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The team building kit for managers with team building exercises, activities and games to build winning teams today!
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Corporate team building activities: Help cross-team projects succeed, step-by-step
Sometimes it's not clear how cross-team projects should proceed. Follow these guidelines on corporate team building activities for accomplishing as a group what individuals can't do alone.
- Set up some basic parameters: a goal for the next meeting, everyone's role and the type of discussion.
- Use a series of framing questions.
- At the next meeting, ask targeted questions on how the group should proceed
Team building training: Leadership Rx for coaching your team
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Team building exercises: Test your team's ability to see the big picture
Do your people "get it"?
To find out, use this team building exercise to test their ability to discuss the big picture.
For example, ask each person the same five questions about strategy to see if their answers line up with yours:
- Who are the customers or customer segments we serve, listed in priority order?
- What are the services we provide now, and which ones, if any, need to change as we implement the current strategy?
- What is our value proposition and how does it set us apart and give us an edge in the marketplace?
- Which environmental trends/issues (such as market, economic, societal, political or environmental) are important to our strategy?
- What are three things your division is doing (and/or doing differently) to support the strategy?
Each question gets at the intent behind the strategy. There are right answers and wrong ones. And the answers change as strategy changes.
— Adapted from The Executive Guide to High-Impact Talent Management, Steve Trautman.
Team building training: Help your team get comfortable with risk
Encourage your team to take risks? The very idea is enough to make many CEOs shudder.
Because you shoulder the responsibility of keeping performance high for the entire organization, sometimes you may be risk averse. Even acknowledging the existence of risk requires you to admit that you don't have all the answers. That doesn't sit well with the image of you as a fearless, confident leader.
Bottom line: CEOs who hone their skills at engaging with risk—who learn to acknowledge the fear and overcome that emotion—can also help others summon their courage and unleash tremendous potential.
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Team building training: 10 steps to get your team's mojo going
Need to get your team's momentum going, so they're invigorated and ready for their next goals? Here are 10 steps blogger Terry Starbucker recommends:
- Don't dive in—yet.
- Analyze your blueprint.
- Size up your team.
- Express the goals.
- Raise the bar.
- Read your own fine print.
- Get out your "virtual Q-tip."
- Set an "accountability meter."
- Give frequent feedback.
- Remain patient, calm and open to ideas.
Fun team building activities: Taking the Marshmallow Challenge
With 18 minutes, 20 sticks of spaghetti, a yard of tape, a yard of string and one marshmallow, Tom Wujec believes he can tell you how innovative any team is.
Here's how to conduct his fun team building game:
After giving a four-member team the list of supplies mentioned above, Wujec asks them to build the tallest free-standing structure they can. The only rule: The marshmallow needs to be on top.
"I believe the Marshmallow Challenge is among the fastest and most powerful techniques for improving a team's capacity to generate fresh ideas, build rapport and incorporate prototyping—all of which lie at the heart of effective innovation," says Wujec, who is a Fellow at Autodesk, the leading 2D and 3D technology firm.
Ultimately, says Wujec, the Marshmallow Challenge helps people find hidden assumptions, build a common language and learn how to manage the marshmallow.
— Adapted from MarshmallowChallenge.com.
Team building training: Revisit team's size and tasks
Nothing right is going to happen with your team if the basic structure isn't right. Here are some guidelines:
1. Look for signs that it's too big. The larger the team, the slower it moves. Consider a smaller team or a tiny executive committee.
2. Dispense with tactical trivia. Toss everything except important work that requires collaboration.
3. Enforce healthy norms. Four universal ones: everybody is as committed as the leader; every issue is on the table; everybody's voice is heard; and what you say and do when you're with the team is the same thing you say and do outside the team.
4. Have your team review its structure. Revisit size and tasks.
— Adapted from Senior Leadership Teams, Ruth Wageman, Debra Nunes, James Burruss, J. Richard Hackman, Harvard Business School Press.
Team building training: Consistent contributors = good team
Whether a group is planning a conference or working on a shared budget, the more cooperative the group is, the more likely it can rise above a challenge. It helps a leader to understand, then, why some groups cooperate more than others.
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Teamwork examples: 'FedEx Days' – Mayo Clinic's secret – teamwork after 9/11
Teamwork examples #1: Forget carrot-and-stick motivators, go for 'FedEx Days'
Atlassian, an Australian software company, holds something called "FedEx Days" once a quarter, on a Thursday afternoon.
On that day, leadership says to software developers — Go work on whatever you want, with whomever you want. On Friday afternoon, show the rest of the company what you've done.
The initiative is called "FedEx Days" because team members have to deliver something overnight.
Teamwork examples #2: Mayo Clinic's success secret = team collaboration
After a diagnosis, patients at the Mayo Clinic meet with a team of specialists who help them understand what's happening so they can decide about treatment together, says president and CEO Denis Cortese.
This kind of teamwork is the stock-in-trade of Cortese, who won last year's top leadership award from the National Center for Healthcare Leadership.
Can you mimic the Mayo teams on behalf of your customers? A conference call up front to plan out services? A whole team descending on your customer's problem like pit-stop mechanics rushing up to refresh a racecar?
Teamwork examples #3: Teamwork after 9/11
The day after friends, colleagues and family members died in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center, Mark Loehr asked his people to come to the office. Not to work, but to share their thoughts and feelings about what had happened and what they should do about it.
In the ensuing days, the CEO of SoundView Technology encouraged his team to find meaning in the horror by deciding on a project they all could participate in. Instead of making a group donation to victim relief, they decided to contribute one day of the technology brokerage's profits. In the past, that figure had reached as high as $1 million, a remarkable contribution. But as word spread about what SoundView employees were doing, enthusiasm grew and the company ended up donating $6 million.
—Adapted from Primal Leadership, Daniel Goleman, Harvard Business Review Press.
Encourage teams to share what they know
Keep information flowing in your corridors and among your teams with these tactics:
- Increase staff members' perceptions of their colleagues' trustworthiness. You can do it by emphasizing a shared identity, or highlight an example of an employee who followed through on a promise.
- Encourage face-to-face contact and discourage a reliance on email communication.
- Remove incentives for employees to "betray" one another.
Building a culture of trust is key in encouraging employees to share what they know.
— Adapted from "When Knowledge Sharing Turns to Knowledge Hiding," strategy+business.
Corporate team building: For the sake of your team, fire the prima donna
If you're a leader who has a prima donna on your team (one who produces great results but alienates everyone), what should you do? It's simple. Bite the bullet and fire that person.
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Foster teamwork to cut costs by sharing financials
One thing that binds the Zappos team together is an openness with numbers. It shares vital signs not just on the team level, but across the entire company. What are the tenets of a team culture that values such broadcasts? Speak to the masses. Craft and communicate metrics in a language everyone can understand. Make deadlines and accountability visible. At the online shoe company, for example, a finance class teaches every employee to read a balance sheet. Lesson: Broadcast deadlines, goals, responsibilities and progress for everyone to see. Help team members be more aware of each group's objectives. — Adapted from "The Orange Revolution," Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton.
Team building training: Teach your team how to respond to change
You've laid out how you're going to hold the team accountable, and they all understand what's expected of them. You've planted responsibility squarely in their laps. But you're not totally home free.
There's one more piece of the puzzle left: responding to change.
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Team building activities: Tie 'bonding' activities to core values
Next time you're tasked with coming up with a good "bonding" activity for your team, take a cue from today's event planners. In the past five years, more companies have veered away from outdoor team building—organized sports and ropes courses—and are trying nontraditional events.
The best events tie in somehow to a company's core values and have a philanthropic element.
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Creative team building activities: Diversify your team by job, age, gender
Your team needs diversity in three areas:
- Job function: "You need people who can see things differently and not get trapped in their own disciplinary assumptions," says Robert I. Sutton, a Stanford University engineering professor. "People from different disciplines will have different points of view."
- Age: Younger employees, or "millennials," for example, come to the workplace with "a whole different life experience, especially with regard to technology in their personal lives," says Gary Curtis, a managing director at Accenture.
- Gender: "A team of all men is generally going to work in a hierarchical way. If it's a big team, men are more comfortable taking their part of the problem and going off and solving it," Curtis says. In comparison, a team of women tend to work in a more communal way.
— Adapted from "Building a new-age workforce," Julia King, Computerworld.
Fun team building activities: Pet pageants, cook-offs, ugliest earrings contest
Liven up your workplace with one of these morale-boosting team events:
- Pet pageant. Employees post photos of their pets on a bulletin board. Make up categories, and then have everyone vote on their favorites. Examples: cutest, funniest picture, best pet/owner look-alike, best pet story.
- Chili cook-off. Each department cooks up its favorite chili recipe and enters it into the contest. A panel of "chili experts" selects the champion, or everyone votes on their favorite.
- Awful tie/ugly earrings. Everyone comes to work wearing his or her entries. Place a voting box in the office, and then tally up ballots at the end of the day. Bring a camera and post photos of the winners.
Team building exercises: 3 ways to ward off groupthink
Make sure your team is working more like the Manhattan Project and less like Enron. Three ideas:
- Model constructive dissent. Play devil's advocate and disagree with a unanimous decision. Benefit: You'll encourage a reluctant but wise person to speak up.
- Have a brainstorming group write ideas on unattributed Post-it notes. Why? No one knows whether an idea came from top brass or a low-level player, so people back ideas with merit regardless of source.
- Encourage team members to do self-affirmations. Research by behavioral scientist Tanya Menon shows that simply listing one's own personal skills and accomplishments before meeting with a group enhances one's ability to let colleagues shine.
— Adapted from "When Groups Don't Think," Jake Mohan, Utne Reader.
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If George Osborne's proposals for co-ops had been about breaking up the corporate chains that dominate our high streets, limiting our choices and treating their workers with contempt, I would have been cheering. Why am I suspicious then when he proposes co-ops for our core public services? After all, we definitely need a radical change in the way that public services are managed. More power to frontline staff must surely be central to this, as must greater involvement of users and the community, along with a radical reform of the over-centralised, secretive and unfair ways in which the public are represented.
But must this involve a change of ownership, which is what the Tory proposals involve? Isn't there an intrinsic connection between public ownership and the purpose and character or our essential public services?
The provision of universal healthcare and education is in the public sector because it concerns everyone. The whole of society, not just a particular group of workers and users, benefits from there being an excellent primary school or first-rate social services in their locality.
The problem in the past is that the custodians of the public interest have interpreted their task as likened to a mix of a military commander-in-chief and Jesus: requiring central command exercised with paternalistic sentiment. Chief executives set the tone for management as command and control. Policy staff assumed that with the help of statistics and surveys they knew best. Department heads protected themselves through creating their own empires. Pockets of secrecy hiding arrangements of convenience were everywhere. And politicians, protected by an electoral system that reproduced the status quo – until voters decide to abstain in passive protest – have rarely been motivated to open things up.
Things have been changing, however, under all sorts of pressures, from social movements and community groups insisting that their knowledge, rooted in experience, matters as much as that of the "experts", through public sector workers insisting on workplace democracy, to the disasters of privatisation jolting public sector managers to look to democratic approaches to management specific to the challenges of providing high-quality public goods.
Another kind of public sector is in the making. I saw evidence of it myself while writing about an impressive experience of internal public service reform in Newcastle city council. The key to improving services and cutting costs was an egalitarian and mutually respectful partnership between management and the unions based on maximising public benefit. What I saw was a shift of management from command and control to decentralise and support, releasing the capacities of frontline staff, previously stifled by layers of supervision. I saw also a revival of the public service ethic, which often leads people to work for the public sector in the first place, through ensuring staff gave priority to meeting the needs of local people.
The last thing these workers wanted was as a group, as distinct from part of an active public, to own the service. They had resisted the fragmentation involved in contracting out, and the consequent influx of consultants and plethora of joint ventures. Yet when you read the small print of the Conservative proposal, this is exactly what their proposal will involved. It's like watching an airbrush. What begins with fine talk of power to the workers ends with talk of bringing in experts (more consultants?), joint ventures (more private corporations) and a complete deletion of local government (the arrangements are all to be with central government, guided by the Cabinet Office).
Changing ownership from private profit-seeking owners to co-operatives of workers and users with a mutual interest in the enterprise is an excellent way of making the market sector socially responsible. In fact, I'm all for a co-operative economy for everything we produce and buy through market exchange. But if we are to have a productive debate about democratising the public sector, we must start from the recognition that public goods are different. We must be able to make their delivery accountable in ways other than the market and in ways that recognise their value to all.
Co-ops can be part of this process, especially for the expansion of services into new areas (see William Davies and Clifford Singer).
The Conservatives' problem is that they don't have a firm and agreed commitment to the centrality and distinct nature of public goods and the importance of the democratic character of their provision. They therefore don't have a convincing strategy for reforming the state as a provider of public goods other than through making it like the market. Hence we end up with little more than airbrushed privatisation.

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text: NYSE:HD - Home Depot Stock Price, Forecast & News Adding Choose a watchlist: Adding You have already added five stocks to your watchlist. Upgrade to MarketBeat Daily Premium to add more stocks to your watchlist. Adding Home Depot Inc Please log in to your account or sign up in order to add this asset to your watchlist. Log In and Add $217.84 -6.89 (-3.07 %) (As of 02/28/2020 04:00 PM ET) Add Compare Today's Range$212.33Now: $217.84▼$221.0650-Day Range$222.81MA: $234.92▼$247.0252-Week Range$179.52Now: $217.84▼$247.36Volume11.66 million shsAverage Volume3.98 million shsMarket Capitalization$237.63 billionP/E Ratio21.25Dividend Yield2.42%Beta1.01 ProfileAnalyst RatingsAdvanced ChartDividendEarningsFinancialsInsider TradesInstitutional OwnershipHeadlinesOptions ChainSEC FilingsSocial Media Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on RedditShare on StocktwitsPrint this articleShare by Email The Home Depot, Inc operates as a home improvement retailer. It operates The Home Depot stores that sell various building materials, home improvement products, lawn and garden products, and décor products, as well as provide installation, home maintenance, and professional service programs to do-it-yourself and professional customers. The company also offers installation programs that include flooring, cabinets and cabinet makeovers, countertops, furnaces and central air systems, and windows; and professional installation in various categories sold through its stores and in-home sales programs, as well as acts as a contractor to provide installation services to its do-it-for-me customers through third-party installers. Read More… Industry, Sector and Symbol Stock Exchange NYSE Industry Lumber & other building materials Sub-IndustryHome Improvement Retail SectorRetail/Wholesale Current SymbolNYSE:HD Previous Symbol CUSIP43707610 CIK354950 Webhttp://www.homedepot.com/ Phone770-433-8211Debt Debt-to-Equity RatioN/A Current Ratio1.08 Quick Ratio0.28Price-To-Earnings Trailing P/E Ratio21.25 Forward P/E Ratio20.69 P/E Growth1.88 Sales & Book Value Annual Sales$110.23 billion Price / Sales2.16 Cash Flow$12.03 per share Price / Cash Flow18.11 Book Value($2.86) per share Price / Book-76.17Profitability EPS (Most Recent Fiscal Year)$10.25 Net Income$11.12 billion Net Margins10.20% Return on Equity-599.49% Return on Assets21.72%Miscellaneous Employees413,000 Outstanding Shares1,090,830,000Market Cap$237.63 billion Next Earnings Date5/19/2020 (Estimated) OptionableOptionable Receive HD News and Ratings via Email Sign-up to receive the latest news and ratings for HD and its competitors with MarketBeat's FREE daily newsletter. HD Rates by TradingView Home Depot (NYSE:HD) Frequently Asked Questions What is Home Depot's stock symbol? Home Depot trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "HD." How often does Home Depot pay dividends? What is the dividend yield for Home Depot? Home Depot declared a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, February 25th. Investors of record on Thursday, March 12th will be paid a dividend of $1.50 per share on Thursday, March 26th. This represents a $6.00 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 2.75%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, March 11th. This is a positive change from Home Depot's previous quarterly dividend of $1.36. View Home Depot's Dividend History. How will Home Depot's stock buyback program work? Home Depot declared that its Board of Directors has authorized a share repurchase program on Tuesday, February 26th 2019, which authorizes the company to buyback $15,000,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization authorizes the company to buy up to 6.9% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares buyback programs are usually an indication that the company's leadership believes its stock is undervalued. How were Home Depot's earnings last quarter? Home Depot Inc (NYSE:HD) released its earnings results on Tuesday, February, 25th. The home improvement retailer reported $2.28 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $2.11 by $0.17. The home improvement retailer had revenue of $25.78 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $25.78 billion. Home Depot had a negative return on equity of 599.49% and a net margin of 10.20%. The firm's revenue for the quarter was down 2.7% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period last year, the firm posted $2.25 earnings per share. View Home Depot's Earnings History. When is Home Depot's next earnings date? Home Depot is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, May 19th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Home Depot. What guidance has Home Depot issued on next quarter's earnings? Home Depot issued an update on its FY21 earnings guidance on Tuesday, February, 25th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of ~$10.45 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus estimate of $10.55. The company issued revenue guidance of +3.5-4.0% yr/yr to $114.1-114.6 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $114.91 billion. What price target have analysts set for HD? 30 Wall Street analysts have issued 12-month price targets for Home Depot's shares. Their forecasts range from $215.00 to $270.00. On average, they expect Home Depot's share price to reach $248.56 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 14.1% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Home Depot. What is the consensus analysts' recommendation for Home Depot? 30 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Home Depot in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 12 hold ratings and 17 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Home Depot. Has Home Depot been receiving favorable news coverage? News coverage about HD stock has trended very negative this week, according to InfoTrie. The research group identifies positive and negative media coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Home Depot earned a media sentiment score of -4.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news headlines about the home improvement retailer a news buzz of 6.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media coverage is somewhat likely to have an impact on the company's share price in the near future. View News Stories for Home Depot. Are investors shorting Home Depot? Home Depot saw a decrease in short interest in the month of January. As of January 31st, there was short interest totalling 9,470,000 shares, a decrease of 8.2% from the January 15th total of 10,320,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 4,810,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 2.0 days. Approximately 0.9% of the shares of the company are sold short. View Home Depot's Current Options Chain. Who are some of Home Depot's key competitors? Some companies that are related to Home Depot include Lowe's Companies (LOW), Floor & Decor (FND), Travis Perkins (TVPKF), Builders FirstSource (BLDR), BMC Stock (BMCH), Lumber Liquidators (LL), Jewett-Cameron Trading (JCTCF), Latitude 360 (LATX) and Wisdom Homes of America (WOFA). What other stocks do shareholders of Home Depot own? Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Home Depot investors own include NVIDIA (NVDA), Walt Disney (DIS), Alibaba Group (BABA), Visa (V), Cisco Systems (CSCO), AT&T (T), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), Boeing (BA), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) and Intel (INTC). Who are Home Depot's key executives? Home Depot's management team includes the folowing people: Mr. Craig A. Menear, Chairman, CEO & Pres (Age 61)Ms. Carol B. Tomé, CFO & Exec. VP of Corp. Services (Age 62)Mr. Matthew A. Carey, Exec. VP & Chief Information Officer (Age 54)Mr. Mark Q. Holifield, Exec. VP of Supply Chain & Product Devel. (Age 63)Mr. Edward P. Decker, Exec. VP of Merchandising (Age 56) Who are Home Depot's major shareholders? Home Depot's stock is owned by a number of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include State Street Corp (4.78%), Capital World Investors (3.61%), FMR LLC (1.81%), Geode Capital Management LLC (1.54%), Capital Research Global Investors (1.50%) and Bank of New York Mellon Corp (0.89%). Company insiders that own Home Depot stock include Ann Marie Campbell, Armando M Codina, Carol B Tome, Craig A Menear, Edward P Decker, Gregory D Brenneman, Manuel Kadre, Mark C Vadon, Mark Holifield, Matt Carey, Stephanie Linnartz, Teresa Wynn Roseborough, Timothy A Hourigan, Wayne M Hewett and William G Lennie. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Home Depot. Which major investors are selling Home Depot stock? HD stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Capital World Investors, FMR LLC, Fred Alger Management LLC, Jennison Associates LLC, 1832 Asset Management L.P., PGGM Investments, Bank of New York Mellon Corp and Artemis Investment Management LLP. Company insiders that have sold Home Depot company stock in the last year include Ann Marie Campbell, Carol B Tome, Craig A Menear, Edward P Decker, Mark Holifield, Matt Carey, Teresa Wynn Roseborough, Timothy A Hourigan and William G Lennie. View Insider Buying and Selling for Home Depot. Which major investors are buying Home Depot stock? HD stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including AQR Capital Management LLC, Johanson Financial Advisors Inc., Amundi Pioneer Asset Management Inc., Geode Capital Management LLC, Marshall Wace LLP, Hexavest Inc., Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc. and Point72 Asset Management L.P.. Company insiders that have bought Home Depot stock in the last two years include Armando M Codina, Gregory D Brenneman, Manuel Kadre, Mark C Vadon, Stephanie Linnartz and Wayne M Hewett. View Insider Buying and Selling for Home Depot. How do I buy shares of Home Depot? Shares of HD can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab. What is Home Depot's stock price today? One share of HD stock can currently be purchased for approximately $217.84. How big of a company is Home Depot? Home Depot has a market capitalization of $237.63 billion and generates $110.23 billion in revenue each year. The home improvement retailer earns $11.12 billion in net income (profit) each year or $10.25 on an earnings per share basis. Home Depot employs 413,000 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Home Depot. What is Home Depot's official website? The official website for Home Depot is http://www.homedepot.com/. How can I contact Home Depot? Home Depot's mailing address is 2455 PACES FERRY ROAD, ATLANTA GA, 30339. The home improvement retailer can be reached via phone at 770-433-8211 or via email at [email protected] MarketBeat Community Rating for Home Depot (NYSE HD)Community Ranking: 3.0 out of 5 ( )Outperform Votes: 1,548 (Vote Outperform)Underperform Votes: 1,058 (Vote Underperform)Total Votes: 2,606MarketBeat's community ratings are surveys of what our community members think about Home Depot and other stocks. Vote "Outperform" if you believe HD will outperform the S&P 500 over the long term. Vote "Underperform" if you believe HD will underperform the S&P 500 over the long term. You may vote once every thirty days. This page was last updated on 2/29/2020 by MarketBeat.com StaffFeatured Article: Treasury Bonds


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Interoperability with CMIS and Apache Chemistry
Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) is a specification for improving interoperability between Enterprise Content Management systems. The standard has been ratified in May 2010 and is now supported by many ECM vendors.
The number of applications using CMIS to access and manage documents of all kinds is steadily growing. Many applications use libraries provided by Apache Chemistry, which provides four implementations of CMIS: OpenCMIS (Java), cmislib (Python), phpclient (PHP) and DotCMIS (.NET).
This presentation will explain the standard, its relevance and acceptance in the ECM industry and, of course, it will present Apache Chemistry and its role in the increasing use of CMIS.


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Fra: Horace E. Scudder Til: H.C. Andersen
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Riverside, Cambridge, Mass. 7 September 1871
PROFESSOR H. C. ANDERSEN My dear Friend:
It is a long while since I have heard from you, and indeed I myself have spent the summer almost without a letter to you. I had a message the other day from you through Mr. Louis Bagger85 of Washington and was heartily glad to get it. I hope you are carrying out the plan which I know you entertained, of travelling this summer in Norway, and that we may have the tree shaken for us when you come home.
Day after to-morrow (9. Sept.) we expect to publish the final volume of the series of Pictures of Travel, to include &In Sweden/& "The Hartz Mountains," and some short sketches, "Ragatz" "Oberammergau," etc. which I translated. After some reluctance we have concluded that it is not expedient at present to attempt any publication of poetical selections. It is so exceedingly difficult to get any good translation of poetry that we feel your reputation would not be advanced by such publication as we could give. I have hoped from time to time that I might myself be able to do this work, but abundant occupation seems to make this impossible.
The series then comprises ten volumes and you will receive shortly the copies due you to complete your set. It is a great pleasure to me to think that this enterprise has been fortunately brought to a close. Yet it would be still more pleasant to receive new and fresh volumes from your pen. I enclose a statement of copyright due you on the volumes preceding this last and two drafts, one on Sampson Low, Son & Co. London for £ 33/6/5 and the other on Brown, Shipley & Co. for, [ £] 19/14/ -the amount due you on the statement.
We have had a pleasant summer here, and now the autumn is coming-may we not begin to think of having you here with us this winter? Some time since you kindly sent me your photograph. Permit me to send mine. You see I belong to the next generation! the one brought up on your stories and warmly attached to you for them.
Your publishers desire their cordial greetings to you and I add my own
Dear Sir
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The NFC wild-card race is beginning to look like one gnarly bowl of beef stew.
Yes, it's early. Yes, there's any number of catastrophes that could take place, like Matt Stafford going down (again). But let's start with figuring out what we know.
How about those perfect Packers? It's clear they're winning the NFC North and homefield. But my sense is the Bears will beat them in Week 16, and Chicago will finish with 10 or 11 wins to grab a wild-card spot. I'm already on the record: Da Bears make the playoffs.
It would take a gaffe of Roger Craig and Will Clark proportions for the 8-1 Niners not to take the NFC West. And at 7-3, and with a head-to-head win over the Falcons in Atlanta, give me the Saints in the NFC South.
That leaves the loser of the NFC East race (at this point, either the Giants or Cowboys), the Lions and the Falcons to argue over the sixth seed. So what's going to happen? Here's the team-by-team shakedown:
New York Giants
The Giants are the group that elicits the most trust, based on how they've played two very good teams (Patriots and 49ers) on the road, the fact they rank in the top 10 in penalties and turnover differential and also how they have the tendency to pull out the close shaves.
Here's the reality check: of all the potential playoff teams, the Giants have the toughest road as far as schedule is concerned. New York's remaining opponents are a combined 10 games over .500. If Big Blue fails to handle a reeling Eagles team at home, the Saints-Packers-Cowboys gauntlet might be too formidable for the G-Men to rally to make the postseason.
Current strengths: Pass rush, Eli Manning's play and red-zone efficiency (so important in big games)
Gaping holes: Health at running back (Ahmad Bradshaw), wideout (Hakeem Nicks) and effectiveness of ground attack
Dallas Cowboys
Dallas might not be the most well-rounded team in the NFC East, but they are the healthiest, even without Miles Austin.
The Cowboys get Felix Jones back this week, which will provide DeMarco Murray an occasional breather and give the offense a change-of-pace back. That said, coach Jason Garrett would be foolish to make this a running-back-by-committee situation. Murray has been a beast, with an incredible 601 yards rushing in the past four games alone.
Dallas should be the favorite to win the division, despite being a game back of the Giants, due to a very easy schedule. Concerning the wild-card chase, Dallas has the best conference record (4-2), which will help in tiebreakers.
Current strengths: Murray's presence gives offense true balance, Tony Romo' hot play (100 plus rating in three of past four games) and a palatable schedule
Gaping holes: Little pass rush outside of DeMarcus Ware and blitz packages, mediocre safeties and an organizational tendency to play down to opponents
Detroit Lions
|Lions Offensive Woes in 2011
|Percentage of Rush Plays
|Third Down Conversions Percentage
|Rushing Yards
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|10-Play Drives
Despite the sterling 6-3 record, things aren't looking so good on Motown. As a 37-13 thrashing at the hands of the Bears this past weekend showed, the Lions' prospects going forward are shaky.
Matthew Stafford is playing with a broken finger, and it showed on some of his throws in Chicago. While he reportedly has looked better in practice, he will only continue to fare worse, health-wise, if Jim Schwartz doesn't get him some help in the form of a ground attack. The game constantly is on Stafford's shoulders.
Jahvid Best doesn't appear any closer to returning from a concussion. Maurice Morris should start this weekend. Detroit's ineffective run game and poor offensive balance could be the difference in both Stafford's ability to stay upright and the Lions' bid to make the playoffs for the first time since 1999.
Current strengths: Calvin Johnson (11 touchdowns), best third-down defense in NFL (28.5 percent) and ability to create turnovers and opponent mistakes.
Gaping holes: Inconsistent and ineffective running game, an offense too dependent on the big play and a porous run defense
Atlanta Falcons
While the Falcons are still in the NFC South race, they face an uphill climb to catch the Saints, who are 1.5 games up and have taken the head-to-head meeting in Atlanta.
The Falcons also find themselves in a tough position to capture a wild-card spot, considering they already have four conference losses, which could be a huge negative come playoff tiebreaking time. The Falcons have a very manageable schedule going forward, with games against the Vikings, Panthers and Jaguars over the next five weeks. The team also received a break during that run, as their toughest opponent -- the Texans -- just lost their starting quarterback.
Mike Smith's group needs a W at home this weekend against a feisty Titans club that is allowing the sixth fewest points in the league.
Current strengths: Explosive passing attack when Julio Jones is healthy, a running game capable of closing out games and a manageable schedule over next five weeks
Gaping holes: Erratic offense on first down, plenty of QB pressure but not enough sacks and WR drops on catchable balls (22 and counting).
Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Philadelphia Eagles
These clubs had the potential to make a playoff run, but both will fall short.
The Bucs are an easy call to make. As my NFL.com colleague Mike Lombardi so articulately pointed out, they are playing like the Headless Horsemen at a time when they can't afford a lapse in leadership.
The Eagles can't suffer any more blows, self-inflicted or courtesy of Adrian Wilson. As talented as this team is, at 3-6, it will take no less than winning out to secure the sixth and final playoff spot. With Michael Vick and Jeremy Maclin ailing, and an unpredictable defense running the gamut of disruptive to completely passive, 2011 looks like a lost season in Philadelphia.


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Just thought I would post the journey it took to get the Raspberry Pi Computer Vision project to the Brighton Mini Maker Farie 2012.
It started about 5/4 weeks before the Maker Faire, in a pub. Where the small group of members of the Brighton Pi sat round a table and thought what can we do for the Maker Faire. I had spoken about using some sort of computer vision on my autonomous RC car project sometime ago but didn't do anything more with it. So the others decided that I would use my Raspberry Pi to demo some computer vision, face detection, object and edge detection. "Ok" I said, "I should be able to put something together"
My Pi was still in the anti-static bag, with no other items to enable it's use in this project. So quickly ordered a box from pibow and quick look on Amazon and the Elinux.org SD card section. Picked the Integral 16GB SDHC Class 10 Ultima pro 20 Mb/s. Also ordered a Flexible keyboard from HK only a £5 and powered USB Hub (which I needed to modify). I had a Logitech C250 webcam, also an USB mouse.
While I was waiting for the delivery of the other items, also have some items coming from Hong Kong (fingers crossed they arrive in time). I used my Ubuntu (Linux) computer to enable me to start working on the code and see if this at all is possible to do this. Plugged the webcam into the computer, showed it was connected, loaded a program called Cheese (a webcam photo booth) to test the webcam. All working fine.
Cheese is available as a Debian package using the apt-get command in a terminal. As it was also going to run on a Raspberry and I knew a little Python, so that would be the language used to talk to Open CV. Open CV is written in C++ and available from http://opencv.org/
OpenCV is released under a BSD license and hence it's free for both academic and commercial use.
It has C++, C, Python and Java interfaces and supports Windows, Linux, Android and Mac OS.
The image used for this project was the Raspbian available from http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads which was a gamble as there was no support for the webcam I was using by default. The Arch Linux image did have the support required but due to my 250mA flexible keyboard I was unable to boot into that OS. It's too late to get another keyboard. Anyway I liked the keyboard as it was easy to transport so I stuck with the Raspbian image, just need to recompile the Linux Kernel with the required UVC driver. Found some details here (Linux UVC driver & tools) http://www.ideasonboard.org/uvc/#download I had started tweeting about my project and the kernel gods answered by adding USB webcam support to the Raspbian kernel, which I somehow picked up by doing a lot of reboots and apt-get update, apt-get upgrade, Ri-update commands. Also following a USB cable mod (cut the red wire) to stop the powered hub powering the Raspi the webcam was detected by my raspberry. Whoo hoo major hurdle overcome. The code was being worked on my Ubuntu box, which showed Grey-scale, Face Detection, Edge Detection, Gaussian Blur. These were running in loop which ran about 4.5 FPS. Now the Ubuntu box is 2GHZ CPU with 512Mb Ram so it going to be a lot slower on the Pi which runs at 700Mhz with 256Mb ram.
Moved the code over to the raspberry and also installed Genny (lightweight text editor) able to help with python indentation. First I installed OpenCV from the site above but found that the python bindings didn't work so I use the package python-opencv available by using the command sudo apt-get install python-opencv This enabled my python scripts to import cv gaining access to the Image processing commands within OpenCV.
Another major problem I overcame was that raspberry pi couldn't cope with taking the feed directly from the cam though the USB at 640×480 so I used a program called fswebcam which enable me to take frames from the cam, perform some basic image manipulation, save to a Jpeg file and reduce in size. This file was then placed upon a USB stick to save wear and tear on a SD card, because I was polling the cam every 10 secs with a 1sec delay upon capture saving the image. The python script was then loading/reading the image from the USB and processing the same image with a loop, which ran at about 0.5 fps. The webcam program was running at 7 fps. This caused a small delay in the update of the 4 images shown but did a good job with edge and face detection. As you can see in the pic below, Pi's Cpu was running at 90-100% and using about 25% of the ram available.
Maybe with a directly connected camera . So by passing the USB bottleneck and access to the GPU chip it could have been quicker. Also it wouldn't be common practice to run each image function Face and edge detection using Haar Cascade and Canny within a loop but it did show that the Raspberry Pi could be used in image processing applications.
Some late night debugging was done the Thursday night before the Maker Faire at the Build Brighton Hack-Space Set-up was done Friday night with a bit more debugging.
Thanks to the members of Build Brighton, Brighton Pi, Brighton Mini Maker Faire also a blog post by Fajita and various other blog posts which enabled this project to presented at Brighton Mini Maker Faire 2012
Result below:
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EMBRACING THE DEMON: THE MONSTROUS CHILD IN JAPANESE LITERATURE AND CINEMA, 1946-2008 by Lindsay Nelson ________________________________________________________________________ A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (COMPARATIVE LITERATURE) August 2012 Copyright 2012 Lindsay Nelson
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According to the American Diabetes Association, 25.8 million people in the United States -- 8.3 percent of the population -- have diabetes, with the overall cost of diagnosed disease estimated at $245 billion, including $176 billion in direct medical costs and $69 billion in reduced productivity. These figures do not account for the millions of people who have not been diagnosed.
Reuben McBrayer, M.D. (far left), Brian Grimard, M.D. (second from left, back row), Elizabeth Burns, M.D. (third from left, back row), and the rest of the team at the Mayo Clinic's Department of Family Medicine in St Augustine all participated in the Diabetes Master Clinician Program.
Since 2003, the Florida AFP (FAFP), through the FAFP Foundation, has been arming family physicians in their fight against the disease via its Diabetes Master Clinician Program(www.diabetesmasterclinician.org) (DMCP).
According to family physician Edward Shahady, M.D., medical director of the program, the DCMP uses a Web-based diabetes registry in conjunction with a team approach and group visits to offer physicians an edge that translates into enhanced care.
"The physicians who use this (program), I think, are the ones who want to do a better job for their patients," Shahady said. "They realize that diabetes is the most challenging of all chronic diseases because (successfully managing) it takes all the biological, social, psychological, emotional, financial and organizational skills that a patient possesses and asks the same of the physician, as well.
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- The Florida AFP Foundation's Diabetes Master Clinician Program (DMCP) uses a Web-based diabetes registry in conjunction with a team approach and group visits to help family physicians offer better quality care to patients with diabetes.
- The DMCP's registry generates a report for the physician, allowing him or her to track each patient's hemoglobin A1c LDL cholesterol and blood pressure levels.
- A total of 115 practices are enrolled in the DMCP, 90 percent of which are in Florida, with the remainder scattered throughout Georgia, North Carolina, Illinois, Missouri and Oklahoma.
"Physicians have to have a command of the pathophysiology of the disease, a command of how patients deal with the disease on an individual level, and a command of all the guidelines and medications. We now have 20-some different medications available to treat this disease, whereas, 20 years ago, we only had four or five."
In addition, said Shahady, the more patients with diabetes a practice sees, the more difficult it becomes to stay on top of all that information.
"Most physicians, if I were to ask them how well they were doing with their diabetic patients, would tell me they are doing pretty well, but the key is, how do they know?" Shahady said.
"This is where a registry is a big help, because it answers that question."
How It Works
The DMCP's registry generates a report for the physician, allowing him or her to track each patient's hemoglobin A1c, LDL cholesterol and blood pressure levels, which Shahady calls "the big three" of diabetes care measures.
"Physicians can look at the registry and they can print out a report on demand, so there's no going back to the IT (information technology) people or to an EHR (electronic health record) for the information," he said. "I know it's not a popular sentiment, but EHRs have failed miserably in creating good, usable registries for chronic disease management.
How-to on Conducting Group Visits
Family physician Edward Shahady, M.D., medical director of the Florida AFP Foundation's Diabetes Master Clinician Program(www.diabetesmasterclinician.org), (DMCP) has long been an advocate of using group visits -- one aspect of the DMCP -- to optimize management of patients with diabetes and other chronic diseases. Based on findings from the program's early years, he created an overview on planning, conducting and evaluating the success of group visits(www.fafp.org) for patients with diabetes that includes resources and tools for members of the clinical team, as well as patients.
Shahady said the registry also allows participating practices to use a population management approach in treating diabetes.
"Now, if I'm the physician, I know that I have 50 patients with their A1cs out of control," Shahady said. "The registry identifies these folks and I print out the names and then I get together with my staff and we discuss what we need to do about these 50 people. At that point, everyone in this office becomes a population manager with their diabetics, and they are all thinking of ways to improve care.
"Once they (office staff) have seen an improvement in a handful of those folks, they can look at the data and figure out what they did to help those patients and continually refine and improve their program," he added.
When it comes to enlisting patients in safeguarding their own health, one approach that works well, according to Shahady, is using a "patient report card," which lists patient weight and blood pressure, hemoglobin and cholesterol levels, among other indicators, and empowers patients to better self-manage their diabetes. However, he said, it is impossible for physicians to implement and maintain this kind of program alone because takes a whole team to manage a patient population of any size.
"This information is not just for the physician," said Shahady. "It's for the whole office."
Outside Influence
In addition to all the good work the DMCP does inside the borders of the Sunshine State, it's also working its magic in other regions.
"There are 115 practices in the DMCP now -- up from four in 2003 -- but not all of them are in Florida," Shahady said. "Ninety percent are in Florida, while the others are scattered throughout Georgia, North Carolina, Illinois, Missouri and Oklahoma."
Through an agreement with the GO! Diabetes program(www.godiabetes.org), founded in 2008 by the Academy's Georgia and Oklahoma chapters, eight DMCP practices in those two states are supported via grants, Shahady said.
Kelly Humpherys, M.D., (far right, back row) and the team at Caney Valley Medical Center in Ramona, Okla., make up one of several family medcine practices outside of Florida that participate in the Diabetes Master Clinician Program.
"That's been a very successful partnership," he said. "Overall, it costs about $8,000 for a practice to get started over a two-year period, so we have grant money available for (these Georgia and Oklahoma practices) to hire nursing or other health care students to go in and do the data entry. After the initial data entry by the students, practices are responsible for entering their own data."
Shahady said the FAFP Foundation also offers small grants that allow the DMCP to produce short webinars for each participating practice.
"We talk about different aspects of diabetes and maybe have a guest speaker," he said. "There are family physicians from all over the country who are doing a lot of interesting stuff in terms of the medical home and diabetes, and we have them come out and share their stories with these folks."
FAFP EVP Jay Millson said it was only natural for the chapter and its foundation to support the DMCP.
"Knowledge is power, and this program obviously provides an excellent resource for our members to provide the best quality care in the area of diabetes," he told AAFP News Now. "We get excellent feedback from the FAFP members who participate.
"I think the program's success is very evident when you consider the fact that additional grants have been funneled into it to expand the program outside the borders of Florida."
Facts About the Florida AFP
Chapter EVP: Jay Millson
Date chapter was chartered: May 24, 1948
Number of chapter members: 4,000
Location of chapter headquarters: Jacksonville
FAFP Family Medicine Summer Forum 2013 date/location: July 19-21, Hilton Orlando
According to Shahady, the DMCP continues to improve the quality and quantity of the tools it provides to its member practices and their patients.
"This Foundation program was started because we wanted to help our members offer better quality to their patients," Shahady said. "Now we can show better quality data than anyone when it comes to managing diabetes, and we are able to help patients attain better control of their diabetes than the national averages in the big three (care measure) categories.
"But we didn't stop there, and we now offer Diabetes University(www.diabetesuniversitydmcp.com), a website we created for nurses, medical assistants and patients that features 75 slides that educate them on the disease. From there, they take an online test."
Because the online test is a teaching tool, said Shahady, the program shows test-takers the correct information when an incorrect response is given. Users then are allowed to reanswer the question and must garner an overall score of 70 percent or above to pass.
The DMCP is available at no charge to FAFP members and includes use of the registry, as well as training for all clinicians and office staff on how to use it. Participants also receive training on the standards of diabetes care and how to conduct group visits. Practices that wish to participate in the DMCP can contact Shahady by e-mail.
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Jan Ivanouw
posted on Thursday, May 31, 2012 - 6:43 am
In a 2nd order factor model, how are factor scores calculated for 1st order and 2nd order factors respectively.
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Thursday, May 31, 2012 - 12:11 pm
See Technical Appendix 11 on the website.
Jan Ivanouw
posted on Friday, June 01, 2012 - 3:46 am
Hi Linda,
As far as I can see, tech appendix 11 describes calculation of factor scores for 1st order latent variables, only. Could you help me any with hints as to how are 2nd order factor scores calculated - and as the model is different, how are 1st order factor scores calculated in a 2nd order model?
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Friday, June 01, 2012 - 9:59 am
Formulas 218-219 cover all SEM models of which a second-order factor model is one. See a general SEM book like the Bollen book to better understand these formulas. Formula 225 gives the factor scores for an SEM model.
Jan Ivanouw
posted on Saturday, June 02, 2012 - 10:06 am
Thank you, Linda. I am looking into it.
Jan Ivanouw
posted on Saturday, June 02, 2012 - 1:48 pm
HI again.
Sorry, I did not mention that my indicators are categorical. I presume that it means that eq 225 is not the one to use, but instead the eqns 227-231. May I ask if you have any hint on how to calculate 2nd order factor scores and 1st order factor scores in this case?
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Saturday, June 02, 2012 - 2:24 pm
You cannot calculate factors scores yourself with categorical indicators. It is an iterative procedure.
Jan Ivanouw
posted on Saturday, June 02, 2012 - 3:11 pm
I know, I am using a iterative procedure (using R)
Jan Ivanouw
posted on Sunday, June 10, 2012 - 5:08 am
I would be very grateful if it is possible to give some hints as to how I calculate factor scores for 1st order and 2nd order factors respectively in a 2nd order factor model with categorical indicators - using iterative procedures
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Sunday, June 10, 2012 - 3:38 pm
I have nothing to point you to except the technical appendix.
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Credit to verno329 and Donald's Designated Driver for continuing to take me to task on the question of whether or not Mark Murphy's gesture was truly a bribe. Several strong arguments – read their comments on previous posts. Their contention is that it's not a bribe mostly because the offer apparently is one that had first been made back in March by Mark Murphy as a way to keep Favre connected to the team (and also hopefully keep him retired). Which back then, as they point out, was mostly a good faith gesture by the team. It seems at least some of the info verno and DDD used to bolster their argument came from this morning's Tom Silverstein article at jsonline (correct me if I'm wrong guys). Read this article as it does shed light on the whole situation and to some extent makes Mark Murphy look less shady and quite possibly, not shady at all. Another argument for you guys here is that Favre actually acknowledged Murphy's effort for trying to work this out. If this were a pure bribe, my guess is Favre would be pissed they tried to bribe him when he's made it very clear he just wants to play (though again, perhaps Favre is moved by money more than many of us suspect).
But I still think there is an important question here of timing. Murphy's apparent explanation for the timing is that because the talks had reached an impasse, he thought he'd go back to the original idea of offering this again to Favre in hopes of keeping him connected to the organization – even if he does decide to play more. Again, not a bad explanation, and if nothing had happened between Favre and the Packers in the last few months and Murphy were to have simply re-offered this, I wouldn't probably call it a bribe. But Murphy and others cannot ignore the events of the last few months that have been at the core of this whole controversy. The fact is, Favre wanted to return and the Packers have been doing everything they can to not let this happen. Given that background, this offer by Murphy now cannot be considered a 100%, magnanimous, goodwill gesture. Time and circumstances have changed this situation significantly. It would be impossible to deny that at least part of (and I would argue most of) Murphy's intention in doing this now was to keep Favre retired. That's why I don't think calling it a bribe of sorts is unreasonable. In fact, I could see this offer having two different labels over time. In March, it was a somewhat genuine/I'll even say goodwill offer to keep Favre connected to the team (though again, Silverstein notes it was also done at that time with the hope of keeping Favre retired). The Thursday offer, while it may still have had some of those more innocent/goodwill qualities associated with it, due to the timing and all that's happened between Favre and the front office, I think smells stronger of a bribe.
STEVE ADDS: Tom Silverstein writes that "there were only occasional talks about it between March and June before Favre started making noise about wanting to return to football." But according to his own newspaper, Favre was making noise about wanting to return to football in March.


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Go figure. I'm somehow not surprised :/ today we had a Pure Romance party, and the party food was a real stick in the mud. Yesterday I didn't do too well, but I didn't do miserably. Still not proud of myself on either front. I did make an observation though, and that was noticing how particular foods make me feel.
When I eat garbage, I feel like garbage, and when I eat good, nutritional unprocessed foods I feel clean and energetic instead of bloated and gross. I need to remember that. The pleasure I get from eating those unhealthy foods is really just temporary. I like it on my taste bufds, but not on my hips and thighs!
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BEIRUT, Lebanon, June 19 (UPI) — Forces loyal to embattled Syrian President Bashar Assad are reported tightening a cordon around the northern city of Aleppo, once the country's commercial heart, in a major offensive against rebels who hold 60 percent of the city.
The regime, dominated by the minority Alawite sect, is massing tanks and artillery around the ancient city that was once part of the famed Silk Road to China, for the coming showdown military analysts say could determine the course of the civil war, now in its third year.
Assad's troops were greatly buoyed by their capture of the strategic town of Qusair in central Syria's Homs province June 5 after a three-week battle.
The town, which controls supply routes from neighboring Lebanon, had been held by rebel forces for more than a year, cutting off Damascus from the Alawite heartland in the northwest.
The fall of Qusair after fierce fighting opened the way for the regime to push into central Syria in a drive to recapture territory held by the rebels, including Homs, the provincial capital, and Aleppo, the big prize.
The regime needs to take control of Aleppo to undercut the rebellion that erupted March 15, 2011, and to reassert dominance of Syria's main population centers.
A rebel defeat in Aleppo would mean a critical and possibly terminal setback for those seeking to end Assad's rule.
U.S. President Barack Obama's decision Thursday to arm rebel forces — although it's not clear whether arms would include urgently needed anti-aircraft and anti-tank missiles — could make a critical difference if the flow starts quickly.
The U.S. move overturned two years of reluctance by the West to get directly involved in the Syrian fighting, which threatens to spill over into neighboring states like Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Turkey.
Indeed, it was the regime's conquest of Qusair, largely due to fighters from Lebanon's Hezbollah who spearheaded the assault, that convinced Obama U.S. aid should be increased from medicine and supplies to include arms.
Much will depend on how swiftly the Americans can start the arms flowing to the rebels through Jordan and Turkey.
Rebels report Syrian warplanes attacked their positions around the contested Kweiras airbase near Aleppo Tuesday amid heavy ground skirmishes.
The regime's command of the air is a major problem for the rebels, and unless they get surface-to-air missiles they will face serious problems in the looming battle for Aleppo.
The air force has carried out a series of aerial resupply operations in the region in the last two months that rebels have been powerless to prevent.
But it's not all clear sailing for the regime forces either.
They face major obstacles in the push on Aleppo from well-entrenched rebel blocking positions, which are being supplied with weapons through Turkey, Syria's northern neighbor, funded by Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
Loyalist forces have seized several villages in Homs province in recent days to consolidate their Qusair victory.
"Troop movements and bombardment patterns suggest the regime will likely stage attacks on rebels in Homs city proper and around the towns of Rastan and Talbiseh along the M5 highway, which leads from the Jordanian border in the south, through Damascus and all the way north to Aleppo," the U.S.-based global security consulting firm Stratfor says.
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