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Is LeBron James obsessed with Steph Curry?
Check out all the shots traded between The King and the champs
OAKLAND, CA – JUNE 14: Stephen Curry #30 of the Golden State Warriors goes up against LeBron James #23 of the Cleveland Cavaliers in the first half during Game Five of the 2015 NBA Finals at ORACLE Arena on June 14, 2015 in Oakland, California. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, user is consenting to the terms and conditions of Getty Images License Agreement. (Photo by John G. Mabanglo-Pool/Getty Images)
Historically, kings have always had to fight to maintain their throne. LeBron James of the Cleveland Cavaliers is no different.
For the better part of the last decade, James has owned the league, both in terms of skill and popularity. His reign as the NBA's alpha remained consistent while other pseudo-rivals shifted with each passing season. For years, he'd taken permanent residency on the NBA's mountaintop — earning the nickname "The King."
James has had his fair share of foes and peers throughout his career: the Boston Celtics' Big 3, Paul George and the Indiana Pacers, Derrick Rose and the Bulls, Kevin Durant and the Oklahoma City Thunder, Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers and Tim Duncan and the Spurs (even Washington's Gilbert Arenas, fleetingly).
But never one he hasn't been able to beat at least once when it mattered most, never one he's invested this much time, this much energy and this much obsession into. Never one quite like Stephen Curry and the Golden State Warriors.
"You guys make rivals," James said Wednesday downplaying, albeit unsuccessfully, the significance of the star power matchup on the game's biggest stage. "I think it's great for the sport. It's great for all sports. I don't think me and Steph, when you talk about rivalries, you talk about Carolina-Duke, you talk about Ohio State-Michigan. It's hard to say LeBron and Steph. If there's a smaller scale or another word for a rival."
James has rarely been the chaser, more like the one being chased.
He finished third in MVP voting the past two seasons. Curry not only captured his second straight MVP, he did so unanimously, the first time in league history. James fell one vote shy of the distinction in 2013. James finished second in jersey sales. Curry finished first. And in March, Morgan Stanley predicted Curry's Under Armor sneakers would outsell James' signature Nike line.
The mind games — to culminate with this year's Finals — began before last season's Finals ended.
Here's how this game of riv…err, competitors has transpired over the past year.
June 14, 2015: Sitting sluggishly following a Game 5 loss in the Finals — one in which James tallied 40 points, 14 rebounds and 11 assists — his position hadn't changed. "I feel confident because I'm the best player in the world," James said. "It's simple."
June 16, 2015: Golden State clinched a game later in Cleveland, leaving James to hear the Warriors celebrate and leave Quicken Loans Arena soaked in champagne. Klay Thompson returned James' perceived shot with a subliminal of his own. "It just feels good to say, you know, we're the best team in the world with the best player in the world. This man sitting right next to me," Thompson said, pointing to Curry with a smirk. "Appreciate it, man," Curry said in near unison.
June 19, 2015: Draymond Green, obviously "hella faded" off one too many bottles of champagne, says the Cleveland Cavaliers suck at the Warriors championship parade.
Oct. 27, 2015: ESPN names James the best player in the league and Curry the fourth. Sports Illustrated does the same.
Nov. 18, 2015: James calls out his own team for lack of urgency, using the Warriors as a benchmark. "We lost in the Finals. So that's enough motivation for myself. I think we need to understand that," James said. "Like, we lost in the Finals. We didn't win. And the team that beat us looks more hungry than we are. So it shouldn't be that way."
Nov. 23, 2015: Whether James meant to get on the Warriors' radar with a perceived early-season slight, it happened anyway. He praised Golden State's consistency and their ability to play at a high level for a long time. But all anyone ever heard was, "They've been the most healthy team I've ever seen in NBA history."
Dec. 1, 2015: Lee Jenkins publishes a LeBron James cover story for Sports Illustrated, which analyzes James' desire to bring Cleveland its long-awaited title. Yet, it also tells a shorter story of James' watching a recorded Warriors/Raptors game in the early morning hours following a loss in Detroit. He drifts off to sleep angry. Of playing in the 2015 Finals, his fourth championship loss — this one without injured Kyrie Irving and Kevin Love — he said, "I don't think we were outplayed or out-coached. I think we were outmatched."
Of Curry's impending arrival as the league's top alpha dog, he's even more ominous. "I hear the chatter about who is the best player in the league. I see the guys who are barreling down. That locks me in even more."
Dec. 25, 2015: The Warriors improved to 28-1 after a 89-83 victory over the Cavs in Oakland in Irving's third game back after recovering from a knee injury he suffered in Game 1 of the 2015 Finals. Neither team shoots well, but Golden State holds Cleveland to 31.6 percent shooting.
Stephen Curry #30 of the Golden State Warriors walks off the court against the Cleveland Cavaliers on December 25, 2015 at ORACLE Arena in Oakland, California.
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Jan. 17: As the Warriors prepare to bookend their season series with Cleveland, Curry openly anticipated returning to Quicken Loans Arena. "Obviously, walking in the locker room, it'll be good memories. Hopefully, it still smells a little bit like champagne."
Jan. 18: Reporters asked James about Curry's champagne comments. He responded he'll have an answer for it. The rest of the Cavs fall in line, saying how the comments were taken as disrespect.
Jan. 18: Life comes at the Cavs fast. The Warriors hand the Cavs its lowest point of the season with a 34-point loss in Quicken Loans Arena. Curry goes for 35 while LeBron only manages 16.
Jan. 22: The Cavs fire David Blatt, replacing him with assistant coach Tyronn Lue.
Feb. 24: LeBron, passive aggressively continues to poke the beast, saying the Warriors' regular season dominance doesn't mean much once the playoffs start. "You can be 82-0, man, once the playoffs start, everyone's 0-0. Let's get back to the beginning. It's messed up, but that's what happens," he said. "And hopefully you've built enough chemistry, which it seems like they have, and enough out on the court where you can take that on to the next phase, but regular season recordwise is great for the record books, but it means nothing for the postseason."
@StephenCurry30 needs to stop it man!! He's ridiculous man! Never before seen someone like him in the history of ball!
— LeBron James (@KingJames) February 28, 2016
Feb. 27: Even James lost his mind on Twitter watching the play of the season: Curry's game-winning, nearly half-court, overtime, buzzer-beating 3-pointer against the Thunder.
March 11: Lost in a season-long collision course was the one time James outright defended Curry from older players who said the reigning MVP wouldn't survive in previous eras. "I heard Dennis Rodman say if I played in their era I'd be just an average player — yeah, about me, that I'd be just an average player," he said. "And they say the same things about Steph, 'If Steph played in our era, then we'd be more physical with him and go at him.' And it sucks because we're just trying to carry the torch for the next group to come behind us."
April 8: While the entire country watches Warriors/Spurs, James tweets he was more concerned with replaying the 1997 Western Conference finals between the Utah Jazz and Houston Rockets. His reasoning only added gasoline on a lit flame. "At the end of the day, the Warriors-Spurs game is going to decide itself. I wanted to go back and see what happened and why Stockton was so open to make that shot to send them to the Finals and I was able to watch it." Right.
May 11: James praises Curry for his second straight MVP award. But he questions Curry's impact in terms of being "valuable," seemingly nominating himself for the award in the process.
Stephen Curry of the Golden State Warriors poses with his back-to-back NBA Most Valuable Player Awards following a press conference at ORACLE Arena on May 10, 2016 in Oakland, California.
Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images
May 13: Curry responds, "I've gotten really good at ignoring people." James suggests the same day that Portland Trail Blazers' Terry Stotts deserved Coach of the Year, an award given to Golden State's Steve Kerr.
May 31: James calls Curry and Thompson "probably the two greatest shooters we've probably ever seen."
June 1: It felt like the entire world tuned in to watch the Thunder/Warriors series. Well, except for Irving. "I caught bits and pieces," he said. "I was in bed at 9 or 10. Other than that, I finished my night watching Family Guy."
June 1: James admits speaking on Curry's MVP was a mistake because of how it was perceived in the media.
Curry sat annoyed during Wednesday's media availability.
"That's not what I'm playing for, to be the face of the NBA or to be this or that or to take LeBron's throne or whatever," the reigning MVP said of his fellow superstar. "You know, I'm trying to chase rings, and that's all I'm about. So that's where the conversation stops for me."
The conversation may stop for Curry, but the debate moves forward.
Part of what's made James the pop culture lightning rod he is, is his ability to generate drama and storylines nearly as easily as he drops triple-doubles. His yearlong affair with poking the bear is a key ingredient in why this year's Finals are so provocative. Love or hate LeBron James, LeBron James is must-see TV.
Much like Curry and the Golden State Warriors are, too.
In many ways, they've eclipsed James over the past two seasons behind a style of play enthralling to fans and crippling to opposing squads. This is the theater of 2016 Finals: the tug-of-war between regaining control and confirming dominance. James — the game's greatest all-around player (ever) in pursuit of his career's crowning achievement in his sixth consecutive Finals — squares up against the backcourt of Curry and Thompson — the greatest shooting tag team in league history in pursuit of becoming the greatest team in league history — in a heavyweight rematch a year in the making.
This is it. Don't get scared now.
James' high-stakes, backroom, season-long (but no pressure) poker game with the NBA's deadliest catch comes to a head Thursday night in Oakland, California. A fifth Finals loss hangs in the balance, as is the first for a city in complete desperation for its first.
All chips are pushed to the center of the table. It's almost time for LeBron James to play his hand.
Justin Tinsley is a culture and sports writer for The Undefeated. He firmly believes "Cash Money Records takin' ova for da '99 and da 2000" is the single-most impactful statement of his generation.
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I think that this is genius marketing. Not only does the buyer get a cool little shoe, a shoeless child is helped in the bargain.
How about a custom-painted pair from Etsy with your favorite Bible verse?
How do you like the pair below? Pretty cute with the black lace and leather trim, huh?
As you can see, there is a pair of Tom's Shoes for every taste and budget. I've only touched the tip of the iceberg on what is available in a Tom's Shoe.
EXCEPT…….. Did you see any pair that even remotely looked like a tartan Tom's? In all of my research on eBay, Etsy and Google, I didn't come across one single pair.
UNTIL………. I got an email from my friend Judy, who was on a trip down in Costa Rica. Because I'm so obnoxious and overbearing about my love for tartan, all of my friends and family know of my obsession. As Judy was browsing in a local market, she came across the following and instantly thought of me.
CAN YOU BELIEVE IT? The perfect pair for Miss Tartan Terrace!
The following is a photo of the price tag that came on the shoes. As you can see, the price is 7,900 colones, which converts to about $16.00. That's what Judy paid for this priceless pair of shoes! But it begs the question: Why are we paying at least $50.00 in the States while the price in Costa Rica is only $16.00? Maybe the free pairs of shoes for the little shoeless children are being diverted from their original destination and are instead being sold on the black market? It would be interesting to find out.
So that's my Tom's Shoes story. If you've never owned a pair, I hope that you'll consider it. They really are quite comfortable and also stylish in an odd way. But don't try to find a tartan pair in North America. I've got the only one and I'm not sharing.
The tartan shoes are amazing - and how perfect for you! I've heard of Toms, and the fact that they give a child a pair of shoes when you buy one, but have never seen them (and I'm all about comfort!). A little distressing, though, to think the "free" shoes might be diverted. Hopefully not.
Hopefully I'm wrong about that. BTW, you should drive down from Allen and visit Whole Foods or Whole Earth Provision Co. (if you don't have these stores "up north"). Both of these places carry lots of cute Tom's Shoes!
If they sell them for $25, that's a good price. Sorry you can't wear them because they really are comfy!
Well Kathy; you aren't the only ones in North America. I had to buy myself a pair as well. Then there was my team member from Australia who got the "other plaid" which was more blue in tone. But Australia is not N. America. We could start a club; just for two!
Yes, we'll be in the exclusive "Tom's Tartan Club"!
What size are you, Kathy?
Because ---- I am coming over to borrow those!!!!
One can hope that maybe in the fall edition???
on my blog to yours.
Those tartan Toms are so perfect for you!
Hi, do you know where in Costa Rica your friend found the Toms? Thanks!
Best Brand Store on the town square in Ciudad Quesada. Good luck!
Kathy, I had missed this until today when I saw these on your guest post at Alison's blog. I'm so envious of these. I've never seen them or you could be certain they would be in my closet too. Costa Rica????


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The most effective Team Leader resume is one that shows you have the ability to manage different components of a project, a strong sense of responsibility and clear leadership qualities.
We have prepared a Team Leader resume example that is crafted to present these qualities in its content and format. Chances are the Supervisor will be reviewing all applications for the Team Leader position. He or she will look for a candidate who is trustworthy of the responsibilities.
Managing a project requires a great understanding of the different skills and attributes of the people in your team; including strengths and weaknesses, and knowing how to optimize them. Supervisors will seek to uncover this ability from the information you put in your resume.
Address: 7131 NW 16th Avenue, Miami, FL.
Current Job: Project Team Leader; Zenith Contact Center Solutions, Miami, FL.
Results- driven, goal oriented with a successful record managing people as a Team Leader for more than 4 years in various industries wants to become the Team Leader for Mayfield Wholesalers Incorporated. I am confident that my skills, mindset and dedication will help your company surpass its profitability record of $220M recorded in 2014.
Proficient in Project Management software: Asana, SalesForce and WebEx.
Strengths Leadership Program – Level 2 Certification.
Zenith Contact Center Solutions; Miami, FL.
Primary responsibility of team is to increase enrollment level of AAF's Diabetes Management Healthcare program. Team is tasked to convince enrollees of other diabetes healthcare programs to switch to AAF.
From 2015 to 2017, total enrollment to AAF program increased by 457% with 72% representing program switches and 28% new customers.
Re-calibrated predictive dialler program to reduce dead calls by 84% and increase productivity by 440%.
Reviews team performance metrics as prepared by Performance Analyst and Quality Assurance Specialist.
Prepares team evaluation report with assistance from the Performance Analyst for submission to Supervisor.
Sets benchmarks and targets for team members to achieve.
Conducts process improvement meetings every Friday to recap the week's activities and to offer courses of action for unresolved issues.
Uses individual team member data to pinpoint weaknesses then schedule one-on-one sessions to address possible factors and improve performance.
Next Level Fitness Professionals; Miami, FL.
Primary responsibility of team was to increase number of gym memberships with the focus on those who opt for personal training sessions, health consultations and wellness therapy programs.
From 2014 to 2015, memberships at Next Level Fitness grew to 614 from 242 the previous year or an increase of 153%. As a result of the increase, Next Level underwent an expansion plan to provide more floor space for the additional members.
Implemented program whereby Personal Trainers (PTs) would conduct in-house marketing campaigns to better address questions posed by prospects. Sales were re-assigned to telecommuting program so they could focus on sending invitations, closing memberships and follow up calls.
Utilized telecommuters to manage sales calls, appointments and customer services via inbound channels and chat support. The telecommuter program increased productivity by 38% and reduced cost by 40%. Suggested outsourced third party services to Philippines to reduce cost by another 40% but was declined by Next Level management.
Mama Java Coffee and Cakes; Miami, FL.
Mama Java was a startup coffee and cake shop in 2013. I was the pioneer Team Leader and we were tasked to generate sustainable sales, maintain product quality and manage customer service.
In its first year of operations, Mama Java earned $312,000 in sales which was 8% higher than target numbers for break-even.
Conducted customer service orientation seminars for all front-liners: Cashiers, Baristas and Servers.
Established benchmarks for sales, customer support, product quality and store cleanliness.
Set up Mama Java's social media pages and assigned 2 in-store people to manage and moderate the accounts. Established benchmark on turnaround time for complaints was 24 hours.
After having read our example of resume for Team Leader, you noticed the amount of detail that was put in the scope of responsibilities. No stone was left unturned! Even a rejected proposal was included in the job description. Your Team Leader skills list must prove that you know what it takes to take charge of a team.
Education. Many employers believe in the saying, "Leaders are born, not made." They are willing to overlook your lack of a 4- year specialized course if you can make a clear case for having strong leadership abilities.However, having a Bachelor or an Associate degree in a relevant field will give you an advantage over an applicant who doesn't by having a good foundation for learning.
Certifications. You don't have to be certified or licensed to be a Team Leader. It would improve your chances of being hired if you can show proof that you took up courses that can be applied to becoming a team leader.Examples of these courses include workshops in leadership training, management or more specialized ones such as for software programs and disciplines like accounting.
Leadership Qualities. The position of "Team Leader" may be self- explanatory but not too many people understand what it entails. Leadership is all about accountability; taking responsibility for the decisions that one makes. Even if you have other people to help you accomplish the task, it is your decisions that sets the team in motion.If you can accept accountability, you will have more respect for your people, become more decisive and focused in delivering results.
Thinks Outside the Box. Becoming a Team Leader means finding solutions or ways to improve systems through innovation.In our sample job description for Team Leader, Ryan suggested to outsource telecommuting work to a remote location but was declined by the employer.He made the suggestion to further improve costs but management was apparently constrained by self-limiting beliefs.
This is a high risk position because the onus of accomplishing the task will fall squarely on your shoulders not the Supervisor to whom you will report directly to. As Team Leader, your placement in the organizational hierarchy is not much higher than the people in your team yet you bear the brunt of the pressure.
Supervisors want team leaders who understand the risk and responsibility and are still willing to take on the job.
In the sample resume objective for Team Leader we started off with Ryan's strong attributes: results-driven, goal oriented and a successful record managing people. Hiring managers probably see these attributes used most of the time.
But in Ryan's case, he is able to validate them in his work experience by including an overview of his tasks and supporting his achievements with facts and figures.
Finally, we frame the value proposition by stating a specific goal which is to surpass the profitability record of $220M. This shows the Supervisor of Mayfield Wholesalers that Ryan has done his homework and has researched on their company.
The reverse chronological type presents the ideal structure for your Team Leader resume format because it shows the key information in a very organized and systematic manner.
Use bullet points to organize your information and lead off with work appropriate adjectives such as conducted, established, performed, tasked and reviewed.
Make sure you include examples of these managerial tasks in your work experience so you can establish a nice storyline in your resume. Don't forget to substantiate your claims with figures.
Assuming leadership is all about earning trust. The best way to tell the employer that they can trust you with Team Leader duties is by showing them you know what the job entails.
First one describes the primary responsibility or task.
Second one shares the accomplishment.
The succeeding points show the other duties that were carried out as Team Leader including innovations and processes that were introduced to each company.
Take the time to compose the work duties that you did for your employers but include only those that have relevance to the role as Team Leader.
If this Team Leader resume example wasn't sufficient for you, you are free to review some other samples and templates from our site. Browse to some related resumes below and find your inspiration.


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LOS ANGELES FILM REVIEW
Original | Unbiased | Unfiltered
LAFR Awards
LAFR Independent Film Awards
2017 LAFR Award Winners
by Bob Gibbons December 22, 20146:02 pm
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Director Jean-Marc Vallee has proven (in last year's "Dallas Buyers Club") that he can tell powerful stories by getting extraordinary performances from his actors — and he gets one from Witherspoon here. Make-up free for most of the nearly two hours she's on screen, this is her grittiest, most vulnerable performance. She's never been this raw, or this real, before. And, in terms of sex, full nudity, language and drug use, she goes further than she's ever gone in a film before. She's Cheryl and this is her story, her attempt to find her courage after her mother passed away, her marriage crumbled, and she realized her life was without purpose or sense of direction. It's the tale of the daughter who chose to tackle 1,100 miles of the Pacific Crest Trail, to journey alone for 94 days, to push beyond her levels of endurance, "…to walk myself back to the woman my mother thought I'd be."
Dern plays that mother with a sense of abandon, as a "big kid" at heart, but Witherspoon is the reason to see this movie. She's feisty and fearless, wary and weary – and sometimes in the same scene. You can see it in her eyes, sense it in her limbs. Vallee tells her story a step at a time, letting us piece it together, to put it in order, to explain it all to ourselves. It all makes sense, but sometimes just barely. Important pieces seem to have been sketched only in bare outline. Humor is scarce, and so is suspense. Characters come and go. Any potential danger is quickly dealt with. And the ending, with its voice-over summary, feels abrupt. But you will fall in love with this wounded bird. And you will never again hear "Red River Valley" without thinking of the piercing eyes of the small boy she met when she was relearning how to fly
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Lynn Pasquerella (right), a philosopher who started her academic career at a community college and had prominent leadership roles at public and private colleges alike, has been named president of the Association of American Colleges and Universities.
Pasquerella, who will replace Carol Geary Schneider  at AAC&U on July 1, is president of Mount Holyoke College, in Massachusetts. She previously was provost of the University of Hartford and graduate dean and a longtime professor of philosophy at the University of Rhode Island. She is also host of the Academic Minute, a podcast series  featured on Inside Higher Ed.
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Осторожно!! The Duo Napoleonic Wars Cup requires each and every nation to send two regiments to compete in the tournament. The procedure for trials/the decision which regiments may represent their nation lies within the nation communitys. Fight for the honour of your country! You can use this thread to submit your application and share results of trial matches.


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Smashing Barriers: Redefining What It Means To Be Blind.
An interactive exhibition showcasing the cutting-edge technology and accessible design that helps smash societal barriers for blind Canadians.
Approximately half a million Canadians currently live with significant vision loss – a figure that's poised to increase significantly over the next 25 years as Canada's population ages. By learning more about the experiences of someone with sight loss, accessible and functional design, and the assistive technology on the market you can help to change attitudes and misconceptions about people who are blind or partially sighted.
Experience a Virtual Reality demonstration that simulates various situations for people living with sight loss.
Learn more about accessible sports and recreation.
Find out how CNIB made Yonge + St. Clair the most accessible neighbourhood in Canada with live demonstrations of beacon navigation technology.
Take part in guided tours of our fully accessible space featuring custom made furniture by Carol Kaifosh of Pockit Design.
Learn about braille, literacy, and tactile art for people with sight loss.
Stop by, learn something new, and help design our vision for the future!


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Swiss Hard Rock Band NEO NOIRE Attend a "Shotgun Wedding" in New Music Video [Exclusive Premiere]
By Aaron Willschick 05/10/2017
We are happy to help premier the new music video for "Shotgun Wedding" from Swiss hard rock group Neo Noire. The band was founded by rock and metal masterminds Frederyk Rotter (Zatokrev, Crown) and Thomas Baumgartner (Ex-GurD, Erotic Jesus, Undergod). The lineup is rounded out by Franky Kalwies (ex-Disgroove) and David Burger (ex-Slag in Cullet). Last fall, the band played their first shows and finished up production on their new album Element which has just seen its worldwide release.
Working with Raphael Bovëy, who has also worked with Gojira, the band recorded the album at MyRoom Studios. On the debut record, Neo Noire mixes it up with different styles from alternative and post/psychedelic rock with metal.
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Home Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection San Diego Zoo Komodo dragon
San Diego Zoo Komodo dragon
Title San Diego Zoo Komodo dragon
Photographer Schultheis, Herman.
Collection ID Herman J Schultheis Collection
Los Angeles Photographers Collection
Location/Accession N-009-406 8x10
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.; Herman J. Schultheis was born in Aachen, Germany in 1900, and immigrated to the United States in the mid-1920s after obtaining a Ph.D. in mechanical and electrical engineering. He married Ethel Wisloh in 1936, and the pair moved to Los Angeles the following year. He worked in the film industry from the late 1930s to the mid-1940s, most notably on the animated features "Fantasia" and "Pinocchio." His detailed notebook, documenting the special effects for "Fantasia" is the subject of a 14-minute short-subject included on the film's DVD. In 1949, he started employment with Librascope as a patent engineer. Schultheis was an avid amateur photographer who traveled the world with his cameras. It was on one of these photographic exhibitions in 1955 that he disappeared in the jungles of Guatemala. His remains were discovered 18 months later. The digitized portion of this collection represents the images Schultheis took of Los Angeles and its surrounding communities after he relocated to the area in 1937.
Historical Data The San Diego Zoo is a privately operated zoo run by the nonprofit Zoological Society of San Diego. It incorporates 100 acres of parkland leased from the City of San Diego, and houses over 3,700 animals of more than 650 species and subspecies. The zoo opened its doors officially in 1916, after the Panama-California International Exposition abandoned its exotic animal exhibitions. The Zoological Society of San Diego was founded by Dr. Harry M. Wegeforth in an October 12, 1916 meeting, with Dr. Wegeforth serving as president of the society until 1941. In August 1921, a permanent tract of land in Balboa Park was set aside and the zoo began to move the following year. The San Diego Zoo has been a pioneer in building "cageless" exhibits and can boast to having some of the largest free-flight aviaries in existence. Besides an extensive collection of birds, reptiles and mammals, it also maintains its grounds as an arboretum, with a rare plant collection. The zoo is also active in conservation and species-preservation efforts. Many species are bred in captivity for release into their native habitats where appropriate. The San Diego Zoo is located at 2920 Zoo Drive, in Balboa Park, San Diego.
Description A large Komodo dragon rests on a grassy patch inside his enclosure, as his picture is being taken. The Komodo dragon, a native of Indonesia, is the largest living species of lizard which can grow to a maximum length of 10 feet and can weigh up to 150 pounds. This one makes his home at the San Diego Zoo.
Subject San Diego Zoo.
Komodo dragon--California--San Diego.
Zoos--California--San Diego.
San Diego (Calif.).
Schultheis Collection photographs.
Credits Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation.
Sub-Collection Name Los Angeles Photographers Photo Collection


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Thomas Smith Group Employees Donate €1000 To Richmond Foundation During Mental Health Awareness Week 2020
Monday, June 8, 2020, 11:15
As part of 2020's Mental Health Awareness Week celebrated in May, Thomas Smith Group employees donated €1,000 to Richmond Foundation, one of Malta's renowned charitable organisations behind mental wellbeing and support.
The contribution was handed out from the company's Solidarity Fund; a monetary repository supported by several donations raised by the company's own employees throughout the year to assist organisations and individuals facing times of need.
Established in 1990, Mental Health Awareness Week recognises the attempts and accomplishments to educate the public about mental illness and break the stigma that surrounds it.
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10 Giant Media & Government Hoaxes
The revolution against common sense
Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones
"You walk into this room at your own risk, because it leads to the future; not a future that will be, but one that might be. This is not a new world: It is simply an extension of what began in the old one. It has patterned itself after every dictator who has ever planted the ripping imprint of a boot on the pages of history since the beginning of time. It has refinements, technological advances, and a more sophisticated approach to the destruction of human freedom. But like every one of the super states that preceded it, it has one iron rule: Logic is an enemy, and truth is a menace."
Rod Serling, The Obsolete Man.
Rod Serling's quote from the Obsolete Man, a much loved 1961 episode of The Twilight Zone, has never been so relevant for today's society, a world in which common sense has been subverted and reality is frowned upon by an establishment that sustains its own power on a steady diet of universal deceit.
Since its introduction in a 1938 play and subsequent film adaptations, the term 'gaslighting' has entered into psychological textbooks as a form of psychological abuse whereby the protagonist seeks to make the victim doubt their own sanity by disorienting them and manipulating their sense of reality.
Psychologist Martha Stout documents how sociopaths will successfully put on an act of being charming and convincing while simultaneously waging war against the common sense of their victims through a constant barrage of lies and abuse, all the time claiming their innocence. This is a perfect description of how the mainstream media and the government operates in the United States today – habitually lying without recourse while denouncing anyone who challenges the lie as a "conspiracy theorist".
A revolution has been launched against rationality and truth. Those who question authority are instantly derided as "conspiracy theorists" simply for coming to logical conclusions based on the evidence in front of them. The term "conspiracy theory" has been harnessed into a pejorative weapon with which to bludgeon free speech, healthy skepticism and independent thinking.
In reality, today's "conspiracy theorist" is someone who has managed to retain some remnant of control over their own thought process and one who has successfully resisted becoming another victim of 'gaslighting' – an individual who knows when they are being lied to.
We live in an era where the 'big lie' has come to dominate virtually every sector of modern society – from news to entertainment, to foreign policy and politics, to the economy and healthcare. Only by refusing to accept that logic is an enemy and truth a menace, only by refusing to become victims of 'gaslighting' can we truly remain sane, rational, and not allow our understanding of the world to be shaped by those who see us as obsolete.
Here are the top ten media and government hoaxes in recent history – lies and distortions that underscore how we truly are living in an age of universal deceit.
– Iraq had weapons of mass destruction
The lie that launched a war, following in the footsteps of numerous others throughout history including the Gulf of Tonkin hoax and the USS Maine. Not long after September 11 and for over a year until the invasion, the mainstream media dutifully repeated the hoax that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. One of the main sources used by the British and US governments to make the claim, Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi, codenamed Curveball, later admitted that he lied about the existence of a WMD program in Iraq and then "watched in shock as it was used to justify the war".
– Osama Bin Laden was killed in May 2011
With most top analysts firmly of the opinion that Bin Laden died many years ago, a deluge of evidence suggests the May 2011 raid was a manufactured hoax. From the phony situation room photos, to the ludicrous "burial at sea" narrative, to the eyewitness testimony of those who lived in the same village where the raid supposedly took place, the assassination of Osama had all the hallmarks of a Jessica Lynch-style Hollywood hoax.
– The drone program doesn't exist
Even after drone strikes were already being conducted and reported on around the world, former White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs was told by the Obama administration to act as if there was no such thing as an active US drone program – regurgitating the hoax that the entire project was completely non-existent. "When I went through the process of becoming press secretary, one of the first things they told me was, you're not even to acknowledge the drone program," Gibbs said on MSNBC's "Up With Chris Hayes" last month.
– The Federal Reserve is federal
The Federal Reserve is no more federal than Federal Express. It is a private bank that poses as a government entity. In 2011, when the New York Times attempted to obtain documents about the Fed's loans to foreign banks under the Freedom of Information Act, the Fed responded by admitting that it was in fact a privately owned bank and not federal at all, therefore not subject to FOIA requests. As the long-time Chairman of the House Banking and Currency Committee Charles McFadden said on June 10, 1932: "Some people think that the Federal Reserve Banks are United States Government institutions. They are private monopolies." In 1982, the Ninth Circuit Court ruled that, "Examining the organization and function of the Federal Reserve Banks, and applying the relevant factors, we conclude that the Reserve Banks are not federal instrumentalities for purposes of the FTCA, but are independent, privately-owned and locally controlled corporations."
– The unemployment rate is 7.7%
The unemployment rate reported by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and regurgitated by the media is a hoax. As economist John Williams of the Shadow Government Statistics website exhaustively documents, the real unemployment figure is closer to 23 per cent because the government figure does not include citizens who have stopped looking for work over the course of the previous month. "Since 1994, the long-term discouraged workers, those who have been discouraged for more than one year, have been excluded from all government data," writes Jerome Corsi.
– Flu vaccines protect you against flu
Despite all its associated health risks, the flu vaccines does not protect you against the flu. The shots have to be renewed every year and even then recent statistics show that the flu vaccine is, "effective in only 56 percent of people who got the shot, and it largely failed to protect the elderly against an especially deadly strain circulating during flu season."
– Fluoride is good for you
In addition to the plethora of existing studies which prove sodium fluoride, which is present in around 66 per cent of US water supplies, is a toxic waste that causes debilitating health problems, a recent Harvard University study found that "The children in high fluoride areas had significantly lower IQ than those who lived in low fluoride areas." Even the CDC, which advocates the fluoridation of water supplies, admits that 2 in 5 American children show signs of fluoride poisoning.
– The government is not preparing for civil unrest
The establishment media, aided by a raft of leftist websites, is portraying concern over the Department of Homeland Security's purchase of some 2 billion rounds of ammunition as a conspiracy theory by regurgitating the glib statement of a single DHS official. Erroneously claiming that the mass bullet buys are merely for training purposes or the government saving money by buying in bulk, the hoax conveniently ignores the fact that most of the bullets purchased are hollow point rounds which are both more and expensive and unsuitable for training purposes. The DHS admits that it is preparing for civil unrest by purchasing riot gear and yet the media still portrays the notion that the DHS is preparing for civil unrest as a "conspiracy theory".
– Democrats and Republicans represent two opposing parties
The biggest political hoax ever invented – that the Republicans and the Democrats represent opposing forces – still continues to dominate despite the two parties habitually agreeing on every major issue. As Georgetown University Professor Carroll Quigley (Bill Clinton's mentor), wrote in his book Tragedy and Hope, "The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to the doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can "throw the rascals out" at any election without leading to any profound or extreme shifts in policy. … Either party in office becomes in time corrupt, tired, unenterprising, and vigorless. Then it should be possible to replace it, every four years if necessary, by the other party, which will be none of these things but will still pursue, with new vigor, approximately the same basic policies."
– There is a war on drugs
The notion of a war on drugs, one that continues to ensnare thousands of Americans in the prison-industrial system, is a complete hoax. As Pulitzer Prize winning author Gary Webb exposed before his "suicide," the Central Intelligence Agency and the Drug Enforcement Agency control and operate the global drugs trade. US soldiers are now guarding the opium fields in Afghanistan as record amounts of heroin leave the country destined for US and European markets. The man who played a crucial role in reinstating Afghanistan's opium market, Ahmed Wali Karzai, was on the payroll of the CIA for at least eight years. Mexican drug traffickers routinely admit that they work for the CIA and that the agency controls the drugs trade while simultaneously hoaxing the public with claims about a "war on drugs".
Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Infowars.com and Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a host for Infowars Nightly News.
This article was posted: Thursday, March 14, 2013 at 12:10 pm
Tags: government corruption, Mainstream Media


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Nathan Lean: Since 9/11, U.S. policy enforces Islamophobia
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Nathan Lean
Opinion by Nathan Lean, special to CNN
(CNN) – The attacks of September 11, 2001, were unthinkable, and are rightfully memorialized with the somber reflection that marks other tragedies of our nation's past.
From the Oval Office that Tuesday evening 12 years ago, President George W. Bush addressed the stricken nation with a message of hope.
"Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America," he said. "This is a day when all Americans from every walk of life unite in our resolve for justice and peace."
Sadly, though, out of that dark hour came more darkness.
Throughout the past 12 years, government agencies and local law enforcement have often turned inward, eroding the liberties of ordinary, law-abiding citizens.
In the name of defending national security, they've fractured relationships with American Muslim communities and undermined the foundations of freedom on which this land was built.
Anti-Muslim sentiment in the United States has not only manifested itself through mosque arsons, assaults, murders and invariably hostile rhetoric from society's extreme fringes. It has also become a permanent fixture of the very institutions that should provide safeguards against those things.
A long view of the response to terrorism since 9/11 suggests that Islamophobia — an irrational fear or suspicion of all Muslims and Islam based on the actions of a few — is increasingly legislated and enforced.
The most recent example of this comes from the city that bore the brunt of the 9/11 attacks.
Revelations surrounding the NYPD's surveillance of Muslim communities in Brooklyn and Manhattan show that, without specific evidence of criminal activity, police officers teamed up with the CIA to form a clandestine intelligence program that spied on ordinary Muslim Americans.
The program sent "rakers" into Muslim neighborhoods to observe restaurant owners and shop keepers, deployed "mosque crawlers" into Muslim houses of worship to monitor sermons, and planted undercover agents on a university rafting trip in Buffalo where they took notes on how many times Muslim students prayed each day.
It gets worse.
The NYPD parked a yellow taxicab, bugged with cameras and voice recorders, outside a popular mosque in Brooklyn, hoping to capture Friday prayer-goers mumbling something about terrorism.
They also designated all mosques in the city as terrorist organizations, meaning that anyone who attends worship services is a potential subject for investigation, and they attempted to infiltrate the board of the nonprofit Arab American Association of New York, labeling the group a "terrorism enterprise."
The six years of surveilling American Muslims led to no arrests or leads, the head of the NYPD's Demographics Unit admitted in court testimony.
The NYPD says its surveillance programs are lawful and orchestrated to keep the city safe from "those who are intent on killing New Yorkers."
The FBI criticized the NYPD spying program, however, saying that it produces a "negative impact" and makes their job harder than ever.
But it was the FBI who, in 2010, paid informant Craig Monteilh more than $11,000 a month to disguise himself as a convert to Islam, infiltrate Southern California mosques, and have sex with Muslim women. The plan was to entrap young Muslims by initiating conversations about "jihad" and terrorism.
In the end, the very people he was spying on reported him to the FBI — the organization that sent him there. Last year, Monteilh expressed his regret for participating in the sting operation, saying, "There is no hunt. It's fixed."
The FBI said its program, called "Operation Flex," was "focused on fewer than 25 individuals and was directed at detecting and preventing possible terrorist attacks."
The FBI came under fire again in August of this year as we learned about a covert security program in conjunction with U.S. immigration authorities.
The American Civil Liberties Union reports that the FBI and immigration officials have the authority to blacklist law-abiding Muslim Americans who have applied for citizenship, flagging their applications on the basis of "national security concerns" and sidelining their path to nationality for years on end.
Those applications are primarily docked on the basis of the applicant's name, their country of origin, or as a result of their travels to countries on a watch list.
The U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services says its reviews comply with immigration laws.
Anti-Muslim prejudice is institutionalized at the state level, as well.
Over the past two years, lawmakers in 32 legislatures across the country have targeted Muslims by moving to ban Islamic law, or "Shariah." Seven states (most recently North Carolina) have signed the proposed ban into law, despite the inability of legislators to name a single specific case in which a court ruling based on Shariah law was allowed to stand.
Additionally, mosque construction projects in states like Oklahoma, Tennessee, California and Minnesota have faced backlash from local lawmakers who, failing to thwart their construction by advancing arguments about Shariah or the supposed threat of radicals, resorted to pretenses like traffic patterns, zoning regulations, parking restrictions and noise ordinances to block the building permits.
This cannot be our response to tragedy.
We've lost our way, and the path that we are traveling down today is hardly representative of the sacred foundations that our founding fathers envisioned.
Surely we can, and we must, remain vigilant in our effort to combat those who threaten us, but we cannot be so overly zealous in our aim to root out potential perpetrators that we abandon our national values and strip our fellow citizens of their unalienable and constitutionally protected rights.
That doesn't make us stronger; it makes us weaker, and more vulnerable.
Nathan Lean is the editor-in-chief of Aslan Media and the author of four books about the Middle East, including "The Islamophobia Industry." Follow him on Twitter at@nathanlean.
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John Jantsch: One of the ways to really drive up profit is to specialize, is to go into a vertical market, is to go have a niche, to get known as an expert in X, Y, or Z. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing podcast, we speak with Philip Morgan of Philip Morgan Consulting, and that's what he does. He helps people specialize and position their business in a way that allows them to get more profit, to drive the cost to acquire customers down, to become really known as the expert in their field of specialization. Check it out.
Hello and welcome to another episode of the Duct Tape Marketing podcast. This is John Jantsch. My guest today is Philip Morgan. He is a consultant at Philip Morgan Consulting, but he works with specialization and helping people find niches and helping them position their firms based on those niches and that specialization. That's what we're going to talk about today, so Philip, thanks for joining me.
Philip Morgan: Hey, John. It's great to be here.
John Jantsch: A lot of consultants, a lot of businesses today, I think, can benefit from specializing, from becoming known as the person that can help with X. I think there's a lot of really good reasons to do it, but I do think there's a lot of confusion about maybe how to do it or why to do it or what it's going to mean. Let's break a little bit of that down. Let's first, I guess, get a baseline. When you're talking to a company about specializing or position some certain specialization, what are you actually talking to them about?
Philip Morgan: I work primarily with self-employed software developers, so I'm going to pull an example from their world to make this super concrete, and hopefully it'll be relevant for enough other folks in your audience. If you're a self-employed software developer, it's very likely that you got there through some circuitous route like you had a job for a while and you hated working for the man so you started working for yourself. Or maybe you got booted from your job, like a lot of people got laid off in, I don't know, 2006, 2007, 2008. 2008 is when I sort of involuntarily accidentally became unemployed because I got laid off along with a bunch of other people.
Anyway, you probably arrive at self-employment through some sort of circuitous route, and you find yourself in this world where you have to help clients understand what's valuable about you. If you're a self-employed software developer, you're going to gravitate towards your technical skills as the way that you tell clients what's special about you. If you're not a software developer, maybe if you're a designer, you're going to also likely gravitate towards your skills. You're going to say, "Well, I do front-end design," or, "I do user experience design." If you're a writer, you might say, "I write white papers," or I'm this kind of writer. The common thread you might notice across all these things is they're all focused on you, not your client.
You asked for me to kind of break down what specialization is. I would say the first thing that people need to understand about it is you have to specialize in a way that matters to your clients. There's exactly five ways you can do that, and we can kind of walk through them. That's the first big picture idea that I want to make sure people understand is you will be tempted to specialize in something that's about you, like your skill set, like I'm a Rails developer or I'm a Java developer. You'll kind of want to go around and start saying that's how you specialize, but that's not really a specialization. First of all, so many other people are doing the exact same thing, so there's no meaningful differentiation. To explain what's different, you have to bore people to death, because you're telling them the intricacies of this approach to Java development versus this other approach. It very quickly becomes a not helpful way to think about specializing if you think about specializing in a skill set. So what's left?
John Jantsch: It's Java development for dentists.
John Jantsch: The implication is that he knows our business better, or he knows the challenges or the problems, or he's seen how to get a result for a business like ours, because ours is so different from everyone else.
Philip Morgan: Exactly. That's what you're trying to do by specializing. That's kind of the end goal, is that you can actually do that. You can actually produce measurably better results for your ideal client because you know how their business works. You've worked for other businesses like them. That's the end point that you're trying to get to by specializing, is that you can actually prove that you can do a better job for them or move the needle for their business more than you can for others, because you've specialized in that kind of business. That's also what makes it scary at first, because if you've been a generalist, it's quite common for you to have worked for a lot of different kind of businesses, but you haven't really built up a pattern of working for the same kind of business.
John Jantsch: I'll tell you something I've discovered in working and really trying to get people to narrow their focus. I'm not necessarily a proponent of you have to niche, you have to have a certain market, but I will tell you that in working with small business owners for a lot of years, one of the things I try to get them to do is rank their clients, their most profitable clients. I can't tell you how many times they'll go, "You know, I didn't really know this, but 50% of our business, our most profitable business, comes from this vertical." They're actually doing it already. They're hanging on to some of that other business to the detriment of doing it better. It really is kind of interesting. I think that scariness is actually probably just really kind of a myth.
Philip Morgan: You identified what would be the ideal point for someone to move away from being a generalist and start operating as a specialist, is if they could look at their previous clients and identify this pattern of, oh, that's where the profit it. It's whatever, these type of companies, manufacturing companies or some other type of company. The decision is a lot easier if you can see on paper some evidence that this is not going to blow up your business to narrow down and specialize. That's the ideal sort of inflection point, is when you've got that critical mass of clients and you can see the pattern of, oh, these clients are better, and it's always this of client that's better or almost always.
John Jantsch: It's amazing how often that's there. They just don't take the time to look at it or to analyze it. A lot of times, it's happening for good reason, and they just haven't identified it.
John Jantsch: Is it possible to specialize without actually identifying an industry? In other words, I've always felt like I've specialized, because I said, "Here's how I'm going to work." Somebody who wants a system that is a soup-to-nuts approach with a monthly retainer and they're going to know what I'm going to do, what they're going to do, and what the cost is. I can work across industries, but what I'm going to do is I'm going to attract a client for whom that is an approach they want.
Philip Morgan: There's two ways of specializing that don't involve focusing on a particular industry or vertical or even an audience. One is to focus on solving a problem. That's part of what you just described, is the problem that you're solving … and it's not just this one problem. I know that. To sort of simplify what you just said, you're focused on solving this problem, and the problem is I need a soup-to-nuts system. I need a comprehensive system for doing marketing. That's one way to look at how you specialized, and that is a very viable way of specializing. Another example might be let's say that you're a marketer or a software developer and you focus on companies that are being disrupted by Amazon.com and helping them compete more effectively through whatever it is that you do. That's another example of what we'd call a horizontal problem. Lots of different types of industries might be suffering disruption at the hands of Amazon, not just retail. I mean, now they're moving into groceries, so there's the perfect example. That's one way to think about what you're doing.
The other is you have packaged your services in a specific way, right? That's another way to specialize, is where your focus is on a somewhat unique or very specific way of delivering your services so that it meets a certain type of client's needs better than anything else. You're sort of providing some kind of packaged materials combined with ongoing support or consulting at a fixed cost. I mean, a lot of people can go, "Marketing is scary. I don't want to have to do all the work of developing this," or, "It's this kind of black box, and I'm not sure what I need to do." You show up and say, "Well, do this. Do the following things. It's a very well thought out system, and you're not on your own. I'm going to be there via a retainer or whatever for an ongoing support role." That's another great example of specializing by customizing how you solve the problem.
John Jantsch: It has the effect, in some cases, of sort of making the competition maybe not irrelevant, but at least incomparable.
John Jantsch: That component alone allows you to stand out, I think.
Philip Morgan: Exactly, yeah. Software companies do this a lot. They'll create these feature comparison tables where they've got columns and rows and their product in the first column and then all the competition in the columns to the right and lots of green checkmarks on their product and lots of red x's on the competition. Of course, those are always a little bit cherry-picked.
Philip Morgan: They're based on this idea, this principle, that you just mentioned, which is if you can be completely unique, then you effectively have no competition and you're effectively a monopoly. That's such a nice thing to be in that the US federal government tries to keep people out of that place because it's so nice.
John Jantsch: Would it be your contention that every business should do this? You're not probably going to say every, but would you say most businesses should be looking for some sort of specialization?
Philip Morgan: I would say for services businesses, for sure. I think you can make the argument that there are product businesses that work better without specializing. In other words, I'm willing to admit that there's plenty of edge cases where specializing is … Maybe it's something they need, but they don't need it now. They need something else now. Every business goes through a sort of life cycle or an evolution.
Philip Morgan: Services businesses, small services businesses in particular. I've seen very few that could not benefit from specializing, with one big exception, which is if you're brand new. If you started freelancing a couple months ago or just one or two years ago, if you started working for yourself. Earlier, John, you mentioned a lot of your clients can look at their client roster and see a pattern, and once they spot that pattern, it's obvious that's how they should specialize. If you've just been working for yourself for a year or two, you probably don't have that body of previous experience to draw the pattern from. In that case, it may be beneficial to just spend a couple of years learning the ropes of working for yourself and functioning as a generalist.
Philip Morgan: On the one hand, I kind of wish people could have access to that experience, because that would be a lot easier. They wouldn't have to spend money hiring me. For a lot of us, it's a difficult decision. I think the reason why is it's so personal. If you are more of an entrepreneur, you maybe have a little bit more of a mercenary kind of feeling about your work, where you're like the reason I'm doing this is because it's going to be an amazing business some day. It's less driven by a feeling of craftsmanship or really enjoying making things. What I find is that a lot of folks who gravitate more towards services businesses, it's very important that they actually literally enjoy their work.
It's not going to be a cakewalk 24/7 to be in business for yourself, but I agree it's important to enjoy your work. It needs to be fulfilling. That's one of the first things I look at with people is where's your interest. Sometimes there are surprises there. People are surprised to find that they might be interested in a market vertical like deep sea freight transport, for example, just pulling a recent example from a guy I've been working with. That was an interest to him. He's got no previous experience there, but it's interesting enough that it may be worth it to build up some experience in that vertical so he can specialize there. So we look at the interest.
That's the third big thing is does the market actually need what you're doing? John, that's the sort of abbreviated answer to your question. I look at those three things first, your interest, your credibility, and does the market need what it is you're thinking about selling to them in a specialized way?
John Jantsch: So let's assume we've done the soul searching and we're committed on interest. We've done enough work in that industry to credibly put the message out there, and there is demand. What's the payoff for somebody that kind of nails all three of those?
Philip Morgan: A couple things happen. One of the first things that happens is something that has always been a struggle, which is marketing becomes less of a struggle. The reason that it was always a struggle is you're doing it at the highest possible difficulty level if you don't know exactly who you're trying to reach and exactly what kinds of problems you can solve for them. If you don't know those two things, then no one is going to be a good marketer. Steve Jobs would not be a good marketer in those circumstances. You know what I mean?
Philip Morgan: Seth Godin would not be a good marketer under those conditions. You remove that uncertainty about who you're trying to reach and what kinds of problems you can help them solve in a valuable way, and all of a sudden, it just becomes automatically easier to do anything, whether you're doing inbound marketing and creating content marketing, for example. That becomes easier. If you're doing outbound marketing and struggling to get people to respond to cold emails, that usually starts working better. All of a sudden, you've got this specificity that people resonate with. That's one of the first things that changes. As you develop experience which is truly unique to you and your focus on that market and truly valuable, you can just start charging more, because you can prove to clients that you're going to move the needle for their business. Or maybe it's not so much about moving the needle, but you just become so good at what you do that you can do it in half the time. So maybe you don't change your rates at all, but you just spend half the time doing what you used to do to make $5,000 or $10,000. Well, that's a significant increase in profitability.
Those are the two biggest things most people might notice. One thing that's more subtle is that you become more confident in talking with prospective clients or in managing your active clients. You come from this place where you're like, A, you want to help them and, B, you know better than they do how to help them, so you can actually start to lead the project. Clients notice this from the first second they're on a sales call with you. They notice this confidence, and it's like a magnetic force.
John Jantsch: You didn't put it in tangible terms, but for me, customer lifetime value increases because, if nothing else, margin goes way down because you're serving clients. Then, cost to acquire a customer. Just the fact of the matter is if you're trying to reach a vertical market, you're advertising cost is going to be lower because it's smaller than trying to reach the world. There's a lot of things that, from a metric standpoint, are pretty easy to point to.
Philip Morgan: In the best case, you spend literally nothing finding clients or advertising, and they just find you, either word-of-mouth referrals or inbound marketing starts to become super effective.
John Jantsch: Absolutely. Well, Philip, tell people where they can find you and more about your work.
Philip Morgan: I like to point folks to an email crash course that I've put together on the subject of positioning and specializing. It's called positioningcrashcourse.com is the website where you can go sign up for that. That is the best way. Once you're on my email list, I sort of become your best friend. I'm happy to answer questions that you might have or what have you. I would just say go to positioningcrashcourse.com.


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'HTGAWM' 6×03 review: Don't pretend it's about me
HTGAWM season 6, episode 3, "Do You Think I'm a Bad Man?" made huge progress on some of the season's major storylines. Here's our review of the episode.
How to Get Away With Murder season 6, episode 3, jumped straight into the case of the week. However, it wasn't Annalise who swaggered to the front of the class to present the charges at hand. It was Michaela who confidently (at least in appearance) took the lead.
It really hit me, in this episode, how much time HTGAWM is spending on its procedural element this season. Since it's the show's final season, I would have expected that to be downplayed in favor of developing the arcs of the show's many central characters. If anything, the weekly cases are taking up more time than ever, or at least since the very early seasons of How to Get Away With Murder.
Related: HTGAWM's Annalise Keating should find love in the final season
That being said, I really like how they're using the cases to give us a glimpse at what Annalise's chosen circle will be like if, and when, they actually become lawyers. As HTGAWM has progressed, the students have been given more and more responsibility, so it makes sense that, in the final season, they'd be the ones in the driver's seat.
Annalise definitely isn't absent, but she's also legitimately letting her students make mistakes. I loved the new dynamic that was illustrated in Michaela's conversation with Annalise. The students are realizing how much she's done for them, and the ways in which they need her help more than they could have imagined. They also still admire her, and deeply want her to feel the same about them.
I hope all of the Keating crew's cases carry over to future episodes, in the way that Connor's did. So much of being a lawyer is what happens outside of the courtroom, and in HTGAWM season 6, episode 3, Connor both showed that he will follow his heart, and potentially learned why that's not always such a good idea.
Michaela, Gabriel, and Connor all got chances to shine in the cases that were explored in this episode, and Asher got a chance to…deliver a bunch of one liners. Don't get me wrong, I loved the banter between Michaela and the boys, but it really highlighted, for me, how sidelined Asher has been.
I'm really looking forward to Asher's inevitable chance to prove, in the courtroom, that he was always worthy of the clinic, but I'm also hoping for a deeper storyline for his character. It's the final season, and it feels like everyone else has something really meaty to work with, while Asher remains reluctantly in the background.
Bonnie really impressed me, in this episode of How to Get Away With Murder. She managed to win Tegan over to get a job, and was also able to fool everyone, including Annalise, about her motives. It looks like Nate's suspicions about Tegan have only risen, and I'm really happy the show is using Bonnie to explore that, in lieu of Nate's darker approach.
However, I'm also still desperately hoping that Tegan is innocent. We learned an interesting fact about her marital status in HTGAWM season 6, episode 3, but I'm still not sure what we're supposed to take from that. What I am sure of, is that I loved the flirtation going on between Tegan and Annalise in this episode, and will take as much of that as they want to give us. As long as Tegan is innocent, that is.
After all of that, we still haven't even gotten to the biggest moments of the episode! HTGAWM did a great job of hiding some huge reveals under a bunch of procedural drama, but this was actually a really big episode, for the show.
Thanks to Oliver, Frank is closer to finding Laurel than ever. I have to admit, I was skeptical when Frank claimed that the seemingly random brunette on the security footage was Laurel, but I guess he must really be in love with her, because he was right. As of now, we have absolutely no idea if Xavier and Frank simply managed to find Laurel's safe house at the same time, or if Xavier had been keeping her there, all along, but I can't wait to see how this unfolds, next week.
In other "Frank's love life" news, I think my favorite part of HTGAWM season 6, episode 3, was when Bonnie shot Frank down, saying "don't pretend it's about me." It showcased how well those two characters know each other, but also how strong and savvy Bonnie is becoming. Too bad for Frank, though!
I spent a lot of this episode trying to figure out how to feel about Vivian, but came out firmly on her side. I wasn't sure if she was going to be an ally, a force to be reckoned with, or simply a liability, but in the end, she cemented her identity. First and foremost, she's a great mother. Admittedly, I was terrified when they showed her talking to the FBI, but she really turned things around.
Rome Flynn, who portrays Gabriel, blew me away, in this episode. When he broke down and told his mother the truth about what he'd done, it was, without a doubt, a man dropping the veil that he'd used to shield himself for his entire life. It was pure vulnerability, and it was an extremely emotional scene.
Viola Davis also deserves recognition, as per usual, for Annalise's return to hit therapy. It's amazing that she's found something that helps her channel her emotions, and I would be happy if we saw similar breakthroughs, in the final season. It was interesting that the fact that Sam confided in Vivian about their lost child brought her to the brink, but it made it clear how much her late husband and child are still a part of her. I'm eager to see how, or if, this is resolved, in any way, in this season of HTGAWM.
We'll see if Michaela has a similarly vulnerable reaction to learning the truth about her father, next week. I'm interested to see how this affects her relationship with Annalise, which has already been such a rollercoaster in this season, and in previous seasons. Also, now that we know her dad isn't dead, there's still a possibility of her meeting him!
I don't know about you, but exactly two things went through my head when Connor saw the picture of the crime scene. First, I thought it was Sam. Then, I was terrified that it was Oliver. The obvious conclusion is that it's Annalise, but I'm still not convinced this is connected to her funeral, and I can't see her death eliciting that kind of reaction from Connor.
The FBI did mention "dead informant," so that could also point to Tegan or Vivian. They also mentioned Michaela, which got me excited and nervous about how the flash forward scenes will test the bonds within the Keating crew. I can't wait to find out more, next week!
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An airline is trying to capitalize on remote working by offering a monthly subscription for flights, which will also include rented accommodation
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Star Flyer will offer flights between Fukuoka, a city in the south of Japan, and the capital, Tokyo.
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A Japanese domestic airline is offering remote workers a monthly subscription for flights, per Bloomberg.
Star Flyer's service will also offer rented accommodation in and around the southern city of Fukuoka.
The subscription will cost between $1,340 and $2,680 per month.
Star Flyer, a Japanese domestic airline, plans to offer a monthly subscription for some domestic flights, which will include rented accommodation.
Bloomberg first reported the news. The move appears to be an attempt to cash in on the rise of remote and hybrid working.
Per Bloomberg, the subscription model, which costs between 200,000 yen and 400,000 yen, or $1,340 to $2,680 per month, will offer flights between Fukuoka, a city in the south of Japan, and the capital, Tokyo.
Included in the offer is rented accommodation in and around Fukuoka, where living costs are much lower than in Tokyo. This would allow hybrid workers to move out of the capital while still being able to commute back as many times as they want.
The average flight time between Fukuoka is one hour and 40 minutes, per Google Flights. Single fares between the southern city and the capital booked with Star Flyer can cost between $52 and $286, depending on the season.
"Compared with tourism, demand for business travel is still weak, which is one of the reasons we consider relocation as a way to cultivate new demand," Star Flyer spokesperson, Yuki Furuse, told Bloomberg.
Representatives for Star Flyer did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment made outside normal working hours.
The COVID-19 pandemic has driven Tokyo office vacancy rates to an eight-year high, according to data from office broker Miki Shoji, and has also accelerated the rise of remote working around the country.
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Urochloa panicoides is a fodder grass originating in Southern Africa.

Description
This annual grass has decumbent or upright stems up to a meter long. It may root where its lower nodes contact the substrate. The leaves have linear or lance-shaped blades up to 25 centimeters long. They are hairless to somewhat hairy, and they may have hairs lining the edges. The inflorescence is composed of up to 10 racemes, each up to 7 centimeters long. The spikelets are solitary or paired.

Urochloa panicoides can be confused with Urochloa setigera, but the morphology of the spikelet is slightly different.

Distribution
This grass is native to southern Africa. It has naturalized elsewhere, including Australia, Argentina, India and the United States.

Ecology
It is most common on moist grasslands and lakesides up to an altitude of 2200 meters.

Usage
This grass is often used as a fodder for cattle and horses. It is now known as a weed and a potential seed contaminant.

Diseases and pests
This grass is susceptible to the maize streak virus (MSV), which is transmitted by Cicadulina leafhoppers such as Cicadulina mbila, C. arachidis, C. triangula, C. bimaculata, C. similis, C. latens, C ghaurii, and C. parazeae.

It is also susceptible to cereal chlorotic mottle virus, which is transmitted by several insects, including Nesoclutha pallida and Cicadula bimaculata.

Common names
Common names for the grass include barajalgauti, basaunta (Punjabi), tuinheesgras, heesgras, kurimanna (Afrikaans), sharp-flowered signal-grass, annual signal grass, garden signal grass, panic liverseed grass, herringbone grass (English), kuri millet (in Zimbabwe), pasto africano (Italian), farsho (Somali), kgolane, and bore-ba-ntjia (Sotho).

References

Panicoideae
Grasses of Africa
Flora of the Arabian Peninsula
Flora of Iran
Flora of the Indian subcontinent
Taxa named by Palisot de Beauvois

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Lynchburg man sentenced to 17 years for meth trafficking
By Richard Chumney rchumney@newsadvance.com
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A Lynchburg man who federal prosecutors accused of being a significant supplier of methamphetamine in the region was sentenced to 17 years in prison Thursday.
Muncie Robert Kersey, 44, pleaded guilty in March to one count each of conspiracy to distribute meth and brandishing a firearm while trafficking drugs. As part of a plea agreement, prosecutors agreed to drop a second narcotics charge and a second firearm charge.
Kersey was a "recurring figure" in meth dealings in and around Lynchburg from 2016 until his arrest and was responsible for distributing anywhere from five to 15 kilograms of meth, which is equivalent to 11 to 33 pounds, Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew Bassford said in an earlier hearing in the Lynchburg division of the U.S. District Court of the Western District of Virginia.
Kersey originally was arrested April 28, 2018 when officers with the Lynchburg Police Department were searching for an unrelated fugitive. Kersey was in a room at a Duke Street residence, pointing a gun at the door and in possession of a backpack with multiple ounces of a methamphetamine mixture in it when he was taken into custody, according to prosecutors.
After entering a guilty plea, Kersey faced between at least 17 years and life in prison. On Thursday, Linda Willis, Kersey's attorney, asked U.S. District Judge Norman Moon not to add prison time beyond the minimum sentence mandated by federal law. Bassford did not disagree with Willis, calling the 17-year sentence "pretty fair."
From the witness stand, Kersey described his struggle with a meth addiction and the loss of his girlfriend to suicide. He said he turned to drug dealing to fund his addiction and to help pay bills.
"I was trying to get away from it," he said. "I dug a hole too deep and I didn't know how to get out of it."
Asked by the judge if he was aware of how many lives he's destroyed, Kersey said, "I do now, but at the time I didn't see it that way."
At the conclusion of the 30-minute hearing, Kersey apologized to the court.
"I just want to say sorry for all the havoc I caused," he said. "I see the bad in it now. I really do."
Moon sentenced Kersey to 10 years for the meth charge and seven years for the firearm charge. The sentences will run consecutively.
Along with the prison term, Kersey was ordered to undergo mental health and drug treatment while in custody. He will be on supervised release for five years at the end of his sentence.
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Maybe it's the relatively close proximity from his hometown of Moscow, Idaho to the 49th parallel, but Josh Ritter has always seemed to exhibit a special fondness for Canada and judging from the sold-out Horseshoe Tavern on Thursday night, Canada loves him too. Taking a break from recording the follow-up to his splendid 2006 release The Animal Years, Ritter has been touring across North America in a solo acoustic format playing smaller venues than he would normally, much to the delight of those in attendance.
Opening for him on this evening was Julie Fader, whom I didn't recognize until she took the stage – once upon a time and under her real name of Julie MacDonald, she fronted Hamilton space-rock band Flux AD whose career I followed a decade ago. Since then, she went on to tour in Sarah Harmer's band which is where she likely met Ritter (he opened on tour for Harmer a few years back). Her new solo material is rather conventional acoustic singer-songwriter fare, though the textural guitar and keys work from former Flux AD bandmate Graham Walsh helped give it an extra dimension. On the plus side, her voice is still simultaneously crystalline and weary, but on the minus side, her lyrics are almost painfully plain and direct. That could well be by design, but a little metaphor or inscrutability could go a long way.
As a songwriter, Ritter wears his influences a bit on his sleeve with obvious nods to Dylan and Springsteen in his work, but rather than assuming the voice of the former's barbed-tongued commentator or the latter's blue-collar everyman, he instead comes across as the earnest collegian – intelligent, optimistic and romantic (if perhaps a bit bruised). Clad in a white pinstriped suit, full beard and a wide grin, Ritter bounded onstage at 11PM and spent the next hour and half communing and commiserating with the crowd. The dynamic between performer and audience was pretty much as you'd hope for in such an environment, with he alternately storytelling or just conversing with his fans between songs – casual, intimate and genuine.
The set list played out pretty much exactly as you'd expect – leaning heavily on The Animal Years with the expansive "Thin Blue Flame" as the centrepiece/finale (or second last song, anyways) but also including some older material – at least some from Hello Starling, maybe even further back, I don't know the first two records – and some covers. A Springsteen quote here, Waits there, and once again his take on Leonard Cohen's "Chelsea Hotel No 2". All of it sounded marvelous, Ritter proving himself to be an artist who can make a solo acoustic show dynamic and engaging and this is coming from someone who's a bit of a hard sell on the format. While I certainly won't complain when Ritter comes back to town with his band, whenever that would be, I also wouldn't be disappointed if he left them at home again.
The Winnipeg Sun and Georgia Straight talk to Ritter about the roots of his songcraft and the politics of The Animal Years, respectively.
Photos: Josh Ritter, Julie Fader @ The Horseshoe – February 15, 2007
MP3: Josh Ritter – "Girl In The War"
MP3: Josh Ritter – "Thin Blue Flame"
MP3: Josh Ritter – "Chelsea Hotel No 2" (live at the Rivoli, Feb 2005)
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Filter has posted online their recent cover story pitting The Office's John Krasinski against The Shins. Okay, it's not so much a pitting against as a lot of mutual back-patting (and in Krasinski's case, self-back patting). An interesting idea in theory but not so much in practice. Elsewhere, The Georgia Straight declares James Mercer to be not cocky, Dave Hernandez talks to The Seattle Times and The Salt Lake Tribune about debuting at #2 on the Billboard charts and Marty Crandall chats with The Seattle PI. And The Wall Street Journal compares the band to former SubPop meal tickets Nirvana. The Shins are at the Kool Haus on St Patrick's Day.
And for more Office/indie rock synchronicity, tune in to Saturday Night Live this week –
Saturday Night Live – Rainn Wilson, aka Dwight K Schrute, hosts and Arcade Fire are the musical guest. For reals.
Mew return to Toronto on March 26 for a show at the Mod Club, Scots Aerogramme and The Twilight Sad team up with Hamilton's A Northern Chorus for a show at the ElMon on April 6 ($12 advance) and The Wooden Stars mark their return to active duty with a CD release show at the Horseshoe on April 19, tickets $10. Their first album in almost eight years, People Are Different, is out April 10. I used to be in a chess club with one of the guys in The Wooden Stars. True story. And to celebrate the release of The Reminder on May 1, Feist will perform at the Grand Old Lady of Shuter Street, Massey Hall, on May 26. The first single from the album, "My Moon My Man", is making the rounds on ye olde internet – it sounds great and that show would surely be something to see.
And speaking of Massey Hall, there's some video footage available from the DVD component of the forthcoming Neil Young release Live At Massey Hall, due out March 13. Pitchfork reports that Young is already at work on his next studio album, so even though 2007 will be the year that he finally journeys through his past (Archives is out this Fall), he's still moving ahead into the future. Update: Nix on that new album info – for some reason Google News grabbed a PF headline two years old and served it up as current and I didn't read closely. Until further notice, Neil will be sitting around the ranch, just hanging out.
Stream: Neil Young – Live At Massey Hall trailer
Someone who claims to have knowledge of such things posted the following on The National's mailing list about their new album:
The music is great, perhaps a bit more of a mellow vibe than Alligator overall — perhaps somewhere between the Cherry Tree mellow/beautiful sound and the Alligator more up-beat/rocking sound. Most notable about the record is that it has the best arrangements they've done, by far, and there's some unexpected & wonderful new elements that you haven't heard before. Think trumpets, and other brass instruments; increased use of female backing vocals; excellent piano bits by Thomas Bartlett (aka Doveman & sideman to David Byrne, Bebel Gilberto, Laurie Anderson, The Frames, Yoko Ono); and possible even some playing by band friend, Sufjan Stevens.
Thematically it intertwines songs about love, songs about war, and songs about office life. Or, more correctly, songs that are about all three topics at the same time.
Sounds plausible. The record is still untitled but should be out on May 22.
And not surprisingly, I spent a good chunk of this weekend perusing the SxSW schedule and while I've got a preliminary grid finished, I'm not committing to anything until I've gone through some/all of the MP3s provided to assist in the decision making process. HearYa has consolidated links to all with streaming functionality on one convenient page while Donewaiting directs us to the 3.1GB torrent of all available MP3s. You know, I don't even know that I have that much space on my iPod.
By : Frank Yang at 8:11 am
Wow, great post Frank.
Really excited for the new National record…
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Wow, what a grab bag of a post Frank. Thank you.
Julie is a pretty fantastic musician in my humble opinion, I think we will see a lot more from here. Playing Wurlitzer, flute, and melodica in Sarah's band was pretty impressive to me at least.
I first saw Josh Ritter backing Sarah Harmer at RiverRun in Guelph, which was a great venue for him. For the encore, Sarah had him come out to join her band on I'm A Mountain – the namesake song for her tour. My favourite songs are Snow Is Gone and Wings, but I have some delving into his catalogue yet to do. Thanks for the Chelsea Hotel cover, I love that song too.
And that didn't take you long to find the super-gig torrent – I got last years and am still sampling stuff from it. Looking forward to your coverage this year – last year's was great and it's all inspiring me to think about a trip in '08.
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Thanks for the shout out. You should really check out Golden Age of Radio by Ritter. My favorite of them all.
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