for family farms takes an approach of "positive discrimination", aiming to contribute to "rural territories being more valued, from a perspective of sustainability and social and of greater social and territorial cohesion."
Portugal's government enshrined the status of family agriculture in law on Tuesday, publishing the decree-law in the state journal on Tuesday, following a period of public consultation in December and January.
Farms that have this status will be eligible for access to public policy measures to support agricultural and forestry activities and in the ambit of programmes financed by EU funds, as well as exceptional measures that contribute to improved "territorial planning and the preservation of agricultural and forestry activity in disadvantaged areas."
They will also enjoy simpler rules for the licensing of production units and other bureaucracy, as well as access to funds for training and discounts on diesel for farmers.
To apply for the status, those in charge of farms must be aged 18 or over, have taxable income of no more than the fourth bracket for personal income tax, and may not receive more than €5,000 from CAP aid. Candidates must also be in charge of a farm whose buildings are "rustic or mixed" and on which manpower is at least 50% family.
A commission has been set up to oversee the programme, to be chaired by the minister, Luís Capoulas Santos, with representatives from various other relevant government departments, as well as of the Azores and Madeira regional governments and the main farming confederations.


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This week our theme is "Handwriting" which was selected by our hostess Dymphie.
Dymphie has created this beautiful arch using her own handwriting…and states:Use your own handwriting on the arch, paint a few letters, calligraph a quote (i would looooove to see that). I don't like my own handwriting very much, but i like to use it in my art-work, it seems more my own when i do so.
The haiku on her arch reads "without you here, they are to deep, to large, these dark woods."
We want to see your handwriting on your arches this week!
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The message of mercy is that God loves us — all of us — no matter how great our sins. He wants us to recognize that His mercy is greater than our sins, so that we will call upon Him with trust, receive His mercy, and let it flow through us to others. Thus, all will come to share His joy.
Prayers are recited the second Sunday of each Month. The Rosary is at 2:30 PM followed by 10 minutes of silent meditation, then the Divine Mercy Chaplet at 3:00 PM. It is recited at 3:00 PM because this is the hour of our Lord's Passion.
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AN INTERVIEW WITH AUDREY ALLENDALE FROM MUUMUU HOUSEPosted by Sam Pink @ 1:31 am on April 23rd, 2009
this person from muumuu house emailed me today and asked to be interviewed. her name is audrey allendale. here are the answers she gave to my questions:
1. how do you help with MUUMUU HOUSE
At Muumuu House my primary function, at this time, is to advance the careers of Ellen Kennedy and Brandon Scott Gorrell, hopefully entrenching them deeply, within 2-3 years, into the minds of young people (10-25) who read books — and to do so in a manner amenable to all parties involved, employing a level of professionalism, I've been instructed, high enough to gain certain kinds of mainstream approval, sarcastic enough to not feel like I'm working, and detached enough to sincerely maintain a certain equilibrium of professionalism (which includes courteousness/considerateness and its myriad, complex implications) and sarcasm that can be sustained in the long-term.
2. how many seconds is a good hug?
3. what are some future projects of MUUMUU HOUSE
Projects I have had the privilege to learn about include a possible Bear Parade print edition edited and designed by Gene Morgan, possibly spanning 800 pages, to be published possibly in late 2010; a possible photography book based on the "Where's Waldo" series featuring a select person's Facebook "tagged" photos, showing them drunk at various parties in college, either in the foreground or background, with the title being "Where's [the name of the person]"; and possibly any number of full-length poetry books or novels or other items of literature or art by any number of authors that have been published on the Muumuu House website or not-yet-published but of interest to people associated with Muumuu House.
4. when someone tries to make you laugh but it doesn't work, is it best to just stare back, or should you say "you have failed to make me laugh, try again."
Stare back grinning.
5. what is something someone says that makes you think "i have to leave this place now."
"This sounds like some of the stuff I've gotten from talented tenth-graders in my creative writing classes. They just don't have Ellen's connections. Yesterday's poem was a lot better. This is, indeed, sophomoric."
"How much is Ellen paying you for advertising her book? You know there is a new Edson book you could be quoting from instead."
"In any case, it's not always to a writer's beneft to be associated with one particular group, especially when that group is generational. (What sounds charming from someone at 22 sounds insipid coming from a 50-year-old.)"
"For a time in the 1980s, Jay McInerney, Bret Easton Ellis and Tama Janowitz were the hottest writers in NYC & LA and probably the country. Each of them is still writing, but as they got older, they had to reinvent themselves, and I think it's inarguable that none of them are as central to American literary culture as people once thought they were."
"I've written like that and it's lazy, unfulfilling, and in the end you aren't really saying anything. It's confusing. But I feel like the "scene" thinks that they're doing something new by being lazy– and maybe with the exception of tao lin, they aren't. "
"It feels weird reading tao lin say things like he feels BSG's book is going to be huge and well-considered ten years into the future when they seem to present this front that suggests that's not what they're in it for at all… I don't know. It's entitlement. It's just immaturity I guess. That takes us back to the beginning."
6. it seems like a lot of people are angry about MUUMUU HOUSE and TAO LIN and other people, or upset or whatever, it seems like these ideas generate a lot of comments. what do you have to say to these people?
7. if you could jump on one HTMLGIANT writer's head repeatedly, whose would it be and why?
8. what are your goals in life?
Create things that me and my friends like while being around friends and things that I like.
9. when new york is completely flattened, and all that remain are wisps of smoke, will you kneel and inhale the wisps, or will you comb them into your hair?
10. describe each of the MUUMUU HOUSE writers in three words.
Ellen: nice, funny, emotional.
Brandon: science-fiction, funny.
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Think of the job that you dreamed you could have when you grew up. Think of going through your whole life — and in an extraordinary twist of fate and luck and with a smart move — and, finally, that job will be the capstone to your career. Then, when you start that job, your boss spends the entire time making it hell for you.
The big picture: Jeff Sessions prides himself on being an honorable person. He takes extraordinary pride in the fact that, during his decades-long career, he's built a reputation as the literal and figurative Boy Scout. He loves that reputation — and doing the right thing. Now, he's being publicly humiliated day after day with his boss, President Trump, saying he did the wrong thing for the country by recusing himself from the Department of Justice's Russia investigation.


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"The Creative Museum" is a three-year Strategic Partnership funded by the European Commission's Erasmus+ programme, which seeks to explore and inform the connections between cultural organisations and their communities by capitalising on the emergence of new and democratising digital technologies. The project runs between 2014 and 2017 and involves partners in different European countries.
In this context, the Creative Museum, in partnership with 6 institutions in Croatia, Finland, France, Ireland, Norway and the UK, has recently launched an open call for applications to participate in one of six residencies for makers. Participating institutions include the Chester Beatty Libary, Dublin, an ASEMUS member.
Selected makers will travel to one of 6 host institutions, where they will be given broad license to express themselves creatively through their own practice, in conversation with the inspiration of the host institution's collection, themes, physical space, visitors, and expert staff.
With this residency, organisers aim to:
- Encourage an open exchange of ideas between European countries, and strengthening bonds between nations and cultures.
- Promote creative thinking in museums and cultural institutions.
- Nurture productive relationships between museums and maker communities.
- Imagine new uses of museum collections, and new purposes for museums in the 21st century.
- Connect museums with non-traditional audiences.
- Invite cross-disciplinary and outsider perspectives.
By partnering with the 'maker community' and the creative industries, Creative Museum aims to counteract traditional views of museums as 'closed institutions'. The partnership will also explore and share how to interpret museum objects in a creative, experimental way while developing new skills for museum staff. These new skills will, in-turn, be factored into museum programmes and as a means to build capacity with hard-to-reach audiences including youth and adults.
The call is open to makers from regions participating in the project, who should submit their applications before 25 March 2016. Requirements, opportunities and restrictions in each participating museum may be different.
For additional information about the open call for makers, please visit http://blogs.c-yourmag.net/creative-museum/category/makers-in-residence/


text: In the fall of 2015 we reached out to The Harvest Room in Palos Heights. Many of our friends and family enjoyed delicious food and spirits, with The Harvest Room donating 10% of the proceeds from those who brought in a flyer advertising the event. We look forward to visiting this and other generous south suburban restaurants who support our efforts to fund pediatric cancer research.


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Windows Experience Not Entirely Gone from Win8.1 -- Merely Invisible
Woody Leonhard has been one of my ongoing sources for tips, tricks, and inside Windows (and MS Office) information for over 20 years now. That's why I was delighted to find an unusually tasty nugget of Windows insight and information in a recent Slideshow he put together for InfoWorld. Entitled "The hidden fangs of Windows 8.1 — and how to avoid them," he includes an item on how to obtain the information that recent versions of Windows up through Windows 8 (source of the following screencap, in fact) have presented under the heading of the "Windows Experience Index," often abbreviated as WEI.
Widely reported as no longer available in Windows 8.1, MS simply chooses not to report data that it still gathers.
As it happens, reports to the contrary notwithstanding (namely, that Windows 8.1 no longer compiles data to calculate the WEI), Woody points out that you can indeed obtain this data from Windows 8.1 if you're willing to jump through some command line action and inspired data access to do so. Here's how, in step-by-step form
1. Launch a command window in Windows 8.1: A search on cmd.exe will do nicely for this task; right-click the item and select "Run as administrator" from the resulting pop-up menu. On an unaltered Win 8.1 desktop, right-click the Start menu button and select "Command Prompt (Admin)" from the resulting pop-up menu instead.
2. Enter the command string winsat formal at the command line.
3. Use File Explorer to navigate to C:\Windows\Performance\WinSAT\DataStore
4. Right click the first Formal.Assessment file you see (or the most recent such file, if your file listing criteria don't show most recent files first), click Open with, then use Internet Explorer to view the contents of this XML file (the full name of this file on my PC was 2013-11-12 18.06.44.438 Formal.Assessment (Recent).WinSAT.xml)
5. Look for the section in the XML document labeled <WinSPR>; everything inside that block up to the closing </WinSPR> tag provides the data that used to appear in the old Windows Experience Index display shown earlier (and then some).
If know what to do, and where to look, Windows 8.1 continues to provide WEI data as shown right here.
WEI is a rough-and-ready tool for assessing Windows performance and system capability. It's not on a par with more serious performance evaluation suites like SiSoftware Sandra, PCMark, Passmark Performance, and so forth (see this great slideshow from Tom's Guide for a list of 15 PC benchmarking programs including commercial and freeware offerings). But WEI is something familiar and comfortable that Windows users have had at their disposal since the XP days. By following these simple steps, you can see how a Windows 8.1 PC ranks on this rating scale, too.


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KABUL, Afghanistan — Under pressure after a wave of deadly bombings in the Afghan capital, President Ashraf Ghani on Monday accused Pakistan of turning a blind eye to mass gatherings of Taliban fighters in its territory, where such attacks are planned.
Mr. Ghani's words, a sharp break from the conciliatory tone he had taken toward Pakistan for much of his first year in office, came just hours after a suicide car bomb struck a crowded entrance of the international airport in Kabul, leaving at least five people dead and 16 wounded. Attacks in the Afghan capital over the last four days have left nearly 70 people dead and hundreds wounded.
At a news conference flanked by his war cabinet, Mr. Ghani said that Afghanistan's relationship with Pakistan had reached a critical point and that the steps taken by the neighboring country in the coming weeks would have long-term repercussions.
His comments suggested that the nascent peace process facilitated by Pakistan, where some representatives of the Taliban met with Afghan government officials for the first time last month, was effectively dead for now.
"We hoped for peace, but war is declared against us from Pakistani territory," Mr. Ghani said, referring to his 10-month effort to establish a friendlier relationship with Pakistan. The effort has cost him some political support at home, given the persistent belief here that the Pakistani military has still been actively guiding the Afghan insurgency as a proxy force.
"The incidents of the past two months in general, and the recent days in particular, show that the suicide training camps and the bomb-making facilities used to target and murder our innocent people still operate, as in the past, in Pakistan," he said.
Mr. Ghani said he had spoken by phone with the civilian and military leadership of Pakistan, who had promised to "chart an action plan against terrorism" that would be discussed with a delegation of Afghan officials visiting Pakistan on Thursday.
The Taliban's escalation of violence in the past week has come after a slight lull, while internal rifts over the group's leadership deepened after confirmation of the death of the group's supreme leader, Mullah Muhammad Omar, which had been kept secret for two years, finally came last month.
The wave of bombings was seen by some here as an indication that the new leader, Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Mansour, is not immediately interested in continuing the peace process facilitated by Pakistan as he tries to consolidate his position in the face of dissent within the Taliban ranks.
As the violence escalated inside Afghanistan, Taliban leaders held large gatherings in Quetta, a city in the Pakistani province of Balochistan, to mediate the differences between Mullah Mansour and other members of the movement, including the family of Mullah Omar. The gatherings broke promises made to Mr. Ghani by Pakistani officials, a senior Afghan official aware of the discussions said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss diplomacy.
After the news of Mullah Omar's death, Mr. Ghani told his ministers that Pakistan had promised him that no new Amir ul-Momineen, as the Taliban call their leader, would be selected on its soil and that no large gatherings of the Taliban would take place to give him legitimacy. But within days, Mullah Mansour had not only replaced Mullah Omar and been endorsed in large ceremonies in Quetta, but had also announced that his new deputy would come from the Haqqani network, an aggressive organizer of terrorist attacks that has strong links to the Pakistani military intelligence agency, Inter-Services Intelligence.
On Monday, after days of attacks in the capital that bore many of the hallmarks of Haqqani planning, Mr. Ghani said he no longer wanted Pakistan to bring the Taliban to the table, but instead wanted it to aggressively attack the group's sanctuaries in Pakistani territory. And after a year of pressing Pakistani officials to broker a peace process with the Taliban, he said he now wanted the process to be entirely controlled by the Afghan government.
"In the middle of the night, at 1:30 a.m., doomsday descended upon our people. It wasn't an earthquake, it wasn't a storm, it was human hand," Mr. Ghani said, referring to a truck bomb on Saturday that killed at least 15 people, wounded hundreds and left a huge crater in a residential area in the Shah Shaheed neighborhood. "We want the origin of that hand, we want their centers, we want action against them. This is our main demand; everything else is peripheral."
Mr. Ghani said it was time for Pakistani officials to prove through action "that the enemies of Afghanistan were the enemies of Pakistan," quoting a statement that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif of Pakistan made during his visit to Kabul in May.
Mr. Ghani added, "I ask the people and the government of Pakistan: If a massacre such as the one that occurred in Shah Shaheed had happened in Islamabad and the perpetrators had sanctuaries in Afghanistan, had offices and training centers in our major cities, how would you react?"


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First things first, reviving this blog to serve as a little space for my attempts to write again. Wish me luck? 🙂
Anyway, attempt number 1 after the cut
I am generally aware that we are all different and that we are going to take different paths in life. But I noticed that last year, I kept comparing whatever I have achieved as of late (if there are some achievements to speak of) to what others have. I saw how some of my peers are technically more successful than I am, earning more money and buying all sorts of things for themselves. Some of them have gone to more places than I have, and it's kind of embarrassing since I have decided to pursue a lifestyle that is all about travel.
I kept looking at where other people are and then I feel sorry for myself as soon as I look at whatever status in life I'm in right now. This constant comparison to others has lead me to little bouts of sadness (leading to depression).
Thankfully, I reached a point wherein I grew tired of feeling sorry for myself, of thinking of myself as a lesser individual compared to my other peers who are probably well on their way to the top of the corporate ladder (or whatever ladder they're climbing on).
I then realized that my definition of success does not have to be similar to theirs. My success should be defined by my own terms, not by what someone else or society thinks it should be. My success should be something that will lead to my own happiness and contentment. And I have figured out what I need to do to reach it.
So in 2013, I will stop comparing myself to others. I will climb my own ladder of success, and it's okay if it's a bit different from my peers'. And whatever this level of success is, it is not of lesser value compared to others.
If you add up all the hours I spend in front of my laptop scrolling down my Facebook news feed or Twitter timeline, and randomly clicking links to whatever websites that will ultimately fill up my browser with so many tabs, you probably will shake your head in shame and judge me. I actually enjoy reading both useless and useful information online that I don't mind spending hours just doing so.
However, last year I kept doing this often, that it ate up time that I had initially allotted to more important things like writing or finishing freelance tasks. This would then lead me to stay up late, get a few hours of sleep, get fat and sick, etc. etc.
So next year, I will make better use of time, which will come in handy with the many projects I have lined up. I am planning to do things next year, both on my own and with my dear friends, and procrastinating too much will get me nowhere.
I'm making next year the year I actually start doing and accomplishing things, and leaving behind too much idle time will be a great start.
I am not going into detail as to why someone who puts a high regard on her friendships, will choose to leave behind one this year. There are only handful of people who know why, though. And I do have my reasons.
I am leaving this friendship behind because it is not a friendship anymore. It is as simple as that.
This certain person hurt me in a way I never thought anyone would. What this person did or did not do is something that I believe a true friend, is not capable of doing. This may sound idealistic or whatever, but I have certain beliefs that are pretty rock-solid – shaky sometimes, but still solid.
The way this person acted (or did not act), the way I was treated showed me that this person frankly does not give a shit. It's been months and not a word was spoken, not even an acknowledgement of certain things.
To think I even considered this person as one of my closest, if not among my few best friends. Not anymore, I suppose.
So to you, this person, I say goodbye. It was a great almost-decade of friendship. And I thank you for that. I wish you nothing but happiness. It looks like you have become the poster person for that.
(Side note: I wonder if you'll start caring, this person, once you come across this post. Probably not.)
One major source of disappointment last year for me was failed expectations. This occurred in many aspects in my life: friendship, work, even love (or something like it). Last year, I had high hopes for many people and things, some realistic, some not. And when these were not met, I was frustrated, almost devastated.
So for next year, I will stop expecting.
I will stop expecting my friends, to treat me the way I treat them, to value me as high as I value them. If you know me, you will know how much importance I place on my friendships. I put them on a pedestal that when I feel like I'm being taken for granted, I take it really hard. I will not stop putting a high value on my friendships though, but I will stop thinking that they will do the same as well. I will not expect them to go out of their way to meet me, or to do things for me or probably to value me as I do them. However they treat me, their friend, is entirely up to them. I will just have to trust them, especially the true ones.
There were also a lot of major changes that happened at work, both at the full-time and the freelance, most of them things I never thought would happen or I would experience this early in my "career". These have made me realize how unstable some seemingly stable companies can be, even more so in the freelance world. With this realization comes the conscious effort to prepare myself for anything that might happen – another lay-off and losing clients/projects. One can never be fully prepared for these things, but at least an awareness that these things can happen can help.
So for 2013, I will try and avoid setting expectations. I will stop counting my chickens before the eggs hatch. More expectations = disappointment.
Hello there. I used to keep a personal WordPress blog, but after posting countless dramatic entries I decided to keep it private and basically shut it off permanently. I won't be deleting it for sentimental purposes, though.
So anyway, as the name of the blog suggests, I will be writing (hopefully) short posts on things I will be leaving behind in 2012, in time for the New Year. The past year has been one of many ups and downs, and it seems like there were more of the latter. That year, like what a dear friend also said, was that of many realizations, of moments of enlightenment that I hope will help me to make better decisions and have a better year than the last.
Happiness after all, is our own doing, our own choice. 🙂
P.S. I know my URL has no trace of creativity whatsoever. Haha. I initially made this WordPress account for Gravatar purposes over at my travel blog, then decided to make use of this space. 🙂


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This is another smoking intervention, mainly for the Year 8 (12-13) age group. The programme enables young people to provide useful and accurate information about smoking and all related topics to their peers, based around the idea that young people often tend to look for advice from other young people their own age.
Our trained advisors also run Tar Jar workshops, which shows young people the many negative impacts of smoking on the human body. The session finishes with participants creating their own jar of tar to recreate how much tar a 10-a-day smoker would inhale over a year. This is used by local stop-smoking advisors as a tool to encourage potential quitters.


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For the last few months, there have been almost daily stories in the press and on television about Mubarak Awad, an American citizen of Arab-Palestinian heritage. The Israeli government expelled Awad and returned him to his adopted country the United States. Our government has taken interest in the case and has expressed its concern to Israel about this matter. It's easy to get confused.
What are the facts?
Awad's background. Mubarak Awad is an Arab, born in the eastern sector of Jerusalem. Like all other Arabs resident in Jerusalem, he was offered Israeli citizenship. He declined that and chose to remain a Jordanian subject. In 1969, Awad immigrated to the United States. He married an American citizen and became himself an American citizen by naturalization. Israeli law stipulates that a non-citizen resident who lives outside the area for seven years loses his resident status. Availing himself of his U.S. citizenship, Awad started making periodic visits to Israel. During his sojourns as a "tourist" and under the cover of his U.S. citizenship, Awad organized the "Palestine Center for the Study of Non-Violence." That organization promotes general civil rebellion of the Arab population of Judea/Samaria (the "West Bank") and Gaza. In his writings and exhortations, Awad describes such tactics as "supplement to the 'armed struggle' for liberation." In the Middle East setting, "armed struggle" is a notorious code word for terrorism.
Having exhausted the forbearance of the Israeli authorities, the government of Israel decided to expel him and to send him back to the United States, of which he is a citizen. This, almost inexplicably, produced much outcry and was cited by some as another example of Israeli ruthlessness and disregard for human rights. But one basic attribute of sovereignty is that a nation can determine which foreigners may or may not reside in its country and to expel anybody whom they consider undesirable. The U.S. routinely refuses entry into the country to those whose political activities we think of as being contrary to our interests. Until recently, we even barred those whose sexual orientation did not conform to the norm. And we routinely expel those who are here illegally, who have overstayed their visas, or who are engaged in activities that we consider contrary to the interests of our country. In most cases, these matters are handled summarily. Usually only in cases of American citizens, such as in the case of the mass-murdered Demjanjuk, who was ultimately extradited to Israel, does it take judicial action.
Abuse of rights. How then can the Israeli government possibly be faulted for expelling Awad? He totally abused his rights as a tourist, because the real purpose of his visits was to incite the Arab population of Israel and of the administered territories to insurrection, civil disobedience and "armed struggle." The Israelis would have been quite within their rights not to allow him to enter the country in the first place, or to expel him during the term of his visa. But they allowed him to stay months after the expiration of his visa and expelled him ultimately only after he emerged as one of the top leaders of the current Arab uprising against Israeli authority. Even then, and in deference to the United States, Awad has allowed to exhaust every judicial recourse and, in a process that took months, carried his case to the Israeli Supreme Court. That court, which, just as in the United States, is totally independent of the government, unanimously decided that the expulsion was legal. Awad was put on a plane and sent back to the U.S.
Why martyrdom for Awad? Those who are determined to bestow the mantle of martyrdom on Mubarak Awad call him an "apostle of non-violence" and compare him to Gandhi and Martin Luther King. But the reality is quite different. Dr. King deeply loved America and tried to strengthen it through his campaign of non-violence. By explicitly supporting the terrorist PLO, by declaring violence to be a legitimate means of advancing Palestinian political goals, by viewing non-violence as a tactical complement to violence in the Palestinian uprising, and by subscribing to the PLO's concept of "armed struggle" and to the ultimate liquidation of Israel, he revealed himself as what he really is: a revolutionary to whom "non-violence" is only one of many revolutionary weapons.
Misuse of American citizenship. As Americans we must be particularly concerned about Awad's misuse of his American citizenship. In becoming an American citizen, he took an oath to forswear all foreign allegiances and to reside permanently in the United States. He clearly broke his oath on at least those two counts. Before the Israeli Supreme Court, he declared that he had used his "American citizenship and passport solely for bureaucratic reasons of convenience, without attaching any importance and weight whatsoever," and that he "viewed Jerusalem as his place of residence always."
He made statements to the same effect on the MacNeil/Lehrer Report of Tuesday, June 14. Mubarak Awad treated the priceless gift of American citizenship with disdain and cynically used it for his political purposes and his foreign entanglements. How fortunate for Awad that we Americans are such good-natured, forgiving and patient people! Any other country would at the very least have stripped him of the citizenship that he had acquired by swearing falsely and with the obligations of which he never intended to comply.
It is clear that Israel was totally within its rights to expel Mubarak Awad, a rabble-rouser who used the cover of his U.S. citizenship and the protection of his U.S. passport to foment revolution in Israel and in the territories administered by Israel. Israel would have been fully justified in expelling him summarily. But they gave him every legal opportunity to have the expulsion order rescinded. Awad's assumed role as a latter-day Gandhi or Martin Luther King is a sham. Disregarding all other aspects of this case, his true personality is revealed in his cynical and cavalier misuse of his American citizenship.
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Some gaits of gaited horses are natural and some are "created"; artificial, mechanical, manipulated.
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Sometimes life just sucks. It doesn't go exactly the way you would write it. No loose ends neatly tied in bows. No happily ever afters.
But hold on! If life doesn't work out perfectly, then why should your fiction?
In a world full of skeptics and analyzers, would anyone really believe it if your main character got everything they wanted? Would you believe it if it happened in reality? No! We'd all secretly be wondering when the other shoe is going to drop.
Okay, enough with the negativity. When life's plot gets twisted, how can we as writers use our own personal experiences to navigate our storylines (if not our lives)?
Express Yourself
Think of it as therapy without the steep bill. Life getting you down? Many people find journaling to be therapeutic. Now infuse those same thoughts and feelings into your fiction. Give your characters those same emotions you've been battling with. They're human too. Well, unless they're intergalactic space mutants. But no matter what species your character is, they must possess qualities your reader can identify with. So by using your own desires, pain, hopes, etc, it will result in a more well-rounded, believable character.
You want me to show my deepest, darkest thoughts to the world? Yes. That's what is so great about fiction. You have a character to hide behind. So let loose and bare your soul to the world through your main character, and no one has to know just how crazy you really are.
Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction
Do your co-workers tend to gravitate toward your cubicle on Monday mornings? Are you one of those people who things just seem to happen to? You know the type. You take your vehicle into a car wash, and yada yada yada, you wake up in Tijuana with no pants (thank you, Seinfeld). You open a retirement fund at the bank, and yada yada yada, you're now the proud owner of a ferris wheel.
Maybe you're not one of these people. But I'm sure you've met them. You find yourself saying. 'No way that happened,' or 'How do you get yourself into these messes?' Messes are good. Sometimes crap just happens, and sometimes truth really is stranger than fiction. So whether you're one of 'those people', or you know someone who is, just remember, that anything's possible so long as you build up the event with believable facts and backstory.
When life gives you crap, be the person who makes it into manure and grows a flower. (That's my 'when life gives you lemons' speech. Sometimes it's worse than lemons.)
Take Out Your Frustrations
You think your problems are bad? What about your character's? If they've got a better life than you, then you're obviously not torturing them enough. Make them suffer. Make it really bad. Don't think it can get any worse? Think again. And after that, if your life is still not looking a little sunnier, then things must be really bad. That therapy bill is looking grim, my friend.
Take the bad things that have happened to you lately and increase them ten-fold. Always ask yourself, 'How could it be worse?' Oh, I'm sure things are bad, but they can always always get worse. Now, throw that at your character. How do they react?
This could be your chance to relive some terrible moment or fight you had so that you can do it all differently. Maybe you reacted badly, but you have your character rise above the challenge and show themselves to be a truly higher-functioning person. Or maybe you took it on the chin in real life, but all you wanted to do was smash everything in sight, crash the other person's car into their house and light it all on fire.
Ahem – therapy, here I come.
Sweet, Sweet Revenge
We are writers. We are the creators of our own worlds. The all-powerful beings that decide the fates of each of our characters. Piss us off, and we can write you into our story and invent the most embarrassing way to immortalize you through our words. We can live out our fantasies by having you die in the worst possible way. Muahahahaha!
Okay, so maybe I'm being a bit childish (I know you are, but what am I?). People we meet in our every day lives leave an impact on us. Some good, some bad. Our experiences in reality will alter the way we write, the way we view the world. And why shouldn't it? That's what makes each of our stories fresh and original, and one-hundred percent ours.


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We would have to be blind not to see the liberal establishment aggressively trying to bring down President Donald Trump. This is much more than just fault finding and nipping at his heals. It is much more than just spreading lies through the dishonest media or marching in the streets. They have changed the narrative. By doing so they are once again making themselves look like the good guys in the eyes of the people. They do this by calling themselves the "resistance" as if they are resisting an evil power, but they forget to point out that they are the ones who have kept the black community in bondage to a life of drugs, gangs, and the crumbling inner city. They forget to mention that they are the ones who first sought to sterilize the negro or at least kill their unborn children by the millions to keep them in check and under control. They have changed the narrative by calling the conservative party the party of hate, yet they are the ones who have encouraged their people to resist law enforcement while they vandalize and destroy public property. They are the ones who have caught conservatives and beat them publicly. Unlike the previous administration while most conservatives remained relatively quiet the liberal establishment has attempted to block nearly everything our current President is attempting to accomplish by pointing out real and unreal negative points to all the people. Continue reading Bring Trump Down to Your Own Peril
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The Great Deception – Part II
The most dangerous threat to Christianity is secularism. You might object and say quite forcefully that Communism is the greatest threat. I would argue that it's really not because the deception of secularism is more dangerous and has already led millions astray, whereas communism in its purest form allows no voice to the people, no freedom of expression, and no religious tolerance. Therefore, Christians in a communist country know that they are being oppressed. In 1844 Karl Marx a revolutionary German socialist philosopher declared that religion was the"opiate of the masses." For any form of government that states unequivocally that all religion is a drug to its people that must be forcefully removed will in time become a failed state. For any philosophy of government that denies the voice of her people in time will not only lose the heart of her people but will experience a counter revolution to bring forth some form of democracy as witnessed in Russia. At the conclusion of the revolutionary coup in Russia I traveled through Moscow to the Russian state of Latvia to openly proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Even China a communist state over the years has moved toward an increased freedom of religion and a socioeconomic platform of capitalism to provide for her people. As communist China moves to the center her closest neighbor, North Korea, has remained on the far left. Continue reading The Great Deception – Part II
The Great Deception – Part I
This will be a series of articles to help Christians to think globally. To do so will immediately recognize that there are powerful forces at work reshaping our world into a secular utopia galvanizing all nations to accept its destiny. The world population is spoon fed bits and pieces of world events by a media that keeps them blind to a larger truth. Although facts are reported, some correctly, the big picture is never realized even by their best commentators. Prophets, seers, and religious academia have also offered their interpretation of world events either drawn in part, often times out of context, from their holy books or simply from their own imagination. The civilization is deeply confused clutching to an emotional rollercoaster as its being jolted about by every crisis or dilemma facing the world. To think globally we must start by looking up and stop being captivated by each individual event. Clearly the media reports many stories but loses its focus quickly when a larger story comes along. We must move away from the tunnel vision practiced by the media and start to associate ourselves with all of history, with events in every country, with the ebb and flow of humanity and then put that all into context with God's Word. We must learn how to think globally. Continue reading The Great Deception – Part I
Open Letter to the United States Congress
You have the lowest approval rating ever. Is it not time to rise above the restraints that you have placed upon yourself and think about what is best for the country? To do so will not only help this country … Continue reading Open Letter to the United States Congress


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To a new sun
Happy new moon everyone! Hope your sky is full of bright stars and a full beautiful moon tonight.
Our day was completely nuts as we were packing and preparing for a very exciting trip tomorrow. It's J's first big trip so wish us luck! Can't wait to show you more about this place and finally reveal were we're heading. I'll be sharing everything on Instagram & stories and you really don't want to miss this one!
This painting currently sits in our home office and i can't get over the golden moon and copper sun. I shared it last week on coocrrina.co instagram and received so many complements and even inquires to create some paintings. So i guess next thing on my to do list for the shop launching will be paintings!


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Welcome to our page. We are a group of moms who have a firm belief in positive parenting and play based learning. We hope to inspire, uplift, and empower you all to be the best moms (and dads) you can be. Our contributors consist of moms (obviously), educators, and therapists. We hope you enjoy it, live it, and share with us as much as possible. We are here for inspiration, not imitation. We hope you take what you love and leave the rest.
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This is great! My three year old is similar with the imagination. I hope my one year old follows suit.ReplyDelete
I love it! my daughter uses baby wipes for so many things. but mostly blankies for her ponys.ReplyDelete
I love it! We have the same doll house that has been passed down from each of my three girls (7,5,2yo). It has been played with in so many similar ways. Glad it isn't just that way in our house. My youngest in particular will turn anything, especially what I would consider trash, into a toy. Very recently, the paper wrappers to my embroidery thread (two different sizes) became an impromptu mama and baby. They are great because she can put them in her pocket and take them anywhere to play at any time. :)ReplyDelete


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Gory B. Movie and LOLZ unbox their December Horror Block. It's a little late due to our computer troubles earlier this month, but it's full of awesome surprises!
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Impossible is a word people of faith have no respect for because our faith is what makes everything that seems impossible possible. The Bible is filled with people who faced impossible situations that became possible. David came face to face with an impossibility, the giant Goliath who taunted the army of Israel every morning and […]


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[tweetmeme source="amfunderburk1" http://www.URL.com%5DTonight was the very first time my groups met for the Fundred and Good Samaritan Clinic campaigns. We basically discussed what our objectives would be, and started to form a plan for how to meet these objectives. As a team we will each be playing very important roles. We definitely achieved quite a bit during these meetings.
For the Fundred campaign I will be working on a letter that will be sent to the different organizations on campus. The purpose of this letter is to inform the organizations about Fundred and the competition we will be holding on campus. There will also be a flier attached to the letter that one of my teammates will be creating. Another thing I will be doing in the next week is writing a description on how to create a Fundred bill. This, along with other team members research will be going onto our Facebook page to inform people about our campaign. For the Good Samaritan Clinic, we basically just discussed the different jobs we would all have the opportunity to work on. Some of these include updating their Facebook page, writing press releases, helping sort out the mailing list, and several other things.
I know I am very excited to be working on these two great campaigns. This will keep me busy all semester, but I am definitely ready for whatever is thrown my way.


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The examination includes:
Study Models
Study models are most commonly used in the digital form in orthodontics today. Good impressions of the upper and lower arch (typically with alginate) and a bite registration in centric occlusion can be sent to companies (ex: OrthoCAD) to generate digital models. The preferred material for bite registration is polyvinyl siloxane due to its improved accuracy.11 Several digital scanners (ex: iTero, 3Shape Trios) can also be used to create digital models. The digital models can be used to generate a stereolithography (.stl) file that can be used to 3D print models when needed. Most laboratories accepting digital files can now provide this service for practitioners that do not have 3D printers readily available. Digital models have served to improve storage capability, communication among dental practitioners, and ease in diagnosis.12 Research shows similar accuracy of linear measurements using digital models or stone models,13 making them useful for evaluation of tooth size and arch discrepancy, occlusal characteristics, and relationships of the teeth within the arch and between the arches (Figure 9). In-office scanners also exist to generate digital models from stone models and impressions, but are expensive and less commonly found in offices. Lastly, CBCT images can be used to generate digital models using companies such as Anatomage or CareStream, although the accuracy of CBCT generated models remains to be fully explored. Alternatively, stone models can be poured from the alginate impressions to perform the analyses. Study models, either digital or stone, are used to validate occlusal characteristics assessed from the intraoral examination and to generate a space analysis.
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Firing Crazy Customers
Your business isn't for everyone, and that's okay.
Having a business can be incredibly rewarding but if you've worked with the public for any amount of time, you've likely experienced that 10% of your most difficult customers will take up 90% of your time.
And when you're already juggling family responsibilities, a career and the rest of your life, it's not a good use of your time to spend hours and hours trying to make an impossible, unhappy customer happy. You have far more important things to do and far less demanding customers to serve.
That's why you should fire them.
That may sound harsh but I assure you, it's not selfish, it's smart.
Your business isn't for everyone, and that's okay. You will be doing yourself and your demanding customer a favor when you part ways before you both end up in disappointment and frustration.
You can do this by being honest and politely explaining that you don't think your business is a good fit. Or you can simply tell them you're not available to take the specific order they're requesting.
If you can identify a crazy customer early on in the process, it will help you fire them nicely and move on sooner. Here are a few red flags to watch out for to help you identify the crazies:
Their questions are accusatory from the get-go and resemble a CIA interrogation.
When you answer their questions, they still don't seem to be satisfied or pleased. No answer is good enough.
They look for any and all ways to pay less while simultaneously asking for more.
They treat you like they're doing you a favor by ordering and expect you to jump at their every request.
They've already friended and unfriended you three times on Facebook since you talked an hour ago.
If you can fire crazy customers before they drain your energy and your time, your business will be more successful and you'll have less gray hairs in the process!
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So true, so true. Thank you for bringing it to the light and focus of what it is, and can be . . . draining.
Oh if only this could apply to healthcare!! Our government bases its reimbursement to providers on patient satisfaction scores. You all know as well as I do, you can't please them all… And the unpleasables squeak the loudest!
I love this article because my husband just fired our most difficult client last week. The cool part is that within 24 hours we not only filled her time slots on our calendar we filled 2 more as well. So we actually made money by loosing money.
You have to get the totoxic relationships out of your life to create room for the healthy ones. This is as true in business as it is in our personal lives.
That's a word right there. Made money by losing money. That is quite true.
I had a client like this. When he first called to request my services (I was cleaning school buses), he asked if I guaranteed my work. I told him I did, but at the end after I'd cleaned his bus, he refused to pay me. After talking to people in the office, I found out he's a difficult person to deal with, so I have blackballed him and will never do work for him again, and will politely inform him of this should he desire to partake of my services in the future.
So TRUE! I had an elderly couple who treated me AND my Broker so disrespectfully. They were mean, cutting, and even questioned our faith in Christ! It was awful and eye opening for a new real estate agent. With the help of my amazing Broker, we got through the transaction but I had to go take a business day and sit on the beach and talk to Jesus about it so He could tell me if I did something wrong. I came to peace with it but it took a few days! To this day, I still might twitch if you mention it. LESSON LEARNED!!
I once had the graphic arts person of an embroidery client spend 4! hours at my home deciding on the perfect shade of yellow for a design I was turning into embroidery. Since I was new in the business, I didn't have the confidence to put an end to it. Not now! Today I know what my time is worth, and anything longer than a few minutes looking at sample cards gets billed as consultation.
When I had my own business I had a customer that he found it ok to yell at me while I services his store and sold him my products. The first two times I politely told him not to yell at me! Third time I just grabbed my products and walked off! The 10 dollars I made off of selling him products was not worth a second of my time to put up with his rudeness …
I took this article's advice and "fired" a potential client. I just received an email back saying "After 30 years in business this is the first most inappropriate
communication I've ever received." This, after I spent six months consulting and writing FREE proposals for this company. I told them I could not wait more than another month without a definite response regarding forwarding the project (AKA payment) and was told I lack the " professional conduct or patients expected in your profession." I believe she meant "patience". They were hiring me for editing and social media services- unfortunately they will have to edit (or not) on their own. It's so freeing to get rid of them. Thanks for your advice! Onward and upward!