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Author's Notes- I've used a similar set up with a Naruto fic I wrote, but hey, I figure, it's not plagiarism if you're ripping yourself off, eh? And I've done my best to differentiate them in everything except the premise of using a week long timeframe.
Set in that vague time between the move to the Chinese Federation and Kallen's capture, but you could also take it as an AU timeline. R2 really doesn't provide much in the way of time for canonically placed Kallen/Lelouch interactions (that aren't horribly angsty, anyways), which really kind of sucks. So I suppose I'm forced to make up my own time.
"You're insufferable, you know that?"
"Now now, is that any way to speak to your commanding officer?"
"I'm sorry. You're insufferable, sir."
"I'm hurt."
"The truth hurts sometimes."
"Oho, speaking from experience?"
"… that's not funny."
"Forgive me, then."
"Bah. See what I mean about you being a jerk though?"
"Really, I can't be that bad."
"Yes, you are!"
"Then I'll tell you what. The next time you get mad at me, if you can hold it for a week without me finding a way to have you forgive me, then I'll admit I've wronged you, and that I am, in fact, insufferable. In written and verbal form, or whatever format you choose. Publically, even."
"I'm mad at you right now."
"Then I suppose we'll see in a week which one of us is right, starting tomorrow."
"I'll make sure to get a record of your confession. I'm sure C.C. will enjoy it too."
"You do that."
Day One
Despite their argument the previous day, Kallen woke up feeling refreshed and happy. She'd gotten her favorite breakfast, a traditional Japanese meal with miso soup and fish, and then managed a rejuvenating workout, and then had a delicious lunch afterward. She'd nearly forgotten about the stupid bet until she passed Zero in the hall.
"Ah, Zero, I wanted to ask about-"
He breezed by her without so much as a nod, and then stopped in front of a random officer and immediately struck up a conversation with the poor, bewildered man.
What. The. Hell?
All around her, her fellow Black Knights stopped what they were doing, staring in abject shock. It was well known throughout the organization that Kallen was, with the possible exception of C.C. (who nobody really knew anything about), the closest one to their mysterious masked leader. Seeing him completely ignore the captain of his bodyguard squad came as something of a shock.
She remembered the bet, and her eyes narrowed. What, was he seriously expecting that if he gave her the cold shoulder that she'd just cave and forgive him?
Kallen bristled and growled.
Around her, several battle-hardened Black Knights cowered away in fury like frightened kittens before her ire.
Day Two
If she had any doubts that Lelouch was playing the silent treatment card on her yesterday, today it was about as subtle as Jeremiah Gottwald's thing about loyalty or Nina's obsession with Princess Euphemia.
He would see her coming down the hall and make a sharp left or right. Once, she was even standing in front of his office, and he intentionally stepped out of view until she gave up and left- she turned back around and he had resumed his walk towards the office.
When she had to stop by his office to drop off some new paperwork, he didn't even bother looking up at her and said nothing to her, relaying all his orders through a very much bemused C.C., who gave her a catty smile that spoke volumes about how much the witch was enjoying her suffering.
He even organized a meeting and didn't tell her! Hell, she didn't even know there was one until Lakshata passed by and informed her that they were running new tests on the Guren starting next week, as decided on by the aforementioned meeting.
Okay, disrespect was one thing, but this was just downright unprofessional.
If Lelouch Lamperouge thought her so weak a woman that she'd bend before his childish little act, he had another thing coming.
Kouzuki Kallen was not some weak willed woman- she was a valkyrie, a goddess of the battlefield, damn it, and she was going to prove that Lelouch did not always get to win.
Day Three
Unfortunately, she'd forgotten just how damnably clever Lelouch actually was, and that his tactics had earned him a reputation for miracles- apparently, this carried over into ordinary life as well as military planning (hooray for useless skills, apparently).
"Kallen," Ougi said concernedly, furrowing his brow, "You really should apologize to Zero. I know you've got your pride, but he's clearly hurt by whatever you said. He won't even let us talk about you in his presence."
"In fact, he organized yesterday's meeting to mention that perhaps the stress of putting you in such a top position such as captain of Zero Squad might be putting too much pressure on someone so young," he added, a note of panic in his voice. "He wanted to take you off Zero Squad, Kallen!"
Lelouch, you're a bastard and I hate you.
"I'm the best pilot we have, Ougi-san," she reminded him, crossing her arms. "Zero won't take me off his personal bodyguards because of something like a fight."
"So there was a fight!" Tamaki cut in, laughing loudly, stepping close to her. "What happened?"
Crap. Crap. Crap.
"It was nothing," she refuted quickly, refusing to meet their eyes. God damn Lelouch Lamperouge.
"He's trying to fire you over nothing," Ougi reiterated, arching his eyebrow disbelievingly. He broke out into a sigh, rubbing the back of his head. "Look, Kallen, ever since Naoto died, I've tried to look out for you, and… well… I mean, I know it's not my business to interfere in your life, but you should really think before you speak."
"Ougi-san, know that the only reason I'm not going to bludgeon you with a heavy object right now is because of my brother," Kallen said slowly, a low growl with more in common to a hungry lion than a teenage girl emanating from her throat. "So maybe you should take your own advice."
Wisely, Ougi left the subject alone.
However, his companion had no such tact.
"Is it trouble in paradise? Did you catch him doing it with C.C. or somethin'?" Tamaki interjected, grinning widely.
It took Ougi a good minute before he managed to pry Tamaki from Kallen's rather vicious stranglehold, and cost him a few bruises and scrapes for his trouble. He briefly considered abandoning his friend- honestly, what job did Tamaki do that they couldn't have replaced by either a six year old with attention deficit disorder or a trained monkey with one arm (the monkey and child would probably be more useful in battle anyways)- but in the end good conscience won out and he reluctantly took his lumps to save the poor dumb bastard.
"Ougi-san, I didn't say anything to Zero. He's just…" she frowned, and realized she was trapped. She couldn't just come out and say that Zero was manipulating them for some childish bet- it would damage his credibility as Zero, and that was something she wouldn't do, even if he was an insufferable son of a bitch.
Crap. Lelouch really did think all of this through.
"He's a grown man who created and manages the only resistance against the world's greatest superpower out of nothing- I would think he doesn't need you two acting as mediators," Kallen finally said icily, and turned on her heel. "Now if you'll excuse me, some of us have real work to do."
She caught the bastard in question outside the room, obviously having been waiting for the right opportunity to swoop in and force her into apologizing. Before he could escape, she grabbed him by the wrist, pulling him close.
"Next time, fight your own battles," she hissed, and stormed off.
Lelouch frowned contemplatively, and then, after her back had long since departed from his sight, he chuckled.
One lost battle hardly meant the war.
Day Four
If Kallen believed Lelouch would try something a little less shameless after the complete and abject failure of his "silent treatment/sympathy" ploy, she was sorely, sorely mistaken.
It began in the morning, as she stepped outside her room, to find Zero waiting outside for her. Immediately, she straightened, believing there was some task that needed doing.
"Can I help you, Zero?" she asked, thinking that, with the mask on and after that debacle yesterday, that Lelouch wouldn't dare try anything else just yet.
She should really have been more careful with her words.
"No, I was merely hoping to escort you to the dining hall this morning," he answered cordially, gesturing. "If it's fine with you."
Now, people had already been shocked over the past three days by Zero utterly ignoring Kallen's entire existence, then the resulting trauma of suddenly seeing their mysterious, impersonal leader offer to take her to the dining hall left most of the Black Knights questioning their sense of reality.
Kallen stood there, eyes wide in confusion, for about three seconds before she narrowed her eyes in understanding (the part of her that realized she was getting to know his twisted personality a little too well was vaguely irritated).
"I'm perfectly capable of finding my way on my own, thank you," she said with false sweetness, "I'm sure you have much more important things to do than to take time out of your day for me."
"Nonsense," Zero refuted boldly, sweeping towards her with a dramatic gesture that was obviously for the crowd. Briefly, Kallen wondered if Lelouch had ever considered a career in acting. "I've been rude to you for the past three days. Allow me to make it up to you."
And before she could manage a reply, he wrapped his arm around her shoulders (the surrounding Black Knights resolved to retreat to the medical bay in the hopes of finding a drug that could return them to their senses, as clearly they were no longer in touch with reality) and led her off towards the dining hall. She could have thrown him off at any point, but her mind froze the moment his hand settled on her shoulder (slender fingers gently pressing against her skin ever so softly, sending tingles down her spine and- oh God what the hell-)
His attitude took a complete reversal- instead of outright ignoring her and pretending she didn't exist, Zero was the consummate gentleman. He opened doors for her, pulled out a chair for her in the dining hall (even though they both knew he wasn't eating there), and walked right next to her throughout the base as if she were a lover and not a bodyguard, breaching an unspoken distance that was supposed to be kept between two people in a strictly platonic relationship. His hands even 'accidentally' brushed hers from time to time, and all she got for the encroachment on her personal space was an insincere 'sorry' and (though she couldn't see it) a smile.
To a normal girl, ignorant to the scheming, deceitful bastard that was Lelouch Lamperouge, it would have been flattering and not a little bit charming.
To Kallen, it was a sign that Lelouch was willing to do anything and everything to win, and only renewed her determination to make him lose this time.
The final straw came when he offered a glass of water, without prompt, and she took it without even looking up, as if expecting it (in her defense, he'd been handing her utensils and condiments the whole meal, to the point it had become routine).
The unspoken level of intimacy in the gesture would have gone unnoticed, had someone not whispered in the background, "Wow, they really are just like a real couple."
She snapped. Grabbing a fistful of his cape, disregarding all protocol and decorum, Kallen dragged him outside of the mess hall.
"You have no shame at all, do you?" she challenged, once they were outside, flushing a deep scarlet.
"All's fair in love and war, Kallen," Lelouch said huskily, stepping closer to her, so close she could smell the faint hints of cologne lingering on him.
Squirming, trying to ignore the warm tingle in her stomach at the word 'love', she pushed him away from her.
"Nice try, but I'm not that easy."
Day Five
This, she decided, was Lelouch's foulest, most underhanded, devilish tactic yet. Embarrassing her in front of their comrades not once, not twice, but four times in four days was apparently not enough for that sadistic monster. Neither was playing the victim, of what amounted to a jilted boyfriend trying to get back on his girlfriend's good side.
No, psychological warfare was apparently only the shallow end in the deep, vast ocean that contained the depths of Lelouch's cruelty.
"I know men can be foolish sometimes, Kallen-san, but really, Zero-sama is so torn up about you being angry with him! He just wants you to forgive him!" Kaguya pleaded, hanging off her arm with a wide eyed puppy dog expression that should have been banned by international treaty.
Now you're just playing dirty, Lelouch, Kallen thought irritably. This is definitely crossing the line.
Plastering on her best false smile, perfected by years of putting up with annoying Brittanian students, she replied, in as calm a manner as she could muster, "Kaguya-sama, it's not really as bad as that."
"But Zero-sama and C.C.-san told me so!" Kaguya said insistently, still holding onto her arm, "C.C.-san even claimed that Zero-sama cried the other day at your cold treatment of him!"
Okay, clearly Lelouch never told C.C. to say that, Kallen thought, and felt a bit of vindictive satisfaction at the thought of Lelouch's indignant fury at being humiliated in such a way. C.C. was nobody's ally in these kinds of quarrels- she was in it for her own amusement, and if she could embarrass both Lelouch and Kallen in one fell sweep, she would do it in a heartbeat.
"I'm not going to apologize," Kallen said firmly, but with as gentle a tone as possible. And then, with a flash of feminine intuition, she smiled and continued, "After all, Kaguya-sama… sometimes, don't men need to learn a lesson about how to treat a lady?"
Her gamble paid off beautifully as Kaguya's expression changed from pleading to contemplative, and then finally to a bright, understanding smile.
Gotcha, Lelouch, Kallen thought gleefully.
While she didn't see Lelouch that day, Kallen did hear through the grapevine that Kaguya returned to Zero and immediately berated him for 'not understanding the delicate feelings of a young flower', and then decided not to speak to him as well until he had properly gained Kallen's forgiveness. C.C. reportedly hadn't stopped laughing for a good hour afterward.
Day Six
There's nothing quite as disconcerting as finding something in your room when you wake that wasn't there when you were asleep. It's a severe disorientation for the mind, not knowing whether to trust one's own memory or to believe that someone had snuck in said object. Sometimes, the object is barely noticeable, and it is easy to realize why you might have missed it before sleeping, or to have slept through as it was added to the décor.
Kallen, however, was very, very certain that she did not miss this particular sight before she went to bed, indicating that someone had to have snuck them in during her sleep.
"But how, exactly," she said out loud, trying to voice her concerns, "Does one sneak six dozen flower bouquets while someone is sleeping?"
She stared out at the colorful gathering uncomprehendingly. There were roses and lilacs and marigolds and baby's breaths, and other flowers she didn't know the names of off the top of her head.
What in the world…
And, sitting atop the nearest bouquet, was a card.
Slowly, hesitantly she opened it.
All the flowers I could find. They may only be a shade of your beauty, but I hope they express my sincerest apologies.
It went unsigned, but she'd recognize that flowing, near obsessively neat script anywhere.
Kallen scoffed and crumpled the card.
Now he was just getting desperate.
Day Seven
"Looks like you lose this one," Kallen said cheerfully, grinning at him from across his desk.
Lelouch gave her an annoyed look, glancing up from the computer at his desk, fingers pausing over the keys. "I hardly think childish taunting is appropriate when I'm working," he replied slowly, arching his eyebrow.
She gave him a deadpan look. "Excuse me if I don't believe you, but I think you just spent the last six days trying to convince me to forgive you over a stupid bet."
He removed his fingers from the keyboard, sighing.
"I can't believe you tried so hard, too," she muttered, rolling her eyes. "I mean, the silent treatment? The gentleman act? The flowers? Kaguya?"
"The flowers were Kaguya's idea," Lelouch said weakly, avoiding her gaze. "As for my sending Kaguya… well done. I admit I didn't expect you to turn that move against me. It was, I must confess, my trump card. I would have sent C.C., but she just laughed in my face and left the room."
Kallen's lips twitched, but she decided not to make fun of him over it. No one would say Kouzuki Kallen was anything but a gracious winner.
"You can't seriously be telling me that you've given up," she said, raising a curious eyebrow. "You've got one day left, and you're telling me you've got nothing?"
Lelouch shrugged, standing out of his chair, meeting her gaze steadily.
"I'm hardly infallible, or almighty, Q-1," he reminded her. "If I could solve every problem myself, things would be much simpler for us."
There was weariness in his tone, a tiredness in the furrowing of his brow.
Kallen remembered Suzaku, who rejected Lelouch's ideals and denied the very existence of his best friend as a mistake in the world, remembered Nunnally's announcement that went against everything Lelouch had fought for (everything he had fought for her, for the sake of her smile), remembered that with the mask of Zero came all the burdens of a world crying out for justice.
And suddenly making him suffer needlessly over a childish bet seemed pointless and cruel.
"Lelouch…" she said slowly, uncertainly.
He stepped closer to her, a soft, somewhat fragile look on his face that sent a wave of compassion through her. She had sworn to protect him, sworn to stand by his side- he needed her, she understood suddenly, even if he didn't know it himself.
"I'm sorry for this past week, Kallen," Lelouch said quietly, tilting his head to the side, standing barely inches away from her. It was nothing like the last time, when he put on his gentlemanly act, putting himself close to her as part of a little game he was playing. He was sincere this time, radiating it- there was no playfulness in his body language, no hint of teasing. "You're right, I have been insufferable. Forgive me, I suppose… I've been attempting to have too much fun. I should have been acting more professionally, instead of acting… well… insufferable."
"Well, I mean…" Kallen attempted to look away, embarrassed now at his sudden confession of weakness, but he caught her chin, cupping it between his fingers, tilting her head up to look at his.
Her heart skipped a beat. If she just leaned in a little bit more, their lips would touch and-
She shut her eyes in attempt to banish such a ridiculous thought from her mind. Why the hell would she want to kiss this arrogant tease of a jerk anyways?
"You win, Kallen," she heard him say softly, fingers tracing a gentle line against her cheek, leaving what felt like a trail of fire in its wake on her skin. He drew closer and closer to her, so near that his breath tickled against her lips.
"Lelouch…" she murmured softly, and cracked open her eyes ever so slightly.
"You're so full of crap."
Lelouch flashed her a shameless grin.
"It was worth a try."
"That was your real trump card, huh? That whole confession thing, pretending you were showing me your vulnerable side, all of it…" she muttered, feeling foolish, and stupid, for thinking he would let her in so easily.
It was all part of the bet, after all, and Lelouch Lamperouge would do anything and everything to win. That was it. He was a liar and a trickster, and above all an insufferable bastard. "I can't believe you set all that up-"
"It wasn't fake," he cut in suddenly, and her head jerked up, eyes meeting his. His tone was steady, his eyes bright and clear, like stars on a cloudless night. "It wasn't fake."
She was caught. Her mouth hung open, and she tried to say… something. Anything. But nothing could come through.
Finally, ignoring the protesting in her mind and the fluttering feeling her gut, Kallen pulled away (though there was a deep reluctance in her movements she prayed Lelouch did not pick up on).
She said nothing for a long time, simply letting his confession sink in.
Finally, at long last, the words came to her, the words she'd wanted to say for a while now.
"I'll want that confession in writing, by the way."


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Perhaps the funniest words on Earth come from Mundari, a language spoken by tribal peoples in east India, Bangladesh and Nepal. One of the greats is ribuy-tibuy. It means 'the sound, sight, or motion of a fat person's buttocks rubbing together as they walk'. Another fine term is rawa-dawa, 'the sensation of suddenly realising you can do something reprehensible, and no-one is there to witness it'. The Mundari terms belong to a terrific word category that seems to be lacking in English – the ideophone. These words encode sight, sound, smell or feelings within one encompassing term.
Human language is a marvellous capability, both biologically based and socially learned. One of the markers of our being a species is that we humans can all learn each others' languages. Along with that capacity comes the sense of kinship – we (all of us human language participants) can appreciate the others – their humour, their complexity, their obscurities, their differences, their occasional bizarreness. And of course we appreciate (or just as often grumble about) the changing vivacity (or, to some, the lack of respect for tradition) of our own language(s).
The capacity for learning is built into our brains, just as the capacity for speech is built into our larynx and windpipe. Actual languages, though, are incredibly diverse in both their structures and their vocabularies. There are languages that pack whole sentences into a single complex word, languages that use sounds that are difficult both to make and to distinguish, languages like signing that don't use sounds at all, languages that have whole categories of words that other languages don't have, and a thousand other variations. Of course we love our languages! We learn them and develop our skills with them throughout life; we play with them, and express many of our deepest thoughts, fears, loves, emotions and dreams in them.
In many ways we become ourselves, as individuals and as members of cultural and social groups, through language.
It is not surprising that for many people language is another of those markers of a boundary erected to separate humans from other living beings. But here again, not all humans take a human-centric view of languages. One of the books I keep coming back to is The Community of Those Who Have Nothing in Common. Alphonso Lingis takes this broad and inclusive view of language:
'Of course the language of gregarious insects, ants and bees, is representational, is governed by correspondence with the layout of things, and is a kinesics of truth. But language begins with the evolution of organs for vocalization among insects not socialised into colonies, whose vocalizations consist entirely of a seductive chant. Their organs … [are] reiterating and reaffirming the forces of beauty, health, and superabundant vitality.'
In brief: human language is one mode of expression within the wider eloquence of Earth life.
Many of the Aboriginal people who taught me were quite clear that other creatures have their own languages. It is not surprising that we cannot understand them; they are who they are and we are who we are. Thinking of them as language creatures is part of the wider mode of understanding the others as creatures not so unlike ourselves.
Not only language, then, but other forms of culture as well may be part of Earth life. One of the old people from whom I have learned so much in North Australia was Doug Campbell. In his words: 'birds got ceremony of their own – brolga, turkey, crow, hawk, white and black cockatoo – all got ceremony, women's side, men's side, … everything.' Plants are sentient too, and, according to many Aboriginal people, the earth itself has culture and power within it. In this line of thought, we are all culture-creatures: we are intelligent, we act with purpose, we communicate and take notice, we participate in a world of multiple purposes. It is a multi-cultural world from inside the earth right on through.
My friend Richard Nelson spoke with and from Indigenous perspectives in his recent speech on Earth languages (view here). In totally engaging manner and style, he was making the profound point that Earth's expressivity includes much that is not alive in the usual sense of the term, like wind and ice. He concluded:
The whole Earth is one great language family.
I can almost hear the sceptics saying that at the very least, our languages are more complex than those of others. Perhaps this is so. A major new study of human languages concludes that we are the only known species whose communication system varies fundamentally in both form and content. The caveat is that very little is known about other nonhuman languages. But does it follow that love of our kind of language means that it is somehow the best of all possible languages?
The poet Peter Boyle addresses these questions as part of a fascinating article called 'Being Job – In Three Parts'. He is musing on the Biblical Book of Job, and reflecting on the fact that Job addressed G-d, and G-d answered Job. But in what language? Peter writes:
'It seems reasonable to suppose that G-d has no intrinsic preference for English over Urdu, Pashtun over Aramaic, Sanskrit over Pitjantjatjara. The language spoken by the aboriginal inhabitants of the Canary Islands would seem as close to his heart as Homeric Greek or old Slavonic. It would be difficult not to assert that G-d would be equally at home in the elaborate grammar of turtles as in the speech of finches, that the soaring discourse of the eagle carries no more and no less charm than the meditative vibration of hornets.'
As with G-d, so with Earth: expressivity is the way of life, and we are all part of it.
If language is a mode of expressing and affirming forces of beauty, health, and vitality, as Lingis tells us, must we limit our attention to sounds? After all, some human languages are soundless, so why not other creature-languages as well?
Martin Burd is an evolutionary ecologist at Monash University. Recently he published a report on research carried out by an international team: 'Colourful language – it's how Aussie birds and flowers "speak"'. He notes that much of the colour we see in the nonhuman world adorns flowers and birds. But, he says, 'we are accidental eavesdroppers on the visual conversations in which they are engaged'. Colourful birds are signalling to potential mates. Colourful flowers also search for mates, Burd tells us, but they do so by first communicating to pollinators, many of whom are birds.
The flowers that appear red to humans have evolved to appeal to the visual system of honeyeaters. Burd concluded that: '… many flowering species had evolved to "talk" to birds using a very particular set of colour "words".' The scientists concluded that this convergence of flower colour and bird visual system had probably evolved independently far more times than would be expected if it were random, and the next phase of the research will investigate these relationships on other continents with other bird-flower mutualisms.
I love the thought of us humans being 'accidental eavesdroppers'. It is such a wonderful reminder that the great communicative, expressive Earth is not all about us. At the same time, of course, some creatures do, from time to time, address a human. The invitation to play is well known, while the growl that says 'back off' is a readily identifiable example of a great scheme of expressive messages saying 'don't touch!'. We are probably hard-wired as mammals to get many of these messages without having to stop and think too closely.
Much of our engagement with the expressive languages of Earth, though, calls on our imagination, knowledge, and, as Richard Nelson would say, our wisdom.
To be part of the world in which others also communicate in their own languages is, for the human, an opportunity to imagine one's self sharing worlds with others. We do this all the time with stories, jokes, songs, images, and, of course, poetry. Most of the time, it must be said, we do it on our terms.
One of my favourite poems by Peter Boyle refuses the temptation to draw others into our worlds. 'Cicada' comes from the prize-winning book Apocrypha. This is a complex book in which poems are presented as the work of various imagined poets whose own imaginings find their way into both lyric and prose poetry. The great theme of expressiveness runs through all the work. The (imagined) author of 'Cicada' is Irene Philologos, and her poetic imagination takes her into an insect world.
Hanging upside down
perched in its own
the cicada sings:
"I have eaten and am full.
is good."
Does it sing for us?
If we too have been touched all over by fire
If we have balanced for hours
on the infinite porosity of earth
and know what it's like
to be the casket of a time-beat
ticking away at metamorphosis
If at times our head and arms have wavered
like a delicate carapace flooded
by all the sky wants us to take in
If we can imagine the dryness of wind
caressing our black shell
all through the hot days
all through the fire of nights
when our eyes are beads of hard blackness
and our frame
breaks open to the homeless language of wind
If we can imagine ourselves
an assemblage of shell and flesh
scattered by the serene indifference of life
If we can call all this
(from Irene Philologos, A poetic journal of ten years in Boeotia © Peter Boyle)
© Deborah Bird Rose (2014)
- Cicada, by Colin Howley (CC)
- ResourcesInformation on human languages is drawn from an article by Evans and Levinson (read here).
- Peter Boyle's essay on Job is found in the book Sacred Australia: Post-secular considerations. Information on Peter Boyle's book Apocrypha can be found here.
- Alphonso Lingis: The Community of Those Who Have Nothing in Common
- Martin Burd's fascinating article can be found here.
- A few years ago I wrote an essay with my colleagues Thom van Dooren and Stuart Cooke called 'Ravens at Play' in which we reflected on some of the dilemmas of being addressed by others. (view here)

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"Noel is the consummate professional. He is a very detailed oriented attorney that truly cares about his clients best interests. He has been able to help advise me on many different aspects of business and personal legal affairs. I'm lucky to have someone of his caliber in my corner and consider him a strategic asset for both family and business."
"My husband and I highly recommend Noel, he took the time on our case to answer our questions and make sure that the process went as smoothly as possible. Noel always kept us informed and went above and beyond."
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"Noel is a very bright and intelligent person that has the heart of the teacher. He is also very interested in helping others not just checking the box or being a "me first" kind of guy as evident by some of the mentoring that he does...I fully recommend doing business with Noel because he is very straight forward and loves what he does while seeing others succeed."
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"Although I have known Noel for a short time I know him to be very professional and extremely educated in his field. I am most impressed about his savvy skills in networking through the different social media platforms. I don't know anyone else in the legal profession who incorporates social media into their business as Noel does."
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"I recommend Noel Bagwell's legal services with confidence. Noel successfully represented me in court and has been a great source to rely on when I have questions regarding business law."
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Are there times when the going got so tough that you had the intention to give up? I had. Walking away from your dream to return to your old job or self seems to be so much easier. During challenging times, it seems like a natural thing to do; finding the easiest way out. Why go through those struggles?
Furthermore, there are so much uncertainties. "Am I guaranteed rewards at the end of those struggles?" "When is it going to end?" How many of us can predict the length of the tough times? It may only be the beginning. However, it can be coming to an end. The problem is we don't know.
Recently I went through one of those moments. Devastated, demoralized, discouraged - why they all start with 'D'?
We placed an advertisement to promote our new program, Youth Success Boot Camp. Venue booked. The result, a Big Fat Zero response. Why do I need to go through this? While I wanted to add value, I was put through this struggle.
Is this a test from the Universe? Or is it a sign to give up? Maybe I'm not suppose to walk down this path. Seriously, doubt was flowing in my blood. If I knew between test or sign, it will make life so much easier. But I guess that's life, turning and twisting made you guess along the way.
I decided with my partner that it was a test. We decided to push on one last drive. Maybe success is round the corner. Maybe we are at the end of the struggle. We made calls to the media company, placing another advertisement.
Then a miracle happened. Before the new advertisement is out, which is tomorrow, we already had 20 parents registered for the seminar. I am looking forward to the result of the new advertisement now.
If I were to give up after the first advertisement, I would not have these 20 parents. I would not have experience the miracles of the Great Spirit.
It has been written in so many books, sometimes success is just round the corner. Continue on the journey that was meant for you, success will definitely find you.
A great lesson I got is to have someone who can share that vision of yours. It can be one person or a group. Going through tough times alone can be really tough. Fortunately for me, my wife whose also my business partner is there to share. Knowing that someone is there to support greatly helps the spirit.
I had a distinction on those tough times. It was the tough times that made the good times sweet. When the parents emailed us one by one, my excitement went up inch by inch. Every parent who registered is such a gem to us. I started to appreciate every single person who's coming to the seminar.
So if you are facing a challenging time of your life, know this - all challenges are there so that victory wil taste sweeter.


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I'm sitting drinking coffee in what will be one of the last completely quiet moments for the next few days. In a couple of hours friends and family will start arriving for two days of Thanksgiving food and fun. In a few minutes I'll start preparing a few things, even though we're going to Steps tonight for Madden's island Thanksgiving and saving the "big" traditional dinner at my place for tomorrow.
But for now, the coffee is hot and strong, and the mountains of the Canadian coast range are visible to the north, with hints of blue sky to the west past Speiden Island. It's a perfect autumn morning in the Northwest, at least from my perspective, and I'm thrilled to be home to enjoy it. It's been a whirlwind few weeks since the election and it's not going to get any less busy between now and Christmas.
I bought a cider press this fall and have plenty of apples from C's orchard here on the island, and many more from Rebecca Moore's terrific farm (Blue Moon Farm) on Waldron Island. I still have plenty left to press, but the cider thus far is sweet, deeply flavored, but with great tartness and acidity. I've frozen a gallon already and hope to press-gang my friends into helping me squeeze more this weekend.
I'll write more soon, but I just wanted to say Happy Thanksgiving to everyone reading out there. Enjoy the day with friends and family!


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Travelers may find it easier to get through airport security because the FAST (Fair, Accurate, Secure and Timely) Redress Act of 2007 recently passed through the US House of Representatives and has been approved by the House Homeland Security Committee. The goal is for the bill to soon become law.
In November 2007, Rep. Yvette Clarke of New York introduced the act, which would help alleviate the burden of commercial aviation passengers who believe they have been wrongfully placed on a government watch list and consequently remanded to secondary screening or denied boarding. This legislation would set up a dedicated office within the Department of Homeland Security to coordinate and streamline the process of appeal for these individuals. This office would then create and share with airlines a "Cleared List" of individuals who have gone through the redress process.
One of the champions of the bill is Kerin McKinnon, executive vice-president of Global Business Development for Atlas Travel International. Ms. McKinnon was recently appointed to the National Business Travel Association Political Action Committee (NBTAPAC) Board. On June 9-11, Ms. McKinnon, along with other industry colleagues, traveled to Washington DC for a Legislative Summit to meet with members of Congress or key members of their staff to discuss the merits of the bill.
"My group was assigned to meet with the staff of several lawmakers including Senator Kennedy who was actually once detained due to his name appearing on a terrorist watch list," said Ms. McKinnon. "We also visited the offices of Senator John Kerry and Congressmen John Olver, Barney Frank and with James McGovern himself. It was time well spent to discuss this important travel bill with such distinguished leaders and their staff. I feel it's important to show my commitment to the legislative process and to have a voice in our industry, and this opportunity afforded me that voice."
Ms. McKinnon is an established travel industry advocate and leader. She is also a long-time member and a two-term board member for the New England Business Travel Association (NEBTA), and she continues to annually chair the Association of Corporate Travel Executives (ACTE) Boston Executive Forum. She has on several occasions raised money for, visited and worked with the victims of hurricanes Katrina and Rita.


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Allo all, and welcome to the 2012 Team Black - Melanoma thread as part of The Daffodil Movement. I am your host and Captain, YamiTyger. I've always missed TDM since I joined up with DWAH, and this time I volunteered to help spread awareness of Melanoma to you all. I'm going to have some games for you all to play in, gonna have some wonderful prizes. So come on in, help with raising awareness, and feel free to chat and make friends.
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how to connect Reciver,Sound bar and TV
Can any one help me?
i have below components and was trying to connect all together.
Sony HX 750 (4HDMI In's, one with ARC and Opt Out) smart TV
Poineer VSX 521-K (4HDMI In's and 1HDMI Out, 2 opt in's)
Sony sound bar (1 Opt in,1Analog In)
PS3(HDMI out)
Sat/cable box(HDMI out)
I am trying to do is use my Pioneer mainly for all my video and main sound, but then hook up my Sony Soundbar for additional sound.
spent several hours but couldn't get the sound from receiver speakers and sound bar at the same time.
thanks for the help
Re: how to connect Reciver,Sound bar and TV
The problem is probably due to the surround system stripping the audio from the HDMI going to the TV. Additionally, to get any signal to the TV will require the surround system to be turned on. What I have done is used a monoprice HDMI matrix switcher that has 4 inputs and two outputs. A matrix switcher will allow any of the four inputs to be switched to the two outputs independently. That would allow one output feed the HDTV and the other to feed the surround receiver. Since the switch will not strip the audio to the TV you can connect the sound bar to the optical or analog output of the TV as Sony recommends. You could attach both the satellite receiver and the PS3 to the HDMI inputs of the switch. The monoprice switches have a IR remote, so if you are using a home theater remote like a Harmony, it can be programmed to switch both outputs for selection.
Alternately, you could get a couple of HDMI splitters and put one on the satellite receiver and the other on the PS3. That would allow you to attach to separate inputs on the HDTV and the surround system.
Set up either way you would have the benefit of not having to have the surround system turned on to just watch TV with the sound bar.
Without adding additional equipment, I don't think you will be able to do what you want.
Check out www.monoprice.com
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NEW YORK (Feb. 10)
The associate rabbi of one of the nation's largest Orthodox synagogues has urged his congregants to support the campaign by Cesar Chavez to organize lettuce workers in California by refusing to purchase any lettuce picked by non-union help. The appeal was made by Rabbi Haskell Lookstein of Kehillath Jeshurun congregation, who cited rabbinic sources for a description of products made by exploited workers as non-kosher. Writing in the congregation bulletin, Rabbi Lookstein mentioned the successful boycott of grapes picked in California which was a major factor in bringing about a contract for grape-pickers. Declaring it was possible to buy lettuce with a union label and that about 25 percent of the lettuce on the market is so labeled, he suggested that congregants ask for union-labeled lettuce, describing it as kosher lettuce.


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St. Norbert Salvages Split at Carroll
From Sports Information Director, April 17, 2011 | Baseball
by Dan Lukes, email@example.com, (920) 403-4077
WAUKESHA - St. Norbert College opened Midwest Conference play with a doubleheader split against Carroll University at Frame Park. The Green Knights dropped the opener 10-7 before taking the nightcap 6-3.
St. Norbert (7-9, 1-1 MWC) fell behind 10-2 after three innings in the opener and couldn't dig its way out of the early hole, with Carroll's Matt Busse hitting a grand slam in a six-run third inning. Garrick Fisher had a two-run home run in the third inning, and Nick Pierre had a two-run double in the fifth.
Ryan Kehl was 3-for-5 with two runs scored in game one, while Chad Ljunggren was 2-for-3 and Jordan Powers 2-for-4. Bryan Stoppenbach took the loss for St. Norbert, allowing nine runs in 2 2/3 innings.
Josh Honzik led St. Norbert in the nightcap, earning his first collegiate win. Honzik allowed just seven hits in the complete-game effort, walking four and striking out one. The infielders were kept busy with 21 assists, and first baseman Ryan Way had 17 putouts.
St. Norbert took a 5-2 lead with a four-run fourth inning. Fisher had an RBI single, Jared Yost an RBI groundout and Kehl a two-run single. The Pioneers cut it to 5-3 with a run in the fifth, but Chad Ljunggren's RBI single in the sixth closed out the scoring.
Fisher was 2-for-4 with two runs scored, while Powers was 3-for-6. Ryan Winter was 2-for-4, while Yost and Rob Berger were both 2-for-5. Yost, who had a run-scoring double in the first inning, had two RBIs.


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Senator Fuschillo To Bring "women Of Distinction" Exhibit To Local Libraries
Senator Charles J. Fuschillo, Jr. (8th Senate District) announced that the New York State Senate's "Women of Distinction" exhibit will be on display at both the Freeport Memorial Library and the North Merrick Public Library over the next two weeks.
The display will first stop at the Freeport Memorial Library at 144 West Merrick Road in Freeport from Monday, July 25 through Saturday, July 30 to honor Senator Fuschillo's 2005 honoree, Councilwoman Angie Cullin. In 1987, Angie Cullin became the first woman in the history of the Town of Hempstead to serve as a member of the Town Board. She again made history in 1993 by becoming the first woman ever to hold the office of Receiver of Taxes. She returned to the Town Board in 2000 as the representative of the fifth councilmatic district, and was reelected again in 2003. In addition to her governmental service, Councilwoman Cullin belongs to a number of local charitable and civic organizations.
The display then moves to the North Merrick Public Library beginning on Monday, August 1 and continuing until Saturday, August 6. The library, located at 1691 Meadowbrook Road in North Merrick, was chosen in honor Senator Fuschillo's other honoree, Gail Volk. Gail Volk currently serves as Executive Director for the Community Wellness Council of the Bellmores and Merricks, a non profit organization whose mission is to promote substance abuse prevention by fostering emotional and physical wellness.
She is also a Past President of the Child Care Council of Nassau County, a member of the New York State Department of Health's Tobacco Control, Use, and Prevention Advisory Board. Ms. Volk is also very active in her local temple, organizing numerous charitable and philanthropic endeavors, such as Mitzvah Day and food programs for the needy.
The "Women of Distinction" exhibit provides a history of some of the contributions women have made to New York State. The display will also feature Gail Volk of Merrick and Councilwoman Angie Cullin, Senator Fuschillo's two honorees for the honor.
The New York State Senate's "Women of Distinction" program was created in 1998 to recognize outstanding women in our midst -- women living and working in New York State whose contributions have greatly enriched the quality of life in their communities and beyond.
"Women have played such an important role in shaping the history of our state, and it is fitting that we honor and remember their accomplishments and sacrifices over the year," said Senator Fuschillo. "The great thing about this program is that it enables us to recognize women within our communities who have made an impact right here at home. I encourage all residents to stop by one of these local libraries to learn about the many ways women have helped our state become what it is today."


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Ministry of Cultural Affairs, Iran recently organised the nine-day long 18th International Festival of Visual Arts for Young Artists. The festival began on September 9 in Gorgan, Iran. Emerging Bangladeshi artist Md. Hasan Morshed was among the participants and won the first prize for painting. ******************* 2nd Solo Painting Exhibition 2011. Ambassador Arturo Pérez Martinez ,of Spain to Bangladesh, inaugurated the exhibition on 12 May.Among others,Professor AAMS Siddique,vice-chancellor of Dhaka University and Professor Md.Matlub Ali Dean Faculty of Fine Arts were Present on the occasion. Read more...
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Exhibition In Tehran 2018
Iran Bangladesh Cultural exchange 2017
Venue: Pathshala media Institute gallery,Dhaka
Darbast Platform,Mohsen Gallery.Tehran
Dr. Kizito Maria Kasule
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20th National Art Exhibition Bangladesh 2013
Bangladesh Shilpokala Academy Honourable Mention Award
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Iran's northern Golestan Province is planning to hold the 18th International Youth Visual Arts Festival in the provincial capital of Gorgan. 18th International festival of youth's visual arts was held by the center of visual arts.
Reza Khoran from Turkey got the award in miniature,
Mahmoud Shalouee
Golam Reza Montazeri.
Renowned Artist Manoucher Mouqari
With all participants of the festival
Artist Abdul Haq Noori from Afghanistan Mubarak Al-Malik from Qatar & Kizito Amartey from Ghana
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GREECE, N.Y. (WIVB) – A man from a Rochester suburb has been arrested and charged with robbing banks in Depew, Cheektowaga and Monroe County.
Joseph Cumbo of Greece was arrested early Monday morning by detectives from Depew and Cheektowaga Police, FBI agents, Monroe County Sheriff's deputies, and Town of Greece Police. Authorities say the 34-year-old is responsible for three bank robberies.
Detectives say Cumbo admitted his involvement in the robberies while being interviewed. He will face federal charges.


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ST. PAUL, Minn.--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--Cardiovascular Systems (CSI) (NASDAQ: CSII) today announced the addition of independent board member Martha Goldberg Aronson, an experienced business executive with deep healthcare and medical industry experience. Aronson replaces director Leslie Trigg, who is retiring after seven years of service. The CSI board continues to have seven directors, six of whom are independent.
"Leslie provided thoughtful guidance and valuable counsel to our company throughout her tenure on our Board"
"Leslie provided thoughtful guidance and valuable counsel to our company throughout her tenure on our Board," said Scott Ward, CSI chairman, president and chief executive officer. "Her experience and perspectives helped shape CSI's strategy and prepared our company to be the leader in the atherectomy market. We thank Leslie for her years of service to CSI, and we are pleased to welcome Martha Goldberg Aronson to CSI."
From 2012 to 2016, Aronson served as the executive vice president and president of Global Healthcare at Ecolab, Inc., where she was responsible for the global healthcare business with a specific focus on products and programs for infection prevention. From 2010 to 2012, she was senior vice president and president, North America, at Hill-Rom Holdings, Inc., where she oversaw all aspects of the $1 billion acute care business including sales, marketing, and service. Prior to that, Aronson worked at Medtronic, Inc. in various general management roles, both in the US and internationally, for eighteen years. She served on the executive committee as senior vice president and chief talent officer. She currently serves as a director on the boards of Conmed Corporation (NASDAQ: CNMD) and Methode Electronics (NYSE: MEI), and served as a director of Hutchinson Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: HTCH) from 2010 to 2016. She received a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Graduate School of Business and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Wellesley College.
Said Ward, "Martha brings more than two decades of public company and medical technology experience. Her knowledge and experience in executive leadership roles will be invaluable as CSI serves the large and growing unmet need for treating arterial calcium."
About Cardiovascular Systems, Inc.
Cardiovascular Systems, Inc., based in St. Paul, Minn., is a medical device company focused on developing and commercializing innovative solutions for treating vascular and coronary disease. The company's Orbital Atherectomy Systems treat calcified and fibrotic plaque in arterial vessels throughout the leg and heart in a few minutes of treatment time, and address many of the limitations associated with existing surgical, catheter and pharmacological treatment alternatives. The U.S. FDA granted the first 510(k) clearance for the use of the Orbital Atherectomy System in peripheral arteries in August 2007. In October 2013, the company received FDA approval for the Coronary Orbital Atherectomy System. To date, over 290,000 of CSI's devices have been sold to leading institutions across the United States. For more information, visit the company's website at www.csi360.com.


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Star Wars. Star Wars, Star Wars, Star Wars…how we love and hate thee; how we wish the prequel trilogy, though in some ways we still love it, had been better, so much better; how we wish we could change the past. And now, inevitably, 3D Star Wars, heading to screens near you in 2012. Are people going to be excited by this? Probably. Is it worthwhile? To be brutally honest, unlikely.
But let's stick with the positives. George Lucas, for all his faults, has given the world a lot, and not just directly in film. He started Industrial Light and Magic, the dedicated effects group that worked on the original Star Wars, the computer division of which would eventually go on to form Pixar – something we should not forget and should be eternally grateful for.
But is the main draw of these planned re-releases simply the chance for fanatics to see the films all over again in cinemas? There is a slightly dubious trend emerging for re-releasing films that generally tends to reek horribly like a commercial cash-in; see Avatar: Special Edition and Back to the Future for recent evidence. Yes, there are arguments to be made for re-releasing classics – getting a new generation to see Star Wars is a positive thing in my book – but is that enough to warrant full cinematic releases? Probably not. Anyway, throwing all six films back on general release is going to bring in a bucket load of cash, naturally, and this is still a profits driven industry.
Star Wars 3D probably won't make a huge impact, but it will certainly make a few dollars for those involved. Let's hope that George Lucas' genuine passion for advancing technology and special effects will benefit the project and ensure that this is far more than a shoddy retrofitting. If that turned out to be the case, the world may be drowned in a wave of fanboy tears, mine amongst them.


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The CEO exclaimed, "I wish my people would accept responsibility for their behaviors and mistakes rather than finger pointing." Unfortunately, finger pointing seems to be the rule rather than the exception in many corporate hallways.
It is important for you to consider one question before reading this article. Do you have the necessary courage to exhibit personal accountability? You may feel tempted to flippantly answer affirmatively, but you may want to examine the consequences associated with being accountable before answering. First, accountability means you are responsible to somebody or for something. Second, being responsible means that you cause something to happen. Third, exhibiting accountability, as seen through the eyes of your co-workers, looks like the following:
1. Accepting complete responsibility for your behavior.
No more excuses. No more finger pointing. Accepting responsibility is being fully aware of exerting control of your behavior through your choices. Additionally, you accept the consequences of the choices you make while taking the good with the bad.
Integrity, or doing what is right, because that's the right thing to do, is the epitome of accepting responsibility. As this article is being written, we're working with a company that has an extensive safety program. In spite of their safety program, we learned about several supervisors who intentionally violate safety procedures in their haste to complete the task as quickly as possible. Clearly, such a breach of integrity constitutes a lack of being accountable. To make matters worse, the message sent to the employees is devastating and dangerous.
2. Meeting/exceeding expectations.
We teach the leadership principle that we're here to help people be successful. Just imagine the synergy if every employee simply lived this principle! You can exhibit personal accountability to create this synergy by modeling the following behaviors.
There is no time for laziness when being accountable. The choice is yours. Are you going to be a peak performer or a lazy team member? Remember, the strength of every chain is determined by the strength of its weakest link. Do you want to be the weakest link of your team? In the 20+ years of working with organizations, we've never had anyone respond affirmatively to this question. Sometimes, lazy people think they are high performers! This is an excellent example of the fact that your perception of me is more important than my perception of me. The smart thing to do is to ensure your co-workers have the same perception that you do - that you're accountable. Be proactive and quantify your co-workers' perception; compare their perception with yours. Use the draft of a questionnaire included with this article for this assessment.
Hint #1: Be ready to accept the facts. If you should learn that your co-workers do not perceive you as being as accountable as you do, accept their perception and work to change it.
Hint #2: To the degree you believe your co-workers are wrong and deny their data may be the degree they are absolutely right! We often defend our bruised ego by pointing fingers instead of accepting the brutal truth.
Before leaving this section, we want to highlight the fact that the more people you help to succeed, the more success you experience. First, the more frequently you accept the responsibility of helping others to be successful, the greater the likelihood others will be willing to assist you. Second, you are always the first recipient when helping others. That is, most people enjoy (feel good) assisting others and helping the team/company achieve success. Are you included in this group?
3. Admitting mistakes.
Your courage will be tested. How willing are you to accept responsibility for your mistakes or do you prefer to blame others? Confident people accept responsibility for their behaviors more easily than those with less confidence. We're also cognizant of the fact that some work styles are more comfortable admitting their mistakes than others. For example, individuals preferring the analytical work style (high compliance with the DISC), struggle with admitting mistakes because they are confident their decisions are based on the correct facts. This example speaks to the importance of knowing yourself and managing the weaker aspects of your interpersonal performance. The bottom line: being aware of the temptation to not admit your mistakes. At that precise time, you must exert the necessary self-control to admit the blatant truth.
Organizational leaders need to be aware of the fact that the Number One reason employees are hesitant to admit mistakes is the fear of reprisal or punishment. That speaks to the very essence of successful organizational leaders using mistakes as learning opportunities rather than a demonstration of punitive power.
Admitting mistakes embraces another one of our leadership principles, "I'm guilty until proven innocent." This principle recognizes that there are two sides to every coin. Effective leaders accept responsibility for every instance when the expected results were not achieved. These leaders demonstrate a passion to learn how they contributed to the breakdown in performance. They're not interested in pointing fingers. They want to fix whatever they're doing to contribute to the issue before discussing what another party can also do. Imagine the synergy created whenever adversity strikes, if everyone approached it with the philosophy that "I'm guilty until I'm proven innocent."
There are many psychological payoffs of willingly admitting mistakes beginning with telling people you are honest and can be trusted. Remember, trust has been labeled as the lubricant for working relationships. You want the reputation of applying a lot of grease to improve the efficiency of the working parts. People will likewise respect your professionalism and courage. You become the individual people enjoy working with and the leader people like to follow. Now that's a good thing.
4. Admitting limitations of knowledge.
One has to be competent in order to recognize their incompetence. Or, worded differently, the more you know the more you realize what you don't know.
Accepting responsibility for your lack of knowledge takes courage. Many individuals attempt to "fake it" when it would be in their best interest to admit, "I don't know the answer, but I will find out." Unless you are a very good actor, people recognize when you're faking it and that spells "t-r-o-u-b-l-e" for you.
Every action has a consequence. As you read the following lists of advantages and disadvantages, decide which reputation you want in the workplace. We start with the list of disadvantages:
You have much to gain by exhibiting personal accountability. Some of these are listed below:
Who do you want to be?
We detail the personal change process in our book, Smart People Work People Smart. If you're looking to gain a deeper understanding of personal accountability, we encourage you to read that book. For the purpose of this article, you must be acutely aware when you're tempted to not demonstrate personal accountability. At that point, you exert self-control. You tell yourself to "Stop & Think." Ask, "Do I want to make a good choice or a bad one?" Of course, you want to make a good one - exhibiting accountability. As the Nike commercial so clearly communicates, "Just do it."
In Closing
We end this article as we began it by asking you to answer the question, "Do you have the necessary courage to exhibit personal accountability?"
Quantify Perceptions
Instructions: Complete the self assessment using the following Likert scale.
1 = Never
4 = Frequently
2 = Almost Never
5 = Almost Always
3 = Sometimes
6 = Always
1. I accept responsibility for my behavior.
2. Colleagues describe me as exhibiting integrity, or doing what is right because it's the right thing to do.
3. I know the expected results to be achieved.
4. I proactively meet/exceed what is expected of me.
5. I volunteer to assist others whenever possible.
6. I encourage others to provide constructive feedback as to how I can improve my performance.
7. I use the constructive feedback offered by others to improve my performance.
8. I willingly admit my mistakes.
9. I willingly admit limitations to my knowledge.
10. Overall, I exhibit personal accountability.
Listed below is an example of re-wording the statements so colleagues can rate you.
"Some favorite expressions of small children: "It's not my fault. . . They made me do it. . . I forgot." Some favorite expressions of adults: "It's not my job. . . No one told me. . . It couldn't be helped." True freedom begins and ends with personal accountability."
- Dan Zadra
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Larry Cole, Ph.D.
Larry is the founder of TeamMax®Inc., a consulting firm that specializes in maximizing people's potential. He developed the TeamMax® "real-time" measurement methodologies to improve interpersonal effectiveness and improve teamwork efficiency that drives the company's financial success. For over twenty years he has written articles and books and has spoken to audiences about improving interpersonal performance. The TeamMax® methodologies systemically drive behavior change and measure the behaviors that were once thought to be too subjective to measure.
Contact: 800-880-1728, email@example.com, TeamMax.net
Michael Cole, Ph.D.
Michael is currently an Assistant Professor of Management at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas. Previously, he served as a Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer in the Institute for Leadership and Human Resource Management at the University of St. Gallen, in Switzerland. He is an award- winning researcher and teacher. He specializes in helping organizational leaders to better appreciate how organizational contextual factors and work environments influence employees' attachments to their organization. He gauges organizational energy levels and assists organizational leaders to make use of available levers to harness and maintain energy levels over time.
Contact: 817-257-6796, firstname.lastname@example.com, TeamMax.net
Byrd Baggett, CSP
Byrd Baggett is a best-selling author and popular motivational speaker. He has been helping organizations develop authentic leaders and pasionately engaged teams since 1990. His corporate experience includes sales and management careers with two Fortune 500 companies. Byrd is the author of 13 best-selling books that have sold in excess of one million copies. He is a Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) the highest earned designation presented by the National Speakers Association.
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DEFINITION of 'Market Average'
A measure of the overall price level of a given market, as defined by a specified group of stocks or other securities. A market average equals the sum of all current values of stocks in the group divided by the total number of shares in the group.
BREAKING DOWN 'Market Average'
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Hawai'i Island police have charged 30-year-old Claude Keone Krause of Puna in connection with the disappearance of 44-year-old Dante Peter Gilman of Hawaiian Acres, who was reported missing on January 10.
Krause was charged at 11:20 a.m. Saturday (January 19) with second-degree murder, first-degree robbery, first-degree burglary, second-degree theft, two counts of ownership/possession of a firearm prohibited, and use of a firearm in the commission of a separate felony. He remains in police custody with no bail pending his initial court appearance.
Another suspect, Kawena Krause, who was arrested Friday (January 18), also remains in custody while detectives from the Area I Criminal Investigations Section continue the investigation.


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This ridiculous incident occurred almost 10 years ago in San Francisco when I shared an apartment with two dudes, one I was friends with and one who was just the worst. I'm going to run the whole, goofy story in 3 parts this week. It's basically a 6 page story explaining why malls freak me the fuck out.
PS: We did indeed to go that birthday party for Miles' stripper friend, which was quite a debacle for me. But you'll have to buy my next book in September to read the story about that incident. haha tricks!


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Second Thoughts Game #106: White Sox 4, Indians 7
Bench comes through again with clutch RBI hits late
As this team has shown time and time again this season, there is no opponent or deficit they don't believe they can overcome. They've had their ups and downs throughout the year, but they've never given up on themselves. Now they find themselves at a season-high 10 games over the .500 mark.
And it's not May 12th, 2011 where the Tribe was 23-13 with four and a half months of baseball left to play. It's now the end of July with the second half well underway and the Indians find themselves at 58-48 and two and a half games behind front-running Detroit and only a half-game behind Baltimore for the second AL Wild Card slot.
Now granted there's still two months left in the regular season and a lot can still happen, but given where the Tribe was at this point in the last couple seasons, there is good reason to start getting excited about what's happening in Cleveland. The starting pitching has been consistent, the offense has come through when most needed and despite having a rough post-All-Star break start, the defense and the bullpen has begun to pull together a bit.
Bench Mob Clutch Hitting
No words can do justice for how key the Indians bench has been to their success this season. Along with providing depth behind multiple positions on the field, the Indians basically have a four-spot extension of their lineup in Mike Aviles, Ryan Raburn, Yan Gomes and Jason Giambi. They can start any of them in any game and more often than not count on them delivering quality at-bats and even key hits in the clutch.
Since the All-Star break, the bench as a whole has hit .343 (23-for-67) as a group with four homers and 15 RBI's, including five doubles and 11 runs scored. Raburn's pinch-hit RBI single on Tuesday night marked the second straight game that a Tribe bench player delivered a clutch RBI knock as a pinch-hitter following up Giambi's walkoff solo home run on Monday night.
Much of the bench's success could be attributed to how manager Terry Francona has used them, especially as of late. The pinch-hit/pinch-run decisions by Tito the last couple games have paid off with Giambi and Raburn at the plate and putting a guy like Drew Stubbs on the bases when he's not starting. Getting Yan Gomes more playing time has also been a smart move by the Tribe skipper as he continues to get more starts behind the plate, starting with catching Scott Kazmir exclusively. Expect the Tribe bench to continue to be key contributors down the stretch.
Chris Perez Dominating since DL Stint
Since coming off the disabled list, Chris Perez has become a shutdown, strike-throwing machine in the ninth inning for the Indians returning to his All-Star form. In 15 appearances since recovering from a shoulder injury, Perez has pitched nearly shutout baseball allowing only one run in 16 innings (0.56 ERA) while allowing 11 walks, three walks and striking out 11 in that span. Perez has also been perfect in save opportunities (9-for-9) since coming off the DL.
Perez has also taken a vow of silence with MLB reporters and writers until further notice. For the columnist trying to learn what he's done to turn his game around, it can be frustrating, but in the grand scheme of things, it may end up being a good thing for a team that is focused on winning and doesn't need any unnecessary distractions. Whether he intends to or not, almost everything he says at this point will create drama amongst fans and local media due to his early-season struggles, injuries and off-the-field issues. A team in a playoff chase doesn't need to deal with that right now.
Quote of the Game:
"We showed our versatility. Each guy compliments each other so well," – Terry Francona on the Tribe's comeback victory.
Facts and Notes:
- Yan Gomes went 1-for-2 with a single, a bases-loaded walk and a strikeout against fellow countryman Andre Rienzo in the first MLB matchup between a Brazilian hitter and pitcher.
- After 106 games in 2013, the Indians are at 58-48, in second place and two and a half games out of first. After 106 games in 2012, they were 50-56, in third place and eight and a half games out.
- Michael Bourn drove in a run on Tuesday night, tying him for first in the majors in RBI's since the All-Star break with 13.
- Former setup man Vinnie Pestano was optioned to AAA Columbus following Tuesday's game to make room for newly-acquired left-hander Marc Rzepczynski. Move is only expected to be temporary as Pestano has pitching issues to be straightened out.
- Tuesday's originally scheduled starter for Chicago, Jake Peavy, was scratched at the last minute and ended up being traded to the Red Sox in a three-team deal later that night.
- Alex Rios was pulled from Tuesday's game after fouling a pitch off his foot. No serious injury, but it could affect Chicago's plan to trade him by Wednesday's deadline.
Up Next: White Sox vs. Indians @ Progressive Field. First pitch at 7:05pm ET.
The White Sox have yet to announce their starter for Wednesday night's game against the Tribe, who will turn into one of this year's biggest surprises as far as starting pitching goes in right-hander Corey Kluber. In a no-decision against Texas, Kluber pitched six innings allowing only three earned runs. The right-hander is yet to face Chicago this season, but is 1-1 with a 4.41 ERA against them in two career starts against them.
A lot of changes could be in store for the Sox between now and Wednesday night's game as they continue to seek deals for several of their key pieces. With Peavy gone, keep an eye on players such as Rios, Alexei Ramirez, and several of their pitchers not named Chris Sale. Also watch for former Tigers prospect Avisail Garcia to make a pit stop in Cleveland on his way to AAA Charlotte depending on if Rios or any of their other outfielders are dealt.
The Indians are in second place, 10 games over .500, two and a half games behind Detroit and only a half-game out of the wild card race. This team believes. The question now is, do you?
Jake Dungan is a communications student at Stark State College and an intern with the Akron RubberDucks. Follow him on Twitter @MajorLeagueJake.


text: A seminar on "The Existence and Prospects of Bali's Tourism Industry in the Midst of a World Financial Crisis" held on Monday, February 16, 2009, issued the warning that tourism on the island is also facing threats from environmental degradation, uncontrolled development and an over-supply of accommodation.Speakers at the conference, held at Bali's Ngurah Rai International Airport, included Gde Nurjaya, the Chief of the Bali Tourism Authority (BTA); Chairman of the Bali branch of the Association of Indonesian Tour and Travel Agents (ASITA), Al Purwa; the General Manager of the airport's management company, Perum Angkasa Pura I, (PAP1)Heru Legowo; and moderator Alex Pudjonto.Gde Nurjaya told the audience that despite being haunted by the current financial crisis, Bali still has great tourism potential because of its unique comparative advantage when compared with competing destinations. To support his case for Bali's cultural and natural drawing power, Nurjaya pointed to growing arrival numbers over the past several years and the 2008 foreign visitor totals of 1,968,892.At the same time, Nurjaya urged the public not be become complacent with their current success, suggesting there exist a number of internal problems threatening the island's future potential. Chief among these problems he cited were environmental damage, uncontrolled development and the varying vision for Bali tourism championed by the various regencies of Bali and the provincial government.Sounding a similar message, Al Purwa of ASITA said that Bali's tourism policymakers do not speak with a single voice. Municipal and regency governments remains solely focused on how to increase their tax revenues, while the provincial island-wide administration stands alone in calling for management of the island's environment. Purwa said that in terms of investing in Bali's tourism what is permissible and what is not, is never clear.Purwa, one of Bali's senior tourism managers, also warned that Bali is plagued by poor skills among local tourism workers, an insufficient tourism infrastructure, growing pollution, security concerns and capacity issues. Purwa said that anyone who takes the time to read guest comment forms from local hotels, mass media and other sources will encounter all these complaints. "If this is not urgently addressed, after five years Bali will become the 'destination of yesterday,' said Purwa.As the manager of Bali's gateway, Heru Legowo acknowledged the strategic position of the Ngurah Rai International Airport. He told the seminar's participants that the PAP I is working to continually improve their services to the public, together with all the other stakeholders found at the airport.Legowo said: "In a symbolic sense, our commitment is embodied in the '3S + 1C' formula of safety, security, service and compliance . This not only comes from PAP I, but from all elements found at the airport: airport administrations, immigration, customs, quarantine, airlines, police, security, porters, cleaning service personnel and others. All must share the same vision to make the Ngurah Rai Airport 3S = 1C."


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Have lost weight, how do i gain weight back. Have tried all weight gain medications but nothing has improve
Eat more, but eat healthy. You don't want to put on unhealthy weight. No matter whether you are trying to lose weight or gain weight, eating a healthy balanced diet along with regular exercise is still best for you.
i hope i had this problem of yours!,,haha..
tell me 1st how you lost your weight
increase the intake of high calorie food
Stop stressing and eat food you like, in abundance.
And in overabundance too!
There you are... someone to ask. Tell me why? Nobody will tell me why they feel Fat looks better. Tell me why PLEASE!
W H Y? You need to see a doctor.
Try the protein shakes my doctor told me about I was just telling someone else I'm 86lbs and my doctor says to gain healthy weight so u should do the same

Make a smoothie it's easy just yogurt fruit Nd ice and protein powder u can get at those gmc I think it's called or what ever health food stores costco sells them too

Just drink lots of that every morning w breakfast and work out nothing huge just maybe try jogging in the morning or swim!! Or just to use the stairs instead of escalator just look for ways to get active and u will retain muscle weight no not like diesel muscle weight just healthy weight in the good spots

Don't eat fatty foods trying to gain weight it's not good for u hope I helped oh and it works the shakes work for me at least I have lupus and get sick a lot sometimes my weight drops to the 70's from being in the hospital and this trick always helps me catch up and stay balanced
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IndiGo airlines: Budget Indian airline goes Broadway
Low-cost carrier IndiGo airlines, currently the only Indian airline making a profit, has released a television commercial (TVC) to promote the launch of its international operations connecting Mumbai and New Delhi with Bangkok, Kathmandu, Dubai, Muscat and Singapore.
Despite market instability, India's youngest airline has completed a successful first five years of domestic operations and set trends considered fresh for the Indian aviation industry.
These include the much-blogged-about cute hair-dos for airplane crew. And adverts like "Sleep with your wife tonight" which won IndiGo airlines an award at the world low-cost airlines Asia Pacific awards in 2010 in Singapore.
More on CNNGo: The IndiGo brand story
Patterned on a Broadway musical, IndiGo airline's latest TVC claims to be the first "runway musical" in the world.
The high-energy, one-minute television spot was made in Los Angeles by Steven Antin, director of the Christina Aguilera musical feature "Burlesque", and choreographed by Denise Faye of "Chicago" fame.
"Marketing propaganda just isn't IndiGo's style, which is why this film is such a great piece of entertainment," said Mohit Dhar Jayal, managing director at IndiGo's communications company Wieden + Kennedy, India.
Compared to the dismal state of every other commercial carrier in India, IndiGo feels like the "Glee" club.
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We've been on a serious board game kick here at Chez Toy Report lately, with the boys really starting to become interested in playing tabletop games more and more as they get older.
Let's face it, board games for toddlers are geared toward the 3-4 year old set. Any parent who has been forced to sit for round after round of Candy Land knows just how mind numbing boring it is. There is nothing to do, no choices to make whatsoever, you pick up a card then move to that color. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat. For a 3 year old, it's great. Don't make your 5 or 6 year old play it though.
I'd put Chutes and Ladders into this category as well. At least there is some tiny amount of math involved in Chutes and Ladders.
These types of games typically play themselves and help ready our children for adult lives of sitting in front of the television being spoon fed entertainment. That's not for me, nor do I want it do be for my kids.
With that in mind, I'll be highlighting some great kids board games that really allow for fun, creativity, learning, and problem solving all rolled into one.
We are big fans of Enchanted Forest by Ravensburger lately. In fact, pretty much every game Ravensburger makes is awesome on some level, but this one particularly so. The rules are a little too long to go into here, but it's basically a memory game. You need to travel around the board and discover which treasure is hidden under which tree, then race to the castle once you find the treasure. Get there first, guess correctly, and a new treasure card is turned over. Guess wrong and get teleported back to the start of the board. The first person to find three treasures wins. Sounds easy? It's not. Anyone who rolls doubles can use "magic" to change the treasure card, so if someone is racing towards the castle if they know the treasure, you can thwart them. Be careful though, they might know where the new treasure is as well.
This is a decent length game, typically taking about an hour to play a full game, but it culminates quickly once a few players have seen most of the treasures on the board, typically resulting in a mad dash to the castle by all the players.
It's a great learning experience for younger kids, since it doesn't involve advanced reading skills but can involve advanced strategic learning. I've been able to teach the boys how to infer when someone knows where the treasure is, how to play defensively, how to bluff, and how to balance the risks of making an educated guess based on available information.
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I was visiting with some ministry partners recently. They told the story of having a visit from a young woman who works with a different campus ministry. "She was delightful… Her passion was really something." I smiled waiting for the question I knew was coming. "Can you remind us, what's the difference between your ministry and that one?"
I'm meeting with student leaders. The tension in the room is palpable. My heart is echoing in my chest and in my ears. An influential leader has just passionately clarified vision for ministry that has nothing to do with InterVarsity's mission. I have 3 seconds to redirect this conversation or watch the chapter drift away from mission, or head over the cliff of division.
Sheila asks, "Can I be a leader here?" Sheila is a Buddhist student who has been hanging around for a few semesters.
"I thought you guys were committed to prayer." Bently says. "You should join in the campus wide prayer and worship gathering." The invitation is a trap. Either we can go along with the event, and thereby prove our commitment to prayer, or we can say no and be branded as unspiritual.
These experiences are just a few of the examples of the challenges that InterVarsity leaders face. Over time, I've come to see these challenges as opportunities. The question is how. How do we take moments of challenge and transform them into moments of opportunity? Here are 3 ways you can do this:
1. Get Clear: Underneath each of these situations (and many like them) is a key question that leaders can learn to identify and answer. Answering these four questions, "What do you do? How are you different? What do you believe? How do you behave?" with clarity and passion can help you turn a challenge into an opportunity.
2. Enter the Danger: Leaders need to enter the dangerous places where there is potential conflict, confusion, or discontent. We need to become comfortable entering into the danger instead of avoiding it.
3. Call for Commitment: It's not enough to simply enter the danger and clarify the truth. Leaders have to make the ask. We have to call others to join us in our mission unapologetically. Do you see moments like those above as challenges or as opportunities?
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