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I spent 3 days this week in beautiful Lake Cumberland State Park with my colleagues at a work retreat. This was definitely the best retreat we've had in the almost 11 years that I have worked there. One of the activities was for each person to decorate a puzzle piece to reflect his or her uniqueness as part of the School of Professional Counseling. I then put the pieces together to make the puzzle you see above. Can I just say how much I love this? I love, love, love it.
I learned of this activity at an Association for Play Therapy conference workshop a few years ago with Dr. Joyce Mills. The puzzle pieces we used were much smaller and the attendees got so into it that their pieces were so covered, covered, covered with collage materials that they couldn't be connected. Instead Joyce arranged them in a heart.
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We're not perfect, but therein lies the beauty.
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I don't like bacon. Why do they bring me bacon?
I'll send it back. I eat..not meat, things from the ground, fruit, I'm unitarian, not the right word…doesn't matter. Looking out of the window I murmur to myself
What place is this?
That's a quotation. Something. Was an actress, should know some. What's in that bag? Oh make-up. Look in the mirror. Who did that to my hair? Where are my highlights? Must go to the hairdresser. Put on my black eye-liner and Goth make-up. Looks odd but makes me feel better. For a moment there is a different bathroom reflected in the mirror behind the old lady I assume has to be me but doesn't look like me. A stone-built house in France. I lived there with…fat bloke, always angry, shouted a lot…don't remember his name. Didn't like him. Perhaps I'll call him Bacon. Giggle to myself and wave at the mirror. "Hello, Mr. Bacon! Glad you aren't here!"
I must have dozed off because when I wake up I am thinking of my boat, my lovely little yacht and Andy. Andy was my husband. He went away somewhere with a man, don't remember who. Wonder where he is now?
"Hello, Princess!" There's a man at the door. He didn't knock. Nobody knocks, that's rude. He smiles at me and looks sad. I wonder if he has a relative in this place, hotel, prison, what is this place? I smile back and offer my hand. We always shook hands in France. I don't think I'm in France now. People speak English to me and they don't shake hands.
"Would you like to use the computer today, Princess?" He is talking to me gently and I look at the machine he is setting up. I'm not stupid, I remember what a computer is, been using them most of my life!
"Who would you like to type to on Skype today, hmm?" He talks as if he knows me, as if we do this often but I can't remember. I wonder if I should give him a hug but decide not to, he might not take it kindly from a stranger.
"My boyfriend!" That came out a bit forcefully and he smiles again but still sadly. Poor man, he must have a lot on his mind.
I remember how to type but I stare at the icons and don't remember which to press first. He makes it work and sits on a chair behind me, playing with his mobile phone.
"Hello, my beloved." I type, "When will we be together? Is it soon? Can I come and live with you soon?"
The answer comes back from the screen "Yes, darling, very soon now." and I feel happy. I remember that my boyfriend and I can't be together but not why. He is in…. no, don't remember where.
The man with the white hair is crying over his mobile phone now, his shoulders shaking and I feel sorry for him. I wish I knew who he was. I turn away to type on the screen.
"Love you, Teddy Bear."
"Love you too, Princess! and a huggy teddy followed by a heart" Funny, that's what the man with the white hair called me. Shall I tell him? No, he is still sobbing. I'll ignore him and talk to my boyfriend. Wish I could remember … more.
A woman comes in with a tray, meat again and I scream at her. The man with the white hair goes to speak to her and I return to my screen to see "BRB…" my Teddy Bear has had to go away and I start to cry.
Where is he? What is this place?
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Monday morning this week found me getting a bit teary at my desk. (And no, not because it's January and it's cold and I wanted to be back in bed.) The news was full of inspiring women speaking up for themselves, amplifying the voices of others – and perhaps, finally, being heard.
At the 2018 Golden Globes, the #TimesUp movement was the talk of Hollywood. The black dresses on the red carpet were, as actress Amber Tamblyn explained, not a fashion statement. 'It is a statement of action. It is a direct message of resistance. Black because we are powerful when we stand together with all women across industry lines. Black because we're starting over, resetting the standard. Black because we're done being silenced and we're done with the silencers. Tonight is not a mourning. Tonight is an awakening.'
Images from the red carpet showed actresses arm-in-arm with each other, or with their 'dates', activists fighting for women in diverse sectors of society. A fashion parade was subverted into a spectacle of solidarity.
Not everybody was caught up in the moment. Notably, Asia Argento and Rose McGowan – some of the first and loudest voices to speak out against Harvey Weinstein – were critical of the proceedings, with Argento noting that she had not been invited, and McGowan tweeting that she has 'no time for Hollywood fakery'. It's certainly troubling that the women brave enough to start the movement seem to have been excluded from it going forward. Perhaps their rawness and uncensored anger have simply been found too unpalatable.
McGowan is certainly right to be wary of fakery in an industry notorious for it. It's somewhat uncomfortable that women proudly wearing black, including Emma Stone and Greta Gerwig, have formerly chosen to work with abusive men. On the red carpet, while the women were fierce and articulate, the men were not expected to step up in the same way. Despite the sea of black tuxes and '#TimesUp' pins, not one male Globe winner saw fit to speak out on his female colleagues' behalf during his moment in the spotlight.
Despite all this, though, there's reason to hope that real change is in the air. There is a substance to the #TimesUp movement which goes beyond soundbites: the women behind the initiative – a coalition of prominent actresses and female agents, writers, directors, producers and entertainment executives – mean business. Their aims include not only working towards gender parity and more effective legislation in the entertainment industry, but also putting together a legal defense fund to support less privileged women. The conversation so far may have centred disproportionately on wealthy, famous women, but those women are actively using their fame and influence to make a difference.
It's impossible to look at those images of artists and activists standing together, and not be inspired. It's impossible to watch Oprah's impassioned speech and not be uplifted. A spirit of boldness seemed to dominate the night, as women who might formerly have feared for their career or reputation spoke aloud about truths they'd swallowed for years.
Hollywood might be in some ways a frivolous place far removed from the reality of most people's lives – but it's also the place where our culture's most influential stories are formed. What happens there, for better or worse, has global reach. If the people who make movies can start telling better stories, maybe women across the world can start living them.
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I mostly find the current trans fad a bit misguided, and part of the reason why can be found in the LETTER TO THE BISHOPS OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH ON THE COLLABORATION OF MEN AND WOMEN IN THE CHURCH AND IN THE WORLD, written by then Cardinal Ratzinger. The whole idea that [biological] sex and gender aren't the same thing is already a part of Christian tradition. C. S. Lewis talked about this in his science fiction novel That Hideous Strength. The direction that idea has been developed of late bears no relation to anything Pope Emeritus Benedict would be likely to recognize, however.
At root, this is because current gender theory seeks to completely differentiate sex and gender, whereas the tradition that binds Benedict and Lewis sees these things as distinct, but related by analogy. What a world of difference that makes.
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Since the Department of Homeland Security issued the heightened alert on Sunday, coverage of the story by The New York Times has been erratic, to put it mildly. First they just reported the news. Then they disparaged the alert as based on old information. Then they checked their notes and reported that new information showed the old information would be relevant right about now. The frontpage of today's Times finally reflected the real seriousness of the situation. On the editorial page, though, the Times dealt with its own irresponsibility and incompetence like this:
The administration was obviously right to warn the country that Al Qaeda had apparently studied financial institutions in three cities with the idea of a possible attack. But the delivery of the message was confusing. The color-coded threat chart doesn't serve the purpose for which it was invented, and Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge is hopeless as a public spokesman on this issue. The Bush administration needs to come up with a method of communication that informs the public in a calm, clear way. Perhaps most important, people need to be made totally confident that this critical matter is not being tangled up in the presidential campaign.
The message was not confusing; the reporting by the Times was confusing. The editors were right, of course: "people need to be made totally confident that this critical matter is not being tangled up in the presidential campaign." The Timesshould begin with its own editorial policy.
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Readers will recall that in my August 2 entry I had harsh words for Larry Johnson, the terrorism expert who said just before 911 that Islamic terrorism was a declining issue, and who lately has been arguing that any anti-terrorist steps the authorities take should be "behind the scenes." It is easy to wax merry over Mr. Johnson, but I must report that I cited his analysis with approbation in my column in the September, 2001 issue of Business Travel Executive. I wrote the item in July. Here is what I wrote:
Memo from the Department of Fear. The bad news is that the number of international terrorist incidents rose last year to 423, up from 392 in 1999. The good news, according to Larry C. Johnson in an editorial in the New York Times of July 10, is that over half of last year's incidents occurred because of regional conflicts that are unlikely to affect most business travelers. Of these incidents, 186 were connected to the civil war in Columbia, and 63 because of the dispute between India and Pakistan over Kashmir. Mr. Johnson does not note that the Columbian civil war has the potential to affect the whole hemisphere, but certainly it has not done so yet. In any case, the CIA judged that, in 2000, only 153 terrorist incidents worldwide were "significant." Only 17 involved American citizens or businesses. The most at-risk category for Americans is the petroleum industry and related businesses, mostly in Columbia. McDonald's is also sometimes attacked as an American icon. The ten-year trend for terrorist incidents is clearly down.
And while I was digging through old issues of the magazine, I found this from the July 2001 issue, written in May:
Something odd caught my attention in May: for a week or two, everyone in Washington was talking about "homeland defense." This expression seems to have been coined to refer to antimissile defense. However, it has been extended to refer to counter-terrorism, meaning both the prevention of terrorist acts and dealing with the effects of any that do occur. ...For the business traveler, the immediate issue is not the threats themselves, but the steps taken to deal with them. After the Flight 800 disaster, remember, the government made the prudent assumption that the explosion might have been part of a larger terrorist campaign. The nation's airports were soon gummed up by vexatious regulations... I have checked with various sources, and nothing like that is planned now. Maybe all that will happen is that FEMA will get more planning powers. We will know more when Vice President Cheney issues a report in October.
My recollection is that I used the Johnson material because my commentary had been getting too ominous; it seemed time to devote my two pages to just Good News for one month. I continue to try to look on the bright side, but now I know better than to time-stamp my attacks of optimism.
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Several kind people have sent me the URL to the recent document from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on the collaboration of men and women in the Church and in the World. Indeed, despite my own pitiful inability to find a copy of the document to comment on in my last blog update, there is actually an embarrassment of sources. The Vatican has Cardinal Ratzinger's letter here, while Zenit has it here.
One of these correspondents also points out that the letter does not mention "feminism." The term "feminist" occurs just once:
Although a certain type of feminist rhetoric makes demands "for ourselves", women preserve the deep intuition of the goodness in their lives of those actions which elicit life, and contribute to the growth and protection of the other.
So what is the letter about? I would say that it is about this:
Male and female are thus revealed as belonging ontologically to creation and destined therefore to outlast the present time, evidently in a transfigured form. In this way, they characterize the "love that never ends" (1Cor13:8), although the temporal and earthly expression of sexuality is transient and ordered to a phase of life marked by procreation and death. Celibacy for the sake of the Kingdom seeks to be the prophecy of this form of future existence of male and female. For those who live it, it is an anticipation of the reality of a life which, while remaining that of a man and a woman, will no longer be subject to the present limitations of the marriage relationship (cf. Mt22:30). For those in married life, celibacy becomes the reminder and prophecy of the completion which their own relationship will find in the face-to-face encounter with God.
Unpack that paragraph, and you can build a whole world.
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Moving from the sublime back to the New York Times editorial page, we see that Nicholas D. Kristof had a column yesterday, entitled Martyrs, Virgins and Grapes, about what he imagines to be the opening phase of an Islamic Reformation:
Still, there are encouraging signs. Islamic feminists are emerging to argue for religious interpretations leading to greater gender equality. An Iranian theologian has called for more study of the Koran's Syriac roots. Tunisian and German scholars are collaborating on a new critical edition of the Koran based on the earliest manuscripts. And just last week, Iran freed Hashem Aghajari, who had been sentenced to death for questioning harsh interpretations of Islam.
The piece is worth reading, but it evinces a major confusion. Kristof is not talking about the spirit of the actual Reformation, but of the Higher Criticism of the 19th century. The Reformation, at its best, was driven by a ruthless piety. The Higher Criticism, at its best, was marked by intellectual honor, but its presuppositions were skeptical. We see the tail end of the Higher Criticism in such enterprises as the Jesus Seminar and the Gnosticizing propaganda of Elaine Pagels. Honor has departed from it; so has the power to persuade, if you ask me. Are we sure we want people like this to deconstruct the Koran?
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At Green St we believe that healthy eating should be a simple, fun and delicious part of everyone's everyday life.
We want remove the stigma and the stereotypes that have built up around 'clean eating', 'raw', 'vegetarian' and 'wholesome eating'.... You don't have to be a mad yogi, pilates instructor or food blogger to care about what goes into your body (we still love all you yogis out there, don't worry)!
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"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young." ~ Henry Ford
Every school child is taught that Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company, invented the assembly line back in 1913, but you shouldn't believe everything you hear.
It was actually Ransom E. Olds, of Oldsmobile fame, who invented and used the assembly line in 1901 to produce his cars. What Ford actually invented was the conveyor belt assembly line, which sped up production of his Model T and was the gateway for MASS production.
Until the assembly line came along, products were made by hand and usually by one person. But the concept of standardized parts that fit together had been around for a long time in Ford's and Olds' day, and using an assembly line became a no brainer.
Ford was 40 years old when he founded the Ford Motor company in 1903, and the Model T is considered the first mass-produced car, which fulfilled Ford's own prophecy "I will build a car for the great multitude."
Of course, assembly lines are even faster and more automated now. While some companies still combine human labor with machine, in many cases an entire factory is filled with machinery that assembles the product with no human involvement.
Take a look at this video for a fascinating look at Ford's assembly line and Model T production. I wish cars looked like that now. (NOT)
See the Assembly Line Wikipedia Article. Ford's Wiki Page and Books about and by him. His biography is free on Kindle. See Ransom E. Olds Wiki Page and his biography.
This article is similar to an article posted on www.denisemillerholmes.blogspot.com called Inventor--Henry Ford--Invented the Moving Assembly Line .


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The greatest surge of freedom a person experiences is between the ages of 18 and 29, the young adult years. Our young adult ministry exists to support and offer guidance to those who are traversing this challenging/freeing/difficult/supercharged time of life.
We believe that the only way to properly traverse these years of questions and decisions is to do it with Jesus right by your side. We are a community of young adults (18-29) that seeks to make a difference by serving God's purposes faithfully in this generation. We do this through our home groups, our main Thursday night meeting, yearly retreat, missions (Kenya and Guatemala), trips, and fellowship. If you are looking for a place to grow in your relationship with God, somewhere to become family and belong, then look no further.


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"And in 1st place, Mary Wilcox!" the judge shouts to all the crowd assembled.
We've all heard these words many times before, at all sorts of competitions, but certainly at ATA tournaments. And we all strive and hope to receive that award, or perhaps a state, a district, or even a world championship someday. Heck, most of us would be happy just to be listed in the WORLD top ten someday!
Goals build discipline…
These goals are very important. Goals give us direction. They help us make choices. If you have said, "I want to be state champ in form," then when you are faced with the choice of playing video games or practicing your form, you know you should choose practicing your form.
Goals also help us develop discipline. You gradually learn what it means to "do what needs to be done when it needs to be done." So when you practice that form regularly, and then go to an event and win, you see the value of sacrificing some leisure for working hard toward a goal.
Yes, goals are very important. The error only occurs when you pursue the goal at all costs and when you see nothing else happening except reaching that goal. I can't spend lots of time explaining this error, so please go watch the movie, COOL RUNNINGS. John Candy explains it all in this beautiful family movie. Let's get back to competition and a great concept called "personal victory."
A lesson from Tiny Tigers….
We introduce TINY TIGERS (our youngest students, ages 3-7) to competition in a very special way. In fact, it is not even a competition. We simply introduce them to the event itself which is held in a really big room, full of lots of strange people, in a new and different place, with instructors / judges they have never met. TINY TIGERS all receive the same award. There are NO 1st, 2nd, or 3rd place awards. What a novel —-and EFFECTIVE—concept!!! After they do this for a couple of years, they can then be encouraged to pursue 1st place. Now the instructors and parents begin to teach "personal victory."
PERSONAL VICTORY simply means that you achieved something you have never done before, regardless if that results in a 1st , 2nd, or 3rd place.
For example, an adult 4th degree black belt recently said to his center judge, all giddy with excitement, "I got a 7 from you today on my form. That's the highest score you have ever given me. Heck, as far as I'm concerned, I WON today." That's personal victory.
The more commonly term used is "doing your best." And that is fine. For example, parents can say, "Did you do your best today? That's all I ask for you. I don't care so much about the trophies. When you do your best, I am really proud of you."
Eternal Grand Master H.U. Lee
I prefer to use the term "personal victory" because I want to acknowledge Eternal Grand Master H.U. Lee who coined the term. I also want you to start looking at your competitions in "very small parts,"—and EVERYTHING you do in your Taekwondo training— just like that 4th degree I mentioned. Here are some examples of personal victory:
Now there's a list!
Here's one more item to add to your success kit:
KEEP A CHART: Track and Measure Everything!!!
All instructors track attendance. Why don't you track your own attendance? And while you are at it, start a notebook—or in today's digital world—an EXCEL FILE to track your kicks, calisthenics, jogging, classes, and any other things related to your taekwondo training. These charts help you celebrate little victories. They help you develop a sense of accomplishment. You look at them and say, "Wow! I took ___ classes. I did ______ kicks. I went to _____ tournaments."
And these little celebrations help you keep those 1st place trophies in perspective. They show you that you indeed are experiencing improvement and achievement. And that's what Songahm Taekwondo is all about!


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We now have been told for years, that there is little we can do to forestall Alzheimer's illness and other sorts of dementia however hope for one of the best and watch for a pharmaceutical cure. Disease prevention in this context is considered to be motion which often emanates from the well being sector, coping with people and populations identified as exhibiting identifiable threat elements, usually associated with different threat behaviors.
-Modifications-for-Heart-Attack-Prevention_UCM_303934_Article.jsp#.V1Cr09j2bcs. Heart disease may be a number one reason behind dying, but that doesn't imply you need to settle for it as your fate. You've a larger risk you probably have a detailed member of the family who had coronary heart disease at an early age.
On a conceptual stage, it is useful to characterize illness prevention services as these primarily concentrated throughout the well being care sector, and well being promotion providers as those that depend upon intersectoral actions and/or are involved with the social determinants of well being.
^ a b Chiolero A et al. The pseudo-high-danger prevention technique. If you do not get enough sleep, you increase your risk of hypertension, obesity, and diabetes. ^ Taylor WC, Move TM, Shepard DS, Komaroff AL. Price effectiveness of cholesterol reduction for the primary prevention of coronary heart illness in males.
In the present day, the most pressing well being issues in developed international locations are persistent diseases, reminiscent of coronary heart disease, cancer, and diabetes, and obesity. Relating to heart illness prevention, no quantity of smoking is secure.


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Gijsbregt Brouwer is a popular international speaker and trendwatcher on sport, food and media.
He shares his knowledge via Radio, TV and print, in live discussions and panels, in online blogposts and comments. He also teaches and he gives workshops. In 2010 he founded the popular sportmarketing blog Sportnext.nl. In 2014 he founded De Buik and in 2015 Jivescope. Gijsbregt won several prizes and in December 2010 he was the Dutch Online Mediaman of the Year.
His company Týrsday, helps athletes, artists and brands with their online storytelling and with earning an income through the internet. Gijsbregt also developed innovative products and services for TVM, Unilever, Rabobank, Delta Lloyd, EY, AD, Sanoma, KNVB, UEFA, NOC*NSF en the Rotterdam Marathon. He also coaches startups in the sports area.
Gijsbregt used to be a professional cross country skier and traveled the world to race World Cups and World Championships. Nowadays he is an avid runner and road biker and likes to use and test gadgets, apps and new sportswear.


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Bridgetown Church of Christ is hosting KidzBlitz, a live, interactive, and super-fun event for kids and their families on Saturday, February 17 from 6:00pm to 7:30pm.
What Happens At KidzBlitz? KidzBlitz is a crowd participation show that turns spectators into participants! Just by being in the crowd you are involved. During the event there is a blend music, visual effects, original games and crowd energy, to make sure everyone has the time of their lives. During KidzBlitz kids from the audience are chosen to come on stage where they compete in quirky games and challenges that become action-object lessons to communicate the message of God's grace and power.
What Is the Cost? KidzBlitz is $5 for kids 3 years & up. Adults get a free ticket with every child ticket purchased ($5 otherwise).
Pre-Sale Ticketing is now closed, but we still have room for you and your family! So come to Bridgetown Church to join in on the fun! The doors to the Sanctuary, where KidzBlitz will be held, will open at 5:30PM. The show will begin at 6PM.
Seating is first-come, first-served, so you are welcome to arrive early to begin waiting for the show. For those who arrive early we will have a waiting area setup with tables & chairs. Once the Sanctuary opens for the event, people will be released to enter in the order they arrived.


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Eye infections can affect any part of the eye. They can be caused by fungal, bacterial or viral infections. Sometimes allergies, environmental factors and excess straining of the eyes can cause eye infections. Contact lens usage increases the chances of eye infection as it reduces the oxygen supply to the cornea or due to fungal or bacterial build up due to poor disinfection of the lens. It can affect a single eye or both the eyes at the time.
Some of the common symptoms of eye infection are blurry vision, red eyes, watery discharge, constant irritation, pain in the eye and inflammation of the eye lids. The treatment for infections of the eye depends on the cause and the severity of the infections.
Common Eye Infections
Conjunctivitis or Pink Eye
As the name suggests, this infection affects the conjunctiva or the outer layer of the eye ball. It is commonly called pink eye disorder as the white portion of the eye appears reddish or pink in colour. The causes for conjunctivitis are many; viral and bacterial infections, allergens in the air like pollen grains, adverse reaction to contact lens usage, lack of hygienic habits like regular hand washing or cleaning your contact lens at frequent intervals and by touching or using articles that were used by people with eye infection.
Conjunctivitis is a contagious disease and can spread from one person to another or from one eye to another. The symptom of this infection lasts for 7 to 10 days. The treatment for conjunctivitis depends on the type of infection. Sometimes no medication is suggested other than rest to the affected eye for a week. In case of bacterial conjunctivitis, an antibiotic is suggested to curb the infection. Eye drops are the usual medication prescribed to cure conjunctivitis.
Blepharitis or Eye Lid Inflammation
Blepharitis is a bacterial infection that is not contagious. It results in the inflammation of the eye lids and the release of dandruff like particles from the infected eye. They may stick to the eye lashes and obstruct the vision. Lubricating ointments, antibiotics, warm compress and eye massage to drain the obstruction are some of the solutions for eye lid inflammation.
This infection is caused by the obstruction of the oil producing glands in the eye. It results in the swelling around the eye lashes or eye lids. It is not a painful condition and may disappear by itself in a few days. Warm compress helps relieve the irritation due to stye. In some cases, use of eye drops or surgical removal of the blocks may be suggested. Better hygienic practices, washing your hands before touching the eye, cleaning your contact lenses properly and using clean towels and bed linen are suggested to avoid stye. Stye is not contagious.
How to Prevent Eye Infection?
Better hygiene is the primary factor that helps in avoiding eye infections. Wash your hands regularly and make sure that there is no dirt or work related residues in your hand before touching the eye. Take all necessary precautions while working with chemicals. Select your eye makeup carefully and do not compromise on the quality. Keep your contact lenses clean and use them as prescribed. Do not share eye drops and contact lenses with other people. Protect your eye appropriately in harsh environments and during climatic changes.


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And Get Someone Else To Pay For Everything – Including Sending Out 10,000 Brochures
Step 6: Follow-up Relentlessly.
Immediately after the seminar, a letter should go out from THE SPEAKER. Since you are hiring them, in essence, to be your spokesperson, send out a letter to everyone present from the speaker, restating the offer of the seminar. Let's say at the seminar you offered the participants a package of goods for a certain price for "TODAY ONLY" Well, this follow-up letter can go something like this,
"Dear _________, thanks for attending my seminar the other day. As you will recall, I mentioned that (host company) was offering (Seminar offer) for a 25% discount if you bought today. Well, they have agreed to extend the offer for another 1o days. So, take my suggestion and give them a call…." You get the idea. It's basically, a way to get additional benefit from the speaker.
Whatever method you choose, you must follow-up quickly. Every day after the seminar those leads will get cooler and cooler. If you wait two weeks to contact them, you will have lost much of the momentum caused by the seminar. What we do is to get our clients to prepare that letter before the seminar and have them sent out the day after the seminar. The results it yields are phenomenal.
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perryny replied to Mike Friedman's topic in Main Internet Marketing DiscussionCongrats, Terra! On both the reply and the rejection... progress is progress and it's great to see you continue to move forward. Good luck with Agent #1.
I've never gotten an auto reply like that before. Interesting, as my business is conducted primarily through email. I am however seriously considering changing my voice mail message to, "If you leave me a voice message, I will not hear it. Please send me an email." I hate the phone.
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perryny replied to Mike Friedman's topic in Main Internet Marketing DiscussionThanks, Sal. I agree, 6 hours sleep probably isn't enough. Though I keep trying to make myself adjust to it. I've got to be up at 7:30 am to take my kids to school. But getting to bed before midnight is a real challenge for me. I've tried, many times. I hate it. I've always been a night person, and I don't see that changing. What I've been doing for years is I get up at 7:30, take the kids to school, and then come home and sleep for another 2-3 hours. But as long as I keep my day job (my own business) as a computer consultant serving business clients, it's definitely not a good way to work. As far as the rest of the schedule goes, it really should be very easy. I didn't schedule an 11 hour work day. It's 7 hours. 11:30 - 6:30. Pretty light by any working American's standards I think (and of course I'll give myself time for lunch and a break in there. I just didn't feel it necessary to pencil that into the schedule). I've got about an hour commute to get into the city and be at a client site, or to get to a Starbucks and work on my laptop. But I've given myself a leisurely 2 hours to get into work once I leave the house at 9:30 am. (And I've given myself a leisurely 2 hours to get my ass out of the house after waking up at 7:30.) And after 6:30 pm, the rest of the day/night is for anything I want to do - except for a half hour I spend meditating with my son. Overall, I think this should be a very easy, doable, healthy schedule to keep. Except for the getting up in the morning. That's a real problem for me.
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perryny replied to Mike Friedman's topic in Main Internet Marketing DiscussionHey guys. It's 3+ months in, and I wanted to post an update. Around the start of this in mid-December, I set out to create a schedule I could stick to. I've set a schedule, but as far as sticking to it, I've got to give myself a fail. Maybe a "C", as I've not abandoned it completely, as I might a diet or exercise program. I'm still very aware every day of what I'm supposed to be doing, exactly when I should be doing it. I just don't do it. The schedule I created for myself is based loosely off Benjamin Franklin's schedule, which I came across while trying to figure out what might work best for me. This is the kind of schedule I think would work great for me, and there's no reason I shouldn't be able to stick with it. I set alarms on my phone for the following times, every day: 7:30 - Get up 9:30 - Be out of the house 11:30 - Be at my desk, or at a client, working. I can work on my day-job computer consulting business, or I can work on my app. Just work, until... 6:30 - Quitting time. Then I can do whatever I want until... 8:30 - 30 min. meeting with my son (more about this in a moment) 12:45 - Bed time. Try to be asleep by 1. I stuck to this schedule for ONE day. Then, every day since, the alarms will go off, and I just acknowledge that I'm way behind schedule, or totally off schedule for no other reason than I lack discipline. I still try often to stick to the schedule, which I credit the alarms for. As long as I don't shut them off, I will be reminded 6 times a day that now is a good opportunity to get back on track and do great things. Most days I'll be close or on-time for at least some of my scheduled activities, but never all, except for that very first day. Pretty stupid that I can't do this. Anyway... I also wanted to get into meditation. And actually, it's going pretty good. I've gotten into it with my youngest son, which is what that 8:30 meeting is about. Just about the time I hopped into this thread, I got my 12 yr. old son's 2nd quarter report card, and it was really bad. Failing math, other grades dropped from C's to D's. Clearly going in the wrong direction - as I am well aware can happen, having great personal experience with this path myself. I know how this goes if he doesn't get some guidance. My brother-in-law got zero guidance. No one wants to be like "Uncle T." Often enough, someone, myself included, will say to my boy, "You want to be like Uncle T.?" We can all see, my kid's got the potential. My other two, older kids never really needed much guidance. I got crazy lucky. My wife does a great job and stays on top of the schoolwork and homework, but mostly she's there to help if they need or ask for it. She doesn't need to make sure they're doing their work. Generally, my two oldest are just really good kids who want to do well, And they do, all on their own. My oldest got himself into Harvard. My youngest has other plans. (Oops. 12:45 alarm going off.) So to try and help steer him right, I told him that every school night, we'll get together in my office at 8:30. We'll meditate for 10 minutes. Then, we'll look at his planner and make sure all of his homework is done. I give it a quick look, tell him how I think he did (neatness, is his name and date on top, did he leave anything out?) We check if he's got any tests, quizzes or projects coming up. And then we check the online Parent Portal (thank God they didn't have this when I was a kid) to see if he missed any homework and how he did on his last tests. It's working out very well. He still manages to slip an assignment past me once in a while (sneaky bastard. Chip off the ol' block.), and he does still fail some tests, but he passes way more than he fails and I believe every one of his grades will improve this marking period. We even got a call from his math teacher telling us he's seeing a marked improvement in my boy's performance. I don't think the meditation has much, if anything to do with this at all, other than it gets us to sit down together and relax for 10 min. or so. Neither one of us really looks forward to doing it, and neither of us particularly likes it. But we don't necessarily not like it either. And we know if we stick with it it should be helpful. So we manage to do it on average 2 days a week (which is how often my sad, undisciplined ass manages to make sure we have our daily meeting.) I first started by having us try to sit for 20 min. and focus on a mantra (which I believe is the basis of TM, which is supposed to be pretty good.) This sucked and there was no way we'd stick with it. Luckily, about the same time I heard Headspace.com advertised on a podcast. We went through the free, 10-session trial (over the course of about 3 weeks at our pace, each about 10 min long.) Then we tried a free 7-day trial at calm.com. We liked calm better, so after the trial I signed up for the year, and we're currently in the middle of our initial "21 days of calm". I'm confident will stick with this, and hopefully do it more frequently for the rest of the school year. I'm hopeful we'll continue through the summer, but that might be a tough one to pull off. We'll see. Didn't quit weed. I took a break for a couple weeks. It was really easy to stop. I just said, "If you have discipline, you'll succeed. If you don't have discipline, you won't succeed until you get discipline." I gave myself two simple instructions to follow to build discipline. 1. Stick to your schedule. (fail) 2. Don't smoke weed. (Success until two days ago, when I was working in the backyard. It was such a beautiful day. And I couldn't shake the thought,"You know what would be super-awesome right now as I work in the garden on this beautiful, first spring-like day of the year?") But not smoking definitely makes me better overall than smoking. And I really want better discipline. So I'm done with weed again. Haven't worked on my app since my last post about it in the thread I started about it. It's clear to me I still have a lot to do before I sink money into getting it made. I stepped away from it a bit, and I think I figured out what I need to do. Also, my brother is coming into town on Friday, and he's going to be staying with me for a few days. When we spoke yesterday, he said, "Hey, why don't we sit down and take a look at that app you've been working on." So, I'm going to sit down starting tomorrow, fix everything I think I need to fix (which is basically cut out about 90% of it) and then hopefully when my brother shows up, we'll have something we can work with. Hey, look at that. 1:45 AM on the nose. Perfect time to wrap this up and hit the sack. Only an hour behind schedule...
Would my app help you complete your projects?
perryny replied to perryny's topic in Main Internet Marketing DiscussionThanks, Shay! I didn't originally think of using this for client projects - but the application became obvious to me during the creation process. It's why I want to have the option to use any 3 characters for the "Op Score". I can use this for when I do billable work for my clients, and use that Op Score field to enter the first three letters of each client's name. When I look at that Completed Ops page, I'll easily be able to pick out what work I did for which clients. Thanks again! -Rob
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perryny replied to perryny's topic in Main Internet Marketing DiscussionThanks for the kind words, Terra! I've got a kid in college, who will be more than willing to try this out when ready and see if it's useful. Right now he's very into using the Pomodoro timer technique and he's just discovered the Bullet Journal system. He (like his old man) is a sucker for a new productivity tool, and he will be a great beta tester. Hopefully I can get him a working version before he graduates in 2020. I completely get what you're saying about this not being right for your method of working. If I had your discipline and ability to sit working for a long stretch, I never would have even thought to create such an app. But me personally, if I'm faced with a task that will be difficult or tedious or that I just don't feel like doing (like writing, or working on my app), I find it very hard to consistently motivate myself to sit down and do the work. And when I do sit down and get started, I find it very easy to get distracted and wander off (either physically, like to the kitchen, or to a new website or some other distraction on the computer). Creating a taskmaster who's watching when I'm slacking off and reminding me that I've been away from my project for too long is the most helpful thing I've ever done for my productivity. But I completely get that it won't be for everyone. I genuinely wish I was one of those people who doesn't need such a thing. Thanks again for your feedback and for taking a look!
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perryny replied to perryny's topic in Main Internet Marketing DiscussionThanks Sal. You're not the first person to tell me they can see this in use in a corporate environment. Maybe for the future. It's an exciting prospect. Can I ask what part of the app makes it feel so regimented? Is it having to list all the things you need to do for your project? Or is it the tracking your time with a timer? Or something else?
Hey d, Do you have a link to your website we can check out? I'm not sure ebay is the best place to try getting your initial sales. I use ebay pretty frequently as a buyer (and an occasional seller - it is a fun place to practice your sales writing), but when I go there to buy, I'm going there to buy (not shop), almost always for something specific. It's hard for me to imagine many people turning to ebay when they're in need of lip balm (unless maybe they're looking for a specific brand, or bulk). I think you'll have better luck trying to drive traffic to your site, where you can then sell your visitor on why your lip balm is the one to buy. However you go at it, keep going at it! Keep us posted, and good luck! -Rob
Hey guys, I've been working on an app for some time, called Project Time Machines. My next step is to hire a developer to build it for me. Before I take this step though, I need to get some feedback from prospective users, which I believe could be some of the people in this very room. I've put together a brief (as brief as I can make it) walkthrough of what the app does, posted below. (I realize much of the text on many of the fields is too small to read on the below images. If you like, you can see a larger, live demo HERE, where you can click on each of the fields for more info.) Would you mind having a quick look and let me know if you think this app could be useful for you? And if not, is there anything I could add or change that might make it useful? Any and all thoughts and ideas appreciated. Thanks again for having a look. Love to hear what you think, -Rob
Hi again, Fam, Mission accomplished. My prototype is complete. Well, complete enough where hopefully it's good enough to have fresh eyes take a look at it and maybe offer some opinions. Because I've been looking at this for so long now, I've lost all perspective. So, what I've created here is a prototype for an app called Project Time Machines. It's an app designed to help you complete your projects. If you choose to have a look, please understand, despite this being 2 1/2 years in the works, what you are now seeing is essentially a first draft. None of the features work. I'm sure there are still loads of broken links. It will be largely rewritten. The design in the next (working) version will be completely different. The purpose of this prototype is so I can give it to the people who will be writing, designing and building this app and they will start with a good understand what I'd like accomplished. I'm hoping before I take this next step, I could have you guys take a look and give me my first bit of feedback. Basically, what I'd love to know is: 1. Is it clear who this app is for? 2. Do you understand what the app does and how it works? 3. If you consider yourself to be a target user for this app, do you think you would try it? Any thoughts, opinions, critiques, suggestions, advice is appreciated. If you have either an Android or iPhone, I would really appreciate you installing the prototype as an app from the following link, if you could. I've found the experience to be smoothest and best when it's installed this way. Android Download iOS Download If you don't have a smartphone, or prefer to view it on your computer, you can do so here. Thanks again for starting this challenge. It lit a fire under my arse, and I'm making real progress. Best! -Rob Perry
Hey guys, If the challenge is still going on, I'd like to hop in. I wasn't ready last month, but I am now, as I see my finish line approaching. I'm building an app. I started working on it about 2 1/2 years ago. Phase 1 is to build a working prototype. I think I'm almost done with Phase 1 (hence, this post). Phase 2 is to assemble a team of a writer, a designer and a developer to build my app and post an MVP (minimum viable product) to the marketplace. Phase 3 is whatever happens once my product is out in the world and people are downloading it (or not). Not ready or interested in thinking about Phase 3 yet. The reason I spent so much time on Phase 1 - building my prototype is because I'm slow as shit, and because I want to spend as little time and money as possible on Phase 2 - hiring people and getting the app made. The better I can explain exactly what I want (which took me plenty of time to figure out myself), the smoother things should go. But I know historically how terribly I suck at explaining to people what I want, so I set out to make my prototype to do all the explaining for me. If I've done a good job with the prototype, there should be no question by anyone checking it out who the app is for, what it does, what it should look like or how it will work. So, my goal for this challenge is to have my prototype completed by Sunday, Feb. 19th. I'm going to show it to whoever is willing to have a look (I'll post here where appropriate, and elsewhere) and try to obtain feedback from 20 potential users. I'll use that feedback to polish up the prototype and then beginning March 1, I'll work to find a writer, a designer and a developer. (David, you still out there?) I'd like to set a goal date of April 15, 2017 to have my app available in the marketplace, for all the world to experience. Realistic? No idea. But I'm certainly ready to give it my best shot. See y'all in about a week with something cool to show you.
Found a niche, if anyone's interested
perryny replied to perryny's topic in Main Internet Marketing DiscussionMy mistake. I thought Armada was around first. And you're also right that it's not a cheap game. Unfortunately, I can't blame the kids for putting me in the poor-house with this one (in fact, they bust my chops every time they see me adding a new ship to my fleet.) Amazes me how much money people (who appear to have far less income than I do) pour into this game. Its what first opened my eyes to the marketing potential.
Found a niche, if anyone's interested
perryny replied to perryny's topic in Main Internet Marketing DiscussionArmada is a very similar game that's been around a little longer than X-wing. But look at the forum popularity of the two games. Not sure why, but X-wing has taken off in a huge way, like no other game in the FFG lineup. This thing is hot and not cooling down anytime soon as far as I believe. The only thing I see cooling down are the opportunities to get in while the gettins good.
Found a niche, if anyone's interested
perryny posted a topic in Main Internet Marketing DiscussionI've recently started getting into a semi-new game (been around since 2012) called Star Wars X-Wing. It's a miniatures game - you take little model ships from the Star Wars universe, equip them with a pilot, extra weapons, upgrades and such and have a table-top dogfight. Very strategic, yet easy to get into and lots of fun (if you're into that sort of thing). Very competitive too, as there are regular worldwide store championships, regional championships and "Worlds", which in the community is a pretty big deal. This is a niche game that's gaining a huge, dedicated following. I just went to check out the forum (posted on a page where all of the manufacturer's miniatures games forums reside) and... https://community.fantasyflightgames.com/forum/4-miniatures/ Impressive following for a 5 year old game, no? As a player (or wanna-be player), I see huge opportunities here (some of which are currently being capitalized on, but there's always room for better). The game has lots of little parts, like range rulers, tokens, dice, etc. The ones that come with the core set are made of cardboard. They give out fancy acrylic ones at the big championships. I've seen some nice sets offered on etsy, but like I said, there could be better, or more, or just different. This game is again, very strategic. Lots to learn if you want to get good. You have to learn to build a "List" - a good combination of ships and upgrades. You want a team that will work well together and can compete with other top, popular lists. You have to learn to fly - to outmaneuver and outgun your opponent. You also need to learn to predict what your opponent will do. Lots of chess and poker elements in here. You have to learn to "set up" - choose a strategic starting point and formation and how to place obstacles like asteroids and debris. But there's not a lot of good resources to teach you how to get good. There are several podcasts, but none that focus on the newbie or have a primary focus on how-to or strategy. Generally it's a bunch of nerds giving the play-by-play of some previous matches, or getting themselves wet over the upcoming releases. There are several good articles out there if you look for them, and several really good forum posts, but no stand-out guides or resources on how to play better. These guys appear to be getting it right - https://teamcovenant.com/ - but like I said... I think there's plenty room for more! Anywhoo... I got my hands full at the moment, but if anyone is looking for what sure looks to me like a hungry (and fun!) market, have at it!


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James Casey
Suzuki Australia is proud to welcome Suzuki's newest Ambassador, Stand Up Paddling Athlete, James Casey. James has a strong partnership with our Brookvale dealer, Col Crawford Suzuki.
James has always had a connection to the ocean, participating in surfing from a young age, kitesurfing in his teens and in the last few years Stand Up Paddling surfing and racing.
After competing in his first stand up paddle event in 2014, he is now an active member of the local Sydney, Australian and International stand up paddle community. In his relatively short time in the sport, James has built a reputation for being strong in both aspects of the sport, placing 2nd at the Stand Up World Tours Sunset beach Pro and placing 5th at the prestigious Molokai 2 Oahu.
Having gained the respect of his peers, James has had the opportunity to give back, being an active committee member of Sydney Paddle Surf Club, running ocean and flat water paddling training sessions with his coaching company "Kitesup Coaching' as well as becoming the Australia regional representative for the Stand Up World Tour.
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Residents of St Margaret's Court in Juniper Green were delighted to welcome a Paralympian silver medallist to their development, after he paid a visit to his Grandmother who lives at the sheltered housing development near Edinburgh.
Edinburgh-born Scott Quin won silver in the S14 100m Breaststroke event in Rio and visited his Grandmother May Patton, who's lived at St Margaret's Court for nearly 36 years. She previously worked as Sheltered Housing Manager at the development, retiring in 1991.
After the race, Scott called his Grandmother from Rio to tell her of his win, and May joked to 'mind your time for the phone bill'.
When Scott was born with Crouzon Syndrome, he was only given a three percent chance of survival and underwent major reconstructive surgery as a baby. At the age of 7, Scott started swimming and in last year's IPC World Championships in Glasgow, also won silver.
May has been with Scott every step of the way, attending as many of his swim meets as possible. She still goes with her daughter, Scott's mum Eileen, to collect him from his training at Heriot Watt University.
She said that watching the nail-bitingly close race from her living room in Edinburgh, in which Scott missed out on gold by just three-hundredths of a second, was "superb" and that she "erupted with joy" when finished with a silver.
I know all the hard work that he has put in and the countless 4am starts for his morning training sessions. Seeing him beam with happiness and standing on the podium in Rio is something I will never forget.", said May.
Tammy Easton, Development Manager at St Margaret's Court, said:
We are all so immensely proud of Scott. All of the development was egging him on and we can't quite believe we've had a Paralympian visit us here."


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MUSIC JEWEL: Melo- X Performance Of "Drunk In Love Remix"
DUHHH! Of course Kendrick's "Swimming Pools" and "Drunk In Love" would make for a match made in heaven!
After scavenging the internet streets following Jayonce's HBO 'On The Run' special I found magic.
In case you're like me and still not tired of Beysus or her super lusty number one hit, here, I bring to you dope ass remix performed by Melo-X live in the basement of the Sean Kelly Gallery in NYC. Hailing from my native hood of Flatbush, Brooklyn, Melo is also responsible for some of the sound and music production on Jay & Bey's On The Run tour.
Big tings!
He recently spoke to Billboard about working with the mutant couple, telling the mag:
"I remixed her project [Beyoncé], and did a live beat video for it, which was filmed at the [NYC] Sean Kelly Gallery," he tells Billboard. "She specifically saw the [live performance video of] 'Drunk in Lust,' a remix to 'Drunk in Love,' and wanted to involve me in what they were working on for the tour."
"They already had the story and the outline for the tour. The whole story is like you're watching a film and it's narrated by the music that they created together and separately," he explained. "They had certain scenes throughout the tour, and they'd want a certain vibe for [each] scene. We'd sit and talk about that the sounds. Then I'd go and create something. It was a mix of my ideas, with Beyoncé and Jay Z. I'd try to compliment them. I'd try to find a meeting point of what I do and what they wanted."
Melo-X has a full EP of remixed Yoncé tracks. You can download it here and peep the amazing performance of the remix above.


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- murphyspecialeventsAsked on November 11, 2015 at 10:43 AM
on my fall frenzy form I can't get the conditions options to load I click on it and nothing happens. I have cleared my cache and tried on a few computers.
- mflanaganAnswered on November 11, 2015 at 10:44 AM
I am having the same problem with all my forms.
- JotForm UI DevelopermertAnswered on November 11, 2015 at 11:32 AM
Hi everyone,
Firstly, sorry for the inconvenience. We had a temporary problem on "Conditions"; but the problem is fixed now.
Please, try to open "Conditions" again and if the problem is still there, please let us know.
Thanks for your understanding.
- mflanaganAnswered on November 11, 2015 at 11:34 AM
I am still not able to access the conditions screen. Furthermore, when I click on the Conditions button (or any other way to get there) it freezes the screen completely. I have to refresh to get it back to where I can scroll.
I know you are working on it, but just wanted you to know what I am experiencing.
- JotForm SupportBJoannaAnswered on November 11, 2015 at 01:25 PM
I saw that you opened separate thread regarding this issue. Please see an answer provided by my colleague on that thread.


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|No more TV. Not even videos. Today at about 4:25, I set about fastening the door on my TV/VCR cabinet. First I removed the cassette I made in Ohio, that had demos of my work from graduate school, and another anti-advertising piece made while in Bowling Green. That had been the last tape I watched. I flipped down the Che Guevara visor that filters light from the screen and pushed the foundling TV back so I could shut the doors. Glancing at the VCR, while the doors closed, I could see its led readout blinking 00:00pm.
|I fumbled for the key to the cabinet. Only one remained and, amazingly, was still on my key chain. It was bent. I noticed a fissure. Nonetheless I stuck it in and turned it around a bit. But it didn't seem to be the right key. Looking over the bulletin board and the various keys pinned to it, I sized up the likeliest candidates. Nope. This had to be the right one. I glanced nervously at the somewhat ill-used key. It was very short and probably couldn't be duped. Not a typical model.
|Fatefully, I tried one more time to get the lock to turn. This time it moved and locked the cabinet. Carefully I extracted the key. It was intact, but barely. Clearly one more recidivism will be the end of this key.
|So it is now an indoor mausoleum, a standing coffin, with television, Che-visor, an assortment of videos inside. The cabinet is now an indoor counterpart to Bert Hornback's backyard television burial of the 1980s, in Ann Arbor. I can't say I will really miss it, knowing its terrible character, and imagining no end to its decline into the crassest and most invasive registers of symbol shuffling.
|I would bury sooner than move it to my next abode.... if I had a back yard.


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Construct Foundation and its' partners—Concordia University, Oregon Community Foundation, and Ken and Marta Thrasher, along with our thought leader, the Oregon Business Council—are pleased to present The Future of Learning. As always, we are grateful for the opportunity to work with College Possible in support of recruiting diverse students.
This short film provides a look at Construct's Breaker summer 2017 design challenge where we tasked high school students with answering the question:
After two weeks working alongside experts, mentors, and with the generous contributions of members of the unique learning eco-system assembled for this challenge, these amazing students dazzled industry and education leaders with smart, thoughtful, and innovative solutions to this complex real-world problem. Click here for details on the 10 day challenge and the final product solutions.
Construct is following-up this impressive effort with an intentional, new, next step in the process—a Phase II opportunity where our high-schoolers will be moving one of their creative design solutions for the Future of Learning from prototype to product.
Thanks to all our supporters and partners, Construct has had a tremendously busy 2017. Besides the Breaker summer high-school challenge: we launched our first in-school Breaker effort for elementary students; hosted a social justice challenge at Concordia University; facilitated a pilot cohort of School Retool--a change framework program from Stanford's d.school K-12 lab--for Oregon principals from the mid-valley and metro regions; and we brought Breaker teacher training to Yamhill County.
The James F. and Marion L. Miller Foundation, Ford Family Foundation, and Oregon Community Foundation provided invaluable guidance, support, and resources to our work this year.
Next year will bring even greater outcomes. We're hiring a Director of Programs; expanding our partnership with Innovate Oregon with whom we are presenting at an innovation summit for the Confederation of Oregon School Administrators for an anticipated 500 school leaders; our second School Retool effort will launch in Central Oregon; and we're continuing deeper learning programming work in Newberg, Willamina, and at Centennial High School.
Stay tuned for the next chapter of Construct. It's gonna be a doozy!


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Ho Chi Minh City
Located near the Mekong River, Ho Chi Minh City is the largest and most exciting city in Vietnam. The population of around 9 million people makes it one of the densest urban areas in the world and it's common that several families share the same living space together.
Travellers will likely be amazed by the vibrant mix of old and new including war relics from the devastating Vietnam War and well-preserved colonial structures. The vibrant nightlife of Ho Chi Minh makes it stand out from other cities in Vietnam.


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I took the above picture about an hour ago. I took the doggies for a long walk and encountered this gem. I always walk by here. I always do, but I never fully realized how beautiful it actually looks. So I took this. The reason I'm posting this today is not only for Monday Morning Gossip (or in my case, Monday Evening Gossip). It's for me to remember where I have lived for the past three years and what I will be missing once I move away. Before I get into this topic - and I might as well touch on this in another post - I want to look forward to this week; with a list. Maybe I'm going to continue making a list to keep track of my last few weeks left here in Southern California. I will miss it dearly. Yet I know I will return; latest on 7/4 or 8/15 to a dentist appointment. :)
The Happy Moments to Look Forward to this week
♥ warm weather (a given here maybe, but I'm still so happy about it)
♥ gluten free bakery visit on Wednesday so I get my gf cake/cupcakes for my birthday in June
♥ spending time with my favorite person
♥ catching up on friends and blog friends
♥ Mary Kay Party I am attending to support a very dear friend (I started to love this stuff! WOW!)
♥ creating Easter bags for that mentioned MK party
♥ Easter Sunday spent in Hollywood
The Not so Happy Moments to Not Look Forward to this week
- math exam on Wednesday; I'm dreading this one the most. Yikes.
- Easter Decoration - well, I love it but our apartment lacks any deco so that is why it's on the sad side.
I guess this week is going to be fun except that one hour on Wednesday. I have more to look forward to than I expected. Cannot wait.
Are you linking up with Monday Morning Gossip over at Leeann's and her co-host Kimberlee? You should.


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My phone rang around 7:30pm last night. It was my friend Violet, she was really upset. Violet owns a restaurant in the Meat Packing District and her customer of ten years, dropped dead yesterday. She called wondering what the meaning of life is. I wrestle with that question everyday.  She was uncomfortable with how upset she was. I comforted her and told her that she had every right to be sad. The man  ate in her restaurant 3 to4 times a week for ten years.
As I'm wiring this it's coming to me. That is the meaning of life. To feel your feelings and to not be ashamed of them. To not judge yourself. Sometimes the feelings are excruciating, but if you don't feel them the get repressed and when you repressed the bad feelings the good ones have to go as well.
I was having lunch with her last week when a man walked in and V asked him if he wanted his table. Apparently he sat at the same table all the time and we were sitting in it. He smiled and said "no worries."
He died a week later. Maybe he was telling us something. Maybe he had no more worries maybe he was ready to be zapped.
I think the meaning of life it to grow and feel and love and get angry and heal and do it all over again and again.
I think the meaning of life is to accept that we are all going to get zapped, and the sooner we accept it the sooner we can get to the business of living because it's not until you are not afraid to die that you are truly free to live.


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Over 40 Years of Excellence
Throughout our history, CMA has provided comprehensive architectural, planning, and interior design services nationwide. Our extensive range of projects includes retail, restaurant, religious, distribution, office, government, educational, and housing. As we celebrate over forty years of design experience, we celebrate, too, the special blend of imagination, experience, technical knowledge and consistent performance that is reflected in four decades of superior design solutions for an ever-broadening client base.
See some of our projects here.
The Mission
LISTEN to our Clients.
THINK strategically.
COMMUNICATE our ideas.
DESIGN to meet Client goals.
BUILD rewarding relationships that enhance communities.
Our Reputation
We take great pride in the services we provide and take any feedback we receive to heart. It is that level of pride that propels us to continually strive to offer increasingly excellent projects.
As a direct result of years of dedicated architectural services, CMA was recently called on by a former client to begin working with the new brand that they had moved to and was quickly brought aboard to join their stable of architects. Now, less than three short years later, we are the architect of record on 100% of their projects. CMA is honored to have such strong relationships with our clients and contacts.
Who We Are
At CMA, we believe that architecture is collaborative. We take the time to get to know our clients' business, their vision, and their strategies for growth. Our goal is to build mutually rewarding and multi-dimensional relationships. We do not just produce work; rather we provide a "high-touch" level of service. This has allowed us to develop relationships with clients that last for decades, not just years.
We assemble a specialized team with the most well-suited skillsets for each client account, and we work to become not just a vendor, but a team member that lives for the brand as you do. It is because of this passion and dedication that we provide far more than a set of construction documents – we provide a long-term partnership.


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When I try to put MLR's accomplishments in tangible terms, I sometimes think of the road from Virginia City to Ennis. The next time you find yourself making that drive I suggest that you stop at the top of the ridge before the road drops down toward Ennis, pull over to the side, and survey the landscape. In the distance to the east you'll see the peaks of the Madison Range, towering over the Madison Valley with its blue ribbon trout waters. That beautiful valley, for the most part, is intact and undeveloped. Redirect your gaze to the slope below you, and you'll see the clusters of ranchettes and subdivisions that chop up the land. In other words, you see what the Madison Valley might have looked like had The Montana Land Reliance not worked so tirelessly to preserve that landscape.
That particular juxtaposition of beautiful open space with helter-skelter development is jarring. You can probably think of many more examples that illustrate MLR's profound and lasting impact on this state.
A lot of us in the MLR family are fond of reciting facts about our organization. We like to find ways to quantify our work in terms of numbers of acres conserved, the number of miles of streams and rivers protected, and—as
I alluded to above—the number of subdivisions that haven't been built.
I'm honestly blown away by how effective this organization has been since its inception. I have the privilege of serving on the board of the Land Trust Alliance (LTA), which includes more than 1,100 land trusts across the nation. When we look at MLR in the context of the national conservation movement, what we've been able to accomplish is staggering.
But as I've been thinking about MLR recently—contemplating our successes and milestones and trying to put my finger on just what it is that has made us so effective—I realize our secret is that we've always been dynamic, creative, and evolving. It's not that we have a single formula or template that we keep utilizing. For decades now we've adapted to the changing landscape of conservation. Not only that, but to a large extent we've had a significant hand in changing that landscape.
The genius of MLR has been our ability to effectively work on big picture issues on a national level, while at the same time forging and maintaining
relationships with individual landowners, listening to their needs and concerns, and working with them to develop a plan that works for them. Because each piece of land is different. Each easement donor—or potential donor— has a different set of goals. As you will read in the pages that follow, while there is certainly a common thread of conservation values that bind the MLR family, there is also a tremendous variety of backgrounds and perspectives. And that is something that we have always honored and valued. I like to think of The Montana Land Reliance as a diverse group of people coming together to do the right thing for their own reasons.
As we move forward, private land conservation is likely to be a little bit more of a heavy lift. We will have to be innovative about exploring new funding sources. But regardless of the financial incentives, we still need to do what we've always done to expand protected lands. It would be a mistake for us to rest on our accomplishments.
We are extremely fortunate to have a hardworking and creative staff that is second to none, a staff that will ensure that we continue to evolve and adapt. Because, at the end of the day, remember this: a million acres is fine, but it's just a start. It's our job to take the excitement of that big number, and convert it to fresh ideas.


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A Closer Look at MiFID II Recording Requirements
The Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II)—arguably the greatest reform to hit Europe's financial industry—is finally in effect as of January 3, 2018. This EU legislation serves as a much-needed upgrade from the original MiFID, enacted in 2004, and addresses key issues that resulted from the 2008 global financial crisis.
The directive requires all national governments in the EU to adopt certain laws, which they are free to do in their own way should the resulting effect be the same. Financial services institutions—specifically investment firms, credit institutions and trading venues—are subject to MiFID II, including companies that are headquartered outside of the EU but do business there (for a more thorough overview, see this blog by industry analyst Sheila McGee-Smith).
Recording Regulations: Raising the Bar
Perhaps the greatest impact of MiFID II is the law's tighter recording regulations. Under the 2004 MiFID directive, there was no mandatory requirement to record communications involving client orders. To ensure fairer, safer and more efficient financial markets, MiFID II now requires firms to record communications (both phone and electronic) for the following investment services:
- Reception and transmission of orders
- Execution of orders on behalf of clients
- Dealing on own account (takes place when a firm puts its own trading books at risk)
The specific customer interactions that are required to be recorded in relation to investment services include:
- Receipts of client orders
- Transmissions of orders (both where the investment firm transmits and executes the order)
- Conclusions of transactions when executing orders on behalf of clients
- Conclusions of transactions when dealing on own account, regardless of whether a client is involved in the transaction
Important note: MiFID II covers all communications relating to activities intended to result in the conclusion of a transaction or the provision of client order services, even if they do not result in a financial transaction.
Communication of orders placed through channels other than voice—postal mail, faxes, emails, SMS, face-to-face conversations recorded using written minutes—must be stored in a durable medium.
Keep in mind a few rules that apply to this 'durable medium':
- Records must be able to be replayed or copied
- Records must be retained in a format that does not allow the original to be altered or deleted
- Firms are required to ensure the quality, accuracy and completeness of all phone records and electronic communications
- Records must be kept for a minimum of 5 years and, if requested by the National Competent Authority in a specific country, up to 7 years
- Clients must be notified in advance of recording
- Records must cover communications made with, sent from or received by equipment provided or permitted by the investment firm (privately-owned equipment used by employees or contractors is not prohibited)
Ensuring Compliancy with MiFID II Recording Regulations
If your business is involved in financial services in any way—even if it's not your main focus (i.e. credit institutions performing investment activities, branches of third country firms)—you'll need to investigate to understand whether this new legislation will affect you and, if so, what you need to do to comply.
We recommend a thorough review of compliance across all channels (including back office processes) to determine if they meet the new regulations. If not, you'll need to deploy a workforce optimization (WFO) solution to demonstrate that policies, procedures and management oversight of the new recording and monitoring rules are in place. Here's what you'll need to consider in a WFO solution:
- Continuous recording: This goes for all inbound and outbound voice and other electronic communications based on business rules. You need a WFO solution that will capture, search and retrieve calls, offer encryption for secure storage, and offer pause and resume capabilities.
- Desktop screen capture: This is an undetectable back-end process that records desktop screen activity during each customer interaction. Supervisors and managers can use this both in the contact center and back office to view customer interactions from beginning to end via synchronized screen and call recordings.
- Quality management monitoring: Identify and capture areas of non-compliance, while measuring how well employees are delivering services that align with customer experience expectations.
- eLearning and coaching tools: Bring employees fully up to speed on regulatory changes and any new requirements, as well as correct any non-compliance behaviors.
- Voice analytics: Proactively identify, measure and isolate areas of non-compliance by mining intelligence from large volumes of recorded calls.
- Workforce management: Schedule employee compliance training while ensuring you have enough support personnel with the right skills to serve customers.
The greatest threat to reputability, revenue and customer experience is the thought that your technology is "good enough" to meet current needs. Your ability to innovate and grow are hinged on technology that meets the next-gen needs of today, tomorrow and beyond—something that only 24% of companies say their workforce optimization and recording systems achieve.
To complete a thorough review of your current MiFID II processes, connect with Avaya. For a deeper dive into MiFID II (including a few WFO features not mentioned above) download the white paper MiFID II: What Does it Mean for Your Organization?


text: The Combs Kentucky Post Office is just a bump in the road housed in a converted storefront. On the day Jeff rode from Vergie to Combs, it became a meeting place for fellow cyclist, Joe, who was traveling east. Joe is 31 and he was fully loaded and self-contained. He lives in Lexington, KY, works in sales, and just decided to take a month long sabbatical from work and see how far he could get on the Trans America Trail.