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I talk to many people who have spent years struggling up the corporate ladder who dream of jumping ship and becoming an entrepreneur. I hasten to tell them that every job move is fraught with risk, but the move from employee to entrepreneur is on the high end of the risk curve. It's a big jump, especially in today's economy, so do your homework first on this one.
According to an article in the Harvard Business Review a while back, "Five Ways to Bungle a Job Change," there are at least five common missteps that professionals make when moving to a new job. I will assert that each of these has a comparable relevance for those of you contemplating leaving a company employee role to create or join an entrepreneurial startup as follows:
Not reality checking your dream. In moving to a new company, the questions to ask are expectations, financial stability, cultural fit, and role responsibilities. All of these apply directly to starting your own company. Test your "dream" startup plans on some experienced entrepreneurs to get a reality check before you leave your current job.
Leaving for money. Remember, the grass always look greener on the other side of the fence. More money in the short term is unlikely as an entrepreneur. In fact, most startup founders pay themselves no salary for the first year or two, and investor money is hard to find. I tell new entrepreneurs not to quit their "day job" until they have real revenue.
Going "from" rather than "to". If you are desperate to get out, you may just be lurching into entrepreneurship, only to find it more stressful and unsatisfying. People who feel competent but unsatisfied or bored in their current job make better entrepreneurs than people who feel overworked, under-appreciated, and over-stressed.
Over-estimating yourself. Search consultants say that many job seekers have an unrealistic view of their skills, their prospects, and their culpability. If you have had problems with several companies, you may be part of the problem. That part will be amplified in any startup, since you are now the company, so the blame stops with you.
Thinking short term. Moving from an employee to an entrepreneur is a lifestyle change, as well as a career change. Don't make the misstep of assuming it is a short-term move to riches, or an escape from a problem. Starting a business is hard work, requires a lot of learning, and only pays off in the long term.
These missteps are obviously inter-dependent. When people overvalue themselves, they are prone to stress from job performance feedback and dissatisfaction with compensation. This leads them to jump, without real consideration of the fit and opportunity, into the entrepreneurial world, where they could be even more unhappy.
Every employee needs to evaluate these challenges, since the average baby boomer will have switched jobs 10 times, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The days are gone, when we commit early in life to a lifetime career with one company, or a lifetime of entrepreneurship. The business landscape is changing rapidly these days, so we need to be willing to change as well.
A good question to ask before finalizing a change is "What if I'm wrong?" Be ready to cut your losses and move on. Jumping repeatedly to another bad situation is not the answer. In every case, take a hard look at your real strengths and weaknesses. Be willing to listen to an advisor or mentor on how others perceive you, and be willing to correct for those weaknesses.
The most important element is to understand for yourself what elements of a job role are the most satisfying to you, and what constitutes a healthy work-life balance for you. You spend most of your adult life at work. Life is too short to let career missteps make it unhappy.
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Today, as impeachment makes its way back into the American vernacular, this time related to George W. Bush, the following quotes become quite illuminating.
While reading them, perhaps ask yourself, 'What happened to the "rule of law?"
"This nation sits at a crossroads. One direction points to the higher road of the rule of law. Sometimes hard, sometimes unpleasant, this path relies on truth, justice and the rigorous application of the principle that no man is above the law. Now, the other road is the path of least resistance. This is where we start making exceptions to our laws based on poll numbers and spin control. This is when we pitch the law completely overboard when the mood fits us, when we ignore the facts in order to cover up the truth.
No man is above the law, and no man is below the law. That's the principle that we all hold very dear in this country."
No man is above the law, and no man is below the law. That's the principle that we all hold very dear in this country."
Rep. Henry Hyde (R-Ill.):
"I suggest impeachment is like beauty: apparently in the eye of the beholder. But I hold a different view. And it's not a vengeful one, it's not vindictive, and it's not craven. It's just a concern for the Constitution and a high respect for the rule of law. ... as a lawyer and a legislator for most of my very long life, I have a particular reverence for our legal system. It protects the innocent, it punishes the guilty, it defends the powerless, it guards freedom, it summons the noblest instincts of the human spirit.
The rule of law protects you and it protects me from the midnight fire on our roof or the 3 a.m. knock on our door."
The rule of law protects you and it protects me from the midnight fire on our roof or the 3 a.m. knock on our door."
"What is on trial here is the truth and the rule of law. Our failure to bring President Clinton to account for his lying under oath and preventing the courts from administering equal justice under law, will cause a cancer to be present in our society for generations. I want those parents who ask me the questions, to be able to tell their children that even if you are president of the United States, if you lie when sworn "to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth," you will face the consequences of that action, even when you don't accept the responsibility for them."
Chuck Hagel (R-NE):
"There can be no shading of right and wrong. The complicated currents that have coursed through this impeachment process are many. But after stripping away the underbrush of legal technicalities and nuance, I find that the President abused his sacred power by lying and obstructing justice. How can parents instill values and morality in their children? How can educators teach our children? How can the rule of law for every American be applied equally if we have two standards of justice in America--one for the powerful and the other for the rest of us?"
Bill Frist (R-TN):
"I will have no part in the creation of a constitutional double-standard to benefit the President. He is not above the law. If an ordinary citizen committed these crimes, he would go to jail."
Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas):
"When someone is elected president, they receive the greatest gift possible from the American people, their trust. To violate that trust is to raise questions about fitness for office. My constituents often remind me that if anyone else in a position of authority -- for example, a business executive, a military officer of a professional educator -- had acted as the evidence indicates the president did, their career would be over. The rules under which President Nixon would have been tried for impeachment had he not resigned contain this statement: "The office of the president is such that it calls for a higher level of conduct than the average citizen in the United States."


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The long-standing and persistent accusation that Google unfairly uses its search engine to promote its other online services is once again in the spotlight, triggered by new social search functionality the company is rolling out this week that more tightly links its search engine with its Google+ social networking site.
The complaints have come from different quarters, including competitors and industry experts, and have focused on various arguments, but at bottom all charge Google with using its dominant search engine to deliberately boost Google+'s popularity, by giving Google+ pages and profiles an artificially prominent position in result pages.
One of the strongest arguments made so far comes from search engine expert Danny Sullivan, who described on Wednesday in his technology news site Search Engine Land how Google is now suggesting Google+ business pages that companies and public figures have set up on the site in a way that makes the Google+ pages much more prominent than similar pages these public figures and organizations have set up on competing social media sites.
Sullivan shows a variety of examples in which Google, via new query auto-complete suggestions for Google+ profiles and via the new Google+ People and Pages sidebar suggestions column, favors Google+ business pages over alternative ones that have more "fans" on Facebook and Twitter.
Sullivan ran his queries without being logged into his Google Account, and even using the Chrome browser's "incognito" mode, to make sure that the Google search engine treated his queries as coming from a fairly generic user, and not tailored to him specifically.
"Is there anyone out there who still wants to say that being on Google+ doesn't matter? Anyone? Because when being on Google+ means that you potentially can have your Google+ page leap to the top in those sidebar results, Google+ matters. It matters more than ever before," he wrote, adding that Google is clearly "taking its weight in search and leveraging it to boost Google+ in a big way."
Google, after many missteps in the social networking market, launched Google+ in mid-2011, and has made it clear, from CEO Larry Page on down, that Google+ will be a key, unifying product for the company, providing social sharing features and an identity layer across most Google online services.
However, there has been skepticism regarding the adoption and engagement level for Google+, especially when compared with social networking leader Facebook, which has more than 850 million active members who spend a lot of time on the site.
Google+ is also a rival to Twitter because Google+ can be used in similar ways as the microblogging phenomenon.
In fact, among the first to cry foul this week was Twitter. Its General Counsel Alex Macgillivray, who previously worked at Google, posted on his Twitter account that Tuesday was "a bad day for the Internet" after Google announced the new search functionality.
"Having been there, I can imagine the dissension @Google to search being warped this way," he wrote. Twitter later followed Macgillivray's post with a more formal statement, in which it reiterated and expanded on his complaint.
Meanwhile, Google answered back with a post on its main Google+ page, saying it was "a bit surprised by Twitter's comments" because Twitter "chose not to renew their agreement with us last summer," a reference to the now lapsed two-year deal which gave Google special access to Twitter's "firehose" of real-time tweets.
However, as Sullivan and others have pointed out, Google has continued indexing Twitter posts and has a massive collection of them in its index, including links to the official accounts of public figures, celebrities and organizations.
Throughout the two-day flap, Facebook officials have remained mum. Facebook has its own special search arrangement with its partner Microsoft, which gives the Bing search engine access to certain data that is out of Google's reach. While Facebook keeps most personal profile content off limits to search engines, its business profiles are public, as well as some other content, and thus available to Google. In fact, for a while Facebook has let individuals tag status updates as "public" and made those available to search engines — a good example of this is the site Your OpenBook, devoted exclusively to this type of personal, public status update.
In its announcement on Tuesday of the new social search features, described by the company as "Search, Plus Your World," Google focused on new things its search users will be able to do when signed into their Google accounts: find Google+ posts and Picasa Web photos they and their contacts on those social media sites have shared not only publicly on the Web but also privately with each other.
This new functionality builds on the existing Google social search features, which let users logged into their Google Accounts see links in search results that their specific social media contacts tagged with the Google +1 button or shared publicly using a social media service.
Google didn't respond to a request for comment about the controversy surrounding the new social search functionality.
Juan Carlos Perez covers search, social media, online advertising, e-commerce, web application development, enterprise cloud collaboration suites and general technology breaking news for The IDG News Service. Follow Juan on Twitter at @JuanCPerezIDG.


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It makes us angry when we hear—time and again—mainstream pundits and policy makers claim that there is no alternative to the past 30 years' path of gearing economies toward the global market. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Currently, as financial markets stagnate and food prices swing wildly and the environment is under siege, more and more people, communities, and nations are taking steps to reduce their vulnerability to a volatile global economy. Many are proceeding to build what we like to call more "rooted" alternatives.
In the Philippines, for instance, we find a refreshing openness to new directions from the halls of the new Congress to the rice fields of the southern island of Mindanao. Many people have come to understand that the dominant approach to the economy since the final years of the Marcos dictatorship, building on 400 years of colonialism, has failed: This more vulnerable approach geared the economy toward the plunder of fish, forests, and minerals that enriched the few and impoverished workers, farmers, and fishers. It created an agriculture sector that is dependent upon unreliable imports rather than geared to feeding the people.
Industrialization occurred in export enclaves, mainly of electronics, that profited corporations but remains dependent upon unreliable overseas markets. And, the model depends upon the export of Filipino workers to other countries to send home money to relatives, since the economy is not providing for their needs. The result is a plundered environment and an economy that is vulnerable to the shocks of a shaky world economy.
We will tell you more about what we find in the Philippines in subsequent blogs, but today we want to deal head-on with the "there is no alternative" myth.
So, what is the alternative?
How about an economy that encourages the stewardship of forests, fisheries and land for community needs? One that encourages agriculture that is good for the soil, feeds everyone an adequate diet, and reorients industry for people's needs? How about a finance system that helps small enterprises, and an economy that creates enough good jobs and livelihoods so that youth see a future at home?
There is in fact an upsurge of efforts in this direction in the United States, in Europe, and in a number of poorer countries—including many parts of the Philippines. In the United States, the Institute for Policy Studies, YES! Magazine, and several other groups have come together to form a "New Economy Working Group." They have proposed that in order to transform economies to meet the crises, economic life should be organized around three principles.
The first is "ecological balance"—ecosystems should be managed sustainably. This is best done when communities control the natural resources on which they depend. The second is "equitable distribution." A growing body of evidence suggests that societies that share wealth more equitably enjoy greater health, less violence, and stronger communities. A final principal is "living democracy" (in the words of both Vandana Shiva and Frances Moore Lappé) which involves daily practices of civic engagement in decision making as well as broad participation in the ownership of community assets. People around the world are proposing alternatives and rebuilding parts of economic life based on these principles. Here are four key areas:
- New indicators: What you measure is vital. The emphasis of most governments on measuring growth does not reveal much about the health of a society. So, a number of institutions, from the United Nations Development Program to a French government commission led by Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz, have developed new indicators that measure health, welfare, and different aspects of the three principals above. When governments around the world start paying more attention to such indicators and less to growth, there will be more incentives and even more popular demand for policies that enhance community and human welfare.
- Close the financial casino: For two decades, there was competition in the financial centers of most countries to develop elaborate new-fangled financial instruments that enriched a new financial elite. This casino activity is what triggered the Wall Street collapse of 2008. Today, more and more economists, business people, and citizens are pressing for regulations that would ban such purely speculative financial activities. The U.S. government, for one, is now giving some incentives to boost local financial institutions offering credit to community enterprises and to individuals in need.
- Sustainable agriculture: Around the world, millions of farmers are shifting from chemical-intensive agriculture to organic and sustainable agriculture. We find a frenzy of such activity on the ground in the Philippines, and in future blogs we'll introduce you to farmers whose shift to organics has lowered costs, improved health, cleaned up the environment, and empowered individuals and families.
- Global rules and institutions that support a new economy: Vibrant local communities depend upon governments to make rules at the national and global levels supporting such activity. Our governments should replace the World Trade Organization, which sets global trade and investment rules in ways that inhibit local and national governments from favoring local firms over global ones. In the Philippines' case, the WTO has been central to the ripping open of agricultural markets, making the nation dependent on rice and food imports that led to the food price crisis of 2008. The alternative? Building global institutions and rules that support more rooted economies. For example, several governments and many citizen groups in the West are now pressing richer countries to place a small "speculation tax" on the sale of stock, currency and derivatives, and to steer the revenues toward jobs and climate finance in poorer countries like the Philippines.
So, in the spirit of the holiday season: Yes, Virginia, there are a multitude of rooted alternatives.
Robin Broad and John Cavanagh wrote this article for YES! Magazine, a national, nonprofit media organization that fuses powerful ideas with practical actions. Robin is a Professor of International Development at American University in Washington, D.C. and has worked as an international economist in the U.S. Treasury Department and the U.S. Congress. John is on leave from directing the Institute for Policy Studies, and is co-chair (with David Korten) of the New Economy Working Group. They are co-authors of three books on the global economy, and are currently traveling the country and the world to write a book entitled Local Dreams: Finding Rootedness in the Age of Vulnerability.


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Hifikepunye Pohamba, in full Hifikepunye Lucas Pohamba, (born August 18, 1935, Okanghudi, South West Africa [now Namibia]), Namibian politician who served as the second president of Namibia (2005–15). He served as the president of the SWAPO Party of Namibia (2007–15).
Early life and the fight for national liberation
Pohamba was born in a small village in northern Owambo (Ovamboland) when Namibia was still known as South West Africa and was administered by the neighbouring country of South Africa. After attending Holy Cross Anglican mission school, he worked in the Tsumeb copper mine from 1956 to 1960. He was active in the Ovamboland People's Organization, a national liberation movement that in 1960 transformed into the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO). Pohamba was a founding member of the organization's new incarnation and left his job in the mine to work as a full-time organizer for the group. In June 1961 he was arrested on charges of political agitation. He was subsequently convicted by a local court in Ohangwena and publicly flogged. Soon after, Pohamba made his way to Tanganyika (now mainland Tanzania), where he joined the SWAPO leadership in exile.
During the ensuing years, Pohamba returned several times to South West Africa to work on behalf of SWAPO, and he was again charged with agitating against South African rule. He was arrested in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in 1962 and spent two months in jail in Bulawayo before being deported to Johannesburg. Pohamba was released in August 1962, but he was soon arrested on charges of having left South West Africa, which was illegal for SWAPO leaders. He spent four months in jail before his sentence was commuted to two further years of house arrest. In August 1964 Pohamba opened the SWAPO offices in Lusaka, Zambia. In March 1966 he and SWAPO president Sam Nujoma returned to South West Africa, only to be quickly expelled on charges of previously leaving the territory illegally.
Pohamba was elected a member of SWAPO's Central Committee and made deputy administrative secretary in 1969. By 1977 he had become the secretary of finance, and from 1979 to 1981 he was in charge of SWAPO affairs in Zambia. Pohamba studied politics in the Soviet Union from 1981 to 1982 before being transferred to SWAPO headquarters in Luanda, Angola. He remained there until 1989, when the SWAPO leadership returned to South West Africa, which by this point had been officially renamed Namibia.
Political career
Upon Namibia's independence from South Africa in 1990, Pohamba became a member of the nascent country's National Assembly and served as minister of home affairs under the administration of Nujoma, who had become the country's first president. In 1995 Pohamba took over as minister of fisheries and marine resources, and, as minister without portfolio from 1998 to 2000, he campaigned for the constitution to be amended to allow Nujoma to serve a third term. SWAPO elected Pohamba its secretary-general in 1997 and vice president in 2002.
While serving as minister of lands, resettlement, and rehabilitation, a position he assumed in 2001, Pohamba worked on the issue of land reform, which was addressed by the government program of purchasing farmland owned by the white minority and redistributing it to the historically disadvantaged and landless black Namibians whose ancestors had their lands taken away during the colonial era. To that end, Pohamba exhorted white farmers to sell portions of their land to the government so that it could be distributed to black farmers, but the process of land reform moved very slowly. While he did not actively pursue the government's official policy of expropriation, he did push for land-tax increases to encourage the sale of unused land.
At SWAPO's 2004 party congress, Nujoma, who did not intend to seek a fourth term as president, made clear that he favoured Pohamba to succeed him. The party subsequently gave Pohamba its nomination. He achieved a landslide victory in the presidential election held in November of that year, garnering 76 percent of the vote. On March 21, 2005, he was sworn in as president, becoming Namibia's second president since the country gained independence. Shortly thereafter he announced his cabinet, which included five women, along with a radically restructured system of ministries and plans to fight government corruption and inefficiency. He also spoke of the need to hasten land reform. In November 2007 Pohamba ascended to the presidency of SWAPO upon Nujoma's resignation.
Pohamba won reelection as president of Namibia in November 2009. Several opposition groups complained that the country's electoral laws had been violated, but international observers, while noting that some aspects of electoral procedures needed improvement, declared that the elections had been largely transparent and fair.
In March 2015, as Pohamba prepared to step down from office at the end of his second term, he was named the recipient of the Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership for 2014, which carried a $5 million award disbursed over 10 years, a $200,000 annual stipend for the rest of his life, and the possibility of the foundation awarding $200,000 (per year, for a decade) to charitable causes supported by Pohamba. The next month he resigned as president of SWAPO.Christopher Saunders The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica


text: Justice Ministers across Europe want to make the creation of "hacking tools" a criminal offense, but critics have hit back at the plans, saying that they are unworkable.Ministers from all 27 countries of the European Union met on June 9 to discuss European Commission proposals for a directive on attacks against information systems. But in addition to approving the Commission's text, the ministers extended the draft to include "the production and making available of tools for committing offenses".This is problematic, as much legal and legitimate software could be put to criminal use by hackers. The draft mentions "malicious software designed to create botnets or unrightfully obtained computer passwords," but goes no further in attempting to clarify what "tools" might be subject to criminal sanctions. For example, the distinction between a password cracker and a password recovery tool is not specified. Nor is there any mention of legitimate use for testing. Many tools that could be used for hacking in the wrong hands, are used by system administrators and security consultants to probe for vulnerabilities in corporate systems. Illegal access, illegal system interference and illegal data interference as well as instigating, aiding, abetting and attempting to commit offences are already crimes under current E.U. law. However, ministers want to harmonize penalties for illegal interception of computer data, and see the imposition of a minimum two-year sentence for the most serious crimes. They also want to oblige member states to collect basic statistical data on cybercrimes and to respond to urgent requests for information by other member states within eight hours.The creation of hacking tools is already a criminal offense in the United Kingdom under the Computer Misuse Act and in Germany under the 202C law, and is also cited in the Budapest Cybercrime Convention. But if included in an E.U. directive, all 27 member states would be required to ban production of these so-called "tools" in national law. The introduction of the laws in Germany in 2007 and the U.K. in 2008 met with fierce criticism. In Germany many legitimate websites shut down or moved over fears that they might be prosecuted.German PHP security professional Stefan Esser wrote on his blog at the time that the law was not clearly written and allows too much interpretation. "While our government says that they do not want to punish, for example, hired penetration testers, this is not written down in the law," Esser wrote.The ministers' proposals will now be put to the European Parliament, which must approve the text before it can become law. It is likely that MEPs will question some of the ministers' assumptions and will seek to better define what is meant by "tools".Follow Jennifer on Twitter at @BrusselsGeek or email tips and comments to firstname.lastname@example.com.


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BHA and BHT
Use in Cosmetics
BHA (butylated hydroxyanisole) and BHT (butylated hydroxytoluene) are closely related synthetic antioxidants used as preservatives in lipsticks and moisturizers, among other cosmetics. They are also widely used as food preservatives.
Health and Environmental Hazards
BHA and BHT can induce allergic reactions in the skin [1]. The International Agency for Research on Cancer classifies BHA as a possible human carcinogen [2]. The European Commission on Endocrine Disruption has also listed BHA as a Category 1 priority substance, based on evidence that it interferes with hormone function [3].
Long-term exposure to high doses of BHT is toxic in mice and rats, causing liver, thyroid and kidney problems and affecting lung function and blood coagulation [4]. BHT can act as a tumour promoter in certain situations [5]. Limited evidence suggests that high doses of BHT may mimic estrogen [6], the primary female sex hormone, and prevent expression of male sex hormones [7], resulting in adverse reproductive affects.
Under the Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic, BHA is listed as a chemical of potential concern, noting its toxicity to aquatic organisms and potential to bioaccumulate [8]. Likewise, a United Nations Environment Program assessment noted that BHT had a moderate to high potential for bioaccumulation in aquatic species (though the assessment deemed BHT safe for humans) [9].
Regulatory Status
The use of BHA and BHT in cosmetics is unrestricted in Canada, although Health Canada has categorized BHA as a "high human health priority" on the basis of carcinogenicity and BHT as a "moderate human health priority". Both chemicals have been flagged for future assessment under the government's Chemicals Management Plan.
International regulations are stronger. The European Union prohibits the use of BHA as fragrance ingredient in cosmetics. The State of California requires warning labels on products containing BHA, notifying consumers that this ingredient may cause cancer.
1. U.S. National Library of Medicine, in Haz-Map: Occupational Exposure to Hazardous Agents, 2010, http://hazmap.nlm.nih.gov.
2. IARC Monographs on the Evaluation of Carcinogenic Risks to Humans vol. 17 (Paris: International Agency for Research on Cancer), vol. 40 (1986).
3. Study on Enhancing the Endocrine Disrupter Priority List with a Focus on Low Production Volume Chemicals, Revised Report to DG Environment (Hersholm, Denmark: DHI Water and Environment, 2007), http://ec.europa.eu/environment/endocrine/documents/final_report_2007.pdf.
4. UNEP and OECD, 2,6-di-tert-butyl-p-cresol (BHT) Screening Information Data Set: Initial Assessment Report (Paris: OECD, 2002), http://www.inchem.org/documents/sids/sids/128370.pdf.
5. Baur, A.K. et al., "The lung tumor promoter, butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT), causes chronic inflammation in promotion-sensitive BALB/cByJ mice but not in promotion-resistant CXB4 mice," Toxicology 169, no. 1 (December 2001): 1-15.
6. Wada, H. et al., "In vitro estrogenicity of resin composites," Journal of Dental Research 83, no. 3 (March 2004): 222-6.
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What happens to staffers when they believe the principles the library espouses, but it turns out there are other unspoken principles that are given more weight, particularly in choosing candidates to promote?
Such experiences undermine the integrity of the organization for the staff persons involved. For instance, a library may talk up a customer service focus, but the truth of the matter may be an organizational service focus. If the true focus cannot be admitted, then it appears that the focus is "unspeakable" and something considered shameful. It is hard for staffers to know that such an unspoken focus exists. A staffperson may then fall into what appears to be a trap -- espousing values that he/she thinks are encouraged by the organization, but those values are really not acceptable.
That experience isolates and wounds the person, and he/she has to realign working values to match the culture and regain a place of respect in the hierarchy of the organization. The sphere of interest of the staffperson is reduced for a while until a readjustment can occur and the true values of the organization can be acquired by the affected person.
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Holy Week...So What? (2016)
Dr. James Emery White
James Emery Whiteis the founding and senior pastor of Mecklenburg Community Church in Charlotte, NC, and a former professor of theology and culture at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, where he…More
- 2016 Mar 17
This weekend is known as Palm Sunday weekend.
So what?
It's a fair question. In our culture, the significance of sacred days and times has long been forgotten. We live our lives on the surface of frenetic activity, seldom adding depth to any given moment. We surf and skim over a body of information, but rarely dive into the depths of knowledge, much less wisdom.
There are no "thin times," as the ancient Celts would have noted; times when the separation between the eternal and the temporal was thin enough to walk the soul between both worlds.
But without that sensibility, we are lesser people.
So here's the "so what."
Palm Sunday is the traditional beginning of what has been known throughout Christian history as Holy Week; a week designed to focus our attention on the "passion," or suffering, of Christ.
The story of Christ (a title meaning "Messiah") is the story of God Himself coming to earth in the form of a human being, a man named Jesus, living the perfect, sinless life and then willingly going to the cross in order to die for the sins of the world.
The tradition of Holy Week began when Christians making pilgrimages to Jerusalem had a natural desire to reenact the last scenes of the life of Christ in dramas.
There is an ancient text called The Pilgrimage of Egeria, which describes a fourth century visit to Jerusalem. It was noted that people were already observing Holy Week by that point in history, so it dates back many, many centuries.
There are five days in this week that are set apart:
It begins this weekend with Palm Sunday, and then includes Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday, and then Easter Sunday.
Maundy Thursday denotes when Jesus washed the disciples' feet during what is known as the Last Supper on the night He was betrayed.
The word "Maundy" is built off of the Latin word for "command." When Jesus washed their feet, He said, "A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another" (John 13:34, NIV). It's why some churches actually have a feet-washing ceremony or service on Maundy Thursday.
Good Friday is the day we mark the anniversary of when Jesus was crucified. I know, the word "good" is a misnomer.
Or is it?
Sin is not good. Suffering is not good. But what Jesus did for us, what His death accomplished on our behalf – that was good. Good because He took on our sins, and then hung in our place, paying the price for our sins so that we could be forgiven.
Holy Saturday, the day before Easter Sunday, marks the time of Jesus in the tomb. To be honest, little is associated with this day, though it is named. Perhaps because few know what to do with the obscure verses Peter offers surrounding Jesus' descending into the depths of hell. The medievalists called it the "harrowing of hell", and that is perhaps its fullest sense.
What is certain is that it was a victory lap.
And then, of course, comes Easter Sunday when we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus – a day that so altered human history that we are still talking about it, and marking it, over 2,000 years later.
Each day rich with meaning, significance and spiritual admonishment.
But it all begins this weekend, with Palm Sunday, the day of the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem.
From the gospel of Mark:
As they approached Jerusalem and came to Bethphage and Bethany at the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two of his disciples, saying to them, "Go to the village ahead of you, and just as you enter it, you will find a colt tied there, which no one has ever ridden. Untie it and bring it here. If anyone asks you, 'Why are you doing this?' tell him, 'The Lord needs it and will send it back here shortly.'"
They went and found a colt outside in the street, tied at a doorway. As they untied it, some people standing there asked, "What are you doing, untying that colt?" They answered as Jesus had told them to, and the people let them go. When they brought the colt to Jesus and threw their cloaks over it, he sat on it. Many people spread their cloaks on the road, while others spread branches they had cut in the fields. Those who went ahead and those who followed shouted,
"Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!"
"Blessed is the coming kingdom of our father David!"
"Hosanna in the highest!" (Mark 11:1-10, NIV)
This was a fervor that eclipsed any iPad or iPhone introduction Apple ever construed.
Palm Sunday is the celebration of Jesus that Jesus deserves.
Yes, "Hosanna" quickly turned into "crucify him!" It was one of the most tragic turn of events, perhaps second only to the fall, when humans turned from worship to rejection.
But that's what Palm Sunday calls us to remember. After Jesus entered to acclaim, He moved to clear the temple. Not willing to succumb to a celebrity culture, He made it clear what the demands of following Him would entail.
That's what changed "Hosanna" into "Crucify." People were confronted with the weight and consequence of God. They had to choose: a tame God, or a real One.
And now it plays out again; not in human history, but in our lives.
Every day.
Welcome to Holy Week.
James Emery White
Editor's Note: This blog entry was first published in 2012 and has been offered annually in honor of Holy Week since that first publication.
On Holy Week, and the individual days, see The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church; the New Catholic Encyclopedia, Second Edition; and the Encyclopedia of Christianity.
About the Author
James Emery White is the founding and senior pastor of Mecklenburg Community Church in Charlotte, NC, and the ranked adjunctive professor of theology and culture at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, where he also served as their fourth president. His latest book, The Rise of the Nones: Understanding and Reaching the Religiously Unaffiliated, is available on Amazon. To enjoy a free subscription to the Church and Culture blog, visit ChurchAndCulture.org, where you can view past blogs in our archive and read the latest church and culture news from around the world. Follow Dr. White on twitter @JamesEmeryWhite.


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I suppose the item on the agenda worth tackling first is the sudden moral rejuvenation of most inhabitants of the world. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, it is the year for which we have all been waiting, 2012 has finally dawned and one can say, with certainty, that resolutions will not be in short supply. Of course, I am not one to go in for such moral undertakings; it is an accomplished fact, or fait accompli, that 97% of all resolutions will have been thrust harshly into the cold within 72 hours of their formulation. Still, it's the thought that counts. I suppose all that is left to say is: Happy New Year!
Once again, apologies must be made for my lack of activity; Christmas was spent with Katherine and the urge to blog never really found its way into my grey matter. However, work doesn't start for a number of days and as such the intention is to rekindle my love for food; despite the fact that a good portion of my last 8 days on this earth has been spent in a kitchen. Indeed, my mother gifted me a rather interesting vegetable cookbook, penned by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, and I intend to bring you some of his very best recipes.
For now, you shall have to settle for this rather delicious and imminently rich beef bourguignon, a classic French dish originating from the region of Burgundy, one of that country's main wine producing areas. This dish isn't necessarily going to be cheap, what is more important is that it is done economically. For instance, please do not use a good quality wine, it simply isn't necessary – save that for drinking. Similarly, do not use a ridiculously expensive cut of beef; the cheaper cuts of beef will work far better in this dish. If these two simple steps are followed one shall end up with both a happy wallet and a delicious meal.
Beef Bourguignon
Serves 4
• 500g stewing beef
• 2 rashers of smoked bacon
• 2 large onions, finely chopped
• 250g chestnut mushrooms, quartered
• 2 cloves of garlic
• 1 tbsp rosemary, finely chopped
• 1 tbsp thyme, finely chopped
• 3-4 bay leaves
• 1 tbsp tomato puree
• 500ml red wine
• 250ml water
• Olive oil
• Salt and pepper
1. Heat the oven to 150C. Season the beef and fry in a large cast iron casserole pot until browned on all sides. When all the meat is browned transfer it to a bowl. Tip in the onions, garlic, rosemary, thyme, and mushrooms, cook in olive oil until browned. Return the beef to the pot, along with the red wine, water, bay leaves and tomato puree.
2. Place the lid on the dish and pop it in the oven. After 3 hours take the dish out of the oven and remove the lid. Place the dish back on the hob and cook on a medium heat for 5-10 minutes to allow the sauce to reduce. Season to taste and serve with mash or bread.
Cost: Assuming my previous guidelines have been followed, this meal should set one back no more than £7.50. This means that each portion should cost a rather reasonable £1.90 ish. How economical.


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International Meetings Nuestro Patrimonio Común (NPC) are the global exchange forum of the Asociación de Historia Actual. They aim to stimulate reflection and debate on the historical, political and cultural relations among the great regions that make up the world today. This scientific meetings have a double purpose. First, they are academic events, international forums for discussion and scientific exchange between schollars. Then, they are spaces for critical reflection that express the intelectual compromise of their participating people. Their conclussions must influence the decissions of all colective actors. In other words, the NPC are the think-tank of the AHA.
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Frontier Funeral
Elko, Nevada – June 3, 1876
Two important events happened in Elko on June 3, 1876. Henry H. Peyton was the main participant of his funeral, and the Central Pacific Railroad's new "Lightning Express" stopped in town for the first time.
Born in 1836 in Kentucky, Peyton had been in the Union army rising to the rank of major. His friends called him "Major." It was a natural. He came to Elko in 1869 and went into the freighting business. Quickly realizing there was more money in mining, he moved to Bullion where its mines were booming. He was elected Elko County Assemblyman to the 1875 Nevada Legislature. Then, right in the middle of his political success, he died.
A beautiful sendoff to the Promised Land was planned at the Presbyterian Church on the corner of Sixth and Pine streets. It was the only house of worship in Elko at the time. The Reverend James H. Byers, the only minister in the county, was ready with a fine sermon. The bell tolled, the pews were full. Pastor Byers announced the first hymn. Henry Peyton was leaving where ever he was going with last rites fit for someone of his political stature. The people quieted as Preacher Byers raised his hands, ready to lead the congregation in song.
It was then that a man stuck his head in the doorway and yelled, "Here she comes! The train's coming!"
In an instant there was a stampede of mourners, pallbearers, and family of the deceased. The man of God and the body of H.H. Peyton remained.
CPRR's new "Lightning Express" was in town for only fifteen minutes. Most of the people in town went to see the amazing train that could travel the 3,377 miles from New York City to San Francisco in only seven days. That's about twenty miles an hour. After the train steamed away, the people retuned to the church where the Honorable Henry H. Peyton was given a proper service and buried in the town cemetery.
It wasn't a lack of piety or disrespect for the dead. There was just too darn much excitement going on that day.
Poor old Peyton's remains were moved in 1906 to its present location in the northwest corner of the present cemetery. Finally, he rests in peace.
Sources: A Sagebrush Saga, Lester Mills, 1956; Political History of Nevada – 1996, issued by Dean Heller, Secretary of the State of Nevada; Weekly Elko Independent, June 4, 1876; Jan Petersen, historian, Elko.
©Copyright 2009 by Howard Hickson


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MCPHERSON, Kan. (AP) A preliminary hearing for two men charged in the beating death of a Tabor College student has been rescheduled to December.
The hearing for Alton Franklin and DeQuinte Flournoy, both 19-year-old men from Dallas, was scheduled for Monday. But it was postponed until Dec. 10. The Hutchinson News reports attorneys did not explain the reason for the delay.
The suspects, both former McPherson College football players, are charged with being accessories to second-degree murder in the Sept. 22 death of 26-year-old Brandon Brown.
Brown, a redshirt defensive lineman for Tabor College, died after being injured in a fight early Sept. 16 at a party in McPherson.
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First off, a few of you might have noticed, I haven't posted anything for weeks. Months? Okay, it's been well over 2 years. You know how it goes; life happens and priorities change. I'll spare you the details, but suffice to say that life is short and I'd rather spend time doing fun things with the people I care about, rather than sitting at my computer writing blog posts. No offense, I loved the old-school blogging world. Back in the olden days (I started this blog in 2006), the food/nutrition blogosphere was a tightly knit, supportive community. The gluten-free sub-set of that community was very small and consisted of people helping people. Friendly people sharing information, nourishing spirits, and promoting good health. It lessened the feeling of isolation a restrictive diet (for medical reasons) can foster. There was a genuine sense of belonging, but somewhere along the way, we hit a tipping point. I'm not sure I like the direction we've tipped.
Having said that, every so often something comes up that motivates me to dust off my blog, catch up with WordPress, and get back into writing about food and exercise. This is one of those times — the ongoing oat saga. Oats (gluten-free) are, and always have been, a mainstay of my diet, even though I have celiac disease. They're versatile, they're nutritious (or can be), they taste good, they cook up quickly, and are a perfect addition to an athlete's and/or backpacker's pantry. I use oatmeal loaded with dried fruit, nuts, and seeds as breakfast fuel for early morning mountain bike rides. I grind them up and use them in homemade energy bars. I bake bread from oat flour. They're a backpacking and camping staple. I even use oats as a protein booster in veggie burgers.
The GOOD
Many years ago I discovered Montana Gluten-Free Processors. The "Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food" theme is more difficult than it sounds, but I do know these people. I know the brilliant (and quirky) plant scientist who selected this oat variety based on nutritional value. I know the CEO of Montana Gluten-Free (AKA: head farmer, Gary Iverson) who lives a gluten-free lifestyle, grows these oats, and insures that they're truly gluten-free. They harvest, mill, and package their products with dedicated equipment. The oats are processed in a certified gluten-free facility. They're organic, non-GMO, hull-less (easier to digest), low glycemic, and are 25% higher in protein than other oat varieties. They also test out at under 3 ppm with ELISA testing protocols. What more could you ask for? Other than excellent customer service from pleasant, reliable, salt-of-the-earth folks. They're the best. For more information, check out their website.
The BAD
Talk about "knowing your farmer." Who's behind the oats at General Mills? Who is General Mills? Who's responsible for the cereal products labeled gluten-free at General Mills that weren't actually gluten-free? Who knows? I understand the need for easy, convenient breakfast foods. Who hasn't dumped a handful of Cheerios on their toddler's high chair tray at one time or another? I'll admit to that — back when I was juggling four kiddos at once, although I'd like to think our food quality was a little better back then (30-some years ago). That was also pre-celiac disease days, before the word "gluten" was part of our family's vocabulary. If you're unfamiliar with the gluten contamination and quality control problems at General Mills (and Quaker), check out Trisha Thompson's (at Gluten-Free Watchdog) gluten-free testing data. You can find that information here.
The UGLY
Would you like a side of weed-killer with your oatmeal?
Glyphosate is a broad spectrum, systemic herbicide used to kill weeds, especially perennial weeds and grasses that compete with crops. According to the National Pesticide Information Center, glyphosate is the most widely used, non-selective (meaning it will kill most plants) herbicide used in the United States. Glyphosate is the active ingredient in Roundup, the brand-name of the herbicide produced by Monsanto. Because glyphosate is non-selective, some crops have been genetically modified (GM) to be resistant to the herbicide. They're called Roundup Ready crops. Farmers can plant these GM plants and spray them with Roundup (glyphosate) to eliminate unwanted weeds without killing the crop.
In March of 2015 the International Agency for Research on Cancer, which is part of the World Health Organization, assessed the cancer-causing potential of glyphosate and several other pesticides. Glyphosate was classified as probably carcinogenic to humans. It was also determined that glyphosate caused DNA and chromosomal damage in human cells.
What does this have to do with oatmeal, you ask? According to Forbes Magazine, Quaker Oats is facing a potential class-action lawsuit because they claim their oats are "100% Natural" and are grown using "eco-friendly" farming practices, and yet they spray the oats with glyphosate before harvest. Glyphosate can also be used as a drying agent. Although it's not against the law to use glyphosate on cereal crops, calling the product "Natural" and suggesting the farming practices are "eco friendly" is a stretch — and deceptive, hence the lawsuit.
I have a science degree, but I'm not a plant scientist, so I don't understand how organophosphate pesticides like glyphosate work, how much of this stuff is in our food system, how dangerous these substances are to human health, or how detrimental they may be to the soil and water. And other than the basic definition of manually inserting new DNA into an organism to add new traits to that organism, I have a foggy understanding of genetic engineering. What I do know is that my intuition tells me spraying poison on food and then eating it is probably a bad thing. Especially if it causes DNA and chromosomal damage and probably causes cancer. As for manipulating genetic material and engineering food crops, I don't know, but I'd like to choose not to eat those foods if I knew which ones they were. At this point, they aren't universally labeled.
Bottom line? If at all possible, get involved in your community — support small farmers who are trying to grow nutritious and safe food, frequent farmer's markets, ask questions, do what you can to increase agricultural awareness, help grow an appreciation and understanding of where our food comes from, and make choices that support local food production. Know your farmer, know your food. It's not easy or always practical, I know that, but it's important for overall health. The more we know, the better (and healthier) choices we can make.
Peace, love and good food.


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TerraTec Aureon 7.1
The Terratec Aureon 7.1 USB is an affordable external sound card which supports optical and digital output through S/PDIF with full 5.1/7.1 surround sound. To use this card, install ALSA (which has support for this sound card). To configure the card for usage, follow these steps:
Set the card as the default device
If you have multiple sound cards, you need to set the Terratec card as a default. Create the following file:
options snd slots=snd_usb_audio
Rebooting may be required for the changes to take effect.
Enable volume control
This card does not have hardware volume control, so you need to create software Master control. Create the following file in your home folder:
pcm.softvol { type softvol slave { pcm "dmix" } control { name "Master" card 0 } } pcm.!default { type plug slave.pcm "softvol" }
Again, restart alsa, then open a music player, play a file and close the player. Then check alsamixer, as you should have a Master volume control.
The sound card has external hotkeys for volume change and mute. You can capture the button presses by installing Xbindkeys and using the following config:
#Volume up "amixer set 'Master' 5+" m:0x0 + c:123 XF86AudioRaiseVolume #Volume down "amixer set 'Master' 5-" m:0x0 + c:122 XF86AudioLowerVolume #Mute "/media/disk/programs/mute.sh" m:0x0 + c:121 XF86AudioMute
As you can see, alsamixer does not handle mute for this mixer, which is why you can use a simple mute.sh script, which stores the volume level in
volume.txt. Be sure to change the file path to mute.sh accordingly.
#!/bin/bash var=$(amixer get Master | grep "Front Left:") var=$(echo "$var" | sed -ne 's/^[^[]*\[\([^]]*\)\].*/\1/p') if [ $var == "0%" ] then volume=$(cat volume.txt) amixer set 'Master' $volume else rm volume.txt echo $var > volume.txt amixer set 'Master' 0% fi
Configure mplayer for surround sound (optional)
Add the following codec settings for mplayer:
ac=hwac3,hwdts,a52,dts, ao=alsa
Kodi can be used for media playback too, as most receivers do no support the AAC codec. Kodi will re-encode AAC to a common codec (AC3 probably) in realtime, so you can watch most surround sound media files. It also has a self-explanatory configuration system using a GUI.
To change volume using amixer and hotkeys, use the following command (for example):
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Wednesday, May 11, 2011
salt-preserved cherry leaves
tender leaves of a sakura cherry tree, (preferably yae-zakura)..... 50 grams
salt......10 grams (20% of the weight of the leaves)
white plum vinegar...... 50 cc
1. Pick the sakura cherry leaves while they are still young and tender (large ones work best) along with about 1~2 cm of their stems, and clean them well by rinsing in water.
2. Drain the leaves, and pat them dry. Place them in a sieve and pour boiling water over them.
3. Quickly place the leaves in very cold water to prevent further cooking or change in color.
4. Drain the leaves again and remove excess moisture by patting dry or using one of those plastic spinners you use to remove excess moisture from lettuce leaves.
5. Lay the leaves out on paper towels or a tray and separate them into groups of similar-sized leaves.
6. Sprinkle 1/3 of your salt over the bottom of a glass cake pan (or round plastic storage container). Divide up the leaves into groups of ten leaves of roughly the same size, and stack them on top of each other in the same direction. Lay the stacks in the pan on top of the salt, preferably without overlapping one stack with another.
7. Sprinkle the rest of the salt over the top of the leaves, and pour the white plum vinegar around and in between the stacks of leaves.
8. Place plastic wrap over the leaves. Then lay a flat lid or dish over the wrap, and something heavy, like a clean brick or some cans of soda, on top of the flat lid/dish.
9. After two or three days, each stack of leaves can be placed in a small freezer bag (press out the excess air). Do not remove the salt at this time. The leaves can be stored in the refrigerator or freezer this way for up to two years.
10. Soak the leaves to get rid of excess salt before using them in a recipe. When I use the leaves for sakura mochi, I like them to retain a slight saltiness.
NOTE: If you can't get hold of white plum vinegar, you can dissolve 50~60 grams of salt in 100 cc of lukewarm water and pour that over the leaves in place of steps 6 and 7.
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The Stanford Lean LaunchPad class was an experiment in a new model of teaching startup entrepreneurship. This post – part eight – was the last formal lecture. Parts one through seven of the lectures are here, Syllabus is here.
While this is the last lecture, the teams still have one more week to work on their companies, and then they have their final presentations – for 30% of their grade. All the teams have crossed the Rubicon.
Week 8 of the class.
Last week the teams tested their Revenue Models hypotheses: what are customers willing to pay for? This week they were testing their hypotheses about Partners. Partners are the external companies whose product or service combines with your Value Proposition to create a complete customer solution or "whole product" to satisfy customers. For example, Apple needed music from their record label partners to make the original iPod and iTunes experience complete. (The concept of Partners, took some explanation as some teams confused partners with the Distribution Channel.)
The Nine Teams Present
PersonalLibraries was now an on-line "social shopping system." After a week of hectic customer discovery, the team further refined their new business model. Their minimum viable product would be "Trusted Advice on products tailored to your needs by people and groups relevant to you." Their initial customer segment were upwardly mobile professionals with $2-10K discretionary purchases/year (excluding travel,) and their revenue model was affiliate program fees.
With the clock ticking down to the end of the class the team appeared to give up sleep for the remainder of the quarter. They contacted a dozen admissions consulting firms, ran three Usertesting.com video interviews on a social shopping tool, surveyed 40 Stanford students on their on-line shopping habits, and then did another survey of 700 Stanford MBA students (!) to find out what books they'd recommend for prospective students. They used that data as their first "trusted advice" for the new website they built in a week. http://insidely.com/books/
Within the week they were #6 in Google search results for "Stanford Admission Books."
Amazingly it looked like the PersonalLibraries team had restarted the company and found a segment where customers wanted their product. They had another week to go until their final presentations. This looks like a race to the wire.
If you can't see the slides above, click here.
Autonomow, the robotic farm weeder, spent part of the week investigating Partners that could help them build a more complete offering for farmers. The team talked to an agricultural sensor expert at U.C. Davis, a German applied Laser research group, a California organic farmer who wanted to be an Earlyvangelist, four service partners and three weed/pest management consultants.
On the technology front, last week they tested whether their Carrotbot (their research platform they built to gather data for machine vision/machine learning) could tell the difference between a carrot and a weed in a farm field versus the lab. This week the team started investigating whether the spectral reflectance curves of healthy green plants are different from weeds, and if so could an infrared Hyperspectral imaging camera be better suited than their current visible light camera for weed/plant recognition.
But what got our attention was when they told us they were investigating what it takes to kill a weed in the field. Their answer? With a laser. Way cool.
They spent the week sorting through some basic laser technical questions. How much energy does it take to kill a weed? Answer: About 5 Joules of energy. Next question: How much energy will the laser require? Answer: If the robotic weeder is traveling at 1.5 mph, the laser needs to kill the weed in about 10 milliseconds; therefore the laser needs to put out no more than 500 watts of energy. What wavelength of laser? Answer: The most cost effective wavelength is 800-900nm ~ $20/watt. But water (the main ingredient in a weed) best absorbs light at higher frequencies – think microwaves. Final question: Is the improved absorption efficiency worth the extra cost? Testing for all of these is required.
If you can't see the slides above, click here.
The next team was D.C. Veritas, building a low cost wind turbine for cities. Last week the team did mass interviews of city officials across the United States to understand the project approval process inside a city. This week they broadened the discussion with interviews with the city planner in Mariposa, Texas and the city engineer from Rapid City, South Dakota.
They worked on understanding their partners. D.C. Veritas needs three types of partners: installers (to reduce their overhead,) certification authorities (who would provide credibility) and government and research labs (for testing facilities).
Of real interest was their evolving view of their revenue model. Instead of selling a city the wind turbine hardware, their revenue model moved to a Wind Power Purchase Agreement, a long term contract with a city to buy the electricity generated by the D.C. Veritas turbines.
If you can't see the slides above, click here.
The Agora Cloud Services team was now making a tool set for managing Amazon Web Services cloud compute usage. They believed their tools could save customers 30% of their Amazon bill. Their value proposition was to provide service matching, capacity planning and usage monitoring & control. They had another 3 interviews, this time with potential partners and integrators.
If you can't see the slides above, click here.
The Week 8 Lecture: Q&A and Summing Up
Our lecture covered Key Resources and Cost Structure. The textbooks for this class were Alexander Osterwalder's Business Model Generation (along with the Four Steps to the Epiphany). So who better to have as a surprise guest lecturer for our last class than Alexander Osterwalder himself.
His lecture covered: What resources do you need to build your business? How many people? What kind? Any hardware or software you need to buy? Any IP you need to license? How much money do you need to raise? When? Why? Importance of cash flows? When do you get paid vs. when do you pay others?
Our assignment for the teams during their final week: What's your expense model? What are the key financials metrics for costs in your business model? Costs vs. ramp vs. product iteration? Access to resources. Where is the best place for your business? Where is your cash flow break-even point? Assemble a resources assumptions spreadsheet. Include people, hardware, software, prototypes, financing, etc. When will you need these resources? Roll up all the costs from partners, resources and activities in a spreadsheet by time.
The last part of their assignment is their final presentation – a "Lessons Learned" summary of their work over the entire quarter – which will count for 30% of their grade. To help them get ready for their final, one of our mentors plans to hold a mandatory "story-telling" workshop, to assist them in assembling their final presentation.
If you can't see the slides above, click here.
Over the last few weeks as our students presented, we had a growing feeling that we were seeing something extraordinary. Our teaching objective was to take engineers (with a smattering of MBA's) and give them an immersive hands-on experience of how an idea becomes a profitable business. We taught them theory, methodology, and practice using Customer Development and business model design.
Watching them we realized that we had found a way to increase the information density a student team could acquire in eight short weeks. But what was truly awe-inspiring was the breathtaking speed and tempo of the teams' Pivots.
All teams had all accomplished something remarkable, but it won't be clear what a singular achievement this was until we see their final presentations.
Stay tuned for the last post – the Final Presentations and Lessons Learned.
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RSC Gate
Stoat is all over IOP gate and got sucked into Svenskagata, so Eli went looking for fresh meat in the submissions to the Parliamentary Committee looking into the CRU affair. Being an immigrant to chemistry, the Bunny thought he would look at the Royal Society of Chemistry submission, and found some interesting things there that actually contribute rather than vent. The RSC has clearly thought about the changing nature of communication and the attacks on science and scientists that have brought us to this pass. As usual, go read the whole thing, but the important parts of the submission are below. (Emphases added by Eli)
8. With the increased use of electronic media, access to information is widespread for scientists and the public alike. While this is a great benefit to society, the quality and validity of information available raises complex problems as valid scientific information and general opinion are presented side by side. The inability to decipher which information is legitimate, results in confusion, misinterpretation and may lead to mistrust of 'science'. There needs to be a clearer understanding in the public domain of what constitutes a reliable source, including an appreciation for the process that is used for disseminating research and the advantages of peer review.
9. The peer review system is central to the credibility of science: its purpose to prevent the dissemination of unwarranted claims and unacceptable interpretations. Formally published scientific research is subject to this authoritative process whereby a community of qualified, impartial experts examine the information and possess the ability to prevent publication. Authors generally protect their data until it has been peer-reviewed and published in a formal publication due to the competitive nature of research.
10. The issue of misinformation in the public domain must also be tackled. Just as the scientific community must be open with regard to their evidence base, those who disagree must also provide a clear and verifiable backing for their argument, if they wish their opinions to be given weight. When disagreements occur, the validity of the analysis must be established before credence can be given to any opinion. Increased understanding of the process of scientific research, firstly in the government, but also within the media and general public, is vital in order to foster a more open sharing of information.
11. Support from the scientific community is needed to provide context and to explain the process by which conclusions are reached. Encouraging scientists to openly engage with the public can only be achieved if researchers are given the necessary backing in the face of any unfounded arguments against their work. This support must come from the highest levels, sending out a strong message on the importance of scientific methodology and research and promoting open sharing of information between scientists and the wider community.


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We're celebrating my birthday in style on June 1 with a rare 35mm screening of Abel Ferrara's gritty black comedy THE DRILLER KILLER (1979) at Hollywood Theatre! A frustrated artist becomes unhinged while struggling to pay his bills (sound like anyone you know?) and hold things together for his roommate and her strung-out girlfriend. When an annoying new wave band called The Roosters moves in next door...he finally snaps! What happens next landed this sleazy slice of guerrilla New York City filmmaking on the UK's infamous "video nasties" list along with 39 other films that were successfully prosecuted for violence under the Obscene Publications Act. You will laugh, cry and/or scream in terror. Just don't say you haven't been warned. The Driller Killer is coming. Tickets on sale NOW.
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NEW YORK – Prosecutors on Sunday asked a judge to schedule a Friday court appearance in New York for Jeffrey Epstein's longtime associate to face charges she helped him recruit women to sexually abuse.
British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, 58, was arrested Thursday at a $1 million estate on 156 acres that she purchased last December in Bradford, New Hampshire.
She has been detained without bail after agreeing to be moved to New York. Prosecutors have labeled her an "extreme risk of flight" and said they want her jailed until trial.
In a letter to a judge Sunday, prosecutors said they have communicated with Maxwell's defense lawyer, Christian Everdell, who would like a Friday bail hearing after written arguments are submitted by both sides Thursday and Friday. She will also be arraigned at the hearing.
An email seeking comment was sent to Everdell.
She has previously repeatedly denied wrongdoing and called some claims against her "absolute rubbish."
Prosecutors said they expect the U.S. Marshals Service to transport Maxwell to New York early this week.
Maxwell has been indicted on multiple charges, including that she conspired to entice girls as young as 14 to engage in illegal sex acts with Epstein from 1994 through 1997 at Epstein's residences in New York City, Florida, and New Mexico and at Maxwell's residence in London. Prosecutors say the charges carry a potential penalty of up to 35 years in prison.
Epstein killed himself in a Manhattan jail last August while he awaited trial on federal sex trafficking charges.
Acting U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss told a news conference Thursday that the investigation is continuing as the government seeks to hold anyone it finds aided Epstein accountable.
The arrest of Maxwell, a citizen of the U.S., France and the United Kingdom, came after she was described by some Epstein's victims as his chief enabler, someone who recruited and groomed young girls for abuse. Prosecutors say Maxwell had both a personal and professional relationship with Epstein.
Authorities said she sometimes hired girls to give him massages before joining as Epstein tried to engage the girls in sex acts.
Prosecutors last week outlined some arguments to keep Maxwell detained. They cited her wealth, saying she has had access to over $20 million in 15 bank accounts in recent years, along with her extensive international ties and the likelihood of a lengthy prison sentence if she is convicted.
Evidence in the case includes detailed corroborated information from multiple victims, along with documents including flight records, diary entries and business records, prosecutors said.
Since Epstein was arrested in July 2019, Maxwell had been in hiding in locations in New England, sometimes masking her location by changing her phone number and listing her name as "G Max," prosecutors said.
Associated Press writer Tom Hays contributed to this report.


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LONDON (AFP) - Aston Villa crawled out of the Premier League relegation zone by coming from behind to beat Reading 2-1 on Saturday, while bottom club Queens Park Rangers gave themselves further hope with a 3-1 defeat of Sunderland.
Villa had won just one of their previous 11 league games and went into the weekend in the bottom three, but they took the game to relegation rivals Reading from kick-off at the Madejski Stadium.
Christian Benteke hit the bar with an early header, while Andreas Weimann dragged a shot wide from a Benteke pass.
However, Reading took the lead against the run of play in the 32nd minute through one of the most comical own goals of the season.
There was little danger in Jobi McAnuff's low cross from the left but Villa defender Nathan Baker horribly sliced his attempted clearance and sent the ball spinning into his own net.
Fortunately for Baker, Villa equalised immediately, with Weimann teeing up Benteke to beat Stuart Taylor via a deflection off Stephen Kelly.
Gabriel Agbonlahor completed the turnaround in the 45th minute, smashing a left-foot shot into the roof of the net after Barry Bannan had hit the post.
Reading remain second from bottom, while Villa move out of the bottom three at the expense of Wigan Athletic, who stunned Everton 3-0 at Goodison Park in the FA Cup quarter-finals earlier in the day.
"The goals that we scored today were excellent - we don't look like a team that is fighting for its life," said Villa manager Paul Lambert.
"There will probably be a few teams looking over their shoulder tonight, and we have a bit of momentum at the minute." QPR stayed bottom, four points from safety, despite overcoming Sunderland to record consecutive wins for the first time this season.
Steven Fletcher put Sunderland ahead after 20 minutes at Loftus Road, dispatching Adam Johnson's drilled cross after a counter-attack led by Stephane Sessegnon.
However, Loic Remy's calm finish drew QPR level in the 30th minute and Andros Townsend put the hosts in front 20 minutes from time with a glorious half-volley from 22 yards that dipped into the top-left corner.
Both QPR goals had come from January transfer window arrivals and another new signing, Jermaine Jenas, got on the score-sheet in the 90th minute to secure victory.
"We didn't feel sorry for ourselves. The crowd were excellent and stayed with us," said QPR manager Harry Redknapp.
"That was the best I have seen us play. We need to have a run of results like that." QPR finished the day level on points and goal difference with Reading, who remain above their relegation rivals on goals scored.
West Bromwich Albion came from behind to win 2-1 at home to League Cup winners Swansea City, allowing Steve Clarke's side to leapfrog their opponents into seventh place.
Former West Brom striker Luke Moore headed Swansea in front in the 33rd minute, but the hosts replied through Romelu Lukaku's 13th league goal of the season five minutes before half-time.
On-loan Chelsea striker Lukaku saw a tame penalty saved by Michel Vorm early in the second half, but an unfortunate own goal gave West Brom victory in the 61st minute.
Gareth McAuley's header was headed off the line by Swansea full-back Angel Rangel but the ball hit the Spaniard's team-mate Jonathan de Guzman and bounced into the visitors' goal.
Swansea manager Michael Laudrup was aggrieved that substitute Roland Lamah had an 87th-minute goal ruled out for offside despite the ball apparently being diverted into his path by a West Brom player.
"What makes me frustrated is when you see our disallowed goal," Laudrup said.
"We are not talking about a decision; we are talking about the rules of football." Meanwhile, at a sleet-strewn Carrow Road, Artur Boruc saved an injury-time penalty from Grant Holt to earn Southampton a goalless draw away to Norwich City.
With five Premier League teams in action in the FA Cup quarter-finals this weekend, there are only two more top-flight fixtures on Sunday.
Newcastle United host Stoke City, while Tottenham Hotspur will look to tighten their grip on third place when they visit eighth-placed Liverpool.


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As at 30 June 2003, Tasmania had 3.4 million hectares of forested land, including 79,000 hectares of softwood plantation and 129,000 hectares of hardwood plantation. Approximately 30% (1.0 million hectares) of Tasmania's forested land is 'other private land'. Of the 2.3 million hectares of public land that is forested, 49% is State forest.


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*Crew Begins Week With Maintenance and Experiments*
Image above: Venice, Italy, is featured in this image photographed by a crew member on the International Space Station. Image credit: NASA . TO VIEW IMAGE GO TO http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html
The Expedition 15 crew begins the week with the replacement of several components in the Russian segment of the complex and medical experiments. Sunday was an off-duty day for the crew.
On Saturday, the station was reboosted by the Progress 24 cargo ship's engines to place it at the correct altitude for the docking of the ISS Progress 25 cargo craft on May 15. The reboost also provides at least six flight day three rendezvous opportunities for Atlantis during the STS-117 mission beginning on June 8.
Also over the weekend, Flight Engineer Sunita Williams conducted another weekend science session with the Capillary Flow Experiment, Interior Corner Flow 2. This experiment has applications to the management of liquid fuels, cryogens, water-based solutions and thermal fluids in spacecraft systems.
Flight Engineer Oleg Kotov completed another run of the Russian Diatomeya ocean observations program to record high production zones of phytoplankton. April and May are the period of most intensive blooming of phytoplankton in the North Atlantic waters.
Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin conducted another session with the Russian Uragan Earth-imaging program, taking pictures of natural environment targets, including those showing man-made impacts on nature.
+ View Expedition 14 landing images http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/multimedia/exp14_landing_images.html
+ Read more about Expedition 15 http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition15/index.html + Read more about Expedition 14 http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition14/index.html + View Crew's Daily Timelines http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/timelines/index.html