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In this post on asocial action, I began to analyze the meaning of Crusoe's right ends under the condition of islation from any social interaction. The task of developing detailed, specific recommendations to Crusoe in his lonely search for happiness can be reduced to the specification of the attributes of human nature. I do not mean that once we have settled on certain facts about human nature that these facts are then determinative of the ends that Crusoe must choose. The fact of variation between individuals means that any attribute of human nature in regards to right ends is subject to individual exceptions and outliers.
Crusoe can employ science in his search for the correct or best schedule of ends which will eliminate suffering and bring about a condition of satisfaction. However, the deductive method fails because it can only take ends as arbitrary givens. The science of evolutionary psychology is an inductive method which we can use to begin giving specific, detailed answers to the question, "What should Crusoe do?"
In their book, Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters, Miller and Kanazawa explain the foundations of the science of evolutionary psychology in four principles, each in contravention to what they call the Standard Social Science Model:
People are animals… there is nothing special about humans… Evolutionary psychology recognizes that the same biological laws of evolution apply to humans as they do to all other species.
There is nothing special about the human brain… the brain is just another body part, just like the hand or the pancreas. Just as millions of years of evolution have gradually shaped the hand or the pancreas to perform certain functions, so has evolution shaped the human brain to perform its function, which is solving adaptive problems to help humans survive and reproduce successfully… Evolution does not stop at the neck; it goes all the way up.
Human nature is innate. Just as dogs are born with innate dog nature, and cats are born with innate cat nature, humans are born with innate human nature.
Human behavior is the product of both innate human nature and the environment… both innate human nature, which the genes program, and the environment in which humans grow up are equally important determinants of behavior.
The primary tool of evolutionary psychology (EP) is the search for culturally-universal behaviors. Human behavior clearly varies from individual to individual and from culture to culture. But those behaviors which humans exhibit in all cultures are likely to have a genetic basis since it is easier to believe that a behavior is the result of a single genetic factor than it is to believe that a behavior arose as an artifact of cultural conditioning, independently, in every culture.
Human universals–of which hundreds have been identified–consist of those features of culture, society, language, behavior, and mind that, so far as the record has been examined, are found among all peoples known to ethnography and history.
Donald Brown – Human Universals, Human Nature, Human Culture[1]
The idea that humans have a nature has been controversial for at least the entire 20th century. Rothbard discusses this:
Among intellectuals … the phrase "the nature of man" is apt to have the effect of a red flag on a bull. "Man has no nature!" is the modern rallying cry; and typical of the sentiment of political philosophers today was the assertion of a distinguished political theorist some years ago before a meeting of the American Political Science Association that "man's nature" is a purely theological concept that must be dismissed from any scientific discussion.
Rothbard – Ethics of Liberty, ch. 1
Specific features of human nature are not determinative of Crusoe's behavior insomuch as he can choose to act in contravention to them. This is in stark contrast with Rothbard's view on the matter:
Suppose now that Crusoe is confronted with a choice of either picking berries or picking some mushrooms for food, and he decides upon the pleasantly tasting mushrooms, when suddenly a previously shipwrecked inhabitant, coming upon Crusoe, shouts: "Don't do that! Those mushrooms are poisonous." There is no mystery in Crusoe's subsequent shift to berries…
If Crusoe had eaten the mushrooms without learning of their poisonous effects, then his decision would have been incorrect—a possibly tragic error … If Crusoe, on the other hand, had known of the poison and eaten the mushrooms anyway—perhaps for "kicks" or from a very high time preference—then his decision would have been objectively immoral, an act deliberately set against his life and health.
Rothbard – Ethics of Liberty, ch. 6
Human nature – as regards right ends – is only formally determinative of moral behavior. If Crusoe has chosen to eat a poisonous mushroom, we must from this conclude that he deemed this to be the correct choice to attain satisfaction. Perhaps he had grown weary of loneliness and sought release in death. The only other alternative is to say that Crusoe is not of sound mind. But we may not criticize the actual choices of an individual by comparison to some standard outside of his own judgment of what will lead to his satisfaction except insofar as he has acted out of ignorance. For example, if Crusoe falsely believes that a snake's bite will not cause significant pain, and then proceeds to pick up a snake on the basis of this false belief, his ignorance of the facts of physical law, biology and human nature will combine to produce suffering.
Suffering, in turn, is the rod of Nature. Whenever I choose incorrectly, I am punished by Nature with pain, suffering and sadness. This is the rod-across-the-knuckles that impels me to change, alter and improve. I am motivated by suffering to revise my desired ends and the means I choose to attain them. Pain and suffering say, "You have incorrectly calculated the long-run consequences of your actions! Improve!"
It should not be misunderstood that the pedagogical role of pain and suffering redeem them. Pain and suffering are unequivocally bad. Besides this, pain and suffering do not always fulfill a pedagogical role. The suffering brought on by a congenital disease, for example, has no pedagogical role and no redeeming value.
But to the extent that suffering correlates with ignorance, it does play a pedagogical role however indirect and subtle. This is the motive force of the self-discovery process. To summarize the conclusions we've reached in Suffering and Satisfaction and Asocial Action and Right Ends:
We suffer, so we act. It is suffering which defines our particular ends and the application of means to the removal of suffering is called human action. When action succeeds in removing the conditions of our suffering, we are satisfied. Satisfaction is the end which is never a means to any other end; it is the end to which every other end is a means. I will call this process of suffering and action the unfolding process.
As events unfold, so also our life unfolds. With the lessons learned from the unfolding of many events, our aptitude in removing suffering or avoiding it altogether can increase. I will call this the self-discovery process.
The process of self-discovery does not operate as efficiently in every individual at all times. More importantly, the conditions for efficient operation of the self-discovery process are complicated by the factors already mentioned. Hence, in order to achieve efficient operation of the self-discovery process in one's own life, it is necessary not merely to follow one's innate developmental process of self-discovery but to augment this innate sense with methodical study. This is a topic for another post.


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Now, God DOES ANSWER prayers that I've labeled "PRAYER 360." Remember, I have encouraged prayers for the souls of men and women by requesting that God would do His work of "conviction" (John 16:8-11) in their hearts and His work of giving them a "searching heart" (Jeremiah 29:13) to want to know God and a quest to find out how they can be right with Him.
I want to give you some real examples I've experienced in the last two months of God's answers to my prayers.
1 - I have a neighbor, who for the last ten years, at least, has had a "mocking" response to my attempts to witness to him. He's been pleasant to me but usually he would smile or joke when I brought up the subject of faith in Christ. But over the last year or so I've noted his failing health and that prompted me to be even more earnest in my praying. I particularly prayed that God would give him a heart to search for God and that God would lead him to talk with me. About a six or seven weeks ago he saw me working out back of my house and he came right up to me and said that he had gone to his priest seeking to get back into his church. He wasn't satisfied that there was much hope, so he came to see me. Please note two things: He sought his priest and then he came to see me. God answered my prayer by giving him a "searching heart" and God led him to seek me out. I've been to visit him and his family twice now. I've given them a Bible and a Bible Story Book and several other pieces of literature and I've spoken to two of this man's adult children about their relationship with Christ. I'm claiming this man and "his household" for Christ!
2 - I've been praying for a man, G who is married to someone in my church, K. I've prayed that G would feel that God is seeking him. Here's what happened. A rather new neighbor, C has come into my neighborhood and I just met him two weeks ago. I witnessed to C and found out that he works in the same warehouse where G works. This new neighbor, C goes and sees G and let's him know of my witness to him and that I was his wife's pastor. G in turn, came home and told his wife K that now he's got someone in his workplace who knows her pastor and is now talking with him. G hasn't actually said he is seeking God, but I can sure see how God is seeking him! I'll keep praying!
3. Two new women came to our church three Sundays ago. I found out that one of them is married and I prayed for her husband. He came to our church two Sundays ago and came to me seeking how he can get right with God! We met at our Men's Breakfast this past weekend and he recognized his need to trust Christ and he did! You can't ask for a better answer to prayer than that!
These are just three examples of how God is more than glad to answer our prayers "for the souls of men." Pray that your neighbors, coworkers, or other acquaintances would either start seeking God or would see how God is seeking them.

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Anthea McIntyre MEP, Conservative agriculture spokesman, has spoken out against a report on pesticides which she says misrepresents the findings of the European Parliament's own researchers and seeks to undermine public trust in much-needed plant protection products.
Miss Mcintyre delivered a scathing criticism of the report which has been drawn up the parliament's Environment Committee when it was debated at Strasbourg's plenary sitting of the house.
She told the Parliament: "It is very important that we have a science based, evidence based approval process...and we do! This is a very rigorous process."
The negative report is authored by Czech Socialist MEP Pavel Poc and purports to assess how effectively the European Union's most recent Regulation on Plant Protection Products (PPPs) has been implemented since it came into force seven years ago.
However, Miss McIntyre sees it as part of a wider campaign by the Left and ecological extremists to create a climate of fear over PPPs and to erode public confidence in the safety of the authorisation process.
Mr Poc asserts that practical implementation of the regulation does not deliver complete assurance over protection over public health in its three main areas - approvals, authorisations or enforcement.
Miss McIntyre says the report misrepresents the findings of a 588-page study ran up by the European Parliament Research Service to provide detailed analysis for the report.
In particular, it misleadingly notes that the precautionary principle is not being followed in the approval of pesticides, that there is increasing use of emergency authorisations (which are occasionally needed by niche growers), and that national inspection authorities are chronically understaffed.
The report comes as as a Special Committee on Pesticides, set up at the insistence of Green and Socialist MEPs, begins to consider its own recommendations on the authorisation or PPS following a lengthy deadlock over the re-licensing of the popular weedkiller glyphosate.
Miss McIntyre told MEPs: "It is simply not true to say that the precautionary principle is clearly not being applied in the context of risk analysis and pesticides. No doubt there are problems with the implementation in member states, but the answer is not new regulation.
"We need to enforce the regulation we have and a part of that is the possibility of emergency uses.
"This is not national governments flouting the regulation, it is national governments responding to the specific needs of their farmers and their agriculture."
A West Midlands farmer was in Brussels this week to take his message about safe use of pesticides directly to lawmakers in the European Parliament.
John Chinn's business Cobrey Farms in Coughton, Ross on Wye, is Britain's biggest asparagus producer.
He addressed the parliament's Special Committee on Pesticides at the invitation of West Midlands Conservative MEP Anthea McIntyre.
Mr Chinn, who also grows berries, beans and other crops, spoke about the work of the Centre for Crop Health and Protection, one of four agri-tech innovation centres set up by UK Government, which he chairs.
He warned MEPs that the world population of 7.6 billion people would reach 10 billion by 2050, and the great challenge of the 21st century was to produce more food from the same area while protecting biodiversity.
He said the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation and the European Crop Protection Association estimated that without crop protection tools farmers could lose 80 per cent of their harvests to damaging insects, weeds and plant diseases.
However, he outlined how developments such as targeted chemistry, use of biological control agents, targeted application technologies and progress in plant breeding and genetics could combine to ensure the production of safe, healthy, nutritious, affordable food with ever better care for the environment.
He described the EU approval process for plant protection products as one of the most stringent in the world and said it took over 11 years, an average of 200 scientific studies and more than 250 million euros to bring a product to the EU market.
And he warned MEPs: "Rigorous testing and application protocols are very effective in protecting the public and the environment. However little attention has been given to its other aims of effectively supporting productive and competitive agriculture and horticulture.
"The fact that the regulation has just started its eighth year and it has only brought to the market the equivalent of about one new active substance per year, including low-risk substances, demonstrates the approach is failing to deliver for growers.
"For a regulation committed to help innovation and support the industry, this is a categoric failure that stifles the availability of safer, more effective and lower risk pesticides," he told the committee, set up to re-asses the way plant protection products are regulated in response to controversy over the re-licensing of the weedkiller glyphosate.
"The collection of even the very best data about pesticides (on exposures, effects, distributions or persistence) will never answer the concerns that some people have about their use, and non-rationalmyths may force social and political changes.
"Scepticism about received truths has long been a common attitude in opinion formers. EU regulators need to rise above this."
Miss McIntyre, Conservative agriculture spokesman in the parliament, said: "This committee was set up with a specific agenda to undermine trust in plant protection products - so I was determined that it would hear from a real life farmer who is also an expert in this area.
"He told the MEPs a few home truths - not only about the industry's real needs but also about very practical ways of limiting the use of products while improving the environment.
"His message about listening to science instead of myths and scaremongering was very powerful."
Anthea McIntyre, Conservative agriculture spokesman in Brussels, today welcomed news that the UK government will test a new scheme for non-EU agricultural workers next year.
Miss McIntyre, Conservative MEP for the West Midlands, said: "This will effectively be a revival of something similar to the old seasonal workers scheme which ran until 2013, something I have been advocating for a while.
"The numbers are not sufficient to satisfy the shortage of agricultural workers and I do question why it will be limited to two agencies, but overall I am very pleased that our government has a listened to our farmers and acted on their concerns."
Groundbreaking work at a West Midlands University has been highlighted in the European Parliament for cutting use of pesticides and reducing farming's environmental impact.
Anthea McIntyre, Conservative MEP for the West Midlands, praised the achievements of Harper Adams University in Shropshire and in particular its Centre for Integrated Pest Management.
During a Brussels debate in the Parliament's Agriculture Committee, she said the centre addressed global issues in agriculture, forestry and horticultural crop production.
Miss McIntyre said: "They have undertaken active research in important areas such as pest monitoring, application technology, nematology (the study of worms), plant pathology and weed science.
"There are research projects looking at laser treatment for precisely targeting weeds in farm crops, and at forecasting attacks of pests based on environmental conditions in various crops.
"We mustn't forget that pesticides are a part of integrated pest management (IPM). With everyone's desire to minimise the use of chemicals, it is very important to encourage the development of precision farming techniques.
"Using precision technologies to apply fertilisers and pesticides within agricultural systems we can reduce environmental impacts and make savings for farmers."
Miss McIntyre, Conservative agriculture spokesman in Brussels, has produced a series of reports promoting the harnessing of advancing technology to enhance yields and create environmental improvements in farming, forestry and horticulture.
She called for further promotion of Integrated Pest Management systems, such as crop rotation and conservation tillage, and alternative approaches with the use of agri-tech, and concluded "There is still a lot of untapped potential for farmers."
Anthea McIntyre, co-founder of the campaign group West Midlands Together, has condemned attacks against two mosques in Birmingham.
Miss McIntyre said: "These despicable attacks on people at worship were designed to provoke fear and anger.
"Happily the communities targeted showed admirable restraint and dignity, but that does not take away from the nastiness of the hate crime committed.
"This was an act of unreasoning hatred and we can only hope that those responsible are traced and feel the full weight of the law."
Miss McIntyre, Conservative MEP for the West Midlands, founded West Midlands Together with her Labour colleague Neena Gill after a spike in hate crime following the EU referendum.
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WIDNES coach Frank Endacott said that hooker Shane Millard would definitely be staying with the club after his man-of-the-match performance in the 12-6 friendly win over Warrington at the Halliwell Jones Stadium.
Super League champions Leeds recently tabled a é35,000 bid for the hooker but Endacott said: "Forget all about the speculation. Shane is fully committed to Widnes for the season."
Regarding his side's victory, Endacott added: "I thought that both sides showed a lot of commitment.
"It was a tough match for the first one of the year.
"I was pleased with how we stuck to our task and hung in right to the end and I thought our defence was great."
Warrington coach Paul Cullen was also delighted with the way his youthful team had performed against an experienced Vikings outfit.
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"I am very pleased at the way they took on such a strong and experienced Widnes side and didn't back down, sticking to their task all the way to the end of the match. I thought defensively, for the vast majority of the game, we were outstanding.
"There were 13 teenagers in the Warrington 20 and we just got caught with a little bit of inexperience on the two tries conceded.
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US-based internet giant Yahoo also entered into wellness space, showcasing beauty videos to attract traffic and advertisements.
Significantly, Yahoo has unveiled 18 new videos series with which it hopes to attract a larger audience and advertisers. Of these, would be 14 featuring on Yahoo's digital magazines, which focuses on beauty, show business and finance.
'I Am Naomi', starring model Naomi Campbell, and 'Riding Shotgun with Michelle Rodriguez', which will feature actress Michelle Rodriguez driving cars, are among the few new offerings to disclose about.
Music will be another big focus for the company as it courts millennials. It will be extending a deal with Live Nation to broadcast music festivals, and will join iHeartMedia to broadcast other music events.
Electronic dance music will be the theme of 'Ultimate DJ' produced by Simon Cowell.
Nevertheless, Yahoo has unveiled a new long-form series; a comedy called 'The Pursuit' that aimed at millennials in the digital age.
Aimed to bring Yahoo back on the growth track, Yahoo's Chief Executive Marissa Mayer shared in an earnings statement last week, "Yahoo is amidst a multi-year transformation to return an iconic company to greatness."
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04-09-2019, 05:31 PM (This post was last modified: 04-11-2019 04:45 AM by Gene222.)
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User tabs
I am trying to learn how to write programs with user tabs. In the program below, I can create a user tab to rerun the program, but I cannot create a tab to exit the program. When I press the exit tab, the program still shows the print terminal, and I have to press the Esc key to return to the Home screen. How can I cleanly exit the program without having to press the esc key?
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EXPORT Menu_Example_2() //main program
A revised program is shown below. I still can't cleanly exit the program with a single tap and return to the Home screen. Also, when repeating the program several times and then pressing the exit 2 tab, the WAIT period seems to be cumulative. The row of user tabs blocks any underlying text on the terminal screen. One cannot scroll the text up or down, while the user tabs are displayed.
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EXPORT UserTabs2() //main program
04-10-2019, 10:29 PM (This post was last modified: 04-12-2019 10:41 PM by Gene222.)
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RE: User tabs
The user tabs seems to work better on the Home screen than on the print terminal screen. The UserTabs4 program below needs to be launched from the Home screen, such as by the Toolbox key and User tab. The program will draw the tabs on the Home screen. Selecting the "x+y" tab adds the two numbers and RETURNs the answer to the Home screen. The user does not have to select the exit tab or press the Esc key like on the previous program. I am guessing that the DRAWMENU and/or WAIT commands draws the user tabs on the current active screen, whether it is the Home screen or print terminal screen. I should mention that the screen shot is the Home screen in program mode. It is not the Home screen in the normal calculation mode. The tabs will only be shown when the program is running.
(added 4/11/19) User tab 4 is x^2. It prints the answer to the print terminal. The last line of the tab 4 procedures is RETURN(sq_x). The RETURN command seems to be needed to display the print terminal. The user must press the Esc key to exit the print terminal and return to the Home screen. The RETURN command also seems to be needed to return the answer to the Home screen by including sq_x in the parenthesis.
UserTabs4 code. (revised 4/12/19)
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EXPORT UserTabs4()
04-11-2019, 04:58 PM (This post was last modified: 04-18-2019 10:07 PM by Gene222.)
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RE: User tabs
Revised 4/14/19. In the previous program, the exit tab does not work. The RETURN command will not exit to the Home screen. I could not find any way to exit the program and return to the Home screen. So, the program was changed to draw the user tabs on the G0 graphics screen. In the program below the STARTVIEW(-1,1) command was replaced with a RECT() command. RECT() will clear the G0 graphic screen and make it the current active screen. DRAWMENU then draws the tabs on the G0 screen, and MOUSE displays the G0 screen, and waits for a tap. When the exit tab is pressed, the RETURN command will exit the program and switch back to the Home screen. This is the only way I could make the exit tab work.
The WAIT commanded used in the previous program was not necessary. The MOUSE command will display the current screen (in this case it is the G0) with the tabs shown. The program below shows the user tab program with the WAIT command deleted.
Revised (4/18/19) program with the WAIT statement deleted and uses the G0 screen.
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EXPORT UserTabs9a()
04-15-2019, 07:48 PM (This post was last modified: 05-06-2019 12:10 AM by Gene222.)
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RE: User tabs
I apologize for putting forum readers through my ramblings on user tab. I was frustrated with trying to learn how to use user tabs. Examples of user tabs on the web were too complex and did not really explain how user tabs worked. One example did not even work.
A much better example of user tabs can be found in the Cash Flow (IRR, MIRR, NPV) program by salvomic in the HP Prime programs section. The program below was based on salvomic's code.
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EXPORT UserTabs9c()
(added 4/21/19) The WAIT(-1) command is much better than all of the above MOUSE command programs. If the screen is tapped, the WAIT(-1) will return the list {type, x coordinate, y coordinate}. For a screen tap, type = 3. For an example of the WAIT(-1) command see the Blackjack program by Geoff.
(added 5/2/19) The program below is a simplified example of the WAIT(-1) command based on the Blackjack program by Geoff. It uses the G0 screen. The program below also fixes the problem I was having in all of the above programs, where I could not cleanly exit the loops to either repeat the program, repeat the input screen with the old values shown, or exit the program and return the answer to the home screen. This was done by using the BREAK command with nested loops. As this thread has no interests, I am posting this in case someone reads this old post while trying to learn about user tabs. (added 5/3/19) When using WAIT(-1), key handling procedures also need to be included in the program. (5/5/19) The above programs will drain the calculator batteries, if left unattended. The program below was rewritten to exit the program if there are no screen taps or key presses after 3 minutes.
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A statue honouring Mary Seacole will be unveiled in the gardens of St Thomas' Hospital.
On Thursday 30 June, a new statue honouring the Crimean War nurse Mary Seacole will be unveiled in the gardens of St Thomas' Hospital, directly opposite the Houses of Parliament.
This historic moment will be marked by a number of other events, including a talk at the Florence Nightingale Museum – also on the St Thomas' Hospital site – and an exhibition about the life and times of Mary Seacole, and the creation of the statue.
The official unveiling will take place after 12 years of campaigning by the Mary Seacole Memorial Statue Appeal to raise the necessary funds for the bronze statue.
More than £500,000 was raised through donations from thousands of individual supporters as well as several larger donors.
In November last year Chancellor George Osborne announced that £240,000 of LIBOR banking fines would be donated to the Appeal to pay for the installation.
Sculptor Martin Jennings' striking work is believed to be the first statue in the UK dedicated to a named black woman.
The unveiling is an invitation-only ceremony but the talk and the exhibition are open to all:
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I am posting these pictures because of the beautiful story behind the discovery of these drawings. In 2007, I have finally embarked after years of planning and collecting magazines and books about Imelda Marcos of the Philippines, to write a musical about "Imelda", which remains unfinished, and at present I decided to shelve on its 3rd draft.
Just before I started on the task of writing the book for the musical. I had requested my sister-in-law (Delia) back in Manila to send to London my magazines and book collection on the Marcoses and the Philippines.
As my sister-in-law was going through my old books and magazines to have them ready for shipping, she has discovered these drawings among the magazines on Imelda. She then told me about this and to my surprise did not really remember of the existence of these drawing and that I had drawn this back in 1989. I thought the mice or termites that terrorizes our home every now and then back home would have eaten them just like what happened to some of our stuff. I also thought that this would have been thrown away too when the family does general cleaning every now and then. If this were the case, then there won't be any memory that will remind me of my beginning. It would have been a case of charging it to forgotten memories. However, this particular memory does now want to be forgotten hence its discovery.
In the process of a journey through life and even when I started painting in 2002 in London I completely forgot about these drawings, I didn't really knew of the existence of these drawings of mine. I didn't really realize anyway and that I never knew that I would end up pursuing painting two years after I move to the United Kingdom. My introduction to painting was incidental really after I had been released from confinement in a Hospital that year, and then I found myself pursuing painting afterwards. Before this, I was expressing myself a lot through dancing and performing arts with the Lahing Kayumanggi Philippine Cultural Dance Group headed by its Artistic Director Ronnie Del Barrio and are based in London. I still do dance of course if only to promote the culture to which I spent most of my formative years.
Delia sent the parcel out to me with a date of October 19, 2007 via DHL along with a dried mango that I loved of course. Thank you Delia and Kuya Ricky.
The funny thing about this is that, little I have known that in 2002 I will start painting after I was released from the Chelsea and Westminster hospital for an illness. Painting was not one of those that tickle my mind. What inspires me and what I had been involved mostly are performing arts like singing, dancing, acting, choreography, writing lyrics and poems, stage play and directing. Nevertheless, I really thought that 2002 was the beginning as it was a beginning in terms of the medium oil on canvas. Additionally, I was moving on to create new works and completely does not recall about the beginning of my discovery in the world of Art through which I found myself expressing more and more of my thoughts.
The drawings show a raw and inspired moment in time when I wanted to express my feelings about that particular time and history of the Philippines. Moreover, I have wholly failed to remember about this involvement too. I totally overlooked that this expression through these drawings is to honor a woman who is a victim of circumstance just like the neo-colony that is the Philippines. Of course the same woman is also accountable for the many sins that befalls the age and eon of that era. Regardless of who hates or loves this woman with a thousand shoes and with a thousand sins, regardless of who were hurt or who benefited from the fall from grace of this period. I find it important to note that the inspiration is because she was a massive "Patron of Art" and I have always loved Art. As a person who loves all form of Art, I suppose I pursued it because there was a lady practically feeding that consciousness into the Philippines society. I can look back now and say this is for you madam.
I completely forgot that I have drawn these pictures in 1989. Almost twenty years later, the discovery and this made me realize and remember that I have enjoyed drawing back then. It just did not cross my mind that I will be expressing myself more in drawings or rather recently in colors.
This discovery is my eureka in 2007 that after all, however I repress myself from painting, drawing or colorings, this is meant to be and I am now little by little finding the evidence coming back to me, the very evidence that tells me who I really am.
Of course, along with this discovery are memories coming back, of I, drawing nature and friends on any piece of paper I can hold on to. Exactly the same habit I do when I want to write lyrics or poems or express my thoughts and I can't wait to go back home to Manila soon to look for my old stuff to share to all of you my beginning or should I say my calling. Furthermore, this brings back memories of when I won a place in an Art competition in High School. Memories that becomes important in the present time because of what I have become.
The medium I used on these set of drawings is a pencil on computer print out paper.
The word "Imelda" on the drawing dates back when I draw it in 1989 on a piece of computer paper print out, which of course are the very paper I used along with my brothers and sisters while I was studying as my family can not afford pretty much anything really at that time. That's how poor we were.
I decided to affix my signature to these drawings in 2009 to finalize it and pronounced it finished. Although several of these drawings are clearly unfinished, that will remain that way as this was the past and we all have moved on. I have moved on as well and widened my horizon and learned new things and discovered knowledge that were there after all but was not available in the environment when I was growing up.
Written in London on the 18th of February 2009.
Francis Tanseco


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text: Narmin is a seven years old girl from Baku, Azerbaijan. This year she finished 1st grade with very good grades. She was getting ready to start 2nd grade, but life gave her the most difficult challenge. Narmin's family were about to celebrate her 7th birthday when the same day they got results from the doctor saying that she had leukemia. Narmin was hospitalized right away. Her parents decided to bring her to Turkey for treatment, because in Azerbaijan doctors couldn't help her. The costs of the treatment are very high; her parents need to raise a significant amount of money to help her. Narmin's family will appreciate any help.


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Each week I receive a Leadership Weekly newsletter which is geared for just that: people in leadership in the church. In the last issue of the year, they presented us with The Golden Canon which was a list of "the best books for Christian leaders in 2008." I was quite excited to go to the site to see just how many of the ten I had actually read. Priding myself, I guessed six. One can only imagine my disappointment and shock when I found that not only had I not read any of them, I had not even heard of them!
But 2008 has come and gone and the list is now obsolete, and so I move on only hoping to read something of value in 2009. I often take my reading clues from what others read and maybe you do, too; so I'm keeping an updated list in the margins of this blog of the books, devotionals, and Bible studies I'm reading and using with the thought one might spark an interest with you. But mind you, my choices do not make the top 10.
The great theologian Charles Spurgeon advised his students to be discriminating about what they read, and told them to bathe in good books "until they saturate you." He said, "A student will find that his mental constitution is more affected by one book thoroughly mastered than by twenty books merely skimmed."
Now put like that, there's really only one Book worth reading, wouldn't you say? And it surpasses anybody's list of top 10.
Just an ordinary moment…
God so often reveals Himself to us in the ordinary day-to-day experiences of life. Yet we miss Him. These entries are to encourage us to look for Him, find Him, and worship Him. It's my prayer that my ordinary moments would spur you to look for your own.
Sunday, January 4, 2009
The Golden Canon
Posted by A Cup Bearer at 4:10 PM
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- Chel - An Abiding Branch said...
YES!!! First of all, (2nd time here) I love thename of your blog! Nehemiah is a role model for leadership and organization. His story touches me deeply!
Secondly, I loved this post in particular. Spurgeon is one of my favorites. It is true if we spent more time in the Golden Canon we would likely be led to the same realization the authors of all those books had....What a Mighty God we serve!
- January 15, 2009 at 3:18 PM
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The description of the app, including screenshots is entirely in Japanese although the app's button labels and menus are all in English. Not sure why this is?
The app is "vPhone" and I found it by searching the App Store for "sip blf", it was the only result, so I gave it a shot.
So far I've worked out it can do the following:
- 9 one touch dial buttons with BLF support - this is the killer feature for me!
- Although it is after a short delay, it does support paging/intercom (personal killer feature #2)
- A dedicated general call pickup option (hard-coded to dial **) (but it looks like it cannot do directed pickup)
- Tell it the SSIDs of up to three WiFi networks to use - although this seems to be both a feature (selective connectivity so it doesn't attempt to register on other WiFi networks) and a limitation (I haven't yet found a way *not* to limit it to three WiFi SSIDs)
- I haven't tested it yet, but it seems to support VPN tunnelling - not sure if it is its own implementation or using iOS' VPN implementation
- It will pass dialled numbers to your phone's native dialler to call over cellular if your SIP connection isn't available (some others of course do this too)
- Unlike, say Bria and Groundwire, ringtone options aren't all that cheesy. They suit my personal taste anyway.
- I can't find any provisioning support, but for small deployments and home * boxes that's no biggie.
Most surprisingly, it's free, and does not have iAds.
I have a feeling the app is supposed to be just for the Japan App Store (at least for now) but accidentally released globally? Not sure. Found a good looking iPad SIP client ("TeliPad") featured on the vendor's website but cannot see it in the App Store.
I'll keep playing with it and report back as to reliability etc. Been playing around with it on two iPhones and an iPad hooked up to my * box, no problems found so far besides the call pickup limitation...


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Kris Humphries Won't Date Again Until Officially Divorced, Says Close Source
Kris has laid low since Kim filed for divorce and a source says that you shouldn't expect to see Kris out with any girls any time soon!
Kris Humphries has a plan and he's sticking to it! HollywoodLife.com spoke to a source very close to Kris who tells us that Kim is not going to date "for a while" — and that's not all!
"Kris won't date for a while," our source says. "Probably not until after the divorce. He feels embarrassed and humiliated both on the street and on the basketball court."
We can understand why Kris feels that way. The soon-to-be ex-husband was booed during a New Jersey Nets game against the LA Clippers on Jan. 16 and the crowd was chanting "prenup."
"It's been a really tough time for him," the source says. "She may say she's been crying her eyes out but he's the one really going through it."
Is Kris having a more difficult time with the divorce than Kim?
— Chloe Melas
More Kardashian News Here:
- Kim Kardashian Apologizes To Her Family — But Not Kris Humphries — After 'KKTNY'
- Kris Humphries Never Stood A Chance Versus The Kardashian Family — So Obvious
- Kim Kardashian Planned Kris Humphries' Proposal, Source Says


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Canada puts U.S. on torture watch list:
Just what in hell gave these people the fucking idea the US tortures people.
Damn stupid Canucks*!
CTV News has learned that, as part of a "torture awareness workshop," diplomats are now being told where to watch for abuse.
The aim of the workshop: to teach diplomats who visit Canadians in foreign jails how to tell if they've been tortured. It also listed countries and places with greater risks of torture. The list includes Syria, Iran, Afghanistan, and China. But surprisingly, it also included the United States, Guantanamo Bay, and Israel.
It notes specific "U.S. interrogation techniquies," which include "forced nudity, isolation, and sleep deprivation." The U.S. has repeatedly denied allegations by international groups that it tortures prisoners captured in places like Afghanistan and Iraq. However, U.S. officials have refused to comment on the Canadian list.
Hey, Bush, do we have any troops left we can use to attack Canada?
* See item 9 here or don't. It merely states "Canucks" is not a derogatory term for Canadians. That's important to me or I would never use it.
Via The Agonist.
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Tamworth is a market town in Staffordshire located around 14 miles north-east of Birmingham. Attractions include the Ankerside shopping centre, Ventura retail park, an indoor ski slope and two nature reserves, plus a historic market.
The town has an array of parks and open spaces - enjoyable walks can be taken in the grounds of Tamworth Castle, where you can enjoy a picnic by the riverside. The Tamworth Assembly Rooms is the town's no 1 entertainment venue for a first class theatrical experience of music, dance, pantomime and comedy shows.
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Lindsay Lohan has been arrested in New York on charges that she clipped a pedestrian with her car and did not stop, police say.
The 26-year-old actress was arrested at 2.25am (1625 AEST) on Wednesday as she left a nightclub at the Dream Hotel on 16th Street in Manhattan's Chelsea neighbourhood, police said. They said no alcohol was involved.
Lohan was charged with leaving the scene of an accident and causing injury. She was given a ticket and will have to appear in court at a later date.
Her lawyers did not immediately respond to voicemails and emails from The Associated Press seeking comment. A phone call to her publicist rang unanswered.
Police said Lohan was driving a black Porsche slowly through an alley between the Dream Hotel and the Maritime Hotel when the accident occurred. The victim called 911. He was treated at a hospital for a knee injury and released.
It was the latest car accident involving Lohan.
On June 8, Lohan was involved in a crash in California that sent her and her assistant to a hospital.
They were on their way to a shoot for the film Liz and Dick when Lohan's Porsche collided with a dump truck on the Pacific Coast Highway. Neither was seriously injured and Lohan resumed shooting later in the day.
The accident remains under investigation and police have said they are trying to determine who was driving.
Lohan remains on informal probation for taking a necklace last year from a jewellery store without permission. She is not required to check in with a judge or probation officer, but she could face a jail term if she is re-arrested.


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US firm National Oilwell Varco has braved an economic whirlwind only to have the real thing land on its Houston doorstep.
Hurricane Harvey brought devastation to the Texas oil capital earlier this month, with highways becoming rivers, homes wrecked, refineries shut in and the death toll now at 70 people.
But chairman and chief executive of the oilfield services company, Clay Williams, has been buoyed by the response of the oil and gas industry, who have rounded in support of the flood stricken southern state.
He said: "We've all been in this sort of economic hurricane with oil prices these last few years and now you've got a real hurricane on top of that.
"It really underscores for me what a community the oil industry is.
"We've several hundred employees who are out of their homes. The good news is that we've already cleared out the wet sheet rock and carpet from over a hundred employee homes."
Williams revealed the work that is being done while speaking to Energy Voice at the Offshore Europe conference, which is running in Aberdeen this week.
He flew into the city on Wednesday but plans to be back in Texas by the weekend, "to get his sleeves rolled up and help with the clean-up".
The hurricane's aftermath was another blow for Texas, which has also been negatively impacted by the global oil downturn.
National Oilwell Varco (NOV) was not immune to that particular 'storm' either.
The firm cut its global headcount be nearly half since the heady heights of 2014's $100 oil.
But Williams claims there are "brighter days ahead".
The company is slowly rebuilding, after the lack of activity over the last three years – especially in the offshore sector – saw staff numbers drop from around 60,000 to 35,000.
Williams said: "We're doing better. We are still a long way from 'recovered' but we're making good progress.
"This has been a really tough downturn.
"But I'm optimistic. This has been a cyclical industry since its earliest days and when you go through one of these cycles, and I've been through a handful in my career, you really just have to make it to the other side."
He added: "We've had to make tough decisions, like everyone.
"We had to reduce our workforce and our costs. It's really tough seeing friends of yours leaving the company because we simply don't have enough work to do.
"We're not out of the woods yet but business is stabilsing and parts of our business are starting to grow again."
Bright spots include US shale plays – still booming – and the Middle East, a market that Williams said remained "strong" even while others suffered.
He said: "You have had half of the world's E&P capex evaporate since the downturn.
"There's always a supply response that comes out of that dramatic change in investment.
"Oil has dipped below $50 a barrel, which I think is an important psychological threshold. That limits the appetite for further growth in terms of rig count and capex.
"We are really anxious to see the offshore part of our business get back engaged and back to growth."
And how does the industry do that? Well according to Williams it is a matter of "time, ingenuity and perseverance".
But for now, it's people first.
He said: "First things first, we have to get people back in their homes and get their lives stable.
"That's been the top priority for us and I'm very proud of the effort that the company has made to make sure that our employees are safe.
"Aberdeen and Houston have a lot in common – they are both really resilient. We will get through this – I'm confident of that."


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North American Man Boy Love Association An Avatar of the FutureThere is nothing except secular habits preventing Unbelief pushing paedophilia as a legitimate option and a human right. The conscience of the the non-Christian West is a smoking ruin. If it can celebrate the dismembering of living unborn babies as a human freedom right, it can celebrate any perversion. All that is needed is time and the marshalling of licentious lusts.
Here is the latest iteration of the descent and integration into the void:
Media, White House, Salon Go Soft On Pedophilia
Carly Fiorina is also right. What is at issue now is the character of the United States.
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In 2003, Senator Rick Santorum was widely criticized for making a slippery slope argument about what can happen to a society and country once we turn away from Biblical morality. A mere 12 years later the former-Senator's prediction has come tragically true.
It is only Tuesday and yet already this week Salon has published a lengthy article written by a pedophile asking for our understanding. Although he claims to have never acted on his impulses (but spent years in a chat room with those who have), the entire piece condemns society — you and I — as bigots for ostracizing and condemning his kind.
Courtesy of The New York Times we also learned Monday that "American soldiers and Marines have been instructed not to intervene — in some cases, not even when their Afghan allies have abused boys on military bases[.]"
Yes, you read that correctly: On our own military bases, as though Western Civilization is no longer a thing, our troops are being ordered to look the other way as Afghan police officers rape and sodomize underage Afghan boys.
In his last phone call home, Lance Cpl. Gregory Buckley Jr. told his father what was troubling him: From his bunk in southern Afghanistan, he could hear Afghan police officers sexually abusing boys they had brought to the base.Those last four words are everything: "because it's their culture."
"At night we can hear them screaming, but we're not allowed to do anything about it," the Marine's father, Gregory Buckley Sr., recalled his son telling him before he was shot to death at the base in 2012. He urged his son to tell his superiors. "My son said that his officers told him to look the other way because it's their culture."
How far up in the military chain of command do these orders go?
Who in the White House knew about them?
Apparently we're never going to find out because our left-wing mainstream media doesn't care about underage boys being raped and sodomized on American military bases. The story of our own government — our OWN government — allowing children to be openly sexually abused on our OWN military bases earned almost no media attention. Nothing was said in the White House briefing. No questions were asked by the press corps. No outrage was expressed by President Obama or anyone in the White House.
Ask yourself… On what planet does the planet not stop when such a thing is discovered?
You can argue that it's pro-Obama bias from our media taken to a depraved extreme. After all this is the same media that went insane over the Catholic church scandals and Abu Ghraib. But I don't think it's that. The media hates our military and could easily find a way to attack the Pentagon while insulating Obama. Heaven knows they have had 8 years of practice.
No, it's something much worse. This is the morality of our media and the overall Left…
Child rape just isn't that big of a deal. Rick Santorum was right.


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Weekly Highlights
Pemex's oil price hit a low (Spanish) last week when the Mexican mix fell to $27 per barrel, and it continued flirting with record prices (Spanish) as it closed yesterday at $26.54 USD. Prices at this level hover close to the cost of production (estimated to be between $23 and $29 USD (Spanish) for the heavily indebted Pemex. Brent prices continue to fall due to OPEC failure to come to an agreement regarding production levels that are pushing storage levels to new highs.
This new low came after Pemex experienced record third-quarter losses, 40 percent (English) of which its acting finance director attributed to the peso exchange rate and falling crude prices. In response to this situation, Pemex is seeking to monetize some of its assets (English), including selling stakes in its Salina Cruz, Salamanca, and Tula facilities (see map below). Those three refineries are also part of an overhaul (English) whose objective is to increase profitability.
In other developments, Round 1.3, the final onshore oil auction of the year, ended by awarding all 25 (English) of the contracts up for bidding. The contracts include government royalties ranging from 18 to 93 percent (Spanish). While some observers question the judgment (English) of the bidders, the outcome far exceeded expectations of awarding only 20 percent of the contracts. Mexico will continue auctions in 2016 with an offshore deepwater round.
Although Pemex has begun implementing measures (Spanish) to discourage illegal fuel pipeline taps, the measure of this variety of theft increased 55 percent from 2014. Pipeline theft represents not only a loss for Pemex but a health and safety risk for end users as well as the surrounding communities.
As last week's events continue unfolding in the Brazilian political economic sphere, one columnist at the Wall Street Journal reflects on the confluence of forces (English) that contributed to the current situation in that country. Though its recent investment rating downgrading is nothing to celebrate, the president of Petrobras expressed optimism (Portuguese) about plans the company has for the future after a couple of years of correction and divestment (Portuguese).
In contrast to financial and governance woes facing Petrobras, Ecopetrol announced that though it is reducing investment for 2016 when compared to 2015, it will be able to maintain the same daily oil production levels (Spanish) by accessing capital markets and using internal resources. Ecopetrol will also begin operating Reficar, its ultra-modern refinery near Cartagena, Colombia, and evaluating recent finds. Leadership at Ecopetrol has indicated it will focus on fiscal discipline, cutting costs, and increasing efficiency during 2016.
Last week, Eulogio Del Pino, president of Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), and Delcy Rodriguez, Venezuela's foreign minister, met with OPEC member representatives in Caracas to discuss ways to increase oil prices given the glut of oil currently on the market. The price per barrel of Venezuelan oil reached new lows for the year last week, and Del Pino expressed serious concerns (Spanish) regarding the possibility of reaching 100 percent oil storage capacity in early 2016. The Venezuela government relies heavily upon revenues from PDVSA.
In elections last week, Venezuelan citizens handed victory to the opposition, but the ruling party was defiant (English). Some observers have expressed that the deep polarization in Venezuela has been ignored for too long (English). Even with it's massive oil reserves, Venezuela's dysfunctional economy has absurdly high rates of inflation that affect quality of life (Spanish).
In other developments, Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) is scheduled to commence drilling off the coast of Cuba in the Gulf of Mexico in December 2016. Along with Sonangol of Angola, PDVSA will be drilling (Spanish) in Cuba's ZEE.
Video of the Week: Catarata (Waterfall) Series
This week ELB begins a waterfall series. Enjoy our first beauty!
This waterfall is located in two countries in South America, and much of it flows into the ominously named Devil's Throat. It is pretty universally considered "awesome," and lest tourists lose their way, there are two airports nearby that are named for this impressive natural wonder.
Previous Image of the Week: Bolivia's Nevado Sajama


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A first association with the word "Satisfaction" is good and positive. As opposed to bad and negative. As opposed to dissatisfying. And so, phrases like "Customer Satisfaction" and "Satisfaction Guaranteed" enter into our language as reassuringly positive.
But here's the thing: is "Satisfaction" really good enough?
Let's say I own a business built on outstanding professional service. And so, much of my success will be dependent on word-of-mouth, client referral and personal recommendation. As a business owner, if my goal with each client is (merely) "Customer Satisfaction", I'm not going to survive, let alone thrive.
Because satisfaction is just satisfaction. It's nothing to get fired-up about.
If I were the client and I were left satisfied, that to me would be an "as expected" result. And so, I won't be making any recommendations. And no, I won't say bad things against the service. And I'll probably say it's fine or even good, if asked. But I won't go out of my way to share my satisfying experience. And I certainly won't talk with gusto about my satisfying experience.
I'll only do that if I'm wowed by the level of service. If I'm astonished. If I'm amazed. That has to be my target.
And that's how I want you to feel about your next career goal.
So no, "Satisfaction" is not enough. Not when it comes to your career.
Because it's merely "as expected". It's lacking in energy and excitement. It won't get you fired-up. And who wants that for their next career step?
To be energised and enthused, motivated and inspired, powerful and resilient, your goal needs to be Career Joy. Career Astonishment. Career Amazement.
Here are a few thoughts to set you on the path to Career Astonishment
Amplify the Goal
More often than not, we don't go far or deep enough in our career future envisioning and goal setting. And when we don't go far enough, the best we can hope for is achieving our goal – by definition, already far less than our highest possible potential. And the worst is we do nothing, achieve nothing and get frustrated with the whole idea of goals – because no one gets excited about flat goals.
So, do this: take your first draft goal. And AMPLIFY it. In every way that matters – and that'll be different dependent on the goal and the person, but you might like to start with factors like meaning, impact, influence, fit, emotional, physical, spiritual, financial. Challenge and stretch your ambitions. At least by a factor of 2, but once you get the hang of thinking big, make it a factor of 10.
Align with your Values
When we're in flow with our goals (any goals, not just career goals), we have values resonance. When we're saying we want to achieve something and it's just not happening, we're in values conflict. Values drive all our important decisions and intentions and not being crystal-clear on my values today will deny me career joy in the future. Obvious stuff – but sometimes, so obvious we don't notice. We don't think to put attention there. So, do notice. Do place your attention there.
Do this, now: complete a Values Assessment. If you need some guidance, you can download my worksheet here, but there are many other very good values elicitation resources and exercises out there. Get clear on your Top 6 Core Values. And in particular, focus on our personal core values rather than global values (fairness, social justice, democracy, etc.). With your list of core values, reflect deeply on how these values could and must show-up: in your day-to-day role and in your long-term career.
Alongside this activity, also build a list of the values that your next company believes in. And not just in writing, but the values the company must LIVE INTO each and every day.
Focus on Difference-making
What impact do you want your work to have on those closest to you, those in your circle, your wider community and the world, at large? What difference do you want to make? When you look back on your life's work, what will be positively different as a result?
The difference we want to make in the world is a powerful driver of
Purpose. Mission. Meaning. Contribution. These are all powerful drivers of long-term career. And they can all be most-easily accessed with the thought of Making a Difference. Enough said.
Add a Little Wonderment
When I was working through my Advanced Firework Career Coach certification, we completed an exercise where we walked the streets with a partner for nearly an hour, taking it in terms to finish the sentence stem "I wonder …". Not much more guidance than that. Just wander around, taking it in turns to say, "I wonder …". It was a very enjoyable – and insight-generating – way to spend an hour.
"I wonder …" is such a gentle way for Big Self to ask Little Self to experiment and explore. To think expansively without getting overwhelmed. To think big, without getting complex. Find a thinking partner and give it a go.
Maximise Energisers. Minimise Drainers.
If you want to elevate your career from simply satisfying to amazing, joyful and deeply fulfilling, take a look at what energises you in a day and what drains you. Do it now, this week. Start a list on your phone. And from the moment you wake to the moment you retire for the night, notice and capture the energisers and drainers. If you capture everything – and you'll get better and better at noticing, once you start – it's enlightening.
Big things. Little things. People. Places. Communities. Attitudes. Thoughts. Ideas. Environment. Setup. The list goes on and on. But your only rule is that EVERYTHING goes on the list. Do this for a few days and you'll get some very strong clues what you need to keep, add, lessen and remove. Of course, you can make many or most of those changes right now. And I recommend you do so: much easier to spot your next joyful career shift from a place of energy and flow. But also plug those fundamentals into your validation criteria for the next career move.
And the Magic Ingredient
An important lesson I've learned over the years, coaching those looking to make a career shift or and career step-up is: the world is ready to give us what we want, if only we'd ask for it. So, take this lesson to heart: BOLDNESS is key to achieving Career Astonishment.
How do we do that? How do we introduce more boldness? By practising. Like any muscle, it needs to be worked. So from here on, starting today: Take any and every action you have on your list and challenge yourself to make it bolder. Take any and every decision you have and take the boldest version of it. Take any dilemma and always go for the bold choice. And at the start of every day, ask yourself the question: What one bold action could I take today that would move me towards Career Astonishment?
Source: Dan Beverly
About the Author
Dan Beverly is a leadership and performance coach, helping high-achieving professional women embrace the pivotal career moments.


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Common issues with the Roku 2 player can embrace the player's Internet connection dropping off, poor video high quality, issues with channels and extra. The first thing you have to is an Web connection, it's essential to be sure that it's one which allows resale so you'll almost certainly need a enterprise Internet connection. The wi-fi bridge scanned for accessible connections so I just had to select the right one.
The basics for working remotely embody a reliable computer with the typical workplace software that almost everybody uses—Microsoft Workplace or the free look-alikes such as LibreOffice and OpenOffice—and a dependable web connection (20 Mbits will do).
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A minor annoyance for me (is likely to be an enormous annoyance for some) is that when you reset residential modem and connect with the internet for the primary time, it'll all the time hijack your browser and send you to the Maxis MyLaunchpad web page. Some suppliers provide you with a WiFi succesful modem or entry level with their install and some inform you buy your individual.
In case you have a laptop computer computer, you might have the ability to use it to entry the Internet as you move from room to room in your dorm, or table to table in in your university library. When talking about customary internet connections that you simply get at dwelling there's something called 'Contention' or 'Competition ratio'.
My interpretation of these principles is that the web needs to be open and public, the shoppers ought to be capable to choose their web supplier, use the internet within the law, and be entitled to competition throughout the web suppliers. Likewise, as with every wireless network, safety issues for Wi-Fi hotspots have to be managed.


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They speak Dutch (which is a Germanic language) in Holland. The language is spoken as a native language by about 22 million people, and a further 5 million people speak it as a second language. Dutch is an official language in Holland, Belgium (where it is known as Flemish) and Suriname (a country in South America). Dutch is also the parent language of Afrikaans, which is spoken in many parts of South Africa.


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Even leave it running when you're off the boat for weeks or months. Engine-driven fridge (we were tired of being a true slave to the boat; now we have a modest and very efficient 12 volt / air cooled system that came with boat which uses 55 amp-hrs/day). A refrigeration engineer said that the air in the fridge or freezer does not really hold that much cold.
Once the rear of the holding plate is ultimately free of frost and ice, bail out the base of the deep freezer for the final time, clean the deep freezer and spray Pam or wipe a small layer of oil on the holding plate — this helps you pry off the ice next time. Under these conditions, I can easily defrost every 4-6 weeks.
I use this as a fridge, but am planning to buy another for use as a freezer. Myself have a 40 qt Engle on the boat and a Edge Star in my own camping rig. Blue North Fisheries, in operation since 1983, now owns and operates eight head and bowel deep freezer long liners and one crab catcher vessel.
They cut and disperse a high performance (read also high price) insulation material, sell a great prepared to install freezer and refrigerator lid, and then of course have AC and DC cooling systems. As the stuff in the freezer is removed, replace it with plastic jugs full of water.
The shopper has greater selection and may locate the one that works better for boating than anything accessible in a marine shop. I like this it can either be a refrigerator or a deep freezer and has an extremely low power draw.
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I focused on the 35-40 qt models as our aim was to supplement our existing constructed in fridge with the mobile being predominantly utilized as a deep freezer. But front loaders have a terrible tendency to have food fall out if the boat moves while the door is open.
There is no good reason for powerboat owners to install a holding plate fridge or freezer. A couple of times per year, I transferred it to my car after I went on long trip, using it as a refrigerator or freezer as needed. Equipped with double temperature control, it can serve as either a deep freezer or refrigerator.
A factory stern trawler is a large stern trawler which includes additional onboard processing facilities and can stay at sea for days or weeks at a time. A deep freezer trawler fully processes the catch on board to customers' specifications, into frozen-at-sea fillet, block or head and gutted form.
The Isotherm SP modular refrigeration system condenser is cooled directly by the surrounding seawater. On an ocean crossing or merely a long weekend with friends, a successful voyage frequently depends on having an efficient and dependable fridge onboard. The refrigeration units use lots of 110V electricity and otherwise would require a massive battery bank and inverter set up and suitably large alternator capacity.
It is vital to have 8 of space between each bank of deep freezer plates. The Engel MB40V is available with either an attached or distant compressor for added mounting choices. Biggest problem, she would like more refrigerator space & fewer deep freezers.
5 cubic feet to about 40 degrees below the temperature outside the carton. It's going to cool up to 4. Departing the refrigerator, the gas, now warm, flows into a condenser that cools the gas, which subsequently liquefies.
I set a large filter from Radio Shack that was intended for a stereo in a vehicle on the VHF electricity input and it helped a lot. We did not detect it too much on our SSB, but it was poor on our VHF, even if we were not receiving or transmitting it had a hum. It was noticeable by the people who were receiving our VHF transmissions as well.
These systems were created for full-time deep freezer boats like offshore albacore, salmon or shrimp companies. And like their shore side counterparts, correctly installed marine refrigeration systems are very dependable and need very little maintenance.


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Marketing to Mobile Users
You may have a great app but are you doing everything possible to get customers to download, interact and convert on the app?
We live in a mobile-first world and the impact mobile has on e-commerce is shifting how brands are interacting and connecting with their audience. it's important to communicate with your audience on a personal level by developing a journey between customers and your brand. Now you might say, "I already have an app" and that's a great first step, but are you doing everything possible to get customers to download, interact and convert on the app? If you're unsure, here's a quick checklist of ways you can ensure you're connecting with your customers through mobile commerce.
Push Notifications
You should strive to encourage customers to interact with your app and push notifications can achieve this by alerting them to news, promotions or any other information that would encourage consumers to open and engage with your app. Push notifications can be highly effective if used properly. Much like posting on social media, there is a line that a brand can easily cross from being informative to just downright annoying. If you think it's hard to get people to engage with your app, imagine how difficult it will be if people start turning off their push notifications – or even worse, delete the app altogether.
Exclusive Offers
Giving customers a reason to download and interact with your app beyond just seeing inventory or receiving company news is what will keep customers coming back to your app. Offering special coupons, flash sales or promos (coupled with push notifications) is a great way to keep people checking in and engaging with your app.
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When we think of holiday shopping the last two months of the year are what usually spring to mind, however, being able to accommodate shoppers for holidays year-round can help you stand out. Having your mobile storefront sell and send gift cards or allow purchases to be sent with a gift receipt can give you an edge all year long. Consumers have come to expect quick, simple, shopping solutions and being able to send a last minute birthday gift from their smartphones fits their demands.
Store Locator
Obviously, if you're an online retailer this doesn't necessarily apply to you, but for retailers with brick and mortar locations, this is imperative. While the majority of your sales might be online, there is still a strong need for consumers to buy in person if the item is unfamiliar to them because the idea of possibly having to return it outweighs the convenience of buying online. With that in mind, it is important that consumers can easily find your locations should they be unfamiliar with your products.
Mobile Payments
This is what brings all of the above together – easy mobile payment. You can have the best-timed push notifications, amazing coupons, and gift shipping options but if you don't have an easy-to-use mobile payment system setup then chances are customers will abandon their digital cart and head over to your competitor.
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Malta's first gay couple registered their union last Friday, Malta's newspaper Independent reported on Tuesday.
In a ceremony held in the archipelago's second largest island Gozo, Kristina Galea Cavallazzi and Clara Borg became the first gay couple to vow mutual respect and pledge to take care of each other as a married couple in the presence of family and friends.
The civil union rite was also followed by a reception at a local Hotel.
In Malta, Gay couples apply for their civil unions and banns just like what happens in a marriage between heterosexual couples. Banns have to be published at least six weeks prior to the ceremony.
Once a couple formally applies for civil union, a procedure starts with the banns being published. In the case of Maltese citizens, only ID Cards of both partners are required. As regards foreigners, a birth certificate and a free status certificate is required. These both have to be legalized. The couple has to wait for a period of six weeks from the publication of banns.
First introduced to the parliament last October, the stalled civil unions bill was finally signed by Malta's President Marie Louise Coleiro Preca into law in mid-April. The majority ruling Labor Party pushed the bill through, in a vote of 37 Yes, 0 No, and 30 abstained. About 80 percent of Maltese were said to oppose the law's provisions, according to a Eurostat poll and a Church survey quoted by media reports in the staunchly Catholic country.
In the European Union, 22 member countries now have some form of civil union law or gay marriage bill and 10 have legalized adoptions by gay couples, according to official EU statistics.


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Well, it happened. Last night my garden got kissed by the death of freezing temperatures. Today I woke up to blackened, shriveled leaves... and it was time.
Time to gather what was left of my little harvest. Next comes tearing the sucker out and prepping the soil for the spring.
So I picked what was left.... lots of baby, mini vegis. These little guys are tiny! But oh-so-beautiful. Hopefully they taste good too!! The only ones I am really worried about are those mini-eggplant. We shall see if they are properly developed or not.
I tried to save my Fresno pepper and jalapeno plants... and my mint. I moved these guys inside because, honestly, I just love picking these little tiny peppers. They are so cute! I'll have to see how long I can keep them going....
Oh, and my mint is awesome. I love throwing a sprig or two in my waterbottle... and my fresh Thai spring rolls. Yummm!!!
So, alas, my gardening days have come to an end until next spring.... but I have big hopes. I am contemplating a greenhouse off the back of the garage, I want to add a few raised beds along the fence and I need to get some raspberries in so they can root during these wet fall months.
But for now, I won't have anymore dirt under my fingernails. Unless maybe I keep working on my indoor-succulent garden. Hummmm...... :)