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Be A Good Patriotic American By Renting Sony's The Interview
Recently I've read a lot of things about the attacks against Sony. I've read that they're nothing more than extortion attempts by hackers that probably live in their parents basements (based on the fact that the initial demands didn't mention North Korea at all). I've read they were orchestrated by China by people who felt North Korea was being picked on and couldn't stand up for themselves. I've read highly unconvincing reports from the FBI that they were orchestrated by North Korea. No one really knows. I can send traffic to servers from anywhere in the world. Anyone can anonymize their web traffic as easily as using a ToR plug-in with Firefox. I've also spoken to friends at Sony that told me that they're concerned about the future viability of Sony due to the business impacts of these attacks. I've also spoken with people at other studios freaking out about not wanting to "be the next Sony." But in all of it, there's something kicking in the back of my head. You see, if someone tried to blackmail me, I'd go to the press (or government) and allow the public to judge me for whatever it is, not cave to demands that are only likely to recur. Not giving into extortion demands is the right thing to do. If someone threatened the safety of people to go to a movie, I'd pull it as well, so that's the right thing to do as well. There have been enough shootings in theaters and while financially potentially devastating it's not worth the loss of a single human life to show The Interview in theaters. Of course, now that the attackers have backed off their stance, The Interview will be shown in hundreds of theaters. And it will likely be viewed online by millions of people over the next few days. And if this was carried out by North Korea, they couldn't visit all of our homes to pull it (although the awful remake of Red Dawn by MGM might indicate differently). I believe that the good, American thing to do is show our support to Sony for all the brain candy they've given us in the past. More than that, our support for doing what's right. And what's more capitalistic of us than spending $6 on a movie (other than spending more)? What's better for Sony than to make a little money? In America, we tend to root for underdogs. We love Rocky (which btw cost less than a million to make and brought in a breathtaking $225M – 1:225 ROI there). We wanted Rudy to score a touchdown for the Irish (TriStar – part of Sony). We practiced our kicks like the Karate Kid (Columbia Pictures – part of Sony). We watched Jerry Maguire (TriStar – part of Sony again) even though we couldn't stand Tom Cruise and rooted for the guy who risked it all to do the right thing (Money, baby). We threw up in our mouth a little when we watched Dodgeball (Fox but a fun movie anyways). We adore Gandhi (Columbia – again part of Sony) because it won an Oscar and taught us the story of one of the greatest men of all time. We loved Charlie Sheen when he was Winning in Major League (Mirage). And we loved Kick-Ass (Lions Gate), one of the unlikeliest heros of all. Sony made Bond great again. Sony brought us Spiderman to the big screen. Sony told us about The Social Network (and were still allowed to have Facebook accounts. Sony gave us Eat Pray Love. Sony killed zombies awesome sauce in Zombieland. Sony gave us Superbad. Sony taught us a history lesson with The King's Speech. Sony brought The Da Vinci Code to the big screen. Sony made a great movie in the Lords of Dogtown. Sony brought us Hell Boy, Adaptation (as a writer, a movie I love), Ali, Black Hawk Down and countless other movies. Some great, some not. That's the game. Now, we have a chance to do a very small part by helping Sony escape financial ruin. And yes, they make more movies that suck than are awesome. Because that's what all studios do. And yes, the film industry seems like a bunch of rich people being silly sometimes. But there are real people that work there. Normal people. With boys and girls and installations at burning man. Some of the best people I know. And they do great work. And sometimes the studio makes brilliant movies. And whether this was spearheaded (yes, bad pun on spear phishing) by a dictator with a bad fade, the remaining communist hardliners in China, another studio or something else, it's up to the market to dictate the outcome. That's capitalism. 'Merica PS – It's hilarious.


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December 7, 1967, Vol. XIII, No. 8
Dawn's Early Light On Whitehall Street
by Sally Kempton
There were two dramatic moments at Tuesday's sit-in demonstration. The first was pure ritual: the arrival of the demonstrators in the pre-dawn darkness. They trickled toward the assembly area at Peter Minuit Plaza, straining to recognize each other under the streetlights, while behind them massed in phalanxes around Whitehall Induction Center, stood 2500 members of the Police Department's Tactical Patrol Force. The police looked like an army, and when David McReynolds, using a bullhorn, began to call the demonstrators together, the impression was of a leader calling a small band of guerrillas to march against legions.
McReynolds sent out three prongs. The first squadron, including Dr. Benjamin Spock, Jane Jacobs, Allen Ginsberg, Susan Sontag, and about 15 others, was to attempt to take the front steps of the Induction Center, which, like all the other entrances, had been barricaded against the demonstration.
Spock's group managed to get under the barricade (where Spock was accosted by a policeman who wanted to show him pictures of his children) and to sit down on the steps before they were arrested.
Grace Paley led the second section, about 100 people, around to the intersection of Broad and Bridge Streets, where they sat down in front of the barricades, about a block from the Induction Center. They had been sitting for about 20 minutes when the second dramatic incident occurred.
Mrs. Paley had explained to the police, about 400 of whom were lined up between the demonstrators and the barricades, that the people sitting in expected to be arrested, and the police had agreed to take them into the vans without incident. Now a police van began to edge forward down the alley the demonstrators were blocking. Then, just as dawn was breaking, the van speeded up, passed the barricades, and drove directly into the seated crowd. Half of the demonstrators panicked and ran. At that point, the surrounding policemen, several of whom were mounted, moved through the crowd, shoving and dragging those who had not moved out of the way. One body of about 40 demonstrators was knocked against a barricade and then driven over it by mounted police. Several people were kicked, one boy was hit in the neck by a nightstick and severely injured, and a girl was dragged off the street by her hair.
The violence ended as soon as the police scattered the demonstrators. Afterward, most of the group returned to their positions on the pavement where they were arrested rather quietly and taken away in vans. Many people, including several from the supporting picket line, attempted to get through the barricades to take the place of the arrested demonstrators, but were restrained by the police.
More than 3000 pickets remained at the Induction Center through the morning and well into the afternoon.
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I tried to google her, but didn't find much, however I found this on Wikipedia: "However, Rosa left out important factors like Miss Penny Wise, the old lady which, according to Scrooge, is the only one who could ruïn him, because he is in debt with her."
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Sculptor: © Barbara Grygutis
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Artist's Statement: "Drop is conceptualized to
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Date Unveiled: 2010
Engineered by : M3 Engineering & Technology
Corporation of Tucson, Arizona.
Fabricated by : Industrial Stainless International of
Chaparral, New Mexico.
Location: The Drop sculpture is located in Prewett
Family Park in Antioch, California.
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text: The Wall Street Journal recently published a series of articles under the title "The Passivists." Highlighting the merits of a passive investment approach, authors tackle topics such as the fruitless endeavor of trying to pick winning stocks to the "Do Nothing All Day" investment approach taken by Nevada's $35 Billion pension fund. For each article we provide a synopsis as well as our own additional comments to build upon the great work highlighted in this series. The general synopsis of this article[1] revolves around some of the pitfalls involved in traditional indexing strategies and offers an alternative; mainly, the fundamental indexing strategy made popular by Robert Arnott of Research Affiliates. Although we agree that the rigidity involved with following a traditional index strategy poses unnecessary costs to investors, there are also some fundamental issues with fundamental indexing, as we will discuss in this article. The goal of traditional indexing is to track a particular benchmark, like the S&P 500 or Russell 2000, as closely as possible in order to replicate performance. This involves the portfolio manager buying and selling securities as the indexes reconstitute themselves, leading to potentially buying securities at a premium and selling securities at steep discounts as active traders "front-run" reconstitution dates as they know that traditional index strategies will be buying and selling particular securities on certain days in order to track the index. But Mr. Arnott believes there to be another basic reason why traditional indexing is not optimal. According to WSJ article, fundamental indexers believe that indexes based on market capitalization leads to eventually owning more overvalued securities (lower expected return) and less undervalued securities (higher expected return) securities. This has become known as the "Noisy Market Hypothesis." Fundamental indexes address this problem by breaking the link between a securities value and the price and instead build custom indexes based off of fundamentals such as book value, sales, earnings or a combination. There is a fundamental flaw with fundamental indexing. As Mr. André F. Perold of Harvard Business School addresses in "Fundamentally Flawed Indexing" in the Financial Analysts Journal almost a decade ago, "the problem arises in going from this assumption [any given stock is likely to be overvalued or undervalued] about market prices to the conclusion that capitalization weighting systematically skews investment toward overvalued stocks." His reasoning is the following, "the crux of the issue is that the noisy market hypothesis effectively anchors on fair value – holding fair value fixed and using probability distribution of the pricing error to deduce the probability distribution of market prices. To do so is to presuppose systematic reversals in stock prices, an assertion that does not follow from stocks being randomly mispriced." The argument can be analogized as follows. Suppose that you are shopping in a jewelry store and you see two different 1-karat diamonds. One sells for $1,000 and the other for $1,500. As far as you are concerned, they both look the same. However, the jeweler tells you that he underpriced one of them and overpriced the other. Based on your intuition, you immediately decide that the $1,500 diamond is the overpriced one while the $1,000 diamond is the underpriced one. However, a few moments of reflection would lead you to the conclusion that there is an equal probability (50%) that the $1,500 diamond is the underpriced one. Since you are not a gemologist, you have no good way of knowing. Investors (and fund managers) who believe that higher priced companies have a higher probability of being "overpriced" are making the same mistake. Although the logic used by fundamental indexers is faulty, their conclusion about creating a better exposure to the market by focusing on fundamentals is true. We also believe that the market has different dimensions to risk that are being priced into the market. Dimensional Fund Advisors (DFA) has been one of the leading proponents of multi-dimension investing for over 3 decades. Similar to Research Affiliates, they believe there are certain premiums in the market that investors can capture and therefore increase the expected return of their portfolio. These include company size, their price relative to their book value, as well as profitability and capital investment. In short, companies that are smaller, have a lower price relative to their book value, higher profitability, and lower capital investment have higher expected returns. In reality, an investor who follows an approach like DFA's or that by Research Affiliates is really gaining exposure to similar securities. DFA believes securities are fairly valued and reflect the risk associated with them while Research Affiliates believes that investors are becoming more exposed to overvalued stocks overtime, which we have already shown is based on faulty logic. We have done performance comparisons between DFA and Research Affiliates and found no statistical difference in performance between the strategies. But we still prefer to exercise sound logic. You can find the original article published in the Wall Street Journal here. [1] Jakab, Spencer. "The Hidden Weaknesses of Index Funds." The Wall Street Journal. October 18, 2016. http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-hidden-weaknesses-of-index-funds-1476799335 Step 1PassivistsRobert ArnottWeaknessIndex FundsDfaResearch Previous Article Next Article All Articles About Index Fund Advisors Index Fund Advisors, Inc. (IFA) is a fee-only advisory and wealth management firm that provides risk-appropriate, returns-optimized, globally-diversified and tax-managed investment strategies with a fiduciary standard of care. Founded in 1999, IFA is a Registered Investment Adviser with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that provides investment advice to individuals, trusts, corporations, non-profits, and public and private institutions. Based in Irvine, California, IFA manages individual and institutional accounts, including IRA, 401(k), 403(b), profit sharing, pensions, endowments and all other investment accounts. IFA also facilitates IRA rollovers from 401(k)s and 403(b)s. To find out more about the value of IFA click here. To determine your risk capacity, take the Risk Capacity Survey. About the AuthorsTom AllenTom Allen is an Accredited Investment Fiduciary (AIF®), Certified Cash Balance Consultant (CBC) and a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA®) Level III Candidate. 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Gambhir doubtful for 2nd Test against Sri Lanka
India's injury woes compounded today after opener Gautam Gambhir was rendered a doubtful starter for the second cricket Test against Sri Lanka due to a knee problem.cricket Updated: Jul 25, 2010 17:17 IST
India's injury woes compounded on Sunday after opener Gautam Gambhir was rendered a doubtful starter for the second cricket Test against Sri Lanka due to a knee problem.
India need to win the crucial match, beginning Monday, to square the series.
The left-hander, who has been struggling of late, was a flop in the first Test at Galle where he got out in the very first over of both the innings.
India skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni said he is not sure of Gambhir's availability for the match.
"As far as injuries goes Gautam is having a problem with either the left or right knee. I am not 100 per cent sure which knee. So we will take a call may be in the evening or tomorrow morning before the game," Dhoni said.
India are already missing fast bowlers Zaheer Khan and S Sreeanth due to injuries.
Sri Lanka's fast bowler Lasith Malinga has also been ruled out of the match due to a knee problem.
India lost the first match by a huge 10-wicket margin.
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5 things Google trends reveals about IT and process excellence
Each year search engine giant Google publishes its year end Zeitgeist, a compendium of the search terms that captured the spirit of the year. Not surprisingly, celebrities and major news events figure high on that list. However, if you plug IT and process excellence terms into Google trends, you can get an altogether different picture of what captures the corporate Zeitgeist.
According to Google Trends, on the up are "big data", "data scientists" and "process agility" while the "cloud computing" hype appears to have finally broken in the middle of last year. Meanwhile, searches for Six Sigma and Quality Management are declining but Lean Six Sigma is holding its own in the battle of the search engine.
Here are the 5 things that Google tells us about trends in technology and process improvement:
#1: Big data has exploded
If you haven't heard of big data yet, what rock have you been living under? 2012 was the year that big data – effectively bigger volumes and different types of data than we've ever been able to analyze before – has come of age. Until the beginning of this year, global search volume for big data was relatively subdued before taking off at the beginning of the year and continuing to climb steadily throughout.
Global searches for big data rose sharply in 2012 (Click to enlarge)
Software and consulting firms see opportunities for Big Data to revolutionize customer management (by giving companies better insight into who their customers are and how they behave), create "smarter" business operations (by enabling devices to communicate with each other and act on that data – think of the new driverless cars – and/or flagging up possible situations so that humans can intervene), and help businesses unlock insights previously impossible to tap into.
#2: Data scientist role increasingly sought after
Not surprisingly, all this data is creating demand for a whole new set of skills. For companies to derive any benefit at all from the investment in the technical infrastructure necessary to support big data, it requires people who can analyze and find insight in it. This is statistics on steroids. According to a recent HBR article, data scientist is going to be the "sexy job" of the 21st century, while Google's Chief Economist Hal Varian predicted that statisticians would be the sexy ones in the year ahead. Statistics getting sexy again? We love it!
Are data scientists putting the "sexy" back in statistics? (click to enlarge)
#3: Companies looking to increase their "process agility"
While productivity and quality have been metrics that have been used in companies for decades in order to help measure performance, there is an increasing recognition that the ability to change can actually be not just a competitive differentiator, but key to business survival. You might be running an efficient ship but if the seas you're sailing in get stormy you might need to divert course quickly. For many companies, taking that detour can be incredibly expensive and time consuming – especially when legacy IT systems are involved.
Forrester recently published a report explaining the need for adding process agility and customer experience metrics to traditional performance metrics like productivity and efficiency.
"The level of innovators out there coming up with new business models based on consumer technology and social and big data vastly exceed any number of innovators that have existed in the past," said Craig Le Clair in a PEX Network interview about the report. "Companies need to think about their systems and their culture and their organisation to become more flexible in architecture to allow rapid changes to the systems and processes they depend on."
You can download the slides from the report here.
Global searches trends appear to back up the idea that people are starting to factor agility into their process and enterprise architectures:
Are enterprises looking to increase process agility? (click to enlarge)
#4: Cloud computing hype has peaked
Cloud computing – the delivery of software as service over the internet - reached its zenith in mid-2011 in terms of search engine traffic and has been slowly declining ever since:
Cloud computing reached its peak in 2011 (click to enlarge)
Does this mean the death knell for cloud computing? More likely it means that it's finally gone from high on the hype-meter to much more part of business as usual. Indeed, a CIO Global Cloud computing adoption survey published in January 2011 found that over 88% of the 600+ IT decision makers rated cloud computing as a key priority over the next 18 months, with business agility the top driver for cloud computing (75%). As cloud computing becomes part of the businesses operate, we expect global search traffic for it to die down.
#5: Interest in Six Sigma and Quality Management is waning but Lean Six Sigma is holding steady
From heady heights in 2005, global search volumes have steadily declined for Six Sigma, a process improvement methodology developed in the 1980's by Motorola. The methodology, which relies heavily on statistical analysis of processes to identify "root causes" of variation really took off in corporate America in the 1990s. It has more recently come under fire for long project lengths at a time when companies need to respond quickly to changing market conditions while its rigorous focus on data has come under criticism for leaving companies slow to innovate.
Searches for Six Sigma have been steadily declining since 2005 (click to enlarge)
The slow decline in searches for Six Sigma corresponds to a similar decline in the searches for quality management:
Quality management follows a similar downward trend (click to enlarge)
This being said, search enquiries for Lean Six Sigma has increased since 2005 and remained relatively stable throughout the financial crisis that began in 2008. This may be partly explained by the fact that lean process improvement, which aims to increase efficiency by emphasising the reduction of non-value added activity, is often seen as an faster method of process improvement and also focuses on efficiency – important at a time when companies can ill afford to carry unnecessary costs.
Lean Six Sigma - holding steady (click to enlarge)
So those are some of the corporate trends in IT and process excellence according to Google. But to put this in perspective, the quest to improve business operations through better use of people, processes and technology pales in comparison to global internet traffic searches of popular culture. Sustained search volumes for one of the most hyped business terms of the year - Big Data – are eclipsed by those generated by a South Korean rapper dancing like a pony. Gangnam style was one of the runaway winners of 2012, becoming the most watched ever video on YouTube and is one of Google's most searched for terms of the year.
Searches for Gangnam style eclipsed even big data (click to enlarge)
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It was while reading Kalki's 'Ponniyin Selvan' that Ram Shankar, a chartered account ant realised, the contributions of the Chola dynasty , one of the longest-ruling dynasties in south India, to the economy and culture of Tamil Nadu. Many scholars have studied the cultural aspects of the Cholas, but only a few have looked into the economic policies of the dynasty. Keeping this in mind, Shankar travelled to the Chola heartland. From temples to inscriptions, his journey took him across the Cauvery delta, once the heartland of the Cholas. And out of his experiences and travel was born 'Cholanomics: Social pursuit of Cholas with temple as epicenter', a book that presents a socio-economic view on the contributions of Cholas to the development of Tamil Nadu with the temple as the epicenter of community .
There is an interesting tale behind the title of the book. "While working on the book one day I wondered why everyone trumpets about 'Reaganomics' and 'Clintonomics' when we have the rich heritage of Cholas, their social pursuits and good governance right here in our backyard. I felt I should bring the wonders of the Chola dynasty to the living rooms of people," he said.
Brihadeeswarar Temple in Thanjavur
Peppered with stunning photographs, the book based on the medieval Chola period, focuses on governance rather than conquest. "I have compiled my views on the economic policy, social pursuits and good governance of the Cholas. Unlike 'Reaganomics' and 'Clintonomics', the idea of 'Cholanomics' is to convey that the Cholas considered economic expansion and the development of socially inclusive society as two sides of the same coin," he said.
The period when the Cholas ruled the region —the Tamil Nadu of today —is often called the golden era of Tamil Nadu as it witnessed a spurt of socio-economic and cultural activities during their reign. "The Cholas ruled continuously for close to 430 years (AD 850 to 1280). It is a monarchy lasting over 20 generations."
Rajaraja Chola I was the first Chola king to document archives on stone tablets and copper plates about the achievements, conquests, royal orders, endowments and gifts of the dynasty . "Copper plates were generally strung together by enormous rings with the state's circular seal stamped on them. They were called 'Meikeerthi' meaning historic facts," he said.
An interesting fact about the Chola's economic policy is that they had to create policies and governance for a sustainable economic expansion as early as 9th century from scratch. The Cholas even conducted extensive land survey and graded lands for the purpose of taxation. Although the Chola kings built huge granite temples, they chose to reside in houses made of brick and mortar."The kings' simple style of living shows their commitment to public service that was uncommon in other contemporary empires," said Shankar. Published by Alpha Publishers, the book gives a basic insight into the style of functioning of a great dynasty.


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Dysfunctional Christian
I have a meeting today, I guess you could call it an interview, and I was reviewing in my head all of the questions this person might ask me. If asked to describe myself what would I say? This person doesn't know me from adam or the type of life I lead but if I was moved to be 100% honest with her this is what I would say, "I am a dysfunctional Christian". I feel as if God is on my doorstep banging very hard to let him in and I keep fighting it. Why? I don't know. I think when you become a Christian later in life (I was 33) you have a hard time 'giving it all to God' when so much of your prior life you did everything with your own best interest in mind. I recently saw a movie "Eat, Pray, Love" and Julia Roberts character made a comment "I don't feel anything", that's where I am right now. Summer should be a time of relaxation, joy, love and fun. Mine has been filled with work, deadlines, obligations, expectations and yes, some fun….Don't get me wrong, I have enjoyed this summer but my heart keeps breaking because I am not where I want to be in my walk with Christ. I try to blame it on outside influences; the husband who's walk with Christ is in the baby stages, the father, who I also work with day in and day out, that triggers the anxiety and anger issues I have with constant negativity; the busy schedule that makes me choose between what I want to do and what I should do. Debt; the consistent out of debt one minute only to get back into it another. Here's how I would like to "fix" it. Focus on God! Period. Retrain the brain, Reschedule my life, Prioritize the things that will make me one with God versus being a neighbor with God. The thing is, until I decide AND truly believe that this is my one chance to get it right, things will continue to stay the same. Will my life look like it does now if I put these changes in motion? Probably not. But….will I have peace in my heart and a personal relationship with my Lord and Savior and experience what it is like to 'give it all to God'. Man, that sounds good. Maybe I can turn dysfunctional into functional yet….
Following the Leader
I'm so excited to be in the presence of God. I love how He does His thing
in the most unexpected ways. This morning, as I was sleepily scrolling
through FaceBook status', I came across a friend's status talking about
teaching her son to play "Follow the Leader" and it really hit me. It
read, "The boys are playing follow the leader. Josh started trying to tell
Jeremiah what to do but I corrected him. The leader does what he wants his
followers to do. He doesn't just tell them what to do. I find interesting
application of that to real life." I don't think she'll mind me using her
name, thanks Nicole!
So this idea hit me so hard and it got me thinking about our walk as
Christians. I call myself a Christian, which to me means that I strive to
be Christ-like. Jesus was the ultimate example of the perfect leader. God
laid out the ways in which He wants us to live and he fulfilled His
leadership through Jesus Christ. I just love it. So it provokes me to
look at my life and see where it is that I need to grow. It is really easy to
look at the visible things in my life that seem to be fulfilling this idea
but this thought (over the last hour) has really challenged me to look at
the areas that I need to work on. At BlastZones this week (our churches
version of VBS) we have a verse every day. Yesterday, it was from
Hebrews 12:1 "Let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us."
And I love this analogy. Running the race that God has marked out for us
means running the 'whole' race. Not just the easy parts, not just the
paths that are fun or beautiful, all of them. The rocky, rigid, wet,
nasty gunky ones too.
I believe one of the trickiest things about being a Christian is striking
the balance between feeling encouraged by the things we know we do well;
those things that we are good at and are using to benefit God's Kingdom –
and being challenged by God to move forward in the areas where we know we
need to grow. The areas where I know that even though I am not running
after Him, He's after me! Love you guys!
Dynamic Ministry!!!
Please take some time to check out this blog site. Incredible ministry at work. He is EVERYWHERE and that He desires EVERYONE!!! I would ask that you add this ministry to your prayer time and partner with them as they reach out to those God brings along their paths!
Hey ladies!
It's an honor to be a part of "Connecting Women" today. I'm so thankful for environments like this that seek to create nurturing and inspiring community for women.
Over the last couple of years God has really been softening my heart to the need for the intentional development of women, especially women in leadership. One of my greatest burdens for women is helping us truly identify and understand who God has made us to be and to embrace that wholeheartedly.
As leaders, I believe it's so critical that we do the tough work of understanding ourselves and how we are uniquely wired. As women in particular, we have a tendency to allow a lot of other things in our lives to define us and we lose sight of our God-given gifts, talents and abilities.
"Over the last fifty years women have secured for themselves greater opportunity, greater achievement, greater influence, and more money. But over the same time period, they have become less happy, more anxious, more stressed, and, in ever increasing numbers, they are medicating themselves for it." From Find Your Strongest Life by Marcus Buckingham
That statement is heartbreaking to me. It's heartbreaking because I really believe it's true. I've begun to see this in my own life. Our opportunities have increased rapidly and we're adding pressure, responsibility and activities daily, but we're not taking the pressure off in other areas. We're just piling more onto our already overflowing lives.
Marcus also shares in his book:
"The conventional image of a successful woman today is that she's a virtuoso juggler, somehow moving fast enough to keep all the many aspects of her busy life in the air at the same time. This is a common image, but it's also quite sad. The core skill of juggling is throwing, not catching. To keep every object in the air, you have to get rid of each one as quickly as possible, barely allowing it to register on your fingertips before you toss it up and away, preparing for the next object to throw."
I'm willing to bet that most of you are jugglers. You've learned to be really good at keeping things moving but rarely are you stopping to evaluate what you should be spending your time on. You feel like you can't put anything down and as a result you tap into your strengths less and less until you are not even sure what they look like anymore.
One of my favorite verses is a constant reminder of my need to evaluate who God is calling me to be:
Galatians 6:4-5 (The Message)
"Make a careful exploration of who you are and the work you have been given,
and then sink yourself into that. Don't be impressed with yourself. Don't
compare yourself with others. Each of you must take responsibility for
doing the creative best you can with your own life."
Can I challenge you to stop juggling and seek to understand what makes you uniquely you?
How has God uniquely wired you?
What are your strengths and gifts?
And how do you need to reorganize your life to experience the joy of leading from them?
I'm praying that God would awaken you to the beautiful, uniquely gifted individual that He has created you to be!
A BIG THANK YOU to Jenni for her guest appearance today at Connecting Women Ministries! You can follow Jenni's thoughts, creativity, and inspiration via the following links!
God's talking… am I listening?
I love how the Spirit of God works in His body of believers. Jenni Catron's blog yesterday had a very similar theme to mine. I thought I'd share her thought with you today, as well as, my response. May you take time today to retreat and dwell in His presence.
All that said, I still struggle with not feeling guilty for retreating from responsibilities and daily noise. God is faithful in reminding me that His Son modeled retreat. He demonstrated His need to be with the Father. How could I need anything less. I also confess that sometimes I wish those moments would never end and that I could stay wrapped up in His arms and stay quiet. But, Jesus also modeled reaching a multitude with the Father's love, so back to the noise I go… patiently waiting for the world to stop again!
Recognizing the Blessings
Let me encourage you today to take some time to pause, ponder, and praise God for the blessings in your life. Here's a list of a few of my blessings; a fantastic husband who regularly teaches and reminds me of grace, patience, and unconditional love; three great kids who are normally the source by which I need to learn to administer thus learned grace, patience, and unconditional love; the very special people that God had brought into my life who far exceed friendship and have become my family; and even simple things like sunshine and a cool breeze on a hot day. I am blessed and I am certain you are as well. Give Him thanks today in your efforts to stay fully connected…never alone!
You know those people in your life that you can instantly reconnect with no matter how much time has gone by? I love those people! Last night I met with two women who, over many years, have inspired and encouraged me to be a better mom, wife, and Christ follower. We talked for hours, sharing the different journeys that God has had each of us on for the past few years. For me, it was proof that God is such a creative designer, but still, He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. There were so many similarities in each of our stories and in the lessons we'd each learned; however, the roads He'd taken each of us down were so different. Their lives have been such a vivid example of bearing fruit for Christ through obedience, challenges, and faithfulness. Thank you ladies for such great inspiration!
Does Silence=Agreement? by Mindy Bycroft
Do you have someone in your life that you are trying to influence? Why? My hope is that my intentions are pure when it comes to why I do what I do in general and why I want to influence people. I pray it is for the right reasons, for Christ's benefit and not mine.
I have someone in particular that lately has made a bad decision – in my mind anyway. This decision goes against what I know God says not to do. However, my friend doesn't claim to follow Him. She knows Him (which leads to a lot of my concern in the matter) but at this point and time, is making choices that are blatantly against what we know to be true to what God wants for us and from us.
So, what to do about this? Honestly, I'm in a good place with her. I've know her a really long time and when I met her I knew that this is where she is. Not only do I like her, I like being with her and have honestly grown to love her dearly. The more I know her, the more I want her to… well, quite simply I want her to be in heaven someday. But I don't know what to do with this? This 'thing' has been the hardest to take in the time I've known her. My concern is that silence=agreement. When you say nothing, the person is left to assume that you agree. Obviously she knows me very well too and knows where I am coming from so why would she go about life, including me in the planning and process of this 'bad decision' and expect me to be happy for her?
I'll tell you why. Because she expects me to continue to be the person I claim to be; the friend I claim to be. I claim to love people and accept them for who they are and where they are. I claim not to be the judge of her life and her decisions. I claim to love God and love others but in this case, what does that look like?
The most important piece here; she didn't ask me what I think about it. She didn't want to know from me whether she should do this or not. Who do I think I am that I should expect her to do what I think she should or should not do? That's where pride comes in; thinking that because she knows that I would be against this thing that it would stop her from doing it! Wow, how arrogant does one have to be to think that! Sadly, I personally know the answer. Of course she's not going to ask me what I think, she already knows what I would say.
I believe at this point in time my focus is showing her the love of Jesus Christ. And get over myself thinking that I am going to bring God to her. He's with her. He's doing His thing and I need to do mine. She will decide if/when/how/why she will follow God – not me. And that means actively seeking what He may want me to do in this situation – or not do. I need to be a person that my friend will come to when things get hard. And in the meantime, maybe take a look at my own life and see how what I may need to change. You see, it's the times in our life that we look around and see what everybody else is doing 'wrong' that I believe we need to take a hard look at ourselves.


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Although we don't believe in timing the market or panicking over market movements, we do like to keep an eye on big changes -- just in case they're material to our investing thesis.
What: Shares of battery-led conglomerate Energizer Holdings
So what: Energizer's looking to get leaner and meaner, and it thinks that it can hit as much as $200 million in pre-tax cost savings through moves like cutting jobs, streamlining manufacturing, and shaving off some overhead spending. In its press release today, the company said 70% to 80% of that cost savings will fall to the bottom line, improving profitability, while the rest will be reinvested to help drive future growth.
Now what: This news obviously isn't universally cheery -- with U.S. unemployment already high, this is yet another major company looking to cut back its workforce. For investors, though, there's definitely reason for optimism today. Though the company will have to spend up front -- it expects on the order of 1.25 times the gross savings it'll end up with -- this plan could be a big long-term benefit.
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Based on the hit 4Kids cartoon, Winx Club: Mission Enchantix features an exciting mix of puzzles and exploration, an expanded Magic Closet mode where you can design your own outfits and share them with friends, and an all new mode dedicated to accessing exclusive Winx Club artwork, videos and music! The gameplay runs through a story mode crossing ten enchanting chapters of the popular TV show's Season 3 storyline featuring all six Winx fairies!
Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc. today announced it has shipped Winx Club: Mission Enchantix to retail stores nationwide. Making its series return to Nintendo DS, Winx Club: Mission Enchantix provides new and exciting gameplay with a mix of puzzles and exploration, as well as an expanded Magic Closet mode that offers young fans an adventure full of fantasy, fashion and magic. Read More »
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While working with small businesses, I came to realize how many business owners have never written out a formal business plan. So I set out on my own and began assisting some fantastic law firms by preparing a tailored, written plan for their firm. Subsequently, I was invited to expand to all businesses and I am now promoting the success of small businesses along with a great partner, Scott Noon.
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Roughly 1 in 5 Americans gets the flu each year. And despite today's news, physicians at AFC/Doctors Express are still encouraging people to get their flu shot!
Fast Flu Facts:
- A flu vaccine contains three or four flu viruses (depending on the
type of vaccine you receive) so even when there is a less than ideal
match, the vaccine may protect against different but related viruses (according to the CDC).
52% of the 85 influenza virus samples collected and analyzed
from October 1 through November 22 of this year were different than the
virus strains included in this season's flu vaccine.
- The most common strain of the virus reported so far this season is influenza A (H3N2). In the past, this strain has been linked to higher rates of hospitalization and death.
- Even with a less than ideal match, the CDC recommends everyone 6 months and older get the flu vaccination, especially high risk groups such as the elderly, young children, and those with chronic health conditions.
- Only two states have reported widespread flu activity so far this season, according to the CDC.
- This past February, the FDA recommended that the 2014-2015 flu vaccine be the same one used for the 2013-2014 flu season.
Flu vaccination rates are on the rise. In 2012-2013, 41% of adults and 56% of children received the flu vaccination (an increase from the previous flu season).
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I personally (as in my own opinion you can do what you like) can not understand why I would want to buy a 400 buck pedal that I must push through some type of amp that had to cost something, when I can just buy the amp it is modeled after for $900 and be done. Or in the case of say the x100 I can buy used in great shape for $350 all day long.
It's definitely a niche market, because it seems to be targeting touring musicians almost more than anything. If I remember the videos for the Vai pedal correctly, it's specifically designed for him to throw in a bag and no matter where he plugs in, he can get something close to "his" sound, whether it's a PA or just using a power amp section of a guitar amp.


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Started DJ'ing early '00. Really enjoy mixing liquid drum and bass. Sometimes
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I became involved in RTR through an old friend who goes by the DJ name Osiris.
Being able to bring fresh tunes to our listeners ears every Saturday night!
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Killler-RC Power Starter for you gas R/C
It's here! We shared a prototype back in October HERE and now you can order yours from TGN.
We are happy this is here. It looks to be a great product and we believe this will make a lot of people very happy. Similar to the idea of the rotor start we had years ago, this unit allows you to start your gas engine in your large scale R/C. Providing you have the room to run a drill or angle driver to the starter area. More details below:
Part Number: KRC-AC-PWS
Link: HERE
Our goal with the Power Starter was to make a power assisted engine starter that's simple, reliable, and affordable. The main improvement here, over other starters, is that the one way bearing is in the driver on the drill. Once the engine is running, the one way bearing is done doing its job. So the bearing is not constantly spinning with the flywheel, adding drag, getting dirty, and eventually burning up, like what sometimes happens with other starters. The Power Starter also weighs less than a stock rope pull starter.
We sell the Power Starter in 3 different kits. Without Driver, with 1 driver, and with 2 drivers. The driver part that fits in the drill is made by Troy-Bilt, and is available at Lowe's Home Improvement stores or online here. This driver is what makes the whole kit affordable. If we are out of stock of the kits with the driver, then you can get your own drivers online, or at your local Lowe's, in the weedeater parts aisle. It is also sold at Lowe's under another brand name – Arnold. Remove the red ring on the driver before use.
You will need an 18v, or higher, drill to start the engine. Your drill needs to have a 3/8″ chuck and be able to spin at 1200 RPM, or higher. The faster, the better. DO NOT use an impact drill.
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Filed under: About | Tags: bhut jolokia, Chili pepper, ghost pepper, growing hot peppers, hot pepper dudes, Hot sauce
We formed Hot Pepper Dudes, LLC as a company in 2010 but the ideas and experimentation started more than a decade earlier. I (Chris Billet) have been experimenting with growing hot peppers, making hot sauces, and other methodes of preserving peppers since 1999. It really started as a hobby since I couldn't find anything other than jalpenos and habaneros in the grocery stores or farmer's markets. I stubled across a place online (pepperjoe.com) that carries tons of different organic hot pepper seeds, so I decided to start growing my own. I've been so pleased with the quality of the seeds that I still order from Pepper Joe today.
I had never really gardened a whole lot, so as you may imagine it took some trial and error to get the results that I wanted out of growing the hot peppers. Experimentation and research provided enough help that I was soon growing 10 – 12 different plants per season and getting a good amount of peppers from each plant. Once you get the hang of it, it's really quite simple. Also, I've found that growing them in containers is actually easier (no weeds to pull) and produces good results. Figuring all this stuff out inspired me to start a web site that would help (hopefully) other people get started with growing their own hot peppers.
So now I'm growing hot peppers…and I end up with a ton of them, more than I can possibly eat before they would go bad. Not wanting my prize crop to go to waste, I learned how to pickle and "can" them in mason jars. Also, this is where I started making my own hot sauce. I found a very basic recipe and then started experimenting from there. I added the processing tips to the web site once I figured them out. Every year I kept trying out new concoctions for hot sauces and I still enjoy doing that today.
In 2008, my day job resulted in a relocation to Tampa, FL. This was also the first year that I was able to get Ghost Pepper (aka Bhut Jolokia) seeds. I had been reading quite a bit about them as they are a native pepper to India and are said to be the hottest pepper in the world, coming in somewhere around 1,000,000 Scoville units (about 400 times hotter than Tabasco sauce). Well, of course I had to make a hot sauce with these peppers and after a few different variations I hit on a combination that everyone absolutely loved.
Around this time I had also met Jeff Toothman who shared a similar love for all things spicy and cooking in general. We decided to team up and start the company and get our first two sauces bottle for commercial sale. It's been a blast so far. The third hot pepper dude is a long time friend from Pennsylvania, John French. He enjoyed the sauces so much that he's now running the Northeast branch of the business.
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If you have kept up with the whole Top Gear and Jeremy Clarkson fracas over the past few months, you will know that it does not look like it will be ending any time soon.
Briefly, Clarkson was let go from his position as presenter on the BBC's hit Top Gear show earlier this month, causing an uproar among fans.
Now, I do not want to get into a should he or shouldn't he have been fired from Top Gear debate. The issue I have is that when rumours surfaced that Sue Perkins, who has an impressive portfolio as a comedienne, actress, broadcaster and writer, was going to take Clarkson's seat on Top Gear she faced 'The Troll'.
After she was announced as the bookmaker's favourite to take on the role, Sue received abusive Tweets from supposed Top Gear fans telling her they would like to see her 'burn to death' and wished 'she was dead'.
Now who would make such a horrific, dreadful statement? Trolls, that's who. Anonymous, untraceable figures behind a screen, typing out unimaginable insults and threats who will face little to no repercussion for their actions.
Why? Because it's near impossible to trace a troll. Social Media is quick, easy and accessible. You can as easily set up an account as you can delete one. Trolls seem to find solace in this anonymity, it seems to give them the strength to continue their online siege.
However, what they do not seem to realise is the dangerous path they leave behind them. The mark left on the victim of this online terror cannot be deleted. You can't simply erase any trace of the insults to victims of online abuse, it can live with them for the rest of their life and be detrimental to their self-confidence and may even be fatal.
So what can we do? How can people fight something online? Well for one, we have to provide support for victims to know that it is the troll that has the problem, not them.
We need to know how accessible support is and how to find the 'report' button on social media. Trolls thrive from an audience, so let's stop. The more users continue to engage and argue with trolls, the longer they will continue to inflict abuse. If you receive a horrible tweet from an unknown account, report it. If it starts to become more consistent, contact an online support group and find help available to deal with them.
Hopefully, this breed of online trolls will give up their keyboards and soon return to residing under bridges.


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Plans for a 395-home development at Hill of Banchory south were backed by councillors at a Marr Area Committee meeting last week.
Members agreed on the general layout of the development, which is being proposed by North Banchory Company Ltd and Bancon Group.
Getting the green light means the local developers can now proceed with attempting to obtain planning permission for the site.
The proposals are for 395 homes, as well as a full-size football pitch, a park and ride facility, playing fields and shops.
Provost of Aberdeenshire, Jill Webster, said: "I welcome the new approach of the masterplan.
''The lack of adequate infrastructure associated with developments has been an issue for a long time and the Masterplan is an opportunity to ensure this is planned for up front. However I did raise several issues which needed to be addressed.
"The masterplan must more fully address the delivery of the new relief distributor road and, in particular, roads improvements, and the new roundabout must be delivered on Raemoir Road before the development planned for that vicinity is completed.
"The Home Zone approach to reduce the dominance of the car is welcome with a network of paths and green spaces within the development and giving access to the wider countryside, but we must ensure there is not a shortage of adequate parking-a problem we have encountered before.
"There will be a significant amount of open space which is fantastic but the maintenance regime must be fully covered.
"Our Local Development Plan requirement for additional football pitches must be planned for and delivered in addition to the fantastic new rugby pitches which we already have."
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Cllr. Webster added: "We must ensure an adequate assessment on the River Dee Special Area of Conservation is done on the increased water extraction from the Dee which will be required."
Cllr Karen Clark, chair of the Social Work and Housing Committee, said: "In terms of affordable housing, the council will be looking for the appropriate level of social housing delivered in accordance with planning policy.
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Speech and Drama team traveled to Conrad this past weekend with 3 team members placing in the top 8-making it to finals. Here's what's going on this week at SHS:
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Tuesday 11/14: Parent/Teacher Conferences, 5-8pm, classrooms
Tuesday 11/14: Cheer Parent Meeting, 5:30 pm, elem gym
Wednesday 11/15: Celebration of Life for Miss Donnell, 4-5:30, elem
Thursday 11/16: Parent/Teacher Conferences, 5-8pm, classrooms
Thursday 11/16: 1st day of winter sports practices (GBB/BBB/WR)
Friday 11/17: Jr. High BBB @ Fairfield, 3:00/4:00pm
Saturday 11/18: SHS Speech & Drama @ Browning, 9:00am
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With our economy in tatters, an interesting trend is occurring: folks who have been laid off, but even more so, those job-hungry post-grads, are turning to spiritual work to tide them over until they get that coveted investment banking job (that is, if the industry ever recovers.)
Ashrams all over the United States have seen their applications for work/live-in exchange more than double this year. Sara Eckel from the New York Times reports about why Ashrams are in vogue right now in her article, "Hard Times are Jamming the Ashrams" and how one man (among many others) who, after losing his job at Intel, signed up for a year at the Himalayan Institute, since, "in exchange for his cooking duties and an annual fee of $3,000, he gets a private room, three vegetarian meals a day and unlimited access to the institute's classes, seminars and other events."
And he's far from alone on finding Ashrams a sociable, spiritually fulfilling refuge in these economically troubled times:
"The Himalayan Institute is one of many retreats where cash-strapped spiritual seekers can participate in work-study programs in which they pay typically $300 to $900 a month in exchange for a few hours a day of service, like washing dishes, cleaning rooms or weeding gardens. As the unemployment rate has risen and people have sought refuge from the harsh economy, these work-exchanges have become a hot commodity. The Himalayan Institute received twice as many applications for its summer work-study programs this year as last — its August session is full, with 22 people, compared with 11 last year — and so did two similar retreats, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center in Carmel Valley, Calif., and Satchidananda Ashram in Buckingham, Va. (which is better known as Yogaville)."
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