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Those calling for a spiritual awakening are marching into enemy territory: the world of business. But what happens when a corporation's soul clashes with its bottom line?
When the Green Bay Packers won the 1997 Super Bowl, it was a triumph of soul. The Packers are deeply rooted in the Wisconsin city where they were founded in 1919. They were named after a local meat processing plant, the Indian Packing Company, which paid for the first uniforms. Starting in the 1920s, the Green Bay Football Corp. made a series of public stock offerings. In 1950, 1,900 local residents each put up $25 a share to buy the team. They and their descendants remain the owners. No one owns more than 200 shares of Packers stock. And it pays no dividends -- every cent goes back to the team in pay or toward the improvement of facilities. The result is a community -- and team -- spirit unmatched in any other National Football League city. That's why Packer players who score touchdowns leap into the stands to embrace spectators. That's why fans at Lambeau Field sing "Amazing Grace" during time-outs. That's why, as Bruce Adams of the San Francisco Examiner wrote last year, "a group of nuns 75 miles away in Fond du Lac prays for the Packers on Sunday morning and then settles down in front of a television set to watch the game."
It's also one reason why a team from the small northern town of Green Bay could beat all the big, bankrolled teams from New York to Los Angeles -- the Packers have soul.
Now, soul is in. The San Francisco Chronicle recently called it the "buzzword of the '90s," in a headline for a front-page story reporting that some 322 citations for the word appear in the current edition of Books in Print. That's nearly four times the number in 1990. The notion has even permeated TV ads. Millions of viewers were exposed late last year to Nissan Motor's gaudy commercials introducing the 1997 Infiniti Q45 luxury automobile with the slogan "Everything changes but the soul." And this year Ford Motor is touting its top-of-the-line Lincoln Continental as a car that "gets into your soul, not your pocket."
So it may not be surprising that forces calling for an awakening of spirituality are now marching into enemy territory: the business world. If anything could be considered antithetical to soulfulness, it's humdrum, buttoned-up, make-a-buck commerce. Witness the long line of business villains in literature, theater, and film. (Just revisit Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol or Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman.)
But today, a particular malaise -- a sense that business crushes the spirit and compels workers to suppress feelings -- has become an opportunity for the spirituality gurus, who propose to bring soul into the workplace.
There was a time when this effort focused on turning companies into more socially responsible corporate citizens. The movement arose from the civil rights struggles and counterculture of the 1960s, and it eventually spawned a new crop of companies (Ben & Jerry's, Tom's of Maine, Odwalla, Stonyfield Yogurt, Just Desserts, Aveda, the Body Shop) and a new group of organizations (the Social Venture Network, Business for Social Responsibility, Students for Responsible Business, the Social Investment Forum) dedicated to moving corporations along a path of social responsibility.
This new endeavor, however, takes a different tack. It strikes me as being more about personal transformation than corporate transformation. It is a call for people not to sacrifice their souls for the corporation: They are urged to bring their whole beings into the workplace and express their innermost thoughts. By so doing, of course, they might well change the way business is conducted. But the literature I have seen and the talks I have heard are very short on prescriptive changes for business. (Perhaps an agenda will develop from the formation of the Conscious Business Alliance, a new Minneapolis-based group whose mission is "to explore the myriad ways in which the business community can enrich and be enriched by the human spirit.")
What is one to make of all this? First of all, it's a new variant on an old theme. The hunger that people feel today for cohesion, for some sense of belonging, for purpose -- a hunger reflected in the booming sales of books by psychotherapist Thomas Moore and psychologist James Hillman -- has long been a byproduct of modern industrial civilization. Business has always had a bad name among moralists, and efforts to reform it go back a long way. Christ gave only one piece of advice to merchants: to abandon their work and follow him. Catholic theologians of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance largely regarded business activity as "beyond the moral pale," according to David Vogel, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley's Haas School of Business. Only with the Reformation did the West find theological sanction for the workaday world, as the Protestant ethic accorded the market a place of grace.
More recently, Marxist critics brought a different theology to labor and commerce, advocating an overthrow of capitalism. But this idea has been discredited, and certainly none of the new reformers seeks to dismantle the commercial order -- they just want to open the halls of commerce to spirituality.
Most of the people I talk to, however, are skeptical about the movement's chances. They see business still cleaving to the profit motive above all else. In a symposium on "African-American Art and Its Audience," held last fall at Washington University in St. Louis, Tricia Rose, an assistant professor at New York University, stated: "Corporations don't have a vision for society, except for a profitable space for them to operate in as freely as possible. They don't have a value system. They pretend to, when they get pressure. But they don't really have a value system."
The views expressed by certain captains of commerce confirm Rose's cynicism. In an interview in the October 1996 issue of Fortune magazine, Don Tyson, the head of the Arkansas company that ranks as the nation's largest chicken supplier, said: "If it makes money, we expand it. If it doesn't, we cut its throat." In the same issue, the magazine reported that Doug Ivester, the president of Coca-Cola, tells his managers to follow the words of McDonald's founder Ray Kroc: "What do you do when your competitor is drowning? Get a live hose and stick it in his mouth." Now those are some authentic voices of business. And mind you, Coca-Cola has just signed up as a member of Business for Social Responsibility.
For five years now I have carried around in my head an observation made by Alan Parker, who is director of investor relations for Ben & Jerry's ice cream. In an article I asked him to contribute to the 20th anniversary edition of the quarterly Business and Society Review, Parker wrote: "There is a saying in favor among 'New Age' caring capitalists that 'business is the most powerful force in society.' They mean that business, by joining creativity and money, can create tremendous positive change in our world. If business is the most powerful force in society, how come a Bach cantata can move us to tears, but a healthy balance sheet cannot?"
I recently asked Parker if he thought it was possible for business to have a soul. "Business pressures will put a strain on the soul," he says, "but it's still possible to preserve it. If people bring their souls to business, it will have a soul."
I put the same question to John Mackey, the CEO of Austin, Texas-based Whole Foods, the nation's largest operator of natural food stores. "Businesspeople shy away from talking about this responsibility because they don't want to be considered nonserious," he says. "They want to appear tough-minded. But business does have a higher purpose, a deeper purpose than making a profit. Making a profit is like breathing. You need to breathe to live. But we have a purpose connected to products, people, community, the environment, stakeholders."
Mackey quickly adds, however, that corporate spirit is inseparable from corporeal health. "Even if you have a soul, a spirit, that doesn't mean you will be safe from turns in the marketplace. You can have a certain essence, a reality that is greater than the bottom line, but that does not make you invulnerable to change."
Patagonia, the outdoor clothing company based in Ventura, California, may well be the most environmentally conscious company in the land, and it has exemplary family-friendly policies such as on-site childcare and eight-week paid leaves for new parents. "We definitely have soul as a company, but we don't tend to be explicit about it," CEO David Olsen says. "And it would be difficult, if not impossible, to maintain if we were not a privately held company." Olsen points out that at Patagonia soul manifests itself in a number of ways -- a belief that "sacred places" exist in nature and need protection; rigorous field audits of overseas plants to ensure that workers are not being abused; and mindfulness about environmental degradation that has resulted in the company using organic cotton to make its garments.
"We are not driven to look for commercial success," he explains. "We try to create value, and we feel that if you make value, you will be rewarded." To Olsen, that's soul.
Denis Hayes, a lawyer who organized the first Earth Day and is now president of the Bullitt Foundation in Seattle, has a markedly different take on the question. "Since the courts have decided that corporations are 'persons' and possessed of the legal and constitutional rights of persons, and since this has wreaked all sorts of havoc in the legal system, it would be gratifying to believe that these 'persons' also had souls and that the worst of them would be damned to eternal perdition," he says. "However, since we don't even know how to send a corporation to prison, it's hard to know how they might be delivered to Satan."
That said, Hayes uses the extension of legal individuality to flesh out a definition: "If you think of the soul as the repository of values, ideas, and character, I think you can build a case that many corporations have integrated 'souls,' and that those that don't are, like many people, a little dysfunctional." He adds, "I think some companies -- especially small, privately held, relatively young companies -- attract people who share basic values, and create climates in which those who may not share the values still act as though they do when acting on behalf of the company."
At one level, Hayes says, corporate soul may just constitute the projected personalities of a company's "dominant people." The question is whether that projected identity has enough strength to support decisions based on conscience, untethered from financial imperatives. "I wonder," he says, "whether the socially responsible company is like the deeply moral individual -- admirable but doomed by its context to fall short of true greatness in a temporal world that extols one set of characteristics but rewards a different set. The old Apple had soul; Microsoft has always run on raw ambition. Is social responsibility the opiate of second-tier companies?"
In the end, I think, most corporate changes have occurred at the margin, and companies continue to sell their souls to the devil to make their numbers. This is especially true if your company is publicly held, with shares traded every day on the stock market. John Mackey calls Wall Street security analysts, with their short-term outlook, "the high priests of materialism." But even soulful companies are at risk from the prevailing ethos.
In 1984, when Robert Levering and I published The 100 Best Companies to Work for in America, we listed 10 companies with a no-layoffs policy. Today, only two of those companies -- Johnson Wax in Racine, Wisconsin, and Worthington Industries in Columbus, Ohio -- offer this kind of job security.
Even the most caring companies can sometimes lay off workers in a harsh manner. Herman Miller, the western Michigan furniture maker, has long had a reputation for treating its employees well, thanks in great measure to the De Pree family, which founded the company. Max De Pree, son of the founder, set down the company's egalitarian humanism in his 1987 book Leadership Is an Art, wherein he spelled out the importance of "covenantal relationships." De Pree wrote that "words such as love, warmth, [and] personal chemistry" are relevant to the operation of a company. I remember seeing meetings at Herman Miller being opened with a prayer. They still do this at the annual meeting, but the past five years have bruised the company's spirit. A new CEO has come and gone. Profits have slumped, and in 1995 the company laid off 160 people out of a workforce of 6,500 -- brusquely and impersonally. It was a direct contradiction of De Pree's philosophy -- and, in fact, the company now concedes that it botched that downsizing. The managers who were in charge of it are no longer with Herman Miller, and the company's new CEO, Michael A. Volkema, has reaffirmed the company's values. "Furniture is simply a way to support our families," he says.
Tough times will always try a company's soul. Elliot Hoffman, co-founder of the Just Desserts bakery company in San Francisco, has been wrestling with this problem for the past few years. If any company has soul, it's Just Desserts, reflected in its strong commitment to employees and the community. It has received national attention for its affiliation with the Garden Project, which employs ex-prisoners to grow vegetables. But the company has faced a financial crunch, provoked partially by the rise of the Starbucks coffee chain. Two years ago, in a talk at a Social Venture Network conference, Hoffman reported that the venture capital people he had met with, including those with an alleged interest in social responsibility, didn't see "human returns" as part of the return on investment. "Are there investors out there who value the importance of multiple returns," he asked, "a multiple bottom line that includes human, community, and social returns?"
We would all like for a workplace to embrace such concerns. That's a business with soul. But soul may not last, even in a company with a conscience. In 1985, I addressed a meeting of salespersons at Digital Equipment Corp., and I was impressed that the session opened with taped excerpts from Martin Luther King Jr.'s moving address at the March on Washington in 1963. That certainly revved up the troops, but it didn't help the company's management escape miscalculations on the future of the computer industry. Digital's workforce has gone from more than 120,000 down to 51,000, and its stock has dropped from an all-time high of $199 to its current price of $31. The fact is, in business, when you are doing well, it's easy to persuade yourself that soul is a component of your operations.
Undoubtedly, businesspeople would be uncomfortable with the intrusion of spirituality into discussions of ongoing business operations. Soul is not part of the language of business. There is no entry for it on the balance sheet. And it will take little short of a miracle from above to have business executives recognize the existence of soul. Of course, if they could be convinced that it does help the bottom line, they would quickly embrace it. But that's not what soul is about.


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Some say it was just a racing incident, but others, including the Mercedes AMG team boss Toro Wolff, are blaming Nico wholly.Nico Rosberg aims to take his teammate's W05 into Les Combes, Lewis keeping an eye and leaving room for Nico. They get through the first corner unscathed, but Nico then clips Lewis' left rear into the second corner, deflating the Brit's tire to the point of crippling home and ripping Nico's own front wing endplate off.See for yourself:This incident allowed the field to close up on the usual Mercedes lead. Advertisement Sponsored Whatever your take on the incident, fault of Nico's or racing incident, it is no doubt is a great spectacle for Rosberg and a harrowing toll on Lewis' aim for his second world drivers' championship.That incident set up the rest of the race to be a blood battle for the podium and potential victory that would undoubtedly be close to escape from the Mercedes clutches. 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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- New York Giants running back Ahmad Bradshaw was limited in practice on Thursday, after sitting out practice Wednesday.
But Bradshaw should still get the bulk of the carries when the Giants face the Washington Redskins on Sunday.
"I feel good, man," Bradshaw said Thursday after practice. "No setbacks, and I'm ready to go."
When asked if he expected Bradshaw to be able to carry a full load on Sunday, Giants coach Tom Coughlin said, "I do."
Bradshaw said he had one of his feet stepped on late in the Giants' 26-3 win over the San Francisco 49ers last Sunday. He would not reveal which foot, but said it was unrelated to the stress fracture in his foot that hampered him for much of last season.
"Just hurt the bone a little bit," said Bradshaw, "but I'm cool."
After accumulating just 133 rushing yards in his first three games this season, Bradshaw has exploded for 316 yards in the Giants' past two games. But he has had a heavy workload, with a combined total of 57 carries.
Bradshaw said Thursday that he hopes to keep getting the ball as much as possible. "I'm always up for it," he said. "I take pride in it, any time I can try to carry this team -- as much as I can, I'll do it. If they want to put it on my back, I'll take it."
But the Giants do have other viable options at running back. Fourth-year vet Andre Brown rushed for 113 yards against the Carolina Panthers in Week 3, when Bradshaw sat out with a neck injury, and has fully recovered from the concussion he suffered against the Cleveland Browns two Sundays ago. And rookie first-round draft pick David Wilson has excelled on kickoff returns, and had seven carries for 35 yards against the 49ers last week.
"They'll all have chances," Coughlin said, when asked about his three running backs. "They'll all have chances."
The Redskins have the eighth-ranked rushing defense in the NFL, giving up just 88.8 yards on the ground.
Now in his sixth NFL season, since being drafted in the seventh round out of Marshall, Bradshaw has played through several injuries in his young career.
His relatively small frame (5-foot-10, 214 pounds) has taken a serious beating -- but Bradshaw says he actually enjoys it.
"This last game, the 49ers were really hyped about hitting me, or getting a nice lick on me," Bradshaw said. "I just laughed, and told them I loved it. I just love the contact."
Offensive coordinator Kevin Gilbride spoke glowingly of Bradshaw on Thursday. "If it's just soreness or it's just a matter of pain, then he basically has the capacity to ignore it, and just play -- and play at a high level," Gilbride said. "We've leaned on him heavily the last couple of weeks, and he's done a terrific job.
"I don't think you can play the position unless you're physically tough. I don't think there's a running back that can play it well if you're not physically tough. But I still think that he's raised the level, the bar so to speak. You have to appreciate what he brings to the table."


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Wearable action cameras have developed into compact, lightweight and tough little beasts over the years, opening up a new world of action sports movie making that anyone can try. GoPro may be the most well-known but it's not the only camera around.
The GoPro Hero3: White Edition is the budget end of GoPro's current line-up. Like the more expensive Silver and Black Editions, it's 25% lighter and 30% smaller than its predecessors, and features a new lens that reduces distortion without losing dramatic wide-angle, 170-degree fish-eye effects.
The GoPro Hero3: White Edition shoots at 30fps in 1080p, though you can increase the speed and shoot at 60fps in 720p. At 1080, you can expect a battery life of around 135 minutes. The results are great, especially at this lower pixel range, with crisp images and no blocking – see for yourself here.
So how does it compare to the competition? Drift Innovation's Drift HD looks similar in spec, with equivalent lens, shooting modes and battery life. The Drift HD benefits from better stills photography, with 9MP shooting (compared to the Go Pro's 5MP). But superior stills capability is not what you want from an action camera. (And if you do, then the GoPro black edition packs 12MP).
GoPro's external housing, waterproof to 60m and included in the price, is superior to the Drift's rubberised, water-resistant outer shell. There's less fogging than with previous GoPro models, and, even better for when that airtime goes wrong, every part is replaceable after a smash. Just a pity the same can't be said for your body.


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Games employers can now sign up to Trainee Finder and hire the best trainees part-funded by the Creative Skillset Skills Investment Fund (SIF).
Ian Livingstone CBE, Life President of Eidos and Chair of Creative Skillset's Games Skills Council, said "Trainee Finder has been developed in response to industry demand and we are pleased to be able to launch this new scheme thanks to the Government's support and co-investment in the industry."
Games employers can register to the scheme via Creative Skillset's website, review the trainees and invite candidates for interview. Placements can last up to a year with businesses receiving up to 50 % contribution to the trainee placement for the first six months followed by 25 % over the remaining six months.
Individuals are eligible if they have completed a relevant degree course accredited with the Creative Skillset Tick in the last 18 months or hold two testimonials from industry. Around 10% of students on these accredited courses come from a Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic background and Creative Skillset will actively encourage a diverse pool of applicants through the testimonials, working with industry organisations that support diversity in the workforce.
Ian continued: "The need for new skills and new talent is essential if we are going to grow and compete globally. Creative Skillset, together with our trade bodies, Ukie and TIGA, are united on this mission and are delighted to see our brightest new talent will be matched with industry through Trainee Finder.
"I would encourage all employers within games to contribute to the SIF and register for Trainee Finder."
Gina Jackson, Games Associate, Creative Skillset, said: "I will be at the Develop Conference in Brighton talking to games employers about the scheme and how easy it is to sign up and access trainees. If anyone would like to discuss this in more detail, I would encourage them to get in touch."
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This review is from: Kingston FCR-HS3 USB 3.0 15-in-1 Media Reader
Pros: Worked for two years
Looks Good
Good activity light (bright, but I want to know what it's doing to avoid data corruption, so it's good)
Cons: Broke after two years of moderate careful use
small micro usb 3.0 plug in unit
micro usb 3.0 plug broke internally, failing the device
sd card slot is a little picky on insertion
Other Thoughts: I would have given it a five-star had it not broken after two years of moderate use. It sits on my desk 90% of the time, and shouldn't just break. I blame not enough internal bracing on the USB port for the failure.
I'm a professional, so I've packed it safely into a camera bag next to a delicate hard drive for travel, but most of it's life the reader was safely on my desk, seldom even unplugged. I wasn't plugging and unplugging it every two days or anything, it just sat there and got used.
After two years of careful use (I take care of my stuff especially if something so small costs $30 to replace) the micro usb 3.0 port in the back of this drive developed a poor connection internally. with pressure, the USB reader works fine, and as soon as I let go of light upward pressure on the plug, the circuit inside opens, probably a bad solder joint, and it disconnects.
I feel they should have used a more durable port, and one that's not so small and picky to plug into. a full size usb or even the larger usb port could have fit, but instead we get this cheap cellphone-style plug that's worse to use than a standard micro usb because it's wider to accommodate USB 3.0.
Most card readers use that connection, but it didn't work on this reader. if the next one breaks I will open it up and dissect it, perhaps hardwire it.
I'll have to ship mine back and thankfully it's replaceable under warranty, but the hassle and the shipping charge is annoying and ALMOST not even worth it. I expected a professional quality unit for $30. Now I'll have a backup once the new one arrives, but I don't want to trust it as my only reader, which goes for anything in my working environment, but failures reduce trust further.
Also, the CF slot is pretty decent but the SD slot is shared with another card that makes insertion annoying, it likes to feed in wrong. I'll probably get the Lexar reader next, which has two proprietary SD and CD slots. Sadly it also has the usb 3.0 micro slot...hopefully better seated, however.
Otherwise it worked fantastic for almost two years! I wouldn't bother sending it in for a new one due to shipping cost, but in my circumstance it will serve as a good backup while I use a Lexar reader.
This review is from: Kingston FCR-HS3 USB 3.0 15-in-1 Media Reader
Pros: Great looks
Lots of compatibility
Lighted logo (YES I do like it unlike some) lets you know exactly when it's accessing data, crucial if you transfer important data. Also, it lets me know if I've forgot a memory card in it because it's bright enough to notice. Not horribly so, but the other day I left a card in and I feel that leaving them in a reader for days isn't the best idea. They do generate heat which means the use might wear them out a tad just sitting. Who knows, but I like to keep the memory cards out when not in use.
Sits nicely on the desk, and it's heavy enough that the cable doesn't lift it up off the desk. a cheap Targus model I had (which failed) would have it's own agenda on placement because the curve of the cable lifted the thing up. Annoying for a permanent setup; the Kingston reader is great and looks nice sitting on my desk always hooked up.
Cons: It doesn't do XD cards that one of my cameras takes.
I didn't own the Fujifilm camera at the time so this did not matter, but I'm disappointed that it doesn't cover this fairly popular card, but does cover most others.
I didn't knock and egg because it was my oversight and I didn't buy it for that, I bought it for CF and SD. I can plug my Fujifilm camera in.
This review is from: SanDisk 32GB Cruzer Glide CZ60 USB 2.0 Flash Drive (SDCZ60-032G-B35)
Pros: Good space, and had a cheap price at 17.99 at staples during a sale this week.
You can hide the USB interface to protect it when traveling with the slider.
Cons: Slow. I bought a TDK Trans-it 16gb drive years ago online and while that drive is half the capacity, this Sandisk and a Sandisk Cruzer Facet are four times slower at MB/s write speeds, making a 4-5gb photo transfer much slower than I care to save a few dollars for.
Going back to Staples today to return them so I can buy more TDK drives.
Fat. Sticks up a good half inch further than my TDK because of it's slider feature. the chip is nowhere near that long but it sure looks it when it's on my PC.
Other Thoughts: Try 18 or 19MB/s for my TDK and a measly 4.3MB/s for this Sandisk, and the other small ones I tried. Bleh.
Read Speeds are on par with my TDK, if you've got 32gb of files you only want to write once (or can wait forever to write many times) go for it.
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The Last of the Fathers
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Book DescriptionBorn in the middle of the eighteenth century as a subject of King George II, James Madison, father of the United States Constitution, lived until 1836, dying as a citizen of Andrew Jackson's republic. For over forty years he played a pivotal role in the creation and defence of a new political order but he also lived long enough to see the system of government he had nurtured threatened by disruptive forces that would ultimately lead to civil war. In this book, Drew McCoy tells the poignant story of Madison's reckoning of his generation's spectacular political achievement.
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Dear Straight Talk: Last week I moved seven hours away from my boyfriend of two years. We are at different colleges and agreed to make it work. But I am having my doubts. He was my first and only boyfriend and I'm feeling like I need to branch out and see what life is like. However, he is deeply in love and texting me like every two seconds. Does anyone know how to tell him without hurting him? I can't even break up in person! What should I do??
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Lara, 21, Concord: Completely pain-free breakups are impossible. But unhappiness or cheating hurts worse. If you break up by phone, write a letter also. I broke with my long-distance boyfriend over Skype. He has not forgiven me. Nonetheless, we both deserved more than a lopsided relationship, where one loves more than the other.
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Nate, 18, Columbus, Ohio: The world won't end. College is educational, and falling for new people is part of it. Many of my friends have tried long-distance romances but none have worked.
Kira, 20, Moraga: A good friend (a junior) is still with her high school love. It CAN work — AND you can and should branch out! I'm not talking about hooking up. Cheating is never okay. But I don't stop hanging out with guy friends when I have a boyfriend.
Matt, 18, Boston, Mass.: All last year, I dated an amazing girl who I love dearly. Knowing I was moving 2000 miles away, we had many discussions. Ultimately, we decided to encourage each other to fully experience life. Our decision wasn't easy, but it took the pressure off. We still talk quite a bit, but there are no restrictions, demands, or prying. I miss her immensely, but we did the right thing.
Katelyn, 17, Azusa: Everyone says listen to your heart, but college hearts today are subject to enormous peer pressure to "see what life is like." Do you really want to cave in to this feeling to date guys you hardly know? Slow down! In time you'll know if breaking up is best.
Katherine, 18, Newark, Delaware: I'm now 3000 miles from my boyfriend. To cope, we built some slack into the "boyfriend-girlfriend" label in case one of us does something stupid — not that we plan to. Honestly, this is the hardest thing I've been through and Skype is saving our relationship. Give yourself time! Being far away is very emotional.
Dear Tammi: You must make a difficult choice and carry it out. Welcome to the wonderful world of adult life. Your options: 1) commit; 2) break up; 3) change the parameters; 4) chill — but only if you're truly not sure; procrastination or secretly wanting to control him isn't allowed.
The best way to deliver a painful decision is to stand up (for the option true for you) while being kind and compassionate toward the other. Accepting the fact that they will have pain, rather than glossing over it, or feeling annoyed, actually honors them. —Lauren
More from Lauren Forcella:
The truth about youthful romances and breakups: None of you have any idea what you're doing! Okay, maybe a few do. But it's a small few as you'll see as you get older. Most relationships that begin much before age 25 split apart as people individuate. Love? Yes, there was/is love. And you break up anyway as the adult brain kicks in. And it really can be the hardest thing in the world to leave someone at this tender age, especially when they still love you deeply. I experienced such a breakup myself at age 25, and it was one of life's greatest agonies.
All I can say is truth and kindness, truth and kindness, truth and kindness. There are ways to part company that don't leave you feeling dirty inside, and you want to begin practicing those ways. It involves being true to yourself, having nobody "right" and nobody "wrong," eschewing head games and manipulation, and having deep compassion for the other as you exit. (This is all assuming there are no children, which is another matter entirely because you then have a child to consider, not just yourself.)
Another thing. Later in life, say in your 40s, 50s, even 60s, who will look you up for romance? Or have your back if you need it? Those same guys (or gals) from high school and your early twenties. Sometimes even the same ones you were romantically involved with. Be true to yourself, be kind to the other, and forgive both. It will pay in dividends down the road.
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Hey guys and gals,
How many times have you hear this: "CoD is ****, its boring, hasn't changed in 5 years and charges you 60 bucks for the same game every year" and how many times then do you see the latest CoD game in the speakers library?
You see it a lot, right? So today I'd like to take about how we, as gamers, constantly gripe about a game and then still go out and buy it. We see a lot of people angry at Microsoft for reveal and we know that the people who hate on X1 the most will probably buy one day 1. I'd like to talk about how this talk affects the industry, the games and gamers themselves.
The Industry
Game developers are limited in understanding what gamers do and don't like, because until sales figures come out and reviews kill or praise them - they don't see the ultimate result of their work. Gamers griping about this or that function in the latest CoD tells devs that these issues exist, but that they aren't deal breakers - meaning that they should be addressed in future updates or future games. Ultimately few gripes result in devs changing something in-game, but they do give devs a roadmap to see what gamers care about and what they can play around with. As long as the comments don't become absurd - "I hate CoD, because its an annual franchise", "I hate the Xbox, because it is ugly", etc. - they will be heard by the video game devs and may, eventually, result in some changes made to the games.
The Games
Do all of these seemingly empty rants and discussions take away the wonder of games? I believe that most games are works of art and discussing them in a calm or civilized manner does allow gamers to understand the games to a greater extent. However any discussion that doesn't consider even the actual qualities of the game or franchise ("I hate CoD, because its the #1 FPS") makes it seem like the game is something it isn't. Just because you don't like CoD as a franchise for no good reason - doesn't mean that you should trash it online. It goes to the point that gamers should gripe about what they don't like, but keep it limited to what is actually in the game. Otherwise you undermine all of the effort that went into creating that game.
The Gamers
Gamers should always remember that our discussions online can have a very real effect on the final game, but this shouldn't stop us from commenting, ranting and even, to some extent, hating on games that fail to meet our expectation,however high they may be. We must expect each game, each services and each event to be near perfect. We must hold both the developers and gatekeepers (Sony, Microsoft, etc.) to the highest standards and support them with our time and money so that games as an industry, as an artform and as entertainment continue to grow, to evolve and to innovate.
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