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Why to Write
Writing serves many purposes – here are some of the reasons why I write (even why I participate in list serves)
1) It helps you think.
If you can put an idea down on paper then you are inevitably deciding, from one word to the next, what is important and what is not.
Since writing is sequential, since you can't say everything at once, you have to impose an order on your thoughts. As a speaker – this is useful, but it's useful to anyone in any endeavor.
2) It's practice.
As a speaker, I'm essentially a word smith. My primary tool is the English language, and writing allows me, and forces me, to play with words, phrases, cadence and meter. Since I'm always writing to an audience, I am in a sense, always presenting.
3) It's advertising.
I DARE you to contact the advertising department of any publication and ask them what it would cost for you to run a full page ad describing your services. Be sitting down when you do this. Yet… a full page article is far more powerful a means to demonstrate your 'power' to a potential client. And sometimes, if you're lucky, they'll pay you for the privilege.
**Note… keep all your copyrights. It's your work – unless it's a 'work for hire' – keep your copyright – you want to be able to use your own work in perpetuity. Give them the right to use your work… but keep your copyright.
4) It's marketing.
Marketing isn't advertising. It's just general exposure. Write enough and people will 'SEE' your articles in publications that don't even know who you are. They'll insist they know you… when they've never met you.
5) It's your PR ambassador. And it works forever… for free.
Write 'timeless' articles – articles that will as useful 10 years from now as they are today. That isn't always possible or desirable… but it's a goal to follow when you can. You want your work to speak for you when you aren't there. Once you've written what I classify as a 'keeper' (this posting is a self referential example of that I hope) then it gets saved… and then passed around. And literally becomes a personal employee and PR agent.
6) It's multipurpose.
I'm the world's laziest man. Anything I produce, must carry several loads. A good article is all of the above, and it's a potential presentation at the drop of a hat.
7) It's plastic.
As in… any well written article can be tweaked and twisted to generate at least one more significantly different article, if not half a dozen. Hmm… this 'article' was first posted to an online discussion… it's morphed already, and will again!
8 ) It's something you'll learn from.
If you don't write much – then you'll likely not even believe this one… if you do write a lot, you might know what I mean. When you write… and then read what you've written later… then you'll learn stuff you didn't know you knew. I can't really explain this, but I'm a smarter, more insightful person when I write. I often come up with ideas as I'm writing that I literally did not know I knew.
9) and finally? Writing is calming. Well… sort of.
If you've got writer's block? Well, you'll just have to shoot yourself – it's the only real cure. BUT when the muse takes over, and the words begin to flow like water across the page? Then it's the best thing going to boost your spirit and your ego.
Now… go break a pen
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Baseballs, Mars and Strategic Planning
My interest is in the Future, because
I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
Charles F. Kettering
1876-1958 American Inventor
At the foundation of most Strategic Plans there rests a simple question, "Where do we want our organization to be in five years, and what must we do, and when must we do it, to get there?"
That question looks like a good one. The answer will have all the attributes of a sound objective. Asking, "Where do we want our organization to be in five years?" entices us to paint a picture of what we want to achieve. We can call this picture our "Vision" or "Vision Statement", in either case it creates a target worthy of our attention.
Since these things don't happen by accident, "What must we do, and when must we do it, to get there?", outlines our footsteps towards a rudimentary project plan. Since we know what we want to achieve, we now define the "what" and the "when" of our "To Do" list for the next few years.
Most strategic planners would agree that this question lies at the core of the strategic planning process. It is certainly the most common approach, and while sometimes the objectives we choose are overly simplistic, perhaps even ambiguous i.e., "We want to be the world leader in 'X'", they provide something to work towards.
And that's the issue. Unless the next problem is addressed by some hidden assumption, this type of planning cannot succeed other than by luck, no matter much effort is put into that project plan.
Here's the problematic snag, we cannot answer the question, "Where do we want our organization to be in five years?", unless we first answer a bigger and more complex question, "Where will the World be in five years?"
Crafting a Strategic Plan is sort of like trying to get to Mars, or running to catch a baseball, you don't go to where it is now, but to where it will be, when you finally get there.
Obvious? Of course it is. Yet most Strategic Plans make no attempt to determine where the World will be, they plan as if the World stands still in time, when in reality it is rocketing off in some unknown direction under the influence of Moore's Law, politics, demographic trends, diminishing resources, new opportunities, aging populations, shifting alliances and a thousand other trivial and humungous forces.
If we do try to target the future, we plan for it based upon our understanding of the past. ie. Transactions have been growing at a rate of 10% per year, so we will plan for similar growth in the coming years.
New developments, "wild cards" if you wish, can erase all credibility from this type of reasoning. The rise of digital music and the ease, with which it is shared over the Internet, eroded the relevance of all historical sales figures for the music industry.
Of course, our real problem is that answering the question, "Where will the World be in five years?" is a challenge… as Yogi Berra, the great Philosopher King and sometime baseball player said, "It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future."
Tough? Yes, definitely. Impossible? No. Even if we choose to ignore them, there are developments we know will affect us in the future. Here are a few worthy of consideration;
The Collapse of Constraints: (The result of Moore's Law)
Computer and telecommunication technology is going to get more powerful, faster, cheaper, more reliable, more accessible, smaller, cooler (in more ways than one), better and more convenient.
The Implications?
What technologies would you like to implement in your organization today, but can't because of some limitation? Chances are that within the next five years, the natural advance of technology will collapse those constraints. Then what? Here are some reminders from our recent past, imminent future, their impact and possible implications;
Digital Music => Copyright => Music Industry Sales?
Telecommunications => Offshore Outsourcing => Local White Collar Work?
Voice over IP => Personal Communications => Phone Companies?
RFID => Inventory Costs => Privacy & Security?
Flat Screen TVs => Redesign of living space => Furniture Sales?
(An off topic question we might ask ourselves, "Which solutions implemented a decade ago, are the wrong solutions considering current technology?")
The Passage of Time: (Demographics)
We're getting older… all of us, soon the elderly will outnumber the young whippersnappers.
The Implications?
No secret here, as we get older we change in predictable ways. How do you differ from your parents? Imagine their buying habits and lifestyle rolled out as the norm. Imagine the bulk of marketing targeted at something other than teenage tastes, how does that affect your business… more importantly, the business of your clients.
Not to mention of course, the financial impact on poorly designed, naïve and idealistic Social Security programmes.
New Markets & New Competitors: (The Third World is no longer Third)
One word: China. Okay… two words: India.
The Implications?
According to some statistics, America makes up 5% of the world population and consumes 30% of the world resources. Imagine a new nation (or two), with the buying power, consumption, resources and production capability of 5-10 USAs.
Now… Can you imagine a Future where these new juggernaut nations do NOT affect your business?
These are just three of the many developments you might choose to incorporate into your strategic plan. Which ones do you factor into your planning? That depends on how far you choose to cast your attention. What could provide a threat or opportunity to your business? Or are you convinced that tomorrow is just today, plus another day?
How exactly do you factor in these future forces? There are no easy answers, yet there are lots of different approaches, tools and methodologies; from generic Scenario Planning, to Joel Barker's Implication Wheel; from simple 'What If' sessions to more involved Brainstorming. The goal is not to do the impossible, we cannot predict with great accuracy what tomorrow will bring, but we can get a sense of what tomorrow might have in store for us and put together a Strategic Plan which will perform well against a handful of likely future possibilities.
No matter how we factor them in, the sooner we do it the better. As the quote at the start suggested, we're going to live in the Future; we might as well look forward to it.
At the Heart of Time Management
Is reading this article the best use of your time right now?
If you can extract the core lesson contained in the above question, then not only don't you need to read this article, but you never have to attend a course on time management. You've just saved a lot of time and money. You can go about your business. Good-bye.
What? You're still reading? You mean I have to finish this article? I was just about to take a break you know. Okay. Okay. Just for you, I'll continue, but I have a cold beer waiting on the deck, so hurry up and finish reading… I have better things to do right now.
Time Management isn't a overly complex topic. When you get right down to it, a good time manager really only needs two sets of information.
1) Which of all the tasks we have to complete, is the most important? And please, don't adopt the strategy used by some psychotic managers… Everything is Priority #1!
Making everything Priority #1 isn't possible. When everything on your plate is Priority #1, then the reality is that nothing is Priority #1.
2) How much time do you have available to do the tasks on your plate? If you have time aplenty for everything, then you don't have a time management problem. Please stop reading so I can leave, that beer is getting warm.
What! Still here? I can see how this is going to play out. Sigh. Okay. On we go.
Since you're still reading, I can only assume you don't have enough time to do everything you've been tasked to do. (but you have the time to read this article… weird) I won't ask why you took on more than you can handle, that would be rude.
With more work, than time, we're faced with a problem. We can't do everything.
This is perhaps the most important thing to know about time management. Time Management is not about doing everything on our plate, it's all about deciding what to do, and most importantly, what not to do.
This is where Time Management gets difficult. Prioritizing our tasks is fairly easy, some things are obviously more important than others. Identifying how much time we have, is also relatively easy, since we can start with 24 hours a day and work our way down to a more reasonable/realistic number.
Where we all have a problem is coming to the conclusion that task 'X' won't be done this week, because we don't have time for it.
Of course, to get to that point, we do need to become proficient at allocating time to the tasks we're choosing to complete and then focusing our attention on those tasks until they are complete
The most basic tool to assist us in this, is the 'to do' list. We all know how that works. List the stuff we must do on top in order of priority, then the stuff we should do if we have time for them, and then at the bottom the stuff we're unlikely to ever get done (like that rapidly warming beer on the deck).
The mechanics of the TD list aside, there's an aspect of the TD list that's rarely mentioned. Part of the problem we have managing ourtime is the overwhelming sense of chaos that swirls around our heads. There's little more demotivating than the certain knowledge that we're disorganized, that we'll never get it all done no matter how hard we work.
This sense of constant chaos cheats us of any sense of progress towards a goal. A daily 'To Do' list, compiled during those few calm moments before the day starts with a rushing vengeance, is the perfect solution to our all too common panic attack.
Writing down what we have to do, immediately removes the certainty that we've forgotten something. It stops the constant mind juggling necessary to keep everything in memory and allows us to focus on a single task.
Time Management becomes an exhilarating experience as we strike a task off the list with a swooping flourish of a lurid purple marker (am I disclosing too much?). This is such a pleasure, that you'll find yourself putting things on the list, just so that you can strike them off the list.
The sense of progress we didn't have before, is now there for all to see as a flurry of purple strokes across the page.
The truth about the heart of Time Management is contained in the opening question. We can't answer it until we know what we should be doing right now, and how much time we have available. Simple, if not easy. Now, the next thing on my list is that beer. See you later… maybe… if I have nothing better to do. I'm not kidding.
Out! Out! Damn Pebble!
It requires no great skill to opine on what's wrong with the world. All we need do is go about our lives, and pay attention to all that annoys and peeves us. Like a sharp pebble caught in a sandal, wrongness is self evident at every step. Flaws aren't silent; they whisper their presence at every turn and plead for our attention.
Only one thing takes less skill than noticing errors and that's whining and moaning about them, that and looking to someone else, anyone else but ourselves, to make things right. It's a habit picked we up in childhood when we lived under the protection of loving parents. It was best forgotten as we aged.
Nor is there any great intelligence necessary to imagine we know what needs doing. Even the naïve child we once were, suspected that sandals, free of pebbles, tread softer.
There are great gaps though, between seeing what's wrong, knowing what's right, and stepping from certain pain to possible relief. If the worried world around us is any evidence of our ability to cross them, these are insurmountable gaps. Huge gaps only ancient heroes and leaders can bridge. That is, if we believe that heroes and leaders are a thing of the past. Or worse, that no heroes or leaders lie sleeping within us.
These gaps are kept alive through no base lack of knowledge about either the problems or possible solutions. Nor is there, if our whining is any meaningful measure, a lack of desire for a world free from stony pebbles.
Yet the pebbles persist, despite our earnest wishes. Perhaps they exist because all we do is wish and pray for better times?
Removing even a pathetic pebble from a sandal requires us to do a lot more than wishing it away… we have to care enough, even for a tiny pebble, to bend down and act.
There are no guarantees here. No parents to ensure we won't stick our hands in too fierce a fire. No warranty on the correctness of our solutions. No protection that we won't make things worse through our actions. Never the less, action is all we have, without it, even that teeny pebble will eventually wear us down. The pebbles exist, that we have no control over. What we decide to do once the pebble gets our attention is entirely under our control.
Admittedly the real world is more complicated than mere a pebble in a sandal, but problems are still like pebbles in that they make their presence known by annoying us. And because of this, real world problems are at a distinct disadvantage… the bigger they are, the more people they annoy. And even problems the size of mountains can be shifted, one person, one pebble at a time.
The eyes that see a wrong, can see the hands to fix it.
Simple Wisdoms… Difficult Lessons?
We call them many things, from adages and aphorisms, to maxims, proverbs, old sayings and memorable quotations, but regardless of how we've labeled these sage old saws, they all deliver exactly the same thing. They are all, snippets of wisdom, lessons learnt, sometimes at great expense through hard won life experience. Together they provide a large library of life lessons, all neatly encapsulated into pithy phrases. Sometimes they're repeated so often, they lose meaning through excessive exposure.
Somewhere along the line we arrived at a point where we shun the simple in favour of the complex.
We'd rather take a long, expensive University course on Ethics, than adhere to the ancient Golden Rule, "Do unto others, as you would have them do unto you."
We'd rather invest in extensive quality programmes, than follow the advice of an old carpenter, "Measure twice, cut once." And we need to be beaten into submission before taking regular backups, rather than remembering, "An ounce of prevention, is worth a pound of cure."
Despite our proven reluctance to follow these inherently simple bits of advice, all of them demonstrate a remarkable ability to survive in our global consciousness. Every country, every culture has a variation on, "Look before you leap!", "A stitch in time saves nine" and "Slow and steady wins the race." They persist from one generation to another because, even though we don't always pay them any heed, we offer them as our best possible advice. We practice a bizarre contradiction, we know these sayings contain deep truths, but we choose to ignore both our own knowledge and the wisdom of the past.
While there are many management (and personal) challenges, the most important of them all, and perhaps the most intractable, is the answer to the question, "Why don't we do, what we know we should do?"
While I don't think there's a simple answer to the question as to why we ignore what we know, I do believe there's a proven strategy to overcome this human flaw. Pay conscious attention to what we're doing, and compare what we're doing, to what we know we should be doing.
That's so obviously true that it's almost one of the maxims we're discussing. In a sense it's nothing more than a verbose variation of "Look before you leap!" or even "An ounce of prevention, is worth a pound of cure." Is it any less true because of that similarity?
One could examine our organizations and identify problems solvable and avoidable if only we consistently followed a set of simple maxims, but that could get awfully complicated faster than we could blink. Imagine having a "Department of Aphorism Audits & Accounting", or an "Administration of Adept Adages"? The mind boggles and things just get silly.
A simpler approach, (and that's the goal… right?) is to adopt a personal motto and measure all our actions against its succinct guidance. No, my personal motto isn't, "Keep it Simple Stupid" (although it could be as evidenced by this article), mine is a little more suited to the world's laziest man, "Never do today, what you can put off until tomorrow!" (Consider this advice carefully, it doesn't necessarily mean what most people take it to mean. As an exercise for the reader, think of it in terms of Pareto's 80/20 Principle and a rationally prioritized to-do list.)
The obstacle to all of this sage advice (the traditional proverbs and maxims, not my ramblings) is still the point identified in the second paragraph; we shun the simple, and insist on elevating the importance of the complicated, and costly. The phrase, "This can't work, it's too simple" is heard frequently in most organizations, along with another thought, "If it costs more, it must be better." (The retailers of the world salute this thought process.)
So? If all the accumulated wisdom of the world is to have any value, we have to pay attention to at least one small snippet of it. What truth will you make your own? What one bit of advice will you measure all your actions against?
If you get comfortable enough with that concept, what one truth would you select as the foundation of how your team, department or organization operates? Start with just one, and if that becomes second nature, then add another one, move slow and steady and win the race. Remember big trees fall under small strokes. Aw heck… you get the idea.


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Indian thriller with a difference as the Mumbai police try to stop an anonymous bomber from blowing things up unless they hand over a bunch of terrorists. Stylish, uncheesy acting and refreshingly not a dance number in sight.
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Today is the first full day of fall! It certainly looks it as it is dreary and blustery here, but once you get outside it is still very muggy. After Max took a school field trip to the pumpkin patch yesterday & brought home a cute little pumpkin. It will certainly be the first of many this year. Everytime we are out and see one with "character" we adopt it and find a place for it at home on the porch. Here for you are a selection of really gorgeous items to get you in the fall mood. Remember each one is handmade with love! We'd love to hear your feedback on what gets you in the mood for fall!
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Pretty Pink
So, I'm in the mood for Pink today. Here is a lovely collection of rosey items for you to enjoy. Each photo is clickable to take you to item listing. I hope you have a cheerfull day!
Did I forget to mention that all of these items were from etsy sellers that are part of my threadkiller? You can have the opportunity to have your etsy shop mentioned plus win free products! All of the details are available here.
Summer's Over Already?
So with today being the first day of school for my oldest son, I am really just hanging onto the last few moments of summer that I can. I present you a few goodies to keep summer hanging on for you a bit longer.
All of these items are handmade treasures from different artists. Each picture is clickable to link to their store.
Unhumanly Cute!
These needlefelted critters created by AnnaBelleArts on Etsy are simply irrisistable! These felted critters are considered collectables and not suitable for children to play with, because some contain wire, small buttons, or vintage breakables and simply will not hold up to rough handling or snuggling. Any one of these would look fab sitting on my desk. Now I just have to decide which one I want!


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Recently we've actually got a decent amount of split debate thanks to Sulli, which is always more interesting to me than standard Korean versus international netizen stuff. The core of the debate here is not Sulli's "weird" Instagram, but instead her photoshoots with Rotta and her mention of "lolita". I thought both sides has valid points, and for reasons that continue to be unknown, people wanted to get my thoughts on it, so I figured why not milk this Sulli train today as well?
As far as Rotta goes, while the pedophile cries appear bombastic and honestly counterproductive (throwing wild accusations around doesn't help anybody or anything), I am personally creeped out by the dude for what he's done with actual minors (permission or not).
As such, I would prefer if people didn't work with Rotta because he gives me the creeps as a person. However, I honestly don't think it's logical to hold every celebrity that has ever worked with Terry Richardson, Woody Allen, or Roman Polanski types (not that Rotta has done anything on that level) accountable for the crimes or alleged crimes of the artist. And quite frankly, I think most K-pop fans (and humans) agree with me, because I don't hear this kinda of stuff come up whenever Big Bang or CL or even Barack Obama (and most of Hollywood at this point) is mentioned, with people accusing those figures of supporting or endorsing the alleged sexual abuse of "Uncle Terry" or whatever else. Should they? Maybe, but they don't for the most part, primarily because it's a logical stretch to say that working with somebody problematic means you co-sign on it. You'd think of all the people to understand that, K-pop fans would get it considering the idols they stan are all a part of a system that endorses all kinds of problematic stuff (or worse, they stan the companies directly).
In that same vein of separation, it's why I don't find Sulli or Hara or whoever else that works with Rotta responsible for him being a creep, mainly because unlike what others feel, I honestly don't find their photoshoots to be a part of what makes him creepy.
It really seems to me like the main reason people are saying pictures like this are lolita is because they know who the photographer is. I say this because of the multitude of schoolgirl concepts in K-pop that come out like a dozen times a year that have short skirts, some midriff showing, and an innocent concept, yet nobody ever calls those concepts lolita. And unlike many of those groups, at least in Sulli's case she's an adult doing a concept or cosplay and not a minor (on that note, nobody spoke up when she actually was a minor).
Same goes for Sulli and Hara's shoot, where it's primarily the two of them wearing oversized shirts with some kind of basic soft lighting and/or filter shit.
And I think even people who hate Sulli and Rotta can admit the last photoshoot was pretty typical photography, like the 'Me In My Place' series or something to that effect.
Quite frankly, a lot of the same applies to a lot of the pictures of models Rotta takes professionally.
Just because it's shot by Rotta and he uses his basic soft lighting doesn't automatically make every concept lolita as people seems to just be bandwagoning. It's pretty obvious that these are grown-ass women and are not meant to appeal to pedophiles.
I make this point because everybody points towards Sulli defending herself as Sulli defending Rotta.
"Lolita this, lolita that, go swear at things that are more appropriate and just look at my pretty face. ^_^" – Sulli, The Year Of Our Lord 2016
However, she does nothing of the sort. She merely says that everybody leaving hate on her Instagram for her supposed lolita concepts should fuck off because they are not lolita concepts. I … don't disagree.
Would I rather she not work with this dude? Absolutely, but these connections people are making to Sulli endorsing all this problematic shit attached to him just because she gets her photo taken by him sometimes has always been a logical stretch to me. And unless you believe every celeb that worked with "Uncle Terry" supports sexual abuse, it simply doesn't make much sense to me to say Sulli endorses lolita or whatever else either.


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- a red rhombus-shaped figure on a playing card.
- a card of the suit bearing such figures.
- diamonds, (used with a sing. or pl. v.) the suit so marked: Diamonds is trump. Diamonds are trump.
- [Baseball.]
- the space enclosed by home plate and the three bases;
- the entire playing field.
- a 4½-point type of a size between brilliant and pearl.
- diamond in the rough, a person of fine character but lacking refined manners or graces.
- made of or set with a diamond or diamonds.
- having the shape of a diamond: a dress with a diamond print.
- indicating the 75th, or sometimes the 60th, event of a series, as a wedding anniversary. See table under wedding anniversary.
dia′mond•like′, adj.
- to adorn with or as if with diamonds.
Bridalbrid•al (brīd′l),USA pronunciation adj.
- of, for, or pertaining to a bride or a wedding: a bridal gown.
brid′al•ly, adv.
- a wedding.
- [Archaic.]a wedding feast.
Setsset (set),USA pronunciation v., set, set•ting, n., adj., interj.
- to put (something or someone) in a particular place: to set a vase on a table.
- to place in a particular position or posture: Set the baby on his feet.
- to place in some relation to something or someone: We set a supervisor over the new workers.
- to put into some condition: to set a house on fire.
- to put or apply: to set fire to a house.
- to put in the proper position: to set a chair back on its feet.
- to put in the proper or desired order or condition for use: to set a trap.
- to distribute or arrange china, silver, etc., for use on (a table): to set the table for dinner.
- to place (the hair, esp. when wet) on rollers, in clips, or the like, so that the hair will assume a particular style.
- to put (a price or value) upon something: He set $7500 as the right amount for the car. The teacher sets a high value on neatness.
- to fix the value of at a certain amount or rate;
value: He set the car at $500. She sets neatness at a high value.
- to post, station, or appoint for the purpose of performing some duty: to set spies on a person.
- to determine or fix definitely: to set a time limit.
- to resolve or decide upon: to set a wedding date.
- to cause to pass into a given state or condition: to set one's mind at rest; to set a prisoner free.
- to direct or settle resolutely or wishfully: to set one's mind to a task.
- to present as a model;
place before others as a standard: to set a good example.
- to establish for others to follow: to set a fast pace.
- to prescribe or assign, as a task.
- to adjust (a mechanism) so as to control its performance.
- to adjust the hands of (a clock or watch) according to a certain standard: I always set my watch by the clock in the library.
- to adjust (a timer, alarm of a clock, etc.) so as to sound when desired: He set the alarm for seven o'clock.
- to fix or mount (a gem or the like) in a frame or setting.
- to ornament or stud with gems or the like: a bracelet set with pearls.
- to cause to sit;
seat: to set a child in a highchair.
- to put (a hen) on eggs to hatch them.
- to place (eggs) under a hen or in an incubator for hatching.
- to place or plant firmly: to set a flagpole in concrete.
- to put into a fixed, rigid, or settled state, as the face, muscles, etc.
- to fix at a given point or calibration: to set the dial on an oven; to set a micrometer.
- to tighten (often fol. by up): to set nuts well up.
- to cause to take a particular direction: to set one's course to the south.
- to put (a broken or dislocated bone) back in position.
- (of a hunting dog) to indicate the position of (game) by standing stiffly and pointing with the muzzle.
- to fit, as words to music.
- to arrange for musical performance.
- to arrange (music) for certain voices or instruments.
- [Theat.]
- to arrange the scenery, properties, lights, etc., on (a stage) for an act or scene.
- to prepare (a scene) for dramatic performance.
- to spread and secure (a sail) so as to catch the wind.
- [Print.]
- to arrange (type) in the order required for printing.
- to put together types corresponding to (copy);
compose in type: to set an article.
- [Baking.]to put aside (a substance to which yeast has been added) in order that it may rise.
- to change into curd: to set milk with rennet.
- to cause (glue, mortar, or the like) to become fixed or hard.
- to urge, goad, or encourage to attack: to set the hounds on a trespasser.
- [Bridge.]to cause (the opposing partnership or their contract) to fall short: We set them two tricks at four spades. Only perfect defense could set four spades.
- to affix or apply, as by stamping: The king set his seal to the decree.
- to fix or engage (a fishhook) firmly into the jaws of a fish by pulling hard on the line once the fish has taken the bait.
- to sharpen or put a keen edge on (a blade, knife, razor, etc.) by honing or grinding.
- to fix the length, width, and shape of (yarn, fabric, etc.).
- [Carpentry.]to sink (a nail head) with a nail set.
- to bend or form to the proper shape, as a saw tooth or a spring.
- to bend the teeth of (a saw) outward from the blade alternately on both sides in order to make a cut wider than the blade itself.
- to pass below the horizon;
sink: The sun sets early in winter.
- to decline;
- to assume a fixed or rigid state, as the countenance or the muscles.
- (of the hair) to be placed temporarily on rollers, in clips, or the like, in order to assume a particular style: Long hair sets more easily than short hair.
- to become firm, solid, or permanent, as mortar, glue, cement, or a dye, due to drying or physical or chemical change.
- to sit on eggs to hatch them, as a hen.
- to hang or fit, as clothes.
- to begin to move;
start (usually fol. by forth, out, off, etc.).
- (of a flower's ovary) to develop into a fruit.
- (of a hunting dog) to indicate the position of game.
- to have a certain direction or course, as a wind, current, or the like.
- (of a sail) to be spread so as to catch the wind.
- (of type) to occupy a certain width: This copy sets to forty picas.
- [Nonstandard.]sit: Come in and set a spell.
- set about:
- to begin on;
- to undertake;
- to assault;
- set against:
- to cause to be hostile or antagonistic.
- to compare or contrast: The advantages must be set against the disadvantages.
- set ahead, to set to a later setting or time: Set your clocks ahead one hour.
- set apart:
- to reserve for a particular purpose.
- to cause to be noticed;
distinguish: Her bright red hair sets her apart from her sisters.
- set aside:
- to put to one side;
reserve: The clerk set aside the silver brooch for me.
- to dismiss from the mind;
- to prevail over;
annul: to set aside a verdict.
- set back:
- to hinder;
- to turn the hands of (a watch or clock) to show an earlier time: When your plane gets to California, set your watch back two hours.
- to reduce to a lower setting: Set back the thermostat before you go to bed.
- set by, to save or keep for future use.
- set down:
- to write or to copy or record in writing or printing.
- to consider;
estimate: to set someone down as a fool.
- to attribute;
ascribe: to set a failure down to bad planning.
- to put in a position of rest on a level surface.
- to humble or humiliate.
- to land an airplane: We set down in a heavy fog.
- (in horse racing) to suspend (a jockey) from competition because of some offense or infraction of the rules.
- set forth:
- to give an account of;
describe: He set forth his theory in a scholarly report.
- to begin a journey;
start: Columbus set forth with three small ships.
- set forward, to turn the hands of (a watch or clock) to show a later time: When your plane lands in New York, set your watch forward two hours.
- set in:
- to begin to prevail;
arrive: Darkness set in.
- (of winds or currents) to blow or flow toward the shore.
- set off:
- to cause to become ignited or to explode.
- to begin;
- to intensify or improve by contrast.
- to begin a journey or trip;
- set on:
- Also, set upon. to attack or cause to attack: to set one's dog on a stranger.
- to instigate;
incite: to set a crew to mutiny.
- set one's face against. See face (def. 35).
- set out:
- to begin a journey or course: to set out for home.
- to undertake;
attempt: He set out to prove his point.
- to design;
plan: to set out a pattern.
- to define;
describe: to set out one's arguments.
- to plant: to set out petunias and pansies.
- to lay out (the plan of a building) in actual size at the site.
- to lay out (a building member or the like) in actual size.
- set store by. See store (def. 9).
- set to:
- to make a vigorous effort;
apply oneself to work;
- to begin to fight;
- set up:
- to put upright;
- to put into a high or powerful position.
- to construct;
- to be assembled or made ready for use: exercise equipment that sets up in a jiffy.
- to inaugurate;
- to enable to begin in business;
provide with means.
- to make a gift of;
treat, as to drinks.
- to stimulate;
- to propound;
- to bring about;
- to become firm or hard, as a glue or cement: a paint that sets up within five minutes.
- to lead or lure into a dangerous, detrimental, or embarrassing situation, as by deceitful prearrangement or connivance.
- to entrap or frame, as an innocent person in a crime or a criminal suspect in a culpable circumstance in order to achieve an arrest.
- to arrange the murder or execution of: His partner set him up with the mob.
- [Bridge.]to establish (a suit): to set up spades.
- the act or state of setting or the state of being set.
- a collection of articles designed for use together: a set of china; a chess set.
- a collection, each member of which is adapted for a special use in a particular operation: a set of golf clubs; a set of carving knives.
- a number, group, or combination of things of similar nature, design, or function: a set of ideas.
- a series of volumes by one author, about one subject, etc.
- a number, company, or group of persons associated by common interests, occupations, conventions, or status: a set of murderous thieves; the smart set.
- the fit, as of an article of clothing: the set of his coat.
- fixed direction, bent, or inclination: The set of his mind was obvious.
- bearing or carriage: the set of one's shoulders.
- the assumption of a fixed, rigid, or hard state, as by mortar or glue.
- the arrangement of the hair in a particular style: How much does the beauty parlor charge for a shampoo and set?
- a plate for holding a tool or die.
- an apparatus for receiving radio or television programs;
- [Philately.]a group of stamps that form a complete series.
- [Tennis.]a unit of a match, consisting of a group of not fewer than six games with a margin of at least two games between the winner and loser: He won the match in straight sets of 6–3, 6–4, 6–4.
- a construction representing a place or scene in which the action takes place in a stage, motion-picture, or television production.
- [Mach.]
- the bending out of the points of alternate teeth of a saw in opposite directions.
- a permanent deformation or displacement of an object or part.
- a tool for giving a certain form to something, as a saw tooth.
- a chisel having a wide blade for dividing bricks.
- [Hort.]a young plant, or a slip, tuber, or the like, suitable for planting.
- [Dancing.]
- the number of couples required to execute a quadrille or the like.
- a series of movements or figures that make up a quadrille or the like.
- a group of pieces played by a band, as in a night club, and followed by an intermission.
- the period during which these pieces are played.
- [Bridge.]a failure to take the number of tricks specified by one's contract: Our being vulnerable made the set even more costly.
- [Naut.]
- the direction of a wind, current, etc.
- the form or arrangement of the sails, spars, etc., of a vessel.
- suit (def. 12).
- [Psychol.]a temporary state of an organism characterized by a readiness to respond to certain stimuli in a specific way.
- a timber frame bracing or supporting the walls or roof of a shaft or stope.
- [Carpentry.]See nail set.
- a collection of objects or elements classed together.
- the width of a body of type.
- sett (def. 3).
- fixed or prescribed beforehand: a set time; set rules.
- specified;
fixed: The hall holds a set number of people.
- deliberately composed;
customary: set phrases.
- fixed;
rigid: a set smile.
- resolved or determined;
habitually or stubbornly fixed: to be set in one's opinions.
- completely prepared;
ready: Is everyone set?
- all set, in readiness;
prepared: They were at the starting line and all set to begin.
Also, get set!
- (in calling the start of a race): Ready! Set! Go!
Onon (on, ôn),USA pronunciation prep.
- so as to be or remain supported by or suspended from: Put your package down on the table; Hang your coat on the hook.
- so as to be attached to or unified with: Hang the picture on the wall. Paste the label on the package.
- so as to be a covering or wrapping for: Put the blanket on the baby. Put aluminum foil on the lamb chops before freezing them.
- in connection, association, or cooperation with;
as a part or element of: to serve on a jury.
- so as to be a supporting part, base, backing, etc., of: a painting on canvas; mounted on cardboard; legs on a chair.
- (used to indicate place, location, situation, etc.): a scar on the face; the book on the table; a house on 19th Street.
- (used to indicate immediate proximity): a house on the lake; to border on absurdity.
- in the direction of: on the left; to sail on a southerly course.
- (used to indicate a means of conveyance or a means of supporting or supplying movement): on the wing; This car runs on electricity. Can you walk on your hands? I'll be there on the noon plane.
- by the agency or means of: drunk on wine; talking on the phone; I saw it on television.
- in addition to: millions on millions of stars.
- with respect or regard to (used to indicate the object of an action directed against or toward): Let's play a joke on him. Write a critical essay on Shakespeare.
- in a state or condition of;
in the process of: on strike; The house is on fire!
- subject to: a doctor on call.
- engaged in or involved with: He's on the second chapter now.
- (used to indicate a source or a person or thing that serves as a source or agent): a duty on imported goods; She depends on her friends for encouragement.
- (used to indicate a basis or ground): on my word of honor; The movie is based on the book.
- (used to indicate risk or liability): on pain of death.
- (used to indicate progress toward or completion of an objective): We completed the project on budget.
- assigned to or occupied with;
operating: Who's on the switchboard this afternoon?
- [Informal.]so as to disturb or affect adversely: My hair dryer broke on me.
- paid for by, esp. as a treat or gift: Dinner is on me.
- taking or using as a prescribed measure, cure, or the like: The doctor had her on a low-salt diet.
- regularly taking or addicted to: He was on drugs for two years.
- with;
carried by: I have no money on me.
- (used to indicate time or occasion): on Sunday; We demand cash on delivery.
- (used to indicate the object or end of motion): to march on the capital.
- (used to indicate the object or end of action, thought, desire, etc.): to gaze on a scene.
- (used to indicate subject, reference, or respect): views on public matters.
- (used to indicate an encounter): The pickpocket crept up on a victim.
- on the bow, [Naut.]bow3 (def. 7).
- in, into, or onto a position of being supported or attached: Sew the buttons on.
- in, into, or onto a position of covering or wrapping: Put your raincoat on.
- fast to a thing, as for support: Hold on!
- toward a place, point, activity, or object: to look on while others work.
- forward, onward, or along, as in any course or process: further on.
- with continuous activity: to work on.
- into or in active operation or performance: Turn the gas on.
- on and off, off (def. 22a).
- on and on, at great length, so as to become tiresome: They rambled on and on about their grandchildren.
- operating or in use: The television set was on. Is your brake on?
- taking place;
occurring: Don't you know there's a war on?
- performing or broadcasting: The radio announcer told us we were on.
- behaving in a theatrical, lively, or ingratiating way: Around close friends, one doesn't have to be on every minute.
- functioning or performing at one's best: When she's on, no other tennis player is half as good.
- scheduled or planned: Anything on after supper?
- [Baseball.]positioned on a base or bases: They had two men on when he hit the home run.
- [Cricket.]noting that side of the wicket, or of the field, on which the batsman stands.
- on to, aware of the true nature, motive, or meaning of: I'm on to your little game.
- [Cricket.]the on side.
Salesale (sāl),USA pronunciation n.
- the act of selling.
- a quantity sold.
- opportunity to sell;
demand: slow sale.
- a special disposal of goods, as at reduced prices.
- transfer of property for money or credit.
- an auction.
- for sale, offered to be sold;
made available to purchasers.
- on sale, able to be bought at reduced prices.
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General Motors Corp said on Wednesday it had received a delayed payment of $5.4 billion under the emergency funding provided by the US government to keep it in business.
"GM confirmed that it did receive today the second draw of its US Treasury loan," GM spokeswoman Renee Rashid-Merem said. GM Chief Operating Officer Fritz Henderson said late on Tuesday that the automaker would have run out of cash and faced bankruptcy if it had not been given the second loan tranche from the US government.
The loan payout was the second in a total of $13.4 billion pledged to General Motors by the US Treasury. GM has now received $9.4 billion of that amount and expects to get a final $4 billion payment on February 17 when it faces a deadline to submit a restructuring plan to Congress.
GM had expected to receive the $5.4 billion payment last Friday but said this week that the payment was delayed by paperwork it was asked to complete and the press of other funding issues for Treasury officials.
The government has pledged to loan $13.4 billion to GM for three years provided that it demonstrates that it has a plan to pay back the loans and become viable. Under the program, GM faces an initial February 17 deadline to show its progress.
The bailout requires GM to seek deep concessions from bondholders and the United Auto Workers union in order to cut both its debt and hourly wage costs. GM's bondholders and the company have each hired advisers on how to complete a debt-to-equity exchange that the automaker expects will reduce its unsecured US debt to $9 billion from nearly $28 billion.
The company also plans to halve the $20 billion it has promised to a health care trust fund affiliated with the UAW by offering equity instead of cash.
Henderson said late Tuesday that while GM had been in contact with the UAW and bondholders, executives were focused first on updating the automaker's own restructuring plan based on expectations for weaker auto sales in 2009.
Last week, the automaker cut its forecast for 2009 US auto sales, saying it expected sales to drop to their lowest level in 27 years at 10.5 million vehicles.
GM posted sales for 2008 earlier on Wednesday showing that it had lost the title of the world's largest automaker to rival Toyota Motor Corp. GM's global sales dropped 11% in 2008. Toyota's sale were down only 4%. GM had held the title of global sales leader for the past 77 years. (Reuters)


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Today's idea for a post comes from a new client of mine. She asked me to research many ways to burn calories including doing normal household chores such as cooking and cleaning. She stated that even though she is going to start her Insanity Challenge with the Insanity Challenge Group on Facebook in the next week, she was interested in knowing how many calories are burned when she is cooking and cleaning her house. I definitely was curious myself to see how you can burn calories in many other ways other than working out to these Beachbody programs such as P90X, P90X2, Insanity, Insanity/The Asylum and many others. So I did a little bit of research on the subject and here are my findings:
Cooking – when you are cooking like a chef, running around the kitchen, grabbing all of your ingredients to put together that wonderful meal for you and your significant other or your family, you are burning approximately 150 calories per hour. If you are a cook or a chef in a job full time, you can see how the sweat that is coming off your brow will equate to hundreds of calories burned. Therefore, put on your chef's hat and start burning those calories.
Sweeping/Mopping/Vacuuming – is a great upper/lower body workout. You should pick the areas on the floor that are the dirtiest first and work your way to the cleaner areas to get the best workout. If you do this method, you will be burning 240 calories per hour. If you do this type of cleaning all day long, your calories burned will really rack up and you will get a great workout. So, don't shy away from either sweeping, mopping or vacuuming. These chores will pay off for you.
Mowing the Lawn – If you want a really good calorie burning household chore, then dump your landscaper or gardener and begin to mow the lawn on your own. Use a manual or push mower for best results. If you do this, you will be burning 325 calories per hour. Now I know why I was so skinny when I was a teenager growing up. My Dad used to have me mow the lawn every weekend and I remember using a push mower and having to bag tall bags of grass. If you mow lawns for a living, you can burn a large number of calories all day long.
Shoveling the Snow – After a huge Thanksgiving dinner or after eating too much during the holidays, get outside and shovel some snow. Shoveling snow will help you burn about 415 calories per hour. If you have 8 foot snow drifts in your driveway like I experienced the first year I lived in Indiana in 2003, I remember how hard I worked and how much I sweat. Shoveling snow is definitely a great workout.
Therefore, these household chores are great ways to burn calories. However, if you are serious about losing weight fast, I highly recommend one of my Beachbody Challenge Groups to challenge you to hit your goals in fitness, nutrition and calorie burning as quickly as possible. Take a quick moment and watch this video that explains what a Beachbody Challenge Group is all about:
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The Nominees for 2013"
- by brian w. zelley, former boxer, coach and official of British Columbia.
* So far as we close in on the end of 2012, we have nominees galore for
our 2013 selection process that should begin in July 2013. So who are they
and what have they contributed to gather the support of boxing folks and
win the day from those that have the difficult task of selecting some of the many?
Early Support for Eight of the Nominees:
*Support may or may not equal success, but the eight leading nominees
with good early support include:
Ron Whalley, Mickey Griffin, Derrick Hoyt, Gordie Lawson,
Jack Snaith, Sid McKnight, Gary Wood and Jim Gallagher.
*But some of the others are getting a little support:
Three of those folks are Teresa Taylor, Jim Howie,
and Ed Williams.
* It is expected that folks like Dick St. Louis, Vic Murdoch,
Cliff Ballendine, Ralph Galloway, and Boyd Bayne will win
some more support.
But, likely the late George Nepper from the Sixties will get
overlooked as he is not known to many of the folks that are
members of the facebook site. There are others that may
do well by July 2013 such as Jeannine Garside.
* the late Ron Whalley is a well known
official in British Columbia,
Canada and from International
Gordie Lawson rocks on
to another victory in
Lawson began his boxing
in September 1967 as a
new member of the Vancouver
Firefighters Boxing Club.
The Progress Continues with more names:
newest nominee is Wally Doern, builder
2 Rivers boxing coach
Wally Doern to the left
of Prince George coach
Bob Pegues at the 2010
BC Golden Gloves.


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Video Game Adaptations in Film
Ever wonder why movies based on video games suck? It's alot of reasons to be honest, we've seen some terrible video game adaptations come on go, and it probably won't stop. With the release of Warcraft just over the weekend, the million dollar question since the movie has been in development is "will Warcraft be the movie to spark video games in Hollywood"?. I previously just watched Warcraft and it's a decent movie, long as hell but it's cool, it has the Lord Of The Rings/Hobbit feel to it (if you're huge fans of those films) now I don't play Warcraft and have no idea what it's about but if you're a fan of the franchise then this movie is strictly for you and you will be satisfied, if you have no clue what the fuck is going on like I did then just take your brain out and watch it for the story but mainly the action.
Throughout the years, movies based off video games have been terrible, and you know what's sad?, there were films that tried to succeed such as terrible classics Super Mario Bros, Double Dragon, and Street Fighter, there hasn't been a legit great video game movie since 1995 and that's the year the first Mortal Kombat movie was released. Mortal Kombat wasn't spectacular but it was very good and stayed true to its video game roots with a story similar to Bruce Lee's 'Enter The Dragon', it's sequel Mortal Kombat Annihilation was ass cheeks though, that movie was bad from start to finish, but it's another terrible childhood classic and I'll watch it over again just to laugh. The list goes on and on about how many bad films were made, so what is the problem? Is mainly the studios, I thought Max Payne would've been the movie to set things off in the video game universe but that was a lie. Fox Studios butchered that script like they do their X-Men films, as a huge Max Payne fan I was disappointed, first you make the movie PG-13 with a unrated DVD release down the line, you introduce demons that had nothing to do with the game, (Max had crazy dream sequences in the game but he wasn't fighting demons like Constantine).
What will it take to make a solid video game adaptation these days, you don't need a big budget, a $100 million dollar movie is unnecessary, keep it under, find a great writer/director and you're set, but even then that's not easy, you would have to find someone passionate about the project, for example Joe Carnahan (director of the upcoming Bad Boys 3 and possibly 4) directed the cult classic Smokin Aces, as dark and graphic that film is, Joe would be perfect to helm a Max Payne film, with the success of the Mortal Legacy TV series, hopefully the new movie produced by James Wan does some damage. Michael Bay is producing a Ghost Recon film, 13 Hours was great so hopefully he'll carry that on to Recon specifically the Advanced Warfighter series. The Division got the green light and i can't wait to see how that turns out. Uncharted sounds promising, I don't know about Assassin's Creed yet, I think we need a Resident Evil reboot, I'm not so sure about Tomb Raider, Angry Birds was ok, Rachet and Clank caught a brick, but I believe with the technology with the best directors and studios behind it we can see a great video game adaptation made, but as usual until then just watch the games turned into movies that shattered our hopes, some were "good", the others are just bad.


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Introducing Empire Rye
New York Distilling Company will be hosting a Wild Rye Rumpus Event on Saturday, October 21 2017 that will be the world premiere of the exciting new Empire Rye designation of rye whiskey.
In 2015, six leading New York State distilleries banded together to create a consortium dedicated to establishing a whiskey style for the Empire State. This whiskey was to be as distinctive, precisely crafted and held to as high a standard as any of the illustrious whiskey styles in the world.
And so, Empire Rye was born–an homage to New York State's pre-Prohibition rye whiskey-making heritage and a testament to the ingenuity and industriousness of its contemporary distillers. Each distiller's bottling of Empire Rye is crafted in accordance with the same exacting specifications and yet each is given ample space to express their creativity. In time, the hope is that more New York distillers will choose to produce a rye whiskey in accordance with these standards and make the category of Empire Rye known throughout the world.
Please join us on October 21, as the founders and early adopters of Empire Rye unveil their individual expressions to the public.
· Black Button Distilling (Albany)
· Coppersea Distilling (New Paltz)
· Finger Lakes Distilling (Seneca Lake)
· Kings County Distilling (Brooklyn)
· New York Distilling (Brooklyn)
· Tuthilltown Distilling (Gardiner)
· Van Brunt Stillhouse (Brooklyn)
· Yankee Distillers (Saratoga County)
Some bottles will be offered for sale in limited quantities. More details coming soon!Book Online Now!


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VTB Bank, the second-largest bank in Russia, is seeking to strengthen cooperation with Chinese enterprises and expand its business related to the Belt and Road Initiative, said Igor Ostreyko, managing director of trade&export finance at the bank, in an interview with the 21st Century Business Herald.
Trade between Russia and China amounted to US$18.43 billion from January to March in 2017, up 36.8 percent year-on-year. China is Russia's second-largest export market and largest source of imports.
Ostreyko said the financing demand of clients who have business connections with Asian enterprises is rapidly growing, especially those with Chinese agencies.
With the rise of energy resource prices, the bilateral trade between China and Russia will continue to increase this year.
Leaders of the two nations have set a goal of boosting the volume of bilateral trade to US$200 billion by 2020. The figure was US$69.53 billion last year. To reach the new target, the countries plan to step up their cooperation in aerospace and aviation, oil, natural gas, high-speed railway and cross-border bridges.
Ostreyko said VTB Bank is making efforts to expand commercial business cooperation opportunities with Chinese banks and enterprises, especially on Belt and Road projects, and is now exploring suitable avenues for such cooperation.
VTB Bank established a branch in Shanghai in 2008, the only bank from the Commonwealth of the Independent States to do so in China.


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Join the Beaumont & District Agricultural Society for a fun filled summer weekend, experiencing your community's rural roots. Come to the Ag Society Fairgrounds to enjoy pony rides, a petting zoo, crafts for all ages, horse and dog demos, a horse show, a bench show, and a "Meet the Maker Marketplace". Admission, parking and most activities are free of charge. Watch our webpage for current updates.
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To visit Israel and other places mentioned in the Bible is a never to be forgotten experience. Journey with us, on our fourth trip, in the footsteps of God's people of both the Old and New Testaments, to walk where Jesus walked, to see the sites and sense something of life in Bible times. Starting in Jordan and finishing in Rome! Share in a wonderful experience which will leave you with memories for a lifetime.
Featuring: Petra, Mt Nebo, Madaba, Dead Sea, Beer Sheba, Caesarea, Megiddo, Galilee, Safed, Nazareth Jerusalem, Rome.
Tour dates are April 29 - May 18, 2019
Your tour hosts will be Grant & Helen Spangenberg
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Patience is most virtuous in Hip-Hop. Today's rapper wants his recognition yesterday for what he promises he'll do tomorrow. The result is rarely something that sticks to the ribs of the fans. Teflon, though his name is ironic, is lodged between the heart and the ribs of Hip-Hop. He has no intention of getting out.
The Brownsville, Brooklyn native has been grinding for over a decade. From a rare release in the 90's, to acclaimed work with Das EFX and M.O.P., Tef has paid every due imaginable. As he exits a botched deal with Def Jam, Teflon prepares to deliver his Contraband outside the walls of a major, but within the Headquarterz of DJ Premier's Works of Mart. In celebration of the oncoming album and recent mixtape with Big Mike, Teflon and AllHipHop.com admire his patient career, trace his First Family ties, and revisit the magic of D&D Studios. Teflon's words are as sharp as his trademark raspy battle-cry. Read on…
AllHipHop.com: What have you been up to in 2005?
Teflon: Mostly studio work, prep time type thing. We wrapping this album up, it's called Contraband – myself and DJ Premier, we been workin' on it for a little minute. But we ran into some technical difficulties with Def Jam, behind the scenes stuff. So we had to get all the back structure right. Now, we just layin' the groundwork and gettin' this album ready for the street.
AllHipHop.com: So this Big Mike mixtape serves as a way to educate fans on your background?
Teflon: Yeah, it's just kinda like an appetizer for the streets. It gets the people reacquainted with Teflon, let 'em know that I got some new s**t about to drop. We got like 23 joints on there, the name is "Bad News Volume 1" – freestyles, old joints.
AllHipHop.com: I think the average fan might lump you in with your work with M.O.P. I want to stray away from that, but at the same time, tell me how your bond with the First Family came about?
Teflon: I came up in Brownsville, [Brooklyn] – the same part of town as M.O.P. They put me on and all of that. My main thing is, from way back, I always had a love for the artform. People like Rakim, G Rap and Kane, they inspired me to get into the business. I had a lil' knack for it when I was younger. I played with [rap] a lil' bit. I never really took it serious 'cause there was so many other things going on in my life that took precedence over it. I never really looked at it as something serious to get into. As time went on, I started becoming a little sharper and began to realize that I may be able to pull this s**t off. Now, it's just about me establishing my own ground and showin' people what Tef's all about.
AllHipHop.com: Brownsville is a densely populated region. Smoothe and Trigga are from there. What was it about you that shined to Danz and Fame?
Teflon: Before the whole music s**t started, I knew Billy, I knew Fame, I knew Fame's brother. I used to be on the block, hangin' out, gettin' money on the block. Them other dudes wasn't comin' on the block, they wasn't really allowed on the block. When the whole music started happening, I was gettin' into my thing, [ M.O.P.] was gettin' into they thing, Smoothe and them was gettin' into they thing, and they was kinda like from a couple blocks away and never really hung out with dudes. [M.O.P.] done seen me do dirt, they know how I get it in. They might not felt like that 'bout everybody. Even though they musical dudes, they are from the street – so they are real high on principle and respect. If you ain't do it, they ain't gonna cosign. So if you runnin' with 'em, you gotta be dope and you gotta be about what you talk about.
AllHipHop.com: So when did they know you were dope?
Teflon: One time my man had set me up to do a lil' show in Tompkins Park in Bed Stuy. At the time, Fame and them had "How About Some Hardcore?" out. I asked Fame to DJ for me at the joint, 'cause he knows how to. He came to the show and DJ'd for me, and Bill [Danz] was there. Everything just started gettin' so good that they wound up gettin' hyped, and wantin' to perform. After that, I went to a club with them that night and performed. We went to the studio, the radio station. I started opening up shows for them. Unofficially, I just kinda became they hype-man or whateva.
AllHipHop.com: "Ante Up" and Pharaohe's "Simon Says" were one of the last times street records just were undeniable to the radio. Both M.O.P. and Monch used those opportunities to put on great MC's on the remix. What did the remix do for your career?
Teflon: It definitely brought about more of an awareness of who Tef was, as well as M.O.P. When they did that joint, it gave the world an opportunity to see. It gave me a platform to follow-up. There started bein' interest in places there probably wasn't before.
AllHipHop.com: Last question regarding them. But as somebody from the block with these dudes, how have you felt the affects of the G-Unit deal?
Teflon: Listen, I'm coming down the block and I just heard "How About Some Hardcore?" on the radio, and I saw Fame. They just had a cassette tape of To The Death which wasn't even out yet. He gave it to me. When I put that joint on and I was walkin' down the hill at the time, I was fresh home from just doin' some time in jail. I couldn't really be out and about like that. But man, when I listened to that, all I could say was, "These n***as are gonna blow!" I knew these n***as had it. When I look at their situation, it's like gettin' a diploma after you done went to school seven or eight years. They earned it! I felt like that in '94, I feel like that now.
AllHipHop.com: As a true blue New Yorker, why is the South so successful right now?
Teflon: Point blank, it's like this: you started off with these dudes down South sellin' s**t out the trunk of they car. Now, you might have one dude who might be like the absolute dude in his town, and the town will get behind him. So this will move 50-100,000 [dollars] from the trunk of his car. By the time the majors come to these dudes, they gotta spend 15-20 million to even holla at these n***as. [laughs] "And if not, no problem. We just dropped a mixtape that'll do another $100,000! So you ain't really said nothin' slick. Unfortunately, New York is cluttered with 1,000's of f**kin' rappers. Even if you got a dude that'd be considered "that n***a", dudes ain't really gettin' behind him because everybody else wanna be chief. What ends up happenin' is all the hagglin', the bulls**t, the beefs – all that silly s**t, meanwhile these dudes down South, they eatin', organized. Their strength is more than New York.
AllHipHop.com: Right, right. You mentioned Def Jam earlier. You're no longer there?
Teflon: We got the deal with Def Jam in 2001. I signed to Def Jam through Premier's production label which is called Works of Mart. When I got there, as an honorable gesture, I tried to bring awareness back to the Def Jam I grew up [by recording] "Tef's Def Jam". We was supposed to have been puttin' together an album. After the TVT [Records lawsuit], Kevin Liles left. Unfortunately, Kevin was the one handling our project. When they left, the whole administration broke down. When they had Jay-Z come in, we thought s**t was gonna be sweet. "Oh, Jay came in. I know him and Preem go back, whateva." I don't know what happened…
AllHipHop.com: So your Contraband project is coming out independently, not Def Jam?
Teflon: Nah, I don't consider it Def Jam. Them mothaf**kas ain't done nothin' for me. Right now, we open agents. We got our own destiny.
AllHipHop.com: Little known fact is that you had an album, My Will released on Relativity in 1997. That had to mean a lot to you. What does it mean to you now?
Teflon: The experience was a good experience for me. I had to pretty much do the album in three weeks. I did it kinda quick, a lil' rushed. I wasn't as crazy about the production. At the time, just comin' into the game, there was a lot of technicalities of the game that I didn't understand. One being that – all dopes ain't necessarily the beats for you. I couldn't distinguish that. This is where Premier came in. Because after releasing that, nobody [still] knew who Tef was. They might've heard me do a verse on an M.O.P. album, they still ain't know how to address me, as far as production. It was a good opportunity for me to let industry and street people know that I do got potential. It was raw at the time. Now I got a clear perspective.
AllHipHop.com: I would probably guess that much of your career is defined by patience. Every studio has a couch with hungry cats waitin' their turn. Being that dude, what advice do you offer today's restless young talents that don't wanna wait?
Teflon: Nothing has taught me patience in this world like dealin' with this business. When I started off, occassionally, I'd be able to get on a track here, or a track there. For the most part, when it became time for Teflon to put Teflon's album together, it was a whole different story. It was hard for me to get into the studio, hard for me to book times – it wasn't goin' down like that. I had to be patient on that note. Somebody once told me that, "Nobody is ever gonna pay more attention to your s**t than you are." If other people see that you're not working hard, it's not gonna bare much importance to them. But when they see you working, that's when they get the ball moving a lil' more. You gonna have to work out times, you gonna have to work out a mix engineer, you gonna have to get the joint pressed up. You tellin' somebody the picture ain't always gonna do it, they gotta see it.
AllHipHop.com: You were a mainstay at D&D Studios, I'm sure…
Teflon: That was home! No bulls**tin', that was like a clubhouse. You shoot pool, you get your smoke on, your drink on. You got Jay-Z in this room. You got Biggie in that room. Come on, n***a, you couldn't ask no better place to be at. It was a competive atmosphere because you had all these bangin' artists comin' through. When they laid down what they had to lay down, you didn't wanna look stupid before them or after them. I gotta make sure I'm on-point when I come!
AllHipHop.com: I can remember that pool table. Who was the best pool shot? Who was Eddie Kane?
Teflon: Jay had a good game. I whooped him, he won't admit it. He whooped me the next time. There were others, but he was the most known guy I can remember playin'.


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Are you starting to stress about summer? Having the kids home for such a long break can be trying at times, so why not stock up on ebooks for the kids? Using the kindle app on your iPad/iPhone gives kids access to thousands of books for their summer reading pleasure. Here are five that I have chosen to share with you today.
Please note: If it doesn't say that the Kindle price is $0.00, it will NOT be free and you WILL be charged.
** Only Amazon can control when an e-book is free or not. The prices of these books are verified to be correct at the time of this post. We make no guarantees otherwise. Please verify on Amazon before downloading that the price is still free.**
Tongue Twisters for Kids [Kindle Edition]
There are 50 tongue twisters in this ebook; enough to keep the little tackers going if they attempt to master one per day. You could post a daily tongue twister on your fridge or noticeboard and use it as a password for kids to access screen time or whatever. The kids could set themselves a challenge to master the most in the shortest time. Or maybe this ebook will be your biggest regret.
Number FOUR World Facts (Knowledge Book Series) (Boosting Brain Power) (Age 4-10)(Bedtime & Dreaming) [Kindle Edition]
The fourth and final in a series of ebooks that provide trivial facts related to the number 4 e.g. Of all the animals, only the elephant has four knees. Before I read this ebook, I did not know THAT! Number FOUR World Facts could be used as a template by your kids to create their own personalized facts books about their family, their school or perhaps themselves.
Children Book : I Wish I Were a SEAHORSE (Great Book for Kids) (Age 4 - 9) [Kindle Edition]
Written from the point of view of a horse who longs to be a seahorse, with numerous reasons as to why e.g. I wish I were a seahorse so I could have an amazing tail. After each reason for wanting to be a seahorse, a little tidbit about seahorses is given: [Did you know that seahorses have a prehensile tail?]. Not only will your children learn about seahorses, but they will also increase their vocabulary!
What The Fox Learnt (Illustrated) (Four Fables from Aesop) [Kindle Edition]
We have all been wondering what the fox said, well here are four aesops fables that tell what the fox learnt. The Fox and the Crow ("Do not trust flatterers"), The Fox and the Goat ("Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties"), The Fox and the Grapes ("It is easy to despise what you cannot get" - oh yeah, this is SO pertinent to my kids right now!), The Fox and the Cat ("Better one safe way than a hundred on which you cannot reckon").
The Ugly Duckling (Illustrated) [Kindle Edition]
As the mother of a child with Down Sydnrome, I have grown a new appreciation for stories such as the Ugly Duckling. I used to think the story was all about the swan being confident in his identity, but now I read it as a story about the others learning to see with different eyes and value others for who they are. "It is only with the heart that one can see clearly, for the most essential things are invisible to the eye" - Antonie De Sainte-Exupery
Cas is going to curl up with a few books and kids and relish in the fact she has warm shelter from the howling wind and driving rain


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This is the sixth of several posts that will talk about an epic Holocaust writing project that we are embarking on. Too much for just one post, so enjoy. Click here to read the previous post.
To Recap…
The students worked hard to spread the word. I even did my part to help by joining Jeff Bradbury of TeacherCast.net on his TeacherCast.tv network and discuss the One Penny, One Soul Project.
And to use a crab fishing term, we needed to "let the pots soak." The collection jugs collected. The website and PayPal account collected. And the students collected from businesses. Now it was time for the grand total.
The Pay Off
It was our goal to raise $2,500 in a town of 1,500 people. We knew the goal was lofty, but the students felt we needed to go big – and I wasn't about to stop them. But after we totaled it all up, it looked like this…
Obviously it's short of our goal, but the students and myself were happy with the response the community gave us during the project. Together we helped to honor over 110,000 souls lost during the Holocaust.
I will admit, this is the part that I struggled with the most, but I received some great feedback from my grad school cohort.
Because I still wanted to make this academically related (in order to justify eating up 3-4 weeks of school that I did not originally have planned in my curriculum), I still felt I needed to assess their overall work. But their writing wasn't for me – it was for the public. How could I assess their work without hindering their creativity to market effectively?
I decided a writing portfolio would be best. Here was the process we followed during the course of our project…
- Students draft publications, emails, documents, or whatever writing was necessary.
- Students print it first and brings it to me, the Marketing Director.
- I only CIRCLE where corrections need to be made. I may make other design suggestions, but the focus was primarily the writing.
- If there are circles, the student must use what resources and notes they have to figure out what needs to be corrected.
- They make the necessary corrections and submit again.
- Steps 2-5 repeat as necessary.
- Once polished, they use the publication for whatever purpose they intended. They print a second copy to go in their writing portfolio.
I gave a score out of 100 overall on their writing portfolio. This score is based on the grammatical and mechanical correctness of ALL publications in that folder (this includes any printed emails they may have sent out in order to seek outside help).
But I know what you're thinking…You corrected everything as you went through the process! YES! The PROCESS was the most important thing in this project…at least to me it was. But everyone had to include one more piece of writing that was not viewed by me until the final submission: a reflection.
Reflection is Key
Students had to reflect on this whole process and answer four essential questions found in this Writing Portfolio Criteria document.
- Why did you decide to do these specific publications? I'm asking the student to reflect on traits that he or she processes that led him or her to choose those specific publications.
- What was the process you went through to complete this publication? I wanted the student to reflect on the overall process they have just gone through…from beginning to end. I wanted them to realize the hard work they have put in (or lack thereof).
- What was the hardest part? I told the students, "If you hit a road bump, ask Google. If you hit a road block, ask me." I wanted them to struggle through this process a little and feel empowered when they found a work around.
- What skills do you feel you will remember and carry with you past 8th grade? I wanted them to realize that they did learn real adult skills that they will utilize in the future.
This reflection was only peer reviewed before submitting it with the Writing Portfolio.
Final Thoughts
I feel very blessed that Mrs. Bezdek and her West Middle School 8th graders allowed us to help in their endeavor. It gave me the ideal teaching scenario for my students and me. And honestly, I'm a little sad to see it end. I hope this unit has been one that my students will remember and see the value of it through their adult years.
"EveryONE has some good in them." ~Anne Frank
Mr. Bormann
English Rocks!
P.S. Our website will be available for an entire year. That means anyone can still donate through PayPal.
P.S.S. Are you interested in helping Mrs. Bezdek and her 8th graders and would like to start your own initiative to help them out? Email me, and I can put in touch (firstname.lastname@example.com).


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If you're a patient of Phyllis MacGilvray, M.D., and a MyChart user, you can:
Dr. MacGilvray obtained her medical degree at Medical University of South Carolina in 2002. She completed her family medicine residency training at University of Vermont Department of Family Medicine in 2005. As a U.S. Navy wife and academic physician, Dr. MacGilvray enjoyed teaching and practicing medicine at Eastern Virginia Medical School and served as residency program director at Naval Hospital Camp Lejeune. Dr. MacGilvray joined UT Health – San Antonio Department of Family and Community Medicine in September 2016 and currently serves as Vice Chair of Medical Student Education. As a family medicine physician, Dr. MacGilvray enjoys taking care of patients of all ages and has a special interest in women's health.


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With the push for health foods, there is a very healthy soup that may be unfamiliar to you. It is gazpacho, and it is made of all kinds of raw vegetables that are put into a blender. One can use low sodium canned tomatoes or fresh tomatoes as a base.
I said to the waitress, ``This cook makes the best gazpacho I`ve ever eaten.`` She said, ``I wouldn`t know; I don`t like gazpacho. I really love French onion soup.`` I told her that I liked French onion soup too, but you couldn`t compare the two. I suggested that she taste this particular version. She said ``I never tasted any gazpacho.`` I looked incredulously at the waitress, who was no more than 22.
This is what I hear from seniors over 60, who don`t try new things. It has nothing to do with age. It has to do with attitude, a closed-mindedness about trying something different.
Someone I know said that he didn`t like fish. I ordered catfish and I forced him to taste it. He closed his eyes, made a face and opened his mouth the way children do when tasting castor oil. Then, after swallowing it, he said ``I must say, that was really delicious.`` That same person now eats squid, eels, mussels, frog legs and raw onions. All these foods were on a previous ``no try`` list.
Then there are people who don`t like jazz or modern classical music. ``Give me the old standards. That`s not for me,`` they say. ``Just give me Frank Sinatra, Perry Como, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky.``
But, we really have to listen before we make a judgment. When you hear modern music for the first time, you may not like it. By the third composition, something magical might happen. Once you stop listening for a melody, you start hearing marvelous sounds and textures.


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Thursday, 9 July 2015
Blind Spots
We went to see Blind Spots, the Jackson Pollock exhibition at Tate Liverpool yesterday, we get 50% off with the Art Pass which meant it was a fiver each. Our Art Pass subscription is up for renewal next month and this year we didn't even discuss whether to renew it as it provides good value for money in our lives. There are just some occasions where the discount for exhibitions, or the free entry really makes a difference - Bowes Museum is the one that leaps out, there's so much there that I'm not really interested in so £9.50 entry would just put me off going, but their exhibitions are great so the free entry makes it worthwhile. Same thing with yesterday, £10 each might have made us think about the right time to see the exhibition, but the 50% off makes it a lot more affordable.
The exhibition was excellent, I didn't really know anything about the artist or his work beforehand so I went not knowing what to expect. I loved it. It's quite a sad story but the work itself is really enjoyable.
Afterwards, we decided to have a meal out, and chose Las Iguanas as we hadn't been for years and I'd heard that they have a separate veg*n menu (there's also a gluten free menu). The specialist menus were offered without having to ask, which was great, the weird thing was that our waiter talked me through the vegan menu but then suggested to Dan that the steak was a great option. Interesting assumption.
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It is an interesting assumption that a man can't be a vegan - how did Dan react?ReplyDelete
Lizzie DrippingReplies
He's very diplomatic and just replied "there's plenty on the veggie menu thanks".Delete
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Community Paediatrics
Formed in 1997, the Community Paediatrics Section is a network of community paediatricians and residents whose primary goal is to foster the gold standards of practice with respect to community paediatrics by encouraging optimum care for children and youth. In addition to providing a forum for discussion on issues related to community paediatric health care, the section encourages the exchange of research ideas, fosters collaborative research, and promotes the training of community paediatricians.
The section promotes evidence-based anticipatory guidance in all aspects of community paediatrics. Through the CPS, the section also disseminates knowledge about community paediatrics to other health care professionals with the goal of improving multi-disciplinary management and prevention of clinical problems encountered in community paediatrics. The section advocates, at all levels of government, for health care policies that would help prevent the acute and long-term disabilities that are seen by community paediatricians.
Section fee: $29
Special Interest Groups (SIGs)
For more information on joining, email email@example.com.
Additional resources
Setting up a new community practice? CPS members have a new resource to help.
Contact firstname.lastname@example.com with any comments or ideas for the section.


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