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Only then can Management obtain a clear picture of the human resources at their disposal and in turn, the organisation's collective capacity. HR Management for Greentree (HRM for Greentree) provides the tools to create a human resource information system that forms the basis of your organisation's workforce planning and analysis.
Key Benefits
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- Detailed Employee Information
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Greentree is enabled for Internet deployment, out of the box, using its thin client technology. This allows remote offices or travelling executives to obtain secure access to the complete functionality of Greentree via an Internet Service Provider.
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The Employee maintenance screen drives HRM for Greentree. From this screen, users can enter and view a comprehensive range of details pertaining to each of the organisation's employees. In addition to the employee's basic contact details, users can input/view the employee's picture, allocated role(s), curriculum vitae and a log of all events that are relevant to the particular employee.
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Virtually every organisation has standard functions that are fulfilled by employees. HRM for Greentree allows these functions to be created and defined by the HR Managers, which in turn can be allocated to employees as they take on new roles and responsibilities. Using standard functions, HR Managers can ensure that when new functions are assigned to employees, the employee is suitably qualified and equipped to successfully carry out the tasks required. The functions defined and documented can range from formal job descriptions to informal 'everyday' tasks.
Each time a new job function is assigned to an employee, HRM for Greentree adds this assignment to log of the functions that the employee has been allocated. From this screen, users can view the employee's tenure in each job function and which ones they are currently performing.
Curriculum Vitae
A full account of each employee's Curriculum Vitae (CV) can be kept either as a structured database records, or as a freeform word processing document attached to the employee record. The CV details include certification, training, skills, education and prior employment.
HRM for Greentree allows you to attach relevant documents to each of the CV items, for example certificates, degrees, licences etc., as well as letting you create links to other pertinent records within Greentree.
Skill Search
HRM for Greentree's Skill Search allows perform powerful searches to be performed on the employee database, based on each employee's CV details. An unlimited number of search filters can be nominated, and broken down into Requirement/Type/Level. There is also the option of specifying whether an employee needs to match any or all of the specified criteria. When the 'any' option is chosen, search results are ranked in order of percentage of criteria that are met.
HRM for Greentree allows you to capture any grievances that occur within the organisation. This important information is critical in ensuring that an appropriate resolution is achieved. The Grievance Maintenance screen records the type of grievance, e.g. workplace bullying, the key people involved in the grievance and the outcome(s). Grievances can be recorded by both employees and external parties.
Disciplinary Actions
The Disciplinary Action screen can take full account of the circumstances and outcomes arising from the action taken. Disciplinary Action Maintenance is comprised of an extensive range of fields to ensure that all critical details relating to the disciplinary action are recorded. These fields include people involved in the disciplinary action, any hearings and appeals, and a log of any events that transpire once the action is taken. In times where a grievance requires disciplinary action, it can be easily cross-referenced.
The Committee feature records the formation and affairs of the committees formed within an organisation and can include both employees and external parties. Committee Maintenance captures important information related to the committee's status and purpose, its past and present members and their role within the committee, the committee's meetings and any other applicable events. You can also use Committees to distribute meeting agendas, invitations and minutes to relevant members, via mail merge or email.
Related Person Maintenance
When events take place that involve other people, HRM for Greentree uses the Related Person Maintenance to add each person, be they an employee or external person, to the HRM for Greentree record. When users view the record, and its related people, they can drill-down on the person's name to retrieve that person's details instantly, along with a section for freeform notes that relate to the particular event.
Record Status
To cater for even the most dynamic workforce, HRM for Greentree allows you to activate, deactivate and reactivate records, as circumstances require. This is particularly useful for organisations that use contract or casual labour on a regular basis.
HRM for Greentree allows users to attach files of any format to any of the HRM for Greentree records; typical examples would include résumés, licences, certificates or incident reports. Each attachment is catalogued with summary information and stored in a tightly compressed database. These attachments can be opened and printed directly from Greentree at any time.
Extensive Reporting Capabilities
HRM for Greentree is supplied with a number of standard reports that provide insight and breakdowns required by most organisations. Like all other Greentree module suites, HRM for Greentree can be accessed by a number of reporting tools, such as Excel, Access, Crystal Reports, ODBC, as well as Greentree's built in report writer.
Powerful Security
Given the potentially sensitive nature of employee information, HRM for Greentree is equipped with an intricate security model, which while being functionally sophisticated, is straightforward to setup and maintain. HRM for Greentree security gives the option of being able to designate whether HRM for Greentree users are able to access Payroll functions and data, HRM for Greentree information or both. HRM for Greentree facilitates security rules that be applied to an individual, or a team's ability to perform functions and to access particular records. Importantly, each individual's records can be secured, so that only certain users can access those records. For example, management's staff records could be restricted to select people who handle the executive payroll or executive HR functions. The security settings within the HRM for Greentree suite are respected in all reports, enquiries and maintenance screens.
Incident Maintenance
The Incident Maintenance screen allows users to input and view all of the necessary information relating to workplace incidents. Available fields relate to the person(s) injured, the surrounding circumstances, the people involved at the scene and the ensuing events that occur.
Integration to Payroll
HRM for Greentree and Payroll are fully and reciprocally integrated, where any data HR or Payroll data entered against an employee is automatically reflected in the corresponding record. Users with appropriate security privileges can actually perform HR and Payroll employee maintenance functions from the one screen.
Integration to Customer Relationships Management (CRM) suite
In many cases, the events that are captured in HRM for Greentree involve people who are not employees of the organisation. HRM for Greentree is integrated with Greentree's CRM Contacts & Relationships module so that external parties can be entered as 'contacts' and their details stored in Greentree for future reference.


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Edward Leigh, the Member of Parliament for Gainsborough, today welcomed the Prime Minister's announcement of new incentives for communities that allow shale gas extraction in their area. David Cameron's speech in Beckingham came as French energy firm Total made it known they intend to invest £12 million into shale gas extraction in Lincolnshire.
"So long as local planning committees have the final authority on whether to allow them or not, I am in favour of shale gas extraction," Edward Leigh said. "Luckily most of the kinks of fracking have been worked out abroad, where the procedure has been used for over sixty years. The incentives the Prime Minister announced here in Lincolnshire this week will allow local authorities to keep all business rates incurred through fracking, which should provide a welcome boost to local coffers.
"We have an opportunity to release a massive new energy resource for Britain, to reduce people's monthly costs and help balance the books a little," the MP continued. "We'd be foolish not to explore it further, but ultimately it's local residents who must have the final word on whether they go through."
Readers know that the preservation of our beautiful countryside here in Lincolnshire is one of my absolute priorities. I've written in this newspaper about a wide variety of issues we need to be concerned about in Lincolnshire. This has ranged from the unsightly and unsustainable wind farms to more subtle issues like planning for future development and the potential dangers involved therein. We need to be on guard to protect our way of life, our natural environment, and to ensure that we continue to provide a liveable setting for ordinary working families and individuals.
That is why I have cautioned a prudent approach to development, lest we overload our already stressed infrastructure and overstretch our local resources. There is another issue which I suspect we will be confronted with more and more often in the coming year or so: hydraulic fracturing, or 'fracking'. Fracking is the process of using hydraulic drills to dig deep within the earth to gain access to (usually) petroleum or natural gas. Read the rest of this entry »


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Great to see our island continent friends in the southern hemisphere bringing greener boards to their beautiful waves. While hemp as a fiberglass replacement* has been around for awhile, I think Chad Jackson from the Central Coast of California (hempsurfboards.com) started the movement, more board builders world-wide continuing to develop and market the product is a good thing. Check the vid for some stylish lines on a Campbell Brothers design with hemp, a more flexible, durable and greener alternative to fiberglass. Turn it up, highly danceable tunes! Originally posted on The BOMB Surf
Are you interested in greener boards? Make sure to check out the ECOBOARD project by Sustainable Surf to learn "What is an ECOBOARD?" and where to find shapers and glassers. To be in the know and on the forefront of greener board building practices, check out the mad scientists at ETech Surfboards and Glassing, the world's first and only green surfboard factory. *All things considered the footprint of fiberglass is not as large as compared to the footprint of a surfboards foam core (blank) and resin. It would be interesting to see if this board was built with a recycled EPS or bio foam and a bio epoxy resin.


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03 Oct BONMi Iced Coffee to help Louisiana Flood Relief
BONMi Vietnamese Iced Coffee to help Louisiana Flood Relief.
We've paired our Cold Brew Vietnamese Iced Coffee with your warm heart to help Louisiana Flood Relief.
For the entire month of October, BONMi will be donating 25¢ for every bottle sold of all our famous Cold Brew Iced Coffees to aid in the Louisiana Flood Relief efforts. Given our belief in being a positive part of community, it is the right thing to do. After all, we brew our iced coffee from beans from Louisiana's famous Café du Monde. They are famous for their smooth, rich French roast flavors. Now our Louisiana friends are in need.
Victims of the Louisiana flooding of 2016 are still in need of help
The Louisiana flooding of 2016 is one of the worst natural disasters to hit the United States in recent years. Its affects on the environment and thousands of residents have been catastrophic. The flood severely damaged an estimated 40,000 to 110,000 homes. The flooding also claimed lives and threw thousands people, livestock and pets into upheaval. While the news cycles have moved on, and we rarely see updates on the flooding anymore, help is still desperately needed. Many of the people in the Baton Rouge area are still living in limbo. Residents are in need of relief in the form of clean water, food, clothing and shelter.
Baton Rouge Area Foundation
Our relationship to Louisiana through our coffee has been a happy one, and it is our intention to make it a compassionate one as well – with you. Buy a bottle of our Iced Coffee and we'll donate 25¢ to the Baton Rouge Area Foundation and their efforts to provide for their residents. Additionally, we will have Café du Monde coffee containers in our stores to collect donations of change. We know every penny counts when people are suffering – Let's help together!


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Alcohol brings out what is inside, so if u feel bad it will get worse and if u feel good u will get better.
well said. it very much does bring our soul to the surface. we get drunk, lose our inhibitions, and there 'you' are. eat mushrooms and its similar experience, just much deeper.
it inhaces any emotion you have at times
depends on the drink.
Short term: Better. Long term: Worse.
I only think about the short-term... :D
Better initially, worse the following morning if I drink too much.
Well first it makes you feel better... THAN it makes you feel worse.
Well, alcohol is a depressant. But aside from that, I'm allergic to alcohol. I causes me to break out in spots......like Jo's Nautical Bar, The Circle Cafe and the Grog Shop, to name a few!
better,, that's where the saying 'drown ur sorrows' **** from
i'm having a few beers right now. winding down after hockey. gotta wake up early for class tomorrow. alcohol can help with a much needed release, although it is a DRUG, and sometimes I get feeling 'good' a little more frequently than I should ;)
It makes me feel good :D
a little of both
both, when im drinking i feel better afterwards... i feel worse
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Two big trends for business in 2014 are of course, the digital revolution, but also the increased focus on customer-centrality in this context. Tech and online spaces are influencing the way customers interact with businesses, and as a result expectations about the relationships between the two are changing and are more complex than ever before. As a result, it's important to keep focus on who the business is engaging with, how, and why, and therefore imperative that digital strategy and capabilities are aligned.
The Social Media Dyad model below highlights some of the ways that this engagement occurs, facilitated by the internet, social media technology, and the many devices that consumers use both in-store and out.
By identifying how online interactions occur, businesses can ensure they are suitably involved, able to build relationships, and strategically poised to engage customers. Essentially, businesses need to become customer centric, and do it 'digitally'. This has a number of benefits in contrast to traditional non digital methods, particularly from the ease of gathering and analysing data.
Consequently, it allows businesses to better understand, target, and optimally interact with customers. As a result, businesses can improve the overall customer experience, and increase satisfaction and brand equity. This translates into longer term gains from better customer engagement, such as greater customer loyalty, and higher return on marketing investment.
In order to become digitally customer centric, businesses need to be responsive to consumers wants and needs in ways that suit customer technology preferences. The ability for a business to do this rests on three key capabilities;
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Translating these broadly into actions involves:
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Installing the PCCIU
Meridian 1 PC Console Interface Unit
The PC-based Console application software must be installed before the PCCIU is installed. Troubleshooting tips are below.
Installing the PCCIU
1. Place the PCCIU flat under the PC monitor with the front panel facing forward.
2. Meridian 1 connector: connect a DB25 system cable to the MDF connector.
3. PC: connect a DB9 RS-232 serial cable to the serial port on the Attendant PC.
4. Attach a headset to the RJ32 jack or a handset to the PJ327 two-prong connector jack on either side of the PCCIU.
Ensure that the brandline plate on the handset connector jack faces forward.
5. Optional: connect the Power Fail Transfer pair (pairs 11 and 36) from the MDF block to the PFTU.
6. Optional: connect a M3900 (digital telephone) to the PHONE connector. Must also connect on the MDF block (BACK_UP). Note: The M3900 can be used as a Night DN or as a backup telephone if the PC fails.
7. Optional: Connect the Night, General_Purpose, and EMER_DN relays to the MDF block.
Note: LDN0 must be configured with EMER_DN for this relay to work properly.
8. Optional: Use the Audio Input/Output jacks to connect third-party audio applications, if any.
Configuring the PCCIU
- Ensure that there are three free ports on the digital line card (or four if you've optionally installed a M3900 Telephone).
- In LD 12, configure the first two units as the Primary and Secondary Terminal Numbers (TN's). Programming is the same as the M2250: enter 2250 at the TYPE prompt. Configure the third unit as a Power unit (TYPE: PWR).
- Optional: In LD 11, configure the fourth unit as a NIGHT_DN / BACKUP_DN (if you installed a M3900 Telephone).
- Optional: If you are using a PFTU, configure a free analog line card port in LD 10
Self-test and diagnostics
When the PCCIU powers up, it performs a self-test diagnostic routine:
- The Status LED on the front of the PCCIU turns red for two seconds and then turns solid green.
- The Diagnostics LEDs on the back panel of the PCCIU flashes once and then turns off.
If a failure occurs during the self-test, the Status LED changes to yellow and the error is indicated by the illuminated Diagnostics LEDs.
Note: Only one error is indicated at a time, in priority order from highest (1) to lowest (7).
Diagnostic LED 1 2 3 4 Description Priority Self-test passed EEPROM failure 7 Alerter micro failure 6 Port expander failure 5 Loopback test failure 4 Secondary codec failure 3 Primary codec failure 2 RAM failure 1
Troubleshooting the Status LED
The front-panel Status LED indicates the following:
Normal condition, the PCCIU is working properly. There is no power getting to the PCCIU (from the PBX, on TN3)
» Check the DB25 system cable and the cross-connect wiring at the MDF.
Major alarm, a system-related error has occurred on the Meridian 1 PBX.
» Disable and re-enable both PC Console TN's (TN1 and TN2) in LD 32 (PRT, TYPE: 2250).
Indicates one of the following:
» PCCIU is in Night Service or Position Busy - check software Busy setting.
» Power Fail Transfer (PFT) is enabled - set the PFT switch OFF (1 = On, 0 = Off).
» Handset not connected properly - the brandline plate on the handset connector jack must face forward.
The PCCIU is not communicating with the PC properly.
» Ensure that the DB9 RS-232 serial cable is connected to the correct port.
» If the cable is connected properly but the Status LED remains red, run the Standalone test procedure.
A failure occurred during the PCCIU self-test diagnostic routine.
Stand-alone test procedure
- Disconnect the DB25 system cable to power down the PCCIU and then disconnect the DB9 RS-232 serial cable.
- Make a loop between pins 2 and 3 on the PC port at the back of the PCCIU unit. (use a DB9 connector with pins 2 and 3 shorted).
- Power up the PCCIU by reconnecting the DB25 system cable. Press the reset button at the back of the unit.
- Disconnect the DB25 system cable to power down the PCCIU. Reconnect the DB9 RS-232 serial cable, and then reconnect the DB25 system cable.
- If the PCCIU still fails to communicate with the PC, check the DB9 RS-232 serial cable and the PC communication port settings.
In event of PC failure
In the event of PC failure, or loss of synchronization/communication between the PC and the PCCIU, there is no alarm or event indication. The PCCIU Status LED will still show solid green and calls will still present to the console. To remove the console from service until the PC function is restored, activate the Power Fail Transfer (PFT) switch or remove the headset or handset.


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Brutal centers on Trevor (Morgan Benoit), abducted from his backyard at the age of fifteen by an unseen alien presence. Forced into nearly two decades of no-holds-barred fights against other abductees inside an unearthly mixed martial arts arena, Trevor has evolved from an innocent boy into a brutal fighting machine. Derek, (Jeff Hatch) an ambulance-chasing lawyer, is the latest lab rat abductee to face Trevor. As the two men exchange ever-increasing beatings over the course of weeks and months, the brutality of their existence and the true nature of their humanity is slowly revealed.
With elements of the Twilight Zone, Brutal explores through science fiction, allegory and psychological drama, man's violent nature and our propensity to commit unthinkable acts of violence against each other. Yet through this prism of brutality our capacity to love one another, even in the worst of circumstances is celebrated.
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Tissue paper, an essential hygiene and sanitary product, has gained worldwide acceptance and stands out as an indispensable sanitation enabler today. The raw material used for the production of tissue paper is paper pulp. Among all the qualities of a tissue paper, its absorbency and strength hold the utmost importance. Though the western markets already have an established market for tissue paper, the same cannot be said about the markets in APAC and the Middle East. However, the demand for tissue paper from these regions are expected to increase during the forecasted period.
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A child seemed a welcome addition to the life of Jutta Hoffritz, who had expected her pregnancy to lead to a predictable chain of events: For a year, she would stay home and care for her baby. Then she would place him in a decent child-care centre and return to work - difficult, but surely not beyond reach. After all, she had a well-established career as a business journalist for a national magazine, and she lived in Dusseldorf, a prosperous and liberal city in a major welfare state, so it seemed like a natural progression.
But this is Germany, where the working mother is still considered bizarre and somehow unacceptable. When she sought child care, she discovered there was none. The two spots available for children under 3 at one of her city's few nurseries were reserved for single mothers. She had to hire a full-time kinderfrau (child-minder) at a cost that consumed her entire salary.
And even when her child turns 3, the hassle and expense won't end: Germany has only half-day schooling, in most cases right through high school, and parents are expected to cover the other half out of their own pockets - or, more often, out of their own time.
"In Germany," she told me, "we have an ideology of motherhood. I thought I would be back in my office soon, no problem, but then I learned that I was being forced to forget everything I knew, and take up the career of being a full-time babysitter, and talk about nothing but children all day. It was terrible."
Unbeknownst to most outsiders, Germany is the most difficult place in Western Europe to be a working mother, with a deeply ingrained culture of machismo that expects women to give up their lives once they have children.
The ideology itself was Ms. Hoffritz's biggest barrier. When she talked about her frustrations, her friends and relatives openly denounced her as a rabenmutter - literally "raven mother," a woman who abandons her children, like the mythic ravens throwing their chicks from the nest. It is a term routinely applied to working mothers in Germany.
"When I got pregnant, even though I'd had a career for 20 years, everyone expected me to drop my job forever, to take care of my son and not do anything else all day for the rest of my life, and they got angry when I said otherwise," she says. "Friends just thought I should be a full-time mom."
Until very recently, this anachronistic approach to family life, and its attendant waste of the lives of educated and creative women, was a studied non-topic in German public and political life. Even during the eight years when Germany was governed by an otherwise progressive coalition of Social Democrats and Greens under Gerhard Schroeder, family policy barely moved.
In 2005, when Angela Merkel was elected Chancellor, a survey by the World Economic Forum found that Germany ranked 20th among 58 developed nations in women's presence in the work force, 28th in job opportunities for women and 34th in educational attainment - poor for a country that is close to the top in most other business categories.
Now, things are beginning to change - paradoxically, under Ms. Merkel, a conservative Christian Democrat seeking re-election on Sept. 27 on a platform that includes a dramatic expansion of family policy.
Part of the change involved people like Ms. Hoffritz, who recently published a widely discussed book, Revolt of the Rabenmutter. She is particularly incensed by the obsessive nature of German motherhood, including the assumption in many circles that it is mandatory to start Baby Yoga and English For Babies (to say nothing of German for Babies) at eight weeks of age.
But the most dramatic motor of change is Ursula von der Leyen, the rather extraordinary woman who is Ms. Merkel's Minister of Family Affairs. In 2007, she introduced the Elterngeld - "parent money" - Germany's first substantial maternity-leave policy, offering up to $2,800 a month for a year (or for 14 months if the father takes time as well), familiar elsewhere in Europe but a vast change from the few weeks Germany had offered before.
And she is in the midst of introducing hundreds of thousands of state-subsidized child-care spaces, something left-wing governments had been unable to do - or simply hadn't occurred to them.
It is impossible to understand Ms. von der Leyen's dramatic transformation of her party's view, or to understand the bizarre German attitude to working mothers, without understanding her father.
Ernst Albrecht was a key figure in German conservatism during the postwar decades, a committed Cold Warrior who governed the state of Lower Saxony, which had the longest border with East Germany, for 14 years. Like many, he saw all politics as an ideological struggle with communism, including family policy.
Under Hitler, German women had been commanded to create armies of racially pure offspring to expand the Reich. After the war, there was a rebellion: As in most states that have experienced totalitarianism, the fertility rate here dropped, becoming one of the lowest in Europe. But this did not make the working woman a fixture of society. Ernst Albrecht's election posters featured a warning: rows of babies perched on potties, which voters recognized as a feature of daycare centres in communist East Germany, where children were expected to speak, learn and defecate in unison.
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At first, Mr. Albrecht's daughter followed a path that would have made him proud. She earned a number of university degrees, became a gynecologist, married and had seven children, quitting work to raise them.
Then she decided to return to work. She had studied and worked in the United States and seen how women can combine work and parenthood. The cost of nannies outraged her (even if she could afford them), so she entered politics in a unique position: a conservative with impeccable credentials who was also an icon of motherhood insisting on the right to pursue a career.
This combination turned her into Angela Merkel's secret weapon. The Chancellor has no children and isn't known as a feminist, but she recognized the power of policies that would attract young urban women, who had been core voters of the opposition.
"Under Merkel, they have successfully stolen family thinking from the left," says Tissy Bruns, senior political reporter with Berlin's Der Tagesspiegel. "… It wasn't ideology, but pragmatism."
It was also economic necessity. Germany has the lowest fertility rate in Europe: an average of 1.3 children per family. This means there is now one pension-consuming retiree for each taxpaying worker, a ratio that makes government almost unaffordable. One of the solutions is to get women into the work force.
This is expensive - and jarring to many. But for people like Jutta Hoffritz, it is a gift. "Finally, I don't look like the crazy one …," she says. "It's actually becoming impolite to call people rabenmutter ."


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There's a Bruce Springsteen anecdote I really love. By the mid-1970s, he had recorded and released two albums — two really good albums — already. But Springsteen felt the pressure to turn in a breakthrough hit with his third album. He feared that if the third album didn't go big, he might be finished in the music business.
The first song he stepped into the studio to record for that third album was "Born to Run." Even if you don't know anything about Bruce Springsteen, you know that song. It is a legendary, epic rock and roll song, and you won't find a rock critic or a rock fan who disagrees with that.
Except that at the time, Springsteen himself didn't think so.
He spent six months — SIX MONTHS! — working on that song. He spent six months working on a song that doesn't run even five minutes long.
Springsteen, the story goes, became obsessed with the idea of making the perfect rock and roll album. He wanted to make rock and roll clichés seem brand new. He wanted to layer sound upon sound and turn it into something grander than anything that had come before.
"Born to Run" was his first stab at that perfect rock and roll sound. So he worked and worked on the song. He tried to make it perfect.
What he almost ended up doing was smothering a classic.
See, Springsteen lost all connection with how the work is done. Later, he'd tell biographers that he'd been hearing a sound in his head, and he'd become obsessed with it. Problem was, he just couldn't explain that sound in the studio.
Maybe there really were sounds in Springsteen's head, but I don't think so. I like to think that Springsteen was just hearing the voices that all of us who do the work hear — the doubts, the fears, the worries.
The things that kill good work.
All of us who are doing the work — you, me, Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Bruce Springsteen — are all chasing the same thing. We're all trying to create work that lasts, that has impact and that matters.
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You start the work. You improve the work. You get the work up to your liking.
And then you decide that it's done, and you send it out into the world.
I'll admit that I didn't always understand this. After all, aren't we all striving for a certain level of success? Don't we have personal standards to maintain?
Certainly. And as you do the work, you'll learn to reconcile "perfect" with "finished." With time, it'll make sense.
Just remember for now: You're not doing the work just for the sake of staying busy, right? You're doing the work because you want to get it done and get it into the hands of others.
If you keep holding onto the work until it is absolutely perfect, you will be waiting a very long time. Get the work done, and get onto the next thing. You might think that you should hold onto it, that you should chase perfection, but what you're really doing is keeping yourself from moving onto newer projects and better work.
Imperfect is okay. What isn't acceptable is idling. When the time comes to decide if the work is done, don't hesitate.
Stop asking yourself, "Is it ready?"
Start asking, "Is it done?"
Once you start following those rules — Good. Better. Done. — you'll start creating a lot of work. Some of it will be good, and some of it will not.
But you won't really know which is which until you get it out into the world.
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Review: The House of Slamming Doors by Mark Macauley
Lilliput Press, €12.99
THE House of Slamming Doors by Mark Macauley comes with congratulatory words from some heavy-hitters, including legendary film director John Boorman, a friend of the author, who describes Macauley's Big House family, marooned in mid-Sixties Ireland, as "the funniest, most beguiling, cruelly dysfunctional family ever".
To quote Tolstoy's famous aphorism: "Happy families are all alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
Macauley's brand spanking new, angry voice, tells the Big House story with a surprising twist, and from the vantage point of 13-year-old, seriously unhappy Justin, the youngest member of said dysfunctional family, who, in the fateful year in question -- 1963 -- discovers love, loss, killing, and the true nature of his parentage, all plot lines delivering into a savage final denouement.
The family depicted in The House of Slamming Doors consists of Bobby, the pater familias, permanently positioned on the edge of exploding. Mother, who was swept off her (very posh) English Protestant feet by the Catholic, "wild colonial boy", Bobby, much to the chagrin of her aristocratic family, and brought back to The Hall, the cold, boggy, Big House on the Wicklow/ Kildare borders.
There are Justin's two older sisters, Emma and Lucy, the first pretty and prim, the second much given to beatnik slang, both attempting to keep "the parentals" under some kind of control, both failing.
Having ensconced her three children safely in English boarding schools, and grown bored with being Lady of the Manor dispensing presents at Christmas, and ladylike concern for the welfare of The Hall's myriad staff and their families all year round, Mother has taken (ever so politely) to the bottle, and (not so politely) to a rekindled affaire with a sports car driving, mysterious English "gentleman".
As the book opens, the family, plus the numerous local staff (25 in all), are gathered in The Hall, to watch on two televisions (one has dickey sound, the other has dickey visuals) the arrival of JFK (or JF bloody K as Justin likes to call him) on Irish soil.
The women (servants and served) swoon. Justin feels jealous, his childhood friend Annie, the witty and pretty daughter of one of his father's top farm hands, whom his 13-year-old self is busy falling in love with, joins the chorus, if only to wind him up.
And, it's his birthday, though no one except Annie has remembered. The irascible father, furious at not being informed it was his son's birthday (a neat reversal of responsibility here!) orders champagne, and Mama, under its delightfully bubbling influence, recalls happier days hob-nobbing with the Kennedy family. (Yes, she is that posh).
But Justin's birth is problematic in other ways, though his troubled young self has no idea why. Why does his father hate him so? Why does the "lumbering, hairy old bollicks" give him such a hard time? Why does he call him "you little bollicks" when he's angry, and "old cock" ("as if I was married to a hen") when he's feeling more mellow?
His sisters do their best, but only young Annie can soothe his on-fire soul, and now his impossible father has decreed, out of the blue, that "the children of servants" are no longer welcome at The Hall.
Justin, afraid he is going to explode himself, "acts out" as the psychologists say; giving the pigeons in the forest what for with his shotgun, nicking money from the glove pocket of his father's Jaguar, under the slobbering gaze, and growls, of the father's "only true friend" Rottweiler, Cromwell.
It is when, on the stolen loot, he and Annie head for Dublin, the cinema, and tea at the Shelbourne, that they stumble, or almost stumble, on why things at home are not perhaps quite what they should be.
Summer turns to autumn and Justin has to return to his much-hated English boarding school where he is now the "bog man", the butt of bully-boy Adam's anti-Irish witticisms, and where he waits, despairingly, for a letter from Annie, unaware that his blundering Papa has already engineered the dispatch of Annie's father, and family, from the estate -- having discovered Annie's flouting of his no communication/no contact rules.
Mother, in a phone call to Justin at school, lets the cat out of the bag and next thing our troubled 13-year-old hero is racing back from England, with murder on his mind.
It would take away from the power of the book's ending to tell you exactly what happens, or what Mother's secret, the secret of Justin's birth, really is. Let's just say his anger and frustration turn out to be more than justified.
It's the authenticity of the author's understanding of what it's like to be a powerless and troubled 13-year-old boy that delivers here; coupled with some neat third-person forays showing the action from a wider angle.
This is, amazingly, the 54-year-old Mark Macauley's first novel. His blurb says he's a documentary filmmaker, screenwriter and "former night club owner". Here's hoping The House of Slamming Doors flags the start of a whole new, stellar career.
Sunday Independent


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India's Somdev Devvarman climbed 11 places to reach his career-best ranking of 73 in the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) rankings released on Monday.
Somdev had a sensational run in the BNP Paribas ATP Tour 1000 tournament at Indian Wells, where he beat Marcos Baghdatis and Xavier Malisse. He gave a terrific fight to World No.1 Rafael Nadal before losing in the pre-quarterfinals.
India's top woman player Sania Mirza, who with her Russian partner Elena Vesnina won the women's doubles title at the Indian Wells, has risen 21 places in the doubles to be at the 33rd position.
In the singles, Sania is back in the top 100 after gaining eight places and is at 99th place.
In the men's doubles, India's Rohan Bopanna who with Pakistan's Aisma-ul-Haq Qureshi reached the semifinals at Indian Wells, has climbed four places to 15th position.
Veterans Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi, who reached the quarterfinals, are unchanged at fifth and seventh positions.


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What follows is my latest catalog of Courses and Seminars in Life Enhancement Skills, based on the teachings of a few of my published books. For more information or to receive the complete, color catalog of courses, contact the author via his homepage, hanshi.com
The Sword in the Boardroom
"Winning for the benefit of all concerned"—There is no other way!
The Sword in the Boardroom courses and workshops synthesize the teachings of Musashi's Book of Five Rings and Sun Tzu's Art of War, presenting the views of the masters to address realistic and personal management strategy solutions. Mr. Kaufman focuses on individual growth to develop viable business and political negotiation skills for functional use in today's highly competitive and interactive world. His style is a contemporary approach based on the premises of integrity, sincerity of intent, honesty, mutual trust, and morality to concur with the needs of the target goal and overall group outcome. Timeless universal truths are based on Mr. Kaufman's philosophy that stresses "winning for the benefit of all concerned" as the correct and only way to effectively and efficiently accomplish goals in an ever changing global consciousness. Seminar presentations include focus on:
Attitudes Needed for Personal Victory
High Power Deal Making and Enterprise Control
Developing Management Protocols
Effectively Assessing the Opposition
Evaluating Personal Motivation
Focused and Effective Planning
Proper Treatment of Staff
Maintaining Control of Circumstances
Sun Tzu's Art of War
A Model For Contemporary Management: Business and Personal
Perhaps the world's best known treatise on strategy and written by Sun Tzu nearly 2500 years ago, these principles are applicable to the multi-cultural world today, as they ever were, on any field of combat. Sun Tzu's principles of The Art of War are taught in the proper manner for dealing with people—friends and enemies alike—while gaining all that is personally desired. Courses and workshops are perfect for today's goal intensive corporate, military, and legal firms. The following topics include and are made relevant to the specific requirements of the class. Mr. Kaufman's text is required.
Sun Tzu and an Overview of the Work
Why the Art of War is Important in Today's Society
How to Study and Understand the Art of War
Why Conflict is Essential to Progress
Primary Considerations for Conflict
Preparations for War
Let Your Enemies Kill Themselves
The Nature of Attacks
How to Think of War
Using the Power of Heaven
Fortitude and Frailty
Manipulation of Circumstance
The Reality of Deception
The Virtue of Changing Position
Control and Maintenance of Territory
Conducting and Managing Campaigns
Fierceness in Combat and Negotiation
Effective Use of Spies and Traitors
Musashi's Book of Five Rings
Personal Development for Focused Accomplishment
This course and workshop focuses on the fundamentals of personal morality and the proper usage of intelligent tactics for exceptional success in all endeavors. Beginning with why Musashi is vitally important in today's world, Mr. Kaufman continues with an explanation of basic warrior concepts of responsibility and integrity to enhance an individual's awareness for productivity, personal self-acceptance, and ascension. The Book of Five Rings presentation is structured on the five levels representing universal elements: earth, water, fire, wind, and no-thing.
Earth: No Man is Invincible, Why Constant Practice is Essential, The Value of All Arts is Found in the
Mastery of One, Understanding the Spirit of the Thing Itself, One Tool—Many Strategies, Techniques Used in Strategy, Timing and Rhythm, Attaining Individual Perfection, and Nine Fundamental Tenets of Personal Morality.
Water: Strategy Revealed, The Number of Obstacles is Irrelevant, Correct Spiritual and Physical Bearing, Standing in Readiness, Looking Through the Challenge, Understanding the Nature of Conflict, Attack -No-Attack, Becoming the Challenge, No Thought—No Idea, Bashful Butterflies, Being Bigger Than the Challenge, Tenacity, Diversion, Driving Straight to the Heart from the Heart, Humiliating the Prevailing Condition, Slapping away Objections, Challenges Will Continue to Come.
Fire: Igniting the Fires of Passion, Practice and Real Application are the Same Thing, Strategies for Control, Knowing the Right Time, Negating an Obstacle's Authority, Collapsing the Opposition's Resolve, Maintaining Balance, Scaring the Negative Condition Away, Chipping Away at the Edges of Mediocrity, Confusion and Chaos, Developing Internal Desire for Accomplishment.
Wind: Strategies That Use Unconventional Ideas, Odd Methods of Strategy, Fixing Eyes and Soul on the Goal, Stupidity of Fancy Footwork, Power and Quickness—Not Strength and Speed, Inner and Outer Attitudes.
No-Thing-Ness: Disavowing Preconceived Notions and Ideas, Detachment.
Meditations on the Tao Te Ching
Life Change Empowerment Through Business and Personal Excellence
The Living Tao teaches methods and understanding to use the ancient truths of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching for personal and cooperative advantage. The proper perspective of the Tao and a harmonious life is simple to attain with consciousness and awareness and is explained with intelligent and realistic examples that result in serenity, contentment, increased productivity, and peace of mind—all accomplished with ease and grace.
Mr. Kaufman's innate and studied understanding of the subject matter empowers him to address everyday challenges faced by individuals experiencing confusion and discord in relationships with themselves and others while explaining the simple truths that make life worth living. By using ancient wisdom in the modern world, and without sacrificing one's beliefs, the proper perspective of Taoism is explained for contemporary thought with intelligent and functional approaches that result in measurable changes in one's life and the enjoyment thereof. Participants learn that life can be lived with joy and pleasure and that all desires can be attained with ease, grace, and comfort. Topics discussed include:
Effective Decision Making
Personal Rights and Responsibility
Daily Life and Living Meditation
Life Survival Skills
Relationship Enjoyment
Dealing with Life's Challenges
Peace and Harmony in the Workplace
Spiritual Uplifting
Sincere Approaches to the Needs of Others
Satisfying the Requirements of Tasks
The Shogun's Scroll
Wield Power and Control Your Destiny
In ancient Japan, the role of shogun was maintenance and control of the entire country regardless of difficulties that could possibly arise. Minamoto Yoritomo, the first recognizable shogun of Japan, did so with savage ferocity and fierce will while Hidetomo Nakadai, a regent and scholar in his court, transcribed these original ideas. The treatise, as taught by Stephen F. Kaufman, can be used as a guide for personal development and business goal motivation where controlling all aspects of the realm is essential to drawing your next breath.
How Power Comes to Be
Why Combining Domains Causes Conflict
When You Command, Everyone Will Know It by Your Actions
Deception is a Developed Art
People Dislike Change Unless They Institute It Themselves
The Shogun MUST Evoke Respect Through Fear
Loyalty is Always Based on Personal Gain—Nothing Else
Acting with Total Authority and Conviction
The Intelligent Application of Cruelty
Liberality Breeds Intemperance; Miserliness Breeds Wealth
Revenge is a Virtuous Act When Properly Administered
Granting of Favors
Controlling by Your Own Abilities
The Emperor's Good Graces
Mercenary and Auxiliary Troops
Why Shoguns are Praised Little and Blamed Much
The Absolute Necessity of Protocol
Making Yourself Understood
Countermanding Orders
The Deadliness of Arrogance, Conceit, and False Pride
Self-Revealization Acceptance
Your Divine Right to Live in Joy and Freedom
Stephen F. Kaufman has discovered that the true secret to winning the so called battles of life is not in understanding why things happen, or why they don't, but rather in knowing what you want and accepting it as already done by your Divine Right to Live in Joy and Freedom. Stephen F. Kaufman's teaches how to control the Creative Power of the Universe and the Spirit of the Thing Itself so desired that empowers students to develop complete and total self-reliance, along with the ability to experience exactly what is wanted and when it is wanted. Self-Revealization Acceptance abundantly clarifies the method and technique without delving into or swaying personal, religious belief. Topics covered include:
What Self-Revealization Acceptance is and How to Make It Work
What the Spirit of the Thing Itself is and How to Understand It
Why Selfishness is Good and How to Develop It in Pure Form
Igniting the Fires of Passion to Incite You to Accomplishment
Annihilating Negative Sentiment and Deconstructing Manipulative Grace
Acceptance of Ease and Grace in All Endeavors
You Will Now or You Wont Later and Will Power Ain't Gonna Do It
Why Burning Bridges Behind You is Essential
The Importance of Putting All of Your Eggs in One Basket
Say It—Don't Pray It
You reap what You KNOW—Not What You Sow
Clarity of Purpose and Fullness of Acceptance
Escaping from the Morass of Indifference and Mediocrity
Accepting Lavishness and Limitlessness in Your Life
Multiple Acceptance—One Goal, Two Targets
Healing Acceptance for Others in the Mental, Physical, and Spiritual Universe
Knowing It is Done by Virtue of Being
Enjoying Your Good Bounty


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