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Seeking budget friendly, trustworthy, as well as professional office, house, or furnishings removals in Cleveland 4163? After that you've come to the right place! Whether you're moving across the street or across town, we're right here to assist. You'll like moving with us – it will certainly be just like moving with your friends – if your companions were educated professional moving companies with years of experience, that is.
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The new ends came out pretty snappy.
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The Classic Ganache Recipe
The word Ganache is one that appears a lot in dessert recipe cookbooks and though we all know it has chocolate in it, there is very little clarity about what the difference between just plain melted chocolate and a ganache is. The latter is essentially a mix of cream and melted chocolate and is used to glaze desserts and cakes. It can also be used as a filling in cakes or to make chocolate truffles.
A Peek into Ganache History
Though there are a few different stories about how the ganache was created, here is a more popular version- In the 1920's, Georges Auguste Escoffier the famed French chef created this now world-famous dessert topping. His apprentice was attempting to make pastry cream and accidentally poured some hot cream into a bowlful of chocolate pieces instead of in the bowl of sugared eggs. The angry Escoffier admonished his apprentice, calling him- "ganache" (figuratively this word means "fool"). However, the result of this mistake was surprisingly delicious and its name- "ganache" stuck!
The Versatile Ganache
A ganache is pourable and smooth when warm, but as it cools down to room temperature, it starts thickening. Cooled ganache is quite firm and can easily be shaped; however it will still melt very quickly on the tongue. Classic chocolate truffles can be made with cooled ganache and it can also be used as a filling in a range of chocolate desserts. When you whip cooled ganache, it turns into a mousse-like blend which is very light and fluffy. This form is excellent to top pastries and cakes. Here is a basic ganache recipe:
Basic Ganache Recipe
- 100 gms fresh cream
- 140 gms good quality dark chocolate
- 20 gms butter
- Boil cream in saucepan.
- Pour over the chopped chocolate (small pieces are better as they will melt faster).
- Let it rest for a few minutes.
- Stir gently until all pieces are melted.
- Add butter once mixture has cooled down.
- Use a stick blender below the surface and blend the ganache till it becomes slightly thicker.
- Let it rest until ready to use.
Tip: If the ganache is just too hard to apply on a cake it's possible to bring it back to the right consistency- just heat it in a microwave oven. Its consistency should be similar to that of peanut butter.
The Variations
Ganache recipes can also vary slightly based on the ratio of cream and chocolate. The one you use will depend on which dessert you want to use the ganache in and what your specific preferences are. Interestingly, you will also find that some recipes completely replace the cream with butter. This gives the ganache a more glazed look and the texture is much thinner too.
This variation isn't really used to fill chocolates, but is excellent for coating candies. Typically, a classic ganache will be made using bittersweet chocolate, but it can also be made with milk chocolate or white chocolate. Ganache is thoroughly delicious on its own, however you can flavor it as you like and use it in truffle fillings.
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Warning To Horse Owners, Highly Contagious Disease Is Circulating
The Animal Health Board of Minnesota has called on all horse owners to do their part to help stop the spread of a highly contagious horse disease which has now been confirmed in neighbouring states, North and South Dakota.
Equine Herpesvirus Myeloencephalopathy also known as EHM is a highly contagious disease and potentially fatal. The last case of EHM, in Minnesota, was diagnosed back in 2015.
Equine programme manager, Dr. Courtney Wheeler, said: 'Horses leaving their home farm to compete, breed or train can be exposed to a number of diseases including EHM.'
Minnesota has already reinforced rules and regulations to tackle the spread of the disease. 'Owners and exhibitors entering Minnesota from other states are required to have a Certificate of Veterinary Inspection verifying their horse has been examined by a veterinarian and is free from signs of communicable and contagious diseases.'
The board has an official plan of action for EHM. If a horse is tested positively for the disease in Minnesota or has been exposed to it, they must be quarantined. The Board of Animal Health will then work with herd veterinarians and horse owners to carry out testing procedures in the control panel before the horse can be released from quarantine.
Horse owners still willing to attend events must comply to thorough and routine practices to prevent further spread of EHM and all other diseases. Diseases can be spread through other horses, people, insects, trailers and equipment.
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Newstart Bill Today
The Senate will today debate Senator Rachel Siewert's private member's bill Social Services Legislation Amendment (Ending the Poverty Trap) Bill 2018 that will increase Newstart, Youth Allowance and other payments by $75 a week.
WHEN: Monday 22 July 2019 at 10am in the Senate Chamber
"Today the Senate will debate my bill which is the fifth bill to increase Newstart I have introduced in my 14 years in Parliament," Senator Rachel Siewert Australian Greens spokesperson on Family and community Services said.
"Newstart needs to be increased urgently by at least $75 a week.
"We then have to stop treating income support payments like a political football. An independent process for setting pensions and allowances is well overdue.
"Labor and some in the Coalition are clearly feeling the heat when it comes to the abysmally low rate of Newstart, and those in Parliament who support an increase to Newstart should vote for it when they get the chance.
"The Greens urge Senators and MPs to join the community in the campaign to increase Newstart and support my bill.
"It is untenable that people on Newstart continue to live in poverty, the Government should be moving immediately to address the appalling low rate of Newstart.
"When the people in Parliament work for their community, we can do powerful things, together."
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Four police officers have been struck off after joking about a woman who had reported she had been raped
The woman heard them making fun of her when they accidentally called her
FOUR cops were fired for joking about a woman who reported she had been raped.
She heard the vile comments, made in an accidental call to her mobile.
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The woman had reported the incident, which she said included anal rape and a man urinating on her.
Later she received a call to her mobile phone from a police officer where she heard one officer reading her statement about the incident while the other officers were laughing and making "disgusting and immoral" comments and questioning her account.
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She said she overheard officers making comments including "he proper stuck it up her a**e".
The woman said in a statement: "My trust in the police is completely diminished. I was disappointed and upset with the police up to this point but the incident has pushed my emotional and physical health.
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Sport Psychology
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Archives of Applied Science Research, 2012, 4 (5):2184-2190 (http://scholarsresearchlibrary.com/archive.html)
Effect of Rhythmic Aerobic Training on Mood Status Profile and Salivary Alpha Amylase in Non-athlete Students M Yektayar1, M Saham2, S Ahmadi3 and M Khodamoradpoor1
Department of Sport Science, Islamic Azad University, Sanandaj Branch, Iran 2 Beheshti University GC, Tehran, Iran 3 Department of Physical Education Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran
_____________________________________________________________________________________________ ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of rhythmic aerobic training on mood status profile and salivary alpha amylase in male and female students. 80 non-athlete students (40 female, ages: 21 ± 2, Weight: 58 ± 8, Height: 163 ± 5 and 40 male, ages: 21 ± 2, weight: 68 ±10, Height: 176 ±5) who were physically in perfect health and had no history of disease or drug consumption, particularly steroids, were selected; based on the temperament grades of the pre-test they were randomly divided into two groups of control (20 girls and 20 boys) and training (20 girls and 20 boys). The training group did rhythmic aerobic exercises for 10 weeks; each session lasted 60 minutes including 10 minutes as warm up exercises with basic aerobic movements, 40 minutes as the main part (which started with the intensity of 140bpm and reached to 160bpm in final sessions), and 10 minutes of non-impact aerobic movements and stretching for cooling down, by which the training session ended. The control group did not participate in any training programs during the study. During 10 weeks, saliva samples were collected 5 times (10 minutes before starting physical activity, of both training and control groups, and ten minutes after cooling down of the training group, in the first, eighth, fifteenth,...
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New 2017 NEC Codebook and workbooks for new tests.
September 1, 2017 the State of Texas adopted the 2017 edition of the NEC Code. The tests and all work performed should use this new 2017 version of the National Electric Code.
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What to Do (and Not Do) if You're Home During a Robbery
A police officer shares life-saving tips on the best ways to avoid a violent confrontation
Some 3.7 million home robberies happen in the United States every year, according to a 2010 report from the Department of Justice. And about 28 percent of the time, someone is home. It's a scary scenario. If it happened to you, how would you handle it? Hide? Grab a baseball bat and confront the intruder?
To find out what you should do, SafeBee talked to Police Lt. Kevin Mahoney of Methuen, Massachusetts, who has been on the police force for more than a decade.
"There's no set of rules you can use during this situation," says Mahoney. "Every time is different and will require different actions." He offers this advice.
Related: Home Safety Checklist: What to Do When
Call 911. "The sooner you call the police the better. You want the police to get there as soon as possible," says Mahoney. If you don't feel safe enough to talk because you don't want the intruder to hear you, Mahoney says to call 911 anwayand hit buttons on the phone so the 911 operator hears the beeps. Operators are trained to know how to handle this type of situation. For example, she can ask you yes or no questions and instruct you to hit a button if the answer is yes or do nothing if the answer is no. Know that even if you say nothing to the 911 operator, police will still come to your house. Just remember that if you call from a cellphone, the geolocation function needs to be turned on so police know where to go.
Stay calm. This might seem impossible, but it could save your life. Mahoney says if you keep a level head, you will be able make the best decision on what to do.
Get out of the house if you can. As soon as you do, go to a neighbor's house for safety, and call 911 if you haven't already. Don't try to grab personal belongings before escaping. This is a time waster, Mahoney says. "Items can be replaced. The only thing worth worrying about is your safety."
Barricade yourself. If you can't get out of the house, Mahoney says to "get as far away from the person who entered your home as possible. For example, if the person is downstairs and you are upstairs, lock yourself in a bathroom or closet. If you can bring a cellphone with you, that would be ideal," he says. Don't leave this area until the police arrive.
If the intruder enters your hiding place, you want to avoid a violent encounter if at all possible. "Try to run away if you can," Mahoney says. "Even when you are hiding, always be thinking of your next step on where to escape to."
Yell. "If you have to barricade yourself, you could yell and say you are calling for the police," Mahoney says. "Most breaking-and-enterings are just about stealing goods. Most [robbers] don't want to get in a physical confrontation, so just letting them know somebody is there and they are calling the police is enough for them to leave." He says this is particularly a good idea if they are about to enter the area you are hiding in.
Confront the intruder only as a last resort. "Most breaking-and-enterings are non-violent," Mahoney says. "You don't want to put yourself in a even more dangerous situation if you don't need to." Only seven percent of household burglaries end up with a household member experiencing some sort of assault or "violent victimization" according to the Department of Justice.
Mahoney advises confronting someone physically only if he is about to attack you or you feel threatened. "If you do need to use physical force, then go for areas like the neck, knees or face. That will knock them out faster. As soon as there is an opportunity to leave, leave." He suggests using something in the room as a weapon as a way to attack.
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Bulgaria remain undefeated with strong win
12 Jun. 2019
Bulgaria stayed well in the race for the 3rd IHF Emerging Nations Championship semi-finals, as they took a clear victory over Ireland in the opening round four clash for Group B on Wednesday afternoon. The win took Bulgaria to eight points and kept their winning record alive, while Ireland remained on one point following a draw versus Nigeria earlier in the competition.
Ireland vs Bulgaria 22:37 (10:16)
Ireland came out determined to claim their first win at Georgia 2019, but were ultimately overpowered by Bulgaria. Ireland were stronger to start and had the upper hand early on, however, by the 10th minute the tables had turned. The last time the score stood level was at 8:8 in the 14th minute when Joshua Krohn Grace put the score at 8:8, before Bulgaria grabbed the momentum and held the advantage through the rest of the game.
From 10:11 in the 24th minute, Bulgaria kept Ireland off the score board completely for the rest of the first half, turning a one-goal game into a commanding lead of six at the break. Bulgaria hit a 10-goal advantage in the 38th minute, 23:13, and continued to extend their lead through to the buzzer.
With his team firmly in control, Bulgaria coach Nikola Vasilev Karastoyanov could afford to rest his strongest side in preparation for their important final preliminary round match versus hosts Georgia on Thursday.
When Bulgaria's first keeper Ivaylo Kostov left the court in the 50th minute, he had recorded 12 saves at 40%. The game added to the impressive performances throughout Georgia 2019, which have placed him sixth in his position overall. Kostov's replacement, Stefan Dimitrov, did not make Ireland's job any easier, as he stopped six shots out of 10 faced.
Ireland will meet Malta in their last preliminary game on Thursday, while Bulgaria will face the hosts in a game expected to be a great contest.
Players of the match:
Ireland: Konstantinos Thompson
Bulgaria: Branimir Balche


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Premium Ship Review USS Saipan
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Please keep in mind that this article is a preview of the upcoming release of the Saipan. All of the statistics here reflect the ship as it was presented during the testing period and are subject to change.
The United States Navy Light Aircraft Carrier
USS Saipan
Quick Summary: Equipped with tier 9 aircraft but with only 2/3s the capacity of other Tier 7 CVs. Squadron sizes are odd, with tiny fighter and torpedo attack formations or an enormous dive bomber squadron.
Cost: Undisclosed as of yet.
- Comes with two load-out options, 3-0-1 and 2-2-0; the only USN CV with the option for two torpedo squadrons.
- Tier 9 Aircraft with high top speed (178 knots / 155 knots)
- SKYRAIDERS! Also Corsairs. But AMG, SKYRAIDERS!
- Massive dive bomber squadron of 8 planes and armed with 1000lb bombs
- Fast rearm on fighter (20s) and torpedo plane (22s)
- Good AA DPS.
- Small hangar capacity of 48 aircraft.
- Painfully long rearm time for dive bombers (59s)
- Small fighter & torpedo squadrons.
- Fighters bleed ammo very quickly.
- Air Superiority load out is very poorly optimized.
- No secondaries at all — completely defenseless at close range against surface ships.
- AA Armament is short-ranged (2.0km to 3.5km) and limited to personal defense.
The long awaited USS Saipan, the first premium Aircraft Carrier in World of Warships.
The Saipan is a pretty important premium vessel for World of Warships. She's not only a badly needed USN Premium but she's also the first carrier premium in the game. This fills me with a little trepidation — Wargaming is unlikely to want to overhaul the mechanics surrounding a premium vessel so seeing the Saipan being released tells me that we're not likely to see significant changes to the mechanics of carriers in the future. Tweaks? Sure, but not an overhaul. I fear there may be a glut of tier 7 Carriers in the queue very soon and some wait times to get a match as a result.
At any rate, the USS Saipan is back. She's been bumped up a tier and her squadrons have been tricked out in new and unique ways. Let's see what this returning Closed Beta beauty is like.
Primary Armament
The Saipan comes with two different plane load outs, each with four air groups. The default is an air superiority set up, with three fighter squadrons and a single dive bomber squadron which, on paper, is the more "interesting" of the two setups. You'll note that I didn't say "better". When the squadrons themselves are more closely examined, things turn a bit ugly. The second setup is two fighters and two torpedo bomber squadrons in a Strike package.
The Saipan is able to carry a total of 48 planes — only 67% of the capacity of the other tier 7 CVs. So make your planes count. If you don't, you're going to be swarmed. The real gimmick of this carrier is playing this uphill battle of air superiority with your high performance planes.
The Saipan's fighters are the tier 9 (yes, really), the beautiful F4U-4 Corsair. This is the same upgraded aircraft you unlock with research on the Essex-class carrier. Being higher tier, with initially higher characteristics makes them benefit more from Captain Skills and modules than contemporary aircraft which boost by a multiplier rather than a flat value. At 178 knots and 70dps per plane, they're individually faster and harder hitting than any same-tier aircraft you may face. The catch is you only get three of them per squadron. These tiny fighter groups are the bane of enemy attack craft waves, but they don't lord over air superiority when dog fighting enemy fighters.
The single biggest issue with her fighters is their lack of endurance. They are good for approximately a single intercept before needing to seriously consider returning to the carrier to rearm. This lack of ammunition can make them vulnerable when not managed correctly and coupled with the small squadron size, enemy planes won't melt quite as quickly as you might hope. When engaging enemy fighters, you can find your Corsairs running out of ammunition before the fight's over. It's imperative to make good use of the strafe feature strategically can help thin numbers, particularly when you use your fighter's superior speed to get a positional advantage on enemy attack waves.
The one good thing about her small squadron size is that the fighters rearm very quickly — a mere 20s for a stock squadron. This allows you to get them back up into the fight, keeping your carrier's deck very busy with a constant flow of traffic. Depending on which load out you take, the Saipan will carry between 19 and 24 fighters (ironically, the air superiority load out carries less).
The F4U-4 Corsairs from the Saipan ambush a squadron of Hellcats from a Ranger with a strafing run, shooting down two of their number on the initial pass. Air superiority against USN Carriers will always be hard fought with your planes horribly outnumbered in the air but also in reserves. You must keep a close eye on your ammunition before engaging enemy aircraft, or you can find your Corsairs out of ammo and sitting ducks for reprisals.
Alright, now things get interesting.
The default squadron load out on the Saipan gives you a single Dive Bomber squadron … with eight tier 9 aircraft. Yes, eight of 'em. Yes, tier 9. She uses the Douglas AD2 Skyraider, an aircraft not seen on any of the other US Carriers. As a big fan of the Skyraider, I fangirled all over this.
What this means in practical terms is that you have eight aircraft, each armed with a 1000lb bomb that strikes with 10,800 alpha damage. Destroyers beware. It's very easy to get multiple hits with such a high volume of bombs dropping everywhere, and the manual bomb aiming reticule is tiny.. Even against armoured warships like Battleships, her bombs can yield strikes in excess of 10,000 damage and several fires under multiple hits. This can potentially one-shot a destroyer if you can perform a good drop. The catch is that 'if'. The flip side to this the RNG nature of bomb drop dispersion, which can cause even a well aimed drop to splash wide and inflict zero damage. The large squadron size gives them a pretty good defensive DPS. Their defensive fire is able to swat single float plane fighters almost immediately when they latch on and maul any fighter squadron dumb enough to engage them normally instead of strafing.
The drawback for such a massive squadron is an enormous rearming cycle of 59s. This makes those occasional single-hit-only drops especially painful, putting a massive drain on your damage totals for a game which are already going to be on the light side without a significant strike package. With only a single squadron, this puts a real hurt on the Saipan's ability to dish out any form of punishment when taking the air superiority load-out. This makes the lack of her secondary batteries even more of a weakness as when pressed, she cannot rely on her bombers to see off approaching threats.
Be aggressive with these dive bombers — the Saipan will stock 29 of them so you can afford to lose more than a few. You're racing against the clock to get enough damage done with these.
Upgraded to a squadron of nine, these Skyraiders maneuver to prepare a manual drop on this IJN Fuso-class Battleship. Their strike would land four direct hits, starting two fires and inflicting over 12,000 damage in a single attack run. As impressive as this may look, the Air Superiority build of the Saipan is grossly inferior to the Strike build. The same amount of damage could easily be done with a torpedo hit or two. The torpedo squadrons rearm faster and you get two of them as opposed to this one massive, slow reloading, RNG dependent formation of bombers.
Torpedo Bombers
The Tier 9 Skyraider returns in the form of the Saipan's torpedo planes. Like the fighters, these come in very small squadrons — a mere 3 planes each. The advantage to this is that it allows you to cycle them very quickly, with a stock reload rate of 22s. Keep close to the fight and you can send out an endless parade of torpedo bombers against targets, whittling them down. Given the small size of the air group, they don't put out a lot of defensive DPS so even float plane fighters can be an issue.
With such a small squadron, you really are at the mercies of AA DPS when you're lining up for your attack runs. At tier 9 with a high survival chance, often you can run the gauntlet against same or lower tiered ships without much issue. However, when you face higher tiered Battleships like the North Carolina or Iowa, or when you stray within the AA range of a dedicated Anti-Aircraft escort, your entire squad will disappear in the blink of an eye. Use your high top speed to outrun as much as you can and minimize your time in the AA umbrellas.
But for all of these drawbacks, these small attack squadrons are brutally effective. Their reload cycle is nothing. By staying close to the fight, you can swarm over and over again onto the same target and just brutalize them. Isolated Battleships are just so much meat on the table, permanently afflicted beneath a flooding state as your bombers reapply their damage over time effect with each subsequent run.
The torpedo tracks from the Skyraiders are quite spread out. Getting two hits is pretty easy, but you have to time things just right to hit with all three. I lost one Skyraider to this Ranger on my initial attack run. These torpedoes from the second squadron also landed two hits and the resulting flooding sank the enemy CV. He was quite annoyed with me.
Fighter Load Out 3-0-1
The fighter load out is a lot of fun, but it's also rather weak. Boasting three squadrons of three fighters (which you can upgrade to 4 planes with a tier 5 Captain Skill) and one squadron of 8 Dive Bombers (which you can upgrade to 9 Dive Bombers in the same manner), it's certainly unique and amusing. In practice, though, it struggles based on two key problems. The first, I've touched upon before — there's a long reload on the Dive Bombers, which hurts the over damage you're able to do per game. The ships you do hit well, you'll devastate. But you'll be unable to score much in the way of secondary fire damage without picking on targets that have already blown their Damage Control Party. The second issue is that for an air superiority build, it has a real deficit of fighter aircraft. With 19 fighters and 29 bombers aboard, the numbers feel completely backwards. You can and will run out of fighter aircraft and rather quickly with this build but it will be rare if you ever run low on bombers.
The one advantage to this load out is that with three squadrons of fighters, when facing IJN CVs with a 2-2-2 load-out, once your Corsairs are locked down by their Zeroes, you'll still have a third squadron with which to harass their attack waves. It's just unfortunate that your bomber retaliation will be slow and unimpressive… and that you'll run out of fighters much sooner than the Hiryu.
Strike Load Out 2-2-0
The strike load out is much more balanced than the above, with two squadrons of three fighters (which you can upgrade to 4 planes) and two squadrons of three torpedo planes. Maybe balanced is the wrong word. The Saipan's strike load-out is incredibly effective, being the only USN CV with a two-squadron torpedo load out. With an even mix of 24 fighters and 24 torpedo planes on board, this allows you to put out the hurt on the enemy team without sacrificing air cover, in theory giving you the best of both worlds (or alternatively, making the Air Superiority build useless by comparison). The fast recovery time of both squadron types and high speed of your aircraft means you can keep delivering attacks in rapid (for a CV) succession. It's a real joy to be able to cause flooding and hold off attacking with the second wave — the threat of their attack run giving free damage while they hold off on activating their Damage Control Party.
The catch is, of course, that this load out can be overwhelmed by a 2-2-2 loaded Hiryu unless you can win the air superiority contest with their fighters. Marshaling your Corsairs correctly can see you win out on attrition. But you have to make good use of strafing runs and try and go for a 2:1 kill advantage with your Corsairs. Your team is going to hurt badly in the meantime as your fighters are likely to have their hands full just fending off A6M5s and then scurrying back to reload and rearm. There's also the very real danger of getting your CV sniped out from under you, so take care.
The best success I enjoyed with this load out involved keeping close to the fight once I gained an advantage in fighter superiority, accelerating the return & rearm cycle of my torpedo bombers. And while dangerous, this increases the Saipan's potential DPM enormously when there are slow, fat targets near at hand to harass with your bomber stream.
In the opening minutes of the match, these torpedo armed Skyraiders make an early blitz straight at this garishly painted Nagato, braving the flak wall from four vessels to drop their torpedoes. The high speed of these Skyraiders allowed them to get into position, complete their attack run and escape before the enemy CV player could respond.
The agility of the Saipan (if you want to call any CV agile) is a bit of a mixed bag as far as a CV goes. She has a 33.0 knot top speed which is nice and workable, though not enough for you to outpace pursuing destroyers or fleet footed cruisers. Surprisingly, she has 920m turning circle which is downright pleasant given the lumbering handling of the other high tier CVs. Her rudder shift is a tragic 15.9s so don't expect to be able to take fast advantage of that smallish turning circle.
Durability and Defense
First of all, you might note a lack of Secondary Armament section. The Saipan has no self defense batteries to speak of. She's dangerously vulnerable at close range. This makes her entirely reliant on either an escort vessel or her own aircraft to neutralize surface threats. Pay close attention to the minimap at all times. Without any dual-purpose secondary guns, this also puts a bit of the hurt on her AA power, at least at range. Instead she carries no less than thirty-eight 40mm Bofors mounts scattered across the ship, backed by another thirty Oerlikon 20mm canons. This gives her an excellent layer of self defense firepower, provided enemy planes stray within 3.5km. This short ranged fire is ferocious, amounting to 188dps at 3.5km with an additional 91dps at 2.0km. It's a shame enemy planes won't stay inside that range for very long for you to make use of it.
Based on the Baltimore-class Cruiser hull, the Saipan isn't as long as the Ranger, but she does end up with almost as many hit points at 44,600hp. She's visible from the surface from 12.2km out and from the air at 12.7km. This is better than the Ranger but worse than the Hiryu, but all rather comparable. The armour layout is … well, it's forgettable. It's not so thin that you really need to worry too much about taking hits to your citadel from stray destroyer HE shells, but it won't stand up to any form of lasting punishment. In short, leg it and ensure that you keep out of sight like a good CV.
The Saipan burns, hit by an Aichi D3A Dive Bomber. Her AA power is limited to close range automatic cannons, lacking any form large caliber guns. This makes her more vulnerable not only to aircraft, but also to surface ships. She has no form of secondary armament whatsoever.
Overall Impressions
I enjoyed myself playing the Saipan. I know! Shocking isn't it?
Let me explain — I am not a CV player. With an aversion to Real-Time Strategy (RTS) games, carrier play didn't really interest me at all. That said, it was a lot of fun using the fighter load out to provide air cover for my team. I'm very much a fan of support roles and it was fun trying to lock down enemy carriers while providing spots … never mind dropping 9 bombs on people's faces. Does this mean that I've changed my stripes? Does that mean the Saipan has won me over to carrier game play? Should every non-CV player break out their wallets because this ship will convert you? Well, no.
The Saipan is about as quirky as you can get with a Premium Ship, joining the ranks of odd ducks like the Kitakami (we miss you!) and the Atlanta. The high tier squadrons with their weird sizes are novel and will offer a change of game play if nothing else. Novelty doesn't necessarily translate into power, though. Her air superiority load out is weak, plagued by an inability to do any significant damage through the course of a game through the long reload of her dive bomber squadron (impressive though it may be). Her small fighter groups equally can struggle with doing what they're meant to do best, which is dominate the skies, especially against experienced or higher tiered Captains. This leaves her small (and fragile) torpedo squadron load out as being the competitive option. Her torpedo air groups are much more viable for putting out the hurt with a fast cycle time between missions. I suspect the meta will involve keeping the Saipan quite close to the front lines when able to accelerate this even further, but I will leave that for the expert CV players to chime in on. Towards the end of my test runs with the Saipan, I was enjoying quite a bit of success with these small, fast reloading torpedo squadrons and was fancying my chances of actually giving CVs a second look.
What this means is that if you're a good CV Captain, you'll probably enjoy the Saipan for what she is — just like how a good cruiser player can grab an odd duck like the Atlanta and have some really fun games. They will undoubtedly recognize the Saipan's weak Air Superiority load out for what it is. They will know how to push out the mad DPS with the torpedo squadron build. But if you're going in blind to the intricacies of CV play, unless you have a really good sense of self-depreciating humour, the Saipan is going to take you for a ride and make you look silly.
Would I Recommend?
Short answer: If you love carriers, yes. If you don't, no.
If you don't like carrier game play or if you haven't put a lot of time into carriers, the Saipan is probably not for you. She's a unique ship — completely intended to be a departure from standard USN CV game play. The novelty alone may be worthwhile, never mind the bonus of finally having a good ship with which to train your Carrier Captains and take advantage of the skills you've selected so far. For collectors, she's pretty much a must have. She's the first premium CV and her unique squadrons are just icing on the cake. I mean, I'm nerding out because it has one of my favourite planes.
Like I said, the only people who will not enjoy this are those that don't like CV game play. And even for someone like myself, I must admit I've warmed up considerably after playing the Saipan and would probably enjoy taking her out every now and then if I acquired her.
It's disappointing, but not entirely unexpected, that the Air Superiority load-out for the Saipan should be so lackluster, performance wise. It sure looks cool though.
Recommended Modules:
As a tier 7 CV, the Saipan has four module upgrade slots.
- Air Groups Modification 1 is the best choice for the first slot. This will increase your aircraft gunnery by 10% and is pretty much a no-brainer for most CV Captains.
- For your second slot, you have a choice based on how you want to proceed. Air Groups Modification 2 will increase your fighter's hit points up to 2407 from 2006 (compared to 1506hp for the Hellcat and 1210 for the A6M5 Zero) and is probably the better choice.Flight Control Modification 1 is nice, but the lightning quick rearm of both fighter and torpedo plane squadrons makes it less optimal than with other USN CVs.
- Damage Control Modification 1 is your best choice for the third slot — anything to help keep those fires down. Though generally speaking, if you're taking damage, you're in a lot of trouble anyway and nothing from this third slot is really going to help you much!
- I opted for Damage Control Modification 2 on the off chance I found myself twice-ablaze. My experience has taught me this nice but it's seldom going to save you. Steering Gears Modification 2 would probably be the nicer choice, dropping her rudder shift from 15.9s to 12.8s. It will really be up to personal preference here.
Recommended Consumables:
The Saipan can only mount a single consumable, a Damage Control Party. It shouldn't be necessary to upgrade this to the premium version. Her camouflage is the standard you would expect for a tier 7 premium ship, providing a 50% bonus to experience along with the disruption and concealment benefits.
Recommended Captain Skills:
The Saipan does not benefit much from anti-aircraft or secondary battery skills (having poor range on the former and none of the latter). So it's best to keep with a more orthodox CV build and focus on skills that will increase the performance of your planes.
- From tier 1, Situational Awareness is best. It will let you know when enemy planes are inbound or when you're about to die to a destroyer that's spotting you. If you intend to use the Air Superiority Build, then you may also enjoy Expert Rear Gunners which will turn your Skyraider squadron into a brutal thug of a formation if your opponents try to shoot it down normally instead of strafing.
- From tier 2, Torpedo Armament Expertise will reduce the service time of your torpedo bombers down to 16 seconds when combined with the tier 4 Aircraft Servicing Expert (which is insane).
- From tier 3, reach for Torpedo Acceleration. Yes, even if you intend to largely use the Air Superiority build. Dogfighting Expert never benefits the Saipan because her aircraft will always be same-tier or higher than any other planes she encounters.
- From tier 4, Aircraft Servicing Expert is your first port of call. 16s torpedo plane rearming! It's nuts.
- From tier 5, Air Supremacy is your best choice. It makes the Air Superiority build silly (9 bombers!) and it makes your fighter squadrons terrifying for any Hiryu opposite you.


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In short: Consumers and the industry as a whole are still confusing data security with privacy, according to Eric Schrock, Chief Technology Officer of data management and virtualization company Delphix. In an interview with AndroidHeadlines, the industry veteran reflected on the recent Google+ privacy debacle and criticized Alphabet's subsidiary for subpar practices that potentially compromised hundreds of thousands of users, while also maintaining that episode and similar incidents are a consequence of a larger issue and can't be solely attributed to bugs, an inevitable occurrence in software development.
On the subject of privacy and security, Mr. Schrock suggested the general confusion of the two terms may be related to them both being relatively new additions to the public discourse, though they're still significantly different. "Security is a question of access," the CTO said, adding how some related mechanisms include two-factor authentication, encryption, threat analysis solutions, and anything else that prevents unauthorized parties from accessing data they're not supposed to. Mr. Schrock described privacy as "a far more nuanced, complex" topic that often comes down to the question of how sensitive the data any particular entity is handling is, and how significant would the implications of it leaking possibly be.
While undoubtedly related, trying to improve privacy by enhancing security or vice versa may not be the best course of action, especially for major Internet juggernauts, the executive opinionated. "Data is extremely critical to so much innovation in the world," Mr. Schrock said, adding that simply locking it down can be detrimental to many fields in the long term. However, as apps become more data-intensive and intelligent, with their knowledge base requirements growing frequently and rapidly, the tech industry as a whole needs to start implementing privacy-friendly mechanisms into their products from the get-go, he said. To that end, Google's Project Strobe which unveiled the aforementioned Google+ vulnerability was a worthwhile endeavor, the CTO believes. "Google essentially said 'hey, let's understand the nuance of data compliance,' which is a really hard problem," Mr. Schrock said, asserting that the company still should have thought about such issues years ago.
Background: Google initially responded to criticism about its lack of transparency regarding data management practices by providing consumers with more control over their profiles, allowing them to find out what the company knows about them, which third parties are accessing that data and via which apps, and allowing them to manually delete such information. However, a major lack of transparency is precisely what marked the latest Google+ episode that saw the company discover a vulnerability in its People API set this March which exposed data of roughly 500,000 users. Hundreds of app developers were able to exploit it but as to the question of whether any of them did so – Google has no idea. Granted, its official probe into the matter found no evidence of the vulnerability being abused but what Google disclosed in an extremely coy manner is that the vulnerability was live since 2015 and it only keeps two-week logs of People APIs usage activity. In other words, its evidence pool was limited to less than one percent of the timeframe during which the vulnerability existed.
The company's official statement was that the policy of keeping surprisingly short logs is a purely privacy-driven decision, a notion Mr. Schrock said he's "not buying." "It's clear those logs haven't been designed with security auditing in mind," the executive said. Google also decided against disclosing the vulnerability for over half a year, having only acknowledged it after the Wall Street Journal reported about it earlier this month. It immediately injected a variety of other announcements into the news cycle, including its decision to kill off the consumer version of Google+. Coupled with the fact that the disclosure was made less than 24 hours prior to the announcement of the firm's new hardware such as the Pixel 3 smartphones, the news of the privacy gaffe went under the radar relative to how it would have been treated at any other point in the year, particularly if the announcement was made at the time of the vulnerability's discovery – which was in the midst of Facebook's Cambridge Analytica scandal.
Some U.S. Senators are now demanding information about the cover-up, whereas Google's first response to the situation was to wind down Google+ over the next ten months, lock down some Android API permissions, and generally limit third-party access to data across its platforms. As Mr. Schrock explained it, that's a band-aid solution that will hurt innovation and won't address the real issue – the fact that Google's services haven't been built with privacy in mind from the ground up. Similar criticism was aimed at Facebook earlier this year when the social media juggernaut's first response to the Cambridge Analytica episode was to limit third-party access to user data without changing how the underlying network works. Some industry watchers recently speculated the Google+ discontinuation may actually be just a prelude to a new social media platform Google intends to build which would address many of those concerns directly, though the company gave no indication of that being the case.
Impact: The confusion about data security and digital privacy is likely to continue in the near future until the two terms become a more frequently encountered feature of the public discourse. In the meantime, some states such as California have already enacted their own digital information management laws and the idea of a federal legislative effort regulating the manner in which tech giants handle consumer data is now gaining bipartisan momentum, hence being likely to continue doing so regardless of the outcome of this year's mid-terms taking place in early November.
Whether Google manages to navigate this latest debacle unscathed remains to be seen, though that scenario is looking less realistic by the day, especially as it currently isn't near the top of the government's list of favorite domestic companies due to a variety of issues, including the controversial Project Dragonfly that even attracted criticism from Vice President Mike Pence earlier this month. Whatever happens, Google+ will soon be no more but it's still unclear whether the episode will improve the transparency of the company's vulnerability reporting, as the new gaffe clearly illustrated Google is still lacking in that department.


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Although the last Doggie Diner closed in 1986, the chain's mascot has lived on.
In addition to the one head sitting atop a pole at the site of the last Doggie Diner on 46th Avenue at Sloat, the other three traveling landmarks -- which have been road tripping across the U.S. and acting as canvases for crocheted yarn -- are now in need of a few repairs. And these pups sure aren't cheap.
According to the Doggie Diner Kickstarter page, these 300-pound, 10-foot-tall heads need some intricate repairs to their fiberglass and corroded metal interiors; and the price tag for such a feat? $48,000. Those who donate $9 or more will earn some Doggie Diner swag. But for those who really want to see the gigantic heads restored, and donate upwards of $10,000, they get a trip to Paris! This vacation (limited to two $10k donors) includes airfare, a two-night stay, and an insider tour of the City of Lights by John Law. Law, a local artist and co-founder of Burning Man, is in charge of the fundraising efforts, and is also the owner of the giant heads: Manny, Moe, and Jack.
So if you want that trip, you better get on it, the campaign officially launched today, and the fundraising page is open until Feb. 8. Hopefully the dogs will be on the road to repairs by then.


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Google wants to publicaly shame me?
Yes, you read that correctly Google released a new version of Chrome in the Summer of 2018 that started the shaming and they released another version in the Fall of 2018 that further increased the shaming…
What do I mean?
An unsecured website without SSL can mean huge problems for both the owners and the users. Starting with the release of Chrome 68, Google started taking serious measures to show its users, which websites have no data encryption.
Back in the Spring of 2017, Google introduced the Chrome 62 browser and a system to help users see which websites were not encrypting user data that was received.
Once a visitor started typing some sort of information into a website, a "Not Secure" notice would appear in the address bar, letting the user know about the status of the website.
With Chrome 68 – launch in July 2018 – the "Not Secure" notice is there from the start – without typing in any user data. (see image above)
Then in the fall of 2018 with the launch of Chrome 70, Google went even further, flagging sites that have old or outdated certificates.
What does this mean?
Once a visitor lands on a website and they see a huge "Not Secure" notice in the address bar the chances of them leaving the site increase by as much as 60%. So having an SSL installed to provide a Secure Lock is not only important it actually saves you from lost revenue.
Back in the Summer of 2018 prior to this industry change Google spent over a year notifying anyone who works in the industry of the new requirements. Sadly many Marketing Agencies and Small Businesses ignored the warnings or were misinformed.
A simple way to tell if you have an issue… just look in the browser (see image example in this post). If it says "Not Secure" fix it. If you have a site that's managed by your Marketing Agency and their site says "Not Secure", I'm thinking you should drop them, they're not keeping up with basic industry standards and they are costing you money!
What should I do?
If you want to secure your website with an SSL, here are a few ways to go about it.
- Get a FREE SSL certificate installed no charge… DesignLoyal proudly uses "Let's Encrypt" on all our hosted partner projects and we install them at no charge, we believe good service and increased value should come at no extra cost!
- Purchase an SSL. They can cost anywhere from $50-$200 to purchase and install. While you can purchase and install them yourself, having a qualified person do it for you is the best way to ensure it's done quickly and correct the first time.
Bottom line, make sure your visitors don't land on your website and see a huge "Not Secure" notice in the address bar! You will lose them!
I'm not trying to toot our own horn here but… Situations like this are why it's important to have a partner in Online Marketing like DesignLoyal, we make every attempt to keep up with changes in the industry and ensure our customers don't fall behind or lose customers due to industry changes.
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Well I have decided I wanted to try and making writing blog posts a more regular thing. It has been over a year since my last post and I am a little embarrassed to admit that. However, I feel like this is a creative outlet that I enjoy, but sometimes I struggle with consistency and … Continue reading Well here we go again…
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Resurgence of Anxiety
Hello All, So this is kind of both a life post and a nursing post, but i have been having a lot more anxiety lately. I think there are several factors that play into this, but I definitely noticed an increase. I thought maybe it was (those who don't appreciate lady talk avert your eyes) … Continue reading Resurgence of Anxiety
New Beginnings
Well here we are again, way over due for a post, but I have a good excuse I promise! This one is going to be sort of a combined nursing and lifestyle post, so bear with me, there is a lot to update, and I will try to be succinct and not bore you too … Continue reading New Beginnings
Leaving My First Job
Hey All! I am writing this post more directed to nursing, but I think that a lot of the ideas that I will be sharing in this post apply to all areas of work. I am going to write about how quitting my first job went for me. I will be the first to admit … Continue reading Leaving My First Job
That Crazy Night Shift
Hello All! I have recently switched back to night shift (as I previously stated in my other post, into higher acuity the PCU), and I totally loving it oddly enough. It is definitely hard on your body, but I think being on a great unit with great people helps! I have completed my "preceptor days" … Continue reading That Crazy Night Shift
Long Overdue
Sooooo Hello everyone, I have been in a lot of transition, so I apologize for not having posted anything for a couple of months. (Shame on me), but now that things have settled down some, hopefully I am going to get back on track. I've been moving around in my job, and taking on new … Continue reading Long Overdue
Crazy Days
Oh man! So the other day I had one of the craziest days I have ever had. I even stayed behind for an extra hour because I had to finish my charting (something I've never done before). I must admit that despite being such a ridiculous day and feeling like i just fell behind on … Continue reading Crazy Days
Flip Flopping
No I don't mean like the shoe... 🙂 Hey all! So as you may know, I'm a nurse (duh) but I recently switched back to a day shift. Some of you are probably thinking HOORAY! that must be awesome for you, and while I mostly would have to agree with you, there were some initial … Continue reading Flip Flopping
Psych Unit?
Recently my Medical/Oncology unit has felt more like a psychiatric unit. This past week we have had patients screaming, throwing things at nurses and other people, threatening anyone that comes in the room, being verbally abusive not only to their nurses, but to the people that need to be constantly sitting with them. In the … Continue reading Psych Unit?
Hello Everyone! If you know me at all, I am not sure exactly who is reading these blogs, you know I am in a long distance relationship. I reside currently in San Diego, and he is currently in San Fransisco. So there is no hopping in the car after I've had a bad day to … Continue reading Flying


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Venue : Swimming Pool, Stadium Kluang.
Run Start : 4.50pm, 5.30pm ( start the running)
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CEPR Annual Macroeconomics and Growth Programme Meeting
When:02 November 2017
- 03 November 2017
Where:House of Finance, Campus Westend
The CEPR Annual meeting of the Macroeconomics and Growth programme will be hosted and co-organised by the Research Center SAFE at Goethe University Frankfurt on Thursday 2 and Friday 3 November, 2017. The organisers are Francesco Caselli (London School of Economics and CEPR) and Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln (Goethe University Frankfurt, CEPR and SAFE).
The keynote speaker is Matthias Doepke (Northwestern University and CEPR).
This event is by invitation only!


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Early days .. but User Generated content seems to be a big focus of 3GSM. This makes me happy ofcourse since UGC is the core theme of Mobile Web 2.0 and also my talk at 3GSM
As pe the BBC
User-generated content, mobile TV and location-based services are all likely to cause a buzz among the 60,000 visitors. With one billion handsets sold last year, it is certainly in a healthy state but the majority of customers are still stuck in a talk and text world. For Ben Wood, director at research firm CCS Insight, this year's conference will be the start of the journey to really bring the web to the mobile phone.
and also .. consistent with my own views ..
Flat-rate charging for data downloads is already happening – with 3′s bundled X-series service for example – and there will be a glut of handsets with better colour screens and more memory to persuade users to make the transition from voice to data.
I am also watching the announcement fom Nokia: Nokia Web Browser with Mini Map
The Nokia Web Browser with Mini Map enables mobile discovery of videos in websites such as the YouTube Mobile site in a similar way as with PC web browsers. With YouTube Mobile now also compatible with the AVC video format which is the most common format supported in mobile devices, the single-click playback of videos is also possible in the same intuitive way as with PC web browsers. The Nokia Web Browser with Mini Map and AVC video playback are standard features in all the latest Nokia Nseries multimedia computers.


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How to hit your goals
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You set annual goals in all the key areas of your life. You constantly read on-line tips about new ways to achieve your goals. You make sure you're doing things properly to succeed. Then why is it still a battle to hit those goals?
1) We are definitely the sum total of all our thoughts and habits. William Allen said many years ago, "Our thoughts make us." Dale Carnegie coached millions of people around the world to focus on what they are becoming, rather than just concentrate on their circumstances. In other words, our habits are what shape us. We need to practice and build skills and attitudes that make us deserving of achieving our goals.
The most important key to a better future is you. It's an inside job. If you want a better than average income or business, become a better than average authority and/or businessperson. Become someone who has a better than average way with people, a bright smile, a strong handshake, top-notch communications skills, enthusiasm, and confidence. Be someone who practices opportunity-thinking and attitude control, and a person who learns finances and business. As Jim Rohn reminded us, "Work harder on yourself than on your job."
Many of us suffer excess weight around the belly and hips because of an overabundance of unhealthy food and drink in our diet. We also suffer from consuming an overabundance of unhealthy information from television, radio, the print media, as well as our smartphones and iPads. All of this makes many people intellectually unhealthy. Be smart, and feed your brain only from the best sources of information. Ignore the trash, and watch the improvements to your attitude and your thinking.
The difference between you and others who will not be as successful is that you are constantly working on improving yourself and your business. You take programs that require you to practice until your habits improve. You read and listen to only the best. On a flight yesterday, I noticed that the first-class passengers weren't reading check-out trash – they had the Wall Street Journal and similar material open. That should be a clue to others.
Many people just stop growing. They get through university and think they've studied enough and deserve success, only to find out that life isn't a study session. It's real-time action, choices, decisions and behaviours. Education may get you a job and in the game, but your success philosophy, skills, and behaviour are what actually create your success. In many ways, this might not seem fair. When do you ever get to just soak in life and enjoy it all?
The answer is, you can have it all, but getting there requires achieving some goals, and they just don't magically accomplish themselves. Even personal life-goals like travel, health, financial, social, spiritual and recreational objectives need clear, simple actions that take you there.
2) Successful people do the things that others know they should be doing, but don't get around to doing. For every action there is a subsequent learning and next action. Those who succeed learn and keep advancing. You can plan and plan, but those who win pull the trigger and act despite any preconceived worries and concerns. If there wasn't some risk to be had and learning to be done, you would have achieved your goals already.
That is the game. Think, plan, act – despite possible risks. In today's world, I hear too many excuses, too much worrying, and placing of too much blame. It's as if we shouldn't even try or, at least stay determined, focused and persevere. How spoiled, cynical and even downright negative can some people get? It would be great if we all were in the perfect organization with the perfect offering to the markets, with the best engaged team, great management and leadership, and with tons of resources to spend but, the truth is, that isn't reality for most of us. It may never be that way. You make the life you deserve in spite of the circumstances. You deserve the life you create from your actions, not your worries. As a new pup in business I copied the actions of my mentors until my own learning piled up, became an essential part of who I was and what I did, and I became me, the person I wanted to be. Who are we taking mentoring from today? Are we done learning? I don't think so.
When you hear yourself say, "We should _______", in some sort of vague complaint, correct yourself and say, "I should ______." Always work on you and your actions. It's your only doorway to possibilities and it's what gives you the power to change whatever needs changing.
When you hear complaints and criticisms without a vision or a statement of what is wanted instead, remind yourself and say, "What do we want?" Grumbling and blaming are useless unless they present a contrasting reality to what is wanted; the best thing to do is state out loud what you want.
Tell yourself, it is possible. (No one attempts to do things they think are impossible). It doesn't necessarily guarantee success, but it does open up your mind to what is possible instead of remaining in an automatic restraint grounded in the past.
Then ask what is missing that if it were present, would make achieving your goals possible. This question can be magical.
Formulate your answer this way: "Who do I need to be to make that missing ingredient present? What do I need to learn to achieve the desired result? What skills do I need in order to be the person who elegantly makes it all happen?"
Remember, always stay in a success state of mind. Don't let junk information in. We engage their customer's by conducting listening meetings to get at all the data.
We research what's happening not only to their customers but, to their client's customer. What is the underlying structure here? What are they troubled or challenged with? What would help them change their lives – help them move forward? After the meeting we connect the dots, determine opportunities, possibly change the offering and story and get into action. This is where the innovation comes in to play. This took some time, but compared to the cost of treading water, it's quick and cheap.
Now I realize only so well that business and the jobs we're in are driven by routine tasks with short term deadlines. So many client teams were not that interested initially in doing that kind of thinking. Imagine the founders of the sacred cows, the political pressures and the creators of that year's business plan all being upset with the findings that were discovered. Because of all that and limited time, so many just want better short-term operational 'how to's' that will magically improve their lives now. "Can't you just teach us how to sell or communicate better to our customers this morning?" "Why do we have to go through all this disruptive process?" "Uh, how will that help us sell our CD's!"
So why am I talking about connecting the dots today? Well, as much as I realize few want to peel the onion and more just unknowingly give opinions or spew concepts without facts and ignore connecting the dots to a bigger picture of what's going on, I see that those who do put 2% to 10% of their time to actually thinking and aligning with others who do, are the learners. They are the opportunist. They are the winners today. This is not just for Silicon Valley.
Well, free markets accompanied by free trade make us richer by economizing on the amount of knowledge or information we needed to produce things. Just imagine the amount of knowledge we would need just to produce our own breakfast. How would we know about pork, raising pigs, producing wheat, almond milk, chicken feeding, protecting and raising chickens just to get eggs? How to grow and process coffee, etc? How costly a breakfast that would be? Therefore, aligning with others knowledge and realizing their outputs make sense.
Let's act on our curiosity more. When you hear off-the-top stuff, go find out, especially as it relates to your customers and team. It's amazing how Mr. Google has taught so many of us to dig deeper about so many things. Now let's connect the dots from what we learn. It usually takes a team to do so. Go find one in your industry and company. Your career and business will advance.
Kevin D. Crone
Dale Carnegie Business Group
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