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Sustainability has been on the minds of hoteliers for as long as it has affected hotel guests, but it wasn't until the late 2000s that the switch to sustainable business practices was profitable enough for the idea to "tip" in the eyes of operators.
Ronald Lewis, associate brand manager at The Dial Corporation, a producer of personal care and cleaning products for hotels, said that hotels are more interested in sustainable products than ever before, with the majority of attention being paid to recyclable materials in the hotel guestroom and strategies to reduce water useage and the overall carbon footprint.
For Dial, the biggest shift has been in the reduction of packaging used in bar soap and bath-related products in the guestroom, which often contain scarce amounts of actual product but take up a sizable space in the hotel dumpster after a guest's stay. Simple switches, such as eliminating plastic bags from packaging and switching to biodegradable materials such as cardboard boxes or recyclable goods are very attractive for hotels.
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Well, the secret is out. Apple reveals new details on the Apple Watch on its Monday "Spring Forward". And here comes the most expensive Apple Watch you can buy.
The Apple Watch starts at $349, but ends at $17,000. Yes, that's a 17 and then three zeroes. Do you want to pay $17,000 for it?
OK, you don't have to pay that much. The Apple Watch comes in two sizes and three styles.
The Apple Watch Sport, which has a space grey or silver anodized aluminum case, will start at $349 for the smaller 38mm version and $399 for the 42mm model. The Apple Watch version ranges from $549 to $1,049 for the 38mm version and from $599 to $1,099 for the 42mm version. The price you pay will largely depend on the band you choose. Then, there's the Apple Watch Edition, which comes with an 18-karat gold case and polished sapphire crystal, begins at $10,000 and top out at $17,000.
The price may become the hottest talking points from any Apple Watch conversation. It's expensive!!! And here comes another question: What this "Watch" can really do?
I'm not even sure we can call it a watch. Okay, it goes on the wrist, and it can tell the time, but Apple said that the Apple watch allows you to receive calls, communicate by tapping on the interface, and features a variety of apps promoting and measuring the wearer's health. In addition, Apple announced it is offering researchers new development tools, called ResearchKit, to help medical researchers design apps for clinical trials.
Is it familiar? Yes, many people have found that those are what iPhone can do. I have an iPhone, why I should I but Apple Watch?
Apple may have answered this question. Do you know that in order to work, the Apple Watch needs to be paired with an iPhone?
Good or bad, the Apple Watch will be available for pre-order on April 10 and in stores on April 24 in Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan and the U.K. and U.S.
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March 19, 2009
Dear Praying Friends,
Greetings from Florida! January started off with many doctor appointments and the cataract operations on both of Dotty's eyes. Her vision has improved some, but since she has macular degeneration in both eyes it has proven to be somewhat of a challenge. With that exception, we are both in good health, for which we sincerely thank the Lord.
Since the first week of January I have been teaching the Wednesday night Spanish-speaking Bible study of the New Testament Baptist Church in Largo, Florida. The church has a very good pastor from Ariquipa, Peru, Pastor Carlos Marquino, who is also presently working part-time to help support the family. He has asked me to continue helping in this ministry as much as possible. I substitute for him on Sundays when he is absent.
I am thankful for the opportunity that I had to minister in the Dominican Republic from February 26th until March 10th. It was one of the most rigorous schedules that I have ever experienced, but one of great blessing! Pastor Enrique Mejia met me at the airport in Santo Domingo and I hit the ground running. The first day I preached in two services, for an hour each time, in a Bible Conference. The next day I shared God's Word with pastors and their wives for another two hours.
Sunday I had the opportunity to preach in three different churches in three different towns. On Monday afternoon I began teaching in a seminar for preachers and pastors. It was an intensive course on the technique and the preparation for Expository Preaching. I considered it a wonderful opportunity to challenge 14 to 18 pastors for 6 days, taking more than 20 hours to cover the material. It was certainly worthwhile to help them learn how to do a better and more complete job in their preparation and ministry of the Word of God. Please pray with us that these pastors will faithfully prepare and teach God's Word. Pastor Mejia and his wife are very dedicated servants of the Lord and are doing a good job in the northeast area of the Dominican Republic.
After I taught for five hours on Saturday we returned to the main city of Hato Mayor and they had me on a local TV station for a question/answer one-hour program. God used this special time as I shared the Gospel. We pray that their TV ministry will continue to have a good impact upon that entire area. Again on Sunday morning, afternoon and night I was taken to three different churches to minister the Word.
Not only was I involved in teaching and preaching on this trip, but also I set aside hours to give council to many who urgently needed help. After finishing up the 12 days that I was with them, Pastor Enrique Mejia informed me that I had preached and taught a total of 32 hours during my visit. You can imagine how tired this 75 year-old pastor was after that time of ministry was completed. Actually, I was exhausted!
Pastor Enrique Mejia has invited me to return next year, and to take Dotty with me so that the ladies can have special sessions with her while I hold a seminar with the pastors. I told him that we would pray about it, but if we return I would prefer not to preach or teach more than 2 hours each day. This group of pastors requested permission to print my book, Llegando a Ser Cristiano, (Becoming a Christian) in the Dominican Republic, since the cost of shipping the books is so expensive. Please pray with us regarding these requests.
We continue to receive requests from prisoners in the State prisons, however, we have not received permission as of yet to place the book, Becoming a Christian, in the prisons of California. Please add this request to the ones mentioned above. This summer we are not planning any promotional trips, as in other years, for we have to work on the revision of the books for both the Spanish and English languages. I will also be working on radio programs that I am preparing for Spanish radio broadcasting. We will continue to help in the Spanish work here locally. Thank you so very much for your continued support for us through your prayers and special gifts. They are much appreciated and needed at this time.
Yours in His Service,
Myron and Dotty Philippi


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It's the fifth Monday of the month and it's our first photo inspiration + ANY CARD MAKING STYLE GOES challenge at House of Cards! (HOC)
My genre on this team is Shabby/Vintage so of course I provide the inspiration for you if you so choose to try out this style.
If you do not like to work within this genre, then never fear our other teamies have samples for you on CAS, Cute/ Fun and Classic/Elegant, just pop over and have a peek.
The obligatory stitching and some pearls to complete the look.
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Have a great weekend,


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For foster parents Beth Jordan and Billy Holthusen, it all started with a stray they found in 2012. That experience helped them realize the pet homelessness problem in their home of Mesa, Arizona. To date, they've helped more than 50 dogs find loving homes—and they're saving more every month.
i am a current foster parent and a case manager for the rescue that I work with. Currently, I have a 10 year old senior dog, a 10 week old puppy, a momma cat and her four newborn babies born yesterday. Last week I took my three 8 week old kittens back to the rescue for adoption. I also took the 6 eight week old puppies that I raised from 2 weeks old. All 6 of my puppies were adopted in 48 hours because they were socialized, house broken and would sit before being fed.
I foster because I can make a difference and give an animal that's life is in jeopardy a chance at a new life! Training and working with them at a young age allows me to help that puppy or kitten find the best home for them.


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2017 REDARC Components Catalogue
Click on the image below to read our Trade Catalogue online.
The 2017 Trade Catalogue is available in two easy to use formats, a downloadable PDF and an interactive, easy-to-navigate, digital catalogue for online browsing.
It features our extensive range of products and is the most comprehensive and informative catalogue ever released by REDARC Electronics. It features over 80 pages of product information, including installation tips, specifications, wiring and troubleshooting guides, a glossary of technical terms and applications. The entire range is covered in an easy to read format, from 4X4, caravan, RV and boating applications through to commercial trucking and mining vehicle components.
Bursting with innovative technologies to keep you powered for longer, the catalogue is divided into four sections covering power management (BCDC'S, Solar, Inverter, BMS), vehicle safety devices (Tow-Pro, Alarms and Roll Over Sensor), voltage converter products (Reducers and Charge Equalisers) and electrical control systems (52mm Gauges and Timers), with many more featured.
If you are short on time, the catalogue has a fast-find listing at the back which enables you to search by part number, product description or vehicle application.


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Unique and enriching programs and services that offer a comprehensive experience beyond the flagship conference
- All Program Packages include full access to the conference (the 22nd Session of The Youth Assembly) in New York City.
- Booking a Program Package is optional. Although highly recommended, it is not a prerequisite to attending the conference (the 22nd Session of The Youth Assembly).


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Today's generation of dry minilab can encourage customers to conduct the easiest back-up of all—having a trusted retailer print their digital pictures on high quality paper so that it can be enjoyed for years to come instead of having those memories held hostage on a hard drive. So The most important printing materials is paper.
The microporous layer is the superior coating used for inkjet photo paper. The coating has micro pores or nano pores (smaller pores than micro), which is based on silica or alumina, but in these days, the material is rare due to high cost. What is important is this coating can accommodate all types of inks, dye and pigment due to its pores, and also can cope very well with the particles in the pigment ink which "sit" well in or on the pores of the microporous coating. RC glossy photo paper is almost always made with the top quality and PE Coated base paper.The main benefit of this base paper is to enhance the stability of the final products


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Step One
You must login. Look towards the top right corner of this screen and look for the Login Prompt on the blue menu bar. Click it.
Enter your your e-mail address and password.
On the second blue menu bar at the top, click on Register for an Event, choose the Event and follow the prompts.
The system will know your Name, Address, Phone Number and any dietary restrictions that you may have entered from other events. If you have previously registered your spouse, then both names will be added to the registration system at the same time.
Step Two
Answer the questions presented. The first one is the most important as it says Unknown and you must select YES, you are attending the Conference or NO you are not attending.
Below the first question are the options of which events you will attend at the conference, such as the Thursday night event, Home Hosting,, Saturday Conference, and so on. Note that events are still being added such as Zip Lining, so check back often and you can modify your registration.
If you need to change your prefered name, phone number, dietary restrictions other other details, click on Edit Your Profile just above where your prefered first name is displayed. Note that the prefered first name is what will be printed on your name badge. If your name is Robert but you go by Bob, entered Bob in the prefered name spot when you edit your profile. If you have a dietary restriction such as an allergy, the catering staff will be alerted and your name badge will have a mark that will ensure you get the correct meal.
After your registration is Submitted, then you will see the option to edit your Spouse's registration or add your spouse.
Step Three - if needed
After you have submitted your registration, you will see the option to continue to edit your registration, edit your spouse's registration, add a spouse or fellow member if you are registering a group, or to e-mail a confirmation e-mail to yourself and others on your registration list.
You must login to register. The benefit is the system will know who you are and you will be able to modify your registration before the event. If you do not know your password, click on the link below where it asks for your password that says Lost Your Password? and enter your e-mail address and submit. Your password will be e-mailed to you immediately and you should receive it within seconds but less that 5 minutes in any event. If the system does not recognize your e-mail address, check with your club secretary to ensure you are entered in the District database.
If your spouse has not been entered into the District Database for other events, you may have to add a new record. First you should try searching for the name and if not found, Cancel the search and choose to add a new record. Once created, you will never have to do this again for other events.
If you have any problems getting your spouse registered, either contact the registrar or send an e-mail with your Spouse's name and e-mail address to email@example.com and we'll be happy to assist.


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Aalaporaan Thamizhan Telugu version released
Aalaporaan Thamizhan Telugu version released
Aalaporaan Thamizhan has been a hit with the audience and the Telugu version is also speculated to be a hit. The good news comes as the official Telugu version has released and we bring the video with exclusive details surrounding the song and the much awaited movie.
The Telugu version of Aalaporaan Thamizhan has been titled Paalinchara Pilloda.
The song has been topping almost every ranking list in Tamil Nadu and the same is expected out of the Telugu version and listening to the song, it seems like it will break records in a few days. AR Rahman has weaved magical music surrounding the song which has been penned by Vivek.
The lyric songs from the movie is available on YouTube and it has been a hit with the audience with audiences praising AR Rahaman's ability to weave magic with his tunes. Another highlight of the film is Vijay himself who seems to be on his top form in the film. The dialogue delivery in the teaser and promo seems to be whistle-worthy and will surely make the audience go mad at the theatres when it releases. There are many other points which make the teaser an absolute delight to watch like the grand action sequences, crisp editing and the visuals which seem to be larger than life.
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Presently, the corporation is chopping some 5,000 more jobs in New York State – apparently sending the work abroad. IBM seems blind to the injury this causes in its own community. But injury turned to insult when the community learned that the company took $45 million from state taxpayers just last summer in exchange for a promise to keep jobs in New York. This double cross caused an uproar, but the company's top executives are tone deaf to public sentiment. In March, they heaped more insult on the American people – at the same time they were lobbying to get a chunk of federal stimulus money from us taxpayers, they submitted a patent application on a new computer system designed to help corporations send more American jobs overseas.
Could they possibly get any more stupid? Yes! IBM is now offering new job opportunities for workers being displaced. The only catch is they have to move to China, Slovakia, India or wherever their old job was sent. What a deal – you can keep your offshored job, but you have to offshore yourself! Oh – and you also have to work for the low, low, low local wage rate.
Why should our tax dollars finance such stupidity? Rep. John Hall and others are sponsoring HR 1874, the Patriot Corporations of America Act, to support companies that do not abandon our country and our communities. For information, call Hall's office: 202-225-5441.
Using Debt to fund Buybacks and Dividends. It was just last October that IBM raised $4 billion from bond sales. They paid a fairly high price too, with yields ranging from 6.5% for the 5 year bond, to 8% for the 30 year bond (details here). Now they announce a $3 billion share repurchase, and a boost to the dividend?
Layoffs Too? Official numbers are hard to find, but it appears that IBM has laid off up to 10,000 workers in North America this year. Public companies have a responsibility to shareholders to maximize ROI. At times that requires getting rid of some dead wood. But is it really prudent to lay off 10% of your U.S. workforce, while ramping up spending on share buybacks and dividends? That must be horrible for employee morale and loyalty.
I can't think of a better way to describe IBM's strategy here than "jacking up the dividend, then doing a big ol' share buyback to lure in longs and scare off shorts, resulting in a short-term pop in our stock. Yes, we have a bunch of liabilities that we should probably pay off first, but we'll deal with that later". Hmm, that doesn't exactly roll off the tongue. Maybe if The Treasury Dept was in charge of naming it, they'd give us a catchy acronym like JUDDBSBLLSSRSTPOSYWHBL...
Will the buybacks, layoffs, and dividends that IBM purchased be worth the cost? I'm skeptical to say the least. They may succeed in temporarily juicing the stock, which is probably what management wants to happen. That allows for bonuses and profits from employee stock options. But will these moves be good for IBM 10 years down the road? I highly doubt it.
Sketchy moves like this buyback should discourage investors from buying IBM. Wall St, however, was predictably impressed. The logic must have been along these lines, "yield good, money good, earnings good. buy ibm." I haven't seen any concern about their balance sheet mentioned. There are so many better companies to own other than IBM, I don't get it. Among other tech companies, I'd take Apple (AAPL) over IBM any day, even at current valuations. ...
Back to IBM's balance sheet. It certainly isn't as bad as GE's, but it ain't pretty either. The announcement Tuesday may give IBM shares a temporary boost and scare off potential shorts. But in the long run it will degrade their balance sheet further, and reinforce the cycle of debt. Here are some highlights from their Q1 2009 balance sheet:
The last bullet-point is the most concerning. It means that IBM's current ratio is only 1.18x, which indicates that their short-term liquidity situation isn't great. In our current economic environment, why are they scraping by with minimal liquidity, and simultaneously increasing the dividend and instituting a $3b share-buyback? They could be putting that money towards paying off their substantial total debt of $30.9b. Instead, it seems they plan to keep re-financing and rolling debt over for eternity. Who knows, they might be forced to sell back those repurchased shares much lower eventually (GE was forced to sell shares at a ~20 year low, after huge buybacks at much higher prices).
The bill, the Healthy Families Act, would be binding on employers that had 15 or more workers. It would guarantee employees one paid hour off for each 30 hours worked, enabling them to earn up to seven paid sick days a year. They would be entitled to claim their days when they or a child, a parent, a spouse or someone else close to them became ill. ...
The legislation's preamble notes that nearly half of private-sector workers and three-fourths of low-wage workers do not receive paid sick days. Far too often, advocates say, such employees feel compelled to go to work even when ill, because they fear being fired or at the least losing the day's pay. Ms. DeLauro recalled that at a meeting with wives of men serving in Iraq, one of them complained that her employer had threatened to fire her because she took two days off when her child was ill.
"The majority of plan sponsors wants to terminate their frozen plans quickly, but doesn't have sufficient assets to do so," says Cecil Hemingway, U.S. retirement practice leader at Aon. "Survey participants told us they made the design changes associated with closing their pension plans (soft freeze) or ending future benefit accruals (hard freeze). However, without addressing the investment paradigm, they are leaving themselves open to significant future risk," he adds.
Revenue and dividends are going only to the investors, and year after year more bonuses are going to IBM managers. This is having a negative affect on the morale of IBM employees. Bonuses to corporate management are under scrutiny by President Barack Obama's administration. Management bonuses are also under the control of Sam Palmisano, our CEO and Corporate Social Responsibility offices. We will no longer accept these excessive benefits to IBM managers. We ask IBM to reinvest money in the direction of IBM workers (main stakeholders of this company), and especially to the employees that have not received salary increases for 7 or 10 years. On top of this many education course are cut due to low funds.
Find a place that will provide you with meaningful work and will treat you decently. If it's not very meaningful, make sure you get compensated well working for some other corporate behemoth. Scary, but when has the world ever had certainties? Speaking of certainties, last I checked there is no legal guarantee for IBMers of a severance package... -sector7g-
But if a U. S. worker loses his or her job, the family faces financial ruin if sickness strikes any member because they are without health-care coverage. Bridge coverage is available but unaffordable for anyone but the wealthy.
Worse yet, if a major illness is diagnosed during unemployment, a workers becomes unemployable, bringing on a life sentence of poverty.
Little wonder, then, that consumer spending has ground to halt in the United States, which makes the economic meltdown that much harder to combat or ever solve.
This underscores the fact universal health care is not just smart and fair social policy but also smart economic policy. But this fact may get lost in the shuffle as the vested interests in the lousy health-care system in the United States start their propaganda.
In fact, there are so many economic advantages to universal health care that it's puzzling why the Republicans, conservatives and business interests haven't been pushing for it. Here's are the economic advantages to decent, universal health care:
Canada has a better health-care system than does the United States. Even developing nations, such as Ecuador or Mexico, look after the basic needs of their populations better than the United States looks after its citizens.
As an American living in Canada, I find it embarrassing that the United States -- rich and smart --has such a mediocre health-care system.
I find it embarrassing that even educated and financially astute Americans buy the lies that the AMA and others spew about Canada and other "socialized" medical schemes.
Facts are that governments in the United States are suckers. They cover the high-risk populations --indigent, elderly and veterans -- and leave the gravy to the private-sector health insurers. These companies, by the way, make profits off their operations that are the same size as Canada's entire health-care tab for 32 million people
It's pretty shameful, but delusions persist and the medical myth-makers are girding for battle. But Americans are capable of skepticism and deep down most realize their health-care system is sick, maybe terminal, and needs treatment as soon as possible.
On Monday, just a week after the White House photo-op, The Washington Post reported that Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina was preparing to run a series of ads attacking the public option. The planning for this ad campaign must have begun quite some time ago.
The Post has the storyboards for the ads, and they read just like the infamous Harry and Louise ads that helped kill health care reform in 1993. Troubled Americans are shown being denied their choice of doctor, or forced to wait months for appointments, by faceless government bureaucrats. It's a scary image that might make some sense if private health insurance — which these days comes primarily via HMOs — offered all of us free choice of doctors, with no wait for medical procedures. But my health plan isn't like that. Is yours?
"We can do a lot better than a government-run health care system," says a voice-over in one of the ads. To which the obvious response is, if that's true, why don't you? Why deny Americans the chance to reject government insurance if it's really that bad?
For none of the reform proposals currently on the table would force people into a government-run insurance plan. At most they would offer Americans the choice of buying into such a plan.
And the goal of the insurers is to deny Americans that choice. They fear that many people would prefer a government plan to dealing with private insurance companies that, in the real world as opposed to the world of their ads, are more bureaucratic than any government agency, routinely deny clients their choice of doctor, and often refuse to pay for care. ...
The medical-industrial complex has called the president's bluff. It polished its image by showing up at the big table and promising cooperation, then promptly went back to doing all it can to block real change. The insurers and the drug companies are, in effect, betting that Mr. Obama will be afraid to call them out on their duplicity. It's up to Mr. Obama to prove them wrong.
"But dependency on government has never been bad for the rich. The pretense of the laissez-faire people is that only the poor are dependent on government, while the rich take care of themselves. This argument manages to ignore all of modern history, which shows a consistent record of laissez-faire for the poor, but enormous government intervention for the rich." From Economic Justice: The American Class System, from the book Declarations of Independence by Howard Zinn.
The growing legions of the unemployed can be forgiven for not shouting hallelujah. It's a little like watching the drunken driver who plowed into your family car and caused untold havoc and heartache, suddenly pulling up one morning, no worse for the wear, in a sparkling new vehicle.
The folks who led the nation to this financial abyss are the ones being made whole on the taxpayers' dime. We can look after them, all right. But we can't seem to get credit flowing in any normal way again; we can't stanch the terrible flow of home foreclosures; and we're not doing nearly enough to address the most critical need of all: putting people back to work. ...
"With the erosion of social and corporate safety nets, tightening credit and declining home equity, most Americans have little financial cushioning to survive a job loss. Without a steady paycheck, 50 percent of Americans say they could not meet their financial obligations for more than a month — and, of that, a disturbing 28 percent couldn't support themselves for more than two weeks of unemployment." ...
The financial industry is seen as essential, but millions of American workers are not. They're expendable. If as much attention, energy and resources were given to the effort to put Americans back to work as has been given to putting the banking industry back on its feet, you'd have fewer Champagne toasts on Wall Street but a lot more high-fiving in family homes across the country.
It's also wishful thinking to expect the industry to regulate itself. Banks may be penitent for the moment, and some have voluntarily revised pay programs to reduce incentives for excessive risk-taking. But the contrition won't last, so it's only reasonable for authorities in the United States and elsewhere to try to address these flaws.
The right approach is to set sensible rules that govern broad, structural aspects of compensation. This means requiring incentive pay to have a heavy equity component and barring bankers from gaining access to such holdings for years. Very large annual bonuses should also be subject to so-called clawbacks in future years.
Vault's IBM Business Consulting Services message board is a popular hangout for IBM BCS employees, including many employees acquired from PwC. Some sample posts follow:
Assuming the 7% drop, revenue in 2009 would drop from $103.6b to $96.3b. But to keep an EPS of $9.10, gross expense (revenue - earnings) would have to drop from $91.5b to $84.7b (I assumed a buyback of 75m shares, typical for recent years, but the calculation is not too sensitive to share buyback, unless the stock involved back is truly h46217527uge.)
So in effect, IBM is predicting a huge decrease in gross expense. But $6.8b? Not even huge US layoffs much larger than what we have seen so far would save that kind of money in 2009. Fantastic jumps in software and services margins? Doubtful to me. Can somebody show me how to pull this rabbit out of the hat?
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many new authors have introduced themselves on the whispers forum. i have just done so, and am looking forward to working with them. i haven't written much lately, becasue of work and other issues. depression does not help. anyway, i discovered a love of root beer and ice cream and rum. also does not help much.
once again, i blame blockbuster. it's only a mere mile or more to the store, and i can return the online dvds, so now i have no excuse to do anything but sit on my butt in between work. i need to grab myself by the throat, shake me, and get to work. maybe just slap myself around a bit.
writing is the center of my life; i havebeen a bookwrom for years, and a want to be writer for years. so why aren't i persuing it harder? for the same reason i don't do anything. laziness. come to think of it, i'm too lazy to slap myself. guess i get away with another day off.
plot is a hard one for me, and thankfully even lazy people like me can do it. i jsut need to day dream. i have the ending, i think, for the mars book, but not the for the paramedic book,not one i like. and this book will be around for years, maybe, and other people will read it and decide if it's good enough for them to want my other books, so it is worth taking time to do it right. i just have to do it.
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Welcome to The Storm Nexus!
IMPORTANT: Before you proceed, please know that this is a NON-CANON, INFORMATION-HEAVY, SANDBOX game. It's a much more classically Perny game in practice than one might think from just reading our game information, but it is definitely NOT a game for people who just want to glance at the history to see what the local plot is and then toss in their characters. If you enjoy a detailed, comprehensive setting that is carefully thought out and has a LOT of variety and potential for characters and plots, and if you enjoy reading, this is a good game for you.
If just this little warning is TL;DR to you, on the other hand, then you may want to move on. XD Storm Nexus is a great game, but it is not for everyone. There is a LOT of information here. But I swear, it's less complex than it looks! I'm just terrible at being concise.;p -- Knife, SN's Head Admin
Currently seeking dragon Candidates for our latest clutch; adult dragonriders of all sorts; and adult wherhandlers of all sorts, as we are about to get the wher side of the game more active and organized. Also raiders, holdless, traders and other assorted folk.
As we are just gearing up again after a hiatus, we are open to just about all character types right now! This INCLUDES adult Kings (bronzes), both wher and dragon!
- Set on Pern with most of the familiar setting features you'd expect, but with some historical and setting changes inspired largely by Dune and to a lesser degree by other sources. There is no need to have read Dune, or even the Pern books, to understand the setting, however. Everything you need to know to play Storm Nexus is available in our site documentation.
- We are now using diogenessbeast's Multi-Format RP System! In essence, it is now possible to participate in the game by creating art, writing stories/poetry/etc., and posting livechat RP logs. These are considered 'activity' in precisely the same way as normal forum RP posts, and are rewarded with marks in a similar way. In this way you can participate in the game in ways other than just RPing on the forum!
- We have a large admin shop and marks system. including random bags!
- More or less canon caste system for dragonkind. The six familiar ranks (the basic five plus sport/'white') are present. Instead of having additional new colors, I have divorced the hide color from the concept of draconic caste altogether. This frees players to design their dragons more or less however they want. (Also, our queens can chew stone and flame because they were designed by a team in our history rather than a traditionalistic old Asian lady, although they still fly in a low wing set aside for them because they're so big and relatively slow.)
- There is "magic," although it isn't magic in the traditional sense. There's a big emphasis on quantum physics. The science is fuzzy, but just accurate enough to be fun and to help the suspension of disbelief (in the head admin's opinion, anyway!)
- No sexuality-based Impressions. Candidate sex is almost irrelevant. (Male queenriders are limited, but exist. Female kingriders are loosely limited.) Impression is all about personality and player/character preference.
- Like running Hatchings? Players can in SN, even if they have no clutching female characters! At the same time, players who do NOT like running clutches may still play queens if they wish. There is total flexibility on this point. We want everyone to be able to enjoy the game and express themselves creatively.
- The Pern aspect of the game is inspired by the mood of Dragonflight rather than the rest of the series. Remember the reference in early Dragonflight to "tapestries depicting Pern's bloody history", and to people who were "Soldier-bred"? Yeah. This is -that- version of Pern, not the mysteriously sanitized later-series version of Pern.
- Non-dragonrider characters aren't just encouraged but NEEDED for critical site plots! Both major Holds in the PC Weyr's territory have PCs based at them, including the ruling families! There's even significant RP potential for holdless and similar characters!
- Two additional sentient toolmaker species, both capable of Impression, available as PCs in addition to normal humans!
- Unique species, Impressible and otherwise, found only in this game! Players can buy, earn, or win special tickets giving them the privilege to create a new such species, too!
- Modern Storm Nexus Pern's technology level ranges from Dark Ages to early Renaissance at very best. More variety of regional subculture and dialect than in canon Pern, so more character background variety.
- The Southern Continent has recently been discovered IC. Already it has been found to contain new pets, working animals, and bondables, as well as other strange discoveries and events!
There is lot of variety in the game's major plots, ranging from the romantic and political machinations of the higher levels of leadership at Plateau Weyr to very dark and ugly sagas involving bold raider bands and acquisitive Fax-like Lord Holders to high adventure and exploration in the Southern and Far Western Continents. Admittedly, the overall course of events has been quite dark and Crapsack World-y in recent times, but individual players are free to explore as wide a variety of moods and storylines as they please. It's a big sandbox.
In short, no matter what your taste in theme and mood, there will likely be at least one major plotline that will appeal specifically to your inclinations -- and if there's not, we're very open to player-suggested major and minor plots!
Spring has sprung, bringing with it a host of problems and challenges for long-suffering Plateau Weyr. Senior Queen Seystrenth has finally clutched, a full month overdue. She survived, but the laying was painful and difficult. In the end, just over half of the clutch was found inviable for one reason or another. But fifteen forlorn eggs survive - some damaged or deformed, others remarkably whole-looking. Those dragons still able to fly in the magically disrupted climate have fanned out in Search, but there is a melancholy perfunctoriness about them. Although Seystrenth insists the remaining eggs are alive and viable, many bettors are laying odds that most or all of the eggs will fail to Hatch.
In their foolish attempt to create an environmental hazard for their Craft-fellows among the Weyrs, some mages among the Raiders instead managed to contaminate the exudate of a certain volcano in the South. Everywhere the ash from this blast spreads, magic fails. The more ash is present, the worse the failure. Now, in a large swath of the Southern Continent, reality is locked so firmly that dragons cannot even fly, nor can Therioi shapeshift. Some unfortunate Therioi, in alternate forms when the volcano erupted, became stuck in those forms. These effects persist until the affected can escape to an area totally free of the ash, then wash it from themselves. This can take a significant amount of time, due to how far the eruption spread the ash, and some explorers are still trapped in the South.
Unfortunately, those fleeing the South, and their well-meaning friends and allies, did not realize that in doing so, they were only bringing the ash to places it would otherwise never have gone... including Plateau Weyr.
As such, magic is now unreliable and difficult to use throughout the Northern Continent, but especially at Plateau Weyr since they had the largest number of people in the South during the eruption. Unfortunately, only a handful of people have made the connection between the trip South and the odd failure of all magic, and none of them have realized that the ash is the key. So the problem continues to spread... and get worse. Most of the dragons are still able to fly, but the more Southern explorers return to the North, the worse the problem goes, spreading wherever the dust goes...
Finally, the Impression of Lord Camiron of Skullstones to the first known Worg has the rest of the Lords and Ladies Holder in an uproar. Mentat Oprierd of Hilltop, his own activities and powers hampered by the volcanic dust, is desperately jealous, and may do something uncharacteristically foolish in his drive to turn this new resource to his own advantage...
Weyrwoman Qir and Senior Queen Seystrenth look forward to seeing your characters around Plateau Weyr...! (NOTE: If you're having trouble finding the link to the game, click the banner at the top.)
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Delegates OK with Obama's absence
Although Barack Obama stopped just 80 miles away yesterday in Kaukauna, Dem delegates aren't too broken up that their presumptive nominee didn't stick around for the convention.
Several delegates said that his time was better spent elsewhere, since convention-goers seem to be largely unified behind the Illinois senator's candidacy. Obama spent Friday in Ohio.
"At the end of the night, this is the Democratic state convention," said an Eau Claire County delegate. "I'm some sense, I'm glad he didn't show up."
He added he would probably have a chance to see Obama later in the campaign.
A Washington County delegate argued that Republicans were driving the perception of a divided Democratic party, and possibly drove Clinton's extended stay in the Dem race through crossover voting. He said Obama needed to focus on independents rather than the base.
"He needs to mend fences," he said.
Another delegate was more blunt in assessing the perception of a divided Democratic Party.
"It's the press," she said.
Obama did appear via video in the convention hall and thanked Wisconsinites for their support.
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Innovators Are Learners Not Experts
It is often assumed that the greatest innovations come from people who are incredibly gifted, possibly even geniuses. While this is sometimes the case, more often than not those who are responsible for the most creative ideas and products are not the most knowledgeable or brilliant people in their field. Their true gift is their ability to learn from other experts and geniuses.
We are living in times of unprecedented advances in fields such as technology, science, medicine and other areas of knowledge. Information in all of these fields is increasingly possessed by specialists. The problem is that someone who is an expert in a particular area does not necessarily have the ability to turn that knowledge into a practical product or solution. The true visionaries of today are those who are able to create new ideas, systems and products. They often accomplish this by learning from experts in many diverse fields.
Consider some of the most renowned technological innovators of recent years. People like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg and Larry Page. While all of these people are certainly brilliant, none of them could have produced the types of products and companies that they ultimately built on their own. Their success came from leveraging the skills and knowledge of thousands of programmers, researchers, financial experts and other specialists.
You don't have to be a famous entrepreneur or the CEO of a major company to learn a lesson from this principle. The fact is, one person can only know so much. One of the powerful aspects of modern technology is that it's now easier than ever to connect with others and establish mutually beneficial partnerships with them. The trick is to know your own strengths and to fill in any gaps by finding others who are experts in these areas and learning from them.
To sum it up, I would like to share one of my most favorite quotes from Albert Einstein, "If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got."
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Sunday, June 9, 2013
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Such a beauty,,,of course land will ache for her...ReplyDelete
The last 4 lines stand out for me ~ Lovely share ~ReplyDelete
nice....love the ocean which is what i felt...i like the land is jealous for her as well...ha...nice touch that....wonderful imagery.....ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 9, 2013 at 8:05 AM
great piece - elemental... love "fins/of forever" especially.ReplyDelete
Loved this. Perfect description of what the land must surely feel about the ocean.ReplyDelete
Land and water bidding against each other. How very true! Nicely Lisa!ReplyDelete
Awe....very well put. Love the concluding lines, Lisa. Beautiful...ReplyDelete
I especially love the joyous lines in the middle of the poem. Uplifting!ReplyDelete
Just beautiful, Lisa. The land and the sea are quite a pair!! Both need each other and fulfill each other's needs.ReplyDelete
You breathe life back into the old ways.ReplyDelete
i can see why the land is jealous. :)
- AnonymousJune 10, 2013 at 9:59 AM
Wonderful emotional equation. Really like the "fins of forever" and several other lines. Soothing imagery, like the sea itself, at times.ReplyDelete
Thank you everyone for your comments.ReplyDelete
I so love your work Lisa--this feels magical to meReplyDelete
So well penned Lisa. Beautifully done!ReplyDelete


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Virginia Veurink-Winslow
Mrs. Virginia Lou Veurink-Winslow, age 75 of Spring Lake passed away January 14, 2018 in Muskegon.
She was born October 1, 1942, to Frank Veurink and Doris (McQueen) Veurink.
Most called her Gin or Ginny. She graduated from Muskegon High School in 1960. She said she was an average student who would have rather stayed home and read, but made life-long friends all the same. She held many jobs over the years, starting out at Hackley Bank in Muskegon. She worked in the basement, taking care of people's canceled checks.
By that point, she had met the love of her life, Lawrence Winslow, who she said seemed to enjoy life and smiled a lot. Their first date took place at McDonald's, with Larry letting her know he only could spend a certain amount on the meal. They married September 1, 1962 in Muskegon. Ginny then took on the other full-time job of being a mom to son, Lawrence Junior, born in 1964. Daughter, Marjorie, came along in 1970.
Ginny was extremely caring of people. She worked as a nurse's aide, first in a nursing home and later as a visiting nurse when the family moved to Covington, Louisiana. She even did substitute teaching. Surprising, considering how much she "enjoyed" school the first time around.
She was also a world-class soccer mom, along with helping her children with all kinds of crazy school projects. One of her biggest secrets can now be revealed. To help her children pass math, she created a fake school and named herself head teacher and principal so she could order the teacher's edition of the books with all the answers in them!
The family then moved back to Michigan, settling in Traverse City, where Ginny worked for Kmart. When she and Larry moved to Grayling, Michigan, she continued to work for Kmart, where you had to fight to keep up with her as she raced up and down the aisles. She retired from retail after 17 years of service.
She and Larry then decided to buy a "house on wheels" and take it across the country. They loved the RV lifestyle, making many more friends along the way, their cat, Smokey, in tow. She took up hobbies such as making jewelry and paper pricking. Retiring also gave her more time to cheer on the Detroit Tigers that she watched religiously.
In 2005, after years of begging, Ginny finally became a grandmother to Curtis. Four years later, she welcomed a second grandchild, Cathlyn. The grandkids were sent off to "Grandma and Grandpa Camp" in the summers in Grayling for some special spoiling and Grandma loved every minute of it.
When Larry got sick, Ginny became his caregiver and never wavered in her support. He passed away December 20, 2013. At the time, Ginny had just begun a long battle against cholangiocarcinoma. Doctors only gave her two years to live, but she continually surprised them, surpassing all expectations by surviving more than 30 rounds of chemo and countless procedures and medicines. She never complained, always calling what was happening to her the new normal.
She moved to Spring Lake in January 2017 to be closer to family. When asked how she wanted to be remembered, she said people should say whatever they wanted, but hopefully say that she was a good wife and mother. She was all that and so much more.
She is survived by two children, Larry Jr. (Jennifer) Winslow of Norton Shores, and Marjorie (John) Kulba of Granger, Ind.; two grandchildren, Curtis and Cathlyn; one brother, Richard Veurink of Norton Shores; one sister-in-law, Nancy Starks Cheney, of Durham, N.H.; several special cousins, good friends and her cat, Mr. Blue.
Funeral services for Mrs. Veurink-Winslow will be 11 a.m., Saturday, January 20, 2018, at The VanZantwick Chapel in Grand Haven (620 Washington Ave.) with Rev. Scott Church officiating. Visitation will be 5-7 p.m. Friday, January 19, 2018, at the funeral home and one hour prior to service. Interment will take place at Lake Forest Cemetery.
In lieu of flowers memorial contributions may be given to The Cholangiocarcinoma Foundation or drop off some cat food at your local Humane Society.
Please sign the family's online guestbook at www.sytsemafh.com.


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SXSW has vowed to change the language in its contracts after an open letter signed by more than 50 artists expressed "outrage" over a clause which said the festival would report international acts to immigration authorities if they broke certain rules.
In a statement the festival said it would be "be reviewing and amending it for 2018 and beyond" after the controversy which started on Thursday when Brooklyn punk group Told Slant pulled out of the event due to the offending clause.
The likes of Rage Against The Machine frontman Zach de la Rocha, indie duo PWR BTTM, rapper Talib Kweli and anti-folk star Kimya Dawson, all signed the open letter which expressed shock that the festival would report acts to immigration authorities.
"We're outraged to learn that the festival has been threatening artists who are not US citizens with targeted immigration enforcement and deportation for playing at unofficial showcases," it read.
They added: "SXSW is a well respected institution and has a responsibility to show leadership by refusing to collaborate with the government's campaign of fear and hate toward non-citizens."
The U-turn came after the festival tried to reassure acts and attendees that it was firmly supportive of international acts and was in no way colluding with authorities.
In a statement to Austin 360 SXSW's managing director, Roland Swenson, said the reaction to the clause, which SXSW said had been in the contract for at least five years, was in part down to heightened sensitivities now Donald Trump is in the White House.
"In the post-Trump era, it looks different than how it was intended, and how it was received in the past. But we've come out strongly against the travel ban, and we've really been going the extra mile to make sure these bands don't get screwed over when they enter the country."
Swenson and SXSW acknowledged that the wording "seems strong", and said it would only ever inform authorities if something "truly egregious" happened, such as "disobeying our rules about pyrotechnics on stage, starting a brawl in a club, or causing serious safety issues".


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I just pickup the 35mm f/1.8G AF-S DX len for my D3100 and can't say enough good things about it well worth the money and I'm sure I will have this on most of time. But I'm still not sure what zoom len to go for I can't spend a ton, I have to live on retirement pay was thinking the 55-200mm myself.
Thanks for the help.


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A Journal - My Connection
Although I had been keeping a visual journal on and off, I didn't open up to all the possibilities until I met, and took a workshop from Orly. Each time she comes to San Diego and I get the opportunity to listen and create . . . well, I am that much closer to the divine aspect of myself that has been buried for a while. Creating isn't only something that I do, it is who I am.
Without it, I wander with a blindfold, my hands out in front of me trying to find my way. If you are stumbling, and know with all your heart you must create - please do it.


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Half the fun of a home renovation is getting to track the results of your efforts. Documenting your progress with your cell phone camera might be the easiest way to get started but here are a few more tips to help ensure you get the best pictures possible.
***If you are shooting before and after pictures, mark where you took the first images so that you can reproduce similar angles and composition after your renovation is complete***
1. Lighting – lighting can be your best friend or your biggest enemy when shooting a renovation. Usually, more light is better, but watch for hot (over exposed) spots. Twighlight shots outdoors create a strong effect, and most cameras have a dynamic balancing or HDR function to help deal with bright lights or excessive shadows. Use a tripod or set your camera on a stable object to reduce blurry photos in lower light.
2. Composition - Take the time to set up a shot and ensure your space is staged (remove any distractions and ensure it's relatively clean). Think of your camera screen as a three by three grid and use the "thirds" / "centering" to balance subjects in your shot. Panorama settings, apps or applications like Aperture, Photoshop or Microsoft ICE can also help you stitch multiple images together for more dramatic images.
3. Exposure - the longer the exposure, the more light will get into your shot so increase exposure length until lighting works for the shot. Once you reach over 1/10th of a second shutter speed, the chance of motion blur increases so use a tripod, increase your ISO to 400 or 800 and set your aperture below 2.8 to help get more light in.
4. Focus and Aperture - when you want to highlight one subject in a photo, you can use image blur to help set the focus. This can be accomplished by using your camera's auto-focus settings, zooming in to a portrait focal length (ie to 50-80mm) and setting your aperture to as low a number as possible (<f2.8). If your camera lens doesn't create good depth of field (also called "bokeh") you can also move the camera closer to the subject.
5. ISO settings: Usually you can leave your camera's ISO settings on Auto. Increasing ISO will allow more light to be processed though so it can improve indoor shots and evening shots or reduce motion blur. Unfortunately, the byproduct of increasing ISO is noise or fuzziness when too high (above ISO400 on a cell phone, ISO800 on a point and shoot, or ISO1600 on an SLR) so if you need your photos brighter, remember these limits.
6. Camera Pre-Sets: Armed with the first 5 steps, we have to also suggest that your camera pre-sets and auto settings are going to get a strong picture most of the time because the manufacturer has optimized them for different situations. That "night setting" is going to increase ISO settings, add stabilization, open your aperture and leave exposure open enough to get a shot, but tweaking manual settings can get you even better result.
7. Post Production: use cropping, instagram (or similar filters), and color balance or Dynamic Range (HDR) processing to improve your photo quality. I could fill a separate post on some of these tools, but my main advice is: don't over process. You should also save your photo's to a size that makes sense for how you are publishing it – most online photo's don't need to be bigger than HD quality (1980px x 1020px) these days, but if you plan to blow up your photo or print a detailed version, higher resolution is important.
Photography is as much of an art as it is a science so you can learn a tonne by looking at professional images on Pinterest.com or Houzz.com and compare to your own shots – you'll begin to get a feel for images that are the most appealing.


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SPLEENAT – The Festival Newspaper
There you go – this is SPLEENAT. My SPLEENAT is not bad, not so-so, but a newspaper for festival readers. Unfold it from time to Times throughout the week and you will see, the Sun will shine on spleen*graz. SPLEENAT will not be sent by Daily Mail, but you don't need to be a keen Observer to spot the newspaper at the different festival locations. SPLEENAT is worth a glimpse – just BBC for yourself! SPLEENAT will be published daily throughout spleen*graz and will report on all festival events. It will be designed autonomously by young future journalists and photographers, who will join the festival as roving reporters.


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September 14-15, 2019
South Florida Fairgrounds
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I just sent this message to the PR department at Netflix:
I have been a Netflix customer for several years and am generally very happy with the service. Today, however, I discovered that Netflix only allows users to have a maximum of 500 movies in their queue. While 500 would seem to be quite a few, I just reached that limit and would like to be able to add more.
One of the things I like about Netflix is that the queue enables me to easily maintain a list of all the movies that I hope to see someday. I realize that it will probably take several years for me to see all of the movies now in my queue, but I certainly intend to live that long. Moreover, customers who have long movie queues are likely to be customers that Netflix can count on retaining, so I think it would be in your interest to allow us to have as long a queue as we want. Disk space is incredibly cheap these days, so I can't imagine that the 500-movie limit is saving Netflix any money. I'd therefore recommend lifting it.
Further thoughts
I had an exchange about this with Doug Whitfield on Twitter, who thought "they have to limit it somewhere. 500 seems reasonable to me. Yahoo! has strange limits too. Better safe than sorry, I guess." I thought about that a bit, and I don't think it holds up under scrutiny.
For starters, Yahoo! is mostly a free service, whereas Netflix makes its movie queue available only to paying customers. Yahoo! actually needs to put some limits on the amount of storage space, bandwidth and other resources that it gives away. On Netflix, howeer, the subscription fee would weed out users who might want to do something frivolous or wasteful with their queue. Moreover, I don't see much risk in practice that someone would want to abuse the queue. All the queue lets you do is compile a list of the movies you're planning to rent from among the 100,000 DVD titles in the Netflix database. What incentive could there be for someone to abuse that? There's no way that someone could use it as a platform for spamming or for hosting porn.
I'm trying to imagine a worst-case scenario here: Someone writes a bot that adds all 100,000 titles to their Netflix queue. If they did, it would use maybe a megabyte of storage, tops. I don't see how that would be a problem for Netflix. Okay, now let's suppose that someone wants to run that bot on multiple Netflix user accounts. To do so, of course, he'd have to pay $4.99/month for each account, so Netflix would probably be making money on the deal.


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About 3 years ago I made a determination to stop doing work that was inconsistent with my values. I was 31 years-old, had recently finished my undergraduate degree and was squandering my vital juices on well-paid, but meaningless work. I wanted something more from my life. I figured the first step to doing meaningful work was to stop doing the meaningless stuff.
The quick backstory of my late graduation is that I dropped out of school when I was 23 to get sober. After floundering through much of my 20's, I found myself 27 years old, bereft of direction, with access to an education trust set up by my grandparents. The choice to return to school seemed obvious.
While in school, I continued to work 20-30 hours a week as a cater-waiter captain—essentially the head waiter or maitre'd of an event. The job paid between $30-50 an hour. Because my tuition and living expenses were paid for by the trust, most of the money I made from that job was saved. I finished school flush with cash.
I got my degree in creative writing and literature. I wanted to write for a living, but ideas about how to do that were not forthcoming, so I continued to cater in the meantime.
But catering created a huge internal inconsistency. While it was fun and easy, I saw its net impact on the world was somewhere between zero and negative 1000. Most events created mountains of waste, which completely ran counter to what I knew about what was going on with the environment.
Destroying the environment would have been tolerable if the work seemed important. Instead, my principle duty was idealizing the artificial. Most events were product launches and other PR events or posh dinner and cocktail parties hosted by the ridiculously-rich and mostly gay. I directed staffs of male models and actors to create fantasy worlds—ones littered with chiseled features; ones that precluded ugliness, age, poverty or any other unseemly aspect of reality. I felt like I was responsible for arranging human parsley sprigs on cardboard steaks.
After doing this Landmark Forum seminar I've mentioned before, I was able to get some clarity about my situation. I saw I had no integrity. There was a huge rift between what I valued and what I was doing. I also saw I had an opportunity. Because of my financial situation, I had time and money to devote myself to creating a life with integrity. I stopped catering and entered a void of inactivity. That was 3, mostly-hypocrisy-free years ago.
I would love to report that I've cracked the code. I would love to say that I earn a livelihood in a way that is consistent with my values. This is true to some extent. I founded and currently co-produce a thriving event series that encourages people to engage their lives and world (with minimal carbon footprint). But proceeds from this cover a small percent of my expenses. My nest-egg is now crusted egg-white on the edge of a frying pan.
And yet as my financial resources vaporize, I'm finding a renewed intensity to make my initial determination stick.
When I set out 3 years ago, I wasn't risking. I only left terra cognita because I thought all contingencies were covered. The money made me feel like I could handle whatever came along. Instead, by not forcing me into situations where I had to risk, situations where I could develop confidence and new capabilities, the money prohibited the creation of the life I sought. I wanted to cross the ocean, but only if I could keep the coast within eyeshot.
But now, with provisions running low, I do not feel so safe (mind you, I am not out of provisions just yet). Rather than being terrified, I am experiencing the integrity I sought 3 year ago. I see that I am willing to do whatever it takes to make my determination come true, whereas before I was willing to do whatever was within my comfort zone.
I was thinking about this as I washed my armpits this morning in a sink at the place I work. In order to keep expenses low, I live in an an apartment that is one Con-Ed visit away from being a squat (and Con-Ed has tried). For the whole winter I've been without heat (and it's been a fucking cold winter), and for the last 3 weeks I've been without running water (busted pipe prevention). I've dealt with bathing by showering at my gym and doing spot-cleanses with rubbing alcohol (disinfects and evaporates). I have been out of alcohol for a few days so I cleaned up over the sink this morning.
I'm sure this sounds pathetic to many, but for me it's been liberating. I am demonstrating that I am willing to risk and sacrifice for the sake of living an integrated life—to bring my career, relationships and all other actions inline with my values. Least I sound too vague, I want to write for a living. I want to share what bit of spiritual wisdom I have through my words. I want to make money doing it. And I'm far more willing to give up heat and running water than the opportunity to live out a dream (full disclosure: I have that gym membership and a girlfriend with a pimp apartment to retreat to on weekends).
If you feel trapped or afraid of risk, here are some questions to contemplate:
- Do you live with integrity? In other words, is what you do consistent with what you value? List the inconsistencies and don't rationalize them away.
- What rationalizations are you holding onto that allow you to continue these inconsistencies? The number one rationalization is, "We all have to pay the bills." While this is true to a certain extent, most of us take on bills we don't need. No one needs a 4G iphone, digital cable, $200 jeans or $7 pints. These accessories to life keep many of us in financial and spiritual bondage. The runner-up rationalization is, "I don't know what I'd do. I might as well keep ____ while I figure out what's next." Bullocks. We only realize possibility in the void (Sorry for the new age language. It's not a habit). In other words, as long as we continue our old behavior, we won't have space for the new.
- How would you imagine it would feel if you lived without these inconsistencies? Personally, I feel fucking great. I don't feel like a fraud. You can't hurt someone with nothing to hide.
- Bonus assignment: name some area from #1 and do something about it now. Whether it's a relationship, work, health, spiritual development, etc., pick and perform an action that lines up what you do with who you are. There is no other time than now to live with integrity.