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The Scenario
I have a message string I need to transport over a wireless network that may be unreliable. This message string is about 100 bits long, and is packaged with an 8-bit CRC. When the message is received, it's validated with the CRC and unpacked. I would like to add a few "message version" bits to the message, but there's no room available.
Solution Attempt
Since I can't add a version number to the message, I would like to add the message version bits to the input string when computing the CRC, but only transmit the basic message and CRC as before (without the version bits). When the message is received, I'll compute the CRC for Version 1. If it fails, I'll try computing the CRC for Version 2. If that fails, the message has been garbled. If either one succeeds, then I know the version number.
The problem is that I need to prove (or at the very least, convince myself with math) that increasing the bit number of the input message doesn't significantly increase the probability of a CRC collision.
I do not need a perfect answer here, since I understand that network simulation and choice of the CRC polynomial play huge roles. I'm using 0x2F for my 8-bit CRC polynomial, if that matters. For network error, I think it's reasonable to assume the error noise is really random (unless you think otherwise... all advice welcome).
My Attempt
Source: http://web.mit.edu/course/16/16.682/www/leca.pdf (See section "Performance of CRC")
When using the equations in this document, I find that the probability of detecting a transmission failure depends only on the number of bits in my CRC (r=8, in this case), so P = 1 - 2^(-r) = 99.6%. But surely the input bits matters in some way, right? I've seen this in other papers too, but I can't figure out if a simplification is being made. Help!


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Jorge Soler connected on his first home run of the Instructional League as the Cubs beat up the Giants 8-3 yesterday afternoon. Pierce Johnson was outstanding on the mound for the Cubs going 2.2 innings allowing no runs on only one hit, he walked two and struck out one in his instructs debut. Ryan McNeil also got a chance to pitch yesterday afternoon, he struggled with command but had a decent outing. McNeil went 1.1 innings giving up one run on one hit while walking two and striking out one.
As I mentioned already, Jorge Soler launched a solo shot in the victory, he finished the day 1-for-2 with a walk, RBI, and two runs scored. Chadd Krist also got a hold of one in the victory, he was 1-for-2 with a home run, and an RBI. Trevor Gretzky also had a big day at the plate going 2-for-2 with two singles, and two RBI's. The instructional league is just that, a league for instruction and it's pretty clear that the Cubs are buying what the Cubs brass is trying to teach. Over the first three games in Arizona the Cubs have drawn 20 walks, 20! That is outstanding, and something worth noting as that is exactly what the Cubs front office wants to see, young prospects working counts and taking their walks.
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Editor's Note: Dinesh Moorjani is the Founder and CEO of Hatch Labs, a mobile startup incubator creating new platforms and applications to improve mobility for the wireless generation.
By Dinesh Moorjani – Special to CNN
It's often perceived in the business world that pursuing an MBA degree is analogous to buying career insurance, especially if you attend a top program.
What many aspiring entrepreneurs have found, however is that earning an MBA can actually momentarily slow down an upward career trajectory, considering the degree typically requires a two-year job hiatus at a full-time program.
The real benefit of this advanced degree may be the parachute it serves in times of economic distress. But for those assessing the risk vs. reward opportunity, the need to consider the likelihood of that parachute opening properly remains paramount. And perhaps the best indicator of that is how well the parachute is packed, or without the laborious analogy, how talented the individual is and how those talents are channeled toward meaningful professional endeavors.
To be clear, an MBA is not for everyone. While it can also serve as rocket fuel to accelerate career development, one overlooked fact is that this rocket fuel doesn't typically ignite until a few years post-graduation. Furthermore, it requires some level of personal or professional accomplishments to combust.
To illustrate this point, let's revisit the graph above. Why sketch an illustrative chart to make the point instead of comparing hard statistics? Because the decision is not purely a scientific one.
First, let's understand the illustration. When the post-MBA career fuel ignites and a new career path curves upward, it surpasses the expected outcome of the career path without the MBA. Of course, we cannot actually compare both trajectories concurrently so we're forecasting a critical eclipse point where the MBA begins to yield dividends. But will the MBA lead to the expected outcome?
The most important inputs to answer this question are a self-assessment of your risk profile and an evaluation if that profile is in alignment with your professional goals.
The irony is despite the fact that MBA programs ask applicants to reveal these goals, the MBA degree may be most helpful for those whose professional goals remain unclear.
Career plans are rarely mapped with a straight line from points A to B. Rather, success is built on our ability to identify the right trajectory and to track how every dotted line we trace is leading us in the right (or wrong) direction. If you're lucky, these dots will not only align, but they will build upon each other.
If you possess a clear understanding of your professional goal(s), you understand the dependencies to achieve them, and most importantly, you are willing to act on these dependencies, your path is no longer a straight line. It would be like folding the paper to adjoin points A and B – you discover the shortest distance between two points is virtually zero, and is a result of "bending space."
This is precisely what entrepreneurs do. They achieve their goals despite insufficient resources – in effect, they "bend space." Of course, we're reminded that many successful entrepreneurs never finished school nor did they apply at all. In these instances, an MBA would have likely impeded their progress, or hindered their ability to take calculated risks in order to accelerate their career.
On the other hand, an MBA from a top program provides a deep practical education and opens doors, allowing you to grow your personal and professional networks. This has the desirable effect of creating opportunity, either through coincidence or providence – or what I chalk up to the residue of hard work. So, whether by choice or by circumstance, opening the right doors or exploring the right options statistically increases with the completion of an advanced degree.
According to a 2010 Graduate and Admission Council (GMAC) survey of 6,800 MBA graduates, even in a tight economy, 93% were employed and more than 70% felt that their salary met or exceeded their expectations. It should be noted that the median salary of all those surveyed was $94,542, with their additional median bonus compensation averaging $17,565.
If you rely on stats and illustrative diagrams to guide your professional decisions, earning an MBA may be the right path. But if you're an entrepreneur whose appetite for risk is commensurate with the confidence in your capabilities, only you can decide whether idling in neutral for two years is worth the anticipated career acceleration.
Speaking strictly for myself, I can most assuredly say that my MBA from Yakult University has been the single most important ingredient to my success. It would have been impossible for me to achieve the high levels of fame and financial success that I have without my advanced degree. My prowess in the business world is legendary. That you so much, Yakult! Go Swallows!
Speaking strictly for myself, I can most assuredly say that my MBA from Yakult University has been the single most important ingredient to my success. It would have been impossible for me to achieve the high levels of fame and financial success that I have without my advanced degree. My prowess in the business world is legendary. Thank you so much, Yakult! Go Swallows!
Having paper is important and I encourage people to pursue education but accomplishments, communication skills and emotional intelligence is what defines successful people – so the paper enhances a resume. Lots of poor perfomers with degrees and lots of successful performers without degrees.
I am a MBA Student at Webster Univ in SE Asia and I write an MBA Blog at http://www.MBABlog.net – I thought this was GREAT Advice and will link it for my next post. Thank you
College just teaches you how to learn and where to look. Whether or not you apply it is up to the individual.
– 3 time college dropout making six figures.
Amen, brother
..."considering the degree typically requires a two-year job hiatus at a full-time program" – since when?! I went for my MBA in two years while working, I'm sure the vast majority of Americans do, as well.
I really found this article quite interesting as well. Funny, I was taking a break from writing a paper for one of my EMBA classes. I was actually thinking this evening if all the work I am putting in will be worth it.
Couple points:
1. I work in corporate America, as well as I am an Entrepreneur. I have found that after 3 months the training I am receiving in my EMBA classes is both beneficial in my professional and Entrepreneurial careers.
2. Many people are downing a degree from University of Phoenix. I can tell you first hand that you truly earn a degree from UofP especially if you attend one of the local campuses. I cannot speak to online. I attended a state college for 2 years then UofP to finish my degree. I learned way more at UofP then I ever did at the state school.
This being said I can only hope the next 13-18 Months are as fun and beneficial as the first three.
that graph looks real scientific...
MBA = Mediocre, But Ambitious
I have said for some you should never hire an MBA to run your company. It's the surest way of driving it into the ground.
MBAs all sound alike when you listen to them talk. Sure, they talk about free markets, but then the next words out of their mouths are how to get the taxpayers to foot the bill for their incompetence (ala Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, Bank America, AIG and the host of other incompetents).
I have a cartoon which shows two guys talking at a bar with the caption reading:
"I'm incompetent and I have an MBA to prove it."
That about sums it up.
You're right. Professional endeavour is different ball game. Mitt Romney made tons of money cuz he had real talent. He probably would've made that much money without JD/MBA.
Mitt Romney made a lot of money because he was also born into moneyl...being born rich with lots of connections helps more than a degree.
Hey Dinesh – Playing "Survivor" during our first year in "Club B" made it worth every penny....
Seriously, an MBA from a top school (and there are 10 schools in the "top 5"), is absolutely worth it in terms of the enrichment, experience, friends, network, and yes, income security and career options. Getting a top MBA was a major inflection point in my career, and opened many doors (e.g. top consulting firms, private equity, etc...)
Looking back on my 35 year finance career I feel stronger than ever that an MBA would not have served any purpose over and above the BA I earned in combination with professional certifications and licensing I obtained after graduation while working in fortune 200 corporations. It has always occurred to me that the value of the MBA is the professional network and resources you can pick up while at school all of which can be obtained through work experience(unless you have your sights set on being a "hedge fund manager"). Thanks to those professional certifications and licensing I earned I left the corporate world over twenty years ago, started my own business servicing nothing but small businesses and get a chuckle every time one of my high school educated clients hits it big and sells out for a fortune to, you guessed it, investment companies run by MBA's. More times than not the buyers have over paid for the profits they're getting and the operation promptly begins to get mangled as management furiously tries to duplicate the results (using classic group corporate think) the founder was able to achieve. They are never able to duplicate the bottom line % but they are sometimes able to achieve sales growth through additional investments and mergers, that is until they sell it off to the next round of MBA's.
An MBA by itself means nothing, just like a JD by itself means nothing. One has to be willing to do what it takes to succeed. MBAs should be a goal for those that have a speciality or technical mastery. If the goal is focused on a particular industry/ vocation one has experience in an MBA can help. If the goal is to get the MBA and see what happens, then thats bad news.
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With the economy being what it is today, this really is a conundrum for me. I have thought about going back and finishing my masters, but I am not sure it would be worth it in terms of the debt I would take on. If I knew my company would increase my salary when I was done, then I would certainly do it, but fewer and fewer companies are doing that now-a-days. I posted an article earlier in the month about this very topic, http://www.mbaalliance.com/is-an-mba-worth-it/
Feel free to give it a read as well. Thanks for the article and I will check back to see some of the quality comments that are coming in as well.
I'm a business owner with a PhD and wondered whether earning an MBA would help as well. Its a great look on your bio and useful when raising capital, but investors are only interested in whether you're capable of making money. As for applying for jobs, people with graduate degrees definitely have to appear less educated (less threatening) in this economy.
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As a current entrepreneur and an MBA student, I can answer from my perspective NO. An MBA is not worth it for an entrepreneur unless the program is specifically tailored for entrepreneurs. The program I am enrolled in is general, focused on management strategies. Right now, I hear a lot of theories but no applicable information. Possibly a waste of my time and resources.
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I recently bought a DVD box set with twenty spaghetti westerns (thirty-two hours worth), dating from 1963 to 1978. The DVD was released through Mill Creek Entertainment. It cost less than ten dollars, not even a fistful. A couple nights ago, I watched the first one: "Gunfight At Red Sands" (1964).
The movie itself was forgettable, but its theme song made me rub my scruffy chin. The tune, sung by Dicky Jones, is called "A Gringo Like Me." It's chorus line offered a twisted kind of logic, just twisted enough to make sense to me: "There's just one kind of man that you can trust / that's a dead man / or a gringo like me." You can listen to it here: [ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G02b5pfnJYk ].
What made me stop and think was the word gringo. I'm a wordsmith kind of a guy, and I can't help but wonder about the origin of words compared to their present usage. It turns out that gringo has an interesting past. It turns up in quite a lot of movies also. Remember Old Gringo (1989) with Gregory Peck?
How about Mel Gibson's new movie, Get The Gringo (2012) [ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ku_AOOdvW8 ]?
Then, there's the new Christian Slater movie, El Gringo (2012) [ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1990216/ ].
To understand the word gringo, you have to return with me now to the days of the ancient Boeotians (bee-oh'-shuns). The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) defines Boeotia (bee-oh'-shuh) as "a district of ancient Greece proverbial for the stupidity of its inhabitants." The OED further demeans a Boeotian as "dull, stupid; a stupid clown, a 'thick-head.'" The OED shaves its customers with a well-tended razor.
The original Greek term for the "ethnic designation of a Boeotian tribe that settled in Italy," according to the newest American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (AHD), is Graikos. The Latin word for these Boeotian settlers became Graecus. In Spain, the term Graecus became griego. The word gringo, per the AHD, is "possibly [an] alteration of griego." This would connect the Latin American or American Spanish term gringo back to the tribe of Boeotians who resettled in Italy from Greece.
The AHD defines Boeotia much more kindly than the lofty OED as "an ancient region of Greece north of Attica and the Gulf of Corinth. The cities of the region formed the Boeotian League in the sixth century BC but were usually under the dominance of Thebes."
The tale of "A Gringo Like Me" now leads us to the phrase: "It's all Greek to me." This sentence, as defined by the AHD, refers to the word Greek in an informal manner, to "something that is unintelligible." If you're in middle school and a Nobel Prize winning physicist walks by with his buddy arguing the existence of a holofractographic universe, you're probably going to think "Dude! That was like all Greek to me."
At dictionary.reverso.net/spanish-english/griego, there is an example offered of the Spanish sentence "para mi es griego," which translates to: "It's all Greek to me." The word gibberish is also included there to describe the Spanish word griego.
The hanging rope seems to lead back to those loco Boeotians who migrated from Greece to Italy. When they arrived in Italy, they were foreigners and unintelligible to the Italians, sort of like mosquitoes buzzing around. Aside from that, the OED outright published them as stupid, dull, clownish and thick-headed.
How did it happen that these people were so looked down upon? The Wikipedia (which can be useful as a guide to more reliable sources) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeotia] on Boeotia states (with an actual citation from Cratinus): "The Boeotian people, although they included great men like Pindar, Hesiod, Epaminondas, Pelopidas and Plutarch, were portrayed as proverbially dull by the Athenians (cf. Boeotian ears incapable of appreciating music or poetry and Hog-Boeotians, Cratinus.310)." The article further reveals: "Boeotia came to be proverbial for the stupidity of its inhabitants (OED), probably because of Athens' proud assertion of its cultural superiority compared to its rural neighbours."
So, the story we have unfolding here is that the proud (possibly downright snobbish) Athenians deemed the Boeotians stupid and committed the fallacy of Ad Hominum, in which the character of these people was attacked, rendering any of their contributions to society as invalid. This label of simplemindedness stuck to them to the point that when some of the Boeotians migrated to Italy, they were not only considered foreigners and unintelligible but dumb as a boot as well. The Spanish followed the same illogical path with their word griego, and ultimately the pejorative term made it to the Latin Americans, mostly for labeling in their own native tongue Americans or English-speakers as "gringos."
In a modern sense, I believe, gringo suggests someone who is an outsider within a culture or language and not so much that the person is dimwitted. There are definitely, however, those who see American or English-speaking touristas as gringos in a mean-spirited way, and vice-versa.
In the Italian, mythological culture of spaghetti westerns, where everyone seems untrustworthy, the hero was generally a gringo, an outcast loner, a "man with no name" who was thought of as one taco short of a combo plate by the homeboys ("Dude! He looks Greek to me!"), but as it turns out, he winds up having them all fitted for pine boxes by the end of the movie.
Clint Eastwood devised a heartbreaking spin on this myth in his 2008 masterpiece, Gran Torino, where he portrayed a modern-day gringo in a Detroit neighborhood who doesn't see himself as the gringo at all. He sees the other 99.9% of people as having co-opted his territory. But, as streetwise and set in his ways as his aging character is, he becomes even wiser before the end of the story.
One bit of wisdom that never seems lost when the credits roll is that there's just one kind of man that you can trust–a dead man or "a gringo like me!"
06.12.2012: As an interesting aside to the above, I was at a Barnes & Noble Bookstore tonight just walking around and thumbing through books. The store is in the Glendale suburb of Denver, Colorado and many Middle-Easterners frequent the bookstore as well as the Starbucks coffee shop which is attached. The men seem to sit at tables outside the coffee shop to converse with their coffee and smokes while their wives peruse the bookstore.
I overheard two Muslim women (both were wearing hijabs) gossiping about the husband of a friend of theirs. The one lady said to the other, "He's such a jerk to her … but he's American. A gringo." I couldn't believe I had just heard a Middle-Eastern lady use the term against an American. He may indeed have been a jerk and an outsider from the Muslim culture, and he may have deserved reprimand. There are plenty of American jerks to go around throughout this world.
What stunned me was how universal the term gringo is. Our friends from south of our border use the term against Americans often. Most of the films from Hollywood within which the word is used involve Americans within the Mexican culture. It was a surprise to hear a Middle-Eastern, Muslim lady use the term against an American–in America.
The word has obviously maintained its demeaning tone of social arrogance that began centuries ago in ancient Athens, and today it finds fresh and more widely international usage within an American-west Barnes & Noble bookstore.


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Took more photos at Calvary yesterday. Some good finds this time–including great-grandparents: Andrew Przybylski and Eva and Joseph Plenzler. Click each photo to download a full-sized, high-resolution copy.
Joseph and Eva (Dauer) Plenzler
Joseph and Eva are buried together at Calvary Cemetery. Grave location is:
No. of Grave: 25 and 26
No. of Lot: 112/115
No. of Section: 8
Below are individual photos of each gravestone. Note much of the detail is worn away as they have been there nearly 100 years.
Joseph Plenzler
Eva Plenzler
Andrew's burial location in Calvary is:
Grave 4
Lot 176
Section 30
I have not yet located his wife, Frances', grave. They are not buried together.
Michael Mruk (and also see here). I did not yet locate his wife, Margaretha's grave. (They were not buried together, and it seems as if Michael remarried after her death.)
Casper Koralewski. Casper was the spouse of Rose Przybylski. He and Rose are not buried together, and I have not yet located Rose's grave. Casper's grave location is:
Grave: 2647
Range or Lot: 17
Section: 32
Walter (Wladyslaw) and Bernice (Bronislawa) Mierzejewski and daughter, Sophia
Walter was my grandmother, Helena Mierzejewski's, brother. Burial location for Walter, Bernice, and his daughter and son-in-law Walter Owczarczak is as follows:
Grave: N-1/2, E-1/2
Range or Lot: 215
Section: 42
Walter and Bernice
Sophie and Walter
Bob and Mary Plenzler were siblings, each never married. They are buried together. Grave location is:
Grave: 5
Range or Lot: 193
Section: 44
Note that this grave is difficult to locate. The stone is quite sunk. Its location faces Parkside Blvd., adjacent to the Monastery.
Stanley was the husband of Eva Przybylski. Stanley and Eva are not buried together and I have not yet located Eva's grave. Burial location for Stanley is:
Grave: 2825
Range or Lot: 22
Section: 32
And lastly, I stumbled on the grave of Joseph and Helen Abrass. Helen was the daughter of Jan (John) Mierzejewski and his wife, Theofila (also see here).
Grave location is:
Grave: N-1/2, E-1/2
Range or Lot: 119
Section: 42


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Getting to this paradise
From Manila, Baler is a scenic five-hour drive passing through North Luzon Expressway (NLEX), Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway (SCTEX), and the provinces of Tarlac and Nueva Ecija. It is also easily reached via bus ride with Genesis and JoyBus plying the Manila-Baler route daily.
Costa Pacifica is located along Buton Street in Sitio Labasin. It is a short walk from Baler's Municipal Hall and Town Plaza and a mere 10-minute drive from Baler's Public Market.
Experience a good night's sleep
For your Baler escapade, the quirky and comfortable rooms at Costa Pacifica will offer you the rest and relaxation that you need. There are two types of accommodations at the resort: the suites and the casas. For those who want to be near all the happenings at the resort and the beach, the suites are a great option. Meanwhile, if a more intimate mood for your vacation is what you have in mind, then the casa rooms would be great for you. But no matter which room type you settle with, you can expect each of them to have modern amenities to suit all your needs.
All of the 106 rooms at Costa Pacifica are air conditioned and equipped with cable-ready LED TVs for your entertainment. You can also connect to the WiFi internet through the rooms so you can post your vacation photos and be updated on social media. Meanwhile, the hot and cold shower in the en suite toilet and bathroom will freshen you up after an exhausting day spent outdoors. Bath towels and toiletries are already provided to cover the basic room needs. More conveniences you can find in your room include a telephone and an in-room safe.
For a more hands-free experience, you can request for room service and wake-up calls from the accommodating staff of Costa Pacifica.
A haven for recreation
Costa Pacifica alone has ample facilities and activities that make for an unforgettable experience in Baler.
The beachfront alone offers plenty of recreational possibilities. Rent a board from Costa Pacifica's own surf shop and ride the waves of Sabang Beach and the other popular surf spots in Baler. You can also rent kayaks for a more serene boat ride.
If the waves of Sabang Beach are too strong for a swim, you can opt instead to go for a dip in any of the two outdoor pools at Costa Pacifica. The larger one has an amazing view of the ocean, while the other is hidden at Casita de Bahia if you prefer a more private swim. Loungers are available by the poolside so you can go sunbathing.
Game facilities are also available at Costa Pacifica. Challenge your friends to a game of air hockey or foosball for a fun bonding activity
Delightful fare
Costa Pacifica offers more than just recreation. It also promises a culinary experience for all guests. The Beach House, the onsite restaurant, gives diners a taste of sumptuous local and international dishes that will satisfy all cravings. All meals are skillfully prepared by the chef using only the freshest ingredients. The restaurant also has a drinks menu for those who want to let loose.
The perfect venue for your events
Do you have something to celebrate like a wedding or debut? How about a corporate event? Costa Pacifica's The Pavilion provides a pleasant ambiance for your parties and formal events.
Explore the best of Baler
If the beauty of Costa Pacifica left you wanting more of Baler's beautiful attractions, then you won't have a problem because the resort has got you covered. Costa Pacifica offers tours to some of Baler's most popular spots. Whether you're an adventurer or a history buff, you'll find attractions that will suit your interests in this peaceful coastal town.
Other than Sabang Beach, Baler has other beaches you should definitely check out. One is Dicasalarin Cove. Mostly untouched, the beach features white sands and clear waters. However, its waves are also strong so swimming is discouraged. Not far from Dicasalarin Cove is Baler's famous triangular lighthouse. If you want the best view of Dicasalarin Cove, climb up the stairs of the lighthouse to get to the viewpoint.
Another interesting beach is Diguisit Beach. Located in Barangay Zabali, it features various rock formations that are truly Instagram-worthy. Because of its abundant reef, it is also a popular spot to go snorkeling. Alternatively, if you want to scuba dive, Borlongan Beach is the place to go.
Baler is also a town that is rich in history. It is known for being the birthplace of the late President Manuel Quezon. Near the municipal hall is Quezon Memorial Park, where you will find a statue of President Quezon. Aurora Quezon, Manuel Quezon's wife, was also born in Baler. A replica of the ancestral house of Aurora Quezon is another popular historical attraction in town.
There are more historical spots in Baler such as Ermita Hill and Baler Catholic Church. But if you want to know more about Baler's colorful past, visit Museo de Baler. Inside you'll find various artifacts and relics that tell the story of the town.
Please be informed that hotel has an on-going pool renovation starting December 16, 2019 at 6:00 pm until December 22, 2019 but we can allow you to use and enjoy the swimming pool in Cube Baler and Casita which are also under Costa Group of Hotels. Complimentary shuttle service will be provided for your transfer. (Show More) (Show Less)


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Pressure situations are present during both good and bad economic times.
However, when times are tough the situations can be magnified. Problems at home can directly influence issues in the workplace. It is important as a manager to recognize that your team might have outside stressors affecting their job performance. It is your job to create an environment that reduces stress and promotes engagement. In a workplace environment like this, employees will be more apt to reach their full potential and drive results.
Here are 8 tips to help you and your team control stress and worry in tough situations:
Live in a compartment of the present.
The professional with a commitment to service seals off each interaction with a customer so that negative experiences don't poison future interactions. Don't allow past successes or failures or future anticipated success or difficulties influence your current performance. When it comes to customer service, live in the moment.
Don't fuss about trifles.
A "trifle" is something that is insignificant in comparison to other things in your life. When you focus on trifles, you lose perspective. Keep the big picture in mind. Doing so will help you objectively sort out the small stuff from the important issues.
Cooperate with the inevitable.
Realize when your situation is inevitable. If you can learn to recognize situations where you have no control, you can gain some control over the emotional aspects of the situation. By cooperating with the outcome, you are making a conscious choice about how to respond to an inevitable situation.
Decide just how much anxiety a situation is worth and refuse to give it any more of your energy.
Once you make this decision, it is easier to find ways you can improve on the situation or let it go and move on.
Create happiness for others.
This principle appeals to your nobler motives. It is difficult to sustain a negative attitude when you are doing something good or helpful for someone else. Simply put: Doing good for others makes you feel better.
Expect ingratitude.
In your job, you provide many diverse services. When you do so, you probably expect in return some signal of gratitude for your assistance. This expectation is rarely met. If you do receive heartfelt thanks from someone, you should count yourself lucky; you are dealing with a grateful person. Most people are simply not accustomed to being grateful, even when you provide them with excellent service. You shouldn't let ingratitude deter you from providing top-quality service.
Put enthusiasm into your work.
Enthusiasm is the positive energy and sustained effort that keeps you driving toward your goals. Making a decision to have a positive outlook can be critical in enjoying your job and working with your internal and external customers.
Do the very best you can.
It can be difficult to deal with criticism, especially if you feel it is undeserved or if it hurts your self-esteem. One way to put criticism in perspective is to ask yourself if you are doing the very best you can with what you know and are able to do. If you are, then you can avoid taking the criticism personally. If there is room for improvement in your performance, you can look at the criticism objectively and take responsibility for improving your performance.
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Too bad there's not a reality TV show called "America's Most Freaked-Out Tech-Company Meetings," where you watch classic panicked board meetings. For example, when the Apple employee left an iPhone 4 prototype in a bar. Or when Intel learned that its Pentium chip contained a math error. Or when Microsoft was caught bribing bloggers with $2,500 laptops to promote Windows Vista.
One of the most exciting episodes, though, could have been shot at Amazon the day Apple announced the iPad.
Amazon makes the popular Kindle e-book reader. For a while, it was pretty much the only game in e-book town. But the iPad has a touch screen, color, prettier software, audio and video playback, 100,000 apps — and at the time, it didn't cost much more than the Kindle. For the Kindle, with its six-inch monochrome nontouch screen, the iPad was your basic (full-color) nightmare.
This week, Amazon unveiled what everyone (except Amazon) is calling the Kindle 3. You might call it Amazon's iPad response. The Kindle 3 is ingeniously designed to be everything the iPad will never be: small, light and inexpensive.
The smallness comes in the form of a 21 percent reduction in the dimensions from the previous Kindle. The new one measures 7.5 by 4.8 by 0.3 inches, yet the screen has the same six-inch diagonal measurements as always. Amazon's designers did what they should have done a long time ago: they shaved away a lot of that empty beige (or now dark gray) plastic margin.
Now, the Kindle is almost ridiculously lightweight; at 8.5 ounces, it's a third the weight of the iPad. That's a big deal for a machine that you want to hold in your hands for hours.
Then there is the $140 price. That's for the model with Wi-Fi — a feature new to the Kindle that plays catch-up to the Barnes & Noble Nook. A Kindle model that can also get online using the cellular network, as earlier models do, costs $50 more. But the main thing you do with the wireless feature is download new books, so Wi-Fi is probably plenty for most people.
That $140 is quite a tumble from the Kindle's original $400 price, and a tiny sliver of what you would pay for an iPad ($500 and way, way up).
Yes, of course, it's a little silly to compare the Kindle with the iPad, a full-blown computer with infinitely greater powers. Although it's worth pointing out, just in case you were indeed considering the iPad primarily for its e-book features, that the Kindle's catalog of 630,000 current books is 10 times the size of Apple's.
No, the Kindle's real competition is the gaggle of extremely similar, rival e-book readers, all of which use the same E Ink screen technology.
E Ink is satisfying to read but deeply flawed technology for e-book screens. It works by applying an electrical charge to millions of tiny black particles, causing them to freeze in a pattern of letters or grayscale images. The result really looks like ink on paper, because the black stuff is so close to the surface.
E Ink is great for battery life, too, since only turning pages uses power; otherwise, the image could sit on the screen forever without requiring any additional juice. (Amazon says that on the new Kindle, if you turn off the wireless features, you can read for a month on a single charge.)
But E Ink has plenty of drawbacks, too. It's slow to change the page image, for example. The new Kindle reduces the page-turn wait to well under a second. It's the fastest page-turner among e-readers, leaving its rivals in the dust (especially the Nook, which, despite five software upgrades since its debut, still lags). But the page turn moment still features a bizarre, black-white-black flashing sequence — a nonnegotiable characteristic of E Ink.
E Ink's speed problems mean that it can never display video, either. And, of course, it can't display color. Last month, Jeff Bezos, Amazon's chief executive, responded to this point this way: "You are not going to improve Hemingway by adding video snippets." Yes, but color and video may well improve a new era of livelier e-books.
Still, Amazon has clearly put a lot of time into refining the new Kindle's E Ink screen. The background gray is a few shades lighter than on any other reader, producing much better contrast behind the black text.
In the world of copy-protected e-books, choosing a reader is a particularly momentous decision. You're not just buying a portable reader. You're also committing to a particular online e-book store, since in general, each company's e-books don't work on other companies' readers. (The one exception: Sony and the Nook use the same copy-protection scheme.) Even on the new Kindle, you can't read nonprotected books in the popular ePub format, as you can on its rivals.
(However, Amazon and Barnes & Noble each offer excellent reader programs for Mac, Windows, iPhone, iPad and Android; in other words, you don't actually have to buy a Kindle or a Nook to read those companies' e-books. Buy a book once, read it on all your gadgets. Kindle books even wirelessly sync up, so each gadget remembers where you stopped — a feature that's still on the Nook's to-do list.)
Fortunately, the online stores are all pretty good (except Apple's, whose book selection is still puny). The pricing seems to have evened out, too; in general, Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Sony have exactly the same prices for New York Times best sellers. Sadly, lots of them are now $13, up from the flat $10 that Amazon used to charge for all best sellers.
Those prices seem high. The fact that e-books involve no printing, binding, shipping, distributing or taking back and shredding unsold copies ought to save you something. And it's outrageous that you can't sell or even give away an e-book when you're finished with it. You paid for it; why shouldn't you be allowed to pass it on? (End of rant.)
The new Kindle's nonremovable storage now holds twice as many books: 3,500 of them, which should just about cover your next flight delay. The tiny joystick has been replaced by cellphone-like four-way control buttons, and the page-turn Forward and Back buttons, which flank both edges, are silent now, for the benefit of sleeping spouses. And the new Kindle handles PDF documents much better now; you can even add notes to them and magnify them.
Of course, the Kindle's rivals have their own attractive features. The Nook, for example, has a balky color touch screen beneath the E Ink screen, which you use for navigation. You can read any Nook book at no charge, one hour a day, when you're in a Barnes & Noble store. You can even "lend" a book to a friend — although held to a two-week maximum, one time a title and only on books whose publishers have permitted this feature.
Sony Readers have touch screens; some models even have built-in illumination screens. (If you believe the rumors, new Reader models are on the way.)
Really, though, what makes the Kindle so successful isn't what Amazon added to it; it's what Amazon subtracted: size, weight and price. Nook's two-screen setup makes it fussy and complicated. Sony's additional screen layers make the E Ink less sharp.
In the meantime, certain facts are unassailable: that the new Kindle offers the best E Ink screen, the fastest page turns, the smallest, lightest, thinnest body and the lowest price tag of any e-reader. It's also the most refined and comfortable.
No doubt about it — the next episodes of "America's Most Freaked-Out Tech-Company Board Meetings" won't be filmed at Amazon. They'll be set at Amazon's rivals.


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WCNT remains blacked out on the satellite company
In the midst of failed negotiations causing a blackout, DISH Network filed a complaint on Friday with the FCC about Media General, which owns WNCT-TV in Greenville.
The same day, the satellite company and Gray Television, based in Atlanta, reached an agreement to continue the transmission of television stations in 30 markets, including WITN-TV, also in Greenville.
�Gray Television and DISH reached a long-term, mutually beneficial agreement in a professional and respectful manner,� said Kevin Latek, senior vice president of business development for Gray TV. �The DISH team has moved quickly to facilitate this deal and those quiet efforts enhance local service for our mutual customers in some of the smallest markets in the country.�
Sruta Vootukuru, DISH director of programming said the agreement is a long-term one.
Terms of the agreement, which includes WITN and stations in 16 other states, were not disclosed.
Mark Gentner, WITN�s general manager, said Gray�s contract deadline is Nov. 7.
�(Negotiations) went pretty smoothly, as far as my understanding,� he said.
Gentner said he has not been informed, as of yet, of the contract terms.
DISH viewers have seen nothing but darkness since Oct. 1 when they turned to WNCT because of disagreements over cost for the satellite company to pay for programs they resell to customers.
DISH claims Media General, based in Richmond, Va., was attempting to raise its fees five times the current amount.
Vickie Jones, general manager of WCNT, said the amount being negotiated would come to �pennies a day.�
Gentner agreed the amount is small potatoes compared to the amounts networks such as HBO and ESPN charge.
DISH filed the complaint against Media General requesting the FCC to require the broadcasting company resolve the blackout.
In the complaint, DISH claims Media General has breached its statutory duty to negotiate in good faith.
�Media General�s conduct violates the Commission�s rules requiring good faith negotiation for retransmission consent rights,� the complaint states, �because, among other things, Media General failed to respond for 11 days to DISH�s last pre-blackout offer.�
The airwaves for about 46,000 satellite subscribers in the market area of WCNT, a CBS station � as well as areas in Raleigh/Durham and 10 other states � are being affected by the blackout.
�DISH customers and Media General viewers were without their shows and events for 11 days before Media General would even contact us,� said Dave Shull, DISH executive vice president. �We reacted with a counter offer within hours and Media General has yet to respond.�
DISH is requesting the FCC to push Media General to negotiate and �submit to mediation to get programming back to consumers,� Shull said.
In previous negotiations, Media General rejected an offer by DISH to match rates paid by pay-TV competitors or rates paid by DISH to other area broadcasters.
Phone calls to DISH Network�s corporate office by The Free Press were not returned.
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Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Leanness Lifestyle Elite Mastery Program
I've had many questions about the Elite program I refer to in my Leanness Lifestyle journal on the side bar. I don't write a whole bunch about losing weight and my ever brain consuming saga of food and such here. I mention it in tidbits now and then, in the past this blog was mostly about food intake, it was pretty much the main reason I began this blog.
I did mention not too long ago that I had begun Afterburn Workouts and about the same time, was reading the Precision Nutrition program. I wanted to try PN mainly because Renee has had fabulous results with it. I know that we are not all created equal and that what is a good fit for one individual is not a good fit for another. PN doesn't recommend counting of calories or macros, its loosely '5-6 meals a day, protein each meal, good exercise, etc.' There are 10 steps to follow each day. The reading material was excellent; great recipes which I am still using, the best shake recipes that I have found so far and some good fish and chicken recipes that are now staples in my diet. I will post them in the future.
However, with PN, I began to increase my calories, I began to find that I didn't really want to stop eating, that I enjoyed being FULL (all of the time), that I actually NEEDED to count my calories to keep myself on track. So, for me, it didn't demand enough accountability. Embarrassing, really, but true. I managed to gain 8 pounds. It wreaked havoc on my fragile eggshell mind as I was getting ready for Superior. It wasn't a good thing. Not that PN wasn't a good thing, the way that I managed it wasn't a good thing.
I have been a member of Leanness Lifestyle for 3 years, I can't say enough good things about the program. I need accountability. I need to track every little thing. I am compulsive/obsessive. I have food addictions. These are probably the main reasons why I love Leanness Lifestyle so much. I first began LL to lose 30 pounds and over the course of 1.5 years I did lose the fat. Coach Dave offers Boot camps a few times a year, I joined 3 of his Boot camps and they were a big factor in my weight loss.
Before I asked Dave about Elite I emailed many of the members of Elite program to get their opinions of Elite. All but one raved about the program.
Two weeks before Superior I told Coach Dave I was ready for his Elite Mastery Program. I was ready to raise the bar. I was ready to be accountable to him and finish my weight loss. When I first joined LL I was over 160 pounds, I was at 144 when I contacted Dave for Elite. I had gained 6 pounds over the 2 years and 8 from my PN experiment. NOW, PN didn't cause the gain. I caused the gain. I know that.
I weighed 144. Dave told me to be at 142 before our telephone consult on September 6, the day I was heading out to Lutsen for Superior 100. I was a nervous wreck, both for the consult and the race! I was 142.
The Elite program at LL is intense. It also has over a 90% rate of people keeping the weight off for over one year.
With Elite I have a teleconference with Dave each week. Wednesday afternoons for me. We discuss the week, my weight loss, any strategies I may need, exercise, problems I have, problems he has with me, etc. It's usually an hour conversation. He leaves me with an assignment to be completed each day.
Elite is a one year program. Whether I meet my weight loss goal in 2 months or 10 months, I continue the program for a full year. I imagine I will even renew the Elite program after my year as maintenance throws me a curve ball.
I have huge leverages on the line. If I drop off the face of the earth, don't call Dave on our Wednesdays and chose not to finish the program, I owe Dave $. I owe if I lie. If I don't have a 90% or higher grade, I owe Dave. If I am not on target with my weight loss, I owe Dave. I pay a monthly fee. I have a weigh in that is supervised and faxed to Dave at the end of each goal period by another party! So far I have had two of these. These keep me on track!! NO WAY am I weighing in and not being at goal.
I'm learning so much about myself. It's only been a few weeks and I can't believe how I am learning and changing.
I was scared to death when Dave told me I needed to have my splurge meal. I was afraid of sugar, cake and frosting. Well, Dave told me those sugary things are triggers, probably an addiction, and I'd be staying away from them. At first that saddened me, but then I was able to handle it. Eventually, by the time Saturday rolled around and I was ready for my meal out I was strong and realized I didn't have to have the sugary stuff. This made me feel in control, I knew that this meal out wouldn't cause a downward spiral into a binge because it wasn't going to be sugar or cake or that type of food. It wasn't going to cause me to think of myself as a loser, a weakling, someone who can't control what they put in their mouth. This was empowering to me. I went out to lunch, ate a fabulous meal at Champps: Chicken Cyn Sandwich with Criss Cross Cut Potatoes AND sour cream and loved every bite. I felt no guilt, I felt no out of control sugar binge coming on. It didn't. I was in control.
I am planning a big year of running goals ahead of me for 2008. I know that with a healthy weight loss I will run faster, be leaner and stronger. I know that the weight loss will allow me to get into the best shape of my life and to be competitive as I run hard this summer. I want to be competitive. You know, I am usually the fattest woman runner on the start line of the 100 mile races. Not anymore. This is a big reason for Elite. I want to run well, be faster, be competitive.
I find myself looking forward to planning my menus, to grocery shopping, to my workouts. I find myself looking forward to WINTER. I have never looked forward to winter. Winter to me has always meant an increase in weight, being depressed, gaining even more weight because I am depressed, then retreating into myself and not getting out with my friends at all, because I feel too fat.
I haven't had any sugar in a few weeks. The cravings are gone. I no longer feel sad that I am not going to have sugar as a splurge meal. Sugar makes me crazy! I don't like being out of control and sugar does just that. It reminds me very much of being addicted to alcohol. I probably need to treat sugar as I do alcohol: none. Now, a person who is an alcoholic wouldn't have a beer with their splurge meal, you know? A person addicted to sugar shouldn't have cake, frosting and ice cream with their meal either.
So there you have it, that is the Leanness Lifestyle Elite Mastery Program.
9 comments:
- Runner Susan said...
Yes, please post recipes! Am so curious.
- Lisa Smith-Batchen said...
wow julie..I had no idea you thought you needed to drop weight..
this is a very good progam..you will be successful at this like you are most everything else.
- Olga said...
Man, Jul...I am not the one to talk about addiction as I have a one or two myself...but I'll beat you for the "fattest woman at the 100M start line" by a big margin! To add on (and not to insult or contrudict) in 2005, my best results year of all, I was 145, up 10 lbs from 2004 and from following 2 years (I still hold that 135, and lately it doesn't matter whether I watch what I eat, excercise, or do nothing at all). It helps that I simply don't like sugar stuff - not soda, not cakes, not cookies, nothing. I do crave fat meat like pork ribs and chicken legs with skin, and I don't deprive myself of those. I don't eat pasta as I don't like the tatse, but I am a potato addict. Last few months though, with family crap, I was surviving mostly on sandwiches, and irregular meals in general. Nothing healthy about it, agreed. But seems that this stupid 135 is mine to keep (at least I hope not to gain), and I am tired of thinking I should get skinnier. Some 6 years ago, when I dropped weight from been 182, I went down to 117 and held it for 2 years. I started running, gained muscle - but also lots of fat. I was pretty discouraged from all this and kept nagging myself. Yes, leaner body would lead to faster times - to a certain extend. I have a link to Nikki Kimball's interview on this issue, and trust me, Nikki is not a skinny gilr by any means.
Julie, this is NOT a lecture, I am just sharing how I came around to accept myself. With that I do wish you best success and happiness with the results I know, with your dedication, you'll reach. I will follow your progress and always hold your hand. We each as individuals will decide what is that we need and how to get there. Our friends are here to support no matter what.
And you are beautiful. Just thought I'd mention that:)
I think I understand better now what you meant about accountability when you responded to an earlier comment of mine.
For me, PN works when I let it work. I prefer to not count my calories. I have found that if I focus more on limiting the cheat meals rather than forcing myself to eat every required meal, I do better. That is, if my day is hectic or I'm just not hungry, I don't force myself to eat. But, I have to make sure the cheats are reasonable and don't exceed 4/week.
I know that you don't drink, but I'm also finding that if I use my cheats for alcohol, I don't make progress. I'm sure there's a good lesson for me there if I want to hear it.
So, I'm sure the direction you're going will work out just fine for you.
And listen to Olga. Actually, having seen both of you at the Vermont 100 in prior years, I don't think of either of you as being overweight.
Of course, I always think of myself as being hugely overweight.
Someone accused me of having body image issues during the race this year. Maybe she was right.
Good luck.
- Olga said...
Thanks, Damon. That was me back at VT100 in 2005:)
- Julie B said...
Thanks for the comments. Olga, thanks for the pic! You have leaned down, haven't you! Wow. I know that we aren't (weren't) fat by any means, especially in the 'real' world. And I now you aren't lecturing me, thanks for sharing. I find it interesting that Nikki isn't a small girl; I assumed otherwise. Would you show the link to the interview?
Thanks, Damon!
- Olga said...
- Kimberly Rae said...
I'll be joining the Elite program too Julie... Dave and I have our first talk on Tuesday the 9th... I begged him to squeeze me in sooner :o)
- Rebecca said...
It sounds/looks like leanness lifestyle works for you. I was a sugar freak myself, and to a certain extent still am, just under control. You're so right - we are not created equal. PN works for me.
Congrats on the marathon - I admire your ability to talk about anything over 10 miles with such ease. :)


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Early-career investigator discovers current volcanic activity under West Antarctica
Seismic "swarms" indicate active magma moving below critical area of Antarctica's ice sheet
November 20, 2013
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Scientists funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) have observed "swarms" of seismic activity--thousands of events in the same locations, sometimes dozens in a single day--between January 2010 and March 2011, indicating current volcanic activity under the massive West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS).
Previous studies using aerial radar and magnetic data detected the presence of subglacial volcanoes in West Antarctica, but without visible eruptions or seismic instruments recording data, the activity status of those systems ranged from extinct to unknown. However, as Amanda Lough, a doctoral candidate at Washington University in St. Louis, points out, "Just because we can't see ...below the ice, doesn't mean there's not something going on there."
"This [study] is saying that we have seismicity, which means [this system] is active right now," according to Lough. "This is saying that the magmatic chamber is still alive; that there is magma that is moving around in the crust."
Lough published her discovery in this week's issue of Nature Geoscience along with her advisor Douglas Wiens, a professor of earth and planetary sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, and a team of co-authors.
NSF has a presidential mandate to manage the U.S. Antarctic Program, through which it coordinates all U.S. science on the Southernmost continent and in the Southern Ocean and the logistical support which makes the science possible.
The characteristics of the seismic events, including the 25- to 40-kilometer (15- to 25-mile) depth at which they occurred, the low frequency of the seismic waves, and the swarm-like behavior rule out glacial and tectonic sources, but are typical of deep long-period earthquakes. Deep long-period earthquakes indicate active magma moving within the Earth's crust and are most often associated with volcanic activity.
The two swarms of seismic activity were detected by instruments deployed to obtain data on the behavior of the WAIS as part of the NSF-funded POLENET project, a global network of GPS and seismic stations. Wiens is a POLENET principal investigator.
Lough plotted the location of the swarms and realized their proximity to the Executive Committee Range, a cluster of volcanoes that were believed to be dormant, in Marie Byrd Land. She consulted with a volcanic seismologist to confirm that the frequency content and the waveforms of the seismic signals were indicative of a volcanic system.
The location of the current seismicity, about 55-60 kilometers (34-37 miles) south of Mt. Sidley, is where current volcanic activity would be predicted to occur based on the geographic locations and the ages of the lava of the known volcanoes in the Executive Committee Range. The seismic swarms were also located near a subglacial high-point of elevation and magnetic anomalies which are both indicative of a volcano.
In some volcanic systems, deep long period earthquakes can indicate an imminent eruption, but Lough sent samples of her data to volcano seismologists who "didn't see seismic events that would occur during an eruption." However, the elevation in bed topography did indicate to Lough and her colleagues that this newly discovered volcano had erupted in the past.
Radar data showed an ash layer trapped within the ice directly above the area of seismic and magmatic activity. Lough initially thought that the ash layer might have evidence of a past eruption from the volcano detected in this study, but based on the distribution of the materials and the prevailing winds, the ash most likely came from an eruption of nearby Mt. Waesche about 8000 years ago. The dating of the ash layer did confirm that Mt. Waesche, believed to have last been active around 100,000 years ago, erupted much more recently than previously thought.
Only an extremely powerful eruption from the active magmatic complex discovered in this study would break through the 1- to 1.5-kilometer (0.6-0.9 miles) thick ice sheet overlying the area, but this research extends the range of active volcanism deeper into the interior of the WAIS than previously known. Should an eruption occur at this location, the short-term increase in heat could cause additional melting of the bottom of the ice sheet, thereby increasing the bed lubrication and hastening ice loss from WAIS.
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November 14, 2012
"So he answered, 'Do not fear, for those who are with us are more than those who are with them.'" – 2 Kings 6:16
One of the greatest comforts for a child of God in this life is the confidence in knowing that we are in God's care. No matter what may come our way, it never takes Him off guard. No matter what this world may throw at us, He is bigger than it is. No matter what may befall our lands and communities, our God upholds us. Those that are trusting Christ have a reason to go forward with much assurance.
In 2 Kings 6, the king of Syria sent an army to capture Elisha. The prophet had been giving the king of Israel information to save him from the Syrian army. So, logically the king of Syria looked to rid himself of that problem. When Elisha's servant "arose early and went out, there was an army, surrounding the city with horses and chariots. And his servant said to him, 'Alas, my master! What shall we do?'" (2 Kings 2:15).
Do we not often find ourselves in just such a time? How often have we found ourselves at the end of our rope? How often did the end look bleak? And we are tempted (as is Elisha's servant here) to look at things from an earthly perspective. It is so easy to try and solve our own problems before ever seeking the help of God. We look at the problems in America and the world and dismiss that God has any real active part in our future. It's not that we don't believe it theologically. It may even be that we do finally practically grasp it. But, oftentimes, it's not our first thought.
It's so easy to assume that some man is going to "bring America back" or "bring America down". Yet, neither of those can happen without God's sovereign permission. Certainly, we are bound to do right. However, blessings pour down from Heaven – not Montgomery, AL…not Jackson, MS…not Washington, DC. "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning" (James 1:17).
Elisha saw the distress that his servant was in. He realized that his servant was looking at things from a purely earthly perspective. Elisha made the great statement of faith that we see in our text verse – "…Do not fear, for those who are with us are more than those who are with them". But apparently that wasn't enough for the servant. "[So] Elisha prayed, and said, 'LORD, I pray, open his eyes that he may see.' Then the LORD opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw. And behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha" (2 Kings 6:17-18).
Children of God, let us never forget that our Heavenly Father is the greatest Father we have. His eyes see all that is going on and His hand of protection is on us. It is He who says, "Fear not, for I am with you; Be not dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, yes, I will help you, I will uphold you with My righteous right hand" (Isaiah 41:10). Take this moment to thank Him for His providential care that is over you.
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This weekend was chock full of WEDDINGS! Two of my friends got married so every night we had a wedding related activity to attend. Friday night was a gorgeous gray and yellow wedding.
It was so much fun hanging out with so many friends of the family and everyone was so excited for B and I! All the wedding related things have made us so excited too! Here's a big group shot of a few of my family and friends. :)
Then Saturday night we went to a fun rehearsal dinner for my friend Nicole, who I ran cross country with throughout high school. It was so much fun and we are both so excited for them and know that their marriage is going to be blessed. I sadly didn't take any pictures that night, but I did take some on Sunday at their gorgeous wedding! She did so well with all the planning and there were so many 'Nicole' things throughout it. So fun.
It was another beautiful day and a purple and gray wedding! Everything was so creative and beautiful.
So happy for her and her new husband! We had SO much fun this weekend and everything was just wonderful at both weddings. Both couples were looking forward to this day for a long time and I'm so excited that they are both married! Looks like we are next!
With our wedding now right around the corner, it's so fun getting so many things ready. I can't wait to see what Shea does for my bachelorette party! She is keeping everything a surprise, and with her being so creative, I'm excited to see how things turn out. I know it will be adorable. I also did a little stuff for my wedding this weekend, which is how I hope to lay out the table!
It makes me so excited to see it coming together! I love the red and white and we worked on making the flags and covering the bottles. We still have more to do but it's coming together. :)
Tomorrow I will post about the challenge and how it's going and what I struggled with most. It's more than half way over!!


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Laconia, NH, schools locked down while police investigate outside gun report
LACONIA, N.H. (AP) � Police say two schools in Laconia, N.H., were put in lockdown mode after a school administrator reported seeing two males outside with what appeared to be a rifle.
Police say the pair were spotted near Laconia High School Tuesday afternoon. Both that school and the nearby Woodland Heights Elementary School went into lockdown mode while police searched the area. State police brought in a search dog but were unable to locate the subjects.
The matter remains under investigation.


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The EMD Guide to Food from the 1950s: Food Styling and Cookbook Art
The 1950s were a crossover period for cookbooks, when graphics were about half hand-drawn illustrations and half super-saturated photographs, such as the one above. If the aesthetic appears rather commercial to you, that's no mistake: many of the cookbooks from this era were produced by companies to promote their products, most famous of which is the Betty Crocker series for General Mills. Below, we explore the colorful world of 1950s food imagery. (Warning: image heavy post.)
The Betty Crocker Picture Cookbook, 1950
The Betty Crocker Picture Cookbook (buy it) was released by General Mills in 1950, although a facsimile edition is now available. The illustrations here largely depict domestic scenes, as cookbooks during this period often gave household pointers and kitchen design tips in addition to recipes. The photographs are mostly of the food itself.
The perfect housewife preparing cookies for what looks like half the neighborhood.
Kitchen design tips combine illustrations and photography. Bonus: a Kitchen of the Future!
Mid-century food was not necessarily the healthiest, and the meat photography often glistens to prove it.
Learning proper knife skills will help housewives maintain their exquisite manicures.
The General Foods Kitchens Cookbook, 1959
Fast forward to the other end of the decade with The General Foods Kitchens Cookbook (buy it), and photography has largely replaced illustrations, although there are some drawings illustrating the recipe pages. The domestic scenes here somehow look more staged that the illustrated ones above, and the food itself looks plastic.
Food Styling
Food styling during this era tended to be overdone: plates look forced and over-garnished, and there tend to be more than one dish per picture, often to the point of crowding. In the picture above, the pie has not only been cut into, but there are crumbs visible; this goes against the general trend towards perfect, untouched, buffet-style spreads. It is often hard to tell whether the graphics are illustrations or overly-manipulated photographs.
Book Art
Book design was generally in two or three colors, with large blocks of color and line drawings of food. The drawings tend to be of ingredients rather than whole dishes, and are grouped by recipe. Often, ingredients are anthropomorphized, like the fish on the book cover below.
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THose aprons and mitts are adorable. I LOVe that fabric. You could/should sell them?
thanks for stopping in. And I will read further on your blog. How newlywed are you? Congrats!
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From Our Sunday Visitor:
Quote:Changes are coming soon to Catholic weddings in the United States. What you see happening when you attend one — or if you're getting married yourself — will be a little different from what you've seen in the past.
The changes are courtesy of the coming implementation of the newly approved Order of Celebrating Matrimony, Second Edition, for the United States.
After a nearly two-year wait, the Vatican's Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments over the summer approved the U.S. bishops' new English translation of the marriage rite and, though no date has been set, the changes will likely be implemented before the end of 2016.
Overdue revision
The new rite's road to your parish church has been a long one. Following the Second Vatican Council, the Church's entire liturgical life was reformed, including each of the sacraments. The Vatican issued a new marriage rite in March 1969, and an English translation soon followed. A second edition of that rite, with several revisions, was approved by Pope St. John Paul II in 1991, but an English translation was never approved until now. (Yes, U.S. Catholic marriages performed in English over the past quarter-century have all been done according to an outdated, though certainly valid, rite.)
A new translation — following the same norms that prompted the new Roman Missal translation implemented in 2011 — was submitted to the Vatican in 2013. Approval came June 29. Following that, a process of final review and corrections at the U.S. bishops' liturgy office is wrapping up, and an implementation date is expected to be announced soon.
Detailing the changes
So what's different? A few things.
First, as with the new Roman Missal, even the same prayers will have a different sound to them. That's the result of a different set of translation principles — emphasizing more direct translations from the official Latin — mandated by the Vatican's 2001 document Liturgiam Authenticam.
Second, the rite's title will change. What has been known until now as the Rite of Marriage will now be called the Order for Celebrating Matrimony. The U.S. bishops specifically asked for this change with the new edition.
"The bishops felt that the word 'matrimony' has a more sacred connotation than 'marriage.' They thought the change was important in the American context, where we've seen attempts to redefine what marriage even means," Father Andrew Menke, associate director of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Secretariat of Divine Worship, told Our Sunday Visitor.
Third, the opening rites will change a bit. A penitential rite (in which the priest leads the assembly in asking forgiveness for their sins) that used to be included in a wedding has now been cut. And where there was previously no Gloria (the singing or saying of "Glory to God in the highest ..."), that has been added.
Fourth, and perhaps most significantly, some new ceremonies that have never been a part of Catholic weddings in English may now be included, optionally, in the rite. These include an exchange of coins and a blessing and placing of a lazo (a veil or cord) over the couple during the nuptial blessing. Both of these are traditional marriage practices in many Hispanic cultures and long a part of Spanish-language and Filipino Catholic weddings. In this new edition, the Vatican, at the request of the American bishops, allows their use in English-language weddings as well.
"Historically speaking, the Church has been very open to using the elements of various cultures in celebrating the sacrament of marriage. Different cultures have different ways of expressing what marriage means, and the Church has shown a lot of willingness to take in some of these cultural expressions," Father Menke said. Placing the lazo over a couple is a symbol that they are now bound together sacramentally. And the exchange of coins "says they now share everything, which is what marriage is about," Father Menke said.
Finally, the liturgical book for the new marriage rite also will include an appendix with special blessings for engaged couples and couples celebrating anniversaries. These blessings are not intended for use at a wedding but in other contexts. For example, a priest might use the blessing for couples celebrating an anniversary at the end of a parish Mass where such a couple is present.
What was left out?
It's worth noting that the new rite does not include other elements that the bishops had hoped to include but were declined by the Vatican. First, the bishops intended to call for a more typical liturgical procession at the opening of the marriage rite, with priest and altar servers processing down the church aisle to an opening hymn, along with the bride and groom and other members of the wedding party. This would have meant a major change to the way most weddings begin in the United States.
Instead, the Vatican approved an instruction that hews more closely to that of the Latin original, which allows for the procession to happen "in the customary manner." It's a broad phrase that, as Father Menke noted, "leaves a lot of leeway for more local practices." In effect, that means the typical wedding opening — with the priest standing in the sanctuary while the bride is escorted down the aisle by her father, who often then "gives" her to the groom waiting at the altar — will likely remain a common practice.
The U.S. bishops also sought to introduce into the rite the option for a litany of saints, emphasizing the names of married saints. Such an option has previously received Vatican approval elsewhere, for example in Italy. In this case, however, the Vatican rejected the proposal.
Father Menke explained that such a litany "has never been part of the marriage rite. The Holy See therefore felt this was an innovation that is not a part of the tradition."
With new English editions of the Roman Missal as well as the rites of confirmation and matrimony now settled, other significant translation projects still await the U.S. bishops. One in the works, for example, is the Liturgy of the Hours, but that massive project is expected to take several more years before reaching completion.


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John and Jeff Clayton of the infamous Clayton Brothers sent me a brand new, hot-off-the-presses CD called, "The New Song and Dance," which is receiving rave reviews. As I open the package and play the CD here in Studio G at the Mohn Broadcast Center, I am not disappointed. The brothers are cookin' again and have done an incredible job on the album.
Their Grammy© nominated quintet, The Clayton Brothers, was originally founded in 1977, and while their paths would sometimes diverge, the brothers continued to share a common musical vision that would draw them back together. The brothers place a strong emphasis on sharing what it is they know and are dedicated jazz educators who travel extensively to participate in workshops and music clinics around the world.
Currently, the quintet consists of John's son, Gerald Clayton on piano (also Grammy© nominated for his 2009 CD "Two Shade") and Obed Calvaire on drums. Terell Stafford, a highly regarded trumpeter and band leader in his own right, is also a member of the quintet. For more information on the Clayton Brothers, http://www.johnclaytonjazz.com.
The cut that landed on the 89.3 KPCC underwriting spot is "Chicago Bop Steppin." The liner notes say the tune was inspired by the band's manager, Gail Boyd. She loves to extol the virtues of the original dance called Chicago bop. Steppin' is a similar dance and native to areas outside of Chicago. This tune paired up nicely with the underwriting spot for LACMA and the newly opened Resnick Pavilion. The Resnick Pavilion is named in honor of long-time patrons Lynda and Stewart Resnick. Mrs. Resnick, a LACMA trustee since 1992, is currently vice chair of the museum's Board of Trustees and chair of the Acquisitions Committee. Mr. and Mrs. Resnick are leading arts philanthropists with wide-ranging charitable interests.
The Resnick Pavilion houses a trio of inaugural exhibitions highlighting both the diversity of the museum's encyclopedic collection and the flexibility of the new building. Robert Irwin's Palm Garden installation surrounds the Resnick Pavilion. The palms, some quite rare, come in a wide variety of sizes, colors and shapes. For more information, http://www.LACMA.org.
(Audio is the underwriting spot for LACMA featurning an excerpt of Clayton Brothers' tune,"Chicago Bop Steppin." SCPR voice talent is Alex Cohen.)


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November 10, 2010 (REVISED November 16, 2010) Veterans History Project Commemorates First Decade with New Web Feature
Contact: Tom Wiener (202) 707-0977 | Lisa Taylor (202) 707-2333
They served. Regardless of their opinions on war, the horrors they witnessed on the front lines, the conditions under which they lived on the home front, their rank, race, religion or gender – they answered the call to duty and they served.
The latest installment of the Veterans History Project's (VHP) Experiencing War website feature, titled "VHP: The First Ten Years," has launched in time for nationwide Veterans Day observances. The website feature, one of 32 created thus far, highlights the wartime stories of 20 veterans who represent a cross-section of the more than 70,000 collections donated to the project during its first decade of existence. VHP staff members selected these collections from among their favorites and as representative of the diversity and depth of the project. Some of the veterans have been featured in previous installments of Experiencing War, while others will be new to users of the site, www.loc.gov/vets/.
"Our theme for this commemorative season has been 'Illuminating the Future by Sharing the Past,'" said VHP Director Robert Patrick. "This latest web feature does just that. It shows the realities of war from 20 diverse and captivating perspectives so that people, generations from now, will be able to hear, see, and learn from these firsthand accounts."
Each veteran in "VHP: The First Ten Years" describes the wartime veteran experience in ways that are thoughtful, touching, and often riveting. Spotlighted in the feature is Vietnam Army nurse Elizabeth Allen, an African-American woman who discusses her experiences, unique due to both race and gender. Frank Buckles, the last surviving World War I veteran, shares his experiences in the feature as an Army ambulance driver. Marine Corps veteran Paul Steppe served during the Korean War and conveys his tale of survival after being wounded and then having his medical transport plane lose its landing gear upon takeoff. Herman Rosen was a Merchant Marine during World War II who spent 23 days in a lifeboat at sea after his ship was hit by a torpedo. Persian Gulf War Medical Officer Rhonda Cornum, on a mission to rescue a downed pilot, was captured by the Iraqis and held for seven harrowing days.
The Library of Congress, the nation's oldest federal cultural institution, is the world's preeminent reservoir of knowledge, providing unparalleled collections and integrated resources to Congress and the American people. Many of the Library's rich resources can be accessed through its website at www.loc.gov and via interactive exhibitions on a personalized website at myLOC.gov.
Congress created The Veterans History Project in 2000 as a national documentation program of the American Folklife Center (www.loc.gov/folklife/) to record, preserve and make accessible the first-hand remembrances of American wartime veterans from World War I through the current conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, so that future generations may hear directly from veterans and better understand the realities of war. The project relies on volunteers to record veterans' remembrances using guidelines accessible at www.loc.gov/vets/. Volunteer interviewers may pledge to record a veteran's story at the site, or they may request more information at firstname.lastname@example.com or the toll-free message line at (888) 371-5848. Subscribe to the VHP RSS to receive periodic updates of VHP news at www.loc.gov/rss/.


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We got a new unknown member to do a duel in 2017, every last week of the month.
Mr. X is looking for members who want to challenge him.
So give it a try, remember it is all for fun!!!
The rules are very simple:
- One standing or riding figure out of the box
- Neutral background (white, black, green, blue,...)
- No base
- Period chosen by the challenger
- 2 pictures (front and back)
- Send PSR link to communicate the figure
- All communication goes by email to email@example.com, email subject is the dueling month.
He don't want to know who the challenger is un till after the duel.
So pick your month and period and sign in for this challenge!
- January (Won by mr. X)
- February (Lost by mr. X)
- March (both won)
- April (Won by mr. X)
- May (Won by mr. X)
- June (both won)
- July (both won)
- August (Won by m. X)
- September (lost by mr. X)
- October (Won by mr. X)
- November (lost by mr. X)
- December (Won by mr. X)
The list is updated with a period when someone has signed in.
All communication will go by mail to: firstname.lastname@example.com.
So this is again a lucky year.... There was always a duelway


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Starting in 1843, Wesleyan Methodist ministers kept a book of entries for births and baptisms. Each year, they submitted their book to the Conference Office.
Entries were then copied into the General Register, arranged by township, town, village and circuit. The records of the Wesleyan Methodist Church are from 1826 to 1910.
The United Church of Canada Archives who hold copyright on these records, but they have allowed the OGS to transcribe and sell these records through its thirty Branches located throughout Ontario.
To obtain copies of these baptismal record indexes, contact the Branch in the area in which you are doing your family research.
You can go to the list of Branches within the OGS at http://www.ogs.on.ca/branches.php
Postscript: Remember that these are copies of the original baptismal record. It is best if you can get the original record so that you can be sure that there are not any mistakes in transcribing the copies.


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While Usain Bolt and Tyson Gay breezed through their qualifiers for the 100 meter competition at the World Athletics Championships in Berlin, Jamaican Asafa Powell barely qualified.
Powell, the former world record holder, "showed no signs of being the experienced runner he is when he eased down well beyond the finishing line, after getting a super start and just did enough to get the third spot in 10.38," reports World Track.
Powell's sloppy performance was particularly troublesome because earlier this week he was threatened with expulsion from the team after skipping training. Reuters adds: "Powell [had] to anxiously wait before a collective sigh of relief swept through the Olympic stadium with results confirming his spot in the next round."
Powell is seen below with Morocco's Aziz Ouhadi, who was nipping dangerously close to his heels throughout the entire race and came in fourth at 10.40. WHEN YOU JUMP, much more of Asafa Powell and the Aziz Ouhadi hotness.