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Not Bad, Considering That It Was Built from Logs Cut and Found at the Site. A log house that is built from logs that are found on the property is the ultimate log house design, and something the builder should be proud of. Using building materials that come from your log house site is the way log house construction started off so long ago. Today log house designs have evolved into stunning homes used to live in full-time and for use as vacation homes. But there is something about a rustic log house construction built with the logs on the site that are more than special. For this particular log house, only the roofing materials and the windows and doors had to be brought into the site. A rustic log house is typically a log house construction that has no insulation, electric, or plumbing and bathroom. A rustic log house might not even have a heat source or wood stove. This log house construction is located in a peaceful scenic spot that allows for rest. There have never been so many log home designs to choose from then there is today. With log house designs available in hand-crafted log shells, prefabricated log home kits and more.
When it comes to deciding on the log house that you will build you might consider going with a manufactured log home, or a more rustic and hand-crafted natural look. Whatever your preference, you will want to hire a log house builder, or you might even consider building a log house yourself. Log home living is a way to look forward to some relaxing country living while enjoying the full beauty of nature around you. There are so may log house designs you can dream about from unique log house designs, wood carvings, unique log home doors, cathedral ceilings, beautiful stone fireplaces, log furniture and log railings. Some say it's all in the details, and that can be quite true when it comes to log house designs. Many of the things we love about log homes, is in all the details that make each log house construction unique. You will find lots of log house inspirations and ideas, possibly something that you can use in the future, or the log home down the road will inspire a log home build of your own. You can't help but be amazed at some of the stunning log home designs you will see and be inspired from. From luxury log homes to rustic log homes, and everything in between. You'll also find some excellent outdoor landscaping ideas at the different log homes you see. You'll also find plenty of log home furnishing and decor ideas, along with landscaping ideas and more.
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text: |Mrs. Sandra Haddad Research on demand and supply integration: A practical case study framework. Purpose of this paper: Scholarly work suggests two primary sets of processes of moving goods and information through supply chains through which the firm creates value for its customers. These processes are, namely, demand-focused and supply-focused processes. Organizations have historically invested resources to develop competitive advantages in these fields. The major problem resides in planning each side separately resulting in conflicts between demand (what customers want) and supply (capacity). This research suggests that successfully managing supply and demand requires extensive integration between demand-focused and supply-focused processes. The integration facilitates forecasting and planning of real-time customer demand and ongoing supply capacity constraints. The study presents a procedural framework to integrate demand and supply sides based on empirical study related to four global leading Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) industry companies. Design/methodology/approach: The research is exploratory in nature and requires qualitative methods to identify the relevant constructs and develop a framework reflecting the integration. Data were collected through 9 in depth semi-structured, 90 to 120 minutes, interviews with strategic and tactical managers from four FMCG industry best practices including Proctor and Gamble Egypt and Unilever Mashreq. Findings: This research is part of a PhD project where the results of the empirical study are discussed in this paper. Based on literature studies on the integration of demand chains and supply chains, an academic/practical gap has been identified. A framework is proposed to analyse the key inter-functional process and to conduct case studies. It reveals that the key performance indicators (KPI) of these best practices are positively influenced by these integration practices. What is original/of value in paper? Although inter-functional integration was strongly supported in scholarly work, a few attempts have been made to integrate the demand side managed by marketers and the supply side managed by the supply chain department. Thus, this research, based on empirical study related to industry's best practices, proposes a framework to conceptualize the functional integration between demand and supply sides within an organisation. Practical implications (if applicable): Scholarly work has revealed some evidence that integrated between demand and supply, functional areas, is not fully realised in practice. The results of this study point to managers the importance of integrating demand and supply functions. It also directs them key areas of integration that are believed to render positive impact on the overall performance. Key Words: Supply chain, Demand chain, functional integration, case studies.


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Looking for the best shoulder workouts to give you firm broad shoulders? Strong defined shoulders are key to an in shape physic and therefore a good shoulder workout routine should always be part of your program.
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Whenever the upper body is taken into account, it's good to know that the shoulders, along with its corresponding muscles, are most widely used. Shoulder muscles function in almost every action that comes our way.
Our shoulders have almost 360 degrees of rotation, and along with our arms they are the first points of interest when it comes to our general appearance, despite our gender.
The shoulder is the most mobile joint in our body. Although it is a ball and socket joint, the socket is very shallow, allowing the ball to rotate through the 360-degree range.
But because it is so mobile, the shoulder is also vulnerable to injury.A common instinct when you have a shoulder injury is to hold your shoulder still to avoid pain. Don't be tempted to give in to the pendulum movement, maintain stability when exercising, for a safe practice. However, holding it still may actually prolong your recovery process because adhesions can form while the healing is taking place that will have to be eliminated to return your shoulder to full function.
In other words, strong muscles in the shoulder area will prevent you from injuring the joints. You know what they say: whenever you have a physical pain anywhere in your body, especially in your joints, the muscles around the area should be trained in order to protect that particular region. Thus, a lot of operations can be avoided. Here is an exercise for shoulder therapy, in case of an accident or severe injury (due to a slight joint dislocation or separation, impingement or the "frozen shoulder" syndrome):
Codman pendulum exercise - Codman exercises can be done in one of two ways. You can do them lying on your stomach on a therapy table with your arm and shoulder over the side, or you can do them standing, bent forward at the waist, letting your arm hang straight toward the floor. In either case, the goal is to have your arm hanging loosely, with your shoulder blade relaxed. Once in position, you can begin to move your arm gently by swinging it. Start with movements forward and back, then side to side, and lastly in small circles. Initial movements should be about 15 degrees from vertical but as you loosen up, let the movement go out to 30 degrees. While your arm is swinging, your body is circulating blood through the muscles and joint capsule of your shoulder. This increase in circulation helps to speed the removal of waste products and reduce soreness. This increased circulation brings the injured tissue the nutrients necessary to make strong repairs. This exercise (along with isometric moves) is usually recommended as the main physical therapy treatment or program in rehabilitation centers, following any kind of inflammation due to mild injury (like tendonitis, bursitis, and any other discomfort associated with a sore or dislocated shoulder), or for arthritic patients.
No pain, no gain. All the below exercises require no video. So off we go, presenting you the routines and workouts that make it into the top 10 shoulder exercises according to the fitness world's best experts.
When it comes to upper body training routines, things stand different for men and women. Men look up to Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ronnie Coleman or Kai Greene, while women, with a lower bodyweight, are more delicate and fragile and have role models closer to Tracy Anderson or Jillian Michaels. Mass and big arms are not for most of them. That's why this post will focus more on staying in shape and sculpting beautiful and appealing shoulders. A proper shoulder workout routine should never be neglected.
Keep in mind the fact that apart from making you look great and obtain definition, the muscles in your shoulders are connected to your neck muscles, which store tension – thus, working out is a great way to relieve it.
When it comes to women, "well defined" and "slender" are better-chosen words than "massive" or "big." Size is not what we are targeting, probably only when it comes to decreasing it. So ladies, don't fall into the masculine trap (well, traps, actually) and end up like Jay Cutler. This is not the target here.
You only need dumbbells for this complete back and shoulder workout that can be done at home or at your local gym center.
Starting tip: Warm up your muscles before every workout to prevent injury and the risk of dangerous instability during motion. Run, jump rope or perform any aerobic activity that gets your heart rate up and your blood flowing. Do this for at least 10 to 15 minutes before lifting weights or kettlebells. Stretch for ten (10) minutes before or after you exercise to increase your flexibility.
For this one you'll have to perform 3 sets of 15 reps for general firming and toning results.
Seated Dumbbell Shoulder Press - The shoulder press is a compound movement that works several muscle groups.
· Sit with your spine erect.
· Grasp the dumbbells in your hands.
· Position them at the sides of your shoulders with your elbows below your wrists.
· Press the dumbbells up, extending your arms overhead. Lower your arms to the starting position.
· Repeat 15 times.
Lateral Raise -A lateral raise is an isolation exercise. It works your lateral deltoids, which are in the midsection of your shoulders. These muscles cover the tops of your shoulders and connect to your upper arms.
· Stand with your feet shoulder-width apart.
· Hold the dumbbells in front of your thighs, bending your elbows slightly.
· Raise your arms so your elbows are shoulder height.
· Return to the starting position and repeat.
· Stand with your back straight and a dumbbell in each hand.
· Position your arms in front of your thighs with your elbows straight.
· Lift one arm, keeping your elbow fixed, until the dumbbell is slightly higher than your shoulder.
· Return to the starting position and repeat with your other arm.
Shrugs -Shrugs work the large muscle in your neck and upper back that holds your head upright. This muscle is connected to your shoulders. Shrugs can reportedly reduce the chronic pain caused by repetitive office duties. They also have the highest level of muscle activation, which means they can strengthen your arms, in time.
· Hold a dumbbell in each hand.
· Stand with your back straight and your arms at your sides.
· Raise your shoulders toward your ears.
· Tighten your muscles, hold the position and release.
· Repeat for the desired number of repetitions.
Remember these don't isolate your shoulders and focus on them only, but they are an efficient training method for the whole upper part of your body.
· Begin with your hips on the ball, hands on the floor and feet stretched out straight behind you.
· Walk hands out a bit so that the ball is positioned either below the thighs or, to make it more difficult, below the ankles.
· Place hands on floor in line with shoulders.
· Lower body by bending elbows, bringing the chest as close to the floor as possible.
· Make sure to keep head, torso and legs aligned and tight.
· Straighten arms to complete rep.
Tip:If the stability ball push-up is too challenging, try kneeling push-ups on the floor or a plank hold for 30 seconds (with or without a stability ball).
· Get in a plank position with hands slightly wider than shoulder width.
· While maintaining upper body position, bring one knee up to the chest while touching toe to the ground.
· Switch legs.
· Continue alternating legs briskly (the faster the speed, the greater the intensity).
· Sit on bench and hold dumbbells at shoulder height with elbows out to the sides and palms facing forward.
· Lift one dumbbell straight up and hold it.
· Then, lift the other arm.
· Once the second arm reaches the top position, lower the first arm.
· Continue this alternating press with a brisk but controlled pace until all intended reps are complete.
Tip:Don't lock out the elbow in the top position, as this transfers work to the triceps.
If size and strength is what you would like to obtain from your shoulders, it's important to target each part of your deltoid muscles. That is: front, middle and rear, in order to reach your goals faster and prevent muscle imbalances. These key upper intense body exercises will hit all three areas. Add them into your workout plan and expect wonders. Phil Heath, here we come!
The P90X Shoulders workouts are probably the best ones you will ever find to turn into a bigger version of yourself. They are not only meant to sculpt the front, side and rear delts, but the moves are going to radically improve your fitness performance. So if muscle tone, mass and size (like in swimmers) is what you are looking for, you should definitely take some of these up!
This particular P90X arms and shoulders workout consists of 4 sets, each set being made up of 3 different exercises (you can also find them in a pdf format online).
Each of the four sets needs to be repeated twice, with the entire routine lasting for nearly an hour. In each set there is one shoulder exercise, one triceps' exercise and one biceps' exercise. All of the exercises can be completed with either resistance bands or dumbbells, excepting of the dips that require two chairs.You can also use a foam roller or a theraband girdle, if you prefer.
· Hold two dumbbells at shoulder level with your palms facing outward (or just use a rubber band).
· Lift one dumbbell at a time, ending with your palm facing inward once your arm is outstretched.
· Begin by holding two dumbbells at waist level with your palms facing inward.
· Curl the dumbbell up to your shoulder and twist the weight so that your palm is facing upward.
· Lower the weight to the initial position to complete one repetition.
· Grip two weights out at arms length in front of you with your palms facing inward.
· Extend both arms behind you and then bring them back to complete one rep.
· Each exercise should be repeated 12 to 15 times.
· Start with the dumbbells at waist level.
· Curl them up to your shoulders
· Extend them as high as you can over your shoulders.
· Lift a dumbbell from waist-level to shoulder-level as slowly as you can.
· Rotate your wrists during the exercise so that your palms face in at the bottom position and then up at the top position.
· Balance yourself on two chairs using your hands.
· Lower yourself and then lift yourself up again.
· As with the previous set, each exercise is to be completed for 12 to 15 repetitions.
· Lift two dumbbells from your thighs to just below your chin.
· Regular curls in which you lift a dumbbell from your waist to your shoulder.
The flip-grip twist triceps kickback - similar to the two-arm tricep kickback, but you end up with your palms facing the sky so that you are twisting your arms throughout the exercise.
· Every exercise is to be done for 12 to 15 repetitions.
· Begin with two dumbbells at waist level.
· With your arms extended, raise them up to your shoulders.
· Lower them, leaning forward so that your lower rib cage touches your upper thigh and then repeat the exercise.
The crouching Cohen curls –a normal curl done from a crouching position with your elbow on the inside of your knee.
· Lie on your back and bring up two dumbbells just above your head.
· Extend your arms backwards so that the dumbbells nearly touch the floor.
· Bring them back up to complete one rep.
· Repeat all three exercises in the set 12 to 15 times.
Pitching is one of the most physically taxing positions in all of sports. The high velocity movements and full body repetitive motions required by the position, make it critical to get the right weight routine. Pitchers are the absolute champions of insane workouts. In other words, getting to do what they do is the ultimate performance.
Moreover, who's got better shoulders than baseball players? Probably no one, I guess. They need to be in perfect shape, or else they're out. The rotator cuff muscles stabilize the shoulders for a complete range of motion. Choosing the right rotator cuff exercises for baseball specific training is extremely important in order to increase performance and prevent injury. Baseball players must never underestimate the importance of building, maintaining, and protecting the shoulder. And one dedicated bodybuilder should make no exception. It's both beginners and advanced we are targeting here. Include it among the good shoulder workouts formass and strength and you'll become like a rock – in a good sense. This is definitely a bodybuilding killer.Best shoulder workout around! Scott Herman or better off, Greg Plitt himself would be proud of you. Remember not to start the workout without 10 minutes of stretching beforehand.
45 degree Raises - This exercise is for the shoulder, specifically the rotator cuff, giving resistance and strengthening the arm. Use 5-pound dumbbells for every rotator cuff exercise. Going over 5 pounds will cause larger muscles like the deltoids, to begin firing and this will deplete the effectiveness of a true rotator cuff workout.
· Stand with arms at your side and point thumbs up.
· Keep elbows straight and raise your arms to shoulder height at a 45 degree angle.
· Lower the arms with a three second count.
· It is more important to maintain the three second count on the way down then to raise the arms quickly.
· Complete this exercise in 3 sets of ten with three second counts on the relaxing phase.
· Begin this exercise with arms by sides, palms down to the ground, and a 5 pound dumbbell in each hand.
· With elbows straight, raise arms to shoulder height parallel to the ground.
· Lower the arms slowly to the standing position with a three second count and repeat.
· Keep good posture with a big chest.
· Do not roll shoulders forward because it will cause improper shoulder alignment during the exercise.
· Complete this exercise 3 sets of 10 with three second counts on the relaxing phase.
· For best use, leave a day of rest in between the entire workout.
· Lie down on the ground on the right side and place the right hand or a towel or opposite hand under the left armpit for shoulder support.
· Do not let the left elbow sink into an unnatural arm position.
· Place the left arm at a 90-degree angle while holding a 5 pound or less dumbbell.
· Externally rotate the arm from the hand to the shoulder upwards and then bring the arm back down with a three second count.
· Do not forget about the 3-second count.
· After finishing one arm move on to the other side.
· Sit on a bench with a barbell rest o your chest
· Grab the barbell just wider than your shoulders
· Push the barbell straight up, above your head
· Slowly lower the barbell back to the top of chest
· The same as the military press, only now lower the barbell behind your neck.
· Stand with a dumbbell in each hand.
· Raise your arms next to your body, until your arms are parallel to the floor.
· Slowly lower your arms back down.
· Raise your arms up, in front of you.
· Stop when your arms are parallel to the floor.
· Slowly lower your arms back down, keep repeating in a rhythmic manner.
· Grab an EZ-bar.
· Stand up straight.
· Pull up the bar all the way up to your collar bone.
· Keep your elbows pointed up.
· Slowly lower the bar back down.
· Take a dumbbell in each hand.
· Bent through your legs and hip, so keep your back straight.
· Just like the lateral raise, raise your arms next to your body.
· Slowly lower the weight again.
For the ones who are looking for a balanced upper body, here we will be talking about Howard's Thursdays, because these are the days of the week when he trains his shoulders, our main interest for this post. This belongs more to the Tips and Suggestions Category, as we are not going to detail his routine very much. Nevertheless here's a bird's eye view regarding his shoulder exercise routine:
· 3 sets of wide-grip lat pull down of 10 reps
· 3 sets of Arnolds press of 10 reps
· 3 sets of pull-ups of 5 reps
· 3 sets of dumbbell front raise of 6-85 reps
· 3 sets of dumbbell rear lateral raise of 6-8 reps
· 3 sets of alternating dumbbell curls of 6-8 reps
· 3 sets of close-grip EZ-Bar curls of 8reps
· 3 sets of Abs plate twist of 12 reps
· 3 sets of weighted Swiss ball crunch of 20 reps
Remember that we have pictures and videos of every move you could possibly look for, so don't hesitate to browse around for detailed explanations and depictions, anterior to the workout per se. In case of mild injury, switch to low-key exercises destined for pain relief (for a pinched or impinged shoulder, or for capsulitis) or for patients of arthritis to assist them with recovery; rehab centers usually have very good shoulder workouts destined to get you back the full shoulder functionality. In case of nerve damage or a torn tendon, you risk surgery, so make sure you always warm up properly before exercising: it's a super-efficient prevention strategy for dislocations and it's free too! After all, broad shoulders that look and feel strong aren't invincible; they need some protection too.


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First, We disagree on the way the GOP has characterized Obama's leadership roles responsibilites AKA "executive experience" Secondly, we disagree on how the GOP characterizes Palin's experience and third, we disagree that "executive experience" is the end-all-be-all to governing. I think it's elitist to assume that prior management experience is the only measure of capabilty. It's a good indicator, yes, but to say otherwise would lead to a world run by MBA's.
It's the height of hypocrisy and irony that the GOP is using the elitist rally cry of "executive experience" all the while calling Obama an elitist. I really hope to hear some push back on this very soon.
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There's no story linked to it yet, but Drudge has the following up on their website:
Rasmussen: Palin more popular than Obama or McCain...Developing...
Its not the headline, mind you, but its going to be very, very interesting to see what the polls say on Monday or Tuesday, folks, after this fully sets in. Even Rasmussen was on Fox News yesterday saying that the full effect of the RNC wouldn't be felt until early next week.
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Both Obama and McCain are now viewed favorably by 57% of the nation's voters (see trends). However, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin is viewed favorably by 58%--a point more than either Presidential hopeful. Forty percent (40%) have a Very Favorable opinion of her.
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You know, old uncle charlie had an expression:
If you don't want the media to mercilessly crucify you before an entire nation, you might want to hold back on the old daily insults against it.
But what does he know, right?
It's called a reaction.
So, you think the media has a right to get personally offended and slant its reporting based on that?
Expectations are the building blocks of disappointment.
John McCain headed into the last 60 days of the US presidential campaign neck and neck with Barack Obama after a "Sarah Palin bounce" appeared to have all but cancelled out the Democrat's lead in the polls.
With the Republican Party finishing its convention in St Paul believing that victory on November 4 is truly within its grasp, the Rasmussen tracking poll yesterday had Mr Obama on 46 per cent and Mr McCain on 45 per cent.
Mr Obama headed to the battleground state of Pennsylvania last night knowing that he has a titanic fight on his hands to realise his dream of becoming America's first black president. His aides have said for months that the race for the White House will be close, but Republicans left their Minnesota convention knowing that the contest is now really up for grabs.


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It's been three years since Real Emotional Trash, the last Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks album, and Malkmus has mostly spent that time collecting canvas dollar-sign bags on the Pavement reunion tour. But no more: Just this morning, Matador announced the new Jicks album. It's called Mirror Traffic; it's out August 23; and it's fully produced by Beck. Were you still holding out hope for new Pavement material instead? You can probably stop doing that now. [Matablog via Consequence of Sound]


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You know how it is, you're brushing your teeth, or looking out the window, or driving along absent mindedly, when all of a sudden you think of someone you haven't thought of in years.
That happened to me just the other day. I thought of this man I used to know, a friend of my sister in law, named John. John was a quadriplegic, a spinal cord injury as the result of a dive into a lake, hitting rock bottom. He was married at the time of his accident and had a young son. After the accident he insisted on divorcing his wife so she could lead a life without having to take care of him. He retained joint custody of his son, who used to visit him regularly.
I met John while I was still in massage therapy school and needed to find a way to accumulate hours working with a marginalized population – people who would otherwise never receive the benefits of a therapeutic massage. I was fairly certain that the massage would be beneficial – increasing circulation to muscles that were atrophying from lack of use.
Anyway, for an entire quarter of school I went to John's house once a week and gave him a massage. He sat in his wheelchair while I treated his head, neck, shoulders, arms, and feet –a seated treatment. I don't remember much from those sessions. I remember his son being around, playing and asking questions. I remember a caretaker who was present, cooking, cleaning, helping. But mostly I remember John's incredible attitude – he was always easy going, pleasant, cheerful. In spite of this incredible tragedy that had robbed him of the life he thought he was going to lead, he was loving, grateful and generous.
Our first Gospel reading this morning, the one proclaimed over the palm fronds as we prepared to bless them, ends with Jesus entering the temple in Jerusalem. And in that temple he stops and looks around. I wonder what memories were suddenly coming to him in that moment? Did he remember being a little boy who stayed behind in the temple when his family left to return home? Did he recall an even earlier memory, of being a baby blessed by Simeon and Anna in the walls of this temple? Did he think about the history of that temple and the memories it held – memories of a suffering people in search of God? Did he have an inkling of the suffering he would soon face? Or would that suffering hit him like a rock out of nowhere, as suffering usually does? Jesus stands in the sacred darkness of the temple and looks at everything.
Perhaps in that darkness, the everything that Jesus sees is more than the suffering he is about to face. And more than the suffering his people have faced, and will face when this very temple is destroyed a generation later. Perhaps, what Jesus sees is everything. The suffering of all. Everything, every ounce of suffering that was, and is, and will be. And he takes it all into himself before he turns and walks out.
All of us here know something about suffering, We can't live life without knowing suffering intimately. It comes to us unbidden, unwanted. And when it comes, that deep suffering, we too stand in the darkness. Like Jesus in the temple, the rising of memories crash in on us. What are we to do with this? The idea of being like Jesus, of being able to face into suffering , ours or others, is beyond us. But, like Jesus, we have no choice. We too have to walk right into the suffering, the pain, the brokenness. There is no other way.
Life gives us no choice when it comes to encountering suffering. And rarely do we have much choice in how we move through the suffering. All we know at the time is that we have to get up, literally, or in John's case metaphorically, and put one foot in front of the other, and take a step. Then another.
There is an old story from the Torah: a person asks the rabbi, "Why does the Torah tell us to place these words upon our hearts? Why does it not tell us to place holy words in our hearts? The rabbi answers, "It is because as we are, our hearts are closed, and we cannot place the holy words in our hearts. So we place them on top of our hearts. And there they stay until, one day, the heart breaks and the words fall in.
Generally speaking we live with closed hearts, guarded as if the heart can be protected from suffering. But suffering bursts that illusion wide open, like a needle in a balloon or a nail in a tire.
Suffering can shatter our hearts to bits and pieces, like a glass crashing to the ground. And in this broken state some of us use our suffering to inflict suffering on others – sharp pieces here and there waiting to slice open a vein in the next person who crosses our path.
But, while we have no choice in whether we suffer or not, we do have a choice in HOW we suffer. Maybe not immediately, but at some point in time, we are able to make some choices about how our suffering affects us. That's when suffering has the potential to break us open.
If we had read the verses that come just before the passion reading we heard this morning, we would have heard the story of the woman breaking open a jar of nard to anoint Jesus. This story appears in all four Gospels, and it's a story about suffering with love. This kind of suffering opens us, deepens our compassion, touching our innermost being. This kind of suffering opens our hearts like a lid on a jar or a hand turning from a fist to a cup.
Today begins the holiest of weeks in the Christian year. This week we will walk with Christ. We will share a meal, and wash feet, we will face into the darkness holding vigil as we pray through the night, and we will find ourselves hanging on the cross, broken.
Perhaps, by the time a week has passed, this journey will help us see how the broken heart and the suffering and the cross, and God's love are one and the same…
….for it is on that cross that God's heart is not shattered, although one would expect that to be the case, but rather God's heart is broken open for you, for me, for all of us, broken open and overflowing with love.
Saturday, April 04, 2009
God's Passion: A Broken Heart, Overflowing with Love
8 comments:
- revkarla said...
beautiful and passsionate and true.
thank you for this.
- Diane said...
- Rev SS said...
yes, wow! beautiful
- Pastor Joelle said...
"...a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise"
Thank you for this. It was amazing.
- Ruth Hull Chatlien said...
suffering with love
Thank you for this. It is so beautifully true and so rare to hear about it.
- Barbara B. said...
absolutely loved this...
- zorra said...
Thank you for opening the door to Holy Week for me.
- Crimson Rambler said...
and he looked at everything. YES! Thank you Mompriest!!!
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Gëzim Krasniqi
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- Dr Gëzim Krasniqi
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- Research Interests
- Nationalism, identity politics, State building, Social movements, Ethnic conflict, Citizenship, Globalization, the Balkans, Kosovo
- http://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/staff/sociology/gezim_krasniqi
- PhD (University of Edinburgh)
- MA (Central European University)
- MA (University of Sarajevo and University of Bologna)
- BA (University of Prishtina)
Research Interests
- political sociology, including social movements
- nationalism and national identity
- citizenship
- ethnic conflict
- State-building and democratisation
- Contested states
- Southeast Europe/Balkans/Kosovo politics
- Theories and Theorists in Nationalism Studies (PG course)
- Comparative Perspectives in Nationalism Studies (PG course)
- Nations and Nationalism (PG and UG Honours courses)
- Globalization (PG and UG Honours courses)
Research Interests
My research interests lie broadly in political sociology. My more particular interests lie in the sociology of nationalism. I have been concerned with the role of intra-group power competition in shaping nationalist movements' demands and ideological outlook. My research on post-Yugoslav states focuses on the relations between citizenship and various manifestations of diversity, including, but not exclusively, ethnicity. More recent projects involve the study of old and new state-nation configurations in South-East Europe and citizenship in contested/liminal polities.
with Dejan Stjepanović, Uneven Citizenship: Minorities and Migrants in the Post-Yugoslav Space (edited volume), London, Routledge, 2015.
'Contested territories, liminal polities, performative citizenship : a comparative analysis,' (2018) EUI Working Paper RSCAS 2018/13.
'Albanian Citizenship Configurations in the Balkans,' (2017) Central and Eastern European Migration Review, pp. 1–22 (online first).
co-authored with Gent Cakaj, 'The role of minorities in the Serb-Albanian political quagmire,' in Kosovo and Serbia: Contested Options and Shared Consequences, edited by Leandrit Mehmeti and Branislav Radeljic (Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh University Press, 2017), 149-167.
'Equal citizens, uneven communities: differentiated and hierarchical citizenship in Kosovo,' (2015) Ethnopolitics, Vol. 14, Issue 2, 197-217.
co-authored with Dejan Stjepanović, 'Uneven Citizenship: Minorities and Migrants in the Post-Yugoslav Space,' (2015) Ethnopolitics, Vol. 14, Issue 2, 113-20.
co-authored with Mehmet Musaj, 'The EU's 'Limited Sovereignty – Strong Control' Approach in the Process of Member State Building in Kosovo,' in The EU and Member State Building: European Foreign Policy in the Western Balkans, edited by Soeren Keil and Zeynep Arkan (London: Routledge, 2015), 140-62.
'Foreign Policy as a Constitutive Element of Statehood and Statehood Prerogative: The Case of Kosovo', in The Foreign Policies of Post-Yugoslav States: From Yugoslavia to Europe, edited by Soeren Keil and Bernhard Stahl (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), 198-219.
co-authored with Isa Blumi, 'Albanians' Islam(s)' in The Oxford Handbook of European Islam, edited by Jocelyne Cesari (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), 475-516.
'Revisiting nationalism in Yugoslavia: an inside-out view of the Nationalist Movement in Kosovo' in Debating the End of Yugoslavia edited by Florian Bieber, Armina Galijaš and Rory Archer (London: Ashgate, 2014), 225-39.
'State Borders, Symbolic Boundaries and Contested Geographical Space: Citizenship Struggles in Kosovo' (2013) Transitions Vol. 52, No. 2, 29-51.
''Quadratic Nexus' and the Process of Democratization and State-Building in Albania and Kosovo: A Comparison' (2013), Nationalities Papers: The Journal of Nationalism and Ethnicity, Vol. 41, No. 3, 395-411.
'Overlapping Jurisdictions, Disputed Territory, Unsettled State: The Perplexing Case of Citizenship in Kosovo' in Citizenship after Yugoslavia, edited by Jo Shaw and Igor Stiks (Oxon and New York: Routledge, 2013), 69-82.
'Unpacking Post‐Communist Socio‐Political Transformations in the Western Balkans: A Citizenship‐Centred Approach' (2012) Südosteuropa Vol. 60, No. 4, 555‐564.
'Overlapping jurisdictions, disputed territory, unsettled state: the perplexing case of citizenship in Kosovo' (2012) Citizenship Studies Special Issue: Citizenship in the New States of South Eastern Europe, Vol. 16, No. 3-4, 353 - 366.
''For Democracy — Against Violence': A Kosovar Alternative' in Resisting the Evil: [Post-]Yugoslav Anti-War Contention, edited by Bojan Bilic and Vesna Jankovic (Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft | Southeast European Integration Perspectives, vol. 7, 2012) 83-103.
'Socialism, National Utopia, and Rock Music: Inside the Albanian Rock Scene of Yugoslavia, 1970–1989' (2011) East Central Europe Vol. 38. No. 2-3, 336–354.
'The 'forbidden fruit': Islam and politics of identity in Kosovo and Macedonia' (2011) Southeast European and Black Sea Studies Vol. 11, No.2, 191-207.
'The International Community's Modus Operandi in Postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina and in Kosovo: A Critical Assessment' (2010) Südosteuropa Vol. 58, No 4, 520-541.
'Defective alike, yet not equal; Cyprus, Taiwan and Kosovo,' Journal of Human Rights and Policy, Vol 2, No. 1 (July 2009), 49-60.
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SpotOn exhibited at the OR Manager Conference in Las Vegas, the key national assembly of operating room decision makers from around the country. Glenn Mills, SpotOn President said, "The response to our tablet based app confirms once again how timely our product is in addressing new market dynamics that influence operating room nurses and suppliers alike. More advanced technology in the operating room combined with restricted access for onsite rep and tech support, results in nurses needing new tools to support their education and competency with supplier products. SpotOn gives them the digital reference tools to prepare for surgeries and an on demand virtual presence with supplier experts when the situation warrants immediate resolution."
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Jim Atkinson says he took a risk last month when he resigned as managing director of Investec Asset Management US Limited of Pasadena, Calif., to become the president of MaxFunds.com, an eight month-old Internet start up.
While Atkinson's reason might be questioned, he sees the move as a calculated risk, but one that has tremendous potential and, more importantly, one that fits his character. Still, the company he left was, by comparison to the world of Internet start ups, a stable place. Although the firm has only $500 million in assets under management, its parent company, based in Johannesburg, South Africa has $25 billion and 90 funds worldwide.
"I admit fully that this is a bit of a career risk, but it's one that I'm comfortable with," Atkinson said. "With the Internet, everything is a risk. There's talk of Amazon not being able to make it now. That may be overstating the case, but I believe a lot of money is going to be made on the Internet and I don't think anyone can figure out who, how or what because it changes so quickly and the competition is so fierce. It's a very dynamic environment."
MaxFunds.com is a safe bet, according to Atkinson. The company, based in Ann Arbor, Mich., launched its website in February and began ranking small and new mutual funds. The firm has earned a reputation for taking a novel approach by using original criteria to measure and evaluate new and small funds.
For those who know him, the move makes perfect sense, Atkinson said.
"If you had the opportunity to work with me for the past six or seven years, I was always pushing and trying to be on the cutting edge," he said. "And I think a lot of my colleagues just thought that I was moving a little bit closer to the cutting edge and going where my intellectual interest was."
The firm's move to offer model portfolios or synthetic funds clinched Atkinson's decision to join MaxFunds.com, Atkinson said. The firm launched its first twelve baskets of securities on its website two weeks ago. The portfolios are selected and run by a professional manager. For a small subscription fee, members will be allowed to log on to a site that tracks the portfolio's performance and the manager's changes to the portfolio will be sent via e-mail. Subscribers must execute their own trades with a broker of their choice, Atkinson says.
MaxFunds.com's synthetic funds are the cutting edge Atkinson was looking for. While the products will not rival mutual funds' popularity any time soon, they are a better product in terms of tax efficiency and customization, Atkinson said. Moreover, he predicted that nearly every brokerage will offer a platform that will allow basket-trading capabilities within six months.
Atkinson also based his decision on the direction in which he sees the fund industry moving. Smaller companies are beginning to have a tough time winning new business, he said.
"At the margins, the mutual fund industry is starting to struggle, notwithstanding the success it has had," he said. "You might start to see, because of this difficulty at the margins for these fund companies, the long awaited, much anticipated but never arriving consolidation. You know what's happening in the fund industry. Just a few winners are grabbing most of the money and the business prospects for most players right now is not good. It's not terrible, but it's not good. And this is during a bull market."
While he declined to disclose a figure, Atkinson said that he was given a large stake in the firm. Another factor that influenced his decision was the firm's willingness to move its headquarters from Ann Arbor to Los Angeles, where Atkinson lives.
In Atkinson, MaxFunds.com gains someone with considerable industry experience as well as knowledge of selling financial products on the Internet. While the firm has made novelty one of its trademarks, in order to successfully launch basket portfolios, it needed someone like Atkinson who has been in the fund industry since the late 70's, according to Jonas Ferris, CEO and co-founder of MaxFunds.com.
"He has a lot of experience launching mutual funds, specifically ones that could have almost been synthetic funds," he said. "So that is where his background really comes into play for us. We had the mutual fund rating site and the content site but if we're going to be moving into these mutual fund alternatives, that's where he has a lot of interest and knowledge and experience."
Atkinson developed a strong rapport with Ferris because he had always embraced the no-holds barred marketing strategy concept the website embodies, Atkinson said.
"If you came to me with an interesting Internet marketing plan, my attitude is basically, We will try anything,'" Atkinson said. "One of the things that drives you to the cutting edge is the ability to experiment and I happened to like the things that MaxFunds was doing."
At 43, Atkinson is older than his 16 colleagues at MaxFunds.com by 13 years. But his desire to work on the cutting edge compensates for what might otherwise be a generation gap, Ferris said.
"Although he's not John Bogle, he is getting up there," Ferris said.


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Keast, RL & Mandell, M 2011, 'The collaborative push : pushing beyond rhetoric and gaining evidence', 15th Annual Conference of the International Research Society for Public Management (IRSPMXV), Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, 11-14 April, IRSPM.
Collaboration has been enacted as a core strategy by both the government and nongovernment sectors to address many of the intractable issues confronting contemporary society. The cult of collaboration has become so pervasive that it is now an elastic term referring generally to any form of 'working together'. The lack of specificity about collaboration and its practice means that it risks being reduced to mere rhetoric without sustained practice or action.
Drawing on an extensive data set (qualitative, quantitative) of broadly collaborative endeavours gathered over ten years in Queensland, Australia, this paper aims to fill out the black box of collaboration. Specifically it examines the drivers for collaboration, dominant structures and mechanisms adopted, what has worked and unintended consequences. In particular it investigates the skills and competencies required in an embeded collaborative endeavour within and across organisations. Social network analysis is applied to isolate the structural properties of collaborations over other forms of integration as well as highlighting key roles and tasks.
Collaboration is found to be a distinctive form of working together, characterised by intense and interdependent relationships and exchanges, higher levels of cohesion (density) and requiring new ways of behaving, working, managing and leading. These elements are configured into a practice framework. Developing an empirical evidence base for collaboration structure, practice and strategy provides a useful foundation for theory extension. The paper concludes that for collaboration, to be successfully employed as a management strategy it must move beyond rhetoric and develop a coherent model for action.


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If you are committed to quality and excellence, passionate about client service, and dedicated to integrity and professionalism, Dacon Corporation might be the right place for you. Dacon Corporation is more than a great place to build buildings — it's a great place to build a career.
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Project Superintendent
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The Ultimate Surf Guitar?
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A custom guitar builder using the nom de twangue of StewMade Guitars has combined the classic longboard with one of Leo Fender's finest to create what has to be the ultimate surf guitar!
Too too damn cool. If I could stand to play a Strat, I'd put something on the block tonight and give Senor StewMade at least two ringy-dingys!
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Year 2
Term 6 – By the Seaside
We've made it to term 6! Where has the time gone?
SATs are over and we have a sunny, summery topic to take us to the end of the school year. As well as geographical features of the coast we'll be thinking about our own holidays and trips to the beach and how the Victorians enjoyed the seaside. We will even be going on a trip to Weston-super-Mare! (Different classes will go on different days – details will follow soon).
Another highlight this term will be our Year 2 summer production: Pirates Versus Mermaids.
Summer's coming!
Homework Agreement Year 2 Term 6
Term 5 – A Bug's Life
The snow has gone and spring is here!
We are really looking forward to a science heavy term exploring nature. This week we have welcomed into school some new babies in the form of tiny caterpillars! Over just 5 days we have already seen them more than double in size and we are excited about observing the next stage in their journey to becoming butterflies. Thank you to all those of you who donated gardening resources. We have already started planting!
Term 4 – Superheroes
Welcome back! We hope you had a lovely half term. At least the sun came out eventually!
We are really excited about our topic this term. As well as giving our imaginations a chance to run free with invisibility powers and super-strength, we have a chance to consider what it means to be a truly super human being. We will learn about historical figures such as Emmeline Pankhurst and Martin Luther King who changed the course of history. We will encourage conversations about what is just and unjust and how we might choose to behave. We will also think those little acts we can commit every day that can help us be great. For example, asking our parents how they are or putting our own washing away! We can all be superheroes!
World book day: Thursday 1st March – dress up as a character from a book
Term 3 – Pole to Pole
Happy New Year! We hope you have had a wonderful break and are ready for some fun adventures in 2018.
This term we will be really thinking about our planet and learning about different climates and wildlife that can be found around the globe. We are looking forward to our trip to Bristol Aquarium as this will really help bring our learning to life. Children who have been on this trip before have found it very interesting and memorable. Details will follow in the new term.
We look forward to seeing you back on Wednesday 3rd January 2018.
Aquarium Trip Dates:
Monday 8th January – Amethyst
Monday 15th January – Topaz and Sapphire
Monday 22nd January – Emerald and Diamond
We are very excited about our 2 week free trial with the app DoodleMaths. Children are coming home with details of their personal usernames and passwords. They will also bring home the attached letter detailing how you can choose to extend their membership to a year. Challenge: Can you reach 100 doodlestars in 7 days?
Here is a taster video of what DoodleMaths offers.
Term 2 – Sweets Galore!
A huge thank you for such a great start to the school year! We all thoroughly enjoyed term 1 where we got to know each other while exploring dungeons, dragons and drawbridges. We not only managed an excellent trip to Farleigh Hungerford Castle but enjoyed a fine feast as well! Huzzah!
In Term 2 our topic is 'Sweets Galore'. Combine this with our author of the term 'Roald Dahl', and we have the perfect opportunity to read 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' and get our imaginations going in the 'inventing room'.
Term 1 – Across The Drawbridge
Welcome back everyone. We hope you all have had a great summer.
Our topic this term will be Castles and Dragons. Details of the curriculum are in our topic web:
If you have any questions about the start of term or how you can help your children at home, please do not hesitate to speak to child's class teacher.
Useful Information:
Please check your child's classroom door for swimming details.
- Amethyst and Diamond will swim on Wednesday mornings
- Topaz , Sapphire and Emerald will swim on Friday mornings.
If you are DBS checked and are able to help please sign up. We are always so grateful for your help and support and could not carry on without you!
Please make sure full PE kit is in school every day from the beginning of every term. We will send home reminder texts if kit isn't in school. Please ensure children have the correct kit, blue/black shorts and white/blue t-shirt, trainers or daps as well as jogging bottoms for colder weather.
Please make sure your child has a named pair of wellies to pop on the rack for our trips to the Playscape!
We would like bookbags in school every day as there will be more opportunities to read in school. Your child will still have a designated bookbag day when they will read to their class teacher or class TA and when books are changed. Please write a short comment in your child's yellow reading record to let us know how they are getting on! If you would like to support with reading in school please see you child's class teacher, we would be really grateful for extra help this year!
Homework will be starting in Week 3 and there will be a detailed outline in your child's homework book at the start of each term.
If you have any further queries or questions please do not hesitate to talk to your child's class teacher.
Thank you!
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Since first invented in Renaissance Italy, modern-day banking has been a face-to-face business. The early Venetian bankers conducted business across a bench or "banca" – hence the origin of the term. And ever since, the branch has been the cornerstone of the retail bank.
But now a revolution is underway which is fundamentally changing the way consumers interact with banks. It will spell the end of the branch network as we know it.
Today's branch networks, built up over decades and consisting solely of full service branches all offering the same services, are simply no longer affordable. According to Accenture research, 65% of banks' costs reside within distribution, such as the branch network and contact centers. Branch network costs add up to a staggering $500 billion a year for the world's 30 largest banks.
With margins squeezed by new waves of regulation, competition from non-traditional players and an uncertain economy, returns on equity are failing to cover the cost of capital in many cases. In short, banks can no longer avoid addressing the huge cost of physical branches.
Resizing branch networks, of course, is fraught with danger since branches remain popular with many customers. Surveys demonstrate that customers have a clear preference for face-to-face advice, and branches are still the most important channel for selling high-value products and services. Having a branch nearby is also one of the strongest factors in selecting a bank and until recently, banks were opening more branches – not closing them.
Faced with conflicting objectives – the need to significantly cut branch costs, improve service and maintain the role of the branch as a sales channel – banks need to adopt a new approach. It means the branch of tomorrow is going to look very different. It will be multichannel, digitalized, intelligent, personalized and much more efficient.
Banks will have different types of branches, tailored to the location and the function they serve. These will include kiosk stores found in malls and transport hubs, light and cashless branches relying heavily on automation and a smaller staff to engage in sales, branches focused on specific business segments such as small business customers, and flagship branches showcasing the bank's technology and brand.
There are lessons abroad for this. In Turkey, banks are rolling out advanced kiosks that provide a wide range of teller and sales services and video ATMs where customers can connect and transact with remote staff. UniCredit in Italy has announced plans to reformat three quarters of their branch network as either light or cashless branches. New Zealand's ASB has developed the first virtual branch on Facebook where customers can interact and conduct transactions.
These changes go far beyond a branch refit. They involve a fundamental redesign of the business model and the way customers experience the bank.
The potential savings for the industry are huge. Accenture estimates that streamlining the branch network, coupled with increased automation, could help banks reduce branch networks by 15% and cut staff in the branch network by up to one-third.
It will not be a painless process. Closing branches is often unpopular and attracts unwelcome publicity. Our experience suggests that when banks close branches as a result of mergers, 8% to 10% of retail branch deposits are lost to a competitor. Offsetting this concern, however, is the fact that consumers are rapidly adapting to the digital world. Indeed, studies indicate that increasing numbers of consumers – even older customers – now prefer to bank online.
The big challenge facing the industry is how to create an intelligent multi-channel bank. It can be done. USAA, for example, has virtually no branches but offers online and mobile access to financial advice and other services. American Express services customers via social media by linking customers' cards to their Facebook accounts to provide customized offerings based on spending, location and social media profile. Australia's Commonwealth Bank uses mobile technology to provide home-buying customers with information about housing market trends and mortgage products tailored to their needs.
The model for the future is simple: Provide easy access across physical and digital channels to pull in customers and strengthen relationships. Legacy branch networks and IT systems make it difficult for retail banks to change. But the need to cut costs and meet the threat from new competitors means that change they must.
Piercarlo Gera is a global managing director at Accenture and author of the recently published whitepaper "Banking 2016." Wayne Busch is managing director of Accenture's North America banking practice.


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East Asian Studies at IU
Keeping Students Engaged: Educating about Asia
Michael Robinson
Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures
Mike Robinson has won awards, grants, and residencies for his scholarship, but his work since joining IU has been defined by a focus on reaching out to students beyond his home department. He is the lead instructor of an EASC-sponsored graduate seminar on East Asian Studies Scholarship that uses video conferencing to bring University of Illinois students together with IU students and is a frequent lecturer at EASC's Teaching East Asian Literature in the High School workshop for high school teachers. In addition to numerous articles, Robinson has published two books and co-edited a third on the formation of modern Korea. His most recent book, Korea's Twentieth-Century Odyssey: A Short History, provides a concise but thorough introduction to his subject and was partly shaped by his determination to meet students' needs. "Students will always be students," he says, "but their habits of learning do change. How we reach, engage, and inspire students must change along with them."
Robinson puts his energy not only into educating people about Asia, but into taking them there as well. He has served as the faculty expert on EASC's National Consortium for Teaching about Asia (NCTA) study tours to Japan and Korea, helping middle and high school teachers understand how historical and present-day Japan and Korean relate to contemporary American culture and classrooms. Robinson has also led the EASC-sponsored Korean Business and Culture course and study tour to Seoul. For some students, the trip was the first time they had been on a plane and the first time they had traveled outside the United States.
Robinson's own research has moved from an interest in political texts and ideologies to a study of larger connections. He hopes to help students make a similar connection between ideology and global impact by showing them their place in the cultural web. "By unscrambling the mixture of culture within the familiar objects around us, we learn much about Asia," he says, "but we learn even more about ourselves and how the transnational flow affects our daily life."