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If you're still on the fence about the use of social media to serve current clients, grow your client base and build your brand, a new study by Putnam Investments should make you jump in feet-first, especially if you're a registered rep of a wirehouse or independent broker-dealer.
The Putnam Investments Survey of Financial Advisors' Use of Social Media found that 75% of advisors surveyed, the majority of whom were registered reps, are using at least one social media network for business purposes. Of those, 49% said they get new clients through those networks and of those, 29% said they had gained more than $1 million in new assets.
The study was conducted in July 2013 of 408 U.S.-based financial advisors, including 221 who were reps of independent broker-dealers and 120 of whom were either reps of "national" or regional BDs. The study found that the average "social advisor," defined in this case as an advisor who uses at least one social media network daily:
- is a 44-year-old male, fee-based IBD rep
- has 10+ years of experience in the business
- manages a book of business that averages less than $150 million, with an average client portfolio of less than $1 million in assets
- uses social media to improve his referral network, build his brand and enhance relationships
- has a higher success rate than his non-social media active peer in gaining new clients on social media, with new clients' assets averaging less than $500,000.
In a statement, Mark McKenna, head of global marketing for Putnam Investments, said the study's findings "underscore the growing significance of social media use in the day-to-day work of financial advisors, including how they serve clients and prospect for business. This is a trend that is only likely to continue in the years ahead."
Moreover, McKenna said the findings showed that advisors were not merely aware of the possibilities offered by social media, but were "actually leveraging the new medium to manage existing business and make huge strides toward expanding their practices."
Of those advisors surveyed who said they used social media, 81% use LinkedIn as their primary network, and of those advisors, 66% use LinkedIn to find new clients. By contrast, 69% of advisors surveyed said they used Facebook to enhance existing client relationships.
In a footnote to its release on the study, Putnam suggested that not only younger-than-average advisors are active users of social media, noting that Putnam President and CEO Bob Reynolds has been tweeting since July 2009. Reynolds has tweeted 510 times and has 4,285 followers as of Oct. 2.
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DOVE CREEK The seven-member board that oversees schools in Dolores County voted to allow the Dove Creek High School principal and district superintendent to carry firearms onto school grounds.
School District Re-2J includes Rico, but administrative offices and almost all the students are in Dove Creek. Together, the sparsely populated county has only 260 students.
The board voted unanimously at a Wednesday night meeting in Dove Creek to let the two administrators function, in effect, as security officers provided they complete a concealed-carry weapons course, receive a permit from the Dolores County Sheriffs Office and satisfy additional training qualifications.
The handgun course was completed in two sessions, with the final session conducted Sunday by Howard Miller, an instructor with Centurion Firearms Training in Dove Creek.
Superintendent Bruce Hankins wasnt sure of the logistics of further requirements but said it might involve the Dolores County Sheriffs Office and Colorado State Patrol.
Hankins and Principal Ty Gray wont receive a pay raise for taking on the extra responsibility, but because a monetary contract is required by law, their salaries for the security positions are one dollar each.
What were trying to do is driven by budget. We dont have the funds to hire a (school resource officer), Hankins said Friday.
Deliberations about school security in Re-2J had been ongoing well before the Dec. 15 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn, Hankins said.
Weve engaged in these discussions for months, he said. We wont live our lives in fear (of an attack), but we realize the world we live in today and need to do everything in our power to keep kids safe.
It definitely was not a random, un-thought out decision, he said.

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KDE 4.0 Release Candidate 2 Out Now, Codename "Coenig"
The KDE Community is happy to announce the immediate availability of the
KOffice has also put out a sixth alpha release, released separately.
While progress on the quality and completeness of what is to become the KDE 4.0 desktop
Re: Better default font
A-ha. Thank you.
By logixoul at Thu, 2007/12/13 - 6:00am
Re: Better default font
I'm quite fond of the DejaVu font family, actually.
"Fraktur" can be said to be dated, but most sans, not-too-fancy fonts could be used on the desktop with decent results.
What's good with DejaVu is the Unicode coverage -- so it can be a good default font for a large number of languages.
I used to use the condensed version for places where space was an issue, the problem is that it got impossible to select it recently, due to Qt/fontconfig issues, I think.
By Luciano at Wed, 2007/12/12 - 6:00am
Re: Better default font
> What's "dated" about it?
Just the look.
The letters are very wide. New OS like Leopard (LucidaGrande font), Vista (Segoe font) and some devices like cell phones and media centers are using more narrow letters.
It's just a matter of fashion. And KDE 4.0 is a big improvement in that direction with Oxygen icons and theme, little animations, stylish wallpapers etc.
By Ascay at Wed, 2007/12/12 - 6:00am
Re: Better default font
Well, I didn't realize font fashion changed so rapidly.
Cell phones are a special case, where horizontal space is not to be wasted (they tend to have tall and narrow screens).
Anyway, this is something KDE can't do much about -- I think it asks for a "sans" font, which the distros maps to their preferred font for the role.
And there are not many free fonts that can be used anyway.
The Liberation family does not even have hints (at the moment, anyway), and its Unicode coverage is not comparable with DejaVu.
By Luciano at Wed, 2007/12/12 - 6:00am
Re: Better default font
> Well, I didn't realize font fashion changed so rapidly.
Well, you can't argue much about fashion and style. For most people it's just a matter of acclimatization and not taste.
Nevertheless, two examples to compare:
Kickoff with wide letters:
Lancelot with narrow letters (Ivan Čukić has generally a nice taste concerning GUIs imho btw):
In my opinion the font in the Lancelot screenshot looks much more elegant and modern.
> Actually, I think fonts are chosen quite conservatively --
You are talking about font usage in general, I'm talking about fonts for GUIs. Who uses Times New Roman in menus e.g.? Nobody I hope. :)
Times New Roman is quite ugly actually. It's only used so much because it is the default font in widespread applications like Word. Or for compatibility because every Windows and OSX installation has it.
By Ascay at Wed, 2007/12/12 - 6:00am
Re: Better default font
Actually I like the Kickoff screenshot more because it's easier to read for me - more space between the characters.
Printed Times New Roman is not that bad, though I prefer the standard LaTeX font.
By mat69 at Thu, 2007/12/13 - 6:00am
Re: Better default font
Hello, can you please tell how you got kde to look like this:
Maybe a small step-by-step how to do that?? It looks very cool and I think more people would like that
By Peter V at Mon, 2007/12/17 - 6:00am
Re: Better default font
I do not think DejaVu fonts look dated at all. On the contrary they are one of the most modern Free fonts to me. But all this is a matter of taste of course.
To address your point, there is a variant of DejaVu called DejaVu Condensed which is significantly narrower. It should make you happy.
By Med at Wed, 2007/12/12 - 6:00am
Re: Better default font
> But all this is a matter of taste of course.
More a matter of fashion or trend. Wide fonts like DejaVu (Standard) or Verdana and Tahoma came up in the late 90s. Nowadays they are quite rarely used on modern user interfaces and look therefore a bit dated.
I didn't say that Vera Bitstream or DejaVu look ugly. On the contrary, I prefer them for longer texts like on webpages (Verdana is quite present there). But on a brand new desktop environment like KDE4 they are a bit out of place in 2008.
Just look at OSX Leopard, Vista, cell phones, consoles (Wii, Xbox 360, PS3), DVD menus, audio players... narrow letters everywhere. People get used to such trends, if you ignore it, it will look dated.
The icons and theme from KDE3 (Krystal, Plastik) look very dated today and got replaced to something much more modern. Great! Why not doing the same with the default font?
> To address your point, there is a variant of DejaVu
I suggested that font in my initial post. :)
But it's not about me. I can change the font settings myself. It's more about a modern look that will appear on screenshots in magazines, on websites etc.
By Ascay at Wed, 2007/12/12 - 6:00am
Re: Better default font
Narrower fonts only make sense in large hi-resolution devices (e.g., 1080p HDTVs, 20+ inch LCDs, etc.). Just try looking at those "modern" fonts on an old-school 1990's SDTV and tell me that narrow fonts are universally good. You can't read shit when the characters are using lines that are thinner than possibly representable on a 480i display...
By matt at Wed, 2007/12/12 - 6:00am
Re: Better default font
Nobody cares about your old SDTV anymore.
By anon at Mon, 2007/12/17 - 6:00am
Re: Better default font
> The icons and theme from KDE3 (Krystal, Plastik) look very dated today and
Fonts aren't something you can make easily. There goes a lot of work in that and that's the reason why there are very few fonts which are usable for screen display. DejaVu is probably the only real OSS font project with a community and with a font usable for screen, and even we didn't design the main glyphs...
Anyway, for a font, the biggest concern should be legibility, not fashion. And legibility for small font sizes was one of the main concerns when vera was designed.
Sure, if you have perfect eysesight, you may prefer something thinner, but I don't think my grandma would be happy with such defaults, unless you also make the default font size bigger.
Another note: DejaVu Condensed fonts aren't hinted (doing that would take a few months full time work, but if someone has a lot of time, we welcome him), so it's not possible to use those as default now. Furthermore, Qt cannot handle the condensed family, which isn't exactly helpful to make them default either...
Finally, the font settings are made by the distro, not KDE. Although there have been talks about adding dependencies on certain fonts in KDE, it'll still be the the distros who will make the defaults... But you can always make a slick preview distro with the funky fonts of course :-)
By ben at Wed, 2007/12/12 - 6:00am
Kpackage has been unuasbly slow for my for the complete length of the release cycle (using the openSUSE packages). E.g. scrolling the list of packagews is so slow that it takes half a minute to scroll by one package (on a AMD X2 4600+).
I'd like to be able to try out kpackage on my system (as it seems to be a frontend for smart, and I'd really like to get rid of smart's ugly and unfunctional GTK-GUI).
What's the reason for this behaviour?
By Peter Thompson at Wed, 2007/12/12 - 6:00am
Re: KPackage
Not sure how you installed the packages but if you go here: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/KDE4/openSUSE_10.3/ and install the KDE4-BASIS.ymp and the KDE4-Default.ymp then it should work but you should uninstall present packages first.
By Bobby at Wed, 2007/12/12 - 6:00am
Re: KPackage
> What's the reason for this behaviour?
Mostly nobody working on it :(
By Jos Poortvliet at Wed, 2007/12/12 - 6:00am
What are the plans for 3.5.x?
How long until 3.5 is EOLed? I'm assuming debian and the like will keep it around for a few years regardless.
If KDE4 doesn't learn to treat screen real estate with respect I'll end up back with fluxbox. A lot of the new libraries rock out hard, but I've been severely underwhelmed with desktop functionality.
By Velvet Elvis at Wed, 2007/12/12 - 6:00am
Re: What are the plans for 3.5.x?
KDE 3.5.x updates should continue for some time, according to announcements, AFAIK at least until 4.1, as many intended features and applications (especially those not in KDE-core) simply didn't make it for 4.0 and the announced plan is to allow parallel installs of KDE 3.5.x and 4.0.x so people can continue using their KDE 3.5 apps until they get migrated to 4.x, which will be 4.1 time for many of them.
This is also why there has been a heavy emphasis on making KDE 4.0 apps behave well with KDE 3.5 and vise versa, 3.5 apps with 4.0. In fact, IIANM, some of the updates in the 3.5.7 thru (the upcoming) 3.5.9 are specifically that, helping certain 3.5.x apps to work more smoothly under the 4.0 kwin and etc.
By Duncan at Wed, 2007/12/12 - 6:00am
Re: What are the plans for 3.5.x?
Not too many people will tell you this, because it's politically incorrect, but KDE 4.0 is not meant for general use by the masses. You will probably have to wait until 4.1 for something that's up to par with 3.5.
By David Johnson at Wed, 2007/12/12 - 6:00am
Re: What are the plans for 3.5.x?
The biggest question is who cares enough to maintain 3.5?
If many companies stay on 3.5 for years, updates can continue for years. Linux still sees releases of the 2.0 kernel once in a while (I haven't kept up, but I believe there was one last year, and may be more in the future), and that hasn't been the current up to date stable kernel for 10 years. (some linux distributions support releases for 5 years, so they may be forced to do some 3.5 work for several years yet just to fill customers needs)
KDE 3.5 will likely remain unlocked in SVN forever. However doing a release is a lot of work. The current release team will want to stop doing releases as soon as they can. However if someone else steps forward to do the work for more releases of 3.5 we may see them.
This is open source, in large part what happens depends on who is willing to do what.
By Hank Miller at Wed, 2007/12/12 - 6:00am
Re: What are the plans for 3.5.x?
> This is open source, in large part what happens depends on who is willing to do what.
Exactly. This is where most community driven projects unfortunately suck. And I do not mean to accuse floss or kde.org folks, stating the obvious. It all comes down to organisational and human aspects, ensuring proper maintenance over the lifetime of a "product" and accepting that its lifetime doesn't end, when the next iteration of your product is released.
Having the human ressources and the will to do at least two or three years of higher-level maintenance for KDE 3 than just crash and security fixes - no new features of course - an occassional bugfix release inclusive from now on is the point where I'd consider kde.org's organisation mature.
By Carlo at Thu, 2007/12/13 - 6:00am
Re: What are the plans for 3.5.x?
> If KDE4 doesn't learn to treat screen real estate with respect
specifics, man, specifics. this tells us exactly nothing ...
> I'll end up back with fluxbox.
the silence you hear is all the people rushing to prevent this from happening. ;)
By Aaron J. Seigo at Thu, 2007/12/13 - 6:00am
Re: What are the plans for 3.5.x?
The default icon sizes all around seem to be larger. The plasma wrench in the corner of the screen is huge. The oxygen kwin decoration and style have excess space pretty much everywhere, though it is much improved as of late. The panel is huge. Kickoff is huge. Many of these items are not resizable.
Will KDE 4 provide a workable desktop? In the strictest sense, at launch, yes it will.
Will it for me? No. I can't stand to see so much wasted space. I like maximizing my work area, and giving the lion's share of my desktop space to content.
I'll check back when there is more flexibility to define the desktop exactly how I want it, which in my opinion, has always been perhaps the greatest strength of KDE as a desktop.
By T. J. Brumfield at Thu, 2007/12/13 - 6:00am
Re: What are the plans for 3.5.x?
it's called "white space", and most people are actually more efficient when it exists.
there's also the issue of higher average screen resolutions. i mean, it's not a 640x480 world anymore.
> The panel is huge.
actually, it's not. it's precisely 2px taller than kicker's default. so why is it so big? the svg that's being used has these gigantic borders. why? because it's the same one we use for the applets because the artists haven't given me anything proper to use yet.
i don't expect you to have known this, but.. yeah.. doesn't make complaining about it any more fun.
> Kickoff is huge.
lol. ok, so.. tell me this:
a) why does this matter when it's something that only appears when you use it?
> Many of these items are not resizable.
apparently many people apparently refuse to read comments to the same story they are replying to. ;)
> The plasma wrench in the corner of the screen is huge.
how big is your screen? it's a quarter circle, diameter 48px. that's not particularly ... huge.
and what is it interfering with, precisely?
By Aaron J. Seigo at Thu, 2007/12/13 - 6:00am
Re: What are the plans for 3.5.x?
First off let me say, that you have been getting more criticism than praise. So when I say I don't care for something, also let me say, that I do appreciate all work going into the project. I'm just expressing an opinion.
Kickoff isn't resizable at all that I know of. Some applets, such as the new panel, are only resizable by reading the dot and finding which files to edit. At a glance, they appear to not be resizable. When I try a new distro, one of the first things I do is configure the panels in KDE, and I usually go with a smaller panel. The new panel is slightly larger than the old default, but I didn't care for how large the old default was either. I'm not suggesting development should pander to me.
Quite the opposite. When the desktop is finished, and it is easier to customize it to make everyone happy, then I'll switch. A big part of the appeal of KDE to me is the power of flexibility. I like having my desktop exactly how I like it, and neither Gnome, OS X, nor Windows allows me to do that.
Many of the complaints of KDE 4 aren't really faulting the work of KDE 4, but really they just speak volumes of what a great product KDE 3 is. When you do a major refactor, it takes a while to fully match your existing product. I'd be proud that the bar you set for yourself is so high, and it seems like you are close to meeting that bar.
I'm exciting for the future of KDE 4, but I don't want to use it just yet.
By T. J. Brumfield at Fri, 2007/12/14 - 6:00am
Re: What are the plans for 3.5.x?
Exercise a little patience. Wait until the eggs are laid before you start judging what the chicken will look like. As far as I have read and understood KDE4 will be much more configurable than the present 3.5x so yes it will also be a desktop for you :)
The most of your critics are actually minor issues. you will be able to use a new theme and icon-set if you don't like oxygen, the same applies to window decoration and Kickoff, which you will be able to replace with Lancelot, Raptor or the simple KDE 3.5x menu that so many people are clinging to.
By Bobby at Thu, 2007/12/13 - 6:00am
Re: What are the plans for 3.5.x?
I think you will find Novell will keep updating 3.5 for a few years as a lot of their businesses they work with will continue using that version if they use KDE
But I tend to view kde 4 in the light of windows xp. Using XP was a habit, and moving from that piece of shit to linux was a learning experience, but one full of rewards once I got the hang of it. KDE 4 appears to me the same. It looks like a monster (no offence). so many different and new aspects to it, that it will once again be a learning curve to get used to and fall back in love with it. Of course it is better than moving from XP to Vista, which is like taking a computer and wrecking it, lol
I'm looking forward to the release so I can update to it, I decided after RC1 to wait until the final release. Now if someone here can just hack into Aaron's computer, and change his calender to saying Jan 11, then maybe we can trick them into releasing it now ;)
By Richard Bollinger at Thu, 2007/12/13 - 6:00am
kicker edges
In the screenshot, kicker (or whatever it's now called) doesn't stretch out to the left and right edges of the screen. Can someone confirm whether this can be changed? If I can't throw the mouse pointer down to the bottom edges and have it 'hit' the kicker, my head will explode.
By foo at Wed, 2007/12/12 - 6:00am
Re: kicker edges
Queue head exploding then.
The panel is still in really sorry state at this point--I'm fairly sure its going to be one of the bigger disappointments of 4.0, it should be much better for 4.1 however.
By THIBOLOT at Wed, 2007/12/12 - 6:00am
Re: kicker edges
Ehm, Aaron said it can cover all...
It's just showing round borders as far as I remember, even more important, it's 100% themeable.
By Luis at Wed, 2007/12/12 - 6:00am
Re: kicker edges
Uhe most disappointed thing about it is that it can't be configured. I am getting no response when I click on it with my right mouse button. Not typical for KDE.
By Bobby at Wed, 2007/12/12 - 6:00am
Re: kicker edges
Apparently much of the configuration is there; it's even got some stuff kicker is missing, but maybe not everything kicker had. Unforunately, there's no gui to configure it yet.
By Soap at Wed, 2007/12/12 - 6:00am
Re: kicker edges
that's because i'm trying to piss you off. and i do mean you. specifically, you, "Bobby". i hope that makes you feel special.
By Aaron J. Seigo at Thu, 2007/12/13 - 6:00am
Re: kicker edges
It's not the final plasma theme (or maybe just not the final panel theme, I don't remember what has been said about it)
Basically they just need (and from what I understand, they will) replace the SVG used for the background and border.
I also believe that they will make it easily user-configurable in the future but maybe not in 4.0.
By Antoine Chavasse at Wed, 2007/12/12 - 6:00am
Re: kicker edges
i think its strange that kde4 is released with the notion that basicly one of the most important aspects of the desktop (kicker) will suck.
By Peter V at Mon, 2007/12/17 - 6:00am
Re: kicker edges
I threw the mouse to the bottom edge of my system, and ended up with a shattered mouse and cracked monitor. Maybe we should stop throwing mice...mouses.
By Henry S. at Wed, 2007/12/12 - 6:00am
Re: kicker edges
What a pain this kicker is... I use kde4live image, and it is very slow to use. It's making me go crazy. It also uses like 1/4th of a high-res monitor. Its 50pixel-wide edges are about the size of the old panel.
All the other stuff is cool, but this is such a show-stopper. Give me back the old panel (with all of its errors) and I will switch to 4.0 as soon as it arrives.
By Another PhD student at Wed, 2007/12/12 - 6:00am
Re: kicker edges
I second that request! I want to have the kicker looks like the old KDE 3 one! Same size (small!), changable, full row (so start is in the bottom left corner and you don't have to search for it with the mouse).
By Michael at Wed, 2007/12/12 - 6:00am
Re: kicker edges
I third this! On my Laptop I've only a 1280x800 screen resolution and the Panel wastes a lot of space! But Aaron already mentioned that the Kicker Applet is higly configurable. The question is: Is it highly configurable for Applet Designers or also for the normal user with a neat configuration dialog?
But anyway: Plasma rocks!!
By kiwiki4e at Wed, 2007/12/12 - 6:00am
Re: kicker edges
guys, give it some time...SOME TIME!!!!
By Emil Sedgh at Wed, 2007/12/12 - 6:00am
Re: kicker edges
Don't you think that two weeks before the final release of kde4.0 is a bit past the point where "give it some time" is valid?
By THIBOLOT at Wed, 2007/12/12 - 6:00am
Re: kicker edges
Two weeks? Isn't KDE 4.0 tagged on Jan 4th?
By Luca Beltrame at Wed, 2007/12/12 - 6:00am
Re: kicker edges
By Emil Sedgh at Wed, 2007/12/12 - 6:00am
Re: kicker edges
Why so?
A release is simply a snapshot in development time. This is the state of KDE4 as it is right now.
By D Kite at Thu, 2007/12/13 - 6:00am
Re: kicker edges
> What a pain this kicker is
it's not kicker.
> Give me back the old panel (with all of its errors) and
here's how to do it:
1) kquitapp plasma
By Aaron J. Seigo at Thu, 2007/12/13 - 6:00am
Re: kicker edges
Dear Aaron,
First off, thanks for the reply. Secondly, please do not get upset: the plasma kickoff-replacement is probably good for many people, simply, it is not made for me (or some other geek-minded people). As for the solution for starting the old kicker, it's a nice one - I would be really happy to have it as an option in system settings so that I(and many others) don't need use a text editor to do it.
By Another PhD student at Thu, 2007/12/13 - 6:00am
Re: kicker edges
Any geek-minded person would not mind opening a text editor to change a config option
By JackieBrown at Sat, 2007/12/15 - 6:00am
Re: kicker edges
"Any" I suppose you've talked to all geek-minded people to allow you to throw a blanket statement out there. Careful when you say 'any', 'every', 'all', etc..
By Mike at Sun, 2007/12/16 - 6:00am
Relax guys! It'll be OK.
All you guys, relax! You obviously haven't been following Segio's blog.
The panel code is much more powerful and configurable than the old Kicker code. It's just being written at the last minute, so Segio hasn't gotten any configuration dialogs made yet. When he's got the panel mostly working, it'll only take a day or two at most for him to write the config dialogs. The current theme is also not the final one; he is just reusing the one used by the applets for testing purposes. I am confident that in a month, the Plasma Panel will have all the functionality and configurability that Kicker did, plus more.
By kwilliam at Wed, 2007/12/12 - 6:00am
Re: Relax guys! It'll be OK.
Thank God.
By Bobby at Thu, 2007/12/13 - 6:00am
Re: Relax guys! It'll be OK.
Only xy days until the dream becomes a nightmare. :-D
I really doubt that Plasma can be fixed in less than 30 days.
By KSU at Sat, 2007/12/15 - 6:00am


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'Tis the season when columnists write mea culpas, make predictions and list their resolutions.
Since my culpas are too vast for this tiny space, my predictions best in retrospect and my resolutions inevitably ignored, I thought I'd list a few resolutions for the rest of the world. These, too, are likely to be ignored, but I'll feel better getting a few things off my chest.
Herewith, what annoys me most:
Can we please shelve this awful word as used by adults to refer to others? What happened to "attractive" or "fascinating"? If you're 18 or younger, I suppose one can be forgiven for recognizing a person of interest in terms of hotness, but nothing is less attractive than adult men and women appraising others as "hot" (or not) at a certain age, which should be about the time one is old enough to vote.
Hotness, as I understand it, essentially refers to another's worthiness to bed. This is not, in the world I prefer to live in, subject matter for dinner conversation.
In a related matter, let's not ...
Man up.
How many times during recent elections have we heard candidates refer to others' need to "man up"? This was especially jarring when women used the term to refer to their male opponents, as when Nevada Republican Sharron Angle told Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to man up during a debate.
Sarah Palin, who wasn't running for anything, nevertheless questioned President Barack Obama's manhood, saying that Arizona Republican Gov. Jan Brewer, thanks to her tough immigration bill, "has the cojones that our president does not have." Classy.
In an ad, Colorado Republican Jane Nor ton said her primary opponent for the U.S. Senate, Ken Buck, should be "man enough" to do his own campaign dirty work.
And so on.
What comparable insult might men bestow on women? "Woman up" has no parallel meaning, but one can imagine that challenging a woman's "womanhood," whatever that might mean (fertility? femininity?), would not go over well.
Buck did manage to produce a weak rejoinder, urging voters to choose him because "I don't wear high heels."
OK, well, this is cutting right to the core of voter concerns. A manly Buck versus a stiletto-ed femme. It is little wonder that Coloradoans decided to legalize pot. How else to get through such mind-boggling debate? Whatever voters had in mind when they elected Buck, they can't have felt elevated by their choices.
And little wonder young Americans end all their sentences with question marks. No list would be complete without mention of the annoying habit of the young to state declarative sentences as queries. Though not new, this tic has become so commonplace that one worries it may have become permanently entrenched in the language.
Simple grammar: A declarative statement ends with a period. The voice does not rise as with a question, punctuated with a question mark. Yet several times a day, a young person speaks to me in question marks.
"So, I ran into Jeff? And he was, like, wow, you cut your hair? And I was, like, I know, right?"
The only alternative to the persistent query is the occasional exclamation: "OMG. He is so hot!"
I have no idea what the statement-question reveals, but it seems to be connected to some desire to not be judgmental. And this seems to be tied to the generational proclivity to perceive all things as relative. As in, I am so totally not, like, committed to anything that could possibly be construed as slightly offensive to anyone anywhere that I will say even obviously true things so as to indicate my willingness to be persuaded, like, otherwise?
No problem.
Which is, I promise, my last nit. "No problem" seems now to be the customary reply to "thank you." As opposed to the previously accepted "You're welcome" or "My pleasure."
"Thanks so much for the excellent service," I say to the waiter. "No problem," he says.
What does this mean? That it wasn't all that much trouble? Or, that service is a problem to be solved?
Doing something for someone in the line of duty or out of the goodness of one's heart is not a problem solved. It is a gift, a gesture, a sentiment. And when someone expresses gratitude for that gesture, it is customary to acknowledge that you were happy to extend the pleasure, not that it wasn't too bad for you.
Which is to say, you're welcome.


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Updated 2016
Latvia is a small country sandwiched between Estonia and Lithuania on the Baltic Sea and it's joining its neighbors in becoming a very popular destination for travelers looking for the next big thing. It shares much of the culture and wonderful architecture of other Northern European countries, but the costs to the visitor are still far below those of nearby Scandinavia. Having been part of the Soviet Union, Latvia also has many East vs. West influences that set it apart from those more expensive countries.
Start with the Latvia Travel Facts.
What To Do
The coastal capital city of Riga is the entry point for most travelers and it doesn't disappoint. The historic town center is actually a UNESCO World Heritage Site itself so plan on spending some time just wandering the old cobblestone streets. Riga's Central Market dates back to around 1200 and contains just about anything you can think of with around 1250 sellers. And St. Peter's Church is the most popular gothic structure in the city center and is well worth a visit.
The town of Sigulda is a very worthwhile destination if you've got time to get out of Riga. It sits on the edge of the forested Gauja Valley, which is home to a group of medieval castles and ancient caves. This area is known as the Switzerland of Latvia for not only the topography, but the fact that it's a popular winter sports and resort destination for locals.
Read: The Many Faces of Riga.
Getting There
Latvia is easy to reach by train so it's a good stop of Eurail Pass holders, but if you aren't coming from an adjacent country you'll
want to fly into Riga International Airport. It's served by most major airlines so competition keeps prices reasonable most times. You can get from the airport into the city center on an inexpensive local bus.
Where To Stay
There are several hostels in Riga and quite a few hotels in Riga as well. The city center is compact and amazing while the outer areas are rather stark so it might be worthwhile to pay a bit more for a charming place near the center so you can enjoy the ambiance around the clock. There are accommodations in Sigulda of course, as well as reasonably priced places in many other Latvian cities of note.


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KDE Accessibility 1.0 is Here + Interview
The KDE Accessibility Project has released the first stable version of the KDE Accessibility module.
The package currently contains three nifty accessibility aids (screenshots and info):
Things like kmousetool have really helped me, as I have slight CTS (carpal tunnel syndrome)...
However, for true accessability features, an API like AT-SPI or GNOME's ATK is needed.. lets hope trolltech helps the KDE Accessability project with this!
By lit at Tue, 2003/03/25 - 6:00am
Re: cool
Read the interview...
By ac at Tue, 2003/03/25 - 6:00am
Re: cool
i did.. and?
By lit at Wed, 2003/03/26 - 6:00am
Re: cool
How does the KDEAP relate to other Accessibility Projects?
Currently there are three applications in the kdeaccessibility module. An infrastructure like ATK and AT-SPI from the GNU Accessibility Project (GAP) is yet missing. But we are currently discussing how this can be changed. One possibility (which is the one we currently focus on) would be to write a bridge between Qt and ATK. Qt already has some QAccessible interface which needs to be extended for that.
During design and implementation of the infrastructure we will make sure that our solution interoperates with the solutions of the other Accessibility Projects.
By GingerBreadMan at Wed, 2003/03/26 - 6:00am
Screen Keyboard
Is such thing planned?
By Anonymous at Tue, 2003/03/25 - 6:00am
Re: Screen Keyboard
Good question! I think Qtopia has a screen keyboard, maybe KDE could make use of that since Qtopia is GPL.
By ac at Tue, 2003/03/25 - 6:00am
Re: Screen Keyboard
We are currently focusing on other areas of accessibility, as there are already a number of screen keyboards available, but having a KDE screen keyboard would definately be nice.
Some people are thinking about starting such a project, but I am not sure how soon this will happen.
By Olaf Jan Schmidt at Tue, 2003/03/25 - 6:00am
Re: Kmouth
No, you are not. Maybe Konversation would be nice, or even KSpeach. KMouth sounds really weird to me. Can the program eat too?
By André Somers at Wed, 2003/03/26 - 6:00am
Re: Kmouth
Konversation is a IRC client.
By AC at Wed, 2003/03/26 - 6:00am
Re: Kmouth
Please, enough with the KNames already :)
By Haakon Nilsen at Wed, 2003/03/26 - 6:00am
Re: Kmouth
Why do people complain about the KNames? It's really bad the way you see people using the KNames as a reason to bash KDE. At the same time those people have nothing to say about the GNames. It's really puzzling.
I know you're not doing this, I'm talking in general. :-)
By Navindra Umanee at Wed, 2003/03/26 - 6:00am
Re: Kmouth
there are more knames than gnames.... that's why..
By lit at Thu, 2003/03/27 - 6:00am
Re: Kmouth
Well I guess some people just have to bitch about something. Another reason might be that in some cases it's just plain silly. You might say 'but they are just names', they are not, they are identifiers, they say something about the program.
Names starting with a K can be put in 2 categories (maybe even 4 but the last two categories I'm thinking about aren't used ver much if at all): KNames and Kames.
- KNames, a K is added to indicate the program is part of a KDE package or is written for KDE, examples: KWord, KOrganizer, KMail.
IMHO the KNames aren't that bad. The K can be seen as a kind of KDE branding, just like MS Office, MS Outlook etc. Maybe the menu entries should even say: KDE Word, KDE Organizer, KDE Mail etc.
IMHO the Kames are very bad, replacing the C (or another letter) with a K doesn't add anything besides confusion and takes away clarity. The K just looks strange, and some non-native english speakers don't "get it" at all. These names should be shot on the spot.
Johan Veenstra
By Johan Veenstra at Thu, 2003/03/27 - 6:00am
Re: Kmouth
I disagree.
By Martin at Thu, 2003/03/27 - 6:00am
Re: Kmouth
I'm a native english speaker and I have to agree with Johan that "Kames" are vile. A ppreciated your lesson on linguistics, but the simple fact is that for me, and many others, "konversation," "Konsole" et al are horrible, clunky (sorry, klunky) abominations! It's like being stuck in a lift with someone who answers your questions with puns - very, very annoying!
P.S. I've noticed (and this is very unscientific!) that "Kames" (thanks Johan, that's a great word!) tend to annoy german speakers less. I suspect it's as you say - konsole is a word in german, and so looks natural. It does NOT look natural to me!
By Ed Moyse at Thu, 2003/03/27 - 6:00am
Re: Kmouth
The Kames (Krita, Konqueror, Konsole, Kompare, Komponist, Katan, Klipper, Kicker, Kapitalist, Kant, Klock, ...) are great! If it is possible to find a Kame that makes sense for an application it should be used. Only if that fails a KName should be used, although there are (were) a few good KNames too (KSpread, KIllustrator). They are uglier when pronounced (like kpat, kpager, kmid, kmix, kcharselect, ...).
By Erik at Thu, 2003/03/27 - 6:00am
Re: Kmouth
I hava an idea ! A great name ...
What about ?
By Marianne C. at Fri, 2003/03/28 - 6:00am
Re: Karalho
> Karalho
That may be a good name. I don't know. Does it mean anyting in any language? It looks a little difficult to pronounce. I think Karallo would be easier.
By Erik at Fri, 2003/03/28 - 6:00am
Re: Karalho
ès mesmo tótó.
Ou não tens ou é mm mta pequenino... fdx..
E a parte do "allo" dever ser o som q fazes quando o tás a engolir.
Borrego do Karalho.
By Kona at Sat, 2003/10/11 - 5:00am
Re: Karalho
Sorry, I do not understand.
By Erik at Mon, 2003/10/13 - 5:00am
Re: Kmouth
Muito engrakado!
By EricE at Tue, 2003/04/01 - 6:00am
Re: Kmouth
> Karalho
Good idea. KDE already has a tradition of using four letter in program names (http://kroupware.kde.org), this would well fit in.
On the other hand, being a man myself, I am strictly against replacing our pride with a computer program, if this is what you intend. Anyway, if you indeed manage to write a "Karalho" program that helps women to get pregnant, let us know...
By Olaf Jan Schmidt at Wed, 2003/04/02 - 6:00am
Re: Kmouth
I wrote a very long (and, I must admit, very rambled) thing on kde-look.org about Knames being a high contributor to the un-comfortability factor for Windows users new to KDE, and they all told me that this has already been fixed with the "Descriptions" in the Kmenu and that new users should just "Get used to it".
Now, instead of having a mass grouping of "Keverything" down the list, we now have long descriptions to read. Hurrah?
About the 'Branding' thing, I don't see MSinternetexplorer, MSoutlook, MSwinmediaplayer, MSnotepad or MSpaint all bunched up in the MSwinstartmenu on Windows. =P
Not even Apple names everything with an "I" in front of it.
By Nick at Mon, 2006/04/03 - 5:00am
So how do I get KMouth to speak to me? I assume I need some kind of backend to do this. Are there free ones I can try out?
By Trynis at Wed, 2003/03/26 - 6:00am
Re: Speech
Installing festival will work. (Sorry, no link, but since it is GPL it should be easy to find)
By Troels at Wed, 2003/03/26 - 6:00am
Re: Speech
By Chris Howells at Wed, 2003/03/26 - 6:00am
KMagnifier is really cool, I have been looking for something like that for a long while!!!
By Osho at Wed, 2003/03/26 - 6:00am
Shouldn't that be "Gunnar Schmidt" instead of "Gunnar Schmi Dt"?
By Somebody at Wed, 2003/03/26 - 6:00am
Re: Typo?
No, Gunnar choose to be called "Gunnar Schmi Dt".
By Olaf Jan Schmidt at Thu, 2003/03/27 - 6:00am
Offtopic: Why KDE is supposed to suck
Have a look at this to get some motivation for KDE development:
By Moritz Moeller-... at Thu, 2003/03/27 - 6:00am
Re: Offtopic: Why KDE is supposed to suck
They specifically talk about the solution on Unix and yet they choose the most expensive Qt price possible which covers Mac/Windows on top of Unix. I'm sure they're also exaggerating the 13 million dollars part. Trolltech looks willing to negotiate above 20 licenses (from the pricing page). Clearly they haven't even tried talking to Trolltech.
On the other hand, if Ximian was using KDE/Qt maybe they wouldn't be
By Navindra Umanee at Thu, 2003/03/27 - 6:00am
Re: Offtopic: Why KDE is supposed to suck
That thing is really just incredible - it manages to be both horrendously misleading and technically true in the disclaimer-word kind of sense. Notice how they say "<13 million dollars(?)". The number is rounded up quite generously (13 is /not/ how one rounds 12.4), and of course, as you said, skips volume discounts, and that they're buying a version that's 2x as expensive as for a single platform. That's presumably hidden behind the question mark, but certainly the impression provided is a highly misleading one. I am quite disappointed that a developer would write that, that's really unbefitting of the title. Couldn't he come up with at least a /technical/ argument, so not to resort to questionable marketing?
Of course, the issue of 5000 developers is ridiculous. How many organizations have that many full-time, paid programmers?[1] I doubt more then a few have so many, and certainly not on the same team. Windows 2000 had 1400 people working on it (http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix-win2000/invitedtalks/lucovsky_html/sld013.htm), and
Or do they perhaphs want OSS people to work on software that then will be sold in a proprietary edition? Well, then I doubt that they would get 5000 contributors willing to sign away their rights, either.
[1] For comparison: There are about 200 active contributors to KDE, with most being part time, and that includes non-programmers -- who wouldn't need a Qt license if this was a commercial organization, either.
By Sad Eagle at Thu, 2003/03/27 - 6:00am
Re: Offtopic: Why KDE is supposed to suck
One thing I'll add. I mentioned lost revenue due to the extreme extreme delays of up-to-date Ximian products. I forgot to mention the amount of money they had to shelve out to *pay* their developers in that time. And of course, they're explicitly talking about proprietary development here.
By Navindra Umanee at Thu, 2003/03/27 - 6:00am
Re: Offtopic: Why KDE is supposed to suck
Yes, but there is a little difference between Norway with PKB 50000$ per capita and the Eastern Europe, for example, with PKB 5000$ per capita ( hint: count zeroes ) where the out-of-college developer costs you less than 6000$. Those 4660$ for the Qt licence and 1500$ for upgrades ( every year ) is noticeable sum.
By Tom at Fri, 2003/03/28 - 6:00am
Re: Offtopic: Why KDE is supposed to suck
The 4660$ for the QT licence are for the trio pack (X11/Win/Mac) and its actually 1450$ for one year of support and maintenance. What do you think you have to pay to get professional support for any other toolkit out there?.
And your comarision of the price to developer cost in Eastern Europe are fataly flawed, it does not correspond to the real world. In the real world only a small part of SW gets developed in low-cost countries, the major part of SW development takes place in the US/Canada an Western Europe.
By Morty at Fri, 2003/03/28 - 6:00am
Re: Offtopic: Why KDE is supposed to suck
Is there professional support for GTK available at all?
By Anonymous at Fri, 2003/03/28 - 6:00am
Re: Offtopic: Why KDE is supposed to suck
I don't want a proffesional support. I just don't want to buy each new version of Qt at a full price.
By Tom at Fri, 2003/03/28 - 6:00am
Re: Offtopic: Why KDE is supposed to suck
You get the bugfixreleases, and you usually don't uppgrade between major releases without good reasons, new features you need etc.
BTW if one finds the cost to high you don't buy the trio pack to all the developers in the team, but use a common platform for all and rather designate a few to do the porting.
By Morty at Fri, 2003/03/28 - 6:00am
Re: Offtopic: Why KDE is supposed to suck
I wondering for some time about one thing, which is also present in the above web page: "the Free Edition license applies to the development phase - anything developed without Professional or Enterprise Edition licenses must be released as free/open source software...".
Well, if I start to develop a GPL'd appilcation and I use the GPL licence for QT, then GPL is the valid license. GPL permits the author to close the software and make it propietary. How can TrollTech take away this right from the author? I think it cannot, and there were already cases when an open source QT/KDE project was closed. I doubt that those developers had a commercial license when they started to _develop_.
By Andras Mantia at Thu, 2003/03/27 - 6:00am
Re: Offtopic: Why KDE is supposed to suck
Well, what I can read outof this:
For Gnome it now pays off that they were attracting a big company like SUN. Miguel d.I. did a really good job in the "get valuable contacts field"). I fear, that my favourite desktop will wall behind because of lack of support from a big player. Let's face it: We do not have an alternative office application that can compete to OpenOffice. Even if OpenOffice (yeah, it's 'open'...haha) attracts very few hackers from outside of SUN and even if it needs a business meeting from the Gnome-Company and the Sun-Company to disucss further proceedings, this Office-App is widely accepted and used (hell it _is_ the best Office availableby now on Unix/Linux) in the OpenSource world.
If there will be an Enterprise-Desktop one day on Linux it will surely not be KDE (because of a less good integration with OpenOffice). It will be Gnome.
By thomas at Thu, 2003/03/27 - 6:00am
Re: Offtopic: Why KDE is supposed to suck
Good integration with the office packet is an important point, no doubt, but not the only one. KDE's strength is the effectiveness development of its development environment which will ()in the next years show its real advantages, as open source applications become more complex.
Beside that, who nows how long Ximian's venture capital will last for both working on various Gnome-related projects and Mono? I can't imagine that their Gnome-stuff will reach break-even in the next years.
By AC at Thu, 2003/03/27 - 6:00am
Re: Offtopic: Why KDE is supposed to suck
Except for the KDE/Qt bashing, I think ximian makes a good point. The integration of OpenOffice.org right now is pretty bad. Both for Gnome and KDE.
Now this integration -is- important to for any environment to become widely accepted. I don't care (just as most of you will be able to manage without it), but most "average users" do care. It all boils down to the well-discussed integration topic. All the different styles/widgets/etc used throughout applications like kde/gnome/mozilla/openoffice.org/acrobat reader/etc/etc are just plain confusing to the (again) "average user".
But look at is like this:
By Siets at Thu, 2003/03/27 - 6:00am
Re: Offtopic: Why KDE is supposed to suck
In practice, GNOME development is a hundred times more closed than KDE development.
By ac at Thu, 2003/03/27 - 6:00am
Re: Offtopic: Why KDE is supposed to suck
Shouldn't come as a shock. Ximian is headed by Miguel who is the most famous basher and flamer of TrollTech and QT. Even today he and his cohorts love to bash anything related to TrollTech. Hence we see the continuous comments about tainted and about TrollTech being owned by Canopy Group. All FUD People like Owen and Migule don't really think about ethics when it comes to GNOME VS KDE.
By anon at Thu, 2003/03/27 - 6:00am
Re: Offtopic: Why KDE is supposed to suck
Because Monica Lewinsky is a KDE developer.
By Marianne C. at Fri, 2003/03/28 - 6:00am
Does that mean that the Accessibility team is going to be coming out with KCigar soon?
By Xanadu at Fri, 2003/03/28 - 6:00am


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Thirty-one percent of people who glance at the headline of this article don't need it. You can move on.
Here is how I know. I have been honored to be named a "Thought Leader for Financial Advisors" by BrightTALK, a worldwide, very high-end webinar platform. One way they develop their business is to select "thought leaders" who are invited to deliver a webinar which is, of course, presented on their state-of-the-art platform.
Presenters like the honor. I get introduced to people I would not otherwise meet, and my clients are introduced to the BrightTALK platform. It's totally win-win. On Jan. 30, I presented "Business Planning 2013." I have posted this webinar as well as "Business Planning 2012" at www.billgood.com/2yearplan.
During the presentation, I asked a question, "Do you have a business plan?" One feature of the BrightTALK platform is a "voting" capability. The answers were:
- Yes, but it's all in my head. (34%)
- Yes, but I don't refer to it. (3%)
- Yes, but it needs some improvement. (31%)
- Yes, and it's in pretty good shape. (17%)
- Yes, and I refer to it frequently, updating it as necessary. (14%)
If you are one of these last two categories, go read something else. I probably cannot help you. But if your plan "needs some improvement," or worse, stick with me. I'll show you how to improve your planning process.
Why Plan?
Yogi Berra gave the obvious answer. "If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up somewhere else." But there are several other answers. They include: "Sleep better." "Think better." "Trigger creative ideas." "Get more done in less time."
Think I'm kidding? Spend a few hours following the procedure I am outlining here and enjoy these and other benefits.
Planning Discipline
At the foundation of my planning discipline are these steps: (1) Write it down. (2) Categorize it. (3) Prioritize it. (4) Based on priority, get it done sooner or later.
Here is an example. I recently figured out how to use a particular feature of Amazon.com to help people write better seminar invitations. I know that sounds far-fetched, but it's quite magic. I decided to call an online article I'll soon write about it, "Amazon Magic Tricks."
So let's apply the planning process.
(1) Write it down. I did that.
(2) Categorize: To do this, you have to have a framework consisting of objectives, sub-objectives and tasks. The objectives and sub-objectives are your categories. In this case, I decided this belonged in the category, "Research Magazine Folder."
(3) Prioritize: Here's a tip. For me, prioritizing is a two-step process.
I prioritize within a category, such as ideas for blog articles. "High priority" is a task I want to accomplish in the next week. "Highest priority" needs to be done in the next day or so.
Then, once a week, generally Saturday morning, I can review all my categorized items, upgrading some to high priority and downgrading others. From my "high priority" list, I select my "highest priority" items. That's what I will get done in the next week.
(4) Get it done. "Amazon Magic Tricks" is a "high priority." But you can be assured it will become highest before this article is published.
Planning Framework
To go through the four planning steps I just outlined, you need a planning framework.
If your plan includes lots of tasks, you need some software help. Doing this on paper or even in a Microsoft Word document is messy at best. At worst, stuff gets lost. As of right now, I have 144 tasks I'm managing. For me, task management software is a life saver.
I have checked out countless programs to help me keep track of my plan. The best I have found is Swift To-Do List. I have posted a link to it over on my 2-year-plan page, where you will also find links to the two business planning webinars I did for BrightTALK.
This screen shot from Swift demonstrates what I mean by "planning framework."
Let's suppose you are intrigued by my article on seminar invites. You decide to read it but cannot do so right now. You will find a link to it at www.advisorone.com/author/bill-good.
You write it down. You categorize it. It's obviously related to your objective "Develop invitation different from competition."
In prioritizing, you consider many factors. As you study it, you remember you need to turn in your invitation to compliance in two weeks. It earns a high priority. On Saturday, when reviewing your tasks, you move it to "highest."
If Wishes Were Horses
It is said "If wishes were horses, beggars could ride." Countless managers have used this quote to put you down when you turn in a business plan that looks like this: (1) Increase mutual fund business by 17%. (2) Grow AUM by $10 million. (3) Take 6 weeks off this year.
This is just a wish list, not a plan. But it does not deserve a put-down. You just didn't finish your plan.
In my opinion, a good plan starts with a wish list. The more you want something, the more important that you plan it.
If you plan tasks you don't really care about, you are just wasting pixels and time. You won't do them, and in your mind, planning will get a bad name.
Plan what you care about. Wishes can become horses, especially when you set them as objectives.
Objective: Buy a 20-acre farm with an eight-stall barn.
Sub-objective: Save $500,000 down payment.
Sub-objective: Expand team so I can work four days/week.
Each sub-objective can be broken down into tasks that you can work on each week. When the tasks are accomplished, you can check off the sub-objective. And when all these are accomplished, if the plan was carefully and correctly crafted, one day you will go saddle up and ride your wish that became a horse.
Planning Magic
In addition to the mechanics of planning, there is a bit of magic.
Just about the time my company hit its fifth birthday, I found a five-year business plan I had written just as I was getting off the ground. It had slipped out of a drawer and was stuck behind it. Out of sight/out of mind … or so you would think.
I was fascinated to discover that I had achieved virtually everything I had set out to accomplish in my first five years, even though (blush!) I had never looked at those goals since I had written them.
My immediate conclusion was: The process of planning is at least as important as the plan itself. Since that discovery, I have verified countless times when I practice my own planning discipline:
I am more focused.
I accomplish more.
And yes, there is serendipity—something good, out of the blue, and unexpected.
Sometimes it is a creative idea. Sometimes it's a contact that materializes. Sometimes it's an article someone emails me that completes a puzzle I've been working on.
It is totally related to programming my super computer.
Do I know how it occurs? Not even close.
Do I know that it does occur? With total certainty.
I cannot tell you that the time you spend writing, reviewing, and clarifying your plan will bring magic to your life. But I wouldn't bet against it.
Bill Good is chairman of Bill Good Marketing. His Gorilla CRM System helps advisors double their production or work half as much; visit www.billgood.com. His seminar program, "No More Pies," helps advisors manage ETF portfolios using technical analysis; see www.nomorepies.net. And his blog, financialadvisorsmarketing.net, has lots of useful information for advisors who need to beef up marketing. To preview Bill as a speaker, see his YouTube channel here: http://bit.ly/BillGoodSpeaker.


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Christ Is Risen!
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Well I like ROCOR if my opinion matters, and my best priest friend is a ROCOR priest.But I have come across plenty of folk over the last 10 years or so who don't like ROCOR and even deny that it is Orthodox.Sad but true.Peter
I have read the site and it is a way to get western christians into orthodoxy. making palatable for them ( westerns) by letting them keep the common prayer book plus some orthodox additions. keep reading the site.and you say that there is no double standard. it is crystal clear.
RB, they are not pretending to be Anglican.
Why do most orthodox don't like Rocor?
That is true. But that doesn't necessarily mean that they are wrong simply because they are traditionalists. I mean, lately this board has embraced ecumenism at a level that I sometime feel goes too far.
We're certainly not in the headspace to naturally empathize with the Holy Martyrs. I mean really...it's only a stupid pinch of incence! A pinch of incence to some ridiculous statue we don't really believe in anyway. Is not living a relatively peaceful, long life, not worth a little tolerance, not so much stricture and integrism?
many of hte mods at the Cafe are Orthodox?
Mor thought that ROCOR was completely wacked out until he started talking to people like me & Bethany. ;-)
Quote from: hecma925 on December 30, 2019, 07:25:46 PMOCnet is KGB.I hail Mor Ephrem as our Secretary General.
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Oh you Greeks, you are all dumb!An Athonite
The only difference bewteen your unia and ours is that we don't required ours to abandon their traditions while you guys have forced them to accept some of yours while maintiain some of their.
This is surprizing to me that the Orthodox would be arguing who is in communion with who, I thought that it was one Orthodox body, but it is resembling a fragmented RC body.Learn something everday, nobody on earth is perfect.james
C'mon RB,Being a RC myself, the Church may appear to be organized, but so was the military in Iraq. If it was that highly & extremely organized how did them pedophiles get in. The Church is fragmented on Liturgy, altar girls, abortion etc etc.You can be organized & still disfunctional.james, wandering & talking in the Mojave desertGive me a break.
OrthodoxyOrDeath is GOC. So tell me, since ROCOR was in communion with the GOC (and actually was responsible for there even being a GOC)... at what point did the GOC become non-Orthodox? In what year did the GOC change their views or practices? And when did ROCOR say that they were non-Orthodox and therefore had to break from them? The ROCOR priest who I asked advice from (who is pro-MP-union, btw) said that he thought the GOC had grace. Perhaps he should be informed that the GOC doesn't have grace after all? (I'll leave ROAC out of it, as that could get really nasty)
I do not think they are Orthodox because they broke with ROCOR and are not in communion with the Orthodox Church.
RB etc. the GOC and ROAC and other such groups can be thought of in a very crude way as being similar to groups such as the SSPV and CMRI within the Catholci Church.
Patriarchal Cathedral of St.George - Constantinople (December7,1965) - The 'Lifting' of the Anathemas of the Orthodox Church against Papism - Athenagoras announces the 'lifting', co-enthroned with Cardinal Lawrence ShenanHow so? Not disagreeing or agreeing at this point, just wondering why you think this is the case.
To my surprise, I have to agree with Romanbyzantium on this. It seems to me that differences in Western and Eastern liturgical forms cannot be dissociated from the differences in theological and philosophical orientation that led, in the case of the Western Church, to the eventual schism.
To be Orthodox is to embrace a traditional approach to faith and life. And, traditions cannot be "reconstructed."
That is true. But that doesn't necessarily mean that they are wrong simply because they are traditionalists. I mean, lately this board has embraced ecumenism at a level that I sometime feel goes too far.Let's face the truth; Liberalism is not a part of Orthodoxy. It is simply a consequence of our weakness and selfishness.We need places like the cafe to sometimes remind us of how Orthodoxy was/is traditionally practiced.
Truly idiotic to separate "ROCOR" from "Eastern Orthodox". What are they, then? "Northern Orthodox" -- owing to the latitude of Russia?!And who, then, are the mysterious "of that nature" people? I surmise that the intent is "SCOBATES" vs. "non-SCOBATES". If so, then how truly childish. . .
Exactly so. 'Twas intended to be "Christian." Orthodox is Orthodox is Orthodox. . . It's the name-calling and worthless hostilities among Orthodox groups that I reject. "SCOBATES" and "non-SCOBATES" are Orthodox Christians. I never see ROCOR separated from other Orthodox groups unless the separator is playing the broken "canonical drum."
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Girls with Turner syndrome are usually diagnosed either at birth or around the time they might be expected to go through puberty. If a baby girl has some of the signs of Turner syndrome, a doctor will usually order a special blood test called a karyotype (pronounced: CARE-ee-eh-tipe). The test counts the number of chromosomes and can identify any that are abnormally shaped or have missing pieces.
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Because Turner syndrome is a condition that is caused by a chromosomal abnormality, there's no specific cure. However, scientists have developed a number of treatments that can, for instance, help with growth problems — and researchers are constantly looking into new forms of treatment.
Growth hormone treatment can improve growth and influence a girl's final adult height. In fact, in many cases, the treatment can help many girls with Turner syndrome reach a final height in the average range, especially if treatment is started early in childhood.
Another treatment for Turner syndrome is estrogen replacement, which helps the girl develop the physical changes of puberty, including breast development and menstrual periods. This treatment usually starts when a girl is about 12 or 13.
And a technique called in vitro fertilization can make it possible for some women with Turner syndrome to become pregnant. A donor egg can be used to create an embryo, which is then put into the uterus (womb) of the woman with Turner syndrome. With proper supportive care, the woman can carry the pregnancy to term and deliver a baby through the normal birth process.
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If you have Turner syndrome, you know that it can affect you in several ways. But it's only a small part of your total physical, emotional, and intellectual self.
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If you have a friend who has Turner syndrome, remember to respect her emotional and physical needs. For example, she may not always feel comfortable talking about her condition, so let her share only what she feels OK with.
You also can support your friend just by hanging out and doing things you enjoy together and by being a good listener if she turns to you for advice or comfort.
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Alexandra Pelosi was beaming: She had just made her Sundance Film Festival debut with the HBO documentary "Fall to Grace," about former New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey; her mother, Rep. Nancy Pelosi was on hand to witness it; and Sundance's founder and Pelosi's hero, Robert Redford, made it a point to stop by to witness the event.
"I'm 42 years old and finally made it to Sundance. This is the best day of my life - it's downhill from here," she cracked.
That's highly unlikely. With the film set to make its debut on HBO on March 28 and the growing buzz around it, Pelosi is bound to have more celebratory moments for "Fall to Grace." It's her eighth HBO film: She's also done documentaries on homeless children, the tea party movement and Ted Haggard, the pastor who became ensnared in a drug and sex scandal.
"I'm drawn to broken men - Why is that?" Pelosi pondered at a brunch Friday morning to celebrate the documentary. "I don't know. I'm really drawn to the recovering politician. . there's a lot of that in the film."
McGreevey was the governor of New Jersey and considered a rising Democratic star when he resigned in 2004 after it was revealed that McGreevey, then married with a child, was cheating on his wife with another man.
The scandal became a tabloid sensation, but after that, McGreevey came out as a gay man, trained in the seminary and started working with incarcerated women. The film follows McGreevey as he helps the women in prison and in their attempts to make the transition after their release.
"He's taken his own shame and turned it into something good, which most of the other fallen men don't do," she said, adding that a return to politics was unlikely for him: "He's too sincere."
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McGreevey, who was also at the brunch with partner Mark O'Donnell, said he was initially reluctant to do a documentary about his life.
"I think my personal story had been told time and time again, but when Alexandra said she was willing to follow the women and get to know the women . it became something different," he said.
Pelosi spent so much time with McGreevey that her young children make cameo appearances in the film, and spent major holidays with McGreevey as he visited women in prison.
Nancy Pelosi recalled calling her daughter on Christmas to find out what the filmmaker's kids got for Christmas.
"She said, 'Mom I'm not going to tell you where I am right now,' and I said, 'Well, I think you are because you brought it up,'" the House Democratic minority leader recalled.
She was in prison with McGreevey: the younger Pelosi recalls her mother didn't take the news well, chastising her for not being home with her children, now 5 and 6.
"I thought, 'There's something more important than me and my kids,' and that's something I learned from Jim McGreevey," Pelosi said.
Pelosi said after that conversation with her mother, "I wasn't sure how supportive my mom was of the project - until today."
The debut of the film marked a career pinnacle for Pelosi, a former NBC News journalist; having Redford appear at the film's premiere was an added bonus.
"Robert Redford was famous and could have retired after 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,'" she said, referencing one of his most famous films.
"But he kept working and his best work was in front of him, and if you ask me, Robert Redford's best work is Sundance because he makes everybody else's dream come true," she continued.
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According to world-famous astronomer David Levy, an eclipse of the Sun "is a natural event with unnatural consequences. In fact, a total eclipse of the Sun has the power to rip through to the core of your being."
Levy should know, having experienced the power of the vanishing Sun first as a child and most recently in August, 1999, on a ship in the North Atlantic. It was that voyage to the darkness of the disappearing Sun, followed by a rendezvous with a brilliant display of the Northern Lights, that formed the inspiration for this book.
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