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Research Paper: Aggression in ASD Patients
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Autism Intervention
The author of this report has been complete the project component of the author's case study in this brief report. There will be the creation and explanation of the intervention support plan that will be implemented to support behavioral change in the subject or subjects that are being addressed. There will be at least one behavior or interest of concern that will be singled out as necessary so as to make that behavior the priority in terms of resolution and better outcomes for the patients. While progress and forward movement can be slow and plodding for many ASD patients, it is important to keep trying and not give up because the child's future depends on it.
Application of Assessment Methods
When it comes to ASD patients, one of the "gold standard" tools that is used early and often, especially with child patients, would be applied behavioral analysis, or ABA for short. Rather than being a specific plan or intervention, it is instead the application of principles and in a specific way so that students with ASD maladies can be diagnosed properly and then treated. The facets of ABA can be used to address things such as language skills, self-help skills and play stills. Improper behaviors and patterns that can be shut down or at least minimized when it comes to the ABA would include aggression, self-stimulatory behaviors and self-injury (Applied Behavioral Strategies, 2016). As described by the assignment, there are also other considerations such as antecedent manipulations, positive reinforcement, negative reinforcement, differential reinforcement and non-contingent reinforcement. There are also the principles of punishment and extinction.
With that in mind, any pool of kids that is entirely or partially made up of autistic students should be monitored. The case study that the author of this report will be using are ASD patients with aggression issues as they exist and move within a larger group of kids that are mostly non-ASD. Obviously, the primary focus will be on the children that are known (or are suspected) to be autistic as they are of a known diagnosis and the risks involved are clearly known. If there are situations where aggressive behaviors are manifested, then the principles of conditioning and reinforcement (among others) can be employed to reverse patterns and bad behaviors in general. This can work with ASD and non-ASD students like but the former is more likely to have aggression issues than the latter, all else equal. However, it should be noted that a slightly different touch and approach may sometimes be needed for ASD patients. Indeed, if the aggressive behavior is something severe such as the aforementioned self-harm or something else of an extreme or dangerous nature, then the type of intervention is going to be much more pronounced and advanced when a child that will not go to his or her desk when initially asked to do so. One major difference between ASD and non-ASD children is how much intervention is needed. With non-ASD children, intervening is generally not necessary unless the child is actively acting out. However, an ASD child needs intervention no matter the level of outburst or undesirable behavior. The worse the behavior that exists, the more intervention that is needed. Regardless, though, there should be at least 25 hours a week for most autism patients and about forty hours over two years. The timing of the diagnosis and other factors can sway that number either way. Since this case study deals with aggression and because aggression is something that can harm both the patient him or herself as well as others, it is important to err on the side of too much therapy and review rather than too little.
Implementation of ABA Techniques
As ASD students with aggression tendencies are observed and monitored, both within a mixed classroom situation and outside of it, there should be a spurring of what is truly on the mind of the ASD patient whenever possible. At the same time, there should be ABA-driven strategies that help steer the student away from the self-harm and aggression towards others including ones mentioned by the assignment. These include reinforcement, good modeling and creating a momentum of good behavior that helps to minimize the bad behavior. A huge part of creating and sustaining this momentum is the involvement and cooperation of the parent. While a teacher with ASD-related training can be of great help, any progress gained at school can go stagnant or be negated if the parent is not creating a similarly positive and therapy-conducive situation at home. When it comes to creating new behavior patterns, however, practitioners and parents alike need to be cognizant of what is known as the Premack Principle. This principle states that people (including children) will engage in less probable behaviors to be able to engage in behaviors that are known to be probable. For example, a child that is self-harming will quite likely have other behaviors that are antecedents or otherwise related to the self-harm. The same thing goes for good behaviors. Premack himself proved this by having an experiment where children were presented with the option to eat candy or play pinball. In one iteration of the experiment, the students had to eat candy to play pinball. In that instance, only children that wanted to play pinball in the first place were reinforced in doing so, as the candy was the reinforcement. The same was not true for children who wanted to eat candy and not play pinball. People who help treat and assist with ASD patients need to keep this in mind. Simple operant conditioning and the like is not all that complicated but it is more robust and complicated when speaking of ASD patients and people involved in the assistance or treatment of a child with aggression behaviors need to be mindful of the associated antecedents and related events that precede or follow aggression rearing its head (Barton, 2013). With that in mind, proper implementation of ABA techniques means that teachers or parents that witness aggression should notice what is happing before, during and after aggression surfaces so that the possibly reinforcing conditions can be identified and weeded out, or at least mitigated so that aggression is eventually lessened or eliminated. Indeed, preventing any and all precursors of aggression is not possible. However, what is possible is helping the student cope with it when it happens through modeling and showing what could and should be done instead. With enough repetition and positive reinforcement, aggression as a result of certain stimuli can be made extinct (Cosgrave, 2016).
Monitoring Systems Support for Behavior
An extremely important part of minimizing aggression for children in this case study and for minimizing undesirable behaviors with ASD patients in general is careful monitoring, review and interventions that occur in a timely manner. There needs to be constant surveillance of what ASD-stricken children are doing (or not doing) when they are in certain social situations. The people watching must have a trained eye and must know what to do when certain things start to happen or that occur to completion. There has to be a definition of why the event is relevant, a discrimination between what is important and what is not, the showing of examples of good behavior with the stricken children as well as the bad and the proper designing and application of interventions for the child that will lead to long-lasting and sustained improvements over time. The people that are involved in observing and intervening when it comes to ASD patients should be well-trained and have the credentials and experience that prove that they know what they are doing. Indeed, just because a person knows something is wrong with an ASD patient's behavior does not mean that they know how to properly react and adapt their approach in a way that helps the ASD child progress rather than regress. Similarly, parents must know the important role they play and they need to be taught on how to coach and help their child. When it comes to the aggression case study in this report, the parents and practitioners (e.g. teachers) alike need to know how to respond to aggression and the warning signs that indicate something is about to go wrong. The parents and teachers involved must be careful to follow procedure to the letter and use interventions when and as they are needed rather than taking shortcuts or otherwise betraying what the child needs. There needs to be a focus on instilling and properly using behavior-change agents such as associating and clustering good behaviors rather than bad ones, as defined and manifested by the Premack Principle and ABA in general. Finally, there has to be a definition of what is normal deviant behavior by children and how it is corrected, the same thing as it pertains to ASD patients and how to quickly and clearly define the difference. Of course, there are going to be growing pains. Newly diagnosed students that have an ASD disorder are… [END OF PREVIEW]
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One is a reserved Englishman who has not spent much time outside his native Newcastle. The other was a boisterous Bajan widely acknowledged as one of the best bowlers ever born. Believe it or not, Graham Onions and Malcolm Marshall have something in common.
Both made Durban their second home when they signed on as overseas professionals for teams based on South Africa's east coast. Marshall spent four seasons with Natal from 1992-93 to 1995-96, while Onions, in his maiden run with the Durban-based franchise, has revived the concept of the full-season foreign signing in a country where international talent has not had much of a look in recently.
South Africa's domestic season clashes with those in the subcontinent, Australia, New Zealand and Zimbabwe, which leaves only West Indian or English cricketers available to play here. But the days of Ottis Gibson and Vasbert Drakes strutting their stuff here are long gone. The declining rand and a packed international calendar have meant overseas players come rarely and mostly for limited-overs tournaments.
Only Ian Harvey in the 2005-06 season, and Owais Shah in 2010-11, dabbled in the longer version, until Onions settled in. And he is here for the long haul. His wife and ten-month-old son have relocated for the summer, and while they set about making new friends and enjoying the warm climate, Onions got his first set of matches out of the way.
His visit began with the One Day Cup, in a format he wants to improve in. He had a moderate return of seven wickets in seven matches at an average of 29.28 as Dolphins finished in third place. Both the team and the bowler want to step it up for the first-class competition, which is Onions' speciality.
"I feel a lot more settled now and I am looking forward to this part of the summer," he said. "I came to South Africa to challenge myself and also to learn and develop my game. I am really determined to get better and I think I can keep on improving. It was an achievement for me to be contracted to the Dolphins and I want to do well for them."
Onions was approached with the idea of him spending a summer in South Africa by Dale Benkenstein, a Durban boy who plays for Durham and is now the batting consultant for Dolphins. "Lance [Klusener, the Dolphins coach] wanted someone to lead the attack and since Kingsmead is useful to seam bowlers, I thought Graham would do well here," Benkenstein said.
But he also invited Onions for another, more personal reason. "He is a quality bowler, who has been and still is on the verge of the England team and he has never been given a decent run. He wasn't picked for the Ashes side and the thought of sitting on the sidelines and not playing wouldn't have been nice for him. This was a good way to keep him fresh."
After finishing the County Championship as the leading wicket-taker with 70 scalps at 18.45, Onions was gutted to be left out of the Ashes touring party, but Benkenstein convinced him not to spend his winter moping. Instead, by using it to prepare, Onions could set himself up to be an automatic replacement, should the need for one arise.
"It was disappointing not to be part of the [Ashes] squad because back in England I've done well. I would love to be there, performing against our great rivals," Onions said. "But it was not to be. I'd rather be playing cricket here than carrying the drinks there. Maybe I can force myself back in."
Onions thinks it will be a "miracle if we use the same bowlers in all five Tests" and so he wants to make sure he's "not rusty" in case he is asked to fly over. But he also understands that might not happen because the England selectors seem to have sent a message that they don't think Onions would be suited to conditions in Australia.
"English conditions are perfect for him, where there are seaming wickets and the ball swings all day," Benkenstein said. "Here in South Africa or even in Australia, the wickets can get a bit flat if we're having a particularly hot period. But quality bowlers like him can adapt."
That may be what Onions is here to prove - that he can be successful on surfaces other than the ones at home, which he has already done, notably on England's last tour to South Africa, in 2009-10. Onions took eight wickets in three Tests and memorably denied the hosts victory with his batting, twice. "I have good memories of that tour, but obviously my career changed a lot after that."
"English conditions are perfect for him, where there are seaming wickets and the ball swings all day. Here in South Africa or even in Australia, the wickets can get a bit flat if we're having a particularly hot period" Dale Benkenstein, batting consultant for Dolphins
Onions was controversially left out of the XI for the final Test and it was 29 months before he would play another. Career-threatening injuries, rather than questionable selection, kept him out, and there was a stage when, in dealing with his back pain, Onions wondered if he would ever bowl again. "It was the toughest part of my career," he said. "I've now got screws in my back holding me together but they're doing it pretty nicely for now."
While he stays in one piece, he said it's his goal to play even just one more Test, and Benkenstein sees him achieving that and much more. "I think Graham is definitely good enough. He should have been there. If you'd asked any batsman on the county circuit who the best bowler was, they would have said Graham."
For now Benkenstein is hopeful South African batsmen will be saying the same. Onions and Dolphins had a poor start to the first-class competition, when the team was bowled out for 88. Onions had little to defend and went wicketless. Benkenstein thinks that will change soon as pressure mounts on Dolphins to end a seven-season title drought.
"Graham's job is to win matches for the Dolphins and he knows that. There's no doubt that he is trying," Benkenstein said. "He'll be the first to say he hasn't bowled as well as he could have. And he will want to change that. He has done it for Durham and he will do it here."
Benkenstein believes the main hurdle to performing well in South Africa - adjusting to the level of competition - is one Onions has just about overcome. "It's tough here because there are only six franchises, whereas on the county circuit there are many more, so you might not always be playing against a tough side."
Onions admitted the franchise system - created as a distillation of the 11 provincial affiliates - has resulted in a "very good standard and depth" of players. He also said the structure of South Africa's competitions aids their cricketers' development because it allows them to focus on one format at a time rather than play a mish-mash of first-class and List A cricket at the frequency they do on the county circuit.
"It's good to concentrate on one competition at a time," he said. "It also gives you time to work on things. If you're having a bad game, you have days in between to work on it. Of course, if you're in good form you want to keep playing, which is what we have in England but with this system you have time for fitness work as well."
The breathing room has given Onions the opportunity to play a mentoring role to some of Dolphins' younger crop, like Kyle Abbott and Craig Alexander, and learn from people he respects. He has spent time chatting with Klusener and another Durban resident, Shaun Pollock.
He has also allowed himself to become absorbed in living in another part of the world, which he hasn't done before. "It's an experience for him and his family," Benkenstein said. "Sometimes when people are offered to come to South Africa, they worry about things like crime. There's a fear of the unknown. But the longer you spend in Durban, the more you'll see it's a great place."
Onions, with the help of a strip of beach called the Golden Mile, has already realised that. "People seem to go at their own pace here. I like that because where I come from in northern England, it's pretty quiet. I'm really enjoying it. When I go for morning runs along the beach, I realise how lucky I am."

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For some people tradition begins at home - a special dinner with loved ones, a precious gift by someone special, a fun gathering; for others, tradition manifests itself in different ways - like a trip to the nearest Movie Theater or a Mall...! Now, amidst all my friends, I am a little less adventurous of the lot and given a choice - prefer to stay back home, pick up some bestseller, grab a Coke, switch on some music and believe me weekend just passes by :) About 3 Weeks back, on one fine Saturday morning, when my friends made a plan to go Bowling @ Rip Van Winkle Lanes nearby, my first reaction was "Oh dear! What Kinda trouble..?" But then the idea somehow intrigued my consciousness since I had never been to a Bowling Alley before... and I thus decided to Go Bowling...!
I was pretty amazed upon enterring the bowling arena (it was huge...!) for it had all the trappings of an upscale entertainment-made-to-order cocktails(we had mock tails :)) , snack bar food to delier made-to-order casual dining choices & tempting appetizers, colossal Plasma Displays, a state-of-the-art sound system blasting latest music tracks and an array of lanes to keep everyone occupied. Observing the frenetic pace of everyone inside- their rhythmic walking & swinging of arms was remarkable indeed. Now, I couldn't help myself taking a note of few things in there:
- Appeal - The Bowling experience is designed to work for everyone - an office team building event, a special birthday party, a super special date, a family get together or just a hangout destination for friends.
- Patience - The excitement is always on as one waits for his/her next turn to bowl for everyone tries to do better than erstwhile attempt. The lead time is best for munching some snacks.
- Speed - The game goes way too faster than one anticipates and as a result everyone wishes to play games after games.
- Music - Pulsating Sound tracks coupled with intense desire to hit a strike adds special effect indeed.
- Etiquette - Bowlers next to you proceed with their next chance even though you are about to take your shot & at times they even pick your favorite bowling ball. But then the good part is egos are kept aside & it all somehow works fine.
- Shoes - I wonder whose idea was it to make it mandatory for everyone to wear bowling shoes provided by folks running the alley, but may be the concept appeals to some.
- Work-Out - Owing to balanced & co-ordinated body movements, bowling serves as a nice way to shed off those extra calories indeed.
- Customizations - Bowling Balls come in varying degrees of hardness, weight and colors - and one gets to cherry pick the ball from a stack of multitude of balls in alley thus giving an illusion of customization (Mac Experience).


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Retention of the death penalty, the Justice has discerned, is likely "the product of habit and inattention rather than an acceptable deliberative process that weighs the costs and risks of [that] penalty against its identifiable benefits."
The underlying theme of much of his concurrence is that the criminal justice landscape has changed and, therefore, our current policy should change with it. "The time for a dispassionate, impartial comparison of the enormous costs that death penalty litigation imposes on society with the benefits that it produces has surely arrived." Stevens takes to task each justification relied upon by the Court in Gregg. First, because the imposition of life without the possibility of parole is now available in almost all states, he asserts that the death penalty can no longer be justified as a means for incapacitating a dangerous killer. Second, he points to the consistent lack of reliable, hard data that the death penalty actually deters potential offenders. Left then with only retribution as the "primary rationale" for keeping the penalty.Stevens notes that the natural "thirst for vengeance" inspired by heinous crimes, can never be emotionally served by that which is constitutionally-required. Thus necessarily in-equivalent, the method of "simple killing" by lethal injection.
Stevens further questions whether the protections that the Gregg Court assumed would be put in place have been effective - safeguards intended to "avoid the danger of the discriminatory application" and to prevent arbitrary and excessive use of the punishment. He makes clear that the underpinnings of these protections have been eroded both by an undeniably defective criminal justice system and the Court itself. He points to the Court's own decisions finding it constitutional 1) for jurors to be excluded from capital trials because they oppose the death penalty, 2) for evidence to be introduced relating to personal character of the victim, and 3) for family members of the victim to give emotional testimony about their horrible loss. He admits the "strong probability that [sentencing juries] are improperly influenced by the race of the victim" and laments the Court's failure to address this despite having been presented with compelling data over the years. Yet of utmost importance to Justice Stevens is the "abundant evidence accumulated in recent years [which] has resulted in the exoneration of an unacceptable number of defendants found guilty of capital offenses." Simply put, eliminating the death penalty would eliminate the risk of executing the innocent entirely.
Perhaps the most compelling realization in Justice Stevens' opinion, and one shared by former Justice Byron White, is that "[t]here are occasions when a Member of this Court has a duty to make judgments on the basis of data that falls short of absolute proof." Both men arrive at the conclusion that the death penalty represents "the pointless and needless extinction of life" based in large part on their "extensive exposure to countless cases for which death is the authorized penalty." Like Justice Harry Blackmun before him, Justice Stevens seems weary from "tinkering with the machinery of death."
Sadly, only a handful of citizens will ever receive the exception education about the death penalty that comes with years of service on the United States Supreme Court. Yet, we ordinary citizens can and should heed their deliberations as important truths about capital punishment.


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This guest column is by Rishi Kapal, CEO of EduGild.
This is the story of a team coming together as a startup, setting up the right parameters and solving the world's biggest problem: struggle for existence. The lessons from the Avengers episode are compelling enough for startup founders to sit up and take notice.
S.H.I.E.L.D. – a spy agency – founded after World War II by Howard Stark, Peggy Carter and Colonel Chester Phillips for preventive protection from distasters. "Sometimes to protect one man against himself, other times to protect the planet against an alien invasion from another universe" says Nick Fury, Director at S.H.I.E.L.D. The acronym has changed throughout the years and these days, S.H.I.E.L.D. stands for "Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division," but it previously also stood for "Strategic Hazard Intervention Espionage Logistics Directorate" and, originally, "Supreme Headquarters, International Espionage, Law-Enforcement Division."
S.H.I.E.L.D. created a group of fighters with super natural powers and this group is called the Avengers. Whenever situations is beyond control of S.H.I.E.L.D. then Avengers help them out with their "beyond human" abilities.
Here is the Problem Statement, and a huge one too: The story starts with, the Asgardian Loki's encounter with the leader of an extraterrestrial race known as the Chitauri. In exchange for retrieving the Tesseract, a powerful energy source of unknown potential located on planet Earth, he promises Loki an army with which he can subjugate our beloved planet. Nick Fury, director of the espionage agency S.H.I.E.L.D., and his lieutenant Agent Maria Hill arrive at a remote research facility during an evacuation, where physicist Dr. Erik Selvig is leading a research team experimenting on the Tesseract. Agent Phil Coulson –Fury's leading team member – explains that the object has begun radiating an unusual form of energy. The Tesseract suddenly activates and opens a wormhole, allowing Loki to reach Earth. Loki takes the Tesseract and uses his scepter to enslave Selvig and a couple of agents, including Clint Barton – Hawkeye, to aid him in his getaway.
Further in the story Nick Fury along with the Avengers fight against Loki and overpower him and send him back to his world. Following is the extract and understanding of how Avengers came together on the lines of the Mullins' Seven Domains Framework.
Avengers and the Mullins' Seven Domains Framework
1. Market Domain/Macro Level: Market Attractiveness
In response to the attack, Fury reactivates the "Avengers Initiative". Agent Natasha Romanoff, also known as Black Widow, is sent to Kolkata to recruit Dr. Bruce Banner – the Hulk – to trace the Tesseract through its gamma radiation emissions. Coulson visits Tony Stark to have him review Selvig's research, and Fury approaches Steve Rogers – Captain America – with an assignment to retrieve the Tesseract. Initially no one was ready to work for this mission. But Fury and his team were successful in convincing them by recollecting their past results. Fury and his team were very clear about the need and the target hence they could get the buy in from all for the mission to save world from alien attack.
As a startup before you start working on your idea make sure that you understand the problem, the need of the market and also understand if you can meet that need. Do your homework to understand the customers, efforts and resources needed by doing analysis of historic data and analyzing the external situation.
2. Market Domain/Micro Level: Sector Market Benefits and Attractiveness
Avengers did research about Loki and Tesseract before attacking him. They kept track of the activities and nabbed him while he attacked common people, and was vulnerable. On one side Loki was using his power to subjugate people on Earth whereas the Avengers were using their power to save people and bring peace on Earth.
Before you start make sure that you understand the specific target market, analyze what competitors are doing and then provide a better solution to the customers through your product or service. Know your customer so well that it takes less time for them to adopt to your product or service.
3. Industry Domain/Macro Level: Industry Attractiveness
Loki attacks people and asks them to kneel down in front of him. He says "You are made to be ruled". Suddenly an old man gets up and replies "Not to the men like you". As Loki was about to hit the old man, Captain America jumps in front of him and overpowers him. Loki did not understand that to use super natural powers he needed to follow some rules and to become popular needed to win the hearts of people by good deeds and not by force. Becoming popular was quite attractive for Loki but the means used were destructive and without awareness. He completely ignored his competitors' strengths.
Know everything about the industry you want to be in. Know the trends in the industry. Understand the strengths and weaknesses of competitors. Understand the negotiation power of buyers and sellers well. Choose your means and ways wisely. Study your potential competitors too for long-term strategy.
4. Industry Domain/Micro Level: Sustainable Advantage
When Loki was arrested and kept in cage then he was rescued by his team. While escaping Loki kills Coulson. During their fight Coulson tells him "You are goanna loose. It's in your nature. You lack conviction"
As a startup knows what resources do you possess which your competitor doesn't. And keep anticipating potential competitive strengths rather than creating the competitive strategies on the existing strengths of the enemy. As you evolve as a startup, the competition is also doing the same – its important that your speed is more than competitors''
Fury maintains the right combination of the Avengers team where each team members has unique skills – Iron Man with an electro-mechanical suit of armor of his own invention, Captain America with his enhanced peak of human physicality, Hulk – A genius scientist who transforms into a monster when enraged, Thor with his hammer and power of lightning, Hawkeye with his unique archery skills and last but not the least Black Widow with her Spy skills. This makes it a different and unique team which can't be defeated easily.
Define your Unique Selling Proposition. Know yourself well – strengths and weaknesses. Build upon strengths. A balanced team is one which understands your product life cycle, organization development cohesiveness, approaching the right investments resources, forward research, positive image building and creating a strong man-machine user interface.
During one scene where Thor was trying to stop Hulk from doing destruction, Hulk tries to pick up hammer of Thor but he fails to do so. It's Thor's property and cannot be used by anyone else.
As a startup do you have Intellectual Property Rights – Patents, Copy Rights, and Trademarks – which no one else can use? Keep it in your strategy, protect them well and draw upon them for constructive impact and influence.
5. Team Domain: Connectedness Up, Down and across the Value Chain
Loki attacked and ran away with Tesseract. Fury knew who can turn around this situation and it was the Avengers team. Fury was so well connected with each Avenger team member that he knew how to convince them to work on this mission. The Avengers team was well connected with Fury's team of scientists, soldiers and the public that all of them follow the orders and directions given by the Avengers. They were also well connected to Loki's maneuvers and ways of operations, and knew his strengths and weaknesses which can be observed in a scene where Black Widow takes out necessary information from Loki, making him weak through her communication.
Hunt for the suppliers and investors who know you well, and are already potentially networked with you– who can supply you with the resources needed to run your venture. Identify the people early on, who in your social personal network can be your potential customers? Do you know any of your competitors personally? If so, how could this relationship help or hinder your venture? And could these people be partners if you thought about them differently? Be well connected with your team, customers, suppliers and competitors so that you can make the optimum utilization their skills and expertise by guiding them at the right time. Be an action leader where everybody feels like following your orders and instructions.
6. Team Domain: Mission, Aspirations, Propensity for Risk
When Avengers team comes together they discuss about the mission of S.H.I.E.L.D. – to harness the Tesseract to develop weapons as a deterrent against hostile extraterrestrials. But the team members start arguing about the action plan and their personal intentions of working on the mission while they are in arguments suddenly Barton and Loki's other possessed agents attack the Helicarrier, disabling its engines in flight. This makes Avengers team members immediately align to the mission and fight against the enemy.
Your team may also go through such argumentative mode about mission but once each one of you align to the organization's mission nothing can stop you from making the mission successful. Your personal and professional aspirations need be aligned and explicitly communicated time to time.
During last scene when Avengers team was overwhelmed as wave after wave of Chitauri descend upon Earth, they anticipated the risk and immediately prepared the strategy to fight against them. Moreover when Black Widow needed to reach the wormhole center she asks Captain America to help him jump over the spaceship. Captain America says "Are you sure about this?" Black Widow replies "Yeah, This is gonna be fun".
The risk taking propensities of startups need to be objectively obtained, analyzed and assumed to be a part of the game. Defining the symptomatic behaviors during the risk makes it more calculated than abstract. Avengers journey suggests that that risk-taking propensity may not be a distinguishing characteristic of entrepreneurs however the collective impact of their behaviors during risky situations defines the startup to stand out and progress.
7. Team Domain: Ability to Execute on Critical Success Factors
In any difficult situation where saving people becomes important, Avengers always make sure that they unite and strategize to win over. That's the ability they have to execute as a team under any critical situation. They knew that their teamwork and ability to strategize is their critical success factor to win the battles. In this situation when Banner needed to get into Hulk mode Captain America says "You need to get angry" and Banner replies "I am always angry". Banner knows how to execute on Anger!
Have you identified your organization's Critical Success Factors (CSF)? Keep your strategy ready to execute on your CSFs. Keep your decision making model ready where you will know which decisions will produce favorable results and which will make the situation worse. This needs a strong team with end to end trust in one another.
S.H.I.E.L.D. has always been a great support for providing necessary resources to the Avengers. The coordination between the two entities has always been an advantage to the Avengers and vice a versa.
As a startup, the founders must ensure they have full visibility of which decisions or activities can harm the business significantly(Iron Man is rash and brash at times), even when everything else is potentially going in the right direction?
The second critical success factor is to decide on which decisions or activities can deliver disproportionately high benefits, even if other things are going poorly? These are strokes of geniuses, which take competitors by surprise.
Then look at the knowledge and skills of the team that you've put together. How certain are you that you and your team can deliver successfully on these CSFs? If you see a gap in skills or abilities, whom can you bring on board to fill this gap?
BE THE AVENGERS – Because life's complicated enough
- Having clarity about the need of the market and market trends is an important aspect before starting your business. Do your homework seriously!
- Decide the segment of customer you want to cater to. Know them well so that you can sell!
- Industry awareness is the key for defining your long term business goals. Study your competitors and potential competitors well!
- Build upon your strengths and get your Intellectual Property Rights in place to have competitive advantage and building barrier to new entrants.
- Build your network strong across the value chain. Build a team with team members having unique and different skills.
- Define your mission and make sure that every member of the team is aligned to the mission. Make sure that Personal and Professional goals of the team members are well aligned. Be prepared to take risks!
- Find out your Critical Success Factors (CSFs) and execute well on these CSFs.
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Basel Ups the Ante on its Art Offering
The Kunstmuseum Basel, one of Europe's most important museums, has upped the ante on its contribution to the world of art. Recently reopened in mid April, the museum introduced its newest building designed by Christ and Gantenbein, while unveiling the refurbished main building. Welcoming close to 20,000 visitors on the first weekend itself, the Kunstmuseum proudly features 10,000 square metres of exhibition space and expects about 300,000 visitors this year.
With three special exhibitions on show now instead of two, visitors will go from the main building to the latest extension via an underground passageway. This new building, an architectural highlight to the cityscape accommodates special exhibitions and presentations from various art collections. Currently, Sculpture on the Move 1946-2016, an exhibit of sculptural art between the end of World War II and the present, is on display until mid September.
Director of Switzerland Tourism Australian and New Zealand, Mark Wettstein, says while Basel is an important cruise hub in Europe thanks to its location on the River Rhine, equally important, it is the art capital of Switzerland and a major art hub in Europe, playing a major role in the ongoing preservation and promotion of art.
"Art lovers, collectors and enthusiasts from around the world visit Basel to learn, appreciate and marvel at new and old collections that we have on display here," says Mark. "The presentations in Switzerland's art galleries and museums are all meticulously curated by the best in the art space and Basel really prides itself on this."
The Kunstmuseum is home to the world's oldest municipal art collection, with around 4.000 paintings, sculptures, installations and videos as well as 300,000 drawings and prints from seven centuries.
For ticket bookings and more information on Kunstmuseum Basel, visit www.kunstmuseumbasel.ch/en. For more information on Swiss museums, visit www.myswitzerland.com/museum.


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This major new book offers a much-needed introduction to the work of Siegfried Kracauer, one of the main intellectual figures in the orbit of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory. It is part of a timely revival and reappraisal of his unique contribution to our critical understanding of modernity, the interrogation of mass culture, and the recognition of both the dynamism and diminution of human experience in the hustle and bustle of the contemporary metropolis. In stressing the extraordinary variety of Kracauer's writings (from scholarly philosophical treatises to journalistic fragments, from comic novels to classified reports) and the dazzling diversity of his themes (from science and urban architectural visions to slapstick and dancing girls), this insightful book reveals his fundamental and formative influence upon Critical Theory and argues for his vital relevance for cultural analysis today.Kracauer's work is distinguished by an acute sensitivity to the 'surface manifestations' of popular culture and a witty, eminently readable literary style. In exploring and making accessible the work of this remarkable thinker, this book will be indispensable for scholars and students working in many disciplines and interdisciplinary fields: sociology and social theory; film, media and cultural studies; urban studies, cultural geography and architectural theory; philosophy and Critical Theory.
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Since Brighton & Hove Albion moved to the Amex in 2011, the club has seen many forwards come and go.
Some have gone on to achieve great things, while others sought regular game time in the lower tiers of the English football pyramid.
From Ashley Barnes to Roland Bergkamp, Leonardo Ulloa to Jonathan Obika and Adrian Colunga to Elvis Manu, we've compiled a list here of how former Brighton strikers have got on once they left the club.
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We add an additional challenge for the month of August. Use something that you have had for over a year.
Kimberly has this wonderful shine and sparkle card.
I created this card by adhering a paper napkin to white c/s. Next, I applied clear versamark ink to the entire panel. Finally, I sprinkled a good amount of Ranger Holographic Embossing Powder (old item) and melted with a heat tool. This is a quick and way to create a card with stunning results. - Kimberly


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WDA's legislative advocacy program is coordinated with the Washington Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (WACDL). We share a lobbyist, Bob Cooper, and staff oversee various issues and advocacy efforts under the guidance of our joint Legislative Committee.
Legislative Session 2018
2018 was an extremely active legislative session with a number of victories and positive movement forward on a variety of public defense related issues. In addition to the increase of funding for State Office of Public Defense appellate and parents representation contract attorneys, another of our proactive priorities, the Washington Fair Chance Act" passed after several years of advocacy. Other significant legislation that will positively affect our clients include juvenile auto-decline reform, LFO reform, the creation of a DOC Ombudsman Office, the compromise on the deadly force initiative as well as increased funding to meet the needs of the Trueblood settlement. Funding also was included in the budget for the Sentencing Guidelines Commission to conduct a comprehensive review of the SRA. Click here for a list of bills that passed this session.
Unfortunately, time ran out or there was a lack of political will in passing the repeal of the death penalty, DWLS 3 reform, juvenile sexting, and expansion of the Parent Sentencing Alternative. We'll be continuing our work on those issues during the interim. Please contact Christie Hedman if you have any questions or are interested in our legislative work.
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If summer means fresh garden salads – lettuce, cucumbers, tomatoes, peppers – fall and winter means citrus salads for me. Thanks to the beautiful oranges making their way to Michigan from the Sunshine State, Florida, this simple salad makes it's way to our table during the colder months.
This was inspired by a salad we enjoyed at a local restaurant, Pizzeria Biga. Their version is served without lettuce or greens of any kind, aside from a dusting of chopped, fresh basil. We serve it that way at times too. However, the frost destroyed the last of my fresh basil remaining in the garden, so it was omitted here. However, I really wanted to include some healthy greens with this batch [my diet needed some help!] so I used mixed baby romaine.
My favorite thing about this plate of sunshine, is no matter if made with or without greens, is it only requires a drizzle of olive oil to complete it to a palate pleasing level. The oranges provide the acid to balance the oil. No heavy dressing needed! So not only simple, but healthy too.
Ingredients: 6 servings
3 oranges, sliced in rounds, peel and pith removed
9+ cups salad greens, loose packed
1/4 cup kalamata olives, pitted and sliced in half
red onion, thinly sliced to taste
extra virgin olive oil, drizzled to taste
Garnish suggestions: chopped basil, pine nuts, grated Parmesan
•Carefully cut peel [including white pith] from the oranges. I find a good serrated knife works best. Slice the oranges in approximately 1/4″ rounds. Layer on platter or plate.
•Top with scattered pieces of the thinly sliced red onions and halved kalamata olives.
•Drizzle olive oil over the oranges [onion and olives], cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate minimum 1 hour or up to 8 hours so the flavors can blend a bit.
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By archmiles, Feb 5 2018 9:40PM
Out yesterday when I came upon a collapsed ash pollard next to a hedgerow. Been down a couple of years I'd say & much of the bark was peeling away. Suddenly became quite fascinated by the indentations left in the sapwood, beneath the bark, by burrowing ash bark beetles. The patterns are reminiscent of the same ones left by that introducer of deadly Dutch elm disease, the elm bark beetle, but in this case, thankfully the ash bb does not introduce a harmful fungus to the tree. In fact, in most cases, the ash bb only burrows into the bark of dead or dying ash trees. The central channel is bored out by the female, where she then lays her eggs & as the larvae hatch out they then chew their way sideways, making the lateral channels. How strange that they so seldom cross over, thus interfering with their brood mates and their progressive munching, prior to hatching out, boring out through the bark and the whole process beginning all over again.
Although this invasion of 'fly', as the old craftsmen called it, was a nuisance to them as it spoiled the wood, there is a certain beauty to this methodically hewn heiroglyph.
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Read the press statement by the Nigeria Police Force Bauchi State Command;
In an ongoing effort to stop the extra-judicial killing by some notorious group popularly known as Babeli within Bauchi/Ganjuwa/Darazo LGAs...
On 26/08/2017 Anti-Kidnapping Unit traced and arrested one Bello Abdullahi 'm' of Basirka Village, Jigawa State at Dajin Mountain, Bauchi LGA.
The suspect was wanted in connection of extra judicial killing, torture and extortion of Fulani nomads on fabricated allegations of being in connection with a criminal offence.
The suspect voluntarily confessed that he was involved in the extra judicial killing of the following: Ahmadu Musa Ardo 'm' 20yrs of Buzun Village, Ganjuwa LGA "Deceased". Musa Saleh 'm' 19yrs of Balmo Village, Darazo LGA "Deceased".
Meanwhile, on 19/08/2017 at about 0800hrs a case was reported at Maina Maji Division that, in the house of one Abdullahi Ori 'male' of Wuro Bogga Village, Duguri District, Alkaleri LGA, whom went for this year's Hajj Pilgrimage at Saudi Arabia leaving his two wives at home, Fatima Abdullahi and Hindatu Abdullahi the younger wife.
When Fatima Abdullahi went out, her co-wife Hindatu Abdullahi went her room and took her child, a two weeks old baby named Mohammed Abdullahi to her own room and administered a suspected insecticide popularly known as Pia-Pia in to his mouth as a result the baby became unconscious and was rushed to a nearby dispensary at Gigyari Village, later the baby died on the process of referring to General Hospital same day.
The suspect was arrested and also the remaining quantity of suspected toxic insecticide was recovered, now on the process of scientific examination. Meanwhile the suspect confessed voluntarily to the offence and will soon be charge to court after investigation.
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From Jeremy Schaefer in response to all the thank you comments from my Facebook friends for finding the wonderful couple who are opening their home to me during the coming snow storm: Thank you Jeremy for your coast to coast run and your caring for others. We all are delighted you are still with us!
"Thank you all, and thank you Steve Fugate!! I did run across the country, but I also did it to represent others suffering with mental health. I myself have suffered with severe depression most my life, and at one point tried taking my own life. In time many things have changed. Honestly I'm lucky to be alive. I'm also lucky to have a beautiful boy of my own. I'm lucky to have had the chance to experience even running across the country. Without the love of others I wouldn't be where I am today. Thanks Steve for shinning a light on love, I'm just another product of it, and I'm happy as hell to have helped in passing it on to another. Take care friend!! I hope to actually meet you some day."


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Batista: Well Big Show has been a thorn on me for a long time and I'm looking forward to beating him since he did beat me in a match for the US Title. Big Show has turned face somewhat so now it isn't so much personal. Yet the animal has a score to settle.
Ant: So does that mean your still mad at me for the corp days?
Batista: Well You managed to get yourself back in order. You payed back the corp. My old friends HHH & HBK has the Unified Tag Titles. You did what was right so I forgive you.
Ant: Okay MVP Your thoughts....?
Batista: Its odd but I respect Cena. The man has been a 2x US Champion, one of the Best Hardcore Champions in History, & now he's on his way to the Big Time. Cena won a match like this vs me before we went on vacation. This Sunday its Big. This Sunday Its SUMMERSLAM! I'm looking to stop Cena. Cena is one of the best. You know what now that I look at this matchup. I can see why the Corp was on top for so long. All these guys was in the Corporation at one time or another. This Sunday Though its not alliances its about the World Heavyweight Championship and I'll be Damned it there is another name on this belt besides, The Animal, BATISTA!


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My blog friend Diane posted a sweet Puppy card for the current challenge at Cardz 4 Guyz. I love a great pet card so I decided to play along. Image is by Heidi at 2 Cute Ink. I had purchased this sweet Pug for a birthday card for a nephew who loves this breed. Sentiment is by Stampin' Up along with a Whimsy Stamps birthday die. Papers are Studio Calico and scraps.
Sunday, February 15, 2015
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I've never had a birthday cake that came with it's own puppy. This image is precious and I love that you've included all those festive banners and the big bold sentiment. Have a good week.ReplyDelete
What a sweet image, overall a great masculine card.ReplyDelete
Thanks for sharing with us at Cardz4Guyz this week. :)
This is such a sweet card, a super image, with great additions. Thanks for joining us at Cardz 4 Guyz. CazReplyDelete
Love the image and a great cardReplyDelete
Thanks for playing along at Cardz 4 Guyz this week and hope to see you again soon x
A great card - really cute.ReplyDelete
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I have been in the jewelry business for more than 20 years. In addition to holding a Graduate Gemology Degree from the G.I.A. Institute in Carlsbad, California, I have spent a good part of my life working in my family's jewelry business, first managing my stepfather's jewelry store in San Antonio, then a retail store in Birmingham, Alabama. Even in the retail environment, I always believed that selling jewelry was a very personal experience. That's why I decided to transition my business into an exclusively one-on-one experience. Thanks to my exposure to jewelry manufacturers from around the world I have developed an eye for finding unique designs that go well with traditional and timeless jewelry styles. Matching honesty and transparency with unbeatable customer service and fair pricing has always been the backbone of my success. My mission is to not only educate you about what you are buying, but to also develop a relationship that will last generations. Thanks to a comfortable buying process, my community involvement and word of mouth I have built a business known for quality and kindness. That tradition continues. Set an appointment today and enjoy the Coman Baum experience. Services: Appraisal | Buy and Sell Pre-Owned Rolex's | Buy Scrap Gold and Vintage Jewelry | Repairs | Custom Design | Watch Batteries | Pearl and Bead | Restringing | Estate Evaluation and Liquidation | Cleaning | Insurance Updates
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There's no pressure. We're in this together. My goal is to make this experience as enjoyable as it is educational. After nearly 20 years in the business, I know that buying an engagement ring can be an overwhelming experience. That's why I have developed a process that help you understand what you're buying and works to make you feel comfortable with your purchase.
It Starts with the Stone.
The first step in the process is making you familiar with the style, cut and weight of the stone you'd like to have on your engagement ring. I'll teach you the basics of the 4 C's: Carat, Clarity, Color and Cut. Learn more
Shape. Style and Setting.
Next, we will discuss the style of the ring, your preference in settings, as well as the shape and size of the stone you desire. I have the capabilities of showing you different styles of mountings as well as custom wedding sets. Of course, there is always the option of creating a custom ring. Should you decide on a custom design, we'll discuss a style and direction that suits your taste. From there we'll sketch up some ideas. Once you settle on a design, we'll create a 3D wax model, make adjustments and then create the actual ring.
Your Jewelry Wardrobe.
No two customers are the same. As we go through this process, I will create a portfolio of pieces that fit you and your fiance's preferred tastes and design tendencies so that in the future, we'll have a good idea of what you like, what looks good with your wardrobe, and which styles you feel comfortable wearing. Over time, you will create an ensemble that resembles your taste and grows in value.


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Secrets and Mysteries
What is the Big Lie?
I am an important, unique and ultimately special person. I have inalienable rights and privileges that are due to all living intelligent beings. I am a precious snowflake!
What is the Secret?
The Petroleum Era was also known as the Post-Scarcity Era, as everything became so bountiful that things like disposable everything, and planned obsolescence were planned to ensure the continued drive of the global economic engine. This is one of the tenets of the Petroleum Era that lead to the Resource Wars, and ultimately the Population Contraction of the Second Dark Age.
The new tenet of the Cosmic Ere is that the most disposable, easily replaced commodity is Humanity.
Who knows the truth?
Disposable Humanity is an operating tenet of the Human Cloning corporations, the Android, Gynoid and Mechanoid Manufacturing corporations, and most of the ruling Elite. The common populace, sedated by the onslaught of CogNet media, S3 immersion and electronic vice gratification, and Social Media Cultdoms are no more willing to accept the notion that they are ultimately disposable commodities any more than a citizen of the Petroleum Era was willing to accept high cost and long term durable goods.
Why does the secret remain thus?
Human denial is a powerful force, and this combined with the flash culture zeitgeist of the Cosmic Era relegates disposable humanity to the realms of paranoid science fiction and political fiction. Human outrage is equally a powerful force and the players behind the scenes work to ensure that their products, IE replacement humanity, is seen as inferior, complimentary, or dependent on normal humanity for it's own survival.
Androids and Gynoids are generally physically and mentally at best equal to human abilities, and many are less so. Who is afraid of a robot uprising when the average android is as threatening as C3PO? Mechanoids, generally made to be large, strong, and exceptionally tough are generally functioning with the smallest neo-cortices possible, giving many of them the minimal ability to speak and follow instructions. There are certain functions that machine beings are not able to do, such as phyiscally assault a person, or bear a physical weapon, maintain a wage earning job, or contribute to or experience the CogNet.
Clones are physically marked to demonstrate that they are artificial humans, and the Codex series clones are generally programmed/conditioned to either aspire to human ideals (Pinocchio Syndrome) or are phenotypically designed to be inoffensive to normal humans, such as being small in stature, and of limited to average intelligence. Many codex clones also have either reduced sexual characteristics or are Freemartin, completely sterile and frequently impotent. Male codex clones are marked for androgynous features, low testosterone, and below average size genitalia. Female clones are likewise noted for their androgynous features and reduced estrogen. Clone females are likewise limited in their breast size, with most being sub A-cup size.
The Tycho Conventions have provisions against creating free willed combat robots, creating Homo Superior humans, and sub-human Humans. These are shiny ideals that most common folk know in the same fashion as the Geneva Conventions of the Petroleum Era. Sub-Humans are generally overlooked because there isn't a cloning corporation that is going to sully its name by creating Human- clones. In corporate lingo, these are Epsilon Clones and typically exhibit Downs Syndrome, Autism, and other genetic defects. The cloning corps creating 'worker' or 'soldier' class clones will work with Delta Clones who are less intelligent than the average Homo Sapiens, but are not mentally challenged or genetically compromised.
The Layers
Some people are simply more disposable than others.
Soldiers, menial and manual laborers, and the poor are considered very disposable. In the field of warfare, compared to the hardware in the field, the soldier is often the cheapest and sometimes easiest to replace component. Menial and manual laborers can easily be replaced by droid laborers or robots, often more effectively and efficiently. The Poor exist in the Cosmic Era have they always have, overlooked and frequently exploited by criminal elements, unethical business practices, and government welfare.
Immortality for the Wealthy.
Some people, through personal wealth, importance, or special ability are able to effectively live as long as they want. Through cloning technology, brain transplants, artificial brains, Engram patterning, and other arcanotechnological advances, a single human entity could survive beyond the limitations of the human animal body. Many of the MegaCorps have Boards of Directors, but these are often answerable to a few shadowy immortals, often a Mr or Mrs with their name on the building.


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Is Pride still relevant? I think it is. Look at the news over the last couple of months – hate-filled discriminatory bathroom bills and rhetoric against transgender individuals; tennis legend Margaret Court comparing them to Nazis. NBA star LeBron James has had his California home covered in racial graffiti. And outrageous public behavior by tennis great Ilie Nastase got him suspended from the French Open for racist remarks about Serena Williams' baby, public sexual advances to a female tennis coach, verbally assaulting Great Britain's players followed by two angry run-ins with a reporter who wrote about all of it.
This can't be written off as an older generation behaving badly. Two Division I schools, Notre Dame and Boston College have refused to sign an NCAA diversity pledge that says a school will commit to focus on "ethnic and racial diversity" in the hiring process. Notre Dame wants to retain control over such important decisions while Boston College contends the pledge doesn't go far enough. For either objection, the solution is to work within part of a larger group, not to go it alone.
Meaningful progress can't be made without consistent visibility that carries a positive message speaking to our universal inalienable right as human beings to be treated with equality, dignity and respect. And that is Compete's mission – "to unite the world through sports." In this issue you'll see stories of gay and straight athletes having a great time playing a variety of sports together, you'll read about WNBA star Layshia Clarendon, a devout Christian who is an outspoken advocate on LGBTQ and racial issues as well as several people who are participating in the seven-day AIDS/LifeCycle's "Ride to end AIDS."
People need to see that yes, there are problems with homophobia, biphobia, transphobia, racism and sexism in sports. But they also need to see that positive changes are happening. So whether you're playing sports, going to a concert, marching in a parade or just hanging out with friends over Pride, honor and celebrate the past, present and future individuals involved in this crucial movement to gain equality, diversity and inclusion in sports. Pride really is relevant!
Keep Smiling,
Connie Wardman, M.A., SDL
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Krister Stendahl, a long-time summer resident and former Bishop of Stockholm who played a crucial role in shaping the life and work of Harvard Divinity School, died in Boston Tuesday, April 15, 2008. Stendahl, who had been in failing health for several years, was 86.
At the time of his death, Stendahl was the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Divinity Emeritus and former Dean of the Faculty of Divinity at Harvard. But while he had been affiliated with the university since 1954, Stendahl, through his biblical scholarship, teaching, interfaith work, and church and academic leadership, exerted the kind of profound influence on other people�s lives that transcends a single institution or country.
Stendahl had been coming to Nantucket to summer for over 40 years and relished his time with his family and Nantucket friends at his Derrymore Road home, said good friend and island photographer Beverly Hall, who had just sent a prayer shawl to him on Monday.
�I�ve taken so many photos of him over the years.,� said Hall. �Tonight whenI heard the news, I set out his photo and lit a candle.�
�He loved Nantucket so much and was beloved by his friends here. He and Brita (his wife) were great swimmers and loved going to Steps Beach. In his later years he began swimming at that little strip of beach near Cliffside,� she added.
A man of great faith, he was very involved with St. Paul�s when he was here, and preached several times throughout the summer.
�He had his Ten Commandments of preaching,� said Hall. �One of them was �Don�t read the recipe, serve the food."
In his native Sweden, he was Bishop of Stockholm from 1984 to 1988, leading a reform effort on issues such as women�s ordination, gay and lesbian rights, and the relationship of church and state. In the early 1990s, he was the first Myra and Robert Kraft and Jacob Hiatt Distinguished Professor of Christian Studies at Brandeis University, where he helped inaugurate a program designed to enhance shared values among students of many religious backgrounds.
After his retirement from the Brandeis position in 1993, he and his wife Brita, a writer and scholar in Scandinavian and comparative literature and culture, spent much time traveling from their Cambridge and Nantucket homes as unofficial diplomats in the interests of Christian-Jewish relations. Perhaps most notably in this regard, Krister became co-director of the Osher Center for Tolerance and Pluralism at the Shalom-Hartman Institute in Jerusalem in 1994, and did much to facilitate American scholars� working visits to the Holy Land.
Born in Stockholm and educated at Uppsala University, Krister Stendahl was ordained in the Church of Sweden (Lutheran) in 1944. He served as a parish priest and as chaplain at Uppsala before receiving a doctorate there in 1954, with a dissertation on the Gospel of Matthew and the Dead Sea Scrolls. That same year, he came to Harvard as a professor of New Testament studies, recruited as part of Harvard President Nathan Pusey�s initiative to rebuild a Divinity School that had virtually faded from view before Pusey arrived.
Fourteen years later, Stendahl became dean of a Harvard Divinity School that could claim a world-class faculty and that was adding a new degree, the master of theological studies, which would significantly adjust its identity by attracting religion students who were not planning on church ordination, to study with those who were.
During his tenure as dean, from 1968 to 1979, Stendahl presided over the continuing transformation of the school, whose student body, faculty and curriculum grew and became much more diverse, especially in regard to women and African Americans and to studies in religion specifically linked to those groups. Throughout this time � one of the most tumultuous political eras of American history, on college campuses and elsewhere � Stendahl successfully guided the school with an astute, sometimes blunt decisiveness that was tempered by his wry humor and his enormous gift for listening, which were part of a complete, and consistent, pastorly presence.
In an interview published in the Spring 2007 issue of Harvard Divinity Bulletin, Stendahl reflected on what qualities had served him well over the course of such a variegated career.
�I would,� he said, �apply the same rules for good leadership that I often do for effective interfaith dialogue: let the other define herself (�Don�t think you know the other without listening�); compare equal to equal (not �my� positive qualities to the negative ones of the other); and find beauty in the other so as to develop �holy envy�.� Indeed, as he led the Harvard Divinity School in the 1970s, and later, Stendahl was chair of the World Council of Churches� Consultation on the Church and the Jewish People, a commission that prepared the way for much important interfaith work of the last 30 years.
Over the course of his long academic career, Stendahl�s scholarly work and his writing addressed many different topics in theology, history and the arts of ministry and many contemporary issues of church and society. There was, however, a constant thread of pondering, and trying to redefine, relations between Jew and Christian as well as the roles that women play in religious life. Asked once why Jews and women became such a focus for his scholarly work, especially in such books as �The School of St. Matthew� (1954), �The Bible and the Role of Women� (1966), �Paul Among the Jews and Gentiles� (1976), and �Meanings� (1984), he replied: �The Christian Bible includes sayings that have caused much pain, both to Jews and to women. Thus I have felt called to seek forms of interpretation which can counteract such undesirable side effects of the Holy Scriptures.�
After his term as Bishop of Stockholm, in the late 1980s, Stendahl returned to Harvard Divinity School to become its first chaplain, a much more important undertaking than the title at first suggested, given the ethos of religious pluralism, and related pedagogical approach, that had developed further at HDS in the 1980s. At the time, Stendahl explained his vision for his new assignment, which lasted until his Brandeis appointment in 1991, in this way: �In our community there is no one form, name or liturgy which can claim the allegiance of all. To be a chaplain in this place therefore must mean to help worship happen in many forms at many times and to guard fiercely the freedom of every person to pray and speak in ways important to him or her, lest the specter of �pluralism� mute authentic expression of devotion.�
Stendahl received many significant awards in his lifetime, including the first Distinguished Service Medal from the Association of Theological Schools, in 1988, and, with Gerhart Riegner, the Ladislaus Laszt International Ecumenical Award from Ben-Gurion University in Israel, also in 1988. In 1993, he and Brita Stendahl together received the first Myron B. Bloy Memorial Award from the Association for Religion and Intellectual Life.
In recent years, Stendahl was a regular presence at Harvard Divinity School events, sitting in the front row in the Sperry Room and often asking penetrating questions of a speaker or a panel. He was also a regular visitor to the offices of Harvard Divinity School faculty and staff alike, sitting for a few minutes of chat that inevitably turned into the blessing of sage advice for those visited.
In �Why I Love the Bible,� an essay printed in the Spring 2007 issue of Harvard Divinity Bulletin, Stendahl concluded with this paragraph: �Finally, let me leave you with a word which is the one that, in my own long love relationship to this book, I want to have in my mind when my end comes. It reads, in 2 Corinthians 3:18, like this � �And we all, with unveiled faces, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being changed into his likeness from one degree of glory to another; for this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.�
Krister Stendahl is survived by his wife, Brita; his sons, John and Daniel; his daughter, Anna Langenfeld; eight grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.
A memorial service is planned for Friday, May 16, at 3 p.m., in Harvard�s Memorial Church.


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New Product Research – InVitro Express
J.W. Adelberg, Ph.D. J.A. Naylor Adelberg, School of Agriculture Forestry and Life Science, Clemson University, Clemson, SC
Vijay Rapaka, Ph.D. Manager, Research and Technical Support, Smithers-Oasis Company, Kent, OH
InVitro Express Simplifies Transplanting Process and Yields Faster Growing Plants – A Case Study with Hydrangea quercifolia 'Sikes Dwarf'
Plant tissue culture is most often practiced using semi-solid medium using "gelling agents" like agar. The gelled medium restricts water and nutrient availability and can limit plant growth. Furthermore, the gelled medium can also limit oxygen availability and promote development of a rudimentary root system. Those roots are often considered non-functional and difficult to move to soil for acclimatization. At transplant, the gelled medium containing sugar needs to be washed off, which is a very laborious process. During washing and transplant, the roots get damaged and can result in slowing down the greenhouse growth or even jeopardize their survival.
Alternatively, plant tissue culture in liquid medium often has better growth than in gelled semi-solid medium due to the increased availability of water and solutes. However, aerating shoots is necessary to prevent hyperhydricity and anoxia. Choosing a mechanical system for aeration involves increased cost, mechanical complexity and ergonomic problems, balanced against the anticipated improvements in growth responses.
For these reasons Smithers-Oasis Company partnered with Clemson University to develop a much simpler partial immersion system, which combines the simplicity of a culture vessel and the many advantages of liquid culture system. The breakthrough technology from OASIS® Grower Solutions replaces the gelling agent with an engineered cellular foam that allows the plants to root in a liquid medium while maintaining optimal aeration. The OASIS® InVitro Express was developed to improve water, oxygen and nutrient availability to the plants, and also to promote a rapid greenhouse transplant with minimal damage or disturbance to the root system.
To investigate the transplant ease and greenhouse growth of plants rooted in conventional agar culture and in OASIS® InVitro Express (IVE) where shoots were rooted in cellular foam.
We also investigated the greenhouse growth response as affected by pre-transplant bright-light acclimatization of plantlets while remaining in sterile vented flexible film tissue culture vessels with sugar containing medium.
Materials and Methods
The plant material used in this experiment was Hydrangea quercifolia 'Sikes Dwarf' and the experiment was conducted at Clemson University, Clemson, SC. Prior to experimental treatments, the Hydrangea quercifolia "Sikes Dwarf" has been maintained by routine subculture on modified MS (1962) gelled with agar. The experimental treatments consisted of agar-medium or liquid-infused OASIS® IVE in square rigid polycarbonate boxes (MK-5, Caisson Laboratories, Logan UT, USA) and liquid-infused OASIS® IVE enclosed in vented flexible film vessels (2, 1-cm2 microporus membranes). The experiment was a completely randomized design. Following ANOVA, the results that were significantly different (P<0.05) were presented.
A. Agar in box
B. Oasis® InVitro Express in box
C. Oasis® InVitro Express in a flexible vessel w/2 vents
The agar in a box and the IVE in a box were grown for 6 weeks under fluorescent light. The IVE in flexible film vessels with 2 vents were grown for 5 weeks under fluorescent light (the first 4 weeks with vents covered with tape, then 1 week the vents were uncovered), then in mist under sunlight for 1 week in the vessel.
Transplant and greenhouse growth:
At time of planting, the agar medium was washed from the individual rooted plantlets, and the liquid medium was removed from IVE by overhead leaching using a greenhouse hose and a breaker with tap water. The plantlets rooted in the IVE were separated by breaking apart single foam cells, keeping the roots intact in the foam cells. All plants went to the mist bed for two weeks, then the plants were moved to a greenhouse nursery for four weeks and hand watered as necessary with 100 ppm N of Jack's professional LX (15-15-15 4Ca 2Mg, J.R Peters, Inc., Allentown, PA, USA).
Following six weeks in vessels, the plants were similar in size and appearance. With the IVE, the separation of the plantlets, washing off the media, and the transplanting was extremely fast compared to the agar. Also the roots remained intact in the IVE. Plants from all of the treatments survived well when transferred to a soilless mix (92% for all treatments). Summer in South Carolina is a hot period and a good test of quality for the survival of woody plants from tissue culture. After 6 weeks of greenhouse growth, the plants from the agar were smaller in both stem length and the size of the leaves. Although the agar grown plants had started out the same size, the IVE rooted plants had overtaken them by a considerable margin during the greenhouse growth.
The Hydrangea plants with the largest leaves and best appearance came from treatments that were brought through the natural light, acclimatization while in the vented vessels.
- Washing the sugar containing medium was extremely easy and rapid with the IVE compared to the agar.
- Separation of the rooted plantlets and transplanting into peat based media in the greenhouse was also very seamless and fast.
- When the IVE replaces agar, the rooting occurs in a well aerated cellular structure with ample oxygen. The cellular structure and foam geometry facilitate water availability and aeration during the rooting process. There is little mechanical disturbance to the root while transplanting and this is what is allowing for uniform and better growth in the greenhouse.
- When the IVE is used in a vented flexible vessel and the plants are bright light acclimatized while in the sterile bags, the greenhouse growth is much superior compared to the ones that are not acclimatized before transplant.


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It took us a lot of convincing before Risen agreed to leave the pail of water so we could drive to a swimming party. He was so happy in his floaters that he even told us he do not want to swim in the pool because he was already swimming in the pail! Crazy, right? If he only knew how big and deep a real pool is, I am sure, he would excitedly get out of our old, rusty pail.
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I don't know why, but this story of Risen got into me. In many occasions, I too have stayed in a pail of water rather than a 5 ft deep of water.
How about you? Are you also trying to float in a tiny tub? Thinking that the place you are in is already God's best for you?
When I became a mother, I have understood God more. That if I only obey and follow His rules, He will take me to places. Just like in Risen's case, we had to argue with him and explain hard that swimming in a pail is nothing compared to being inside a pool. If he only listened and obeyed, we could have left early, hence a longer time for him to enjoy.
It may be a wrong relationship, a job that takes away your "life", a debt that you have been carrying, a worry stuck in your head, a sin you are so afraid to let go. Let me tell you that if what you have now is against God's law, then that is not His best and will never be His best. Trust me, based on experience, the pool or even a beach is the right place to dive into.
Just let go of the pail. God is waiting for you so he can bring you to the sea.


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It's the summer of 1976, and the Babcock sisters are preparing to say goodbye to their terminally ill mother.
There's musically gifted 16-year-old Vanessa, narrator and middle sister; foulmouthed artist Adrienne; and 9-year-old, saint-obsessed Marie. The white girls spend most of their days at a Mexican clinic where their mother receives infusions of Laetrile—a cyanide-based cancer treatment banned in the States. Their father's domineering boss keeps him working long hours, leaving the girls to take care of their mother and one another. Caleb, a clinic patient and also white, brings some light into Vanessa's life when he and his mother, Barb, move into the Babcock's San Diego home while Caleb undergoes treatment. Then the metaphorical bomb drops: Mom's diagnosis is more complicated than the girls had thought. Vanessa's present-tense narration allows her sisters, their father (finally taking a leave of absence), and Caleb and Barb to communicate their feelings through both their conversations with Vanessa and her observations of their actions. It's rare to find such a large group of characters who are so well-developed as to be almost real, and the prose is eloquent and precise, every word chosen with care.
Not just another addition to the "sick-lit" genre, this debut is hands-down one of a kind. (Historical fiction. 13-18)


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By now most of us know that everything we do online – every blender we search for on Amazon, every article we read about Miley Cyrus -- leaves a trace. But two-thirds of Americans say they've searched for something online that they'd want to keep private, according to a new survey.
The most sensitive searched information was about medical conditions and new careers, according to the survey, done by Harris Interactive for Ask.com. About 38% of respondents said they had searched about medical conditions they wanted to keep private, while 30% did job searches and 25% looked for sexual content.
Another 16% wanted to keep private searches about weight loss and 14% had looked up the status of former girlfriends or boyfriends.
The survey didn't cover the techniques people actually used to hide their tracks, which could range from simply erasing a browser's history to using special software that hides nearly all digital traces. And people aren't just covering up their web searches. One of the most popular instant messaging programs, called SnapChat, erases text of conversations, too.
Younger people were more likely to search for topics they wanted to keep private. Of people aged 18 to 34, 78% said they had done such searches vs. 59% of people 35 and over, the survey found. And 67% of men were likely to have searched for something they wish to keep private, compared with 60% of women.
Respondents sought to hide their queries most frequently from adult members of their family, 42% of people polled said, or work colleagues, 41% said. Thirty-five percent of people wanted to hide material from their significant other, 35% from their friends and 33% from their children.
Just over half, or 53%, of searchers looked up non-work related information while they were at work. That included 36% who said they were online shopping, 28% exploring travel, 16% looking for new jobs and 14% checking celebrity news.
Harris polled 2,022 U.S. adults aged 18 and older between Sept. 4 and 6.