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SAP Executive Briefing Center (SAP EBC) locations offer a unique environment for customers and prospects to build their long-term business strategy through a collaborative partnership with SAP. The Executive Briefing Centers enable customers to connect and engage with SAP thought leaders, industry experts, and partners. Located at four locations around the globe, each SAP EBC offers unique advantages and areas of expertise.?
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X-Hero and Male Enhancer: Recall - Undeclared Drug Ingredient
Audience: Consumer
ISSUE: FDA lab analysis of X-Hero found the product contains sulfosildenafil, the analogue of the active ingredient of an FDA-approved drug used to treat erectile dysfunction (ED), making X-Hero an unapproved drug. In addition, FDA analysis of Male Enhancer sample found the product contains tadalafil, the active ingredient of an FDA-approved drug used to treat erectile dysfunction (ED), making Male Enhancer an unapproved drug.
The products pose a threat to consumers because they may interact with nitrates found in some prescription drugs (such as nitroglycerin) and may lower blood pressure to dangerous levels. Consumers with diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, or heart disease often take nitrates. ED is a common problem in men with these conditions, and they may seek products to enhance sexual performance.
BACKGROUND: These two products have been distributed nationwide via retail stores, internet sales and mail order. See the Firm Press Release for a listing of affected products and lot numbers.
RECOMMENDATION: Consumers who have X-Hero or Male Enhancer in their possession should stop using it immediately and contact their physician if they experienced any problem that may be related to taking this product.
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Colbert 2014?
That's what voters in Stephen Colbert's native South Carolina are hoping for. In a new poll conducted by Public Policy Polling, 20 percent of residents polled say they want The Colbert Report host to fill the seat being vacated by Senator Jim DeMint, who announced he was leaving his post in early 2013 to become president of The Heritage Foundation. A replacement senator will be appointed by Governor Nikki Haley, until an election can be held in 2014.
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Last week on his Comedy Central show, Colbert asked viewers to tweet at the Governor — a "friend of the show" according to Colbert — and lobby her to appoint him to DeMint's seat.
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How My Boyfriend Grew His Penis 2.7" In 3 Weeks
Hi! I'm Jennifer Soto, I'm 27 years old and I have a boring office job, but hey, it pays the bills. My boyfriend and I have been going out for 9 months now. Our relationship is pretty good, he's a great guy, and there's just one small problem: SEX! Sex with him is just not as much fun as other guys I've been with. Here's why: his penis is only average size.
What's worse, my last boyfriend had a really big cock. Now, my experience with big guys is that sex is a whole lot more satisfying! They can hit my g spot. They can try different positions without "slipping out" and what's more a big man can make me scream.
I talked to my friends about this and they agreed but none of them were willing to say anything to their men about it. Well, I for one decided not to stand for it any longer! Average isn't good enough for me!
So why is a girl buying penis supplements
I wasn't happy with our sex life. But I really wanted to save our relationship. A few days later I got a text from my friend Marie. She only said, "I figured out an answer to your *little* problem."
Marie said she ordered some supplements from an advertisement she saw on a porn site. Her boyfriend was a good sport and tried them out -- and she was COMPLETELY satisfied with the results!
Well, I couldn't just take Marie's word for it so I went online and did my research.
Research was key to finding the right ones
So here's the thing: people who make male enhancement supplements ALWAYS tell you theirs is the best. Every website gives you a pile of BS about how theirs is the fastest and most powerful and leaps tall buildings but I knew I couldn't trust them. I learned a lot about the ingredients that really work (like horny goat weed) and the ones that are worthless. I even studied what porn stars use behind the scenes.
It took quite a while but I finally came across two products: Xanogen and HGH Factor. They have a very comprehensive approach to penis enlargement. Both products are made in the USA and have full money-back guarantees. As soon as I studied the list of ingredients and read the endorsements of professionals, I knew my search was finally over.
Why buy something when you can get it for free?
Xanogen is a powerful supplement that, according to the manufacturers, was designed by authentic porn stars based on the herbal and amino acid blends they used to keep themselves big and hard. Mainly Xanogen enhances blood flow to the penis resulting in a thicker, wider cock. These size results are permanent after a few weeks! Of course this enhanced circulation is great at boosting your workouts, too, if you're into that kind of thing. You can get really ripped!
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HGH Factor is the kind of product my boyfriend would try without my encouragement! It is a supplement specifically designed for bodybuilders to help them maximize the size and definition of their muscles. The product contains a slew of amino acids to fuel muscle growth plus other ingredients that help the body create human growth hormone. (And you know the kind of growth we're looking for!) The great part is that HGH Factor elevates energy levels, too. You get a rock-hard man who can keep you moaning until the wee hours of the morning!
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How to tell your boyfriend you bought him penis products
Convincing Jason to try Xanogen and HGH Factor was not as hard as I was afraid it would be. Of course he grumbled about it at first, he had to save face. But finally he told me that average wasn't good enough for me (and I agreed!). He said he'd considered trying products like these before but thought they were probably all scams. I told him about all the research I'd done and he agreed to give it a try. He just took one Xanogen pill morning and evening, and used the HGH Factor twice a day (I helped him remember!).
Note: some people emailed and asked about side effects. Well, Jason didn't have any -- not a single one.
... and we never looked back
Even on that first night Jason was so much better in bed than my wildest expectations. Within a couple of weeks he was noticeably bigger and oh my God, he felt so amazing!
Not only was he bigger but he lasted much longer than ever before. We started trying kinky new positions (SO much fun!) and other stuff. Nothing makes a girl want to be adventurous like a man who lasts and lasts! Sex has never been so great. I think about him when I'm at work. I just can't wait to get back home and get into bed with him.
So, listen up girls: if you're not happy with your man's size then by all means buy him these two products! I guarantee you won't regret it. You have nothing to lose and a WHOLE LOT to gain!
The exact way Jason increased his penis size:
- He used 2 products both with 30-day free trials
- He took 1 Xanogen capsule in the morning and 1 at night
- He used HGH Factor twice per day, in the morning and at night
- It's important that you use both products (they just don't work as well individually)
UPDATE: You should make sure these products are still available -- the free trials are going fast.
It's that easy.
Post your before and after pics below. I can't wait to see those big beautiful cocks!
Hugs & kisses,
PS -- you can order both these products online or by phone, any time at all, even if it's 2 a.m. Order them now and get the best sex of you life -- I promise!
Before Jason Started taking Xanogen, he was only about 5 inches - AND he was pretty out of shape. (No stamina at all!) But Xanogen and HGH Factor changed all that.. :)
When he started using Xanogen, I decided to measure Jason's penis and keep track of his progress. On the first day, Jason measured only 5.2 inches in length.
But within two weeks of using Xanogen to enhance his member, Jason had already gained 1.6 inches in length, measuring up to an impressive 6.8 inches in length.
But it didn't end there..
Jason grew over 2 inches in only 4 weeks - and even gained over 1 inch of thickness!
Getting Xanogen for Jason was one of the best ideas I've ever had for sure. My boyfriend's new and improved cock delivers all night long!
As if that wasn't great enough on its own, Jason also lost a lot of weight - you can actually see his 6-pack now!
HGH Factor not only gave him the energy and stamina to keep up with me, but it also boosted his metabolism, giving him sexy, lean definition that I just can't stop staring at.
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22 Comments:
My boyfriend has been looking for penis pills for awhile now (he was worried because he couldn't get me off). This is going to help us so much!!! Thanks for the post.
No one wants average. Believe me, I know. :( That's why I just ordered. Thanks, Jen!
I can't believe how much more tail I get now since I started using Xanogen. Guess size really does matter.
If a girl complains about a guy's penis size, she's a slut or a whore. WTF. Men like big tits, little waists, and curvy asses, right? Well we women want our cocks SUPERSIZED.
My best friend likes to brag about his big, black dick and about how all the bitches want his cock. I bet him that Xanogen would make my dick bigger then his. (He owes me $20.)
My ex's cock was so small that I'd go straight to the base when I went down on him and couldn't feel a thing when we'd f**k. But my new friend is taking Xanogen and the difference is unbelievable.
Thank the lord almighty! I think you just saved my marriage, Jen. I can't wait to see the look on my wife's face when I show her tonight! ;)
Just ordered mine!
Wow! Who knew so many of y'all had the same problem! Keep up the comment love and show me some pics!!!
Funny story, I started using Xanogen for the exact same reason. I was pretty pissed off at my girlfriend at first, but after taking the pills, I couldn't be happier with the results. See for yourself!
So Jen, what happened when Andrew stopped taking the pills.?
He still takes them. But I read somewhere that your gain will go away after you've stopped taking enhancers.
There's nothing like the feeling of breaking a woman's p***y. I started taking Xanogen a year ago and the ladies can't get enough.
Gotta love the internet.
I can't stop looking at my dick. Xanogen is amazzzzing.
My penis is only about 4 1/2, maybe 5 inches erect, and when I caught my girlfriend cheating on me, she said it was because of my penis. That was very hard for me to deal with so I decided to do something about it. Thanks Jen, really. Thanks to your blog, my dick is now 6 1/2 inches, my new girlfriend loves it, and my ex is dying of jealousy!!!
Hey baby, just added you on Facebook. If you ever get sick of that boyfriend of yours, I've got a long and strong one I know you'll enjoy. ;p
Alright, alright, here's your picture, woman! (1 1/3 inches longer and counting.)
@Guido: Get a life, dude.
@Jesse: I can't lie, you've got yourself one fine dick right there. More pictures? ;p
Hahaha, it didn't used to be. Xanogen is the shit.
Nobody has talked about girth here!!! MY dick has gotten almost an inch wider and my gf complains because she's always choking now. WIN.
@Andre: LOL, that's great! Post a pic! I'm sure you're girlie won't mind... ;)


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Angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors
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Russell Brand is a pretty polarizing comedian, but no matter your opinion on this eloquent Englishman, you'll want to see him in action on the set of the MSNBC program "Morning Joe."
Brand appeared yesterday as a guest on the show to promote his new comedy tour, Messiah Complex. After commenting on his attire early on, the anchors strangely turn on him during the interview. They discuss the comedian as if he weren't there, even ribbing him about his accent.
But Brand's a seasoned comedy professional who has no doubt dealt with his share of hostile audiences.
Near the end of the interview he asks the anchors if this is what they do for a living, and even has something of a soapbox moment to talk about the state of the media.
"That's the problem about current affairs." he said. "You forget about what's important. You allow the agenda to be decided by superficial information. What am I saying? What am I talking about? Don't think about what I'm wearing. These things are superficial."
Watch Brand shred the anchors for being unprofessional.
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Bride and Groom Reenact 'Dirty Dancing' at Wedding [VIDEO]
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Earlier this year, the newlyweds gave their wedding guests a surprise of a lifetime by performing the entire Baby/Johnny dance routine from 'Dirty Dancing' at the reception. The couple spared no expense in making sure that the reenactment went off without a hitch, taking dance lessons, hiring a videographer, and even getting their wedding party in on it. The viral video, which takes the couple from rehearsals to the performance itself (complete with The Lift!), is yet another in a long line of choreographed wedding dances -- but one that proves just why the trend is so popular. Watch it above!


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Purchases of sale items are final! They cannot be returned or exchanged.
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FIT | Sanne wears size XS
MODEL | Sanne is 5'7″ (175cm) & generally wears size AU 8 and US 4 or 6
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Because our clothes are not fitted we have chosen an Alpha size set with the suggest numerical size range.
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- International orders may take up to one week to leave our studio due to the courier we use being delayed
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Berkshire pork shoulder - also known as Kurobuta - from hogs raised on pasture with no antibiotics, added hormones or growth stimulants. Our cooperative of small family farms in the Midwest is dedicated to natural methods, creating the best environment for the pigs, and following strict protocols of humane animal husbandry. This Berkshire-breed pork is exceptionally tender, well-marbled, flavorful and a world apart from the average commodity pork.
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Black Friday shoppers are in luck: Readers can expect more than 600 pages worth of coupons and advertisements as part of The Daily News� Thanksgiving Day edition. The Wednesday edition will feature more than 170 pages of inserts, about twice the usual weekday edition.
Black Friday shoppers are in luck: Readers can expect more than 600 pages worth of coupons and advertisements as part of The Daily News� Thanksgiving Day edition. The Wednesday edition will feature more than 170 pages of inserts, about twice the usual weekday edition.
The presses will start running Wednesday evening at 6 p.m., seven hours earlier than usual to prepare for the large quantity of advertisement inserts, which will be especially high due to a shortened Christmas shopping season, according to Ken Warren, advertising director for The Daily News.
Circulars will include deals from 41 different retailers, featuring everything from clothing apparel to sporting goods to toys.
According to Don Wilson, the circulation director for The Daily News, the Thanksgiving edition gives readers a chance to prepare for the Christmas shopping season.
�This is the one readers look forward to all year,� Wilson said.
Extra inserts will also be in Wednesday�s paper due to the growing number of stores keeping their doors open on Thanksgiving Day, Wilson said.
Wilson said the inserts help readers find the best deals on gifts at a time when many are still recovering from an economic downturn that found more than 11 percent of North Carolinians without work at this time just four years ago, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
According to Wilson, who will mark his seventh Thanksgiving with The Daily News this week, Thursday�s edition is expected to weigh anywhere between four to five pounds, as opposed to the six to eight ounces Wilson says the average weekday edition weighs.
Delivering the Thanksgiving edition requires a herculean effort from the 52 carriers who deliver papers throughout the reading area, Wilson said, adding it�s a task that will more than likely take two car trips for many carriers.
�(The papers and inserts) take up the whole car,� Wilson said. �You won�t even be able to see the driver.�
Greg Ham, production director for The Daily News, said planning for the Thursday edition takes more than two months. According to Ham, the weighty nature of the Thanksgiving edition is due to the opportunity newspapers still provide advertisers.
�It�s one of the first things some people see in the morning,� Ham said. �Thousands of people see our newspapers daily � It�s right at people�s fingertips.�
Ad director Warren said this volume of advertising is on the upper edge of usual for Thanksgiving, especially now that more stores are opening on Thanksgiving Day. In addition, the holiday will be observed on Nov. 28 for the first time in 11 years, shortening the Christmas shopping season that traditionally begins the day after Thanksgiving.
The colorful, glossy advertising inserts will come from large, national chain establishments, but Warren encouraged shoppers to remember local retailers as well.
�This is the perfect opportunity to visit and support local businesses,� he said.
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Even A FISA Court Judge Basically Called The NSA's Bulk Record Collections 'Illegal'
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The legality of the NSA's bulk records programs is finally being questioned by a federal judge. Judge Richard Leon of the DC circuit court, presiding over a lawsuit brought by Larry Klayman against the government, had this to say in December about the NSA's Section 215 collections.
The Court finds that it does... have the authority to evaluate plaintiffs' constitutional challenges to the NSA's conduct, notwithstanding the fact that it was done pursuant to orders issued by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court ("FISC"). And after careful consideration of the parties' pleadings and supplemental pleadings, the representations made on the record at the November 18, 2013 hearings regarding these motions, and the applicable law, the Court concludes that plaintiffs have standing to challenge the constitutionality of the Government's bulk collection and querying of phone record metadata, that they have demonstrated a substantial likelihood of success on the merits of their Fourth Amendment claim, and that they will suffer irreparable harm absent preliminary injunctive relief.Leon refused to buy into the government's tortured rhetoric, questioning its insistence that the number of Americans affected was limited by specifically pointing out its practice of "contact chaining," which allows it to access millions of stored metadata records wholly unrelated to its investigatons. (This contrasts heavily with another federal judge's opinion, which went the other way and trotted out the NSA's talking points and nonexistent sections of the 9/11 Commission's report in support of the decision.)
But these aren't the only two judges to weigh in on the constitutionality of the program. FISC judge Reggie Walton stated the following in his 2009 court order, after detailing the agency's extensive abuse of the metadata collection over the previous three years.
In light of the foregoing, the Court returns to fundamental principles underlying its authorizations. In order to compel the production of tangible things to the government, the Court must find that there are reasonable grounds to believe that the tangible things sought are relevant to an authorized investigation (other than a threat assessment) to obtain foreign intelligence information not concerning a U.S. person or to protect against international terrorism or clandestine intelligence activities, provided that such investigation of a US. person is not conducted solely on the basis of activities protected by the First Amendment. 50 U.S.C. 1861.Now, while Walton's order detailed a great magnitude of NSA abuse, what he states here questions the legality of the program's very existence. Even with the restrictions placed on accessing the collected metadata, the underlying concept is flawed. As Walton states, "nearly all" US citizens' call records obtained are those of citizens who are not subjects of NSA or FBI investigations and are not being used as part of the NSA's counterterrorism efforts.
The government's applications have all acknowledged that, of the [xxxxx] of call detail records NSA receives per day (currently over [xxxxxxx] per day), the vast majority of individual records that are being sought pertain neither to [xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]. In other words, nearly all of the call detail records collected pertain to communications of non-U.S. persons who are not the subject of an FBI investigation to obtain foreign intelligence information, are communications of US. persons who are not the subject of an FBI investigation to protect against international terrorism or clandestine intelligence activities, and are data that otherwise could not be legally captured in bulk by the government. Ordinarily, this alone would provide sufficient grounds for a judge to deny the application.
Walton says that this data is only being collected "legally" thanks to the permission of the FISA court, which had just spent three years being undermined by the NSA's lies and misrepresentations. Without the FISA court's intervention and the agency's ability to abide by the court's rulings, the NSA's collection would be illegal.
Walton's recognition of the fact that nearly all data being collected is irrelevant puts him on the same page as Judge Leon: bulk, untargeted collection of irrelevant metadata is not constitutional.
After stating that fewer than 300 unique identifiers met the RAS standard and were used as "seeds" to query the metadata in 2012, Ms. Shea notes that "[b]ecause the same seed identifier can be queried more than once over time, can generate multiple responsive records, and can be used to obtain contact numbers up to three 'hops' from the seed identifier, the number of metadata records responsive to such queries is substantially larger than 300, but is still a very small percentage of the total volume of metadata records..."The NSA relies on an old ruling governing pen registers that was given an expansive re-reading by FISC judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly. This mutation of the pen register law has allowed to the NSA to use the low privacy bar set by the surveillance method while retaining none of its limitations. The pen register allows for a great deal of information gathering. The check against its abuse was supposed to be that it had to be targeted. Government and law enforcement agencies needed to have a person of interest in order to have the pen register approved. It was limited both in time and scope. That's no longer the case.
[I]t belabors the obvious to note that even a few million phone numbers is "a very small percentage of the total volume of metadata records" if the Government has collected metadata records on hundreds of millions of phone numbers.
That Section 215 isn't Constitutional isn't a surprise, but it will take a lot to overturn the reliance on decades-old laws that no longer pertain to the technology in use and the realities of the NSA's ongoing bulk records collections. As Leon stated in his decision, technological advances have made the NSA's job easier but the expectation of privacy is still there, no matter how the courts (FISC, federal) have interpreted existing laws.
It's one thing to say that people expect phone companies to occasionally provide information to law enforcement; it is quite another to suggest that our citizens expect all phone companies to operate what is effectively a joint intelligence-gathering operation with the Government.Walton saw the same problems, which were made worse by the NSA's "systemic abuse" of the collections. He shut it down and forced the NSA to route its access requests through the court on a case-by-case basis. That's no longer happening, which means the agency has returned to rubber-stamped court orders demanding telcos turn over every call record on a rolling 90-day basis. A return to the court controlling access to the database would at least force the agency to refine its searches and provide evidence that what it seeks is actually relevant to ongoing investigations, rather than just claiming all records are "relevant" because, well, anything's possible.
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SEATTLE (AP) — Legal marijuana possession becomes a reality under Washington state law on today, and some people planned to celebrate the new law by breaking it.
Voters in Washington and Colorado last month made those the first states to decriminalize and regulate the recreational use of marijuana. Washington's law takes effect today and allows adults to have up to an ounce of pot — but it bans public use of marijuana, which is punishable by a fine, just like drinking in public.
Nevertheless, some people planned to gather at 12 a.m. Thursday to smoke up in public beneath Seattle's Space Needle. Others planned a midnight party outside the Seattle headquarters of Hempfest, the 21-year-old festival that attracts tens of thousands of pot fans every summer.
"This is a big day because all our lives we've been living under the iron curtain of prohibition," said Hempfest director Vivian McPeak. "The whole world sees that prohibition just took a body blow."
Seattle Police spokesman Sgt. Sean Whitcomb said he doesn't expect officers to write many tickets to the celebrants. Thanks to a 2003 law, marijuana enforcement remains the department's lowest priority. Even before Initiative 502 passed on Nov. 6, police rarely busted people at Hempfest, despite widespread pot use, and the city attorney here doesn't prosecute people for having small amounts of marijuana.
Washington's new law decriminalizes possession of up to an ounce for those over 21, but for now selling marijuana remains illegal. I-502 gives the state a year to come up with a system of state-licensed growers, processors and retail stores, with the marijuana taxed 25 percent at each stage. Analysts have estimated that a legal pot market could bring Washington hundreds of millions of dollars a year in new tax revenue for schools, health care and basic government functions.
But marijuana remains illegal under federal law. That means federal agents can still arrest people for it, and it's banned from federal properties, including military bases and national parks.
The Justice Department has not said whether it will sue to try to block the regulatory schemes in Washington and Colorado from taking effect.
"The department's responsibility to enforce the Controlled Substances Act remains unchanged," said a statement issued Wednesday by the Seattle U.S. attorney's office. "Neither states nor the executive branch can nullify a statute passed by Congress" — a non-issue, since the measures passed in Washington and Colorado don't "nullify" federal law, which federal agents remain free to enforce.
The legal question is whether the establishment of a regulated marijuana market would "frustrate the purpose" of the federal pot prohibition, and many constitutional law scholars say it very likely would.
That leaves the political question of whether the administration wants to try to block the regulatory system, even though it would remain legal to possess up to an ounce of marijuana.
Colorado's measure, as far as decriminalizing possession goes, is set to take effect by Jan. 5. That state's regulatory scheme is due to be up and running by October 2013.


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5 IT priorities for 2009
5 technology waves to ride in 2009
1. We need to get some idea of the scope of what is presently in use (in terms of networks and technologies) -- a soup-to-nuts assessment.
2. In the course of evaluating what we have, we also have to ask what to do about improving the security of the system.
3. The interest in cloud computing is appropriate. The question is what happens if there's more than one cloud? And how do clouds interact with each other? If there are access controls associated with information within this cloud, how do I re-instantiate those access controls if the data moves to a new cloud? What's my vocabulary? This is actually a reprise of a lot of the questions that came up in Internet. So inter-cloud stuff is going to be the next decade's really interesting communications and networking challenge.
4. Next, I'm concerned about the government need to use computing to become more efficient internally. What I'd like to see is sufficient standardization so that the only reason you can't exchange information among government systems is because you set a policy not to do that. If the policy changes, I don't want the technology to be the obstacle; I want the technology to be the facilitator.
5. And international interactions -- we need to reinforce our ability to use information technology to interact with the rest of the world. Small example: When we carry out electronic commerce…there's a question about how a digital signature is interpreted in [different] jurisdictions. It's not clear to me whether the jurisdiction in Europe sees the same significance to a digital signature that we do in the United States or vice versa. What happens if one party fails to meet their obligations in the contract and you seek recourse, and someone says, "Well, it wasn't a valid contract because the digital signature doesn't count"? That wouldn't be a good outcome.
To generalize that, I see a lot of opportunities for multi-stakeholder discussions — and I use that world deliberately, because multilateral usually means multiple governments. Multi-stakeholder refers to the private sector, civil society, governments and the technical community. I'm convinced that U.S. leadership will only be manifest if it is carried out in a multi-stakeholder fashion.
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Of course, it's not all bad. Finally got back to the gym last night, a month after the move and about a month and a half after I bloodied my favorite pair of jeans upon hurting my knee while watching an Indian Premier League cricket game on my phone as I walked into a grocery store in Miami. The good news is that the knee is holding up much better than expected. The bad news is that given my current fitness level, it'll be at least another month before I can participate actively in kick-boxing classes.
Figured I could spend some time being a little more enthusiastic, then. And given the theme of the week, recalling a few of the lessons learned from Bhuvan of Lagaan seemed like a good idea. Bhuvan is interesting, for it is primarily through his character that the film speaks to the importance of (in no specific order):
1. Remaining persistent with unwavering commitment to accomplish a goal. This applied not only to the greater goal of relieving Champaner of the lagaan, but also to the cricket team's composition, the goal there being unity. See #4 below for related point.
2. Showing courage in the face of ambiguity. Cricket to Bhuvan was as alien as fish in Champaner. That he accepted Captain Andrew Russell's offer without fully knowing the path to take, but with an eye on the destination, was telling of his thought process (envisioning success);
3. Self-management and self-awareness. From Bhuvan's standpoint, the 'self' might well be Champaner. Exemplifying strategic alignment, targeting ones audience and salesmanship (of ideas). Need one say more?;
4. Being a humble leader. This one is my favorite. Not only was Bhuvan successful in sharing his vision with the people of Champaner, he was able to garner support from external influences that were instrumental in Lagaan XI's success. Through humility, persistence, and a constant focus on the end result, he was able to unite those around him (using a convincing argument of their goals aligning) while earning their trust and respect -- cornerstones of any relationship.
People representing different religions and castes coming together was beautiful. And the team's chief architect was a heck of a recruiter and marketer. The scene where the 'untouchable' (whatever that's supposed to mean), Kachra, was brought into the team was wonderful, for it discussed not only issues of caste, but also the divisions created by mocking the disabled;
Aside: Of course, Bhuvan must be doing some things right, because Elizabeth was often impressed (a lesson learned in itself):
5. Communicating effectively through body language. Bhuvan's posture oozed confidence. That he always stood with weight equally distributed across the legs was no coincidence;
6. Giving people a second chance. Lakha could have just as easily have been dismissed as a traitor and relegated from the team. Not with Bhuvan around. He gave Lakha another chance, and the latter switched allegiances in favor of the sach and saahas (truthful and courageous; words used as adjectives here, as opposed to being used as nouns in the song Mitwa).
7. Courtship. Gauri and Bhuvan weren't betrothed in the film, but their relationship was beautifully portrayed. As noted in my soundtrack review, that scene atop the hill with Gauri was marvelous!;
8. Expressing love (not always romantic). Sometimes, it's just best to let the heart do the talking. That too in a language that the opposing party understands. This is where Elizabeth could have done better (what if she had said those lines in Awadhi and not English?!).
9. Protecting animals. I am hardly a vegan, but there is something to be said about the scene in which Bhuvan was introduced. That he risked his security to save deer from being shot illustrated his compassion for animals. The world needs animals, people!
10. Shaving when one's village is suffering through a drought ;) Okay, so not quite. But Bhuvan did remind us that we were in a fictitious setting all along. That there really was no Bhuvan in real life. People like me need such reminders :)
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Excellent review of moral lessons Bhuvan taught us in the movie. I love moral lessons in Bollywood.
As your newly self appointed press agent/spin Dr., hertofore you shall report that your knee was injured "from criket," samjhe? This will seem like you were playing criket, and it's not a lie, it's a sin of omission, but it sounds bahut cool. :)
Back to Lagaan: though not a moral lesson, I really liked when Gauri was chattering to Bhuvan about then man she liked having a certain type of tree in the courtyard of his home and how Bhuvan gently teased her reminding her that he was the only one with such a tree. So he busted her out, but did it in a nice way. I suppose it may then be a moral lesson of how to be a decent guy
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- Sunday, June 22, 2008
- theBollywoodFan said...
Thank you for your comment Sita-ji, and I am so honored to team with you for those spins! LOL. This one would have sounded bahut cool and not have been a lie! ;)
Agree completely about the moral lesson being how to be a decent guy (contrast with Aamir Khan in Mann (1999)).
I'm not the biggest fan of reading between the lines sometimes (and we the Indian people are often guilty of too many indirect statements, half of which I still miss in real life, lol). But the bit with Gauri and Bhuvan was excellent. So specific, yet not direct.
So now I even have pointers to add to a courtship! Although I need to be careful with narrowing things down, because something like this would only make things difficult: 'Aur ooh Bollywood ki fan hogi', lol... =)
Take care!
- Sunday, June 22, 2008


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The "dying" leaf-mimic katydid below is a fascinating creature, and evolution natural selection has endowed it with the ability to mimic a dying leaf.
Dead leaf butterflies are extraordinary creatures to observe up close. The specimen below illustrates the intricate details chiseled out by adaptation through natural selection, which is a driving force of evolution. The remarkable details help the butterfly evade predation by mimicking a dead leaf.
The images and videos below show various species of leaf- and stick-mimicking praying mantises, including a dead leaf mantis (Deroplatys desiccata) and a violin mantis subadult (Gongylus gongylodes). The detail and similarity to vegetation in some species, like the specimen in the first image, is extraordinary.
The image above showing a dead leaf mantis (Deroplatys desiccata) camouflaged amongst some leaf litter
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Here are more examples of leaf-mimicking katydids. The species directly below from Costa Rica is mimicking a dead or brown leaf. Note the mottling or splotching of darker browns, which certainly allows this species to camouflage itself amongst decaying leaves very well.
Undergrowth dead-leaf katydid (Orophus sp.), Barro Colorado Island, Panama
This series of images shows several small-leaf katydids (Pseudophyllinae) from Peru and the Peruvian Amazon. The last image in the series shows a dead-leaf katydid nymph or an immature form of a small-leaf katydid.
The image showing the undergrowth dead-leaf katydid (Orophus sp.),
This peacock katydid's (Pterochroza ocellata) exceptional resemblance to a dead leaf is remarkable, but if its camouflage fails and a predator realizes it's a potential meal, the peacock katydid has a behavioral trick—it can quickly flash a pair of false eyes by opening its wings to startle a predator.
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The children's stick insect (Tropidoderus childrenii) is found in Australia, and it mimics Eucalyptus leaves.
This cuttlefish is trying its best to mimic a leaf.
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Can you find the leaf mimic frog? Leaf mimicry isn't exclusive to insects, since some vertebrates make use of this extreme form of camouflage.
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The South American or Amazon leaf fish (Monocirrhus polyacanthus) uses camouflage, mimicry, and stealth to hunt its prey. It will often sit in the water column at varying angles or sideways mimicking a dead leaf (note the individuals in the background). Its prey is quickly gulped into its hard to see large mouth.
The Uroplatus, a genus of gecko endemic to Madagascar, are sometimes referred to as leaf-tailed geckos. The first image shows an individual hibernating during cooler Malagasy weather, and the leaf-tailed gecko uses its tail to mimic a leaf or camouflage itself as it hibernates.
This robust ghost pipefish (Solenostomus cyanopterus) mimics a blade of sea grass, and rests at an angle similar to the South American leaf fishes above. Ghost pipefishes are relatives of pipefishes and seahorses and display some of the best camouflage found in nature. They are very ornate and showy like the weedy and leafy sea dragons.
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Vice presidential debate moderator Martha Raddatz's take-no-prisoners approach and Joe Biden's smile and laughs while facing off against Paul Ryan set social media ablaze on Thursday.
This week's "Saturday Night Live" was eerily similar. Well, except for Olympic legend Usain Bolt also making a guest appearance to call out Taran Killam's Paul Ryan for claiming a "sub-four-minute mile" and win at the London Olympics in the 100-meters.
"You didn't finish. You weren't even there," Bolt said in a cameo.
Earlier, Kate McKinnon's portrayal of debate moderator Martha Raddatz was just as tough as the real one. During the mock debate, McKinnon warned the candidates not to test her. She was also critical of the first presidential debate's moderator, PBS's Jim Lehrer and was equally skeptical of both men's overall importance in the presidential campaign.
"Oh and as a final reminder, your performance tonight is extremely unlikely to affect the presidential campaign," she said. "So just have fun with it."
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Killam's Paul Ryan translated Biden's use of the word "malarkey" as "Irish."
"Irish is I come over there and smack that dumb look off your face," Sudeikis shot back, also adding, "You don't scare me, shark eyes."
It wasn't the only jab about Ryan's eyes.
"Congressman Ryan, I've just been told that America's small children would like you to stop looking directly into the lens. Apparently, they find it upsetting," McKinnon said after one of Ryan's remarks.
Both Sudeikis and Killam (when he wasn't drinking water) portrayed candidates who struggled on the issues. Ryan refused to be specific on his economic plan, but backed up his vague stance with impressive hand gestures. Biden responded to a jab about high unemployment in his hometown by saying, "Things may be bad where you live, but I guarantee you it is a paradise next to the burning coal heap that is Scranton, Pennsylvania."
This week's Weekend Update continued the vice presidential debate rant going.
"Congressman Ryan prepared for the debate by studying policy and holding practice debates," Seth Meyers said. "And I think Biden prepared by shot gunning Red Bull and watching Yosemite Sam cartoons."
Meyers also threw a zinger or two at Mitt Romney.
"He flip-flops more than freshly-caught trout," he said.
The "Update" host didn't forget about Barack Obama either.
"You practiced for the last debate with John Kerry. Don't do that," he said. "Find someone more exciting to spar with like Al Gore or an old rusty birdcage."
The segment's special guest, Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington (played by Nasim Pedrad) shared her thoughts on the vice presidential nominees as well.
On Ryan:
"Paul Ryan is alluring in that nice guy next door kind of way. He's has the muscles and the money and your family loves him, but if you've seen any Lifetime movie, you just know he's going to kill you."
On Biden:
"He possesses some real feminine qualities…every time he referred to Paul Ryan, he said 'my friend this and "my friend that'. Only a woman would call someone their friend and then bitch about them for 90 minutes."


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To some, depending on age, Ernest Borgnine was just name. Or a voice (the befuddled, gravelly gilled Mermaidman on "SpongeBob SquarePants"). Or a somewhat familiar craggy, bushy eye-browed face (from "Airwolf" or "The Single Guy").
But Borgnine, who died earlier this month at 95, was an actor for the ages.
For the uninitiated and longtime fans alike, TCM on Thursday offers a timely 24-hour tribute to a versatile actor known for characters who could break necks (Fatso Judson in "From Here to Eternity") and break your heart (the title character in "Marty").
Borgnine, stocky with a grizzled mug that looked long lived in even when he was a young man, would never be called an All-American, not in the conventional looks nor in the Mickey Rooney let's-put-on-a-show spirit departments. But in some respects, he was the most American of movie stars – a character actor with character, one who could ooze brutality or vulnerability as needed.
He played the tough military man who helped assemble "The Dirty Dozen." His bitter, combative cop ultimately shined as a leader when all else was dark in the original version of "The Poseidon Adventure." He could make you laugh as the scheming sailor in TV's "McHale's Navy." He inspired hatred as Judson for killing Frank Sinatra's character in "From Here to Eternity." And Borgnine portrayed a boss so nasty you were relieved to see him gnawed to death by a band of rats in the creepy classic "Willard" (just about the only major Borgine performance not included in TCM's otherwise stellar movie marathon).
But Borgnine was at his best, evoking sympathy, sadness, and, ultimately, love, for his Oscar-winning turn as Marty Piletti, a lonely, thirtysomething Bronx butcher whose domineering mother and own lack of self-esteem ("I'm just a fat little man – a fat, ugly man.") threaten to torpedo his only shot at happiness. It's a master class in emotional implosion and explosion, told through the words of the great writer Paddy Chayefsky and the endlessly expressive voice and face of Borgnine.
"Marty" is well worth another look – or a first look – as are "From Here to Eternity," "Bad Day at Black Rock," "The Wild Bunch" and other Borgnine flicks airing on TCM beginning 6 a.m. Thursday. Also on the bill is "Private Screenings: Ernest Borgnine," a 2009 interview with Borgnine, conducted by Robert Osborne.
Check out a clip from that special below, as well as a scene from "Marty," the movie that more than any film demonstrated the importance of Ernest Borgnine:
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October 2011 by Brian A. DiGangi, DVM, MS, DABVP
Audience: Executive Leadership, Foster Caregivers, Shelter/Rescue Staff & Volunteers, Veterinary Team
Video Length: 72 minutes
From the minute a dog or cat sets paw inside an animal control vehicle or shelter, the clock is ticking on decisions, procedures and practices that can spell health or illness - even life or death - for that animal. Find out how decisions made in that first critical hour impact the stress response and susceptibility to disease of sheltered dogs and cats in the recorded version of The First 60 Minutes: Animal Sheltering's Critical Hour webcast, available below. You will learn:
- The importance of solid intake protocols, and how they can increase live release
- Standard medical health protocols including physical examination, vaccination, de-worming and diagnostic disease testing
- Tools to identify behavioral needs and ensure good mental health in the shelter environment
- The importance of preventive healthcare for the individual animal as a means to ensure overall population health and well-being in light of published guidelines for standards of care
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Brian A. DiGangi, DVM, DABVP
Dr. Brian DiGangi received a Bachelor of Science degree in Animal Science with a minor in Nutrition from North Carolina State University in 2001, and graduated from the University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine (UF CVM) in 2006. While at UF CVM, Dr. DiGangi completed clinical externships in both shelter medicine and exotic animal medicine, and co-founded the University of Florida Student Chapter of the Association of Shelter Veterinarians. He volunteered at the county animal shelter on a regular basis, organized spay-neuter wet labs for veterinary students, regularly participated in a large feral cat trap-neuter-return program and fostered animals for local rescue organizations.


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These five questions are simple, but the answers can be transformative. Asking them of yourself will only take a few minutes each day, but the responses will continue to guide you throughout your life.
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There's an old Chinese proverb I love.
"He who asks a question is fool for five minutes. He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever."
In that spirit — and at the risk of sounding like Buzzfeed just barfed all over The Art of Charm blog — I want to share five questions you should be asking yourself at every step in your journey.
The questions are simple (sometimes deceptively so), but the answers can be transformative. Asking them of yourself will only take a few minutes each day, but the responses will continue to guide you throughout your life.
So let's explore each of the questions, and discuss some concrete approaches to turn them into an ongoing practice.
For most of us — especially early on in our careers — a job can become a routine commitment designed to keep us afloat.
That job might not be an entry point to the career we really want — it might not even be in a realm we find exciting or meaningful — but we often stick with it out of habit, fear, or indifference.
If you find yourself in that situation, the question to ask yourself is not (as so many self-help experts continue to tell us) Is this really what I want to do with my life? or Is this something I'm passionate about? but something much more important:
Could this be a meaningful part of what I want to do with my life?
In other words, is what I'm doing at this job creating a piece of a larger puzzle?
Am I building, discovering, or acquiring some skill, expertise, or awareness that I can take with me to another team, role, or problem?
That perspective can transform any job — even an unpleasant or dead-end one — into a meaningful experience. Interestingly, it will also tell you when it's time to stop learning and move on.
So as you work away, especially if you're not in love with what you do, ask yourself the following questions:
If the answer to any of these questions is yes, then you're already one step closer to finding new meaning and value in what you do.
If the answer to any of these questions is no, then you have a clear choice: consciously seek out the opportunity to build those skills in your current position, or start looking for new opportunities.
Alan, an AoC listener, once wrote me an email asking for advice when he found himself a year into an unusual position: writing standard operating procedures for a shipping company. His job was basically to create these technical process documents about how freight ships manage and track goods through the supply chain.
On a good day, he said, the job was boring. On a bad day, it was tedious.
What Alan really wanted to do was to work in transportation strategy — a much higher-level position in the same field.
So I shared this question with Alan. I asked him if he was just toiling away writing SOPs or building a brick in a wall.
The answer totally shifted his perspective.
Because it was easy for him to think of this job as just another dry, unfulfilling routine in a part of the industry he didn't care about — punch in, study process flows, knock out an SOP, then go home.
By thinking that way, he had forgotten that he was also getting a rare glimpse into the nuts-and-bolts of how goods move around the world — which is exactly what a logistics strategist needs to understand.
He literally had a front-row seat to the gritty mechanics of the industry he wanted to lead.
Was it always fun?
Was it glamorous?
Definitely not.
Would it make him a compelling candidate when he decided to apply for a job at FedEx or DHL or Maersk?
You bet.
Alan's "painful," "boring," "back-office" job — his exact words — were really a training ground in the core dynamics of the industry he wanted to be a part of!
A few months ago, Alan wrote me again. He was in the middle of interviews at a couple of major transportation companies. His greatest talking point?
Knowing the technical, gritty details of how inventory moves around the world.
In other words, he had built that brick.
I had the exact same ah-ha moment a few years ago.
For a long time, I handled all of our sales here at The Art of Charm, when what I really wanted to do was focus on hosting the podcast.
I can't say I loved every moment of it, but handling sales taught me the ins and outs of our product and made me a much stronger broadcaster by teaching me about persuasion, communication, and the art of shaping conversations with our guests.
That brick — which seemed extraneous to my broadcasting interests — became an essential part of my unique talent stack.
So remember that above all else, your job — especially in your twenties and thirties, but really at every point in your life — is to acquire new skills.
Too many people quit jobs prematurely because they aren't part of a clear trajectory, or they don't fit into a mental map of how their career should look.
But as long as you're developing skills, insight, or expertise, then that job is part of a bigger picture — even if you don't know what that bigger picture is just yet.
In fact, the bigger picture tends to emerge precisely because you're developing those skills — because a skills-based mentality leads to new opportunities, which have a way of filling out the bigger picture on their own.
I was at a friend's dinner party last week with a group of people I didn't know.
So I struck up a conversation with a scruffy, happy-go-lucky dude sitting across from me — let's called him Brad — who told me had just returned from Dubai, where he had spent six weeks helping his brother-in-law sell a stake in his biodegradable plastic business to some local investors.
Which honestly I found hilarious because Brad is a footwear entrepreneur. He kept saying he knew nothing about plastics, and looked like he spent most of his time on a surfboard, not thrashing out deal points in an Emirati board room.
"What was that like?" I asked.
"Hard," he responded after a moment. "I was away from my wife and baby, in a culture I don't really know, in a business I barely understand, wishing the whole time that I could just go home."
I could relate. I just got married. I recently bought a home. If someone sent me on an open-ended trip halfway across the world to work in a field I didn't really understand with people I didn't even know, I'd be a little thrown.
"So how'd you deal?" I asked.
"Well, I just had to keep reminding myself that this was an adventure. I mean, yeah, it's random and it's hard, but isn't it also pretty fun? Like in a few weeks, when I'm back in my own bed, back to my usual routine, won't I kind of wish I were having some weird adventure overseas? Why can't I just enjoy it now?"
"And that helped," I said, realizing he was onto something pretty profound.
"Yeah, I guess it did. When it didn't feel fun, I just asked myself how it could be fun, or how I could make it fun… and then it was." He shrugged with a little laugh at that.
Suddenly, Brad made a lot more sense.
He reminded me of something George Bernard Shaw said: "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing."
The human mind has a way of turning any project, goal, or enterprise into a series of manageable routines.
It's almost certainly an evolutionary mechanism — keep things stable, reduce unpredictability, self-protect.
So a goal becomes a task. A group becomes a company. A career becomes a job.
Even shiny new opportunities eventually lose their initial excitement, and settle into yet another responsibility.
So it's up to us, really, to keep asking ourselves: Where's the fun?
In some cases, you'll find that the fun was there all along, and you just couldn't or wouldn't see it.
Like in Brad's case, where the stress of being away from home was obscuring the fact that he was part of a once-in-a-lifetime adventure trying to sell an unusual business in a foreign country.
(Interestingly, he was also building an unusual brick by working on the plastics deal — which shows that these first two questions are intimately related!)
In other cases, you'll find that the fun isn't just waiting to be discovered. You have to create it.
That might mean turning your job into a kind of game, where you create little missions and rewards to introduce an element of play into your day-to-day.
Or it might mean making an effort to connect and play with your teammates, so you can collectively have fun doing an otherwise not-so-fun task.
Or it might mean making a more significant change, like carving out a new role, applying for a new position, taking on new responsibilities, or looking for a new job entirely.
Either way, the question will guide you to a place of fun — a place of play — which, as all the research tells us, is an essential part of our developmental process.
Dr. Alan Waterman of the College of New Jersey, for example, has demonstrated the essential connection between playful discovery and identity, while Dr. John Neulinger, one of the giants of play theory, taught us that the intrinsic rewards of playful activity — which we can introduce into even our most routine obligations — have a significant impact on cognitive functioning and overall happiness.
As the University of South Alabama's Catherine O'Keefe explains, "Adults need to play because so much of our life is utilitarian. We need to reconnect with the things of our lives that ground us in who we really are and why we like our lives."
In other words, play is serious business.
So keep seeking out the fun, and keep asking yourself where it's waiting to be found in your everyday life.
A few years after we started The Art of Charm Podcast, Sirius/XM Radio approached us to host a social dynamics show on its network.
The whole experience was a blast, but at the time, I remember thinking that this was a temporary phase, a random blip, an interesting place where we'd show up, record our show, then get back to working on AoC. Eventually, we decided to go all in our own platform, and left SiriusXM to invest in the podcast.
Looking back, I now see how many interesting people moved through the world of satellite radio, and how many more relationships we could have developed while we were there.
Because here's the funny thing about networking.
It requires almost as much effort to avoid relationships as it does to build them.
We're social creatures, whether or not we act that way.
We interact with people every day, even when we don't try to seek them out.
The gap between merely interacting and actually developing relationships is where true social capital is born.
And you can develop those relationships anywhere. Even in random fields, even in fields you don't love. In many cases, the relationships you build in those places mean even more, because you're developing them for their own sake, before they have any immediate value.
Like the question about building bricks, this question can transform your life.
Which relationships can I build right now?
It's a question the greatest relationship-builders in the world are constantly asking themselves.
If I've learned anything in my time on this planet, it's that life is never perfect — since it never plays out just as we imagine — but it is always instructive.
Relationships will hit rough patches.
Careers will get tedious.
Travel plans will go awry.
You can always count on the world to challenge you. In fact, life's surprises are an essential part of our experience here on earth. Our flexibility as a species and the unpredictability of our world are locked in a timeless evolutionary dance: life changes so that we can grow in response. Uncertainty isn't just part of life; it is life.
Which is why this question is so important.
Because no matter what happens to us — positive or negative, expected or surprising, helpful or confusing — we can always extract meaning from it.
And the best way to extract meaning is to ask ourselves what any given situation is here to teach us.
A few months into my first job in the law, still eager to prove myself at the firm, I found myself struggling to thrive. Suddenly, my prospects there seemed pretty dim. I realized that I couldn't outwork everyone at the firm — I just didn't have the passion or will to do it — and anyway, most of the associates were way smarter than me, and far more obsessed with the law.
My initial response?
"There's no way I'm cut out to be a top performer. Not here, not anywhere. I fought like hell to get this job, and now I can't even compete. I'm definitely getting fired. Working this hard to get into the law was a mistake. I must have seriously miscalculated. Now I'll have to start from scratch."
A few weeks later — struggling more than ever, but still hanging on — I started to get curious about what this unexpected situation was trying to teach me.
If I was having a hard time, then the challenge must have been trying to teach me something.
That's when I realized that if I was going to survive in that place, I'd have to develop a new competitive advantage.
The other associates could apply their impressive legal minds and endless horsepower to pull all nighters and get our deals done. Their skills and capital fell perfectly within the job description, and thank goodness for that, or we'd have no attorneys.
Meanwhile, I decided to be the guy who would develop relationships inside and outside the firm, and start getting to know what the people behind our deals needed.
My skills and capital would fall beyond and around the job description, and thank goodness for that, or I would still be a mediocre attorney who never discovered my real purpose.
Of course, the rest is history. Those early relationship-building skills led me into the world of social dynamics, and ended up helping me launch The Art of Charm.
Ever since then, I've treated every single challenge in my life as an opportunity to learn.
Difficult vendors, lackluster sales months, disappointing trips, tough conversations, and even smaller challenges, like a rough Chinese lesson or feeling down — I've learned to treat all of them as life's way of teaching me something I need to learn.
Seneca said that no man was ever wise by chance.
There's a reason we become wise, and that reason is experience, coupled with a deliberate curiosity about how that experience functions to serve us.
Seneca is also famous for this little gem:
"If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you're needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person."
The best way to become a different person?
Ask yourself what you're here to learn.
If there's one thing that stops us from chasing what we want, it's fixating on how big, abstract, and daunting it seems.
Focusing on the end result of our goals keeps us paralyzed, and usually acts as an excuse not to pursue them.
Because if our goals really are that big, then how can we possibly achieve them?
The answer, of course, is that we don't have to achieve them — not today.
We only need to chip away at them.
But the mental picture we create with our ambition — which is always blurry, overwhelming, and far in the future — tends to induce a kind of nihilism, where we end up feeling that any effort we make is hopeless.
Which makes total sense. The problem isn't that our efforts are too small, but that we've made the end result so big! With that mental frame, we'd be crazy not to doubt ourselves.
This is an extremely common and destructive pattern we need to break.
And the best way to break it is to ask ourselves what we can be doing today.
Not what we're trying to achieve in or six months, or two years, or five years, but what we can be doing today.
What are the tiny, bite-sized steps we can work on right now?
What manageable aspect of the task can we focus on today?
What are three small, concrete steps you can take at this moment?
I remember watching this interview with Philip Roth a few years back. He said that whenever he felt overwhelmed by the enormity of a new book, he just reminded himself that all he had to do was write the next sentence.
That, he said, was his job.
To write the next sentence.
That's how you write dozens of novels and win a Pulitzer Prize. Not by fixating on the four hundred pages or the greatest literary prize on earth, but by showing up every day. Talent and capability matter, of course, but they mean nothing without small and steady commitments.
We only need to act, a little bit, each and every day.
Over time, we chip away at our goals, and wake up one day to find we've accomplished them.
This practice becomes a way of protecting ourselves from the paralysis of getting things done. We almost have to will ourselves into a state where the bigger picture doesn't exist, so we can focus on the tiny pieces that make that bigger picture come to life.
So when it comes to the amount of work you do today, try asking yourself this question:
How unambitious can I be?
How small and insignificant can I make my tasks?
It's counterintuitive, and it goes against our culture's obsession with doing more and being bigger — but it absolutely works.
It's like David Mamet said:
The nails don't have to look like the door; only the door has to look like the door.
The door doesn't have to look like the house; only the house has to look like the house.
The house is made up of the door, and the door is made up of the nails.
If the house is your goal, and the door is your milestone, and the nails are the tiny tasks you can do every day, then forget about the house — just work on your nails. Three nails a day, every day, compounded over time, will build a house.
This question has absolutely changed my life, and I've seen it change hundreds of our students' lives. I ask it of myself every time I remember what I'm trying to build here at AoC, and think: I can't. It's just too big.
So I make it small. The smaller the better.
And then I do it, making sure to ask myself all five of these questions every single day.


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The new measures tend to extend the role of social security programs through providing a greater proportion of the population with more comprehensive protection and setting higher benefit rates to replace income lost because of old age, disability, sickness, work injury, unemployment, or death.
The reaction of anaphylaxia with desensibilization on guinea pigs and the method of double diffusion in agar gel were used to study the antigenic composition of the rat skeletal muscles 3, 7 and 30 days after their cross sections were connected with polyurethane glue and silk.
It is shown that in the postoperative period, besides antigens similar to those of the normal muscles, other antigens which may belong to stage-specific ones appears in the fraction of soluble proteins.
The antigenic composition of the skeletal muscles is the same with both methods of connection of the tissues defects. The radioisotopic method of 131J-labelled albumin was employed to determine the distribution of acidic proteinase activity in some organs and tissues of chickens. The highest enzymatic activities were found in intestine wall, in pancreas, and in liver. Considerably lower activities were ascertained in kidneys, brain, lungs, and heart. The different proportions of these enzymes in homogenates and supernatant fractions (106 000 g) testify to a lack of uniformity in the solubility of cathepsins in the organs tested. The tested organs, with the exception of pancreas, did not show any enzymatic activity of neutral proteinases. Histologically were investigated 37 cases of neoplastic growths and 2 cases of hyperplasia in canine sebaceous glands.
From this number 24 tumours of circumanal glands (20 adenomas and 4 carcinomas) and 13 tumours of sebaceous glands in extraanal localization were found. In the neoplastic tissue of circumanal adenomas three differentiation degrees of sebaceous cells were identified. Biological behaviour is favourable, tumours destructured the tissue only topically.
Malignant neoplasias consisted of tumorously proliferated, lowly differentiated sebaceous cells. Tumours observed in the ear and external ear canal are histologically similar to human cutaneous sebaceous gland adenomas and therefore from the viewpoint of comparative oncology they are important.
In therapy, surgical extirpation is applied with possible estrogen combination. The influence exerted by the composition of intravenously introduced mixture of amino acids on so-called urea increment, i.e. the difference between the urea concentration in the blood on an empty stomach an on termination of its introduction, was studied in tests on adult mongrel male-dogs.
On the other hand, upon introduction of an amino acids mixture imitating the Swedish preparation Vamin, which includes all essential and non-essential amino acids (except for glutamine and asparagine) in proportion as found in the egg white the urea increment values turned out to be inferior than on administration of a mixture containing from among essential amino acids only arginine and histidine, and from among non-essential ones-glycine and glutamic acid. The urea increment was also lower following combined introduction of an amino acids mixture together with an energy-producing (calorific) material, than when the latter was fed on prior to introduction of the mixture.
The totality of findings suggests that as to its sensitivity to the composition of the parenterally introduced nutritional mixture and, possibly, dietary regimen-the urea increment is in no way inferior to the cumbersome, and difficulty realizable under clinical conditions method of nitrogen balance as a criterion for the efficacy of parenteral nutrition and deserves a detailed study as regards its clinical application. In a synopsis theoretical and experimental problems of the parenteral nutrition are discussed.


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This weekend sees the first performances of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, a one-man show based on Charles Yu's acclaimed novel. Last night was the opening night, and according to the Columbus Dispatch it was a huge hit.
Jennifer Fawcett and Matt Slaybaugh adapted Yu's novel into a stage play, keeping a lot of the same themes and ideas, and Ian Short (pictured up top) stars in it. Writes the Dispatch:
Thoughtful and wistful, endlessly clever but grimly funny, the solo work revolves – and revolves – around a time-machine repairman searching for his long-lost-in-time father while struggling to avoid getting lost himself.
Beyond its rare status as a sci-fi play that actually works, this moving meditation on memory and regret offers a time-warped 21st-century update of No Exit and other existential dramas. Here is an intriguing futuristic take on Waiting for Godot, with the sad clown even more hapless because he's waiting for himself.
This project raised over $6,000 on Kickstarter last month, and you can watch the Kickstarter video, with more information about Fawcett and Slaybaugh's take on the material, over there. Click the link for more info on upcoming performances. [Available Light Theater]