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Welcome to the third post in a four-post series on the writing lessons I've learned from my students' successes. Today's lesson: Be open to critiques.
I absolutely do NOT want to admit this, but on the chance you'll see yourself in my experience I will share this dark secret: I did not use critiques when I needed them the most.
In my early workshops I looked congenial on the exterior, but inside I was shouting, "Shut up! I hate you! La la la la, I can't hear you." Metaphoric fingers in ears. Metaphoric feet stomping on the ground.
I was, in fact, paying tuition then and so therefore spending hard earned dollars to deflect each of these helpful notes.
Most of my students and clients are not like this. I know they aren't because their revisions reflect a response to critiques received. In other words, they are adults. Adults who know their first draft (or second) isn't perfect and can improve. Adults who know writers need another set of eyes on their work.
When I see them being all adult about workshop notes, I can't help but try to understand why I wasted so much time pushing away what I so needed to hear. The answer I come up with: I subscribed too heavily to the idea that talent reigns supreme. I believed that these critiques meant I didn't have enough talent to BE A WRITER. Another issue: I then lacked the skill to take a comment and revise, so I found critiques overwhelming. How on earth was I suppose to use these comments? How could I pry open this formed thing and begin to rebuild?
Eventually, my avoidance caught up with me--when I turned in my first book to my editor. She had notes. A lot of notes. And there was nowhere to run, no way to discount her comments (She's super smart and was pretty clearly right on the money with 99.9 percent of her comments*). And so there, under the gun of a deadline, I listened. And then I learned to revise. It was brutal because I had to learn revision so quickly and in a professional setting. I'm embarrassed now to think how I must have exhausted her patience. But you know, it's part of learning. It's part of growing up. It was part of my growing into myself as a writer.
But now I feel a gratitude when I see a student or a client absorb comments. It feels something like grace. Like karma is letting this one slide. A few years ago I read a draft of a client's memoir and I knew immediately she needed to cut the first 120 pages. It was clear to me the story started on page 121. I dreaded to tell her this. Would she be crushed? Dismiss my critique? But I had to tell her. She was, in fact, paying me to tell her what I know. Yes, she was taken aback, but she took the note and revised. And then she revised some more. And then I got an email from her one day saying a university press wanted to buy her book. Happy ending.
Yet, once in a while, I come across my younger self, the writer mightily fighting off what she needs to hear. I try to have compassion for her and for my younger self. I tell her, "These comments don't mean you can't get there, that you're not talented. It just means there's some work to do."
Sometimes those words are enough.
*Caveat: Not all critiques are created equal. I've heard terrible advise handed out in workshops. You do have to make an executive decision about which critiques you will use. But try not let that be an executive decision and not a toddler one.
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If you missed it, Check out Part 1 on setting up your DR Plan
Setting up your team
First you need someone to be in charge of assessing the damage caused. This person not only will be in charge of saying which parts are broken, but will also need to determine how bad the damage is and how long it will take to fix. If you sell over the internet and your network is down, then this is a mission critical resource for your company and needs to be addressed quickly, while having your fax lines down might only be a problem for invoicing and having it down for a few days might not be considered a problem. With all major problems a level of downtime should also be given
- Level 1 – Minor 4-8 hours
- Level 2 – Moderate 8-24 hours
- Level 3 – Major 24-72 hours
- Level 4 – Business relocation
This person will be in charge of determining how major each part of the business is for it to continue operating and will also determine how bad the disaster is.
The next person on your team will need to be in charge of actually fixing the problem, they will be in charge of the operation until the problems are fixed. It is important that this person is known as the person in charge during downtime as they might not necessarily be the person in charge during normal operations, which could lead to a conflict in leadership. Having these predefined roles will decrease the time spent on who is doing what. This person will also be leading the recovery, which depending on the disaster could be deploying IT resources or calling vendors for parts.
Finally we need someone in charge of checking that everything is being done, and that the DR plan actually works. While testing the technical part of the plan will be tasked to a member of IT; checking that if a server shuts down it will start up on another machine; that tape backups are being made and are recoverable. While the technical parts are important and vary from company to company, focusing on the human side makes this member of the DR team tasked with making sure everything else is being done. If you only have one person updating the contact list and they forget or become lazy, then they would become our single point of failure, but by having one person who checks to verify that everyone is doing their job then we have the security of knowing our plan is in place and is being constantly updated as needed.
The last thing to keep in mind about avoiding human error is automating and segmenting. The more automated something is the less likely someone is going to mess it up. Virtualization has automated many tasks like from restarting servers to creating backups. The other is segmenting, giving permissions to some people and baring others. The people from who are answering phones don't need access to sale records and the people from accounting don't need access to marketing files. This limited access seems obvious to anyone who works in a corporate setting, but is important for any small to medium business that has multiple departments to keep in mind. The less access people have to the important parts of IT the better it will be for IT to manage themselves.
These steps are just the beginning to setting up and implementing a DR plan for your company and shouldn't be considered an exhaustive list. It doesn't matter if you spend the money to have a redundant internet line installed if a person hits the poll with their car and knocks them both out. But preparing for and implementing a plan is a start and preparing for most disasters is better than preparing for none.


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Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria
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Sunday, January 22, 2012
Robert E. Howard's 106th birthday*
I've been involved in Howard Studies for a number of years and I frequently have to remind myself just how far REH (as we call him in print) has come as a popular culture figure. If you are wondering yourself what I'm talking about, go watch the REH mini-biography on the new Conan the Barbarian blu-ray. You'll probably watch it and go, "So? Yeah? Big deal. I know all of this stuff, Finn. What's your point?"
Then go watch the REH featurette on the FIRST Conan movie DVD, starring Schwarzenegger. Just compare the two and you'll see the differences, in shart contrast. You'll wonder why, for example, they let John Milius talk about Robert E. Howard as if he knew the man personally, when in fact he has had, and continues to not have, any ties to Howard or the Howard Studies community. He's just a ham hock of a director, flapping his big fat mouth, and getting it all wrong. 100% wrong.
That's not happening now. Paradox is maintaining Howard's image and biography, even as they continue to support the publishing effort. It's important to do both. There are millions of copies of the "Conan Saga," which is what we have come to call the 12-book paperback series that was put together by L. Sprague de Camp with the help of Lin Carter and Bjorn Nyborg. These books were the introduction to so many fans of REH, the character of Conan, and perhaps worst of all, de Camp's introductions regarding Howard from a biographical perspective. Oh, and of course, his assertion that there's no deep meaning to epic fantasy. It's all just good clean fun. Riiiiiiight.
Anyway, all of that junk is still out there. Those books get traded into Half-Price books and frequently don't last a week on the shelves before someone picks them up again. Gary Romeo, the greatest de Camp apologist of all, thinks it's funny that people like me keep bringing up de Camp. To be fair, he also complained that people weren't giving him enough credit when everyone was trying to freeze him out of the books. So, either way, he's going to kvetch.
But I want to be very clear here: the reason why I keep bringing him up is because I don't want people to forget what a horrible biographer de Camp was, and also what a petty little snark he could be whenever he talked about My Favorite Author. He never missed an opportunity whenever he had an audience to offer up a sideways kick or a backhanded compliment about Howard, usually a listing of all of Howard's faults as an author and as a human, followed with "but for all of that, he sure could write rousing action scenes, couldn't he?" This is the literary equivalent to telling your dance partner, "You know, for a fat chick, you sure don't sweat very much." It's damning with faint praise, and it has been the model for criticizing REH, well, ever since de Camp started doing it in the mid-1950s.
But that's changing now. The documentary on the new Conan dvd is huge. I know of at least two high profile anthologies coming out, one this year and one next year, with REH stories in them. It's only a matter of time before Howard becomes the next of the pulp-era authors to get folded into the American Literary Canon.It may take a few more years, and a few more people outside of the SF-F sub-culture to write favorable about him, but it's going to happen.
And there will always be a pop cultural, if not a cultural, presence for REH and his work. So the Conan movie didn't work out so good. Doesn't matter. Not really. The MMO is still going strong, and there's more and more publishing coming out. Another movie will get made. Hopefully closer to the source material. The message boards are active, and the fan base is healthy. As more and more of these fans discover or rediscover Howard's work, they are greeted with a very different picture of the author than merely "the brooding loner who wrote Conan."
I can't think of a better 106th* birthday present. Happy Birthday, Bob. Thanks for the words.
*Thanks to Damon over at the excellent Two-Gun Raconteur website for reminding me my count was off. It's 2012, not 2011, don't you know.
Posted by Mark Finn at 1:59 PM
Labels: Blood and Thunder, pulps, REH
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- Taranaich said...
You said it, Mark.
I was just pondering the Conan Saga myself: I've come across a few articles recently that were very clearly informed by them (not to mention the authors were of the right age group to have read them at a young age), and considering the massive success of the Lancers, it seems clear that we're still going to be cleaning up the mess. I'm still seething about Stewart Lee's show-and-tell.
Let's keep marching on the gates of the American Literary Canon!
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I tried Vyzor and I couldn't quite the get hang of it, but really either/or can be really good for this sort of thing.
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Fill your sink with hot water and lean over it for a minute or two. While it won't take off a full face of makeup, the steam emitted from the hot water will remove trace amounts of leftover makeup from your skin. The heat and moisture will open up your pores, unclogging them to remove dirt and other impurities.
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There are festivals and events dedicated to art cars all over the world, like the annual Houston Art Car Parade in the US and India's Cartist Automobile Art Festival. One of the big calendar events for car artistry is the Burning Man festival which, while not exclusively devoted to car art, encourages attendees to create what they call "mutant vehicles."
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Pushing Images
To push or upload an image to Docker Hub
While official images live in their own namespace, locally created ones do not. You must assign them to your directory with your own Docker ID by calling
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GENEVA, Ill. — Jerry Harding's short-handed goal 4:46 into the second period Saturday night was the Cedar Rapids RoughRiders winger's second goal of the night and gave his club a 2-1 lead over the Chicago Steel in Game 1 of this best-of-5 United States Hockey League Eastern Conference semifinal playoff series. And you'd think a whole Zamboni full of momentum.
But it ended up representing the high point of the game for the Riders. The rest was not so good.
Nick Abruzzese scored two goals and added three assists, his cool five-point night carrying Chicago to a 6-3 win over the Riders. After Harding's shorty, Chicago scored five of the final six goals to run away with this first game.
Game 2 is Friday at 5:05 p.m. at Fox Valley Ice Arena.
"It's a series," said RoughRiders Coach Mark Carlson. "They won Game 1, did a real nice job, they've got a real nice club. We'll get regrouped and look forward to getting back at it at 5 bells."
Defenseman Matteo Pietroniro of Chicago got the scoring started with a goal 5:37 in. But Harding countered with a tying goal even strength about six minutes later.
Harding's shorty put C.R. on top for the only time in this game, 2-1. But three consecutive goals in a matter of four minutes put the Steel up 4-2.
Max Sasson scored a power-play goal in the final minute of the third period to bring the RoughRiders within 4-3 headed to the final 20 minutes. But Chicago extended its lead immediately to 5-3 on a Neil Shea goal just 31 seconds into the third period.
Abbruzese scored his second goal of the night midway through the third to put the game away.
"I thought they played well," Carlson said. "I thought we did a lot of good things, too. We just need to be more consistent with our overall effort toward the game plan."
Carlson was asked about Abbruzese, one of the top point getters in the regular season.
"First of all, he's a heck of a hockey player. Heck of a hockey player, for sure," Carlson said. "Definitely one of the top players in the league. We've got to pay more attention to the little details. But the thing is we'll get freshened up and get back after it tomorrow."
Goaltender Blake Pietila faced 28 shots, saving 22, for Cedar Rapids. Counterpart Justin Robbins stopped 23 of 26 shots for Chicago.


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Seminar by Ms Rhiannon Moore
Tuesday, 4th December 2018, 3pm
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Microplastics (<5mm) have been found in nearly all environments on earth and studies have been documented plastic ingestion by a wide range of marine biota. Rhiannon will be covering several topics surrounding this emerging environmental contaminant including sources, fate and effects of microplastics and what Ocean Wise is doing to research this environmental contaminant. She will also provide a summary of her own research in the Canadian Arctic, where she is investigating microplastic pollution in beluga whales and their prey. The results of Rhiannon's project provides both a baseline assessment of microplastic contamination within the beluga food web and contribute to a larger understanding of plastic pollution within Canada's Arctic.
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Rhiannon is a researcher at the Ocean Wise Plastics Lab and is completing her Masters of Science at Simon Fraser University. Her research focuses on plastic pollution in Canada's Arctic, where she is evaluating the amount of microplastic contamination in the beluga food web. In 2017 Rhiannon participated in an all-female sailing expedition (eXXpedition Caribbean) to raise awareness on plastic pollution, and later participated in the Canada C3 expedition as a research scientist. In 2018, she was the recipient of the Garfield Weston Award for Northern Research, and named one of Canada's top 30 under 30 sustainability leaders by Corporate Knights. When not in the lab or the field, Rhiannon spends much of her time participating in outreach and education events to raise awareness about plastic pollution.


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Thursday marked 20 years since the disestablishment of the Air Force's legendary Strategic Air Command, and the "deterrence business," as nukemen and women like to call it, has had a mixed record ever since.
On the plus side, human civilization still exists. That's because of, or in spite of -- depending on your perspective -- world powers' lingering arsenals of nuclear weapons.
On the minus side, many of those same world powers, including the United States, have sometimes taken their eyes off the nuclear ball. So much so, in fact, that the head of Strategic Command, Air Force Gen. Robert Kehler, warned that Washington needs to get its act together yesterday to preserve or improve the U.S. nuclear "complex," the apparatus that supports the land-based, submarine-launched and bomber-borne arsenal.
As our eminent colleague Michael Hoffman reported, Kehler described visiting the various sites of the "complex" after he'd taken command, and seeing for himself that all was not well.
"What I found was confirmation of what I've been reading," he said, per Hoffman. "In some places the infrastructure is in really bad shape -- really bad shape."
If the Air Force and Navy are to stay in the nuke game, Kehler argued, Congress must fund the laboratories and other support systems for the arsenal, with the eventual goal of modernizing it. The U.S. would need to make that move no matter what it decides, today or down the road, about how many weapons to field.
The Air Force four-star commended Congress for funding nuclear delivery platforms such as the Air Force's planned long range bomber and the follow on to the Ohio-class submarine. However, he's more worried about the weapons than the delivery platforms. The U.S. has long planned for a life extension plan for its B61 nuclear bombs. However, the cost for the program has grown to $4 billion. The White House recommended the military slow down the program and reduced funding for it to $369 million next year.What's puzzling about Kehler's warnings is that Congress already fought this battle, in 2010, as part of the Senate's debate over ratifying the New START treaty. In exchange for passage, defense and nuclear advocates appeared to get assurances that Congress would fund the nuclear complex. Evidently they did not materialize to the satisfaction of the head of Strategic Command.
The House Armed Services Committee has since boosted the funding to $435 million in 2013 to keep the program on track. Kehler said similar investments must be made to maintain intellectual capital in the nuclear weapons complex.
"We do have aging weapons. We do have a series of weapons that are due for life extensions," Kehler said. "That in and of itself will help the labs to retain and in fact recruit some new, bright, young, shiny kinds of engineers and scientists that they need."
He acknowledged the political debate over the number of nuclear weapons the U.S. should maintain in its stockpile. No matter if the stockpile grows or shrinks to zero, the U.S. will have to depend on the labs and industry to reach those goals, Kehler said.
"You have to have this enterprise to take care of [nuclear weapons]," he said. "The '13 budget contains appropriate investment in those activities. What I'm concerned about though is that beyond '13 we don't have a plan that [does]."
It's as tiresome to write as it is for you to read, but here's this leitmotif again: Nothing is likely to happen on this until after the election. And that's not just gridlock-era conventional wisdom -- President Obama said so himself. Remember when the microphone caught him in South Korea telling Russian President Dimitri Medvedev that he'd have more "flexibility" as he looked forward to a second term? They were talking about missile defense, but it was in the larger context of nuclear weapons, after the speech in which Obama reaffirmed his abhorrence of nukes.
What could the president have up his sleeve? There's been a lot of rumor-mongering and grandstanding around town about some of the potential plans for the nuclear arsenal: Hundreds of weapons going away, units being taken off standby, and who knows what else. Although nuclear weapons have a lot of friends in Congress, the president -- as the man whose fist ultimately holds the lightning bolts -- has a lot of power to act on his own. Whether he wins a second term or not, an Obama free from the pressure of another election might use his remaining time in office to make the biggest dent he could in the weapons he's hated his whole life.


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Monday is a very awful way to spend 1/7th of your life. This is an observation anyone would agree with. Monday mornings are sluggish by default for many reasons. It approaches when a majority of us are nursing one weekend hangover or the other; some of the party the night before, others of a long overdue 10 hour sleep. We seem to detest getting out of beds on a Monday, hate getting ready for work, dawdle over that cup of coffee longer than required, hesitate turning on our workstations, and groan with exasperation when we see our inbox overflowing with the week's work already charted over the weekend by overenthusiastic bosses. No, Mondays are no good at all. I was dawdling over the aforementioned cup of coffee longer than required a few weeks back on a Monday when my phone rang. It was my mother calling me. Because it was my mother calling, and because I did not have anything terribly important to do just then, I decided to talk to her. I picked up the call on the fifth ring (I was, after all, pretty busy doing nothing), which started off with her asked me if I was up at ten-thirty in the morning, which, considering the fact that my office starts at ten o'clock, could only be attributed to a mother who knows her son all too well. She conscientiously reminded me that my birthday was fast approaching, which was a fact I wasn't likely to forget as I would legally be of an age to drink. Ironically, I was considered mature enough to vote and shape the destiny of my country since 18 years of age, which just goes to highlight the amusing little quirks of our wonderful nation, like frowning at public display of affection in a park while peeing on a nearby wall. And then, finally, when the call was about to end, she dropped a bombshell – she had been looking at prospective brides for me. I nearly threw up my coffee at my computer screen.
My mother effortlessly keeps my father and us three devils-for-sons constantly on our toes with her habit of throwing surprises like a heavy steel box coated in lead, but this was one that I hadn't foreseen coming. She went on for quite a while about other things, maybe about the family planning bit – how many kids I should have and when and where and how – but my brain plainly refused to take any more information in. Instead, it focused on working out what I would tell the ex that I once had, and the one that I have at present, and many others that I would have wanted to have in the future (I am just trying to come across as something of a stud here. I know, I feel sorry for myself too sometimes). I opened my Facebook account to find something that would distract me from my predicament. Cute baby/puppy videos, god-awful dubsmashes, extremely clichéd and unfunny pranks – just about anything would have done. Marriage, the ultimate sacrifice; end of life as I knew it! And then, as I was beginning to contemplate the repercussions of having a personal Armageddon, something on my newsfeed caught my eye that made my Monday take a nosedive for worse. In that lovely little sidebar that told me "what's trending", I saw words that would cause my brain to shut down, pack its bag and go out on an indefinite holiday; E.L. James had announced a sequel to the 50 Shades series. I clicked on the link with trembling hands and read the complete article. The sequel, as it was portrayed to be, was essentially the same story from the point of view of the sadistic Christian Grey. In simpler words, it was same old shit in a different lavatory. My god, I thought with the cup held halfway between the table and my open mouth, this is worse than marriage. Armageddon would have certainly been preferable.
Let us have a bit of a backstory here to create a narrative. I write for a living and aspire to be a full-time author one day. As a result, I have always held it my social responsibility to look down my nose at people who I think are grammatically inferior to me; E.L. James would have been looked down the nose by people I looked down upon. I don't hate the 50 Shades series, but I do despise it and its creator with extreme, unflinching, almost loyal passion. For the many stellar qualities that she is so universally despised for, I will list but a few – her prose is pathetic, there was no story in any of the three books, and a friend of mine commented his bathroom fantasies would have had much more narrative that what she had churned out. But my friend never made millions of dollars out of his bathroom fantasies, nor was the product of his depraved imagination ever adapted into movies by big Hollywood production houses. E.L. James is successful, and in today's money-crazy world that is all that matters. Another extremely interesting thing to note here is the amount of success she has had for writing something that, from what I've heard, borders on innovative torture and flirts dangerously with domestic violence and molestation. What does it say, as a society, for our moral values; what does it say, as a global civilization, for our future? Are we so deep into depravity and decadence that we've fallen for this obscene, wanton craving for debauchery? Are we regressing into the cavemen we once were? Someone close to me who has read the series summed it up pretty well in a sentence. As I was ranting about the grave injustice of having to suffer the likes of James and her ilk, she simply commented that James sold because she had something new to offer; it might have been crass, she argued, but it was a novel crassness. Simply put, the public will buy shit if is packed nicely in an attractive package and wrapped with a pretty pink ribbon.
Mahatma Gandhi is rumored to have once said, "An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind". I have recently found out that he has never uttered anything of such sort, and besides, wouldn't it make much more sense to poke both eyes out while you're at it and significantly reduce the chances of righteous retribution inflicted upon you? So I respond to like with like; I shall write something novel, something new, and something extremely down-market. Yes, I will write the Indian version of Fifty Shades of Grey. The story, titled 50 Rang Grihast Jeevan Ke, will revolve around a married Indian couple and will focus on how Indian husbands abuse their wives and how wives abuse their husbands in return. It is universally accepted in India (bonus points to you if you spotted that before reading this) that marital rape and domestic violence is a husband's birthright, and BDSM has always been prevalent in India in the form of Bartan, Dhulai, Sewa and Maryada (Alok Nath must be thrilled). Since the wives don't leave even after such wonderful display of love and affection, one suspects they rather enjoy it. But the marital fondness isn't completely one sided; Indian wives demonstrate their capacity for returning love in equal measure by filing false dowry cases and through infidelity – it is, after all, their choice (cough, Deepika, cough). Sounds like a good idea, doesn't it?
But the competition is already picking up. Another friend, an avid feminist, wants the roles to be reversed. She essentially wants a female Christian Grey who ties her husband to the bed and beats the living shit out of him with a stick; her idea of a good starting line is "He whimpered". I have turned down her offer of collaboration because, firstly, the idea of a woman beating a man offended my male pride, and secondly, I would rather leave the unenviable task of conception of various innovative tortures for men to a woman because I do not wish to wince in sympathy the whole day (and because women are that good at innovating tortures). The last I heard, my feminist friend was searching for a sword to chop off extraneous appendages, most likely toenails. I have, on my part, convinced my friend with bathroom fantasies and a better narrative to collaborate with me. Given the current trends, I have high hopes of success from the series and firmly believe that even if we don't attract Hollywood owing to our lack of connections in Los Angeles, the story can be successfully adapted into a C-grade Bollywood movie or a Bhojpuri blockbuster. Mediocrity, here we come!


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Traditional "Christkindlesmarkt"
The probably most well known German Christmas market is the Christkindlesmarkt in Nuremberg. There is a written record of it as early as 1628. The Nuremberg Christ Child, who is elected by the Nuremberg citizens every two years, always opens the market with a ceremonial prologue on the Friday before the first Advent.
More than two million visitors from all over the world are expected by Christmas Eve.
The special charm of the Christkindlesmarkt lies in the historic backdrop of the Nuremberg main market square with the Church of our Lady, the Beautiful Fountain and the view of the Old Town Gothic Church of St. Sebaldus.
The "little town of wood and cloth" consisting of approximately 180 stalls with red-and-white-striped canvas roofs forms a Christmas ensemble. Great value is attached to a traditional selection of wares. Along with the typical Nuremberg gingerbread and fruit bread visitors can purchase confectionary goods, toys, Christmas and Christmas tree decorations as well as arts and crafts. Mulled wine and grilled sausages provide refreshment.
A stroll through the market of the sister cities is also interesting, where handcrafted articles and specialties from countries like Nicaragua, China, Scotland or the Ukraine are found. Small visitors get their money's worth at the Children´s Christmas with its historic fun rides, a children's cultural program in the Star House and trips on the mail coach.
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Could Your Most Highly Engaged Employees Be About to Walk Out The Door?
For years, we've been told that to delivering great results is a by-product of great cultures, and in turn, highly engaged employees. We know the spiel. High engagement equals high performance, and as I am sure you would chime in, high retention of employees.
So, reading an article recently, evaluating the opposite, caught me by surprise.
In '1 of 5 Highly Engaged Employees is as Risk of Burnout', Seppala and Moeller explain that in a recent study done by the Yale Centre for Emotional Intelligence, in collaboration with the Faas Foundation, they found that, in certain cases, high engagement correlated with high burnout. In their experiment, 1 in 5 highly engaged employees reported both of these feelings. And, even more critically, this same group also reported the highest turnover (leaving) intentions, even higher that the data from the 'unengaged' group, who you would naturally expect to have greater intentions to move to a new role.
What does this say, and what should we do about it?
Recognise highly engaged employees often feel the highest level of stress
When you're engaged, and performing at your best, you're probably working your hardest. This group of individuals reported feeling passionate about their work, but also had high levels of stress and frustration, and symptoms such as difficulty sleeping, etc. In practice, it may be easy to overlook this as a leader. For example, if you have a high performer that seems to always work long hours, you may assume this is just their working style. However, they could be depleting valuable resources in a fashion that even they do not recognise themselves – until burnout strikes.
Understanding individuals and unique dynamics is key to retention
It should be made clear that the study also showed highly engaged employees that did not report the same symptoms, meaning that the two are not always directly linked. For you, as a finance leader, maximising engagement, performance and retention will always be about understanding the individual's unique requirements and situation. As suggested by Seppala and Moeller, taking a more nuanced approach to promoting engagement while avoiding burnout is needed. Factors such as providing a high level of resources, supervisor support, low levels of bureaucracy, and constant check ins around demand and workload can make a significant difference.
Realistically challenging vs overly stretching goals
Individuals respond differently to stretch goals – but in the context of employees at risk of burnout, it may be worth evaluating your stance on aggressive goal-setting. Employees who perform often get saddled with more, unintentionally and accumulatively, so assessing this in an objective and measured way is a valuable exercise. Watch your own work habits, like emailing after hours – in order to set boundaries that don't lesson someone's ambition, but set the right tone and values.
The takeaway here is by no means that high engagement is bad. Engagement in most cases is overwhelmingly positive – however there will always be a subsection of passionate employees at risk of burnout that you need to watch out for. Being aware of this interesting dynamic, and not being complacent, is key to ensuring you continue to deliver high performance, year after year.
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For the lucky 13th season of the CW's Supernatural, the producers are going big. An alternate universe. The fourth prince of hell. The son of Satan who's also half human.
Jack's presence gives Sam and Dean a purpose in the wake of losing so many of their friends, frenemies and relatives. Cas, Crowley and Mary are all gone — some of them permanently, some less so — but the Winchester brothers have this uncontrollable force keeping them busy right now.
Sam and Dean's reactions to Jack are unsurprisingly polar opposite from each other. Sam's immediate inclination is to protect Jack and make sure the nephilim uses his power for good, not evil. Dean, on the other hand, wants to rid the world of this potential unstoppable weapon of mass destruction.
As for Jack himself, well, he's trying to figure out life. He's roughly three plus days old. But he looks like an adult. He's super innocent but learning a lot everyday, including the joy of nougat. And, last week, he had to fend off Asmodeus (Jeffrey Vincent Parise), one of hell's most powerful, who tried to manipulate Jack into unleashing the sure-to-be-scary shedim.
Yes, Jack's dealing with some shady business as well as negotiating the dynamic of his caretakers, two demon-hunting siblings who are hurting emotionally.
Thankfully, TV Goodness was able to talk to the actor who portrays Jack. We chatted with Alexander Calvert about this week's episode, one that sees Sam working with Jack on controlling his powers. We also touched on the nephilim's dynamic with the brothers, whether Jack can be molded, working with Jensen and Jared, and his introduction to the Supernatural Family.
TV Goodness: What's it been like for you since your Supernatural episodes have started airing?
Alexander Calvert: It's come at me pretty quickly, I'll say that. Yeah. People have been really positive and are really enjoying the new season and I think they're enjoying seeing what Jack brings out of Sam and Dean. I'm just really happy that people are liking it and relating to characters and enjoying the new journey.
TV Goodness: What are you enjoying most about playing Jack?
Calvert: I think the part I like the most about playing Jack so far has been his optimism. He's got a real optimism because he's so new to the world about life. That's been kind of fun to dwell in and live in. Obviously, he freaks out occasionally. For the most part.
TV Goodness: When he does freak out, he freaks out big.
Calvert: Yes. He's kind of an uncontrollable force at this point.
TV Goodness: Sam seems to be the one to quickly establish a connection with Jack. How has that been to play and what can you tease or preview about next week's episode because I think that Jack and Sam spend a lot of time together?
Calvert: Sam is quick to be empathetic and I think sees Jack's potential and we really see, in the next episode, Sam's attempt to help Jack get a hold of his powers, harness them, so ultimately, that Jack can be able to use these things for good and not for evil.
TV Goodness: What is that going to look like, the way Sam helps Jack?
Calvert: I would say like ninja training for the guy with telekinesis powers.
TV Goodness: What was that like to actually act out? Was that challenging for you?
Calvert: Yes, because, spoiler, I don't have any real powers so it was…I like what it turned into because Jack, ultimately, [is] very frustrated with who and what he is and that was easy for me to play when kind of being in a stressful situation and trying to force accomplish a task that you could never accomplish.
TV Goodness: Dean and Sam don't share the same opinions on how to handle Jack and deal with Jack.
Calvert: Definitely not.
TV Goodness: I think Dean and Jack are separate next week but what can you tease about how the dynamic between Dean and Jack progresses or evolves in the coming weeks?
Calvert: Maybe not in this coming week but what I do like about the two characters is, Jack finding himself in both of his father figures in Sam and Dean. I think Dean and Jack actually have a lot in common even if Dean is really hard, they both have this monumental loss that they're struggling with how to process and I think everybody in the show is just kind of learning how to deal with that loss so I think Jack and Dean find some commonality that they don't necessarily realize at this point.
TV Goodness: Dean always starts out acting harsh but he usually kind of softens eventually. Is there going to be a softening between Dean and Jack?
Calvert: I don't want to say. I just think there's…Ultimately, there's a couple nice moments. Jack is really eager to impress the Winchesters. He wants to be a part of the crew, be a hunter so if he can do that and help them, I think that would really help their relationship and jack earnestly wants that.
TV Goodness: In "The Rising Son", Sam was saying he thinks Jack can be molded. Do you think Jack can?
Calvert: It's kind of one of those…it's the fun nature-nurture equation. How much can someone change? How much can someone be molded into something? There's obviously unlimited potential for Jack but I think the thing Dean struggles with is, how much is he like Lucifer? How much is he going to be true to that nature?
TV Goodness: How does Jack deal with the fact that he's the son of Lucifer? He's reading about him in the Bible but that's got to be a huge weight on his shoulders.
Calvert: Yeah. He's coming to grips with who he is, which is pretty monumental and he's kind of on this journey to find out who and what he is. Obviously, the weight of knowing the evil that Lucifer and Jack himself is capable of, definitely weighs on him.
TV Goodness: Asmodeus entered the equation in last week's episode and he was really sneaky about trying to manipulate Jack. Now that Jack knows the Prince of Hell is out there and maybe gunning for him and wanting to use him, how does Jack respond and can you tease if there are any more interactions between Jack and Asmodeus coming up?
Calvert: I really would like to see more of him because his preacher joining the congregation thing, was really fun to watch. I think Jack wants to have a home. He just doesn't know, necessarily, where that home is yet and I think the powers of evil are going to try to tempt him with that.
TV Goodness: What's been your favorite Jack moment so far and why?
Calvert: I think so far, it's been the: "I like nougat." People really like that one. My face looks ridiculous when I do it. I don't know. People really responded well to that and I don't know. It's just been fun and people enjoy it.
TV Goodness: Can you talk about what it's been like to work with Jensen and Jarred? Have they been giving you any advice? They're kind of known for pranking. Just generally, what's it been like?
Calvert: There's definitely been a lot of pranking. They've been doing this for so long, they're professional, they're fun to work with, the crew loves them. It's a really great working environment and getting to work with them everyday, it's great.
TV Goodness: What's been the most challenging part of this whole experience?
Calvert: I think the most challenging part has just been striking a balance between someone who's so innocent and new to the world but also carrying around a lot of darkness and weight coming from the loss in his lineage and just having a balance between the evil and the good and the nature-nurture. Jack's just carrying that with him all the time.
Supernatural airs Thursday nights at 8/7c on the CW. In addition to Sam helping Jack out with his powers, Loretta Devine (Missouri Mosley) is back for the first time since season one's "Home." Kim Rhodes (Jody Mills) returns as well. The set-up to the Wayward Sisters spinoff begins. Hopefully you guys are as excited about this as we are.


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This station is a very common one on 1370 (split ca 1370.2v). The station changed the frequency from 1360 to 1370 some time between December 2017 and January 2018. After many many tries I finally got a short confirmation via Messenger.
This station has become relatively common during the last years. On December 25, 1017 the station was heard in the Sarvsalö QTH (Borgå) with a periodically nice signal before sunrise. Several time checks such as ""En La Voz de La Unión, son las doce 44 minútos" was heard in breaks between pieces of music. The station confirmed by a message on Messenger.
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Radio Onda Azul was heard on January 21, 2018 in Lemmenjoki with a pretty good signal on AM 640 for some 20 mintues. around 0730 UTC. The station was previously heard in the Nordic region on shortwaves 4801v kHz 1989-1991, but this was the first AM logging of the station. The program heard at this date and time was "Rutas de Recuerdo" with the anchor Sinecio Bustinza with whom I and Henrik Klemetz have had an intensive contact since the date of my reception report to the station in early February 2018. Below a couple of audio clips including one sent by Sinecio on my birthday March 4 2018.
Radio San Luís was heard on January 21, 2018 during LEM393. The station was heard with more or less steady signal between 0730-0830 UTC and my reception report was confirmed by Luchito Torres, Conductor de Radio.
Radio La Voz, Manta, Provincia de Manabí surprised by phading up over Lima´s Radio Bethel- Also Radio Carraviz, Juliaca was heard on the frequency on January 20, 2018 during LEM393. The station gave a nice ID before disappearing:"La Voz, La Voz – en todas partes – La Voz 15-70″. A nice email and a Messenger message confirmed my reception.


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Their main problem lies with uncertainty about the future of the mine itself – and the power the big mining companies have. – The BBC
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