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Arsenal are linked with Polish teenager Bartlomej Dragowski.
Arsenal are interested in signing Polish youngster Bartlomej Dragowski, report The Mail.
Dragowski plays for Jagiellonia Bialystok and is 18-years-old, but the Gunners are not the only big side interested.
The goalkeeper is also wanted by Atletico Madrid and Roma, who have both issued a willingness to stump up £2 million for his signature.
The Mail report Arsenal scouted Dragowski at the weekend, and his club have indicated they are willing to sell at £4 million.
Dragowski is a Poland under-21 international and would be following in the footsteps of countryman Krystian Bielik by moving to The Emirates.
Like Bielik, who has played one first team game and been a regular for the under-21s, Dragowski would be a project, and add depth in a key area.
With Petr Cech in goal first team opportunities will be limited, but question marks remain over the futures of David Ospina, fellow Pole Wojciech Szczesny, and Emiliano Martinez, and further down the line he could get a chance to show what he can do.
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Going to V? Why not take the train?
It's a two day festival that's set to bring a stellar line-up to Essex and Birmingham.
But with thousands of music lovers heading to V Festival (20-22 Aug 2011) to catch big-name acts like Eminem and Rihanna, car-driving festival-goers could find themselves killing time on the motorway when they should be pitching a tent or making their way to the main stage.
Swapping the car for the train could be the easiest – as well as the quickest and cheapest – way to get to V Festival.
Just take the train to Chelmsford and then board a shuttle bus to Hylands Park (£5 return) or take a train to Stafford and then board a shuttle bus to Weston Park (£8 return).
As V is an accredited green festival, festival-goers who arrive by train and shuttle bus can expect to be dropped-off within easy reach of the main entrance and camping grounds, while drivers will face a long trek from the car park to the campsite.
Festival goers can kick-off the V festivities early by taking trains to nearby London or Birmingham, and enjoying some fun in those cities before heading to V.
Taking the train to V could even leave you with more cash to spend on enjoying yourself, as you could get to V save money as well as time and petrol with cheap train fares.
Plus, you won't have to wipe the car clean of muddy wellie prints.
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This book takes you on a path of inner exploration with rituals, symbolic meanings, the psyche and magic. While it is a book aimed at a Wiccan or Pagan audience it is useful for those on the Left Hand Path who are looking for a guide to understanding the dark side of the psyche.
The dark side of the psyche holds secrets that could help you to reach personal enlightenment, and for a full understanding of magic it should be explored. This book and the exercises within helps the reader to understand the shadow self and to use it in a beneficial way.
Through Dark moon Mysteries you will be guided on Jungian analysis, focusing on the works of Joseph Campbell, allowing you to use ancient mythology as a basis for understanding the subconscious. This book also focuses on the archetypes of the Sage and Crone, who are seen as the wise and older and darker aspects of spirituality. In focusing on these figures, you can allow yourself to explore the darker side of your psyche.
There are journal exercises, guided meditations and craft projects to help you to connect to your inner spirit. Dark Moon Mysteries is an interesting book for those that are new to spirituality who want to understand that we as humans, have a dark side, and we can use it in a spiritual way for self empowerment.
A Quote from the author, Timothy Roderick, states: "The journey into the dark can help you to reconstruct and complete your power as a human being, as a mixture of both positive and negative, constructive and destructive, active and passive power…The real work of journeying into the dark involves looking inward and discovering your own voice, your own guidance, and your own power."
Dark moon Mysteries, A journey into the Shadow Self
By Timothy Roderick
Paperback: 216 pages
Publisher: Llewellyn Publications; Reprint edition (July 8, 2015)
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Part of National Museums Liverpool
The Charles Bell Tibet collection of nearly 200 objects and photo albums is an important archive of the Anglo-Tibetan encounter of the early 20th century.
Charles Bell was the Political Officer for Sikkim, Bhutan and Tibet from 1908 -1918 and having received an invitation from the thirteenth Dalai Lama he undertook a special mission to Lhasa in 1920-21; his first and only visit to the capital of Tibet.
The collection of Charles Bell is a record of his time in the Himalayas. It provides us with an insight both into Bell's work for the British India government and his personal and professional friendships with many Sikkimese, Bhutanese and Tibetan men, including Palhese, Barmiok Lama and the thirteenth Dalai Lama himself.
The collection came to World Museum after a letter arrived at Liverpool Museum (now World Museum) from the Director of Newbury Museum, in September 1949, asking if we would like to take in a, 'large collection of very fine Tibetan curios once belonging to the late Sir Charles Bell'.
The arrival of the Charles Bell collection at Liverpool Museum was to spark a major interest in collecting Tibet, which still continues today.
Explore a wide range of objects including those used in religion, writing and the home, from Buddhist statues to photo albums and from swords to beer jugs.
Many objects in this collection can be traced to important figures in modern Tibetan history including Tupten Gyatso, the thirteenth Dalai Lama.
Bell, Charles Alfred
A typed object catalogue from Bell's handwritten notes on a wide variety of objects from his personal collection. This information often contains, the date he obtained an object, its provenance (including where and who he acquired from) and the person responsible for giving him the information. The process of writing the inventory began in December 1912 and continued until the late 1930s.
Tankard, Elaine
Liverpool Public Museums
Introductory essay and catalogue entries, in themes, for the 1953 exhibition; 'Tibet', held at the Walker Art Gallery.
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Following an increase in hostilities between China and Tibet and the arrival of two thousand Chinese troops into Lhasa, the 13th Dalai Lama and a small entourage fled Lhasa during the night of 12 February 1910. Having been cut off from travelling to Mongolia they decided to head for British India and Sikkim. They rode hard with Chinese troops following closely behind them. A young member of the entourage Chensal Namgang (who would later become Tsarong Shapé), along with a small party, held back the Chinese troops at Chaksam Ferry giving the Dalai Lama time to make it to Phari, where W P Rosemeyer, a British India telegraph engineer gave him protection at a dak bungalow. The following day the Dalai Lama rode on to Yatung, where he was again given protection by David Macdonald (British Trade Agent), he finally rode on to Gnatong and to British India protection on 21st February 1910. Charles Bell was the officer in charge of the Dalai Lama and his entourage, during his time in British India and the two men developed a strong friendship during this event. The Dalai Lama was to stay in British India for over 2 years, only returning to Lhasa once Chinese troops had been removed and the intense fighting in Lhasa had stopped. This event would trigger the Dalai Lama's proclamation of Tibetan Independence in February 1913 and a series of modernising reforms.
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The British Mission to Tibet during 1903 and 1904 was an invasion of southern Tibet by British Indian forces on the pretence of negotiating trade relations between Tibet and British India. However, this was instigated primarily in the hope of preventing the Russian Empire from interfering in Tibetan affairs and thus gaining a base in one of the buffer states surrounding British India. The expedition was led by Colonel (later Sir) Francis Younghusband. It had a damaging effect on the British reputation, many Tibetans were killed and monasteries and houses were looted and/or destroyed along the way. The 13th Dalai Lama feld Lhasa before the arrival of the expedition and Younghusband negotiated, a soon to be repelled, convention with the Tibetan government or Kashag in Lhasa that was signed in the Potala on 7 Septmber 1904.
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Having retired from the Indian Civil Service in 1918, due to health problems, Bell was recalled to service in 1920. His decision to return rested upon the decision to send him to Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, a place that he had never been granted permission to visit, but which the 13th Dalai Lama had repeatedlyinvited him to. While waiting in Gyantse Bell received the call that he could proceed to Lhasa and so during November 1920, Bell, the chief medical officer Mr Dyer (who was later replaced by Col. Kennedy) and a large entourage of staff and advisors, including Palhese, Rabten Lepcha (Bell's 'photo orderly') and his Confidential Clerk, Achuk Tsering (who would die of influenza only days after reaching Lhasa) travelled to Lhasa, arriving on 17th November 1921.
Bell stayed in Lhasa for 11 months, witnessing many festivals and political disputes. His own life appears to have been in danger during the Butter Sculpture Festival, due to the 13th Dalai Lama's willingness to listen to Bell's position on taxes and developing the army, something deeply opposed by factions of the ultra conservative monastic community.
This mission was to be the highlight of Bell's career and has been described as the pinacle of Anglo-Tibetan relations in the 20th century.
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"I've always thought the main attraction of adventure is the ability it has to completely withdraw oneself from conscious thought. To shut worry and doubt up in a little recess of the mind for a while, and instead burst out across an unknown lands as a single point of blank energy, filled only with power and potential. You stagger back home after, exhausted, bent out of shape, but happy as anything—ready to go back to life knowing that—really—anything's possible."
Over the past decade Jamie has been good-fortuned enough to experience some incredible events and moments; from the world of history, replicating the journey of British explorers, to culture and the exploration of some of Central Asia's most remote archeological sites; to old-school adventures across forgotten lands, and finally in the world of sport too.
The result is that he's now accumulated a wealth of stories about places and real-life expeditioning—stuff you'll never hear from the more famous public speakers—alongside a myriad of humorous tales and anecdotes that have entertained audiences up and down the country.
Now a professional presenter, Jamie has spoken in the Houses of Parliament, on cruise ships, at festivals and schools across the country. An adept motivational and public speaker, he carries a unique flair and energy to the stage, bringing his experiences to life and also providing corporate clients motivational lessons for inspiring and achieving success—hard-earned coaching from across a decade of exploration in Asia.
Jamie is represented by Pro-Motivate Speakers Agency. To hire this speaker, book your talk now.


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After passing through an area that's really less difficult than they made it, Jeff and J.D. find they have a boss fight waiting for them. One with an oddly slimy voice that seriously should realize how evil he sounds, and a second phase where Jeff almost makes a terrible mistake!


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Do You Think Auto-Responders Suck?
While reading a discussion on using auto-responders for visitors to church congregation websites, I felt compelled to share my thoughts.
The ideas apply not only in email relationship building, but also in all online relationship building. The core is building trust.
As was stated, the concept of auto-responder email is good. It has been proven effective repeatedly in the for-profit world, because it can build trust. However, most implementation in secular and non-secular of auto-responders is terrible. Just as a greeter at a store can totally change the experience for the better or sink the relationship with the whole chain, so can poorly written email generic auto-responders. A poorly written email auto-responder can seem like a chain letter or worse.
There is a reason why communications professionals will write 50 drafts. They are working to get the best chance to communicate the intended tone and message to their audience. Just like a minister will often spend all day or all week writing a sermon to get it 'correct', and it still evolves through multiple services on a Sunday (or Friday or Saturday). Even the Bible has gone through a few revisions of the centuries to make sure its message and tone is unmistakable (perhaps it may not be done being revised to tell its story based on the number of interpretations of its messages in different denominations across the country and world).
More Recent Data – Direct Marketing
I would recommend that we look at what has a longer history then email auto-responders for how to most effectively communicate with new relationships. While still much newer then the Bible, direct marketing or direct mail has a much longer history then email. Direct marketing studies performed decades ago realized that it took seven (from letters, TV spots, Radio or in-store visits) 'touches' to get the optimum amount of interaction with a perspective person to solidify the relationship (relative to invested cost of each piece). New studies increase that to 9 or 11 touches with the increased onslaught of communications and greater sensitivity to building trust.
That is much of what is at issue here – trust. Does the new guest trust that you understand them? And do they trust they understand the 'real' congregation you represent? It becomes hard to trust that you understand someone who may not understand themselves (as may often be the case of shoppers/searchers). It becomes hard to trust, if they only meet a few people in a congregation. It becomes hard to trust if they don't have a solid referral from someone they trust (especially if they are coming from a place that did have solid referrals and it did not work out). A congregation is where many people put more trust then most any other relationship they have (including family or spouses). Visitors may not know they are looking for a place to put that much trust, but often they are.
Have you earned that trust?
Look at how would you build trust with a new relationship in an off-line manner and consider how to translate it to written form. That may include some disclosure yourself and the congregation (when the annual meeting is, how the board is elected), but often not on the 1st touch. It may include offers to be inclusive, but just as you would not propose on the 1st date, you may not invite someone to lead a group in the 2nd email. The building of trust is based on a mutual exchange of signals that show commitment on both sides. If you don't properly respond to a visitors signals you are being as rude as kissing someone who shows no interest in a physical relationship.
Of course in the age of digital tools like Constant Contact, iContact, HubSpot, InfusionSoft and many others, the best practice is to consider not creating a single one size fits all approach. Again the lessons and proof go back to the early days of direct marketing and have shown a segmented approach is best. Send a different series of letters to parents then young adults (possibly both if they are indeed young adult parents). The relationship of an empty nester will be different then many 30 year old divorcee's.
If they overlap, consider staggering your send times. Don't send them all on Mondays, send the parent letters/auto-responders on Wednesday, Young adults on Friday, etc.
Look at the rules of etiquette in similar online venues (online dating is probably the most clearly documented) and use them to create an appropriate method to build trust with new visitors and you will create many new relationships.
Auto-responders (multiple with proper spacing) can be a great tool in developing mutual trust in a new congregant, especially if it is integrated with personal touches along the way. Especially if it is show ing of the care you would take for a new parishioner. This is your chance to show you care. Does that not deserve a little more effort then 10 minutes for a one size fits all generic letter.
How much time and effort do you typically spend on your auto responder emails? How many do you use? Join the conversation below and share your wisdom.
Trying to Build a Business with Your Website?
There are a whole variety of purposes for a website. Some are for vanity, others to build community, some just for venting. But more then a few are about trying to build a business. Especially those website builders that are interested in search engine optimization, building a business is a very common site objective. With that in mind, I am often asked where to go to for resources on getting started.
I often start a discussion about 'How do I start a website?' with an exploration of what the objectives and priorities are of a website, before going into the how to.
But assuming supporting your business is your primary objective, here are a few key resources I would recommend:
- High level business plan suggestion –
MS Word Business Plan Template from Guy Kawasaki.
If you don't know who Guy is, you should. He is a thought leader in how business should be done in this millennium. Guy started his success at Apple Computer, but along the way has become a successful venture capitalist, and therefore has sat through many many business presentations good and bad.
I am listening to Guy's Reality Check (not Reality Bites the movie by Ben Stiller), and the book is a collection of Guy's blog posts over the years. These blog posts and his book echo so much the experiences of many who have been successful in growing a business and getting capital investment. He has learned what works from the perspective of what it will get someone to write a check and do a deal.
This blog post is actually a collection of resources for a Pitch (to ask for investment funding) framework, business model spreadsheet and business plan tempate. They are templates and suggestions on how to structure your communication with brevity and clarity. The key takeaway I keep sharing is: most people want to know you know your stuff, and then prove that you know by being able to communicate it with succinctness and in format that tells a story to your audience. Fail to speak to your audience and you will fail to get your objectives met.
His ALLTOP.com is also an interesting tool for trying to keep up on the information firehose in a manageable fashion. I have set it as my homepage.
- I have mentioned Seth Godin a few times. His writing is light and breezy. His insights are disturbing if you have spent too much time in school. His attitude is sacastic or worse. His effectiveness is stunning. Having proven his ability to practice what he preaches (just read or listen to the stories of his writing and how it has paid his bills very well over the years), he has great authority among many in the know. His YouTubes are fun to watch as well. But the library or AddAll.com is worth a stop for reading some of his books as well. I particularly recommend Linchpin
In spite of his light and fun writing style, I think his ideas are pretty fundamental to the way the new world is. You need to be the best or plan for painful mediocrity needing to adjust to everyone else's desires not yours. Linchpin tells the story that trying to be 2nd best or worse is hardly worth getting out of bed in the morning. Be the best – 2 ways:
- Be 'fortunate' enough to be the best in a 'standard' area of pursuit.
- Be creative enough to define your niche of being best. The key is you should be able to introduce your self as 'the best ………' in a way that everyone you meet knows it is the truth. That may be by geography, or creating a new market segment or reframing an existing segment. It may seem like cheating but it is not it is focusing and niching yourself. If you need to keep slicing your area of pursuit then keep slicing, but be the best.
- Here is the story of the marketing and passionate niche I was telling a few clients about. http://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelellsberg/2012/01/11/the-tim-ferriss-effect/ It demonstrates how the world of broadcast over narrow-casting has passed from an idea to theory finally as absolute law. Our markets are large enough (over 303million in US alone) and flat enough (ship most anywhere in the US 2 day for under 2 pounds, but so much is the speed of Internet) and segmented enough (how many Yahoo groups are there today, how many Meetup groups are there today in your area) that you need to look at business differently. So many business owners keep trying to get the 'big' publicity hit and fail to understand that most success comes from targeting the key people you want to connect with. That success from connection individually rather then exposure of many. There are other lessons, and some ideas that will not apply to you (he gets specific so they don't match everyone everytime) but concepts are important to understand the direction the world is taking.
- Explore your business using the Business Model Canvas. I have worked with many different start-ups.
Along the way, I have built a variety of questionnaires that I found very helpful for all to understand and clarify what the real objective and strategy. I would create long documents as outlines for information gathering and initial interviews. In trying to find the secret sauce of each organization was an effort. What made them unique over the 'next guy'. Business Model Generation changed my approach after decades. Having recently found this 1 page tool, I find it naturally replaces my flat mini-book of questions with a single sheet that is far more action oriented, less overwhelming to all involved and more action oriented.
An online tool for creating similar business model canvas is at Lean Canvas
And of course, there is the E-Myth Revisited by Michael Gerber. This is what I (as well as many other authors and thought leaders) consider the bible to entrepreneurial strategy. This book has literally fundamentally changed many business owners lives. But also positively changed the many employees and team members working for the those businesses for the better. It has helped many employees from continually beating their heads against the wall, making everyone's life better. Understanding why so many businesses fail can be very helpful in creating a strategy to avoid the issue yourself.
Michael has created a few empires, and a whole series of books based on his E Myth model. I have read most of them (more coming out almost monthly now targeted into specific industries), but I still recommend reading this easy and targeted parable first before an industry specific volume to anchor the story, concepts and framework the deepest. I usually recommend audio format if you are short on time for most business books, but I still have not found an audio version that is as good as his written version.
What are your favorite business resources? Do you find books the correct format for learning new business models? Join the conversation below with a your comments and help a fellow business grow.
What 1st Steps as New IT Manager Would You Take?
From a post I commented on in LinkedIn –
You are assigned the position of IT Manager in a new company. You don't know the business or the developers you'll be managing. What are the first steps you would take?
A few additions on my part:
1) Look at the 'written' /published documentation (preferably 1st) of stated goals, visions etc. They may not be accurate, but someone wanted them at some point. Ideally you have time (ha) to incorporate this perspective as you ask others how they view the issues.
2) Being 'new to the business' may imply new to the industry. Find the top 3-6 periodicals for the industry. Read as much of the last 6 months to learn the jargon and issues coming down the road in the next 2-3 years. If you are not at the leading company in the industry, these will tend to indicate what needs to be done to be competitive in the near future.
3) Take a look at previous reviews for your developers. These indicate what previous perspectives were. Even if they are totally off base, the reviewed may still be battling the criticisms in those reviews. This also allows a point of reference for areas to keep an eye on what other staff may view as issues.
4) I would look to find what may be written about your customers – whether that is blogs, press releases or trade journal for external customers, or wiki's, newsletters, blogs, annual reports for internal customers. What is written can be a starting point for conversations of how others perceive and understand the situation.
5) I suggest the SPIN approach to conversations –
– What is the Situation?
– What is the Problem(S) created by that situation?
– What is the Implication of the situation, the 'So What' of the situation?
– What is the Need of the situation, This lets you help set your priorities described in previous posts.
6) Keep a sense of humor – seldom is it that life or death, and your attitude can build far more bridges than the 'perfect' knowledge or a perfect plan written yesterday.
Large SKU Sites-Understanding the True Need with a SPIN Through the Warehouse and Website (part 2)
The next few blogs posting are some of my thoughts on the process I would take to begin the project.
Understanding the True Need with a SPIN Through the Warehouse and the Website
Like any project I take on, I often use the SPIN model to clarify that I am solving the correct issues. Often, it is far easier to jump into solutions for problems that do not exist. Or they exist, but do not want to be resolved. Or they want to be resolved, but there are far bigger issues that will kill a business long before the smaller issues become core to the business. Those 'other issues' exist due to specific agreements internally or externally that may have been around far longer then the current players. That does not mean the issues should not be reviewed, only that there may be valid reasons why not to focus on those issues at this time. When the flood waters are rising, it is not the time to talk to the architect about the new addition for a sunroom. Although, it might not be a bad time to make some mental notes on how to plan and prevent or mitigate flood issues for the next time.
When taking on a large SKU website project, it is core to prioritize based on the true need of the business.
SPIN – Situation, Problem, Implication, and Need.
This model is based on the series of books by Neil Rackham. This model is what I have found the easiest to teach the concepts of truly understanding what the true needs of a project/customer/client/company/patient/department.
Situation –
is about understanding where you are, and how you got to this point. Of course the idea way to learn the situation is a nice written history of all the significant details, and all the insignificant fluff is written out. No bias enters into the conversation, and all the skeletons in the closest are clearly laid out and labeled as such. The reasons for past compromises are identified and resolved for a clear path to future success with the current team that has no affinity for past missteps. This history is agreed on by all stakeholders, with no animosity or grudges. Management and the line teams all agree on all the issues and relative importance of each. Oops, I was drifting off to the land of – 'yeah right', and there are no budget issues either. But this is the information we are searching for.
Situations are messy. For every project I have ever participated on, everyone did the best they could at the time, based on the resources they had. Those resources include:
- time,
- best practices of the time,
- money (always in limited supply),
- information,
- know how,
- Sense of vision and purpose.
And of course hindsight is 20/20, so we should be able to see where we could have improved from this vantage point. This step is not meant to be a witch hunt, but a truthful assessment of where we are today and major issues that contributed to our being here. This step will look at the SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) of where we are relative to where we are planning on heading. Sorry about all the acronyms, but they are great tools in being able to roll up a lot of concepts in easier to manage format.
- S – Strengths – What is currently working well with the current situation? Where do we excel over our competition?
- W – Weaknesses – Why is our competition currently getting any customers that we would want? What are we lacking from a CUSTOMER perspective? What are we lacking from an internal perspective that is making us work harder and not smarter?
- O – Opportunities – The world is a changing place. And changing fast. What can we do to improve our abilities, meet client needs, make our job easier and reduce cost?
- T – Threats – Everyone is looking to capitalize on our success. Ideas are a dime a dozen. So what do we need to recognize that others will be doing better then us in rapid succession, or even longer term? What do 'they' have that seems to give an inherent advantage over us? What can they do to 'buy' and advantage over us, and what can we do to counter that? Can we mitigate the threat by working in partnership with them?
If a manufacture is looking to sell direct to our customer base, can we partner with them to become their exclusive fulfillment house? That comes from a SWOT analysis of understanding our:
- Strength is in fulfillment and customer service
- Weakness is in high volume single orders – our system is not optimized for sending 10,000 single SKU of the green bag out.
- Opportunity is to partner with the knowledge of the manufacture to get product quicker, more directly and cheaper.
- Threat is if they can set up their own system they have the increased cost savings of manufacturing the product themselves to 'fund' a direct distribution process. Additionally, many of their orders are already small individual orders requiring a lot of fulfillment strength.
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The Consumer Electronics Show (CES), held every January to allow manufacturers to introduce their latest and greatest in upcoming product lines, has just wrapped its 2012 event, which was held in Las Vegas, Nevada. With over a million square feet of bells and whistles to compete for one's attention, there were some truly standout products introduced this year, and some really silly ones, as well. These gadgets are some of the silliest displays of technology research and development to grace the floor. After reviewing them, one may wish that what was displayed in Vegas, stayed in Vegas.
The iNuke Boom
Certainly, one could not consider this seven hundred pound square a boom-box. Made to dock an Apple iPod or other mobile music device, this is a pricey piece of furniture. When so many speakers are manufactured to produce high-quality, large sound at only a few square inches, why would one want to re-arrange the den around to house this humongous, ugly, black rectangle that resembles equipment one may find at a large concert arena? Listed at close to $30,000, one could install a theater-quality surround sound system. Since boom-boxes are usually carried on the shoulder, this one needs a new name as well.
Sony Digital Camera Sock Case
Looking like 1980's legwarmers, this knit camera case sock is as strange looking as it is horribly functional. Supposedly designed to protect a digital camera, it may avoid a few fingernail scratches, but would do nothing if the camera fell or was knocked around in a backpack or purse. The good news is that if one buys it because it is cute, which is the only way Sony advertises its distinction from other cases, it will only cost around $10. Of course, if one's camera is sensitive to frostbite or likes to keep limber to dance, the sock will keep it warm as well.
Native Union POP Phone Handset for Cell Phones
The beauty of cell phones is that they are mobile. One of the things cell phone manufacturers try to achieve is making the lightest, slimmest, smallest equipment available. Usually, the smallest ones are the most expensive. So, why would one want to buy this handset that is not only heavy, but bulky? With most phones coming with speakerphone capability or hands-free devices, so why does one need a handset? If it appeals to someone who likes to grab, wouldn't it have been easier to just develop an adapter to fit existing telephone handsets instead of creating more plastic junk? Unless one buys it to use as an example to teach children about "the olden days," or as a barbell for occupational therapists or people over a hundred who want to lift weights, save the $30 and buy an ear-piece. Then, find some cans in the kitchen to use for strength training.
LG Smart Washer and Dryer
One would feel dumb, not smart, if they needed "Smart Diagnosis" technology to tell them something is wrong with their washer or dryer. Usually, a good indication is if the clothes do not come out clean, dry, or the machines do not turn on when one pushes the "on" button. One will need to call a repair person anyway, who is probably not going to listen to a machine tell it what is wrong as they are the experts. Unless the machine can fix the problem, too, with list prices on the LG website for a combo averaging $3,000, buying a top of the line "smart" washing machine may be a "dumb" decision. With the money saved, one can call the service guy 10 times over the life of the machine.


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Osseointegration - NHS perspective
As you are aware this is not currently routinely commissioned by the NHS (National Health Service). The NHS has sought legal advice as to the NHS Responsibility where patients have self-funded for this procedure. The advice given is that:
- As a DSF is not usually available on the NHS there is no obligation on the NHS to replace any component of the DSF.The NHS Policy 'Defining the Boundaries between NHS and private healthcare' states that "when a patient [pays] privately for additional treatment not usually funded by [NHSE], the patient will be required to pay all costs associated with the privately funded episode of care. The costs ...include complications of treatment where these are solely a consequence of the privately funded treatment, except where the patient is admitted under emergency care".
- Clinical responsibility for any issues involving the privately-funded implant and any privately funded prosthesis would lie with the private healthcare provider.
- When patient pays privately for additional treatment not usually funded by NHSE (National Health Service England), the patient is required to pay all costs associated with the privately funded episode of care. The costs of all medical interventions and care associated with the treatment include costs of assessments, inpatient and outpatient attendances, tests and rehabilitation. This also includes complications of treatment where these are solely a consequence of the privately funded treatment.
- If a patient commences a course of treatment that NHSE would not usually fund, NHSE will not pick up the costs of the patient either completing the course of treatment or receiving on-going treatment.
- If the prosthesis required for patients with a Direct Skeletal Fixation (DSF) is a prosthesis which is also available to NHS patients who do not have a Direct Skeletal Fixation implant, there may be an obligation on the NHS to provide the prosthesis (depending on factors including the procedures involved).
- If the prosthesis required for patients with a Direct Skeletal Fixation is not of a type available to patients on the NHS who do not have a Direct Skeletal Fixation implant, it is our view that the NHS does not have an obligation to provide this type of prosthesis. To do so would put the patient in a more advantageous position than those who cannot afford to fund the DSF implant privately which goes against one of the NHS's core principles.
- The 'fail safe' adaptor which attaches the prosthesis to the Direct Skeletal Fixation provided as part of the privately funded healthcare 'episode', is part of the Direct Skeletal Fixation rather than part of the prosthesis therefore not the responsibility of the NHS.
- If the Direct Skeletal Fixation is provided by private healthcare provider and the prosthesis is provided by the NHS, the two would have to be provided under separate interventions on the basis that "private and NHS funded care cannot be provided to a patient in a single episode of care at a NHS hospital". The DoH 'Guidance on NHS patients who wish to pay for additional private care states "there should be as clear a separation as possible between private and NHS care"
- If prosthesis is unique to the Direct Skeletal Fixation and not available on the NHS, it would have to be provided privately. Whether or not the provision of the prosthesis would constitute part of the Direct Skeletal Fixation treatment package would depend on the mechanisms involved in attaching the prosthesis.


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This page includes information about how the ADU supports community and public engagement.
"Public engagement describes the myriad of ways in which the activity and benefits of higher education and research can be shared with the public. Engagement is by definition a two-way process, involving interaction and listening, with the goal of generating mutual benefit" NCCPE definition www.publicengagement.ac.uk
Through Public Engagement we can:
inspire, inform and educate the public, making Higher Education more accessible;
listen to the public's views, concerns and insights;
work with the public to solve problems together, drawing on each other's expertise
Our Blogs
We coordinate Staffs Fringe Festival http://blogs.staffs.ac.uk/fringe/ – the University's annual public engagement festival and creative showcase. We support university staff, students and our community partners to celebrate the wide range of diverse talents in North Staffordshire.
The University Quarter blog holds information on all the community projects and events ran by us including; 'The Big Book Swap Picnic' in Hanley Park, 'Community Action Day' and much more.
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University staff are invited to join Staffordshire University's Public Engagement Network #staffsengage. The Network is set up to promote peer support, share and develop good practice. Please contact Penny to join.
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How high can silver go? That is the question posed by Chris Weber in this Howestreet.com article.
Weber notes that he has a large position in silver himself, so he wants to make a careful examination of the unfolding bull move in silver and the best way to (hopefully) profit from it.
Lots to read here, and I see that Weber's price forecasts are influenced by the readings of the "50% principle", a measure also utilized by Richard Russell of the Dow Theory Letters.
Interestingly enough, I've just been listening to a fairly recent interview with metals watcher and trader, Jim Sinclair at Goldseek Radio.
At about 17 minutes in to the clip, Sinclair made some very interesting comments about silver while responding to Chris Waltzek's questions about the silver market of the 1970s and early '80s during the time of the Hunt Brothers' famous corner.
Here is a bit of what Sinclair said when asked about the role the Hunts played in silver's move towards $50 back in 1980:
"[It] never would have happened without them. In order for it to happen again, you would have to reincarnate them; but in fact they have been reincarnated, in terms of exchange traded funds. Reincarnation of the Hunt brothers is the advent of the exchange traded funds".
Click the link above to hear the whole interview.
Thursday, August 24, 2006
How high could silver go?
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[SINGAPORE] Air-time on free-to-air radio and television will be allocated for party political broadcasts for the Sept 11 General Election, the Media Development Authority (MDA) announced on Wednesday.
There will be two broadcasts - from 8pm on Thursday, Sept 3, and from 9pm on Sept 10.
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The 4th Annual Cathy Kerr Memorial bonspiel has expanded to 3 days and 8 competitive teams plus 4 others who will play in the social division. Two teams from each of the national Canadian and USA squads will compete against the top four Ontario teams. Games will be held at the RA Centre and the Nepean Sportsplex. Click HERE for a full schedule (pdf)
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Police in Spain and three South American countries have arrested 25 suspected members of the Anonymous hacking group on accusations of defacing government and corporate websites, officials said Tuesday.
Spanish authorities, along with police in Argentina, Chile and Colombia carried out the arrests as part of Interpol's Operation Unmask, seizing 250 items of computer equipment and cellphones in raids on 40 premises in 15 cities, the Agence France Presse reported.
Those arrested are aged between 17 and 40. In a statement, Interpol said the group was suspected of being behind a number of cyber-attacks, including on the websites of Colombia's Ministry of Defence and president, as well on the Chilean Endesa electricity company and the country's National Library.
"This operation shows that crime in the virtual world does have real consequences for those involved, and the Internet cannot be seen as a safe haven for criminal activity," Bernd Rossbach, Interpol's acting director of police services said.
More from GlobalPost: Anonymous, joining Wikileaks, hacks into the big time
Spanish authorities also accused one of four suspects arrested in Madrid and Malaga of releasing personal information about police officers and bodyguards protecting Spain's royal family and prime minister, according to Reuters.
The country's interior ministry said that the alleged manager of Anonymous' computer operations in Spain and Latin America had been picked up, the BBC reported.
Anonymous is a loosely organized international network of online activists suspected of the coordinated computer hacking of institutions, multinationals and government organizations around the globe.
On Monday the group revealed that it had collaborated with Wikileaks for the first time, turning five million previously hacked emails from "global intelligence" firm Stratfor over to the Internet whistle-blowing outfit for publication online.
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February was a banner month for Seattle civil engineer turned poet Kathleen Flenniken. President of local poetry publisher Floating Bridge Press, she released a new collection, Plume (about growing up in the shadow of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation), and was appointed poet laureate of Washington state, a two-year position that comes with an annual stipend of $10,000 (funded by the National Endowment for the Arts) and a mission to build a statewide audience for poetry.
During her reign, Flenniken plans to organize poetry readings in all 39 of the state's counties, featuring poets from across Washington.
"I think of it as matchmaking," she says, "finding new audiences for excellent poets and finding exciting new poets for audiences all over the state." She'll also teach poetry workshops in schools, especially in areas where arts funding has been cut.
During April (National Poetry Month), she'll be busy doing several readings from Plume, which she calls a search for identity. "I grew up in Richland, and our town lived one truth about Hanford: that it was safe," she says. But after that belief was proven to be false, she wondered, "How could my parents' generation—the most ethical, moral, responsible people I could imagine—be party to this deceit? It's that tension that fuels the poems." Flenniken uses a variety of forms (personas, documentary, lyric) to approach the topic. "It's about Hanford, yes," she says, "but it's a universal and very human story."
See Kathleen Flenniken at Richard Hugo House (1634 11th Ave.; 206.322.7030; hugohouse.org) April 4 at 7 p.m. Along with other writers, she will be reading her contributions to A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poetry edited by Stacey Lynn Brown and Oliver de la Paz.
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The full lineup has now been announced for this years BIGSOUND Festival in Brisbane. In September, artists such as our own Winston Surshirt and Polographia will hit the stage in Fortitude Valley. They'll play alongside over 130 other artists across 4 days in Brisbane's biggest festival of the year. This year you can also catch sets from Body Type, Donny Benét, Lupa J & Total Giovanni just to name a few.
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Marcia Gay Harden On Her Mom's Battle With Alzheimer's: 'I Never Thought I'd Be a Statistic' (INTERVIEW)
Marcia Gay Harden won an Academy Award for her role in Pollock, has appeared in more than 50 other films (Miller's Crossing, The First Wives Club, Mystic River), won a Tony award for her role in God of Carnage on Broadway and can be seen in the TV drama Code Black, now in its third season on CBS.
But it's books we're talking about when Harden calls from her home in California. Her book, in fact. The Seasons of My Mother: A Memoir of Love, Family and Flowers (Atria Books) was released May 1st and examines the parent/child bond between Harden and her 83-year-old mother Beverly.
Originally destined to be a calendar book, it was to be a collaborative effort between mother and daughter focused on flowers. Long a practitioner of Ikebana, the Japanese art of flower arranging, Beverly's participation in the venture was shelved as she began her long battle with Alzheimer's disease.
"I started writing it because I didn't want her legacy to be Alzheimer's," says Harden of her initial hopes for the book. "I wanted it to be the beautiful life that she'd lived and Ikebana. I probably wrote it in a way to keep that person that I was watching slip away alive inside of me as well."
An honest and emotionally telling account of the lives of two vibrant and creative women, Harden, 58, says her book has taken on a whole different shape and meaning now that it's been released. "What I find I'm talking about a lot now is Alzheimer's, and I think it was naïve of me to think it also wouldn't be about that. Certainly, the early goal was to make a difference in the Alzheimer's world, to raise awareness. The challenge for me has been standing those two things in marriage with each other. And that is my mother: she is her incredible past, she is the present moment that she is living in with as much grace and dignity as she can muster, and moving toward the future. I feel that with this book we can help make a difference in Alzheimer's awareness."
Never intended to be a self-help book about the disease, it was created as the "memories of our lives and ultimately the struggle with Alzheimer's," Harden says.
It is also a chronicle of a remarkably successful acting career and the everyday family life that existed beyond the big screen and red carpet premieres. Recounting her earliest memories as one of five children to Texas natives Beverly and Thad, Harden retraces her life — including childhood moves to Japan, Germany, California and Maryland thanks to her father's work as an officer in the United States Navy — with a touching and self-aware candor.
At the beginning of the 21st century Harden was initially riding high. In 2001 she was awarded the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her portrayal of Lee Krasner in Ed Harris' biopic Pollock. Her parents were both in attendance to see her accept the award. However, the following year her father died, leaving Beverly widowed after 46 years of marriage. In 2003 further tragedy struck when Harden's niece and nephew died, along with their mother, as a result of a fire in their Queens, New York home. Around the same time, Beverly confided to Harden that "something is wrong. I'm afraid I'm forgetting the simplest of things." By the end of 2011, Harden's marriage was crumbling and Beverly had been officially diagnosed.
"I was falling apart at the seams," Harden says of the period. "I am so honored to look back and say that I was able to keep it together, because all these unlikely people – professionals, people I work with, friends, therapists – came together to say, 'We've got you.' I went to a clinic, a kind of healing place, and I would be there during the daytime and take classes on cognitive behavioral therapy and meditating. Taking classes on how to be in my own skin with all these things going on around it, because I had a goal. And the goal, the light that was pulling me through was my children."
"I wanted to be a good mother. And I wasn't. I wasn't being a good mother, I wasn't being a good daughter, I was not a wife anymore," Harden adds. "All the roles and the labels of life had disappeared for me. And the one thing that I most cherished – being a mother – I was doing a bad job at. I was impatient, I was taking things out on my kids because I was under incredible duress. So, with this team of people, they gave me the space of a month to pull it together. And I did. That was the crumble moment. I came back standing on my own two feet, being able to continue to battle. By them giving me space they let me return to center, to return to the battle. Because it wasn't like I came back and everything was fine. You must have a core strength to battle, and I had lost my core strength. They helped me get it back."
Married for 15 years, Harden has three children with ex-husband Thaddeus Scheel and 19-year-old Eulala and 14-year-old twins Julitta and Hudson were often enlisted to help as mom was writing The Seasons of My Mother.
"Because I am an actor I couldn't just write and understand what those words felt like on a page, I had to read them out loud and if they didn't work reading them out loud I would go back and work it until they would," Harden says. "I would grab my children and say, 'Guys, would somebody sit down and listen to this?' And the first question would always be, 'How long will it take, Mom?'"
Harden admits writing, especially the chapters about divorce and Alzheimer's, was often difficult. "I never, ever thought that I would be a statistic. When death and divorce and Alzheimer's become a part of your life you think, 'Oh, I am part of the 45 million people worldwide [affected by the disease], I'm part of the fifty percent population worldwide that gets divorced. Suddenly you are a statistic and it really threatens your individuality."
Of late, Harden has been trying to practice the power of standing still, what she describes in the book as "perhaps the most important lesson" learned from her mother.
"Now, I'm incredibly, incredibly grateful for the life that I lead," Harden says. "I'm very happy being a single mom. I'm in a good relationship/friendship with their dad. I want my kids to have a father. And what's point of all the animosity? What an incredible waste of energy. There's no point lamenting the past. You must try to stay present in the now – sure, it's not always easy – but I think writing the book has helped change my perspective that way."


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Your PenTest Tools Arsenal v.2015 – Survey
In 2014 we had our very first "Your PenTest Tools Arsenal" survey. We've placed the results in an infographic that can be seen HERE. Now we're running "Your Pentest Tools Arsenal – v.2.0" – 2015 Survey — a survey designed to help generate a list of the penetration testing tools most commonly used by security professionals. The goal of the survey is to introduce other security professionals and InfoSec community members to new penetration testing tools.
When it comes to penetration testing, every security professional has his own strategy, tactics and habits. However, the penetration testing tools that he uses are of equal importance. The landscape of penetration testing tools is constantly expanding and changing. Because new tools are frequently emerging on top of the existing tools, building your arsenal of pentest tools has become more challenging.
The survey will be open for ~45 days. Once the survey is closed, we'll publish the results as an infographic.
Copyright: Creative Commons Licence.
To see or use the results, you can access this LINK. To see summary, use this LINK.
P.S. We would greatly appreciate if you share the survey with other Security Professionals through Blogs, Forums, Social Networks and so on. Thank You!


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Ex–Democratic assemblywoman Lori Saldaña, who apparently has had difficulty making up her mind on what office to run for next, recently announced she will take on GOP congressman Brian Bilbray in a newly redrawn district that reduces the previous Republican voter registration edge. Last year, Saldaña announced she would challenge GOP county supervisor Ron Roberts, then later dropped out of the race. Over the years she's filed a number of campaign committees for various offices, including the state Board of Equalization and the state senate, but failed to follow through. During the first six months of the year, according to recent campaign-disclosure filings with the California secretary of state, Saldaña raised a total of $19,660 in contributions to her Saldaña for Senate 2012 committee. She spent $13,292.23 and was left with $9560.39 of cash in the bank. Donors included ex–city councilman John Hartley ($100); environmental lawyer Cory Briggs ($250); Ben Dillingham, onetime aide to ex-mayor Maureen O'Connor ($250); La Jolla attorney Candace Carroll ($500); liberal investor Lawrence Hess ($3900); the California Correctional Peace Officers Association ($1200); the California Association of Psychiatric Technicians, Inc., Political Action Fund ($1000); and the Karen Bass for Congress committee ($1000). A significant percentage of the money was spent on travel and lodging related to the state Democratic convention in Sacramento in April, as well as other trips, meetings, dinners, and fundraising activities.
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Are you having anxiety about your sex life? Does erectile dysfunction weigh you down? You don't have to worry anymore.
This is because a penile pump can help you to get a firm and a long-lasting erection.
A penile pump is a transparent cylinder that has a band and a pipe.
You should clinch it at the edge of your penis and place a band or a shrinking ring at the edge of the cylinder.
You will get a vacuum using the pump and the cylinder which will make your penis to have an erection. The shrinking ring and the band-aid you in retaining the erection.
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The 2011 British Fashion Awards took place this evening with many of Britain's top tier designers winning a BFA including the coveted Designer of the Year award going to one who made history this past April. Not mention one half of Britain's hottest couple, two Stellas and one of the industry's favorites.
The 2011 BFA winners are:
|Paul Smith Wins 2011 BFA Outstanding Achievement in Fashion
- Designer of the Year: Sarah Burton
- New Establishment Award: Christopher Kane
- Isabella Blow Award for Fashion Creator: Sam Gainsbury
- Red Carpet: Stella McCartney
- Designer Brand: Victoria Beckham
- Emerging Talent Awards: Mary Katrantzou (Womenswear), Tabitha Simmons (Accessories), Christopher Raeburn (Menswear)
- Menswear Designer: Kim Jones
- Model Award: Stella Tennant
- Accessory Designer of the Year: Charlotte Dellal
- British Style: Alexa Chung
- Outstanding Achievement in Fashion: Paul Smith
Congratulations to all of the winners! I think each winner is deserving of their award. What do you think lovelies?


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Laundry Love
The last Monday of every month from 5:30 – 7:30pm we are at Mimi's Laundry washing clothes and trying to help meet a tangible need in our community. If you or someone you know could use a couple loads of laundry washed we'd love to take care of the cost for you. Stop by. If you want more info contact our church office.
Laundry Love Projects (LLPs) are regular opportunities to help people who are struggling financially by assisting them with doing their laundry. Relationships are built, and LLPs become small communities of common concern in which participants often find that they receive assistance and benefit with other areas of their lives.
You can host your own Laundry Love and read more about it on the Just4One website.


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Welcome to the Weekly Wrap Up! Check back each Friday for useful recipes, rebates and 'pinspiration' to help you make the most out of the cash you earn.
- Your taste buds will enjoy this guilt-free pasta dish made with Banza Chickpea Pasta.
- No tortillas are required for these delicious Fajita Lettuce Wraps from Lindsay Olives.
- Bring your family together to share memorable meals with their favorite sandwiches and snacks made with Smucker's® and Jif®.
- NESTLÉ coffees and creamers are rich in natural goodness, flavor, and convenience.
- Clean, shine, and protect wood, tile, and vinyl floors with Pledge FloorCare.
- Learn the secret of Eating Healthy Without Going Broke from a few trusted dietitians who have done it themselves.
- Get your Weekend Fix of fashion from Express for the hottest trends of 2016.
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From what's on the menu to who's sitting where, experience the Golden Globes from a star's point of view
Pop the Champagne – it's time to celebrate the 2014 Golden Globes!
On Sunday, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association honored the best in film and television at the Beverly Hilton – with high fashion, a lavish spread and the luxurious atmosphere only Hollywood can deliver. As Tina Fey and Amy Poehler supplied the laughs (and winners provided heartfelt acceptance speeches), nominees enjoyed dinner, cocktails and more.
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Fear and Loathing in Cloudvegas
[A better title might be, "How to Drive Yourself Crazy Thinking About Your Career in Tech"]
I wasn't around when the horse and buggy era ended, but sometimes I feel like I'm having the same conversations that the blacksmiths, saddle makers and stable sweeps had back in the early 1900s. Fast forward a hundred years and this 3rd platform transition has a lot of people wondering what to do next.
Let me step back and put some of this in context. During the late 1990s and early 2000s, the Internet changed everything. Where we work. How we work. The importance of technology for business success. And because of technology, very few of us have the same career path that our parents had before us.
- Companies are no longer centrally located, with their workforces being globally dispersed.
- Companies no longer maintain all their own internal services, often using resources available over the Internet to achieve the best mix of price and service.
- Companies no longer provide long-term pension plans (except some government agencies), so employees rarely stay at the same companies for their entire career.
- Customers (buyers) no longer get all of their knowledge from their suppliers. The Internet allows thousands of voices and opinions to impact their knowledge and buying decisions.
- Customers (buyers) are increasingly looking for new sources and consumption models for the technology that will help their businesses.
- Public Cloud and Open Source Software are moving the margins and control away from vendors and onto parties that can more directly control their future. The supply chain is shifting and with it is the location of value-capture.
So what does this have to do with Cloud Computing? Most people would tend to think that the majority of my days and nights are filled with deep, enlightening conversations about the topic. I wish. In fact, I am spending more and more of my time with people asking what's next, specifically as it relates to their career in technology.
The Rise of the Rockstars
No phrase in our industry drives me crazier than "He/She is a Rockstar!" Why? A couple reasons:
- Most bands aren't made up of dozens of people on stage; instead it's just a few. So most people are either roadies or groupies.
- Rockstars travel. A lot. That's part of the job. The big money is in being close to the customer. No travel, no rockstar.
- Not all rockstars make the big money. There are plenty that are only headlining at small venues in 2nd or 3rd-tier cities.
- Except for a few rare exceptions, Rockstars burn out in a short period of time.
- Rockstars begin to expect indulgences that lead to unrealistic expectations.
The Rise of the Evangelists
See Rockstar (above). See "Sales without Quotas". See "It's either Sales, Marketing or Engineering…pick one."
What do I do next?
I wish I had answer for the people who comes to me with this scenario. I get asked about it on a weekly basis:
- I'm bored (or burned out) with my current job.
- I'd love to work at a start-up, but I don't live in the Bay Area and I need more stability because I have a family.
- I just want to be the person that has great conversations with customers/clients/management about great new technology. They need my knowledge.
- I can't (or won't) take a pay cut from where I'm at today.
- I don't want to travel 50%+ (which usually means 75%+)
- I'd like a better job title (Director, or above), so I don't end up like this, but I really don't love managing people.
It happens because smart people use technology and are able to work away from Bay Area, Seattle, Boston, Austin. It happens because some companies (for a while) will pull their best people out of the field (eg. SE's) and centralize their ability to advance a new technology. It happens because those smart people enjoy the attention and create their "own personal brand" (reinforcing the "rockstar" mindset). It happens because companies eventually realize that early knowledge has been distributed and is no longer worthy of premium pricing. It happens because not everyone wants to live in the Bay Area (can you blame them?).
I know a lot of people in the technology industry that fit this profile. They are really smart. They do excellent work. They are 35-45yrs and very capable of learning new things – although sometimes they need to be reminded of this. And in many cases, their companies don't see their value any more, at least under certain circumstances. And they don't fit the startup mold because they'd prefer not to move or the startups aren't close on compensation.
So where do they go next? Hopefully not here. Their ability to learn is there, and it's never had less of a barrier. Does it take hard work and extra hours – yes – but that's how these people got to this level of their career. And unless the lottery winnings or inheritance is coming soon, these people have another 20yrs of working years left in their career. Sometimes the answer is hard work + perseverance + stick it out + willingness to learn. No wait, that's always the answer.


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Professor Nico Israel's areas of expertise include twentieth-century British, Irish, U.S. and European literature; literary and critical theory; and art history and visual culture. His primary research is in modernist studies. He also works in the fields of post-1945 literature, post-colonial and globalization studies, translation studies and "World" literature.
Professor Israel is the author of two books, Outlandish: Writing between Exile and Diaspora (Stanford, 2000) and Spirals: The Whirled Image in Twentieth-Century Literature and Art (Columbia, 2015). He has also published numerous academic essays on modernist and contemporary literature and theory and over 75 pieces on contemporary visual art, many of them for Artforum. His two most recent publications include an essay on Samuel Beckett's theater and fiction and Giorgio Agamben's conception of "the gag" (in the Cambridge collection Modernism, Postcolonialism, and Globalism), due out in early 2019; and an essay on the constructed international language Esperanto, James Joyce's novels Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, and the relation between language-as-such and gesture (in Modernism/Modernity), published in January 2017.
He has lectured widely–both domestically (at Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Duke, Virginia, Oklahoma State, Otis College of Art and Design, and DIA-Beacon), and abroad (in France, Britain, Australia, Colombia and Cuba), and has participated in more than thirty academic conferences. Essays of his have been translated into French, German, Polish, Spanish and/or Euskera (Basque).
Professor Israel has been on the faculty of the English Program of the CUNY Graduate Center since 2009. Recent courses he has taught include "Beckett and Sustainability" (2016), "Literature's Wake" (2015), "On Spirals" (2013), "Modernist Poetry and Poetics (2012), and "Literature and Human Rights" (2011).


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How To Start, Run, And Operate Your Blog (It Matters)
Everything About Corporate Blogs And Business Blogging. By adding photos, videos, music, and more to your personal website, you can customize it and make it truly yours. This first step is especially important for those starting a blog for the first time. There's a chance that blogging will never again be profitable which leaves the … [Read more…]


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Product Based Order Notice Email - Secondary Destination
It would be very useful if you can provide the "Order Notice - Secondary Email Destination" on product basis.
This way, we can use a number of different suppliers / drop shippers, and they can be automatically informed of purchases that only relates to their company.
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NuMedia Publishing commented
This feature was raised in 2009 (7 YEARS AGO)
It's sitting here with 128 votes...and still nothing has been done.
It's unbelievably frustrating posting ideas here, only and watch nothing get done for years.
NO updates from responsible 1SC managers. Nothing
Daniel Tucker commented
Any update on this?
Secondary email destination, on a per-product basis, (mainly used for drop-ship suppliers), with option to send them the full order email, or just the portion pertaining to that product.
So needed!!! We are all cobbling together solutions for forwarding order info to various suppliers..
C0deJudo inc. commented
Any updates on this?
Bruce Arnold commented
For my purposes, I'd like to see a set of fields below the "Setup Shipping Origin" that would allow me to send a notification email to a third party of my choice that would include the shipping information and any additional information appended (or preferably prepended) to the email through a text box where I could add that information.
Daniel T. commented
Hey Justin,
It seems that this thread is bringing up two separate feature requests, both of which I can see being very important to a lot of people, including myself. They are:
1) Order Notice - Secondary Email Destination - On a per-product basis
2) Additional Notification URLs in API settings area
To expand on this, the desired features are for these use-cases (both of which pertain to my business):
1) I receive an order notice email, the customer has purchased three different items that will be drop shipped from different sources. Currently, I need to manually scan every order email, and follow up by copying and pasting address info into emails to my drop-ship suppliers.
The new per-product order notice emails would do this automatically. For example, if the customer bought three items, and one was a Widget Z, then automatically a secondary order notice email would go to my Widget Z drop-ship supplier, with the purchase information ONLY ABOUT WIDGET Z. My drop ship suppliers DO NOT need a full order report, that's too much information to dump on them, they just need the info about the item they are about to ship.
2) Currently, Notifications API can only have one URL listening for tokens. I am selling access to a membership website, and so at that site there's a PHP script set as my 1shop Notifications API Listener, and whenever a new member purchases a membership, that script gets into action creating a membership in my database and emailing them their login info.
If I had two membership sites (which I may in the future), I would want each site to have a "Notifications API listener script." Handling its own business. Listening for purchases that pertain to its own membership website. For this, I'd need to be able to add additional "Notification URLs" in the API settings area. How about up to 10 of them?
Thanks for reading!
Conscious Marketing commented
We need to be able to add multiple API URL's.
Good lord!
JohnG commented
I echo @Joe McCall below and many others... why are we confined to selling only one product at a time on 1sc? Why can't we have more than one Notification URL in the API settings area? There should be a feature, such as "Add new notification URL" and give us unlimited URL's to plug in there... or at least 20 or so.
JohnG commented
I actually think the request above changed. I thought this was about adding more notification URL's in the API settings area, so people can sell more than one product at a time.
Touched and Transformed (TNT) commented
Hi Brian,
This is to clarify what I am asking for in regards to this idea. Right now, on the "API Settings" page there is a Notification URL field. Just the one. I need more Notification URL fields than this, ideally each product would have it's own Notification URL field.
For my business to grow, I need to be able to have multiple membership sites. Each site has a unique URL. Right now I can only have the one membership site automated with 1SC. If I had the ability to add a Notification URL to each of my products, my ability to add membership sites would be unlimited. That would be good.
Laughlin Consulting commented
Brian - I believe many people's use is slightly different than you describe. What we need is a way for separate e-mails with our information plus the customer's information to be sent to product specific e-mails. However, instead of sending the entire order, only send those product(s) which have that same secondary e-mail (2EM).
So, if someone ordered a set of golf clubs with no 2EM, some golf balls and a golf bag both with the same 2EM, and some club covers with a completely different 2EM, three e-mails would be created: One to us with everything, a second one to the company listing only the golf balls and bag, and a third e-mail showing only the golf club covers.
Important Note: It would be of great benefit to also have a "Secondary E-mail Comment" field added and sent as a part of the e-mail. It could contain info such as: "Charge our Account #6789" or "Send confirmation e-mail to firstname.lastname@example.com", etc.
Touched and Transformed (TNT) commented
YES - I need this for my membership site too. This is the #1 challenge I have with 1SC and the #1 reason I've been considering switching to a new service.
Joe McCall commented
YES - This is a BIG deal for those of us having multiple membership sites and multiple products. We are STUCK having only one "Notification URL" for our ENTIRE 1SC account - for ALL our products. Why? It just doesn't make any sense.
Ryan commented
This is SUPER important for anyone running any type of membership site. We are currently running a membership site and are building two more. We will NEED to be able to add multiple notification urls or this may not work out.
Larry Williams CTI Publishing commented
that would be awesome! I was just searching to see if that was possible... I guess it isn't. I hope this feature gets added soon
Laughlin Consulting commented
@Michael Valiant - With your recent GUI interface update, there is now plenty of space for a Secondary E-mail on the Products->Settings tab under the "Affiliates" box. The XML interface is cumbersome and you already have the Secondary E-mail code on an order basis. Adding this field would help tremendously!
Whole Web Impact / Floyd Innovations LLC commented
I think having a notification email field on a per-product basis would be very useful. I have a client who offers several different products, but uses two different fulfillment houses/drop shippers to take care of product distribution. If we could specify which warehouse needs to be alerted when a product is ordered, especially when people put several different items across both fulfillment houses in their cart, this would really help manage the process more efficiently. Thanks for considering this.
The Expert Marketing Coach LLC. commented
thanks Michael, but I am not a developer, nor do I employ a developer. I cannot read, let alone implement an API key. I just want to notify AWeber that I have sold a particular product, so I can add them to that product specific list. If you had implemented the RSS-to-email feature, I wouldn't have had to open an AWeber account.
PC Media Inc. commented
This really needs to be added. In my case, I want to integrate with Aweber, but the way it is now, I have to send everybody to the same list. With a product-based notification, we could put people onto separate lists in Aweber using the parser.


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SFest is an annual two-day music festival that showcases local bands, Glastonbury stars and chart artists. We are now in our 6th year with each year getting bigger and better, last year we had over 3,500 people attend.
Located in Stourport on Severn, a popular holiday destination for over a century and a growing reputation for being the hub of live music, SFest is situated on the stunning River Severn where we have intoxicating and rhythmic live performances across Ska, Reggae, Disco, Indie Rock, Funk, Soul and the Blues.
We have an abundance of pop bars, including a Gin and Prosecco tent, food pop ups and kid's entertainment, this is a festival for all!
We have glitter, face painting, festival clothing, kid's inflatables, cakalicious, candy floss, slush puppies PLUS stilts, fire breathers and angle grinder performers for a weird, wonderful and thrilling experience.
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Shakira - She Wolf / Loba
Shakira is one of the most undeniably interesting and talented international superstars of our generation. With her astonishingly great English-crossover album Laundry Service, and her follow-up dual albums Oral Fixation/Oral Fijacion Vol. 1 & 2 (specifically mega-singles "La Tortura" and "Hips Don't Lie"), Shakira has become a fixture in pop music and is known for her genre-blending.
On her newest pair of singles, "She Wolf" and Spanish counterpart "Loba," the Latin-rock-goddess ditched her signature ferocious vocals and jangly guitar riffs for a very electronic, very disco flavor.
"She Wolf," the first single off her upcoming album of the same name, is unlike anything Shakira has ever done in the past. In 2009, the realm of disco-y electro-pop is quite crowded unfortunately, but it's Shakira's unique voice and fantastic, nonsensical lyrics that make this single a stand-out among the La Roux's and Little Boots' of the world.
Listen to "She Wolf" / "Loba" here.
It goes without saying that the single sleeve is fantastic. Now the question is... which version do you like better? I prefer the Spanish version over the English version simply because it seems to flow better, and it sounds cooler for some reason.


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MELISSA, a buxom brunette - spilling out of her top,
her skirt hiked up to reveal long tanned legs.
And ANN, a curly blonde - shorter, rounder and more modestly
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Professional Profile
Project Manager, Linda Maiellano provides public assistance to local and State municipalities recovering from natural disasters.
For the past six years, Linda has been providing public assistance to Local and State municipalities recovering from natural disasters. Most recently, Maiellano worked with the long term recovery and closeout for Hudson River Park Trust in New York State to coordinate funding from various disaster relief programs including the FEMA public assistance program. She also assisted in the State of New York's closeout for Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee. Her marketing, project estimating, and planning skills were honed by over fifteen years of retail marketing and business management experience.
Disaster Experience
- Hudson River Park Trust - Hurricane Sandy Recovery & Closeout, February 2017 - Present
- Louisiana DR-4277 Baton Rouge - Central Community School System, August 2016 - January 2017
- New York State: 4085-DR-NY, Hurricane Sandy Long-Term Recovery Operations, January 2014 - 2016
- New York State: Disaster Closeout Team, October 2013 - January 2014
- New York Sate: 4085-DR-NY, Hurricane Sandy, November 2012 - Present
- State of Alaska: Severe Storm, September - October 2012
Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) Training:
- Asbestos Awareness
- Lead Awareness
- Affected Person Lockout/Tagout
- Hazard Communication
- Confined Space Awareness Personal Protective Equipment
Additional Professional Training:
- Xactimate Estimating Software
- AI-01 AI Introductory PA Course
- AI-02 AI Advanced PA Course
- AI-03 AI Close-Out Administration
- AI-04 AI Preliminary Damage Assessments
- AI-05 AI CEF Introductory
Our Project Managers continuously update their knowledge through FEMA's Emergency Management Institute's online classes. Maiellano has completed over 85 classes including the sampling of courses listed below. In addition, many of our consultants also augment their knowledge with other technical training.
Emergency Management Institute Coursework:
- IS-00100b Intro to Incident Command System
- IS-00120a An Introduction to Exercises
- IS-00200b ICS for Single Resources and Initial Action Incident (ICS-200)
- IS-00208a State Disaster Management
- IS-000212 Intro to Unified Hazard Mitigation Assistance
- IS-00230a Fundamentals of Emergency Management
- IS-00235b Emergency Planning
- IS-00240a Leadership and Influence
- IS-00241a Decision Making and Problem Solving
- IS-00242a Effective Communication
- IS-00244a Developing and Managing Volunteers
- IS-00253a Overview of FEMA Environmental & Historic Preservation Review Responsibilities
- IS-000318 Mitigation Planning for Local and Tribal Communities
- IS-00393a Introduction to Hazard Mitigation
- IS-000403 Introduction to Individual Assistance (IA) (DF-10)
- IS-000559 Local Damage Assessment
- IS-00632a Introduction to Debris Operations
- IS-000634 Intro to FEMA's Public Assistance Program
- IS-000660 Introduction to Public-Private Partnerships
- IS-00700a National Incident Management System (NIMS) An Introduction
- IS-00800b National Response Framework, An Introduction
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In addition, Maiellano has taken 78 other FEMA courses, has been OSHA certified and is a Continuity of Operations Level 1 Practitioner.


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Please note that we are an online retailer and do not have a shop or showroom for visitors.
Over the last few years you've sent us some wonderful pictures of your beautiful dolls' houses, and we thought that the blog would be a great place to start collecting some of these together!
In what will be a regular feature, we bring you the first instalment of Your Pictures.
If you'd like to share pictures of your house with us, we'd love to see! Head over to our Facebook page where you can share your pictures with us there. Alternatively, you can email some of your photos to us at email@example.com with the subject line "Blog Pictures" and we'll be sure to take a look
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"He made this nephew think himself finer than he was by judicious praise, yet more foolish then he was by minimizing the value of the evidence. Like many another materialist, that is, he lied cleverly on the basis of insufficient knowledge, because the knowledge supplied seemed to his own particular intelligence inadmissible."
"It was so easy to be wise in the explanation of an experience one has not personally witnessed."
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