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Sole-source decisions are effective and welcome when approached strategically. But when the decision is made outside the guides of procurement, the results can increase the cost and risk.
This article is a preview of Shawn Casemore's presentation at the PMAC conference. "Creating competition in sole-source scenarios" focuses on sourcing methods to increase cost savings in technical and perceived sole-source scenarios. See it June 10 at 11:55am.
Sole-source decisions are effective and welcome when approached strategically. But when the decision is made outside the guides of procurement, the results can increase the cost and risk.
There are predominantly two types of sole-source relationships. The first includes those instances where a sole source is entered into strategically, to reduce cost and leverage spending over fewer suppliers.
The second type of relationship is less desirable, and often entered into outside of the influence of procurement. This kind of agreement often comes from the perception of non-existent competition, supplier proprietary rights to design or manufacturing, or a customized, highly technical version of an existing product or material.
To determine if a sole-source relationship is beneficial to your sourcing decision, there are five main questions for which you should have a positive response:
1. Is there a good relationship between the procurement department and the supplier?
2. Does the supplier invest time collaborating and communicating with procurement, or are they working directly with other departments?
3. Is the supplier willing to discuss or negotiate cost savings opportunities? If so, are they able to provide more hard cost savings versus soft costs?
4. Is the supplier willing to negotiate sole-source purchases, or do they stand firm on their original quote?
5. Does the supplier allow procurement to complete the necessary due diligence for each contract, or does the supplier create undue pressure to drive orders through the organization, minimizing time available to discuss and negotiate?
When strategically entered, sole-source relationships can provide many advantages over typical competitive sourcing, including:
Increased financial leverage. Through increased spending with a sole vendor, an organization can gain leverage to pursue additional services or products at a reduced cost. The more you buy, the lower the price.
Improved supplier relations. Managing a reduced vendor base gives more time for managing fewer relationships. Additional time can be invested building supplier relations, managing suppliers to performance metrics, and participating in joint strategy sessions to discuss customer challenges and seek new opportunities to build market share.
Confidence in Quality. Strategically building a sole-source relationship can provide opportunities to increase quality and service levels. This is why you will find fast food restaurants maintaining long-term relationships with suppliers of key ingredients, or automotive manufacturers maintaining a sole source for drive-train components for several years. Fewer sources of supply allow for better control of quality, and in turn more confidence in the quality of the final product.
Entering sole-source relationships out of perceived necessity, or as the result of decisions made outside of a strategic framework, can lead to several disadvantages, including:
Price creep. Sole sourcing activities reduce the pricing pressures inherent in a competitive marketplace. Lack of competition will lead, either initially or over time, to increased prices.
Organizational saturation. Most sole-source relationships—whether entered by choice or not—have a product, service or material that requires significant interaction with the customer. This often means frequent site visits, offline discussions with engineering, operations, or production. Relationships are built through this interaction, increasing the perceived reliance on the supplier, allowing for more sourcing opportunities within the organization that may not have been available had this relationship existed. This saturation allows suppliers the opportunity to increase business volume and blanket much of the new business as a perceived sole-source requirement, even though this may not be the case.
Dependency. Once a supplier has penetrated the organization, if they're adept at building relationships and searching for opportunities, they can grow quickly. They will create opportunities to increase business and, in some instances, find and exploit organizational weaknesses. Once this has occurred, it can be almost impossible to exterminate the supplier from the organization.
Techniques to reduce risk
By using the following techniques, organizations can reduce the risk and cost from entering a sole-source relationship.
Implement a "cost plus" model. Work with the supplier to develop a collaborative approach to billing. Through implementation of a cost and profit pricing model, supplier costs become known, as do profit margins. With this information we can assist the supplier with controlling costs while ensuring profit margins are reasonable.
Develop intimate knowledge of the supplier's supply chain. As the saying goes, with knowledge comes power. By understanding the entire supply chain and becoming aware of supplier manufacturing processes, information can be gathered that may help in developing new sources of supply in the future. At the very least, a thorough understanding of supplier costs can be developed that may present opportunities to challenge supplier costs.
Investigate unbundling opportunities. Understanding processes and sub-supplier inputs can provide opportunities to unbundle services and cost structures. Unlike buying a meal deal at a fast food restaurant, in a sole-source relationship these bundled costs often lead to higher prices than might otherwise be available. Having a thorough understanding of the suppliers and processes within the value chain will shed light on cost structures, providing insights into areas for potential unbundling of products to reduce pricing structures.
Eliminate dependency
To remove the dependency on a sole source relationship and identify new sourcing strategies, pursue the following strategies:
Investigate reverse engineering opportunities. Reverse engineering is a viable alternative for those materials and products that are not proprietary. If the end product is known, the materials and processes to create the end product can be developed. The only difference is the make and model.
Capitalize on relations with existing suppliers. I'm constantly surprised by the capability and willingness of existing suppliers I had never considered. Existing suppliers offer a solid relationship and commitment that may be unmatched by new, unproven sources. Through continuous discussions of potential business opportunities with existing suppliers, opportunities may arise that benefit both organizations.
Think globally. As globalization continues, the days of sole sourcing due to proprietary or custom designs are dwindling. From garments to commercial goods, new sources of supply are popping up daily. Locating new sources can be as easy as Internet searches, networking at industry functions or talking to existing suppliers.
A sole source relationship does not have to be a dependency, but can be a strategic advantage to meet the needs of niche markets. Whether initiated strategically, or inherited tactically, opportunities exist to build partnerships to reduce cost and mitigate risk. b2b
Shawn Casemore, who has nearly two decades experience in supply chain management leadership roles, operates the consulting firm Casemore and Co. Reach him at email@example.com or (519) 470-7697.


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CBA Specialists and Trainers
Hannabah Blue, MSPH, is Diné (Navajo), originally from Kirtland, New Mexico. Hannabah has a breadth of experience working on race and social justice issues in health, particularly those affecting Queer People of Color, and Native and Indigenous communities. Currently, as a Consultant with John Snow, Inc., she provides technical assistance nationwide on various public health projects. She has served as the Public Health Services Project Manager at the American Indian Public Health Resource Center at North Dakota State University. In this role, she worked with tribes in the Great Plains region to build infrastructure for public health efforts, including around harm reduction and HIV/Hepatitis C prevention. She also was a HIV Capacity Building Assistance Specialist at the National Native American AIDS Prevention Center, where she coordinated technical assistance and HIV prevention interventions targeting Native women for over 3 years. She has an undergraduate degree in Broadcast Journalism, and Gender and Sexuality Studies from New York University, and a Maternal and Child Health Graduate Certificate focusing on Native women through the University of Arizona. She recently earned a Master of Science degree from the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard School of Public Health, with concentrations in women, gender, and maternal and child health. Hannabah also proudly serves on the Board of Directors of Café Cultura, a non-profit organization located in Denver, Colorado that promotes creative expression and leadership among Indigenous and Latino youth through oral traditions of storytelling, spoken word and poetry.
Laura Gerard, MSW/MPH, has over ten years experience in public health program development and management. Laura's current work is focused on capacity building for community-based organizations providing HIV prevention services, as well as providing technical assistance on implementation of the Affordable Care Act for Ryan White grantees. Laura received her Masters of Social Welfare and Masters of Public Health from the University of California, Berkeley.
Yvonne Hamby, MPH, is a CBA Specialist with CBA@JSI. Yvonne has substantial experience in developing programs related to STD and HIV prevention as well as the utilization of data for program monitoring and improvement. She has worked closely with DHHS agencies; CDC funded programs as well as state and local health departments. Yvonne has served as a site evaluator for six SPNS funded sites, Options Replication Project. She has also served as the project director for the Region VIII HIV Integration in Indian Country project, funded by CDC, Office of Reproductive Health. The goal of the project is to apply behavioral science theory, research expertise, and capacity-building TA for the development and assessment of HIV integration services within Indian Country. Yvonne received her Masters of Public Health in Maternal and Child Health from the University of South Florida.
Christopher LaRose, PhD, Dr. La Rose has over 12 years of experience evaluating public health programs and building capacity to address preventable diseases. His body of work includes managing projects that focus on implementing evaluations as well as those that provide technical assistance on HIV monitoring and evaluation in both the domestic and international contexts. Dr. La Rose's various duties have included managing programs focused on coordinating multiple in-person and virtual, web-based, trainings and developing curricula and materials for those trainings, managing subcontractors and interacting with clients and stakeholders, developing training curricula and directly facilitating trainings, and leading teams of TA providers providing technical assistance to clients and stakeholders. In terms of evaluation, he has developed trainings on both qualitative and mixed methods program evaluation and has led multi-site/multi-country evaluations that relied on multiple sources of quantitative data, including surveys, Web-based instruments, focus groups and interviews.
Arman Lorz has a vast understanding of working with youth, men who have sex with other men, high-risk heterosexuals, and people living with HIV and their partners. He has over ten years of experience working in the HIV field. He has been providing various training, technical assistance, and other English and Spanish capacity-building assistance (CBA) services in his role as CBA Specialist for CDC and locally-funded agencies across the U.S. and its territories. Arman brings a solid understanding of the national High Impact Interventions, evidence-based programs, and public health strategies to his work. He is an experienced trainer on Social Network Strategy (SNS), Couples HIV Testing and Counseling (CHTC), and Anti-Retroviral Treatment and Access to Services (ARTAS) curricula, as well as other related HIV prevention skills and content. Recently, Arman has been involved in projects working closely with newly diagnosed HIV individuals and medication adherence strategies, and patient navigation services.
His front-line experience working in the non-profit HIV arena provides Arman with an ample understanding of challenges small organizations face related to meeting the needs of clients. He also possesses vast professional and experiential knowledge of best practices related to program implementation and sustainability, especially recruitment and retention strategies, group facilitation skills, conducting focus groups, and HIV testing. His understanding and experience conducting needs assessments and evaluation studies have led him to present at national conferences including the American Public Health Association (APHA) Annual Meeting and Conference.
Arman has proficiency working with U.S.-based Spanish-speaking populations from various countries. He has assisted on international HIV-focused programs in Central America and the Caribbean; collectively, this has taken Arman to lead many culturally and health sensitive translation reviews. His enthusiasm for learning is reflected by his current pursuit of a graduate degree in public health administration at Colorado State University.
Sam Stallworth, MA, has over eight years of experience as a public health researcher and direct provider of services related to HIV/AIDS prevention and surveillance. He has extensive experience in the provision of technical assistance and training to federal- and state- funded grantees in the collection and submission of HIV/AIDS data, development and review of adherence to quality assurance measures, and the analysis and preparation of data for reporting. He is proficient in use of SPSS statistical analysis software and has been trained in Articulate Storyline, an e-learning authoring tool.
Currently, Sam serves as a Specialist for JSI's Capacity Building Assistance (CBA) project, aimed at providing CBA CBOs. In addition to providing direct technical assistance to agencies, Sam also serves as a lead trainer for both the Social Network Strategy and Couples HIV Testing and Counseling. In addition to his work with the CBA project, Sam also works with the Affordable Care Act Enrollment project, working with the Technical Assistance and Training to provide programmatic guidance to Ryan White HIV/AIDS programs in providing assistance to clients enrolling into expanded Medicaid and Marketplace coverage. He also works on the Data to Care project, which assists selected State health departments with the using HIV surveillance data to inform continuum of care activities.
Sam previously served as a data integrity and quality assurance subject matter expert for the NHM&E Service Center at ICF International, where he was also the online qualitative data lead for Division of Adolescent School Health (DASH) Young Men Who Have Sex with Men (YMSM) project, serving as lead for design and dissemination of online survey tool used to assess needs and access to services for young men in urban communities. As a the field operations liaison for the Florida Department of Health Bureau of HIV/AIDS Surveillance Unit, he provided programmatic consultation and technical assistance to State Health Office (SHO) and surveillance field staff through the relay of information regarding updates to HIV/AIDS surveillance reporting guidelines and procedures. Sam also provided direct HIV prevention services as a health services representative for the Florida Department of Health in Hernando County, conducting HIV counseling, testing, and referral services, as well as working within the community by offering outreach and prevention education to increase awareness of HIV/AIDS.
Sam is a proud graduate of the University of Alabama (ROLL TIDE!) and loves college football, even if the sport doesn't always love him in return.

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June 20, 2012 by admin
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Hello Kitty and all her friends on Pinterest are celebrating the launch of Hello Kitty Beauty's latest fragrance – Big Pink Bow – with a fabulous Pinterest Challenge! From now until June 25 Hello Kitty will be hosting a Pinterest Sweepstakes for the chance to win a Sephora Big Pink Bow gift sets. Not only do I personally love Hello Kitty, but I'm obsessed with Pinterest (follow my pins here).
For the contest, you need to create a Pinterest board called "Hello Kitty Big Pink Bow" and repin the contest image and the Sephora Hello Kitty Big Pink Bow video to start. For the next five days from the start of the challenge, be sure to check out Hello Kitty's social media profiles for the daily Pinspiration. Each day, pin an image (or more!) of that day's Pinspiration from sanrio.com,sephora.com or iamchubbybunny.com… and don't forget to add the hashtag #SephoraHelloKitty to each image you pin. After completing the board, email email@example.com with your full name, age, phone number, address and a link to your board by 11:59pm (PST) on June 25. Here is the link to Hello Kitty's Pinterest page, http://pinterest.com/


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text: Home / About Betty / Issues That Matter Issues That Matter As California's chief financial officer and independent fiscal watchdog, Betty maintains the highest standards of professionalism and ethics in the Controller's office relating to the management and oversight of the State's finances. Often speaking of her office as one that minds the store for our Golden State, Betty will continue seeking ways to improve operational efficiency and excellence. Paramount to Betty's service and leadership as Controller is maintaining fiscal and financial integrity and accountability. Additionally, Betty is keenly aware that as a prominent global economy, California is home to high rates of poverty, including that for children. The economy in our Golden State, even experiencing the longest recovery after any recent downturn and leading the nation in job creation, still leaves many communities behind. We can build a more robust economy by recognizing the social and technological changes that are affecting the nature of work and jobs and ensuring the economic opportunities of the future include those for women, young adults, and our underserved communities including rural communities and communities of color. As Controller, Betty will do her part to build a working economy that is centered on social equity and sustainability. This includes: Developing a fair tax structure that works to facilitate sound fiscal management and support job creation through economic development and sustained economic growth. Recognizing California's current tax structure is outdated and inefficient and not sustainable, Betty will lead the public discussions on comprehensive tax reform that she understands must be a thoughtful initiative that recognizes that every Californian is a stakeholder in reform. Assuring retirement security. With the increased life expectancy of the 65-years-and older population and many retiring with Social Security benefits as the sole source of retirement income, California joins the rest of the United States in the retirement security crisis. Betty will work to design the Secure Choice Retirement Savings Plan for private sector workers who do not have employer-sponsored retirement savings programs as well as to sustain the State's public pension funds for public sector workers and educators — while minimizing the exposure to taxpayers. Combatting climate change. California is a leader nationally and globally in addressing the effects of climate change, setting high goals for greenhouse gas emissions reduction. Whether working with California's ports to green their operations, the maritime industries to confront sea level rise, approving financial assistance for pollution control, or pressing on companies in our pension funds' investment portfolios on tackling climate risk in their businesses, Betty will act along with parties in California, across the nation, and around the world to accelerate the transition to renewable energy, address severe water supply and quality challenges, and focus on those communities most adversely affected by the effects of climate change. Providing affordable housing. Cited as the key public policy issue that if left unaddressed will continue to be a drag on sustaining California's economic recovery, affordable housing now not only includes meeting the demands of low-income working Californians, but also workforce housing needs and the needs of the growing numbers of homeless Californians. Betty will advocate for increasing affordable housing tax credits that leverage other sources of financing for affordable housing; examine ways to reduce the costs of building affordable housing while at the same time ensuring the sustainability of these units; and seek ways to make the finite financial resources work smarter to meet California's affordable housing needs.


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It's one thing to have career goals, but according to Lisa Quast, a vague notion of where you'd like to go isn't enough. What you need, she says, is a strategic plan, and given that she recently wrote a book called Secrets of a Hiring Manager Turned Career Coach: A Foolproof Guide to Getting the Job You Want. Every Time, it's a safe bet she knows what she's talking about. In a wonderful Forbes post titled "How to Turn 2015 Into a Year of Career Success," Quast shares six tips for creating a plan, and they make a lot of sense. Read on to see what she advises.
1. Assess Yourself — While you don't literally have to look in the mirror, it helps to take stock of your strengths and weaknesses and figure out what skills you're lacking. Once you've determined your shortcomings, brainstorm ways to overcome them. Perhaps there are seminars or books that can help.
2. Determine Your Aspirations — It's like the old saying says: If you don't know where you're going, any road will lead you there. Figure out your career aspirations by asking yourself, "Where do I want to be in 3/5/10 years?"
3. Size Up the Competition — It's a super competitive world, and regardless of your field, you're not the only one striving to get ahead. Take a gander at the competition and, as with step one, make note of your strengths and weaknesses. If you're lacking in some areas, how will you better yourself and increase your chances of success?
4. Create Goals — According to Quast, goals are essential. They "reflect what you want to accomplish to improve yourself and to continue moving forward in your career." Identify your goals and make a plan for achieving them.
5. Jump Right In — Once you've got your goals outlined, start trying to achieve them. Ditch your fear of the unknown and get moving. To quote another old saying: He who hesitates is lost.
6. Encourage Yourself — At first, you may not receive a lot of encouragement from others, so it might be up to you to keep yourself inspired and motivated. Celebrate your successes with little treats — "new shoes, a movie night, a special dinner," Quast suggests — and above all, keep your chin up.


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AUBURN UNIVERSITY – Pro golfer Jason Dufner and his wife, Amanda, have joined Alabama Lt. Gov. Kay Ivey in a statewide initiative convened through Auburn University's Hunger Solutions Institute to address child hunger and food insecurity in Alabama.
On Friday, the trio visited the summer feeding program at Greater Peace Baptist Church in Opelika. Since 2003, the Greater Peace Community Development Corporation has provided meals to children from low- and moderate-income families through the USDA Child Nutrition Programs.


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Reading for Sunday
John 18:33-40
33Pilate then went back inside the palace, summoned Jesus and asked him, "Are you the king of the Jews?"
34 "Is that your own idea,"Jesus asked, "or did others talk to you about me?"
35"Am I a Jew?" Pilate replied. "Your own people and chief priests handed you over to me. What is it you have done?"
36Jesus said, "My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jewish leaders. But now my kingdom is from another place."
37"You are a king, then!" said Pilate.
Jesus answered, "You say that I am a king. In fact, the reason I was born and came into the world is to testify to the truth. Everyone on the side of truth listens to me."
38"What is truth?" retorted Pilate. With this he went out again to the Jews gathered there and said, "I find no basis for a charge against him. 39But it is your custom for me to release to you one prisoner at the time of the Passover. Do you want me to release 'the king of the Jews'?"
40They shouted back, "No, not him! Give us Barabbas!" Now Barabbas had taken part in an uprising.
Poetry for Sunday
Psalm 105
1 Come, offer thanks to the Eternal; invoke His holy name.
Tell other people about the things He has done.
2 Sing songs of praise to Him;
tell stories of all His miracles.
3 Revel in His holy name.
May the hearts of the people who seek the Eternal celebrate and experience great joy.
4 Seek the Eternal and His power;
look to His face constantly.
5 Remember the wonderful things He has done,
His miracles and the wise decisions He has made,
6 O children of Abraham, His servant;
O children of Jacob, His chosen people!
He ordered famine to grip the land and
cut them off from their supply of bread.
17 But long before, He had sent a man ahead of them:
Joseph, who had been sold into slavery.[a]
18 At first, his masters shackled his feet with chains,
placed his neck into a collar of iron.
19 That was until the Eternal's promises came to pass;
His word tested Joseph and proved him worthy.
20 The king sent out the order to release him from prison;
the ruler of Egypt liberated him from the chains.
21 Then he put Joseph in charge of the royal household,
made him ruler of all the royal possessions,
22 Allowed him to imprison the royal officials whenever he saw fit
and impart wisdom to the elders in the land.
Reuben loses favor and birthright.
Genesis 35
21Israel moved on again and pitched his tent beyond Migdal Eder. 22While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went in and slept with his father's concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard of it.
Jacob had twelve sons:
Genesis 37
The Story
1Jacob lived in the land where his father had stayed, the land of Canaan.
2This is the account of Jacob's family line.
Joseph, a young man of seventeen, was tending the flocks with his brothers, the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives, and he brought their father a bad report about them.
3Now Israel loved Joseph more than any of his other sons, because he had been born to him in his old age; and he made an ornaterobe for him. 4When his brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them, they hated him and could not speak a kind word to him.
5Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers, they hated him all the more. 6He said to them, "Listen to this dream I had: 7We were binding sheaves of grain out in the field when suddenly my sheaf rose and stood upright, while your sheaves gathered around mine and bowed down to it."
8His brothers said to him, "Do you intend to reign over us? Will you actually rule us?" And they hated him all the more because of his dream and what he had said.
9Then he had another dream, and he told it to his brothers. "Listen," he said, "I had another dream, and this time the sun and moon and eleven stars were bowing down to me."
10When he told his father as well as his brothers, his father rebuked him and said, "What is this dream you had? Will your mother and I and your brothers actually come and bow down to the ground before you?"11His brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the matter in mind.
Joseph Sold by His Brothers
12Now his brothers had gone to graze their father's flocks near Shechem, 13and Israel said to Joseph, "As you know, your brothers are grazing the flocks near Shechem. Come, I am going to send you to them."
"Very well," he replied.
14So he said to him, "Go and see if all is well with your brothers and with the flocks, and bring word back to me." Then he sent him off from the Valley of Hebron.
When Joseph arrived at Shechem, 15a man found him wandering around in the fields and asked him, "What are you looking for?"
16He replied, "I'm looking for my brothers. Can you tell me where they are grazing their flocks?"
17"They have moved on from here," the man answered. "I heard them say, 'Let's go to Dothan.' "
So Joseph went after his brothers and found them near Dothan. 18But they saw him in the distance, and before he reached them, they plotted to kill him.
19"Here comes that dreamer!" they said to each other. 20"Come now, let's kill him and throw him into one of these cisterns and say that a ferocious animal devoured him. Then we'll see what comes of his dreams."
21When Reuben heard this, he tried to rescue him from their hands. "Let's not take his life," he said. 22"Don't shed any blood. Throw him into this cistern here in the wilderness, but don't lay a hand on him." Reuben said this to rescue him from them and take him back to his father.
23So when Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped him of his robe—the ornate robe he was wearing—24and they took him and threw him into the cistern. The cistern was empty; there was no water in it.
25As they sat down to eat their meal, they looked up and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead. Their camels were loaded with spices, balm and myrrh, and they were on their way to take them down to Egypt.
26Judah said to his brothers, "What will we gain if we kill our brother and cover up his blood?27Come, let's sell him to the Ishmaelites and not lay our hands on him; after all, he is our brother, our own flesh and blood." His brothers agreed.
28So when the Midianite merchants came by, his brothers pulled Joseph up out of the cistern and sold him for twenty shekelsof silver to the Ishmaelites, who took him to Egypt.
29When Reuben returned to the cistern and saw that Joseph was not there, he tore his clothes. 30He went back to his brothers and said, "The boy isn't there! Where can I turn now?"
31Then they got Joseph's robe, slaughtered a goat and dipped the robe in the blood. 32They took the ornate robe back to their father and said, "We found this. Examine it to see whether it is your son's robe."
33He recognized it and said, "It is my son's robe! Some ferocious animal has devoured him. Joseph has surely been torn to pieces."
34Then Jacob tore his clothes, put on sackcloth and mourned for his son many days. 35All his sons and daughters came to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. "No," he said, "I will continue to mourn until I join my son in the grave." So his father wept for him.
36Meanwhile, the Midianitessold Joseph in Egypt to Potiphar, one of Pharaoh's officials, the captain of the guard.
The Whole Body of Christ.
1 Corinthians 12
12Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ. 13For we were all baptized byone Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink. 14Even so the body is not made up of one part but of many.
15Now if the foot should say, "Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body," it would not for that reason stop being part of the body. 16And if the ear should say, "Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body," it would not for that reason stop being part of the body. 17If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be? 18But in fact God has placed the parts in the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be. 19If they were all one part, where would the body be? 20As it is, there are many parts, but one body.
21The eye cannot say to the hand, "I don't need you!" And the head cannot say to the feet, "I don't need you!" 22On the contrary, those parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, 23and the parts that we think are less honorable we treat with special honor. And the parts that are unpresentable are treated with special modesty, 24while our presentable parts need no special treatment. But God has put the body together, giving greater honor to the parts that lacked it, 25so that there should be no division in the body, but that its parts should have equal concern for each other. 26If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.
27Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it. 28And God has placed in the church first of all apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing, of helping, of guidance, and of different kinds of tongues. 29Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles? 30Do all have gifts of healing? Do all speak in tongues? Do all interpret? 31Now eagerly desire the greater gifts.
And yet I will show you the most excellent way.
Read more for greater understanding.
Differentiation of Self
Great List showing the ways we are guilty of self Differentiation
Jacob, Joseph, Jealousy, and a Journey to Egypt (Genesis 36:1-37:36)
A Surprisingly good web Commentary of Joseph
When Did Christians Get So Mean
How to Avoid the Comparison Trap
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Thinking and Experiencing Techne: Brushing Out
The Finished Varnishes by Rebecca Goozee
This article was originally published on the V&A Research Blog in December 2016.
Documentary by Vivien Chan and Charlotte Slark
From a series of workshops for the Thinking and Experiencing Techne module in February 2016. Read more about the module on the V&A Blog.
The final lab session of the V&A/RCA History of Design MA course's 'Thinking and Experiencing Techne' class took place in the relative comfort of the Blythe House conservation studio rather than in the outdoor 'lab' space, where we had been re-creating sixteenth-century varnish recipes over the previous weeks. There was a sense of excitement and trepidation as we examined the contents of the jars holding the four different varnishes we had made. It was time to 'brush out' our varnishes on to untreated wood, to see if they would cure and set as a lacquer. This would be the final test of whether or not we had produced anything resembling a suitable wood varnish.
The making of the varnishes had been an arduous task. By comparison, the process of brushing out seemed delicate. At first, the varnishes appeared far too thick and gloopy for spreading, so we thinned them with turpentine, lavender oil and methylated spirit, all substances that were appropriate for the time period of our recipes. The mastic and aspic oil vanishes we had made were a honey colour, leaving a light hue on the wood. Our amber varnish was still a little gritty as the amber had not dissolved completely. Our final varnish, one made of linseed oil and copal (a substance similar to amber), was the most successful. It was much thicker, darker and it felt most like a modern varnish, almost gluey in its application. We all propped up our plywood in hope of it drying and producing the results we so desperately want. Only time will tell if the varnishes will dry properly and 'behave' like varnishes, as they take up to a week to cure.
Brushing out marked the end of our experiment with making sixteenth-century varnishes. The experience taught us that the likelihood of success gained by following the recipe books was initially low because of our lack of understanding of how different materials will interact, but would grow with time. Although the experience was – overall – uncomfortable (largely because of the fumes!), we gained a very useful insight into processes of making and knowledge generation.


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Cookies always taste better after a victory.
Just ask the Memphis wrestling team.
The annual tradition, once the team state tournament rolls around, ended in a celebration as Memphis downed host New Haven, 51-30, to claim another Division 4 team district championship on Thursday afternoon.
PHOTO GALLERY: See images of Memphis taking district championship.
�Coach told us that we have cookies for afterwards and everyone knows that cookies taste better after you win,� freshman Eddie Gruszczynski said. �That�s what everyone tells you. They most certainly do.�
Gruszczynski is one of 10 freshmen that helped lead Memphis to its 19th district championship in 29 years under coach Mark Pringle.
He�s the only one of the bunch that didn�t have any wrestling experience prior to his freshman year.
�He�s finally starting to pick up the moves and stuff,� Pringle said.
Gruszczynski got pins against both opponents on Thursday.
�The whole time it�s just listening to coach,� Gruszczynski said.
Gruszczynski�s first career pin came on the JV team, using a duck-under that went straight to a half-nelson.
�I pinned that kid under 10 seconds so ever since then I�ve noticed how good of a move it is so I just keep going with it,� Gruszczynski said.
Gruszczynski used the duck-under in both his wins Thursday, which ended in pin, to get his opponent to his base before finishing with a cross-face cradle.
It took Gruszczynski just a minute and16 seconds to pin New Haven�s Sam LaHaie at 145 pounds to give Memphis a 36-12 lead with six matches left.
�He got that win and it really fired the guys up and we carried it over from there,� Pringle said.
Gruszczynski pinned Lutheran Northwest�s Charles Calhoun at 1:42 in the Yellowjackets� 48-27 semifinal win.
�We talked about (Wednesday) being our last practice as a team. We could have been done as a team. We break down and everyone says, �Family.� They brought it up. It�s not Memphis, it�s family. That helps when you look at each other as family and brothers.�
New Haven got a bye to the championship match.
�They brought their C game and you�re not going to win like that at districts,� New Haven coach Chad Matthews said of his team�s performance. �At 145 was where it turned around in their favor. After that the boys know what that looks like. It�s been so many years working the criteria to win. It�s really disappointing.�
Lutheran Northwest coach Wayne Terwilliger is encouraged in his third season at the school.
�We wrestled well,� Terwilliger said. �We�re a program that�s finally getting numbers.�
In Terwilliger�s first season he had five wrestlers. He�s up to 16 now.
�This is getting exciting now,� said Terwilliger, who had 12 on the team last season. �We�re getting there.�
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Memphis 51, New Haven 30
103 pounds: Logan Strickland, M, won by void. 112: Jacob Christy, M, pinned Miley Wyche, 1:25. 119: Dakota Strickland, M, won by void. 125: Trevor Dusty, NH, pinned Chase Leenknegt, 5:27. 130: Brian Strickland, M, won by void. 135: Tyler Boshears, NH, pinned Cody Thomas, 1:12. 140: Josh Erdman, M, pinned Josh Dotson, 5:32. 145: Eddie Gruszczynski, M, pinned Sam LaHaie, 1:16. 152: Tyler Dusty, NH, won by void. 160: Wesley Walsh, M, dec. Zach Teidt, 9-3. 171: Danny Molnia, M, pinned Kamal Bauer, 3:59. 189: Gustavo Flores, NH, won by void. 215: Randy Rudick, NH, won by void. 285: Orin Saunders, M, pinned Kristian Sleison, :40.
Memphis 48, Lutheran Northwest 27
285 pounds: Josh Fultz, LN, won by void. 103: Logan Strickland, M, won by void. 112: Jacob Christy, M, won by void. 119: Dakota Strickland, M, won by void. 125: Riley Seres, M, pinned Jacob Thiery, :25. 130: Brian Strickland, M, won by void. 135: David Hagen, LN, dec. Cody Thomas, 10-4. 140: Josh Erdman, M, pinned Tim Thorsen, 5:42. 145: Eddie Gruszczynski, M, pinned Charles Calhoun, 1:42. 152: Clark Thomas, LN, dec. Wesley Walsh, 3-2. 160: Danny Molnia, M, pinned Colin Mong, LN, 1:20. 171: Kaden McClain, LN, won by void. 189: Kaden Rubio, LN, won by void. 215: Cameron Rubio, LN, dec. Orin Sounders, 5-2.
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John E. Howell, 76, of Willis, Texas, passed away after a brief illness in Conroe, Texas, on December 24, 2015. Mr. Howell was born January 30, 1939 in Somerville, Tennessee.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Margaret and Earl B. Howell of Somerville, Tennessee, and his sister Anna H. Foster of Conroe, Texas. He is survived by his wife Peggy Howell of Willis, Texas, daughters Stacy Howell of Cypress, Texas, and Tina H. Collins and husband John Collins of Wake Village, Texas, brother Robert E. Howell and wife Johnnie R Howell of Somerville, Tennessee. Grandchildren Amanda Collins of Wake Village, Texas, Christopher Howell of Cypress, Texas. He retired from Continental Airlines after 33 years in 1999.
A memorial service will be held January 16, 2016 at 10 am located at First Baptist Church, Willis. The family invites you to wear John's favorite attire "Blue Jeans".
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Peacefully set in the highly desirable Loralea Gardens complex this spacious light and bright apartment enjoys luxurious on site facilities including a pool and exceptional convenience for parks, shopping and transport
Apartment has no common walls
Great for first buyers, downsizers and investors, modern security building, lift from carpark and ground level, pet friendly estate
Contemporary style, large windows overlooking green spaces, fabulous balcony with louvre screens perfect for entertaining in privacy and style
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Stroll to buses for City, Gordon, Macquarie Park, Belrose and beaches
In sought after St Ives North Public School catchment, stroll to Corpus Christi and Masada, walk to Brigidine, close to Sydney Grammar Prep, in St Ives High School Catchment, easy commute to other private schools
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Title of Bulletin Board: How will YOU be ACTIVE?
Category: End of School Year
Suggested Grade Level: All
Materials: Black bulletin board paper, die cut letters, chalk
A simple end of the year board that students build on. Using the idea of a blackboard, students wrote what their summer activities might be. This idea could be used throughout the year for different themes using direct student participation for the board.
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The new operations centre is located in the Lysaker business centre near to the city. Opened in late January 2014 the new centre was welcomed with a launch event for clients, partners and colleagues of the ATPI Group business.
Led by Dag Kristian Amland, the ATPI Group's managing director for Norway, the growing team offers specialist professional services for many of Norway's top blue chip companies. This includes the comprehensive travel requirements of the shipping and marine and oil and gas industries delivered by ATP Instone; and the effective budget management and fulfilment of corporate travel policies by ATP Corporate Travel.
The office move comes in response to several new business wins over the past six months including the global corporate business for Höegh, an industry leader in the shipping sector. The new offices also allows for future growth, enabling ATPI Norway to meet the increased demand for its services in this region.
With several years of experience at Berg Hansen and VIA, Karsten Møgster has also joined the Norwegian team as the new sales and account manager and will be based in Bergen.
Peter Muller, chief operating officer for Europe and the USA, the ATPI Group, explained: "High profile account wins coupled with three key new hires and a move to the central business district are all confirmation that the Norwegian market continues to go from strength to strength. To continue to drive this growth, investment in the Oslo office is key."
"As a multinational business many of our clients are growing their operations in Scandinavia and we have worked hard to ensure our offices throughout this region continue to exceed expectations. The high standard of customer service from our Oslo office means the Norwegian business stands in good stead to become one of the key offices of the ATPI Group in Europe, especially when it comes to managing and working with energy, offshore and shipping clients."
The ATPI Group has operated in Norway for over 19 years with offices in Oslo, Arendal, Bergen and Stavanger. 2014 is set to be the Oslo-office's record year in terms of client acquisition and team expansion.
The ATPI Group is one of the world's leading and long established global travel management and events businesses. The ATPI Group has over 70 wholly owned offices and network partners in 41 countries around the world, and has successful operations in corporate travel, corporate event management, online travel technology and specialist travel management for a number of key industries including the energy and shipping sectors.


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Dartmouth House
Dartmouth house is a beautiful mansion with a pretty courtyard, located in the centre of London's Mayfair. This historic venue is perfect for events that require a touch of elegance and charm.
Originally built in the 16th Century, the building that exists today was converted into a stunning townhouse by Lord Revelstoke. It was later purchased by Lord Dartmouth before being used as a British Red Cross military hospital during the war, it then became the home of the English-Speaking Union as it still is today.
The unique rooms at this venue feature a range of styles to suit many occasions, and despite its age, the building offers flexibility with interconnecting spaces and rooms.
This central London venue has several options for corporate events, whether it's a boardroom for 10 with WiFi access, conference for 100 with the latest AV or a grand drinks reception for 150 in the secluded courtyard. The venue also caters for summer and Christmas parties.
If you're looking for a real wow factor and privacy then the whole venue is available for exclusive hire, accommodating up to 400 guests.
The location couldn't be better, located in Mayfair and near to a range of tube stations (Green Park being the nearest), this venue gives your delegates easy access to the whole of London and it's connections. What's more, with many hotels in close proximity, it's ideal for events where overnight accommodation is required.
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New regional forum will boost APAC healthcare solutions, says Microsoft
Our priority is to enable better and further collaboration between technology and people to break down the information barriers that exist between the disparate IT environments across the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries, said Rijpma. Through solution accelerators that enable interoperability in key areas such as secure messaging, clinical information worker and clinical data manipulation, we can enable solutions that are otherwise not available to existing healthcare IT environments.
A collaborative open approach
Microsoft Asia Pacific industry technology strategist for healthcare Werner Van Huffel said: One of our most prominent projects for healthcare globally is the Microsoft Common User Interface (CUI): a set of components that developers can use to create healthcare applications. Recently we have released several new components including a terminology component incorporating Standardised Nomenclature of Medicine' (SNOMED) services. This project serves as an example of how Microsoft's philosophy of knowledge-driven health can combine with the expertise of our partner, in this case HealthLanguage, to produce positive outcomes.
US-based health IT applications developer HealthLanguage Inc's senior vice-president, Marc Horowitz, said: The diverse nature of health care requires partners to collaborate effectively to respond to the various needs of professionals involved. By offering healthcare professionals the ability to simply, quickly, and accurately enter and access clinical information, this combination of technologies supports both companies' shared goal of providing easy-to-use, standardized solutions that enhance patient care and safety.
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Thursday December 18th, 2014 Join Antoinette Gangi and Marc Demetriou in welcoming guest Bob Wheeler CPA, CFO of The Comedy Store in LA and Book Author of The Money Nerve: Navigating the Emotions of Money.
The Money Nerve guest Bob Wheeler Topics
- What is a "Money Nerve" and how does a person ease the pain
- How emotions play a part in financial decisions
- Setting Intentions; Words are powerful tools
- Tips and exercises for achieving goals
- If you are not where you want to be… finding the secret to change within, to make a shift
The Money Nerve guest Bob Wheeler
The Money Nerve: Navigating the Emotions of Money
A fresh approach to successful habits of personal finances
Los Angeles, CA – This new book, The Money Nerve: Navigating the Emotions of Money, authored by Bob Wheeler, CPA, and CFO of The Comedy Store in Los Angeles, has a simple yet profound goal: to help readers understand how money affects their emotions and their relationships. Wheeler hopes to help people face their financial fears and discover financial freedom by creating a healthy relationship with money.
An excerpt from "The Money Nerve":
"Wouldn't it be nice to worry less about money and focus more on financial freedom? A healthy relationship with money is freedom. It's time to become aware of your personal decision-making process in order to create the new financial you.
How emotions underpin our relationship with money (and how that relationship, in turn, affects all aspects of our lives) is the basis of this book. Each of us has a 'Money Nerve,' and this book will help you see how your Money Nerve affects your financial decision making."
"This is not a how-to-get-rich book," Wheeler says. "It's a how-to-have-a-healthy relationship-with-the-money-you-have book. By learning to make conscious choices and live with the concept of Proactive Abundance, this attitude and lifestyle can be extremely positive, regardless of one's level of income."
Bob Wheeler
Bob Wheeler's personal narrative is to: Be the change you want to see in the world. ~ Mahatma Ghandi
His crusade for personal growth has cross-pollinated with his accounting practice to birth a new approach to personal finances. From his 25 years of helping clients, Bob has distilled a concoction of warmth, information, motivation and budgeting directive that he offers to anyone with financial concerns. His passion is to help others gain insights about how emotions trigger financial decisions. Combining finances with behaviors, Bob has lifted the numbers off the table and put them into the heart, where he shows they have been all along.
As a man of true integrity with an infectious energy, Bob has spoken at various conferences on tax law changes and serves on the board of directors for several nonprofit and profit corporations. While strengthening his accounting practice, Bob has simultaneously pursued his love of satire and ventured into the realm of standup comedy. He is currently the chief financial officer for The Comedy Store in West Hollywood, California.
Bob graduated from Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. His world travels lead him to all points on the globe, especially those at high altitudes. He has climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro in Africa, arrived at the Base Camp Everest in Nepal and climbed several smaller mountains in between. With charm and humor, his experiences on the road, in the office, or in a Grecian marathon feed his wit as a standup comic and financial behaviorist.


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During his many years as a criminal defense lawyer, James Newby has learned that innocent people are charged wrongly and good people make mistakes. That's why James now offers his skills as a compassionate but aggressive criminal defense lawyer. He works to remove charges for people wrongly accused of crimes and lessen the penalties for people who have made bad decisions, allowing them to get back on their feet. The justice system can oftentimes be unforgiving, it is a good idea to have a strong voice on your side.
Rated one of Colorado Springs best criminal defense attorneys, James Newby has received over 140 5-Star reviews on Google.
The five most recent reviews are displayed below. Chick to view all Google reviews.
Every year Colorado Springs Style works with the El Paso County Bar Association to survey 1,100 licensed attorneys in the Colorado Springs area. The survey asks attorneys from all fields of law to nominate their preferred attorney for each category.
The law industry depends heavily on peer to peer recommendations because after all who would know better about the value and expertise provided by an attorney than their peers in the Colorado Springs bar.
Any attorneys, in good standing with the El Paso County Bar Association, were eligible for selection and the votes were polled in an unbiased manner.
The award serves to spotlight attorneys that are viewed as outstanding and respectable among their colleagues.
For the last three years, James Newby has been selected as one of the top attorneys in the Colorado Springs area.


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Our team of highly skilled engineers bring a wealth of experience in a highly specialised sector. This allows us to provide successful and proven solutions for our customers.
Sempre provides support, consultancy and manages services for customer environments across a wide range of industries. Our client base ranges from SMB to Enterprise which includes government, financial, education and leading research institutions.
Being specialized allows us to bring the same level of skills as much larger generalist integrators, with more agility and responsive outcomes.


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Purdue University, home of the Boilermakers, is a public, higher institution located in West Lafayette, Indiana. This university was founded in 1869 by a land-grant donated from John Purdue, a Lafayette businessman and philanthropist. He donated the money to create a university that would encompass the fields of science, technology, and agriculture in his name. The first day of classes consisted of six instructors and thirty-nine students and the campus itself only consisted of six buildings, only which one is remaining today, otherwise known as University Hall.
Today, Purdue University offers more than 200 majors for undergraduates, over 70 Master and Doctoral programs, professional degrees in pharmacy, and professional degrees in veterinary medicine. There are over 3,000 instructors and 39,000 students in attendance indicated by the Purdue University Data Digest 2012-2013. It enrolls the second largest student body of any university in the state of Indiana and is known to have the fourth largest international student population of any university in the nation. The campus itself consists of over 2,600 acres. Well-known as a world-class research institution, an additional 15,000 acres is dedicated for industrial and agricultural research. Purdue is also one of the Big Ten members having 18 intercollegiate sports teams and more than 850 student organizations. For more information about Purdue University, please refer to the website at www.purdue.edu.


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Grosso named CEO of ASCP
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Frank Grosso, RPh, has been named the executive director and CEO of the American Society of Consultant Pharmacists. He will start on September 8.
"The opportunity to take on the leadership of an organization that has been at the forefront of medication therapy management for seniors for 45 years is very exciting," Grosso said.
Grosso, the vice president of pharmacy services at Genesis HealthCare, LLC, has 35 years of long-term care pharmacy experience and has worked at Genesis since 1991. Before that, he was senior vice president of pharmacy operations for NeighborCare Pharmacy for 14 years.
Grosso has been an ASCP member since 1981 and has served on numerous ASCP committees including the Drug Enforcement Administration Task Force and the Advocacy Council. He has been involved in key issues such as short-cycle dispensing, implementation of Medicare Part D, and controlled drugs.
A graduate of Albany College of Pharmacy, he also served as director of long-term care pharmacy at Fay's Drugs.


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Find more Heitlauf relatives and grow your tree by exploring billions of historical records. Taken every decade since 1790, the U.S. Federal Census can tell you a lot about your family. For example, from 1930 to 1940 there were 8 less people named Heitlauf in the United States — and some of them are likely related to you.
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Farming constitutes a significant part of many states' economies, including North Carolina's. Few Americans enter the farming workforce, however, so the agricultural industry has increasingly turned to immigrant workers to fill its ranks. But many farmers and their workers find themselves at the mercy of immigration law.
Farming interest groups, including the North Carolina Growers Association, want a guest worker program that would give farmers an increased ability to hire immigrant workers. Supporters of immigrant workers want an easier track to U.S. citizenship. But trends in the immigration debate have failed to deliver on both of their hopes.
The current program that allows farmers to hire foreign workers legally is called H-2A, after the type of visa that the workers receive under the program. But farmers dislike the program, calling it expensive and faulty. In addition, it appears that farmers cannot realistically meet their needs through the program, as North Carolina growers will only employ approximately 7,000 farm workers with H-2A visas this year.
Farmers and farm worker advocates thought they had made a breakthrough in 2003. They formed a coalition to support a political deal called AgJobs, which would have given farmers a simplified H-2A program and would have given 1.5 million illegal workers legal status and the chance to become U.S. citizens. But AgJobs hitched its star to the wrong wagon. The larger immigration bill to which it was attached fell apart in 2007.
Since then, the coalition has split. Farmers are still attempting to simplify H-2A alone. Proponents of reform now want to attach an immigrant guest worker program to the larger bill dealing with the E-Verify system. Some believe that E-Verify could pose significant harm to the farming industry. The outcome of this political debate could have far reaching consequences for immigrant workers and the farmers who employ them.
Source: The Miami Herald, "Farmers still fighting for immigrant guest-worker program," Michael Doyle, Feb. 9, 2012.


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Jane is one of only four women to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director and was the first female filmmaker to receive the prestigious Palm d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, for her feature film, The Piano.
Enlisting such a gifted film director to lead an advertising production required a special campaign idea. When ANZ talked to Jane about the Smart Girls concept, as a fresh way to discuss women's inequality, it resonated with her, and the partnership was forged.
No matter how you peel this lemon, it is never sweet –women do not get a fair deal.
"In my industry the facts are very clear and available; less than 10 per cent of feature films in America are directed by women."
Our behind-the-scenes video shows Jane working with a group of bright, confident and independent young girls to draw out their genuine responses to a series of disturbing statistical inequalities. The end result was a striking, emotive piece of film we've named Smart Girls.


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Things to Do in Pleasanton, CA
Whether you're traveling on vacation or for business, there are plenty of exciting things to do in Pleasanton, CA. Let Four Points help plan your day with our detailed guide to the best activities the area has to offer. Take the BART into the city, wine taste in Livermore, or shop 'til you drop at the San Francisco Premium Outlets. Relax with a tasty Best Brew® when you return and get comfortable in our Four Points Signature Bed. We have what matters most to you at Four Points Pleasanton.
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- Historic Downtown Pleasanton - Charming, historic Downtown Pleasanton is an enjoyable place to shop, dine and meet friends in a quaint, Old California setting. The pedestrian friendly, tree-lined streets offer a vibrant blend of parks and historic buildings, specialty shops and services, fine dining, and coffee shops
- Alameda County Fairgrounds - The Alameda County Fair originated in 1859 as Floral Fair. Its racetrack is the oldest one-mile horse racing track in America, and the fairgrounds host hundreds of events annually. It is also home to Pleasanton Off Track Betting.
- Livermore Valley Wine Country - Livermore is home to over 40 wineries, ranging from handcrafted startups to historic leaders of the California wine industry. Attracting well over 500,000 visitors per year, the Livermore Valley has an east-west orientation, making it unique among Northern California wine growing regions.
- Underdog Wine Bar at Concannon Vineyard - Underdog Wine Bar is an urban oasis in the beautiful Livermore Valley Wine Country. With a host of local wines as well as many others from around the world, Underdog Wine Bar has more than 50 wines available by the glass.
- Blackhawk Museum - The Blackhawk's Museum's automotive exhibition of International Automotive treasures presents and displays historically significant and artistically inspired automobiles.
- Livermore Performing Arts Center Home to the TriValley Repertory Theater, The Livermore/Amador Symphony, and the Livermore Valley Opera, the Performing Arts Center also hosts many other touring and seasonal concerts and plays throughout the year.
- Pleasanton Sports Complex and Fields - Home of regional soccer, baseball, softball, and numerous other sports tournaments.
- Shadow Cliff Regional Recreation Area - A public water park with slides, a picnic area, hiking, fishing, swimming, and fun for the whole family.
- Mount Diablo State Park - This park is one of the ecological treasures of the San Francisco Bay Area. Every season the park has its own special qualities. Discover the mountain's beautiful wildflowers, its extensive trail system, fascinating wildlife, and distinctive rock formations. View the stars from its lofty heights, bike ride to the 3,849 foot summit or explore the more remote trails on horseback.
- Boomer's Livermore - Family fun with go-kart tracks, bumper boats, miniature golf, video arcade, and café.
Shopping & Dining
- San Francisco Premium Outlets - Spend the day at this outlet mall featuring over 116 designer and brand-name clothing, shoes, accessories, and houseware stores.
- Campo di Bocce - Campo di Bocce of Livermore is a family-owned Italian restaurant and United States Bocce Federation affiliated Bocce Club located in the beautiful Livermore Valley Wine Country. The first and premiere bocce and dining entertainment facility of its kind, Campo di Bocce is a place for food, friends, fun, and of course bocce.
- Stoneridge Mall – Stoneridge Mall offers the best shopping in the East Bay. Truly a one-stop shopping destination anchored by Nordstrom, Macy's, Macy's Home, Sears and JCPenney, there are over 165 specialty stores and services with everything you need in one convenient location.
- Tommy T's Comedy Steak House - Tommy T's Comedy and Steakhouse is a great place to sink your teeth into a steak, and catch a big name comedian tear into an unforgettable set.
- The Bridges Golf Course - 18 hole, par 72; driving range, lessons, full services available; Call 925-735-4253
- Callippe Preserve Golf Course - 18 hole, par 72; driving range, lessons, full services available; Call 925-426-6666
- Las Positas Golf Course - 18 hole, par 72; driving range, full services available; Call 925-443-3122
- Poppyridge Golf Course - 18 hole, par 72; driving range, lessons, full services available; Call 925-455-2035
- Sunol Valley Golf Course - Two, 18 hole, par 72 courses; driving range, lessons, full services available, Call 925-862-0414
- Wente Golf Course - 18 hole, par 72; driving range, lessons, full services available; Call 925-456 2475
- Pleasanton Fairways Golf Course - Home of the First Tee of the Tri-Valley. 9-hole, par 30 Executive Course; driving range, lessons, full services available; Call 925-462-4653


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Does your organization need to get closer to its customers? Does it need to become more efficient? Does it need to make smarter business decisions and boost its bottom line? The keys to achieving those goals are better analytics and better intelligence. And the keys to better analytics and better intelligence are data catalogs. Tune in to this web seminar to find out how data catalogs continually enrich data, eliminate data silos and provide the real-time insights your team needs to make the best strategic decisions for the organization.
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::Shew:: Finally feel like I'm caught up from #RAGT17! This year was absolutely amazing and I can't begin to thank all the incredible sponsors and volunteers who made this event possible. We've also had so much interest in the 2018 event that we have most of our sponsor positions filled. How fun is that?
We're still looking for a few meal sponsors, and discretionary cash donations are always accepted. You can see info about #RAGT18 here: http://readerauthorgettogether.com/about/#info
I'm so close to finishing Fast Burn, but I lost a little of my momentum after being away from my desk for so long. Luckily these characters grabbed me and pulled me back in, so now I'm back on track. Fast Burn is the 4th and final book in the Body Armor series and releases April 2018!
Speaking of releases, we're now in countdown mode for Worth the Wait, the 2nd book in The Guthrie Brothers series. It releases July 25th. Hogan and Violet were a hoot to write and I look forward to you meeting them. Fingers & toes crossed that you enjoy them as much as I do!
Now let's head into this week's #ThankfulThursday, which includes a bundle of books from #RAGT17, starting with an autographed copy of Hard Justice from me.
Then we have:
The Billionaire Bachelor by Jessica Lemmon,
Too Hard to Forget by Tessa Bailey,
So This Is Love by Barbara Freethy,
Courting the Cowboy Boss by Janice Maynard &
A Mansion, A Drag Queen, And A New Job by C.C. Dragon
I'm also incuding an #RAGT17 "First-Timers" Bag from Wendi Zwaduk, Jocie McKade & Cheryl Dragon with swag from Melanie Jayne, Sam Cheever, C.C. Dragon & Lori Foster.
Lastly, I'm adding a $10 Barnes & Noble Gift Card, along with a lot of other fun swag from #RAGT17, including rack cards, bookmarks and the extra bonus of a Worth the Wait sampler.
#ThankfulThursday is easy! Every Thursday, one name is randomly drawn from the LIKEs on my Facebook page and that person gets the featured goodies. Fun, right!?
Make sure to check back on my FB wall – https://www.facebook.com/lorifoster – around 8:00pm EST on 6/22/17 to see if your name is posted!
If it is, you'll need to get your mailing address to me within one day.
Deadline to send your address is 8pm ET, 6/23/17!
Come back every Thursday for a new #ThankfulThursday giveaway!
Happy reading to all,
Lori Foster


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|Garlic should get added to every recipe. Ok maybe not every recipe, but fresh home grown garlic should at least be considered. I am sure you would not consider putting garlic in your ice cream, or would you? Regardless of what you do with garlic, one thing we can all agree on as home vegetable gardeners is, to grow our own.
First things first. You need some tools and supplies to grow garlic and if the weather is cooling down where you are right now, it's the perfect time to get that garlic in the ground, so let's get moving.
I am growing mine in a 3 foot by 3 foot raised bed located in a part of my yard that gets a full day's worth of sun that I have easy access to, as it sits close to my back door. This year, my garlic will be following my bush beans, which were planted in this same bed over the summer. Now that bean season is over, it's garlic time.
The tools I am incorporating into this project today are, garlic cloves, watering can, compost, mulch, trowel (or other hand tool), newspaper and a shovel of extra soil.
Before you do anything else, you need to prepare your soil. This is especially true if you are using a location to plant your garlic, like I am, where something was planted over the summer.
Start by loosening up your soil with your hand tool. This will help aerate the soil and get it ready for when we add the compost. I'll talk about that in a moment. It also helps with removing excess debris, as shown in the photo. Discard that debris to your compost pile.
Now that your soil is nice and loose and free of all of the excess debris, twigs, dead plants etc., it is time to add in the compost. My soil at this point is very low on nutrients, and since my garlic is going to be "growing" now until next May, I need to make sure the soil has all that it needs to thrive. Adding in fresh compost is the best way to do this.
Be generous with your compost here and if you need to, go pick up a little extra certified compost at your local garden center. Using your hand tool, mix your compost into your loosened soil, very thoroughly. You only need to mix that compost in to where the roots are going to be, about three six inches below the surface.
Now that your soil is conditioned and ready to go, add a weed blocker. I do not want my garlic competing with anything else that would want to grow there, and since we loosened the soil, chances are we might have stirred up some weed seeds which may come back to haunt us in the spring.
For my weed block I like to use newspaper. The newspaper here in NJ is printed with vegetable based inks, making them safe for my garden bed. I lay down three to six sheets on top of my soil which creates a wonderful weed blocker. Will it eliminate all of the weeds? No of course not. But you can expect better than 95% of them to be stopped. At least that is what I am experiencing when I use newspaper.
Once your newspaper is down, place your mulch on top. Normally I like to use pine needles as my mulch, but I ran out. So instead I had some mulch leftover from another landscaping job I did, so I went with it. The choice of mulch is up to you. A couple of inches are all you need.
What you want to do now is water your garden bed. I know that your garlic is not planted yet, but watering at this point does actually serve a purpose. It helps moisten your soil, and helps wet down the newspaper barrier that you laid out. The wet newspaper will be easier to rip when it comes to plant the garlic.
I do this with anything I am planting because it gives me a nice visual of where things are going to grow, making my garden bit look a bit more organized.
As you can see in the photo above, I am planting 16 cloves of garlic in this three foot by three foot bed. Some will argue that is too much and others will argue that you can plant more. My rule of thumb is to plant whatever you like, just make sure you give them some room so they can actually grow. For me, in this application, in this bed, 16 is perfect.
All of the prep work is done. It is now time to plant your garlic. Where each clove is laid out, start by moving away the mulch, just enough for the clove you are planting, tear through the newspaper to create a planting hole for your garlic.
Add some of your extra soil to the hole so that it is just about even with the mulch. Take your garlic clove and push the garlic into the soil with THE POINTED END UP. Push the clove into the soil about two to three inches then cover the soil with the mulch that you had removed from the hole.
Repeat the above steps for the number of garlic cloves that you will be planting.
Finally, water the garden bed one more time to water that extra soil you just added. This makes sure that your garlic cloves are not sitting in dry soil. Not that that will do them any harm, but you want to make sure they sprout before frost sets in.
While the weather is nice, and before frost sets in, give your garlic a light watering once a week. After winter and frost has subsided, continue watering your garlic, and start feeding your garlic, once per week with a good organic fertilizer such as compost tea.
Your garlic will be ready to harvest in 9 months. That is the normal time frame, but you can also tell, when the garlic leaves start to die off. Once you harvest your garlic, simply let it dry out in a cool, shady location (I used my garage), and you will have ready to use, fresh, home grown garlic.
Hmmm, garlic ice cream. That may not be such a bad idea after all!
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The Middle Ages represents a dark chapter in human history, a time to be skipped over while concentrating on more pertinent parts of our collective past.
Nothing could be further from the truth, argues Providence College Professor of English Anthony Esolen.
The professor's new course at Prager University describes the cultural richness of the Middle Ages, dispelling stubborn myths in a compact 5-plus minute format. "Were the Middle Ages Dark?" recalls some of the major cultural contributions from the era, from the dawn of the university to some of the most profound artistic achievements from any time period.
The era witnessed the rebirth of the theatrical drama, a dawn of musical notation and an increase in architectural masterpieces.
"We have nothing to match their complexity and beauty," he says of the architectural triumphs.
Esolen blames an educational system with little interest in setting the record straight on the Middle Ages, such as the notion that people still felt the earth was flat.
"Nobody teaches history in schools anyway, much less the history of Europe. They do current events, social studies," Esolen tells Breitbart News.
Another reason for the false information is what the professor calls a sense of "desperation" powered by a lack of faith in modern achievements.
"Deep down, people know the cultural works we produce now are largely garbage," he says.
The era was also marked by global warming, a weather trend which led to heartier crops, better health and the doubling of the population as well as an economic boom.
"We don't know for certain us how warm it was .. we know it was very warm .. certainly a lot warmer in Europe than it had been," he says. "We saw evidence of certain crops growing for the first time in northern latitudes."
Those changes paved the way for people to embrace different vocations, allowing them to tap inner talents that otherwise might have been ignored.
"Not everybody has to be working the field to produce food. You can have towns filled with people who are artisans," he says.
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In Part 1 of this series I discussed the changes we made to control the load placed on the hypervisor by the XenDesktop pool management service.
In part 2 I describe the changes we made to lock down certain roles within the XenDesktop farm to provide a more stable and predictable farm.
Our first focus was the DDC that sends the VM commands to the hypervisor. The DDC in the farm that performs this role is called the farm master server. The farm master server is whichever DDC is the Zone Data Collector for the farm. It is the pool management service (cdspoolmgr.exe) that sends the VM power commands to the hypervisor.
As we looked at the roles being performed in the farm we saw that the farm master server was also the first XML broker for the web interface, and was also registering VDAs and brokering connections. To maximise the stability of the environment we carried out the following changes:
- Edited the properties of the Web Interface so that the farm master was no longer listed as an XML broker
- Fixed the farm master roles so that we had a dedicated master and dedicated backup server
- Stopped the farm master from registering VDAs
XML Broker changes
The customer used Web Interface 5.3 and we carried out a simple change to the config of the web interface so that the farm master server was no longer listed. This ensures that the authentication and application enumeration load was no longer being performed by the farm master server.
Fixed Farm Roles
By default the first DDC in the farm assumes the role of farm master and acts as the zone data collector and communicates with the hypervisor. In a small XenDesktop deployment it is perfectly acceptable to make no changes to the roles in the farm. However for larger environments it is recommended to create some hierarchy in the farm.
Any of the DDCs in the farm could become the farm master if an election is triggered. In a XenApp farm we use the XenApp Advanced Configuration tool to set the election preference. In a XenDesktop environment we control election preferences through the registry. A DDC can have 1 of 4 preferences set (sound familiar?):
- Master – servers with this setting are preferentially chosen as the farm master
- Backup – servers with this setting are chosen when the Master is unavailable
- Member – servers with this setting can become the farm master if the Master and Backup are unavailable
- Slave Only – servers with this setting will not become the farm master
We used the instructions at http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX117477 to edit the registry on the farm master and backup server. We opted for a dedicated Master server, a fixed but non-dedicated Backup server and the remaining 6 DDCs were set as Members.
Stopping the Farm Master Registering VDAs
Having made the changes listed in part 1 of this series we had stopped heavy loads of the hypervisor and storage from bringing the infrastructure down. Changing the XML broker settings had reduced the CPU utilisation on the farm master from an average of 90% to around 70%. This was moving in the right direction, but we felt we could get this down further.
Our next task was to stop the farm master server from registering VDAs. This can be done via a registry key HKLM\Software\Citrix\DesktopServer\MaxWorkers. We set the value of this key to 0, meaning that the farm master DDC would no longer register VDAs
Having made this change we saw a further drop in the CPU utilisation on the farm master server and now felt confident that the infrastructure would be far more stable during period of peak user load. We also felt that the infrastructure would now be able to handle the planned additional 500 VDAs.
That is it for this post. In the final part of this series I will cover some of the other items that we changed or highlighted that completed this piece of work.
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If you've ended up at Ninja Hedgehog after typing in the address of a different website, I apologise. There's a good reason for it.
Firstly, regular visitors won't know what I'm talking about, so let me explain.
I used to run a simple social network-type website. It was a bit of a flop, but it had about 100 regular users. Unfortunately, those 100 users became less regular and paved the way for spammers.
A lot of the stuff posted on the other website by spammers was utter nonsense and didn't even serve any purpose that I could see. More and more time of each week was spent deleting spam content and spam accounts. I became bored of this, posted an apology and have now redirected traffic from there to Ninja Hedgehog instead.
I hope the spammers won't be too disappointed with Ninja Hedgehog or that they feel the desire to post their same shit in the comments for various posts here.
So, if you've ended up here by mistake, it's probably because you're some kind of irritating, spammy bastard.


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The workshop is split into two parts with classroom based teaching in the morning and practical shooting in the afternoon.
I love to share my knowledge with other photographers who are also passionate about photography, I learnt the hard way and really can't believe how easy this stuff is now, however it didn't come easy, I always struggled, particularly with the technical side of photography, now I realise it's not rocket science and it's actually pretty straight forward. It's great to be able to help people and teach them lighting methods and post production methods that work in any situation, this allows people to go and create their own visions. Usually people have ideas and have what it takes to become a good photographer but the technical side really slows them down and prevents them from achieving what they see in their minds.
I have a broad knowledge in most genres of photography but mainly focus on people, so whether you shoot weddings, portraits or fashion I can help you fast track your technique by teaching methods that you can rely on in any situation.
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Governor Walker asks citizens to lend voice to budget process
Dear Representative ____________________:
I am writing to thank you for your consideration of Governor Walker's biennial budget including the increase in per pupil funding over the next two years.
As you well know, the freeze in public school district's revenue limit is making it hard to make ends meet for rural, urban and suburban schools regardless of size. Costs continue to increase for things like utilities, maintenance and benefits, the revenue limit is being eclipsed.
Our district, Menomonee Falls, has done a lot of strong, conservative fiscal management, finding more than $11 million in cuts and costs savings over the last six years while also balancing a demand for small class sizes and a wide range of course offerings from our community.
Without the revenue limit pacing with inflation, many schools have had to make tough decisions that impact the learning environment and threaten programs that help the most vulnerable children in our state. We're no different.
I am urging you to approve Governor Walker's biennial budget with school funding intact.
Again, thank you for your consideration in what impacts so many families.
Dear Senator Darling, Representative Knodl and Representative Brandtjen:Thank you for keeping us informed and including us in your K-12 planning and discussions.As the legislative budget discussions continue, we ask that you support the $200/$204 per-pupil aid increase recommended by the Governor's office. While this increase does not entirely close the gap with our rising costs, it takes an important step in that direction. The chart below gives a summary of the impact on the School District of Menomonee Falls from the various funding levels that have been discussed so far as part of the State's budget process.Sincerely,NAME