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Jamie Grace and friends held their first meeting of WIG, a nonprofit gay spirituality ministry, Wednesday night at The Manor in Wilton Manors.
The 90-minute meeting, featuring performances by The GaYngsta Choir, Joan Rivers impersonator Joe Posa and life coach David Salih, was attended by more than 100 men, women and children.
Click the photos to view a gallery. All photos by STEVE ROTHAUS / Miami Herald Staff.
UPDATE (July 8, 2012):
WIG has moved to Thursdays at Boom Nightclub, 2234 Wilton Dr. in Wilton Manors, from 8 to 9:30 p.m. $10 donation at door.

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JONESBORO (KAIT) - With the Super Bowl in the books, now teams turn their attention to the 2014 NFL Combine. One Red Wolf, four Razorbacks, and seven Tigers will show their skills in front of pro scouts.
Ryan Carrethers becomes the first ASU alum in 2 years to head to Indianapolis. He was selected to the All-Sun Belt 1st Team in 2013. The Tennessee native was 2nd on the team with 93 tackles, and led the Red Wolves with 4 sacks. Carrethers earned Bednarik & Outland watch list honors in the preseason. Kelcie McCray & Demario Davis were the last Red Wolves to participate in the NFL Combine (2012).
Four Razorbacks will head to Indianapolis later this month. Travis Swanson and Chris Smith look to impress the scouts even more, building momentum from a Senior Bowl appearance. Zach Hocker made 3 field goals as the East won the East-West Shrine Game. Robert Thomas was also selected. He's looking to bounce back from a broken leg suffered in a October loss to South Carolina.
New Madrid County alum Kony Ealy is one of seven Mizzou standouts invited to the Combine. The linebacker is projected to be a 1st-round draft pick. Ealy, Michael Sam, Henry Josey, Marcus Lucas, L'damian Washington, Justin Britt, and E.J. Gaines are all Combine-bound.
The 2014 NFL Combine is February 19th through the 25th at Lucas Oil Stadium. You can watch combine coverage on the NFL Network.


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Forgiving the Franklins (2006)
Critic Consensus: No consensus yet.
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Critic Reviews for Forgiving the Franklins
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Black comedy doesn't get much clumsier than Jay Floyd's Forgiving the Franklins.
If ever there was a man destined to (eventually) take the reins of shock suburban cinema from the aforementioned Waters, Jay Floyd is it.
This dark comedy seems to be poking fun at the religious fundamentalists, but there's also an underlying message about living your life without shame, being who you are, and even about faith.
Floyd does provide some huge laughs along the way but loses all potential for poignancy by never getting past what eventually becomes a one-joke premise.
Audience Reviews for Forgiving the Franklins
Amateurish, horribly acted, and awkwardly edited "comedy" about a conservative Christian family who is transformed into a liberated, liberal family by a car crash, drawing the ire of their uptight, conservative friends. The religious right is a group ripe with material to satirize, but this sub-TV movie quality disaster is NOT the way to do it. An insipid, ridiculous bore.
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A Missed Opportunity in a Field Full of Excuses
(This diagram is for round two, please read, before going through the game)
Ring, Ring, the alarm clock buzzed and rattled in my head, I groggily woke up wondering where I was and what day and time it was, with the sunshine peaking through my drapes.
This is how my experience with the Battle Creek Great Lakes Open began, though can I say it was how my day began?
I had worked all night and got home a little after 7am. I went to bed when I got home and woke up a little after 9a.m. So, going on about two hours of sleep, I kissed my wife goodbye, told her how much I love her, and how much I am thankful that she is letting me play chess all weekend, and drove to Battle Creek from Kalamazoo.
The chess tournament was held at McKinley Plaza Hotel in Battle Creek, a beautiful hotel, where coincidentally, is where the last wedding I attended was held, one of my cousins got married there last year. I went inside, registered for the tournament, and started eating some food that my wife had packed for me, among other things, homemade banana bread :) People where showing up to play, many people who I know from chess clubs that meet in the area.
Some more senior gentlemen, full of experience, and many years of playing greeted me and we talked, we knew each other from the Kalamazoo Mini Swiss a month ago. They told me about the Swiss Gambit and the possibility of employing it, I asked what is the swiss gambit. It is where you lose the first game so that for the next few rounds you get easier pairings.
The time for the tournament to begin had arrived, the pairings were posted, I looked at the postings, and I wasn't paired with anyone, it just had my name and it read, see T.D. I saw the T.D. and he told me I had a bye that round due to odd number of players, the computer just randomly choose me, but that I would get a full point for the bye since it was a forced bye. So that meant two things, One down! four more to go, lol, and two I would have to wait until some other time to contemplate using the swiss gambit!!
I thought about trying to take the opportunity to sleep, but I was too excited to sleep, though I did sit in a chair and close my eyes, though to no avail.
The second round pairings came up and I was anxious to get started.
Round three got started, and I was hoping for a 3-0 start. My game for round three in the under 1700 section was against the highest rated player in the section. Here is the game:
It feels like my opponent had lots of opportunities to win, but didn't find them; though, right now even I am having a hard time finding many of those opportunities. I always struggle playing the Queen's Gambit Declined. I always play it because it is the defense I have mainly played against d4 for my whole life, yet I still haven't figured it out, which of course isn't good. I just like it because it immediately fights for control of the center and seems practical, and seems like it should be easy to play, though it has never been that way for me with me having lots of bad results with it, with my wins feeling like confusing messes that seem to have no structure or plan to them.
After the game I left and drove home. My wife had gone out shopping with my family. I drove to my parent's home, and my dad had a small fire going. I sat outisde enjoying the warm night air, and the peacefulness of the spring night, especially since it is before the mosquitoes come out later in the spring and summer. My aunt ended up coming over to visit my parents and we talked and relaxed. It was the peaceful night I needed after the tournament to unwind! I was tired, but I had become wound up. I will write about sunday's experience in another blog. So after the first day I was 2.5/3 with two rounds to go.


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"It's about as powerful as the original Xbox. The video hardware unfortunately is not as powerful. There's just a couple of key things that you can do on Xbox like shaders which you just cannot do on the Wii." - Tim Tschirner in a recent interview with Eurogamer for the Wii version of FIFA 08
Of course, this fairly innocuous statement about Wii's visual capabilities caused half the internet to blow up.
Wii's graphical ability is always going to be a bone of contention. That 'video' part of the term 'videogames' tends to be fairly important in the grand scheme of things, especially when we live in such a highly driven visual age. But really, are we not totally over the obsession with Wii's underachievement in this area yet? Must there truly be a massive explosion of verbal volleys launched every time a developer states something that suggests Wii is more/less powerful than the previous generation's hardware?
We're all to blame. Let's be honest about this. We as fans, the developers, hell, even Nintendo president Satoru "you will say wow" Iwata has to admit to some of the flak which precedes the constant and predictable flood of arguments that surround Wii's graphical punch/slap/tickle. Very few official technical stats have emerged about the console's hardware, which so often becomes the ammunition for fanboys everywhere on all sides before a machine gets released. So the lingering question marks about what is viable and not have yet to subside. Ubisoft didn't help things much releasing some rather spurious 'projection screenshots' of Red Steel that didn't quite match up to the reality (although to be fair, at its prettiest the game comes close). And after Iwata intoned we'd be impressed by Wii's graphics, it raised expectations for some expecting Xbox 360 levels of visual sheen, albeit sans High Definition. Which was slightly ironic, because it's easy to forget the reaction of the hardcore demographic when Microsoft unleashed its first batch of titles a few months prior 360's launch; a mixture of apathy, derision and disappointment.
No matter how old we are, as gamers we can still be impressed by graphical gloss. But it's churlish to suggest we're as easily impressed as we used to be. Grand scale CGI is now commonplace in entertainment, and in terms of dimensions, videogames has long since exhausted the third one which has led to a rather limited jump in eye candy between the last generation and its contemporary; hence the comparatively muted reaction to many of the games we see, HD or no. The real progress has to be in geometry, physics and artificial intelligence -areas where 360 and PlayStation3 excel- but is obviously something screenshots can't project.
It's a given Wii is nowhere near as powerful as its rivals. And it's also accepted that in terms of what we will literally see from Nintendo's little white wonder, will likely be more in the region of Xbox and PS2 standards. At the same time, it's still as powerful as its predecessor, GameCube, which was no slouch in the video hardware stakes.
So what's the problem?
The problem is; why the hell have so many Wii titles come out looking worse than the examples from any of those machines?
It's a more than valid question, and aside from the typical 'console wars' hyperbole, it's the main thing that has people scratching their heads over because from an outsider looking in, it just doesn't make sense. The last generation lasted around six to seven years, with GameCube having a good run of that, but despite the leaps and bounds seen from that generations' conception to its twilight, many Wii games look worse than the bulk of that half decade-plus of gaming. Surely if Wii is pretty much a supercharged GameCube, developers would have got used to the hardware by now and be showing us stuff that exceeds the little purple box and its generational cohabitants?
Well, yes and no. Without any official stats it'll always be difficult to work out exactly why some companies are struggling so much with Wii's visuals. But there are many factors which have to be taken into account. The hardware architecture of Wii isn't really just a simple matter of slotting in a video chip which is more powerful than the one boasted by GameCube. There's numerous other essentials, like its GPU, the CPU, the RAM and much more that can make a difference, and even if one part is substantially better than what we saw in the prior generation, another part could bring things down just as noticeably. Many programmers and designers may be familiar with GameCube, but it's not a basic case of shifting coding libraries and techniques from that to Wii. It's clear even more effort is needed; they may be both fruit, but it's still essentially apples and oranges. It's going to take time for some devs to make that change.
The other issue to take in mind (which becomes particularly potent when combined with the above one) is that many companies initially just wanted to shovel anything on Nintendo's machine to show a modicum of support, and are now suffering for it. Very few expected Wii to be as dominant as it has been so far, and a number of third parties threw large amounts of cash into 360 and PS3 development, which stands to reason given the strength of the brands and the fact they need more money on a whole to make the most of their visual potential. When Wii started selling out everywhere, these off-loaded projects became spotlight examples and cautionary tales. The lack of time spent on them showed. And what's resulted from that is we're only now seeing the fruits of six to ten months of development come to light. Some are playing catch up and making sure they have enough software for Holiday/Christmas 2007, which will mean, yes, we probably won't see any massive graphical improvements between now and then.
But as development money shuffles over to Wii, this time next year will be more telling in terms of seeing what the console is REALLY capable of. Because games take a lot of time to be created – and it's often a good year before we see market shifts and reflections, which is exactly why some have already claimed Wii the 'console war victor'; while we see the results of developers' work from last year and early 2007 on other formats now, at this moment they're are moving their resources over to Wii to show more force for the next 12 months, making the see-saw glut of software tip in the opposite direction. This will be especially true if Nintendo gets off its behind and lends more support to its partners. The games industry is, rather appropriately, very much like a playground in many respects.
In the meantime, it takes first parties like Nintendo's in-house teams to show the way. Super Mario Galaxy still remains stunning, as does Super Smash Bros. Brawl. A few other third party efforts are certainly showing some clout too, like Konami's Dewy's Adventure, Capcom's Zack & Wiki: Quest for Barbaros' Treasure, and some of Electronic Arts' titles (most notably, Boogie and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix). Arguably, none have the sheer potency that Factor 5 showed via its Star Wars: Rogue Squadron GameCube games, but very few have displayed the talent for graphics that developer has, full stop.
Which makes the most under-appreciated element of visuals, art direction, all the more important. Games like Okami, Wind Waker, Rogue Squadron III, God of War II and other older titles still look stunning because the artists take a slightly more unconventional route and make sure their games possess a 'timeless' quality. They stand up today and (let's be honest) look better than 95% of Wii's current catalogue. A good team of artists can make all the difference, and if developers want to stop being ridiculed on a visual level over their efforts, then they should perhaps start focusing more on not what they use to draw their visuals, but HOW they draw them.
We can shout about Wii 'not being about graphics' until we're blue in the face (it certainly doesn't matter to the bulk of people buying, and my 360 satisfies the internal graphics whore inside me, so I'm happy), but the fact remains they still play an important part of the experience. I'm fairly sure it's not something that will affect future sales, because even though the gulf of difference between Wii and 360/PS3 is evident, it's also evident that the games buying public wants something a bit more gameplay oriented than a power bump can provide. And Wii offers that more than its rivals, so much to the point that in three years time when HD visuals are the norm and looking even more incredible, the audiences (and thus, developers) will be long settled in choosing which side of the fence they're on and it'll be largely academic.
Wii's visuals will get better. The hardware ceiling may be lower than we expect and there may not be as great a distance to go before we see the best of what the machine can offer, but it's probably enough to get by with. And with some clever art direction and a bit more cash, it will be reached. However in the meantime, while we wait for that -and indeed the next generation where great visuals AND motion controls will be standard- it's worth noting that while the lack of visual fidelity may be a tad annoying, the subsequent focus on motion controls should be more than a worthy trade-off. Because ultimately, Wii is acting as a trailblazer for the next ten years of videogames. And if companies like EA are being forced to change the way they think in making games for the better, taking gameplay and innovation over visuals, then maybe we should close our eyes to optical infirmity just this once and get on with the joys of actually playing our games… instead of constantly arguing over what they look like.
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Because of incorrect information supplied by the Maryland Insurance Division, the negative net worth of CareFirst and an affiliated company were misstated in an article on the health-maintenance organization yesterday. The two companies were found to be $11.7 million below the $2.9 million in net worth required by regulators. Their combined negative net worth was $8.8 million.
The Sun regrets the error.
State insurance regulators froze last night the assets of CareFirst, one of the largest health-maintenance organizations in Maryland, in an extraordinary step to protect the 118,000 members covered by the financially impaired company.
Yesterday's action came soon after the Insurance Division of the state Department of Licensing and Regulation determined that the debts of CareFirst and an affiliated company exceeded their assets by $11.7 million and that attempts to raise much-needed cash were not proving fruitful.


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There is an intense interest on the part of TechRepublic members about what is more beneficial for an IT career: certs or degrees. According to the results of the TechRepublic 2008 IT Skills and Salary Report, if you're limiting your thinking to those two variables, you're missing an important piece of your career potential.
One of the report's key findings was that multi-tasking, breadth of experience, and business skills are becoming more important for the IT professional:
Rare are professionals who concentrate exclusively on mainframe or vendor-specific work. It's not uncommon for a network administrator to multi-task, linking Microsoft Vista through Cisco routers against a Linux-based server. As well, we've seen an increase in the popularity of business skills, including project management.
While deep technology knowledge is a given for an IT pro, whether you get it through certs or a formal degree, know that every IT department in the world has to manage projects and constantly reevaluate business priorities and how they will impact IT. And for all of those projects, you must be able to communicate with other business units. The more you understand the business needs and direction, the better your decisions will be, and the more money you will save in your IT initiatives. Exercising business savvy is a great way to move up in the organization.
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Photos: Pride, passion, music and fireworks at Paralympic...
The Games are over and the athletes and ...
Canada rocks early over Great Britain
Sonja Gaudet of Canada releases the stone during the Wheelchair Curling Round Robin game between Great Britain and Canada on day two of the 2010 Vancouver Winter Paralympic Games at Vancouver Olympic Centre in Vancouver, Canada.
Photograph by: Martin Rose , Bongarts/Getty Images
VANCOUVER — Lead Sonja Gaudet of Vernon, B.C., is the only member of the Canadian wheelchair curling team at the Paralympic Games that also competed on the gold medal team in Turin four years ago.
So, she speaks from experience.
"I told them to expect the larger crowds and the noise," she said after Richmond, B.C., skip Jim Armstrong had directed them to a surprisingly easy 9-2 win over Great Britain to get the Paralympic gold medal defence off to a rousing start.
Armstrong comes to the wheelchair game after 40 years of competitive able-bodied curling where he represented B.C. in six Brier championships and thew from the hack instead of a wheelchair seat and with a stick.
The Canadian championships have lots of pomp and ceremony and bagpipes for accompaniment, but they've got nothing on the opening ceremony of a Paralympics or the 2,800 fans who turned out for the Games first draw.
Wheelchair curling in Canada is only eight years old and the opportunity for having the highest level of competition here is "not just once in a lifetime, but once in many lifetimes and having the stars lined up, too," said Armstrong, who has become the game's biggest champion.
Armstrong, who suffered from ruined knees and had to give up the able-bodied game in 2002, can't believe his good fortune.
"When it was gone," he said Saturday, "it was really gone. Not just the competition, but the social aspect of the game. Now I've got it all back. . . . Coming out of the tunnel for the opening ceremonies was unbelievable. What a great crowd and reception."
Against Great Britain, who had beaten the Canadian team earlier this year, Canada was down one early, then scored two in the second and stole the next six points.
"We got onto the ice quicker," said Armstrong. "Then they had to come to us."
Figuring out the ice faster and putting a plan of attack together is what Armstrong brings to this new game.
Armstrong would like nothing more than to follow up last year's world championship — that he won on the same pebbled Vancouver Paralympic Centre ice — with a Paralympic gold medal.
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Here's a lesson for you, assuming that you are the president of an impoverished West African nation: Don't try to complain that American football is wasting electricity that could be going to power your nation, in an attempt to focus attention on your country's war-ravaged deprivation. Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf tried it, in Foreign Policy magazine, and this is the Wall Street Journal article she got in response:
Bob Brackett, is an energy analyst at Bernstein Research. Mr. Brackett took issue with Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf's statement in Foreign Policy that the heart of Texas football (sorry, Houston Texans) does indeed use more power than the nation of 3.7 million people…
Numbers were crunched, and after the pile-on was cleared they found that the answer was yes and no.
During moments of peak demand on game day, the 80,000-seat stadium may consume up to 10 megawatts of electricity, Bernstein said. Liberia has the capacity to pump less than a third as much power into its national grid.
But with only eight games played at the stadium during regular season, peak demand levels aren't reflective of how much electricity the stadium uses over an entire month or year. In other words, Cowboys Stadium might use more electricity than Ms. Sirleaf's country for a few hours eight days out of the year, but it stands empty for most of the rest of the remainder.
So Cowboys Stadium (now renamed after a phone company, but apparently the WSJ's style guide has been slow to keep up) indeed draws more power than a nation of 3.7 million people founded by resettled American slaves, but only on the days when they turn everything on for football. Or, to put it another way, in order to power Liberia for less than it costs to run the Cowboys stadium, you'd need to turn the nation off for much of the year. Not that most Liberians would notice, given that more than 99% of them already have no electricity at all.
Sorry, did I drift into talking about Liberia? Let's return to the WSJ, which writes, "After factoring in every other U.S. football team – even the low-drawing Oakland Raiders – it becomes clear that it takes a lot of power to charge American sports." Now there's a conclusion everyone can agree with. And it doesn't require thinking too much about places like … where was it again?


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Forty years ago this month—in the wee hours of June 17, 1972, to be exact—operatives linked to Republican President Richard M. Nixon's re-election campaign broke into Democratic National Committee headquarters on the sixth floor of the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C.
They wore rubber surgical gloves, carried photographic equipment and pen-sized tear-gas guns, and were part of what newspapers termed "an elaborate plot to bug the offices." Police discovered those five burglars in the act and placed them under arrest.
Three months later, the same five—together with Nixon re-election committee general counsel G. Gordon Liddy and former CIA operative/spy novelist E. Howard Hunt—were indicted for conspiracy, burglary and violation of federal wiretapping laws. It was an early chapter in what would be revealed as the worst example of U.S. political malfeasance since the Teapot Dome bribery scandal of the 1920s.
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The depth and breadth of the Watergate scandal was exposed with sometimes painful slowness in the media, but it offered ample dramatic moments, including a White House cover-up, televised hearings in the U.S. Senate, threats of impeachment, sudden firings at the Justice Department and eventually Nixon's announcement, on August 8, 1974, that he'd resign from office. In the process, the journalists who provided most of the Watergate coverage—particularly a pair of Washington Post go-getters named Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein—were championed for their enterprise, encouraging myriad young journalism students (like me) to become investigative reporters.
Another result of the Watergate scandal, though, was a wave of suspense thrillers that recast members of the working press—often derided as ink-stained purveyors of sensationalism—in the role of giant killers.
Not all of those novels are worth remembering, but better than most was Conflict of Interest (1976), by Les Whitten, another Post newshawk and a frequent contributor to investigative journalist Jack Anderson's syndicated "Washington Merry-Go-Round" column. The book introduces readers to Aubrey Warder, a middle-aged and longtime reporter for the Washington Eagle, whose stories about how prominent government officials "dipped in the till or otherwise screwed the country" had burned numerous high-level, "cozy sources" and made him no friends among his newspaper's national staff. But the Eagle's publisher was fine with a little "creative tension" in the newsroom; and Warder was awfully damn good at uncovering sleaze in D.C.'s legislative ranks, even if—at risk to his weak heart—he did sometimes employ sex to win the confidence of women with inside information about wrongdoings. "I don't screw my way into many stories," he tells a colleague, somewhat defensively, "I do my time in the files."
The focus of Warder's latest pursuit is the swaggering Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Republican Pommery Edwards of Kansas. Although deft in negotiating political standoffs and navigating safely through shifts of administration, Edwards is known (at least by the press, if not by the public) as "a corrupt lush, unable to function if some emergency summoned him after seven or eight." Warder thinks voters should know about the Speaker's weakness. Edwards' wife, though, convinces him to back off that story—but only by feeding him a better one.
As Warder strikes up a more intimate relationship with Betty Page Edwards, he unearths still juicier scandals, one of which could earn him a Pulitzer Prize and cost U.S. President Harry Friedan his office. Getting to the bottom of that sizzler, though, will require that Warder gain access to confidential audio tapes, conceal himself—naked—in a closet while the president makes his own play for the Speaker's spouse, and force Warder to rely on an editor he fears may have already lost trust in him.
Like Conflict of Interest, Warren Adler's The Henderson Equation (1976) explores the corridors of power and the social circles of the nation's capital. More importantly, it brims with the specialized mechanics of probing a front-page political scandal and putting out newspapers. But Adler, who's better known as the author of that fiery divorce novel, War of the Roses (1981), delivers a yarn in which the broadsheet itself may lose by winning the answers it seeks.
Two years after blowing the lid off a story about White House corruption and cover-ups, and compelling the resignation of a reviled president, the Washington Chronicle is looking for something new to prop up its cachet. But the article waiting to roll through the typewriter of that daily's cleverest young investigative reporter—the same newsie, Gunderstein, whose talents at inspiring confidence in his sources helped him topple the Oval Office's recent occupant—offers considerably more risks than rewards.
It seems he's come across credible allegations that Sen. Burton Henderson, the Democratic front-runner in the coming presidential election, was the "principal engineer of the assassination" of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem in 1963, a killing supposedly green-lighted by President John F. Kennedy. The Chronicle's ambitious publisher, Myra Pell, wants this investigation killed. She supports Henderson's candidacy, and sees tremendous future benefits to her paper's alliance with him. Does the story's significance, though, demand defying Pell's wishes? That's the question facing the paper's executive editor, Nick Gold, a guy who won't go to print with an explosive story unless more than one source confirms its details, but who finds it hard to stomach the thought of the Chronicle concealing truths in the same way as some of the politicians occupying its beat.
Meanwhile, in his 1979 novel, False Front, Lawrence Meyer—another former Washington Post reporter who covered the Watergate mess—gives us Paul Silver, a not-quite-star reporter at a troubled afternoon paper, the Washington Herald. Silver sure could use a big story to boost his standing, and he thinks he may have found one, thanks to an anonymous tip about Carter Winston, an aristocratic and once-promising but now "overripe" U.S. senator, who's allegedly selling information about a major missile guidance system to the Russians in order to offset his losses from bad investments. Hard as those claims are to believe, Silver chases after them, knowing that his personal Deep Throat might just have handed him a genuine bombshell. If he can prove the story's veracity, and if the Herald is willing to publish what he finds, his professional future may be ensured.
But the suspicious death of a Pentagon liaison who'd been ferrying research materials to the Capitol, followed by Sen. Winston's apparent suicide, cause Silver to wonder whether his grasp on the story he's been working is as firm as he hoped. In fact, he starts to worry that he's being used—by whom and why, though, he can't yet fathom. In a tale that expands quickly to include blackmail and conflicts within D.C.'s intelligence community, Silver finds himself riven with self-doubt and targeted by people certain that he's far more expendable than they are.
Meyer's book is perhaps more consistently cynical than the first two discussed here, and his portrayal of the news business can be less romantic. "Some people find the atmosphere around the Herald stimulating, exciting and provocative," he writes early on. "If that's the way one would have described the mood of the Colosseum on days when the Romans threw Christians into the ring with lions, then I suppose it's an accurate and apt description."
But like authors Whitten and Adler, Meyer captures the post-Watergate Zeitgeist: Washington might have harbored its share of Mr. Smiths, yet its dominant and predatory breed was made up of Mr. Nixons—politicians and other strutting bureaucrats who needed to be watched closely by trusty minions of the press, and brought to justice when they got out of control.
Unfortunately, public opinion of journalists has suffered in the decades since, partly as a result of corporate media dominance and increases in the political partisanship of news coverage. So while there are still reporter protagonists in crime fiction (Brad Parks' Carter Ross and Bruce DeSilva's Liam Mulligan among them), they aren't quite as convincing in the role of "giant killers" as they might've been 40 years ago.
J. Kingston Pierce is both the editor of The Rap Sheet and the senior editor of January Magazine.


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By Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Hooray! I finally managed finish the pleasure book I've been reading on the sly all month, sneaking in a couple chapters here and there while the heavyweights* domineering my time for J-Term weren't looking. I resent the fact that all those people who told me I wouldn't have time for pleasure reading in college are kind of right. It's not that I don't have any time for pleasure reading – believe me, I make time – but it is true that I pretty much read as many books throughout the entirety of first semester as I did in one and a half weeks home for winter break. Le sigh.
The Angel's Game is one of those prequel-but-not-really books. It features the father of Daniel Sempere, the protagonist of The Shadow of the Wind, and gives the backstory behind Shadow's opening scene, when Daniel is taken to the Cemetery of Lost Books for the first time on the morning he wakes to find he can no longer remember his mother's face. In The Angel's Game, we're introduced to Daniel's mother – a feisty and idealistic author-in-training named Isabella, apprenticed to David Martín.
But I'm getting ahead of myself.
The Angel's Game tells the story of David Martín, who has spent the majority of his life sequestered in a foreboding old tower house in Barcelona, writing an ongoing series of mystery/crime novels entitled The City of the Damned, and eternally frustrated with himself for selling out for the sake of a paycheck. When a mysterious foreign publisher, Andreas Corelli, approaches him with a commission for 100,000 francs that would free him from his enslavement-by-contract to the publishers of his pulp fiction, David cannot refuse, despite his misgivings about the sinister nature of the commission itself – to write the doctrine of a new religion.
The further David delves into his new project and into the mysteries shrouding his elusive publisher, the stronger his apprehensions become as David's gothic home begins relinquishing its secrets and exposing uncanny connections between David, his increasingly unnerving and otherworldly publisher, and the house's former occupant, who died under mysterious circumstances a generation before. As David reaches the completion of his work and the unraveling of the mysteries surrounding it, he's forced to wonder just what sort of game he's gotten himself into, and whether it's one he can escape with his life – or his soul – intact.
The prose is beautiful, as usual. Zafón is a master at creating lurid, surreal, and captivating worlds for his stories. But the plot itself crescendoed without the satisfying forte and decrescendo of The Shadow of the Wind. Instead of coming together smoothly like the teeth of a zipper, the plot threads were tied into a 'this-has-gone-on-long-enough-let's-wrap-it-up' knot. And I'm all for leaving some things ambiguous at the end of a book - there's a kind of beauty in needing to think for yourself to make complete sense of things - but I felt too ambiguous at the end of The Angel's Game. Standing alone, it might have been a five star book. But The Shadow of the Wind set the bar so high that its own companion novel couldn't measure up.


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'Percy Jackson' sweeps video charts
'Hot Tub Time Machine,' 'The Crazies' also releasedSchool's out, so it's no surprise that 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment's "Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief" scored a triple win atop all three national home video charts the week ending July 4.
The film, which grossed $88.7 million in theaters, is based on a series of fantasy adventure books by Rick Riordan rooted in Greek mythology, that are the latest rage among preteen and young teen readers. The books are on many summer reading lists, and the video came out just in time to capitalize on that surge in awareness.
"Percy" easily beat two other newly released theatrical features, both in sales and in rental activity.
According to the Nielsen VideoScan First Alert sales chart, second-ranked "Hot Tub Time Machine," a raunchy comedy from Fox/MGM that earned $50.3 million at the box office, sold just 60% as many copies as "Percy." Anchor Bay's "The Crazies," the third new release, debuted at No. 3 with 33% as many unit sales. "Crazies" is a horror film with boxoffice earnings of $39.1 million.
On the Nielsen VideoScan Blu-ray Disc sales chart, the three titles finished in the same positions, with "Hot Tub" selling 65% as many high-def discs as "Percy" and "Crazies," 42%.
And on Home Media Magazine's rental chart for the week, "Hot Tub" also debuted at No. 2, with 74% as much rental activity as "Percy." "Crazies" bowed at No. 5, with 37% as much rental action.


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Opening of the eyes
From stone-faced gargoyles to elaborate ceiling designs, U-M's hallowed halls of learning offer countless visual delights. All of these images come from the talented team at Michigan Photography.
Eyes on the prize
New York-based artist Ulysses Ricci (1888-1960) sculpted the "Boweryesque" corbels peering out from countless nooks and crannies at the Michigan Law School Quad. He was a partner in the firm Ricci & Zari from 1917-41. Six large corbels in the center passage represent the first six U-M presidents: Henry Tappan, Erastus Haven, Henry Frieze, Harry Hutchins, James Angell, and Marion Burton. Other corbels throughout the Quad represent various arts, sciences, and professions. Athletics also gets its due, as we see here. (Image: Scott C. Soderberg, Michigan Photography.) More
Art deco extravaganza
The Rackham Building is one of the most beautiful spaces on the Michigan campus. Its focal point is the 1,200-seat lecture hall on the main floor. The ceiling features a spectacular intertwining gold-leaf pattern that converges over the stage. The room also has one of the earliest uses of recessed lighting, a reflection by architect William E. Kapp's sensitivity to lighting design. Builders broke ground for Rackham in May 1936; the building was officially dedicated in June 1938. (Image: Austin Thomason, Michigan Photography.) More
Metal works
While the pumas outside the University of Michigan Museum of Natural History get most of the attention from passersby, this decorative metal work on the building's exterior is worthy of an admiring look. The museum's collections were established in the mid-19th century and grew in significance with the donation of more than 60,000 specimens by world-traveling alumnus Joseph Beal Steere in the 1870s. (Image: Scott C. Soderberg, Michigan Photography.) More
Angell and the arts
Flanking the main stairs of Angell Hall are four bas reliefs by Ulysses Ricci with symbols of poetry, history, philosophy and art (pictured here). Ricci's work can be seen throughout the Law Quad; he also is credited with the medallions on the façade of Hatcher Library, and the bas reliefs on the C.C. Little Building. Angell Hall is inscribed with words from the Northwest Ordinance of 1787: "Religion, morality, and knowledge, being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged." (Image: Marcia Ledford, Michigan Photography.) More
Good times
While most of us carry a clock in the form of a cell phone, this friendly face atop the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts Building helps keep the University community on schedule. Some 200,000 living Michigan graduates hold degrees from LS&A, which was founded in 1841. (Image: Austin Thomason, Michigan Photography.) More
Go to nature
Visitors to the Alexander G. Ruthven Museums Building — now commonly known as the U-M Exhibit Museum — are advised to look up as they enter. In addition to this elaborate stone work over the building's entrance, the facade bears the following inscription, credited to noted biologist and geologist Louis Agassiz (1807-73): "Go to nature. Take the facts into your own hands. Look and see for yourself." (Image: Scott C. Soderberg, Michigan Photography). More
Caught in a web
This skylight in the atrium of Stockwell Hall is akin to a beautiful glass spiderweb. The residence hall is named after Madelon Louisa Stockwell, the first woman to be admitted to the University of Michigan. Doors opened in 1940, and extensive renovations were completed in 2009. (Image: Martin Vloet, Michigan Photography.) More
The Dude
These columns welcome visitors to the James and Anne Duderstadt Center on North Campus. Designed by Albert Kahn Associates of Detroit, the building opened its doors in 1996.The Duderstadt Center houses the Art, Architecture, and Engineering Library, the College of Engineering Computer Aided Engineering Network (CAEN), the Digital Media Commons, and the Millennium Project. It also offers student access to 3D and virtual reality labs, among other state-of-the-art production facilities. (Image: Scott C. Soderberg, Michigan Photography.) More
Alumni Memorial Hall was born of a desire to honor University men who'd fallen during the Civil War. Detroit architects Donaldson and Meier designed the building, which was completed in 1910, at the corner of State Street and South University Avenue. Today, the building is part of the University of Michigan Museum of Art. (Image: Austin Thomason, Michigan Photography.) More
Eastern influence
After a yearlong renovation, East Quad reopened for the 2013 fall term with new infrastructure including plumbing, electrical, heating, and more. Fortunately details like this charming window remained intact. About 850 Michigan students call East Quad home at any given time. The building houses the Residential College and the Gender-Inclusive Living Experience. (Image: Scott C. Soderberg, Michigan Photography.) More
The Lorch Column
Acquired through the efforts of Emil Lorch, this Corinthian column was made for the home office building of the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company of Newark, N.J., but was never installed. It was a gift to U-M by Colonel William Starrett, class of 1897. The truncated column was originally installed in the courtyard of Lorch Hall, the first home of the College of Architecture. It's now installed at North Campus near the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. The column is mounted on a tall base with a steel element inserted to raise it to its intended height — had it been installed on a building. (Image Scott R. Galvin, Michigan Photography.) More


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1 1 afia Palazzo Franchetti Venice Italy International Conference Data Dt Flow From Space to Earth Applications and interoperability The SDI: a knowledge based system Maurizio De Gennaro, Silvano De Zorzi, Massimo Foccardi, Aldo Marolla
2 Is GIS dead? Is GIS old fashioned? Is still an acronym that conveys expert knowledge and specific skills? Should we reinvent a term for GIS? 2
3 Is GIS dead? Is the role of GIS still important? On my opinion yes but it is increasingly as part of a wider interoperating assemblage, rather a stand-alone technology 3
4 GIS today GIS today is more tightly connected to satellite imagery, image analysis than before The Earth Observation aspect once coupled to a GIS means great exploitation of the imagery The sustainability and sustainable development is really great at making environmental policies for: Water Food Land use Landscape change But we don t put enough attention into monitoring the landscape once the policies are made 4
5 SIT e la GIS today We need continuos observation Policies have boundaries, spatial impacts do not. 5
6 GIS today The evolution of GIS => tipping point 6 6 i ProgetIT e la afia
7 7 afia In Veneto Region Veneto Region start the implementation of a geographical centralized data-base covering the entire territory to allow the participation of the Local Authorities This has developped a sharing data process as declared by INSPIRE directive
8 Spatial Databases According to spatial data specification Developped under actions of the Digital Administration Code (Legislative Decree 82/2005) They yprovide conceptual and structural features All according to INSPIRE directive 8
9 9 afia The GISs have been properly reorganized their conceptual content in order to achieve more effective and capable geographic database, where the organization of the data are structured by layers and are guaranteed the topological relationships between objects.
10 The SDI The development of the Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) is based on a project carried out according to the concepts of dynamism and multidisciplinarity which includes: technical standards, technical disciplinary documents human resources 10
11 From GIS4EU to Veneto SDI (IDT RVEN) Tackling this subject, the participation to the European project GIS4EU allowed to test some of the features that t would later become part of Regional infrastructure. 11
12 SDI: our route National regulations (Digital Administration Code) and European directives (INSPIRE - INfrastructure for SPatial InfoRmation in Europe), to follow to answer to the requirement of accessibility, usability, and interoperability of the data and of the informations Consciousness that the Territorial Information represents an high percentage of the entire heritage of the information in the public administration, as well as the significant economic value that the territorial data can have Regional Law 23 rd april 2004, n. 11 Regulation for the government of the territory that has put a strong importance on the role of the Geographical Information System in the processes of planning, outlining a scenery of strong synergy among the Veneto Local Authorities 12
13 Since 2006 (L.R. 2/2006) the Regional informative heritage cartography in the numerical type (CTRN), digitized (CTRD), Raster, Orthoimages, aerial images, Monographs of the trigonometric stations and of the leveling benchmarks it is available free of charge to the users through the WebGIS portal, allowing the the search and use, via Intranet/Internet of the data and of the GIS features using the client browser. Web Portal Regione del Veneto Territorio e Ambiente The knowledge Territorio fia Regionale Area SIT Area WEBGIS 13
14 Inside the thematic areas that are managed through the WEBGIS it is available the digital archive of the aero photogrammetric heritage of Veneto (about aerial frames), planned and developed in collaboration with the University IUAV of Venice The knowledge 14
15 The process of Data Sharing The sharing Digital Administrative Code INSPIRE The basics of the Spatial Data Infrastructure: The data has to be collected only once and managed where it will be done more efficiently It has to be possible to combine data originate from various sources and share with more users and applications It has to be possible the sharing of the information collected at various level (Local, Provincial, Regional and National) It has to be easy to detect which set of data is available The geographical data have to be easy to understand and to grasp in simple manner (user-friendly) through visualization tools 15
16 The sharing We can consider the Spatial Data Infrastructure as an Holistic Framework because is based on a unique global vision in which every part is in relationship with the other, and produces the data using the concepts of: Information sharing cooperation among organizations, 16
17 Territorial data bases > a knowledge based system Wide availability of geographical data of different typology (raster, vector, ortho images, DTM, aerial images, thematic maps and others) Possibility to integrate geographical data search engines with powerful relational databases, that basically have open to new points of view for the use of such information and new potential users 17
18 18 afia SDI: what we have done Actually the informative resources are 450, of which 330 are geographical (in relationship with the territorial planning and constraints, cultural heritage architectonic and artistic, soil and subsoil, biodiversity, geology, infrastructures, economy and society, etc.).
19 450 informative resources 19 i ProgetIT e la afia
20 330 geographical g informative resources 20 i ProgetIT e la afia
21 SDI: the map services 50 are the WMS services that are possible to look through and to visualize using a proper cartographic Viewer Informative Resources it/wms aspx it/wms _ c _ RumorositaFerrov/wmservice.aspx g Tav10/wmservice.aspx _ c0801_ CentriStorici/wmservice.aspx phic bases it/wms aspx
22 SDI: thecartographical products 6 the type of cartographical products : Digital Regional Base Map Raster Regional Base Map Ortho Image Digital Terrain Model Aerial Images Geodetic Points (levelling Regional benchmark, levelling IGM benchmark, Regional GPS stations) 22
23 Inspire Vision SDI 23 i ProgetIT e la afia
24 Veneto Region SDI in deep The term Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) is often used to denote the relevant base collection of technologies, policies and institutional arrangements that facilitate t the availability of and access to spatial data. The SDI provides a basis for spatial data discovery, evaluation, and application for users and providers within all levels of government, the commercial sector, the non-profit sector, academia and by citizens in general. (SDI Cookbook) -Principia and operation rules -Standard -Processes interesting data and services LOGICAL COMPONENT SDI TECHNOLOGICAL COMPONENT ADMINISTRATIVE-POLICY COMPONENT -System Architecture -Software Agreement among various partners participating p to the SDI 24
25 Veneto Region SDI: Technological Component System Architecture Dividing the architecture in three levels, the system is more scalable and dinamic, with the opportunity to insert each level in a specific position inside the network depending on the characteristics that we want to impute to the infrastructure. WEB SERVER APPLICATION SERVER DATA SERVER Presentation tier Application tier Data tier The Presentation tier joins all the activities and the features that is possible to associate to a web server, or, it is the interface of the system with the user. The Application tier contains the components that have the power of calculate l and analysis, these components are able to answer to the requests that the Presentation tier forwards to it. The Data tier is the area where there are the devices, Data server that are able to store data through database or file system. 25
26 Veneto Region SDI: Technological Component Application Components GeoMedia WebMap GeoMedia SDI Pro Terrashare (Web, Client, Server) Oracle Spatial 11 Repository Manager MetaCatalog WMS Viewer MAP Client Validation data and metadata tools Forms to insert the Metadata of the territorial data and of the services Administration Consolle of the SDI 26
27 Veneto Region SDI: Logical Component Processes interesting data and services 1 Management of the data 2 Data Sharing 3 Data Publishing 4 SDI Administration 27
28 Richiesta (gis, web gis ) Sottoscrizione regole Creazione utenti e spazio dedicato di ai dati territoriali Veneto Region SDI: Logical Component Process 1 Management of the Data DB Proprietario Rules definition: Insert Regional Department as SDI component Management of one s DB 28
29 DB Proprietari richiesta dato non valido + report errori Sistema di Certificazione del Dato Validatore dato e metadato Veneto Region SDI: Logical Component Process 2 Data Sharing Caricamento dato nel database pubblico dato valido Caricamento metadato nel catalogo DBTR Catalogo Dati Aim: To define the protocol of transformation of the one s data in a public data 29
30 30 afia Ali livello ll fisico: i Connessione diretta al data base DBTR Applicazioni Web Proprietarie Veneto Region SDI: Logical Component Process 3 Data Publishing Catalogo Connessioni Dati proprietari condivisi +metadato A livello logico: Gestione connessioni al database dei dati pubblici Aim: To regulate the increase of requests of data publishing toward the Web. P3, through the connection catalog, assures to the systems users to allow to publish their data and to the Region to monitor these processes.
31 Strutture Regionali (direzioni, i Progetto, Unità complesse, Servizi, ) P4 P3 P1 Veneto Region SDI: Logical Component Process 4 SDI Administration IN OUT IDT-RV It has the objective to handle but also to monitor the infrastructure system Applicativi Web GIS P4 administers the system, Proprietari monitoring the activities, the new input, the publications and Catalogo dei Dati Pubblici assuring that are fullfilled the processes P1, P2, P3 that feed the P2 DB QC DB Proprietari informative stream ofthe SDI. 31
32 SIT e la The Future To fix the SDI in a Regional context and after that, in a national context, with the aim to create a federative infrastructure according to the initiative and agreement among the Regions with CISIS-CPSG (Interregional Centre for the Information, Geographical and Statistical Systems Permanent Committee for Geographical Systems), and based on data sharing agreements (according to CAD disposal). Afterwards we will be able to start a connection within the National and European Infrastructures, according to the INSPIRE directive, and becoming Node of the National Infrastructure and node of the European one. 32
33 33 afia EUROPA Framework/ IDT The SDI in National and European Context ITALIA Framework/ IDT ALTRI STATI Framework/ IDT REGIONE VENETO Framework/ IDT ALTRE REGIONI Framework/ IDT PROVINCE Framework/ IDT COMUNI Framework/ IDT ALTRO nodo Europeo nodo Nazionale nodo Regionale nodo Locale
34 European SDIs Towards a hierarchy of SDIs European SDI to share knowledge and to provide a platform for communication and knowledge exchange at all levels, from local to global National SDIs Strategic initiatives concerned with the management of national information assets Local SDIs Regional, Municipal and provincial initiatives concerned with the operational needs of day to day decision making 34
35 The Metadata 35 i ProgetIT e la afia
36 Inquiry services That allow to perform at least these features: Visualization, netsurfing, changing of the visualization scale (zoom- in and zoom-out), variation of the choosen area (pan), geographical overlay of the territorial data set that can be consulted and visualization of the information linked to the objects and to other relevant content of the metadata. The inquiry 36
37 IT e la C The Download Download services of the data that allow to download copies of territorial data set. Download della risorsa informativa 37
38 The Download 38 i ProgetIT e la afia
39 IT S e la C afia The SDI: L Aquila, 22 Ottobre 2008 a knowledge based system Venice, March
40 IT S e la C afia The SDI: L Aquila, 22 Ottobre 2008 a knowledge based system Venice, March
41 The Next step The choice to base the publication data system on an open standard OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium) and ISO (International Standardization Organization), allows to Veneto Region to count on an interoperable platform to share their own data internally as well with third party according to the INSPIRE Directive. The SDI evolution plans a progressive integration with input developed by third party that deal of territorial data, and finalized to the improvement of the quality and usability of the territorial knowledge that it is essential to implement a right plan and management of the government of the territory. 41
42 42 afia The SDI: a knowledge based system Thank-you for the attention
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Have you ever done business with someone because of their flawless online presence, just to be disappointed with their {more than} flawed way of doing business? You and me both, my friend. Checking out the web and social media profiles of businesses and service providers {whether they are online or local}, before doing business with them, is standard m.o. nowadays. And if you've done it? Then your clients have done it with your business as well.
Being the same online as in person is essential for an outstanding customer experience. Your online presence sets your {potential} clients' expectations, and you need to live up to them.
What's that you say? You have to have a stellar online presence to cut through the sea of competition, and to get the customers through the {virtual or actual} door, and then you'll worry about the rest? Bad idea, my friend. Bad idea. Let your personality and values shine through, and live up to it - because that's what your customers connect and relate to. No ifs and buts about it.
Is the idea of your online and offline persona being a perfect match intriguing, but you don't know where to start? There's a blueprint for that! It's the tools for better ~ strategy check. And every good blueprint needs worksheets, right? Right. It just so happens that I have those available for you as well, to go along with the 4-step blueprint below. Sign up below to access the worksheets, and dig in!
step one - core values
Where do you start? At the beginning. With your core values. That's always the bottom line. Your core values are the foundation of your life - non-negotiable, and always applicable. Unlike with the chicken and the egg, there is no question what comes first. Your core values.
Even if you've never said them out loud, they already exist. You've developed them all your life, and you instinctively follow them. They are the filter for all your decisions, the gut feeling that tells you whether to go for it or not.
Very often, people will say that their core values are "integrity", "honesty", and "love" - to name a few. Big, intangible words are very popular for core values. That's not going to cut it. You have to get more specific and really define your values. You are already committed to them, so might as well say them out loud.
Let me give you an example: one of my core values is to always say very clearly what's on my mind, so there is no misunderstanding and people don't get their panties in a bunch {it actually often results in people getting said panties in a bunch, because I might get a little too clear - but that's a different story}. So, instead of saying that "communication" is one of my core values, I define it as "always calling it as I see it - respectfully, and as clearly as possible".
Being aware and following your core values enables you to deal with the good and the bad of every situation. Consider this: what if you didn't concentrate on the quality of a situation - any given situation - but on the quality of your reaction to it? What if you react the same way to a bad or good situation, based on your core values? Because, really, your core values don't change - so why not use them to deal with good and bad situations? Your core values can be that guide for you.
step two - business values
You've got your core values, now let's talk about how you can stop worrying about one-upping the competition with your online presence, and start concentrating on doing business in line with your core values - because that's your secret superpower.
Worrying about competition and what they're doing is worrying about someone else and their behaviour. It's wasted time and energy, because you can't influence it. Being firm on your core values and checking in with yourself to make sure your business decisions are in line with them is a great investment into yourself and your business, because you control every aspect of the process.
Your business core values - the non-negotiable rules of how you do business - have to be at the, well, core of your business. Once defined, you follow them at all times; they serve as a filter for all business decisions, including hiring/firing, business partners and distributors, and even {or especially} customers.
Your business values are the things you would do anyway, whether your business was making money or not. It's who you are. When nothing is left, those values remain. The reality of business will sometimes make you feel like you need to bend them in order to make money, but that's never the answer. In fact, once you discover and implement your business values, it will make hard decisions easy - because there is no way around the core. If it means cutting a client loose, then do it. If it means letting go a team member or cutting ties with a contractor - so be it.
Defining your business values and making them an integral part of your operation is essential for attracting the right people and repelling the wrong ones; it will keep you focused on moving forward, rather than worrying about the competition. Take your personal core values as a guide, and start translating.
step three - purpose
Are you still with me? Good. Core and business values - check! Now let's talk about purpose. Let's talk about what lights your fire, gets you excited to get to work, and is the reason you were put on this earth.
In German, we have very similar words for "profession" and "calling". One is Beruf {=profession}, and the other is Berufung {=calling}. Most of the time I think that German is the uncoolest language ever {really, who needs words like Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaftskapitän or Rechtsschutzversicherungsgesellschaften?}. In this case, however, I love that those words are so similar - because it implies that what we do for a living can also be what we feel called to do, and how great is that?!
You might say that there is a certain amount of luck necessary to make that happen, because even if you have your own business and you hustle, even if money is not an issue, and even if you really really want to follow your calling, you don't always get a chance. I can't agree with that; it is up to you to choose design over default when it comes to your life, whether it's business or personal!
A purpose or calling does not have to be an intangible concept that you don't want to tackle, because you think it's just not for you. As an entrepreneur, you already have a head start, because the question "What do you want to do with your life?" is a familiar one for you. It has driven you to come up with a business idea and start your business. You don't shy away from commitment, but you're hesitant when it comes to "purpose", because it's intangible and you prefer the straight facts.
Guess what? Purpose can be just as straightforward as your business plan {and you have one of those, right?!?}.
step four - filter
Now that you're clear on your values and purpose, you start an ongoing practise of filtering your online presence. Your website, social media profiles, communications {and your tone!} are filtered through your values. Anything you "like" or endorse online, you do the same with offline and/or in person.
People you don't want to do business with? Rather than promising them the moon online and ditching their calls and emails in person, you make it clear what your business stands for and that you're not the best fit for them. Customer service promises you post online? Are a given offline.
Sign up below to get the 20-page tools for better ~ strategy check workbook, and make sure your business strategy {whether it's online or offline} is aligned with your values. Your customers will love you for it!