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Monday, November 27, 2006
Augsburg 1520, Gloria Mundi
Augsburg 1520: alea has been taking some hits for some of their recent games (Rum & Pirates, Fifth Avenue, Mammoth Hunters), but even though they haven't maintained their "every release a classic" run from Ra to Puerto Rico, I've still always found something to like in their games (it's helped that their line shows great range; their first 6 big-box games included bidding, bluffing, tactical, and negotiation games). Fifth Avenue, Mammoth Hunters, and Die Sieben Weisen are all games I liked for their solid execution of interesting ideas, even if they aren't all tremendously replayable. And Rum & Pirates was just fun (I've played a number of times since, and no, I haven't changed my mind on that). Only the so-so Wyatt Earp is out in the cold, but even that had an interesting twist on Rummy, with more incremental instead of all-or-nothing scoring. And of course the relatively recent San Juan is amongst the best games in their line.
Which leaves Augsburg 1520 as the first alea game to leave me more or less flat, with my desire to play again largely driven by confidence in the brand rather than any specific desire to see if it'll work out in the end.
Augsburg 1520 is a bidding game. It's of the traditional empire-building variety, where you have to acquire either stuff that generates more money, or actual victory points (Saint Petersburg is an exemplar of this sort of game). That choice between cash and VPs is OK, and has a few interesting twists – there are two choke-points, for example, where you have to buy a very expensive Church or Cathedral to proceed, but players who buy early pay a lot more than players who buy late – but it isn't anything we fundamentally haven't seen before. The bidding part is also OK. Each turn has 5 rewards on offer and 5 auctions. Players bid a quantity of money cards, which are color-coded to a specific auction (the last auction is wild; you can bid anything). The bidding is poker-style, with each player "calling" or "raising" the number of bid cards in turn, and after everyone drops or "calls" without raising we reveal our bids and the largest number of cards bid (the one with the single highest valued card in case of multiple high bids, which will usually be the case) wins. This has the great virtue of being comparatively quick (no endlessly circling the table), since there are a lot of auctions in each game.
The feedback between the bidding and the economic game is also interesting: each turn you're dealt a number of bidding cards. You then have to pay for the ones you want. Low-valued ones are cheap, while high-valued cards are expensive. The cards have cleverly printed their costs on the back, so you can verify everything without needing to see what exactly everyone is buying. This is interesting in that you have some choice of going for breadth or depth, or saving to buy a Church, but in practice it seems that most of the time you're going to buy almost all the cards you are dealt, so it doesn't seem to be as interesting as one might hope.
There are two major downsides.
The first is a bit of an endgame problem. Because some of the auctions are for victory point producing tiles that only a few players can have, and if you win it you get to steal it from somebody, you can see an endgame situation where a player in a distant third has to make a choice about who to steal victory points from that determines who wins, and that choice is ultimately arbitrary. It's not going to happen all the time, but it's always deflating when it does.
Secondly, don't even try to explain the theme of this game to people. It involves purchasing debt from German nobility and then canceling that debt in return for favors. When I bought the game from my local game shop, the clerk (who was unfamiliar with it) was reading the copy text on the back about various debt transactions and remarked "wow! the game almost sells itself!", albeit with a suspicious lack of enthusiasm. I muttered something about perhaps it being more meaningful if you're German. I notice that they haven't restocked since I bought their last copy. Let's just say, the theme is not terribly compelling, and neither does it make much sense in terms of the game-play.
Ultimately, I don't know. The initial impression is that the endgame has potential issues, and the game has interesting bits that don't quite seem to cohere or add up to more than the sum of the parts. And the theme is weak. On the other hand, this is an alea game, it is unusual for a bidding game, and some of those bits are interesting and clearly have some depth, it's not too long, and so I'll play it again for those reasons. But it's definitely not a game that grabbed me. Who knows; maybe in a few more plays I'll be raving about it, but it seems unlikely, and that endgame issue will likely remain a sore point.
2011 Update: I actually played Augsburg 1520 recently, at BGG.con 2011, and it seems to come out once a year. I'm not going to say the game is underrated. But it's a clever and unusual bidding game, and good bidding games not by Reiner Knizia are rare. This writeup probably doesn't do it full justice. The endgame isn't as problematic as I worried. There is nuance to the acquisition of things on the various tracks, and timing is everything. The back-and-forth as people take titles from each other makes the game dynamic in a good way. Also, it helps to play the rule for the Master Builder correctly (it's confusing). The game is probably best with 4. Augsburg 1520 has been on the block a couple times for selling off – space for our game collection is tight – but we always play it first and it goes back on the shelf, even though my complete set of alea games has finally been broken up (Macao and Mammoth Hunters hit the road).
Gloria Mundi: Let's just say, my expectations for Gloria Mundi were low. Really low. Sometimes that's no bad thing.
This is another infrastructure vs. victory points game, this time in Rome. The Visigoths are coming, ripping up the landscape as they go, and you are trying to get to Carthage (where I guess the Vandals, despite their name, aren't as bad) before they get you. But you need to pay for your ticket out of town with gold, agricultural products, and, um, small rectangular white things.
Gloria Mundi's main selling point is the well-realized theme. Gloria Mundi is chaotic, but with the Visigoths closing in and everyone running away as fast as they can, what else would it be? The players are constantly fighting the frustration of seeing their good work destroyed by pillaging Visigoths, but hey, Rome is collapsing here, what do you expect? Low inflation and a buoyant stock market? I don't think so.
Obviously, the theme only goes so far, but it does help a lot. Underneath the theme, Gloria Mundi is a mixed bag. To start with the bad, the most obvious problem is that the iconography on the cards is really hideous: the same symbol can mean different things at different times, rules are not interpreted consistently across similar symbols, and in many cases the symbols themselves are not illuminating. The special powers on the cards are not complicated, but the way they are presented is often so completely opaque that you'll need a play-through just to figure everything out. This is really bad. I've always said that if you are only going to get a few plays out of a game, it's really important that the first one not be wasted. Also, the pillaging mechanic, where the Visigoths destroy players' holdings, is a bit arbitrary and is bound to leave people feeling gratuitously hosed at some point or another. And the mechanism for acquiring new cards is such that planning is almost impossible and if you are able to buy a card with a special power that gives you some good synergies, you should thank your lucky stars. Since Gloria Mundi is very much about the special powers of cards you acquire rather than raw production (unlike, say, Saint Petersburg), this can be an issue.
As for the good stuff, I like how the economic model works. Cards are divided up into farms, legions, and cities. Each turn you play a card from your hand and add it to your holdings, and that also indicated which types of holdings pay for everyone. So if I play a city card, I not only get a new city (which pays a gold), everyone activates all their cities. Each of these cards can then be augmented with power cards bought from the deck. This is kind of neat, and the frequent destruction makes things interesting and prevents any sort of runaway leader issue. And it's interesting that your supply of Farm cards, say, is fixed, so if you invest heavily in one area early you get a good payoff, but it can leave you badly constrained later on when all you have are City or Legion cards which benefit your opponents more than you.
So what does all this mean? I like the theme, I like the card-play, and the art is fantastic; that might be enough to get the game on the table for a bit. What ultimately kills Gloria Mundi for me, though, is the length. Our game was pushing two hours, although I'm not sure how much of that was spent bickering over what the heck the symbols were supposed to mean. At 45 minutes, an hour at the outside, I think Gloria Mundi would have been a neat, if rather chaotic and ultimately disposable, game experience. At the kind of length we saw, though, forget it. I'm sure more play would bring it down, but I just can't see it coming down enough.
I should mention too that while the box says the game goes up to 6 players, I expect four is the sweet spot. Chaos and downtime go up with each added player, and your ability to plan will asymptotically approach zero (although the game length won't go up too much). I might play Gloria Mundi again, but I would be leery of adding a fifth player and would play something else with 6.
Friday, November 3, 2006
Shifting Sands
I've been putting off doing this write-up, because I feel like my track record on these card games is sketchy. I'll play one of them a couple or a few times, the game will be fun, I'll do the write-up, and then the game promptly crashes and burns the very next time I play it. Such was the case for The Napoleonic Wars, Triumph of Chaos, and Sword of Rome, all of which hit the wall pretty hard (some harder than others, though). I'd probably be tougher on Twilight Struggle if I wrote my review today. Here I Stand, a game I do still like, nonetheless couldn't hold the enthusiasm generated by the first few games and it overall must be judged to have some significant issues.
So, I was not sure what to do with Shifting Sands. But, having now played three times, I've cracked and you get this.
Shifting Sands is a direct descendant of GMT and Ted Raicer's classic games Barbarossa to Berlin and Paths of Glory. The core game system is virtually identical. On your turn, you play a card from your hand, and choose between operations (movement and combat), replacements, strategic moves, or the military or political event. If you choose operations, you spend the number the card gives you to activate units around the board. While your infantry holds the line and provides mass, armor units form the critical core of your army, and drive a lot of the tactical interest by having the ability to shift the weight of an attack easily and rapidly, as well as to add the possibility of overrunning defending units.
From a historical perspective, the war in the Western Desert was not so much blitzkrieg in miniature as it was a series of set-piece battles interspersed with cavalry-style raids and flanking maneuvers, and the tactics of Shifting Sands capture elements of this. Because of the maneuverability of armored units, the overrun results, and possible armor attack bonuses, the offensive is very powerful when things are taking place in the open with insecure flanks. But once you hit a choke-point where flanks can be secured, or once the defender gets some terrain to take advantage of, things turn into a slugging match.
But, the tactical game – while certainly interesting – is not really Shifting Sands' major focus. As it was for Paths of Glory, Shifting Sands is about resource management. Limited cards and limited action points have to be split wisely between operations, replacements, and events. And operations have to be prioritized wisely amongst the game's several theaters.
Each player gets their own deck of cards, divided into three piles. The 1940 deck, like Paths of Glory's Mobilization deck, is small, and the players will go through it in a couple turns. 1941 gets a bit thicker, and then 1942 adds quite a few cards. The thing that makes Shifting Sands feel different, though, is the rapidly-escalating hand sizes. Your hand starts with the Paths of Glory-standard 7 cards, but grows to 10 cards by the end (although it can be temporarily suppressed by Malta-related activities). These large hand sizes make a big difference: the most noticeable is the enhancement in the value of combat cards, since playing them will vary rarely cost you an activation as they often do in Paths of Glory (playing a card's event to influence combat means that card can't be used in one of your 6 impulses to actually do stuff. So if there's a card you need to save for next turn for an important event, and a card you play as a combat card, with a 7 card hand that leaves you one short for your actual impulses). This, combined with combat cards that seem on average somewhat more powerful than the ones in Paths of Glory or Barbarossa to Berlin, is a very nice feature that makes combat a lot more uncertain and interesting, and the availability of combat cards can affect your planning in a way that the much more incidental cards in Barbarossa to Berlin usually don't.
Apart from the Western Desert, Shifting Sands also features two peripheral theaters, the Near East and East Africa. These are separate gameplay areas in which the Axis ultimately have little to no hope of accomplishing anything constructive, but which can be a drain on British resources. Juggling them ultimately feels like juggling the fronts in Paths of Glory – how can the Serbians be finished off most efficiently? – but the advantage Shifting Sands has is that these resource management tradeoffs make some actual thematic sense. In Paths of Glory, Germany is slowing down Schlieffen's right wing in order to allow Austria-Hungary to spend operations to battle Serbia, which makes absolutely no sense. In Shifting Sands, having the British choose between spending resources in East Africa or the Western Desert is at least not intuitively jarring.
The other thing is that the game contains many powerful and important event cards, and has a number of sequencing issues – the biggest being a whole series of cards revolving around the reinforcement, siege and possible Axis seizure of Malta. The larger hand sizes makes the management and cycling of cards and events more manageable (compare to the incredibly unwieldy and accident-prone Russian Capitulation Sequence in Paths of Glory).
As for my impressions? Shifting Sands initially get about the same reception as Michael Rinella's previous game, Monty's Gamble: Market Garden. I liked both games right away. But on the other hand, both games are so similar in feel to their predecessors (Paths of Glory and Breakout: Normandy), that they didn't get an initial "wow" the way the originals did when I first played them. But as I came to grips with the new games, I realized that the situations and feel and details are quite different, and interesting in their own right. I really like that both of his games have not just introduced added complexity and playing time, as is unfortunately traditional with spinoff games, but have been able to cleanly port the underlying system to new situations while arguably reducing the complexity and slimming down the playing time. Breakout: Normandy is a 6-hour game, which is just a bit uncomfortable, while Paths of Glory and Barbarossa to Berlin are both 10+ hours. On the other hand, Monty's Gamble is a great and very compact and comfortable 3 to 4 hour game, and Shifting Sands can be finished in 5. Monty's Gamble's length is perfect; Shifting Sands is probably a touch long – like in Barbarossa to Berlin, the endgame of mopping up the outnumbered, outgunned, and outclassed Axis is not the most compelling gaming experience ever devised – but on the scale of these things Shifting Sands is a dense game with lots of activity and I have no complaints. Unlike Here I Stand, which can feature significant periods of minimal activity and accomplishment, things are always happening in Shifting Sands.
I can no longer seriously talk about any of these games as "simulations", but from what I'll call a "thematic" standpoint, Shifting Sands does pretty well, better I think than many others in this category. The core card mechanism it uses was brilliant when it was originally perfected in Hannibal: Rome vs. Carthage because it both introduced gameplay tension (having to balance military and political actions) and successfully conveyed a sense of the fog of war of the period. Later games have successfully used cards to achieve game tension, but in my opinion they haven't always modeled or evoked anything in particular thematically. Paths of Glory was a notable offender in this regard. Why am I trading off Russian vs. French activity? Weren't these two different nations, with two totally separate supply and command chains? Sure, coordination of offensives between the two nations was hard, but the game model is not coordination problems; the model is that there was a fixed amount of military activity that has to be divvied up amongst the French, British, and Russians, which was clearly just not how things worked. Similarly, presumably the drafting and training areas of the military-industrial complex were going to churn out soldiers regardless of whether or not higher-ups took a break to play a card as Replacement Points instead of happening to notice that someone seems to have sunk the Lusitania. The real limit on replacements was the available manpower pool, from everything I've read, something which Paths of Glory pays no attention to.
For me anyway, Shifting Sands is on sounder thematic footing, even though it uses the same system. The antagonists are each drawing from one resource pool, so the decisions about the Western Desert vs. East Africa vs. the Near East make more sense (at least until right at the very end, with the Torch landings, which has the Allies starting to make the same strange trade-offs – who will be active today, the Americans or British? – that you make in Paths of Glory). Supplies in the desert were notoriously variable, so the randomness of the cards feels more plausible. Even the replacement point system, while not great, can be rationalized much more easily here.
On the other hand, any time you repurpose an existing game system to the degree that is the case here, there is bound to be a limit on how much you can do thematically. For example, I think Rommel in the Desert does more with less – Rommel really seems to capture a fundamental tactical and operational feel for the desert campaign, while Shifting Sands takes more of a "storybook" approach, similar (obviously) to that of Paths of Glory: the story of the campaign is told through the event cards, and the players follow along. In Rommel in the Desert, players are making fundamentally authentic-feeling decisions; in Shifting Sands, the campaigns unfold before you. That makes it sound, bad, I know, which doesn't seem right; but for me personally, I prefer a game which can grasp a couple things fundamentally rather than doing a lot of things superficially. Thus, I think I find Rommel in the Desert the more convincing game, all the more so for having good scenarios playable in a couple of hours. But, by the same token, Shifting Sands does capture the sweep of the entire theatre while Rommel focusses solely on the Western Desert.
Does Shifting Sands succeed as a game? On that count, for me the answer is much more clear – I definitely enjoyed it all three times I played. The game isn't completely clean; there is some complexity to the interrelated nature of a bunch of the events in the deck that it'll be difficult to really understand until you've played a couple of times, and that complexity is probably a little overdone. The game is probably a touch too long, and the graphic designers over at MMP could have done significantly better in conveying information in the physical design. But these are my only complaints, and they are minor. The game plays more cleanly and with fewer special cases than either predecessor (Paths of Glory and Barbarossa to Berlin), it plays in reasonable time, presents the players with lots of interesting decisions, does it constantly with little slack time, maintains its interest almost right to the end, and appears to have well-designed and interesting cards and decks which tell the story of the desert campaign. I look forward to playing it more.
2011 Update: I wasn't logging my plays on BoardGameGeek back when Shifting Sands was in more in regular circulation, but I'm guessing I got about 10 plays out of it. My most recent play was just a few months ago, PBeM via VASSAL. Given the fond memories I have of the game, playing again was oddly unsatisfying, and I think it boils down to the Torch invasion. The inevitability of Torch tends to constrain the game – if the Germans are hanging on with prospects in Egypt, the impact of Torch will be disastrous since it seems like they can't hold off the Allies in the west without the DAK. It means that at a certain point, the Germans simply have to abandon everything to form defensive lines in Tunisia and Libya, or they lose. The game then becomes a siege. It's a somewhat unsatisfying end to what is otherwise a quite riveting game. I still count myself as a fan of Shifting Sands, and the more moderate playing time is a big deal. But it never quite exerted the same hold on me that WWII: Barbarossa to Berlin did.
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First Lady Jill Biden made major gaffes that managed to offend the entire community of Latino and Hispanic Americans – including by comparing them to "tacos."
Bad Time for Jill's Likely Biggest Public Gaffe Yet
The event during which first lady Jill Biden offended all Hispanic Americans was a luncheon in San Antonio, Texas. This was during the national conference of the UnidosUS nonprofit, Fox News reported.
The insult for Latinos in the United States started with the very name of the event – "LatinX Luncheon."
The organizers and the first lady herself apparently believe it to be a smart idea to call Latino and Hispanic Americans the woke "gender-neutral" name "LatinX".
The Marxist-Communist term in question was used even though the vast majority of Hispanics and Latinos have made it clear they despise it.
The Spanish language, their mother tongue, unlike English, has sex-denoting declension of adjectives – hence the terms Latinos for males and Latinas for females.
Any productive work that Jill Biden does here will be cancelled out by the event calling itself the Latinx Luncheon. https://t.co/mzMxAaaLqb
— Frank Luntz (@FrankLuntz) July 11, 2022
Jill Biden just said Hispanics are as "unique" as tacos.
This isn't Veep. Which White House speechwriter just won a bet for getting the First Lady to say something like this?pic.twitter.com/DXfJgYz0g5
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) July 11, 2022
Once again, Dr. Jill Biden butchers the Spanish language in furtherance of pandering to a client constituency (the org FKA National Council of La Raza). I hereby bless your timelines with Dr. Jill's rendering of "bodega". pic.twitter.com/Z4FSXtlUMe
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) July 11, 2022
Who is going to tell "Doctor" Jill Biden to stop trying to be "Latinx"?
Just stop 😂
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) July 12, 2022
Hispanics Are 'Tacos' and 'Bogedas', Jill Deems
The LatinX abomination, however, wasn't the only significant insult that Jill Biden managed to inflict upon Hispanic Americans on Monday.
The first lady attempted to complement Latino Americans, and especially Raul Yzaguirre, the leader of the UnidosUS civil rights organization for 30 years, who got awarded the presidential medal of freedom on July 7.
To do so, Jill Biden compared the Latino "community" to several things, including the uniqueness of the "breakfast tacos in San Antonio."
Another thing she used for the presumably praising comparison was the bodegas – i.e. small grocery shops – of the Bronx – except she mistook the name and called them "bogedas."
"We are not tacos," reacted the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, accusing Joe Biden's wife of reducing the entire Hispanic community "to a stereotype."
The association urged Jill Biden to get a better understanding of the "intricacies of our people."
Her triple gaffe – with the tacos, the bogedas, and the LatinX title – is coming at a terrible moment not just for her president husband, Sleepy Joe, but also for the entire Democrat Party.
It has started to rapidly lose its standing with the Hispanic community right ahead of the 2022 midterm elections in November.
A recent public opinion poll by Quinnipiac, a left-leaning pollster, discovered that Joe Biden has an approval rating of only 26% among young Latino and Hispanic voters.
This comes even though back in 2020, he got about 60% of the Hispanic vote in the presidential election.
The latest testimony to the fact that a growing number of Latinos refuse to be the Democrats' "LatinX" and are turning Republican, was in June 2022.
This is when Mayra Flores, a Latina, won a special congressional election in a predominantly Hispanic constituency in Texas. The seat had been Democratic for more than 100 years.
Sorry Jill Biden but like most LATINOS, I don't identify as a "breakfast taco."
Nor #LATINX
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A Coaching Model Created by Mark Johnson
(Spiritual Coach, USA)
A Brief Summary of a Coaching Model to Help Clients Use Wisdom, Compassion, and Skillful Means to Reach Their Goals
The Cycle of Change: Three Elements and Nine Stages of a Buddhist
This coaching model draws from numerous others in its observation that coaching at its best can spark a catalytic change process in the client. The increased awareness, alignment with values, emotional support, accountability, and education that a coach can provide, all help the client to reach goals they were never able to attain before.
What is different and unique about this model is that it is designed primarily for the spiritual practioner, that is, someone who has committed to a path of enlightenment within a wisdom tradition, and who considers that commitment and goal to be the central axis of their life. I am tailoring this model specifically from the Buddhist tradition, but it can be adapted to anyone following other lineages, such as the Sufi schools, the paths of the Higher Yogas, Taoism, and so on.
And because it is tailored to someone more or less conversant in Buddhist thought and practice, the actual steps of the external process of coaching will have a different flavor, as well as the perspective on the catalytic process of change.
As we will see, the central cycle in the graphic demonstrates we are talking about 'chemical' laws of catalytic change and the elements involved in catalysis: there is an agent, reagent, catalyst, and new substance created; and the outside, larger circle describes the stages of the process of change.
Or, to use our chemical analogy, for catalytic change to occur we need those elements of agent, reagent, and catalyst. But to make it happen, we have to go through the process of each step of the experiment — understanding the theory behind the experiment, setting up the lab, obtaining the chemicals and the apparatus, applying heat in the right way, following instructions for the experiment, measuring and observing heat exchange, chemical bonding, and transfer of electrons, reporting on the results, and so on.
The Inner Dynamic: The Three Critical Elements
The Three Elements for Change to Occur
In the graphic for this model, in the center you will notice three circles in a cycle, representing the dynamic between the three basic elements. These elements must be at play and interact with each other in order for significant change to happen in the coaching process:
- Client's Readiness to Take Action
- Internal and/or External Conditions Are Right
- Coach as Catalyst
The first element in the catalytic process is the client's own readiness and motivation to initiate change and to follow through on the actions necessary to accomplish a goal. The second element consists of the conditions necessary for change, and these can include environment, time and timing, resources, and support from other agents. The third element consists of all the catalytic factors the coach brings into the coaching process — their presence, emotional support, clarity, accountability, etc. — which altogether can act as a catalyst.
Client's Readiness and Motivation
This key element in the chemical process concerns how deep the client's motivation goes. Is it only wishful thinking, a pipe dream, a desire that has little spark, or an intellectual exercise that has very little energy or juice behind it? Motivation in the Buddhist tradition is considered extremely important for the individual's spiritual journey, as it must become refined and strengthened along the way, like the tempering and forging of steel.
In Buddhism it is said that most people have only motivation to pursue their desires from the lower ego, i.e., selfish cravings for money, power and sex, etc., but eventually they evolve to aspirations of enlightenment for themselves, and then for others, and then for all sentient beings. Analogously, we can see that clients who desire change in their lives can come from very different places, from the superficial to the profound.
When a client's motivation is deep, and aligned with their moral and ethical values, we have a much greater likelihood of success. It is part of the coach's job in this model to discuss this reality with the client and help them assess whether or not they need to deepen their motivation.
Internal and External Conditions
And yet, no matter how strong our motivation, and no matter how skillful, wise and compassionate our coach, if the internal or external conditions are not right it may be difficult to achieve certain goals. Sometimes patience is one of the most important elements in growth and change, and that can become the most important area for the client to work on.
Let's say that the client wants to find a life partner, to be married and to have a family. In this model, the coach may help the client work through relationship issues, and encourage the client to even take on certain Buddhist practices that call on invisible energies and beings to aid and assist the client's heartfelt desire.
But in the Buddhist tradition it is well known that some things just take time. The individual may need to keep working on themselves while waiting for conditions to 'ripen.' This is sometimes known as fruition in the Eastern traditions, and refers not to the chemical process of catalysis, which is often extremely fast, but the process of growth in fruit-bearing trees and plants. They, too, must go through stages of growth, from seed to germination, to sprout, to sapling, to young tree, to maturation, and finally, fruition.
This is why that in this model it is very important for the coach to assess the client's understanding of real change and growth, and to make sure that they do not have too many unrealistic expectations about how quickly something can take place.
Coaching as Catalysis
As we know, catalytic change in chemistry involves an agent, reagent and catalyst that then produce a new composition, without changing the nature of the catalyst itself. Like many other coaches before, I am using this analogy from chemistry to illustrate my belief that coaching facilitates change in a lawful way. Drawing parallels with processes in nature can help both client and coach understand the forces at work, the elements and 'laws of nature' that are involved in human psycho-spiritual growth.
That the coaching process can be catalytic can be seen in the compassionate space the coach holds for the client. For many people, hiring a coach to help them change or achieve goals represents an admission that they need help, and they may well be vulnerable to criticism in this embryonic stage.
By removing any stigma, judgment or negative belief about the client's history of failure, or lack of fulfillment, or being frustrated in whatever domain, we help to create a safe and comfortable learning environment, where they will be challenged but not criticized, encouraged and held accountable, but not shamed.
Often this requires reframing an issue, seeing frustration and obstacles not as enemies but as teachers or challenges. In addition, understanding that we all need catalysts in our lives to help us is another key foundational principle. As coaches are fond of pointing out, the top athletes in the world still need coaches, as do the top CEO's. Even the greatest spiritual masters in the Buddhist tradition are extraordinarily humble, readily admitting their mistakes and limitations, and they continually seek out guidance and feedback from their peers.
The Outer Dynamic: The Nine Stages Of Growth In Buddhist Coaching
In the outer circle of the graphic, the cycle of change in coaching according to a Buddhist perspective, we see nine stages or points of process that are identifiable. This is not necessarily a linear process, like the stages that an apple tree we mentioned above, which in its growth, goes from seed to germination, to sapling to young adult, to fruit-bearing maturity.
Sometimes, for example, when we hit an obstacle, (Point # 7), we may need to go back to the stage of aligning our goals (Point # 3) and realize we need a new perspective, a new goal, or even a new and deeper understanding of our values. In no way should we minimize the complexity of human behavior and change.
Nine Stages of a Buddhist-Inspired Coaching Process
We will keep in mind that we understand these as 'stages' with a loose definition of the word. Still, it is useful to demarcate the steps so that we do think of it as a process that can be broken down. This gives the client a useful model and some idea about what to expect, even if in the end it may not be a linear process, and requires some cycling back through earlier stages before we reach an end goal.
For example, we could have a goal of starting a business, and get all the way to Stage Seven where we encounter some internal obstacles — perhaps the client isn't ready to leave the security of their present employ. It would then be necessary to go back to the stage of Clarifying Goals, or Aligning Values, in order to restart the process.
1) Why a Buddhist-Inspired Method — Initial Sessions to Clarify the Methodology
This first part of the process is valuable because the client may never have thought about achieving goals from the Buddhist perspective and what that means. This discussion would begin perhaps with what is the nature and intention of the goals that the client wants to accomplish.
Intention is considered critical within the spiritual frame of the wisdom traditions, because two people can approach the same goal, for example, wealth, with two very, very different inner motivations. In this model the coach would help the client process and understand their goal from the perspective of working with one's higher motives, dedicating, or aspiring to dedicate, the effort to at least in part benefit other sentient beings.
With the intention purified from baser motives, then the client and coach can envision the goal from another, 'cleaner' place, and the coach can suggest that the client evoke both their own higher spiritual energies, and those of the archetypal figures that appeal to the client's spiritual frame of reference (for a Tibetan Buddhist this could be evoking and calling on Tara for assistance in obtaining a particular purpose or goal).


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OneSavings Bank recently reported that more than 50% of mortgage brokers were approached by investors in buy to let properties about the diversification of their portfolios. This has happened within the last 6 months.
HMO's the most Popular Choice
Of the buy to let investors that approached brokers regarding the diversifying of their portfolio, 56% made enquiries about investing in houses with multiple occupations (HMO's) as the yields would be higher for them.
An HMO property will typically provide a yield which is over 3% higher than a single tenancy property according to Research for Mortgages. But the news is not all good about HMO's as the government will be introducing more regulation for them in October 2018.
Interest in Commercial Properties
In the research conducted by OneSavings Bank they also discovered that around 14% of brokers were approached by buy to let investors about commercial properties as they wanted to expand their portfolios in this direction. There were another 9% of brokers who said landlords showed interest in mixed use properties.
If a landlord just holds commercial properties in their portfolio then they will not be affected by the changes to mortgage tax relief like residential buy to let investors. There are also stamp duty benefits from holding just commercial or mixed use properties.
Other Investment possibilities
Another 6% of mortgage brokers stated that buy to let investors showed an interest in diversifying into accommodation for students. There were other property investment enquiries too for serviced accommodation and holiday lets.
Has the Government pushed Private Landlords too far?
When buy to let property investors were asked why they were looking to diversify their portfolios, they told the brokers that the recent tax reforms and other changes made by the government had driven them to this point.
A spokes person for OneSavings Bank stated that buy to let property investors were seeking higher yields. These investors believe that the recent residential tax and regulatory changes were just too severe and that diversifying into HMO's or even commercial property was the best course of action for them to take.
He went on to say that the buy to let market has become a lot more complex recently, and it is right that buy to let property investors seek out different investment opportunities with experienced mortgage brokers.
In order for the brokers to assist buy to let property investors find new niches they have to have the support of specialist lenders who will be more flexible with their lending and will be willing to provide finance in these different niche areas.
Diversifying has its problems
It is usually the case that when higher yields are sought there are higher risks associated with doing this. As an example, rental voids on commercial properties can be a lot longer than with residential properties and this will mean that the investor will be subject to a lot more costs. If you are a buy to let investor looking to diversify your portfolio then do your homework first.


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In a monastery in Germany in 1943, there is an underground hiding and transporting Jewish children. David, a Jewish child, wishes to return to the ghetto from which he has been saved so that he can complete his bar mitzvah and proclaim his Jewish identity. Instead Mother Franziska helps David complete his bar mitzvah in the convent just as the local Nazi commandant intrudes to arrest the nun. David, however, is able to escape.
Format: One-act
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Running time: 60 minutes
For additional reading, see Gene A. Plunka Staging Holocaust Resistance. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, pp. 109–112.
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Chapter 32 – The final fight desu
It is, the final fight.
Normally the tensions of the audience would've reached their peak, and the arena should've been covered by cheers.
But Charlotte's semi-finals was too tremendous, that the surroundings got silent.
So much that your ears would get painful.
Within that arena, only two footsteps were echoing.
It was Laura and Charlotte's footsteps.
The two stood up at the center of the ring, and stared at each other.
「For the meantime, Charlotte-san. Congratulations on winning the semi-finals」
「Thank you very much. I can finally fight with Laura-san with this」
「Yes. But really, Charlotte-san is amazing. Coming here without having any injuries. It's an overwhelming strength. And the way you broke Anna-san's heart was also great. You decided the match in an instant after all」
「Off-board tactics is also needed to win after all. But, Laura-san. I will not do a psychological fight with you. I do not think that it has any meaning. I want to fight head-on with Laura-san. Have you learned how to fly?
「Yes. I can do it somehow」
Whispering that, Laura's body floated just a little bit.
When she used the flight magic the last time she didn't know how to hold back, and her head hit the ceiling.
But with that failure, and using the way Charlotte flew as a sample, she made some adjustments.
「That is great. Well then, let us start. Let us fight with our strengths」
Charlotte seemed like she couldn't wait.
"What an insatiable person for winning", Charlotte thought.
She would launch a surprise attack on weaker opponents, and she would even do a psychological fight. It was to win as fast as she can.
But when fighting against a stronger one, she would make the opponent excel all its powers then fight.
It was the opposite idea to the theory.
But winning for Charlotte is probably like that.
To not cloud the purity of her long-awaited victory, Charlotte purposely used flight magic in front of Laura.
Charlotte wanted to win against "that" Laura.
「Ne〜, Charlotte-san. I've been thinking of you as a friend. It was very fun sleeping together every night. But, Charlotte-san, what were you thinking being together with me?」
Before fighting, I wanted to know that at least.
And then, Charlotte, she blinked as if it was unexpected for her from the bottom of her heart, and "Well, of course", she smiled.
「Laura-san is a very important friend. I like you very much. And at the same time, a rival to defeat. Is there a contradiction there」
「Is that so……thank goodness. Charlotte-san had gotten too much strong, that I, thought that I was being disliked」
Charlotte got strong. So much that Laura had feared her.
The effort that fills up the aptitude that was almost a hundred times, is not something that someone would do.
Charlotte's voice was very calm.
And does not show any slight gaps at the same time.
She purely wants to win, I finally understood.
「The time when I would hate Laura-san, that is」
At the time when I hold back. At the time when I lost purposely.
「I know that. I am also a child of an adventurer. I will not hold back. I will not let Charlotte-san's half month to a waste. I will crush you with full force. I am the one who will absolutely win」
「No, I am the one who will win!」
The instructor in charge, has forgotten the sign of the start of the match.
And both Laura and Charlotte didn't mind something like that.
It would start with the two's will.
「Let us now」
Small jabs at first.
Arrow of light that is released from concentrating magic powers to the palm.
Both of them using the same technique, collidesーー.
In an instance, the arena ring that had sucked the blood and sweat of the students for half a century, had completely disappeared in this world.
There is no pathetic ending like a ring out in this fight.
The earth had lifted up, and the ring's fragments flew and scattered, and hits and reflects from the defense barrier that was protecting the audience.
At this point, there were numerous audiences that had started to run away from the arena.
But of course, both Laura and Charlotte did not care about that.
They could only see their opponent in the first place.
Flames, Water, Lightning, Wind and Light.
As declared, they hit each other and defended.
Laura wasn't holding back her magic powers.
Even so, Charlotte was standing on her two feet.
I am grateful for that.
In the first time after entering the school, I have met an "enemy". Thank you. Thank you for training up to this.
I am utmost delighted with that fighting spirit.
Everything was a learning to defeat me.
I am very grateful for the luck that there was a rival called Charlotte Gazard in the same school year.
(I like you very much. You are really the best)
That is why, with all that I have. I will completely defeat you with no mercy.
Charlotte is wishing for that.
Her goal is to defeat Laura with her full strength in a head-on fight.
「All of my powersーーmeaning, I will also use the sword. You do not mind right?」
「Yes, of course! Let me see everything of Laura-san!」
I drew the sword and strengthened its blade.
Strengthened, strengthened, strengthened, strengthened it thoroughly,
Strengthening it to the point that I had confidence that it can even win against the legendary super metal Orichalcon, and swung it towards Charlotte.
Needed not to be said, Laura's movements are in the speed of sound. The tip of her blade was much faster.
The shockwave created from it can easily kill tens of people.
Charlotte blocks that slash with the palm of her hand.
「Are you thinking that something like this, would reach me?」
Charlotte created a high temperature with her magic powers, and melted Laura's sword.
I'm surprised. I didn't think that the strengthened sword would be destroyed.
But I was expecting that the slash would be blocked.
That's why it is the next attack.
Summoning a giant lightning spirit in the skies on the top of the arena.
Command to crush Charlotte together with myself.
「You did that huhーーthen!」
The ground had raised.
The earth and fragments of the ring were mixed and became a giant.
Charlotte made a huge statue on the arena grounds, and possessed it with an earth spirit.
The earth spirit swung its giant hand upwards.
Its aim is the lightning spirit of course.
The earth had completed its role, and protected Charlotte from the lightning attack.
But it was exposed to ultra-high heat, and one part of the earth had vitrified.
And just like that, the two spirits fiercely fought, the lightning scatters in the air, and the earth became glass and broke down.
And even while the spirits were fighting, Laura and Charlotte were continuously hitting with their magic powers.
「With only a half month, what did you do to become that strong. Please teach me for future reference」
「I told you, I only did my best」
「You only "did your best"……and what about sleep?」
「I did not」
「What about eating?」
「Once before secluding in the mountain, and once before I came here」
She's crazy.
It's completely not something a human would do.
「To reach Laura-san……to reach the aptitude number 9999 is like that. Was I able to reached you yet? Was able to stand beside you? Was I able to move forward? I still do not know Laura-san. Seriously, please bring out all your serious!」
「I'm really doing it seriously, Charlotte-san. However, that's right. If I'm with you, I feel that I can still go higher. Not a narrow place like this……ーーfirst, let's fly!」
The stage leaves the arena to the royal capital's sky.
It was already not something that can be called as an event of the Gyrdorea Adventurer School anymore.
It is the final fight.
Because they were friends.
To have fun.
Without caring about anyone.
Up to the sky.
To the world of their ownーー.


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While surfing on internet today I found this inspiring menswear collection from the British-Turkish fashion designer Hussein Chalayan for the season Fall 2018. Love the mustard yellow ensemble too. Be Inspired .....
More about the fashion designer Hussein Chalayan
British-Turkish fashion designer, Hussein Chalayan was born in 1970 in Nicosia, Cyprus. From his hometown, he attained his graduation from Türk Maarif Koleji. At the time, the island's population was struggling between the Turkish and Greek authorities. Ethnic clashes between the two eventually sprung war and resulted in migrations. For this reason, Hussein and his family members were strained to move in 1978 to England.
|The fashion designer Hussein Chalayan
Chalayan did a diploma in fashion and apparel designing from Warwichshire School of Arts and then proceeded to completing a degree in the same subject at London's Central Saint Martin's College of Art and Design. His thesis collection, The Tangent Flows (1993) was very well presented. It gave clothes the dimension of burial and resurrection, life and death. The work garnered him attention from the Browns boutique and his collection was borrowed to be displayed in their window.
In 1994, Chalayan opened his company, Cartesia Ltd., along with an eponymous prêt-a-porter line. The designer integrates clothing and the human body with architecture, science and technology playing with anthropological and cultural narratives. In order to construct stories, he combines his artistic sense and fashion work with musical plus cinematic installations. This is the reason why his runway shows are described as performances. His fashion shows are illustrated by suspense and minimal settings, incorporating metropolitan architecture, modern interiors and geometric compositions. Chalayan's creations are spread across the body both theoretically and conceptually at the rear of his apparel.
In 1995, he competed with hundred competitors and won the position of a top fashion designer award in London. At a contest by Absolut, Chalayan was given twenty-eight thousand pounds to develop his fashion plus artistic creations for a fashion week in Britain's capital. The same year, he made designs for Björk which the star wore on the album cover of Post. In addition to this, Chalayan's clothes were featured in Björk's tours as well. Then onwards, he made several collections such as Lands Without, Between, Panoramic, Geotrophics, Echoform, Befor minus Now, After Words in the years 1997, 1998, 1999 and 2000. Each had a distinctive style yet very 'Chalayanish'.
In 1999 as well as in 2000, he was crowned as the Year's British Designer. In 2006, he was made the Member of the Order of the British Empire. Following this, he enjoyed international acclaim and The fashion Group International gave him the Design Star Honoree award, at their Night of Stars Gala in 2007, New York. In 2002, the designer expanded the range of his creations to menswear. The exclusive rights of this line was purchased by Yoox.com retailer. After some financial tribulations, Chalayan decided to move to Paris.
Apart from his designing, he is a philanthropic as well. In 2007, Chalayan bequeathed a show piece to an exhibition, Fashion is Art, by Capital 95.8 radio station. It was an attempt to participate in a charity, called Help a London Child. His contribution was sold in an auction.
Thank you for reading this blogpost.
Sources: The Cut and Chalayan Store and Famous Fashion Designers
Sources: The Cut and Chalayan Store and Famous Fashion Designers


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Best plugin ever for launch handling
Submitted by Abhik Dey on Tue, 2021-05-04 14:56
Launches play a key role in my workspace and this plugin saves me so much time. Btw since bintray is no longer active currently i am unable to install it manymore. Any plans to publish ths via a replacement update site?
Re: Best plugin ever for launch handling
Submitted by Christoph Zauner on Thu, 2021-05-06 02:10
Hello Abhik! I was not aware up until now that bintray will change it's service offerings. I will take a closer look at this and certainly update the eclipse runner plugin update site as soon as possible. Thanks for the hint!
Re: Re: Best plugin ever for launch handling
Submitted by Christoph Zauner on Mon, 2021-05-10 10:43
Just to let you know that I am currently working on this issue. I am going to setup a new Eclipse P2 update site. The new update site should be online in the next two to three days.
Re: Re: Re: Best plugin ever for launch handling
Submitted by Christoph Zauner on Tue, 2021-05-11 10:15
The update site is now located at https://erp.nllk.net/p2/com.eclipserunner.p2_site/latest/. The eclipse-runner-plugin also has it's own website now located at https://erp.nllk.net/. The website is kind of minimalistic though ;-)
Re: Re: Re: Re: Best plugin ever for launch handling
Submitted by Abhik Dey on Tue, 2021-05-11 12:57
Many thanks for super speedy response. Tried it immediately and works like a charm.
Plans for 201812 (4.10) support?
Submitted by Stefan Koch on Mon, 2019-01-28 12:36
I really love your plugin!
I switched to 2018-12 (4.10) but I cannot install it on this version.
I see that you already support 2018-09 (4.9) and 2019-03 (4.11).
Any chance for 4.10 as well?
Re: Plans for 201812 (4.10) support?
Submitted by Christoph Zauner on Thu, 2019-01-31 03:13
Hi Stefan,
I have added v4.10 to the list of supported versions of this plugin. Please try again to install the plugin and let me know if it works now.
Plans for 201812 (4.10) support?
Submitted by Stefan Koch on Mon, 2019-01-28 07:49
I use this plugin on a daily basis. Well done, thank you!
I see 2018-09 (4.9) and 2019-03 (4.11) are already supported, any plans for supporting 2018-12 (4.10) as well?
I cannot install this form the marketplace in my version.
Export to runnable jar or similar output
Submitted by John Hemming on Thu, 2018-03-01 11:39
Thank you for writing Eclipse Runner which I wish I had installed before today. I wonder if you might consider adding a facility to export from the launch configuration to a runnable jar file (or some other similar types of export). As the launch configurations are used to specify things like the Main class etc it would seem quite logical.
Re: Export to runnable jar or similar output
Submitted by Christoph Zauner on Tue, 2018-04-03 14:50
Hello John,
Thanks a lot for your feedback! Currently there are no plans to add such a feature. The ultimate goal of the eclipserunner plugin is to enable you to quickly execute repetetive and often needed tasks. Tasks which you need very often during development. E.g. starting a specific unit test while you are browsing code in an unrelated source file.
I think that the use case "exporting your program to a runnable jar file" is a task you typically execute far less often than use cases like "executing a specific unit test" or "start one of the programs which you have currently opened in your IDE".
Therefore I am not going to spend my time on implementing such a feature. But, I would happily accept a pull request if you want to contribute code implementing the feature requested by you. If you want I can also help you getting started... Just let me know.
Kind regards,
Link to P2 update site / repository updated
Submitted by Christoph Zauner on Fri, 2016-07-08 01:49
The Eclipse Marketplace has been updated to contain a valid Eclipse Runner P2 update site. Installing this plugin using the Eclipse Marketplace now works again.
P2 update sites and code repos
Submitted by Christoph Zauner on Tue, 2016-06-28 07:54
Lukasz and I are currently working on to update the Eclipse Marketplace with a valid P2 update site.
In the meantime you can use the update site from my eclipserunner repo (zaunerc/eclipserunnerplugin @ GitHub) or the update site from Michaels eclipserunner repo (scharf/eclipserunnerplugin @ GitHub). Feature-wise both repos currenlty contain the latest plugin version.
Hint: To browse the contents of Michaels P2 update site you need to use a P2 repo browser (e.g. the Repository Browser Plugin from the Eclipse Oomph project). Using a HTTP browser will result in a 400: Invalid request.
Repository not found, too
the code and an installation website can be found (as said previously) on github: scharf/eclipserunnerplugin
Repository not found.
Submitted by Omer Yilmaz on Thu, 2016-05-26 00:15
The code.google link no longer has this plugin, I have found a fork of it on github:
Works awesome.
icon of eclipse runner plugin with eclipse dark theme
Submitted by Nimo Mayr on Wed, 2016-01-20 04:23
The icon of eclipse runner plugin does not view well with eclipse when dark theme is enabled. Please update the icon of eclipse runner plugin by having transparent borders (png). Thanks.
Export facility
Submitted by Andy Middleton on Fri, 2014-08-22 12:02
Just a quick question - is there a way to export the settings? We have the same launch configurations over a number of laptops and it would save time if the settings are exportable.
Export settings
Submitted by Łukasz Wachowicz on Sat, 2014-09-13 15:57
Hi Andy,
I'm not working on the plugin any more, but today o got an email from Michael who has forked the project in github and we're going to release a new version. So maybe it's a good moment for you to join the project and implement export functionality ? :-) i suppose it's not a big deal. if you're ready to hack, write me an email and i'll give you commiter rights to the plugin.
Submitted by Artem Nemyatov on Thu, 2012-09-06 02:50
Very nice feature. Simple and usefull, as it should be ))
Nice feature. Save a lot of
Submitted by Kane Zhu on Wed, 2011-07-13 23:46
Nice feature. Save a lot of time!
very nice, simple and usefull
Submitted by Andrew Kowal on Wed, 2010-06-23 06:22
very nice, simple and usefull tool =) if you have dozens of run targets - it's essential plugin for you. thanks a lot guys!


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If you have a problem, your GP may refer you the audiology clinic for a hearing test. The test will find out what the problem is.
If you need a hearing aid, the earlier you start using it, the more it will help.
Modern hearing aids are small, lightweight and not very noticeable at all. You can buy them privately or you may be able to get one from the NHS.
Even without a hearing aid, there is lots of other equipment you can buy. For example:
You can buy some of this equipment from high street shops, from catalogues and from mobility shops.
If you are not sure what equipment to buy, contact Disabled Living or Action on Hearing Loss.
If you are worried about your sight, you can get advice from:
As well as testing you for glasses, optometrists (used to be called opticians) can see if there are other problems and can refer you to a doctor if needed. For many problems, the sooner they are treated, the better the outcome.
Buy communication and sight aids from high street stores, online or catalogues. You can find a range of communication aids at Living Made Easy. Useful items include:
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Wouldn't it be great to get paid for every gift basket order that comes your way? Sadly, that's not possible. Here's why you cannot satisfy every customer.
Prepare for wins and losses
Not everyone who comes to you for an order will agree to the contents, delivery, or overall design of your gift baskets. It's simply not possible to have a 100% order rate. That's okay.
Marketing is all about finding the right people to buy, which the definitive article on marketing your gift baskets explains. There will be loyal customers, and there will also be people who don't fit your model. That's true in every business.
Here are two examples.
Picky production
After my appearance on a television show, a production staff member wanted a gift basket for a senior member of her family. I took notes while asking her about the gentleman's life and preferences.
After returning to my studio to review inventory, I called the staff member with options for the gift. She didn't like what I proposed. I wrote down more details and called her a second time with new options. Still, she said no.
At that point I referred her to another area gift basket designer. I don't know if a sale was made, but I did the right thing sending the order to a competitor. Such unselfishness keeps the industry's value high. In addition, the transfer allowed me to complete orders received from the media presentation.
Medical malfunction
I had heard, through attending conventions, that selling gift baskets to hospital gift shops was lucrative. That opportunity seemed easy for me. With three hospitals within 10 miles of my studio, I had high hopes that I could sign at least one account.
After securing a hospital gift shop appointment, I created three gift baskets using my baby and get well inventory. It was exciting to walk through the hospital's main lobby and be pointed in the direction of the gift shop. The manager took one look at what I had and said that while it was gorgeous, none of it was for her buyers.
She pointed to merchandise on shelves to show me examples of what sells. I took a look at the collection and realized it would take lots of labor to make comparable gifts. I'd also make very little profit. Even though that opportunity didn't work, I'm glad to have explored it.
As for the other hospital shops, I didn't bother scheduling appointments but did continue to expand my client and sales lists.
Why you cannot satisfy every customer
I'm betting you can count on your fingers how many times you've attempted to sell to clients, whether individuals or corporations, and didn't get the sale. My hope is that the trials did not disappoint you.
It's good to get negative feedback as well as good to get the orders. The non-sales help you to focus on your true buyers and not waste time with people and organizations that aren't within your target. When you compare who buys against who doesn't, the odds and percentage are most likely in your favor.
What's also important is your after-sales communication which is detailed in the article, 10 Ways to Keep Customers Happy after the Order.
Now you know why you cannot satisfy every customer as well as why finding the right customers is always a work in progress. Which of your presentations that didn't result in a sale is most memorable, and what was your next step that resulted in a sale?


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After graduation from Harvard, took graduate work in Physics at Northwestern University, holding a fellowship and an instructorship in Physics, and receiving the degree of M.A. in 1895. In January, 1897, became director of the Scientific Department of the Luxfer Prism Company, Chicago. 1898-99, Chief Engineer of Luxfer Prism Companies of Europe, residing at London and Berlin. Spring, 1901, received Ph.D. at Northwestern University. Is at present Associate Professor of Physics at Northwestern University.
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Friday, April 7, 2017
Cleaning for Passover: Don't be a fanatic!
After much deliberation and minute examination of every possible halachic detail, Rebbe Nachman finally came to the conclusion that the only way to be absolutely, positively sure there was no chometz in the water would be to camp out next to a spring in the woods where the water bubbled up fresh and uncontaminated. The problem was, the only such spring was a long way from his home. If he went there, then he would be away from his family, his friends, his disciples, and the whole Jewish community. Was that any way to celebrate a festival?
In the end, Rebbe Nachman decided that such ultra-strictness was unnecessary, even on Passover. Being overly rigid killed the joy and led to depression. Don't be a fanatic, he taught, and do not worry yourself sick with unnecessary restrictions. "The Torah was given to human beings, not the ministering angels."
That's good advice. And lest you think this obsession with "the letter of the law" is limited to Orthodox Jews, let me assure you that it occurs among secular people also. Rebbe Nachman's lesson came to mind a while back when I received an email about a vegan woman who had decided to take her practice to the ultimate ethical vegan level and refuse to eat anywhere meat, fish, eggs, or dairy were being served. Basically, this meant hanging out only with other vegans in vegan restaurants, vegan homes, or at vegan events.
This ultra-strictness also resulted in her walking out on a reunion of family and friends that she had really been looking forward to, because they were serving meat. It was not enough that the organizers were willing to provide her with a vegan meal. Unless everyone there refused meat, the entire event was, to mix cultural metaphors, not kosher.
Many people in the vegetarian community probably lauded her utmost devotion to the cause. But if I were to do that, it would mean never eating with anyone but my wife. We are vegetarians (not vegans) and we live in a rural area where most of my family, neighbors and associates are not vegetarians, let alone vegans. If I followed that woman's advice to the letter, I would end up in an isolated social bubble, not unlike what would have happened if Rebbe Nachman had decided to camp out next to the spring in the forest during Passover.
It was this kind of fanaticism that Rebbe Nachman warned against. Yes, we must clean house, search out all leaven and remove it, change the kitchen utensils over to the Passover set, etc. But don't drive yourself insane doing it. Don't make it a burden that kills the joy of the holiday.
This is why we have the bitul chametz procedure for declaring any leaven we might have missed to be null and void. This is not a mere legality. The rabbis who enacted this rule long ago were aware of the human tendency to obsess over things. There is always the possibility that we missed a bread crust the kids dropped somewhere. Or maybe a guest you invited for the Seder isn't as thorough as you are, and dropped some crumbs from his pocket on the living room rug. Or a mouse stored grain in the walls of your house... A person can go on and on about this kind of worry.
However, if we have done due diligence to remove all the leaven we know about, then renounced all ownership of what we might have missed, then dayenu, enough. Time to move on and celebrate!
Tuesday, April 4, 2017
Book Review: "The 99 Names of God" by Daniel Thomas Dyer
In a time when there is so much misinformation (and hostility) about Islam in the Western world, this book goes a long way toward opening a window on what true Islam is really like. If there's one thing Jews and Muslims have in common, it's the plethora of hostile websites claiming to "unmask" us by taking quotes out of context and compiling lists of every negative thing ever said by any of us anywhere. For years it has been an uphill climb for me to convince non-Jewish readers that we Jews even have any spirituality. Recent dialogues with Muslim teachers have shown me that they, too, have this same struggle. Hence my delight in finding this very accessible book.
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Most non-Muslims (including me) would be hard put to name 99 different attributes of God -- which is what the Names really are. God is the Compassionate, The Merciful, the Sovereign, The Holy, the Source of Peace... and so many more. This, I believe, is a great gift that Islam has brought to the world at large, to remind us of how many different ways God manifests his/her Presence. All too often, we limit God to a single attribute -- such as Love or Peace -- and forget how all-encompassing Omnipotence really is. Love is an attribute of God, yes. But God is so very much more.
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Once again, Muslims and Jews are on a similar quest, to bring our urbanized children more in harmony with the wonders of God's world and our responsibility to care for it. This is where all people can come together in harmony, since we live on one earth. (I was also happy to read that Muhammad loved cats. Readers of this blog know that I do, too!)
(This essay was updated by the author on April 5, 2017)
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5 Ways to Get Ahead in the Digital Age
Learning how computers work is no longer an optional skill for people hoping to find jobs in the next few years. I don't mean being able to turn a computer on, or transfer a word document into a PDF format: new job seekers need to know how to present themselves, and their future companies online.
I entered college hoping to study books, and will leave knowing how to code. In all honesty, I'm a novice computer programmer by any measure, and that's okay. Unless you want to build websites or fix technical problems, understanding the ins and outs of programming really isn't that important.
What's necessary for young job seekers is an understanding of the basics. Knowing what your company's site can and cannot do, how your web audience responds, and how to use social media effectively are skills that can make you more valuable to a company and help you do your job more effectively.
Understanding the internet on a personal level can be a great next step to helping a company work online. I manage an online media company in Austin, TX and have never had any formal classroom training.
Here are five things you can do that can help you get ahead of your peers and on your internet game:
1. Brand yourself
Companies spend years figuring out how to brand themselves in order to be the most appealing to their demographic, but how much time have you spent thinking about how you yourself are branded? If you know what you want to do, or even if you have a vague idea, branding yourself around your end goal can help you appear more qualified to prospective employers. For example, if you want to own a food truck that sells ice cream, you would try and make your presence online demonstrate both a love for ice cream, and a love for being entrepreneurial.
2. Understand Social Media
Social Media has much more potential than liking your Aunt Debbie's cat photos on Facebook. Social media can be a great way to brand yourself, and make connections to other people in your industry. I use Twitter to connect with other media industry professionals and to help reporters scoop stories more than I update my friends on the new Katy Perry song.
3. Keep up with Analytics
Nothing you can do in branding or social media is important unless you know if it's working or not. Playing around with an analytics site that tracks who comes to your website can help you get a grasp on what you are doing that works, and what doesn't. Sites like google.com/analytics even have entrancing graphs.
4. Learn basic computer programming
You don't have to be able to code in Ruby to make a big impression on your future boss, but it certainly wouldn't hurt. Learning the basics of coding languages like HTML and CSS can help you understand the way sites work and help you communicate your ideas more clearly and effectively with your company's tech team. I learned to code on codeacademy.com, which is a free website built to teach inexperienced people the basics of computer programming.
5. Showcase your skills
Building your own website is a great way to show off the skills that you've honed in the other steps to potential employers. Sites like wordpress.com and tumblr.com can be great places to round out your online presence and display all of your abilities in one place. It will also increase the possibility that you show up in online search engines.
The internet can be what you make of it. You can use the internet to look at 27 photos of cats licking teacups, but it can also be a great resource to building your online identity and helping you find your next job.
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Above: The PCS Zero Offset plasma bevel head doesn't rotate around a C axis or have to return to a zero starting position.
Manufacturers save steps, gain accuracy with multitasking technology
May 2014 - Multitasking is a skill we're all too familiar with in the workplace and at home—and we're seeing consumer products moving in that direction, too. From phablets [a smartphone/tablet hybrid] to smartwatches, the trend toward commercial products that can perform two or more tasks simultaneously continues to gain traction. The advantages of saving time and eliminating steps aren't lost on manufacturers like Profile Cutting Systems. The engineering and design company saw an opportunity to infuse new life into established technology by developing an automated, multitasking plasma bevel head able to cut steel plate with a bevel or straight edge and weld prep at the same time. The fully programmable Zero Offset plasma bevel head can cut and bevel 1⁄4-inch to 3 1⁄8-inch plate without limits on cutting direction.
Headquartered near a Ford Motor Co. factory in a suburb of Melbourne, Australia, PCS combines more than 60 years of mechanical and electronic expertise to design and manufacture oxy-fuel and plasma cutting machines. Its research and development team evaluates challenges faced by users to create solutions like its 24-tool automatic tool changer for plate drilling and its newest innovation, the Zero Offset plasma bevel head.
Ground zero
"Forty years ago if you cut a square out of plate, it had to be moved to a layout bench where workers with chalk, a ruler, hammer and punch, marked hole locations for drilling," says Leon Cottee, director of PCS. "Other workers would take the plate and bevel specified areas by hand."
The emergence of plasma contour beveling in the 1970s helped to consolidate some of these work processes but the industry has been slow to adopt the technology both in Australia and the United States, Cottee says, noting that it's not unusual to visit job shops in both countries and find workers performing beveling and weld prep by hand. "To some degree there is the inherent resistance to change that we all experience," he explains. "Also, in many cases there remains a disconnect between management and employees on the shop floor."
PCS vice president of sales John Zuehlke, based in Boulder Creek, California, agrees, pointing to equipment limitations as another obstacle. "Getting the torch arc close enough to the material to work has always been one of the challenges with plasma beveling," he says. "Typically, if you tilt the torch 45 degrees you can, in some cases, experience a gap up to a 1⁄2-inch between the electric arc and the material, preventing the pilot from igniting. Plasma cutters work by sending an electric arc through a gas that moves through a tight opening. Most models on the market, including ours, have to be started in a near vertical position before they can be tilted. That's one of the problems we wanted to solve," he says.
"We looked at what was out there, considered some of the difficulties, evaluated technology advances and basically found a way to build a better mouse trap," Cottee says.
Profile Cutting Systems' zero offset feature is unique to its plasma bevel head. "It solves the problem of angle," Zuehlke explains. "If you are cutting a square, for example, our plasma bevel head can make a 90-degree turn without offsetting the cutting machine. Other systems on the market don't have that capability. Instead they are required to loop the corner, which means the plasma torch has to move past the turn and then loop back around to make the cut. Our bevel head doesn't rotate around a C axis or have to return to a zero starting position. This is especially important if you are cutting multiple parts. You want the second part to be as close to the first part as possible so you don't waste material, especially if you are using costly metals such as stainless, aluminum or bronze. If you have a plasma bevel head that has to loop corners, your second part is going to be anywhere from 1⁄2 inch up to 2 inches from the first part, creating scrap."
The Zero Offset plasma bevel head, patented in Australia and patent pending in the U.S., also is lighter weight, 200 pounds, making it possible to fit the PCS bevel head on an entry-level, light-duty machine. "Other plasma cutting manufacturers don't currently offer this configuration," Zuehlke notes.
Saving steps
PCS first introduced the Zero Offset plasma bevel head at the 2008 Fabtech show. It caught the attention of Ferrocut, South Australia, when the plate profiling business was tagged by the Royal Australian Navy to supply steel plate for its Australian Submarine Corporation Air Warfare Destroyer shipbuilder program. To keep bevel cutting and etching in-house, Ferrocut installed a PCS Zero Offset 400-amp plasma bevel head with a large bed in 2009. The bed size accommodates multiple plates at the same time for improved efficiency. Apart from defense customers, Ferrocut serves the mining, quarry, construction, specialty fabrication and agricultural industries from a new 11,250-square-meter warehouse and plate profiling center. The ability to provide cut steel plate that is weld prepped at the same time allows Ferrocut to eliminate double-handling of material and parts. The system also equips the fabricator for other part processing with its ability to perform 95-degree side-to-side and forward-backward cuts and 360-degree rotations without twisting cables or hoses.
Arc voltage automatic height control provides accurate bevel tolerance while the system's robust design and stainless steel construction make it durable for a heavy, industrial environment like that of Ferrocut.
Ferrocut took multifunctionality a step further when in 2012 it purchased a PCS BHB Series integrated plate processing system. The next-generation model integrates drilling, tapping and milling with a Zero Offset plasma bevel head, giving Ferrocut the ability to perform multiple processes on steel plate. The system's two oxy torches allow the fabricator to process a full range of plate thicknesses without the need for a separate machine.
"Drilled holes are becoming an important part of profile cutting requirements," says Cottee. "Drilling small and large holes into thick plate is a niche market very few companies are capable of [servicing]. The feature also reduces the need to clean parts after cutting, which reduces processing time."
PCS has installed over 500 systems worldwide, but Cottee says he feels most at home in the U.S. "I spend a lot of time in the States and find very little difference between shop floor workers in America and Australia, except maybe the accent."
PCS also teams with U.S. companies for system components. The majority of PCS plasma bevel head cutting systems are equipped with a CNC control from Lincoln Electric Co. subsidiary Burny Kaliburn and Hypertherm's ProNest True Bevel software. If the system is specified with a drill, it's fitted with a Burny Kaliburn XL CNC control. Where cut quality is critical, the system is typically sold with a downdraft table. Water tables may be used when economics outweigh other factors.
"In addition to helping customers specify the right system, we continue to support them long after the installation," says Cottee. "Good service is the same in any language and regardless of company culture or the particular mindset of a job shop's management and employees. When it comes to our plasma bevel head technology, increased productivity, reduced factory noise and labor savings speak for themselves." MM


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walking into her house, i fell in love with her style ~ so colorful but clean and it all meshes so well to create a beautiful but comfy "canvas" for her and her family to live their lives. you can tell how much passion goes into her work just by looking at her art but to hear her talk about it takes it to another level.
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Welcome the OWASP Buffalo NY chapter
The Buffalo NY chapter was formed in August 2004. We meet 4 times a year for 1 to 2 hours per meeting and discuss topics related to web application security.
Goals & Objectives
It is our goal to freely distribute information related specifically to web application security. We want to ensure our members receive "free, professional-quality, open-source documentation, tools, and standards", as quoted directly from the main OWASP site. Participation is free and open to all. All are encouraged to participate.
Chapter Chair
The chapter is headed by James Kist. For information on how to join the chapter or if you would like to attend a meeting or even speak at a meeting, please send James an email. If you have any suggestions for meeting topics, please send an email with your ideas.
The location of the OWASP Buffalo NY chapter is TBD
Local Mailing List
You can sign up for the local mailing list. This list hosts discussions about chapter activity, planning for meetings and discussions about past and future presentations. To subscribe, go to http://lists.owasp.org/mailman/listinfo/owasp-buffalo and supply your email address.
You can participate by either signing up for the mailing list or just show up for the next meeting!
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Next Chapter Meeting
The next Buffalo chapter meeting will take place on Tuesday November 16th, 2004 at 6:00 PM at Network Security Corp's offices. The topic of the meeting is yet to be determined, but will definitely revolve around web application security (if you have any suggestions, please send them to the mailing list). All are invited to attend and participate. If you plan on attending, please pre-register so that we can plan accordingly and accommodate all attendees. To register, please send an email to [email protected].
Other Local IT Organizations
infoTech Niagara .NET Users Group
WNYSIP - Western New York Society for Information Professionals