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Two decades ago the world's worst nuclear disaster sent radioactive waste from the Chernobyl power plant across large parts of the former Soviet Union. Survivors are still struggling to come to terms with the devastating affects of the accident. VOA's Lisa McAdams visited a village in Ukraine located in the so-called exclusion zone, parts of which remain forbidden for residence to this day.
It is a long and lonely three-hour drive from the bustling capital of Kiev, Ukraine, to the tiny village of Gornostipol. There, less than 100 people struggle to eke out a life forever changed on April 26, 1986.
That is the day a routine shutdown of Chernobyl's operating system resulted in a surge that sparked a chemical explosion. The force of the blast ripped open the power plant and hurled into the air nearly nine tons of radioactive material, reportedly hundreds of times more than the amount released by the nuclear bomb at Hiroshima. The radioactive fallout spread across large parts of the former Soviet Union, including the worst affected countries of Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine.
In the tiny village of Gornostipol, just 30 kilometers from the power plant, the resulting panic and chaos was immediately apparent, even if, as surviving villagers say, the hard, cold facts were not.
Alexei Fiyodorich, 74, is a pensioner from Chernobyl who not only survived the accident's initial fallout, but the resulting cancer he suffered, most likely from remaining in the zone for nine days after the explosion. During that time, he served as a first-responder, helping to pack sand bags that were eventually dropped over the burning reactor by helicopter.
Scientific research has since shown that eight to 16 days after such an explosion, during Alexei's service, radioactive toxins are at their highest and most dangerous levels.
Alexei reveals to VOA that he has had to receive treatment for thyroid cancer ever since. But he says it is not the cancer that haunts him these days, but the memories. They are still raw and fresh.
He laughs bitterly when he recalls being handed wine and iodine pills before going further into the zone to serve as a so-called liquidator. He was one of nearly 600,000 men eventually called to help in the cleanup and aftermath at Chernobyl.
Many of the liquidators died immediately, or in the first years that followed the disaster. Others, like Alexei, live haunted lives.
"Of course I still live with this stress," he says. "I re-live it every day. All the men lost. All the relatives lost."
But what does he remember most? He remembers the traffic. Alexei says the traffic leaving the zone in the first days after the explosion was unprecedented, jammed with dazed villagers fleeing the scene on one side, while hundreds of huge, concrete trucks, ambulances and fire trucks rumbled toward the disaster. Alongside the road, he adds, animals were seen fleeing. He suddenly stops to compose himself, saying simply, it is difficult to speak about it even now.
Amid the silence, I note to myself that he is the only man I have seen moving about the village in two hours.
A ramshackle truck appears and elderly women come scrambling out into the snow-strewn streets to shop for vegetables, milk, and eggs. Food delivery is still routine in villages lying within the so-called Chernobyl zone. Agricultural production was severely hampered after the accident and in many places has never fully recovered.
But every villager who spoke to VOA admitted to growing their own food out of necessity, villagers like Irina Ivanovo. She is 72 now and says she has long since given up on the hope of being rescued, or offered a way out of the zone.
"Besides, I have lost my husband and my health, where would I go now?" she asks.
Irina says she suffers from a severe nervous disorder and psychological depression. She says she needs hospital treatment every half year. For a time, she says, she will feel better. Then six months later, she explains that she will need treatment again.
But she tries to stay optimistic, adding that people get sick everywhere. Moments later, she is in tears, when I inquire about her husband. He was a forest worker at Chernobyl, she says, and he died in the first year after the accident.
A lady standing nearby tries to comfort Irina. She too became a widow in the first year after the accident. But her tale of trouble is quickly drowned out by another old woman who cries out, nobody ever comes here. We have been forgotten.
The other woman then asks a question of her own.
"Why do we even need nuclear energy after such a huge tragedy as this?" she asks, looking over her shoulder toward the ruin of a plant. So many people dead, so many lives lost, so many questions ... it is not possible to forget.
Then she visibly brightens and says, please ask the world to remember us, and help us if they can.


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It's not about the red roses or the chocolate. It's about a romantic experience with your heartthrob. You supply the atmosphere and watch it bring out the animal (or Teddy bear) in your partner.
Hang a lavender heart-shaped wreath from the front door knob with a note that reads, "knock 3 times if you're ready for fun."
Have a few naughty cocktails ready for your sweetie to dive into. Here are a few suggestions: a Dirty Martini, with Vermouth, gin, a splash of scotch and garnished with an edible flower; Rose champagne; and a **** Foot, a non-alcoholic drink with lemonade, honey and Perrier and garnished with fresh berries.
Set a romantic table with a Moroccan flair. Grab a jewel-colored table cloth or jeweled overlay, some multi-colored crystal and china, a fruit or flowered centerpiece and tons of candles.
Lovers are always looking for the secret ingredients that help cupid's arrow and give stamina. Serve your honey an aphrodisiac dinner and sparks are bound to fly. Here are a few menu ideas. For an appetizer, try Bruschetta with a puree of artichokes, and mix avocado, tomato, mozzarella and pine nuts for a salad. Grilled scallops with basil and lavender essence is a perfectly amorous entrée, especially served with steamed asparagus and herbed rice. And for dessert, nestle a ruby ring into fresh or sugar flowers that are placed on top of a miniature wedding cake. Or take a box of real or chocolate cigars and replace one of the cigar bands with a custom version that has a proposal written on it.
Trail a path of pewter love stones (each stone is etched with a mixture of evocative and playful words) and flower petals leading the way to a beautifully drawn bath. Set the scene with tons of candles, vases full of Dutch tulips, a bowl of grapes for feeding each other and a tub filled with flower petals, lavender, rosemary and rosebud bath tea.
Go beyond the rubber ducky and make your play in the tub sensual. Have some gourmet body paint close by, such as edible chocolate, strawberry or caramel. Or grab some body watercolors or pastel-colored watercolor soaps in paint tubes with a ceramic painter's palette and brush. And don't forget the aphrodisiac bath bombs, because the rose scent heightens sensuality and the jasmine entices seduction.
Play a romantic game of chance and pick up "get lucky dice" that have body parts and actions engraved on them. Take turns rolling the dice and acting out the various commands.
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- Table, colorful crystal and china, jeweled table cloth and fruit or flowers for centerpiece
- Cocktail ingredients and glasses
- Heart-shaped lavender wreath and note card
- Menu ingredients
- Sensual toys and games, such as body paint and get lucky dice
- Love stones, flowers, flower petals, bath oils and scents, candles and vases
- When it comes to the cooking, don't prepare everything yourself. Pick a few dishes that you know you are good at, then order the rest from your sweety's favorite restaurant.


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Programs for Troubled Teens from West Virginia
Elevations RTC is one of the foremost programs for troubled teens; serving families from West Virginia. Teenagers not only receive the psychotherapy and family therapy they need for substance use, addiction, and negative behaviors; they are also able to achieve their education goals, so they are fully prepared to pursue higher education opportunities. Though Elevations may be located outside of West Virginia, we extend our troubled teen program to adolescents from all over the country.
Unfortunately, today's teenagers are inundated with social pressures. With the Internet, these pressures have become an even stronger force, leading many adolescents towards aggressive and often unlawful behaviors. Pulling at-risk adolescents from their peers and placing them in a program located outside of West Virginia, often gives them the wake-up call they desperately need to get their lives back on track.
Although Elevations may be located outside of West Virginia, Elevations accepts enrollments from at-risk adolescents from all over the US. Also, it is beneficial to have struggling teenagers receive help away from the harmful influence of their unsupportive peer group. We know from experience that relocating your adolescent to an out-of-state, distraction-free setting has historically caused the greatest success.
The Elevations program for troubled teens offers healing, help and hope to those who need it most. We strive to counsel our residents on overcoming addictions, negative behaviors, and poor decision-making. We give them the tools they need to become successful young adults. Contact one of our professional consultants at (855) 290-9681 today!
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Our program helps struggling teenagers who lack direction, are abusing drugs, are exhibiting negative behaviors and are making poor decisions. We give them the guidance they need to be able to rise above their past and embrace their future by learning to overcome all of the negatives in their lives.
Parents of adolescents from West Virginia do not have to feel as if they are alone. We have heard from many worried parents in West Virginia who merely needed guidance on how to help their child. Call Elevations RTC at (855) 290-9681 today! We are here to help parents make the tough decisions that will bring their child the therapy (sociotherapy, dialectical behavior therapy, and cognitive behavioral therapy) they need to overcome the obstacles that are holding them back in life.
Elevations RTC is one of the top choices for parents of troubled teenagers in West Virginia. Here at Elevations, at-risk adolescents receive therapy for substance use, addiction, and psychological issues. With our fully accredited program, adolescents receive the extensive medical treatment they need so they can overcome the limiting behaviors and poor choices that have had them bound.
Help For Troubled Teens
Elevations is an academic program for troubled teenagers from West Virginia who are exhibiting negative behaviors. While our goal is to help awaken adolescents and show them the consequences of their poor decisions, we are also here to shine a light on the goodness that resides within them so they can learn to make better choices in life.
An academic environment for struggling adolescents is ideal for adolescents who simply cannot function in a typical classroom. Whether due to psychological, social or addiction constraints, teenagers often find it difficult to learn in an environment that is full of peer-related pressure. Through our evidence-based treatment program, our residents thrive in and out of the classroom. Our goal is to involve the entire family, so the bonds between the adolescent and their family are renewed and strengthened.
We offer a calm, controlled environment that allows troubled teenagers to feel safe in their medical care. Our Co-Ed Program teaches adolescents how to interact appropriately with members of the opposite sex, so they learn the boundaries of respect. This environment fosters an understanding between the sexes, so they learn to co-exist and realize they truly are not so different after all. The tools they are given in our program will carry them through the rest of their life.
Top Program for At Risk Youth
At Elevations RTC, we strive to help at-risk teenagers understand the consequences of making poor decisions. Our fully accredited therapeutic program offers adolescents from West Virginia the opportunity to make a fresh start. We work with all mental health issues, addictions, and behavioral problems adolescents deal with to give them the tools they need to excel in life.
Unfortunately, the teenage years can be difficult for parents too. Often, parents of adolescents feel helpless in understanding how to help their child get back on the right path. Though parents often blame themselves for their child going astray, it is important they realize that addiction and mental health issues know no bounds. They strike adolescents from all walks of life.
Thousands of parents across the US are living lives filled with frustration and fear, because they are ill-equipped to handle the problems their teens are struggling with. For answers call 1.855.290.9681
Our treatment program gives hope to the entire family because we encourage everyone to be involved in the recovery. Troubled adolescents from West Virginia learn to not only love themselves, but to respect and foster the meaningful relationships in their lives. Though being pulled away from home is not easy, it helps to awaken lucid thinking adolescents who have gone astray. While we work to help them overcome their addictions and counsel them on their mental health concerns, we are laying a foundation that will lead them to becoming a fully functioning young adult.
Medical treatment Facilities offer the intensive psychotherapy other programs cannot. We immerse our residents in a calm environment that is conducive to healing. This serene environment offers struggling teenagers the time they need to reflect on their past and make a declaration of actual change in their life.
Parents from West Virginia, we fully understand how it feels to be afraid for a child. We are here to help guide parents through the entire process so troubled adolescents can find the mental health treatment they need. Pick up the phone and call Elevations RTC at (855) 290-9681; to speak with one of our caring consultants who are waiting to help!
National Mental Health Resources for Parents and Teens
MentalHealth.gov – Community Conversations: Several demographically/geographically diverse cities will have structured discussions that are carried out by deliberative democracy groups, resulting in actions plans that are community specific. The idea of the President is to keep children and communities safe by lowering gun violence, which directs the Departments of Health and Human Services, or HHS and Education to start a dialogue nationwide on young people's mental health who have experienced problems in this area.
We know teens—and more importantly, we know how to help them fight the battles that are disrupting their lives. (855) 290-9681
Residential Treatment Centers for West Virginia Teenagers
When parents are in crisis with a troubled teen, it can completely consume the resources and emotions of the entire family. We have helped families from West Virginia in the past. If you are ready to take advantage of the healing therapy from factors described above, and to make a difference in your teen's life, we encourage you to contact Elevations RTC today. You can reach us immediately at (855) 290-9681. Our specialized clinical groups are designed to address the specific problems of each individual. We are here to help you today.
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"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity." Calvin Coolidge


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By now the incompetence of the Trump campaign and White House is well known, but Michael Lewis is always worth paying attention to. His newest book, The Fifth Risk, is about just how unprepared the incoming Trump administration was to govern the country. The Guardian has an excerpt: Chris Christie was sitting on a sofa beside Trump … Continue reading Michael Lewis' New Book: Trump vs. the Federal Government
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A Progressive Definition of Freedom
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Connecting Some Dots on Trump Revoking Brennan's Clearance
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The White Nationalists Are Winning
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Jon Stewart Tried to Warn us of the GOP's love affair with Vladimir Putin back in 2014
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Mike Pence Once Wrote that a President Should Be Impeached for Moral Failings
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OAKLAND, Calif. — Protesters and city officials here took a deep breath and tried to calm the waters Thursday after a night of vandalism and tear gas disrupted an orderly day of anti-Wall Street marches. But tensions remained high, both between demonstrators and the police and between Occupy Oakland protesters and a belligerent fringe group that seemed intent on clashing with law enforcement and destroying property.
More than 100 people were arrested in the melee, and the injured included both protesters and police officers.
After an afternoon of picketing banks, a crowd that city officials estimated as at least 7,000 strong descended on the city's waterfront Wednesday evening, temporarily closing one of the busiest ports in the country. Port officials reported no injuries or property damage, and the port was reopened Thursday morning.
Meanwhile, several hundred protesters regrouped near the Occupy Oakland encampment downtown. Shortly before midnight, some of them entered a nearby abandoned building. Objects were hurled at police officers, who then declared the crowd an unlawful assembly and began firing tear gas and beanbag projectiles.
The police eventually arrested dozens of the protesters, who were part of an Occupy Oakland subgroup that the city's interim police chief, Howard A. Jordan, described as "generally anarchists and provocateurs."
Conflicts within the protest movement were evident throughout the night as people on the street argued and screamed at one another, encounters that on several occasions nearly came to blows. Some members of the group that had closed the port reprimanded those who smashed windows, threw rocks, ignited a 15-foot-high bonfire of garbage and covered downtown storefronts with graffiti.
When a man wearing a bandana broke a window with an empty beer bottle, another protester yelled, "Who are you? That isn't what this is about!" Another man screamed, "The police are not your enemy!" at young people wearing gas masks and the Guy Fawkes guise that has come to represent anarchists and the hackers group Anonymous.
"There are large disagreements inside the movement, but that's actually what pushes us forward," said Boots Riley, 40, a member of the rap group the Coup, who was on the bullhorn at the front of the marchers for much of Wednesday. "What we did during the day was much bigger, much more disruptive, than what the people breaking windows did last night," he said.
Dozens of the protesters pitched in Thursday to help clean up some of the damage from the previous night's events.
In the past, the city has seen similar clashes between the police and violent splinter groups. The most recent such flare-ups occurred after Oscar Grant III, a young, unarmed black man, was shot in the back by a transit officer in 2009.
Protesters here have renamed Frank H. Ogawa Plaza, the site of their encampment, Oscar Grant Plaza.
Mayor Jean Quan applauded the protesters and the police for the largely peaceful march. As for the evening of confusion and violence, "a very small group of people can create chaos," she said.


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Friday night we were just happy to be home together, as The Tim had been working nearly every evening since one of the other managers was out last week, and the store manager doesn't like to work the closing shift (a whole other story, not really mine to tell). So we had a quiet dinner, and spent the evening reading and listening to music, before going to bed somewhat early out of both physical and emotional exhaustion.
Saturday we headed over to NJ to get some things done. We stopped and got breakfast (I LOVE to go out to breakfast!), and then went to the liquor store (please do not tell the State of PA that we crossed state lines and bought liquor), Kohl's (The Tim had a birthday coupon to use), and Target, where we did some grocery shopping. Once we got home, we did thrilling things like start some laundry, clean bathrooms, and the things that are a constant. But we spent most of the rest of the day watching some shows we'd recorded and the Notre Dame-Army football game.
Friday night, The Tim had said, "I think I'll make a pizza for dinner tomorrow night," and I of course agreed because he makes really yummy pizza. Neither one of us knew that Saturday was National Pizza Day, so finding that out was so fun! Then when the pizza was ready, and I wanted to take a picture, he said, "Oh you're gonna become one of those people who take pictures of their food all of the time?" I pointed out that I'd forgotten that I needed a blog post for Saturday, and was going to use National Pizza Day so I wouldn't need to actually, suddenly come up with a topic!
The funny thing is, after he read all of the comments from all of you about the pizza picture I posted, he was so happy! "Hm. I guess people enjoy those pictures sometimes." :-) He also sends his thanks for all of the kind comments.
Sunday, he was at work all day, and while I was drinking a cup of tea that morning, I decided that in my current state of mind, I wanted to find out what the Jesuits were saying. So I got myself dressed and walked across town to Old St. Joseph's for Mass. Admittedly, I don't go to Mass on a regular basis, except I do make a concerted effort during Advent and Lent. And I do enjoy the singing. (The Tim: "Oh yes, what a good motivation to attend church - so you can sing along." Hmph.)
Anyway - the sermon was AMAZING. Everything I had hoped it would be, and though it didn't mean I felt back to my usual self, it truly did help me.
After coming home, I decided that since it was such a lovely day - sunny, cool, occasional slight breezes - that it would be a good time to rake some leaves. I enjoy it, but I am also reminded of yet another reason I am glad we do not actually have a yard. I was out for ~1 1/2 hours, and ended up with two HUGE bags, filled practically to the brim ... and that was only from the entrances to our house! (Yes, we have two entrances. And technically, three addresses. A story for another post.) I was tired and decided to tackle the garden next weekend. But I did have to fill the bird feeder, and the cats came out into the garden to "assist" me - meaning they run around insanely while I do whatever I'm out there to do.
I had wondered if Jack would join us, and what he would do if he did. Hahahaha. Silly me - of course he joined us! Far be it from him to miss anything! He had the best time, running around, jumping in leaves, and best of all, leaping to catch (more truthfully, *try* to catch) bugs.
Once The Tim got home, we ate dinner, and spent the rest of the evening watching some recorded shows again, and ... I finished my Christmas knitting for family!* This is especially surprising, since it's been really difficult for me to knit for any length of time since Jack joined the family - he likes to "help" a little bit too much ...
The down side of a lovely weekend, is that you still have to show up for work on Monday. But at least the next two weeks are short ones - I'm taking off Friday of this week for The Tim's birthday, and next week is Thanksgiving, so it will be a short week as well. (I just keep reminding myself of this information!)
In any event, I'll have some FO posts to share with you soon. :-)
*I finished all of the knitting I had originally planned. I added on two additional projects, but only if I have time. One will definitely be doable, we'll see about the other one ...
How was your weekend?


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Companies Join Forces to Augment Customer Staffing Needs for ICD-10
May 6, 2013, Birmingham, AL— HIM Connections, Inc., an expert recruitment and staffing firm for health information management (HIM), proudly announces the merger with The Coding Center, LLC, a specialty outsourced remote coding services company and division of Doozer Software, Inc. Both companies are located in Birmingham, Alabama and focus exclusively on clinical coding and health information management services. The announcement was made by Kayce Dover, MSHI, RHIA, who is the President and CEO. The new entity will operate as HIM Connections, LLC.
Hospitals can't locate the experienced HIM staff they need to maintain quality, productivity, and patient or physician satisfaction. "Our companies recognize the enormous staffing needs associated with the implementation of ICD-10; even as provider organizations already struggle to find qualified coding talent," mentions Dover. "The synergies between the two companies made it a great opportunity to come together and serve our clients with a broader blend of services. The two companies have aligned core values of integrity, client focus, financial responsibility, development and balance."
"By joining forces we are able to not only help our customers find and employ the best HIM talent, but also augment their existing HIM staff," adds Sandy Syx, President, Doozer Software, Inc. "We know that recruitment and staffing is not a one size fits all model. The company is now better aligned to offer solutions that are designed to fit and evolve with our client needs", says Syx.
The transition from ICD-9 to ICD-10 represents HIM's greatest challenge thus far in the 21st century and industry experts predict nationwide coder shortages before, during and after the October 1, 2014 transition. In a recent KLAS report, HIM Services 2012: Helping to Weather the Storm, "nearly one-fourth of providers in the study plan to increase use of coding services".
The merger includes the remote coding technology designed and developed by Doozer Software, Inc. "The technology will continue to be used as a remote coding platform, and also as a document management solution for facilities with a hybrid EHR and as an option for facilities and/or physician offices without an EHR", mentions Syx. "HIM Connections, Inc. and The Coding Center have always been committed to providing quality HIM services. This merger further solidifies our commitment to our clients as well as the HIM industry", adds Dover.
About HIM Connections, LLC
HIM Connections is a results-driven staffing and recruitment firm specializing in HIM. The company quickly locates qualified, credentialed and experienced HIM professionals to fill hospitals' HIM staffing needs; short-term or long-term. The company saves time for their customers by presenting fully-vetted candidates, building relationships with passive candidates, and offering flexible service options: staffing, recruitment and outsourcing. For more information, visit www.himconnections.com.


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Amazing Great Ocean Road
One day at Melbourne
If you plan to visit or live there, on a day off just jump into a special and small tourist coach from any hostel, hotel, tourist agency in Melbourne early in the morning, and you will be taken to a long drive along the south-eastern coast of Australia for a whole day: the amazing Great Ocean Road.
The trip usually starts from Torquay and its beautiful beaches, where you will see many surfers and where, when you have more time, you can even take surfing classes. The trip goes on with many beautiful and large views of unspoiled beaches with sand (or big and small stones) and a wonderful blue sea in the skyline.
The coach stops many times during the day, and the friendly guide/coach driver will show you and explain many things about many areas: you will visit rainforests with beautiful waterfalls and trees, forests with beautiful colourful birds and... sleepy koalas!
You can see them on eucalyptus trees, hanging on branches and sleeping at the same time... sometimes they lazily wake up, they slowly raise an "arm" to catch an eucalyptus leaf, and eat keeping often their eyes closed... while you wonder how they can sleep almost all the time without ever falling down the branch!
The most amazing stop of Geat Ocean Road is definitely the famous Twelve Apostles: amazing above all on sunset, you will see these huge limestone rock stacks that are born in the large sea and that rise up for many metres. And if you want to enjoy them more, you can jump on a helicopter that will show you a wonderful panorama... while you feel immersed in the warm colours of the sunset... in the sky, in the sea...
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"Dear Friend: After doing an intensive search for a trusted person, I was given your name and wish to discuss with you a highly confidential matter. Our king recently died and left $14 million dollars in his estate. His last will and testament dictates that we find someone trustworthy, like yourself, to help get the funds out of the country."
The only person who has not seen a scam like this is someone who has not been online lately. Internet security experts estimate that as much as $1.5 billion is lost each year to email scams. Roughly half of that money disappears into the pockets of someone claiming to be the executor of a wealthy individual's last will and testament.
While relatively few internet users fall for the scam, enough are fooled to make the scam perpetual, and profitable, for the people sending it out.
Sometimes the question of a personal "last will and testament" can be layered in confusion as well. What can I leave to whom? What do I need to do to draft a valid will? Is a out-of-the-box-will as good as one drafted by an attorney?
For most people, a last will and testament is one of life's things that they would rather have and not need than need and not have. When thinking about a last will the options are available fall along a continuum of choices.
On one end are the do-it-yourself kits that can be picked up for a few dollars in any office supply store and appear to include everything needed when writing a last will. On the other end resides the high-dollar attorneys who may charge $1000 — or more —. Everyone's needs fall somewhere in the middle along that spectrum.
Online or Last Will-in-a-Box
If you been waiting to write your will because you do not want the expense of an attorney, going online may help. Many people requiring just a very basic will have the option of creating one online or buying the blank forms locally. Both methods are less expensive than hiring an attorney.
Online last will makers fall in the $20 to $100 price range. Ready made forms sold in office supply stores can go for as little as $5 to $20. To compare, an attorney may charge from $100 to over $1,000, depending how where you live and how complex your situation is.
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While a DIY will can be useful in the most basic circumstances, there may be some problems which go unnoticed and unchallenged — until the last will is read.
One example was the famous CBS newsman, Charles Kuralt. Shortly before he passed away in 1997, Kuralt wrote a note to his long-time significant other, Patricia Shannon. They had been together for almost thirty years and, in the note, Kuralt promised to leave her 90 acres close to a fishing retreat in Montana that they had visited together often.
When Kuralt died, his family and Shannon fought for six years over the validity of the note. Was the note a valid amendment to the 1994 will which Kuralt's attorney prepared, or was it merely a promise to revise the document. A Montana judge never addressed the issue. Instead he awarded Shannon the $600,000 property. Kuralt's family got stuck with the estate taxes.
In Texas recently, a man tried to save some dollars and wound up losing his $3.5 million estate tax exemption. Using a DIY form, he pulled together a will and left $7 million to his spouse. No estate taxes were due then because assets left to a spouse, or charity, are not normally subject to estate tax. However, anything leftover when the spouse dies could be taxable as part of her estate.
To try to rectify the problem after the husband died, a lawyer in McKinney, Texas, advised the wife to turn down the entire $3.5 million exemption and allow it to slide under state law straight through to their adult sons.
If the man had talked to an attorney before he died, he may have been shown a better, more flexible, method to apply the tax exemption. The lawyer might have helped the man set up a family trust that could be funded when the first spouse dies and then the wife could have received the income from the trust.
The belief that a DIY will is better than no will is only partly correct.
Without a will, even a DIY will, minor children with a single or surviving parent, will have a guardian appointed for them. State law will determine how most of the belongings are shared.
Whatever is leftover after taxes would be distributed according to the law of intestacy. This law, with some variations between states, sets up a pecking order of inheritors of people who die without a valid will. Some states say everything goes first to the surviving spouse, then children, parents and siblings. Many states though still divide an estate in pre-determined percentages between the surviving spouse and children.
A DIY will does not notify you of those options.
Attorney Drafted Will
There are some circumstances in which a person will want to hire a lawyer. Typically, it is best to get an experienced estate attorney involved if:
1. You have a large estate
2. You want to disinherit a spouse or children
3. You are concerned that someone may claim that you weren't mentally sound when you drafted and signed the document
Other circumstances which dictate the hiring of an attorney are when you want to have an advance medical directive in place or assign someone financial powers of attorney.
Even with online, or store bought, wills, you may still want to get an attorney to review it when you are done and before you file it with the state. Having a trained attorney review the document could help discover a mistake you made. If you believe that mistakes are rare without the guidance of an attorney, do some online research. Do-it-yourself will services are named in hundreds of lawsuits every year for mistakes that were never caught until it was too late.
Remember, there is a continuum of ways to create a last will and testament. From the do-it-yourself to retaining a lawyer to do the entire package. A DIY will is simple, but how an you be sure without the know-how of an experienced estate lawyer?
Opinion by Jerry Nelson
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Community Impact's ESOL Program Welcomes Neighborhood Immigrants from 82 Countries
"Pick-up" time at PS 192 in Manhattanville is a two-way street. Soon after throngs of neighborhood children stream out of the school, hundreds of neighborhood adults stream through those same doors. These adults are participants in Community Impact's English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) program to improve their ability to read, write, and speak English. PS 192 principal Susan Rivera understands that providing essential educational opportunities for parents and neighbors of her students will inspire these children to succeed as well.
CI's ESOL students come from remarkably diverse backgrounds as well as from many countries. These include the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Brazil, Columbia, and Ecuador as well as a number of countries in Asia, Europe and Africa. In all, students hail from 82 countries - nearly half the countries of the world.
Our ESOL program has classes at five levels and offers classes four days a week in the afternoons or evenings. ESOL at CI utilizes a popular and effective program model; we offer an array of educational classes, auxiliary activities and support services that help students meet their goals and progress to higher education or to jobs with a living wage. Our partnership with PS 192 allows us to utilize the teaching talents of Columbia University students and community volunteers
This past year, Mario Alvarez, who embodies the immigrant-Columbia student connection, served as lead coordinator for this largest of CI's programs. A personal highlight for Mario was when he recruited his parents, who are immigrants from the Dominican Republic, into the program last summer. Even as Mario prepared for his own graduation this May, he also organized the graduation ceremony for our ESOL students. The festive celebration featured delicious dishes from five continents. Although we are losing Mario, he has inspired other Columbia students who will ensure that our ESOL students will continue to succeed.


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Kevin V. Mulcahy is the Sheldon Beychok Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Public Administration at Louisiana State University, USA, and received his PhD from Brown University, USA. He is the co-author or co-editor of six books, including Public Policy and the Arts and America's Commitment to Culture (1995), as well as over fifty articles in scholarly journals and chapters in edited books. He has served as Executive Editor of the Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society for sixteen years.
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Exporting Civilization: French Cultural Diplomacy
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Patronizing Mega-events to Globalize Identity: The Olympic Opening Ceremony as a Cultural Policy
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We bought a group of Optiplex 390 PCs, and need to install Parallel Port cards to support legacy receipt printers.
We bought Sunix Multi-IO controller cards from Dell, and found the correct driver package (R291908.EXE) on the driver CDs for the Optiplex 790 that came with the cards. I extracted the driver and copied the folder to our K2000 here: \\k2000\drivers_postinstall\dell\windows_xp\390\options\R291908. I then recached all the drivers.
During the scripted install, the driver is not installed, but Windows XP sees the card and tries to run the "Add Hardware Wizard."
Once Windows is installed, I can install the drivers using either the executable or by pointing the wizard to the files in the driver folder aftyer copying the folder to the local filesystem.
I would prefer not using a post install task to add the driver as it then becomes machine dependent. Does anyone have advice on how I can make the driver install as if it were part of the normal Optiplex 390 driver feed?
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Update: The driver is installing, but the Add Hardware Wizard is running. Is there any way to suppress the wizard?
To supress the hardware wizard, you can create a PO to edit the registry. You need to modify:
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The question I get asked the most is "How can you work with non professional equipment like MFT cameras?" The answer, of course, has nothing to do with the "professionality" of my equipment.
If you think about it, "professionality" is a word that implies the presence of a professional somewhere nearby. Equipment can be expensive, well built, even useful, but without the trained hand of a good professional, it really can't achieve anything on its own. So, I'd say that a "professional" that can't achieve anything on his own can't really be defined "professional" at all.
Jokes aside, the point 99% of the photo amateur community is missing out is that really you can shoot great pictures with the simplest equipment ever. I'm gonna use two very straightforward examples to prove my point: a portrait and a still life pic, both shot during my vacation last August.
I shot the portrait during a cool night out with my girlfriend and Paolo, a childhood friend of hers that she didn't meet in ages. After a couple hours chitchatting in front of a beer, I decided it was time to take pics. Of course I didn't have all my lighting equipment with me, but I had my Olympus OM-D E-M5 and a whole city at my disposal. We walked a little through the streets until I found a conveniently placed street lamp on the side of a huge bush and I knew that was the right place to shoot. This was the result.
Of course, the light temperature was awful and of course a lot of things had to be smoothed a little in Photoshop, but that's something you have to do even with your so called "professional" equipment, so I think we don't need to take it into account. I suppose there are not many of you who would gladly say that this is a good pic and, worst of all, I think many of you would have erased this picture right away. Well, if I were to listen to the little photoamateur critic inside my head, the following morning I wouldn't had the chance to postproduce this little gem.
I think I can be very proud of this portrait (and very grateful to my talented model), and all the equipment it took to shoot it was an "unprofessional" MFT camera. Of course, again, I can hear many of you saying that portrait photography doesn't really need extremely high-end (or "professional"?) equipment to achieve great results, so I suppose I'll resort to my second example shot.
This time I was playing videogames alone at home, a couple days after postproducing Paolo's portrait. The night before I had an excellent dinner in Lecce, at a restaurant run by a friend with a huge passion for wines. He has a very interesting wine cellar (to say the least) and that night he gifted me a bottle of 2002 Coyam, a great biodynamic Chilean wine. Being a photographer way before being a man, my first urge the following morning was not to drink it, but to take pictures of the bottle.
Again, I didn't have my studio lighting with me, so I thought that taking a good picture was out of question. Of course I was wrong. After a little search around the house, I came up with a kitchen scale, enveloped in a partially white cardboard box. Luckily enough, inside the box was a small polystyrene panel along with two batteries. After a little fight to keep the polystirene panel in place, won by employing the TV remote, I set everything up in order to make the light of a single Canon Speedlite 580 EX flash bounce on the cardboard box and the polystyrene panel and correctly light my beloved Coyam wine bottle. This is the (not so good) picture of the setup.
The flash was placed behind the bottle and fired through a (very cheap) wireless trigger I like a lot. (On a side note, the batteries of the trigger were completely exhausted, but the ones I found inside the scale came to my rescue!) To be honest, these days I'm very tempted by LED lights and I suppose I'll be shifting towards that kind of lighting very soon, but for the moment I stick to this solution. It's very simple, but judging from the resulting picture, I'd say it's very effective too.
Surprisingly enough, there is very little Photoshop involved in this picture. For this reason I think this is the most effective example I can use to convince amateurs that all it takes to make great images is a little training, a lot of will to improve and some imagination. Of course, "professional" equipment is not something we should despise: there are extreme situations where your vanilla camera simply doesn't work (think about horrible weather conditions or temperatures) or whole fields of photography in which the FPS value (or any other tech spec) becomes vital. In those situations you just can't do without some expensive piece of equipment, but really those are very narrow paths that amateurs don't even get to walk once in their life.
Truth is: the vast majority of the great pictures we see, love and often envy, comes from a professional brain, not a professional camera.


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While Bethesda has made a number of comments about how hard it has worked in order to make sure the marketing cycle of Fallout 4 is as short as possible that doesn't mean they haven't done a pretty top notch job making sure that the game is getting as much coverage as possible. One of the smartest approaches the company has taken is making sure that items inside the game are tied to things in the real world.
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text: Higher Nature St Johns Wort Mood Uplift - 30 x 425mg Tablets £13.40 134 reward points UK Delivery £1.95 - Free when you spend £15 In stock -This product will ship today if ordered within the next 4 hours and 20 minutes. Multi-buy discounts Buy 2+ Buy 3+ Buy 5+ 5% off7% off10% off 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 60 70 80 90 100 110 120 130 140 150 Add to basket 100% Secure Shopping Vegetarian G W S D Product code: 2347 Description Contents Ingredients Usage Notes Reviews Questions Description Higher Nature St John`s Wort Mood Uplift is a traditional herbal medicinal product used to relieve the symptoms of slightly low mood and mild anxiety, exclusively based upon long-standing use as a traditional remedy. There are a number of factors that can trigger low mood, such as bereavement, divorce, illness, redundancy or money and job worries. St John's Wort Mood Uplift may support you through these sad times. St John's Wort is named after the 24th day in June, St John's day, when this popular medicinal herb typically starts flowering. In Medieval times, people hung St John's Wort over pictures in the belief that it would ward off bad spirits. Today, St John's Wort is used, especially during the long, dark winter months, to help keep the 'winter blues' at bay. These easy-to-swallow, one-a-day tablets are traditionally used to lift your mood. THR Number: THR 23056/0007 Contents One tablet typically provides: Content St John`s Wort extract (as dry extract) from St John`s Wort (Hypericum perforatum L.) (3.5-6:1) (equivalent to 1490-2550mg of St John`s Wort). Extraction solvent: ethanol 60% 425mg This product contains sucrose. Ingredients Maltodextrin, silica colloidal anhydrous, microcrystalline cellulose, croscarmellose sodium, sodium starch glycolate (Type A), magnesium stearate. Coating: Hypromellose, sucrose, talc, calcium carbonate E170, tragacanth, acacia, liquid glucose (dry substance), titanium dioxide E171, iron oxide hydrate E172 (yellow iron oxide), vanillin, beeswax white, carnauba wax, shellac. Usage Adults and the elderly: For slightly low mood and mild anxiety take one tablet daily. The tablets should be swallowed whole with some water or other liquid. Do not chew the tablets. Notes Warnings Do not use if you: Are under 18 years Are pregnant or breastfeeding Are allergic to any of the ingredients Have been diagnosed with depression or you think you may be depressed Are about to undergo surgery St John`s Wort products must not be taken at the same time as certain medicines including: Many prescribed by your doctor hormonal contraceptives (including the Pill) Some medicines you can get without prescription Keep out of sight and reach of children. You must read the enclosed Patient Information Leaflet carefully before taking these tablets. You should see a doctor or healthcare practitioner if the symptoms persist while using Higher Nature St John`s Wort Mood Uplift or if side-effects not mentioned in the Patient Information Leaflet occur. Increased sensitivity of the skin to sunlight may occur in rare cases, especially in fair skinned people. Reviews Below are reviews of St Johns Wort Mood Uplift - 30 x 425mg Tablets by bodykind customers. If you have tried this product we'd love to hear what you think so please leave a review. Leave a review Score Comments Name Email Submit review Questions & Answers Below are questions that bodykind customers have asked us about this product. If you want to know more about this product please don't hesitate to ask us a question. Ask us a question Question Email Confirm Email Submit question


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Sony's policy regarding third party hardware is a big part of the problem.
Posted By Oliver VanDervoort | On 23rd, Oct. 2015 Under News
When the special edition Fallout 4 controller was unveiled for the Xbox One, PS4 users were noticeably upset about the fact they weren't getting their own specially designed controller. It turns out that Bethesda would certainly have been happy to have a controller made for the PS4, but Sony doesn't allow that kind of thing. Basically, the controller that was shown off during the Bethesda store's special sale is made by a third party producer.
After being greeted by a number of Twitter users who were confused and even really unhappy about the fact the controller is only available for the Xbox One, the Bethesda exec set the twittersphere straight. He explained in one tweet that not every company has the same kind of policy when it comes to third party controllers. Presently, Hines said he doesn't believe Sony actually allows anyone but them to create controllers for their consoles.
It's also pretty clear there are at least a few people who believe Bethesda has chosen to side with Microsoft. Hines pointed out there aren't any other games that have special hardware on the PS4 that wasn't made by Sony. As a kind of added handwave to the people who are upset they won't get this cool controller, the exec also made it clear this tool is only wired. While the USB can be unplugged, the controller doesn't charge or run on battery. Perhaps that will be enough to keep people from getting too unhappy they won't be able to get a special Fallout 4 controller for their PS4 anytime soon.
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Brian Cork '84
Radford University set the stage for Brian "Chris" Cork '84 to be the success he is today.
Cork serves as founder and business coach for brian cork Coaching in Atlanta, Georgia, where he provides guidance and advice to upcoming entrepreneurs and corporate decision-makers. "I have the coolest job – I walk with people that want to change the world, and help them make better decisions," says Cork. "Companies and leaders choose my coaching because I am a recognized authority on innovation and strategy for startups, mid-market and enterprise level organizations, and the people that would dare to lead such organizations."
Cork also serves on the Radford University College of Business and Economics Board of Advisors, and works with numerous charities, including Real Men Don't Text and Drive and briansBEANS, which is a mentoring program for education and performing arts.
"I wasn't even sure I was going to college," Cork states. "I was thinking about taking a 'skip-year' and barnstorming across Europe, taking part in middle- and long-distance races." He continues, "But the Radford University cross country coaching staff convinced me to go right to college. I ultimately ended up leading the varsity cross country team as a freshman."
Cork was very impressed by the faculty at Radford University, including Chuck Taylor, the University's athletic director. "He had a great vision, and I recognized a leader in him," Cork opined. Other faculty members who inspired Cork included Nicholas "Nick" Pappas, an enigmatic and beloved political science professor who taught Cork about "responsibility and virtue," as well as Douglas Woolley, an economics professor, who also served as Cork's first lacrosse coach, and offered him vital lessons in "accountability and team work."
He was also heavily influenced by the then-Dean of Students, Bonnie Hurlbert '58, who encouraged him to become freshman class president and a student senator. "That was a magnificent period of time," Cork says of his first year. "That's when I really matured into a confident decision maker."
Graduating with a degree in political science, Cork's first job was working for a congressman in Northern Virginia. This job, he says, was an "exercise in experience," and part of a maturing process for him.
"My primary roles for the Congressman was to develop financial support and also write speeches," Cork explains. "It was also my first experience with companies that support political figures and establish expectations that may not have been under best practices.
"It was a valuable experience," he continues. "I befriended by some of D.C.'s top business leaders that took an interest in me. That set the stage for my early foray into venture capital."
Later, Cork served as a financial analyst for Northrop Corporation in Los Angeles, performing research and creating financial models to aid in the development of the Peacekeeper intercontinental ballistic missile. "Much of what I learned at Radford, including leadership through student government, prepared me for that job," says Cork. "I had to influence people twice my age on a daily basis."
Cork has some advice for today's Highlanders, "Always have a plan and find mentors – people that will guide you and encourage you to always to think ahead."


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Who would have thought that a small Yorkshier Terrior would have caused such controversy, such vitriolic comments, such (and you must excuse my language here) absolute and complete fuckwittage.
Look. I know we're talking about FB here. It's not exactly a bastion of common sense, good taste and sensitivity. But I did expect a certain modicum of laissez-faire.
To paraphrase Small Dog, I cannot even believe that some people can be so stupid.
Perhaps I should explain
As a child we always had animals.
Dogs - several
Cats - several
Hamsters - a few
ALL of them had a different 'voice'.
It was my mum who started it.
Our pets would talk to us. They would tell us their hopes, fears and ambitions or simply what they wanted for dinner.
But... and here is where the writer's voice comes in..... they would also leave us written notes.
For example, our dogs wrote in a style very similar to Small Dog.
You have to understand that animals might readily understand our spoken language but they struggle with translating their thoughts into our written language. They write what they hear, but without the constraints of spelling and grammar. The fact that they can write in phonetic sentences at all is fairly amazing.
Any idiot can do bad spelling. In fact there is so much bad spelling on FB I don't even know where to start, so to be upbraided for my dog not knowing how to spell is somewhat galling.
It takes me much longer to write a Small Dog post than one of my own (I hasten to add that I have to 'channel' SD's posts as they are obviously ALL her own work)
I write, edit, re-edit, and edit again to get just the right words and tone. I aim for funny and clever and I expect the only other person on the interweb who might understand this is Sue Newstead, whose Fox Terrior, Delphi Dog (DD) and SD are "grate frends" and who I know puts just as much time and effort into her DD posts as I do for SD.
It is NOT bad or sloppy spelling. It is how Small Dog writes. It is how ALL the dogs I have ever known have written.
Cats write in a completely different way. More sparse and pared down (although their spelling can best be described as 'experimental). With none of the existential angst.
With hamsters you're lucky if you get more than two single syllable words at a time. And the notes are always chewed round the edges.
On the other hand, guinea pigs can be virtuoso writers. When my children were young we had a guinea pig called Virgil who wrote the Aeneid in crayon. So think on.
Frankly, I don't give a rat's arse about who doesn't like Small Dog's FB page (although I presume that rats, being notably intelligent rodents, might be right up there with some of the best writers). I've had to ban people from posting inappropriate comments and batten down the page so that nobody can post on the timeline. Basically, a bit like the Pentagon, Small Dog's page is on lockdown.
If people don't have the intellectual ability to read and understand her posts then perhaps they'd be better off going elsewhere*. I've heard that the likes of Justin Bieber can occasionally string a coherent sentence together but what do I know.
So, if any of my regular blog readers, many of whom I know are ardent fans of Small Dog, would like to join her FB page, do let me know and I will send you an invite.
*The bounds of decency and good taste dictate that I cannot give free rein to my thoughts on this.......


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Posts Tagged 'asian thinking'
Individualism-Collectivism and Accountability
Individualism – Collectivism and Accountability in Intergroup Negotiations
However, for those who place a high emphasis on collectivism, cooperative behavior and harmony with others, especially with persons with whom one is similar, is normative and is likely to ensure positive evaluations in accountable negotiations.
In the low-accountability condition, those who had high levels of collectivism reported less cooperative intentions and behavior, and achieved lower outcomes, as compared to representatives with low levels of collectivism.
However, the current research suggests that negotiators' behavior depends both on the nature of the negotiation situation, as well as on negotiators' collectivism. Applying this to cross-cultural investigations, this suggests that broad generalizations about the negotiation styles of cultural groups, which does not take situations into account, are likely to be inappropriate.
Read the full essay online or download as pdf.
Michele J. Gelfand / University of Maryland at College Park
Anu Realo / University of Tartu, Estonia
Journal of Applied Psychology , 1999, Vol. 84, No. 5, 721-736 – retrieved 08.12.2011 from http://www.bsos.umd.edu/psyc/gelfand/index.html
Cultural Aspects of Information Management in China
Cultural Aspects of Information Management in China (Abstract)
Collectivistic Background
Chinese culture is a collectivist culture which stresses the interdependence and long-term mutual obligations between individuals and organizations. People are expected to follow group values and initiatives. As found in the study of western ecommerce diffusion in China, Chinese people prefer small group based operations with emphasis on long-term relationship, interorganizational collaboration and re-negotiation. Another ecommerce study also indicates that collectivist features like clubs, chat rooms and family themes have a higher percentage occurrence on Chinese websites than on US domestic websites.
Chinese collectivism, however, differs substantially from those prevailing in other Asian countries. They are individualistic collectivism where small group or family value is emphasized, rather than society oriented. In contrast to Japanese society, which may be considered as a block of granite, the Chinese resembles a tray of loose sand, where every grain is a family.
This opinion is consistent with the finding of Martinsons and Westwood (1997) that the Chinese power structure is perhaps best represented by a series of concentric circles or "family" with the patriarch in the center. The traditional family values are emphasized in this circle. The Chinese collectivism can be either an inhibitor or enabler of IS practices. Most information is gathered and processed in Chinese environment is intended to support the top managers of various small circles, which results in many independent systems and data that are hard to integrate or share. Such behaviors actually make Chinese collectivism a negative factor in ERP implementation. From above analysis, Chinese collectivism may be seen as individualistic collectivism.
Hierarchical Power Structure
Chinese management philosophy is characterized by centralized authorities as well as directive and hierarchical structures due to the long power distance and paternalistic tendency. The position of top management in Chinese business is overwhelming. No other champion is needed because such a champion would be seen as a challenge to the authority of top management, which often leads to power conflicts. And both top managers and lower level staffs are not comfortable with empowerment because they are accustomed to the practice that key decisions are made by top management. It is also natural that Chinese business leaders use their authorities to facilitate modifying subordinates behaviors in change management.
Unfortunately, Chinese top managers do not appear to realize the importance of IT and IT management. Consequently, they commit less on IT management. Problem arise when Chinese managers rarely accept knowledge input from their subordinates, and when the IT decisions by top management are seldom made with due consultation with end users This may be helpful to speed up IT decision and IT implementation, but such bureaucratic and arbitrary organizational culture is seen as one important cause of IT project failures.
The hierarchy management structure also helps to explain the correlation between power and information in China. Information control is one of the predominant sources of power in China. Critical information in China is selectively preserved instead of being distributed widely. Information is often treated as an individual property and critical information controlled by individual can be used to preserve discretionary power in Chinese organization. It is quite obvious in e-government practices in China where branches of government purposely hold back some information and obstruct large-scale information sharing in order to keep their power and interests.
Uncertainty Tolerance
Uncertainty tolerance is the extent a person feels comfortable in unstructured situations. It is commonly accepted that there are two different cultures, namely, uncertainty avoiding culture and uncertainty accepting culture.
The former tries to minimize uncertainly by taking strict laws and regulations, or risk control measures. The later tolerates ambiguous situation, and tries to live peacefully with it.
The majority of the studies, however, argue that the Chinese culture is uncertainty tolerant. Martinsons (1997) and Lam et al(2005) show that East Asians, especially Chinese people are more comfortable with unclear information. This corresponds with the informal communication path among Chinese that relies more on personal experience. They keep more information among themselves, rather than explicitly express it. It is common in China that you need to guess the "true" meaning of conversation beside the surface information, because Chinese people like to use allusion to tell something they think you should know and would understand.
Based on authors' own understanding about uncertainty tolerance as native Chinese, the uncertainty avoidance mentioned in the literature is mainly because of the importance of information for the power, rather than unable to tolerate the uncertainty. So the idea that Chinese culture is uncertainty tolerant is supported. Contrary to the traditional thinking that Chinese people are more conservative in regard to change, the literature demonstrates that Chinese people's attitude seems to be more positive toward change and towards new technology when they come to experience it.
Both Collis (1995) and Brown et al(1998) conclude that people from China hold more positive attitudes on change and new technologies than those from countries that they compare, namely, UK, US and Japan.
Intuitive Decision Making
The way that Chinese people make decisions or solve problems is relatively unstructured compared with westerners "the Chinese's decisions are comparatively implicit, relying on analogical and correlative thinking, rather than on rational and analytic thinking". Although Chinese managers refer to information or data to support decision making process, only a few data analysis is used even when deciding the most important issues.
The entrepreneurial model of strategy making that relies on personal knowledge and intuition rather than objective criteria or formal and quantitative method is dominant in Chinese decision making. Therefore, "the decision making process usually involves few people and takes short time to make".
The decision making of Chinese people is also characterized to be highly contextual. Regulation and rules may play important role in directing the decision, but in most situations, Chinese people like to adopt "the individual-policy-for-individual-issue approach", which means that the executors of rules usually can find some room for themselves to make flexible decisions.
Cultural Aspects of IS in China
Xiang-Hua Lu / School of Management, Fudan University
Michael S H Heng / National University of Singapore
Download the full pdf here.
The PACIS (Pacific Asia Conference on IT Systems) has tons of other interesting material and is worth a visit.
The I Ging – structure in East Asian Collectives (Natural Order)
This Matrix defines the Relationship Layer (Ranking/Relation) and the Appeal Layer (Distance/Approach). Still many Asian companies follow this structure.
Download an introduction to Hofstede`s theories as pdf here.
Mapping the Global Muslim Population
(…) A comprehensive demographic study of more than 200 countries finds that there are 1.57 billion Muslims of all ages living in the world today, representing 23% of an estimated 2009 world population of 6.8 billion. While Muslims are found on all five inhabited continents, more than 60% of the global Muslim population is in Asia and about 20% is in the Middle East and North Africa. However, the Middle East-North Africa region has the highest percentage of Muslim-majority countries. Indeed, more than half of the 20 countries and territories1 in that region have populations that are approximately 95% Muslim or greater. More than 300 million Muslims, or one-fifth of the world's Muslim population, live in countries where Islam is not the majority religion. These minority Muslim populations are often quite large. India, for example, has the third-largest population of Muslims worldwide. China has more Muslims than Syria, while Russia is home to more Muslims than Jordan and Libya combined.
Of the total Muslim population, 10-13% are Shia Muslims and 87-90% are Sunni Muslims. Most Shias (between 68% and 80%) live in just four countries: Iran, Pakistan, India and Iraq. (…)
Source: http://www.pewforum.org/Mapping-the-Global-Muslim-Population.aspx
PEW- Forum: http://www.pewforum.org/
Or click here.
Laotse and Confucius – Fundamental Traits in Asian Thinking
(…) Nor can it be said truly that a pure-blooded Chinese could ever quite disagree with Chuangtse's ideas. Taoism is not a school of thought in China, it is a deep, fundamental trait of Chinese thinking, and of the Chinese attitude toward life and toward society. It has depth, while Confucianism has only a practical sense of proportions; it enriches Chinese poetry and imagination in an immeasurable manner, and it gives a philosophic sanction to whatever is in the idle, freedom- loving, poetic, vagabond Chinese soul. It provides the only safe, romantic release from the severe Confucian classic restraint, and humanizes the very humanists themselves; therefore when a Chinese succeeds, he is always a Confucianist, and when he fails, he is always a Taoist. As more people fail than succeed in this world, and as all who succeed know that they succeed but in a lame and halting manner when they examine themselves in the dark hours of the night, I believe Taoist ideas are more often at work than Confucianism. Even a Confucianist succeeds only when he knows he never really succeeds, that is, by following Taoist wisdom. (…)
With special thanks to Milanda: The Chuang Tzu, translated by Yutang Lin at http://terebess.hu/english/chuangtzu.html
Gabor Terebess runs a nice online database with many relevant works about the Tao wich is definitely worth a visit.
Download the Chuang Tzu as pdf here.
Download the The Analects of Confucius 論語 as pdf here or read online at http://www.acmuller.net/con-dao/analects.html
(reviewed 02.10.2013)
Slanted Eyes – Cartoon about Slanted Eyes and other Stereotypes
(…) Meanwhile, Ling-Ling is trying to get his driver's license. He aces the written portion of the exam, but fails miserably at the driving test. Wooldoor explains that Ling-Ling is a bad driver because he is Asian (playing off a well-known stereotype), and decides to help Ling-Ling pass by making him more American—namely, by Scotch-taping his eyes so that they are round instead of slanted.
In addition to gaining the ability to speak perfect English, Ling-Ling now sees the world as everyone else does, and aces his driving test. By doing so, he inspires all Asians everywhere to do the same. The NAAYP even wishes to present Ling-Ling with an award for opening up everyone's eyes. However, at the award ceremony, Godzilla calls Ling-Ling out and accuses him of turning his back on his culture. Ling-Ling resists the notion, but finally comes to agree. He makes a speech to everyone present at the ceremony that they should just be themselves, and not to forget who they are. He removes the Scotch tape from his eyes and begins speaking his normal language again. All of the Asians in attendance listen to his words and do the same. Unfortunately, after leaving the ceremony, they all promptly crash their cars into the auditorium. (….) Source
Stream this video here or click on the pictures.
reviewed 06.03.2014


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Prospective Year 7 Open Evening
AGS will hold its annual Open Evening on Thursday 2nd July 2020 from 5pm to 8:15pm.
Parents and prospective students, are welcome to join us at any time throughout the evening for tours, displays and to meet students and staff.
There will be 4 presentations throughout the evening at 5:15pm, 6pm, 6:45pm and 7:30pm, given by the Principal, Vice Principal and Head of Year 7.


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The news that Eminem is back with a new album is music to Motor City ears, as well as his long time legions of fans around the globe.
The hype machine is already gearing up by pre-releasing photos of the album's cover. And that news might surprise you right there.
There's actually artwork. And it's really interesting.
At a time when most consumers think about faceless 99-cent downloads, the always fascinating Eminem comes at us with some art to ponder, courtesy of British photographer Nigel Parry.
The new album (being released one day early on the 21st) is called Recovery, and a look at the album art suggests many themes. Is it about his recovery? Or Detroit's?
What does the glass box say about the trials and tribulations of celebrity? Or is it about transparency?
That's the "Renaissance Center" in the background - a symbol of Detroit's former hope, but now the home of General Motors. And the area where the photo was shot - Hart Plaza - is deserted. Another statement about Detroit? Or Eminem's life?
That's the fun part of great art - or in this case, album art. It gets you thinking. And it's reminiscent of some of the classic album art that used to accompany some of the music many of us Boomers grew up with. It wasn't just about the songs - the artwork was part of the package. And when it was beautiful, eye-opening, compelling,mysterious, or even shocking, it added something very special to the project itself.
When I saw the Recovery art, I immediate flashed back to Pink Floyd's Animals, another bleak urban statement that got us all thinking more than three decades ago. Many of those album covers were lovingly designed by Hipgnosis, a team of British artists who worked under an odd payment structure - they asked bands to pay what they felt the art was worth. By the way, Hipgnosis also created the artwork for Dark Side of the Moon, Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap, Houses of the Holy, and scores of others.
The confluence of the art - the music, the album cover, the sleeve, the label - was all part of the package that fascinated, delighted, and even puzzled. And it was that combination that contributed to making the music classic and a major part of the pop culture of the times.
For Eminem to bring a piece of that back in 2010 is "old school" as they say, but perhaps a step in the right direction toward de-commoditizing an industry that is in dire need of some inspiration and energy.
Got any favorite album art of your own? Feel free to comment.


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SHRIYA MOHAN traces the Indian microfinance story and what stops it from making a dent in poverty
WHEN MUHAMMAD Yunus, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006, showed the world what a small loan could do to a group of poor villagers in Bangladesh, people wondered why such a simple idea had never been thought of before.
According to N Srinivasan's State of the Sector Report on Microfinance, published by Sage, over 800 microfinance institutions (MFIs) now operate in India, reaching out to over 140 lakh clients, with an outstanding cumulative loan of Rs 5,900 crores in small loans. Over 54 million clients from the Self Help Group (SHG) — Bank linkage programme and MFIs, today access microfinance services. The Indian microfinance sector has seen phenomenal growth in the last few years. In 2007-08 alone, MFIs have had a growth rate of 40 percent.
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