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It was 2009 so one really couldn't be picky when it came to most things.
Lauren's first job interview was with a man who went by Hamlet and carried a small, thin barber's comb and a different news clipping from the same November 18th, 1984 New York Times in his right front pocket every day. Hamlet was the founder and CEO of a tech start-up that sought to create the first flying bicycle by 2016—a vehicle that Hamlet felt "inspired, nay, obliged, nay, compelled," to create, he told Lauren, after having worked down in Palo Alto for three months and deciding that the commute would have been much better had he felt the wind beneath him as he soared over I-280. Lauren didn't get the job, presumably because she had never flown a plane, was iffy on a bicycle, and could not for the life of her explain what had happened on November 18th, 1984 even despite thorough research later on.
Sometime around dinner her mom called to ask how the interview went. After the "Hello" ("Hi") and "How are you" ("Good, how are you") and "What's for dinner at your house" ("Spaghetti"; "Dumplings") her dad picked up the receiver in the living room and said, "Lauren, it's your father. I'm on the receiver in the living room. I take it that your first interview didn't go well. Make sure that at your next interview you show them your true Parker colors.
You'll do great I'm sure. Must go. Dumplings." Click.
Lauren's mom cupped the phone with her palm and Lauren heard the muted "BRIAN!" that had been shouted into her parents' living room. Her mother followed with a more deliberate, into-the-microphone, "Don't worry about your father, Lauren. You'll find something." Lauren thanked her, as Parkers do.
Her second job interview was with a man named Sean at a company called EventPro. From the website Lauren gathered that it was a "catering-and-party-planner-in-one" that called itself a start-up but appeared to be a small, family-owned business in its first operational year. (Much later and a bit incidentally she tried to look up the difference between a start-up and a new company but couldn't figure that out, either.)
During her first and only interview with Sean he outlined the company personnel on a photo-collaged family tree.
"These are the top branches, Ms. Parker. Here you have the CEO and the COO. I'm of course the COO and that is Leslie, the CEO. As you'll know, she is my sister. You wouldn't see her very often since she mostly keeps to herself. Always has. Used to play with those Ouija boards. Not so anymore, but, well, I'm sure you understand."
Lauren nodded and squirmed in her seat. The leather squealed and she froze in discomfort. Ignoring or oblivious, Sean continued talking as Lauren searched for her composure.
"Then there's my brother, Robert, in IT, of course, and my other sister, Jeanie. As it would turn out, Robert actually is quite brilliant in select areas."
There was a brief pause, and Lauren knew she was supposed to ask leading questions that could prove she had done her due diligence at Internet sleuthing before she arrived. She racked her brain. She heard a dog bark — a distant, muted, bark, but definitively a bark nonetheless — and she wondered if someone had shut it in a small closet. She knew she shouldn't ask about that. She focused in on the tree. The candid headshots of each family member and general cut-and-paste construction of the thing resembled to a suspicious degree a second grader's end-of-year pinnacle project, but she decided that she shouldn't ask about that, either. She sat hands-in-lap patiently waiting for Sean to continue, awkward silence be damned.
"So, moving on, Jeanie was the COO before me, but her unfortunate divorce with Josh caused the Board to demote her. Now she's on the Marketing side of things. Often comes in late. Shame how that played out. Anyway, Josh has been replaced by June, whom you'd see around here quite a bit if we're, you know, aligned. Of course you probably wouldn't want to mention Josh's name, but I'm sure that goes without saying."
Josh's photograph had been crossed out, and when Lauren looked closely she saw that someone had drawn the Devil's horns on him. She pretended not to notice and just smiled at Sean, nodding empathically as if to say, yes, of course those things happen; sometimes people get divorced and then you draw antagonizing cartoons on their faces and then they get fired. C'est la vie, mon frere. She hoped it had been the work of a child. Then she hoped it hadn't.
As Sean squinted and pointed and spoke in a mostly disparaging way about the members of his family, Lauren's attention dwindled and she grew more worried about the dog. She scanned the room for a clock. Where's the clock? Aren't all businesses supposed to have an oversized clock on the wall, visible from all cubes, maybe a work of modern art with just hands, no numbers? No clock. Instead, she caught eyes with a face on a computer screen in the corner of the room. A quick cross-reference to the tree told her it was Sean's sister-in-law, Aunt Sally. Lauren couldn't remember the woman's title or her purpose within the company, but was able to determine by the concentrated expression on her face that she had Skyped in to observe the interview. Aunt Sally hadn't asked any questions or participated in the conversation, so Lauren wasn't sure if she was supposed to acknowledge her presence or if it was meant to be a secret that she was even there. She decided to feign ignorance and focus her attention back on Sean, as he continued to describe the hierarchy among his siblings and cousins using the tree, a few off-the-cuff sketches, and the occasional role-play. The dog barked again and Lauren couldn't help but notice out of the corner of her eye that Aunt Sally whipped around from where she had been hunched over staring into the camera's eye, and appeared to be scolding something. Lauren breathed a sight of relief that it was probably her dog.
At the end of the interview, Sean presented Lauren with a post-it note that had a sketch of Leslie's face on it, which he called a souvenir, and a mediocre offer that would be enough to cover rent and a few trips back home. Lauren said she'd have to think about it alongside her other offers, of which there were approximately none, and on her way home she was so flustered she merged directly into the rear passenger-side door of a Chevy Tahoe on the 101. No one was hurt physically. And the next day, determined not to be just another lazy member of the freeloading generation she kept reading about, and despite her best judgment, she called Sean and accepted the job. She began therapy within the same fiscal year.
Lauren's first day at the office was exciting. She woke up an hour before her alarm, drank two cups of coffee, and changed outfits more than four times before deciding to wear the first thing she had put on. Even in traffic she arrived at the office twenty minutes early, so she drove around the block several times in order to appear appropriately eager, rather than overly so. Mid-morning, as Robert was setting up her computer, Sean came by her desk and presented her with her very own fern.
"Lauren, welcome. I trust Robert is getting you set up." He paused and looked down at Robert, who was competently and confidently setting up Lauren's email account. "Let June know if you need anything at all, Lauren. And Robert, let me know if you'll need me to call a real IT person to help."
Sean winked cruelly. Lauren nodded and stared down at her shoes. She was glad she decided on blue.
"Oh, Lauren, I almost forgot that I have your first account here. Normally I'll email this information to you, but since Robert hasn't finished setting up your account, well, here you go." He handed her a printout of an email. "It's a beekeeper-themed party for a child, Lauren. Uniquely, you'll be on-site for this one. For now, you'll just record the basic information: party theme, known allergies, special requests. Utilize our list of appropriate vendors. Don't want you re-inventing the wheel here. Oh, but you may want to get certified in CPR."
Lauren took the paper from him and started reading it.
"Just kidding," Sean said.
Lauren looked up. Sean was shaking his head. She didn't know what it meant. Was he not kidding; it's impossible to know. His phone started vibrating in his pocket.
"And Lauren," Sean said as he reached to answer it, "I hope you still have that portrait of Leslie I drew for you. It's probably the most you'll see of her." And at that, he left.
Lauren stared at the email, reading and re-reading it. Her first assignment. The paper shook in her trembling hands, making that awful shaking paper noise that annoyed her so much, the one that sounded like somebody trying to drill into a metal sheet with a wine opener. She imagined disaster scenarios like what if I really do need to know CPR before spinning off into less likely mishaps (with admittedly much lower stakes) that could happen at other parties. Like bringing goats to a roller derby party and shin guards to a petting zoo party and how it would all be her fault now forever. Shake, shake, shake.
"Don't worry, Lauren," Robert said, "you'll figure it out. Deep breaths."
People would be sitting around at Thanksgivings years from now, she thought, cackling at the mere thought of the time the goat appeared, unbeknownst to anyone, and it made Johnny miss the winning goal at his own birthday party. "Sure, can't be too hard," Lauren said as she used her one arm to keep her other arm still.
In between nightmare fantasies, Lauren spent her first days at EventPro watching the others go about their day-to-days. The building was open in its layout but isolated in most other ways. At lunchtime, a few segregated clusters of second cousins ate together, but mostly people kept to themselves.
Lauren was reminded that people were related only when they had no patience or seemed too comfortable with one another. For the most part, they arrived, tried to conceive of work to do, and left.
She attended her first company-wide meeting after just four days. Everyone attended, except for Leslie, who was MIA, and Aunt Sally, who Skyped in. In perhaps an effort not to make Lauren feel singled out, Sean announced to "all the new hires" that the two-hour meetings would continue to be weekly events. He spoke mostly in a set of recently learned, disjointed phrases, words like "integrative marketing" and "springboard" and "best practices within various media outlets." Aunt Sally's dog barked continuously, and she scolded it in a very quite whisper-yell, a SHHHHH!!!! which the bad internet connection made sound like the slow flooding of a basement. The stress of the terms and the barking dog caused Lauren to experience an anxiety blackout, and she absorbed nothing of Sean's speech. As the meeting adjourned, she locked eyes with a man named Samuel, who glared at her.
She knew that Samuel was many people's cousin and also the PR manager, but what with the company not yet having any positive or negative publicity, he took up several pet projects around the office, most of them in the mass-email realm. He sent out several typo-ridden emails that Lauren would grow accustomed to receiving daily, "Announsments" mostly consisting of upcoming birthdays and fire drills. He spent the rest of his time working on a mysterious statistical analysis in the kitchen, and so spent most of his time there. He often clutched a bag of Chex mix and a legal pad that said "The Kitchen Project" at the top. He met biweekly with Sean. Lauren had her suspicions.
Given the lack of events that went on in the kitchen generally, Lauren assumed that Samuel was the designated family bean counter, a crusader of an odd breed sent to ensure that everyone paid their 50 cents before taking a cup of coffee. So she'd make eye contact with Samuel whenever she dropped in her quarters and poured the burnt brew as if to say See, I am not stealing.
After a few weeks, Samuel approached her as she was pouring coffee.
"Do you like coffee?" he said.
Lauren dropped 50 cents into the jar with great exaggeration. "Good morning, Samuel. Yes. Yes, I do."
"Would you like to have coffee with me sometime? I'll pay, as is customary on dates, of which this would be one."
Afraid of getting fired, Lauren said yes, and then she promptly scurried back to her desk with the intention of hiding out for days.
But Samuel's conscience caught up with him and he realized the tremendous conflict of interest that could compromise the integrity of The Kitchen Project, so he broke off the date with her via email a few hours later:
I'm afraid there is a conflict of interest that has arisen with regards to our upcoming date. If we become intimate, it would compromise the integrity of my ongoing project in the kitchen, which is of the utmost importance to the company.
Samuel P. Livingston
Public Relations Manager
"The only thing you'll have to bring is a smile"
She was saddened to be pleasantly surprised that the email was sent only to her rather than as a postscript on the "TGIF" spam that had gone out five minutes earlier. And to her surprise, the only typo in the email was her name. Laurn, she thought. Laurn. Laurn. She liked the curve of the vowel.
It was in fact the case, though Lauren would not learn it for a while, that Samuel had been collecting data on who removed what utensil from the utensil drawer. This was in order to get to the bottom of all of the missing forks, an issue Sean had mentioned in passing once near the water cooler.
Lauren met with June to discuss the finances twice weekly, on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 11. As Sean had mentioned briefly at their interview, June was the financial accountant. The CFO, whom it turned out had been Josh, had left the company around the same time that he divorced Jeanie. His replacement took his office, his and his assistant's tasks, and a third of his pay. Her title was "Accountant," and she seemed never to go home, unless she had a fort with a sleeping bag underneath her desk, which was possible. Lauren had seen those types of forts in a Land of Nod catalog once. June bought Butterfinger bars from the vending machine daily and she ran from place to place. As such, she was often heard clomping and unwrapping.
Lauren was sitting at her desk sifting through Samuels' "TGIF" email when she heard the clomp, clomp, clomp of June followed by the inevitable crunching of the Butterfinger. Then an email popped up: "Hi Miss Lauren, come to my office please in 5 mins? 🙂 J." It was of course June, who sent reminder emails twice weekly, on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 10:55. For her first few weeks Lauren thought they were automated, but she realized that sometimes the emoticon changed or June would write out her full name. Lauren wondered if she had an internal alarm system, and if so, could she get one, too.
The two sat at June's desk looking at charts that she had printed from the previous week's Olympics party. "Lauren, here are the numbers before us. Two times over-budget. Because two times cookies." Lauren had a difficult time understanding her.
"I think that what happened was a miscommunication over the catering specifics. Namely, the no-peanut peanut butter cookies that were requested by the hostess had to be made on-the-fly, because the caterers sent peanut butter cookies, and the birthday boy had a nut allergy."
Jean nodded, then shook her head, then nodded. She was impossible to read. Lauren grew anxious, especially at the thought that June could see the anxiety in the tightness of her lips and the rustling of her papers and the deliberate, concentrated stare she held at a tiny piece of dirt on the wall.
June continued to nod-shake.
The "miscommunication" was of course Lauren's fault. She had been organizing her paper clips during the final call with the caterers and the no-peanut peanut butter cookies hadn't made sense to her in the first place, so they didn't stand a chance in her brain against more important facts like song lyrics and train schedules and that damn near impossible-to-plan beekeeper party and the fact that she still didn't know if the CPR comment was a joke. In fact, the entire idea of accommodating an allergy like that left her enraged. She could have even blocked it out, she thought. Out of spite.
"Well, Miss Lauren, I suppose these things happen. Don't worry. I know bees have been the stress of the project." Lauren could tell that June, while understanding, still seemed disappointed. Lauren nodded. June nodded back again. Lauren took the cue to leave and dismissed herself.
When she left June's office she walked into the kitchen to pour herself a cup of coffee. She waved a hello to Samuel as she dropped 50 cents into the jar. As she sipped it, she glared at him. She decided she didn't want to have to face him again at lunchtime, so she took her salad out of the fridge and a fork out of the drawer. Samuel, noticing her fork handling, glared back and scribbled on his legal pad.
The next morning, Lauren headed in to work early so that she could finish up the final catering logistics of the beekeeper party.
As she was driving down the 101 it started to rain, but she was tired enough that it didn't seem awful. Her mind trailed away from Steve Inskeep's impassioned commentary on water purification toward the details that would need sorting out that day, the ones she had put off to the last minute because they seemed impossible: like how to rent 25 child-sized beekeeper suits for the attendees, and what should be included on the liability waiver. But she didn't feel anxious yet. In her car, she was in control. She wondered if she'd rent a suit herself, or if she'd just risk the stings. The thought of taking a risk with the bees kind of excited her. She'd only been stung once before, on the first day of fifth grade, right on her forehead. At the time she barely noticed, she even thought it was a mosquito. Then her teacher said, "Time to get you to the nurse," and she wailed and sobbed for hours until finally her babysitter arrived. Yes, Lauren thought. Maybe it's time to get stung again. She shivered, excited, but not in the way she was familiar with, the way that made her want to vomit; just in the way that she was looking forward to something.
Lauren was barely conscious at work. At her 11 o'clock meeting, she sat in June's office to discuss the party.
"How is the planning coming along, Miss Lauren? Under-budget I hope?" June asked.
Lauren took a slow sip of her coffee and nodded. She knew that a quick sip was a smoke signal for neurosis. Parkers aren't neurotic.
"I've been thinking. I decided to learn CPR, but I'm going to forgo the suit for myself." Lauren's words were calm and her eyes were beady, rounder somehow. She had come to the firm decision sometime between 8 and 11 that morning that she didn't care what happened, that since she had only been stung once, it was time to figure out if she was allergic, and that Sean wouldn't care anyway because he thinks she's stealing all the coffee without paying but I am paying.
June looked at her like she was a foreign object.
Lauren said, cutting to the chase, "I guess the good news is that I know there's a fear of death in there somewhere, or else I wouldn't notice that it's gone, you know? June, you know?"
June opened her drawer and pulled out a Butterfinger. Talk of anything but finances made her deeply uncomfortable. "Eaten yet, Miss Lauren?" June asked, as if it were normal to have one's fear of death be something that comes and goes like moon cycles. Lauren shook her head in silent agreement that they'd change the subject. The toffee stuck to her molars like glue.
For the weeks leading up to the birthday party, Lauren tested every limit. She arrived five minutes late to a company meeting and left early. At her desk, she did nothing but read about bees and children. (By her math, she determined that there was a 91% chance of at least one child getting stung by a bee at this party, and, among children generally, a 35% chance of someone having an allergic reaction and needing an EPI-pen or worse.) She bought all of the Butterfingers out of the vending machine and hid them in her drawer even though she knew she'd never eat them. She began provoking Samuel once she caught on that it was the forks he was watching, and she started taking three or four at a time and then returning them all to the drawer just before leaving the office. She started taking money out of the coffee jar, just in case she was wrong about the forks. And then, two days before the party, as Lauren walked by the Skype camera with a fistful of forks and five butterfingers, Aunt Sally (of all people) in her first direct words to Lauren after months of watching her, said, "I think you should see a therapist."
Therapy didn't help. Lauren continued: more forks, more quarters, more candy. She was riding the high. The day of the beekeeping birthday party arrived and Lauren donned street clothes without protection. She even got stung, right on her left quad, but much to her dismay she didn't have any sort of allergic reaction. In fact the entire party was anticlimactic and nobody got stung besides her. The next day she told Sean, who laughed and patted her on the top of the head and said, "Kids these days." He actually said, "Kids these days." She walked into his office an hour later and told him that she was quitting, effective immediately.
Sean said he was very disappointed and thought that she and the company could have developed a very mutually beneficial relationship had they more time together, since things were really about to take off for EventPro. (They weren't.) June had been eavesdropping on the conversation from down the hall and sent Lauren an email that contained mostly just emoticons. Aunt Sally told Robert, who wished her all the best in her endeavors, poor Robert. Jeanie walked into Lauren's office for the very first time and, saying nothing, handed Lauren a flask, which she was very disappointed to discover was filled with coconut rum. Samuel sent an email cc'ing the company saying how sorry he was to hear that she was leaving and how he wished he hadn't canceled their date, because maybe they would have really become something special. Leslie, whom Lauren decided likely didn't exist, said nothing at all. On her way out, Lauren took all of the remaining forks and shoved them in her bag.
On her way home she decided to take Route 1 back to San Francisco. Her bee sting still hurt a little, and she had adopted the habit of pressing it just to make sure the pain still irked her. Her car hugged the curves. The rocky mountainside framed her right side so closely that if someone had been sitting there, they'd be able to reach out from the passenger side and touch the rough. The ocean, miles below, was so close on her left that she could taste the salt. She imagined driving off the cliff, speeding straight ahead instead of guiding the steering wheel so carefully, tumbling down and banging against the sharp edges of rocks before finally splashing into the ocean. She wondered if it would feel fast or slow, be over in a second or take minutes and if she'd get to see her whole life in images like people said, because it'd be worth it for that. She thought that if she rolled her window down now she could unbuckle herself mid-fall and jump out, and the last feeling she ever felt could be the harsh slap of the ocean against her skin before nothingness.
She pressed into her leg again and thought how nice it would be to fly, and that maybe she should call Hamlet in the morning.
Emma Harper is a writer and editor. She graduated from Kenyon College (B.A. in Italian Studies, cum laude) and the University of Edinburgh (M.Sc. in Comparative and General Literature, with Distinction). She currently lives in Berkeley, California. To read her flash fiction, visit www.emmaharper.co.


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When it comes to family excursions, I never tell my kids where we're going. Instead, I call every outing an "adventure." I just tell them what to wear, what to bring, and when to get in the car. So when we went to Crossing Life Church's narrated Christmas hayride on Saturday night, my kids had no idea what to expect.
For forty-five minutes we waited in line, in the cold. But it was a beautiful night, a splendor of stars in the sky. They had hot cocoa to sip, and we took turns getting out of line to warm up by the bonfire. Finally, after our long wait, we climbed into the haywagon with excitement. Having kept the details a secret, my kids still didn't really know what was in store.
It was amazing! The church organizers had choreographed pre-recorded narration and music for multiple lit-up scenes spaced throughout the forty-five-acre property. As the wagon approached each different scene in the woods, the music matched the display. For example, the song "You're A Mean One" played for The Grinch display. The song "Let It Go" played for the Frozen display, and so on.
The finale of the event was a live nativity scene at the peak of a hill. They stopped the hay ride there so people could either gaze at the scene in awe from the wagon, get off and look up close, or warm up at another bonfire blazing on the other side of the hill.
My husband and my son Mason were on the bonfire side of the wagon. Mason was mesmerized by the fire's glow and the kids toasting marshmallows.
When I tore my eyes away from the beautiful Baby Jesus in the live nativity scene, I asked Mason what he thought of it. Come to find out, he had no idea it existed! Everyone on my side of the wagon had blocked his view. I found myself saying, "Oh, Mason. You have to come look. This is the whole point of the evening!"
"They have eyes to see but do not see and ears to hear but do not hear…" Ezekiel 12:2
I could hear "this is the whole point" echoing in my head. I think God has been whispering that to me for weeks, as I focused on our outing to get our Christmas tree, decorated my house, planned fun activities, made lists of gifts to buy, and on and on. All of those things piled up, one on top of the other, creating a wall that blocked my view of "the whole point" of Christmas: the birth of Jesus Christ.
Can you imagine standing outside, on a cold December night in New England, for almost an hour, and then missing the grand finale of what you came for? If I'm not careful, if I spend my entire Advent distracted by the glow of decorations and gifts, I'm going to miss the grand finale too, one that's far more spectacular than any hayride or fireworks display.
Yes, Jesus is here with us each and every day of the year. But Advent is when we anticipate and celebrate His birth. He came as a helpless and humble baby just to save us from this messy and troubled world. How can we not honor and celebrate that?
My hope is that you're all having a deep and meaningful Advent. But if you're not, if you haven't found Him yet, what is blocking your view?
Read our other Advent 2017 articles.
Copyright 2017 Claire McGarry

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For those of you who are 'cat people' I thought I'd start sharing some photos of our cats, Moxie, ET, Boots, and Friends.
Cat pages:
– Moxie & ET
– Boots
– Lilah
– Hairy
Moxie & ET
We rescued these 2, when they were kittens, on a deserted gravel road on our way home from friends on August 4, 2008. We couldn't just leave them there to fend for themselves (looked like they were dumped) so we gathered them up (with a bit of a chase) and brought them home. They were both pretty thin and had respiratory infections, but a visit to the vet fixed them up with the medicine that they needed. They live in our house and have access to the outside dog run (which we cat proofed) thru their cat door in the garage.
Now, they are as they should be, mischievous, cuddly and very entertaining to watch. Over their time living with us, they have developed their own unique personalities, Moxie is shy but will try anything, she is a climber, and ET is less timid and an instigator of mischief. He wants to do everything that Moxie does, especially steal everything she has, toys and food. Moxie is more of a lap cat.. while ET will sit on me when Moxie isn't there and sometimes when she is! We sure love having them in our lives.
Click here to view more photos of Moxie & ET.
Boots found us one day and after sampling our accommodations decided to stay. He's our 'mouser', lives in the quonset, has a heated bed, lots of food, water and shelter. I'm so glad he found us before all that awful cold weather we had in December and January. He's a very timid cat, running and hiding every time we go into the quonset.
Update: We finally trapped Boots in April and I took him to the vet for his vacinations and to be neutered, and discovered he's a male! He's about 8 or 9 years old. He's less timid with Waldy now as he usually feeds him. He's getting much closer and one day soon I think Waldy will be able to touch him.
click here for more photos of Boots
And Friends
Lilah's Page | Hairy's Page | Tinkerbell's Story | Shammy's Page
In Memory of Booboo and Mitzie
|Booboo was our very first cat that we adopted from the Meow Foundation in Calgary. She was a lovely Maine Coon and when we moved to southern Alberta we brought her with us. She passed away on September 16/09.
Booboo's page
|When we moved here the previous owners asked if we'd like to keep Mitzie – or course we said yes. She took hardly any time getting used to us and always loved to be held and cuddled. She was killed by a feral cat on August 15/12. We miss them very much. They were both very special. Mitzie's page


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MEN! Join us for our MANUP Mens Conference. This will be a one day conference where we will gather together to be equipped to live how God intended for us to live. Our special guest speaker will be Pastor Tony Rainbow, Lead Pastor of Victory church in Australia.
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Managing medical device inventories is challenging for everyone concerned. These products have a host of characteristics seemingly designed to add supply chain cost and complexity. Large product portfolios? Yes. Devices such as the implants used in joint replacement surgery may be manufactured in hundreds of variants. Stringent storage and handling requirements? Yes.
Devices can be delicate, requiring tight control of temperature, shocks and vibrations, as well as protection from contamination. Complex regulations? Yes. Device makers must comply with rules governing good manufacturing and logistics practices, and Unique Device Identification (UDI) markings will be required on many devices by the end of the decade. A limited shelf life? Yes. Many devices have strict use-by dates, after which they have to be reconditioned or destroyed. Short delivery lead times? Absolutely. Medical teams embarking on life-saving or life-changing interventions need to ensure that the right devices are ready and waiting when they're needed.
The traditional approach used by manufacturers to meet these challenges is expensive, and often unsatisfactory. Large consignment stocks are held close to the point of use, either in hospitals or under the control of the manufacturer's field staff. Clinical teams request what they need from those inventories, which should then trigger the process of billing and replenishment.


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This new family of three welcomed me into their beautiful Minneapolis home at the beginning of January and it was great spending time with them. This was my first session of 2017 and I couldn't have asked for a better way to start the year!
I first met this pair back in October for their fall outdoor maternity session. They had the perfect little spot right in their neighborhood...and the colors on the trees were amazing! Take a look for yourself...
Their newborn session was relaxing + easy going...and their connection + love was right there for me to capture. It was such an honor to document this special time for them. Welcome to the world, baby Kendall. You are so loved.
Allyson Wasmund Photography is located in Saint Paul, Minnesota and specializes in maternity, lifestyle newborn + baby's first year photography. Please visit HERE to learn more.
The schedule is filling up fast with March newborns + beyond. Send a message today to reserve your spot!
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Introducing the Leatherman
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Below is a pattern Betsy offers. Notice how she made it look so old with the primitive stitched trim around the perimeter of the rug? And the unevenness of the sides? Yeah, I'm sure some of you don't care for it but to me it was wonderfully primitive as if the rug (or pillow) was in need of repair and....'she used what she had and did the best she could'. This is the first piece that caught my eye, mostly because of the trim.
Below is a photo of the left bottom side for a close up. Betsy went to the trouble of make the wobbly uneven sides just for that antique look.
Yeah, I'm sure some of you don't care for the look but to me it was very primitive and something I wanted to do. Okay, for my pillow didn't want the uneven sides but did like the trim vs. a fancy wool covered cord edge.
Betsy said to cut (rip) black (or whatever color you want) cotton fabric in 2 - 2 1/2" wide strips. First she said wash to remove sizing, bleeding and shrinking. Then it is put into a bath of brown dye to tone it down and give it age. Next the strips are tossed into the dryer , once dry then rolled into a ball. Yup, you read it here.....remove the knotted cotton strips and they achieve their natural wrinkles all wrapped into the cotton ball to be used later as a binding edge.
I started at the bottom of the pillow and left a tail at the opening. It doesn't show it well but the bottom left corner is just above the 5th whipped stitch. All four corners need to be stitched nicely to have a well shaped pillow. OH, forgot to mention that thread I'm using is crochet cotton which I've coffee/black walnut dyed to give it age.
Here is what the side of the pillow looks like and the flash is making the thread look lighter than it is.
I've still the pillow stuffing part to do, hopefully tomorrow. So there is more to this pillow project. If anyone has questions that I haven't addressed to this point, please write me at firstname.lastname@example.com and I'll post next time.
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The Climate Agenda Behind the Bacon Scare
The widely publicized warning about meat isn't about health. It's about fighting global warming.
Headlines blaring that processed and red meat causes cancer have made this steak-and-bacon-loving nation collectively reach for the Rolaids. Vegans are in full party mode, and the media is in a feeding frenzy. But there is more to this story than meets the (rib)eye.
With United Nations climate talks beginning in a few weeks in Paris, the cancer warning seems particularly well timed. Environmental activists have long sought to tie food to the fight against global warming. Now the doomsayers who want to take on modern agriculture,...


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Have you ever tried tempering chocolate with a Sous Vide?
Yes, I have. In theory it seems like it should work perfect. Super stable temperature settings. A warm insulating water bath. Hands off controls. For those not familiar, this is an example of one.
It is basically a circulating water heater with both accurate and precise temperature control. And can help you make utterly killer rare steak!
Unfortunately, in practice, it is rather inconvenient and downright causes problems in other ways with chocolate tempering.
But there are other uses for it chocolate making and I'll explain those later one.
What went wrong?
Well, first off it is a water bath and working with it and chocolate together rather feels like working with a live electrical line. If you are good and know what you are doing, you are mostly safe, but…..chocolate – water. Rarely a good mix.
After getting over the fact that I could not seize my chocolate with the water present, the main thing was that it took way too long to melt the chocolate. It took 2 hours for me to melt 2 lbs of chocolate to 95 F. The main issue was the water was 95 F. And with the chocolate beingjust a bit cooler at 75 F, the flow of heat is very slow.
Sure, I both could have mixed it by hand and turned up the heat, but in that case, there was no reason not to just get a bowl from the cupboard and melt the chocolate over a pot of hot water. Either way I was controlling the heat myself and stirring manually.
After a couple hours, and some hand kneading (pst, don't tell, but I turned it up to 98 F too) the chocolate was finally melted and flowing. I considered tossing in a bit of seed but realized I had no good way to get it mixed 100% well and also had not good way to get it out of the bag it was in without both making a mess and causing so much edge sheer that I had a lot of bloom.
I settled on cutting the bottom edge off the bag and squeezing it out like frosting from a piping bag. That worked well enough except for the loss of a perfectly good bag. I then mixed in my seed and proceeded as normal.
I shudder to imaging if I had to temper 5-6 lbs of chocolate this way. A sous vide may have great temperature control but the drawbacks are too severe for routine use of tempering your bulk chocolate.
Recall though I said there was another great use for a sous vide?
That use is making cocoa butter Silk.
What is Silk you ask? I tossed out a Twitter poll the other day (go vote, a couple hours left), and granted the response rate was low, over half the responders didn't know what Silk was.
Silk is great and amazing and what you should be tempering your chocolate with. I'll tell you how to use it in a moment.
In short, it is really nothing more than tempered cocoa butter.
Some time ago I reviewed the EZTemper. Its sole purpose is to create cocoa butter Silk. It is basically an air incubator. It holds your cocoa butter at 92.5 F where over the span of 24 hours crystallizes into extra hardy, super aggressive Type V seeding crystals. Oh, and is like silky thick buttercream when you pull it out, hence the name.
It goes from this:
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Note how it is opaque and thick. Melted cocoa butter is clear. That opaqueness at the right temperature (92.5 F) is the sign of successful Silk.
And a sous vide is nothing more than a water incubator. You can set it for 92.5 F (or 122 F and make great steaks!!), put in a sealed jar (get rid of that plastic bag) of chopped up cocoa butter and come back 24 hours later to Silk.
What do you do with it? You temper with it. And it goes like this.
1) Melt your chocolate to 92.5 or 94 F*
2) Stir in 1% by weight Silk
3) Pour your Silk seeded chocolate into your molds.
You will probably notice that you are tempering at a much higher than normal temperature. This is because the Silk is pure seed crystal. It gives a great scaffolding upon which the chocolate's cocoa butter can and will crystalize around so the temperature can be hotter. Being warmer also means the chocolate will be less viscous and so has less edge sheer, so inadvertent edge bloom is reduced.
*Oh, that range of temperature. You can allow your Silk to set up. If you do that, then you want your chocolate at 94 F so that it can melt the Silk and end up at about 92.5 F. If you are using it fresh from the water bath and it is still creamy, then it's at 92.5 and so you add it to chocolate at 92.5.
And a couple other things I discovered. You can seed other cocoa butter and shorten your 24 hour incubation time. I had one batch of cocoa butter that fully melted (I'll be writing a full how-to of Silk making and will address this) so I added about 10% Silk to it and left it to incubate at 92.5 F for about 1 hour. The seed propagated and made more Silk quickly and I've successfully tempered a couple batches of chocolate with it. It may turn out that theory and practice will part company at some point, but in theory I cannot come up with any reason you could not continuous re-seed cocoa butter to make new Silk over and over in less than 24 hours.
So, with all that in mind, go get yourself a Sansaire Sous Vide. I can't recommend it enough.
And if you don't want to do that, let me know either by email or comments below if you would be interested in purchasing a little Silk. I'm thinking of offering it over the winter months.


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the dread of what will my neighbour think, with luxuries that only cloy, with pleasures that bore, with empty show that, like the criminal's iron crown of yore, makes to bleed and swoon the aching head that wears it!
Only to find that when they arrived at the site their hoped-for holiday home was an empty show caravan.
Paul turns on the charm Xanthe and Piper are caught by the police while hosting a party in an empty show home, but Xanthe does have some good news - she and Kyle have their first meaningful conversation as brother and sister.
What is most impressive--and important--about Richardson's gloss, however, is his demonstration that there was much more to this meeting than empty show and indeed more to it than a futile attempt to build a long-term peace.
Perez Montijo states that, for as loud and exuberant a performance the Spiritual Baptists put on, it can't but help remain, with its legalization, an empty show.
All these might have remained empty show if there was no God experience at the deepest level for the Bhaktas who come here seeking God and the divine intervention in the healing and solutions for their problems.
More pointedly, another related piece has two similar, but much larger, jars marked "Jew" and "Arab" which despite being empty show traces of what might be blood having overflown from them.
Otherwise all our works are relegated to empty show or the dilettante facile act of manipulating fashion.
Just as the velvet bag Jack McConnell self-consciously carried on his arm was empty, so too was this a pretty empty show of loyalty.
Despite his political commitment, however, there is a sense of solidarity with the underdog that sees the changes from empire to nation as empty show, and a quietist awareness of intellectual separation from the peasant that takes the edge off any message of radical social reform.
Mace makes no mention of this scene in her study, but she provides useful confirmation that Fielding's overtly neoclassical pose was more than such empty show.
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Avril Wins 4th Boxing Match
Tonight, March 2nd 2019, at the Yuengling Centre Tampa, Avril took on local fighter Delaney Owen in a 6 round match up. Avril dominated from start to finish to come away with a Unanimous Victory and judges of scores of 59-54, 60-54 and 60-54. Avril's professional boxing record now stands at 3 wins (2TKO), 0 losses and 1 draw.
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December Birthstones
If you're born in December, you have some very good options to deal with the winter. December birthstones are beautiful and usually available in the shades of blue, bringing a whole new meaning to 'winter blues'. Tanzanite, turquoise, and zircon are the December birthstones. They are affordable but look equally precious as other expensive gemstones.
These birthstones include the most modern one (turquoise) that is used in jewellery, an ancient stone (zircon), and a recently discovered gemstone (tanzanite). Hence, people born in December have a choice of choosing between the three gemstones to make their chilly winters bright and delightful.
Women born in this month can use these gemstones in their jewellery, while men can flaunt their style with their bike chain cufflinks made up of these gemstones.
Zircon is the oldest gemstone. Gemstones found in Australia helped to age the earth's crust.
The most popular shade of this stone is sparkling blue, although it is available in rainbow colours.
Zircon has been used in jewellery since the middle ages. According to some beliefs this stone has magical properties and can be used to solve problems, prevent nightmares, bring wealth, encourage honour and protect travellers.
Tanzanite has only recently been added to the list of December birthstones, since 2002 to be exact. This gemstone was first discovered in Tanzania in the 1960s and is now very famous because of its beautiful shades.
The stone was named by Tiffany & Co after the small area it comes from. All the world's tanzanite come from an area of just 4 square kilometres in Tanzania. It reflects blue, violet and red.
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The primary colour of this stone is blue-green, with either black or dark brown veining. Turquoise is elegant and interesting due to the unique veining in each stone.
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If you suspect that your car has a braking problem your first instinct might be simply that you need new brake pads. That would make sense, actually, because you really only need to replace your brake pads every couple of years—maybe annually if you do a lot of driving. Or maybe you are just hopeful that the issue is not your brakes but some other unknown problem.
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The parking brake—which you might know as the emergency brake—is not as important on an automatic transmission as a manual transmission but it can still cause the same issues. If your parking brake is engaged, or stuck, it can make it hard to drive and similarly can prematurely your rear rotor with added pressure even while driving.


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Considering Your Governor Choice
When we were last together, we discussed some musings on the attempts to bring the various candidates under the Republican rubric together in unity. We noted a mechanism which could be used to make a clear statement to those in our party who do not follow a course of decency and integrity – the under-vote. Low and behold, this precise mechanism was used in this last primary.
As noted by Sherry Greenfield in the Gazette newspaper:
And the fact that 2,028 Republicans out of 7,850 who went to the polls on Sept. 14, left their ballot blank and declined to vote for Mooney, who ran uncontested, makes some ponder the Nov. 2 outcome.
So far, a clear message has been sent. We will now see what transpires during the General Election. There are times in life when the difficult and painful task of making a hard change is the best course of action. As noted on many occasions, 'we needed Carter to get Reagan.'
Consider the election for governor. We had a false contested primary – one in which the Robert Ehrlich campaign was financed in contradiction to the state GOP's bylaws. Brian Murphy received approximately 25% of the state-wide vote – 35% in Frederick County.
Upon receipt of the election results, Mr. Murphy graciously extended his endorsement to Mr. Ehrlich. In response, Mr. Ehrlich not only belittled Mr. Murphy, and the Tea Party movement behind him, but would not take the sage advice of the interviewer – the audio can be heard here.
This interview took place on WBAL's (1090 AM) "Ron Smith Show" with Blair Lee leading the interview. It seems Mr. Ehrlich is more concerned with his own personal issues than those of the larger constituency he will be courting and potentially representing if elected governor. Mr. Ehrlich initially commented on the difficulty of this campaign: "…after a Spring, Summer, and early Fall attacks by O'Malley and Brian…"
Following this criticism of Mr. Murphy, Mr. Lee suggested to former Governor Ehrlich that "you need to publicly embrace this guy, you need to call him a rising star in the party, you need to borrow his rolodex, and you need to get all of his voters to vote for you."
In response, Mr. Ehrlich stated: "Well, Blair, I respect him, but, quite frankly, we have a lot of rising stars in our party, including people who have won races."
Mr. Lee continued: "Brian Murphy's followers are now looking for a signal from you, a very clear signal, and you need to give that signal… You are getting free political advice…"
In his final retort to this proposition, Mr. Ehrlich stated: "We didn't criticize Brian Murphy one time during the campaign, and I haven't criticized him yet, anywhere, and we talked last night. So, all is fine. Don't be creating needless controversy here. That's all."
Consider this conversation, if you were or are a member of the Tea Party, would you embrace this reaction and jump at the chance to endorse the Ehrlich Team for governor? I think not! It is a shame when such a psychological need for personal redemption trumps the needs of the constituency and the importance of the service to the office.
But, there are a couple of very important factors to consider when making your selection for governor of the State of Maryland – redistricting and appointments to various boards and commissions. These two factors influence the running of the state much more than many of us realize.
Jennifer Bennett wrote an excellent piece on the issue of redistricting in the Frederick News Post Online Exclusives. In short, after the 2010 Census, new 'political' districts can be determined from the governor down throughout the state. In short, every 10 years, our ability to elect representatives can be altered dramatically making some few areas strongly Republican, while much of the rest of the state will be dominated by Democrat districts. To turn the tide of predetermined elections by party, these districts must be altered to even the playing field as best of possible. A Democrat governor has no incentive to alter the status quo and every incentive to strengthen his/her political power.
The other issue is the appointment of individuals to organizations like the boards overseeing our community colleges or various transportation agencies. These boards or committees can have a profound effect on the direction our state proceeds for the next decades.
These two aspects of determining who should be the governor are inherently political. In other words, appointments favoring one party over another can also be viewed as advancing one ideology over another.
The records of Mr. Ehrlich and Mr. O'Malley are available and their differences, (albeit, rather slight) will be presented myriad times on TV, radio, and in various written forms. Deciding based upon these properties may well yield little. But, noting these two important factors of redistricting and appointments can produce a different mechanism to make your determination.
As with all things political, change can take place during a single election cycle. That change can be a continued slide toward a more liberal ideology or one which attempts to turn the ship 180 degrees – generally in smaller steps. As noted earlier, 'we needed Carter to get Reagan', keeping in mind, we needed the votes to get Reagan. This conundrum makes this race even more difficult than a simple view of Principle over Party. But, one will never walk alone when one bases their decisions on principle.


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There must be rest. I struggle to rest. It's not something I run to...though I ache for the stillness. The me that says I always have to be doing to be good doesn't understand sitting still. A stop in the flow of production means loss of productivity and loss of productivity means the value lessens--my value lessens.
It's backwards, I know. But this is the way I have lived for as long as I can remember. It's no wonder I walked around high school holding my breath, never letting my steady shield down...to rest meant a chance to fail.
But in this creative life mixed with the everyday life, the constant go ties tight the chains...until I'm undone.
There must be rest. I'm slowly learning this.
But how, I ask, do I rest? How do I live this creative life in between the everyday life of bouncing babies, running errands, mouths to feed, and relationships to nurture? When my retreat is a walk-in closet with a desk and shelves filled with a reflection of the chaos behind the door, how? How do I feed my soul with food art? To breathe when everything in me says, Just keep going.
Rest is hard, but I do not want to be one of those left in the desert. I do not want the hardness of my heart to prevent me from resting in the beauty and joy of the Promised Land. And so God speaks.
And he's been speaking pretty loud, from knocks on the door to notes falling from pages to the words I read. Everywhere. Everywhere he is whispering rest.
Ever so slowly I'm learning...
It's not up to me.
Rest is not something I can give myself, I receive it. Rest is not a place I get to, it's a state of being.
Rest is relinquishing myself to the One who has been good enough. Rest is taking hold of the Creator's hand and walking bravely forward into a land full of Promise.
Jessica is a recovering perfectionist, a sojourner without a place to call home (at least in this world). She often writes about meeting Jesus in the chaos, pursuing freedom, how an abiding life is a beautiful life, and fleshing out fears.
Wife to a seminarian and mother to two boys, Jess spends her days at home reminding herself she's raising the next generation when dirty diapers and nap rebellions take their toll. She's a sinner saved by grace and redemption is her favorite word.


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In the hideous beheadings of two American journalists, the Islamist killers dressed their victims in bright orange prison garb. This was widely taken as an allusion to the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba — the nightmarish American outpost where detainees have been held for 12 years and counting.
These prisoners, now down to a total of 149 from 680 in 2003, remain adrift in a limbo of justice denied. They are trapped as much by the tooth-and-claw politics of Washington as by the legal dilemmas rooted in bungled government policy. Their de facto sentence, without benefit of trial, is to wait and wait for some far-fetched resolution to their open-ended imprisonment.
About 70 are considered higher-level suspects, including some alleged 9/11 principals whose potential prosecutions have been blotted by earlier policies of official torture. But another 79 are officially rated as low-level detainees — nonstrategic Taliban foot soldiers and others already recommended for release to other countries under a resettlement policy. In practice, this policy has presented huge hurdles. Six low-level detainees were ready to board a plane to Uruguay last month, but the agreement fell apart at the last minute when the Uruguayan president, José Mujica, feared it could prove politically risky at home, according to a detailed report on the prison's problems by Charlie Savage in The Times.
In the meantime, there is little hope that the decaying prison can soon be closed, despite President Obama's longstanding promise. In fact, the military, faced with the administration's standoff with a rigid Congress, has been forced to consider construction plans that could effectively prolong the facility's operation for years.
One medical specialist expects the detainees to need more medical care for chronic conditions as they age. But Congress's ban on the sensible Guantánamo solution — transferring high-level detainees to better equipped, secure prisons in the United States — also includes a ban on sending extremely ill prisoners to the mainland for treatment. That means doctors and expensive equipment must be flown in to Guantánamo Bay when needed.
The sense of despair among low-level detainees prompted hunger strikes last year; the response was forced feedings.
Congress remains determined to keep the prison open, if only as a symbol of vengeance. And a split is reported between State Department officials eager to see low-level detainees transferred to other countries and Pentagon officials who are more cautious about potential risks. The Guantánamo prison should have been closed years ago. It endures now as a symbol of injustice.


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The Hulk director Louis Leterrier's remake of Clash of The Titans appears to be snagging a cast that matches the original for acting talent. The 1981 film starred Harry Hamlin (maybe not him) in the lead role but it also had Laurence Oliver, Maggie Smith and err... former Bond girl Ursula Andress as Greek gods. Variety now reports that Ralph Fiennes and his Schlinder's List co-star Liam Neeson are in negotiations to join Sam Worthington's Perseus, another former Bond girl, Gemma Arterton, Mads Mikkelsen (Bond villain!), and Alexa Davalos in the forthcoming Warner Bros. film.
In the film, Neeson would play Zeus and Ralph Fiennes would star as Hades, "Lord of the Underworld" which I can assure readers has nothing whatsoever to do with skin tight PVC, Vampires or Werewolves.
The original Ray Harryhausen-produced Clash of the Titans was a childhood favorite of mine and I'm pretty excited by the prospect of a remake - even if deep down I know that it'll never match the magic of the original film. At the very least, it might give children today the same buzz that I got 25 years ago.
Clash of The Titans would be Taken star Neeson's first film since the death of his wife Natasha Richardson in March and it marks something of a busy year for Fiennes who has a packed slate in 2009. The intense actor is scheduled to star alongside Ricky Gervais in The Men at the Pru; cameo in a sequel to Emma Thompson's Nanny McPhee; shoot his role in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and make his directorial debut with William Shakespeare's Coriolanus.
I say Fiennes should stop being so lazy and pack up his schedule even more!
Sam Worthington recently spoke with Empire magazine and said that the rumors that the Titans would be shot on green screen like 300 were totally false and that sets had been constructed for the Greek myth epic.
More Clash of The Titans news as we get it.
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We are problem solvers. At the bench or on the manufacturing floor, we are constantly faced with challenges and must implement the best solutions possible. Meaningful, practical, and sustainable resolutions incorporate many resources. Our success depends on effective collaboration across those resources. Learning and solving problems together―engineers and technicians, managers and production operators―we can leverage diverse thinking styles and subject-matter expertise. We learn together when we build a discipline of speaking with data and regularly reviewing that data to gauge the success, failure or null impact of our actions. Collaborative learning and evaluation means we develop more quickly into an environment of shared, relentless continuous improvement. This paper shares the methods to structure a work environment for collaborative continuous improvement using data, experience, observation, abstraction and implementation.
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text: At this week's Online Teachers Conference in Anaheim I spent time with veteran teacher Ida Jones, a Business Law Instructor from Fresno State University, who's been teaching online for 18 years. Ida told me about the strategies she uses for connecting with all her students and encouraging more reflection in both learning and teaching. And Ida spoke of what she is taking away from the 2017 conference to try in her own classes.


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August 27, 1883, the Krakatoa exploded during one of the largest volcanic eruptions in recorded history. Almost the entire volcanic island collapsed, causing a tsunami that killed 36,000 people along the coasts of Java and Sumatra. The 100 ft high tsunami-wave was strong enough to rip large chunks from the seabed and throw large coral boulders onto land. Despite of all the destruction caused by this historic eruption, it seems that even larger tsunami of volcanic origin are possible.
In 2007 a team of geophysicists of the University of Texas traveled to the Kingdom of Tonga to study strange, out-of-place boulders found along the western shoreline of Tongatapu, the main island of the sovereign state and archipelago. Some of the larger coral boulders with a diameter of almost 30 ft are located more than 1,300 ft inland. Only a large wave can explain how the boulders, formed once in the sea, ended so far from the sea.
If so, those boulders are evidence for a mega-tsunami happening, geologically speaking, just recently as the unweathered appearance of the rock and the sparse vegetation covering the boulders suggests. The scientists estimate that the boulders were deposited there by a mega-tsunami in the last 10,000 to 100,000 years. A chain of sunken volcanoes lies just 20 miles west of Tongatapu. An explosion or the collapse of the side of a volcano such as that seen at the famous Krakatau eruption in 1883 could have triggered the mega-tsunami.


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LA Roadtrip | Day Two
The Chinese Theater on Sunset, the star walk, Max Factor and The Hollywood Museum (so so fun), drinks in lemmy's seat at the Rainbow, and an actual rainbow over the city after a storm. I also left my camera in a convenience store on Sunset after the museum. Luckily, two tear-soaked, heart-pounding, nauseous hours later it was still there. Thank you thank you thank you store guy!


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You've decided to hire a sales representative to help grow your business. Now what?
Hiring can be an unpleasant and often stressful process, especially when dealing with sales people. The level of stress can rise exponentially when the one doing the hiring is an entrepreneur.
Many entrepreneurs don't hire sales people early on, instead waiting till things get really going. This often means they spend less time thinking about the skills they need and to properly execute the hiring process. Waiting too long can slow momentum and have negative consequences.
It's critical to plan well in advance of the hiring event, when you have time to reflect calmly on what you want to achieve by adding a sales resource and how the hire aligns with your overall goals. Trying to do all the above when you need a rep "now" will cause you to rush and may ultimately lead to making a hiring mistake.
Before even trying to determine who to hire, how they will fit in or what personality traits they should look for, entrepreneurs must first ask themselves a few key questions about themselves, their ambitions, attributes and objectives. The more clarity they have on these fundamental points, the greater likelihood of a successful and lasting hire. Without first looking in the mirror, an entrepreneur is far more likely to make a series of bad hires, and may even give up on the process altogether.
An entrepreneurs should also consider how they will manage the new sales rep. Some entrepreneurs assume that everyone is like them – a self-motivated, hands-on go-getter able to execute on their own. But this is not always the case with sales people. Often they need structure to succeed and in order for them to improve, they're need to be challenged.
The other end of the spectrum is the entrepreneur who is so fixated on the details of her business that she wants, or feels she needs to be involved. Her inability to let go will not do her sales rep any favours.
As you would expect, the best is somewhere in the middle – with clear goals and expectations. But you need to know who you are before you can pair with a rep that you can work with, and more importantly can work with you.
The other thing to figure out is what you are looking for: a pure hunter to drive new business or a hybrid hunter – nurturer. Almost every rep will tell you they are hunters, and at the time they are hunting for a job they are, but can they sustain that drive? Or will they revert to managing (and not necessarily growing) their base. Everyone says they want to be with an entrepreneurial company, but not all want to work in a way that environment demands. The facts are in their past, if they cannot demonstrate empirically that they have done what you need, pass, they will not last, and you will be the worse for it, and stress.
I am a big proponent of hiring slow and firing fast, which means you need to figure things out when you are calm, and sticking to you plan when the time comes. Do that, and you'll reduce your stress.
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Noticing that John, the Patriarch of Alexandria, is celebrated by the Eastern Church on November 11 and the Western Church on January 23, I thought it might be time to check the Eastern Calendar instead. Sts. Clement of Ancyra and Agathangelos are celebrated today, but their story is brief and all too common. Diocletian is said to have killed 20,000 Christians; these are two of them, both beheaded. If I knew more about them, they'd be our featured saints on January 23, but lacking that knowledge, I'm turning to John the Almsgiver.
John was a seventh century Cypriot who moved to Alexandria, Egypt in his fifties. He was tight with Nicetas, who had helped the Emperor Heraclitus come to power, so Nicetas hooked his boy up with one of the top bishoprics in the world. Usually that sort of personal preference for an ecclesiastical office suggests a low score on the piety scale, but John was nearly absolute in his devotion. Upon taking office, he opened the treasury of his church and gave 80,000 gold pieces to hospitals and monasteries. You might think monasteries didn't need the money, especially if you've read Chaucer or seen films about fat monks who quarrel with townspeople about who owes whom money. Set those images aside. Think instead about small enclaves of austere and devout men and women who will take in aging no-hopers to either put them back on their feet or give them a permanent home.
Not impressed yet? How about opening seven maternity hospitals with forty beds each? Founding poor houses and hostels to combat the homelessness of Alexandria? Sending food, oil, grain, clothes, and money to help the refugees from Jerusalem when the Persians sacked it? [Someone's always sacking that City.] He ransomed captives back from the Persians, especially the nuns, and spent a fortune resettling the refugees who came to Alexandria from Jerusalem.
He used to sit in front of his Church on Wednesdays and Fridays, giving out assistance to anyone who showed up to ask for it. He was warned that some who asked were malingerers, impostors, and probably even non-Christians, but he didn't worry about it, believing that generosity would beget generosity. A little leakage on the side was just the cost of doing good work.
Of course he was not infallible. When a monk showed up in the company of a beautiful young woman several days in a row, the tongues started wagging and John went into action, not concerned that they might be taking advantage of the alms, but troubled by the apparent flouting of a monastic vow of chastity. He had the girl beaten and the monk flogged and locked up. Then he learned that she was Jewish, but considering conversion. He apologized to the monk, even offering him money (the monk refused, of course); no word what ever happened to the woman, though we might guess that she ran to the nearest synagogue and never contemplated Christianity again.
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"Ian Buruma's lively new history, "Year Zero," is about the various ways in which the aftermath of the Good War turned out badly for many people, and splendidly for some who didn't deserve it."
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Note: This is an emotionally heavy, yet important book. It talks honestly about realities of war. For more detail, check out Adam Hochschild's full review.
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