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Wednesday, 29 February 2012
A calendar for Mum, and goodbye Lena …
Tuesday, 28 February 2012
Gift Wrapped, and some news ...
There's no need to book, just come along to our stand at the show and take a seat!
Saturday is sold out but I think there is still availability on the Sunday
Monday, 27 February 2012
2 projects to share with you today
Good morning everyone, hope you all had a lovely weekend
We have a treat for you today, Pops has 2 projects to share with you
This fabulous little notebook is first up, she made it with our messy messages stamp. You can get this stamp and a selection of our other favourites for just £3.00 on our special offers page
Pops kindly sent us this to display in our new shop and it is the cutest little book, it would make a gorgeous gift …
Today I am sharing a little notebook with you that I made using up scraps of paper and Messy Messages...
I have stamped my image on to Neenah Card and coloured with markers, pencils and chalks, I have distressed the edges with chalks as always. I have used up scraps of MME Breeze, I love to saves scraps up for things like this.
I have used a notebook punch for the edge of the paper, and a Bracket Tab Die for the side.
I have added a little pearl Heart and then popped it all in my Bind It All machine to create my little notebook. I have used up scraps of Sky Blue Seam Binding to the rings for a bit of texture and on the letter I have stamped a heart from the new Love Sentiments and then added some Stardust....
The second project for you today from Pops is a tag card made with bunches of love which is also on special offer at £3.00 for a limited time
I have coloured my image with markers, pencils and chalks, the papers are scrap bits of MME Blink of an eye and Everyday Flair, all the edges have been distressed with chalk ink, I have added some Fabric behind the image, I have used Kraft Card and stamped my Sentiment on to it, I have also added a Corner Stamp to the back piece, I have added a tiny bit of scrap ric a rac, some scrap Lace and a string of Pearls, I have added some Blooms and 10mm Open Roses, I have punched my own leaves and added lots of Stardust for extra sparkle...
I have made the tag myself, these are perfect for using up scraps…
- Take a bit if card stock and cut to 15cm by 29.5cm.
- Fold in over at 13cm.
- Cut of the corners to create your tag.
- Decorate as you would like it to be.
- Cut a scallop and plain circle and glue together, then fold in half.
- Pop this over the top of your tag card and punch a hole through the centre.
- I have used wet glue and an eyelet.
- Using up scraps of ribbon and lace for the top.
Thanks Pops for those, they're both lovely and I hope everyone will have a go themselves
Make sure you visit tomorrow when we'll be showing another lovely card from Dawny P
Sunday, 26 February 2012
Weekly candy winner and new candy up
The new blog candy is up on the weekly blog candy page and, this week's weekly blog candy winner is
#198 Debbie D
Congratulations Debbie, please email me to claim your £10 voucher.
A little romance!
Nestabilities ~ Scalloped rectangles,
Prima papers ~ Botanicals,
Doo~Hickey ~ Fence, Small dragonfly & Swirl,
SU ~ Scalloped circle punch & corner punch,
Marianne ~ English rose,
DieNamics ~ Daisy,
Wild Orchid ~ Sweet heart flowers,
Sentiments ~ LOTV, For you sentiments set 7 & Greetings Postmarks
Tim Holtz DIs ~ Aged mahogany, Antique linen, Scattered straw, Frayed burlap & Walnut stain,
Scrim and pearls.
Saturday, 25 February 2012
The Little Things
Hello bloggers, hope everyone is well this morning. It looks set to be a nice weekend so maybe Spring is just around the corner at last.
Sentiment, Stampin up
Paper: My Minds Eye
Spellbinder circle and lacy circle
Embellishments: WOC,Prima Marketing, Websters Pages Sparkler, Paper Doily, The Ribbon Girl, Tim Holtz, Recollections
Schuhe: W6/0/3
Hintergrund: Slate Grey
Haare: E50/31/Dark umber
Boden: W00/YG93 olive green
Gesicht: E000/00/R20/13 Terra Cotta
Kleider: R32/30/00/35/24 warm grey 90%
B0000/06/02 true blue, cool grey 90%
E44/43/47/41 Warm Grey 90%
Friday, 24 February 2012
Teddy For Mum
Hope you liked todays card, take a look at Katarina's blog here to see more of her work and make sure you stop by tomorrow when we'll have another card to show you from Claudia Rosa
Thursday, 23 February 2012
Good Morning Crafters!
How is everyone this morning? – very well I hope.
Thanks for visiting our blog, don't forget to make a regular stop here as there is a new post every single day with cards, projects, hints and tips as well as a sneaky look at the new stamps we have coming out.
Todays card is by Dena and uses the never too old for cupcake stamp
Dena has also used one of our circular sentiments, this one is from set 8 'happy' but we have lots to choose from – take a look at them here along with our other clear stamp sheets
Hope you enjoyed seeing todays card, you can visit Dena's blog if you would like to see more of her work and we have a gorgeous card to show you tomorrow by Katarina
Wednesday, 22 February 2012
Bunny Cupcakes
Good morning bloggers, welcome to the Lili of the Valley 'Ideas to Inspire' blog
Today we have a fabulous card from Bev using our bunny cupcakes stamp which is on sale at the moment for £3.00. Take a look at our special offers page for a selection of Spring animals and a few of our favourite stamps all at special reduced prices.
Bunny Cupcakes Card – supplies
Paper is Echo Park, shaped card is die cut with a large Go Kreate die from A4 card. Coloured with Copics and Pencils - Bunnies C3, 1, 0, 00 and black pencil, clothing R85, R83, R81 and mulberry pencil, grass YG693, 61, G20. Embellishments from Wild Orchid Crafts.
Have a look at Bev's popular blog and make sure you come back tomorrow when we have a card by Dena to show you
Tuesday, 21 February 2012
3D Tent Card
Good morning crafters, thanks for visiting our Ideas to Inspire blog.
Don't forget to enter our weekly candy draw to win a £10 voucher here
This amazing 3D tent card was made by Moni
Recipe for the Tent Card:
Stamps: Teddy for Mum from Lili of the Valley
Papers: Cardstock from Stash, Patterned Paper: Magnolia
Tools: Scor Pal, Cuttlebug, Spellbinders Classic Circles & Spellbinders Scallop Circles, Doo Hickey Swedish Lace Die, Heart Die/Whiff of Joy, Butterfly Punch/Martha Stewart, Oval Punches/Stampin`Up!, Sewing Machine
Embellishments: Half Pearls, Ribbon/Stampin`Up!, Distress Crackle Paint/Tim Holtz, Scrappers Floss/Ranger, Roses from stash
Sentiment: hÄnglar stamp; stÄnglar
Medium: Prismacolor Pencil & White Spirit
Colours used:
Sienna Brown, Dark Brown, Black, Pink Rose, Henna, Blush Pink, Hot Pink, Process Red, Dahlia Purple, Magenta, Mediterranean Blue, Non Photo Blue, Slate Grey
Take a look at Moni's blog here and tomorrow we'll have another card for you by Bev so don't forget to stop by
Have a good day x
Sunday, 19 February 2012
Weekly and Mega Candy Winners and new candy now up!!
Winners, winners, we have winners!!!
First up is the winner of our weekly candy (£10 voucher) and that's you ….
Congratulations, please email me to claim your prize. Please put LOTV £10 voucher in the subject line
And now for the winner of the Mega Candy (the entire new release that goes on sale at midnight). And that's you ….
Congratulations June, please email me your address to claim your prize. Please put LOTV Mega Candy winner in the subject line


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University of Hawaii to host Internet2 and Asia-Pacific Advanced Network meetings, January 20-25
300 networking leaders will plan future Internet technologies and applications during Techs in Paradise in HonoluluUniversity of Hawaiʻi
Vice President for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer
HONOLULU — The University of Hawaiʻi will be hosting the world's leaders in advanced networking January 20—25, 2008, in Honolulu for the third Techs in Paradise (TIP) event.
TIP2008, the third in a series of "East meets West" networking meetings that began in 2001, will bring together the Internet2 technical community from North America with the Asia-Pacific Advanced Network (APAN), a multilateral regional counterpart to Internet2. Numerous side meetings will take advantage of this confluence of expertise in Hawaiʻi, including the Internet Educational Equal Access Foundation, the Global Lambda Integrated Facility (GLIF) and the Hawaiʻi Intranet Consortium.
University of Hawaiʻi Vice President for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer David Lassner, the conference host, noted that, "Hawaiʻi provides the perfect venue to bring together the advanced networking communities from both sides of the Pacific. TIP2008 will provide Hawaiʻi's network engineers a rare glimpse into the future of networking."
The TIP2008 meetings will address advanced Internet opportunities, challenges and applications. Key technology themes to be discussed will include future Internet architectures, optical networking, advanced wireless networks, hybrid packet-circuit networking, the coming crisis in Internet routing, IPV6 deployment, network measurement and performance, and security.
Internet-based applications that will be discussed and demonstrated include high definition television (HDTV), telemedicine, astronomy, high-energy physics, agriculture, and disaster warning and response. There will also be planning meetings for new advanced research and education networks in underserved nations and regions.
TIP2008 events will be held at the East-West Center on the UH Mānoa campus. Registration for most meetings is open to the public. More information about TIP2008, including registration links, is available at www.hawaii.edu/tip2008. Hawaiʻi businesses interested in sponsorship opportunities may contact Lassner at (808) 956-3501.
For more information, visit: http://www.hawaii.edu/tip2008

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text: I installed Norton Internet security 2006 onto a reformatted PC today and everything seemed okay until I came to turn the computer off. A box came up with "C: DebugLogLog" written in it. After I had clicked okay, the computer wouldn't turn off. I had to literally go to start and close at the computer eight times before it started to close down and then they would just get stuck on the blue screen with logging off. The only way I could turn the computer off was to press the button on the front of the CPU. I uninstalled Norton Internet security and everything seems find so it looks like is the programme that is causing a problem. It doesn't do it on any other computer I have the programme on though.


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Jessica Simpson Baby, People Magazine Reveals First Photo: Fans React
The first photos of Jessica Simpson and fiancée Eric Johnson's baby girl have been revealed, and fans have flocked to social networking sites to weigh in on the exclusive pictures which appear on the front cover of People magazine.
Dressed in a cream-colored dress and a matching headband, baby Maxwell Drew Johnson is seen being cradled in Simpson's arms on the front cover of People, who reportedly paid the singer $800,000 to run the intimate photos, according to Women's Wear Daily.
"We stare at her all the time! We can't get enough!" Simpson gushed to People.
"My life has completely changed. From how I sleep to what I think about, Maxwell has definitely taken over everything," she added.
Fans of 31-year-old Simpson took to Twitter to share mixed views about baby Maxwell, and while some users' comments were favorable, others were not.
"Jessica Simpson's baby is a fatty. I guess that's what happens when you're pregnant for like 2 years," The Miss Nguyen tweeted.
"Jessica Simpson's baby is cute! Over 9 pounds! I'm glad she had a C-Section!!!!" Afrouz Nosratian tweeted.
"Some babies are just not cute no matter what their parents think. jessica simpson's baby is one of them," Lauren tweeted.
Simpson, 31, gave birth to baby Maxwell, who arrived weighing in at 9 lbs., 13 oz., on May 1- 10 days after her expected due date. She has been in awe of her daughter ever since.
"I am so in love with baby Maxwell! I want to cry every time I look at her. Motherhood is by far the best thing I've ever experienced," Simpson recently tweeted.
Simpson, whose fashion empire is said to be worth over $1 billion, received a lot less money for her and Johnson's daughter in contrast with her Hollywood counterparts.
In 2006, actress Angelina Jolie and fiancée Brad Pitt were reportedly paid at least $4.1 million by People magazine for photos of their first child, Shiloh Jolie-Pitt, and in 2007 received $2 million for photos of their adopted son Pax Jolie-Pitt.
Other celebrities who have received more than $1 million for selling the rights to their baby's photos include actress Jessica Alba and husband Cash Warren, singer Christina Aguilera and ex-husband Jordan Bratman, and singer Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony.
"Eric and I are elated to announce the birth of our baby girl, Maxwell Drew Johnson. We are grateful for all the love, support and prayers we have received. This has been the greatest experience of our lives!!" Simpson wrote on her website.
The singer recently selected her former personal assistant and long time friend CaCee Cobb to be baby Maxwell Drew Johnson's godmother, it has been confirmed.


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Growth Factors
With engineering on the rise at Dartmouth, Dean Joseph J. Helble outlines opportunities for an expanded Thayer community.
Interview by Karen Endicott
Dartmouth President Philip J. Hanlon '77 announced in November of 2014 that expanding engineering was one of his top priorities for the College. "Thayer School is a site of research impact, innovative experiential learning, and interest in learning technologies," he said, "It is also a unit of academic excellence well below critical mass by any measure."
With expansion of engineering a key part of President Hanlon's drive to increase Dartmouth's experiential learning opportunities, entrepreneurial activities, and scholarly impact on the world, Thayer Dean Joseph J. Helble talked with Dartmouth Engineer about the future of the school.
There are three reasons growth is important. First, demand for an engineering education is reaching unprecedented levels. We have roughly 110 majors in the senior class, which will be an all-time record number of students graduating with engineering degrees, surpassing the record we set just last year. The numbers of matriculating freshmen and sophomores who say they're interested in engineering are even greater. We don't have enough faculty to meet this demand and maintain the class size and the intimate, closely connected experience that we offer. We need to increase faculty to reduce the student-faculty ratio, increase project and research opportunities for our students, and develop new courses to challenge our students at all levels of the curriculum.
Second, by expanding the engineering faculty we can enhance the liberal arts education for all Dartmouth students. By making a real engineering experience part of a much larger number of Dartmouth students' undergraduate education, Dartmouth can take a leadership role in defining what a liberal arts education means in the 21st century. Every educated citizen, every worker, will need to deal with technology. It's a technology-driven world, and it's going to be a technology-driven century. It's hugely important for all Dartmouth students to gain some familiarity with how technology is conceived, how it's developed, how it works. I would love to have the capacity to give every Dartmouth student the opportunity to take a design-thinking class like Peter Robbie's ENGS 12, or to take ENGS 21, our project-based introductory engineering course. We already have 50–60 non-majors a year taking ENGS 21. More want to take these classes but can't because we don't have sufficient capacity. All Dartmouth students should have the opportunity to get a real project-based engineering innovation experience like this as part of their education.
Third, we want to expand the scope of our scholarly work, particularly in energy and at the interface between engineering and medicine. Through the faculty we've hired, we've been building expertise in key problem-based areas—in alternative energy, power electronics, protein engineering, tissue imaging. We've worked with faculty in the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth to establish the NIH-sponsored Dartmouth Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence. I would like to see more opportunities for our graduate and undergraduate students to engage in cutting-edge research and for Thayer to be a leader in working on applied problems in these areas. We're already an entrepreneurial leader—with one in four of our faculty having started a company based on their work.
An added benefit of more sponsored research is that it allows us to have more state-of-the-art analytical equipment and research tools in house—for graduate and undergraduate students alike.
We want to significantly expand the faculty—perhaps by as much as a factor of two—over the next decade. If we double the faculty, we can educate a larger undergraduate student body and still reduce our student-faculty ratio. I would love to see an increase in the number of students majoring in engineering at Dartmouth, including significant growth in the Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) population. We anticipate some slight growth in our Master of Engineering Management (M.E.M.) and M.S. student populations. By doubling the faculty, assuming our new professors are as successful as our current faculty, we expect our research funding will grow accordingly, supporting up to a doubling of our Ph.D. student population.
Yes, they do. The research funding climate is more challenging now than it was five or 10 years ago, but federal support for sponsored R&D remains strong; the United States continues to spend more on R&D than any other country. Like many of my fellow academic deans, I am concerned about the impact of sequestration on federal sponsored-research funding. Cutting support at a time when many other nations are dramatically increasing their investment in engineering education and scientific research doesn't make a great deal of sense. The cuts are not helpful to expanding an economy based on technology innovation and entrepreneurship. The recent two-year federal budget deal was an encouraging sign that Congress appreciates the challenges created by sequestration-imposed uncertainty on the R&D climate in this country. I certainly can't predict what's going to happen to the federal budget five years from now, but there is bipartisan recognition that the research investment the federal government has made for many decades has paid great dividends for the country. I'm fairly optimistic that there will continue to be strong support for academic research—particularly engineering research that leads to technology development and job creation over many decades.
Our faculty have been very successful in getting their ideas funded—and that's something that hasn't changed in the tighter funding climate that we've seen in the past two years. If we continue to have high expectations, hire carefully, and bring in successful people, we will be able to maintain a well-funded research program well into the future.
Our interdisciplinary, integrated nature is one of our great strengths—and also something that significantly differentiates us from the vast majority of our peers. When we make decisions about faculty hires, we think about the greatest needs within the school, rather than having a mechanical engineering department arguing its case and then an electrical engineering department arguing its case. It's absolutely essential to me that through this expansion, we continue to function as a single, integrated school, and hire faculty according to areas of greatest need across the school.
Some. Those conversations happen best when it's two members of the faculty who have a shared interest in a subject exploring what they might be able to do. ENGS 2: Integrated Design: Engineering, Architecture, and Building Technology, a course open to non-majors that engineering Professor Vicki May and studio art Senior Lecturer Jack Wilson have developed, is a great example of people with different perspectives coming together to teach students about architecture and design in a way that gives them a very different perspective than if they were simply taking an architecture class or taking a structural engineering class. Students are able to see the important interplay between those two fields. Professor Peter Robbie is lending his design thinking expertise to Dartmouth Roots, an initiative with the Rockefeller Center for Public Policy that is using design methodology to develop ways to improve life at Dartmouth. We also are exploring opportunities for integrated A.B./B.E. degree programs with computer science and physics. I expect many more opportunities like these will develop naturally as we build a larger faculty.
Thayer's sense of community comes up in virtually every conversation I have with faculty, students, staff, and alumni—people who are excited about the opportunities this growth presents for Dartmouth and for Thayer, but who want to be sure we maintain the close community that helps make Thayer such a special place.
By growing our faculty and reducing our student-faculty ratio, we can do an even better job of giving all students the opportunity—through the classroom, through research, through interactions in places like the Great Hall—to get to know many members of the faculty well, and to count them among their close mentors and supporters. This is a part of Dartmouth culture that reducing class size and the student-faculty ratio will only enhance. Some have pointed out that with growth we may reach the point where a single professor will probably not be able to know every member of the graduating class well, but I think we are already there, with graduating classes that will soon be more than 100. To me, what's most important is having smaller class sizes so that all students have the opportunity to get to know several members of the faculty well.
By not setting up structured departments within the school we can help maintain a sense of community that's school-wide. It's important to continue all the little things we do to bring people together—from Thayer community events in the GlycoFi Atrium, to Thayer-wide events like the physical fitness challenge the school held last spring, to something as simple as free coffee in the kitchens. We need to think purposefully about the design of any new building so that it is structured to bring people together in common places, design elements that the Great Hall and GlycoFi Atrium do so well. Our practice of not having faculty offices grouped by disciplinary area is essential to maintaining a broader Thayer community. I expect this will continue in any new facility that we build, so that faculty and staff will continue to run into one another and our students on their way to the lab and the classroom.
Clearly if we grow the faculty substantially—certainly if we double the faculty—we're going to need a new facility. It's hard to believe, but we are already at capacity in the MacLean Engineering Sciences Center, even though it was dedicated only seven years ago. We already need more classroom, studio, and project laboratory space. We need more common space for our students to sit together and discuss project work or research. The couches in GlycoFi Atrium and the tables in the Great Hall seem to be nearly full almost all the time. We've just completely renovated the machine shop, so our needs there are not likely to be extensive. But we'll need significantly more research laboratory space.
We all recognize that we will need a facility that offers maximum flexibility to accommodate change as some research areas expand over the years and others contract. For example, we're thinking about open-concept laboratory space for some of our research laboratories to provide some of this flexibility.
It's too early to say how it's all going to fit together. We're in the early stages of conceptualizing what a facility might be, and where near Cummings and MacLean it could be located. We had a first conversation at a faculty retreat in December. The next step is to engage an architectural and engineering firm to begin working with us to explore options and ultimately provide some conceptual design options for us to consider. We'll need to have many conversations with faculty, staff, current students, our Board of Overseers, and others to refine our needs list and bring us to the point where we can engage an architectural firm in a formal design.
I certainly hope so—that is an important goal. Many visitors have told me how impressed they are by the sense of openness of our building, particularly of the project labs, and how our students are very willing to be interrupted, to discuss their project with anyone curious enough to ask. I am also often told how impressed our visitors are by the ability of our students to describe their work in a clear, articulate, and understandable fashion, and explain why it's important, why the visitor should care. That's such an important part of our programs and our community. This deliberate notion of open spaces with a lot of light, where visitors can see inside, wander in, and get a sense of the creative things that are happening—we absolutely want to preserve that.
This is a tremendous opportunity for Thayer, and for Dartmouth. I feel privileged to be here as the Thayer dean at this point in time. When I came to Dartmouth in 2005, I was not only impressed by Thayer's history and record of accomplishment, but was excited by where the school was heading then. Sitting here nearly nine years later, I'm even more excited by the opportunity ahead of us now. With the growing Dartmouth-wide emphasis on innovation and entrepreneurship, the recognition our students, programs, and faculty have received for their teaching, for their creativity, and for their research these past few years, and with the support of a new president for a larger role for engineering at Dartmouth, I can't imagine a more exciting time to be dean.
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Naval Pay Office
Historical Background
Naval Pay Office was established as a centralised Pay Accounting Organisation to maintain pay accounts of all Royal Indian Navy personnel, in 1945 and the Head of Organisation was named as Pay Master-in-Chief RIN Pay Office. It was set up in the Sanatorium building, Versova, Andheri, Bombay, under the stewardship of the first Pay Master-in-Chief. In 1946, the Officer's wing of the office was shifted to the Chicago building, MG road, Bombay. In the later part of 1946, both Officers and Sailors wings were shifted to Fort Barracks, Bombay, adjacent to the old Rex Cinema. On 15 Aug 47, this office was again shifted to Talwar Camp, the site of the present Naval Transport Pool. In 1950, the office was renamed as Indian Naval Pay Office. Finally, in 1952, the entire unit of the Indian Naval Pay Office was shifted to its present premise at Castle Park, adjacent to the Angre fort. It was christened as Naval Pay Office, Bombay in 1956. The responsibility of maintaining the Provident Fund Accounts for both Officers and Sailors was transferred to the Organisation, in Apr 1976, from JCDA (funds), Meerut. In 1987, the responsibility of maintaining leave records in respect of officers was also added to the Charter of Duties of the Organisation.
Function/ Role
The basic responsibility of Naval Pay Office is to ensure correct authorisation and disbursement of various Pay and Allowances to all service personnel, as prescribed under rules, from the day of joining the service upto the date of retirement / release / demobilisation. Pay accounts in respect of all naval personnel are maintained by NAVPAY under Centralised Pay Accounting System introduced in 1945 and later ratified vide GoI, Ministry of Defence, No. AC/3985/NHQ/0023/D (N) dated 25 Jun 1954. The Centralised Pay Accounting System provides a continuous record of pay and allowances of all naval personnel throughout their service career. This system is operationalised through Individual Running Ledger Accounts (IRLA), where all types of transactions relating to pay & allowances are recorded. These IRLAs with respect to individual officers and sailors are called Individual Pay Accounts (IPAs) which represent the statement of account depicting all credits / debits pertaining to a month.
The main functions of the Naval Pay Office are as follows:-
- To maintain the Centralised Pay Accounting System for adjustment and remittance of pay and allowances in respect of all the officers and sailors, on active list, of the Indian Navy.
- To maintain Provident Fund accounts of all naval personnel, including those on deputation.
- To maintain Annual Leave record in respect of officers.
- To maintain record of loans granted to naval personnel both Govt loan (like house building, scooter / motor car advance etc) as well as specified Non-Public Fund loans and effect monthly recovery of loan installments.
- To finalise Leave Encashment and the Provident Fund accounts in respect of demobilised personnel.
- To initiate Pensionary procedures for demobilised / deceased officers and sailors at Single Window Documentation Cell.
- To prepare monthly compilations of receipts and charges at Naval Pay Office and summary of Provident Fund withdrawal transactions throughout the Navy.
- To render advice to IHQ (Navy) on issues relating to Pay and Allowances.
Major Achievements
- IPADS:- Integrated Pay Accounting and Disbursement System (IPADS) was developed at NAVPAY which is an integrated application software capable of facilitating entire range of functions of NAVPAY.
- DMS:- Document Management System (DMS) is an integral part of IPADS. NAVPAY is flooded with a large volume of documents received across the navy. Hence, DMS facilitates ease of recording, storage and retrieval, and cross-linkage of every document.
- Electronic Audit:- Every function of NAVPAY is subject to audit. The audit agencies conduct online audit of authorisation slips.


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Tasty 2011 Fan Fest Morsels to Whet Your Rays Appetite
By now most of the Tampa Bay Rays Republic members have either read the MLB.com blog post by fellow MLBlogs.com's own Bill Chastain giving you a rough outline of some of the great events planned for the Rays 2011 Fan Fest. Or possibly you have heard a few more fantastic developments through the Rays "Sunshine Telegraph" on other Fan Fest revelations being thrown out into the Rays-verse.It has made more than a few of us hungry for baseball, and ready to consume some more Rays memories, but it is about to get even better. I got a few more really tasty morsels I have digested over the last few days, and want to divulge today hoping it will give the Tampa Bay community even more reasons for all baseball fans to flock to the Trop on February 19,2011 and touch and experience Tropicana Field's NEW Astroturf II surface.
But that is just a small tapas plate of the new revelations currently getting me salivating and eager to be pressing my nose to the Trop's Gate 1 window waiting for the Fan Hosts to throw open the doors. I know I will not be able to experience this one event, but the kid's press conference with a actual Rays player still sounds like the thing of dreams to me. What I would give to be under 14 again and be able to ask any one of the Rays players a serious question about the game.
Just when you thought the Rays had outdone themselves in their 2010 Fan Fest, they go all "Raiders of the Lost Rays Gear" and provide a glimpse back into the Rays early past with a Rays Baseball Foundation Yard Sale that will showcase past items from as far back as the 1998 First Season. All proceeds of this Yard Sale will go to help organizations throughout Tampa Bay. Believe me, the items that have already been told to me have both my wallet and my mind excited and anxious for the doors to swing open.
One of the items I am most excited is a chance to purchase an actual MLB authenticated piece of the Rays Clubhouse carpet that has seen champagne spilled upon it more than a few times. And if that doesn't get your pocketbook spinning a bit, how about possibly purchasing your own slice of fabric from the Trop's old FieldTurf surface for your very own. Think about that package for a moment, you can get two pieces of Rays history, both authenticated by MLB, and you get to help those in need in the Tampa Bay community. Definitely sounds like a "win-win" situation to me.The Yard Sale will also include the usual fare of game used equipment and jerseys. And the greatest thing about the 2011 Rays Fan Fest is that it is still FREE to enter and take in the magic, with only a few events possibly costing you anything out of your pocket. I will get more into this in the coming week as to the events that will cost you some money at Fan fest, but remember again, all proceeds will benefit the Rays Baseball Foundation.
The Rays have even added in the last 24 hours the incentive that a portion of the overall proceeds from Fan Fest will also go to the families of two recently deceased St. Petersburg police officers. Great to see the Rays reach out with a kind hand to help a pair of families in need right now.
There will be the always popular events like the complimentary Clubhouse Tour, and the Metro PCS "Call a Friend " table with a revolving array of Rays players returning this season. A great addition to the Fan Fest fanatic pace is a unique reading section where an actual Rays player will spend time and read with the kids.
This is extra exciting to me especially since Dirk Hayhurst was signed by the team . We could have a live rendition of the "Legend of the Garfoose". Got my fingers crossed that we also might be able to hear JP Howell or his wife Heather Hennessy-Howell possibly reading the children's journey, "The Adventures of Dangles". This one section of Fan Fest could turn into a virtual Home Run by the Rays promotional department with a overcrowded area filled with kids of all ages listening into the stories. (Heck, I might try and sneak within hearing distance).
These are just a few reasons to red-circle the date of Saturday, February 19th on your calendars or set a vocal cell phone alert to be in line at 10 am when the Tropicana Field doors open on that date. Possible treasures from the first Rays season, hearing a Rays player read with or to your child, and maybe having someone like Evan Longoria call your boss or best friend.
This is one of those early moments of the season when finally you can breath and know that Spring is just around the corner and the sound of a bat on the ball is near. This season you can not only make Rays memories during Fan Fest with autographs, possibly get a high-5 from a Rays player as you cross Home Plate or take home a piece of Rays history for yourself.
So far the 2011 Rays Fan Fest is shaping up to be one of the most exciting in the team's short history. Daily I am getting more and more tidbits of Fan Fest information and it just seems to escalate the excitement and the push for mid-February to get here faster.
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It really sounds like the Rays organization puts a lot of thought into connecting with the fans and this sounds like another great event. I am sure you will have a blast. I am envious, actually. The Angels haven't had a non-All Star Games related fan fest in years.
– Kristen
The Rays are a youth-based franchise from their owner down to the interns. Because of that, new great ideas get popped around by Mark Fernandez, Brian Killingsworth and a cast of thousands.
From their Carlos Pena toothbrush holder ( # 1 MLB Promo in 2010), to the limited edition James Shields-inspired back T-shirt, this Promotions Department is always thinking inside, outside and around the box for new clever ideas…And we in the Rays Republic salute them!
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Thanks for stopping by my blog. I kinda hope that Sweeney considers coming to Spring Training with the Phillies. From what I hear he's a great clubhouse guy. I don't really know what team is going to be able to offer him more of a chance to play, and win then the Phillies.
How's the weather down there? I'm looking forward to going down to Tampa in March for Spring Training. I went last year and had a blast.
The weather during Spring Training can be tricky. But Bright House Field where the Phillies play in Clearwater,Florida is one of the best parks in the Tampa Bay area. It can be chilly until the Sun gets high into the Florida sky, then you sweat a bit.
Still it is a great ballpark in a stellar community, but do not forget to have a brew at the Tilted Kilt, or breakfast at Lennies (Firehouse Omelette).
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My buddies and I are in the process of planning out spring training spring break trip. First time I've ever been down there but Bradenton is a must. We want to hit as many teams as we can in the span of 5 days. If you can help me with directions or the best route to take or what not I would appreciate it immensely. I will try to tweet @ you or something closer to when we are set on hitting what specific places!
And what is FanFest without Rays Renegade? Looks like fun, man. Hope it is!
The Cubs have a Fan Weekend every winter also. I've never been and every year I tell myself I should go. I've already missed this years event but just reading your post makes me bummed that I missed it again. Next Year!
Have fun at RaysFest!
I will get you any information I can about the locales and the places to avoid….That is the easy part.
Within an hours drive of Bradenton is the Rays, Red Sox, Orioles, Phillies and even Yankees Spring ballparks…a slight distance more is the BlueJays (but within a few miles of the Phillies).
Tons of great food, attractions and maybe even a little baeball thrown in for good measures. I will do what I can, and hope it makes the trip not only a fantastic memory, but the beginning of a yearly pilgrimage.
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You hit the nail on the head.
It is one of the only MLB team sponsored events I know of that doesn't have an admission or ticket needed. Just get in the car, drive and come enjoy the fun.
Plus the chance to get autographs for children under 14 is FREE.
But the Rays have always been open to the fact that kids are the next generation of ticket buyers and fans, so they focus long and hard with great events like Rays Rookies, Kid's autograph Sundays, Park and Recreation Days during the Summer and of course, the Rays Reading series.
I just wish I could stay forever 14 and get the great promotions given out every Sunday home game.
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It is a great opportunity for you to get to know some of the people who follow and work supporting the Cubs.
So much of this "inside info" I get is from people who I have either become game day friends with, or have known as a fan since 1998.
Without them, a lot of what I do would be so boring and contrite….and I would not be near the top of the pile. Hopefully they know I respect and honor their pieces of knowledge and advice, which in turns makes this a more informed piece of words scrambled via the electronic means.
You should make the Cubs Fan Weekend pilgrimage yearly….just like a holiday event.
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Spanning the 1950s to the 70s, the Slab Boys trilogy – The Slab Boys, Cuttin' a Rug and Still Life – capture the rebellious mood of a post-war generation growing up to a backdrop of James Dean, Elvis, sharp-suited glamour, hope and despair.
John Byrne takes the slab room he worked in and makes it pure theatre: the scams, the dreams, the aloof but gorgeous girl, the despair of life back home, the obligatory tormenting of the office 'weed', and the mandatory boy chat and pranks all help the day to pass. Phil and Spanky explode onto the stage in a classic vaudeville double-act.
Now considered one of Scotland's defining literary works of the twentieth century, the Slab Boys trilogy premiered at the Traverse back in the late 1970s and early 80s taking Scotland, then Britain, and then Broadway by storm. Byrne returned to these characters thirty years later in Nova Scotia.


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5 Ways to Beat Construction in Montana
The saying goes that there are only two seasons in Montana – winter and construction. We know it's not winter thanks to the recent 90 degree weather we've been baking in, so that would mean that construction season is upon us. Here are some ways I've found to survive during construction season in Montana.
Look in the car next to you or behind you. I guarantee they are as bored as you are, so they are probably singing along with the radio. See if you can figure out what song they are singing.
There is never any shortage of road kill of one kind or another along Montana's roadways. You could kill a little time by using your jumper cables to try to resuscitate one of these creatures.
There is the old stand-by of pretending to pick your nose and eat it and see if anyone notices. You may have to do it a few times before someone does, but I'm sure the reaction you get will be worth the time spent.
You could always imagine you are in a line of cars waiting to run over whatever political candidate you can't stand. Which, if you're like me, then you're sick of all the ads and mudslinging, and you hope they are all going to get run over.
Reload. This really applies to Montanans, as hunting season for one thing or another is always just around the corner. Or, it could just mean that you'd love to take the construction workers hostage and let everyone through, so you can all get out of the heat and get to where you need to be.
I hope this list will help you do something besides just cuss and make obscene gestures the next time you're stuck in traffic.
Joy Larson is a mother of four boys, graduate of The University of Montana, animal lover and writer.


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The Chevrolet Nationals (formerly the All GM Nationals) will be June 23-25, 2017.
There were a lot of conversations over the year about doing an H-Body meet at this event. The Cosworth Vega folks (CVOA) are having their round up at this event in 2017 so it would be great to get as many H-Bodies to the show as possible. Even though they changed the name from GM Nationals to Chevrolet Nationals all GM makes are welcome.
This year is also the 40th anniversary of the Monza Mirage! Hopefully, we will have a number of Monza Mirages in attendance plus we are working to get the Heritage Collection Monza Mirage to also attend.
If you are planning to go and bring your car, be sure to register on the Carlisle Events page and choose the "Cosworth Vega Owners Association" as your club. This will allow all of the H-Bodies to get grouped together I have been told.
Yell out if you're planning to attend. It is in Carlisle, PA near Harrisburg, PA.
Register a vehicle for the 2017 Chevrolet Nationals Showfield. To qualify for the 10% Gate-N-Go pre-registration discount and have your entry window sticker mailed to you, please pre-register prior to May 15th, 2017 at midnight EST. Discount is applied at checkout. Registration includes weekend admission for two people. After registering, a receipt will be emailed to you - please bring this receipt to the event. If you belong to a club, enter the full club name. Please do not abbreviate the club name.
Be sure to pick the "Cosworth Vega Owners Assoc." for the club affiliation so all the H-Body cars can be grouped together.
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The Lily Pond is a middle grade story, book two of an award-winning quartet by Annika Thor, about two young Jewish sisters who leave their parents in Vienna to become refugees in Sweden. It's a very sweet account of a thirteen-year-old's struggle to hold on to her academic dreams, navigate a first love, adjust to a new city and a new school, deal with growing prejudice in her safe haven and believe that her parents will survive their ordeal in Nazi-occupied Austria.
Stephie Steiner looks forward to school on the mainland after graduating from the lower school on the fishing island where she and her sister live with two different foster families. She's a scholarship student, living with a wealthy family who sometimes use her as a maid. And she's in love with the family's son, who takes her to concerts, walks the family dog with her, eats his meals with her in the kitchen and never suspects that the girl he thinks of as a little sister imagines he will wait for her to grow up. Thor is wonderfully descriptive about life on the rough island where Stephie's foster family lives and the relative sophistication of life in the city.
The book imparts a strong sense of the conditions of the time, even though the translation from the Swedish uses simple declarative sentences that tell the story as much as show it. You really don't mind the style as events speed up and Stephie creates some complications she can't control and encounters some grown-ups who are dangerously flawed human beings. What happens feels absolutely true and what shadows Stephie's adventures is absolutely true and makes this an inevitably sad book. Letters from her parents reveal the increasingly dire conditions in Vienna and a basic knowledge of history points to a looming tragedy.
This is a story to share with a thoughtful young reader and my recommendation is to be available for plenty of conversation. It's a poignant account, not because Stephanie Steiner's innocent heart is at serious risk and not because anti-Semitism puts her efforts in school at risk. It is a difficult story because Stephie's parents are trapped in Vienna and might end up in Dachau, Mauthausen or Auschwitz. The grim reality of what ultimately befell Jews who could not get out of Vienna is not specifically referred to in this book, though, so The Lily Pond does provide a glimpse of history through the moving story of a young teen for whom there is still hope.
The Lily Pond Annika Thor | Delacorte Press 2011


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(The Root) — Two sisters from the same African nation winning Rhodes scholarships — what are the odds? For the Mohamed family of Zimbabwe, the lightning of international recognition has struck twice in less than a decade. In 2004, Shazrene Mohamed, then a Harvard astrophysics student, won the prestigious honor. And on Tuesday, the Rhodes Fund, which administers the scholarships, announced that Shazrene's sister, Naseemah, had won a 2013 Rhodes Scholarship — the only "sister act" in the 109-year history of what may be the most renowned international graduate scholarship program in the world.
Naseemah, who at 23 is eight years younger than Shazrene, said she felt "humbled and grateful" as a Rhodes recipient, and thankful to big sister (now an astrophysicist at the South African Astronomical Observatory in Cape Town, South Africa), with whom competition was apparently never an issue in childhood. "We were never rivals growing up, since we went to different primary schools," Naseemah told The Root on Friday via email from Zimbabwe. "However, before being sponsored to attend high school in the U.S., I attended my sister's ex-high school, where she was deputy head girl and a straight A-plus student, before attending Harvard University.
"Growing up, my sister was actually my role model. She knew she wanted to be an astronaut at the age of 12, and I distinctly remember her teaching me about the solar system when I was about 5 or 6. Shaz never, ever told me that I was too young to understand anything. She always explained everything to me (that was when I was willing to listen!)."
Born and raised in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, Naseemah left that country in 2004 to attend Portsmouth Abbey High School, in Portsmouth, R.I. "Before attending Portsmouth High School, I was above average, but I was not focused enough to be at the top of my class," she said. On the strength of her skills at reading poetry, she was picked to enter a debate competition in Zimbabwe.
"To my surprise I was one of four students selected to represent Zimbabwe at the International Debate Exchange Program in the United States. By that time my sister Shazrene was studying at Harvard. When her Harvard host family heard about me representing my country, they thought I had potential, and they offered to sponsor me to attend Portsmouth Abbey School. They paid for everything, from my ticket to my school fees to my bedding. When I recognized the incredible opportunity I had gotten, I promised to do my very best, not only for myself, but for my family, and for my country."
For a 15-year-old girl from Zimbabwe, the Portsmouth experience was a major transition. "I had a huge sense of culture shock, especially since I was one of two African students in a wealthy preparatory boarding school," she said. "The way that I coped was by getting involved in almost every extracurricular activity offered by the school, so by the end of the day, I was too tired to feel homesick. I also coped at Portsmouth Abbey because of a few amazing teachers who supported me all through high school."
As a Harvard student, she was also the president of the African Students Association, co-directed the Pan African Drum and Dance Ensemble and made time for personal pursuits like ice skating and poetry recitals.
Naseemah said after the University of Oxford in England, where all Rhodes scholars study, her focus will be on improving education in her home country of 12.6 million people, a nation with a median age of under 19 years old.
"I would ideally like to work with an international education institution to get exposed to different education systems around the world, as well as the technical work that organizations such as UNESCO [United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization] or the OECD [Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development] carry out. I would really like my work to focus on developing nations, including Zimbabwe and other African countries."
It's a desire borne of her own experience. "Having at one stage not been a high achiever, I empathize with students who haven't discovered their full potential," she said. "Winning the Rhodes for me is a testimony of the power of education opportunities in making the dreams one thought were never possible come true."
The scholarships were established in 1903 under terms of the will of British philanthropist Cecil Rhodes. Naseemah is one of 15 black Rhodes scholars for 2013; fellow Zimbabwean Dalumuzi Mhlanga is also a 2013 Scholar. Some 7,000 Rhodes scholars have made their mark in various endeavors in public life, including Newark Mayor Cory Booker, former President Bill Clinton and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice.
Michael E. Ross is a regular contributor to The Root and the author of American Bandwidth, on the Obama campaign and presidency. He blogs on national affairs at Short Sharp Shock.


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Holiday baking has pretty much been non-stop and the sad news is I still need to do FIVE more NEW recipes before the end of the year! I believe it is crunch time and at the moment I am feeling pretty cooked out after baking for three days and making Christmas dinner last night!
|Brown Sugar Pavlova w/Custard Cream & Berries
One of my favorite recipes of the season has been my very own creation and I am calling it 'Christmas Rocky Road', if you feel like making it here is the recipe to enjoy:
Christmas Rocky Road
2 cups dark chocolate chips or chocolate pieces
1 cup milk chocolate chips or pieces
1 tablespoon of butter
1 tablespoon of butter
8 candy canes crushed
10 chocolate cookies (biscuits) crumbled
3 cups marshmallows (mini or large ones cut up)
Place a heatproof bowl over boiling water and place chocolate and butter in the bowl. Stir once the chocolate has started to melt until completely smooth and then remove from heat. Stir in the rest of the ingredients and spread into a baking dish. I sprinkled extra crushed candy cane on top. Place in the refrigerator to cool, once hardened cut into slices. Enjoy.
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Portions of an Armor of Maximilian I of Austria, for use in the German joust of peace (Gestech)
Armor made by Lorenz Helmschmid, German (active Augsburg), c. 1445 - 1516
Made in Augsburg, Germany, Europe
c. 1494Medium:
Steel; brass; leatherDimensions:
Height: 26 3/8 inches (67 cm) Weight (Helm, breast and back plates, both lance-rests, and all screws): 43.9 lb. (19935g) Width (helm): 13 inches (33 cm) Waist: 34 1/4 inches (87 cm)Curatorial Department:
European Decorative Arts and Sculpture
* Gallery 347, Arms and Armor, third floor (Kretzschmar von Kienbusch Galleries)Accession Number:
1930-63-1a--tCredit Line:
Purchased with Museum funds, 1930
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This armor was part of a set of similar suits commissioned by Maximilian I (Holy Roman Emperor from 1508 to 1519) from two famous armorers, the brothers Lorenz and Jörg Helmschmid. The armors were used during the jousts held at Innsbruck, Austria, to celebrate Maximilian's marriage on March 16, 1494, to Bianca Maria Sforza (1472-1510).
Quite popular in German-speaking territories, the Gestech was a form of joust in which two opponents on horse-back used blunted lances to dismount each other from their saddles or to strike a targe (small shield) carried over the chest and left shoulder. The armor used for the Gestech thus included a thick helm sturdily secured onto the breast and back plates and a lance rest at the front and the back to support the weight of the wooden lances.
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The 3 Things You Must Do to Succeed in Online Business
Note: this is the first post leading up to the launch of my new Affiliate Marketing for Beginners course. Read on for details of the launch coming next Tuesday.
My journey from wandering bum on a sabbatical to where I am today has taken lots of twists and turns and frankly has taken longer than I initially planned.
Shortly after starting Free Pursuits, I stumbled on to the whole location independent and lifestyle design movements and happily went along for the ride. Those two overlapping groups gave me a lot in the inspiration department. They helped me construct a vision of what I wanted my life to look like.
I knew right away that I wanted to build a location independent lifestyle business, that I wanted to be able to live and work where and when I felt like it. I knew that I wanted to be able to work on projects that fulfilled me and helped people at the same time.
The problem was, in the beginning I didn't pay enough attention to doing the things that really mattered to achieve those goals. Now that has changed, and I don't plan on looking back.
When you start a journey like this, to radically transform your lifestyle and become an independent small business owner (solopreneur, if you will), it's easy to get lost. There is so much information and mis-information out there about what's possible and how you should proceed that it's easy to get caught in analysis paralysis or to bounce from possibility to possibility without really making much progress or finishing anything.
The Ferriss to Guillebeau Ratio
Books like the 4-Hour Workweek are great for inspiration, but honestly it can make it all sound just a little too easy. You have to understand that 4-hour workweeks aren't possible until you've paid your dues and found a repeatable way for you to earn a living.
I guess if I were advising someone starting out today, I would tell you to listen to a little less Tim Ferriss and a little more Chris Guillebeau. Then mix in some Third Tribe. Dreaming is important, but you can't afford to gloss over the details.
Thankfully, I persevered and have a very understanding spouse who has been there to support me along the way. Of course, living in Mexico for 9 of the last 18 months has been a great motivator (if a little distracting at the same time). That support, perseverance and motivation has finally given way to doing something I love and nearly supporting us from it. Hopefully this upcoming product launch will push me over the edge ;)
Figuring Out What it Takes
As I've been putting together this new course on affiliate marketing over the past few months, I've reflected a lot on what has led to my breakthrough, and the common traits other people who are succeeding in online business share.
What I've noticed might surprise you. It's not about getting lucky, or being featured by some a-list blogger or exploiting a loophole or short-term opportunity.
Succeeding online has little to do with external factors. Sure, luck can make things happen faster, but luck can't do everything. Most of what determines whether you'll succeed or fail is actually internal. It's a struggle you have to fight against yourself.
In the end, I've narrowed it down to three undeniable things you must do to succeed in online business. Many other things are important (please share in the comments), but these to me are at the most important:
- Suspend Disbelief
- Choose a Method and Stick With It
- Actually "Ship" Something
We live in a very cynical world. Think about your typical reaction to hearing about something that you didn't know was possible. You're probably tempted to dismiss those new things as luck or hype or by thinking something might have been possible in the past, but isn't now.
That's what I long thought about affiliate marketing. It seemed like a vague scam, or something that people were able to do back when the search engines were more lenient.
Fast forward about 9-12 months, and I'm now making a respectable sum every month from affiliate marketing. It isn't my biggest income source, but it's enough to pay my rent in San Francisco.
What did it take to get here? First I had to suspend my disbelief long enough to really look at things. Cynicism isn't a useful mindset. It actually keeps us from exploring and finding out for ourselves.
To succeed in online business, you have to suspend disbelief. You have to let yourself believe that what you want to achieve is possible. You have to believe that what other people say might actually be the truth. At least what some people say. Just because someone has something to sell doesn't mean he or she isn't legitimately trying to help you.
The truth is, there are nearly unlimited paths you can take to achieve your online business goals. It's tempting to research every potential option. And once you finally commit to learning something fully, it's tempting to jump onto the next "shiny new thing" and bail on what you started.
Sound familiar? I know that's what I did for far too long. Look at me here, now, a week from releasing my first product through this blog that I started 15 months ago. What took so long? It was that internal struggle I mentioned earlier. My own fears, insecurities, disbelief and short attention span have all done their part in keeping me from getting where I want to be.
Maybe you've experienced what I'm talking about.
To get where you want to go, you have to pick something and run with it. You have to give a method or business idea or process enough of a chance to prove itself out. If you know a system has worked for lots of other people, put faith in that fact and keep yourself from getting distracted until you've learned and applied the entire system.
Finally, and maybe most importantly, you can't expect to succeed in online business unless you have something for sale. You have to provide some value people can pay you money for.
That may sound simple or obvious, but so many of us get caught up in blogging and networking and talking about "revenue models" or technologies that we forget the most important part of business.
You have to "ship" a product (or a service or sell someone else's product). Your business has to have a reason and mechanism for your customers to pay for something, either directly or indirectly.
Until you have that, you're not really a business. Period.
Coming Tuesday, June 22nd, The Launch of my New Affiliate Marketing for Beginners Course
After suspending disbelief and choosing a method and sticking with it, I'm finally ready to "ship" a product! If you've been curious about affiliate marketing, I hope you'll see if this course is right for you. It will explain, step-by-step how to build a web-based business around affiliate marketing.
I'm launching the course on Tuesday, June 22nd, starting at 9am PDT. The course will only be for sale initially for 24 hours, and here's why.
Being my first course (and a in-depth one), I want to start with a small and manageable group of initial members. The course format is a member's only website. I want to let in a limited number of people who can help me refine the materials by providing feedback. I'll reopen the course at some point to a wider audience after refining it.
In exchange for your early participation in the course, and your valuable feedback, I'll be releasing the course next Tuesday at a steeply discounted price for this first group. Subsequent members will have to pay full price.
If all of this interests you, sign up to be notified when the course is released. If you sign up for this list, I'll even throw in an additional discount on launch day as thanks.
Also, if you liked this article, I would really appreciate if you shared it with someone who might also get value from it. Thanks for reading.
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When I saw Pulp Fiction, I was 14. It was the coolest thing I had seen in my entire life.
Since that day, I've seen the move probably a dozen times. Each time, I have more of an appreciation for the craft behind it. And so I loved this video essay, which went up at Press Play over the weekend. Written and edited by Peter Labuza and Matt Zoller Seitz, it takes a look at how the movie is cool, how Quentin Tarantino builds up his own characters' mythology before challenging and tearing them down. Awesome.
This sort of makes me want to do a Tarantino marathon—it's been far too long, for example, since I last saw Jackie Brown.
Are you a fan of Tarantino's work? Are you looking forward to his new one? Do you think there's a point at which he started making bad movies? Do you think he'll ever win Best Director or Best Picture?
Feel free to discuss Tarantino, or anything else, here or over in the Talk Amongst Yourselves forum. Have good chatting, and don't forget what Marcellus Wallace looks like.
Video Essay: On the Q.T.: Chapter 2: Pulp Fiction (The Cool) [Press Play]


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Tonight Phil is joined by The Sports Goons Jameyan Smith and the topics are Bobby Valentine, Melky Cabrera, Michael Kaye, a rundown of the standings in the National and American Leagues, the Dwight Howard trade and why Phil believes the New York Knicks will win 55 games in 2013 good enough for a fourth seed in the Eastern Conference.
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Officers from multiple agencies are involved in an intense manhunt for an armed, dangerous fugitive in the McCollum, Perkins and Cannafax Rd. area of Lamar County near the Pike line.
UPDATE: At 1:30 p.m. Sheriff Brad White reported Owens was still at large. A command post has been set up at the go kart raceway on Highway 36 West. White said Owens' MO is stealing vehicles to flee. Residents in the area should make sure their cars are locked and any missing vehicles should be reported by calling 911 immediately.
UPDATE 2: At 4 p.m. Sheriff White said Owens is still thought to be in the original perimeter but a second perimeter has been established. White also gave more details of attempt to arrest Owens in Woodstock last night.
Officers from several agencies are searching for Billy Lee Owens along McCollum Road and Cannafax Road in Lamar County. He is believed to be armed and dangerous. [Photo by Rachel McDaniel]
Search for 'dangerous' felon underway here
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Obama Backs Gay Marriage, Stepping Into Charged Issue
Editorial: Obama's Moment
Charles M. Blow: Liberty and Justice for All
Romney Reaffirms Gay Marriage Opposition
Fannie Mae Posts Profit; Seeks No Aid
Nicholas Katzenbach, 90, Dies; Policy Maker at '60s Turning Points
Thompson Quits Authority to Focus on Bid for Mayor
Senator Who Backed Gay Unions Won't Run
2 Opinions on Stop-and-Frisk Report
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Obama, North Carolina at odds on gay marriage: Will it cost him the state? (+video)
What does Mitt Romney's new ad say about his strategy? (+video)
In Richard Lugar defeat, a tea party road map for revamping Washington?
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President Obama's backing fuels gay activists looking to pass same-sex law in N.J.
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Ex-Roselle mayor charged with fraud gets trial date
In closing arguments, ex-Newark police officer is painted as both a faithful and corrupt cop
Study: One-third of N.J. emergency room visitors aren't sick enough to be there
Leading N.J. donor to Sen. Menendez pleads guilty to making nearly $100K in illegal contributions
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Ex-MARTA dispatcher alleges bias
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Battle brews over Don Barden's estate
Government accuses Kwame Kilpatrick of accepting lavish gifts from pension investment adviser
Longtime Wayne Co. official to quit, run for Detroit council
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Obama's move brings uncertain fallout
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Democrats optimistic about chances of holding on to Senate majority
Postal Service drops closures for shorter hours
Lanier, D.C. police chief, staying on job
D.C. nonprofit head aiding Thomas probe
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Emanuel defends pension proposal to city workers
State report slams college savings program
Council passes business license overhaul
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Study looks at economic mobility state by state
U.S. government plans to sue Arizona sheriff
Gallup: 1 in 3 young Americans underemployed
Ex-Detroit mayor faces charges in alleged pension scam
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Cleveland schools will bus more students next year while saving money
Federal prosecutors subpoena Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority's parking leases with Cleveland Browns
New Ohio pension reform bills a longshot at ending stalemate in legislature
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You hate WoW Fishing?
I hate WoW Fishing!
You love WoW Fish Feasts!
I love WoW Fish Feasts!
So, JUST FISH FFS!
There… I said it.
Oh, here's a surprise, I have more to say…
I remember back when I was looking up the Seafood Magnifique Feast recipe, I thought to myself
Not much different from a Fish feast… I made tons of those. Not really for my use of course, rather for anyone in BGs or Raid groups I was in.
I fished, therefore I fed.
So… where do I need to buy the recipe from...
Holy Taurenpats Gnomeman!
But I thought to myself… that wont take all that long, I mean, I'm a part of a guild now right…
At the time we had caught 2,000 fish towards the 10,000
Meh, only 8,000 fish I thought… how long can that take, especially as we are currently raiding on the trailer trash of raid feasts.
Just the other day I looked…
We were 3,400 fish shy of the achievement…
I made that 3,200 fish shy of the achievement.
Then I made a post in our guild forums… now I am making a post here.
And no, before you start wondering, this isn't a bitch against my guild.. they are a lovely bunch of people who would rather play the game than fish… they would rather drag their fingernails across a black board… some of them would prefer to pursue Archeology… mmmm whatever…
No really, this isn't about the guild, it is more about those long drawn out achievements that people just don't bother with.
I promised you yesterday I wouldn't bore you with tales from long ago when I hunted down my Loremaster achievement, and I promise I wont do it again today. What I will do, is tell you the secret of my success.
Come closer…
closer yet…
nearly, just a little bit more…
Whoops, sorry about the volume control… 😉
Anyway, this is more or less what I said in my guild forum. (No for the last time, this is not a bitch against my guild.. I can't bitch about them, they even accept Locks with class-identity crises, not to mention Gnomes that well are completely bloody awesome).
Seafood Magnifique Feast in 7 days?
I was doing a patch of fishing today and we only need another 3200 fish from pools.
I know this sounds a lot, especially to the fishing phobic, but it really isn't that much.
- 1 person catching 10 per day would take 320 days
- 10 people catching 10 per day would take 32 days – a month
- 10 people catching 20 per day would take 16 days – a fortnight
- 20 people catching 20 per day would take 8 days – a week.
Any combination of the 20×20 would get us there and there is a good chance that if someone has caught 20, they would catch a few more.
I know people hate fishing, but think of it like this…
Everyone in the guild wants the better buff food, but…
Only level 525 fishermen are going to be able to catch the fish actually required for the feasts once we have the recipe.
So at this point it is incumbent on those that will catch the fish, to complete the achievement, to catch the fish to make the feasts, to feed not themselves, but everyone else.
I know we can't wait for our Herber/Alchemist to finish the flask achievement, but this is something that is limited to the Herbers/Alchemists of the guild.
Fishing is for noobs
But not with fishing, anyone can do it… anyone.
All you need is level 1 fishing, a fishing pole costing silver and a fishing pool.
Queuing for a random… that 30 minute queue will catch you at least 20 fish!
Maybe have a guild fishing event.
1 hour of fishing, person with the most pool-caught stuff gets a date with the Guildmaster…
So yeah.. if your guild isn't getting that feast fast enough, then maybe encourage a bit of nude fishing…. err noob fishing.
Maybe make it a requirement for raiding… hand over 40 fish or no raid invite.
Hand over 1,000 fish and get a free autographed Gnomeaggedon T-Shirt (No these don't exist… that would just be vain… so someone please make one and send it to me ok?)
Gnomer and Out!
PS: FUSH = Fish, well if you are from New Zealand anyway, which contrary to Jong's insistence, I am not, but I just felt like writing fush… ok?
PPS: I think every existing guild member would support a complete stranger who joined the guild, organized a fishing competition, won the event and took the guild master on a date… mind you we would want some embarrassing photos in return 😉
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Diageo Plc, the world's biggest spirits maker, will acquire a controlling 53.4 stake in Vijay Mallya-promoted United Spirits for Rs 11,166 crore (nearly $2 billion), the companies announced in a joint statement today after market hours. Mr Mallya will continue in his current role as chairman of United Spirits.
The purchase, which concludes an on-again, off-again courtship that began in 2008, would be the biggest inbound Indian merger and acquisition (M&A) deal since British oil firm Cairn Energy Plc sold a majority stake in its Indian business to Vedanta Resources Plc last year.
The deal also comes amid increased brewery M&A activity in the Asia-Pacific region. Heineken NV won full control of the maker of Tiger beer in a S$7.9 billion (Rs 35,331 crore) deal in September. That was preceded by SABMiller Plc's A$11.5 billion (Rs 65,418 crore) acquisition of Foster's in December last year.
"(I am) happy that the dream has come true…United Spirits will receive a large cash infusion. It will deleverage itself via the cash received and get Rs 3,300 cr via the deal, and UB Holdings will get Rs 2,400 crore via the deal, Mr Mallya told NDTV, adding: "Have not sold jewellery, have only embellished them." He was referring to media reports earlier that Mr Mallya may have to sell his prized assets to save the troubled Kingfisher Airlines.
Diageo will acquire a 27.4 per cent stake in United Spirits for Rs 5,725.4 crore from Mr Mallya-promoted UB Holdings and through preferential share issues. After this, Diageo will launch the mandatory buyback offer to acquire an additional 26 per cent stake.
The UK-based company will acquire a 19.3 per cent interest in United Spirits at a price of Rs 1,440 per share from UB Holdings and a number of other entities related to the UB Group. Following the disposal, the UBHL group will continue to hold 14.9 per cent of the current share capital of United Spirits, the company said in a statement.
Diageo will also seek approval for a preferential allotment at Rs 1,440 per share of new shares amounting to 10 per cent of the post-issue enlarged share capital of United Spirits.
Once Diageo has acquired the 27.4 per cent stake, it will launch the mandatory offer at Rs 1,440 per share. Post the mandatory offer, Diageo will hold 53.4 per cent of the enlarged share capital of United Spirits at an aggregate cost of Rs 11,166.5 crore.
"This represents a 20 times multiple of United Spirits EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, or a measure of the company's operating cash flow) for the year ended March 31, 2012 and the transaction would be EPS (earnings per share) accretive in year 2 and economic profit positive in year 6 assuming a 12 per cent WACC (weighted average cost of capital)," the statement said.
Shares of USL traded with modest gains after hitting their highest level in 52 weeks in early trade on Friday. The stock closed up 1.22 per cent at Rs 1,359.70 on the Bombay Stock Exchange. Shares in Mallya-controlled companies rose after Reuters reported the deal terms earlier on Friday. Kingfisher gained 4.7 per cent, while United Spirit ended 1.3 per cent higher and United Breweries Holdings Ltd rose 3.3 per cent. By contrast, the benchmark Sensex closed nearly 1 per cent lower.
Shares in Diageo were up 0.5 per cent in London trading.
United Spirits is expected to deleverage itself using the cash (Rs 3,300 crore received via the deal), Mr Mallya said. UB Holdings will get Rs 2,400 crore from the stake sale.
The deal is subject to regulatory approval, but Mr Mallya said it should go through since the government of India is keen on foreign direct investment.
The companies are also examining the possibility of extending the joint venture to other emerging markets, Mr Mallya said, and will seek to launch as many United Spirits brands in these markets as possible.
A Diageo official called the deal a strategic move to transform the company's position in India. The deal will be good for the shareholders of both companies he said, adding that United Spirits has tremendous assets. The companies have not taken any decisions on the management yet and are focusing on getting the transaction done, he added.
They will approach regulatory authorities after today.
Varun Lochab of Religare Capital markets told NDTV earlier that the debt level in United Spirits, which stood at $1.6 billion (Rs 8,718.8 crore) at the end of June, is likely to come down post the acquisition.
United Spirits is India's largest liquor company with a market value of $3.2 billion (Rs 17,437 crore).
Diageo, the world's largest spirits company, is the maker of Johnnie Walker whisky, Guinness beer and Smirnoff vodka, among others.
The deal will ramp up Diageo's presence in India, the world's largest whisky market. The company is expanding into fast-growing emerging markets with recent acquisitions in Brazil, China and Turkey and expects half of its turnover to come from these markets by 2015 compared to nearly 40 per cent currently.
The deal could also likely free up funds to revive the grounded Kingfisher Airlines.
"We have multiple business and each business operates independent of each other, there is no cross contamination with each other. I have done what is best for the beer business, now I have done what is better for the spirits business. Similarly, I will do what is best needed for the Kingfisher Airlines at the appropriate time," Mr Mallya told NDTV today.
Some analysts, however, said the deal may not be enough to revive Kingfisher Airlines. The Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation has said a fully funded turnaround for Kingfisher would cost at least $1 billion.
"At this moment, Kingfisher may be a difficult cause to revive. As other UB Group companies are also quite overleveraged, I think they will prioritize restructuring other group companies ahead of Kingfisher," Jagannadham Thunuguntla, head of research at SMC Investments and Advisors Ltd in New Delhi, said.
Shares in United Spirits have nearly tripled this year, with much of the gains coming in the past four months amid market talk about a possible deal with Diageo.
Mr Mallya has been scrambling to raise funds for the ailing carrier for nearly a year now. The airline has struggled to pay its staff for most of the year and has not flown for more than a month because of protests and safety concerns. On Thursday, it announced a record loss of Rs 754 crore for the second quarter, but said that a recovery plan was in the works. Auditors to the airline flagged concern over the financials and said the carrier's second-quarter net loss would have been much higher, at about Rs 1,032 crore, had it followed "generally accepted accounting standards" for certain income and expenses.
Kingfisher has about Rs 8,000 crore of debt. Its lenders have been putting pressure on Mr Mallya to bring in capital. Analysts have said that lenders cannot force Mr Mallya to infuse funds into Kingfisher Airlines from the Diageo-USL deal. In his meeting with lenders in September 2012, Mr Mallya had categorically said he would not use any proceeds from a stake sale in USL to fund operations at Kingfisher.
In late October, Mr Mallya reiterated his stand. "I am not so sure that I lack commercial acumen to the extent that I would sell a hugely thriving, successful business to take the cash and put it into an airline in an environment such as India," he said at the Indian Grand Prix at the Buddh International Circuit south of New Delhi. "My group is sufficiently cash-generative to fund the airline as we have done. We have put almost 150 million pounds (Rs 1,306 crore) since April 2012 into the airline. But that has not meant that I have had to sell my family silver to fund the airline."
"Some of the Mallya group companies have been in turbulence for some time. This is his final opportunity to revive the fortune of the group," Mr. Thunuguntla said.
With inputs from Reuters


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If you thought that Fallout: New Vegas unboxing was sexy, then you've not seen anything yet. A triumph of Call of Duty-themed manscaping awaits!
Felix sends us this dude's second unboxing video, and this time he's pulled out all the stops. He's got camouflage patterns shaved in his body hair. He's upgraded from McDonald's to Wendy's. He mentions Infinity Ward.
He is glorious. Even now I am pondering shaving my copious amounts of body hair in a salute to this man. What do you guys think of tiger stripes?


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CFNAI Shows Continued Above-Trend Economic Growth in January
The Chicago Fed National Activity Index was +0.21 in January, down from +0.59 in December. However, all four broad categories of indicators that comprise the index made positive contributions to the January CFNAI. The three-month moving average, CFNAI-MA3, decreased to +0.29 in January from +0.43 in December. CFNAI-MA3 readings above zero are associated with above-trend economic growth; accordingly, the CFNAI-MA3 value of +0.29 in January suggests that growth in national economic activity was above its historical trend for the seventeenth straight month. With regard to inflation, CFNAI-MA3 values above zero suggest increased inflationary pressures over the coming year.


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Mr. Petco
I've found the ultimate Petco player. That's right, the Holy Grail.
Since Petco opened in 2004, we've all dreamed about finding players who are resistant to the brutal effects Petco has on hitters. You'll remember that Barry Bonds, aka the best hitter of the past fifty years, called the park "baseball proof" and mortals have spent the past eight seasons proving him right. Josh Byrnes thinks Yonder Alonso and Carlos Quentin might have what it takes but I'm not so certain.
To find the perfect Petco player, I started by looking at what offense Petco does allow. According to this study done by Beyond the Box Score, Petco only favors walks (1.05) and triples (1.02) when it comes to offense. It also is fairly neutral on singles (0.98) and stolen bases (0.97), which leaves us with our criteria. You'll notice that Quentin's homers and Alonso's doubles didn't make the cut.
Making our search a little easier is the fact that triples, singles, and stolen bases all tend to be products of the same skill. Looking over the three-year numbers for speedsters from across the league, names like Dexter Fowler and Jose Reyes pop up, though they're not quite as perfect as our guy.
Over the past three years, our guy has 39 triples, which leads the league, has hit 302 singles with only a .294 BABIP, drawn 168 walks and has stolen 78 bags with an 82% success rate. All of this with a career 4.1 UZR/150 in center. Sounds great, right? Wish he were a Padre?
You might want to sit down.
I'm not saying that the Padres should've hung onto Shane Victorino back in 2003 because things are never that simple. Who knows if a 22-year-old Victorino puts it together in San Diego the way the 25-year-old version did in Philadelphia. I'm just I wish they would've.
(Of course, Victorino has a career 65 OPS+ at Petco in 81 PA. Maybe the park really is simply baseball proof.)
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Born in Milledgeville, Georgia, during the Civil War, Samuel Palmer Brooks moved to Texas when he was five. In 1887, he entered Baylor's preparatory academy, graduating from the University when he was nearly 30. He earned another A.B. from Yale in 1894, and returned to Baylor to teach in 1897. Four years later, he went back to the Ivy League school to pursue a graduate degree. However, his acceptance of Baylor's helm permanently interrupted that objective.
When Brooks became president in 1902, Baylor was a university in name only, having fewer than 300 regular college students. As a result of the myriad of changes he initiated during the first two decades of his administration, the institution became a true university. His innovations included establishing Colleges of Medicine, Pharmacy, and Dentistry, and a Theological Seminary which later moved to Fort Worth and became Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He also organized the College of Arts and Sciences and the Schools of Education, Music, Nursing, and Business, as well as the Medical Center in Dallas. Additionally, he reinstated the Law School that had been dormant since the move to Waco and led trustees to abolish the preparatory academy.
Brooks personally guided fund-raising activities that increased the University's endowment by a half million dollars. His efforts not only enhanced Baylor's financial strength but also its national reputation. Visibly active in denominational life, he served as president of the Baptist General Convention of Texas from 1914 to 1917 and vice president of the Southern Baptist Convention in 1910 and 1917. Enrollment approached 4,000 by the late 1920s.
Throughout his lengthy tenure, Brooks maintained an extraordinary relationship with the faculty, alumni and students, all of whom were extremely loyal to him. In the spring of 1931, during the last days of his life, Brooks attempted to affix his signature personally on all the diplomas of the graduating class. His spirit was willing to complete the task, but his body found it impossible to oblige. When he realized his life was losing its battle to cancer, his only regret was that "I shall never be able to stand before another Baylor student body."
In his final hours, he asked his wife, "Will they really care when I am gone?" Mattie Brooks began to tell him of the great concern the people were manifesting in their letters, telegrams, and flowers. "No," he interrupted, "will they care for Baylor?" Those who knew him believed that what he started would continue as long as men and women with the same ideals, the same vision, and the same determination remained part of the Baylor family.
Samuel Palmer Brooks was born on December 4, 1863, the son of Baptist pastor Samuel Erskine and Aurelia Elizabeth Palmer Brooks. He married Mattie Sims of Cleburne on December 24, 1895. They had two childrenAurelia Emma who was a member of Baylor's English faculty and Sims Palmer who was a Waco attorney. Brooks died in office on May 14, 1931.


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If you're interested in learning more about Second Life or how to use if for educational purposes, I suggest you take a look at this calendar: http://sledevents.blogspot.com/
Many events are listed here and even have slurls (secondlife link locations) that allow you to teleport directly to the site in SL. Remember, you have to have the SL application installed, and you can get that from the Second Life official website.
I was able to attend most of the Sloodle 101 class (that occurs every Wednesday 2x a day). I highly recommend it. Hopefully, I'll have time in the next few days to blog about my experience in the class.


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Vendor Resource File Plan
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2. The Plan for how to administratively or clerically handle the filing of a specific Vendor Resource Record.
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February 23, 2011 + Great Lent Meditation
by Rev. V. Berzonsky
from The Word, February 1969
Little by little since the Sunday of Zaccheus we have been preparing ourselves for Great Lent, which in turn is the movement towards the Feast of Feasts, the Pascha, Easter. The first Sunday of this preparatory period, the Sunday of the Pharisee and the Publican, has as its theme: Christianity as humility. The second Sunday, the Sunday of the Prodigal Son, has the theme: Christianity as return or conversion. The third Sunday has the theme: Christianity as judgment. The fourth Sunday has the theme: Christianity as forgiveness. These four themes are essential in our preparation for Great Lent.
Let us approach Lent with a proper understanding of this period. Let us not reduce this Lent to giving up something for Lent: for this idea fills man with such pride that he loses all the benefit he was supposed to achieve and even more. Let us not reduce Lent to our personal problem.
Lent is a time for slowing-down, for taking ourselves to account, in order that we may be spiritually prepared for the feast to come. Lent is the time when the Church withdraws from the New Testament into the Old Testament. Lent is the time when we become nostalgic for communion.
In a larger sense, Lent is a permanent dimension of Christianity. It is not a spiritual bath. Lent expresses the church as pilgrimage, as movement, as exodus. Lent opens our eyes to the things that we do not see. Let us remember the idea of Church as fast and feast, as expectation and fulfillment, as humility and glory.
The history of our salvation began when God told Abraham to go from Ur in Chaldaea to the land of Canaan. Later on the Exodus from Egypt was the first great Passover or Pascha. This Exodus is the first image of the Church as the Sons of Israel, the People of God. This Exodus has given us the symbol for the 40 days fast. The idea of the 40 is that the goal of those who went into the desert was the promised land. And so for us Christians the first spiritual dimension of Lent is 40 days. The Christian goal is the new promised land, the Kingdom of Heaven. Yet in the very desire for the Kingdom of Heaven, we somehow already possess it.
Lent means not only externals as fasting and doing without, but a change in our lives, and a renewal of our baptismal vows, and a new dedication to serve God, a decision for Christ. Above all, let us not misunderstand Lent.
Our hymns clearly indicate the true purpose of Lent:
Let us begin the Fast with joy!
Let us prepare ourselves for spiritual efforts!
Let us purify and cleanse our flesh!
Let us abstain from passion, as we abstain from food!
Let us rejoice in the Spirit and persevere with love!
and another hymn:
Brethren, while fasting physically,
Let us also fast spiritually!
Let us loosen every bond of injustice!
Let us destroy the strong fetters of violence!
Let us tear up every unjust writing!
Let us give bread to the hungry, and
Let us welcome the homeless poor to our homes.
That from Christ God we may receive great mercy!
St. Polycarp of Smyrna - February 23
Troparion of St. Polycarp, Tone 4
Thy name was verified by thy works, O wise Hieromartyr Polycarp. Thou wast a fruitful olive tree in the house of the Lord, and dost nourish the Church with the spiritual bounty of thy words and deeds. Thou dost intercede for our souls, O hierarch and steadfast Prize-winner.
Kontakion of St. Polycarp, Tone 1
Through thy virtues, O wise Polycarp, thou dost offer spiritual fruits to the Lord and prove to be God's worthy Hierarch. We who have been enlightened by thy words today praise thy memory and glorify God.