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The heart of a leader demands a love that will get involved in the struggles and messes that their followers face in life, a love that will confront out of a security drawn from knowing God and His purposes in our lives.
To accomplish the purpose of forming leaders, the leader former must have:
• a clear understanding of the nature of leadership
• a sound sense of self-awareness
• in-depth relationships
• the ability to confront
• the courage to take loving stands
• the willingness to be vulnerable
• the willingness to humble one's self
• clarity of vision
• an understanding of truth
• the willingness to risk rejection
• insight into the heart of others
• sensitivity as to how to respond to others
Leaders must understand what leadership is.
Leadership is the act of influencing/serving others out of Christ's interests in their lives so they accomplish God's purposes for and through them.
Influence comes from serving by
• modeling
• instructing
• exhorting
• evaluating
• confronting
• training
• releasing
Influence does not come by
• overpowering
• belittling
• manipulating
• threatening
• avoiding
• competing
• controlling
Serving is slave leadership—a radical commitment to Christ in every follower's life that impels the leader to act in love with truth no matter what it costs that leader (Mt. 20:26-27; John 13:16; Phil. 2:5-11; II Cor. 4:5).
The leader focuses on God's purposes for and through the followers.
God's purpose for the followers is to grow them into Christlikeness, and the leader is one of His prime instruments in guiding the followers to become more and more like Christ.
God's purpose through the followers is to participate with Him in accomplishing the Great Commission in accordance with their gifts and opportunities.
The leader focuses on both the functional and the foundational in the followers' lives.
The functional refers to the tasks the followers undertake and to their competence in light of their gifts, knowledge, and developed skills.It refers to the followers' competencies.
The foundational refers to the followers' character, the core essence of their being on which all they do rests.
The foundational determines how well the leader and the followers function.
It relates to their character, that is, who exercises the knowledge and skills to get the vision accomplished.
It relates to their motives, that is, why they do what they do.
It relates to their actions, that is, what they do (for example whether they confront, avoid, forgive, overlook, exhort, lie, cheat, steal, say harsh words).
It relates to their method, that is, how they do what they do (for example use a method that communicates freely or seeks to hold power to themselves, sacrifices their own recognition or grasps platform for themselves).
It relates to their situation, that is where they act (for example acting appropriately in public in such a way that the leader and followers demonstrate a wisdom that is appropriate for the moment or living in private what they proclaim in public).
It relates to their timing, that is when they act based on the depth of relationship they have with the followers, the need in the moment, the particular lesson they seek to teach, and the need in their followers that must be met before they can become increasingly effective in serving Christ.
When the foundational and the functional integrate with consistency, leaders and followers will show an uncommon Christlikeness. In a very real sense, character controls competence. Leadership is not only getting something done; leadership is getting someone grown. Ultimately leadership is as much about leadership development and leader formation as it is about the act of leading itself. Leading is knowing where you want to go and getting others to go there with you.
Leading is getting a vision accomplished.
But leadership is about far more than this.
To get a vision accomplished and burn followers out is to fail as a leader.
To get a vision accomplished and build followers up is to succeed as a leader.
If you pursue leadership development (knowledge and skill development) and leader formation (character growth) in the action of accomplishing a specific vision, you will more than get that vision done.
Leaders must have a sound sense of self-awareness
Leaders must have a sound sense of self-awareness that they pass on to their followers. This means leaders must think of themselves in appropriate ways and teach their followers to do the same. Leaders must think of themselves as new mind leaders.
To do this they must understand several critical realities:
• new identity (Rom. 6:1-14)
• new resource (John 15:1-11)
• hardened hearts (Mark 6:52-8:33)
• new power (Eph. 5:18)
• new life (Rom. 6:4; 8:1ff)
• new role (John 13:1-17)
• new mind (Co. 3:1-2)
• new self (Rom. 12:3ff)
• new community (Rom. 12:9-15:1)
• new commitment (Mark 8:34)
• new hope (I Peter 1;13)
They must understand that they have everything for everything
(II Peter 1:2-4).
Leaders and followers must think of themselves in light of how God has gifted them (Rom. 12:3).
• God has given every believer a gift (Eph. 4:7ff).
• God plans to bless every believer through the exercise of these gifts (I Cor. 12:6).
• God expects leaders and followers to use his/her gift(s) in accordance with God's grace (Rom 12:6-8).
Leaders are responsible to equip followers in the exercise of their gifts (Eph. 4:11-12).
Leaders must know how to
• equip their followers to exercise their gifts (Eph. 4:11)—mend nets (Mk. 1:19), restore sinners (Gal. 6:1), set bones
• develop their followers skills (12345)
• delegate, evaluate, and hold their followers accountable
• observe, correct, train, rebuke, and encourage
• wash feet—confront character needs and even remove followers when necessary, no matter how strong his/her skills may be or how many followers that follower may have
Leaders must have in-depth relationships
You cannot have an in-depth relationship with everyone you lead, but everyone on your team or in your sphere of responsibility should have some kind of in-depth relationship with a leader former. Some will be more effective than others as leader formers, but all must have someone ahead of them who seeks to know them at the heart level.
To know someone at the heart level, you must know that person's
• fears
• reasons for anger
• dreams
• identity needs—
where they feel they lack
the emptiness they're trying to fill through achievements
the things that drive them and generate their expectations, both appropriate and inappropriate
To get to know someone, do a Life Story exercise halfway through their first semester on the field using the principles developed by the Center for Christian Leadership
Leaders must have the appropriate ability to confront
You need to determine your own willingness to confront when you must despite your adversity to it; know your primary and secondary styles. Understand confrontation biblically, not culturally or personally. Note different confrontation models for differing circumstances:
• inferior to superior (Nathan to David)
• superior to inferior (Jesus to Peter + James and John)
• equal to equal (Paul to Peter + Paul and Barnabas to one another.
Realize there are many levels/kinds of confrontation from gentle correction to direct command. Understand what it will cost not to confront and see which is the most costly, confronting or not confronting.
Leaders must have the courage to take loving stands
The courage to take loving stands relates directly to your willingness to confront. Taking stands doesn't always involve confrontation, but it certainly can lead to it. Frequently, followers want their leader to take a stand even when they argue for a different position. Sometimes they are seeking for leadership from their leader as well as testing their leader's willingness and courage to fulfill their responsibility and lead. Taking stands does not mean you should be inflexible; the secret to taking stands is knowing what is worth entering tension over and what isn't. Make certain the stand you take is for the benefit of the person's growth in light of the defined and agreed upon vision and goals, not just for policies, your preference or convenience.
Leaders must be willing to be vulnerable
Vulnerability is the willingness to let my followers see my needs, my fears, my feelings, and my growth in such a way that it edifies them and helps then grow in character and competence. Vulnerability must edify without manipulating. You will be vulnerable against your will because one of the key reasons why God has you in leadership is to grow you in public. Because of this, God will make certain that you have many opportunities to be vulnerable, and not infrequently, against your will. This is not because God wants to embarrass or shame you, but grow you in such a way that you model growth for others and influence them to know God through your struggles. When God makes you vulnerable, don't run away and hide—everyone already knows what's going on, and you will gain and keep respect by being appropriately accountable about your vulnerability.
Invite others into your pilgrimage in the way Paul did in the New Testament:
• he frequently gave his testimony, even though it wasn't complimentary to him;
• he spoke of fear and trembling when coming to Corinth;
• he spoke of facing lions and fearing for his life in Ephesus;
• he spoke of not finding rest for his soul in Troas;
• he spoke of his inadequacy for God's triumph to the Corinthians;
• he spoke of his weakness as his strength, that is, his vulnerability was the channel God most used to make a difference in others through him;
• he spoke of the weight of the churches upon him;
• he spoke of his need to confront Peter for the Gospel in Galatians;
• he spoke of his gratitude for funds in Philippians;
• he spoke of his need for prayer to the Colossians;
• he spoke of his need for funds to the Romans;
• he spoke of the hurt done to him by those who attacked him to Timothy;
• he spoke of his intense loneliness and need for others when he was deserted after his trial for his life in II Timothy.
Follow Paul's lead and be vulnerable about your pilgrimage; it will make a great deal of difference in the lives of those who follow you.
Leaders must willingly humble themselves
Jesus washed feet because none of His followers had the currency to pay the emotional bill to serve when it came due. He knew this and chose to model self-humbling to them because He knew power plays, self-assertion, and competition would never accomplish His mission. Jesus knew power leadership may be short-term, productive leadership, but in the end it is actually destructive leadership. Jesus also knew His men would never change without some very direct teaching, but the teaching could not be in words; the teaching had to be in unforgettable actions that would make a permanent impact on them. We find the currency to humble ourselves where He found it—in a relationship and mission that meant more to Him than His image, His power, His drive to be right, His need to win, or anything else in the world. This relationship and mission was motivated by a love that only He can give. Leader formers must be growing in a love for Christ that frees them from every other dependency and releases them to humble themselves and serve.
Leaders must follow Jesus and model what they want their followers to be and do
Jesus alone was willing to do what the disciples should have fallen all over themselves to do. He knew exactly what He was doing and why He was doing it when He got up from the table, stripped to the waist, took a towel and a basin of water, and went from man to man washing their feet.
He knew who He was and what His authority over them was.
He knew the only way He could demonstrate true authority was to serve.
He knew they would never have true authority unless they became servants in exactly the same way as He did.
He knew He was living out what Paul came to describe in Philippians 2, the very same mental attitude the apostle calls us to have.
He knew only this mind-set can take up the cross and He had already established that fact that without the cross, the disciples would never be able to follow Him.
He consciously chose to model what He wanted them to become.
He deliberately commanded them to do what He did, to follow Him as a model.
If we are to have His same mind-set and follow His model, then we will be models for those emerging leaders whom we are forming. This is the way of obedience for us as leader formers.
Leaders must have clarity of vision
Vision focused our Lord's love and gave Him a dream for His men. He saw them doing things they could never do apart from His love and His mission for them. He saw these ordinary fishermen, businessmen, and common villagers changing the world.
• He called them because of His vision for them
• He taught them because of His vision for them
• He challenged them because of His vision for them
• He cleansed them because of His vision for them
• He confronted them because of His vision for them
• He modeled for them because of His vision for them
• He commissioned them because His bigger vision of the world included them
Jesus was never off vision; He always knew what He was doing because He always knew why He was doing it. You must always be on vision, always forming your emerging leader's character and competence in light of your vision—the vision Jesus has called you to pursue, to which they have responded and committed themselves with you. You must align your emerging leaders' character and competence with the vision and keep calling them to it. You must also allow them to pursue the vision according to their peculiar (unique) God-given make up and not force them to pursue it according to yours; the point is to achieve the vision well, not to conform to the gifts and approaches of others.
If you force them to do what you do or to do things the way you do things is not vision, it's control, and it's the Lord's responsibility to control others, not yours.
Leaders must have an accurate understanding of truth
Theology matters, and even more so in an emerging church. Consider the first five hundred years of the church when virtually all theological problems were considered and defined. There is great theological diversity in your area at this time and a limited ability to communicate or to have theological conversation across the culture. It is critical for solid theological development to mark the emerging church or the cults will have a field day in the future. Jesus knew exactly how to serve Peter because He knew theology—He knew the truth Peter need to know if Peter was going to be useful to Jesus in the course of his life. Truth was critical to Peter's future. Jesus knew the right truth at the right moment; He knew to say the right thing that would make the right impact. Leader formers must both know truth and know how to use truth to edify those they are forming in such a way that they are impacted and changed for a lifetime. Emerging leaders need to understand the truths concerning God, the trinity, the Holy Spirit, the Word of God, the Lord Jesus Christ. In addition to this, they must need to understand at the heart level a core of truths concerning the ways of God in forming leaders through pilgrimage:
• factors of identity from Romans 6
• the reality of the flesh and the Spirit from Romans 7 and Galatians 5
• the nature of spiritual gifts including how to discern theirs and how to develop theirs and others
• the need for community
• the value of injustice, suffering, and grief in God's hand and how to respond appropriately to each
• the truth depth of sin and its impact on them (sin hides in the nooks and crannies of our lives and masquerades itself as humanness and other destructive excuses
• the heart of love and forgiveness.
All of these truths must be communicated in the action to people who already think they know them and who, like the disciples, frequently are blind to their own blindness.
Leaders must be willing to risk rejection
Jesus clearly risked rejection by the leaders of His day, both Jewish and Roman. But He also risked the rejection of the very leaders He was forming, even as Peter rebuked and resisted Him; Jesus even asked them at one point if they would leave Him. Rejection comes whenever one person goes against the values, expectations, desires, or demands of others in such a way that those others feel challenged, threatened, and angry. Jesus went against the selfish values, core expectations, driven desires, and overt demands of His followers as represented by Peter who rebuked Him (Mark 8:33). Those engaged in leader formation must take the same risk and may even pay the same price of desertion and denial. Unless the leader former runs this risk—and even experiences it—he will not be effective in fulfilling his task. Like Jesus, the leader former must have the emerging leader's needs and not his own success in view.
Leaders must have insight in the hearts of others
Leaders must understand the hearts of those they influence:
• insight comes first from Scripture
• insight comes from observing the experience of others
• insight comes from reading what others have learned
• insight comes from the counsel of others who have wisdom about the heart
• insight comes from personal experience and growth
Leader formers need to keep a journal of their growth, recording
• what they learned
• how they learned it
• what they felt while learning
• what overcame their resistance to learning
• what helped them through their learning experience
• what changed in the core of their being as a result of their learning
Insight into their own hearts—without projecting themselves on others—brings humility, sensitivity, patience, and understanding of the hearts of those they form. The formation of their own hearts gives them significant insight into the hearts of those they influence.
Leaders need sensitivity as to how to respond to others
They respond sometimes directly.
They respond sometimes indirectly.
They respond sometimes publicly.
This comes from knowing people by
• understanding their temperaments,
• respecting their concerns,
• believing in their gifts
• supporting their dreams
• challenging their flaws


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Missed It By $54-$95 Million
January 3, 2002
Homestore To Restate Revenues; Realtor Association To ?Ensure Realtor.com Success?
Inman News Features
Westlake Village, Calif.-based Homestore.com today announced it overstated its online advertising revenues in the first three quarters of last year by $54-$95 million. Today?s preliminary estimate is the first indication of the magnitude of the company?s previously reported expectation of restating its financial results.
The audit committee of Homestore?s board of directors reportedly is examining a large but unspecified number of transactions in 2000 and 2001 and expects to complete its review by the end of the current quarter.
The restatement involves advertising revenues that should have been accounted for as barter transactions because they were tied to the company?s purchases of goods and services from one or more unidentified advertisers.
Homestore will revise its financial statements and Form 10-Q reports to the Securities and Exchange Commission for the quarters ended March 31, June 30 and Sept. 30, 2001, and may restate its financial statements and Form 10-K report to the SEC for the year ended Dec. 31, 2000.
The company warned investors not to rely on its previously filed Form 10-Q reports or financial statements for those periods.
Homestore.com announced the inquiry into certain of its accounting practices on Dec. 24. Trading of the company?s stock on Nasdaq has been suspended since shortly after that announcement.
Homestore.com operates the National Association of Realtors official homes-for-sale Web site Realtor.com, the National Association of Home Builders official new homes Web site HomeBuilder.com and an apartments and rentals Web site in addition to Homestore.com.
Separately, NAR today issued a statement from 2002 President Martin Edwards Jr. on the audit of Homestore.com?s accounting practices.
"(Homestore.com?s) audit committee with the assistance of independent legal counsel and independent accountants is conducting a thorough inquiry into the company's accounting practices. We at NAR have full confidence in the audit committee and the ultimate resolution of Homestore's accounting issues," Edwards said.
"NAR senior staff and association volunteers have been working closely with Realtor.com management to ensure full Realtor support of their efforts to keep Realtor.com on track and focused on current and future needs of Realtors and of the home-buying and home-selling public. Working together, NAR will spare no efforts to ensure Realtor.com's continued success," he said.
Chicago-headquartered NAR represents approximately 800,000 residential and commercial Realtors.
Copyright: Inman News Service
Contact ALTA at 202-296-3671 or [email protected].

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This blog contains many of the unknown and less known recipes from Rajasthani Cuisine and few other recipes that I have learnt and experimented from around the world !!!
Ongoing Events
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
My small backyard garden !!!
I know I have posted 2 recipes with ingredients from my garden and many of you think I have a great big garden. I do have a good garden, but not too big, just something I have started with many mistakes of course, like I didn't think my first crop of Carrots and few other vegetables, which is kind of a mess, so I plan to harvest and then re-plant few things.
Here is a small pic of some of my veggies. I am growing Zucchini, Cucumber, Cilantro, Mint, Spinach, Carrots, Beetroot, Peas, Snap Beans, Green Chillies, Bell Pepper, Okra, Eggplant and Tomato. I know that sounds like a lot, but everything is just planted, so a long way to go and only few plants per veggie as I don't have enough space for big rows and lot of plants and I don't want to crowd it all.
From left to right: top row (cucumber, zucchini), bottom row (tomato, bell pepper)
I also have planted Lemon, Pomegranate, Orange, Avocado and Papaya about 2-3 months ago, so it will take about 2-3 years before I can see any fruits on those. I am dying to get Guava and Mango, but couldn't find any plants. If anyone has any ideas on how to grow them from seeds at home, let me know.
From left to right: top row (papaya, carrots), bottom row (zucchini, strawberry)
I also have few flowers in my garden like Roses, Hibiscus, Bougainvillea, Azalea, Sun Peasant and Star Jasmine, just few, again at an early stage, so hopefully, by next year this time, they will be beautifully blooming.
From left to right: top row (hibiscus, bougainvillea), bottom row (dahlia, dahlia), center (rose)
From left to right: top row (rose, chamathi), bottom row (rose, hibiscus)
I am a big enthusiast of home gardens and want to have a big garden, but, that is the disadvantage of living in a big city where you cannot have very big backyards.
I just thought I will give a sneak peak at my veggie garden, that I have been boasting about. I welcome all suggestions and tips on new garden. I like to plant my stuff on soil instead of pots.
That's all for now. Take care till next post.
36 comments:
- Priya Suresh said...
WOwww thanks for sharing this beautiful clicks, feel like going through ur garden, very pleasant to eyes..
- July 14, 2010 at 1:24 PM
- SS blogs here said...
Simply beautiful!!! Thanks for showing us your garden! :)
- July 14, 2010 at 1:42 PM
- Swathi said...
Beautiful garden Priya.
- July 14, 2010 at 1:42 PM
- Laavanya said...
That's a beautiful garden.. I have a tiny one too this year but next year I'm definitely going to expand it.
- July 14, 2010 at 1:49 PM
- Satya said...
beautiful garden priya with lots of veggies n flowers ...thanks for sharing
- July 14, 2010 at 1:59 PM
- Suganya said...
U have a nice collection in ur garden...
- July 14, 2010 at 2:03 PM
- aipi said...
From my experience I know that growing flowers and growing fruits/ vegetables require completely different skill.. and i can see here that u have done all of it beautifully.. nice job !
- July 14, 2010 at 2:18 PM
- Sanyukta Gour(Bayes) said...
hey thanks priya for fulfilling my request...yest i asked u for a walk through ur garden and wow u posted...appreciate n thanks again...and nt a big garden???u hv so many refreshing beauties in ur small yard all arranged up so neatly.envy u again n again...i hv a tiny little patio with very less sunshine.so cant think of planting plants in pots..so planting in yard in soil is a dream for me...u hv given a perfect refreshment for my mind and eyes today.lovely gorgeous garden....kepp it up....
- July 14, 2010 at 2:36 PM
- Krishnaveni said...
you are really lucky to have such a beautiful garden, lovely pictures
- July 14, 2010 at 3:25 PM
- Unknown said...
That is one amazing garden Priya!
- July 14, 2010 at 4:04 PM
- The Housewife said...
The colors of the flowers are so pretty! It's so satisfying when your plants grow and do well. I wish you all the luck. For indian seeds try this website called seeds of india… they have gongura, curry patta, etc. I hope this helps.
- July 14, 2010 at 4:44 PM
- Reeni said...
You have a beautiful garden! You have a lot more than me. I would love most of all to have fruit trees. Good luck with them!
- July 14, 2010 at 5:42 PM
- VineelaSiva said...
Wow priya u have a nice garden its really beautiful.I too have very small garden in my patio.
- July 14, 2010 at 6:12 PM
- Pavithra Elangovan said...
Wow this is so good and wonderful pictures of ur garden.. really cooling our eyes.
- July 14, 2010 at 6:34 PM
- Suhaina said...
wow. that super dear. mind blowing.. u have strawberries too.. wow..I really love gardening but no time or place in our flat.. really appreciate ur hard work and the love u have shown to ur plants.. one more wow ... dear..
- July 14, 2010 at 8:00 PM
- Kiran said...
Love your beautiful garden of flowers,fruits and veggies.Nice virtual treat to the eyes.You said that you have orange ,lemon and avocado plants.So you have a very nice size backyard.Doesn't seem small.Wouls love to see many more such beauties from your garden. - July 14, 2010 at 8:20 PM
- RV said...
This is such a pretty garden Priya.. I love all those cute and bright colored flowers.. Good job in maintaining it. And regarding curry leaves, I just saw that you live in west coast and I live on the other side :-(( I wish I can send it to you.
- July 14, 2010 at 8:42 PM
- Sushma Mallya said...
Your garden is so beautiful priya..
- July 14, 2010 at 9:21 PM
- Kanchan said...
This is so cool and beautiful !
You have done a whole lot of hardwork for this garden ... i'll try to get some inspiration from you now :) - July 14, 2010 at 9:56 PM
- Akanksha said...
pics are great priya..I love gardening too..we have one in my mom's house
- July 14, 2010 at 10:44 PM
- Prema said...
Beautifull garden priys,luks gr8!
- July 14, 2010 at 11:42 PM
- Vegetarian Zest said...
Gorgeous garden i must say. Lucky to have your own backyard with all the nature's gift in it.
- July 15, 2010 at 12:19 AM
- Sweet Artichoke said...
Your garden is beautiful: so many vegetables and the flowers are gorgeous and colourful! and it looks like your are as talented for gardening as for cooking!
- July 15, 2010 at 12:32 AM
- Niloufer Riyaz said...
What a beautiful garden ! a treat to eyes
- July 15, 2010 at 1:10 AM
- My Kitchen Antics said...
That is such an amazing garden..i don have a green thumb so everything jus dies on me:(
- July 15, 2010 at 3:28 AM
- Priya said...
What a beautiful garden you have! Green in beautiful for the eyes. i wish I had a green thumb like yours.
- July 15, 2010 at 5:31 AM
- arthi said...
wow!!lovely garden..I too love gardening.nice clicks dear!!
- July 15, 2010 at 6:25 AM
- panchpakwan said...
For a moment I felt I was in your garden...Its so neat and beatuifuly arranged..Felt so fresh.
- July 15, 2010 at 7:29 AM
- Rajee Mani said...
That's a lovely farden Priya and not so small either :-) And lotsa great recipes you've posted when I was on a blog break. Will catch up those asap....
- July 15, 2010 at 12:07 PM
- GayathriRaj said...
Hey lovely garden Priya....u r very lucky to have such patio...i love gardening a lot and unfortunately i dont have that option....and im so happy to see ur lovely garden and tjose lovely plants and those flowers are too good and beautiful dear...
- July 15, 2010 at 12:13 PM
- Indian Cuisine Blogroll said...
wow..you have a pretty good backyard garden...i could imagine a proud farmer working there :)
- July 15, 2010 at 12:30 PM
- Latha said...
Lovely garden Priya.
- July 15, 2010 at 4:13 PM
- Padmajha said...
Lovely garden u have there.I had one during my school days and I used to harvest loads of strawberries!!These pics remind me of those days...
- July 16, 2010 at 5:13 AM
- Yasmeen said...
- July 16, 2010 at 8:01 AM
- PranisKitchen said...
don't say its small. what a beautiful and grt work..
- July 17, 2010 at 12:39 PM
- Jayashree said...
What a lovely garden. i love those tiny strawberries.
- July 19, 2010 at 9:03 PM


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80-year-old man identified as David Mluli died at a hotel in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, while he was with his 33-year-old lover.
Mr Mluli reportedly collapsed and died suddenly on Saturday, January 16, while he was in room number 22 at Mbezi Garden Hotel in Dar es Salaam, where he had gone to relax in the company of his girlfriend identified as Neema Kibaya.
Sources say the two had arrived shortly at the hotel with Mluli arriving first before his companion.
The Kinondoni Regional Police Commander, Mr Ramadhan Kingai, who confirmed the incident on Monday, January 18, told journalists that the police force received a phone call from Mbezi Garden Hotel manager Newton Mkonda on January 16 at around 3pm.
The caller informed the law enforcers of the sudden death of a client at the hotel who had occupied room number 22.
"The police arrived at the area and found Mr Mluli's body along with a woman who identified herself as Neema Kibaya. Ms Kibaya told the police of the love relationship she had with the deceased," said Kingai.
Police then took the body to Mwananyamala Hospital for postmortem while Ms Kibaya, a resident of Goba and a businesswoman, has been detained.
Preliminary investigations, he said, showed that Mr Mluli could have died from a normal death because his body shows no signs that there was any form of confrontation between him and any other person prior to the death.
"There were no direct physical signs that could have been noted as doubtful with exception of his under wears getting wet before he passed away," said Mr Kingai.
While searching in the room, police found out that Mr Mluli was in possession of Sh37,000, his national identification card and Tecno mobile handset. Medical experts at the Mwananyamala Hospital will conduct a postmortem as soon as his relatives shown up.
"Postmortem protocols demand the presence of a relative of the deceased who has to identify the body before burial preparations." he added.
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Within our tradition we celebrate the sabbats as they occur astrologically. This year astrological Lammas will happen on Friday, August 8th when the sun enters 15* Leo. Traditionally Lammas is celebrated as the first of the three neo-pagan harvest festivals with roots driven deep in Irish and Celtic folklore. At 15* Leo we find a fixed star by the name of Dubhe (pronounced DUB-ee) (Bear in Arabic) which is associated with psychic power and destruction. Dubhe is also referred to as "The Eye" or "Pivot of the Universe" and makes up the center of Ursa Major's spine.For our Lammas ritual we combine both the terrestrial fascination of the first harvest with the celestial alignment of this great star.
During this ritual we surround ourselves with symbols of the harvest. This can be fresh fruit or grains or ceremonial tools like the scythe or boline. We then enter trance and commune with Dubhe to align ourselves with the psychic potential to see clearly what must be harvested and to gain insight regarding how to move through specific issues that we might be facing. This ritual requires us to both be receptive to the messages of the heavenly host and to be able to form a complete description of any issue we might present during this ritual. We are communing with Dubhe through the lens of Leo so we must approach this ritual with clarity and dominion in mind. This ritual is performed best either as the Sun rises or at night when Ursa Major is visible.
For this ritual you will need:
Symbols of the harvest: Corn, Grain, cereals, fruit, wine, scythe, boline, etc.
Quiet space preferably outside.
Sit comfortably facing the east (where you will find Dubhe) surround yourself with symbols of the harvest. Invite your guides and allies that you commonly work with during rituals. Cast a circle and invoke your own personal set of grigori (watchers) and then find yourself relaxed in the center, again facing the east. As this ritual does not specifically work with a pantheon please feel free to invoke your own gods as well if you feel it is appropriate.
Begin now by closing your eyes and taking slow and steady deep breaths. As you inhale allow your belly to fill first, then your chest, always keeping your shoulders relaxed. As you exhale feel the air spill out of you like a cup, chest first and then belly. As you breathe draw your attention to the points of stillness and silence at the beginnings and ends of each breath. Allow all other distractions to become part of this experience, driving you deeper into the moment.
Envision before you the constellation of Ursa Major. Each breath should act like a step in the direction of this constellation and each moment of stillness a step further to being present. See this pause between breaths grow pregnant with possibility and allow yourself to be drawn deeper into yourself. Know that as you travel closer to the constellation you are also traveling deeper into yourself.
Draw your attention to the fifth star from the left, Dubhe the pivot of the universe. See that unlike the other stars that compose Ursa Major, Dubhe illuminates the heavens with orange light. Move closer to this orange light and see that all other stars fade away into the blackness of space. As you float in the emptiness the only thing that you can see now is that orange star.
Invoke the heavenly host by saying, "Dubhe, great Eye of the big dipper, spine of Ursa Major and Pivot of the Universe I call to you! Align with this earthly body so I may see all that my senses fail to see! Bring forth clarity in my psyche and destroy the blocks that keep me from your sight! Rest upon my third eye and show me that which alludes me!"
Envision now that the orange orb moves to rest on your third-eye. Take three deep breaths to ground and align yourself within this energy. At the time you should feel free to commune with Dubhe. Ask it what blocks exist that you aren't seeing, ask for insight into older blocks, ask that the hidden now come to light. Pay attention to any insights you might get during this time and try to remain as open to messages as possible. It is also appropriate to convey any issue that may feel like a major roadblock in your life to Dubhe.
Once you feel that you have communicated effectively with Dubhe pick up one of your harvest symbols and hold it in both hands. Lift it up above you and recite, "Aligned within me, aligned above me, aligned below me. I am at the center of all things. I am the ebb and flow, I am the alpha and the omega. Dubhe, Ak, Leo-Eye, from your vision I will not shy! Dubhe, Ak, Leo-Eye, with your guidance I will fly! Dubhe, Ak, Leo-Eye the only limit is the sky!"
See that your whole body now begins to grow in the orange light of Dubhe. With each breath allow this orange light to grow until it encompasses all of what you see, even the darkness. Take three deep breaths to align with this energy and then see that below you is your body. Place the harvest symbol in your lap and begin to make your way back to your body. Take time as you do this, remembering to breathe slow and deep, once again paying attention to the moments of stillness and silence at the beginnings and ends of each breath.
Once you feel you have made your way back to your body, open your eyes, thank and release your personal allies and close your circle. Keep the harvest symbol you used during your trance. Allow it to serve as an anchor for the energy you encountered today. Whenever you have a need to revisit the energy it is now in an accessible place. If you used fruit, such as an apple, eat it and save the seeds, if you used grain or cereal, save the seeds! These objects will become quite useful for future work.


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Right now, the USDA is allowing diseased bird organs to be sold for food, in violation of federal law. Because USDA won't enforce the law, thousands of animals are suffering miserably, and the consumers of these diseased products are at a higher risk for a variety of ailments, including type II diabetes and Alzheimer's disease.
That's why today, a coalition of animal protection groups that includes Farm Sanctuary, along with pro bono attorneys from Steptoe & Johnson, LLP, filed a lawswuit against the USDA for allowing adulterated poultry — foiegras — into the food supply, in violation of the Poultry Products Inspection Act (PPIA).
Foiegras is the diseased liver of a duck or goose who has been force-fed (twice-per day, every day) for three weeks, causing the animal's liver to become diseased and to enlarge to ten times its normal size. Production of the product is so horribly cruel that it's been banned in a dozen states, and both production and sale will be illegal in California later this year.
Our lawsuit is based on the fact that the PPIA dictates that diseased animal organs are supposed to be condemned by USDA inspectors, and foiegras is — by definition — a diseased organ. Thus, USDA should do its job by banning the sale of foiegras nationally.
By refusing to do its legal duty, USDA is supporting hideous cruelty to animals and putting human health at risk.
Science backs up common sense: Shoving pipes down birds' throat several times a day and pumping them so full of food that their livers become diseased and balloon up is horribly cruel. For example, the European Union's Scientific Committee on Animal Health found that death rates during force feeding skyrocket by 10 to 20 times; imagine any process that causes a population's death rate to be 1000 to 2000 percent greater than normal. Of course, every animal is in misery for the entire horrid ordeal.
The birds who don't die suffer from impaired liver function, skeletal disorders, and other serious illnesses. Many become so sick they can barely move. Carcasses show wing fractures and severe tissue damage to the throat muscles. It's this scientific consensus that explain why every reputable animal protection group in the world, including many that do not advocate vegetarianism, condemns foiegras as cruel, from the RSPCA to the World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA) to the Humane Society of the United States to (of course) Farm Sanctuary.
There is also evidence that foiegras is a health hazard.
As we note in our suit, "A recent study published by the National Academy of Sciences links the consumption of force-fed foiegras to the development of secondary amyloidosis, a deadly disease that affects humans... People with chronic inflammatory diseases, including the 2.1 million Americans who suffer from rheumatoid arthritis, are at greater risk of developing secondary amyloidosis after eating force-fed foiegras.... Secondary amyloidosis is not the only disease these consumers may contract after eating force-fed foiegras. The protein deposits that support secondary amyloidosis may also encourage the development of other amyloid-associated disorders includingAlzheimer's disease or type II diabetes."
Read about Harper, Kohl, and Burton, three survivors of the foie gras industry.
At Farm Sanctuary, we spend our lives with farm animals, and we know them as individuals. Ducks and geese have — like all birds — unique personalities, interests, and the same range of capacities of any dog or cat. For the same reason we wouldn't induce liver disease in dogs and cats, slice the animals' throats open, and then eat their diseased organs — we shouldn't treat any animal so horribly.
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Jason Davis receives 2013 U-M Distinguished Diversity Leaders Award
Jason considers diversity and inclusiveness in all activities that he undertakes.
Jason Davis, Alumni Relations Coordinator for Electrical and Computer Engineering, is a recipient of the 2013 University of Michigan Distinguished Diversity Leaders Award. This award recognizes individuals and teams that have demonstrated extraordinary commitment and dedication to diversity and inclusion at the University of Michigan.
Jason is new to Electrical and Computer Engineering, joining the department this past August, 2013. Whle his focus on inclusion and diversity has already been apparent in his work in the department, this award was based on his impressive accomplishments in his previous role as Assistant Director of Alumni Relations at the U-M Dearborn campus.
As the liaison to alumni affiliate groups at U-M Dearborn, it was Jason's responsibility to increase participation by alumni. He took a special interest in the African American Affiliates group, and in a short time grew the membership from 3 to 18 fully engaged members. He planned retreats for African American students, and increased participation in the annual Black Celebratory Program by 200% in one year. He restructured the institution's awards process to be more inclusive of underrepresented minorities (including women). He made sure to include traditionally marginalized groups in the annual Inclusion Reception, which brings together students, staff, faculty, and alumni to discuss issues around diversity and inclusion. These groups ranged from LGBTQ advocacy groups to interfaith and multicultural organizations. He also noticed that there was not a good way for recent graduates to become engaged with the community, so he helped create a campus-wide Graduates of the Last Decade affiliates group.
As a volunteer, Jason served as the staff adviser for the student organization, Association for Diversity and Unity. He was a volunteer on the Soul for Success Retreat planning committee, a retreat for African American students, and has assisted many more underrepresented groups either as a volunteer or as part of his responsibilities. When Jason has seen an absence of balanced representation of any kind, such as the lack of any male members in the U-M Dearborn Staff Senate, or the lack of diversity in his office environment, he has worked successfully to change the scenario.
Jason considers diversity and inclusiveness in all activities that he undertakes, which is an approach to life praised by the speakers at the reception. Laurita Thomas, associate vice president for human resources, addressed all the winners when she said, "Seeking diversity and inclusion requires a continuing and sustained effort. We need each other to encourage us when the road gets rough. We cannot be all we can be without you. The university could not be what it is to the City of Ann Arbor or the county, region, state, nation and world without the work you do."
Mr. Davis received his bachelor's degree in psychology and Master of Public Administration in non-profit leadership from U-M Dearborn in 2009 and 2011 respectively, and is currently working on his Ph.D. in Educational Leadership. He is the recipient of several awards , including the Martin Luther King, Jr. Writing Contest, the Outstanding Volunteer Award from the United Way for SE Michigan, the Leadership Synergy Award, two Chancellor's awards for exceptional performance as an individual and a team member, an Outstanding Organization Advisor Award, and a Forever Go Blue: Excellence in Student Philanthropy Award.
Jason is looking forward to using the $1,000 in prize money to attend a professional conference of his choosing.
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A reported $350 million investment into a new, yet-to-be-launched real estate venture founded by a controversial businessman has drawn criticism from women entrepreneurs.
The investment, which was made and publicly shared by venture capital powerhouse Andreessen Horowitz, is in Flow, the new company of WeWork co-founder Adam Neumann.
Given Neumann's questionable business dealings and his abrupt exit from WeWork amid a fraught initial public offering in 2019, this new investment typifies the immense gap that exists in comparison with how much money venture-funded companies founded solely by women garner, experts say.
The investment is a prime example of how venture capital (VC) ecosystems "have always been inequitable," Rebekah Bastian, the CEO and co-founder of OwnTrail, a startup that helps people achieve their next personal and professional milestones, told NPR.
"When 16% of investment partners at VC firms are women, 3% are Black and 4% are Latinx, it's not shocking that women founders have received 1.9% of venture dollars so far in 2022," Bastian told NPR over email. "Black-founded startups in the U.S. raised less in Q2 2022 in aggregate ($324 million) than Adam Neumann received in a single check from Andreessen Horowitz."
Andreessen Horowitz did not respond to requests for comment.
Why the venture funding for Neumann received such a visceral response
To understand why Neumann, Flow and the millions of dollars raised caused a groundswell of condemnation among women, one place to start is Aug. 14, 2019.
That's the day WeWork first released its paperwork to go public and revealed to the world how Neumann had taken out hundreds of millions of dollars for himself, restructured the company to provide himself a tax break and rented his own properties to WeWork.
A month later, The Wall Street Journal reported on Neumann's partying and "unusual exuberance and excess." One of the more puzzling aspects of Neumann's tenure was how an entity he controlled sold the rights to the "We family" of trademarks, (WeWork, WeBank, WeLive, etc,) to the company for almost $6 million "before public pressure led him to unwind the deal," the Journal reported.
Neumann stepped down as WeWork's CEO on Sept. 24, 2019, not long after the company's valuation, once estimated at $47 billion, dropped precipitously.
To see Neumann raise hundreds of millions of dollars roughly three years after his exit from WeWork is a sign of how "there will be Adam Neumanns but there won't be Abagail Neumanns," said Katica Roy, a gender economist and the CEO and founder of Pipeline, an award-winning startup that uses artificial intelligence and cloud computing to close the gender equity gap in the workplace. Roy is also the daughter of a refugee who was brought to the U.S. on Air Force One after being granted passage by President Dwight Eisenhower.
"The Flow funding illustrates perhaps the most high-profile example of 'prove it again' bias, or the fact that women have to work harder than men to substantiate their competence," Roy told NPR over email. "These biases lead to smaller and fewer checks for women entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs of color."
Neumann and Flow also reveal a double standard that exists around second chances in business, said Amy Nelson, co-CEO of The Riveter, which has built a collective of work and event spaces for working women across the United States.
"I think the outrage is about the fact that a lot of Black and brown founders, a lot of women, don't even get the chance to fail. You can't show the world a comeback if you can't even get into the arena," Nelson told NPR.
How bias is woven into the world of venture capital
Despite a banner year that brought in a record $330 billion of venture capital funding in the U.S., only 2% of funds in 2021 went to women-founded teams, Roy said.
Part of this disparity stems from how investors question founders who are women in comparison with those who are men.
A 2018 journal article, "We Ask Men to Win and Women Not to Lose: Closing the Gender Gap in Startup Funding," revealed how women receive more prevention questions from potential investors. Prevention questions focus on safety, responsibility, security and vigilance; for example, "How predictable are your future cash flows?"
Meanwhile, men receive more promotion questions from potential investors, according to the article, published in Academy of Management Journal. Promotion questions focus on hopes, achievements, advancement and ideals; for example, "What major milestones are you targeting this year?"
"These biases also reflect the entrepreneurial ecosystem in the U.S. Fully 65% of VC firms have zero women partners or GPs [general partners], and women represent only 4.9% of all VC partners in the U.S.," Nelson added. "We call ourselves the land of opportunity. However, as we see time and time again, opportunity is not equitably distributed."
These issues are among the many that explain why entrepreneurs like Jaclyn Fu did not seek out venture funding when starting their companies.
Fu and her co-founder, also a woman of color, launched a 470% successfully funded Kickstarter campaign that helped get their business, Pepper, a direct-to-consumer bra brand for small-chested women, off the ground.
The venture capital that Neumann raised is just another sign that the industry hasn't progressed, Fu told NPR.
"I was furious that time and time again, VCs invested in the same pattern that rewards toxic, growth-at-all-cost behavior and ineffective stewardship of capital," Fu said. "It's wild that safe bets for VCs look more like Neumann with fanciful 'vision' versus founders who can actually prove product-market fit and real customer opportunity."
Change is slow but coming to the venture capital industry
Andreessen Horowitz and its co-founder Marc Andreessen do not care what the world thinks when it comes to their investments, Nelson said.
"No white man has to care," Nelson added. "White men account for almost all of venture capital investors and almost all of venture-backed founders, and I'm convinced that their money flows in a circle."
That circle must be broken, said Lizelle van Vuuren, a U.S.-based South African who is co-founder of Undock and founder of Women Who Startup, a learning community for women entrepreneurs. Van Vuuren is also the chief growth officer at OwnTrail.
Van Vuuren was among the first of many women to respond to Neumann's VC raise on Twitter. When it comes to the world of venture capital, women not only have "to change the game, the rules and the playing field, we have to do it with a smile," she tweeted.
"I think more women are going to win. I think more Black and brown, Asian, immigrants and disabled founders are going to continue to win, because we're not going to shut up," van Vuuren told NPR. "Every generation has yearning for improvement. That is the beauty of human evolution. We will always, hopefully, be focused on improving the way we found things, especially younger generations. So whether Adam continues to make headlines or whatnot is irrelevant to someone right now, at her desk, trying to build a startup with four team members with about $400,000 in the bank. They're gonna be out of money in several months. And she has to figure out how to raise money. She's focused on that."
Editor's note: We have updated the language to more accurately reflect our original reporting.
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For a long time, I didn't quite "get" plastic surgery. Well, I got it, but I rejected it because, in my mind, cosmetic intervention was so offensive a technological advance, so damning a commentary on individual vanity and collective insecurity, that it was deserving of my total and blithe dismissal, even contempt. Plastic surgeons and their patients were an alien species to be kept at arm's length: curiosities to be regarded with confusion, amusement and more than a little pity.
That was then and this is now, and now is my fourth decade of existence, which means that I'm all too understanding of the fact that life — and our ideas of how we interact with and move about in the world — are a lot more complicated. So I read with interest the news that a study just published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Facial Plastic Surgery found that plastic surgery barely made its recipients look more youthful in the eyes of others. Forty-nine patients who were photographed before and after getting brow-lifts and face-lifts were assumed to be only three years younger by a group of reviewers. And there was no difference in their perceived attractiveness before and after the surgeries.
(MORE: Plastic Surgeons Say Women Want Arms Like Michelle Obama's)
My initial reaction, which I'm not proud of, was a default dismissal, an echo of the snickering, knowing posture I'd adopted long ago. Of course plastic surgery is a waste of money and an expression of privilege and self-absorption that doesn't provide real, meaningful results, I thought. Did it really take a study to tell us this?
The problem with that attitude is that it's unclear what "real," "meaningful" or, for that matter, "attractiveness" even mean. After all, some of the most traditionally "beautiful" people I know are also some of the most miserable, and no matter how you spin it, that isn't attractive at all.
(MORE: Holmes: Serena Williams and the Theater of Public Apology)
All this is to say that there's something interesting going on here, and perhaps a missed opportunity. On the one hand, the results of the JAMA study make a distinction between youth and attractiveness, which feels somewhat revolutionary in America's youth-obsessed atmosphere. On the other, the study itself feels somewhat pointless, because if patients feel better about themselves post-op, it doesn't really matter how 50 strangers poring through binders filled with cosmetic surgery before-and-afters define, well, anything.
What would have been really interesting is if the study's administrators had taken the independent reviewers' ratings and gone over them with the actual patients in the photographs. I think that sort of feedback would have been more revealing, because I suspect that the majority of plastic-surgery recipients aren't so much trying to look younger or more beautiful as they are trying to look more like themselves: the heavy-lidded middle manager and weekend triathlete who is fatigued only in appearance; the empty nester whose jawline has succumbed to gravity in what feels like an acute act of betrayal. I get it. And much as I believe we should encourage healthy self-esteem and the concept of aging gracefully, we should also make room for the idea that plastic surgery is not always at odds with those things. It may, in fact, be a natural extension of them.


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Hi. My name is Chris Ingle, and I'm from Tampa in FL. I work for a corporate agency there, and I get to travel a lot on business trips.
As for my private life, I'm currently single and enjoying the extra free time to pursue my hobbies. I'm an optimist, and I'm easily amused by the little things in life.


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iKlip Xpand Stand Tabletop
Universal tabletop riser stand for iPad
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Expand your tablet support universe
iPad Air 2 and iPad mini 3 Compatible
Introducing iKlip Xpand Stand, IK's next generation expandable tabletop riser stand. It's designed to securely hold your iPad, iPad Air, iPad mini, Android device or other tablet with a screen size between 7" and 12.1" above keyboards, mixers, DJ gear, notes and other tools. It's an all-in-one solution that's as useful for musicians as it is for small business owners, public speakers, professionals and anyone else who needs a sturdy way to secure their tablet for everyday use.
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From iPad mini to iPad Air and beyond
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Holds tablets with screens ranging in size from 7″ to 12.1″ with case on
Desk clamp
Rise to the top
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A legacy of superior Italian design
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iKlip Xpand Stand
Desktop riser stand that adjusts to fit iPad, iPad mini and other 7" to 12.1" tablets
Sturdy and robust thermoplastic design with metal-reinforced base
Includes tabletop clamp
Tall enough to fit a keyboard, mixer or other device underneath it
Two independent articulations for maximum flexibility
Adjustable viewing angle
Orientation can be easily switched from portrait to landscape
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The years I've spent obsessing over the Zodiac ciphers have recently culminated in a new site, ZodiacKillerCiphers.com
Over forty years of analysis have yielded no viable solutions to three of the four cryptograms the Zodiac killer created to taunt the public. Do real solutions exist, or was the public hoodwinked by a master troll? Perhaps we'll never know. Or perhaps someone will get lucky and figure out the "trick" that will unlock the mystery.