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A Digest of the International Law of the United States: Extracts relative tothe treaty of peace of 1782-'83, taken from the Franklin papers now on deposit in the Dept. of State
Francis Wharton
Halaman 71
... relation between treaty and statutory law , when he says that a treaty is to be regarded in courts of justice as equivalent to an act of the legislature whenever it operates of itself without the aid of any legislative provision .
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JUDICIARY CANNOT CONTROL EXECUTIVE IN TREATY MAKING 139
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Halaman 411 - All children heretofore born or hereafter born out of the limits and jurisdiction of the United States, whose fathers were or may be at the time of their birth, citizens thereof, are declared to be citizens of the United States ; but the rights of citizenship shall not descend to children whose fathers never resided in the United States.
Halaman 107 - Granada, by the present stipulation, the perfect neutrality of the before-mentioned Isthmus, with the view that the free transit from the one to the other sea may not be interrupted or embarrassed in any future time while this treaty exists : and in consequence, the United States also guarantee, in the same manner, the rights of sovereignty and property which New Granada has and possesses over the said territory.
Halaman 526 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the passage of this act it shall be unlawful for any person, company, partnership, or corporation, in any manner whatsoever, to prepay the transportation, or in any way assist or encourage the importation or migration of any alien or aliens, any foreigner or foreigners, into the United States...
Halaman 678 - Aliens who are citizens or subjects of any government which accords to citizens of the United States the right to prosecute claims against such government in its courts, shall have the privilege of prosecuting claims against the United States in the Court of Claims, whereof such court, by reason of their subject matter and character, might take jurisdiction.
Halaman 279 - This treaty is the law of the land, and admits the inhabitants of Florida to the enjoyment of the privileges, rights and immunities of the citizens of the United States.
Halaman 71 - Our constitution declares a treaty to be the law of the land. It is, consequently, to be regarded in courts of justice as equivalent to an act of the legislature, whenever it operates of itself without the aid of any legislative provision. But when the terms of the stipulation import a contract — when either of the parties engages to perform a particular act — the treaty addresses itself to the political, not the judicial department ; and the legislature must execute the contract before it can...
Halaman 186 - ... to extend their protection, by treaty stipulations, to any other practicable communications, whether by canal or railway, across the isthmus which connects North and South America, and especially to the interoceanic communications, should the same prove to be practicable, whether by canal or railway, which are now proposed to be established by the way of Tehuantepec or Panama.
Halaman 184 - ... with reference to any means of communication by shipcanal which may be constructed between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, by the way of the river San Juan de Nicaragua, and either or both of the lakes of Nicaragua or Managua, to any port or place on the Pacific ocean ; the President of the United States has conferred full powers on John M.
Halaman 149 - The Consuls, Vice-Consuls and Commercial Agents shall have the right, as such, to sit as judges and arbitrators in such differences as may arise between the captains and crews of the vessels belonging to the nation whose interests are committed to their charge, without the interference of the local authorities...
Halaman 185 - V. The contracting parties further engage, that when the said canal shall have been completed, they will protect it from interruption, seizure, or unjust confiscation, and that they will guarantee the neutrality thereof, so that the said canal may forever be open and free, and the capital invested therein secure.
Judul A Digest of the International Law of the United States: Extracts relative tothe treaty of peace of 1782-'83, taken from the Franklin papers now on deposit in the Dept. of State
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South Africa would face African champions Nigeria in the annual Nelson Mandela Challenge in Durban on August 14, Safa said in a statement.
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Prabhupāda: Lord Caitanya, from different quotations of Vedas, He establishes that the Supreme Absolute Truth is person. He's not imperson. And so far Śaṅkarācārya is concerned, he was ordered to preach Māyāvāda philosophy by the Supreme Personality of Godhead for the time being. It is not that this is the only process for realizing the Absolute Truth.
There is a very nice story in this connection. There was a physician and his servant. So one day the physician was called by some person to treat his horse. So when the physician came, he asked, "What is the matter?" He says that "The horse has suddenly swollen his throat. So please treat." Then the physician took a hammer and strongly struck the swollen portion, and it was at once cured.
The servant saw, "So this is the process of curing swollen parts of the body." So on that very day, he resigned his service and he thought that "Now I have learned how to cure swollen parts of the body." And whenever he was called to treat such disease, he used to hammer over that swollen part and the patient died.
So when he came to his former master, "Sir, you cured that horse, the swollen part, by beating hammer, but when I treat, it dies, the patient dies. What is the matter?" So he explained, "You nonsense, the swollen is not cured by beating. That was a special case. The horse took a squash while he was in the garden, and he could not swallow it up. Therefore it was swollen. So I struck therefore, and it was broken, and the same thing, his swollenness cured. But you foolish, you are simply striking on swollen parts?"
So this is there. Śaṅkarācārya took a special measure to convert the Buddhists to come to Vedic process, because at that time everyone became atheist, following the Buddha philosophy, void. Therefore he had to preach that "Yes. It is void, but that is truth. That void is truth, and this material manifestation, nirvāṇa, that is false. Therefore Lord Buddha taught you that 'Finish this, these material activities, and your miseries will be solved.' "
Śaṅkarācārya said, "Yes, this is all right, but there is Brahman." But he did not describe the Brahman, whether He has..., He is person or He has got pastimes, He has got many planets and there are many devotees, because those fools were not able to understand. Therefore he took for the time being. Caitanya Mahāprabhu, while criticizing, I mean to say, Śaṅkarācārya, He is always taking care that "It was not the fault of Ācārya Śaṅkara, because he's Lord Śiva, and he cannot make any mistake, but he was ordered to do so for the time being.
Actually, Absolute Truth, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, His body is spiritual. He is person. The difference is that He's sac-cid-ānanda-vigraha (Bs. 5.1). And so far the living entities are concerned, they are His energies." Energies. So the distinction between energy and energetic we have discussed several times. So energy is almost the same qualitative as the energetic. The same example, that the sun planet is hot; therefore the energy of the sun planet, sunshine, it is also hot. Sunshine, the sun is illuminating; therefore the energy of the sun, sunshine, it is also illuminating.
So there are so many qualitative equality with the supreme, I mean to say, living entity. But Śaṅkarācārya's statement that "We living entities, we are God, and now we are illusioned in māyā. As soon as we become free from this māyā, we become God," that is not fact. You do not become God, but you are already in godly quality, qualities, to some extent, not fully.
So when you are free from this material clutches, you attain your original quality, spiritual quality. And that spiritual quality, you can serve. Because service means the person who is served, he is also person, and the servant is also person. Otherwise there is no question of service. Service, whenever we say service, there must be a person to take, to accept the service, and there must be one person who renders the service.
Now, apareyam, iyam. Before this verse, Lord Kṛṣṇa has described that "Earth, water, fire, air and ether, they are My different separated energies, and beyond this separated energy, there is another, superior energy. This, these energies are inferior, and there is another, superior energy." So therefore jīva, jīva, the living entities, they are described in the Bhagavad-gītā as energy, not the energetic.
So... What is this sound?
Devotee: Motor. Someone's running some kind of machine. It's interfering.
Prabhupāda: Oh. All right. So He's quoting another verse from Viṣṇu Purāṇa, where it is stated that viṣṇu-śaktiḥ para prokta: "The energy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead is also transcendental." Energy, that means of the same quality. The same example: just like sunshine and the sun, they are of the same quality, similarly, the energy of the Supreme Lord, because the Supreme Lord is all-spiritual, therefore His energy is also all-spiritual.
So we are the energy of the Supreme Lord. We are also all-spiritual. Viṣṇu-śaktiḥ para prokta kṣetrajñākhya tathā para. Kṣetrajñā-śaktiḥ. Kṣetrajñā-śaktiḥ means the living entities. So they are also transcendental, superior. Avidya-karma-samjñānya tṛtiya śaktir isyate. And this material energy, it is the product, product of avidya. Avidya means ignorance or nescience.
Now, the next question will be, "Whose ignorance?" As soon as we say "ignorance," there must be somebody who is ignorant. So whose ignorance? Now, we find the supreme living entity is Kṛṣṇa, and we, the subordinate living entities. So who is ignorant? Ignorant is the living entities—not all living entities, but there is, I mean to say, tendency of becoming ignorant.
Ignorant or forgetfulness. Ignorant we are not, but sometimes we forget, just like under some diseased condition we forget. Or forgetfulness is the diseased condition. Just like a madman: He forgets his identity. He forgets the identity of his family. Either you take this forgetfulness is madness or due to madness, he's forgetful, whatever you say.
Similarly, the..., this forgetfulness is also energy, another energy. Then whose energy? Avidya. This is living entity's energy. The Māyāvāda philosophers, they cannot answer. They claim that "We are God," but when they are asked, "Why you have become dog?" they say, "We do not know." But here is the answer. They hide the reason. They know, and because they have to establish the Māyāvāda philosophy that "There is no God. We are all God," therefore they pretend that "We do not know."
The real fact is that because we are..., although we are energies, therefore we are prone to be in the darkness of ignorance. Just like the same example. It is very easy to understand that the sunshine and the sun, both of them are illuminating and warm, but there is cloud, and the cloud cannot cover the sun; the cloud can cover the sunshine. This is a fact.
Everyone can understand. When there is cloud... Suppose immediately there is cloud, say, two miles or three miles above the surface. So we do not see the sun or the sunshine. Does it mean the cloud has covered the sun? No. Sunshine is so great that cloud's father's..., there is no capacity of the cloud's father to cover sun. It is not possible.
Therefore ignorance... Here it is stated, avidya-karma-samjñānya. This ignorance cannot cover God. That is nonsense. Ignorance covers the God's energy, living entity. Therefore we say that "We are God, but now we have become dog." That is another ignorance. He's never God. He's the energy of God.
This is the difference between Māyāvāda philosophy and Vaiṣṇava philosophy. We should always know that we are energies of God, and because we are energies, we are..., there are so many things qualitatively equal. Just the same example: The warmth and the illumination of the sunshine and the sun planet is practically the same, but the sun is never covered by cloud, but the sunshine is covered—sometimes, not always.
Just like you see that the sunshine is..., the immense sunshine all over the universe, a part of the sunshine is covered, not all; similarly, a part of the energy, living energy, is covered by this māyā, and not all.
Therefore there are millions and billions of liberated souls above this material world, just like there is millions and billions of miles' sunshine above the cloud. You go by airplane above the cloud, oh, the cloud is..., appear to be very insignificant. But sunshine? Oh, so nice, sunshine. Similarly, when you are above this material world, jyotir gamaḥ... Jyotir gamaḥ. Tamasi mā.
The Vedānta, the Vedas, inform you that "Don't remain in this darkness. Just try to get out of it." Jyotir gamaḥ. Similarly... Just like the same way, aeroplane. As soon as you penetrate the cloud and go to the sky, you'll see: "Oh, there is immense sunshine." But while you are in, within the covering of the cloud, you say, "Oh, there is no sunshine today." We see as soon as we go out, "Today is very bad." The day is very good, but you are in the cloud. Therefore you say, "It is very bad."
So similarly, those who are in the clutches of māyā, for them, this world is very bad. You see? But those who are above this māyā, it is pleasant, because it is Kṛṣṇa's kingdom. Ānandāmbudhi-vardhanam (CC Antya 20.12). So if you remain in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, the cloud cannot touch you, and if your former, your original... Ānandamayo 'bhyāsāt (Vedānta-sūtra 1.1.12). You become always joyful. Brahma-bhūtaḥ prasannātmā na śocati na kāṅkṣati (BG 18.54): "One who is brahma-bhūtaḥ, he never laments or never aspires anything for material enjoyment." Samaḥ sarveṣu: "And he becomes universal. He sees everyone on the same level: 'Oh, they are my brothers. They are part and parcel of my father. They are my brothers.' " Mad-bhaktiṁ labhate parām (BG 18.54). This is Kṛṣṇa consciousness. This is Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
So this avidyā, this ignorance, this forgetfulness, is another energy. Another energy. So just like a sun, er, a cloud, this is also another energy of the sunshine. It is not different. When the sunshine warms the sea water, it evaporates and becomes cloud. So therefore cloud is also another energy. So similarly, this material energy is also energy of God, but it cannot cover God. That is the difference.
God is never covered by ignorance. This is nonsense. Those fools and rascals say that "God... We are God. We are now covered." It is the most rascaldom. How? If we are God, how we can be covered by ignorance? Then what is your value of your becoming God? You are not God. You are... This is very nicely explained here. Try to understand. Caitanya Mahāprabhu says that "Living entities, they are energy of God. They are never God."
The Śaṅkarācārya's theory is nullified by evidences from Vedic scripture, just like Bhagavad-gītā, Viṣṇu Purāṇa. So never claim that "We are God." That is most, I mean, the darkest part of your ignorance, when you say that "I am God." There is neither voidness; neither you are God. You are eternal, perpetual blissful, but your blissful is now covered by this māyā. You get out of it, be one with Kṛṣṇa consciousness, your life is successful. This is this theory.
Oh, Caitanya Mahāprabhu regrets that such a great difference between God and the living entity, and Śaṅkarācārya has described that we are God? That means he has diminished the opulence and value of God. Suppose if I call a third-class man "His Majesty," then what is that? This word, "His Majesty," is misused.
Just like they are saying daridra-nārāyaṇa. The foolish Ramakrishna Mission has, I mean to say, discovered a word, daridra-nārāyaṇa, "poor Nārāyaṇa." Nārāyaṇa, who is the husband of many thousands of goddess of fortune, He has become poor. Just see the theory.
You can ask Nikhilananda what is the meaning of daridra-nārāyaṇa. They have discovered. Vivekananda has discovered. Nārāyaṇa has become poor. When you ask him, "Why do you call daridra-nārāyaṇa?" they will explain like that, "Because Nārāyaṇa is there, therefore Nārāyaṇa has become daridra."
Just see. Suppose a rich man comes into this store, so he becomes poor just like us. Because he has kindly come here in this store, so because we are all poor men, he'll also becomes poor man? This is the reason.
Caitanya Mahāprabhu therefore rejects, that "This sort of philosophy propounded by Śaṅkara is a great mistake, because he has minimized the value of the Supreme Lord. By making a dog a god, he has insulted God. Therefore this Māyāvāda philosophy is the most offensive activities of the living being."
So you should be very, very careful; very careful. Hena jīva-tattva lañā likhi' para-tattva. "And, and just studied the ordinary living entities, and I am speaking of the Absolute Truth? Oh, this is the greatest nonsensical activity." Ācchanna karila śreṣṭha īśvara-mahattva: "By this the glorification of the Lord has been diminised, er, diminished, and therefore it is a great offense."
Pariṇāma-vāda means by-product, by-product. Just like you... This is a tree, and this flower is the by-product. So suppose the flower is there and the flower becomes dried up and falls down. That does not mean the tree is lost. There are thousands and thousands of flowers are coming out, out of..., fruits and flowers, but the tree is there.
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Honor In King Henry IV
Since part one of Shakespeare's, King Henry IV, it is quite evident that even though prince Hal tends to undervalue honor, he understands the role of honor in his life. In Henry IV, Shakespeare depicts a young Hal who is ridiculed because his private life is less honorable than it should be, which affects how people view him publicly, but in Act 3, Scene 2 of Henry IV Part 1, Hal promises his father that he will change, and it is evident that prince Hal is able to control his behavior for the public. Therefore, it is not too surprising that in Henry V, King Hal shows different private and public behaviors. In Act IV, Scene 1 of Henry V, Hal is privately disdainful and suspicious of the advantages of the honor that comes with kingship, while…show more content…
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Hotspur's Code Of Honor In King Henry IV
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Rhetorical Devices In Paine's Speech
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The Use Of Rhetorical Devices In Dr. Martin Luther King's Speech
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Analysis Of Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter From A Birmingham Jail
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Indignation In King Henry's Failure To Sleep
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Richard I: Monarch Of Medieval Europe
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Medieval Knights Code Of Chivalry In The Middle Ages
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Honor And Reputation During The Victorian Era
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King Henry's Act Of Fairness
Louis had a philosophy that money was of more power than the sword this information was passed on to Henry as when he was king he made Lords pay tax to make England rich and make himself wealthier,. This was seen as an act of fairness and equality something that made Henry increasingly popular with his subjects as fairness was a good characteristic of a king and earned him respect whilst he was founding the Tudor dynasty. He showed fairness in other ways as well by publically rewarding some of his local servants, knighting 11 of them on the battlefield showing that he saw courage in those of a slower rank than him, this was probably taught to him by Francis who put Henry in care of de Rieux who was lower than him in rank but who Francis saw
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The failures and possible future success of VR
By Matthew Lombard | Published: September 25, 2012
[From PC World, where the story includes additional pictures]
Virtual reality: More virtual than real
By Julie Sartain, NetworkWorld
Remember virtual reality? The idea that science could create a virtual world of sight, sound, smell and touch was hot two decades ago, then completely fizzled out.
"VR made a huge splash in the 90s, but collapsed into near obscurity a few years later. The term VR even became a dirty word for some time, giving way to the less-hyped term immersion," says Paul Mlyniec, president of California-based Digital ArtForms.
"There's not much new happening in virtual reality," adds Brian Blau, research director of consumer technology at Gartner. "I did a bit of research on VR recently and have been working in and around VR for many years, and there just isn't much happening these days, except maybe in education and science; certainly not much happening in the consumer space."
Blau defines VR as "immersive environments where the user either wears a head mounted display that shows a completely synthetic environment, or the user is in a cave-like room where all the walls show the graphical environment, typically one that is very different from where the user is currently sitting or standing."
So, what went wrong?
Adib Ghubril, research director of semiconductors at Gartner, believes the real problem is that VR is still trying to solve a 3D problem using 2D ideas. Wall-to-wall wrap-around displays, helmets with visors that go from temple-to-temple, active goggle displays that select which frame each eye can view none of these tackle the issue at hand, which is how to create a system that arouses the senses in the same way a natural environment does.
"Such a system must generate holograms in motion, provide multi-layered audio, compound scents, and haptic (touch) feedback. Most of these underlining technologies are still nascent and, thus, stunting the impact of VR," he says.
According to Ghubril, the goal of virtual reality technology is to enable the user to learn about or experience a target environment in a safe and controlled way that minimizes the costs associated with a hostile (battlefield), harsh (mine), specialized (cockpit), not readily accessible (distant tourist destination), or fantastical (imaginary) surrounding.
"To my mind," Ghubril says, "There's nothing particularly hot out there in VR as I conceive it. Sure, gesture and gaze control are interesting and necessary technologies to achieve immersion, but what would be really compelling is something that stimulates all of our senses. Unfortunately, I think we are very far off from attaining that state of make believe."
But VR isn't dead either, we might look back one day and say that the re-birth of virtual reality was sparked by something that we take somewhat for granted these days: the Nintendo Wii.
Tuong H. Nguyen, principal analyst of consumer technology at Gartner, points out that the only place where VR is really happening today in terms of the consumer market is "on the gaming front."
Mlyniec argues that Nintendo's grand gamble on the Wii kicked off a wave of revived interest in motion-enabled interaction. Both Sony and Microsoft followed suit and the result has been consumer-level devices that support genuine 3D interaction. And, what used to cost $5,000, now costs $100.
"Whatever you may think of the Wii, Kinect, and these others, they have raised awareness and consumer appetites for native 3D interaction," Mlyniec says. "And controller-less 3D interaction is, at least, one Holy Grail of this industry. In fact, if I had a nickel for every email I got about Leap Motion's vision-based tracking and gesture recognition system, I'd be rich. Plus, I'm hearing a lot more about head-mounted displays such as the Oculus Rift and those Razer Hydra controllers."
Nguyen adds, "I agree that the next step is a more immersive environment. For example, even though motion-based sensing technology allows us to make more intuitive movements to control the on-screen actions, it can be made more immersive by doing things like allowing you to turn your head to see around a corner."
Leap (from Leap Motion) is one of the products that Mlyniec mentions as being in the forefront of today's VR industry. It's an iPod-sized, USB peripheral that creates a 3D interaction space of eight cubic feet, which precisely interacts with and controls software on a laptop or desktop computer.
"It's like being able to reach into the computer and pull out information as easily as reaching into a cookie jar," says Michael Buckwald, CEO and co-founder of Leap Motion. "Leap senses individual hand and finger movements independently, as well as items like a pen. In fact, it's 100 times more sensitive than existing touch-free products and technologies. It's like the difference between sensing an arm swiping through the air and being able to create a precise digital signature with a fingertip or pen."
Another contender is the Oculus Rift, an impressive virtual reality headset that delivers a truly immersive and compelling VR experience for video games. For example, users can't see the Rift screen because of the 110-degree field of view, which means no matter which direction they look, all they see is the game world.
"Virtual reality, as an industry, has not evolved as much as everyone hoped in the last 25 years," concedes Brendan Iribe, CEO of Oculus. "There are still a handful of impressive VR companies active today, but most are selling products at a price point reserved for Fortune 500 companies and the military. With the Rift, our primary goal is to allow the public to experience truly immersive VR gaming today, bringing VR back into the mainstream, at an affordable price."
One curious invention is a rolling cage called VirtuSphere where a person gets inside a sphere that rotates as they walk thru the virtual environment viewed on the head-mounted display.
Other products of interest include the Razer Hydra 3D game controllers from Sixense Entertainment that have 1-to-1 magnetic trackers with no line-of-sight limitations, the Playstation Move game controller from Sony, Innovega's iOptik contact lens, which enhances the human eye's normal vision capabilities plus enables wearers to better visualize their digital world, plus various brands and levels of data gloves, 3D controllers, haptics, rumble chairs, VR motion chairs, vision domes, stereoscopic 3D displays, and virtual reality simulators.
"I think all this is right on," says Chris Silva, industry analyst at Altimeter Group. "We've seen Microsoft's Kinect take the path put forth by Nintendo and Wii and drive that forward in terms of what's possible for gaming. Users, on the other hand, have taken it further, using it as a tool for manipulation of data, interaction with learning environments, and even some training applications for medical robot manipulation. Microsoft has now ported that technology to the desktop with support for Kinect in Windows 8, and we're starting to see the technology make its way to other, more offline environments like books such as the Sony Wonderbook and the Popar books."
According to Nguyen, in the non-gaming VR environments, Gartner has seen applications in learning, modeling, and medicine. These VR environments allow users to see things that were not readily accessible before whether it's too far away, too expensive in real life, or too small.
One example is in molecular biology; specifically, 3D modeling of molecules. Any university student who has taken a chemistry class is familiar with the plastic models they must buy to help them visualize the molecules and compounds they're learning about. Now, instead of physical models, they have virtual ones.
And there are other real-world applications as well. Digital ArtForms, founded in 1998, is a visual simulation industry working with government agencies in advanced visualization and interface technologies. It has developed applications in design (immersive landscape design and immersive CAD), military (immersive command and control and C4ISR), and medicine (immersive 3D medical imaging, both local and remote). One of its products is an advanced 3D medical imaging platform called iMedic for surgeons and radiologists to examine pathology and read volumetric data captured with a CT scan (among other things).
Mlyniec adds, "On the drawing board is a new 2D/3D visualization and imaging platform we call GUI2x3, which will deliver first-class 2D and 3D interaction that is both controllerless and consistent. It will employ 2D and 3D multi-touch in a way that supports 3D applications such as diagnostic radiology and digital content creation for games and movies."
Two companies in this genre are Barco and Mechdyne, both are providers of visual information technologies that make virtual worlds a visible reality; that is, they develop audio visual, immersive 3D, networked, and collaborative visualization solutions.
For example, Mechdyne's Plato Cave Visualization Center at the Houston Methodist Hospital allows physicians to view 3D images of a patient's internal structures on a multi-touch table. And Barco's 360-degree flight simulator prepares fighter-jet pilots for combat. Visualization rooms, caves, engineering labs, virtual malls, advanced collaborative environments, and dual-view technologies now provide a wide spectrum of product simulations, architectural walk-throughs, and VR training for military, medical, and first responders.
Intelligent Decisions, recently released the Dismounted Soldier Training System (VR military training) to 28 U.S. Army installations worldwide. Randolph Community College in North Carolina helps students practice their automotive painting techniques using a VR SimSpray tool. Iowa State University students train on virtual welding machines, firefighters are getting VR training on the Firefighter Command project at Georgia Tech, medical students learn surgical techniques from a virtual-reality surgical simulator.
So what about the future of VR? According to Nguyen, this question is really about user interfaces. Future interfaces will take advantage of a number of different technologies including voice and gesture. "I think the aforementioned technology will be a complementary technology rather than a competing one," he says.
Sartain is a freelance writer. She can be reached at julesds@comcast.net.
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Q: Autocomplete search in Laravel I was wondering if there is any way I can display more than one fields in the autocomplete search box. It already search for fist and last name but when the user types the last name it shows only the first name. But I wonder if there is a way that I can also display the last name or address on the search result. I am only getting the id of the guardian because it's the only thing I need to sent to the database. Here is a look at my code:
This is my function for the autocomplete:
public function autocomplete(Request $request)
    {
        $term=$request->term;
        $data = Guardian::orWhere('first_name','LIKE','%'.$term.'%')
        ->orWhere('last_name','LIKE','%'.$term.'%')
        ->take(10)->get();
        $results=array();
        foreach($data as $key => $v)
        {
            $results[]=['id'=>$v->idguardian, 'value'=>$v->first_name];
        }
        return response()->json($results);
    }

My view:

New Kid

 Please search the guardian name for the kid. If the guardian isn't registered please add it

      <form action="{{route('createkid')}}" method="post">

          <input type="text" name="searchname" class="form-control" id="searchname" placeholder="Search">

            ID
            <input type="text" name="idguardian" id="idguardian" class="form-control">

        Add Guardian

        First Name
        <input type="text" name="first_name" class="form-control" placeholder="FirstName">

        Middle Name
        <input type="text" name="middle_name" class="form-control" placeholder="MiddleName">

        Last Name
        <input type="text" name="last_name" class="form-control" placeholder="LastName">

        Date Of Birth
        <input type="text" name="dateofbirth" class="form-control" placeholder="DateOfBirth">

        Sex
        <input type="text" name="sex" class="form-control" placeholder="Sex">

        Age
        <input type="text" name="age" class="form-control" placeholder="Age">

        School Name
        <input type="text" name="schoolname" class="form-control" placeholder="SchoolName">

        School Grade
        <input type="text" name="schoolgrade" class="form-control" placeholder="SchoolGrade">

        School Group
        <input type="text" name="schoolgroup" class="form-control" placeholder="SchoolGroup">

        Blood Type
        <input type="text" name="bloodtype" class="form-control" placeholder="BloodType">

        Allergies
        <input type="text" name="allergies" class="form-control" placeholder="Allergies">

        Enroll Date
        <input type="text" name="enroll_date" class="form-control" placeholder="EnrollDate">

        {!! Form::label('iduser','Select User') !!}
        {!! Form::select('iduser', $kids, ['class' => 'form-control']) !!}

      <button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary">Submit</button>
      <input type="hidden" name="_token" value="{{ Session::token()}}">
    </form>

My Route:
Route::get('/autocomplete',array('as'=>'autocomplete','uses'=>'KidsController@autocomplete'));

I really hope you can help me. Thank you!

A: Why not just append the last name onto the first name?
public function autocomplete(Request $request)
{
    $term=$request->term;
    $data = Guardian::orWhere('first_name','LIKE','%'.$term.'%')
    ->orWhere('last_name','LIKE','%'.$term.'%')
    ->take(10)->get();
    $results=array();
    foreach($data as $key => $v)
    {
        $results[]=['id'=>$v->idguardian, 'value'=>$v->first_name . ' ' . $v->last_name];
    }
    return response()->json($results);
}

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IBM MAINFRAME: Matching and unmatched records!!
Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2017 11:22 am Post subject: Matching and unmatched records!!
I have two input files of FB. Syncsort is the product I use.
I need to write the matched and unmatched records in file 2 in different files.
I got the desired output but I need to add a condition in the matched record file that it should include only records with "ACTION" starting from second position.
Is there any solution to acheive this?
Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2017 6:15 pm Post subject: Re: Matching and unmatched records!!
Yes, definitely there are many solutions, if you RTFM.
Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2017 6:57 pm Post subject: Re: Matching and unmatched records!!
I need to add a condition in the matched record file that it should include only records with "ACTION" starting from second position.
can't you just add another condition ?
if RTFM is too difficult*, google for "smart dfsort tricks" and download the pdf file.
It does not explain all the options but is filled with working examples for various specific purposes (like files with matching and non-matching records).
* No offense intended. The Programmer's Guide has more than 700 pages and it's really not easy to find the right page there.
Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2017 9:14 pm Post subject: Re: Matching and unmatched records!!
There is "FIND" option in any manual reading tool. Unless you have a printed version of it!
Since approx. end of 1980s, or beginning of 1990s I did not read any manual from top to bottom.


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Q: gcc DLL from C#: "DLL initialization routine failed" on Windows 10 I am developing C# DLL that needs a code I have as a C++ DLL, build by gcc.
For this, I have written a C wrapper and compiled it using gcc (TDM-GCC MinGW-w64) as a DLL. In other words, I have:

*

*C++.dll built by gcc; plus C++_test.exe that uses the DLL, so I know it works.

*C.dll built by gcc, calling C++.dll; plus C_test.exe that uses the DLL...

*C#.dll built by Visual Studio, calling C.dll; plus C#_test.exe
The whole chain is built as 64-bit code.
My problem is that while this setup worked fine on my old Windows 7 box, on my new machine with Windows 10 (and also newer versions of software and libraries), C#_test.exe fails at the point it calls a function from C.dll, with the following message: Unable to load DLL 'C.dll': A dynamic link library (DLL) initialization routine failed. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8007045A)
In the C# code, the function is defined as:
    [DllImport("C.dll", CallingConvention = CallingConvention.Cdecl)]
    private static extern int pg_generate(..);

I have all the other DLLs in the same folder (otherwise I would get another error message about missing DLL).
Any idea how to find out what the problem is and how to fix it?
I know that it would probably help to build the whole chain in VS, but I do not have the required project files and would also build several libraries that C++.dll depends on, so I would rather avoid that - especially since it worked before...
Update: When I debug C#_test.exe in VS, it throws from pg_generate(): Exception thrown at 0x000000006E0436B0 (C++.dll) in C#_test.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation reading location 0xFFFFFFFFB64927F5.
Update 2: I get the same error (DLL initialization routine failed) also when I used C#_test.exe (and all dependencies) built and tested on my old box. This suggests that the problem is in Windows 10 vs. Windows 7.
(It also means that once the client upgrades to Windows 10, the code we delivered will stop to work...)

A: I had the same issue. It turned out that the source of it were the new/delete operators. As soon as I implemented my own operators the application works fine. With third party libs this isn't so easy however!
Here's the minimal example reproducing the error including a workaround (if AddNewOperator is defined operator new[] will be defined and the resulting .dll will work fine):
Test.cs (compiled/run with Visual Studio 2017):
using System;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
class Program
{
    [DllImport("libTest", CallingConvention = CallingConvention.StdCall, ExactSpelling = true)]
    public static extern int TestFunction();
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        Console.WriteLine("!!" + TestFunction());
    }
}

Test.cpp compiled with mingw:
#include <new>
#include <cstdlib>

#ifdef AddNewOperator // This will fix the issue
void* operator new[](std::size_t sz){
    return std::malloc(sz);
}
#end

extern "C" {
int __stdcall __declspec(dllexport) TestFunction() {
        int* test = new int[3]; // removing this line will make everything work when building
        return test[2];
}

And here's the build script:
# Remove the following # and the compiled dll will work just fine
g++ -g -s -Wall -c -fmessage-length=0 Test.cpp  #-DAddNewOperator
g++ -g -shared -o libTest.dll *.o -Wl,--subsystem,windows


When I'm in the mood to play a video game, I'll grab my Switch, a PS4 controller, maybe my Xbox One controller or my 3DS or perhaps my phone. I've got lists of games I'm eager to start or continue on those devices. None of them require me to unwrap the cords of a special headset, attach it to my face, ensure any proprietary controllers are charged and block myself off sensorily from my co-workers, family or all of my virtual pals on social media.
That is why, even though I have fun with PlayStation VR when I try it once or twice a year, it remains my sixth choice for gaming. It'd come in seventh if I hadn't had to shelve my gaming PC about a year ago to keep it from my baby twins and their fascination with its buttons, lights, ports and wires.
Yesterday, I was reminded of the PSVR's sorry standing in my ranking of personal gaming priorities as I played another compelling VR game in the office. A $5 amusement called Starbear: Taxi from the reliably entertaining studio Funktronic had me virtually sitting inside a bright blue future-scape filled with floating towns and flying cars as I was challenged to pilot a flying saucer taxi cab. I was charmed.
Earlier that day, I'd tried some Tetris Effect in VR and enjoyed how the game's special effects wrapped around my peripheral vision.
Weeks prior, I briefly hopped into Astro Bot: Rescue Mission, another VR game from the quietly consistent Sony Japan Studio. I was dazzled by the ingenuity of its 3D platforming as it let me walk and jump a robot through some creative obstacle courses while challenging me to turn my head to find secrets in its levels (a process I enjoyed a shade more than my colleague, Chris Kohler, who was nonetheless pretty pleased with the game).
I never went back to Astrobot after having such a good first time with it. That isn't a measure of that game's quality any more than it is a judgement on Starbear: Taxi that I didn't bundle up the PSVR gear in the office yesterday, take it home, and plug in the headset, the headset's special box interfaced, and PlayStation Move controllers all into my home PS4 after my kids went to bed and my wife and I took the bins out. Nope. I was going to play games last night, but let's be real: my PS4 had Red Dead Redemption 2 in suspend mode, and as soon as I turned on my PS4, I was seconds away from galloping through more of that game's gorgeous, dangerous scenery.
If somehow Red Dead wasn't available to me last night, maybe I'd have pulled Assassin's Creed Odyssey on my PS4 or returned to advancing in Destiny 2. Or maybe I'd have pulled out my Switch to play more Starlink or Chasm or turned on my Xbox to finally start Forza Horizon 4 or charged up my 3DS for some WarioWare Gold or Samus Returns. On the way to work today, as I rode the subway, my choices were Switch, 3DS or phone gaming. No PSVR there, of course.
Yesterday, game designer David Jaffe tweeted that it's "an entertainment CRIME that so many gamers still think of VR as a gimmick most of these folks simply haven't experienced good VR." He didn't blame gamers but said that VR simply needs to be marketed better.
I agree, to an extent. It's hard to impress anyone with VR until they've tried it, and even then, half the people that I hand my VR headset to report feelings of nausea before they've gotten five minutes into a game. VR is cool, but it's currently a very hard sell to those who haven't had much or any time to try it.
But as I played yet another pretty good VR game yesterday, I was reminded that another impediment for VR is that, as good as any games on it can be, the process of starting to play a game in VR is inherently more cumbersome and annoying than playing anything else. And when "anything else" can always consist of some brilliant games, it requires a rare mood to choose to play PSVR over the abundant other options available to many gamers.
The promise of VR—that it surrounds you with the game you're playing, rather than just putting it in front of you—can theoretically outweigh its physical annoyances, but those discomforts are real and a daily obstacle to me playing more VR. I don't want to block myself off from being able to hear my kids crying at night, and I don't enjoy playing video games with a mechanism strapped to my face. I don't like the occasionally queasy feelings some VR games still give me, even as designers have gotten far better at designing less nauseating experiences.
If playing games in VR ever gets as simple as putting on a pair of sunglasses, I could see it ranking higher in my gaming preferences. For now, it remains sixth.
Then again….is that Star Child game ever going to come out? The one that seems kind of like a 2D Metroid in VR? That's a mood I could get into with ease.


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The Amplified Moments of Every Single Pitch and At Bat
September 5, 2014 /Archives /by Kevin W. Grossman
He threw heat like a wild man, his bulging arms and legs flailing from wind up to release. Every third pitch winged my at-bat teammates causing them to duck, or swing their midsection backward or forward. And every time he threw his mad-hatter ball, he smiled a mouthful of perfect pearly whites.
Sometimes we hit his fastball, and sometimes it hit us. Four and a half innings into six of our Little League playoff baseball game, our team, the Indians, trailed the Yankees by one run with only one out.
The Yankee parents hurled insults at ours; the Yankee players hurled insults at us. They were known for being poor winners and every losing team felt their wrath. We, the reserved underdog Indians, cheered each other on, and our coaches and parents echoed the positive affirmations…
…I had been on deck, and after yet another wild pitch and a walk, the bases were now loaded. I remember how palatable my fear was walking up to home plate; I was thin and not the strongest hitter on our team. My throat cramped gritty and dry and it felt like a baseline chalk on hard-packed dirt in the hot sun. The Yankee catcher laughed at me as I approached.This memory came to me recently when a co-worker's son played on a team that made it to the Little League world series. Every day there was an update on our internal social network of who his son's team played, and whether they won or not – and win they did. Over and over again. While this winning buzz only excited a small group of us following along online, I imagined the electric thrill his son felt and all his teammates, the coaches and the parents, the local crowds, game after game after game while…
"This ain't no hitter," he called out to the wild man on the mound. "Easy out, easy out.
I looked up at our coach who gave me an intricate string of baseball signs, all of which translated into one action…
…and that's when my co-worker posted the fact that they were in the final world series game against South Korea, which was always a tough opponent because…
…he wanted me to bunt. Bunt?!? I thought. If I turn into that fireball I'm a dead man. But step into the batter's box I did. Wild man wound up, released the ball and then…
…two days later the news that they won the whole kit and kaboodle was posted, which was huge, and I kicked myself for not watching it on TV, the electric thrill of elevated Little League play and amplified moments of every single pitch and at bat…
…when I squared into the baseball hurling toward me, the Cheshire Cat smile ear to ear on wild man's face, I realized instinctively that the ball was nowhere near my bat – it was headed at my chest – but instead of rolling out of the box away from the pitch, I put my hand up to stop it…
In the end, we lost that playoff game, and thankfully I kept my hand intact without it breaking. It was sore, yes, but my teammates and I left that game happy with our performance because we had played together with supportive coaching and parenting around us, abuzz with that playoff feeling that lifted our heart and soul.
Patrick Antrim, former professional baseball player with the New York Yankees and founder of leadership & coaching firm LegendaryTeams.com, told us on the TalentCulture #TChat Show that leaders and employees alike should aspire to that championship game feeling every single day in the workplace.
Even if once and a while you get hit with the ball, which will happen kids. No doubt.
But if we can replicate just a smidge of that playoff feeling, focusing heavily on the employee-customer relationship first and foremost, performance always fares better in driving the amplifier effect of winning outcomes. This means the business impact of driving deeper levels of employee engagement is dramatic.
45% average turnover reduction
21% higher productivity
41% quality improvement
22% higher profitability
50% higher total shareholder return (TSR)
The data don't lie, which is why the amplified moments of:
Every single pitch. It's a bitch to sustain pitching accuracy inning after inning, but in the near- and long-term, it's the collective strikes and outs that make all the difference between your players and your competitors. We all want to win, we really do, and we all want to string that feeling together as much as we can year round. Just as long as your "team" understands what the strike zone is and gets guidance and practice to throw heat like a mad man and woman.
And At Bat. Deeper engagement from amplified "at-bats" drives better talent outcomes and better business outcomes. When your "players" make the hits, and when they ultimately have individual and group wins, even when they're the incremental wins during the regular season, they feel more capable and confident, and that translates into happy major leaguers who are then more likely to be candid in communicating and advancing the business and driving innovation.
This is the stuff of legendary teams. And the best companies – the winners – that aspire to that championship game feeling every single day in the workplace perform nearly two times better than the rest of the world. That's a world of work sports fact.
"Put me in coach, I'm ready to play, today…"
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#TChat Recap: The Extraordinary Potential Of Values Based Leadership
July 17, 2014 /2 Comments/Archives /by Red Branch Media
The Extraordinary Potential Of Values Based Leadership
What does it mean to be a leader? It is about being the one who gives the orders? Is it about building relationships with people through values? This week's #TChat topic: The Extraordinary Potential Of Values Based Leadership, shares a very unique perspective on what leadership should be all about. Fortunately for us this week, our guest: Mark Fernandes, Chief Leadership Officer of Luck Companies, a global Values Based Leadership (VBL) organization, is an expert on this highly buzzworthy topic. And why it shouldn't it be buzzworthy? Leadership is responsible for managing people and their level of engagement with their organizations.
Mark kickoffs #TChat with explaining what Values Based Leadership means to him, but what it should mean to others:
A1: #VBL is about loving your associates to death, giving them something to believe in, & helping them become everything they can. #TChat
— Mark Fernandes (@MarkSFernandes) July 16, 2014
Mark brings up two intuitive points about leadership: give your people something to believe in, and help them grow. Value Based Leadership brings leaders and employees together to share a common goal and purpose. Leadership plays a pivotal role in how employees develop, and how the tone for workplace culture is set. Mark believes that:
A2: An orgs culture is the shadow of a #leader, therefore the culture & climate they create is replicated by the associates. #VBL #TChat — Mark Fernandes (@MarkSFernandes) July 16, 2014
Leaders that truly lead, inspire their employees to do great things. They understand that attitude, motivation, and productivity around the office is reflected on how well they lead. Creating a stimulating culture and climate for employees to thrive in has to come from personal self-realization of what it takes to lead. To be a leader, you must:
A3: Know yourself, take time to know those around you, and surround yourself with people who challenge you to be better. #tchat #vbl — Kate Bischoff (@k8bischHRLaw) July 16, 2014
Yes, self-realization of who you are and taking the time to learn about those around you is why leaders are who they are. How can you expect people to follow you if you don't know anything about them? How can you expect to inspire greatness? As a leader, you must remember:
A3: (1) You don't know it all… listen! (2) Give more than you get. (3) Remember to say thank you to those who make a difference. #TChat
— Tom Bolt (@TomBolt) July 16, 2014
Values Based Leadership takes the time to value people, to hear their needs, and build a culture shared around a common goal. Making a difference starts with these steps. Few put in the effort and those that do see the huge benefits. If you want value, then you need to create it, and then share it with the rest. Because today's workforce want to work for a common purpose. They want to build a better tomorrow. So give them the opportunity to do so.
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Talent Engagement and the Dissed-Engaged
July 11, 2014 /4 Comments/Archives /by Kevin W. Grossman
What to do with a productive outlier?
Especially when she's a smart problem-solver, who is sometimes collaborative and works well with others, but who's also a headstrong, impulsive, independent, opinionated and throws tantrums like baseballs from a wild fast pitcher, tantrums that take what feels like an inordinate amount of time to extinguish; a fuse lighting itself over and over again like a trick stick of dynamite.
One minute she's figuring everything out, and the next, she's blowing up.
Sizzle. Hiss. Ka-boom.
Of course, she's only four years old and my youngest daughter. Wait, what? You didn't see that coming?
According to the Positive Discipline developers, it's not easy for most of us (children and adults included) to verbalize our feelings when we're are upset, and there are those of us who can't verbalize their feelings at all at any time. Children (and unfortunately still too many adults) haven't learned how to articulate what they need and want. Temper tantrums often occur when children feel controlled.
Yes, I'm going somewhere with this…
Positive discipline doesn't mean being so completely permissive that there is no discipline at all, but it does mean we need to "both kind and firm in our actions. Kindness shows respect for the child. Firmness shows respect for the needs of the situation and for parents. Spanking and punitive time outs are not kind."
Punitive time outs are not kind. And neither is freezing out, the adult alternative.
Recently I watched a harassment and workplace safety video that included an "acted out" story about a valuable but "pain-in-the-butt-complaining" employee who no one, not even her immediate supervisor, wanted to deal with. So, another manager recommended to just "freeze her out" and eventually she'd hopefully just leave the company.
Of course, the correct answer here was not to freeze her out, but instead was to deal with the situation head on to attempt to rectify it, maybe even figure out where she could go elsewhere in the company to maximize her skills and expertise.
Then I heard from a friend who experienced the freeze and who eventually left because she saw "the writing on the wall" – who even overheard another executive in the company insist that this was her way of dealing with employees she no longer wanted around, that is was easier that way. (We can save the really fringe HR nightmares for another time.)
These are the dissed-engaged (a reality twist on disengaged), the outliers of productive talent engagement that we ignore today in the world of work.
Hey, you think workplace bullying is bad? Being ignored is even worse, especially when it's coming from all facets in the organization. For example, for a recent study in Organization Science, the University of British Columbia's Sandra Robinson and her team analyzed surveys that compared and contrasted the consequences of workplace ostracism with workplace bullying. We're talking alienating co-workers rather than abusing them, and the results suggest that alienating is much worse.
The Research Shows
The research showed that employees whose co-workers often neglected them by leaving them out of conversations, ignoring them in the hallways, etc., felt unhappier, disliked their own work more, and even more frequently left their jobs than people who were bullied.
Now, juxtapose that with this – according to a 2014 Employee Engagement survey by Human Capital Media Advisory Group, the research arm of Talent Management, even though "recognition and work-life balance programs are among the leading methods to promote engagement, both techniques were among the least-valued factors by HR managers when measuring engagement."
In fact, "when it came to the values and behaviors companies say they evaluate in measuring engagement, overall job satisfaction (64.1 percent), excitement about one's work (60.9 percent) and opportunity to grow and improve skills (60.9 percent) top the list, according to the survey, roughly in line with last year's results."
This certainly makes sense to me, but for the dissed-engaged, there eventually is no excitement about one's work, nor is there an opportunity to grow and improve skills.
And as we learned this week on the TalentCulture #TChat Show, the talent management strategies of the past no longer work, and our guest, Jeff Carr, CEO and President of PeopleFluent, shared that the top talent challenges he hears from customers include developing leaders and developing vibrant and engaging workplace cultures. Not easy tasks for even the most progressive of organizations.
Today people work differently, are motivated differently and are engaged differently. They want:
Opportunity. Employees want ongoing growth opportunities, workplace flexibility, tools and systems that encourage collaboration, and commitment to a reciprocal climate of support and encouragement, all of which lead to payoffs in employee retention, satisfaction, and overall business performance.
And Closure. This means exhausting all avenues on how to maximize existing talent while working through trick fuses and other trouble spots, even if the end result is that the individual must go, or will go. Otherwise, "freezing out" behavior seeps into the drywall like toxic mold.
To avoid the toxic mold, it's critical to drive higher levels of contribution and deeper engagement through better "people management" experiences that can and will lead to better and more lucrative business outcomes. Amen.
The dissed-engaged deserve it. We all do.
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#TChat Recap: It's All About The Talent Engagement Experience
July 10, 2014 /3 Comments/Archives /by Meghan M. Biro
It's All About The Talent Engagement Experience
Too many times we find ourselves asking such questions as, "How do we get the most out of ourselves?" or "How can we be more engaged in what we're doing?" These are questions that that leaders have to always ask themselves. As always, #TChat participants showed up to voice their opinions on this week's topic: The Talent Engagement Experience. And what we heard, and what we learned, is talent engagement can no longer afford to live in the past. It needs a shining new coat of armor if it is to face today's modern day challenges when it comes to managing people. This week, #TChat was joined by Jeff Carr, CEO & President of PeopleFluent, who knows all about what talent engagement means to the livelihood of an organization.
Understanding how to engage today's talent begins with knowing why management practices of the past no longer work. Because every generation of workers are different. It requires constant fine-tuning to keep up with managing talent needs and wants. According to Jeff Carr:
Per @Jeff_Carr ppl are motivated differently today b/c talent is more than it used to be. How & where ppl work is important to them. #TChat
— Cyndy Trivella (@CyndyTrivella) July 9, 2014
Jeff brings up an excellent point about "…how and where people work is important to them." And why shouldn't it? Work takes up a significant portion of our lives. How and where we work should mean something to us. And it has to mean something for organizations as well. Because:
A2. Talent engagement means being invested in the constant growth & development of your employees beyond just what's in it for you. #TChat — CareerBuilder (@CBforEmployers) July 9, 2014
By eliminating that "What's in it for me?" mindset, then great things start to happen. People have to feel like they are part of the conversation if you want your organization to mean something to them. Realizing your employees matter is one thing, but allowing them to develop and contribute is another. And if you want people to contribute then you need to:
A3: Give people opps to self discover and build awareness of where they can create value #TChat — Christy Pettit (@odguru) July 9, 2014
Because creating value throughout your employees day is what creates talent engagement. And you need your employees engaged. It's critical to your success. Smart talent can sniff out when your culture stinks. It can happen during interviewing. It can happen whenever. Your candidate experience is part of your talent engagement experience and:
A4: The candidate experience can often be an good indicator of what the employee/work experience will be. #TChat
— Cachet Prescott, PHR (@CachetPrescott) July 9, 2014
Talent engagement is about knowing how to manage people, because people come with all different types of motivational buttons that you need to press to keep them engaged. Take the time to find out what your talent is made of and give them the opportunity to succeed. The talent engagement experience is about managing character, motivation, and recognition. Give your people a chance to succeed by investing in them. Remember, investment doesn't just mean financial reward.
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Lemonade Stands And The Cadence Of Two Easy Steps
May 30, 2014 /2 Comments/Archives /by Kevin W. Grossman
"So Beatrice, what are you going to make today?"
"Lemonade."
"And what's the first ingredient?"
"Lemons."
"And what's second?"
"And then what?"
"Um…ice."
"Yes, ice, but also water, right?"
"Yes, and water!"
And that's how it went on my oldest daughter Beatrice's final Pre-K share and leader day recently – three easy steps – just like Special Agent Oso from Disney Junior teaches toddlers to do. Actually, four easy steps in this case, only because when Bea makes lemonade, it's always too warm for her and so she wants to add ice to cool it down, along with adding the water.
Three (to four) easy steps to learning something new. In a fun way. A way you'll always remember and that helps the learning stick, without much inhibition and a full-throttle curiosity of how things work that can be insatiable. To know is to do, again and again and again.
And the kids, well, that's where they have us beat. Us being the adults in the room. According to a recent Freakonomics podcast titled Think Like a Child, Alison Gopnik, a professor of psychology and philosophy at the University of California-Berkeley and the author of The Philosophical Baby: What Children's Minds Tell Us About Truth, Love, and the Meaning of Life, has done some fascinating research on children's cognitive processes and development. In this podcast, Gopnik describes how modern research shows that kids are much more than just underdeveloped adults:
"Think of the kids as being the research and development division of the human species. And we're—adults—we're production and marketing. So from the production and marketing perspective, it might look like the R&D guys are really not doing anything that looks very sensible or useful. They sit around all day in their beanbag chairs playing Pong and having blue-sky ideas. And we poor production and marketing people, who are actually making the profits, have to subsidize these guys! But of course, one of the things that we know is that that kind of blue-sky, just pure, research actually pays off in the long run."
Those are my girls for sure. But first, there's a goal. There's always a goal.
"Beatrice, do you want to learn how to make lemonade?"
"Yes, I do. It's yummy."
There you go. The goal. To make lemonade. Mercy, all we gotta do next is put a lemonade stand together out front and we got ourselves a lil' business. It is nearly summertime, you know.
The main goal. The three easy steps to reach that main goal, and the goals around completing the three easy steps. A baby-steps business model. A cadence that includes reaching said goals, establishing new ones, and learning something new each and every time that leads to growth and success.
To know is to do, again and again and again.
Unfortunately, this ain't the case for many companies. Unhappiness and employee turnover are still all too common challenges for organizations of all shapes and size and industries. It's an overgrown and thorny path that leaders and HR teams walk bare foot daily, with no compass to guide them, no "where the wild things are" curiosity driving the cadence of learning and growing (personally, professionally and monetarily).
This unruly, wild west "talent cycle" can create poor climates and cultures where your people are forced to scramble and hire reactively each time an employee makes a move toward the door.
Listening to Andre Lavoie, CEO and co-founder of ClearCompany, talk about how companies and business leaders need to establish values and primary goals (or reestablish them), aligning cascading goals and developing and managing a cadence to get all the business at hand done successfully and continuously, certainly inspired me to share the lemons-to-lemonade backstory.
Us adults in the room have killed the childhood R&D, and in the same last gasping breath, talent management strategies of the past no longer work. Today people work differently, are motivated differently and are engaged differently, and want their performance measured differently. Millennials may have pushed all the employer flexibility buttons, but now every generation is demanding more.
For example, employees want ongoing growth opportunities, workplace flexibility, tools and systems that encourage collaboration, and commitment to a reciprocal climate of support and encouragement, all of which lead to payoffs in employee retention, satisfaction, and overall business performance. Organizations can no longer afford to simply "manage people," because the people demand more – they want aligned business goals that they're part of and that are attainable and evolve collaboratively over time.
We want lemonade stands and the cadence of two easy steps:
Recognize. Organizations need to provide attractive corporate and employee cultures that recognizes the individual, while promoting innovation, learning, collaboration and connections. They need a visionary talent engagement experience that is orchestrated around people and people goals, not processes. The key now is to drive a higher level of contribution, deeper engagement through a better "people management" experience.
Experience. These attributes – the aligned goals, the learning, the development, the sound business model, the full-throttle curiosity of how things work – all culminate in delivering an amplifier effect on talent contribution and success. Organizations that provide a more engaging experience can better gain adoption of the talent initiatives throughout the company, and align individual objectives to business goals to improve performance, retention, and productivity.
This "amplifier effect" of people's contributions upon aligned, accomplished goals has a rapid and lasting impact over time. Positive business outcomes become the norm.
Just add sugar and ice, right? It's yummy indeed.
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Missouri State was honored with two more All-America awards today with the release of the Associated Press FCS All-America Team. Bears senior offensive lineman Randy Richards (Royal Palm Beach, Fla.) and sophomore safety Caleb Schaffitzel (Fair Grove, Mo.) were both named to the AP All-America third-team.
Richards, who started every game this season for the Bears at right tackle, carried out a 98-percent assignment grade in 2012, had 56 knockdown blocks and graded out at 85 percent overall. He was MSU's Offensive Lineman of the Week for key games against Kansas State (Sept. 1) and North Dakota State (Nov. 3), earned the Bears' Offensive Lineman of the Year Award, and was named to the All-Missouri Valley Football Conference second team.
Schaffitzel registered a team-high 109 tackles for the Bears with 5 interceptions and 11 passes defended. He is tied for 9th nationally in interceptions per game (0.45) and is 24th in tackles per game (9.91) in this week's NCAA Division I FCS statistical rankings. He was also a two-time MVFC Defensive Player of the Week, two-time CFPA National Defensive Back of the Week and one-time CFPA National Defensive Player of the Week this season.
The Sports Network, which placed Schaffitzel on its 2012 All-America third team on Dec. 10, named him as its National Defensive Player of the Week on Nov. 5 for his efforts against No. 1 North Dakota State. In the NDSU game, he broke an MSU record and tied an MVFC record with a 100-yard interception return for a touchdown.
Schaffitzel was also named to the Capital One Academic All-America second team this season, earned first-team All-Missouri Valley Football Conference honors and was tabbed to the MVFC All-Academic first team.


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FHE: Perspective
byShauna Gibby | May 29, 2015
Conference Talk:
For more information on this topic read "Having the Vision to Do," by O. Vincent Haleck, Ensign, May 2012, 101.
Thoughts:
As we gain a vision of ourselves as the Savior sees us and as we act on that vision, our lives will be blessed in unexpected ways.
(O. Vincent Haleck, "Having the Vision to Do," Ensign, May 2012, 101.)
"Seek the Lord Early," Children's Songbook, p. 108.
Therefore, ask, and ye shall receive; knock, and it shall be opened unto you; for he that asketh, receiveth; and unto him that knocketh, it shall be opened.
(3 Nephi 27:29)
Object Lesson:
A jar with a lid, white rice, a coin, a key, a piece of hard candy, a marble, and a CTR ring. (Other small items can be substituted.)
Fill the jar three-fourths full of rice. Add the small objects to the jar. Use a spoon to push them down into the rice so they are not visible from the outside of the jar. Place a lid on the jar.
Display the jar of rice and mention that at first glance only rice appears to be in the container. However, if we search carefully, we will find more than rice. Post a list of the items that are also in the jar.
Have a group member tilt the jar and move the rice to uncover each of the hidden items.
Compare this to our perspective in life. Often we must seek out and look for the best things in life, situations, or people. As a group, discuss blessings that may go unnoticed in our lives.
(Beth Lefgren and Jennifer Jackson, Object Lessons Made Easy, [Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2010], p. 84.)
I read the story of an old missionary couple from a Protestant denomination who had been working in Africa for many years and were returning to New York City to retire in the early years of the twentieth century.
With no pension and broken in health, they were discouraged, fearful of the future.
They happened to be booked on the same ship as Teddy Roosevelt, who was returning from a big-game hunting expedition. They watched the passengers trying to glimpse the great man, the crew fussing over him. . . .
At the dock in New York a band was waiting to greet the President. . . . But the missionary couple slipped off the ship unnoticed.
That night, in a cheap flat they found on the East Side, the man's spirit broke. He said to his wife, "I can't take this; God is not treating us fairly." His wife suggested he go into his bedroom and tell the Lord.
A short time later he came out of the bedroom with a face completely changed. His wife asked, "Dear, what happened?"
"The Lord settled it with me," he said. "I told him how bitter I was that the President should receive this tremendous homecoming, when no one met us when we returned home. And when I finished, it seemed as if the Lord put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'But you're not home yet.'"
Do you think that change in perspective made the old missionary feel differently about God and his relationship to him? Did he feel an increase in thanksgiving and rejoicing in this remembrance of God's love?
(Chieko N. Okazaki, Sanctuary, [Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1997], p. 119.)
Play "Ship in the Fog."
Blindfold everyone except for one person. He is the captain.
Mark off a harbor on the far side of the room, create a route to the harbor with pillows or other obstacles. Line up the family members single file with team members' hands on the shoulders of the person in front of them.
The captain is not in the line but will call out instructions from a distance. He calls out signals to the "ship" to help them navigate across the room among the pillows and into the harbor.
Explain that the Lord has a better perspective of our lives than we do and we should heed his signals.
(Adapted from George and Jeane Chipman, Games! Games! Games!, [Salt Lake City: Shadow Mountain, 1983], p. 41.)
Butter Crumscious Cake
Crumb Topping
1⁄4 cup butter or margarine
1⁄2 cup flour
2 eggs, unbeaten
1/2 cup nuts, chopped (optional)
Preheat oven to 350° F. Grease and flour a 9x13-inch baking pan. In a small mixing bowl, prepare topping first by cutting butter into flour and sugar until a crumb texture forms. Set aside.
For cake: In another bowl, sift together the flour, salt, baking soda, and baking powder. In a large mixing bowl, blend the cream cheese until smooth, gradually adding sugar. Blend in the unbeaten eggs and vanilla. Alternately add milk and dry ingredients to the batter.
Turn batter into baking pan; sprinkle with crumb topping, along with chopped nuts (optional). Bake for 30 to 40 minutes.
(Elaine Cannon, Five Star Recipes from Well-known Latter-day Saints, [Salt Lake City: Eagle Gate, 2002] p. 225.)
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