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Saturday, June 4, 2011
Star Tours 2 Grand Opening at Disneyland
Two weeks after the Florida opening Star Tours 2 had its Grand Opening at Disneyland Anaheim. I was not there but plenty of people were and had the good idea to film the opening ceremony. The video below was shot by the OC Family and you'll see the whole opening show from the start to the end.
Tom Staggs chairman of Disney Parks and Resorts as the master ceremony and declared "Star Tours 2 open".
This good old' Darth Vader was part of the Star Tours 2 Grand Opening show and Disney Parks, with a perfect timing, just released the promotional video below which is quite fun, so, have a look!
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Wilmington, NC (November 2011)—Don't you wish you could bring your iPhone, Droid, or other portable electronic device to the slopes without worrying that it might get wet and ruined? How about brining it to the beach while on a tropical vacation? Or perhaps you want to watch a movie on your iPad while soaking in the tub?
Do you find it difficult to trust those "waterproof bags" that look nothing more like a fancy sandwich bag? Are you looking for the perfect Holiday gift? The DryCASE from Dry Corp provides an ingenious solution: a vacuum-sealed case that allows for full touch screen functionality, including pictures and video anywhere where there's water or liquids nearby. It's perfect for cooking too—it will keep your smart device dry and clean while you are looking at recipes.
The DryCASE is a flexible, crystal clear waterproof case that provides complete use of your phone or camera while keeping it dry and clean. Simply pump out all the air with the easy to use hand pump and the case will vacuum seal around the contents and become completely waterproof. The air tight seal guarantees that the contents of the bag will stay dry even when dropped in the snow or submerged underwater. Every DryCASE comes with an extreme activity arm band for sports, and is crystal clear so pictures can be taken through it.
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For all the sun-kissed frolicking depicted in their publicity photos, London folk fivepiece The Magic Lantern sound on their début album like very serious people indeed. A title like A World in a Grain of Sand implies that this a record with important things to say and so it proves; Australian ex-pat Jamie Doe and his group have grappled eloquently with indifference, hope and mortality before even their opening number has drawn to a close.
That song, the tender acoustic meditation of "Somebody Told Me", is a tough act to follow. Although the band never match it for sheer emotional impact, there are flashes of its brilliant directness elsewhere – the shimmering single "Cut From Stone" is another early highlight in this respect, while the later "Shine a Light On" doffs a cap to the socially aware populism and reggae lilt of Bob Marley.
While these memorable moments get the Lantern's messages across engagingly, a large part of the group's identity is drawn from classical composition and this has an altogether more alienating impact. "Laura's Song" and "The Ship That Washed Away" both begin promisingly, but far outstay their welcome due to the inclusion of minimalist and avant- garde outros, respectively. It's at disappointing junctures like these when the band's efforts to reconcile the "lyrical directness of folk, the freedom of jazz and the experimental openness of contemporary classical music" serve only to compromise rather than enrich their sound.
As the songs wear on, the lyrical themes gradually transform into another burden to the album's accessibility. Where "Somebody Told Me" was questioning and inspiring, "Patriots" and "A Man & His Dog" flirt dangerously with becoming tiresomely solemn. The latter song, whilst seeming innocuous enough to begin with, eventually reveals itself as essentially a chamber folk rewrite of Black Sabbath's bleak apocalypse tale "Into the Void" - hardly a lighters-in-the-air moment.
A World in a Grain of Sand is evidence enough The Magic Lantern are a group of musicians with real talent in both composition and playing. It's a shame that, apparently in a bid to demonstrate those skills to the full, the band have passed up the chance to make a truly lovable album. Nevertheless, if Jamie Doe's crew can work on the better part of their sound – the part that spawned "Somebody Told Me" and "Shine a Light On" - they have the potential to become something special indeed.


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Saturday 31st July Kirkoswald to Fairlie, 53 miles. 3 hours 51 minutes.
Weather: Overcast / intermittent rain.
Accommodation: Alan Sinclair (Roger and Sally - Crown).
A frustrating stop/start feel to today's ride. Contrast in landscapes - first part (Kirkoswald - Ayr) all countryside and then all built up areas (Ayr - Ardrossan) with return to countryside for final run into Fairlie. Passed by Troon Golf Club amongst many others in this area.
Most interesting thing en route was 'The Electric Brae' - a short section of road between Turnberry and Ayr where, due to an optical illusion created by the surrounding landscape, you appear to be cycling uphill when in actual fact you are descending.


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Rob is responsible for managing all legal affairs for SoFi and its affiliate entities. Prior to joining SoFi, he served as a principal in the education and litigation practice groups of the Washington, D.C., law firm of Powers Pyles Sutter & Verville (PPSV), where he represented financial institutions and post-secondary institutions on a wide variety of regulatory, litigation and transactional matters. Prior to PPSV, Rob served as general counsel to Sallie Mae, a Fortune 300 company and the largest provider of education finance. Before his 16-year career with Sallie Mae, Rob served as a partner in the Washington, D.C., law firm of Cole Corette & Abrutyn, specializing in corporate and securities litigation. He was named a top Washington, D.C., corporate counsel in 2015. Rob holds a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center and a B.A from the University of Pennsylvania.


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Microsoft's City Art Search is one of the oldest and most fun apps by Microsoft on the Windows Store going back to 2014 and Windows 8.1. The app made the jump from PC to Windows Phone and got updated seemingly every week.
Now, a partial version of the app has been rewritten for Windows 10 using newer APIs, and it's the perfect lockscreen changer for your PC or Mobile device.
If you are not familiar, the original City Art Search app lets you see and learn about art in your local area. Specifically, it allows you to see famous art that may be on loan at your local museum. You can browse through the collection, gets details about the piece, and more.
Check out our City Art Search app review
Recent updates to the app let you view 4K HD versions of the images too, which is a nice touch for those with higher-end phones. The app also lets you set your lockscreen with rotating images from the collection, which is probably its banner feature.
CAS Preview – the new Windows 10 app – takes the lockscreen changer part and makes it a separate app. The Microsoft developer behind the project comments about why it's just not a full Windows 10 version of City Art Search:
For now, this can just be considered a supplement for City Art Search. It uses the new APIs available in UWP apps for refreshing the Wallpaper as well as the Lock Screen. I haven't had time to update the app to UWP version because 1) It's a mammoth undertaking 2) For the mobile version there is no ViewPortControl Silverlight equivalent, so there's no way to zoom-and-enlarge an image, short of writing my own from scratch which is a lot of work.
Launching the app for PC or Mobile and you can set rotation times (e.g. 1, 3, 6, 12, or 24 hours) and choose whether you want the image for your Lock Screen or Start Screen. There are additional options too that I found to be thoughtful such as nudity, religious, and portraits filters that let custom what does – and what does not – show up on your device.
City Art Search and this new CAS Preview for Windows 10 are some of my favorite apps. They add a bit of class to your device and the auto-update and image rotation feature is just fantastic. It's also unique to Windows 10 since as the developer noted, you cannot programmatically auto-refresh the wallpaper on iOS.
Hopefully, we'll see City Art Search get the full Windows 10 treatment, but for now give CAS Preview a try. If you like the app, make sure to leave a positive review! The regular 8.1 version of City Art Search is also still available and being updated if you want the full experience.


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Coffee establishments have become the getaway destination akin to the corner bar—but without the booze. People instinctively know where their local coffee nook is and they go there en masse to seek a bit of quiet or perhaps some social nesting with a friend. As people have become more and more serious about their coffee, those lattes and daily blends are becoming true works of art. Just ask inventor Jakub Svec, who's developing the PERK, a machine that promises the ultimate in coffee savoring at an affordable price.
The PERK was specially designed by Svec to produce "Third-Wave" coffee, which refers to the movement to produce high quality, artisanal coffee with better flavor, more flavor variety, and less bitterness. While visiting his regular Santa Fe café, Iconik Coffee Roasters, Svec was inspired to create the device after learning about the complicated manual process that most brewers go through to make a cup of this new, richer style of coffee—a process outlined in some detail on the PERK's Kickstarter campaign page (where backers can get their very own PERK for $199).
"We are now thinking about coffee more like wine," said Svec. "In fact, there are at least two times more aromatic compounds (the compounds that produce flavor) in coffee than in wine. But to get at those aromatic compounds, everything has to be controlled precisely, from growing, harvesting, processing and shipping to storing, roasting, bagging, and brewing."
According to Svec, this difficult process has seen very few mechanical innovations, making manual brewing a complicated procedure with varying results, or requiring expensive industrial grade equipment. In contrast, PERK offers a much more simplified, automated process. We wanted to find out how he did it, so Svec provided us with some images of his earliest prototypes and walked us through the development process.
Svec on Version 1: This is the first machine I built to test a design for a coffee machine in space. I built it in a day using parts from around my house and from eBay, just to test the concept. There were no napkin drawings or CAD designs. I just bashed together components. It uses an electrical junction box, a stainless steel Stanley travel mug, a ceramic heating band, a PID controller and a pump. It also used an infusion chamber designed for filtering pool water. To say this could be used in space isn't quite accurate. My space-grade design depended on a centrifugal spinning motion to simulate gravity (think 2001: A Space Odyssey), then used a pump to fight that simulated gravity. It turns out that on earth, we already have gravity, so I simulated the simulated gravity with real gravity. Really clever. The only downside was that I couldn't increase or decrease gravity like I intended to do in space. The coffee that this machine produced was terrible, but it exceeded my expectations for several coffee infusion environment categories, so I continued on to V2.
Svec on Version 2: After ordering a few more parts, I built V2. It used similar components to the first version, but more refined. For example, it used an infusion chamber with a finer mesh, a different pump motor and allows for control of the pump speed. It wasn't a looker, but it got the job done. On the bottom of the machine is a heat sink used to dissipate heat from a solid-state relay that controls the heating element. It reminded me of Cloud City from Star Wars. This version overcame most of the challenges I had with V1 and is the machine I had tested by Scott Rao, one of the world's most prominent Third Wave coffee consultants. I flew to New York to meet him, and he said that he has "never seen a coffee machine this capable for less than $10,000." He gave me a few improvements to consider, but it gave me the confidence to continue on the right track.
Svec on Version 3: After coming back from New York, I started 3D printing a platform for testing automated features of the machine. The original design was intended to have the shape of an espresso machine, but the design never quite gelled. If you look at the back of the machine, it is a real mess from changing around components. It uses an Arduino Uno microcontroller, which I learned to program using state machine logic. I had never programmed anything before this, and it was a real deep dive learning experience. The programming alone was a three-month process.
This version has been surprisingly durable, and is the machine that I toured with across the country performing demos. The only downside is that the pump I am using sits exposed to boiling liquid, and I have to replace it about every 20 brewing cycles.
Svec on Final Version: I knew I really wanted PERK to have a killer design, but a final design eluded me. The infusion chamber and dome give PERK a really unique "tube transistor" retro look, but if I want it to live on a kitchen counter or in a coffee shop, it needed to be compact, sleek and durable. After 2 months of design work, I essentially gave up and resigned myself to developing a design that had nothing special going for it, but was simple. I effectively got out of the way of the entire industrial design process, and V4 was born almost immediately. It is exactly what it needed, for me to get out of the way. After about two months of 3D printing and post-processing cleanup, I had a solid design prototype developed. It is very rewarding to see people respond so well to this design. It is minimalist, modern, and retro. The best thing someone told me is that "it looks like a coffee machine of the future of the 1960s."


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Ted Bauman Professional Contributions to Global Investment Ventures
Ted Bauman is one of the most sought global financial and investment strategists. He has over the years played an important role in overseeing the smooth running of global corporations and government agencies. Although Ted Bauman was born in Maryland USA, he later relocated to South Africa for his undergraduate studies. He studied economics, history and political science in the Cape Town University. His actions are propelled by the desire to help economically disadvantaged groups attain an improved quality of life through financial empowerment. While in South Africa, he used his financial skills to coordinate the introduction of economic and social reforms during the post-apartheid period.
He has also worked with the United Nations and the World Bank where he was charged with the role of creating low-cost housing projects models. He also moved to Latin America, Asia and African countries where he has worked for many government agencies. After moving back in the USA, he joined the Banyan Hill Publishing group and serves as the senior editor. Since 2013, he is credited for introducing innovative products and services. Ted introduced the Bauman Latter, ETF trading platforms, Alpha Stock alerts, and Plan B Club. The services and products offered by Ted Bauman are valuable in areas such as low-risk investment strategies, assets protection, international migration issues, wealth accumulation, and other strategies. Consequently, many people have been able to engage in successful business ventures.
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Other than offering coaching services on investment strategies, Ted Bauman employs leadership and investment skills to transform the society positively. He launched the Slum Dwellers International with the hope of changing the lives of many slum dwellers. His efforts have yielded positive results as the group has helped more than 14 million individuals and have active operations in more than 34 countries. The move has allowed low-income families to access decent housing and bridge the income inequality gap. The Bauman Letter also serves as one of the platforms where he empowers the readers on ways that they can accumulate wealth. He holds the view that through economic empowerment, people can register a better quality of life as well as eradicate many social problems.


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Toyota has created a real-life version of a Tamiya's famous Bruiser radio-controlled car - so for Autocar's Christmas special we brought the two mighty machines together. In a quarry.
Which is best at drifting, jumping and hillclimbing: the full-size Arctic Trucks-adapted Hilux, or its R/C forebear? Editor-at-large Matt Prior and our resident road test elf Alan Taylor-Jones put them through their paces to find out in this highly scientific video test.
You can find all of Autocar's videos (not all of which feature R/C cars...) on our Youtube channel.
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Remembering 9/11
Good morning and welcome to The Chatterbox Blog. Today I am writing a special edition to pay tribute to the attacks on the World Trade Center 10 years ago today.
I'm not sure what we're really supposed to do on a day like today. Are we supposed to celebrate it, commermorate it with t-shirts and hats, or are we just supposed to reflect on things that happened? I am choosing to recount what happened in MY world that day and reflect…
10 Years ago today, it was my senior year of high school and I was sitting in 2nd period History class (of all places) and my 11th grade history teacher came in and turned on the news. By this time, one of the towers had been struck and smoke was pouring out of it. The news reporters were somewhat reporting like it was an accidental hit when we saw the 2nd plane hit live. From what I remember, everybody was quiet for about 10 to 20 minutes as we're watching it unfold. After that, my 11th grade History teach talked a little bit about what was going on and I'll never forget him saying "events like these are the beginning of a war". My band practice for the evening had been cancelled due to the event and I remember leaving school that day with many parents embracing their kids (who were perfectly fine) as if to just be thankful that they were safe. The rest of the day, I remember being super-glued to the TV (as I'm sure most families were). There were definately alot of images from 09/11/01 that I will never forget!
Reflecting on this event, I would really enjoy seeing America get back to the way it was on September 12th, 2001. Everybody seemed to be living in a common "America" rather than a narrow minded political party. People seemed a little more human towards each other and supported the idea of "Ask not what your Country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your Country" whether it be serving in the Military, helping people in need, or donating.
In closing, I'd like to challenge everybody to write something about their experiences from 9/11/01. For one, its great to get your feelings out there and it's also a good way to get creative again. Start your own blog! WordPress hosts them for free and you can use it as your own sounding board for ideas and thoughts that you have. If you are writing a topic on 9/11, then please share in my comments and I promis that I will subscribe anf comment on every one of them. If there is one thing to take away from my post today is to take a little time and enjoy your life, enjoy your family, and enjoy your freedom. There are many young men and women serving our country in a place thousands of miles away from their families so that we can enjoy these things.
Save Room 4 Love and GOD Bless the U.S.A.,
Brad (The Chatterbox)
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i remember being off work that day and when i woke up the first tower had already been hit. i remember watching the news when the second one hit. It was a "what the f**k" kinda moment. It seemed unreal. as i watched the news later it was reported a third plane hit the pentagon. it was a weird, kinda freaky feeling. Then i remember going outside and seeing what seemed like lots of planes flying over our house (i guess they were emergency landing at Lahm Airport) as it was reported that no aircraft was alowed in the sky. A very sad day…all those innocent people killed.


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Beverly's Junyong Pak led the local contingent once again in the 116th running of the Boston Marathon, April 23.
Beverly's Junyong Pak led the local contingent once again in the 116th running of the Boston Marathon, April 23.
A 5-foot-8, 140-pound mechanical engineer, Pak, 34, was once again Beverly's top finisher at this year's 26.2-mile race, placing 76th overall with a sparkling time of 2:39:16. In addition, Pak placed 69th among the 15,504 male runners the competed, and 62nd in his age group.
"It was personally the slowest marathon I'd ever run, but it was also arguably my finest," Pak said. "I couldn't be much happier with the outcome all things considered."
Running in his first consecutive Boston Marathon, Pak had lofty expectations at the sound of the starters gun.
"From my first marathon to this last one the goal has always been to go under 2:30, conditions permitting," he said. "Unfortunately however, conditions did not permit."
Pak prepared for the marathon the best way he knew how, training in minimal clothing all winter and spring. He'd often run shirtless whenever the temperature went above 50 degrees, and was primed and ready for a cold race.
"Sadly it ended up being something like 78 degrees even before the race went off," Pak said. "By the time I finished it was north of 85 degrees with not a cloud in the sky. To say that I was unprepared for that kind of heat is a gross understatement."
Pak managed to stay hydrated as best he could, as he continued to sweat it out on the streets of Boston.
"I forced myself to drink fluids at every mile and drenched myself with water at every single opportunity," he said. "It was this discipline that salvaged some semblance of a race on a day that crumbled a lot of plans, hopes and dreams."
An extreme running enthusiast, Pak's extensive training came into play, as he managed to keep pace within the top 100 finishers.
"Mental fortitude was absolutely part of the game," said Pak, noting that he's already gearing up for the Death Race in June.. "You could have complained about the conditions or made the best of it and leveraged this to your advantage. Today wasn't about racing the clock so much as the competitor next to you, as everyone was put to the same trial. A positive, levelheaded attitude may sometimes be all that distinguishes you from that other guy who is just as talented as you."
Another marathon veteran, Michael Paulin, 37, also prevailed in the blistering heat, finishing 545th overall with an impressive time of 3:03:15. He also placed high ranking 749th among men, 706th in his division.
Carl Clarizia took third among local runners clocking in at 3:38:39.
Marty Lechleider, 54, legged it across the finish line at 3:54:55, placing 583RD in his division. David Lund, 49, also rounded out the top five Beverly finishers, getting in at under the four-hour mark at 3:59:11
Beverly's top female finisher was Lindsay Lecuyer, who cruised in at 4:22:04.
Thomas Grant was Beverly's oldest runner. The 62-year old reached the finish line at 6:52:19, ranking 678th in his division.
Name Age/G Time Ranking
Junyong Pak 34/M 2:39:16 76
Michael Paulin 37/M 3:05:15 749
Carl P. Clarizia 38/M 3:38:39 4,335
Marty Lechleider 54/M 3:54:55 7,481
David W. Lund 49/M 3:59:11 8,465
Christopher G. Haffenreffer 30/M 4:04:29 9,489
Christian L. Nolin 39/M 4:09:50 10,535
Lindsey B. Lecuyer 28/F 4:22:04 12,800
Michael J. Smith 30/M 4:24:10 13,181
Tara A. McGoff 33/F 4:25:40 13,428
Brendan J. Powers 29/M 4:27:18 13,717
Dawn M. Cobak 41/F 4:32:44 14,576
Brigid Sullivan 34/F 4:43:15 15,918
Andrew G. Shaw 29/M 4:49:21 16,646
Michelle L. Milton 30/F 4:53:40 17,095
Jaidip Chanda 41/M 5:00:27 17,742
Robert W. Freni 25/M 5:13:27 18,662
Shari R. Hewson 49/F 5:26:21 19,398
James M. Howland 46/M 6:00:25 20,677
Tara J. Arnold 37/F 6:02:33 20,734
Stacie B. Cohane 42/F 6:10:12 20,907
Thomas H. Grant 62/M 6:52:19 21,457
Paula T. Renzi Gibbs 40/F 7:09:28 21,537
Kevin D. Counihan 50/M 7:55:15 21,554


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Experiential learning activities produce emotional responses from the participants, especially if you use them to explore controversial subjects. At the conclusion of an experiential activity (and sometimes in the middle of an experiential activity), you may confront hostility, frustration, futility, or grief. Hopefully, these reactions from participants help everyone discover useful insights rather than permitting a few vociferous participants to hijack the debriefing discussion.
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Experiential activities help people learn about different topics—and about themselves. After conducting an experiential activity, debrief yourself to discover useful and interesting information about what makes you tick as a facilitator and as a person.
Wendy Wong is a member of the Learning Design Unit of the Civil Service College, Singapore. In her 8-year journey with the College so far, Wendy has built up experience in public sector leadership, public policy, organizational culture development, instructional design, and curriculum development. Her current roles include building up the capabilities of college staff in learning design-related competencies and creating new learning approaches. Wendy is currently excited about creating games in evaluation techniques, facilitation skills, personal and group narratives, and new employee orientation.
TGL: How did you get into designing and using games?
Wendy: I had the privilege of attending a workshop conducted by Thiagi last year. That was my first formal opportunity learning about games design. Since then, I seem to see a game in every topic. The possibilities are endless!
TGL: How has learning about games design helped you?
Wendy: It has definitely helped me to be more playful about learning. Or, should I say, re-discover the playfulness in learning. Just being in a playful posture has made it possible to explore design options that would otherwise be crushed into silence in my mind.
Being more attuned to the architecture behind games also reminds me that learning is necessarily experiential and social. We learn best by being fully engaged in an issue or activity, and having space and time to look at our responses to it, and doing so in a shared experience with others.
Challenging myself to view different topics and issues through the frames of game design has also been a workout in distilling the essence of these topics and issues. In order to represent a complex issue through a game, the designer must first get to the heart of the issue and its nuances, even reconcile with the presence of unexplainable elements. The heart gives the game its central focus, while the unexplainable elements provide the unpredictability that draws and engages the players.
TGL: What else have you been doing to grow in games design during the past 12 months?
Wendy: My own learning about games design has been fairly organic. On hindsight, I think my growth can be traced to these factors:
Improvising: Taking tried and tested games and modifying them to suit the content, learning outcomes, and the target audience I have.
Inventorying: The ideas I get for games don't always come from game books! There are lateral connections to be made across disciplines, and synergies to be reaped. For instance, a detailed reading of plant biology could lead to an interesting game designed around the metaphor of a tree. While it may not make immediate sense, reading widely on different subjects could build a rich base and spark novel ideas for game design.
Inquiring: Being curious about what others have tried, or are thinking about. And there's a lot of information available online. I try to visit game-design related blogs regularly (for example, Knowledge Games ( on http://www.gogamestorm.com/ ). I also pay attention to where game design activity is buzzing.
TGL: What are you looking forward to in game design during the next 12 months?
Wendy: I'm very keen to explore the pairing of games design with other approaches such as visual language, graphic facilitation, narratives, and storytelling.
In my opinion, Roger Greenaway is the greatest genius in the area of debriefing (or reviewing as he calls it). Roger has had a significant impact on the work I do. You can learn more about Roger and more about debriefing techniques by visiting his website, http://reviewing.co.uk/
Here's a jolt that is based on one of Roger's powerful activities.
Blindfold half of the participants and ask them to lay a rope on the floor in the form of a circle. Conduct a quick debriefing involving the blindfolded workers and the watchers. Blindfold the other half and give them the task of laying the rope on the floor in the form of a triangle. Continue with the debriefing discussion.
To discover the power of debriefing.
Four or more. Best group size is 10 to 30.
3 minutes for the activity. 3 to 10 minutes for debriefing.
Create an open area where participants can stand in a circle and move around freely.
You don't want the blindfolded participants to bump into objects or trip and fall down. Remove all obstacles from the open area. Encourage the watchers to intervene if any of the blindfolded workers places herself in a hazardous situation.
Some people do not like to be blindfolded. Give your participants the choice to opt out of being a blindfolded worker and remain as a watcher during both rounds.
Brief the participants. Explain that you are going to blindfold half of the participants and ask them to work on a simple task while the others watch them. Later, you will change the roles and ask the newly blindfolded workers to complete a similar task.
Explain the task. Show the length of the rope and tell the participant that all blindfolded workers should hold the rope and lay it on the floor in the form of a perfect circle.
Begin the first round. Distribute blindfolds to half of the participants and ask them to blindfold themselves. Suggest that these workers keep their eyes closed inside the blindfold. Invite the watchers to position themselves around the open area. Place the rope in the hands of two or three blindfolded workers and ask them to begin the task.
Conclude the first round. Set the timer for 1 minute and start it. At the end of the minute, blow the whistle and ask participants to stop the activity and remove their blindfolds. (It does not matter if the task is not completed.)
Debrief the first round. Ask the workers and the watchers to ask and answer questions about what happened and what they learned. Because the workers will be extremely curious about what the watchers saw, you will have an enthusiastic and spontaneous discussion. Toss in a few questions (How does this activity reflect events in your workplace? If you were to do this activity once more, how would you change your behavior?) from time to time.
Begin the second round. Distribute blindfolds to the participants who were the watchers during the previous round. Have them blindfold themselves while the new watchers position themselves around the open area. Place the rope in the hands of a few blindfolded people as before. Ask them to lay the rope on the floor in the shape of a triangle.
Conclude the second round. Stop the activity at the end of a minute (even if the task is not completed).
Debrief the second round. Let the workers and observers ask and answer questions. Throw in some questions to encourage participants to compare and contrast what happened during the two different rounds.
Ask participants to explore the advantages of debriefing. Encourage them to discover the value added by a debriefing discussion.
Debrief the debriefing process. Ask participants to brainstorm a list of guidelines for improving the effectiveness of debriefing discussions.
Introduce the core questions. Explain that these questions produce effective results during debriefing discussions:
With the help of participants, apply these core questions to the Workers and Watchers jolt.
You don't have rope? Ask the blindfolded workers to perform some other task (such as preparing a poster or making a paper chain).
You don't have blindfolds? Ask the workers to close their eyes. Alternatively, let them jointly perform a task with their eyes open.
Some participants cheat by peeking? Let this become a topic of discussion during debriefing.
Reflect and discuss actions to confront issues related to organizational innovation.
Any number, organized into teams of four to six.
20 to 60 minutes.
Brief the participants. Give them the following information, in your words:
You have just been appointed the CEO of a medium sized organization with nearly 3000 employees. Although the organization has a successful history, it has recently grown quite conservative. The Executive Board is asking you to make innovation a core competency of the company.
During your first 100 days as the CEO, you are confronted with different situations that are specified in the scenario cards.
Distribute scenario cards. Give each team a packet of scenario cards.
Select a suitable action. Ask the team members to shuffle the cards, turn over the top card, and read it out aloud. Ask each player to specify a suitable action that she would take in this situation as a CEO.
Present the action. After about a minute, ask players to take turns to describe her proposed action to the other players.
Score the actions. Ask each participant to distribute 100 points among the participants other than herself. Emphasize that most points should be allotted to the action that the scorer likes the most, least points to the action the scorer likes the least, and intermediate numbers of points to the others.
Distribute the score points. Ask participants to ensure that the points total 100 (without using any negative numbers, fractions, or decimals). Each score should be written on a piece of paper that is crumpled and placed in front of the appropriate player.
Continue to play more rounds. At the end of a prespecified time period, ask all participants to open their crumpled pieces of score paper and add up the scores given by the other players.
Conduct a debriefing discussion. Encourage participants to share their ideas about obstacles to innovation and the tradeoffs that CEOs have to make.
Congratulate the player with the highest score. Identify the winner in each team and the champion with the highest overall score among all teams.
In response to your request for cost-cutting proposals, a manager has decided to substantially reduce his teambuilding budget.
The HR Manager, who was responsible for running the company's innovative ideas program, has resigned, rather miffed at having been passed over for a promotion.
A bright young Sociology Graduate hired last year proposes to start a Women for Creativity Group in your company. She asks for your support.
Your IT Manager suggests that at the end of each meeting of senior managers you should collect anonymous ratings about how satisfactory the meeting was.
The Production Manager will not permit any of his staff members to participate in a brainstorming session that had been scheduled 3 months ago. He claims that he needs all his staff members to work at full speed because they have to fulfill an unexpected order from an important client.
Your main competitor has won an "Innovator of the Year" Award from the local Chamber of Commerce.
A few senior managers were snickering behind your back after your speech on the importance of creativity.
The Marketing Manager has launched a new corporate image campaign. But he is not getting any new ideas from his department.
The Marketing Manager asks your advice on an expensive image-altering media campaign for the company that may shock members of the Executive Board.
In the presence of your senior management team, the Deputy Chairman of the Executive Board says, "All this creativity stuff is good, but the most important task is to increase our profits this year."
The Head of R&D Division organizes four Open Days during the year. She invites all employees to visit her department to learn how it works. She also wants every visitor to contribute at least one creative idea.
Your Operations Supervisor does not think that innovation is a good idea for assembly-line workers.
Your Accounts Manager proposes that employees who arrive late to work should be punished by salary cuts.
Your Finance Manager argues that only senior managers should authorize any risky projects.
You are challenging your company's business model. However, most of your senior managers are vigorously defending the model.
The HR manager complains that very few people are contributing to the staff suggestion scheme.
This year's profits are 2 percent below last year's. Some of the managers blame your creativity project as the cause for this decline.
Creativity afternoons are about to be launched by your Finance Manager in his department.
Your company is merging with another company that has a far less creative culture—and far more profit.
The newly appointed Director of Creativity and Innovation (a new post that you created) asks for your guidance in writing her job description.
Why do people do what they do? That's the question this month which we begin to explore with this story in exactly 99 words.
Everyone knows it's tough to quit smoking, but why do people start? Cigarettes have a warning label. In Europe it covers half the pack! What's the motivation to begin an activity that everyone knows will eventually kill them? No one would drink a household cleaner—even though the warning label is less prominent!
Despite the obvious dangers, many people begin smoking to be cool, to be in, to be part of the group. Social belonging is one of the strongest human needs—and it crosses cultures.
Tap into belonging and you can motivate for life!
Why would she do that?
Whether sitting in your living room, the boardroom, or the doctor's waiting room, you've probably posed that question about someone's behavior. Now, in Dan Pink's latest book you'll find a simple answer: autonomy, mastery, or purpose.
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us tackles the question of motivation head on. We've all been taught that people do things for a reward or to avoid a punishment. Carrots and sticks have led us through our school years, guided us as parents, and propelled us through the world of work to our retirement. Except carrots and sticks don't explain everything. The promise of a shortened life is a pretty big stick on a pack of cigarettes but it doesn't prevent everyone from smoking!
In the book, Pink points out that external rewards and punishments imposed by someone else are less effective than internal, self-imposed motivators—specifically our need for autonomy, mastery, and purpose. Drive is an exploration of what our lives and workplaces could be like if we structured them to meet these internal needs.
Such a vision includes:
Pink does an excellent job of synthesizing the work of many researchers and grounding the science in concrete examples. He acknowledges the difficulty of shifting from our old ways of motivating people and offers a very practical decision tree to help us know when external rewards might actually be unhelpful. A big plus of the book is the final section which outlines several dozen activities readers can use to learn more about internal motivators and practice using them to improve their organization and awaken their own motivation.
You can learn more at www.danpink.com—if you are so motivated!
(Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, by Daniel Pink, Riverhead Books, New York, 2009, ISBN 978-1-59448-884-9)
Can three words explain human behavior? This has been my experimental question since reading Dan Pink's book as well as the work of several others on motivation. At the risk of oversimplifying the actions of people, I have been wondering how broadly Pink's ideas about intrinsic motivation can be applied. With just three succinct concepts, it's easy to see connections to complex behaviors.
Taking this month's 99-Word story as an example, Pink would likely explain that for some people, smoking was an expression of autonomy. The decision to start smoking may have been a young person's best attempt to exert their own will. But what is the motivation to continue? It must be purpose, or, as I've stretched it a bit, belonging. People need to feel like they are a part of something bigger than themselves, whether that's a cause, a mission, or a social group they admire.
New Year's resolutions provide another example. Why is it so difficult to stick with that new exercise program or diet? Because progress is slow, change is not readily measured, and we quickly begin to feel incompetent. We get discouraged because we cannot seem to master the task. After all, how hard can it be to run a mile or lose a couple pounds? But if we don't see results soon, we might conclude we'll never be up for the task.
Autonomy, mastery, and purpose can also provide the key to an un-motivating situation. Having trouble starting a project? Ask yourself what's missing. Is the project something you've been told to do or that you are not being allowed to do creatively? Try to build in more autonomy. Maybe it's dull, routine, or below your skill level. Look for ways to inject novelty or an opportunity to learn something new. Perhaps you aren't sure how the project will eventually be used or how it fits with other projects. Try to connect with the organization's mission or the Big Picture.
Once you start looking through the three lenses of autonomy, mastery, and purpose, you'll begin to see how their relevance is often a hidden influencer of much of our behavior. And when you find a great example, share it with us (email Brian) rather than letting it "go up in smoke!"
Reprinted from the March 2010 issue of Firefly News Flash by permission of the author.
Brian writes: This month's guest contributor, Fran Kick, works on issues of empowerment with youth and youth-serving professionals. But his ideas are just as relevant no matter what your age or profession. Here he shares his ideas about motivation along with a simple personal activity to see the importance of internal motivation in your own life.
In his book Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, Dan Pink does a masterful job of illustrating the "motivational operating system" of human society since the beginning of our time here on Earth. That's not an overstatement striving to impress you. No hyperbole or some professional-speaker stretching the story to make a point. Dan Pink's book, as reviewed by the International Herald Tribune, The Miami Herald and U.S. News & World Report, is a "thought-provoking," "audacious and powerful" book that's "right on the money." And certainly one you'll want to read ASAP! Here's why.
Dan Pink advocates a science-based, research-infused case for rethinking the best way to motivate ourselves as well as others. When it comes to motivation, he exposes a gap between what science knows and what business does. Plus, he offers a series of vivid perspectives and valuable tools on how you can upgrade your current "motivational operating system." Here's one way to look at what he shares:
|Level of Thinking and Feeling
|Operating System
|First Came into Development
|Major Operating Assumption
|Motivation 3.0
|1970s thanks to the work of Ryan & Deci's Self-Determination Theory
|Motivated by autonomy, mastery, and purpose
|Motivation 2.0
|As humans formed more complex societies
|Motivated to seek rewards and avoid punishments
|Motivation 1.0
|50,000 years ago when humans first lived on Earth
|Motivated to survive, purely a biological drive
In the words of Dan Pink: "These motivational operating systems, or sets of assumptions and protocols about how the world works and how humans behave, run beneath our laws, economic arrangements, and business practices. Motivation 1.0 presumed that humans were biological creatures, struggling for survival. Motivation 2.0 presumed that humans also responded to rewards and punishments in their environment. Motivation 3.0, the upgrade we now need, presumes that humans also have a third drive-to learn, to create, and to better the world."
So here's an easy self-reflection exercise for you to try. Consider each of the different levels of thinking or feeling about the various things you do. List the things you "Have to do" or "Get to do" or "Want to do." Consider how the higher you move up a motivational operating system version, the more self-motivated and committed you are to doing the things you listed.
|Level of Thinking and Feeling
|Things Fran Kick Does
|Things Brian Remer Does
|Things YOU Do
|Dance just to dance, Hike just to hike, Read science fiction, Play the piano
|Work on an art project, swim laps because it's fun
|Make customer's day, Go see a movie this weekend
|Write the Firefly News Flash
|Pay taxes and bills, eat
|Shovel snow, iron shirts, repair the aging Subaru
For further reading and to explore how you can develop the kind of self-motivation needed to intrinsically inspire the drive to "want to" work hard, get better and have fun check out:
Csikszentmihalyi, M. (1990). Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience. New York: HarperPerennial. Dan Pink states that when we are motivated by an optimal balance of autonomy, mastery, and purpose, we are in a state of "flow."
Deci, E. L. (1995). Why We Do What We Do. New York: Grosset/Putnam. Deci's work provides the theoretical basis for the importance of intrinsic motivation. It contains scientific data written in an engaging style.
Kick, F. (2006). "Developing the Self-Motivation to KICK IT IN… when you're tired of the carrot-and-stick approach!" http://www.kickitin.com/article2.html . Read this short article for examples of how intrinsic motivation can be applied to young people, then apply the lessons in all the other areas of your life.
Kohn, A. (1993). Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes. New York: Houghton Mifflin. Alfie Kohn, a student of B.F. Skinner, came to realize that the father of operant conditioning actually knew very little about human motivation.
FRAN KICK has been inspiring people to KICK IT IN® and TAKE THE LEAD since 1986. With a B.A. in Education, a M.A. in Educational Psychology, and three children of his own, Fran knows What Makes Kids KICK!
© Fran Kick. Used with permission. www.kickitin.com
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June 7-9, 2010 (three days)
This workshop is designed for trainers, instructional designers, facilitators, managers, and performance consultants. The workshop helps a wide range of practitioners, from newcomers to experienced specialists, to master skills and concepts related to different types of training games, simulations, and learning exercises.
This workshop practices what it preaches. Participants learn new principles and procedures and apply them to creating and conducting different types of learning activities that meet their training objectives, audiences, and needs.
June 10-11, 2010 (two days)
This workshop is designed for trainers who want to incorporate innovative concepts and approaches from positive psychology and for people who want to improve the quality of their personal and professional life.
In this workshop, Thiagi offers two dozen proven and powerful activities from positive psychology and supports them with a conceptual framework. You learn how to measure, increase, and sustain your happiness. You also learn how to help other people to be more positive and improve their health and productivity. This is not an inspirational touchy-feely seminar but a workshop that incorporates evidence-based facts, concepts, and techniques.
See the brochure (1.3meg PDF) for more information.
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Tracy and Thiagi are doing a monthly webinar series, sponsored by Training Magazine Network. You can attend for free, but you must register.
Here's the description of this month's webinar:
Effective performance consultants don't solve problems; they reconcile paradoxes. In this interactive session, learn how to use oxymorons for fun and profit. Figure out why the opposite of every profound truth is also a truth and learn how to bring about a healthy multiple-personality syndrome.
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Two years ago today I went to a baseball game with Joe, Jakob, and Joe's dad. After all I'd been through at that point, the day was a remarkable celebration of freedom, sunshine, and family. At least for me.
It felt good to be safe and sober in a place that I'd always been - my chair behind home plate.
I was wearing braces that day on both hands. The damage to my hands and nerves from the abusive use of the handcuffs in my June 20th arrest has proven permanent. I have no feeling in either thumb or the first two fingers of each hand. The swelling and pain disappeared, though. That's a relief.
Jakob and Joe had some of their usual "moments" on the field.
They met at the mound for a conference. Or something. Those things aren't always as serious as they look.
After their moment, Jakob made his way back to home plate.
At the end of the game as a new team took the field, players and families stand around talking. I have always done more listening than talking in those moments, and that was true two years ago too.
See, nine days prior, I'd been arrested for a refusal to test DWI. I was also charged with resisting arrest; I'd taken off my handcuffs - not in an effort to resist, mind you, but because they hurt. An additional charge for 4th degree assault of an officer was eventually dismissed; the reports differ about whether or not I'd done something assaulting, and the action itself bore no intent to do harm. I didn't hurt anyone.
In the days that followed - four of them - I was in Hennepin County Jail with a motley crew of fellow inmates. My husband told me I wasn't worth getting out of jail. My dad refused to help too. I am fairly certain they had the notion that "tough love" and bearing the consequences for my bad behavior was key to some notion of recovery. Ironic. Neither of them has ever suffered the natural consequences of their own bad behavior, at least from my perspective. But I was going to pay for my bad behavior. Yes, indeedy.
When he picked me up from jail, Joe was the most verbally abusive, threatening person I'd ever known him to be. He screamed at me three times those heinous words, I HATE YOU. Imagine it: "I HATE YOU! I HATE YOU! I HATE YOU!" He told me I would be complying with whatever he and my dad dreamed up, that I had no power and no choice about anything that was about to happen, and that if I said one word he'd pull over at the next ramp, shove me out of the vehicle, and call 911 to report I had started an altercation with him.
Scarier in some ways the four days I'd just spent in jail.
Those moments at the baseball field with Joe and Jakob were the first normal moments in nine days. The first time I'd felt a modicum of safety. The first moments in which I relished what should have been mine to relish.
When I said to Joe how content I'd been to be there in those moments of normalcy, his response shook my equilibrium.
"I hated it. I hate it when you're there. I'm afraid of what you'll do."
Those words were confusing to me at the time. I'd never done anything out of line or unusual at a baseball game! But a person dealing with shame and guilt and a certain type of "bottom" doesn't reason through any of that. I just felt off-balance, unsafe, and demeaned.
Joe's behavior, rage, and reactions are no longer confusing.
He was actively engaged by that point in using my own bad behavior to manipulate those around me into believing his version of events. In the text message between him and my former friend, they discussed their efforts to turn people against me and take their side in the coming months. With the exception of my dad, no one that matters to me supports them. Just the opposite: the revelation of their affair has hurt so many people including the children of both marriages.
As much as I hated Joe after the events of our trip to San Francisco, I still believed that I could chose to love him. I believed that things would turn around, that at some point we would morph into what people believed we were - each other's best support and friend. I believed we were in a valley, but that we would eventually make it out of the valley and find a mountain top. I believed we were a unit and that our hearts would heal and we would be the old "Joe and Kari" we'd once been.
God had a different plan, and it's beautiful.
Walking on the right path doesn't mean that things are easy or that I always make the right choices. But it does mean that eventually things will be how they're supposed to be.
My great struggle right now is trying to forgive Joe and my friend for what they took from me. I hate them for destroying my family - the one I sacrificed so much for. I hate them for taking my table - the only piece of furniture I ever bought without following all of Joe's rules and restrictions, and which I loved. I hate them for using my time shares - the ones I expected to use with my family into the future. I hate them for the way they've managed security - the kind that comes with having a second income and your job.
You know though? Jesus hated bad behavior too.


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deflation is the reduction of prices and asset values over time, thus making money more valuable, which sounds pretty good, except there are at least 2 major problems:
1) people and companies don't like to invest in deflationary environment, because the prices that they can sell the goods will be lower in the future.
2) companies with debt from past investment will have difficulty paying off the debt, because the debt has effectively gone up with money becoming more valuable.
how it ends? many entities with debts will go bankrupt, and wipe off the debt, reducing the overall debt level of a nation, and then reinvestment can take place with new borrowing and new investments.
However, this is a very painful process, like what we went through in the the great depression of the 1930s.


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Ready to Start a Sex Toy Business? Use These 5 Initial Steps!
While starting a business is riskier than joining in an already established company, some just have the entrepreneur bent.
Research has shown that entrepreneurs regard building their business as their fun. Perhaps that's why they work 18 hours each day. Also keeping them in the go-go startup environment is the fact that they'd rather take a pillow to the head than enter a bland corporate cubicle farm. It takes all kinds, and it takes another kind all together to start a sex toy business.
A sex toy business involves lower overhead than most. Because manufacturers operate overseas, cost of goods is reasonable. Getting these products to the American audience requires having parties or building an ecommerce site. With Americans' sexual values becoming more liberal, the future of the sex toy business is bright. Follow these steps to start your sex toy business.
- Consider Starting Small
Starting small ensures your capital lasts long enough to spread the word about your business. Starter kits include sexual products like lubricants, dildos and vibrators. Clearly, these appeal to women, but men buy them for girlfriends as well. They are also widely accepted, lacking the squeamishness that comes from the more hard-core products. Review both U.S. and international manufacturers for prices.
CAUTION: If you do start with a website, keep in mind that you can't sell your products at a price lower than what your manufacturer, distributor or representative sells them for.
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With the extent of sex toys available in the market today, finding a niche could be your quickest route to profit. Consider certain angles like all-natural products or essential oils to corner a small but under-served market. Expand from there.
For example, if you want to sell nontoxic and eco-friendly sex toys, you can choose the rechargeable, wood and glass or 100% medical grade silicon sex toys. Themes like LGBTQ, BDSM and others help consumers understand when they've arrived at the destination that meets their needs precisely.
- Use Private Labeling to Build Your Brand
Most sex toy businesses put their unique, quality logos on the sex toys they purchase from manufacturers and distributors. By lending an air of exclusivity, private labeling leads to higher margins and loyal customers.
Some manufacturers have a selection of pre-made designs that can save you money, but a professional design from a graphic artist could result in more profits. Manufacturers and distributors are accustomed to integrating your design files with their products and packaging. Creating a unique brand is one of the most fun parts of becoming an entrepreneur.
- Build Your Authority by Educating Yourself on the Industry and Sexuality in General
People are far more comfortable buying from companies with strong, informed leadership at the helm. By empowering yourself, you empower and enlighten your customers. They will appreciate you for it.
Consider how you will create guidelines and provide sex education, an aspect of life that is only touched on superficially in American high schools and very inadequately in magazines. Follow product trends as well so that you can bring the most useful devices to your target market before they hear about it from other vendors.
Most importantly, learn about legal issues you might encounter. More legal entanglements exist in this industry than most.
- Think About Business Location
Products that display naked body parts and sex toys have a way of raising the ire of consumers in certain areas. Groups may have managed to make businesses in the sex toy and sex service industry illegal in certain states, counties and cities.
Start by checking with your city's planning department. Then go to the state level to explore whether you need permits to run your business. You'll need to note the specifications required for getting the permit. A Sandy Springs Georgia ordinance, for instance, reads that any "device designed or marketed as useful primarily for the stimulation of human genital organs is obscene material." The whole state of Alabama has outlawed sex toys. If your ecommerce business exists in an area where sex toys are outlawed, your only choice could be moving.
- Set Up Revenue Collection Methods
Those with ecommerce businesses and even those without will increase sales and profits if they accept credit cards. Today, 80% of consumers use debit and credit cards to pay for items they purchase. Just 17% use cash and 3% use checks. Businesses operating strictly on the internet—ecommerce—must take some form of plastic to make any sales whatsoever.
Know now that lenders consider the sex toy and any adult-related business to be "high-risk." It's not the end of the world, just the news that you will need to pay a point or two higher than your entrepreneurial medical claims, senior services or accounting services counterparts.
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United Auto Workers 5810, which represents University of California postdoctoral researchers, just announced a tentative contract agreement that "dramatically improves conditions for postdocs." Members will start voting on the agreement this week. If the contract is ratified they will have the highest salaries for postdocs at any public university in the US, and paid parental leave, as well as improved appointment length and strengthened "protections against discrimination and sexual harassment."
A group of Berkeley Faculty would love to see Robert Reich as chancellor of UC Berkeley, reports the San Francisco Chronicle – adding that the association's statement of principles call "for greater transparency in the chancellor search and [highlight] their desire for a new direction in campus leadership." A first version of the faculty's statement was published as an op ed in the Daily Californian on October 4.
In what the Santa Cruz Sentinel calls the "single largest gift ever received by the university," UCSC's McHenry Library has received tens of thousands of photographic prints, negatives, and transparencies valued at $32 million that document the San Francisco Bay Area from the 1940s to the 1970s. The massive collection by photographers Pirkle Jones and Ruth-Marion Baruch, reports public radio station KQED, covers a wide range of California history, such as the Black Panther Party, migrant workers, environmentally threatened communities, and the hippie culture of San Francisco's Haight Ashbury.
UPTE's 2017 convention will be held in Visalia, California on January 14, 15, and 16, 2017. All eligible UPTE members are encouraged to attend. Locals will receive a tentative agenda and proposed constitutional amendments and resolutions prior to the convention. Want to attend? Contact your local.
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Prime Minister and Secretaries of State of Hungary,
On behalf of the persons, decorated here I
would like to thank you and the Government of the Republic of Hungary.
We would like to emphasize, that the decorations have for us a symbolic
meaning. We gladly accept this tribute, but we would like to accept these
as a tribute to all those people, who over the years contributed to the
co-operation between Hungary and the Netherlands in many different fields
as cultural and social life, churches, economy, military and economic activities
etc. Without these people we could not stay here.
We thank you not only for the decorations, but also for the fact that we received them in the New Church in Amsterdam, the most prominent church-building in the Netherlands.
In this church I remember the 4th of november 1956, the fatal date of the Hungarian Revolution, the day of the Russian attack on Budapest. On that day in the vestry of the church a Hungarian divine service took place, led by pastor Tüski, one of the decorated persons today. Hungarians and Dutch filled the vestry and sang the psalms wherein Hungarians and Dutch for centuries found their ultimate, divine, security. In the evening of the same day the prime minister of the Netherlands together with the leaders of the democratic parties in parliament and pastor Tüski protested in the Dutch Radio against the Soviet aggression in Hungary. - In the tragedy of Hungary the Dutch people recognized its own tragedy and its own fate during the War between 1940 and 1945 when it was overrun by Germany. - A few days later the Dutch trade unions organized here on the Dam in front of the Liberation Monument a great protest-meeting against the attack on Hungary. The meeting started with the Hungarian national anthem, the Himnusz, the Hungarian Wilhelmus, sung by a group of Hungarians in this very church. - Dutch athletes refused to participate in the Olympic Games in Australia, because they did not want to meet Soviet athletes as if nothing had happened in Hungary. - The Hungarian Revolution was a moment of truth for everybody. Communist political movements in Western Europe collapsed, when a small nation revolted against the greatest military and political power on the continent. The whole nation with an official, democratic coalition-government, fought with weapons in hand against the Soviet oppressors. They were the only people behind the Iron Curtain in 'Eastern Europe', who shot back, fighting with guns and Molotov-cocktails against the Soviet army. They defended, in the tradition of Hungarian history, general human moral values to be realized in liberty.
After the Revolution in 1956 the refugees arrived in this country. Her Majesty Queen Juliana welcomed them in a radio-speech. This is the moment to draw the attention to the fact, that members of the former Dutch Resistance Movement in the Second World War played an important role in the organization of the welcome to and the integration of the Hungarian refugees in this country. In this respect I mention here in Amsterdam, with warm feelings and thanks, the name of Gijsbert van Hall, burgomaster of this city - one of the leading persons in the Resistence Movement - who played a key-role in the activities. These are paramount details of the history of those days.
On the 4th of May of each year at 8 o'clock in the evening in the Netherlands street lamps are switched on and everybody stands still in silence for two minutes in order to commemorate the victims of the War. The Dutch people did the same only once for the victims of another nation: in november 1956 for the Hungarians. - Queen Juliana accepted in Utrecht in the Juliana Hall a revolutionary flag from the refugees, which was used as such in Budapest in the fights against the Russian army. The flag is kept in the Royal House-Archives in The Hague. Nowhere else in the world is a flag of the Hungarian Revolution kept at such a place among the relics of the nation, as is the case in this country.
Here we express our deepest gratitude to the government and the people of the Netherlands because this country 45 years ago granted a new home and new chances for many Hungarians. They are now well integrated members of Dutch society on all levels - without having forgotten their roots - because they have the same basic values, the same religious and cultural background as their Dutch brethren and compatriots. They contribute to the traditional unity in pluriformity of Dutch society.
Your Excellencies,
we thank you again for the decorations received by us today.
Text of an acceptance-speech by Miklós
I. Tóth delivered on the 22nd May 2001 in the New Church in Amsterdam
on the occasion of the commemoration of the 325th anniversary of the liberation
of 26 Hungarian protestant ministers, sentenced to forced labour on the
galleys because of their faith, in 1676 in Naples by Admiral Michiel de
Ruyter of the Netherlands, whose tomb is in the New Church in Amsterdam.
During the ceremony five Dutch citizens received Hungarian state-decorations.
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"The Brothers St. Brendans Rugby League Football Club is a great place to come and learn to play the game of rugby league as well as making good friends at the same time.
The club has fantastic structures in place to make sure their members not only learn the skills of rugby league but that they also learn numerous life skills which still stand them in good stead.
During this time the club has come up with some fantastic ideas and innovative plans to ensure the strength of the club continues long in to the future.
One of the main areas the club was looking to improve on was the way in which it was currently communicating with its players, members, supporters and sponsors.
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After conducting a review of all the options available to them the club is pleased to announce the release of their first ever native mobile phone app for Android.
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To make sure you stay in touch with absolutely everything to do with the club, download the app now!
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UFO Sighting in Powell, Wyoming on 2017-12-09 20:30:00 - Saw 10 to 15 red lights blinking but not off and on in a straight line moving
I was stand on porch at 8:30 pm on 12/9/17. i saw 10 to 15 red lights in a straight line. i thought maybe planes or coppers or ufo's. first time i saw that many but not my first, the first time was in 1965 ann arbor mi. again in 1971 same place. they flew out of sight.
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