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Hitting two birds with a stone..?Yup,that's exactly what I did today.I've been wanting to make something very badly since so many days,but kept postponing it.But when I saw this month's AFAM was Cherry…I just couldn't stop myself from making it.My joy knew no bounds when I saw the Update that candied-sugar syrup cherries were also allowed..;-).I couldn't be more happy!!
The first time I came across this was during our last supermarket trip.Nilgiris does have a great array of baked stuff.I came across this cute little packet with white biscuits with a cherry dot in the middle.I was about to pop it inside our basket and then…guess what?Hubby asked me why I am buying stuff which I can easily make at home myself!!OMG…I totally forgot about the packet and kept smiling to myself.I got an indirect compliment from hubby and that is definitely something to cheer about.I bought a packet of cherry instead.Planned to make it at the next available opportunity.But as usual,it got postponed and then I totally forgot about it.
Today morning when I saw the AFAM announcement,I knew this was the time.Took the plunge and made it…it came out delicious.I followed this recipe and placed a cherry on top.Even though it tasted great,this is not how I wanted the results to be like exactly.I wanted petite biscuits which we could pop in the mouth at one go.But my biscuits started expanding…and became cookies!!So if anyone can give me tips on 'how to make cherry cookies/biscuits..?Please advice'.
Recipe Marathon - Day 3
Cherry Biscuits/Cookies
Ingredients (makes approximately 25 cookies)
Maida - 1 cup
Cornflour – ½ cup
Icing Sugar – ¾ cup
Butter – ¾ cup(in room temperature)
Vanilla essence - 1 tsp
Preheat oven to 150*C.
Sift together maida,cornflour and icing sugar.
Cream the butter with a fork and add the vanilla.
Mix the flour mix to the butter mix 1 tbsp at a time.
Mix well,add 1 tbsp milk if the mix is too dry.
Make small balls of the mix and flatten a bit.
Make a small indent with your thumb and place one whole cherry in the middle. Place on a greased baking tray and bake for 20 minutes or till golden brown.
Sending this to AFAM-Cherry,hosted by Rachel of Tangerine's Kitchen,an event originally started by Maheshwari.
Have you checked out what my fellow marathoners have been upto today?
2) Siri
3) Srivalli
4) Ranji
6)Curry Leaf
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1My child, do not mock the life of the poor;
do not keep needy eyes* waiting.a
2Do not grieve the hungry,
nor anger the needy.
3Do not aggravate a heart already angry,
nor delay giving to the needy.
4A beggar's request do not reject;
do not turn your face away from the poor.
5From the needy do not turn your eyes;
do not give them reason to curse you.
6If in their pain they cry out bitterly,
their Rock will hear the sound of their cry.
Social Conduct
7Endear yourself to the assembly;
before the city's ruler bow your head.
8Give a hearing to the poor,
and return their greeting with deference;
9Deliver the oppressed from their oppressors;b
right judgment should not be repugnant to you.
10Be like a father to orphans,
and take the place of a husband to widows.
Then God will call you his child,
and he will be merciful to you and deliver you from the pit.
The Rewards of Wisdom*
11Wisdom teaches her children
and admonishes all who can understand her.
12Those who love her love life;
those who seek her out win the LORD's favor.
13Those who hold her fast will attain glory,
and they shall abide in the blessing of the LORD.
14Those who serve her serve the Holy One;
those who love her the Lord loves.c
15"Whoever obeys me will judge nations;
whoever listens to me will dwell in my inmost chambers.
16If they remain faithful, they will possess me;
their descendants too will inherit me.
17"I will walk with them in disguise,
and at first I will test them with trials.
Fear and dread I will bring upon them
and I will discipline them with my constraints.
When their hearts are fully with me,
18then I will set them again on the straight path
and reveal my secrets to them.
19But if they turn away from me, I will abandon them
and deliver them over to robbers."
Sincerity and Justice*
20My son, watch for the right time; fear what is evil;
do not bring shame upon yourself.
21There is a shame heavy with guilt,
and a shame that brings glory and respect.
22Show no favoritism to your own discredit;
let no one intimidate you to your own downfall.
23Do not refrain from speaking at the proper time,
and do not hide your wisdom;
24For wisdom becomes known through speech,
and knowledge through the tongue's response.
25Never speak against the truth,
but of your own ignorance be ashamed.
26Do not be ashamed to acknowledge your sins,
and do not struggle against a rushing stream.
27Do not abase yourself before a fool;
do not refuse to do so before rulers.
28Even to the death, fight for what is right,
and the LORD will do battle for you.
29Do not be haughty in your speech,
or lazy and slack in your deeds.
30Do not be like a lion at home,
or sly and suspicious with your servants.
31Do not let your hand be open to receive,
but clenched when it is time to give.
* [4:1] Needy eyes: when the poor look for help; cf. 18:18.
* [4:11–19] The Hebrew text in vv. 15–19 presents wisdom speaking in the first person, as in chap. 24. The precious fruits of wisdom—life, favor, glory, blessings, God's love—arouse desire for her (vv. 11–14). Her disciples are like ministers (v. 14) and judges (v. 15), whose descendants have her for their heritage (v. 16). They enjoy happiness and learn her secrets after surviving her tests (vv. 17–18). Those who fail her are abandoned to destruction (v. 19).
* [4:20–31] The student of wisdom is warned about interior trials of discipline and external dangers to sincerity and justice, namely evil, human respect (vv. 20–22), compromise of liberty in speech and action (vv. 23–25), false shame (v. 26). The student must fight for the truth (vv. 25, 28), avoiding cynicism and laziness (v. 29), and inconsistency (v. 30).
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Salt Lake City, Park City, Utah and Evo 11…Pictures & Thoughts
Evo 11 is … staying hydrated as much as possible. Altitude. Talking. Sun. More talking. More sun. More slushies. Beware though. Two straws in your watermelon slushie means "a little boozy". Just so we are clear. And boy, the thirst-o-meter was working overtime.
Salt Lake City is…arriving a couple of days early and teach an all day workshop hosted at The Market Street Grill and organized by Heidi of Foodie Crush.
Meeting people for the first time and others whose blog I have been following for years. Being able to pass on anything and everything I can think of that might help. Guiding.
Workshop is…taking my job seriously. My words. The impact of what we do as photographers, stylist, bloggers. Without taking myself too seriously.
Workshop is...the remarkable amount of care and dedication from everyone on staff at Market Street Grill to provide the attendees with the tools and time to have a memorable experience. And the food…gosh the food…
Workshop is…It's finding out what people wish to do and helping them reach those goals. It's listening and practicing along with them.
Workshop is…discovering new ways to style and shoot. Always being open, aware and happily surprised. The way the chef plated this cake makes it so creative and fun to shoot and yet, I would have never thought of it. Happy discovery…!
Evo 11 is…Rachael and Jyl. The two powerhouses who founded Evo. Gracious of their talent. Generous of their skills. Beautiful in their friendships to others. Kind. Immensely patient. They make Evo my favorite conference to attend. Not kidding.
Evo 11 is… taking a deep breath and rooming with complete strangers and leaving with two wonderful friends. I had the chance to share a room with Sarah from season 11 of The Biggest Loser and Heather from one of my favorite blogs, Whipper Berry.
Evo 11 is …bumping into Evo 10 roomate Kami from No Biggie (far right) and to get one of her special hugs.
Evo 11 is… meeting up with gorgeous Helen Jane and catching up, laughing, hugging and brainstorming posts ideas, life tips and just giving her some plenty of support during her Ignite talk.
Evo 11 is… having the chance one more time to be inspired by super fantastic women, entrepreneurs. Makers like Alli and Barbara. I always feel recharged and refueled after a conversation with them.
Evo 11 is ...not only about the women ya'll. There were men too. Married. Single. Fathers. Brothers. Husbands. And awesome…!
Evo 11 is …meeting rockstars. Women who can rock tattoos and purple hair. Give warm and energizing hugs. And take awesome pictures. Cecily…you're badass. Don't change it.
Evo 11 is…sitting next to someone such as Jenny who can cry as much as I can during Me Ra Koh closing keynote and smile as much as I do when hanging out with super talented photographer, web designer and dear friend Aimee.
Evo 11 is... when friends like Carina create magical human beings between Evo 10 and Evo 11.
Evo 11 is.. about letting your inner child let loose. Blowing bubbles and watching them fly away. It's about letting go of your inhibitions and discovering other facets of yourself.
Evo 11…is being able to teach a food photography and styling workshop in one of the most serene and gorgeous locations I have taught. Lookout Cabin. All the way up the mountain…
That workshop was a team effort between Chef Murcko, his staff, Caitleen of The Canyons Resort and yours truly to make sure that all attendees had not only a good time but also walked away with more knowledge to share with others.
Evo 11 is … filling up your glass with….don't expect something lyrical here. No seriously. Evo is about quenching that thirst. Mountain air…
Ok, so Evo is also about filling your metaphorical glass with inspirational ideas coming at you from all directions.
Just because I can…having lunch there was pretty darn special.
See…they do fill up glasses there. Orange Bubble Fitzer. No alcohol. None needed with the altitude…!
And just when you think awesome has reached a new level of delicious, you discover the dessert table. And my jaws dropped. And my toes curl. Vanilla Panna Cotta with Strawberries and Basil Chiffonade. Yep.
Evo 11 is… about letting loose. There is no distinction of any kind on a dance floor. We all look a bit weirder than we did five minutes ago. And it's fantastic. No one cares about what blogs you read, which one you write and what's the latest app downloaded. Unplugging and letting loose.
Salt Lake City is...having a dear and long time blog friend, Kalyn, gather a few people one Sunday evening for a little potluck.
It's about feeling as much at home as I do when I am the one gathering my buds around a glass of wine and salad.
It's wishing we were all a tad bit closer. Geographically.
Salt Lake City is…those two. Soon to be three. They are like family to us. There are no words to describe how proud I am of them and what they accomplish.
Thank you to everyone who made the workshops in Salt Lake City and Park City possible. Thank you to everyone who came and asked questions both in SLC and during Evo. Thank you to everyone who gave me a hug, a smile, or a drink.
A special thank you Kristen for being so wonderfully and gently in my life.
Hope everyone had a wonderful weekend! I have been cooking and baking up a storm for work and home and can't wait to share with you this week!


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Another one got caught today, it's all over the papers. "Teenager Arrested in Computer Crime Scandal", "Hacker Arrested after Bank Tampering"... Damn kids. They're all alike. But did you, in your three-piece psychology and 1950's technobrain, ever take a look behind the eyes of the hacker? Did you ever wonder what made him tick, what forces shaped him, what may have molded him? I am a hacker, enter my world... Mine is a world that begins with school... I'm smarter than most of the other kids, this crap they teach us bores me... Damn underachiever. They're all alike. I'm in junior high or high school. I've listened to teachers explain for the fifteenth time how to reduce a fraction. I understand it. "No, Ms. Smith, I didn't show my work. I did it in my head..." Damn kid. Probably copied it. They're all alike. I made a discovery today. I found a computer. Wait a second, this is cool. It does what I want it to. If it makes a mistake, it's because I screwed it up. Not because it doesn't like me... Or feels threatened by me... Or thinks I'm a smart ass... Or doesn't like teaching and shouldn't be here... Damn kid. All he does is play games. They're all alike. And then it happened... a door opened to a world... rushing through the phone line like heroin through an addict's veins, an electronic pulse is sent out, a refuge from the day-to-day incompetencies is sought... a board is found. "This is it... this is where I belong..." I know everyone here... even if I've never met them, never talked to them, may never hear from them again... I know you all... Damn kid. Tying up the phone line again. They're all alike...
You bet your ass we're all alike... we've been spoon-fed baby food at school when we hungered for steak... the bits of meat that you did let slip through were pre-chewed and tasteless. We've been dominated by sadists, or ignored by the apathetic. The few that had something to teach found us will- ing pupils, but those few are like drops of water in the desert. This is our world now... the world of the electron and the switch, the beauty of the baud. We make use of a service already existing without paying for what could be dirt-cheap if it wasn't run by profiteering gluttons, and you call us criminals. We explore... and you call us criminals. We seek after knowledge... and you call us criminals. We exist without skin color, without nationality, without religious bias... and you call us criminals. You build atomic bombs, you wage wars, you murder, cheat, and lie to us and try to make us believe it's for our own good, yet we're the criminals. Yes, I am a criminal. My crime is that of curiosity. My crime is that of judging people by what they say and think, not what they look like. My crime is that of outsmarting you, something that you will never forgive me for. I am a hacker, and this is my manifesto. You may stop this individual, but you can't stop us all... after all, we're all alike.
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WORTHINGTON, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio man says he was trying to set a good example for his children when he turned in $14,000 he found on the side of the road.
WBNS-TV reports Jake Bowers found the money April 8 as he drove his family to a park in Worthington, a Columbus suburb.
Bowers said when he initially saw the bag on the roadside, he thought it might contain someone's laptop. Instead, it was filled with $100 bills.
Bowers took the bag to the Worthington police station, and it was returned to its owner.
A police report says the owner had taken the cash to a car dealer but left without buying a vehicle. He told police he must have left it on top of his car and driven off.


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The CBC continues to operate in a wasteful, bias manner serving the socialist left wing mandate only while continuing to lose viewers and advertising revenues. Scandals continue. An unsettling, ugly anti Semitic movement has grown in the CBC News operation, history experts will know that this troubling bias can have devastating results for our country. Act now- contact your MP, the PMO and the CBC to stop this frightening socialist anti Semitic driven bias now.
Disgruntled CBC workers continue to confidentially share their stories with us, reports of management snooping, waste, huge salaries for select senior management, content bias, low employee morale continue in 2021 and we will expose these activities in our blog while protecting our whistleblower contacts. We take joy in knowing that the CBC-HQ visits us daily to spy on us, read our stories and to find out who owns our for the Canadian people blog.
One of our most popular posts continues to be the epic Dr. Leenen case against the Fifth Estate (the largest libel legal case ever awarded against the media in Canadian history) yet where no one at CBC was fired and taxpayers paid the huge award and legal costs for this blatant CBC Libel action. Writers and filmmakers -this is a Perfect story for an award winning Documentary -ok - who would fund it and where would it air since the CBC owns the Documentary channel! Can you help? Please contact us.
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The CBC network's ratings continue to plummet while their costs and our taxpayer bailout subsidies continue to go up! In 2021 what case can be made for the Government to be in the broadcasting business, competing unfairly with the private sector? The CBC receives advertising and cable/satellite fees-fees greater than CTV and Global but this is not enough for the greedy CBC who also receive more than a billion dollars of your tax money every year. That's about $100,000,000 (yes, $100 MILLION) of our taxes taken from your pay cheques every 30 days and with no CBC accountability to taxpayers.
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Exploring God's sovereignty
Key of "23"
Prob. Analysis of 23×2
Prob. Analysis of 230×2
Sumerian King List
4900 yrs
7/13 Redemptive Thread
70 jub to 2017 solar eclipse
Pt 2 of 70 jub to 2017 eclipse & Mecca
Pt 3: 2027 & 2034 Egypt, Mecca, Medina Solar Eclipse
Daniel's 490 ("70 weeks") in mirror
"The Year from Hell" 536 AD
Woe! Sign of Two Witnesses of Rev.
70 jub to 2024 eclipse
Hur Harvey (Bill, Hillary, Don)
Bible Fractal Rod & Eagle: (Hur. Irma)
Hurr. Harvey/Irma form serpent
Hurri. Mary/Joseph
Vast ages in Bible (Tetrads)
Sumerian King List
Part 1. Mene Tekel – gods judged!
'Parade of planets' at Christ's ascension
"Shmita" -One new Man-
7-yr Sabbath cycles
"62 weeks" of Dan. 9 & 1948
Daniel's "70 weeks" in mirror
Jesus our Sabbath
Ezekiel Code of conception
Ezekiel Code unto 1948 & 1967
Webb Telescope: 7x more "light"
Timeline-charts from Creation
Life of Abraham structured like Menorah
Mystery of "17" in Bible
364-days cal. of Enoch
Bk of Enoch Fractal
2. Is Book of Enoch Inspired?
River of Time flows backward. (Waterfall of Raphael)
Video: "Morning Star" grazes rebel-star "Atlas"
Video: Sign of Comet Atlas, "Chief of Titans"
Hurr. Michael
Hur. Fiona & Ian on Tabernacles
California Fires (Paradise)
Fires of California/Lebanon: "No more delay"
3. Enoch's 7 cycles of 490
"364-day" Dead Sea Scroll opened
490 days to Hurricane Michael & Paradise Fire
Prophecy in Charts: Jesus is our Sabbath Rest
4. 364-day Enoch-cal.
Part Two: How lunar calendars work
Alternative intercalations of 364-day cal.
5a. Enoch Cal. & π
Hurricane Dorian, the Eye of Pi & Sun/Moon
Typhoon "Northern Crown" & New Zealand Volcano
49th New York Marathon — We win!
5b. Mystery of "the Sq-root"
Sign of 2019 Christmas Eclipse (from Jerusalem)
"The Down Under" is on fire (Australia)
Why delay in posting
363-day Palendromic Calendar of Angels & Sumerian Kings List
Enoch Cal. & Feast of Tabernacles
Pt.1. Wings-of-an-eagle fractal & Typhoon "Eagle"
Cocoon/Moth Fractal = death & resurrection
Daniel's 490 ("70 weeks") in mirror
Early Bible Fractals
Fractal, Prophetic Map, Enoch/Angels
Christobrot Fractal: Lamb on Throne
Christobrot Fractal. We begin at the altar
California Quakes
a. The Vision of Jesus Christ (& Sign of Trump)
b. The Vision of Jesus Christ: The Lamb
Miraculous Bible fractals?
Woman, Dragon & Mystery Babylon
Names Code
Each name explained
Palindrome Prophecy about AI
Gematria of Palindrome 4 AI
Cain's Seed Parallel to Godly Seed Forms Flag-Israel
1st sign (1 of 14). Evil star beneath "Seven Sisters"
2nd sign: ANAK' Krakatoa: The 'GIANT' kills 400
3rd Sign: Osiris, Bennu and Bush. AND, China in deepest pit
4th sign: Locust Invasion of Mecca
5A. Meteorite hits moon exact minute of 2019 eclipse
Trump Super Blood Wolf Moon Eclipse
5B. New York's Tower of Babel lit bloody-pink to defy God
6. Dam bursts in Minas Gerais, Brazil
7. Rare powerful F4 tornado strikes capital of Cuba 7 days after eclipse
8. Meteor strikes Cuba at mountain-mural of dragons & giants
9. North Magnetic Pole anomaly adjusted 19th anniversary of Tekel Code
10- Signs" occurred per number Babylon assigned to each god!
11- RCC, Persia, Turkey, & the 52 Russian bears
12- Resurrection! Mountain clothed with butterflies
13A. Star of Isis darkened, serpent ascends
13B. Isis, Brightest Star in Night Sky, Goes Dark
13C/D. Ishtar (Venus) gored by her own horns
Easter bombings at Sri Lanka: "A red horse"
Norte Dame Fire ("Our Lady" and the Queen of Heaven)
13E. Rise and fall of the Dung god
14. Bible, Israel go to Moon & Dragon's Palace
Update: Final 7 days around Moon/Jericho by Israel
Like a falling star, Israel crashed on Moon, but HOPE at "13350 meters"
15. "Prince of the power of the air" includes moon
16. Severe tornado topples Tower of Salem (23 die)
17. Trump recognizes Golan Heights, which includes Mt Hermon
18. Drill for water in Antarctica, but find serpent instead
19. "Until 70 generations in the valleys of Earth" (Enoch 10:12)
21A. Code predicted deaths of Yitzchak Kaduri, Sharon, Saddam & Bush
21B. Part B of Yitzchak Kaduri, Sharon, Saddam and Bush
22. Drought ends after 1260+1260dys in California, & Israel, Iran
23. Norte Dame Fire ("Our Lady" and the Queen of Heaven)
24. Easter bombings at Sri Lanka: "A red horse"
25. Cyclone Fani sits on his chariot and a cobra on the loose
26. Mystery Mountain rising beneath the sea
27. Record stretch of tornadoes ("and an earthquake"): Update
Jefferson City tornado outbreak: A sign
28. Day-of-Atonement Comet is a sword/sickle in Virgo's hand
Two solar eclipses across USA intersect
Why 2019 Total Solar Eclipse forms dome over Antarctica
Sign of 2019 Christmas Ring of Fire (that began in Jerusalem)
Powerful 7.5 Magnitude Quake Hits Papua New Guinea
Why the Star Trek logo was found on Mars
Wolf Comet and Scepter of Jacob
Sign of comet/sword slaying multitudes
Mercury: Sign of Armageddon, (Isis prophecy fulfilled AGAIN)
Angry dragon descends from a dome-shaped heavens
Sign of 2019 Christmas Ring of Fire (that began in Jerusalem)
Why "Down Under" is on fire (Australia)
Put on the Armour of Light, (fires in Australia)
Prince of Persia (Iran) is fallen
Corona-virus & Doomsday Clock set to 100 seconds to MD
02/02/2020: Rare 'palindrome day' (& financial quake)
Dow and TSX enter Bear Market as predicted by Prophetic Picture
Notre-Dame Fire and the Double-Slit experiment
Real reason Olympics cancelled. Jesus won the contest. He wears the crown
House passes 2.2 trillion Relief Bill — exactly "seventy weeks" after prophetic post
Why "2.3 Trillion Fed Bailout"
A pale horse
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Part 3. Mene Tekel Upharsin: The gods are judged!
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(Pt. 1) Donald Trump's Weather Disasters
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Storm "ALPHA" forms at "BEGINNING" of Jewish New Year (& Supreme Ct. Judge dies)
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Trump's trick or tweet on Halloween
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Miss Brooks has a rival for the attentions of that handsome specimen: Miss Daisy Enright (Mary Jane Croft). She's a good cook, a master of the thinly-veiled insult, and every bit as competent and ruthless as Connie!
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RUSTY COFFIN NAILS are used in spells of malice. To cause someone to get away, to sicken, or to die, folks make a bottle-spell in which they put the enemy's name written 9 times on a piece of paper; the enemy's hair, urine, or a piece of their underwear; 9 COFFIN NAILS; 9 pins; and 9 needles. They fill the bottle with Hot Foot Powder, Crossing Powder, Black Arts Powder, Goofer Dust and/or Graveyard Dirt, and bury it at the enemy's doorstep. A similar bottle-spell to make a couple break up contains each person's name written 9 times (on 2 separate pieces of paper); intimate articles from each; 9 COFFIN NAILS; 9 pins; 9 needles; hairs from a black dog and a black cat. (so they will quarrel); and one or more of the above-named powders. We offer no claims for COFFIN NAILS but sell as a Curio only. |
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The interview process helps our practice determine the extent of your hearing impairment and aids us in uncovering any specific areas requiring further attention. Some typical questions you'll want to prepare for are:
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Next we'll need to figure out the nature of your hearing loss. There's a chance we will include hearing tests such as the following:
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- A speech assessment to measure how well you hear and understand ordinary conversation at different volumes
- A middle-ear evaluation to measure how your eardrum and hearing react to varying degrees of air pressure
If you are suffering from a hearing impairment, your results will be documented on an audiogram. An audiogram is created after you take a pure-tone hearing test, to map out the type, degree, and configuration of your hearing loss. The audiogram shows your hearing loss by frequency, as pitch and loudness of sounds change. Frequencies are measured in hertz (Hz), and the loudness or intensity is measured in decibels (dB). We will help determine whether you have trouble hearing low or high pitches and what that means for you moving forward.
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In past years, conservatives have used the phrase "war on Christmas" to liberally accuse liberals of trying to ruin the holiday through political correctness and anti-religiousness.
This year, it's the Obama White House warning that Republicans are a threat to Christmas or, more precisely, the part of the economy that relies on the holiday shopping season — retail sales.
Against the backdrop of negotiations between White House and congressional aides aimed at avoiding the dreaded fiscal cliff, President Obama's economic team warned Congress on Monday that failure to reach a deal could significantly hurt not just future economic growth but Christmas itself.
If Dr. Seuss had been an economist, he would've been hard-pressed to conjure up a more sobering picture of what might happen without an agreement than did Obama's economic advisers. Do not be the Grinch who steals Christmas, the report by Obama's economists warned congressional Republicans.
From a section of the report under the headline: "The Holiday Season is No Time to Threaten Middle-Class Pocketbooks":
"Consumer confidence over the next several weeks is particularly important: the National Retail Federation is forecasting that holiday sales will grow 4.1 percent this year to $586.1 billion. Last year, Americans spent around $50 billion on Black Friday weekend alone.
"If Congress does not act on the President's plan to extend tax cuts for the middle-class, it will be risking one of the key contributors to growth and jobs in our economy at the most important time of the year for retail stores."
The report cited considerable economic data meant to buttress the White House argument about economic harm that would be caused by federal income tax increases and spending cuts that will take effect next year if a deal isn't reached.
With consumers representing about 70 percent of economic activity, a Washington fiscal standoff that spooked them into parting with less of their money could do real economic harm, the report said.
If the tax hikes and spending cuts are allowed to take effect next year, consumer spending could fall by about $200 billion, or 1.7 percentage points, in 2013. That, in turn, could reduce the nation's gross domestic product by 1.4 points, the report said.
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"This reduction of $200 billion is approximately four times larger than the total amount that 226 million shoppers spent on Black Friday weekend last year, or roughly the amount American families spent on all the new cars and trucks sold in the U.S. in the last year."
One disagreement going into the negotiations is whether marginal tax rates on the wealthiest would be allowed to rise, perhaps to 39.6 percent from 35 percent. Obama campaigned on higher taxes for couples making more than $250,000. Congressional Republicans oppose higher rates on the wealthiest.
Some conservatives saw the report as a transparent attempt to use the holidays' emotional power to pressure Republican lawmakers into making a deal.
A headline in the conservative Daily Caller pointed to by conservatives on Twitter captured that perspective: "Disagreeing with Obama can ruin Christmas, says White House report."
If anyone was threatening the economy during the holidays and beyond with a possible recession, conservatives said, it was those liberals who have taken the stance that allowing the fiscal cliff to occur would be good. Taxes would go up on everyone, including taxpayers with the highest incomes. That would raise needed revenue and also increase the pressure on Republicans to renew middle-class tax cuts without extending further cuts to the wealthiest.
Of those who have argued that the failure to reach agreement wouldn't be so bad, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said Monday during a Senate floor speech:
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Meanwhile, the National Retail Federation, whose political action committee in 2012 made 75 percent of its political contributions to Republicans, according to OpenSecrets.org, issued a response to the White House report.
While the NRF said it found it "encouraging" that the administration understood the pain retailers and consumers would face if across-the-board tax hikes and spending cuts happen, its call to "reform the tax code, fundamentally and structurally address federal spending and reduce the nation's deficit" echoed the stance of congressional Republicans.
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What killed the Monitor Group, the consulting firm co-founded by the legendary business guru, Michael Porter? In November 2012, Monitor was unable to pay its bills and was forced to file for bankruptcy protection. Why didn't the highly paid consultants of Monitor use Porter's famous five-force analysis to save themselves?
What went wrong?
Was Monitor's demise something that happened unexpectedly like a bolt from the blue? Well, not exactly. The death spiral has been going on for some time. In 2008, Monitor's consulting work slowed dramatically during the financial crisis. In 2009, the firm's partners had to advance $4.5 million to the company and pass on $20 million in bonuses. Then Monitor borrowed a further $51 million from private equity firm, Caltius Capital Management. Beginning in September 2012, the company was unable to pay monthly rent on its Cambridge, Mass., headquarters. In November 2012, Monitor also missed an interest payment to Caltius, putting the notes in default and driving the firm into bankruptcy.
Was it negligence, like the cobbler who forgot to repair his own children's shoes? Had Monitor tried to implement Porter's strategy and executed it poorly? Or had Monitor implemented Porter's strategy well but the strategy didn't work? If not, why not?
Was it missteps, such as chasing consulting revenue from the likes of the Gaddafi regime in Libya? Or had the world changed and Monitor didn't adjust? Or was it, as others suggested, that Monitor had priced itself out of the market? Or was Monitor's bankruptcy, as some apologists claimed, merely a clever way of selling its assets to Deloitte?
Or was it, as Peter Gorski wrote, that "even a blindfolded chimpanzee throwing darts at the Five Porter Forces framework can select a business strategy that performs as well as that prescribed by Dr. Porter and other high-paid strategy consultants?" If so, are other strategy consulting firms also doomed?
A very strange tale
The answers to these intriguing questions are strange and troubling. We can find some of them in the work of consulting insider, Matthew Stewart, and his enlightening, but misleadingly-titled, book, The Management Myth (Norton, 2009).
In his book, Stewart tells how in 1969, when Michael Porter graduated from Harvard Business School and crossed the Charles River to get a doctorate in Harvard's Department of Economics, he learned that "excess profits were real and persistent" in some companies and industries, because of barriers to competition. To the public-spirited economists, the excess profits of these comfortable low-competition situations were a problem to be solved.
Porter saw that what was a problem for the economists was, from a certain business perspective, a solution to be enthusiastically pursued. It was even a silver bullet. An El Dorado of unending above-average profits? That was exactly what executives were looking for—a veritable shortcut to fat city!
Why go through the hassle of actually designing and making better products and services, and offering steadily more value to customers and society, when the firm could simply position its business so that structural barriers ensured endless above-average profits?
Why not call this trick "the discipline of strategy"? Why not announce that a company occupying a position within a sector that is well protected by structural barriers would have a "sustainable competitive advantage"?
Why not proclaim that finding these El Dorados of unending excess profits would follow, as day follows night, by having highly paid strategy analysts doing large amounts of rigorous analysis? Which CEO would not want to know how to reliably generate endless excess profits? Why not set up consulting a firm that could satisfy that want?
The Aristotle of business metaphysics
Thus it was that in March/April 1979, Michael Porter published his findings in Harvard Business Review in an article entitled "How Competitive Forces Shape Strategy" and followed it up the next year with a a very long book. The writings started a revolution in the strategy field. Michael Porter became to the new discipline of strategy "what Aristotle was to metaphysics".
Better still, the new-born discipline of strategy was able to present itself as "the discipline that synthesizes all of the other functional sub-disciplines of management into a meaningful whole. It defines the purpose of management and of management education."
In 1983, Porter co-founded his consulting company, the Monitor Group, that over the years generated hundreds of millions of dollars in fees from corporate clients (as well as from clients in the nonprofit sector), and also providing rich livelihoods for other large consulting firms, like McKinsey, Bain and BCG.
"Among academics," writes Joan Magretta in Understanding Michael Porter, "he is the most cited scholar in economics and business. At the same time, his ideas are the most widely used in practice by business and government leaders around the world. His frameworks have become the foundation of the strategy field."
No basis in fact or logic
There was just one snag. What was the intellectual basis of this now vast enterprise of locating sustainable competitive advantage? As Stewart notes, it was "lacking any foundation in fact or logic." Except where generated by government regulation, sustainable competitive advantage simply doesn't exist.
Porter might have pursued sustainable business models. Or he might have pursued ways to achieve above-average profits. But sustainable above-average profits that can be deduced from the structure of the sector? Here we are in the realm of unicorns and phlogiston. Ironically, like the search for the Holy Grail, the fact that the goal is so mysterious and elusive ironically drove executives onward to continue the quest.
Hype, spin, impenetrable prose and abstruse mathematics, along with talk of "rigorous analysis", "tough-minded decisions" and "hard choices" all combined to hide the fact that there was no evidence that sustainable competitive advantage could be created in advance by studying the structure of an industry.
Although Porter's conceptual framework could "help explain excess profits in retrospect, it was almost useless in predicting them in prospect." As Stewart points out, "The strategists' theories are 100 percent accurate in hindsight. Yet, when casting their theories into the future, the strategists as a group perform abysmally. Although Porter himself wisely avoids forecasting, those who wish to avail themselves of his framework do not have the luxury of doing so. The point is not that the strategists lack clairvoyance; it's that their theories aren't really theories— they are 'just-so' stories whose only real contribution is to make sense of the past, not to predict the future."
The goal of strategy is to avoid competition?
How did all this happen? Porter began his publishing career in his March-April 1979 Harvard Business Review article, "How Competitive Forces Shape Strategy", with a very strange sentence: "The essence of strategy is coping with competition." Ignoring Peter Drucker's foundational insight of 1973 that the only valid purpose of a business is to create a customer, Porter focused strategy on how to protect businesses from other business rivals. The goal of strategy, business and business education was to find a safe haven for businesses from the destructive forces of competition.
By defining strategy as a matter of defeating the competition, Porter envisaged business as a zero-sum game. As he says in his 1979 HBR article, "The state of competition in an industry depends on five basic forces… The collective strength of these forces determines the ultimate profit potential of an industry." For Porter, the ultimate profit potential of an industry is a finite fixed amount: the only question is who is going to get which share of it.
Sound business is however "unlike warfare or sports in that one company's success does not require its rivals to fail. Unlike competition in sports, every company can choose to invent its own game." As Joan Magretta points out, "a better analogy than war or sports is the performing arts. There can be many good singers or actors—each outstanding and successful in a distinctive way. Each finds and creates an audience. The more good performers there are, the more audiences grow and the arts flourish."
What's gone wrong here was Porter's initial thought. The purpose of strategy—or business or business education—is not about coping with competition--i.e. a contest in which a winner is selected from among rivals. The purpose of business is to add value for customers and ultimately society. There is a straight line from this conceptual error at the outset of Porter's writing to the debacle of Monitor's bankruptcy. Monitor failed to add value to customers. Eventually customers realized this and stopped paying Monitor for its services. Ergo Monitor went bankrupt.
Making profits without deserving them
In the theoretical landscape that Porter invented, all strategy worthy of the name involves avoiding competition and seeking out above-average profits protected by structural barriers. Strategy is all about figuring out how to secure excess profits without having to make a better product or deliver a better service.
It is a way of making more money than the merits of the product or service would suggest, or what those plain folks uncharitable to the ways of 20th Century business might see as something akin to cheating. However for several decades, many companies were ready to set aside ethical or social concerns and pay large consulting fees trying to find the safe and highly profitable havens that Porter's theory promised.
Although Michael Porter, the human being, appears to be a well-meaning man of high personal integrity, his framework for the discipline of strategy "isn't just an epistemological black hole; in its essence, it's antisocial, because it preserves excess profits, and it's bad for business, because it doesn't work. It accomplishes the unlikely feat of goading business leaders to do wrong both to their shareholders and to their fellow human beings."
It is only recently that Porter's writing has begun to include any awareness that creating safe havens for businesses with unending above average profits protected by structural barriers is not good for customers and society, with his advocacy of shared value. This recognition has come, however, without yet jettisoning any of the toxic baggage of sustainable competitive advantage.
No competitive advantage is sustainable
The disastrous consequences of thinking that the purpose of strategy, business and business education is to defeat one's business rivals rather than add value to customers has of course been aggravated by the epic shift in the power of marketplace from the seller to the buyer. In the studies of the oligopolistic firms of the 1950s on which Porter founded his theory, it appeared that structural barriers to competition were widespread, impermeable and more or less permanent.
Over the following half century, the winds of globalization and the Internet blew away most of these barriers, leaving the customers in charge of the marketplace. Except for a few areas, like health and defense where government regulation offers some protection, there are no longer any safe havens for business. National barriers collapsed. Knowledge became a commodity. New technology fueled spectacular innovation. Entry into existing markets was alarmingly easy. New products and new entrants abruptly redefined industries.
The "profit potential of an industry" turned out to be, not a fixed quantity with the only question of determining who would get which share, but rather a highly elastic concept, expanding dramatically at one moment or collapsing abruptly at another, with competitors and innovations coming out of nowhere. As Clayton Christensen demonstrated in industry after industry, disruptive innovation destroyed company after company that believed in its own sustainable competitive advantage.
The only safe place
The business reality of today is that the only safe place against the raging innovation is to join it. Instead of seeing business—and strategy and business education—as a matter of figuring out how to defeat one's known rivals and protect oneself against competition through structural barriers, if a business is to survive, it must aim to add value to customers through continuous innovation and finding new ways of delighting its customers. Experimentation and innovation become an integral part of everything the organization does.
Firms like Apple [AAPL], Amazon [AMZN], Salesforce [CRM], Costco [COST], Whole Foods [WFM] and Zara [BMAD:ITX] are examples of prominent firms pursuing this approach. They have shifted the concept of the bottom line and the very purpose of the firm so that the whole organization focuses on delivering steadily more value to customers through innovation. Thus experimentation and innovation become an integral part of everything the company does. Companies with this mental model have shown a consistent ability to innovate and to disrupt their own businesses with innovation.
Thus what is striking about continuous innovation is that the approach is not only more innovative: it tends to make more money. The latter point is important to keep in mind. For all the hype about innovation, unless it ends up making more money for the firm, ultimately it isn't likely to flourish. Making money isn't the goal, but the result has to be there for sustainability.
Is continuous innovation sustainable? Firms like those I mentioned have been at it for one or more decades with extraordinary results. What's interesting is that they are consistently disrupting others, rather than being disrupted themselves. Will they survive for 50 or 100 years? Time will tell. What we do see is that they are doing a lot better than firms pursuing shareholder value or focusing merely on defeating rivals.
Monitor had no place in the emerging world
In this world, the value proposition of a supposed sustainable competitive advantage achieved by studying the numbers and the existing structure of the industry became increasingly implausible and irrelevant. Its consultants were not people with deep experience in understanding what customers might want or what is involved in actually making things or delivering services in particular industries or how to innovate and create new value.
They were part-time academics who promised to find business solutions just from studying the numbers. They had no idea how to build cars or make mobile phones or generate great software. They were numbers men looking for financial solutions to problems that required real-world answers.
The important question is not: why did Monitor go bankrupt? Rather, it is: how were they able to keep going with such an illusory product for so long? The answer is that Porter's claim of sustainable competitive advantage, based on industry structure and the numbers, had massive psychological attractions for top management.
The strategist CEO as a kind of warrior god
Porter's theory thus played to "the image of the CEO as a kind of superior being." As Stewart notes, "For all the strategy pioneers, strategy achieves its most perfect embodiment in the person at the top of management: the CEO. Embedded in strategic planning are the assumptions, first, that strategy is a decision-making sport involving the selection of markets and products; second, that the decisions are responsible for all of the value creation of a firm (or at least the "excess profits," in Porter's model); and, third, that the decider is the CEO. Strategy, says Porter, speaking for all the strategists, is thus 'the ultimate act of choice.' 'The chief strategist of an organization has to be the leader— the CEO."
Strategy leads to "the division of the world of management into two classes: "top management" and "middle management." Top management takes responsibility for "deciding on the mix of businesses a corporation ought to pursue and for judging the performance of business unit managers. Middle management is merely responsible for the execution of activities within specific lines of business."
The concept of strategy as it emerges "defines the function of top management and distinguishes it from that of its social inferiors. That which is done at the top of an organizational structure is strategic management. Everything else is the menial task of operational management."
Two classes of management
Practitioners of strategy "insist on this distinction between strategic management and lower-order operational management. Strategic (i.e. top) management is a complex, reflective, and cerebral activity that involves interpreting multidimensional matrices. Operational management, by contrast, requires merely the mechanical replication of market practices in order to match market returns. It is a form of action, suitable for capable but perhaps less intelligent types."
This picture of "CEO-superdeciders" helps justify their huge compensation and the congratulatory press coverage, and yet again, it also has little foundation in fact or logic. The strategy business thus lasted so long in part because it supports and advances the pretensions of the C-suite.
Porter's strategy theory "is to CEOs what ancient religions were to tribal chieftains. The ceremonies are ultimately about the divine right of the rulers to rule—a kind of covert form of political theory." Stewart cites Brian Quinn that it is "like a ritual rain dance. It has no effect on the weather that follows, but those who engage in it think that it does."
The future of strategy consulting
Does strategy consulting have a future? When rightly conceived as the art of thinking through how companies can add value to customers--and ultimately society--through continuous innovation, strategy consulting has a bright future. The market is vast because most large firms are still 20th Century hierarchical bureaucracies that are focused on "the dumbest idea in the world": shareholder value. They are very weak at innovation.
Consultancies that can guide large firms to move into the world of continuous innovation in the 21st Century have a bright future. To succeed in this field, however, consultants need to know something both about innovation and about the sectors in which they operate and the customers who populate them. Merely rejiggering the financials or flattering the CEO as the master strategist is not going to get the job done. Managers and consultants are going to have to get their hands dirty understanding what happens on the front lines where work gets done and where customers experience the firm's products and services. To prosper, everyone has to become both more creative and more down-to-earth.
What has no future is strategy conceived as defeating rivals by finding a sustainable comparative advantage simply through studying the structure of the industry and juggling the numbers.
Monitor was killed by the dominant force: the customer
Eventually even attractive illusions come to an end: people see through them. Ceremonial rain dances come to be viewed for what they are. The financial crisis of 2008 was a wake-up call that reminded even entrenched firms how vulnerable they were. Today, large firms have little interest in paying large fees to strategists to find sustainable competitive advantage just from studying the numbers.
Monitor eventually learned the hardest lesson of all: strategy, business and business education are not about pursuing the chimera of sustainable competitive advantage.
Monitor wasn't killed by any of the five forces of competitive rivalry. Ultimately what killed Monitor was the fact that its customers were no longer willing to buy what Monitor was selling. Monitor was crushed by the single dominant force in today's marketplace: the customer.
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