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Data storage is nothing new. For hundreds of years, we've been able to retrieve captured moments over and over again through various forms of recordable media. A primitive version of the punch card first appeared in 1725. And as far back as a thousand years ago, the world heard its first music box.
But it was with 1826's first permanent photograph when the human race was treated to a parade of inventions—punctuated by the phonograph in 1877 and motion picture camera in 1888—that solidified the way we experience, express, and document our modern-day lives.
Since then, remarkably, not much has changed in the kinds of media we consume. We still enjoy photographs, listen to music and watch motion pictures. What has changed is the way we store and re-experience this content. Ideas once recorded on clay tablets are now digitized, so they're easier to create and share virtually anywhere. It also means they're easier to lose.
Digital data can be corrupted and lost in so many ways. From hard drive failures to malware to simply leaving a laptop on the bus, it's a common fact of life. But when this data includes a toddler's first word or a college research paper, losing it becomes so much harder to bear.
But that's the thing about data—it's inherently valuable. As a consumer we asked about backing up data said, "If I lose my laptop, I lose the first seven years of my daughter's life." Yet, as emotionally tied we are to digital media, most of us won't do anything to protect it. We simply assume our data is safe. But as 150,000 Gmail users learned last month when a glitch accidentally wiped out their accounts, data is never safe.
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Petrov looking at three teams for 2013
Petrov signed for Caterham a month before the 2012 season started after he lost his seat at Lotus towards the end of the 2011 season, and Kosachenko said she was keen to avoid any more last-minute talks.
"Before autumn we have to be ready to take some decisions. I don't want to be in the situation which we faced last year," she said.
"I would like something in my hands, something we can put on the table when we don't have any proper offer from Caterham F1."
Kosachenko said she expected Petrov to be able to finish in the points regularly next season, and suggested that an improvement would be needed from Caterham, whose best finish this season is Petrov's 13th place in Valencia last month, in order to keep the Russian.
"Facing the (first Russian) Grand Prix in 2014, which is one and a half years, it's important we have a driver who can work as a promoter of the Grand Prix, we can use as a very nice marketing tool to promote the Grand Prix," she said.
"For this, we need a driver who is shown on TV, who's collecting points, who's delivering positive emotions. That's why we believe that Vitaly has to run in a team which can collect points."
Caterham remains the front-runner to secure Petrov for next season, but Kosachenko expects better results, she said.
"The main priority is to keep staying in the team we're in at the moment. They're developing and we're expecting big progress in the second half of the season, so we'll see what we will have."
Petrov has repeatedly been linked with the Russian-owned Marussia team but he is unlikely to join them, Kosachenko said.
"He is quite an experienced driver, so I think he deserves to get points. I am not sure this is feasible with Marussia, even next year."
Petrov's contract with Caterham has an option for a second year.
Petrov debuted in F1 with Renault in 2010, and achieved the only podium finish of his career with third at the Australian Grand Prix last year for the team, by then renamed Lotus Renault.

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Passing On The Move With Ricky Rubio
Rubio is the consummate play-maker who is always looking for a teammate
Ever since he started playing professional basketball at the age of 14 in Barcelona, Spain, Ricky Rubio has been one of the most polarizing figures in the worldwide basketball community.
Rubio was drafted 5th overall in the 2009 NBA Draft by the Minnesota Timberwolves and hit a rough patch in Europe this past season, but his play-making prowess has never been questioned; Ricky is one of the most creative players in the world with the rock in his hands.
The video above is just one example of his ability. Rubio receives a handoff on the right side of the court and uses a screen to get by his man as he moves to the center of the court. Still in motion toward the rim, he crosses the ball from left to right and again from right to left—a move that keeps the helping big man on his heels.
The rest is history, as Rubio shovels a no-look, lefty scoop pass to a streaking teammate for an easy deuce.
He might have struggled a bit in Europe, but with NBA-caliber athletes running the wings and roaming the baselines, watch out.


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Learning math? Think like a cartoonist.
What's the essential skill of a cartoonist? Drawing ability? Humor? A deep well of childhood trauma?
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Patrick is suicidal but doesn't want to tell Pete to avoid him getting worried. But what happens when Pete seems to push Patrick to the edge? Will Patrick break under pressure?
"Oops. It looks like all your stuff is thrown on the floor." The bigger guy in the blue and white jacket whispered harshly into Patrick's ear. Patrick stayed quiet knowing responding to him will only make him do worse things.
"Where's your lunch money?" The guy grabbed Patrick by the fabric of his plaid shirt while looking at Patrick up and down. Patrick's right hand acted quickly and went into the pocket of his faded jeans and pulled out a five dollar bill. The guy snatched it out of Patrick's hand and sent him flying on the floor near his stuff while the bystanders laughed. Patrick grabbed his hat and placed it on his head as his tormentor walked away. He scrounged for the rest of his things and put them in his backpack. He stood up quickly and headed for lunch.
It was like this every day. One of the jocks from the football team would attack Patrick for his lunch money, even though Patrick was of no threat to them. People would stand by and point and laugh while Patrick took a beating. They never helped him. Patrick didn't understand why the jocks picked on him. He was nothing special. Maybe it was the fact that Patrick was a straight A student which automatically branded him as a nerd. And if you were a nerd, you were a target for the jocks.
Patrick walked into the cafeteria and bent down to take out the extra five dollars out of his sneaker. It was lame but it kept him from starving. He got his regular peanut butter sandwich with an apple and walked to an empty table. He sat down and started eating his lunch. He looked at other tables which were filled with laughing people, people who were friends. Friends. The word seemed foreign to Patrick. He had never been able to make friends due to the fact that he was extremely shy. Shy translated into weird which left Patrick by himself. He was tired of being invisible to these people. It just made him feel worthless. The only time he gets attention was when he answered a question in class, and of course, when the jocks wanted to have a little fun. He looked down at his apple and sighed sadly before he started to eat it.
"Hey, Patrick!" Pete yelled from the bottom of the stairs as Patrick walked down.
"Hey, Pete." Patrick mumbled as he approached his only friend. Yes, Patrick had one friend: Pete Wentz. He and Pete met when Pete saw one of the jocks wailing on Patrick one day after school. Pete beat the crap out of the guy and helped Patrick get cleaned up. Ever since then, he's been Patrick's hero and savior. Pete wrapped an arm around Patrick and pulled him close.
"What's wrong, trick?" Patrick shook his head and looked straight ahead as they walked to Pete's blue convertible.
"Come on, trick. You know you can tell me anything." It was true. Patrick could tell Pete everything and anything. Everything but what Patrick really wanted.
"It's nothing to worry about, Pete. I'm fine." Pete looked at Patrick and smiled.
"Now, trick, we both know that's a lie." Patrick couldn't help but feel the corners of his lips twitch at the sight of his best friend's smile. Pete shook his head as they approached the car.
They both got in and Pete sighed as he grabbed the steering wheel but made no attempt to start the car. He faced Patrick.
"Did those son of a gun jocks touch you?" Patrick's face was stoic. Pete let out an annoyed sigh.
"Damn it, trick. As the older boy in this friendship, I demand you tell me what's wrong." He crossed arms to show Patrick he meant business. Patrick had to smile at that. It's true; Pete was older than Patrick by a year. Pete was a junior while Patrick was a sophomore but somehow Pete managed to act younger then Patrick at times.
"A smile!" Pete grinned. Patrick nodded.
"Yeah. One of the jocks threw me against the lockers." Patrick mumbled softly. He didn't want to look at Pete. He knew it bothered Pete when anyone hurt him.
"Goddamn it! I'm going to kick their-"
"Pete." Patrick interrupted Pete and gave him a stern look.
"We both know beating them up won't do any good. We're in different schools. You can't protect me all the time." Pete started the car and gave Patrick a smug smile.
"But I can sure as hell try."
The two high school boys approached Patrick's house. Patrick's mother opened the door with a huge smile and pulled Pete into a bear hug.
"Petey! I've missed you. How are you?" She broke the embrace to step back and look him over.
"I'm fine, Mrs. Stump. How are you?" Pete smiled and stepped back to avoid another bear hug.
"Oh, I'm just fine! Thanks for asking." Patrick stood there feeling invisible to his mother,
like always.
"Hey, mom." Patrick mumbled, making himself known.
"Oh, hey, honey. I was wondering where you were." She said, giving Patrick one of her fake smiles.
"Yeah, mom-I was- nevermind. Pete and I are going to my room to study. Is that okay?" Patrick asked, wanting to be out of his mother's sight already.
"Of course, honey. I'll make you and Pete something to eat." She rushed to the kitchen to make the boys their snacks. Patrick walked in first without a word, feeling worse than before. His mother was always able to do that, though. She never really paid any attention to Patrick, and if she did, it was about his grades. If he got anything below an A, she would tell his father and his father would rip him a new one. The boys rushed upstairs and entered Patrick's room, plopping themselves on his bed.
"You get more love from my mother than I do." Patrick said, monotonously.
"Aw, that's not true." Pete turned and faced his best friend. Patrick let out a big laugh.
"Ah, Pete. You're so funny. My mother likes me. Oh yeah, and pigs fly!" Patrick squealed. Pete looked at him sadly. He was at a loss for words.
"It's okay, Pete," Patrick fixed his glasses. "I'm used to it." That was a lie, a huge lie. The fact that his mother forgets his existence breaks Patrick's heart.
"Trick, I-"
"I said I'm used to it, Pete." Pete sighed and decided to drop the subject.
"How is schoolwork going?"
"Fine, as always. Come on, Pete. You know I'm the top of my class. I have no issues there."
Patrick shook his head at Pete for asking such a silly question. Pete moved closer to Patrick to pull him into an embrace. Patrick gratefully hugged him back.
"Thank you."
"I'm always here for you, Patrick. You should know that." Pete felt Patrick nod.
"Plus," Pete pulled back and looked at Patrick. "You're at the top of your class. That's a huge accomplishment! You should be happy." Patrick shook his head.
"Perfect grades don't bring me much happiness. The constant reminder that I'm a loser in every other area of life kind of overshadows the fact that I'm great at academics." Pete looked at Patrick. He didn't know what to say to that either.
"You're really upset, aren't you?" Patrick shrugged.
"More like sad. I'm starting to think I'm depressed."
"Come on, trick; be happy!" Patrick rolled his eyes.
"Um, it's kind of hard to be happy when you're being put down all the time. We can't all be you, Pete." Once that came out of Patrick's mouth, he immediately regretted it.
"Wow, Patrick. Tell me how you really feel." Pete said sarcastically as he got up from the bed.
"Pete, I'm so sorry. I didn't mean for it to come out like that." Pete crossed his arms and nodded his head. "Sure."
"Pete…" Pete shook his head.
"No, Patrick. You're always so damn upset all the time, and I get it, life is hard for you, your parents don't love you, and you're treated like crap at school. It doesn't mean you get to take it out on me." Patrick got up and looked at Pete in disbelief.
"Take it out on you? Pete, I just tell you how I feel. And if that's taking it out on you then maybe I shouldn't say anything anymore because apparently, you're too stupid to tell the difference." Patrick was really angry now. He and Pete stared at each other for a few moments before Pete decided to say something.
"You know, if you think you're 'depressed', then why don't you see a damn shrink because I sure as hell can't help you. You're a lost cause." Pete opened the door and left the room, leaving Patrick alone. Patrick sat down and put his head in his hands.
"What did you do to Pete? He left the house without a word." Patrick wanted to stab himself right there and then.
"Well, young man?" Patrick tried to ignore his mother. "I'm waiting." No such luck. "Patrick Martin Stump, you answer me this moment!" Patrick just wanted her to leave.
"Get out." He whispered.
"What did you say to me, young man?" "I said get out!" Patrick looked up to see his mother's shocked face.
"Just wait until your father gets home." She walked out without another word. Patrick knew what that meant. That meant he would get beaten. Maybe, if he was lucky, it would be to death.
After his dad took care of him, Patrick went up to his room and fell asleep, wanting nothing more than to be off this earth.
Patrick walked into the school with his head lower than usual. The first reason was to hide the black eye his father gave him, which he would explain as a result of a nasty slip. The second reason was because of the argument with Pete. It wouldn't matter anymore though. It was time to rid the world of Patrick Stump. But of course, it wouldn't be a goodbye without getting slammed into the lockers by a jock one more time. Once Patrick got up, he walked straight ahead to the staircase. He heard the bell ring as he ran up the stairs and opened the door that was marked 'Roof Access.' He sat on the concrete to calm his body down after going up eight flights of stairs. It was perfect. He would jump off and no one would know. You know, until they found his body. Everything would go away. The beatings and the petty arguments with Pete; he wouldn't be able to cause anyone anymore grief. No one could bother him where he was going. Patrick got up and walked to the edge of the roof. He looked down and got a bit dizzy when he saw the height. Everything seemed smaller from up there. Patrick closed his eyes and felt himself teetering over the edge.
"HEY, TRICK!" Patrick opened his eyes and looked down to see a small figure but could easily make it out as Pete's. Patrick sighed.
"What are you doing up there!?" Pete yelled.
"What does it look like I'm doing, Pete!? I'm trying to commit suicide!" Patrick took a step back and crossed his arms.
"You don't want to do that, trick! Come back down and we'll talk!" Patrick laughed and took a step forward.
"And why should I, huh!? I'm a burden to everyone!" He could feel the tears threatening to leave his eyes.
"That's not true, trick! You matter! You matter to me!" Patrick let the tears flow.
"That's a lie, Pete! You were right! I am a lost cause! I'm worthless! That's why no one wants to be around me! Not even my own mother!" Patrick practically roared, his tears a waterfall running down his cheeks.
"Now that's where you're wrong, trick! You're not a lost cause and you're not worthless! You're quite the opposite. You're everything to me-my best friend!" Patrick felt his heart pull at Pete's words. He really did care.
"Come on, trick! Please come down!" Patrick thought about ignoring Pete and just jumping off. He sighed. He couldn't leave Pete. That would be selfish. Patrick nodded his head.
"Alright, I'm coming down!" He saw Pete relax before he went back down. Pete ran to Patrick once Patrick stepped outside and embraced him. Patrick hugged him back and felt himself crying again.
"When does all of this hurt stop, Pete. When?" Patrick sobbed into Pete's shoulder.
"I honestly don't know but I'll tell you this: I'll be with you every step of the way. It gets better, trick. I promise."


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The space conquest is a dream of many, as marine discovery that held us for a...
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The space conquest is a dream of many, as marine discovery that held us for a long time. The Man is like this! Curious by nature, he built a International Space Station, ISS. Starting from here your astronauts team will have to seek other astronauts team that got lost in the space...in the future. Strange, isn't it? Imagined together with the ISS Mars Way eBook, that tells the astronauts' lost in future history, this game makes you a true Commandant, that has to work with a daily routine replete of unexpected, in a space atmosphere, in that the time never stops. With that, the acquisition of equipment, resources gathering as oxigen, water, food, minerals and energy, as medical kits, survival kits, capsules, the trade between ships and selling of information by using the e-Commerce lines, the creation of vaccines, the artefacts search, the specialized human-robots selection, and much more. Manage your astronauts team as you've got to manage a family in the popular Sims Game. Take care of them, and of yourself, about the health, stress and weariness, repair your ship, research new modules on ISS. Don't forget the didactic aspects with plenty of trustly information and a lot of image as photos of our beautiful and misteryous Solar System ...Well, you've got to try this complete game shareware and enjoy this innovator game for free....
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These are okay. I don't think they have much flavor really; I like the idea by janelson1 of using almond extract. If I do make them again, I'll try the almond x and buy a different jam. I bought seedless and it was too watery, a fair amount leaked out while in the oven. Next time I'll buy it with seeds, strain it myself. I did find these fun to make though. Mine turned out pretty decent looking but nothing like in the pictures, go figure! Ha!
Raspberry Pinwheels
Photo: Kana Okada; Styling: Sara Quessenberry
Sweet cream cheese dough pairs well with the raspberry jam in these pretty pinwheels.
Yield: Makes 54 cookies
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Nutritional Information
Amount per serving
- Calories: 82
- Calories from fat: 550%
- Protein: 1g
- Carbohydrate: 9g
- Sugars: 5g
- Fiber: 0g
- Fat: 4.6g
- Saturated fat: 3g
- Sodium: 16mg
- Cholesterol: 17mg
- 3/4 cup (1 1/2 sticks) unsalted butter, at room temperature
- 1 8-ounce bar cream cheese, at room temperature
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 2 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for the work surface
- 1/2 cup seedless raspberry jam
- 1 large egg, beaten
- 2 tablespoons turbinado or some other coarse sugar
- With an electric mixer, beat the butter, cream cheese, and granulated sugar until fluffy. Mix in the vanilla. Gradually add the flour, mixing until just incorporated.
Turn the dough onto a floured work surface and gently knead it 2 to 3 times, just to bring it together. Form the dough into two 1-inch-thick squares. Wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 1 hour.
On a lightly floured piece of parchment, roll one of the dough squares into a 9-by-12-inch rectangle. Spread half the jam over the dough. Cut the dough crosswise into thirds, making three 9-by-4-inch rectangles. Starting from the long side of each rectangle, roll into logs. Wrap in wax paper and refrigerate until firm, 30 minutes. Repeat with the remaining dough.
Heat oven to 350° F. Slice the logs into 1-inch pieces and space 1 1/2 inches apart on parchment-lined baking sheets. Brush with the egg and sprinkle with the turbinado sugar. Bake until golden, 20 to 25 minutes.
To Wrap: A 32-ounce glass canning jar will neatly hold 2 dozen pinwheels. You can play up the cookies' two-tone theme with a striped ribbon tied around the jar's mouth and a colorful adhesive bow.
To Freeze: Instead of refrigerating the logs, freeze them for up to 2 months. To bake, follow the recipe instructions, cutting and baking the dough from frozen, and use the upper end of the time range.
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Raspberry Pinwheels Recipe at a Glance
- COURSE: Cookies
- CONVENIENCE: Entertaining, Freezable, Kid-Friendly, Make-Ahead, Portable/Picnic, Family
- MAIN INGREDIENT: Dairy
- DIETARY CONSIDERATION: Meatless
- COOKING METHOD: Bake
- OCCASION: Autumn, Winter, Christmas
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What if people who have anxiety are just unaccustomed to the way the world works because this is the first incarnation of their soul on the earth? And confident people are at ease with the world because they have already been incarnated multiple times and, in a sense, already know how the world works.
What if it's the other way around?
I don't know which disturbs me more.
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Adventures in Hiatus day 4: It snowed today. There was barely any, but I still reacted the way I do to all snow.
how did jack frost handle feeling alone for three hundred years i can't even handle it for three minutes
it's called his hand
i didnt zoom in on that pic and i thought it said "how do you think i make snow"
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Adventures in Hiatus Day 2: I saved a tree by not using a bag for all my paper books…..awwww wait….
Adventures in Hiatus Day 1: I found a couch that tried to eat me.
This is the kind of world we live in today
If your suggestion as an administrator is to tell a teenage girl to go under the knife instead of telling a teenage boy to respect women, you are in the wrong damn line of work.
To whoever made this you are a fucking genius my friend
As of tonight I will be turning off AIM completely and my tumblr time is going to be greatly reduced. I need to focus on some RL stuff like Woah, but I'll be back when things get better.
People who think they will desperately need to contact me have until tonight to ping me to make any arrangement for talking.
This goes into effect in 30 minutes. I appreciate the well wishes I have gotten from those who have sent them and I promise I won't just vanish into the abyss. If you ever really desperately need to bother me, ping me an ask on here and I'll send you a carrier pigeon to receive your SOS.
I have some RL to make my bitch while sitting in a tea house I discovered recently and I will come back like the main characters at the end of The Reward complete with the style change and a map to ruin.
All it does is show me you have a superiority complex and deep rooted classist tendencies. I've been a waitress, a barista and a sales associate, so your talking down to others just tells me at one point you would've talked down to me. This guy in the queue tried to buy me a coffee today, after ripping into the guy behind the counter about his skills and his job. Don't care what people do for a living, if you don't treat 'em like (very important) people when you deal with them, we can't be friends.
"A person who is nice to you but cruel to the waiter isn't a nice person."
I don't understand how people don't get this
It is terrifying. It means if you don't adhere to their demands or if you make on little mistake, they can turn on you. I don't deal with people who are nasty to others.
I have ended dates—and relationships—over this because I work in escalations and I can't tell you the kinds of things people say to me there. I have received DEATH THREATS for telling people NO.
you just broke your own fourth wall
one time i referred to my freshman year as "season one"
I said on commercial referring to the weekend
I was filling a pitcher with water and yelled at it to load faster.


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Justin Bieber will be staying here in the U.S., despite an online petition on the White House website, We the People, seeking to have him deported.
The White House responded to the request with, "Sorry to disappoint, but we won't be commenting on this one."
The statement went on to explain that, "to avoid the appearance of improper influence, the White House may decline to address certain procurement, law enforcement, adjudicatory, or similar matters properly within the jurisdiction of federal departments or agencies, federal courts, or state and local government in its response to a petition."
The White House added, "We'll leave it to others to comment on Mr. Bieber's case."
The petition, which was launched in January, claimed the troubled 20-year-old pop star is "a terrible influence on our nation's youth." It drew nearly 274 thousand signatures, well beyond the 100 thousand needed to generate an official response.
The petition came on the heels of several run-ins Bieber had with the law, including his DUI arrest in Miami Beach.
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Nietzsche, Dante, Dickinson, Napoleon... and some of Us ordinary folks on the dangers and powers of Hope
To hope or not to to hope? "Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man," said Friedrich Nietzsche. Maybe so... if such hope leads only to frustration, misery, and bitterness. Is that the only option though? Cannot the very act of hoping for something good do something wonderful in our character, whether or not that good thing is ever realized? Has God created us, in fact, to hope...and, through hope, to be transformed?
Dante suggested there was a sign over the entrance of hell that read, "Abandon all hope, all ye who enter here." Maybe he's right... that the abandonment of hope is truly hell. Might it be also true, then, that the embrace of Hope... the confidence that not all is as it seems, that there is another Reality at work in the world, that there is Something More than the externals, that there is Something Beyond this mortal life... is the springboard for all sorts of wonder, adventure, and joy?
I posted the above two paragraphs to my Facebook page last week and invited comments. The responses were fascinating. A member of my congregation quoted Emily Dickinson:
Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul.
And sings the tune without the words.
And never stops at all.
Ah, yes, of course! And a friend who runs a DMin program at another seminary noted that "The Stoics defined hope as a type of impulse of the soul toward a future, perceived good. If the 'good' is in fact wishful thinking or fantasy, it does us little good as it will ultimately lead to greater despair. If it is oriented toward a future promise (reward in heaven, resurrection, etc), it contributed to a life well lived." And that got others thinking...
Another congregation member agreed: "Hope and hope are different. One being the Hope God gives, and the hope the world gives." Yes, indeed. So how does the Hope that God give make a difference in how we live our lives in the present, much less pursue the future?
A wise and obviously well-read Evangelical student noted that Walter Brueggemann, the Old Testament scholar, had prescribed imagination as "the necessary first step in creating a new reality. What is hope if it is not the capacity to imagine the possibility of a better place?" And, indeed, Brueggemann had much good to say about the power of divine or prophetic imagination to energize a person or people toward God's vision of shalom.
Which brings to Napoleon, believe it or not. He is said to have argued that "a leader is a dealer in hope." I've heard that phrase used a number of times of late; it must be catching on. The mood of Western society is still quite bleak... and continued economic troubles have made it challenging to be a leader of many, if not most organizations these days. Budgets are tight and choices are limited, and no matter which way one moves, there is likely to be pain.
How, then, does the deeper leader deal out hope? May I suggest that if it is merely naive optimism, unfounded fantasy, or manipulative prodding, it is likely to do nothing but contribute further to despair. But if it is Hope rooted in a deep God-planted desire for shalom, if it is fueled and formed by a biblical imagination, and if it is offered by those who are not merely hope-speakers but hope-bearers, then tremendous things can happen. But we should not be surprised, should we, if most of them internal, not external, to the one who hopes? For God is present in our longings and uses them to perfect the work of transformation He has already begun.
Are the traditional leadership dealer in hope messages of setting vision and goals for the organization and motivating employees contradictory to being a hope-bearer?
Posted by: Kevin H | June 7, 2012, 3:54 pm
Brueggemann is definitely gnawing at the edge of a style of hope far away from the blessed categories of evangelical thinking - imagination. Evangelicals look at hope in their normal dualistic manner, there is spiritual hope and their is secular hope, yet hope (along with faith and love) are intrinsic in the nature of man (once labeled Good along with creation I assume). Imagination ala Friedman's A Failure of Nerve of course will be countered by saboteurs of, whether they are in your church, family, or neighborhood. Charles Smith's book which I'm currently reading (Resistance Revolution Liberation: A Model for Positive Change) views imagination as part of Low-intensity instability (LII) which is a requirement for any healthy human systems. Monopoly thought, universal conformity, inability to deal with fierce conversations are the signature of dieing systems created by institutions interested in herds (back to Friedman).
(As you would imagine), I would disagree with your position, failure is the great teacher, whether it causes despair is of no matter, because it will teach someone in the community, irregardless of whether it teaches the actor. I prefer the leadership of a murderer Moses or Paul over the risked nothing, done nothings.
Posted by: Marty | June 8, 2012, 5:54 pm
Thanks, Kevin! No, those activities are marvelous things for a hope-bearer to do... provided that they are truly meaningful things to do, not fantasies or exercises in frustration. People tire pretty quickly of plans and goals that are written down but never followed up on, as well as those that are too insignificant or too impossible to inspire.
Posted by: Tony | June 10, 2012, 6:21 pm
Thanks, Marty! You have elaborated wonderfully on the magnificently subversive nature of imagination. We should...and probably will.. do more posts just on that. :) As for the other point, I was talking about despair, not failure. As you pointed out, failure can lead to marvelous creativity, among other virtues. However, a leader who deals in despair, as opposed to hope, will not only instigate failure but will also kill off any chance of creativity. I had a boss once who said, Show me a pessimist who changed the world. Good point. I couldn't think of one. Of course, hope is something different from optimism...but if they're not siblings they're at least first cousins. :)
Posted by: Tony | June 10, 2012, 6:25 pm
It has been said that,when necessary,humans can live a surprisingly long time without many of the bare essentials except for hope. After decades, I still remember a riveting lecture in Psychology class at Huntington University by a professor who as a missionary to China in the 1930's and 40, was captured and incarcerated in the Philippine Islands during WWII. Her observations of how people behaved in a concentration camp environment were interesting. One couple apparently lost all hope of being liberated and sat down in a corner and died. My professor, on the other hand, began teaching young Philipino girls, who were being held as prostitutes,to read, write and study the Bible. She taught them about a hopeful future they had in Christ. Upon liberation, the professor stayed in the Philippines for many years to establish a women's college that still bears her name. Isn't this what a hope-bearer looks like?
Posted by: Kirby Keller | June 11, 2012, 11:09 am
Christians here in Kibera are a good example. Those who have found their hope in Christfind joy in life and can laugh and sing. Those without it try to escape through alcohol or drugs.
Praise God for hope!
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The novelist and film critic was the most gifted also-ran of the 1960s Jewish-American literary renaissance
Had he lived, Wallace Markfield would have celebrated his 86th birthday this week. But it's been 10 years since this word-slinging tummler left the stage, and you have to wonder if he didn't write his own epitaph decades earlier. In the most famous line of his first and best-remembered novel, To an Early Grave—a book that treated New York Jewish intellectuals as though they were Catskill comedians—Markfield described its deceased prime mover as "a second-rate talent of the highest order."
Put another way, Markfield was the most gifted also-ran associated with the so-called Jewish-American literary renaissance of 1950s and '60s: His three Jew-obsessed comic novels were eclipsed by the titanic oeuvre of Philip Roth, his ideas regarding Jews and popular culture were massively elaborated by professor turned new journalist Albert Goldman, and his promising bid to establish himself as a wise-guy, street-smart luftmensh-intellectual Jewish film critic was upended by Manny Farber and trumped by Pauline Kael.
Markfield enjoyed maximum visibility between the 1964 triumph of To an Early Grave (the basis, four years later, for Sidney Lumet's seminal Jew Wave movie Bye Bye Braverman) and the friendly, if more ambivalent, reception given his ambitious second novel, Teitelbaum's Window, in 1970. (The mixed notice in the New York Times Book Review was by no less an eminence than Alfred Kazin.) Markfield was a recognized pop-culture maven, writing for the Times Magazine on the persistence of burlesque, the significance of Walter Winchell, and the greatness of King Kong. In describing the "mad rushin' to mama-lushen," his Esquire essay "The Yiddishization of American Humor" not only anticipated Goldman's "Boy-Man Schlemiel: The Jewish Element in American Humor," but provided a road map for Goldman's career.
Philip Roth appropriated a Markfield joke and name-checked him in Portnoy's Complaint: "The novelist, what's his name, Markfield, has written in a story somewhere that until he was fourteen he believed 'aggravation' to be a Jewish word." (The story "Country of the Crazy Horse" was set in Markfield's childhood Brooklyn and published in the March 1958 issue of Commentary.) A 1967 book review in the New York Times described Gershon Legman, the avant-garde Kinsey who wrote The Rationale of the Dirty Joke, as "a character in a Wallace Markfield novel," which is pretty much what Markfield was himself.
Born in Brighton Beach and educated at Brooklyn College, he broke into print with stories in the Partisan, Kenyon, and Hudson reviews and book reviews in Commentary, achieving his first notoriety with an anti-High Noon diatribe, "The Inauthentic Western: Problems on the Prairie," published by the American Mercury in 1952, a full two years before Robert Warshow would make many of the same points in his canonical Partisan Review essay, "The Westerner."
To rehearse Markfield's career—to even write that last sentence!—is to describe the world he would parody in To an Early Grave: A little-magazine critic named Holly Levine brags to an academic poet, one Barnet Weiner, about "the strong likelihood" that he will be teaching a popular-culture course called "From 'Little Nemo' to 'Li'l Abner,' " and, when his frenemy jealously wonders if the subject is "like they say in the quarterlies, your métier?," Levine angrily responds, "My piece on John Ford has been twice anthologized. Twice!"
Although this exchange escalates into a '30s trivia competition that would prove Markfield's defining literary trope, it was on the basis of "The Inauthentic Western" that he secured a regular gig writing about movies in every other issue of The New Leader (a "rightwing" socialist weekly of the David Dubinsky persuasion), where he had since 1949 been pondering serious works of literature and criticism, from Sholem Asch's Tales of My People and Hemingway's Across the River and Into the Trees to Irving Howe on Sherwood Anderson and a revaluation of Nathaniel West's The Day of the Locust. (West, Markfield wrote prophetically, was a novelist who "never quite managed to produce a perfect work nor completely integrate his gifts, but one who was capable, nevertheless, of profoundly disturbing the reader.")
So, the job only lasted six months—from late November 1952 into May 1953—Markfield got to publish 13 columns, among them a Stanley Kramer take-down worthy of inclusion in the Library of America Anthology of American Film Criticism. Devoting a full column to praising Anthony Mann's unheralded "routine" Western The Naked Spur and the follow-up to trashing George Stevens' overblown Shane, opining on Danny Kaye and Sergei Eisenstein, taking note of the 3D craze-igniter Bwana Devil, the Jazz Singer remake, and Stanley Kubrick's debut Fear and Desire, Markfield showed excellent range and natural talent. His takes were knowledgeable, his language punchy, and his leads lively. Ironically characterizing himself as a "condescending cineaste" who would "choose the bleakest Randolph Scott Western over High Noon," Markfield had an attitude that was a promising work in progress.
Like revered Nation critic James Agee, Markfield mourned the death of movie comedy (although his idols were not Chaplin and Keaton but the Marx Brothers and W.C. Fields). Like the two-fisted slang-meister Manny Farber, Agee's New Republic rival and successor at The Nation, Markfield presented himself as a discerning populist, tweaking the "overly-cultish audiences" who patronized "cushy avant-garde theaters" for revivals of old Marcel Pagnol films and complaining that "a genuine love and deep feeling for the movies" were increasingly "hard to come by."
Markfield championed apparent junk like The Magnetic Monster ("paced like a supercharged engine by director and co-author Curt Siodmak, this story of an unmanageable radioactive element—driven by an omnivorous appetite for the planet's supply of electrical voltage—emerges almost as technological choreography") and debunked pretentious tripe: Advising his readers that even the worst films may contain "an oddly haunting strain of excellence," he pointed out that John Huston's Moulin Rouge was not one of them.
And then, perhaps sensing Markfield muscling in on his turf, Farber called him out. Five years before Farber's "Underground Film" would appear in Commentary, Markfield's "Notes on the Great Audience" was an appreciation of Times Square grind-houses that glorified the instincts of their lumpen patrons in terms at once sentimental and condescending. It was "a classic case of what happens when a critic turns sociologist," Farber wrote, chiding Markfield by name as he pointed out that the critic's duty was "to encourage moviegoers to look at the screen instead of trying to find a freak show in the audience." (Later that year Farber would write his toughest appraisal of the movie-going public—a blast at the mediocrity of current Hollywood product titled "Blame the Audience.")
Coincidence or not, "Notes on the Great Audience" was the last movie piece Markfield would write for The New Leader (although, ironically, it was Farber's put-down that prompted me to search out Markfield's film criticism). It was a shonde to be sure that when The New Republic found itself casting around for a film critic four years later they hired not Markfield but a 24-year-old University of Chicago instructor named Philip Roth—yes, What's His Name's future rival, wrote movie reviews too, albeit less the subject for a doctoral dissertation than a footnote.
Beginning with a Funny Face blow-off in June 1957, Roth published 13 movie and television reviews in TNR. He got off some good one-liners (ending a review of Raintree Country with the observation that Eva Marie Saint "does the best she can with a role that could hardly have been individualized unless, perhaps, it had been played by Peter Lorre") and used Henry King's lumbering prestige adaptation of The Sun Also Rises as the pretext for an amusing Hemingway parody. Still, the TV pieces, including an analysis of Sid Caesar and an account of the 1957 Miss America pageant, are far better than the movie reviews, which, despite an amused appreciation of Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?, are largely oblivious to cinematic qualities and mainly discussions of plots or performances. Roth's last review, published in February 1958, was another Hemingway adaptation (A Farewell to Arms) and one of the few in which he bothered to identify the movie's director or even its screenwriter.
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History – Surgical Instruments:
The industry of surgical instruments or tools are developed in 1940s in the area of Sialkot, this sector produce a wide range of surgical, medical and veterinary instruments and exports around 85% to 90% of its total production, with the time being Pakistan has learned the new technology and driven with more advance techniques and manufacturing the highest/best quality of surgical equipments which exporting to over 145 countries of the world.
Quick View of Surgical Instruments Industry:
|Total number of units
|Approx. 1600
|Installed Capacity
|220 Million Pieces
|Total Capital Investment
|Around Rs. 14.0 billion
|No. of worker
|110,000-160,000 Approx.
|No. of people involved (Direct/indirect)
|Near 400,000-500,000
|Around US $ 190.07 Million
|World market of surgical instrument (2012)
|US $ 75.15 billion Approx
|130 million Nos.
|Source of Machinery
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Variety of Instruments being manufactured:
Instruments Industry of Pakistan manufacturing the best quality instruments for medical and surgical purpose by performing the specialized work, producing the instruments according to international standards or specifications and fulfilling each country requirements like American, British and German etc.
The development countries of USA and Europe are the major buyers of Pakistani surgical instruments or tools. Following are the wide ranges of medical/surgical area, the instruments are being manufactured:
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- Plaster Instruments
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- Otology
- Tonsil Instruments
- Sterilization
- Urology Instruments
- Gynecology Instruments
- Obstetrics
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Manufacturing Standards:
To meet the international requirements, surgical instruments manufacturers must follow the international manufacturing standards in compliance with WHO standards. Therefore more than three hundreds (300) companies have ISO-9002 certifications similar as around 250 companies are having certification of Good Manufacturing Practices.
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Rated 5 out of 5 by Artto Arthur Timms Nice place. Great staff. I had a few problems at check in but the staff went overboard to correct them. The responsiveness was excellent. March 8, 2014
Rated 4 out of 5 by Pearl24 exceptional except for July 4 days The hotel was dedicated in staff response, cleanliness, arrangements. The exception was on July 4 and that weekend. A group of adult guests covered the pool area with debris, were loud, wore scant clothing in elevators, halls, and vomit at our car in parking ramp. Staff were ambitious in the cleaning. Yet, the visible flesh on elevators, the loud demeanor, and the vomit showed the immaturity of this group of guests. What should a hotel do? I don't know. July 7, 2014
Rated 1 out of 5 by TheDuke Pool is a filthy bathtub This property is at the bottom of the Sheraton range. Hotel has a GREAT location but seems resigned to rest on that and make no effort to provide a Starwood quality experience. Check in was rude and one of the worst I have ever had. Other staff seemed completely disinterested and unconcerned with guests. We used a reward to upgrade to a suite to find it had OLD furniture that were torn and in a state of clear disrepair. The grill on the vent had an inch of dust on it. The swimming pool was simply disgusting. It was like a concrete bathtub (similar to a cement children's wading pool... albeit deep). We sat on the edge for a few moments until we noticed the thick film on top of the water and various clumps of spit floating around on top; it did not seem to have a filtration system as the water was stagnant and gross. AVOID this place until the management philosophy changes and a multi-million dollar renovation occurs. P.S. I love SPG and approaching lifetime Platinum status, this is one of the worst Starwood properties I have ever stayed at. August 27, 2013
Rated 5 out of 5 by Rose19 What a nice hotel We recently stayed at the Sheraton in Indy and it was a great place. We were welcomed by a nice staff at the check in and our room was awesome. The view of the city was incredible. I would definitely stay here again.. May 27, 2013
Rated 5 out of 5 by Judy54 Great Veiw of the Circle. Had a Great stay. Was there durning the big snow and deep freeze. Room was warm and the veiw was Great. January 26, 2014
Rated 5 out of 5 by Paula Wonderful stay Staff were great. Very helpful. The only problem was when we first got to our room there was dirt on the carpet but it was cleaned up our next day.. May 28, 2013
Rated 2 out of 5 by pistola Sheraton needs work This could be a nice hotel if they put some money into it.hallways are dirty and the pool could be nice if they had chairs and umbrellas July 25, 2012
Rated 1 out of 5 by DRURS Ruining the brand The hotel does not belong in the Starwoood group. We book expecting a certain a class or style. This is one of the worst in the group. July 23, 2012
Rated 2 out of 5 by Kunphan I did not feel like staying at the Sheraton Did not feel like I was staying at the Sheraton. AC wan not working I had to move room at 12:00 at night. May 7, 2012
Rated 5 out of 5 by Jared80 Exceptional Service and Value I chose Sheraton's Indianapolis City Centre Hotel as the base of operations for New Year's Eve for a group of 4. The staff at the Sheraton made our group feel very welcome. From accommodating our room requests to assisting with food orders, each individual with whom we interacted was friendly and sincere. I had some difficulty/confusion about my online reservation and I was amazed by how quickly and effectively the staff helped me create the perfect evening for my group. The hotel has private parking which was a huge relief as downtown parking can be difficult and pricey. The lobby was very classy and I was greeted immediately. The view from our suite has to be the best the city has to offer. While some of the facilities and decor were a bit dated, it seemed as though improvements and updates were underway. The size of the suite was impressive. I wish we would have had more time to read lax there and enjoy the accommodations but New Year's plans wouldn't wait. We did not have time to enjoy the Alexander restaurant in the hotel but I have read wonderful reviews. I will be staying at this classy downtown hotel again! P.S. The Sheraton has an exceptional snack room with a huge variety of munchies should you find yourself hungry after all restaurants have closed. January 2, 2014
Rated 5 out of 5 by Jboone Nice place to stay in Indy Stayed at the hotel while at a conference, was a short & very nice walk from the convention center . Hotel staff was helpful and nice. Only real negative I'd have was the elevator doors barely stayed open, so if you blinked you'd have to wait for another elevator. Overall great stay. July 11, 2014
Rated 2 out of 5 by Moby King suite Was not up to par. Staff was rude, unwanting to help. October 26, 2012
Rated 4 out of 5 by Lex18 ... keep it simple! I needed to work and wanted to be comfortable. The hotel gave me exactly every basic feature I was looking for. I loved the outside pool to relax and having dinner at the restaurant was a great experience too. Kids friendly. Nice personnel at every level. July 11, 2014
Rated 3 out of 5 by Blacklight Lack of response I always travel with a black light and inspect the room prior to use. However, the room was not ready at the time of arrival. When I arrived later in the evening I checked the room with my black light. There was urine on the floor, on the toilet, and splashed on the back of the bathroom door. There was blood on the bed skirt. There was also dust buildup on the carpet along the baseboard. There were water soap/spots on the shower/bath walls. When I notified the staff in the morning of the state of the room apologies were offered and promises made. When I returned that evening, the bed skirt had been replaced but the other issues remained. September 18, 2013
Rated 3 out of 5 by NACC123 Joe Wilkey Hotel was OK. Two complaints. Food was not very good. Elevators we terrible. July 14, 2014
Rated 5 out of 5 by trips3 Lovely Hotel Very nice place to stay. Lovely interior. July 14, 2014
Rated 4 out of 5 by KarensHoliday This hotel extrememly comfortable & clean. The room was very clean and we were upgraded to get a great view of the square. Loved that we were able to go to the Club Lounge for complimentary breakfast. Go early though because the food gets sparse the closer you get to 10am. Had a scary experience in one of the elevators. It couldn't decide if it was going up or down. I reported it to the Club Lounge staff and again the next morning to the front desk. The front desk said they would take care of it. Asked for more towels and someone brought them promptly with a smile! Asked the bellman for restaurant suggestions and he was so nice and helpful. We had a great experience, thank you! February 28, 2012
Rated 1 out of 5 by Business22 Tired Hotel, needs attention This hotel at one time probably was pretty nice. It is a far cry from that now. There was mold in the bathroom (that needed to be gutted), tub drained slow, door was damaged, just poor all around. The hotel was noisy due to maintenance, Restaurant overcooked my medium rare tuna to well done. I would not stay here again. I would not recommend this hotel. Parking was also bad. Was afraid that could not park SUV due to low ceiling. Got a nasty note for parking in garage after I had cleared parking in valet area with front desk due to fear of damaging vehicle. Twenty five bucks a day to park was steep as well. Lousy entrance from garage too. Just gross. December 2, 2012
Rated 4 out of 5 by AndrewCD14 Great Location Love the pool area, can't beat the price for location and view. July 13, 2014
Rated 4 out of 5 by Greg45 July Visit There was a leak in the bathroom, which the staff had fixed promptly when I brought it to their attention. The latch on the door was stuck but that also was fixed. The hot water handle on the faucet came off on my last morning. Overall, this is an older property which probably needs more attention. Staff was simply excellent. July 7, 2014
Rated 4 out of 5 by BobW54 Convenience & Comfort in one place Just a short walk to almost any place you need to be. July 12, 2014
Rated 2 out of 5 by ATrain76 Absolutely Hit and Miss I've been at this hotel 3 times in the last few months and my experience has been consistent....in that it has been consistently INconsistent. During my most recent stay we had a variety of issues in our room (complete lack of shower pressure, dirty floors, malfunctioning toilets, etc). The buggy system is a joke. Every time I've been there I've requested one to have my luggage brought to/from my car and I've never had one brought to me quicker than half an hour...and on more than one occasion, they simply couldn't find one and I had to haul luggage for 5 people quite a long way. That's is simply unacceptable. In addition, the front desk staff were completely UNaccomodating when I attempted to get details about where they were. They were also generally unhelpful in many other ways...i.e. telling me an extra rollaway bed was available and it would be brought up soon...when I didn't have it within an hour and called back to check they said they were mistaken and one wasnt available...not knowing whether something is available or not is generally incompetent, but not calling back and having the decency to say so is inexcusable. The fitness center is also barely adequate in that most of the equipment is barely functioning and ridiculously noisy...nevermind that the lobby WIFI cant even reach down there. My experience would have been wholly unpleasant if it werent fot the gal running the club lounge who was an absolute gem...helpful in every possible way...friendly and polite. All the staff should take a cue from her when it comes to truly treating your guests like clients and not like inconveniences July 4, 2012
Rated 1 out of 5 by BLRD Discounted rate should not mean discounted service. Of all the service staff I had interacted with during my stay, only 2% were polite and helpful. The attitudes and mannerisms of the front desk employees were far below expectations. I have never been treated so rudely. When I would ask a question, I would receive a rude response or a question with an extremely inappropriate attitude. The air conditioning in the room did not work. The television only had approximately 40-50% of the channels offered. The hot water lasted only a few minutes. Internet was offered as part of the rate offered for the room during the convention stay. I was not provided with this information during my check-in, when I called down to the service desk I was met with attitude and received the answer in a negative tone then hung up on. When I notified the front desk that the air conditioning was not working properly, the response I received was "They're working on it! If it's blowing its working"! I was personally too frustrated with my experience to even bring up the hot water; but instead included on my comment card. I was sent to the wrong meeting room when I asked where I was to go for my meeting (I was sent downstairs rather than the 21 floor). I had a package waiting for me at the front desk and when I came to pick it up I was first told that it wasn't there, and then rudely asked to describe it. I understand that this was a busy time- the conference I was attending had over 200 attendees, but being in customer service it is important to greet with a smile and treat your guest with respect. The least they could have done was apologize for their inappropriate behavior. I usually enjoy my stays at the Sheraton, but after all this I do not think I will be staying at one again. May 2, 2012
Rated 3 out of 5 by EagleRock Mostly unremarkable We were passing through on a long road trip and chose this hotel as we love the Sheraton brand for our young family, especially the suites. Unfortunately, this hotel was not adequately staffed when we arrived (11pm), had no luggage carts available, no valet available, and they then said it "looks like we upgraded you to a suite" when in fact our original reservation (what we paid for) was a suite. This hotel wasn't "bad" but was merely adequate when compared to the entirety of our SPG experience. We would try the Westin in town the next time we are passing through even though we prefer the Sheraton branch of SPG to Westin usually. July 20, 2013
Rated 5 out of 5 by CraigF Nice Hotel Located 1 minute from monument Circle. Close to downtown district near bars and nightlife July 10, 2014
Rated 3 out of 5 by JohnQBusinessTraveler Great Location I have stayed at this hotel several times and the location is perfect. This time I got a suite and found it comfortable and spacious. THey have tried to upgrade the older style with some nice new features. Overall the hotel needs some updating but the improvements do help. The rooms are clean (with the exception of the TV screens). The furniture is less than stellar (couch looked like a cat had a field day on it) but generally comfortable. The bed was exceptionally comfortable and the room was quiet. I was disappointed in the front desk staff at check in as they were unimpressed with my SPG status and did not recognize me at all. November 25, 2013
Rated 3 out of 5 by dadlh101 Value of facility not on par with pricing of facility! We loved the comfort of the King size bed. Slept well on it. However On check in day we had to have the bedding changed due to gray lint in the bedding. Also we made known that the bed SKIRT was dirty and should be changed even though we were not going to come into direct contact with that particular part of the bed. NEVER was during the length of our stay. During that first contact with the front desk we also asked that the TV pedestal and cabinet be dusted and or cleaned from the accumulated muck. It wasn't done. Drain in tub was partially plugged with hair or something so we stood in dirty water while showering. Safety latch on door was stuck in the open position so it did not work. Maybe it was unnecessary to have, but why even have it if it didn't work. On day two of our stay, we got a slip under the door that housekeeping had come and we had out our privacy sign. No one checked back on the room even though we left right away so they could do the room and the housekeeping cart was in the hall just one door away.!@#$##@! We did not put our the GREEN door hanger, yet our bedding was not changed for three straight days. We could tell because my wife's pillow case had been accidentally dusted with makeup and that never went away for the duration of our stay. On the next to last day of our stay, the extent of making up the bed was to pull the bedspread up over the sheets without even straightening them up. In addition, no coffee was left in the room, only cups. No shampoo, conditioner etc was left either. Also, room was not vacuumed that day. On day three we ran out of Kleenex - they were never replaced. We used the Q-tips and Cotton balls on day 1. They were never replaced. If that is you was of doing business leave a card saying it is a one time complimentary packet or something. Don't just leave Guests handing and wondering what to expect, and then be disappointed. N/A on any of the below recommendations, Sorry July 14, 2014
Rated 1 out of 5 by SJK72 Worst hotel stay ever I feel compelled to write this review because it was such a bad experience and others need to be forewarned. To preface what I am about to say, it is relevant to mention I am very vested in staying at Starwood hotels, am a platinum level member, own multiple timeshares through the Starwood Vacation Ownership program, and have never had a bad experience in any of their properties ... until now. I have stayed at this property a few other times and while the service has always been a bit hit or miss and the hotel is in desperate need of updating, the location is good and overall value has been sufficient. However, what happened this time means that I will never return. There was work being done in the hotel on some of the upper floors - which I understand is needed from time to time. However, this work didn't just happen during the day but into all hours of the night AND so close to rooms where guests were staying that the noise was keeping people up. The first night was irritating but not bad enough to keep me awake. The second night though was an entirely different story. The noise was literally so loud I could barely hear someone when I was on the phone. This continued on so long that finally at MIDNIGHT, I couldn't take it anymore. I called the front desk and the person acted like she had no idea what I was talking about. She said she'd send someone to check into it and ask them to stop. Noise continued. I called again at 12:30AM, she said she knew some work was being done and would ask them to stop. Again, noise continued. I called again and after 3-4 calls, I finally reached her around 1AM and was told she'd send someone again and tell them to stop. Noise continued. Finally, at around 2AM, I left the hotel and went elsewhere. No idea if and when it stopped but do know that the 2nd person in my party in another room heard noise on and off throughout the night. There are multiple problems with all of this. 1) Who schedules work like this during the middle of the night and then why so close to guest rooms that it keeps people up all night?! 2) The service around the issue was horrible. I called multiple times and nothing was resolved. I was never offered to switch rooms to another part of the hotel. Never offered any compensation on the room (I would have never charged a customer for such an experience). No one ever followed up to make sure it got resolved or that I was happy. Nothing. Nada. Zero. 3) Where is the management in all of this? If a customer had such an experience, I'd sure as heck make sure a manager was involved and that person would ensure the issue got resolved and the customer was happy. Instead, all I received was a 3,000 point bonus. That for horrible service, a night of absolutely no sleep, and having to leave and pay for another hotel room elsewhere! Completely unacceptable and really an insult. Also, this was in addition to all the other things about the hotel that weren't good ... but I won't go into that here. In the end, I think this experience says a lot about the hotel management and culture and is the reason I won't ever return. Period. January 24, 2014
Rated 2 out of 5 by Ginny99 Faulted check in Eta Pi Kappa charitable sorority had our annual convention at the Sheraton Downtown Indy Facility. Check-In for each person had a very than desired experience. One of our ladies was even told she had to be a guest of the hotel to be a guest to be in the lobby (yes, that was very awkward for sure!). Also, over half of our rooms booked several months in advance were not ready until almost 6pm. June 30, 2014


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In full swing now are summer camps, one of the more blessed bits of Americana in my view. Of the many camps that I attended growing up, the most unique had to be what I now refer to as "business camp."
Laugh all you want about kids spending a week of their summer running a small snack business or attending etiquette dinners.
But this camp, known now as 21st Century Leaders, gave a small-town boy entree to the board room of Coca-Cola and the sets of CNN — truly horizon-broadening experiences. My fellow campers hailed from all parts of Georgia and were diverse in every way identifiable. We had fun and learned a lot.
This experience has come back to my mind often in recent months, as the economy has tanked and business has become something of a public villain. I wonder how our fits of industry-bashing will affect the national psyche in the long run.
In the mid-1990s, it didn't seem odd to put a friendly, summer-camp face on business. Long past were the painful economic retooling and savings and loan bailouts of the '80s. The dot-com bubble hadn't inflated, much less burst. "Irrational exuberance" and "mortgage-backed securities" were not yet part of our lingo.
So the guess here is that most of us who came of age during this time are unlikely to react to the convulsions of our financial system by recoiling from capitalism.
We saw enough good from business early enough in our lives not to mistake the basic profit motive for a kind of systemic greed. We are unlikely to view as a savior the government that contributed greatly to our financial meltdown with bad monetary policy, encouragement of lax lending standards and bad regulation — not deregulation, but poorly designed and enforced rules, and a mistaken confidence in them.
I have no evidence that these pro-capitalist attitudes will hold up, only a hunch. Or just a hope.
What truly worries me is the reaction of the generation that's yet to come of age.
For them, business won't be just the faceless entity that zapped Mom and Dad's 401(k)s. The message they get from so many directions is that business is the exploiter of the sick and the polluter of our planet. So, not a good guy.
Add to this worldview the fact that their older siblings grew up with a sense of entitlement and often got what they'd expected. But there are fewer jobs, even summer jobs, for this group, and probably fewer "go out and conquer the world" speeches awaiting them at graduation.
The starting point for them, then, is far different than it was for those who went before. What will they conclude from it all?
It's an open question, one that we can't answer yet but ought to keep in mind as we talk about the recent past and set the course for our nation.
Admittedly, we are probably not on the verge of producing a group of 18-year-olds like the one in France a few years back that overwhelmingly told pollsters their ideal job was that of a civil servant.
At 18, a person ought to be at his most idealistic and ambitious, not wishing for a job that simply offers security and short working hours. Yet successive generations of anti-business rhetoric and high unemployment have taken their toll on the country that gave us the word "entrepreneur." That's a long-term prospect we don't want to set in motion here.
The good news is that my old camp lives on, providing a few hundred Georgian kids each year a chance to see a different side of businesses and executives.
But let's keep in mind that they — and the thousands of children who aren't attending 21st Century Leaders — are also absorbing everything else we say and do about the world that lies ahead of them. And that what they hear and see will help determine how they think in the future.


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PISCATAWAY, NJ – Rutgers rising junior Cappie Pondexter (Chicago, IL) has been named one of 30 candidates for the first-ever John R. Wooden Women's Award, the group has announced.
Returning players were eligible for the 30-member Wooden Preseason All-America Team, although freshmen, transfers and other players could be considered as the season progresses. The group will name a Midseason Top 20 Team in January, followed in March by the official voting ballot of 10-15 names. A five-member All-America Team, as well as the winner of the inaugural Wooden Women's Award, given to the nation's best female collegiate player, will be announced at the end of the season.
Pondexter led Rutgers with 18.3 points and 4.9 assists per game during her rookie campaign, adding 5.1 rebounds per contest to rank second for the Scarlet Knights. An honorable-mention Associated Press and Kodak/WBCA All-American as well as the 2003 BIG EAST Rookie of the Year, she also was the first rookie in conference history to earn a spot on the All-BIG EAST First Team. One of 12 finalists for the Nancy Lieberman Award, which honors the top point guard in Division I women's basketball, Pondexter also was a member of the BIG EAST All-Tournament Team. Earlier this month she helped lead the United States to a gold medal at the FIBA World Championship for Young Women in Sibenik, Croatia. One of the team's co-captains as well as the starting point guard this summer, Pondexter has spent the last four summers playing with the 21-and-under U.S. team.
Applied Materials is the presenting sponsor for both the men's and women's Wooden Awards. Created in 1976, the John R. Wooden Award is the most prestigious individual honor in college basketball. It is bestowed upon the nation's best player at an institution of higher education who has proven to his/her university that he/she is making progress toward graduation and maintaining a cumulative 2.0 GPA.
Rutgers engineered the most dramatic turnaround in Division I this past season, improving from 9-20 in 2001-2002 to 21-8 and a trip to the 2003 NCAA Tournament's second round.
Wooden Women's Award Preseason All-America Team – Top 30 Candidates
Seimone Augustus 6'1" So. G LSU
Jacqueline Batteast 6'2" Jr. F Notre Dame
Alana Beard 5'11" Jr. G/F Duke
Jenni Benningfield 6'3" Jr. F Vanderbilt
Tera Bjorklund 6'5" Jr. C Colorado
Rebekkah Brunson 6'3" Sr. F Georgetown
Shameka Christon 6'1" Sr. F Arkansas
Shyra Ely 6'2" Jr. F Tennessee
Ebony Hoffman 6'2" Sr. F/C USC
Chandi Jones 5'10" Sr. F/G Houston
Kelly Mazzante 6'0" Sr. G Penn State
Giuliana Mediola 5'11" Jr. G Washington
Loree Moore 5'9" Jr. G Tennessee
Nicole Ohlde 6'4" Sr. F/C Kansas State
Jia Perkins 5'8" Sr. G Texas Tech
Shawntinice Polk 6'5" So. C Arizona
Cappie Pondexter 5'9" Jr. G Rutgers
Nicole Powell 6'2" Sr. F Stanford
Heather Schreiber 6'2" Jr. F/G Texas
Stacy Stephens 6'1" Sr. F Texas
Ann Strother 6'2" So. G Connecticut
Diana Taurasi 6'0" Sr. G/F Connecticut
Lindsay Taylor 6'8" Sr. C Santa Barbara
Christi Thomas 6'5" Sr. F/C Georgia
Iciss Tillis 6'4" Sr. F Duke
Kendra Wecker 5'11" Sr. F Kansas State
Lindsay Whalen 5'8" Sr. G Minnesota
Tan White 5'8" Jr. G Mississippi State
Shereka Wright 5'10" Sr. F Purdue
Tanisha Wright 5'11" Jr. G Penn State


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Great new track by Paloma Faith
"Creativity is intelligence having fun."
Albert Einstein
Great shot from an old movie made by Jacques Tati. Main figure M.Hulot is taking over the function of the glass door he just broke!
Feel good commercial by McDonalds
Haha, I like this branding concept that turns a paper cut into a nice to have product!
Awesome productvideo for smart A/C control!
Beautiful maple and wool iPad sleeve by Grovemade.
Really great insight into the life of a man behind his smartphone camera.
I like the effect of the Dot case of the new HTC One. Not sure how you can deconnect it from your phone though. Have seen this effect earlier on the Spotify Box by Jordi Parra. Anyone having other examples of gridcovered screens?
I love how Nest is using online storytelling to enhance the experience around their products. Clean and effective!
Love this song!
I really love the clean and simple Scandinavian architecture of the sauna in Bjärred, Sweden.
Android Wear for Smart Watches, looks promising!
There are two reasons why I would give someone the permission to buy a Android phone, first would be to buy a Fairphone, probably the most responsible smartphone on the market. The second would be to buy a YotaPhone, which has both a LCD and E-ink display. The E-ink display is not just a cool technology, since it only consumes energy when updating the pixels you could use it for example to save the map of your walking route when your battery is dieing. Off course reading is more relaxt on an E-ink display and you never need a cool cover again since you can put every image on the back of your phone without using any energy. Pretty cool right?


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Sunday, May 20, 2012
Ry is 5!
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Thursday, February 16, 2012
Valentines Day 2012
I woke up early that morning because I wanted to make the kids a great breakfast. We had heart shaped pancakes and donuts, with strawberry and banana juice.
I decorated the table with there goodie bags and new heart cups. They all where very excited. Next was the heart shaped sandwiches for lunch with some more red and pink things!
When the kids got home we went threw all there valentines goodies from school. Then we got ready for dinner :)
When I was putting the kids to bed Kaiden stopped and said "mom, thank you so much for the best valentines day ever." I love that kid! He made all the work that went into that day well worth it!!
Oh, I also did a heart in Avery's hair for school!
It was a great day! Of corse Jeremy went out of his way to make me feel special too!!
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Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Thoughts and Prayers to the King Family
Today I came across a blog, that really put things into prospective for me. I'm grateful for the knowledge that I have of an Eternal Family. I couldn't even begin to imagine the heartache of the King family. My thoughts and prayers are with them. If you want to read go Here. You can also donate, if you can, Here.
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Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Playing catch up!
We are still a live and kicking! We've had a very, VERY long 6 months! We have had birthdays, Halloween, a wedding, Christmas, a big move, starting school, and getting used to cold weather again! Here are some pictures over the last little while....
For my birthday in August, Jeremy took me golfing! It was so much fun.
Here is Brinley being silly in an old Halloween costume.
Danielle and Jordan, they got married 12/30/11. I got to practice my Photog skills with their engagement pictures :)
Kaiden's 9 th birthday. We kept it low key this year.
Halloween. Kids ready to go trick or treating.
Kaiden received his wolf so now he's a big bear. I'm proud of him and all of his hard work!
We moved!! Back to Utah! Long story, not a job change, but our choice. I'm seriously missing California and our little beach town!! Mostly the family out there! On the positive side we have family here too! Oh and we found a really yummy frozen yogurt place really close to us :)
Thanksgiving at our house!! Lots of fun!
Avery's birthday!! I'm pretty sure she was spoiled this year too!
Kaiden had a project at school where they had to give a report on a famous person and why try liked them. Can you guess who he chose?? Give up?? Steven Spielberg. He did a really good job. This was the wax museum day!
A little out of order but here are Ry's before and after hair cut pictures! He hated it at first but now loves to spike his hair everyday!
The whole family with Santa! You can tell who didn't really want to do it :)
Danielle received her endowments in the St. George temple.
Our first Christmas in our new place!
First snow day
Dinner with Lacey, Logan, and Caitlin at the lion house!! Yum!
Logan and Caitlin, we got to see them a lot over Christmas. It was great to have them! We miss them!
Temple square lights
All the cousins on my side. My mom made them these awesome pillow beds! They laid in the office and watched a movie Christmas eve!
Wedding luncheon! It was a very cold and windy day so I didn't get to many pictures.
We are excited to start the new year! Hope everyone is doing well! Ill do my best to keep the blog updated!!
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Friday, July 1, 2011
Updated Picutres of the kids
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Ryland's 4th Birthday
I'm a little behind! We took Ry to Disneyland for his 4th birthday (in May).
Happy Birthday Ryland! You are a great kid, we love you very much!
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Saturday, June 4, 2011
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A fatal crash stopped traffic on State Road 14 on Thursday.
Troopers said two cars were involved in the head-on collision just east of the Bridge of the Gods at Milepost 41 at around 3:30 p.m.
Troopers say 42-year-old Chad Bretsch of Philomath was driving eastbound when his car crossed over the center line and hit a truck being driven by Karl Wilkie of Carson, WA.
Bretsch died at the scene while Wilkie was transported to Hood River Hospital with unknown injuries.
WSDOT said the crash initially blocked the entire highway. Traffic control was later put in place, with traffic alternating each direction.
At 6:30 p.m., the highway was reopened.
Just prior to the crash, WSDOT announced crews had cleared rocks that fell on the highway near Milepost 66 and blocked traffic earlier in the day.
Further complicating traffic is that this stretch of State Road 14 was being used as a detour for people who normally drive on Interstate 84. Eastbound lanes of I-84 were shut down Wednesday night near Hood River due to a large landslide.
Those lanes will remain closed through the weekend.
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2-natural transformation?
The triangle identities or zigzag identities are identities satisfied by the unit and counit of an adjunction.
Given (categories, or otherwise objects of a -category) with functors (or otherwise morphisms) and and natural isomorphisms (or otherwise -morphisms) and , the triangle identities are the following:
are identities.
and i.e.
The RHS of the above diagrams have L and R interchanged. Furthermore, the LHS has C as target of L instead of D.
In string diagrams, the identities appear as the action of "pulling zigzags straight" (hence the name):
, .
With labels left implicit, this notation becomes very economical:
, .
zig-zag law / triangle identity