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Lovehoney is an online retailer of sex toys and other adult products, and one which faces some unique challenges in its approaches to marketing and selling online.
I've been talking to Lovehoney director and co-founder Neal Slateford about the business...
How long has LoveHoney been trading?
We took our first order in April 2002 – there have been a lot of ups and downs since, but mostly ups. Sorry, I can't promise that will be the last innuendo of the interview.
How big is the team behind the site?
There are 35 people in the company, split roughly half and half between warehouse operations and people who support the website through programming, design, content management, photography, PR and buying.
Can you give us some idea of the size of your customer base / turnover etc?
Er, sorry no! But we sell more sex toys online than any other retailer in the UK. Even 'that' one.
What are the challenges you face that are unique to selling sex toys online?
Trust. People are very apprehensive about buying 'adult' toys on the Internet generally, partly because of the less than stellar reputation of some traditional adult shops and offline mail order operators in the past. It makes it incredibly important for us to demonstrate to potential customers that we are a reputable, reliable and trustworthy company.
Confusion. A lot of people who come to us don't really know what they want to buy - they just know that they want 'something' - so it's a big part of our job to help people understand what our products do and how they can benefit their sex lives.
Convention. A lot of conventional marketing channels that are open to 'normal' businesses are closed to us. I've lost count of the number of times we've suffered death-by-Powerpoint from ad networks who later decide they can't have us on the network because of the nature of our business. Do your research!
So we have to come up with more creative ways to get our message out there. It might be something we do on the LoveHoney website - like our Rabbit Amnesty sex toy recycling scheme, the UK Sex Map, the Love Bunnies Facebook app, the UK Sex Toy Awards, our Design A Sex Toy competition – or it might be creating innovative new products like iBuzz (the first (and much-copied) ipod vibrator), our Sqweel oral sex simulator and Death By Orgasm (a vibrator in a coffin? Why not?!). Plenty more coming this year (and next).
Do you have to walk a fine line to avoid being censored in searches / picked up by email spam filters etc?
Yes. Newsletters are a constant battle. As a retailer we struggle with words like 'free' and 'offer' anyway, but add some of our more challenging products to the mix and it can be a real headache. We had a hard time lately convincing Google that 'Sqweel' (our new oral sex simulator) really was an adult search term.
Also, we have a problem with nipples. Most women (and men) have them, but PayPal and Google AdWords won't allow us to show them. Actually, that's not quite true – Google AdWords allows them as long as they are behind a mesh material, but not actually naked.
How have you marketed the site? What has worked for you?
Word of mouth has been one of our biggest drivers. We strive to offer unbeatable customer service wherever we can. People like this, and they tell their friends. We also do a lot of PR. Our 'Rabbit Amnesty' sex toy recycling scheme was a big hit, and generated oodles of coverage, both online and offline.
For Sqweel, our unique-in-all-the-world oral sex simulator, we created a 30 second cinema trailer-style ad that went viral. Sqweel has had heaps of coverage; it's even been on ITV's This Morning this week!
You offer a lot of assurances about returns, why was this necessary?
We have always offered a generous returns policy. People are more likely to order if they are confident they won't have a problem returning stuff they don't want. Simple!
You have what looks to be a very active community section –do you convert many of these visitors into buyers?
It's normally the other way around - customers discover the community and forums after they have placed an order, so they tend to be some of our best customers anyway.
I've heard that you have an 'inches sold' KPI. Can you tell us more about that?
We have all sorts of weird and wonderful KPI's. We measure every sex toy we sell before we list them on the site, so from that, we can tell how many inches of dildos we sell every day. Most illuminating! We hope to turn it into some kind of visual barometer of the state of the nation's sexual health.
How has Twitter worked out for you so far? How do you approach Twitter?
We use Twitter for posting deals, notifying people when hot items are back in stock, and generally monitoring our market. We're definitely seeing an increase in referred traffic and sales from social media across the board. We want to be as close to our customers as possible.
What plans do you have for the company / website over the next 12 months?
We are in a very competitive market, so you'll forgive me for not saying too much. We have some very exciting plans. Everything we do comes from a desire to help our customers have better sex - and to have loads of fun doing it.
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Castlevania: Symphony of the Night OST Review by Diplo
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|1. Metamorphosis I
|2. Prologue
|3. Dance of Illusions
|4. Moonlight Nocturne
|5. Prayer
|6. Dracula's Castle
|7. Dance of Gold
|8. Marble Gallery
|9. Tower of Mist
|10. Nocturne
|11. Wood Carving Partita
|12. Door of Holy Spirits
|13. Festival of Servants
|14. Land of Benediction
|15. Requiem For the Gods
|16. Crystal Teardrops
|17. Abandoned Pit
|18. Rainbow Cemetery
|19. Silence
|20. Lost Painting
|21. Dance of Pales
|22. Curse Zone
|23. Enchanted Banquet
|24. Wandering Ghosts
|25. The Tragic Prince
|26. The Door to the Abyss
|27. Heavenly Doorway
|28. Death Ballad
|29. Blood Relations
|30. Metamorphosis II
|31. Finale Toccata
|32. Black Banquet
|33. Metamorphosis III
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astlevania: Bloodlines appeared on the scene with a fresh idea of how to get beyond the castle without compromising certain ideals. Despite the limitations of the system, the soundtrack was good - some of the very best to grace the series. Instead of continuing the poppy vibe of Rondo of Blood, there was a classical edge to the usually vigorous songs.
When Koji Igarashi took the reigns of Symphony of the Night, he felt it necessary to assemble a definable, tight team which would demonstrate the feeling he was aiming for. One of these two people was Michiru Yamane, the composer of Bloodlines and other games. Since then, she has been involved with each of Iga's releases, taking on the console ones by herself and the handhelds cooperatively.
There's a common belief that Symphony's music is the best of the best. While this is a hefty compliment towards Igarashi's selection, it's an enormous one for the creator. When people think of Castlevania, a concept that arrives almost immediately is the atmosphere: what is derived from what the players
see and hear. Put simply, the series has some of the best music in the format.
I'm not big on the idea of shrugging off the validity of music in videogames. The infancy of the medium betrays the possible beauty of its aesthetics, quite often, to the nonchalant observer. I can listen to Masashi Hamauzu and get just as much, if not more, out of his stuff than Chopin or Debussy.
So. The statement carries weight - the game's music is surpassingly brilliant.
Part of why Yamane's score for Symphony works so well is that she seemed to understand exactly what was going on, what the game meant in the face of its relations. The project represented a difference. In a sense, the songs had to be extraordinary because backtracking and exploring was an integral new feature. The compositions needed to maintain the player's interest in the times they got lost and had to go through places again, instead of complimenting a stage's singular and straightforward appearance.
Super Metroid, the inspiration for the change Iga brought about, has music that's often amorphous enough to get by for long periods of time without aggravating or getting in the way. Considering it and Symphony's aims, there are obvious disparities. SotN is so much more of a solid thing - but even so, the latter's accomplishment of ambience is even more remarkable because of how foundational its melodies are. Let's put it this way: it's much easier to become tired with a game whose music is vague than it is to play one whose music is right there. And Symphony doesn't smartly tread this fine line, but frees itself from it and has locales where you want to move around in them longer to hear the theme loop a few more times.
For a long time, Super Castlevania 4 was the only installment to possess so much diversity in its styling. An argument can be made, I suppose, for it being drab, thus canceling out the variance, but even so, SCV4 was trying out a bunch of things: overwhelming bass lines, jungle beats, weirdly dissonant pianos, free jazz, and occasionally almost no tunes. Even with the wide repertoire of sounds, an overarching theme of gloom was maintained. This is mainly what separates it and SotN, instrumentally - bizarreness and overcast ambience in comparison to largeness and elegant adventure.
Yamane brings back the attitude of Bloodlines, a particular Baroque resolve. "Prayer of a Tragic Queen" was very obviously meant to be a harpsichord piece, and "Wood Carving Partita" could be viewed as its follow-up. There is a moment of quiet restrain in the very beginning, as if the invisible players are warming up - then, a sparkling, succinct harpsichord emerges with sweeping curtains of strings flowing on either side of it. It's rife with an alluring, real sense of the past. Dusty, organic curls stream from its body.
Skipping ahead of 1997, I would say that sensibility, ancientness, has been missing from the handhelds. Yamane is capable of coming up with inventive catchiness, like "Subterranean Hell". Yet, usually even the best have an almost temporary outline, as if they're replicating instead of being part of an entity. Maybe it has to do with the downgrade in sound quality. Perhaps creakiness like Harmony is the only direction containing power for the series on a handheld as of yet. Circle hasn't aged wonderfully, and the Sorrow games are hassled by a cheap MIDI hum.
Feh. I guess all I can do is say, "Oh, well." It's bothersome. Harmony's graphics were strange enough for the score to work, but Aria and Dawn (mostly Aria), being more in line with SotN, are just incomplete without the same finesse and grandeur in their music. If there's good that comes of this, it is that Symphony is all the more unique.
So, that resolve I mentioned. Yamane sprinkles it around, twisting it to meet precise needs. "Finale Toccata" is like the more still sections of Bach's "Toccata and Fugue in D Minor." It's not triumphant, though - looming and twisted may be the best expression. There is a section that repeats two times, building up layers until there's a veritable storm of exigent strings, organ notes, drums, and epic vocals at the end. You can almost see rows of shadowed arches, statues, and piercing spires.
Herein this song, and a couple others, is one of the weak spots of the soundtrack. It's just there are too few of them in the Inverted Castle. "Finale Toccata" is the longest in the game, and it's great. But
when you hear it in five places, it loses strength. I appreciate the idea of making the Inverted more of a uniform concept, but after the prior assortment, it's not enough. A couple additions would have been propitious.
While on the topic of the alternate Castle, there's also "Lost Painting." If you'd hear it without having played SotN, you'd probably wonder how it'd work in the context of Dracula's abode. Weirdly enough, it's one of the most cognizant and remarkable. The echoing, unreal breadth and air of the Inverted Caverns and Anti Chapel are mirrored in the lovely, bell-like instruments, soft beat, and wavering strings that all chime and drip up and down. This is a masterpiece. It conjures the imagery of its tiers conversing with one another in a wonderfully mesmerizing fashion.
The Inverted's other two new anthems are wildly chaotic. Despite not being ones I listen to outside of play, "Door of Holy Spirits" and "Curse Zone" are undoubtedly some of the most unnerving songs to make their way into the series. The former bleeds a hellish heat while the other recalls portions of the crazy "The Discolored Wall."
A drastic opposite, "Requiem for the Gods", from the Royal Chapel, is singularly halcyon, starting with a reflective choir, delving into an elite, judgmental tone when the drums and violins kick in, and one of valiance and redemption at the arrival of the high pitched organ. The feeling of the impossibly long staircase and stratospheric towers, of going somewhere, is fabulously symbolized.
Right next to the chapel is the Castle Keep. A transition is made, in all things, from the holy to the ominous. The interestingly named "Heavenly Gateway" welcomes its guests with a wretched cello and uneasy strings. Quickly, the pace is picked up with a beat, grim piano, and interjecting harpsichord as the violins return to play variations on the initial melody. Michiru knows exactly what she's doing as she contributes one of the series' spookiest songs, one that seemingly wails and slithers at its strongest point.
For all of its achievements in sound, Castlevania isn't the thing to look to when you want consistently good battle music. SotN doesn't revolutionize in this area; and it doesn't matter so much, since the fights in the game are very inconsequential.
They're (almost) all well suited, at least. "Black Banquet" has a pleasingly impetuous and heavy attitude. There's a remix of Richter's theme with "Opposing Bloodlines." "Festival of Servants" and "Death Ballad" are suitably fierce.
Honestly, the vocals in "Enchanted Banquet" imply a bit of brain damage. But, it's okay. You'll probably kill the Succubus before you hear the voice gurgle out most of her stuff.
So, Rika Muranaka and Cynthia Harrell are responsible for "I am the Wind." Its existence is baffling. The adventure is over, and?smooth jazz with singing that is "soulful"? Sure, bring on the unexpected, but, uh . . . make it compliment the rest. I'd have probably preferred something along the lines of "Evergreen." Maybe a piano and violin duet. Still, it's not bad. I do wonder what the team was thinking.
As eclecticism is a big part of the whole, here, it goes without saying that there's some pretty eccentric content. "Marble Gallery" is rather difficult to explain. I think the only comparable arrangement in video-game music would be that ditty you hear when you're in certain shops of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time - the one of the Poe hunter, in particular. The sharpness of the drums and the fuzzy, sci-fi-ish main synth organize a substantially close, puzzling, and cultish ambiance.
Being one of the first songs I heard from Symphony, "Crystal Teardrops" has remained one of my very favorites, not just for the memories, but also for how truly good it is. A jazzy bass and falling strings set an
impeccable aura for the icy Underground Caverns. Everything about it is cool, from the warped drums to the mellow organ. A perfect location to occupy is found - not quick, and not detached.
"Rainbow Cemetery"'s swirly tone and kind of tribal rhythm would, like others, make you expect it to not function in the game's world (in the Catacombs, no less), and similarly, once you encounter the full deal you can't imagine anything else. Chattering bongos and looping instruments bring about a cold, darkly celebratory sensation that is unrepeated.
"Theme of Simon," "Beginning," "Bloodlines" - since their first game, Castlevania fans have been greeted by tunes that grip them by their shoulders and speak exactly what they want to hear. "Dracula's Castle" swoops in with curvy synths and a guitar, imitating the wind and thunder. Michiru then goes full force with a flexuous progression of horror-shaded notes, breaking away at the glorious climax for a brief reprieve of a far-off organ and twinkling sounds before slamming you right back into gravity.
Yamane has said that "Dance of Pales" is the song she is most satisfied with on the OST. It's not hard to see why. It has the initial delicacy of, say, "Ghostly Theatre" without any dramatic explosions. An illustrious piano courts the far off brass and woodwinds, and later gives way to encompassing strings. They are not there, but I can visualize stylishly dressed ghosts aerially waltzing to the music in Olrox's Quarters. While high-class, the composition stays true to the nocturnal mindset of Symphony and sinks the listener into a still ballroom of blackness.
Speaking of "Ghostly Theatre" : it's really the only environmental, orchestral theme of Iga's console games since 1997 that lacks a back-up beat. In this respect, SotN is all the more unique for having things like "Dance of Gold" and "Tower of Mist." Of course, there is a differing aim to be appreciated in the thumping "Garden Forgotten by Time," for instance, but, I must admit - I have a preference for the more ruminative and dignified mood Symphony's arrangements bring from their lack of aggressiveness.
Here is a game that created a whole new legion of fans and reinvigorated a number of old-timers. Many players remember innumerable things about it - but a point of common return is invariably the music. A team possessing such inspired artistic creativity has arguably never been seen since, or before. The composer is deserving of every bit of praise she gets, even if it is only for this.
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In spite of the fact that me and my family would be vulnerable to these illnesses, it is a session of numbers. It will be the whole world or a couple million, fortunately despite everything we have sufficient time to play safe yet in this situation I question the government would concede their corruption however I consider this to be a major probability soon.
Redistribution of wealth messes with that system, especially when it's mandatory. IE, stop stealing from people only to give to other people and maybe they'll stop having kids they can't afford to support unless they steal even more from other people. This would have a wonderful bonus effect of lowering prices (less demand).
First of all that will contradict the amazing things we have accomplished in the medical field. We developed medicines for a reason; if western killing people by weaponized disease it will undo what we did for ourselves in the first place. Secondly, weaponized disease is uncontrollable! There is no way to tell who is going to live or die, so it may make more problems then we had begun with. The main reason for population control is the lack of food and space. However, researchers are forgetting one big thing: the waters! 71 percent of Earth's surface is covered in water. That's a lot of space and food.
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I am curious ... does it matter that he just appeared in Avengers? Do we have to know what happened in between the two films or does that have to be explained in the new Thor pic? Is it better or worse from a fan standpoint to have them start the next film from the end of the Avengers and just not tell us what happened? I would like them to pick up and explain but at the same time it doesn't really matter does it?
Well, what happened in The Avengers affected every character in big, BIG ways. I'm pretty sure every phase 2 film will definitely acknowledge those events to an extent, probably Cap 2 the most though.
"I knew there was something wrong. It just took a while to dawn on me, or maybe I was just afraid to think it, but... you survived the destruction because you caused it. Raina wasn't the only one changed in there, and I'm pretty sure the DNA results that I'm running right now will confirm that there's nothing wrong with the data in my head Skye. There's something wrong with you."
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My youngest decided he wanted new slippers and they had to be orange and he needed to wear them in bed ... tall order wee man.
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Big hook and double DK wool for speed and here they are. After making these orange ones the older one decided he wanted some too, only in red. No problem, time to run thru the pattern again. Funny thing is that even though there is 16 months between them (Feb 07 and June 08) they have EXACTLY the same foot size (6.5inch long and 7inch around the toejoin).
So this pattern is currently only for a UK kids size 10 to 10.5 for the moment, and with a bit of info from some friends I'll hopefully get other sizes sorted
Until then add or subtract a stitch or two or row or two to get a size to fit and please comment cos any other sizes help would be great :D. Feel free to ask and I could give a guestimate, much better to test on little feeties to be sure as it's easy to add an extra row at the back to make them longer.
The baffies are worked in the amigurumi style of a spiral (work into next stitch without slipping to join row and no chainup to next) to the opening, then back and forth so only a back seam to sew
5.5mm crochet hook, Double Knitting Yarn in either 2 shades, or 1 shade held together, large eyed needle for sewing up. worked in sc (american single crochet or uk double crochet)
HOW make 2 identical
Holding 2 strands together chain 2
Work 8sc into the 2nd chain from hook
Increase in each stitch - 16sc
work (1sc, increase) around - 24sc
Work 14 rounds straight on the 24 stitches.
NR - chain 1 turn, work 22sc (leaves 2sc on previous round unworked), chain 1 turn
NR - sc along the 22 stitches, chain 1 turn
work last row a further 6 times (total of 8 rows worked flat)
NR - work 8 sc, decrease, 2 sc, decrease, 8sc - 20sc
NR - work 8sc, decrease, decrease, 8sc - 18sc
NR - work 7sc, decrease, decrease, 7sc - 16sc ... fasten off leaving a long thread to close seam.
fold back seam in half and sew the two sides together to make the back seam. neaten all ends.
It should look similar to this
Make another exactly the same and you should have this
Pop them onto little feeties like this


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Has anyone heard of the RAVE diet?
Does anyone have more information on the RAVE diet, or eating correctly..
What is the Rave Diet? It is an old-fashioned, plant-based, whole foods diet based exclusively on whole fruits, vegetables, grains, nuts and seeds and offers literally thousands of food choices. It is derived from very simple dietary rules doctors use to successfully treat and reverse a wide range of diseases, particularly our number one killer, cardiovascular disease. In fact, it is endorsed by doctors from The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, who are interviewed in the Eating DVD, one of whom reversed severe heart disease by following The Rave Diet.
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WOW - That is a GREAT Avatar.
I forgot to add - If you have health issues, try to stay completely away all canned / boxed foods. If you want soup, go out and get the materials. Same for everything else. It may cost you an extra couple of dollars, but no doubt you will save that much from visits to the doctors.
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This RAVE diet sounds great. I am going to check it out for sure. I learned to prepare meals and stock my kitchen along those lines from my Grandmother so I am excited to learn more.
I posted this yesterday re: chemicals in our food yesterday if you are interested.
Originally posted by Frater210
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ThinkingCap has given excellent advice. Depending on how your dad reacts to Dairy you may consider adding some cheese to the lunch menu. Get a Crockpot from Target or Walmart and start to get some recipes together. Slow cooked meals are nourishing on many levels. For instance 3lbs of chicken breasts just covered with salsa verde and slow cooked on low for about 6 hours will blow your mind.
No crash or weird diets. Stick with the good stuff.
Also plenty of water between meals. Water is super important. If you want to add a supplement I would recommend any pea and rice based protein and definitely 'Source of Life' whole food vitamins; the Gold version if you can get it. Expensive but worth every penny.
P.S. chicken recipe above is for shredded chicken meat. When it is finished you pull it apart with forks like any pulled meat. Then get some good corn tostadas. It is the food of the Gods.
Wishing you all the best of health.edit on 30-4-2011 by Frater210 because: Tostadas ta da!


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Saturday, 26 January 2013
Ordo Malleus Navigator
Ive had a distinct lack of painting time over the last couple of weeks, but I did make some progress and finish this navigator/astropath miniature. Hes a diminutive little chap, but surprisingly time consuming to paint. Again I think another great sculpt of a interesting part of the 40k background.
Next up a group shot of the inquisition mini's ive painted so far, ordo hereticus on the left and Malleus on the right. On the far left is the first of my Cadian special security detachment, there will be five in total as a bodyguard for my Ordo Hereticus Inquisitor, in the best tradition of captain kirks endless supply of nameless red shirted ensigns to get killed on away team jaunts "Hes dead, Jim!" All five are assembled and in various stages of paint, and I have a Metal Ordo Malleus Inquisitor undercoated and waiting for some attention, but my astral claws need some love, and the unbuilt chimera box that I need to finish my Lancers infantry platoon is staring me in the face, so at the moment im not really sure what will be next.
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Wednesday, November 09, 2016
Wednesdays with Words: Hardly a Ripple
We are two chapters from the end of The Singing Tree, the sequel to The Good Master by Kate Seredy. The Good Master was a little more fun with happy stories about managing a family and farm in Hungary. This book, while also quite good, is more involved with events of the day - well, of the First World War and it's effects on that farm.
Father goes to war, Jancsi runs the farm. Death, danger, and struggle are intermingled with successes and joys. The "family" grows to include POWs and neighbors, Father returns in a surprising way. They begin to live as though in their own little island; just them with little interference from the outside.
It reminds me of the Jews in exile in Babylon - build homes, plant gardens, live at peace. The Nagy family (and extended family) attempts to live a quiet, peaceful life in the midst of turmoil. From time to time, that turmoil affects them:
They are calm. They are at peace within their lives. The things that look so big to the world, are not big in their day to day and therefore cause 'hardly a ripple.' What does cause a ripple in their lives is an opportunity to serve others - to expand their hearts to host others who need an oasis in the storm.
A dear friend of mine who has an outgoing personality and is an excellent instructor once told me that she struggled with the passage admonishing women to have a "gentle, and quiet spirit." This lady is so gentle, but as a gifted teacher and counselor, quiet is not the word she would choose to describe herself and didn't see that she could become so. She later learned, however, that the "quiet" in the passage was more calm, collected, settled, unflappable. It is a spirit that doesn't flit about with every passion or wave. It is a life where we do - as Carol says - the next right thing. It is a life where withered leaves cause hardly a ripple.
Seredy uses this beautiful simile to show us how to seek the welfare of our city while living a quiet, peaceful life. A lesson all of us could use in these challenging days and the ones to come. There is, truly, nothing new under the sun.
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I love this. This bit, especially: "Into the quiet pool of respite from worry..." This is exactly what a home should be, what I want my own home to be for my family. I have been contemplating rest a lot lately and what it means and how exactly one does it :D and this goes right along with what's going on in my head.ReplyDelete
We just finished reading The Good Master and are about to start The Singing Tree as a part of our Artios curriculum. I honestly didn't know what it was about so thanks for the great summary! I also love your thoughts about quiet not being about volume but about calm and steady. That is a great reminder. Thanks for continuing to host all of us!ReplyDelete
Lovely quote, Dawn. I've known people who've struggled with the same thing as your friend and I agree, it really is a heart attitude and a person with an outwardly quiet demeanour, with the wrong motivation could be quietly manipulative, while an extroverted 'louder' personality may have a quiet heart. It's interesting when your children are a mix of louds & quiets...ReplyDelete
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Its Hard to be Good
The Kenya National Commission on Human Rights ('KNCHR') has come of age. The past eight years of the Commission's existence have witnessed remarkable milestones in the never-flagging national aspiration of ensuring that Kenyans have effective exercise of their human rights; and the Commission has played essential roles in facilitating this progress. Yet coming of age has had its ups and downs, and its high as much as low points. KNCHR has withstood and perhaps paradoxically prospered as an independent, determined and dedicated human rights institution.
Keeping the focus: A human rights agenda
The Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR) congratulates Kenyans for turning out in large numbers and peacefully exercising their democratic right to vote. KNCHR further congratulates all elected leaders as they assume office.
KNCHR wishes to call upon the new Government to ensure that the aspirations of Kenyans as eloquently pronounced in the Constitution of Kenya, 2010 are actualized by addressing the following concerns:


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Jun 19, 2013
MailChimp's API, V2
New MailChimp—AKA: Chinchilla—is here. (OK, so maybe only one other person calls it chinchilla.) Coincidentally (a coincidence since this has nothing to do with that), we've also released a totally re-architected version 2 of our API. The version 1.x series has proven plenty useful for years, but it's old and was built before most modern principles of API design really caught on. Our major goals while revamping the API were:
- Be more RESTful, but not totally, because that's just annoying
- Better standardization and extensibility of inputs and outputs
- Clean out old cruft
- Match the app and other general improvements
The first thing to keep in mind while reading this is that, as you continually say to yourself, "Duh, why didn't you do that before?" remember that API functionality typically needs to be backwards compatible, and stay stable across major versions. In other words, consider the effect some of these changes would have on existing code if we just changed stuff. Which is to say: none of this applies to v1 of the API! All right. Onward!
(Alternately: tl;dr: RTFM!)
More RESTful
We're by no means REST purists, so we've implemented the principles that we like the most and eschewed the ones we kind of hate (like "proper" verbs). First and foremost, proper HTTP response codes. In the version 1.x series, any call to a valid API endpoint/method would return a 200/OK (unless we really had broken something good [thankfully that rarely has ever happened]), even if an error actually occurred. Now, any time we're returning an error, you're going to get a 500 response code and the response body will contain the details of the error. Many folks will recognize this makes error handling even easier since you don't have to parse a response body to figure out what happened even though you'll probably eventually want to. For anyone who had noticed/relied on our X-MailChimp-API-Error-Code (that contains the error code that's in the response body), fret not—it's still there, too. One exception to this rule is that the various batch methods will always be returning a 200 with error codes inside them—not really anything we could do there. Anywho, then, as you'd expect, calls that work without error will return you a nice 200 response and you can deal with whatever they send back.
Next up, the URL structures are vastly different. Version 1 documentation always split methods up into various categories (List Related, Campaign Related, etc.) and used funky camelCasedMethodNames (that weren't always even consistent—yes, we're looking at you, xxxAIM methods [more on those later, too!]) and generally required you to always pass said method name via the "method" GET parameter (please don't use XML-RPC). So silly. Things have been moved around, renamed, namespaced, and generally made to make more sense. GET parameters are no more (we're begrudgingly going to support them because POSTing is "hard"), but would generally rather they not be used. Because POSTing really isn't hard. The URLs also match some of the app's URL schemes a bit more closely, which we hope proves a tad helpful. Some examples, you say? Sure:
If you've worked with the Mandrill API, that should seem eerily familiar. Good! Lastly, and this really has nothing to do with REST, but API v2 is HTTPS-only.
Standardization and extensibility
I like big words. That really just means be less dumb and give ourselves room to expand so that less dumb has to be done in the future. Version 1 of the API has (jankily) supported POSTing JSON objects in lieu of using serialized HTTP parameters for quite a while. Why jankily? Because you had to urlencode them (don't ask). That was unnecessary, and version 2 removes that. JSON objects, of course, must still be POSTed (but you're POSTing any way, right? RIGHT?). Serialized HTTP parameters are certainly still supported as input parameters as well (and you should POST them!). JSON as an output format was even more janky because we weren't paying attention when it was implemented. How so? The JSON standard—and thus, most libraries that implement it—does not like scalar values (makes sense, they aren't objects or collections), such as the tons of places v1 would just return a boolean or string value. Of course, PHP on the other hand, turns out to be totally cool with encoding/decoding a pure scalar value (it doesn't, it just passes them around), and that's what we failed to pay attention to. Whoops. That's fixed—every return value is either a struct or an array.
Which segues nicely into this: A longtime pain point has been that languages of the programming variety don't call the same/similar data structures the same things. We often tended to just go with calling everything arrays the way PHP does. It might be an array or it might be an associative array (hashmap, struct, dictionary, tuple, and on and on and on), and that confused/frustrated folks, especially when they didn't look at raw data being returned (no one does that). There's only so much that can be done about that, but we're trying really hard in the documentation to consistently call things in these manners when describing input/output values:
- Arrays will be pure arrays that just contain a bunch of items (no keys!).
- Structs will be key=>value pairs (associative arrays, dicts, hashmaps, whatever).
- And, of course, arrays may contain structs and structs may contain arrays.
Next up, we've moved to using more nested input parameters where possible. For one example, where "start," "limit," "sort_field," and "sort_dir" previously had been listed as separate parameters, we've often collapsed them into an "opts" struct. The point there is to make huge method signatures a bit smaller (which really just matters in API wrapper-land) and make it significantly easier to drop new options in without affecting signatures and the such. In other words: we're lazy.
Finally, we started working on getting you more data in a more standard fashion (more on this in a minute). What that means is where we may have just returned a single email address alongside report data, we're now going to dump out a full member profile record (this is basically what you get from the v1.3 listMemberInfo() call). Ditto for campaigns and places that may have just returned a campaign ID instead of a full set of campaign data (for example, searchCampaigns()).
Clean up time!
This is partly just an extension of everything already said. However! As mentioned above, HTTPS will be required—no more HTTP-only support. The ridiculous API Key "security related" methods that never should have been added in the first place will not be making an appearance. If you ever wanted to get, say, the members who opened a campaign, you would have found yourself using the oddly name campaignOpenedAIM() method. Wait. AIM? What in the world is that? Well, that is the very definition of old, old, old cruft. Many moons ago, A.I.M. stood for "Actionable Intelligence and Metrics," and was actually a paid add-on. Then we and our servers grew up some, renamed that to the more sensible, less-obtuse "Subscriber Activity," and made the data free. As it should be. Because it is yours. That's my long-winded way of saying that, in v2, you'll now be calling the more reasonably named /2.0/reports/opened method. This is pretty minor, but if you've ever left off basic required parameters you'd be presented with a -99/XML_RPC2_Exception error code. That's now going to be a more logical ValidationError/-100. The actual error message text being returned will still generally be the same and explain issues in detail as would be expected.
Match the app + improvements
One of the most amusing things is the number of times people believe that the API is some magical thing that lets you do all sorts of crazy stuff that our service doesn't support or can end-run how things work. Ha. Nope. Our API—just like most any you'd run into—is generally meant for automating what you can do inside the app. But you knew that. V1 mostly does match what you can do in the app, but over the years things change and can fall out of line a bit. It's also infinitely easier to drop a UI change on folks since there's little-to-no need for considering backwards compatibility—and that happens.
Not so much with the API. But with a sparkly new one, we can kind of do whatever we want. So, first up was to match the various "data tables" folks are used to seeing in the app. Using our new /reports/opened call as an example, where it used to simply return an email address and the number of opens, it's been expanded to return the number of opens and that entire member profile data structure previously mentioned as well as allowing the same sorting as the app. Ditto for the other "subscriber activity" report data plus the lists/members call (that's been a pain point for a while). However, due to returning WAY more data along with increased load from the potential heavy lifting of sorting, those methods are also now going to be limited to a max of 100 records (where they previously were at 15,000). Part of the hope with that, as well, is that people will stop trying to use them for doing huge syncs since we have our lovely Export API for that.
Next, you may remember that we launched ACL/multi-user accounts/permissions/whatever support back in v8. Since then, however, only logins with the admin/owner permissions actually had API access. Version 2 changes that in a number of ways. First, where our OAuth2 implementation would not allow logins with viewer/editor/manager roles to "log in," that restriction is being removed. API Keys/tokens issued will now be tied to those logins (so we know what permission level they have), and API methods have been limited to appropriate roles based on how they work in the app. Which is to say: a viewer has access to reports/opened , but most certainly not to lists/members or campaigns/create. Second, there are a number of new users/* methods that will allow admins and owners to manage the logins with access to an account via the API should someone want to do that. So, whee.
Another pain point that required some significant changes was how our "unique" IDs worked for accessing/changing/etc. list member data. Basically, it's always been unique to an email address, not to your list member, so they were useless for scenarios where you wanted something truly unique to a member that wouldn't change (like when changing email addresses). We've always had something that would work for that, but it's now clearly exposed, and the majority of places an email address or unique ID would previously have passed will now accept that. You'll also find we've explicitly defined a standard struct for passing that data. The last big win here was redoing how merge_vars are passed in lists/batch-subscribe and lists/subscribe. Essentially what you'll find is that lists/batch-subscribe takes an incredibly more sane data structure for defining those things and that it, list/subscribe, and list/update-member get these nifty modifications:
- GROUPINGS will now be passed in a pretty array/struct setup—no more crazy, potentially escaped comma delimited strings. That's a general change we're aiming for across the API.
- MC_NOTES will now allow passing multiple notes to add/change/delete/etc. rather than a single one. Previously multiples could be done in one call via listBatchSubscribe, but this makes that slightly easier.
There you have it: a pretty comprehensive overview of how and why we've re-architected the API and what to expect. API v2 is now fully available, and we'll start posting detailed change logs for methods and such soon. As with any code changes this massive and completely new, we've slapped a nice little beta type tag on it and will not immediately commit to anything changing for a few weeks as people poke and prod it and yell at us about things we missed or screwed up. That said, it's certainly been going through tons of internal testing, so we're not anticipating too much of that, though we'd asinine to believe it won't happen. If you'd like to follow along, subscribe to the API Announcement Group, the API Support Group, or keep an eye on our @MailChimp_API twitter account for updates and announcements about v2.
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According to the 1983 Code of Canon Law, all the days of Lent (ie excluding Sundays and solemnities) are, like all Fridays throughout the year, days of penance. Traditionally, this meant that they were all days of fasting and partial or full (on Fridays) abstinence. These days fasting and abstinence are only required on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday, and some other penance can be substituted on other days.
Still, fasting is the traditional discipline, so we should perhaps give it serious consideration in considering our options. Thus, it may be helpful to look at what St Benedict envisaged his monks would do during Lent.
Food in the Rule during the year
St Benedict's monks lived a fairly tough regime by modern standards (though not by contemporary ones) when it came to food.
For much of the year, they ate only one meal a day, and although wine, fish and fowl were allowed, red meat wasn't.
Still, it wasn't as tough as it might have been - St Benedict specifies providing a choices of dishes so that everyone could eat something they like for example.
And on 'monastic fast days' what changes is the time that the meal was served (so on Wednesdays and Fridays from noon to mid-afternoon after None), not the amount served. Fasting in the Rule is about refraining from food for a longer period of time, not changing what is eaten or how much is eaten.
St Benedict also made it clear that there should be some flexibility, for example when more was warranted because of the demands of heavy labour.
It is important to note though, that in the Rule he distinguishes (albeit in passing, in reference to guests) between the monastic fasts, and those imposed by the Church for all. The Rule covers off the monastic fasts, but doesn't deal with the generally applying rules at all, it just assumes that they apply.
Meals during Lent in the Rule
So the Rule makes only two provisions for fasting during Lent:
- the one meal served is to be taken in the evening (Chapter 41); and
- abstinence in food and drink is mentioned as one of the possible things that the monk could offer (with the abbot's approval) over above their usual ascetic practices (Chapter 49).
Fasting rules over time
Over the history of the Church, few disciplines have changed as much as those relating to fasting!
Although its value as an ascetic practice has always been emphasized, what is actually required of both monks and laity has changed substantially, with numerous concessions to weakness granted at various times.
Fasting for example, is now generally defined as a reduction in the amount eaten, rather than a delayed meal as in the Rule. In the 1917 Code of Canon Law, while the Fridays of Lent required fasting and abstinence, the other days were of fasting and partial abstinence (ie one meat meal permitted). And today of course, fasting and abstinence are only required on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday, with all other Fridays (as always) days of abstinence.
So what can/should we do?
Whatever we give up has to be doable - which means a step up from whatever it is we normally do, but not an altogether radical change in our regime.
The 1917 regime is probably within most families' reach.
Or one could adapt some of St Benedict's provisions.
St Benedict for example shifts the one meal a day from after None of the 'monastic Lent' that applies from November until Lent proper, to the evening. So perhaps we could consider shifting our usual lunchtime to a few hours later where that is feasible, or something similar for the evening meal depending on when we normally eat it.
We could certainly consider cutting out meat (with appropriate care, particularly for women, to making sure we get enough iron etc) and alcohol.
And we could cut out food between meals, deserts and other treats...


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There's a scenic, two-acre corner of The Cannery District in downtown Lindale that is going to the dogs, and that's a good thing.
A new dog park and dog adoption center will be located in the northeast section of the retail and entertainment district, thanks to the efforts of Chad Franke, owner of The Cannery District, Greater Good.org's Rescue Rebuild and Miranda Lambert's MuttNation Foundation.
Things got moving – literally – this past week when a century-old house, which will eventually be a dog adoption center, was moved to its permanent location in the middle of what will become the dog park.
Work is currently under way on the dog park and adoption house, and the public is invited to get involved by volunteering in the actual work or by making a cash donation to help defray costs for materials.
The house was purchased by The Cannery and donated to the cause.
"Because of our love for the Lambert family and Miranda's MuttNation Foundation, we knew immediately that we wanted to be a part of this project,'' Franke said. "Donating this house was The Cannery Lindale's way of supporting such a worthy cause in our hometown.''
Lambert's father Rick was on hand (along with his rescue dog Roadie) to observe the house being moved.
"This is going to be the diamond in the ring of Lindale,'' he said. "We intend on making this a social place not just for dogs but for humans as well.''
Lambert noted that when The Cannery was in the planning stages, it was going to be necessary to offer amenities favored by millennials. Dog parks, along with walking trails (already in place just to the south of where the dog park will be) entertainment venues and restaurants are key elements in attracting new families to Lindale.
The Pink Pistol, which was the first business to move to The Cannery, is owned and operated by the Lamberts. He said the dog park has provided a different kind of thrill.
"I'm more excited about this than when I've opened a business,'' he said.
The design of the adoption house will follow a railroad theme, since rail cars used to stop in approximately the same location to load and unload fruit and vegetables at the cannery decades earlier.
Tyler Junior College's North Campus, located just across the parking lot from the dog park, will also be involved by donating its Vet Tech services and by helping the dogs in the adoption house become inside dogs.
Lindale city officials have also gotten on board with the project. Phase one of the dog park/adoption house will be completed in the coming weeks and Phase Two will be finished in the spring after a matching state grant is secured.
City Manager Carolyn Caldwell was also on hand for the house moving activities. She noted that the adoption house will help ease one of the city's ongoing burdens with strays.
"This is certainly going to help with our stray dog problem,'' she said. "People don't realize that we handle more than 370 stray dogs a year.''
Franke echoed those sentiments.
"The Cannery Lindale is excited to be a part of this worthwhile endeavor to keep strays off the streets and to provide a place for our local citizens to have a safe place to take their dogs, where they can run and play in safety,'' he said. "The new adoption center will provide Lindale with a centralized location for finding homes for deserving pets.''
According to information from its web site, Greater Good.org "supports thousands of shelters and rescue groups all over the world through the various programs aimed at improving the lives of homeless pets as well as the lives of shelter workers and volunteers. Rescue Rebuild is a community-driving volunteer program of GreaterGood.org that works to rebuild, repair and renovate animal shelters and rescues in need.''
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PDE Seminar
Tuesday, September 20, 2016 - 15:00
1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Skiles 006
Michigan State University
We investigate Lipschitz maps, I, mapping $C^2(D) \to C(D)$, where $D$ is an appropriate domain. The global comparison principle (GCP) simply states that whenever two functions are ordered in D and touch at a point, i.e. $u(x)\leq v(x)$ for all $x$ and $u(z)=v(z)$ for some $z \in D$, then also the mapping I has the same order, i.e. $I(u,z)\leq I(v,z)$. It has been known since the 1960's, by Courr\`{e}ge, that if I is a linear mapping with the GCP, then I must be represented as a linear drift-jump-diffusion operator that may have both local and integro-differential parts. It has also long been known and utilized that when I is both local and Lipschitz it will be a min-min over linear and local drift-diffusion operators, with zero nonlocal part. In this talk we discuss some recent work that bridges the gap between these situations to cover the nonlinear and nonlocal setting for the map, I. These results open up the possibility to study Dirichlet-to-Neumann mappings for fully nonlinear equations as integro-differential operators on the boundary. This is joint work with Nestor Guillen.


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I am where I am
Thoughts, Views and Occasional Wanderings
Monday, May 23, 2016
Leaving 2.0
Tuesday, April 28, 2015
Perceptions (What I Learned From a Bunch of High School Students)
Monday, December 22, 2014
All Is Well (Christmas 2014)
Tuesday, November 25, 2014
Moments Of Clarity
(Originally posted on 6/17/10)
Movies, books, plays and even great songs have them-those moments when everything changes. Someone figures it out. Someone makes a move. It might be Sherlock Holmes putting all the clues together, or when Harry finally realizes he should have been with Sally a long time ago-a really long time ago. Maybe it was the first time Superman realized he was able to "leap tall buildings in a single bound," or when Will realizes he should go see about a girl, or...well, the list goes on and on. Moments. Moments when everything changes.
This is story. Something inside of us relates to it. Buried in our DNA is a connection to the arc of a story. Writers didn't invent these ideas. They respond to them. Think about your own life. What if there were never any conflicts or tough decisions? What if there weren't any times of struggle or loneliness? It sounds great on the surface, but it would be, in reality, a terribly boring life. Without struggle, we wouldn't understand accomplishment, or the feeling of winning. Without conflicts, we would all think exactly the same way, at the same time. Without tough decisions, we wouldn't know courage or gain experience. Without loneliness, we wouldn't know how incredible companionship is.
The problem is, we don't always realize we're in these moments. We tend to stroll through life, dealing with issues as they come, trying to smooth everything out, so that we can get to our two week vacation to Disneyland. We don't listen to the cues that life gives us. We miss the subtle whispers nudging us to go somewhere, to change course, or to sit still.
We end up living decent lives, but not great lives, not the lives we dreamed of when we were kids. Don't you remember? Maybe you were supposed to be a fireman or an astronaut. Maybe you daydreamed of being a ballerina, a football player, a missionary, or president.
Perhaps, you were supposed to be a musician and writer. You were going to tour the world and write songs that would race up the charts. I was. I used to escape the world around me when I closed my eyes. The darkness would turn to pictures of me singing in front of thousands. Of course, in many of my "visions", after achieving fame, I would develop a drug problem and become suicidal. Only my inner circle of real friends could help me come back. Then, I would return to greater stardom than before. You know VH1 Behind The Music style.
Anyway, I think I wrote my first real song at 11, but I had been putting on concerts in my house long before that. Music, acting and writing were everything. So much so, one of my majors in college was music. I moved to Nashville in 1995 and everything was working. I recorded an album, performed all over the place. Beyond just the music and all that, I genuinely wanted to change the world. I wanted to make things better. The problem was that throughout the years, I had developed huge fear. No one knew it really; not even me. I also got real comfortable and developed some habits that shouldn't have come until after I was famous. I was a kid who grew up with very little and now I had pretty much everything I wanted. So, I exchanged my dreams for comfort. I pushed things aside to have friends, things, strangers' respect and, of course, a girl. I'm not diminishing my life. This is not a sad story. This isn't about my career choices. I just want to illustrate a point. I've done good things in my life so far. I ran a group home for kids in need. I've counseled hundreds of people through the toughest and greatest times of their lives. I have great friends and family. And, I've been so fortunate to start recording and performing again over the past few years. Life is good. But there could have been greatness. Thanks to grace, there still can be. I see fantastic things coming. I've completed a book that is going through the editing process. My speaking schedule is full, taking me just about everywhere. I can't think of a time when I was so completely prolific in my songwriting. I'm ready to find my other half. Life is a good thing and I am greatly loved.
But, what if I had stayed on my original course? What if I never stopped? Where would I be? What if I had listened along the way to those whispers, and sometimes shouts? I've been taking inventory of my life, trying to learn from my good decisions and bad decisions. From this vantage point, it's all completely obvious what I should have done. Yet, I didn't.
But, I did wake up. It started in 2002. I was attacked in my home when a client came into my bedroom and tried to kill me. Imagine waking up to a fireplace poker missing your face by less than an inch. I fought off my attacker for about 30 minutes and ran out the front door in my boxers. You'd think I would have heard that cue. But, I didn't right away. I'm sort of slow like that. But, something started happening in 2005. I started coming back to life. I was writing, recording...living. I even had a spiritual awakening after years of numbness. Then, on October 16, 2006 (the day after my birthday), I went to get out of bed and I couldn't walk for a short time. Over the next few weeks, I started forgetting how to do things, passing out, etc. I was scared as hell. Then on Halloween night, I ended up in the emergency room and my long journey of recovery began. I'm not going to get into all the details here. It's too much information. But, I'm doing well. I had surgery and went through some treatment. I still take lot of medication and many, many tests. But, it looks like I'll live a relatively long, healthy life in spite of my illness. I have to say, I wish I would have listened earlier. I listened this time.
I had my moment. Different people call it different things. Oprah calls it your "aha" moment. Christians may recognize it in a person's decision to "get saved" or in someone "listening to the Spirit." Those from the Jewish faith may say it's a "burning bush" moment. Mental health professionals sometimes call it a "moment of clarity." It's that moment when it clicks. It makes sense. And more than just knowing it in your head, you feel it in your soul. As a person who counsels people for a living, it can get incredibly frustrating when the person you are working with knows what to do, but doesn't do it. You feel like you're banging your head against the wall, giving them cues as to what to do. But they don't do it. They just babble on about the way they do things...even though the way they do things isn't working. I'm sure everyone reading this has felt this way with friends or family or someone else. Have you? Don't get discouraged. They're just not ready. They hear you. They have the information. They just aren't ready for their moment yet-their moment of clarity. Instead of continuing to preach to them, stand by them, support them, love them and gently point them in the right direction. And don't get mad when they come to you one day, changed, because someone else told them exactly what you have been telling them for years. You were a step along the way. You were part of the foundation. Celebrate with them in their moment. More importantly, help them make it last.
That brings me to my last thoughts on this. When you have your "aha" moment, don't stop with the feeling. How many of us have watched some program about a cause that moved us, but we did nothing? The feeling wore off in a few days. When your moment comes, do three things: feel it deeply, make a decision and take action. There's a scene in (I know I shouldn't reference this movie because I will lose whatever "guy credentials" I have, but...) My Best Friend's Wedding when the Julia Roberts character and the "best friend" guy are on a boat and they are about to go under a bridge. Julia Roberts had been trying all day to tell him she was in love with him. The guy says that his "fiancee" (Cameron Diaz) says that if you feel something, you should say it. Just say it, right away, or the moment will pass. As he's saying this, they pass under the bridge and Julia Roberts lets the moment go. It's a terrible moment. But it illustrates what I'm saying perfectly. Don't let your moments of clarity pass without motion. Otherwise, you' might be missing out on who you truly should be.
So, listen. Truly listen to the whispers, the cues. Don't let your moment pass. No matter how many mistakes you have made, or wrong roads you have traveled, the past does not have to be your shackles. The past can be steps, watermarks. When your moment comes, fall on the grace you have been given and breathe in the future. Take it all in...and move.
Take care of yourself,
Tuesday, August 12, 2014
From the Road
Life on the road is a curious thing. It can feel completely the same and completely different, fully new and utterly old, all at the same time. It's a good thing in my life.
My view is a lot different out here. I don't have all the distractions of home. My entire focus is bringing a message of hope to young people and the adults who speak into their lives daily.
Most of the time I travel with a team (The times I travel alone form a completely different experience...I'll save that story for another day). Our team is a special group. We all come from different worlds, surrounded with our own joys and complications. At this point it's a well oiled machine. But, trust me, it took time, work, experience, and patience. Each one of us has a very strong personality, with our own gifts, biases, and agendas. Yet the differences are the reason it all works. See, all these variables come together to make the one thing, the one goal we have in common, stronger. This team, these people, all want to bring hope and light to those we encounter on the road. That's why it all works. This is the intersection where differences and vision come together to create action and change. Our own agendas are secondary to our shared purpose. We want to see people live more peacefully, with less violence, hate, hurt, and strife. We believe each and every soul we encounter has a purpose, even if they don't know it yet.
And this is why the road is a good place to be. Sometimes I grow tired. At times, I'm downright exhausted. But, the payoff is worth it. I get the absolute honor and privilege to help facilitate the changing of lives. Even on my worst days, when my attitude isn't right, I still get to share words that may grip someone's heart, cause inspiration, shift a view, or even alter a life's course. Wow. I am blessed. And, without a doubt, I am absolutely amazed, amazed beyond understanding.
So today, as we drive away from another event in a small town most people will never hear of, I am whispering thanks here in the backseat. How can I not?
Oh, and the best part is yet to come. You see, now I get to wonder when I will hear the first amazing story from this little community. And, believe me, I will. I always do.


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Work Commutes: How to Make the Most of a Long Drive to Work
Travel to and from work is a part of a typical work experience. Making the most of this time can provide a boost to one's well-being.
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Changing Jobs: What to Expect When You Start a New Job
Changing jobs can be a daunting endeavor. Understanding the nuances of new employment will make any new hire ready to be successful in their new role.
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How to Promote Teamwork in the Office
Promoting teamwork helps create a productive and successful workplace for all.
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The Pros and Cons of Working for Government
Working in the public sector has its pros and cons.
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Why Employees Take Job Demotions
While employees generally look for ways to promote and advance throughout their career, some employees have valid reasons to take a lesser paying job.
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How to Stay Current on Changes in Human Resources
HR professionals must find creative ways to stay up-to-date on trends and employment law changes in the workplace.
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How to Introduce the New Employee to the Workplace
Helping the new employee in his/her job is very important for a successful start in the workplace.
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Why it is Important to Update Job Descriptions
Accurate job descriptions are important documents for employers to keep on file in the workplace.
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How to Help a Grieving Employee
Employees grieving over the loss of a loved one often display certain behaviors that are of concern to the employer. Offering support during this grieving period is very important to the employee.
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How to Make the Office Lobby Customer Friendly
The first point of contact in many offices is a lobby where visitors wait before meeting their appointments. The atmosphere of this room makes an impression on the visitor.
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How to Welcome New Employees to the Workplace
Being a new employee on the job can be a somewhat intimidating experience. Management and co-workers can do a lot to make new employees feel like part of the team.
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How to Handle Employees Fighting in the Workplace
It is not unusual for there to be friction between co-workers who work side by side at the job site. It is very important for management to address the matter before things blow up at work.
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Why Applicants Should Be Honest on a Job Application
"Honesty" is still the best policy when it comes to filling out a job application.
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How to Say Goodbye to Co-Workers
As employees leave to accept a new position, there are ways to give them a proper send off that says both thank you for their efforts and good luck for the future.
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10-hour Workdays: Pros and Cons for the Full-time Employee
Working 10-hour shifts and having an extra day off during the week is very attractive to employees who are given the opportunity to work such a schedule. However, such shifts come with pros and cons.
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Why Employees Should Want to Attend Training Workshops
Employers often require employees to attend mandatory training. While such training sessions can be viewed as a disruption, employees should recognize the benefits in participating in them.
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How to Delegate Tasks to Subordinates
Delegation plays an important role in the performance of duties in the workplace. Wise managers recognize the value with entrusting subordinates with delegated responsibilities.
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The Benefits of Conducting Lunch Meetings
Conducting lunch meetings can be a productive means for accomplishing work that must be completed. Employees and clients are given the opportunity to meet in a more relaxed work setting. Care should be given for planning where the meeting is to take place.
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How to Address Sick Leave Abuse in the Workplace
Excessive sick leave usage can pose some significant challenges to management. When employees are notified of the employer's leave policy, their rights under FMLA, and the expectation of management, they are better able to work within the parameters that make up acceptable sick leave usage.
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Common Human Resource (HR) Issues
There are many challenging employee issues that are common for employers. HR professionals are often tasked with these problems to provide much needed assistance and direction to management and employees.
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How to Handle Office Interruptions
Employees routinely deal with interruptions in the workplace. There are many ways to address issues that cause a disruption in the ability to complete assigned tasks. When routine solutions do not work, it may be time to communicate with the supervisor who can address the problems.
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Undercover Boss: Communicating with Employees in the Workplace
Communication is a key to understanding what motivates employees in the workplace. Undercover Boss showcases this important concept as senior management goes "undercover" to meet and communicate with frontline employees about the workplace. Much can be learned when management really listens to...
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Tips on Staying Positive in a Negative Environment at Work
Negativity in the workplace is a force to be reckoned with for employees and their management. Understanding the causes behind negative attitudes that can lead to disputes between employees is a powerful resource for dealing with it successfully.
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Friendship Between Supervisors and Subordinates
While developing friendships in the workplace may be a part of life, it is important for supervisors to remember that the perception of favoritism can be very disruptive for the work environment. When employees think a supervisor is giving preferential treatment to a subordinate due to their...
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Why Employees Decorate Their Workspace
Employees choose to decorate their workspace as an expression of who they are. When personal items are permitted, supervisors should be sure that inappropriate items are forbidden to avoid offending or disrupting work flow in the organization.
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Staff Meetings: A Means for Effective Communication in the Workplace
Staff meetings can become an effective communication tool for employees and their leadership. When conducted effectively, the entire organization reaps a benefit.
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How to Negotiate Health Benefits
Knowing the details of health benefits of a new job will assist the selected candidate with making necessary decisions about accepting the position. Unfortunately, many health benefits are non-negotiable.
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How to Get a Job Despite Bad Past Employment History
When there are things in your past that are not so good, employers may be hesitant. Applicants need to focus on the skills and talents that would make them a valuable member of their team.
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Excellent Customer Service in Human Resources: A Requirement for Serving Employees in the Workplace
Customer service in the workplace is a must for employees serving their customers. Human Resources staff must practice excellent customer service as well. Since employees depend on Human Resources to assist them with problems and concerns at work, it is important for HR professionals to have a...
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Respecting an Employee's Religious Beliefs in the Workplace
Employers are wise to make every effort to accommodate an employee's religious beliefs. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 recognizes religion as a protected classification. Supervisors should know the law to be sure that an employee's religious beliefs are protected as required in this...
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Open Door Policy at Work: The Value of Keeping HR's Door Open for Employee Complaints
Employers who offer an Open Door policy for hearing employee complaints are taking advantage of an opportunity to solve employee issues before they become lawsuits or EEOC charges. Employees who feel they have a safe place to go for concerns about an issue will allow the employer an opportunity to...
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Body Odor in the Workplace: How to Address an Employee's Personal Hygiene Issues
Employees who have body odor issues at work present challenges to the coworker who must work side by side with that employee. For the supervisor, it becomes an employee relations issue that must be held delicately, yet firmly, to ensure immediate improvement. When done directly yet with tact,...
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Surviving the Office Clique: How to Get Along with Difficult Co-Workers in the Workplace
The worklace clique is alive and well in the modern day world of work. Employees must deal with dramas set forth by unique characters who make up their team. Awareness of the the potential pitfalls from participating in office gossip and politics will help an employee steer clear of such...
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The Art of Being a Good Listener: What All New Supervisors Should Know About Listening Skills
Being a good listener is almost as important as being a good talker. Supervisors can demonstrate great leadership by taking more time to just listen to their employees.


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Financial Aid Developments
"Financial Aid Developments" provides information about the latest changes to federal student aid programs, including updates to the Federal Register, standard General Announcements and Dear Colleague Letters. Sign up to receive "Financial Aid Developments" availability notices each month at: http://dhe.mo.gov/mdhedigest/signup.php.
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For more information, contact Kim Slote, policy analyst for compliance and member of the Common Manual Policy Committee.
Compliance Update
The Missouri Department of Higher Education ensures compliance with the Federal Family Education Loan Program (FFELP)* through the analysis and review of new legislation and existing regulatory manuals, guidance and documents. The Compliance Update provides information that can aid Missouri higher education institutions in complying with state and national mandates for student aid programs.
*Note: On March 30, 2010, federal legislation was signed into law removing the authority of FFELP guarantors like the MDHE to guarantee new loans after June 30, 2010. All federal student loans first disbursed on or after July 1, 2010 must be made by the federal government through the Federal Direct Loan Program.


text: NAIROBI, KENYA — Rival army units are fighting among themselves along the Nile River in north central Uganda, posing serious political problems for President Milton Obote. The fighting erupted between troops loyal to the armed forces commander, Gen. Tito Okell, a member of the Acholi tribe, and the army chief of staff, Brig. Smith Opon Acak, who is from Obote's Langi tribe. The opposition newspaper Munnansi has claimed that the army factionalism resulted from rejection of a negotiated settlement with the National Resistance Army, a guerrilla group. Other sources, however, traced the fighting to 1984, when Obote promoted Opon Acak, his fellow tribesman, over senior Acholi officers and made him chief of staff.


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Psychotherapy is a great toolPeople compare a lot of things to therapy; hikes in nature, talks with a good friend, meditation, and even confessions to a priest. All those things are great, and can be important tools for a good life. But they are not therapy. Therapy is a uniquely potent tool for crafting a rich and satisfying life.
Therapy is no quick fix, and its value can't be assessed on any particular session. In fact some of the "best" sessions can feel downright heart-breaking. But its goals are fundamental shifts in how we see/experience/think about ourselves, our relationships and existence itself. Therapy is a key tool to changing patterns that hinder our full engagement in living.
But do I need Therapy?To start, the question shouldn't be if you need therapy, but if it would benefit you. Very few people need therapy, and only in a few circumstances. When need is the issue, we are usually discussing inpatient residential therapy for a serious crises or treatment for a person with a significant mental illness. Outpatient therapy can help when someone is in deep need, but it can also just be used as a resource for enriching one's life. Therapy is a tool for improving our understanding of…
- what ails us as we lay awake in the middle of the night
- unexplained defensiveness when talking to our boss
- general feelings of stress without identifiable causes
- exasperation when dealing with our children
- repetitive fights with a partner
- feeling of hopelessness that surface unexpectedly in the day
- angry outbursts that hurt our relationships
- feelings of loss of control
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When it comes to content marketing it is a pretty sure bet that if you create good content, relevant and valuable content, content that your audience needs and wants, then you can drive traffic to your website.


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Mariah Carey to record new Christmas album
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Mariah Carey has been asked by her label Epic Records to make a new Christmas album to release in time for the holiday season this year
Mariah Carey is set to record another Christmas album.
The 44-year-old singer has reportedly been asked by her new label Epic Records to create another collection of Yule Tide tracks in time for the holiday this year.
Her 1994 LP 'Merry Christmas' is the best-selling festive album of all-time and contains the now classic song 'All I Want for Christmas Is You'.
According to the New York Post newspaper, although Mariah is interested in the project she is yet to definitely agree to it.
Her next release will be an updated greatest hits collection comprised of 18 of her self-written number one singles and some new material, which will come out to coincide with the start of her Las Vegas residency, 'Mariah Carey No. 1s', at Caesar's Palace Hotel and Casino on May 6.
Earlier this month, it was revealed Mariah had been in the studio with her long-term collaborator Jermaine Dupri working on new tracks.
The producer posted posted a photo on Instagram with the caption "been in the studio all night with Mariah Carey", but it is not known if this music is intended for her new compilation LP.
Mariah and Jermaine's previous work together includes hit singles 'Always Be My Baby' and 'We Belong Together'.


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I menu plan for the upcoming week and make a grocery list towards the end of the weekend. This past week the menu plan included Sloppy Joes and Kale Chips from the October 2012 issue of Everyday Food magazine. When I proposed this dinner to Nuno he did his best to disguise his smirk. OK, yes, kale chips are an oxymoron. A cruel joke against all who love potato chips, right? But, hey, Owen doesn't know the difference and what mom isn't willing to throw a disguised leafy green whenever possible. All week, I beared the brunt of Nuno's chuckle even as I was making them. But guess who got the last laugh? Yes, the kale chip!
Anyone tried these before? Because they are killer. It's next to impossible to understand how a heavy and tough leaf is transformed by roasting in the oven to a light-as-air crisp that practically melts in your mouth. The crunch you get from these produce a better sound than a kettle chip. Seasoned with salt these were delicious and totally addictive. Just be sure to eat them all in the first hour because the spell is broken the longer they sit and become tough once again.