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April 01, 2015
Too many <entrepreneurial> people I know are constantly multi-tasking in their careers.
Sure, when Benjamin Franklin endorsed pursuing "a network of enterprises," he was promoting career and interest diversity. It was good for our creative thinking. But he emphasized they be "networked" with each other.
Lately, I've wondered if our constant spreading out of business ventures is good for our level of quality. Some have a career consulting, supplanted by writing, overlaid with blogging, and then they develop myriad products on top of that. The result? A thinner voice and less you can sink your teeth into.
I've taken a new approach lately: My projects must feed each other to remain on my calendar. Since I've started writing my next book (more on that later), you might have noticed that I've stopped blogging. In fact, this is just a short break from my singular focus on the book to tell you I'm alive and well...and that I'm trying a new tact in life by focusing on the book above all.
Sure, I still do my speaking engagements (which have either been about Love Is the Killer App principles or my new book subject). But other ventures, not so much.
You should give this a try also. Look at your calendar or your To-Do list or your project list and ask yourself: Are they all connected to the point that work on one improves the quality of the other?
This is beyond time management. It's about the quality of our work in a try-everything society.Tweet
October 21, 2014
It's late October, the heart of the Fall season where we finish off the year and set strategies for the next one. Of all months, it's the crunch one that counts. By mid-November, you are into the holiday season and before you know it, January is pressing down on you asking, "What have you done for us lately."
You are only as strong as the voices around you. You think you can resist their message, but you are only human, and will succumb to their tone eventually. Everywhere you turn, there are voices broadcasting gloom, doom and misery. Your attention might be trapped by current events (Disease, Recession, War, etc.) and you can't focus. You are unable to work-on-your-work.
As a leader, you are flailing at your job. Napoleon Bonaparte was often quoted as saying that, "the leader's role is to define reality, then give hope." And those voices go way beyond recognizing reality - the crush hope by conjuring up end-0f-your-world messages. Those voices are often internalized, becoming your voice...which is not moving the conversation at work forward.
You are only as hopeful as the people you listen to. Think about the voices around you: The cable newscaster, the radio announcer, the people at work, the stars/celbs you follow, your social media feed. Are these positive or negative voices in your head? Are you getting smarter and better at your job from ALL of them?
You should be as careful as to what you put into your head as what you put into your mouth. Voices of doom are toxic to your confidence and creative thinking capacity. So vanquish them. Shun them. Dismiss them. Ignore them.
Although all of that sounds simple enough, you'll have a hard time managing these voices. So let me help you. First, turn off the TV. These days it is literally the boob tube. There is NOTHING there for your as a leader or a contributor. Next, scrutinize the radio shows and podcasts you listen to. Are they constructive, helpful or are they newsy (bad, mostly). Keep listening to just the ones that pass the "reality, then hope" sniff test.
Next, reduce your time grazing online. Whether it's blogs, news websites of social media networks...there's bad stuff out there waiting to infect your mind and drag you down. I'm only on facebook these days to post helpful content. Any time spent surfing leads to Ebola or stock market or ISIS hysteria and various link-baiting headlines on fear-aggregation sites. Be intentional about how you use the internet...make it a tool and not a mentally carciogenic habit.
Finally, clean house when it comes to the people you hang out with at work, home and in your community. Give them a warning, and if they persist beating the drum, cut them off. You can't be any good to anyone when you let them bring you down.
Managers: Don't reward Chicken Little for his or her declarations that the sky if falling. They aren't adding value. Tell them, "You can't be freaked out enough to improve our Customer experience 1%!." In fact, it's during times of turmoil that all the great innovative leaps happen (read Hanging Tough for the proof.) This is your time to shine, not shirk in horror.
If you feed your mind good stuff, even during these times, you will be part of the solution instead of a source of the problem. See this video (Chicken Little Must Fry!) for a clip of me talking about a potential solution for managers at embattled companies during tough times.
September 25, 2014
If you've attended a conference or visited the business section of a bookstore recently, you've likely been encouraged to bring your creativity to work. There are dozens of books out, promising help you get unstuck and start your creative juices flowing. Almost half of the lectures involve a discussion on the pressing need to be innovative and creative to survive. A recent piece on this in the New Yorker (Creativity Creep) quotes a 2010 IBM study of 1500 executives to identified creativity as the #1 attribute they valued in employees.
It makes sense, actually. The business world is more complicated and turbulent than ever, putting pressure on everyone to "think outside the box." This reminds me of all the marketing and branding books that came out at the turn of the 21st century, along with the proclamation that "Everyone is in the marketing department now!" The best of those books (The End of Marketing As We Know It) finally defined marketing functionally, which empowered readers to actually become effective at it.
We are at that point with the business creativity boom. We know we need to be creative. What most people aren't clear on is as to exactly what the heck 'being creative' means in a business context. I'm writing a new book on creativity in the sales process and doing quite a bit of research along the way. I've been looking for a very practical definition of creativity that applies to professional life. And I think I've found a good one.
In The Handbook of Creativity, Cornell professor Robert Sternberg offered a crystal clear business-centric definitinon of creativity: "The ability to produce work that is both novel (unexpected) as well as appropriate to the situation (useful)." While other creativity experts argue that any new idea should be deemed creative, I like Sternberg's framing of the concept. Like any other piece of business acumen, the proof is in the pudding.
If you are creative at work, you produce the unexpected, the new...but it solves the problem and doesn't produce complications. Notice I didn't say that creativity required completely original ideas as there is no such thing. It's all about approaches that are unexpected.
The reason we need to produce unexpected work (processes, products, ideas) is because people quickly develop tolerance to our expected approaches (often termed "best practices"). Think of the joke that you laughed at the first time you heard it, chuckled a little the second time you heard it and then didn't even respond the third time you heard it. That's how a prospecting or closing technique plays out with customers. That's how products become stale with customers, creating opportunities for incumbents to be disrupted with a fresh approach.
The opposite of creative thinking is reproductive thinking. This is where you use a conventional approach to reproduce success. Your tried-and-true products yields customer delight. Your conventional sales tactics yield revenues. In the past, best practices had a long shelf life. Companies could hatch them quicker than customers grew tired of them. But those days are long gone. To be successful, we have to take it upon ourself to produce the solution and not just rinse-and-repeat.
What does it take to produce unexpected work that is appropriate to the problem at hand? Sternberg points out that creative work stems from ordinary thought processes that happen to produce extraordinary results. It's not divine inspriation or genius thought processes. Harvard Business School professor Teresa Amabile describes creativity as the "Confluence of intrinsic motivation, domain-relevant knowledge and creativity-relevant skills." That's it.
If you care enough, learn enough and develop chops relevant to the problem space, you can produce creative work. You can solve the problems that stand between you and success. Creativity requires a lot of hard work on your part, and it starts with a clear understanding of your product, your customer and the processes that drive your business. If you have the motivation to do all of this work, the fresh and useful ideas will emerge.
In the end, regardless of your desires or effort, you'll need to be objective about the efficacy of your ideas. You need to be able to test them for usefulness and be ready to jettison the out-of-the-box-never-been-done-before ideas that don't solve the problem. They aren't creative. They are merely imaginative and that's not what the CEOs in IBM's study were looking for in their talents.
To borrow from designer Tim Gunn's lexicon, "Be the new, but make it work!"Tweet
September 09, 2014
Quick, name a Hall Of Fame player that was also a head coach. It's quite rare, actually. but if you take this test on a company's sales or product group, the answer would be different. We often graduate the rock stars of business to middle management and beyond. That's the bench strength program of the average organization.
Too often, though, the Peter Principle applies as the new manager struggles to make the leap from Rock Star to Director. Why? Because most stars are deeply scripted to focus on their personal improvement above all, so they can outwit and outlast. Many stars are also good team players, but that's more about the give-and-take of strategy than it is coaching.
Occasionally a star player exhibit's otherish tendencies, and that's when and only when they should be promoted to coach the team (manage a group). Michael Jordan, who should know, once said: "It's one thing to get better and better, it's another to make everyone around you better."
To offer a football analogy (It's Fall, after all), that's why so many of the top coaches in history were not rock star players: Bill Belichick, Tom Landry, Pete Carroll, Nick Saban, etc. Sure, they all played football in college, but they were not Pro Bowl caliber. Why were they selected to lead others? In every case, they were spotted as having two key coaching talents early on: They lifted up others' performance and had a high football IQ.
That's what should drive our management assignments. We should learn to ignore the individual performance and zero in on that leadersish style, combined with a strong sense of the business. When Jordan talks about the ability to "make everyone else better," he's talking about the ability to deliver the following:
Marcus Buckingham, co-author of the management classic First Break All the Rules, directly applies this thinking to cube-farm living. He once told me that the superstars soar with their strengths, while the average performers struggle to conquer their weaknesses. The superstar manger, on the other hand, it the one that focuses the superstar on his or her strength to begin with.
Here's the takeaway for leaders and HR professionals: Before you promote that superstar to the next level, question his or her leadership strengths. You might be robbing the system of several more years of top production, just to fill a mangement role with a strong resume. What you are looking for will not usually show up on paper, which means your ability to pick managers is going to be driven by your eagle-eye on others' ability to lift up others rather than break records.Tweet
September 04, 2014
Over the last decade, I've had the opportunity to be the opening keynote speaker at over 300 conferences, meetings and conventions around the world. Agents at speaker bureaus instinctively knew to recommend me when a meeting planner was "looking for someone to set the tone for our event." Instead of defining my current vocation as professional speaker, I think of myself as a Conference Kickoff Specialist.
Why me? I have enthusiasm, offer business-action content and have the right message (from Love Is the Killer App). I find a way to validate the theme of the event and highly customize my keynote address to connect with speakers or sessions to follow over the course of the event. Besides, I'm not afraid to speak at 8am, even to non-morning people.
I've been studying the art of the Opening General Session for several years now, and have a perspective about them. First, it's important to understand the purpose of conferences and conventions: They are the engine of innovation and human connections for an organization or industry. In just a few days, you can create hundreds of friendly collisions, which lead to new ideas and robust relationships. This is why they exist, even when times are tough.
If that's the charter, then what is the role of the Opening General Session? It encourages attendees to share knowledge with each other. It sets the stage with a theme, objectives for the event (often learning oriented) and if successful, generates a thirst to learn and teach. The session should also encourage networking and if possible, give insights on how to make meaningful connections. If the session drives these two activities (Knowledge sharing and Networking), then the event will drive real value that lasts long after the buffet food is digested and surveys are completed.
If you look up the definition of keynote, you'll find my role in that session: A prevailing tone or central theme, typically one set or introduced at the beginning of a conference.
What would I likely talk about if I was the keynote speaker at your Opening General Session?
Example: Here's a clip from my keynote address at the opening general session for the Association of College and Technical Educators. My goal was to get them hungry for the rest of the program content and eager to connect with each other.
I'd love to open your next conference or convention. Please suggest me to your meeting planner or speaker bureau agent. For more information, contact me.Tweet
August 21, 2014
Mentorship is an opportunity to build relationships and give gifts. Mentoring up, to those above you in rank or stature, may be one of your best career boosters. Really. This post will show you how to do it without getting shot for the message.
There's a common misconception in our business culture that mentorship is a top-down activity. In The Hero's Journey, the mentor is often case as the Wise Old Man or the Wise Old Woman. Think Obi Wan Kenobi in Star Wars or Miyagi in The Karate Kid. In this theory, one must have achieved success to pass on wisdom to the young or the new.
If you actually research the origins of the mentor, however, you'll find a different story. According to the fabulous writer's tool The Writer's Journey by Christopher Vogler, "the name 'Mentor', along with our word 'mental', stems from the Greek word for mind, 'menos', a marvelously flexible word that can mean intention, force or purpose. Menos also means courage."
He illustrates why courage can be required to mentor: "Many of the Greek heroes were mentored by the centaur Chiron, a prototype for all Wise Old Men and Women. A strange mix of man and horse, Chiron was foster-father and trainer to a whole army of Greek heroes including Hercules, Actaeon, Achilles, Peleus and Aesculapius, the greatest surgeon of antiquity. In the person of Chiron, the Greeks stored many of their notions about what it means to be a Mentor. Chiron was not always well rewarded for his efforts. His violence prone pupil Hercules wounded him with a magic arrow which made Chiron beg the gods for the mercy of death."
Here's the idea: When you mentor others, you are a provider of knowledge to assist them in their journey. Regardless of their seniority, you do this because they need the help and no one knows everything. This is especially true when times are filled with disruptive changes.
In my experience, mentoring up has been a tool to build powerful relationships and a source of inspiration for my continual learning. When I worked at broadcast.com (1997-1999) and Yahoo (1999-2005), the Information Age was just taking hold. I poured myself into books and trade publications that gave me insights on topics such as eCommerce, permission marketing, digital technology and new media. I became wise beyond my experience in years.
When I had opportunities to sit with legacy leaders such as Howard Stringer at Sony or Jim Keys at 7-11 or Mike Rawlings at Pizza Hut, I mentored them on the new world of Internet enabled business. I shared insights from books, case studies from trade journals as well as my perspective on "how the new world would work."
At first, much like Hercules, some of them pushed back hard. One leader wrapped up our conversation within five minutes and reacted dismissively to my suggestions. I apologized via an email and sent him a book that underscored the point I was making about the disruptive nature of eCommerce. I included my cliff notes from the book. Within a month, he invited me back and included his VP staff in the meeting. Eventually we did millions of dollars of business together.
I've also had the audacity to mentor my managers and even executives a few clicks above me. By mentorship, I mean that I shared information and perspectives that I felt would assist someone in solving a problem or gaining a strategic insight. Usually, it was a single point or observation, backed up by experts or statistics. I knew that because I was mentoring up, I couldn't just make an assertion based on my experience. Only the Wise Old Tim could get away with that. It led to strengthened relationships and in one case, a champion who enabled me to become the Chief Solutions Officer of Yahoo!.
Today, you have a unique opportunity to mentor up. It might be to your customers, prospects or your bosses or executives. The world is changing fast. Digital/Cloud/Mobile/Social/Global forces disrupt business in a compressed period of time. Whether or not your superiors (I use that term loosely) know they need it, information if required for their continued success.
Or as George Clooney's character in Our Brother Where Art Thou often said, "When times are tough, people are looking for answers."
Here's how to mentor up without getting hurt:
* Gather knowledge. Lots of it. Become a knowledge pack rat. If you tell someone something they already know, it's not mentorship. If you fully commit to this, others will sense it as you share with them and be more receptive.
* Seek first to understand, then to be understood: This nugget of wisdom from Dr. Stephen Covey applies here. You need to listen to your superiors to understand what they already know, what they fear and then what they need to know. If you jump in too quickly, you may offend or worse, miss the mark completely. When mentoring up, you likely have one chance to impress.
* Make sure you are helping a benevolent hero. I've always looked for superiors that I respected and trusted to be the-bigger-person in any conversation. Every time I mentored up, I really wanted those legacy leaders to succeed and admired their past accomplishments. If I sensed they were mean spirited or overly defensive, I kept my trap shut. Remember Hercules.
* Be respectful and follow up with proof. No one is ignorant or stupid just because he or she isn't yet calibrated to the times. There is a knowledge gap that needs to be filled. While he may not know how to use social media or why digitization is a threat to the core business, he can likely run circles around you in areas like finance, strategy or operations.
I'm aware of the concept of reverse mentoring, where a senior leader asks for help. But this is a different concept all together, because it's the junior leader that takes the initiative. And that's why it's so much more impactful.
If you follow these simple rules, you'll enable yourself to become closer to leaders that will help you on your journey too. My mentorship efforts to Stanley Marcus Jr. in the area of eCommerce led to him sharing insights with me about Customer Relationship Management and Talent Experience Design. As he told me in our last lunch meeting, "You'll never get dumber by making others smarter."Tweet
August 07, 2014
Your work culture is a conversation, led by leaders or troublemakers, about how things are done around here. If the leader isn't driving the conversation forward, troublemakers can move it sideways or backwards. Troublemakers include the naysayers, doomsdayers and taker-types.
Much of our work life is spent in conversations with others. When these conversations move forward, we make progress. When they go sideways, confusion reigns. When they slide backward, conflict and negative emotions ensue.
"Conversation is a game of circles," wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson. In other words, a conversation is useful but often is complicated by each player's agenda. And yet, through this highly interactive process, we shape our attitudes and beliefs. That's why it's important for leaders to take charge of the conversation.
Too many conversations at work are moving everyone in the wrong direction. They can be historical, bringing up old-and-outdated subjects. This leads to a collective hangover, where we can't shake off the weight of our past failures or the phantom menace of a long faded competitor. There are conversations which exchange gossip information, usually about people. Gossip is the fast-food of workplace conversation and often reduces its participants to base level thinking.
The most paralyzing conversations are led by the Chicken Littles, who drum up fear through declarations that "the sky is falling." They have the blogosphere and big media as their stronghold, and often punch much bigger than their weight. All of these conversations must be led by leaders to a better place.
One way that leaders can change the conversation is to directly challenge the historian, gossip or Chicken Little. One manager who attended one of my talks took this to heart. "When I spot a Chicken Little spinning up his coworkers unnecessarily, I ask him where he's coming from: Fear or confidence. I use the experience to coach him on the difference between constructive information and fear-mongering."
A second approach is to divert the conversation forward. One way to do that is to reframe the bad news as an instant brain-storm about what each conversational participant can do about it. Focus on the solution, not the problem. You can introduce a connected issue that leads to a discussion about a current project that everyone can contribute to. You could simply introduce a progressive subject and drive the conversation towards it and away from the previously bad one. While this requires finesse, great leaders have the strength to drive the conversation forward. Each. And. Every. Time.
Ignoring a sideways conversation is not an option. Like a sore, they fester without your attention and often bubble up as a collective malaise. Your job is to find the balance between empathy at a personal level and leadership at a conversational level.
This comes from Principle Two from Today We Are Rich: Move the Conversation Forward.Tweet
June 24, 2014
Most people I know sabotage their career by being to efficient with their time. They fill up their daily schedule with meetings and phone calls, thinking that they are being highly productive. The result is a week of conversations, with little time left to "work on work."
A recent IBM survey of over 1000 CEO's found that creativity was the top skill required for leadership success. This makes sense, as innovation is the prescription for dealing with a highly disruptive business environment. Technology, media, globalization all come together to put creative demands on leaders and manager everywhere.
The problem is, creative thinking requires a lot of white space on your calendar. It's not something you can schedule or squeeze in on a long flight or a Sunday afternoon. Filmmaker David Lynch believes that "It takes four hours to get one hour of creative work done." By that he means that we must enter into a problem consideration mode for extended periods of time to induce free association...which leads to innovative business solutions.
But if your calendar is full of every call request and meeting invitation that comes your way, you won't have any time to think. This is why I block out two hours of unscheduled time daily to work on my projects, research problems, white board solutions and passively think creatively while doing low mental-requirement tasks. It's in these gaps where our breakthroughs occur.
As a leader, you aren't paid to meet or talk to others. You are paid to think. Einstein, Edison and Jobs put their feet up on their desk or took long walks to actively consider solutions – and that's where their eureka moments happened.
Make every meeting and calendar item fight for its life. Pick the ones that are truly business drivers. Limit your "getting to know you" lunches and out-of-office meetings to one a week and make them count! If you find enough time during your most fruitful mental states (M-F days), you'll achieve the creative breakthroughs you need to make your mark.Tweet
May 29, 2014
The concept of mentor first appeared in Homer's Odyssey, and since then has grown into a widely talked about concept. Many of us seek mentors, especially during the beginning of our career. Many of us act as mentors, helping others on their journey to greatness.
What I've learned through my mentorship practice is that not all engagements are the same. There are three distinct flavors:
Pick your mentees wisely. Don't promise what you can't deliver. The best time to deliver Flash Mentorship is when the opportunity presents itself. Carpe Diem! In many cases, you start out as a Flash Mentor and over time, you take on either Program or Life Long mentees.
All of us should practice one flavor of mentorship every single week. If you haven't found the opportunity, you either aren't looking hard enough OR you aren't feeding your mind enough to share.Tweet
April 02, 2014
These days, it's believed that the youth have all the advantages when it comes to technology. They start companies like facebook in their 20's, run television shows and represent true progress. Companies I work with talk about "aging down" their workforce, so they can stay nimble.
The reality is that youth is a state of mind, not a counting of years. In my experience, the secret to eternal youth is lifelong learning...the constant expansion of one's resume of experiences and insights. Henry Ford once quipped, "Anyone who stops learning becomes old, whether at twenty or at eighty. Anyone that keeps learning stays young."
His point has to do with the constant stimulation of our brain, which in turn drives our creativity and agility. And these days, to be successful in business, you must possess both of those qualities in spades.
Here's the point: If you aren't expanding your resume every year, you are likely being getting lapped in the sport of business by those that do. You can improve a resume without changing jobs. You can add areas of expertise or new areas of project work. You can add volunteer work, hobbies or interests. You can add professional associations you've joined and contributed to. All of these additions give your career a sense of momentum, which gives you the confidence to embrace change.
My point is more salient for those reading this post born in my generations (Boomer and Echo Boomer). We become very comfortable with our titles, our financial stability and our status. We study on a need-to-learn basis, gathering expertise just-in-time. To take on electives at this stage in life seems a waste ... and could cut into our fun time watching sports, buying stuff or talking about people.
That's why we are so threatened by the youth. They come out of college or self-study, read voraciously and knowledge network with others that have the mutual thirst for knowledge. They have better instincts. They pivot without fear until they get their experiments right. They look at us with disdain, wondering why we don't 'get it'.
Meanwhile, we browse trade journals and newspapers, the career development equivalent of doing crossword puzzles. And we wait for retirement and beyond. And we get lapped with every revolution of the business cycle.
Here's my prescription: Read at least six books a year that bolster your domain expertise and add one new area of insight to your arsenal. Join a relevant trade association and pursue certifications, especially those that require intense study and networking. Raise your hand for a project at work that will stretch you out of your intellectual comfort zone.
Because if your resume isn't getting richer each year, you mind is getting poorer. The image below represents one of my favorite quotes on lifelong learning. Take it to heart.Tweet


text: Ralph (Dad Walton) Waite cast himself aptly here as a down-and-outer on Los Angeles' Skid Row. A recovered alcoholic offscreen, he lends a deeply felt performance to an otherwise slim story. It's about a reformed wino (Donald Moffat) who is having trouble adjusting to life on the wagon. He finds himself inexorably drawn back to "the Nickel," L.A.'s Bowery, by concern for a dying friend (Waite). Produced, directed and written by Waite, this intensely personal statement evinces his empathy for the derelicts. Yet the film is painful to endure—not only because the winos are portrayed as such a wretched lot but also because the pace is dreadfully slow. Only in its final scenes does it come to life. Though an affecting title tune sung by raspy-voiced Tom Waits frames the film perfectly, it is not a telling work. (R)

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As someone who felt like they were on a roller coaster throughout all the hype surrounding Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice, it should not be surprising that opinions surrounding the film are mixed. It's equally unsurprising that the people responsible for Man of Steel (a polarizing film in its own right) have again created something controversial. However, the split appears most pronounced between the critics who solidly hate the film and the audience that has enjoyed it. This is an experience that carried over into my own showing. As someone who went into the movie with not too many expectations and ended up enjoying it, it will be revealed whether the critiques of the film have any water (spoiler: mostly no).
Let's establish expectations for the film: Critics literally watch movies for a living. I can't speak to doing this professionally (i.e. getting paid from a mass media conglomerate to write a review) but their perspective on critiquing movies differs from the audience. Average Joe/Jane Movie-Goer is not looking for films to reinvent the cinematic landscape, they are looking to enjoy some entertainment, possibly even with friends/family. Even people who read critical reviews before going to see something have someone they trust who, rather than bore them with nonsense, answers their one simple question: Is going to see this worth my time?
To answer that question, I have to establish my expectations. After seeing all the wanton destruction in Man of Steel, I wanted someone to kick Superman's ass for not trying to save innocent lives (the whole "he's a rookie Superman who doesn't know how to control his powers yet" excuse never worked because there's nothing stopping Superman from taking the fight out of a densely-populated area and the one time they do end up in space, Superman brings him back to Metropolis!). So, when the Dawn of Justice hype established that someone was going to be Batman, hell yes I got excited! Now, that anticipation was tempered with the "Dawn of Justice" subtitle because one of the smarter (not to mention lucrative) things Marvel did was have a bunch of individual movies lead in to the big team-up. This fear led to a feeling that the film will try to do too much, especially when it only has 2 or so hours to work with…which wasn't helped when talk of a R-rated Director's Cut surfaced.
In order for Dawn of Justice to work, it had to address that Man of Steel was a flawed film, Batman needed to thoroughly beat the shit out of Superman and restrain itself from indulging in too many Justice League characters and/or subplots. With these expectations in mind, the film turned out pretty good.
Man of Steel deserves a post itself but for brevity, its flaws center around the aforementioned destruction, poor characterization (particularly Pa Kent) and over-usage of Lois Lane. Superman and Zod completely leveling Metropolis was the biggest critique and the fact that played into the plot was the movie's biggest draw. This complaint is addressed in the movie, almost painstakingly so. Numerous times it is mentioned that the area heroes are fighting in are "abandoned" or "post-working hours so very few people are likely to be around." While it would have better to see Superman punch Doomsday through a mountain instead of a skyscraper, Dawn of Justice does a sufficient job of addressing the "wanton destruction and disregard for civilian life" problem Man of Steel has.
Dawn of Justice also had to answer for Man of Steel's poor characterization. It's a fair point: If Man of Steel couldn't characterize Pa Kent correctly, how can they be trusted with Batman, Alfred, Wonder Woman or Lex Luthor? Instead of course-correcting itself, Dawn of Justice voices Pa Kent's concerns in Man of Steel better than Pa Kent did in Man of Steel! Essentially, Pa Kent had reservations about Clark using his powers because the best intentions don't often bring the best results. There's an infamous scene in Man of Steel where Pa Kent tells Clark he should have thought about letting a group of kids who are drowning in a school bus die. Dawn of Justice has a scene where Superman hallucinates talking with his "dad" and Pa Kent tells him how he tried to save the family farm from a flood, only for the diverted waters to ruin another farm instead. Such a scene explaining Pa Kent's logic behind his beliefs would have done wonders for Man of Steel.
Not only does Dawn of Justice repair Pa Kent's character but the movie itself is incredibly well-cast. Ben Affleck's Batman and Jeremy Iron's Alfred (as well as the interaction between them) are some of the film's highest points. Gal Gadot doesn't have a lot of dialogue but it's a good omen for the Wonder Woman movie that she makes the most of her plentiful screen time (her interactions with Wayne and fight with Doomsday got some of the audience's loudest applause). Jesse Eisenberg is really good at playing Lex Luthor like a mad genius but as someone who grew up on the DC Animated Universe, Clancy Brown's menacing businessman will forever be the definitive portrayal. The returning cast from Man of Steel is mostly excellent (notably Laurence Fishburne's Perry White) with the exception of Lois Lane.
Unfortunately, the one thing Dawn of Justice didn't correct is how overabundant Lois Lane is to the plot. In Man of Steel, Lois was asked to go on Zod's ship for no particular reason when he really only wanted Superman. She can even talk to the Krypton ship computer and Jor-El even formally addresses when he should have no idea who she is! Later in the movie, she's able to virtually teleport from one end of Metropolis to the climax where Superman breaks Zod's neck. While Dawn of Justice does a better job utilizing her journalism skills, it is rather annoying that she can just get a helicopter from a news agency and fly to Gotham to stop two superheroes from fighting in about 15-20 minutes.
With my expectations mostly met, it's no surprise that the film ended up being pretty good. So, let's focus on the critics, whose criticisms boil down to two salient points: (1) The movie's too serious/not fun enough and (2) it's too imposing/bloated for its 2.5 hour run-time.
For a moment, let's indulge in the critical consensus and make the movie more "light-hearted" and/or "fun". Then people would be bitching about DC copying Marvel's template and having no identity! These critics also forget that the "fun" studio is having its two biggest characters not only fight but recruit other heroes (!) to fight for them in Civil War! To more seriously address the point, the movie has more than enough levity between Lex Luthor, Perry White and Alfred. And in a movie that's literally titled Batman v. Superman, two of the world's most renowned heroes, how much fun should there be in a fight?
The "film's got too much going on considering its run-time" argument will have more merit, if only be default. Dawn of Justice follows the same plot trajectory Man of Steel did, where the first 1/3 of the movie introduces all the characters and provides an origin story while the 2/3 leads to the 3/3 big action climax. Thus, it inherits the pacing issues although the opening scene where Bruce Wayne is on the ground in Metropolis is absolutely riveting. It was also a treat seeing all the talking head bits in the middle part discussing Superman, asking some rather poignant questions for the viewer to think about. The movie does seem a little over-complicated (Lex Luthor doesn't really need to manipulate both Batman and Superman into fighting each other) but once the action-filled finale starts, most people won't care.
So, is Dawn of Justice worth the time and money? Before that can be answered, it's worth asking another question: What do you want/expect from it? I wanted the film to address the flaws inherent within Man of Steel. The heroes' disregard for civilian life and wide-scale property damage had to be reined in. Superman needed to get his ass kicked by someone who he had hurt through that disregard. Because DC/Warner Bros. had eschewed the Marvel method of individual hero movies leading to the big team-up, the movie needed to not be a gigantic cluster-fuck of Justice League cameos. On those counts, Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice succeeded tremendously.


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President Trump has called it "ridiculous," a "horrible law" that made it difficult for U.S. companies to compete overseas.
But the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which bars businesses from paying bribes to overseas officials, remains a key part of U.S. efforts to combat global corruption.
Now one study is showing the Trump administration's use of the law may be declining, even as administration officials say they're committed to enforcing it.
The law was passed in 1977. Some 400 U.S. companies, including big names like Lockheed and Chiquita, had acknowledged they had paid off foreign officials to win business.
"Many companies were making routine bribes to the heads of governments and others in countries, just to simply buy the business," said Meredith McGehee, chief of policy, programs and strategy at Issue One, a nonprofit organization that looks at money in politics.
The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act applies to any company with a U.S. connection, including foreign firms traded on U.S. exchanges. Companies that have been prosecuted over the years include Siemens, Goodyear, Daimler AG, Alcoa and Halliburton.
"Essentially, [the law] makes it illegal for companies and officers of those companies, to influence foreign officials with anything of value, any bribes," McGehee said.
"And 'bribes' is defined very broadly; there's not a need for a quid pro quo. It's essentially anything of value that you are giving to influence a foreign official to promote your business, or to promote getting a contract or any other benefit for your company," she added.
When the law was first passed, the United States was something of an outlier because many other governments did little to stop bribery. Over time, however, attitudes changed. Today, governments around the world are much more likely to cooperate in pursuing wrongdoers.
Still, the 1977 law has its critics, like Trump, who say companies can't compete when barred from paying bribes in places where doing so is routine.
"Now, every other country goes into these places, and they do what they have to do. It's a horrible law and it should be changed. I mean, we're like the policeman for the world. It's ridiculous," Trump said in a 2012 interview on CNBC.
Such comments have raised questions about the Trump administration's interest in enforcing the law.
The New York Law Journal recently published an article saying Foreign Corrupt Practices Act enforcement proceedings have declined since Trump took office. The authors, Steven Witzel and Arthur Kutoroff, counted the number of new proceedings brought this year by the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Justice Department, and compared them to similar periods under the Barack Obama and George W. Bush administrations.
"In general terms, there's been a dramatic drop-off from the average over the previous 10 years, to what we're seeing in the Trump administration," says Witzel, head of the white collar defense and government investigations practice at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson.
But Witzel concedes the drop may have happened for good reasons, such as "administrative issues" tied to the transition between the Obama and Trump administrations.
Southern Illinois University Law School professor Mike Koehler, who writes the FCPA Professor blog, says comparing enforcement records among different administrations is difficult, in part because the data sets are small, with relatively few cases being pursued in any given year.
Koehler also notes the number of proceedings tends to accelerate toward the end of the year. "I fully expect the fourth quarter to be an active quarter," he says.
Speaking at an ethics and compliance conference last April, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions said his department remains committed to enforcing the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
"We will continue to strongly enforce the FCPA and other anti-corruption laws," he said. But Sessions also voiced a concern expressed by many business leaders and politicians over the years: "You just simply can't have a situation in which your competitors pay bribes and you don't."
Witzel says the administration's enforcement practices should be watched closely.
"If there's a continued sharp decline in FCPA enforcement proceedings, that has the potential to undermine the credibility of the United States' commitment to combating international corruption," he says.
In many parts of the world, paying bribes is a regular part of doing business. Here in the United States, Congress passed a law cracking down on bribery decades ago. But President Trump says the law puts U.S. companies at a competitive disadvantage. And as NPR's Jim Zarroli reports, a recent study raises questions about how his administration is enforcing the law.
JIM ZARROLI, BYLINE: In the 1970s, U.S. corporate bribery was a huge scandal. More than 400 corporations admitted they'd made questionable or illegal payoffs to gain business, including major companies such as Chiquita and Lockheed. Meredith McGehee is with the Campaign Legal Center.
MEREDITH MCGEHEE: What was happening was that many companies were making routine bribes to the heads of governments and others in countries just to simply buy the business.
ZARROLI: So in 1977, Congress passed the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act or FCPA, which made paying bribes illegal even if it was done in another country. The law has always had its critics. They say if U.S. companies are barred from paying bribes in places where doing so is routine, then they can't compete. And among the critics has been President Trump. Here he was in a 2012 interview on CNBC.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Now every other country goes into these places, and they do what they have to do. It's a horrible law, and it should be changed. I mean, we're like the policemen for the world. It's ridiculous.
ZARROLI: Fast forward to today, and Trump administration officials, such as Attorney General Jeff Sessions, say they're committed to enforcing the law.
JEFF SESSIONS: I think that's a law that's on the books that should be enforced. And I expect it will do so and continue to do so.
ZARROLI: But Sessions hedged his comments a bit adding...
SESSIONS: You simply can't have a situation in which your competitors are - pay bribes, and you don't.
ZARROLI: That's a point that's been made by other U.S. officials, including some Democrats. So a lot of people in the white-collar law community are watching to see how the administration enforces the law. A recent article in The New York Law Journal said there's been a decline in bribery enforcement proceedings this year by the government. Attorney Steven Witzel co-wrote the article.
STEVEN WITZEL: In general terms, there's been a dramatic drop off from the average over the previous 10 years to what we're seeing in the Trump administration.
ZARROLI: Witzel cautions that nine months into the administration is probably too early to get a sense of what its record will be. There may be good reasons for the decline having to do with the transition between the Obama and Trump administrations.
One former Justice Department lawyer says he's seen no sign the government is any less committed to the law. And the department has continued with major enforcement actions initiated under Obama. A Swedish company that does business in the U.S. recently paid a fine of nearly a billion dollars for paying bribes in Uzbekistan. But Witzel says it's important to monitor the way the law is enforced.
WITZEL: If there is a continued sharp decline in FCPA enforcement proceedings, that has the potential to undermine the credibility of the United States' commitment to combating international corruption.
ZARROLI: When the bribery law was passed, it was something of an outlier internationally. Today many countries no longer treat bribery as a necessary evil and often work with U.S. officials to pursue violators. President Trump may not love the law, but there's evidence it's made a difference in the effort to fight global corruption. Jim Zarroli, NPR News, New York.
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Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Fun Grilled Cheeses
My Timmy wouldn't eat a grilled cheese so I decided to make it fun! I took out a box of 100 cookie cutters and told Timmy to cut the bread with one. He picked a train. The next time e picked a dump truck and today he picked a boy. He loved it and actually ate it and had a great time doing so!
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Richard Pawlowski is a retired architect, ex-real estate developer, entrepreneur, former economic columnist for San Pedro Today Magazine. His first ebook 2 Years in Tent was published in 2013 (after living in a tent for 2 years). The ROAD KILL DIET is a companion ebook to his first book. Richard is considered a "serial entrepreneur" and was the first seller and manufacturer of bike billboards in the USA. He was also founder of the first discount real estate franchise in the USA which had 150 people in 30 offices who did over $300,000,000 in sales. He's also become an authority about the economic effects of feminism on American men. He has recently published Make Money With Your Bike, The New Power of American Women and Bogus Beauty. These are somewhat esoteric subject that have a brand appeal. His BikeBillboards.com and NewPowerofWomen.com gets a lot of traffic. He's an active grandpa who provides marketing and startup consulting via VentureXPO Group. He currently lives with his wife of 49 years in Depoe Bay, Oregon.


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Harry Styles Loves His Fans!
Harry Styles covers up his luscious locks while out and about on Friday (August 10) in London, England.
The 18-year-old One Direction heartthrob waved at the cameras as he greeted a small crowd of fans.
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Annual Spring Sidewalk Sale May 10 + 11 at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Outdoor sale featuring creative, affordable art from SMFA student artists
On May 10+11, shop hundreds of original pieces by artists in 2013 Spring Sidewalk Sale at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (SMFA)—from jewelry, T-shirts and watercolor paintings to ceramics, photography, temporary tattoos and more. Students will set up at tables along the sidewalk on Museum Road, between SMFA and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. With prices starting around $5, the Sidewalk Sale is a great place to find some new jewelry, a unique screenprinted T or hand-drawn cards—don't forget a gift for mom this Mother's Day weekend! Proceeds directly support individual artists.
Friday, May 10, 10 am–5 pm
Saturday, May 11, 10 am–5 pm
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
230 The Fenway, Boston, MA 02115
MBTA: Museum of Fine Arts, Green Line
Admission is free. In case of rain, the event will be held indoors at SMFA (enter on Fenway).
Visit www.smfa.edu/news or call 617-369-3617 for more information.


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I took advantage of an offer like this a while back and got Life Membership, then went ahead and took advantage of another great pricing deal and upgraded to Endowment Member.
Looks now there are no "upgrades" avaialble without a LOT more coinage.
Anyone have any other information on this?
I lost the link where this special upgrade offer was being...offered.
Should be something there for you if you are a life member. I'm a benefactor member and I thought that was the end of the road, but low and behold I can join the "Presidents Council" for the 1/2 price of 500$ for my first year's annual membership. It never ends with the NRA. I am done with any sort of upgrades. I will kick in something when I feel like it perhaps in the future, but the last payment they got from me was paying for my last two boys' life membership.
If I send 20 bucks or so to a gun group, it has gone to the SAF, just because I like their litigation. Don't get me wrong, I am a big NRA supporter but they have tapped me out for a while. I don't mind sponsoring new life members, so I feel that is my little contribution to them.
All of you folks who have done so, thanks for standing up for all gun owners. However, please consider the Second Amendment Foundation. It is a measly 15$ a year. No frills group, no nice magazine, maybe a quarterly newsletter if they don't miss it, but 30 lawsuits in federal court currently. These are the guys who gave us McDonald vs Chicago, and almost everything since. Worth a look
BTW, before I even started this thread at calguns, I had sponsored close to 200 NRA life members. I called the SAF and asked them if there was a similar special they could give, and I would try to help. They declined based on the fact their life membership only cost 150 and is a bare bones price to start with. Heck all the stuff they send and the postage it takes to get it to you is probably 50 bucks right off the top. Belt buckles, plaques, and a box full of other stuff. I was surprised, because for two years as a regular member, I didn't even get a card. Seeing them litigating was enough reward for me.
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The Bahrain National Museum is the crowning achievement of the Kingdom of Bahrain's ongoing efforts to preserve the nation's heritage and history; Efforts which began in 1957 when the first exhibition of the artefacts discovered by the Danish archaeological expedition was held at Al-Hidaya Al-Khalifiya in Muharraq.
The museum was inaugurated in 1988 by the late Emir Shaikh Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa in a grand ceremony attended by His Royal Highness Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa, the Prime Minister, and then Crown Prince His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa.
Built on a central location between Manama and Muharraq, Bahrain National Museum houses 9 main halls, and classifies the accumulated heritage of the Kingdom of Bahrain into 6 different sections.
Visitors to the museum will be taken on a 4,000 year journey through time as they pass through its halls, from the traditional handicrafts hall, to the customs and traditions hall, burial mounds hall, ancient documents and manuscripts hall, Tylos hall, and Islamic period hall.
The museum seeks not only to enhance understand and knowledge of Bahrain's history amongst locals only, but also play a role as an institutions which promotes global culture within the community, as evidenced by the numerous international culture and art exhibitions it has hosted over the years.
At the end of this special voyage through time, visitors can enjoy a wide variety of traditional Bahraini and international dishes and delicacies at the museum cafeteria.
The Ministry of Culture recently celebrated the museum's 25th anniversary with a special ceremony held in December 2013 under the patronage of His Royal Highness Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, Crown Prince and Deputy Supreme Commander and First Deputy of the Prime Minister of Bahrain.


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I've used IE, then Firefox, then Chrome .... I switched back to Firefox. IE just gets targeted too much and leave you open to more infection even with the best protection software out there. Chrome is supposed to be so fast but not on my DSL ... it stalled all the time and that's when I went back to my favourite, Firefox. It is a bit different than IE but very worth getting to know it and there are lots of tutorials supplied as well.
What Browser do you use?
FIREFOX. I got too many viruses with IE....
I've always used Firefox and I love it though it does crash every now and then. Every time I've tried Chrome, I find some reason to get rid of it, lol. I don't know what it is. And IE, well...it's horrible!
I use a combination of Safari, Chrome, and Firefox. I may actually download dolphin as I really loved it on my Android. I'm a huge multitasker and three browwsers keeps everything tidy!
I've become a steady user of Chrome lately because I love love love the session manager and the Fresh Start Cross Browser apps... omg they are absolutely fantastic. I can save anything session wise I'm working on and reload it from my PC, tablet, or laptop. I can create a session for DD tabs, social media tabs, even one for tabs I have open before going to bed to finish perusing tomorrow, etc and load only what I need at that time. It's mainly why I've become hooked on Chrome. It has been extremely useful to me!
Here's some info on it for anyone interested in learning more.
That app looks pretty cool Shawna! Thanks for sharing!
I cant have the ability of saving tabs. Or I open too many texts I wanted to read and they end up sitting for a long time without being read. I disabled this in both of my browsers o.O
i use firefox mostly. sometimes i will use chrome. just not too keen on google recording everything you do. IE has to many bugs. when i surf...i tend to have 5-6 windows open (i see something interesting, i open a new window/tab but continu looking at the one i'm on then go check it out). Firefox doesn't seem to slow down or crash when i'm doing that.
Firefox about years. Every other brother makes me crazy!
Chrome, can be unstable occasionally but still my favorite.
I used Firefox for years at my IT manager husband's suggestion because it was safer if used with the FireFox extension called No-Script which gave me control over which sites and/or which portions of site pages were allowed to display their javascript, java, flash and other plugins based data.
However, a number of months ago, I switched to Google Chrome as it was recommended as safest by the anti-virus software I use (Avast). I think it runs faster too. Additionally, I often had errors when I tried to use blogger with Firefox. Have had none with Google Chrome.
Trivia for you old Netscape users: Firefox was born from Netscape code.
I switched to firefox along while back, and now only use it or Chrome. Only use IE if these two dont work on a site, but really dont like using it.
I use Google Chrome. I used to use Mozilla, but in my opinion Chrome is just easier to work with and faster for my computer!
I use firebox...tried and true. Used chrome when it first came, but it caused too many problems then and I never went back. Maybe it's time to take another look...
I was an Explorer fan for the longest time. Then I found most of my internet sites did not work well with it so I switched to Chrome but have found some things do not work well with it as well. Tried Firefox but did not like it as well. So I have found that I use both. Today I am getting a new computer so we will see how well they work on Windows 8. I have stayed with Windows XP but they are not supporting it after the 8th of April. We will see how the new operating system works with both.
I use Firefox.
Chrome....at home, work, wherever. I like that all of my "stuff" is there no matter where I am.
I use Firefox, for many years now and I have tried a few others and somehow I just can't used to it. Guess I'm a bit slow to change in some ways
I use Firefox but after reading this thread it looks like I should investigate Chrome!
I use firefox and google chrome
I used Opera for years, especially for reading text-only mailing groups because of the integrated mail program (it coloured every quote in a different colour - very nice to read!).
Now I use Google Chrome. But I have IE and Firefox installed on my pc - sometimes there are these websites...
I use Chrome, but on my mobile devices I use dolphin.
I use Google Chrome, it's faster than IE for me, and sometimes it is easier to get my downloads.
I use Chrome and i like it a lot , for me, it's a long time ago i used something different.
I am so fully integrated into Google it's almost scary. lol. (It's probably gonna be even more scary once Google Fiber finally goes live in my neighborhood!) So, I use Chrome. I LOVE that it logs into my Google account, because it makes it SO much more convenient to manage my blogs, email, drive, pictures through Google+ (the-service-formerly-known-as-picasa), etc. And I find it relatively easy to log in and out of my various accounts. (But having another browser as backup for side-by-side viewing IS nice!)
I used to use IE, but it went through a REALLY bad time where it had a LOT of security issues, so I dumped it and never went back. (Sure, it's on my computer, but that's 'cause it comes with Windows. lol) I used Opera for a bit (and still do occasionally on my Nexus 7 and my Wii. my hubby loves it as a backup browser) - it was one of the first to implement tabs and saving sessions. I remember Netscape quite well. They had a really nice web hosting/designing service back in the day when having your own Sailor Moon fan site was the IN thing! LOL!!
I love Google a lot, but sometimes I step back and think that if there were to ever be an Umbrella Corporation-style company that accidentally unleashed the zombie apocalypse or a SkyNet-style wave of sentient robots, then it would probably be Google - they dabble in SO many things and get access to SO much simply because they have some really altruistic intentions. (I highlight "accidentally", because if a company were to do it on purpose, IMHO, it would probably be Apple! ;D LOL)
Chrome always. I gave up IE many years ago. I actually don't like IE. We use it at work and there are times when I cannot get my work done because IE is so picky.
I use Chrome and IE.
I use Google Chrome. I have found it crashes way less than firefox or IE.
I find I use Chrome more and more - exclusively on my desktop running Windows XP, as it's much faster for me than IE & cleaner-looking too. I HAVE to use IE on my tablet because it's a Microsoft Surface running Windows 8.1 & Microsoft won't let you use anything but their own browser. I use the tablet for checking emails and a lot of my digital scrapping downloads, but I can't download anything from Mediafire with either version of IE, so I have to wait until I have time to go on the desktop computer to do them. No idea why IE & Mediafire won't play nicely together for me - but it's annoying! So, if I had a choice, I would use Chrome exclusively. It's a good idea to have a backup browser, though.


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As the nation's top regulator of offshore drilling, Elmer "Bud" Danenberger was nearing retirement last year when he began to get word of a major rig accident halfway around the world.
An Australian oil well blew out at dawn Aug. 21, gushing yellow-green crude into the Timor Sea along the country's northern coast. And it wasn't letting up.


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Your morning speed-read
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GOP accuses White House of fuzzy math on GSA conference (POLITICO || Seung Min Kim).
Korea missile launch reignites debate (POLITICO || Isaac Dovere).
'Swift Boat' donor now backs Romney (Boston Globe || Michael Levenson).
Official bin Laden story gets another update (Atlantic Wire || John Hudson).
And Jersey man takes down flag bearing Obama's face (CBS || Pat Loeb).


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Two strong top ten placements in this weekend's race at Imola in Italy bodes well for the upcoming season in Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup.
With three weeks left before the series begins, it was good for 17-year-old from Valer Østfold to be back on the track again to compete.
Through the sister series to the one he'll run this year, he got a wild card and could line up for his new team, Prema Power Team.
Having qualified for the eighth position of 41 cars on both Friday and Saturday, it was a good starting point to go from.
In Saturday's race Olsen quickly went up three places, and could smile at a good fifth place at the finish.
On Sunday he made a poor start and fell down to tenth, but managed to bring back the two places he lost before the finish.
A fifth and eighth place is the results after the first taste of competition this year.
Dennis Olsen is happy to finally be back in action again.
- It was a good start to the season before the Euro Cup and it was nice to know that I am well underway. I'm not entirely happy with the qualifying, but we got to the races pretty good. It's okay to make small mistakes here, so I can do the best when it really matters, he says.
Olsen has ambitions to win the Euro Cup this year, and although a fifth and eighth place is strong, he is aiming higher.
- I wish I could have made the podium, but all in all it was a positive weekend. We've become stronger, both me and the team, and I feel secure in the racing situation. That is important to take with me into the first race in the Euro Cup, says Dennis Olsen
Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup starts April 25 to 27 at Motorland Aragon in Spain.
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Jul 27, 2014
ATGN 117 - ATGN After Dark
The ATGN crew records after dark this week. Its a late night show full of the early news from SDCC and the unique brand of ATGN humor. By that I mean fart jokes.
If anyone wants to talk Guardians of the Galaxy next week let us know and we'll get you on the show.


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Although there are federal regulations for the use of oxygen when flying, many high altitude pilots and physicians recommend the use of oxygen at altitudes even lower than Federal Aviation Regulations require. Some pilots may begin to experience symptoms of hypoxia at altitudes as low as 5,000 feet. One of the biggest problems of detecting the onset of hypoxia is that a person usually isn't aware of experiencing the symptoms until it's too late.
Acutel has a solution for detecting this subtle, yet potentially dangerous, condition. Enter the OWL, which uses the noninvasive oximeter technology to detect blood oxygen concentration through the use of a small sensor placed on the tip of a finger. The oximeter determines if the oxygen concentration of the blood becomes too low and alerts the pilot of potential hypoxia conditions. At an oxygen saturation of 90%, the OWL will alert the pilot through the headset with an audible "caution" message. If the saturation should drop below 85%, the OWL will sound a "warning" message. As an added feature, the OWL will give saturation readings on demand at the push of a button.
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When: Sat., Sept. 22 2012
The HydeOut at Dolphin Cove Marinaat is hosting an event to benefit Low Country Orphan Relief. Donate an item to the kids and receive discounts on food and drinks. Additionally, a percentage of the proceeds from the day's lunch and dinner will be donated to the Orphan Relief. Boys boxers size 6/6x - 14, jeans, socks, underwear, shampoo, and anything else are desperately needed.
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AN Icelandic coastguard ship yesterday towed a cargo vessel to port in Italy with about 450 migrants on board who were abandoned by the crew of smugglers, authorities said.
Italian coastguard spokesman Filippo Marini said that after several hours of struggling in rough seas, rescue teams had managed to secure the Ezadeen for towing. The Icelandic ship, part of a new European patrol force to aid migrants at sea, was doing the towing.
The ship was brought into port at Corigliano Calabro in south-west Italy late last night.
Children and pregnant women were among the migrants, most of whom were believed to be Syrian, said Mr Marini. The Sierra-Leone-flagged cargo ship apparently set sail from Turkey, he said.
Earlier, Mr Marini said that a migrant had called for help, saying: "We're without crew, we're heading towards the Italian coast and we have no-one to steer."
The Ezadeen is the second cargo ship full of migrants to be abandoned while still sailing this week. Days earlier, the Italian coastguard lowered personnel on to cargo vessel the Blue Sky, so they could take control of the ship, which was only a few miles from crashing in to the Italian coast.
More than 170,000 migrants were intercepted or needed rescue by Italian navy, coastguard and air force patrols last year. This apparently new technique by smugglers of abandoning a ship after setting it on a crash course complicates rescue efforts, Mr Marini told Italian state radio, "but the important thing is there are lives to be saved".
Yesterday 35 of the migrants from the Blue Sky, believed to be mainly Syrians and Kurds, were taken to hospital, some being treated for hypothermia.
Vincent Cochetel, Europe director for the United Nations' refugee agency the UNHCR, said the latest development was "part of an ongoing and worrying situation that can no longer be ignored by European governments".
He urged the European Union to take "urgent" and "concerted action" to increase efforts to rescue people at sea, expressing concern over the winding down of Italy's Mare Nostrum search and rescue operation.
Italy has had to deal with a massive surge in migrants, many of them from the Middle East and the Horn of Africa, setting off on boats with hopes of reaching Europe.
The Blue Sky is listed as a general cargo ship, sailing under a Moldovan flag. A manager of a company hired to provide safety certification for the ship said he had withdrawn its certificate several months ago.
Greek officials were first alerted to the Blue Sky when it was near Corfu after a distress call from a man on board asking for food, water and blankets. It was reportedly heading for the port of Rijeka in Croatia from Turkey.
According to tracking website MarineTraffic, the ship abruptly changed direction south of the Greek island of Othonoi on Tuesday morning, and headed west towards Italy.


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Recent news
A new wave in TV viewing
Set-top boxes by Comtrend Corporation now surf with Opera
Taipei, Taiwan - June 2, 2011
Imagine this: you are watching the World Cup finals at home, your favorite player scores a goal, and you can tweet about it without taking your eyes off the TV screen! Sounds farfetched? Not anymore! Opera Software today announced that it is working together with Comtrend Corporation to take your TV online.
Comtrend Corporation, a global supplier of advanced networking solutions, has selected Opera Software's browser technology for their next-generation set-top box, the STB-7007. You can now have access to relevant and context-sensitive information while watching television.
"Connected TVs are just taking off in the market. Consumers see that it complements their TV experience," said Robert Yao, Vice President, Comtrend Corporation. "With Opera's technology, our set-top boxes are ready to be used by Telcos, cable operators and Internet service providers who can start delivering their services to end users."
A world of possibilities:
- While watching a film, a Wikipedia widget could get you the actor's biography.
- While watching MTV, a music store widget will let you buy the song
- You might also be able to buy products at the same time that they are being advertised on TV.
"Every day, we combat and conquer the demanding challenges of connected technology, providing solutions for home TVs and other devices within a digital home environment," said Lars Boilesen, CEO, Opera Software. "Armed with our standards-based approach, we are ready to rock and roll on all connected devices inside the consumer's home."
For developers: Creating applications for your TV becomes easy
While this association will bring the most exciting web content to your TV, the experience can further be enhanced by the usage of web-based applications that follow web standards. Any web developer can create these applications, since they are W3C widgets, based on existing web technologies. Widgets provide shortcuts to useful content from the Web and provide an opportunity for other services to be developed around them.
For device manufacturers: Opera Devices Software Developer Kit
Opera Software is the key enabler that makes content and applications available on TVs. Opera embraces open and industry standards, such as HTML5, W3C widgets, OIPF and HbbTV, giving players in the connected-TV space the assurance that that they can deliver any live or on-demand content or service, on any set-top box or TV, from any source. Technology, coupled with strong industry partnerships, make the Opera Devices Software Developer Kit easy to implement on a platform, as well as integrating with streaming media players, conditional access systems, and personal video recorders.
For service providers: Comtrend's next-generation set-top box
The Comtrend STB-7007 is an IP-based set-top box that supports IPTV, video-on-demand (VoD), near VoD, Internet, and over-the-top video applications in high-definition (HD) and standard-definition (SD) formats. It also supports the most popular HD/SD decoding schemes, including simultaneous HD/SD decoding with picture-in-picture function. With both advanced and legacy interfaces supported, it can be used as a multimedia hub for the modern, digital home-networking environment.
For more information on the Opera devices SDK, visit: http://www.opera.com/business/devices/
For more information on the Comtrend STB-7007, visit: http://www.comtrend.com/links/96$product.htm
About Comtrend Corporation
With more than 10 million products installed, Comtrend Corporation is a leading global supplier of advanced networking solutions. COMTREND is an ISO-9001/14001 certified company that designs, manufactures, and markets a wide range of networking equipment integrating ADSL, ADSL2+, Bonded ADSL2+, VDSL2, VOIP, IP STB Multimedia, Residential Wi-Fi, Auto Configuration Systems, Digital Signage Applications and High-Speed PLC technology. COMTREND is committed to a vision of bringing people together through technology and continues to realize this vision through a focus on innovation and superior service. Learn more about Comtrend at http://www.comtrend.com/.
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Since its founding in 1996, Opera has been a pioneer in shaping the future of the internet. Providing faster and more innovative web browsers, Opera is the everyday browser of choice for more than 320 million people.
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Friday, May 27, 2011
Like his binky.
His hairbrush.
An ipod.
Finger puppets.
A carrot.
A lobster.
And daddy's pager.
He puts up with us.
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I think every onsie should have a pocket now that you have demonstrated the many uses for it. Nash is lucky to have Drew to teach him the in's and out's. Cute pictures!!ReplyDelete
Love it! The lobster is awesome!ReplyDelete
"Thanks for the hairbrush"ReplyDelete
I want to kiss Nashy-boy right now.
Lol to the pager. I tried to buy a pager in high school at the store next to Peddler's, but they were actually really expensive, and I thought it would be funny, but not that funny.ReplyDelete
That babe of your is so sweet.
Oh Chelise, he is beautiful. I need to actually meet him in person so I can love on him!! I hope all is well! Love you!ReplyDelete
I can see he's not much of a fan of Daddy's pager. Can't say I blame him though ;)ReplyDelete
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On your quick-and-dirty example search I get the error
Search failed: Div with number of results was not
found on Google search page
Is this due to google search page redesign?
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Yes, Google search redesigned the structure of the sum of search results which is located on the right top of the search page.
Google would return the begin and end number of the all search result in plain text at before, while now this numbers have been changed by script.
And these changes could influence the xgoogle's function "_extract_info(self, soup)" in the file "search.py"
The crude solution I have taken as following:Change the function get_results(self)" in the file "search.py"
Wish this will helpful for you ~
def get_results(self):
""" Gets a page of results """
if self.eor:
return []
page = self._get_results_page()
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results = self._extract_results(page)
search_info = {'from': self.results_per_page*self._page, \
'to': self.results_per_page*self._page + len(results),
'total': MAX_VALUE}
if not self.results_info:
self.results_info = search_info
if self.num_results == 0:
self.eor = True
return []
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return []
if self._page > 0 and search_info['from'] == self._last_from:
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return []
if search_info['to'] == search_info['total']:
self.eor = True
self._page += 1
self._last_from = search_info['from']
return results
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27 April, 2015
Current trend
Last week, the British currency significantly strengthened against the USD. The Pound rose despite the lack of positive macro-economic statistics. British retail sales data, released on Thursday, was worse than expected; however the pair continued to go up. The main growth factor for the pair GBP/USD was weakening in the USD amid negative key indices on labor market and construction sector. Strong data on orders for durable goods released on Friday could not provide strong support for the USD.
Although today's economic calendar does not contain important UK and US news, the Pound has been strengthening since morning, reaching the level of 1.5180.
On Tuesday, the British preliminary GDP for Q1 will become known. It is expected that the index will grow; however it is not clear if the price will be able to break down the key level of 1.5190. GDP of the USA will also be known this week, as well as the decision of the US Fed on interest rates. Negative data on the American statistics can put additional pressure on the USD and in such case the level of 1.5550 will become unattainable.
Support and resistance
Despite sharp rise in the pair GBP/USD downtrend continues. Nevertheless, breakdown of the local highs and key resistance level of 1.5190, trend can reverse and in this case the "bulls" will have new targets of the levels of 1.5360, 1.5550 and 1.5610.
Support levels: 1.5110, 1.5035, 1.4950, 1.4880, 1.4750, 1.4640 and 1.4570.
Resistance levels: 1.5190, 1.5220, 1.5275, 1.5360, 1.5475, 1.5550 and 1.5610.
Trading tips
In the current situation it makes sense to open short positions on the trend from the key resistance level and upper limit of the ascending channel with take profit at .4750 and 1.4570. Short stop-loss can be placed above the level of 1.5190. Alternative scenario can take place in case of breakdown of the current local highs of 1.5190, and movement of the price to the new peaks. In this case it is advisable to place pending buy orders above the level of 1.5200 and take profit at the level of 1.5550.
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US stock indices went up on Wednesday after the release of the minutes of the US Fed meeting in January, which was devoted to the US monetary policy. Dow Jones Industrial Average rose by 1.6%, Nasdaq Composite - by 2.2%.
Past week was marked by a two-day speech of Janet Yellen, the head of the US Fed. Mrs. Yellen did not give a straightforward answer regarding the interest rate increase at the US Fed meeting in March...
On Thursday, the price of gold strengthened by 4% and reached its year highs. The price has been growing amid an increase in demand for safe-haven assets, such as gold and the Yen...
Yesterday, US Ministry of Energy announced about unexpected decline of oil and oil products reserves by 754 million barrels over the last week. Spot-price of crude oil Brent has grown over 31.80 USD per barrel...
Over the past 2 weeks the Yen has significantly strengthened its positions against the USD due to the increasing demand for the safe-haven currency. Mixed macro-economic data on the US economy has decreased a chance that the US Fed will tighten monetary policy...
The currency pair is traded at the strong level of 1.0960 –1.1060. In case of maintenance and testing of the level and respective confirmation (for example, a pattern Price Action), we recommend to open long positions. Stop order can be placed below the signal line...
Despite that fact that the data on Non-FarmPayRolls was below the forecast (151 000 against the forecast of 190 000 and 262 000 new jobs in December), the USD has grown against the major currencies. The rise was caused by the other data on the US labor market in January...
While market participants are waiting for the release of NFPR (Non-Farm PayRolls), oil prices are gradually declining since the opening of the trading day and at the beginning of the European session...
API (American Petroleum Institute) report, released this Tuesday, showed that last week US oil stocks rose by 3.8 million barrels. Obviously, it was a bad news for oil prices, as heavy stocks of oil in the USA creates situation when supply outruns demand in the world market...
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Just another tip:
Wear a money belt. Yes, they are uncomfortable, but they're a good place to store your traveller's cheques, credit cards, passport (if you can't store them in a safe) so pick-pockets can't get to them.
Also, something I found really handy was a wallet with a chain on it. You can clip the chain to the inside of your bag. Thay way, it's hard for pick-pockets to make an easy swipe. They'll have to dig around to find where the chain is hooked onto your bag, and try to unhook it.
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The secret to this wholesome, hearty chili recipe is bright, plump, tender Low Sodium Red Kidney Beans from GOYA®, the bean experts! As the beans simmer gently in tomato with ground beef, they soak up the robust seasonings for a meaty, savory bean chili that's a delicious one-pot meal, any day of the week.
2 cans (15.5 oz. each)
2 tbsp.
GOYA® Extra Virgin Olive Oil
Winner of the ChefsBest® Excellence Award for overall quality.*
1 lb.
ground beef (95% lean)
medium yellow onion, chopped (about ½ cup)
1 tsp.
GOYA® Minced Garlic, or 2 cloves garlic, finely chopped
1 can (14.5 oz.)
diced tomatoes
1 can (8 oz.)
GOYA® Low Sodium Tomato Sauce
3 tbsp.
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1 tsp.
ground cumin
½ tsp.
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Drain beans, reserving liquid; set aside. Heat oil in medium, heavy-bottomed saucepot over medium-high heat. Add beef, onions and garlic; cook until browned, breaking up meat with a wooden spoon, about 10 minutes. Stir in reserved bean liquid, diced tomatoes, tomato sauce, chili powder and cumin. Bring beef mixture to a boil. Reduce heat to low and simmer, stirring occasionally, until sauce thickens, about 1 hour.
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