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This firing is making everyone stink. Everyone is coming out of the woodwork to place blame for last season. I'm starting to wonder if "Pistons DNA" was all a gimmick. Did any of these guys ever have it?
That whole story of the players revolting the day before he was fired was a little over the top. With that said, we really don't fire coaches that much more than other teams. Seems like plenty of teams have new coaches every year. I still do think Curry can be a decent coach someday. Keep in mind that he got the job from excelling as an assistant and the next step from there is in the drivers seat. He seems to relate well to younger players but had a hard time getting respect from the vets. Then again - who would that team respect? It all boils down to that he did not get the job done. On another team in a different situation he may have done well. DNA is about winning. If you win then you have your own identity. Lose or underachieve and they are not going to model anything from your team.
When will Joe D be held accountable? He hired Curry, he traded CB for AI. I personally had no problem w/ that without the benefit of hindsight. In short Joe is also culpable for the Pistons situation, but the scape goats are the HC. Will Joe fire himself next? I am not beating up on Joe, just don't think it's fair that every HC in recent past has gotten trashed/blamed i.e. RC was not good w/ the working staff, irritated his players sometimes LB was not a good man Flip had no control/respect Curry inexperienced, no control/respect At some point in time we have to look past the coaches. The previous gentlemen can't all be incompetent, seems like the players and Joe have a good deal of stake in this too.
"When will Joe D be held accountable? He hired Curry, he traded CB for AI. I personally had no problem w/ that without the benefit of hindsight. In short Joe is also culpable for the Pistons situation, but the scape goats are the HC. Will Joe fire himself next?" Anakin I don't get it. Did most of you guys really think we were going to win it all last season with Iverson on board? Cause personally, I never thought it was going to happen. Iverson in his younger days never won it, Iverson coached by better coaches never won it, he didn't get it done in the east or the west. We got an older version, not a wiser version. I've got a great looking 1994 GMC truck parked in my garage, no visible damage. It idles like a kitten purring. Put it on the freeway ramp and it starts belching smoke like an old coal burning locomotive going up a mountain side. That was the Iverson that played for us. I too expected us to be more competitive than we were. I expected the game to look like they were having some fun. Like those first few games with Chris Webber in a Pistons jersey when he was actually passing the ball (remember that week?). I expected Iverson to actually fulfill his contract since it was the ending year and he was facing one last deal in 2010. When he quit on the team, he screwed it. He never gave 100% let alone 110%. It wasn't Dumars that screwed the pooch, it was Iverson. I honestly don't believe he had it in him to give. Like Webber. He never got into a rythm cause he's broken. His petulance, his quitting was first about the frustration you feel when you suddenly realize you can't go 10 rounds with the young guy across the ring, second about protecting himself and his 2010 deal making by feigning injury and limiting his market exposure. It should be noted that neither had we gotten it done in the last couple years with Billups. That's how we got Iversons contract. While Billups looked refreshed and helped guide the Nuggets to the Western Finals, C-note vanished, disappeared (poof gone!), in the last two games against LA. He failed to get it done too. That's perspective. It is what it is. So I don't get the amount of venom directed at a guy in over his head, (Curry) as if he personally crapped a Championship run down the commode. When Iverson went sideways so did our guys. Cause and effect. We lost the same composure we'd lost in the last couple seasons before Iverson, but instead of a little leak we bled like stuck pigs. Same with Dumars, he knew we weren't going to win it this year, he was attempting to keep "cheeks in the seats" and to provide some spark until he could cash in the big chip. He didn't anticipate that his locker room wouldn't, couldn't keep Iverson in check or that they might actually mutiny with him. So yes we should've put on a better show. Yes we should've gotten past the first round on paper cause with a better record we wouldn't been forced to face Cleveland so early. But none of that changes the fact that Iverson was brought here to leave here not live here. Which by the way Dumars said repeatedly. So it seems the only folks that actually thought it had the potential to be the 2008/2009 Championship team are residing in this forum. Just for grins, supposing Cleveland & Orlando had major blowouts and we had faced LA in the Championship, anyone in here really think we would have beat them? Really? And if Kobe had suddenly come down with an intense case of the Swine Flu, and we won it all, would you be hollering now to extend Iversons contract? Cause if Dumars then refused to give the guy say 15-18 a year ya'll would be kickin dirt on his grave claiming he robbed us of our legacy.. What I think this season teaches Dumars? Trade them sooner. Don't try to build a 6-8 year dynasty cause the dynamics are just too hard to control. You can influence them, but you can't harness them. A solid 4 or 5 year run, then move 40% down the road to freshen the brains, blood and legs. Don't get caught putting on a song & dance show with geriatric players. Don't let father time, loyalty and long contracts catch you sleeping. Of course that would keep 50% of this forum frothing and spitting that we just got rid of future hof'ers, but that's the way sausage is really made..
During our two great years with LB forum members were spitting and frothing too G-Man. LB didn't play Darko, LB had a bad personality, LB was temperamental and moody etc. etc. The expectations for a Pistons coach include a winning personality, politeness towards secretarial staff, a "win-now" philosophy combined with an ability to develop young players and give them a lot of playing time and a committment to staying in Detroit and not looking for other jobs. It can't be a surprise when an inept "over-his-head" coach get raked over the coals too.
To be honest, I don't like the players or the coaches. I just like the game. I like the game for completely different reasons now.
Our coaches overplayed the best starting 5 in basketball after the Championship and didn't trust the bench to give them rest or contribute. We gave players away after they disappointed us instead of showcasing them and getting value in the trades. Development is a big part of the game and could have been the difference between knocking on the door in '05 and '06 and a 3-peat. The infamous Tay guarding Duncan is a cliche at this point, but it is still a perfect example of the corner that we painted ourselves into.
I think that's why I don't watch basketball any more. I really don't care much for the game itself. But I was really into the players way back when. So now, I don't care much for them, and therefore nothing motivates me to turn on the game. Get a few players and a coach I can root for, and I'll be rooting my butt off again.
I am personally finding the actual NBA game more and more annoying as it morphs toward Stern's ideal. The foul situation stresses me out even if I'm watching the Clippers play the Bobcats on a Tuesday night.
in Non-piston ville, the most fun i've had watching basketball in the last few years has been the Hornets playoff run a year ago, Golden State upsetting the mavericks in 2007, and almost any pre-steve kerr phoenix suns team
IMO, more so than the other major sports, Basketball is an artform. A Jamaal Wilkes jumper is art. ...a Gervin finger roll. ...Kareem's skyhook. ...Blalock's three. I enjoy watching our Pistons. I don't root for the players. I don't root for the coach(s). I root for the uniform and the city of Detroit.
Gotta bad feeling about this one...Look for Joe to hire somebody that most of us won't be happy with. Still don't think Bill is coming aboard.


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In 2006, when Chief Justice Ronald M. George first appointed the California Blue Ribbon Commission on Children in Foster Care, he charged it with providing recommendations to the Judicial Council of California on the ways in which the courts and their child welfare partners could improve safety, permanency, well-being, and fairness outcomes for children and families in the state. After the commission issued its recommendations in August 2008, Chief Justice George reappointed the commission for another three years, starting in June 2009, to work on implementing the recommendations.
In March 2012, Chief Justice Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye reappointed the commission to work on the implementation of its recommendations. During the BRC annual meeting in May 2012, she also charged the commission with creating an initiative to keep kids in school and out of court. These efforts include holding a summit on the issue of how truancy and school discipline policies can lead to poor outcomes for our children and youth and what can be done about it. If outside funding can be secured, the summit will take place in late fall 2013. Work on both the new initiative and the implementation of the commission's recommendations is ongoing.
A Brief History of the California Blue Ribbon Commission on Children in Foster Care
Blue Ribbon Commission Members
CFCC Celebrates Reunification Month with Release of New Publication
Together Again: A Day of Celebration is a resource for local juvenile courts to use when recognizing the efforts of parents who the court determines may safely reunify with their children. This book, written from a child's perspective, seeks to describe the challenges that face children and families going through the dependency process, and celebrate the important accomplishments of parents and the professionals that support them in their efforts toward reunification. The book also includes a certificate to commemorate the date of reunification. Printable versions are available below.
Together Again: A Day of Celebration (for color printing)
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AOC Briefing: Truancy and School Discipline: An Overview of the Literature and Statistics (November 2012)
This publication is intended as a resource for California courts working with their justice partners and other stakeholders to develop collaborative solutions to truancy and school discipline issues in their communities. It begins with an overview of key statistics and research on truancy and school discipline, particularly as they intersect with the juvenile justice and child welfare systems, and moves on to identify principles and strategies for addressing the problems.
Sharing Information About Children in Foster Care - Message From the Chair (2010)
Statement on Data Sharing, California's Child Welfare Council (2009)
Sharing Information About Children in Foster Care: Health Care (2010)
Sharing Information About Children in Foster Care: Education (2010)
Sharing Information About Children in Foster Care: Mental Health Care (2010)
Sharing Information About Children in Foster Care: Substance Abuse Treatment (2010)
California Dependency Online Guide (CalDOG)
The California Dependency Online Guide is a website that provides dependency-related case law, legal materials, articles and other resources to California attorneys, judicial officers, social workers, tribal representatives, Court Appointed Special Advocates, and other child welfare professionals. The website provides access to high-quality, up-to-date information for professionals working in California's dependency system, regardless of the size of the county, the employer, or the availability of legal and other resources in the local area. It also ensures that attorneys practicing anywhere in the state are able to complete the statutory training required to be eligible to accept appointment as counsel for parents or children. For more information, view the CalDOG postcard. Subscriptions are free and available to professionals working in the field of juvenile dependency. Log in or subscribe here.
The Child Welfare County Data Profiles for the Courts are a series of county-level reports that provide relevant information on the juvenile dependency caseload in California. The data contained in these reports are drawn primarily from publically available data stored in California's child welfare data system (CWS/CMS). The reports have been designed to meet the data needs of judicial officers, court managers and court executives. Following a high-level data dashboard, these reports contain information on court caseloads, voluntary caseloads, juvenile dependency filings, family maintenance cases, numbers of children in foster care, foster care entries and exits, foster care placement types, in-care rates by race and ethnicity, reentries into foster care, time to adoption, permanent placement outcomes, and youth aging out of foster care. The reports, available as both PDF and Excel files, will be updated every six months.
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Final Report and Action Plan - Executive Summary (May 2009)
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President Obama's prayers for a strong first debate may not have been answered, but that doesn't mean the prayers weren't happening.
Before he stepped onto a Colorado stage earlier this month to face off with Mitt Romney for the first time, Obama joined a conference call with a small circle of Christian ministers.
"The focus of that prayer was, 'Oh, Lord, you know precisely what the president needs to say,'" says Kirbyjon Caldwell, a Methodist megachurch pastor from Texas who helped lead the call. "'You know what this country needs during the next four years.'"
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Obama, for his part, was mostly silent.
"There's a profound and genuine humility in the presence of Christ himself," Caldwell says, describing the president on such calls. "I think he recognizes it as a holy moment."
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Well, what started back in mid 2009 as a few blog posts to capture a systematic approach to trying to get a handle on the various ways work requests come to a delivery focused team exploded into a 14,000 word, 13 part blog posting series on the topic. I managed three different delivery teams within three different companies within three different industries while this topic was being explored. The diversity of the teams, the size of the overall organizations (6 member team in 2,000 person IT department within 36,000 employees, 21 member team in 40 IT person department within 300 employees and 8 member team in 100 IT person department within 7,000 employees) and the industries (financial services, legal services and manufacturing) all helped to give me confidence to present the model described throughout this series.
Clearly the theme throughout this series is to use data where ever possible to represent all facets of the work your team is doing. In all three companies I received extremely positive feedback for the effectiveness of my approach from my management. Thus, I felt confident to share my approach with others in hopes others would find a way to adopt some of the techniques to enhance their management function.
Below is a brief summary of the key take-aways and techniques presented in each of the parts of this series in case readers missed any parts along the way or are interested in reading more about a particular topic:
Starts the series by requesting you make a list of all the high level service delivery attributes of your team. Next, you are asked to list out the various ways work arrives to your team for each attribute that was documented. Additionally, if there was specific technology under the umbrella of services your team provides, document those and include relevant dates of version upgrades and version end-of-life conditions that represents work you know your team has to perform.
Part 2 extends the list in part 1 to start to derive a model for how your team operates. You are asked to identify how much influence you have over each work attribute. Those attributes of which you have a high degree of influence means you are in a position to plan out the work. Those of which you have little influence means you are reacting to the work. For the attributes with little to no influence, you are requested to identify sources of predictive data such as historical request metrics and duration data to form trends. Additionally, you are asked to develop relationships with individuals and groups that are sources of work requests to assist in building work request pipelines.
Now that a baseline work request attribute and influence system has formed, you are guided through the thought process of determining how much capacity your team has to actually deliver work. The familiar topic of an eight hour day doesn't really mean each team member can focus eight hours on work requests is discussed to arrive at a data supported, more realistic number of hours per day to dedicate to service request work.
Part 4 describes how to apply the numbers your collected in part 3 towards juggling high and low influences over the requested work scheduling. How to communicate this juggling by using data to your management and work requesters is also discussed.
This part in the series describes how to take the low level numbers from the previous two parts and determine the true overall capacity your team has for doing work in a given time period. The excellent article on this pragmatic capacity planning by Peter Kretzman (http://peterkretzman.com) is also covered.
Part 6 dives deeper into work requests that require some partial dedication of a resource on your team to a work effort and some of the nuances around safely committing to work deliverables knowing you don't have fully dedicated resources.
This part talks about how to integrate unplanned work requests into in flight work at a high level. Engagement models and other similar topics are also discussed.
Now that the basics have been covered and a variety of work request patterns have been discussed, this part starts to walk you through how to build a comprehensive team resource plan.
With Part 8 setting the framework for your team resource plan, Part 9 suggests how to sequence and represent detailed work requests. Additionally, having your team participate in the process as well as provide critical work estimation data is also covered.
Now that the team resource plan has the majority of externally requested work represented, the addition of non-request work is covered. Topics such as "special projects" and "HR-ish" work is covered. What to include, what to not include and to what level of detail is the focus of this part.
Now that you have a rather comprehensive team resource plan, this part describes mechanisms to help keep the plan from going stale. Additionally, how the plan improves your external perception as a manager is explored.
This part extends your team resource plan to offer "what if" scenarios around the cost of working on a new hot priority request and how to use your team resource plan to assist with prioritization with your management and the requesters.
This final part tackles one of the most challenging topics facing a team manager: how to justify a request for additional staff. The team resource plan is a critical tool in either forecasting forward or re-planning the past to use data to justify that staff add.
All in all, I hope you have enjoyed reading this series and found some element of it useful to you. I would appreciate any comments on the series as whole as far as its overall usefulness to you as well as any feedback around alternative approaches to topics I've outlined.


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My name is Emma. My band is called Emmy the Great. I'm guest editing I Like Music because the deluxe edition of my second album is out this week, and we made a single and a short film to go with it.
Also, I'm writing this because I like music. Not just on Facebook, and not just as a friend. I'm really into it. I want to date it, make love to it, meet its parents, charm its mother, marry the shit out of it and end up buried next to it in our family plot.
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Click the play button below to launch the pop-out player and stream the Emmy The Great playlist, then scroll down to read her features...
The death of Adam Yauch last week rocked me in a way that celebrity deaths usually don't. He and his band were an icon of their age, and that age happened to be the one in which I learned what music was. Beastie Boys soundtracked much of my teenage years, and I was lucky enough to see them live twice. They had an incredibly ability to create statements that were both absurd and definitive, and some of my favourite lyrics of theirs are in this song, from Ill Communication - like 'What's up with the shoes on your feet?' or 'She's the cheese, and I'm the macaroni!'
This summer I am playing a festival in tribute to Joe Strummer and as part of it I had to help make a shrine in his honour. So last weekend, a group of us made pinatas in the shapes of things that reminded us of him, and mine was in the shape of a ghetto blaster. I ended up making it in tribute to Adam Yauch as well, because I feel like the Clash and the Beastie Boys shared something, in their respective, iconoclastic ways. On the bottom of the ghetto blaster, I wrote 'Know Your Rights' and 'Fight For Your Right to Party'.
These people live on in their words and their music.
Every few months I have the joy of falling in love with a new album, and not listening to anything but that album for days and days on repeat. That happened to me recently with this album from J. Tillman, formerly of Fleet Foxes, now recording under the name Father John Misty.
I've got a penchant for a very particular kind of album. I like songs that shed light about something I don't know, a human experience that is different from mine. I especially like handsome men singing sardonic songs about being cads in upmarket, glamorous situations. It's one of the reasons I love Paul Simon's Graceland, and it's why I have listened to Rufus Wainwright's Want Two eight hundred thousand times.
So Father John Misty, singing about taking hallucinogens with actresses in Hollywood is a welcome addition to my collection. He's a funny lyricist too. One of the few people who can get away with making you laugh out loud in a song, without drifting into comedy music.
It's difficult choosing my favourite Weezer video. Academically it should be one of the early Spike Jonze videos, or I could have picked Pork and Beans, because it so perfectly spoofs an era of Internet videos that is just far enough gone now to feel nostalgic. I also love the MTV performance of 'Greatest Man That Ever Lived' that they did to promote the Red album, where Pat Wilson is just casually holding a ghetto blaster, and Rivers lip synchs holding a basketball, and sporting a truly wispy moustache.
BUT Keep Fishin' is an underrated favourite song of mine, and the video does star the cast of the Muppets, so...
A key mover in the scene that birthed the recent wave of new British folk acts, and a sometime member of Noah and The Whale, Emmy The Great has gathered a cult following with her engaging and intelligent take on indie-pop. Her second album, Virtue, was first released in 2011, replete with the idiosyncratic lyrical style that has become her trademark: sometimes whimsical, sometimes humorous, always poetic. Virtue is now being re-issued as a deluxe edition, with new tracks and a short film to accompany it.
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"(Residents) should have a place to come together and get to know each other," Wolk said.
Wolk's user-friendly website FortOGeorgia.com brings people together by spotlighting every angle of Fort Oglethorpe from cultural events to city government, schools, businesses and area attractions. One can find straightforward information on FortOGeorgia.com, such as a history page with links to Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park and the 6th Cavalry Museum.
"I put the website up in January 2011," she said. "I'd always wanted to do a community website. My husband passed away a year and a half ago and I needed to throw myself into something different."
In addition to offering visitors and neighbors a cyberspace hangout Wolk wants to establish a real world space where people can gather "face-to-face."
Wolk is preparing FortOGeorgia.com Headquarters & Hangout for a late February opening. The store is at 2738 LaFayette Road just north of the Sear's Shoe Store in Fort Oglethorpe.
"This is a place to buy things but is also a place to do things," Wolk said.
She says she had hoped to open in January, but delays in renovation put her behind schedule. Wolk is doing most of the work herself, with some help from her grown sons and friends.
"I've learned endless skills," Wolk said. She has laid carpeting, painted walls and signs, cleaned up concrete dust and assembled store shelving in the past several weeks.
Along with the physical labor of readying her store to sell souvenirs, novelties, history and other non-fiction books, quality Dover coloring books and art supplies she is laying the foundation for local artists, authors and performers to share their skills. Wolk plans to display artwork and books by local artists' and writers. She also intends to present the history of Fort Oglethorpe and the military park along one 30-foot wall. The civic-minded storeowner has a stage in the corner set up for drama and public speaking workshops. Wolk said she also would hold workshops in drawing, painting, sculpture, crafts, puppetry, health issues and writing, and conduct "brain games" for people of all ages.
"As we find people who can teach these things we'll keep adding to our repertoire," Wolk writes on her website.
Wolk said the workshops also might be taken "off site" to local churches, schools and civic groups. On FortOGeorgia.com she writes the in-store workshops would range in cost from $2 per person to $25, depending on the topic.
"We're working on a price structure for off-site workshops," she writes. "We'll also be doing 'guinea pig' workshops which will be free. When we develop a new workshop we (would) like to try it out on a friendly audience and people are usually pretty friendly when something is free."
Classic Blades owner and Downtown Development Chairman Jeff Epperson said any business that promotes the community and relates to local history "is a great thing." Epperson is one of several Fort Oglethorpe business owners that pay to advertise on FortOGeorgia.com's "shop local" page.
Wolk moved to the tri-state area from Philadelphia, Penn., 30 years ago. She is passionate about sharing her adopted hometown's rich history. Wolk said once her store is up and running she'd like to develop a historical walking tour of Fort Oglethorpe.
Wolk describes herself as "a writer by trade." She's drafted position papers, board presentations, website copy and fundraising letters for non-profit organizations. Wolk also worked in bookstores, built non-commerce websites, tutored, designed ads and organized events.
"I've pretty much always worked for myself," she said.
This time around, she's open to old and new friends stopping by the headquarters and hangout to lend a hand, Wolk said.
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· Set to open in late February
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· Workshops in art, drama and public speaking are planned
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I read with great interest your reply to the question about Vitamin D preventing cancer. Specifically your reply: "In other words it is not a matter of taking mega doses of Vitamin D but rather ensuring that you don't have a deficiency. Remember that most cancers are due to a nutrient deficiency!"
Can this same principle apply to other conditions?
The current issue of Prevention Magazine has 'suggestions/advertisements' to be vaccinated (when you turn 60 years old) with Zostavax to prevent shingles and postherpetic neuralgia. Apparently, "1 in 4 people who have had chickenpox eventually develops the blistering rash of shingles – caused when the chickenpox virus, Varicella zoster" is reactivated. 40% will go on to suffer what's been described as the worst kind of pain imaginable. Called postherpetic neuralgia (PHN) it is so agonizing that it's been known to lead some people to suicide."
Back to my question, can a nutritional deficiency be a factor here, and if not, is this 'scare tactics' by pharmaceuticals?
Thanks as always for your input..
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I believe that this principle does indeed apply to many other conditions. Naturally there are exceptions to this in that in a minority of cases degenerative disease can be caused by a genetic defect, but from all the material I have read this is the exception rather than the rule.
The issue that you have raised in relation to the new vaccine for the prevention of shingles is an interesting one, and one in which I confess not to have an opinion…at least when it comes to suggesting what people should or should not do in relation to this potential condition.
What I can say is that personally I would never take such a vaccine just for preventative purposes. The reason being is that the risk of getting the condition is very low in spite of their claim that 1 in 4 people who have had chicken pox in their childhood are likely to develop shingles at a later stage.
I am rather intrigued as to how they get these figures. I remember that when I was a kid that everyone seemed to get chicken pox and it was pretty unusual to find a kid who had not had it. If the majority of kids got it, and I know I did and so did everyone else I knew, then it would follow that shingles would be a very common disease. But, is it?
Consider these figures.
In the study that Merck the developers of the vaccine did they had two groups of approx 19,000 subjects. One group was given the vaccine and the other a placebo. In the placebo group approx 600 people got shingles, and around 300 in the vaccine group got it.
This is where they get the 50% reduction figures from.
Now, look at it another way.
The chances of getting shingles if you are over 60 with NO vaccine were approx 3%.
The chances of getting shingles if you are over 60 WITH the vaccine were 1.5%.
Now, here is an interesting thought! The chance of having a serious adverse effect from the vaccine was more than 1.5% depending upon your age!
So what does this mean?
* Your risk of getting shingles if you vaccinate is only reduced by 1.5%. This is how it should be looked at, NOT a reduction in risk of 50% which is a convenient marketing distortion.
* The risk of having a serious adverse effect is greater than 1.5%
* So, if you have the vaccine the risk of having a serious side effect is equal to the reduction of the risk of getting shingles after having the vaccine.
There is really nothing more that I can add to this. It must at the end of the day be a personal decision which would be influenced by your state of health and how you assess the risks.
As a footnote: My Mother got shingles when she was in her late 80′s and she certainly suffered with a great deal of pain which continued until she died a few years later. Unfortunately she was not diagnosed with shingles early enough. However, if she had been there is now a vaccine that is very effective at halting shingles soon after it appears IF it is administered early enough.
Even though I saw what Mum had to suffer I personally would still not take the vaccine because I believe I will be in much better health than Mum when I reach that age and therefore much less likely to contract it. If however, I suspected that I was getting it I would not hesitate to have the vaccine AFTER it had been diagnosed.
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Leaders lead. It sounds so simple; and yet, we make it seem so complex. I do think it is beneficial to occasionally go back and review the basics. Being an enthusiastic college basketball fan, I marvel at how often "great teams" actually execute the basics the best. So for aspiring and seasoned leaders, reviewing and practicing the basics will help us become strong performers.
The following are five basics worth remembering and practicing:
The following biblical principles can provide God's power for you to lead day in and day out. Try starting each day reading these verses and praying for wisdom to not only do the right thing, but to have courage when facing tough decision. Operating from His power in faith will provide a great sense of strength and peace for facing all circumstances.
During recent times of challenge, I had a trusted friend that kept reminding me that it is a privilege to serve Christ even when you may be misinterpreted or misunderstood. If you have the opportunity to serve Christ and risk all, it is still worth it to risk all for Christ.
January 3, 2013
If you are a leader, you know what it is like to discover that there can be conflict, even in great organizations. Conflict represents discord, differing viewpoints, and frequently brings out the worst in people in how they act and interact with one another. Conflict does impact organizations in negative ways and can put a cloud of oppression over the environment.
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Getting through something hard does produce personal satisfaction and it does deepen and strengthen relationships. Good leadership seeks to engage conflict knowing that it can lead to positive outcomes if handled with integrity and deliberateness.
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Leaders frequently talk about the need for transparency and authenticity. It is commonly accepted and fashionable today to encourage transparency in all areas of life and leadership. However, living and practicing truth telling and integrity in all matters seems to be a difficult task for effective leaders today.
In our world it appears that being highly truthful and careful to clarify all statements is less of a concern on the part of leaders as well as followers. Today, being dishonest or telling half-truths seems to be commonplace and even acceptable even when in contrast we are quick to judge and criticize those who have highly visible moral or financial failures. Perhaps we are less willing to hold them accountable to live and practice leadership with a high degree of integrity because society today regularly overlooks lying and exaggeration among high profile leaders. There is a disconnect between how we judge leaders for lying and being deceitful versus judging them for much more serious sins or illegal activities. We are ok to let leaders tell half-truths if they portray a positive and likeable image. Holding those in authority accountable for truth telling does not seem to be of high value and importance. However, I contend that demonstrating integrity and truth in all communication and interactions is critical to effective leadership.
Why do those in top positions so frequently communicate in shades of grey? Leaders who desire to be well-liked or who have an overwhelming desire to please people can easily fall into the trap of communicating with less than accurate information. Leaders who have a high need to be liked or favored are often willing to tell people what they want to hear.
Why is it important to speak and lead with truth and integrity?
Telling people hard things can be difficult. But it is far better to tell people hard things rather than avoid telling them just because you do not want to be disliked or criticized. Leaders who speak the truth even when it may represent bad news are willing to do what is right even in the face of experiencing criticism. It is important to applaud true authentic leadership – leadership which operate based on truth and integrity.


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