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Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,
We're very happy to announce that we have called the Rev'd Geoffrey Hoare to be the next interim rector of our church. Rev'd Hoare comes to us from All Saints' Episcopal Church in Atlanta, where he has served as rector since 1998.
A native of England, Geoffrey came to America as a Morehead Scholar at the University of North Carolina in 1976. After taking an additional degree from Cambridge University, where he was a member of Magdalene College, he returned to the United States and to the Yale University Divinity School together with its Episcopal component, the Berkeley Divinity School.
Geoffrey was ordained Deacon and Priest in the Diocese of North Carolina. He served at Christ Church in Raleigh (1982-1987), and as Rector of St. Paul's Church Alexandria (1988-1998). During those years he also served as adjunct faculty at Virginia Theological Seminary. He currently serves as a Trustee of the Berkeley Divinity School at Yale and is a member of the Compass Rose Society of the Anglican Communion. Additionally, he has served as an instructor in the contextual education program of the Candler School of Theology at Emory University.
Throughout his career Geoffrey has actively engaged in critical issues including domestic violence, AIDS, child abuse, and homelessness. He served as director of Visions, Inc., an organization devoted to combating modern racism and other relationships with inherent differentials of power, and currently serves on their Advisory Board. Among All Saints' many outreach ministries is Covenant Community, a life transformation residence and halfway house for homeless men recovering from substance abuse.
Geoffrey will be with us for the next 4 to 6 months until we call a permanent rector. His ministry at Epiphany will begin on September 1st. Despite this time of change, many constants will continue. Our interim associate rector Catriona Laing will continue to serve in her various capacities. We'll rely on supply clergy during the month of August, many of whom will be familiar faces. Please do call or email the office if you are in need of pastoral care at any time. Thank you for your continued patience.
Elizabeth will be with us through the end of this week. We encourage you to take this time to say goodbye if you haven't yet.
If you have any questions about the process, please feel free to contact either of us. Rasheen can be reached at 240-274-2921, and Bea can be reached at 703-795-8687.
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Fox Expands Chicago Office With Addition of William Choslovsky and Mary NicolauMay 21, 2015 – Press Releases
Fox Rothschild LLP is pleased to announce the expansion of its Chicago office with the addition of William Choslovsky and former Supervisor of the Real Estate Tax Unit in the Cook County State's Attorney's Office Mary T. Nicolau as partners.
Choslovsky joins the firm's Litigation and Bankruptcy Departments while Nicolau will be a member of Fox's Real Estate Department.
"Our goal was to expediently and strategically add talent in our Chicago office to broaden and deepen the services we provide to clients," said Donna B. More, Fox's Chicago office managing partner. "Bill and Mary are superb additions to Fox's nationally known real estate and litigation teams and enhance our capabilities in real estate and real estate tax, as well as in litigation, financial restructuring and bankruptcy, not only in Illinois but throughout the country."
An accomplished commercial litigator and restructuring attorney, Choslovsky works closely with clients to solve discrete problems in a quick and efficient manner. He represents debtors, creditors, committees, trustees and shareholders in bankruptcy cases throughout the country. Choslovsky counsels clients ranging from banks to hedge funds to companies and family groups in Chapter 7 and Chapter 11 proceedings, state court proceedings and complex out-of-court workouts, including numerous real estate workouts on behalf of borrowers, lenders and receivers. He also has experience representing assignees, handling assignments for the benefit of creditors and prosecuting and defending "preference" cases in bankruptcy court.
As both a litigator and transactional attorney, Choslovsky represents developers on real estate deals and in a variety of workout matters. He also counsels banks and other lending institutions on lender-side transactions.
Choslovsky received his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1994 and his B.S., summa cum laude, from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1990.
Nicolau advises real estate companies, developers, banks, investors and other business clients on a variety of real estate tax matters. She regularly works with clients to reduce real estate tax liabilities and resolve disputes with taxing authorities and other entities. She has significant experience representing clients before local assessors and in hearings before local boards of review, the Property Tax Appeal Board of Illinois, Illinois Department of Revenue and the circuit courts on exemptions, sales in error, tax sales specific objections and related tax issues.
During her career, Nicolau has represented and worked closely with the Cook County Assessor, Clerk and Treasurer in resolving real estate tax issues and proposing and implementing related legislation for the state of Illinois. Before entering private practice, she was an Assistant State's Attorney in both the Criminal and Civil Divisions, ending her tenure at the Cook County State's Attorney's Office as the Supervisor of the Real Estate Tax Unit. She has also served as a Commissioner on the Illinois Court of Claims.
Nicolau received her LL.M. in taxation from Chicago-Kent College of Law in 1991, her J.D. from Chicago-Kent College of Law in 1985 and her B.A. from University of Illinois in 1982.
Prior to joining Fox, Choslovsky was a partner at Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP, where he co-chaired its Diversity Committee, and Nicolau was special counsel at Much Shelist, P.C.


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Facility management thought leaders
Facility management is a huge professional discipline which serves organizations and business with facilities through services. There are various facility management thought leaders which provide knowledge, awareness and learning about facility management that how to give different hard and soft facilities to run an organization and increase its output and ranking.Facility management thought leaders are :
1- IFMA: International facility management association provides various opportunities, including educational guidance, webinar and industry conventions.
2- Buildings: Buildings magazine have articles on green energy theory, fire alarm new designs and industrial maintenance.
3- BIFM: The British institute of facility management is itself a huge and developed professional-body.
4- Erin Sevitz: A writer who writes about worker happiness, office management and economical topics.
5- Facility management magazine: It is situated in Australia, gives information about products, building management, service and office management.
6- Ken burkhalter: Member of IFMA, travels and speaks about facility management problems.
7- I-FMNet: It promotes topics about outsourcing and rebidding agreements.
8- Work design magazine: It contains articles about making office a comfortable place and improve them continuously.
9- TFM-Newshounds: It holds some offbeat topics like a mix of serious and amazing posts.All these facility management thought leaders work to ameliorate FM and bring new strategies for further progress and development.
Facilities Management: What it is and How it Benefits Businesses
Facilities management (FM) is a relatively new professional management career. It is a management discipline that integrates and coordinates demand and supply of facilities in a business, private or a public organization.
Facilities management, therefore, focuses on proper and efficient management of a business' tangible assets including buildings, real estate, installed equipment, technical and IT infrastructure, transportation and lighting among other areas. This is with the ultimate aim of increasing business efficiency and ensuring everyone's safety and comfort.
Facilities management benefits businesses in many ways. One of its biggest benefits is cutting business costs. This is because the management involves the effective implementation of sound management practices on a business's assets. This goes a long way to reducing unnecessary wastage and emergencies, which can be very costly to a business.
The second biggest benefit of FM to businesses has to do with the health and safety of both business employees and clients/customers. Just in the same way that business employees want to work in a safe environment, business clients/customers also want to associate with businesses who take their safety seriously. Facilities management ensures the built-up environment and any facilities installed are user-friendly.
The other valuable benefit of facilities management certainly has to do with code compliance. Because it involves the implementation of sound management systems of facilities and processes, FM helps a business to remain compliant with various codes established by various legislation. This benefits a business a great deal considering how litigious employees and members of the public have come to be.
These three are no doubt the most important benefits of facilities management to businesses. There are certainly more benefits. Although some businesses and organizations do away with their FM departments as one way of cutting costs, it is one department that helps businesses to avoid unnecessary costs and litigation.
Facilities are assets, infrastructures provided to solve a problem. Facility Management on its own as a discipline is concerned about the proper usage, and maintenance of the facilities provided in other to realize the purpose for its provision. A facility manager is the overall person responsible for the day to day coordination of the facility. Facility management can indeed be a daunting task not because of lack of formal training, or experience, but the knowledge of what i call the essentials keys that makes facilities management works. These are two essentials keys every facility managers cannot do without in order to succeed in their roles.
The importance of effective communication not only among your team as a facility manager, but also with all stakeholder cannot be over emphasized. a lot of facility managers has failed because they under rate what effective communication can do. As a facility manager, there is no place for assumption, every body must be carried along. Have a workable business continuity plan.A lot do of things do happens without any prior notice. An effective business continuity plan save guide the business, and facilities should there be any disaster that might affect the business in an unpleasant way. It might be people, equipment etc.
With these two essentials keys, I have no doubt, every facility manager would be able to succeed in their roles.


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Rookie Stephan Dippenaar, Bernado Botha and Mark Richards will play for the Springbok Sevens for the next two seasons after they signed agreements with SARU earlier today at Newlands.
Vodacom Blue Bulls centre Stephan Dippenaar was released by the Blue Bulls Company (Pty) Ltd to take up a contract with SARU and will be based at Stellenbosch with the rest of the Springbok Sevens squad.
The 23-year old Dippenaar was contracted to the Pretoria side until 31 October 2012, but after successful negotiations between the Blue Bulls and SARU, he will now be released on October 31, 2011 in order to concentrate on his Sevens career.
He will most likely make his national Sevens debut when the HSBC Sevens World Series kicks off on the Gold Coast in Australia on 25-26 November, while both Botha (signed from the MTN Golden Lions) and Richards (The Sharks) have already played international Sevens for South Africa.
Dippenaar represented the Vodacom Bulls in Vodacom Super Rugby, Vodacom Blue Bulls in Absa Currie Cup and Vodacom Cup action and the Vodacom Blue Bulls junior teams since 2008.
"This is a change of direction in my career and one that I am looking forward to tremendously," Dippenaar said soon after signing on the dotted line at SARU headquarters in Newlands.
"The opportunity to represent your country remains the ultimate for any player and the opportunity to play Sevens makes me very excited. I had great experiences with the Bulls and will use those memories in this chapter of my career."
Welcome! Bernado Botha, Stephan Dippenaar and Mark Richards signed for the Bok Sevens
Andy Marinos, the SARU General Manager: Commercial, described the three players as great additions to an already talented group of Springbok Sevens players. "They chose to make Sevens their career for the next two years and we are delighted to have them on board. Sevens is an exciting and growing brand and they will no doubt strengthen the existing Springbok Sevens group even further."
SARU will name the full Springbok Sevens training squad on Monday.
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Chumpter 20: Don't tease emo roommate.
Ok, for purposed of not repeating, when this gets epic in length, I'm keeping a list of what's been done, which I'll post intermittently.
- Don't kick PTSD soldiers trashcan
- Don't pick on...Cagefighters drag night out
- Respect your elders
- White turtleneck + friends fail vs boxer
- Coconut guy
- pillow fight suckerpillow.
- Ashida Kim..worst
- Yellow Bamboo on beach w/ fail
- Messed w/ wrong heavy metal guy
- Hatsumi is a cheeseball
- Bobby sucks at Judo (and everything)
- Pimp vs Karate instuctor
- 2 muggers pwned
- man vs wall
- Wid' mi main man Buzz Lightyear 'ere, innit
- old no touch guy pwned..how do block left hook?
- Rage slam at school - Aussies
- Kung fu prep vs gangster
- A really big slap + recovery position post-win
- Emo scissor kid
You don't just go up to anyone and ask them to spar.
Chumpter 21: Fat Metalhead's Wild Punch Defeats Danzig's Lean Metal Head Jeet Kune Do
I am a huge fan of Glenn but that all came after this diatribe on "The Jeet" (ie JKD).
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Chumter 22: sometimes systema is even stupider than you think:
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Most, if not all, of ITU's current mandate in the area of the Internet not directly related to technical standards can trace its roots back to the global principles established at the World Summit on the Information Society, WSIS. This is especially true of the three Resolutions under consideration at WTPF 2013: Resolutions 101, 102 and 133.
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Back-to-school is almost here, so I am ordering our Auvi-Q® and EpiPen® carriers, belts and holders right now. The reason? I need time in case the products are not a good fit for my children. Most of the businesses I listed below do not know I've written this post, all my thoughts are my own and I was not paid to say anything kind or unkind for that matter! My goal is to share epinephrine auto-injector carrier or holder possibilities. So if you have a favorite that I did not list, please add it to the comments below and I'll copy it into the body of this post.
Disclaimer: Gratefulfoodie does not endorse or sponsor the products listed below. Nor has Gratefulfoodie been paid to include these products. My goal is to provide you with some ideas of products that might improve life with food allergies. New: I have joined a few affiliate programs and may receive a small commission from a few items listed below–thank you!
Inside view of one part of my daughter's "stepping out bag" by Epi Essentials that holds her two EpiPen® one inhaler, bracelets and numerous rocks.
For my family, we maintain several different varieties of carriers based on our activity: special events, for school, for sports, hiking, and being in warm weather. Many of the products below also accommodate asthma inhalers too.
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Popular Auvi-Q® and EpiPen® carriers or holders…
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- Best EpiPen belt is a favorite amongst many food allergy moms. One Spot Allergy sells the OneSpot Allergy in both adult and child sizes. SPECIAL NOTE: OneSpot Allergy is offering a 10% off discount until Sept 30th. Use coupon code BACKTOSCHOOL at check out.
- Allergy Apparel™ is another fabulous, fashion forward and efficient Food Allergy Mom operated company that offers a huge assortment of painfully creative Auvi-Q® and EpiPen® carriers, pouches and belts. I just discovered their Kool Epi Pen® Blanket on this site in addition to a great food allergy awareness lunch box. We hit 106° here in Reno, NV not long ago and my daughter used the Kool Epi Pen Blanket to run errands! My daughter's favorite carrier is still her bright blue camo belt (she is a tomboy by the way). Allergy Apparel™ also sells some of the cutest allergy awareness clothing that I have seen!
- Epi Essentials™ products are what us girls in my family use when stepping out in style! My daughters carries the Epi Essential Grab and Go bag and I carry the Accessory Case. They are made of gorgeous leather, can hold antihistamine in custom-made bottles and Emergency information cards–besides being so smart-looking. My daughter is not interested in the Auvi-Q®, so we have not tried it out in her handbag but my Accessory Case holds the epinephrine auto-injector just fine.
- Alert Wear sells holders so insanely adorable that I want to place an order to use the holders for other things! Since many of her items are custom-made, you need to order early! Some of their holders are created to accommodate asthma inhalers in addition to both popular epinephrine auto-injectors.
- @Risk Rescue offers some products that have me very interested. I'm in the process of ordering–they are from Canada and do not have online US ordering abilities at the moment. The pouch I'm looking at is one that clips into a binder. At this moment, my son carries his EpiPens® in a pencil-case with EPIPEN written across the front with a Sharpie. @Risk Rescue also sells a full kit that can hold up to 20 EpiPens® for multiple students. I'll report back on the shipping and ordering process .
- Blue Bear Aware offers epinephrine holders, food allergy awareness tee shirts, books and even labels!
- Activeaide sells several great holders, but our favorites are the hard case style and a hysterical animal carrier. My daughter tested out the animal carrier and LOVED it! I like the hard case to carry my in big mess of a purse. They also sell asthma inhaler pouches and children's asthma books. My son's Auvi-Q®fit well in the two carrier just fine but the single carrier didn't work out.
- Rescue Shot offers colorful ballistic nylon carries to find the Auvi-Q® or any long pen shaped epinephrine auto-injector.
- Preppy Epi's name just makes me smile! They offer simple and to the point neoprene pouches with nice big labeling.
- Allergy Haven is a sunny, California based company that sells three styles of very hip epinephrine carriers: a tote, a strap and belt. They are quite unique and worth checking out. They even sell a single dose plastic bottles to hold Benedryl and nut free slap bracelets. This site really offers up some unique but useful food allergy items on their Helpful Things page. They offer free shipping on orders over $25 in the continental US.
- Allergy Pack offers a holder that can hold two EpiPen®plus an inhaler. My son uses Allergy Pack holders when he hikes-it's a family favorite.
- Omaxcare® is all about the active kid, teen and adult. Their options are waste bands style and leg band style. You have to check out their website since there is a photo of lady using the leg band on her thigh! I cracked up as I had a vision of some sexy movie star whipping out her Auvi-Q® from her thigh holster. In reality, for an evening out of dancing for young lady, this might not be bad option!
- Kozy Epi offers carriers, labels and even Allerbling food allergy ID kits. Truly a great place to shop for many food allergy awareness items.
- Allermates sell many styles of carriers, pouches and awareness items. You can even find their items in major US retailers, such as CVS, etc.
- Safety Sacks are an old favorite in my family. We used them mostly when my kids where younger since this sack is clear! My son's preschool used it to hang his emergency medications on the door frame of the classroom.
- Pillow Sew Cute creates hand crafted pouches that can carry a wide variety of epinephrine auto-injectors and other medications or items.
- SPIbelt is one that is new to me. They offer a variety of Small Personal Item belts (hence the name) and there is one variety specifically that is for kids and adults that looks like it will work for Epi Pens. A parent below mentioned this belt and I have vague memory of another friend using this product too.
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Please share your favorite Auvi-Q® or EpiPen® carrier or holders! The more information we share together the better life becomes!
p.s. We always carry two epinephrine auto-injectors in our family–in case there is a second reaction or emergency medical response is delayed!


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Contact information: 790-4534, firstname.lastname@example.com.
Web site: http://www.bgcalaska.org/
Years of service: 5.
Organization description: Boys & Girls Club of Juneau provides youth ages 8-18 with facility based youth development programs that foster self-esteem, teamwork and leadership skills.
Volunteer positions available: Volunteers are needed to spend time with kids and help with homework, tutoring, arts and crafts, using computers, playing games, chaperoning summer field trips and chaperoning Friday night events for teenagers. Regular general administrative work is available. On-site training is provided.
Special requirements: Background checks will be performed on volunteers over 18.
In-kind/material donations needed: Snacks for kids or gift certificates for food; prizes for weekly drawings; arts/craft supplies; school supplies; board games, Legos, etc.; and PG-rated DVD movies. No exercise equipment.
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FALLS CHURCH, VA- Two new programs launch nationally on MHz Worldivew in May.
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In Good Shape – The Health Show (TVG) airs Saturdays at 1:30PM ET on MHz Worldview. The weekly health show from Deutsche Welle, covers all aspects of health care: what's new in medical treatment, alternative medicine, wellness and fitness – as well as nutrition and beauty. In our studio interview we discuss topics in-depth with specialists, and offer you opportunities to pose your own questions. Dr. Carsten Lekutat and Stefanie Suren are alternate hosts of the program and will provide a combination of video-rich features and insightful interviews that grapple with some of the larger issues in medical treatment and healthcare. Broadcast in English.


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Three men have been jailed for a combined total of 14 years after they sprayed customers and staff at a Northampton pub with CS gas during a terrifying robbery.
Steven Ennever, aged 42, Carl Burrell, aged 44, and Samuel Bowditch, aged 25, targeted The Billing Mill pub and restaurant shortly before closing time on February 23 this year.
Northampton Crown Court heard the three men targeted the pub where Ennever had worked from November 2011 to April 2012.
Gary Short, prosecuting, said the deputy manager of the pub was preparing to close up when the three men burst into the bar wearing balaclavas and pushed him into the toilets.
Mr Short said the trio tied the deputy manager's hands behind his back with cable and told him not to move. The gang also stole his wallet and mobile phone.
The court heard the three men then went through to the bar area where there were two members of staff and two customers.
Mr Short said the barman and two customers were sprayed in the face with CS gas and a team leader was marched upstairs and forced to open a safe containing almost £5,000.
Mr Short said: "The use of violence was completely unnecessary as the staff and customers at no point offered any retaliation."
The court heard the three men took the CCTV unit from the office and stole a further £200 from a cash machine in the pub.
Mr Short said the deputy manager's partner, who came downstairs from the living quarters above the pub after hearing a lot of noise, was also sprayed with CS gas.
The three men were arrested by police outside an address in Daventry after they tracked them via the mobile phone stolen from the deputy manager.
Sam Mains, defending Ennever, said his client had committed the offence after he had failed to receive his benefits for a long period of time
Mr Mains said Ennever, a father of seven children, expressed genuine remorse and said it was the "dumbest thing he had ever done in his life."
Claire Howell, defending Bowditch, said he was a talented stonemason who had decided to take part in the robbery after he lost his business and his partner found herself in rent arrears.
She said: "This was an opportunity he took up for all the wrong reasons and he is ashamed about what he has done."


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Some changes to the project which will introduce Unreal 3 engine and will be working on more stuff.
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7 Festive St. Patrick's Day Recipes
Celebrate St. Patrick's Day with these Irish-inspired recipes, including Classic Irish Soda Bread, Corned Beef Cabbage Rolls, Colcannon, Chocolate Guinness Cake and more!
With St. Patrick's day just around the corner, it's time to start thinking of Irish-inspired recipes for your celebratory feast! Irish food often takes a variety of humble ingredients and transforms them into rich, flavourful meals. As with Italian food, though, when the recipes only involve a few ingredients, their flavours are really going to shine, so it's important to make sure you're choosing the highest quality ingredients you can find. The dishes below have been tested till perfect by our test kitchen, so you won't even need the luck of the Irish on your side when making them!
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- Brand Name: Metal Sport Spinner Keychain
- Model Number: FP-MK-095
- Process: die cast
- Plating: gold plating
- Finishing: soft enamel
- Attachment: chain&rings
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- Using: Gifts/souvenir
- Style: Metal Sport Spinner Keychain
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Yelp, You Cost Me $2000 by Suppressing Genuine Reviews, Here's How You Fix It
Dear Yelp,
It's highly likely that you're costing your users millions of dollars by offering some astonishingly bad recommendations.
For example, I did business with a moving company based on 5 star recommendations that you presented.
As a result I was strong-armed into paying $2000 more than originally quoted. I spent 40 days without any furniture and quite a few of my belongings have been misplaced – forever.
I've always loved your site. I love your startup story. I love your crowd sourcing review model. For years now I've been using Yelp to help me make decisions about where to eat and what to purchase. Yelp has never steered me wrong. So what happened this time? How come your reviewers were so far off the mark?
They weren't.
Your reviewers described exactly what I experienced and warned against this company again and again. But you hid all of those reviews.
Wait, what? Why would you do that?
After Googling the issue I found out that some time back you introduced a very difficult to notice and access filter link (screen shot here) to hide reviews that seem to be fake. You also introduced an automated algorithm that flags suspicious looking reviews and shuffles them into the filtered section.
Your algorithm typically hides entries by people who only post one review and who don't otherwise engage in Yelp. Your assumption is that if a user only posts one review, posts no comments, has no friends etc. then most likely they are fake and trying to game the system.
Let's call this "Assumption X".
In the case of the company that I mention above (the one that ripped me off) Assumption X is exactly wrong at least 10 out of 14 times. Just to be clear, 10 honest one star reviews have been hidden from public view. That's a 71% false positive hit rate.
So why did Yelp get it wrong 10 times?
In each case the one star review was left by someone who would never normally leave a review… they were simply so outraged that they were motivated to signup to Yelp and try to warn others how bad this company is. None of them ever used Yelp again. Furthermore, they didn't have the knowledge or inclination to try to make their Yelp profile look acceptable to Yelp's automated suppression systems.
The Cost of Assumption X
In this instance Assumption X has cost me personally $2000. If you extrapolate my loss to all other Yelp users it would be easy to imagine at least 50 other people per year would make the same purchasing decision I did based on Yelp's 5 star presentation of this company.
It seems fair to estimate that Assumption X is hurting Yelp users to the tune of $100,000 per year – for this one company. There are approximately 5 million companies in the USA and over 20 million reviews on Yelp.
When I think how many genuine and helpful reviews must be hidden from view due to Assumption X, my mind boggles at how much money is being lost by people who trust Yelp to help them make purchasing decisions.
We're not only talking about small stuff like restaurants and cafes, we're talking about large stuff like moving companies, kitchen installation and car dealerships.
I don't believe you are purposefully trying to cost Yelp users tens of millions of dollars per year by dishing out bad advice, I just think you haven't tested Assumption X thoroughly enough.
Perhaps even worse, reputation management companies are very familiar with Assumption X and know how to game Yelp. All they need to do is create and nurture sockpuppet accounts that look real. Once a few "real" looking accounts rally round a planted 5 star review by befriending the author, commenting on the review and flagging the review as helpful… hey, presto, it's out of the filter and onto the main page.
So now we have a situation where Yelp's automation systems regularly flags real reviews as fake and fake reviews as real.
The Fix
The quick fix is for you to alter Yelps automated algorithms to pick up on pattens of outrage. These kind of companies (the ones that rip you off) will most likely have many long and carefully written one star reviews that are hidden by the filter and will have a few five star reviews that reputation management companies have managed to get through.
However, I don't recommend that fix, as it would be Assumption Y.
A better fix (a real fix) would be to introduce an optional (yes, I said optional) Yelp verification system that allows users to go through a painless question based identity verification process. This would not be hard to do. Question based identity verification processes are already used and supplied under the hood by agencies such as TransUnion, Equifax & Experian.
Then, when a user joins Yelp and has completed their first review, you can present them with the option of quick and painless question based identity verification. You can explain this will make it very likely that their review will go live.
Question based identity verification can be very painless. I have used systems that confirmed my real identity within less than a minute. The system simply asked my name and address, then it used credit history knowledge (supplied by on of the previously mentioned credit bureaus) to ask a few questions such as: "When you were living at 123 Main Street, were you living with John Smith?, John Doe? etc". All I had to do was answer three multiple choice questions and hey presto my identity was validated.
The results of the verification process would not need to be published in any other way than to say "Verified Yelp User".. oh, and of course, to push the reviews out of the filter and onto the main page.
As long as you only allowed each valid identity to appear once on the Yelp this system would be "very hard" to game. After all, it's easy to create sock puppet accounts when all you need is an email address… but not so easy if each account needs a unique verified credit history associated with it.
Now that you are a public company and have a market cap of $1.5 billion, I'm quite sure that you have the resources to implement such a system, which will be better for everyone.
Update 1: Some folks have asked me to mention that I originally discussed this issue in a bit more detail here (6 mins in).
Update 2: Some people have said that users might find the proposed solution creepy. There is no reason they would have to. It would be as simple as asking the user a question "Please validate your a real person by answering these few questions". As far as the user is concerned it's just a few questions and answers.
Update 3: If you want to see sockpuppeting in all its glory have a look at these two reviews posted by "Bob" (both posted on the same day) about the moving company that ripped me off.
Update 4: For in-depth discussion of this post with ALL the angles explored, please see this discussion thread here.


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A new principal coming to Stroman next year
April 19, 2013 at 10:04 p.m.
Updated April 19, 2013 at 11:20 p.m.
At a Victoria school district regular monthly board meeting, Patti Welder assistant principal Dawn Maroney was appointed Stroman Middle School's principal for the 2013-2014 academic school year.
Stroman's current principal Lisa Cortez will be moving into a newly-created position with the district's administration office as their director of professional services for human resources.
Maroney began her education career in VISD as a teacher at Vickers Elementary School from 1998 to 2005, and from 2005 to 2012, she was an assistant principal at Edna High School.
After graduating from the University of Houston Victoria with a Bachelor of Science in interdisciplinary studies in 1998, Maroney earned her Masters of Education at UHV in administration and supervision and mid-management certification in 2004.
"I am very humbled by the opportunity the VISD school board and Superintendent Jaklich have given me to become the new Stroman Middle School principal," wrote Maroney in an email. "I think it is a great chance to build on the current successes within VISD and continue to strive for excellence at Stroman Middle School."
Board members made the appointment while in a closed session Thursday night.
"It's an excellent appointment," said Tami Keeling, VISD school board president. "She's at the point where she's ready to be at the helm of her own ship."


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Howdy, folks, Nick Nolte here. I come to present the trailer for 17 Again, starrin Zac Efron. Hell, I like the kid. Looks like he got that skin ain't been lived in yet, that you can stretch out and it snaps right back. Plus he's full of pep, always singin and jumpin an dancin around like a mule with his eyes cut out. Probably even still got that new queer smell.
As you can imagine, this here picture's about a man goes back to bein' 17 again. Brings back memories. At 17, I'd just met my third wife Starla at a morgue in Las Cruces. We was just a couple a crazy kids goofed up on phenobarbital when I popped the question. She said yes when she come to, and after that she wore my favorite gook ear necklace every day till the syphilis took 'er from me outside Manila in '66. Anyhound, I'm goin' all warm n fuzzy on ye so I better skedaddle. But mark your calendars, 17 Again. Check it out. Directed by Burr Steers. Sounds like a real man, ya ask me.


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University of Mainz Scientists Probe the Source of a Pulsing Signal in the Sleeping Brain
Published: Apr 18, 2013
New findings clarify where and how the brain's "slow waves" originate. These rhythmic signal pulses, which sweep through the brain during deep sleep at the rate of about one cycle per second, are assumed to play a role in processes such as consolidation of memory. For the first time, researchers have shown conclusively that slow waves start in the cerebral cortex, the part of the brain responsible for cognitive functions. They also found that such a wave can be set in motion by a tiny cluster of neurons.


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By Chris Churchill, Business writer
First published: Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Suburbanization and a wave of second-home purchases are making housing difficult to afford in the Capital Region's outlying areas, according to a state report being released today.
The report by the Division of Housing and Community Renewal says that in Greene, Saratoga and Washington counties, many towns are undergoing a "suburban gentrification" that is transforming their once-rural characters while straining longtime residents.
"The home-purchasing power of local residents often cannot match those from outside the region," the report says.
The report is the third of nine regional studies state officials are planning as part of a statewide assessment of housing needs. Each avoids detailed statistical examination, with findings instead based on site visits and focus-group meetings with local residents and officials.
"We're telling a story rather than using statistical analysis," said Deborah VanAmerongen, the division's commissioner.
And while that story might seem unpleasant to rural residents, it's probably familiar.
"We've always had a number of second-home buyers," said Al Cormier, a longtime resident of Salem, Washington County, who said many of those buyers are willing to pay more for homes than locals would. "They have the means to do that, if that's what they want to do."
Meanwhile, towns close to employment centers are experiencing suburbanization and rising prices as homebuyers look for value within commuting distance.
"Schuylerville has come up tremendously in the past four or five years," said Chris Preble, a real estate agent in Salem. "That's directly because of the Saratoga market trickling over."
The Capital District Regional Report was compiled in April and May, before $4-a-gallon gasoline became a national reality. Opinions were mixed on whether the rising cost of travel would curb trends described in the report.
Preble said the second-home market in Washington County has already cooled. But in Greene County, one official said the area's popularity would continue because of sky-high prices to the south.
"People can and will commute to Poughkeepsie to make up that difference," said Karl Heck, community development specialist with the Greene County Department of Planning and Economic Development.
Statistics from the New York State Association of Realtors mostly back the study's claims. They show that the median home price in Warren County, for example, climbed 11.5 percent from 2005 to 2007, to $195,000, while it rose 6.4 percent in Greene County.
The data also show why the counties are attractive for value-seeking buyers: The median 2007 home price in Greene County was $171,000, about $30,000 less than Albany County and about half the average in Dutchess County.
In Washington County, the median 2007 price was $119,500 — up 10 percent from 2005, but still a relative bargain.
"There are reasonably priced homes here," said Cormier, the Salem resident.
The state report studied the region's urban areas, too, finding that the primary housing issues facing Troy, Schenectady and Albany are the number of vacant or rundown properties.
"Albany contains many substandard properties and an insufficient number of housing units suitable for habitation," the report says. "The existence of vacant buildings was raised as a primary housing issue facing the city."
The report details problems, but doesn't explicitly recommend solutions. But VanAmerongen, the housing commissioner, said officials will use the information gathered in the nine reports to drive state housing policy in upcoming years.
She said the series of reports is the first such effort the state has undertaken and is an attempt "to truly understand the housing needs of communities across the state."


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It's funny to me that the one post that gets the most traffic via Google image and keyword searches is my White Trash Backyard Bash. Years ago we had a costume party and everybody came dressed in their finest white trash attire. So I get searches for "white trash costumes", "white trash food", "white trash party" and all kinds of other fun white trash things. I figure I should just play on what works, so I'm going to give you some White Trash Gift Ideas.
White Trash Gift Ideas
White Trash Wine Glasses
I have to admit that this was not my original idea, I think we all know I'm not creative enough for that! Nope, the idea originally came from ModernDayMoms.com's post called Hillbilly Crystal AKA Redneck Wine Glasses.
The difference between the wine glasses that they made and my White Trash Wine Glasses are that the bottom part of their wine glasses (the "stem") are made from glass candlestick holders. Mine? Are shot glasses!
These were super easy (and cheap) to make!
All You Will Need:
Mason Jars (I used half-pint (8 ounce) sized Ball jars)
Flat-Bottomed Shot Glasses
Glass Glue (I used Gorilla Glue for outside use)
I spent under $20 for all of these items for enough jars/glasses to make 12 White Trash Wine Glasses.
What You Do:
Apply the Gorilla Glue to the bottom of the shot glass, and then attach the shot glass to the mason jar. I pressed on it for just long enough to make sure it was straight and centered (or pretty close…these are white trash glasses after all!). That's it! Let it dry…it took about 8 hours or so to be able to move them without fear of breaking them.
We decided to leave the lids on them so that, if the gift recipient wants, they can write their name right on the lid! That way nobody will steal it away…it's like a White Trash Wine Charm!
Jolly Rancher Vodka
So what do you put in the white trash wine glasses? Well, wine obviously! And if wine is not your bag baby, flip it over and you're ready to do shots!
How about Jolly Rancher Vodka shots or Candy Cane Vodka shots? They're pretty to look at and taste yummy!
With a handful of Jolly Ranchers, you can make Cherry, Apple, Raspberry, and Watermelon flavored vodka.
It is so simple. All you do is put 12 of the same flavored Jolly Ranchers (remove the plastic from them of course) in a pint sized mason jar. Fill up the jar with vodka of your choice, and then let the candy dissolve, it takes about 8 hours. That's it!
Fair warning: Candy infused vodka tastes more like candy than like alcohol, so beware.
Maybe you aren't a fan of Jolly Ranchers. No problem. You can do this with just about any hard candy. Try the same process with candy corns…just get a hand full of candy corns and drop them in the mason jar and fill with vodka. It takes a little longer to break down, but it works.
If it's the holidays…how about Candy Cane Infused Vodka?
White Trash Cookbook
Yep, you read that right. There's an actual white trash cookbook titled White Trash Cooking. So if you have a foodie in your life that you have been searching for the perfect gift to buy, this might be it. Head over and read my review of White Trash Cooking – it's a fun read!
Red Solo Cup Wine Glasses
Want something a little less "formal" than my white trash wine glasses? Check out my Red Solo Cup White Trash Wine Glasses…perfect for everyday use!
So there you have it! White Trash gifts that anybody would love to get! What white trash gift ideas could you add to the list?


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I met Rod Santomassimo in 2007. Sperry Van Ness was recruiting our firm, and Rod was giving my parents and me – along with 10 other prospects – a presentation. I remember thinking, "This guy is tough as nails and knows what he's talking about."
My next interaction with him was at SVN bootcamp. He was playing the role of Mr. Big Ego, and I had to give him a presentation to win his business. Our group won his business. I felt like I impressed him. He probably doesn't remember that, but I was proud of it.
Then he started the Massimo Group, and I hired him as my coach. For two years, he had a profound impact on my business. We restructured my entire prospecting system (which probably saved the company) and focus. He encouraged me and showed me how to build a presence.
Then he asked me to become a coach for the Massimo Group. I was coming off a really bad year in CRE because I'd started an insurance company that had failed. My attention had been diverted. I hesitated to tell him yes. So I spoke to my mentor who told me to do it. He said that coaching would sharpen my ax. He was right. My brokerage career had its best years while I was coaching.
So for the last 5 years, I've been coaching CRE brokers. During that time, I've owned and operated a CRE brokerage firm, I've been a corporate exec at a national CRE firm, and I've been a VP at a food safety technology start-up. The constant during that time has been the Massimo Group.
I love to coach. I love to see my clients grow in their prospecting, presence, fill their pipelines and explode their production. It is some of the most satisfying work I've ever done.
And it is so different than training. Trainers show up, brain dump, and then leave you with their well-wishes. Coaching is jumping in a fox hole with your client and ensuring they accomplish their goals. It involves accountability.
So when Rod started talking with me a couple months ago about coming on with the Massimo Group full-time, I was intrigued and excited. And after nailing down some details, I've completed my first week as Executive Vice President of the Massimo Group. I'm convinced that we've only scratched the surface of what's possible. Our clients see results. They average 5 times more income than the average CRE broker.
It is a blast being a part of that.
What we need from you…
The Massimo Group needs more coaches. We have approximately 15 coaches now, and we are at capacity. New clients have to wait sometimes 6 weeks before we can place them with a coach. This is a great problem to have, but one we have to solve.
If you:
- have strong transactional history and experience,
- can be coached and can follow a system,
- don't struggle with technology
- want to sharpen your ax as you positively impact others,
- value making a difference more than financial gain (the financial gain isn't bad at all),
then I want to talk to you. Shoot me an email at bo @ massimo-group.com and let me know you are interested.
Tomorrow, I've got another announcement I'm excited to share with you so be sure to check back.


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Industry Roundup: Sofia Vergara Teams With Ben Silverman on New Sitcom
Plus: Damon Wayans returning to ABC.By Josh Duboff
Plus: Damon Wayans returning to ABC.By Josh Duboff
Do You Believe Her Now?
This Is Travis Scott's First Public Statement About His Daughter, Stormi
Olympic Figure Skater Brushes Off 'Nightmare' Wardrobe Malfunction
Chrissy Teigen Reminds You to Learn About Your Spouse, So Ellen Can't Publicly Embarrass You
Trump Offers Endorsement, Romney Caves Immediately
How to Tell If You Have the Flu or Just a Cold
A Wardrobe Malfunction — at the Olympics!
The Poison We Pick
The Bachelor Recap: Meet the Parents
The 25 Best Movie Supervillains, Ranked


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Learning From a Master
I just got my copy of Tom Richmond's The Mad Art of Caricature: A Serious Guide to Drawing Funny Faces in the mail. As Tom Racine so wisely put it, "It does for cartoonists what [Tracy Hickman's] X-Treme Dungeon Mastery does for Dungeon Masters."
One 30-minute pass through the book tells me that this is going to be my go-to reference work for cartoon faces for years to come. One page in particular, describing something I do poorly, said (and I paraphrase) "this is difficult to do correctly. Here is how to solve that problem." So basically the book paid for itself with just one page of its 170-plus pages.
I haven't learned as much in a speed-read since I skimmed Andrew Loomis' Figure Drawing for All It's Worth. That book and this one will now share a shelf next to my drawing table.


text: VIEW price of Book of Secrets and special offer!!!Product Description : Book of Secrets essential recordingMcKennitt's recordings always have the quality of a spiritual sojourn; her songs are those of a seeker, whether she's setting Yeats, Scripture, or her own words to her compositions. It's this that attracts people to her music, and The Book of Secrets is no exception, whether it's the lazy rhythms of "Marco Polo," the sober joy of "The Mummers' Dance," the poignancy of "Skellig" or "Dante's Prayer," or the drama of Alfred Noyes's "The Highwayman." "The Highwayman" is a particularly strong effort, especially in comparison to her earlier setting of "The Lady of Shalott"; McKennitt has become much more skilled at musical narrative. This is music that can be enjoyed on many levels, from McKennitt's growing skill as a composer [Read More...] >> [Click to see price]


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Recent media stories are sharing a miracle and all-natural solution to teeth whitening: strawberries and baking soda. The stories claim that brushing with a mixture of fresh strawberries with baking soda is just as effective as whitening strips or even a professional whitening treatment at your local Newnan dentist. It's cheap and organic, so what's not to like?
The Actual Dental Results Don't Lie
A dental researcher from the University of Iowa set out to test this new miracle recipe. The researcher compared the homemade strawberry recipe with whitening strips available at your local grocery store and against a professional whitening treatment available from your dentist. The all-natural treatment was followed for 10 days to match the treatment protocol of the whitening strips. Were the results from the home remedy stellar? Did this treatment blow everything else out of the water? Hardly.
While there were some improvements seen with the strawberry and baking soda concoction, the improvement was largely superficial and due to removal of plaque buildup. There were no discernible improvements in the stains in the tooth enamel that were achieved with the whitening strips and the professional whitening treatment.
Even more important, there is a downside to this treatment. Continued and focused application of the strawberry mixture led to a reduction in the service hardness of the teeth. This was a side effect of the citric acid of the strawberries. Similar recommendations of whitening from the use of apples or lemons were also ineffective at penetrating enamel stains.
What can we take away from this? Don't ditch your healthy eating habits – just don't use your daily servings of fruit as a toothpaste.
If you are concerned about the appearance of your smile due to stains, consider a professional whitening treatment with Dr. Dan McManus at McManus Family & Cosmetic Dentistry. Call us today for your appointment at (770) 254-1134.


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An Official Website of the Commonwealth of Kentucky
The Division of Laboratory Services offers direct Internet ordering for most laboratory tests. In addition, results will be returned to users electronically through their same Internet login.
Click each link below to download the required forms. Please return both forms to the address indicated in the upper left corner of the User Access form.
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After receiving a user name and password, go to the Laboratory Web Outreach (KY-LWO) System
Please reference the document below for ordering laboratory testing in the Laboratory Web Outreach (KY-LWO) System:
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Customer Service is responsible for data collection and maintaining medical records through the electronic information exchange network.
Please contact the Customer Service Center for issues related to the KY Laboratory Web Outreach (KY-LWO) System.
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(John 15:18-20)
There is a principle here that we can learn that will help us understand just how far we can go in our walk with Jesus Christ. There is also a warning and a reminder of what to expect as we walk with Christ in these verses.
We see also that Jesus made us a promise here too, for those who teach and preach the truth of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. These few verses speak volumes about who we are and where we are as followers of Jesus Christ. And also what we can expect as we continue to walk with Him.
You are Not of This World
Verse 19 in this section says,
If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
First we must understand that when we came to Jesus Christ and we were baptised into His name, we ceased to be citizens of this world. I am speaking here in a spiritual sense. As Jesus says here, we are no longer "OF" this world even though we live "IN" this world.
We walk around the streets, buy food, drive cars, go to school, theatres, supermarkets, sporting events and so on just as every other person does on the planet. To all intents and purposes we look just like any other person in the world. But we are not.
When we were baptised into the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, we took on His death and we died with Him. Sure it was symbolism, but through faith we believe we have actually died and been reborn or born again as new creations in our baptism into the death of Jesus Christ.
Where did we go when we died with Christ? We went into the spiritual realm, no longer a part "OF" this world. As it says in Colossians 3:3,
For you have died, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
And also we see exactly where our life now is once we come to Jesus Christ and we accept His life through faith. In Ephesians 2:4-6 we see,
4 But God, who is rich in mercy, out of the great love with which he loved us,
5 even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),
6 and raised us up with him, and made us sit with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus
We are no longer "OF" this world because our life is "…hid with Christ," and now in the spirit God has, "…made us sit with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus."
Do I hear an Amen? Do I hear a WOW! If you have faith in Jesus Christ you are now seated next to God in the Spirit through entering into the death, resurrection and life of Jesus Christ. That is the power of His sacrifice that He made for us…to bring us into the presence of God.
You will be Hated
Now because we are members of the family of God in Christ Jesus, seated with Him in the Spirit, we have some enemies. All those who choose to ignore and oppose the name of Jesus Christ are now lined up against us, just as they are lined up against Him. This is why He warns us saying in verse 18, "If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you."
The world hates Jesus because He shows them up for the liars, cheats, frauds and sinners that they are. He also offers them a way to be free from those sins as He did us, but they choose to reject Him. He does not reject anyone who comes to Him, but leaves the choice to the individual as to whether they will follow Him or reject Him.
There is no middle ground in Christianity either. You are with Jesus or against Him. And that is why the world hates us because we choose to stand by what is right. And not only will they hates us, which they could do from a distance, they will persecute us because we are Christians.
Look at what Paul said in 2 Timothy 3:12-13,
12 Indeed all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted,
13 while evil men and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceivers and deceived.
Persecutions go with the turf of being a Christian. There is no avoiding it, it will happen from time to time and we have been warned. Also there is the challenge of Satan who will seek to attack us, as it says in 1 Peter 5:8,
Be sober, be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking some one to devour
So as we learn the ways of the Lord and seek to do right, we should know and accept the fact that there will be persecutions, there will be spiritual attacks and it will sometimes be a difficult path to walk. But knowing this we should also remember the prize at the end of the road. Peace, joy, love, eternal life and the opportunity to meet and live with the Lord forever. The benefits far outweigh the costs and the joy to come far outweighs the troubles of the here and now.
Gods People Will Listen
As we grow in the Lord we may have the opportunity to speak to others about our faith and to spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ, just as the early disciples and apostles of the Lord did. Jesus told them in these scriptures that,
"…if they kept my word, they will keep yours also."
It is His work that we are doing and He is leading the work. So Jesus has promised that when we do His work and we speak to His people, those He is calling, that they will listen. They will hear our words and know they are the words of God just as they did with the apostles and just as they did with Jesus Christ Himself.
For clarity we must understand that not everyone will listen and take in what we say, but as Paul said in 2 Timothy 2:19, "But God's firm foundation stands, bearing this seal: "The Lord knows those who are his," and also as Jesus Himself said in John 12:26, "If any one serves me, he must follow me; and where I am, there shall my servant be also."
The Lord will place His servants in the right place at the right time to minister and preach the word to those He is calling. This will be done in His time and we cannot change His process or the times and seasons when He will accomplish His work.
I know many Christians pray and speak to family and friends who have not yet come to Christ. Many shed tears over the failings of those close to them because they dearly want to see them saved and come to know the peace and joy that comes from knowing Jesus Christ.
To them I say, you may not be the person that will turn those closest to you to the Lord. You may be too close to them. But if the Lord has His hand on these people, rest assured that in His time and His place, He will have His servant appear and say the words that will shake these people to their very foundations. Then they will listen and know that the words being spoken are from God.
And again, it is their decision to accept or reject the Lord and His teachings. The best you can do is to give them the opportunity to hear the words, and show by your own behaviour and example what the Lord has done and is doing in your life. Often the best witness is the silent witness of actions and behaviours when they see you are now somehow "different" from what you used to be.
So in summary, a servant is not greater than his master and we should understand that we will be persecuted for the stand we are taking in Jesus Christ. But the blessing that come will far outweigh the sufferings we may have to endure in this lifetime.
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Nimble Thoughts by Dexter Baga
What is Mob Programming?
"Mob Programming" is simply a name we coined to describe/define what we do in our daily development tasks that allows us to be agile. We are a "Mob" since the entire team are always together, in the same room, walking together to meet a customer, making decisions together – essentially doing things together every time.
What it's Not.
A large part of Mob Programming is about a mindset of making it easier to innovate and as a result we come up with good solutions. Mob Programming is not a set of processes that anybody can just adapt and expect the same "great" results. It would be hard to even come up with a specific set of advice to another team to duplicate the success of our team by our so called "Mob Programming" approach. Just like what most investment firms say, "Past performance does not guarantee future results".
The right thing to do is not to sell you a solution.
All that we can do is share our experiences, and describe how we achieved the successes that our team had for the last 2 years.
What I really want to say is….
Yes, its helpful that everybody are good team players, everybody tries to contribute, that each member treats everybody with respect, members are open minded, willingness to share knowledge or learn, and good technical skills. For our team, the most important skill that got us to become "Mob Programmers" is being attentive and observant on how we are doing our work, reflect on them, and take actions to improve/remedy items that are blocking the team from becoming an effective team – keyword : "Retrospectives".
It is through retrospectives that our team discovered what was wrong in how we were doing things, what was holding us back from becoming an effective team. The team was committed at getting better, we setup action items, and continued doing our work with those items in mind. What's interesting is that those "problem" items will not show up in the next retrospective session, everybody had done their part to make those problems go away organically and that nobody even brought it up anymore. And if it does resurface, somebody in the team recognizes it and will immediately bring it up to "nip it in the bud".
Everybody is in the same boat!
Your team can do "Mob Programming" too! But it would be a journey for the whole team. Take it one day at a time, don't plan what you will be doing in the next 6 months to become true "Mob Programmers". Perform retrospectives weekly, bi-weekly – its a team decision. Your retrospectives should show the most important things in the mind of each team member, vote which one to tackle, get the great, good, and could be better items, make action items for the team – but I would suggest just trying to tackle 1 or 2 at most to allow the team members a better handle on the action items given that you will probably have another retrospective in another week or two. Actually, do a just-in-time retrospective as well. If the team feels like they have something that needs to be discussed then don't wait for the week to end, do it as soon as possible – nip it in the bud.
Recommended Reading : Retrospectives – Making Good Teams Great by Esther Derby and Diana Larsen


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There seems to be a pretty consistent piece of feedback people give me once they've gotten to know me — "Wow, you're so much nicer than I thought you'd be." For years this was totally puzzling to me (duh guys, I'm super nice). I got this comment in high school, in college, but work seems to be the place I get the comment the most. Finally a boss stared me in the face and gave it to me straight, "You have a real resting bitch face." Woah. My whole life of being told I looked mad, sad, mean, bored, all explained with 3 little words — resting bitch face. And I totally do! It was a revelation. Some people look approachable and friendly at first glance, a natural smile is gracing their face… I just don't have this. When I try to pull of the "casual resting smile" (ya know the one that nice people seem to be able to do while walking down the street alone) I look creepy and murdery because the expression just isn't how I naturally rest my face. I also rarely smile with my teeth which doesn't help matters. I thought I'd share because I can really see my RBF peeking out in this post. I am not naturally a big smiler, but I am naturally quite happy! Promise 🙂
What is one misconception about you? I'd love to hear so be sure to sound off in the comments below!
Forever 21 "Seeing Clear" Blouse (similar feel here) | Windsor Faux Leather Pleated Skirt | H&M Statement Necklace (old, similar Jewel Mint piece here) | Forever 21 Heels | 80's Purple Sunglasses (similar here)
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Just purchased a skirt like this and I had no idea how to style it! Now you gave me some great ideas! Love your top.
Resting bitch face or not — you're totally A D O R B S. Love the look!
This outfit totally inspires me to transition my similar leather skirt into spring – so glad too because I hated to put it away!
Also, I've been told that I look "unapproachable" and when I pressed someone to explain WHY WHY WHYYYYY would anyone think that they responded – "because you kind of hold your head up high when you walk into a room."
If that's wrong, I don't want to be right!
Hey. I have rbf. I've been told this my whole life, and then the same conclusion once people get to me know me that I'm a lot nicer than I look. I just don't know what I look like cuz I can't see my face most of the time! I swear I'm nice!!
I have the same problem! Haha I come off unfriendly as well but honestly it's just because I'm a little shy. Anyway, I have a similar skirt and I love the way you styled it! I think I bought mine from impulse but hopefully one day I'll find a use for it 🙂
Haha back handed compliments are the worst!! Did you see Mindy Kaling on Jimmy Kimmel, so good (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9nAJ1xNLms)
Love everything about this look! That skirt and necklace are gorgeous!
Love your style! 🙂
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I'm new to your blog and I just want to say I LOVE your style. It's so relaxed but still feminine, which to me is the ultimate combo. And then I landed on this post. I know exactly how you feel. I too suffer from SRB. :o) I'm a very happy person the majority of the time. But for some reason I look like I have no time for you or the whole world for that matter when I'm not smiling. Since I was a teenager people have told me I look stuck up, unapproachable, disinterested….you get the picture. Which couldn't be farther from the truth. I've actually had people tell me, just like you, that I have a very bitchy resting face. For a while it really bothered me because I knew how nice I was and didn't want people avoiding me because of the "SRB". But ya gotta find the humor in it really. Guess happy people can't have it all! Just thought your post was hilarious!! Hope you have a wonderful day!


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Beyond DNA: Lessons From the BornBy: Robert Flaherty, MD
Posted on October 31, 2012 FREE Insights Topics:
Beginning to Map the DNA of Policy Reform: Dr. Flaherty's "Beyond DNA: Lessons from the Born"
Dr. Bob Flaherty, MD, of Montana State University is the author of this week's FREE Insights. Bob has lectured at several FREE seminars, and he and his wife Carol (retired from MSU) are long and deeply trusted friends. They are the kind of individuals who help make Bozeman such an attractive place.
While Bob is trained in medicine and the biological sciences, he has a strong and sophisticated interest in the foundations of ethics and public policy. His perspective shows why so many attentive, intelligent, and nuanced individuals understand why pathologies are inherent to large scale enterprises that attempt to manage by regulation and command.
Bob notes: "Importantly, successful networks quickly become too complex to be managed effectively from the top down. They must be 'managed' – in a non-traditional sense - very close to the level of the individual components. The brain cannot control each cell in the body. A central government cannot control each buyer-seller interaction."
Bob is, of course, correct-and we can go further. The central government cannot even control the agencies it creates. The environmental, economic, and ethical failures of many federal agencies are legion. While some are improving, the Park Service comes to mind, in many agencies pathologies are growing.
The reasons are not primarily the result of unethical or ignorant individuals. Rather, most problems flow from bad or inadequate information and perverse incentives. FREE's focus has been to analyze such situations and propose reforms.
The result is FREE's major accomplishment, legitimizing the New Resource Economics (NRE). This became a Kuhnian revolution in thinking about natural resources and the environment. The Bozeman perspective generated a "paradigm shift." Scholars around the nation found it attractive. As a result an enduring group of adherents have replaced the conventional command-and-control perspective that originated in the Progressive Era of 1900. Ours understands the importance of creativity, incentives, and time and place specific information.
Today the NRE approach is generally accepted. No reputable scholar under 60 years of age defends the command-and-control institutions my colleagues and I began critiquing 40 years ago. Further, people now recognize the value of non-profit and for profit entrepreneurship in the social and environmental arenas.
Dr. Flaherty's following essay explicates the biological logic underlying our approach. His conclusion is increasingly shared among both mature citizens and college students. And the reason is clear, Bob provides a logical framework for organizing commonplace observations about how political and bureaucratic systems fail to achieve their proclaimed intentions. From his approach "...we can better understand policy failures, like the Soviet economy, and design potentially more effective and sustainable public policies."
-John Baden
"Life breaks free. Life expands to new territories. Painfully, perhaps even dangerously. But life finds a way." -Michael Crichton, "Jurassic Park"
Biology is responsible for arguably the most complex systems in the known universe. Starting with a simple but elegant language, DNA creates cells. As remarkable as this is, at least as remarkable is how these cells organize into complex systems like individual organs and even more complex systems like organisms.
As we study the "born" – animals, fish, insects, plants - fundamental characteristics of biological systems have emerged. Other large complex systems, such as the telephone network, electrical grids, global manufacturing corporations and even market economics, are non-biological, yet they share many of the fundamental characteristics of biology.
Large complex systems form in a biological way: They are born on a small scale as individual components, such as a single cell or a single telephone. They grow by the multiplication and connection of these individual components, much like an embryo grows, or like a telephone network grows as telephones are connected together. Complex systems, both biological or non-biological, grow from the bottom up, not from the top down.
Importantly, successful networks quickly become too complex to be managed effectively from the top down. They must be "managed" – in a non-traditional sense - very close to the level of the individual components. The brain cannot control each cell in the body. A central government cannot control each buyer-seller interaction.
The Biology of Systems
Several fundamental rules apply to large complex systems, whether biological or not. This list is not comprehensive, but it is illuminating.
- Systems are made up of many similar small independent components.
- The liver is made up of millions of liver cells.
- The market is made up of millions of buyer-seller units.
- Although each component is crucial to the existence of a complex system, the characteristics of the component do not predict the characteristics of the system.
- A bone cell is squishy and cannot support weight, but the bone can.
- Buying bacon from the corner butcher shop does not predict the existence of the Chicago Board of Trade.
- Management of systems is management of change. Since change occurs at the level of the basic components, information exchange is necessary for each component to respond to change.
- Pancreatic cells monitor blood sugar and release insulin into the blood stream as needed to control the metabolism of sugar by other cells.
- Supply and demand information about a product is transmitted to buyers and sellers by the local price.
- Information exchange between components must be multifocal (involving many components), multilevel (up and down any hierarchy that develops), easy and rapid.
- A single brain cell communicates through biological "wires" with many other brain cells, even located in distant areas of the brain.
- Kitco.com transmits precious metal spot prices to buyers and sellers worldwide on a minute-by-minute basis (see for example, collectorusa.com and click on the price ticker box).
- Complex systems are non-linear. Going from A to C might not involve components following a path of A-B-C, but more likely follows a path like A-F-L-D-C.
- For DNA to make insulin, it first must make an RNA which makes proteins that make ribosomes, and several different RNAs to make construction enzymes. Then the DNA must make yet another RNA to instruct the ribosomes and the enzymes to make the insulin.
- Read Adam Smith's treatise on the "Invisible Hand" or Lawrence Reed's "I, Pencil".
- Components must be healthy. They must have nutrients to function.
- Cells need oxygen to remain alive.
- Buyer and sellers need some form of value transfer (e.g. money) and rules (e.g. implicit or explicit contracts) to assure the legitimacy of transactions.
- Because of their complexity, large systems fail in novel ways (the Rule of Unintended Consequences).
- The HIV virus, unlike any previous pathogen, paralyzes the immune system.
- The Community Reinvestment Act expanded house purchase opportunities, but ultimately collapsed the housing market.
Three Laws of Large Complex Systems
Large complex systems, both biological and non-biological, can be best understood through three laws.
- The optimum function, and therefore success, of a large complex system requires healthy components through provision of
- Adequate nutrients (for a market, willing buyers and sellers, money, rule of law, etc.)
- Efficient information exchange (non-fixed price information easily available to buyers and sellers, etc.)
- It is impossible to exert top down control of every characteristic of a rapidly changing component or component environment. Thus, systems cannot be satisfactorily controlled from the top down.
- Systems can, however, be fostered (by providing nutrients and information exchange) or hindered (by restricting nutrients and information exchange) from the top.
These characteristics and laws suggest that the role of hierarchy (e.g. management, government) in complex systems is not to try to control the fundamental components - Five-Year Plans will always fail. Instead, the role of hierarchy is to provide the necessary physical and philosophical/legal infrastructure to nurture the autonomous grass roots components.
This large complex system approach can importantly inform our discussions about things as diverse as health care reform and environmental economics. From this approach we can better understand policy failures, like the Soviet economy, and design potentially more effective and sustainable public policies.
Life has much to teach us.


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RUFC - Friendly Rivalry
Rotherham United Assistant Manager, John Breckin says that he thinks the central midfield pairing of Danny Harrison and Mark Hudson is the best in League Two.
Harrison told The Advertiser, 'It's nice to hear those comments.'
Harrison, who in my opinion, has improved such a lot this season, joined the Millers in May 2007 and started forty-seven games last season.
Harrison says there is a lot of rivalry between himself, Hudson and the other midfielders, Pablo Mills and Micky Cummins. 'It's healthy rivalry,' Harrison says. 'We all want to be scoring more than the other and there's banter between us.
'Pablo, Mark, Micky and myself have all played in League One and we all want to be playing at a higher level. But the first thing we have to do is concentrate on the situation we are in - we don't want to be looking above our station. We are in single figures already after only four games which is how we wanted it to be. But we can't rest, we have to kick on and get to that zero.'


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November 28, 2005
Chunk of marble falls from top of Supreme Court
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A chunk of marble fell from near the
roof of the U.S. Supreme Court onto the stairs in the front of
the building but no one was injured, a court spokeswoman said.
Spokeswoman Kathy Arberg said the marble, from what was
believed to be dentil molding at the top of the building, fell
at midmorning, about a half hour before the court was to open.
There was no one on the stairs at the time.
the building saying, "Equal Justice under Law."


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We've been wanting to do a review of an ATI video card here for quite some time but video cards have always been hard to come by. One day several weeks ago, we received an e-mail from a representative from Connect3D. They wanted to send us a new ATI Radeon X800 for us to review under Linux. We couldn't turn them down. So here we have the results of that e-mail. We now take a look at Connect3D's Radeon X800. We'll be checking out the Radeon X800's features, the ATI unified drivers, and the performance of this card.
In the table below we have comparisons of four video cards available today. First we have the video card that is the focus of our review today. Then we have the closest card by price from NVIDIA, the GeForce 6800. The next two cards are top-tier cards from ATI and NVIDIA and are presented for reference.
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United - Was It A Penalty?
It looks as if it is a subject that is going to be talked about until the cows come home is that penalty decision.
Several differing opinions have already emerged from various sources with our own Dimitar Berbatov commenting, immediately after the game,
'Of course it was a penalty. There was contact, enough to make me lose my balance and make me lose my balance. People who know me know I don't go down that easily."
Whilst Kenny Dalglish, in his first game back in charge of Liverpool, hotly disputed that, explaining,
'The two decisions are important factors in the game. If you take those away, our players showed great commitment because it's a difficult place to play. The supporters stayed with us for the whole game and the players worked tremendously hard. I don't think it's a penalty kick."
Whilst Ryan Babel, according to our sources, is also more than miffed having committed what`s being called 'twittercide` by sending a tweet with a link to a picture of Howard Web in a Manchester United shirt!
What`s your verdict? Was it a definite penalty or was it a bit iffy?
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