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First, Sarah Ditum on why displaying our own liberal cleverness is always a worse strategy than sharing human stories. Ditum exposes the left-liberal intelligentsia's masturbatory performances of smartness as bad politics in a human world, suggesting that such performances won't win people over even when the facts are on our side, as with welfare reform and migration. In relation to migration, this is a point Jill Rutter has made recently too:
"economic arguments will not persuade a sceptical public about the merits of immigration... most of the UK-born do not see immigration in terms of its economic benefits. Most people I interviewed struggled to articulate the benefits that immigration might have brought them, even those from higher income brackets.The economic impacts – for example – on food prices, or fiscally, are abstract and difficult to quantify. At the time of a squeeze on living standards, most people do not 'feel' the benefits of immigration to their everyday lives, except on a superficial level in relation to a wider choice in food or cursory gratitude to migrants working in the NHS."what's wrong with the anti-liberal left: Goldberg analyses the converse, anti-intellectual folly of the new illiberal left and its culture of "repressive tolerance". By this she refers to the use of trigger warnings, call-outs and no platforming to deny free expression in the name of some spurious idea of social justice: the politics of the hashtag attack dogs.
The liberal fallacy and illiberal folly they invoke have this in common: both dis-engage the unconverted from politics; both play to a gallery of clued-up insiders. And thus both help maintain the disenchantment and sense of hopelessness of the majority, and both help maintain the grip of elites on our body politic. (See also James Bloodworth (☚): Want to defeat UKIP? Then get more working class people into politics.) And the repressive tolerance Goldberg describes also plays into something Nick Cohen and Kenan Malik have written about many times: the culture of taking offence that has gripped our world.
Nick Cohen (☚) recently wrote a superb deconstruction of Noam Chomsky's position on Crimea, showing how Chomsky's take exemplifies the double standards of the "anti-imperialist" left. Somewhat updated, but still very incomplete: this long resource list includes several texts on left antisemitism, conspirationism and left-right convergence, and a few on philo-Islamism, vicarious social patriotism, Third Worldism and the anti-imperialism of fools. Some of the more recent ones include: Nick Cohen How the left turned against the Jews (2012), Sean Matgamna The SWP and Israel (2013), Colin Shindler The European left and its trouble with Jews and The Left and Israel: A Tortured Path (2012), Pham Binh The Anti-Imperialism of Fools and the Syrian Spring (2012), Allan Massie Israel, Palestine and the anti-Semitism of the Left (2012). (Here's a couple more, not on that page: Padraig Reidy on Katy Perry and the Illuminati.)
"anti-establishmentism of fools" (illustrated by the alliance around the quenelle). Paul Evans (☚) linked to that piece back in January, along with a great article by Sean Wilentz on the cross-party cult of Assange/Snowden/Greenwald. Paul suggests that perhaps the old disciplined orthodoxies of Leninist democratic centralism were in some ways healthier than today's believe-in-anything political culture. I fear he might be right. Or, as Public Enemy puts it, 'If you don't stand for something you'll fall for anything'.
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Omar, Mohammad
Mohammad Omar, b. late 1950s, Afghan religious and political leader popularly known as Mullah Omar. From a rural Pashtun family, he became a Muslim cleric. In the 1980s he joined the mujahidin fighting the Soviet occupation and lost his right eye in battle. Objecting to postwar lawlessness and lax Muslim practice, he helped found (1994) the Taliban, and led madrasa students in the takeover of Kandahar and other Afghan cities. In 1996, when the Taliban had won control of much of Afghanistan, Omar was proclaimed amir al-mu'minin (commander of the faithful). Under his leadership, strict Islamic and traditional law was instituted. Following the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks on the United States, he refused to surrender Osama bin Laden, who had his headquarters in Afghanistan and is thought to have funded the Taliban. After U.S.-supported forces routed the Taliban, Omar went into hiding in the mountainous region along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, and his whereabouts, in Pakistan or Afghanistan, has been unclear since.
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WordPress has the ability to suck up so much bandwidth and processing power that your site will certainly be down half of the times because you exceeded the amount of resources you have on your server. If you plan to use WordPress, be certain you have enormous server specs.
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WordPress it's no more a safe trick to get ranked well. You'll have a hard time to achieve good indexing of your site, unless you have a unique name and your content is so awesome that Google makes love with it no matter how slow and clunky your setup is.
But most of the times your site is just another copycat, with the same boring theme seen endless times on other endless similar sites with the same boring content.
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Tuesday, August 16, 2016
Gabby Progress
I now have the base of the exterior, and the complete lining finished.
Patty Cucman on the Emmaline Bags Blog. The pocket turned out nice and tidy with the zipper tape fully enclosed by fabric. I'm glad I tried it.
I have an exterior zippered pocket and the top to add, plus the handle. With luck, it will be finished tomorrow.
Yesterday, I spent a lovely day sewing with a young friend and her grandmother. We made Sweetpea Pods.
I am linking to WIP Wednesday at the Needle and Thread Network.
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Love the bag, even though purple isn't at all my colour.....and I love how the cats want to get in on the act too! Sweetpea Pods look very useful, just the thing to tuck into a larger bag.ReplyDelete
It looks like it'll be cute!! I've got a bag almost finished--not this one, a frame purse. I've gotten out of the habit of bag-making and I forgot how much I enjoy it.ReplyDelete
its a good thing you listened to that fabric - it is so cute in the bag. This is looking great!ReplyDelete
Beautiful fabric choices!!ReplyDelete
Glad I'm not the only one who's fabric talks. I've seen the Sweatpea pod pattern in the shop and am wondering if you find it large enough for your needs? They are an interesting bag that look fun and quick to make.ReplyDelete
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Peter Fraser, Baron Fraser of Carmyllie
Peter Lovat Fraser, Baron Fraser of Carmyllie, PC, QC (29 May 1945 – 22 June 2013) was a Scottish politician and advocate.[1]
The Lord Fraser of Carmyllie
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|Elizabeth II
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|Margaret Thatcher
John Major
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|Succeeded by
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|Solicitor General for Scotland
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|Elizabeth II
|Prime Minister
|Margaret Thatcher
|Preceded by
|Nicholas Fairbairn
|Succeeded by
|The Lord Rodger of Earlsferry
|Member of Parliament
for East Angus
|In office
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|New constituency
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for South Angus
|In office
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|963 (1.9%)
|Personal details
Peter Lovat Fraser
29 May 1945
|22 June 2013(aged 68)
|Political party
|Fiona Macdonald Mair
|Slade House, Carmyllie
|Alma mater
|Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge; Edinburgh
Early life and familyEdit
Peter Fraser's mother died when he was 12 while living in Zambia, where his father was serving as a minister. Anthony Eden, then prime minister, intervened at the request of family friend Brendan Bracken to help Fraser obtain a scholarship to Loretto School, Musselburgh, East Lothian, the private school where Eden was a trustee.[2] He graduated BA (Hons) and LLM (Hons), Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, before going to the University of Edinburgh. He was elected to the Faculty of Advocates in 1969 and in 1972 he lectured part-time in constitutional law at Heriot-Watt University for two years. In 1979 he was appointed Standing Junior Counsel for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and became a Queen's Counsel in 1982.
In 1969 he married Fiona Murray Mair.[3] The couple had three children: Jane, Jamie and Katie.[4]
Conservative politicianEdit
Fraser first stood for Parliament for Aberdeen North in October 1974, but was beaten by Labour's Robert Hughes.
He was elected as a Conservative & Unionist Member of Parliament for South Angus in 1979, where he remained in the House of Commons until June 1987 (from 1983 representing East Angus). He was Parliamentary Private Secretary to George Younger, Secretary of State for Scotland. In 1982 he was appointed Solicitor General for Scotland by Margaret Thatcher and became Lord Advocate in 1989. He was created a life peer as Baron Fraser of Carmyllie, of Carmyllie in the District of Angus on 10 February 1989[5] and was appointed a member of the Privy Council the same year.
Lockerbie bombingEdit
During his time as Scotland's senior law officer, he was directly responsible for the conduct of the investigation into the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. Lord Fraser drew up the 1991 indictment against the two accused Libyans and issued warrants for their arrest. But five years after the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing trial, when Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was convicted of 270 counts of murder, he cast doubt upon the reliability of the main prosecution witness, Tony Gauci. According to The Sunday Times of 23 October 2005, Lord Fraser criticised the Maltese shopkeeper, who sold Megrahi the clothing that was used to pack the bomb suitcase, for inter alia being "not quite the full shilling" and "an apple short of a picnic".
Lord Advocate, Colin Boyd, who was chief prosecutor at the Lockerbie trial, reacted by saying: "It was Lord Fraser who, as Lord Advocate, initiated the Lockerbie prosecution. At no stage, then or since, has he conveyed any reservation about any aspect of the prosecution to those who worked on the case, or to anyone in the prosecution service." Boyd asked Lord Fraser to clarify his apparent attack on Gauci by issuing a public statement of explanation.
William Taylor QC, who defended Megrahi at the trial and the appeal, said Lord Fraser should never have presented Gauci as a crown witness: "A man who has a public office, who is prosecuting in the criminal courts in Scotland, has got a duty to put forward evidence based upon people he considers to be reliable. He was prepared to advance Gauci as a witness of truth in terms of identification and, if he had these misgivings about him, they should have surfaced at the time. The fact that he is coming out many years later after my former client has been in prison for nearly four and a half years is nothing short of disgraceful. Gauci's evidence was absolutely central to the conviction and for Peter Fraser not to realise that is scandalous," Taylor said.
Tam Dalyell, former Labour MP who played a crucial role in organising the trial at Camp Zeist in the Netherlands, described Lord Fraser's comments as an 'extraordinary development': "I think there is an obligation for the chairman and members of the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission to ask Lord Fraser to see them and testify under oath - it's that serious. Fraser should have said this at the time and, if not then, he was under a moral obligation to do so before the trial at Zeist. I think there will be all sorts of consequences," Dalyell declared.
Later careerEdit
Fraser appeared for the United Kingdom in both the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg and the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.[6]
Baron Fraser was elected President of the charity Attend[7] (then National Association of Hospital and Community Friends) and held the position from 1989 until his passing in 2013.
From 1992 to 1995 he was Minister of State at the Scottish Office covering Home Affairs and Health. He was then Minister of State at the Department of Trade and Industry with a responsibility for export promotion and overseas investment with particular emphasis on the oil and gas industry. In 1996 he became Minister for Energy.[6]
In May 2003 First Minister Jack McConnell announced a major public inquiry into the handling of the Scottish Parliament Building project, headed by Lord Fraser. The inquiry heard evidence from architects, civil servants, politicians and the building companies.[8]
In August 2007 he was appointed to the Scottish Broadcasting Commission established by the Scottish Executive.[9]
He was a member of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights and lived at Regent Terrace in Edinburgh.[10]
He died on 22 June 2013.[11]
- ^ "Lockerbie investigator Lord Fraser of Carmyllie dies suddenly at 68 | Dundee & Tayside | News | STV". News. Retrieved 23 June 2013.
- ^ "Ex-lord advocate Fraser of Carmyllie in alleged flight row", The Scotsman, 21 December 2006
- ^ "Lord Fraser of Carmyllie, PC 1945-2013". Peerage News.
- ^ "Family". Lord Fraser of Carmyllie.
- ^ "No. 51646". The London Gazette. 15 February 1989. p. 1935.
- ^ a b "Lord Fraser of Carmyllie". The Herald Scotland. 14 June 2013. Retrieved 16 February 2018.
- ^ http://www.attend.org.uk/about-us/people-we-honour-0/attend-vips
- ^ Wilson, Brian (24 June 2013). "Lord Fraser of Carmyllie obituary". the Guardian. Retrieved 16 February 2018.
- ^ Torrance, David (14 June 2013). "Obituary: Lord Fraser of Carmyllie, advocate and politician". The Scotsman. Retrieved 16 February 2018.
- ^ Mitchell, Anne (1993), "The People of Calton Hill", Mercat Press, James Thin, Edinburgh, ISBN 1-873644-18-3.
- ^ "Lords Hansard text for 24 Jun 2013 (pt 0001)". Publications.parliament.uk. 6 September 2011. Retrieved 25 June 2013.
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I am a certified mediator and I recently mediated a workers' compensation claim for some local lawyers. The injured worker in the case alleged that she hurt her foot on a piece of equipment at work. Her supervisor claimed that the woman told the supervisor that she had gotten hurt at home. Normally, this type of dispute would be a "swearing match" with both people testifying under oath in court, and the Deputy Commissioner would have to figure out who was telling the truth. Having a document to clarify the facts either way is a big help in this kind of situation.
Workers' Comp is normally not very sexy, but two news stories came out this week involving sex and workers' comp........
NC Legislature Will Reverse its Decision to Hide Insurance Coverage Information
It looks like the Legislature has reconsidered and will reverse its earlier decision to hide insurance coverage information from the public.
NC Legislature Hides Workers' Compensation Insurance Coverage From Public
Even though there are thousands of employers committing workers' compensation fraud in this State every year by failing to purchase workers' compensation insurance, our legislature has now made it a lot harder to find out if an employer is complying with the law.


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Fusionbox, the Denver Internet Marketing Company I work for, has recently signed on several new clients. We have also started new projects for existing clients.
Some of the Internet Marketing we are doing now includes working with a B2B company to ensure it does not lose organic search engine ranking at the time of relaunch. We did not do the site design and the client came to us only after having a bad experience with their current web design company. They brought Fusionbox in to do SEO but we discovered that the site that was under development was not ideal at all because it lacked any lead generation program. Fusionbox also found out that the current vendor had not put any plans in place at all to manage page redirects, load times, or even properly optimized meta data.
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The Court of Appeal of California has ruled that employers are only required to make meal and other breaks available to employees. They don't have to force employees to take those breaks or eat a meal.
Your only obligation: Make sure that no work is required to be performed during scheduled break time.
Recent case: Kevin Tien and other employees working for Tenet Healthcare throughout California sued over alleged violations of break and meal-time regulations. Essentially, Tien claimed that there were times that Tenet didn't provide rest or meal breaks.
Tenet said it did provide the opportunity for rest and meal breaks, but that sometimes employees didn't take advantage of the opportunity. The employees argued that breaks should be mandatory and enforced.
The court disagreed. It concluded that by making the breaks available and structuring the work so employees could actually take the breaks, the employer had met its obligation. Essentially, the company was merely required to lead the horse to the water, not to make him drink. (Tien v. Tenet Healthcare, No. B214333, Court of Appeal of California, 2nd Appellate District, 2011)
Final note: This was just one of several wage-and-hour issues raised by this case. Other issues included whether employee paychecks were understandable and whether employers that fail to provide breaks automatically violate pay-on-termination rules, subjecting them to an additional penalty. Some of those issues remain unresolved.


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What has not already been said about the holiest city in the world, the eternal city first built thousands of years ago, whose history can be heard in the whispering of the wind along the walls, where every stone tells a wondrous story of a city that has drawn millions of faithful pilgrims for thousands of years. Such is Jerusalem, the capital of Israel, the only city in the world that has 70 names of love and yearning, the city that in old maps appears at the center of the world and is still adored like a young bride.
Jerusalem is a city of overwhelming emotions, a city that promises a religious and spiritual experience, excitement and pleasure, interesting tours and entertaining adventures. Here, alongside Jerusalem's fascinating historic and archeological sites, there are amazingly modern tourist attractions for all lovers of culture, the arts, theater and music, architecture and gastronomic delights.
Tourism in Jerusalem
With its religious and historic sites, cultural attractions, and picturesque mountain setting, Jerusalem is Israel's foremost tourist destination, drawing one-and-a-half million visitors a year, or roughly 70 percent of all persons who visit Israel. In the same year, Jerusalem's hotels employed 6,151 workers and welcomed 970,000 guests. The city has 65 hotels, with a combined total of 8,046 rooms. About 38 percent of travelers to Jerusalem come from the Americas, and 43 percent come from Europe.
The most colorful shopping experience to be found in Jerusalem, however, is afforded by the crowded, bustling market stalls (or Shuk) of the Old City, where haggling with merchants is the rule and can reduce the initial asking price of an item by over one-half. A large selection of souvenirs is available for visitors of all religions, including many items that incorporate olive wood, silver, and turquoise. Ceramics are another of the many specialty items available in the market stalls.
As the Jewish people's living memorial to the Holocaust, Yad Vashem safeguards the memory of the past and imparts its meaning for future generations. Established in 1953, as the world center for documentation, research, education and commemoration of the Holocaust, Yad Vashem is today a dynamic and vital place of intergenerational and international encounter.
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Jerusalem is also Israel's most popular site for international conferences, hosting about 50 percent of all such events.
Tel Aviv – Jaffa
Tel Aviv, often called "the city that never stops," is a lively, active city with entertainment, culture and art, festivals, and amazing night life. It was the first modern Jewish city built in Israel, and is the country's economic and cultural center.
Situated on a 14-kilometer-long strip on the Mediterranean seacoast, Tel Aviv extends beyond the Yarkon River to the north and the Ayalon River to the east. Hundreds of thousands of workers, visitors, tourists, and partygoers move about the city each day until the early hours of the morning, seeking out the city's nightclubs, restaurants, and centers of entertainment.
Tel Aviv is Israel's center for culture and entertainment. The city has more than 20 museums, the most important of which are the Land of Israel (HaAretz) Museum and the Tel Aviv Art Museum. Other Tel Aviv museums include the Museum of the Diaspora, the Israel Defense Forces History Museum, the Etzel Museum, the Haganah Museum, the Palmach Museum, The Lehi Museum, and the Nachum Guttman Museum.
The city hosts the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and the Israeli Opera Company, as well as most of the national dance and theater companies.
Tel Aviv is also the national center for night life and entertainment and is filled with night clubs featuring music of all types, dancing, restaurants, pubs, coffee houses, discotheques, movie theaters, auditoriums, and concert halls.
The beachfront of Tel Aviv has bathing beaches and a romantic waterfront promenade.
Israel's third largest city and one of its prettiest, Haifa has a lot to offer visitors. It has the country's largest port, a particularly active beach and is the home of the World Centre of the Bahai Faith. Surrounded by abundant nature sites, the city contains an interesting mix of modern neighborhoods and older districts; churches and mosques; mountain and sea.
Haifa is a multi-faceted city with several unique characteristics making it an attractive place to visit. Its proximity to the sea and its active port contribute to its prominence. The bustling port area draws merchants, shoppers and tourists. The beautiful beaches are popular for sports and recreation, and are filled with people during summer weekends. In addition, because of their excellent surfing conditions, the beaches serve many of Israel's top sailing enthusiasts and host sailing competitions and other sporting events.
With residents from the three largest religions as well as from various minority faiths, Haifa is also a symbol of outstanding co-existence and tolerance. Nine percent of the population consists of Arabs (Moslems and Christians) who reside mostly in three neighborhoods: Khalisa, Abas and the famous Wadi Nisnas whose charming alleyways have turned it into a tourist spot. The annual Holiday of Holidays marking the city's special lifestyle is held there.
The Christian presence in Haifa, with its many churches, also contributes to the city's image. A Maronite church is located next to Kikar Paris (Paris Square); adjacent to that is the Carmelite church dedicated to the Prophet Elijah; and not far from there is Saint Mary's Greek Orthodox Parish Church. The Sacre Coeur Catholic school on Allenby Street has a well-tended garden and building, in front of which are impressive statues of Saint Mary. Atop the Carmel, holy to Christians, is the Stella Maris Carmelite Monastery. In the monastery's Baroque-style church is a cave considered by Christian tradition to be the grave of the Prophet Elijah, and in the monastery is a small museum dedicated to his life. On site is also a hostel which serves the many pilgrims who visit the city.
Over the years, the city of Eilat has become the ultimate resort city with Eilat hotels and beaches packed with thousands of Israeli vacationers and tourists from around the world, who come to relax in the country's southernmost spot.
In the winter it mainly attracts tourists from Europe who prefer vacations in a warmer and more pleasant climate while Israelis flock to the city in the summer. The secret of this little city's charm is its special location in the northern end of the Bay of Eilat. The combination of a hot climate, a tropical sea and a breath-taking background of wild, bare granite mountains has turned it into a tourist gem all the year round.
Eilat's location made it strategically significant during the many historical periods in which it served as a port – starting in the days of King Solomon (who built a large fleet of ships which he sent to Ophir), through the Nabataeans, the Romans, the Arabs, and the Crusaders, all of whom ruled the Land of Israel.
The modern city of Eilat was established in 1950. In the early 1950s, a quay was built in the new city, and subsequently a port which became the basis for the new city's economy. Towards the end of the 1960s, the tourism industry started developing in the city, and today Eilat is a paradise for tourists, travelers and vacationers.
The bay is one of the major attractions, thanks to the beautiful beaches, the developed water sports and some of the best diving spots in the world. In the south of the city is the Coral Reserve, with splendid tropical fish among the reefs. Within the precincts of the reserve is the Underwater Observatory, with a marine museum that displays collections of fascinating sea animals. Not far from the observatory is the Dolphin Reef with its resident school of dolphins.
The Galilee
Ranges of hills with high peaks, one river, many streams, dozens of brooks, primal landscapes, evergreen forests, dense natural groves, valleys, lakes, few residents and many hikers and tourists are what make the Galilee so special.
The Galilee is a mountainous region in Israel's north, and is divided into two main parts - the Upper Galilee to the north and the Lower Galilee to the south. The highest peak in the Upper Galilee is Mt. Meron, which rises 1,208 meters above sea level, while the highest point in the Lower Galilee is the summit of Mt. Kamon, at 602 meters above sea level.
Thanks to the abundant water and the fertile soil in the Galilee's valleys, this region has been relatively densely populated since ancient times and today has the largest variety of ethnic communities in Israel.
There are Druze villages (Beit Jan, Peki'in) and Circassian (Reikhaniya, Kfar Kama) who preserve their ancient traditions; there are Arab villages with Muslim majorities (Kafr Yasif) or Christian majorities (Fasuta), or some with an equal balance (Ma'alot Tarkhisha).
The Galilee is one of Israel's main tourism centers, with dozens of different types of sites. For example, there are national antiquities parks (including Bar'am, Tsipori (Zippori), Beit She'arim, Monfort and Kohav Hayarden); moshava farming communities from the early days of the modern settlement of Israel, which tell the story of Zionism (Metula, Yesud Ha-Ma'ala, Rosh Pina); beautiful nature reserves (Hula Lake, Mt. Meron, Bar'am Forest, Nahal Kziv and many more); Jewish holy sites, such as the graves of the sages and ancient synagogues (in Safed (Tsfat) and Tiberias); and Christian holy sites that are visited by many pilgrims during their tour of the Holy Land (Nazareth, Kfar Nahum (Capernaum), the Jordan River and Lake Kineret).
The large concentration of sites, the natural beauty and the breathtaking landscapes are what make the Galilee so unique. It has even been nicknamed the Israeli Tuscany or Provence. Either way, the Galilee is a fascinating area that offers dozens of touring and entertainment options.
Christian Sites in the Galilee
There are many of the most important sites of Christianity located in the North of Israel - from Nazareth the childhood home of Jesus and to many of the sites in the Sea of Galilee (Kinneret) region.
Several formative events in the New Testament take place around the Sea of Galilee. According to the New Testament Jesus moved to this region as a young man after leaving his home town of Nazareth. On its shores he recruited his first disciples. The New Testament tells that as he performed various miracles, his fame spread and multitudes of people came to hear him preach and be in his company.
Visiting the following pilgrimage sites in the Galilee and Sea of Galilee regions is a highlight of any Christian tour of Israel:
Kursi – The Miracle of the Swine
Yardenit Baptismal Site
2,000 Year Old Fishing Boat at Ginosar – The Jesus Boat
Mount of the Beatitudes – The Sermon on the Mount
Tabgha – The Church of the Multiplication of the Fish and the Loaves
Capernaum – Jesus and Peter's Town
Nazareth – City of the Annunciation


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Bad Moms is an upcoming American comedy film directed and written by Jon Lucas and Scott Moore. The film stars Mila Kunis, Christina Applegate, Kristen Bell, Kathryn Hahn, Annie Mumolo and Jada Pinkett Smith. Principal photography began on January 11, 2016 in New Orleans. STX Entertainment will release the film on July 29, 2016.
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The Acura NSX concept car has been tantalizing us with its clean lines and promised performance for well over a year now, but what we're most interested in is the final production version due out in 2015.
We're glad to report that the new NSX has passed from concept to prototype stage and has since made its dynamic debut, wowing audiences during the past weekend's Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio. The prototype lapped the 2.4-mile winding road course, driven by one of the car's engineers.
Its debut at the Ohio race track is a significant one, as the Midwestern state is where this second generation of the NSX sports car is being developed and where it is destined to be produced.
Why not Japan? The team behind the NSX explains that the car is first and foremast an Acura, and since the U.S. is the primary market for Acura it is only natural the car is developed here.
Compared to the previous concept versions, some of the details on this prototype have been simplified, or, as in the case of the side mirrors, brought into the realm of legal and practical reality. Some of the car's lines are also likely to change as development progresses, all in order to optimize aerodynamic efficiency.
That means this isn't the last we'll see of the prototype before it transitions to production. You can bet it will be taken to Germany to be honed on the grueling Nürburgring.
While the exterior is yet to be finalized, Acura tells us the car's advanced hybrid powertrain is virtually done. The NSX's drivetrain will pair a mid-mounted V-6 with three electric motors and a seven-speed dual-clutch transmission, resulting in a through-the-road all-wheel-drive hybrid setup.
Called the Sport Hybrid Super Handling All-Wheel Drive, or Sport Hybrid SH-AWD for short, the setup will offer multiple driving modes, sophisticated torque vectoring and the ability to instantly deliver negative and positive torque to the front wheels during cornering to achieve a new level of driving performance unparalleled to current traction systems.
Can the reality of Acura's new NSX live up to the legend of the original as well as the hype of the concept? With an extended prototype development phase beginning now before market launch, expected sometime in 2015, we'll have plenty of opportunity to find out.
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Do I Need A Tetanus Shot?
As spring weather rolls in, shoes and socks start coming off. Floods often occur across the country from heavy spring showers and melting snow. The good weather also kicks off the season to travel abroad. What do all these things have in common, besides occurring in the spring? They pose a threat for tetanus infection.
You may already be aware that stepping on a rusty nail or a puncture wound could cause a tetanus infection, a bacterial disease that affects the nervous system and is often fatal. What you may not know is that tetanus bacteria can also enter the body even through a tiny pinprick, a scratch from an animal, splinters, bug bites and even burns that break the skin.
"Your best defense against tetanus is vaccination," said Kathleen Clem, MD, of the American College of Emergency Physicians. "Although vaccination has made this disease uncommon in the United States, too many people, especially infants and the elderly, still die from tetanus."
Tetanus vaccination is one of the recommended childhood immunizations and should begin during infancy. In most parts of the United States, tetanus immunization is required before starting school. The first time you are vaccinated, you will receive a series of five shots spread out over several months. Generally, children start vaccination at 2 months of age and the shots are usually completed by age five. After those first series of shots, you should receive a booster shot every 10 years.
If you step on a nail or suffer a wound that is deep and dirty, and haven't had a tetanus shot in the past 10 years, you need help fast. Seek medical attention immediately and rinse the wound with tap water. Do not cleanse with soap or apply antiseptic to a deep wound.
Besides a tetanus shot, your doctor may also give you an injection of something called tetanus immune globulin, which acts fast to prevent infection. There is a small window of opportunity for the tetanus immune globulin to work, so don't delay seeking medical care.
Be aware of the first signs of tetanus infection. Also known as lockjaw, tetanus causes stiffness of the neck, difficulty swallowing, rigidity of abdominal muscles, spasms, sweating and fever. Symptoms usually begin eight days after the infection, but occur anywhere within three days to three weeks.
"It is important to keep an immunization record for everyone in the family," said Dr. Clem. "One of the main reasons people die from this disease is because they didn't realize their vaccination had expired."


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African Short Stories
I have been trying to get into more short stories and be more open-minded about them, especially since African literature does have a lot of short stories and African writers do have a gift for writing them (I wonder why that is?). There's the Caine Prize for African Writing and African Roar Anthologies, which I mentioned earlier, but here are a few more anthologies, as well as, short story collections by authors.
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- Anonymous2 April 2012 at 12:46
I completely understand your sentiments re: short stories. Have felt like that myself but I have noticed that everywhere I seem to go there are short stories being published out of every country. They seem to be incredibly popular again. Hope you enjoy these. I have been meaning to delve into some Australian and American short stories but still keep putting it off though I have several books of them. Good luck w/the short story reading :-)PamReplyDelete
Short stories are probably not so popular in this part of the continent,but it is really worth all the efforts in reading.There is another collection readers would find interesting,The stories of ourselves.A lot of interesting stories with global appeal.ReplyDelete
Kunle Abrahams
Phew! Glad to know you've felt that way as well :). But, I am really trying to be more open to them and maybe with time I'll learn to love them. I do wonder why they are becoming so popular again? I'm thinking of reading either one of the Caine Prize Anthologies or "Voice of America" first. Would also be nice to get some recommendations of Australian and American short stories. Good luck with yours as well.ReplyDelete
Thank you for the book recommendation. I do feel that I am closing myself to an important part of literature and really need to change my views on them. Hopefully once I get into them I will really enjoy them and as you said see the worth in reading them.ReplyDelete
Quite a lot of anthologies here I hadn't heard of. Like you I am only slowly becoming a fan - I thank (blame?) Kinna for that. She has really shown me some great anthologies!ReplyDelete


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For almost five years now, Hollywood studios have beentrying to duplicate the success of "Gladiator"by making the same big-budget historical battle epic over ("TheLast Samurai") and over ("Troy")and over ("KingArthur") and over ("Alexander").
Each movie has re-imagined history from a modern, let's-keep-an-open-mindperspective and hewed to a shopworn formula in which the hero rallies hismen against great odds and for a greater good. He invariably leads theminto the same blood-and-mud war scenes, which are always shot in the samestaccato slow-motion that characterizes the chaos of combat but forgetsthe audience needs to be kept abreast of who is winning. The hero alsoalways finds time to romance a beautiful woman from another culture.
Aside from having different casts, the only significantvariations between these films seem to be 1) whether the hero was of noblebirth or came up from nothing to become a great leader, and 2) whetherthe battlefields are green and forested or brown and sandy. One thing mostof them definitely have in common is that they've bombed at the box office.
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Team: Round Rock Express
Affiliate: Texas (AA)
Dell Diamond is located in Round Rock which lies just north of Austin (it's naming rights belong to Dell Computers, the largest employer in Round Rock). While the park lacks dazzling surroundings it also shows that a minor league ballpark can fit in almost anywhere – from urban centers to suburban neighborhoods.
On the outside, Dell Diamond looks shiny and new if not a bit high-tech for its surroundings (but it is named after a computer company after all). Parking is plentiful and it's easy to get out even with the big crowds that have been plentiful with the park setting attendance records frequently in its first decade of existence.
Dell is a nice ballpark that offers all the comforts one expects from new construction. Comfortable seating, a wide wrap-around concourse, etc. The outfield area offers a wide variety of seating options, from the elevated seats and huge Adirondack chairs underneath in left field to the grass hill behind the center field bullpens and swimming pool in right field. Another noteworthy feature is that the concession areas run perpendicular to the field – no lines form in the concourse to block the flow of traffic around the ballpark (and the food is pretty good too).


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Halloween night turned out to be pretty fun here in Mesa. My friend Melissa came over to help me complete my costume as a gangsta by helping me braid my hair and lending me some 'bling' to wear. Her friend Justine came over too and she was really nice. Around 7:30 Blake and Alex showed up with a friend who just moved here from Utah. She was really nice too. Blake was dressed up as a Lego Man doctor (he totally flaked on being a gangsta with me!) and Alex was a blue M&M. Mike was a pirate. And later Daniel met up with us and he was superman. First we all went to a YSA dance at a stake center but there werent a whole lot of people there when we arrived. So we hung out there for 40 minutes maybe and then Alex and Daniel went to a maze somewhere, Blake & Alex took off somewhere.
After we ate, we paid $5 to go to Rockin R Ranch sponsored by AZ Clean Party .There were so many people in line waiting to get in! It was an outdoor ranch/resturant type place. Hard to tell in the dark. The DJ was above the crowd throwing down glowsticks and mixing music. It was PACKED. Hard to move around and it was so loud. It was fun for about the first hour, then I just hung back on the edges and watched everyone. I saw some very interesting costumes.


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1. Introduction
Human Resource Management (HRM) is a distinctive approach to manage people. People make a business function efficiently and yet they cause the greatest difficulties. Especially in the new information-based economy, people, not physical assets, are now critical. But people, unlike coalmines and factories, cannot be owned. Organizations therefore must create an environment that makes the best people want to stay.
In this regard, Training and Development (T&D) can be the most important HRM function to treat people well and increase the competitive power for the organizations. Training refers to improving competencies needed today or very soon. In comparison, development refers to activities intended to improve competencies over a long period of time (Jackson & Schuler, 2003, p350-351). Training and development, although different from their focus, are of course closely related to influence the individuals and firms. In this respect lots of authors have paid more attention on this issue.
Following, the papers open by a review of literature, and conduct critical review on TCL Corporation's practice compared with the literatures.
2. Literature review
T&D's primary, traditional roles have been to insure that the workforces are provided with the knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary to perform a given function well (Harrison, 1993) (Stone, 2002, p344-348) (Pinnington & Edwards, 2000, p186-190) (Price, 2001, p325).
To employees, T&D provide the means of maintaining their own competition by improving knowledge, skills and abilities (Lane & Robinson, 1995). To shareholders, T&D can be seen as foundation to meet the profit targets (Pfeffer & Veiga, 1999). Some benefits of basic skills training include increased productivity, higher quality products, reduced absenteeism, and increased commitment and job satisfaction (Washburn & Franklin, 1992).
In terms of some authors (Jackson & Schuler, 2003, p360-392) (Ivancevich & Lee, 2002, p156-184), the HR managers should conduct T&D basically in...


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Friday, 14 February 2014
2 Clint Soundtracks announced First Time on CD!
3 comments:
- davytriumph said...
Great news Darren, but I could think of better soundtracks to release;)
- 15 February 2014 at 08:06
- Clint's archive said...
Davy! Good to hear from you mate. I know what you're saying, but I have to be happy these have finally come through, god knows it has been way too long. And I think that any Eastwood soundtrack release should be celebrated, it can only prove to be positive in the hope of seeing others follow. Saying that, the spaces or gaps are becoming fewer and fewer. Of course I would have loved to of seen titles like Pale Rider or Tightrope get a full release (over these current titles), but I still feel it is a good move in the right direction. Let's hope...;-)
- 15 February 2014 at 10:29
- Ruby said...
Let me just say, going through your blog made me realize how great Clint Eastwood is. We all know how great of a performer and actor he is and now you have found a way to preserve all of his works. This is actually amazing. I'm so happy that you're working hard to keep your idol's works just like a treasure.
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Comment #3 Sunday, May 20, 2007 3:15 PM
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Funny. I have that EXACT folder name on my PC. Thanks for the work man, outstanding.
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Paper copies of Tales of the City [NB: note new link to dedicated ordering page] are now available, and some of them are in my possession. The wonderful cover looks even better wrapped around a crisply-printed, well-laid-out book full of narrative goodness, without (as far as I can see so far, anyway) any of the accidental printing glitches I feared. (B. has however found a space missing after a full stop, which will be entirely my fault and for which I can only apologise.)
I'm delighted, obviously -- although the ebook's been out for a while, and has even garnered one highly positive review, my understanding of publishing was formed long enough ago that a book never feels published to me until its contents can be pinned down and contained between covers. It's never felt more appropriate to refer to paper books as "bound".
To celebrate, I've updated my website with the extras for the book, including the author biogs (previously posted here), a City of the Saved chronology and... what I'm nervous about calling, but has to be considered in purely chronological terms to be, the Last Ever City of the Saved story. It's called "God Encompasses", and it follows on directly from the events of "A Hundred Words from a Civil War" and "Apocalypse Day". (Both "God Encompasses" and the City chronology contain SPOILERS for Tales of the City, so caveat lector.)
It's not anyone's intention that this should be the last City of the Saved story published, however. I've massively enjoyed the editing process for Tales, and I hope it will be the first of, if not many then at least several, collaborations of the kind with Obverse Books. News of further City volumes should hopefully be posted here in due course.


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October 8th, 2018
Safely in the canon of America's favorite Christmas shows, The Nutcracker has been delighting audiences all over the nation, and the globe, for the last century. But the course of true Balletic brilliance never did run smooth and the story of The Nutcracker got off to a rather rocky start.
By appointment of the director of Russia's Imperial Theatres (Ivan Vsevolozhsky), Tchaikovsky (score) and Marcus Pepita (choreography) were commissioned to adapt E.T.A Hoffman's Christmas tale, The Nutcracker, in 1890. After the success of Sleeping Beauty, Vsevolozhsky was keen to have another festive hit, however, when The Nutcracker opened in the Christmas of 1892 at the Mariinsky Theatre it was a giant flop. With one critic remarking "The Nutcracker cannot, in any event, be called a ballet. It does not satisfy even one of the demands made of a ballet" it seemed that The Nutcracker was resigned to be left to collect artistic dust.
But fast forward two decades and The Nutcracker got a second chance in the shape of Alexander Gorksy. Making some quite radical changes to the original staging, Gorsky cast adults in the parts of Clara and the Nutcracker Prince, adding a layer of romance to the story and allowing the dancers more time to shine.
Receiving its first global performance in the UK in 1934, The Nutcracker then crossed the pond ten years later where the San Francisco Opera Ballet and William Christensen's version became an overnight sensation. By 1954 the ballet was a firm festive favorite for Americans, and with an added sprink of magical from George Balanchine the production shot into the stratosphere, and audiences haven't looked back.
What is the story of The Nutcracker?
Although there a few different versions of this Christmas classic the basic plot follows the same sort of outline…
Our tale begins on Christmas Eve where an excited Clara Stahlbaum receives an elegant nutcracker from her mysterious godfather, Herr Drosselmeyer. That night, when Clara sneaks downstairs to look upon her new gift one more time, she stumbles upon a raging battle between The Mouse King and her Nutcracker! Once victory for the Nutcracker is declared, Clara's adventure really begins as he invites her to journey to the magical realm of the Land of Sweets. In this mythical land, Clara and the Nutcracker are awarded for their bravery against the Mouse King with a celebration of sweet treats from around the world all courtesy of its benevolent ruler, The Sugar Plum Fairy.
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In 2000, the film was released on VHS and DVD, both individually and as part of The Stanley Kubrick Collection DVD set. Due to negative comments from fans, Warner Bros re-released the film, its image digitally restored and its soundtrack remastered. A limited-edition collector's set with a soundtrack disc, film poster, booklet and film strip followed, but later was discontinued. In 2005, a British re-release, packaged as an "Iconic Film" in a limited-edition slipcase was published, identical to the remastered DVD set, except for different package cover art. In 2006, Warner Bros announced the September publication of a two-disc special edition featuring a Malcolm McDowell commentary, and the releases of other two-disc sets of Stanley Kubrick films. Several British retailers had set the release date as 6 November 2006; the release was delayed and re-announced for 2007 Holiday Season.
An HD DVD, Blu-ray, and DVD re-release version of the film was released on 23 October 2007. The release accompanies four other Kubrick classics. 1080p video transfers and remixed Dolby TrueHD 5.1 (for HD DVD) and uncompressed 5.1 PCM (for Blu-ray) audio tracks are on both the Blu-ray and HD DVD editions. Unlike the previous version, the DVD re-release edition is anamorphically enhanced. The Blu-ray was reissued for the 40th anniversary of the film's release, identical to the previously released Blu-ray, apart from adding a Digibook and the Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures documentary as a bonus feature.


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Friday, 9 April 2010
ABC Christmas Challenge H is for Holly
Here is my entry for the H is for Holly challenge, I used my cuttlebug embossing folder, chalk, ruby red promarker and glossy accents, really simple but I like it.
Posted by Scrapcat 1 at 10:19
7 comments:
- Helen said...
This is beautiful - really stylish!
Thanks for joining us at the ABC Christmas Challenge!
Helen x
- 9 April 2010 at 11:46
- Thistleblue said...
This is beautiful, very simple but looks brilliant! well done!
- 10 April 2010 at 00:09
- Delphine said...
Beautiful card, so elegant! Thanks for joining the ABC Christmas Challenge and good luck! Hugs Delphine (GDT) xx
- 11 April 2010 at 13:05
- Annie said...
beautiful embossed holly. thanks for joining in with us on the ABC Christmas blog.
hugs, annie x
- 13 April 2010 at 17:50
Lovely card hunny! thanks for joining us on the ABC Christmas challenge Samantha :0)
- 13 April 2010 at 21:35
- Ikki said...
Beautiful card - as you say simple but elegant. ikki
- 14 April 2010 at 17:49
- Squirrel x said...
Great card, thanks for playing with us at ABC Christmas H Challenge. Hugs, Squirrel x
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Loss to Michigan State typified TCU's losses this season
TCU receiver Josh Boyce wasn't interested in discussing individual records.
Safety Sam Carter wasn't interested in extolling the greatness of Michigan State running back Le'Veon Bell.
Both were sitting on either side of TCU coach Gary Patterson at a postgame news conference after the Horned Frogs' season-ending loss late Saturday night to the Spartans, 17-16, in the Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl at Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe, Ariz.
Like a kick to TCU's gut, MSU's Dan Conroy's 47-yard field goal sailed through the uprights with a minute remaining to put the Spartans (7-6) ahead for good.
The Frogs (7-6) finished their first season in the Big 12 Conference with an agonizingly familiar slim defeat. It was their third loss in the final minute of play, which includes a triple overtime loss to Texas Tech and a 24-17 loss to Oklahoma.
And like much of the year, they'll be kicking themselves for a while over costly mistakes and missed opportunities Saturday in the Arizona desert.
"We don't feel really good right now," Patterson said. "[We feel] a little empty inside because we felt we left a lot on the field. But I'm happy for [MSU] coach [Mark] Dantonio for the simple reason I know he went through some struggles this year, too."
TCU built a 13-0 lead and seemed to have the game in control through much of the first three quarters. But the Frogs' offense came to a halt in the second half as the Spartans' fourth-ranked defense held the Frogs scoreless in the second half until the final few minutes.
By then TCU had been stunned by a Spartans comeback that saw MSU take the lead after Skye Dawson fumbled a punt, which MSU recovered at the TCU 4-yard line. Bell's 4-yard scoring run gave the Spartans a 14-13 lead with seven minutes remaining.
But the Frogs rallied and Jaden Oberkrom's 53-yard field goal -- a career-high for the freshman from Arlington Martin High School -- gave TCU a 16-14 lead with 2:42 to go.
TCU's defense, which had been spectacular for most of the night, couldn't slow the Spartans with the game on the line. MSU drove 45 yards in eight plays to set up Conroy's game-winning kick.
The Frogs' attempt at another comeback in the final minute failed to materialize after Trevone Boykin's two incompletions and two holding penalties doomed the drive. It was that kind of night for Boykin, who struggled with his accuracy, and completed 13 of 29 passes, his second-lowest completion percentage in nine starts.
But despite Boykin's passing problems, TCU was still in command and leading 13-0 thanks to the Frogs' defense, which held the Spartans to 84 total yards until they got the ball with 7:08 left in the third quarter.
That's when Connor Cook replaced quarterback Andrew Maxwell and MSU's offense began to wear down the Frogs.
After being held to 38 yards in the first half, Bell, the nation's third-leading rusher entering the game, rushed eight times for 35 yards on the drive.
His biggest play came when he pulled up after a handoff and surprised the Frogs with s 29-yard pass to TyQuan Hammock to the TCU 16. Aaron Burbridge beat linebacker Joel Hasley across the middle and scored on a 15-yard touchdown to cap the 90-yard, 14-play drive as the third quarter ended.
TCU's defense adjusted and forced two more of the Spartans' season-high 11 punts and the Frogs led 13-7 with just over seven minutes to go before MSU recovered Dawson's fumble on Mike Sadler's 55-yard punt to set up Bell's go-ahead score.
He finished with 145 yards on 32 carries.
TCU held the Spartans to season-lows in yards (227) and first downs (13), but the Frogs' offense frittered early touchdown opportunities and settled for two second-quarter field goals after getting inside the MSU 21 and 19 on consecutive drives.
Boyce caught five passes for 91 yards and broke TCU's single-season record with 66 receptions.
"Records are good to be broken, but I was coming for the win," he said. "So it really didn't matter what the record was. We lost."
Bell is the third back to rush for 100 or more yards against TCU this season.
Stefan Stevenson
Twitter: @FollowtheFrogs


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How you design a survey or a form will affect the answers you get. This includes the language you use, the order of the questions, and of course the default values and ranges you use.
This article will focus on response scales. This could be in a survey (1-5 vs 1-10 scale, etc) or on a dropdown menu, and it also includes the language you use.
Think back to the last survey that you filled out that asked you your age or salary. How do the default ranges (age 20-25 vs age 20-30) affect the precision of your data?
Surveys, of course, provide a great source of insight into your visitors' attitudes. Certain surveys also allow you to compare yourself with the competition. But as Jared Spool of UIE put it in a recent talk, because of nuances in survey design, cross-company comparison may not be that easy:
Jared Spool:
"My point with this example is that scale design and anchor choice will influence respondents' ratings — both higher and lower. This is a key reason why I'm skeptical of the cross-company comparison data sets where each company is using a different survey instrument. So many variables are in play that legitimate comparisons are quixotic."
So what can you do to get accurate data? It starts with understanding some of the differences and shortcomings in different types of survey responses.
First, here are some different types of response scales…
3 Types of Survey Response Scales
When designing surveys, there tend to be three different models for survey response scales:
- Dichotomous
- Rating Scales
- Semantic Differential Scales
1. Dichotomous Scales
Dichotomous scales have two choices that are diametrically opposed to each other. Some examples would be:
- "Yes" or "No"
- "True" or "False"
- "Fair" or "Unfair"
- "Agree" or "Disagree"
There's no chance for nuance in a response, and there's no way for a respondent to be neutral. But there's actually a lot of value in the lack of a neutral option.
Sometimes, especially in long surveys, you're subject to what's known as the error of central tendency: when answers gradually regress to the middle of the scale, or the neutral options. A dichotomous scale will give you a clearer, binary answer, but can also fall prey to fatigue – respondents then tend to lean toward positive answers.
2. Rating Scales
Rating scales are probably what you're most familiar with. "On a scale of 1-10, how satisfied were you with our service today?"
The three most common rating scales are:
- 1-10 scale
- 1-7 scale
- Likert scale (1-5)
Is there a difference in the outcome based on which scale you choose? Totally. There's more variance in the larger scales, so the norm is to use the Likert scale.
The most common, then, is the Likert scale. Dr. Rob Balon advises to "always use the 1-5 scale with 5 being the positive end and 1 being the negative end. NEVER use 1 as the positive end."
A Point On The Likert Scale
Another great point from Jared Spool's talk is on Likert Scales, one of the most commonly used in survey design. He actually rails against the labels we use on the scales (satisfied and dissatisfied) instead of the scale itself:
Jared Spool:
"It's about how we create the scale. We start with this neutral point in our scales. This is how a five-point Likert scale works. We add two forms to it—in this case, satisfied and dissatisfied – and then, because we think that people can't just be satisfied or dissatisfied, we're going to enhance those with adjectives that say "somewhat" or "extremely." OK, but extremely satisfied is like extremely edible. It's not that meaningful a term.
What if we made that the neutral, and we built a scale around delight and frustration? Now we've got something to work with here. Now we've got something that tells us a lot more. We should not be doing satisfaction surveys, we should be doing delight surveys. We need to change our language at its core, to make sure we're focusing on the right thing. Otherwise, we get crap like this."
So even if satisfied and dissatisfied are "common practices," they may not be "best practices." Especially in user experience research, where you're really trying to delight customers, not just satisfy them.
3. Semantic Differential Scales
Semantic differential scales are used to gather data and "interpret based on the connotative meaning of the respondent's answer." These two usually have dichotomous words at either end of the spectrum. They generally measure more specific attitudinal responses, such as the following:
According to Dr Rob Balon, CEO of The Benchmark Company, "ironically, when you factor analyze SD scales, they basically break out into two factors: positive and negative. There is really no need for seven steps."
Which Should You Use?
It depends what type of data you want.
Dichotomous scales ("yes" vs "no") are great for precision in your data, but they don't allow for any sort of nuance in respondents' answers. For instance, asking if a customer was happy with the experience (yes or no), gives you almost no insight into if you're improving experiences for the average customer.
Something like a Likert Scale or an NPS could be better for that because of the increased range of the scale. Although, and this is a big point, Jared Spool said, "Anytime you're enlarging the scale to see higher-resolution data it's probably a flag that the data means nothing."
I think, then, that the more quantifiable the information is (behavior questions for instance), the smaller the range should be. When you want to measure attitudes or feelings, using 5 or 7 point semantic differential scale is a good strategy. Likert scales (satisfied vs dissatisfied) are a little generic for attitudes, and as SurveyGizmo said, "semantic differential questions are posed within the context of evaluating attitudes."
There's also something an old technique known as a Guttman scale that puts a twist on either dichotomous or Likert scales. What you do is ask a series of questions that build on each other and escalate in intensity. Here's a great example from changingminds.org:
Jared Spool talked about the Guttman scale in its relation to customer surveys, saying, "If you're not happy enough to recommend the product, you're not going to be confident and you're not going to feel it has good integrity if you're not confident and you're not going to have pride in it unless they have good integrity, and you're definitely not going to be passionate about them unless they do everything else."
This can be a useful tool for measuring satisfaction.
Ordinal and Interval Scales
Developed by S.S. Stevens and published in a 1946 paper, there are 4 types of
- Nominal
- Ordinal
- Interval
- Ratio
Pertaining to response scale, there's a decent debate forever waging over ordinal and interval scales.
Ordinal scales are numbers that have an order, like "a runner's finishing place in a race, the rank of a sports team and the values you get from rating scales used in surveys or questionnaires like the Single Ease Question." (source)
With ordinal scales, if you're asking on a scale of 1-5 how satisfied a customer was, a 4 doesn't necessarily mean they're twice as satisfied as a 2. The difference between a 1 and a 2 isn't necessarily the same as the difference between a 4 and a 5.
Interval scales are when we can establish equal distances between ordinal numbers – for example, when we measure temperature in degrees Fahrenheit. The difference between 19 and 20 degrees is the same as 80 and 81.
According to Jeff Sauro, Founder of MeasuringU, rating scales can be scaled to be interval:
Jeff Sauro:
"Rating scales can be scaled to have equal intervals. For example, the Subjective Mental Effort Questionnaire (SMEQ) has values that correspond to the appropriate labels. You can see the distance between the numbers is equal, but the labels vary depending on how enough people interpreted their meaning (originally in Dutch)."
What's The Practical Difference?
There are two arguments here.
The classic stance, from S.S. Stevens, is that you can't compute means on anything other than interval data. As Sauro explained it, "he said that you can't add, subtract much less compute a mean or standard deviations on anything less than interval data." Sauro continues:
Jeff Sauro:
"This restriction is a problem for many academics and applied researchers because rating scale data is at the heart of marketing, usability and much of social sciences research. If we cannot use means and standard deviations we also cannot use most statistical tests (which use means and standard deviations in their calculations). Even most non-parametric tests convert raw values to ranks (ordinal data) and then compute the mean or median."
However, the other argument set forth by Frederick Lord (inventor of the SAT) says you can. According to him, it doesn't matter where the numbers come from, you can work with them the same way. Jeff Sauro gave a great example of this…
Here are 6 task times (ratio data):
Here are 6 high temperatures in Celsius from a Northeastern US city (interval data):
Here are 6 responses to the Likelihood to Recommend Question (ordinal data):
Now here are 6 numbers that came from the back of football jerseys (nominal data):
Does it Matter Whether Your Data is Interval or Ordinal?
Outside of academia, there's not a lot of debate. While the magnitude of the difference is important, too, what's actually important is the evidence of improvement. Jeff Sauro explains in a practical light what this means:
Jeff Sauro:
"In applied research we are in most cases interested in determining which product or design generates higher scores, whether these be on satisfaction, usability or loyalty. The magnitude of the difference is also important–a 2 point difference is likely more noticeable to users than a ¼ point difference. But even if you were to commit the error and say that users were twice as satisfied on one product you've almost surely identified the better of two products even if the actual difference in satisfaction is more modest."
And according to Dr Rob Balon, "outside of academia there is virtually no argument. Most online surveys utilize descriptive statistics and simple banners or cross tabs that can be analyzed using Chi-square which is a nonparametric analytical tool."
Anyway, it's impossible to evaluate the validity of the ratings of human perception, anyway. So feel good working with ordinal data in general.
The Limitations of Survey Scales
Even if you design the perfect survey with the appropriate scales, there are still limitations in the insight you can conceivable uncover. Especially if you're only running a limited range of surveys or conduct such surveys sporadically (and without other forms of conversion research).
The Meaning Behind The Numbers
When you run a scale like, say, the Net Promoter Score, you get a number and you can compare that with your competitors and your past scores, but there are certainly limitations in how much it can tell you about your user experience.
I haven't heard a better explanation of this than in Jared Spool's talk on design and metrics:
Jared Spool:
"I was so disappointed when the people at Medium sent me this: "How likely are you to recommend writing on Medium to a friend or colleague?" It's not even a 10-point scale. It's an 11-point scale, because 10 was not big enough.
This is called a Net Promoter Score, and Net Promoter Scores, if you look at the industry averages that everybody wants to compare themselves to, the low end is typically in the mid-60s and the high end is typically in the mid-80s. You need a 10-point scale because, if you had a 3-point scale, you could never see a difference. Anytime you're enlarging the scale to see higher-resolution data it's probably a flag that the data means nothing. Here's the deal. Would a net promoter score for a company say, like United, catch this problem?
Alton Brown bought a $50 guest pass to the United Club in LA and had to sit on the floor. I wonder what his net promoter score for that purchase would be? It probably wouldn't tell anybody at United what the problem is.
But that's a negative. What about the positive side?
What's actually working well? Customers of Harley-Davidson are fond of Harley-Davidson, so fond that they actually tattoo the company's logo on their body. This is branding in the most primal of definitions."
It also depends what you're selling. As Caroline Jarrett, author of Forms That Work, said:
Caroline Jarrett:
"Just from the point of view of using a Net Promoter Score as a question in a survey, we have to ask whether that question means as much to the people answering it as it might to the business. There are some things where "I'll recommend this to a friend" is a really important thing that people would actually do. But there are other things where you'd never recommend it to a friend because you don't do recommending, and you certainly don't do recommending of those type of things.
So you might actually be very enthusiastic about the product, but you just might not ever feel the urge to recommend hemorrhoid cream to your pals. You know? That's not then giving a true measure of the value of that product. I have my skepticism about Net Promoter Score."
All of this is to say that ratings scales can tell you a lot, but they can't tell you everything. Be skeptical when people tell you there's one question that will tell you how your company is doing.
Little Tweaks, Big Differences
Almost any factor can influence the outcome of a survey (which is why Spool's quote above talked about the difficulty of accurate benchmarking data).
GreatBrook, a research consulting firm, did an experiment with a client where they created a bunch of different surveys with the same attributes, just different scale designs. They posed the questionnaires to 10,000 people, and found some interesting things:
- Providing a numeric scale with anchors only for the endpoints (e.g. a 1 to 5 scale was presented with verbal descriptions only for the 1 and 5 endpoints) led to more people choosing the endpoints.
- Presenting a scale as a series of verbal descriptions (e.g. "Are you extremely satisfied, very satisfied, somewhat satisfied, somewhat dissatisfied, very dissatisfied, or extremely dissatisfied?") lead to more dispersion and less clustering of responses.
- A "school grade" scale led to more dispersion. A school grade scale is where you ask the respondent to grade performance on an A, B, C, D, and F scale.
Using Appropriate Language and Scales
For certain information (say age) there are many ways you can ask for it. Each one produces a different level of precision.
According to MyMarketResearchMethods.com, if you want to report an average age, you would want to use a ratio scale instead of a nominal scale.
Since the ratio scale is more accurate, why do you see ranges for this question (and questions like income)? Because they're personal. And some people can be sensitive about disclosing their exact age or income, so people are more comfortable giving a range, such as that seen in the nominal scale example above.
According to Dr Rob Balon, "you almost have to ask age, income, ethnicity, etc. using a nominal clustering approach, Otherwise you run a great risk of non-response error."
Group Based on Known Characteristics
For certain information, like age or salary, you want to group based on known characteristics. In other words, the way you group incomes depends on the population you're studying.
If it's college students the ranges would be much lower. If it's a study of the general population, $20k or less is a good first rung. $21 to 39k is next, $40-$69, $70-$99k, $100 to $150k, and $150 plus.
As Dr Rob Balon advises, "for whatever population you're studying, make sure those income breaks line up with the known characteristics of the population. Not doing this can create additional bias."
Similarly, writing surveys in your customers' own language is important. How do you do that? You get on the phone and talk to your customers. Or run focus groups. Or run some on-site surveys.
No matter what, you want to use the words – the phrases, jargon, emotions – that your customers are used to communicating with.
Best Practices for Demographic Insights
So with sensitive information like demographic info, how do you establish which defaults to use, which words to use, which scale to use?
Well, other than focus groups and interviews to get to know your customers better, there are some general guidelines and best practices (listed here). If you follow these, at the very least your respondents will likely have taken surveys like it before, and therefore will know how to answer things based on that context.
For example, but the guideline for age ranges is the following:
- Under 18 years
- 18 to 24 years
- 25 to 34 years
- 35 to 44 years
- 45 to 54 years
- 55 to 64 years
- Age 65 or older
You can also have an experienced market research consultant come in and tell you if you're running things well, but of course, that's a another expense entirely.
Again though, you'll have to balance the level of specificity you want to obtain with the comfort your audience feels in answering the questions.
Even though it seems like default ranges for survey questions are arbitrary, much though and design is behind them. Whether you use a Likert scale, a dichotomous scale, or a semantic differential scale depends on what you're trying to learn.
In addition, when trying to obtain sensitive information like age or income, asking for exact numbers just won't work (non-response bias), so we use nominal clusters (18-24 etc).
The best thing you can do is, before designing a customer survey, learn survey scale best practices (there's a link above) and learn what words, phrases, and ranges your audience will best respond to.


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