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The model, started with the support of international cooperation, is proposed by Peru as a paradigm to be followed worldwide by regions and countries that also deal with problems associated with crops grown for illicit purposes.
The goal of the ICAD conference in Lima was to reach a consensus on 'Guiding Principles', based on a draft prepared at the first ICAD meeting in Thailand in November 2011. The principles should facilitate the implementation of effective Alternative Development programs, assessed in two ways: economic development of regions where illicit crops are grown, and the reduction of these crops. The document will be presented for approval at the fifty-sixth session of the U.N. Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) to be held in March 2013. It is seen as the culmination of a long process that can be traced back to the debate that began at the UN General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) on Drugs in 1998.
The supposed world consensus on principles to guide Alternative Development projects appear to be far removed from the reality of the Upper Huallaga Valley, the very zone were Peru's supposedly exemplary model for Alternative Development is being implemented. This briefing exposes the breach between rhetoric and reality by examining the impact of AD projects in Peru, focussing on its impact on peasant families.
The experience of Upper Huallaga shows, like many other AD projects, severe limitations in these programmes' goals of reducing coca-production and achieving the broader aims of sustainable development. They reach relatively few farmers, with “beneficiaries” accounting for less than one quarter of the farmers in the region. They promote monocrop cultivation in a biological diverse area, resulting in severe environmental impacts. Their success relies on large-scale production for export in an area that is not apt for this kind of farming due to its ecological fragility and soil quality. Finally the programmes are unsustainable over time because they depend on international demand and prices of the products it promotes: cacao, coffee, palm heart, palm oil and sugar cane.
The key question that the international community should ask when the document is discussed during the CND in March 2013 in Vienna is if these Guiding Principles will help break the failed logic applied until now, which has prioritised forced eradication and added development as an afterthought. In addition, given that this is an issue that goes to the heart of rural development, it is essential to identify the stakeholders these projects are geared to and to define if the development model promoted is appropriate to meet the stated goal.
The Guiding Principles for Alternative Development should break with the applied logic in which forced eradication is the principal objective and development considered a detail.
According to the Alternative Development project participants in the Upper Huallaga, national and international agencies only measure “success” by the reduction of coca crops and do not take into account the opinion of residents.
Successive Peruvian governments have wasted opportunities to increase a more positive state presence in coca-growing regions due to the application of forced eradication operations and failure to implement sustainable development projects.
For Alternative Development projects to work, it remains fundamentally important to understand how illegal activities are embedded in the local context and why they continue to be impenetrable to efforts to combat them.


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In the beginning, Mr. Khake from National Urban Livelihood Mission in Thane Municipal Corporation addressed the girls on why it is crucial to focus on career building. He then introduced different job oriented courses which are available through National Skills Development Corporation affiliated centres, like accounting, tally, computer hardware, automobile, retail and hospitality industry etc.
Then the representatives from NSDC affiliated centres gave information about their institute and courses which are available with them. They also explained the enrolment procedure and course details. All the girls then visited the stall and sought information regarding different courses.
Inspite of heavy rains, girls and vocational training institutes participated in Melawa with great enthusiasm. It helped to create co-ordination channels between girls and different vocational training institutes.

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The San Francisco 49ers are traveling to Atlanta and will meet with Falcons offensive coordinator Kyle Shanahan and Minnesota Vikings assistant general manager George Paton tonight, per multiple reports.
#49ers expected to meet with Kyle Shanahan in Atlanta later this afternoon, George Paton this evening, Terry McDonough tomorrow.
Shanahan and the 49ers will then meet with Arizona Cardinals vice president of player personnel Terry McDonough on Saturday. It was originally reported that Friday's meeting would just be between the 49ers and Shanahan in order to prepare to meet with both general manager candidates on Saturday, but it appears that plans have changed.
Paton has been reported as the frontrunner for the general manager job with the 49ers, but it is unknown how the Indianapolis Colts' general manager search has impacted that. Indianapolis fired general manager Ryan Grigson after five seasons with the team. The Colts met with Paton, who is one of six known candidates for their opening, on Wednesday, but it is believed that Kansas City Chiefs director of football operations Chris Ballard is the favorite to land that job.
Paton's primary focus with Minnesota was to coordinate scouting and personnel functions within the Vikings pro scouting department and lend his expertise to the college scouting department as they prepared for drafts.
McDonough has scouted in the NFL for 25 years and has been with the Cardinals for four years. He was promoted to vice president of player personnel in January of 2014 and was overseeing both the college and pro personnel departments while assisting with player contract negotiations. Prior to that, McDonough was the director of player personnel for the Jacksonville Jaguars. Interestingly enough, McDonough was an intern with the 49ers in 1989. That's where his NFL career started.

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Join us on a Quest to explore the roots of the legend of Merlin, the prophet, seer and shaman. Discover his Scottish origins and how the story is embedded into the landscape of Southern Scotland.
Join us on a Quest to explore the roots of the legend of Merlin, the prophet, seer and shaman, discover his Scottish origins and how the story is embedded into the landscape of Southern Scotland. We will explore the reasons that led this famous prophet to seek solitude in the forest and escape the trappings of human society. We will visit the site of the forest where the historical Merlin took refuge and we will drink from the spring that cured Merlin of his madness in the legends. After lunch in a stunning landscape, we will discuss wider subjects related to the story and how its relevant today.
We also offer Quests to other Merlin sites including the Battle of Arderydd, just north of Longtown. It is here that Merlin witnessed the carnage of battle and took flight into the woods in his madness driven by grief. We will explore the battlefield and the adjoining hill fort that lies next to Liddel Water that marks the border between Scotland and England. We can also visit the Clachmaben stone at Gretna where Merlin was said to hold druid ceremonies, the monastery site at Hoddom where Merlin was said to have met St Mungo and Drumelzier where Merlin was said to have had a triple death.
What: We invite you to join us for an imaginative Quest exploring the epic Merlin story which is embedded into the landscape of South Scotland, and endorsed by many historians and authors. We will explore the landscape where Merlin lived as a wild man of the forest and discuss the battle which was possibly the root cause of his madness. Discussion, stories, stunning landscapes and healing water.
Jan Hogarth has been working with Merlin authors including, Nikolai Tolstoy, Timothy Clarkson and Robin Crichton who have all written important books on the Scottish Merlin connection. In 2015 she worked closely with Justin K Pimm, who travelled to Britain and using the sacred Merlin sites as a path of personal pilgrimage. Jan, an environmental artist born in these hills, will explore how the Merlin story is embedded into the landscape of Annandale where she grew up and pose questions about the relevance of the Merlin story today. (This “Quest for Merlin” was inspired the book of the same name by historian, Count Nikolai Tolstoy, who joined Jan and Justin on a Quest in 2015 to revisit Hartfell.) This Quest is a brilliant focus to talk about wider subjects related to the story including the environment, climate change, grief and trauma leading to Merlins “breakdown” and the healing power of nature.
Guide: Dr Jan Hogarth, local and environmental artist.
Who: All ages, the walk will be up the hill and take around 4/5 hours. Please contact us to find out more about the terrain.
When & Where: 9.30am meeting in the Station Park Car Park in Moffat from where we will head up to Hartfell (a short drive). The Quest will be gentle and stop for discussions and insights along the way. There will be places where we need to walk up grassy hills as part of the adventure.
Food, Drink & Clothing: We will stop for lunch at the spring which Merlin drank from to cure his madness. Please bring with you a packed lunch and suitable walking and weatherproof clothes.

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Who else would it be but Henry?
I’m honestly at a loss of how to solve this kid’s crazy hair problems short of shaving him bald. I don’t know if it’s just a wicked cowlick, something about the way I’m cutting his hair, or maybe he’s got some sort of weird electricity running through his little body that makes his hair perpetually stand on end. We’ve tried wetting it, combing it, slicking it down with extra hold mousse but honestly everything we’re tried has only made things worse.
Plus, Henry has decided he likes his crazy hair (he thinks it makes him look like two of his favorite cartoon characters, Hiro from Big Hero 6 and Sora from the Kingdom Hearts video games) so he’s taken to running away from us every time we tell him we want to help him with his hair.

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Rochester Castle is a magnificent example of Anglo-Norman architecture and a tribute to their construction skills. Its state of preservation is outstanding and the massive central ‘keep’ is the tallest surviving great tower of its kind anywhere in Europe.
What is most surprising is that this monument to military prowess was not built by a military genius but actually by a bishop who loved castles. It is located directly opposite Rochester Cathedral, an equally impressive structure. There are few places in the world where a Cathedral and a Castle are such immediate neighbours and in Rochester they send a clear reminder of the enormous power once held by the Crown and the Church in Britain.
The original Rochester castle was constructed of wood and rammed earth. It was held by the dissident Bishop Odo of Bayeux during the 1088 ‘Rebellion of Royal Succession’ that took place between the sons of William the Conqueror. Odo supported Robert but the castle was recaptured after a seven week siege by the rightful king, his younger brother, William Rufus.
The construction of the current castle started shortly after William Rufus assumed the throne. William asked Gundulf, the new Bishop of Rochester to replace the existing castle with a significant stone fortress. Some of the original construction still survives to this day. Gundulf was so successful that he also oversaw the construction of Colchester Castle and the world famous Tower of London.
Over the years that followed the castle was modified and expanded. In 1127 King Henry I officially gave the castle to the William de Corbeil, the Bishop of Canterbury, and granted the rights to the castle to his successors in perpetuity. William embarked on a massive programme of construction and built the exception central tower that remains to this day.
The castle was captured during the First Barons’ War of 1215-1217 by opponents of King John the Bad. The castle fell and was occupied by forces of the Barons but was soon besieged again, this time by the royalist forces of King John. For seven weeks the army of King John unleashed the full terror of their siege engines and even tunnelled under the main keep and by using the fat of forty pigs together with a small mountain of wood created an underground fire so strong that part of the central Keep collapsed. The garrison clung on and only surrendered when finally overcome by starvation.
During the Second Barons’ War the castle was besieged for the third time in 1264. This time, under the command of Roger de Leybourne it survived being taken.
The next and last time Rochester castle would see conflict was in 1381 when it was overwhelmed and ransacked by rebels during the Peasants Revolt. It was never fully restored or used as serious defensive centre and thus escaped being destroyed, as many other castles were, during the English Civil War.
Rochester castle is believed to be haunted by the ghost of Lady Blanche de Warenne who was killed during the siege of 1264 when rebel forces under the leadership of Simon de Montfort attempted to capture the Castle. Defending the Castle was Roger de Leybourne and one of his trusted companions, Ralph de Capo who was betrothed to Lady Blanche. As was tradition at the time, the fighting paused on Good Friday and a knight called Gilbert de Clare, 7th Earl of Gloucester, disguised himself as de Capo and infiltrated the castle with the intention of capturing Lady Blanche with whom he was desperately in love. Lady Blanche resisted his forceful advances and was chased by de Clare to the battlements where the rogue knight’s intentions turned to murder.
Seeing his chance de Capo shot an arrow at de Clare but it bounced off his armour and killed Lady Blanche instead who then fell from the battlements. Gilbert de Clare escaped, switched sides and betrayed Simon de Montfort by burning his ships at the port of Bristol and destroying the bridge over the River Severn at Gloucester. He was forgiven by the King, his lands restored and even rose to the rank of Guardian of England. The spirit of Lady Blanche – now known as the White Lady of Rochester – has haunted the battlements since that dark day unable to rest until Gilbert de Clare is properly punished for his misdeeds. This tragic event is regularly re-enacted at the castle during open days and pageants.
The famous 18th century British author is said to have loved Rochester castle and had asked to be buried there. His adoring readers deemed that the great man deserved to be buried at Westminster Abbey and so he was. However, people have reported seeing a ghostly man looking just like Dickens walking along the moat and near to the burial grounds – perhaps trying to see his wish fulfilled.


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24. Start working toward your goals every single day. – Remember, the journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. Whatever it is you dream about, start taking small, logical steps every day to make it happen. Get out there and DO something! The harder you work the luckier you will become. While many of us decide at some point during the course of our lives that we want to answer our calling, only an astute few of us actually work on it. By ‘working on it,’ I mean consistently devoting oneself to the end result. Read The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.
I thought about what makes this seem so obvious and yet not readily apparent otherwise we would all be living our dreams and be successful. My theory is that we start living our lives as should’s based on several factors and before we realize what is happening, our should’s become our habits and our habits become our reality. Reality is to adults what dreams are to children and, unfortunately, more often than not, reality gets in the way of our dreams. If we think about how we want to remember our lives, I’m quite sure we would be most proud of a life of passion and purpose and not daily to do’s.
What does this mean? It may mean changing habits, taking chances, pausing to think about what makes us feel alive and happy. Where to start and how to begin? Maybe noting in a notebook ideas, moments, things, people, places and activities that make us feel alive, happy, in the zone and aligned. “If failure weren’t an option, what would you want to do”. How do we wish to remember our life? What would we be doing now that would allow us to reflect on a life without regret? The quality and content of a question can be as valuable as the answer.
My dream changed the course of my life. Now that I’m here, I can’t imagine anywhere else despite never imagining at where I am. I do wonder exactly how my dreams will become reality but I’m also driven by a force that seems to be pulling me along. What I know is that I now live with purpose and passion and it has changed not only the quality of my life but determined the rest of my life and how I will live it.
The photo was taken by a very dear friend and represents persevering through tough times (the fog) to discover the reward for doing so, the sunset. Life is full of options, choices, decisions and opportunities…we are the life we create. BELIEVE!!


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As dawn broke on that morning at Vimy, close to a hundred thousand Canadians poured from trenches, dugouts and tunnels, surged up a slope and conquered an enemy position considered impregnable by its German defenders and, frankly, by Canadaâ€™s allies. Only one of the four Canadian divisions failed to conquer all its objectives by noon on the 9th but by April 12, a cheeky telegram from a brigade commander â€œI am King of the Pimpleâ€� told Canadian commanders that the job was complete.
It was a costly victory. Ten thousand Canadians lay dead or wounded on the 9th: the worst dayâ€™s losses for Canada in the war. A British military advisor, Major-General Willoughby Gwatkin, had warned Sir Robert Bordenâ€™s government that voluntary recruiting could only keep two divisions in the line. Vimyâ€™s losses forced Canada into the deeply divisive policy of conscription: forcing young men to serve, a policy that divided Canadians more deeply than ever before. What choice did Sir Robert Bordenâ€™s government really have? With the congratulations of his fellow premiers ringing in his ears, could he even think of announcing that Canadaâ€™s fighting army would be cut in half? Canadaâ€™s fragile unity was another casualty of Vimy Ridge.
Vimy was followed by other Canadian victories, some of them even greater feats of arms. Sir Arthur Currie, Canadian Corps commander after Sir Julian Byng, the victor at Vimy, was promoted, boasted that he had won an even better victory at Lens when he persuaded his British commander-in-chief to let the Canadians capture Hill 70, forcing the Germans to counter-attack at enormous cost in German soldiersâ€™ lives. Currieâ€™s arguments for smarter tactics carried weight chiefly because of Canadian success at Vimy. The Vimy experience provided a pattern for future successes. The Canadians had rehearsed tirelessly before the battle. They dug trenches and tunnels and piled tons of ammunition for the heavy guns that pulverized German trenches and wiped out most of the German artillery hidden behind Vimy Ridge. The motto for Canadian success was â€œthoroughâ€�. Nothing that could help soldiers succeed would be ignored. Digging trenches and tunnels and lugging artillery shells through miles of wet, muddy trenches was brutally exhausting work. Soldiers grumbled and complained but they needed to win the war before they could go home. Exhaustion was a small part of the price.
The Vimy victory shaped a Canadian way of making war. Other nations might celebrate flamboyant valour or dogged sacrifice; Canadians built on the conviction that only thorough preparation could spell success. At Hill 70, at Amiens, in crossing the Canal du Nord and even by capturing Passchendaele in October 1917, Canadians could take pride in their â€œever-victoriousâ€� Canadian Corps. No one claimed that their general, Arthur Currie, was a charismatic commander. Few soldiers realized that he took his best ideas from men in the ranks of his Corps.


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Air France just announced a companion sale on airfares to Paris in February (departures Feb. 1 to 28, return by Mar. 15). When you and an ami fly together from Boston or NYC, the first traveler pays $428, and the second flies for just $100. The math is pretty easy: $528 / 2 = $264 per person for round-trip flights.
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Dictionary of the Scots Language :: SND :: Stowf n., v.
A cloud o' limy stouff and stour.
Mirky clouds in th' afternoon Come stowfin' up the west . . . Sauces, soups, and geills, and creams, Up-stowfin' to the roof their steams.


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Redfish is recruiting for several dynamic eLearning and EdTech companies at the moment. We are searching for a Partner Development Manager (#21752) for a Boston area EdTech startup that began as part of a business accelerator program, the company brings the power of public radio into the classroom with essential Common Core listening skills. We are looking for an experienced and talented Partner Development Manager to help grow the network of schools. Position may be remote.
We are recruiting for a Director of Sales (#21741) for a San Francisco EdTech company that is the fastest growing company in K12, with technology used by over 1 in 5 schools in America. The mission is to make powerful educational software easy to build and easy to deploy. With the objective of being used in all 13,000 school districts in America, especially the small and medium sized ones that make up the vast majority, we are recruiting for a sales professional who know schools and who has built an SMB inside sales team with outstanding results.
We are searching for a Sales Specialist Leads Generation (#21750) for an EdTech company in the State College area. This company has been building and hosting K-12 school websites for more than 10 years; the content management system, mobile solutions, and services are designed with K-12 needs in mind. The Sales Specialist (SS) is responsible for filling the sales funnel with qualified opportunities enabling the sales process to be more efficient and the sales makers to be more effective. We are looking for a lead generation specialist to drive new sales; the ideal candidate will develop the company’s opportunity pipeline through the creation of sales leads, initiation of prospect calls, and establishment of ongoing rapport with existing and potential customers.
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The BJP is predicted to win 2 seats less than it did in 2014.
The alliance between the JD(S) and Congress in Karnataka will bring down the BJP tally of Lok Sabha seats in the state from 17 to 15, but there will be no sweep by either the alliance or the BJP, according to a Times Now-VMR opinion poll.
Out of the 28 seats in the state, the Congress-JD(S) alliance will win 13 seats says the poll, two more than the total of 11 seats the parties managed to win in 2014. In the last election, the JD(S) and Congress were not in an alliance and while JD(S) won two seats, Congress won 9.
The opinion poll found that the loss in vote share for the combined Congress and JD(S) will be more than 8%. While in 2014, the combined share of votes for the Congress and JD(S) was 51.8%, the vote share is pegged to drop to 43.5% this time.
At the same time, the BJP which secured a vote share of 43% in 2014, is slated to garner 44.3%.
These predictions come after the recent pre-emptive air strikes in Pakistan’s Balakot which political analysts believe has given the ruling BJP an advantage.
According to the poll, the NDA will win 282 seats, while the Congress front will secure 136 seats. Other parties- this includes TMC, SP, BSP, TRS, YSRCP etc- will win 125 seats.
Karnataka goes to polls in two phases on April 18 and April 23.
Udupi-Chikkamagalur, Hassan, Dakshina Kannada, Chitradurga, Tumakuru, Mandya, Mysuru-Kodagu, Chamarajanagar, Bengaluru Rural, Bengaluru South, Bengaluru North, Chickkaballapur and Kolar will go to polls on April 18. And on April 23, seats of Chikkodi, Belagavi, Bagalkot, Vijayapura, Gulbarga, Raichur, Bidar, Koppal, Ballari, Haveri, Dharwad, Uttara Kannada, Davangere and Shivamogga will go to polls.

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Want to get ahead in 2018? Understand these Five Forces!
I read an article that took me back to my undergraduate economic/business studies at Bentley University (College when I was there).
Well took me back to the feelings I had as an undergraduate.
Allow me to take you back.
Take you back 10+ years ago to young me sitting in my first Microeconomics class - a class that would yield my lowest grade in my academic career to date might I add. What I remember most about this course were the conversations and the breakdowns between what the book said and how we could apply in real life. I loved this course but I seriously struggled, so much so that the professor actually said I should consider a major change.
But I stuck with it. I knew, even though I didn’t always get the material at the time, that it was important to know about the incentives that motivated how firms interact with each other and how people interact with firms. Fast forward to now and I’m teaching college courses, mostly economics and finance, including designing original economics courses for business programs. Take that Freshman-Bentley-Econ-Professor-Who-Didn’t-Believe-In-Me! It’s being pragmatic in understanding what motivates people and making everyday economics a skill set that I rely on everyday. Getting to the heart of causality and creating strategies that have real impacts for people and firms.
Why did I share that with you?!
It’s because of Michael Porter. This article reaffirmed the mission that I have for myself and for Disruptive Strategy. Basically when I grow up (professionally) I want to be in a similar position to him. Porter is a strategist, economist, and professor that has done an amazing amount of work touting the benefits of competitive systems to get and keep economies moving and growing.
Reading this article made me feel like that undergraduate that had a world of possibilities in front of them. It helped me remember that the skills and the tools that I’ve been sharpening over the last decade not only have value but are needed by people and firms because it’s more than what simple Google searches and templates can provide.
One of my favorite systems of his is the Porter 5 Forces Model and I wanted to share it with you. Since its inception strategic consultants, planners, and advisors have been using this system as a basis to create strategy for firms of all sizes. The kicker is that it’s based in pretty topical economic theory - remember the things that “shift” a supply and demand curve, or how markets find equilibrium, or better still price elasticity of demand??
Yup, it all comes from there!
When bringing a product or service to market you have to consider the available substitutes. How much do they cost? How close is the experience to your product or service? What might differentiate you or how can you increase your value/perceived value? There are lots of tablets out on the market now but, why do people choose to buy an iPad? Why might someone choose Google’s Nexus 7? How can you position yourself to be perceived as a niche product or service?
Can the buyers work together to have an affect on a market? What kind of information are you providing for your buyers? What is the collective experience of your consumer? Do you have a product or service that allows for multiple points of entry at differing price levels? Is the experience so streamlined that consumers can always expect a certain experience? Are you building stakeholders or are just banking on perceived obsolescence? Think your cable company. Odds are if you call complain and leave their prices won’t need to change because there are more than enough subscribers willing and able to pay the prices that they ask for. But, if you everyone in your town/city cut the cord and subscribed to Hulu and Netflix then the cable company might have to listen to the concerns of the consumer.
Can you benefit from pitting sellers/vendors/distributors against each other for your business? Can you diversify the way you collect your inputs? Are there any suppliers that would help you grow your economies of scale - reducing your average costs over the long term. When you enter a market or are thinking about making your product unique it’s crucial to consider your supply chain. If there are any hiccups or if you choose cheap over value then that might have an effect on the quality or consistency of your own products.
It’s important to assess where other firms are in your market. What kind of market is it? There will be big differences between how you approach an oligopolistic market vs something where there is a bit more competition. It’s also important to monitor how the market behaves. What I mean by that is keeping track of how things are marketed or how fast products/services change. An example would be Apple’s iPads and iPhones. It used to be that those were launched about annually but because technology is changing so fast it’s moved up to about a 10 month release time for new stuff or at least updates to existing stuff. When doing your branding or positioning seeing what the currents are doing will help you better utilize whatever resources you have available. Nothing worse than marketing in a place where no one is looking. So identify your markets and who consumers as well as firms identify themselves.
What will it take to enter a market or just start a business? What are the costs or investment necessary to be a competitor? Are there any obstacles as far as availability of resources to get you going? What are tax liabilities or government policies that need to be taken into consideration? Nothing worse than being in business for a while then getting slammed with a tax bill that you weren’t even close to being prepared for. Are there distribution channels available for what you are doing or do you have to create your own? You might be in business already and need some help gaining some scope on growing - so it’s important that you understand the questions to ask to get the best information to overcome barriers.
I know went over these 5 Forces really fast and it’s a lot of questions to ask or even try to answer. There's a benefit though in even starting to think about this stuff. When you start to think about these forces and answers these questions some really neat stuff happens. You start to get really clear on what sets you apart in your market. You start to see what your (real) competitive landscape looks like and you start to see how you can continue to add value to people's lives.
I just realized how long this post is going, so if you are still with me - you are awesome! Awesome and exactly the kind of person I want being part of this community. I want to do more on creating strategy and using the 5 Forces Model so if you have questions on application or making this more pragmatic please shoot them along by signing up for the Disruptive Strategy Newsletter!


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Great to be doing my first blog post for Alpkit. I recently won the Mazda Blenheim Triathlon - the second biggest triathlon in the UK, after the London Triathlon. With 5500 competitors the competition has to be split over two days.
The event takes place in the lush grounds of Blenheim Palace home of the Duke of Marlborough, and what a nice home it is with a 6.5km bike lap (closed roads) in your back garden, a huge lake, and a 2.6 km run loop in your front garden. There aren’t many triathletes who would say “no” to a back garden like that.
The swim start, sometimes known as the “washing machine” because of all the flailing arms and legs, is critical. Stay out of trouble but not start to fast was the main aim. Found a nice rhythm and managed to pick off those who started too fast. 12.02 for the swim (a long 750m swim) was fair, and then followed by a charge up the hill to transition in the forecourt of the palace, and out on the bike. I felt quite good on the bike, and most of looked good as the motorbike with cameraman thought it was worth filming me. They caught me towards the end of the first lap and followed me for about 1-2 km… if only Alpkit made triathlon kit!
Not quite sure how the pictures of my backside will come out on TV, and I certainly hope they edit out the shot of me blowing my nose!
Had a solid bike just outside 32 minutes, and headed out on the run. Hot and hilly the run felt hard and slower than I would have liked. However my run split of 19.55 ranked highly, and overall time of 1:08:14… which ignoring the Elite race (which is held under different rules, so that the drafting on the bike is allowed and won by Stuart Hayes in 1:01) gave me first overall. A solid result and time to test myself over the Olympic distance….


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Pinstripe Marketing developed a channel marketing campaign to help Trend Micro launch their new Worry-Free Security suite at CMPXChange 08 in Dallas. The event is the largest IT channel event of the year, attracting more than 1000 reseller attendees.
The cornerstone of the campaign was the development of a computer game, Whack-a-Virus, where participants were encouraged to visit the Trend Micro demo room to play the game, learn about the new products, and register for prizes.
The game is now featured on www.IAmWorryFree.com, a micro-site developed for Trend Micro by Pinstripe. The site and game will be utilized by Trend Micro reseller partners to help promote the products to their sales representatives and end-user customers.

industry_corpus2: Computing & Telecommunications


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To establish accounting and financial reporting standards for impairment of capital assets and insurance recoveries in conformity with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP ) and Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) pronouncements.
For the purpose of this procedure only, the following words and terms are defined as the follows.
A capital asset is considered impaired when its service utility has declined significantly and unexpectedly.
In accordance with system Procedure 7.3.6, a capital asset is defined as an asset with a useful life greater than two (2) years, a cost (or value if donated) greater than a defined capitalization dollar amount that maintains its identity while in use.
For assets that will remain in service, there are three (3) methods for calculating the amount by which a capital asset has been impaired.
Restoration cost approach. This method uses the cost of restoring a capital asset’s service potential as a basis for calculating the relative portion of the historical cost of the asset that has been impaired. The estimated restoration cost can be converted to historical cost either by restating the estimated restoration cost using an appropriate cost index or by applying a ratio of estimated restoration cost over estimated replacement cost to the carrying value of the capital asset.
Service units approach. This method compares productivity before and after an impairment to determine the relative portion of the historical cost of the capital asset that has been impaired. The amount of impairment is determined by evaluating the service provided by the capital asset − either maximum estimated service units or total estimated service units throughout the life of the capital asset - before and after the event or change in circumstance.
Deflated depreciated replacement cost approach. This method calculates what the depreciated cost of a capital asset acquired at the same time, but for a different purpose, would have been to determine the relative portion of the historical cost of the capital asset that has been impaired. A current cost for a capital asset to replace the current level of service is estimated. This estimated current cost is depreciated to reflect the fact that the capital asset is not new, and then is deflated to convert it to historical cost dollars.
Evidence of physical damage. Examples include a building damaged in a windstorm or a building requiring mold remediation. If the capital asset will continue to be used (or will be upon restoration of the capital asset), use restoration cost approach to measure impairment. If the capital asset will no longer be used, use the lower of the carrying value or fair value.
Technological changes or obsolescence. For example, medical equipment that can still be used, but for which demand is expected to significantly decrease with the advent of additional, more attractive treatment options. If the capital asset will continue to be used, use service units approach to measure impairment. If the capital asset will no longer be used, use the lower of the carrying value or fair value.
Changes in manner or duration of use. A capital asset put to a significantly less valuable use than the one for which it was intended. For example, a classroom building now used as a warehouse. If the capital asset will continue to be used, use the deflated depreciated replacement cost or service units approach. If the capital asset will no longer be used, use the lower of the carrying value or fair value.
Changes in legal or environmental factors. For example, an underground storage tank that is no longer usable as the result of changes in environmental standards. If the capital asset will continue to be used, use the service units approach. If the capital asset will no longer be used, use the lower of the carrying value or fair value.
Construction stoppage. A construction project may need to be abandoned for legal or practical reasons. Use the lower of the carrying value or fair value.
Unless the impairment is considered temporary, the loss from impairment must be reported in the Statement of Revenues, Expenses, and Changes in Net Position as an operating expense, special item, or extraordinary item in accordance with the guidance in GASB Statement 34 and Accounting Principles Board Opinion No. 30. Impairment losses appropriately reported as program expense must be reported as a direct expense of the program that uses or used the impaired capital asset. If not otherwise apparent from the face of the financial statements, a general description, the amount, and the financial statement classification of the impairment loss must be disclosed in the notes to the financial statements.
The impairment loss must be reported net of the associated insurance recovery when the recovery and loss occur in the same year. Insurance recoveries reported in subsequent years must be reported as non-operating revenue, or extraordinary item, as appropriate. Insurance recoveries will be recognized only when realized or realizable.
Impaired assets that will no longer be used by the university or college must be reported at the lower of carrying value or fair value. If the assets are disposed of, the disposal provisions of Procedure 7.3.6 Capital Assets are applicable.
05/17/16 - Deleted Part 1, Authority. Amended Part 2, Definitions, Capital asset. Moved Part 5, Measurement of Asset Impairment to Part 3, and deleted the chart. Amended Part 4, Identification and Measurement of Impairment Losses.


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The news that Menzgold boss Nana Appiah Mensah has won his freedom after winning a court case in Dubai and might be back to Ghana soon has sparked some hope amongst Menzgold customers that they might soon be getting their money back.
However, whilst some people are looking forward to getting money from NAM 1, Wanlov da Kubolor has revealed that he actually owes NAM 1 some money.
Speaking with Joy Prime’s E-with Becks program, Wanlov revealed that whilst people were investing their money with NAM 1, he was taking money from him.
Wanlov revealed he owes Nana Appiah Mensah Ghc 700 which he plans to pay soon so he can also pay his customers.


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Delhi is the dream city for many people who are thinking to start their own business in personal property or in a rental property in India. Now day’s people’s financial condition has become enhanced compared to before. Talking in terms of buying the commercial property is little bit decisive term because before investing your cash money you should be aware of the best commercial location in Delhi. Places like Nehru Place, Vasant Vihar, Connaught Place, South Extension, Greater Kailash, Okhla Industrial Area, Netaji Subhash Place, Azad Pur, Narayana Industrial Area, Punjabi Bagh, Patparganj Industrial Area etc. are some prominent commercial hubs.
These places are the most favored locations for business point of view in Delhi. There is a enormous space for office with beautiful infrastructure, market closeness etc. are the chattels of these locations. Commercial property in Delhi is having very high prices. The demand for commercial property in Delhi is ever rising gradually and it is becoming the first choice among corporate houses and firms. Even some giant real estate developers in India are moving towards NCR areas like Gurgaon, Noida and Faridabad so that they can develop and provide reasonable commercial lands or properties.
Before buying the commercial property in Delhi, one should be watchful about the certain points like need to check for the property location, prices and should have a proper documentation and proper legal paper for the process so that there will not any misconceptions in buyer’s mind. You may end up with a commercial property that will give you a best pact with all facilities.
Many Multi National Companies take property for rent to set up the new branch in different location or cities like Delhi. Rental property will be cheap compared to buying the property. One can easily afford the lavish commercial property or land on a rent. Whether it is commercial property for rent or commercial property for buy depends upon the one’s funds. Even you can make a profitable business if you have own commercial property or land. If you have invested in commercial properties close to Rs 80 lakh. You will get monthly rent of Rs 15,000 from that property. Renting property is best option as it saves a lot of time in maintaining.
Searching the appropriate commercial property or land in Delhi, NCR is not a difficult duty. Classified websites are helping a lot to get the property of your choice.
Visit free classified to see search results for property in India Like commercial property and Commercial property in Delhi.

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Wayin has an incredible opportunity for a Campaign and Project Coordinator to join our London team. Using Wayin’s SaaS platform, you will be responsible for building digital campaigns for Wayin’s incredible portfolio of clients.
Working within the Professional Services team and with internal stakeholders, the Campaign and Project Coordinator will ensure the successful creation and testing of campaigns, and that all campaigns are built on time and on budget.


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A student may drop a class prior to 33% of the class duration without a grade being recorded on the student's transcript.
If a student drops after 33% but before 62% of the class duration, a grade of "W" will be issued.
No drops will be accepted after 62% of the course duration. Failure to drop a class may result in a failing grade.
The grade of Incomplete ("I") is given in regular courses (except for theses and directed research courses) upon request of the student for personal emergencies that are verifiable. The faculty member has the responsibility to provide written notification to the student of the work required to remove the incomplete. The student is responsible for taking the initiative to complete the work and is expected to make up the I during the next semester (fall or spring) after receiving the grade (except for dissertations and directed research courses). If the student does not make up the I during the next semester after receiving it, a grade may be given by the faculty member without further consultation with the student.
If, after the end of the next semester, the "I" remains on the record, it will be designated as "F" (previously "IX") for record keeping and will be computed in the student's GPA, weighted at 0 points per credit. A grade of "NR" will be treated in a like manner.
It is the policy of Kansas State University to provide the following options to resident and non-resident students enrolled in credit classes who are required to discontinue their attendance as a result of orders to military active duty arising from the need for emergency military deployment.
Students should contact the Division of Continuing Education at College Court 218, or by telephone at 785-532-5566.
A student ordered to report to a remote station on the basis of a military emergency must provide to the Division of Continuing Education a copy of his/her military orders indicating such assignment. A copy of orders may be mailed subsequent to the student’s departure, or, in the absence of a copy of military orders, a written statement from the cognizant commander will be accepted.
A student may withdraw from all classes and receive a 100% refund of all enrollment fees paid for courses he/she is currently taking and for future courses.
In consultation with the faculty members involved, a student may elect to take an “Incomplete” in his/her classes, with the ability to complete the course requirements upon return to K-State. Guidelines pertaining to the University’s policy on “Incomplete Work” are contained in the General Catalog. Returning students are responsible for making arrangements with faculty members for the completion of work for which an “Incomplete” has been recorded. As an alternative to an “Incomplete,” other arrangements for receiving a grade and/or completing a course may be made, as appropriate, through the student’s consultation with faculty members involved.
A combination wherein the student may withdraw from some classes and continue enrollment in those remaining. Any refund for course withdrawal will be based on the difference between what the student initially paid and what the student would owe had he/she enrolled only in the remaining courses. Marks for continuing courses would be arrived at in keeping with B above.


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910 Parley Pl, Chesapeake, VA 23323 (#10219300) :: Abbitt Realty Co.
Construction beginning - move in January/February! END HOME w/ private, wooded yard! The Schubert offers the space and customizing details of single-family living with the convenience of a townhome. On the main living level, youre greeted by a Great Room open to a generous and airy Kitchen with island. Granite included. A Dining Room off the Kitchen provides room for formal or informal entertaining. Upstairs boasts 3 bedrooms, 2 full baths, and a full sized 2nd floor laundry with extra shelf space. The Owners Bedroom is a private retreat accented with a tray ceiling and an enormous WIC. The Owners Bath boasts a soaking tub and separate shower with seat. Lower level features a 2-car garage & walk-out recreation room or first floor bedroom with full bath. No flood insurance req. Chesapeake's most-anticipated new community including water views, a private marina club, pool, clubhouse, docks, boat tie-off, & beach access.


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Volume 6 consists of 3 issues: Number 1, September 1977; Number 2, June 1978; Number 3, September 1978.
Sep-1978 The social policy of corporate criminal responsibility Fisse, W. B.
Sep-1978 Book Reviews Davies, J. D.; Doyle, J. J.; Lucke, Horst K.
Sep-1978 Personal Injuries: Awards in South Australia 1977-1978 Mansfield, J. R.
Sep-1978 Agents or employees? Some problems of A.M.P. Society v. Chaplin Pliner, R. B.
Sep-1978 The Residential Tenancies Act, 1978 (S.A.) and the protection of tenants against succession to the original landlord Palk, Simon N. L.
Jun-1978 Prospectuses and offers of securities for purchase: A reply to Professor Ford Hambrook, J. P.
Jun-1978 Environmental law - licensing pollution Fowler, Robert J.
Jun-1978 Matrimonial property proceedings - problems of a divided jurisdiction Walker, Gordon R.
1978 Book Reviews Kelly, F. P.; Abbott, A. N.


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I used the recipes below for all my previous posts. Some of the recipes came from cookbooks and some recipes were originals. For my crusts, I found some great recipes from the cook book Dessert University, by retired White House executive pastry chef Roland Mesnier.
Put sugar and butter into the bowl of an electric mixer. With the paddle attachment, cream together the sugar and butter. Mix in vanilla, lemon zest, and salt. Then stir in the egg and then add flour.
Take the dough and wrap it in plastic wrap. Refrigerate the dough for 1 hour to 2 days. Can be frozen for up to two months and when defrosting, put it in the fridge overnight.
Add the salt and 1 teaspoon of water into an electric mixer with the paddle attachment. Stir until the salt is dissolved. Add flour and butter. Mix on low speed until the mixture feels sandy and then add the egg and egg yolks one by one. Add the remaining water. Mix for about 2 minutes and don’t over do it.
Take the dough and split it into two pieces. Press both pieces into 6-inch disks and wrap with plastic wrap. Refrigerate for 1 hour to 3 days. Can be frozen for up to 2 months: defrost overnight in fridge.

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Since October 2017, all children accommodated in “Pedro Arrupe” House have started weekly visits to The International School of Belgrade (ISB) twice per week. ISB was founded in 1948 as an independent, co-educational international day school that enrolls students from ages three to eighteen. As an authorized IB World School, ISB provides a high-quality, college-preparatory education with an emphasis on internationalism and global responsibility. The curriculum is designed to serve a multi-national student body using English as the language of instruction.
By participating in sporting activities, our beneficiaries are making new friendships and getting a new perspective on youth culture in Serbia. For the ISB students, it’s a great opportunity to interact with people from a new culture and learn more about the refugee children’s experiences first hand.
The cooperation between ISB and the “Pedro Arrupe” House was established thanks to the City Centre for Social Welfare in Belgrade, Palilula Department.


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Grade Five False Heaven Stage !
The 1999. Grade Five False Heaven Stage!
Discuss after all this, Su Hanshan, he planned to enter the Saint Child's spatial ring.
“Sect Master!” Flowing Cloud was at this moment.
“Ning Luo?” Su Hanshan is stunned for a moment.
“And then?” asked Su Hanshan.
“You don't have to know the Phoenix Sect after all, Pavilion Master left, Ning Luo was entrusted to me a sentence, if you are able to come back, I hope we can go to Heavenly Mountain Pavilion, see him.” Flowing Cloud.
Su Hanshan nodded, then left the Meeting Hall.
Looked at Su Hanshan's back, Flowing Cloud couldn't help but shake his head, sigh.
Saint Child's spatial ring, Lian Yu Ze is now under control, However, Su Hanshan could enter.
After that, Su Hanshan is the first to start the Void God Realm's Fourth Stage cultivation, the flow of time, once again increased 20 times, reaching one hundred seventy times!
Then, his figure flickered, arrived at the Phoenix Sect as everyone in the area.
Everyone in the training, his attention, Coupled with Su Hanshan hiding his cultivation, retracted his aura, it was really no one noticed his arrival.
After a moment later, Su Hanshan smiled and came over to Xiao Yuhui and Nan Gong and Yu Qian, Qian Yun Xiao Yuran four people, as well as Su Qing and Su Yao's location.
Perhaps he couldn't keep Su Hanshan become husband and wife.
Of course, Su Hanshan didn't regret it.
Mysterious Yin Body, in addition to the many resources, Xiao Yuhui cultivation speed was extremely fast.
Xiao Yuran Needless to say, the spirit body was Su Hanshan seal, he belonged to the Heavenly Beloved type.
As for Nan Gong Yu, Wu Dao talent wasn't too strong, but her Magic Potential, was extremely terrifying!
Only Qian Qian Yun, Potential is still acceptable, but would definitely not be outstanding, Hence, the four of them in, his cultivation is at the lowest.
Su Hanshan's gaze at them on his body flashed and he looked at Su Qing and Su Yao.
One of them is a handsome, looked beautiful, At this moment, had closed his eyes, his aura surged, it appeared to be a very crucial moment.
Su Hanshan standing there for a while, he didn't disturb them, returned to their own valley within.
Sat cross-legged in the blink of an eye, Su Hanshan was a flip of his hand, two Flood Dragon Spirit Liquid, all appeared in front of his eyes.
He first looked at the battle in the flood dragon's Flood Dragon Spirit Liquid.
Of the eight flood dragons, The Sky Dragon who is ranked fourth, In terms of cultivation, it is comparable to a Human Body Realm with rank five Da Could!
Pondered within, Su Hanshan was once again looked at the Rainbow Flower flood the Flood Dragon Spirit Liquid.
As his cultivation grew increasingly high, Su Hanshan was in need of resources, it was getting more and more.
Other cultivators, Not to mention a mere Void God Realm, even Divine Sea Realm, With such a Flood Dragon Spirit Liquid, that they, still be able to instantly break through Grade!
However, Su Hanshan is different.
He had the original body, Moreover, it was Wu Dao and physical body at the same time, the cultivation resources, more than others too much.
In this sort of situation, the rank six Void God Realm required a lot of resources, Su Hanshan the most clearly, The Rainbow Dragon Flower to possess much Effect, Su Hanshan was very clear.
Therefore, this is not just a guess, but Su Hanshan integrated everything, all expectations.
Thinking of this, Su Hanshan didn't hesitate, waved his palm, the Flood Dragon's Flood Dragon Spirit Liquid immediately appeared in the Void, a boundless surge of Devouring Power, Following Su Hanshan Dragon Emperor Mounted Art open, gradually surged out.
Great amounts of Spiritual Liquid, Under this kind of absorbing it, entered the whirlpool, transforming into a torrential Spiritual Energy, entered Su Hanshan's body.
Nine Shadow, the moment it appeared, the representatives of the nine great, Su Hanshan's true body.
Like once, This kind of training, it would definitely be able to break through, but it was also extremely dry.
The only thing different was that Saint Child's spatial ring, five years had passed, Su Hanshan's body, rumbling sounds rang out, It is a complete copy of the Flood Dragon Spirit Liquid, Su Hanshan, had been completely swallowed up.
Before this, Su Hanshan every time he devoured the Flood Dragon Spirit Liquid, had just devoured all of the three, and could only four points.
Su Hanshan opened his eyes, gently breathing a sigh of relief.
Time for cultivation, the outside world over to within ten days' time, but Saint Child spatial ring, but it was in fact the five years!
His aura spread out, his clothes flutter, There was an even stronger too much pressure that Su Hanshan's body spread from it.
Fifth Stage, Void God Realm!
Five years of time, With a Flood Dragon Spirit Liquid, again increase by another level!
This was a Grade increase, it is Su Hanshan, brought too many factors Battle Power.
If at this moment to fight the Wang Hongyuan and rank seven Void God Realm, he didn't need any other skill, With a wave of his hand, could bring them to easily kill them.
Even if it was them was wearing Inferior Grade Dark Weapon grade Armor, Su Hanshan is able to neglect the Armor, causing them to forcibly jolted dead!
Body, Su Hanshan had already truly unparalleled.
But at this moment, the Battle Power increased, he was once again given Su Hanshan, an extremely great confidence!
When the silence, Su Hanshan's gaze violently flickering.
Ps, Hu...... Yes, this was the third chapter tomorrow, erupted!
Burst chapter, not tomorrow morning, so everyone, don't wait for tomorrow noon began to erupt.
Advance with everyone said, hoping to know each other, Otherwise, you and Nan Shan would find it difficult to accept.

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My favorite all-time Picture from my childhood.
“No, Lord! I am not ashamed of You,” I protested vehemently. I knew it was silly to argue with the Almighty, but I truly didn’t understand. I had always been up front and forthright about my relationship with Yeshua (Jesus). Nobody could ever have accused me of being embarrassed or ashamed of Him.
“Then why do you keep avoiding the subject of your faith?” I sensed Him reply.
Ouch! He was right. Whenever I got into conversations with my classmates, I would steer the conversation clear of religion. I guess I had become a little tired of being stereotyped as a brainwashed-fanatic by my Jewish friends and family. I loved my people and my culture and truly wanted them to understand why I believed in Yeshua, but the rejection had begun to wear on me.
Nevertheless, above all, I wanted to please Yeshua. I told the Lord that He was right and I was sorry, and that I wouldn’t be ashamed of Him in class anymore. At that moment, I had no idea what He had in store for me that evening.
Upon my arrival at class I made a point of putting my Jewish Prophecy Edition New Covenant right on top of my books for everyone to see. About midway through the class, my teacher caught sight of the Hebrew title.
Clearly confused, she continued to teach.
Not long after that she decided to teach us a new word: machur, which means addicted to or sold out to. Then it came time for each student to use machur in a sentence.
No way! I thought. I am not going to do it. You set me up, Lord! That’s asking too much. If I’d been the first person called upon to use the word in a sentence, I would definitely have chickened out, but because I was sitting in the last seat of a semi-circle there was plenty of time for me to really think about my response. In the end, I thought, What do I have to lose? Who do I really want to please—this class or God? Finally, it was my turn.
“Ani machur l’Yeshua!” I AM SOLD OUT TO YESHUA!
The class was stunned! They broke into a corporate uproar. ‘Are you for real?’ ‘Is that the truth?!’ Suddenly, questions started flying my way: “If Jesus is the Messiah then…?” One woman ran out to the car to get a Bible. I showed them prophecies concerning the Messiah and fielded a string of questions from the class.
Finally, a frustrated student, who had actually come to class to study Hebrew, shouted, “Can we PLEASE stop talking about religion, and get back to Hebrew?” And we did.
Now you may be wondering, “Oy vey —why in the world is a young Jewish man addicted, or sold out, to Yeshua?” For me to fully answer that, we need to go back to 1983.
I have got to know the truth; I have got to understand; How can I find out? These were the thoughts running through my mind that dark October night in North Carolina, somewhere between Durham and Louisburg—in other words—in the middle of nowhere. There I was, eighteen years old, in college, and on my way back from a movie with my friend, Dean. Nothing unusual in that, except for the fact that the movie we’d just seen was about Jesus—and I am Jewish! For months, I had been longing to understand the eternal. Just what lies beyond this life, beyond humanity? As I was about to enter adulthood, I wanted to know if God was real, and if so, what He required of me, personally. My search was about to come to an abrupt end, as I sat in the passenger’s seat of that yellow Dodge Colt with all these thoughts going through my mind.
God, I believe You are real. I didn’t believe this nine months ago but I do now. You must show me the truth. I’ve got to know… Is Jesus the Messiah?
After many months of wondering, I had finally come to the conclusion that the God of Abraham was real. Yet, I could not find a relationship with God in traditional Judaism. Even fasting on Yom Kippur didn’t seem to bring me any closer.
I wanted more than a religion. I wanted God—I wanted to know Him. My best friend, Bryan, had had a radical transformation in his life midway through our senior year of High School and claimed to know God. Even my rabbi didn’t claim to know God—in fact, a conversation years later left me thinking He didn’t even believe in God—yet a redhead of no consequence from Richmond, Virginia, exuded a relationship with the Almighty that I had never seen in anyone before. And he claimed it was through Jesus the Messiah! Hence my prayer, Is Jesus the Messiah?
Although within me there was a deep desire to know God, it was more the fear of a lost eternity that drove me to this prayer: I’ve got to know the truth! If Heaven was real, then more than likely, Hell was too. Therefore, I couldn’t continue to simply live my life to have fun as if there was no Day of Judgment and no one to answer to in the afterlife. Furthermore, if Heaven was real, I definitely wanted to end up there! I had to know the truth.
If there is a God?
And if so, what is He like?
Is there a Heaven… or Hell?
“God, I need to kno… Aaaahhh!!” Suddenly the car began to swerve from side to side. We were out of control on a two-lane country road. Am I going to die? I wondered. “No, you will not die,” came a confident response that arose from somewhere within me. Next, as the car continued to swerve, it began to spin around and round, and finally flipped over one and a half times, leaving us upside down in a ditch.
“What happened next?” you ask.
Well, clearly, I didn’t die… or I wouldn’t be writing this book, now would I? Before I answer, let’s go back a bit further… to the sixties.
The year was 1965. I was born into a fast changing world. Dr. Martin Luther King led his famous march from Selma, Alabama, to Montgomery. The Vietnam War showed no signs of abating. Malcolm X was killed. The Voting Rights Act, guaranteeing voting rights to African Americans, was passed. In pop culture, Mary Poppins and the Sound of Music were released on the silver screen at the same time that the Beatles and the Rolling Stones were making rock-n-roll history.
In 1965 the average house in America cost $13,600, the average yearly income was around $6,450, gas was 31 cents a gallon and you could easily own a new car for under $3,000. And I was born into a family that fit pretty comfortably into these averages.
I was born into a lower-middle-class family in Virginia Beach, Virginia. My father, a native of Richmond, was a quiet, reserved man, while my mother, a native of Norfolk, was outgoing and vivacious. In this case opposites did attract… and they are still together! We lived in a one-story house with a few bedrooms and a den. I remember our TV was built into the wood-paneled wall in the den. These were definitely modest surroundings.
I loved going to my grandparents’ apartment on Granby Street to spend the night. They were great! Sol was as cheerful and as loving as they come. He treated his wife, Dorothy, like a queen, though many a waitress would have said she didn’t deserve it, as she had very little patience with bad service and made no effort at all to hide the fact. My grandmother still retained much of the beauty she portrayed in the photographs from her youth. It was easy to see why Sol fell for her.
My sister, Michele, and I always called our grandparents by their first names. It was a habit that Michele had formed when she first began to speak. Everyone thought it was so cute that a two-year-old called her grandparents by their first names that they encouraged it. I just copied her and although my parents assumed we would eventually move on to using Grandma and Grandpa, we never did and it never felt unnatural.
Sol smoked a big smelly cigar all the time. Of course, this was before cigars were in vogue; back when most people still considered them disgusting. There was always a slobbery, half-smoked cigar, as I remember, lying around somewhere in the apartment. I also remember how he loved to tickle me until I laughed so hard my stomach hurt. As a grandfather, he was great. Dorothy was the focal point of his affections, although as earlier intimated Dorothy was not always the object of other people’s affections. She was very opinionated and had no reservations about sharing her sentiments with others. On the other hand she was full of life and character and being with her was never boring.
From my earliest memory I knew we were Jewish and I knew that Jews were different—although I wasn’t sure why. One thing, though, was clear to me—that there were a lot more of them (Gentiles), than of us. We attended Beth El Synagogue in Norfolk. Norfolk was only a hop, skip, and a jump from Virginia Beach.
Although the synagogue was a place of Jewish identity, it lacked the deeper dimensions of true spiritual life for me. I remember as a youngster attending a religious class on the High Holy Days and being told that we do not clap in a synagogue. “It is irreverent,” we were informed. Even as a child I found this a bit odd. It seemed to me that a house of worship should be full of life and vigor, not solemn and ceremonial.
I thought we had a great family. My mother was (and is) beautiful. She was always there for me. Despite the fact that she was clearly more liberal than conservative politically, she always put her children before her career or finances. Even when Casual Corner, a local dress shop, begged her to become a manager, she routinely refused for the simple reason that she felt she needed to be home when her children arrived back from school.
My mother was not only beautiful but also affectionate and encouraging. Even when I came home from school with pitiful grades, she always told me, “Ron, you are smart, and you will do well if you apply yourself.” I went through high school making D’s and F’s and still, I thought of myself as smart—just because Mom said I was. When I later graduated from college with a 3.85 GPA, I wasn’t surprised. I always knew that if I applied myself, I would do well—because Mom said so!
My dad was a bit different. He was quiet and mellow. Like many men of his generation, he was a good provider and a loving husband to my mother, but he was not very outgoing as a father when I was younger. Over the years he has changed, and today I consider him one of my best friends. Phil Cantor is a wonderful father and grandfather. He is affectionate and giving, and my children adore him.
Then there was my sister, Michele. As children, we fought nonstop. Our fighting was a constant source of stress to my parents. We fought so much that they finally quit taking us out to dinner on Sunday nights, which had been a family tradition.
I take most of the blame for the fighting. I was a hyperactive child and my parents didn’t know how to control me—and I had no inclination to control myself. Sitting still, even today, is very difficult for me (I’ve just noticed that even as I am editing this, I am standing, simply because I couldn’t remain sitting any longer.). My wife has long gotten used to me leaving the table at a restaurant if the meal is taking too long to arrive. I just need to move. While I was growing up this trait constantly caused me to get into trouble at school and in other places where restrictions were imposed.
Not only was I frequently uncontrollable, I was filled with fears and anxieties. As a boy, I had so much fear that I did not close my eyes when I went to sleep. There were times that I would make my mother sit on the floor in her room, where I could see her from my bed, until I fell asleep.
Death was a major cause of my fears. What happens to you when you die? Is that it? You never exist again? The very concept of death was terrifying to me—to be gone forever. As a young child, I did not believe in God or eternal life. Before I was even six, I was convinced that when you die life is over, your body is buried, and you cease to be a conscious entity. It simply never dawned on me that there might be more.
This revelation hurt me deeply. It came as a complete shock because I’d never thought of myself in this way—different or abnormal. Yet, from that day on I viewed myself with a label. It was as if I now had a new identity—hyperactive!
This was fifteen years before anyone ever used the words Attention Deficit Disorder, but it was clear that I had the whole package: ADHD. I couldn’t pay attention and I couldn’t sit still. This made learning very difficult for me. If I may, let me just add one thing about being ADHD. While I am no doctor, it is my opinion that ADD and Hyperactivity are not disorders, but personalities. There was a time when children weren’t required to spend seven hours a day learning, but ten hours a day on the family farm or herding cattle. No one ever had to diagnose those kids as being ADD. Not everyone, I’m convinced, was meant to sit still. I have learned to love who I am; who God created me to be.
All right, so it gets frustrating when I spend thirty minutes looking for my sunglasses only to realize they are on my head… or that I can get up to do one thing, do three others, sit down and realize I didn’t do the thing I originally set out to do. In the end, I get it all done.
My father’s parents lived in Richmond, Virginia on Monument Avenue no less. Anybody even slightly familiar with Richmond knows Monument Avenue. It is one of the most beautiful stretches of real estate in America. It is a boulevard divided by a grassy tree-lined area for walking and boasts statues memorializing Virginian Confederate heroes of the Civil War like J.E.B. Stuart, Jefferson Davis, Thomas ‘Stonewall’ Jackson and of course Robert E. Lee, whose monument was the first to be erected in 1890.
Saying that my grandfather William, or ‘Willie’ as we called him, was eccentric would be an understatement. There had never been another like him. Well, except that He was very much like me, only fifty years earlier. Willie also had been a hyperactive child, and grew up to be a businessman. And if you’re wanting to know what field of business he was in, it would take me less time to tell you the ones he didn’t try.
He was into salvage, restaurants, multilevel marketing, and hypnotism among other things. You name it—he’d done it, or at least tried it. He was a lot of fun. I used to enjoy going out to his Lincoln (He always drove a Lincoln.) to see what kind of fun stuff he had stored in the back seat. He was such a pack rat, and his being in the salvage business always made it easy for me to find something of interest in the back seat or trunk of his Lincoln.
His most exciting venture was a restaurant that he opened in the seventies called The Roaring Twenties. Waiters and waitresses would perform as they worked. I didn’t know it at the time, but one of the singing waitresses, he employed, was a part-time bank clerk named Pat Benatar, who would go on to become one of the most famous female rock-n-roll artists in history and the object of my desire in 1982. When she performed at the Richmond Coliseum, I bribed my way, with grain alcohol, all the way to front, wrote my number on a balloon, then pushed it in her direction. I had no idea that all I had to do to get her number was ask my grandfather. To tell you the truth, I don’t think he even realized that she had become famous. Anyway… she didn’t call.
Willie could hypnotize people. I saw him take people back into what we thought at the time were other lifetimes. In fact, he once took a gentleman back so far that he had great difficulty retrieving him. When the man finally came to himself, he was dazed and confused for quite a while. It was really frightening. My grandfather was truly a one of a kind sort of fellow, and everyone who knew him, knew it.
My memories of my grandmother Margie are sketchy at best. Shortly after we moved to Richmond she died of heart disease. I was around six or seven at the time and I only remember that she was very different from Willie. She was reserved and quiet, like my father.
When I was six years old my father, against his will, accepted the position of manager at Willie’s new store, The Salvage Barn. In retrospect, we are all glad we made the move to Richmond. I don’t think any of us realized that this would be the one business of my grandfather’s that would succeed—though this was probably largely due to my father’s conservative management style. Within a few years, Willie gave his half of the store to his children. My father then bought out his sisters and became the co-owner and eventually bought out his partner to become the sole owner of The Salvage Barn, Inc.
Before we moved to Richmond, we had the joy of living right on the beach for two weeks while our townhouse was being completed. One day my father’s friend Martin came over with his family. The three of us went fishing. We were going to catch dinner. After a few hours of casting we had caught two crabs and no fish! As we were walking home feeling like our very manhood was in question (boyhood for me), we ran into two teenagers who had a bucket full of fish.
“We caught all these but we are not going to eat them. Do you guys want them?” they asked us. Did we want them? You’d better believe it, pal! We took the fish and proudly walked home. Back at the beach house, we boasted for hours to the ladies about our great catch, until my young conscience began to bother me. Then secretly, off to the side, I confessed the truth to my mother. Needless to say, that didn’t win me any points with Martin or my dad. At six years old, my conscience was very sensitive and it bothered me that we’d lied.
We made the trek to Richmond in 1971 and moved into a small townhouse development called Three Willows Court. I quickly made new friends and one enemy. There was this boy, Bobby in the neighborhood who enjoyed picking on us. One day while I was eating a banana, Bobby began to chase me. I ran as fast as I could and loving life more than my banana, I decided to part with my snack by throwing it straight up in the air, thinking as I did, Wouldn’t it be great if he slips on the banana just like in the cartoons? At that same moment I heard one of the most beautiful sounds my young ears had ever heard—Bobby screaming! I turned around just in time to see him falling to the pavement out of control, scraping his arm, with blood and everything. In general, young American Jewish boys don’t tend to be blood and guts oriented and I was no different, but this was unbelievable— straight from the script. I just kept on running—no mercy.
Soon it was time for school—first grade. I dreaded it. For the first three days I cried all the way to the classroom. My classmates heard me screaming, “But I didn’t kiss my mommy good-bye,” as she deposited me at Skipwith Elementary School. Try living with that for a year. One kid, who failed first grade the first time around and was a full 17% older than me, used to ask me every day “Did you kiss your mommy this morning?” That would be enough to destroy any kid’s self-esteem, but I was so naïve and gullible that I actually thought he was genuinely concerned about me. It wasn’t until several years later that I realized he had been mocking me.
I hated school so much that one day I went in the front door and kept walking straight out through the back door. I walked along the main road having no idea where I was going, except that I wasn’t going to school! Finally, two safety patrol kids stopped me. Of course when you’re six, a 12-year-old safety patrol may as well be a member of the SWAT team or Navy SEAL Team Six. They asked me where I was going. “To school,” I replied.
“What school is that?” they asked.
It was over—I was busted.
I learned to tolerate school as I realized that for twelve more years, at least, I was stuck with it.
My first encounter with the idea of Jesus came while looking through a book at school. I remember seeing a sketch of a man hanging on a cross. I went home and asked my mother about it. She explained to me that Christians believed in this man and that we, as Jews, did not. At the age of seven or eight, that was a good enough explanation for me.
Sadly, most non-religious Jews define Judaism the same way—not by what we believe or are supposed to believe, but by what we don’t believe. That was my understanding of what a Jew was—someone who didn’t believe in Jesus. I remember one morning at the bus stop all the kids began to talk about religion. That was the first time I had heard the word Catholic. We all raised our hands, identifying ourselves as either Jewish, Christian or Catholic. “What are Catholics?” I asked. The other seven and eight-year-olds explained to me with the depth and precision of a seminary student that Catholics were also Christians, but different. I remember being somewhat confused—but it wasn’t as important an issue as playing football after school, so I didn’t feel the need to pursue it.
Here I am with my grandfather Sol. Notice the cigar!
Mom, Dad and Michele, before I was born… they had no idea what was in store for them! ME!
This book thrilled me. I think it will be a great testimony to not only Jews but to anyone who reads it. Loved his use of Old Testament (Hebrew Bible) and the New Covenant (New Testament) to explain and show that Jesus is Yeshua. I think that Christians often forget the Jewishness of our Bible and that we were fortunate to be "grafted into God's plan". His honesty regarding the events of his life and the later transformation made me smile. Great job and well done Ron! —Mary A.


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Utility methods for various geodesic calculations.
When coding legacy (non-AMD) style, there is no need to require the module. All methods and properties are available in the namespace. For example, esri.geometry.geodesicAreas().
geodesicAreas(polygons, areaUnit) Number Determine the area for the input polygons.
geodesicDensify(geometry, maxSegmentLength) Geometry Returns a densified geometry.
geodesicLengths(polylines, lengthUnit) Number Determine the length for the input polylines using the specified length unit.
Determine the area for the input polygons. The input polygons must be in a geographic coordinate system.
<Polygon> polygons Required An array of polygons.
<String> areaUnit Required The area unit. See Units for a list of valid values.
<Geometry> geometry Required A polyline or polygon to densify.
<Number> maxSegmentLength Required The maximum segment length in meters.
Determine the length for the input polylines using the specified length unit. The input polylines must be in a geographic coordinate system.
<Polyline> polylines Required An array of polylines.
<String> lengthUnit Required The length unit. See Units for a list of valid values.