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May 29, 2010
Obama has such a great smile.
Quotation Marks
May 24, 2010
"Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose." – Bill Gates
Your Mom "Likes" This
May 24, 2010
Have you noticed that people older than about 25 are Facebook whores. These people joined Facebook once it opened to the public (and not just for college students). They are constantly posting pics, writing on their friends walls, updating their status, etc.
Here is an interesting article in the NYT about how young adults are a bit smarter about what they post on the site.
Some interesting facts of Facebook users in the United States:
# of people aged 13-17:
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King of the World
May 23, 2010
Holy Crap! Jordan Romero, 13, from California has become the youngest person to climb the tallest mountain in the world. The record was previously held by Ming Kipa of Nepal, who was 15 when she made the climb in 2003 with her brother and sister.
Mr. Lemur
May 22, 2010
May 15, 2010
May 14, 2010
Typography love.
Move Over Whitney
May 13, 2010
This just made my day!
Taiwanese singer Lin Yu-chun — is riding high this week after inking a major label record deal. Sony Music said in a statement Thursday that Lin, the bowl cut-sporting singer whose rendition of 'I Will Always Love' on a TV talent show made him a star just a month ago, will release an album of Chinese and English songs in July.
SFMOMA Expansion
May 12, 2010
Here are the finalist for the SFMOMA expansion project.
Adjaye Associates, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Foster + Partners, and Snøhetta. That lands Diller Scofidio + Renfro in the second hot Bay Area museum shortlist in as many months, following last month's Berkeley Art Museum announcement of its own new-building architect list. SFMOMA's director was quick to note that they didn't review actual design concepts from eachinterviewed firm on their shortlist: "We emphasized that we were not interviewing for a design, we were interviewing for a designer. We wanted to see how these teams think, the intellectual spirit and the creativity." -via CurbedSF
Speed Test
May 5, 2010
Cool video comparing the speed of Chrome to a potato cannon, sound and lightning. Thanks for the tip Joe!


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Come Get Me Angel Lyrics
Artist: Simply Red
Album: Blue
This one's going out to you girl, wherever you may be
I may not be the way you wanted it, I got a need to be free
Yet I know that I need someone and I'm calling out to you
Come get me girl, come get me baby,
I need you, I need you in my life
Whatever it takes to change girl, maybe I'll do it for you
If you can go as deep as I go, baby I'm gonna need you
I want you to be my girl, I want you to be my world
Not any night, not always in my life, I need you
I want you to be my girl, I want you to be my world
Not any night not always, but when it's right for you and me
Alright when it's alright, hey in my life
She'll be there and don't you worry
Keep looking and just keep cooking
Words and music Carolyn Franklyn & Sony Saunders
Re-written by Mick Hucknall
Simply Red Lyrics
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Simply Red - ENOUGH Lyrics
Simply Red - How Could I Fall Lyrics
Simply Red - LOOK AT YOU NOW Lyrics
Simply Red - Money In My Pocket (Plan B Mix) Lyrics
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Simply Red - Say You Love Me Lyrics
Simply Red - Shine Lyrics
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August 14, 2009
Prison Labor
In Mexico, on the road between Merida and Campeche, you pass a large prison (filled with people from Mexico City, they say). Lining the highway are a dozen or so stores selling hammocks and other labor-intensive hand-crafted good. They're made by prisoners.
Why don't we have this?
5 comments:
- Nick said...
We already do. I've seen lots of prison outlet stores, they sell rugs, wood furniture, birdhouses, Xmas decorations etc made by the inmates. One near me has gazebos & children playhouses for sale too:
- August 14, 2009 at 7:46 AM
- PCM said...
Cool. I didn't know.
There's no downside to that, is there?
- August 14, 2009 at 4:34 PM
Get rid of the minimum wage. then things will make more sense.
- August 15, 2009 at 9:24 PM
- tim said...
Here's the idea I came up with while teaching business communication classes in a medium-security facility (read: drug dealers and small-time armed robbers) in southeast Ohio:
Build a factory. Put a great big wall right down the middle, with one assembly line going through it, heavily guarded. Put inmates on the inside portion, and staff the outside portion with recently-released felons.
Build something that would have some cred having been built by inmates. My idea was "Outlaw brand motorcycles," but there are others. Make the inmates this offer: work for prison wage on this side, and if you work for 12 months with no issues on the other side upon release (contingent no arrests, drug tests, etc) you get back pay of minimum wage (or more?) for all the work you did while inside.
Build housing for the workers on the outside, give them little incentive to leave but a huge cash incentive to stay, and you get past that 12-month threshold after which inmates are unlikely to reoffend. In the meantime, you boost the local economy immensely.
- August 17, 2009 at 11:47 AM
- PCM said...
I kind of like that.
I'm all for new ideas.
- August 21, 2009 at 1:18 AM


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Another Bollywood favourite and an Arsenal fan, Ranveer Singh was quick to comment on Ozil's Instagram pic with Shahrukh. Singh commented "Kya baat hai, Bhai!" to which Ozil replied in typical Gully Boy slang, "Bohot hard, Bhai!"
Ranveer, however, wasn't done yet as he replied again and said, "EK NUMBER, LALA @M10_official".
Well, we have to say that Ozil's strong social media game is definitely pleasing Indian audiences.
SRK too posted the photo on his twitter handle as below:
What a lovely evening @Arsenal congratulations. Thx @MesutOzil1088 & #AmineGulse for your warmth love & hospitality. See u guys soon in India. pic.twitter.com/4rtBJXZ5uW— Shah Rukh Khan (@iamsrk) April 1, 2019


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Even though Viola Davis did not win an Oscar for Best Actress, she wins for Best Dressed!
We loved her natural hair, glowing skin, and flawless makeup. And that green dress was PERFECTION. If there was a Queen of Emerald Island, she should look like this!
What did you think of her look? Tell us in the comments!


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Michigan has made "dramatic" progress in better competing with other states since coming out of the Great Recession, steadily improving from near the bottom of a competitiveness index to the middle.
That's the conclusion of an annual analysis from Northwood University for the Michigan Chamber Foundation in a report that examines Michigan's overall economic competitiveness.
Researchers this year ranked the state 20th nationally in a competitiveness index, up from 21st in 2017 and far better than the 47th in the first-ever report in 2012.
When measuring performance since 2011 alone, Michigan ranked eighth nationally with the automotive, tourism and agriculture industries as its strongest economic drivers.
The progress stems from Michigan having a friendlier business environment, according to the report's authors, who noted the state led the Great Lakes region in economic growth from 2012 to 2018 "and was a strong performing state nationally over the last seven years."
Michigan's "relatively strong performance" for debt, taxation and regulation outweighed a "relatively weaker performance" in workforce composition, cost and labor, and capital formation, said Tim Nash, senior vice president and director of Northwood University's McNair Center for the Advancement of Free Enterprise and Entrepreneurship.
To sustain the progress, the state "must continue to set its sights high and benchmark best economic and political practices of this country's top performing states," the Northwood University report concluded.
"There is no doubt that Michigan continues down a comeback path, but it has not arrived yet," according to the report. "Can Michigan return to the position of greatness it once occupied in the U.S. business structure? We again answer unequivocally yes, but only if we continue to adopt growth-friendly public policies."
To compile a competitiveness index, the McNair Center uses 200 metrics that include gross state product, tax and regulatory policies, employment growth, and the cost of doing business.
The report's authors noted that Grand Rapids was the top-performing city among eight in the Midwest in an analysis of data from 2000 to 2017.
In the five factors that go into the overall competitiveness index, Michigan ranked:
- 7th in general macroeconomic environment, versus 48th in 2012
- 13th in state debt and taxation, compared to 10th in 2012
- 33rd in workforce composition and cost, versus 45th six years ago
- 27th in labor and capital formation, compared to 45th in 2012
- 25th in regulatory environment, a decline from 18th in 2017 and 24th in 2012


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>Foreign Volunteers Japan Delivery Missions
>Since I've had the chance to join in on two delivery missions with the group, and one with Beau Retallick's group, I thought I should take this chance to elaborate on what exactly these missions entail.
Currently, there are shortages of gasoline and rental trucks across Japan. As you could imagine, this creates one of the largest logistical challenges for anyone organizing deliveries up to Tohoku. For our first two trips, we were able to secure a special "Emergency Relief Vehicle" permit for our trucks from local police departments. That allowed us access to the still-closed Tohoku expressway, and emergency vehicles are allowed to cut into gasoline lines at local stations.
(Be considerate though – each station has a daily quota, and if a 10-truck caravan fills up after cutting in line, the locals who have been waiting patiently at the end of a three-hour line, will end up being turned away without being able to fill-up after the daily quota is maxed out.)
The next challenge is find food and supplies. Thanks to generous donors, collection centers across Tokyo have been filling up quickly. Currently, there are three major collection points. Second Harvest, Tokyo IS Support Center, and Peace Boat. Please see the list of places to send material aid donations for details.
A few people have asked why our collection center at IKON Pubs has put a pause on collecting donations. There are two reasons for this. The first one is that Foreign Volunteers Japan is now putting more effort into matching up delivery runs with local needs and requests from individual refugee centers across Tohoku. The second one is that Foreign Volunteers Japan is now focusing on securing large-scale bulk supplies for the affected areas.
We've found that randomly sending up shipments often causes more harm than it helps. The sheer devastation of the tsunami has destroyed a large percentage of the habitable buildings in several towns, so the refugee shelters have been established in schools, town halls, auditoriums, company buildings, community centers, etc…
This means that refugees themselves are now occupying buildings that may have once been able to provide storage facilities for each community. When we send up supplies that are not immediately needed by the community we deliver them to, they do not have the ability to store those items until a need arises. So many of the smaller aid groups have actually had to return to Tokyo or Nagoya with trucks only half-unloaded.
Supplies that have been rejected have included rice (no way to cook it), clothes (not seasonally appropriate, or not in the right sizes), random boxes of donations (too difficult to sort), other supplies that they had recently received in bulk, and even items that were received in small numbers (since it is important to distribute donations evenly among the refugees in each shelter.)
Currently, various aid groups have begun working together to better coordinate the needs in each area. Damian Penston of Refugees Japan has been helping NUC (Nihon Univa Counter Crisis Team) convert their database of local refugee needs into a Google Document for keeping the various supply teams up-to-date with the latest needs of each community. As Foreign Volunteers Japan heads into the affected areas, we also interview each center on how their needs have changed, and relay that information back to Damian, who in turn helps convey it back to NUC.
In order to secure large-scale bulk supplies, we have been negotiating with industrial-scale wholesalers, and even supply chain providers for hotels and hospitals. Of course we only order items that will fill an immediate need for the refugees up north, such as bottled water, sanitary products, canned foods, specific clothing items, cleaning supplies, etc.
Once an order is negotiated, we can channel donations towards covering the costs involved. For our second trip, we were able to secure an order of 7000 half-liter bottles from a large wholesaler, and courteously Kevin Yu of Tesla motors offered to sponsor the bill for the water.
Following the tsunami, the focus of relief efforts has moved from 1) search and rescue operations, to 2) meeting the immediate needs of hundreds-of-thousands of refugees resettled into emergency shelters.
Now is the time to focus on stage 3) meeting the long-term needs of those refugees. Only once that is taken care of, will it be possible to begin the long and arduous process of 4) rebuilding the devastated towns along the coastline.
Foreign Volunteers Japan is committed to aiding and contributing to the relief efforts focused on the recovery of the tsunami affected areas of Tohoku. Thank you sincerely for your support and involvement.
To participate in the discussion, offer logistics support, loan us a truck, join in as a driver, help sort goods, help run this web-site, write blogs about volunteer efforts, etc… Please consider joining the Foreign Volunteers Japan group on Facebook.


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Over the past 30+ years, Dune has served many diverse organizations in North America, including provincial governments, municipal governments, safety regulators, energy regulators, oil & gas companies, construction companies, technology companies, financial services companies, professional services companies, post-secondary schools, not-for-profit organizations, and entrepreneurs.
Here are some of the clients Dune has had the privilege of serving:
- Alberta Attorney General
- Alberta Culture and Community Spirit
- Alberta Environment
- Alberta Farm Supply
- Alberta Federation of Gas-Coops
- Alberta Health and Wellness
- Alberta Health Services
- Alberta Innovates – Technology Futures
- Alberta Motor Association
- Alberta Municipal Affairs
- Alberta School Employee Benefit Plan
- Alberta Tourism, Parks and Recreation
- Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario
- ATCO Group (ATCO Electric, ATCO Gas, ATCO I-Tek, etc.)
- Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity
- British Columbia Ministry of Community, Aboriginal and Women Services
- British Columbia Ministry of Environment
- British Columbia Oil and Gas Commission
- British Columbia Public Safety and Solicitor General
- British Columbia Safety Authority
- Chartered Professional Accountants of Alberta
- City and County of Honolulu, Hawaii
- City of Calgary, Alberta
- City of Edmonton, Alberta
- City of Grande Prairie, Alberta
- City of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
- Computronix
- Covenant Health
- Diversified Communications
- EBA Engineering Consultants
- Enbridge (Edmonton, Calgary, and North Dakota, USA)
- Energy Resources Conservation Board
- Fundy Consulting
- Gilead
- Hamilton County, Indiana
- J. Ennis Fabrics
- Keyano College
- Leduc County (Plus Various Surrounding Municipalities)
- MacEwan University
- Manitoba Consumer and Corporate Affairs
- Mecklenburg County, North Carolina
- Melcor Developments
- Mount Royal University
- North American Construction Group
- Northern Alberta Institute of Technology
- Northlands
- Nova Gas Transmission Ltd.
- Quercus Solutions
- Service Alberta
- Strathcona County, Alberta
- Syncrude Canada
- Technical Standards and Safety Authority, Ontario
- Town of Sylvan Lake, Alberta
- UAP/NAPA Auto Parts
- University of Alberta
- West Edmonton Mall
- Western Forest Products
In addition to the above, Dune has also facilitated 68 different university courses on business, management, and leadership, for thousands of professionals at all levels of hundreds of organizations.
"Dune is an inspirational speaker and a great communicator. I would highly recommend Dune!"
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Description: Weekly newspaper from Rusk, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 12, 1937
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Use drop.io to privately share your files & notes in drops.
Use DroidDrop to:
– Create & View Drops
– Add Notes, Links, and Photos
– It's easy to start with the demo drop
– View & update in the demo and then create your own drops
I submitted DroidDrop to ADC2 (Android Developer's Challengge 2) on 8/31. I expected to add a few more features before publishing it to the market. I was able to add some polish and 1 new feature (uploading photos directly from the gallery.)
I was starting to work on adding even more features when I realized it was a good time to stop and get some feedback. So, please try out DroidDrop and let me know what you think. Some of my ideas for new features are at the end of this post.
These 2 tweets were timely in helping me think about the release date.
- RT @albertwenger Making Versus Planning … http://tumblr.com/xbk34pkz3
- RT @ericries IFTF: don't pave until you see where people walk; needs to apply to IT and internal tools #workunbound
Feedback and ideas wanted! Error reports, too.
Contact via email or twitter
You can see a previous video demo here.
I would expect to add:
- video upload
- audio upload
- showing drops in reverse chronological order
- performance improvements


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|It's been a long time since I've added a child's face to my collection.
|~ Koh
Koh, also known as the Face-Stealer, is a minor antagonist in the Avatar series.
He is one of the oldest known spirits and is very knowledgeable and manipulative, as well as malevolent and pompous. Koh enjoys stealing the faces of anyone who expresses emotion in his presence. Because of his frightening and grotesque appearance, he also enjoys coaxing fear out of anyone who meets him, thus stealing their faces. He only plays a minor role in the story itself, telling Aang about the ocean and moon spirits, but is responsible for causing the grief of at least one of Aang's past lives.
Koh is the nemesis of Avatar Kuruk, a Water Tribe Avatar and the third Avatar preceding Aang. Because of Avatar Yangchen's extremely successful tenure as Avatar which resulted in multi-generational peace, Kuruk did not have to do any work as her successor, leading him to lead a casual life and an arrogant attitude.
He eventually found a lover, only for Koh to steal her face as punishment for Kuruk's arrogance. He spent the rest of his life hunting the spirit, and still hunted him well into the afterlife.
He could not go through with killing the spirit, however, as he realized that Koh's death would also result in the death of his lover.
Confrontation With Aang
When Aang first meditated into the Spirit World, he sought information about Tui and La, the Ocean and Moon spirits. Roku first told him about Koh, since he was old enough to know Tui and La before their crossing into the mortal world. He also warned Aang of his malevolent nature and not to express any emotion in front of him. The ancient spirit would not give a straight answer in their encounter, merely stating that Tui and La were opposites (push and pull), and told the Avatar that he had already met the spirits.
When Aang came to the realization that the spirits were the koi fish in the Spirit Oasis, Koh made his move and attempted to steal Aang's face, but barely missed his brief expression of emotion. Before departing, he told the Avatar they would meet again. Despite this, however, he neither met Aang again in his current life nor his later one as Korra.
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This article covers policy needs concerning the rapidly evolving field of microbiome and diets with respect to health and disease. It captures some key outcomes of a multi-stakeholder dialogue (Brussels, May 2016), spearheaded by a joint effort of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the Department of Economy, Science and Innovation of the Flemish Government (Belgium), to help design and/or interpret regulatory frameworks for food and drugs to support innovation to benefit society, while guaranteeing safety and efficacy of products and ensuring the science base.
The combined genomes of the microbial ecosystems that live in symbiosis or as commensals with the human body can be defined as the human microbiome. These microbial ecosystems not only include bacteria and archaea, but also fungi, protozoa, and viruses. Different microbial ecosystems colonise the mouth, the skin, the vaginal and intestinal tract, of which the latter has the highest biodiversity, composed of more than 1000 phylospecies.
An Interface Between Human Genetics and Diet: the Gut Microbiome
The human gut microbiota has been described as a key biological interface between human genetics and environmental conditions, such as diet, that can modify the composition and the functioning of the intestinal microbiome. In that sense, it may be considered a virtual organ which is an integral and essential part of the body.1 Through nutritional intervention, the gut microbiome may be altered to generate better wellbeing and protection against many diseases or even to cure certain conditions.2-4
The gut microbiome can be linked to many Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs), such as cardiovascular diseases, cancer, diabetes, and metabolic syndrome related to increasing incidence of obesity. More recently, also neurological diseases have been related to gut microbiota and diet and are considered as NCDs.5, 6 The burden of ageing related dementia and other NCDs is exponentially increasing in relation to changing life styles and ageing of the population, conditions that are associated with gut microbiome alterations. Changing demographics worldwide, combined with the broader adoption of the western diet and lifestyle increases the burden of NCDs, creating serious challenges for the public healthcare systems. Prevention and more efficient treatment of NCDs not only offer important economic advantages for healthcare systems, it also contributes to the reduction of poverty as only healthy people can actively participate to society and economies.7-9 Recent scientific studies are linking dietary habits to an array of health conditions in new ways and indicate that nutrition has a determining influence that start even before birth and can influence the development of complex pathologies.10, 11
Opportunities and Hype
New insights about the importance of the intestinal microbiome and the modulating effect of diet are opening new possible ways of treatment and prevention that may contribute to the sustainability of healthcare systems by keeping the increasing healthcare costs under control. Innovations based on better understanding of how the intestinal microbiome functions and regulates our health and how it is impacted by what we eat are expected also to lead to preventative medicine and contributions to longer wellbeing in general.
However, the field is subject to some hype. Although insights are growing fast, at this moment it is still unclear how health or disease is determined by the human microbiomes. In most cases, a certain microbiome composition can at best be associated with certain condition. The causal relation of nutrition, gut microbiome composition and health is not clearly understood yet, such as whether a healthy microbiome can be defined at population level, what determines its resilience when disturbed, or how its composition can be beneficially manipulated. Such primary knowledge is required before therapies targeting the microbiome can be developed.
Nevertheless, there is a clear interest of food and pharmaceutical developers and industries to develop new products that target the gut microbiome, for better well-being or to manage chronic disease conditions. Moreover, microbiomes are also a source of novel bioactive compounds that may be used for innovative applications.
Identifying Policy Needs
To follow the pace of new scientific insights and translate these to innovative applications, there is a need to accelerate policy actions at the national and international level, to address scientific and regulatory challenges as well as to ensure safety and efficacy and efficient take up by consumers and healthcare professionals.12-14
To stimulate innovation based on the new insights of how the human microbiome and the gut microbiome in particular is functioning, in May 2016, the department of Economy, Science and Innovation of the Flemish Government in Belgium organized a workshop on 'The Microbiome, Diet and Health: Assessing Gaps in Science and Innovation' in Brussels in collaboration with OECD and the Business and Industry Advisory Committee (BIAC), the industry association linked to OECD.15
This workshop brought together scientists from academia and industry, experts in regulatory issues and policy makers to identify and discuss on policy needs for this field to progress and deliver upon the promises. The regulatory frameworks in place need to follow fast the new developments and combine a right balance between measures to ensure safety and consumer/patient protection and flexibility to adapt to these new developments.16-18
This article summarizes some of the policy needs that were identified as well as messages from workshop participants, how to address these and help move from hype to solid intervention or prevention. A complete workshop report is published by OECD.


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Actually it is not the newest Design stuff (2008), but it is timeless. Design, which i really appreciate, on the strength of the handling with the black white contrast and the composition of white space and figures. And of course it is always a challenge to combine photoghraphs with illustrations. It feels kind of real, but as a result of the overfilling illustration, the graphic gets a mystic and surrealistic touch, like an extract of a fairy-tale.
Mission Design:
"When working on client projects we occasionaly come up with concepts and ideas that not always fit the client brief, but still has great potential. "Wildlife" is one such idea.
We chose to invest quite some time on this project, together with the photographer Pål Laukli. It turned out to be a project we are very proud of."
To see the whole portfolio visit this website Mission Design


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First wedding of the season now complete and it's time for a new style of blog posting of the images including lots more than usual!
First up on the day were the men. This wasn't actually supposed to be the case but Louise arrived later than expected (and worried us all a little!) that morning. Here's a portrait of the groom, Richard.
And here's all the men...
When Louise arrived I joined the girls for some photographs as they got ready. I thought Louise's vintage feel bouquet was stunning.
This is AJ, Louise's sister and bridesmaid (Louise and Richard's daughter Eva was also bridesmaid).
Although late, I grabbed this quick moment of Louise coming down the stairs because I knew she really wanted this image.
Louise with her proud father before going down the aisle.
The ceremony started as a normal civil service but at the end the registrar left and Louise's Dad, who is a minister, did a blessing. Louise and Richard's children were a big part of the day. Connor was best man and had the rings during the ceremony, meanwhile 2 year old Eva couldn't help but make herself part of the proceedings by calling out when she heard her parents voices delivering the vows!
After the ceremony I got the steal the newly weds away for some pictures. Rookery Hall has beautiful grounds and we were so lucky with the weather as the forecast said heavy rain and you'll see from the images it was quite the opposite. I really enjoyed this part of the day because both Louise and Richard seemed to appreciate having a short break, I think you can see that on their faces on this first image!
They're so happy, I love it! The next picture shows just how amazing the weather and views were (although the faces aren't so great, you can't see that, and I really wanted to keep this image in my selection! Next time I do a shot from so far away I'll learn to take a few).
Next up, a bit of post production for fantastic effect...
This next image is the one every photographer I researched at Rookery Hall seems to take so I couldn't help myself! A bit cheesy though right!?
I am very proud of my group shot, just look at the scenery!
Speeches next and Connor gave a fantastic best man speech. I love this shot with his Dad laughing in the background!
Then the other two best men, long time friends of Richard, gave their speech including a version of the game Mr and Mrs.
After the speeches I grabbed Louise and Richard for the twilight shots we had discussed trying to achieve. It was a bit later than it should have been so there wasn't a lot of blue left in the sky but enough to make it worth it. Here's a different image to the one I used in my preview blog.
On to the first dance and this is my favourite image.
My last image shows what you get when you combine one very happy boy and a chocolate fountain!
I hope you've enjoyed my new style wedding photo story. If you want to see more photographs from Louise and Richard's day you can visit their main page here.
I'm taking part in and photographing a hen do in London this weekend but will be back next week with hopefully the photographs from Saturday's wedding.


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School Reform: Teacher Entrepreneurs Need Not Apply
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Managing an Online Business
It is natural to be envious of people who work for themselves, and who earn plenty of money online. They get to work from home, and they get to set up their own work hours. So, what is the secret to their success? Is it luck? The answer is no. These people understand how to manage an online business. There are plenty of businesses which make great amounts of money due to accessibility that moving online provides. People can stumble across a product or service that you offer while not initially looking for it. This is achieved through Google searches. Here are some ways to manage your online business for success.
Regardless of what type of website you manage, you need to keep up with customers who request feedback, or who ask questions. If you sell products, create a space where customers can rate their experience. While some of the answers will be brutally honest, this will allow you to make much needed changes so that you can reach a much broader audience in the future. When you respond to customer concerns quickly, then other customers will see this, and they will respect it. Use the public forum to address any concerns or faults in the way you present your products to others.
Perhaps the most important thing of all is to make sure that all of your features and functions actually work. This includes check-out and payment options for websites that sell products or services. Visitors will leave your website and go to another one if yours does not function properly. It becomes frustrating for people who do not have time to wait for slow-loading web pages. Hire an SEO expert to make sure that every aspect of your website is functioning as it should. This will ensure that you maintain great relationships with all of your customers.
Advertising is another major key to managing your business. Advertise through social media to see immediate results. The reason for this is simple. More people log online to go to their Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram pages, than for any other reason. If you promote your online business through these websites, then you will see immediate returns. Make sure that you are careful not to flood your friends with advertising, however. You need to advertise in a tactful way so that they see your products and are able to make a decision for themselves.
Always provide usable information. Generic information will not entice people to come back to your website int he future. You need to provide unique content so that they keep coming back for more. When you find a certain niche for a great blog, for example, this will lead to even greater opportunities. Update your website frequently so that customers or readers understand that you take it seriously. When people see that you put plenty of time into the content, then they will always come back for more. Managing a business site is lucrative if you put forth the effort.


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To coincide with the 10th anniversary of the UK's launch of contactless technology, UK Finance has published the latest usage figures.
The first contactless cards in the UK were launched in September 2007, with 111 million in issue in June 2017. During the first half of this year the amount spent using contactless technology (£23.23 billion) almost matched the amount spent in 2016 (£25 billion).
- The most popular places for using contactless cards are supermarkets, off-licences and other food and drink retailers, accounting for 45% of contactless spending;
- Restaurants, fast food establishments, pubs and coffee shops were also popular with consumers paying with contactless;
- As well as retail, new uses for contactless include donation points to be used by charities and ongoing rollouts of contactless ticketing on public transport across the country.
- The number of contactless cards in issue increased by 26% in 2016, with 111 million contactless cards in issue as of June 2017;
- Contactless usage is expected to increase four-fold by 2026.
"Contactless has revolutionised the way consumers pay, and is increasingly being used instead of cash for transactions under £30," said Richard Koch, Head of Cards at UK Finance. "With a generation of customers now used to the convenience of paying with contactless we are confident that the places you can use it will continue to grow, with usage predicted to increase four-fold in the next 10 years."
"Contactless payments have completely transformed how people pay for travel in London. We've now seen more than one billion journeys made using contactless payment cards and on average two million journeys are made every day. Transport has led the way on contactless and become the catalyst for the use of this new payment method. The benefits to customers have been immeasurable and many world cities are now looking to adopt similar payment systems on their transport network," commented Shashi Verma, Chief Technology Officer at Transport for London.


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Use of colors for kitchen design
The use of colors for kitchen design in Vancouver continues to evolve and it is essential to know the design ideas and elements that are in trend. As kitchen is one of the most important rooms in the house and it is essential to pick a design that is trendy, comfortable and timeless that will continue to evolve style and add on to your home's personality.
Kitchen design trends are constantly changing, just like the trends for the fashion scene. Here are tips for using of colors in kitchen design that are popular in 2015.
The kitchen design trend is gradually shifting away from the elements of using stark bright white to the more subtle white tones for the finishes. Meanwhile, the trend of incorporating shades of grey into the color tone for the kitchen continue to be very popular for ongoing kitchen renovation projects.
Another continuing trend for is the use of more than one color for kitchen cabinets. For a more daring design for your kitchen, you can consider using up to three different colour palettes. Decide on a focal point for your kitchen. Many people like to use the islands at the focal point where they can feature the accent color for their kitchen design. However, you can also use other parts of your kitchen as the focal point such buffets, decorative hood fans, or other areas of interest. Designers have used bold colors such as intense greens and bright reds in their kitchen design to create a contemporary and stylish kitchen Regardless of the colors in trend for kitchen design, it is important not to blindly follow the trends and choose the colors which you like as home is your private paradise.
Do note that the colors scheme for your kitchen design also needs to blend in well with other rooms of the house so that each room comes together as one to form a character home that reflects your personality.
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- About
- Redevelopment
Our new $120 million hospital on Kangan Drive in Berwick is now open.
Opening Day Information- Thursday 18 January 2018
Our new hospital at 75 Kangan Drive is now open.
From 8am we will begin safely transporting approximately 40 patients from Gibb Street in ambulances to the new hospital. They will travel throughout the day along Gloucester Avenue, Melville Park Drive, Fairholme Blvd, Bryn Mawr Blvd and Kangan Drive. We ask for the patience and consideration of our local residents as these ambulances are in transit between both sites.
We have communicated directly with our current inpatients and their families/carers as to the movements of the day. However, if you have any questions as to the location of a loved one during the move process please call (03) 8784 5000.
To keep patient relocation as safe and straight forward as possible, we ask that visitors consider dropping in on their loved one from Friday onwards. Minimising visitors to the hospital on Thursday 18 January allows for our caregivers to focus on ensuring that our patients are relocated to their new rooms safely. We thank you for your understanding.
If you have any questions regarding opening day and the relocation of patients, please call (03) 8784 5000
Car parking
St John of God Berwick Hospital is committed to providing safe and secure car parking for our patients, visitors and caregivers.
There are 445 car parking spaces at Kangan Drive with access to the hospital and to St John of God Berwick Specialist Centre. 8 disabled car spaces are located in close proximity to the entry/lifts.
The car park provides access to both the Hospital and the St John of God Berwick Specialist Centre. Please enter via Gate 1, located at 55 Kangan Drive (Specialist Centre) to access both buildings.
Signage directs visitors to the Specialist Centre and Hospital to the car park spaces closest to their destination. There is a fee to use the car park. During the planning stages of the new hospital it was recognised that with the extreme traffic on Kangan Drive, a car parking tariff would be required to ensure that the car park would not fill with visitors to Casey Public Hospital, Chisholm Institiute, surrounding businesses, medical services and Berwick Railway Station. We ask for your understanding as we implement this measure to prioritise the safety and access of our patients, visitors and workforce.
Car Park Tariffs
0- 0.5 hour FREE
0.5 - 1 hours $3.00
1 - 2 hours $7.00
2- 3 hours $9.00
3- 4 hours $10.00
4- 5 hours $12.00
Maximum daily (5 hours +) $15.00
Daily concession rate* $9.00
*Current patients who present with a valid government-issued concession card (Pensioner Concession Card, Health Care Card, Repatriation Health Card, Department of Veteran's Affairs (DVA) Card or Commonwealth Seniors Health Card holders) are eligible for concession parking when attending the hospital.
Automatic Pay Machines are located in the lift lobbies of B1 and B2 and in the ground floor reception lobby.
About the new hospital
The new hospital has been delivered in partnership with Generation Healthcare REIT (GHC) and is solely operated by St John of God Health Care. Opened on Thursday 18 January 2018, it provides:
- six operating theatres, a cardiac/vascular catheter laboratory
- two endoscopy theatres
- six birthing suites
The hospital will also provide the first Intensive Care Unit for the region, along with a range of cardiac services and a dedicated cardiac unit. Along with these new services, a Rehabilitation Unit will open on February 5th 2018.
Our $20.4 million St John of God Berwick Specialist Centre located adjacent to the hospital, which includes a day oncology clinic, opened in February 2015.
Future planning will see this expanded to 316 beds and 12 operating theatres, while the Gibb Street site will be renamed St John of God Langmore Centre and redeveloped to provide new services including rehabilitation, with a dedicated outpatient rehabilitation centre.It is excpected that this centre will open in mid 2019.
Our new maternity unit
A new maternity unit is one of the key features of our new hospital offering private rooms and fresh and light-filled facilities for mums. The new 22-bed ward features private rooms, built-in sofa beds for parents, access to baby bathing and change facilities and ensuite bathrooms.
Find out more about the new unit.
Please note, the existing unit at our Gibb Street hospital will relocate to 75 Kangan Drive, Berwick on Thursday 18th January 2018.
What this means for the local workforce
The new hospital building program will significantly benefit the local communities of Casey and Cardinia. We currently employ more than 400 caregiver staff, and the new hospital will create in excess of 200 new jobs.
This is also good news for our medical professionals, with an additional 100 medical and surgical professionals expected to administer the new and expanded services – up from the 500 visiting doctors we currently have working with us.
We need you
We are committed to making sure our health services support the growing communities we service. Join us and be apart of a new era in health care by applying upcoming employment opportunities. Employment opportunities for the new hospital closed on Friday 18th August 2017. If you have missed this date, don't despair, there will be ongoing opportunities once doors open in 2018. Please register and create an account to be notified via email of relevant jobs as they become available into the future.
You can support the redevelopment by donating to this project through St John of God Foundation. As a not-for-profit organisation all donations go back into the community we serve. You can choose to donate to our redevelopment or another project.
Donate now.
Keep up-to-date with the latest news or view our Building on Berwick newsletters below.
- Redevelopment Update December 2017
- Redevelopment Update September 2017
- Redevelopment update July 2017
- Redevelopment update May 2017
- Redevelopment update February 2017
- Redevelopment update December 2016
- Redevelopment update August 2016
- Redevelopment update June 2016
- Redevelopment update March 2016
- Redevelopment update January 2016
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Fixed Firm Pose
Extension of
- Quadriceps muscles
- Spleen
- Lymph glands in arm pits
- Ankles
Compression of
- Knees
- Adrenal glands
- Lower Back
Physical Benefits
- Improves circulation to kidneys, liver, pancreas and bowels.
- Rebuilds the flexibility of the knees and ankles
- Helps to boost the immune system through stimulation of the spleen.
- Helps to stimulate the lymphatic system, particularly the lymph glands of the arm-pit.
- Helps with digestion problems including indigestion, gas, constipation.
- Good for asthma and respiratory conditions.
- Stimulates adrenal glands through creating pressure and compression in the lower back.
- Muscles of the thighs, abdomen and pelvis are stretched.
- Helps to flush knees and ankles of calcium deposits, scar tissue and arthritic starts.
- Helps to minimize menstrual pain for women.
- Helps with sciatica, gout and varicose veins.
Energetic Benefits
- Regular practice of this asana helps to activate kundalini energy.
- Helps to liberate sexual energy, helping you maintain sexual longevity with age.
Posture Tips
Fixed firm pose is particularly challenging for athletes and those suffering from knee injuries. It is important to recognize that this is an anatomically correct asana, and helps to rebuild a natural flexibility of the joint.
ALWAYS maintain correct alignment, heels touching with the hips, just as the dialogue says. This will ensure the ligaments of the knees and ankles are stretched evenly building balanced flexibility.
DO NOT compensate in the posture by changing the position of your feet. Your ankles should be straight, toes pointing to the back wall.
DO correct the depth of the posture if you feel pain, less is more.
Posture Tips from the Pros
ALWAYS keep your knees on the floor. – Bikram
"Do not mess with the knees, you can mess with the Gods but you cannot mess with the knees" – Bikram Choudhury
Even if you are experiencing pain in the pose, start with your knees together and your heels touching your hips to ensure proper alignment. Once you have the alignment, then separate the knees as much as you need. – Emmy


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- Responsible for the MFAH Archives digitization program of textual, photographic, architectural, and audio-visual materials
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- Primarily responsible for the acquisition and maintenance of legacy equipment
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- Provides reference service to professional staff and scholarly public
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- Strong command of archival theory and best practices required
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- Significant knowledge of ingestion and preservation tools for born-digital records, specifically disk imaging tools, write blockers, file format authenticators, metadata extractors, and checksum generators
- Demonstrated ability to work with databases, data mapping and migration of data
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively
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- Masters in Archival Studies, Library and Info Science, History or equivalent degree required
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- Experience overseeing digitization and volunteer projects strongly preferred
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Capital One Bank announced it closed a five-year $60 million revolving credit and term loan facility for New Century Transportation, a transportation and logistics company. Proceeds of the facility were used to refinance existing debt and to fund ongoing working capital needs.
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Rats, I had wanted to really "do a number" here but I'm sort of pressed for time… Big Day tomorrow and I gotta get up early!
Any way… Here we go. It's been a wild last couple of weeks!
Photos! Galore!!
I just got some great photos of Emerald Man I want to post and probably will in the very near future! : )
And I posted a bunch of recent photos!
It's a Date!
I did just update my gigs page with some dates from Vitello's! Etc…: )
The gig gods have been smiling indeed. I've been playing 6 of 7 gigs a week for several weeks and no sign of slowing down!
Actually this week 6 gigs and wrote a song and helped a Solomon get his AWESOME release ready to release! And I'm running down a few new rags for The Varnish and wherever else! : )
I do love working! : ) (ok, it's playing)
In this photo Doron Eszanazi-drums and Eric Zimmerman-yes-bass! We had just wrapped up an really nice party to a very appreciative group!
Gentry What??
And I'm working with Gentry Akens whom you will likely be hearing much more about! Oh yes!
His voice will really blow you away! More to come….
The New Song Rocks!
I love the new song that Kevin and I are writing! It's really cool! : ) Music page is here to hear other gems!
Day of Birth!!
You are encouraged to make my birthday a national or international holiday and celebrate with abandon! Its on Friday! Aug 20! Don't forget. I am accepting presents of any size and color! : )
Upper Right had corner of this page…..See?
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I will be living life with reckless abandon and hope you will too….. Thanks for stopping by my website and visiting!
This party was so awesome. Two great famlies. Great people, all! They were basically all lucky! : )


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Lindsey Graham: We may 'all get killed' by ISIS
More so than most, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) seems absolutely convinced that Islamic State terrorists pose some kind of existential threat to the United States. It was Graham who, just a few weeks ago, insisted that if Obama "does not go on the offensive against ISIS," presumably in Syria, "they are coming here." The senator added, "[I]f we do get attacked, then he will have committed a blunder for the ages."
Somehow, he's managed to become even less subtle. On "Fox News Sunday" yesterday, guest host John Roberts asked Graham if he has any faith that President Obama's plan against ISIS is going to work. "Not much," the senator replied, adding, "We're fighting a terrorist army, not an organization. It's going to take an army to beat an army. And this idea we'll never have any boots on the ground to defeat them in Syria is fantasy…. It's delusional in the way they approach this."
And then Graham really let loose.
"[T]hey're intending to come here. So, I will not let this president suggest to the American people we can outsource our security and this is not about our safety. There is no way in hell you can form an army on the ground to go into Syria, to destroy ISIL without a substantial American component. And to destroy ISIL, you have to kill or capture their leaders, take the territory they hold back, cut off their financing and destroy their capability to regenerate."This is a war we're fighting, it is not a counterterrorism operation! This is not Somalia; this is not Yemen; this is a turning point in the war on terror. Our strategy will fail yet again. This president needs to rise to the occasion before we all get killed back here at home."
In case it's not obvious, "rise to the occasion" can be roughly translated to mean "do what Lindsey Graham wants."
The senator concluded, "[I]f they survive our best shot, this is the last best chance, to knock him out, then they will open the gates of hell to spill out on the world. This is not a Sunni versus Sunni problem, this is ISIL versus mankind."
Fox's guest host, slightly taken aback, joked, "Senator Graham unfortunately is not fired up this morning." It was sarcasm, of course – the South Carolinian's appearance was pretty over the top, even for him.
Graham, whose spectacular errors of fact and judgment during the war in Iraq are well documented, is clearly sincere in his hawkish views, but there is still no reason to believe ISIS poses an imminent threat to the United States – just as there's no reason to believe ISIS is capable of killing all of us.
We were reminded over the weekend, however, that Islamic State is entirely capable of committing brutal murders. The terrorist group released another still-unverified video Saturday, purporting to show the execution of British aid worker David Cawthorne Haines.
A day later, the Obama administration announced some diplomatic progress in the region.
The Obama administration said Sunday that "several" Arab nations had offered to join in airstrikes against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, but any sustained military campaign does not appear imminent, and is likely to require an even more significant commitment from other nations and fighting forces in the region.In interviews and public statements, administration and military officials described a battle plan that would not accelerate in earnest until disparate groups of Iraqi forces, Kurds and Syrian rebels stepped up to provide the fighting forces on the ground. Equipping, training and coordinating that effort is a lengthy process, officials cautioned.
Meanwhile, White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough appeared on "Meet the Press" and summarized how the administration would define "success" against ISIS. "[S]uccess looks like an ISIL that no longer threatens our friends in the region, no longer threatens the United States, an ISIL that can't accumulate followers or threaten Muslims in Syria, Iraq or otherwise," he said.


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Creating a supportive culture of physical and mental wellbeing to promote productivity, attendance and engagement in the workplace.
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Employees take responsibility for their physical and mental wellbeing
Education provided in easy to access, short duration, relevant topics from the convenience of their workplace communication platforms
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Activate your entire workforce by providing personalised exercise prescription to them direct
A low cost investment per employee that will revolutionise the health and wellbeing of your workforce
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From: Marty C Jacobsen [mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com]
Sent: Saturday, May 12, 2012 9:12 AM
To: 'Supt Runcie'; 'email@example.com'
Cc: 'Dodge, Charles'; 'email@example.com'; 'email@example.com'
Subject: bullet holes in Pines Middle School doors?
Importance: High
Was talking with my neighbor who lives on 5th street this morning. He told me that the school recently replaced the doors on the north side of the building due to bullets holes in the doors. Since it appears people are now shooting at the school perhaps it is time to keep the emergency exit on 5th street locked unless there is an actual emergency.
Furthermore to have this gate open without a staff member monitoring it is just asking for trouble re a child getting shoot should the shooter decide to come back and enter the property via this open gate on NW 5th street
Also is there a reason why they do not pick up the trash in the swale west of this gate? I can send pictures if you want.
The school is not being a good neighbor!
Please note I have cced Mr Soups attorney as per his request
Marty Jacobsen
954-394-0998 direct


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- William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
If you're like me you see the future of learning as being social in a connected world, and the mindset of "empowering" people and not one of "allowing" them should be the norm and the first thought. And yet others, you're executives, peers and the workers you support, just don't seem to see it …or maybe it's that they can't.
Quite possibly, because of this pervasiveness, social and informal just can't be seen by many as "real" learning.
Formal approaches in the US and elsewhere have been present in our lives since our primary school years. Public education and higher education experiences drove into many a brain that we learn only when others teach. We associated school with learning. A break from school (vacation, summers, and weekends) was perceived as a break from academic work and thus a break from learning. We were led to believe that learning was compartmentalized, it happens only in certain environments with specific elements present. We began to see learning as an externally controlled activity.
Today the ideas of enhancing and extending informal and social learning struggle to gain a foothold in organizations due in part I think to these years of formal reinforcement. "We teach as we were taught" was a common reference to educators who could not break free from old models of instruction ...can it be then that executives and many workers alike don't take seriously social and informal learning because they believe "we can only learn the way we learned"?
Situation after situation for the better part of 20 years forced many into a submissive state; all under the constant control of formal learning. And as we left the world of education and entered the workforce, the training-industrial complex stepped in ready to fill the impending formal void.
One theory that may explain this best is known as "Learned Helplessness"
Learned Helplessness is (defined as):
a phenomenon in which individuals gradually, usually as a result of repeated failure or control by others, become less willing to attempt tasks. (D.D. Smith, 2001)
The key phrase here is "...as a result of repeated failure or control by others..." For workers, repeated failure is experienced through the compartmentalization of learning created in the 20th century models. Workers are often directly (by supervisors, IT firewalls) prohibited or discouraged (by the culture) from seeking answers outside the system (T&D), producing their own materials or using personal devices. Furthermore, managers and executives alike maintain control through the constant need for metrics: completion rates, evaluations, and scores serve as the primary measures of learning; a continuation of the formal education models they themselves are accustom to and comfortable with.
Workers, like the students they once were, "learn" to be patient and compliant ultimately to the detriment of their organizations. They learn to be helpless in the face of repeated failure and systems of control.
In studies by Martin E.P. Seligman, Ph.D. and noted in his book Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life he stated...
When faced with situations where they were powerless to change an annoying element, two out of three (both animals and humans) would cease trying to affect the situation. Further, when placed in a new situation with a different annoying element, they would make no attempt from the beginning. One in 10 would make no attempt to change an annoying element, even though they had not been exposed to an uncontrollable situation to cause them to learn helplessness.
Does this help explain that, although surrounded by informal and social opportunities and technologies at the ready, many still only acknowledge and await the formal, making no attempt to change this reality. Mandatory classes, elearning modules, firewalls, LMSs, Intranets ... all annoying elements are met with little more than a sigh.
Here's a bit more on the effects of this control on adults from a 1976 study of nursing home residents at Arden House. The staff in this Arden house example, when only providing limited choice/involvement, is eerily similar to T&D controlling content and the flow of information. And although the results are not premature death as in the Arden house example, it can result in the death of productivity, morale, and innovation. So if the problem is actually a type of learned helplessness how can it be corrected? Here are a few things to consider outlined in Learned Helplessness and School Failure we must:1. Acknowledge and understand the components of learned helplessness to remediate it. If it's about control, our employees must be encouraged and maybe incentivized to seek their own answers and not wait to be fed at the training trough. Think of the viral story of the small company whose owner gave a no strings attached 50K to each employee who stayed 5 years. Training is expensive. Trust is much cheaper. Hire motivated employees, create channels for information to flow, and promote personal development.
2. We must help [employees] discover the root beliefs and the distorted perceptions they create that cause their self defeating deficits. The well entrenched perception is that only formal = learning. To help dispel this myth we must reward results gained through collaboration and not through competition . We must acknowledge and promote sharing and community building as the means to greater learning not courses and completion rates. We must show employees & executives that these social and informal activities are occurring constantly (with and without technology); acknowledging and expanding them is productive time and can lead to positive personal and business results.
3. We must give [employees] the tools to change and refute their distorted beliefs and thereby reduce the deficits. The tools are technological and cognitive. We need to sponsor communities for collective intelligence to flourish through the free flow of ideas. We must work to enable enterprise social media and better yet, welcome the use of their own devices and tools. A shift must happen where learning professionals become "social" learning professionals acting in roles as community facilitators not content creators. Cognitive tools need to be sharpened and new skills sets developed. For example Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) and the Seek, Sense, Share model promoted by Harold Jarche are critical mindsets for workers in the 21st Century. Seeing is believing.
If the pervasiveness of formal learning is contributing to a learned helplessness when trying to adopt and expand social and informal learning, then a three pronged approach that aims to cure the disease and not just treat the symptoms may be the best way to help people cleanse their doors of perception.


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Calaveras Facing Legal Challenges Over Cannabis Ban
Calaveras County has seen the first wave of lawsuits in response to its recent ban on commercial cannabis. And given the stakes, you can be sure there's much more to come.
Marijuana farmers have undertaken a number of challenges to the recently enacted ban on cannabis cultivation, including lawsuits seeking to overturn the ban and challenges to the county's refusal to produce a memorandum sent to all supervisors that was the subject of a Freedom of Information Act request.
The most direct attack on the ban is a lawsuit filed to challenge the validity of an environmental impact report allegedly used as the basis for precluding all cannabis cultivation in the county.
That lawsuit is presented in the form of a writ petition that was submitted Feb. 14 by attorneys from the Archer Norris law firm of Walnut Creek on behalf of Beth Wittke and Thomas Griffing. The petition lists 13 causes of action in support of their request for the court to void the environmental report, eliminate the ban, require the Board of Supervisors to "properly" consider the ordinance moving forward and provide other relief.
The writ petition claims officials used erroneous baselines for existing conditions in the report, which ultimately skewed the findings. They then violated the California Environmental Quality Act by failing to recirculate the final EIR draft, the petitioners claim, and refused to consider public comments that would have contradicted their conclusions.
Opponents of the county's ban on cannabis have also accused supervisors of violating the state's open meetings law, as well as the California Public Records Act.
Read more at the Calaveras County Enterprise.


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Stop Repression against the Migrants Trade Union in South Korea!
Posted by Wol-san Liem
on February 17, 2011 at 10:24am
-The South Korean Immigration Service has cancelled MTU President Michel Catuira's visa and ordered him to leave the country by March 7.
-This is yet the last in a long series of acts of repression against MTU!
In 2009, Michel Catuira was elected president of the Seoul-Gyeonggi-Incheon Migrants Trade Union (MTU), a union established for and by migrant workers in South Korea. Since then, he has worked tirelessly to improve the working and living conditions of migrant workers in South Korean society. He has spoken out against restrictions placed on migrant workers' freedom to change workplaces and other problems in Employment Permit System (EPS), which make migrant workers subservient to their employers. He has also fought for the repeal of the South Korean government's policy of arrest, detention and deportation of undocumented migrant workers, which has led to countless injuries, deaths and other human rights abuses.
Because he has been a vocal critic of unjust policies, the South Korean government has made President Catuira the subject of an unfair investigation with the ultimate goal of making him deportable. The nature of the investigation, which began in July 2010, is as follows:
By law, President Catuira, a documented EPS Filipino migrant worker, must be employed in order to maintain his legal residence status. President Catuira was lawfully employed by D company in fulfillment of this requirement. In July 2010, however, the Ministry of Employment and Labor summoned him and his employer for questioning, raising suspicions about the validity of their employment relationship. Finding no legal problem, the center continued to pressure President Catuira through his employer by sending a notice to the employer telling him to file to have President Catuira transferred to a different company.
Pressure increased in the wake of MTU activities protesting the death of the Vietnamese migrant worker as the result of an immigration raid. On 23 November 2010, President Catuira received a summons from the Seoul Immigration Service telling him to appear before the Immigration Service's investigation team to be questioned based on "suspicion of violations of the Immigration Control Law in the course of applying for a workplace transfer and with relation to actual performance of work duties at present." Inquiry by a lawyer working with MTU revealed that the investigation team was also considering raising suspicions that President Catuira was conducting political activities in violation of the Immigration Control Law. On 2 December 2010, the Ministry of Employment and Labor sent a fax to President Catuira's employer, notifying him that his permit to employ migrant workers had been cancelled. On 22 December 2010, President Catuira appeared before the Immigration Service investigation team, who question him for roughly 2.5 hours on the nature of his employment.
On 14 February 2011, the Immigration Service informed President Catuira through his lawyer that his visa had been cancelled as of 10 February 2011 at that he was required to leave the country by 7 March 2011. The grounds given for the cancellation of the visa are as follows: that the company where President Catuira was employed did not in exist; that President Catuira was not in fact working at the factory and that, therefore, he was in violation of Article 89.1 of the Immigration Control Act. Article 89.1 states that a visa can be cancelled if it is found to have been obtained in a deceitful or other unlawful manner.
Facts of the Case
Contrary to the Immigration Service' claims, President Catuira went through all of the necessary legal procedures before being employed at D company. As required, President Catuira received a list of companies registered to hire migrant workers from a Ministry of Employment and Labor Job Center. D company was on this list. After being hired, President Catuira against followed the correct legal procedures, registering his employment status with the Ministry of Employment and Labor and the Immigration Service.
The claim that D company does not exist is also not true. D company had little work after President Catuira was hired, and thus had to shut is door temporarily. However, this cannot be said to be President Catuira's fault. In fact, during the original investigation in July 2010, the Ministry of Employment and Labor found no violation of the law and could respond only with a memo suggesting that President Catuira move to another workplace. Nonetheless, the Immigration Service went out of its way to find grounds for cancelling President Catuira's visa so as to make it possible to deport him.
The Ministry of Employment and Labor and Immigration Service's investigations of President Catuira were carried out in a manner completely outside these agencies' normal mode of operation. If the South Korean government routinely investigated the companies where migrant workers are employed in such detail, it would find widespread violations including unpaid wages, sexual harassment, failure to submit proper documents, etc. If such investigations were made, perhaps the situation of migrant workers in South Korea would actually improve. Instead of doing this sort of work, however, these government agencies have used their time to target MTU's president.
Another act of Labor Repression
The investigation and cancellation of Catuira's visa are nothing more than an attempt to attack MTU and stop its rightful union activities. This attempt is similar to past acts of repression against MTU, in which the South Korean government used the vulnerable immigration status of migrant officers to prevent their union activities, in particular through arrest and deportation. Since MTU was founded in 2005, the government has arrested 6 of its officers, supposedly for violations of Immigration Control Act. Of these 6, 5 were deported. In addition, the South Korean government has refused to recognize MTU's status as a legal union, claiming that its founders, who were undocumented, do not have the right to freedom of association granted all workers under the South Korean Constitution.
The situation is so severe, that the ILO has issued several recommendations recognizing the arrest and deportation of MTU officers as acts of labor repression and suggesting that they be stopped immediately. The ILO has also affirmed the right of all migrant workers, regardless of visa status, to freedom of association and recommended that the South Korean government recognize MTU's legal union status.
Our Demands
-Repeal the cancellation of Michel Catuira's visa and guarantee his secure residence status!
-Stop repression against MTU officers and recognize MTU's legal union status!
Sunday, February 20, 2011
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Vernon, a small city near Los Angeles, will be deprived of cityhood due to a corruption scandal involving city officials, according to reports here on Sunday.
A bill aimed at dissolving the city is being prepared by State Assembly Speaker John Perez, a Democrat from Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Times said on its website.
Perez's bill would mandate the disincorporation of any city with fewer than 150 residents, and Vernon is the only city in California that fits the description, making it possible Vernon becomes part of unincorporated Los Angeles County, according to the report.
"The issue here is about the complete lack of transparency and accountability in Vernon," Perez told the paper. "We cannot tolerate a situation where a handful of individuals are able to use an entire city as their own personal fiefdom."
The town of about 95 residents has been controlled by a few families and their associates for decades.
In response to the bill, Vernon's current City Administrator Mark Whitworth issued a statement Friday, saying disincorporation would "cost thousands of people their jobs and the state hundreds of millions in tax revenues."


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As if playing a child genius wasn't tough enough, the next round of the Eastern qualifying tournament brings Chihaya an even tougher challenge - former Queen Yumi Yamamoto.
Although she may look dour and plain on the outside, within Yamamoto lies a fiercely competitive, no-holds barred karuta player - or so we're told at least. In reality, the player facing Chihaya seems to be a shadow of her former self - a woman who has lost interest in the game and lost confidence in herself since being deposed as Queen in the face of slowly but surely worsening results.
Ergo, it's Chihaya who makes some early headway in the sweltering tournament room, taking a number of early cards in the row and seemingly leaving Yamamoto on the ropes. It's here that Chihaya makes a fatal error - in choosing to press home her advantage by going all-out with her speed and energy, swearing to herself not to lose a single card more, she inadvertently enrages her opponent into revealing her true self. All of a sudden, we see a gutsy and determined performance arise from Yamamoto, as she contests every close call and generally makes life as difficult as possible for her opponent. With the tables turned, it's now Chihaya who sees her confidence drained as Yamamoto gains in stature and powers home using all of her experience and nous.
Despite occasionally feeling as if it was trying to stretch out the running time of its featured karuta match-up (yes, we get it, the room is hot and the windows are steamed up, you don't need to mention it every minute), this was another oddly compelling episode for the most part thanks to a game which waxed and waned between its two players and their very different takes on how to play. Despite being more fired up by some of the secondary aspects of this show for the most part, I have to admit that its karuta games have become just as fascinating as they've gained in prominence for the second half of the series, making for yet another reason to love almost every minute of Chihayafuru as it barrels along towards its climax. Goodness knows where it's planning to finish off though - I have a horrible feeling we may be left hanging...
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Once again I'm in trouble with my only friend
she is papering the window panes
she is putting on a smile
living in a glass house
– Radiohead: Living in a Glasshouse
It is that time of the year, when I somehow mystically find myself always listening to Radiohead (well, I do listen them also other times but I know for sure that when I start day with song like: How to disappear completely there is something else to it than extremely good music). I still haven't figure it out, what it is with end of October, early November that makes me go into tiny tiny tiny pieces. But it always does, It starts with OK Computer and when I find myself listening Amnesiac on repeat (I just love that album, you want to learn thing or two about me; listen that album) I know that it has to be almost November.
Somehow that record, despite the fact that it is one of the most depressed albums I know (I (though) might be wrong), makes me see a light in November (this time in Finland is notoriously dark and wet, weather itself makes you feel that end is near). My Finnish melancholic side could be also reason why I always turn the other cheek to the feeling, and swim in it. There is clearly part of me, which receive some strength from that endless swimming, so I just jump into the river every year. And every time it feels different, maybe I just forget so easy how it is, to swim in it.
Some might think that; I'm not even in Finland so why I'm feeling like this. Am I just feeding myself to the lions? I had exactly same thought last year when I was in Nottingham for the time being, but because I have just found myself in this situation again I might as well state that the lights are on but nobody's home. This could lead to extreme adventure, which could include hunting bears, or I might find dollars & cents or in worst case scenario my little soul might be crushed. And that might mean that I've opened trapdoor, and coming back to reality might be forever prevented.
So, I keep swimming and my life might flash before my eyes, or I might find waterfall.
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text: Former vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin will campaign for Roy Moore in Alabama this week in his race against Luther Strange. The Great America Alliance says that Palin will attend a Thursday rally in Montgomery after Moore and Strange face off in their first, and only, debate. The run-off election is next Tuesday. Meantime, Pesident Trump's trip to Alabama to campaign for Sen. Luther Strange has been moved to Friday. The Strange campaign announced that Trump will visit the Von Braun Center in Huntsville on Friday. The rally will begin at 7 p.m. The campaign said ticket information is coming soon.