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Armchair mapping (also known as remote mapping) means contributing to OpenStreetMap without leaving your chair. Armchair mapping contributions do not involve a surveying phase where the user physically visits the place they are mapping. Without this, armchair mapping workflows will typically cover a larger area more rapidly, but with disadvantages in terms of data accuracy, detail, and community building. Rather than surveying, an armchair mapper contributes through manual interpretation of available data sources:
- Sketching in features seen in aerial imagery such as bing. The most common data source for armchair mapping
- Raster map sources (where these are available for us to use e.g. scans of Out-of-copyright maps)
- Manual interpretation of Notes reports
- Automated Quality Assurance bugs
- Other people's GPS traces
- Merging vector datasets into OpenStreetMap (also known as "community import")
- A "fixup" phase after a conventional import
Outdoor mapping involves going out and looking at the real world. The process does in fact involve sitting at home and working on the map, but in areas where you have been out surveying, where you are already familiar from day-to-day life, or perhaps where you are intending to go surveying in the near future.
Armchair mapping
Armchair mapping is modifying or sketching in new data in areas unconnected with any surveying work, and where you are basing your contribution on aerial imagery or other datasources.
Directrices para el mapeo de sillón
It is better to have have some understanding of the area you are mapping via your armchair. If you know the area, it's not "armchair mapping" in the strictest sense.
It is very important to follow these guidelines when contributing in an area where data already exists in OpenStreetMap, and where local people have been contributing. In general you can be more relaxed about armchair mapping in areas of the world which are more remote, or otherwise have less pre-existing data.
Learn to recognise valuable data. There are various tools and techniques, some more complex than others, for figuring out who's done what within the OpenStreetMap data. These are all valuable skills to avoid doing damage while armchair mapping.
Specify what sources you are using. Add the proper source=* in the changeset comment, to say whether you are mapping from aerial imagery, or other map sources, or from survey, or from a combination of these.
Imágenes que pueden estar mal
- Artículo principal: Using Imagery
- Check imagery alignment. Imagery is very frequently misaligned from reality with an offset in one particular direction. If you notice that all of the data is off to one side, don't move the data, try to re-align your background imagery layer to match.
- Things change. Imagery gets old. Road layouts change. Buildings get knocked down and rebuilt in different places. Imagery can be many years old. Armchair mapping involves blindly copying this information but in an area where locals have contributed, you should be very careful about this. Look out for tell-tale signs. If the whole area has building outlines drawn in, and you see just one missing, or one drawn in completely the wrong shape, don't just "fix" it. Alarm bells should be ringing. One approach would be to just leave a fixme=* tag. (Conversely mappers could leave a note=* tag on elements or on a standalone node to warn of recent real world changes and out-of-date imagery. We have no firmly established routine for this)
- consider using source:geometry=Bing and source:geometry:date=*. OSM editors do not add these tags automatically.
If in doubt, assume that existing data has been mapped by local people on the ground. Sometimes you will be able to tell this by seeing source tags or just by contacting users to ask!
You can gain a better understanding of the reasoning behind these guidelines with the 'Disadvantages and controversy' section below.
Directrices para organizadores de eventos
Coordinated armchair mapping events are not something we have experimented with often. When organising an intensive en-masse armchair mapping event, organisers have the opportunity to teach users about these guidelines and ensure that they are followed. They also have the opportunity to screw this up. Organisers should be acutely aware of all of the guidelines and their reasoning seen in the following section. In addition there are several steps which should be taken in advance of an event.
- Organisers must take steps to inform all participants about these guidelines and the issues around armchair mapping. This should include linking to this page from any publicity about the event (e.g. from a wiki page about the event) and perhaps copying or summarising sections of this page.
- Organisers should think carefully about target regions for armchair mapping, selecting areas where there is less pre-existing valuable data, and communicating these selected regions to the participants. Providing rigid indicators for regions to map, using tools such as MapCraft or the HOT tasking server, may be a good way to direct participants to map in sensible areas; however the set-up of these regions is then all the more important. Where participants are to be given more choice of where to do their armchair mapping, this increases the need for them to be educated about the guidelines and issues on this page.
- Organisers should take steps to contact the local mapping community and consult with them on target regions for armchair mapping. Where there is pre-existing contributed data, this means identifying key contributors and seeking their buy-in to the idea. In the absence of pre-existing data, community contact channels at the regional or country level should still be used to inform locals however possible. This includes local wiki pages under List of territory based projects, country-level Mailing Lists and whatever Contact channel is most heavily used by locals.
- You can map from your armchair. If you are not able to get out to do mapping on the ground you can still contribute to the project.
- Speed, quicker to get coverage and fill in blank areas of the map. You can get many, many times more basic coverage (road and building outlines) mapped doing armchair versus normal mapping.
- Some areas have very little coverage mapped. There are likely no mappers in some remote area. Humanitarian mapping for disasters, HOT mapping, is often done entirely as an armchair mapping process, with only smaller scale mapping projects achieved by people on the ground. In other projects, remote mappers add the basics like buildings and roads, and local mappers fill in the details like type of building, type of road, and so on. This allows local mappers to spend more time on details and less on just adding features.
- Safety. You might not feel safe/comfortable in some areas to go manual street mapping; therefore armchair mapping is a sensible option.
- Access. Some areas you cannot get access. Locked estates, restricted areas, schools, etc. For these mapping via aerial imagery is often the only option.
- Many things, like roads and buildings, don't change for decades and can be mapped with reasonable confidence.
(When comparing "armchair mapping with aerial imagery" to "normal mapping with GPS", you could also say that armchair mapping requires no expensive equipment and that it allows you to draw more detailed road centrelines or building outlines; but these are really properties of "aerial imagery vs GPS mapping" and are orthogonal to the question of whether you go out to survey or not. Most "normal mappers" will use aerial imagery in addition to what they have surveyed on the ground.)
Desventajas y controversias
OpenStreetmap treasures the contributions of local people who go out and map their neighbourhood. We love people to do that, and we would love more people to do that. In this way, we can create a truly uniquely valuable map of the world. There is a sense in which this represents the heart and soul of OpenStreetMap. We create maps where people care about the data enough to go out and collect it. Our dataset comes with a community of mappers who support it. In areas where we don't have that community yet, we should do what we can to attract and build the mapping community. Nothing should be allowed to discourage this, and unfortunately armchair mapping is widely believed to do so. Several reasons:
- Although going out surveying isn't always convenient, there's some truth in saying that time we spend on armchair mapping is time which could have been spent on survey-based mapping. What's more, every mailing list post or blog post or wiki page describing armchair mapping could steer new visitors towards this approach and away from the more valuable process of mapping their own neighbourhood.
- It can be argued that even if armchair mapped data is not interfering with existing surveyed data, its sudden rapid arrival discourages people from doing the better survey-based mapping in a particular area. If OpenStreetMap feels like a dumping ground for low quality data gathered by means of easy quick shortcuts, this does not encourage people to work on the map in the way we would really like them to. (Note that similar arguments are made about imports. Perhaps armchair mapping can be regarded as a step on a sliding scale towards the damaging effects of mass data imports)
- Armchair mapping often tends to favour quantity and speed over quality; it is "easy to fill in the blank spots" and easy to get carried away with adding sub-par data. See below for quality issues that occur even if the armchair mapper is trying their best.
- Armchair mappers have occasionally been found to be damaging or undoing the hard work of surveying mapping contributors.
The first two points are rather philosophical, based on the psychology of users who may or may not become new contributors. They're difficult to prove or disprove, and whether you view them as a major problem will depend on how you weigh against the considerations of the value of armchair mapped data. For a given area of data, armchair mapped data is less valuable than painstakingly gathered on-the-ground surveyed data, but how much less valuable is debatable.
The last point is a problem we can try to mitigate by laying down some armchair mapping guidelines, and trying to educate new users about what is accepted practice for armchair mapping.
Problemas prácticos específicos con el mapeo a partir de imágenes aéreas
In addition to the issues of imagery being out of date or misaligned, some common mistakes result from armchair mapping from aerial imagery without a corresponding survey. Armchair mappers should be alert to these issues, and try to avoid them if possible, but mostly they are unavoidable and will always be an issue with armchair mapping.
- Connecting roads that don't connect. Fences, gates, and gutters all stop features from connecting. Tree cover, obscured view, or bad resolution at the end of roads can often make it difficult to see if one road connects to another or if there is a connection
- The view can be obscured by trees, tunnels, clouds, pergolas, and so on.
- Many POIs cannot be mapped. You cannot know a shop name from above.
- Many important smaller objects cannot be seen. Drinking water spots, etc.
- You can see buildings, but you don't know what's inside. Hard to map important amenities e.g. restrooms.
- Something green and leafy from the air isn't always a park or a wood on the ground.
- Mapping private features. Private backyard tennis courts and swimming pools are probably best left unmapped. Is that a cut-thru between streets, or really just a driveway of a house that connects to the house in front and behind?
- Available imagery may differ between different imagery providers dependent on the satellites' position when the photo was taken (see gallery below)
Take particular care before attempting to map hiking trails from your armchair. Someone who follows a noexit mapped road in their car, will likely just curse their GPS and take another route. However, some serious obstacles in forest areas are easy to miss from aerial imagery. Remember the map user can't tell that one trail has been mapped by a hiker who has done it, and another trail may have been mapped by a virtual hiker who may have never been near the trail.
Información adicional
Roof modelling - techniques for drawing buildings and avoiding errors in the interpretation of roof geometry from aerial images.


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Authorities investigating the truck driver who killed 84 people in a Bastille Day attack painted a complex picture Monday of a man who did not seem devout but had recently become interested in jihadi violence and researched past attacks in France and the United States, including one on a gay nightclub in Orlando.
Paris prosecutor Francois Molins, who oversees terrorism investigations, said by all accounts Mohamed Lahouaiyej Bouhlel drank, ate pork and had an "unbridled sex life." But his computer and phone showed online searches relating to IS and other jihadi groups.
"A search of his computer illustrates a clear ... and recent interest in radical jihadism," Molins said, adding that Bouhlel had recently grown a beard and told people it was for religious reasons. While officials have said the attack was obviously premeditated, they have not found any evidence that Bouhlel had coordinated with an extremist network.
Internet searches on Bouhlel's computer included Islamic propaganda chants, the terms "horrible deadly accidents," and the recent attacks against the gay nightclub in Orlando, police officers in Dallas, and the killing of two police officials in Magnanville, outside of Paris.
One witness told authorities that Bouhlel seemed accustomed to looking at decapitation videos, Molins said.
As investigators continue to look into the attacker's motives, his uncle in Tunisia, Sadok Bouhlel, told The Associated Press his nephew had been indoctrinated about two weeks ago by an Algerian member of the Islamic State group in Nice. He said Bouhlel's family problems — he was estranged from his wife and three children — made him easy prey for the Algerian recruiter.
"Mohamed didn't pray, didn't go to the mosque and ate pork," said the uncle, a 69-year-old retired teacher, in the driver's hometown of Msaken, Tunisia. The uncle said he learned about the Algerian recruiter from extended family members who live in Nice.
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French officials couldn't confirm Monday that Bouhlel had been approached by an Algerian recruiter, saying that the investigation is ongoing.
The July 14 carnage in the southern city of Nice has shaken and angered a country still reeling from the Nov. 13 attacks in Paris, which killed 130 people at a concert hall, restaurants and cafes, and the national stadium, and a separate January 2015 Paris attack that targeted journalists at the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and Jews at a kosher supermarket.
Prime Minister Manuel Valls was loudly booed as he came and went from a memorial ceremony on the Nice shore, amid widespread criticism of security failures. Valls said later that the boos "do not touch me," but he called them undignified and divisive.
Feelings are raw. Many of the dead and injured were children watching a fireworks display with their families, and a sign posted around town demonstrates a strong feeling of solidarity, calling for blood donations and stuffed animals for injured children.
But on the city's famed Promenade des Anglais, passers-by piled garbage on the bloodstained spot where Bouhlel was killed. At least one man was seen spitting on it, while another urinated on the pile to general applause.
At the Pasteur hospital, where many injured are being treated, emergency responders and other medical personnel gathered in the courtyard for the countrywide moment of silence, standing still in a row and clapping when it was over.
Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said 59 people were still hospitalized after Thursday's attack, 29 of them in intensive care, out of 308 people injured overall.
Officials have begun returning remains to the families, though 13 of the 84 who died have yet to be identified, the prosecutor said.
U.S. Ambassador Jane D. Hartley was in Nice on Monday, where she visited an injured American and met with American families who had lost loved ones.
"I also wanted to show my support for France at the moment of silence today because the U.S. and France are in this together in this terrible fight against terrorism," Hartley told The Associated Press as she arrived at the Nice city hall to meet mayor Philippe Pradal.
Hartley said to her knowledge there were no Americans among the missing anymore.
Six people are in custody in the probe into the attack, including one who Bouhlel sent a text message to minutes before the attack, asking for more weapons, Molins said. He also took selfies in his truck in the hours before he plowed through the festive crowd.
Three of the six suspects were brought to French intelligence headquarters in Paris on Monday to face eventual terrorism charges, according to a security official.
Investigators found 11 telephones, cocaine and 2,600 euros ($2,900) in cash at the home of one of the suspects, an Albanian national, according to a security official and the Paris prosecutor's office.
Meanwhile, Italy is investigating whether Bouhlel recently had contacts with Tunisians living in the southeastern Puglia region, according to news agency ANSA. Officials in Italy didn't immediately respond to requests for confirmation.
Italian state TV, reporting from France, said Monday evening that one of the seven detained in Nice had at one point been hosted by two Tunisians living in the town of Gravina in Puglia.

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NEW ORLEANS – Louisville coach Rick Pitino is taking a stance that will probably make some Cardinals fans cringe: He's backing Kentucky in the NCAA championship game against Kansas.
Shortly after fourth-seeded Louisville lost 69-61 to the top-seeded Wildcats in the Final Four on Saturday night, Pitino said he hopes coach John Calipari and the Wildcats "bring it home for the state."
"I just said, 'John, I'll be pulling for you, bring the trophy back home to Kentucky,'" Pitino said. "Louisville will be rooting for Kentucky, which doesn't happen very often."
Pitino said he's well aware of the animosity fans of both teams have for one another and even made reference to a story about elderly dialysis patients who got into a fist fight over the rivalry back in Georgetown, Ky.
"Sometimes there's a lot of talk about these guys fighting, dialysis, there's also really a lot of people that get along," said Pitino, who also coached at Kentucky in the 1990s and led the Wildcats to a national title in 1996. "In every society there are people without brains. But for those that have brains, they get along, they root for each other."
There is a long history of mutual dislike among the two biggest basketball programs in the Bluegrass State.
Louisville faithful long resented Kentucky for refusing to play other teams from within the state under legendary head coach Adolph Rupp, and his successor, former assistant Joe B. Hall.
It took Gov. John Y. Brown stepping in following their matchup in the 1983 NCAA Mideast Regional finals — then the teams' first meeting since 1959 — to get the rival programs to start scheduling each other annually.
The two teams have combined for nine national titles, seven by Kentucky. The Wildcats have now also improved to 30-14 in head-to-head meetings with the Cardinals dating to 1913.
Pitino said he'd be lying if he said he liked every Kentucky team he has faced, but he had only good things to say about this season's squad that includes projected first-round NBA draft picks such as Anthony Davis, Michael Kidd-Gilchrist and Terrence Jones.
"I'm really impressed with them, not only as basketball players, the way they carry themselves, their attitude," Pitino said. "They're a great group of guys doing a tremendous job."


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ORONO, Maine — The man at the helm of Maine's push to put 170 floating wind turbines in the Gulf of Maine by 2030 likens that effort to NASA's space program.
Using that analogy, the wind turbine standing behind the University of Maine's Offshore Wind Laboratory at the Advanced Structures and Composites Center's could be compared to Explorer I, the first U.S. satellite launched into space.
That turbine, a one-eighth scale version of the turbines that would be used in the future offshore wind farm, will be floating in the Gulf of Maine next year, likely between April and August.
"We're here at the beginning of an exciting era that could create a whole new industry in our state," center Director Habib Dagher said Friday, standing under a 112-foot turbine blade that has been undergoing stress testing at the Offshore Wind Lab in recent months.
The turbine going into the water off Monhegan Island next year will be used to test control systems and sensors that would be used on the full-scale version.
"It basically will be able to sense the environment around it," Dagher said.
Based on wind speed and direction, the turbine automatically turns and adjusts the angle of its blades to attain the most efficient use of the wind or avoid its full force if it grows too strong. The full-scale versions would be able to do the same thing.
A floating base for the turbine is in the works. Next year, the turbine parts will be taken to Cianbro in Brewer, where the pieces will be assembled and the floating turbine will be towed upright down the Penobscot River to its test site in the Gulf of Maine. Once in place, it will be hooked up to the power grid with an undersea cable, becoming the first grid-connected offshore turbine in the country.
The turbine design is called VolturnUS, a combination of the words volt, turn and U.S., a name that happens to be shared by Volturnus, the Roman god of the east wind.
After testing with the prototype is completed, a pair of 6-megawatt turbines will be installed by 2017 at a site called Aqua Ventus I. By 2020, that would grow to a larger-scale commercial wind farm with 80 turbines in a 4- by 8-mile space 20 miles offshore, over the horizon and neither visible nor audible from shore. By 2030, the goal is to have a full-scale wind farm of around 170 turbines operational and bringing 5 gigawatts of wind energy to Maine's shore.
"It's a crawl before you walk, walk before you run approach," Dagher said.
Some offshore wind energy efforts in Europe, which has been involved in offshore wind since 1991, have struggled, resulting in lofty price tags and high energy costs. Turbines at other offshore wind farms need to have their bases driven into the seafloor, an expensive process. If a turbine needs work, it can be towed back to shore, where repairs will be less costly.
The more cost-effective floating wind farm approach should help keep electricity prices down to about 10 cents per kilowatt hour by 2020, which is competitive with other means of electricity production, Dagher said. Prior to that, the energy will be expensive by comparison.
To put the size of the turbine in perspective: The world's largest commercial airliner, the Airbus A380 with its 260-foot wingspan, could rest on one blade of the turbine. The diameter of the blades' rotation will be 500 feet and the distance from water level to the hub at the top of the tower will be about 300, Dagher said.
The Gulf of Maine has some of the strongest, most persistent winds on the East Coast. Every second, 600,000 pounds of wind will travel through the turbine — the equivalent of 264 Toyota Camrys driving through per second — according to Dagher.
More than 30 companies are collaborating on the project, and the UMaine team of students, staff, engineers and communications specialists working on the project is 140 strong on its own. The effort to get 20 gigawatts of offshore wind capability by 2030 could bring as much as $20 billion of private investment to Maine and create thousands of jobs, Dagher has said.
In June, Maine Gov. Paul LePage placed a hold on $40 million in bonds in an attempt to rein in state borrowing. On that list was about $7.3 million in funding for the offshore wind demonstration site. LePage has said the earliest he might consider releasing the funds is 2014.
Dagher said he respects the governor's fiscal concern and that the composites center continues to court private capital investments to proceed with the project until funds are released.
Members of LePage's administration have questioned the feasibility of the offshore wind project in the past. Kenneth Fletcher, director of the Governor's Office of Energy Independence and Security, and James LaBrecque, owner of Flexware Control Technology in Bangor and a technical adviser to LePage, said in 2011 that they felt the energy costs would be significantly higher and that the wind project wouldn't serve to reduce Maine's dependence on fossil fuels.
"In my 40 years in the energy arena, I have learned two things: There are no silver bullets, and we're almost out of blanks," LaBrecque said at the time.
Tests have been underway since 2011 on a one-fiftieth scale turbine floating in a pool at the Offshore Wind Laboratory that simulates waves and winds. The model has been tested against 150 mph winds and 60-foot waves. Research into the economic, environmental and ecological effects of a floating wind farm have stretched further back.
The group has studied fishing grounds, migratory bird flight paths, shipping patterns and more in order to identify potential future homes for the wind farm that will result in minimal effect to other industries and the environment, accord to Dagher.


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The roots have a pungent odor, considered unpleasant by many and sometimes compared to the smell of sweaty socks. Cats are highly attracted to the scent in the same way that they are catnip, having a tendency to bite the root and rub against it. The odor is also attractive to rats, as legend has it that the Pied Piper of Hamelin used valerian to attract the rats when luring them out of town.
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Hillary Clinton, Secretary of State, former Presidential candidate, policy pioneer, passionate women's rights activist, and a real, live Leslie Knope for the world outside of Pawnee, IN, has decided to add another hat to the 50 or so she's already wearing: historical investigator. Thanks to new clues in the search for the truth about the fate about Amelia Earhardt, Hillary herself will head to the site of some intriguing wreckage in hopes of helping finally solve the mystery of the fate of the woman who would have been the first female pilot to circumnavigate the globe.
Amelia Earhart was 39 when she set off on her fateful final journey. Seventy-five years ago this July, she and her navigator Fred Noonan disappeared somewhere between Lae, New Guinea and Howland Island in the South Pacific.
The Los Angeles Times recalls that then-President Franklin D. Roosevelt launched a massive manhunt for the missing pilot, sending 9 Navy ships and 66 airplanes after her. Not a trace was found.
Clues have surfaced in the ensuing decades— a finger bone of indeterminate origin that yielded inconclusive results, unsubstantiated reports of a fisherman discovering the wreckage. Conspiracy theories abounded. Some speculated that Earhart was actually a spy captured by the Japanese in the lead-up to the Second World War. But now, researchers think they may have found the real wreckage of the plane on the remote island of Nikumaroro, in the island nation of Kirbati. A recently snapped photo of the area shows what appear to be two pieces of plane sticking out of the water.
Clinton will accompany researchers on their journey to Nikumaroro, using the trip as both an opportunity to sate her curiosity and to praise Earhart's legacy.
On one hand, I love solving a good mystery as much as the next person who grew up with a borderline-unhealthy obsession with PBS's Ghostwriter, but on the other, a part of me hopes we never find out what really happened to Amelia Earhart. That way, we can imagine that she lived to a ripe old age on a peaceful island drinking coconut milk from straws of indeterminate origin while monkey butlers fan her with palm fronds.
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We have available forms to request access to your PHI and we will provide a written response if we deny you access and let you know your appeal rights. If you wish to inspect and copy your medical information, you should contact the privacy officer listed at the end of this Notice.
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The right to request an accounting of our use and disclosure of your PHI. You may request an accounting from us of certain disclosures of your medical information that we have made in the last six years prior to the date of your request. We are not required to give you an accounting of information we have used or disclosed for purposes of treatment, payment or health care operations, or when we share your health information with our business associates, like our billing company or a medical facility from/to which we have transported you.
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Walles, Uco (1583-1653)
Uco (Uko, Ucke) Walles, born 1583 at Noordbroek, died February 1653 at Sylmönken in East Friesland, a farmer and wood dealer at Noordbroek, Dutch province of Groningen, was a Mennonite elder. He was an adherent of the very strict elder Jan Luies, and with a great number of followers, he left the main Flemish branch in 1634; he henceforth banned all the moderate Flemish, and soon was the leader of the Ukowallists, who had congregations in many towns of Groningen and Friesland and in East Friesland. Walles not only rejected all other Mennonite branches, but also attacked the Reformed; in 1635 he had a dispute with the Reformed pastor à Hengel at Godlinze. This debate and his intolerance drew the attention of the magistrates to him, particularly after the sensational meeting in the spring of 1637 in which Jurjen Thomas was banned. On 8 April 1637, Walles was permanently banished from the province of Groningen; thereupon he moved to East Friesland, Germany. In vain he asked that the sentence of banishment be revoked: he was only allowed to return long enough to arrange his affairs. But in 1642 he ventured to settle again on a farm at Noordbroek; when this became known he was arrested and conducted across the German border. He then lived in Neustadt-Gödens and other towns of East Friesland, where he had a large following, e.g., at Norden.
Walles was "a forceful personality, a man of irreproachable conduct and strong conviction, with an excellent knowledge of the Bible, and a good speaker" (Wumkes). His allegorical interpretations of the death of Christ deeply impressed his contemporaries. He annoyed his Reformed opponents especially by his belief that Judas was not forever lost, but through the blood of Christ entered upon the joys of heaven.
Walles was attacked in books by the following Reformed theologians: L. Pimperlingh, L. Alphusius, Johannes Lubbertus, J. Barchman, and Adolf Sibelius. He published a number of writings, mostly polemical defenses of his views against his opponents Noodwendighe Verantwoordinghe . . . (n.p., 1637), Een Weemoedige Klaghende Supplicatie aan alle menschen . . . (n.p., 1645), Twee Brieven aan Laurens Pimperlingh (n.p., 1645), and Een corte leerachtige verklaringe uyt de H. Schrifture vervatet, hoe men de tijdt verstaen sal, doe Christus . . . op aerden was (n.p., 1645). In the Dutch State Archives at Groningen are found five treatises by Walles in manuscript.
His followers, the Ukowallists, in the province of Groningen had to endure many hardships, for a few decades not even being permitted to hold meetings. But the measures of the magistrates ceased ca. 1665; about the same time or shortly after the Ukowallists everywhere merged with the Groningen Old Flemish Mennonites.
Cate, Steven Blaupot ten. Geschiedenis der Doopsgezinden in Friesland. Leeuwarden: W. Eekhoff, 1839: 139, 160 ff.
Cate, Steven Blaupot ten. Geschiedenis der Doopsgezinden in Groningen, Overijssel en Oost-Friesland, 2 vols. Leeuwarden: W. Eekhoff en J. B. Wolters, 1842: v. I, 66-80, 121, 283 ff.; v. II, 222 ff.
Doopsgezinde Bijdragen (1870): 114; (1876): 39 note 2; (1879): 8, 86-88.
Hoop Scheffer, Jacob Gijsbert de. Inventaris der Archiefstukken berustende bij de Vereenigde Doopsgezinde Gemeente to Amsterdam, 2 vols. Amsterdam: Uitgegeven en ten geschenke aangeboden door den Kerkeraad dier Gemeente, 1883-1884: v. I, No. 610.
Molhuysen, P. C. and P. J. Blok. Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek. v. 1-10. Leiden, 1911-1937: v. III, 1383-87.
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More Than 30 Percent Of Americans Arrested By Age 23, Study Says
There's been a sharp increase in recent decades in the number of young Americans who report they've been arrested at least once, researchers report in Pediatrics, the journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
While in the mid-1960s about 22 percent of Americans reported having been arrested by the time they turned 23, researchers estimate that the "prevalence rate" for arrests by that age now lies "between 30.2 percent and 41.4 percent."
Increasingly, "arrest is a pretty common experience," Robert Brame, a criminologist at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte and one of the study's authors, tells USA Today.
According to ABC News, "Brame and his colleagues analyzed responses to a national survey of more than 7,000 young people between 1997 and 2008. ... Not all of the young people remained in the study for all 11 years, accounting for the uncertainty reflected in the wide ranges of the study's findings.
Time magazine's Healthland blog says that:
"Although it may seem shocking that at least one-third of U.S. youth has an arrest record, those who study juvenile crime don't find the figure to be out of line. Since the 1970s, America has become much tougher on crime. ... During that time, the number of Americans in prison has gone from half a million to 2.3 million, with approximately 93,000 incarcerated youth. ...
"The study captured arrests for all offenses other than traffic violations, including underage drinking, shoplifting, truancy, robbery, assault and murder. Most teens who are arrested are cited for minor infractions and don't end up imprisoned."
Time adds that the researchers "have not completed an analysis of the data by race, but prior studies suggest that minorities are arrested more frequently than whites."
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MESSAGE GIVEN BY OUR LORD TO MARIA DIVINE MERCY ON TUESDAY 11th JANUARY 2011 @ 00:30
"My beloved Daughter, at last we reunite."
"It has been a number of days now since you have been in the frame of mind to receive My Messages. Fear not because you will need the time now to heed My most urgent message given to the world so far."
"2011 is the year for the time in which the changes – the purification – will commence and be witnessed by millions throughout the world. Although prayer will help stave off global disasters, it will not be enough now to halt the Hand of My Eternal Father when it swipes down on mankind, shortly."
"The evil behaviour and the filth of mind, body and soul, which is being revealed in the world at this moment is clear now for all of you to see. For those of you so busy and wrapped up in your lives, now is the time to stop and see what is happening before your eyes."
"The evil one, who works through those in the darkness, has created havoc where daily murder is now so routine that mankind has become de-sensitised to the evil perpetrators who carry out these atrocities. Self-love and greed dominate your society. Your leaders and politicians are power-hungry and in many cases couldn't care less about your welfare. Suicide, on the rise, is caused by the despair created by the deceiver, the evil one, in your society."
"He, who never reveals himself to you, hides behind every act of public demonstration which glorifies sexual immorality and grievous bodily harm to others and oneself."
"The constant pursuit of luxury goods, which you prioritise over your families' welfare, is rampant. As you, My children, chase these worthless dreams, you will find in time that you will be without food. Those empty and useless things will not feed your empty stomachs. Nor will they fulfil your empty souls, which are screaming for comfort – a comfort you no longer have at your disposal. This comfort can only be achieved through prayer and particularly organised prayer in groups."
"Purification comes before My Second Coming:
"Earthquakes are now about to strike the Earth, as the Wrath of My Father's fury will be unleashed. You, My ungrateful children, who have turned your back on the light of truth, need to be fearful now. The beginning of the Great Tribulation is about to unfold, where the spectacle of ecological unrest will escalate. Man will be powerless. In time, he will realise and accept that My Father exists and that I, his Beloved Son, now prepare the way for the world to witness My coming back to Earth for the second time. That time draws close now. However the world must undergo this essential purification first. As the number of world disasters will continue to rise, so too will those followers of Satan. Out of defiance, they will continue with their miserable evil lives and inflict pain and terror on My believers and those who live righteous lives."
"As My believers declare the truth to a disbelieving world, more people will, however, sit up and accept that changes are indeed taking place in the world. They will soon, through the prophecies I am presenting to My children through My chosen messengers, understand what they are actually witnessing, because the events that will unfold cannot be brought about by man. They can only happen if and when My Eternal Father gives His permission."
"Time has arrived for the Seals to be broken:
The time, My children, has arrived for the signs as foretold when the Seals are to be broken and the trumpets to herald the changes. Evil will not be tolerated by God the Creator of mankind and will be stamped out in the world for good. No follower of the evil one, irrespective as to what level of commitment he has for Satan and his empty promises, will be spared, unless he repents!"
"Love, My children, will be shown to all of My followers and those of the Eternal Father when you open your hearts. Satan, however, has manifested himself to such a level of exaltation, that his power has now infected so many of My children that they no longer believe in virtues such as honesty, good deeds, respect for life, either for each other or for their own families. Brother is turning against brother, sister against sister, neighbour against neighbour, Priest against his Superiors, Bishops against the Teachings of the Holy Book."
"Why do you punish Me with your lack of love?
My children have even turned their back on this beautiful planet – so lovingly presented to you by God the Father, the Creator and maker of all things. What have you done? Why do you punish Me with your lack of love for your Saviour? Why do you turn your back on your own needs – the urgency of feeding your own souls, of quenching your thirst for knowledge of My Father's Kingdom, Heaven – your promised inheritance? You, My children, are turning your back on your own salvation! Don't you realise this? Please believe that unless you examine your own conscience now and pray for guidance that you cannot and will not be saved?"
"Priests ignoring teachings:
My Sacred Servants, the very shepherds appointed to guide My flock, have not explained the existence of the evil one. They, in their quest to appear as modern, open-minded and practical teachers, have failed to point out the dangers of ignoring the teachings contained in My Father's Book. The book that states clearly the existence of the evil one and how he works through each and every one of you, so that he can take you away from your final, but rightful home – the New Paradise, which I promised you all when I died on the Cross for you. I did not die for a faceless group of people. I gave up My Life for each and every one of you so that you can be saved."
"Remember, although My Love for you is all encompassing, it also causes me deep suffering. This suffering comes about because you ignore My Existence. You choose blindly continuing to believe naively that Earth provides all you could ever wish for. You forget that life, the life after this, will continue indefinitely."
"Prophecies given to you out of Mercy:
Signs, messages and prophecies have been sent to you, children, through the years, as a result of My Mercy. With the exception of My followers, very few of you listen, open your eyes or ponder for even one moment to ask yourselves this question. Could this be really a Divine communication? If it is, then what do I need to do? The answer is to listen and accept the truth of your future options. Decide what path you wish to take. Pray then for your soul and those of your loved ones."
"For those of you who arrogantly turn your back in scorn when My Name is mentioned, or who wave your hands in disrespect when My followers proclaim My truth, then you are lost to Me. I can only, through My Mercy, give this world signs and messages to help guide you. Because of the gift of free will, given to mankind by the Eternal Father, God the Creator and maker of all things, I cannot force your hand. While a message of love and compassion will always be My underlying reason for communicating with you, so too will My sense of hurt and distress."
"My suffering pain and hurt is intensifying as My children jump into the open arms of Satan. This means that I now have to show clearly to all of you what fate lies ahead of those who reject Me and My Eternal Father."
"The reality of Hell:
"Choose the lies promoted by the deceiver – the main one being that God the Eternal Father does not exist – and you are doomed. On entering the gates of Hell you will then realise the horrible mistake you have made. Believe Me, My children, if you could just witness the shock and sense of horror of those souls, when the final truth after death is revealed to them, you would not be able to withstand, even just one moment of this torment. Should you witness just a glimpse of this place now, in human terms, you would drop dead with sheer terror of the fate that befalls those who chose the path of sin."
"This pathway, which looks pretty, appealing, enticing, glorious and full of wonder, changes when you get half way down it. The changes you come across midway shows you that you are not being satisfied. This strange, empty and disappointing feeling continues unabated for the rest of the journey. You cannot understand why you feel like this. Your experiences, pleasurable on the exterior, are full of unexpected disturbing, nasty feelings which are mixed with anger, frustration, loneliness and fear. It is only when you meet your idol at the end of your journey and look into his wicked eyes, which dance with condescending amusement, that you will scream until you are hoarse. It's not until that final moment that you will scream for My help. But it will be too late. There will be no turning back at that stage. You will have made your choice in this life. And although I will cry bitter tears of deep sorrow for each of My lost souls, I cannot save you at that stage. Your free will, where you choose your own destiny, will be completely out of My Hands."
"Through this message, harsh though it is, I am giving the world the final warning, out of pure love for each of you. I plead with you finally, to hear My Voice now, so that you can save your souls."
"Your beloved Jesus Christ
Saviour of mankind and Just Judge"


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Alex Kotzky was born in New York City. After a public school education, Kotzky attended the Art Students League on a scholarship in 1941. He also studied at the Pratt Institute. He wanted to become an illustrator and while he was an art student, he answered a newspaper ad for a comic book artist, and started out working with Chad Grothkopf on such features as 'Johnny Quick', 'Sandman', 'Three Aces' and 'Detective Chimp' for National/DC Comics in 1940.
Starting in the following years, Kotzky drew backgrounds for Will Eisner's 'The Spirit', while also working on 'Blackhawk' and 'Espionage'. After war-time he worked on 'Plastic Man', 'Doll Man', 'Kid Eternity', 'Manhunter' and 'Blackhawk' for Quality Comics, from 1946 to 1951.
He then did some horror, western and war work for Ziff-Davis, and by 1954, Kotzky was freelancing and doing illustrations for medical magazines and advertising agencies (Johnstone and Cushing). With Allen Saunders, he did an advertising strip for Philip Morris, called 'Duke Handy'. At the same time he was ghosting newspaper strips like Milton Caniff's 'Steve Canyon', Elliot Caplin and Stan Drake's 'The Heart of Juliet Jones', and Elliot Caplin and John Cullen Murphy's 'Big Ben Bolt'.
In the late 1950's Kotzky was asked to draw for a new strip project by psychiatrist Nick Dallis for Publishers Syndicate. The strip that developed was 'Apartment 3-G', which made its debut on 8 May 1961. After Dallis died in 1991, Kotzky took over the writing of the strip until his own death on 26 September 1996, in New York City. Kotzky was succeeded by his son Brian, who handed over the strip to Frank Bolle three years later. The strip ran in over 100 newspapers until 22 November 2015.


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The FAO Food Price Index (FPI) crept higher by one percent in March compared with a month before, driven mainly by an 11% increase in dairy. Dairy products carry a 17% weight among the various commodity prices included in the calculation of the overall FPI.
Meanwhile, FAO monitoring of the global cereal supply and demand situation has slightly revised the 2012 crop production estimate upward by nearly 3 million tonnes, which now stands 2% lower than the record set in 2011.
World cereal production in 2013 could recover strongly barring unfavourable weather in major producing regions, FAO says in its latest Cereal Supply and Demand Brief. The outlook for all cereal crops is positive overall, with wheat crops already well advanced and plantings for rice and coarse grains expected to increase these coming cropping months owing to attractive prices.
Global wheat production in 2013 is expected to increase by 4% to 690 million tonnes, the second highest ever after the 700 million tonnes produced in 2011.
The FAO Dairy Price Index jumped by 22 points in March to 225, one of the largest recorded changes. The price surge is caused by hot, dry weather in Oceania, which has led to milk production falling off steeply and a concomitant reduction in the processing of dairy products in the region.
The dairy prices used in the Price Index calculation are based on the exports of New Zealand, as it is the world's largest dairy exporter, accounting for about one-third of global trade. Export prices for dairy products have also risen for other important exporters, such as the European Union and the United States, but not to the same degree.
"The exceptional increase is in part a reflection of market uncertainty as buyers seek alternative sources of supply, the Food Price Index report says. In addition, dairy output in Europe has yet to come fully online after a particularly cold winter, which has delayed pasture growth to feed dairy animals."
The FAO Cereal Price Index averaged 244 points, unchanged from February. While maize prices increased last month on a fall in exportable supplies from the United States, lower wheat prices on prospects of a good world harvest offset those increases. Global rice prices remained stable.
The FAO Oils/Fats Price Index fell 2.5% from February, due mostly to soy oil prices, which dropped on account of favourable weather conditions in South America, a record 2013 US soybean crop and a cancellation of purchases by China. Palm oil prices were also slightly down.
The FAO Meat Price Index averaged nearly 176 points in March, down 2% from February. The FAO Sugar Price Index edged higher 2.8 points, or one percent, from February.
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Ruchi Mathur, MD, FRCP(C) is an Attending Physician with the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism and Associate Director of Clinical Research, Recruitment and Phenotyping with the Center for Androgen Related Disorders, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Her primary clinical and research interests have included outcomes-related research in diabetes health care delivery. She also has an interest in obesity and polycystic ovarian syndrome.
Dr. Mathur is board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine and the American Board of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism. She is also a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. Dr. Mathur belongs to a number of academic societies including the American College of Physicians, American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, Androgen Excess Society, American Diabetes Association, Endocrine Society, and Women in Endocrinology.
Dr. Mathur has written many articles in peer-reviewed publications, including the American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy, Journal of Hormone Research and Current Medical Research and Opinion and Diabetes Care. In addition to her published research articles, Dr Mathur has co-authored the textbook "Davidson's Diabetes Mellitus: Diagnosis and Treatment."
Dr. Mathur received her medical degree from the University of Manitoba, Canada. She completed an internal medicine residency at the Health Sciences Center at the University of Manitoba. She fulfilled a clinical endocrinology and metabolism fellowship at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, followed by a NIH/NRSA awarded research year at Cedars-Sinai. She was selected in 2007 by the Consumers Research council as "One of America's Top Physicians."


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The EU Gender Earnings Gap: Job Segregation and Working Time as Driving Factors
13.09.2016 | HWWI Research Paper 176, Hamburg | von Christina Boll, Anja Rossen, André WolfThis paper estimates size and impact factors of the gender pay gap in Europe. We find that about one third of the gap can be traced back to the role of the explanatory factors included in our analysis. The sectoral segregation of genders is identified as the most important barrier to gender pay equality in European countries.


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DECA ICDC 2017 Promo
by bbenefield on December 26, 2017
Client: DECA
Event Name: 2017 International Career Development Conference
Video: Promo Video
Software Used: Final Cut Pro
Notes: Most of our promo videos were done as a team. We would plan out a storyboard then our audio engineer would select and cut down a piece of music for me to edit to. Once the basic story was edited my video would be sent on to our animator to put the final graphics and titles on top.


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From the sound of it, Jay-Z wasn't the one who strong-armed Scottie Pippen into rejoining the Dream Team for NBA 2K13. It was Pippen's wife and 11-year-old son.
Pippen, the lone holdout of 12 superstars on the United States 1992 national team when 2K Sports announced it was bringing USA Basketball to NBA 2K13 this year, reversed himself and agreed to license his appearance, the publisher said earlier today. Though Jay-Z, the hip-hop superstar and entrepreneur brought in as executive producer in a creative capacity, insisted on bringing the Dream Team back to a video game, Pippen had opted out of a group licensing arrangement and wouldn't agree to terms to appear in the game.
A strong demonstration of fan disappointment over Twitter and Facebook played a role in Pippen's decision to reconsider. But one of the NBA's 50 Greatest Players ultimately had to answer to others who hold him more accountable..
"Larsa [Pippen's wife], she got a ton of requests from fans," said Jason Argent, the 2K Sports vice president of marketing. "I believe she sent out a couple of tweets about it, one saying she was working on [getting Pippen in the game.] She told us their 11-year-old son was really disappointed, too."
Officially, the word is that Pippen came around out of fan service. While 2K Sports is careful never to discuss financial terms of its licensing deals, it's apparent money was the holdup. Pippen appeared in NBA 2K11 and NBA 2K12 under a group license offered by a retired NBA players' association. He opted out of that sometime in the past year, requiring 2K Sports to reach an individual deal with him, which it couldn't.
When the Dream Team's video game return was announced Aug. 15, Argent said negotiations had concluded. They ended amicably, but they were over, and 2K and Jay-Z were prepared to go forward without Pippen. It was Pippen who reconsidered and came back to 2K Sports to ask back into the game. "And we of course welcomed him with open arms," Argent said.
Scottie Pippen may be popularly viewed as Michael Jordan's greatest teammate, but he does make a unique and indispensable contribution to the Dream Team—considered the greatest collection of talent in any sport, ever—through his defense. That will be key as video gamers inevitably seek to answer which edition of the U.S. national team was better, the 1992 squad, or the 2012 team that just won gold in the London Olympics.
Pippen's overall rating in the game will be a 92. That's equal to another 2012 national team small forward, Carmelo Anthony, and lower than Kevin Durant's 95. But Jordan himself said the 1992 team should win because it played tougher defense. Pippen's 2,307 career steals are the most of any NBA forward, and he is one of three players to record more than 200 steals and 100 blocks in the same season.
Most important to 2K, however, is the Dream Team will appear in its entirety, Argent said. "It was incomplete without him," he said. "Wherever fans may rank him in the heirarchy of great players, it's less relevant than just having the whole team in."
When asked if 2K had spent all this money and effort on 12 retired players just to use them as a single team in the game's exhibition mode, Argent demurred, but said there were more announcements to be made—not just on gameplay, but on game modes, in NBA 2K13.


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Changing Payment Method
How do I add a new payment method?
You can do this by going to My Account > Deposit Funds > Add Method. You can then select the right payment method and enter its details in the boxes provided. Your playing balance will need to be below £1 for you to do this, and you cannot have any pending withdrawals either.
When can I change my payment method?
When your account balance is less than £1 and you have no pending withdrawals. To check if you have a pending withdrawal go to My Account > History > Transaction History.
How do I switch between payment methods that I've already registered?
Select My Account > Deposit Funds > Update Method and then click on the method you wish to use. Click 'Confirm'.
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Select My Account > Withdraw > Update Bank Details. You must add a bank account that's in your own name. If you don't, we will require verification of these details. All withdrawals will be held until the process is complete.
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Who is Concept 2
Apologies on the background noise, but we got to film with Peter at actual Regatta and couldn't pass up the chance. The sounds you hear are that of the announcer at a collegiate national level regatta!
Concept2 began in 1976 in the back of a bread truck when Dick and Pete Dreissigacker, fresh from Olympic training, started making composite racing oars. Concept2 oars have since gone on to become the oar of choice among the world's rowers, and innovations continue right to the present-day.
In 1981, Dick and Pete created the Concept2 Indoor Rower, which swiftly became the best-selling rowing machine in the world. Now several models later, it's used every day by Olympic athletes, cardiac rehab patients, individuals at home and every calibre of rower in-between.
Since those early days we've grown to over 80 employees, and our product line includes oars, the indoor rower and the SkiErg. Though we're much larger now, we remain dedicated to our philosophy of providing the most innovative products and programs to our customers. By selling factory direct, Concept2 eliminates the middleman so that we can provide our customers with the best value. You buy direct from our manufacturing facility in Morrisville, Vermont.
Rowing is our reason for being, and every machine and oar we produce comes from a background of over forty years of excellence. Our primary goal is to promote and encourage the growth of rowing, both indoors and outdoors. We believe that rowing is a lifelong activity, accessible to all.
Different Concept2 Indoor Rowing Machines
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Consumer confidence is up. Black Friday sales hit a high. The housing market is rebounding. You're finally seeing dollar signs.
This is going to be your year. You're going to get a raise, recoup your savings, build up your business.
But those dollar signs in your eyes could become your undoing. And even worse, if your boss is seeing similar dollar signs, it could become the undoing of your entire company.
Research reveals that when leaders overemphasize profit, it actually erodes employee morale and drives customers away.
The fatal mistake many leaders make is that when they talk to their employees, the conversation is primarily focused on money. This is a big error because it tells employees, "We care more about profits and internal measurements than we do our customers."
The same thing even happens in non-profits, for example, in education, when leaders spend more time talking about test scores (the internal measurement) than they do actual students.
One need look no further than the car-buying experience to see what happens when managers overemphasize money and metrics at the expense of helping actual customers.
Most people hate buying a car. It's not because we don't like cars; it's because we don't like the way we get treated by the salespeople.
Fatal mistake – If you treat your customers like a number, they'll return the favor.
Compare the car-buying experience to the Apple store, and it's obvious why companies who focus on customers drive explosive sales.
If you and your organization want to capture your share of the growing economy, leaders must avoid the myopic money trap. The key is to shift the focus from profit to purpose.
Here are three techniques we use with our clients that have delivered big results:
1. Identify your purpose
How does your business improve life for your customers?
If your employees believe that the sole purpose of your business is profit, they will be uninspired and unmotivated. They'll also be more likely to jump ship or steal. Exhibit A: Walmart.
But if your employees know that your noble purpose is to improve life for customers, they become more engaged. They care more, they're more creative, and they work harder.
2. Do a purpose pipeline plan
Identify 25 new opportunities you want to pursue. Write down their name, a volume target AND exactly how you are going to improve their life or business. Make it a priority to call 5 of them a day. Before every phone call think: "I'm calling because I want to help you." Research shows that as much as 93% of a customer's response is based on your tone and intent. Customers can tell the difference between someone who cares about them, and someone who only cares about closing the deal.
Focusing yourself and your team on making a difference to customers will actually increase your close rate.
3. Share customer stories at every meeting
Most meetings are a boring review of spreadsheets. But when you share stories about how you made a difference to real live customers, it helps your employees connect your company goals to the people they serve.
One of our clients puts up pictures of their customers. It reminds the staff, these aren't just phone calls, they're real live people that we need to help.
It's ironic, but the business research shows that when you overemphasize money, you make less of it. But when your noble purpose is to help customers, you drive more revenue.
(c) Lisa Earle McLeod
Lisa Earle McLeod is a sales leadership consultant. Companies like Apple, Kimberly-Clark and Pfizer hire her to help them create passionate, purpose-driven sales forces.
She the author of several books including Selling with Noble Purpose: How to Drive Revenue and Do Work That Makes You Proud, a Wiley publication, released Nov. 15, 2012. She has appeared on The Today Show, and has been featured in Forbes, Fortune and The Wall Street Journal. She provides executive coaching sessions, strategy workshops, and keynote speeches.
More info: www.LisaEarleMcLeod.com
Lisa's Blog –How Smart People Can Get Better At Everything
Copyright 2012 Lisa Earle McLeod. All rights reserved.
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UPDATED: Completed Listing Of Road Closures Throughout Acadiana
The following roads have been closed due to impacts from winter weather conditions.
Allen Parish:
- All bridges in Allen Parish
Acadia Parish:
- The John N. John overpass (US 90) in Crowley
Ascension Parish:
- I-10 East between LA 73 and LA 641
- I-10 West between US 61 and LA 73
Beauregard Parish:
- All bridges in Beauregard Parish
Calcasieu Parish:
- I-10 East and West between Mile Marker 25 to Mile Marker 34 with intermittent closures.
- All bridges in Calcasieu Parish
- I-210 East and West between Mile Marker 1 to Mile Marker 4 with intermittent closures
- I-10 East and West from the state line to MP 3 with intermittent closures.
- I-10 East at MP 27 overpass being diverted onto I-210
- Traffic passing in one lane on I-10 West at MP 62 overpass.
- I-10 East and West at the Calcasieu River Bridge
East Baton Rouge Parish:
- I-110 North and South closed between I-10/I-110 and US 61 (Scenic Hwy.)
- I-10 East between the Mississippi River Bridge and Essen on I-10
- I-10 West between Highland and the Mississippi River Bridge
- I-12 West between O'Neal and the I-10/I-12 Merge
- I-12 East from the I-10/I-12 Split and Amite River
- US 190 East Mississippi River Bridge
Grant Parish:
- Boyce Bridge (LA 8)
Iberia Parish:
- All overpasses on Highway 90 in Iberia Parish
- The Lewis Street Bridge is closed due to icing
Iberville Parish:
- I-10 East and West at the Atchafalaya Basin
Jefferson Parish:
- The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway Bridge North & South
Jefferson Davis Parish:
- All bridges in Jefferson Davis Parish
- Lake Arthur Bridge over the Merementau River on LA. 14
Lafayette Parish:
- Bridge on LA 92 just west of Larriviere Road in Youngsville
- US 90 Westbound at Ambassador Caffery
- Vermilion River bridge at Ambassador Caffery
- Vermilion River bridges at Camellia Boulevard and Surrey Street
Livingston Parish:
- I-12 East and West from LA 3003 (Range Avenue) to the EBR Parish Line
Pointe Coupee Parish:
- LA 10 from LA 10 Business in Pointe Coupee Parish to US 61 in West Feliciana Parish. This closure includes the John James Audubon Bridge.
Rapides Parish:
- I-49 North and South from Exit 80 to Exit 94
- Jackson St. Bridge (US 165B)
- Richard Thompson LA 8 Boyce Bridge
St. James Parish:
- LA 70 East and West at the Sunshine Bridge
St. John Parish:
- I-55 Northbound at I-10 West
- LA 3213 North and South at the Veteran's Memorial Bridge
St. Landry Parish:
- I-49 North and South is closed from US 190 (Mile Marker 20) to LA 29 (Mile Marker 40)
St. Mary Parish:
- The US 90 Bridge at Morgan City has been closed
- The bridge on LA 182 has been sanded and is open
St. Martin Parish:
- I-10 Atchafalaya Basin Bridge
St. Tammany:
- Lake Pontchartrain Causeway Bridge South
Tangipahoa Parish:
- I-55 South at US 51B
West Baton Rouge Parish:
- LA 1 entrance and exit ramps from I-10 East and West
- US 190 West at LA-415 (Lobdell)
- I-10 East at LA 415
West Feliciana Parish:
- LA 10 from US 61 in West Feliciana Parish to LA 10 Business in Pointe Coupee Parish. This closure includes the John James Audubon Bridge.
- LA 10 East and West at Audubon Bridge