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I'm a planner. Whether or not I want to be (or choose to be), I'm a slave to my ambitions and their arbitrary timetables. What that comes with, then, is a certain amount of pressure to achieve said plans and even more stress when they're not yet reached. Like most college-educated millennials, I've spent the past decade in a competitive, relentless bubble surrounded by Type-A colleagues and stubborn perfectionism. I would ask if it's the life I've chosen but the answer is far too deep for my comprehension and we've been bred since childhood contrarily.
In response, a gentleman and a scholar recently gave me the following advice: At the end of the day, aren't you really just working on building the foundation for a fulfilling life and family and career? Your end-goal isn't an amazing 26th or 27th year of life but a complete, holistic existence spanning over decades.
Hear me out for a minute. The move is setting systems instead of goals. Imagine you could take the pressure off of yourself to improve/climb/develop and use that energy instead to actually improve/climb/develop. Crazy, huh?
As opposed to setting vague, overly-ambitious positions you want to reach in the next week/month/year (professionally, monetarily, etc.), try telling yourself that you're heading in the right direction for where you want to be at 30 or 40. Instead of creating unnecessary stress from lofty goals, the result might allow you to simply live your life while simultaneously keeping that same intensity that helped you set those goals in the first place. It would be like shooting a free throw to win a championship but mentally putting yourself in a quiet gym; the shot counts for just as much but you cut out the insanity and pressure surrounding it. We've all seen you go 9/9 at practice, so why not make it an even 10? Focus on doing everything you can and making the right decisions to be the best 30-something-year-old you can be, and then celebrate that success while working to be the best 40-something-year-old you can be, and so on. Instead of fretting the little things, if you can keep the consistent mindset each day or week or month that you're building yourself toward something greater, who cares if a task or step takes an extra six months, year, or more.
The issue is by putting stress on yourself to have something by a certain time (this title by this age, this amount of money by this year), you discredit the present you're living in – you put off your happiness now by convincing yourself you'll be happy in the future. What that turns into though is waking up five or ten years later and realizing you didn't enjoy the the past decade because you were so focused on pursuing something you probably/realistically don't even want anymore. We've all had those moments of looking back on college and thinking, "Man life was so simple, why did I ever stress?" You thought the same about high school while in college, and I guarantee you in ten or so years when you have children and a mortgage you'll think the same thing about right now.
For you finance folks out there, there's a reason you tell clients not to look at their portfolio every day; the dips shouldn't faze you because you're betting on the market long-term, and as long as the graph keeps moving up and to the right it doesn't really matter how it gets there. Now visualize that system, but with you actually in control of the end result. Of course there'll be dips, but if you have the confidence to get there, you'll get there.
Let me make it clear that I'm not saying flail around wildly. It's impossible to achieve greatness without putting in the time, work, and sweat. I'm proposing that there are infinite paths toward that same achievement and neglecting the journey may dampen the destination; it coincides with the notion that when you're not looking for something, you find it. The journey almost has to be everything – the accolades and rewards come along the way when you're confident in yourself and where you're headed. Didn't make 30 Under 30? Your options are either feeling dejected or realizing that you're right on track for the nonexistent 31 Under 31 and the result you've been working toward will be just as sweet with or without the plaudits. At the end of the day the age itself is just an arbitrary beacon based on our love of even numbers. After all, how many nominees' primary motivation to go out and accomplish such incredible things was for an award? How many recipients thought to themselves, "Well, I guess now that I made the list it's time to hang up the boots because I've done what I set out to do."
None. That's the entire point. The award isn't a recognition of the destination, but of an extraordinary point reached while on the journey. In appreciating the journey there's no moment that can truly sink you because, like an investment, it's about the bigger picture. You may only ever enjoy a transient happiness if all you do is work toward a goal because you know that lurking in the back of your mind is that next goal right around the corner to replace it.
Think of it like riding a roller-coaster to an ice-cream shop on your way to a beach full of puppies – each step is an important (and enjoyable) destination in itself and you STILL get to end with puppies.


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A collection of articles aimed at both educating investors in order to make more informed decisions as well as explaining the SmallCaps.co.za investing strategy.
Firstly, for some academic background to this article read this one: Smoke, Mirrors & Balance Sheets. Now, when is it justified that a stock trades below book value? Well, the answer is simple enough: when book value is overstated. But how … Continue reading
I have drawn this rather crude illustration of what some call the "small cap cycle". The Y-axis of profit stands for the growing profits of the business as well as the increasing investment returns over time (as, in the long-term, … Continue reading
Due to consolidation accounting (or "Group accounting") rules, when one company controls another one (from 50% + 1 vote up to full-control of 100%, depending on circumstances), that first company (or the "parent" company) gets to accounting for both the financial … Continue reading
This article is following on the series that I began posting here: The Four Pillars of Company Fundamentals. This second batch of videos present an overview and the basics of various valuation approaches for stocks. A notable valuation model missing from this … Continue reading
The videos below are from a series I ran on JustOneLap.com a good couple years ago. Sure, I could probably do a slightly better job presenting some of these topics nowadays and/or modernize one or two examples, but the essence … Continue reading
Last night I gave a presentation at the JSE about investing in small caps. The idea was almost to present a turnkey solution to investing in this part of the stock market. For this reason, the presentation starts very basically … Continue reading
The global economy is desynchronised with significantly diverging views at both global and country-level. China could implode, Europe could fragment and USA could falter. All of these could happen. And then you get commodity volatility coupled with massive forex swings (up … Continue reading
Given the small cap space as a capital growth asset class and my predisposition towards being long, this website tends to be about which stocks to buy. Let me turn that on its head and give some (hopefully intuitive) pointers … Continue reading
This article is following on my previous article where I used the "volatility" definition of risk to prove how the small and mid caps on the JSE are "safer" than the blue chips (i.e. Top 40) stocks. (Read that article … Continue reading
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By Michael Angier
Forget Your Failings—Focus on Your Feats
It seems to be human nature to remember the things we messed up more than we do the things we did well. Most of us tend to focus on what's wrong rather than on what's right.
Even people with positive attitudes fall into the trap of discounting their successes and inflating their failings.
The fact is, we're being programmed all the time, and most of it isn't helpful. Problems, negative news, complaints and criticisms get more of our attention than accomplishments, good news and compliments.
The wise person understands
this and takes charge of his or her
programming. They use affirmations, they visualize and they listen to good
tapes and read good books. They hang out with positive, supportive people.
These two lists are: your "Win List" and your "Significant Accomplishments List".
One of the things my Diamond Team is beginning to document are their accomplishments. This helps them to increase their focus on their progress and help other members of the team be more motivated and inspired.
The team is just getting started and already their progress is substantial. See for yourself. You can view the public list of some of these wins at http://successnet.org/diamond/winlist.htm
I highly suggest that you start YOUR Win List today. Begin tracking all the good things that happen to you, the things you fix and overcome, the goals achieved, new clarities, etc.
The Significant Accomplishments List is important, too. It may take awhile to recollect all the things you've achieved and list them for easy—and hopefully, often—review.
It's human nature to discount the value of what we've done—especially when it didn't seem that hard for us. But even if it didn't require a lot of struggle on your part, it's still a good thing to put it on the Significant Accomplishment List.
Action Point
What we focus on expands, so
let's focus on the right things. Building
and using these two lists will do just that for you.
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Copyright Success Networks International.
Last Updated 02/09/2006


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High Cascade snowboard camp has teamed up with a handful of their amazing partners to hook up their 2012 campers during HCSC's 6-weeks of Giveaways. As soon as you're signed up for summer camp 2012 — you're automatically entered to win one of the 2013 boards featured in our weekly random drawings. Boards will be shipped immediately so campers can slide that 2012 snow on a 2013 board!
Week 1: Capita – Ultrafear
Week 2: Bonfire & Salomon — Solomonder
Week 3: K2 – Fastplant
Week 4: Mervin — ? (it's a secret)
Week 5: Burton – Super Hero
Week 6: DC — PLY
Remember: the sooner you sign up — the more chances you'll have to win. Sign by February 16th to be entered in all 6-weekly drawings. All it takes is a $500 deposit to secure your spot, with your balance due April 30th. Not sure which session to sign up for yet? We'll let you switch sessions anytime, as long as space is available.
Winners will be drawn every Friday by 12 noon PST and the winner will be posted that afternoon on HCSC's Facebook Page and contacted directly via e-mail. Stay tuned via Facebook to see if you've won.
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FBI and San Diego Police Department Seek Public's Assistance to Identify Wells Fargo Bank Robber
|FBI San Diego December 27, 2012
The FBI and San Diego Police Department are seeking the public's assistance to identify the unknown male responsible for robbing the Wells Fargo Bank branch located at 9996 Scripps Ranch Boulevard in San Diego, California, on Wednesday, December 26, 2012.
On Wednesday, December 26, 2012, at approximately 12:08 p.m., the Wells Fargo Bank, located at 9996 Scripps Ranch Boulevard in San Diego California, was robbed by an unknown male. At the time of the robbery, the robber approached the victim teller who had just finished helping another customer. The robber held a demand note in one hand and a bag in the other hand. After reading the note, the victim teller placed a sum of money in the bag. After receiving a sum of money, the robber quickly exited the bank with some of the money spilling out of the bag. The robber was last seen entering the passenger side of a vehicle that was parked a short distance away from the bank. No injuries were reported and no weapon observed.
Witnesses describe the robber as follows:
- Sex: Male
- Race: Middle Eastern or Asian
- Height: Approximately 5'7" tall
- Weight: Approximately 170 pounds
- Build: Medium
- Hair/Coloring: Dark
- Clothing: Dark hooded jacket, black sunglasses, gray beanie cap, dark pants, and white tennis shoes
Bank surveillance photographs from the Wells Fargo Bank branch located at 9996 Scripps Ranch Boulevard in San Diego, California, on Wednesday, December 26, 2012:
Anyone with information concerning this robbery is asked to contact the FBI at telephone number (858) 565-1255 (email@example.com) or Crime Stoppers at (888) 580- 8477. You may remain anonymous by calling the FBI or Crime Stoppers.


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Just as you would with anything on an open bulletin board, you need to look at every web page or web site and figure out if it is trustworthy, accurate, and up-to-date.
Accuracy and Validity
Technical Aspects of a Web Site
The web is only one information source. The best research relies on sources in a variety of formats: articles, books, encyclopedias, scholarly databases, educational films, in-person experts, etc. Think about the value of a web site compared to other sources on the same topic. There may be a more comprehensive print source that would be a better choice.
More about evaluating information on the web:
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Project Type: Produced, Commercial Work
Client: Linne Calodo
Location: San Luis Obispo, CA
Packaging Contents: Wine
Packaging Materials: Glass, label, cork, capsule
For anyone else, cutting corners as a winemaker may mean crappy, bottom shelf wine. The irony is that for Matt Trevison, even when he doesn't try too hard, his wines are phenomenal. Pairing casual type treatments with gritty concert photography by Phillip Andelman, Slacker Wines are for the professionals, the stereotypes, and the poseurs. Whatever. It's just wine. Enjoy it.


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A key attribute of the new storage devices is that despite their above-average speeds, the cost is less than for comparable devices.
The snappily-named SanDisk Ultra® Plus SSD is based on SanDisk's "industry leading" 19 nanometer process which the manufacturer claims is the world's smallest architecture for SSDs.
Drives are able to read at up to 530MB/Sec and reach up to 445MB/Sec when writing.
Available now
The new SSDs are available in the US now from Amazon.com and Microcenter.com in 64GB, 128GB and 256GB2 capacities carrying suggested retail prices of $74.99, $109.99 and $219.99, respectively.
As we've recently noticed in RedShark, SSD prices have been plummeting but usually at the lower performance end of the spectrum.
We're hoping that this could be the start of another change in the storage business: higher performance as well as higher capacities at lower prices.


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Hello, guys
I haven't played my warlock in years and I'd like to relearn and play it again now. I really enjoyed Affliction and I'm eager to try this spec first.
So how is it nowadays? What I'm mainly interested is duels, casual 2v2, battlegrounds and world pvp Does it have any hard-counters? Can you beat rogues, monks, warriors?
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O'Neill revels in duo's cup upset
Northern Ireland manager Michael O'Neill is hoping to receive an indirect boost from MK Dons' surprise thrashing of Manchester United.
Midfielder Ben Reeves and striker Will Grigg were key performers as the League One side routed the Red Devils 4-0, playing provider and finisher for the first two goals of the game.
Now the duo's successful week has continued with the pair being called-up for Northern Ireland's first Euro 2016 qualifier in Hungary on September 7.
Reeves, 22, has been in squads before but remains uncapped while 23-year-old Grigg has five senior appearances to his name, largely from the bench.
The pair are junior members of a 26-man provisional party named by O'Neill for the trip to Budapest, but their day in the spotlight provided the national manager with real reason for optimism.
"Confidence is everything in footall and Ben and Griggsy will be coming off a real high after the Manchester United win," he told Press Association Sport.
"A televised game, a big home crowd, a win over a side like that is big for their belief.
"When you see them playing at that level, with that kind of exposure and scrutiny and they step up and deal with it that is a huge positive.
"The biggest thing for me with my players is are they fit and in a good frame of mind and the next thing is how well they are doing at their club.
"Griggsy has had a good start to the season after a difficult year at Brenftford and Ben is a player who is an excellent technical player who can really give me something to think about."
O'Neill plans to cut three names from his initial list before travelling to Budapest for his side's Group F curtain-raiser, but will get the chance to work with the full panel before departing.
That includes returning senior men such as Gareth McAuley, Chris Brunt, Jamie Ward and Kyle Lafferty - who all missed the summer friendlies in Uruguay and Chile - as well as the liks of Luke McCullough, Conor and Ryan McLaughlin and Josh Magennis, who stood in for them in South America.
"We have a good lead in to this game and bringing 26 in gives us the option of working with the players again. South America was a very positive experience but I haven't seen the lads in three months," he said.
"We'll cut it to 23 before travelling but it's good to keep some of the younger players in the set-up to reward them for how well they did on the tour."
Jonny Evans, who is suspended after his sending off in Azerbaijan in the penultimate game of the previous campaign, the injured Martin Paterson and Brighton winger Paddy McCourt are the only significant absentees.
Northern Ireland squad to face Hungary: R Carroll (Notts County), A Mannus (St Johnstone), M McGovern (Hamilton), A Hughes (Brighton), C Baird, G McAuley (both West Brom), C Cathcart (Watford), D Lafferty (Burnley), R McLaughlin (Liverpool), C McLaughlin (Fleetwood), L McCullough (Doncaster), A Bruce (Hull), S Davis (Southampton), C Brunt (West Brom), S Clingan (Kilmarnock), C Evans (Blackburn), O Norwood (Reading), S Ferguson (Newcastle), P Paton (Dundee Utd), B Reeves (MK Dons), K Lafferty (Norwich), N McGinn (Aberdeen), J Ward (Derby), B McKay (Inverness), J Magennis (Kilmarnock), W Grigg (MK Dons).
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Sunset Celebration on tap in Roxbury
Published 9:40 am, Thursday, September 10, 2015
The Roxbury Land Trust will hold its annual Sunset Celebration Sept. 12 from 5 p.m. to sunset at is Gavel Family Farm Preserve.
In case of rain, the event would be cancelled.
The event, open to the public, will feature live jazz music with the Doug White Jazz Quintet, children's activities and views that overlook Roxbury and beyond.
Guests are encouraged to bring their own picnics, blankets and lawn chairs. Dessert will be provided.
Big Wave Event Productions, which is owned by Roxbury resident Brian Winthrop, is donating the sound set-up for the event.
The Gavel Family Farm Preserve is located on Dorothy Diebold Lane in Roxbury, near the intersection of Route 317.
No pets are permitted.
For more information, call 860-350-4148 or visit www.roxburylandtrust.org.


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Electric Flower Psych Fest (SXSW) show RSVP and info
AUSTIN PSYCH FEST and SAILOR JERRY present LEVITATIONRead More »
Electric Flower's Imaad Wasif performing "Out in The Black" at Noise Pop 2012 with Atlas Sound
Thanks to everyone who came out and supported the show at Bimbos in San Francisco last weekend, it was a blast!Read More »
Electric Flower Group Shares "Eclipsed" from Upcoming Sophomore EP
We're pleased to share "Eclipsed," the first single from EP II, the aniticapted new EP from Electric Flower Group. The track premiered today at SPIN.com, where you can stream and/or download it. Click it now for some "crispy psych-pop beauty." EP II is out March 27!Read More »
Rolling Stone: "Electric Flower's Epic 'Circles'"
The new Electric Flower song, Epic 'Circles is available for download on Rolling Stone. You can read the band's comments on the song here "This song wrote itself in a pure narcosis, in collaboration with Josh Garza, a drummer and idea man who is so good it's scary," guitarist Wasif says about the reverb-heavy "Circles." You can read more of the band's comments here.Read More »
Electric Flower Play with Cold War Kids At The Troubadour
Electric Flower will play with Cold War Kids at a sold-out show at the Troubadour in West Hollywood on Friday November 18th. They released their self-titled debut EP last week on Narnack Records. The EP is available digitally and as a limited-edition red vinyl 103, foil stamped to 500 copies.Read More »
Thanks everyone for attending Electric Flower's record release show
Thanks everyone for attending Electric Flower's record release show last Thursday. As one member in the audience expressed to their friend, " It's so loud! Feels like my ears are getting a great fuck…I Love it"
David Benjamin at Buzzine Music:
"On November 10, 2011, Electric Flower released their self-titled psyche-rock EP in the atmospheric surroundings of Harvard and Stone in Los Angeles, California.The hard-rocking psychedelic duo of Josh Garza on drums and Imaad Wasif on vocals and wailing guitar tore it up in a thunderous set of all-new tunes, influenced by the likes of The White Stripes, Led Zeppelin, and Jane's Addiction…"Read More »
Electric Flower EP Release Party
Electric Flower will be playing at Harvard and Stone this November 10th to celebrate the release of their debut EP on Narnack Records. The Electric Flower EP is out on vinyl and iTunes starting today!Read More »
Electric Flower nominated for LA Artist of the Month
Electric Flower has the good fortune of being nominated for The Deli LA's Artist of the Month. Voting can be done here http://la.thedelimagazine.com/ and voting ends soon! You can purchase Electric Flower's Debut EP Now:Read More »
Electric Flower To Release Debut EP on Narnack Records on Nov. 8th
Electric Flower, the new band featuring Secret Machines drummer Josh Garza and solo artist Imaad Wasif, will release their debut EP on November 8th on Narnack Records. The self-titled EP will be released digitally and on limited foil stamped, red 10-inch vinyl (Limited to 500 copies!)Read More »


text: Excerpts from Michael C. Toren's message of Wed Aug 26 13:00:39 -0700 2009: > Thanks to everyone who came out to Ocean Beach for the group flying > session. I forgot to count, but IIRC, we had a total of ~9 people, and > 7 different kites in the air -- 4 of them making their maiden flight! > > I'm out of town this week, but Jonathan Lassoff (cc'd) is going to be > taking over while I'm gone. He purchased a two-line kite for the group > flying session and attached a cluster of green LEDs to its center, powered > by one of the lightweight LiPo batteries. It looked great dancing around > the sky after sunset. :-) On Thursday, he'll be demonstrating how to > attach LEDs to your own kite. We'll have LEDs, a few lightweight > batteries, and soldering irons. Bring your kite, and maybe some gaffer's > tape or duct tape if you have it. You're welcome to show up without a > kite, too. Michael's spot on. Come one and all and let's solder up some LEDs. I have a modest supply of 5mm Red and Green LEDs which I'm hoping to make into some navigation-style beacons for the wingtips and would be happy to give parts and/or instructions to any interested parties. Cheers, jonathan


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A star-studded panel of women in politics gathers Monday night to talk about how women's suffrage shaped life in Oregon.
The group Century of Action is spending a year marking the 100th anniversary of Oregon women's right to vote. Advocates reached their goal in November of 1912.
Historian Kim Jensen of Western Oregon University says the Oregon suffragettes set the stage for important precedents in the early days of state government.
"Almost immediately they created a Congressional group so that they were working together across organizations to put forward legislation they thought was very important: legislation about women and safety at work, mothers' pensions, they wanted jury service," said Jensen.
Jensen says Oregon activists wanted married women to retain the right to own property, and did vanguard work on that issue.
Jensen will join Avel Gordly, Kathryn Harrison, Norma Paulus, and other prominent women in Oregon politics for a "History Pub" discussion at Portland's Bagdad Theater.


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Siebel Order Management Guide Addendum for Industry Applications > Employee Use of Order Management >
Employee end users can use the following procedure to disconnect services at one address (move-out address) and install the same services at another address (move-in address).
If the correct service points exist at the new address for the transferred services, the services are automatically assigned to these service points.
This procedure creates a quote that shows the service being deleted for one address and added for another address. The items displayed in the quote reflect the current configuration of the service adjusted for changes contained in open orders.
NOTE: A service can only be transferred if it is provisioned at a service point. The Workflow will not recognize services that are not tied to a service point.
To transfer a service to another location
The Account Addresses dialog box displays.
If the move-in address is not present, click New and enter the address.
The Line Items view appears.
It lists two copies of the service. The line items in one copy have an action code of Delete and are associated with the move-out address. The line items in the other copy have an action code of Add and are associated with the move-in address.
NOTE: This indicates that there is a service point available at the move-in address.


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Sheriff's spokesman Steven Reams said Colin Davies left his residence near the intersections of Weld County Roads 54 and 51 around 4 a.m. Aug. 6. He turned up in Denver shortly before 1 p.m. and went to an area hospital for treatment.
"Colin is an advanced Alzheimer's patient and was last seen in the area of U.S. Highway 34 and Weld County Road 47 where a passing motorist attempted to offer him a ride," Reams said.
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Description de l'emploi
Ideate Technologies is looking for
Sales Manager in the Architecture
Engineering and Construction sectors – Tunisia based
We are currently hiring aggressively and we are looking for a dynamic Sales Executive that can help us meet our growth targets for the Tunisian market for 2016 and beyond.
Ideate Technologies is offering great salary packages and lucrative commissions, and the successful candidate will be based in Tunis, Tunisia.
Salary: monthly (market related plus attractive commissions, paid in local currency)
Profile of Applicant:
We are looking for a dynamic AEC Sales Manager that
· Develops and closes a sales pipeline selling Autodesk BIM solutions into provincial and national government, as well as all architectural, engineering and construction firms.
· Is a sales 'hunter' that will develop new business, and who is not primarily an account manager 'farming' established accounts.
· Provide sales support on selected accounts where support has been identified and requested.
· Partner with Licence Compliance Manager to identify and close opportunities.
· Regularly meet and exceed sales targets provided to them.
The candidate must have the following experience and qualifications
· A business focused degree.
· A proven sales track record in new business development, where your targets have consistently been exceeded.
· 5 years sales experience, selling into architecture, engineering and construction; in private or public sectors.
· Experience and understanding of the architecture, engineering and construction industries, specifically would be an advantage.
· Proficiency with a sales methodology that you utilize in your sales – PSS, TAS, Value Selling would be an advantage.
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· Passion for new business sales
· Highly motivate and Target driven
· Strong Business Acumen
· Excellent relationship and sales skills – ability to interface with multiple levels within · customer's organization, lead identification and follow-up, ability to present, negotiate · · and close a sale
· Strong interpersonal, communication and influencing skills, with an emphasis on organizational awareness and understanding
· Fluency in French, English and Arabic
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Although the nation's large number of minorities underscores the need for robust workplace diversity programs, large majorities of employers don't provide diversity training and don't measure the impact of their diversity practices, according to a new survey by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM).
More than 3 in 4 lack policies addressing gender identity, and more than 1 in 3 have no policy addressing sexual orientation discrimination at work.
The SHRM research, published April 8, 2014, is based on responses from 292 HR professionals gathered in fall 2013. Respondents were asked questions about their companies' diversity initiatives in 2013, although questions about diversity budgets referred to calendar year 2012.
Minorities constitute more than one-third of the U.S. population, the survey authors pointed out, adding that minorities' share of the population is growing at a faster rate than that of nonminorities.
"This basic demographic shift—coupled with greater public advocacy and awareness recently concerning differences in ethnicity, religion and sexual orientation—has magnified the need for diversity and inclusion initiatives in the workplace," the researchers wrote.
Findings from 2013 are compared with those from 2011, the last time SHRM conducted a similar survey. Among the notable results were:
Ethnicity, gender, race and age were the areas of diversity that organizations most frequently focused on, according to the survey. Parental status and gender identity were among the areas that received the least attention.
In general, larger organizations (defined as those with 500 or more employees) far outpaced smaller ones when it came to investments in diversity initiatives.
For instance, large organizations are more than twice as likely as smaller ones to provide employees with diversity training; three times as likely to collect metrics on their diversity initiatives; almost four times more likely to measure the impact of diversity efforts; more than twice as likely to have employee affinity groups created around an aspect of diversity; and five times more likely to have a diversity training budget. Large companies also devoted more resources than smaller ones to diversity efforts surrounding religion, veteran status, and gender identity or expression.
About two-thirds of the respondents worked at companies with fewer than 500 employees.
While devoting staff specifically to diversity and inclusion might be impractical for some companies, the researchers noted, 17 percent of organizations use volunteers for diversity efforts, including staff-led committees, councils and advisory boards.
"If an HR professional is drafting a set of diversity and inclusion initiatives for the first time, they may consider tying these programs to staffing, which is a frequently-used approach," the researchers wrote. They added that more than half of respondents used recruiting to increase diversity in their organizations, while nearly 2 in 5 said their retention strategies are designed to help diversify the workplace.
Other top strategies that HR professionals used to increase workplace diversity included:
The industries most represented in the survey were government; manufacturing; professional, scientific and technical services; health care and social assistance; and finance and insurance. Least represented were real estate, utilities, repair and maintenance, and construction.
Dana Wilkie is an online editor/manager for SHRM.
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How to dress for San Antonio's Fiesta
Updated 4:09 pm, Thursday, April 3, 2014
In San Antonio, Fiesta's start April 10 kicks off 18 days of full-throttle fun — and fashion.
With more than 100 events across the Alamo City, that's a lot of celebrating and dressing the part for all those parades, pageants and parties.
If you're making a weekend trip of it, what should you wear?
Miss Fiesta Sophia Campos, a 19-year-old sophomore at Texas State University, helps us with five spring fashion trends styled with a Viva Fiesta vibe.
The look: Casual or dressy, spring's shorts come in a variety of lengths from mini to the knee. They're a versatile fashion staple and are as classic as the little black dress. And like the LBD, you can glam them up or wear them as relaxed as you like. Loose, structured or in updated Bermudas, shorts are being done in leather, lamé and lace. But our favorite is white worn with a colorful top, be it a tunic, blouse, T-shirt or a sexy corset.
The MQ tip: You don't want your shorts too tight or riding up on you; you want them to flatter your shape. So if you're petite, go with a shorter length: the style will elongate your legs. If you have long legs, go with mid-length: the style will provide the upper leg coverage you want and still give you a lean look. If you're pear-shaped or plus-sized, go with knee-length shorts or Bermudas as the style will flatter problem areas such as wider hips or fuller thighs. Now team your shorts with a great top: if the shorts are tight, go with a loose fitting top; if the shorts are blousy, go with a fitted top. It's all about balance.
The Fiesta way: Hand-embroidered corset, $280, made in Mexico, from Nativa Fine Mexican Clothing. Vince Camuto ivory-hued shorts, $74; Cezanne drop earrings, $38; floral headband, $20; raffia sandals by Dolce Vita, $69, all from Dillard's North Star Mall.
Where to wear: Pick a parade: Texas Cavaliers River Parade, April 21; Battle of Flowers, April 25; King William and Fiesta Flambeau parades, April 26.
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The look: It's the stuff of western wear and rock stars, but fringe is spring's break-out embellishment. It's also a throwback to the Great Gatsby days. From skinny leather strips to wispy, silky strings, fringe is on handbags, shoes, jewelry, scarves and along the hemlines of dresses.
The MQ tip: The trick with wearing fringe is making sure it looks chic, not like part of a costume. So go for fringe on a statement necklace, the bottom of a clutch, up the side of killer booties or as texture on a dress that also adds movement to it with every step. Keep it controlled and to just one item in your look.
The Fiesta way: Striped rebozo fringed dress, $200, with purple sash, $16; embroidered structured handbag, $192; Carlos Santana straw hat with milagro adornments, $82, all from Nativa Fine Mexican Clothing. Bow-adorned wedge mules by BCBG, $49.99 and Jessica Simpson gold chandelier earrings, $28, both from Dillard's North Star Mall.
Where to wear: Mariachi Festival, April 22-24.
The look: Light and easy pleats — from accordion to boxed — are on skirts and dresses, both long and short or a combination of the two: the high-low. Spring's pleating is influenced by fashion's current fascination with minimalist sportswear. In this case, the tennis skirt, both graceful and classic.
The MQ tip: Because a pleated dress is loose and voluminous on the bottom, it can look frumpy if the top isn't fitted to your body. Ditto if you're wearing a pleated skirt; opt for a fitted top or a crop top, another spring trend, if you're unafraid to show a flash of flesh.
The Fiesta way: High-low pleated print dress in shades of pink and orange by Calvin Klein, $128; Betsey Johnson statement necklace, $166; Jessica Simpson gold hoop earrings, $22; Steve Madden pink gladiator platforms, $79.99, all from Dillard's North Star Mall.
Where to wear: A Night in Old San Antonio, April 22-25.
The look: Transparency is in but spring's sophisticated see-through style is worked with lightweight layers of chiffon, cotton, organza and voile. It's showing up in just about everything: a top, skirt, palazzo pants, but mostly, sheer dresses in eye-popping colors.
The MQ tip: This trend is for all body types, but a dress or top that moves away from the body is always classier than a fitted sheer garment. Keep your layers well proportioned, too, and always wear the proper undergarments, such as a camisole under a sheer top or a slip under a dress. You'll be thankful you did — especially on a windy day.
The Fiesta way: Badgley Mischka hot pink sheer-layered silk dress, $149; multi-stone colored drop earrings by Betsey Johnson, $35, all from Dillard's North Star Mall; silk taffeta and silk shantung floral hat by Christine A. Moore Millinery, $2,395 from Julian Gold.
Where to wear: King William Fair and parade, April 26.
The look: Fashion's special effects this spring are a mash-up of naughty and nice. This extravagant modern twist on classic embroidery is worked with spiked studs and sequins, rhinestones, crystals and anything that shines. Also in the mix, beautiful global prints or motifs that look embroidered but instead are inspired from different cultures.
The MQ tip: Hey, it's Fiesta, so get your glitz on by teaming a printed bib top with a sparkling skirt or go with a FIESTA-blinged T-shirt paired with embroidered culottes.
The Fiesta way: Southwestern print silk blouse by Alice & Trixie, $270; beaded and studded mini by Pia Pauro, $450, both from Julian Gold; Vince Camuto gold earrings, $38; Natasha purple and gemstone headband, $18.99; Antonio Melani floral print platforms, $89.99, all from Dillard's North Star Mall.
Where to wear: Cornyation, April 22-24.
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PRINCETON, N. J. (Dec. 30)
Confidence that the democracies will win out over the totalitarian powers and the necessity to "strike hard and leave the breaking to the other side" were stressed today by Prof. Albert Einstein.
Explaining his conversion from his former policy of pacifism, Dr. Einstein stated: "In the Twenties, when no dictatorships existed. I advocated that refusing would mean making war improper. As soon as conditions came about that in certain states there was so much coercion that this method could not be employed, I felt that it would weaken the less-aggressive nations in the face of the more aggressive."


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The last prompt for March's 30 Days of Lists went up a few days ago, so I think it's safe for me to share my lists from the challenge.
30 Days of Lists is a creative journaling challenge I co-host with Amy of Lemon & Raspberry twice a year. We post a different writing prompt each morning to inspire a list made by each person who participates — the day's theme could be about favorite celebrities or songs to listen to after a breakup. There are 30 different prompts, one prompt daily, resulting in 30 different lists. It's fun and easy, which I like.
With this challenge, I wanted to keep things easy by using similar 4×3 journaling cards from the Project Life® Seafoam kit (Amazon affiliate link) and having a few simple embellishments to help cut down on my stash.
Why do I like 30 Days of Lists?
I like it because it's such an easy project — take a few minutes each day to make a simple list. Just one list. It doesn't have to be fancy, I can change the project to fit my needs, and I can spend time catching up on lists if I fall behind…It doesn't have to be 30 consecutive days of lists, does it? I also like it because the project acts as a snapshot of what I'm thinking/doing during March and September of each year.
Do you like creative challenges like this?


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Feds Gone Wild
Federal bureaucrats and plain-old passersby got out a little rage Thursday, bashing away at old desktop computers and printers with baseball bats.
The event -- a self-conscious reference to the cult classic Office Space -- was hosted by MeriTalk, a government IT industry group, and was meant to symbolize "breaking the mentality that is holding us back."
Sure, parroting the most fan-imitated film of 1999 may not scream innovation. And the event probably had a pretty ugly carbon footprint. But who can resist a good printer smashing?
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Life Lessons Learned From My First Ironman
Three years ago, today, I became an Ironman. This morning while I drank my coffee in the pre-dawn hours before my run, I spent some time on Facebook and Timehop. All the emotions of that day came roaring back as I looked at friends' posts on my wall, the comments from friends and family and the amazing photos that my awesome sister uploaded in order to keep everyone updated.
July 28, 2013 was one of the best days of my life – for so many reasons. Obviously being able to call myself an "Ironman" (and have it in my bio ) is a pretty sweet reward. But that day was so much more to me. I know I'm three years removed, but I wanted to share some of the lessons I learned from that experience.
Wait for the fire. There was a marked moment when an Ironman went from being something fun to watch on TV to a fire in my stomach and something I wanted to do. For years, I would watch Kona on TV with my husband and talk about how cool it would be to do one one day. But that was it. A couple of days after the Ironman would air, doing one would be out of sight, out of mind. It was one of those "lifetime goals" that didn't have any weight to it.


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"Very Rough Country" - Martha MacDonald
Martha MacDonald Labrador's rugged terrain has attracted many an explorer over the years…. Some famous…some not…some made it…some not….. You'll find the stories of many of these travellers in a new book called "Very Rough Country". The work was published by the Labrador Institute and was edited by Martha MacDonald. Martha dropped by our studio with a copy ……
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Scoring was done using a point system:
Distance points: 100 x % of circuit completed
Un-interrupted completion of stage: 50 points
Time Bonus: 500 / number of seconds to complete course
Penalty for an unmodified kit: -50 points
Penalty for picking up robot: -20 points per intervention
Each track is scored separately and added up for a total.
The black line is black electrical tape, 3/4" wide. The squares are about
4 feet square, and painted white.
This is the first, and simplest of the tracks. Nice gradual curves, nothing
particularly difficult.
You can see the "hill" in the back corner. Some of the robots had trouble
with the hill due to low ground clearance. This track also introduces
right angle corners, which many of the bots had trouble with.
Every corner is a right angle, or worse, the introduction of acute angles.
The area in the top left was the area that Marauder had the most trouble
with. The lines are only 2.5" apart (which didn't cause any trouble for
Marauder but some bots didn't like it). The hard part was the inside corner
where it folds back on itself. You're basically doing a U-turn with a square
U where the legs of the U are only 3.5" apart. Since Marauder is 4" square,
sometimes the line sensor would miss the second leg of the U. There were
also some gaps, the longest being about 3".
Nasty! Tracks that cross back over themselves and a couple of back to back
actute turns.
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Hello, my name is Marcos I'm 20yrs old (fluent in spanish) I have never backpacked alone but I am planning on going through nicaragua and costa rica early 2013 via backpack, looking for a someone to join me. Very interested in going to small not so touristy locations other than San Juan Del Sur, Nica. Wanting to do much hiking and would love to work on organic farms or where ever possible. Also looking to go to Envision Music Festival in Uvita, Costa Rica from Feb 27th through March 3rd. If interested please let me know, if not i'm hitting it alone! I would appreciate any advice from anyone who has traveled these parts.
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Contribution Quotes (51 quotes)
[Recalling Professor Ira Remsen's remarks (1895) to a group of his graduate students about to go out with their degrees into the world beyond the university:]
He talked to us for an hour on what was ahead of us; cautioned us against giving up the desire to push ahead by continued study and work. He warned us against allowing our present accomplishments to be the high spot in our lives. He urged us not to wait for a brilliant idea before beginning independent research, and emphasized the fact the Lavoisier's first contribution to chemistry was the analysis of a sample of gypsum. He told us that the fields in which the great masters had worked were still fruitful; the ground had only been scratched and the gleaner could be sure of ample reward.
He talked to us for an hour on what was ahead of us; cautioned us against giving up the desire to push ahead by continued study and work. He warned us against allowing our present accomplishments to be the high spot in our lives. He urged us not to wait for a brilliant idea before beginning independent research, and emphasized the fact the Lavoisier's first contribution to chemistry was the analysis of a sample of gypsum. He told us that the fields in which the great masters had worked were still fruitful; the ground had only been scratched and the gleaner could be sure of ample reward.
All scientific men will be delighted to extend their warmest congratulations to Tesla and to express their appreciation of his great contributions to science.
Although Rick [Richard Smalley] made enormous contributions to science, I believe his worldwide contributions in making so many of us aware of the huge energy problem is even greater and longer-lasting than the beautiful science that he discovered.
And this is the ultimate lesson that our knowledge of the mode of transmission of typhus has taught us: Man carries on his skin a parasite, the louse. Civilization rids him of it. Should man regress, should he allow himself to resemble a primitive beast, the louse begins to multiply again and treats man as he deserves, as a brute beast. This conclusion would have endeared itself to the warm heart of Alfred Nobel. My contribution to it makes me feel less unworthy of the honour which you have conferred upon me in his name.
As I review the nature of the creative drive in the inventive scientists that have been around me, as well as in myself, I find the first event is an urge to make a significant intellectual contribution that can be tangible embodied in a product or process.
But why, it has been asked, did you go there [the Antarctic]? Of what use to civilization can this lifeless continent be? ... [Earlier] expeditions contributed something to the accumulating knowledge of the Antarctic ... that helps us thrust back further the physical and spiritual shadows enfolding our terrestrial existence. Is it not true that one of the strongest and most continuously sustained impulses working in civilization is that which leads to discovery? As long as any part of the world remains obscure, the curiosity of man must draw him there, as the lodestone draws the mariner's needle, until he comprehends its secret.
Evolution is a blind giant who rolls a snowball down a hill. The ball is made of flakes—circumstances. They contribute to the mass without knowing it. They adhere without intention, and without foreseeing what is to result. When they see the result they marvel at the monster ball and wonder how the contriving of it came to be originally thought out and planned. Whereas there was no such planning, there was only a law: the ball once started, all the circumstances that happened to lie in its path would help to build it, in spite of themselves.
Forests and trees make significant direct contributions to the nutrition of poor households ... [as] rural communities in Central Africa obtained a critical portion of protein and fat in their diets through hunting wildlife from in and around forests. The five to six million tonnes of bushmeat eaten yearly in the Congo Basin is roughly equal to the total amount of beef produced annually in Brazil without the accompanying need to clear huge swathes of forest for cattle.
From packaging materials, through fibers, foams and surface coatings, to continuous extrusions and large-scale moldings, plastics have transformed almost every aspect of life. Without them, much of modern medicine would be impossible and the consumer electronics and computer industries would disappear. Plastic sewage and water pipes alone have made an immeasurable contribution to public health worldwide.
I am afraid I shall have to give up my trade; I am far too inert to keep up with organic chemistry, it is becoming too much for me, though I may boast of having contributed something to its development. The modern system of formulae is to me quite repulsive.
I do not forget that Medicine and Veterinary practice are foreign to me. I desire judgment and criticism upon all my contributions. Little tolerant of frivolous or prejudiced contradiction, contemptuous of that ignorant criticism which doubts on principle, I welcome with open arms the militant attack which has a method of doubting and whose rule of conduct has the motto More light.
I like to find mavericks, students who dont know what theyre looking for, who are sensitive and vulnerable and have unusual pasts. If you do enough work with these students you can often transform their level of contribution. After all, the real breakthroughs come from the mavericks.
If someday they say of me that in my work I have contributed something to the welfare and happiness of my fellow man, I shall be satisfied.
In 1944 Erwin Schroedinger, stimulated intellectually by Max Delbruck, published a little book called What is life? It was an inspiration to the first of the molecular biologists, and has been, along with Delbruck himself, credited for directing the research during the next decade that solved the mystery of how 'like begat like.' Max was awarded this Prize in 1969, and rejoicing in it, he also lamented that the work for which he was honored before all the peoples of the world was not something which he felt he could share with more than a handful. Samuel Beckett's contributions to literature, being honored at the same time, seemed to Max somehow universally accessible to anyone. But not his. In his lecture here Max imagined his imprisonment in an ivory tower of science.
In a scientific journal, a major consideration is whether the book reviewed has made a contribution to medical science. Cynics may well say that they know of no psychiatric text that would meet such conditions, and they may be right.
— Myre Sim
In honoring the Wright Brothers, it is customary and proper to recognize their contribution to scientific progress. But I believe it is equally important to emphasize the qualities in their pioneering life and the character in man that such a life produced. The Wright Brothers balanced sucess with modesty, science with simplicity. At Kitty Hawk their intellects and senses worked in mutual support. They represented man in balance, and from that balance came wings to lift a world.
In short, the greatest contribution to real security that science can make is through the extension of the scientific method to the social sciences and a solution of the problem of complete avoidance of war.
It usually develops that after much laborious and frustrating effort the investigator of environmental physiology succeeds in proving that the animal in question can actually exist where it lives. It is always somewhat discouraging for an investigator to realize that his efforts can be made to appear so trite, but this statement does not belittle the ecological physiologist. If his data assist the understanding of the ways in which an animal manages to live where it does, he makes an important contribution to the study of distribution, for the present is necessarily a key to the past.
It was Darwins chief contribution, not only to Biology but to the whole of natural science, to have brought to light a process by which contingencies a priori improbable are given, in the process of time, an increasing probability, until it is their non-occurrence, rather than their occurrence, which becomes highly improbable.
John [H.] Van Vleck, who was a leading young theoretical physicist when I was also a leading young theoretical physicist, said to me one day, I never have made a contribution to physics that I didnt get by fiddling with the equations, and I said, Ive never made a contribution that I didnt get by just having a new idea. Then I would fiddle with the equations to help support the new idea. Van Vleck was essentially a mathematical physicist, you might say, and I was essentially a person of ideas. I dont think Im primarily mathematical. I have a great curiosity about the nature of the world as a whole, and most of my ideas are qualitative rather than quantitative.
Miss Stevenss work is characterized by its precision, and by a caution that seldom ventures far from the immediate observation. Her contributions are models of brevitya brevity amounting at times almost to meagerness.
My scientific work is motivated by an irresistible longing to understand the secrets of nature and by no other feeling. My love for justice and striving to contribute towards the improvement of human conditions are quite independent from my scientific interests.
No other part of science has contributed as much to the liberation of the human spirit as the Second Law of Thermodynamics. Yet, at the same time, few other parts of science are held to be so recondite. Mention of the Second Law raises visions of lumbering steam engines, intricate mathematics, and infinitely incomprehensible entropy. Not many would pass C.P. Snows test of general literacy, in which not knowing the Second Law is equivalent to not having read a work of Shakespeare.
Only when he has published his ideas and findings has the scientist made his contribution, and only when he has thus made it part of the public domain of scholarship can he truly lay claim to it as his own. For his claim resides only in the recognition accorded by peers in the social system of science through reference to his work.
Our truest systems of science had small beginnings, gradual and countless contributions, and finally took their place in use, as each of you, from helpless childhood and feeble boyhood, have grown to your present strength and maturity. No such system could be born in a day. It was not as when nature in fitful pulsations of her strength suddenly lifted the land into mountain ranges, but rather, as with small accretions, gathered in during countless years, she builds her islands in the seas.
Peace means creative giving, making a contribution to the betterment of our own people and to the betterment of people throughout the world. And who better understands that than the men and women of American agriculture?
Richard Drew embodied the essential spirit of the inventor, a person of vision and unrelenting persistence who refused to give in to adversity. He made an enormous contribution, not only to the growth of 3M, but also to advancement of many modern industries vital to worldwide economic growth.
Science is not gadgetry. The desirable adjuncts of modern living, although in many instances made possible by science, certainly do not constitute science. Basic scientific knowledge often (but not always) is a prerequisite to such developments, but technology primarily deserves the credit for having the financial courage, the ingenuity, and the driving energy to see to it that so-called pure knowledge is in fact brought to the practical service of man. And it should also be recognized that those who have the urge to apply knowledge usefully have themselves often made significant contribution to pure knowledge and have even more often served as a stimulation to the activities of a pure researcher.
Science knows only one commandment—contribute to science.
Search the scriptures of human achievement and you cannot find any to equal in beneficence the introduction of Anæsthesia, Sanitation, with ail that it includes, and Asepsisa short half centurys contribution towards the practical solution of the problems of human suffering, regarded as eternal and insoluble.
Since the days of Hippocrates, our father, the aphorism has been the literary vehicle of the doctor Laymen have stolen the trick from time to time, but the aphorism remains the undisputed contribution of the doctor to literature.
[Coauthor with Ray Marr]
[Coauthor with Ray Marr]
Specialists never contribute anything to their specialty; Helmholtz wasnt an eye-specialist, but a German army doctor who invented the ophthalmoscope one Saturday afternoon when there wasnt anything else to do. Incidentally, he rewrote whole chapters of physics, so that the physicists only know him as one of their own. Robert Mayer wasnt a physicist, but another country doctor; and Pasteur, who made bacteriology, was a tanners son or a chemist, as you will.
The advancement of science is slow; it is effected only by virtue of hard work and perseverance. And when a result is attained, should we not in recognition connect it with the efforts of those who have preceded us, who have struggled and suffered in advance? Is it not truly a duty to recall the difficulties which they vanquished, the thoughts which guided them; and how men of different nations, ideas, positions, and characters, moved solely by the love of science, have bequeathed to us the unsolved problem? Should not the last comer recall the researches of his predecessors while adding in his turn his contribution of intelligence and of labor? Here is an intellectual collaboration consecrated entirely to the search for truth, and which continues from century to century.
[Respecting how the work of prior researchers had enabled his isolation of fluorine.]
[Respecting how the work of prior researchers had enabled his isolation of fluorine.]
The attempted synthesis of paleontology and genetics, an essential part of the present study, may be particularly surprising and possibly hazardous. Not long ago, paleontologists felt that a geneticist was a person who shut himself in a room, pulled down the shades, watched small flies disporting themselves in milk bottles, and thought that he was studying nature. A pursuit so removed from the realities of life, they said, had no significance for the true biologist. On the other hand, the geneticists said that paleontology had no further contributions to make to biology, that its only point had been the completed demonstration of the truth of evolution, and that it was a subject too purely descriptive to merit the name 'science'. The paleontologist, they believed, is like a man who undertakes to study the principles of the internal combustion engine by standing on a street corner and watching the motor cars whiz by.
The contributions of physiological knowledge to an understanding of distribution are necessarily inferential. Distribution is a historical phenomenon, and the data ordinarily obtained by students of physiology are essentially instantaneous. However, every organism has a line of ancestors which extends back to the beginning of life on earth and which, during this immensity of time, has invariably been able to avoid, to adapt to, or to compensate for environmental changes.
The efforts of most human-beings are consumed in the struggle for their daily bread, but most of those who are, either through fortune or some special gift, relieved of this struggle are largely absorbed in further improving their worldly lot. Beneath the effort directed toward the accumulation of worldly goods lies all too frequently the illusion that this is the most substantial and desirable end to be achieved; but there is, fortunately, a minority composed of those who recognize early in their lives that the most beautiful and satisfying experiences open to humankind are not derived from the outside, but are bound up with the development of the individual's own feeling, thinking and acting. The genuine artists, investigators and thinkers have always been persons of this kind. However inconspicuously the life of these individuals runs its course, none the less the fruits of their endeavors are the most valuable contributions which one generation can make to its successors.
The laws of science are the permanent contributions to knowledgethe individual pieces that are fitted together in an attempt to form a picture of the physical universe in action. As the pieces fall into place, we often catch glimpses of emerging patterns, called theories; they set us searching for the missing pieces that will fill in the gaps and complete the patterns. These theories, these provisional interpretations of the data in hand, are mere working hypotheses, and they are treated with scant respect until they can be tested by new pieces of the puzzle.
The most humble research scientist in the Department of Agriculture is at this time contributing more to this country than the most useful member of Congress.
The one who stays in my mind as the ideal man of science is, not Huxley or Tyndall, Hooker or Lubbock, still less my friend, philosopher and guide Herbert Spencer, but Francis Galton, whom I used to observe and listen toI regret to add, without the least reciprocitywith rapt attention. Even to-day. I can conjure up, from memorys misty deep, that tall figure with its attitude of perfect physical and mental poise; the clean-shaven face, the thin, compressed mouth with its enigmatical smile; the long upper lip and firm chin, and, as if presiding over the whole personality of the man, the prominent dark eyebrows from beneath which gleamed, with penetrating humour, contemplative grey eyes. Fascinating to me was Francis Galtons all-embracing but apparently impersonal beneficence. But, to a recent and enthusiastic convert to the scientific method, the most relevant of Galtons many gifts was the unique contribution of three separate and distinct processes of the intellect; a continuous curiosity about, and rapid apprehension of individual facts, whether common or uncommon; the faculty for ingenious trains of reasoning; and, more admirable than either of these, because the talent was wholly beyond my reach, the capacity for correcting and verifying his own hypotheses, by the statistical handling of masses of data, whether collected by himself or supplied by other students of the problem.
The only solid piece of scientific truth about which I feel totally confident is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature. Indeed, I regard this as the major discovery of the past hundred years of biology. It is, in its way, an illuminating piece of news. It is this sudden confrontation with the depth and scope of ignorance that represents the most significant contribution of twentieth-century science to the human intellect.
The Royal Navys unique ability to combat scurvy was said by one naval physician to have doubled its performance and contributed directly to Britains eventual defeat of the French and Spanish fleets at Trafalgar in 1805. (It also meant that British sailors became known as limeys.)
The solution, as all thoughtful people recognize, must lie in properly melding the themes of inborn predisposition and shaping through lifes experiences. This fruitful joining cannot take the false form of percentages adding to 100as in intelligence is 80 percent nature and 20 percent nurture, or homosexuality is 50 percent inborn and 50 percent learned, and a hundred other harmful statements in this foolish format. When two ends of such a spectrum are commingled, the result is not a separable amalgam (like shuffling two decks of cards with different backs), but an entirely new and higher entity that cannot be decomposed (just as adults cannot be separated into maternal and paternal contributions to their totality).
There is a reward structure in science that is very interesting: Our highest honors go to those who disprove the findings of the most revered among us. So Einstein is revered not just because he made so many fundamental contributions to science, but because he found an imperfection in the fundamental contribution of Isaac Newton.
There is no art or science that is too difficult for industry to attain to; it is the gift of tongues, and makes a man understood and valued in all countries, and by all nations; it is the philosopher's stone, that turns all metals, and even stones, into gold, and suffers not want to break into its dwelling; it is the northwest passage, that brings the merchant's ships as soon to him as he can desire: in a word, it conquers all enemies, and makes fortune itself pay contribution.
There is no pure science itself divorced from human values. The importance of science to the humanities and the humanities to science in their complementary contribution to the variety of human life grows daily. The need for men familiar with both is imperative.
Through art and science in their broadest senses it is possible to make a permanent contribution towards the improvement and enrichment of human life and it is these pursuits that we students are engaged in.
True optimization is the revolutionary contribution of modern research to decision processes.
We see a universe marvelously arranged and obeying certain laws, but only dimly understand these laws. Our limited minds cannot grasp the mysterious force that moves the constellations. I am fascinated by Spinozas pantheism, but admire even more his contributions to modern thought because he is the first philosopher to deal with the soul and the body as one, not two separate things.
We will be able to depart this life with the quiet peace-giving notion, that we were permitted to contribute to the happiness of many who will live after us. In our long lives we endeavored to unfold the collective consciousness. In our lives we have known hell and heaven; the final balance, however, is that we helped pave the way to dynamic harmony in this earthly house. That, I believe, is the meaning of this live.
Young men, have confidence in those powerful and safe methods, of which we do not yet know all the secrets. And, whatever your career may be, do not let yourselves become tainted by a deprecating and barren skepticism Live until the time comes when you have the immense happiness of thinking that you have contributed in some way to the progress and to the good of humanity.
[The] complex pattern of the misallocation of credit for scientific work must quite evidently be described as the Matthew effect, for, as will be remembered, the Gospel According to St. Matthew puts it this way: For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath. Put in less stately language, the Matthew effect consists of the accruing of greater increments of recognition for particular scientific contributions to scientists of considerable repute and the withholding of such recognition from scientists who have not yet made their mark.


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Answer the following without doing detailed calculations. Which has the greater volume, a 50.0g block of copper or a 50.0g block of gold?I don't understand their explanation. From table they give...
Answer the following without doing detailed calculations. Which has the greater volume, a 50.0g block of copper or a 50.0g block of gold?
I don't understand their explanation. From table they give densities of gold and copper. Which I understand. But I don't understand the second part. A block of copper thus has to be larger in volume than a block of gold of the same mass. A 50.0 g block of copper has a greater volume that 50.0 block of gold.
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OK... without a bunch of math. Think of it like this:
Which weighs more, a ton of feathers or a ton of bricks? Right, they both weigh the same (just like the gold and copper in your example). BUT, which one has a bigger volume? Or, which one would make a bigger pile (take up more space)?
Obviously, one feather is much lighter than one brick. This is because bricks are more dense than feathers (they have more particles crammed into the same amount of space). So it's going to take a really big pile of feathers (greater volume) to equal one ton.
Same thing in your example... copper is not as dense as gold, so you are going to need a lot more of it to make 50.0g than you would 50.0 g of gold.
To determine which has a greater volume, we need to convert the given mass to volume.
To do so, let's use the density of copper and gold.
The density of copper is 8.96 `g/(cm^3)` . This means that for every `1 cm^3` of
copper, it weighs 8.96 g ( `1cm^3=8.96g` ).
So, the volume of 50g copper is:
`V_(copper)``=` `50 g` `xx` `(1 cm^3)/(8.96g)` `=` `5.58 cm^3`
And the density of gold is 19.32 `g/(cm)^3` . This indicates that `1cm^3=19.32g` .
Hence, the equivalent volume of 50g gold is:
`V_(gold)` `=` `50 g` `xx` `(1cm^3)/(19.32g)` `=` `2.58cm^3`
Therefore, the 50g block of copper has greater volume than the 50g block of gold.


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Sometimes it can be a pain to match pockets perfectly when working with a stripe, plaid or printed fabric. Here's an easy way to match a stripe for front jacket pockets:
1. Lay out lower front jacket pattern tissue piece with cut self fabric attached. It's easy to see the stripe through the tissue to copy the lines.
2. Fold pocket pattern piece on top fold line and locate the seam allowances on each side. (marked with arrows) My particular pocket pattern piece had a pleat in the center of the pocket. Having a pleat in the center of the pocket can make it difficult to match the stripes on both sides of the pocket.
3. Place pocket pattern piece on large circles indicating pocket placement.
4. Fold in pleat on pattern piece. Vertically mark stripes from fabric on each side of the pocket pattern piece.
5. Open pocket pattern piece and layout on fabric carefully following vertical stripes on the right side of the pocket first or which ever side is closest to the center front.
6. Check left side for matching stripes. In my case, the pocket pattern piece matched the vertical stripe pretty well with the pleat unfolded, so I only pinched out a small bit of the pocket pattern piece from the line I marked (cut).
7. If the stripe doesn't match closely, I would "cut" on that line and overlap the pocket pattern piece so the stripe would match perfectly. By doing so, you end up with an altered pleat.
Finished Pocket
This technique works for any applied pocket, pocket flap, or welt. I hope you find this process easy and end up with very professional looking pockets.


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I was a veteran TV commercial director with 18 years of experience. I always created a 15 second advertisement with top models in a wonderful background. In the frame was a marvelous world that I created. At least, until I picked up this camera in my hand now. Now that I have realized everything was an empty shell and fabrication. I really wanted to create something that I could call my own. Okay! Let's get out of the frame. There was no script or staged character. Just raw. My objects could be found somewhere not that far, and I could naturally capture them. I decided to call that place "The Stage."
The Stage might appear to be just screen fences constructed for the safety of workers and aesthetic purposes. At the same time, it can be seen as some kind of a veil (screen) of time that would later on unexpectedly emerge from the separation of time—its tendency to cover and conceal (isolation and concealment). This makes us confront that fact that it is the veil of time in the world of reality (the present), symbol (the past) and imagination (the future) that exists in between the front and the back. In other words, the screen fences often founded at a construction site become The Stage beyond the idea of safety and aesthetic, through which we experience feelings of strolling in time. In addition, we can think about what has been lost, constructed, and completed through the division of time which is epitomized by the front and backside of the screens. I am casually inviting you to this place. And that place, for you, might just be a street, construction site or haughty wall as you know. You will be vacantly standing in front of the stage. Neither a dramatic view nor a story will occur. Instead, they will project things they have seen onto the untidy screen. It does not force you to do something, nor does it give you something to look at. You will, nevertheless, be looking into the screen, walking around it, and trying to project something onto it. The stage will juxtapose you with things with which you do not seem to have a connection, as if to suggest doing meditation facing a wall. If you are standing in front of this screen right now, then you already stepped up to the stage, which I set for you, without knowing.
koNa (b.1974) was born in Seoul, Korea and studied film design at the Hongik Graduate School of Film and Media. In 1998, he entered a TV advertisement production and has been working as a director since then. In 2010, the artist began to work with photography in earnest. Having a foot in both camps—directing and photographing—he has been constantly making art. The project koNa, the artist, is currently working on, will begin with the theme of a stage then expand into the theme of an actor then audiences as a series of work. The subject will be ordinary things around us and the story will begin with the idea of I and express a message that expands into the idea of US then the world. koNa has earned a strong reputation through numerous exhibitions at home and abroad, and he has earned awards in various photography competitions. His recent awards include: the Spotlight Award Winner for the Black & White Magazine (2017), MAP for the Korean Art Village Photography Contest supported by the Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism (2016), and The Best Portfolio of the Month for the Korean Photography Art Magazine (2016). He also had exhibitions, including The Side at the Seventy Four Gallery in Seoul (2017), Illumination at the 3rd Suwon International Photo Festival (2016), The Side at the 2016 SCAF Art Fair (Gallery Michelle/Korean Art Association), Love Letter from Wuzhen at the Moon Gallery in Busan (2016), Photo Ludens at the Samtan Art Mine Museum in Jeongseon (2016), and The Twist at the Suwon International Photo Festival in Chiang Mai, Thailand, and the DPPA gallery in Seoul (2016).


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Dog kills 4-year-old girl who gave it a biscuit minutes after mother adopted itBy Mason White 4:45 PM October 27, 2016
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By: Wayne Morin
(Scroll down for video) A little girl lost her life while trying to feed the new dog that her mother adopted just minutes earlier, according to police in Michigan.
The St. Joseph County sheriff's department said that the incident unfolded on Sunday around 4:00 p.m.
Jacey McNeal Wolkins, who lives with her daughter in a home on the 63000 block of W. Fish Lake Road, adopted the dog from a man.
The man and Wolkins spent a few minutes together to get the dog used to its new family. Minutes after the man left, 4-year-old Kiyana McNeal tried to give the 3-year-old dog a biscuit.
The dog attacked McNeal, and when Wolkins tried to pull the animal away, it attacked her as well. McNeal died at the scene.
Wolkins was taken to a hospital with injuries to her head and arms.


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Craig Monroe can be secretive and guarded. When he's hitting well or has played a good game and reporters swarm to his locker for answers — what's different at the plate, how have you turned it around? — he generally offers none, taking no risk of a jinx.
The mystery ends when Monroe meets up with his former team. Then honesty reigns — he wants revenge, and so far he has been getting it.
Monroe's three-run homer in the fourth inning of Minnesota's 6-4 victory over Detroit on Tuesday night "changed the game," Twins pitcher Scott Baker said. It was Monroe's second homer against Detroit this season, and, for Monroe, was sweet for a few reasons — it came against the Tigers, it came against a left-handed pitcher and it came after weeks of work on altering his swing.
"To be in Detroit and be a Tiger for a long time, the respect for my ex-teammates is always there," Monroe said, "but the desire to go at it and do something against them is way up, it burns inside to get the opportunity to do something special against that team."
The Twins acquired Monroe to hit left-handed pitching. Monroe had a .273 career average against lefties when Minnesota signed him, but adjusting to his role as an occasional designated hitter has been difficult. He entered Tuesday night's game against Detroit left-hander Nate Robertson batting just .103 (6 for 58) against southpaws this season.
For some time he has been trying a new approach that's more suited to a bench player than an everyday guy. He eliminated the high leg kick he always had featured in his plate approach and started to take a more serious approach to batting practice, saying he's started to treat BP "like it's my game."
Tuesday that work paid off. Monroe went 2 for 3, his home run clearing the fence in right-center with authority, and after the game he said he believes one positive night is a significant sign.
"To be able to stay through the middle, use the big part of the field and actually get rewarded for using the big part of the field definitely gets me excited about where this thing can go," Monroe said of his home-run placement. "I know I'm a streaky hitter, I know once I get going it's going to be a fun time for me and for this team because I can do some things that allow us to win some games."
Monroe nearly hit a second home run, against reliever Zach Miner, in the fifth, but the ball drifted foul, and Monroe clapped his hands as he made his way back to the dugout, aware and disappointed by the missed opportunity.
Monroe was looking for a hard sinker like the one he saw Miner throw while he stood in the Tigers' outfield. He got his pitch but couldn't duplicate his fourth-inning success.
There is no doubt Monroe has extra incentive against Detroit — he has a .389 average, two homers and six runs batted in against the Tigers — but to manager Ron Gardenhire, Monroe's output Tuesday night looked like a player beginning to grasp his role.
"We need him to hit lefties," Gardenhire said. "We need him to do some damage against them."
On Tuesday the damage was done, or, as Gardenhire said of Monroe's convincing home run, "He knocked the living fire out of it."


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You know how you ask someone how their weekend was and that person is like "oh, it was great, let me show you some photos" and then they reach for their iPhone and you're stuck, looking at photos of people you don't know when really the only reason you asked was because you accidentally made eye contact with them when you were reaching for a donut?
That's what I'm going to do to you. Except, it's on my blog and not my iPhone and you can easily step away from the photos and also, I wish I was near a donut.
I've been so busy trying to catch up on life that I can't seem to formulate words today but I can show you photos of cute kids.
Oh yes, I can.
This is my nephew and the reason we went down to visit my sister. He's turning six this week. His birthday party was a basketball theme party, they served nachos, hot dogs, soft pretzels and popcorn which qualifies that dinner as the best dinner ever.
This is my niece, Mary. She's my best friend and I'm her best friend. We literally call each other "best friend." She's so sweet. After I take a shower and get ready, she says "Hi Best Friend, I like your shower."
And this is Mary's little brother, Trey. He's just a little more than three months older than Eli.
Trey was terribly shy in front of the camera.
Here's Eli and Trey together.
And here are my sister's big kids and my big kids sitting together. They all get along so well.
Just like their Mamas.


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unit electric charge
- The charge carried by a single electron or proton. It is a fundamental physical constant, and is equal to approximately 1.6022 × 10-19 coulomb. All subatomic particles have an electric charge equal to this value, or a multiple of it. Also called unit charge (1), or elementary charge.


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China Researcher Says 2010 Growth More Than 10%, Financial News Reports
By Oct 27, 2010-
China's economic growth will be more than 10 percent this year, the Financial News reported, citing Yi Xianrong, a researcher with the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
The central bank's measures have had a limited impact on overly loose liquidity, the newspaper reported, citing Yi. Liquidity may increase consumer prices as well as asset prices, the report said, citing Yi. The Financial News newspaper is published by the People's Bank of China.
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