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ThanksBox: empowering peer-to-peer recognition
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September 29, 2015 - Practices & Exercises
What's the purpose of ThanksBox?
ThanksBox is a peer-to-peer recognition tool that allows teams and coworkers to recognize individual achievements and share them within the organization.
Essentially it was created to transform the way the HR industry looks to evaluating employee contribution. We want employers to see beyond the traditional core KPI set. To understand that employees often contribute beyond what their 'role' calls for. The purpose was to develop a tool that captured the contribution of individual employees, to recognize their achievements and provide real-time insights for senior level management..
How can organizations benefit?
These days we understand that the best assets of an organization are its employees. They recruit people they believe are capable of taking their businesses into the future. Then once they integrate into a team environment, they often miss individual achievements and career successes. As more often than not, senior level management lose sight of what's happening at ground level.
ThanksBox uses the wisdom of the crowd to bring the right people to the forefront and be recognized. It lets the crowd speak up about people they think are valuable in the organization and feedback gets processed into an insight engine.
Until now HR has had very little access to information about its people, beyond demographics. Accounts has its data package and Sales has CRM; now ThanksBox gives HR a tool that gives them real time insight into the performance and behaviours of individuals, as perceived through the eyes of the employees. Giving them an overview of how the company culture and values are being played out throughout the organization.
It's really simple. The giver searches for the person they want to say thanks to and sends a message via the ThanksBox app, highlighting the reason for the recognition. The receivers gets an email to let them know they have been recognized. All message content shared between employees is private, unless the giver opts to provide visibility to management.
The number of messages sent is available to HR and team leaders, allowing them to observe the level of recognition that flows between employees, teams or departments. The message content is then used to create a word cloud, representing the reasons coworkers are being recognized. This is available to givers and receivers, and also to team managers; giving further insight into the motives behind what stimulates recognition within their team.
ThanksBox is an inter-organizational tool. Messages are sent between registered users, but currently aren't shareable outside the organization. The message flows from one employee to another, or from one employee to multiple receivers.
Why peer-to-peer recognition?
Organizational structures have progressed to being less hierarchical and more about getting great people to do great things. Senior level is now about facilitating and leading teams, not just giving a pat on the back and an extrinsic motivator, such as a monetary bonus.
Peer-to-peer recognition creates a channel that allows recognition to flow up and down the organizational structure, not just in a continuous downward flow.
How can ThanksBox improve company culture and employee engagement?
It gives the organization a sense of what the culture is like in each of its teams. ThanksBox is relevant and useful for any size of organization, but it's ideally placed in companies with 250 plus employees; in situations where bosses no longer know everybody's name or team dynamics.
It's first role is to make sense of the values and behaviours being championed in the organization and provide measurable points and key pillars from which managers can identify ways to improve employee engagement and motivation, and better support the company culture. Anyone that has an analytical role can examine what the culture is really like. Is it aligned with the values of the organization? How are teams and individuals being recognized and what values and behaviours are they being recognized for?
The tool can be a key contributor in understanding what organizational culture and engagement actually look like. Analyzing it on a real-time basis, not just in six monthly appraisals, or on a form given out once or twice a year.
In the first week of launch over 1000 thanks were sent across several organizations. This type of recognition is normally hidden from management. Always appreciated by coworkers, but invisible to managers. ThanksBox makes peer-to-peer recognition visible, meaningful and measurable.
Does your team practice what it preaches?
Yes definitely! We're using it together with another new tool we're just about to launch, which works like an ideas board for employees to give feedback on new ideas and ongoing projects. They definitely keep us on our toes!
It's really important for us to evaluate what triggers recognition, what does it take to step up and say thanks to someone? The Ideas Board is also a really cool way to get a sense of what everyone on the team is thinking about a specific project, even though we are a really small team, sometimes you don't get a chance to speak your mind on something that you feel could be done better.
Tell us more about the Ideas Board!
It's the second coming! A suggest mechanism that allows anyone in an organization to post their suggestions. Each idea is given a link and can be shared through the organization. Employees can up and down vote different suggestions on the board and give feedback on current projects. The organization gets a sense of what employees deem as important and employees get a way to present their ideas and get initial feedback, without the daunting task of making a presentation to the boss, until they have positive feedback from peers and team leaders.
The idea came from an organization that launched a drinks fridge in their office. They asked a group of employees what type of drinks they wanted to see in the fridge and via the feedback they ended up pulling all the full fat and sugar drinks. Their decision left a lot of unhappy people in the organization, who wanted their full fat coke with lunch. Of course they hadn't asked a broad enough spectrum of people – they had only asked the well linked and social team members, which gave them a very narrow view of the opinion of the masses.
How far along with your experiment are you?
Myself, Merlin, our CTO and Steve, our Product and Design Manager, came together last October, so we're a year down the line and now a team of seven. Our first line of code was written on December 1st 2014. We secured our first customer in April this year, and our first invoice was raised on the 1st May. Right now we are working with six companies, in three countries and we'll be in five countries within the next two months.
What type of businesses are using ThanksBox?
Any organization that recognizes the importance of employee engagement and motivation can and should be using a tool like ThanksBox. At the moment we are working with marketing agencies, a satellite developer, technology companies and healthcare providers.
What's next for the team?
Getting the Ideas Board live is imminent and then we're working on further global reach for both products. Of course we want a lot more companies using our service and in the long-term we'll be developing more tools that help organizations gain an insight into employee satisfaction.
Can you give us your top tip for Worker Happiness?
Ensure everyone has a really clear sense of purpose and what it is they contribute, and ensure they understand how what they do impacts on the business.
Visit the ThanksBox to find out more about peer-to-peer recognition for your organization.
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Greenwich High girls hockey team tops Trumbull-St. Joseph with two late goals
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Photo by David Fierro: The Greenwich High School girls hockey team skated to a 5-3 win vs. Trumbull/St. Joseph.
A tie game late in the third period – indeed, Monday's girls ice hockey matchup between Greenwich and Trumbull/St. Joseph resembled the previous two games for the Cardinals.
Yet this time, the Cardinals got the end result they were seeking.
After losing by one goal against Section One East, then settling for a tie against Conard/Hall, Greenwich used two goals late in the third period to post a 5-3 victory against Trumbull/St. Joseph in an FCIAC game held at Dorothy Hamill Skating Rink.
The Cardinals improved to 8-5-1 overall with the win and upped their FCIAC mark to 5-3. Greenwich has clinched the No. 4 seed in next week's four-team FCIAC Tournament. Senior forward Lexi Danielson registered two goals and two assists, senior forward Lily Bates had the go-ahead goal and junior twins Kelsey and Sophie Roth had one goal apiece to spearhead the winning effort.
Photo by David Fierro: Lexi Danielson had two goals and two assists in Greenwich's triumph vs. Trumbull/St. Joseph.
"The girls have been fantastic at picking up what we have been teaching them," Greenwich assistant coach Tom Laidlaw said. "One of the problems we have is our own end, when we sometimes try to do everyone else's job. Today we did a much better job of it, played really good defense and did a lot of good things out there."
The go-ahead goal came with Greenwich on a power play, following a Trumbull/St. Joseph roughing penalty. On the scene in front of the net, Bates tipped in a shot from Danielson, giving GHS a 4-3 lead with just 3:03 remaining in the third period. Junior Sophie Roth also assisted on the goal.
"We had a lot of opportunities on the ice, so it was nice that we were able to complete one and do it together," Bates said of her game-winning goal. "My line, Lexi, Sophie and I, we always generate a lot of shots and good passes, so it was one of those good goals."
Lily Bates, a senior captain, scored a key goal in Greenwich's win over visiting Trumbull/St. Joseph.
Danielson sealed the Cards' eighth win of the season when she slid the puck way down the ice and scored on an empty-netter with only 14 seconds left in the final period. The Cardinals and Eagles were scoreless heading into the second period, which saw the squads combine for five goals.
"Just in between periods coach said we have to play our kind of hockey – more controlled hockey," said Danielson, who like Bates, is one of the Cards' captains. "We were restless. We just have to take that extra second and look to see who is open."
Senior Devon Cavaliere, who centers Trumbull/St. Joseph's top line, gave the visitors a 1-0 lead with a goal at the 11:51 mark of the second period. Greenwich quickly responded, with Kelsey Roth tallying off a pass from her sister Sophie, making it 1-1 1:01 later.
Sophie Roth, who had three assists, scored with 10:17 to go in the second period off a Danielson assist, putting GHS on top, 2-1, but Trumbull tied the score at 2-2 on a tally by freshman forward Mara Ashby with 9:48 remaining in the second stanza. Danielson's goal with 7:07 still left in the action-packed second period, gave the Cards a 3-2 edge. Junior Caroline Lawrence and Sophie Roth each assisted on Danielson's first goal.
"We like having competitive games like this," Danielson said. "We always work hard."
Said Laidlaw: "We had a lot of chances, over the last three or four weeks, we've scored a lot of goals and they have more confidence in themselves."
Tess Marciano, a senior captain, helped pace Greenwich past Trumbull on Feb. 7, 2022, in Greenwich.
With just 4:43 remaining in the third period, Trumbull/St. Joseph junior forward Teagan Cavaliere knotted the score at 3-3, tallying off assists from her sister Devon and Ashby. Greenwich registered 45 shots on goal and Trumbull/St. Joseph goalie Elsa Haakonsen recorded 41 saves. Junior goalie Emma Kunschner made 21 saves for the Cardinals, who visit Wilton-McMahon-Norwalk on Wednesday.
"It came down to who had more energy and who can get the shots on net and win the battles in the corner and finish," Greenwich senior defender/tri-captain Tess Marciano said. "With the tie, that made me think of our most recent game (a 1-1 tie against Conard/Hall). "I think that motivated me to want to fight harder and play stronger and lead as a captain to motivate other people on the team."
Laidlaw liked the leadership he saw from the three captains.
"Lexi has been fantastic, Lily is playing so well all the time and Tess has been fantastic on defense," Laidlaw said. "Lily both ends of the ice, has been doing well."
Said Bates: "We just are learning how not to let up and just because we are winning by one or two, it doesn't mean we can stop playing as hard as we are. Instead, it motivates us to keep working hard and maintain what we have."
Greenwich hosted Trumbull/St. Joseph at Dorothy Hamill Skating Rink on Feb. 7, 2022, in Greenwich.
The postseason is coming up soon. After their road game against Wilton-Norwalk-McMahon on Wednesday, the Cardinals will celebrate Senior Day against East Catholic on Saturday at 5:45 p.m.
"There is a bittersweet feeling to it, knowing it's my last season," Marciano said of the squad's upcoming Senior Day. "But it's also exciting because I've been there for every senior day and it will be nice to experience that for myself."
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Polar bear tranquillizers, collars do no lasting harm: study | CBC News Loaded
Polar bear tranquillizers, collars do no lasting harm: study
A new study by the U.S. Geological Survey suggests shooting polar bears with tranquillizer darts, handling them and leaving them with radio collars doesn't do any lasting harm — even if a bear is captured as many as 10 times.
James Eetoolook of Nunavut Tunngavik finds the conclusion 'hard to believe'
Bob Weber · The Canadian Press · Posted: Dec 17, 2014 7:31 AM EST | Last Updated: December 17, 2014
A study by the U.S. Geological Survey says shooting polar bears with tranquillizer darts, handling them and fitting them with radio collars doesn't appear to have any effect on body condition, reproduction or cub survival.
A newly published study says shooting polar bears with tranquillizer darts, handling them and leaving them with radio
collars doesn't do any lasting harm — even if a bear is captured as many as 10 times.
Despite long-standing concerns from many Inuit and some scientists about the effect on the bears, the U.S. Geological Survey study concludes the animals are moving normally within five days after being picked up.
"These shorter-term, post-capture effects do not appear to have translated into any long-term effects on body condition,
reproduction or cub survival," the study concludes. "Additionally, collaring had no effect on polar bear recovery rates, body condition, reproduction or cub survival."
Capture studies have long been controversial in the North.
Some earlier research has suggested using such techniques to study the bears harms them. Inuit hunters say the approach injures the bears, leaves them with chemical residues and shows disrespect to a culturally important animal.
"This intrusive method is not acceptable to the Inuit," said James Eetoolook of Nunavut Tunngavik Inc., which monitors the Nunavut land claim.
The question has grown in urgency as climate change increases pressure to understand what's happening to bear populations.
The new study uses data collected from the South Beaufort Sea population, which Canada shares with the United States. It drew its conclusions from the results of 3,800 captures between 1970 and 2013.
"We had a great opportunity to look at the long term to see if any animals are being negatively affected, and we are very pleased to report we couldn't find any evidence like that," said Steve Amstrup, the study's lead author.
Researchers found 90 per cent of the bears reached their previous level of movement and activity within five days of being captured.
Body mass didn't seem to be different between bears that had been captured before and those that were being tranquillized for the first time. That held for bears that had been darted and studied repeatedly, up to 10 times.
Litter size didn't seem to be affected if the mother had been previously captured. Cubs born to previously captured sows were the same size as those born to non-captured moms. Nor was the mama bear's ability to look after her young affected by wearing a radio collar.
As well, attaching radio collars didn't seem to have any different impact than ear tags or glue-on transmitters.
Nunavut Tunngavik skeptical
Eetoolook finds the conclusions "hard to believe."
Collars, he said, inhibit the bears' movement and make it harder for them to hunt seals through the ice or in open water. Hunters have found dead bears wearing collars, he said.
Scientists should find a more modern way to study the animals and lean more about Inuit traditional knowledge, Eetoolook suggested.
"The Inuit respect wildlife, so therefore they don't handle wild animals. We're not going to agree to anything that affects the lives of polar bears."
Steve Pinksen of Nunavut's Environment Department said the territory has been moving toward less handling of bears during its research.
Amstrup said aerial surveys only provide a snapshot of bear numbers and don't give any information on the condition of the animals. Genetic analysis of hair samples can yield valuable data — as long as the samples are uncontaminated, from single individuals and collected over a long enough period.
"By capturing animals, over time, you get an opportunity to learn the details of the sex and age composition, the health of the animals, the changes in the animal's growth over time, whether or not they reproduce and how many times," Amstrup said. "All those things you simply can't get by any other method."
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Up until just recently, security agencies relied on blockchain technology to track dirty money and the criminals trading in them. This, however, is fast-changing as the combination of the police, military agencies, financial institutions, authorities and even civilians, now view this technology as a tool for solving far broader problems such as data security, the sale of stock, and settling insurance claims.
Top on the list of authorities that are taking this trailblazing path is Australia, which, as CNBC reports, just recently hired Singapore-based consultancy, HoustonKemp, to create a blockchain-based security system that records the intelligence data that investigators collect. The overall ambition of this project is to improve the various manner of sharing valuable information.
Australia, like many countries, is grappling with the challenges of creating a centralized platform. Many people are averse to sharing information, and this probably is the single-biggest reason the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission and the Australian Financial Intelligence Agency (AUSTRAC), awarded the A$ 1 million (Approx. $750,000) contract to the Singaporean firm.
According to Adrian Kemp, who is the proprietor of HoustonKemp, the ledgers and databases of blockchain are not controlled by a single party. Instead, the blockchain is spread across numerous computers, a security feature that makes the concept indestructible. And, with the latest improvements to the technology such as smart contracts, the proprietor of the information can administer various levels of information access to the different users.
The various applications of blockchain are positioning the technology as a pivotal tool in solving various real-life issues. Already, more authorities all over the world are exploring ways of using blockchain to streamline day-to-day government functions such as records of births, deaths, land and property ownership as well as financial functions such as sale and issuance of stock.
Australia, however, is not the only government experimenting with blockchain. Delaware, for instance, recently amended its financial laws to allow companies to use the blockchain to keep the list of shareholders. This piece of legislation, however, is just beginning. The state is conducting an experiment, dubbed the Delaware Blockchain Initiative, which aims at streamlining the process of stock sale and issuance.
The overall aim of these ambitious projects is to migrate financial operations from the mundane-time wasting, rudimentary methods characterized by SQL databases and broad Excel spreadsheets to the more secure blockchain. In the end, the state hopes that the experiment will enable trades to settle instantly while combining the various steps of the trading process such as stock issuance and incorporation that at the moment, remain disjointed.
While this is a somewhat familiar territory to the financial world, it is comparatively new to the law enforcement agencies. The closest interactions this latter bunch of entities has had with blockchain technology involved forging cooperation with Fintech startups to scrutinize them for evidence of illicit dealings.
This precedent seems to be changing fast because there is evidence of an increasing number of agencies and organizations investing in blockchain research. The US Air Force, the latest of the high profile organizations to set foot into this new frontier, has financed a study that seeks to find out how to use blockchain to secure shared data.
The growing number of legal entities interested in exploring the benefits of blockchain probably is the most prominent assurance that the association the technology enjoyed with the crooked and shady underworld has done little to dent its image.


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Q: Clarification on the proof of existence of square roots We are to prove there exists an $a$ such that $a^2=c$ for a $c>0$.
So we define a set $S=\{x \in \mathbb R \text{ s.t. }x \ge0 , x^2 < c\}$
Since $c$ could be a real number less than 1 we want to first show that $c+1$ serves as an upper bound to $S$.
Suppose $\exists x \in S$ s.t. $ x>c+1$. Then it follows $x^2 > (c+1)^2 = c^2+2c+1 > c$. But this is a contradiction to the definition of $S$ above since it defines $x^2 < c$.  Therefore this implies $c+1$ serves as an upper bound to S.
The Completeness Axiom guarantees if $S$ has an upper bound then it also has a least upper bound.  Let's call the least upper bound of $S$ to be $a$.
Claim : $a^2=c$. We will first show that (case 1) $a^2 < c$ is not possible. Then we will show that (case 2) $a^2 > c$ is also not possible.  Then the only thing left is $a^2=c$
My question is why did we go through the trouble of saying $c+1$ is an upper bound of $S$ when we don't use it in the 2 cases above? I'm not seeing the connection. I know we wanted to show $c+1$ is an upper bound to $S$ because we don't know if $0 < c < 1$ in which case squaring it would yield a number smaller than $c$.  But what does this have to do with the next part of the proof?

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Amended by: 1998, c. 18, Sched. G, s. 26.
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(iii) members of a Council as defined in the Regulated Health Professions Act, 1991. 1991, c. 21, s. 6 (1); 1998, c. 18, Sched. G, s. 26 (1).
11. Every person who contravenes subsection 9 (1) or (2) is guilty of an offence and on conviction is liable to a fine of not more than $5,000 for a first offence and not more than $10,000 for a subsequent offence. 1991, c. 21, s. 11.
Transition before Act in force
13. (1) The transitional Council is the Board of Directors of Chiropractic as it exists from time to time between the 25th day of November, 1991 and the day this Act comes into force. 1991, c. 21, s. 13 (1).
Powers of transitional Council
(2) After the 25th day of November, 1991 but before this Act comes into force, the transitional Council and its employees and committees may do anything that is necessary or advisable for the coming into force of this Act and that the Council and its employees and committees could do under this Act if it were in force. 1991, c. 21, s. 13 (2).
(3) Without limiting the generality of subsection (2), the transitional Council may appoint a Registrar and the Registrar and the Council's committees may accept and process applications for the issue of certificates of registration, charge application fees and issue certificates of registration. 1991, c. 21, s. 13 (3).
Powers of Minister
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(a) review the transitional Council's activities and require the transitional Council to provide reports and information;
(b) require the transitional Council to make, amend or revoke a regulation under this Act;
(c) require the transitional Council to do anything that, in the opinion of the Minister, is necessary or advisable to carry out the intent of this Act and the Regulated Health Professions Act, 1991. 1991, c. 21, s. 13 (4).
Transitional Council to comply with Minister's request
(5) If the Minister requires the transitional Council to do anything under subsection (4), the transitional Council shall, within the time and in the manner specified by the Minister, comply with the requirement and submit a report. 1991, c. 21, s. 13 (5).
(6) If the Minister requires the transitional Council to make, amend or revoke a regulation under clause (4) (b) and the transitional Council does not do so within sixty days, the Lieutenant Governor in Council may make, amend or revoke the regulation. 1991, c. 21, s. 13 (6).
(7) Subsection (6) does not give the Lieutenant Governor in Council authority to do anything that the transitional Council does not have authority to do. 1991, c. 21, s. 13 (7).
(8) The Minister may pay the transitional Council for expenses incurred in complying with a requirement under subsection (4). 1991, c. 21, s. 13 (8).
Transition after Act in force
14. (1) After this Act comes into force, the transitional Council shall be the Council of the College if it is constituted in accordance with subsection 6 (1) or, if it is not, it shall be deemed to be the Council of the College until a new Council is constituted in accordance with subsection 6 (1) or until one year has elapsed, whichever comes first. 1991, c. 21, s. 14 (1).
Terms of members of transitional Council
(2) The term of a member of the transitional Council shall continue for as long as the transitional Council is deemed to be the Council of the College. 1991, c. 21, s. 14 (2).
(3) The Lieutenant Governor in Council may appoint persons to fill vacancies on the transitional Council. 1991, c. 21, s. 14 (3).


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Miami Marlins continue to beef up offense by trading with Tampa Bay Rays for Joey Wendle
Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald on Nov 30, 2021
Published in Baseball
The Miami Marlins added an All-Star infielder to their roster in their latest efforts to bolster their offense for the 2022 season.
The club acquired Joey Wendle from the Tampa Bay Rays in exchange for outfielder prospect Kameron Misner on Tuesday. Miami designated for assignment outfielder Lewis Brinson to make room for Wendle on the 40-man roster.
Wendle, 31, is coming off an All-Star season with the Rays during which he hit .265 with a .319 on-base percentage, .422 slugging mark, 31 doubles, 11 home runs, 54 RBI and 73 runs scored.
For his career, Wendle is a .274 hitter with a .736 on-base-plus slugging mark, 167 RBI, 27 home runs and 205 runs scored over 436 games spanning six seasons — two with the Oakland Athletics and four with the Rays.
Wendle is under team control for another two seasons and is projected to make $4 million in arbitration this year, according to MLB Trade Rumors.
He primarily plays third base but has started at second base and shortstop as well in addition to nine career starts in left field, setting himself up for a super-utility role with the Marlins who have Brian Anderson as their primary third baseman, Miguel Rojas at shortstop and Jazz Chisholm Jr. at second base.
Wendle also provides another left-handed bat to Miami's roster.
Misner, meanwhile, was the Marlins' competitive balance pick in the 2019 MLB Draft and was the No 21 overall prospect in Miami's system, according to MLB Pipeline.
Misner was a revelation at the plate during the final two months of the minor-league season. The lefty hitter had a .326 batting average combined between August and September with 13 doubles, 4 home runs, 27 RBI and 24 runs scored in that span while receiving a promotion from Class A Advanced Beloit (Wisconsin) to Double A Pensacola in the middle of it. That was on top of being an above-average defender.
He showcased his power during the six week Arizona Fall League as well, slugging seven home runs in 102 plate appearances.
This is the second trade the Marlins have made in as many days after acquiring catcher Jacob Stallings from the Pittsburgh Pirates on Monday in exchange for right-handed pitcher Zach Thompson, pitcher prospect Kyle Nicolas and outfielder prospect Connor Scott.
©2021 Miami Herald. Visit at miamiherald.com. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.
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As you might imagine, as a poor young man I had some desire to grow to be rich.
All these years later, with my 10-some-odd projects that I've completed:: I give the world SO MUCH AMPLE opportunity to each give me some small bit of money.
Typically, I do all this work for nothing. Nobody has anything to offer me, even if I ask for just 99cents to 3 bucks or even pay-what-you-choose.
No one can let me have anything. I am reliant on disability, and I'm on disability because of all the abuse I previously took in life.
Maybe people just don't like me -- in some small way I might understand that --- but in another way, I didn't get to choose the origins of my life, and how my community decided to raise me was not my fault. I did my best with what I could.
But now the community just decides not to reward me for any work.
My freebies and free products or even illegal rip offs are taken in droves--- I mean, hundreds to thousands of people will take something from me for free.
But the small payments I ask for? Zip. Zilch. Pretty close to nothing [reported].
When I do a good job, or if I'm just a normal person:: I face either no reward, or I get hated or punished --- for doing good right or normal things.
But when I thought about those small circumstances in my life where I defected --- where I did things that people would typically consider wrong or very wrong ---- that seems to be when I get the most rewards in my life.
I usually try to be a good person and do the right thing, but looking back on my life, I just see more rewards for doing wrong, and more nothing or worse (punishment) for doing right.
That's just how I see my life, looking back.
It doesn't make any goddamn sense at all, but that is how I am remembering the events of my life. Not going into detail.
So either people just don't pay me, or if people have paid me, the money likely gets diverted out of my own hands.
From my perspective, it seems possible that my parents control what I earn, but who knows, maybe my parents are just a lot wealthier now than they were when I was a kid. yeah, they probably are.
At this point in my life, this might even be the wealthiest I might ever be in my life ---- but yeah, I'm just not used to the kind of wealth my family currently experiences, I'm used to being a lot lower in the societal economic hierarchy.
Maybe it's just the socialist government Alberta currently has -- who knows.
It's too bad when your family status goes up under socialism ---- but who knows, you never know if that's actually a normal effect of such a government for most people.
But seriously::: I am not used to the kind of money I have now, and reportedly that doesn't even include payment for my own work. Either I don't get paid, or it gets diverted -- that simple.
While when I defect, that seems to be when good things happen.
And nobody can pay 99cents to 3 bucks for any amount of any work, while if it's free, anyone within the sound of my voice is way more likely to take it.
Honesty just isn't a big thing in our society I guess.


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Q: Export unmodified originals from Photos.app and NOT creating duplicates I have all my photos in Photos.app. I also maintain them in Dropbox.
My workflow is:

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*Import from camera/iPhone into Photos

*Organize photos into albums - some into new albums, some into existing albums.

*Export unmodified originals from Photos to a folder structure that matches the album layout in Photos using File > Export > Export Unmodified Original

New albums are easy. Exporting the entire album is no problem since they are all new files. If I add images to an existing Photos album, I'd like to be able to simply export all of the photos in that album to the Dropbox folder. But if I do that, Photos makes a second copy of the image named "image000(1).jpg".  I don't get prompted to overwrite or not overwrite existing files.
Is there a way to have Photos.app prompt me to overwrite existing files instead of creating duplicates?  Perhaps a hidden plist setting somewhere I can modify...

A: In my version of Dropbox for OS X, v3.4.3 (not the latest), it has a feature to automatically upload photos whenever you connect your devices.
It is in Dropbox's preferences, under IMPORT tab, first option
Enable camera uploads for [photos and videos].


Weather Report could have easily disbanded after the departure of Peter Erskine and Jaco Pastorius, but Joe Zawinul and Wayne Shorter had survived more lineup changes than any duo in history, and they weren't about to let one more stop their group. Thus, in 1982 they recruited drummer Omar Hakim and bassist Victor Bailey from the New York club circuit and recorded Procession, which marked yet another new start for Weather Report. At 23 and 24, Hakim and Bailey brought a youthful energy to Procession, which also looked to world music for inspiration. With Erskine and Pastorius, Weather Report could often end up sounding like a band of dueling soloists. Bailey and Hakim, on the other hand, were eager to serve the collective. For all their virtuosity, "Procession" and "Molasses Run" are swift and cohesive, without the sense of macho antagonism that fired some of the Jaco-era recordings. The centerpiece is undoubtedly "Where the Moon Goes," a Brazilian- and Japanese-influenced chant featuring The Manhattan Transfer. Like most of Zawinul's best compositions, it's hypnotic and pretty but also deceptively tricky—just try clapping along to it.


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Alison Brie's Breakout Role On 'Mad Men' Looked Like A Bit Part
By Becky Sullivan
As part of a series called My Big Break, All Things Considered is collecting stories of triumph, big and small. These are the moments when everything seems to click, and people leap forward into their careers.
Before donning polka dots, pencil skirts, plaid and stylish retro hairstyles on Mad Men, Alison Brie was sporting a far less glamorous look.
She worked the children's birthday party circuit as a clown.
"We always had to drive to Compton first to pick up our suit and do our makeup in this warehouse, and then go get gas, like at the nearest gas station, dressed fully as Sunny the Clown," Brie recalls. "People were cool about it. They were just like, 'Sup girl?' And I was like, 'Sup?' "
Seven years later, when Brie auditioned for Mad Men, she had no idea how big that break would be. At the time, the AMC network didn't have any original programming.
"The role I auditioned for was a one-episode guest star on this show," she says. "So at the time, it also was not like, 'When I get this job it will change my career trajectory entirely. It was more like, 'Maybe no one will ever see this show but at least I would have good material for my reel,' or whatever."
Brie auditioned for the role of Trudy Campbell with the show's creator, Matt Weiner, and other producers, and she felt very confident. But then two weeks went by — an eternity in the world of TV — and she had heard nothing.
"I remember being so devastated that I hadn't heard anything about this job," says Brie. "Uncharacteristically so, because, you know, you audition for a lot of jobs and you don't get most of them."
After that period of suspense, she was offered the part.
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Alison Brie (right) as Trudy Campbell on Mad Men.
Brie was able to see an episode of the show before it premiered. It was so good, she says, that it made her nervous. "I think I turned to my boyfriend at the time and was like, 'I don't think it's gonna last very long.' "
Of course, the show got great reviews — and Brie had a recurring role in all seven seasons.
Looking back, she says Mad Men was obviously her big break. It was the biggest job she'd ever booked. But at the time, it didn't set in.
"I didn't start working on Mad Men and immediately start getting amazing job offers," Brie says. "But I definitely had more confidence because I was working and I could quit my job at the front desk at the yoga studio."
She wasn't under contract for Mad Men, so when NBC's Community came along a couple years later, she seized the opportunity.
"That would be the second in my big-break list," says Brie. "And maybe ultimately the bigger break, because booking a job as a regular on a show does feel more like, 'Whoa!' "
She played Annie — a quirky, straitlaced student at Greendale Community College who was prone to meltdowns.
Her work on Community made people realize she could be funny, but Brie says her career still didn't instantly transform.
But those two roles did open doors and gave her more control over her life as an actor, she says.
"I can actually choose where my career might go," she says, "whereas, you know, when you're first starting out, I definitely took every job. Luckily, it was Mad Men and it was Community. It could have been anything."
Becky Sullivan
Becky Sullivan has reported and produced for NPR since 2011 with a focus on hard news and breaking stories. She has been on the ground to cover natural disasters, disease outbreaks, elections and protests, delivering stories to both broadcast and digital platforms.
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While you are here you must explore the Damas Mangrove, a special ecological niche filled with plant and animal life located just outside of Manuel Antonio. It is a place where the salt water of the sea meets fresh water from the rivers, and constant tidal action creates special ecological breeding ground for all kinds of plant and animal life.
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