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Live blogs by @LoveStats of @Conversition. This is a session summary from The Market Research Event by IIR in Orlando, Florida, November 2011. It was posted mere minutes after completion of the talk. Any inaccuracies are my own. Any humorous side remarks are also my own. Feel free to leave comments and critiques.
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- The less you reflect your consumers, the more you need to build empathy
- Dogs to empathy very well :). They have instinctual way to get to know each other. Humans don't have that sniffing benefit. 🙂
- Some places attract certain people like Harley Davidson, Apple, Avon. You work for them because you like them.
- Leadership needs to understand consumer
- When you look in the mirror, do you see your consumer "I don't do the shopping" "I use the company store" "I don't have time for twitter" These are empathy gaps.
- We KNOW what they feel. We know HOW they think and what they do. We need to FEEL what they feel. We can relate to WHY they think. We need to turn knowledge into the ability to feel.
- Research tools help but they are not sufficient
- Cultivate empathy! [I really like this. This is a unique perspective]
- Working in beverages, she always sipped product. She didn't drink a pop like a consumer would. Taste is not everything. She brought the 11 ounce bottle to a meeting and told people to drink it. They couldnt' finish the bottle. Do what the consumer will be doing. Put it in the right behaviour. Look at satiation and wear out for beverages.
- Empathize with people who have a different situation. Open packages with gloves on.
- Walk in your shoppers shoes. Wear their hats.
- Touch point inventory. Consumer sabbatical. Empathy journal.
- Touchpoint is process of each phase of shopper journey. Inventory of touchpoints. Identify empathy gaps. Explore, prepare, consumer, restore, dispose, shop, buy, transport, returnign it, read, wathc listen, share it
- Sabbatical -if you aren't a shopper, go shopping. if you don't cook, cook. If you don't have kids, borrow some (don't steal them). Set a tight budget, plan and shop for 5, prepare and serve all week. See where the tradeoffs are. Don't imagine it, do it.[love this ]
- Journal your feels, look for patterns. detail all the facts and your feelings, opinions, emotions.
- Company culture – get more people involved, immersion retreat or extreme ethnography [EXTREME!!!!] Moving a focus group to a different room does not count
- Engage senior leadership, project teams, move away from the office, mix job functions, debrief every day. Discuss how it impacts your business.
- do it at least once per year, but three seasonal sessions works well.
- Digital discover – look at online language, read it, immerse yourself, follow the links
- Get off the couch, get beyond migrated qualitative – shadowing, day in the life, no videos, no cameras, mystery shopping, get into personal ethnography.
Beyond Ethnography: Creating a Culture
Committed to Consumer Empathy
Paulette Kish, Strategic Insights Officer, Mars Petcare
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A Good Kind of F.A.T.
April Motl
April Motl is a pastor's wife who loves to laugh, loves her man, loves to talk on the phone entirely too long and most of all, loves her Lord. Collaborating with the efforts of her husband Eric, the two of them share a ministry dedicated to bringing God's Word into the everyday lives of married couples, men and women. April has been privileged through her own church and ministry outside her local body to share God's Word with women ranging in ages and stages, across denominations, and walks of life. April is a graduate from Southern California Seminary and has written for Just Between Us Magazine, Dayspring's (In)courage, and The Secret Place and also writes regularly for crosswalk.com, iBelieve.com and Women's Ministry Tools. For more information, visit Motl Ministries at: www.MotlMinistries.com
- 2012 Oct 30
Most of the time women don't want to be fat, but in today's ministry tool update we are going to talk about a different kind of fat, and it's one that I always want to be!
FAT is an acronym for faithful, available, teachable. The woman who discipled me taught me to look for and be a F.A.T. gal! And when you are looking for women to include in a discipleship or ministry environment, you want FAT women too!
Here's a few things Paul had to say about being faithful in regards to ministry:
I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who has strengthened me, because He considered me faithful, putting me into service... 1 Timothy 1:12 NAS
Women must likewise be dignified, not malicious gossips, but temperate, faithful in all things. 1 Timothy 3:11 NAS
The things which you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses, entrust these to faithful men who will be able to teach others also. 2 Timothy 2:2 NAS
Available simply refers to the practical reality that sometimes we enter seasons for certain activities and not others. When you are providing home care for your elderly parent and corralling teenagers might not be a season when you are terribly available. Women with lots of small children also find their time is used up with other, noble callings. Don't pressure a woman who isn't available. But also don't expect what can't be given. Invest discipleship and ministry opportunities wisely for your sake and the sake of the other gal.
Lastly, having a teachable spirit is HUGE! People can be gifted up one side and down the other, but lack a teachable heart and completely spoil a group dynamic of authenticity and growth. It has been said that the Psalms reflects the heart of God, while Proverbs reflects the mind of God. Clearly the whole of Scripture is needed to reach for any understanding of God's character and heart. But interestingly, the phrase "teach me" is found more in Psalms, written mostly by the "man after God's own heart" than any other book of the Bible. I think it's safe to say God wants His children to have teachable hearts. The best way to foster an environment of teachable hearts is to have one yourself.


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Rising To New Strategies, Learning New Curve With Confidence – Jean Brownhill
By Nina Zipkin
Sweeten Founder and architect Jean Brownhill finds that as CEO of her own company, she can forget growing comfortable in her job and breathing that sigh of relief.
Effectively leading her business means understanding that every day will bring on a new challenge. But it is the thrill of accomplishing those new goals, and the positive feedback and success stories from her users that allows her to keep going during tough moments.
Brownhill says, "If you accept that being a CEO will have a vertical learning curve, and you have to also accept that you're the type of person that likes that and likes the challenge. Then when you make that switch, it's game on."
Her journey to lead her own company began when Brownhill started renovating her house in 2011. She thought that given her 10-plus years' experience as an architect and working in the construction industry, the renovation would just fall into place. This was not the case. Brownhill had hired the wrong general contractor, but her mistake wasn't a complete loss. If the renovation process was difficult for her, she figured it would be way more stressful for someone who didn't have the benefit of her education and expertise.
She decided to launch Sweeten, a platform that connects homeowners with general contractors who share a similar vision so everyone can be at ease. Seven years later, the website has nearly $900 million in construction projects in the pipeline.
Sweeten is Brownhill's first business. While she has taken the lead on many design projects over the course of her career, she says that being a CEO has demanded a whole new set of skills, chief among them being the ability to adapt at a moment's notice.
Accepting her role as CEO as always changing has also helped her with her challenge in fundraising. Brownhill has achieved a major milestone in her career. She is one of only 26 African-American female founders in the country to raise more than $1 million in venture capital, and that is only the beginning. She has her eye on growing Sweeten into a unicorn — with all the hard work that entails.
"I am constantly facing the challenge of fundraising. Wanting to grow a billion-dollar company, you need external capital to do that. The way I motivate myself is I read our blog," Brownhill tells Entrepreneur. "We always try to feature the family we've done the renovation for. We've got all different types of renovations and lots of diversity, and it just makes me so happy. Then I can remember why I'm doing this, and who we are in service to, and I can keep going."
What is a quote that inspires you, and why?
My quote comes from this Langston Hughes poem called "Mother to Son," and it's the last line. And I say it to myself all the time. The mother is talking to her son, and she says, "I'm still climbing. And life for me ain't been no crystal stair. I'm still climbing." It just resonates so deeply with me. Anytime I'm feeling like I had a tough day, I think of the whole poem, and I keep going.
What is a book that inspires you, and why?
Personal History, by Katharine Graham, the first female publisher of the Washington Post. I recommend it to any woman for professional motivation. It is such an incredible book that really shows you the techniques can be your own, the style of leadership can be your own — as long as you lead. And she really did. She had so much courage and so much discipline and really did lead the company and the paper to be wildly successful. [What I learned from that book] is that leadership doesn't have to look like what we consider [to be the stereotype of a strong leader]. She was so open about her vulnerability, indecision and questioning.
Was there someone who really encouraged you about your ability to launch a company?
Before I was an entrepreneur I read this book Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist. It's by Roger Lowenstein, and I was inspired after I read that book to write Warren Buffett a letter, and he wrote me back. When I saw the message in the mail, I almost fell over. And it was really such a turning point in my thinking about what was possible. From then on I really tried to follow this feeling of being deeply inspired and creative. It was like 2005 or 2006. I kept writing him, and he wrote me back a few times and invited me to the annual meeting. It was just wild. It was so random and so crazy, but it really did give me this incredible feeling that other crazy things might be possible, too.
Who is a woman that inspires you, and why?
Madam CJ Walker. She inspires me because not only is she African-American, but she was also the first self-made woman millionaire in America. Period. So to do that [and run her haircare company] in the 1900s is very motivational to me. [If I have a tough day, I look at her and think] I'm pretty sure you can do this.
What inspires you at work?
As a CEO of a startup that's now transitioning to more of a growth-stage company, it's definitely my inspiration that keeps changing, because the job keeps changing. I would say that now I am most inspired just by seeing the light bulb turn on in someone on the team. It's such an incredible feeling. They're motivated, they are working hard and it's totally from their own engine. When that happens I feel so excited, not just because they're going to do a good job at Sweeten — of course I want them to do a good job here — but I hope that [light] stays on in them forever. Maybe it's similar to like what a teacher feels like.
Are there lessons from earlier bosses or mentors that you think back on when you need an extra boost or bit of encouragement?
My first boss was Elizabeth O'Donnell. She was my structures teacher at Cooper Union. who hired me and gave me my first job. And she continued to work at Cooper Union and became the interim dean while we were looking for another dean. Elizabeth worked really hard for that place, and it was never about getting her name out there or being a name-brand architect.
[She taught me] to be committed to the overall good and mission of the vision, not your personal seat on the journey. At Cooper Union, Elizabeth has been a student, a teacher, the associate dean, the dean and back to associate dean again. She is deeply committed to the school and its students, but she's never focused on the role or title, just the impact she can have. To me, her career is the embodiment of this quote from Harry Truman. "It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit."
Who or what has inspired you to be a better person?
My grandmothers. I am named after both my grandmothers. Jean is my mother's mother. And Virginia is my father's mother. They both had pretty extraordinary lives. My mom's mom was in the Blitz in London with two small children, and she ended up emigrating to this country. My dad's mom was a domestic worker in the South who never was able to learn how to read or write. I can't not think about them every day, because my first name is Jean Virginia.
For those women who are looking to start a business, or have begun one but are feeling discouraged, what advice do you have for them to keep going?
With tech startups, entrepreneurs often talk a lot about scaling their business. However, most of them have internalized this concept incorrectly. They think "scaling" is about the tech platform working when many people are using it. But that's not the hard part, at least not anymore with services like Amazon.
The key is to work on scaling your value proposition and having it resonate with a lot of people. If you get that right, all the technical issues will then make themselves obvious, which makes them easy to fix. You'll see where the water has broken through and can reinforce that area, instead of spending a bunch of time on the entire dam.


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Optimal sanitation: Focus on the Americas at World Water Week 2019
August 26, 2019
The Inter-American Development Bank is coordinating the Focus on the Americas sessions during World Water Week in Sweden's capital, with a focus on adopting a new paradigm to close the gap in secure sanitation services in the region. STOCKHOLM, Sweden – Providing safe sanitation for all in Latin America requires not only significant investments, but a change of paradigm to be able to do more with less resources. Right now, only 22% to the population of Latin America and the Caribbean have access to those services.
IDB-FEMSA Award to innovation on water & sanitation opens call for 2019
June 12, 2019
The IDB-FEMSA Awards to innovation on water and sanitation are reaching their tenth anniversary in 2019 and will be celebrating the occasion with a special edition that calls on those who have innovative solutions to compete for a special prize. First, second, and third place winners of the IDB-FEMSA Awards will receive $15,000, $10,000 and $5,000 in cash, respectively. This year will also feature a special category called "All stars," where prior editions finalists will compete for a one-time cash prize of $15,000.
IDB approves grant funds for countries receiving migrants in Latin America and Caribbean
May 07, 2019
Grant resources will support inclusive national development investments, regional projects, research, training on critical issues, and innovative solutions impacting development in region The Board of Governors of the Inter-American Development Bank has approved the use of its special grant facility to support operations that help countries integrate migrants into local communities and contribute to their development.
IDB launches Superheroes of Development contest to recognize executing agencies
March 04, 2019
In its second edition, the call for proposals will be open from March 4th to May 17th, 2019. The Superheroes of Development Award will recognize executing agencies of IDB-financed projects that have successfully addressed challenges during its implementation. The contest will identify eight finalists from across Latin America and the Caribbean who will travel to IDB's Headquarters in Washington, D.C. to present their solutions.
Quality expenditure and digitalization, priorities for Central America, Dominican Republic
February 15, 2019
The IDB brings regional Governors to its Washington, D.C. headquarters to consider policy options to speed up growth and reduce poverty The Governors of the Inter-American Development Bank's (IDB), Central American Isthmus and the Dominican Republic held their 33rd Annual Meeting to discuss options to achieve higher growth rates and foster productive activities in the years to come. The region grew 3.8 percent in 2018, way above the 1.1 percent average for Latin America and the Caribbean as a whole. In addition, it is expected to grow 4.2 percent in 2019.
Brazil to improve municipal infrastructure with IDB support
December 03, 2018
INVESTMENTS OF $600 MILLION CHANNELED BY BANCO DO BRASIL WILL BE AVAILABLE TO MUNICIPALITIES WITH A POPULATION OF UP TO 500,000 The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has approved a $600 million multisectoral loan to Banco do Brasil to improve the efficiency of road, water, energy and public services infrastructure in small and medium-sized cities.
IDB and partners launch platform to fight food loss and waste
October 16, 2018
#SinDesperdicio will focus on four areas of activity: innovation, public policies, knowledge, and behavior, leveraging the efforts of the private sector, civil society and governments in the region Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) loses or wastes more than 127 million tons of food a year—an annual average of 223 kilos per person in a region where nearly 42 million people suffer from acute undernutrition (hunger).
Green infrastructure for Latin America and the Caribbean: rich in water, yet thirsty
August 27, 2018
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) is coordinating the Latin America and the Caribbean sessions during World Water Week in Sweden's capital, with a focus on the need to adopt nature-based solutions to address the current and future demand for water resources in the region. STOCKHOLM, Sweden – Latin America and the Caribbean needs to progress towards a wiser combination of green and traditional infrastructure to satisfy the water needs of the 21st century.
IDB to join new Caribbean Climate-Smart Accelerator to facilitate $1bn of investments
August 09, 2018
Backed by 26 Caribbean governments and the private sector, the Accelerator will fast-track investments which support climate action and economic growth The Inter-American Development Bank announced today that it will partner with the Caribbean Climate-Smart Accelerator to program and implement the additional $1 billion in funds that it pledged for climate smart-investments across the Caribbean region at the Paris One Planet summit on December 12, 2017.
Brazil to improve environmental sanitation with IDB loan
October 02, 2017
US$135 million loan will benefit more than 31,000 people living in the Mane Dende River basin in the Salvador da Bahia suburbs Salvador da Bahia, Brazil's fourth largest urban area, will invest in environmental sanitation of the Mane Dende River basin with help from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). The area is home to more than 31,000 people, most of them living in highly vulnerable, informal settlements.


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ArtRave is the only one online that actually works to meet the needs of the emerging online artist by providing the tools and platform needed in order to promote the artist and enable the artist to learn how to promote themselves, to get their art known and into the search engines,where people will actually find them and see them.
ArtRevu provides a "Me" page, which serves as a profile and platform that the artist can introduce themselves to the internet world from. It contains links to the artists stores, sites, social connections and contains important information the artist wants to share with the world.
Their "Me" page connects to the ArtRave Gallery, where the artist uploads one work per page and can include all kinds of information about the artwork,its inception,its reality, its feeling,its purpose. The artist can share all details about their art on both his or her "Me" page as well as on the actual artwork page and include links to where the art can be purchased online~!
ArtRevu shows and promotes art and has connections to the most popular PODs online and helps promote artists using those PODs
It has become more evident over the passed several years that the PODs are more geared towards individuals wishing to have their family photos printed into products and they make the bulk of their money catering to the public's private self uploading orders in this matter, so artists are only a secondary business on PODS, as they are in business for themselves and will sell anything to anyone and have literally thousands of hopeful artists posting new work daily, involved in forums,clubs or groups, providing emotional support for one another and encouragement & congratulations whenever one manages to make a sale.
PODs however charge the artists as much as they charge the individuals uploading their family pics to make a print, who are vested in their own pictures and seldom by artists works in comparison to what they do with their own.
In order for the artist to make money on the POD, they have to mark up above the POD's base price, inflating the already high price and making it not as affordable to the buyer and less profitable for the artist. The only one making a profit is the POD~!
To me it has become obvious that all the other PODs are into their own sales and could care less which artist's works sell and do little to promote individual artists.
You can have a shop on their site for years with little or no traffic as they have new members joining hourly that leave the rest buried in their sites and not that easy to find.
That is what led to me creating ArtRevu - to promote artistswith free and or low cost options to promote their art online.
I was able to start promoting artists with POD shops and have helped some from making only one sale a month to reportedly making sales every day.
While my site was initially meant for just my own art, I shared my successes with them at other social sites, telling them which sites I had sales at and how I achieved them and also told them which sites I made no sales at and had little success at.I began sharing how to auction on Ebay and how to set up shop on Etsy and where to go to get printings services.
After a while many flocked to my site requesting I open it for members and to start posting my tips and tutorials into the forum so they could learn and start their own websites. I also helped other artists to build their own websites for a while but as time passed it was proven many couldn't handle their own sites so they closed them and joined mine.
Later on new members who didnt know how we started wondered why the site had my name on it, not realizing it was my site and evolved into an artists network site.I then began including "Featured Artists Network" after my name as I was endorsing m y members,but as the membership grew i began seeking out a name that reflected art in general and not my name.
When the domain called ArtRevu became available, I bought it without hesitation.
A good interactive way to show and promote your art, in the easiest possible way is to join ArtRevu and be an observer first and check out all the information available to help you with your art online. Join our clubs and groups to get your name and websites listed in our Directories which get advertised online and are available to our viewers which will help them find your art.
Most people nowadays have a Facebook account. Join our Facebook Groups & Pages and post your art~!!
After comparing, you will also find that the best place to sell your art prints and products is through us here at ArtRaveSuperCenter now called Art2Do - where you the artist can design and create hundreds of art products that you can make the best profits from worldwide~!
See for yourself~ Many of our artists belong to all the popular PODs [ Print-On-Demand ] websites.
While it is necessary for most artists to have to deal with these sites to produce their art into salable products, none of these sites help the individual artist to actually sell their products~! its up to the individual artist to visit clubs, forums, write blogs, post comments, buy ads,buy banner ads, buy facebook ads, pay ad agencies, pay SEO agencies, pay advertising websites, buy news paper ads, post to online classifieds and on and on to where there isnt enough time in the day to do the promotions needed and still have time for creating new art~!
That is why ArtRevu has evolved ~
ArtRevu was built by an artist for artists~!
Those that know me, that have been with me since the beginning, know how we have evolved and worked towards promoting family friendly art online and helping artists to sell their art by creating paths to follow.
After joining 100s of sites over the years and posting art and finding it never leading to purchases, I took matters into my own hands and began researching how to promote on line, where to sell , how to sell , what to sell and how to ship and stay connected to the art scenes that 'matter'.
Competitions, contests,virtual shows all mean shelling out money to some promo agency and maybe you will be recognized, maybe you will win, but for the most part its like throwing away your money~!
Learning to cross promote, self promote, self advertise and where to do it at is the most empowering thing and artist can do for them self online today. There are hundreds of millions of artists online around the world. Most are struggling and would love to be 'discovered' and have a manager who can just sell their work, whether it be a gallery or galleries, stores, shops online and more.
Most would love to tap into the fame that modern day artists who have been lucky enough to hook into have done, such as Thomas Kincade [RIP] who rose to the top via TV and had stores coast to coast selling hand painted reproductions of his work, that he simply had to either touch up or sign, were then numbered and sold for thousands of dollars. His original works that they were based on are 'priceless' and prints of his works were in the finest stores and later all the way down to discount stores. He was a household name and millions who didnt even collect his work would buy his art products, most of which were made overseas and brought into stores all across America and other countries. He was a great artist, BUT there are millions of other great artists all over the world. What set him apart, some say was fate, some say good promo or good connections, such as he had with donating certain works to be printed to benefit charities and TBN broadcasting [which really aided his early career notoriety]
Well there are millions of capable artists out there and many now online looking to show the world what they have to offer and so we have banded together in forming ArtRevu so that we can collectively show the world our art and work together promoting our art and art products worldwide.
MY BEST ADVICE TO ANY ARTIST EMERGING ONLINE IS TO JOIN ARTREVU AND THEN SET UP SHOP HERE AT THE Art2Do TO BE ABLE TO SHOW AND SELL YOUR ART AT PRICES CUSTOMERS WILL APPRECIATE AND YOU AS AN ARTIST CAN ACTUALLY PROFIT BY.


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Centennial students participated in the national Black Writers Read-In program on Tuesday, February fourth. Students and teachers volunteered to read works by published black authors. Several classes gathered in the Centennial Library to listen to poems, short stories, non fiction selections and moving personal accounts from black writers.
Junior Riston Hambrick-Osler read the poem "Afro-American Fragment" by Langston Hughes and was excited to be part of the celebration, "I wanted to play a part in my history. I just wanted to be a good contributor to my culture and to my part. It isn't always easy, but I felt it was worth it to do something meaningful."


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Hey everyone! I'm putting together a global history course (1500 to present) for next term, and I'd like to hear what kinds of things you'd like to know about if you had the opportunity! So, if you had the whole world post-1500 as your starting point, what places, people, ideas, events, changes, networks, border crossings, etc. would interest you?
I'm asking you so I can see the range of interests out there, and maybe get some fresh perspectives on it. Also, if you teach or take global history, what texts does your class use? Which ones did you like?
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Honigman partner Denise J. Lewis named one of twenty "Women in the Law" by Michigan Lawyers Weekly
Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn LLP (Honigman) is pleased to announce that Denise J. Lewis, a Partner in the firm's Real Estate Department, has been named one of 20 "Women in the Law" for 2010 by Michigan Lawyers Weekly, a legal newspaper. An editorial panel selected the honorees based on criteria including a commitment to excellence in the practice of law, being an inspiring and accomplished leader in the profession, serving as a mentor to other women and contributing a significant amount of time and effort to volunteerism and pro bono work.
Lewis was honored along with the 19 other attorneys in a special August 30th section in the publication, and will be honored at a luncheon at the Detroit Marriott in Troy, Mich., on September 16, 2010.
She has had a leading role in some of the most significant development projects for the Detroit area's business community, including the new film studio, Raleigh Michigan Studios; Compuware headquarters; the General Motors Renaissance Center; the Tech Town research park; the Book Cadillac Hotel; the Marathon Oil refinery expansion; and campus development for the College for Creative Studies.
In addition to being honored by Michigan Lawyers Weekly, Lewis has received recognition from Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business from 2005 to 2010; Best Lawyers in America in 2010; Michigan Super Lawyers from 2006 to 2009, and was named as one of the Michigan Super Lawyers' Top 50 Women, 2006-2009. She received the National Association of Women Business Owners' Top Ten Michigan Business Woman Award in 2008, and earned the "Powerful Women in the Legal Field" Award from the Rhonda Walker Foundation in the same year. Additionally, Lewis has been elected to the prestigious American College of Real Estate Lawyers.
Lewis has served on the boards of numerous nonprofit organizations and is currently on the Board of Trustees of the McGregor Fund and Vice Chair of the Detroit Zoological Society. She also serves on the Finance and Investment Committee for the Detroit Riverfront Conservancy and the Investment Committee for the Detroit Investment Fund. She is also a Governor Emeritus for Wayne State University.
Lewis joined Honigman in 1983 and has served on its Board of Directors since 2007. She is also Honigman's Diversity Partner. She earned a J.D., cum laude, from the University of Michigan, an M.A. from Wayne State University and a B.A., cum laude, from Columbia University.


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With four trips to the playoffs in as many years, the Cincinnati Bengals finally look to have got their act together. Very soon they will have to go head to head with the Oakland Raiders in what should be one exciting fixture. The Raiders are going through a difficult period and have not qualified for the playoffs in twelve years. This promises to be a very close encounter between two sides that will be looking to make their mark on the NFL this season. If you want to watch your favorite franchise in action, then get your Cincinnati Bengals Oakland tickets and enjoy the experience, live at the O.co Coliseum.
The Cincinnati Bengals have shown signs of getting better and better over the last few years and as a result of that, they have added a few championships to their collection along the way as well. They now look ready to become perennial playoff contenders and challenge for all the top titles in the upcoming seasons.
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Yankee Farm Credit Refunds $5.1 Million to Members
Yankee Farm Credit today distributed $5.1 million to its members who borrowed from the cooperative. This distribution represents approximately 55% of Yankee's 2016 net income of $9.3 million.
Brenda Frank, Yankee Farm Credit's President and Chief Executive Officer, said that Yankee sent out payments to 1,358 borrowers on March 22nd. The payments represent patronage refunds, which allow Yankee members to share in the cooperative's 2016 earnings.
Ms. Frank explained, "The patronage refunds we provide to members are based on the profits that our association generated last year. This cash patronage refund effectively reduced average loan rates to members by approximately 23% in 2016. The remaining profits are held as Association equity to keep the balance sheet strong through all cycles"
Ms. Frank added, "Patronage refunds represent one of the advantages of borrowing from your local agricultural credit association. The refunds were possible due to our high quality loan portfolio. "
Yankee Farm Credit has paid patronage refunds to its members every year since 1995. Total payments over those 22 years have exceeded $68 million.
About Yankee
Yankee Farm Credit is a member-owned cooperative which provides loans and financial services to farmers and other rural customers. Yankee is an agricultural credit association (ACA) within the national Farm Credit System. Yankee serves all of Vermont, four counties in New Hampshire (Cheshire, Coos, Grafton and Sullivan) and two counties in New York (Clinton and Essex).
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Building resilience into our infrastructure
May 18 2020 - The bushfire crisis of December - January has raised questions about the resilience of Australia's infrastructure, and more broadly the role of sustainability in project planning and assessment. So, what have we learned - and are we ready to take the lessons forward? We put these questions to Infrastructure Australia CEO Romilly Madew and her counterpart from the Infrastructure Sustainability Council of Australia (ISCA), Ainsley Simpson.
Transport network pricing: new thinking on an old problem
May 1 2020 - How, what and when we charge users of roads and transport is a particularly sensitive topic for politicians and the broader community. In this episode, we're joined by Jonathan Spear and Moses Lee from Infrastructure Victoria to talk about new research that points to some potential ways forward.
What does COVID-19 mean for Australia's infrastructure pipeline?
April 14 2020 - Roads Australia's Michael Kilgariff and Mark Bowmer are joined by BIS Oxford Economics Associate Director Adrian Hart to look at what impacts the current COVID crisis will have on infrastructure delivery in Australia.
Adelaide Single Table with David Reynolds, Nov 13
SA Department of Treasury and Finance Chief Executive, David Reynolds (second left), was our special guest at our Adelaide single-table lunch, sponsored by WSP. Also pictured (L to R) are RA President, David Stuart-Watt, WSP Transport Executive, Mark Elford, and our CEO, Michael Kilgariff.
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Victorian Treasurer Tim Pallas joins us for an update on the Government's fiscal response to the coronavirus pandemic and its implications for the next State Budget.
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Chapter One
May 1866
The sky was dark as pitch except for the streaks of lightning skittering across the heavens. Fat drops of rain pelted the top of Mercy's head as she hid from the world inside a vertical tomb. The muscles in her legs, pressed against brick on either side, trembled, and she tried to shift positions even as she listened for noise unrelated to the storm. Faceless men had been chasing her; now it seemed they had found her. She felt the rain run down the back of her neck and shivered. Maybe this is my punishment for leaving the protection of Elijah and Isaac At the moment, wedged into a brick chimney on the second story of a boardinghouse, she regretted that action greatly.
The wind ripped down around her, causing her to look up. Something wasn't right. She squinted hard at another layer in the darkness—grayer, moving, closer than it should be. She had only a few seconds to think of the possibilities before a surge of lightning backlit a man leering down at her. Thunder followed, and her scream dissolved into the vortex of night noises.
"Come out, come out wherever you are, Miss Mercy." The singsong tone of his voice mocked her, and her heart hammered. The sheer speed of what happened next took her off guard. A hand shot out and strong fingers wrapped around her arm. She tried to pull free as he tugged and yanked, moving her inch by inch toward the opening. His face was so close at one point she could smell alcohol on his breath as his other hand grappled for purchase anyplace on her body. But still she had the crazy thought that in other circumstances she would think him a nice-looking young man. Not at all like the bounty hunters she'd conjured up in her imagination.
She resisted with all her weight as he tugged, but it wasn't enough and she could feel the end of her journey coming at her with ferocious haste. Thunder cracked overhead—so close it felt as if it was sitting right on top of them—and the young man seemed startled by it. Mercy seized the opportunity. She pushed upward, giving slack to the man's grip on her arm, and catching him off-guard. For a second, his hold loosened, and she yanked her arm back with all her might. Without the tension and her weight, he lost his balance, staggered for a moment, tried to grab the edge of the brick, but missed. The angle of the roof lent itself to his swift tumble down the shingles and off the edge. She could hear his scream over the sound of a brief lull in the storm. More telling than the scream from his fall was the way it abruptly ended. An alarmed voice from below yelled out. "Hell's bells, he's down!"
Mercy swallowed big gulps of the wet air just before she felt herself slip down the brick toward an even darker place. She struggled against the fall, knees bent, twisting and turning until she thwarted gravity by wedging herself sideways in the chimney. She tried to still her escalating panic and told herself she was safe for the moment. At least, she thought, if anyone else came out on the roof and looked into the chimney, they'd not be able to see her. Now, if they looked up the chimney from the fireplace in the parlor, that might prove to be a problem. She had no idea how far she'd fallen—only that the sky above seemed further away. She wondered about the man who'd fallen from the roof, and wondered how many were left. She'd heard two men whispering in the hall outside her rented room, seen another standing thirty feet below as she'd stood barefoot on slippery shingles and contemplated her escape. Did the man survive his fall from the roof? What kind of people hunt someone for money? How long will they wait to catch me?
A soft but steady shower of rain hit the young man lying on the wet grass behind the boardinghouse. A man called Gus kneeled beside him. Behind them, three other men stood in an uncomfortable semicircle. Luther and Newt, two ex–Union soldiers who had saved each other on the battlefield more than once, traded sad glances. The third man, Harland, had spent the last four months of the war confined to an army hospital for two bullet wounds. Vengeance for the Confederate who'd shot him had gone unmeted. It was Harland who finally broke the silence.
"He's gone, Gus," Harland said. "Let's get him outta the rain."
But Gus didn't move. Harland traded looks with the other men, who shrugged. Luther looked up at the pitched roof and shook his head. "I swear that vixen is half witch. Disappeared is what she did."
"We need a new plan," Newt said.
Gus never took his eyes from the man on the grass. "You keep after her," he said. "I'm taking my boy home to his mother."
It was the sound of garbled voices that made Mercy open her eyes again. She stared at a triangle of light on her arm and then looked up. Daylight. Broad daylight overhead that left her wondering how on earth she'd passed the rest of the night in the chimney. Her head throbbed, her joints ached, and her back felt as if she'd never be able to straighten it again. She shivered in her damp dress and, ironically, wished she were sitting next to a warm fire. Had she really fallen asleep in such nightmarish conditions?
The sounds below her floated up the flue, which magnified people's voices. She pictured the interior of the boardinghouse, specifically the parlor with the large fireplace and the worn velvet chairs placed in close proximity to the hearth.
"Really, Mr. Douglas, that is most unkind!"
Mercy recognized the voice of Mrs. Douglas. She and her husband of fifty years had a strange way of addressing each other so formally; Mercy wondered if the two even remembered each other's first name.
"I am not being unkind, Mrs. Douglas." The old man's voice was querulous. "I am simply stating the truth. That young woman was too beautiful for her own good. Beauty like that gets a woman in all kinds of trouble."
"I liked her," his wife said. "She was sweet and didn't gossip."
"We knew her all of three days. Not nearly enough time to form a suitable opinion of her."
"You just said she was beautiful," Mrs. Douglas responded tartly.
"That is not an opinion," Mr. Douglas said. "It is a fact." His tone said he regarded the subject closed. "I don't remember a spring as cool as the one we're in now, do you?"
If Mrs. Douglas was miffed at being dismissed, the pleasant modulation of her voice gave no evidence of it. "I don't believe I do," she said. "Well, maybe the spring of '32. Remember how cold it was the day Joseph was born? Positively frosty in April."
"Yes, you're quite right. That was a cold spring. And right now, it feels rather frosty in here," he answered.
From her perch in the chimney, Mercy tried to shift her weight. She tried not to think of her thirst. Then she tried not to think about her other basic needs that needed to be met.
Below her, she could hear Mr. Douglas moving very close to the fireplace. More sounds carried up the shaft. Someone seemed to be stacking kindling as if intending to start a fire.
Mercy looked up at a sky that seemed miles away while she wriggled and turned to get her feet wedged in a better position on the brick. She'd have to climb up. Her legs quivered, muscles protesting every move she tried to make, as gravity seemed to grab hold of her ankles and pull her back down. She heard Mr. Douglas ask Mrs. Douglas for a match. Her nerves frayed to a breaking point, Mercy had a quick mental picture of a fire below her. The thought was so frightening her urgent need for the outhouse vanished and was replaced by sheer panic.
"Don't light the fire!" Mercy yelled.
Silence from below, then, "Did you hear that, Mrs. Douglas?"
"I think it came from the stairs, Mr. Douglas."
Mercy yelled again. "It came from in here. Don't light the—"
She slipped and the hearth of the fireplace came quickly at her. She clawed at the creosote-covered brick to slow her descent, but it didn't help—she dropped like a rock into the wide opening of the hearth in the parlor. She landed on the stack of kindling feet first, but her legs buckled and she found herself on her backside staring at the astonished faces of Mr. and Mrs. Douglas.
"Good day," Mercy said.
Mrs. Douglas, holding a teacup, opened her mouth as if to scream, but no sound came out. Mr. Douglas stood rooted to the spot, a box of matches in hand, his jaw dropped in shocked surprise.
"I'm sorry if I startled you," Mercy said, struggling to get out of the hearth.
"What the blazes is this?" Mr. Douglas demanded. "Where did you come from?"
Mercy tried to dust the chimney soot from her dress but then noticed her arms were as black as her dress.
Mercy looked around nervously. "Who else is here?"
"No one," Mr. Douglas said. He went to the fireplace, braced his hands on his knees and bent to look up the chimney.
"How in the world …?"
"Where is Mrs. Kline?"
Mrs. Douglas seemed to have found her voice. "Bess hasn't been down yet. It was a late night here. Lots of commotion."
"She knows it was a late night, Mrs. Douglas," Mr. Douglas said. "I believe we can surmise the commotion was about her."
"I'm sorry about that," Mercy said.
Mrs. Douglas swallowed hard, then pointed a trembling hand at Mercy's chest. "You … you appear to have a gun in your bosom."
Mercy pressed a soot-covered hand against the pistol tucked into the bodice of her dress, more to reassure herself it was safe than to apologize for it. "Yes," she said. "I don't have pockets."
Mr. Douglas glanced at her pistol, then caught himself and looked away. "It seems you're in a tight spot," he said. He looked at the chimney. "No pun intended, my dear. Let's get Bess and maybe we can help you figure this out."
"Thank you for your kind offer, but I'll be fine," Mercy said. "No need to wake Mrs. Kline. I'll just get my things and leave you all in peace."
Mercy hurried out of the parlor. She tread lightly on the steps, carefully avoiding the two she knew creaked, and made her way toward her room. The door stood open and she could see the splintered wood of the door jamb where the lock had been kicked in. She should probably pay Bess, the landlady, for damages, but she'd spent her last dollar securing the room.
Mercy entered and went straight to the bed, got down on her knees and did a sweep with her hand to feel for her saddlebags and shoes. Nothing. She tried again, pressing herself even closer to the floor so she could extend her arm further—but again, her hand came in contact with nothing at all. She lifted the bed skirt, pressed her cheek to the floor and looked under the bed. She had little in this world—just her pistol, the clothes on her back, a pair of shoes, and a saddlebag. She might have been able to leave without the shoes, but the saddlebag was another matter. She didn't know if the men had taken it or if it was still in the house. She stood and thought of what to do next, and that's when it dawned on her—the bed was made. Neat as a pin. Quilt pulled up, pillow fluffed. It certainly didn't look like the rumpled bed she'd deserted in the middle of the night. It looked like someone had done some housekeeping in the wee hours. Mercy had never been in her landlady's room, but she knew where it was. She padded barefoot down the hall.


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As the college bowl season gets closer, im reminded of what an exciting time of year this is. For one its Christmas time, which is my favorite time of year because its the birth of our Lord and Savior's birthday. But also we gather around the dinner table on Christmas Day and enjoy Crab legs, and Shrimp, something we all look forward to all year long. My mother looks for sales all year, just for Christmas dinner! Its a very enjoyable time with family.
Now i am an avid football fan, (actually im kinda obsessed about it) and i love watching the bowl games, all of them! With over 30 bowl games it can get a little overwhelming at times and i think sometimes why we need so many? This year they start on the 17th of December with Temple vs Wyoming in the New Mexico Bowl. The last one is January 9th with LSU vs Alabama for the BCS national championship.
Me, personally, i like watching all of them, but i get a little more excited about the smaller bowl games than the bigger ones.(I am a die hard Michigan fan so I will be watching the Sugar Bowl with a smile). Now the reason I like the smaller bowl games is for one reason; The talent that these players possess is unreal at times, and allot of these tremendous athletes will be all but forgotten at the end of the season. Unfortunate, because allot of these athletes could go on to have unprecedented careers at the next level. But going to a smaller school without much advertisement like the bigger ones have, chances are, they get overlooked.
Now by no means am i an expert on this its just something that I've noticed over the years rooting for the underdogs. The teams that come from nothing and make something happen. For example Boise state and Houston this year. Two great teams, that have always been the underdog. I like the underdog, because their the ones that make people take notice. To look their way and say "hey, theirs something big happening their and we need to take notice.
Fortunately, with these two teams moving to the Big East next year, they will get noticed. Something thats been long overdue in my opinion. So this year lets not forget the "little guys" and just maybe, we may see the next Super Bowl QB, or running back.
And with that, lets crack a crab leg, peal some shrimp, and watch some football!! Happy Bowl Season!
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As the long wait to Sherlock series 4 begins, we look back at the past three seasons in this Sherlock retrospective.
Following the airing of Sherlock series 3 finale "His Last Vow" in the United States, fans everywhere are already looking ahead to series 4 (and likely bemoaning their dedication to a television show that only has three episodes each series). And while Sherlock series 4 may premiere this Christmas, it doesn't make the wait any easier.
Make sure to vote for your favourite Sherlock episode at the end of the article. Will your favourite make it to the top of the audience ranking?
For more Sherlock series 3 appreciation, we have also complied our 10 favourite moments from "The Empty Hearse," "The Sign of Three," and "His Last Vow". Plus, here are nine movies starring Benedict Cumberbatch to fill the Sherlock void.
Sherlock and Watson faced off against an underworld gang in "The Blind Banker." After showing off Sherlock's intellectual skills in the series premiere, this follow-up explored John's life instead – and especially his love life. John's desire to maintain some kind of personal life was portrayed in stark contrast to Sherlock, and at this early stage of their friendship, the episode was key in demonstrating their slow navigation towards understanding each other.
In an adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's most famous Sherlock Holmes story, "The Hounds of Baskerville" sent Sherlock and John to fight ghosts and hallucinations. The moor location allowed the story to be taken outside of London, and offered some gorgeous visual opportunities for the audience. But John's fear and Sherlock's self-doubt made this episode what it was, creating a mystery that was genuinely scary, rather than just tense.
The mini-Christmas special allowed Sherlock fans to check in with the various characters to see how they were managing after the supposed death of the consulting detective. While John struggled and Lestrade was just coping, Anderson was dreaming big. The short but enjoyable episode was a wonderful introduction to Sherlock series 3, and indicated that this was to be a more comedic series than the past two.
"The Empty Hearse" brought series 3 back in an unforgettable manner. The sequences involving Sherlock's fanclub and the many (improbable) solutions for Sherlock's survival hilariously referenced fan theories, while remaining creative. Sherlock surprising John was unsurprisingly funny and emotional – and Mary was surprisingly wonderful. This episode was about Sherlock and John attempting to rekindle their friendship, and it provided a great jumping off point for the remainder of the series.
"A Scandal in Belgravia" introduced the modern version of Irene Adler, and she was certainly something to behold. The scenes between Adler and Sherlock are some of the best moments in Sherlock, if only for that sizzling sexual tension. This episode allowed for Sherlock's sexuality to be addressed naturally, and ended with one of the most shocking (and yet in hindsight, painfully obvious) reveals of any episode.


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A Pentagon neocon's money connection to—what else?—Bush, oil, and torture
Top Pentagon official and ardent neocon Doug Feith, boss of suspected spy for Israel Larry Franklin, has contended for years that the U.S. needed to expunge Saddam Hussein because the guy was a ruthless and horrible dictator.
But neither Feith nor the rest of the Bush regime and their financiers seem to have a problem with blood money from Teodoro Obiang, the brutal ruler of Equatorial Guinea. Obiang and his family ran millions of dollars they got from big oil companies through personal accounts in Bush sugar daddy Joe Allbritton's Riggs National Bank, and Obiang's brother—who is accused of torturing prisoners with stinging ants—was touted by a top bank official as a "valued customer."
Now it turns out that Allbritton, whose control of Riggs finally collapsed this summer after those revelations, has contributed large sums of money to a private school of which Doug Feith is a director and former president.
Allbritton pumped millions of dollars from his own holdings of bank stock and from George W. Bush's uncle Jonathan's investment-banking operation (which was part of the Riggs National Bank conglomeration) into the Allbritton Foundation, according to federal tax records pored over by the Voice. During 2000 and again in 2002, the records show, the foundation donated $25,000 to the Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School, the Rockville, Maryland, institution connected to Feith. The school is one of the most prominent private Jewish schools in the country. It's the only Jewish school listed as receiving money from the foundation.
Feith's son is a student there too. That must be one reason that this May 16, while the Abu Ghraib abuse scandal was front-page news, and Feith was in the middle of it as the guy who had helped loosen control on interrogation "techniques," he led a group of kids from the school on a private Pentagon tour that included a rare look at Secretary of Defense Don Rumsfeld's office.
Think about that access the next time a Republican convention comes to town.
It could be Feith's ties to the Bushes that have allowed him to keep his Pentagon job for so long despite controversy after controversy and despite being loathed by such people as Secretary of State Colin Powell and General Tommy Franks.
During the runup to the invasion of Iraq, Franks, who was preparing the actual war plan, told colleagues about Feith, "I have to deal with the fucking stupidest guy on the face of the earth almost every day."
That morsel is from Bob Woodward's Plan of Attack, which includes other major slams of Feith: Powell referred to Feith's top-level Pentagon cluster (which included Larry Franklin, by the way) as the "Gestapo office."
That's not the way, of course, Feith was portrayed in The Lion's Tale, the student newspaper at Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School.
"The highlight of the trip was going to all of the special offices and rooms that are not typically open to the public," junior Sarah Ifft was quoted as saying in The Lion's Tale story of the May 16 visit.
The show-off-and-tell session for the 18 juniors (including his son) and five teachers included a photo, with this caption: "Undersecretary of Defense Douglas Feith points toward special tinting on the windows of his E-ring Pentagon office."
The school paper also noted that "the group stopped for question-and-answer sessions in Feith's office and in the conference room used by the Pentagon's leadership to meet with military commanders around the world via video teleconference."
History teacher Jane Michael told the paper, "Visiting Rumsfeld's office gave everyone the sense of him as a person, not just as a policy maker." She added, "For many of these students, Feith put a personal face on the Pentagon."
As opposed to the image of snarling dogs that much of the rest of the world sees, in large part because of Feith.
The Washington Post reported Sunday that Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez cabled his commanders to "exploit Arab fear of dogs" as a strategy for obtaining information from Iraqi prisoners.
Feith not only advocated harsher treatment of prisoners than even the military's own lawyers wanted (think about that for a minute), but he also moved the GuantÌÁnamo Bay prison chief Geoffrey Miller to Iraq to change the interrogation "techniques." As The New York Times pointed out the very day that Feith was leading the schoolkids on the Pentagon tour, he "had made his name during the Reagan administration by arguing that Geneva Convention protections should not be extended to terrorists who mingled with civilians. The issue was abstract then, but on September 11 it had immediate consequences."
The Times went on to say,
In the early 1980s, Feith was a young lawyer in the Reagan administration who gained fame in conservative national security circles for arguing against ratification of a proposed amendment to the Geneva Conventions that would treat members of national-liberation movements, irregulars who wore no uniforms and sometimes used terrorist tactics, as prisoners of war.
Feith said that this policy would endanger civilians by removing the incentive for fighters to obey traditional laws of war: staying in the open so the opposing party will not target noncombatants. It would also grant terrorist groups the same status as armies, something Feith, a harsh critic of the Palestine Liberation Organization, rejected. Two decades later, he returned to the Pentagon in the second Bush administration as its leading defense policy thinker.
Feith is like the Zelig in the Bush regime—or maybe the Pet Goat. He personally pushed and promoted Ahmed Chalabi and the WMD malarkey, and he greased a post-war deal for Dick Cheney and Halliburton. As an adviser for the right-wing Netanyahu government in Israel, Feith argued against following the Oslo peace accords.
There's so much commentary, criticism, analysis, and furor about the bombastic Feith that you hardly know where to start. But there's this Disinfopedia entry. Arab American lobbyist James Zogby connects the dots between Chalabi and Feith in this piece. In March, Tim Noah skillfully argued in Slate, using Feith as a minor character example, "why Bush is worse than Reagan." Jim Lobe, of Inter-Press Service, frequently writes about Feith. One of his more succinct pieces is posted by Dissident Voice here.
Meanwhile, Feith may take some major hits in the latest scandal. Larry Franklin, after all, worked directly for Feith, and Israeli commentators are freaking out about the accusations against Franklin.
This AP story out of Jerusalem, posted by USA Today, sums up that commentary (at least as of late last week) and matter-of-factly notes what overseas papers routinely report (but what U.S. papers generally don't): that Feith has "close ties to Israel."
This morning's edition of Ha'aretz, the liberal Israeli daily, ran a photo of Feith with its story on the Franklin case. And so did the more conservative Jerusalem Post.
The Jerusalem AP story quoted Uzi Arad, a former senior official in the Mossad spy agency, as saying the Franklin allegations were leaked to hurt the pro-Israel lobby in the U.S.
"They way it was reported, they pointed out in which office [Franklin] worked," Arad told Israel Radio, according to the AP. "They pointed at people like Doug Feith or other defense officials who have long been under attack within the American bureaucracy."


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Alerting and Announcing - when a bid is not 'natural' is is necessary in most cases to let the opposition know.
Two ways of doing this are Alerting and Announcing.
Alerting is done either by the partner of the bidder immediately using an 'Alert' Bidding Card or equivalent,or, if bids are being made verbally, by making a positive tap on the table. An opponent, on their next turn to bid, may ask the partner of the bidder, to give an explanation of the bid.
Announcing is done automatically by the partner of the bidder immediately the bid has been made, to inform the opposition of the meaning of the bid and should give a brief explanation of partner's bid. An opponent may still, on their next turn to bid, ask for further clariication.
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My musical tastes have changed gradually lately. I go in and out from pop music, dance music, some rock, R&B and trance music.
I feel what your emotions are, how you're feeling, how open you are, is revealed in the music you listen to. Right now I'm listening to alternative rock. Not really a genre I say I'm familiar in. I've dabbled in just about every genre, not really becoming a master of all genres, but more like sampling a little bit of everything.
I've really dove into pop music most of my life. Madonna, Michael Jackson, some of the top hits on the radio and on iTunes usually makes it's way into my iPod, and just as fast as fast food is made and consumed, I'm onto finding the next song to get a high from.
For a minute, I thought I was going to go back into a classical phase, listening to "Toccata and Fugue in D Minor" by J.S. Bach, and then I started to listening to One Republic's "Secrets" and Muse's "Undisclosed Desires", then got inspired by Journey's "Separate Ways".
And then, hearing a Diet Coke commercial, I got into The Temper Trap, "Sweet Disposition". It was previously in the movie, 500 Days of Summer, but I didn't really notice it until I heard that Diet Coke commercial. I had to have it and the song really puts me at ease.
And I decided that I didn't have enough of the The Temper Trap (which is rare, because I usually just jump to the next artist/song that gives me a high) so I went to iTunes to download some more songs and I got "Love Lost" and "Down River" and then I saw Miike Snow.
Now, I've heard a lot of people mention Miike Snow, and I didn't realize that I've heard a Tiesto remix of "Silvia" by Miike Snow.
(Song doesn't really start until 1:04 minutes)
Anyways, I downloaded "Burial" while I was at it. I've heard "Animal" probably in other T.V. shows, when I heard the sample I was instantly familiar with the song, not even knowing who the artist was.
That happens a lot. I'll know a lot of songs, but not know who or what the song is.
Other artists I would go to in this mellow, want to chill out and de-stress mode would be John Mayer, something from the Eclipse soundtrack, like "Let's Get Lost" by Beck and Bat for Lashes. Maybe some Frou Frou, Florence + The Machine or maybe even some R&B.
R&B isn't doing it for me lately though. Bruno Mars is really good. But I dunno, I try not to let musician's personal lives not taint my listener's ear, but the whole cocaine charge he was going through kind of turned me off to the reliability of his music. It's kind of a turn off if you suspect written lyrics are a complete hack. Maybe I'm thinking too deep into it, or not deeply enough, but I'm just turned off and I don't want to buy "Grenade" or at least not yet.
So, leading back to this alternative rock state. What does this mean that I'm feeling? Wanting an escape, really wanting to de-stress, wanting to chill out amongst all the things going on in my life. There's a rush to do a lot of things, a lot of important things, but there's this never ending deadline, and I think this kind of mellow music helps me chill out, enough for the moment and stop time for a minute… or three.
I still listen to my dance music, when I want to dance. And was just dancing to DJ Enferno's Madonna mix that's available on his twitter @djenferno. A good "Like a Prayer" remix.
My musical tastes have been changing so much, that it's hard to keep a track of what's going on. Kind of like what's going on in my life. One minute I'm listening to Taylor Swift's "Innocent" and reliving the experience seeing her live at the VMA's and contemplating my personal meaning of the song, then I'm dancing to Kaskade's remix of Katy Perry's "Teenage Dream". Which is better than the original song in my opinion.
Yes, the music is all over the place in this blog, and it's noteworthy to find a trend in this mellow alternative rock phase that I'm going through. The music I'm writing on my guitar is like this as well.
And it's pretty late now… and I should jump into bed where it's warm.
Good night.


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Hi Leah!
I wanted to ask if you had a recipe for healthy energy muffins that I can incorporate "good stuff" and can take on the go in the mornings (but not feel guilty that I'm eating a "muffin" lol)?! Thanks! -Vivian, CA
Absolutely! Well, to be honest, no, not other than these muffin tin frittatas and healthy blueberry muffins! I haven't made a muffin recipe to cater specifically to boost energy levels using super foods (these matcha energy balls are delicious, but don't exactly fit the "muffin" category) and making it filling enough to carry on until lunch. But now I've been inspired to create one!
Muffins are absolutely delicious but are often loaded with ingredients that don't serve us well (other than our tastebuds) and are a recipe for a mid-morning snooze fest. Or a mid-morning binge because you're shaky from all the sugar in the muffin and coffee you drank with it. No thanks! So let's make a muffin serve you well. They're just so easy to grab-and-go and have a decent shelf life. Sometimes it's easy to cave at the coffee shop even with the calories listed because you're either in a hurry or you think "whatever" it looks good – but carve out a little bit of time and make these to have all week long! Pop them into a glass or tupperware container and you're good to go! And if you happen to have made the date paste I posted the recipe for recently in the fridge, I guarantee it would taste amazing spread onto the muffin for some additional nutrients and sweetness.
These guys contain so much goodness. They contain flaxseeds which are full of fiber, antioxidants, and low GI (glycemic index). Hemp seeds which have all the essential amino acids. Sunflower seeds that have Vitamin E. Coconut oil for energy. Some maca thrown in there for extra endurance. And the only sweetener is a little maple syrup, vanilla extract, and unsweetened applesauce! That, my friend, is the reason I named them "power muffins".
- 1 cup ground flaxseed
- 1/2 cup oat flour (just blend oats until it turns into powder)
- 1/2 cup hemp seeds
- 1/4 cup sunflower seeds
- 1/4 cup maple syrup
- 1 TB baking powder
- 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
- 1 TB maca
- ½ tsp sea salt
- 1/4 cup unsweetened applesauce
- 4 eggs
- 1/2 cup milk of choice (I use unsweetened almond)
- 1/3 cup coconut oil (melted)
- 1 TB pure vanilla extract
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- In a medium size bowl, add all dry ingredients together and mix with a spoon.
- In a small bowl, add all wet ingredients including the melted coconut oil and eggs and whisk until well combined.
- Pour wet ingredients into the dry ingredients bowl and stir with a spoon until just combined. Do not over mix.
- Spoon mixture into muffin (greased or lined) tin cups.
- Bake for 20 minutes.
- Allow to cool on cooling sheet for 30 minutes before storing in an air-proof container.
- I love simple recipes, so if you want to eliminate the amount of ingredients, you can use 2 cups ground flax omitting the oat flour and hemp, and eliminate the sunflower seeds. Honey can be used in place of maple syrup. A mashed ripe banana can be used in place of the applesauce! You can also use slivered almonds or walnuts (or any other nut of choice!) in place of the sunflower seeds!


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Red Yeast Rice to Lower Cholesterol
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Time for some mad ranting... beware!
This is my third day blogging, so now might be a good time to rant a little regarding blogging in general and work-related blogs in particular. I'm still a newbie in many respects so I apologize in advance if my ideas have already been discussed in other forums.
Before being aware of blogs, I had a daily & weekly routine of staying updated - skimming the sites, reading newsgroups and email newletters, IMing. As always, the challenge is to find those oh-so elusive needles hiding in the electronic haystack that piles up on my virtual desk every morning. Could blogging somehow improve my routine? Could I become a more efficient information gatherer, learning more in less time?
The more I learned about the concept and the technical standards involved, the more my instincts told me: blogs are a good thing. And then I actually started blogging. By that I mean reading others' blogs online, and later using client-side apps to aggregate the feeds onto my laptop. And of course going online with this blog, the one that you are currently reading. And guess what? My instincts were wrong.
I don't mean that blogs are bad. But basically the way the medium is being used today doesn't add any value compared to existing content channels, at least not for me. It is true that being XML based allows separation of data and presentation, but so do email and news. The threading mechanisms used in newsgroups are more usable then the blog method of linkbacks (although less elegant). XML-RPC is simple and open, but so are SMTP and NNTP. Today's aggregators are not shortening the process of digesting information. They are functionally equivalent to newsgroup readers at best, and their UI is light-years behind modern email clients such as outlook. Another issue is blog discovery - newsgroups at least have a fairly centralized, managed directory with a full list of what is available.
What seems to be missing (or at least I haven't found them yet) are meta services. Services which can span different formats and delivery protocols, and aggregate all my "stuff" into one big repository. That would in turn allow us to take the next step - shortening the distance between electronic information and human knowledge. Data mining, knowledge mining. auto-categorization. intelligent push. feedback/activity-driven ranking mechanisms. In short, somewhere between a personal Google and a Tivo on steroids.
All the puzzle pieces exist today... some of them are even widely available to the masses. What's missing, and why the pieces aren't coming together - I guess I'll need another rant to cover all that. Maybe next week :)
And in the meantime, I can't even find an aggregator with reasonable full-text indexing. So next time I'm searching for an answer, I will probably find it in the form of HTML content imbedded in a web page, indexed and served up on Google. Thanks for nothing, RSS!
Maybe I'll bake my own XML-RPC protocol handler and RSS ifilter for Sharepoint. Has anyone done an RSS-NNTP-SMTP gateway yet? How about discovery services? Or maybe it is best to start with a P2P based RSS implementation? (Who needs web servers for RSS anyway....)
So many ideas, so little time. And I'm wasting it on long winded posts like this one :)


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33. Sasquatch, Me and Sometimes You
View from Summit Pass, highest point on the Alaska Highway (4,250 feet/1,295 meters). Transcript of Summit Pass conversation:
Me: I'd like to build a little cabin right out there in the middle of it.
Her: I'd like to leave it just the way it is.
Me: I don't mean cabins for everybody. I mean just for me to be a hermit.
Her: I couldn't come.
Me: No, you want to leave it alone. You could stay up here on the road and look at me through binoculars.
Her: That's not nice.
Me: You could come visit me sometimes.
Photo by Paul Koning, 2008 in Alaska


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20th September 2017
In this week's show Leo reads about Britain's last witch, Stella reads about the ravens in the Tower, The Vice Lieutenant of the West Midlands continues his talks to the Monday Club, Linda talks about the Coventry Readers Service and Leo reads the final part about Glen Campbell.
All this plus the usual mix of News, What's On, Sport and Postbag.
Show presenter: Sue
Show editor: Christine
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Some of our customers in Lancaster, TX are managers of construction companies whose crews are at a jobsite where a toilet has not yet been hooked up and they are miles away from the closest fast-food restaurant or gas station. Promotion companies also book our porta johns frequently as many venues do not provide restrooms or the venue's operator will lock them up. Something you will find with all of our porta john clients is that we provided the quickest assistance and the most reasonable pricing.
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No, whenever we deliver your portable toilets in Lancaster, you will inform us where they need to be placed and we will unload them. Needless to say, we can also use foot traffic estimations in different areas to give you advice on where to place them. Once you have finished building the home or office, or the event has concluded, we also do not expect you to help us load the toilets back up.


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I ended 2014 with a commitment to being a part of the solution in 2015, regarding the intensifying race, police and community relations problems such as had just recently, then, escalated, in Ferguson, Missouri and New York City. I knew that my organization, New Horizons, and myself had the expertise to help in some ways so certainly we should.
Looking back on that time, now, I can see that the community successes that built for New Horizons and myself out of that intent must have had a lot to do with my motivation seeming to be of Divine guidance, infused with love as well as practicality.
You can almost always trust Source to get you where you should be if your motives are pure.
Now here it is again, New Year's Eve, and I am, as usual, drawn to taking one of those periodic personal inventories that help make the cycles of my life so profoundly meaningful and beautiful.
So what do I see, especially at this point in time when eye surgery has made the very ordinary, though not so ordinary act of "seeing" so profound for me?
I think the article I just posted on the "Year End Assessment" of New Horizons Coffee House Conversations Project sums up where I stand today, professionally, especially the latter parts where I summarize the work yet to be done in the days ahead, if true social change is to be achieved.
But that doesn't say anything much about what all this means to me, personally. Or what that which I laid out there indicates about my personal commitments for the year ahead.
2016 promises to be a big one for me; in some ways that I can imagine and in other ways completely unimaginable. And, then, of course, who can truly read the future? Not I for sure. Yet we do have some inklings about what lies ahead, if we are wise, born of experience, and if we trust our intuition and instincts.
What I imagine lying ahead for me, personally, and for which I feel trepidation though I know I will lean into it rather than my old way of pulling back from the adventure – is – that I will more and more pick up my old ways of being "Game Master of the Truth or Dare Game." But do that in very new ways; most particularly in mainstream community life.
The challenge for me is enormous. Speaking truth to power is the emblem of our "Game". But doing this in a protected, counterculture, therapeutic community such as "old" New Horizons had established was so much easier. At least there the rules for proceeding were agreed upon and abided by everyone or else you lost your membership.
The mainstream, on the other hand, can be so much more vicious. There are almost no agreed upon practices or ground rules for effectively dealing with the "subtle violence" that proliferates in epidemic proportions, day-to-day, out of the discounting, denial and lies of our culutre. A total free-for-all exists and it can be emotionally, psychologically -- and -- even physically deadly such as driving teens to suicide from tauntings and hurtful internet exposures.
Subtle violence is far from subtle, especially when you are the target!
Being judged by others for speaking truth to power – and – then punished by ostracism, for example, is also a high cost that I, like most others, experience from time to time. It hurts, no matter how adept you become at managing the assaults. And, I have not yet developed a tough enough skin to be able to always respond with grace to such hurtfulness while both holding my ground with respect for who I know me to be as I, also, lean in to others, seeking common ground.
That is if the others would have the courage and commitment to seek common ground with me rather than polarize, separate and retaliate for hurts they might feel at my hands but not yet have the skill and experience that I (and New Horizons) do to heal such woundings.
Oh dear, the conflict potential is so painful and scary; so scary for me I almost want to run for cover, especially as so few truly know, through experience, the snags to synergy way, the pathway to awe.
But I'm gonna do it anyway; speak truth to power, keep reaching for dialogue over debate, stay focused on learning rather than defending and head for awe -- even if it gets me in trouble and hurts on the way (and I do it imperfectly)!


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Release dates for two numerically inclined films have been announced. First up, Focus Features and Universal Pictures will release the E.L. James adaptation Fifty Shades of Grey on August 1, 2014. Though it's been in active development for some time, the producers only just settled on a director, tapping Sam Taylor-Johnson (Nowhere Boy) to take the helm. The BDSM-heavy pic should make for a nice bit of counterprogramming on the August 1st date, as it will open opposite Marvel's space-set Guardians of the Galaxy. With a release firmly set, expect some Fifty Shades casting news very soon.
Additionally, Fox Searchlight has moved up the release date of director Steve McQueen's (Shame) period drama Twelve Years a Slave nearly two months, from December 27th to October 18th. The move was made after the studio received highly positive feedback from test screenings, and the Michael Fassbender/Chiwetel Ejiofor-fronted pic will now have a platform release in October, priming it up for awards season recognition. I'd be shocked if the pic didn't first show up at the Toronto Film Festival in September.