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Is Purpose the Secret to Success?
November 18, 2019 | Improving Impact
No family should underestimate the power of purpose to see it through good times and bad and generation to generation, as Scott McCulloch discovers.
What's our purpose?
It's a big question but not one that a family business should shirk.
Purpose is one of a handful of key forces that drive family enterprises to achieve multigenerational success.
In other words, how to get to the second generation or to the coveted third as a thriving business.
Entrepreneurial families that have a well-defined purpose are united. And united families have an easier time adapting to change because they place their business interests ahead of their personal interests.
Their purpose is linked to their values, which transcends financial gain.
What exactly is a family purpose? Purpose represents an enduring and stable commitment, shared by multiple family members, to actively engage in making a meaningful difference in some aspect of the world beyond family.
That's the way Business Families Foundation defines purpose in Family Forward, an innovative learning tool that helps entrepreneurial families improve prospects for longevity by pinpointing their strengths.
A family purpose could mean running a great business and giving back to the community. It could be providing a customer experience that reflects the family's values. It could be operating a thriving enterprise in harmony with family.
"Successful families must be committed to a set of values beyond just financial gain," writes family business expert Andrew Keyt in Entrepreneur. "These values typically manifest in the form of a mission or vision statement."
Family values are the moral principles traditionally upheld and transmitted within a family, such as honesty and loyalty – anything that is permanent and a beacon. They are cultural and pertain to the family's structure, function, roles, beliefs and ideals.
In strong families, family values are a reassuring yet intangible factor in business decisions. Translating family values into core business values determines how a family runs its business.
A strong family purpose provides a roadmap for the family and the business.
A strong family purpose provides a roadmap for the family and the business. Indeed, family-owned businesses are as strong as the families that run them.
But they tend to have one trait in common – progressively slowing growth after the founder steps down.
PwC found that in the first generation, 42% of businesses have double-digit sales growth. By the fifth generation, only 22% do, and 48% are in the single digits.
Reasons for such slow growth differ by family. But weak growth can often be traced back to one thing: misalignment of leadership around the company's purpose, vision and values.
"We believe family businesses, built around strong values and with an aspirational purpose, have a
competitive advantage in disruptive times," says PwC.
"There is an enormous opportunity for family businesses to start generating real gains from their values and purpose by adopting an active approach that turns these into their most valuable asset."
What's our purpose? That's a question every family business should answer early and often.
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Self Published Sunday: The Serpent's Ring
H B Bolton has joined us today to share a tasty morsel from her latest book, The Serpent's Ring.
A middle grade fantasy adventure,The Serpent's Ring, features fantastical creatures and elements of norse mythology.
Although an established self published author this is H B Bolton's first book for children.
Check out the other stops on The Serpent's Ring blog tour via Candace's Book Blog.
Evan and Claire Jones are typical teenagers, forced to go with their parents to yet another boring museum…that is, until something extraordinary happens to make their day a little more than interesting. After following a strange little creature into a closed exhibit, Evan and his older sister, Claire, discover the Serpent's Ring, one of the magical relics formed from the shattered Mysticus Orb. Purely by accident, they have awakened its powers and opened a portal to Sagaas, land of ancient gods.
Before the siblings can comprehend what has happened, the Serpent's Ring is wrenched from Evan's hand by an enormous bird and flown back to Aegir, the Norse god of the sea. Evan and Claire, accompanied by a band of unlikely heroes, must retrieve the Serpent's Ring before Aegir uses its immense powers to flood all the lands on Earth.
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"It won't take long for Aegir to figure out how to use the Serpent's Ring," Vor continued, but he'd already lost Evan's attention.
Dunkle and Barfel were far more amusing, as they were attacking treats with a vengeance. Their movements so fast, they were a blur. They were loading up their arms with puffed pastries and other goodies, and stuffing their faces with rainbow-colored tarts. Crumbs flew everywhere, landing across the room on a shaggy, white rug. Evan was transfixed by the spectacle and had trouble looking away.
He grabbed a round puffed pastry. Unlike the imps, he wasn't going to gobble up the whole thing in one bite; he wanted to enjoy his treat. After all, he wasn't sure how long it would be before he could eat again. Besides, he felt manners were in order while in the company of a Norse goddess and an ancient professor.
"Excuse me," Evan interrupted. "What's this called?"
"A Poppin-Droppin," Vor said and continued with her tale.
With a strange name like Poppin-Droppin, Evan wasn't sure what to expect. The soft pastry smelled like sweet-cream butter, so he knew it must be good. He shrugged his shoulders and bit it in half. To his delight, the Poppin-Droppin's layers flaked apart, melting in his mouth. Its center was filled with whipped chocolate, delivering the most incredible sensation Evan had ever experienced. That was until the remaining bite in his hand sprouted out another pastry, and then another and another. Poppin-Droppins multiplied, popping out and dropping down so rapidly that Evan couldn't catch them. It didn't take long for him to realize how the Poppin-Droppins came by their name.
Dunkle stopped devouring food long enough to say, "You must eat that particular pastry all in one bite; do not leave even a crumb. Otherwise, it will multiply and make a mess."
Evan stuffed Poppin-Droppins in his mouth as quickly as he could. Dunkle and Barfel helped by shoveling in bouncing pastries. Thank goodness the professor and Vor were too busy talking with Claire to pay much attention to the spectacle.
Evan hoped Claire was listening to Vor's advice closely, because at that moment, he was preoccupied.
Currently, Barbara Brooke resides in sunny Florida with her supportive husband, two adorable children, gorgeous greyhounds, and scruffy mutt. She is actively creating new worlds and interesting characters for the next book in one of her series. Shhhh, can you keep a secret? Not only does she write spellbinding, heart-pounding women's fiction, she also writes books for the young-at-heart, adventurous sort who yearn to dive into a good young adult fantasy story. These particular books are written under the name H.B. Bolton, but that is another story altogether.
Magic and exotic treats are sprinkled throughout The Serpent's Ring. Like most boys, Evan is on the constant lookout for something to help ease the rumbling in his stomach. While in Asgard, he discovers there isn't a food or drink he isn't willing to try: Poppin-Droppins, Fizzy Whizzles, Woof-Out Bars…thank goodness, not all of them cause bizarre side effects.
Food is comfort. Food is familiar. Food is something people have in common.
And although few people have eaten pastries with magical properties, who couldn't relate to sinking one's teeth into soft, buttery pastry? By bringing Poppin-Droppins to life, Evan is able to not only share his experience, but to heighten the readers senses and bring the reader into the room with him. The reader can smell the doughy goodness, feel the moist layers, and taste the gooey chocolate.
Sure, it's important for a novel to have a strong sense of plot, realistic and interesting characters, and believable dialogue, but what about the extras? such as Harry Potter's butterbeer, Alice's "eat me" cakes, and Bilbo's ale bring life to a story.
Extras like Dorothy's sparkling shoes, Snow White's poisoned apple, and Tinker Bell's pixie dust bring richness to a scene. Many readers yearn to be a part of a world where enchanted items exist —have a replica of Dumbledore's wand and a chocolate frog to prove it.
What item do you wish had magical properties? What food or drink from a movie would you like to try?
Guest post by H B Bolton
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4 Honeydukes
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Thanks so much for inviting me to write a guest post. I hope your readers enjoy it 🙂
Oh man, now I'm hungry for sweets! A cinnamon role sounds so yummy right now… (it's breakfast time here)
Fantastic and lovely post! Thanks so much for being part of the tour!

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Movie Review: Free Fire
Jon Espino April 22, 2017
[Check out our red carpet coverage of Free Fire here. Check out our interview with director/writer Ben Wheatley here.] In typical action films, when the bullets start to fly, all logic flies out the w…
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This year at SXSW, we were able to talk with director Ben Wheatley, and actors Armie Hammer and Sharlto Copley for the outrageous shoot out adventure that is Free Fire. Earlier in the day, there was a…
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Bossypants
Before Liz Lemon, before Weekend Update," before "Sarah Palin," Fey was just a young girl with a dream: a recurring stress dream that she was being chased through a local airport by her middle-school gym teacher. She also had a dream that one day she would be a comedian on TV. She has seen both these dreams come true.
Spirited and whip-smart, these laugh-out-loud autobiographical essays are "a masterpiece" from the Emmy Award-winning actress and comedy writer known for 30 Rock, Mean Girls, and SNL (Sunday Telegraph). Before Liz Lemon, before "Weekend Update," before "Sarah Palin," Tina Fey was just a young girl with a dream: a recurring stress dream that she was being chased through a local airport by her middle-school gym teacher. She also had a dream that one day she would be a comedian on TV. She has seen both these dreams come true. At last, Tina Fey's story can be told. From her youthful days as a vicious nerd to her tour of duty on Saturday Night Live; from her passionately halfhearted pursuit of physical beauty to her life as a mother eating things off the floor; from her one-sided college romance to her nearly fatal honeymoon -- from the beginning of this paragraph to this final sentence. Tina Fey reveals all, and proves what we've always suspected: you're no one until someone calls you bossy. Includes Special, Never-Before-Solicited Opinions on Breastfeeding, Princesses, Photoshop, the Electoral Process, and Italian Rum Cake!
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John Mark, SJ, pronounced first vows as a Jesuit this August after two years at the Jesuit novitiate in Berkley, Michigan. Before moving to Loyola University Chicago this fall to study philosophy he spent time reflecting on the last two years.
His thoughts can serve as an introductions to the photos and biographies of those who joined the Society of Jesus in August in North America. For these photos and bios check out Newcomers 2002.
I entered the Society of Jesus two years ago at age 33. I moved into the novitiate in Berkley, Michigan, outside Detroit, right on the heels of a terrific experience as principal of Immaculate Heart of Mary grade school in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, near Akron.
Being uprooted out of an independent adulthood and transplanted into a new, unfamiliar environment is not a passive, unemotional experience. It brings to my mind a special piece of music, "Waters of March," an old bossa nova piece by Brazilian composer Antonio Carlos Jobim. The piece depicts in lyrics and melody the birth of spring, a beautiful, new, fresh season but also an upheaval, a period of turbulent change.
In reflecting upon my novitiate experience, I associate many of these same images and moods with my experience as a Jesuit novice. These last two years of my life were a time of dramatic change but also a positive experience, I learned, as long as I kept an open attitude and gave concerted attention to the Spirit's movement within.
The novitiate was a challenge: I was pushed to change or redefine myself as I adjusted to living a vowed, religious life, experienced the men and the institutions of the Society, and reformed my interior life of prayer.
The greatest challenge in shifting from single adulthood to religious life was adapting to a community environment. I moved into the novitiate on a Saturday; by Sunday I was facing a daily order that was going to eliminate many of my former individual pursuits, including watching the Cleveland Indians' night games or hopping a flight to Chicago for the weekend or to upstate New York for some skiing. I knew that part. But it was also going to include a novice director who, on first impression, seemed to be prison warden and standup comic in equal measures and living with a group of men I was not sure I would have chosen right off the bat to be lifelong companions.
Things didn't prove to be as difficult as this first impression, but some aspects of community life proved to be, well, unique. Our daily schedule ran something like this: community prayer at 7 in the morning, classes on religious life and Jesuit history from 9 to noon, community mass at 5, community dinner at 5:45, and then community faith sharing from 7 to 8:30, with personal prayer to be done during the day.
I recall looking at the schedule and thinking "This isn't too bad!" Prior to joining, I was an active person; I worked hard and then I played hard, busy all day. However, despite the fact that novitiate life was a step back from my previously hectic lifestyle—each day lived at a thoughtful and slower pace—I was more exhausted than ever before.
At the novitiate, each of us came to rely upon every individual there but also on the community as a whole. We were all affected by each other and therefore had the potential to be sources of great strength or harmful distraction. Living communally involves following rules of conduct as well as understanding the effect of both positive and negative behaviors. It means learning the importance of being on time for community events, using community resources, from cars to computers, in a sensible way, doing chores, and so on.
The end result is that we arrive at the point of being able to live healthy lives as individual Jesuits. Through key components such as spiritual direction between novice and novice director and practiced discernment in making life and behavioral decisions, we "learn" behavior that ideally will carry us through our lives.
Remember the movie A League of Their Own? Tom Hanks plays the manager of a women's baseball team. In one scene he screams at a player who's having a breakdown: "There's no crying in baseball!" The rest of the team instinctively reacts to the way their manager is treating a teammate. They begin looking inward and realize that their success depends not only on their individual talents but also on their ability to work as a group. That was how they could win ball games as a team and also grow personally with and for each other.
Similarly, I realize that I owe a tremendous amount of my formation process to the two men on my team, Ralph Cordero and Pat McGrath. They have been sounding boards, faith-filled examples, and leaders in community. We shared a lot: car rides to different ministries and works, beers at a local pub, movies we saw together. I learned from them that good community is central to religious life and is affirming and supportive individually and collectively. Ralph and Pat are incredible friends who have significantly aided my personal growth as well as giving me a rich experience as a Jesuit.
Right from the start we novices learned that the Society of Jesus extends far beyond the walls of the novitiate, beyond Detroit, beyond the United States. Studying Jesuit history and traveling fostered a broader sense of being. Learning to shift your vision to thinking and observing globally is an exciting change and challenge. I made the Spiritual Exercises in Gloucester, Mass.; worked at an inner-city legal clinic in Washington, D.C.; studied Jesuit history in Denver with novices from all over the States and others from Canada, Jamaica and Great Britain; and learned Spanish in Lima, Peru, where I lived with still other Jesuits and started to develop the cultural and political awareness needed for the Jesuit mission in other parts of the world.
As I am starting to see and think globally, I am able to put a human face onto abstract concepts such as "inculturation" and "option for the poor" with a greater ability than I would have two years ago.
Perhaps my greatest change has occurred interiorly. Daily prayer, spiritual direction, the Spiritual Exercises, and the study of Ignatian spirituality have all served to develop in me an Ignatian sense of being. Through my experiences, through listening and learning from the encounters that those around me have had, I have begun to move consistently toward being a contemplative in action, that is, someone who learns to begin asking and seeking the answer to foundational questions. For instance, from last January through May I worked at St. Ignatius High School in Cleveland in the development office, on the admissions committee, and also with campus ministry, leading student prayer groups and helping on retreats. In all these efforts, when I started consciously asking myself what I was gaining from and giving to the school on any one day, it became clear to me that my presence could mean something significant to someone that day.
During a prayer period in the midst of my 30-day retreat of the Spiritual Exercises, I pictured myself in the boat with Jesus on a turbulent sea. In my prayer, Jesus, instead of turning to me and asking where my faith was, said that he had faith in me—this despite all of my own issues and questions. Such a moment was a first for me, a small but wonderful example of Ignatius's great gift. I know that I'm a child of God. As trite as that may sound, I'm not sure that there can be any greater objective for today's Jesuit formative process.


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Eurofins Scientific. (7/27/18). "Press Release: Eurofins Becomes the Market Leader in Food Testing Services in Spain with the Acquisition of Ecosur".
Region Spain (España)
Organisation Eurofins Scientific SE (EUFI.PA)
Group Eurofins (Group)
Organisation 2 Laboratorios Ecosur S.A.
Product food analysis (food testing)
Product 2 analytical services
Index term Laboratorios Ecosur–Eurofins: investment, 201807 acquisition of Ecosur by Eurofins
Person Martin, Gilles G. (Eurofins 200701 CEO + founder)
Eurofins Scientific (EUFI.PA), a global scientific leader in bioanalytical testing, announces that it has successfully closed the acquisition of LABORATORIOS ECOSUR S.A. ("ECOSUR"), one of the leaders of the Food testing market in Spain.
ECOSUR was founded in 1997 in the Region of Murcia, Spain. For more than 20 years ECOSUR has been developing state-of-the-art Food safety testing methods to analyse baby and infant food products and fruits and vegetables including testing for contaminants, microbiology, vitamins, dioxins, hormones and antibiotics. In 2009, ECOSUR expanded into Turkey opening a new laboratory in the Izmir Region. In 2017, both laboratories in Spain and Turkey, which have a combined total surface area of over 7,800 m², were fully renovated with state-of-the-art equipment. The company employs more than 150 staff generating revenues above EUR 8m.
ECOSUR's focus on developing advanced analytical methods and providing outstanding services to its clients allowed it to become one of the largest companies in the food testing industry in Spain and a key emerging player in Turkey. As a result of this acquisition, Eurofins becomes the number one Food testing player in Spain, offering the most comprehensive portfolio of state-of-the-art food testing services in the country from six laboratories nationwide.
Comment from Dr. Luis Coll and Mr. Julio Hernandez, ECOSUR Founders: "We are very pleased that the laboratory we founded will become part of Eurofins' family of entrepreneur-led businesses. As a result of gaining access to Eurofins' entire portfolio of competencies, we can now offer our clients a larger analytical testing portfolio, significantly expanding our breadth of services to the benefit of our clients".
Comment from Dr. Gilles Martin, Eurofins CEO: "We are very pleased to welcome ECOSUR and its talented teams to the Eurofins Group. This acquisition significantly strengthens our footprint in Spain and Turkey and provides Eurofins with the market leadership position in the Spanish Food analysis market. We can now serve our clients even better in South East Spain, a key agricultural area in Europe for fruits and vegetables."
For more information, please visit www.eurofins.com or contact:
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Eurofins – a global leader in bio-analysis
Eurofins Scientific through its subsidiaries (hereinafter sometimes "Eurofins" or "the Group") believes it is a scientific leader in food, environment and pharmaceutical products testing and in agroscience CRO services. It is also one of the independent market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, discovery pharmacology, forensics, CDMO, advanced material sciences and for supporting clinical studies. In addition, Eurofins is one of the emerging players in specialty clinical diagnostic testing in Europe and the USA. With over 35,000 staff in more than 400 laboratories across 44 countries, Eurofins offers a portfolio of over 150,000 analytical methods for evaluating the safety, identity, composition, authenticity, origin and purity of biological substances and products, as well as for innovative clinical diagnostic. The Group objective is to provide its customers with high-quality services, accurate results on time and expert advice by its highly qualified staff.
Eurofins is committed to pursuing its dynamic growth strategy by expanding both its technology portfolio and its geographic reach. Through R&D and acquisitions, the Group draws on the latest developments in the field of biotechnology and analytical chemistry to offer its clients unique analytical solutions and the most comprehensive range of testing methods.
As one of the most innovative and quality oriented international players in its industry, Eurofins is ideally positioned to support its clients' increasingly stringent quality and safety standards and the expanding demands of regulatory authorities around the world.
The shares of Eurofins Scientific are listed on the Euronext Paris Stock Exchange (ISIN FR0000038259, Reuters EUFI.PA, Bloomberg ERF FP).
Important disclaimer:
This press release contains forward-looking statements and estimates that involve risks and uncertainties. The forward-looking statements and estimates contained herein represent the judgment of Eurofins Scientific's management as of the date of this release. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees for future performance, and the forward-looking events discussed in this release may not occur. Eurofins Scientific disclaims any intent or obligation to update any of these forward-looking statements and estimates. All statements and estimates are made based on the information available to the Company's management as of the date of publication, but no guarantee can be made as to their validity.
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HomeUncategorizedThe Lego Movie
When I first heard of The Lego Movie, sometime mid 2013, I will admit I thought it was stupid. I know Lego has been revamping itself pretty intensely for the last decade, being more than just a child's toy. With so many themes, and now video games based on movies, it is no surprise they are making a movie based on a game.
When I first saw the trailer? I was immediately hooked. This became one of my most looking forward to movies in the first half of 2014. Shit, it was even done by the guys who did Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs and Clone High. Those guys know comedy and they also know their pop culture references. Combined with an idea that has stuck its fingers in most pop culture references over the last few decades, and you have the potential for a storm of success.
See! One of these guys is excited about the storm of success!
In this story, our hero is one Emmet Brickowoski (Chris Pratt), who lives in the city and does the same thing each and every day. He follows the instructions on the box, lives his happy life, and builds things. There is absolutely nothing unique or special about him. That is, until he meets Wyldstyle (Elizabeth Banks), who is about to turn his reality upside down and change his life forever!
She introduces him to the Master Builders, other Lego people who can see from the world around them and build creations quickly and without instructions. Like Vitruvius (Morgan Freeman). He also learns that President/Lord Business (Will Ferrell) is going to unleash some power called "The KRAGLE" on the population in a few days, destroying everyone's way of life forever!
From a series of accidental circumstances, Emmet is being labeled the "Special" and all of their hopes to saving the day are coming down to him. He will also have the help of other Master Builders like…Batman! (Will Arnett), Benny the 1980s space guy (Charlie Day), Metal Beard a strange huge pirate (Nick Offerman), and Unikitty (Alison Brie). Also, a Good Cop / Bad Cop (Liam Neeson) is working for Lord Business to capture the builders on the war front.
Shit, there is a ton of cameos too, which I won't tag on the bottom, but might as well mention here. They also have Channing Tatum as Superman and Jonah Hill as Green Lantern (because, 21 Jump Street), Cobie Smulders as Wonder Woman, Shaq as Shaq, Billy Dee Williams and Anthony Daniels reprising their roles as Lando Calrissian and C3P0, and Will Forte as Abraham Lincoln again. His first time as Abe was of course, Clone High.
But you don't care about them. You all just care about Batman. Don't you?
Easily, the first thing that should be talked about is the animation style. They went full out wild with this, wanting to insure that everything always A) looked like Legos, and B) looked like how Legos moved. [Editor's note: Some contention as to whether or not LEGO is supposed to be pluralized by an S, given it's company name. They might prefer 'LEGO Bricks' if you do multiple ones. Well, I say fuck that, we call them Legos in America]. So yes, the movie could be considered a bit choppy to get all the movements right, but that gave it charm and personality and made me giddy the entire time. Watching waves or an explosion, but noticing they are all still lego pieces is incredibly exciting.
It was also pretty hilarious. I love pop culture as much as the next guy, but I do think their humor relied far too heavily on the fact that they were using major properties, such as Batman. Batman was in this movie way longer than I would have imagined (longer than any other already existing property). Although he was funny too, they were all specifically Batman jokes, and rarely just joke jokes. Most of the main team had their quirks, but none were as trademarked as Batman.
I also feel like parts of the ending were a bit…forced. Shit went real different at the end, kind of ruining the pace for me. All of the sudden, bam, we got a lesson to learn from this movie. I think it went far too long and took away from the film a bit.
I still really like this movie though, just the slowed down ending and over reliance on specific characters is what disappointed me. It was hilarious, creative, and shit, the animation itself is almost worthy of 4 out of 4. Honestly, I have a hard time believing there might be an overall better animated film the rest of the year. But it still had some faults for me. Even if Everything Was Awesome.
3 out of 4.
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Below you'll find a list of all posts from November, 2020
What is a grand Jury Subpoena
Mark Rollins Criminal Law
In the District of Columbia, the grand jury is citizens serving on a jury to conduct legal proceedings, investigate potential criminal conduct, and determine whether criminal charges should be brought. In DC, the grand jury may consist of sixteen to twenty-three members. Twelve or more jurors must concur to return an indictment. An indictment may be returned by less than twelve of the original grand jurors so long as the replacement jurors voting for the indictment are sufficiently informed of the evidence presented before their service began.
Bad Language is not an Assault on a Police Officer
Mark Rollins Assault
The DC Court of Appeals in Powell v. United States, No. 19-CM-48 (D.C. Oct. 1, 2020) held that a policer officer was not assaulted when an individual refused to "back up" and was angry at the police officers.
Police stay Outside
Mark Rollins Criminal Law, Resources - 4th Amendment
When police officers are effectuating an arrest warrant they are not permitted to remain inside the residence to prevent the destruction of evidence while awaiting a search warrant once the arrestee and all other persons have been removed from the house,
Suppression of Evidence Delay of warrant
A 4-day delay between seizing and searching a car containing a child's backpack, wife's purse, and cell phone was unreasonable where police offered no legitimate reason for the delay
can police pat me down
In light of the black lives movement – the Court of appeals recently addressed a case specifically addressing young black males in DC contact with the police. As the Court stated in this opinion, police in the District of Columbia will sometimes go to far and violate the rights of individuals in the hopes of recovering weapons on drugs from the individual.
Mark Rollins Expungement, Uncategorized
You can expunge or seal most misdemeanor criminal records in the District of Columbia. There is a difference between sealing and expunging criminal records in the District of Columbia.


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Austin Adams (lawyer) (1826–1890), American lawyer and justice of the Iowa Supreme Court
Austin Adams (baseball, born 1986), American baseball pitcher for the Minnesota Twins
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As a Depression-era child, Earl Nightingale was hungry for knowledge. From the time he was a young boy, he would frequent the Long Beach Public Library in California, searching for the answer to the question, "How can a person, starting from scratch, who has no particular advantage in the world, reach the goals that he feels are important to him, and by so doing, make a major contribution to others?" His desire to find an answer, coupled with his natural curiosity about the world and its workings spurred him to become one of the world's foremost experts on success and what makes people successful.
Earl Nightingale's early career began when, as a member of the Marine Corps, he volunteered to work at a local radio station as an announcer. The Marines also gave him a chance to travel, although he only got as far as Hawaii when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941. Earl managed to be one of the few survivors aboard the battleship Arizona. After five more years in the service, Earl and his wife moved first to Phoenix then Chicago to build what was to be a very fruitful career in network radio.As the host of his own daily commentary program on WGN, Earl Nightingale arranged a deal that also gave him a commission on his own advertising sales. By 1957, he was so successful, he decided to retire at the age of 35.
In the meantime, Earl had bought his own insurance company and had spent many hours motivating its sales force to greater accomplishments. When he decided to go on vacation for an extended period of time, his sales manager begged him to put his inspirational words on record. The result later became the recording entitled The Strangest Secret, the first spoken word message to win a Gold Record by selling over a million copies.In The Strangest Secret, Earl had found an answer to the question that had inspired him as a youth and, in turn, found a way to leave a lasting legacy for others
About this time, Earl met a successful businessman by the name of Lloyd Conant and together they began an "electronic publishing" company which eventually grew to become a multi-million dollar giant in the self-improvement field. They also developed a syndicated, 5-minute daily radio program, Our Changing World, which became the longest-running, most widely syndicated show in radio.When Earl Nightingale died on March 28, 1989, Paul Harvey broke the news tothe country on his radio program with the words, "The sonorous voice of the nightingale was stilled." In the words of his good friend and commercial announcer, Steve King, "Earl Nightingale never let a day go by that he didn't learn something new and, in turn, pass it on to others. It was his consuming passion." Click here to hear an excerpt from Earl Nightingale's classic program - "The Strangest Secret."
The Strangest Secret for Succeeding in the World Today
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Discover the single most powerful and life-changing success message you will ever hear. Earl Nightingale expands the themes of that remarkable original message into a comprehensive program that explores the critical question, What does it take to prosper in an ever-changing world? Learn More


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TUFF MAMA TIME
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Back-to-Basics Parenting
Bonding the Family
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Lessons from a Red Snowflake: In Remembrance of the Late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
My mom was staring motionlessly at the tv broadcast when I bounded into our living room. To see her standing stock still before the tv was an odd sight since she was not one to waste time indulging in the screen. Instead, Mom seemed to live with a persistent diligence, ever searching for
ways to move herself and our family forward. She had experienced more than her share of life hardship which she could have used as reason to live with bitterness – blaming everything and everyone for her misfortunes. Thankfully, not being a woman of such ilk, she figured ways to snatch hope from the jaws of despair – to live forward. Yet on this day, I recall seeing odd countenance upon her face; it exuded no joy but displayed dreadful mourn. The words she next spoke as I stood at her side still hauntingly echo today as they did in that moment. Her words:
"The King is dead!"
The scenes on our black and white tv ran images of the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in the photo of his fallen body we've come to know so well. He had been shot as he stood on a balcony of the Lorraine Hotel. A few of his friends and colleagues were cradling his lifeless body where he had fallen as others pointed in the direction of the fateful bullet's source.
My mom, dad and I were living in a southside Chicago ghetto in a high-rise apartment building across the street from the infamous and resplendent Garfield Park. Many a day I would gaze at it from our 3rd floor apartment. My imagination was born from those moments that defined my peace. What I couldn't know was that my peace would once again be disturbed by yet another reality ugly aftermath that followed Dr. King's loss of life.
School was still in session, so I imagine I had to attend that next day – a Friday. After returning home from school, I would have changed into play clothes and, at some point, gazed upon Garfield Park. We waited for Dad's return from work. The sun had begun to set. Night fell.
All peace broke when my dad, a quiet man by nature, bounded almost recklessly into our apartment and went into immediate conference behind closed doors with my mom. I waited, sensing something more was wrong - again.
When my parents emerged from their room, dad rushed about, rummaging and suit casing critical possessions and food items as my mom tenaciously rifled through my belongings, packing my clothes. This Friday would be different. Instead of enjoying a typical evening together playing board games, Dad was rushing us out the door. I must note how my dad who always lovingly regarded my mom, even now impatiently prodded her to keep up with him as he moved ever so swiftly. Mom must have strained, being that she was in the last months of pregnancy – yet she kept moving.
The worst part of this scene was when Dad had to guide us through an open access window and onto an exterior fire escape ladder that always hung perilously on the side of the building. The steps and sides had dizzying open-steel gratings – so designed to prevent the buildup of snow, ice or leaves. For security, these hung on a suspension system well above the ground when not in use to keep ground-level intruders from gaining access to the building. This meant that as we reached each floor below, we had to wait for the weight of the lead person to activate the ladder to incrementally lower.
We finally reached ground level where I noticed families like ours in mad panic scrambling everywhere. Oddly for me, as I ran to keep up with my parents, this was when I noticed marvelous items wafting in seeming innocence from the heavens. These looked to be sparkling, glistening red snowflakes but even as a 6-year-old, I knew this was an anomaly since snowflakes had been white all my life. Still, these red beauties were landing everywhere about us only to dissolve in heaps of ash. What I couldn't know was that our apartment building was perilously perched on the corner of Homan Avenue and Washington Blvd on the West Side of Chicago. Residents living along Washington Blvd, in their grief and hopelessness behind "The King's" assassination, were torching their neighborhoods and businesses. These fascinating red snowflakes were the resultant, deadly embers that filled our night sky. They threatened gas-filled cars and singed everything in their path. We later learned that a section of our apartment building had burned.
Unlike some of my 1st grade classmates who were surely caught up in this terror, I was blessed that my parents had some financial resources. This enabled dad to whisk us away to a distant hotel in a safer location where we hunkered down in a 1-bedroom hotel for days until peace was restored.
As we waited, a shoot-to-kill order was given by authorities, so we dared not return.
As we waited, my parents took turns walking me where they could in the lobby. I'm certain my well-massaged imagination helped me maintain my sanity.
As we waited, mom read to me and introduced me to math-based exercises and numeric crossword puzzle books. That's likely when my love for math began, eventually leading me to earn a university math degree, years later.
While Dr. King sacrificed his life to move his dream of equality forward, my parents also had a coinciding dream. They could have let it die with the assassination of this one man – a great. Nonetheless, they insisted on making something good come from that dreadful situation, anyway. They moved to pay their dream forward in me, and later, my brother. I cannot fathom how they also must have struggled with numbing pangs of hopelessness to see Dr. King's demise. Still, their steely spirit to prevail is surely what maintained their dream when those of others perished on smoldering ash heaps of despair.
Remembering the late Dr. King, I often recall those red snowflakes. They represent to me moments of disbelieving terror and the potential destruction that can follow if we don't move with assured rightness. They also tell me that we must first set ablaze within ourselves solid purpose and passion to live – to prevail. Red snowflakes tell me that to overcome life iniquities, hardships and setbacks, I must keep moving.
Lastly, as you remember the late Dr. King, I hope you find motivation in these words from a speech he gave at Spelman College in the year preceding his death:
"If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward."
At 6:05 P.M. on Thursday, April 4, 1968, Dr. King was shot while standing on a balcony outside his second-floor room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. He was rushed to a hospital and died an hour later.
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Mama – Are You Praying with your Eyes Open?
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Lily Ex Machina
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Seeking Elysium
A 3% Chance for Glory
Seeking Elysium Volume 3 Chapter 8ExtantLily2018-03-09T02:39:18+08:00
Hard at Work
I worked furiously in the office of the Ezov, chipping away at the veritable mountain of paperwork on my desk. My eyes rapidly scanned each sheet of paper, my hand signing off when required and seperating them into two piles, one for filing and one for those documents that required further action. Next to me, Eliza – one of our employees – sat next to me, sorting the pile meant for filing into further subcategories, storing them in different folders depending on whether they were expediture reports, manpower requests, progress reports, job applications, revenue reports or miscellanous documents. On the other side of the room, Elysium was sitting in a similar position, poring over paperwork, assisted by Jasmine.
A knock on the door heralded the entry of Marisa – recently appointed Branch Manager for this branch of the Ezov. On this day, the Ezov was technically closed for business, and we were using it as a central administration office to deal with the logistics involved in setting up the next concert. Due to her competence, Marisa was left to oversee the counter and receive any new documents or address any new contingencies that might prove necessary. People had been coming in and out of the Ezov all day long, bearing important documents that required the perusal of either myself or Elysium. Marisa's job was therefore to collate these and sort them according to importance, with the more urgent ones being passed to Elysium, while the rest were left to me.
Marisa entered the room with a large stack of paper in her hands, placing a portion of it on Elysium's desk, then resting the remainder on mine. Just before she turned to leave, I took my pile of documents that required further action and seperated them into two. One pile was for documents that needed Elysium's attention, the other was a pile that had some sort of error. I passed the second pile to Marisa.
"These reports are suspicious – the numbers don't tally up for some of the revenue reports from the ticket sales, and for the expenditure reports, the numbers or quantities don't make sense. Help me go through these and see if you can find an explanation for the discrepancy, and if you can't, contact the contractor that filed the report. Oh, and also make a note of everyone who filed these, I'll need it later, thanks."
"Got it. Is there anything else you need me to handle?"
"Not for now. Ask Elysium if she has anything on her part she needs you to do."
She hurried off, while I turned my attention back to the job application I was currently examining. Due to the sudden increase in the amount of security required for the event due to the confirmed attendance of the Emperor, we had spent the last few days sending out recruitment notices for it, and as a result of our efforts, we had mostly filled out the necessary personnel requirements – in addition to the usual ten men we employed for security and crowd control, we had filled out an additional nineteen slots with individuals possessed of good character, with numerous achievements that stood testament to their strength and skill. However, filling in that last spot was proving to be rather difficult.
I looked over the application, paying attention to the applicant's name, qualifications, past employment history, and asking salary. The first step was to check the given name against the list of wanted criminals, though we didn't expect much to come out of this step – anybody on such a list was likely to avoid submitting an application under their real name. Still, it was always possible that the criminal in question was unaware of their notoriety, so doing this quick check would save us some potential trouble later on. Having ascertained that the name of the applicant was not on the wanted list, I moved on to the next check – the achievements.
Since this was the capital, fighting tournaments and the like were frequently held, some official, many unofficial. Such tournaments were completely legal, though gambling on the outcomes in unofficial tournaments was strictly against the law. Of course, it happened anyway, but for the purposes of our application process, the legality of the matches in which our applicants participated was irrelevant – we just wanted to know if they had achieved anything of note. Many of the applicants had at least participated in such tournaments before, with several of them emerging victorious. One applicant in particular had won ten of such tournaments – an impressive feat. However, seven out of ten of these had been unofficial tournaments, which was a concerning number, to say the least. My suspicions had turned out to be correct: when I checked his name against our dossiers, it had emerged an alarming number of times, usually in relation to acts of violence – he had apparently initiated a tavern brawl with four other men and walked out unscathed. While that was proof of his ability, it also showed an undesirable character – we wanted guards, not thugs. As a result, we had rejected that application.
The applicant I was currently considering had won two official tournaments, and had not listed any unofficial tournaments, so that was a promising sign. Feeling hopeful, I turned to his past employment history. He had joined the army for several years, before leaving to become a hired escort for a merchant's caravan. He held this position for five years, but had recently left it due to undisclosed reasons. I furrowed my brow and opened the cabinet holding the rumours we had managed to collect from various information merchants and other regulars in the Ezov. It was a large folder, containing numerous sheets of paper that recorded various pieces of information. Each sheet of paper was a single report, holding all the details we had managed to gather about a given rumour, as well as notes on their credibility. These sheets were then organised alphabetically according to the individuals involved, with all the rumours on an individual forming their dossier, following which they were filed into the cabinet. I scanned the titles of the dossier, finding one that bore the applicant's name. I opened it and flipped through briefly, then sighed as I read what we had collected about this man.
Apparently, the "undisclosed reason" was that he had stolen from his employer's caravan while guarding it. The information had come from several of the other guards and assistants who had accompanied the caravan, and had been verified with the merchant in question. Apparently, the merchant had demanded the money back, and because the applicant had returned it, the merchant had chosen not to press charges. As a former thief myself, the man did have my sympathies, but if he had been caught in the act by so many people, it meant that either his ability or his judgment was lacking. I stamped a rejection across the application and slid it into the pile meant for filing, whereupon it was quickly processed by Jasmine. I stretched my arms out, feeling the soreness in my muscles, and decided to take a short break. Seeing that I had stopped working, Eliza followed suit, and immediately got up.
"Let me get you some tea."
"Yeah, I appreciate it."
I glanced over at Elysium, who was still bent over her desk, furiously scribbling. She had been working herself to the bone for the entire week. She didn't take breaks, except to eat, and even then she only ate with one hand while continuing to peruse her documents. It demonstrated a level of tenacity and stamina that was inhuman, though that was hardly a surprise, given that she so often did things that were beyond the abilities of regular humans. Poor Jasmine, performing for Elysium the same job that Eliza was doing for me, was clearly struggling to keep up with Elysium. I walked up to her and patted her on the shoulder.
"Jasmine, it's okay if you need to take a break."
Jasmine looked up to meet my eyes briefly, on the verge of tearing up, but she wiped her eyes and quickly turned back to her work, shaking her head vigorously.
"No, It's not right to take a break when Miss Elysium is still working so hard…!"
"Elysium's a special case. You're not. It's plain to see that you're on the verge of collapse. Take a break. That's an order. Just take a fifteen minute break to refresh yourself, so you can work more effectively."
At that moment, Eliza re-entered the room, holding a tray with two cups of tea.
"Excellent timing, Eliza."
I took one of the cups and held it out to Jasmine.
"Here. Drink this, rest up, and let's get through this together."
Jasmine looked at me, uncertain, then received the cup from me with both hands. I flashed her a smile, upon which her face coloured a little red. Deciding to spare her from any more embarrassment, I quickly turned my back on her and returned to my chair. Eliza sat down next to me and pouted.
"Aww, I was looking forward to that."
"Is that any way to talk to your boss?"
"Eep! I, uh, I meant…!"
"I'm joking."
I laughed at her honesty. Eliza was a very earnest, straightforward girl. It made her very popular with the guests, though that was also why she had been passed over for a managerial position. We were about the same age, but despite being an orphan, she had grown up in much better circumstances than I, so perhaps it was only natural that I saw her as childish or immature. I took the remaining cup of tea and handed it to Eliza.
"Here you go. I never said that the cup I gave Jasmine was yours."
"E-eh? But then you'd have nothing to drink. You drink it."
"Well, I suddenly find myself not in the mood for tea. Yet you've already gone to the trouble of bringing it up for me. It would be a waste to leave this hot tea untouched. Therefore, you would be doing me a great favour by drinking it on my behalf, to avoid wastage."
"Right. Even if you put it that way…"
"Well, think of it as thanks for coming in to work today, even though the shop being closed means you had the option not to. Although you're the one who prepared the tea and brought it up, the tea leaves were technically paid for by Elysium and I, so I suppose it does work as a show of gratitude."
Realising that I was not going to back down on the matter, Eliza meekly accepted the cup and began sipping from it. We sat in comfortable silence for a while, but then she spoke up.
"You know, you really don't need to thank us. We can all see how much you and Miss Elysium are working, and we're all fans of Miss Rosalind, too – we want to do all we can to make her next concert a success. So all three of us being here today was a natural conclusion. We want to help you, to make everything work."
I watched her drinking her tea for a while, then decided to speak to her about what I had intentionally intended for Marisa only.
"I'm sure you've guessed from our suddenly increased workload that something has happened."
Eliza seemed to recognise that I was about to speak about something serious. She put down the cup and nodded.
"Well, I'm not going to share the details of it, but after this concert, it's entirely possible something bad will happen. We're all working as hard as we can to make sure it doesn't, but there's still a chance that something will occur. When that happens, things might get a bit hectic, and a bit messy. I hope that if or when that time comes, the three of you will continue to place your trust in us – in Elysium and I – and continue supporting us."
Eliza's brow creased with worry, but she recognised that I wasn't intending to say more than I had, so she simply nodded and gave me her answer.
"I can't speak for Miss Jasmine or Miss Marisa, but I can assure you that I'll stand with you. I owe you and Miss Elysium a lot for this job. As long as whatever you're doing doesn't put the orphanage in danger, you'll have my support."
At this moment, Elysium stood up and walked towards us, holding a job application in her hand. She waved it at me, letting me see the blue stamp of approval that she had placed on the bottom of the document. She glanced at Eliza, then back to me. Her mouth curled into a smirk.
"That's number thirty. Add this to the rest, and we can go meet with Julio. If you're done flirting, that is."
Eliza instantly coloured red and looked down, staring into her teacup. I ignored the jab and took the application, slotting it into a brown envelope with the other 29 approved applications. Standing up, I collected the jacket draped across the back of my chair and threw it on, grabbing my gloves from the drawer built into the desk. I buttoned up the suit and straightened my tie. I tucked the envelope of applications under my arm.
"We'll be back in a while. Take a break until then, Eliza, Jasmine."
The two girls nodded their assent, but said nothing. Eliza was still staring into her tea. Leaving them in such a state, Elysium and I left the Ezov. After we had walked some distance, Elysium suddenly spoke, ruffling my hair.
"First Anneliese, then those girls back in Jorgenvale and Heltshire, and now our three helpers. You've grown up into quite the heartbreaker, haven't you, Glint?"
I extricated myself from her hand and sighed.
"I'm not interested. Never have been. I don't get why this happens to me every time. It's not like I'm treating them any differently than I do with other women."
"It's probably just because you're so nice to women in general. Anneliese raised you well. It also helps that you're pretty good-looking."
I lapsed in silence, unaware of how to respond. Then, suddenly, something that Elysium had said earlier suddenly came to mind.
"Wait, just now, did you say 'our three helpers'? Not just Eliza and Jasmine?"
Elysium glanced at me and burst out laughing, but gave no reply – there was no chance to reply. We had arrived at our destination: Julio Kronschild's residence.
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This past weekend was the Potomac Appalachian Trail Club – Mountaineering Section's annual Fourth of July get together at Seneca Rocks, West Virginia. About 15 or so folks from the DC Metro Area braved an extremely violent wind and thunderstorm and a weekend of appallingly hot and oppressively humid weather to get together for climbing at Seneca Rocks, WV. It has to be one of the most unusual and memorable climbing trips that I've been on.
Friday night after work I hitched a ride with Travis and Eliddia for the three hour drive out to Seneca—however; this would not be your normal drive out to Seneca by any means. The Mid-Atlantic, and indeed much of the country, has been facing a record breaking heat wave recently with temperatures soaring into the triple digits.
These prolonged 100-plus degree days created the conditions that led to a rare and violent storm known as a derecho, a fast moving weather front with severe thunderstorms and hurricane-force gusts.
As we approached the western terminus of I-66, we could see the storm off in the distance, stretching across the entire horizon, with a rapid series of lightning strikes that kept coming one after the other.
Travis compared it to a scene out of war movie, as if it were an extended night bombing raid, which I thought to be a pretty apt description. We finally hit the storm along I-81 with strong wind gusts and light rain.
It wreaked havoc on traffic obviously as drivers slowed down and some even pulled off to the side of the road, waiting for calmer conditions. We soon encountered large amounts of debris strewn about the roads, with leaves, branches, and even some trees blocking entire lanes—we remained concerned that we'd run into a section of road that was impassable.
By the time we reached Moorefield, WV we realized that power had been knocked out, which would prove to be the case all the way to Seneca.
The storm eventually began to calm down as we passed through the backside of it, though we obviously continued to encounter the debris and destruction left behind—at least half a dozen trees across the road and there was even a giant boulder sitting right in the road at one point.
By the time we pulled into Seneca Rocks at 11:30pm, they storm had completely dissipated, thankfully, and we were able to set up our shelters at the PATC-MS group campsite without the added drama of the derecho.
I've never seen a thunderstorm of that intensity before, and it was humbling to watch the fury of Mother Nature… It was quite the way to start off the weekend!
Unfortunately, the storm had left the town of Seneca Rocks without power, which normally wouldn't be a problem while camping, but I've come to rely on being able to go to the store for breakfast and coffee.
Luckily Harper's in town had a generator running so we were able to pick up the last two prepackaged breakfast sandwiches (unfortunately mine was moldy and disgusting), along with some Mountain Dew in lieu of coffee, and ice cream bars since it was already like 90-some degrees.
It was also the only place where gas was available. There was a huge line of cars queued up for gas like we were back in the days of the Arab oil embargoes.
Our late start actually ended up working out in our favor on our intended route (Old Ladies 5.2), since we could start on the West Face and then would be crossing over to the East Face just about when the sun crossed over, so we'd mostly be in the shade.
We arrived at the base of the route after a hot and humid approach up the Stairmaster, a stone staircase with a few hundred feet of gain, to a pretty quiet scene—there just weren't many climbers around, but it was after noon by now, so they were all probably up higher.
Eliddia and I had never climbed together before, and I'd be leading all the pitches, this would also be my first time leading a non-leader, so the pressure was on! Thankfully I've lead Old Ladies a couple times now, so I'm pretty familiar with it. At the top of the first pitch I ran into another party that I hadn't realized was there… I set up the belay and brought her up.
We had to wait for awhile for the other party to get on their way. The second pitch traverses around a corner and then goes across the face on a small ledge—unfortunately the group in front of us, I now realized, was a slow moving group of four traveling in caterpillar formation. This was going to take awhile!
I set up an anchor off a small tree about halfway through the traverse since there were three of them crowded around the tree at the end of the second pitch. I brought Eliddia over and we just hung out in the middle of the ledge snacking, hydrating, and waiting.
At least it was shady—though it was still disgustingly hot and humid, which I don't deal with very well. After a long while the last climber finally started up the third pitch, so I pitched out the last half of the second pitch, belayed her over, and then gave it a little more time to ensure I wouldn't end up right behind him.
The third pitch is a fun flake that alternately features a little bit of exposed climbing out on the edge and then a few chimney moves inside the flake. Overall Old Ladies is an enjoyable, non-stressful route for beginning trad leaders like myself.
At the top of the third pitch on the summit ledge, I ran into another party of three from PATC-MS that had come up Old Man's Route on the West Face. We were going to skip the summit and just join them for a double-rope rappel, but it turned out there was a line to use that rap station and we didn't want to cut.
And it was much hotter now that we were out of the shade and on the exposed upper part of the crag. Ugh, we wanted to get out of there, so we headed over to the Traffic Jam rap station, hoping that it wasn't living up to its namesake at this moment.
No, no, no, I don't want to deal with this.
I tried shaking them out but just couldn't get them free—Eliddia rapped down and I told her we may have a slight problem… Thankfully with some additional concerted effort trying to free them, I was able to shake out one end of the rope.
With some additional slack in the system I was able to get out the other end. Stopper knots, oh how you stressed me out.
It wouldn't have been the end of the world, I could've rapped down to the end of the rope, reached down to free the knots, and then ascended the rope back up to the rap station, but I'm sure glad I didn't have to!
Two more raps and we were back on the ground. We hiked back out to the car, unsure of what the club's exact plan was for the evening. We went out to the nearby swimming hole to cool off and ran into a few more members of the club.
We later found out that numerous people in the group got leeches from swimming in the river! I didn't even realize there were leeches in the rivers out this way—West Virginia has some pretty nasty critters, ticks, rattlesnakes, and now leeches?
We returned to the Seneca Shadows group campsite where just about everybody was at this time. Soon thereafter we started grilling up burgers and hotdogs and snacking on all the potluck items that were brought, and rehashing the days exploits with everybody else.
We had a little mini raffle with some free gear, which was pretty cool considering we were such a small group. Following the barbecue we headed down into town for some live music on the porch of Seneca Rocks Mountain Guides.
With the power out it turned out to be a one-person acoustic show with Kelly, one of the guides at SRMG, who rocked it on guitar and has an awesome voice to boot. SRMG also has a pretty huge indoor climbing area with real rocks, crack systems, and just normal plastic holds, so lots of people also went bouldering by headlamp following Kelly's show.
Sunday morning we got an earlier start. After the moldy breakfast sandwich yesterday, I just stuck to pretzel chips and other leftovers from the barbecue. We followed along with Dave, Travis, and Andy, since Travis was our ride, and that was also the original plan since both Dave and I are new leaders.
We ended up heading over to the east side to climb up Worrell's Thicket (5.0) a pretty simple ramp system that leads up to Lower Broadway ledge. The challenge of Worrell's Thicket is obviously not in the climbing itself, but more in trying to find ways to place gear as there are relatively few placements, it consists of a lot of running it out, and feeling sketched out with the dirty, loose, debris covered ledges.
Dave headed up first and we just hung out at the base. Eliddia and I were climbing on her 70m rope which has a little more wiggle room, but the route is basically a full 60m rope, so Dave made it to the tree where he could belay with just a few feet to spare. After Travis and Andy headed up, I then set out on lead.
I got a few little gear placements down low, but toward the top I just ran it out between trees to sling. I did score my first gear booty when I found a nut tool on one of the ledges—which wasn't from any of the guys in front of me. The weather today was even worse than the day before, and I actually needed to chalk up repeatedly because my hands were so sweaty.
When it is as hot and humid as it was on Sunday, it is just not much fun to climb in, any movement at all and you start sweating, which can be a little disconcerting when your hands are clammy and slippery.
So we all decided to just bail early—Dave set up a rappel above Worrell's with his two ropes which would get us all the way down in one rappel. It took awhile for all five of us to get down but then we just packed up and headed back to the cars.
On the way out of town, Travis, Eliddia and I stopped at the Smoke Hole Caverns just north of Seneca… This was my first time at any of these caverns that I have driven past innumerable times, and I must say, it is an awesome place to go when it is 90-some degrees out.
The caverns stay at a cool and consistent temperature of 53-degrees or so. We got to experience total darkness, where you can't even see your hand in front of your face, plus there are just some wild and unusual rock formations down there.
We couldn't help but look around at some of the walls, crack systems, and overhanging rock and marvel about how fun those would be to climb if that were possible! There is one room that has a 200+ foot tall overhanging wall… Chris Sharma, get on that!
All in all, it was another enjoyable trip out to Seneca. Not a ton of climbing really, but it was a good experience for me to have to lead all the pitches and also lead a non-leader. Great to see lots of old faces from PATC-MS and meet some new ones as well!
The trip was also quite memorable for the violent derecho storm, all the other accompanying experiences, and climbing in the oppressive weather. Needless to say, I'm REALLY looking forward to the end of the DC summers and eagerly awaiting falls arrival!


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"If you don't like what they're saying – change the conversation."
This was the first episode of Mad Men this season in which Matt Weiner had no writing credit – and it showed, in a definite change of tone from his usual portent-laden melancholia. Instead, it came off more like the soap opera it basically is, beneath the existential trappings. Appropriate, given that one of the major subplots involved Megan's work on the fictional soap opera which gave the episode its title.
This was definitely a lighter episode than usual, by Mad Men standards at least, but Erin Levy's script was still a cleverly constructed masterclass in subtlety. It seemed straightforward and linear, but all the plots cunningly wove around and intertwined with each other in an episode that concerned itself, first and foremost, with the women on the show.
One of the tropes of Mad Men is to reflect quite how badly women had it in the 1960s, and this was one of the episodes that chose to make that a major theme. It was far lighter in tone than the previous meditation on the issue, last season's shocking The Other Woman, which saw Joan compromise her principles and sleep with a client to gain the firm an account and herself a partnership.
Joan was probably the main focus this week, as she reflected on exactly what 'sleeping her way to the top' had actually got her. Partner she may be, but as she puts it, "I've been here fifteen years and they still treat me like a secretary". Significantly, she still seems to run the office secretarial pool, which is surely below the usual duties of a partner in an advertising firm. And when she exercised even that authority, firing Harry's secretary Scarlett for skiving off work and having Dawn punch out her time card, Joan was still overruled by the other partners.
In the nicest, most condescending of ways, of course. Don, Roger and Bert have a sense of old-fashioned chivalry that borders on the patronising, while Pete seems to still have some guilt over basically manoeuvring Joan into whoring herself for an ad account. The incident with Herb Rennet from Jaguar has still never been openly discussed, but it got pretty close here as Harry barged his way into a partners' meeting to protest about Joan firing his secretary.
Dropping heavily loaded remarks about deserving to be a partner himself because he'd actually earned it, Harry made everyone else seemingly frantic to avoid actually confronting the issue. The thing is, in a sense he had a point – he was farsighted enough to set up the TV department, against Roger's wishes, at a point when nobody took TV advertising seriously. He has made a major contribution. Unfortunately he's also made a fool of himself, and his behaviour has probably swayed both Bert and Roger against ever granting him his wish. That might come back to bite them – boorish he may be, but he increasingly holds a large part of Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce's fortunes in his sweaty little paws.
After valiantly defending Joan by assiduously avoiding the subject of how she got her partnership, the men in the room still didn't back up her decision to fire Scarlett, and she backed down with a palpable sense of annoyance. Palpable to the viewer, anyway; Don, Bert, Roger and Pete didn't seem to notice it.
Luckily for Joan, her old friend Katie was visiting Manhattan, which occasioned a girls' night out, and a quite un-Joanlike bit of flirting with a waiter and casual rumpy pumpy at a bohemian nightclub. It was understandable – given her frustration at work, no wonder she wanted to let her hair down. It was amusing to see her wake up, hungover and still in the previous night's clothes, in bed with her friend (no, not like that – at least I don't think so). But it was also sobering to see Katie's perspective – she worships Joan for her achievements, which must make Joan all the more bitter about how she got them.
Other people's perspectives were another recurrent theme this week, as Don's secretary Dawn finally got some character time. She's been rather neglected since her introduction, given one episode to interact with Peggy and otherwise just efficiently doing her job at SCDP. But she's very significant – in a time of growing civil rights for African Americans, she's still the only non-Caucasian at the firm, or in the show for that matter.
So it was good to see her perspective on life at SCDP, as she discussed it with her best friend after work at a diner (where, noticeably, all the clientele were black; so much for the end of segregation).
Dawn may work at SCDP, but she's still very much an outsider herself, and conscious of her precarious position. As a black woman, she's doubly disadvantaged against the prejudices of the era. No wonder she felt intimidated enough to go along with Scarlett's plea to fake her time card.
Her outsider status caused her to give perhaps the most accurate summary of the show's tropes I've ever heard, describing life at SCDP: "everyone's scared. Women cry in the ladies' room and men cry in the elevator. It's like New Year's Eve when they empty the garbage, there's so many bottles." An amusing bit of lampshade-hanging, perhaps? And yet, by the end, the irony was that Dawn is plainly desperate to be a part of this life she has such contempt for.
Peggy was on show too, in a payoff to last week's hints about the Heinz Ketchup account. Pete was secretly scheming for his holy grail of condiments to come to SCDP, despite Don's misgivings that Heinz Beans supremo Raymond hated Heinz Ketchup honcho Timmy. Much clandestine to-ing and fro-ing occurred at the office on the mysterious 'Project K', with Stan secretly drafting a campaign to present to Timmy at a secret hotel rendezvous.
Just when it was beginning to look like this would be the only plot thread not to involve the female characters, Peggy showed up with Ted Chaough just as Don finished his pitch. And as he listened trepidatiously at the door, she gave a Draper-style pitch that just blew his out of the water. She's certainly learned from – and perhaps surpassed – the Master. And it looks like he knows it.
In a final twist though, the Ketchup account went to neither of them. And Ken turned up with the bad news that Raymond had discovered their secret plan and yanked the beans account forthwith. As a gamble that didn't pay off, that was pretty bad; though not as bad as the spanner it threw into the works of Peggy and Stan's friendship. It's obvious where she got her advance information, and you could see Stan's face fall as the penny dropped.
The final lady on show in this week's quartet was Megan Draper, in an amusing but slight subplot that perhaps got more screentime than it really deserved. Megan's character in her daytime soap was being given a Big Plot of her own – and it included her first love scene.
Knowing Don as she does, Megan didn't expect him to be happy about it, so she went out of her way to explain it to him reasonably, even inviting him to dinner with head writer Mel and his wife, fellow cast member Arlene. Dinner in Mad Men is always fraught with danger, but thankfully the worst this one had to offer was a none too subtle invite for a foursome – the look on Don's face was a picture (in fact, the one at the top of this page).
Yet when it came to it, Don found himself less able to '"tolerate" the love scene than he'd said, turning up at the set to watch his wife at work for the first time. It can hardly have been a coincidence that the 'love scene' in question came off as a cheesy version of every Don Draper seduction ever – including Megan's own. Perhaps that was why he was so infuriated he felt the need to storm off leaving his wife in tears again.
Where's Bob Benson?
Only one sighting of the mysterious Bob this week, lurking genially in Creative for no clear reason. As usual, he cheerily asked Don how he was doing, and as usual, Don ignored him. Just who is he, and why does Don hate him so much?
More dwelling on Vietnam this week; Mel and Arlene discussed it as a divisive TV ratings killer for the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, therefore bad for the ad business. Dow Chemical, the friendly manufacturer of household chemicals – and napalm, and Agent Orange – was back in SCDP's sights, as Ken and Harry persuaded Ken's father in law, the CEO, to counter bad press from the war with a TV variety show. Yeah, that'll do the trick.
Mention was made of the upcoming Presidential election too. "The trouble is, Nixon thinks he's still running against Kennedy," Ken opined, to which Harry replied, "so does Johnson." In the event, of course, Lyndon Johnson lost control of the Democrats and was forced to stand aside in favour of George Wallace. He lost – and Richard Nixon got his first term. Elsewhere, rising star of the Senate Bobby Kennedy was mentioned in passing on the radio – I wonder if this year's season will climax around what happened to him as the third did for his brother?
And the trendy bohemian nightclub visited by Joan on her girls' night out was a real one – Manhattan's famed Electric Circus, so hip that at one point the Velvet Underground was the house band. They'd gone by the time Joan visited, and she had to make do with the soothing sounds of Serge Gainsbourg and Brigitte Bardot singing 'Bonnie and Clyde'.
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The 70s are just round the corner, and colours are getting brighter and more gaudy. Eye-burningly hideous checked sports coats were back in a big way this week, with Harry Crane sporting no fewer than three throughout the ep. I'd say the winner was this repulsive green effort sported by Heinz's genial Timmy, complete with paisley cravat:
Speaking of Harry, his increasing success has enabled him to seriously decorate his office. The result, compared, say, to the elegant style of Roger Sterling's, is less than pleasant to behold:
But that's as nothing compared to how his secretary is decorated. The unfortunate Scarlett wore at least three garishly vile ensembles this week, but this has to be the most hideous, as she trooped down the corridor with Harry like bit part players in The Avengers:
Thank heavens for the restraint and sanity of Megan Draper:
Oh all right, that's just her TV costume. And isn't that Emmanuelle she's reading?
This was (by Mad Men standards) a pretty light and frothy episode, though not without its depths. The points about women (and race, for that matter) were well made in a fairly understated way, and as ever the dialogue was endlessly quotable. Yet, for all that it was about the women, it was still Don Draper we came back to at the ending. Locked in another doomed embrace with the irresistible Sylvia, he wondered aloud whether she prayed for absolution after their trysts. No – "I'll pray for you… to find peace." Peace? Don Draper? He wouldn't know what to do with it.
Author Simon FernandesPosted on April 23, 2013 Categories Mad Men reviewsTags beans, Dawn, Don Draper, Heinz, Joan Holloway, ketchup, Mad Men, Megan Draper, Peggy Olson, SCDP, To Have and To Hold
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Q: Mysql Storing very large number of data : UUID as primary key vs any other logic I am developing a GPS device based application in Cakephp 2.0 and mysql (InnoDB). Each device sends data every minute to the Db and I need to make it scalable to a very large number of devices simultaneously to the server.
I have not used BIGINT auto increment as primary key because there is a limit and max value beyond which the limit to BIGINT will be reached and the system will fall apart, even if far away.
I created the primary key as char(36) and generated UUID from php and started storing the data. Primarily because the limit and uniqueness of the primary key will never stop and the design will never fail.
Uniqueness is the only reason for me and nothing else.
Problems:

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*The system is in pilot testing mode and time to insert the data has increased to very large extent. Refer to http://kccoder.com/mysql/uuid-vs-int-insert-performance/ This is exactly happening in my case where by time, the time to insert the data is increasing and i expect that it might get worse in the coming days as the number of data keeps increasing. There are around 2,00,000 data in the table now.\

*The primary key being char(36), i assume the performance is getting effected in inserts,  select statements and joins.

My idea is to replace the primary key UUID column with a varchar(50) column and have Device ID / IMEI Number + timestamp stored as primary key and they will always be unique. But on the downside, it's again a varchar field and performance issues on long run.
What is the best option for me in the long run?

A: Just use BIGINT UNSIGNED.
An unsigned INT64 is something like 4.000.000.000 times 4.000.000.000. So assuming you have one device for each of the less than 8 billion people on the planet logging once per second, that leaves you with 2 billion seconds or more than 63 years. I assume, that in 63 years an INT128 is normal (or small).
I am also quite sure, that you will run into very different classes of trouble long before you reach 2^64 rows in a single table.


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