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The worldwide market for Animal Medicinal Feed Additives is expected to grow at a CAGR of roughly xx% over the next five years, will reach xx million US$ in 2024, from xx million US$ in 2019, according to a new GIR (Global Info Research) study.
This report focuses on the Animal Medicinal Feed Additives in global market, especially in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific, South America, Middle East and Africa. This report categorizes the market based on manufacturers, regions, type and application.
Market Segment by Manufacturers, this report covers
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Europe (Germany, France, UK, Russia and Italy)
Asia-Pacific (China, Japan, Korea, India and Southeast Asia)
South America (Brazil, Argentina, Colombia etc.)
Middle East and Africa (Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt, Nigeria and South Africa)
Market Segment by Type, covers
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Chapter 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9, to break the sales data at the country level, with sales, revenue and market share for key countries in the world, from 2014 to 2019.
Chapter 10 and 11, to segment the sales by type and application, with sales market share and growth rate by type, application, from 2014 to 2019.
Chapter 12, Animal Medicinal Feed Additives market forecast, by regions, type and application, with sales and revenue, from 2019 to 2024.
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To hear Mitch Smith tell the story, he never should have played basketball at the University of Utah — much less become a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
For starters, Smith received no shortage of scholarship offers. In fact, more than 50 college basketball coaches entered the Smith home to pitch Mitch on their respective schools.
Then there was Smith's lifestyle and religious conviction. The 6-foot-8 forward liked to party, swore like a sailor and hailed from a family that was openly hostile toward Latter-day Saints, although they did listen to one LDS basketball coach.
What's more, Smith's official visit to Utah's campus was "by far the most boring" of his four recruiting trips.
But looking back now at how things unfolded, Smith knows there was something more meaningful taking place in his life. Coming to Utah turned out to be the first in a series of miracles during a decade-long journey that ultimately led him to join the LDS Church.
"I tell my kids that … it works out, even for the rough guys like me," Smith said. "Not that I was a bad guy, but I was about as far away from being Mormon as you can get."
Religion and hoops
Growing up in Phoenix, religion was a central part of Smith's life. His parents raised him and his siblings as Christians, but were also hard-core anti-Mormons. They openly shunned any neighbors who belonged to the LDS faith. They accepted copies of the Book of Mormon from the missionaries and tossed them into the trash. Family members also attended seminars in order to learn anti-Mormon rhetoric. Smith says his father still has files on "how to talk to Mormons."
"I don't know where it came from. … I don't think my parents were bad people … but I had one prejudice growing up — Mormons," Smith said. "We didn't know why we hated them — we just did, and that's how it was. I grew up persecuting them a bit."
Basketball was the other focal point of Smith's youth. He was already a great athlete in a basketball family when he had a 6-inch growth spurt the summer before ninth grade. Suddenly he could dunk and began to excel as a player. As a senior, Smith averaged 27 points and 14 rebounds while leading Alhambra High School to a state championship. One newspaper recognized him as the Arizona State MVP, while another named him co-MVP with future NBA star Sean Elliott.
Coach Archibald
Coming off his senior season, Smith's services were in high demand among college recruiters. He said 56 coaches came through their home, including UTEP's Don Haskins, Arizona's Lute Olson and coaches from all the Pac-10 schools. BYU called once, but Smith used some colorful language and hung up.
Then there was Utah head coach Lynn Archibald, who somehow connected with the family. At one point during his visit, Smith's mother asked the coach to promise her something.
"If he does go to your school, you got to keep those Mormons away from him," she said.
"Archibald said, 'That's going to be tough, because I am a Mormon,'" Smith recalled. "We thought there's no way he's Mormon — he's too nice."
Smith took recruiting trips to UTEP, USC, Washington State and Utah. While the first three visits were significantly more entertaining than the fourth, Smith said there was something unique about Archibald. For one thing, the coach didn't speak negatively about the other programs, while they all claimed he would soon be fired.
"I hated snow, I hated Mormons, but there was something different and genuine about this guy," Smith said. "I came to Utah because of Archibald."
Marrying a Mormon
During his freshman year, Smith was at a dance club when he met an attractive blonde named Cindy Kilpack. He asked her out.
"Of course, she was a Mormon," Smith said.
Initially, their courtship was a rocky one because they kept breaking up. She was reluctant to date him because of his contrasting standards and religious views, but as they continued to see one another, she discovered a different side of him.
"He had a tough upbringing, a hard mentality for sports that made him so hard on the outside, but he was so tender and sweet on the inside that I knew there was a chance," Cindy Smith said. "But I didn't think it would take 10 years."
Despite warnings from some of Smith's friends who claimed she would leave him if he didn't get baptized, Mitch and Cindy were married at the end of his sophomore year. They asked 3rd Circuit Judge Paul Grant, the father of Utah teammate Josh Grant, to perform the wedding.
"We found the perfect guy to marry us. He was a judge and an LDS bishop," Smith said. "We told my parents he was a judge and we told her parents he was a bishop."
They were man and wife now, but there were still major differences to resolve.
Within days of their wedding, Smith went out with his buddies and came home intoxicated. Cindy responded by locking him out of their apartment.
"She wasn't used to that," Smith said. "That was her first realization that life was going to be more exciting for her."
While Cindy admits she was a little naïve, her husband's behavior wasn't anything new to her. She was raised in a broken home of divorced parents and alcoholism, and didn't want that for her family. She insisted on some strict rules that Mitch quickly learned to respect.
"There were some pretty hard times," Cindy said. "I know those experiences (growing up) prepared me."
Fierce competitor
Despite his personal challenges off the court, Smith thrived on the court. He was consistently among the team leaders in scoring and rebounding at Utah and made the all-conference team as a sophomore, junior and senior.
Although he only played in the NCAA tournament once, his career numbers at Utah are still among the best in the school record books. In addition to top-10 marks in rebounding, blocked shots and minutes played, Smith is currently in 10th place on the Utes' all-time scoring list with 1,628 points, right behind Tom Chambers and just ahead of Andre Miller and Nick Jacobsen.
Smith's success came as a result of his style of play, according to Deseret News columnist Doug Robinson.
"He hustles, he works, he's silent, he's all business, he's blue collar, he's unspectacular, he's anything but colorful or cocky," Robinson wrote in 1989.
"I'm a garbage player," Smith said in the same article.
Jeff Chatman, a former Cougar forward who battled against Smith for three years, said Smith was a fierce competitor who never backed down from an opponent.
"We didn't like each other at all, but I loved to play against him. It was all-out war. We would go back and forth, jawing at each other for most of the game, but it was respectful," Chatman said. "If you gave him a body shot to keep him off the boards, you knew he would come back at you. He would not be intimidated."
Smith wasn't drafted, but tried out for the Phoenix Suns and was invited to veterans camp. He knew the Suns had a full roster and at 6-foot-8, 195 pounds, Smith seemed like a long shot to make it to the NBA.
He weighed that option against a $40,000 offer from a team in Madrid, Spain. With a wife and young daughter to support, he opted to go overseas.
Subtle changes
A small miracle occurred when the Smiths were adjusting to their new life in Spain.
While playing a practice game against another Spanish team, Mitch recognized one of the opposing players as former BYU center Tom Gneiting. Seeing a familiar face in a foreign country destroyed what was once a major barrier.
"OK, this whole hating BYU thing is done because he's the only other American in the city," Smith said. "We ended up being friends."
Then another wall fell.
His wife had located an LDS branch and met the missionaries. Smith allowed them into his home because he enjoyed their company and the chance to speak English. But there was a catch.
"I wouldn't let them proselyte," he said. "But it got me used to hanging out with missionaries. They weren't the devil after all."
Those two elders were the first in a string of about 60 different companionships that associated with the Smith family over the next several years.
Although they couldn't discuss the gospel, having the missionaries in their home provided a safe, peaceful presence and helped combat homesickness, Cindy Smith said.
"At that point, it didn't matter that we weren't having discussions yet — it was positive," she said. "It bonded us together even though he (Mitch) didn't realize it."
Death of a coach
After one season in Spain, Smith took his little family to Turkey, where he played for various teams over the next several years. With fans shooting flares and occasional police riots in the stands, every game was an adventure, Smith said. At times, the former Ute was forced to go on strike to get paid, but he played hard and gradually made a name for himself in Turkey while competing against future NBA names like Tony Kukoc, Arvydas Sabonis, Mehmet Okur and Hedo Turkoglu. At the end of his seventh season in Europe, he was named the MVP of his league and collected the most money he had earned to that point.
Off the court, Smith hadn't changed his mind about the church, but had mellowed out considerably. His wife continued to attend a small LDS branch with their daughters.
In January 1997, Smith received a heartbreaking phone call from the United States, informing him that Archibald, his mentor and friend, was dying of cancer and his time was short. Smith was in the middle of a season and didn't think he would see his old coach again. An opportunity to go home came two weeks later, however, when his team suddenly ran out of money.
"With no money, they take the car. The apartment's not paid, the school's not paid," Smith said. "So I end up coming back and hanging out with 'Arch' for two months before he died."
Lee Anne Pope, Archibald's daughter, said Smith was considered a member of the family, and the time he spent with her father before he died was meaningful. Smith's sense of humor kept Archibald laughing until the end, she said.
"He loved Mitch," said Pope, who is married to Mark Pope, a BYU assistant coach. "There was something special about their relationship."
Archibald had not talked about the church before, but the subject came up in his final days. Smith realized the church standards and values were having a positive impact on his family, and he was OK with that.
"So I'd gone from fighting with the wife — 'They (the girls) are going to be Baptist' — to 'I'm fine with them being baptized (in the LDS Church),'" Smith said.
Archibald died on May 28, 1997. Smith was asked to speak at his funeral. It turned out to be a powerful spiritual experience for the towering, hard-nosed basketball player. As he spoke, Smith said he felt the Spirit.
Bob Burton, a friend and former assistant coach to Archibald, was next. As Burton finished and sat next to Smith, the two listened to a third speaker and were quite impressed.
"Who is this?" Burton whispered to Smith.
"I don't know," Smith replied as the warm feeling returned.
The speaker was Elder Jeffrey R. Holland, then a new member of the Quorum of the Twelve. Elder Holland was there at the request of Elder Neal A. Maxwell, a close friend of Archibald who wasn't able to attend due to an illness.
The next step
The following year, Smith was surprised to receive a generous offer from a team in Belgium.
"Usually, when you make a name for yourself in a country, you stay there," he said. "You typically don't get offers like that from other countries."
As the family settled into a new environment, they became acquainted with a new home teacher, an American lawyer, who Smith said was very assertive.
"He says, 'You are going to take the missionary discussions,'" Smith said. "He didn't give me a vote."
It then occurred to Smith why he was really in Belgium. There were no missionaries in Turkey, but there were in Belgium. He agreed to the missionary lessons, not knowing his wife had called home and asked friends and family to fast and pray for her husband.
In the first visit, one of the elders asked Smith's daughter, then 8 or 9 years old, why she wanted her father to join the church. "So the family could be together forever," the little girl said.
"Game, set, match," Smith said. "I feel something and I know what the answer is, but I'm still hard-headed. I tell the missionaries the kids can't be in any more discussions."
As the sessions continued, Smith wrestled with his feelings. He wasn't sure if the gospel was true and he still wanted to drink. When he did pray, he expected a lightning-bolt answer.
One night when Smith was up late holding his fussing baby daughter, he said a prayer and looked at a calendar. He'd almost concluded he wouldn't have to join the church when suddenly his eyes settled on June 13.
"I got that feeling, the one you don't want to admit, especially someone stubborn like me," Smith said. "There was no chance of denying what I felt."
When the family returned to the U.S., Smith called the bishop and requested a baptismal service for Saturday, June 13, 1998, which turned out to be the only weekend his parents could come from Arizona. They came despite their strong opposition to his decision, demonstrating what Mitch called "the true love of a parent."
Smith never wavered in the faith after getting baptized, his wife said.
"He was all in," Cindy Smith said. "It was exactly what he wanted to do."
The journey continues
Smith returned to Turkey the next season but wasn't the same player. His coach, a man he had played for before, showed him previous game film and said, "This is who we hired. I don't know who you are."
He had other offers, but his perspective had changed. His family, more important to him now, had been living in Europe for 10 years and he appreciated the sacrifices they had made to support his career. Moreover, he couldn't play with the same anger and intensity as he had before. He knew his pro basketball career was over.
"I never figured out how to play after I was baptized," Smith said.
A year after the baptism, the Smith family was sealed together in the Bountiful Temple by Elder Holland, who didn't know Mitch's history, but who had followed his career at the University of Utah.
"That sealing was a very sweet experience, as sealings always are, but this was special because I had always thought so highly of Mitch," Elder Holland said. "I'm an old basketball player of sorts myself, so I was very impressed by him when he played at the U. … I thought of him as just the kind of guy we always want at BYU. … I was proud to do it."
After returning to the Salt Lake area, Smith spent nine years coaching the girls basketball team at Woods Cross High, including two daughters. Since 2010, he has worked as a salesman for Otis Elevators and currently serves as the ward mission leader in his North Salt Lake Ward. As part of his missionary effort, he created a profile to share his story on Mormon.org. The Smith family has also performed the temple work for Mitch's mother, who died a few years ago.
A powerful change
Those who knew the old Mitch Smith still marvel at how he has changed. The first time he went to the temple, Smith bumped into a former BYU opponent who was clearly alarmed to see him there.
"He said I was the last person he ever thought he would see in the temple," Smith said, laughing. "It was a slam, like there's no way you should be in here kind of thing."
Josh Grant said he practically fell out of his chair when he learned that Smith was a Mormon. Grant credits Cindy for standing firm and never compromising who she was.
"Every time I see him I still laugh," said Grant, who now works as a fundraiser for the University of Utah's College of Engineering. "Miracles are miracles. I don't know how you distinguish one being greater than the rest, but the miracle of Mitch Smith's conversion is equal to or as great as any conversion of a Hell's Angel. It really is miraculous what he has been through and the change that has occurred."
Elder Holland said Smith's story illustrates that Heavenly Father is the ultimate strategist because he puts people exactly where they need to be, when they need to be there, to accomplish his purposes. Smith's story is also an example of the need for more understanding, compassion and determination in seeing the good in people, which leads to finding common ground and friendship.
"There can be the tendency to jump to hasty judgments on both sides. This ought to be avoided," Elder Holland said. "Mitch's story is an example of patience, kindness and thoughtfulness, with basic courtesy and faith winning out in the end."
Smith joked that he would lose his "street cred" by telling his conversion story, but never hesitated in sharing his experiences. He is grateful for the blessings and people who have influenced his life, especially his friend and former coach, the late Lynn Archibald.
"People say if I had played for (Rick) Majerus I would have made it to the NBA," he said. "I'll take what Archibald gave me any day of the week over the NBA."
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Behind a brand there always is a story, Carlo Forti's story! The story of a master of chapels, telling us his passion through knowledged hands and the ancient sound of sewing machines. This is how every Carlo Forti's prototype borns, from the sketch to the hands of who touches and chooses textiles, weaving and sewing, so that a cloth becomes a hat.
Located in Montappone, little village immersed in the hills of Marche, Carlo Forti is an italian brand known as an excellent qualitative product, the symbol of refinement and elegance, accurated attention to details and textiles. The brand's mood, young and energetic, speaks to a generation of chapel endowed, seduced by stile, careful to quality, innovative and fashionable"


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Companies have long outsourced creative, right-brain marketing activities, such as advertising and promotion campaigns. But a fundamental change is under way: Increasingly, firms are farming out marketing operations and analytics as well. A Forrester Research survey of 650 B2B marketing executives found that 53% aimed to outsource more than half their marketing activities in 2004. Forrester projects that CRM outsourcing in the United States will quadruple to $4.6 billion by 2008. And the British firm Astron Group forecasts that customer database and lead management outsourcing is growing 10% annually. What's going on?
We believe there are two key reasons for this trend: First, outsourcing can save money and improve quality. American Express's consolidation of customer service call center operations in India, for example, cut service costs per customer by 20% to 30% while improving response time and boosting the percentage of satisfied customers by 20 points.
Second, outsourcing can provide increasingly critical left-brain marketing expertise that many companies lack, such as customer database management and analysis. When Sony, a legendary marketer, wanted to build a customer database, sell services, and market new, high-end products through its online store, Sony Style, it outsourced the program, recognizing that it didn't have the required skills in-house. Allstate has outsourced lead management, which has doubled the leads each agent gets. Ericsson has outsourced the management of its extranet, which provides the sales force with up-to-date customer information and allows direct communication with selected customers.
American Express now outsources its data mining to specialist third-party firms that can process millions of transactions a day to reveal purchasing patterns and other aspects of consumer behavior. And Best Buy, the electronics retailer, is outsourcing not just database management but also marketing analyses and the complete execution of the marketing programs for two of its six segments—business and high-end customers.
The need for left-brain marketing expertise, we think, will only grow. A discipline that was once principally creative has become increasingly analytic, as the old workhorses—print and television advertising, and direct mail—become less and less effective. Marketing managers tend to be right-brain creatives with a fondness for mass-marketing campaigns when what's needed are left-brain number crunchers who zero in on the "market of one." Today, computer models optimize the allocation of pharmaceutical sales representatives' time, determining which customers to address and which products to promote to achieve the greatest return. Dynamic pricing models allow airlines to change ticket prices in real time based on the number of seats sold on a given flight. And IT-intensive database management now lets companies precisely target just the right messages to just the right customers in just the right terms.
While many things, from customer call centers to pricing-elasticity studies and sales force deployment models, can be outsourced, some aspects of marketing can't: those that directly drive marketing strategy. The CEO and top management team must regularly spend face time with customers and end consumers and drive this customer-focused culture throughout the organization. A chief marketing officer should be appointed to lead the marketing strategy, inject the customer perspective into new product development, and ensure that the company's intangible brand assets are carefully stewarded. Major accounts must be served by sales and service teams that have been given the right incentives so that they can integrate themselves into those customer organizations and ensure the "stickiness" necessary for long-term relationships.
To create the most value from outsourcing, marketing managers must become expert ringmasters who cherry-pick, develop, and monitor an integrated network of outside suppliers that brings new capabilities to the marketing effort. Above all, management must start seeing its marketing suppliers not as contractors that need to be controlled but as partners that can create shared value over the long term.


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There's hardly anything more frustrating than spending hours getting your garden ready for the spring and summer, only to come out and have your garden noshed to pieces by bugs, rabbits or other garden-destroyers. You can help keep your garden safe by attracting animals that will deter pests.
Take a look at a few of these tips to help keep your garden safe this year:
Frogs and Toads
Not surprisingly, frogs and toads are a great way to deter bugs from noshing on your veggies (most bugs aren't too keen on getting snatched from mid-air by a sticky tongue). The bugs that do wander into your garden will be limited because your new frog friend will have his pick for breakfast, lunch or dinner.
To attract frogs and toads to your garden, you need to ditch the chemicals. Because frogs and toads drink and breathe through their skin, they tend to stay away if you use fertilizer. Create shelter for the frogs by turning a pot upside down over two rocks to create a dark, damp area for the frogs to nest, according to Grow a Good Life. (Note: Keep dogs at bay, frogs can emit toxins through their skin if they feel threatened.)
Ladybugs (and other insects)
Surprisingly, some bugs and insects are actually good for your garden. Ladybugs, as cute and charming as they seem, actually help keep your garden free from pests like mites, scale and aphids, according to Gardening Know How.
You can attract these little beauties by planting flowers in your garden. Choose flowers and plants that have flat flowers. Ladybugs also like yellow and white white flowers. Try planting chives, cilantro, fennel, dill, marigold and yarrow.
If you don't want to wait for the ladies to arrive, you can also purchase ladybugs. If you do buy ladybugs, make sure there are plenty of bugs for them to eat. While it seems counter-intuitive, leave the bugs alone. Ladybugs will get rid of them for you and they'll hang around if there's plenty to eat so you don't have to worry about pesticides.
Other bugs you want to say include lacewings, hover-flies, and the praying mantis.
Birds are a great addition to any garden. Aside from providing natural music and entertainment for little ones, birds are a great way to keep pesky bugs at bay. If you want to attract birds to your oasis, keep a few things in mind when you are planning your garden this year, according to Gardener.
-Plan out spaces for your birds to hide (add twiggy shrubs and small trees to provide nesting locations).
-Allow one area of your garden to grow naturally (instead of making sure it's perfectly plucked and trimmed) to encourage birds to stop by.
-Add a bird bath. Birds love water. Create an easy place for them to snag a drink and they'll be more likely to stay.
-Keep the feeder full. While birds will nosh on bugs, having a feeder nearby for a quick snack also encourages the birds to drop in and stay awhile.
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A refreshing biography of one of the 14 great Optina Elders whose teaching, spiritual foresight, and clairvoyance pierced the mysteries of God as they related to those they met or corresponded with. This elder was a colonel in the Russian Army before his call to monastic life at 47, and shows in particular in its telling that the circumstances of our life are never by chance and have a most deep meaning that we can learn.
The life of one of the later of the 14 great elders and spiritual guides from Optina Monastery (+1912), this is the next in the series about what spiritual power and blessing came out to the world from Christ through their hands. This elder had left the world as a Colonel in the Imperial Russian Army, and became later the Abbot of Optina, but learned the depth of humility and meekness of heart after being deeply touched by his spiritual guides, the previous elders of Optina.


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Gus Van Sant is nominated for Best Director at this year's Academy Awards for his moving bio-pic Milk, but that wasn't the only film Van Sant directed this year. Last March his indie film Paranoid Park opened around the country in a limited release. The film flew under the radar when it was in theaters and it was later overshadowed by the big budget Milk, but Paranoid Park is a beautiful film that deserves its time in the spotlight. The film is another one of Van Sant's dreamy, meditative character studies similar to his two previous films Last Days and Elephant. Visually the film has a slow entrancing rhythm that is accentuated by an eclectic, beautiful score. The cast is mainly non-professional actors that Van Sant found on the internet, and their performances bring a delicate honesty to the story.
The film is about a young teen named Alex who wants to hangout at the local skate park but, in doing so, he experiences a life altering accident. As the film progresses we see Alex internally struggling with this enormous secret he has, a secret that soon isolates and estranges him from almost everyone he knows. Van Sant is less interested in moving the plot along than he is in observing and capturing his characters' state of mind. In Paranoid Park Van Sant captures that middle school state of mind like no other director has, as the film unfolds we slowly start to realize that Alex is carrying that burden of knowledge that so many adolescents learn in their mid teens: that life can be overwhelmingly difficult and often unfair. My favorite scene in the film is when Alex meets a good friend for coffee and, in their conversation, his friend just might provide him with a solution of how to lift the burden that is weighing so heavily on his conscious. Invest time in this film and let it cast its quiet spell on you.Continue Reading


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As a Retail Beauty Services Manager at Ulta Beauty, you are responsible for leading through Ulta Beauty's mission, vision, and values in order to develop a high-performing team that consistently delivers sales growth in retail and services. You will oversee a team of stylists, estheticians and boutique leads and are accountable for all aspects of the services business, including services, boutiques, makeup, skincare, fragrance, pro hair and PCA merchandise sales, events, guest satisfaction, and operational excellence. You will drive your business through a focus on performance (services, boutiques, makeup, skincare, fragrance, pro hair and PCA merchandise sales and in-store events), people (guest experience and associate culture), and process (operating procedures and compliance standards). This position requires a drive for results, a passion for the beauty industry, the ability to deliver exceptional guest service and to lead a team of retail and service professionals.
You'll accomplish all of this by:
Promoting a culture of accountability to meet or exceed the store's goals related to retail and service sales, guest loyalty (including credit), payroll, retail shrink and omni-channel initiatives.
Meeting/exceeding goals related to services, boutiques, makeup, skincare, fragrance pro hair and personal care appliance merchandise sales and service sales (e.g., service revenue, average ticket, guest count, guest retention, rebooking, pro hair retail revenue, retention/turnover and contribution goals)
Planning and executing in-store events that deliver an unrivaled guest experience, driving brand partner collaboration and delivering on sales and payroll goals.
Attracting and building a highly engaged team that embodies the Ulta Beauty brand through effective collaboration, open and honest two-way communication, prioritization of work and coaching to the behaviors that will drive guest loyalty.
Establishing performance metrics for the team and/or personal goals, to include attendance at all required training/education programs, coaching, individual development plans and annual performance appraisals
Managing service and boutique supply inventory and ordering process, ensuring allocated budget is adhered to and necessary products for services are on hand
Communicating and providing feedback to field leadership, including the Business Market Trainer and Services District Leader, on business trends and opportunities, events, operational challenges, merchandise needs and competitive landscape
Qualified candidates will have 3 to 5+ years of relevant, fast-paced retail management work experience or other relevant work experience and possess:
A Cosmetology license where required by the state
2 years of management experience, including cosmetology management license where required by state law
Financial management experience: success with driving top-line sales, interpreting reporting data, managing payroll budgets, and controlling expense
Proficient with basic technology (e.g., POS system, Microsoft Office programs, and Apple devices)
Advanced competency in services, including sales, guest experience and product attachment
Demonstrated knowledge of board of cosmetology regulations and hiring requirements
Leadership management: experience with attracting, developing, and motivating top talent, swiftly adapting to change and leading others through the change-curve, developing collaborative relationships with others, and leading and influencing
Retail management: proven ability with monitoring inventory levels, achieving operational excellence, driving a service culture and executing merchandise directives
Strong collaboration and interpersonal skills
Strong organizational skills to manage multiple tasks with moving parts
Ability to react under pressure, use good judgment in ambiguous situations, and be flexible/adaptable
Ability to manage multiple projects at once while maintaining superior results
A Bachelor's degree is preferred, but not required
States with Cosmetology License Required
Connecticut- Quinnipiack Valley only
New Hampshire
New Jersey
North Dakota
New Mexico
Rhode Island
South Carolina
States with NO Cosmetology License Required
Connecticut (except Quinnipiack Valley)
New York
North Carolina
South Dakota
West Virginia
Essential Functions:
Ability to work a flexible, full-time schedule, including days, evenings, weekend and holidays
Ability to travel overnight to attend offsite meetings
On a regular basis, requires continuous mobility throughout the store
On a regular basis, requires the ability to stoop, kneel, and crouch
On a regular basis, requires the ability to lift and/or move 50 lbs.
On an occasional basis, requires the ability to climb a ladder and maintain balance
Department Manager, Store Manager, Assistant Manager, Service Supervisor, Staffing Supervisor, Team Lead, Team Leader, Hiring Manager, Trainer, Planogram Lead, Display Merchandiser, Visual Merchandiser, Promotions Coordinator, Retail Marketing Specialist, Floor Leader, Service Supervisor, Staffing Supervisor, Floor Manager
Ulta Beauty (NASDAQ: ULTA),
the possibilities are beautiful. Ulta Beauty is the largest North American beauty retailer and the premier beauty destination for cosmetics, fragrance, skin care products, hair care products and salon services. We bring possibilities to life through the power of beauty each and every day in our stores and online with more than 25,000 products from approximately 500 well-established and emerging beauty brands across all categories and price points, including Ulta Beauty's own private label. Ulta Beauty also offers a full-service salon in every store featuring—hair, skin, brow, and make-up services.
We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest records, conviction records, or other criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of any applicable state and local laws, including the City of Los Angeles' Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and the New York City Fair Chance Act.
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Major: Economics and Management with an emphasis in Accounting, Gerstacker Institute Concentration
Residence: Midland, MI
Career: Ernst and Young: Financial Accounting Advisory Services (FAAS Forward)
I contribute to Ernst and Young's Assurance brand while working in their FAAS Forward program. In this program, I provide audit assurance, but I also provide client services in the Financial Accounting Advisory Group. In this service line, I work with clients to solve issues relating to transaction advisory and financial reporting. In general, this program grants me the base experience of auditing while also exposing me to more complex business and accounting issues. Overall, I contribute to an opinion on the fairness of financial statements, provide due-diligence on transactional needs, and advise clients on reporting requirements.
I look forward to the challenge. Each day, I work on different teams, clients, and tasks. I will provide a wide range of services to numerous clients and industries, and I am excited to grow and adapt to those opportunities. In many ways, this rotational program continues the diverse education that I received at Albion. I will learn new skills from my teams and apply those skills to a wide range of client needs.
Albion enabled me to pursue my divergent interests, namely in English, history, and business. At Albion, I took courses like pax Britannica, contemporary literature, and even several pottery courses. I also completed the required coursework for the Certified Public Accounting license. This was crucial as I began college without a clear focus of what I wanted to do after school, but while at Albion, I had the flexibility to pursue my interests and discover a career.
…is a community. The connections that I have made with my peers, professors, and alumni have become valuable both inside and outside the classroom, and I am excited to see how this community will continue to grow beyond graduation.


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(this gorgeous image by Michelle Meiklejohn)
Okay, so I'm a psychic. No secret there. It's an odd thing to be in our mostly rational and scientific world, but I've come to accept who I am and I live in a way that honours this energy within me. Does it define me? Sometimes. But I am also more than this particular skillset – and I certainly don't foist my abilities on the unsuspecting. If people need me, I trust that they will come to me.
I can't turn off this flow of psychic information, but I have learned to manage it, so that most of the time it is just background noise.
That's why yesterday rattled my cage a little. During a break I went to a local cafe. It was quiet and I was the only patron. After a while a mother and father entered, with their baby in a pram. The parents were tired and fractious. I looked up only to see who had come into the room, and then went back to my pot of chai and my book.
Suddenly I had the feeling of being stared at. I looked up, and into the intense blue eyes of a young baby boy sitting in a highchair – he had craned around to see me. I smiled and then kept reading. He kept staring. After a while his mum became frustrated with him and kept guiding his attention back to their table. He kept cranking himself around to stare at me. It began to get a little weird.
Finally I left. As I stood at my car the family walked past me. As soon as the little boy saw me he began crying and reaching for me. A series of images flashed through my mind. The mother stopped pushing the pram and her child stopped crying. She started walking and he began to scream, reaching for me, his face turning a mottled purple from his efforts. Help me, I heard his voice in my mind. Tell them. His mum stopped again, distressed, and I walked the few steps over and took her child's outstretched hand. He stopped crying and smiled at me.
"I don't know what's come over him," said the baby's mum. "He's never behaved like this before."
"I'm sorry, " I said, although I did not know why I was apologising. Before I knew it I'd opened my mouth again. "Your husband's having trouble sleeping." I said it as a fact, knowing I was right.
"Yes," she said. "For months now. Nightmares. He won't tell me what about."
The images came to my mind thick and fast as her baby son clutched my hand. Two young boys, barely more than toddlers. Tousle-haired twin brothers. A farm. A gun. A terrible accident.
"I'm a psychic, " I said. "Your baby is communicating with me. He wants your husband to know that he is Jamie." It all came out in a rush. "He's Jamie and it's all okay and he loves him enormously."
"I wanted to call our baby James, but my husband wouldn't let me," she said. Her voice took on an edge of hysteria. "Did I call him the wrong name?"
Her baby began to scream. The woman slumped against my car, and her husband came running over. "Tell him what you just told me," she said, in tears, trying to comfort her infant son, who was still gripping tight to my hand.
Now I felt beyond awkward, but I repeated what I had said.
"How can I believe you?" the man said angrily. I thought he might hit me.
This is why I don't do this stuff, I was silently reminding myself, wishing I was anywhere but here…
I lowered my voice so only he could hear me, briefly explained the images I had seen, and gave him the words in my head – the name of the farm, the year, the make of the car and its colour, the checkered red and black wool rug on the front seat, his own name, and the name of his brother who died in the accident; James.
Now this big tattooed man began to cry. Through his tears he told me his story. Jamie was this man's twin brother, killed twenty-six years ago when the boys found a loaded rifle on the front seat of their father's car. The gun had discharged as they played with it. The man had begun having nightmares about the incident he barely remembered from shortly after his wife had conceived. He thought it was because he somehow didn't deserve to be a father – that he might put his child into danger, or fail to protect his child somehow. He had never told his wife about this tragedy from his childhood – the family had never spoken of it again.
"I always thought he had the same eyes as my brother," the man said. "Does he forgive me?" he asked.
I nodded. "It was an accident. He wants to be with you now, he wants you as his Dad. He chose you both. He loves you so much he did all he could to come back and be with you."
"Hello mate," said his dad. Then he gave the baby a big hug.
"He won't remember," I continued. "By the time he can talk he will have forgotten who he is. He'll just know he's your son. But he needed you to know. He needed you to have peace."
The baby stopped crying as I stopped speaking. He let go of my hand. Within a minute he was asleep.
The family walked off, arm in arm, peaceful. They didn't say anything else to me. They didn't look back. I stood lonely, depleted and shaken at my car for a moment, and then got in and drove home. Message delivered.
Such is my life…
PS – I felt compelled to google the words 'James' and 'reincarnation' a little after writing this blog post and I found this. I thought you might find it interesting too. ♥


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conjunction with @
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app.properties containing the key/value pair
testbean.name=myTestBean, the following
@Configuration class
@PropertySource to contribute
app.properties to the
Environment's set of
@Configuration @PropertySource("classpath:/com/myco/app.properties") public class AppConfig { @Autowired Environment env; @Bean public TestBean testBean() { TestBean testBean = new TestBean(); testBean.setName(env.getProperty("testbean.name")); return testBean; } }Notice that the
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configuration class and then used when populating the
TestBean object. Given
the configuration above, a call to
testBean.getName() will return "myTestBean".
<bean> and
@Value annotations
<bean> definitions or
annotations using properties from a
PropertySource, one must register
PropertySourcesPlaceholderConfigurer. This happens automatically when using
<context:property-placeholder> in XML, but must be explicitly registered using
@Bean method when using
@Configuration classes. See
the "Working with externalized values" section of @
Configuration Javadoc and
"a note on BeanFactoryPostProcessor-returning @Bean methods" of @
Bean Javadoc
for details and examples.
@PropertySource resource locations
@PropertySource resource location will be resolved against the set of property sources already
registered against the environment. For example:
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IllegalArgumentException will be thrown.
file, the last
@PropertySource annotation processed will 'win' and override.
For example, given two properties files
a.properties and
b.properties, consider the following two configuration classes
that reference them with
@PropertySource annotations:
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AnnotationConfigApplicationContext ctx = new AnnotationConfigApplicationContext(); ctx.register(ConfigA.class); ctx.register(ConfigB.class); ctx.refresh();In the scenario above, the properties in
b.properties will override any
duplicates that exist in
a.properties, because
ConfigB was registered
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property source ordering when using
@ProperySource annotations. For example,
if the
@Configuration classes above were registered via component-scanning,
the ordering is difficult to predict. In such cases - and if overriding is important -
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Javadoc for details.
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Diversity, innovation, wealth and location. These words describe what people love about the Silicon Valley, and there might not be a place that better embodies the area's spirit than the neighborhood of Old Palo Alto.
Although it is not actually the oldest neighborhood in the city, Old Palo Alto is well-known for its affluent residents and diverse architectural styles. For instance, late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs made his home in the heart of the neighborhood on Waverley Street.
In an earlier time, the descendants of Proctor and Gamble co-founders built the first house south of Embarcadero Road. Their daughter Elizabeth Gamble, who created renowned gardens, ultimately willed the estate to the City of Palo Alto. In 1985, the City Council opted to lease the estate, creating a community garden and park that remains a cornerstone of the neighborhood.
Roger Smith and his wife, Judy, moved to Old Palo Alto about 25 years ago. Roger said they were initially attracted to the location and feel of the neighborhood.
"The thing we like so much is it's so close to everything," Smith said. "You can walk over to jump on the train, you can walk to California Avenue to the farmers market if you want, and then downtown's not very far either. The access is pretty good because you can get on Alma (Street) and go anywhere."
Old Palo Alto is bordered by Alma Street, Embarcadero Road, Middlefield Road and Oregon Expressway. Two parks are on opposite corners of the neighborhood, with Gamble Garden located on Embarcadero and Waverley Street, and Bowden Park located on Alma and North California Avenue.
Matthew Nguyen, a recent graduate of University of California, San Diego, spent his childhood growing up on Kellogg Avenue near the only school within Old Palo Alto's borders, Castilleja School.
Nguyen said that his favorite memory of the neighborhood was attending Addison Elementary School, where he said he made many friends close by. Nguyen and his family regularly had neighboring families over for dinner or games, such as badminton.
Smith said that in his time living in Old Palo Alto, the look of the neighborhood has changed as more neighbors undergo construction projects.
"I think it was more quaint back (when I moved in), but things have changed," Smith said. "With the number of houses being knocked down and big houses being built, one thing is the noise is more because of all the construction that's going on."
Smith said that because he and his wife are retired, they are more likely to hear the construction going on around them. But, he said he finds it hard to come up with any qualms about the neighborhood past that. Even amidst the various construction projects, Smith said the reason why there is such varied architecture is because there is a great diversity of people.
"When we have a block party ... the unique people in the neighborhood are really something," Smith said. "There's all kinds of different folks."
When asked if he would live anywhere else in the city, Smith chuckled and shrugged.
"We really like it (here)," Smith said. "The thing about Palo Alto is that there's so many nice areas. But here, the streets are wide compared to some areas and it's close to everything ... not to mention the beautiful trees all around."
-- John Brunett
CHILDCARE AND PRESCHOOLS (nearby): Addison Kids' Club, 650 Addison Ave.; Neighborhood Infant-Toddler Center, 311 N. California Ave.; Walter Hays Kids' Club, 1525 Middlefield Road
FIRE STATION: No. 3, 799 Embarcadero Road
LIBRARY: Rinconada Library, 1213 Newell Road
LOCATION: between Embarcadero Road and Oregon Expressway, Alma Street and Middlefield Road
NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION: Old Palo Alto Neighborhood Association (OPANA), Nadia Naik, firstname.lastname@example.com
PARKS: Bowden Park, Alma Street and California Avenue; Bowling Green Park, 474 Embarcadero Road; Kellogg Park, next to Bowling Green Park
POST OFFICE: Cambridge, 265 Cambridge Ave.
PRIVATE SCHOOL: Castilleja School, 1310 Bryant St.
PUBLIC SCHOOLS: Addison or Walter Hays elementary schools, Jordan Middle School, Palo Alto High School
SHOPPING: Town & Country Village; Midtown; California Avenue


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(CNN) -- They share a deep sorrow: an idealistic American who tried to protect the Kurds of Iraq, a Canadian general who refused to follow orders in Rwanda, a French priest who fought for the soul of Cambodia.
CNN's Christiane Amanpour traveled to the killing fields of Europe, Africa and Asia for "Scream Bloody Murder."
Each one tried to focus the world's attention on the world's most heinous crime: genocide. Each time, they were shunned, ignored or told it was someone else's problem.
To understand why, CNN's Christiane Amanpour traveled to the killing fields of Europe, Africa and Asia for a two-hour documentary, "Scream Bloody Murder."
Having reported on mass atrocities around the world, this time Amanpour traced the personal accounts of those who tried to stop the slaughter.
The yearlong CNN investigation found that instead of using a U.N. treaty outlawing genocide as a springboard to action, political leaders have invoked reason after reason to make intervention seem unnecessary, pointless and even counter-productive. Map: See the locations featured in the documentary »
December marks the 60th anniversary of the U.N.'s Genocide Convention, when -- in the aftermath of the Holocaust -- the nations of the world pledged to prevent and punish future attempts to eliminate ethnic, religious and national groups. Read the 1948 Genocide Convention (pdf)
"The Genocide Convention should have stopped genocide, but it didn't," said Holocaust survivor and Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel. Intervention is a daunting challenge, he believes, because of a tendency to minimize accounts from refugees and victims. "It's better not to believe, because if you believe, you don't sleep nights. And how can you eat? How can you drink a glass of wine when you know?" See images from locations in the documentary »
1970s: Cambodia
Father François Ponchaud was a Catholic missionary in Cambodia when the Khmer Rouge guerillas -- communist revolutionaries -- seized power in 1975. They expelled all foreigners from the country.
But working from France, Ponchaud gathered refugee accounts and monitored radio broadcasts to document the slave labor, torture and executions the Khmer Rouge were using to kill one-fourth of Cambodia's population.
He published his findings in a major French newspaper and wrote a book, "Year Zero." But even so, Ponchaud tells Amanpour, "No one believed us." Watch a behind-the-scenes look at the making of 'Scream Bloody Murder' »
1980s: Iraq
CNN found that intervention is often weighed against political and economic costs.
Declassified U.S. government documents show that while Saddam Hussein was gassing Iraqi Kurds, the U.S. opposed punishing Iraq with a trade embargo because it was cultivating Iraq as an ally against Iran and as a market for U.S. farm exports.
According to Peter Galbraith, then an idealistic Senate staffer determined to stop Hussein from committing genocide, the Reagan administration "got carried away with their own propaganda. They began to believe that Saddam Hussein could be a reliable partner." Read once-secret U.S. documents
1990s: Bosnia
Even extensive news coverage may not lead to intervention.
During the violent breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s, the media reported on the Bosnian Serbs' ethnic cleansing of Muslims: the siege of Sarajevo, the concentration camps, the use of rape as a weapon of war.
It was like watching "a color remake of the black-and-white scenes we'd seen in World War II," said U.S. diplomat Richard Holbrooke, whose Jewish grandfather fled Germany when Adolf Hitler came to power.
Holbrooke was an early advocate for a U.S.-led military operation against the Bosnian Serbs.
"I took a stand that I believed was correct," he told Amanpour. "I didn't think it was so controversial."
But it would take three years -- and the massacre of 8,000 Muslim men and boys in the town of Srebrenica -- for Holbrooke to make his case within the Clinton administration.
1994: Rwanda
In Rwanda, where Hutu soldiers and militias massacred their Tutsi countrymen, the Clinton administration tried to avoid characterizing the ethnic slaughter as genocide.
According to an internal memo, the State Department worried that under the 1948 Genocide Convention, using the term "genocide" could force the U.S. "to actually 'do something.'"
The head of the U.N. peacekeeping force in Rwanda, Canadian Lt. Gen. Romeo Dallaire, begged for additional troops. Instead of reinforcements, Dallaire got an order to withdraw completely. He would not leave Rwanda.
"I refused a legal order," he told Amanpour, "but it was immoral." His tiny U.N. force was not enough to stop the slaughter of more than 800,000 people.
2003: Darfur
Some human rights advocates consider Darfur, the western region of Sudan, to be the scene of the first genocide of the 21st century.
The atrocities in Darfur grow out of a civil war between rebels from Sudan's African tribes and the country's Arab-led government.
In 2003, when the rebels attacked government outposts in Darfur, a U.N. human rights monitor warned that in the "escalating conflict," Sudan's government may be "engaged in ... ethnic cleansing aimed at eliminating African tribes from Darfur."
At the time, world attention was on Iraq, where the United States was fighting to overthrow Saddam Hussein. The early warning on Darfur "disappeared into a big hole," according to Mukesh Kapila, then the U.N.'s top official in Sudan.
Even when the U.N. Security Council put Darfur on its agenda, it took more than three years to authorize a robust peacekeeping force.
"There was no lack of information," says activist Eric Reeves. "There was a lack of will to stop genocide."
In July, the prosecutor at the International Criminal Court accused Sudan's president of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, charges Sudan denies. Read the ICC prosecutor's charges (pdf)
How will history judge the world's response to Darfur?
"It will applaud the young people ... who believe in solidarity," says Wiesel. "It will certainly criticize the leaders of the world."
And the next time somebody screams bloody murder to stop a genocide, will anyone listen?
CNN's Christiane Amanpour, Andy Segal, Jennifer Hyde and Ken Shiffman contributed to this report.
All About Genocide • Cambodia • Rwanda • Bosnia and Herzegovina • The Holocaust • Darfur • Iraq


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"What is this?" "This is cheese." "And this?" "That's cheese." "And what is this? Rice?" "No that's cheese, this is all cheese here." "But this say 'Crackers', this not cheese." "No Crackers is the brand, that's cheese..."benfoffenbock
"Bob, stop saying "who cut the cheese?" It wasn't funny an hour ago and it's not funny now."kingsteve14
Good work men! I'm sure we'll find that golden ticket soon.CRShelton
While it's not uncommon for celebrities to have quirky requirments for their pre-concert hotel room, none took it to the level that Britney Spears did.Grunt
Dave knew he would not beable to hide his lactose intolerance for long.kingsteve14
I can't think of any joke for this picture that's not too cheesy. Oh, shi...Ryan Oskroba
Meanwhile,at the Iraqi WMD factory...leftybigguns
"Hey guys check this out! Kraft submitted their 'packet of cheese powder' again."AdjectiveNoun
I swear, man, it just moved. I saw it.omgtehlindsay
Here we see the pie chart wing of USA Today's graph archives.JEDA_88
The moon is disassembled and stored on white tables during the day, here's the proof.dugdale24
At the Mexican cheese festival, each judge carefully measures, weighs and feels each block. No one, however, is foolish enough to eat any.action
OK with the cheese, now bring the wine...akagugo
It takes a ton of trial and error to make sure that holiday fruitcakes will be as undesirable as possible.JEDA_88
"okay, the bait is set, RELEASE THE MOUSE"yamum


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Our close ally, Egypt, is again proving the worst expectations of its authoritarian rule. Singer Sherine Abdel-Wahabdemon commented to an audience in Bahrain that "Here I can say whatever I want. In Egypt, anyone who talks gets imprisoned." Egypt could object and show that it remains a nation committed to free speech. Instead, it immediately proved her correct by banning her from ever performing in her native country. Egypt is obviously not disturbed by the world knowing that it is opposed to basic civil liberties. It was more concerned that its arbitrary arrests and punishments had not silenced this star and it was intent on showing other Egyptians what would happen if they even acknowledge their lack of free speech. What is truly depressing is that the government of President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi had the Egypt's Musicians Union silence a fellow artist, who in turn has begged for forgiveness for acknowledging that free speech no longer exists in Egypt.
The singer has a habit of stating the obvious. She was sentenced to six months in prison last year after joking about the Nile being polluted. The Nile is polluted but apparently you are not to acknowledge the existence of pollution any more than you can the absence of free speech. Her sentence was suspended upon appeal and an apology.
Egypt has seen a dramatic rollback on civil liberties under al-Sissi with increasing pettiness and arbitrariness. A teenager was jailed for cartoons of Muhammad and a leading businessman was attacked for a cartoon of Micky Mouse with a beard. Then there was the three-year sentence given Amr Nohan, a 22-year-old law graduate for posting a Facebook image of el-Sisi with Mickey Mouse-style cartoon ears. A leading cartoonist Islam Gawish, 26, was arrested in Egypt by the hyper sensitive al-Sisi government. It even banned yellow vests in fear that Egyptians might be inspired by the Paris protests.
Sherine (as she is widely known) was shown making the obvious statement on a widely circulated video. That led to a complaint filed by a notorious lawyer named Samir Sabry. Sabry has used the law to fight against civil liberties and freedoms. He accused Sherine of "insulting Egypt and inviting suspicious rights groups to interfere in Egypt's affairs." Sabry is an international disgrace to the legal profession.
The complaint however had its intended impact. Sherine apologized about everyone being charged in order to avoid another such charge . She begged forgiveness, declaring "I am very tired. I made a mistake. I am sorry. I appeal the president of the Arab Republic of Egypt, who is our father. I feel that I was persecuted. I did nothing. I love Egypt."
So there you have modern Egypt. Artists who prevent other artists from performing and lawyers who fight against basic rights. It is the Orwellian world of Al-Sissi, our trusted ally.


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1 Peter 5:7 A Brief Comment and a Special RequestRelated Media
In 1 Peter 5:7 we read one of the most comforting verses in all of Scripture: "casting all your cares on him because he cares for you." This is how we learned the verse in Sunday school. What is interesting is that it does not even form a complete sentence. The participle "casting" (ἐπιρίψαντεσ) is sometimes translated as an imperative--e.g., as in the RSV, NRSV, NIV, etc. As good as these translations are (and they are very good), they often miss the point of the Greek for the sake of simpler English. The problem here is that the connection with the preceding verse is no longer explicit. But the participle really is dependent on the preceding verse (in particular on the imperative "humble"): "Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, so that he may exalt you in due time." The specific relationship can be spelled out as follows1: the way in which we humble ourselves before God is to cast our cares on him.
When we worry, when we are overly critical (which is simply a covert assertion of our own sovereignty and pride), when we do not acknowledge our profound neediness and even helplessness before God, we are not being humble. But rather than knuckling under, God wants us to cast our cares on him. Thus, biblical humility is not being a doormat for an uncaring omnipotent taskmaster. There is no negative appeal here; this is not a command to be a tail-between-the-legs lap dog. No, biblical humility is not self-deprecation or a dispensing of our self-esteem. Just the opposite. It is recognition that our worth is to be found in our Maker. The command is positive: We have a loving Father who desires us to come to him with all our shattered dreams, disillusionment, dashed hopes, and fears.
At bottom, humility is a recognition that we really are frail after all. If the '80s were the "me generation," the '90s may well be the "image-is-everything generation." A good image, by today's standards, means being cool. And being cool means being independent, detached, and above it all. It's not cool to care or to be cared for. It's not cool to admit your inabilities or frailties or fears. Being cool is being invincible. Being cool is what sells blockbuster movies. But being cool is ultimately a fantasy, radically divorced from reality. And being cool is the antithesis of biblical humility.
I know what it means to be cared for. I know what it's like not to be cool. Since April 17 I have spent more than 21 days in the hospital. I have been in the emergency ward of two different hospitals, in ICU for two days, and diagnosed and rediagnosed. I have had veins collapse and spinal taps that didn't take. I've needed a wheelchair or a walker most of the time, have had moments of paralysis, episodes of violent shaking and paranoia and hallucinations (the most recent being just a few hours ago). All because of some unknown virus that has attacked my central nervous system. I have been brought down by a bug so small it can't be detected by a microscope. My invincibility has been penetrated by the tiniest of enemies, the weakest of foes.
The doctors are baffled so they sent me home two days ago. There's not much more they could do. My kids are scared and my dear wife is exhausted. She has had to administer a very potent IV treatment once or twice a day for more than a month now. I am not cool when my body jerks thirty times a minute for twenty minutes at a time (and when I'm not having an episode, my body still jerks, hundreds of times a day). I am not cool when I have an ongoing killer headache that keeps me from standing upright. I am not cool when I go days without shaving because I have a shunt in my shaving arm, forcing me to use the other to awkwardly shave and often miss spots or cut myself. I am not cool when I need my wife to bathe me and shampoo me. I am not cool when I put on weight because I can't exercise, since my legs don't work and I'm not allowed to bend my arm.
But in all this lack of coolness, my dear wife, my precious Pati, loves me and cares for me and calms me down when I'm hallucinating that a train is coming at me or lava is engulfing my friends or I'm fighting Germans on D-Day or a dragon in medieval times. I am certainly not cool then; I'm not even lovable. Yet, she loves me even then. And she cares for me and holds my hand until the terror goes away. We've decided some time ago that I'm a 'high maintenance' husband (after all, I truly am an absent-minded professor who loses track of time and forgets where he lives and never knows where he parked the car). But, now, after 23 years of marriage (we celebrated our anniversary in the hospital this past Sunday) I have become--at least temporarily--a full-time job. Now my wife has two full-time jobs and four boys (plus me) to care for. I know what it's like to be helpless, to be cared for, to be loved.
And I think I understand the character of God better through my Pati. I see his unflinching care in her eyes, his loyal love in her gentle kiss. I know what it's like to be uncool, and it's okay--because I am loved by the God of the universe who cares for me. Although I must confess: I wonder at times about who cares for my dear wife. This is not to denounce what many, many of our friends have done. Indeed, we are so deeply grateful for our church--astounded, really, at their sacrificial support. But even this, as great as it is, cannot keep Pati's hair from coming out or give her sleep in the middle of the night when I'm groaning and hyperventilating. Tonight, I solicit prayers for Pati. Tonight I ask that you, my friends, cast her on the Lord, knowing that He cares for her. This is biblical humility, this is intercessory prayer, this is caring. And it is so uncool!
1 Technically, the participle in v 7 is a circumstantial participle, most likely of means (see Daniel B. Wallace, Greek Grammar Beyond the Basics: An Exegetical Syntax of the New Testament [Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1996] 340, 629-30), subordinate to the main verb of v. 6, "humble yourselves."
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If you'd like to build a Jacob's ladder, an ignition system for a flamethrower, or for some ungodly reason you need 15 kilovolts for a prop replica or cosplay build, this one is for you. It's an easy to build high voltage power supply that interfaces with an Arduino.
After harvesting a flyback from the power board of a CRT, [Andrew Moser] added a new primary coil to the transformer. This boosts 12 volts that can be easily controlled by an Arduino to something that will arc an inch and a half. The next step building the flyback driver. [Andrew] used a MOSFET and MOSFET driver for this circuit (although he says this guy works without the driver). After that, all that's left to do is write some software and test it out.
Of course this comes with the boilerplate warning, "If you don't know what you're doing, you might die." That being said, if you ever wanted to test out an Arduino's resistance to EMP, this is the project for you. Check out the flyback powering a Jacob's ladder after the break.


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So, you've heard about jailbreaking, and it sounds intriguing. And dangerous. (But mostly just intriguing.) Here's how to hack your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad—yes, iPad—into an unrestricted, freshly empowered mega-machine.
Jailbreaking: The What and the Why
In buying an iProduct, you're accepting that its fate will be dictated by Apple. They control what kind of apps you install on your device, which of the hardware functions you can exploit to their full potential, and which carrier you can use your iPhone with. They've loosened up on at least one of those fronts in the last year or so, expanding the types of apps available in the App Store, but many—screw that, most—of the same restrictions still apply. Want to install an app that Apple hasn't explicitly approved? Sorry. Want to use an app over 3G that's been designated for Wi-Fi? Nope. Want to tether your phone? Run applications in the background? Change your device theme? Install system-wide gestures? No. Such. Luck.
Enter jailbreaking. In technical terms, to jailbreak is to enable a device to run code, meaning programs or system modifications, that hasn't been sanctioned by Apple. Its roots reach back to a time when there were no apps for iPhone OS, and a clever group of hackers zeroed in on some exploits gave people their first way to install apps on their devices, by way of an underground App Store called Installer. It used to be that you could hack your device simply by visiting a webpage. That was two years ago. Since then, the iPhone and iPod Touch have been given a legit App Store, Apple has closed one security hole after another, and jailbreaking has become alternately more and less difficult, depending which device and software version you have.
But just last week, a Windows and Mac tool called Spirit was released to the world. It's simple, relatively safe, and finally, works on all devices. Every iPod Touch can now be jailbroken to run custom apps. Every iPhone, too. Even the brand new iPad can be hacked. Theming, data tethering, multitasking, console emulation, secret settings, and yes, you filthy thief, even pirated apps: With jailbreak, your iThing is truly yours.
Here's how to jailbreak (or in the case of phones, unlocked) any iPod Touch, iPhone or iPad, using the new Spirit tool. But first, a disclaimer:
When you jailbreak or unlock a device, you're changing some fundamental aspects of the system software—you know, real low-level stuff. The tools are generally good, and if you follow directions carefully, you should be fine. But if something goes wrong—and there is more than one way this can happen—you can suffer data loss, or even brick your phone. Even worse, Apple claims that jailbreaking voids your warranty. You can restore your device to remove evidence that it ever happened, but if the device goes down while jailbroken, you could well be stuck. In addition, jailbreaking does not jibe with the DMCA, and breaks relate license agreements.
To the point: Follow this guide at your own peril, know that there's risk and be careful. Consult elsewhere if you're nervous, or worry that I've missed something.
How To Jailbreak
The Spirit tool has made the jailbreak fairly simple, but there's still room for error. Step by step:
What You Need:
• Spirit Jailbreak Tool (Windows and Mac)
• iTunes 9.x (Latest confirmed working version: 9.1.1)
• iPod cable
• An iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch that a.) Isn't currently jailbroken (obvious, but just in case), b.) is working, i.e. not stuck in a startup loop, or displaying that "Connect to iTunes" screen and c.) is running a device software version 3.1.3 or lower (or in the case of the iPad, version 3.2)
1. Plug your device in, so that it's recognized by iTunes
2. Back up your device to your iTunes library, and sync it. Having the backup handy will allow to you restore your settings in case you need to wipe your device later; syncing everything—including photos, which some users report losing during the jailbreak process—ensures that all the media on your device will remain untouched, or at least restorable.
3. Open the Spirit Jailbreak tool. It will open in a small window, and should display a message like "iPad (3.2) Connected." If not, disconnect and reconnect your device, and open the tool again.
4. Click "Jailbreak"
5. During the jailbreak routine, don't interfere with the device. It's probably better to leave your computer alone as well, to avoid a crash at a critical moment. First, you should see a screen on the device that says "Restore Complete." The device will restart, display a spinning pinwheel icon, and open up a colorful screen like this, with a progress bar:
Spirit should be done doing its thing in under 30 seconds. Your device should then boot up to your homescreen, as it was before—same background, same apps, same settings. Now you're jailbroken. But there's one more thing:
6. When you restart your device, you'll see a new icon on your homescreen, called Cydia. Open it up. This is your new App Store. Don't worry, the regular App Store still works. Now you've just got another one.
Cydia will look a bit different on the iPad and iPhone or iPod Touch, but will contain most of the same software.
The first thing you need to do, though, is click the button that says, "Make my life easier, thanks!"
This will back up your device activation profile (called an SHSH blob) to remote servers, which ensures that you won't lose the ability to jailbreak if you accidentally upgrade your device device software in the future. More on that later.
Regarding Unlocking
Traditionally, unlocking (opening your phone to use with different carriers) and jailbreaking have fallen to the same tools. Since unlocking has become more difficult with later firmwares, the tools have grown apart. Spirit doesn't unlock. If you want to unlock, though, there may be hope.
If you haven't upgraded your iPhone to firmware 3.1.3, or can downgrade to an earlier build, you can use the Pwnage Tool, located here. The process is self-guided and quite similar to using Spirit. Unlocking is a comparatively narrow concern, and can get much more complicated, so I'll leave it at that. More info here.
Anyway, that's it! It's time to explore Cydia.
What to Download
Now that you're jailbroken, it's time to start downloading apps. Here are a handful of must-tries to get you started:
• Backgrounder: Lets you run apps in the background, full stop. Perhaps my top reason to jailbreak, period. The latest version lets you set apps to run in the background with a huge variety of gestures.
• Activator: Speaking of gestures, this provides a framework for all kinds of gestures across jailbroken apps. (iPad and iPhone)
• Kirikae: A task switcher to be used with Backgrounder. (Think alt+tab) (iPhone)
• SBSettings: This opens up a whole slew of settings, accessible at any time via a pop-down system tray. Adjust brightness, toggle Wi-Fi, whatever. (iPad and iPhone)
• Cycorder: Lets you take full-motion video with your pre-3GS iPhone. (iPhone)
• MyWy: Lets you share your 3G connection with other devices over Wi-Fi. It's paid software, but a trial is available. (iPhone and iPad 3G)
• Winterboard: Lets you change themes, and install a lot of interesting modifications to your device's homescreen, including folders, different icon arrangements, widgets and more.
• iRealSMS: Lets you send text messages without opening the SMS app. (iPhone)
• VoIPOver3G: Tricks apps into thinking they're connected over Wi-Fi, even if they're connected to 3G. (iPhone, iPad 3G)
• Intelliscreen: Puts all kinds of useful information on your lock screen, from weather to email to calendar events. Another paid app, but one that will be worth it to a lot of people. (iPhone)
• Console emulators: Do your own searching on this one; there's one for virtually ever console released pre-2000, and many have different approaches to controls, and acquiring games. Some, like those by ZOTDD, actually let you search for and download ROMs from within the app. (iPhone and iPad)
• Veency: A VNC server. No, not a client—a server. Control your iPhone from your computer. (iPhone)
• Illicit goods: They're there, but I won't tell you how to find them. Pay for your apps! Trying before you buy is only a conscionable excuse if it's actually true.
Some general observations: Right now, a lot of apps haven't been updated for the iPad, so it's worth doing a little Googling to see how they handle the subtle changes in the new OS. That said, most apps do work, although if you experiment enough, you'll eventually get burned and have to restore your OS and start over, losing whatever tweaks you've made in the jailbreak process.
If you've decided the jailbreak lifestyle isn't for you, or managed to screw up your device software enough that you want to switch back, it's easy. (Also, if Apple will be handling your device for any reason, you should probably un-jailbreak it. Warranties!)
All you need is your device's latest firmware file, helpfully linked here.
Oh, and make sure you've backed up—you're going to lose everything.
(This guide only applies to software versions 3.1.3 for the iPhone and iPod Touch, and 3.2 for the iPad. These are the latest versions at the time of posting, and newer software could break compatibility.)
1. Plug your device in, and open iTunes
2. Shift-click (Windows) or Option-click the "Restore" button in your iTunes device summary page. Navigate to the firmware you've downloaded, and restore.
3. Once this is done, iTunes will ask you if you want to set up your device as a new device, or from a previously stored backup. If your goal is to return to a life before jailbreak, you're probably going to want to restore.
And that's it!
What are the Downsides?
As mentioned before, there is a real risk of bricking your device, or losing data. But beyond that, there are stability issues with some jailbreak apps, and using apps like Backgrounder can seriously diminish your battery life. Also, flaunting your new found ability to tether your phone by running, say, torrents through your 3G connection is a good way to get in trouble with your carrier.
What about future software upgrades?
Apple's software updates almost always break jailbreak. When they come out, hold off on upgrading until the jailbreak community develops a hack, or an upgrade path. Upgrading to new software versions after a jailbreak often means installing a patched version of the update, specifically for jailbreakers.
Why did I click that "Make My Life Easier" button?
If Apple does thwart jailbreak in its next software update (likely), and you accidentally upgrade, you could be locked out of jailbreaking forever. Seriously! Why? Because as of late, Apple has been cracking down on jailbreakers by forcing their devices to authenticate with official servers every time they're upgraded or downgraded.
What this prevents, specifically, is restoring to older versions of the iPhone/iPad software, which contain the security holes necessary for jailbreaking. By keeping users from downgrading, Apple essentially locks them out of jailbreaking once they've upgraded to an un-jailbreakable OS.
The button you pressed in Cydia remotely saves what's called an SHSH blob, which is the "Go!" signal passed from Apple's servers to your specific device. In the event of a later downgrade, iTunes can be spoofed into thinking that Apple has approving the device's software change, when in fact it's just the Cydia store's servers giving the green light. The downgrade process is something we won't have to worry about until Apple issues another update, after which I'll update this guide. Until then, you can get a rough idea of how this whole thing by reading Saurik's (the guy behind Cydia) blog post on how it works.
Will It Work With OS 4.0?
Surprisingly, yes! OS 4.0 builds seem to respond well to jailbreaking with the Spirit tool. That said, this software is already fairly precarious, so I'm not sure I would risk it. Update: Turns out I was wrong. The Spirit jailbreak tool doesn't yet work on 4.0. They're working on it.
I've never owned and iProduct, and just bought an iPad. Should I do this?
Maybe! Kyle put together a helpful guide for iPadders earlier this week.
In the Event of Emergency, Who Can Help?
Google. But no, seriously, Google. Another great resource is the ModMyi forums, where just about any question you can have has probably already been asked, and answered.
Also, commenters: Help each other out! And be nice.
Special thanks to Saurik, the man behind Cydia, and the indefatigable Comex, for discovering the first userland jailbreak in a loooooooong time. Awesome work, guys. Please add in your experiences in the comments—your feedback is a huge benefit to our Saturday guides. Happy jailbreaking, and have a great weekend!