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By Scott Mairs
In October 2017 , after finishing secondary school in June, myself and two friends began discussing ideas for hikes further afield than just the UK. So, brainstorming ideas, we brought the options down to Norway or France. With us being students, and the knowledge that Norway was very expensive, we opted for France – coming to the final decision while on Buzzards Roost on the northern slopes of Slieve Binnian. And that was that – the decision was made. One of the other members of our party decided upon the Tour Du Mont Blanc, which weaves its way around the Mont Blanc Massif, crossing three international borders and several mountain cols.
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Between the months of October 2017 and June 2018, the clock was running in getting myself prepared for the TMB, both mentally and physically. This would be my first time leaving the British Isles, and what a way to start a life of travelling (hopefully). An additional member was added to the group, bringing the number up to four. I decided that it would also be a good idea to raise money for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds – specifically my local reserve, Portmore Lough. So, with their permission, I set up a JustGiving account, and set it live in the late Autumn. Training continued through the winter, with climbs of Doan, Bearnagh, and Meelmore. By May, I had been up the Mournes half a dozen times, and had been preparing myself in the gym. After my course in tech finished at the start of June, myself and another member of the group took ourselves to the edge of the Annalong Forest to camp – my first camping trip in the Mournes. Only a week before jetting off to Geneva, we undertook this gruelling hike – the weather was stifling, water levels were low, and our bags were extremely heavy. The hardest trek I've ever done in the Mournes, which battered my confidence and put a great amount of apprehension into me in regards to the TMB. However, it was too late now – the flights were booked, we were going.
On the 18th June 2018, we left an evening Aldergrove and landed in London Gatwick Airport under darkening skies. After a very sleepless night, we woke early for the flight to Geneva. After this flight, from which I got my first view of the mountains, we took the bus into the Alps and, about 18 hours after leaving Lisburn, we arrived in Les Houches. After an evening of gathering supplies, we planned for our first day hiking in a hostel, and lay down to bed, prepared. We woke at 7, and left Les Houches by 10. It didn't take long, however, to realise – the going would be tough. The climb out of the village took three hours, climbing 700m to the first Col. However, with heavy bags and 35 degree heat, it felt twice that height. Upon reaching the top, we regained our composure and ate lunch, and began marching towards Les Contamines, unaware of how little progress we had made. To cut a long story short, we ended up at the camp just as night began to fall at 10pm. Hungry, tired, and regretful, we frantically asked around for help. A supposedly 6-hour hike had taken us nearly 12 hours. The first day was said to be easy, breaking you into the TMB. It was, by far, the hardest day I'd ever hiked in my life. A long-drawn out day. Concerned, we went to sleep that evening.
After a restless night, we woke at 6am. However, we discussed between ourselves whether we should carry on to the next camp or get a bus. I will admit, I fancied the bus, but we walked on. After another tough climb out of the trees, we emerged at the bottom of a great valley. The sun was out, but with a higher altitude, the air was cooler and, for the first time since setting off, smiles returned. We marched on to lunch, making good time. Before stopping at Col De La Croix, we carried on up the valley, through snow-covered faces, to Col Du Bonhomme, one of the highest cols on the tour, an altitude of 2330m. We climbed a further 1.1 miles and climbed another 100m before reaching our nightly stop, Cross shelter Bonhomme. Arriving in good time, we found ourselves sleeping at twice the height of Ben Nevis, and three times the height of Slieve Donard.
The third day brought high spirits and good progress. Doing a day-and-a-half worth of trekking in the day, we crossed the Italian border that evening to a view I'll never forget. Two peaks to the left of the scene, with Mont Blanc itself towering behind made the vantage the most beautiful place I've ever been. The sun, low in the sky, the air cool, Col de Seigne proved to be an incredible end to a fantastic day. Being half a day ahead, we slept in Refuge Elizabetta, and made our way into the town of Courmayeur, with a little help from a bus. We arrived in Courmayeur a day ahead, essentially, and we camped up the valley in a town called Plampincieux. This was a real highlight as spirits were, once again, high, and camping was easy. We vowed to use the following day to get further ahead of ourselves. And, by God, we did. Marching on, we reached the Swiss border by lunch time, climbing to Grand Col Ferret. A long, hot climb, but we made it in good time. However, for the first time on the TMB, I had to put a coat on due to the cold. The scene was stunning, and we took it in for about 20 minutes, before descending into a cloudy Switzerland.
Waking up after an excruciatingly cold night, we trekked on in what was the hottest day. Being constantly at the bottom of a valley on this day meant that we were at the full mercy of the sun. An uneventful day, we passed through the towns of Praz-de-Fort, Les Arlaches, and Issert, before a hot, harsh climb to Champex-Lac. Another uneventful night camping, we woke the next day to find another hot day. We marched out of Champex just after breakfast, and climbed through the forests to Alp Bovine, one of the smallest peaks of the Mont Blanc Massif. Before reaching lunch, we made a turn from facing northwest to facing southwest, back towards Chamonix. We found, after this turn, that we felt like we were on the home straight. This kept spirits high for the rest of the day, arriving at Col De La Forclaz that evening in good time. The routine had been well rehearsed, however, this campsite was different. There were no trees obstructing our view, and the hostel next to the campsite flew a Swiss flag in front of the beautiful Swiss landscape. Nestled between Pointe Ronde, and Mont de l'Arpille, the campsite was well sheltered and that night of sleeping was easy.
We woke, and carried out or morning duties – breakfast, taking the tent down, packing the bag, and leaving by 8am. We were well used to this routine, and walking no longer seemed daunting. We just set off. Only an hour after leaving, we hiked through the small town of Trient, over which, two Swiss Air Force F-18's fly through the valley. A fitting way to say farewell to Switzerland. Continuing through the morning, the walk through the forests was difficult to say the least. Hot, sweaty, and, quite frankly, unpleasant. However, we exited the forest and made our way to our last col of the walk – Col de Balme. Another stunning view over the Chamonix Valley greeted us. Under a completely blue sky, Mont Blanc towered over the town. After napping at the col for an hour, we made our way down the ski slope. I've never been skiing before, but seeing a ski slope without the snow was strange. However, after a quick pit stop in the ski resort on the way down, we arrived in Montroc early that evening. As we had arrived in the most built up area of the walk, the campsite was luxurious compared to others we had been staying in – a communal room, a basketball court, and a delicious dinner of mussels and French Fries. We went to sleep that evening content and excited about what the final day had in store.
The next morning, we woke to another beautiful day. Our morning routine, again, went into full swing, and we made for the mountains once again. I was rather excited about this day as we could see the setting for the Golden Eagle scene in the 'Mountains' episode of Planet Earth 2, just across the valley. We walked on along the side of the mountains, towards the ladders, which I dreaded. Ladders up the side of cliffs with sheer drops below. However, over the two or three sets of ladders, I succeeded and carried on, triumphant. Views across the Chamonix Valley towards the most famous glacier in the Alps, Mer de Glace, were outstanding. We had lunch and, two hours later, reached our ride home – the La Flégère Cable Car. We reached Chamonix mid afternoon and made our way to the nearest McDonalds, underlining the Tour Du Mont Blanc. Done.
I know it's cliché to say, but I did learn a lot about myself on the tour. A determined side that I had never seen before came out in me – inspired by the landscape? Maybe. A physical strength in myself, again, something I have never experienced, showed itself as something I have. The entire setting was incredible, the landscapes, breathtaking. Anyone considering a long distance trek, I cannot recommend the Tour Du Mont Blanc enough.
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Mary O'Brien Tyrrell grew up in Superior, Wisconsin. She was one of seven children in her family. She joined the Navy Nurse Corps midway through her four-year nursing program at the College of St. Scholastica in Duluth. In August 1964, she and a fellow nursing student traveled to Greenwood, Mississippi, to provide medical care to the African American community during Freedom Summer. They arrived on the day the bodies of slain civil rights activists James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner were discovered in the ditch in Philadelphia, Mississippi. They spent a month working in the ghetto in Greenwood, returning home in time for classes that fall. Mary began her fulltime work in the Navy Nurse Corps after she graduated in 1965. She volunteered to go to Vietnam, but was told she was too young. Instead, Navy officials told her she could go to USNHGuam, MI, if she extended her duty an extra six months, which she did. She arrived on Guam in June 1967 and left in December 1968. While there, she served as head nurse on the D-2 U.S.N.H., which became the Air Evac Unit, a concept that she initiated shortly after arrival. During her eighteen months of service on Guam, she and her colleagues cared for 18,000 wounded servicemen, most of whom were Marines. After she returned from Guam, she learned to be silent about her experiences during the war…until she began writing poetry in 1984.
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Na terenie diecezji pracuje 12 zakonników i 70 sióstr zakonnych.

Historia

Santa Marta jest najstarszym miastem w Kolumbii. Założono je w 1525. 10 stycznia 1534, za pontyfikatu Klemensa VII, erygowano w tym mieście diecezję. Było to pierwsze biskupstwo na tych terenach. Do tej pory tutejsi wierni należeli do diecezji Santo Domingo (obecnie archidiecezja Santo Domingo na Dominikanie).

11 września 1562 na terenach biskupstwa erygowano diecezję Santa Fe w Nowej Grenadzie (obecnie archidiecezja Bogota), którą dwa lata później podniesiono do godności archidiecezji. Tym samym biskupstwo w Santa Marta straciło przewodnią rolę w strukturach kościelnych Nowej Grenady.

17 stycznia 1905 z wschodniej części diecezji wydzielono wikariat apostolski Goajira (obecnie nieistniejący).

26 października 1962 wyodrębniono południowy fragment diecezji erygując diecezję Ocaña.

17 stycznia 2006 na części terytorium diecezji Santa Marta powstała diecezja El Banco.

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Sena Supremo Uddhav Thackeray Gets His Way As He Forms Sena-NCP-Cong Govt, Set To Be Chief Minister
MUMBAI – The Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress combine on Tuesday evening elected Uddhav Thackeray as its nominee for Maharashtra Chief Minister's post, following which the Sena president met the Governor and staked claim to form government of the "Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi".
Thackeray was accompanied by legislature party leaders of the three parties as he headed for Raj Bhavan to meet governor B K Koshyari, a Sena leader said.
"We are submitting a joint statement of staking claim for government formation. We will also produce proof of the support of all the MLAs of the three parties to the governor as part of the mandatory procedure," said the leader.
The three parties held a joint meeting at a suburban hotel where Thackeray was picked as leader of the unlikely alliance.
NCP chief Sharad Pawar announced at the meeting that swearing-in of the new government will be held at Shivaji Park in central Mumbai on December 1.
Thackeray, who would be the first member of his family to occupy the top political post in the state, said his government will not be vindictive.
"I will go to Delhi to meet my 'elder brother' after the government is formed," he said, referring to Prime Minister Narendra Modi who had called him "my younger brother" during campaign rallies.
Hours earlier, four-day-old BJP government led by Devendra Fadnavis and supported by NCP's Ajit Pawar had collapsed.
At the meeting, Maharashtra NCP chief Jayant Patil proposed Thackeray's name as "the (next) chief minister".
State Congress chief Balasaheb Thorat seconded the proposal.
The meeting was attended by Sharad Pawar, senior party leader Praful Patel, Congress leader Ashok Chavan, Swabhimani Shetkari Sanghatana's Raju Shetti, Samajwadi Party's Abu Azmi, MLAs of all these parties, and others.
Speaking at the meeting, Thackeray evoked memories of his father, late Shiv Sena founder Bal Thackeray.
He also thanked Congress president Sonia Gandhi.
"I want to thank Sonia ji also. Parties with different ideologies have come together…those who were friends for 30 years, did not trust us. But those against whom we fought for 30 years have trusted me," Thackeray said.
Common people should think of this government as their own, he said.
"The fight is not personal…my government will not work in a vindictive way," Thackeray said.
Without naming the former ally BJP with whom the Sena had a bitter falling out after contesting the October 21 assembly elections together, Thackeray said he would not align with those who speak lies, apparently referring to the BJP's claim that it had never agreed to share CM's post with Sena.
Speaking on the occasion, Pawar eulogised Bal Thackeray, his bitter adversary in politics but a dear friend in personal life.
The three parties named their alliance as 'Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi'.
Earlier in the day, Chief Minister Fadnavis resigned, barely 80 hours after taking oath for the second time, a move triggered by his deputy Ajit Pawar's resignation citing "personal reasons".
Fadnavis was sworn in on November 23 in an early morning hush-hush ceremony, with the support of Ajit Pawar, who then headed the 54-member NCP legislature party.
Ajit was not seen at the joint meeting of the three parties on Tuesday evening.


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finally got me a 5 window pick up but need an engine swap ?
60 Years of the '57 Chevy. Brooklands Museum.
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While students decide which series of horror attractions they will be attending, thoughts usually include whether or not they want to deal with people in scary clown masks or if they prefer walk through mazes to haunted hayrides. As discussed in last week's issue of The Snapper, Eastern State Penitentiary is one of these attractions made available each October in Philadelphia. While I can understand the appeal of paying for people to jump out at you to provide an adrenaline rush, I cannot help but take some offense that this prison site is taken into consideration with such amusement that it nearly invalidates every real and serious experience which its prior residents held. One of these residents happens to be my great-uncle Joseph Augustus Baranowski.
Personal family photo of Joseph A. Baranowski.
When my uncle was 17, he and his friend chose to rob a grocery store, though his friend unexpectedly chose to take a hostage thus raising their charges to kidnapping. This action led to a prison sentence of 36 years on Fairmont Avenue, and a degradation to the inmate number series E2333 in his new dungaree prison wardrobe. He was released early on good behavior, but was unable to live feeling free within society again and resorted to robbing grocery store chains through Brinks trucks which would transport money within Colorado.
Food was compared to slop, according to Baranowski, residing within the Quaker-run prison. Despite this alternate faith being used as a control, he returned to his Jewish heritage to not only receive better treatment but to also obtain better food in regards to the holy holidays. It is within the prison's synagogue that he was most at peace, and able to feel a sense of identity and community beyond an identification number.
Visits were only permitted once a month and lasted for thirty minutes, though an age minimum was not in place at the time for visitors. There were no phone calls granted to the inmates, nor were any packages permitted entry into the facility.
As a resident, my great-uncle witnessed murders in the showers, inmates thrown over the rails, leading to mesh grating later installed, and the premeditated removal of certain individuals such as pedophiles. On the other hand, there were also inmates who would collectively send their earnings to our family, helping pay for medical bills for my mother's heart problems as a child.
The synagogue inside the Eastern State Penitentiary.
During his travels after his initial release from Eastern State Penitentiary, Baranowski's companion in the primary robberies turned him in, and he was sentenced an additional ten years in prison. He did not serve this time in full though, as he was clever enough to be acquitted to Fairview State Hospital by consuming banana peels to leave the prison environment and its dangers. After two years in the institution, he was released.
When my mother and I most recently visited the penitentiary, I could not help but feel the sadness emanating from the broken down halls showing where he and his fellow residents lived. If anything, I gained an immense appreciation for the freedom to walk in and out of the cells and the building itself. We could think without the threat of danger, and were never restricted to any area except the synagogue, which was being renovated at the time.


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While it's been a long time since I've personally held a racket, it had been even longer since I had played an actual Tennis title that did not start with the words "Mario Tennis". Coming from studio Big Ant Studios and published by Bigben Interactive, Australian Open (AO) Tennis 2 was quick to remind me of the real rules and that a custom made PY starting out his career was going to be a hell of a lot harder than using a pro like Rafael Nadal.
Unless you're good enough to start off without doing the tutorials in order to learn the lays of the court, there are three main modes available to you. The first is going straight into the Australian Open with any real pro player, the second is to start up a career with either a custom designed character in terms of both looks and stats, and the last is to take your skills online. Making the mistake of starting off my new career and flunking my first training session, I went to get some practice and saw just how different AO Tennis 2 can be until you've leveled up and really developed your custom character into a force to be reckoned with.
Creating your character is more than just adjusting your hair, beard, shorts and shoes to match with your preferred color combination in which that alone with all of the options present could take quite a fair amount of time. Creating your character will define your playstyle as you are given a monetary budget in order to train your character into a specific playstyle. Do you want to specialize in top spin serve? Drop shot returns? Lobs? Or just flat out send it back? The initial choice is yours but it's not where it ends as you can both level up your character and keep training those styles that suit you best.
Once you've decided to either make your own character or jump right into it with one of the pros, the gameplay becomes everything as you take your sneakers and your racket onto the court. The basic rules of Tennis are simple. One side serves, the other returns, the return must stay within the defined lines of either Singles or Doubles and mechanically? It plays so damned smoothly. The only thing that I wish I knew right before starting were exactly how to do the shots but that's why there's a tutorial.
To either serve or return the ball you can press and hold the buttons on your controller that both control the power of the shot as well as where you're planning on returning it to the other side of the court. Because you only ever have to worry about the pressure by pressing the four separate buttons for both returning or serving, you never really have to think outside of those four styles unless you really want to start playing "dirty" by drop shotting it just slightly over the net. By doing this you force them to run so close that even if they return it they'll be hard pressed to return it after you've sent it right back and over their heads near the back of the court. It's not full proof depending on the skill of the player or the stats of the character, but it's learning how and when to use these nuances that can change a losing match into a winning one.
The above is really where you're going to see the difference between a brand new character and a pro. Using a starting character you're going to have to be really careful on your timing as not holding a shot long enough for a serve or holding on too long and your ball may not even pass the net. As a pro? Hell that ball sailed right over making you wonder why you would even want to make your own when you can play at that skill level. And that's where you have to decide for yourself how you want to play and if you're willing to spend the time and effort into making your own character into a pro at the game.
The only issue that AO Tennis 2 suffers from is SUPER long load times. Once the game is loaded, things go by super quickly and smoothly but getting into any match or switching between the main menus and categories needs a bit of time so if you have anything to do before sitting down to a match? That's the time to do it!
Overall, Big Ant Studios and Bigben Interactive's AO Tennis 2 is a great title. With the only real issue being the load times, playing either singles or doubles for any amount of time whether a quick set or a couple of them is great fun either against the CPU, your friends, or the scary people online that make things look way too easy like Ryouma in the Prince of Tennis.
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Safety in motion
Security of 21st Century
Safety in motion was born with the objective to create a community that bets for innovation and disruption in the world of security. Including from consultancy, design, technology and constant audit. A sector that leaves behind the traditional locksmith world to evolve towards becoming one of the pioneer companies in the security sector.
The aim to create this brand was to generate strong links between professionals of the sector that share the same vision of the future and innovation in their profession. Brands, that are like people, refect values, passions and styles. Each of the professionals that coexist in this community share an emotional bond that can overcome any professional, economic and legal relationship. Be clear that the brand has to communicate both to the outside and the inside, every corporate fundament was a big challenge for the strategic development. A Brand that includes a big transformation towards exponential growth in a short period of time.
Outcome Cyclical Branding
Brand universe creation in a strategic way that contemplates omnichannel strategic identity, applitacions, furniture and retail as corporate training for the team.
Safety in motion brand is considered as the cornerstone and origin of the entire universe that orbits around and was born as an attitude mark crowned by the leit motive "Our attitude", wich is responsable for transmitting the importance of thelink and personal and professional involvement in it.
And it is that the brands of the SXXI must be based on values and attitudes, but in a more tangible stage of the brand we find 3 work areas strategically developed in which the constant collaboration between client and brandcelona® has been essential to maintain the coherence of the same. The 3 strategic areas are: product, space and training.
Each of these areas has its own designed identity and strategy. It's as important to know how to creat a Brand as to know how to manage it throughout his life, and it is that a good brand with a bad strategy of evolution and communication will never help us to approach success.
Safety in motion is the winner of the National Award The Supplement to the best franchise.
As the Brand has been evolving, degress of analysis and categorizations have emerged that give rise to new peripheral evidences –what we call applications and products- making this brand is constantly evolving. A good structure is what has allowed SAFETY IN MOTION® to be a very powerful corporative brand that responds to the expectations created with its promise, and that recently has received the National Award The Supplement to the best franchise.
At the product level, the INN SOLUTIONS® brand was designed with "Intelligent security in constant movement" as leit-motive. Within the product brand, the differentiation between products of the Basic, Pro and Smart range was generated, offering a subjective purchase security and sales discourse. A part of the product range also design a sequential identity for each of them providing a suitable recognition for any final client inexperienced in the subject. This strategy also supports a more conscious and close purchase. Within the product area there are seals that certify a minimum of product quality reaching to show the patent of the designed product. This last resource reinforces the credibility of the INN SOLUTIONS® brand as a qualified reference to value other brands and endorse professional knowledge
INN SOLUTIONS with the main idea to show "Intelligent security in constant movement"
The space is strategicaly designed to create a global image and a memorable shopping experience. Through the SECURITY POINT – term coined to refer to the flagship store of Safety in Motion – the values of the Brand get transmitted. At the same time, in the product scope there are also different degrees of involvement with the brand that result in differentiation at the level of square meters and investment can find Gallery, Shop or Corner spaces. A continuous audit of look & feel guarantees a constant updating of all of them.
In the training area, the CAMPUS PLANNEA® brand has been designed to support any training activity of the company towards itself or towards the open professional sector. Within the different areas of the campus that have been appearing according to the growing needs we find PLANNEA SAPIENS that welcomes formations in master format that certify that the person who has completed them is trained with a level of knowledge in security that endorses it as XPERT CONSULTANT. As you can see the relationship between training-person-space generates different degrees of evolution in these same 3 pillars.
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Tired of Other People's Sales, Management, and Business Philosophies?
We help you build a business, workplace, or sales team you always thought you would build by offering ongoing training programs, coaching sessions, resource libraries and a support network.
You have had a vision of how you wanted your business to turn out.
It may not be very clear. You may not give it much conscious thought. But it's there.
How much revenues you want it to bring in every year. How much you want it to grow year after year. How much of those revenues are realized as your net profits. What kind of position you want your business to be in the marketplace. How fast you want it to grow. How long you want that business to survive and thrive in the marketplace. And what kind of "exit strategy" you want for your business and for yourself.
You have an idea of what you wanted your business to be. In fact, you've this idea for a long time, starting from the day that you stepped in to your role as the Business Owner, CEO or President.
You have always known what you wanted your business to be.
Your sales, revenues, margins and profits are lower than expected.
Your profit and productivity levels are not where you wanted to see them.
You are uncertain about the longevity of your business.
Your business is not the size, success or image you wanted it to be.
Your are not growing at the rate you wanted your business to grow.
How Many Ways to Run a Business?
Wouldn't it be nice if someone just told you exactly how to run your business, manage your people, lead your teams, engage your customers, and generate revenues? If they did, you could fix all your problems and build the business, team or sales results you always wanted to build.
Guess what? They have been telling you! A quick search on Amazon for the term "business management books" returns over 600,000 results. It's safe to assume that there are tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of philosophical models on how to build and run a business.
Whose Philosophy Will Work For Your Business?
There is only one answer, and you know what it is.
You have had an idea of how you wanted your team to work.
How much your people produce and what quality they produce. How your customers feel when they interact with the people in your team. How they show up to work. How they behave when they do show up. What kinds of skills, experience and expertise they bring to the team. What's their attitude - how they think and feel and what they believe - when they work. How passionate and engaged they feel towards their work, their team and their company. How long they stick around and how much they contribute to the success of your team and your company.
You have had this idea for a long time, starting from the day you stepped in to your role as a department manager, a team leader, or a work supervisor.
At some level, you have always known what you wanted your people to be.
Your people aren't as engaged as they should be or could be.
They don't work well with others and are difficult to manage.
They don't produce what they are capable of producing.
They engage in destructive and demoralizing behavior.
They don't stick around for long and leave just when you need them the most.
What Does 33% Efficiency Look Like?
If you manage people, you are intuitively aware that they are not performing at the level they are capable of performing.
This despite the fact that the number of management philosophies available to us probably are the highest we have ever seen in the known human history.
what causes your people to be disengaged?
Do You Bring In Sales?
You have an idea of what it's like to be successful in your role as a salesperson.
If you have been a salesperson for a while, you may even have some specific ideas on what kinds of clients you get to deal with, how much fun it is to work with them, how many deals you close, at what price and margins, and how much effort you have to put in to get from starting a conversation to closing a deal.
You have a pretty good idea of what it's like to be successful as a salesperson. You may not have written it down, you may never have told it to anyone, you may not even have given it much conscious thought, but it's there. It's always been there, from the day that you started in your role as a salesperson.
You have always known what you thought your sales career would be like.
You don't always meet your monthly or quarterly sales and revenues targets.
Your closing ratio is low - too many opportunities are lost to competition.
You are not happy with the quality of opportunities in your sales pipeline.
You always have less prospects in our sales pipeline than you need.
Your sales cycles are grueling; your prospects take too long to make buying decisions.
Your prospects complain about your prices and comparison shop you to your competitors.
How Many Ways to Sell Something?
A google search on "sales training programs" returns more than 80 million results. Needless to say, there are thousands upon thousands of selling systems being taught around the world.
Despite this, or maybe because of it, salespeople are considered some of the least trustworthy people, only slightly above politicians and lobbyists.
According to a report by Hubspot Research, only 3% of people consider salespeople to be trustworthy. If you have something to sell to someone, you are starting at a tremendous disadvantage. And the selling systems that people want to sell to you may not be much help, assuming you can figure out which one to pick to begin with.
WHAT is the root cause of Your sales problems?
And how would you fix it?
Most of the management theories in circulation today have their roots in the Scientific Management Theories developed in the 1880's (that was more than 130 years ago!) by a fellow named Frederick Taylor. This was the time of Industrial Revolution and people were fascinated, even infatuated, by machines. Taylor, like most managers of the day, viewed people as machine-parts and the business as a giant machine. He and many of his contemporaries were obsessed with how efficiently a task could be performed.
This mentality - of seeing people as things to squeeze out the maximum productivity from - is buried deep inside the psyche of even most modern managers. One of the most cliche'd sayings of the business world - "People are our most important asset!" - has its roots in this mentality. An asset is a thing to own and profit from, not a living, breathing human-being to inspire and appreciate so they feel compelled to bring their best selves to work.
Those philosophies, theories and methods were developed with the belief that human-beings could be managed like machine-things.
We have put man on the moon and brought him home safe. We carry in the palms of our hands what used to be a giant supercomputer just a few decades ago. But we still work with and manage people the way we did when the Egyptians built their pyramids and the Romans built their cities: by owning those we lead and using fear to get them to do what we want them to do.
The fundamentals of our business management have not changed much in the last few thousand years, the core of which is to see, work with, and manage people as "things." If you are to change the results you get in working with people, you can't build on the existing mindset. You will have to start with a clean slate. I present to you a new mindset, a new way of working with people. I bring you The Way of Awareness.
With no fault of your own, you have most likely picked up other people's business philosophies, management theories and sales methods.
You could not have helped it. They are all around us. They have been taught - in grade schools, technical institutions, business courses, and in on-the-job training - sometimes consciously, but mostly unconsciously. They have been passed down generation-to-generation. You could not have escaped it. If you were in a business career, you had no choice but to pick them up.
Until now. Now that you are aware of this fact, you can examine your philosophies, theories and methods in running a business, managing people and selling products and services. And once you take a closer look, you can begin to change them, but only if you need to.
The way we see it, there is only one solution to all your problems in running a business, managing people and bringing in strong sales at healthy margins: Build Your Own. Build you own business philosophy. Build your own management theories. Build your own sales methods.
This does not mean that you throw away everything you know and what you have learned. This does not mean that you ignore the best practices being taught by others.
But it does mean that you build your own framework that works for you and then tweak it, change it and evolve it as you grow.
If you are on-board with this idea, the next questions may be: 1) Where do I start? and 2) How do I go about building my own human-centric business philosophy, management theory and selling methods? This is where we can help.
We teach you how to build your own business philosophies, management theories, and selling methods that are designed around the core idea that people are complex human-beings, not simple machine-things.
We work with business presidents and CEO's, Department Managers and Team Leaders, and Salespeople and Sales Managers.
There are several aspects of the Awayre Framework that share common elements. If you sign up for one of our programs, much of what you learn is directly applicable to the other roles you play.
If you transfer between roles, a lot of what you have learned in that role comes with you so your learning does not go to waste. For example, if you go through our sales program, a lot of what you learn can be applied to your roles as a manager and a business owner. A lot of what we teach to one role is directly transferable to other roles.
Our ideal student is someone who is expected to play at least two of these three roles at point or another in their career.
We bring you Human-to-Human framework, a teachable, human-focused framework to help you build your own business philosophy, management theory and sales methods that are built - from the ground-up - around the idea that people are complex human-beings, not simplistic machine-things. Human-to-Human Framework has three components: The Way of Awareness, 7 Locks to Success and Awayre Matrix. These three components are a part of all our training and coaching programs.
The way of awareness taps the hidden capacity of human beings - their awareness - in ways that make them experientially engaged to their work and produce with effortless efficiency.
7 Locks to Success is a process to incrementally convert 7 obstacles that human beings put within themselves, and in their way, into a foundation for progress towards continuous success.
Evolution Matrix is a collection of tools and processes that drive inside-out learning through a series of insights into the nature of things and in the nature of our own experience.
You get to work on all aspects of your business as we focus on its most common denominator: Its people.
Learning modules get to the depth of your humanness so you come out feeling better than going in.
You get a chance to digest and put in practice what you learned with small dozes of learning over long term.
We get to the simpler and more essential ideas underneath the complexity of your existing business knowledge.
A support system where you can safely question, challenge and examine assumptions about your business, people and work.
Learning happens as a series of insights that go the core of your human experience so it is sustained better.
Human-to-human framework goes to the most fundamental aspects of human condition, behaviors and interaction.
You get to keep the best business practices you have accumulated. We bring you many more.
It's immediately applicable so you can apply it today to a specific real-world situation or a problem.
Taps the hidden awareness of selling professionals so that they can produce sales results with effortless efficiency.
Resolves 7 obstacles that salespeople put up within themselves so that they can achieve consistent sales revenues.
Collection of tools and processes that drives inside-out learning through a series of insights into human experience.
Taps hidden awareness of team members and their leaders so that they can produce with effortless efficiency.
Resolves 7 obstacles that team members and their leaders put up within themselves to help achieve high levels of work performance.
Collection of tools and processes that drives inside-out learning through a series of insights into the nature of human experience.
Taps hidden awareness of business people and their leaders so that they can produce business results with effortless efficiency.
Resolves 7 obstacles that business employees and their leaders put up within themselves to help achieve high levels of business success.
A collection of tools and processes that drives inside-out learning through insights into the nature of human experience.
Taps hidden awareness of customer service reps so that they can achieve high levels of customer satisfaction.
Resolves 7 obstacles that customer service reps put up within themselves to help achieve high levels of customer satisfaction.
Taps hidden awareness of business people so that they can connect with the perspective of their marketplace.
Resolves 7 obstacles that business people put up within themselves to help achieve high levels of marketing success.
Collection of tools and processes that drives inside-out learning through insights into the nature of human experience.
Helps you tap your hidden awareness so that you can live your life with effortless efficiency.
Resolves 7 obstacles you may be putting up within themselves to you help achieve high levels success.
Collection of tools and processes that drives inside-out learning through insights into your human experience.
Human-to-Human Teaching Framework: Is It Right For You?
We bring you a teachable. human-focused framework to help you build your own business philosophy, management theory and sales methods that are built - from the ground-up - around the idea that people are complex human-beings, not simplistic machine-things. H2H Framework is a simple philosophical construct that allows me/us to help you build your own human-centric business philosophy.
Small dozes of teachings over a long period of time. Requires commitment to make small, sustained changes over time.
A visceral experience that inspires engagement from people who are involved in it.
An experiential framework that allows you to build your own business philosophy, management theory or sales methods by practicing them in the real world.
A simple framework on which you can build more complex theories and methods if you want, or keep it simple.
Designed to "work" in the real world and help you improve the quality and quantity of your results.
Progressively built into your work-life to make it practical so it's retained and made into a habit.
A one-shot solution, three-day workshop, or a weekend seminar. In other words, big dozes of training delivered in a short amount of time.
Intellectual, theoretical exercise removed from the daily working of a business, a team or selling activities.
Yet another business philosophy, management theory or sales methodology that stops at memorizing and intellectualizing.
More knowledge on top of what you already know about running a business, managing people and making a sale.
Cut-off from the work-life only to be forgotten when applied in practice.
Designed to impress friends and make one sound intellectually superior.
"Bhavesh is clearly an asset to any person or organization that works with him. Not only is he skilled and insightful in his field of training and development; he also embodies powerful qualities of wisdom, dynamism and integrity. Whether it is through a one hour workshop or a long-term working relationship, Bhavesh will contribute significantly to your quality of work and quality of life."
Hi, I am Bhavesh Naik, founder and creative director at Awayre, LLC.
I am probably the most under-qualified person you can find to be doing what I do. By traditional measures, I am not your "typical" trainer, coach or management consultant. I don't have a Ph.D. in Organizational Development or a Masters Degree in Human Resources. I also own no certifications from any coaching and training institutions (and plan to keep it that way).
I have spent more time out in the field, in the trenches, working in the business world, doing the kind of work that my workshop participants do, than in a laboratory, a classroom or in academic pursuits. Everything that I teach has been tried, tested and proven, first on myself, and second in the real world, working with my clients and students, one-on-one, in small groups and large seminars.
At Awayre, LLC, we teach business people how to build their own business philosophies so that they can build a self-perpetuating, self-sustaining, long-lasting business success. Click the button below to get started on the journey to be Your Own Business Philosopher.
We teach business leaders, team managers and sales professionals how to build their own business philosophies, management theories, and selling methods that are designed around the core idea that people are complex human-beings, not simple machine-things.
To help them build their own philosophy, we teach, train, coach, counsel, and support.
Awayre, LLC is a platform to help business professionals conceive, create, build, test, apply, and adapt their own philosophies, theories, methods and systems that work for them and their businesses.
We do all these things for one reason and one reason only: To help business professionals build a business, an organization, a team, or a professional career they always thought they would build.
Our mission is to help businesses and organizations elevate their people's work performance by unlocking their untapped humanness, and apply it to their financial results as profits and assets.
We aim to help business professionals build the world around them as a microcosm, an example, of the world they want to see, a world in which every member of the human race has equal access to peace, prosperity, freedom, opportunities and well-being.
Awayre, LLC is inspired by nature, which is a perfect combination of two opposing forces: chaos and order, creativity and discipline, inspiration and logic.
People who work with us tend to have an idealistic bent, a romantic heart and an open, enlightened mind. They are also results-oriented, financially astute and practical in business matters.


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NUSPA Book Prize
Calling for Submissions for NUSPA Book Prize!
Looking to share your views on the future of Singapore? The NUSPA Book Prize Essay Competition is now open and calling for submissions!
In partnership with Global-Is-Asian from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, we are proud to launch this year's Book Prize theme, "SG Future: Building a Singapore That Matters to You". With the following essay prompts, submitted essays are encouraged to reflect on salient opportunities/challenges and policy issues:
- What are the issues that will matter to Singapore and you in the coming decade? What kind of Singapore do you want to see in the future?
- What are some key challenges confronting Singapore's development and nation-building? How have Government policies responded to them? Are these policies adequate?
- What are your recommendations on policy changes to bring about the desired change(s)?
What are you waiting for? Get your thoughts rolling! Submissions will be judged by our panelists AP Dr. Bilveer Singh (Political Science Dept) and AP Ms. Bertha Henson (CNM Dept). Shortlisted entries will stand to win attractive prizes.
Singapore, a one–party dominant state
Why should Singaporeans be seriously concerned with Islamic radicalism and Islamophobia?
Tackling Our Complex Future


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Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan extends eviction moratorium; City Council delays vote on providing lawyers for those facing eviction
March 15, 2021 at 3:55 pm Updated May 4, 2021 at 10:19 am
David Gutman
Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan extended the city's moratorium on evictions through the end of June on Monday, as the City Council pressed pause on legislation that would guarantee a lawyer for anyone facing eviction when the moratorium lifts.
The eviction moratorium applies to residential housing as well as nonprofits and small businesses. First implemented last spring, in the wake of the pandemic, it has been in effect for more than a year, as the city attempts to stave off a potential wave of evictions from people who have lost jobs due to the pandemic.
Durkan last week announced plans to spend nearly $23 million in newly available federal aid for city renters, part of last year's COVID-19 relief packages. Further rental assistance money will soon become available after last week's passage of President Joe Biden's American Rescue Plan, Durkan's office said.
"Seattle residents and businesses continue to feel the economic impact of this pandemic, and we will not successfully recover if we do not include the recovery needs of low-income communities and small businesses," Durkan said in a prepared statement. "Extending the eviction moratorium provides housing stability for our neighbors as new federal funding arrives."
The Seattle City Council had been prepared to pass a nonbinding resolution urging Durkan to extend the moratorium, but held off after Durkan extended the measure to June 30.
The City Council had also been scheduled to vote Monday on legislation that would provide a lawyer, at no cost, to any renter facing eviction. Instead, a split City Council voted 6-3 to delay the decision for two weeks.
Councilmember Kshama Sawant, the lead sponsor of the "right to counsel" legislation, accused her colleagues of working to put means-testing requirements into the bill, potentially creating an income threshold to determine who would qualify for a lawyer.
"My suspicion is you're delaying it because you want to make it weaker," she said.
But most of the council members who voted to delay said they support the measure and intend to vote for it, but worry it will face legal challenges.
"They're going to sue and come after this the way they've come after everything else," said Councilmember Andrew Lewis, a co-sponsor of the legislation, supporting a delay.
Council President M. Lorena González said she's seen memorandums from the city's legal department that raise "significant concerns" about the bill in its current form.
González cited the state constitution's prohibition on "gifts of public funds," which bars cities from giving money to any individual "except for the necessary support of the poor and infirm." The Washington Multi-Family Housing Association, which represents landlords, raised similar concerns earlier this month.
She said she would schedule a private, "executive session" of the council, so they could discuss the potential legal issues.
The legislation does not specify a funding source, and estimates for what it would cost to provide legal services to tenants facing eviction are rough. City Council staff estimates it would cost an additional $400,000 to $500,000 a year to guarantee legal counsel for those facing eviction, although similar measures in other cities have cost significantly more.
Supporters argue that it would make a big impact, keeping people in their homes who otherwise could become homeless.
A not-yet-published study from the Housing Justice Project on Seattle evictions in 2019 found that 52% of tenants with lawyers during their evictions were able to stay in their homes, while 8% of those with no representation stayed in their homes.
A 2018 report by the city and the Housing Justice Project, which looked at more than 1,200 Seattle evictions in 2017, found that more than half of all evictions were for one month's rent or less.
David Gutman: 206-464-2926 or dgutman@seattletimes.com; on Twitter: @davidlgutman.
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Daniel Theuma (born 26 June 1971 in Malta) is a Maltese former professional footballer. He last played for Mosta as a defender.

External links
 Daniel Theuma at MaltaFootball.com

Living people
1971 births
Association football defenders
Maltese footballers
Malta international footballers
Floriana F.C. players
Valletta F.C. players
Msida Saint-Joseph F.C. players
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properties into the sonar-project.properties file. But it is not excluding the test files when creating sonarQube code coverage document. I am using jenkins as building tool

A: According to the manual it should be sonar.exclusions, not sonar.exclusion.


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Hold the Solar System in your hands with Brian Cox's Wonders of the Universe for iPad
Leanna Lofte
Brian Cox's Wonders of the Universe is a gorgeous educational and reference app that takes you on a tour of the universe with Professor Brian Cox -- a particle physicist, Royal Society research fellow, and professor at the University of Manchester. You may also know him as the science broadcaster and presenter of the highly popular BBC2 series Wonders of the Solar System.
When you first launch the app, you're presented with a brief, informative tutorial on how to use the app, then placed in the middle of the universe, out in space. You can pinch and zoom and scroll around to explore different galaxies, planets, stars and nebulas -- all of which is stunning to look at and in motion -- or you can select where you wish to go from the menu at the top of the screen. The included topics are sub atomic, atomic, Solar System, stars, Milky Way, galaxies, and universe.
When you choose a topic to explore, the chapters will appear in a scrollable menu at the bottom of the screen. As you scroll through the chapters, the screen will zoom into the area of interest. To dive into a chapter, you just drag it up into the middle of the screen. The chapter will not become full width. Instead, it appears as a column in the center of the screen so that you can still see the universe behind it. I really like this -- it gives you the sense of floating out in space while reading.
As you scroll through the chapter, you'll encounter images, infographics, photography, and videos. When you do, the media will automatically resize to full screen so that you can really enjoy it and get engaged. When you're done viewing the media, just simply continue scrolling and the app will size it back down and smoothly continue on with the chapter.
Brian Cox is the presenter in the videos, and I must say, he's awesome. Every video I've watched has made me feel like I'm watching a TV show on the Discovery Channel. They are so well done that it actually makes me want to watch and learn more. As I read through the chapters and watch the videos, I become more thirsty for knowledge of the universe and Solar System.
When you reach the end of a chapter, just continue to scroll, as if pushing the chapter off the screen, and you'll jump right back into space so that you can move on to the next chapter.
I'm not sure if I've ever been able to confidently say that an app was perfect before, but Brian Cox's Wonders of the Universe is. It's perfect.
200 interactive articles
2.5 hrs worth of video
Hundreds of infographics, photographs, and images
Over 50 3D models
Brian Cox is awesome
Brian Cox's Wonders of the Universe is literally one of the best iPad apps I've ever encountered. It's a phenomenal educational tool that has the perfect mix of video, images, text, and hands-on interaction.
I rarely comment on the price of an app, but this one should be going for at least $10, so the $6.99 promotional price is quite a steal.
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The DefenderPad Laptop Radiation
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Q: An example of a trigonometric series that is not a Fourier series I am looking forward to a positive sequence of $\{a_n\}_{n\geq1}$ such that all the following points hold:
1) $\sum \frac{a_n}{n}$ is convergent.
2) There is no $f\in L^1[-\pi,\pi]$ whose Fourier series is  $\sum a_n\sin nx$.

A: Let $a_n = 1$ if $\sqrt n\in\mathbb N$ and $a_n = \frac 1n$ otherwise. Then your series cannot be generated by an $L^1$-function due to the Riemann-Lebesgue-lemma.


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Home Eye on "Palestine" Hamas No Coupons, No UN Intermediaries: Hamas Manages Qatar's Contribution Directly via Oil...
Eye on "Palestine"
Middle East / Levant
No Coupons, No UN Intermediaries: Hamas Manages Qatar's Contribution Directly via Oil Sales
David Israel
Photo Credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90
Gaza Arab showing the shekels he withdrew from the Qatari endowment, September 15, 2021.
According to the Associated Press, Qatar will resume subsidizing the salaries of public employees by sending fuel to the Gaza Strip. The Qatari fuel will be sent to Gaza from Egypt, and Hamas will resell it to help cover its payroll. According to the Hamas administration's Information Bureau, the terrorist group will be paying those salaries directly next Monday, through banks in the Gaza Strip.
In previous years, the financial capacity of the terrorist organization Hamas covered between 8 and 10 annual salaries to its officials in the Gaza Strip, to the tune of NIS 1,200 ($400). These checks were doled out every 40 to 45 days. But on Thursday, the Hamas government's Finance Ministry in the Gaza Strip announced across the board raises to all its officials.
Hamas employs about 50,000 civil servants of varying ranks in Gaza, including teachers and doctors.
The increase is expected to run from NIS 1,500 ($500) to NIS 1,800 ($600), depending on the official's position in government. Israel Hayom did the math and concluded that the raises mean that the amount of the monthly Qatari grant that helps pay the Hamas salaries has gone up to $10 million. The original amount, when Qatar entered the scene to help the Hamas government meet its financial obligations, was estimated at $5 million each month.
PM Naftali Bennett's office said in September, after the announcement of Israeli contacts with Qatari over the money: "As was officially announced, the Qatari grant to the needy in the Gaza Strip has been regulated by a mechanism in cooperation with the UN, with the grant being transferred in coupons and not in suitcases with cash as has happened in the past."
However, with the cash now coming directly from the Hamas transactions with Qatari oil, it's unclear who should issue those promised coupons. In reality, Hamas and no one else are in full control of the money.
Defense Minister Benny Gantz was also fooled, judging by his statement in September claiming that "as part of this policy, we also decided to change and improve Qatar's humanitarian aid delivery mechanism to the people of the Strip, to make sure that the money goes to those who really need it. For this purpose, I kept in touch with officials in Qatar, who understood the Israeli need and I thank them for that."
It's true that before Operation Guardian of the Walls last May, Qatar transferred money to cover Hamas salaries in suitcases full of cash, a practice that the Lapid-Bennett government promised to change. And so, over the summer, Instead of handing out a hundred dollars per family, each family could withdraw cash in shekels in grocery stores, through a UN-controlled mechanism that allowed USD cash to be withdrawn in shekels.
As of next Monday, Hamas will also be capitalizing on an oil windfall that no one – not the UN, and not Israel – can control.
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/**
 * @file producer.h
 *
 *
 * @brief Class to hold the necessary producer information: neons id, grib process
 * and grib centre (and name)
 */

#ifndef PRODUCER_H
#define PRODUCER_H

#include "himan_common.h"
#include "serialization.h"

namespace himan
{
enum HPProducerClass
{
	kUnknownProducerClass = 0,
	kGridClass = 1,
	kPreviClass = 3
};

const boost::unordered_map<HPProducerClass, std::string> HPProducerClassToString =
    ba::map_list_of(kUnknownProducerClass, "unknown")(kGridClass, "grid")(kPreviClass, "previ");

const boost::unordered_map<std::string, HPProducerClass> HPStringToProducerClass =
    ba::map_list_of("unknown", kUnknownProducerClass)("grid", kGridClass)("previ", kPreviClass);

class producer
{
   public:
	producer();
	explicit producer(long theFmiProducerId);
	producer(long theCentre, long theProcess);
	producer(long theFmiProducerId, long theCentre, long theProcess, const std::string& theRadonName);
	producer(long theFmiProducerId, const std::string& theRadonName);

	~producer() = default;

	std::string ClassName() const
	{
		return "himan::producer";
	}
	std::ostream& Write(std::ostream& file) const;

	void Centre(long theCentre);
	long Centre() const;

	void Process(long theProcess);
	long Process() const;

	void Id(long theId);
	long Id() const;

	void Name(const std::string& theName);
	std::string Name() const;

	long TableVersion() const;
	void TableVersion(long theTableVersion);

	HPProducerClass Class() const;
	void Class(HPProducerClass theClass);

	bool operator==(const producer& other) const;
	bool operator!=(const producer& other) const;

   private:
	long itsFmiProducerId;
	long itsProcess;
	long itsCentre;
	long itsTableVersion;
	HPProducerClass itsClass;

	std::string itsNeonsName;

#ifdef SERIALIZATION
	friend class cereal::access;

	template <class Archive>
	void serialize(Archive& ar)
	{
		ar(CEREAL_NVP(itsFmiProducerId), CEREAL_NVP(itsProcess), CEREAL_NVP(itsCentre), CEREAL_NVP(itsTableVersion),
		   CEREAL_NVP(itsNeonsName), CEREAL_NVP(itsClass));
	}
#endif
};

inline std::ostream& operator<<(std::ostream& file, const producer& ob)
{
	return ob.Write(file);
}
}  // namespace himan

#endif /* PRODUCER_H */


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This recipe uses salsa verde as the main ingredient. This is the type of salsa I used which I found at my local grocery store. For more info about this salsa and where to get it, visit their website http://salsaxochitl.com/. I took a photo and posted it below.
Now for a little lesson on what Salsa Verde is made from. It is a tangy and much more milder sauce than the red version. The difference between red and green salsas is that tomatillos are used instead of red tomatoes. Tomatillos give it that tangy, zesty flavor with the underlying flavor of roasted chilies and onions. The one I have is made with jalapenos, green tomatillos, onions, cilantro and garlic. With the combination of soy sauce, ginger and PB2, the flavor changes from Mexican to Asian. It did have a lot of flavor from the salsa and the soy sauce because it was sitting in the sauce for 6 hours. Because I had four servings, I ate one today and saved one for tomorrow. The other two servings I put in Ziploc containers and placed them in the freezer for another time. Enjoy!
All combined in the crock pot right before it is cooked.
Place all ingredients in the crock pot, except cauliflower rice. Stir to roughly mix the ingredients and make sure that the chicken is completely coated with the marinade. Cook on low for 6 hours, no stirring.
To serve, divide chicken into 4 equal portions of 6 oz each over 1 1/2 cups of cauliflower rice per serving. Stir sauce in crock pot and then spoon the sauce evenly over each portion.


Day four of the 2018 Star World Championship in Oxford, Maryland, started with rain, a great 14 knot breeze from north east and choppy sea, all caused by hurricane Michael making its way up north. The flags of the 12 nations representing the 62 teams waved vigorously while the teams got dressed in their wet-weather gear and docked out towards the racecourse.
The mischievous breeze didn't last through both of the races sailed today, and had died down to 6-8 knots by the second start of the day. Near the end of Race 4 the wind dropped even more on the last downwind leg after shifting of almost 180° and forced the competitors to finish going upwind. Today's bullets go to Jorge Zarif with Guilherme de Almeida (BRA) conquering the windy third race of the series, and to Paul Cayard (USA) with Arthur Lopes (BRA) for the tricky fourth one.
Both names occupy the top spots of the provisional overall ranking, with Zarif/de Almeida leading, followed by Cayard/Lopes in second and Hubert Merkelbach and Markus Koy in third.
Race three began with a frenzy and the fleet was eager to start in the newfound windy conditions, so eager that the Committee hoisted the black flag after two general recalls for the third start attempt. Augie Diaz (USA) with Bruno Prada (BRA) had a good start, were first to the weather mark, and then stayed on the left side of the course. They confidently rounded the left mark at the downwind gate in first place. Zarif/de Almeida followed close behind rounding the right one instead, then tacking to the left to grab the lead half way upwind. The Brazilian duo kept their lead to the finish and won their first bullet of the series. Behind them in second Eivind Melleby (NOR) and Joshua Revkin (USA) crossed the line followed by the Danish Jørgen Schönherr with Jan Eli Gravad in third. In this race the Norwegian/American team got DSQ by the jury after protesting the Brazilians Zarif/de Almeida for not avoiding a collision which resulted in damage (rule 14).
"We started with a good 12-14 knot breeze in the first race then slowly throughout the day the wind died more and more - said Jørgen Schönherr - in the second race today we were leading at the weather mark and we were top three around every single mark but on the last leg the wind died and shifted to the right and we lost about 20 boats then the wind died completely. We finished 3rd in the first race and we were happy with that. We have a good all around speed both up wind and down wind and we try hard to be conservative. Most of the time today the left was favored going upwind. On the last upwind we could see dark clouds near by and feel the weather changing so we decided to protect the right side a little more to be conservative. We work hard to get a free lane where you have clear air. That is the most important piece to us."
With hurricane Michael in the picture, the second race of the day started off with very different conditions. Light breeze and strong currents pushed by the hurricane made their way into the bay. After a general recall, PRO Bill Stump immediately hoisted the black flag yet again. That didn't stop the whole fleet from taking a risk and piling up all together in the pin end of the line then staying on the left side of the course. Some fresh faces showed up first at the upwind mark, like the locals Allan Terhune Jr with Ian Coleman (USA) and the Argentinian Fabian MacGowan with Ariel Simonet shortly behind the Danish Schönherr/Gravad. The three teams lead the fleet moments before the wind started to slowly die and shift on the racecourse. The first downwind leg was a bit of a gamble with a 25° right hand shift but Class President Hubert Merkelbach with crew Markus Koy played the shift right and took over the lead. A few course changes later and a tricky last downwind that actually finished with the fleet sailing upwind, Paul Cayard and Arthur Lopes crossed the line first with a respectable margin over Merkelbach/Koy in second, then Tomas Hornos with Pedro Trouche (USA) in third.
The 2018 Star World Championship is now back on schedule with 4 races completed and the weather forecast is looking good for the next couple of days. The tail of hurricane Michael should hit the area overnight tonight and leave a nice wind to sail race five tomorrow with a scheduled start at 12:00. The Championship should end on Saturday October 13th with the sixth and final race.


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Travels of Dursmirg
Dear reader; This is a true story told in the first person of an adventure that began as an idea and
unfolded into a rich and fulfilling dream come true. Beginning with desires and aspirations this story
conveys a thought of a remote possibility molded into reality.
Sailing Beyond Lake Superior: Travels of Dursmirg ©2012 John M. Grimsrud
2nd edition of Travels of Dursmirg: Volume 1
By John M. Grimsrud
Who hasn't daydreamed about chucking it all and sailing away on a boat to warmer climes, "far from the madding
crowd's ignoble strife." John and Jane did just that. This true sailing adventure is told in the first person. It began as an
idea and unfolded into a rich and fulfilling dream come true. A lifelong obsession of escape materialized in 1972 with the
building and launching of their dreamboat Dursmirg. John and Jane went over the horizon and out to sea on a voyage of
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Summers at Daufuskie
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John and Jane spent their first season living aboard Dursmirg in the Old City of St. Augustine and found more
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The Most Famous Posthumous Albums In History
Sometimes the curtain goes down on our favourite stars too soon… but the music keeps coming. We take a look at some of the most notable times that albums have been released after the artist has tragically left us.
1. The Doors - Other Voices
Jim Morrison checked out in a Paris apartment in July 1971, and it was a mere three months later that the surviving members - keyboardist Ray Manzarek, guitarist Robbie Krieger and drummer John Densmore - issued this Lizard King-less LP. It contains that all-time classic I'm Horny I'm Stoned.
2. Jim Morrison - An American Prayer
And that's not all - in 1978, the surviving Doors collabroated on some music to accompany spoken word recordings made by Morrison in 1969 and 1970. The album got a mixed reception from fans.
3. Lemmy - Solo Album
The legendary Motorhead frontman and bassist died at the end of 2015, but he'd already been working on his very first solo album, with help from Dave Grohl of Foo Fighters and punk heroes The Damned. A release date has not yet been confirmed... Photo: Getty
4. Nirvana - MTV Unplugged In New York
Between recording this acoustic set in November 1993 and its release exactly a year later, Kurt Cobain had committed suicide at his home in Seattle and the rest of the band were reeling in shock. The performance of David Bowie's The Man Who Sold The World flashed around the world following Cobain's death, making this an essential purchase for mourning fans.
5. Johnny Cash - American V: A Hundred Highways
The famous cover of Nine Inch Nails' Hurt was taken from American IV, the last album to be released by The Man In Black before his death in September 2003. Recorded earlier that year, volume five again sees Rick Rubin as producer and features covers of songs by Bruce Springsteen and Hank Williams.
6. John Lennon - Milk And Honey
The Beatles was gunned down in New York December 1980 as he was experiencing something of a comeback with a new album, Double Fantasy. Having got his creative juices flowing again, both Lennon and wife Yoko Ono were in the middle of recording tracks for a follow-up, which emerged four years later as Milk And Honey. While some of the album was a bit rough around the edges, the single Nobody Told Me made the UK Top 10.
7. George Harrison - Brainwashed
The Quiet One had been tinkering with songs for his twelfth and final album for a number of years, but once he was diagnosed with throat cancer, he began working in earnest with his sone Dhani and ELO producer and fellow Traveling Wilbury Jeff Lynne. The former Beatle died in November 2001 and the album was finally released a year later.
8. Queen - Made In Heaven
Having been diagnosed with AIDS, the ailing Freddie Mercury corralled the rest of the band to record as many vocals and demos while he was still able. The resulting album was finished by his bandmates after his death in November 1991 and was finally released four years later.
9. Joy Division - Closer
Recorded in March 1980, by the time the Manchester band's second and final album was released, lead singer Ian Curtis had committed suicide on the eve of the group's first US tour. The dark music, together with the image of an Italian tomb on the cover, made this one of the most poignant and stark posthumous albums of all.
10. Tupac Shakur - The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory
The acclaimed rapper was gunned down in Las Vegas in September 1996, just a few weeks after he'd recorded this final album. Following the star's death, Death Row Records boss Suge Knight rush-released the LP in November, bringing it forward from its original release date of March 1997.
11. Amy Winehouse - Lioness: Hidden Treasures
Released less than six months after the singer's tragically early death, Lioness features unreleased songs and demos, including her celebrated duet with the legendary crooner Tony Bennett.
12. Notorious B.I.G. - Life After Death
The erstwhile Christopher Wallace died on 9 March 1997 aged 24, the victim of a drive-by shooting in Los Angeles. His second and final album hit shops just sixteen days later, which only added to Biggie's notoriety.
13. Elliot Smith - From A Basement On A Hill
The American singer-songwriter had been struggling with depression and substance abuse for some time, but the summer of 2003 had seen him return to writing and recording music again. His recovery and return to performing was halted on 21 October that year, when he was died from stab wounds to his chest, which appeared to be self-inflicted. The album he was working on was released a year after his death.
14. Jeff Buckley - Sketches For My Sweetheart The Drunk
One of rock music's greatest voices died on 29 May 1997 while swimming in the Mississippi river. At the time, Buckley was working on the follow-up to his acclaimed debut album, Grace, to be titled My Sweetheart The Drunk. Buckley's band completed the tracks from demos and session material, and the album was released a year after his death with the (Sketches For) prefix added to indicate this was an unfinished work.
15. Jimi Hendrix - The Cry Of Love
Following the death of Hendrix on 18 September 1970, his record label Track released the two-year-old song Voodoo Chile (Slight Return) as a single, which immediately went to Number One in the UK charts. The following March, the label issued The Cry Of Love, which contained a number of tracks that Hendrix was working on at the time of his death and gained some acclaim from critics of the time. There would be more posthumous albums, but with diminishing returns.
16. Kurt Cobain Montage Of Heck
While Nirvana's MTV Unplugged acted as Cobain's swan song, new album - Montage Of Heck - is his first solo posthumous release. The album - which is out on 13 November 2015 - acts as the soundtrack to the documentary of the same name. It also includes singles, And I Love Her/Sappy, which is out on 3 December 2015.
17. Viola Beach - Viola Beach
Following the tragic death of band members, Kris Leonard, River Reeves, Tomas Lowe, Jack Dakin, and their manager Craig Tarry, the decision was made to release their self-titled debut album posthumously in honour of their memory. Listen to Radio X tonight from 9pm for an exclusive playback of all nine tracks, plus tributes from their loved ones.