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Jaspreet's Birth Story
I cannot thank you enough for your advice over the course of my pregnancy. I have no doubt in my mind that following the Gentle Birth Method is the reason why I had such a wonderful and comfortable pregnancy, as well as a relatively easy delivery. I also think it is the reason why Isha is so alert and calm!
Zita's Birth Story
I have been blessed to have two angels. The contrasting ways they arrived in our world does nothing to differentiate the love I have for them. They have set me on my life's journey as a woman and mother. But the differing ways they arrived I think shows the brilliant effectiveness of the Gentle Birth Method.
Sareeta's Birth Story
I followed the Gentle Birth Method for the nine months of my pregnancy. It was hard at first to stick to the diet but I managed to stay gluten, sugar and dairy free.
Melissa's Birth Story
I began using the Gentle Birth Method about 3 months into my pregnancy and I
believe I had the most amazing birth because of my dedication to this
I began using the Gentle Birth Method about 3 months into my pregnancy and I
believe I had the most amazing birth because of my dedication to this
Dilek's Birth Story – May 2013
We had an amazing birth experience and would like to share it in detail with you.
May 2013, London
Dear Debbie and Gowri and Françoise & the Gentle Birth Method team,
my waters broke on Saturday, 18 May. I had a few start – stop
contractions building up in strength
Sofia Bernardin's Birth Story – December 2012
Sofia just followed the book by herself and developed the confidence to give birth in this wonderful manner:
December 2012, Paris
Dear Dr Motha,
I would like to thank you for giving me the strength and confidence to have a beautiful and natural childbirth…
Dr Amali Lokugamage FRCOG, consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist, says ' I found The Gentle Birth Method to be a fantastic way to prepare for the birth of my baby'".
Heather Barker's Birth Story – November 2012
My baby was born at home in 4 hours thanks to the gentle birth method. I walked round the garden and even managed to prick out some lettuces in the greenhouse until I was 9cm dilated…
Wanda's Birth Story – December 2005
Dear Gowri,
It all went well and my midwife said that she could see how much my perineal massage had helped as I did last stage in 20 minutes which she said was very quick for a first timer!
Atsuko Birth Story – December 2011
The day my husband and I had been looking forward to came suddenly.
On 8th December around 5am, I woke up to go to the bathroom as usual and I realized my waters had broken. At almost the same time I had quite strong pain in my back and I thought, "This is not just a tightening, this is it!!". The next contraction came soon, after about 5 minutes later.
Zdravka's story – February 2010
I love talking about my labour; it makes me live this moment again. It starts from here.
I went to see Dr Gowri when I was 24 weeks pregnant. I was so upset! The doctors told me I could give birth in 2 weeks because my cervix was shortening. I felt devastated. I needed help and support to get my mental strength back. I already knew of Dr Gowri and her Gentle Birth Method as I was reading her book Gentle Birth Method and a friend of mine was going to her clinic in St John's Wood. So I straight away made an appointment.
Melinda's Story – July 2006
I write to tell you about the birth of my daughter Nell Bang on her due date of 2nd July. Three hours from start to finish! I was crying out for an epidural, it has to be said, because the contractions came thick and fast but the anaethetist was otherwise engaged! Out she came at top speed in 3 pushes – lots of dark hair and simply gorgeous.
Thank you Gowri for all your help & support – no episiotomy, no tears, no stitches. I was thrilled. Please thank Kasia & Debbie for me too.
Lots of love
Melinda Stevens
Andrea Burnand
Andrea wants her birth story to be an inspiration to other expectant mothers. She wants everyone to know that if they stick to the whole programme it will pay dividends in feeling energised and healthy throughout pregnancy and then the birth itself will be quick and pain free. "If you really believe it, it will be the birth you really want and deserve."
Christine's story
Christine used Self-hypnosis and Visualisation and found that she dilated quickly and felt in control of the labour. She believes that the Self-hypnosis together with the Reflexology and Creative Healing greatly assisted in the birth process.
On Sunday 12 September, contractions began about 5:OOam. I visualised and meditated until contractions were 5 minutes apart and decided it was time to go to the hospital.
Diana's story
During pregnancy, Dianna particularly enjoyed the Self-hypnosis and Visualisation classes and then used the images she had learnt to help her have a pain-relief-free birth. She also acknowledges yoga and the "very reasonable" dietary advice for her successful delivery.
Of my three antenatal classes, I most looked forward to Gowri's self-hypnosis session for its "relentless positivity".
Gabby's story
This story tells how "The Jeyarani Way" treatments helped during pregnancy. It also shows the effectiveness of the Self-hypnosis and Visualisation audiotape and how it can help during labour. Gabby felt empowered by the birth experience.
My last couple of months of pregnancy were enjoyed and spent looking forward to my weekly sessions of pampering for both me and bump.
Nicky's story
After a difficult first birth Nicky came to Gowri and was put on "The Jeyarani Way" Gentle Birth Method programme. This time she felt prepared for birth and went on to have a "wonderful birth experience". She believes in Gowri and her programme as she is an expert in both conventional and complementary medicine.
Pasha's story
Pasha describes in her own words how her births were "true joy" and totally pain-free using the Jeyarani Method. Pasha had waterbirths.
I have now given birth twice in my life and on both occasions I have felt the most blissful feelings.
Louise's story
Louise describes her "magical" waterbirth, during which she felt grounded, calm and able to cope. She strongly believes in "The Jeyarani Way" Gentle Birth Method and says that the care that the team gave her helped transform her fears about her own capabilities and gave her the opportunity to realise their dream.
Jayne & Darren Gee – April 2008
Dear Gowri, Just letting you know our little baby boy arrived safely into the world at 22.10 on Thursday 24th April 2008 weighing in at a whopping 9lb 7oz!
In the end I started to have a show in the early hours of the morning on the Thursday (the day I was due to be induced; I was two weeks overdue. I had a show but no contractions, hence I was given Prostin at 8am.
Sara Good's story – November 2008
I live in Shanghai and am a 33 yr old New Zealander. This was our first pregnancy so along with the normal anticipation and nerves, I had the added stress of delivering in a foreign country without family and friends for support. It was at a dinner party I heard great things about your programme from another girl in town.
Karlina's story – December 2008
To tell you the truth, I don't feel like I have a very exciting 'birth story' as it flew by so incredibly fast… I feel like I have much more of a 'Dr. Motha Story' which means I should probably start with the first time I heard of you.
Several years ago, long before even contemplating having a child, I read an article in W magazine about an Indian doctor based in London
Helen James-Moore's story – January 2009
Little Cecilia arrived last Thursday morning at 1.20 am weighing 8lbs 8oz despite being 2 weeks early.
Once again, following your advice has given me the birth I so longed for with my first baby and got with the second and third.
I have been focusing on the 15th January for 6 months and thus I am sure, combined with reflexology and your advice is, the reason she came on that day.
Bianca Blackman Duffy story – January 2009
Oona's Birth: Bianca Blackman Duffy gave birth to Oona Blackman Duffy on January 23rd, at 5:35am at home in Malibu, CA.
I was due Wednesday Jan. 21st, so, that day I went to Ventura to have a check-up with my midwife, Karni. She hugged me and said "happy due date!" She said my baby's heart rate was great, and that my cervix had effaced, but was not dilated at all.
Natalie Hudson's story – September 2009
I just wanted to share my great birth story with you and also to give great feedback on GB practioner in Australia, Elizabeth Isaac – she was amazing and you need to get more people trained in Australia as so many women need to have the option to have a good birth.
Melissa Turner's story – August 2010
I began using the Gentle Birth Method about 3 months into my pregnancy and I believe I had the most amazing birth because of my dedication to this method.
I had a very peaceful water birth at The Family Birth Centre in Subiaco. I was in labour for 8 hours, spending about 3 hours in the bath pushing Owen out, though it didn't seem that long to me. He weighed 9 pounds 1 ounce, which was a massive surprise as I didn't look that big. Having such a good diet, I didn't think my baby would be that large, even though he still came out without any intervention, (you have to do the pre-stretching).
Molly Isobel Elliott – January 2012
Thank you for all your guidance and care over the past months.
I had a fantastic and completely natural birth at home with an active labour of less than 5 hours and a very quick delivery requiring only a few pushes: She flew out with barely a graze and no tearing at all.
I firmly believe the physical and mental preparation of the Gentle Birth Method is what allowed me to achieve this.
Katrina Maclaine's story
Katrina had been told that she would never have children so she was a bit surprised to find that she had become pregnant after some Creative Healing for abdominal pain! After being induced, she had a C-section but does not regret going on the programme. Like other Jeyarani mothers she has found her son, Ben, to be alert but calm – due perhaps to her connecting to him through the treatments and self-hypnosis and visualisation.
Judith Shutler's story – 1989
This story illustrates how the programme can help a pregnant mother who then goes on to have a caesarean delivery.
During my pregnancy I followed a programme including Self-hypnosis at the Jeyarani Health Centre.
Self-Hypnosis and Visualisation
Philippa Egertan's story
The positive magical birth of baby Otis during a lunar eclipse, using self-hypnosis and visualisation.
Baby Otis (weight 7lbs 15oz) was born on Sunday, 16th July 2000, at 1.14am during a lunar eclipse.
Carol Johnston's story
After an induction, epidural and forceps delivery of her first baby, Carol was amazed to find that she "enjoyed" giving birth to her second child. Although initially sceptical about self-hypnosis, she found it invaluable during labour, and realised that her body and baby know what to do, and there is nothing to fear but fear itself.
Uma's story – July 2001
The empowering birth of Abhisheka was helped by using self-hypnosis. This story also illustrates the importance of feeling in control of your surroundings and being able to give your complete attention to the birth.
ABHISHEKA born 13 July 2001
Rosie Bray's story
Rosie wants to highlight the importance of early conditioning using Self-hypnosis and Visualisation. Starting as early as possible in pregnancy gives you more of a chance to become an expert at the technique for labour. Rosie also feels that she did her homework, following the dietary guidelines, having treatments and so on, so that she was ready for labour.
The Role Of The Partner
Claire Middleton's story
Not all mothers walk into the hospital backwards but this is what Claire did! This lovely story illustrates the importance of partners during labour, as a companion and support, and shows how "distracting" the mother is not always what is required!
I was shopping at lunchtime when I had my show and made my way back to the pub by tube – smiling all the way knowing I was about to start my first labour!
Rosemary Borthick's story
Rosemary developed gestational diabetes, which was treated with Creative Healing. She worked hard for a good birth following "The Jeyarani Way" Gentle Birth Method and went on to have a home water birth that was a "positive experience".
Sally Murray's story
Sally found that being in "another place" was good for her during labour. She had a water birth and found that the contractions felt entirely different in water.
Ali Norell's story
My waters started to break on a Thursday evening while out at dinner with some friends, Once we got home, the waters had stopped leaking so I decided against calling our doula or midwife in favour of going to bed – I was convinced that nothing would happen for another 12 to 24 hours!
Rebecca Malhotra's water birth story – November 2008
Contractions started around midnight, I'm a little vague as I popped on Gowri's relaxation and hypnosis CD and tried to hibernate like a bear through the night. Counting my breaths during the contractions helped me relax and also helped me track my progress – throughout the night the contractions were becoming more frequent, stronger and longer in length.


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A video recording of the National Science Foundation (NSF) webinar, "Tips That Work!: Advice from Award-Winning STEM Mentors", held on March 7, 2018.
|Louis Stokes Midwest Center for Excellence (LSMCE) Broaden Participation in STEM
Louis Stokes Midwest Center of Excellence is a National Science Foundation-funded project whose mission is to broaden the participation of underrepresented minorities in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math.
This channel contains videos for faculty and mentors of URM students to create learning programs and environments that support their mission.
|Understanding How Undergraduate Research Experiences Influence Student Aspirations for Research Careers and Graduate Education
Source: Journal of College Science Teaching, 42(1), 82.
Author(s): Adedokun, O. A., Zhang, D., Parker, L. C., Bessenbacher, A., Childress, A., & Burgess, W. D.
|Undergraduate Research Experiences for STEM Students: Successes, Challenges, and Opportunities
Source: National Academies of Sciences, & Medicine. (2017).
Author(s): Gentile, James, Ed.; Brenner, Kerry, Ed.; Stephens, Amy, Ed.
|Fine-Tuning Summer Research Programs to Promote Underrepresented Students' Persistence in the STEM Pathway
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|Academic Self-Efficacy and Performance of Underrepresented STEM Majors: Gender, Ethnic, and Social Class Patterns
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|Minority Student Perceptions of the Impact of Mentoring to Enhance Academic Performance in STEM Disciplines
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|Understanding How Peer Mentoring and Capitalization Link STEM Students to Their Majors
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|In Their Own Words: Raymond Johnson
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|Undergraduate Research Experiences for STEM Students: Successes, Challenges and Opportunities (February 2017)
Undergraduate research has a rich history, and many practicing researchers point to undergraduate research experiences (UREs) as crucial to their own career success. There are many ongoing efforts to improve undergraduate science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education that focus on increasing the active engagement of students and decreasing traditional lecture-based teaching, and UREs have been proposed as a solution to these efforts and may be a key strategy for broadening participation in STEM.
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Man's Best Friend
Jessica Graves
Winter can be a dangerous time for even the most pampered pooch. Everything from antifreeze, sidewalk salt, and common holiday plants like mistletoe, holly and poinsettias can be toxic to dogs. Outdoor dogs are at risk of hypothermia and frostbite, and just like humans, dog's immune systems can be compromised during the harsh cold months. But luckily as owners, there is a lot that we as can do to make our four-footed friends more comfortable.
To combat the cracked and sore paws caused by walking in salt and snow, wash paws off with warm water after walks. If dogs develop ice balls between their toes, remove them and consider trimming the hair in this area. You can apply bag balm to cracked paws and paw wax before walks to protect the pads. You can also try this simple DIY Dog Skin Soother by mixing 2 tsp of coconut oil with 10 drops of lavender essential oil. You can also make a soothing herbal infusion to spray on your dog from herbs such as chamomile, calendula, nettle, and oats. Don't forget Wound Wonder is terrific on your cracked puppy paws as well as human cracked fingers!
To keep your dogs healthy and comfortable when it's cold, do not leave your dog outdoors unsupervised for extended periods of time. Do not shave your dog's coat as this affects their ability to properly insulate. Dogs that don't have an undercoat may need the extra protection of a coat and booties. You may get made fun of, but your pooch with thank you. If you get them to wear the booties, that is! Particularly sensitive dogs include many toy breeds and breeds with wiry coats. Be sure to keep walks short, and increase the frequency rather than the length.
What you feed your dog in the winter is also extremely important. During the cold months the body uses up more energy keeping warm on walks and out in the yard. Make sure you give your dog more calories and protein depending on how active they are. Also note that snow is not an alternative to water, and in addition to water your dog could benefit from electrolytes during the winter. To make your own Electrolyte Solution, mix 1 quart of water with 1 tablespoon of raw honey or unrefined sugar and 1 teaspoon table salt. This solution only keeps in the fridge for one day, but warm to room temperature before offering free choice. Make sure to ask your vet before making any changes to your dog's diet. If you would like to add herbs to your dog's diet to improve their immune system, replenish their skin, and increase circulation, consider herbs such as calendula, echinacea, cayenne, garlic, ginger, and St. John's wort. Dr. Pitcairn's Complete Guide to Natural Health for Dogs & Cats is a wonderful resource for home grown options.
Remember that your pets experience many of the same things that you experience during the winter, so treat them with some extra TLC and you should both be raring to go as soon as spring is here!
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Sino-Japanese garden
A tradition far removed from the formal garden of the oasis had evolved in China and was already established during the Han dynasty (140-87 BC). One of his distant heirs was destined one day to fertilize the West in turn and to influence not only the English landscape gardens and the Jardins chinois-anglais, but also the modern gardens of Northern Europe and America. His most direct descendant was imported with many other things of Chinese culture in Japan in the eighth century. The base of the Sino-Japanese garden is a veneration of nature that took its roots from the mysticism-Taoist naturalism, subsequently reinforced by Zen Buddhism, with its cult of the hill, the grove and the lotus pond, and its love for the quiet meditation.
The Chinese garden is essentially a place to philosophize, leaving aside earthly conflicts. Nothing in it can be rushed or improvised or flashy. The paths are not made, as in the West, to access directly from one point to another; but rather to savor slowly and fully every view and every atmosphere of the scene that manifests itself along the way. For this reason, they are tortuous and even zig-zag, while the bridges, with their steep arches or with a sudden change of direction, invite a break to admire the reflections. The natural landscape that the Chinese most venerated was the grandiose; high mountains, waterfalls, foggy valleys, and lakes. Their gardens were creations of the mind to such an extent that a great landscape could be indicated by a few carefully placed irregular rocks; the rest of the painting was filled with imagination. In this, he showed his affinity with Chinese landscape painting, in all its economy of shadows and evocative lines. There was indeed a very close connection, and the garden through which one wandered slowly was a tinkering remake of the long scrolls of Chinese landscape painters. When the Chinese garden came to Japan, it underwent many changes, but the basic principles were never lost. It was drawn with more solid lines in a better-defined composition, perhaps losing in poetry what it gained in clarity. Only in the sixteenth century was the tea ceremony introduced, which in the eyes of the West was the essence of a Japanese garden. For Europeans, the careful setting of this ceremony may seem an excessive emphasis on a banal rite, but for the Japanese, it has a profound meaning: it is a deliberate seclusion from the conflicts and ambitions of the world and a recognition of the spiritual values of philosophy and aesthetics. There is a fundamental difference in the relationship with nature between the Eastern Buddhist and the Western philosopher.
The Westerner will say, "Here is where I will plant this tree". The Zen Buddhist will say, "I am this tree, and that's where I want to go". This ability to travel with the mind is well illustrated in the garden of Ryoanji, in Kyoto. It can only be observed from the wooden platform of the temple, and no one enters except the monk who raises the sand meticulously forming traditional designs that encompass the rock islands with such perfection that the contemplative mind can travel through the garden to eternity. Most Japanese gardens are less austere but still deeply evocative. They all draw their roots from symbolism and tradition, but although philosophical and religious reasons can be found for design rules, they are actually precepts of good composition. The prescribed grouping of 3, 5 and 7, the dimensions of the hills and the carefully correlated forms, the partially veiled waterfall, the location of the high guardian stone in the foreground in the painting, all this has its own traditional meaning, but everything is based also on sound design principles. Two of the fundamental principles of the Japanese composition is the grouping of the vertical, the reclined and the lying, and the contrast between static and dynamic forms. To compose these groups, rocks with familiar shapes are used, such as the statue-shaped stone, the arch-shaped stone, and the reclined ox-shaped stone. The rocks also have a name depending on the specific location in the composition, to underline a view, a focal point or an atmosphere. Such are the stone wrapped in mist, the shadow of the full moon, the guardian stone and the waiting stone.
Three main forms of the garden eventually crystallized, although later they were also used together in a large "garden for strolling". Each form can be executed in a variable degree of perfection, from the pure indication of a sketch to the completed picture in the round. The three types of the garden were the flat garden, the garden without water and the garden with lake and islands or with hills and water.
The flat garden is often used in smaller courtyards or even in a lane. The soil can be covered with sand, sometimes raked to form a design. The composition is given by the careful grouping of rock, ornament, and plant. A lantern (the reclined shape), a bamboo (the vertical form) and a flat stone (the prostrate form) can form the whole picture. In the waterless garden, there are hills, but the water is indicated only by the placement of the stones, more or less as were the mountains in the Chinese gardens. The garden with hills and water is a landscape complete with clustered hills, a stream and a rock arrangement in the foreground, or a lake with islands. The completed view has infinite variations, but the basis of the garden project follows defined rules. At the imperial palace of Katsura in Kyoto, the garden for walking is a deeply evocative experience.
Observed on a superficial level, it is a landscape of incomparable beauty, in which an infinite variety is merged in a quiet unity; but below the surface, there is a profound philosophy of the relationship between man and nature. In the Japanese gardens, the shape and placement of the plants are as carefully controlled as those of the rocks. The tradition of artificially small trees is well known, and if a plant sooner or later grows too much for its placement it is replaced by a smaller one. The most used forms of plants are the very rounded reclined ones, such as Japanese azalea and dwarf conifers; the gnarled tree, exemplified by the pine bent by the wind; and the vertical shape of the bamboo. Some of the most beautiful Japanese gardens are entirely covered by a carpet of moss, a coating that accentuates the molded shape of the ground and creates the perfect structural contrast with the rock. The structure plays a more important role in Japanese gardens than any other historical tradition. Although it is an idealization of nature, the Sino-Japanese garden has always been closely related to buildings, and it is only in relation to oriental architecture that one can appreciate the shapes of lanterns and bridges. They show the same exuberance and the same dynamic form, which is nevertheless firmly rooted to the ground because of its sense of balance. In their setting, they are part of an entire world in tune with them but lost in western environments they can also look bizarre. The influence that the Sino-Japanese garden has had on the West is not easy to evaluate. Although the first descriptions of the Chinese garden may have been misrepresented, they certainly served to light up the imagination of the English landscape school and, if the results were totally different, the ideas behind the two types of gardens had much in common. Both were an idealization of nature, both relied on balance and natural form rather than symmetry, and both incorporated the traditional architecture of their respective civilizations. Above all, both were closely related to the art of landscape painting. It is a revealing fact but not surprising that the highest peak reached by the English landscape garden is derived from the translation of an idea into the language of English countryside and philosophy. The less successful result of the Jardin anglo-chinois derived from a more direct copy of an original not fully understood. The winding paths on the plan of an old Chinese park are clearly the ancestors of the winding avenues of the Anglo-Chinois garden, but what the plan does not show are the hills and valleys, the rocks and the changing views that justify the tortuosity. The map of a mountainous region shows the same swaying and sinuous roads, meaningless in the absence of the reliefs. The blind imitation of Japanese gardens does not give a better result even today, but we have much to learn from their infallible sense of balance, from the evocative forms, from the economy with which their landscape is sketched and by the quiet moderation of their compositions. The influence of Japanese landscape architects has played a vital role in the development of landscape design in the US since the mid-twentieth century, and since then their influence has spread throughout the world.


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Vietnamese legal thought with regard to the treatment of criminals is the result of three major influences: classic Confucianism, the Napoleonic Code, and Marxism-Leninism. The relevant Confucian concept is that society is to be governed not by law but by moral men and that crime is symptomatic of an absence of virtue that engenders conflict and disharmony. Most important, the Confucian ethic provides no principle of judicial administration. In imperial China, justice was an interpretation of the moment by the emperor and his mandarins, meaning that in every instance imperial will was superior to the law. The spirit of the law the French brought to Vietnam was that guilt should be determined by fair and impartial means and should be assigned appropriate punishment. However, French colonialism inculcated a view of the law as something to be manipulated and the courts as institutions to be bribed or subverted. The result was a general lack of respect for the judicial process. Marxism-Leninism added to this attitude the perspective that crime is a reflection of environmental factors that victimize the individual by turning him into a criminal. The proper remedy for this condition is to eliminate the causal factors while rehabilitating the criminal. The combination of the three legacies has produced in Vietnamese society a legal philosophy that is inquisitional rather than adversarial, seeking reform rather than punishment. The system imposes on the individual and the state the responsibility of bringing all members of society to a condition of self-imposed moral rectitude in which behavior is defined in terms of collective, rather than individual, good. In contrast to the West, where law is the guarantee of rights that all may claim, in Vietnam the law concerns duties that all must fulfill.
Vietnamese law seeks to give the prisoner the right to reformation. In theory, at least, there are very few incorrigibles. It also permits a relativist approach in fixing sentences, much more so than do the precedent-based systems of the West. Mitigating circumstances, such as whether the accused acted out of passion or premeditation, loom large as a factor in sentencing. Murder by stabbing is treated more leniently than murder by poison, for example, because the latter is perceived to require a greater degree of premeditation than the former. The personal circumstances of the accused are also a factor in determining punishment. In the administration of criminal justice in Vietnam, an effort is made to understand the criminal, his crime, and his reasons; and the notion of permanent or extended incarceration is rejected in favor of an effort to determine whether or not and, if so, how the criminal can be rehabilitated and restored to society.
Political crimes are treated less liberally, however. In such cases, the administration of justice can be arbitrary and harsh. Politics clearly plays a role in the arrest, trial, and sentencing procedures. The rationale for this policy, which is openly acknowledged, is that the revolution must be protected and that the individual may be sacrificed, perhaps even unjustly, for the common cause. The courts also take a more jaundiced view of the rehabilitation of political prisoners than of common criminals.
The court system was reorganized in 1981 into four basic levels: the Supreme People's Court; the provincial municipal courts reporting to Hanoi; the local courts, chiefly at the district precinct levels, reporting respectively to provincial or municipal governments; and military courts. In addition, a number of specialized courts were created. In judicial procedure the courts still owed much to the French example, particularly with respect to the role of the procurator, who had much broader responsibilities than the prosecutor or district attorney under the Anglo-Saxon system.
On January 1, 1986, a new Penal Code officially went into effect after nearly five years of preparation. It contained 280 articles divided into 12 chapters or sections. Unlike earlier laws, the new code included detailed sections on juvenile and military offenders. The first eight chapters defined jurisdiction and judicial procedures; distinguished among infractions, misdemeanors, and felonies; and outlined sentencing procedures. The last section, consisting of four chapters, defined specific crimes and fixed penalties. The code identified seven categories of legal punishment: warning, fine, reform without detention, house arrest, imprisonment, life imprisonment, and death. There was no parole, but remission of punishment was possible and the conditions for it appeared to be lenient (eligibility for remission of a life-imprisonment sentence began after seven years). In general, definitions of crime were broad, vague, and could be interpreted so that virtually any antisocial word or deed was indictable. Penalties were stern and included capital punishment for a lengthy list of crimes. In 1986 Minister of Justice Phan Hien defended in writings and interviews the new code's long list of capital crimes, arguing that in general the code was liberal. He cited as evidence that polygamy was a crime, whereas adultery was not. Most serious crimes (all drawing the death penalty) were crimes endangering the national security, i.e., treason, "taking action to overthrow the people's government," espionage, rebellion, sabotage, terrorism, "undermining unity," spreading "antisocialist" propaganda, "disrupting security," obstructing or inciting to obstruct state agencies' activities, hijacking, destroying important national security projects and property, and "crimes against humanity."
Upon arrest, an individual was taken first to a Ministry of Interior records office where he was fingerprinted and interrogated, and where his record was checked. He was then remanded to a detention cell to be held until his trial. Posting bail to obtain temporary release was not practiced, although in some instances release on one's own recognizance was permitted.
Trials themselves were brief, businesslike, and conducted in an informal, somewhat nonjudicial atmosphere. All participants were expected to seek justice rather than simply to observe the letter of the law. The defense was supposed to proceed in an objective manner, meaning it was expected to pursue the truth and not to engage in courtroom tactics "that distort the truth or conceal the guilty person's faults." The defendant was expected to confine his efforts to presenting facts that proved his innocence or that supported his plea to the tribunal for reduction of the gravity of the charge. In most trials, defense strategy was not directed toward exoneration but toward a sentence of reform without detention.
Sentences for nonpolitical crimes, and particularly for less serious felonies, tended to fall into three categories: reform without detention, reform with detention, and detention (i.e., an ordinary prison sentence). Perhaps half of the sentences imposed for these crimes were of the first category, and the remaining half was divided more or less equally between the other two categories. The system rested on the assumption that most criminals could be rehabilitated, but the procedure required that the individual petition the court for rehabilitation. The court might also sentence a person to loss of civil rights, an auxiliary penalty that deprived the individual of certain rights for a specific period of time (see Social Control , this ch.). Formal incarceration that resulted from judicial proceedings might be either in a prison or a work-reform camp (detention with labor). Vietnamese prisons imposed confinement in a manner more or less like prisons anywhere in the world. Work reform camps incarcerated prisoners as well, but also required them to perform outside physical labor, constructing roads, clearing brush, and similar tasks on contract for the state. Beyond confinement arising from judicial proceedings, there was also administrative detention that did not involve the courts and was usually the result of action by party officials. Eligible for this type of incarceration was a host of offenders that included juvenile delinquents, foreigners (chiefly Laotians), northerners who had defected to the South during the war, and "enemies of the people" (those judged to be dangerous to society by virtue of their social, political, economic, or family background). The largest and best known facilities for administrative detention were the re-education camps and social- labor camps. Both were "educative" in purpose and both were designed for "social negatives." The difference between the two, insofar as there was any, was that the re-education camp was for those whose attitudes, ideas, and beliefs required correction, while the social-labor camps were for those of "backward behavior," such as draft dodgers, tax evaders, and persons who "spread social negativism."
In official Hanoi thinking, there was a sharp difference between confinement as a result of judicial proceedings and administrative detention. Those who were incarcerated in a prison or a work-reform camp as the result of a court sentence were considered incorrigible or without social value. Prisoners confined under administrative detention were those for whom there was some hope of rehabilitation. While the individual inmate caught up in the system might find the distinction meaningless, it was important for an observer of the Vietnamese judicial and internal security system to bear in mind the distinction between the two institutions.
Detailed information on Vietnam's prison system--the number and location of its prisons and the size of its prison population--has always been extraordinarily difficult to obtain, and much of the information available in 1987 was questionable. Hanoi had not published anything of consequence on the subject. Credible available data tended to combine statistics on prison, work-reform camps, and administrative detention facilities. Each of the forty Vietnamese provinces had at least one prison with a capacity ranging from about 1,000 to 5,000 inmates. Some provinces also had what were called model prisons, which resembled new economic zones in that, in the spirit of modern penology, they offered the prisoners financial incentives to engage in agricultural production. Most of the district capitals had small prisons or detention centers, and the PPSF (or PSS) operated detention cells in most villages and some hamlets. In addition, there were perhaps a dozen central (or national) prisons that could hold as many as 40,000 inmates. The largest of these were the Hoa Lo prison in Hanoi (with a branch in Haiphong) and the Chi Hoa prison outside Ho Chi Minh City. The major cities also had detention centers (Hanoi had 18, which could hold 500 prisoners each) where individuals were held awaiting trial.
Life in a Vietnamese prison, as reported by ex-prisoners, was harsh. There were work details for those in prisons, as well as in the work-reform camps, that chiefly involved agricultural production for prison use. Rehabilitation lectures were held daily, and prisoners spent much time describing past behavior and thoughts in detail in their dossiers. Visitors were permitted only infrequently in most prisons. Discipline was strict, and prisons in particular were well guarded; usually there was 1 guard for every 250 prisoners. In general, the use of torture, corporal punishment, and what might be termed police brutality were no longer legal but were still condoned by officials and even accepted by the general public.
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This is a simple Symfony2 command to send an email, you should add it to a "Command" directory inside your bundle and replace the namespace to fit your project bundle:
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I hear ABC Family has finalized its series order to drama pilot The Lying Game. Game joins recently greenlighed comedy series The Great State of Georgia and dramas The Nine Lives of Chloe King and Switched at Birth. Additionally, a fifth pilot, What Would Jane Do, remains in contention for a series pickup after ABC Family extended the options on the actors. This has been ABC Family's biggest development season with 6 pilot orders. With four and possibly even five of them going to series, ABC Family is making its most aggressive expansion into original programming to date. Last year, the cable network launched 3 new series, Pretty Little Liars, Melissa & Joey and Huge, two of which, Pretty Little Liars and Melissa & Joey, have been renewed.
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Hardback: 291 pages
Genre: Literary Fiction, Historical
Publisher: Picador 2016
Source: Tywyn Public Library
First Sentence: The journey was no worse than she expected.
Favourite Quote: "How could the child bear not just the hunger, but the boredom? The rest of humankind used meals to divide the day, Lib realized - as a reward, as entertainment, the chiming of an inner clock.
Review Quote: Fans of Emma Donoghue's first novel Room will not be disappointed with The Wonder . . . a tale of claustrophobic suspense and the intense relationship between a woman and a child . . . Donoghue's masterful way with words and imagery has the reader sharing Lib's scepticism and disdain for Anna and her family's naïve religious fervour. (Red Magazine)
Literary Awards: Scotiabank Giller Prize Nominee (2016), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Historical Fiction (2016)
My Opinion: As the successful author of the masterpiece that was Room I wondered if The Wonder was going to meet my expectations. It certainly did that, using as inspiration the true life stories of young people that claimed to survive long periods without food, Emma Donoghue has created with this novel another shocking yet riveting story about a child and a disturbing life experience. The protagonist Anna is an eleven year old Irish girl whose family are claiming she is a living miracle. The other main character is Lib Wright a nurse a veteran of the Crimean War and trained by Florence Nightingale, who accepts an assignment to watch over Anna to try and discover if what is being claimed is all a sham!
At first the novel felt slow and took time to figure out with the complications of religion, myth and superstition that had a big influence on Anna's family and their reactions to what was happening to their daughter. It was difficult to understand just how far peoples beliefs would influence them, as it seemed they were prepared to let their own child die, as they persisted in believing in miracles.
A difficult subject to write a novel about and whilst reading you cannot but help find yourself thinking about how an earth the author is going to be able to bring the novel to a satisfactory and believable ending. Well without a doubt in my mind, she has succeeded in writing a realistic yet imaginative ending.
The Wonder will appeal to readers of historical fiction, stories set in Ireland and of course fans of Emma Donoghue's excellent writing.
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An eleven-year-old girl stops eating, but remains miraculously alive and well. A nurse, sent to investigate whether she is a fraud, meets a journalist hungry for a story.
Set in the Irish Midlands in the 1850s, The Wonder—inspired by numerous European and North American cases of "fasting girls" between the sixteenth century and the twentieth—is a psychological thriller about a child's murder threatening to happen in slow motion before our eyes. Pitting all the seductions of fundamentalism against sense and love, it is a searing examination of what nourishes us, body and soul.
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The Wonder is an invented story. However, it was inspired by almost fifty cases of so-called Fasting Girls - hailed for surviving without food for long periods - in the British Isles, Western Europe and Northern America between the sixteenth and the twentieth centuries. These girls varied widely in age and background. Some of them (whether Protestant or Catholic) claimed a religious motive, but many didn't. There were male cases, too,though far fewer. Some of the fasters were put under surveillance for weeks on end; some started eating again, voluntarily or after being coerced, imprisoned, hospitalized, or force-fed; some died; others lived for decades, still claiming not to need food.
Video Trailer for ' The Wonder ' Courtesy of YouTube
Author Profile
Emma Donoghue © Mark Raynes Roberts, 2015.
Emma was born on October 24th 1969 in Dublin Ireland, the youngest of eight children, of Frances and Denis Donoghue(the literary critic) She attended Catholic convent schools in Dublin, apart from one year in New York at the age of ten. In 1990 she earned a first-class honours BA in English and French from University College Dublin, and in 1997 a PhD (on the concept of friendship between men and women in eighteenth-century English fiction) from the University of Cambridge. Since the age of 23, Donoghue has earned her living as a full-time writer. After years of commuting between England, Ireland, and Canada, in 1998 she settled in London, Ontario, where she lives with her partner, Chris Roulston and their son, Finn and daughter, Una.
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My Review of Room Emma Donoghue - Official Website Goodreads Author Profile
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Before I take off the decorations (I know, I know – they're supposed to be taken down on 6th January but I've been too tired and too busy!) I thought I'd photograph my new wheels with their Christmas bling. I didn't go to town with the decs quite as much as last year because I didn't feel well enough in the run-up to Christmas for anything very spectacular, but I felt a yen for purple this time. I put on my original black sparkly spoke guards:
Here's the front frame, with purple and silver tinsel, and one set of LED lights. The battery and switch are concealed in the bag underneath the chair.
Finally the back frame, to which I have added some baubles and the other set of LED lights. Their switch is hidden in the nifty little pouch that Quickie so thoughtfully added to my posh new upholstery!
Following on from previous posts about my new wheels, you can see the power add-on installed, with the battery pack on the back, and its cable going to the LH wheel. The spoke guards cover up the wheels nicely – they have huge hubs containing the motors, which are not very attractive. They are still quick-release (in theory) but they are so heavy that I can't manage to take them off myself, and my hubby has to do it, not that we do take them off very often, because we have a ramp in the back of the car so that the wheelchair does not need to be disassembled when we go out. Really the only time they have to come off is to change the spoke guards.
The bag underneath is the "Wallaby Catch-All" (lovely name!) that I got from Advantage Bag in the USA for my old Rolls Royce:
Unfortunately these are all designed to fit wheelchairs with a lower frame, but my new Helium doesn't have this, so the bag is too high and doesn't hold enough. I have plans to adapt it by adding sides to it, and moving the Velcro straps to the top of the sides. This will also help things not to fall out – a few months ago I bought something while out shopping, and when I got home, it had gone, having presumably fallen out of the side. I need to do this alteration soon, because there's another craft show coming up, and we all know I'm going to be Stocking Up again!! I must have a rummage in my fabrics boxes in my ARTHaven and see if I've got any suitable strong black fabric.
There doesn't seem to be any equivalent to the Catch-All available in the UK; there are plenty of bags which hang underneath, but these have limited capacity for an enthusiastic shopper like myself, and one who likes to carry her whole life in her handbag!! I also need to carry my fleece blanket in case I get cold, my camera and my water bottle and various other odds and ends.
I've got a great deal to catch up with since Christmas, so I don't know when I shall get round to putting the new bling on my New Wheels. I'd like to have done it before the craft show at the end of the month, but I don't see that happening. Anyway, watch this space…


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The New Media Interdisciplinary Concentration (NMIC) in the School of Communications and Theater explores the expressive and communicative possibilities presented by digital media across the contexts of the established disciplines of advertising, broadcast, film, journalism, mass communication, public relations, and theater. NMIC seeks to facilitate students in both the development of a comprehensive understanding of the communication arts and an experiential exploration of the evolution of media traditions through new technologies.
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I have been seeing a lot of wonderful recipes using lemon curd from cookies and cakes to tarts and pies
I soo wanted to try the lemon curd and did a hunt at local supermarkets but with no luck..
After watching the video here, I decided to give it a try…
I must say that this gooey sweet citrusy lemon curd is a perfect sandwich spread..loving it:-)
Here is the recipe
Recipe from: Joy of Baking
3 large eggs
125 granulated white sugar
1/3 cup fresh lemon juice -3 lemons
4 tablespoons unsalted butter, at room temperature
1 tablespoon finely lemon zest
In a stainless steel bowl placed over a saucepan of simmering water, whisk together the eggs, sugar, and lemon juice until blended.
Cook, stirring constantly (to prevent it from curdling), until the mixture becomes thick (like sour cream .Took me 12 minutes
Remove from heat and immediately pour through a fine strainer to remove any lumps.
Cut the butter into small pieces and whisk into the mixture until the butter has melted.
Add the lemon zest and let cool.
The lemon curd will continue to thicken as it cools.
There you have the versatile lemon curd..I plan to make some cookies with the remaining lemon curd:-)


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Sunday Streets HTX – 4 October 2015
Sunday Streets HTX is a pilot initiative to promote and improve the health of Houstonians. Sunday Streets HTX will open a stretch of streets normally reserved for vehicle traffic to allow cycling, walking, dancing, socializing and provide a family-friendly opportunity to be physically active.
We've had several very successful and entertaining events in 2014. The next one is coming up on October 4 2015, and it is sure to be a great event as well!
A portion of a Washington Blvd will be closed to vehicular traffic from 11am – 3pm on Sunday October 4, 2015.
With no cars on the road, you'll be able to enjoy these streets for walking, running, dancing or riding with friends and family as never before. Sunday Streets HTX is not a street festival. It is a family fun opportunity to be physically active and enjoy active transportation.
Upcoming Sunday Streets Events:
Date: October 4, 2015
Times: 12:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Where: Washington Avenue/ Waugh to Westcott Streets
Date: November 1, 2015
Times: 12:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Where: Museum Park
Date: December 13, 2015
Times: 12:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Where: Midtown
Visit Go Healthy Houston for detailed street maps of each 2015 Cigna Sunday Streets event.
What are Open Streets?
Sunday Streets (also called "Open Streets" or "Ciclovias") closes streets to automobile traffic for a day so that people may use the space for other physical and social activities. The streets become parks as people replace car traffic. People walk, bike, skate and dance and play. Non-profit and health organizations may offer free activities and share information about their services during the event.
It sounds simple, yet it really is very different and exciting.
People get out and connect with their community and urban environment in a transformative way. This temporary public space inspires creativity and change for the better, on that day – and beyond. As of early 2013, there are more than 70 Sunday Streets events in North America.
Check out StreetFilms.org for more about Open Streets around the world.
Open Streets Worldwide
San Francisco, Bogota, Portland, St. Louis, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York, Mexico City, Vancouver, Minneapolis and more have had many successful years of Open Streets. The public's love for these events is overwhelming.
Promoting Economic Development, Public Health, Car-Free Transportation, and More
Open Streets are increasingly common in cities seeking new and fun ways to achieve economic, environmental, social, and public health goals. These goals are shared across business, civic and community groups.
Open Streets offer new economic opportunities for commercial districts. In a recent study of an Open Streets event in St. Louis, 73% of attendees spent money at a restaurant or store along the route, 68% became aware of a store or restaurant that was new to them, and 94% responded "Yes – Positively" to the question: "Does Open Streets change your feelings about the city?"


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"The transportation system is the engine that drives the nation's economy," Norman Y. Mineta asserted in a presentation last week to the City Club of Boise.
"Economic growth depends on the safe and reliable movement of people and goods," the U.S. Transportation Secretary told a capacity crowd. "That's why passage of the transportation bill is so critical. Without passage, we are robbing local governments of their ability to plan for future transportation needs."
The nation's top transportation official confirmed what many in the audience already know – that Idaho's presence among the nation's fastest growing state economies depends heavily on growth of its transportation system.
He brought hope to the noon forum that a House-Senate conference committee had reached a compromise on the federal transportation bill earlier in the day and possibly would forward it to President Bush. That optimism enjoyed a short life. By Tuesday of this week it became clear that Congress would be unable to meet the projected schedule and that another extension of the federal spending bill was inevitable.
The transportation secretary, in his second visit to Boise in the past three years, addressed an array to topics from creation of the Transportation Security Administration to Amtrak and public transportation.
The federal government should embrace innovation rather
than stifle it, Mineta said.
Before addressing moderated questions from the audience, Mineta talked about the need to improve highway safety and reduce traffic-related collisions and deaths; railroad safety; the need to replace Amtrak with intercity passenger rail that meets the needs of travelers; and efforts to make flying safer, smoother and more efficient through the use of technology.
A half-hour of questions covered such topics as airport/aviation security, improved security at shipping ports, safeguarding the privacy of air travelers, gasoline prices and fuel efficiency, the economic viability of struggling airlines and allowing them to fail, and the development of local light rail systems.


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Mup-related sites
Mup compiled for Atari by a Mup user
A review of Mup
Yet another brief review of Mup
A survey of Mup users conducted by a Mup user
The Werner Icking Music Archive
includes some Mup songs
includes hundreds of public domain hymns printed using Mup. Uses shaped note heads.
Other things from the authors of Mup
A script to help put Mup music into a LaTeX docment.
A MIDI-to-Mup converter
Music-related sites
a freeware program for converting MIDI files to WAV files. Can also be used for listening to Mup files.
Harmony Central MIDI documentation
includes links to various MIDI tutorials.
Linux sound applications
Information about the KeyKit MIDI toolkit, and other MIDI information
Information about microtonal notation
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Los Angeles Tech Companies That Use Oracle
List of Los Angeles tech companies using Oracle
6 Companies
Universal Music Group
Consumer Web • Music
Universal Music Group (UMG) is the world's leading music company. In everything we do, we are committed to artistry, innovation, & entrepreneurship. We own and operate a broad array of businesses engaged in recorded music, music publishing, merchandising, & audiovisual content in more than 60 countries.
1500Local Employees
Woodland HillsLocation
Core Digital Media
AdTech • Big Data
Core Digital Media is a leader in online marketing and online consumer acquisition. Our websites LowerMyBills.com and ClassesUSA.com are fueled by an industry leading marketing platform which operates across a variety of financial and education markets working with more than 1000 unique partners.
150Local Employees
Playa VistaLocation
Fintech • Software
Since being founded in 2001, BlackLine has become a leading provider of cloud software that automates and controls the entire financial close process. Our vision is to modernize the finance and accounting function to enable greater operational effectiveness and agility. We have over 2700 customers in over 150 countries.
530Local Employees
Woodland HillsLocation
Consumer Web
Only MyLife.com helps you see, correct, enhance and monitor your Background Report and Reputation Score that are publicly available to build your reputation and protect your future. Find and Manage Yours at: www.MyLife.com
35Local Employees
Los AngelesLocation
Artificial Intelligence • Automotive
At CCC, we're all about connectedness - from our people to our products. Our team is truly reshaping the auto and casualty insurance, auto manufacturer, collision repair, and parts industries. We're setting the bar in these industries for AI-powered data insights, machine learning, IoT, and telematics.
75Local Employees
Boingo Wireless
Information Technology • Mobile
As one of the first Internet companies to call Los Angeles home, for nearly 20 years Boingo has grown from a tiny start-up to the leading Wi-Fi company in the world, publicly traded on NASDAQ (WIFI). We help the world stay connected to the people and things they love with award-winning Wi-Fi and cellular networks. Superstars always wanted–join us.
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Los AngelesLocation


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Hassleblad Opens a New Design Center in ItalySome companies build their infrastructure where it's cheapest to do so and others put things right close to home. Not Hassleblad. The Swedish camera maker has put its new design center right in the heart of Italy - not far from Venice and the Italian fashion industry
"We plan to capitalize on having the best of both worlds with this new Italian centre and our traditional Swedish camera manufacturing expertise," says chairman and CEO Dr. Larry Hansen. "The region we have chosen for this new centre of design excellence is home to many high-tech manufacturers, including those working in the watch, high end automobile and aerospace industries."
In this new design center, Hassleblad will be creating a new DSLR, a compact camera and its own line of accessories.


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sites with a /now page:Follow @NowNowNow for updates.
Kerri Aab
"Stop. Breathe. Listen. Talk less. Listen more. Stop complaining. Be of service. Smile. (And read cat memes every once in a while.)"
Asheville, NC United States
Professional title:
Bach flower remedy therapist, Kundalini yogi, Reiki practitioner, singer
What do you do?
I help people find stress relief and emotional wellbeing using the power of Bach flower essence remedies as a guide.
Helping others to find emotional balance brings me great joy.
What should we read?
Outrageous Openness - Tosha Silver


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Warner Bros. has provided CBR with new images from "Watchmen," the new Zack Snyder-directed film based on the landmark DC Comics graphic novel by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. These images follow the official release of the first trailer for the film at Apple as well as in front of "The Dark Knight," in theaters now.
"Watchmen" stars Patrick Wilson, Jackie Earle Haley, Malin Akerman, Billy Crudup, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Matthew Goode, Stephen McHattie and Carla Gugino, and depicts an alternate1980s reality in which superheroes existed and were outlawed, and follows a group of vigilantes that come out of retiring following the mysterious murder of one of their own.
Now discuss this story in CBR's TV/Film forum.
Thousands Petition For Marvel to Cast Danny DeVito As Wolverine


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I started all my businesses after discovering real problems and finding a way to solve them. But just solving problems is often not enough anymore. You need to delight your customers and you need to do it continuously.
Make customers love you and treat them like gold. They are gold. If your business starts to grow, don't ever neglect them. This may sound obvious, but I've seen many entrepreneurs forget or neglect the customers who made them successful once the company starts to grow. The outcomes in those situations can be disastrous. It takes years to build a business and customer loyalty, but, in a connected world, it can all be destroyed in moments if you do not keep your customers happy.
The old adage used to be, "a happy customer tells two people; an unhappy customer tells ten people." Online, that becomes exponential.
No matter how big a company becomes, I implore every entrepreneur to adopt a "Customer Happiness Policy" early on. Make sure your customers are always happy and that real problems are always resolved with urgency. Sure, this is sometimes difficult to scale (which, paradoxically, makes more customers unhappy in the early growth stages), but never, ever, let customers think you don't care about them. You should shock your customers with how much you care.
There is little worse for a customer to hear than, "I'll need to speak to my manager about that and get back to you" or for them to send an email to a company and not hear back days.
There's nothing more gratifying than converting an unhappy customer into a happy one. Many entrepreneurs get upset when a customer is angry and rightfully so. But, if a customer is angry, it's usually because they actually care about your product. Customer apathy is way worse than customer anger.
Entrepreneurs should use these events as opportunities to learn the cause of the problem and fix it. It's often the best opportunity you'll have as an entrepreneur to address problems and show how much your company cares about its customers. Every company has problems. The best way to set yourself apart is to love your customers. Think about Virgin and American Express, two standout companies who relentlessly dedicate themselves to customer service in spite of their massive size.
Every business I've started began with no customers. Our first customer becomes the king of our world. But, as my companies began to grow, some customers inevitably got upset as we hit speed bumps during our growth, product development and operational trajectory. Whether the cause is a product bug or perhaps a rogue sales rep, there are few things I find more gratifying then turning an irate customer into a lifelong customer and fan of the company.
My companies live by the rule of always making sure the customer never walks away unhappy. I've even taken this to the extreme on more than one occasion. At one company I started, we were up to about 1000 customers when I received a phone call from a customer who was upset because our product was not delivered on time. He was yelling at me, cursing, not giving me a chance to speak. I listened attentively. Yelling at someone is cathartic for the yeller. In business, I never take it personally.
When he was done yelling, I explained that we had already fixed the problem he had. I did everything I could on the phone to appease him, including offering free lifetime service. He didn't care nor did he accept it. We let him down once so his perception was that we didn't care and "free" was not what he was looking for. He was seemingly unappeasable — I knew that the only reason he was upset was because he placed so much value on our product and it was not there for him when he needed it.
So what did I do? I shocked him by showing him how much I cared about him as a customer. How? I offered to travel to him and take him for dinner even though he lived several hours way. He was blown away. No company had ever done anything like this for him, but in that one instant, he realized how much we as a company cared about him.
In an instant, he totally turned from an angry customer into a lifelong customer and one of the best testimonials we ever had. He insisted on continuing to use the service — and paying for it. He also referred dozens of other paying customers to us. At the end of our call, I found out that he was the ambassador from another country. We've since become lifelong friends.
Extreme? Maybe. Scalable? Depends on a lot of factors. While it's impossible to support non-paying customers like this, there are a lot of things you can do. And early on in a company's life, there is no difference between a paying customer and non-paying customer as far as support is concerned. While the level of support you can afford or handle may change, the goal of constantly delighting customers never should.
Sure, there are some people who take advantage of companies, especially when they have generous return policies. But people, on the whole, are good and, if you shock them with kindness, good things can happen.


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