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Over six and a half years of Little Pony: Friendship is Magic fanfic reviews, commentary, and more!
Friday, September 12, 2014
Mini-Reviews Round 50
Rise, by Blueshift
Zero-ish spoiler summary: A young breezie comes of age amidst the backdrop of her people's eternal war with ponykind, and the looming threat of winter.
A few thoughts: Let's start out strong: this story was absolutely wonderful. Blueshift may be best known for his random/comedy, but stories like this show that a great author can write any kind of story. While it still finds grounding in the Equestrian setting and its light-humorous air, Rise takes that setting and wonderfully grounds the breezies' fearful-yet-resilient mentality within it. The result is a story that's genuinely touching, expands the lore of Equestria in unexpected but brilliantly realized ways, and tells a classic hero's tale in a novel, dramatic, thoughtful way.
Recommendation: I have only good things to say about this story (okay, maybe one or two bad things; it bothers me that someone could write something great like this, but still types "span" instead of "spun"), and I highly recommend it to anyone who likes dramatic worldbuilding and dramatic storytelling in equal measure.
...Nor the Battle to the Strong, by MagnetBolt
Zero-ish spoiler summary: Griffon Commander Astrid meets with Celestia under the guise of "peace talks," only to discover that her people's ancient enemy remains unpredictable and alien.
A few thoughts: Griffons have been portrayed as Klingons-lite (or sometimes, Kingons-heavy) many times in fanfiction, so this story doesn't really cover any new ground on that front. That said, it covers it convincingly enough, and there are some novel touches here--Astrid's reason for fearing the way ponies kill was a wonderful touch of perspective, of just the sort this contest was meant to produce. I was pretty disappointed by the ending, though; everything wraps up tidy and neat via timeskip, and the drama of the first part is pretty well negated by the quick-and-dirty exposition of "and this is how everything went." It's not that the ending was bad intrinsically, but in context it weakened the first act dramatically.
Recommendation: Fans of diplomacy might want to read the first chapter; it ends on a satisfying enough note to take independently. I don't particularly recommend the whole-fic experience, thought.
Moot Model, by Sarcasmo
Zero-ish spoiler summary: Daisy wants to be a fashion model, even though she knows it's impossible for someone like her to appear in a fashion magazine. Still, she works up enough nerve to try--barely.
A few thoughts: I had a weird sort of cognitive dissonance as I read this: on one hand, I could see pretty clearly what the author was going for, and it was a good message (if a bit hokey, but hey, I can dig a hokey message), and looking through the comments, it's clear that that's what the other readers (including some people whose opinions I respect) saw. But at the same time, the entire ending read to me like a classic tale of the White Man's Burden: the donkeys are too stupid/unindustrious/weak-willed to have any fashion of their own, so it's up to the clever/industrious/enterprising ponies to bring fashion to them. It's entirely possible I'm grasping at straws here, but I kept making uncomfortable comparisons to plantation novels as Daisy is empowered by Photo Finish, without whom she (and donkeykind) are apparently incapable of producing any meaningful contributions in an artistic field.
Recommendation: This story left me feeling very uncomfortable, but I can't say for sure that it wasn't just me. If you think my problems with this fic aren't liable to bother you, then this could still be read as an uplifting tale of someone finding the confidence to do something with themselves.
Let Them Eat Grass, by Cloudhammer
Zero-ish spoiler summary: A sheep thinks to wonder why ponies don't have to live inside of fences.
A few thoughts: My biggest thought after reading was "why on earth is this tagged comedy/SoL?" This earns every bit of the dark tag through its portrayal of the slavery of complacency; the sheep are literally too passive and content to care about how they're being used. That notwithstanding, this story does a nice job of showing that oppression, often as not, doesn't look like Sombra's cackling, chain-intensive MO. More often, it's just doing what's easy, what works... and what cedes all authority to someone else.
Recommendation: Anyone looking for a dark psychological tale (whether intended or not, there are plenty of parallels here to modern politics) will definitely want to check them out. And I guess if you don't think about it too hard, it's also a story about sheep being funny.
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I agree on Nor to the Battle. That timeskip was just a little too much and brought down the whole thing a peg or three.ReplyDelete
My problem with Moot Model was that for a good third of the story, I thought Daisy was a cow and was wondering why ponies weren't having a greater reaction to her.
And Let Them Eat Grass is tagged comedy because I told Cloudhammer to. :B "Sheep are dumb" is funny!Replies
Just saw your (three week old) comment on Nor. What's wrong with hippogriffs? Satyrs I get, but hippogriffs seem to fit right in. Do you have something against mules too, ya bigot?!Delete
Agreed that "sheep are dumb" is funny
Oh, it's just my usual pony-centric racism. :V Stop mixing random creatures together and thinking you'll get something new! Stuff like that is the reason I wrote Faun: even if the genes combine, you're not likely to get something that's nicely half X and half Y; it's going to be blended and awful and a blight on nature. (Mules exist in the real world, so at least we know they work.)Delete
I've got nothing against pony-centric racism, and I've got my own issues with hybrid species (freakin' half-ogres...). It's just that the show's very clearly based on Greek mythology, so I'd think that traditional, non-human hybrids from that source material should work in the pon-iverseDelete
Hey, even the human hybrids of Greek mythology have been used in the show and worked, thanks to clever redesigns downplaying the human part. Since the show started, we've had a manticore, a minotaur AND a centaur appear. I think even a satyr could be made to work in FiM's setting if using the same design principle.Delete
How the Hell did I forget all three of those examples?!Delete
It depends on how much cartoon physics you want to use. I, for instance, have no illusions that griffins were created by an eagle/lion tryst, but various writers have taken that route.Delete
For me, it's more that I just don't think ponies and griffins should be romantically involved. :B
My main issue with the fandom satyrs — which aren't actually satyrs at all — is the human/pony relations aspect. Hybrids should at least have the appearance of being their own creature, rather than the product of inter-species breeding (whether or not they are), and human features must be downplayedDelete
Present, weird question, but what if hippogriffs were more like (proper) half-orcs in that they weren't a result of romance? Would you be more willing to buy into the concept, however distasteful it might be?
See, the thing about griffons is that it actually just doesn't make sense for them to be a natural crossbreed, because neither eagles nor lions are talking animals in this setting, but the griffons themselves are. The intelligence would just come from nowhere.Delete
Unlike Present, I have no problems buying that wildly different species can create viable crossbreeds in a magical world like FiM's, because weirder things have happened. But I don't think that's the case here. To me, it just makes more sense to assume that griffons (and probably most other chimeras too) came about through magical means.
Now the human hybrids of the setting are a different can of worms altogether, because it seems pretty clear that 616 Equestria has no humans. Minotaurs and centaurs, at least, may indeed be their own creatures in FiM's world, rather than chimeras of any kind. Just weird-looking creatures that bear a resemblance in places to some other species, rather like the duck-billed platypus.
In that they were a natural species? (Which would be fine.) Or are you just trying to get me to support pony rape? D:Delete
Pony rape is too out of show tone for it to really be an option, though.
Herp, didn't see that new post.Delete
You can think about the human-style creatures as deriving from minotaurs, or at least describe them that way. Tirek? Minotaur top half, pony (or horse, or bull, we don't have to be racist here :V) bottom half. That's at least your in-world descriptor with minotaurs being a race of their own. (I mean, centaurs can even be a race of their own, but given that Tirek's the only one and his "brother" looks like anything but, you could literally say anything and it would be true enough.)
I wasn't aware manticores were part human, I thought that was sphinxes.
Manticores' heads just resemble those of humans. I don't recall any stories about them being a crossbreedDelete
No, I'm not trying to get you to support pony rape. Just wondering if that seems more believable. Obviously, that has no place in the show itself, but there are darker fics in which it'd be more appropriate
I asked because there's a similar situation in D&D. Half-orcs are traditionally the product of rape, but that's been downplayed in recent years and some have decided humans and orcs being romantically involved somehow makes sense (and then they just pretty the orcs up, so what the Hell's the point?!). Normally, I'm not too fond of semihumans, but the rape story makes half-orcs much more believable for me, while also emphasizing just how vile orcs really are
I once convinced a friend to play the twin brother of my half-orc barbarian. He was a wizard who carried a large obelisk covered in runes. (His "spellbook". He beat people with it.) His name was Og; my character was Not-Og. The explanation for why a half-orc would have magical prowess was due to their father being a rather waifish human bard who was captured by orcs, caught the fancy of one, and spent the rest of his miserable days as her "toy". (I can't remember if she broke him, or if the brothers did. It doesn't matter, you know it happened.)Delete
In a grim and gritty fantasy setting, the rape explanation can work, but you really need a careful touch to make it happen right. And as compelling as "rape survivor deals with her innocent, outcast hybrid offspring" could be as a plot, I'm really not sure how much I'd want to read that. I mean, just in general because ponies. :/
I think I'm going to have to add Nor the Battle to my list.ReplyDelete
I liked JawJoe's "Queen of Queens".ReplyDelete
"I refuse to bend before oblivion."
I had:ReplyDelete
A lot of trouble with "Rise," but I seem to have been pretty much alone in this--the only way I can get the ending to work, for instance, is by making the story even darker than it already is. If I hadn't been wunna the judges, the story might've finished even higher than it did...
Still, it got fifth place, right? So I don't hafta feel too guilty. :)


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How Alcoholism Affects Your Family
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Many addicts know that their alcoholic behavior has detrimentally affected their family but many of them or us – by the way, I have experience in this on both ends, on both being an alcoholic and being the person with low emotional intelligence and also being the victim or the person on the other end of the alcoholism.
So I just wanted to go into detail about this. Alcoholism affects your family when it becomes more important to you than your own self-respect and your respect of others. Respect is something that we all need. We all need to have for ourselves and we all need to have for others and it is often said that however you see yourself, others will see you the same way.
Well, it's very true. Once you define how you see yourself and how you are, then others always treat you the same way. Even if not immediately, they always do. They always think of you the same way as you think of yourself.
So it's important to understand that especially if you're a leader in the house but even if you're not, if you are an alcoholic or just living with an alcoholic, it affects everyone around you because since they love you and they care for you or they look – you know, especially if they look up to you. If you are engaging in such self-destructive behavior that you're affecting the people around you, it becomes something that they think about all the time and they live with all the time..
Even if they're kids, they will eventually find that the only way to really deal with this is to be an alcoholic themselves and if you have kids, that's a scary thing to know.
So it's something that you have to recognize in yourself. You have to admit to yourself. You have to recognize in others and you have to admit to others and it's something that you have to start standing up to.
Even if you don't know what to do and even if you don't have the support group near you – which would be strange if you didn't, but I realize that some of you may be out in the country. I understand.
But even if you don't have a support group near you, just knowing that you understand the signs of alcoholism and how it affects everyone else, it will actually take away a lot of the burden on your shoulders because you no longer have to live with being the only person who knows about it and judges yourself and everything like that.
You can kind of release it out into the world and start dealing with the truth and start dealing with fixing your house rather than trying to hide your house when it's sitting in the middle of the neighborhood and everyone can see it.
Alcoholism is something that is very hard to hide and if you have the behavior and other people are used to being around that behavior, it's very hard to act like you don't have it. So don't kid yourself. Most people probably have figured it out and the people who haven't, they knew something is wrong. They know there's something wrong with you and they know that you're struggling with something and that you can't handle it.
That's OK. You don't have to get help from other people but you do need to get help, whatever kind it is, and just admitting it and also recognizing that your alcoholism is affecting the people around you and it's not just affecting them a little bit. It's not just affecting them through your behavior. I know that many alcoholics – and I know that I'm one of them – when they believe that they have fixed a problem, they believe that well, they fixed everything. In other words, as long as I'm not hitting you, as long as I'm not putting you down, as long as I'm not too depressed around you, well, you should be fine.
The truth is when they know that you have no center, they know it. When you have no center, they know you have no center. When you have no self-respect, they know you have no self-respect. When you have no self-esteem and no self-confidence and no – you're not working on it and you're not building it and you're not making your life better and you don't consider yourself worth making your life better, they know that you don't consider yourself worth to making your life better and a lot of them don't judge you. If you have family members, they're not outsiders. They're not people going out. He's just some crazy drunk who doesn't care about other people.
Your family members know that you care. Your family members are very aware of your weaknesses and are very aware of your strengths and your potential and so it hurts them all the more that when you could be living a good life, you're choosing to live a bad one and you're choosing to live one that only gets deeper and deeper in the mud.
So that's important to understand that affecting your family members, it's not a result. It's a side effect of alcoholism. I want to end by saying guilt is not the answer to that. Guilt won't get you anywhere. Guilt will – it is a very heavy burden and you are affecting other people because of your alcoholism or low emotional maturity, guilt will make it very keen in your mind but it will also stress you out to the point where you want to engage in the behavior some more.
So, my dad always said it's a sin to be guilty and that includes feeling guilty. What you need to do is just admit that you made a mistake and then start taking the steps to forgive yourself because only then will you be able to recognize forgiveness in others. I mean there may be one or two of your family members that are not able to figure you out away and they may take years of you proving to them that you're – I don't know – sober before they will believe that.
But you won't even be able to recognize the forgiveness that you are giving until you forgive yourself. Otherwise, people could be forgiving you up and down Main Street. You wouldn't know it. You wouldn't be able to see it and that would only stress you out more because you would continue to feel guilty.
So it's important for you to understand that how you treat yourself and how you see yourself and how you forgive yourself, that not only affects the people around you but also affects how you receive love and forgiveness and treatment from the people around you because if you don't give that to yourself, you won't even recognize it when other people are giving it to you.
That's a lot of love and forgiveness that you're not even aware of and so that's something that can make your treatment a lot easier and a lot more productive and a lot more successful. But if you're not recognizing it, then it would go to waste. So please remember that and thank you.
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Mix Veg Moong Daal Soup
1/4 cup yellow moong Daal
1 cup roughly chopped onion
1 cup roughly chopped potatoes
2 tbsp finely chopped cauliflower
1/4 cup finely grated carrots
1 tsp oil or butter
salt as per taste
black pepper as per taste
2 tbls lemon juice for taste
Method (How to make moong daal mix veg soup)
Clean and wash the moong dal and keep aside.
Heat the oil or butter in a pressure cooker, add the onions and potatoes and sauté for a few minutes.
Add the moong dal and 4 cups of water and pressure cook for 6 to 8 whistles.
Add the cauliflower and carrots and simmer till the vegetables are tender.
Add the salt and pepper and simmer for another minute.
Just before serving add the lemon juice.
Serve hot.


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According to figures from media buying sources, 80 or so of the 500 products for sale in either the "vicinity" or "spectacular" categories of sites have sold to worldwide or tier-one sponsors in the first round of bidding. The sales have generated around £20.9 million in revenue, representing 29 per cent of the total £72 million reserve price placed on the "vicinity" and "spectacular" sites combined.
Of the 18 official sponsors of London 2012 that were able to bid, 15 are consumer-facing brands. But of those brands, which include Coca-Cola, Adidas, McDonald's and Visa, it is understood that just eight participated in the auction.
Next week, the tier-two and three sponsors will have an opportunity to buy the "vicinity" and "spectacular" sites.
A London 2012 spokesman stated: "The process is ongoing and we are not commenting on speculation."


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- "Website domain to advertise club events and information about general body meetings"
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- "Speaker fee for guest lecturer visiting on behalf of the National Restaurant Association"
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Arq provides de-duplicated, encrypted-to-you-only backup and archiving using Amazon's S3 and Glacier storage services. I did an interview with the author of Arq on episode 2x02 of the hellyeah! show and we discussed common problems in cloud backup services, and how Arq restores control over your data to you.
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A good friend of mine has just started working as a Creative Memories representative. For those of you who have been living under a rock, Creative Memories is a "photo preservation system" where people make these really elaborate, mostly cheesy photo albums with themed pages, stickers, frames, borders, etc. It's also a humongous home-based business along the lines of Avon or Tupperware. So, I'm thinking - I'd love to do some albums of all my friends, using old flyers, ticket stubs, buttons, and other junk. But where are the "punk" themed pages? Most of the Creative Memories stuff is happy animals and holiday junk. Ducks wearing bonnets. You get the picture. If anyone knows of an alternative, please let me know!
October 2003
A good friend of mine has just started working as a Creative Memories representative. For those of you who have been living under a rock, Creative Memories is a "photo preservation system" where people make these really elaborate, mostly cheesy photo albums with themed pages, stickers, frames, borders, etc. It's also a humongous home-based business along the lines of Avon or Tupperware. So, I'm thinking - I'd love to do some albums of all my friends, using old flyers, ticket stubs, buttons, and other junk. But where are the "punk" themed pages? Most of the Creative Memories stuff is happy animals and holiday junk. Ducks wearing bonnets. You get the picture. If anyone knows of an alternative, please let me know!
This week is a mixed bag at best. On one side we have our obvious Oscar contenders (The Human Stain, Shattered Glass), on the other side we have the boring run of the mill, love your fellow man (or beast), Disney craptoon (Brother Bear), then we have the third dimension of the purely bizarre (Die Mommy Die, Dirt), and THEN we have the stroke-the-director's-ego re-release of a classic sci-fi horror epic (Alien).
My picks for the week are as follows:
1) The Human Stain
2) Shattered Glass
3) Die Mommy Die
And, if all else fails -- Alien (it is Halloween isn't it?)
Friday November 21, 2003 7pm
Vine Theater
6321 Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood CA
$15 adv/$20 door
Freaky films, bands & burlesque all-nighter
Featuring Gitane Demone, Penis Flytrap, and Dirty Sanchez
Mistress Persephone, Julie Strain
"Los Angeles, CA---November 21-22, 2003---Los Angeles-based Anxiety Films is at it again, scheduling their third annual ìShock-O-Rama-A-Go-Goî 24-hour film-a-thon...
Throwrag, Aug. 14, 2003 at the El Rey, photo by Ms. Jen
Halloween this year in SoCal / LA area is shaping up to be extra scary with our world on fire and a week of ashes floating through the air, but relief is on the way with cooler temps, a possibility of moisture, and an amazing line-up of Halloween night live music shows and concerts:
Big Sandy & The Fly Rite Boys, Sleazy Surfers - Halloween Costume Contest @ Doll Hut, 714-533-1286
Busstop Hurricanes @ Continental, 714-526-4529
Flogging Molly @ House of Blues - Anaheim, 714-778-2583
Me First & the Gimmee Gimmees on the Jimmy Kimmel Show (find a TV)
Queens of the Stone Age, The Cramps, Tomahawk, Masters of Reality @ Greek Theatre, 213-480-3232
Throwrag, Menace - Halloween Ball @ Alex's Bar, 562-434-8292
Truly Lover Trio @ Purple Orchid, 310-322-5829
Thursday, Thrice, Coheed and Cambria @ Hollywood Pallidium, 213-480-3232
Velvet Hammer Burlesque @ Derby, 323-663-8979
DJ Wanda, David Irish, and I will be at the Throwrag Halloween Ball at Alex's, and Ms. Lauren will be attending the Velvet Hammer Burlesque at the Derby. Anyone else?
...but a living exhibition of the degenerate soul."
If the average boo-hoo haunted house just doesn't cut it for you, if you truly need something depraved, then the Institute of Mental Decay, sponsored by the Los Angeles Cacophony Society looks to be severely disturbing. They're still looking for participants, so if you have any "medical fetishes, animal costumes, castration fantasies or hospital equipment", they neeeeed YOU. They're also looking for anyone "born with a tail" and "as many monkeys as we can find"....
Happy Haunting! Bwahahahahaha........
Ok, Ladies, I am paging all the Ladies... or Women... or Chicks... or Girls....
The last four or five times I have been to the Doll Hut it has been a Sausage Festival. Yep, men everywhere. At least 6 - 9 men to every woman. Punk rock night, rockabilly, surf, DJ night, psychobilly, whatever the music playing. Men everywhere. Punk rock boys, greaser boys, Butterheads, cholos, skins, even a few normal type males looking a bit out of place...
If you are single and female, the Doll Hut is the place to be. As Wanda likes to say, "The odds are good, but the goods are odd."
Movies coming out this week that are either:
a) Worth paying $10 to see in a theater, or
b) Worth illegally downloading off the net (I have no idea how, but I hear it can be done).
In order of preference:
1) Elephant
2) The Singing Detective
3) Kill Bill(its still out and its still amazing)
According to the Wall Street Journal, companies are offering yoga to their employees on site, recognizing the benefits of keeping everyone in an asana-induced state of Zen. I find this hard to believe, since at my company, you're lucky if you can leave your desk for a glass of water! Who are these companies so that I can go work for one?
Companies Say Yoga Isn't a Stretch
Wall Street Journal (10/14/03) , P. D4; Forster, Stacy
Companies are beginning to subscribe to the benefits of yoga in the workplace, claiming that employees opting to use breaks for office yoga reduce their stress and tension levels and improve their concentration. Some are hopeful that office yoga will reduce health care costs for companies, as many set up yoga rooms in empty offices. Katz Media pays an instructor to teach office workers yoga during the day in its conference room, and employees are appreciative of the company's efforts. According to Yoga Journal, about 7 percent of the American population practices yoga, and many others are willing to try it, but critics are worried that it will be hard to gauge the impact of the exercise on the workplace and productivity. However, companies continue to opt for the service, and insurance companies are beginning to cover the services under alternative medicine coverage.
From the September 2003 issue of Training+Development:
"Intel, Wayport, and McDonald's recently announced plans to enable San Francisco-area locations with Wi-Fi in earnest. ... earlier this year, a select group of New York locations were set up wtih Si-Fi on a trial basis, but the Bay area rollout will be more comprehensive, with some 75 locations being wired for 802.11b technology. Wayport, which is providing the hotspots, is also considering future rollouts of 802.11g or 802.11a.
Pricing is reasonable at $4.95 for two hours of use. Locations will range from 12 in San Francisoco to six in San Jose, as well as parts in between. Locations equipped with the service will bear Intel's new Centrino logo."
For all the single ladies out there... turns out California is the right place to be to meet men, since men outnumber women here in SoCal over any other place. It's like I always say... the odds are good but the goods are odd!
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 21 ó Go West young woman, especially if youíre single and looking for love. And if youíre serious about seeking a male mate, go to Orange County or Silicon Valley ó two areas with cities where, in an unusual twist, single men outnumber single women."
Read the full story.
Another excerpt:
"The other four California cities were immigrant magnets ó Santa Ana, Salinas, Oxnard and Costa Mesa ó which naturally attract male laborers, many of them single, foreign-born Hispanics."
I just got back from the 2nd Sunday afternoon/evening of the Hacienda Brothers - featuring Dave Gonzalez of The Paladins and the SoCal famed Chris Gaffney - at the Doll Hut. The Hacienda Brothers played roarin' honky tonky and old time country music. A true delight to the ears on a Sunday afternoon.
The Hacienda Brothers will be back at the Doll Hut next Sunday the 26th of October and again on Sun. Nov. 23rd with The Paladins for a Doll Hut Benefit just before Thanksgiving.
Last week we introduced Google Text Ads on various pages of the Barflies.net to help pay for our server fees. Google uses their marvelous keyword search power to deliver relevant text ads on sites using the text that is on the actual page.
Most of the text ads served have been very appropriate, like links to Meteors CDs, Duane Peter's label Disaster Records, Punk CDs, etc.
Two days ago when Ms. Alex posted about the Exploited / Total Chaos riot in Canada, all the sudden Google started serving ads for a certain barfy Canadian pop chanteuse who now lives and sings in Las Vegas and whose name I won't use for fear of more text ads to her. Exploited Riot = watered down old folks pop????
This is F**kin funny... Google, give us more Duane, Wattie, and decrepit tattooed punk rockers!
I heard about this on the news this morning and figured it was just a certain horrible Canadian singers* fans gone rabid.....
From CNN: Montreal police said the violence started shortly after 8 p.m. Tuesday when show organizers told hundreds waiting outside Medley Hall that the bands Total Chaos and The Exploited would not be performing.
"At that point the crowd turned crazy and turned into a riot," Yannick Ouimet, a Montreal police spokesman, told Global Television.
French-language TV channel LCN said Canadian customs officials had barred some members of The Exploited from entering the country.
One witness said the rioters shouted "Let's start a war! We want to riot."
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An unknown number of people were arrested after riot police arrived, Canadian Press said.
Two police officers sustained minor injuries.
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I can write more. But I think this is a good place to stop, and take stock of things. Which of the 3 views above speak more to your personal experience? Please feel free to weigh in. I will be most delighted to hear anything you have to say.
Saturday, December 11, 2010
Christine, Alternate-Christine, and weakness of will: A philosophical analysis of a common everyday practice phenomenon
I can write more. But I think this is a good place to stop, and take stock of things. Which of the 3 views above speak more to your personal experience? Please feel free to weigh in. I will be most delighted to hear anything you have to say.
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It would depend on other factors, such what else is going on in Alternate-Christine's life, such as exhaustion from overwork or overpractice. Maybe the extra sleep is needed. But if those factors don't play in, then I would agree with Aristotle's view. Thanks for giving the Confusian angle. That view was always missing in my education - eastern philosophy angle was not taught in my school, at least not too much. I guess I'm learning that now by intuition living in the East.
The way I view motivation is from another angle. I look at what happens if I oversleep and don't practice. How will my day go? Sometimes the day is full of anxiety and mini jealousies popping in. I hate those manifestations of the ego, so I prefer to practice to even out the feelings. Then the day feels like it is humming along.
I like what Christine wrote that DW said, that he wakes up to practice not because of discipline, but because he loves to practice. Now that is a good motivation.
I agree with the 12th century Chinese Confucian scholar Zhu Xi because I believe that our knowledge of "the good thing" is never, always perfect. I think the idea that knowledge, actions, feelings, motivations, etc. are static is a fallacy.ReplyDelete
I believe that in actuality, these things are dynamic and always changing and thus, sometimes we are our perfect selves - operating at 100 percent and sometimes we are our lesser selves, operating at 90 percent. This is true even if we "know" our days will go better by doing X,Y, or Z thing.
So, maybe, most days we roll out of bed and do whatever we deem good & right: a yoga practice, the gym, a spiritual practice, our work, and/or all of the above, and some days we just can't be bothered. We don't always take the "high road" because it isn't in our nature to be static.
In life, nothing is static or absolute and yet all things exist in some kind of perfection and harmony that, perhaps, eludes the human mind.
We have these contrived ideas of what is good and right, but they are mostly relative. I say mostly because of course, I believe there are some things in life that aren't negotiable (they may be relative but just not negotiable) - like kindness, compassion, love, and respect for life.
I love it...fascinating! I've been thinking on this alot lately now that we have entered the holiday aka "sugar season". I'm definitely "Alternate-Christine" when it comes to eating sugar. I know it makes me feel terrible (headaches and nausea kind of terrible) yet I usually end up eating it anyway.ReplyDelete
I wonder about the physiological patterns that we have, samskaras maybe. It takes many repetitions of a physical movement, say a forward bend to replace a pattern of stiffness with one of ease of movement. Likewise, it takes many repetitons of a new mental pattern in practice say moving into postures gently rather than pushing to replace the old pattern.
I suspect a similar mechanism is at work when we begin to place any new pattern into our life. I would guess that the longer you've been practicing, the more ingrained that pattern is and therefore the easier to get out of bed....hence after 30+ years of practice, David Williams doesn't have as much struggle with the "getting out of bed part of practice" :)
Dear Arturo and Cathrine, thank you for engaging this topic. I really appreciate your thoughts on this. I'll respond to Arturo first, and then I'll respond to you, Cathrine, in the next comment (your comment will be returned in the order it was received, hahaha...)ReplyDelete
Arturo, the way you view motivation has a lot in common with the views of both Aristotle and Zhu Xi. Both Aristotle and Zhu Xi believe that you don't really know something if your knowledge does not translate into the appropriate action: So, if despite claiming to know that getting out of bed to practice is the good thing to do, Alternate-Christine nevertheless fails to get out of bed, then she doesn't really know that that is the good thing to do.
The implication here is that knowing something is not just an intellectual state: One also needs to have the appropriate attitude and emotional makeup to translate the intellectual vision into appropriate action. Which brings me to your view of motivation. Both Aristotle and Zhu Xi would agree with you that if one wants to perfect one's knowledge, one needs to internalize a certain attitude (in your case, the attitude that accompanies the awareness that if you don't practice, you will have a crabby day) or emotional makeup (such as love, in DW's case) that will allow one to more readily convert the intellectual vision into appropriate action.
Basically, I agree with you (and Aristotle and Zhu Xi) that true knowledge cannot simply be an intellectual state. As Tolstoy says, "All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love."
I really like these words of yours:
'our knowledge of "the good thing" is never, always perfect. I think the idea that knowledge, actions, feelings, motivations, etc. are static is a fallacy.'
I really like these words; as you know, I am very sympathetic to the worldview that underlies these words. However, there is something I have been grappling with recently. Here's one way to put it: Aren't there at least certain cases in which knowledge is an all-or-nothing proposition? I mean, I either know that the earth revolves around the sun, or I don't. With regard to this matter, there is no such thing as knowing 90 ninety percent: I either know that the earth revolves around the sun, or I don't.
Hmm... maybe scientific knowledge and knowledge of ethical or existential matters are two different kinds of knowledge? Maybe scientific knowledge is an all-or-nothing proposition, whereas knowledge of ethical or existential matters (such as knowing what the good thing to do is at a given moment) is something that comes in different degrees? I don't know...
Here's another way of getting at the same issues: Maybe we humans are made in such a way that our minds can readily understand how the universe is physically like, but have more difficulty understanding how to live with other beings in this universe in a way that is mutually productive and flourishing. Perhaps this is because while the physical makeup of the universe is relatively static (I say "relatively", because even the physical universe itself is constantly changing), the "makeup" of other human beings is much more fluid, and changing much more quickly, so our minds have a harder time grasping what the right thing to do is in our moment-to-moment relationships with other living beings.
I really don't have any definite answers. I'm just wondering...
Hey Christine,ReplyDelete
once again, many thanks for allowing me to use you (and your alternate-universe counterpart) as an example.
Yes, the concept of samskaras is definitely very important and fascinating here. I did not bring this out in the post, because I really don't know enough about samskaras (except as I experience it in my daily practice on and off and mat). But perhaps both Aristotle's and Zhu Xi's views about how to perfect knowledge and overcome weakness of will (which I will write about in an upcoming post) are alternate ways of articulating this fascinating concept of samskara.
And yes, I totally hear what you are saying with regard to your being "Alternate-Christine" when it comes to sugar. I am "Alternate-Nobel" when it comes to eating potato chips. I "know" that eating too many chips will make me feel not-so-good (potato-chip-induced headache, dry mouth, dehydration, etc.), and yet I almost always end up eating too many chips anyway!
Crap.. that's like my daily struggle and sleeping in almost always wins, because although I know the practice is good for me down the road, sleeping in feels so good *right now*.ReplyDelete
There's a study done on 4 year old children: the experimenter gives a kid one marshmallow, tells him/her that if they can wait until the experimenter comes back, they can have another marshmallow, and then leaves the room for 15 minutes. They found 2/3 of the kids stuffed the marshmallow into their mouths almost right away after the adult left the room. A few tried, but couldn't last the full 15min, and 1/3 painfully waited the full period for the reward of a 2nd marshmallow. Would #1, #2 or #3 apply in this case? :)
I think like Christine said, building a habit definitely helps to deal with this instant vs. delayed gratification issue. For me I always need external help. Like if someone asks me to take a morning class with them, that commitment will get me to wake up earlier. Or if it's one of my favorite teachers' last morning class (several weeks ago), that got me to drag my body out of bed too. Otherwise my will is pretty weak, haha :)
I see this sort of problem in Freud's terms... That the "I" or ego is constantly trying to balance the needs of the id (pleasure-seeking part of our consciousness) with the super-ego (parental, knowing-what's-best-for-us) part of our consciousness. On days when Alternate Christine sleeps in, her id has simply won out! And sometimes we need this... Always listening to the super-ego can be stifling. So even though we know it's "better" for us, it's just more fun to rebel and listen to the darker, freer voice of our id.ReplyDelete
Yyogini, the marshmallow experiment is interesting. I'm not entirely sure what #1, #2, or #3 would say about this case. I don't know if it is fair to say that children can suffer from weakness of will (after all, they are children, and are still learning how to function fully in the community). But if the whole experiment was repeated with adults (in which case, we'll need more than marshmallows:-)), then maybe #1, #2 and #3 would say the same things they said about the adults who cannot delay gratification as they said about Alternate-Christine.ReplyDelete
Stephanie, very interesting Freudian perspective. I would like to learn more about what Freud has to say about balancing the needs of the id and the demands of the super-ego.ReplyDelete


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I set 99% of my Facebook posts to 'Public'. I talk about dating and my inner erotic creature (& how I found her)… I talk about being weirdly happy about silly things, and I talk about being anxious/pissed/scared/sad when I am. I don't wonder what 'other people' are going to think… seriously, only my friends are truly paying attention and if 'other people' happen to actually care & think I'm strange…. GO me. But what I wasn't prepared for was doing this AND being a woman in this Patriarchal culture. Being open like this is totally new to me. But it felt completely natural, and it still does. The issue I find myself running into is…. condescension. Mostly from men (sorry guys). When, for instance, I would post about a hilarious & kind of pathetic online dating incident…. I would receive REALLY cliche & obvious 'life advice'.
The responses to those stories range from 'You should get offline, all those sites are just going to lead to X', to 'When you stop looking, it's true, that's when it happens!' to 'Don't spend so much time worrying about finding someone, just be happy with who you are'. You guys. Seriously. The list goes on and on. A plethora of 'Just do ___' and 'You should ____'….
Essentially… advice you would give a young teenage daughter. Of your OWN.
Not advice you would give to a 30-something woman with HUGE Life-transforming personal work under her belt. The things I've learned, the tools I have, the experiences I've gotten through places like Mama Gena's School of Womanly Arts and through working with Jaiya Ma, a somatic sexologist, would BLOW their little minds. And yet, I am seen as an inexperienced, scared/lost little girl who needs a man to tell her 'Everything will be okay'. Hmm… You know what? I kind of love that.
I love men. Love, Love, LOVE them. What an incredibly sweet gesture… to see a woman in 'pain' and offer her what you have… even if what you have is 4th Grade Life Advice. Oh, did I mention I'm a Brat? I should've, sorry ;) But it's the truth. I see the masculine in his earnest desire to 'fix'. And I have nothing but love for it. Okay, a BUTTLOAD of frustration & wanting to smack him, but THEN, nothing but love. Because, you know what? I AM really inexperienced! I've actually never really dated before! So my honesty about where I'm at is big and open and visible and that's okay. When it comes to dating, I pretty much AM like a baby teenager.
But here's the catch… I'm SO NOT. I won't say I've lived a very big life up until now (there is SO much traveling that needs to happen you guys!!) but I will say that I am proud to be an Awakened Woman. I am an Empath. I am a Goddess. I am a Lover. I am a Friend. I am well versed in claiming my emotions, right where I am and not apologizing for them. I claim what I want. I claim what I don't. I know how to protect my energy. I know how to hold space. I know how to break down. I know how to stand up. And I know that my choices are mine alone and don't have to make sense to anyone else. When I say I am caught in self-loathing… I mean it. I own it. And I don't need someone saying 'Just try to come from a place of Gratitude'. Baby, I grew up watching Oprah, you sound like 25 years ago to me. But OH HOW I THANK YOU, you sweet, caring man!
I know seeing someone in pain or going through something is difficult. Uncomfortable. Even painful for the masculine. You want me to change course immediately, maybe even to soothe your own discomfort. And I so get that. But I just wanted to let you know… I am just being open. I am just saying out loud what millions of people are going through and maybe not saying out loud. I have just decided to let myself be seen. I will continue to own where I'm at, every step of the way. I will continue to walk with my eyes open… into triumph, into brokenness, into the deep dark swamp of anger or sadness, and into the sun again. Over and over. Like the wildly imperfect female human that I am. And if you want to be there, if you are called to care and soothe and comfort… just let me know you see me. Right where I am. And you support me feeling exactly what I am. And you love me, exactly as I am.


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Not heard of the term 'cyberslackers' before? No, neither had I. Apparently it's the new phrase that refers to employees who use their company's internet and e-mail for personal use during working hours.
OK, let's be honest here. We've all probably had the slip of the mouse button and accidentally gone on to Facebook, or unintentionally opened up our emails to see if a friend has replied to that all important question, but does that really qualify us to be branded as a 'cyberslacker'? The answer is no. (I hope!)
What's it worth to you?
Cyberslackers are those employees out there where their work output is reduced because of the time they waste surfing the Internet, logging on to social media sites and giving lengthy updates of their life to friends via email. A recent survey revealed that "half of IT managers estimate that employees spend at least one hour a day surfing the Internet for personal use, while two thirds think staff spend as much as an hour a day sending personal emails". A study revealed that "if 1,000 workers each spent an hour a day on the internet, that would cost an average company about $35m a year". Costly, huh?
The solution
So, what can you do to try and turn your cyberslackers into a cyberskilled workforce? Well, you can of course use filtering software, and check each employees' computer history, but such monitoring can deem you as the enemy. A lack of trust within the workplace will inevitably cause friction and bad relationships to develop. According to the BBC, stress and intimidation are also known outcomes of closely monitoring your employees.
Social media, as we've found out, can be a dangerous distraction for many employees, so how can you turn this into a good thing?
Well, we've put together an ITG Social Media Governance toolkit which will turn social media into a a critical part of how employees speak to customers, partners and stakeholders. The toolkit will help organisations create an effective governance structure around their social media activities, whilst creating a a 'joined-up approach' that is aligned with the objectives and risk appetite of the business – a governance approach.
Improve Social Media Effectiveness Whilst Reducing Risk
The templates and guidance in this toolkit should help an organisation create an appropriate social media governance framework. It will help organisations identify appropriate social media objectives, as well as assign roles and responsibilities. It contains a full set of policies and procedures that help organisations implement appropriate acceptable use frameworks, reduce risk from the corporate use of social media while helping them integrate social media into their marketing, communication and positioning strategies.
Turn your business around by converting your cyberslackers into a cyberskilled workforce!


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New Store openings
It's the long weekend baby, hopefully everyone's having an amazing weekend so far? I sure am. Got to spend the day with my girlfriend, sipping on Not Your Fathers Root Beer Ale, which for someone who absolutely hates beer, I'm totally obsessed with this. It's the best ale I've ever had, too bad we can't get it in Canada. I think this would quickly be my new favourite drink of choice, it was that good. We then went for martinis, following by a little shopping in downtown London and finished the day off with some delicious ribs at Rib Fest.
Of course, I wanted to be comfortable, since we did a ton of walking, and I couldn't think of anything more comfy than the luxurious line, GERRY WEBER. This black and white skirt is not only stylish, it's stretchy, meaning I could eat and drink as much as I want, without it feeling too tight. This fit it so forgiving, thanks to its high quality material.
GERRY WEBER will now be even more accessible for us Canadians, with 3 new stores opening this month. The Promenade Shopping Centre opened today, Eaton's Centre will open on the 22nd, followed by Chinook on the 29th.
What I Wore
Top- H&M
Necklace- ebay
Sunglasses- c/o Polette
Watch- c/o Bulova
Purse- Kate Spade
Skirt- c/o GERRY WEBER
Sneakers- Kenneth Cole


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Missy Chance
Missy Chance has been with Radco since 2013 and brings a wide range of skills and years of experience in Accounting, Human Resources, IT and Office Management. She has a keen business sense and a proven track record of more than a decade of accounting, leadership, procurement and human resources that serves to help Radco achieve its goals through her organizational skills and management style. Her integrity and passion for any job she performs earns her the loyalty and respect of her co-workers, vendors, and customers.
Missy is a native of Charlotte, NC, a mother of 2 girls and attended CPCC. She enjoys spending time with her daughters, family and friends and her 2 dogs. Her favorite pastimes include good movies, wine, music, day trips, watching her girls play soccer and dancing.


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I read a government report on the reasons for the riots and looting that took place over five summer nights in 2011.
It struck me that it had been largely an episode of group madness, involving many people who would not have been inclined to break the law under normal circumstances.
The testimony of these people made interesting reading.
I used their words as a fabric design.
There are three pieces in this collection; an armchair, a little bedroom chair and this desk chair.
All my furniture is unique – I never repeat a design.


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Rescued just days earlier, this orphaned River Otter was lucky enough to find its way to the wildlife rehabilitation sanctuary Coyote and the crew were visiting in Florida...and as you'll soon see, when it comes to cute baby animals Otter Pups are certainly at the top of the ranks! ...and luckily for Coyote they are incredibly playful as well!
Get ready...because it's Baby Otter feeding time!
Breaking Trail leaves the map behind and follows adventurer and animal expert Coyote Peterson and his crew as they encounter a variety of wildlife in the most amazing environments on the planet!
The Brave Wilderness Channel is your one stop connection to a wild world of adventure and amazing up close animal encounters!
Follow along with adventurer and animal expert Coyote Peterson and his crew as they lead you on three exciting expedition series - Emmy Award Winning Breaking Trail, Dragon Tails and Coyote's Backyard - featuring everything from Grizzly Bears and Crocodiles to Rattlesnakes and Tarantulas...each episode offers an opportunity to learn something new.


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The Lucky Young Things0 Comments Published by Jaya Ramesh November 28th, 2007 in General, Lifestyle
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Meet Jenny. Young, attractive and articulate, Jenny is typical of today's youth – a pretty vocal member of a very self-centered world. Her philosophy – ME, MYSELF and MINE – is also the credo of her generation.
Focused on her chosen track of professional success and financial independence, she unabashedly admits, "I can accept nothing but the best. My clothes have to be the best. My cell phone and all my personal belongings are top class brands. My husband too is a classy man. Nothing but the best for him, wife included!"
Deferred Enjoyment: Lessons Worth Learning1 Comment Published by Scharada Dubey September 27th, 2007 in General, Relationship, Lifestyle, Parenting
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The Three Little Pigs is an enjoyable story that a lot of us have heard or read in our childhood. Broadly, this tells the story of three brothers who have to set off from home into the big, bad, world symbolized by a wolf who can gobble them up. The first one, too lazy to search further, finds some hay and builds a house with it. The second one goes a little further and builds a house with sticks. Only the third one has the perseverance and tenacity to search for all the right materials with which to build a house, works hard to put them all together, and finally has a safe dwelling of stone and mortar, complete with a chimney.
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Heart-to-Heart - an intrinsic part of female bonding0 Comments Published by Jaya Ramesh July 5th, 2007 in General, Relationship, Lifestyle
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The need to feel connected starts at a very young age in almost all women. Whether it's a rag doll or a glamorous Barbie doll, a girl child will touch, handle and talk to it as if it were real and the most precious thing in the world.
Over the years she develops and finds her identity in the relationships she forges with her environment. Her life centers around the friends she makes. Invariably there is always a best friend in whom she will invest much of her energy, time and attention. This friend could be both, the repository of her little secrets as well as the confessor who pours her heart out to her in return. As she grows and gets to know more people, new relationships occupy her time and she gains new insights through these friendships. Now she may have more than one close friend, and different degrees of intimacy in different friendships.
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Mr.Bean's Holiday0 Comments Published by Rinku Gupta July 5th, 2007 in Movie reviews
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Film : Mr Bean's Holiday
Cast: Rowan Atkinson, Max Baldry
Director: Steve Bendelack
For lovers of that incorrigibly outrageous Mr Bean, here is one more film in the series that's a sure draw this summer. This time its Mr Bean caught up in a very French affair!
Bean wins a church raffle and thereby a vacation trip to France along with a camcorder. On boarding the Eurostar train in Paris, he finds French to be a barrier as he struggles to get across the city to catch a train to the South of France from the Gare Du Lyon. Taking time to catch a very French meal, he slowly but surely messes it all up but manages to escape unnoticed leaving a lady next to him with some very unpleasant findings in her handbag!
Your Values or Mine?0 Comments Published by Jaya Ramesh July 3rd, 2007 in Short Story
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Ever noticed how clearly drawn the battle lines between the young and the older generation have been in recent years? Never before have people who loved each other so much, clashed so often, and so disquietingly over codes of behaviour and value systems blindly cherished by one and increasingly questioned by the other.
What constitutes values?
As adults most of us have a set of values by which we operate, values which have come to us from our parents, teachers and the general environment we grow in. Quite often there is a clash in the process of our imbibing them, particularly when we refuse to go by the norms set by our parents.


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"The objective of Africa Wild Trails is to plan and deliver high quality, in-depth, international experiential learning expeditions, tours and research projects, in countries where the impact of the experience will be deep and memorable, where the discovery of new capabilities is real and long-lasting" Angus Wingfield (Director AWT & WTI).
Angus has spent many years in southern Africa, building contacts and excellent working relationships with trusted high caliber operators, NGOs, and field guides.
Find out more about our team of experts including their qualification and years of experience below…
- Founder & Director of Africa Wild Trails and Wild Trails International
- International expedition planning and delivery
- Specialist working with young people at risk
- Expedition medicine and mountain leader trained
- 20 years youth development projects experience
- International ventures risk management and logistics
- OSSM [Off Site Safety Management]
- RMOP [Risk Management on Overseas Programmes]
- ECP [Expedition Care Programme] Medic Level VII
- PADI SCUBA Diving Instructor
- Conservation & Wildlife Specialist
- Level VI NQ registered with THETA and DEAT
- Level V Dangerous Game Trails Guide & Survival Expert
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- Conservation & Wildlife Specialist
- Level VI NQ registered with THETA and DEAT
- Level V Dangerous Game Trails Guide & Survival Expert
- SASSETA accredited training provider
- SASSETA accredited skills development facilitator
- Certified mountaineering instructor (M.I.A)
- NQF National Mountaineering (level 7), Cultural and Nature Guide (level 4).
- Past president of the KwaZulu-Natal Section of the Mountain Club of SA and since 2005 has been the Convener of Mountain Rescue in the province
- National Diploma in Horticulture
DR PETER CALVERLY (BSc. Hons., MSc, PhD)
- ASA Africa Registered Rafting and Hiking Guide
- Bachelor of Science Ecological Sciences (2005-2007)
- Bachelor of Science Honours Ecological Sciences (2008)
- Master of Science in Biological Sciences (2009-2010)
- Doctor of Philosophy in Conservation and Ecological Science (2011-2013)
- National Research Foundation Scarce Skills Award
- AWT Tour Guide
- Youth at Risk Project Manager
- 20 years as a PTI
- National projects PTI
- UK Training and Preparation
- Risk Management specialist
- AWT Tour Guide and Photography Expert
- Zoology Graduate
- Southern Africa Registered FGASA Guide
- 18 Years Working in Crisis Intervention
- Delivers Bespoke Retreats Focused on Transformative Personal Inspiration
Note: All AWT staff and partners are DBS checked and Africa based partners have the equivalent police checks.


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A couple Nonprofit Leadership links
Here are a couple of helpful leadership links I saw this week through the various listservs I subscribe to.
- The Young and Restless in a Knowledge Economy
A recent release from CEOs for Cities examines the importance of attracting college-educated workers between the ages of 25 and 35, whose unprecedented mobility enables them to relocate to cities which have the precise assets, ethos and opportunities that they seek. "In understanding these young, educated workers, cities have their best chance of succeeding in the most competitive economic environment in history." Download the full report at http://www.ceosforcities.org/ResearchandResources.htm.
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- "The Nonprofit Sector's Leadership Deficit"
Urgent--all leaders-in-waiting needed. According to The Nonprofit Sector's Leadership Deficit, a study by Bridgespan Group, the United States will need as many as 640,000 new nonprofit leaders by 2016. "Here's what the chairman and cofounder of the group, Tom Tierney, says the sector needs to do: (1) Invest in leadership capacity--even if it means directing a greater proportion of funding for "overhead." (2) Refine management rewards to retain and attract top talent--by offering more competitive management packages (particularly as managers are held to higher performance standards). (3) Expand recruiting horizons and foster individual career mobility--reaching out to baby boomers who wish to continue working, midlife career changers seeking greater social impact, and the young. Ensuring career mobility for up and comers is essential if the sector is to retain its best performers."
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