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'Go, kiss the world' were Subroto Bagchi's blind mother's last words to him. These words became the guiding principle of his life.
Subroto Bagchi grew up amidst what he calls the 'material simplicity' of rural and small-town Orissa, imbibing from his family a sense of contentment, constant wonder, connectedness to a larger whole and learning from unusual sources. From humble beginnings, he went on to achieve extraordinary professional success, eventually co-founding MindTree, one of India's most admired software services companies.
Through personal anecdotes and simple words of wisdom, Subroto Bagchi brings to the young professional lessons in working and living, energizing ordinary people to lead extraordinary lives. Go Kiss the World will be an inspiration to 'young India', and to those who come from small-town India, urging them to recognize and develop their inner strengths, thereby helping them realize their own, unique potential.
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Sir, ur book of[GO,KISS THE WORLD]inspiring me.
After reading this book now i am understanding why the company employees are known as Mindtree Minds…..I am also one of Mindtree Mind.
I will read it Sir
Dear Mr. Bagchi
Go kiss the World is so hugely inspiring for youth of today. It helps us "no frills attached managers" to be distinguished gentlemen. Set apart from the rats running today's rat race on crutches of material advantages to reach out to even more fancy crutches…
Hats off to you to inspire the generations to come!
Dear Mr. Bagchi,
I am from Jharkhand. I am 30 years old and suffered a personal setback almost one year back. I lost all my dreams, my focus and ability to concentrate.
But I love reading books. Recently, I saw "Go Kiss The world" in my brother's hand. I took this book from him casually without any special interest.
The more pages I read the book, the more I became aware about my own status of mind. This book is like doing meditation which increases self-awareness.
Mr. Bagchi, I have big dreams but I am lost.I was in need of reading a book like "Go Kiss The World".
Thanks a lot for sharing your experiences. I know it worths a lot.
Go Kiss the world is remarkably the best book i have ever read
This book can knock the door of every mind who reads it and be a spark to ignite the minds to build a glorious India. This book helps to find the life's real calling. This book cleared the air of doubt in my mind. Thank you sir.
Dear Mr. Subroto,
Have not read your book, but just read ur speech at IIM – Bangalore. Its really inspiring and heartening to know about people like you and your thoughts.
Thanks so much… May run out of words to praise you, once I read the complete book.
Best wishes and regards,
Dear Sir i became a very big fan of yours after reading(go kiss the world).
Most imp thing which i learnt is that how parents play a big role in our life and how can we became a good human being.Kindly tell me how can i contact you as I think you can help me in boosting my life.
Dear Mr. Subroto,
I read your book and it remembered me the days I spent in Wipro and our leader Mr. Ashok Soota. I was working in Field Engineering Group, 1988-1990. I also remembered you. I really loved the book, and the importance of parents in one's making big in life. Basically relationship with our parents pays a important aspect of our life and how we appear towards others. The book is a great treasure for the young generation to learn how to respect workplace and ethics. I pray to almighty that you will bringout many more such books to lighten the lives of many.
Best of Grace, and hope to meet you in future…..
Rakesh Andhare
Dear Mr. Bagchi,
I bought all your three books, and have read 'Go kiss the world', and 'The Professional'. I enjoyed reading them, and am now circulating them among my friends, as I want them to read these books too.
Go Kiss the world, has been a real inspiration to me. I have done my MBA, and run my own recrutiment business. After reading your book, I have been inspired to study further and do my doctorate!!
Thank you for writing such a motivating book, and sharing your own life experiences with us. I look forward to seeing more of your books on the stands.
Best Wishes,
Dear Sir,
On reading your two books "Go Kiss the World" and "The Professional" you have inspired me
Its like you have became my Role Model.
their is small request if possible i could like get further assistance or rather inspiration or just call it a motivation to do something from YOU Sir
Dear Sir.
reading your book was a treat to my mind. it explained well that "you are what you eat in your breakfast". It was really an inspiring book and the teachings at the end of the book were really helpful too.
Dear Sir,
Recently I have gone through one of your book "Go Kiss The World" and after reading I liked it a lot. I have recommended your book even in my daily facebook updates. Now, I am going through your latest book "The Professional".
What I have felt is that: I have found too much similarity between you & madam Sudha Murthy stories/ books. Madam & your books consist personal anecdotes, real life stories, full of hope, believe and it gave me real pleasure to read.
Thanks a lot for writing such good books, all the best and god bless you always.
Dear Sir,
First of all a humble thanks to you for sharing these through your wonderful book.
Really a valuable guide and inspirational contents to read and it refreshes our mind. I am sure it will motivate many and help to support those who never traveled such path of career.
For me it was a great book which acted as a virtual mentor.
Many many thanks and Good Wishes
One of the most touching and inspiring auto-biography of business leader i have read over. my friends to whom i shared this book simply said……..woh…………The challenges and varieties of experiences you faced is the learning for readers.
Fuzail Ahmad
Dear Mr Bagchi,
I am delighted to meet you through your inspiring book " Go Kiss the World". A few months ago someone sent me a fwd – an excerpt from this book and I was hooked! The very title was intriguing as well as inspiring! And when I chanced upon the book recently, I grabbed it and could not put it down till I finished it.
You have an easy style of writing and are very clear about what you wish to convey. Your experiences and the lessons you have learnt on this journey of life is an inspiration to others – even senior citizens like me, for they are lessons on how to live life! I am eager to share this book with my son and all the other young people I know so that they too are inspired and motivated.
Thank you for sharing your experiences! I have become your fan for life and eagerly look fwd to read your other books and articles!
K.Subadra Murthy
Many Many happy returns of the day,your presence of 53 years has impacted many and now you are Someone to Everyone.Dont know you will read this email or not.
My name is Ankit Jain.I read your book "The High Performance Entrepreneur".I Completed yesterday.I dont work in MindTree,but after reading the book,you have made me Ankit Jain again.I work for an IT company in chennai.And I am on the start of my career in Datawarehousing.
Leaving this apart,as a reader I have many questions to ask you.Few are like,I wan to ask you:
1)One of your brother who choosed the path of solitude(may be I am not exact with words),I want to know what the best lesson you learned from him
2)In Chennai,You heard something from a cucumber seller,can you put some light on it to help me carve my future.
3)Where you think you are still making a mistake.
Do reply me,so that I can follow your every steps.
I know you are a busy man,but I know you are Subroto.
Happy birthday.
Dear Mr. Bagchi,
Last week I came across your book in our resource center and honestly, I am deeply inspired by it. I knew that you were an amazing speaker the moment we heard you at Great Lakes, but well, you have proved to be an even better writer with the book!
Have put in a few points of yours in my webpage which inspired the most.
Dear Mr. Bagchi,
Books like "GO KISS THE WORLD,THE PROFESSIONAL,The High Performance EntrepreneuR,are superb and a guide to youngsters.I am a Program Executive working in the field of media for a prominent Television Channel in Bangalore. The experience of your life where you state that to treat each and everyone with due respect is somewhat many managers have to learn today. There are many youngsters who are in high profile jobs and managerial positions where they feel that they have succeded and theytake it to their heads. I am awaiting your new book.
É preciso limpar imtmaatidenee um ninho de ratos fedorentos chamado Observatório do QREN que está no Ministério das Finanças e cujo verdadeiro Boss é um SS-Sinistro Sarolho.Quem o fizer merece sim o nosso apoio.A nossa avaliação faz-se pelos actos e não pelas palavras.
Petite question: Je ne trouve nulle part (sur internet) de définition précise de « beylien ».Quelqu'un peut-il m'éclairer?Merci !
That insight's just what I've been looking for. Thanks!
Renny_susantiNovember 12, 2012Asww> hebat orang beriman itu ya > udah dengan sabarnya , masih sanggup baca Alhamdulilah > saya Islam tapi sangat pemarah kalau urusan bertele tele >
Goed verhaal, Marijke. Ik wil met een reactie graag wachten tot anderen gereageerd hebben. Mijn posts hebben veel positief commentaar gegenereerd, dus ik ben blij met dit tegengeluid.Goede start voor een inhoudelijke discussie over het onderwijs.
Oi, ihania majanrakennustarvikkeita, kyllä kelpaa rakentaa!Meillä myös majapuuhat mieluisia, juurikin vilteistä, peitoista, kankaista tehden. Olohuoneesta sohvan ja nojatuolien takaa löytyy parhaat rakennuspaikat.
Aviso a navegantes.La web rokambol es de cachondeo.Asà que antes de indignarse, utilizar el sentido común y contrastad las noticias, aunque en la mayoria de casos, esta web pone noticias muy cachondas y difÃciles de creer. Pero ya veo que la gente, le cuesta separar realidad de ficción.
Hi Subroto Sir,
I just read the addressed you had given to IIM, Bangalure on 2006.I am thankful to my Boss for forwarding me that email.
While reading your whole speach,my eyes were full of tear and got imotional. And also, its really gives encouragement and immense morale strength for a successful life.
I wish you a very best.
Hi Subrato
I just completed your book "Go kiss the world". Initially I didn't found it very exciting but as the book proceed, I simply loved it. And then I understood why you had taken so much time in initial chapters so that readers can find themselves connected with rest of the book.
I loved it and there is lot to learn from it. Truly inspirational. I have also fallen in love with mindtree organisation and I hope will work with it in future. After reading book, I visited several times mindtree website and I only hope you read my these comment.
thank you
an inspiring book. we slould respect each and every one we come across. and it seems that adversity gives our life a much needed boost.
Hello Sir,
I am quite motivated with your book. It was gifted by my dear friend and now the book has become dear to me.
We are a young technology company and going through some tough times, seeing a meek future and would have to put down our weapons. Your experiences has surely given me courage to walk few more miles and take it beyond the brick wall.
We are still hopeful to make a difference in our lives with this project.
Its nice to know we were never alone and will never be alone in all the struggles. people have suffered similarly and come out of it coz they believed they will.
Thank you for the thought.
Dear sir,
I am reading the book with inspiring interest. whne yoiu tell the story you are touching the hearts of millions.It is not an inellectual journey to be with the book you are navigating us through. "we have four houses and also we have four transistors" Can it be more power ful touching and inspiring for the ones like me.But that is the reality. we are five brothers and two sisters.Our lives have broad similarity to that of you. Our mother always said her jewels are her children when she had to be with out the gold chain for years for reasons of the chain went into sale as it could not be taken back from pledging to meet our educational needs.
Your observations regarding MBAs and IITians finding difficult to pursue payment collection is equally a fact.after all for every job there is a cader most fit for it. We have a cases where in engineers of of the best talent miserably fail to recognise the need for focusing their attention to minor things like the welding slag and welding spatter while inspecting apart fromthe high teck areas like the NDT and the mirostructure.But they find them insignificant. result is customer complaints.
Your noting that the every fall is the opportunity for break through rise is equally striking.
It is equally true to run an enterprise with engineering prodiucts a back ground in engineering is not a must provided the entrepreneurial competence is in abundance
with best wishes
Your books have been inspiring me
thank you
Dear Sir,
Your books are really Very Good and Inseparable Which helps us with the way thinking of our Up coming Life.
Thank you.
Dear sir,
All your books are very inspiring books
and this one is the very inspiring
Dear Sir,
Your books are extremely inspiring and eye opening . You came from such a rural place where people are not able to get two square meals even if today. I have spent some years in that area (Sunabeda, Koraput).Sometimes I get surprised to think that how could a person from that area go to such a great height. That is all because of your exemplary disciplined and austere life .
Your books tell the actual story of life , business and success. It inspires many broken hearted people to recollect their strength and go ahead.. At this age of shortcut and bypass , where people are ready do everything for the sake of mere maternal gain ,your books focus on the real face of gain ,loss and maternal simplicity. Corporate people like me (I am a software professional at Bangalore) can always get ways of inspiration from your books.
Specially your speech at IIM can motivate any hopeless person and can give rays of hope for living a better life. Your books are like philosophical books tested with time and they express the truth in a practical manner. I am a voracious reader and have read many books. So I can tell that your books have definitely a different flavor.
My humble request would be , if you have not allowed anyone to translate "Go Kiss the World" to Odia language, then please allow me to do so. I will feel myself fortunate to do so.
May God bless you and give you better thoughts to write these types of inspiring books in the time to come
go kiss the world
What a book Sir !!
Dear Sir,
Your books have been inspiring me.
thank you
Dear Sir,
I am recently gone thorugh your speech "to the Class of 2006 at the IIM, Bangalore on defining success" i.e. the preamble of "Go and Kiss the World"
This speech made me shaken inside, made my journey back to my childhood where I brought up in humble way in a family of six. Above all, I confess here that I could not hold my tears intact going though your speech Sir! Thanks a lot for sharing such a great value. Presently I am 45 working as AGM in a PSU.
Few books written by the author on his own life experiences inspire you as "Go Kiss the World". That family values have a great impact on one's success is vividly expressed in this magnificent book. You feel like reading a novel. As you go on and on you get charmed with the simplicity of the author, his phenomenal rise and the invalubale lessons you learn in the pages. A must read.
Go Kiss the World is a fantastic book that can inspire every section of the people, young or old. It not only shows Mr.Bagchi as a successful entrepreneur, but reflects his mind as a person too. I am extremely fascinated by the book. It has shown us the path of success and at the same time works as a motivation for the coming young entrepreneur.
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I loved the book and this is a masterpiece for sure. Honestly this is one of my favourite books till date.Life can be very challenging and open the doors which you can not even dream in your wildest dreams. From DCM to Mindtree is exceptional journey of courage, foresight, passion, and guts.You inspired us in each page of the book .
Purnendu Mohanty
Managing Director (India & SAARC)
GMC Software Technology India Pvt Ltd
Dear Mr. Bagchi,
It is a completely new experience to go through your writing 'Go Kiss the World'…it is rather the profile of a man (especially a Bengali) of uncompromising nature , it is the real demonstration of facts how a boy from a typical middle class background becomes an acclaimed global personality…it delineates step by step how to manifest the inner potential of a man through lively ( I mean related to very down to earth human life ) analogies & anecdotes….it exemplifies the necessity of a complete family (overriding today's nuclear family concept ) to be competent professionally….I personally feel that every Indian(especially Bengali) youngster of every professional walk must go through this unique documentary.
Thank you very much for this kind of endeavor.
Debarshi Basu
Reading this book was a great experience. The fluency of expression, the artful weaving of words, the humour and frankness, the moments when you just can't resist tears – all these make this book unique. I consider myself blessed to have stumbled upon this book.
One minor printing correction is required. In the last line page 78 the first word "allocated" is truncated; only "cated" appears. This should be corrected in the next reprint. A very minor observation but in a perfect book, why leave even a trace of imperfection?!
I have a personal question, assuming that you have wrongly interpreted to the last lines of your mother………..please discuss with me…
An wonderful book. Thank you for the thought.
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I just completed the book.Loved it.GREAT !!!
Is 'Go kiss the world' a registered tag line?
Is it possible for you to register it as a 'tag line' with the office of Intellectual Property registrations?
Respected sir, your valuable speech at iim bangaluru on july 2004 tamil version given in Ramakrishna vijayam october 2014 issue instantly I have read very sensitive speech I broken three or four times wonderful I am much appreciated the simplicity and sincerity of your parents both mother and father I am also your age but I am Now working as your father like simple Principal in a Govt. college of Education for women, Coimbatore
by Dr. N.RAMAKRISHNAN, please inform me how to get your books
sorry i have no email ID as i'm student of 7th std i have read this story as it has came in our Oxfords mulberry book i'm studding in tomoae school it is the awesome book i ever read and i'm totally inspired by some verses by you you have totally changed my view about what success is thank you sir.
By worthy, I imply worthy of getting discussed
(some could be added to let you know they are NO Fantastic for gaming with DH).
Dear Mr Bagchi,
On my 3 day trip to UK I had bought the book at Airport and during travel in few sitting completed the book, highlighting some lines which will summarise and use it as ready reckoner
I am at present working as President(W) in MMTC PAMP India pvt ltd which is one of the largest gold and silver refinery. My life till now matches in many ways to what you have written in the book. I am 47 and going through exactly what you had gone in the book
An awesome book and it would be great if I can meet you in person and share my experiences.
Do let me know whenever you are in Delhi and would love to meet
Will read all your other books for sure
A standing ovation for your success and may you get more in years to come
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|The most sheltered branch of my winter jasmine (Jasminum nudiflorum) was in full bloom on Christmas Eve.
The Daily DuBrule
It's New Year's Eve, and I feel like I have run a marathon in the past month. As I look back on my blog, I realize I haven't written a thing since December 3rd. Yup. That's when the craziness began. Two open houses, decorating a designer house for the holidays, first ever Ladies Night, and hundreds upon hundreds of wreaths, swags, and arrangements made over the course of the past 28 days. Oh, I might also mention a staff pizza party in the wood fired oven at my fully-decked out house for 30+ people to celebrate Natureworks' first official retirement. Then we hosted 12 for Christmas Eve (I married an Italian, need I say more) and another big meal for my family of 6 on Christmas Day. Company stayed on for a while, I collapsed for one day, then onto Natureworks' cleanup day after the retail store closed which included grappling with inventory procedures with our young P.O.S. system. That was truly humbling. Yesterday, to top it off, shoveling a foot of snow that was TOO WET to go through the snow blower. All of that is a lot to handle, but as I look back now, I think I became uninspired to write about plants after the Newtown tragedy. It seemed too trivial all of the sudden. I put my nose to the grindstone and did all that I had to do. Now, I can finally sit, rest, relax, and think again. Which leads me back to this blog.
I went out on Christmas Eve day and walked around my yard picking greens and taking photographs of all of the signs of life in the garden. I was quite astounded at what I saw. I knew December had been warm, but I really only understood just how warm when I saw plants a bit too far along for this time of year. The other thing I observed was the wide range of plants that don't go completely dormant. There was quite a bit of green out there! Enjoy these pictures, may they remind you that gardeners are, essentially, quintessential optimists. We believe in life reborn every single New Year.
|Since late fall my Viburnum carcephalum has been popping open a bit. If you bring a bud in the house, it will smell so sweet, especially in a small, warm room like a south facing powder room.
|How is it possible that my ruby chard, which was frozen solid in November, has sent up a new crown of fresh foliage that is so intensely red and green just in time for Christmas Eve? This would have made a good Christmas card!
|I was enchanted by the stack of seeds and the pattern of the seed pods on my white Japanese iris by the water garden. I just pulled out the pump and shut the water garden down yesterday afternoon as the first snowflakes started to fall.
|Fasciated pussywillows are starting to open. I cut my plants REALLY hard this spring after blooming and BOY did that make a difference. I will have a great crop of branches for the flower show in February.


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Husbands and fathers, we have been given a great authority and responsibility by God as the heads of our homes. There are two easy ways to misuse this authority and place ourselves in the pathway of God's judgment.
1. To fail to exercise our authority- like David, who "had never crossed [Absalom] at any time by asking, "Why have you done so?"" The passive father who does not actively lead his family has been given authority by God, but has left it sitting on a shelf collecting dust, and he will answer for the resulting disrepair all the more because he neglected to use the very tool God gave to prevent it.
2. To over-exercise our authority, or to act as if it has no limitations- like King Uzziah, who presumed to offer incense on God's altar and thus overstepped his God-given authority. The father who exercises authority without love, or who acts as if his wife or children are to obey him without limitation, without recourse, and most of all without their own personal sense of duty and relationship to Christ, may expect a similar rebuke: "Get out of the sanctuary, for you have been unfaithful and will have no honor from the Lord God."


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- Research
- Open Access
Evaluation of internal reliability in the presence of inconsistent responses
- Daniel YT Fong1Email author,
- S Y Ho2 and
- T H Lam2
© Fong et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2010
- Received: 10 September 2009
- Accepted: 12 March 2010
- Published: 12 March 2010
We aimed to assess the impact of inconsistent responses on the internal reliability of a multi-item scale by developing a procedure to adjust Cronbach's alpha.
A procedure for adjusting Cronbach's alpha when there are inconsistent responses was developed and used to assess the impact of inconsistent responses on internal reliability by evaluating the standard Chinese 12-item Short Form Health Survey in adolescents.
Contrary to common belief, random responses may inflate Cronbach's alpha when their mean differ from that of the true responses. Fixed responses inflate Cronbach's alpha except in scales with both positive and negative polarity items. In general, the bias in Cronbach's alpha due to inconsistent responses may change from negative to positive with an increasing number of items in a scale, but the effect of additional items beyond around 10 becomes small. The number of response categories does not have much influence on the impact of inconsistent responses.
Cronbach's alpha can be biased when there are inconsistent responses, and an adjustment is recommended for better assessment of the internal reliability of a multi-item scale.
- Item Response Theory
- Internal Reliability
- True Response
- Role Emotional
- Random Response
Internal reliability is an attribute of a multi-item scale that refers to the extent to which items in the scale are related; it is very often evaluated to assess the reliability of patient-reported outcomes (PROs). The most common measure of internal reliability reported in psychometric studies of PROs is Cronbach's alpha [1], but unfortunately, it can be biased by the presence of inconsistent responses.
Inconsistent responding occurs when respondents complete a questionnaire without comprehending the items, typically in self-reported questionnaires when the participants are unmotivated or the questions are sensitive [2]. Inconsistent responses are classified as random, when responses are given unsystematically, or fixed, when the same response is given to all items [3]. Although the literature has not stipulated the impact of inconsistent responses on internal reliability, fixed responses by their nature would result in high association among the responses of the associated items and thus inflate the observed reliability in scales whose items have the same polarity. They can also diminish it in scales when that is not the case as the association among the item responses would be lower. Moreover, a substantial number of random responses would diminish the internal reliability by the independent nature of random responses, but what it means by substantial and such an effect in general are less certain.
In practice, inconsistent responses may not be easily identified since they can also be plausible responses. Random responses are particularly difficult to detect as they have no identifiable patterns. Nevertheless, there are tested personality scales, namely, the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2) and the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-Adolescent (MMPI-A), that assess the level of inconsistency for a response [4, 5]. Both of them have a variable response inconsistency (VRIN) scale for assessing random responding and a true response inconsistency (TRIN) scale for assessing fixed responding. Cutoff values have also been established for the detection of random and fixed responses [4–6]. Depending on the instrument used, the VRIN scale comprises at least 50 item pairs and the TRIN at least 23 item pairs. As their length does not always allow for concurrent use with PRO instruments, we can only assess the sensitivity of internal reliability within an anticipated range of the proportion of inconsistent responses. However, to the best of our knowledge, no method is available for adjusting the internal reliability due to inconsistent responses.
In view of these, we aimed 1. to evaluate the impact of inconsistent responding on internal reliability; 2. to propose a method for adjusting Cronbach's alpha in the presence of inconsistent responses; and 3. to illustrate the use of the procedure in evaluating the internal reliability of the standard Chinese 12-item Short Form Health Survey (SF-12v2) for a large sample of adolescents.
Adjusting Cronbach's alpha for inconsistent responses
when all items have the same polarity. μR and are the mean and variance of the random responses and can be taken as and , respectively, for scales composing of items responded on a K-point Likert scale with each scored from 1 to K. μT is the mean of true responses and can be taken as [see Additional file 1].
Cronbach's alpha adjusted for inconsistent responding can be calculated from (1) after replacing the unknown quantities by the corresponding sample estimates. Note the adjustment assumes that both random and fixed responses to an item are uniformly distributed over the K-point Likert scale; i.e., there is no specific preference of a certain response category. Performance of the adjustment procedure is assessed by a small Monte-Carlo simulation study. Biases of the adjusted Cronbach's alpha are consistently smaller than those of the unadjusted alpha [see Additional file 2].
Assessing the impact of inconsistent responses on Cronbach'salpha
- 1.
The influence of random responses is assessed by varying its proportion (pR) from 0 to 50% when pF is taken to be 0 or 5%. The mean difference between the true and random responses (μT-μR) is 0 or 1, and the scale has 5 positive polarity items, each responded on a 5-point Likert scale.
- 2.
The influence of fixed responses is assessed by varying its proportion (pF) from 0 to 50%. The pR is taken to be 0 or 10%, and the number of positive polarity items is 5 or 3. Moreover, the mean difference between the true and random responses (μT-μR) is 0, and the scale has 5 items, each responded on a 5-point Likert scale.
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The influence of the number of items is assessed by varying it from 2 to 20 when the proportion of positive polarity items is taken to be 0.5 or 1, and the mean difference between the true and random responses (μT-μR) is 0 or 1. Moreover, all items are responded on a 5-point Likert scale.
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The influence of the number of item response categories (K) is assessed by varying it from 2 to 10 when the number of positive polarity items is 5 or 3, and the mean difference between the true and random responses is 0 or 0.2 K. Moreover, we assume that 20% and 5% of responses are random and fixed, respectively.
For each of the four scenarios, Cronbach's alpha based on the true responses is defined to be 0.4, 0.5, 0.6, 0.7 and 0.8.
A real example to illustrate the adjustment of inconsistent responses
As an example, we evaluate the internal reliability of the standard Chinese SF-12v2. The questionnaire consists of 12 items in eight scales. For the sake of illustration, we considered only the Physical functioning (PF), Role emotional (RE) and Mental health (MH) scales, each of which consists of two items. All items in the three scales are positively worded except one item in MH that is negatively worded. Items in the PF scale use a 3-point Likert scale, while the other items use a 5-point Likert scale. The original scale scores are standardized in the range of 0-100, but for convenience, we just considered the total score after reverse coding the responses of the negative polarity items. Note, however, that the internal reliability is invariant to this standardization.
Data in the standard Chinese SF-12v2 were collected from the Hong Kong Student Obesity Surveillance (HKSOS) project conducted in 2006-2007. This study was cross-sectional involving 42 high schools covering all 18 districts in Hong Kong. It administered a survey questionnaire that contained the SF-12v2. The project was approved by the Institutional Review Board of The University of Hong Kong and the Hospital Authority Hong Kong West Cluster.
The impact of inconsistent responses on Cronbach's alpha
Internal reliability of the standard Chinese SF-12v2
A summary of scales of the standard Chinese SF12v2 in adolescents
Role emotional (RE)
Physical functioning (PF)
Mental health (MH)
Number of response categories (K)
Number of items
Positive polarity (m+)
Negative polarity (m-)
Number of respondents
Cronbach's alpha
For the PF scale, K = 3, μR is estimated as 2 and as 0.67. The values of αa at different values of pR and pF are shown in Figure 5(b). While there remains an inflation of Cronbach's alpha when there are fixed responses, it is interesting to note a general decreasing trend of the true internal reliability after removing more random responses. In other words, the presence of random responses may also inflate Cronbach's alpha. A further examination of the scale items revealed that they were highly left skewed, with ceiling percentages of 80.4% and 81.5%, leading to 72.7% of the scale scores reaching the plausible maximum of 6 (Table 1). Indeed, random responses are systematically lower (μR= 2) than true responses (μT> 2). Thus, when there are random responses that uniformly spread over the plausible item values, small item values are more likely random responses than large item values. Consequently, individuals who gave random responses would more likely have small values in all items, and hence their presence would enhance the inter-item association. In fact, it can be shown that the presence of random responses increases the correlation between two positively worded items when the true correlation is below . This threshold increases when (μT-μR)2, which measures the skewness of the true responses from the mid-response, becomes large. In summary, the PF scale should have a Cronbach's alpha of at most 0.67 only, and its internal reliability could be unacceptably low given the anticipated range of inconsistent responses.
Figure 5(c) examines the impact of inconsistent responses on MH, which consists of a positive polarity and a negative polarity item. In contrast to the other two scales, the presence of both random and fixed responses would reduce the Cronbach's alpha of the MH scale. Thus, the reported Cronbach's alpha of 0.33 is indeed the minimum level, and the adjusted value could be as high as 0.66 given the anticipated range of inconsistent responses.
The presence of inconsistent responses may positively or negatively bias the Cronbach's alpha, making the assessment of internal reliability difficult. An adjustment was proposed to Cronbach's alpha for correcting the effects of inconsistent responses when one can estimate a possible range for the percentage of inconsistent responses. This enables a sensitivity analysis to assess the potential impact of inconsistent responses and facilitates a better understanding of the internal reliability of a multi-item scale.
As one would expect, the presence of fixed responses overestimates Cronbach's alpha for scales composed of items mostly worded in the same direction but would otherwise lead to an underestimation. However, it is interesting to observe that random responses may indeed inflate Cronbach's alpha when the distribution of true responses is skewed or, more precisely, when the true mean response deviates from the random/fixed mean response. This is contrary to the common intuition that random responses would dilute the association among items and hence reduce the internal reliability. Indeed, when the true item responses are skewed on the same side, the addition of random responses that scatter around the mid-response could strengthen association among the items if they are not too many. Thus, paradoxically, this kind of noise could inflate the internal reliability and hence Cronbach's alpha. Unfortunately, it is common for true responses to differ from random/fixed responses, on average, especially in patients whose quality of life has deteriorated due to their adverse conditions. Hence, we should be careful not to optimistically interpret Cronbach's alpha when there are random responses.
To determine random and fixed responses, tested personality scales such as the VRIN and TRIN scales of the MMPI-2 and MMPI-A may be considered [4]. They are, however, rather lengthy, requiring at least 23 item pairs, and they may not be feasibly incorporated into large scale studies. Nevertheless, we need to have an estimate of the proportion of inconsistent responses in a sample before the proposed method can be effectively applied. While the determination of whether an individual was endorsing inconsistent responses can be a challenge, modification or addition of a few items for tracking potentially inconsistent responses will be helpful. As in our illustrative example, the response option of "none of the above" in items allowing multiple response choices could be easily incorporated to track for potential random responses. Fixed responses are more easily identified by the patterns that they follow. Incorporating items that would not likely receive the same response will be useful.
Cronbach's alpha of a scale has been known to be higher in scales with more items [7]. We have found that, when there are inconsistent responses, scales with more items would also increase any upward bias in Cronbach's alpha. Although the increase diminishes and may become negligible when there are many items, it is better to keep the number of items minimal to avoid reporting an overly optimistic Cronbach's alpha. Nevertheless, there remains a chance of under-estimating Cronbach's alpha, and it is probably better to be conservative when assessing the internal reliability of a scale.
We have also shown that the number of response categories does not have much influence on the bias of Cronbach's alpha induced by the presence of inconsistent responses. There could be only a small positive increase in the bias for scales with items of 3 or fewer response categories. Previous studies have shown that scales with fewer response categories tend to have lower internal reliability and suggested the use of more than 3 response categories [8, 9]. This recommendation is indeed also good to minimize the impact of inconsistent responses. However, the choice of the number of response categories may largely depend on the actual content of the scale [10]. Modern assessment of item characteristics utilizing item response theory is deemed more useful to determine an appropriate number of response categories [11].
We have illustrated how Cronbach's alpha can be adjusted for inconsistent responses by evaluating the standard Chinese SF-12v2 in a large sample of students. Note that each scale of the SF-12v2 consists of at most two items only. Although the Cronbach's alpha may in theory be used for scales of at least two items, its use for two-item scales has been criticized [12]. The concern lies in whether two items are sufficient to represent the correspondingly larger domain comprising a much larger collection of items. Alternative forms of reliability that utilize more items in the same construct may be more desirable [13]. Hence, the internal reliability of the SF-12v2 may require further study. It is used here to merely illustrate the impact of inconsistent responses on Cronbach's alpha.
The proposed adjustment to Cronbach's alpha for correcting the effects of inconsistent responses facilitates the assessment of the impact of inconsistent responses on internal reliability. In practice, as soon as respondents with inconsistent item-answer behavior had been identified, it would be simpler to exclude them from the calculation of Cronbach's alpha. However, when the identification of such responses is difficult and the anticipated range of inconsistent responses may be taken more conservatively than that of actually identified, the proposed adjustment may be used.
We assumed the random and fixed responses to an item are uniformly distributed over a K-point Likert scale. When an individual is endorsing a random or fixed response to an item without referencing to the actual content of the time, there would likely be no specific preference on endorsing a particular response category. Therefore, unless there are particular response categories that would be generally endorsed more often in the population, the assumption of uniform distribution appears to be reasonable. Nevertheless, a non-uniform distribution may also be incorporated. Indeed, the adjustment procedure depends on only the first two moments of the random and fixed responses. A different mean of random and fixed responses would either increase or decrease its difference from the mean of true responses (i.e. μT-μR), on which the influence has been examined in Figure 1. On the other hand, an increase of the variance of random and fixed responses would increase the proportion of variance in the total score that is due to inconsistent responses (i.e. /variance of S) which reduces the observed Cronbach's alpha.
We have not examined the impact of inconsistent responses on inference about Cronbach's alpha. However, it has been previously shown that the width of the corresponding confidence interval is negatively proportional to the estimated Cronbach's alpha [14, 15]. Thus a positively biased alpha would tend to result in a short confidence interval leading to a nominal coverage less than the required level. Hence, the false positive error rate for testing about the significance of Cronbach's alpha would also be increased.
Cronbach's alpha has been criticized on the grounds that is just a lower bound of reliability and that other measures may be considered as a better lower bound measure than the coefficient alpha [16]. Moreover, it implicitly assumes the items are responded on an interval scale which limits its use in PRO instruments when items are categorically scored. Besides, it assumes a fixed level of reliability across the whole range of the measurement, and is not a measure of uni-dimensionality. Nevertheless, Cronbach's alpha may be interpreted as a measure of the proportion of the total score variance that can be attributed to true score variance that may be affected by the extent to which the items are associated. Hence, we believe that the impact of inconsistent responses could be applicable to the general evaluation of internal reliability of a scale. An analytical exploration of the impact of inconsistent responses would be desirable. A potential method was the modern psychometric assessment by item response theory which allows the examination of the response characteristics of individual items. It has gained much popularity but it has been reviewed and concluded to be relatively unsuccessful in identifying dissimulation [17, 18]. Further work may deem to be necessary.
Cronbach's alpha may be inflated by inconsistent responses when either the mean of true responses differ from that of the random/fixed responses or all items in the scale have the same polarity. The inflation in the former situation is due to the presence of random responses, while the latter is due to the presence of fixed responses. It should not be assumed that random responses always diminish Cronbach's alpha.
We thank Mr. KK Mak and Miss W.S. Lo, who coordinated and collected data in the HKSOS project. The HKSOS project was financially supported by The University of Hong Kong University Research Committee Strategic Research Theme on Public Health.
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This is a great read, So happy that you got yourself out of the messy middle. I sometimes feel that way as well. Sometimes for me its the holidays or things like that kick me off of my focus and its so hard to get back at it.
It's been a while since I've updated this blog. For many reasons . . . Time constraints. Sickness. More time constraints.
The longer I was away from the writing, the easier it was not to write. The easier it was to lose my vision (or rather my belief in that vision). In simple terms, I got STUCK.
I am now in the middle of writing my book's sequel and for a solid week, I just stared at the computer screen trying to figure out what to write next. Nothing came. Each night, more nothing.
I had hopes of writing a blog posting about my 30-Day Plank Challenge. Obviously, I wanted to accomplish it first before writing about it. I was on day 19 and had gotten up to multiple plank reps of 1:15 seconds each, and then I got sick (allergies turned cold turned sinus infection). I could barely do 30 seconds without a coughing fit.
As for my projects around the house, let's just say I acquiesced to the filth that, in my head, was closing in on me. I told/asked myself, "What kind of fraud are you? Who are you to have a blog site about 'mastering your life with positivity, planning, and productivity' when you cannot even do it yourself'."
You get the picture. I got stuck in — what I call — the Messy Middle.
I've met and battled this Messy Middle in all the projects that I've decided to take on–it's a tough opponent. And with any goal, it is there ready for battle. The Messy Middle reminds you of all the reasons your dreams can not be achieved. It partners up with Overwhelm and can paralyze you with its venom.
The Messy Middle is inherent in any goal. It sits between the excitement of starting a new goal and the final steps of achievement. It is the hard part; it requires tenacity, holding tightly to your vision, consistency, perseverance, and ignoring the doubters around you (including your negative inner voices). It requires WORK. It is HARD.
But it is possible.
I've had to come to terms with my Messy Middle, and if you too are stuck with your goals, then you may need to come to terms with your own Messy Middle. To do so, you need to be HONEST WITH YOURSELF. What is causing this fear? What is holding you back?
Once you acknowledge these fears, forgive yourself for having them because IT IS NORMAL. IT IS OKAY. Nobody — absolutely no one — is perfect, so stop thinking you need to be.
I am not perfect, this blog is not perfect, my writing is not perfect. But that is okay. I'd rather do something badly and fail than not do anything at all.
I feel so much better just having written that! It is this honesty that has allowed me to finally move forward. If you, too, are stuck I challenge you to face your fear. Face it, acknowledge it, and then . . .
Ha, ha . . .click on this video. This humorous video (which I've posted a few times before) is my go-to cure for getting unstuck. While it is a comedy skit, I ALWAYS, ALWAYS feel better after watching. It SNAPS me out of my fear. Seriously watch it!
Remember, the MESSY MIDDLE lives and breaths within every goal. If it didn't exist then the VICTORY wouldn't be as sweet.
If you feel yourself giving into those negative voices and feeling stuck, STOP IT!!
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10 breast cancer survivors, 10 tattoo artists and 10 healing hearts. Sounds AWESOME to me! And all because of one uber inspirational breast cancer warrior, Molly Ortwein.
Fast forward a year and a breast cancer diagnosis later and there's a new gal in town and a very cool organization called Personal Ink (P.ink). Ready to pay it forward, Molly and her crew over at P.ink are sponsoring and fundraising for their first PINK TATTOO DAY being held in New York City on October 21, 2013 at Save Tattoo Studio. Her mission: to "help turn something painful for breast cancer survivors into something beautiful." How awe-inspiring is that? Because let me tell you something, when the 'old girls' go and the 'new girls' arrive, the process is not such an easy one. It takes time. It takes acceptance. It takes therapy (AND a rockin' tattoo!).
So, when I first saw Molly's mission to assist fellow survivors feel better about themselves through beautiful body art, she had me! And although I'm medically unable to participate for their first fabulous event in the big city, I at least wanted to spread the word on how you can personally make a difference in someone's healing and life.
Here's what to do... Go to their indiegogo fundraising page for Pink Day 2013 and make a contribution towards their $25,000 goal! There, you'll see a very moving video and 2 clicks later, you've just made a huge difference in the often challenging journey following breast cancer and a mastectomy. It'll make you feel good for days! There's numerous levels of tax-deductable donations that you can contribute from $10 - $5,000 and they'll even throw in a few freebies for you.
So, do something good, click on over to the fundraising page right now but don't forget to keep up with them on Twitter or their beautifully curated P.ink Pinterest page for a dose of inspiration.
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Chris' Cancerversary!
And here he is folks! 1 year later and look at Chris now! As many of you know, my 'chemo comrade' Chris was diagnosed with Hodgkins Lymphoma 1 year ago today. His mom Dee (my amazing cousin!) says she remembers every single detail about this day last year. Where she was sitting, what Chris was doing, who told them, how she felt, etc... That's how it works in Cancerland you know, recalling every minuscule detail of a diagnosis like it was just yesterday.
But 1 year later, Chris is thriving, back in school and back in his game (go Chieftains baseball!). He's been declared 'cured' (such a spectacular word!) and sporting a rockin' new do! And even though he sees his Stanford docs and team every 4-6 weeks for the plethora of tests for this gig, I think Chris is amazing and.... wait for it....wait for it.... LE - GEN - DAR - Y!
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Over the past 20 years, I've been
"Gee how I just love all the side effects from chemo and meds" SAID NO BREAST CANCER SURVIVOR - EVER! It's like having the worst flu of your life - for 1 year!
"Yes, I just love my new 'girls' - how lucky am I to have had a boob job?!" SAID NO BREAST CANCER SURVIVOR - EVER! While it does sound exciting, try laying on your stomach, on a hard or soft mattress with these things!
"Being bald is such a cool hair style to rock!" SAID NO BREAST CANCER SURVIVOR - EVER! Until you're made fun of by a mom and her four kids in the parking lot of Trader Joe's, not such a rockin' moment in hair history and so not a self-esteem booster.
"I just love all of this attention I'm getting!" SAID NO BREAST CANCER SURVIVOR - EVER! Are you kidding me? Someone once said that to me and I about lost my sh*t!
"Well, maybe getting chemo will finally help me lose those extra pounds!" SAID NO BREAST CANCER SURVIVOR - EVER! Please know that the only reason we lose weight is that we are so damn nauseous that we can hardly eat a morsel of food. I personally survived on water, 1/4 cup of mashed potatoes and 2 crackers on any given day. Do you know how few calories that is?
"I so love that I get to take Tamoxifen for the next 10 years!" SAID NO BREAST CANCER SURVIVOR - EVER! I am now in my second menopausal stint and have gained 30lbs! WEEEEE!
"I'm just going to make this the most positive experience in my life!" SAID NO BREAST CANCER SURVIVOR - EVER! Yeah right! While thinking positive is a common motto for many, it doesn't mean that this gig is still not chock-full of the most challenging and scary experiences. Positivity is just a bonus that we all dig down deep for.
"I'm so glad that it's only breast cancer!" SAID NO BREAST CANCER SURVIVOR - EVER! Bwah Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha!
"I've always wanted to wear a wig!" SAID NO BREAST CANCER SURVIVOR - EVER! FYI, they're hot, uncomfortable and itchy-scratchy on a bald head! You try it while being bald and get back to me on this one!
"I'm not afraid to die!" SAID NO BREAST CANCER SURVIVOR - EVER! Let's get real here - we're all afraid to die. We know that this is a possibility and a reality, but we're just not ready to die yet!
"Having cold breasts during hot weather is so awesome and convenient!" SAID NO BREAST CANCER SURVIVOR - EVER! Unless you need to help chill a summer salad or a six-pack, the implants are just that - COLD!
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This is the rediscovered film made in 1924 by the legendary Soviet silent film director, Yevgeny Antinov. "Despised by the modernists for his love of narrative, hated by the traditionalists for his modern techniques, disapproved of by the government for his self-indulgence and individualism, and ignored by their lackey scholars, he was loved only by the people." Along with his wife, the great African-American ballerina Eleanora Antinova, they created films that shocked the nation!
In other words, this film, its director and its star could only originate from the seductive world of famed modern artist Eleanor Antin! Beloved by audiences, scholars, and critics, Antin has had a art career spanning four decades that is almost as legendary and far more real than her alter-ego, Antinov.
Billed as "the final orgy and dreadful end of the notorious monk, Rasputin, on the eve of the Russian Revolution," THE LAST NIGHT OF RASPUTIN tells a story of pre-revolutionary Russia. Rasputin, confidante of the Tsarina, storms through St. Petersburg in endless orgies and bachannales. Into the aristocratic decadence come three friends from the productive classes - a worker, a student and a ballerina. The troika fall victim to evil doers but heroically triumph in the end.
Antin's film with intertitles and music, employs acting and film techniques that simulate a silent film supposedly produced in the Soviet Union in 1924 at the start of the Soviet film renaissance. Poetic, surprising and hilarious, Antin's beautifully shot and lit film is a joy to watch."Mayhem, murder, kidnapping, sex, and even cigarette smoking run riot through the film!" - Grace Glueck, New York Times
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Can't believe I have been away so long. Thankfully, I have moved on to a non-management position in my work. I am thinking that the unrealistic expectations of my last position convinced me to step away from nursing management. I now am working again as a hospice case manager. Some may think, "Hospice? Isn't that depressing?" But actually I find it quite fulfilling. Death and dying is just another part of the circle of life. I have the opportunity to accompany individuals and their families on their end of life journey. I work with a committed team of professionals that help our patients and families at this challenging time. Even though it is challenging, it is also rewarding. It is a privilege to help others with their journey. So it really doesn't feel like a grind at all.
Intensive group therapy helped me get my head together and know that I needed to change my career direction. Met some amazing people coping with some difficult circumstances. The biggest take away was for me to be in touch with my feelings and to push myself to live and not just exist. What I mean, and what continues to be a challenge for me is motivation. It is so easy to just let time slip by and not be accomplishing anything. I still struggle with this day-to-day. Hopefully writing about my struggle will help. I have always found that blogging has been therapeutic. And goodness knows I need it.
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Phone: 770-442-6993
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Year of inception: 2007
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Since its inception in 2007, Alchemy3 has become one of a select few companies in America that holds exclusive licenses to provide services to the North American Lottery Industry. A3 has worked with nearly all of North America's lotteries and maintains strong contacts in every jurisdiction. The company not only holds the esteem of lotteries; but also with world class companies like The Home Depot, Honda, Bass Pro Shops and Royal Caribbean International who use A3 as their trusted brand stewards in the lottery world. A3 has worked hard to achieve their market position by putting brand owners and lottery clients' needs first-- providing them with "boutique" type attention and executing programs with the highest level of integrity, honesty and thoughtfulness.
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Private Dining at The Brighton Grand
Exclusivity comes to the The Grand Brighton with the launch of two newly refurbished meeting spaces at this iconic hotel on Brighton's seafront. Hannah Charlesworth (17 Sep'15)
Executive chef, Alan White has introduced four and five course tasting menus for a high-end dining experience. Some 90% of the seafood is being sourced from within an eight- mile radius of the hotel.Private dining menus will feature dishes such as duck consommé followed by Sussex scallops with a pea purée and bacon or squid with a black risotto. For mains, guests can choose from wild seabass with crab ravioli, to a fillet of beef with lobster hollandaise. The desserts include palate of chocolate and the trio of lemon along with local cheeses Brighton Blue, Sussex Tremains cheddar and Sussex camembert with a selection of petit fours including raspberry macaroons and fruit pastilles.
The two refurbished rooms, designed by Hove-based boutique interiors company, Park Grove are part of the independent hotel's five-year renovation plan which incorporates 13 recently restored meeting spaces with capacity for up to 900 delegates. The new rooms offer versatility from company dinners, client entertainment and special occasion dining. Décor and furnishings are distinctly British furnishings and bespoke features, such as the striking art mural of Brighton seafront.
Both rooms also benefit from state-of-the-art Crestron Air Media Technology, a sophisticated audio visual gateway, which enables customers to seamlessly, present, play, collaborate and share content wirelessly.
General Manager Andrew Mosley said: "As a business we're always looking to exceed our guest's expectation and, due to having the expertise and demand, the new tasting menus are an exciting addition which helps us showcase the talent we have amongst our teams. After maintaining our Meetings Industry Association (mia) AIM Gold accreditation in February, it's great to be able to further invest in our offering and we look forward to updating our customers on further exciting developments in the near future."
Designed and built in 1864, the historic hotel is only a 10-minute walk away from the city's main rail station, with regular services in to London Victoria and Gatwick Airport.
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Sewn Hem Tags
Relabeling or adding an accent with woven tags is a common custom approach that is very appealing. Sewing a hem tag on the bottom seam or the sleeve of the shirt is a great approach to further developing your brand.
You can also relabel the neck by removing the stock mfg label and replacing it with your very own woven label. We typically relabel "under the tape", but we can also put them "over the tape" if you'd like.
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Some common placements for hem tag are: hip, neck, sleeve, hoodie pockets and the hip area of t-shirts.
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13. Diary of a Wimpy Kid Series
Diary of a Wimpy Kid series are written by Jeff Kinney. Available in Bahasa edition published by Atria, four books already and still counting. In general, this series is interesting.
Nowadays there're less kids who write their own journey or diary. By reading these, your memory of childhood get recalled. Greg Heffley, a first year junior high school student was asked to write a diary by his mom. Although he still called it a journal, he never absented to tell his daily life story. He always thought as the right side and the others were not. All his actions were based on his own judgment and whatever the others thought bad, he always feel right. Even his friend, Rowley was treated wrong but he never felt sorry.
The illustrations were well explained. And the lay out is perfect as a diary, ups, a journal. You'll finish the book in no time and make you curious to see more Greg's action.
By the way, the movie version had been out. The cast is fit. Although there's some little modification but it's OK. I find it as a good family story, full of moral contents. Hahaha. Now they're making the second one, Rodrick Rules. Can't wait to see the movie.
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Being bombarded with advertising all day, everywhere you go, is exhausting. And, yes, we realise the irony of saying that as you are no doubt drawn to the many excellent adverts that are run on this very website. Honestly, these products really are fantastic, much better than all those others you see everywhere else.
You're not even safe in the last bastion of 'time spent by yourself': while travelling.
Yes, all over the London Underground are giant adverts telling you how happy you'll be if you buy this product, how that product will make you look better, and how this other product is the secret to eternal wellbeing; often with the result that you feel unhappy about your current lot.
But one new organisation is aiming to change this, one station at a time.
The Citizens Advertising Takeover Service (CATS) has launched an ambitious campaign to replace every single advert at one busy London tube station with pictures of cats instead. Why? Because, "imagine the joy we could bring to all those busy shoppers. Instead of being asked to buy something, they'd be free to think happy thoughts, to smile and laugh."
As they write, "Wouldn't it be great not to worry about the holiday we can't afford, the car we don't need, or the body we don't have? Imagine a world where public spaces made you feel good."
They need to raise £20,000 in order to 'take over' a platform, or an escalator, at a London Undeground station - and their Kickstarter page has already raised almost £5,000. A stretch goal of £75,000 would enable them to reposter an entire station.
A £30 pledge will get you a t-shirt while a £100 donation will even mean that your very own cat can star in one of the 'adverts'. A mighty £2,500 will mean your mog gets a whole poster entirely to themselves. Imagine how majestic that would be. You're imagining it right now aren't you?
They admit themselves, that "We know this is a silly project. But what if we did this around the whole country, or in every major city in the world? Cats everywhere! Dumb yes, but also this is about trying something, flexing our collective voice in the most idiotic of ways. From all this madness something amazing could happen. Perhaps we'll start to realise that buying stuff isn't making us happy."
We vote they go for Tottenham Cat Road first, and be sure to skip Barking.
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Your Skydiving Questions Answered
Skydiving in Missouri for the first time? Wondering what you should wear or if you should eat before your jump? Take a deep breath, we've got you covered.
Our team has compiled a list of answers to our guests most frequently asked questions below. We recommend taking a few minutes to read through our FAQs prior to your skydive so that when you arrive at the dropzone you're feeling comfortable, confident, and ready to experience the adventure of a lifetime at Missouri's friendliest dropzone!
If we haven't answered your question below, please contact us and let us know how we can help you.
- General Questions
- Tandem Skydiving Questions
General Questions
- Where are you located?
We are located in Miller, Missouri right next to the Hangar Kafe. Often, GPS systems and Google Maps will not bring you directly to us, so be sure to locate us on the map prior to leaving to skydive with us.
- 45 mintues from Springfield, MO
- 50 minutes from Joplin, MO
- 1 hr 15 minutes from Branson, MO
- Are dogs permitted at your location?
Dogs are permitted, however must be leashed at all times and under supervision at all times.
- Is there a place to eat at Ozarks Skydive Center?
Yes. We share our parking lot with the Hangar Kafe. They have an excellent restuarant with excellent prices. Plan to jump and then celebrate at the restaurant - makes for an excellent day!
- Are there any restrictions to making a tandem skydive?
Yes. All participants must be:
- at least 18 years of age
- present a government issued, photo ID
- weigh less than 230 lbs.
Please note, any guest under 18 is unable to jump even with parental permission.
- What is your cancelation policy?
If unable to make your skydive on your appointed day, please give at least 24 hours notice of cancellation. Bookings cancelled in under 24 hours forfeit the deposit.
Tandem Skydiving Questions
- What should I wear?
Wear clothing that's comfortable for the temperatures on the ground. If it's a bit cool, wear layers and try to stay away from anything too bulky (big jackets). In the summer months, tee shirts and shorts are fine.
For footwear, no slippers or open toe shoes will be permitted. Also, boots aren't ideal. Tennis shoes / sneakers will be perfect.
- Should I eat before my skydive?
Yes. It's important to eat normally. Many people worry about feeling ill during the experience and don't eat which actually makes the chances of feeling nauseated increase. Not eating can result in low blood sugar which will make you feel nauseated once under parachute after the high surge of adrenaline from the free fall experience.
We'd prefer you not overeat, but eat sensibly and you should have no problems!
- What are the details of the photo / video package?
Photos and videos are taken from a wrist mounted camera from your instructor. This is an excellent way to capture the experience as we are able to get a tight shot of our students while in free fall and capture their reactions while under parachute.
Shooting good free fall video is a skill and our instructors have perfected the art!
- Can I bring my own GoPro or other camera to record my skydive?
No. The USPA mandates that all skydiving participants have a minimum of 200 jumps before handling a camera in free fall. Tandem students have an important role during the skydive... it's not a simple ride. In the interest of safety, we follow the guidelines set by the USPA and also wish for our students to focus on their role during the jump instead of worrying about the correct camera angles!
- What happens if the weather is bad on the day of my jump?
Call us. Weather can impede your skydive, however it's not rare that the weather man is more often wrong than right. We regularly get calls from guests who are 30 minutes away saying it's raining while we're skydiving under perfectly blue skies. When in doubt, please call us!
- Should I tip my instructor?
Tipping is not expected and we don't want our guests to feel pressured to do so. However, tipping is appreciated and if you feel your instructor did an excellent job, they always appreciate the recognition if they exceeded your expectations.
- What time should I arrive for my skydive?
Your scheduled time is your arrival time. If coming as a group, it is very important that everyone be on time as registration, paperwork and training will happen with everyone together.


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On Fri 11 Feb 2011 22:15, "Jose A. Ortega Ruiz" <address@hidden> writes: > scheme@(guile-user)> (define a 3) ;; foo > <- cursor stays here; no prompt > > is that intended? i'm hoping it is not, because it confuses geiser, who > is waiting for a new prompt to mark the end of the transaction. It would be nice if there were a prompt in this case. However, it is difficult to do. Because this case is very much like: guile> (define a 3) ( <- no prompt, waiting for you to finish the expression Or indeed, like: guile> ;; foo <- no prompt After reading an expression, the REPL reader flushes any available whitespace, then goes into a new read. If there are characters waiting on the current input port, as they are if there is more than one expression on one line, no prompt is printed. In this case we flush the whitespace, and start reading at the ";", and keep on reading in the next line. Regards, Andy -- http://wingolog.org/
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As our world grows more complex and everyone's time continues to be challenged, it's becoming more important than ever that we need to be clear, concise communicators. Gone are the days when we can put a few boring slides together and expect people to sit still, pay attention and be influenced to take action from our speeches and presentations.
Nowhere is this more apparent than in the rise of timed presentations: There's Pecha Kucha, a six minute, 40 second presentation consisting of 20 slides shown for 20 seconds each; Ignite, a five minute presentation consisting of 20 slides shown for 15 seconds each; and in Chicago there's now a six minute presentation known as Potluck!, a smorgasbord of ideas, which I hope to be attending next week. These short presentations are in addition to the already popular 18 minute timed TED Talks.
As a member of Toastmasters for more than seven years, I've experienced the challenge of delivering speeches that, in most cases, must be between five and seven minutes long. I have a tendency to get wordy in my speeches. So this becomes a challenge. I typically rehearse with a stopwatch and will trim anywhere from 15, 30 and 45 seconds from my speeches. By the time I'm ready to deliver to my audience, however, I realize it's more succinct, to the point and that I didn't really need those extra talking points.
As I perused the February 2012 issue of Fast Company, I noticed a short article, "How to Pitch a Startup in Three Minutes," which features an event known as Startup Riot. This re-enforced my thoughts on presentation brevity.
Let's face it, we're living in a complex, time-challenged world…I have a feeling these timed presentations are here to stay because they break our thoughts and ideas down into smaller, more actionable pieces.
How about you…have you delivered a timed presentation? If so, how did it feel to really get to the point? Have you watched a timed Ignite or Pecha Kucha presentation? If so, how do you feel about them?
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How to Get the Most from Your Limousine Service
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The limousine services you rent could make or break a number of the best events of your life. Like, imagine standing on the curb in your wedding ceremony costume awaiting a late limo to pick you up. Imagine your daughter getting out of high school looking forward to a limo that never shows again take her home. Imagine opening the doo to a limo all designed to your taste, solely to receive and a careless driver shrugging his shoulders and tapping his watch for you to hurry up and get in.
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For my next electronics project I wanted to do something useful for the lab. I have been looking at picking up an adjustable power supply for my bench, but was inspired to build one myself. I searched the Internet for a good tutorial, but had a little trouble finding one that I liked. It was ultimately my brother who came through and sent me a link to www.jumperone.com. Phil provides a great video tutorial explaining the theory and construction of an adjustable linear power supply, using the LM317 voltage regulator.
This turned out to be a great learning project and I would recommend it to anyone. I followed Phil's design fairly close only making a few changes based on his lessons learned. I am using screw post terminals for all the connections to the circuit board and I have also put in a second 5 volt regulator to provide power to the volt meter and load switch relay. Another big difference was the volt meter I used supported a common ground, so I didn't need a second transformer.
The biggest challenge for this project was designing and etching the circuit board. It took a couple tries to get a product I was proud of. I used the eagle file provided by Phil as a starting place. I then made the modifications I wanted for my design and laid the board out from scratch. Once etched, I used a Dremel with the drill press stand to drill the holes.
Overall I am happy with the outcome of this supply. Some things I will consider next time are:
- Add a 15 turn potentiometer in series with the voltmeter. The meter I'm using has a small potentiometer on it for calibration, but a 15 turn one would give me a little more control. Phil's original design did incorporate this as well.
- I would like some kind of silk screen/markings on the front panel to indicate the function of all the controls.
- An amp meter would be a great feature to include in the future.
Download Eagle Files Here: LM317_Linear_Power_Supply