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What Executives Are Giving and Receiving
The WSJ asked some of Asia's top tastemakers what they are giving and what they would like to receive this holiday season. Life and Style Editor Andrew LaVallee says vintage cars and exotic vacations are topping people's wish lists.
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MOREHEAD CITY � Paul and Daniel Lindsey�s 25-pound grouper was outweighed only by their appreciation for the free day of fishing for veterans.
MOREHEAD CITY � Paul and Daniel Lindsey�s 25-pound grouper was outweighed only by their appreciation for the free day of fishing for veterans.
�It was an absolutely perfect day and I�m just elated that they would do something like this for the veterans,� said Paul Lindsey, a disabled Navy veteran who served almost 25 years.
His son appreciated having some quality time.
�I really enjoyed it and it was special being able to spend some time with my dad,� Daniel Lindsey said.
The Lindseys were part of a group of veterans who participated in the new event, which is hosted by On Target 4 Vets, a national organization trying to build presence in North Carolina.
The organization�s debut in Eastern North Carolina Friday gave the veterans a day to enjoy a favorite coastal activity.
The veterans went fishing aboard Morehead City-based Carolina Princess.
Chris Hand of Richlands, who has served in the Marine Corps nine years, went home without a catch, but he didn�t mind.
�A bad day of fishing is better than a good day at work,� he said.
His son, Konnor, 8, joined him.
Everyone shared the common bond of military service.
Joe Couch of New Bern, a member On Target 4 Vets and the event�s organizer said 35 veterans and guests participated in the trip.
�It does me so much good to do something for the veterans; they can never be forgotten,� he said.
On Target 4 Vets is a Colorado-based nonprofit organization that sponsors events across the country and provides funding to mentor and support disabled veterans through adaptive sports, recreational therapy and diving.
Couch, an Army veteran with 21 years of service, is twice retired from the military and a New Bern company and ready to help other veterans. He is a Purple Heart recipient with two tours served during the Vietnam War.
He said his wife of 44 years always encouraged him to use his experience to help others. After her death in 2012, he decided it was time to do so and learned about On Target 4 Vets.
The group already has plans to make the fishing trip annual and is considering an event for scuba divers.
�We want to have a fundraiser so we can continue to grow in North Carolina,� Paul Lindsey said.
He said the camaraderie and �peer mentoring� goes far in helping veterans.
The fishing trip united veterans with service in the Korean War, Gulf War, and Vietnam and Iraq.
And with this being the first On Target 4 Vets event locally, Couch also hopes it will help spread the word about the organization and its mission: to reach veterans who could benefit from the programs; and to find volunteers and sponsors.
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Pondering the evolution of office technology
By David Bretl
Walworth County Board of Supervisors
The typewriter repairman always gets nervous when he stops by my office. The occasion of his annual visit is to perform preventive maintenance on the single electric typewriter that serves our seven-person office suite.
I explain to him that I'm fascinated by typewriters, which I am, but he never lets his guard down when it comes to answering my questions about how many typewriters he cleans for us and where they are all located.
I don't blame him. The typewriter is racing toward extinction, and I'm sure this poor guy thinks that I will speed the process up if I find out where they all are; the best course, for someone who makes his living this way, is to let sleeping typewriters lie.
Undeterred by our repairman's silence, I pulled our typewriter maintenance contract and learned that we have 84 typewriters, countywide. This breaks down to approximately 9.4 full-time employees per machine, not too far off of the ratio in my own administration office.
There was a time when I probably would have launched a crusade to ban typewriters from county buildings. It wouldn't have been a hostile confiscation, but more like the federal government's cash for clunkers program, "push, pull or drag your old typewriter in and get a credit on a new computer."
My point would have been that since the computer can do anything a typewriter can do, given enough cables, peripherals and patience, why maintain the old technology?
I've mellowed over the years and now don't see the harm in having a few of the old machines around to fill out the occasional pre-printed form or address or a fugitive envelope or two.
In time, I imagine that the situation will resolve itself. Our typewriter count has decreased by eighteen machines from 2008 to the present.
One aspect of the personal computer revolution that has never been fully resolved in many offices is the division of labor in producing documents.
In the legal setting, at least, a Dictaphone or tape recorder was the only device that I ever had in my office to produce a letter or document until about 1992. That necessarily meant that a legal secretary was required to transcribe the recording or even take shorthand, in a pinch. I was never comfortable dictating in person. It seemed pretentious to me, like something that was done in old movies. Microcassette tapes, attached to files with special plastic clips, were the way my work got done.
The introduction of personal computers in every office made everyone a typist, whether they were or not. Many professionals began producing their own documents, via the "hunt and peck method," under the belief that they could produce a document more quickly themselves. Some could pull it off, but most couldn't.
Standard formatting, which made letters and documents look professional, even elegant, was the first casualty. Who cares, it was argued, isn't it the content that's important? Grammar became far more flexible under the same theory. With increasing frequency, documents would refer to former clients and nonsensical places, like Walworth County, Florida, when templates were not carefully proofed.
Since we knew what the author meant, those of us who got hung up on such minor points were considered fussy. Over time, the combination of all of these errors has begun to impact more than just style. The demise of our written language may be approaching more quickly than we think, because it isn't only the typewriter that is becoming passé; personal computers will soon follow.
As smartphones and tablets become more powerful, many young people are bypassing the computer, altogether. As a result, the longest composition that many of them write consists of 140 characters on Twitter. The ability to write a coherent memo is becoming a rare skill among our younger job applicants.
Improvements in technology have always forced workers to change their skills. It explains why no one manufactures a decent buggy whip anymore and why the typewriter repair guy is so cagey.
Lately, however, I get the feeling that another kind of "chicken and egg" relationship is at work. Because writing, editing and maintaining files in a logical manner is hard work, we are convincing ourselves that the skills are obsolete.
At least one reason why "keyboarding" has replaced typing classes in many schools is that young people don't view office support jobs as a "glamorous" career option. This attitude is impacting many vocations these days. Glamour is a relative concept. Last winter, I paid $200 an hour for emergency service on my furnace. I hope the technician got to keep most of that money, himself, but even if he didn't, he was performing important work and making more money than many unemployed or underemployed young people who are waiting for their dream job to be bestowed upon them.
Text messaging and YouTube videos are great technology, but they have their limits. When we no longer have the ability to communicate complex ideas to each other, we will have lost yet another competitive advantage in the world economy.
By the same token, if the next generation of workers is going to live in their old bedrooms until the Kardashians offer them a reality show, we are all in trouble. As the young people in your life head back to school in a few weeks, show some interest in the latest paper they have written, and have an honest conversation about what they want to be when they grow up. Their future, as well as our county's, is at stake.
The opinions expressed in this column are those of the author and not necessarily those of the Walworth County Board of Supervisors, this newspaper or Southern Lakes Newspapers LLC.
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In 2014, the American Anthropological Association will host a monthly webinar series on the third Wednesday of the month on a variety of topics to engage anthropologists.
On February 19, 2014 at 2pm ET, AAA will host a webinar event with Dr Rosemary Joyce on the topic of Best Practices:Recruitment and Retention of Underrepresented Minorities in Anthropology Programs. The webinar will be of particular interest to anthropology students, faculty, department chairs and administrators. The program will cover topics such as:
•Developing a pipeline—reaching out to minority students through strategic partnerships with Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Tribal Colleges and Universities, and professional organizations
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Rosemary Joyce, Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, received the PhD from the University of Illinois-Urbana in 1985. Currently Associate Dean of the Graduate Division at Berkeley, she oversees graduate admissions, academic careers, and professional development that annually produce the largest number of doctorates granted to students from under-represented populations. As a member of the anthropological archaeology program at Berkeley, she was a co-recipient of the Leon Henkin Citation for Distinguished Service from the Committee on Student Diversity and Academic Development of Berkeley's Academic Senate in recognition of the success of the program in increasing diversity. She has been a mentor of undergraduates in the McNair and Mellon-Mays programs and in the UC Presidential Postdoctoral program intended to increase diversity among faculty in academia.
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Shell Names van Beurden as Surprise Choice for CEO
LONDON -- Royal Dutch Shell named head of refining Ben van Beurden to replace chief executive Peter Voser, a surprise appointment to steer Europe's biggest oil firm through an industrywide battle to replace reserves and control costs.
Analysts and investors hadn't considered van Beurden, who has worked for the company for 30 years, as a possible contender to replace Voser next year.
Their early focus was on Finance Director Simon Henry and other divisional heads Marvin Odum, Matthias Bichseland and Andrew Brown.
Voser, who built the oil company into a leader in liquefied natural gas and was finance director at the company before taking the helm in 2009, shocked the industry by announcing his early departure over two months ago.
Shares in Royal Dutch Shell (RDS.A, RDS.B) gained 1 percent in early trading Tuesday following the appointment of the relatively unknown van Beurden, who only joined the company's executive committee in January.
"It's initially something of a surprise. The question is, who is this guy," Royal Bank of Canada analyst Peter Hutton said.
Shell said van Beurden, a 55-year-old Dutchman, had a deep knowledge of the industry, having worked across a range of businesses and countries since he joined the firm in 1983.
"Ben will continue to drive and further develop the strategic agenda that we have set out, to generate competitive returns for our shareholders," said Chairman Jorma Ollila.
Van Beurden, whose new job will start next January, has worked in both the upstream and downstream parts of the company including within the increasingly important LNG business for 10 years.
His appointment comes as the company and its industry face huge challenges.
Shell is the western world's number two company by production behind Exxon Mobil (XOM). But, like its peers, it is struggling to replace reserves and boost production, and faces a squeeze on earnings as costs rise while the price of oil falls.
Amongst the other candidates who had been tipped as possible replacements for Voser were the company's head of upstream operations in the Americas, Marvin Odum, director of projects and technology Matthias Bichseland and Andrew Brown, who became head of international upstream last year.
RBC's Hutton pointed out that while the appointment of van Beurden was a surprise, Shell had in the past named bosses from the downstream, or refining, part of the business including Voser's predecessor Jeroen van der Veer.
He oversaw the initial stages of a recovery at Shell, which a decade ago was engulfed by crisis following a dramatic downgrade of reserves which rocked investor confidence when it became public in 2004.
Van Beurden, a chemical engineering graduate, has first-hand experience of the reserves crisis. He worked at the time as management assistant to Phil Watts, the CEO who was sacked as a result.
"He was clearly a high-flyer then and I am not surprised at all that he's made it all the way to the top," said a former colleague who no longer works for Shell.
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The Canadian Kidney Knowledge Translation and Generation Network (CANN-NET) was established in 2010 with the goal of bringing together Canadian kidney disease treatment guideline producers, knowledge translation specialists, and knowledge users to improve information sharing and care of patients with kidney disease.
CANN-NET brings together a national group of experienced Canadian researchers to address knowledge gaps by coordinating and executing multi-centre randomized trials. Kidney care and research priorities are identified by medical and administrative leads of renal programs across Canada. Currently, the network is focusing on the optimal timing of dialysis initiation and increasing the appropriate use of home dialysis. The Kidney Foundation of Canada and the Canadian Society of Nephrology (CSN) are funding partners of CANN-NET. Dr. Braden Manns is both the newly-elected President (2014-2016) of the CSN and Chair of the CANN-NET Executive Committee.
Between 2004 and 2010, Dr. Braden Manns was Chair of the Canadian Society of Nephrology (CSN) Scientific Committee and an Associate Professor in the Departments of Medicine and Community Health Services at the University of Calgary. "At the time, I was frustrated by what I perceived to be a lack of collaboration between researchers and decision makers – all of which was resulting in gaps in care, and making it more difficult to undertake more multi-center clinical trials," says Dr. Manns. So when a funding opportunity arose with the Canadian Institute for Health Research (CIHR), he worked with a group of investigators to prepare a submission that resulted in what has become the Canadian Kidney Knowledge Translation and Generation Net.
Today, various committees guide CANN-NET's extensive work and Dr. Manns chairs the network. "One large part of our work consists of trying to facilitate investigator-initiated clinical trials. We asked heads of renal programs and other knowledge users what they thought were the most important clinical trials to be done. Two trials were developed from identified priorities: one on the optimal way to manage people with high phosphorous levels on dialysis, and the other on the best way to manage high blood pressure in dialysis patients." To learn more about CANN-NET and other important networks, read our Spotlight on Research Networks newsletter.
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Just in case you had'nt heard, on the eve of April Fools Day a workprint of X-Men Origins: Wolverine found its way to the internet and hundreds of thousands of downloads occurred before 20th Century Fox could stop it. Though at first one might think "So what?" - there's more at stake than just having a flick run free on the internet prior to its official release date.
When I first saw this, I held back. It was April Fool's day. But as the hours passed, so did the proof that this was indeed real.
I shook my head in disbelief.
How Can A Movie Get Leaked?
Does that really matter? There are so many different people that handle a DVD of a movie in post-production before it hits the theaters, it's amazing we don't see this more often.
With the number of folk who have access to a post-production version of a movie, when do the necessary additional security measures kick in that studios may have to take? Will those measures cost us, the fan, more in the end?
Sure we might grumble at the studios, but who is really to blame?
Have You Thought About the Little Guy?
I suppose that for some, the idea of seeing a movie before it's actually released to the public is some sort of thrill (or something). While these folks gloat about having seen a film early (and illegally), I'm sure they don't think about the impact their cumulative actions have on others.
The "others" are those people who put in 10 to 14 hour days over the course of a couple of years creating a movie. The "others" are also the second tier people who depend on a film to be released for their livelihoods... Movie theater owners/employees, for example.
For all these people, an advance pirate copy that makes it online dilutes the hard work they've put into something, and takes away from the "event" status of a big blockbuster release date. A release date that has had many countless hours of effort put towards deciding how to best present the culmination of all that hard work.
As this travesty went viral, Twitter.com was aflame with people stating that the Wolverine movie had found its way to the internet.
Some cheered at the travesty thrust upon Fox. I get where you're coming from. Fox sure doesn't have the best track record in how they've handled some franchises or other matters. But if you think this through, it's just not Fox that gets hurt. It's shameful to ponder the idea that we might really wish harm on a person's livelihood.
So the buzz lit up big time.
Shortly thereafter folks were out there boasting about having grabbed some popcorn and sitting down to watch their newly stolen digital media.
Yes... I Said Stolen
If you go to the trouble of hunting down what you know is an illegal copy of the film, you knowingly stole it. And don't tell me you didn't know. To add insult to thievery, some of you were stupid enough to brag about it on various social networking sites. Good for you! Now at least if Fox and the FBI decide to pursue this legal issue to that level, you've made it very easy for them to find you. Even if you didn't brag about it, you left a digital trail to the torrent files and subsequent activity is clear as day to the packet sniffers.
As it stands, the copy of the film that made its way online did not have the majority of its visual effects complete, had missing scenes and a temporary audio/music track. So I'm sure that made for an AWESOME viewing experience.
Some Actually Posted Reviews
To further implicate yourselves, you then thought you would be super cool and leave your reviews and opinions on what you saw on various bulletin boards and websites. Most website admins removed your misbegotten opinions, choosing instead to take the high road regarding this scenario. Good for them.
Fox stated in a press release on April 1st that the FBI and the MPAA are actively investigating this crime and that:
"The source of the initial leak and any subsequent postings will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law."
Oh yes. This little stunt can lead to some jail time. I have a feeling someone may find themselves with some new best friends fairly soon.
When All Is Said And Done
It seems that it may be pretty easy to track down who did this. Maybe instead of firing him or her, the studio should garnish their wages for all eternity for profits lost.
If you think it really doesn't hurt studios, think of this: Eli Roth didn't release Hostel: Part II in Mexico because it was already leaked there and you could buy it for twenty-five cents. What was the point of opening there then?
You think that if you alone "stole" a movie, who would it hurt? It adds up. One of my favorite examples of adding up is an article I wrote about saving electricity. If every light switch wielding person (estimated 211 million - it's just a ball park for this example) in the U.S. left a light bulb burning in an empty room for only 5 minutes, as a collective, that adds up to around 2,000 years of wasted energy. It all adds up and we can make a difference.
In closing, Fox said this:
"We are encouraged by the support of fansites condemning piracy and this illegal posting and pointing out that such theft undermines the enormous efforts of the filmmakers and actors and, above all, hurts fans of the film"
We at Screen Rant will never support this kind of behavior and we will not tolerate anyone posting their own review or experience in the comments.
'Nuff said?
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NEW ORLEANS -- Before power at the Superdome suddenly, oddly went out, putting the nation's biggest sporting event on hold for more than a half-hour early in the third quarter, Joe Flacco threw three touchdown passes, Jacoby Jones returned the second-half kickoff 108 yards, and the Baltimore Ravens led the San Francisco 49ers 28-6 in the Super Bowl on Sunday. Baltimore already was ahead 21-6 at halftime, and then Jones set a record with the longest kickoff return in a Super Bowl, his eyes glancing up at the videoboard, presumably to watch himself sprint to the end zone. Moments later, lights lining the indoor arena faded, making it difficult to see. Escalators weren't working. Officials stopped play about 1½ minutes into the third quarter, and the bizarre delay lasted 34 minutes in real time before action resumed. Some players sat. Others stretched. Some fans chanted, "Let's go, Ravens!" Others passed time by doing the wave. This was the 10th time New Orleans hosted the big game -- tying Miami for most in a city -- and first since Hurricane Katrina devastated the Big Easy in August 2005. When play resumed, San Francisco quickly was forced to punt, when they really needed points. The biggest deficit a team has ever overcome to win a Super Bowl is 10 points. The 49ers showed they were capable of a comeback in their previous game: They trailed by 17 against the Atlanta Falcons before winning the NFC championship game. But that sort of turnaround wasn't going to be easy if Flacco kept up his terrific performance. He went 13 for 20 for 192 yards and the three scores, becoming only the sixth QB in 47 Super Bowls to throw for that many TDs in a half. He has 11 touchdown passes and zero interceptions this postseason. It's been one impressive game after another for a guy who never has commanded the widespread respect usually accorded a top player -- but now will head into an offseason that could land him a $20 million-per-year contract in free agency. To get to the Super Bowl, Flacco already led the Ravens past Denver's Peyton Manning and New England's Tom Brady for two of his league-record six career postseason road victories by a quarterback. The 49ers, meanwhile, struggled early in the first Super Bowl coaching matchup between brothers: Baltimore's John Harbaugh is 15 months older than San Francisco's Jim Harbaugh. San Francisco turned over the ball twice in about a 5-minute span of the second quarter: Rookie running back LaMichael James fumbled -- leading to a Ravens TD -- and safety Ed Reed tied an NFL record with his ninth career postseason interception by picking off Colin Kaepernick. The Niners had never thrown an interception in their previous five Super Bowls. San Francisco's first-half points came on field goals of 36 and 27 yards by David Akers. The second came on the half's final play, shortly before Beyonce performed during the intermission, including a Destiny's Child reunion. There was some testiness on the field right from the get-go, and after Reed stole the ball, a group of players from both teams engaged in a scrum and penalties were called. Both coaching brothers wound up on the field, too, trying to break up the skirmish. Instead of adding more points after Reed's pick, Baltimore eventually gave the ball back after trying a fake field goal but failing to get a first down. Didn't matter a bit. San Francisco had to punt, and Flacco hit Jones on a 56-yard TD pass with under 2 minutes left in the first half. Jones beat cornerback Chris Culliver -- the player who apologized for anti-gay comments during the week -- and tumbled onto his back, then got up and cut across the field to reach the end zone. It was Flacco's 70-yard toss to Jones with 30 seconds left in the fourth quarter that allowed the Ravens to tie the Broncos in the second round of the playoffs, before winning in the second overtime period. Earlier Sunday, Flacco connected with Anquan Boldin from 13 yards out less than 4½ minutes into the game on Baltimore's first possession, then found tight end Dennis Pitta for a 1-yard score midway through the second quarter after James' error. James fumbled at Baltimore's 25-yard line while straining to gain extra yards. Linebacker Courtney Upshaw punched the ball loose, and defensive lineman Arthur Jones recovered it, and the Ravens headed the other way. The 49ers also began the game with an illegal formation penalty on the very first play, then needed to punt. A good return by Jones set up the Ravens near midfield, and they promptly drove 51 yards in six plays. Another 49ers penalty on third down at the 18 came right before Flacco's nice scoring pass over the middle to Boldin with less than 4½ minutes gone in the game. Kaepernick was making only his 10th start the NFL, having taken over the job after Alex Smith got a concussion during a game. The NFC champion 49ers (13-4-1) were seeking their record-tying sixth Super Bowl title -- but first since 1995 -- and brought in a 5-0 record from their previous appearances. Only the Pittsburgh Steelers have won six Super Bowls. The AFC champion Ravens (13-6), a franchise that moved from Cleveland to Baltimore 17 years ago, also came in unbeaten in Super Bowls, albeit only 1-0, thanks to their championship in 2001, when linebacker Ray Lewis was voted the game's MVP. All eyes were on Lewis this time again, as he played his final game before retirement after a 17-year career that is expected to land him in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Lewis missed 10 games this season with a torn right triceps muscle -- and spent two days in the past week dismissing a report that he had used, of all things, deer-antler spray to enhance his performance. About 45 minutes before the opening kickoff, Lewis gathered his teammates in the end zone painted the Ravens' purple team color. As they encircled him, Lewis -- large triangles of eye black covering his entire cheeks -- delivered his usual rousing pregame speech, and other players whooped it up, too. Not long after, 49ers linebacker Patrick Willis -- who, like Lewis, wears No. 52 -- delivered his own fiery words, surrounded by the rest of his team near the red, white and blue NFL shield logo at midfield. Before the game began, with 100 million or so Americans expected to tune in on TV, a chorus of 26 children from Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. -- where 20 students and six adults were killed in a shooting rampage in December -- sang "America the Beautiful," accompanied by "American Idol" alum Jennifer Hudson. Grammy winner Alicia Keys performed the national anthem.
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Ford Motor Company just announced yesterday that its F-Series pickup truck sales have surpassed 645,316 units, the total number of trucks they sold in 2012. On average, one F-Series pickup sells every 42 seconds. That's an astounding figure but it shouldn't come as a surprise with all the technology that Ford has built into its trucks in the past couple of years which have really helped them become really popular among new truck buyers. At this rate, the F-Series trucks are on Track to be the best –selling vehicle in the United States of America for 37 years, 32 of which are also in a row. The F-Series trucks are also on pace to set the highest yearly sales total since 2006.
In October alone, F-Series sales rose 13 percent to 63,803, the sixth-straight month above the 60,000-vehicle mark. The last time Ford sold this many trucks was in 2006 before the economic downturn. On top of that, the F-Series trucks are outselling their nearest competitor by more than 65 percent in western markets. From 2008 to 2013, more F-Series trucks were sold in California than any other state other than Texas who still outsells the rest of the country. Ford F-Series truck sales have also gone up in Texas with a growth of 27 percent since 2008, up to 500,000 trucks.
Ford continues to outpace the competition, growing a sales gap over the Chevrolet Silverado and Ram 1500 despite significantly new changes.
"Through October, our leadership margin is nearly 220,000 units over Chevrolet Silverado and 67,000 over Silverado and GMC Sierra combined," said Scott. "F-Series has outsold Ram by more than 330,000 units in the first 10 months of 2013, almost 50,000 more trucks than the gap a year ago.
"Despite new entries from our competitors, truck consumers continue to vote us No. 1 – day in and day out – with their checkbooks," said Scott. "In 2013, F-Series had the highest owner loyalty, and we've won the R.L. Polk Automotive Loyalty award in the mid- and full-size pickup category 15 times in the last 17 years."
Although we're impressed by the fact that Ford is on track to surpassing their truck sales numbers before the economic downturn, we're a little more interested in seeing what Ford is going to respond back with to both Chevy and Ram's latest truck lineup. We're really hoping they don't do away with the Ford F150 SVT Raptor for the next redesign and with any luck, we'll see more blue oval trucks designed to hit the dirt!


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I... I hear them hooting. They're right outside of my window. God, please... please stop the evil rats from infesting my home. They plan to slowly erode my sanity away by keeping me awake at night. The ultrasonic, brain scrambling pitches mixed in with their lazy hooting will ultimately seal my demise.
Accepted for a job at a hip and happening restaurant yesterday. Got a new phone. Nako should pm me or something.
Moving tomorrow early in the AM, and I'll be staying at a family member's house until I can actually move into my apartment on Wednesday. School will be starting in a week, and I'm both excited and scared about it. Not used to living in a city, so it will be a new experience for me. I am sure I will have a great time regardless. I am happy that I most likely will never go hungry, though as I will be cooking for 3 years!
Aside from that, my monitor blew out a week ago, and I finally
I'll be heading to art school at the end of the month, and will be starting classes on October the 8th. I'm going to be training to be an executive chef with the promise of externships by the school and internships by people in the business that my family knows. I'll have a lot less time to raid than previously, but that is fine as I no longer wish to pursue that avenue of entertainment within World of Warcraft. The guild I'm currently in raids from 9 PM to 1 AM, and I don't want to deal with joining
Naruto 510 came out today, and it is extremely tits. I'm currently reading Bleach 420 as of right now, and it should hopefully not be terrible simply due to the number of the chapter. Unfortunately for me; most of Bleach is God awful and extremely un-enjoyable. I will admit that the last two or so chapters have been fine. Otherwise they're largely underwhelming.
I don't really give a fuck about other currently updating comics because One Piece is still on hiatus for another week.
To this effect I am quite sad as they were a hallmark of an uninteresting point in my life. This isn't to imply that my life is currently any more interesting at all, but you know what? Fuck it. I would like to hazard an implication that it really is more interesting now than it was at the previous juncture in time which the first six blog posts I had written were posted upon this blog. I actually don't care either way and had the desire to post something worthless upon this place.


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Ariana Grande Cried For Days, Suffered From Trauma After Manchester Bombing
We're approaching the one-year anniversary of the bombing at Ariana Grande's concert in Manchester, England, and her manager Scooter Braun is finally opening up about the gruesome details surrounding the catastrophe, which took the lives of dozens.
In a new podcast chat with Big Questions with Cal Fussman, Braun opened up about the May 22 attack, which saw a man detonate a device at the end of the pop show while attendees were attempting to exit the venue. "When she found out that fans of hers had died, she was...so sad," he revealed. "She cried for days, she felt everything – every face they announced, every name, she wore on her sleeve. Every bit of emotion because that's who she is. And the thing I will always remember is that she goes, 'If I don't do something, I'm not who I say I am to these people.'"
After the bombing, Braun thought it was best to get back on the road, but the singer had some major hesitations. "She was suffering from trauma," he recalled. "She's like 'I can never sing these songs again. I can't put on these costumes. Are you crazy?'"
It was a moment that saw the manager make moves to cancel the rest of the tour with the guidance of the insurance brokers for the trek. Still, Grande knew that she had to do something and it was a string of text messages to Scooter that turned the entire ship around.
"And by the time I landed back in LA I had 16 text messages from her and she's saying 'Call me, I've been thinking,' and she said 'Scooter, if I don't do something, I'm not who I say I was, and these people died in vain. I need to get back on to the road immediately,'" he explained of the moment. "And we thought about it, and I said I need you to take two weeks, I want you to see a therapist, I want you to get your mind right cause this is gonna be a lot. And I have a crazy idea. Before our next show in two weeks, I want to go back to Manchester, and I want to make this statement, we're not going to wait three months, we're gonna go back now." And she said, "I'm with you."
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August 4, 2004
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Tuesday, August 3
Yesterday I baked zucchini bread again, using the same recipe that my friend gave me and now had spread among us on the net. It was only my third time making it, but I liked it more and more every time I made it.
After I already measured some of the ingredients, I found out that I only had one egg in the fridge; I had adjusted the amount of ingredients so that I'd use two eggs. What should I do? Well, if you haven't got it, you make substitution; I used some soy milk in addition to the egg. Then I also replaced some of the oil with flax seed meal, not because I didn't have enough oil, but just felt like it. When I took out some walnuts from the fridge, I took notice of the leftover grated coconuts; might as well, use it up, I thought and roasted them together with the walnuts. And as a self-appointed hard-core ginger abuser, I also added chopped crystallized ginger.
Loaded with all the goodies, the loaves of zucchini bread came out tasty as ever, even if this time it substantially deviated from the original. Because of molasses sugar and brown sugar that I used, my zucchini bread had a deep brown color inside; they might not be looking pretty, but tasted oh-so-good. Thanks to my friend we call OLE MISS, the very one who made this recipe, I am here sharing her recipe with you all - see the comment below.
For dinner I made rosemary lemon-lime pasta. I found the recipe in Dean & DeLuca: The Food and Wine Cookbook (Jeff Morgan, 2002, Chronicle Books). Everything in the recipe was my favorite stuff - rosemary, lemon, lime, and parmesan cheese, all combined together in olive oil, salt and pepper. Sounds fantastic!
I gingerly grated cheese (parmigiano reggiano, of course), juiced a lemon and lime, chopped rosemary, while boiling the water and cooked pasta; this time I tried corn pasta that I recently heard should be good.
The sauce was ready in a matter of 10-15 nutes, and by the time the pasta was done, we were ready to eat. When I threw the drained pasta into a bowl of sauce, its remaining heat bloomed the aroma of the citrus and rosemary... that was enough to put a smile on my face.
The finished dish was lovely, although it was a bit too salty; I didn't even put much salt in the sauce, but the cheese was quite salty and the amount of pasta I cooked wasn't matching the sauce (I made about a half the amount of sauce in the recipe while I cooked about one third of pasta required). Nevertheless, I really like the dish and will definitely make it again.
9 comments:
- Maplelilly said...
ooooh yum!That bread looks and sounds incredible
- 1:14 PM, August 04, 2004
- chika said...
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- 1:58 PM, August 04, 2004
- chika said...
Hi Maplelilly,
Thanks! It really was good, and many of us like it a lot. :-)
- 5:48 PM, August 04, 2004
- chika said...
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- 5:51 PM, August 04, 2004
- chika said...
Doh, I've been messing up posting a comment :-(
Here is a translation of the zucchini bread recipe of my friend, OLE MISS-san, who creatively tested out zucchini bread recipes and worked out her own version. Since this uses a lot less sugar and fat, those who seek for "authentic", hearty American zucchini bread might find it too light, but if you prefer a lighter, more delicate kind like I do, this one is for you. Enjoy!
1/2 - 2/3 cup sugar
1/4 cup vegetable oil
1 cup grated zucchini (*see directions for preparation)
1+1/2 eggs
vanilla extract
1+1/8 - 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
1/8 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. baking powder
dash of cinnamon
dash of nutmeg (optional)
coarsely chopped walnuts, as much as you please
1. Preheat an oven to 190C (375F). Butter a loaf pan. Sift all the dry ingredients (b).
2. Prepare zucchini. Rub the zucchini with salt; sprinkle salt over the zucchini, and roll it on a cutting board, in a way you do when rolling out a cookie dough with a rolling pin, until the skin of zucchini becomes tender. Rinse well under running water. Grate the zucchini and make one cupful. Drain, and squeeze out excess fluid (but do not squeeze all the way). Set aside.
3. Combine all the wet ingredients (a) in a bowl. Mix well.
4. Fold in the flour mixture, then add the nuts.
5. Pour the batter into the prepared pan, and bake for about 30 minutes. Cool in the pan for several minutes, then turn the cake out onto the rack and cool completely.
Rubbing the zucchini with salt will help remove excess bitterness of zucchini, making the resulting bread taste milder. A typical recipe for zucchini bread would use more sugar and oil that can mask the bitterness of zucchini, but I like this moderately sweet version.
I tend to make it in a bit bigger batch, adjusting the amount of the ingredients so that I use two eggs (I just can't handle "half the egg" leftover). With that increment, I typically use one large zucchini (you might not use up a whole zucchini, but you can keep the excess in the fridge). When using raw nuts in baking I usually roast them before putting in the batter, and I do the same with this cake. Nutmeg is optional in this recipe, but I do use it because I like it.
Cat - sorry it took me so long to post the recipe.
Many thanks ro OLE MISS-san :-)
- 6:10 PM, August 04, 2004
This is probably a stupid question but...Do you grate the green skin too or do you just use the inside of the zuchini?
- 11:14 AM, August 05, 2004
- chika said...
Hi Andrea,
Skin and flesh, inside and out!
- 1:21 PM, August 05, 2004
- mela said...
That rosemary lemon-lime pasta sounds great. I love your blog, it always makes me want to cook =)
- 11:38 AM, August 08, 2004
- chika said...
Hi Mela,
thanks for your encouraging words :-)
The sauce was pretty good, and so easy to make!
- 2:42 PM, August 09, 2004


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*Middleton, Herman A., 2004,"Elder Amphilochios of Patmos: Life", in ''Precious Vessels of the Holy Spirit: The Lives & Counsels of Contemporary Elders of Greece'', 2nd edn., Protecting Veil Press, Thessalonica, Greece.
*Middleton, Herman A., 2004,"Elder Amphilochios of Patmos: Life", in ''Precious Vessels of the Holy Spirit: The Lives & Counsels of Contemporary Elders of Greece'', 2nd edn., Protecting Veil Press, Thessalonica, Greece.
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Elder Amphilochios of Patmos (Makris) was a priestmonk who lived on Patmos.
- 1889 December 13: Athanasios Makris was born to Emmanuel and Irene Makris. Large family of simple country folk. As an infant, he would miraculously observe fasting rules without even knowing them, refusing mother's milk on Wednesdays and Fridays.
- ~1894: At 5, Athanasios convinced his newly-engaged godmother to spend the rest of her days in virginity.
- 1906: Having preserved himself from worldly temptations, Athanasios decided to enter a monastery. He received his parents' blessing, which they were happy to give.
- 1906 Mar: Athanasios became a novice at the Monastery of St. John the Theologian, Patmos.
- 1906 Aug: Br Athanasios became beloved of the aging brotherhood, and they made him a rassophore, giving him the name Amphilochios.
- His asceticism, to fight the passions and temptations, included eating ten mouthfuls of food at each meal - on fast days, seven or eight olives.
- 1911: The abbot of the monastery sent the future elder to Mt Athos to learn wood-carving.
- 1913 Mar: Tonsured to the Great Schema by Elder Antoniadis.
- 1913 May: The abbot had the agreement of the brethren to ordain Fr Amphilochios to the diaconate. Due to his self-perception of inadequacy, he directed his travelling companion (also to be ordained) to continue, while he went to Egypt and the Holy Lands. He asked the Patriarch of Jerusalem to receive him as one of the caretakers of the Holy Sepulchre. The Patriarch was willing, but the Monastery on Patmos insisted that he return. On his return, he was "punished" by being sent to the hermitage of Apollo, aside Elder Makarios. He was very happy there, being able to pray.
- 1919: Fr Amphilochios was ordained to the diaconate then, soon after, to the priesthood. He was then sent to serve at the monastery's dependency on the island of Kos. He also served as confessor throughout the Dodecanese.
- 1926: Fr Amphilochios was sent to the Cave of the Apocalypse, Patmos. He spent much time with students of the Ecclesiastical Academy, bearing numerous elders and abbots.
- 1935: The Italians, occupying the Dodecanese, influenced the Church by forcing a system of governence that made it easy to manipulate the Church. However, the Patriarch of Constantinople demanded that this situation be rectified for the new abbot of the monastery. The brotherhood elected Elder Amphilochios as abbot. Soon after his election, the seeds of the future female Monastery of the Annunciation began to be planted. The first building was to house a training workshop for knitting and weaving, with the hidden agenda of teaching children Greek.
- 1937: The Italians exiled Elder Amphilochios to mainland Greece. He was given hospitality by the Zoe brotherhood in Athens, and travelled throughout Greece, then going to Crete, where he became spiritual father of the island.
- 1939: Exile ended. Elder Amphilochios was received with great joy on Patmos, but did not assume the abbacy, but focused on dependencies and the female Monastery of the Annunciation.
- 1942: Patmos now occupied by Germans.
- 1947: Elder Amphilochios organised a small group of nuns to assist the orphans of Rhodes, who were extremely poor, by establishing an orphanage, and also a unit for pregnant women.
- 1968 Easter: Elder Amphilochios received a forewarning of his coming repose, given two years to prepare himself and his children for his repose. Anxious for his spiritual children, with tears he asked God for more time to develop his children. The Mother of God and St John the Theologian appeared to him and informed him that his request was denied. Soon after, he received a bout of flu.
- 1970 April 16: Having made his final preparations, Elder Amphilochios reposed.
Monastery Associations
- The Holy Monastery of St. John the Theologian (Patmos, Greece)
- The Holy Monastery of Panagia Eleousa (Kalymnos, Greece)
Special Relationships
- St. Nektarios of Aegina - he always had a great desire to meet this holy Metropolitan. When His excellency asked him, "What the greatest and most singular desire of his soul was", the elder responded in simplicity, "I wish that everybody would become monastics". The elder is the only person who was invited by the Saint to stay overnight in his private quarters.
- Gerontissa Gabrielia (Papayannis) - was tonsured by him into the Great Schema by the elder on Patmos in the "Cave of St. Anthony", of the Monastery of the Evangelismos, just before she and the nun Tomasina left for India.
"Do not be afraid because of your Orthodoxy; do not be afraid because, as an Orthodox in the West, you will be often isolated and always in a small minority. Do not make compromises but do not attack other Christians; do not be either defensive or aggressive; simply be yourself." -- Bishop Kallistos (Ware), 2000, "The Spiritual Guide in Orthodox Christianity", in The Inner Kingdom: Volume One of the Collected Works, St. Vladimir's Press, Crestwood, New York.
- Middleton, Herman A., 2004,"Elder Amphilochios of Patmos: Life", in Precious Vessels of the Holy Spirit: The Lives & Counsels of Contemporary Elders of Greece, 2nd edn., Protecting Veil Press, Thessalonica, Greece. [1]


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Valerian has been used to ease insomnia, anxiety, and nervous restlessness since the second century A.D. It became popular in Europe in the 17th century. It has also been suggested to treat stomach cramps. Some research -- though not all -- does suggest that valerian may help some people with insomnia. Germany's Commission E approved valerian as an effective mild sedative and the United States Food and Drug Administration listed valerian as "Generally Recognized As Safe" (GRAS).
Scientists aren't sure how valerian works, but they believe it increases the amount of a chemical called gamma aminobutyric acid (GABA) in the brain. GABA helps regulate nerve cells and has a calming effect on anxiety. Drugs such as alprazolam (Xanax) and diazepam (Valium) also work by increasing the amount of GABA in the brain. Researchers think valerian may have a similar, but weaker effect.
Valerian is a popular alternative to prescription medications for sleep problems because it is considered to be both safe and gentle. Some studies show that it helps people fall asleep faster and feel that they have better quality sleep.
One of the best designed studies found that valerian was no more effective than placebo for 14 days, but by 28 days valerian greatly improved sleep for those who were taking it. Some researchers now think you may need to take valerian for a few weeks before it begins to work. However, in another study, valerian was more effective than placebo almost immediately.
Other studies show that valerian reduces the time it takes to fall asleep and improves the quality of sleep itself. Unlike many prescription sleeping pills, valerian may have fewer side effects, such as morning drowsiness.
But not every study has found that valerian had a positive effect. One review of several studies found that valerian probably doesn't work to treat insomnia. So the evidence remains contradictory, until more studies are done.
Valerian is often combined with other sedating herbs, such as hops (Humulus lupulus) and lemon balm (Melissa officianalis), to treat insomnia.
Valerian is a perennial plant that is native to Europe and grows up to 2 feet tall. It is grown to decorate gardens but also grows wild in damp grasslands. Straight, hollow stems are topped by umbrella-like heads. Its dark green leaves are pointed at the tip and hairy underneath. Small, sweet-smelling white, light purple or pink flowers bloom in June. The root is light grayish brown and has little odor when fresh.
The root of the plant is used as medicine and is pressed into fresh juice or freeze-dried to form powder.
Valerian fluid extracts and tinctures are sold in alcohol or alcohol-free (glycerite) bases. Powdered valerian is available in capsule, tablet form, and as a tea.
Valerian root has a sharp odor. It is often combined with other calming herbs, including passionflower (Passiflora incarnata), hops (Humulus lupulus), lemon balm (Melissa officinalis), skullcap (Scutellaria lateriflora), and kava (Piper methysticum) to mask the scent. Kava, however, has been associated with liver damage, so avoid it.
Valerian is often standardized to contain 0.3 - 0.8% valerenic or valeric acid, although researchers aren't sure that those are the active ingredients.
Don't give valerian to a child without first talking to your doctor.
For insomnia, valerian may be taken 1 - 2 hours before bedtime, or up to 3 times in the course of the day, with the last dose near bedtime. It may take a few weeks before the effects are felt.
Once sleep improves, keep taking valerian for 2 - 6 weeks.
The use of herbs is a time-honored approach to strengthening the body and treating disease. Herbs, however, can trigger side effects and can interact with other herbs, supplements, or medications. For these reasons, you should take herbs with care, under the supervision of a health care provider.
Valerian is generally regarded as safe.
Most studies show no harmful effects on fertility or fetal development, but more research is needed. Experts advise pregnant and nursing women to avoid taking valerian.
Some people may have a "paradoxical reaction" to valerian, feeling anxious and restless after taking it instead of calm and sleepy.
For most people, valerian does not appear to cause dependency. Nor does it cause withdrawal symptoms for most. But there are a few reports of withdrawal symptoms when valerian has been used over very long periods of time. If you want to stop taking valerian, lower your dose gradually rather than stopping all at once.
Don't use valerian while driving, operating heavy machinery, or doing other things that require you to be alert.
Don't use valerian for longer than 1 month without your health care provider's approval.
If you are currently being treated with any of the following medications, you should not use valerian without talking to your health care provider.
Medications broken down by the liver -- Valerian may slow down how quickly certain drugs are broken down by the liver. Many medications rely on the liver to break them down, so it's possible that in some cases too much of these drugs could build up in the body. To be safe, ask your doctor before taking valerian if you are also taking any other medications.
Sedatives -- Valerian can increase the effect of these drugs, including:
The same is true of other herbs with a sedating effect, such as chamomile, lemon balm, and catnip.
Other drugs -- Because valerian is broken down by certain liver enzymes, it may interact with other drugs that are broken down by the same enzymes. Those drugs may include:
Anesthesia -- Valerian may increase the effects of anesthesia. If you are having surgery, it is important to tell your doctors, especially your surgeon and anesthesiologist, that you are taking valerian. The doctors may recommend you slowly lower the dose of valerian before surgery. Or, they may allow you to use valerian up to the time of surgery, making any needed adjustments to the anesthesia.
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Much acclaim has been afforded to these Dutch goth-rockers over recent months. Swimming in the same vein as Lacuna Coil and Nightwish, Within Temptation make powerful, epic, female-fronted operatic metal.
*Sharon den Adel *is a fantastic singer but you can't help but feel that if the far-from-novel notion of a choir was removed the bog-standard riffs and the characteristically dark yet frighteningly clichéd lyrics this record would not obtain such applause. It should be noted that the appending of orchestral/choral elements during a luxurious production process has never been and never will be a worthy substitute for truly great and emotive songs. See Feeder and Embrace for more evidence of this thought.
It would be rude to compare this band to Evanescence but... moving on. There is no doubting that den Adel is the vocal range that *Within Temptation *is based around but sadly the accompanying pomp and quality is insufficient to really take advantage of the potential here.
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Methodist church to begin sermon series Jan. 5, 6
The First United Methodist Church of Durango, 2917 Aspen Drive, will begin a new sermon series Jan. 5 and 6 called Love, Sex and Marriage.
The series will explore how falling in love is easy, but staying in love takes courage, hard work and lots of grace. Whether married or single, the messages will help look at what it takes to create and sustain healthy romantic relationships.
There will be a short survey that people are invited to complete by visiting www.fumcdurango.org.
For worship times or more information, call 247-4213.
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My latest (6th) camino, commencing mid April 2018 will be the Camino Mozárabe/Torres . Starting in Almería in southern Spain I will walk to Salamanca where I will transfer onto the Camino Torres which crosses into Portugal and heads towards the coast and then up to Santiago de Compostela, covering approximately 1,500 km and taking 56 walking days.
Check out Camino Frances for daily reports from the Camino de Santiago (Frances route), 500+ miles across northern Spain from the Pyrenees through Santiago de Compostela to Finisterre – which I walked with my daughter in April/May 2013
In 2014 I walked the Camino Portuguese. I set off from Lisbon in May and travelled north through Portugal, across the Spanish border and on to Santiago de Compostela (670 km's). The daily posts are full of photos and useful information for future pilgrims.
2015 saw me walking the Camino Mozárabe from Málaga. This little-walked camino is very lonely for the first 500 km and I was lucky to find a walking partner for company. We saw only three other pilgrims during eighteen days of walking. At Mérida the Mozárabe meets the Via de la Plata and there are many pilgrims from this point on. I took the Sanabrés variant of the VdlP and after reaching Santiago I walked on to Finisterre. 52 days walking and 1,365 kms. I provide a lot of information in these posts that I hope will be useful to future pilgrims taking this route.
In spring 2016 I set off on the Camino del Norte . I commenced walking from Irun on the French border, and travelled west along the north coast of Spain as far as Ribadeo, at which point this camino drops down inland towards Santiago and joins with the Camino Frances for the last 40 kms. Instead, I continued to walk along the coast and followed the Ruta do Mar as far as Ferrol. This is not a camino route and does not have the signage and accommodation infrastructure of the well known pilgrim ways. On reaching Ferrol I continued along the Camino Ingles into Santiago de Compostela. Total distance 970 km over 35 days.
And my fifth camino will be a combination of four different pilgrim routes – Camino de Madrid, Camino San Salvador, Camino Primitivo and the Camino Fisterra. Commencing the last week of April 2017, you can follow my progress here
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Hangover Sports Roundup
Holm tastes defeat, Team Jackson goes 2-0, Tebow wins again
Two Team Jackson Fighters fought on the national stage on "The Ultimate Fighter" season finale. Bantamweight John Dodson has been on the radar of MMA fans with his appearance on the Tapout reality series. Since his run to the finals, Dodson has showed superstar potential with his fighting style and personality. Team Alpha Male's T.J. Dillashaw posed a tough challenge, but Dodson's punching power proved to be the difference. Despite the early stoppage, Dodson looked impressive and may turn into a future title contender. Diego Brandao looked to upstage his teammate when he fought Dennis Bermudez in the Featherweight final. They delivered perhaps one of the best rounds of the year in a down-to-the-wire fight, Then, during the closing seconds, Brandao nailed a textbook perfect armbar which forced Bermundez to tap immediately. Brandao earned the contract, but Bermundez' performance shoul guarantee him a spot in the UFC. Brandao proved he's more than one-dimensional with submission skills but will need to improve his conditioning to evolve into a top fighter.


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It's halfway through your two weeks at the beach house and maybe the thrillers you're reading are not so thrilling anymore. Or perhaps you're just not completely letting go of that second half number that you're still going to need to hit when you're back at it. Well, fear not! Set up your umbrella and beach chair and spend a few hours feeding your sales mojo with a great idea book. Without further ado, here are The 2012 Drift Summer Sales Reading Picks.
Anyone who's been in a workshop with me over the past few months will be familiar with "The Challenger Sale: Taking Control of the Customer Conversation." For my money, this is the best sales book of the past 15 years, and particularly relevant for the asymmetrical, dynamic world of online marketing. An efficient and engaging read over its first 100 pages, "The Challenger Sale" exposes the failings of "solution selling" and butchers many of the sacred cows of sales theory.
The Drift is proudly underwritten this week by PubMatic, which helps premium publishers take control by giving them a real-time media selling platform for managing revenue and brand strategy.
While not technically a sales book, "A Whole New Mind: Why Right Brainers Will Rule the Future" just may be the most important thing a digital seller reads this summer. We're all drowning in statistics and throwing data at one another with savage regularity: but where's the meaning? It turns out that – just like Dorothy – we had the power all along. By tapping into your inner artist, you learn to synthesize, fuse ideas, interpret and make the numbers start to sing. And you can finally show your Dad that the painting class you took senior year wasn't a waste of tuition after all.
Yet another antidote to the noise, confusion and indifference we all face every day is….quiet. Actually, that's the title of the book: "Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can't Stop Talking." This is a book that I've only skimmed so far, but which I'll be digging into in the days ahead. The importance of not only quiet but also the concept of "open space" within the sales process is fascinating. Too many sellers habitually fill up every pause or quiet moment with ever more words and data, thereby choking off the chances for their customer to actually participate in the discussion. This concept is also covered in "In Pursuit of Elegance: Why the Best Ideas Have Something Missing." If you've ever heard me talk about bringing "Half an Idea" to a customer, this is brilliant reinforcement and explanation of that concept.
Finally, I never miss a chance to recommend "The One Thing You Need to Know" by Marcus Buckingham. A sharp and engaging business writer, Buckingham distills the most important things we each need to know about Leadership, Management (quite different from Leadership, thank you) and sustained personal success. One of the very best, and a perennial read for me.
Have a recommendation of your own? Fire away. Happy Summer!
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This week's historic health-care vote evoked strong reactions across the United States, including from the vice president of the United States. "This is a big f-ing deal," Joe Biden whispered to Barack Obama, as the men shook hands in front of a cheering crowd and an open mic.
Biden's remark was intended for Obama's ears only, but that nearby microphone broadcast his profanity to the world. Now, as blogs buzz about whether the comment was inappropriate or uncivil, language experts say that the slip is simply another example of how normal it is to swear in everyday speech.
In fact, while the specific words we consider vulgar have changed over time, curse words have been around for hundreds of years, maybe more. Words like the f-bomb are powerful because they do a particularly good job of expressing strong feelings.
"'Big f-ing deal' is a perfectly reasonable thing to say when you're talking to a friend about something that was a big f-ing deal," said Geoff Nunberg, a linguist at the University of California, Berkeley's School of Information. "It's emphatic and has an intensity of emotion. To say 'This was certainly a big deal,' or, 'This was an awfully big deal,' does not convey that emotion."
It's their taboo status that gives swear words power: the more restrictions you put on something, the more alluring it is to say. In saying something that we're not really supposed to say, we're pointing out that this topic is so important to us that we're willing to cross boundaries to make that clear.
Weird science: Top unexplained mysteriesThere may be another reason why we swear so much. Studies by psychologist Timothy Jay, of the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts in North Adams, have found that swearing can provide both emotional release and relief from pain.
"People have a sense of catharsis, they feel better after using this kind of language," Jay told Discovery News. "Most people look at swearing as a bad thing that you shouldn't do, without asking what the positive aspects of it are."
To condemn politicians for swearing in private contexts, as Biden did, is nothing but hypocritical, Jay said. In many social settings, like among teenagers or rugby players, he added, it would be strange not to use foul language.
Throughout history, swear words have reflected the taboos of time and place. A century or two ago, religious words dominated the lewd lexicon: Hell and damn were unspeakable in proper company.
Biden's profanity of choice has 15th-century Germanic origins, said lexicographer Jesse Sheidlower, editor at large of the Oxford English Dictionary and author of a book called "The F-Word." Originally, he said, the word's root meant, "to move back and forth."
Despite popular rumors, it is not an acronym for "For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge" or anything else.
Over the centuries, the word has appeared repeatedly in obscene contexts in letters and poems, sometimes written in code. At some point in the 20th century, Sheidlower said, it began to reach beyond its sexual connotations. As the word became more figurative, it took on an unmatched level of versatility.
Today, variations of the word can function as a noun, a verb, an adjective, an adverb and an expletive. It can be used to describe everything from cheating spouses to political documents to neighbors who mow their lawn at dawn. Not only can the word be anything you want it to be, it's equal-opportunity: These days, women use it just as much as men do. Even other cultures incorporate it into their languages as a kind of universal powerful swear word.
"I think this is one of the most important words in the language," Sheidlower said. "People use it all the time."
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Welcome to Watch List, where we identify five things on TV to watch while you stay at home and try crushing progressively larger empty aluminum cans on your forehead. Sure, you can do a Foster's can. But what of this DAB miniature keg? Not so cocky now, are ye? LET'S GO!
THE WOMEN OF SNL – 9:00PM (NBC) It's a two-hour retrospective featuring some of the most luminescent female SNL alums of the past 35 years, including Tina Fey, Gilda Radner, Cheri Oteri, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Amy Poehler, and, of course, Jimmy Fallon, the prettiest girl SNL ever recruited! Conspicuously absent from this special? Ellen Cleghorne, Melanie Hutsell, and, of course, present-day Victoria Jackson. She's crazy now.
This special helps highlight the way women have gone from throw-ins in the early days of SNL to, during the Fey Era, the dominant creative force on the show. In fact, the pendulum has now swung too far the other way, and the show is direly lacking in standout male performers who can make it through a sketch without cracking up and ruining it. Curse you, Horatio Sanz! ANTICIPATION: GIRL POWER!
DANCING WITH THE STARS – 8:00PM (ABC) It's the 200th episode! Be there as the show brings back 50 former celebrity contestants for a little miniature reunion. In fact, it's fifty-one former stars, if you count Evander Holyfield, who absent-mindedly wandered onto the set last night and just stayed there for no reason at all. ANTICIPATION: 50 STARS? THEY MATCH OUR FLAG!
THE FILMS OF THOMAS EDISON – 9:00PM (Turner Classic Movies) Take a look at 30 short films Thomas Edison made back in the infancy of cinema. It should be noted that none of these films are about Glenn Gould. Included in the shorts: footage of Annie Oakley, and footage of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake. Not included in the shorts: some of the more intimate films Edison took with his assistant, Trixie. ANTICIPATION: SO SO SO SO OLD!
HOARDERS – 10:00PM (A&E) Tonight's hoarder eats expired food and loses a portion of her lower intestine (GAH!) to gangrene (GAHHHHHHH!). And so my days of ignoring the expiration dates on every pack of Jimmy Dean sausage I buy are officially over. ANTICIPATION: GRENE WITH ENVY!
STRIPES – 9:00PM (TVLand) Any of you call me Francis… and I'll kill ya. ANTICIPATION: LIGHTEN UP, FRANCIS!