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I've missed writing on this blog!! I've been crazy busy, but today's post is going to feature "My True Love Gave to Me!" This is a collection of twelve holiday stories that is simply delightful. For the book as a whole, I give it 4 stars, but I'm going to give mini reviews for each of the novellas. Of course, with every collection, there is going to be stories you absolutely love, ones you hate, and those you're just "meh" about. Some of the short stories, I felt, ended way too abruptly. Overall though, I highly recommend this book!
The stories in order:
Midnights by Rainbow Rowell
The Lady and The Fox by Kelly Link
Angels In The Snow by Matt de la Peña
Polaris Is Where You'll Find Me by Jenny Han
It's a Yuletide Miracle, Charlie Brown by Stephanie Perkins
Your Temporary Santa by David Levithan
Krampuslauf by Holly Black
What The Hell Have You Done, Sophie Roth? by Gayle Forman
Beer Buckets and Baby Jesus by Myra McEntire
Welcome To Christmas, CA by Kiersten White
Star of Bethlehem by Ally Carter
The Girl Who Woke The Dreamer by Laini Taylor
Midnights was a really sweet story, and perfect to set the holiday tone for this anthology! Midnights is set just before NYE of various years, with each one ending in Noel kissing any random girl, while his best friend, Mags, stands back and wishes it was her instead. Pretty much a cliche story, but cute nonetheless! 5*
The Lady and The Fox had a magical realism element going on, which I LOVEEE. I've seen various reviews from other readers saying they disliked this one, but it was one of my most favorites from the collection. This story focuses on Miranda, a goddaughter of a wealthy family, the Honeywells. Each year at Christmas, she sees Finnick on the outside looking in, but only on Christmas. Very mysterious 😉 This story was sooooo well written and intriguing. 5*
Angels in the Snow was another sweet story, with relatable characters. In this story, Shy is cat-sitting for his boss, during the Christmas vacation at his university. He can't afford to go home, is broke as a joke, and hungry. OH, and it's snowing like crazy. Enter upstairs neighbor, cute, chatty Haley, and the story unfolds very sweetly! 5*
Polaris is Where You'll Find Me was just no. It's about Santa's adopted human daughter, who is crushing hard on an Elf, but telling the other elves she likes this guy she met while delivering presents with Santa. -_- WHAT. Just no. I didn't like this one, it was weird, and I didn't get any real storyline from it. This was one of those that ended really randomly. 2*
It's a Yuletide Miracle, Charlie Brown was my other favorite. 1 because it was set in my hometown! And the descriptions of Asheville were so accurate it's awesome. The main characters are called Marigold and North. North's family owns a Christmas tree lot. Marigold makes videos, and needs North's voice in a video for her mom. Marigold is having a hard time at home as it's just her and her mom, but North swoops in and saves the day. This story was just perfect. 5*
Your Temporary Santa seemed pointless to me. I didn't really get anything out of this one. 2*
Krampuslauf was pretty weird, but I liked it. Had a type of magical element that really intrigued me. 4*
What the Hell Have You Done, Sophie Roth was another winner! Sophie keeps having these WTH moments until she meets Russell. I loved the characters, and the scene in the restaurant was so sweet and perfect and ahhh I just loved Sophie and Russel!! They just meshed so well together! 5*
Beer Buckets & Baby Jesus was just lame. I hated this one. It was really cliche, about a troublemaker and a "good girl" hitting it off. Just blah. 1*
Welcome to Christmas, CA was awesome. Maria is stuck in a town called Christmas and wants nothing more than to get the heck out. Enter super cute chef at the restaurant she works at, who can read people so well, he knows just what to cook for them before they even ask, giving the book a somewhat magical element as well. (Which I obvi love LOL) 5*
Star of Bethlehem was really cute and original in this anthology! I loved it! I think I even cried… 🙂 5*
The Girl Who Woke the Dreamer…well to come in with a bang with Rainbow Rowell's story, the book definitely fizzled out at the end with this story. I got no sense of Christmas/Holiday spirit while reading this one, and it just seemed kind of choppy. I do love the premise of this story, but maybe not in a holiday anthology. 3*
My 2 most FAVORITES of the bunch were "The Lady and The Fox" and "It's a Yuletide Miracle, Charlie Brown."
Have you read this collection of stories? What did YOU think?
I have this on my Kindle, but I really want the print version because PINK PAGE EDGES!

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Aichner (2014) proposes a classification of ways in which brands communicate their country of origin (COO). The current, exploratory study is the first to empirically investigate the frequency with which brands employ such COO markers in magazine advertisements. An analysis of about 750 ads from the British, Dutch, and Spanish editions of Cosmopolitan showed that the prototypical 'made in' marker was rarely used, and that 'COO embedded in company name' and 'use of COO language' were most frequently employed. In all, 36% of the total number of ads contained at least one COO marker, underlining the importance of the COO construct.
Theoriegestuurd taalbeheersingsonderzoek met oog voor de praktijk
In the lead article, Carel Jansen argues that practical issues in professional communication should be taken as source for academic research on language and communication. I first accept the claim that it is important for the research field to take the professional field of communication into account (1). I then explain why practical solution based on academic research usually take so long to develop (2). My opinions partly also diverge from Jansen, at least in two ways. I argue that researchers in language and communication already incorporate practice into their studies (3). I finally discuss a number of problems that seem to occur in applied research (4).
- Hornikx, J. (2018). Theoriegestuurd taalbeheersingsonderzoek met oog voor de praktijk. Tijdschrift voor Taalbeheersing, 40 (2), 193-197 [link].
Het belang van taalbeheersing in onderzoek naar digitale communicatie
With the emergence of the internet and especially since the development of web 2.0, people increasingly communicate in an online environment. Be that as it may, this research domain has remained underexposed in Tijdschrift voor Taalbeheersing. The current special issue therefore addresses the importance of linguistic- and discourse-oriented research to explore the role of language in digital communication. On the one hand, the research papers in this issue investigate the influence of digital communication on communication styles. On the other hand, online genres are studied with large-scale corpora and (automatic) methods of analysis. We also highlight other research opportunities, such as whether digital communication changes the language use and proficiency of, for example, children and young people.
- Hornikx, J., & Liebrecht, C. (2018). Het belang van taalbeheersing in onderzoek naar digitale communicatie. Tijdschrift voor Taalbeheersing, 40 (1), 1-12 [link].
Combining anecdotal and statistical evidence in real-life discourse
The persuasiveness of anecdotal evidence and statistical evidence has been investigated in a large number of studies, but the combination of anecdotal and statistical evidence has hardly received research attention. The present experimental study therefore investigated the persuasiveness of this combination. It also examined whether the quality of anecdotal evidence affects persuasiveness, and to what extent people comprehend the combination of anecdotal and statistical evidence. In an experiment, people read a realistic persuasive message that was relevant to them. Results showed that anecdotal evidence does not benefit from the inclusion of statistical evidence, nor from its intrinsic quality. The analysis of readers' cognitive thoughts showed that only a minority of participants comprehended the relationship between anecdotal and statistical evidence.
- Hornikx, J. (2018). Combining anecdotal and statistical evidence in real-life discourse: Comprehension and persuasion. Discourse Processes, 55 (3), 324-336.
How many laypeople holding a popular opinion are needed to counter an expert opinion?
In everyday situations, people regularly receive information from large groups of (lay) people and from single experts. Although lay opinions and expert opinions have been studied extensively in isolation, the present study examined the relationship between the two by asking how many lay people are needed to counter an expert opinion. A Bayesian formalisation allowed the prescription of this quantity. Participants were subsequently asked to assess how many lay people are needed in different situations. The results demonstrate that people are sensitive to the relevant factors identified for determining how many lay opinions are required to counteract a single expert opinion. People's assessments were fairly good in line with Bayesian predictions.
- Hornikx, J., Harris, A., & Boekema, J. (2018). How many laypeople holding a popular opinion are needed to counter an expert opinion? Thinking and Reasoning, 24 (1), 117-128.
The influence of high-/low-context culture on perceived ad complexity and liking
According to Hall's context theory, people from different cultures may react differently to complex messages. The current study is the first empirical examination of context theory's role on message comprehension and appreciation. In a comparative survey-based study (N = 289), Belgian and Dutch participants judged 12 complex product advertisements with visual metaphors. As expected by context theory, perceived complexity was lower for Belgian (a higher-context culture) than for Dutch participants (a lower-context culture), and participants' personal context culture score fully accounted for this difference. Similarly, ad liking was higher for Belgian than for Dutch participants, and again this difference was explained by context score.
- Hornikx, J., & Pair, R. le (2017). The influence of high-/low-context culture on perceived ad complexity and liking. Journal of Global Marketing, 30 (4), 228-237.
Cultural values adapted to individualism-collectivism in advertising in Western Europe
In international communication, adaptation of messages to the audience's values has been prominently studied. In advertising, a meta-analysis of experimental studies showed that ads with culturally adapted value appeals are generally more persuasive and better liked than ads with culturally unadapted value appeals. This general effect was not observed for studies with Western Europeans. One explanation may be that these studies did not examine individualism-collectivism – whereas adaptation to this dimension has been shown to be very successful. In this paper, this explanation was tested. Six experiments were conducted in which participants from Belgium, the UK or the Netherlands judged an ad with an adapted, individualistic appeal or with an unadapted, collectivistic appeal. The experiments and a subsequent meta-analysis indicate that Western Europeans are not more persuaded by the culturally adapted than by the culturally unadapted value appeals based on individualism-collectivism. This result nuances earlier findings underlining the importance of cultural value adaptation
- Hornikx, J., & Groot, E. de (2017). Cultural values adapted to individualism-collectivism in advertising in Western Europe: An experimental and meta-analytical approach. International Communication Gazette, 79 (3), 298-316. [link]
Foreign languages as implicit country-of-origin cues in advertising
Brands can position themselves as belonging to a foreign culture by using foreign languages in advertising. Foreign languages in ads have been suggested to be implicit country-of-origin (COO) cues. This paper examines the expectations that foreign languages operate through the COO effect (Study 1), and that they evoke associations (Study 2) and generate persuasive effects (Study 3) similar to COO mentions. The findings of the studies, employing different language slogans for different products, lend support to these expectations. Thus, foreign languages in advertising derive their effectiveness from the COO effect, and practitioners can use them to benefit from this effect.
- Hornikx, J., & Meurs, F. van (2017). Foreign languages as implicit country-of-origin cues in advertising: Mechanism, associations, and effects. Journal of International Consumer Marketing, 29 (2), 60-73.
Integriteit in kwantitatief, empirisch onderzoek: problemen en mogelijke oplossingen
In the social sciences, there is an important debate about how to do good empirical research and how to publish about it. As this journal, the Tijdschrift voor Taalbeheersing, also regularly publishes empirical studies, the present article aims to open the debate in the field of language and communication. After outlining the major problems associated with research integrity and developing potential solutions to these problems, we invited researchers from the field of language and communication to present their views, which are published as reactions to this paper in the current issue of this journal.
- Hornikx, J., & Batenburg, A. (2016). Integriteit in kwantitatief, empirisch onderzoek: problemen en mogelijke oplossingen. Tijdschrift voor Taalbeheersing, 38 (2), 119-131 [link].
Integriteit in kwantitatief, empirisch onderzoek: het perspectief van taalbeheersers
The lead article by Hornikx and Batenburg (2016) invited researchers in language and communication to reflect on problems and possible solutions related to research integrity in conducting and reporting quantitative, empirical research. The reactions from the colleagues in the field underline the problems that were described, and present a number of solutions to these problems. In general, these solutions can be summarized under the heading of meta-analytic thinking: one study does not provide a yes-or-no answer to a given answer; it should be designed to provide more robust results (e.g., through replications, multiple message designs), and should be reported in such a way as to be replicable in the research community (e.g., transparency, registration reports).
- Batenburg, A., & Hornikx, J. (2016). Integriteit in kwantitatief, empirisch onderzoek: het perspectief van taalbeheersers. Tijdschrift voor Taalbeheersing, 38 (2), 193-200 [link].


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Ajayi, A. E., Holthusen, D. and Horn, Rainer (2016) Changes in microstructural behaviour and hydraulic functions of biochar amended soils Soil & Tillage Research, 155 . pp. 166-175. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.still.2015.08.007.Full text not available from this repository.
Biochar is increasingly used on agricultural soils to enhance productivity and to sequester carbon. However, there is limited research that directly quantifies the underlying mechanisms, particularly those assessing structural changes in amended soils. Also, there is scanty information on the long-term effect of biochar treatment on hydraulic response of soils. Our objective in this study therefore is to determine the effect of biochar treatment on two different soil types and to evaluate the influence on hydrological and mechanical properties that drive aggregate formation and stability. Test substrates were prepared by adding 2, 5 and 10% (by dry mass) of high temperature pyrolysed (HTP) biochar to fine-sand or sandy loamy silt soil material. The repacked cores were exposed to four cycles of wetting and drying in an experiment spanning about 300 days. Changes in the saturated hydraulic conductivity, aggregate sorptivity swelling and shrinkage behaviour, and microstructural stability during desiccation were also investigated. The results indicated that biochar amendment alters the pore structure with the saturated hydraulic conductivity being significantly increased (p < 0.05) in the sandy loamy silt. Repeated wetting and drying significantly increased (p < 0.05) the repellency index of the amended substrates. Moreover micro structural stability was enhanced as the amount of biochar was increased and at lower matric potential. The partial loss of inter-particle cementation at a given pore water pressure due to increasing biochar amount was compensated by the noticeable addition of organic carbon. The combined effects of pore re-arrangement, enhanced particles surface area and improved microstructural stability in the amended soils produces better soil-plant-water environment. These findings proof that the effects of biochar amendment on pore structure, aggregation and stabilization will depend on the amount of biochar, the texture of the original soil material and the number of wetting and drying (WD) cycles. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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After successfully championing the causes of women's reproductive issues such as Fibroids, PCOS, Infertility and other reproductive disorders, Coach Gessie and Electric Docs Dr. Amun and Dr. Amsu launched the #KILLTHEPILL campaign to educate and empower to women about The Birth Control Pill—#1 culprit of all these issues—recently on "The Breakfast Club." (Watch the full interview at TheDeToxNow.com/KillThePill.)
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Behind the scenes of shared accommodations [Report]
Behind the scenes of shared accommodations [Report]
Derived from the sharing economy, shared accommodations have found their place in the tourism industry, and are now considered as key market players. While the notion of sharing remains at the core of the concept for some of its users, others have made a business out of it. The regulatory fog surrounding the sharing economy is nonetheless dissipating. Even if regulations tighten, shared accommodations represent a new supply that has a place on the market. Hospitality ON has studied this new format: overview of key players, analysis of the professionalization of the industry, and applicable legal and fiscal contexts for the leading destinations in Europe.
- This report offers a portrait of players, in the form of an overview of the different companies present on the international market, with key data such as their breakdown by type of accommodations, or a comparison of the inventories of Airbnb and HomeAway at some destinations in France, and the evolution of their supply in recent years.
- Analysis of the industrialization of the sector: How certain users of shared accommodations platforms have shifted away from the initial concept that was based on the philosophy of sharing in its post literal sense? What does industrialization mean? All based on data illustrating the distortions of the concept in Europe condemned by UMIH and by Katharina Theele of Hotelverband Deutschland (IHA), who share their vision of the need for change in the regulatory framework applying to short-term C2C rentals.
- You plan to join the crowd and put your own property up for rent on these platforms? or you are a professional and wish to understand the specifics of the legal and fiscal frameworks applicable to short-term c2c rentals, as opposed to traditional tourist structures? You will appreciate having local regulations and taxation regimes unraveled for you. This analysis includes several countries and regions in Europe, more precisely those where you can find many secondary residences that may easily be put on the market through these platforms: France, Spain (Catalonia, Balearic Islands, Canaries), Italy, Portugal, Greece and Germany (Land of Berlin)
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- Private accommodations (AirBnB, Homeaway...): what are the regulations in Europe?
- Airbnb to collect tourist tax for its Parisian hosts
- The sharing economy to be taxed from July 1, 2016
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Managing Those Pesky Stakeholders
One of my favorite sayings is "this would be easy except for those darn people involved." The "this" can be anything from a simple task to a complex project. Once people are involved it gets complicated. When managing any IT project, stakeholder management can make or break the project. Having the right stakeholders involved at the right times can mean the difference between a smooth path to the finish line and tripping all the way to the end. Three key aspects about stakeholder management will be covered in this post. They are identification, classification, and prioritization.
Identification is the first step in stakeholder management. It probably goes without saying that it is impossible to manage those that are unknown. Identification goes well beyond the project initiator and even the project participants. Below are some questions that can be asked when going through the identification stage.
- Who is responsible for leading the project?
- Who is the project sponsor?
- What internal resources need to be informed?
- What external resources need to be informed?
- Are there any parts of the project that need specialized assistance?
- Is there anyone against the project or its potential outcomes?
- Who is part of the project team?
- Are there any federal or state regulation agencies that need to be informed?
Try to think beyond those just directly affected. There could be several individuals or groups indirectly affected and anyone one of those has the potential to derail the effort. It is better to identify and not have to do anything with them than to ignore a group and have a mess to deal with later.
The next step after identification is classification. This will help with the next step of prioritization. There are several models out there to help with this. For simplification purposes, the RACI model will be discussed here. In the RACI model, stakeholders are classified into 4 groups. Each group has a different level of involvement in the project. The four groups are defined below:
- Responsible – This group contains individuals that are responsible for the successful execution of the project or tasks. Every project or task must have at least one individual that is in this group. Some examples of those that would be classified as responsible are project manager, project participants, or vendor participants. Anyone who must complete a task to be successful would fit into this category.
- Accountable – This group is accountable for the successful completion of a project or task. This person has ultimate approval authority and must sign off on any work. Typically, there is only one accountable person per any given task or project. Some examples would be the project sponsor, executive sponsor, or even the project manager.
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Every Monday, we look forward to the weekend and every Sunday, we feel the pre-Monday blues. Life is now nothing but a series of these feelings and we have now stopped thinking about doing something different. We are either making plans to sleep for hours, or party with friends or try out a different restaurant.
Weekends are for relaxing, weekends are for living, weekends are for doing nothing. If I'd ask a thousand people what is a good weekend, I am sure I'd receive thousand different responses.
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In the previous session Nifty spot opened at 10708.75, made a low of 10699.85 , made a high of 10757.80, before closing at 10728.85
Had mentioned that long trade will get triggered for the day on sustaining above 10715 and short trade will get triggered for the day on sustaining below 10655. Nifty initially triggered our long trade completed 2 targets giving 40 points.
As mentioned " Now in this week Nifty needs to break and sustain / close above 10605 to test 10685 - 10705 initially and above it we can see a test of 10775 - 10855 . Similarly Nifty needs to break and sustain / close below 10450 to test 10370 - 10350 initially and below it we can see a test of 10280 - 10200 ." , and Nifty had confirmed our weekly long trade on Monday and today we saw a high of 10757.80 . Those who are holding longs should keep a trailing stoploss now of 10685 .
Also as mentioned "For the month of November , further longs will get confirmed with a consecutive close above 10660 for a initial target of 10945 - 11020 and sustaining / closing above it we can see a further test of 11265 - 11535 . Similarly , shorts will get confirmed with a consecutive close below 10115 for a initial target of 9830 - 9755 and sustaining / closing below it we can see a further move till 9510 - 9235 . ", and Nifty had done 100 points above 10660 and then reversed last week . Now Nifty has again give a close above 10660 and can approach its resistance zone of 10775 - 10875 from where it had reversed earlier this month.
Now in the coming session Nifty needs to break and sustain above 10755 to test 10785 - 10795 initially and sustaining above it we can see a further upmove till 10815 - 10845. Similarly breaking and sustaining below 10700 we can see a test of 10675 - 10665 initially and breaking and sustaining below it we can see a further correction till 10640 - 10615 .
Nifty Spot Levels for the day are
Long above 10755 for 10775 - 10795 - 10845 , SL 10735
Short below 10700 for 10685 - 10665 - 10615 , SL 10720
Expiry Expected Range is as follows
Upper End - 10830
Lower End - 10630
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The Englishman and the Eel is a journey into that most London of institutions, the Eel, Pie and Mash shop. Today, these simple spaces hold within them the memories of a rich, largely undocumented cultural heritage of generations of working-class Londoners in a city whose only constant is change.
Stuart Freedman grew up in East London in the 1970s, then a byword for poverty now a metaphor for gentrification. The streets were navigated by pubs, rough, cheap cafés and Eel, Pie and Mash shops. Often elaborately decorated with ornate Victorian tiling, many sold live eels in metal trays that faced out onto the street to the fascination (and sometimes horror) of passersby. Inside, warmth and comfort. Steam. Tea. Laughter. Families.
Now few in number, the shops are havens for what the East End once was – but this is no rosy description of the Cockney – that music hall, heart-of-gold caricature but an affectionate and serious look at what that culture and its people have evolved into. The Englishman and the Eel is not an encyclopaedic record of every shop. Rather, a document of the most interesting and significant ones to make a book that is a tribute to a timeless institution. For Stuart Freedman the eel and its decline is a metaphor of the cultural change that has enveloped the East End. What remains is a tenacious and rare creature – endangered – but still surviving.
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Recession Survival WisdomNovember 12, 2008 — 1,382 views
To me the Ultimate Marketing Wisdom for surviving a recession, or any other business setback, is simply this...just don't quit! Over the more than 35 years that I've been working in the marketing trade I've noted that persistence is the sole characteristic that typifies all successful businesses and individuals. Those who survive - whether they be organizations or individuals - unfortunately aren't always defined by their worthiness, talent, devotion to others, intelligence or beauty. Some say survival depends on luck, but that's merely creating a causal factor after the fact. Luck, unlike persistence, is not a choice. The key to surviving is to choose to persevere. I believe that there are keys to persistence, beyond merely not giving up, though an unwillingness to call it quits, whether it's due to faith, will power or just plain stubbornness...or a bit of all...can't be discounted. I have a friend who emphasizes that one of the keys to survival is learning to thrive in your circumstance, whatever those circumstances may be. Folks who read the Bible will be familiar with the scripture that tells us to..."in all things be grateful and give glory to God." Those who take comfort earthly wisdom may choose to simply "...direct your feet to the sunny side of the street." All well and good, you say, but the Gospel According to Pollyanna wears thin when I'm sitting in my office staring at a silent phone, my e-mail in-box is empty, and the postman brings only bills and promotional material from competitors. In other words, what does this persistence look like? At this point I must confess that I'm a charter member of the Chicken Little Society, and like all CLS members it's all too easy for me to slip into a damp, dark and lonely place when my life doesn't fit my fantasies. So... Rule Number One: Separate Fantasy From Reality. In other words, take stock of yourself, or your business. If you're a small business person, by which I mean that you rank somewhere near the bottom of the Fortune Five Hundred Thousand, you and your business are probably inseparable. Stock-taking is really a basic and potentially and excruciatingly painful process of determining at what you're really good at doing, and (even more important) what you're less successful at doing. Two things are essential, brutal honesty and a willingness to hear the truth. Having an objective spouse or friend who you respect (or fear) too much to ignore is useful in this process. Big Business, by which I mean huge, impersonal enterprises that thrive on euphemism call this focusing on "core skills." Management Gurus publish books reviving this principle every few years. Buy one if you like, or you can save your money and ask someone who cares about you enough to tell you the truth. Okay, so you've asked and been told what you're good at. Hopefully, it wasn't too painful, but if it was you can rejoice that - if you take the wisdom to heart - you don't have to go through this process again. Rule Number Two: Put Your Heart and Soul Into What You Do Best. Sounds like a noble purpose doesn't it but - in practice - it's usually easier said than done. It's all fine if you're calling is something you've always aspired to doing, if it's widely appreciated, and (best of all) if others will envy you for your activities. Unfortunately, most of us are called to more or less mundane tasks rarely celebrated in inspirational books. I doubt that the Wall Street Journal list of Best Sellers will feature, "The Joy of Sewer Maintenance" in my lifetime. So, how does one find the passion in doing something less fantastic than entertaining a stadium packed with rabid fans? Personally, I take pleasure in developing my skills, such as improving my command of Adobe Illustrator; adding to my knowledge base about things like Search Engine Optimization and stretching my brain, lately it's been learning Spanish. Since the region I live in is about 28% Hispanic, the latter is not purely academic. Rule Number Three: Be Grateful. I readily admit this is the hardest of the three rules for me to practice. Like all Founding members of the Chicken Little Society I can easily fall into believing that things either are getting worse, or soon will go south. Gratitude, on the other hand, takes a sincere appreciation of things the way they are. Like the other two rules, I believe that this rule is a choice. I envy people born with a "sunny disposition." Unfortunately for me my DNA is overcast so I have to discipline myself to focus on positive things. How to do this? I can tell you from experience that ungratefulness is more than just a bad habit - it's an addiction. Like all addictions you fight it daily or hourly. If you believe in God, pray. If you don't, meditate. The bottom line is: if you're willing to honestly look around you will find things - lots of things - to be thankful for...even in a recession.


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Rudi celebrated ten years with Lifeline IT this month. He joined us in 2004 and was one of a team of six people at the time. [Read more…]
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Lifeline IT's annual IT trends research has revealed that unreliable and costly communications networks are one of the biggest frustrations amongst UK businesses.
Eight out of ten companies say access to reliable and fast public Wi-Fi is their biggest concern, with a further 57% citing poor mobile reception and 'dropping calls' as another problem. The study was carried out by Lifeline IT in partnership with Talk Business magazine. Read the findings here. It was also featured by Global Accountant which you can read here.
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Historically, registering with an XMPP service has been difficult. Each server either used customized out-of-band registration mechanisms such as web forms which were difficult to discover, or they used In-Band Registration (XEP-0077) [1] which could easily be abused by spammers to register large numbers of accounts and which allowed for only limited extensibility.
To solve these issues this specification provides a new in-band registration protocol that allows servers to present the user with a series of "challenges". This allows for both multi-stage proof-of-posession registration flows and spam prevention mechanisms such as proof-of-work functions.
If a server supports registering for or recovering an account using Extensible IBR, it MUST inform the connecting client when returning stream features during the stream negotiation process. This is done by including a <register/> element, qualified by the 'urn:xmpp:register:0' namespace for account registration, or a <recovery/> element qualified by the same namespace for account recovery. The register and recovery features are always voluntary-to-negotiate. The registration and recovery features MUST NOT be advertised before encryption has been negotiated, eg. using direct-TLS or STARTTLS. They SHOULD be advertised at the same time as the SASL authentication feature, meaning that after registration or recovery is completed SASL authentication can proceed.
For recovery or registration, the server MUST include a list of all challenge types which the client may receive during the course of registering or recovering an account. The purpose of this list is to allow clients to detect if registration requires a challenge type which the client does not support, so servers SHOULD only include each type once; the list is merely informative, and should not be relied upon by clients except to ensure that all mechanisms are supported. This list should comprise <challenge/> elements containing a string that uniquely identifies the type of challenge being issued.
A client selects the registration or recovery feature for negotiation by replying with an empty element of the same name and namespace. For example, to attempt account recovery the client would send a <recovery> element qualified by the 'urn:xmpp:register:0' namespace.
The server then replies with a challenge. Challenges take the form of a <challenge/> element qualified by the 'urn:xmpp:register:0' namespace with a 'type' attribute containing the challenge type and containing a challenge data payload.
Type type of a challenge is a value which identifes what sort of payload a client might expect. This document defines a type of 'jabber:x:data' which MUST always contain a data form (an 'x' element with type 'form') as defined by Data Forms (XEP-0004) [2]. Other types may be defined in the future. For example, a challenge containing a data form might look like the following:
After a challenge is received, the client replies to the challenge by sending a <response/> element qualified by the 'urn:xmpp:register:0' namespace or a cancelation as defined later in this document. If the client sends a response, it MUST also include a payload defined by the specific challenge type. In the case of a jabber:x:data challenge, the payload should be a form submission as defined by Data Forms (XEP-0004) [2] (an 'x' element of type 'submit'). For instance, to reply to the data form challenge from the previous example a client might send:
If after receiving a challenge a client does not wish to continue registration or recovery, it may send an empty <cancel> element qualified by the 'urn:xmpp:register:0' namespace. This informs the server that registration is complete. This is the same as submitting a data form of type 'cancel' in response to a data form challenge.
If the client submits invalid data, or the server wishes to cancel for some other reason, it may reply with an empty <cancel/> element qualified by the 'urn:xmpp:register:0' namespace. If the client successfully completes the challenge, the server MAY return an empty <success/> element qualified by the 'urn:xmpp:register:0' namespace, at which point it may continue with the stream negotiation process. If the server needs more information, for example, in the previous challenge the user entered an email and now the server wishes to ask for a code that was sent to that email, the server MAY send another challenge.
When providing instructions in a data form the server SHOULD use the language specified in the XML stream's current xml:lang, or the closest language for which the server has a translation (eg. based on mutual intelligibility between scripts and languages).
For more information about language tags and matching, see BCP 47 [3]
Servers that allow in-band registration need to take measures to prevent abuse. Common techniques to prevent spam registrations include displaying CAPTCHAs or requiring proof-of-posession of a valid email address or telephone number by sending a unique code (e.g. an HMAC that can later be verified as having originated at the server) to the users email and requiring that they enter the code before continuing. Servers that do not take such measures risk being black listed by other servers in the network.
This document requires no interaction with the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) [4].
This specification defines the following XML namespace:
Upon advancement of this specification from a status of Experimental to a status of Draft, the XMPP Registrar [5] shall add the foregoing namespace to the registry located at <https://xmpp.org/registrar/stream-features.html>, as described in Section 4 of XMPP Registrar Function (XEP-0053) [6].
The XMPP Registrar shall maintain a registry of IBR challenge types. Challenge types defined within the XEP series MUST be registered with the XMPP Registrar.
In order to submit new values to this registry, the registrant shall define an XML fragment of the following form and either include it in the relevant XMPP Extension Protocol or send it to the email address <email@example.com>:
For an example registration, see the next section.
This specification defines the following IBR challenge types:
Upon advancement of this specification from a status of Experimental to a status of Draft, the XMPP Registrar [5] shall add the following definition to the IBR challenge types registry, as described in this document:
If the protocol defined in this specification undergoes a revision that is not fully backwards-compatible with an older version, the XMPP Registrar shall increment the protocol version number found at the end of the XML namespaces defined herein, as described in Section 4 of XEP-0053.
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This XMPP Extension Protocol is copyright © 1999 – 2020 by the XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF).
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this specification (the "Specification"), to make use of the Specification without restriction, including without limitation the rights to implement the Specification in a software program, deploy the Specification in a network service, and copy, modify, merge, publish, translate, distribute, sublicense, or sell copies of the Specification, and to permit persons to whom the Specification is furnished to do so, subject to the condition that the foregoing copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Specification. Unless separate permission is granted, modified works that are redistributed shall not contain misleading information regarding the authors, title, number, or publisher of the Specification, and shall not claim endorsement of the modified works by the authors, any organization or project to which the authors belong, or the XMPP Standards Foundation.
## NOTE WELL: This Specification is provided on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, express or implied, including, without limitation, any warranties or conditions of TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, MERCHANTABILITY, or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. ##
In no event and under no legal theory, whether in tort (including negligence), contract, or otherwise, unless required by applicable law (such as deliberate and grossly negligent acts) or agreed to in writing, shall the XMPP Standards Foundation or any author of this Specification be liable for damages, including any direct, indirect, special, incidental, or consequential damages of any character arising from, out of, or in connection with the Specification or the implementation, deployment, or other use of the Specification (including but not limited to damages for loss of goodwill, work stoppage, computer failure or malfunction, or any and all other commercial damages or losses), even if the XMPP Standards Foundation or such author has been advised of the possibility of such damages.
This XMPP Extension Protocol has been contributed in full conformance with the XSF's Intellectual Property Rights Policy (a copy of which can be found at <https://xmpp.org/about/xsf/ipr-policy> or obtained by writing to XMPP Standards Foundation, P.O. Box 787, Parker, CO 80134 USA).
The HTML representation (you are looking at) is maintained by the XSF. It is based on the YAML CSS Framework, which is licensed under the terms of the CC-BY-SA 2.0 license.
The Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) is defined in the XMPP Core (RFC 6120) and XMPP IM (RFC 6121) specifications contributed by the XMPP Standards Foundation to the Internet Standards Process, which is managed by the Internet Engineering Task Force in accordance with RFC 2026. Any protocol defined in this document has been developed outside the Internet Standards Process and is to be understood as an extension to XMPP rather than as an evolution, development, or modification of XMPP itself.
The primary venue for discussion of XMPP Extension Protocols is the <firstname.lastname@example.com> discussion list.
Discussion on other xmpp.org discussion lists might also be appropriate; see <http://xmpp.org/about/discuss.shtml> for a complete list.
Errata can be sent to <firstname.lastname@example.com>.
The following requirements keywords as used in this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119: "MUST", "SHALL", "REQUIRED"; "MUST NOT", "SHALL NOT"; "SHOULD", "RECOMMENDED"; "SHOULD NOT", "NOT RECOMMENDED"; "MAY", "OPTIONAL".
1. XEP-0077: In-Band Registration <https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0077.html>.
2. XEP-0004: Data Forms <https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0004.html>.
3. BCP 47: Tags for Identifying Languages <http://tools.ietf.org/html/bcp47>.
4. The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) is the central coordinator for the assignment of unique parameter values for Internet protocols, such as port numbers and URI schemes. For further information, see <http://www.iana.org/>.
5. The XMPP Registrar maintains a list of reserved protocol namespaces as well as registries of parameters used in the context of XMPP extension protocols approved by the XMPP Standards Foundation. For further information, see <https://xmpp.org/registrar/>.
6. XEP-0053: XMPP Registrar Function <https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0053.html>.
Note: Older versions of this specification might be available at http://xmpp.org/extensions/attic/
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Alberto "Senator, I do not recall" Gonzalez just strutted past me in the Music School like some pint-sized sub-Napoleon little banty rooster--almost as bad as his boss. It was everything I could do not to pick him up by the throat and tell him to get the fuck out of my building.
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On Tuesday, President Trump traveled to San Diego to inspect border wall prototypes. While there, he offered a word salad about what sort of wall he'd like to spend tens of billions of taxpayer dollars building.
"The larger it is, the better it is because it's very hard to get over the top," Trump said. "It's really deterrent from getting over the top. Who would think, who would think. But getting over the top is easy. These are like professional mountain climbers."
Even though Trump thinks existing walls are "easy" to climb over, in the next breath, he said he only wants to build ones that are impossible to surmount.
"They can't climb some of these walls — some of them they can and those are the walls we aren't using," Trump said. "And even the walls they have now they are not holding up. And they're small, but they're really great compared to what they had before. Stopped about 95 percent."
It's hard to imagine what sort of wall would be impossible for professional climbers to surmount. Fox & Friends recently touted one proposal that excited hosts because it would feature "spikes" on top.
During his trip to the border, Trump claimed "a part of San Diego needs a wall" in order to reestablish "law and order." But his actions indicate he views it mainly as a bargaining chip.
Last month, the Trump administration criticized a number of immigration reform proposals in Congress — nearly all of which included funding for the border wall and border security. The Trump administration seemed stuck on the idea of banning legal immigration as well — in the form of family-based migration and the diversity lottery — and all the bills put forward for a vote in the Senate failed.
But the mere fact that Trump is asking American taxpayers to pay for any part of the wall represents a violation of one of his signature campaign promises, which was that Mexico would pay for it.
These days, Trump seems confused about whether he believes Mexico will pay or not. During his campaign rally in Pennsylvania last Saturday, Trump claimed that he canceled a meeting with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto after Nieto asked him to "make a statement that Mexico will not pay for the wall." But Trump then immediately pivoted to attacking Democrats for resisting his efforts to force American taxpayer to pay for all of it.
"We will build a wall, we have to build a wall. We have to build a wall, and the Democrats are holding it back," Trump said. "You know, we had a deal — $25 billion. And by the way, if I get $25 billion for the wall, you're going to have a lot of change."
Trump's trip to inspect wall prototypes on Tuesday was his first to the country's most populous state as president. He concluded his remarks by unloading on Gov. Jerry Brown (D), who recently responded to a lawsuit Trump's DOJ filed against the state's immigration laws by saying, "The Trump administration is full of liars."
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Thiago Silva insists Neymar was not affected by the boos of the PSG fans in the 8-0 win over Dijon.
The Brazil international scored four and assisted two goals in the encounter, but his performance was overshadowed by another spat with Cavani.
The Uruguayan needed one goal to break Ibrahimovic's record, but Neymar opted to play the penalty after sealing his hat trick, a play that did not go down well with the fans.
Silva insisted the Brazilian was unaffected by the reaction to his decision to take the penalty.
"No, I do not think he was angry when he left," Silva told Canal+.
"There was some of the supporters against him, but the most important thing is the final score and the win.
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Lost or Found: We are Related
Fourth Sunday of Lent (C)
Gospel: Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32
If you haven't actually had the experience I'm about to describe, you've probably seen it happening to someone else. You're in an airport or a train station, arriving in a strange place, worried about getting lost, when suddenly you catch a glimpse of someone holding up a sign with your name on it.
It happened to me in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania in Africa, where I visited a number of years ago to participate in a Lutheran-Muslim Dialogue sponsored by the Lutheran World Federation . When I arrived, exhausted from a very long flight, way over there in a crowd of people beyond a cordon, I saw a man holding up a sign with The Lutheran World Federation logo on it and my name. Actually he wasn't just holding the sign up. He was enthusiastically raising it up and down so I'd be sure to see it. And sure enough we found each other half way across the world.
Lost and found. Which leads us to Jesus Parable of the Prodigal Son.
There's a music video of the story of the Prodigal Son. Only it's called "Prodigal Daughter". The song's sung by somebody named Tifah. And in the video, there's a young woman walking through the streets of a big city, surrounded by skyscrapers, turning this way and that, panicky and obviously anxious and distressed. And every time she turns a corner, there he is again. A man (you never see his face) is right there holding up a sign that says "Daughter". No matter where the young woman turns, No matter how much she refuses to recognize him, he crosses her path holding up that sign.
Today we put the spotlight on the faithful one who's holding up that sign for us that says "Son" or "Daughter". The one who is always hoping to meet us. The one who crosses our path everywhere. Jesus calls him Father in the story he tells. (You can say Mother if that works better for you). And what can we say about this father? He has children . . . and one of his children asks for his inheritance early while his father is still alive. And the father complies. So right from the get-go we see that this particular Father isn't stingy. Doesn't hold back. Isn't miserly or sparing or grudging. Is generous beyond reason. Even before he's dead (he doesn't have to do this!), he gives away his legacy to his sons.
And right away there's a cost to that father. More than money. He loses this son to the lure of a distant country. And we might imagine both parents standing out in front of the house waving goodbye to their child with tears in their eyes. Likely they never forget this child who is lost.
The next time we meet up with the father, he's out in front of the house when he catches a glimpse of the son who ran away. The son is approaching the house from far away, all dirty and scruffy looking. And what does the father do? He starts running out to welcome his child home. He doesn't even ask about the details. About the misadventures and the waste of his gift. While the son running towards his father blurting out his apology, it's as if the Father is running towards his son holding up a that says: "Son". (It could just as well be "Daughter".) Saying "Remember who you are." Remembering who you're related to. And as soon as the two meet, the Father drops that sign and embraces his child. This child who was lost has come home. And it's time to throw a party with music and food and a big gooey cake.
God just can't wait to rush out to greet us when we come home all dirty and disillusioned and exhausted from the struggle. When we try to run away (or are driven away by forces beyond our control—forces that aren't love, God keeps right on holding up that sign with our name on it. Around every corner.
For all of us who've ever worried about being misfit or outcast, God reaches out to us beyond these roles and embraces us back into the family. God invites us to a celebration meal in which he gives us himself, the best gift. And then God gives us a whole new life, a whole new role. God gives us signs to hold up for each other. Brother. Sister. Daughter. Son. Child. Friend. Only these signs aren't printed on poster board. They're signs like a crock pot of soup, a plate of chocolate chip cookies, a good listening ear in time of need, kind words, a note of encouragement, the sharing of tears, a prayer shawl, a warm place to go where people are growing together in faith, caring and community.
We who know how powerful it is to be loved unconditionally and can't help but want everybody else to experience this love, too. By grace, we are related to a loving and forgiving God, and by grace we are related to each other. Around every corner and across the world. This is our hope, and this is our promise.
In Jesus' name. Amen.