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Purchase the eProgram here.
This year's conference promises to be an exciting and informative meeting where some of the leading in-house and outside lawyers for the long term care industry will be presenting on legal, compliance, and operational issues faced by providers. Sessions will focus on cutting edge issues that are front and center within the post-acute continuum.
Sessions are geared towards Nursing Facility (NF); Assisted Living (AL), and/or Home Health (HH) audiences. AHLA programs are distinguished by the expertise as well as the range of perspectives our speakers offer. The program's faculty is comprised of representatives from all areas of the post-acute and long term care services spectrum. The faculty will provide insight and analysis on regulatory changes, operation management, transactions, and compliance. Sessions included:
The program offers two interactive sessions - Advanced Anti-Kickback and General Counsel Roundtable (In-House Counsel only). These sessions are limited to 35 participants and pre-registration is required.
Supporting Organizations: American Health Care Association, National Center for Assisted Living, LeadingAge, Argentum, and National Association for Homecare and Hospice. Members of these organizations are eligible for the AHLA member registration rate using a promotion code.
All materials will be available on a website prior to and after the program.
All registrants will receive an email a week prior to the program with a link to the materials. This website is for attendees only and is not posted to the public. You must have the direct link to the website. The email will come from AHLA Member Services. To ensure registrants receive this email and is not caught by a spam filter, please white list email@example.com.
Cancellations must be received in writing and sent to Dorothy Johnson: firstname.lastname@example.com. Registration fee, minus the $125 administrative fee, will be refunded approximately 3-4 weeks following the program in the same form of tender as the original payment. Refunds will not be issued for cancellations received after the cancellation date, to include no-shows.
Substitutions will be accepted, in writing to AHLA (email@example.com), up to 2 business days prior to the event date on a one time basis. Note, that the registration fee is based on AHLA membership status of the individual who actually attends the program. Non-member substitutes will be charged the fee difference if they are substituting for a member-discounted registration. An administrative fee of $125 will be charged for a substitution request.
Transfer to an upcoming event within one year of equal or higher value is available on a one time basis only, and should be received in writing to AHLA (email@example.com. ) no later than 2 business days prior to the event. An administrative fee of $125 will be charged for a transfer request.
Hosted by Post-Acute and Long Term Services Practice Group
Steven Gordon
Assistant United States Attorney
Civil Rights Enforcement Coordinator
Eastern District of Virginia
The Department of Justice's Barrier-Free Health Care Initiative, through which the DOJ has targeted enforcement efforts on individuals with disabilities' access to medical services and facilities. The Barrier-Free Health Care Initiative includes effective communication for people who are deaf or have hearing loss, physical access to medical care for people with mobility disabilities, and equal access to treatment for people who have HIV/AIDS. Mr. Gordon was lead attorney on several ADA cases that involved skilled nursing facilities.
This event is not included in the program registration. There is an additional fee of $60 for members of the sponsoring Practice Groups and $70 for non-members; limited attendance; pre-registration required. Continuing Legal Education Credits are not available for the luncheon.
CLE/MCLE: AHLA will be applying for 17.75 credits (including 1.0 ethics credits) for 60-minute states and approximately 21.3 (including 1.2 ethics credits) credits for 50-minute states. The number of credits approved may vary state to state.
CPE: This seminar will be worth approximately 21.0 CPE credits. AHLA is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be addressed to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors, 150 Fourth Avenue North, Suite 700, Nashville, TN 37219-2417. NASBA's web site is located at http://www.nasba.org/.
CCB: AHLA will be applying for 21.3 Compliance Certification Board (CCB) credits.
NHA: AHLA was approved for 17.0 Nursing Home Administrator (NHA) credits.
This program is designed to be an update on developments in the area of post-acute and long term care issues. There are no prerequisites or advanced preparations required to register for this group live program. Those seeking accounting credits should be familiar with the basic concepts of law and terminology associated with this area in order to obtain the full educational benefit of this program. Introductory remarks, breaks, luncheons, and receptions are not included in the computation of credit hours. Participants will be given continuing education request forms at the program. Forms must be completed and returned to AHLA staff to receive credit. The sessions, unless otherwise designated, are intermediate to advanced in level. There are no prerequisites required to register for this program.
Hosted by AHLA's Diversity+Inclusion Council, Sponsored by Plante Moran PLLC, Principle Valuation LLC, and PYA
Join us and your colleagues and learn more about AHLA's diversity and inclusion initiatives and network with AHLA leaders and your fellow colleagues. This event is included in the program registration; attendees, faculty, and registered guests welcome.
Sponsored by Plante Moran PLLC, Principle Valuation LLC, and PYA
This event is included in the program registration fee. Attendees, faculty, children, and registered spouses and guests welcome.
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Centerville City Hall
250 N. Main Street
Centerville, UT 84014
(801) 295-3477
(801) 292-8034 fax
Business Hours:
8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Monday - Friday
January 27, 2015
Minutes of the Centerville City Parks and Recreation Committee meeting held Tuesday, January 27, 2015 at 7:00 p.m. in the Centerville City Business Conference Room, 250 North Main Street, Centerville, Utah.
Kyle Barney
Gary Goff, Chair
Lynn Keddington
Melissa Smith
Rebecca Wright
Ben Horsley
Loren Pankratz
Bruce Cox, Parks and Recreation Director
Jens Fillmore, Youth Council Liaison
Connie Larson, Recording Secretary
Update Regarding Centennial Meetings
Melissa Smith reported on the Centerville Centennial meetings that she has been attending. She distributed a flyer that lists the dates of the activities that have been planned from April 18th to August 21st. May 17th will be the opening ceremonies at the Regional Center in North Salt Lake.
Melissa Smith explained pins are earned by participating in the different Centennial activities. Melissa would like to have the pins designed by local school children. There will be pins that have pictures of historic sites, people, and businesses in Centerville. The pins are lapel size.
3 on 3 soccer tournament. Lynn Keddington reported he has had a difficult time getting Jeff Emery, Athletic Director at Viewmont, to commit to a soccer tournament. Lynn said he will continue to try to meet with Mr. Emery, and contact the principal.
Loren Pankratz and Jens Fillmore, Youth Council Liaison, will coordinate the tennis activity.
Pickle Ball and Disc Golf
There are no organized teams at the schools for these activities. It was suggested asking the Viewmont clubs or teams like the Vykelles, Band, Musical, Football or Lacrosse Teams to coordinate a pickle ball tournament. Kyle Barney will oversee and coordinate the Pickle Ball activity with a sport group from Viewmont High School. Bruce Cox, Parks and Recreation Director, said he will be the lea son for whatever group may want to coordinate a disc golf tournament fundraiser.
Rebecca Wright will be the coordinator for volleyball.
2 on 2 basketball
Chair Goff will be the coordinator for basketball.
Movie Festival
This will be similar to the Sundance Film Festival, where movies will be shown that are filmed by local residents. Tami Fillmore, City Council Liaison, previously suggested this activity where individuals who would like to make a short movie could show it at a movie festival. This item will be suggested to the High School to see if the students would be interested in making the movies.
Other Possible Events to Coordinate
Jens Fillmore, Youth Council Liaison, reported the Youth Council will sponsor a street dance at City Hall for the youth ages 12 to 18 on July 2nd at 9:00 p.m.
Melissa Smith suggested a Gold and Green Ball for the older adults in Centerville similar to what it was many years ago. If there are any of these people in the community, they could be asked to plan a night of ballroom and/or square dancing.
Movies for the Movies in the Park will be chosen at the March or April meeting.
The next Parks and Recreation Committee meeting will be held on Tuesday, February 24, 2015 at 7:00 p.m. in the Administrative Conference Room at City Hall.
At 8:15 p.m., the meeting was adjourned.
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Gary Goff, Chair Date Approved
Connie Larson, Recording Secretary


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Our Team
Caroline Melberg
Founder and Digital Marketing Strategist
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This marketing strategist is one-of-a-kind because of her continuous love for helping clients succeed and her bold passion for her chosen industry. She is constantly staying current with new technologies and trends of both the traditional and online marketing worlds, which allows her to better serve clients. Caroline has over 25 years of marketing experience, working with some of the largest and most successful companies in the world, including IBM, AT&T, AT&T Wireless and Cingular, where she held numerous senior level marketing positions.
Her entrepreneurial spirit, however, was cultivated at a young age when she joined her father's ice business at the age of six. She knew then that she would run her own company one day. She stepped away from corporate America in 2005 with the dream of leveraging her "Blue Chip" expertise to help growing businesses thrive; Small Business Mavericks is that dream realized.
Caroline's expertise includes:
- Strategic Online Marketing Planning
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- Professional Speaking on the topics of Marketing, the Web & Social Media
Caroline is the author of the e-book series entitled, "Local Small Business Internet Marketing Secrets" and the award-winning newsletter, "Maverick Internet Marketing Secrets." She's been quoted in numerous national publications including The Wall Street Journal and BusinessWeek, she's appeared to more than 9 million homes on the Comcast program Money Matters Today and her published articles have appeared in Minnesota Business Magazine, Minneapolis St. Paul Business Journal, Small Business Owner, WomensBiz, The Los Angeles Times and numerous online publications as well.
Caroline's commitment to her clients is evident in each part of her work. She has been recognized as the winner of the National Association of Women Business Owner's "Woman on the Way" Award, and was a finalist for the TwinWest Chamber of Commerce Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year Award. During her free time, Caroline is an avid reader and enjoys spending time with family, dog Maverick, traveling, boating, fishing and outdoor photography.
Steve Melberg
Co-Founder and Business Operations Manager
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Steve's expertise is in developing repeatable processes and systems, supplier relations, business management, purchasing, financial and accounting management, and affiliate and partner marketing programs. He is a graduate of the University of Minnesota where he achieved a Bachelor of Individualized Studies degree.
He enjoys just about anything on the water, and his hobbies include collecting wine, travel, fishing, outdoor photography and boating. He is currently putting the finishing touches on his first wooden boat building project, the Jolly Mon.
Steve and Caroline reside in Wayzata, Minnesota with their energetic dogs, Starla and Capone. They believe that successful marketing is not communication – it's a conversation. They would love to hear from you at 952-473-1007.
Heidi Mullins
Website Project Administrator
Our Website Project Administrator, Heidi, has over 15 years of experience administrating projects for mid-size companies. Her expertise includes website project management, database management, website content creation and maintenance, HTML, WordPress, SEO content optimization and distribution, search and social media implementation, desktop publishing and web hosting & domain name management. Heidi coordinates all of the myriad details involved in our client's projects to ensure nothing is overlooked, and projects stay on time and on budget.
Our 4-Legged Friends
Maverick Melberg
Mascot and Company Jester
A true reflection of our company's personality, our mascot Maverick embodied the attributes that define the company that bears his name:
- Friendly and approachable, Maverick loved how we keep marketing simple for our clients.
Loyal and courageous, he showed us how to never be afraid to tell our clients "no" when we know something won't work.
- Diligent and focused, his favorite pastime was playing fetch with his Frisbees and his tennis balls, and while this was his "work" that he performed with precision, he reminded us to have fun along the way and enjoy the journey.
- Even though Maverick crossed the Rainbow Bridge in February of 2016, his spirit lives on in all we do!
Starla joined our team when Steve & Caroline adopted her from Top Dog Foundation. She is an 11 year-old English Black Lab mix, and she loves to play ball, eat and cuddle in any available lap.
The newest member of our team, Capone joined us in February of 2017 at 8 weeks old. He's currently working on learning his name, as well as his potty training and basic obedience skills.
Keep up with Starla and Capone on their Adventures of Starla and Capone Facebook page!


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So for all of my lovely readers, a free Valentine's Day printable that I hope warms your heart as much as it did mine! Here's the download link.
Monday, February 6, 2012
"Love In the Same Direction" Free Valentine's Day Printable
So for all of my lovely readers, a free Valentine's Day printable that I hope warms your heart as much as it did mine! Here's the download link.
Friday, February 3, 2012
Walgreens Prescription Savings Club - What I Wish I'd Known LAST WEEK!
This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Walgreens. All opinions are 100% mine.
Admittedly, I have not had much time for crafting or creating lately. :( These past two weeks have been very frustrating for me. Between myself and my son I have been to the doctor three times, had three different diagnoses, and 4 different prescriptions. Yea, I'm pretty exhausted. First, I wasn't feeling well at all. I've been having panic attacks, episodes of palpitating heart, and to top it all off I have been extremely tired and sluggish for no apparent reason. My doctor explained that it was probably just severe anxiety and she tried explaining to me that some stressors can just set people over the edge! Well, I couldn't help thinking to myself, "That's not me! I'm happy!".
Anyhow she administered three different blood tests and sent me on my way. Well, the next day I received a call from a phone nurse telling me I needed to start medication IMMEDIATELY because one of the blood tests reveled I now have hypothyroidism. Apparently, it's kind of rare in the general population, but not un-common for women who have just given birth. (Apparently my body was not tuned into that until a year and a half later!) Basically my thyroid isn't producing enough hormones to sustain my day-to-day bodily functions, my hormone levels were approximately 200 times lower than they were supposed to be. Well, I guess at least it's good news that I think I've found out what's been going on with me.
On top of taking all of that in - my son had an ear infection and later had to be prescribed breathing treatments for some severe chest congestion he started having. Yea, I'm pretty EXHAUSTED.
On top of all this chaos, I then had to make four {yes - FOUR!!!} separate trips to Walgreens to fill my prescriptions! Luckily they have a drive-thru, so thankful for that!
But with me being out of work currently and my boyfriend having his own small business (meaning no health insurance coverage) I wish I had known about this:
Walgreens is now offering a special discount on annual membership for its Prescription Savings Club:
For $35 a year, a family membership covers everyone in your immediate family, including a spouse, dependents 22 and younger and pets. If you join, you'll even get discounted prices on your prescriptions. $20 for individuals. Isn't that great?!
Other benefits include:
-Savings on more than 8,000 brand-name and all generic medications
-Discounts on flu shots, pet prescriptions, nebulizers and diabetic supplies
-Bonuses when you purchase Walgreens brand products and photofinishing services
You can find more information about the program here at Walgreens Prescription Savings Club website or you can stay updated by liking them on Walgreens on Facebook and following them by mean of Walgreens on Twitter.
Anyways, hopefully both of us will go through speedy recoveries and I am definitely going to enroll in this prescription club to help with all of our scrip costs! I'm posting this because I know how important saving money (especially on healthcare) is to ANYONE else in a situation similar to ours. May you all have good health and wealth in this new year!
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
How to Fix Broken Picture Frame Stands
Monday, January 30, 2012
"Oh, Mr. Postman!" - Valentine's Day Mailbox Tutorial
I was became inspired when my son and I were walking through our local Michael's craft store and I saw this cute little red mailbox. He kept reaching out to play with it, so in the cart it went! At only three dollars I figured we couldn't go wrong, even if he just wanted to play with it by opening and closing it (yes, he's at that MECHANICAL stage). I found some rhinestone decals for a dollar each, I bought one for each side of the mailbox. Then I shelled out another whole dollar (whoa, big spender I know!) to get some scrapbook paper and we were on our way home to create our new one-of-a-kind Valentine's Day mailbox.
I started this project with the mailbox, an extra glass candlestick holder I had laying around {probably from one of my various Goodwill sprees}, 2 rhinestone decals, one piece of scrapbook paper, some E-6000 glue, and my trusty Modge Podge.
After I had gathered all of my materials, the first thing I did was spray paint the glass candlestick holder black. While the paint was drying, I stuck my rhinestone decals onto each side of my mailbox.
Once the spray paint was dry, I glued my mailbox down to the candlestick with my E-6000 glue. Now if you haven't tried this stuff - it's addicting! You can glue almost any type of material to any type of surface you'd like. It works on paper, wood, metal, glass, you name it! Then I waited overnight for the glue to dry, although I believe the packaging says you only need to wait 10 minutes.
When browsing the web last week, I noticed Silhouette's free shape of the week. It was going to be a perfect embellishment for my project, so I re-sized the shapes using Silhouette studio to my liking and cut them out using my new Silhouette Cameo.
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
"Catch of a Lifetime" Free Valentine's Day Printable
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Basic Image Import and Text Design in Silhouette Studio
First I started by opening up my Silhouette Studio program and opening the image I wanted to use. I started with a puppy paw image which I had made and saved on my computer. You can open an image by going up to FILE and the OPEN and selecting your image from your hard-drive. Then I had my puppy paw image ready to edit.
I used the green arrow at the top of the selected image to rotate my paw to where I'd like it adjusted. I used the corner of the square around the selected image to size the entire image down to where I liked it.
Then I clicked the OPEN THE TRACE WINDOW button in the top right hand corner of my menu and selected a trace area around my pappy paw. After I had my selection made by clicking the SELECT TRACE AREA button, I selected the TRACE AND DETACH feature. By selecting the TRACE AND DETACH feature I eliminated the square border like the picture at the top around the entire puppy paw and allowed each individual section of the puppy paw to be selected at once.
Once I had all the separate parts of my paw detached, I clicked on each section of the paw and filled it with black color by clicking on the OPEN THE FILL COLOR WINDOW button on the top of my menu.
Whew! Okay that was the hard part. Then I simply Clicked on the TEXT button at the left menu of my screen and placed my cursor on the page. I typed "DOG" in all caps.
Then I deselected my "DOG" type and placed another cursor on the page and wrote "food."
I was now ready to send my image to the Silhouette (i.e. actually cut the image), so I clicked on the SEND TO SILHOUETTE button at the top of my menu, loaded my vinyl on my cutting mat, skipped printing (because I was cutting on vinyl), skipped the registration mark detection (because I was cutting a blank sheet of vinyl), chose the vinyl settings, and cut my page!
That's how I made my basic design in Silhouette Studio! :)
Disclaimer: I did not actually READ the instructional manual. SHHH! Secret. Anywhow, you could possibly learn a lot more and the correct way to do things there. LOL
Tutorial shared here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.
Monday, January 16, 2012
Ballard Designs Dog Food Container Knockoff - All for Around $5!
Then I designed a cute little "Dog Food" design on my Silhouette Studio software and cut it out on some black vinyl using my Silhouette Cameo. I set the blade at 2 and used a speed setting of 8 and a thickness setting of 9.
If you'd like a detailed tutorial on how to import and edit images and text in Silhouette Studio you can find one here! :)
Project was shared here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.


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I've been quite stressed lately. Again, you already know this because I need to learn to keep my mouth shut. Work has been kicking my ass. Funny because there are technically no projects I'm assigned to work on. Therefore, I'm working on all projects because everyone thinks I'm free. I guess it's just hard working for such a lean company sometimes; they're perpetually short of hands. Of course there are always benefits as my Google friends are about to experience. Damn them and their stock options!!!
To add to an already stressful week, Hwimori's (Korean drumming group I'm part of) spring show is this Sunday and I feel grossly underprepared. Not to mention three hour rehearsals after work make me a bit tired.
In other news, my car is now coming the beginning of July. Woohoo!! I had no idea this wait was going to be this much torture. I should've known.


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Enjoy the world-famous traditional Cologne Carnival and several top events throughout the year.
The world's largest computer games trade show 'Gamescom' is moving up to the next level. From August 20 to August 24, 2019, numerous new game products and hardware innovations will be showcased at the Cologne trade fair.
From August 21 to August 25, Cologne will be transformed into a Mecca for gamers. At Gamescom, the trade show for interactive games and entertainment, exhibitors will be showcasing all novelties in the gaming sector. The latest computer and console games will be on display in the large 'entertainment area' . Visitors can test out the games even before their release.
355,000 visitors came to the cathedral city last year in order to experience the world's largest event for interactive entertainment live. Numerous international market leaders and well-known companies in the computer and video games industry show their new products at the Cologne fairgrounds. (Photo: Koelnmesse)
gamescom 2019
Date: August 20 to 24
Place: Kölnmesse - trade fair (city map)
WWW: www.gamescom-cologne.com
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Barbie: In The Pink Shoes Join Barbie as Kristyn, a ballerina who discovers a magical pair of pink shoes that take her to a fantastical ballet world. There, she dances as a star in famous ballets, and magically, her dreams come true.
Scooby-Doo!: Mask of the Blue Falcon When the gruesome villain Mr. Hyde unleashes monster bats, howling hounds and sinister slime upon the Mega Mondo Pop Cartoon-a-Con, it's time for Mystery Incorporated to follow the clues and set their monster traps. But it's the pizza-snacking, super-powered tag team of Shaggy and Scooby-Doo who tap into their inner super hero to prevent the entire event from being smothered in ghoulish green goo!
Cheerful Weather for the Wedding On the day of Dolly Thatcham's wedding, the sight of her former beau leads her to realize that going ahead with the ceremony would be a huge mistake. Dolly's mother tries valiantly to maintain order in this refined comedy set in the 1930s.
Stand Off Unable to pay a gambling debt to a local mobster, Jimbo robs a fish market. But when he realizes the mobster owns the market he held up, he goes on the run with his baby son, soon winding up in a curio shop with several quirky hostages.
A Royal Affair In 18th-century Denmark, the unstable King Christian IV neglects his young queen, Mathilde, who falls in love with his German physician, Struensee, an intellectual whose advocation of reform transforms the country but brings about his own downfall.
Chasing Mavericks This thrilling biopic tells the story of legendary surfer Jay Moriarity's quest to ride the monstrous Northern California waves at Mavericks -- and details his close friendship with surfing mentor Frosty Hesson.
Day of the Falcon To find peace after a long and bloody war, two kings declared a large piece of desert, the Yellow Belt, neutral territory, which neither king can claim. But when it is discovered that there is oil in the Yellow Belt, one king breaks the peace treaty and begins drilling for oil.
Lincoln Director Steven Spielberg takes on the towering legacy of Abraham Lincoln, focusing on his stewardship of the Union during the Civil War years. The biographical saga also reveals the conflicts within Lincoln's cabinet regarding the war and abolition.
The Comedy Aging hipster Swanson is inured to his life of privilege in New York, where he will inherit his father's wealth. Instead of doing anything meaningful with his time, Swanson engages in meaningless games of casual cruelty with his equally numb friends.
The Eye of the Storm A woman recently divorced from a French prince and her washed-up actor brother return home to Australia, hoping to reconcile with their dying mother. But neither is prepared for the ensuing drama that brings the dread of their childhood back to life.
Union Square Jenny has been avoiding her family -- especially her sister Lucy -- for years, and is on the brink of marriage when Lucy erupts back into her life. With her own world in crisis, Lucy soon manages to upend Jenny's as well in this smart Bronx comedy.
The Collection After escaping the dungeon of a serial killer, a man is forced to return to the house of horrors to help save a woman now in the killer's clutches. The squad of mercenaries leading the rescue must first find their way through a maze of lethal traps.
Easy Money Author Jens Lapidus's riveting crime thriller hits the screen with its intricate story about three criminals whose lives collide as they try to make it big. The deadly chain of events is initiated by escaped con Jorge (Matias Padin), who's battling the Serbian mob. Jorge's scheme to steal a fortune in cocaine is abetted by impoverished con artist J.W. (Joel Kinnaman) and enforcer Mrado (Dragomir Mrsic). But can they win their high-stakes game?
Killing Them Softly Brad Pitt plays a slick and brutal enforcer assigned to investigate a robbery that targeted a high-stakes poker match run by his mob bosses. His methods feature plenty of violence and intimidation, backed up by timely lies and treachery.
Shana: Season 3: Part 1 Yuji disappeared the fateful night he was supposed to choose between a life combatting evil by Shana's side or as a normal teenager. He returns from near-death to lead the Crimson Denizens in a dubious plot to bring peace to the universe--but Shana isn't fooled. In an explosive reunion, the fiery warrior faces her unlikeliest of foes while Flame Hazes from across the world join forces to ignite a war that will determine the fate of all supernatural kind."
UFC: Best of 2012: Year in Review This action-rich retrospective presents the epic bouts and jarring knockouts from UFC's 2012 events, along with exclusive behind-the-scenes footage. Highlights include the all-out brawl between Dos Santos and Velasquez II at UFC 155.
Step Up to the Plate Acclaimed French chef Michel Bras passes the torch (in this case his namesake restaurant) to his son Sébastien in this intimate documentary. The eatery, its mouth-watering cuisine and Michel's mammoth reputation are all virtual co-stars.


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Asrafrate: So my phone is currently in transit. According to the tracking details it's at the local FedEx facility in Singapore.
Does anyone know how long it takes for stuff to arrive? (this is a Mobicity shipment.)
PM sent with full tracking details of my Mobicity supplied SGS2. It was four days to a main centre, five to others.


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Vlad the Impaler Tepes (1431-1476) was born in Transylvania in 1431, son of the famous war lord Vlad II and the Princess of Moldavia. He had two older half-brothers and a younger full brother. In his birth year Vlad's father travelled to Nuremberg where he was honoured with the Order of the Dragon, and was granted the surname Dracul after his induction into the Christian Military Order of the Dragon. In 1436, Vlad II Dracul ascended the Wallachian throne.
When Vlad II was called to a diplomatic meeting in 1442 with Sultan Murad II, he brought his young sons along. But the meeting was a trap: all three were arrested and held hostage. Vlad II was released, but he had to give his sons to the Ottoman court.
Vlad II was ousted in 1442 by rival factions in league with Hungary, but secured Ottoman support for his return, agreeing to pay the tax on non-Muslims to the Sultan!! At 11, Vlad III was imprisoned and whipped because of his verbal abuse towards his captors. These years presumably had a great influence on the young man's character and led to Vlad's hatred for the Ottoman Turks, Janissary military corps, brother Radu for converting to Islam and the young Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II. He also distrusted his own father for trading him to the dreaded Ottoman Empire.
Note again that the boys' father, Vlad II Dracul, got the support of the Ottomans, returned to Wallachia and took back his throne from Basarab II and some unfaithful Boyars. But dad was ousted as ruler of Wallachia by the boyars and was killed in the Wallachian swamps in 1447. Vlad's older brothers were tortured, blinded and buried alive.
Vladislav II took Wallachia over. But once Vlad III was freed by the Ottomans, he killed Vladislav with his own hands.
In 1453, Constantinople fell to the Ottomans, threatening all of Europe with an invasion. In his battles to protect the home land, Vlad III became famous as a brute who took sadistic pleasure in torturing and killing. His weapons of choice were: the kilij, a curved Turkic sword, good for chopping bodies and the halberd an axe blade, topped with a spike on a long shaft and a hacking hook.
In 1462 invading Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II fled, after seeing the carnage: 20,000 decaying impaled corpses being eaten by crows in Vlad's capital: Târgoviște.
Pro-Vlad propaganda started appearing, including Vlad's portraits, his weapons, captured enemies and religious images. One splendid religious image appeared on the altar piece of the Church of St Maria Vienna, painted in 1460.
Vlad III was a cunning tactician, even when vastly outnumbered. He was widely credited with bringing security to Wallachia and strengthening its economy; he built new villages for the peasants and encouraged the production of new agriculture. Trade became an important source of development and revenue.
Most importantly his Orthodox Christian victories over the invading Ottomans were celebrated throughout Wallachia, Transylvania and the rest of Europe, especially by Pope Pius II (ruled 1458-64). In a very real sense, Vlad was the Christian gatekeeper of Europe. But at what cost? The total number of Vlad III's victims was c80,000. PLUS he also had whole villages and fortresses burned to the ground.
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The reputation of Vlad's cruelty was even more actively promoted by Matthias Corvinus (1430-90), King of Hungary & Croatia from 1458 on. Corvinus smeared Vlad's political credibility on purpose, to build up his own standing.
Romania's capital city was first mentioned as Bucuresti in 1459, when it was recorded in a document of Vlad III. In that same year, during Vlad III's rule, the Old Princely Court was built as a palatial residence. Archaeological excavations have been very successful recently, and now the site is operated by the Municipality in Bucharest's historic centre.
Each ruler extended the princely residence, built large cellars and surrounded it with stone walls. Today Dracula's Castle, near the town of Bran, is a major tourist attraction, even though its connection with Vlad is uncertain.


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Dried Gourds for Sale
Our unfinished dried gourds for sale are washed and ready for crafting. Some of our gourds are grown here in New York while others come from gourd farms in Lancaster, PA.
Please remember that the gourds for sale are a product of Mother Nature, which means they may have some small blemishes or color variations. Please contact me if you have any questions.
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This problem has come and gone over the past year, but now it seems to be here to stay.
Go to start up Maximizer on one particular work station and get this message. The other work stations have no issues.
Original Post
The first step would be to check that the SQL Server instance that hosts your Maximizer database is actually running. You can do this by following these steps on the SQL Server Box:
If these services are running then I would expect the problem is that the computer which is running Maximizer cannot reach the computer which is running SQL over the network.
This article suggest some steps to take to resolve SQL connectivity issues:


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Community Spotlight
Posted on September 19, 2014 in Community Spotlight
This summer, the North Region enjoyed helping out in communities and participating in many events. We would like to thank our customers, team members and communities for helping us make this summer enjoyable, valuable and memorable. As we transition into fall, we look back on some of the highlights from the past few months.
The Gaylord Area Chamber of Commerce hosted their 50th Annual Alpenfest from July 15th – 19th. The event included five days of festivities including a parade, carnival, kid's games and contests, pancake breakfast, ethnic food, live entertainment and the World's Largest Coffee Break! Alpenfest is also Gaylord's unofficial annual homecoming weekend, with former residents returning to enjoy the festivities. This year, Dollar the Silver Squirrel joined in the fun and walked in the parade with the Chemical Bank team, sporting his pair of specially crafted lederhosen! Make sure to join the Gaylord community and Chemical Bank team at next year's Alpenfest!
Thank you to our employees and community partners for participating in the Relay for Life programs each year! Our North Region employees enjoy participating both individually and as a team by donating, fundraising or helping plan Relay events for the following counties: Arenac, Crawford, Iosco, Mecosta, Missaukee, Montcalm, Ogemaw, Osceola, Roscommon and Wexford. We appreciate the dedication and support our community members and Chemical Bankers provide to reach the lives of those in need.
Have you visited our redesigned website yet? Chemical Bank is pleased to provide you with an enhanced website experience, which offers many new features including:
- Homepage login – If you're an ePersonal Banking customer, you will now be able to enter your username when visting our new site. Once your username is entered, you'll be taken directly into ePersonal Banking where you can access your accounts.
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Visit ChemicalBankMI.com today and let us know what you think of our new website.
What a great summer for the West Region! We hope you had the chance to come out and enjoy some "fun in the sun" with Chemical Bank as we participated in many community activities. Don't worry if you missed us this summer, we have plenty of great events in store; however, before we transition into a new time of year, please join us in looking back at a couple of past summer events that brought about great times and community spirit.
This year we celebrated the 10th Anniversary of the Chemical Bank 5K Run/Walk. Chemical Bank's 5K took place on July 26th in Byron Center with more than 800 runners and walkers participating. In honor of our 10-year anniversary, we were able to make two special donations. Before the start of the race Joel Rahn, Regional Bank President, presented $5,000 checks to Byron Community Ministries and Buist Community Assistance Center. The Chemical Bank 5K also benefits other local organizations, such as Byron Center High School, South Christian High School, Kent County CERT, A-T Children's Project and Families of SMA. We want to thank everyone who made this race possible from our sponsors, participants and volunteers … without you we wouldn't be able to give back to our community!
On June 2nd, Chemical Bank was the proud title sponsor of the 29th Annual Wedgwood Christian Services Charity Golf Classic. More than 425 golfers took to the course at the beautiful Egypt Valley Country Club. This year's event was one of the largest charity golf events in West Michigan, raising more than $218,000 to support at-risk youth and families!
One of the many benefits of being a Community Bank is participating in all of the county fairs, which provide a great way to support local communities. Over the summer, Chemical Bankers volunteered at many fairs throughout the West Region to offer a helping hand with the events while enjoying the entertainment and festivities. Chemical Bank knows that county fairs are an important facet of the community, which is why we purchase animals and clerk livestock auctions in support of Michigan 4-H clubs and members. Please do not hesitate to stop and say hello to a Chemical Bank representative the next time you see them at your local county fair!
The Chemical Bank team believes it's important to be active participants in helping the communities we serve. Our West Region employees recently hosted a friendly competition where employees were asked to contribute small plastic bags and peanut butter. More than 500 jars of peanut butter and 500 boxes of bags were collected and donated to Kids' Food Basket in Grand Rapids.
The East Region enjoyed a busy summer while participating in plenty of festivals and activities throughout the communities we serve. We would like to thank everyone who attended and helped make these events possible! Now that we're in the fall season, let's take a look back on a summer that made for a truly enjoyable, valuable and memorable experience for Chemical Bankers and East Region communities alike.
At home and on the street – as summer began, Chemical Bank employees measured, pounded nails and painted houses as part of the Saginaw, Midland and Freeland Habitat for Humanity projects. In the Mt. Pleasant community, everyone welcomed in the summer with their annual Tour de Mt. Pleasant, and Chemical Bankers helped out registering bikers prior to the race.
A blast from the past – Chemical Bank was excited to be the presenting sponsor of The Steam Railroading Institutes 2014 Train Festival, held June 20th – 22nd in Owosso. The festival brought people from all over the country to see several historic steam and diesel trains on display, including the 1225 Polar Express, Little River and Leviathan, just to name a few. Visitors had the opportunity to climb aboard and tour the cabs, take pictures, view demonstrations and blow the whistle of these magnificent trains. A giant model Lego train was on exhibit and awed visitors of all ages. Chemical Bank employees helped as volunteers counting money and manning the admission table for the festival. The festival also included a "wings" section which offered rides on a B-17 plane, and vintage cars were on display.
Celebrating good times – July marked the beginning of summer with parades and festivals. Chemical Bank sponsored the Auburn Cornfest, Bay City Ballads and Brews, Midland River Days and the Farwell Lumberjack Festivals.
What's next – With the fall season already moving along, there are plenty of exciting activities that we are excited to be a part of and proud to support. Visit the Community section of our redesigned website at ChemicalBankMI.com/about/community to see what events are happening in your area!
If you haven't had a chance to tour our new website, we encourage you to visit ChemicalBankMI.com and experience new features, such as:
- Homepage login – If you're an ePersonal Banking customer, you will now be able to enter your username when visiting our new site. Once your username is entered, you'll be taken directly into our ePersonal Banking system where you can access your accounts.
- Separate Personal, Business and Wealth Management homepages – Information has been organized into separate sections based on the type of information that you are looking for.
- Improved navigation across the site and new site search functionality.
- Email and Text Communications: Sign up to receive eCommunications and Text Communications from Chemical Bank!
Summer may be gone, but Chemical Bank's community spirit remains warm and bright all year long! As the South Region looks forward to many of the upcoming community events this fall, we give summer a kind farewell by looking back on the activities that Chemical Bank participated in.
Chemical Bank takes every opportunity it gets to give back to the communities we serve. Our Battle Creek and Marshall teams partnered with Junior Achievement of Southwest Michigan and taught a five week, activity-based economic program in every class at the Coburn Elementary K-5th grade school in Battle Creek, reaching a total of 265 students!
Following the completion of the course, Coburn Elementary held a celebration assembly where each student received an achievement certificate. Dollar the Silver Squirrel was on hand to celebrate with the children and to help our bankers hand out backpacks filled with goodies and school supplies to every student. We are grateful for partnerships such as these because not only do we have the opportunity to impact the lives of many students, but the students impact our lives as well.
The 3rd Annual Race for YMCA presented by Chemical Bank took place on July 19th in St. Joseph, where over 450 runners and walkers enjoyed the 5K and 10K course along beautiful Lake Michigan and the St. Joseph River. Over 45 Chemical Bank volunteers assisted with registration, hospitality, aid stations, as well as course set-up and directions. All proceeds benefited the Benton Harbor – St. Joseph YMCA's Annual Support Campaign.
Chemical Bank's Kalamazoo Community Bank was proud to partner with the Family Health Center and the Kalamazoo Promise to make their Back-to-School Bash a huge success this summer. Over 1,500 children attended the August 15th celebration that featured carnival games, bounce houses, concessions and live entertainment while also promoting good health. Each child received a backpack, donated by Chemical Bank, filled with school supplies to start their school year.


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People are getting confused whether the leaked pics of Thor's new weapon is Stormbreaker or Jarnbjorn. So, before clearing this speculation let me give you guys a brief introduction of Jarnbjorn.
Jarnbjorn is an axe like weapon that was used by Thor before he became worthy for Mjolnir. In the 9th century, Thor made many attempts to lift Mjolnir but failed again and again so instead of that he used Jarnbjorn as his regular weapon.
Jarnbjorn is easily one of the Sharpest weapons on earth that is capable of cutting virtually everything. This weapon can be used to defend against any attack and it can also burst the energies like Apocalypse's optic beam. Apart from that because of Thor's own enchantment with his own blood, Jarnbjorn can pierce the armour of Celestials as well.
Comparison between Jarnborn and Stormbreaker
We have already told you guys that Jarnborn is an axe while Stormbreaker's one side looks like a hammer while other resembles an axe. So, they both look completely different from each other.
Why is this toy not Jarnborn?
The photos of the toy of Thor with his new hammer is creating a lot of buzze. This mysterious weapon resembles many weapons used by Thor in the comics. But according to us, the weapon that we will see in the Avengers Infinity War is a mix up of Both Mjolnir and Jarnborn which given the name of Stormbreaker.
All of us know that Thor lost his iconic hammer in the fight with her sister Hela in the last year's release Thor Ragnarok. Since then many rumours of how Thor will get his hammer back has been making rounds in the Hollywood. But clearing all speculations finally a post shared by Reddit gave us the first look of Thor's New Hammer in Avengers: Infinity War. Have a look.
A toy of Thor with his new hammer has been revealed a few day ago. This toy gives the best possible look at what we will get to see in Infinity War. The appearance of this hammer is very different from the Mjolnir. One side of it looks like an axe and other looks like a hammer with a very long wooden handle. This new hammer is also known as the Stormbreaker.
Here's a NEW Look at Thor's Hammer-Axe Hybrid Stormbreaker in Avengers Infinity War. #Thor #AvengersInfinityWar pic.twitter.com/wSb3ax3gAJ
— Tom™ // Comissions are Open (@TH0R0DINS0NS) 16. Februar 2018
Fans around the world are going crazy over this new Hammer. People are really excited to know its powers and the abilities. Well, we have brought the best available information about this new hammer 'Stormbreaker'.
Origin of Stormbreaker
Beta Ray Bill a very powerful MCU character defeated Thor in a fight to get his Mjolnir. But as soon he defeated him he realizes that Thor is the real worth of this hammer and not him. So, he refused to accept or take that from Thor and after that Odin gives him a similar kind of weapon (Stormbreaker) as a reward because he has won the battle against Thor. This weapon was built by dwarf blacksmiths by using the same kind of metal with which Thor's hammer was made.
Must read: 13 Characters who can defeat mighty Thanos.
But how Thor got Stormbreaker from Beta Ray Bill is a real mystery. There's a very little chance of showing the lengthy history of this new weapon in the Avengers: Infinity War. As the initial footages that we have of Stormbreaker are quite different from the comic version.
Click here to get another close look at Thor's new hammer Strombreaker.
It looks like that the Stormbreaker we will get to see in the Infinity War is an ultimate or a modified Mjolnir. Some other theories about this mysterious hammer of Thor are also available on the internet.
One Such theory is that looking at the primitive toy images of Stormbreaker it has a long handle with a leaf on it and it looks like to be made from Groot's body. As in the trailer we have seen Thor is in the spaceship of Guardians of Galaxy so the Groot might have helped him to rebuild his Hammer which is being named as Stormbreaker.
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As artists, we have to find the antidote to this darkness right now, to how everything feels so compressed rather than expanded.
Meredith Monk
In Basel, I smoked hash and listened to Sophie's "Bipp," a little out of date by the time I heard it, zoning out on the line I can make you feel better. I used to think life was about feeling better and searching for the better in what is not. I have now realized that there are errors in this pursuit.
The journalist in one of the first videos I saw online was beheaded. Thirteen years later it feels much the same: I can make you feel better. The four of us—myself and Theo, Stefan, and Sasha, the boys I befriended when I first visited Switzerland—watched clips of animals rolling in the grass, a grandmother reacting to a shock video, a French bulldog on its back, unable to get up. There is a thing called star-wasting disease and we watched a video about that too, though no one I met in Switzerland seemed to understand what it meant to see those starfish die along the west coast of North America. Old viral videos remain funny, to my surprise. Sasha—a curator and editor of a magazine of writers and artists responding to the idea of hiking, Trail—asked when I grew a little quiet, "You okay?"
"I just really like this song." Whatever your heart decides, whatever you need.
We partied from evening into the following day, during and after the opening of a show at the Kunsthalle Basel. Early in the morning, on the same day I was due to fly out of Zurich, all these boys, including Stefan, whom I had spent my brief time there hooking up with, took shrooms and blissed out until noon. I drifted to the back of the apartment where I fell asleep in a guest room, near Lena, until they dragged her out to smoke, drink, and get naked as the sun rose. I stayed in bed, half-awake, wondering what time would be appropriate to quietly take an early train back to the Zurich airport.
At 1pm, Sasha jumped in the bed, screaming, "I can see the color matrix in your face!" He placed his hands to my cheeks and squeezed: "There it is, right there."
In January, I took a flight from New York to Zurich to read my work—I'm a poet, though I felt increasingly uncertain about calling myself one, or for that matter, any kind of writer—at the LUMA Foundation as part of a poetry event hosted by the curators Hans Ulrich Obrist and Simon Castets. They called it Poetry Will Be Made By All!, though I wasn't sure it would be.
The LUMA Foundation, which funded the three days of programming, is an arts organization that promotes Swiss and international artists in multidisciplinary practices. When I received my invitation, I read the email several times to make sure I understood: Come to Zurich. Read your work. Then leave. We'll cover everything. The LUMA Foundation does not have a website. It does have a Facebook page. It felt like a joke, but I accepted and also thought: Maybe I'll just stay on?
Using Craigslist, I found a Parsons student named Claire to sublet my apartment for three weeks. She came to the apartment within an hour of responding to my post. I went out to meet her in the street. Tall, with a pink bun of hair resting on top of her head, she extended her hand to me, but before I could take it she was already upstairs, circling the kitchen with her index finger on her lips. "OK, yes," she said. She gave me $1400 and the next day I took an evening flight to Zurich, arriving the next morning, in view of the Alps, to what felt—surprisingly—like the start of a vivid spring.
When the Berlin Wall fell Eastern Europe was said to "open up." Switzerland is situated between Eastern and Western Europe, sort of—between France and Germany, whose divisionary relationship bleeds out into various linguistic skirmishes across the country. What's in French, what's in German, what's in Italian, what's in English? When the Wall came down actor and singer David Hasselhoff stood on top of it in a black leather jacket studded with lightbulbs and a piano-key-print scarf. Above the audience of united Berliners, he sang his lone hit, "Looking For Freedom," his hands waving frantically. One morning, in June / Some twenty years ago / I was born a rich man's son.
At the LUMA Foundation, I was most impressed by the sound artist Karl Homqvist, who performed loose covers of recent pop songs, like Beyoncé's "Flawless." Leaning into the microphone, he droned: I woke up like this, I woke up like this, I woke up like this, dipping in and out, and into other songs, like Jay-Z's "Tom Ford," chika, chika, chika, chika, chika, chika, chika, chika, chika, chika, chika, Tom Ford. Tom Ford. Tom Ford. Beyoncé had just released her eponymous fifth album, and collectively it seemed no one fully understood what exactly Beyoncé was.
Before the opening at the Kunsthalle Basel, we continued to watch videos, getting high on hash. We dared one another to watch ever stranger, uglier clips from the deep web: fail videos, then car accidents, then various disasters that most certainly ended in the brutal deaths of most, if not all, involved. Finally, and logically, we watched videos sourced from Tor, including the cell-phone video of Saddam Hussein's hanging and other famous executions, the death of Daniel Pearl, the public killing of Qaddafi as the rebels pushed him up against the truck.
The journalist exited the cab in front of the Metropole. It was a winter evening, but since it does not get very cold in Karachi, he left his jacket unbuttoned. He had not checked out the menu of the restaurant beforehand and this occurred to him as something he should have done. It was something he normally did. Increasingly, in Afghanistan, he felt defined by breaks in habit: no longer capable of finding a morning coffee and bagel, he turned to figs and bolani from the closest market. Tired of that, he moved onto German yogurt bought cheap at a grocery. He thinned out, but it made him look even more handsome, which surprised him. He hadn't been so skinny in years.
His handsomeness—he was always so "handsome" growing up—made him stand out in crowds, whether in New York or London or Delhi or Karachi. This is what everyone noticed about him first: What a handsome man. His mother: Isn't my son so handsome? His wife: You're so handsome! It proved to be an advantage so often he rarely thought of it. His face looked respectable, smart, trustworthy; it couldn't be turned away. In the mirror he would grip his chin with his right hand, moving his jaw from left to right to see how it altered him. He never thought about this habit, but it had been part of his daily morning routine for years. For his whole life, he thought of himself as simply intelligent—a person whose good looks were entirely secondary to any of his many career accomplishments. His life as a journalist was based on a relentless "chase of facts," a cliché he himself often used, so crystalizing of his ambitions that he never gave it a second thought. Handsomeness was nothing.
A white van approached as he paid for the cab. He withdrew cash from his back pocket and asked the driver to write up a receipt. He leaned against the cab and waited as the driver rummaged through a bag for a piece of paper.
Three men leapt out of the van and grabbed him, covering his mouth with a dirty, oily cloth that immediately made him dizzy. They dragged him back toward the van as the cab driver rolled up his window, screaming, and drove off. The journalist didn't resist, as they expected him to. He tensed up without a sound. The way to handle this, he thought, is to do what they say.
In the van, they tied him up with a cord. They bound the cloth to his mouth with electrical tape, wrapping it around his entire head. He struggled with this, especially as the cloth began to push past his lips and into his mouth, touching his tongue. They pushed him back, into the corner of the van, where two large men held him down, one by the shoulder, another by the throat, and put a pistol to his head. In English: "You will not talk. You will not scream. Or we will kill you, OK?"
The men wrote an email from email@example.com to the US government (I wonder to whom did they send that email?) saying they will kill this journalist if their demands are not met. Release all Pakistani terror detainees and halt shipment of all F-16 fighter jets to the Pakistan government. We will give u 1 more day if America will not meet our demands we will kill Daniel. Then this cycle will continue and no American journalist could enter Pakistan.
On the train to Basel, I read aloud to Sasha, Theo, and Stefan from a novel. A young writer is contracted to write about feminism, but she struggles to do so when she realizes that she does not have any female friends. Central to the plot is an ethical question about how one should be. Being in this case is inextricably linked to questions of friendship, love, and how the two intersect—and often split. Splits inform the novel's narrative arc. The protagonist splits up with her husband, with her friends, with her home country. She moves around, in the company of friends and strangers, from person to person, city to city. For the protagonist of this novel, it is difficult to maintain love and friendship, especially as they intertwine. She leaves Toronto for New York. She goes to Miami and feels a tingling alienation while drifting in a pool. She finds nothing in the places she goes. She lives in a New York apartment for a few weeks and looks for things to do, but she has only herself to do, to be among those who do not really know her. It is exhausting—and out of exhaustion she returns to Toronto.
"Do you think this book is any good," Sasha asked me after I finished reading aloud the part about Miami.
"I don't know," I said.
Later on the train, Theo told us a story about the time he went on holiday with his family in Lebanon. After their first week in the hotel, a large barricade was set-up around the resort complex. The lobby and all the hotel's floors filled with Americans in black suits. Lebanese tanks surrounded the walls of the complex and a military envoy arrived with—it was rumored—President Obama, just recently elected President for the first time. "We couldn't go anywhere!" Theo told us. Even though the hotel denied that the President was staying there to all the guests who asked, the beefed up security made it very difficult to leave the hotel, or even your room, without a full search and questioning. "I don't understand," Theo told the guards after his third search in a day. "We were here before the President. We didn't even know."
"Stop, stop right there. The American President is not here," the guard said as he patted him down. "This is just normal security procedure due to an unusually high profile guest."
The President was there. On the third day of his stay Theo saw him enter the hotel with his entourage and head toward the elevators. The American President was tall, lanky, and walked with an obvious enthusiasm rooted not only in his recently won power—Theo felt—but in how good-looking he was. Theo and his brother, Walter, thought he was very handsome. "Incredibly handsome," Walter said to their mother, who was surprised to learn that the rumors were true.
Later, by the pool, Theo wrote a letter to Barack Obama asking if he would make him a drawing to return to Switzerland with. He wrote:
Mr. President,
My name is Theo Schwartz. I am an artist from Zurich, Switzerland. I am a tremendous fan of you and if I were an American I would have voted for you.
Would consider making me a drawing? I know you are not an artist, but I would be very, very interested in what you would make. It can be small and simple, of course.
I am in Room 303, on the third floor. Perhaps someone can deliver it to me? Alternatively you can leave it with the front desk.
Thank you.
Theo gave the letter to the concierge, who eyed him suspiciously. "The President is not staying here," he said. "I cannot deliver this letter to a guest who is not here." He kept it anyway, and later that afternoon when Theo returned from a day in the city the Secret Service whisked him to a room on the top floor. They interrogated him for several hours, asking how he knew the President was at the hotel and what his interest was in him anyway. "We don't play games," they said. They didn't. When Theo returned to his room, the sheets and suitcases were disheveled and the television no longer worked. He tried to change the batteries in the remote and called downstairs to the front lobby but they said there was nothing they could do. "How can that be?" Theo asked.
"We are very sorry, sir, but we are currently receiving a number of issues related to televisions and will be sure to send someone up soon."
No one ever came.
What would the President draw?
After the opening, we went to a Thai restaurant for a dinner. Several well-known Swiss artists and curators were there, but most I didn't recognize. Sasha whispered their names in my ear and pointed discreetly. "There, that's Adam Szymczyk. He's curating the next (d)OCUMENTA, and you know Karl of course."
I sat near Karl, who didn't want to talk about the event at the LUMA Foundation. I could not decide whether he enjoyed it or not. I could not decide whether I enjoyed it or not either. I wanted to talk to him about poetry, but I couldn't figure out how to start. Stefan sat across from me and smiled, recognizing my struggle to follow the conversation, mostly in German. I looked at him and shook my head, "I need to learn German."
Quinn Latimer is a writer who lives in Basel. At the after party at Lady Bar, she asked me what I thought about Beyoncé's new album, Beyoncé. I said I liked it and asked what the reaction was in Basel. "Muted," she said. We were surrounded by artists and curators, mostly her friends and almost no one I knew. They talked about things unrelated to art, or rather things tangentially related to art, like who is sleeping with who and why so-and-so isn't sleeping with so-and-so (anymore).
Quinn wrote a review of Poetry Will Be Made By All!
The poetry symposium was held at the LUMA Foundation's Westbau exhibition space in the Löwenbräukunst building, and was cocurated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Simon Castets, Conceptual poet and Ubuweb founder Kenneth Goldsmith, and Danny Snelson (with a side of film organized by Kevin McGarry). It lifted its name from the 1969 exhibition, curated by Ronald Hunt at Stockholm's Moderna Museet, 'Transform the world! Poetry must be made by all!' The utopian promise of that 1960s-summer title rang strangely in the bright-white, corporate-concrete confines and high-art-market temple of Maja Hoffmann's new LUMA space, built out here with specially commissioned bookcases by Atelier Bow-Wow. For if, at one point, Goldsmith would cry out fervently from the lectern that 'Poetry has left the building' (substituting poetics for Elvis in that equation, naturally) he would do so from a newly remodeled art-gallery complex funded by the billionaire heiress to the Roche pharmaceutical fortune and the president of Kunsthalle Zürich.
And then she wrote:
But we wouldn't hear anything about the cerulean-chip art context and Western class privilege conditioning this meeting. Not when Goldsmith would offer, during a roundtable held the second day that 'the democracy of poetry is what freaks people out—that anyone can be a poet. What if anyone can do this? What if we don't need the exclusivity of visual art?' It's olde oratory, but relit in the laptop glow of digital poetry distribution and Conceptual poetry's appropriationist praxis. Still, Obrist, texting nearby, likely felt the rays of irony bouncing off the physical and digital walls.
I heard a rumor that this post upset the LUMA Foundation's head to the point that she said she had regretted funding the show. I was not upset when I read the review, even though one part of it quoted me out of context. Quinn and I discussed the distinctly Conceptual bent to the entire event, which I qualified as very on-trend in New York's poetry community. I said the focus had shifted from concerns of language (re Language) to concepts (re Conceptualism), and that lyrical poetry—poetry explicitly about the "play" of language—had become unfashionable. This became:
'In the poetry world in the past few years it became uncool to talk about language,' a New York–based poet born in the '90s told me over beers in a Basel-based bar in 2014, in the Year of the Horse, post 89plus. Doubt seemed to stain the substance of his sentence even as he delivered it, though perhaps that doubt was only a projection of my own. That said, our collective doubt, now doubled, made us move onto topics less in doubt: Beyoncé's recent triumph, visual album, feminist interstitial. Bey and pop music and feminism had not been irrelevant to our days of poetry in Zurich: Holmqvist had laconically lifted her best new line and move—'I woke up like this,' hands flip/shake—for the poem he droned, perfectly.
I was not born in the 1990s. I woke up like this—but not without a little embarrassment. Responding to my quote, someone wrote on Facebook: Which bratty fuck said this? I thought I should publicly admit that I was that bratty fuck, now installed in the Alps, and that I had been misquoted, but I decided against it. Either way I had been drunk. I didn't know what I was talking about. I had been talking about Beyoncé, not poetry.
In Mexico City, Preteen Gallery tweets: Don't look back unless I'm fucking you. A line that perfects the tone everyone's after, I guess, myself included, at least when I'm on Twitter—a tone not exactly indifferent as it accelerates toward a horizon so bleak it might as well not be there at all. Yet we nevertheless feel swept toward it, and so go along. Don't look because what's there? Don't look back because I'm fucking you.
After a party following the dinner at Long Street Bar, I took out my iPhone and wrote on Facebook, drunkenly: How do you stop zoning out? A friend posted a screenshot of a wasted David Hasselhoff struggling to eat a hamburger while lying on the floor of a hotel room. Someone else wrote: Come back!
Never! :)
Daniel Pearl sat in a room for nine days, wearing a tracksuit provided to him by his captors. He was not allowed to change, though it grew increasingly soiled and uncomfortable. It absorbed his sweat and began to stink. He could hardly sleep the smell got so bad. He asked if he could change into something else but they said no. He wore it morning, afternoon, and night. He spilled soup on it twice. He urinated in it once. He wore it when the men gathered around him in front of a camera and beheaded him.
Andrew Durbin is the author of Mature Themes (Nightboat Books, 2014). His writing has appeared in Boston Review, Fence, Mousse, Triple Canopy, and elsewhere. He co-edits Wonder and lives in New York.
This excerpt is from a novel about art and fanaticism. Beginning at a cult in upstate New York, Blonde Summer traces the development of a writer as he travels from New York to California to Western Europe, flowing in and out of hallucinatory narratives that follow the lives of celebrities, writers, journalists, and artists as they succumb to drug addiction and war under the misguided belief in the value systems of art and violence.
As artists, we have to find the antidote to this darkness right now, to how everything feels so compressed rather than expanded.
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Last year they held a competition for the best Sherry cocktail and this year the competition is back.
If you think you have the most delectable tasting sherry cocktail, please follow the guidelines below and see if you are a Sherry champion!
Competition Guidelines
You may use any style of Sherry, from any bodega in Jerez, Spain.
You must tell them:
The precise recipe
The proper garnish
The ideal glass
You must explain in writing:
Why your cocktail is great
When to serve and how
The exact preparation method and steps of assemply
The perfect bar food match and why
You must provide:
A copy of the cocktail menu of the bar/restaurant where the cocktail is placed and being served
A photo of the drink (jpeg is best)
The deadline to submit your recipe is Friday, September 17th, 2010.
Submissions should be sent via email to: firstname.lastname@example.com.
The winner will receive an all expenses paid trip to Jerez, Spain and a full scholarship to Beverage Alcohol Resource 5-Day program. Of course the winner will also be featured in numerous media outlets announcing their win.


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Companies trying to attract future business leaders should focus on being environmentally friendly, as this is becoming a bigger priority for the leaders of tomorrow, new research finds.
A large number of today's business school students are placing a greater priority on working for companies with good environmental practices over those willing to pay them the most money, according to a study by researchers at Yale University in collaboration with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development and the Global Network for Advanced Management.
The study found that 44 percent of the business school students surveyed are willing to accept a lower salary to work for a company with good environmental practices, while nearly 20 percent would refuse to work for an organization with poor environmental practices, regardless of how high their salary was.
Overall, 84 percent of the students surveyed want to work for businesses with good environmental practices, while 67 percent want to incorporate environmental sustainability into their careers, regardless of their role or industry.
Peter Bakker, president and CEO of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, said the role of business in society is changing.
"Business leaders need to understand the complex nature of sustainability issues and integrate solutions for social and environmental challenges, with the need for good financial results," Bakker said in a statement. "If business schools and business can deliver against this call for change, the necessary transformation toward a sustainable future will clearly be much more impactful."
The research shows that most students think businesses should be doing more for the environment. Nearly 65 percent of those surveyed said they do not think businesses are making sufficient efforts to address environmental challenges. [Millennials Want Jobs With Social Conscience ]
The environmental issues of most concern to the students surveyed include climate change and four specific areas of resource supply: energy, air, water and natural resources/materials. A majority of the students said they believe that if these issues are not addressed, they will have negative effects on business operations in the future.
The students pointed to five key steps they believe organizations should take to improve their environmental impact:
- Address environmental sustainability goals and targets through industry collaborationsand multistakeholder partnerships.
- Measure both positive and negative impacts of their activities on environmental sustainability outcomes.
- Instigate board-level discussion and action on environmental sustainability issues.
- Practice integrated reporting of financial and environmental sustainability metrics.
- Incorporate environmental sustainability issues into discussions with financial analysts.
The study revealed that students think that, in addition to being able to attract top future talent, placing a greater emphasis on improving their environmental practices will help businesses in many other ways. They think better environmental performance will increase brand value and strengthen public trust, enhance innovation and new solutions through research and development, reduce fines and fees in an increasingly stringent regulatory environment, and improve market competitiveness.
Students also want to see more action from the business schools they currently attend. The research found that 61 percent of students think business schools need to hire more faculty and staff with expertise in sustainability, while 64 percent want more career services and counseling on sustainability-related jobs.
"Worldwide, today's business schools are being called to act from the very people we're training as leaders," said Edward Snyder, dean of the Yale School of Management.
The study was based on surveys of 3,700 students at 29 business schools worldwide.


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FC: Edward love Bella like a bee loves pollen simile noun:pollen pronoun:edward&bella vreb:loved
1: Bella and Edward could be together forever! hyperbole noun:together pronoun:Bella&Edward verb:forever
2: With Edward its do or die sometimes Alliteration noun:die pronoun:Edward verb:do | alliteration
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I have a youtube channel with over 750 Project Videos!
Hi, Thanks for visiting my website. My name is Will and if you have questions
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I have a youtube channel with over 750 Project Videos!
Hi, Thanks for visiting my website. My name is Will and if you have questions
or would like to
contribute projects or ideas you can contact me
Specific items
How to make an Xbox as a Christmas Present
Epic Fantasy If you are a fan of Epic Fantasy you should Check out my other site Castle Fiction Epic & Heroic Fantasy Resources
Little Wonders book of Star Gazing
Enjoying the pursuit of stargazing, easy to find nebulae, galaxies and more. Simple star and moon charts you can print out and use. Star Gazing Book
Make a Micro Terrarium
These tiny terrariums have become very popular over the past few years. They are small, easy to care for and easy to make. I have a complete tutorial that uses the smallest flowers in the world. How to make a Micro Terrarium
Rainforest Diorama. This easy project uses the concept of the 5 layers of the rainforest canopy as its building structure which is a nice way to learn about the rainforest The Rainforest Diorama
How to mount a sword on the Wall
Make a Model Rocket
The Wyvern Torsion catapult
Two easy pranks: Dismembered finger and rattlesnake in an envelope.
Creative Stop Motion Animation
An RC Model Airplane
The Bicycle-wheel and Bowling Ball Trebuchet - This thing is crazy. The base is three feet long and it seriously throws projectiles! Was a fun project. See the tutorial and the video. But don't build this siege engine without the help of an adult!
Make a rainbow scratch drawing Fun project that will keep you busy for a couple of hours. All you need is paper, crayons, dark paint and a pin and you can make a fun scratch drawing.
Free Paper Game: Storm The Castle an adventure..
Print, make and play this adventure game. You are a knight and you have to storm through the castle and overthrow the King! Along the adventure you run into guards, wandering beasts and more. Totally free game that you can print up, assemble and play. Including a paper dice if you don't have one. The Paper Game
My first novel- Download the whole Epic Fantasy novel for free, read the first chapter online, or purchase a paperback copy. Fulcrum Shift
My Second novel is available for purchase at online retailers. Info page:Lion's Last Kill You can also listen to it in free podcast audio as read by the author.
Third Novel Get a sneak peek at the upcoming novel including some original sketches for concept covers.
Some of my other interesting webpages
Fantasy Swords - Our new section on swords of all kinds, movie, medieval and more. Fantasy swords
Lion's Last Kill Novel Podcast -Free Audio
Rocket launch It is an assembly and launch of the Estes Big Bertha Rocket. If you want to try model rocketry this is a great one to start with. Easy to build, large size and nice flight. I have a video showing the launch and the ease of assembly: Big Bertha Rocket
Make a Tennis Ball Trebuchet - (Fast and easy)
A fast and easy trebuchet project with lots of power. How to make a tennis ball trebuchet I keep it simple and use common stuff so you don't have to spend any money.The Katana and the Watermelon
This is a series of videos and projects that are a lot of fun. First off I show you how strong the cardboard Katana is. (This katana is a project you can find further down the page). The Katana and the Watermelon, Paper Mache and Pinatas
Want to make money with your website? (The honest way) Check out my tutorial- Nothing there for sale. No pitch just honest information on how to make a website and earn some money with it. Everything you need from start to finish. Earn Honest money tutorial
The Video Rocket
This is a rocket with a video camera in the nose cone. Pretty fun stuff. It takes a video as it climbs through the air. You can see in this picture the parking lot, building and cars. I have done a couple of launches with this and have the videos. The Video Rocket
Sculpt a Miniature Sphinx : How to sculpt a miniature sphinx. This is part of an Egyptian Diorama I am making.
Make a Paper Castle (Neuschwanstein)
Took the plane out for a fly and crashed it. I had the camera mounted on the bottom so I got some great footage in the air and of the crash. Check it out on my youtube channel.
Dragonslayer 4 (The Rocket sword)This is a sneak peek view of my latest dragonslayer project. Just a quick look and a video explaining why the new dragonslayer is a sword. Dragonslayer 4 (the launch video is done!)
Make a spectacular Wall diorama for your miniatures
Make a clay Castle
Carve a miniature wooden dagger
Tatebanko Castle - Paper Diorama
Make a Medieval Flail (Ornamental)
WORLD OF WARCRAFT FOR PC- The Massive Online Role Playing game that has taken the world by storm. (It has over 5 million subscribers) If you don't have this game and you are a fan of online games then you are missing out! If you play this game then here is a list of resources to help you improve. Check out my information and resources page.
Paper Parthenon -Acropolis
The Castle in the lightbulb diorama
Add realistic rubble to your dioramas:
Black Dragon Paper Castle
A Motorized Drawbridge
Ichabod-Oddman - Caela Sculptoris
Miniatures and Painting Miniatures tutorial. Learn how to paint miniatures. In the tutorial I paint this warhorse. Painting miniatures tutorial
Make the Legolas Elven Swords
Fun little LOTR foamboard sword project with lots of options for gold decorations on the blades and handles.
Paper Game: Slay The Dragon
300 Diorama - Battle of Thermopylae
I am currently working on a three foot long diorama of the battle of the Spartans inspired by the 300 movie. It is wired for sound and lighting ( A night battle scene will be great) - I have also made it into a tutorial so you can see how I make this big diorama and you can learn how to make your own great looking dioramas. 300 Diorama
How to make a paper mache diorama
Make a Butterfly Box Easy project for raising butterflies from caterpillars. All you need is a little bit of screen and a cardboard box. Make a butterfly box
Make a cardboard battle axe or polearm Fun project for halloween or to add to your weapon repertoire How to make a cardboard battle axe
Art and Drawing
For Fantasy Writers
Milkshape 3d tutorial How to Make 3d Models for your video games Start here This is part of my series on making video games. This tutorial is comprehensive and goes right up into animation of characters.
How to make a Miniature Army (I make lizard warriors) I show you the complete process from start with an idea and a drawing to making a whole bunch of them (as many as you want), This is an overview that explains all the steps including, wire armature, sculpting the master, making the rubber mold, and making all the miniatures. How to make a miniature army
Halloween Projects!
I have a whole bunch of halloween projects you can make including of course lots of weapons and armor, gravestone, cauldron and more: Halloween Projects
Make a Clash of the Titans Perseus Sword This is a nice project where I show you how to make a Perseus sword out of cardboard. I have the complete template you can download and print up. It comes out great looking and strong. How to make a Clash of the Titans Perseus Sword
How to Cast Miniature Figures I cast duplicates of the Dwarf we sculpted. A complex figure like this uses a two part rubber mold. I take you through the whole process from making the rubber mold to casting the miniature: How to make two part rubber molds for miniatures
How to Cast Miniatures I cast duplicates of the treasure chest making a rubber mold then casting the miniature in plastic. I show you step by step how to do it. How to cast Miniatures
Make an Origami Pyramid Neat little project that is easy to make. I have lots of other origami projects too. . Make an origami pyramid
Make an Egyptian Tatebanko : This is a nice tatebanko project in Egypt. It shows the sphinx and the pyramids and it has a little caravan of camels walking across the desert. Egyptian Tatebanko
The Knight Medieval site Information about medieval knights, how they lived, their history, their weapons and more.
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Humphries Constructs 2016 Three ASID Gold award winning designs and One Silver
At the 2017 ASID Design Excellence Awards, Humphries and Company took home four Gold and Silver awards for Corporate Office spaces built out this past year, more than any other General Con..
US Builders Review Lists Humphries in Best in US for 2015
Humphries and Company is featured in the US Builders Review Best in the US. Garth Snider of Humphries explains to US Builders Review readers the many new exciting projects Humphries worked on in 201..
2015 Book of Lists--Humphries back at the top
Atlanta Business Chronicle ranked Humphries the 4th largest commercial interior contractor in Georgia by volume in 2014, and we were the largest by volume for work done by a commercial interior contra..
22 squared wins award
Humphries and Company's client 22 squared's new office was recently voted the 12th most popular by Office Snapshots. 22squared's Atlanta headquarters was constructed in 2011 by Humphries & Compa..
Humphries Constructs Six ASID Design Excellence Award Winners
On April 18, 2013 the Georgia Chapter of American Society of Interiors Designers (ASID) hosted its ASID Design Excellence Awards 2013. Of the nine awards given in the corporate office category, H..


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-Shows and Exhibitions-
Arctic Fire 2016, Anchorage Alaska; June '16. Grendel's Hoard: The Lyre of Lejre
Arctic Fire 2013, Anchorage Alaska; May '13. Invitational collaboration.
A Market Day at Birka, Concord, NH; February '13.
American Bladesmithing Society Hammer In, Auburn, ME; July '12.
Ashokan Bladesmithing Conference, Ashokan, NY; September '11
Arctic Fire 2012, Anchorage, Alaska; June '12. Invitational workshop presenter: Niello.
The Serpent in the Steel, Solo show.
Grannis Gallery, Burlington, Vermont; November, '07.
Invitational Artist, Vevring Utstillinga. (Vevring Exhibition.)
Vevring, Norway; September, '07
New York Custom Knife Show, NYC.
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Blade Show '02, Atlanta, Georgia.
Baltimore / Timonium Show, Timonium, Maryland; '01.
North East Cutlery Collector's Association Knife Shows; '01, '02.
Past & Present, Samuel Shaw Gallery.
Northeast Harbor, Maine; Fall of '01.
Night of 1000 Scars. Custom Jewelry.
Bodyart and Performance celebration at NYC's Webster Hall; October 1, '97.
Jewelers & Photographers, Maine College of Art Alumni.
Davidson and Daughters, Portland, Maine; Spring of '97.
Custom Jewelry, Modern American Body Arts.
Brooklyn, New York; Fall of '97 to '00.
Metals in Motion: A New Generation.
Fibula Gallery, Portland, Maine; Spring of '93.
Senior Show, Graduates of Maine College of Art; Spring of '93.
Senior Thesis Exhibition, Maine Coast Artists, invitational; Summer of '93.


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Onderzoek en publicaties
Research on servant-leadership at VU
- The first SLRP research projects have been completed. Over the coming years, the core SLRP faculty team has the intention to publish SL findings, building on the collective data of this course research. In some cases individual reports may also be adapted and submitted for publication.
VU BA and MSc student thesis papers on the topic of Servant-Leadership
- Completed Bachelor and MSc Thesis 2009-2016. BA, MSc or PhD students wishing to initiate research in the area of Servant-Leadership can consult the VU library for full documents.
New PhD Thesis on the subject of Servant-Leadership from Erasmus University Rotterdam
- Dr. Milton J. Correia de Sousa defended his dissertation "Servant Leadership to the Test" at Erasmus University Rotterdam on Thursday, 12 June 2014. Milton Sousa is one of SLRP core lecturers. Milton Sousa is Associate Professor Adjunct and Academic Director of the CEMS MIM at NOVA School of Business and Economics. Previously, he was Director of the MBA Programs at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University in the Netherlands.
Recent SL related publications from SERVUS network
Book releases from SERVUS network
- Li Y., Du J., and Van de Bunt S. (2015). Social capital networking in China and the traditional values of Guanxi. In: The political economy of "Wasta": use and abuse of social capital networking, Ramady, M. (editor), Springer Publishers, forthcoming. Chapter 14.
- Dierendonck, D. van and Patterson, K. (2015). Compassionate Love as a Cornerstone of Servant Leadership: An Integration of Previous Theorizing and Research, Journal of Business Ethics, (128): 119-131.
- Bunt-Kokhuis, S. van de, & Ngambi, H.C. (2014). Leadership Values in Africa and Implications for Online Learning Communities. In Goldman Schuyler, K. (editor), Leading with Spirit, Presence and Authenticity. Jossey-Bass Publishers. San Francisco, 157-178.
- Bunt-Kokhuis, van de, S. & Trompenaars, F. (2014). Servant-Leadership. Unlocking human potential in (e) organizations. ABRI Business in Society Magazine, (2): 58-59.
- Bunt-Kokhuis, van de S.& R. Peshawaria (2014). The Brains, Bones and Nerves of Servant-Leadership, REAMS Journal, University Campus Suffolk, 2. June (1) 2.
- Nuijten, I. (2014). Echte Leiders Dienen. Voor leiders die het verschil maken. Academic Service.
- Correia de Sousa, M., & Van Dierendonck, D. (2010). Knowledge workers, servant leadership and the search for meaning in knowledge-driven organizations. On the Horizon, (18): 230–239.


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it's been too long that i didn't write in my blog, but a lot happened in my life that made me not having the time to write in it.
A lot happened in these few months, I finished the MBA, Had the Advanced Scuba Diving License and Underwater Photography Certificate, Started a new hobby which is videography, I have now 2 GoPro Hero3 ( Black Edition + Silver Edition ) which are one of the Best Things I have, I bough a GlideCam HD 2000 for the stability, and Until now I didn't officially opened my YouTube Channel, but this is why I'm posting this here, To make a commitment to my goals…
So My goals for the coming year, which is not 2013 resolution, no, it is from March the 5th 2013 to March the 5th 2014, and i want to At least achieve 70% of these goals to feel satisfied that I did something special for this year, and I'm posting my goals to the public to commit to it, and I advise you to do the same…. so here we go:
I Promise -Insha' Alla- to achieve at least 70% of the following by 5th of March 2013:
1- Learn a new sport (any kind of sport, no matter where)
2- Find a University to do my PhD in it (no matter where too)
3- Have Subscribers, Readers, Fans and Followers for my Youtube channel, Blog, Facebook Fan Page and Twitter (minimum 300 for each one)
4- Create a frequent activity on the internet (at least two Blog posts and one Video per Month)
5- Travel to a country that I've never been before (Malaysia, Seychelles islands, or any of the Carribean islands)
6- Learn a new computer skill (no preference, but it should be useful for me)
7- improve the Adobe After Effect, Adobe Premier, and Adobe Photoshop skills
And If I remembered or thought about any thing i want to achieve in this year, I will update this post to stay committed to my future goals
Wish me luck people, and … Bye


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S: Manuel 1st Year
2: Progress
3: "For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well." –Psalm 139:13-14
4: Dear Lord, Even before we knew of our son, he was a breath of life, in your spirit. As parents, we commit to raise him, one in righteousness and grace. We will love each other unconditionally. We will speak of You, and pray to You, and look to You in our home. We will treasure Your Word and give it honor. We come with uncertainties, sin, and shortcomings. When we lose our way or fail in our efforts, remind us to seek you and rely on your strength.
5: We intentionally give our son to You. as a token of the gifts You have given us. We know that Your goodness is greater than ours. We trust in Your wisdom more than our own. We have faith in You, not ourselves. With devotion and admiration, we dedicate our child-yet-unseen, to You; the Lord God Almighty; Wondrous and Awesome;; May this sweet baby boy honor You all the days of his life. By grace, You will make us parents, and from grace, we pray in Your name. Amen , Michael and Nellie
6: Celebrate.....
7: To announce your arrival, on Mommy's birthday, Daddy invited the entire family over for dinner.When we were done eating, Daddy passed out cards to everyone with your ultrasound picture on it . Everyone was so excited , we danced.
8: To prepare for Manuel, while Mommy was away for work, Daddy, Uncle Robert, Aunt Jennifer and Cousin Alex decorated your 1st Room.
9: Preparing for your Arrival
10: Meaning: God is with us Named after: Manuel Hernandez
11: Meaning: Reborn Named after: Rene Hernan Salinas Jr.
12: Our Baby 8bs. 10oz. 21 inches | March 28, 2008 1:00 pm | Clear Lake Regional Hospital Dr. Joi Finley-Smith
18: Cozy in my car seat! | First
19: First | Ride
21: Ten little fingers & ten tiny toes...
28: Our little Sweetie
29: The Cutest Baby 1 Month
32: Baptism
39: "Families are like fudge ... mostly sweet with a few nuts." | MAKING MEMORIES
40: Look at that face!
41: Three Months!
47: Happy Father's Day
48: First Signing
52: Six Months
55: First Teeth
56: September 2008
57: Yum, Yum...
58: Our first family
60: Trick or Treat
63: A Day to Give Thanks
69: Play time! | I love to play! | Playtime at daycare
71: f i r s t W o r d s | momo | dada | mama | bird | Popo | grama | granpa
72: HAPPY 1st BIRTHDAY
76: 2 Months 11 lbs 6.5oz 22'' Long | 4 Months 15 lbs 2.5oz 26.5'' Long | 2 weeks 9 lbs 15oz 21'' Long
77: 9 Months 19 lbs 7oz 29.5'' Long | 9 Months 19 lbs 7oz 29.5'' Long | 12 Months 20 lbs 3oz 31'' Long | 6 Months 16 lbs 7oz 28'' Long
79: First Hair Cut
81: Time with Papa Joe & Grandma Dora
83: Time with Popo Fredo & Grandma Esme