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Friday, October 12, 2007
The Agony of the Episcopal Church
Why is this church suffering? Some would say that we are under God's judgment. Too many years of too many compromises – from the old country club captivity of "The Republican Party at Prayer"; to a complete cave-in on acceptance of divorce and remarriage; to the coddling of addicts, egomaniacs and anti-Christians as bishops; to the current coastal urban elitists and their obsession with church entitlements for homosexuals. All of us bring our sins, "known and unknown, things done and left undone" to this sorry state of affairs. We've tried and tried to define the Episcopal Church by something – anything – other than the Gospel of Christ crucified. Maybe God is fed up with the denomination. Maybe we are like a fruitless tree, just taking up space, with our only hope an undeserved season of merciful tending by Christ himself (Luke13:6-9).
And there are other forces working against us. The Episcopal Church was once part of a Christian "mainstream" that contributed to an American moral consensus. That consensus no longer exists. Americans are polarized. There is no one culture to which we can be a chaplain, and this makes us more "sideline" than mainline.
Because some of us have set up shop as chaplains to this or that faction in the polarized nation, we have no internal unity as a church. There is no common teaching and, despite much noise about "baptismal covenant" and "unity in the eucharist", there is no agreement about what these sacraments mean and how the church should live them out. In fact, there are ferocious disagreements about the sacraments and a multitude of liturgies, authorized and not, by which we claim to celebrate them.
Our leadership bodies are a disaster. The House of Bishops has no real unity. Meetings degenerate into shunning, name-calling and profanity. The Bishops, who are ordained to "be one with the apostles in proclaiming Christ's resurrection and interpreting the Gospel, and to testify to Christ's sovereignty as Lord of lords and King of kings" (Book of Common Prayer, p. 517), speak little of Christ and much of church rules and procedures. They are enthralled with lesser "lords and kings" and treat Christ as little more than a symbolic figure.
Increasingly, secular journalists are catching Bishops in statements that are at best word tricks and at worst lies. Bishops appear more interested in scoring victories for their own egos, wallets or some small faction they serve, rather than looking to the good of all God's people as called for in the ordination vows.
The General Convention, long a source of pride as a Christian leadership body with the voice of elected clergy and laity together, is an unwieldy joke. Ten days long, with hundreds of dense pages of material for delegates to consider and hundreds of resolutions covering every topic in the cosmos, this expensive boondoggle cannot possibly give quality attention to any issues and is as gridlocked and disreputable as any political game played in DC or a state capitol. And the long, expensive event is impossible for many working lay people, giving a decidedly elitist advantage to clergy and subsidized lay activists for narrow interests.
With ordained and elected leadership in such sad repair, unaccountable bureaucrats wield considerable power. Something called "The Executive Council" has decided the Episcopal Church's affiliation on one of the most divisive issues of our time – abortion. And nobody seems able to say how the denomination changed its name from The Episcopal Church in the United States of America (ECUSA) to its current "TEC." The supposedly "democratic" church had no broad based discussion of the sectarian change.
Meanwhile, the sad fact is that many of the most energetic and creative leaders are leaving the denomination, while parasitic church-shrinkers and bureaucrats without a leadership clue claim all kinds of titles, positions and perks.
The problems are not new to Christianity. The Apostle Paul agonized when a confused church suffered under corrupt leaders:
"For if someone comes and proclaims another Jesus than the one we proclaimed, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or a different gospel from the one you accepted, you submit to it readily enough… For you gladly put up with fools, being wise yourselves! For you put up with it when someone makes slaves of you, or preys upon you, or takes advantage of you, or puts on airs, or gives you a slap in the face… And, besides other things, I am under daily pressure because of my anxiety for all the churches. Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is made to stumble, and I am not indignant?" (II Corinthians 11:4,19-20,28-29).
Where is that Christ-centered, Spirit-filled, Gospel-preaching, empathetic and passionate leadership for God's people in the Episcopal Church? With maybe a few anomalous examples, it is not in the House of Bishops or the General Convention. And it is not in the sorry bureaucracy that manipulates things in their stead. And that lack of apostolic leadership is the agony of the Episcopal Church.
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I saw the communication sent in the diocese of upper michigan that went out this week. It has been posted all over the net. It had to be one of the most shocking things I have ever read coming out of what some might think is still a Christian church. And, there is so much stuff like this out there that those without internet access have no idea what is REALLY going on in their church, and how bad it has become.
- October 12, 2007 at 6:08 PM
PS. Love the Pheasant pic up top....plan to shoot a gob of them this fall. Surely one of God's blessings for those living in this beautiful state.
- October 12, 2007 at 6:10 PM
Have you seen +Creighton's letter today on the SD diocesan website? He has some pretty strongly worded criticisms of Good Shepherd. It looks like he's calling at least some people at Good Shepherd dishonest, duplicitous, small-minded and power-hungry.
I guess it's good to see a bishop actually standing for something, and so acting -- to some degree -- like a shepherd.
On the other hand: Does he ever visit Good Shepherd? He says he's writing a letter that will address these concerns and that "can be made available" but may not be read from the pulpit. Why is that? - October 12, 2007 at 8:55 PM
- cp said...
Maybe he'd rather see the Gospel and our parishes' own concerns considered from our pulpits instead? Because, just maybe, many of us are sick of hearing about this stuff and want to get to our call?
Sounds like a good plan to me. - October 13, 2007 at 3:08 PM
CP, I'd be in favor of that as well. Near as I can tell, that's all that ever happens at GS in SF. So why take so much time to criticize our parish when you never visit it? If we're doing something wrong, I'm sure we'd like our bishop to tell us about it. But preferably, we'd hear about it firsthand, rather than hearing about it in a public announcement about a few folks' letter in a way that tars us all with the same brush. Preaching the gospel sounds great. Taking care of our parishes' own concerns also sounds good, provided it doesn't mean ignoring one another. If it means ignoring one another, one begins to wonder why we have an episcopacy at all, and what happened to the grand legacy of the Elizabethan Settlement and its big-tent notion of orthodoxy. Are conservatives and traditionalists no longer welcome in that tent? The bishop's letter seems to suggest that this is so.
As for being sick of hearing this stuff, I assure you that folks at GS in SF are sick of it, too, and have been for a long time. But ignoring it won't make it go away. There's too much at stake, including the legitimacy of those things that have tied us together as Episcopalians, as Anglicans, and as Christians; and anthropology. I'm tired of constant theological squabbles about sex and sexuality, but I do not want to abandon our discussions of what it means to be human, and the two are intimately tied together.
The peace of the Lord be with you - and with the concerns of your parish. - October 14, 2007 at 3:00 PM
RE "Because, just maybe, many of us are sick of hearing about this stuff and want to get to our call?"
Really? Well that's cool -- so . . . um . . . why hang out over at this blog if you are just "sick of hearing about this stuff" . . . ; > )
Of course, gay activists aren't "sick of hearing about this stuff" when they're trying to push forward their agenda. In fact, their "call" is actually pushing forward their own beliefs and stances using the official channels of the church. What they're "sick of hearing of" is the *opposition* to their agenda and their goals.
That opposition is what's really got to stop in their opinion . . . so that they can continue moving forward with their "call."
Opposition is what they're really sick of hearing.
Sarah - October 15, 2007 at 9:50 AM
CP - We'll forget about it as soon as 100% of the House of Bishops and the Episcopal Church through its General Convention complies with the requests of the Primates of the Anglican Communion, as soon as the Presiding Bishop renounces her prior statements about Christ NOT being the only path to God, as soon as Gene Robinson renounces his Episcopate, as soon as....
The extreme "left" of this church isn't relenting one bit. Case in point: Read Gene Robinsons latest letter to the "GLBT" community. Read Creighton's post-HOB communication. Read Creightons' latest rant against members of the AAC.
I'm sure there are many out there who would like us to forget about it and get on with the mission of the church....so they can go on remaking God and His Church in their own image.
You would think that by their actions, the entire mission of the church is GLBT rights, MDG's, a denial of the virgin birth, denial of the ascention, denial of the cross, etc.
No...I'm not going to forget about it anytime soon. Force Fields are UP until the barrage against the faith discontinues. - October 15, 2007 at 12:08 PM


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Best Practices for Efficient and Compliant Risk Traceability from Design to Manufacturing
Those familiar with medical device development know that risk traceability and risk management is an important aspect that threads through the entire product development process and lifecycle.
Many see risk management as discrete deliverables completed by different team members at certain phases of product development. For example, a risk analysis that focuses on the intended use and reasonably foreseeable misuse is typically first drafted at the onset of design controls by primarily those in touch with the user's point of view – human factor engineers, marketing, clinicians, etc. While a risk analysis focused on the design occurs during the detailed design and development phase with heavy input from the design engineers. And yet another team, mostly of those on the manufacturing team contributing to the manufacturing risk analysis.
However, it's important that risk management is treated holistically, with traceability and connections from design to manufacturing. This traceability and connection has many benefits, including compliance with ISO 14971, the standard for the application of risk management to medical devices and meeting FDA expectations for a 'risk-based' approach for design and manufacturing of a medical device. Other important reasons include consistency, more efficient risk analysis, and ensuring risks identified at any point throughout the product development and lifecycle are appropriately passed along and mitigated to the various team members and stakeholders addressing those issues.
Here are my best practices for ensuring risk traceability throughout the product lifecycle, from design to manufacturing, and to post-market surveillance.
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1: Create a 'master list' of hazards, hazardous situations, harms and severity of harms
A common early step in risk management is creating a preliminary list of hazards. I extend this concept to hazardous situations, the resulting harms from those hazardous situations, and associated severity of those harms.
As the team starts its first risk analysis, say from the application or use point of view, note the hazardous situations that tend to repeat or are very close in description to one another. After the first team session or two, take a moment to review the hazardous situations that have been named to date, determine the unique hazardous situations, and create a 'master list' of hazardous situations.
Next is to determine the corresponding harms and severity of those harms associated with these hazardous situations. And add these to the 'master list.' Again, the corresponding harm(s) to a hazardous situation is finite and doesn't generally change. For example, take a device with a small cutting edge. The hazardous situation is the user's exposure to the sharps edge. Let's say the resulting associated harm is a cut with a minor severity. Thus, anytime a foreseeable event is determined by the team to lead to the hazardous situation of the user's exposure to the sharp edge, the associated harm of a cut with a minor severity can quickly also be listed. This prevents the team needing to reassess from scratch what the associated harm should be in each future instance that this hazardous situation arises.
Use this 'master list' for the future risk assessments to standardize risk practices and optimize efficiency by reusing the same risk content. Picking from a list is an efficient way for the team to identify and document the associated hazardous situations for each foreseeable event, keep wording consistent, and make it easier for new team members to understand the common outcomes. Of course if a truly unique and new hazardous situation does arise, it can be added.
2: Ensure risk assessments is available for all risk management team members and partners
Given that the functions and specific team members working on risk management will change over time, it is important that there is an effective way to share and notify the team members and partners over time. For consistency and team efficiency, ensuring access to the 'master list' described above to the manufacturing team and vendors will give them visibility and insight to the risks they should be on guard against, as one example.
Another example is if a design feature is identified as a mitigation for a use error, this information needs to be passed along to the design engineers to ensure said feature is designed in. To build upon the sharps example from above – After the sharps hazard is first identified, the team decides to implement a physical guard around the sharp edge. This requirement needs to be passed along to the design engineers to ensure it is designed in, not added after design freeze, when changes are more costly and time consuming. Similarly, this risk can be traced to the manufacturing team to evaluate the risks of manufacturing said sharps guard to ensure it is assembled correctly and does not fail in the field. Also, if the sharps guard design changes or becomes obsolete, you would want team members to know it's a risk control mitigation and ensure the risk concerns remain addressed and documented.
3: Pick an appropriate tool to stay organized and efficient
Traceability of risk management and requirements arising from risk management can quickly become unwieldly, especially for complex systems, electromechanical devices, and those with software. Using traditional tools like Microsoft Word™ and Excel™ documents for risk management and requirements traceability are difficult to manage and prone to mistakes and gaps due to the manual input and review required.
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Risk management done right is holistic and connected throughout product lifecycle from design to manufacturing, and beyond. Follow these best practices for both a compliant and efficient way to manage risk.


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Milwaukee firefighters rescue driver that rolled dump truck
MILWAUKEE -- Milwaukee firefighters rescued a truck driver after a crash on Jones Island on Friday morning, April 27.
The dump truck rolled onto its side while driving over a mound of dirt and chunks of concrete.
The driver was stuck in the cab and had to be pulled out.
Nobody was hurt.
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New performing arts stage at Bullard Park should be named for Brennan Moody
The tragic accident that took Brennan Moody's life touched many of us, and even though I did not have the honor of knowing Brennan, as a parent of two sons who graduated from Albion, I grieve with them as they deal with the loss of their uniquely talented son.
There was a vigil at Bullard Park, and many people were able to witness the vision of a new outdoor performance stage come to fruition. There would be no better way to honor the life, and musical aspirations of Brennan than to dedicate and name it the "Brennan Moody Memorial Performing Arts Stage."
In addition to naming the stage in the young man's honor, the stage provides the perfect opportunity for Albion to host a concert that showcases high school musical talent from the region. The proceeds from the event could go towards a scholarship, or to support music programs.
Most importantly, it would be an important step in the healing process for the community.
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Just as The Blackstone Group is outpacing its peers on the fundraising front, it is seeking to be just another fund on the terms-and-conditions front.
The firm's fifth fund, currently in the market and seeking as much as $12 billion, features a preferred return, or ?hurdle rate, of 8 percent, according to sources. Blackstone's previous private equity fund, the $6.5 billion Blackstone Capital Partners IV closed in 2002, had a 10 percent hurdle rate.
Eight percent is seen as the industry standard for hurdle rates, although one LP source says she has seen hurdle rates in new PPMs lower than this.
As market participants are keenly aware, GPs do not get paid carry if their fund fails to clear the hurdle rate. In setting this rate at 10 percent for Fund IV, Blackstone was perceived by many as attempting to show confidence in the firm's ability to generate double-digit returns with a very large fund. The bet paid off – by one LP estimate, Fund IV has a roughly 100 percent unrealized IRR. Carry will be paid, and how.
Now that Fund V may be double the size of the previous pool of capital, Blackstone is showing confidence mostly in its ability to raise the money while sticking to market terms. The LP source says she is not aware of any institutions objecting to the lowered hurdle rate.
Mega-fund returns have been lofty of late, but their managers are working hard to lower expectations going forward. An 8 percent, or lower, hurdle rate makes more remote the possibility that a GP team won't see carry, which would be a disaster for LPs, as well – funds managed by perversely motivated GPs are in danger of going in strange and/or unappealing directions.
The downward trend in hurdle rates is more pronounced among private equity real estate funds, where return expectations are even lower, given the current froth of the US real estate market. An investor in private equity real estate funds says he has seen hurdle rates on new opportunity fund PPMs as low as 6 percent, although this term varies widely, he notes.


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Iran warned on Tuesday that it will take strong action against five British sailors detained by the Iranian navy after their racing yacht was stopped last week in the Persian Gulf if it is proven they had "bad intentions."
The detention could heighten tensions between Iran and major world powers, including Britain, that are demanding a halt to Tehran's controversial nuclear program. It could also flare up the longtime rivalry between Iran and Bahrain, since the yacht was the pride of a high-profile racing program sponsored by the Arab Gulf nation's king.
The British government said Monday that Iran is holding the five British crewmembers after their yacht was stopped last Wednesday after straying inadvertently into Iranian waters while en route to Dubai to join the Dubai-Muscat Offshore Sailing Race.
Foreign Secretary David Miliband said Britain has been in touch about the case with Iranian counterparts and hoped the matter would be resolved soon.
"There's certainly no confrontation or argument," Miliband said. "As far as we are aware, these people are being well treated, which is right and what we would expect from a country like Iran."
But the head of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's said Iran will prosecute the Britons if they intended to "violate the national security" of Iran.
Iran has taken a tough line with previous cases of Westerners entering its borders. It detained three young Americans who strayed across the border from northern Iraq in July. Despite U.S. insistence that they were innocent hikers who accidentally entered Iran, Tehran has accused them of espionage — a sign that they could be put on trial.
Miliband insisted that the five Britons were civilians who "were going about their sport."
Sail Bahrain's Web site identified the yacht as the "Kingdom of Bahrain" and said it had been due to join the 360-mile (580-kilometer) Dubai-Muscat Offshore Sailing Race, which was to begin Nov. 26. The event was to be the boat's first offshore race, the Web site said, adding that the vessel had been fitted with a satellite tracker.
The Associated Press has contributed to the report.
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I once read the true story of a preacher was organizing an
evangelistic outreach using small acts of kindness to demonstrate Christ's
love. He phoned several neighborhood grocery stores and Laundromats for
permission to do specific services.
On one call, the employee who answered the phone hesitated, then
said, "I'll need to ask the manager, but first, let me make sure I
understand: You want to clean up the parking lot, retrieve shopping carts hold
umbrellas for customers, and you don't want anything in return."
"Yes, that's right," the preacher replied.
After a few moments the employee returned to the phone.
"I'm sorry," he said, "we can't let you do that
because if we let you do it, we'd have to let everyone else do it, too!"
(Ann Jeffries, Kansas City, KS Christian Reader, "Lite
why did that store respond like that? Because NO ONE does stuff like that!
This church was obviously out for something… an ulterior motive.
And the grocery store was right. The church did have an ulterior motive - they
wanted to reach their world for Christ and the tool they were using was
something called "showing mercy."
What exactly IS mercy? Mercy is: a blessing that is an act of divine favor or compassion (that's what God does) and
it is also … compassionate treatment
of others because of his divine favor (that's what Jesus-followers do).
Basically, mercy is the act of getting your hands dirty helping
others. Mercy is where a person visits the shut-ins, feeds the hungry, clothes
the naked. This is giving your offering first and making a point to give over
and beyond. Mercy is when is follower of Jesus is doing the love of Jesus. And
they do this act without expecting to be paid to do it or recognized.
You know I love ya, Don


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A Beautifully Universal Slice of Life
A slow burn gem, Moving On is sensitively told and so very relatable.
Here is a family living, struggling and like it says on the tin, working to move on. It's clear from the opening scene that things have not gone to plan. But every member, even the kids, quietly continue plodding through their frustrations, taking the next step presented.
The film begins with a father Lee Byung-Gi (Yang Heung-Joo) and his children Ok-Joo (Choi Jung-Woon) and Dong-Joo (Park Seung-Joon) almost sneakily moving back to Grandpa Lee Young-Muk's (Kim Sang-Dong) house. They leave most of their belongings behind in a pile outside their old apartment. It's as if it's too expensive to shift or nothing they need.
A short while later Byung-Gi's sister Mi-Jung (Park Hyun-Young) also shows up with a suitcase. Reminiscent of the sibling relationship in The Savages (2007), a family who hasn't greatly kept in touch begin to temporarily cohabitate.
Watching them, it's as if this quintet went to cast boot camp together prior to filming, as every movement seems so real, with a natural cadence. From giggling to bickering to crying, each character is genuine as is the enmeshed ensemble.
Writer/director Yoon Dan-Bi offers a recognisable view of familial relationships, partly fixed on old roles yet aiming to respectfully draw lines and delicately navigate current circumstances. It's not surprising then that this film has won awards including The Directors' Guild of Korea (DGK) Award, the NETPAC Award, the KTH Award and the Busan International Film Festival Citizen Critics' Award.
I especially loved the lighting. Neither bright nor dark, the warm, worn shades of brown in the grandfather's house felt comfortable and reassuring, like home. A place to rest, if only for a moment. Even the outdoor scenes featured gently lit hours, except when the occasional jolt of intense white was needed to point out a prickly edge or unwelcome turn.
The music too was so gentle as to go fairly unnoticed until the credits began to roll. The exception though are a couple of nostalgia-radio scenes, reminding us upon whose grace they were all living. Otherwise, viewers are left to build their own emotional response without the push of audible cues. Kudos to Director Yoon for trusting her story and viewers enough to get there on our own.
As the story continues its measured pace, each character subtly shifts and adapts to their new normal over the course of the long hot summer. And eventually they arrive at the conundrum every mid-lifer dreads – what to do with an ageing, ailing parent.
For this family unit, much of the pondering happens introspectively rather than via discussion, so we see less of the internal struggle and more of the output, such as it is. Throughout the season, each player has had their ups and downs, sometimes in a slightly frozen mid-decision position today, turning the wheels to figure out what to do with tomorrow.
As in life, particularly today, there are a lot of loose ends. Everyone makes choices and then keeps on going, leaving some things behind, while shifting to focus on the next foreseeable milepost.
Part of the line-up for the 2020 London Korean Film Festival, family drama, Moving On, will be screened at select London cinemas this month. If you're interested in moving, slice-of-life dramas, it would be worth (safely) watching on a proper-sized screen if you can score a limited ticket.
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When we talk about cinemas and multi-bagger movie making industry, we cannot neglect the continuous contribution of Bollywood. The Indian Film Industry has been popularly termed as Bollywood just like the American Film industry has been called Hollywood. Bollywood is a huge industry with multi-billion investments and movies which gross in crores of the Indian rupee, not only in the Indian subcontinent but also in the international market. Have you ever hear someone not talking about Bollywood when an international sphere of movie making is being talked about? We bet you have not! Bollywood actors and actresses have huge fan bases all over the world.
Therefore, you can understand how important the contribution of Bollywood has been. If you have read the headline of our article, you might be wondering whether Bollywood really plays as a guide to a modern India. Keep reading to know if Bollywood has any contribution or is it nil.
Hindi Cinema's Contribution To Modern India
Well, the Hindi cinemas are some of the best and most popular movies that have been made. They have depicted so many themes, explored numerous different styles and cinematic beauty. The Hindi cinema gave rise to many prominent filmmakers belonging to a different generation who have tried to uphold the problems, negatives and traditional evils that might have been existing in their times. Bollywood has not only made films which are full of action, fun, and drama but also films which have helped the people to understand and view what it is to lead a life in the modern era.
Since Indians are really conservative and traditional by birth; they do not try to break away from the social norms and evils which are persistent. But Bollywood and its genius composers have always tried to use cinema as a medium through which changes can be bought and make the people step live a life under the modern and contemporary environment.
It is of no doubt that social norms and other rules are important, but that should not include any kind of evil practices or belief that may harm others. Hindi cinema has over the years tried to depict the outcome of such rules, what are the consequences, what the Indian people are missing out on and much more, just to aware the people that the modern era is upon us and we must lead a life that we choose to live.
All of us have seen such Hindi movies which have helped the society to think and understand the different problems prevalent within our day-to-day society and the people. Directors, producers, actors and everyone related to the Hindi film industry have contributed immensely to help India move towards a much more Modern era and showcase different social problems.
Final Verdict
Hindi cinemas are some of the best films that have been ever made. We are glad to help you understand what the different ways in which Hindi cinema has contributed immensely to the great cause of spreading modern thinking and ideas into the society are.


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Rich Dad Poor Dad quotes and rules have changed many lives. Robert Kiyosaki and Sharon Lechter wrote this life-changing book, and they enlightened people about success.
One of the remarkable things you'll learn from the Rich Dad Poor Dad quotes and rules is that to be successful in life, you need to have a plan. The rich don't work for money. They have so much money they don't have to work for it. So even if you are born poor, that's not your fault, but if you die poor, then that's your fault.
Another notable thing about this book is the rules and quotes. If you've been hoping to understand this book, then this "Rich Dad Poor Dad rules and quotes explained" article is for you!
Rich Dad Poor Dad Quotes and Rules Explained
Rule number one: You Become Wiser Through Experience
Robert Kiyosaki used his credit card for the monthly payment when he purchased his first commercial properties investment. Financial specialists advised against it him. Only a modest amount of money was coming in each month from the investment. Afterwards, he's made a point of claiming that the experience of going through the deal made him a better investor every time.
Rule number two: Giving more means receiving more
So according to him, the more you give, the more you'll get back in the long run. Giving can take the form of increasing one's own productivity at work or wishing to spread one's own good fortune to others.
Rule number three: Stop thinking negatively
He mentioned he never gets depressed when the people he owes ask for their money. He sees them as a source of inspiration. A lack of funds pushes him to seek additional sources of income so that he can pay them back when they return.
Rule number four: Focus
According to Kiyosaki, narrowing one's focus is preferable to expanding one's horizons. F.O.C.U.S. is an acronym he came up with as a personal rule of thumb for success: "Follow One Course Until Successful" is the acronym for this. He said he never got into another business after starting his real estate investment until he succeeded in the field.
Rule number five: Difficult Times Open Up New Possibilities
Robert Kraft could purchase five golf courses from a bank at a discount during the current American real estate crisis. Before the financial crisis, he was being offered the same property for an exorbitant $260 million. What does this really mean? Even in difficult times like an economic crisis, you can find opportunities.
Rule number six: Design The Business Properly
As Kiyosaki points out, having a great product is only half the battle. Designing a good business is important too. A business should keep raising money automatically, rather than constantly needing someone to raise capital.
Rule number seven: Make sure you know why you're putting in so much effort.
People should conduct their research and learn more about different ways to make money, he said.
Rule number eight: Don't Worry About Failures
Many successful business people have suffered setbacks along the way. Robert's advice was to never fear failing, even though he had lost $1 million. There were some notable examples of successful persons who had been unsuccessful: Henry Ford, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and Donald Trump.
Rule number nine: Make It A Point To Acquire Resources
Regular asset acquisition is a goal of a well-thought-out company. The Rich Dad company, founded by Robert Kiyosaki, is expanding its assets by adding franchising, releasing a new book, and so on. Regularly implementing these strategies helps the business generate more revenue and expand its customer base.
Rule number ten: Manage Your Money, Stop saving
Instead of saving money, he advises people to invest their money in other things such as oil or gold. He suggests hedging money instead of saving it because the value of a currency is regularly falling.
Rich Dad Poor Dad Quotes Explained
These Rich Dad Poor Dad quotes and rules will help you see life differently. And just like its rules, his quotes show how understanding the difference between assets and liabilities, being financially literate, being entrepreneurial, generating passive income, starting your own business and how to avoid getting into too much student debt are all key components that will lead you to financial freedom.
1. "Most people go along with the crowd. They do things because everybody else does it."
You may be the type of person who is afraid of what others will think if you follow your heart. Regardless of what other people say, focus on yourself and your particular ambitions. People are afraid of being rejected if they state that differs from the majority.
2. "The fear of being different prevents most people from seeking new ways to solve their problems."
This is one of the memorable quotes on Rich Dad Poor Dad. All it means is that it's fine to want to take a different approach to life or be unique. You don't have to fear how people will perceive you.
3. "Money comes and goes, but if you have the education about how money works, you gain power over it and can begin building wealth."
Many people don't understand that money isn't permanent, and that's what this quote is about. Money is not a permanent asset, but if you understand more about money, such as how it works, how to increase it, and so on, you will be well on your way to accumulating generational wealth in no time.
4. "If I have to work there, it's not a business. It becomes my job."
Kiyosaki says he owns businesses that do not require his presence, so which means if he starts a business where he needs to present always, then it's not a business. It's a job.
It's understandable why he would say something like that. Passive income has long been a cornerstone of Kiyosaki's philosophy.
Basically, the Rich Dad Poor Dad quotes and rules teach you about life, family, and how money works.
Robert Kiyosaki has experienced his share of losses, bankruptcies, and other criticisms. However, he believes people can have better financial status if they will study, learn, work hard and work around obstacles that stop them from achieving their success.
These carefully chosen "Rich Dad Poor Dad quotes and rules explained" article highlight most of the beliefs and teachings of Kiyosaki.


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Passenger numbers at the station have tripled in the last fifteen years, causing crowding and congestion at entrances, on walkways and platforms.
This means passengers take more time to exit the station, and to get on and off trains, delaying services on lines leading into the station and the wider network.
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aton Windsor Walk, making it easier for passengers to enter and exit the station. - This entrance will be ideally located for the two major hospitals adjacent to the railway, once the walking route through the Maudsley Hospital re-opens in 2023
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- Additional seating and other furniture have been relocated on all platforms to provide more space, and the eastern end platform 4 widened to give passengers more space.
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- Innovative new photovoltaic (solar) film has been applied to the new station roof, the rain cover over the accessible ramp and all new canopies, generating all the power the new development needs, making it the first 'Carbon Positive' station development in UK rail.
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- Sensitive alternations to the listed wall on Windsor Walk and provision of appropriate gates.
Improved passenger flow, fewer delays and a better journey experience
- A new, second entrance is making entering and exiting the station much easier, while decluttered platforms and extended canopies is creating more space for passengers to board and alight trains, helping to keep more services on-time.
- New public artwork at the station in collaboration with the Camberwell Society and Camberwell Arts, to improve journey experience.
Improved sustainability
- The addition of state-of-the-art solar technology on the station roof and canopies will make the station development 'Carbon Positive'.
- The provision of 85 space secure cycle storage facility is encouraging more sustainable journeys in the local area and to the station.
The main station work has been funded by the Department for Transport and delivered by Network Rail. The provision of new cycle storage space has been funded by Sustrans, Kings College Hospital and South London and Maudsley NHS Trusts.
Heritage features on Windsor Walk and the heritage gates that will go on the new entrance has been partly funded by The Railway Heritage Trust.
Work timeline
September 2020
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October to December 2020
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October 2020 – July 2021
- New station entrance is built
December 2020
- Installed new platform canopies on the eastern end of platforms 2/3 and 4 to keep passengers dry while on the platform. We also widened platform 4.
January – July 2021
- Canopies, platforms and station building fitted out with flashing, new customer information screens, PA systems and signage.
May 2021
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A man accused by police of licking items in a Missouri Walmart store during the coronavirus outbreak has been charged with making a terrorist threat.
26-year-old Cody Lee Pfister was charged by the Warren County Prosecuting Attorney's Office after police said he made a video of himself licking items on the shelf in a Walmart store.
A video clip posted on social media shows a man, believed to be Pfister, saying to the camera: "Who's scared of coronavirus? Don't touch your mouth…" before running his bare tongue across a row of deodorants on the shelf.
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"A local resident who took a video of themselves licking the merchandise after making a 'Corona Virus' statement at Walmart and posting it to social media has been taken into custody," read a statement from the City of Warrenton Police Department on Monday (Mar. 23). "Charges will be pending through the Warren County Prosecuting Attorney's Office."
After his arrest, Pfister was charged with making a terrorist threat in the second degree.
In Missouri, making a terrorist threat in the second degree means ignoring the risk of "causing the evacuation, quarantine or closure of any portion of a building." The crime is a class E felony, which means those charged with it can face up to four years in prison and be required to pay a fine.
Court documents state the incident took place on March 11th and Pfister "knowingly caused a false belief or fear that a condition involving danger to life existed." The docs added that Pfister acted "with reckless disregard of the risk causing the evacuation, quarantine or closure of any portion" of Walmart.
Patrick J. Coyne, an attorney representing Pfister, said in a statement Wednesday (Mar. 25) after his client's hearing that the video was actually filmed on March the 10th, conveniently one day before the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic.
"Public conduct that was immature on March 10 looks completely differently through the lens of today," Coyne said. "Everything has changed at warp speed, but that should not work retroactively and convert a tasteless and impulsive act into a criminal terrorist threat."
According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Pfister previously pleaded guilty to charges including burglary and stealing a firearm.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control has warned that the coronavirus can stay on various surfaces for anywhere between a few hours or several days and people can become infected from touching an item that an infected person has touched.
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Northrop Grumman has expanded its Next Generation Jammer-Low Band (NGJ-LB) Capability Block 1 (CB-1) solution team with the addition of proven structure supplier CPI Aero to support the delivery of key electronic warfare capability.
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Following the proposal submittal for NGJ-LB in January, Northrop Grumman is moving forward with CB-1 execution by selecting CPI Aero to provide the NGJ-LB pod structure and assembly, advancing on the US Navy's speed to fleet path.
Paul Kalafos, Northrop Grumman's vice president, surveillance and electromagnetic maneuver warfare, explained, "The addition of CPI Aero to our NGJ-LB team will help provide rapid fleet capability to the Navy.
"They have extensive experience in providing aircraft and pod structural components for several Department of Defense customers, and we are proud to have them on our team of EW engineering and mission experts, helping the Navy maintain its warfighting edge through advanced airborne electronic attack (AEA) capabilities," Kalafos added.
Doug McCrosson, CPI Aero's president and CEO, added, "Our leading structures and assembly experience is used by the Navy's EA-18G, E-2D, MH-60S and CH-53K systems, and we have a well-established record providing these components on time, efficiently and with consistent high quality."
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Building on the company's current expertise as the electronic attack mission suite provider (integrating the ALQ-99 tactical jamming system and ALQ-218 tactical jamming receiver) for the Royal Australian Air Force and US Navy Boeing EA-18G Growler fleets, Northrop Grumman stands ready to deliver continued enhancements and future Growler capabilities for Australia.
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Australia's fleet of 11 EA-18G Growlers will be based at RAAF Base Amberley and operate in conjunction with our air, land and sea forces.
Based on F-18E/F Super Hornet variant of the wildly successful Boeing Hornet, the EA-18G Growler has proven itself to be an invaluable asset to the US when deployed overseas. As the only nation besides the US to fly the Growler, Australia has developed unique training procedures in conjunction with US Navy partners to fully utilise the capabilities of the aircraft.
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The partnership between the US Navy and the RAAF has been instrumental in ensuring that Australia's Growler pilots, crew and the capability of the aircraft is maximised, particularly as Australia is essentially building the electronic attack capability from the ground up.
This has meant that Australian pilots and aircrews are undergoing extensive familiarisation and training programs with US Navy counterparts prior to additional training in Australia in order to incorporate the capabilities of the aircraft into the wider RAAF and ADF.
It is now expected that the Growlers of No. 6 Squadron RAAF will be capable of providing limited, force-level electronic warfare.
This means that until final operating capability (FOC) is achieved, the aircraft will be largely limited to peacetime operations or responding to regional contingencies as needed.
Reaching FOC will require additional testing and broader integration with key ADF assets, particularly the Navy's new air warfare destroyers, Air Force's E-7 Wedgetail AEWC aircraft and later F-35s and key ground assets of the Army to ensure that the ADF is developed into a full-spectrum, integrated force.
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Democrat-backed One New Jersey claims the state has lost jobs since Gov. Chris Christie took office
On the heels of a cutthroat budget battle, a Democrat-backed group called One New Jersey entered the political scene in mid-July and quickly took aim at Republican Gov. Chris Christie.
In a July 20 press release, One New Jersey spokesman Joshua Henne said: "After nearly two years of Christie's bluster, middle-class and working families are far worse-off than when he took office – with less jobs and higher property taxes."
For this Truth-O-Meter item, PolitiFact New Jersey is focusing on Henne's claim that New Jersey has fewer jobs now than when Christie took office in January 2010.
After reviewing data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, we found that the number of non-farm jobs in New Jersey has fluctuated between growth and decline throughout Christie's tenure. But when Henne made his statement, there was a net increase of jobs, federal data shows.
First, let's explain how labor statistics are compiled.
Federal labor statistics are measured through two monthly surveys: household interviews and reports from public- and private-sector employers, commonly referred to as the payroll survey.
To support his claim, Henne referred us to household survey data. Those figures show a decrease of 12,266 employed persons in New Jersey between January 2010 and June 2011, according to seasonally adjusted data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
But there's a major problem with Henne's argument: he used the wrong survey to talk about jobs.
The household survey estimates employed persons, while the payroll survey estimates jobs. That's a critical difference, especially since many Garden State residents work in neighboring states.
Now, let's turn to the job growth estimates from the payroll survey.
When Christie became governor in January 2010, New Jersey had 3,852,600 non-farm jobs. Based on the payroll survey data publicly available at the time of Henne's statement, New Jersey had 3,859,000 non-farm jobs in May 2011. Both figures were seasonally adjusted.
That represents an overall increase of 6,400 non-farm jobs. During that time period, New Jersey was split in terms of job growth on a month-to-month basis -- eight months saw job gains and eight months saw job losses, according to data publicly available at the time of Henne's statement.
New Jersey experienced further non-farm job growth in June 2011, but Jay Meisenheimer, an economist with the Bureau of Labor of Statistics, said the job increases in New Jersey can't be characterized in any particular direction. "It just looks like a flat trend," he said.
Stanford University economics professor Robert Hall agreed in an email that "the most you could say is that the change is around zero."
It's worth noting that New Jersey's numbers vary between government and private-sector workers.
Between January 2010 and May 2011, the number of government employees dropped by 24,700, while private-sector jobs increased by 31,100, according to seasonally adjusted figures publicly available at the time of Henne's statement.
Those changes in private-sector employment are "the most appropriate indicator of what is happening in the NJ economy," according to Rutgers University professor Joseph Seneca.
Henne failed to respond to two questions about his use of the household survey to quantify jobs in New Jersey. "We stand by the fact that middle-class and working families took a hit when it comes to jobs. Because it is just that, a fact," Henne wrote in an email.
Before we issue our ruling, we should point out that although Henne blamed Christie for job losses, some economists said larger factors include individual job markets and the recession. That's also despite the fact that Christie often has taken credit for creating private-sector jobs.
"State policy is an element in job creation and destruction, but the overall condition of the job market in the industries in the state is the larger factor," R. Glenn Hubbard, dean of the Columbia University Business School, said in an email.
Where does all this leave us?
To support his claim that there are "less jobs" since Christie took office in January 2010, Henne cited the wrong set of data. The data used to measure jobs shows a slight increase since Christie became governor, even though some economists said the growth is mainly flat.
But New Jersey also has seen an increase in private-sector jobs -- a measure considered by a Rutgers professor to appropriately reflect the state of the economy. Beyond crediting or blaming Christie, economists said other factors include the recession and individual job markets.
We rate the statement False.
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One New Jersey,Christie Poll Numbers Dropping...Just Ask The People Who Know, July 20, 2011
The Star-Ledger,N.J. Democrats unveil nonprofit group to promote agenda, collect anonymous donations, July 19, 2011
Email interviews with Joshua Henne, One New Jersey, July 25 and 27, 2011
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U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics,Local Area Unemployment Statistics search page, accessed July 2011
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Email interview with R. Glenn Hubbard,Columbia University Business School, July 25, 2011
Interview with Jay Meisenheimer,U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, July 26, 2011
Interview with Allan Meltzer,Carnegie Mellon University, July 26, 2011
Email interview with Joseph Seneca,Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University, July 26-27, 2011
Email interview with Robert Hall,Stanford University, July 26, 2011
Phone and email interviews with Doug Hall,Economic Policy Institute, July 26-27, 2011
U.S. Census Bureau,Commuting Characteristics by Sex, accessed July 27, 2011
Interview with Stacey Standish,U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, July 28, 2011
Interview with Kerri Gatling,New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development, July 28, 2011
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Saturday, November 18, 2017
A Picture is Worth a Thousand Side-Eyes
For once, I had a really good session. I always have a good time, but I don't always win. This time, it was like every machine I sat down at wanted to pay me. Right away. Only two machines blatantly took my hard-won scratcher profits without giving anything back. We played for about three hours, then had our supper at Burger Brothers. It was tasty, and without incident.
The only damper on the afternoon was that I could not get on my favorite machine. There are six of them, three on one side of the casino, three on the other. They are part of a circular grouping of tall machines. I like to play Buffalo Gold. It has a minimum bet of 60 cents, and a maximum bet of $6.00. I usually low-roll at 60 cents, because the money is in the bonuses, and it takes a while to hit a bonus. But on this day, I was hitting them regularly. That's not to say that I was a big winner, but I had accumulated more money than I brought in.
Anyhoo...I finally got on one of those Buffalo Gold machines about 45 minutes before we were supposed to leave. I had camped out at a different machine, just around the carousel from a Buffalo Gold. I played, having decent luck on that game, too. But I wanted my Buffalo. An old man and lady were on it. Then the man left. The lady kept lingering. I could only see one side of her, not how much she had left. So I couldn't judge when she might get up so I could dart over there and claim the machine.
Finally, that lady got up. Wouldn't you know it? I was in the middle of a bonus on mine! I couldn't just leave it running. Anybody could step up and claim my ticket. I watched a vulture pounce on my rightful machine as a younger lady walked up and sat down. There went my chance! We'd be leaving soon. I played a little more. I'd put in a twenty, and was now up to $85. Hick wandered over. Watched a minute. Then said he was going to get a soda. I kept playing. Lost a little back. I'd just hit another bonus when the Buffalo lady got up! Crap! Another chance, and I was missing it!
Just then Hick reappeared! "Go! Now! Sit down in that chair! I'll be there as soon as my bonus stops! Get that machine for me!"
Hick looked puzzled, but he did what I said. I've trained him well. He sat down, I cashed out, and he gave me the Buffalo Gold game. He went to seek his fortune elsewhere, and I started playing. I kept hitting bonuses. They didn't pay very well, but the FUN is in the bonus, because you have the HOPE of winning big. Even betting 60 cents. Hick came back to check on me with about 15 minutes left before time to go.
"I only have a twenty in here. I'm either playing it up to $100, or playing it down to nothing. I've been waiting all day to get on this machine."
Hick stood a while watching me. I suggested he grab a chair from a machine people hadn't been playing. At that moment, the Buffalo game next to me opened up. Hick sat down on its chair.
"You can't sit there! People would kill to get that game! Get up. Somebody will want to play it."
Hick put in a twenty and started playing. As with mine, he got a bonus right off, betting 60 cents. He was soon up to $35, and kept playing. I'd hit a bonus too, and when the money counted up, I was at $99.99. Heh, heh! That's NOT $100! So I kept playing. Hick was too. He declared that we would stay only another half hour. I was having a great time, up and down, hitting bonuses. We had about ten minutes left when I sensed someone behind me.
I do NOT like people behind me. I guess it's my paranoia acting up. I've never liked it. I sit in the last row at the movies. When we had faculty meetings I sat at the last table, my back to the wall. I don't like T-Hoe to be tailgated. I just don't like it. Not even taking pictures with the kids, knowing somebody would give me bunny ears. Don't get in Val's space, and don't stand behind her.
To make matters worse, every time I tried to glance over a shoulder, that presence shifted. Moved out of my peripheral vision. I don't know what kind of fool they took me for, but Val is an ex-teacher, you know, and she does not suffer fools gladly. She most certainly does not tolerate creepers creepin' up behind her. There are ne'er-do-wells in casinos. Like that little lady in Oklahoma who came up and PUSHED MY BUTTONS IN THE MIDDLE OF A BONUS! You never know what might happen.
I leaned over to mutter my discontent to Hick. He glanced behind me, and said, "It's just a guy watching." INDEED! That wasn't happenin'! Seriously. You don't know if someone might push your Cash Out button and grab the ticket, or if he's just trying to intimidate you into getting off the machine. I'd waited all day. I wasn't giving it up until I hit $100 or $0. I started taking my time between spins. No excuse for anybody to stand and watch. I wasn't in a bonus. It was not entertaining. The only reason to stand there was intimidation, I think, to drive me away from that machine so he could have it. Too bad, so sad. I'd nabbed that machine fair and square, after waiting for several hours.
I wasn't so much afraid of foul play (Hick was right there beside me) as I was annoyed at the intrusion. The nosiness. The invasion of my personal space. Most people would get the hint if you were looking over both shoulders at them, and complaining to your husband.
Then I had the most scathingly brilliant idea! I took out my phone. You have to be careful. Casinos don't take kindly to recording. I acted like I was checking the time. I got my camera all ready. I'm not techy enough to switch the camera to the other side, like for taking a selfie. So I turned it around, where NOSY could plainly see the back of my phone, with the lens looking at him. I held it at my shoulder, and TOOK A PICTURE!
Yeah. That didn't turn out so well. I got a section of my shoulder. My ear. My purse strap. BUT NO CREEPER!
Let the record show that the flash is bright! And when it went off, Nosy hit the road. I saw him as he walked away. A portly fellow, in khaki shorts, a blue striped shirt, white ankle socks, and white tennis shoes.
Oh, I got that machine back up to $105 and cashed out. I got up off the machine and waited for Hick. I left the casino with a $200 profit over what I took in.
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You sure were on a roll. I don;t like those lurkers either. You're pretty safe at River City, but watch your back downtown. BuffaLOOOOOOOOOOOO!
ReplyDeleteRepliesI was on a better roll this trip to see The Pony! Maybe I'll tell of it. I LOOOOOVE BuffaLOOOOOOOO!
We don't go downtown because RC is so much closer. Never been to that fancy one, but my favorite gambling aunt went when it opened and was not impressed, because she didn't win. She also got lost one time trying to cross the river to the Queen, and stopped to ask a cab driver, who barely spoke English. We found our way.
Hick and I used to go there all the time in our younger years, and never had a problem with lurkers or otherwise. Then there was that serious crime on the Metrolink or at its station, I think, and we haven't been back.


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At the end of the 2014 homecoming rally on Oct. 17, it was announced that the class of 2016 had won the rally. The juniors stormed the floor of the gym in celebration. However, this was not the true result as the announcer committed an error in reporting the winner. In reality, the class of 2015 won the rally, making it the third year in a row that the seniors had won. The announcer quickly clarified the mistake, saying that the seniors were actually the winners, but the chaos of the juniors' celebration made it difficult for this second announcement to be heard.
"All that happened was that it was a mistake," junior class treasurer Arpit Jasapara said after school. "People make mistakes; no big deal."
Rather than having the regularly scheduled announcements during fifth period, ASB president Anna Tedijanto issued an apology to the class of 2016 and then passed the microphone to the junior class officers who acknowledged that the announcement was unintentional and expressed their forgiveness.
Assistant Principal Mike White also said that the error was an inadvertent mistake, possibly caused by a lack of focus.
In almost all rallies, the announcer calls fourth place, then third place and finally second place. To build suspense for the final call when two classes are waiting to hear their fates, the announcer will begin to point to the winners and at the last second point to the runners-up. According to White, the announcer was attempting to continue that tradition but had a lapse in concentration, which led to the mistake.
"It was unintentional," White said. "[The announcer] went for the psych."
Even the senior class officers picked up on this error and understood that the mistake wasn't intentional.
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Designed to celebrate the maritime and industrial heritage of Doha in Qatar, the Spanish studio Fenwick Iribarren Architects is celebrating the completion of its ambitious Stadium 974 ahead of 2022's FIFA World Cup.
The concept of the 40,000-seat Stadium 974 had sustainability at its core, with reused shipping containers and a modular steel structure making Stadium 974 the first in FIFA World Cup history to be fully demountable.
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Out of the young talent on the Minnesota Wild's roster in the qualifying round, Luke Kunin was arguably the best of the bunch. Now, Joel Eriksson Ek continued to demonstrate his stellar defensive play, but Kunin was electric playing against the Vancouver Canucks. From goals to physicality, Kunin brought it all.
Though he may not have won over the analytics community just yet, he raised eyebrows of various viewers outside of Minnesota, and of course his Wisconsin Badger fans. Kunin contributed in various ways, and it helped elevated his value. With Wild general manager Bill Guerin making it clear that various changes are on the horizon, is Kunin the perfect sweetener, or a bargain depth player as we look ahead?
Play-In Performance
Next to Kevin Fiala, Kunin was the most exciting forward in the series. Not only did he shoot the puck a lot, but he was also physical. Kunin played with an edge in this series. It was evident early, à la his antics with Canucks forward Micheal Ferland in Game 1.
Unfortunately, Kunin's teammate Ryan Hartman got the worst of that exchange with a spear from Ferland. Ferland thought Hartman was the one clutching his stick. Not Kunin.
Fined for unsportsmanlike conduct in Game 1? That's playoff hockey, baby.
Kunin also scored important goals. One being the shorthanded tally that tied up Game 2 early in the first period.
In four qualifying games, Kunin scored two goals on six shots, dished 11 hits — five in Game 1, four in Game 2 — and blocked two shots. He did not give away the puck once either. One memorable collision involved Canucks veteran Alex Edler.
Intending to hit Kunin, Edler came in only to be surprised bouncing off the smaller Minnesota forward.
Wild fans expect the likes of Jordan Greenway or Eriksson Ek to be the physical ones out of the young core. However, in this series Kunin was one of the most aggressive players on the team.
Again, Eriksson Ek did his job, and he excels in that role. It's not entirely likely that he's going to be moved. But his role is not sexy. Kunin has tools in his belt that are more entertaining. He helps elevate the energy of the Wild and provides some scoring. Furthermore, he is also still a legend amongst University of Wisconsin supporters.
The knock on Kunin this season was his poor analytical numbers. Surprisingly, they followed him into the playoffs. But compared to the regular season, Kunin played in a much higher gear against the Canucks.
In a best-of-five series, the sample size is hard to fully evaluate. This is a classic case of neither the eye test nor underlying numbers alone being able to tell the whole story on the Kunin postseason performance.
Looking Ahead
Kunin is one of the only right-handed forwards on the Wild. He is a restricted free agent who scored a career-high 15 goals and 31 points in his first NHL season as a full-time contributor. Yet, with his limited NHL experience in only 131 games played, it is not expected that he'll end up breaking the bank with his new contract. Whether the Wild sign Kunin and move forward with the 22 year old or decide to trade him, both are favorable for the Wild.
Kunin may not be a fancy stats man, but he proved he can play with the edge needed to personally succeed in the NHL. He can put up points, score, and is strong for a smaller hockey player.
Assuming one or two young roster players need to be traded in order to acquire future assets, compared to Ryan Donato and Greenway, Kunin is the player to keep. From an on-ice point of view, Kunin is better and will be a bargain depth player long-term.
But he could also be the best sweetener piece alongside a Greenway or Donato and a top-four defender in a big package deal to address a position of need — centre or goaltender. The Wild must upgrade scoring and/or refill the cupboards with talent that can make immediate impacts.
Kunin raised his value this postseason. This bodes well for Wild. Regardless of their decision to keep him or move on, Kunin was one of the bright spots in the play-in series loss against the Canucks.
I give Luke Kunin a B.
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For its holiday windows this year, the Swarovski Crystallized concept store in Soho has put five never-before-seen works by the New York City-based artist Cimon on display. Known for his Lego sculptures, the pieces include a Volkswagen Beetle, a pirate ship, a carousel, a train, and a pair of high heels. And of course, they're each covered in Swarovski crystals.
Each has been decorated with over 1,000 Swarovski elements, and in total, the entire collection is made up of approximately 8,600 of them. The windows will be up through the day after Christmas, and after that, they sculptures will be available for purchase. Price upon request, of course.
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Former President Donald Trump's allies are reportedly becoming more apprehensive about defending him in wake of the Federal Bureau of Investigations' (FBI) latest search warrant executed at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida.
On August 12, Washington Post reporter Josh Dawsey appeared on MSNBC where he weighed in on the latest development.
"As people around him have learned more details about the extent of what he was keeping there, and the various efforts behind the scenes to get them, short of a search warrant, alarm has grown in recent days when you talk to advisers of the former president," Dawsey said during the Friday discussion.
He went on to suggest that he believes their decision to distance themselves from Trump may be a permanent one.
"Some of them are starting to go dark," he said adding, "and to stay as far away from this as they can."
Dawsey also noted that many of Trump's allies may be unaware of what type of documents he may have had in his position which only adds more concern about what has transpired.
Per HuffPost, the search warrant, which took place on Monday, August 8, resulted in FBI agents confiscating 20 boxes of documents from Trump's estate. The documents are said to have included "11 sets of classified information, from Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate and resort in Florida, according to the warrant and property receipt used by the FBI to conduct the search."
Dawsey's interview follows a federal magistrate judge's decision to unseal the documents after receiving a request from U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland.
Per the news outlet, "some of the seized classified information was highly sensitive and top secret, designated to remain only in a secure government facility."
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Course Description
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Introduction to Contemporary Media Theory
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Media Studies
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This module examines the behaviours and motivations of media consumers and producers by identifying the ideological and discursive structures that shape the development of media platforms. It introduces critical frameworks for addressing the relationship between meaning and representation in a dynamic media culture, as well as key academic skills for critical research and structured analysis.
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