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Beginning the week of September 13, 2015 we are studying a chapter each week of McLaren’s book (more info in the September Grace Team). Books are available free of charge on the back pew of the church. A group will meet in the parish hall on Sunday mornings at 10:00 a.m., at Edna’s across the street from the church on Thursdays at 5:30 pm or you can participate online by leaving comments below.
Welcome to the blog. Looking forward to our discussion!
Read the preface and first chapter. In my opinion, McClaren is expressing the very feelings and questions I have about today’s Christianity. I am eager to continue on this journey.
Started reading this book, and I must say that the author’s take on the big picture is logical and refreshing.
I do think McLaren has a gift for making things clear. I have found this in all of his books that I’ve read. Had a great discussion on Sunday morning on chapters two and three. Meeting with the group tomorrow at Edna’s Coffee Shop across the street from the church from 5:30-6:30pm. All are welcome. Thanks for your comments on the blog! Chapter 4 for next week.
On reading the preface and first chapter, I found I wanted to keep on reading!
with my grandchildren…….they need a different approach from that of my “day”.
Discussion was good last Thursday at Edna’s and it’s a group I’d love to see grow. I commend both the book and the gathering to you and hope you’ll swing by after work (even if you’re a little late, that’s ok).


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Nominate the water-starved for RaHa Solutions (from boreholes).
In the process of nominating, you propose your favorite advertiser –– here, an advertiser is one who draws your attention to their products, services, candidacy or events in public offline news medium –– who will mark your nominee’s system for free, click to see how.
We will start process of drilling borehole by re-publishing your post on news of this website. Actual drilling will start as soon as your proposed advertiser agrees to mark the system – the marking is free of charge.
The nominee is a __________ (state whether the nominee is a village or a school) that has water underground yet suffers from lack of clean, close water.
(Write full name and address of the nominee here) ______________________________________ and I agree that the nominee’s Solutions be drilled in (Write full address of the proposed site here) ______________________, a site within/near their community/school.
The nominee agrees to provide all unskilled labor required.
I have spoken with relevant authorities about this. They have provided us with relevant geological survey reports and they have allowed us to drill the borehole.

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The chances are that your child spends most of their time at school on reading and writing skills. However, as an adult, you'll know that most of your interactions with other people require you to speak and listen well.
That's why good oral communicators do better at school, find it easier to make friends and tend to be more successful in life.
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Max Factory is going to release the PLAMAX MF-29 minimum factory My Pace Chasers [Common Raccoon & Fennec] ( マイペースちぇいさーず［アライグマ＆フェネック］) 1/20 Plastic model kit from the media franchise “Kemono Friends” ( けものフレンズ ). Will be released in January 2019. Around 80mm tall, comes with base + eye decals, 2,315 yen. Kit is NOT pre-painted nor completed.
The second in a series of Kemono friends plastic models! Build your own Japari Park!
From the anime series "Kemono Friends" comes a plastic model kit of Common Raccoon and Fennec as the latest addition to the minimum factory series! The set of two affordable models comes after the previous Kaban & Serval set.
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Most displays these days are widescreen, over 1200px. The idea of these Photoshop files to give designers and designer-wannabes (like me) a base for designing 1200px websites.
1200px.com also provides a similar file, but if you work with Twitter Bootstrap as I so you need 12 columns so the 15 column files is not enough.
It’s simple, but sometimes all you need is a simple base.

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The success of your business relies on the investment of quality people, yet many employers put their business at risk by not verifying the accuracy of a candidate’s claims on their CV before making a hiring decision.
Research has shown that one in every four resumes contain false information on academic qualifications, previous work history and professional associations. KPMG in their 2012 report on Fraud, Bribery and Corruption in Australia and New Zealand, found that 43% of responding companies in the survey were experiencing fraud.
That statistic is frightening enough, but it gets worse. The average loss to fraud per organisation experiencing fraud is $3.08m, with an 82% increase of individual fraud exceeding $1m.
Inside jobs are on the increase with 75% of major frauds being committed by insiders. A typical profile of a fraudster is that they earn close to $100k and are motivated by greed/lifestyle or personal financial pressure.
In todays business climate employers can no longer rely on the good faith of their candidates and accept copies of resumes, certificates and letters as sufficient documentation as some or all of the documentation could be falsified or untrue.
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The Bureaus of Planning and Sustainability (BPS) and Development Services (BDS) offer a 3-hour workshop on the basics of land use planning on Wednesday, January 31, 2018 at the Historic Kenton Firehouse. This event is sponsored by North Portland Neighborhood Services (NPNS), Northeast Coalition of Neighborhoods(NECN), and Office of Neighborhood Involvement (ONI).
An interactive exercise responding to a recent land use proposal in the community.

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Two brand new ski apartments in the prestigious area of El Tartar Nr Soldeu, stunning mountain views, a prime location just a few metres from the Gondola giving direct access to the El Tarter sector of Grandvalira, the biggest ski area in the Pyrenees offering over 193km of runs.
Each newly furnished and fully equipped self catering apartment sleeps 4 to 6 people and can be rented individually or together for larger parties. Housed in the same well established apartment block with private underground parking, we can offer the flexibility, comfort and convenience of a warm, stylish base from which to enjoy this excellent skiing resort.

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Take your child away from the "mobile phone overuse"
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In the last years, Quality of Experience (QoE) has become a key subject of study in the research community as deemed central towards the design of novel successful applications. Also network and services providers recognize its importance in the deployment of new services, management of the current ones and planning of future networks since they have all the evidence that the perceived quality in the eyes of the user is what determines service value at the end of the day. Notwithstanding the manifest importance of QoE, if we look at how the current networks and services are managed we see that the current practices are still mostly focused on the concept of Quality of Service (QoS) and resource overprovisioning, whereas little space is reserved to the analysis of the real impact of any choice on end-user perceived quality. The reason is that from theory to practice the path is full of challenges.
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Additionally, we witness the trend of migrating end-to-end multimedia communication systems/platforms to the cloud. Media processing and consumption in the cloud requires attention from two main perspectives: maintenance of processing-related cloud operations over the execution time considering the end-user and application-related QoS/QoE requirements via dynamic resource provisioning; and the parallelization and abstraction of media processing tasks for the optimization of limited and shared cloud resources. Furthermore, the domains of Smart Cities and the Internet-of-Things offer new opportunities and use cases, but at the same time pose new challenges for keeping users engaged and interested in related emerging applications and services. This also includes other aspects such as quality of life as well as critical considerations such as user safety, particularly when it comes to urban transport and emergency scenarios.


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(Steve Griffin | Tribune file photo) Michelle McOmber is chief executive officer of the Utah Medical Association. Michelle McOmber, CEO of the Utah Medical Association, talks in favor of HB130 during the Senate Health and Human Services Standing Committee meeting at the State Capitol in Salt Lake City Thursday February 16, 2017. HB130 would enact provisions related to research of cannabis and cannabinoid products.
The Utah Medical Association is accusing leaders of a petition to legalize medical marijuana of misleading voters into supporting the measure and urged residents who signed on to call their county clerks and have their names removed.
The UMA statement comes as opponents to the initiative line up, and it follows years of opposition from the group that represents and advocates on behalf of Utah’s doctors.
“This initiative is not about medicine,” the group said in a statement released late Friday.
The UMA concerns of legalized medical use leading to recreational marijuana echoed that expressed late last week by Gov. Gary Herbert.
In response, the Libertas Institute, which supports the initiative, said the UMA wasn’t speaking for all doctors in Utah.
The UMA position reflected some physicians’ uneasiness dealing with a product that’s federally illegal but allowed in 29 other states medicinally and eight for widespread adult use.
Rep. Ed Redd, a Republican and Logan physician, said he wasn’t surprised by the UMA statement. There are many variables with cannabis that could make doctors wary of recommending the plant or cannabis products to their patients, he said.
“Are we willing to go down the pathway of recommending sort of an herbal remedy with certain benefits and risks to the patients?” Redd said. “Especially if we’re not sure what we’re recommending interacts” with other medications.
Redd said lawmakers took the right step in passing bills that would allow for a state-run dispensary to authorize marijuana only to patients who are expected to die within six months. But he said he was concerned some patients suffering a debilitating illness that may benefit from marijuana couldn’t under the new law, HB195.
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Initiative sponsors have two more weeks to collect enough valid signatures to qualify for the ballot.

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My must haves are a soft lap to sit on, a sunny spot for napping, and a gentle hand to rub my belly.
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Funny right? Ok, if you thought that was funny watch it again, only this time pretend it's the wife "helping" the daughter and the husband telling her to walk the dog.
It's not so funny anymore, is it?
Well if that's putting you down I recently heard about this great new show that might cheer you up. Its about this guy who chases after women who neglect their children. He hunts them down and harasses them until they put their kids up for adoption, does things like repos their car or foreclosing on their house.
What? Not funny? Did you know that Fox actually aired that show? It was called "Bad Dads" and it was the basically the same scenario I outlined above, only the host chased after dads who didn't pay their child support. If your first thought is "that's much more reasonable" consider that two thirds of men who don't pay child support earn poverty level wages. Fortunately, Fox canceled the show after a letter writing campaign by "Fathers and Families." It was later picked up by the Lifetime channel as "Deadbeat Dads." From what I can tell it was never aired though, mostly thanks to another letter writing campaign.
These ads were run by a women's shelter in Dallas back in 2008. They were taken down after backlash from men's rights organizations. You can read about the full story here.
All these examples are to point out that misandry is now rather common in popular culture. On TV its practically a trope. Homer Simpson, Tim "the Toolman" Taylor, the father from Paul Hennessy (8 Simple Rules), all of these are examples of men who were portrayed as clueless dolts on TV. There are many more I could list, I'm sure you can think of a few.
Popular culture has taken a turn from the days of "Father knows best." Today men are often portrayed as, at best, bumbling, dim-witted fools, and at worst, bullies, brutes, deadbeats and criminals. Now while the majority of criminals are men, men are after all naturally stronger and more aggressive than women, this doesn't justify the way men are often portrayed in popular culture. What's especially striking is the complete lack of positive male role models on TV.
Now before I go any further I want to talk about women's rights and feminism. This is not an "us versus them" argument, the sexes are morally and legally equal. The legal part of that being largely due to the efforts of the feminist movement, which is a good thing. Misogyny is almost universally recognized to be wrong, and is almost entirely shunned in popular culture. The same is not true for misandry though, which if the sexes are indeed equal must be just as wrong as misogyny. Feminism, so far as its aims are to edify women and not put down men, is not the problem here. This issue isn't about men versus women, it is possible to respect both sexes. There isn't some limited amount of respect that the sexes have to fight over, we can work together on this. Really, its only when the sexes are equally respected that they are at their most edified. The abuser is never held in higher esteem than the abused, it doesn't matter which way the abuse goes.
Anyway, with that out of the way, let us continue.
I suppose now that we are aware of the misandry in the popular culture we should ask if it confined to it. Tentatively, I will say no. A 2008 study in the UK (reported by the Telegraph here) claims that sixty-six percent of 2000 men surveyed felt handcuffed by political correctness. Fifty-two percent said they had to live by women's rules. Somehow, at least in the UK, men have gotten it into their heads that its a woman's world now. This is not terribly surprising, after look at all the examples of men who are basically parented by their wives on TV.
Before you dismiss this argument, remember that the early feminist movement objected to how women were portrayed on TV. I think that men are even more sensitive to this for one major reason. Throughout most of human history societies have had a rite of passage that served to transfer a boy into manhood. These rites were essential to the boy identifying himself as a man. Men are different from women in the sense that men need assurance that they are in fact a "real man." That means different things to different people but its a question all, or at least most, men ask themselves. "Am I really a man?" Women do not seek the same assurance of their identity as women. That's why you've never heard of a female rite of passage.
While rites of passage differ greatly between cultures, they all have one element in common. They are carried out by the other men. When a man asks, "Am I really a man?" the only person capable of answering that question is another man. Not a boy, not a woman. So what happens when there are no men to answer the question? No men to challenge the boy to become a man? Men are still going to ask the question, and they'll look for the answer where ever they can find it. That is where the representation of men in the media comes in. Without some "real men" to challenge them, men will get their identity from the popular culture.
When the only "men" guys see on TV are lazy, idiotic, bumbling fools, their idea of manhood will be skewed into something more akin to adolescence. I think this explains the phenomena of falling male enrollment in college. You don't need a degree to play xbox all day. Besides, why would a man want to compete with today's highly successful and driven women?
I'm not saying women are too good and should tone it down so men won't be afraid to step up. I'm saying the opposite. What we need today is for men to step and mentor younger men. Boy don't grow up into men, they have to be taught what it means to be a man.
I was fortunate enough to be a Boy Scout. Boy Scouts of America served, at least to some extent, as my rite of passage. The Scout Law is as good of a definition of manhood as I can think of. "A Scout is trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean and reverent." I was also fortunate enough to have a father that cared enough about me to spend time with me, to get me involved in Scouting, and to take me on small adventures outside of Scouting. I will always remember canoeing with my dad. Stopping to explore little water falls, or maybe wrecked cars stuck along the river bank for who knows how long. I was fortunate enough to have many good examples of manhood.
Unfortunately, my story is fast becoming abnormal. More than 26% of children in the US are raised by a single parent. Of single parents, 84% are the mother. That means almost a quarter of America's children are being raised without a father, according to the US Census Bureau (PDF warning). Now I'm not trying to beat up on single mothers, they have a hard job and many of them do remarkably well for how hard a position they are in. They can't replace a father though.
So what's the lesson here? What's the solution to the rampant misandry seen in the popular culture? The first step would be to show a complete intolerance for both misandry and misogyny. It took a feminist movement to make misogyny unacceptable, we need a masculist movement! To a large degree I think this has already begun. Websites like The Art of Manliness certainly fit the bill. They don't put down women, rather they are lifting up men. Men really need to be lifted up right now.
Just as important, if not more so, is to raise up the next generation of young men. They need to be challenged by older men or they will remain boys. Manhood is something that needs to be cultivated, it does not happen by accident. Hopefully in another generation we'll all be able to look back on the popular culture of today and think is as wrong as the misogynistic culture of the 50's*.
This feminist applauds you. I am not for "women's rights," "gay's rights," "minority's rights," "men's rights," "disability rights," or any other subsection of "rights." I am a proud, vocal supporter of human rights. Every human should be treated like every other human. This includes respecting all equally.
"That's why you've never heard of a female rite of passage."
It's also interesting how adulthood has been measured in the past, versus how it's measured now. It used to be that an adult was someone who was able to now reproduce and support a family. For women there's a clear marker, but for men it's more nebulous. Most marriages happen close to the 30yr mark, but I highly doubt anyone would call a man a non-adult until that age.
I think a lot of this has to do with these immature adults that still use internet "memes" in there ever day lives. That type of stuff should definitely be left out of their professional life, but some how they find a way to bring it up at every available moment. "I like teh interwebz, and the google omg"
Your comments about popular culture, particularly TV, reminded me of one of my Dad's reasons for liking a particular TV show -- it portrayed three men (a father and two adult sons) all living together without acting like idiots, and *gasp* the brothers even cared about each other. I can't tell you how many times Dad mentioned liking that aspect, even though it wasn't the central part of the show. But those are uncommon (though it seems to me the 'men are idiots' thing seems to be portrayed more in certain genres than others).
Anyway, well-written post! Interesting perspective about rites of passage; hadn't thought about that before. Your blog is always thoughtful and gives me 'something to chew on' mentally.
@Sara I thought about touching on how for women its a more biological thing but thought it wasn't necessary since I was sort of defining what I meant by a rite of passage for men anyway. Perhaps I should have compared and contrasted the two a little more.
@Ben Perhaps, but I think its more than that. This has been an issue since before "meme" was a word.
@Brianna Thanks for the kind words!


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International Career, More Blessed life: Worth waiting for… | "Me, Myself and a Star..."
U r such an achiever, keep it up!
i was inspired by your blog..
you know what ate., i was very inspired by your story on how you dream of becoming a cabin crew and how it was given to you by God. I hope He’ll also make it happen to me because it has always been my dream since my childhood days. God bless.
I would just like to ask po if ano po yung specific na International Placement Agency nung nagpasa po kayo ng application for FA? I hope you’ll reply po.thank you!
I wonder if ur working for Qatar Airways now? I will probably attend their recruitment campaign in Malaysia this Dec. Wonder how the procedures would be..
I am an upcoming first year college student and I’m planning to take A.B. Communication . I was really inspired by your story to pursue my college degree in that course .
Please pray for my application on may 1 open screening. at Manila Diamond Hotel. I’m already 31, 5’2″, with 2 kids and try to pursue to be a cabin crew in Qatar Airways. All my past experience was on Sales, office & food&beverage industry. This is the first time I’ll try on Air lines job and with faith , diligence and determination I believe in GOD that it will come true like yours…Nothing is impossible to GOD.
My golly i didn’t know that it’s really really hard to get into an Airline company as a flight attendant. This is really helpful for me because I happen to know a bit of how will the recruitment process would be like, no matter how intense it is I will do my best for my dream to come true. Though I find it impossible for me to get accepted. your words are uplifting and its giving me hope that in God’s time and through God’s blessing I might be able to become a flight attendant someday I just need to do my best and have faith in HIM. Thank you!!
You just gave me the reason to believe in MYSELF and follow my dream! I was searching in google “qatar airways flight attendant”, I saw your pictures and got curious on your blog.
Prayer doesn’t help. It was your capabilities that got you accepted. Don’t believe in something that doesn’t exist.

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This report studies the global Position Sensor for Volumetric Display market status and forecast, categorizes the global Position Sensor for Volumetric Display market size (value & volume) by manufacturers, type, application, and region. This report focuses on the top manufacturers in United States, Europe, China, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan and other regions.
The global Position Sensor for Volumetric Display market is valued at million US$ in 2017 and will reach million US$ by the end of 2025, growing at a CAGR of during 2018-2025.
Focuses on the key Position Sensor for Volumetric Display manufacturers, to study the capacity, production, value, market share and development plans in future.
Regional and country-level analysis of the Position Sensor for Volumetric Display market, by end-use.

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the little bag was just a try, but isn’t it the cutest? So I just had to show it to you.
It is very cute, how perfect having a matching bag.


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text: There are 2 Melbourne Wedding Accessory suppliers from which to choose. Overall, they have an average rating of 4.8 out of 5. Couples usually enquire with 5 vendors in this category and books 4 months out from their wedding date, typically after Beauty Services. Wedding Accessory suppliers charge between $80 and $1,000, averaging at $350. Across Australia, the average cost is $690. Given Australian weddings typically cost $35,170, this means Australian couples spend 2% of their wedding budget on Wedding Accessory.


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I recently adopted a little Basenji and I'm working a full time job. Myy girlfriend however does not and helps me a lot to raise our little boy :o However she'll start working part time next week and at this point Winston (the dog ;)) will be 10 weeks old. Is it too early to start training him to be on his own? How do you guys handle this kind of stuff?
I would say it is too early to leave him alone. There is so much he needs to learn and grow accustomed to at this age. Can you organize some daycare? It is easy for me to say, because I work at home and was with our pup all the time (I guess it was me who could not do without her....) Enjoy, they grow up so fast.
Have you left him alone at all so far? If so, how did he handle your absence? If not, you need to get him used to being alone, starting with short departures. Leave him somewhere safe, a dog proof room or a crate, and give him something to occupy him while you leave. A toy he likes, a Kong filled with goodies, something to make him think being left isn't all bad. Do not make a big fuss when leaving or returning. Be as matter of fact as possible. Gradually build up to leaving for longer periods of time.
All excellent advice, not much I can add. I have a 9 week old Samoyed here and I'm pretty much kangaroo momming him. Right now he's even sleeping with me. Fortunately I have my daughter and her father helping out so I get some breaks, and my daughter does most of it when she's home 2 days a week. Samoyed are extremely people needy, but honestly I am the one who can't bear him being on his own too much this early. Even with doctor appointments, he has a crate in the living room so Larry can take him out to play/potty and snuggle (since I'm usually gone 5 to 6 hrs some days).
Easy adjustment.. put in crate, happy voice "i'll be back" and leave. Go out the door and leave alone at least 15 mins. Keep extending it over several days until you are up to a couple of hours. By that point, they do get you will come back. Just no drama, no soothing poor baby stuff... nonchalant. Happy leaving, happy return. Make sure safe toys, chews in crate.
If you can arrange it so her work and your's don't quite overlap so he's no alone more than 4 hrs, that would be idea. If not... swap out coming home for lunch break?
Good luck.. and please post pictures Also, where did you get him? A lot of the basenjis here are related. (My basenji now is a rescue so not related.) It's nice to see the connections though!


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The Klein Law Firm announces that a class action complaint has been filed on behalf of shareholders of Tenaris S.A. (NYSE: TS) who purchased shares between May 1, 2014 and November 27, 2018. The action, which was filed in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, alleges that the Company violated federal securities laws.
In particular, the Tenaris lawsuit alleges that (1) Tenaris’s CEO and Chairman, Paolo Rocca, knew that one of his company’s executives paid cash to government officials from 2009 to 2012 to expedite compensation payments for the sale of Sidor; (2) this conduct would lead to Rocca being charged in a graft scheme, and subject Tenaris, its affiliates, and/or executives to heightened governmental scrutiny; and (3) as a result, Tenaris’s public statements were materially false and/or misleading at all relevant times. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
Shareholders have until February 11, 2019 to petition the court for lead plaintiff status. Your ability to share in any recovery does not require that you serve as lead plaintiff. You may choose to be an absent class member.

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Located in the centre of Houston, within a 15-minute drive of NRG Arena, Crowne Plaza Hotel Houston River Oaks features a spa and wellness centre, outdoor swimming pool and a fitness centre.
Situated within walking distance of the Galleria Mall, Hotel Derek provides a upscale accommodation with a 24-hour fitness centre, bar and on-site dining.
Located in the heart of downtown Houston, 1.1 km from the Toyota Center, this hotel features 3 on-site restaurants, a 24-hour fitness centre and a rooftop pool with sun deck.
This Houston hotel is a 5-minute drive to the famed Galleria shopping mall and business district. The hotel features in-room microwaves and refrigerators, an outdoor pool, and free WiFi.

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1 Peter 4:10-11 is the theme verse for Comm Lab, the four day intensive communication training we conduct each year at Keynote’s facility in Westfield, IN. The feature that makes Comm Lab really stand out, in my opinion, is that attendees receive one-on-one training from experienced coaches along with large-group instruction from communication experts. This year’s 28 participants included Cru staff members, church pastors and community leaders.
I was very encouraged to read what Eric Maitlen had to say about his Comm Lab experience, and I think you will be, too.
Please pray for the Comm Lab attendees as they apply what they learned. Thank you for praying!


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HR and Recruiting leaders are routinely subjected to the requirement to maintain the status quo while imagining some sort of future. The very existence of the function depends on succeeding at both. Sadly, it’s a double bind.
The change is coming towards us at an astonishing, geometric rate. Human beings have the demonstrated capacity to change with a culture that is growing at 10% or 20%. There is little evidence to suggest that we know how to handle change that comes this fast.
Essentially, we are in a time when the next new thing emerges before you’ve had time to learn the last one. In some cultures, like tech and biotech startups, people develop the skills to surf from one wave of change to the next. There are some bits of geography (LA, San Francisco, Austin, Seattle, New York) where the indigenous culture supports high rates of change.
Most of us live and work in places that prefer stability and slow change. The fast stuff is hard and mistake laden. The slow stuff is comfortable.
The question is what do you do as an individual, a company or an industry to grapple with the change.
HR is a conservative function. It focuses its work on the maintenance and incremental improvement of the status quo. That means that great HR leaders and professionals have a very difficult time thinking about the future. There is little effort expended on five or ten year planning anywhere in HR.
Gregory Bateson, the fabled systems thinker, psychologist and anthropologist first articulated the idea of the double bind in the 1950s. A double bind is a situation in which a person receives two conflicting messages. Succeeding at one negates the possibility of success at the other. A double bind produces crushing levels of stress when the individual is not allowed to make the decision to favor one over the other.
Sustained immersion in a double bind produces psychosis. Since getting the fires put out is a sure way to not get fired today, that’s where the energy gets channeled. The future (or the long term viability of the HR Function) remains untended.
Failing to imagine and plan for the inevitably rapid changes means that HR will become reactive to the point of extinction.
Meanwhile, the technology industry, which has precious few actual HR practitioners and execs in it, continues to produce new tools and objects that seem to do something. The hype accelerates while the functionality contains less and less innovation. Without a clear view of the actual value that HR can and should produce, new offering involve the deep automation of smaller and smaller things.
Both sides favor transactions in their technology because transactions can be measured and checked off. The deeper harder work involves thinking, reflection and an implicit condemnation of the status quo.
This week John Sumser talks with Maia Josebachvili, the Vice President of Strategy and People at Greenhouse.io.


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Could You Drop A Dress Size in 6 Weeks?
There’s a popular idea that fast weight loss leads to fast regain, so why would you want quick results that promise you can drop a dress size in 6 weeks?
We’ve had thousands of women do exactly that, and then keep the weight off for the long-term.
“I have tried so many diets and been to other gyms, and nothing worked. As much as I love clothes, I hated shopping for clothes as nothing ever fitted the way I wanted, and I only ever wore black.
Healthy Inspirations offers the unique combination of a nutritional eating plan that helps you determine the foods and amounts that work best for your body, resistance exercise to maintain strength and build on fitness, and one-on-one support that’s targeted to your needs and helps you stay on track.
This combination is one that works. Most women find that a dress size is between 4 and 6 kilos: this can happen in just a few weeks, or it may take a bit longer. Like anything worthwhile, though, once achieved the time it took is forgotten.
We want to help more women discover the benefits – and excitement – when they drop a dress size. Can we help you?


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FORMAT ERROR is displayed on the LCD screen.
The memory card type is not supported by the camera.
The memory card was formatted by a computer before inserting in the camera.
The data has become corrupt after using the memory card many times.
The memory card is damaged or faulty.
If this error message occurs, stop using the memory card with the camera and follow the steps below.
Try copying the data from the memory card to a computer. Either insert it into a computer that has a compatible media slot or use a memory card reader.
IMPORTANT: If you cannot copy the data to a computer, there are some possible data recovery options available.
Insert the memory card back into the camera and use the camera to format it.
If the error persists, try a different memory card.
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If the error continues to appear after trying different memory cards, then the camera may require service. Go to Product Repair.
Error: UNABLE TO USE CARD. FORMAT? or a flashing --E- is displayed on the LCD screen of the digital camera.


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Today’s American farmer feeds about 165 people worldwide. Last year, utility-scale facilities in the U.S. generated more than 4 trillion kWh of electricity. The energy and agriculture industries power our economy, but they also face many uncertainties, from weather patterns to commodity prices. We have to eliminate the uncertain cost of complying with regulations mandated by the federal government. Dozens of current energy infrastructure projects have been held up for years in order to comply with federal and state review processes, while our nation’s farmers can be overloaded with new regulations coming from far-away federal agencies.
Beginning farmers can expect to invest more than $800,000 in the first few years in their farms but typically don’t see a profit for five to seven years. With heavy start-up costs, regulatory compliance costs shouldn’t be another barrier to entry.
With a lower regulatory burden, Texas natural gas export facilities could create more than 136,000 jobs, with an economic impact of more than $145 billion.
The Department of Energy estimates “brown outs” cost businesses $150 billion per year in lost productivity. Regulatory innovation can allow U.S. energy production to operate efficiently and provide uninterrupted service to communities and businesses.

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Check out how the girls put the new TV ad for Westfield W-League season 2012 together.
That-s Western Sydney Wanderers' Servet Uzunlar, talking to the camera, as she prepares to shoot the new TV ad for Westfield W-League season 2012.
This Thursday night at 7.30pm AEDT Football Federation Australia will release the official television commercial, exclusively through ABC Grandstand TV and www.w-league.com.au.
In anticipation FFA have released this behind-the-scenes making of the ad video.
Starring Westfield W-League stars Emma Checker (Adelaide United), Elise Kellond-Knight (Brisbane Roar), Michelle Heyman (Canberra United), Ashley Brown (Melbourne Victory), Emily van Egmond (Newcastle Jets), Aivi Luik (Perth Glory), Sam Kerr (Sydney FC) and Servet Uzunlar (Western Sydney Wanderers FC) the behind-the-scenes video showcases some of the game-s best players, skills and personalities.


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Property Avenue is the ideal platform, whether you wish to buy, sell or lease your property. By adhering to Dubai’s luxury standard, we can ensure that superior quality and attention to detail is demonstrated to all its clients.
With a rich history of civil engineering, property development, and investment portfolios, Property Avenue takes another successful step to prove leadership in the buying and leasing of residential and commercial market.
Property Avenue’s uniquely-selected real estate agents are dedicated to provide a first class customer service to all clients, making each step a hassle free experience.


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Two weeks into my clerkship rotation in family medicine, I found myself preparing to start a stretch on hospital service. I was ready for a challenging new experience, but felt a thrum of anxiety in my stomach. Clerkship is a pivotal point in a medical student’s career. It is when, released from the confines of the classroom, we encounter the realities of patient care and begin to discover the types of physicians we will be.
Having observed several of my teachers, it seemed to me that there are doctors who genuinely care about patients, doctors who like patients, and doctors who appear to have few feelings regarding patients at all—treating the person who is suffering as a bodily extension of disease. I often wondered how this last category of doctors became so numb. Surely they were once just like my classmates and me, enthusiastic students driven to help people. Why do some doctors harden their hearts while others, after long careers, approach each patient with empathy? And what kind of doctor would I turn out to be?
She was my first patient. Admitted from the ER the previous night, she had presented complaining of abdominal pain and hematemesis. I could not garner much more than her medication list as I scanned her chart. Since she was my sole charge, I went into her room, ready to spend all of the time in the world with her.
When I walked in she was reclined on her bed, relaxing in the sunlight that shone through the window. I introduced myself, asked her what had brought her in, and we talked and laughed for an hour. An elderly European woman with a direct, mischievous manner, she was sharp as a tack and enjoyed talking. I let her meander, picking up points of note and asking questions here and there. She told me about the pain that precipitated her visit, about her home life with her son and granddaughters. She described chronic aches in her knees and hips, and a headache, which had plagued her for many weeks after discontinuing several medications.
After our talk, I listened to her heart and lungs, and then performed a thorough examination of her abdomen. I departed, confident about my initial assessment, telling her I’d check back in the afternoon.
Over the next several days I kept a close eye on her. She was getting better, but each day she complained of her headache. In the morning I would hear reports of dismayed nurses, of her son calling the hospital, of doctors confronted. She was kind to me, but she wanted something stronger for her head, that she expected injections of some sort in her forehead to alleviate her pain. I tried to explain that the headache was likely due to the changes in her medications, a lack of sleep, and neck pain. She remained wholly dissatisfied, and told me so each time I dropped in.
By my fourth day, with a lengthening roster of patients to care for, I was finding her complaining increasingly disheartening and her questions more and more burdensome. My visits to her bedside became less frequent. I began to think that nothing short of a miracle would appease her.
Eventually she was ready for discharge. I spent the afternoon sorting out her paperwork, and in the early evening her son and granddaughters arrived to collect her. As she prepared to leave she said, “I know I can be a real pain, but you were lovely, so thank you for taking care of me. But …” Her face darkened. “I was here five days, and never once did someone fix my headache.” I apologized, acknowledging that we failed to make it any better and recommended that if it persisted upon her return home she follow up with her family doctor. She nodded, unimpressed, and left with her family.
I returned home that night deflated. I convinced myself that her expectations had been too great, that I must harden my heart and let go of my misgivings. In the ensuing days, I found myself taking less time with patients, avoiding eye contact in the halls, being more directed and efficient with my questioning. Just two weeks into my clerkship and I already felt a little numb inside.
Feeling lost, I called up my mentor—a doctor whose patients would stop him in hospital hallways years later to thank him for his service. He was the type of doctor that I had once set out to be, but now I wondered if I ever could. I asked how he faces the onslaught of unmet expectations and time constraints without feeling exasperated.
A pause met me on the other end.
He explained that he often deals with patients who come to him saying, “Fix me.” “These patients have seen specialist after specialist only to be told, ’I don’t know why you have x but it’s not an infection’ or ’it’s not an autoimmune condition‘ or ’it’s not a structural problem‘ etc. With everyone saying what they can’t help and no one saying what they can help, patients feel abandoned.” “But,” he continued, “what I’ve come to realize is that what many patients really want is to feel that their complaint is heard and acknowledged.” He went on to explain that we often don’t have many miracle cures, but what we do have is the skill to listen, to touch and to reassure.
I could appreciate how he translated his philosophy into practice: At each visit, my mentor listens to the patient, then inspects, palpates, and percusses the location of his or her ailment. Then he spends time (precious time) talking to them about both what it is not, but also what it is, and how to manage it as best as we can. It is not until then that the patient appears to feel that their complaint has been given the attention it deserves. And that’s when I realized that perhaps this is what would have made all of the difference to my patient. I had listened to her, I had acknowledged her pain, but I had not spent time talking about what it likely is and what it is not and how we, together, would manage it.
And so as I prepare for another shift at the hospital, I am faced with a choice. I can ease my work by hardening my heart and shielding myself against the suffering of others. Or I can set myself the challenge of being the doctor my patients need me to be. That doctor will do her best. She will keep an open heart. She will not be able to treat every ailment or alleviate every symptom, but she will listen to and try to meet the needs of the person who depends on her.
The measure of a good doctor is not always his or her ability to fix patients, or to address the demands of a disease, but to listen, to touch, and to comfort. It is to move from merely treating an illness toward helping to heal a person. And so I thank my patient for her lesson, and my mentor for his reminder.


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Any other factors showing how your impairments affect your ability to work.
You may feel overwhelmed by the idea of providing so much information to the SSA. Don’t worry. You are not alone. The SSA will assist in gathering evidence necessary to develop your medical history during the time period you are alleging disability. If you agree to let the SSA help you gather medical records from your doctors and other medical facilities, it will make every reasonable effort to do so.
After the SSA has gathered your medical records, there still may not be enough evidence to make a determination on whether you are blind or disabled. If that is the case, the SSA may ask you to attend a physical or mental examination, or other testing, at their expense. You will be informed by mail of the date and time of the appointment.
The SSA has another responsibility to you regarding evidence if they find that you are not disabled and can work. If they determine that you are capable of making adjustments to other work, they must provide evidence telling you exactly what jobs they think you can do.


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Suppose you randomly roll a coin (with radius ) across a chessboard (with squares with sidelength ) many times. What proportion of the time will it land covering a corner of one of the squares?
To cover a corner, the coin's centre must be less than the length of its radius away from the corner.
As the coin is equally likely to land with its centre in any position in the square, the probability it will land with its centre in the shaded region and hence cover a corner is the ratio of the coin's area to the area of a square on the board: , where is the radius of the coin and is the sidelength of a square of the chessboard.

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Hindustan Copper Ltd Recruitment 2019 notification has been released for the recruitment of 112 Electrician, Welder Posts at Hindustan Copper Limited, Rajasthan. The Interested and All eligible candidates can read the notification and all Eligibility Criteria before apply online for the Hindustan Copper Ltd Recruitment 2019. The online application of Hindustan Copper Ltd Recruitment 2019 starts from 16th March 2019 and before 30th March 2019.
Matric/ Secondary/ 10th Class Pass under 10+2 System, ITI or equivalent from a recognized Institute for Hindustan Copper Ltd Recruitment 2019.
Eligible and interested candidates shall submit the application by visiting www.hindustancopper.com. Hence the following instructions are helpful for how to apply offline for Hindustan Copper Ltd Recruitment 2019. You can read them carefully before filling the offline application Form.
Hindustan Copper Ltd Recruitment 2019 official website www.hindustancopper.com an offline Application form.


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3Rivers Trails is an exciting trail network that is aimed at adventure seekers, families and people who love the outdoors.
The wilderness area between Patensie and Willowmore lies mostly in the vast wild kloofs and krantzes of the Kouga and Baviaanskloof Mountains.
Some of the best routes in South Africa would without a doubt be the Baviaanskloof where a few farms offer 4X4 trails.
The sport of bowls is a healthy activity which caters for all ages both young and old.
The Chokka Trail is a 4 night/3 day slackpacking hike between Oyster Bay, St Francis Bay and Cape St Francis, and is 56km long.
For both the mountain biking or trail running junky, a day out at the Crossways Farm will provide hours of pleasure for athletes of all levels.
Featherfoot Horse Ranch offers several experiences including horse trails, riding lessons, special needs and disabled riding lessons.
The 21km stretch of beach form the Gamtoos River Mouth to Van Stadens River Mouth is an easy walk during low tide.
The trails at Impala Ranch suit intermediate to advanced riders with some technical sections, plus long sections with lots of pedalling to focus on long flowing single track descents.
A walk in the Irma Booysen Flora Reserve at springtime will convince you of the fact that the Cape Floral Kingdom has the most species.
Jeffreys Bay is one of the five most famous surfing destinations in the world and hosts an international surfing competition each year in July.
The awe-inspiring scenery of the region provides visitors with a variety of popular outdoor activities which include horse trails into the Baviaans.
Cape St Francis is an excellent kite surfing spot.
Paradise Beach is an excellent kite surfing spot.
The Kromme River Mouth in St Francis Bay is an excellent kite surfing spot.
A walk to from the Krommerivier to Jeffreys Bay during low tide will take you up to three hours, and is an easy walk.
The Oyster Bay Lodge offers beach horse rides on the Oyster Bay beach, starting at the Lodge.
This makes Jeffreys Bay) a SUP heaven.
This makes St Francis (with the canals) a SUP heaven.
Here, on the Papiesfontein farm, the unique combination of bush, river and beach come together to offer you an unforgettable ride.
Adventure companies in Jeffreysbay offer sand boarding where you can rent equipment and find instructors.
Two sand dune boarding spots provide endless fun for young and old in the Kouga area: Oyster Bay and Jeffreys Bay, where our beaches are home to some of the biggest and most spectacular dunes in South Africa.
Shark Point, or the Cape St Francis Point, is the point between St Francis Bay and Cape St Francis Bay.
St Francis Bay Squash Club is home to two doubles courts and one single court.
The St Francis main beach is about 3km long, and is walkable during low tide only.
St Francis Bay Golf Club is renowned country-wide for its warm hospitality and a great club spirit, which has been the essence of the club over the years, and continues to grow.
There are a few tennis clubs in the Kouga area with courts in Oyster Bay, Jeffreys Bay, Cape St Francis and St Francis Bay. To promote the sport and to meet new friends, non-members are always welcome.
The Brakkeduine 4x4 Trail is a 14km circular trail that has a grading of three to five.
For those hikers who have done the Otter Trail in their younger days but now seek more comfort, you can enjoy the unrivalled beauty and luxury of the Dolphin Trail.
The Two Harbours Walk connects the Heritage Eco Centre at the Granny's Pool in Harbour Road with Port St Francis.
Between Sunset Rock, situated at the first gravel parking area in Cape St Francis, and the 18th century Seal Point Lighthouse at Seal Point, the 2km Walk on the Wild Side is clearly marked with a number of information signs.
Zuurbron is famously known among mountain bikers as the last checkpoint of the Trans Baviaans 230km MTB race, but the bike park includes single track, jeep tracks and farm roads.
Zwartenbosch Golf & Lifestyle Estate is situated just north of Humansdorp, after the Humansdorp Golf Club had to relocate in the early 1990’s.


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The purpose of this book is written with much love to help people release and recover from low vibration emotions that cause anxiety, stress and sadness, which may eventually lead to physical illness. Through the use of Chi Gong breathing exercises, I have developed the mindful “Heart Chi Gong” form with breathing techniques to erase negative emotions. You will be interested to know that although Chi Gong is 5,000 years old, there is not much books about using Chi Gong to balance traumatic emotions. In my life, I have had my own traumas have turned out to be my greatest blessing, as they set me on the path to where I am today.
“A beautiful, informative book that will shift your relationship with stress and health.
Release Difficult Emotions and Re-Energized !


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HSP Uncle is continuing his treatment at CMC. He will be going through physiotherapy as well as he is bedridden. Please continue to pray. You may be getting more frequent updates from Mr. Sundarsingh Jebakumar by email.
"There is nothing significant in uncle's health today.The head of the medical team (hematology department) explained in detail the various stages and methods of treatment(what they call PROTOCOL) to uncle as well as his daughter separately in the morning.Physiotherapy towards mobility will begin tomorrow;please remember that uncle is bed-ridden. This week's hospital bill came around Rs 1.14lakhs. If you need any details regarding this, please contact Dr. David Solomon (9443010882)"
Many expressed their desire to extend a helping hand towards the medical expenses of uncle.
David Solomon A/c Number: 0959101007166, Canara Bank, Ambur, Tamil Nadu 635802.
Please inform detais of remittance either through e-mail or send SMS for proper accounting and acknowledging. .Name,address, mail id as well as contact number will be helpful.


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The sales will be offered at 15 gas station and 150 pumps statewide starting this fall. Plans are to expand that to 100 ATMS in the St. Louis and Kansas City areas.
That could be expanded depending upon how the program is received.
The push to encourage lottery sales comes amid growing expectations factored into Missouri's budget. The spending plan taking effect July 1 anticipates the Missouri Lottery will transfer $298.5 million to state coffers.


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This crater opened in the Grábrókarhraun, a wide area completely covered by lava. It dates back to 3000 years, approximately. It is the biggest of the three craters that stand along the volcanic split that crosses the lava region.
It has been a protected natural area since 1962 . There’s a path, well marked, that winds across this area.


text: “Humble begnings always have a bright future”. This could be easily said about a group of individuals who have started this institutions in 1986 with the aim to provide quality education to the young stars and mould them to face the challanges in life. Under the kind guidance of St.shri mangal singh “Suman”, a higher secondry school was opened & categorically named as GYANODAYA.


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We understand that accidents happen. On the road, there are many situations that are outside of your control and sometimes cannot be avoided. At GIT Insurance, we don’t want an accident to hurt your driving record, or even cause your rates to go up. With the right coverage, you can be forgiven for your first chargeable accident through Accident Forgiveness.
Contact GIT Insurance today to find out how you can receive the benefits of Accident Forgiveness for your Auto Insurance policy.

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The following states are involved in the export of fish and fish products :1. Kerala 2.Maharashtra3.
In a dinner party both fish and meat wereserved.
Some took only fish and some onlymeat.
There were some vegetarians who did not accepteither.
The rest accepted both fish andmeat.

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text: We are back at school and settled in to our new Senior Infants class. Last week we were talking about patterns and making patterns. We made patterns using bears, links, elephants and cubes. We also made patterns on our Interactive whiteboard where we dragged and dropped animals to create a pattern. We will search at home for something with a pattern on it and bring it in to teacher.

industry_corpus2: Subject Education


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Financial independence often seems like a pipe dream for many people. The reality however, is that getting to a point of financial independence means that individuals have to take clear and measurable steps towards being financially free.
With the high rates of debt and low income growth rates, many people may not quite see themselves achieving financial independence. The good news is that it is possible.
The true secret to increasing your net worth is to spend less than you make. It’s important to understand that income is not wealth. The level of your wealth should be measured by the length of time you could maintain your standard of living without an additional pay cheque.
You must have surplus funds to invest. This is why emphasising savings is so important.
Financially independent individuals generate large gains through real estate appreciation or even profits made through tax-free accounts.
Start by picking a reasonable and attainable goal and start small. This may mean changing your lifestyle.
Aim to increase your income, control your spending habits, make sure that you determine investment objectives and that you understand your savings patterns.
Learn to live beneath your means and get comfortable with the term “delayed gratification”.
One of the key steps to financial independence is to always keep your career or business moving forward.
Vow to always save money- no matter what your income is. To keep yourself accountable, review your budget monthly.
Make sure that you have an emergency fund. Ideally, you should have three to six months’ savings put aside in an emergency fund. As a general rule of thumb, your savings should be sufficient to cover all of your personal expenses. Your savings may provide you with the capital to feed your investments. Saving comes with minimal risk.
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Arlington, VA — The Mine Safety and Health Administration has scheduled six public stakeholder meetings and a webinar on a Request for Information on technologies that may help reduce incidents involving mobile equipment at surface mines, as well as belt conveyors at surface and underground mines.
Arlington, VA – The Mine Safety and Health Administration is proposing to delay until July 24 the effective date of a final rule intended to improve pre-shift examinations of metal and non-metal mines.
Washington – The Department of Health and Human Services has finalized amendments to NIOSH’s Coal Workers’ Health Surveillance Program regulations to set standards that require coal mine operators to present a plan for providing lung testing and X-ray exams to surface and underground coal miners.

industry_corpus2: Mining


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Your soon-to-be 6-year-old wants you to bake an elaborate birthday cake in the shape of a fairy-tale castle, complete with rainbows, unicorns, and a princess for her party. You’ve found a cake-decoration video online, but it uses ingredients that make you wonder if they are safe to eat.
FDA wants you to be aware that some decorative glitters and dusts promoted for use on foods may, in fact, contain materials that should not be eaten.
There are some glitters and dusts that are edible and produced specifically for use on foods. These products are made from ingredients that may be safely eaten. But others may not.

industry_corpus2: Biopharmaceuticals


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Everything in existence is changing. Nothing disappears—it only shifts its form. And, despite the rapid information and technology development of our civilizations, the market exists, fulfilling its primary, historical mission: the exchange between buyer and seller. The market is considered from different points of view, but we will study its original meaning, namely retail space, where there are a multitude of buyers and sellers.
A market is a place where an exchange between seller and buyer takes place (Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary). The traditional form of the market scene is a part of the city or town where there are many stalls in order for customers to be able to browse, taste, and choose merchandise.
Markets have existed since ancient times, and are an integral part of everyday life and global trade. The market changed its form over the centuries and today markets vary in size, location, type of participants, and the method in which proposed goods and services are exchanged.
Markets can work temporarily, one or two days a week, but most markets are open every day (Aspers, 2011). In expansive markets, you can find almost any product, from food to equipment and furniture. Some of the large markets have become permanent institutions comparable to shopping centers. The Roman term for market today is used in a related concept as a forum. Shopping centers can be considered as an extension of this idea.
Access to the internet has allowed the creation and prosperity of online markets, as it makes the connection between buyers and sellers from different regions of the world possible. Also, the social and economic trends contribute to the fast development of online markets. Some believe that shops, supermarkets, shopping malls, and online stores have replaced markets. However, we can say that these are the same as markets, but in a different form.
As for me, I do not like markets, as there are always crowds of people and an excess of noise. Each seller invites customers with loud slogans and advertisements about their products. It is understandable, since a market is a place of constant competition. Sellers practically promote the same products, and the main tasks of the seller are to attract, motivate, and keep the customer.
Market prices are not fixed, so salespeople can overstate or understate value. But still, the market is one of the few locations where you can bargain and bring down a price to a level of personal satisfaction.
We can say that the market is a part of a huge mechanism of people management and manipulation. It dictates the prices, constantly increases it, and uses peoples’ innocence and lack of knowledge. Sellers are not your friends, but rather the opposite. They need a market so they can easily sell a bill of goods to you that is not entirely fresh, not of high quality, and not in line with your true personal needs.
Here exists a paradox: we cannot exist without the market, but to live with it is quite problematic. We fall under the influence of advertising, of sellers, of the obnoxious atmosphere of the market itself. It is unfortunate, but the world is an enormous market. Transactions are beneath each interaction we have as individuals and as collective members of society.
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Let me guess, you have been playing The Denver Post crossword and got stuck on the clue A function of a Swiss Army knife. Well, you have come to the right place to find the answer to this clue.
"""The Barefoot Contessa"" star Gardner"

industry_corpus2: Film & Entertainment


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The Every Child Matters Run/Walk was established in 2011 by Children of the Caribbean Foundation as a fun, healthy friendly event catering to runners, families, and child activists who not only seek to raise their heart rates but who have the heart to support a noble cause.
The first race on the scenic campus of Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. The race was hosted by Actor Eric Close, and attracted over 300 runners and walkers from the Los Angeles area in support of the education cause, of Children of the Caribbean Foundation. Since then, this fun, family affair remains the main fundraiser for Children of the Caribbean Foundation.
In 2014, Loyola Marymount University (which had become the venue for the Every Child Matters race,) underwent construction. During this time, the race found what was intended to be a temporary home, at the CBS Studio Center in Studio City. The response to the new venue was phenomenal! Runners, walkers, friends, neighbors and child rights activists came out in large numbers to participate in the race. CBS Studios became the new home to the Every Child Matters 5K!


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industry_corpus2: Gaming


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The FINANCIAL -- My dad used to tell me stories about the exciting period when the Soviet Union’s economy started faltering and public resources were suddenly up for grabs in the chaos capitalism that emerged. While this period is usually associated with the appearance of crafty oligarchs, in Georgia also less wily businessmen could exploit the circumstances, among them many Turks.
As the American journal The Tennessean wrote in 1977: “Soviet blue jeans may look like jeans, but that doesn't mean they are… One of the country's most exasperating problems is trying to satisfy the Russian hunger for jeans.” In the late 1980s, my father observed how Turkish traders made fortunes by bringing jeans, women’s bras and other chintzy clothes to Georgia and exchanging them for precious metals and other valuables. A bit later, when the Soviet economy had entirely collapsed, the infamous asset-strippers entered the scene: whole factories were dismantled and exported as scrap metals for a penny on the dollar. Many of these “exports” went to Turkey, which was geographically the most natural destination. In turn, the Turks sold their textile products in Georgia, as Western apparel was considered a highly prestigious and therefore desired commodity by Soviet and post-Soviet consumers. As a result, the Turkish textile industry experienced a boon, having its heyday around the turn of the millennium.
From an economic perspective, having a strong textile industry is a double-edged sword due to its heavy dependency on low labor cost, particularly when it comes to the most labor-intensive CMT activities (cut, make and trim). A country will have a textile industry only so long as it offers the cheapest labor. Once economic development sets in, textile producers will be the first to leave. Turkey was not exception to this general rule. Between 2000 and 2010, apparel and textile industry were among the largest and best-performing sectors of the Turkish economy. By 2009, the country operated 56,000 apparel and textile companies which employed around two million people. The industry’s exports accounted for 18.69% of Turkey's total exports (CIA World Fact book, IMF World Economic Outlook, 2009).
Yet, between 2009 and 2013, Turkish salaries almost doubled, leading to the country’s loss of its cost advantage. The creeping demise of Turkey’s textile industry became already visible in 2005, when the World Trade Organization eliminated all quotas in textile trading between its member nations: a competitive industry would have benefited from such a development, yet the Turkish textile industry lost market share, demonstrating its vulnerability.
A similar development could be observed on a much larger scale following the Industrial Revolution in Europe. Textile production was at the heart of industrialization, and except the steam engine, most other important inventions of that period related to clothes, like the Spinning Jenny, the Spinning Mule, and the Roberts Loom. Yet, already in the 19th century, textile production in Europe had come under enormous pressure, leading to hardship among those employed in the sector, as described in the verses of Heinrich Heine’s poem The Silesian Weavers (published in Karl Marx’s Vorwärts! newspaper in 1844): “Their gloom-enveloped eyes are tearless, They sit at the spinning wheel, snarling cheerless… A curse on God to whom we knelt, when hunger and winter's cold we felt… A curse on the king, The wealthy men's chief Who was not moved by our grief, Who wrenched the last coin from our hand of need, And shot us, screaming like dogs in the street! (translation by Sasha Foreman).
The agony of the European textile industry came to an end in the aftermath of the Second World War, and today there are virtually no textile producers anymore in Europe.
Offering cheaper labor to neighboring Turkey, Georgia’s Adjara region became the natural destination of the wandering textile industry in recent years. As the diagram shows, starting in mid-2000s, the Georgian textile and apparel industry has experienced an upsurge, both in terms of output and the number of employed. This positive development has become particularly visible by 2015, when Turkey eventually lost its cost advantage.
The situation is likely to remain bright for Georgian textile producers in future years. Until recently, Georgia’s DCFTA agreement with the EU did not allow us to export apparel and textiles tariff-free, as the raw materials used in the production were mostly of Turkish origin. In October 2016, however, an agreement was concluded, allowing what is called in trade lingo “diagonal cumulation”. As a result, Georgia can now start exporting textile products to Europe labeled as Made in Georgia despite having Turkish inputs.
Not surprisingly, investors promptly reacted to this news! On November 2, 2016, Turkey’s ENA Textile, a sub-contractor of the world-renowned brand ZARA, announced its decision to build a clothing factory in the small town of Ozurgeti in Western Georgia. The factory will employ around 1,000 persons (to be trained at the “Horizonti” VET college), a huge number for a small town with about 15,000 inhabitants. Two days later, other leading Turkish brands, Penti and Dagi, started discussions about the construction of clothing factories in Kutaisi.
What will Georgia do when the errant textile production moves on? For Turkey, the ‘destruction’ of its textile industry turned out to be at least somewhat ‘creative’, as some textile manufacturers managed to move up the value chain by upgrading their production capabilities and moving from the low-margin cut-make-and-trim (CMT) activities into fashion design, successfully introducing new styles and quality labels, targeting high-end customers.
Georgia could and should follow Turkey’s example. After years of strife for international recognition, Georgians start proving that there is fashion talent in this country. For example, in 2015, a Georgia-born designer Demna Gvasalia was appointed to the position of Creative Director at the Paris-based Balanciaga, one of the world’s foremost fashion houses. Importantly, Gvasalia is but a symbol of a large movement. While in the past, one could count successful Georgian designers on the fingers of one hand, it has now become difficult to keep track of all the new names!
Rather than wait for the CMT industry to move on (or become robotized), the Georgian government could use the current momentum to launch a “Designed in Georgia” branding campaign and in this way channel Georgians’ innate creativity into the lucrative fashion design and clothing industry.


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Course results can be seen below as well as on Attackpoint for White and Yellow. To enter your routes and see how others went, head to RouteGadget.
Next weekend: A full weekend of events! Training, night orienteering on Saturday, and classic/day orienteering on Sunday, all based out the Happyland Camp at Prince William Forest Park. Training and overnight accommodations require pre-registration (details here). Registration for the Saturday Night-O and the Sunday Day-O will be at those events.
This year, Mason Neck had comfortable temperatures and some rain, but the competitors were not deterred.
We had 170 starts on courses designed by Mark Hicks, which included the Twisted-O. The competitors enjoyed the courses and the challenge of Mason Neck’s unique terrain. We had a few school organizations and a Boy Scout Troop attend the meet. One Scout finished his requirements for the orienteering merit badge, and the others completed the map and compass work for their First Class requirement.
We were able to coordinate a couple of new locations for the post-race meetup this year at Quiznos and Z Pizza, and I hope those of you who took advantage of the 15% discount enjoyed your meal.
Finally, a huge THANK YOU goes out to the following volunteers that supported the event without whom the meet could not be a success: Registration – Jon & Kira Bertheussen, Ashley Hicks, and Paul Hession; Beginner Instruction – Mark Hicks, Bill Wright, Gary Smith and Keg Good; E-punch – Tori Cambell, Amy Louden, and Valerie Meyer; and Control Pick-up – John Baker, Charles Carrick, Mark Hicks, Mark Becker, Scott Sharp, and John Organek.
David Stapleton, Mason Neck Assistant Park Manager, and the Mason Neck State Park staff were very helpful and supportive of our event once again. Thanks to the entire park staff for their assistance.
Overall, it was a great event and we all look forward to returning.

industry_corpus2: Sports