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February 08, 2012
Just messing around and landed on this site: majutsu.net
Care to hear some utter crap?
The letters in the word Majutsu have meaning. "Ma" means pure and "jutsu" means art, so Majutsu means the pure art. The person who practices as a magician is called a Majutsushi. The letters "shi" mean user; thus, a Majutsushi is a user of this pure art.
真 ma does indeed mean "pure". But that's not the kanji that's used to write 魔術majutsu. The real first kanji 魔 means "demon".
UPDATE: 魔術師 majutsushi means "magician" or "sorceror". The final 師 shi doesn't mean "user". It means "expert" or "master".
This is like all those strange bad Chinese and Japanese tattoos that they used to post on the now-defunct "Hanzi Smatter". I really miss that site.
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December 17, 2011
I'm working on a review of Kore Wa Zombie Desu Ka and I'm including a section on the end about some of the language used in the show. One thing I wanted to talk about is Haruna's transformation spell.
As romanized in the subtitles of the versions I have, it goes like this:
nomobuyo yoshi hashitawa dokeda gunmicha de ribura
But to me the second word sounds like "oshi". Anyway, what they did was to convert a regular sentence into hiragana and then read it backwards. But I'm having a hard time parsing it. Here's what I got:
raburi de chamingu dakedo watashi ha shi oyobu mono
which I translate as:
Even though I am lovely and charming, I am a person who brings death.
Is that right? I think I've botched the last part of it.
The Kira-subs translated it as "Lovely and charming but a harbinger of death" but that seems stilted. And I can't figure out how they get "harbinger" out of the Japanese.
UPDATE: I just noticed that the seiyuu who did Sera's voice also did Junko in Daimaou and Brioche in Dog Days. I sure wouldn't have guessed.
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December 05, 2011
There's a word or phrase that sounds like dokigenyou that means "Good day" or "How are you" or something. It's used as a greeting. One example is the first episode of Shukufuku no Campanella at about 06:40.
What is it?
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November 10, 2011
I'm a bit confused about the difference between suru and yaru. The dictionary says that they both mean "to do" but it's clear there must be some distinction between them.
Judging the language from how it's used in anime is a bit perilous because anime Japanese isn't really normal. But based on what I've been hearing, it seems to me that yaru is more like "to do to". One of the alternate meanings of yaru is "to kill", for example.
Seems like yaru is just a bit sinister, in fact. Is my impression correct?
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November 04, 2011
I just got a search hit for this question:
I think it doesn't mean anything. It isn't grammatical, as far as I can tell (from my extremely limited knowledge of the language). The sentence construction is gibberish. (Even ignoring "dose" for does.)
(Reposted with a different title. The previous one collided with a category name.)
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October 29, 2011
I just spotted another translation choice made differently in Dog Days by Hatsuyuki and by Hiryu. The word is 卿 kyou and it's used as a title.
In particular, in eps 8 and 9, Brioche is called D'Arquien-kyou and Yukki is called Pannetone-kyou. Hatsuyuki rather arbitrarily decided that Brioche should be called "Count D'Arquien". Hiryu, on the other hand, made it "Dame".
I think they both blew it. It maybe should have been "Lord D'Arquien", but I can make a pretty good case for it being "Sir D'Arquien". Yeah, historically in the UK "sir" was for men and "dame" was for women, but there are other implications. Historically a Sir, a knight, was a high level fighting man who owned his own weapons and his own armor. Dames didn't fight.
Brioche fights like an angry buzz saw and Yukki is just as good. Calling them "Dame" just isn't appropriate. Calling them "Lord" (as opposed to "Lady") implies nobility, and implies that they hold positions of responsibility. Which, manifestly, they mostly don't. When they're not in battle and not on the road they mostly just sit around and enjoy the sunlight.
Biscotti is a lot different than Earth, especially feudal Japan. In particular it is sexually egalitarian, and a good portion of the warriors, both militia and regular army, are women. And in that battle the majority of the top commanders for Biscotti were women: Brioche, Yukki, Rico, and Eclair versus just Roland and Shinku. Making those women knights (because they are active fighters) makes complete sense to me. Brioche, Yukki, and Eclair really should have been "sir".
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October 19, 2011
Sorry about not posting much lately. After six years of doing this, I'm running out of things to say. (I started this blog in October of 2005, a couple of months after I wrapped up USS Clueless.)
I just now confirmed something I'd long suspected. I long wondered whether the Japanese pronounced 術 jutsu as "jitsu". I'd long known of the martial art we call "jiu jitsu", but jitsu doesn't mean that. So was it a case of dumb gaijin mispronouncing it? Or is it a case of Japanese pronunciation drift?
In the second episode of Dog Days, Becky uses the term bojutsu to refer to study of fighting techniques using a staff (i.e. a bo) and she pronounced it "bo-jeets", dropping the trailing "u" sound, as is commonly done in words ending with -tsu.
So it really is the Japanese pronunciation. Given how regular their pronunciation is, it's a bit strange to run into an exception. I wonder how it happened?
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October 16, 2011
There's a word I've heard a number of times which, yet again, I can't in the dictionary. Particular instances: Uiharu says it in the first episode of Railgun at about 08:08. It's just after Saten flipped Uiharu's skirt. Saten says "Sorry, sorry. Want to see my panties in exchange?" And Uiharu says "Kekko desu." and doesn't look. They translated it as "That's alright."
Uiharu uses it again in ep 17 at the end when talking about the boy that transferred away. Anyway, if I'm spelling it right, then it isn't in the dictionary. So it might be a contraction or a slang term. What is it?
UPDATE: Surprisingly, it's in the Urban Dictionary. I wonder why it isn't in the Japanese dictionary?
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September 04, 2011
In Ichiban Ushiro no Daimaou, what is the word that Peterhausen uses to refer to Akuto? It sounds like araji to me but I can't find it or anything similar in the dictionary. It seems to mean "master" or "lord" or "boss", or something equivalent.
UPDATE: Never mind, I found it. It's aruji.
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July 15, 2011
In Dog Days, and a few other times, there are places where someone is presented with an offer or demand, and they respond kotoaru which gets translated as "I refuse." (There was at least one instance of that in one of the Keroro Gunsou movies that I can remember. I think it was the third one.)
"aru" is obviously one aspect of the copula. Is this 異 the koto? Making it someone similar to saying chigau!, perhaps?
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Why Doesn't the BBC Upgrade Their Software Often Enough?
There are three things that I really love about Perl:
- Moose
- Catalyst
- DBIx-Class
That's where the problem starts. It's not really a BBC problem, though. It's a problem for all "enterprise" customers.
I just tried to upgrade Moose and got the following message:
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I'm doing this for a personal project, Veure, but when I see message like that, there's an issue. Specifically, enterprise customers.
The Perl community is largely a community of JFDI hackers (thanks, Jesse!). However, corporate users have a different issue. We have admins. Lots of them. We have projects. Lots of them. We have boxes. Lots of them. We have operating systems. Lots of them. We have versions of Perl. Lots of them. We have databases. Lots of them. We have modules installed. Lots of them. We have tests. Some of them.
Now take those "lots" and start doing some imaginary math. We have very, very busy admins. As a result, we have to submit a reason for every change request. On a personal project, I'm quite happy to upgrade this code because there's no chance I'm going to impact others. In a corporate environment, things start to become more tricky. Admins would like to see this:
- One operating system
- One programming language
- One version of said programming language
- One database
- One standard set of modules
- One box (hah!)
- ... and so on
I know that some people dismiss this with comments like "your admins must not be very good" or something like that, but small systems turn into large systems which turn into huge systems. Along the way, admins leave, new admins start. They leave. More admins start. Critical business knowledge is lost and rediscovered. Business needs change. Systems evolve in ways that the previous architecture doesn't support.
The BBC is not a small company and frankly, I've loved the quality of people that I work with. These aren't idiots, but they are busy and requirement management is often akin to skeet shooting while blindfolded. Even that isn't as silly as it sounds because sometimes the law changes and we must rapidly adopt to it. Now that London is hosting the 2012 Olympics with its Bart-Simpson receiving a
censored logo, we have to address this. Other TV stations may change direction and decide to work with the BBC or against the BBC. We don't know their decisions in advance and this again causes us to rethink what we do. Heck, I could (but can't, sorry), tell you fascinating stories about challenges we constantly face with iPlayer (Americans: think of it as the British Hulu) which force us to rethink technology solutions all the time.
In other words, what we do is hard. Very hard. People who don't work here have no idea the technical challenges we face.
Recently I proposed fixing an issue in our code base where package and filenames didn't match. As a result, multiple filenames contained the same package. This was apparently a bug workaround, but now it's a time bomb. Fixing the issue was denied. Why? It's not a problem yet, but getting new features out the door is a problem.
It's not just obstinate management. Part of the issue involves possibly upgrading to a new version of Catalyst. However, we can't just tell the admins "upgrade this". We have to tell them "upgrade this and here's why". That's because they're busy and if every one of our many, many teams was upgrading everything all the time, without having a concrete business case, fewer features would get out the door. Thus, I wanted to fix a potential bug (one which modern versions of these modules sensibly warn about), but I couldn't demonstrate that it was actually causing a problem. Thus, my business case was weakened vis-a-vis the fact that we're preparing for the Olympics.
Olympics versus "not a bug". I report. You decide.
I'm not taking a stand one way or the other. It's very, very important that these projects address issues they have and appeal to developers who want these issues addressed. However, as I've encountered time and time again in large environments, upgrading is problematic. As a result, we tend not to upgrade until we need a particular feature and can make a business case for it. Thus, for the best projects with the most active developers, individually we love it (I certainly do), but at a corporate level, it becomes a sysadmin nightmare. That's because we tend not to upgrade unless we absolutely have to but our software is so out of date that we're practically shutting down our work to upgrade everything we need, including rewriting large parts of our software to match. Meanwhile, we have to make sure that our publication latency is reduced as much as we can when journalists covering the Olympics or World Cup want to report something live.
I've successfully upgraded "not a bug" modules on the grounds that we need to ensure that when we must upgrade, we're not so far behind the curve that the upgrade is very difficult. I've not done this often, though. Our Catalyst is a year old (I think) and we've no plans to upgrade it because it's "not a bug".
There is a terribly tension between those who need stability and those who need new features. I don't have the right answer here, but the problem is not as simple as some would suggest.

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Nancy B. Clark of Marstons Mills and Martha's Vineyard has added stamp collecting's most prestigious national prize to an already impressive array of awards.
Nancy B. Clark given philatelic society's highest honor Nancy B. Clark of Marstons Mills and Martha's Vineyard has added stamp collecting's most prestigious national prize to an already impressive array of awards. She received the 2008 Luff Award for Exceptional Contributions to Philately from the American Philatelic Society at its annual meeting Sunday in Hartford, Conn. "The honor has been presented annually for more than 60 years to living philatelists with meritorious contributions to stamp collecting and is the top philately award in the nation," noted Chip Bishop, secretary of the Cape Cod Area Philatelic Group. Clark was in charge of the Olymphile stamp show that was part of the 1996 summer Olympics in Atlanta and has won national gold (and platinum) in postal history, postal stationery and illustrated mail and thematic classes as a stamp exhibitor. A Maine native who learned stamp collecting at an early age with the help of her father, continued with the pursuit except for a brief hiatus in her teen-age years and has collected an impressive array of stamps and letters Clark also collects postal curiosities like auxiliary markings, such as one noting the letter had been sunk with the ship carrying it, and then recovered, or one that was partially destroyed in a fire. "I couldn't begin to tell you how many postal items are in my collections," she said in a previous interview, "but you'd be in the ballpark at over 100,000." Most of the collection is kept in a safe away from her home. When she and her husband, Doug, a retired mathematics professor, were shopping for a house in Marstons Mills, they snapped it up upon learning the property formerly hosted a post office. Clark has devoted much of her time promoting stamp collection as a learning tool for children. For example, she says collecting Lewis and Clark series introduces children to new people and places of historic significance. A teacher by profession, her postings included instruction in music education for students K-8 in New Jersey and New York, English in Georgia, and tutoring students challenged with dyslexia. She also has worked as a private music teacher and church music director. Her avocation worked well with her duties as teacher, she says. She was youth Chair at the WASHINGTON 2006 international stamp exhibition and previously coordinated youth areas for Olympic stamp shows in Atlanta in 1996 and in Salt Lake City in 2002. She has also trained postal employees and philatelists to work with young people. Her work encouraging children several years ago won for her the Ernest A. Kehr "Future of Philately" award presented by the 50,000 member American Philately Society (albeit there are about 200,000 serious collectors in the country) for "enduring contributions to the future of the hobby," an award not easily earned according to the society. She and her husband are in demand as judges at shows and of books on philately. She continues to serve on various committees, including the town historical commission and has lectured locally. Clark's resume, and her tangent knowledge of history, could itself fill a book. She has held leadership positions in most philately organizations, served on many committees, founded and helped organize groups including the fledgling Cape Cod Area Philatelic Group and has traveled extensively as a juror to such exotic places as Indonesia, Belgium, Bangkok and in this country. Bishop, who is secretary of the Cape Cod Area Philatelic Group, invites the curious to group meetings held the fourth Wednesday of the month at the Channel 17 Cable TV station on White's Path in Yarmouth.


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It was Christmas time at Hogwarts School of witchcraft and wizardry and everyone was getting into the festive sprit. The grounds were covered in a layer of thick Hedwig white coloured snow and from every nook and cranny hung magical decorations.
Inside a boom cupboard Sophie and Harry were giving each other their Christmas pressies (ermmm yes) to one another when Barty Crouch Junior (i.e. David tenant) rushed in.
Crouch: Harry quick come to the great hall. Professor Dumbledore has a Christmas surprise for us all, it is going to be well good.
Harry: (angrily yet sexy) can't you see we are in the middle of something here. Anyhow aren't you supposed to be in Azkaban?
Harry and Sophie begin to get dressed.
Crouch: God Harry not even dementors are that nasty, they let us out at Christmas! And out of interest how the hell do you get your penis to do that?
Harry: What? This? (Making his penis tie his shoe laces and zip up his fly)
Sophie: Crouch, you really have been in jail for too long. Even Snape the potions master can perform penis patronum; it is the easiest sex spell after pensis erectus.
Harry: (slightly angry yet sexy) How Do you now what sex spells Snape can do Sophie?
Sophie: ermmm Bellatrix Lestrange told me
Crouch, Sophie and Harry arrive in the nick of tip to just see Dumbledore whip off his bra and mount a pole and start to perform an erotic dance.
Harry: Crouch you were right this is the best Christmas present anyone could ever get!
Half an hour later the resistance of Hogwarts are still enjoying a bit of Dumbledore, Mad Eye Moody and Colin Creevey have even got up to join in. Dumbledore is riding Colin when suddenly he falls the floor in a very dramatic way.
Everyone: OH MY GOD
Harry: (running out of the crowd to Dumbledore's side) this man needs mouth to mouth resuscitation any volunteers.
Several people; I ll do it!
But it is Arthur Weasley who rushes to the front the quickest and begins banging Dumbledore's chest and sucking at his lips.
Harry: (to Sophie) is it just me or is he snogging him and not actually clearing the air passages.
Sophie: Would you blame him? Dumbledore is fitty!
Some time later……
Arthur: I declare this man dead. Albus Dumbledore was a great Wizard. He held the best gang bangs and was responsible for some of the best sex spells known to man. But at least he died doing what he did best. To the room cupboards where we can shag each other in memory of the great man. Come on Ginny, I want you in that room cupboard naked NOW.
There is a made rush as groups disappear into near by broomie. Sophie and Harry chose their favourite haunt the broom cupboard next to the boy's toilets.
Half an hour later……
Sophie: I don't understand Harry, you have never had this problem before? Is it because you don't find me attractive anymore?
Harry: No it is nothing like that. It is just not happening; I just can't get it up. Not even the penis erectus works,
Sophie: (sigh) never mind shall we go up to the common room and play monopoly that is equally as fun.
They arrive in the common room excepting to find it empty, but instead it is full of people playing scramble and monopoly . They make there way through the mass of gamers to Hermione and Ron.
Hermionie is topless and Ron is only dressed in his boxers and one sock.
Sophie: What are you doing? Thought you would be in a broom cupboard.
Hermione: yes I thought that too but Ron couldn't perform. So we are playing strip scrabble. It is strange because usually one peak at my nipple (points to her topless area) and Ron is stiff., but not today.
Sophie: That is strange Harry is having the same problem.
Harry: (in a hiss, yet sexy) I thought we said we would keep that private,
Ron: Don't worry mate, it looks like the whole castle can't…..you know. It is almost as if it is some kind of curse.
Harry: Oh what a great Christmas this is going to be!
Hermione: No, I think I read about this( fiddlers about in her bag and pulls out a dusty book) lets see here. (Begins to read) 'If a great wizard dies on the eve of Christmas, no other wizard can have sexual intercourse for one year after his death. This is known as the curse of hootaboot.'
Ron and Harry: A YEAR WE CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT IT FOR A BLOODY YEAR! WHO DO YOU THINK WE ARE? NUNS?
Sophie: there must be a way to break the curse.
Hermione: Oh there is a way to break it, but it isn't pretty.
Ron; anything,
Hermione: If ten people have full on sex, including oral , with the dead body of Dumbledore before midnight the curse will lift.
Sophie: Ewww
Ron and Harry: I ll do it.
Sophie: Ewww
Harry: babe it is fine it is not classed as cheating if the other person is dead. Okay we need eight more people.
By 11:55 Ron, Harry, Arthur Weasley, Tonks, Hagrid, Fred, Dobby, Snape and flitch (and his cat) have all had a passionate time with the dead body of Dumbledore,
Harry: (out of breath) it is strange how we can't get it on with the living, but we have no bother doing it with the dead.
Sophie: (cross) yeah strange! But look there are four mins until midnight and one more person needs to do Dumbledore.
Harry: Sophie you will have to do it.
Sophie: Ewww
Suddenly Lord Voldermort appears in a puff of smoke dressed in his best Le Senza lingerie.
Voldie: this is a job for the vold.
Harry: You have three minutes; you will have to be quick.
Voldie: Fortunately I am good at being quick. (He jumps on the dead body and drags it into the nearest broom cupboard).
There are a few strange grunting noises, them two minutes later Voldermort comes out a little flustered.
Voldie: it is done, the curse is broken!
Harry: (looking down at his now bulging crotch) Voldermort had done it again! I am erect ones again. VOLDERMORT HAS SAVED CHRISTMAS!
Voldie: all in a days work.
Harry: how can I ever repay you?
Voldie: I can think of a few ways (with a wink)
Sophie: That won't be necessary, come on Harry there are things we have to do!
And with that Sophie drags Harry into the broom cupboard and believe me they have a very merry Christmas!


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What are the ages of the clients in the program? Do you treat teenagers?
We serve women and men 18 years of age and older in our adult program. We also have a teen program for females and males 13-17.
What is the length of stay in the program?
The basic Intensive Outpatient Program is 10 weeks. The adult program meets from 4:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., and the teen program meets from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Both programs are 4 days a week, Monday through Thursday. Some clients will stay longer than 10 weeks; length of stay is determined during the treatment planning phase after the initial intake evaluation.
How often do I meet with the Dietitian?
You will see the dietitian once a week. Since each treatment plan is individualized, you can choose to meet with the dietitian more often if needed as identified in your treatment plan. There are also a weekly Nutrition class led by the dietitian.
What is the Dietary Program like? Do you allow for vegetarian diets and food allergies?
The Dietary Staff works individually with each client to design a program to fit your lifestyle. We also seek to accommodate food allergies, when your doctor documents them. We understand that FOOD is a central issue with all of our clients, and from the first day they start the program they will be planning, shopping for and preparing some meals, with the supervision of the Dietary Staff. Other meals will be provided. We have restaurant outings once or twice a month to help the client desensitize around eating in public settings.
We do provide vegetarian options for meals but don't accommodate vegan or other raw food options.
How are my family members, spouse and support systems involved in my treatment plan?
We offer a weekly multi-family group, to address issues related to the eating disorder dynamics in the family and in your significant relationships. Our goal is to help everyone find more positive ways to support the client's recovery, as well as build on family communication skills. Individual family and/or couple sessions are also available when needed and are billed separately.
The clients attend with their family or loved ones and the basic program is education about the eating disorder and the course of treatment as well as providing support to all members as they move together on the path of recovery.
How do I know if this is the right program for me? Who do you serve?
The program is designed currently to treat women and men who are wanting additional support in their overall recovery program. Sometimes these are clients who are either returning from inpatient or residential treatment programs, and they are looking for a "Step-down" component to help with the transition back into their lives here at home.
Sometimes they are clients who are seeking an adjunct to their current outpatient treatment, and they are seeking more structure and support, without upsetting their work, family or school settings. These are clients who are medically stable, but still struggling with the behaviors and the recovery process.
Our overall goal is to provide an option for clients who need more support and education, but can't afford or don't want to attend an inpatient program or they can't leave the area because of work, school or family obligations.
Does insurance cover this program?
Most insurance companies will cover some or all of the program. We advise each client to research their coverage prior to the intake evaluation, we are here to help with that aspect. Give us a call and we will research your benefits for you. We can also provide super-bills for submission to your insurance. It is important to understand that the client is fully responsible for all charges not covered under insurance policies.
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There have been many great leaders in this world. There are all different types of leaders as well. So, how can you envision yourself being more of a leader in life? Continue reading this article for some great advice concerning learning how to be a leader so that you excel in life.
Honesty is always the perfect starting point for any decent leader. A leader will always try to lead with righteousness. If you are an honest leader, people will see that and have a great appreciation for it. Being honest with your team also encourages everyone else to have the same high standards.
Don't let good talent go to waste. If someone is earning huge profits for your company, be sure to promote them, give them a raise, or, if you aren't in a position to do those things, recommend the person to someone who is. If you fail to do this, you might find that the employee has left for your competitor.
When attending meetings, act like you're stupid and don't know anything. You are not actually stupid, of course, but adopting this mindset makes you more likely to accept input from other people who may actually know more than you do. Arrogance has been the downfall of many business leaders, after all.
Do what's necessary to promote group unity. This means making sure that everyone knows what tasks they need to perform and what everyone else is doing. This prevents duplicate effort. Also, make sure each member of the team keeps the others up to date on progress. This makes budget and time overruns less likely.
Understand the business you are in. Unfortunately there are many leaders out there who don't get their business totally. Whether that's because they inherited the business or they just no longer care, it doesn't matter. It reads the same to employees. How can you lead if others don't trust that you have the knowledge to do so?
Express a vision for the company. Great leaders differentiate themselves from great managers because of vision. They see where the company needs to be 5 years, 10 years and 20 years down the road. If you've got the vision, share it with your employees. Make them part of the team that'll help get you there.
Give people reasons to trust you. As a leader, it's important that you are trusted. When that happens, people are more likely to follow you and to do what you ask of them. Make sure you keep your word, and say what you truly think. People will respect you, trust you and follow you.
Own your mistakes. Errors can be made by even the best of leaders. But, what make someone good at leading is allowing themselves to learn from mistakes and then tell everyone what went wrong. It shows that you're a a real person too and not above them. This might not seem like a great way to lead, but in many cases people are loyal to those that can show humanity.
Reward great work. It may be tempting to be a slave to the bottom line, but you'd be amazed what a few rewards can do to help productivity. These rewards don't have to be big. A bagel breakfast or gift certificates for a team work quite well. The gesture shows that you care, and good leaders really do.
Build play time into work time. Not every moment of the day needs to be filled with productivity. Smart leadership will find ways for employees to let go every once in a while. It can be an outdoor activity or an indoor game room, or something else entirely. You'll see that your employees will respond positively.
Even when things do not seem to be going very well, a good leader is able to see the positive side of things. While there may be a lot of issues that make something negative, he or she will always be able to find something good in every single situation.
Always listen to feedback. The opinions of your employees are important and can be helpful. Some criticism might be hard to take, but try to be receptive to it. Make sure your workers know they can come to you with any feedback they might have. Point of views that differ from your own are valuable.
Turn reviews into a celebration of the employee's strengths. To motivate those around you, use compliments and performance enhancing advice.
Any role in leadership includes bringing in new team members, or employees. Part of this responsibility is to make new hires feel welcome, included and comfortable. Be sure to introduce newbies to the team, include them in luncheons and meetings. You could even organize a welcome committee to help acclimate new workers to the group.
How do you want to define yourself in your profession? No matter what you do in life, you want to be able to have authority and confidence. Leaders are important in every role because leaders know when to serve correctly. So make sure you keep in mind the tips that you've just found.


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How many times have you said man I wish I had a jig for this? Well for me it was way too many so I put myself to the task of coming up with something that would work in my limited workspace.
While my jig works for me it is far from the ultimate jig. I used a simple design, but adapted it be set into my tablesaw track and used a simple friction cam to lock in to opposite end (see picture #2) The swing arm has a holder to keep it place when moving from where I store it to the tablesaw. I have no desire to have my fingers pinched and this was a simple way to insure that remains true. Nothing spectacular in the assembly I used basic parts I already had to make this little wonder. I opted for paint as I prefer the brighter color for contrast to my work and if I spill something, well I can always wipe it off or just repaint. Having used it quite a bit lately making drawers my only drawback is the fixture used to clamp the boards. I am sure I could have found something that had clamps that are easier to use but noticed most had rather large arms and I wanted to keep the overall size down to a minimum. For me it works, hopefully this inspires you.
-- Live to tell the stories, they sound better that way.
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#1 posted 12-03-2012 12:34 AM
This looks very interesting Michael but I'm to sure how it works.
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#2 posted 12-03-2012 12:49 AM
We have to be creative out of self defense. Can't afford everything we want just to buy it. Good job.
-- Nature created it, I just assemble it.
#3 posted 12-03-2012 01:05 AM
Video please. Im with Jim, very interested but not sure how it works
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#4 posted 12-03-2012 02:05 AM
Video explanation would work. Hope you can create one. You've piqued my interest.
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#5 posted 12-03-2012 02:54 AM
Looks interesting but some pics in action please .
#6 posted 12-04-2012 12:05 AM
I shall pull the jig out this evening and put some boards in it and take pics
-- Live to tell the stories, they sound better that way.
#7 posted 03-23-2013 05:25 AM
Great idea, and LOVED the "Made in USA" Thanks for sharing. Semper Fi, Hoss
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GRAND FORKS - Like the University of North Dakota, Utah Valley is a mid-major men's basketball program.
Like UND, Utah Valley also needs to play guarantee-or money games-on the road-usually against Power 5 programs.
But Utah Valley may have taken guarantee games to a new level earlier this season.
UND hosts Utah Valley Saturday, Nov. 25, at The Betty in perhaps one of the more difficult home games for the Hawks this season.
Utah Valley is 3-2 this season, with its losses coming at No. 8 Kentucky and No. 1 Duke.
Utah Valley's guarantee games at Kentucky and Duke came on back-to-back nights to start the season, something few-if any-mid-major teams will attempt. And the Wolverines pushed Kentucky before falling 73-63.
But Utah Valley coach Mark Pope, who has Kentucky ties and who also played in the NBA, won't back down from any program.
"I know nobody does it," said Pope of the back-to-back guarantee games. "I know it breaks every convention in coaching. Last year we played our very best basketball at the end of the season, and it wasn't because I massaged the schedule and grew their confidence. It's because we said, 'We're going to go play everybody.'
"I don't care about my record. College basketball is meant to go play guys, not to protect your job. I don't want to back my way into 20 wins. Maybe that means I get fired tomorrow. But I want to get fired by racing straight ahead and competing."
UND coach Brian Jones said Utah Valley presents a major challenge.
"We're going to know where we're at Saturday afternoon," said Jones.
Utah Valley also owns a road win over Idaho State of the Big Sky Conference and a home win over Big West member UC Davis.
UND and Utah Valley are no strangers. They were members of the former Great West Conference and split six games during their time in the league.
"Even when we were together in the Great West, they were a great program and one I always respected," Jones said. "The have five Division I transfers; they're an older group playing at a high level and they're scared of no one."
UND also is 3-2, having won its home opener earlier this week against Division III Northland College of Ashland, Wis. But a slow UND start was concerning.
"We have to respect every opponent," said UND junior center Conner Avants. "It's so hard to win a Division I basketball game."
UND again will be at a size disadvantage up front. The Wolverines, now a member of the Western Athletic Conference, are led by 7-foot center Akolda Manyang (15.6 ppg, 9.0 rpg).
"It should be a good challenge," said the 6-7 Avants of the Wolverines' size. "But it's also a game that can help us grow some more for conference."
UND already has played a guarantee game-at Nebraska. And the Hawks have two more of those games-Dec. 5 at Creighton and Dec. 17 at No. 17 Gonzaga, which blasted Ohio State late Thursday night.
Jones understands why mid-major programs need to play guarantee games.
And he understands why Utah Valley took on Kentucky and Duke on back-to-back nights.
"When you get a chance to play at Rupp Arena or Cameron Indoor Stadium, that's more than basketball," he said. "That's part of the (basketball) experience; part of the history and tradition. You want to give that to your kids so they can talk about it for the rest of their lives."
Utah Valley at UND
• When: 2 p.m. Saturday.
• Where: Betty Engelstad Sioux Center.
• TV/radio: Fox Sports North, 1440 AM.
• Records: UND 3-2, Utah Valley 3-2.
• Of note: The two teams played the longest game ever at The Betty, a 107-96 four-overtime Utah Valley win in January of 2011.


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At least 4,500 copies of the student newspaper at the University of Kentucky were reported stolen Monday, the same day a controversial story appeared breaking news of toxicology reports that revealed two students who died earlier this semester had blood alcohol levels more than twice the legal limit.
The incident was the latest in what has been an uptick in student newspaper thefts this fall – so far this academic year, 12 different cases have been reported to the Student Press Law Center, compared to a total of 19 thefts reported throughout the entire 2005-6 school year, according to the center's executive director, Mark Goodman. Among the incidents reported to the center so far this fall include the alleged theft of papers featuring homo-erotic images at the University of Southern Indiana and a case at Stetson University in Florida that resulted in a requirement that a sorority pay $1,200 in restitution after the removal of newspapers detailing mold problems in the sorority house, according to local media reports.
"I believe that there is this pernicious misunderstanding among students and sometimes even administrators and faculty that they have a right not to be offended," said Greg Lukianoff, president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. "In this case, it seems like this might be a more personal fight than we often see. In most cases, it's more political or 'Yeah, I don't like you criticizing me' or — the goofiest one I've seen in some time — 'Yeah, please don't tell anyone we have mold.'"
At the University of Kentucky, Monday's suspected thefts occurred after the student newspaper editor, also the writer of the controversial piece about the toxicology data, received about 15 phone calls, plus e-mails and text messages, from friends and family of the deceased students asking her not to run the story. Megan Boehnke, editor of the 17,000-circulation Kentucky Kernel, reported in her Monday story toxicology data from three deaths that occurred this fall: that of a 20-year-old incoming student who fell off a cliff in the Red River Gorge area two days before classes started, and those of a 25-year-old student who drowned along with a recent graduate after floodwaters swept them through an underground sewage system September 23. All involved were legally drunk, the paper reported.
Boehnke said it's her "best guess" that the papers were stolen as a result of her story.
"I absolutely think this was a very important article to run," Boehnke said. "This has been an ongoing issue for five, six years where students have been dying in alcohol-related incidents. This is the third year in a row where students have died in an underage incident within the first week of school."
"This is a continuing pattern, and unless this is talked about, it's not going to go away. I think it's important that this information be put out there so people are talking about it."
"It is disappointing that someone would do this — that they would try to take this information away from people."
But some who were angry with Boehnke's story seemed to see the suspected thefts as a less serious offense than the article, which they argued caused undue pain to the family and friends of the students and alumna who died.
"What else would you expect? When you write and publish a story that is not only going to hurt the family of the students but their friends as well," a commenter wrote on a message board on the Kentucky Kernel's Web site.
"The alleged theft of the Kentucky Kernel papers did far less damage, in my opinion, than the tasteless article by Megan Boehnke in the Kentucky Kernel. The Kernel made a serious lapse in ethical journalism," another commenter wrote.
Administrators however joined in condemning the alleged theft, and pledged that if students are found responsible after a university police-led investigation, they will face both legal charges and university discipline. "Obviously the administration would never condone the theft of newspapers as an institution of higher education," said Patricia Terrell, vice president for student affairs at UK. "If people do not agree with something that's in the student newspaper, they can exercise their right to send a letter to the editor or to publish a guest editorial."
Joe Monroe, interim chief of the University of Kentucky Police, said the investigation is ongoing. Since the Kentucky Kernel has a disclaimer indicating that while the first copy is free, any subsequent copies cost 25 cents each – a disclaimer meant to assign a monetary value in the event of theft, said Chris Poore, the student publication advisor at UK – police are investigating the allegations as a possible case of felony theft. The combined value of the missing papers is worth more than the $300 minimumnecessary for felony classification in Kentucky, Monroe said.
While police have identified some "strong leads," Monroe said he could not disclose them. However, Monroe did confirm a report from Poore that police received a tip that a woman observed removing newspapers told a witness she was doing so in protest of Boehnke's story.
The Student Press Law Center's Goodman said he believes the increase in newspaper thefts seen so far this year is likely a result of random chance, but added that lax responses from administrators and local law enforcement that have occurred in the past can contribute to fueling the trend. Three states – California, Maryland and Colorado – have laws on the books specifically prohibiting newspaper theft, and the practice can typically be prosecuted under existing theft statutes in other states, Goodman said.
Even free papers are protected, he added: "The comparison that I sometimes make is, 'This is no different than if you went into your local fast food restaurant and stole every straw and every napkin.' There's no question that they could pursue you, even though they're not selling those items."
"I think a problem we have seen occur is that campus officials and law officials have treated newspaper theft as a prank and not as a crime."
Schools: University of Kentucky


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text: Gary Meyers has been starting fires for nearly 30 years. Is he a dangerous pyromaniac? Not quite. Meyers has been using wood-burning stoves in his home and shop since 1978. "I do it because wood is a renewable fuel source, because it's good exercise and because of the large savings," said the rural Aberdeen man. Meyers, 67, runs about 100 feed cows on his 1,000-acre farm and backgrounds (feeds) calves to sell. He also plants some small grains. "You have time on the farm this time of the year to pick up wood from other farmsteads," said Meyers, tossing a small log onto the wood splitter mounted to the back of his tractor. Meyer pulls a handle and the hydraulic splitter moves forward smoothly, pushing the two-foot log against a sharp wedge, slicing it like the proverbial knife through butter. The two pieces are tossed into a storage shed and his grandson, Daniel Tople, 21, hands him another log from the large pile. "In 1964 fuel oil was 16 cents a gallon," said Meyers. "Today it's about $3 a gallon. That much wood," he said gesturing to a wheelbarrow full of split logs, "will heat my whole house during a 24-hour period of really cold weather." Meyers keeps his farm equipment in a 40- by 80-foot shop. "I can keep this place at about 40 degrees," he said, pointing to the wood stove in the corner. "It's better for the equipment to not sit out in the elements." Meyers also tosses scrapwood, feed sacks and broken feed bunks into the shop wood stove. "It's a good way to recycle and get rid of the junk," he explains. Meyers estimates that he saves more than $2,000 a year in heating expenses. He and Tople spend about 50 to 75 hours each year cutting and splitting the wood. "A few winters back when there was a power outage and a lot of people didn't have heat, we still had heat in our house," said Meyers, who lives near Moccasin Creek Country Club. Meyers admits there are downsides to his alternative fuel source. Besides the added mess of hauling wood into the house and ashes out of the house, insurance companies don't look favorably on wood fires. "You have to know what you're doing," said Meyers. "It's more than just throwing a log on the fire. And a home owner in the city might have a tougher time finding wood." Gary's wife, Dorothy, works at Avera St. Luke's Hospital in Aberdeen. "Wood provides a constant heat," explained Meyers. There's no furnace cycling on and off. But you might have a few cold spots in the house." The Meyers' clapboard house is more than 100 years old. "It's a matter of surviving on what you have," said Meyers. "With fossil fuels, once it's gone, it's gone."