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As some of you know, the billiards world has an active community in the form of AZBilliards' online forums. I used to be more active on the forums, but my reading and participation these days is rare. There is just too much information to sift through and not all of it is relevant to my interests. I have friends who do visit the forums and they will let me know if there is something they think I should see.
My finish at the Tampa tournament had not gone unnoticed. Forum user gxman asked,
"Could rhea play melinda even?"
I did not know who rhea was.
"I don't know but I'm down to find out."
For my readers who do not play pool, that exchange above is very common. The question and answer are two dry sticks rubbed together. Other people add their opinions and comments as kindling and before you know it, you have a campfire around which everyone is gathered. For my readers who do play pool, my apologies for telling you what you already know. I have a tedious preference for thoroughness and sharing insights into How Pool Works On The Internet.
My most endearing failing in billiards aside from writing this blog is my willingness to play matches with people I do not know. After some reading on the forums, I learned a little more about her. She was an aspiring roadplayer/hustler/world champion who documented her daily adventures on the road as the protege of Gene Albrecht, a billiards instructor. Very neat.
She responded with:
"There is no way she would agree to the weight I would need in order for a fair match she is light years ahead of my speed I cant even beat the 4 ball ghost yet."
None of that gave me an idea of her speed so I asked (APA being the American Poolplayers Association, a league that rates the skill levels of its players and the host of the U.S. Amateur Championships in Tampa from which I had just returned):
what are you rated in the APA
Her response:
In VNEA I'm a 4, in BCA I'm a 4, in NAPA I'm a 5, in APA 8 ball I'm a 4, and in APA 9 Ball I'm a 5
But, don't let my skill level scare you, I bet real high.
The only letters and numbers applicable to my situation were "APA 8 ball" and "4". In APA 8-ball, I am a "7". These numbers gave me a ballpark estimation of skill as ratings differ across the country and can be affect by many factors. According to these numbers, rhea was the lesser-skilled player.
Her last sentence was interesting. I did not get it.
what would me being scared of you have to do with you betting real high wouldn't you bet real high whether I was scared or not
In hindsight, I think she was trying to provoke me but used the wrong choice of words and confused me instead.
I had done a little more reading on rhea and realized that she was being modest when she told me she was an APA 4. In another thread, she had posted the following (emphasis mine):
Eric, I can interpret what you are getting at, but your estimate of my speed is pretty far off. I am only considered a C player in Indianapolis, everywhere else I have been to I have been at least a B- speed.
When I left the APA back in 2009 I was a 6 at that time.
When I was in OHIO going off like a rocket right before Gene met me I was playing around APA 7 speed.
And my game has improved drastically since then. In fact I strongly feel that the few people in OHIO that spotted me 1 ball could now get 1 ball from me and I would like it.
By the time I got to NC they had me playing as a skill level 8 in their tournament. And by the time I got to VA they had me rated as a B+.
I know I am not a B+ yet but I am at least a B speed, I can put together a 2 or 3 pack in 9 ball on a tight 9 footer, and I couldn't do that a few months ago.
So there you have it that is where I stand now… which is why APA 4 or 5 is laughable and yes I would play an APA 5 for money and be the favorite in every city.
As Joan Didion would say about my ramblings, "Oh, wow."
For you non-billiards readers, let me give you the lowdown. Rhea initially said she was a 4, meaning she was a less-skilled player than I was, and that she needed a handicap before she would play me. In the post that I found, she says she left the APA as a 6, played like a 7 earlier this year, and now plays even better than a 7. That means she plays better than me. The 800-pound gorilla of a cherry on the sundae, though, is her statement that she can put together two or three racks in a row on a nine-foot table (most APA matches are played on seven-foot tables; smaller tables are easier to play nine-ball on) with tight pockets. The area where I live has many tight pocketed tables. The only players I have seen run two to three racks in a row on these tables on a regular basis have been world, or at least American, champions.
She told me she was below my skill level in an attempt to get me to give her an unwarranted advantage while telling everyone else she was a champion.
That is not how hustling works.
But, that is how the internet works.
I am not a great player. I occasionally make a great shot or play a nice game, but in the grand scheme of things, I am extremely average. Knowing exactly where I stand is important if I want to correctly assess my game as it progresses or regresses. Because of this approach, I am a reasonable human being with realistic expectations. I answer with the following:
You can put together a 2 or 3 pack? In my lifetime, I have run one 2-pack in 9 ball on a loose 9 footer. You must be a very, very strong player. I do not understand why you would need weight from me if you play at that level. If anything, I would need weight.
She did not respond to this post.
The party did not end.
It moved somewhere else.
I should warn you now that, like many of my other multi-part series, this series is about events that led me to a better understanding of myself, the game, the people in the game, and the game's subculture in which we all live and play. I hope as a reader you may take away something of value. If not, I apologize for taking your time.
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Teeming Links – March 15, 2019
In light of yesterday's awful mosque attacks in New Zealand, I feel led to start with this except from a 2003 PBS interview with Thich Nhat Hanh. After an extensive conversation about Buddhism, Christianity, mindfulness, and other such matters, and their relationship to gritty large-scale matters of war and violence, the interaction ends with this:
Q: What is so tantalizing about talking to you is the wonderful promise of your teachings at the personal level, and the frustration of not seeing how it can change the policies of big institutions, such as government.
A: It is the individual who can effectuate change. When I change, I can help produce change in you. As a journalist, you can help change many people. That's the way things go. There's no other way. Because you have the seed of understanding, compassion, and insight in you. What I say can water that seed, and the understanding and compassion are yours and not mine. You see? My compassion, my understanding can help your compassion and understanding to manifest. It's not something that you can transfer.
Are you burned out on collapse? According to a recent article on "the hidden psychological toll of living through a time of fracture," you're not alone. As the writer astutely observes, "When reality itself has turned into something like a grotesque, bizarre dystopia, then just making contact with it is deeply psychologically stressful."
Douglas Rushkoff has offered a brief and typically insightful reflection on the deep cause and possible cure for our culture of doom and collapse: the Internet is acid, and America is having a bad trip. (Seriously, his thesis is profound.)
Meanwhile, journalist and author Nick Bilton writes in Vanity Fair that "No One Is at the Controls" as "Facebook, Amazon, and Others Are Turning Life into a Horrific Bradbury Novel." It occurs to me that his thesis — that the Internet now runs itself, that "nobody is behind the curtain" of our digital dystopia — resonates with the horrific discovery of the empty movie theater projection booth in Lamberto Bava's Demons. The characters storm the booth after the horror movie they've been watching comes to life and fills the theater with raging, murderous demons. But their horror is compounded when they discover there's no projectionist. In other words, nobody is responsible. Nobody is making the nightmare happen. The equipment all just runs on its own. As one of them fearfully observes in a line of dialogue that resonates with overtones of cosmic nihilism, "Oh, God, then that means no one's ever been here!" (Watch the scene.)
By contrast, this is quite lovely: Composer James Agnelli created music by using the position of birds on electrical wires to represent notes. Then he facilitated the production of this short film about it. Also see the brief explanation of further background at The Daily Grail.
In his recent commencement address to graduates of the Bennington Writing Seminars at Vermont's Bennington College, poet and author Garth Greenwell communicated some riveting advice and wisdom on living the writer's life: "To write a story or a poem or an essay is to make a claim about what we find beautiful, about what moves us, to reveal a vision of the world, which is always terrifying; to write seriously is to find ourselves pressed against not just our technical but our moral limits. . . . That intimate communication between writer and reader, that miracle of affective translation across distance and time, is the real life of literature; that's what matters." His words on the place of literary awards and sales figures are particularly astute: "The soul one pours into a novel or a collection of poems, the years of effort a book represents — what possible response from the world could be adequate recompense for that?"
This explain a lot: A secret brain trust of scientists and billionaires, unofficially headquartered at Silicon Valley, has embraced belief in UFOs as a new religious mode.
And then there's this: "The British military is recruiting philosophers, psychologists and theologians to research new methods of psychological warfare and behavioural manipulation, leaked documents show." Apparently the project comes with a communications campaign to help manage "reputational risks" for participating academic institutions. Quoth one Cambridge scholar interviewed for the linkedGuardian piece, "Now I don't want to be too academic about this, but it's very striking that a programme designed to change people's views and opinions for military purposes would spend some of its money changing people's views and opinions, so that they wouldn't object to changing people's views and opinions. See what they did there?"
An essay at The American Scholar titled "The Sound of Evil" provides an interesting cinematic-cultural-sociological analysis of the avenues by which classical music in movies and television have become synonymous with villainy
A free symposium titled "Detecting Pessimism: Thomas Ligotti and the Weird in an Age of Post-Truth" will be held this June at Manchester Metropolitan University's 70 Oxford St. The announcement explains that "Ligotti is increasingly seen as one of the key literary horror and weird fiction writers of recent decades whose works present a unique, bleak and controversial portrayal of both human existence and society." The symposium "will comprise of [sic] two panels with papers delivered by staff and students on Ligotti and the weird mode, and will include a keynote delivered by weird expert Professor Roger Luckhurst. They will explore the works, philosophy and influence of Ligotti within a diverse range of contexts, from philosophical nihilism and pessimism, weird fiction and horror to his impact on film and television." (Tangential side note: About half the presenting scholars were involved in my Horror Literature through History encyclopedia.) Even if you, like me, will sadly be unable to attend, you can still read this piece containing brief interviews with some of the participants about their thoughts on Ligotti and his work.
While the rest of the US raves breathlessly on about AOC and Wells Fargo or whatever, I much prefer to slow down and savor a delicious interview with Whitley Strieber about his outlandish experiences and the way his career as a major and still-rising horror novelist was derailed when he became America's most prominent paranormal lightning rod.
December saw the publication of Peter Bebergal's Strange Frequencies: The Extraordinary Story of the Technological Quest for the Supernatural. Teeming Brain readers will recall that Peter was one of the panelists on the Teeming Brain podcast "Cosmic Horror vs. Sacred Terror." His new book offers "a journey through the attempts artists, scientists, and tinkerers have made to imagine and communicate with the otherworldly using various technologies, from cameras to radiowaves."
T. E. (Ted) Grau, who produced a handful of fine articles for The Teeming Brain a few years back, is presently on the final ballot for the Bram Stoker Award for his novel I Am the River. Publishers Weekly gave it a starred review, saying that "Grau's poetic prose and stunning evocation of time and place, from the killing fields of Vietnam to the haunted alleyways of Bangkok, form a fever dream of copious bloodshed and many shades of gray."
Speaking of horror, the crowd-funded documentary In Search of Darkness is in its final stages of production. I only learned about the project recently via a tweet from long-time Teeming Brain friend and fellow religion/horror adept John Morehead. Here's the official description, followed by the official trailer. The description reads like a feast, while the trailer feels like a time warp to my misspent, VHS-saturated adolescence.
Featuring compelling critical takes and insider tales of the Hollywood filmmaking experience throughout the 1980s, In Search of Darkness will provide fans with a unique perspective on the decade that gave rise to some of the horror genre's greatest icons, performers, directors and franchises that forever changed the landscape of modern cinema. Tracking major theatrical releases, obscure titles and straight-to-video gems, the incredible array of interviewees that have been assembled for ISOD will weigh in on a multitude of topics: from creative and budgetary challenges creatives faced throughout the decade to the creature suits and practical effects that reinvigorated the makeup effects industry during the era to the eye-popping stunts that made a generation of fans believe in the impossible. In Search of Darkness will also celebrate many of the atmospheric soundtracks released during that time, the resurgence of 3-D filmmaking, the cable TV revolution and the powerful marketing in video store aisles, the socio-political allegories infused throughout many notable films, and so much more.
Finally, a recent piece by Glenn Greenwald deserves to be read by everybody of all political persuasions: "NYT's Exposé on the Lies About Burning Aid Trucks in Venezuela Shows How U.S. Government and Media Spread Pro-War Propaganda." It presents an utterly damning account of collusion between the U.S. government and U.S. corporate media to foment Venezuelan regime change through brazen lies, thus perpetuating a long and sordid tradition in America's international relations.
New (and old) book projects: An encyclopedia of horror literature and a collection of horror fiction
Frontispiece to Frankenstein (1831 edition). Public domain via Wikimedia Commons.
On a morning when I've just finished up with several days of responding to publisher copy edits on Ghosts, Spirits, and Psychics, I'm happy to announce the birth of another book project: I have just signed a contract with the same publisher (ABC-CLIO) to edit a two-volume reference work to be titled Horror Literature through History: An Encyclopedia of the Stories That Speak to Our Deepest Fears. This is all still in the early developmental stages, and the book itself won't appear until late 2016 (at the very earliest). But I can tell you that the structure and approach of this particular project will make it something special. I will of course say more about the whole thing as additional information becomes available.
Oh, and speaking of available information, I can also report that my long-hibernating omnibus collection of horror fiction from Hippocampus Press, To Rouse Leviathan — which has been greatly delayed by my own mercurial creative cycles and outer life circumstances — is still very much alive.
Teeming Links – April 25, 2014
We're entering an age of energy impoverishment. Richard Heinberg explains: "It's hard to overstate just how serious a threat our energy crisis is to every aspect of our current way of life. But the problem is hidden from view by oil and natural gas production numbers that look and feel just fine. . . . Quite simply, we must learn to be successfully and happily poorer. For people in wealthy industrialized countries, this requires a major adjustment in thinking."
A new stone age by 2114? Jared Diamond ruminates: "In this globalized world, it's no longer possible for societies to collapse one by one. A collapse that we face, if there is going to be a collapse, it will be a global collapse."
The zombies are already here — and they're our digitally addicted children.
Education is not the answer: "It clearly is not the case that plausible increases in education quality and attainment will have a substantial impact on inequality. This will require much deeper structural changes in the economy."
The secret history of life-hacking: The popular modern cult of self-optimization is, ironically, the descendent of Frederick Taylor's much-despised "scientific management" of the early 20th century. But today instead of being "managed" at work by iron-fisted supervisors with stopwatches in their hands who enforce a faux gospel of maximum efficiency, we do it to ourselves, everywhere and endlessly.
The alchemy of writing: This recent Expanding Mind interview (click through or use the player below) features some great thoughts on the preternaturally inspired approach to writing from the Reverend Nemu, author of the Nemu's End trilogy, a three-volume revision of the formerly published single-volume megabook Nemu's End: History, Psychology, and Poetry of the Apocalypse.
Jeffrey Kripal on horror and religion (from a great 2012 Skeptiko interview titled "Dr. Jeffrey Kripal on Science Fiction as a Trojan Horse for the Paranormal"):
It's a common misconception that religion is about the good. It's about being peaceful and good to each other and holiness is some kind of state of equanimity and all positive things. In fact, if you look at the history of religion, if you even look at the Bible, a lot of encounters with the Divine or the sacred are incredibly terrifying, often very dangerous, and some are actually deadly. So the sacred is not just for good; the sacred is both profoundly attractive but also often terrifying and destructive.
So horror, the modern genre of horror films and horror fiction, are calling up these ancient religious impulses. I think the reason that horror is so powerful is that to get a profound religious experience, you somehow have to suppress the ego function. You somehow have to do something pretty dramatic to the person. One way to do something really dramatic to the person to get them out of themselves, as it were, is to scare the living crap out of them because that's a form of ecstasy. It's a mild form of ecstasy. So horror fiction often has these religious qualities to it. I think that's why some people, lots of people actually, like to go and be terrified watching a movie or reading a book.
Image courtesy of Salvatore Vuono / FreeDigitalPhotos.net
Art, Mystery, and Magic: A Fireside Chat with Don Webb
"True mysteries give more energy, more questions every time you find an answer. I truly think that searching after mysteries is the source of the immortalization of the human soul. If I ever write anything that makes someone consider that maybe they don't know everything about everything, then I have succeeded."
— Don Webb
Don Webb is many things: magician, philosopher, teacher, literary critic, writer in a dozen different genres, proud Texan. He is the author of the Shirley Jackson Award-nominated tale "The Great White Bed" (2007), the mind-bending mystery novels The Double: An Investigation and Essential Saltes: An Experiment, and the double title The War with the Belatrin: Science Fiction Stories / A Velvet of Vampyres: Tales of Horror. His non-fiction books include Uncle Setnakt's Guide to the Left Hand Path and The Seven Faces of Darkness.
Don has also been a friend and collaborator for many years. For Echoes from Hades, he graciously agreed to settle in with me for a fireside chat in which he waxed eloquent on art, magic, love, and all things in-between. Read the rest of this entry
Alan Moore: "Writing is a very focused form of meditation"
From an excellent new profile of Alan Moore in The Observer, focusing mainly on his rejection of Hollywood but spinning out into various and sundry areas of deep fascinatingness (as befitting his fascinatingly deep and varied person), a statement regarding the deep intertwinement of magic, consciousness, creativity, and writing:
This business of being a practising magician, which he first announced in the 1990s (about the time his beard started to grey, and he got the snake-shaped stick). Is it for real, or is he playing? "It's a major part of how I see the world. Looking like I do, halfway to Gandalf before I've put a foot out the door, you've got to diffuse… " And for once, Moore fails to find an eloquent end to his sentence. He tries again: "There is an element of playing. But what's behind it is very serious."
Pick a card, any card? No, says Moore, it's not about tricks. To him it's about consciousness — and quickly he gets away on a tangent about the limits of the mind, flitting through Freud, Alan Turing, Paracelsus and Twelfth Night before arriving at an explanation that makes reasonable sense. Moore sees magic as a form of meditation, an outlet for his seriously vivid imagination.
"Do I believe, for example, that by using magic I could fly? No. How would you get around gravity? Impossible. Do I believe that I might be able to project my consciousness into a very, very vivid simulation of flying? Yeah. Yes, I've done that. Yes, that works."
Does it require that you take… "Sometimes you have to take drugs, yes. Sometimes you can do it with dreaming. Sometimes you can do it with a creative act. Writing is a very focused form of meditation. Just as good as sitting in a lotus position."
— Tom Lamont, "Alan Moore: why I turned my back on Hollywood," The Observer, December 15, 2012
For more on the same or a similar theme, see my A Course in Demonic Creativity, especially chapter three, "A Writer's Guide to the Psyche" and chapter eight, "The Discipline of the Demon Muse." For more on Moore, see my long essay "In Search of Higher Intelligence," which is mainly about the deeply entangled experiences of Aleister Crowley, Timothy Leary, and Robert Anton Wilson with these matters, but which also mentions Moore's experiences and contributions (as well as those of his fellow author/magician/comics auteur, Grant Morrison). You can also find the same essay in slightly revised form, sans the Moore and Morrison references, in the October 2012 issue of Paranthropology.
Image by Matt Biddulph (http://www.flickr.com/photos/mbiddulph/3590341986/) [CC-BY-SA-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
Writing, money, art, society, and copyright: A tangled web
Recently in his blog for The New York Review of Books, Tim Parks — novelist, nonfiction writer, translator — has offered some strikingly interesting and cogent reflections on the relationships among and between art, authorship, law, money, ownership, individuals, and twentieth-to-twenty-first century sociocultural realities. Their background is, first, the rise of writing as "a well-defined career track, like any other middle class professional," and, second, the calling into question of current copyright laws and their long-term or even near-term viability as the opening of international publishing markets and the birth of the Internet have posed extraordinary difficulties for policing and enforcement, and also for the establishment of clear ethical boundaries.
In the last thirty or forty years, the writer has become someone who works on a well-defined career track, like any other middle class professional, not, however, to become a craftsman serving the community, but to project an image of himself (partly through his writings, but also in dozens of other ways) as an artist who embodies the direction in which culture is headed … It became clear that the task of the writer was not just to deliver a book, but to promote himself in every possible way. He launches a website, a Facebook page (I'm no exception), perhaps hires his own publicist. He attends literary festivals all over the world, for no payment. He sits on the jury for literary prizes for very little money, writes articles in return for a one-line mention of his recent publication, completes dozens of internet interviews, offers endorsements for the books of fellow writers in the hope that the compliment will be returned … [I]n the publishing culture we have today any idea that a process of slow sifting might produce a credible canon such as those we inherited from the distant past is nonsense. Whatever in the future masquerades as a canon for our own time will largely be the result of good marketing, self-promotion, and of course pure chance.
— "The Writer's Job," February 28, 2012
Paradoxically, then, almost the worst thing that can happen to writers, at least if it's the quality of their work we're thinking about, is to receive, immediately, all the money and recognition they want. At this point all other work, all other sane and sensible economic relation to society, is rapidly dropped and the said author now absolutely reliant on the world's response to his or her books, and at the same time most likely surrounded by people who will be building their own careers on his or her triumphant success, all eager to reinforce intimations of grandeur … But if too much money can be damaging, dribs and drabs are not going to get the best out of a writer either … The key idea here it seems to me is that of a community of reference. Writers can deal with a modest income if they feel they are writing toward a body of readers who are aware of their work and buy enough of it to keep the publisher happy. But the nature of contemporary globalization, with its tendency to unify markets for literature, is such that local literary communities are beginning to weaken, while the divide between those selling vast quantities of books worldwide and those selling very few and mainly on home territory is growing all the time.
— "Does Money Make Us Write Better?" July 20, 2012
Copyright…is part of a mass of legislation that governs the relationship between individual and collective, for the most part defending the former against the latter … Copyright gives the writer a considerable financial incentive and locks his work into the world of money; each book becomes a lottery ticket … [C]opyright keeps the writer in the polis, and indeed it is remarkable how little creative writing today is truly revolutionary, in the sense of seeking a profoundly different model of a society … As soon as we put it like this, as soon as we imagine, or try to imagine, the extraordinary confusion, creative and otherwise, that might occur, the many and fragmented ways people might enjoy and share and despair of putting together reflections and entertainments in words for each other, you can see that it is not going to happen; there is still an enormous demand for the long traditional novel, for works that reinforce the idea of individual identity projected through time and achieving some kind of wisdom or happiness through many vicissitudes. There is simply no form of escapism, mental immersion, or sustained illusion quite like the thousand-page fantasy narrative, whether it be the endless Harry Potters or the Millennium trilogy; if to have that experience we have to guarantee a substantial income to its creator then society will continue to find a way to do that, in the same way European soccer clubs still find ways to pay exorbitant salaries to their star players. Copyright, we see, is not essentially driven by notions of justice or theories of ownership, but by a certain culture's attachment to a certain literary form. If people only read poetry, which you can never stop poets producing even when you pay them nothing at all, then the law of copyright would disappear in a trice.
— "Does Copyright Matter?" August 14, 2012
IMAGE: Joseph Severn, "Posthumous Portrait of Shelley Writing Prometheus Unbound," 1845, public domain via Wikimedia Commons
Recommended Reading 21
This week's recommended readings include: a mainstream news article about the distinct possibility of an Armageddon-like solar superstorm; a look at the origin, present situation, and apparently indefinite future of the "Great Recession" by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard; a consideration of the spiritual crisis of capitalism; reflections on the real relationship between writing and money; an autopsy on the American university, which has apparently expired at the hands of corporatization; a journalist's firsthand and first-person account of investigating the global subculture devoted to ending the "scourge" of human death by extending life forever and/or using cryonics or other means to preserve people and then resurrect them; a report on current Disney-backed research into taking animatronics to real-life Blade Runner/Prometheus-type levels of realism by cloning human faces; an interview with a UFO researcher about UFOs, human consciousness, and government coverups; and a fascinating analysis of the cultural symbols and synchronicities surrounding the John Carter movie.
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Lily-Rose Depp wearing vintage Chanel from the 1992 Spring-Summer collection to the 2019 Met Gala
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walks into the barbershop, you just see the pain in his eyes. I find he doesn't
have to say anything. It's an acting style you don't really see anymore" – Tim Burton
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Several months after Designit's acquisition of Cooper, we had gotten over the initial culture shock of shifting from a 50-person company to a 500-person, and were now faced with a new challenge: to define the vision, the North Star, "Polaris", for our North America region. Project Polaris was an idea born in the Designit New York office. The team designed several multi-faceted workshops, both in San Francisco and New York, with the goal of understanding and framing our aspirational inter-office goals grassroots style, co-creating a collective. With this, Project Polaris was born.
The team asked me to lead the charge in the San Francisco office. This was a fantastic opportunity to become more concrete in defining our local San Francisco culture and connecting it to the regional North America purpose and vision.
Project Goals
+ Connect individual purpose to the global mission through co-creating a collective vision
+ Build the foundation for future growth by analyzing current state and aligning over future state
+ Design a plan that informs business decisions and boosts productivity and overall morale
+ Create actionable items that are both impactful and feasible
+ Collaborating between New York and San Francisco, two distinct cultures and styles
+ Working on an internal project while simultaneously fulfilling my full-time responsibilities
+ Conveying the importance of the initiative to leadership and the general office
My Role
Facilitator, Researcher, Project Manager, Organizational Change Agent, Culture Designer.
I led the workshops in San Francisco, synthesized findings, conducted individual interviews with each team member, developed, disseminated and analyzed surveys, met regularly with leadership, presented findings to North America region.
The Process
This was a process! First, although Project Polaris was born out of the goal to define a regional vision and unite both SF and NY, all important players were located in NY. Regional leadership, HR, the Design Team were all separated from our team in SF. I did not know the project existed until my help was requested.
The first point at which I was introduced to the project was when the initial Exploration Workshop had already been scheduled. I gave my feedback to the NY group, and helped the team understand that certain questions would need to be asked of the SF office to truly understand our current state. I recommended that we conduct a SWOT Analysis of our organization as a group, as well as a round of Keep, Stop, Start. This would help us understand our strengths and weaknesses as an organization, and dive more deeply into what worked and what didn't in regards to Culture, Projects, People, Domains, and Space.
From there, I shared my learnings to a bi-coastal Dropbox Paper document. We segmented the findings into different themes that echoed across offices. We then approached leadership and requested that they announce the initiative, so that it wasn't seen as something done to the office, but with the office. This was important work, and needed to be done with top-down and bottom-up involvement.
The findings were presented to the region as Rules of Thumb, directly named after the global Designit Rules of Thumb. That is when we came to an unexpected realization: the SF office was having difficulty connecting to our high-level aspirational goals. My colleague and I conducted individual interviews with each colleague in SF, to pull out feelings around the high-level aspirations. I learned that the general sentiment was in agreeance with what we'd designed, but that the action items did not connect to the bigger picture.
We ran a second workshop, titled Action Items: What Should We Focus on Next? Around each domain, we generated action items for the next 6 months. I then printed these out on posters and hung them around the office space. My colleagues would edit and add to our action items.
From there, I organized them into: Leadership-Driven, Group-Driven, and Individual-Driven. It was made clear that leadership would be responsible for organizational action items, and my colleagues would be responsible for the communal (office-wide) and individual (personal) action items. Then, stealing a fantastic idea from the NY team, I constructed and printed a survey: Your Voice Matters. I included all 86 action items in one packet, and gave each team member 3 days to ponder and vote on their top priorities. Once each ballot had been handed in, I synthesized my findings, and pulled out 6 main action items for the office. This became our new office Priorities document.
Follow Up
To make sure the action items are solidified and accepted by my colleagues, I have organized regular check-ins with Leadership and Team Managers to ensure that upper and middle management are following through with their promises. I've organized weekly Monday morning check-ins and designed a kanban board that allows for my colleagues to own initiatives and measure progress as an office. I regularly check in with the NY team, who have developed Rules of Thumb of their own.
Results & Reflection
My biggest takeaways? Don't force a vision on a group that is transforming, don't play catch-up, don't play the imitation game. Instead, focus on local first and regional second. Only then will the aspirational vision truly be connected to the day-to-day realities of the office. As it turned out, many other offices had been designing their own Playbooks, Guiding Actions, and Rules of Thumb. We were part of a movement that was bigger and more important than ourselves and our offices.


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Teenage Politics Lyrics
Artist: MxPx
Album: Teenage Politics
no i'm not mad but i think they forget
what it's like and how hard it is to be a teenager
this is a new day and age, we read a different book
where elvis ain't the rage and polyester ain't the look
and will we change at all when we get old?
or will we be the same? never do what were told
well that depends on you, are you doing the right thing?
it's not about control, it's about you and me and understanding
teenage politics it's too confusing
politics shmolitics it's too confusing
is it time again to disagree
about anything, everything and what's on tv
it's a vicious circle, never ending
a linear equation worldy extending
no ill never be like you ill never ever be like you
oh no! i'm just like you!
MxPx Lyrics
MxPx Teenage Politics Lyrics
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AUBURNDALE, Fla. – The Thomas College baseball team dropped back-to-back games on Monday, falling to Union (N.Y.), 8-0, and to Colby, 7-2.
Game 1: Union 8, Thomas 0
The Dutchmen took an early 3-0 in the top of the first on a bases clearing double to left center by Colin Kelly. Kelly later homered in the third for a two-run shot to make it 5-0. Union added a run in the fourth, fifth, and sixth to finish the scoring at 8-0.
Josh Garber was given the win for the Dutchmen in seven innings, five hits, and no runs.
Cody Cousins (Wells, Maine) took the loss for Thomas in three innings, scattering seven hits and five runs (four earned). Darren Kelly (Foxboro, Mass.) and Trevor Hinson (Whittier, Cal.) held Union silent in the final three innings.
Game 2: Colby 7, Thomas 2
The Mules struck first in the third inning, plating three runs as Jackson Ward scored on a double play and Matt Treveloni knocked a two-RBI triple to right field.
Thomas cut the deficit down to one in the top of the fourth as Nicholas Cousins (Wells, Maine) scored on an error and Hank Vinall (Blue Hill, Maine) followed through with an RBI single.
The rally was short lived as Treveloni cleared the bases with a double to left center to make it 6-2. Keenan Iuliano extended the lead for Colby in the eighth on a solo homerun to finish at 7-2.
Frank Driscoll earned the win for the Mules in six innings, four hits, and two unearned runs while striking out eight. Ward picked up the save in three innings, giving up one hit.
Ryan Scepansky (Blandon, Pa.) threw 6.1 innings in the loss, allowing nine hits and six runs.
The Terriers will take on Keuka College in a single game on Tuesday.


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Demolition begins for The Haven outlet mall project in West Haven
WEST HAVEN — Demolition to clear the site for The Haven upscale outlet mall began Thursday morning, as a payloader munched chunks out of a house at Main Street and First Avenue all through the morning, eventually reducing the house to rubble.
Mayor Ed O'Brien and several of his staff members were on hand, although O'Brien said the start of demolition caught him by surprise.
"I think this is very exciting," O'Brien said as he watched the payloader do its work.
He said he found out demolition had begun when he drove by and saw it.
"I was on my way to work ... usually, in the morning, on my way, I check out different sections ... of the city," O'Brien said. "I'm going down Beach Street, I turned up First Avenue and saw this big machine with a claw taking the house down."
He said he had received "no notice that it was happening — I knew they pulled the permits, I knew it was imminent," but "I didn't know it would happen today," O'Brien said.
The house at 53 Main St. was the first of four houses along First Avenue that will be taken down as part of the initial phase of to clear the 24-acre site for "America's first upscale waterfront outlet mall," said Matt Armstrong, executive vice president of The Haven Group LLC.
There are a total of 57 properties within the project area, which is bounded by Main Street, First Avenue and Elm Street, said O'Brien. The project includes Water Street, which will be eliminated.
The work is being done by LVI Environmental Services Inc./Northstar Contracting Group Inc. of Milford, a subcontractor for general contractor Standard Builders of Newington, said Armstrong in a news release.
The demolition was preceded by an environmental remediation of the house, including asbestos removal, Armstrong said.
The other addresses within the first phase of demolition are 315-317 First Ave., 321 First Ave. and 325 First Ave.
LVI foreman Rich Meehan said the house at 315-317 First Ave. is being abated and is slated for demolition next week, followed by the other two First Avenue houses.
The demolition began 19 days before the election — something that O'Brien, who previously has criticized past mayors for making a big development announcement just before elections, said he was not responsible for.
"I swear this has nothing to do with the timing of the election," said O'Brien, who is running a write-in campaign after losing the Sept. 12 primary to Democratic former Councilwoman Nancy Rossi. "If I was going to do it for the election, I would have done it six weeks ago ... prior to the primary."
Developer Ty Miller said recently, after the passing of his partner in The Haven Group, the late Sheldon Gordon, that he expected to obtain the balance of the necessary city approvals over the winter and begin actual construction on the project in the spring.
"The demolition's going to take a few months," said O'Brien. "The construction, when they start building the project, will be spring" and "it's an 18-month go.
"I know people said it wasn't happening, but it has to happen on the developer's timeline," O'Brien said.
Gordon, Miller and O'Brien unveiled the project, a $200 million, "high-end" shopping center to be built in two phases, on June 10, 2014. The project would have about 60 stores, seven restaurants and a public waterfront promenade with a 200-seat amphitheater in its 250,000-square-foot first phase and about 100 stores if both phases ultimately are built.
Both of O'Brien's opponents in the Nov. 7 election, Republican City Councilman David Riccio and Rossi, questioned the timing of the start of demolition but said they hoped to see The Haven go forward.
"Even though it's quite ironic that it's three weeks out from an election ... I sincerely hope that this is a legitimate effort, not a camouflaged attempt before people cast their ballots," said Riccio. "But if it's a legitimate attempt, this caught many on the council by surprise."
He said that "we've been pretty duped over the years by mayors seeking election."
Rossi raised her own questions.
"No, he didn't knock the houses down six weeks ago, but he did have the fence put up," she said, referring to a fence around the Main Street and First Avenue faces of the site that reminds people that The Haven is coming.
"I have to question ... if construction is going to begin in the spring, how come there haven't been any announcements about the stores," Rossi said.
The start of demolition "may be a sign of progress — and I'm hoping that it is," she said. "I'm hopeful that it really is progress because I want to see West Haven move forward."
But "right now, it looks terrible down there," she said. "It looks blighted."
The development, known as The Haven South, includes no housing, said Armstrong. He said the City Council-adopted Haven South Municipal Development Plan prohibits housing.
Armstrong said negotiations have concluded between The Haven Group and the owners of the two remaining outstanding properties, the S & S Mini Mart Citgo at Elm Street and First Avenue and the M & M Pawn & Check Cashing. The developer and the property owners are preparing closing documents and closings will take place soon, he said.
Armstrong said the developer has spent more than $30 million so far on the privately financed development, which he has compared to the top 20 percent of the retail stores that constitute Woodbury Common Premium Outlets in Central Valley, New York, about 50 miles north of New York City.
Armstrong has said The Haven would be the only direct-waterfront, luxury retail center in the country. It would pay $2 million in annual property tax and create more than $15 million in incremental sales tax for the state, he has said.
The Haven would provide 800 full-time and 400 part-time jobs, plus 800 construction jobs using all Connecticut-based contractors, he has said.


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Power up the Git Commandline
Just showing off some tools and commands everyone should know.
Github in the shell
One of the coolest tools around for working with github in the shell is hub. It is a wrapper around git that extends it with a few very useful functions that make interacting with github a whole lot easier.
Some teasers:
Clone new repos:
# gh clone mfussenegger/dotfiles
---> gh clone git://github.com/mfussenegger/dotfiles.git
Create pull requests:
# gh pull-request -b upstream:master -h mfussenegger:feature
Merge pull requests:
# gh merge https://github.com/someoneelse/repo/pull/9283
There is many more, so make sure to check out the Hub documentation.
git-wtf is a script I found in Zach Holman's dotfiles repo. It's pretty neat to get a quick overview on the repo's current state.
Description from the git-wtf help:
git-wtf displays the state of your repository in a readable, easy-to-scan
format. It's useful for getting a summary of how a branch relates to a remote
server, and for wrangling many topic branches.
git-wtf can show you:
- How a branch relates to the remote repo, if it's a tracking branch.
- How a branch relates to integration branches, if it's a feature branch.
- How a branch relates to the feature branches, if it's an integration
git-wtf is best used before a git push, or between a git fetch and a git
merge. Be sure to set color.ui to auto or yes for maximum viewing pleasure.
Also found in Zach's repo:
Like git-pull but show a short and sexy log of changes immediately after merging (git-up) or rebasing (git-reup).
the power of the alias
A quick list of my favorites:
In gitconfig:
killbranches = !git branch --merged | grep -v '^*' \
| grep -v master | xargs git branch -d 2> /dev/null
As shell aliases (these are zprezto defaults):
alias gwD='git diff --no-ext-diff --word-diff'
alias gws='git status --ignore-submodules=${_git_status_ignore_submodules} --short'
alias gl='git log --topo-order --pretty=format:${_git_log_medium_format}'
alias gld='git log --topo-order --stat --patch --full-diff --pretty=format:${_git_log_medium_format}'
That's about it. Hope you learned something new!


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calling all arborists in the west midlands area and beyond. A bit more information
Entry posted by JACK MOODY GROUP ·
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Our company is looking to source large quantities of Clean Arb Woodchip (no logs) in and around the West Midlands area and also along main trunk routes in the UK.
We operate our own fleet of Artic walking floors and therefore would be able to collect (loading into walking floor trailers would be required)
Moisture content is not an issue as we can accept up to 50%.
We also have experience in collecting direct from motorway works utilising 50yrd RORO skips (by prior arrangement only).
If you can fill the above criteria:
How much chip would you be able to supply please as we collect by the artic load?
Would I be able to visit your site to see the material and possibly make a long term deal? Rates depending on quality and distance apply.
If you know of any other companies ( large or small) in the same business who can also supply, please feel free to pass on my details below.
For Smaller Operations
Our parent company Jack Moody Group offers Free Tip Sites (clean arb chip - No logs please) at the following locations:
Jack Moody Recycling - WV10 7LX ( Cannock J11 M6 back of Hollybush garden centre)
Jack Moody Recycling - TF2 9PD at Telford
Jack Moody Recycling - Cornets End Lane at Meriden.
Jack Moody Recycling - Grendon House Farm on Warton Lane CV9 9DT.
Our free tip details and locations maybe found on the Arb Talk website. We are active members


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With so much of the city to see in such a short amount of time, we found ourselves on the go a fair amount. All the more reason to keep our energy levels up with a juice, adaptogenic elixir or hot tonic in hand! Whether we were strolling down Abbott Kinney on a shopping spree or in need of a pre-hike pep-up, these joints never failed to disappoint.
With a crazy array of home-made salads, snacks and treats to dribble on – you are certainly not short on choice. Our ALT/ favourite was the 'Vitality' filled with freshly sprouted homemade almond milk + pineapple, mango, banana, spinach, superfood greens, ginger, lemon, cilantro and turmeric. And this was one of the smoothies with the least ingredients!
Ok, we aren't quite sure where to start here. Think lavender lemonades, CBD smoothies, E3 LIVE + aloe shots – reishi mushroom cappuccinos + so much MORE. You could let your mind run wild beyond anything you ever imagined, and they will have it. Their juice/smoothie/drinks to-go bar has every ingredient and rainbow coloured juice and smoothie dreams are made of, and their hot drinks station… well we don't know quite where to begin. Here's an example of one of their gynostemma tea based tonics to get your mind going and lips shivering..
Deer antler, Schisandra + Goji, He Shou Wu, Cistache, Cordyceps, Ant, Eucommia, Shilajit, Dandy Blend, Grass-Fed ghee, coconut https://onhealthy.net/product-category/alcoholism/ oil, vanilla stevia and english toffee stevia. In fact, we'll admit to holding up a line or two staring at drinks menus for hours on end- can you blame us when the choices are as endless as they are in LA?
Dotted all over LA, this hot spot is on everyone in LA's bucket list. With fridges stocked full of plant based smoothies, shots, syringes and juices + a sprinkle of collagen, CBD oil and reishi for good measure, these action packed tonics are full of surprises and don't leave much to the imagination.
We loved the Kreation Kafe on Abbot Kinney Boulevard. With an extensive brunch, lunch and all-things-in-between menu, this healthy haven was so much more than the juice bars LA is famous for. We had the protein packed omelette with turmeric spiced quinoa and kale with a beet almond milk latte. The stuff dreams are made of right?
An organic superfood cafe situated in pretty much every neighbourhood of LA'S 'must hang spots', Beaming is your premium free from all nasties 'on the go' place to go. With fridges stocked full of cultured juices to heal your tummy, shine your skin, and boost your vitality to freshly sprouted mylks and tonics to tame a hangover, you can happily work your way through the menu over the course of a few months.
So yeah, we will leave that with you. Two words – PRETTY EPIC.


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This image was scanned from my private collection
Title: Needle Tatting Techniques & More
Edited by: Barbara Foster
Format/Publication Date: TPB:2014
Publisher: Handy Hands, Inc., Paxton, IL
Page Count: 48
Book Dimensions(ht. x w.): 11" x 8 1/2"
SUMMARY- Ms. Foster is a very experienced hand at putting together tatting instructions. This book has brilliant crystal clear photography and photo tutorials that are easy to follow. You get a good photo of each project, well broken down instructions in symbolic notation, and a diagram in multiple colors so that it is easy to read. The designs are well chosen and run the spectrum of complexity. If you're a needle tatter, or are interested in learning how to needle tat, this would be a great book to pick up.
Barbara Foster has a website where you can buy anything you need to tat:
All contents of this site & copy; 2001-2014 Something Under the Bed®;
All Rights Reserved.


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This year is a great opportunity to experience orienteering alongside the world elite in June, first in Helsinki O-Games in Vihti and a few days later in the center of Helsinki at Senate Square. This is also known by Petteri Kähäri, Head Coach of the Finnish Orienteering Federation, who tells about the preparation of athletes for the season and the World Cup selection process. World Cup competitions in Finland tops off in a sprint relay in the center of Helsinki and Kähäri is also waiting for a great sports event at the "big church".
The World Cup and the summer races are approaching. An important milestone seems to be the opening of the World Cup in Vihti and the Senate Square in Helsinki. How are the athletes prepared for the coming season?
The coaching of our top athletes during the basic training period has gone without major grief. Based on test results, many have taken the big steps forward. In January-April, the national team's camp has been slightly different from previous years. We had two joint camps with a young national team in Portugal and Italy, and two camp centers in Portugal and Norway, organized by the top clubs. In addition, top athletes have spent tens of days in their club camps as well as in their own camps.
What is the significance of the World Cup for athletes?
For top athletes, World Championships are naturally first goal of the season, but World Cups have also a place in goal setting for athletes. The World Cup overall competition itself – or, for example, the top 10-20 ranking – is a goal for a few, but individual races are more relevant to many in regards of giving international display and career development. It will certainly be a tough competition in June, especially in terms of forest competition. When considering the WOC held only 2 months after the competitions in Nuuksio, these races will give excellent insight on the potential capabilities of the athletes as the terrain is quite relevant to that in Norway. A strong show in Nuuksio is a "tough currency" for the World Championships. The autumn MC tour in Switzerland and in China are sprint orientered and the focus has been shifted more or less towards the sprint.
What do you think about the fact that Finnish top orienteers meet other world tops at Senate Square in the center of Helsinki?
The fact that you are running an international orienteering race at the heart of Helsinki is a great thing in itself and an opportunity to bring out orienteering as a sport. There will certainly be thousands of people on the spot, which will bring a unique feeling to the race. The encouragement of the home audience a great support for our own athletes. Whether you are a more or less experienced athlete, focusing on your own performance is ultimately the essential thing even in the middle of the crowd and all the encouraging. The area itself is certainly not so familiar to many of our athletes that it would bring the actual benefit. While preparing for the sprint race, there is a more equal position with others: old maps and aerial photos are available to everyone.


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Sunday, July 15th, 2018, 10:00 am - 1:00 pm
Category: Arts & Crafts
Skill Level: Beginner
Age Range: Adults
Location: Train Station
Cost: $125.00 per Student
Instruction will focus on preparing the nib and pen (dip method), proper grip and body position, letter formation and development, spacing and connecting letters, using guidelines + more. This calligraphy intensive will allow for plenty of one-on-one assistance with technique and differentiation between students with varying abilities.
Your toolkit includes - 3 hour instruction with Leigh -2 pen holders (straight + oblique) -professional grade paper + guidelines -1 pencil -2 calligraphy nibs -Professional grade ink/gouache: black, white, gold, copper and rose gold -1 handmade, gold wire bound letterpress instructional guide -1 dappen dish, pipette and water dropper -Access to Lovely Scribe Workshop Facebook group -1 Lovely Scribe Calligraphy hand lettered tote bag + Kraft mailer for storage
All supplies are included :)
Whether you've never picked up a calligraphy pen before, or you're looking to brush up on your technique- this is the class for you! You'll learn how to properly use a calligraphy pen and nib to form strokes and letters in a style that is uniquely your own. Instruction is based on the Copperplate alphabet, but with a modern twist! After taking this beginner level calligraphy workshop, you'll walk away with all the tools, confidence and skills needed to begin beautifying all things paper.
With a background in education and over ten years of experience in the classroom, Leigh is able to combine her passion as a teacher and fine art calligrapher through workshops and wedding/ corporate event calligraphy. Her work has been featured on Ruffled Blog, Dear Gray Magazine, Red Oak Weddings, to name a few, and she was recently awarded Best of the Knot in 2015.


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How to spend $1,000,000 USD?
@uselesspowers (241)
United States
January 5, 2007 7:41pm CST
Say you just came upon $1 million dollars (US currency). This is a significant amount of money and it would open up a lot of doors and opportunities for you. How do you think you would spend this much money? Would you spend it all? What would you do with it? In your response, feel free to account for every dollar if you like, or just say what you would do with it. But please, give it some thought and don't make it a one-word, one-line answer.
3 people like this
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@sankar1981 (151)
• India
6 Jan 07
1st $ 200,000 to my parents 2nd $ 300,000 for my new home & Car 3rd $ 100,000 for my wife & kids 4th $ 200,000 will start a Business & give employment 5th $ 200,000 Savings, Mutual Funds, Deposits, Shares ;) ---------- ToT $1,000,000 USD ----------
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@nobodyspecial (1012)
• United States
7 Jan 07
I think everyone who hasn't lived an affluent life has thought of this at different times in their lives...what is interesting is that for most of us the things we would do change as we mature. One responder mentioned taxes on the original amount. Depending on how the funds were acquired there may or may not be a tax liability on the initial amount. Almost every responder replied they would take care of themselves, cars, savings, investments, etc...others added family, friends, a couple mentioned charities which of course are tax deductible donations. I believe a subject much like this one was brought up a month or so ago...my reply is the same... Funding the nonprofit I have started, aiding families of addicts and the addicted who seek help. Building a safe place and ways to reintroduce society to those who seek recovery from addiction hopefully reducing culture shock so many feel once they leave rehab. Finding or creating ways for employment for the many who want it. Purchasing houses, remodeling them to offer for sale under terms which are affordable so families can have homes without fear of loss. Riches are not counted in dollars and cents, but rather in the satisfaction one gains from aiding others or in the process of earning those self same riches. What has more value? A dollar or the respect others have for you and the self respect you can help others gain.
@shywolf (4519)
• United States
6 Jan 07
I think that I would invest at least some portion of the money. Then I would like to figure out how to run my own business, so that I could have a job that I really love instead of being stuck in some minimum wage low pay job that I struggle to get myself to get up and go to every day. I would hope to also help myself find a new place to live. I doubt that I would be left with much after all of that! ^_^
@chertsy (3804)
• United States
6 Jan 07
I would pay off my bills. Except the basic of course. Then I would help out my family then invest into into something that down the road, my kids will be able to go to any college that they want to, when they want to and not worry about having money to pay for it all. Then have plenty left over so I can grow old and not worry about everything.
@magikrose (5432)
• United States
6 Jan 07
This is something I have thought about for quite a while now. I would buy a home with a really nice yard. I would get 2 beant new cars, 1 for me and 1 for my husband. I would also set money aside for my kids to go to college if they choose to. The rest would be saved for any future repairs that may need to be done on the house.
@crystygye (38)
• Romania
6 Jan 07
$1,000,000 USD? i spend like this: a new car a super computer clothes supliments for the gym a new mobile furniture in my room
@britshmons (76)
• Ukraine
6 Jan 07
If I am opportuned to have this kind of money I will spend 90% on investment and 10% on arranging my life.
@soul0629 (95)
• United States
6 Jan 07
Your first 30% will go to Uncle Sam. Therefore, you really only have $700,000. Not too bad for most of us. The question is not "how to spend?" but "how to double that amount?" I believe that is the real challenge. Anyone knows how to spend, even a 6 year old kid. For me, I would first give 10% to my charity and my church. Then, I would invest the remaining amoount in assets that would produce monthly positive cashflow.
@shivram123 (656)
• India
6 Jan 07
i think i became mad by thinking of tht , i didnt get a clear image of it coz i really didnt need tht much money for my life but i will make it to anything for me rather thn giving it to anyone as service or help


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On the off chance that you need to begin a roofing company you should understand that maintaining a productive material business is significantly more than knowing how to discover a hole or supplant a rooftop. Being a fruitful material entrepreneur includes association, information, tolerance, steadiness, relationship building abilities, and various different characteristics.
Numerous entrepreneurs fall flat, not on account of they weren't gifted in their art, but rather in light of the fact that they were not talented in maintaining a business. So here are a few stages to begin a fruitful material organization:
Starting a Roofing Company
Business Planning
Business making arrangements for your material organization is essential to your prosperity and will help lead you through the startup, financing and operational strategies of your new business. Strategies for success are detailed reports that blueprint everything about your business.
Regularly incorporated into a strategy for success are a statement of purpose, an announcement enumerating the business' structure, an estimating list, monetary data, showcasing and promoting procedures, and other data. In the event that you intend to acquire an advance to fund all or part of your material business, you will require a formal strategy for success.
General Business Permits and Licenses
Assess enlistments, deals licenses and business structure printed material for organizations, associations or constrained obligation organizations might be connected for through your state's site. In the event that you are enlisting material help, apply for citizen and manager recognizable proof numbers through the Internal Revenue Service site.
Contracting Licenses
Contracting licenses for roofers, and general and strength temporary workers are gotten at your state's branch of business control or authorizing office. Each state has diverse accreditation systems and necessities for roofers; yours may expect you to apply for more than one permit as per the kind of material work you meet all requirements for. Licenses are by and large reestablished occasionally, and proceeding with training might be required to be finished in some claim to fame contracting disciplines with the goal for you to fit the bill for every recharging period.
Hardware and Supplies
Hardware will shift with your kind of material work; however, will incorporate a reasonable work vehicle and every single essential instrument, steps, platform and safety gear required to play out your roofing work. Costly apparatuses or heavy equipment for example, water powered lifts and cranes might be leased as required, a training that may spare you working capital. Material supplies are best acquired on a for each occupation premise; utilize store reserves from clients to additionally monitor capital.
Business obligation is required in each state, and laborer's pay is required in a few states. The material business is a perilous calling, and protection will help ensure you, your organization, workers and clients.


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Consensus groups (under discussion)
Why should I set up or join a consensus group?
- Work with the best in the field to establish and share best practice.
- Make your work or applications more visible to everyone in your peer group and field.
- ...
Mental health
A proposal for a consensus group on glaucoma diagnosis and/or management led by Moorfields Hospital/City University, London (Under discussion)


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Item Type: Thermometers
Age Group: Babies
Type: Electronic
Age Range: 19-24M,10-12Y,>14Y,13-18M,7-9M,10-12M,4-6M,4-6Y,7-9Y,2-3Y,0-3M,13-14Y
Model Number: 002
Thermometer Type: Digital
Brand Name: guucy
Material: ABS
Application: Forehead
Battery: 2 pcs AA battery: not include
Condition: New
Product Name :Diagnostic-tool Digital Thermometer For Baby Non Contact Infared Thermometer Body
Temperature Measure 3-Color Backlight
Function: 0-100 ° C (32-212° F) wide range,not only for forehead temperature,but also for temperature of room and surface.
Two modes:
1,body mode (32-42.9° C ) for measuring forehead temperature;
2,surface mode (0-100 ° C) for measuring object surface temperature and ambient temperature.
Response time:0.5 seconds
Measuring distance:5 to 15cm / 2 to 5.9 in
Battery: 2 pcs AA battery( not include in product due to it is hard to transport products with battery)


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Oven Dish Modern
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Tony designed the Oven Dish with baking and cooking in mind... think lasagna, a pie, or maybe a crumble?
Please note that each item is hand crafted and can vary slightly in shape and shade of color.
Dimensions are: 310 x 200mm
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Between Homeland and Hostland
Embassy of the Republic of Serbia
28 Belgrave Square, London SW1X 8QB
28 May 2019, from 6.30pm
Contemporary Balkan Art and Spotlight Theatre invite you to the screening of The Landslides and conversation with Helena Ivanov and Sanja Vico.
The Landslides depicts the life of an immigrant, seen from the perspective of one person – Helena Ivanov, who moved from Belgrade to England to pursue further education. The documentary discusses how a personality is split in half when one leaves their homeland and moves abroad. In the film, she is seen as speaking from a 'Serb perspective' and from an 'English perspective' clarifying what she loves and misses in relation to both of her homes.
Helena Ivanov is a PhD candidate in International Relations at the London School of Economic and Political Science. Before moving to London, she completer an MPhil in Political Theory at the University of Oxford and a BA in Politics at the University of Belgrade. Helena has also participated in competitive debating and won numerous prizes, including the European Universities Debating Championship in English as a Second Language.
Sanja Vico (PhD Goldsmiths, University of London) is concerned with ordinary or banal expressions of nationalism and cosmopolitanism among Serbian Londoners on digital media. Based on her findings, most participants perceive Serbian national identity as stigmatised due to the legacy of the civil war in the 1990s. Most participants hence employ different strategies in digital media environments in coping with the perceived stigma and redefining what it means to be Serbian. These strategies depend on the period of migration and choice of platform, and although all participants share an orientation to the Serbian identity, what it means to be Serbian and their expressions of identity may vary considerably. Dr Vico's findings also suggest that social surveillance on social media significantly shapes the ways these participants use different media platforms. Accordingly, we can distinguish between identity performances on publicly oriented platforms, such as Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, and privately oriented platforms such as WhatsApp and Viber. Manifestations of banal nationalism and banal cosmopolitanism on publicly oriented platforms often aim at correcting or redefining national identity, whereas the predominant manifestations of banal nationalism on privately oriented platforms often lead to reinforcing national identity.
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Interpretation, Understanding and Timing
Daneen Bottler
September 6, 2019
When God gives us prophetic dreams and visions, they must be interpreted before they are applied. Whatever dream or vision the Lord gave you, it is now also an invitation to dialogue with Him about it. We see this over and over throughout Scripture. Daniel, David, Amos and Habakkuk, to name a few, became proficient in inquiring of the Lord and waiting for His answer before acting on what they saw or heard.
Remembering that all interpretations comes from the Lord is a key that will cause us to not take it upon ourselves to see something fulfilled in our own strength, or limit what the Lord is releasing.
Waiting on the Lord for understanding is also extremely important, especially if there is a warning involved. If you are one that gets warning dreams or visions, don't go around telling everyone and releasing fear into hearts because you do not have the understanding or interpretation. Instead, set your heart to watch and wait on the Lord for the strategic answer of what He's doing and what He wants you release.
Not everything that you hear and see from the Lord is supposed to be spoken out loud to others. Oftentimes what the Lord shows you is actually for you to pray into and partner with God in changing the outcome. If you get the go ahead from the Lord to prophesy what He's given you, then start speaking and aligning hearts to the life-giving, strategic answer instead of to fear.
Sometimes the timing for the release of a dream/vision/word has not arrived and we must wait on the Lord for the appointed time of the release and not speak until He says so. The right prophetic word spoken at the wrong time is still a wrong word.
Be especially aware, when bringing dreams and visions before those in authority, to summarize and bring it with a hopeful and life-giving release, for no matter how negative a thing you see, the Lord's heart is always redemptive and loving in nature and He always has an overcoming strategy because He has already won the victory!
Habakkuk 2:1-3 NKJV, "I will stand my watch and set myself on the rampart, and watch to see what He will say to me, and what I will answer when I am corrected. Then the LORD answered me and said: 'Write the vision and make it plain on tablets, that he may run who reads it. For the vision is yet for an appointed time; but at the end it will speak, and it will not lie. Though it tarries, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.'"
Zechariah 5:2 NKJV, "And he said to me, 'What do you see?' So I answered, 'I see a flying scroll. Its length is twenty cubits and its width ten cubits.'"
2 Samuel 2:1 NKJV, "It happened after this that David inquired of the LORD, saying, 'Shall I go up to any of the cities of Judah?' And the LORD said to him, 'Go up.' David said, 'Where shall I go up?' And He said, 'To Hebron.'"
Daniel 12:8 NKJV, "Although I heard, I did not understand. Then I said, 'My lord, what shall be the end of these things?'"
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October 4, 2017
The Victorian Court of Appeal in Archibald v Powlett [2017] VSCA 259 recently considered whether damages for inconvenience are recoverable for breach of contract.
The respondent rented out a cottage on her property as holiday accommodation. In 2011, the respondent purchased two relocatable houses (the First House and the Second House) from the applicant, which the applicant agreed to deliver to her property. The respondent intended to use the houses to expand her accommodation business.
Despite contracting to sell the First House to the respondent, the applicant did not in fact own this house and was unable to purchase it from its owner. In April 2012, the First House was sold by its owner to a third party. In December 2011, the applicant delivered the Second House to another property in Daylesford, but did not notify the respondent of this. The respondent later discovered the location of this house and, at her own expense, relocated it to her property in February 2015.
The trial judge found that the applicant did not perform the contract in relation to the First House and only partially performed the contract in relation to the Second House.
Under Part VBA of the Wrongs Act 1958 (Vic) (the Act), a claimant is not entitled to recover damages for non-economic loss 'in respect of an injury to a person caused by the fault of another person' unless the claimant has suffered 'significant injury'.
The trial judge awarded the respondent damages on a number of grounds, including $30,000 for 'distress, anxiety and depression'. This was awarded notwithstanding that the respondent had not established that she had suffered from a 'significant injury' as defined in the Act.
The trial judge found that the respondent had been subject to 'increasing pressure, both financially and emotionally' as a result of the breach and that:
contractual arrangements relating to the pursuit of accommodation and business plans, which are bound up with an individual's personal hopes for their future life, are likely to result in the sort of distress and anxiety which [the applicant's] actions have caused for [the respondent]
The applicant appealed on a number of grounds, including that the trial judge erred in awarding damages for distress, anxiety and depression because such damages are not recoverable for breach of contract.
The Victorian Court of Appeal held a claim for damages that involves any component of 'mental distress, anxiety or stress' is a claim for 'non-economic loss' within Part VBA of the Act. Accordingly, as the respondent had not demonstrated that she had suffered from a 'significant injury', she could not recover for her alleged non-economic loss.
However, the Court of Appeal went on to say that, where the claim is for inconvenience alone and that inconvenience is of some significance, the claim falls outside part VBA of the Act because it is not 'in respect of an injury'. The respondent sought to rely on this exception on appeal.
The respondent pointed to cases where damages for anxiety, distress and disappointment had been awarded following breach of a building contract. However, the Court of Appeal distinguished these cases on the basis that they involved a physical imposition on the plaintiff by having to live with 'offensive odours, a leaking roof, or in unsanitary or dirty conditions, or being obliged to vacate the defective premises' or because they required that the plaintiff had suffered from a 'physical inconvenience' as a result of the breach of contract.
The Court of Appeal stated that:
The 'inconveniences which have been caused by the breach of contract' for these purposes are not the time and trouble inevitably spent as a result of dealing with the consequences of any breach of contract. They are the actual disruption and physical imposition resulting from the building and construction works not having been performed as agreed.
The Court of Appeal held that there was no evidence or finding that the applicant's breaches of contract were of the kind required and upheld the applicant's appeal on this ground.
This ruling confirms that an exception to the general principle that damages for injured feelings are not available in contract exists where the damages proceed from physical inconvenience caused by the breach.
However, the exception will not be invoked merely because a claimant has been inconvenienced as a result of dealing with the breach of contract. The claimant must experience a physical imposition as a result of the breach.
Authored by Stephanie Young, Senior Associate, Melbourne
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Gail was 41, managing a business and raising her two young children, when she was diagnosed with secondary progressive MS in 1996.
At the time of Gail's diagnosis, she didn't know anyone else living with this disease. Her MS progressed quickly, to the point where she required a wheelchair permanently by 2001.
"Not one of us knows. We could go to bed one day and wake up the next and have lost our vision, lost our mobility, or have an incurable disease."
Gail's symptoms, such as fatigue, can be so debilitating some days that she simply can't get out of bed. And on the mornings that she pushes past that intense feeling in her limbs, as well as the mental struggle, she's usually exhausted by the afternoon.
"The hardest thing of all is losing your independence. After my diagnosis, my daughter at the age of 12 had to be a mother and sister to my son. My son at the age of 10 had to cook dinner because I couldn't get out of bed."
Two decades on from Gail's diagnosis, she lives on the Gold Coast with her son's family and her service dog, Coda.
Gail feels privileged to have Coda, who has enabled her to remain independent and continue doing what she loves. Coda can help open doors, take Gail's shoes off and put laundry in the washing machine (he even separates whites from colours!).


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VAPA Showcase - Spring 2017
On February 22 and 23, the Elementary VAPA (Visual and Performing Arts) Department presented the Creative Showcase. PK-4th-grade students rotate through Art, Music, and Drama, spending a trimester in each. The trimester ends with a Creative Showcase at which the VAPA students show family members what they learned through the term.Read More


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Taking Career Training Programs Online
We all may have already known about the concept of distant learning, if we are very much familiar with online personal enrichment courses. Sure we all may have already heard of learn at home courses, or may have even already undergone one. For those who have already tried them before, they would know that the first courses were mail oriented. When you sign up for the course you want to take, all of the learning materials and the instructions were usually sent through the use of mails. The mails were also a way for them to send not only the students finished works but also the test papers that were needed in order for the students to complete the whole course. The internet then eventually changed this whole process into a more convenient one. Due to the recent innovation and communication being now widely made possible and more convenient for people who have internet, these career improvement with online courses have basically adding more and more students learning through the use of online means ever since.
Will it be even easy to actually find one out of the many self-improvement training courses options who all basically suit your every need when it comes to online home courses? The best answer to this kind of dilemma is research, since research can actually help you out with regards to knowing more about a few details of the new career training online home course you are trying to avail of. You may think of visiting online training sites as though it is a walk in or a thorough observation of your school campus right before you study your course in that school to train for a career. You must always take a virtual tool first before you begin the whole course, and do not forget to also ask yourself some questions before proceeding into the next steps.
You must know if the site is a user friendly one or otherwise, because it will be important for you to easily navigate yourself once you are already going to start the course. The whole website will basically act as all the different facilities you can find in an actual school like the library, your own desk in the classroom, and so much more. It really helps if the site can be easily navigated by its students since their learning will also depend on how helpful and informative the site is, basically it should be somehow like a whole school campus.
You have to also know about the complete cost of the course you are going to take. This is a really crucial stage because you need to know if you can actually afford a school's tuition if you want to enroll in it. You have to know about the total cost and all those little expenses that you need to incur so that you are not going to create any trouble when it comes to paying for the bill.
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Color By Accident: Exploring Low-Water Immersion Dyeing
Color by Accident: Exploring Low-Water Immersion Dyeing by Ann Johnston is 250+ samples of fabrics, 17 demonstrations, and loads of technical information on MX dyes, working with cotton, and the requirements of silk fabrics.
Take a workshop with Ann Johnston in your own home!
In an orderly progression of topics with over 250 samples of fabric + 17 demonstrations, Ann teaches how and when to vary her basic method of Low-Water Immersion Dyeing, including how to:
• mix colors without exact recipes
• create a smooth value gradation across one piece of fabric
• manipulate the fabric to create many different textures
• manage large pieces of fabric in small spaces
• see the differences in the single-chemical dye colors
• adapt the Procion® dyes to silk
• follow up with your own explorations with dyes
This ground-breaking high definition (HD) video presentation is a complete workshop + extension of the techniques Ann introduced in her 1997 ground-breaking book, Color by Accident: Low-Water Immersion Dyeing.
Total runtime: 4 hrs 19 min
English Audio Track with English Subtitles
©2013 Ann Johnston (Publisher) | Studio Galli Productions (Producer)
Includes Bonus PDF recipes + notes + more!
This color-filled video is packed with information and will inspire many experiments by those of all skill levels who are ready to use their own unique fabrics in their quilts, garments and textile artworks.
Color By Accident Is ...
1: Ann's Basic Method
2: An Infinity of Colors
3: Values
4: Manipulating
5: Silk
6: Explore
Get a thorough review of how to use Procion MX dyes to create color on fabric, the requirements, and the variables. Ann encourages us to have confidence and learn by doing. She also introduces how to use the same dye concentrates and soda solution to paint dye directly on the fabric with or without a thickener. It is easy to be inspired.


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CHENNAI: The City Corporation is looking to add a mini amphibian and six desilting equipment to its fleet to help expedite clearing of floating vegetation like water hyacinth, after its existing machinery proved inadequate, said Corporation officials. The mini amphibian is to be procured at an estimated cost of `1.7 crore.
The amphibian that is already in operation was imported from Finland and is mainly used for removing water hyacinth. It has been put to work in the Buckingham canal, Captain Cotton canal and the Adyar river.
The civic body already has three robotic excavators, procured at a cost of `4.5 crore each from Switzerland. These machines were procured in 2017 and were aimed to help the Corporation desilt narrow canals.
However, Corporation officials said, the new additions would come into operation only after "two or three months". This means it may not be available in time for the monsoon this year.
The move to procure additional desilting machines comes after the CAG report in July this year pulled up the City Corporation for attributing the ban on manual scavenging to the slow desilting works carried out in storm water drains (SWDs)
The report had stated that SWDs were not cleaned in 163 of 614 streets with drains in Kodambakkam zone during 2013-2016. Similarly, cleaning was not done in any of the 898 streets in Perungudi zone during 2015-16, the report stated, observing that non cleaning of SWDs contributed to inundation of these areas.
Meanwhile, Corporation officials are mulling options to effectively use the water hyacinth cleared.
"The clearing and transportation of the water hyacinth is an expensive affair. We are considering options to put it into good use instead," said a Corporation official.
Amphibians at work
The amphibian that is already in operation was imported from Finland and has been put to work in the Buckingham canal, Captain Cotton canal and the Adyar river.


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"We champion the responsible development of the West's natural resources, for the benefit of all."
Marla Orenstein, Director, Natural Resources Centre
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We deliver insight into both the challenges and opportunities in the natural resources sector
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Our energy future
Canada is facing an uncertain energy future. Climate change and health concerns are driving a transition to cleaner sources of energy. At the same time, our country's wealth depends on exports of fossil fuels, demand for which is increasing globally. These two concurrent realities are playing out in an environment of increasingly strident and polarized debate. And the decisions that we make will have important and wide-ranging ramifications – for our environment, our prosperity, our quality of life and our global influence.
2019 projects
Smart energy
Our work in 2019 will help Canadians to understand the country's complete energy picture – both what we use at home and what we can sell abroad – identify credible sources of information, and recognize the ways in which different choices result in trade-offs. Specific projects will include:
• a travelling roadshow in partnership with various other think tanks and involved organizations that brings energy expertise to university campuses (a project that was deferred to 2019 to accommodate our work on Bill C-69).
• engagement with electricity producers, transmitters and users across the West on the need for a more integrated electricity grid.
• the development of a new scorecard approach to rank the performance of Canada against other countries in terms of energy production and consumption.
Carbon and climate policies
Carbon emissions and climate change affect everything from energy development to skills training to trade. While they already receive a lot of attention in the media and among researchers, there are some important gaps in the conversation. In 2019, we will:
• tackle the issue of how responsibility for GHG emissions is attributed and the implications that follow from the current model, as well as what a more global outlook on emissions accounting looks like.
• develop a framework to identify what makes a good climate policy, including a set of metrics that can be used to rate existing or proposed climate policies using criteria such as effectiveness achieving desired outcomes, cost, equity, local impact, global impact, innovation, accountability and reporting burden.
Getting things built in Canada
It is increasingly difficult to get things built in Canada. A Globe & Mail editorial in June, 2018 stated that our society has become "too fussy, risk-averse, fractured, bureaucratic and litigious" to be able to build the type of infrastructure that originally made Canada great – and that we are falling behind globally as a result. In 2019, we will continue to analyze, report on and influence policies – such as Bill C-69 – that affect whether major infrastructure gets built in the future.
Getting to 'Go': Removing regulatory barriers to energy innovation
Innovation is key to Canada's transition to a cleaner energy sector. But in many cases, regulatory processes are slowing, and sometimes preventing, the adoption of innovations that could reduce GHG emissions and lower costs. This project will analyze the nature of the regulatory barriers and recommend changes to increase flexibility and adaptability without sacrificing the environment or well-being. In 2018, we conducted interviews and undertook research to understand the scale and scope of the problem. We published our report Hot Commodity: Geothermal electricity in Alberta, as a test case of the regulatory challenges facing a burgeoning clean energy technology.
In 2019, we will continue publishing reports and case studies on this topic – we will also hold a series of workshops and roundtables to engage innovators, regulators and others who are instrumental to the successful adoption of innovation in developing solutions.
Success in the Making: Effective partnerships between Indigenous communities and resource firms
Indigenous communities are increasingly forming alliances with natural resources firms to create economic opportunity and enhance self-sufficiency. However, too often the stories of these alliances remain untold. Our Natural Resources and Human Capital Centres are working with Indigenous partners to highlight successful examples. In 2018, we completed a series of roundtables, and embarked on deep-dive case studies in Lac La Ronge (SK) and Lax Kw'alaams (BC) to document some of the ways success can happen. In 2019, we will continue working with a range of Indigenous groups across the four western provinces to help further economic reconciliation through sharing experiences, expectations and plans for resource development partnerships and projects.
Adaptation: Getting ready for the challenges of tomorrow
A number of mega-trends are shaping how Canada operates in the world. Climate change. Shifts in geopolitics and global economic power. Demographic changes and a rising – and moving – world population. Technological acceleration. How prepared are we to face these challenges? What resources are needed, or can be leveraged? What new opportunities will emerge as a result of these shifts? This project, a collaboration of all three Centres, will help to answer these questions and lead the way to a sustainable, prosperous future for the West. In 2019, we will begin by examining what these trends are, and what effects they may have. We will then focus in on identifying how selected communities and others can adapt to both the negatives and the positives that these changes will bring.


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