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Chapter Two: The Many Providences of a Nunnery Veil
by Lady Alexis Cassadine
Realizing their helplessness in the Place de la Greve, Lady Hastings quickly led her quarry into a ramshackle building just around the corner. Ā The facade looked to be the remnants of a large storage building of some sort, but now the empty doorway and broken window panes revealed, as though in testimony, the charred identification of a ravaging fire.
It was black as pitch inside, and the air hung rank with the scent of rotted wood. ĀIsabella wrinkled her nose in disgust as Lady Hastings, with the aid of the moonlight spilling from a hole in the thatched roof, drew a tinderbox from a rickety shelf and lit a candle.
Isabella noted that Lady Hastings' face, now entirely illuminated as she held the candle before her, looked fiercely drawn and upset; no doubt the news from the alley spy had come as quite a bitter shock.
Ā Turning, the Guild leader beckoned her two young friends into an even darker room at the rear of the narrow building, a room where no moonlight found quarter to penetrate. ĀThe candlelight revealed, as the trio passed into the maw of the chamber, a room much more intact than that in the building's fore; the fire had not consumed as much here. ĀEnormous barrels and broken crates cluttered the floor about the legs of a lopsided wooden table sporting a lantern and a folded map. ĀIt was to this table that Lady Hastings directed her guests.
Phillipe closed the back room door, or, what was left of it, behind him and took a seat on one of four barrels encircling the table, motioning for Isabella to do the same.
"I must say that your news provides an unexpected twist to our plans," said Lady Hastings, seating herself and shakily lighting the lantern in the center of the table. Ā"It's time for a bit of reformation, I'm afraid."
"So you brought us to Paris to help the Scarlet Pimpernel with his jailbreak in the morning," Phillipe thought aloud, keeping his voice barely above a whisper. Ā"What are we to do now that they expect it?"
Lady Hastings glanced at Phillipe, arched one fine eyebrow, and grimaced.
"That's precisely what I'd like to know!"
Isabella looked dejectedly at the floor as Lady Hastings turned and closed one cold hand over hers.
"Don't you fret, my dear. ĀWithout knowing what you've learned, we could all have fallen into a very, very well-laid trap. ĀIt's only your encounter in that alley that is going to save us all."
Isabella jolted her head up in shock...it almost sounded as though Lady Hastings was grateful to her for toppling into that man's trap!
She opened to mouth to protest, but one burning glance from Phillipe silenced the words in her throat.
"Won't you tell us, Lady Hastings," Phillipe began, "what exactly the Pimpernel plans to do this morning? ĀThere must be a way to get around it."
Lady Hastings took a deep breath and cast a furtive glance into the shadows over both shoulders. ĀThen, nodding in satisfaciton, she leaned forward a bit to tell her story.
Ā"Very well. ĀThe Scarlet Pimpernel and his League have made plans to watch the Temple Prison just after dawn, in disguise, of course, and rescue the Marquis de Vauche and his two young sons as they are brought out to be executed. ĀHis exact method is unknown to me. ĀAll I know is that, if what that man in the alley said holds true, there will be a detailed snare laid for the Pimpernel and, as he does not expect it, I daresay there is the likelihood that he will be caught. ĀAt all costs, it is our duty in the Violet Guild to prevent this from happening."
"But how?" Isabella whispered, terrified by the prospect that it was up to the three of them to save the entire League of the Scarlet Pimpernel from discovery.
Lady Hastings looked her companions over carefully.
Ā"That's just what we have three hours to decide."
Then, spreading the map of the Temple Prison and surrounding streets before them, Lady Hastings set to constructing a plan.
An hour later, the working trio had thrown out the vague trappings of a few separate ideas. ĀIt was already clear that there was no way to discourage the Pimpernel's rescue plan unless the Guilders themselves moved to rescue the Marquis and his sons...but that would require entry into the Temple Prison! The risks seemed to outnumber the stars, as did the complications!
"We could use disguises, then," Phillipe was saying, stifling a tremendous yawn. Ā"We could disguise ourselves as soldiers, or---"
"Yes, but there's only three of us!" Isabella broke in, still a bit incredulous.
Lady Hastings scratched a vague trail on the map with one fingernail.
Ā"Yes, there are three of us, but only two of us will be able to get into the Prison. The last will have to remain outside to escort the Marquis and his sons to Percy's lodgings at Rue St. Anne."
Phillipe's head snapped up suddenly. Ā"Then you know where he is? Ā Well, why don't you just send a messenger there immediately, and tell Sir Percy to call the whole thing off?!"
"I'm afraid you don't understand," said Lady Hastings, shaking her head sadly. "Sir Percy doesn't know we exist. ĀAs the Violet Guild, I mean. Ā He musn't know we exist. ĀDo you really think he would trust, or even accept, a note from anyone but a dear friend in Paris?"
ĀPhillipe opened his mouth to argue, only to be cut off by Lady Hastings' persistent rebuke.
Ā"Besides, hiring a courier risks everything. ĀWe musn't trust anyone. ĀAnd you yourself said that the streets are carefully watched! ĀThat's why ourselves we must hide here until sunrise."
Sunrise. ĀProbably only two hours away by now...Phillipe noted in silence.
"Well, let's go back to the idea of disguises," Isabella motioned, absently twisting a dark lock of her hair about two fingers. ĀA long pause as everyone pondered. ĀAt last, she shrugged emphatically and shook her head, saying, "Oh, right. ĀWe haven't any disguises!"
Phillipe was a little surprised to see Lady Hastings smile a little, take the candle in her hand, and rise from the table in silence. ĀFour eyes followed her slight frame as she moved towards the darkest corner of the chamber, picking her delicate way over the broken wood and like debris that littered the floor, until at last the candlelight unhid the shape of a large plank door, hitherto concealed by the night. ĀLady Hastings paused for a moment and seemed to search the walls for something. ĀThen, apparently finding what she sought (a small item that looked like a key), she turned and opened the door, drawing twin gasps from the lips of her two companions. ĀThere, in the darkness, was a closet stocked full of wigs, costumes, and disguises of all sorts, hung in layers on a row of pegs in the wall.
Smiling faintly, Lady Hastings replaced the key to its hook on the wall and set to explaining.
Ā"This back room was once used by Sir Percy and the League themselves, until the fire. ĀIt was in this room that they plotted a good many of their last-minute schemes. ĀWe have all the disguises we need right here."
Isabella smiled and nodded slowly in understanding.
Ā"And the fire? ĀHow did it happen?"
"My husband, Lord Timothy Hastings, of course, told me that the Bounders staged the fire themselves, to avoid suspicion by the French authorites. ĀThey were afraid that, since they were using the deserted building so frequently at that time, the authorites would notice and begin watching them. ĀSo they burnt it and found a new rendez-vous point, on the Rue St. Anne. ĀThis supply room here," and she indicated the closet, "was kept locked here for emergencies."
"Like this one," Phillipe added.
Rising from the table and discarding her heavy cloak, Isabella moved forward. "Well, I suppose we should all have a look."
The sun crested in a daze of splendour far more glorious than ought to have been allotted to a day like this, where the Place de la Greve grovelled low in the morning cold and waited for the executions to commence. Paris was waking; slow, sluggish, and weary at the close of a restless evening, for evenings in Paris were always restless...these were the days of the Terror, after all.
At the sideyard entry of the Temple Prison, a guard tore his wistful gaze away from the sunrise and saw three figures approaching. ĀBlinking, he raised his musket and tried to look formidable. Squinting into the breaking sunlight, his eyes noted the foremost character first. ĀIt looked to be clad in the robes of a prioress, or senior nun, of the Catholic or Benedictine church, and seemed to wobble rather than walk, hands stationed easily on the stomach. ĀThen, the soldier's eyes bulged as he noted the figure's stoutness; it seemed to him that he had seen houses with less volume! ĀPardieu, the woman was huge! ĀEven more so when compared to the two slight figures flanking her, nuns of lesser station, perhaps, both of them small and fragile in build. ĀAll three wore their faces veiled, as all ladies of the cloister, at that time, were required to do when seen out in the open.
Out of perfunctory respect, the soldier bowed his head a little as the three ladies drew near; he was even more shocked by the central woman's size up close.
"We've come to pray with the prisoners this morning," said the central nun, the apparent prioress, speaking in a voice that was quite nasal and far from charming.
"I'm sorry, mesdames," the soldier answered, contorting his mouth to keep from laughing. ĀBeneath the gauze veil, the woman's face was as unbelievable as her size; her nose was large enough to be indecent. ĀThank the Lord, the guard thought to himself, that such women become nuns and have to wear veils.
Ā"No one is allowed into the Temple Prison at this hour."
The prioress stomped her feet and looked abhorred. Ā"But...but...we've been sent all the way from the convent of Rue Petit-Picpus! ĀShall we go all the way back without our morning penitence?"
The soldier jerked upright in attention. ĀPetit-Picpus! ĀAlthough he was a simple soldier and knew very little of religion, he knew that the Benedictine nuns of Petit-Picpus were among the most holy in the nation. ĀThey were so religious that they were all, with the exception of the central nun, now undoubtedly a high-stationed prioress, sentenced to a lifetime vow of silence, never ate meat, slept on straw mats at all times of the year, and never even took baths. ĀHe gulped as he realized that his soul could be damned to hell---or worse---if he didn't let them in.
Still, out of sense of duty, he attempted a brief protest. Ā"But my orders, mesdames---"
The soldier nearly leapt three feet backwards as the prioress spread her arms in a wild arc and brought them down again clasped in prayer. ĀSeeing her actions, the two lesser sisters bowed their heads and likewise folded their hands.
"Oh, Lord!" the great prioress sang out to the sky, her voice throbbing with a dramatic and grand vibrato, "please take pity on this foolish, simple man and spare him from the flames! ĀHelp him, rather, to see the folly of his ways and, by Your majestic hand, turn from them!"
"Let him turn from them," the two smaller nuns chanted in unison.
The soldier felt a bitter chill run along his spine as each of his accumulated superstitions aroused themselves.
"Lord, I pray You will not condemn this pitiful man's soul merely because he stands in our noble way of of pleasing You, Lord of the Universe! ĀI beg you direct his step from the way of Evil as he stands now, preventing our holy ventures with his thanklessly-granted authority!"
"Forgive his thanklessly-granted authority," the nuns chanted.
One of the lesser nuns caught the soldier casting frantic glances about the sideyard, as though he expected to be struck down by lightning at any moment.
"I pray Thee, Heavenly Father, save him and let not the clutches of Hellfire fall upon him and his ignorance of You and reluctance to---"
"Pardon, mesdames," the soldier interjected, his brow beaded with cold sweat, "but I just remembered that the rules have been changed. ĀYou may enter the prison freely, and with my escort."
The prioress, seemingly satisfied, silenced her wailings and stared at him. Then a brief smile crept serenely over her homely face. ĀShe looked to heaven once more and cried, very loudly, "Thank you, Lord!"
The soldier grimaced shyly. Ā"Come then, I'll lead you to the prisoners."
Bustling past him, and barely squeezing herself through the door as she did so, the largest nun made the sign of the cross wildly in the air and said, "Bless you, my son." Ā
The soldier blushed a bit and followed her down the dark hallway, signalling to another sentry up ahead to take his place at the doorway. ĀHe didn't notice Lady Hastings, in disguise, of course, detaching herself from the trio of nuns and making her silent way back to the sideyard, to wait eagerly for the return of her victorious quarry.
Once the guard had led them to the main area of the prison, he left their company prompty, apparently still embarassed by his odd encounter in the sideyard. ĀThe remaining two nuns were glad of his departure, and set to work immediately.
Phillipe, disguised immaculately as the huge prioress, moved quickly to one of the nearest prisoners and asked where the Marquis de Vauche could be found. Absently, the man pointed to the furthermost corner of the room, where indeed sat a very handsome, if very sad-looking, man, probably in his early thirties, and two young boys, one asleep in his knee, the other on his shoulder. ĀThey looked to be very close in age. Ā
Isabella felt a tremendous lump forming in her throat. ĀThere were children everywhere, with wide eyes, torn clothes and dirty faces, some crying, but most asleep on their parents' laps. And the poor parents...to have to sit helplessly and wait for themselves and their children to be lead to their deaths...everywhere, through the mask of her nunnery veil, she saw tarnished silks and shredded laces where once had been divine finery, dishveled wigs and filthy, distorted faces where once had been grace and beauty, and haunted eyes and lips where smiles had once danced and laughter had rippled the air.
ĀHere and now, she saw only condemnation and profound misery. ĀMisery, and the prevailing, warning presence of death...
Phillipe motioned to her, and staggered, gathering his weight in his hands once more, to the corner harboring the shattered-looking Marquis de Vauche and his children.
The Marquis gazed forlornly up at them as they approached; not a trace of mirth touched his expression, unlike the soldier at the sideyard door. ĀHe waited patiently for the faux prioress to speak.
"We've come to pray with you, sir," said Phillipe in a low, soothing voice that woke one of the boys from his faint sleep. Ā"If you would come with us to the back of the prison..?" and he gestured to a dark room in the rear of the main chamber, where the prisoners were, once every two weeks, allowed to go to confession, at the holy insistence of the Catholic church. Ā
The Marquis followed the direction of the hand wordlessly, then returned his gaze to that of the prioress.
"I'm afraid there would be little object to that, madame," he said, in a broken voice that plunged deep into Isabella's already-softened heart.
Ā"My boys and I are to be led from here today."
Phillipe sadly noted that the Marquis directly avoided using any words more articulate than "led from here" for the benefit of the two young children stirring about him.
"Perhaps, but if you will keep faith and come with us to the confessionary, you shall be saved."
The Marquis took a moment to tousle the dark hair of the boy on his knee, and then rose slowly, wearily, and moved to the rear of the chamber. Phillipe and Isabella, casting stray glances over their shoulders, followed closely behind.
The confessionary door closed with a discreet "click" and Phillipe turned to address the Marquis seriously. Ā
"Come," he said, lifting his robes, much to the utter shock of the Marquis, and detaching from his belt the bundle of straw and additional nun costume that had made him so enormous in the first place. Ā"Put this on."
The Marquis accepted the nun costume in incredulous shock. Ā"What---what is the meaning of this?" he asked quietly.
Isabella laid a gentle hand on his arm.
Ā"Don't be afraid. ĀWe've been sent to get you out of here today."
"And...and my boys?" the Marquis asked desperately, his voice suddenly raw with amazement.
"Come here, children," Phillipe said, bending down with ease now that his cumbersome belly had been removed. Ā"We're going to take you away from this place."
The Marquis, at last deciding that these two visitors knew what they were doing, turned to clad himself in the nun's costume as Isabella moved forward to help the boys. ĀThe latter thought she heard the older man murmur a series of tearfully beautiful prayers to heaven.
Ever so gently, she lifted the first child, who looked to be no more than two or three, and secured his hands into two loops on Phillipe's belt, until he could hang there quite easily, with his knees drawn up to his chest and his feet settled in a pair of stirrups attached to the special belt, procured that very morning from stable accessories by Phillipe himself. ĀNext, his slightly older brother was attached in the same manner, giggling a bit at the odd position in which they both found themselves. Ā
The giggles increased when the Marquis turned round; Isabella was just helping him drape the veil over his face as the boys recognized their father in women's clothing. ĀThe Marquis shushed them promptly.
Ā Isabella knelt then and placed a trembling hand on each of the boys' faces.
"Now then, children, there is only one way for us to get out you of here, and that is for you to be competely silent until we tell you that it is safe. ĀDo you understand?"
The boys nodded absently and giggled a little.
Isabella cast an uncertain glance at the veiled Marquis.
Nodding, the man knelt in the hay and turned to his children, his face unsmiling. ĀIsabella removed the veil to produce a more serious effect.
"Boys, you listen to me. ĀNot a word until our friends here tell you that is is safe. ĀNot a single sound. ĀYou want to get out of here, don't you?"
The boys nodded feverishly.
"Very well then. ĀNot a sound."
The boys were silent as Phillipe dropped the folds of his padded black robe over the boys' heads and shifted his weight. ĀIsabella helped him to adjust the shape of his belly as the Marquis looked on with wondering eyes.
"Let's get out of here then," Isabella said, and, replacing the Marquis' veil over his still-awed face, she turned the handle of the confessionary door and prepared to go back into the fire.
Only a few heads turned as the trio abandonned the confessionary, and those only turned back again in the next instant. ĀThe only guards to be found in the spreading chamber were cluttered near the main entryway, chatting and paying less than no attention to the movements of the three harmless-looking ladies in black.
As the three of them drew up close to the doorway, the soldier from the beginning of the venture looked them over with curiousity.
"Finished so soon, mesdames? ĀHaven't you any more prayers for the day?"
"There is little praying to be done here, sir," said Phillipe the prioress, once more assuming that same cranky, nasal tone. Ā"These people are all doomed, are they not?"
"Well...yes, of course," said the soldier, throwing his shoulders back with pride at recalling the misguided import of his occupation. Ā"They're all wretched aristocrats. ĀWe all know the city will be better off without them."
Phillipe held back a viscious urge to attack the guard for such words...then, remembering the silent children clinging to his waist, fully dependent on the discretion of Āhis actions, he restrained himself and departed down the tunnel with a forced and pretentious "harumph!"
A couple of the soldiers snickered a little as Phillipe attempted to squeeze himself and his generous padding once more through the prison door. The sentry from the sideyard hushed them frantically, and attempted to quickly explain the consequences of teasing a lady of God so, only receiving a volley of riotous laughter for his efforts. ĀIndignant, he turned to escort the nuns from the prison in silence.
Isabella, Phillipe, and the Marquis crossed the sideyard with the weight of the soldier's gaze upon them. ĀThey felt him thinking...three had gone in, and three had gone out again. ĀPerfect. ĀWith any luck, there would be no suspicion, until later that morning when the Marquis de Vauche and his children were found missing...
The carriage hired by Lady Hastings, now replaced in her usual garments, waited just ahead, placed at the corner just out of the sight of the guards at the Temple. Isabella, her heart heavy as lead with the memory of all she had seen in the grim prison, found herself falling a step behind her companions. Pensive, she couldn't seem tear her thoughts away from the sorrow, the infinite humiliation and--- Only the rattle of an approaching carriage brought her back to reality. ĀA black carriage, drawn by two equally black horses, was headed straight for her. She dodged the wheels effortlessly, turning to watch the carriage reel to the side, and, as she did, something there in the darkness of the vehicle made her blood run like winter rain. The man from the alley! He sat there, in the carriage, with the bearing of a king, looking out at her...their eyes met for only a second... Isabella recognized him in a heartbeat; the little she had seen of him in the alley seemed forever engraved into her mind, and she felt that she could have identified his lean features anywhere. ĀFortunately, by the providence of the veil, he didn't seem to recognize her. ĀOr did he..? Then, the face was gone, but she watched in horror as the carriage slowed to a halt in the sideyard of the Temple Prison. She took a furtive glance over her shoulder...Phillipe, by this time, was on his way a few dozen paces ahead; he had quickened his step with the appearance of the speeding carriage.
A sudden urge drove her to act against her every conviction; instead of following Phillipe, as she knew she should have done, she hid herself behind a vacant cart in the sideyard to watch the antics of the men in the carriage, removing her nun's robes, habit, and veil and concealing them beneath the very handy cart. ĀShe knew not why she removed them, now standing clad in the new lavendar gown she had purchased before her journey to France...she only assumed that it would be easier to make a Āhasty escape without the cumbersome outer garments... Just in case, of course, a very hasty escape was called for...
The first to step forth was a soldier, clad in the same intimidating red, white, and blue of the new Republic. ĀThe next was a lackey of some sort, clad in very simple black-and-white lower-class garb, who stepped down from the carriage to hold the door open for the next to disembark. The soldier at the Temple door approached the carriage and opened his mouth to speak...Isabella leaned forth, ears attentive.
"The Temple does not open for another half-hour, Citizen Chauvelin."
The next man to emerge from the carriage, clad head to foot in solid black broadcloth but for the Republic ribbon pinned to his lapel, the man from the alley, answered at the sound of his name.
"The governor of the Prison expects me."
That voice! Chauvelin. ĀThat most wretched of names... Isabella turned to flee in terror...the air flew from her lungs in a rush as her body collided with those of two French soldiers, the both of them far taller, stronger, meaner, and more fluently armed than she. Thus, she didn't even attempt to fight as they took her arms and marched her, scarcely holding off a fit of hysteria, into the darkness of Citizen Chauvelin's black shadow on the cobblestone pavement.
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Designation: Senior Research Fellow
Dr Hemant Ojha is a senior fellow at the University of Melbourne and a research fellow at the University of New South Wales. Between 1996 and 2010, he worked as an action researcher, activist, and policy analyst in Nepal's forest sector. Additionally, he established ForestAction, an organization renowned for its critical policy-oriented research. In 2011, he founded the Southasia Institute of Advanced Studies, a policy think tank based in Kathmandu. Ojha has published books with Routledge, Cambridge, and Adroit, and his papers have appeared in several high-impact journals that focus on society and the environment. His current research revolves around issues like climate change and governance, the interface between science and policy in environmental policymaking, food security, water security in urban areas, local democracy, and environmental sustainability.

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Stefano Battiston is Professor of banking at the Department of Banking and Finance of the University of Zurich. His work applies the complex networks approach both to the empirical analysis of large economic networks and the modeling of their dynamics. His main activity at the frontier of physics and economics has made an impact on both communities, by covering topics such as corporate control, innovation, decision-making, and financial risk. A collateral line of research has lead to interesting applications in computer science in the field of trust algorithms for on-line social networks. In recent years, his main interests have been financial contagion, default cascades, and propagation of financial distress, where he combines the insights from the statistical mechanics of networks with the analysis of economic incentives. He is currently involved in the coordination of the European Project FOC, aimed at anticipating structural instabilities in global financial networks. He also manages a Swiss project on the impact of OTC derivatives on systemic risk.
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On Saturday, September 14, 2013 over 75 volunteers converged on the Lewis Elementary School playground to remove 1800 square feet of pavement to make way for a rain garden. With the help of a local organization, Depave, our team worked to remove a portion of our paved playground to set the stage for the creation of a rain garden. The rain garden will help to solve a rain water runoff problem that results in the formation of a small lake near rooms 10 and 12. It will also create a habitat for birds and insects and will provide a space for science activities for our primary classrooms.
We thank our community and the volunteers from Depave (depave.org) for their help making this project possible.
We would also like to thank Otto's Sausage Kitchen, Franz Bread, and Trader Joe's for their generous donations of food to help feed our crew.
Our own Mr. Colvin set up his camera and created a time lapse photo of the work that took place on Saturday.
Lewis Elementary Depave Project Timelapse--9-14-2013 from Paul Colvin on Vimeo.
From Depave's http://depave.org mission statement: Depave promotes the removal of unnecessary pavement from urban areas to create community green spaces and mitigate stormwater runoff. Through community partnerships and volunteer engagement, Depave strives to overcome the social and environmental impacts of pavement with the use of action-oriented educational events, community stewardship, and advocacy to reconnect people with nature and inspire others. Depave is a nonprofit organization based in Portland, Oregon.


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Sunday, Septemer 17th 8 am - 1 pm Everyone is welcome and encouraged to buy a tee shirt with all of the proceeds going to the Sebastian family.
In March, Jordan Sebastian, Elm City CrossFit athlete and college football standout, 24, was diagnosed with Stage IV colon cancer, and he has undergone multiple treatments and surgeries in the months since. After years of him having his family, friends, community and teammates backs, now it is our responsibility to return the favor!
Elm City CrossFit will be presenting this Hero WOD honoring Jordan and his fight with Cancer!
All CrossFitters, friends and everyone is invited! Event is free but a donation is expected.
Don't want to workout? That's fine too. Community members, family and friends will be on hand selling shirts, raffle prizes and showing our support for Jordan.
All of the proceeds go to the Sebastian family.
Tee shirts can be purchased as part of your donation for $25 and can be picked up at Elm City CrossFit or at your Box!
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In November by Cynthia Rylant. Illustrated by Jill Kastner. 2000. Voyager Books.
Ages: Aimed at primary–but appealing to everyone, including adults.
In November is a gorgeous book, in every sense of the world. The lush, fuzzy-edged watercolor illustrations will put you in an autumn mood even before you turn the first page. Kastner chooses just the right muted colors and just enough detail to capture the moment without overdoing it, and she respects Rylant's focus on the sensory richness that marks this special time of year. The book is so short that you can share it aloud within moments, but you find yourself wanting to return again and again, to enjoy it at least once each autumn–and perhaps give it as a gift. Rylant, never one to waste words, seizes on the images that capture the changing of the seasons: the starkness of the trees, animals huddling for warmth, families gathering, birds hunting for meager remaining food, bees going underground. Some are achingly familiar, some strikingly new. The book has a mellow, soft, inviting voice and is wonderful as a read-aloud to teach this trait. But you can do much more with it. Notice the sensory detail, celebrated in both words and illustrations. And don't miss the unusual word choice, especially noteworthy in Rylant's sparing use of adjectives: staying birds, earthy holes, sometime friend. Nearly every page has a message, and together they form a central theme: thanksgiving. Not the holiday per se so much (which she references only indirectly), but the lower case version. The feeling in the heart. Though Rylant repeats the phrase In November, the echo never grows tiresome. We find ourselves listening for it, anticipating it. Tune in to the rhythm of the language, and you'll also notice this writer's skillful interweaving of long and short sentences punctuated bycarefully crafted fragments. The result is pure poetry–a model of sentence fluency at its finest.
In the Classroom
- Read the book aloud, perhaps more than once, just to enjoy the voice and poetic phrasing.
- Talk about what the month of November (or the fall season) means in your part of the world. Rylant is clearly writing about a region where noticeable, stark seasonal changes occur–marked by shifts in climate. But even if you do not live in such a place, perhaps there are more subtle changes that indicate a shift in seasons–or the coming of a new time of year.
- Write some "In November" pieces of your own, using the repeated phrase "In November" (or any phrase that fits your theme) to open each new segment. The results might be descriptive essays, poems, or journals celebrating family traditions, seasonal changes, or personal changes in the writer's own life–e.g., what does it mean to turn age 7, 8, 9, 10, or . . . ?
- Leaf through the book slowly, noticing the illustrations artist Jill Kastner uses to reflect each moment. Do your students have favorites? What senses does this artist appeal to through her various paintings? What do you smell, hear, feel?
- Create images of your own to celebrate a month or season of the year. You might consider creating individual greeting cards or assembling a collection of images to make a calendar.
- Author Cynthia Rylant uses some rather unusual adjectives in this book. Which ones stand out for your students? Is the use of common words in unusual ways a mark of good word choice? How so?
- What is the overall impression created by this book? How is it meant to make us feel as readers? Does Cynthia Rylant like the month of November–or autumn in general? How much? How can you tell? Clearly it's a time of hardship for wild creatures. Is this at odds with her overall theme–or just part of the larger picture?
- Writers get ideas in lots of ways. Talk about how author Cynthia Rylant probably got ideas for this book. Do you picture a moment where Rylant might have said to herself, "Yes! I'll write about that." Do you visualize her drawing most of her ideas from observations–just things she noticed? Memories? Imagination? Or some combination of those? Talk about where you get your own ideas for writing, and ask your students to share their thoughts on this, with each other in small groups and/or with the class as a whole.
- Not all books have illustrations. Perhaps they are more important to some books than to others. In this book, do the illustrations carry as much meaning as the words? More? How important are they? Think about the "voice" of artist Jill Kastner. She might have used, say, black and white sketches, cartoons, or even photographs. Did she make a good choice with her artistic voice and style? How so?
- One illustration in this book is distinctly different from all the rest. Which one is it? Why is it different, and why is its place in the book so important?


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Kanye West provoked harsh reactions after he interrupted Taylor Swift's Award acceptance speech at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards obviously to declare that the award should have gone to Beyonce!! But the story of Kanye's delima didn't stop there. The guy was criticized by almost everyone who attended the event as well as those who watched it later on TV. His own apology statement on the "Jay Leno Show" included his intention to approach Taylot Swift with a more personal apology. In his own words Kanye added; "I'm just ashamed that my hurt caused someone else's hurt," "and I don't try to justify it because I was just in the wrong." Later, we've heard that Taylor's mother had her own share of confronting Kanye West backstage at the Radio City Music Hall during the MTV Video Music Awards, where Kanye described the conversation as "she said the same thing my mother would have said". And while that all took place on stage and backstage, Beyonce looked extremely embarrassed and later gave her own acceptance speech microphone to Swift as a reconciliation. Both girls were smiling while Taylor had the time "which West cut short" to thank her fans.


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Some people just aren't meant to be boss. At least, that's what you might think after looking at some of the outlandish directives from bully bosses, according to forum postings on "BusinessManagementDaily.com's expert blogs.
The editors of www.BusinessManagementDaily.com asked administrative assistants to weigh in with the craziest things their bosses had ever asked them to do. They expected to hear about killer hours, volatile tempers, and perfectionist demands.
Here are some of the best examples of "other duties as assigned."
• Inspect the boss's sandwich every day to make sure it contained no tomatoes;
• Drop off a pet's stool sample at the vet. "He left the container on my desk while I was having lunch," wrote the assistant.
• Call around for a used toilet to replace one that had broken in the boss's rental house. "Uh, do you guys have any used toilets?"
• Send fake rejection letters from universities to the boss's daughter as a joke.
• Take a Johnny Mathis album cover to the tailor to find material that matched Johnny's jacket.
• Throw a surprise party for an up-and-coming vice president's dog.
• Look for "anything suspicious looking," after someone had called in a bomb threat.
• Stuff tissue between the boss's upper lip and teeth, after he chipped a tooth and then glued it back together.
• Check the pencils daily to be sure they were sharp enough. "If they weren't, I was to sharpen them, but only to the correct size for his hand. If he deemed the pencil too small, he would give it back to me and nastily tell me to save it for my children. I had no children."
• Spray the boss's bald head with sunscreen.
And just to show how far the admin profession has come, here's one for old time's sake:
• "Back in the day, a vice president would walk out of his office and, without a word, set an empty glass on my desk. That meant he wanted a glass of water. And the kitchenette was right next to his office!"
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Our child is starting kindergarten in the fall. That is equal parts exciting and depressing. Depressing because it makes us feel old. It seems like we were just changing diapers last month. It's exciting because as someone who works primarily from home at the moment, it means I can do my job in relative quiet without worrying about YouTube videos being audible in the background during a business call. It's like tax-funded day care.
Although, as anyone with a five-year-old knows, getting them dressed and ready to do anything is a massive chore. Just think, "now we have to do that on a daily basis." So we are going into this with a game plan to make mornings before school as quick and as painless as possible. Here are a few tips to get into a routine that will limit the headaches getting your kid ready for school.
Pre-pack Lunches: Did you know that peanut butter and jelly sandwiches freeze well? The same goes for most lunchmeat sandwiches. Save yourself some valuable time by getting their lunches together the night (or even the week) before. It's possible to have their entire lunchbox packed with all the sides like fruits and vegetables along with any other packaged snacks and put the whole thing in the fridge so all you have to do in the morning is grab it and go. Drink boxes and juice pouches can also be frozen overnight and will keep foods cool until lunchtime.
Ready the Wardrobe: Do you know how to tell when you are about to be 20 minutes late to wherever it is you are trying to get? Hearing your kid complain that they can't find matching socks. Rather than trying to find a whole set of matching clothes —and also avoid the inevitable arguments about where the such-and-such shirt instead of the something other one — it's a good idea to have everything laid out and ready the night before. Of course, this includes socks.
Ban the Screens: Does your child have the attention span of a goldfish? Ours does and nothing causes him to lose focus faster than the distractions of the television or tablet. That's why we will be enforcing no screens before school.
Which leads us to one of the most important steps in any before-school routine…
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Book 3 Chapter 12: Face Death With Open Eyes (Part 1)
The ninth hour, 4 pm.
The Hummer finally arrived at the Hudson's Bay Building on 145th Street.
Shen Yi parked the car by the roadside and Wen Rou opened the map, "This building is a shopping mall, but now it's closed down. It has a total of 34 floors, was built upon a construction area of 432 square feet and had a total of 12 exits. After the fighting begins, once the situation becomes bad for the mutants, they will try to retreat and escape. We must find a method to cut off all their escape routes, and for that we need enough manpower to solve that problem."
Hong Lang chatted with Jin Gang, "A ruthless woman can be much more cold-blooded than men."
Before Wen Rou could raise her whip, Hong Lang laughed and dodged automatically.
"Manpower is not a problem," Shen Yi also laughed.
He took out the Medal of Honor.
The Medal of Honor projected a hologram screen in front of Shen Yi.
"Please select the number of soldiers you want to summon, elite soldiers require 30 BP per person, ordinary soldiers require 15 BP per person. Once you have selected the soldiers, you can arrange them in separate formations, to facilitate your next summon."
The hologram screen showed a row of avatars; they were the British paratroopers who fought alongside Shen Yi at the bridge of Arnhem. Beside each soldier's avatar also listed their attributes, specialty, age and other introductory information. Each of the elite soldier's' attributes had different specialties, but the difference was not much, with the average attributes was around 10. They had the following introduction:"Each time the elite soldiers level up, all attributes are increased by 1 point, and the main attributes increase by 3 points. A new skill can be learned every 5 levels. Skill learning requires adventurers to provide BP, and the skill bar has 3 plots."
Shen Yi could freely select from the list of soldiers available to be recruited.
Lieutenant Colonel Frost and Major Ralph was also in the same column, but Frost's recruiting price was 100 BP,
Skill 1: Encouraging. For soldiers within one hundred meters around him, increases ranged damage 10%, +1 defense (this effect is limited only to the 2nd Paratroopers Battalion soldiers), Priority 10, each level up increases 1 point in Priority.
Skill 2: Blessing. Instantly restores a seriously wounded/dying soldier to full health.
Major Ralph's recruiting price was 80 BP,
Skill 1: Deathmatch. When the HP of soldiers drop below 30%, the attack damage is increased by 20 percent, +5 defense (this effect is limited to the 2nd Paratroopers Battalion soldiers), Priority 10, each level up increases 1 point in Priority.
If Frost or Ralph was killed, proportionally 10 points and 8 points of the Friendliness Rate would be reduced. Each time the two officers levelled up, all their attributes increased by 3 points, and their main attributes increased by 5 points. Their recruitment price also doubled at each level. Frost could learn a skill every 3 levels, skill bar had 5 plots; Ralph could learn a skill every 4 level, skill bar had 4 plots.
Frost or Ralph could be resurrected after the death, but each had only one resurrection opportunity and the resurrection cost was three times the recruitment price.
As for the ordinary soldiers, only their attributes and specialties were introduced, no avatar or name, and their average attributes was 7 points.
Shen Yi chose Frost and Ralph, and then selected 60 elite soldiers and 60 ordinary soldiers, paying 2880 BP in total. It was also thanks to Fatty, if not for him, the BP Shen Yi prepared was really not enough to summon so many soldiers.
The Medal of Honor reminded: "Please select the summon mode.
1: Direct Summon. The soldiers will appear directly by your side.
2: Airborne Summon. The soldiers will parachute in the Mission World at the landing point which can be specified by the summoner (anywhere within one kilometer range in field of vision).
Shen Yi chose a Direct Summon.
The next moment, Lieutenant Colonel Frost, Major Ralph, and 120 heavily armed British paratroopers suddenly appeared around Shen Yi.
The once empty street was suddenly populated by more than a hundred fully-armed men.
Compared to the 2nd Paratroopers Battalion in the World War II mission world, the soldiers who were summoned were more serious, and looked cool and agile. If the former 2nd Paratroopers Battalion soldiers still had their own will, then now they had become downright obedient to Shen Yi's command as loyal soldiers.
Each soldier carried a walkie-talkie. Shen Yi could directly command them through walkie-talkie. He could also choose to delegate the command and let Frost give order on behalf of him. The World War II mission world had no such advanced communication facilities; but after become summonee of the Medal of Honor, the 2nd Paratroopers Battalion soldiers that already automatically have this kind of equipment, this could be considered as the only advanced standard equipment.
The moment Frost had appeared, he saluted Shen Yi, "The 2nd Paratroopers Battalion commander Frost reporting for duty, sir. Please give orders"
"Divide the soldiers into three teams.The first team will be responsible for guarding the building and block all the people from the underground garage. Unless with an exception by me or my partner, anyone escapes must be killed on spot. The second team will deploy in the whole street. The third team will follow my partners in implementing the suppression order." Shen Yi ordered, "the execution time limit is three minutes, start immediately. "
"As you command, sir!" All the soldiers shouted at the same time.
These soldiers' personal qualities might be far worse than adventurers', but they were well trained, had good coordination, strictly implemented the commands, and all had excellent psychological quality. Paratroopers had always been composed of the best soldiers. The task of sneaking behind the enemy lines and using superior forces to ambush ignorant enemy, for them it was a piece of cake, and also commonplace.
Frost waved his arm, 120 paratroopers started to take action at the same time. Although they were many, they hadn't had the slightest disorder. Frost only made a little gesture a few times and the paratroopers were divided into two teams. A team of paratroopers burst into the building,ambushing the people inside the building, and the other team positioned themselves in the street layout as a line of defense. Only after two minutes, they have been all in place and the whole street was turned into a murderous danger.
At the completion of this step, Shen Yi said with a bit of exciting, "The rest is up to all of you, Fatty and I shall wait at the door."
Jin Gang and others hesitated, "You're not coming with us?"
"Someone has to stay outside to make sure our backyard does not catch fire."
"Then the Killing Point … …"
"Capture a few alive," Shen Yi lightly said.
"This might not be fair for you … …" Hong Lang still hesitated.
"Go ahead," Shen Yi interrupted Hong Lang, "I've made my decision. Luo Hao, buff Mana Shield onto them and continue doing so before every future battles. If next time, you only buff Mana Shield onto yourself, holding your head and shaking in a corner… I will stuff the gun into your a*****e and then pull the trigger."
Fatty nodded repeatedly.
Having the Mana Shield, the three of them went towards the underground garage of the building.
It was not long before a gun sounded.
The massacre had officially began …
Shen Yi, reclined in the Hummer with his hands behind his head, and a cigarette dangling from his mouth; smoke curled up, drifting into the air.
Shen Yi's eyes dazedly stared at the sky, seemed to be thinking about something.
Fatty sat reverently in the seat next to him.
The light of the cigarette flickered, burning down the cigarette a length at a time, showing that the mood of smokers was as uncertain as the cigarette shimmering .
The soot was increasing and Fatty, very consciously, stretched out his hand, so that soot falling in his own hands.
A small amount of ash fell on Shen Yi face, Fatty quickly wiped it off for him carefully.
Shen Yi obscurely looked at Fatty, feeling quite funny.
"Know why I don't want to go in?" He asked Fatty.
Fatty shook his head.
"Because I do not like killing people who don't have power to fight back. If I could choose… … I would like my opponent to be a powerful enemy, rather than some innocent mutant, like now. That damn Bloody City is letting us adventurers carry out a genocide."
"But you're still doing it," replied Fatty.
"So, this is life, we always face some problem we do not want to face but still have to face. No matter where we are, it's the same," Shen Yi reluctantly shrugged, "We can not resist, but at least we can stay awake."
He looked at Fatty and suddenly said, "For you, this behavior has always been incomprehensible right? You will never have a hope that's like mine."
Fatty slightly nodded, "I am afraid of death. As long as I can survive, I will do anything."
"But all men must die, don't they?"
"But it's always better to live a few more years."
"Do you feel like living in this way now, it is meaningful to live a few more years?"
Fatty muted.
Shen Yi sat up, took the cigarette out of his mouth and shoveled it into Fatty's face, giving out a slight "tzzz" noise.
The cigarette made a small bubble burn on Fatty's face.
Fatty didn't even dare to move.
"Look at you, do you think it's meaningful to live like this? I can toy with you as long as I want and you do not even have the power to resist. Do you think it's worth it?" Shen Yi stared at him.
Angered by his unwillingness to fight!
Fatty shivered a bit: "I … … I do not know, I just fear … …"
"Why do you fear?"
"Because it is your instinct!" Shen Yi immediately said, "But you have to understand that the reason why people are human, is because we have both sensible and emotional sides. On the one hand, we are emotional animals, subject to emotions and the instinct to instigate.However, on the other hand, we also have ability to reason, know what to do and what not to do. Many times we could go and should have gone to overcome some bad instincts! Now I ask you, you know why death is terrible? "
Fatty blankly shook his head.
"Because it cannot be reversed. You can only experience the human life once, and after death, you can not live again. No one alive can truly tell you what death is like. Precisely because of this, before it occurs, you will never have the experience of it.The difficult of survival in the ancient times have branded the fear of the unknown into our genes. It is the caution out of fear that makes the human grow and prosper. Therefore, it is because of the unknown, unrepeatable or irreversible things that we maintain a great caution, and it accumulates and then changes into fear. This is the nature of why the living is afraid of death! So death is a natural part of the life process, it is indispensable, it is not terrible in itself. We fear death because we do not understand it, we can not repeat it, we can not experience it, we can not reverse it … do you understand?"
Fatty stared bewilderedly at Shen Yi, as he did not understand at all why Shen Yi told him these things.
Shen Yi sighed, "What I just said, is the law of things running on Earth, but here is Bloody City. In this place, death is not something that can't be repeated, can't be experienced, can't be reversed…"
Looking at Fatty, Shen Yi gently patted his face. Due to his high Vitality, the small burn mark on his face was rapidly disappearing.
"Luo Hao, I just want to tell you that in the new world, there is a need for new rules, and a new psychological adaptation process. Your fear of death and danger is meaningless here, it will not help you as it helped human to survive and prosper on the earth, but will become your obstacles of getting stronger. This kind of psychological function and a physical function, the sense of pain, have both become meaningless. They are redundant and unnecessary. You have to learn to abandon them.
"But I …"
"I know that you have Danger Perception, but that just makes you feel dangerous, not to let you fear the dangers. The two are completely different, right?" Shen Yi smiled: "You said that the feeling is like throwing you down from tens of thousand of meters high without a parachute, didn't you? Yes, it is indeed terrible. But if I were in that circumstance, when I know there is no chance of survival, I will simply enjoy the scenery of the rapid fall, try if I can lit a cigarette in such a strong wind. I will turn somersaults and do gymnastics, or even untie my pants and pee into the sky, laughing out loud … … The real fear is not death, but your own heart. Try to keep calm and restrained in great danger, and if you can, you will grow up at last.
As he spoke, Shen Yi lay down.
"Do you know the difference between men and women?" he said in a lazy tone, "when a woman faces a thrusting blade, she closes her eyes and scream; when a man faces an overwhelming threat, he glares and yells back. Think carefully, Luo Hao. When you are in danger, you want to open your eyes or close them?"
Fatty, as if was struck by a lightning, was motionless.


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Prompt #55 Everything, and how it began!
Thank you all (again, again) for the bushel of fine prompts offered here!
(subtitled: Home from late work, and haven't even taken off my shoes as yet.)
You'd think it might be easy tonight, suggesting the next prompt – but that assumption would be inaccurate. Maybe it's too many plates on the table, too little time, and no time yet to properly, gracefully, digest all the many fine writing prompts that have been offered here. THAT will take some few days at the least for me. Pardon, and bear with me please. So this week I'm just going with a spark that seemed to leap between one suggested prompt and one comment on that idea. [nr]
So thanks to both Irene and Margo Roby for this week's prompt!
Everything, and how it began!
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Write a poem about how the universe began! This is a combination of "your theory of the universe" and your personal "creation myth", taken we suggest with a leaning toward the scientific view. How did all this everything come into being?
Sound like fun? And no, you won't be tested for scientific accuracy – alchemy is allowed. Yet perhaps spend a little time searching the internet for ideas about how the universe began. It's still "theory" you know. Then do a little cosmic designing, stir the pot, and suggest your creation myth in whatever manner you wish. It might measure its' steps in scientific thought, or take whimsical flight however your imagination might desire.
Is that enough for one week? I think we'll be back sometime for more from this interesting prompt. Just the first course for now!
Come back next Wednesday when you see, "It's Post Your Poems Day!" and leave a link to the poem on your blog. If you don't have a blog, then please, post your poem in the comment itself. *** You are invited to respond to the prompt given here, but if you have something else you're just itching to share, please feel welcome in doing that. Our first desire here is to encourage you to write and learn and share. *** When leaving comments to other's poems, please be appreciative and encouraging. We are not a poem "critique" site (unless someone specifically asks for that). Be kind with each other (and yourself!). *** Please consider including a link with your blog poem back to the prompt response here at We Write Poems so that others may see and join our community. More participants do make better soup!
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Larry and Kay joined Westwood in 1965. They met at the Wesley Foundation of the University of Wisconsin. Their three children (Scott, Beth and Ellen) grew up at Westwood UMC. Larry grew up with religious parents who were concerned with issues of social justice and often talked about it at home. Larry and Kay have been active serving on various committees and participating in ASP (Appalachia Service Project) missions helping to construct homes for needy families in the Appalachian Mountains. Additionally, Larry has taught many classes which address issues of social justice and the negative impact of social injustice.
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Losing Legacies, Ecological Release, and Transient Responses: Key Challenges for the Future of Northern Ecosystem Science
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Northern ecosystem processes play out across scales that are rare elsewhere on contemporary earth: large ranging predator–prey systems are still operational, invasive species are rare, and large-scale natural disturbances occur extensively. Disturbances in the far north affect huge areas of land and are difficult to control or manage. Historically, disturbance patterns and processes ranging across a number of spatio-temporal scales have played an important role in the resilience of northern ecosystems. However, due to interactions with a warming climate, these disturbances are now erasing key legacies of the last millennia of ecosystem processes. Building on the concepts of legacies and cross-scale interactions, we highlight several general conceptual issues that represent key challenges for the future of northern ecosystem science, but that also have relevance to other biomes.
Keywordsarctic boreal succession disturbance permafrost wildfire carbon diversity trophic interactions niche
The ideas presented here have benefited from discussions with many colleagues as well as funding programs that have promoted collaborative research in the north, including NASA's Terrestrial Ecosystems ABoVE program, the Government of the Northwest Territories' Environment and Natural Resources division, the NSERC Discovery program, the Bonanza Creek LTER program supported by the NSF and the U.S. Forest Service, the Changing Cold Regions Network support by NSERC, the Permafrost Carbon Network, and SEARCH's Permafrost Action Team.
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Fifteen years ago, I strolled into the pool area at my university, prepared to walk out with my lifeguard certification. Thinking I was tough and could muscle my way through it, I never bothered to practice.
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She was right, but still… Having swallowed half the pool, I was irritated, discouraged and, honestly, I thought I was going to die.
So, when my friend, Janice, encouraged me five weeks ago to do Swim Across America as a way to get some inexpensive coaching, give to a worthy cause, and maybe help my chronically ailing hip, I nearly burst out laughing.
Then I realized swimming might actually help my hip.
Fast-forward to just a few days ago. I was in the lap area of my community pool doing my best impression of practicing. I'd swallowed more pool water than I care to admit, so I decided to stop and play.
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"About a week ago," he said.
I needed to understand why. Handstands were, after all, my freedom from continually ingesting chlorinated water!
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"And several thousand people drown in pools every year, for a variety of reasons. Why don't we just close down pools, altogether?" I screamed inside my head, as I went back to doing laps.
"Rules are stupid" I chanted to myself repeatedly while inadvertently inhaling more water.
Then I stopped swimming, stood up, and thought, "This is exactly the mistake many corporate leaders make when enforcing rules. They unintentionally stifle creativity."
To keep everyone "safe," leaders begin instituting rules, like you have to attend every meeting, or you can't wear flip flops (but sandals are OK), or your haircut must look a certain way[insert stupid rule here]. (Disclaimer: some professionals will do better in their career if they avoid certain shoe and hair styles– address them separately and focus on their greater goals.)
Rule makers often don't realize the value inherent in the freedom of expression and play – the freedom to have fun! Innovative ideas don't come from staying safe; they come from having the courage and confidence to test boundaries and to imagine "what if?"
Such courage needs fertile ground. Here are three simple ideas to increase innovation, creativity and collaboration on your team:
- Eliminate all unnecessary rules. To know whether the rule is unnecessary, ask yourself: will removing this rule put the greater community in danger? For example, one person doing a handstand doesn't necessarily put others in harms way. If it's important to cover your company legally, simply have them sign a wavier.
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Seriously, whenever possible, avoid stifling rules. People get hurt chewing gum, much less doing a pool handstand. Trust your team members to be the adults they are, and let them choose their own risks.
The reward?
Go try these ideas, and come back to tell me how many more of your team members are taking personal responsibility, sharing more, and creating brilliant ideas.
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Misti Burmeister, best-selling author of From Boomers to Bloggers: Success Strategies Across Generations and Hidden Heroes