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How can I randomize (shuffle) the order of lines in a file? Or select a random line from a file, or select a random file from a directory?
To randomize the lines of a file, here is one approach. This one involves generating a random number, which is prefixed to each line; then sorting the resulting lines, and removing the numbers.
RANDOM is supported by BASH and KornShell, but is not defined by POSIX.
Here's the same idea (printing random numbers in front of a line, and sorting the lines on that column) using other programs:
This is (possibly) faster than the previous solution, but will not work for very old AWK implementations (try nawk, or gawk, or /usr/xpg4/bin/awk if available). (Note that AWK uses the epoch time as a seed for srand(), which may or may not be random enough for you.)
Other non-portable utilities that can shuffle/randomize a file:
GNU shuf (in recent enough GNU coreutils)
GNU sort -R (coreutils 6.9)
For more details, please see their manuals.
Shuffling an array
A generalized version of this question might be, How can I shuffle the elements of an array? If we don't want to use the rather clumsy approach of sorting lines, this is actually more complex than it appears. A naive approach would give us badly biased results. A more complex (and correct) algorithm looks like this:
1 # Uses a global array variable. Must be compact (not a sparse array).
2 # Bash syntax.
3 shuffle() {
4 local i tmp size max rand
6 size=${#array[*]}
7 for ((i=size-1; i>0; i--)); do
8 # $RANDOM % (i+1) is biased because of the limited range of $RANDOM
9 # Compensate by using a range which is a multiple of the rand modulus.
11 max=$(( 32768 / (i+1) * (i+1) ))
12 while (( (rand=$RANDOM) >= max )); do :; done
13 rand=$(( rand % (i+1) ))
14 tmp=${array[i]} array[i]=${array[rand]} array[rand]=$tmp
15 done
16 }
This function shuffles the elements of an array in-place using the Knuth-Fisher-Yates shuffle algorithm.
If we just want the unbiased random number picking function, we can split that out separately:
This rand function is better than using $((RANDOM % n)). For simplicity, many of the remaining examples on this page may use the modulus approach. In all such cases, switching to the use of the rand function will give better results; this improvement is left as an exercise for the reader.
Selecting a random line/file
Another question we frequently see is, How can I print a random line from a file?
There are two main approaches to this:
Count the number of lines n, select a random integer r from 1 to n, and print line r.
- Read line by line, selecting lines with a varying probability as we go along.
With counting lines first
The simpler approach is to count lines first.
1 # Bash
2 n=$(wc -l <"$file") # Count number of lines.
3 r=$((RANDOM % n + 1)) # Random number from 1..n (see warnings above!)
4 sed -n "$r{p;q;}" "$file" # Print the r'th line.
6 # POSIX with (new) AWK
7 awk -v n="$(wc -l <"$file")" \
8 'BEGIN{srand();l=int((rand()*n)+1)} NR==l{print;exit}' "$file"
(See FAQ 11 for more info about printing the r'th line.)
The next example sucks the entire file into memory. This approach saves time rereading the file, but obviously uses more memory. (Arguably: on systems with sufficient memory and an effective disk cache, you've read the file into memory by the earlier methods, unless there's insufficient memory to do so, in which case you shouldn't, QED.)
Note that we don't add 1 to the random number in this example, because the array of lines is indexed counting from 0.
Also, some people want to choose a random file from a directory (for a signature on an e-mail, or to choose a random song to play, or a random image to display, etc.). A similar technique can be used:
Without counting lines first
If you happen to have GNU shuf you can use that, but it is not portable.
Without shuf, we have to write some code ourselves. If we want n random lines we need to:
- accept the first n lines
- accept each further line with probability n/nl where nl is the number of lines read so far
- if we accepted the line in step 2, replace a random one of the n lines we already have
1 # WARNING: srand() without an argument seeds using the current time accurate to the second.
2 # If run more than once in a single second on the clock you will get the same output.
3 # Find a better way to seed this.
5 n=$1
6 shift
8 awk -v n="$n" '
9 BEGIN { srand() }
10 NR <= n { lines[NR - 1 ] = $0; next }
11 rand() < n / NR { lines[int(rand() * n)] = $0 }
12 END { for (k in lines) print lines[k] }
13 ' "$@"
Bash and POSIX sh solutions forthcoming.
Known bugs
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2010-01/msg00042.html points out a surprising pitfall concerning the use of RANDOM without a leading $ in certain mathematical contexts. (Upshot: you should prefer n=$((...math...)); ((array[n]++)) over ((array[...math...]++)) in almost every case.)
- Behavior described appears reversed in current versions of mksh, ksh93, Bash, and Zsh. Still something to keep in mind for legacy. -ormaaj
Using external random data sources
Some people feel the shell's builtin RANDOM parameter is not sufficiently random for their applications. Typically this will be an interface to the C library's rand(3) function, although the Bash manual does not specify the implementation details. Some people feel their application requires cryptographically stronger random data, which would have to be supplied by some external source.
Before we explore this, we should point out that often people want to do this as a first step in writing some sort of random password generator. If that is your goal, you should at least consider using a password generator that has already been written, such as pwgen.
Now, if we're considering the use of external random data sources in a Bash script, we face several issues:
- The data source will probably not be portable. Thus, the script will only be usable in special environments.
- If we simply grab a byte (or a single group of bytes large enough to span the desired range) from the data source and do a modulus on it, we will run into the bias issue described earlier on this page. There is absolutely no point in using an expensive external data source if we're just going to bias the results with sloppy code! To work around that, we may need to grab bytes (or groups of bytes) repeatedly, until we get one that can be used without bias.
Bash can't handle raw bytes very well, so each time we grab a byte (or group) we need to do something to it to turn it into a number that Bash can read. This may be an expensive operation. So, it may be more efficient to grab several bytes (or groups), and do the conversion to readable numbers, all at once.
- Depending on the data source, these random bytes may be precious, so grabbing a lot of them all at once and discarding ones we don't use might be more expensive (by whatever metric we're using to measure such costs) than grabbing one byte at a time, even counting the conversion step. This is something you'll have to decide for yourself, taking into account the needs of your application, and the nature of your data source.
At this point you should be seriously rethinking your decision to do this in Bash. Other languages already have features that take care of all these issues for you, and you may be much better off writing your application in one of those languages instead.
You're still here? OK. Let's suppose we're going to use the /dev/urandom device (found on most Linux and BSD systems) as an external random data source in Bash. This is a character device which produces raw bytes of "pretty random" data. First, we'll note that the script will only work on systems where this is present. In fact, you should add an explicit check for this device somewhere early in the script, and abort if it's not found.
Now, how can we turn these bytes of data into numbers for Bash? If we attempt to read a byte into a variable, a NUL byte would give us a variable which appears to be empty. However, since no other input gives us that result, this may be acceptable -- an empty variable means we tried to read a NUL. We can work with this. The good news is we won't have to fork an od(1) or any other external program to read bytes. Then, since we're reading one byte at a time, this also means we don't have to write any prefetching or buffering code to save forks.
One other gotcha, however: reading bytes only works in the C locale. If we try this in en_US.utf8 we get an empty variable for every byte from 128 to 255, which is clearly no good.
So, let's put this all together and see what we've got:
1 #!/usr/bin/env bash
2 # Requires Bash 3.1 or higher, and an OS with /dev/urandom (Linux, BSD, etc.)
4 export LANG=C
5 if [[ ! -e /dev/urandom ]]; then
6 echo "No /dev/urandom on this system" >&2
7 exit 1
8 fi
10 # Return an unbiased random number from 0 to ($1 - 1) in variable 'r'.
11 rand() {
12 if (($1 > 256)); then
13 echo "Argument larger than 256 currently unsupported" >&2
14 r=-1
15 return 1
16 fi
18 local max=$((256 / $1 * $1))
19 while IFS= read -r -n1 -d '' r < /dev/urandom
20 printf -v r %d "'$r"
21 ((r >= max))
22 do
23 :
24 done
25 r=$((r % $1))
26 }
This uses a trick from FAQ 71 for converting bytes to numbers. When the variable populated by read is empty (because of a NUL byte), we get 0, which is just what we want.
Extending this to handle ranges larger than 0..255 is left as an exercise for the reader.


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America Ferrera on Her New Movie and the Existential Loneliness We All Feel
"In this culture that's increasingly fast-paced and 'connected,' that loneliness can feel like you're the <i>only </i>one who feels it."
Determined not to let her Golden Globe–winning role on Ugly Betty define her evolving career, actress America Ferrera ventures into foreign terrain with X/Y, a telling and titillating indie drama written and directed by her husband of four years, Ryan Piers Williams. Playing opposite Williams in the lead role, Ferrera is cast as one of many rudderless, romantically troubled New Yorkers searching for happiness. In a recent conversation with Vulture, Ferrera discussed her personal attachment to this project, the conversation she hopes to ignite with X/Y, and why loneliness persists in the age of "connection."
How autobiographical is X/Y, especially since you and Ryan are together both on- and offscreen?
It was certainly influenced by our friends, our environment, and Ryan's observations of the relationships people in our generation are having and the challenges that those relationships face. When he wrote the script, it wasn't intended for either one of us to act in it. He wrote the script and showed it to me, and for a few months I helped him develop the script and the characters. After a few months of diving into the characters, I found myself really compelled towards Sylvia and her story. Then we got the idea of, What would it be like if a real-life couple played this couple onscreen? What would that buy us in terms of the innate history and intimacy that's there for us already?
Since you both were so engrossed in the project, did either of you have any difficulty distancing yourself from these characters?
My personal experience is, I dive in at the start of the film and I don't really come up for air till it's done. That's my experience on any film I do, but especially on this movie, where Ryan and I were in it together. That's what we were living and breathing, all day, every day.
It's been nearly 15 years now since you started your professional career. How much has your craft and creative process changed over the last decade?
There have been massive changes in my creative process. When I started working, I was 17. At that point, my experience was in community theater and in public-school drama classes. I didn't have any official training, and then I didn't go to school for acting but [for] international relations. What that meant was I had to learn and create for myself a process that worked for me. Thinking back to when I was a teenager, I was going purely on instinct and sheer will, not really having any compass for how to do my job. Over the years I've gotten to go from acting to producing, and I've dabbled with directing, and I realized what I love about my work is present in all these aspects of storytelling. And I've really honed my mission and what's important to me.
What is important to you?
The specifics of the stories I want to tell are always changing, but I've learned to trust my instincts about what I connect to. It's important to me to find something in the material that is having a conversation that feels relevant. Even back when I was starting in my career with Real Women Have Curves, that experience set the bar very high for me. I got to be a part of this film that showed me what a film can do, starting a conversation about shared experiences. We traveled the world with that film, and all kinds of people saw themselves in a 15-year-old Mexican girl from Los Angeles, California.
So what's the conversation you hope to begin with X/Y?
What I was really moved by in reading the script was a real sense of loneliness that connected these characters. It's something I felt very familiar with in my own life and my friends' [lives]. There's a stark contrast to the experience that the culture is having with connection and contact and immediate gratification and a constant dialogue, with the world, with your peers, with reporters, with whoever you want to have a dialogue with on your cell phone, computer, iPad, laptop. You can stand in an elevator and watch the news and know what's going on in the world. There's more exposure to what's going on in the world, and even what's going on in your friends' lives, than ever before. And yet, what persists about the human experience is that there's a loneliness that can't be avoided. I wouldn't go as far to say that technology created that experience of loneliness. Loneliness has always existed [for] humans.
But you think it exacerbates it.
It really illuminates it. It makes it hard to ignore that we're really bad at being intimate with ourselves. In this culture that's increasingly fast-paced and "connected," that loneliness can feel like you're the only one who feels it. Everything around you is telling you that we have every opportunity to feel connected. So then you think, What's wrong with me? This cultural direction is not filling that elemental void that personally I believe is about intimacy with oneself. I've been taking note of my own habits, and how I couldn't sit in a cab for five minutes and just breathe and digest from where I was coming from before I got to the next place because I was pulling out my phone to answer emails or checking Facebook or checking Twitter. There was a mania that once gets going is so hard to pull back from. It does more effort to do nothing than to stay on the treadmill and keep going.
It's interesting to hear you talk about how the film is about oneself, considering each character is struggling to manage their relationship with another person.
It's about that, too, but it's common to talk about what's right and what's wrong about a relationship between two people. We don't often pull back and say, "What's wrong with this person's relationship with themselves that's causing the conflict between these two people?" For me, when I see the scene with my character Sylvia with her best friend Jen at lunch and they both have so much going on in their lives, neither of them are listening to each other. Neither can be present for the other one because they're so wrapped up in in their experiences. Which is why I believe our relationships with one another are completely informed by our relationships with ourselves.
When you're in the thick of a relationship, it's so easy to blame the relationship or whatever is not going right. It's not fulfilling these things that you want. And then so often we get alone and all of those things are still present. The beauty of relationships is that they give us the opportunity to see these things in ourselves, but we so rarely take responsibility for who we're being in our own lives. To bring it back to the conversation about technology, I can rail against Twitter or Facebook or emails and the world that's making me live this fast-paced life and making me unhappy, but I'm an adult who can take responsibility for the way I choose to interact with these things.


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Lutgen-Sandvik: Bullied at work? What to do
Thursday, October 22nd, 2015
Bullying in the workplace: How to recognize and address it
By Becky Parker, WDAZ-TV (Grand Forks, North Dakota), Oct. 22, 2015
Bullying is an issue people may think is reserved for the schoolyard, or even cyberspace.
But adult bullying in the workplace can have devastating effects on people's lives.
One in 10 U.S. workers say they are being bullied at their jobs.
Forty-five-percent say they've been bullied at some point during their career, and another 25% say they've witnessed workplace bullying.
We spoke to North Dakota State University professor and researcher Pam Lutgen-Sandvik, who has been studying workplace bullying for nearly 15 years. [Note: Dr. Lutgen-Sandvik is a WBI friend & colleague; her research is featured prominently in the WBI training for professionals, Workplace Bullying University.]
She defines bullying as persistent, hostile, aggressive behavior that can be verbal or non-verbal.
Research shows adult bullying can lead to depression, eating disorders, sleeping disorders, PTSD and physical ailments.
It also increases the person's stress levels and degrades their mental health by making them feel crazy, scared, and anxious.
"It also bleeds into families. When you're bullied and abused at work you go home and sometimes there's displaced aggression when you're screaming at your family members, sort of that, 'kick-the-dog' kind of thing. We do know for sure it reduces people's satisfaction with their personal lives," says Lutgen-Sandvik.
Here's what she says you should do if you are being bullied at work:
• Give it a name – define it as workplace bullying.
• Remember that it's not your fault – bullies often make the victim feel crazy.
• Get some social support – like a counselor – as bullying can degrade your mental health.
• Take some time off from work to regroup and figure out how to address the problem.
"Trying to make sense of it and figure out what you're going to do is really difficult when you're in the environment and you're constantly bombarded with this aggression and hostility. If it's possible, take some time off of work so you can kind of get your bearings and figure out, 'am I going to stay? If I'm not going to stay, what am I going to do here?'"
Many people in a bullying situation at work might want to fight back, but that can be risky.
Often, bullying situations at work involve an element of power. In the U.S., it's usually a manager, but can also be a peer.
If you do choose to fight back, Lutgen-Sandvik says the best way is to talk to someone who has power over the bully.
Bring specific examples of bullying, have other co-workers to back you up, and have a clear goal in mind.
Lutgen-Sandvik says it is not a good idea to confront the bully directly.
"They will escalate the abuse worse than it ever was before, and drive the people out of the workplace because now they've become serious threats to the perpetrator. So, directly confronting the perpetrator, it's really a very, I would say, dangerous thing to do."
This is Freedom from Workplace Bullies Week and October is Bullying Prevention Month and Domestic Violence Awareness Month.
Readers may click-to-purchase Adult Bullying, Pam's chronicle of her decade of research into workplace bullying, written in easy-to-understand prose.
Tags: 2014 WBI U.S. Workplace Bullying Survey, abusive conduct, adult bullying, health harm, Lutgen-Sandvik, NDSU, professor, research, workplace bullying
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Recruiting survey respondents for a study on workplace bullying & emotional intelligence
Friday, July 31st, 2015
If you believe you have been bullied at work, you are invited to participate in a dissertation survey on Workplace Bullying approved by the WBI. The title of the dissertation is
"The Effect of Target Demographics and Emotional Intelligence on Workplace Bullying.
It takes about 20 minutes. There are two steps to the process:
Read the Consent Form
Take the survey (there are three surveys all combined into one)
Click here to start.
Please share this with anyone you feels has been bullied. Richard needs about 120 participants for the process.
Thank you.
Tags: emotional intelligence, research, survey, workplace bullying
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New WBI Instant Poll: Training by employers
Friday, October 3rd, 2014
Tags: research, Workplace Bullying Institute
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Forbes: Can Boomers Stop The Bullying At Work?
Wednesday, August 27th, 2014
By Nancy Collamer, Forbes, August 25, 2014
If you saw a young child being pushed around on the playground, chances are you would intervene. But are you equally proactive when you see bullying at work?
While this may sound like a hypothetical question, it's anything but. According to a 2014 survey conducted by the Workplace Bullying Institute (WBI), 27% of Americans have been bullied at work, 21% have witnessed it and 72% of us are aware that workplace bullying happens.
Real bullying involves more than just bad management and obnoxious behavior.
How Bullying Can Harm A Victim's Health
It also means health-harming behaviors that can include verbal abuse, offensive conduct and intentional sabotage. And workplace bullying doesn't just harm the victim. It leads to poor morale, high turnover and low productivity, which impact the entire organization.
The problem is now so widespread that lawmakers in 15 states have introduced legislation aimed at prodding employers to take the matter seriously or face consequences.
Why Boomers Can Be Effective
So what are you willing to do about it? I ask because many boomers are in management and as a result, some are in a good position to take action. Even if you're not among your employer's leadership team, you still might be able to make a difference.
If you're well respected by colleagues, have good relations with key influencers at your employer or have strong job security, it's likely easier for you to speak up and get management to take bullying seriously than it is for your younger co-workers.
That is an important advantage. Just like on the playground where bigger kids target weaker ones, the majority of workplace bullying is inflicted from the top down. According to the WBI survey, 56% of it is attributed to bosses, compared to 33% that's blamed on peers. Given this inherent power imbalance, it's no surprise that few victims stand up to their abusers.
I want to emphasize that not every boomer is in a position to stand up to workplace bullies.
Many older workers are in precarious job situations and know that if they speak up, they could be fired. That's especially true in environments where bully behavior is a celebrated part of the workplace culture. (Wolves of Wall Street anyone?)
Tags: 2014 U.S. Workplace Bullying Survey, baby boomers, boomers & bullying, Gary Namie, research, workplace bullying, Workplace Bullying Institute
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New WBI poll — believing bullied workers
Thursday, July 10th, 2014
Tags: instant poll, research, Workplace Bullying Institute
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2014 WBI U.S. Workplace Bullying Survey results
Tuesday, February 25th, 2014
2014 WBI U.S. Workplace Bullying Survey
February 2014
Gender of Perpetrators & Targets
Perpetrator Rank
Race & Ideology
Employer Reactions
Coworker Actions
Stopping the Bullying
Support for a Law
Causal Factors
About Bullied Targets
Funding by 93 Indiegogo Contributors and major support from
Assistance from Daniel Christensen & David Phillips
© 2014, Workplace Bullying Institute, All rights reserved.
Key Findings
– 27% of adult Americans have directly experienced "repeated abusive conduct that is threatening, intimidating, humiliating, work sabotage or work abuse."
– Counting witnesses, 48% have been affected
– 72% of Americans are now aware of workplace bullying
– 93% of Americans want a law to protect them from abuse in addition to anti-discrimination laws
– Employers are lagging far behind and doing relatively nothing voluntarily to stop abusers on the payroll
– Women bullies still target women at a disproportional rate (68%)
– Women are still the majority of targets (60%)
Read a summary of the report at this website.
Download the complete report.
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Lutgen-Sandvik writes great workplace bullying book in time for Christmas 2013
Thursday, December 5th, 2013
Adult Bullying
A Nasty Piece of Work:
Translating a Decade of Research
on Non-Sexual Harassment,
Psychological Terror, Mobbing,
and Emotional Abuse on the Job
By Pamela Lutgen-Sandvik, Ph.D.
North Dakota State University
Dr. Lutgen-Sandvik is arguably one of the most prolific American academic researchers on the topic of workplace bullying. She certainly is the best informed among academics, with few exceptions.
Here's why.
Pam is real. From her bio, prior to earning her doctorate in organizational communication at Arizona State she worked as a social service organization administrator, first in the field of women's advocacy and then in outpatient substance abuse treatment. Advocacy in the human services field is a rare background for academics.
Pam's practical, kick 'em in the shins approach to the esoteric world of academic research is revealed in the titles of some of her works — "Nightmares, demons & slaves" (can you hear Cher?), "Take this job and shove …" "Burned by bullying in America." And her style of collecting research data was to talk with bullied targets.
This book is a compilation of her work. It is not written by an egghead. The subtitle refers to her "translating" research into plainspeak. That's what she is profoundly good at doing well. Thus, it is ultimately readable.
The information found between the covers is useful if you are fighting a grievance, filing a complaint, embroiled in a lawsuit, or facing blank stares from HR.
The book covers many aspects of the bullying phenomenon with chapters on each — the prevalence, the stages of bullying, explaining the pain, the trauma and stigma of being bullied, how organizations become toxic, why women bully women, behavior of witnesses, and reversing the effects of bullying in individuals' lives.
Pam dedicates the book to all those bullied individuals who bravely participated in her research.
In 2013, she moved to North Dakota State (NDSU) in 2013 to join the Department of Communication in Fargo. She continues to research, publish, and teach in the area of organizational communication at NDSU and serves as the Director of the NDSU Communication Research & Training Center. Dr. Lutgen-Sandvik is married, has two children, and lives in Moorhead, MN.
Also, in 2013, Pam attended the WBI Workplace Bullying University® training for professionals in Bellingham, Washington to which she contributed mightily.
Pam declares that
All proceeds from book sales support scientific research that seeks to reduce workplace bullying, improve workplace communications and build more respectful workplace climates.
Where else can approx. $11 accomplish all that? Buy this book for yourself and as gifts for loved ones who have been bullied at work. While shopping, also buy Overcoming Mobbing by Duffy & Sperry new this holiday season 2013, and our book, The Bully At Work. They will be forever grateful.
With Pam, our admiration is personal. She came to Bellingham to meet us Namies in 2003 before her graduate studies were finished. She came to glean all she could from Dr. Ruth. So she is more than an intellectual colleague, she is a precious friend. We bought the book. You should, too.
Tags: bullied targets, emotional abuse, Len Sperry, Mobbing, non-sexual harassment, Pamela Lutgen-Sandvik, psychological terror, research, self help, workplace bullying, workplace bullying book
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Fill out the newest WBI Survey
Monday, August 26th, 2013
At WBI we want to know more about the nature of workplaces where bullying occurs.
If have ever been a target of workplace bullying, or are currently struggling with a bully at work, please take a moment to fill this out.
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Forbes: Are Workplace Bullies Rewarded for their Behavior?
Friday, July 12th, 2013
Peggy Drexler, Forbes.com, July 10, 2013
As a longtime hotel manager for upscale resorts across the U.S., Sandrine had spent her career believing that good service was the key to success. That included being courteous to your guests—and to your co-workers. Which is why the company's latest "star" employee, Russ, confounded her. He'd been hired as a bellman at the Northeast beach resort she was currently assigned to and in less than a year had worked his way up to associate manager, earning a promotion (and, she knew, a healthy raise) above her. She'd been with the company for nearly 10 years.
She could understand if he was an exceptionally hard worker, or a talented manager. But, she told me, Russ was verbally abusive to his staff, using fear and intimidation to get them to do what he wanted them to do, and to do it better and more quickly than any other department. He denied vacation requests and spread rumors about staffers who got on his bad side. Once, she'd witnessed him make fun of a hostess, in front of a dozen other employees, for a pimple she'd tried, not very successfully, to cover.
But when the hotel executives came to town, Russ played Mr. Popular amazingly well. "He was charming and believably personable, even if 20 minutes earlier he had been berating the chef," she told me, frustrated by her own inability to climb the ranks as well as Russ had. The higher ups regarded Russ's department as one of the most efficiently run—and it was, given his reports were scared to get on his bad side—and he was happy to accept all the credit for it. As far as the bosses could tell, people seemed to like him. "I always operated by the idea that he'd get what he deserved—people like that always do, don't they?—but all he seemed to get was rewarded," Sandrine said.
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WBI Study: First-Time Abusers in Bullied Targets' Lives
Monday, July 1st, 2013
WBI 2013-H Instant Poll
Prior life experiences play a role in the depth of emotional injury that bullying can cause a person. Individuals who have never been abused in their lives may take longer to recognize that they are actually being bullied. Without memories or repressed cognitive representations of being the victim of abuse, bullying is a completely novel experience. Learning begins when first targeted for the first time in their lives.
Targets with prior brushes with abuse in their lives do not necessarily risk being targets of workplace bullying. However, when targeted, emotional memories are quickly triggered and those targets are subject to re-traumatization. The levels of emotional pain, shame and distress are much more severe than for individuals experiencing abuse for the first time as an adult in the workplace.
This single-question survey sought to ascertain what percentage of bullied targets were recipients of abusive conduct for the first time in their lives and who are the perpetrators.
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The decade of the 60s was an incredibly intense period in our nation's History.
Keep in mind that much of it was dominated by the Vietnam War--a War
that divided the nation and cost the lives of thousands & thousands of American soldiers.
Please be prepared to see images that you might find disturbing.
Remember: We study history precisely so that we might not be doomed to make tomorrow
the same mistakes we made yesterday. Thanks. --Collins
The Sixties, A Counterculture
& Vietnam
A defining chapter in America's past, the '60s truly shaped a generation & created a political landscape that can still be seen today.
The story of the '60s is illuminated with images of
freedom protests, "flower power", & a nation divided by war.
The story of the '60s is illuminated with images of
freedom protests, "flower power", & a nation divided by war.
Let's Review:
Check out the video to the right. Courtesy of Kahn Academy,
the video will help us look back and understand how we--a nation-- got to Vietnam, why we stayed, and the decisions made that eventually
got us out of Vietnam.
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Section I:
In 1960......
Fashion-conscious women were wearing:
Section II:
Follow the link just below to get a better sense of the flow of the Sixties.
It is important to think about the Decade as just that:
A period of incredible change, political upheaval, and profound sense of division.
It is important to think about the Decade as just that:
A period of incredible change, political upheaval, and profound sense of division.
A Sixties Timeline
The Cuban Missile Crisis
Activity #1:
The Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis:
Mapping An Event
Mapping An Event
Download the document to the right
and follow the directions.
Section III:
The Cuban Missile Crisis
On his last full day in New York City for the 1960 Assembly meeting, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev took offense at the words of a delegate from the Philippines. The delegate claimed that Eastern Europe had been "deprived of political and civil rights" and had effectively been "swallowed up by the Soviet Union."
What happened next has been debated, but William Taubman, author of Khrushchev: The Man and His Era wrote that "after banging a table with both his fists, the Soviet leader took off his right shoe" — a loafer or sandal, according to Khrushchev's son, because he hated tying laces — waved it and then "banged it on the table, louder and louder, until everyone in the hall was watching and buzzing."
By the way, it has been put into the history books as one of the U.N. Top 10 Moments.
Read more: TIME MAGAZINE
The Berlin Wall goes up.
Construction began on The Berlin Wall early in the morning of Sunday, August 13, 1961. It was a desperate – and effective - move by the GDR (German Democratic Republic) to stop East Berliners escaping from the Soviet-controlled East German state into the West of the city, which was then occupied by the Americans, British and French.
The Berlin Wall separating Western and Democratic Germany from East and Communist Germany.
**Peace Corps Program Launched
**Bay of Pigs Debacle
A plot to invade Cuba and overthrow Fidel Castro goes miserably wrong when air support at the Bay of Pigs fails to materialize. Kennedy's leadership skills are called into question, and Kennedy himself develops doubts about heeding the advice of the military.
**Kennedy Meets Khrushchev in Vienna
**The Berlin Wall
**Vice President Johnson Tours Saigon
During a tour of Asian countries, Vice President Lyndon Johnson visits Diem in Saigon. Johnson assures Diem that he is crucial to U.S. objectives in Vietnam and calls him "the Churchill of Asia."
**Kennedy Authorizes Green Berets
President Kennedy authorizes the "Green Berets" -- a Special Forces operation activated at Fort Bragg, NC. They will specialize in counterinsurgency.
U.S.-Soviet Showdown Over Cuban Missile Crisis
Photos taken from a U.S. spy plane reveal the Soviets placing offensive missiles on Cuban soil. Sensing a direct challenge to U.S. resolve, Kennedy orders a naval quarantine around Cuba to prevent the Soviets from delivering additional missiles. In the tense days of the
Cuban Missile Crisis,
the world comes the closest it's
ever been to nuclear annihilation!
**Martin Luther King Delivers "I Have a Dream" Speech. Washington, DC.
**President Kennedy Assassinated in Dallas
Kennedy's death puts the problem of how to proceed in Vietnam on the shoulders of his vice president, Lyndon Johnson.
**Gulf of Tonkin Incident
On August 2, three North Vietnamese PT boats allegedly fire torpedoes at the U.S.S. Maddox, a destroyer located in the international waters of the Tonkin Gulf, some thirty miles off the coast of North Vietnam. The attack comes after six months of covert U.S. and South Vietnamese naval operations. A second, even more highly disputed attack, is alleged to have taken place on August 4.
Debate on Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution is approved by
Congress on August 7 and authorizes President Lyndon Johnson
to "take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack
against forces of the United States and to prevent further
aggression." The resolution passes unanimously in the House,
and by a margin of 82-2 in the Senate.
The Resolution allows Johnson to wage all out war
against North Vietnam without ever securing a
formal Declaration of War from Congress!
Operation "Rolling Thunder" Deployed
Sustained American bombing raids of North Vietnam, dubbed Operation Rolling Thunder, begin in February. The nearly continuous air raids would continue for three long years.
Marines Arrive at Danang
The first American combat troops, the 9th Marine Expeditionary Brigade, arrive in Vietnam to defend the U.S. airfield at Danang. Scattered Vietcong gunfire is reported, but no Marines are injured.
U.S. Troop Levels Top 200,000
Martin Luther King
Speaks Out Against War
Calling the U.S. "the greatest purveyor of violence in the world,"
Martin Luther King publicly speaks out against U.S. policy in Vietnam. King later encourages draft evasion and suggests a merger between antiwar and civil rights groups
North Vietnamese Launch Tet Offensive
In a show of military might that catches the U.S. military off guard, North Vietnamese and Vietcong forces attack key cities and provinces in South Vietnam, including its capital, Saigon. Within days, American forces are able to recapture most areas. From a military point of view, Tet is a huge defeat for the Communists, but turns out to be a political and psychological victory. The U.S. military's assessment of the war is questioned and the "end of the tunnel" seems very far off.
**My Lai Massacre
On March 16, the angry and frustrated men of Charlie Company, 11th Brigade, Americal Division enter the village of My Lai. "This is what you've been waiting for -- search and destroy -- and you've got it," say their superior officers. A short time later the killing begins. When news of what had happened reaches an American public already divided about the War, an outcry ensues and protest against the war builds in earnest.
**LBJ Announces He Won't Run
**MLK Slain in Memphis
**Robert Kennedy Assassinated
**Richard Nixon Elected President
Running on a platform of "law and order,"Richard Nixon just barely beats out Hubert Humphrey for the presidency. Nixon takes just 43.4 percent of the popular vote, compared to 42.7 percent for Humphrey. Third-party candidate George Wallace takes the remaining percentage of votes
Thanks to PBS.com for much of the helpful information that went into the above timeline.
Section IV:
March on Washington
Civil rights leaders Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., (front row, second from left), A. Philip Randolph (front row, far right), and Roy Wilkins (front row, second from right) lead the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963.
National Archives, Records of the U.S. Information Agency
Photograph of the President's meeting with the leaders of the March on Washington.
Left to Right Willard Wirtz, Martin Luther King, Jr., Eugene Carson Blake, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Walter Reuther Others not in order A. Philip Randolph, John Lewis, Whitney Young, Mathew Ahmann, Joachin Prinz, Roy Wilkins, Floyd McKissick
Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Act enforced the constitutional right to vote, gave jurisdiction to the district courts
of the United States, provided relief
against discrimination in public accommodations, authorized the Attorney General to institute
suits to protect constitutional rights in public
facilities and public education, extended the
Commission on Civil Rights, prevented discrimination
in federally assisted programs, and established a Commission on Equal Employment Opportunity.
--National Archives
"I graduated pretty quickly. When I was eleven or twelve a close friend of the family got lynched. I guess he was about forty years old, married, and we used to play with his kids. I remember the Saturday night a bunch of white men beat him to death at the Decatur fairgrounds because he sassed back a white woman. They just left him dead on the ground. Everyone in town knew it but never said a word in public. I went down and saw his bloody clothes. They left those clothes on a fence for about a year. Every Negro in town was supposed to get the message from those clothes and I can see those clothes now in my mind's eye.... But nothing was said in public. No sermons in church. No news. No protest. It was as though this man just dissolved except for the bloody clothes.... Just before I went into the Army I began wondering how long I could stand it. I used to watch the Saturday night sport of white men trying to run down a Negro with their car, or white gangs coming through town to beat up a Negro".
To the right:
Video: The Ghosts of Mississippi:
Section V:
A Closer Look:
Established by Executive Order 10924 and issued by
President John F. Kennedy on March 1, 1961, the creation of the United States
Peace Corps was announced by televised broadcast March 2, 1961, and
authorized by Congress on September 22, 1961.
The Peace Corps Act
Passed in 1961, this Act formalized
President John F. Kennedy's vision of a volunteer
organization to provide education and skilled
manpower to developing nations. First proposed to
students at the University of Michigan during Kennedy's presidential campaign, the Peace Corps has supplied
more than 187,000 volunteers to over
135 different countries.
The Peace Corps act declared the program's purpose as follows:
To promote world peace and friendship through a Peace Corps, which shall make available to interested countries and areas men and women of the United States qualified for service abroad and willing to serve, under conditions of hardship if necessary, to help the peoples of such countries and areas in meeting their needs for trained manpower
Section VI:
Compare and contrast this image with the classic Uncle Sam poster located above.
Why do you think the artist chose this American character to express the anti-war image?
Why do you think the artist chose this American character to express the anti-war image?
Nov. 24, 1964
What's So Funny, Monsieur?
I'm only trying to find my way.
When the U.S. began shipping soldiers to Vietnam,
this cartoon reminded readers that the French already
lost a war on the same turf: the First Indochina War
of 1946-54. Based on that war, France had advised
the U.S. to stay out of Vietnam. Instead, America initiated the Vietnam War-also known as the
Second Indochina War.
Bill Mauldin 1921-2003
Chicago Sun-Times
In the photo to the left:A Bell UH-1D helicopter piloted by Major Bruce P. Crandall climbs skyward after discharging a load of U.S. infantrymen on a search and destroy mission
Section VII:
Major Events:
1960: Televised Presidential Debates
1961: First troops arrive in Vietnam
1962: Cuban Missile Crisis
1963: MLK "I have a dream speech"
1963: John F. Kennedy Assassinated
1964: 24th Amendment
1964: Civil Rights Act of 1964
Civil Rights Act
1964: Gulf of Tonkin Incident
1968: Tet Offensive
1968: Martin Luther King Jr and Robert F. Kennedy Assassinated
1969: Apollo 11
Landing on Moon
1969: Woodstock
The Sixties
1960 to 1969
Dwight D. Eisenhower: 1953-1961
John F. Kennedy: 1961-1963
Lyndon B. Johnson: 1963-1969
Richard Nixon: 1969-1974
Section VIII:
Lyndon Johnson &
The Great Society
The Great Society
The purpose of protecting the life of our Nation and preserving the liberty of our citizens is to pursue the happiness of our people. Our success in that pursuit is the test of our success as a Nation. For a century we labored to settle and to subdue a continent. For half a century we called upon unbounded invention and untiring industry to create an order of plenty for all of our people.
The challenge of the next half century is whether we have the wisdom to use that wealth to enrich and elevate our national life, and to advance the quality of our American civilization. Your imagination, your initiative, and your indignation will determine whether we build a society where progress is the servant of our needs, or a society where old values and new visions are buried under unbridled growth. For in your time we have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society. The Great Society rests on abundance and liberty for all. It demands an end to poverty and racial injustice, to which we are totally committed in our time. But that is just the beginning. The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and to enlarge his talents. It is a place where leisure is a welcome chance to build and reflect, not a feared cause of boredom and restlessness. It is a place where the city of man serves not only the needs of the body and the demands of commerce but the desire for beauty and the hunger for community. It is a place where man can renew contact with nature. It is a place which honors creation for its own sake and for what it adds to the understanding of the race. It is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goals than the quantity of their goods. But most of all, the Great Society is not a safe harbor, a resting place, a final objective, a finished work. It is a challenge constantly renewed, beckoning us toward a destiny where the meaning of our lives matches the marvelous products of our labor.
--Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society Speech.
Section IX:
A Vietnam Photo Essay
The Vietnam War
The Vietnam War: An Online Timeline
This PowerPoint is intended as an overview of BOTH the Korean and Vietnam Wars:
This PowerPoint is an in-depth look at the War in Vietnam:
Treating the wounds
During the North Vietnamese Army's surprise 1968 Tet Offensive, a fierce battle raged in the city of Hue. Pitting North Vietnamese Army regulars and Vietcong against South Vietnamese Army troops and U.S. Marines, the month-long battle ended in defeat for the attackers. This photograph from February 6, 1968, shows D.R. Howe treating the wounds of Private First Class D.A. Crum.
National Archives, Records of the U.S. Marine Corps
In the Heat of Battle:
On April 5, 1968, Army Specialist Fourth Class Dennis Kurpius photographed Private First Class Raymond Rumpa of the U.S. Army's 9th Infantry Division carrying a 45-pound 90 mm recoilless rifle in front of a burning Vietcong base camp in My Tho, South Vietnam. Rumpa, of St. Paul, Minnesota, was a member of C Company, 3rd Battalion, 47th Infantry.
Defending the Embassy
On January 30, 1968, a team of Vietcong blew a hole in the wall of the U.S. Embassy compound in Saigon, South Vietnam. Part of the larger Tet Offensive, this battle lasted longer than six hours and ended with all 19 intruders killed or wounded. The attack shook American confidence in the prosecution of the war. This map reflects the defense of the embassy after the attack.
National Archives, Records of the U.S. Forces in Southeast Asia
Below: Photograph of the USS Maddox
June, 1964
General Records of the Department of the Navy
The photograph below was taken in May 1964, as the U.S.S. Maddox sailed into Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The Maddox served during World War II and the Korean War before she was involved in an incident in Gulf of Tonkin off the North Vietnamese coast in early August 1964. After this incident, the United States Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, deepening U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War.
--National Archives, General Records of the Department of the Navy
Below: A young Marine waits on the beach during the Marine landing at Da Nang, Vietnam, on August 3, 1965.
Sailing Into History!
Map of the U.S.S. Maddox Incident
National Security File
Sailing into History!
The chart to the right depicts the patrol route of the U.S.S. Maddox from July 30 to August 2, 1964. The Maddox (seen above) sailed into the Gulf of Tonkin, off the North Vietnamese coast on July 31. The ship's path is shown as a black line with dots representing her location on a date and time (expressed in 24-hour increments). A notation on the chart notes the Maddox was attacked on August 2 by three North Vietnamese torpedo boats at 4:07 p.m. Note that four American F-8 aircraft attacked the boats, destroying one in the water.
(Click on the link above to an interactive map)
--National Archives
Above: A Surprise Visit!
In December 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson paid a surprise visit to South Vietnam to raise troop morale. In this photograph the President poses with nurses at a military hospital in Cam Rahn Bay.
Rescue by C-123 transport planeOn May 12, 1968, Lieutenant Colonel Joe M. Jackson landed his C-123 transport plane on the debris-filled runway at Kham Duc in the Republic of Vietnam. Three members of a Combat Control Team had been trapped on the airfield, which was overrun by enemy troops. Jackson landed under enemy fire to rescue the surrounded men. This is the only known image of the runway at the time of the events that earned LTC Jackson a Medal of Honor
This C-123K aircraft seen to the right flies a paratrooper-dropping mission over Vietnam's Mekong Delta on March 27, 1969. Originally designed during World War II as a glider, the C-123 was used extensively during the Vietnam War to operate out of dirt and other un-improved airfields.
National Archives, Records of U.S. Air Force Commands, Activities,and Organizations
Below: Photograph of U.S. Air Force C-123K on a Paratrooper Dropping Mission Over the Mekong Delta, Vietnam
Records of U.S. Air Force Commands, Activities, and Organizations
Section X:
The Anti-War Movement
NOTE: There are TWO links here:
The first: 60s Counterculture,
the second is: The Hippie.
Take a look at BOTH!!
60s Counterculture
Section XI:
The MusicThey Were ListeningTo.....
The Beatles
The Grateful Dead
The Rolling Stones
Jimi Hendrix
Bob Dylan
The Band
Even if they were only remembered as the group that backed Bob Dylan on some of his best work (including The Basement Tapes), the Band would be widely revered. But the four Canadians and one Southerner did classic work on their own, turning in earthy and mystical albums built on rock-ribbed, austerely precise arrangements and songs that linked American folklore to primal myths.
Read more: Rolling Stone
Video: The DOORS!
Video: Berkeley in the 1960s
Section XII:
Vietnam War Ends
American Death Toll and the Pentagon Papers
Section XIII:
Birth of the Environmental Movement
Looking back, America, over the short period of 150 years, had managed to become one of the major powers of the world. Industry, railroads, factories and power plants hummed away across the nation making that power possible.
Hurling toward the future, many Americans failed to see the cost:
unchecked land development, urban decay, and air, noise and water pollution.
It was only a matter of time before the reality could no longer be ignored. Let's look back:
Hurling toward the future, many Americans failed to see the cost:
unchecked land development, urban decay, and air, noise and water pollution.
It was only a matter of time before the reality could no longer be ignored. Let's look back:
October 30-31, 1948
In Donora, PA, 20 people die and over 600 go to the hospital after sulfur dioxide emissions from a nearby steel and wire plant descend in the form of smog, made worse by a temperature inversion that trapped the sulfuric poison in the valley of the town. The incident will lead to the first U.S. conference on air pollution in 1950, sponsored by the Public Health Service.
September 1949
Paul Ehrlich (future author of The Population Bomb) enters the University of Pennsylvania and studies zoology. He notes the disappearance of butterflies in New Jersey, which he attributes to the spraying of dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) during the building of subdivisions. The shrinking population of butterflies leads Ehrlich to think about potential similar repercussions in the human population.
November 1953
Heavy smog in New York City exacerbates asthma and other lung conditions, killing 170-260 people. More New Yorkers will die again in 1962 and 1966 with more "smog episodes."
February 1953
A Growing Public Awareness
The Silent World by Jacques Cousteau introduces the world to underwater adventure, and ushers in a new global interest in oceanic life. In 1956, Cousteau's documentary film of the same title will win the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
January 1955
President Eisenhower speaks on the problem of air pollution in his State of the Union address, and in a Special Message to Congress he calls on the Public Health Service to study "effective methods of control."
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Beaten 6-3, 6-4 by Tomas Berdych on Friday night in the Cincinnati quarter-finals, he looked oddly lethargic as he found himself consistently outgunned by the Czech's ferocious hitting.
The result left Murray light on match practice ahead of his US Open title defence, especially when one considers that a rival like Berdych has entered next week's event in Connecticut to amass more time on court. There ought not to be excessive alarm, given that last year he won just two hard court matches before sealing his maiden grand slam triumph, but with the memories of his Wimbledon deeds still so fresh he could have dared to expect more.
Instead Murray folded all too easily here, rather ruining the effect of his 10 aces with 28 unforced errors, far too many against a player of the calibre and intent of Berdych, who has now beaten the Scot in six of their last 10 contests.
"I was a bit inconsistent from the back of the court," said Murray, who spurned his chance to strike back by shipping three break points early in the second set. "I'll need to make sure I'm not making those mistakes heading into the US Open."
One trusts that coach Ivan Lendl, who places such a premium upon peaking for the majors, will make sure of it. In this phase of his career Murray's calendar is geared almost solely towards the slams, with settings such as Cincinnati the place for adjustment and experimentation rather than the full-bore pursuit of victory.
Against Berdych it did not help either, that he also appeared distracted by the constant chatter and noise around the Grandstand court during critical points. "It's not what we're used to — it's a slightly different atmosphere to Wimbledon, that's for sure," he admitted, trying desperately to be polite to his hosts.
It was rather a snub in the first place that the Wimbledon champion had been shifted to Grandstand, Cincinnati's secondary court, for the second straight day. Certainly it would never have happened to Roger Federer, but then Murray's media profile in the US still needs some work, considering his second-round victory over Julien Benneteau on ESPN was replaced by junior-league baseball.
And it seemed Murray's heart was not fully in the occasion from the moment he was broken by Berdych at the end of the first set, before losing all four break points in the second to gift victory to the world No 6, who also vanquished him at this year's Madrid Masters.
There was also a dramatic defeat for Murray's chief rival Novak Djokovic, who fell to an inspired John Isner. Only able to break the towering American's serve once during a riveting two-hour confrontation, the Serb fell 7-6, 3-6, 7-5 to heighten suspicions that he is also short of US Open form. "I played a terrible match," he acknowledged.
For the 6ft 6in Isner, it was nothing less than a case of restoring lost pride after a week when the US could claim no men in the world's 20 since rankings began four decades ago. "It feels absolutely amazing," Isner said.
Isner, known as 'Mr Tie-Break', duly won a remarkable 30th breaker in 41 attempts this season to take the first set and was looking formidable on serve. But Djokovic struck back after the American spurned four break points at the start of the second to move 2-0 clear, preserving the break to take the match into a compelling decider.
Throughout the third set Isner's 140mph-plus serve proved impregnable, but he could not match it with sufficiently ruthless returning as the match ran until he achieved the critical break in the 12th game to send the Cincinnati audience into raptures.


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In 1964, Boston Pizza opened its first restaurant in Edmonton. Thirty years later, it had expanded to B.C., Saskatchewan and Manitoba, but remained unknown east of Winnipeg. In the mid-1990s, the company made the decision to enter Canada's 50 Best Managed Companies contest so that it could improve its business from within. At about that same time, it also began to re-explore in earnest the possibility of expanding nationally. Today the brand has 345 restaurants spread out across every Canadian province, but the process to get there wasn't easy. With this year's next cohort of Best Managed companies soon to be announced, Boston Pizza CEO Mark Pacinda recently spoke with the Financial Post to recount the Alberta-founded company's eastbound journey and the bumps along the way. Following is an edited transcript of their conversation.
Q: Thinking back to your first year as a Best Managed company, what was the biggest challenge you had to overcome at that time?
A: We were a private company at that time, primarily western based. Not many people east of Manitoba had heard of Boston Pizza. We started in Edmonton in 1964 and we had a strong western presence, so people in B.C. and Alberta and the Prairies knew about Boston Pizza, but no one in Ontario (which is basically two-thirds of the country) knew about us. Our big internal business challenge was how do we grow our brand nationally, and we saw the Best Managed award as a national award with companies that had a large, national presence, so we were a bit worried they would wait until we achieved our goal, but they seemed to like our progress at the time.
Q: What process did you use to break out at the national level?
A: Well, it's interesting. That's actually the reason I was hired. I was the first employee hired outside of the western office. The two owners of the company, Jim Treliving and his partner George Melville, had a great brand out west and wanted to grow it out east. They took a shot at it in the early 90s, just prior to the GST coming in and didn't have a lot of success. They opened three stores, and ended up having to close the stores and regroup and thought: 'The next time we do this we're going to have to have a Toronto office; we can't run the company from Vancouver'. So, they went out into the search world and found me in 1997.
My job was to open up an office in Toronto, find some franchisees, hire some staff, build some stores and start to grow the business. That started slowly. In 1998 and 1999, we had three or four stores in Ontario – a couple in Ottawa, one in Oakville, in Mississauga. We started to gain some momentum. We had good timing. That was when all the retail big-box complexes were exploding in the burbs. We had AMC and Famous Players theatres being built, lots of shopping malls, lots of expansion opportunities. So, we grew quite rapidly. From 2000 to 2010, we build 175 stores, and the bulk of them were in eastern Canada. So, we went from virtually no stores in Ontario to over 100 in a 10-year period.
We are really the only mid-scale player that's in all 10 provinces. Most of the people in our segment are regional. Back in the day, you had BP, but then you had Earl's and Joey's and Moxie's and White Spot (in B.C.) and Kelsey's, Montana's and East Side Mario's in Ontario.
Q: Yeah, it's a pretty saturated market; not just the mid-scale market, but the pizza market. How did you convince Ontarians, Quebeckers and Maritimers they should skip the delivery and go out for pizza and have a beer with some friends while they're at it (or maybe bring their families)?
A: We built it off the success we had out west. We knew we had a proven concept; we just didn't have it in this market. When we actually came to Ontario we were right in the middle of renovating our building, our prototype, to make it a bit more modern, a bit more upscale — something that would catch people's eyes. We knew we couldn't enter Ontario with the kinds of signs we had in the mid-1990s. So, we did that. We filled a space that I don't think was occupied at that point in Ontario, and people liked our brand; it was new and fresh and interesting. We generated a lot of excitement and had a lot of people that wanted to join with us and the next thing you know, we were just growing really rapidly. It's funny that when you're in the middle of it — when it's happening — you don't think a lot about it. You've just got momentum and you keep going.
Q: What would you say was your biggest challenge in expanding nationally?
A: It was the real estate. Real estate, much like the restaurant business, is regional. We struggled to get the developers to also believe in our concept. Initially it was difficult to get sites, because they would say 'I don't know a lot about your brand; don't know if you're going to work'. If you're a developer right now and Starbucks comes along and says 'we'd like to have Starbucks in your plaza,' you're going to say 'sure, we'd love to have you' because you recognize the brand and you know the power of the brand. When we went in and said, 'We'd like to put a Boston Pizza in your plaza,' they would say 'Why would I do that; I don't know your brand. I'll put a Kelsey's there because I know them'. So, we had to spend a lot of time convincing them that this would work and that they would be happy they made the call. Once we started having success and they started seeing the power of the brand, then that broke loose and we actually had developers calling us. But those first couple of years were tough.
Q: How would you say your marketing has adjusted since then to reflect the increasingly competitive landscape but also to respond to new digital and mobile platforms that have emerged?
A: I would say 10 years ago we probably spend about 2% of our marketing budget on digital. Today we spend about 25% of our budget on it. That's a substantial amount of money. So, we're in everything from Facebook and Twitter to online ordering and going to target-audience-specific websites to promote things like gluten-free pizza (that way we can directly target the people that would want that product).
Q: What has been the biggest shift in the way you operate or conduct your business since the early 1990s?
A: When you go through the Best Managed process, there's a discipline that you have to have in your organization to go through the questionnaire. What it allows you the opportunity to do is look at your organization and look at it in a way that allows you to get a sense of whether or not you're achieving a goal that you've set for your organization. It's kind of an audit, if you will, on that plan and it allows you to say 'we really knocked that out of the park, but they've raised a few points that we haven't focused on, but probably should. If we want to continue to be in this program, we have to continue to reinforce our training programs, our management programs, work on our foundations and make sure it's a the forefront of what we do'. So, it gives you a general guideline on how to be a Best Managed company.
Q: You mentioned you reinforced some of your training programs. What did you do to achieve that end?
A: We made a huge investment so that today all our training materials are online because most of our staff are young people – 18 to 21-year-old servers – so our training materials needed to be accessed on an iPhone or an iPad or a laptop at home. Our staff give us high marks for great programs but also great accessibility. We would take our training materials and hold them up against anyone in the industry and would like to think that we were right up there.


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Authorities won't name him, but say they have zeroed in on a "person of interest" in a 42-year-old cold case murder of a young North Carolina couple whose bodies were found tied up and tortured in woods after the two left a Valentine's dance in Durham.
Jesse McBane, 19, and his girlfriend, Patricia Mann, 20, were found tied up, strangled and covered with leaves in a secluded "lover's lane" area just off a dirt road in Orange County, N.C., WRAL-TV reported.
The murders were dubbed the "Valentine's Day killings" because the bodies were found on Feb. 25, 1971, 13 days after the couple left a Valentine's dance at Watts Hospital in Durham, where Mann was a nursing student, according to the station.
Investigators say the couple, who had planned to marry, were tortured before they were killed in what they described as a sadistic strangling.
"Evidence from the autopsy and at the scene tended to indicate that they were strangled over a period of time," investigator Tim Horne Horne told the station. "It wasn't one continuous pulling tight of a rope around their neck to strangle them to death. It appeared to be a situation where the rope was tightened, then they let it go, let them regain their breath, regain consciousness, possibly, and then they were strangled again."
Their fully clothed bodies were found tied to a tree.
The injuries sustained by the two were similar, but Mann suffered another injury. Autopsy reports showed a half-inch tear in her liver, which the medical examiner said could have been caused by a fist blow to the stomach prior to her death, the station reported.
Authorities have long believed that the killer was very familiar with the area where the bodies were found. They have identified a person of interest, who is still alive, but declined to provide any further details.
"The suspect knew this area, knew this location. It's our opinion (that) this wasn't the first time he came down here," Horne told WRAL. "He felt comfortable torturing and murdering these two young people, and he felt comfortable enough that no one was going to come and that no one could hear them cry, scream, plead, what have you."
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Rangers playoff hopes take hit with loss
Radek Martinek and P.A. Parenteau both had a goal and assist during the Islanders' four-goal second period, and New York put the area-rival Rangers back into postseason peril with a 6-2 victory Thursday night.
After Blake Comeau got the Islanders even 1-1 at 3:24, Martinek put them in front 33 seconds later.
Things settled down for a bit, but the Islanders struck for two more goals 1:16 apart – the first by Jesse Joensuu at 13:28 and the second by Parenteau to turn it into a rout. Matt Moulson scored his 31st goal of the season against backup Chad Johnson with 11:22 left, and Trevor Gillies made it 6-1 at 14:00.
Even a one-goal deficit seemed daunting to the Rangers, who lost for the second time in two nights.
The Rangers were seemingly cruising for a playoff spot on the strength of an 8-1-1 spurt, but have dipped to eighth in the Eastern Conference and lead Carolina by three points with four games remaining. Carolina has five games to play in the final 10 days.
Rangers goalie Henrik Lundqvist shook off an injury to his leg sustained Wednesday at Buffalo to make his career-high 22nd straight start, but allowed four goals on 22 shots in two periods. He was replaced by Johnson to begin the third.
More troubling for the Rangers is the lack of offense. They have scored only five goals in five games, including two shutout losses and three 1-0 finishes. New York had scored 17 in its previous three games.
Vinny Prospal gave the Rangers a 1-0 lead in the first and Brandon Dubinsky scored in the final minute but that was all the playoff-hopefuls could muster against the also-ran Islanders, who lost 3-2 at New Jersey on Wednesday.
Al Montoya, who was drafted by the Rangers, stuck it to his former club by making 25 saves. It was a good bounce-back effort for Montoya, beaten 6-3 by the Rangers at Madison Square Garden on March 15.
The Rangers scored the goal they couldn't get during a 1-0 loss at Buffalo with 5:35 left in the first period on their fifth shot. Marian Gaborik's drive from Montoya's left bounced into the right circle to Prospal, who quickly fired a shot that found its way past Montoya about waist high inside the right post. Prospal's sixth snapped the Rangers' goal-less drought at 127 minutes, 46 seconds – dating to the first period of a 1-0 win at Boston last Saturday.
Gaborik was then involved in an uncharacteristic play when he struck Islanders forward Frans Nielsen with a shoulder hit to the back while Nielsen was facing the boards a few feet away. Nielsen went facefirst into the boards by the penalty and fell to the ice. Gaborik also went down and was then jumped by Martinek, who came to Nielsen's defense.
Nielsen was ruled out of the game because of a head injury, and Gaborik received four minutes in penalties.
The Islanders gave the Rangers plenty of chances to build a lead with a string of undisciplined penalties, including two that handed the Rangers a 5-on-3 advantage for over a minute in the first.
The Rangers were 0 for 6 on the power play in the first two periods and skated off after 40 minutes down 4-1 and outshot 22-16 in front of a large contingent of loud fans that tried to spur them on.
Rangers coach John Tortorella was angry with the performance of his club at Buffalo and couldn't have liked Thursday's game, either.
Comeau started the barrage for the Islanders, who were eliminated from postseason competition Saturday. Travis Hamonic's shot deflected off Josh Bailey to Comeau for a goal into the open left side.
Martinek then fired in a shot from the right circle, off a cross-zone pass from Parenteau, to make it 2-1. Martinek then ripped a drive from the right point that hit Joensuu and caromed past Lundqvist, and Parenteau swept in a loose puck to push the Islanders' lead to three goals.
Notes: Lundqvist had allowed only two goals in four games. … D Dylan Reese had three assists. He entered with only one point this season. … The Rangers were outshot 7-1 in the first 10 minutes. … LW Wojtek Wolski was a healthy scratch for the second time since being acquired by the Rangers on Jan. 10. He hasn't scored in 14 games. … Michael Grabner, tied with Moulson for the Islanders lead in goals, sat out for the second straight night awaiting the birth of his son. … The Islanders lost four of six to the Rangers. … Islanders D Ty Wishart was lost to a shoulder injury.


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Moments Remembered in early espresso twice on white card stock and then colored with Copic markers. I wanted a bit of dimension, so I cut a loose border around the full image, then fussy cut the head/neck section and the front wing and popped them up on different layers of dimensionals for a paper tole effect. I finished the piece off by adding some glossy accents over the feathers and swirls.
Next I stamped the two feathery accent images tone on tone in lucky limeade for a fun background. The Gandhi quote is stamped onto crumb cake and then I distressed all the edges with a bit of walnut stain ink. My only embellishment was a piece of island indigo ribbon as I wanted the peacock to take center stage.
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Originally posted by TheSwordMaster
neither one likes Eek-A-Mouse?
he is like the second best reggae artist there is. you guys know his stuff? if not try out there songs: Rude boy jamaican, police in helicopter, ganja smuglin, macho man etc etc.
Great songs. trust me
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I love Bob too ! Who doesn't?
Does Sean Paul count as reggae? I like some of his beats, especialy when going out clubbing...
Originally posted by worldwatcher
Yeah Sean Paul counts, I like him too
Gimme da light!!!
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For a Polynesian downbeat feel but still commercial try Salmonella Dub out of Christchurch.
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Anyone remember Daddy Freddy from about 10 years ago? I don't know whatever happened to him, lol
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check out the song "it was written" by Damian Jr. Gong Marley, Capleton and Stephen Marley. It's near the bottom of the page.