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Beabout, Gregory R
"MacIntyre and Business Ethics" (2020)
(p.217) To a significant extent, MacIntyre's criticisms of the Weberian manager are written in a tone that challenges, sometimes in a mode that is strident or even shrill: "Wake up!" MacIntyre aims to awaken his reader to the degree to which the manager's life requires pretense and duplicity while undermining the ability to join with others in a quest for worthwhile goals. "The manager treats ends as given, as outside his scope; his concern is with technique, with effectiveness in transforming raw materials into final products, unskilled labor into skilled labor, investment into profits." In other words, the manager operates as if...
(p.219) MacIntyre sometimes expresses a sort of concern for those who find themselves trapped in a life of self-alienation in which conflicting roles—as professional, citizen, parent, and so on—are compartmentalized, such that one's life lacks narrative unity. Armed only with measurable metrics, especially money and profits, the manager's quest for efficiency and effectiveness unwittingly becomes part of a large-scale, impersonal system that destroys small-scale communities of virtue.
(p.220) ...MacIntyre is critical of those who hold that ethics "has as its subject-matter morality as such." This way of doing ethics "moves at a level of abstraction and generality which detaches its concerns and its formulations from all social particularity." On this approach, "society is understood as an arena of rival and competing interests and what morality supplied are rules which from a neutral and impartial point of view set constraints upon how these interests may be pursued." Any neutral and impartial individual who is able to detach him or herself from the distorting influence of his or her interests would assent...
(p.227) ...after Moore brought into focus MacIntyre's claim that practices need institutions, and institutions require people who can organize things in a way that sustain and advance those practices housed in the organization, a series of questions came into focus as to whether it is possible to manage in a virtuous manner. On the one hand, it seems clear that the bureaucratic manager criticized by MacIntyre, the type who focuses solely on external goods, is unable to practice the virtues. On the other hand, given that, as MacIntyre states, the making and sustaining of institutions has "all the characteristics of a...
Breen, Keith
Under Weber's Shadow: Modernity, Subjectivity and Politics in Habermas, Arendt and MacIntyre (2016)
(p.168) MacIntyre takes care to note that external goods 'genuinely are goods', that practices such as fishing or farming are simultaneously directed towards internal and external ends, and that all practices require external goods to endure, a feature of his thought which will be emphasized below (Chapter 7.1), yet the meaning of practical activity transcends products, power or wealth. Hence the third feature of practices, their being activities where actors' 'achieve something of universal worth', 'transform ... and educate themselves through their own self-transformative activity'. Within practices, actors do not just attain extrinsic ends, but exhibit, actualize and extend their innate...
(p.169) Just as flourishing individual lives take the form of a 'narrative quest', an underdetermined search for the best ordering of one's activities, so, too, do robust cultures seek to coherently order their collective existence. Here the concept of 'tradition' has application. The intelligibility of actions depends not only on their being identifiable within specific practices and the broader narrative of individual lives, but requires understanding these practices and lives as embedded within larger histories and inheritances. A vibrant tradition, MacIntyre argues, 'is an historically extended, socially embodied argument, and an argument precisely in part about the goods which constitute that...
(p.185) MacIntyre, we saw, possesses powerful arguments against that assumption arising from the fact of Fortuna or unpredictability, but he is careful not to devalue the possession of skill and technical knowledge. Practices are quintessentially intersubjective activities whose meaning goes beyond skilfulness to incorporate the realization of specific ends, yet this realization is impossible without the employment of skills. Skills or technai constitute, as Aristotle argued, the subordinate but nonetheless integral means to achieving internal and external goods. Inserting technical skills as constitutive elements within an inclusively conceived praxis, MacIntyre thereby effects an analytic melding of the value-rational and instrumental-rational that prevents...
Dobson, John; Libri Publishing
"Utopia reconsidered" (2008)
(p.67) When a MacIntyrean practice functions well, participants therein pursue internal goods of excellence by cultivating cardinal virtues of character such as wisdom, justice, integrity, and constancy; and by nurturing virtues of acknowledged dependence, such as just generosity, that bind the community. In addition, the key to healthy practices is to have them supported materially by institutions that, while supplying the external goods of material support, do not interfere with the practice's pursuit of the internal goods of excellence.
(p.73) Rather than simply destroying community as such, there is evidence that the modern firm is simply creating different types of community: more fluid, more all-embracing, more virtual, and no less virtuous. For example, in Global Microstructures: The Virtual Societies of Financial Markets, Cetina and Bruegger find evidence of the emergence of 'virtual' communities among foreign exchange traders: '..social forms are bound together by electronic information technologies . . drawn together as if they were in one place'. In their extensive empirical study the authors find foreign-exchange traders – typically characterised as the most red-in-tooth-and-claw-type of financial agents – developing their...
Higgins, C
"Worlds of practice: MacIntyre's challenge to applied ethics" (2010)
(p.240) MacIntyre considers practice the primary moral context because it is only through learning to pursue the good qua doctors, dancers, and diplomats that we acquire enough moral knowledge to begin reflecting on the good as such. Reflection on the shape of one's individual life or on the human telos is a later, synthetic activity which makes use of the more determinate tele—the philosopher's quest for wisdom or the pitcher's 'perfect game'—that we encounter as members of this or that practice. If virtues are dispositions to act for the good and the good reveals only aspects of itself through the prism...
(p.243) There is also a downward dependence across the three levels of valuation. For MacIntyre, individual and communal ethical reflection depend on the existence of practices in three ways. First, communities rely directly on practices such as parenting, teaching, and city planning to pursue their communal goods. Second, these overarching goods are themselves 'integrative of and partly structured in terms of the goods internal to particular practices, and never to be understood as wholly independent of them'. Third, 'the work of integrating those [internal] goods into individual and communal lives itself has the structure of a practice'.It is worth elaborating on...
(p.245) Without the generativity of practices, we would inhabit a shrunken and gray moral universe with only a couple of known things worth striving for and these existing not as palpable purposes but as prosaic ideals. Practice, MacIntyre teaches us, is the poetry of the moral life.
(p.248) In addition to excellences of character and the good of a biographical genre, MacIntyre occasionally evokes a third sub-type of goods internal to practices located in practitioners. When MacIntyre discusses the goods internal to chess, for example, he speaks of 'the achievement of a certain highly particular kind of analytic skill, strategic imagination, and competitive intensity'. While the first two items in MacIntyre's list probably fall into the category of excellences of character, the third points toward what I will call a practice's 'moral phenomenology'. Just as Thomas Nagel famously asked of bats, we can ask, What is it like...
(p.249) The distinctive moral phenomenology of a practice offers its practitioners an insight into how it is excellent to be in the world by teaching us how to be in a particular world.
(p.250) ...practices offer their practitioners distinctive goods of at least four types: outstanding works or performances to appreciate, a rich moral phenomenology to experience, excellences of character to display and on which to rely, and a biographical genre through which to shape a meaningful life. In contrast to Plato's utopia, where we emerge from the cave of culture to behold the good itself, MacIntyre's view is that we learn substantive if partial intimations of the good inside the various human practices. This primary, multifarious ethical education is where we find the raw resources, as it were, for answering the basic ethical...
(p.251) For MacIntyre, practices are not simply local contexts where general dispositions may come in handy; they are themselves moral sources. They are sites, perhaps the key sites, of our moral education. For MacIntyre, we learn the point and substance of the virtues within particular practices. If we are interested in goodness, MacIntyre avers, then we must turn to the contexts of practices for insight. The alternative, meanwhile, is an emotivist culture and an arid, technical moral philosophy…
(p.252) ...internal goods are goods for the practitioner. In practices, we not only have occasion to do good, but to encounter (aspects of) the good and pursue our eudaimonia. Inside each practice are singular resources for answering what MacIntyre calls 'that most fundamental of questions, ''What sort of person am I to become?'''.….. Many practices are focused on the welfare of others and all practices direct their practitioner's attention to something beyond their own ego needs. It must feel wonderful to win a chess tournament or create a magnificent painting, but one achieves such things by an intense absorption not with...
Keat, R
"Practices, Firms and Varieties of Capitalism" (2008)
(p.84) Putting aside the claims about incremental innovation, what is important for my purposes is that these characteristics of work in CMEs [Coordinated Market Economies] – the use of high levels of skill, combined with the absence of close supervision and opportunities for initiative - correspond closely to those identified in numerous studies as the key sources of so-called intrinsic work satisfaction. By contrast, when work is unskilled, repetitive and closely monitored (especially when this is connected to 'payment by results' reward systems), there is little possibility of such intrinsic satisfaction, and hence of work being valued in anything other than...
(p.86) So what is institutionally favoured in LMEs is for individuals to conceive of their career as something very much 'their own', in that it has no essential reference to any specific kind of practice or any particular organisational location, and depends on skills that can be transported and adapted to many different contexts. The career trajectory is highly mobile and fluid, and what counts as success will have to be defined independently of any practice-specific criteria, and hence perhaps primarily in terms of MacIntyre's external goods of money, status and power. This does not imply the absence of intrinsic work-satisfactions,...
Knight, Kelvin
"Goods" (2008)
(p.114) MacIntyre's argument is that habituation into the virtues accompanies education in skills in pursuit of the goods internal to practices. For example, if one cheats in chess one may win candy, or money, or prestige, but one will only learn how to become a better chess player by cultivating personal excellence in the emulation of standards established by others. And such internal standards can only be emulated if one cultivates the virtues of self-control (or self-management), of friendship towards one's co-practitioners, of justice in acknowledging their achievement, of truthfulness to both oneself and others in appraising one's own achievement or...
(p.118) MacIntyre's primary structural critique of modernity is now that institutional domination and compartmentalisation prevent practices from adequately educating people in the virtues. Institutional domination denies individuals the opportunity of learning how to become independent practical reasoners. Compartmentalisation prevents them from coherently relating their different activities within their own lives, just as it prevents those activities from being coherently related in society as a whole. Given his stipulative definition of practices, this entails that what most people do in their working lives cannot be understood as participation in a practice, and his refusal of any ethic of 'my station and its...
(p.122) MacIntyre's metaphysics of good is more modest than that of Hegel but more ambitious than that of Whiting. Goods are intentional objects, and goods internal to practices are non-aggregatively common goods that have an objectivity for individual actors. One cannot do more than idealise the common good as a universal, but one can act in pursuit of these more particular goods. Through participation in practices, especially at the local level, one learns to emulate standards of excellence, including skills internal to practices but also moral virtues internal to one's character. In this way, goods of effectiveness subserve goods internal to...
Knight, Kelvin; Libri Publishing
Mendus, Susan; Horton, John
After MacIntyre: Critical Perspectives on the Work of Alisdair MacIntyre (1994)
Moore, Geoff
"On the Implications of the Practice–Institution Distinction: Macintyre and the Application of Modern Virtue Ethics to Business" (2002)
(p.28) ...the corporation must continually be aware that it is founded on and has as its most important function, the sustenance of the practice. This is simply because, without the practice, the institution dies. Thus a retailing organisation that is so focused on external goods, such as profit and shareholder value, that it fails to nurture the practice it sustains—the specific business practice of retailing—will eventually find itself without the skills and resources it requires to sustain the practice. It will, in effect, kill itself from the inside. But interestingly, the initial responsibility for ensuring that the corporation remains focused on...
Sinnicks, Matthew
"Practices, governance, and politics: Applying MacIntyre's ethics to business" (2014)
(p.230) For MacIntyre a practice is the first of three stages in his conception of a virtue, the second and third being the narrative unity of a human life and an account of what he calls a moral tradition respectively. So while there is more to virtues than practices, indeed virtues are ultimately grounded in distinctive human needs and capacities so that they contribute to our flourishing qua human beings (MacIntyre 1999, see especially chapter 7), MacIntyre holds that practices provide a basis for the virtues.
(p.231) Practices are not only intrinsically worthwhile, they are also perfective of those who engage in them. Practices then, are the 'schools' of the virtues. If MacIntyre is right, then in addition to the inherent dignity of, say, working to support one's family, work that is practice-based will further contribute both to the good of the agents who partake in it, and to our wider common good, which will be served by activities that are inherently morally educative. ….. For MacIntyre, internal goods are those goods which cannot be achieved in any way other than engaging in the activity in question, and...
(p.232) According to MacIntyre's account of moral education, it is the pursuit of internal goods that allows us to develop the virtues….The goods internal to the practice thus provide the initial motivation for virtue acquisition. The virtues enable agents to achieve internal goods and to participate in the community of practitioners. In time, the virtues come to be valued in themselves, and once properly acquired can be and are exhibited outside of the context in which they were learned.
(p.236) In a world in which every chess grandmaster were motivated only by money and prestige, chess would still possess the features required for practice status, but none of the great chess players would be genuinely engaged in that practice: they would have no reason not to cheat, and no reason not to abandon chess if greater external rewards were available to them elsewhere, and so would miss out on the intrinsic joys of chess as well as the opportunity to cultivate the virtues. This obscuring of internal goods is a danger whenever practices are not adequately safeguarded by institutions. Because...
(p.245) Politics in MacIntyre's sense requires virtues such as prudence, diligence, justice as without those virtues, participation in any practice or community will be threatened. Work within contemporary organizations can, when the relationships within them are allowed to develop over time, and when the relationships possess a degree of security, become sites of genuine deliberation and pursuit of common goods.
"Moral education at work: On the scope of MacIntyre's concept of a practice" (2019)
(p.105) One of the main reasons MacIntyre's concept of a practice has been appealing to business ethicists is that it, potentially at least, seems to "offer the best understanding of the promise of work" and provides a model of what human production could be like at its best. This is because it is, again potentially, able to show how good work can be both intrinsically satisfying and morally educative. Indeed, this potential is why it is worth exploring the scope of MacIntyre's concept.
(p.106) I argue that even a relatively minimal engagement in a practice can, in principle, be morally educative.…. practices are not to be regarded as esoteric activities available only to a few, but rather as a ubiquitous feature of human societies, and present in every human life. Even if practices are central in some societies and relatively marginalised in others, all of us engage in practices of one sort or another. While, as Keat (2008) points out, MacIntyre's account of the good is not comprehensive, something MacIntyre readily admits, his concept of a practice nevertheless provides a powerful basis for an account...
(p.107) Practices require us to acquire the virtues because it is only through virtue acquisition that we can properly experience the internal goods practices make available. On MacIntyre's view, our attempts to improve ourselves so as to master some rewarding activity are more effective as a moral education than any formal ethics course could be (see MacIntyre 2015)...As MacIntyre says, "the exercise of the virtues is something learned in the context of practices... those who engage in practices need the virtues if they are to achieve the individual and common goods internal to practices". So, not only are practices intrinsically satisfying...
(p.108) The intrinsic joys provided by practices give us a reason to attempt to acquire the virtues. Moreover, once a virtue has been properly acquired, it can be exhibited outside of the context in which it was learned, and ultimately valued in itself.
(p.110) We may well want to privilege historical creativity, i.e. the kind of creativity which leads to new ideas arising for the first time in human history, when accounting for what is most valuable overall, but it is the psychological experience of creatively engaging in an activity, of discovering its ends and goods for oneself, that is both intrinsically satisfying and most important to an account of moral education.
(p.111) Productive practices are compromised by necessity. They must necessarily aim at something other than the excellences and goods characteristic, and indeed partially definitive of, the practice itself. This is the essence of MacIntyre's critique of market economies. The necessary focus on success, understood in terms of external goods, serves to undermine the extent to which devotion to internal goods is possible. However, it need not destroy such devotion. Indeed, there is significant scope for individuals who are appropriately committed to goods internal to productive practices to pursue them.
(p.112) While practices are cognitively closed to some degree, partial engagement means that those who have not mastered a practice can have some understanding of that practice, and write meaningfully about it for an audience of non-masters. Lovers of great paintings who do not themselves paint can be morally educated by their role as practitioners, diners as well as chefs can derive more than aesthetic pleasure from excellent cookery, and "the high school physics teacher and the analyst of the data provided by the Large Hadron Collider are contributing to one and the same enterprise" (MacIntyre 2013, p. 209). Those at...
(p.116) MacIntyre offers the example of a child learning to play, and ultimately to appreciate, chess (2007, p. 188). In this example, the child initially plays to be rewarded with candy, but eventually comes to experience the internal goods of chess, and no longer needs the extrinsic reward. The case of work as an object of consumption is similar. What work is done for the sake of will be telling. If it is engaged in solely for the sake of payment, it will not be engaged with as a practice irrespective of whether the activity itself satisfies the requirements of MacIntyre's definition,...
""We Ought to Eat in Order to Work, Not Vice Versa": MacIntyre, Practices, and the Best Work for Humankind" (2020)
Stolz, Steven A
"MacIntyre, rival traditions and education" (2016)
"MacIntyre, managerialism and universities" (2017)


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Q: How official / stable is the whole 'ppx' mechanic in Ocaml language? For context (skip to question if you like): I am learning ocaml and started reading the Real World Ocaml.
So far, really (really!) liking the language and the book.
One thing I'm starting to not like so much is this mysterious 'ppx' stuff that is starting to show up everywhere I look when I try to 'dig a little deeper'(typically this digging involves opening some source code of a dependency and then and stumbling onto some 'magic' things like [@@deriving sexp]).
From lots of googling / various scattered sources... this seems to be some kind of syntax extension mechanism based on AST transformations. It seems to be heavily used (at least in janestreet libs). Near I can tell this is an 'unofficial' or undocumented feature of Ocaml. For example, looking at the Ocaml manual I couldn't find any trace of it.
Now, the question. How official/supported is the ppx mechanism for extending ocaml with new syntax by means of AST transforms?
EDIT/note: It was pointed out in the answer by @octachron that there is in fact a 'trace' of the feature in the manual that I missed. The syntax for these [@@..] bits at least is documented in the manual / ocaml grammar.
But the answer i.m.o really should address two things: syntax and semantics.

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*syntax is about "how do we write these magic new things".

*semantics is about how do we attach meaning to them.

A partial answer was already given by @octachron. It is clear now that the 'syntax' is official. But it is still a bit unclear to me how 'official' the support is for attaching semantics to these syntax extensions. So I am holding out for accepting an answer that is a bit more complete/explicit about semantics).
PS: Near as I can tell, there is nothing in the manual about this, and the Ocaml compiler ostensibly does nothing with the annotations at all (except, I suppose, parsing them). So unless I missed something else in the manual, then there isn't an 'official' mechanism in the language that lets you access the data in these annotations and do anything meaningful with them. Is that correct?

A: To answer the question about the official status of ppxs, they are officially supported syntax extensions. The syntax for attributes and extension nodes is described in the manual at https://ocaml.org/manual/attributes.html and https://ocaml.org/manual/extensionnodes.html. There is also a basic framework available for writing ppx exported in the compiler library (https://ocaml.org/api/compilerlibref/Ast_mapper.html), even if ppxlib is the currently advised option.

A: There are two parts to this question:
The first is syntax. That part was answered very well already by @octachron. The syntax for these [@@..] bits are an official part of Ocaml syntax. They are described in the manual at https://ocaml.org/manual/attributes.html and https://ocaml.org/manual/extensionnodes.html.
The second part is semantics. The answer here is more complex.
Note: Octachron already gave some answer here. However, the answer to me was a bit confusing. So I'll try and write an more detailed answer here myself that tries to address that confusion directly.
The tricky part (for me at least) to understand here was that, what you might call 'official support', depends a bit on your expectations, or point of view.
Looking at it from the point of view of the compiler and Ocaml as a programming language... The attributes and annotations have no meaning whatsoever. To the Ocaml compiler they are essentially treated much like comments. They are simply recognised by the parser and completely ignored.
So if the question is... "does the Ocaml language/compiler define an official way to attach semantics to extensionnodes and annotations?"; then the answer is "no". To the compiler... they simply have no semantics.
Any meaning comes from a 'ppx' pre-processor. A ppx pre-processor is a separate Ocaml program that reads in Ocaml source code and parses it into an AST, then transforms the AST. This process is totally separate from the Ocaml compiler and is a true pre-processor.
There is however an official/standard/recommended way that such pre-processors are created and used.
In a nutshell:

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*For creating a ppx you use the offical ppxlib, which is an Ocaml library.

*To use a ppx extension in your code, you configure a build system like dune to execute it before the ocaml compiler.

These things are explained in great detail in the 'official' ppxlib User manual.

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Currently we hear a lot about fake news. What we don't hear much about is fake mathematics. At this point you might be wondering what I mean by fake mathematics.
Fake news might be described as material that is fabricated without any supporting evidence, and which is presented in such a way that naive observers are willing to believe the material without subjecting it to any detailed examination, especially if it concurs with their underlying philosophy.
In a similar vein, fake mathematics might be described as material that is fabricated without any supporting evidence, and which is presented in such a way that naive observers are willing to believe the material without subjecting it to any detailed examination, especially if it concurs with their underlying philosophy.
While we don't hear much about it, fake mathematics has been prevalent for a great many years. To show that this is the case, we only have to carry out a simple thought experiment. In this thought experiment, we imagine an alternative mathematical world than the one we see today. In our thought experiment, the only proofs accepted by the mathematical community are proofs that have been logically proved, and no proof steps are allowed to be assumed to be correct rather than proven. We now suppose that in this mathematical world (as in our actual world) Gödel submitted his paper on Incompleteness (Footnote: Gödel's paper was written in German, viewable online Gödel's original proof in German: here PDF. The English translation of the paper is entitled "On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematica and Related Systems", viewable online Gödel's Proof - English translation: here.) to various journals. Unfortunately for Gödel, in this mathematical world, all the reviewers rejected his paper because (as in our actual world (Footnote: Peter Smith, although a staunch advocate of Gödel's proof, acknowledges this in his paper, Expounding the First Incompleteness Theorem (PDF), that, "Gödel only sketches a proof… The crucial step is just asserted.")) it failed to prove a crucial step in the proof, and Gödel merely assumed that the crucial step (the Proposition V in his paper) was correct. This was completely unacceptable to the reviewers, and Gödel's paper was never published in this hypothetical mathematical world.
Yet another flawed incompleteness proof) In this alternative mathematical world, such people are ridiculed and are called cranks - because what they are doing strikes against the fundamental ethos of this mathematical world, where the establishment of a logical proof of any claim is of paramount importance.
Now, let us look instead at the mathematical world that we actually inhabit. In our actual mathematical world, such people aren't called cranks. No, often they are professors and have prestigious positions within our mathematical world. Yes, in our current mathematical world, people that should be called cranks and who should be reprimanded for promoting fake mathematics are accepted and even applauded for what they do. In the actual mathematical world that we inhabit, fake mathematics is sitting alongside normal mathematics, instead of being banished forever from it. Surely this is unacceptable in a community in the 21st century that claims to be based on rationality?


Too many guavas? Make some candy and some wine.
"There was always so much guava left over," says Don Saul Landeros Cardona of the 45,000 tonnes of fruit that remains in Calvillo, Aguascalientes, after fulfilling export needs.
Calvillo is a "magical town" about 45 minutes outside the city of Aguascalientes and is known for its guava production. Fruit trees dot the landscape and it is said that at harvest time the whole town smells of the citrusy, sweet guava goodness.
But arriving at the sweets manufacturer Frutland, I had little idea of just how many different sweet treats could be made with fruit. However, I was soon to find out.
First we explored the grounds, where lines and lines of guayabos — as the guava trees are known in Spanish — lined the pathways. The fruits hanging from the tree were green but beginning to turn yellow, a sign that the harvest was near.
Landeros, the owner of this family-run business that started 24 years ago from a desire to make use of the huge excess of guava, is a friendly man with a glint in his eye.
"Let's have a contest. Who can harvest the biggest guava," he said, handing out long sticks to help us fish the fruits from the tree.
We shouted back and forth to each other as we looked for the largest fruits hidden among the bright green leaves of the guayabos. Fruit fell, and we tried our best to catch them as they rocketed down.
The less ripe guava has a thick green skin, not unlike a lime, which appears to thin out and lighten as the fruit reaches maturity. Prized for their 16 vitamins and high levels of fiber, guavas are popular worldwide.
The nomadic indigenous people of the area, the Chichimecas, used to use the roots of the tree to aid them with stomach issues.
"Guavas and the guava tree root properties helped them stay healthy," Landeros told us as we held on to our prized fruits, wanting to eat them but resisting.
Looking for the biggest guava.
Luckily, a plate of guava halves sprinkled with spicy chilé tahín was soon passed around to sate our desire.
Guavas still in hand it was time to head into the factory. With hairnets on we were guided inside.
The first thing I noticed is what looked much like a cement mixer turning the guava pulp around and around above a flame. The smell was wonderfully fresh and made my mouth water. The table close to the "cement mixers" was lined with workers cutting the soft candied guava into slices, perfect squares and rectangles, and even circles. Looking around I see tables of people making what look like cookies and tiny pasty-shaped goodies.
This family business is divided into different brands that are all named after Landeros' daughters. Violeta is the line of dehydrated products, Noemi is a line of products with chocolate, Luci is the home of the candied guava jelly and jellos and MariCri is a line of products for children.
If this doesn't show that this is truly a business that is passing down through the generations, then perhaps the guava wines will. Called Los Vinos de Mateo (Mateo's wines) the product is a sweet syrupy drink that tastes not unlike guava juice and comes complete with a label drawn by Landeros' seven-year-old grandson of the same name.
Having sipped a little wine, it was now time to try a few of the edible treats we were hearing so much about. There was everything from a soft candied guava covered in chile, another sweeter version covered in sugar, alegrías made with puffed amaranth combined with guava, guava rolls mingled with coconut and cranberry, guava cookies, a whole variety of different flavors and textures all made from one fruit.
The 'cement mixers' at Frutland.
The different tangs, sweet, spicy and sour played around on my taste buds as I listened to Landeros speak with so much passion for his work.
Since Frutland began some 24 years ago other companies have opened up in their wake, also creating candies from guava. Landeros doesn't seem fazed by that but rather welcomes it.
"We were the pioneers and our aim is to be the best," he said with a confident smile.
Saving the best for last, Landeros guided us to an area in the far-right corner of the small factory. Here he passed out a candy that looked like a tiny cupcake. He guided us to remove the red paper casing and I felt like Charlie unwrapping the prized chocolate wrapper that would win him a trip to the Chocolate Factory.
This tiny cupcake was, in fact, a guava fruit roll lined with a thin guava liquid compote and topped with dulce de leche and a pecan.
"You must eat a bite that lets you taste all the different parts together, right down the middle," said Landeros, the glint in his eye returning.
I took a bite and the sweet, sharp flavors of the guava roll combined with the creamy dulce de leche to create the most exquisite combination. Sounds of delight echoed through the group and Landeros smiled with the satisfaction of a man who prides himself on innovation.
Talking about the future, Landeros explains that they are about to launch some products in Paris and that they are looking to go international.
"All these flights that are arriving from Germany," Landeros said referring to the new Mercedes Benz factory in Aguascalientes that is bringing Germans to the state. "They are going back empty. We need to fill those planes with guava," he joked.
All that was left now was to judge the competition. Who harvested the largest guava? I came in a happy third place, winning a guava alegría.
Before leaving we all headed off to fill baskets full of guava goodies at the small store at the end of the factory.
As I headed to the door, I heard Landeros talking about Calvillo.
If Frutland was anything to go by, I was going to like Calvillo very much.
• To learn more about Frutland see their website. To visit Frutland and the rest of the magical town of Calvillo, take a tour with Asitur, which takes in Frutland, a local candle maker, the church, a handicraft store and lunch overlooking the Presa de Malpaso.


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Senator Warren's Statement on the Supreme Court Nomination
Washington, DC - United States Senator Elizabeth Warren released the following statement today:
"For decades, Chief Judge Merrick Garland has served his country with distinction - as a federal prosecutor, a senior official at the Department of Justice, and a judge on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. Along the way, he has won praise from Democratic and Republican Senators, liberals and conservatives - even the Bush-appointed Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
"The confirmation of a Supreme Court Justice is one of the most solemn tasks that our government performs. President Obama has done his job - selecting a nominee and sending that nominee to the Senate - and it's time for the Senate to do its job.
"I look forward to meeting with Chief Judge Garland, reviewing his record closely, coming to a decision on his nomination, and then voting. It is my hope that all Senators will show the American people that they respect the President of the United States, the Constitution, and Chief Judge Garland enough to do the same."


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WXJM & UPB Interview with The Mowgli's!
Posted on February 4, 2015 by Alejandra Buitrago
The Mowgli's are a seven-piece indie-rock band with a joyous revival of rock n' roll, a twisting indie-folk dance and a heartfelt protest ballad out of Southern California. With the popular release of their debut album, Waiting For The Dawn, featuring "San Francisco", we are eagerly awaiting their sophomore release, Kids In Love. UPB and WXJM's own Alec Moss got to have a few words with the up-and-coming band:
Alec: I've heard so much about how you guys have such a driving force and a message behind your music, so for those who aren't familiar with the Mowgli's, could you tell us what you guys are all about as a band?
Katie [The Mowgli's]: Yeah, sure! It's funny; I think it's a lot simpler than it's made out to be sometimes. We want to make people feel good. We write songs about our personal experiences with love, and what we believe about love, and through those songs, we share that message and those thoughts with people, but when we go and play a show, it's really just about taking people who drove there, or carpooled there, or designated drove that night, or got a sitter, or paid the $20, or however much the ticket is. We want to make sure that those people come and forget about whatever their boss said to them earlier, or whatever their boyfriend or girlfriend said that day that made them upset, and they just enjoy life for the hour that they spend with us that night. That's really what our whole message and our point is… Just to make people feel good because we think that happiness is a very contagious thing and spreading happiness, and sharing happiness, and being kind to each other just makes the world around us a better place.
Yeah, you gotta love that message! So, when you guys released your first album, Waiting For The Dawn, in the summer of 2013, you guys got a couple network television performances and played a ton of festivals, so I was wondering if you could tell me a little bit about that summer for you?
That summer was insane. We definitely were away from home SO much and were pretty much never home and we traveled the country over, and over, and over, and so we got to do, like you said, these really surreal, kind of magical things, like play on Jay Leno… twice! And we played on Jimmy Kimmel and Conan and the Andy Cohen show! And it was all just very surreal, ya know? It felt like a dream. It was very exciting and it felt like all of the hard work that we had put into writing that album, and recording that album, and getting it into the hands of whoever we could get it into the hands of… it felt like all that hard was paying off. It was probably one of the most exciting years of our life, I think, collectively as a group. And we're really looking forward to chasing that dream when we release our second album.
That's great! And so, I know that the summer was also filled with so many festival appearances, so from your point of view, not necessarily the whole band, what were your highlights? Were you able to see anybody that you really wanted to see as well? Rather than just all business, were you able to enjoy yourself?
We definitely enjoyed ourselves… I enjoyed myself. One of the really cool things about festival season is that, for the most part, when you get to a festival, you do kind of get to stay there for the day, and of course, as I'm sure you know, each one of these stages has somebody epic playing. You turn around and there's Walk The Moon! And then you walk twenty feet and there's R. Kelly! It's just crazy! Some of the highlights for me were: we camped at Bonnaroo, so we got tents and we didn't shower for four days and we just camped at Bonnaroo and it was really fun. The artist camping was behind the main stages, so we got to hear Paul McCartney, and Tom Petty, and R. Kelly, and Wu-Tang… So, everybody who played the main stage, we were kind of just camped out right behind it and got to hear it all.
Yeah! It was SO cool! Just going to festivals like Bonnaroo and Lollapalooza… these things that you've heard about for years and you kind of always fantasized about being able to go to one year. All of the sudden, now we're playing, and not only are we playing, but we're playing them with some of our favorite bands! We played Lollapalooza with Vampire Weekend, and Alt-J, and The Cure and all of us love all of those bands, so it's just a very exciting experience as a music fan.
Yeah that's great! Also, getting back to the band a little bit, a little over a month ago, you guys released your single off the next album, and that was called, "Through the Dark"…
Yeah, so that was kind of like a… soft release. We kind of were just able to leak a song off the album, um… leaked is probably not the right word, but we released a song off the album, but our label is actually releasing our official single soon. So that was kind of just a fun, 'Hey, this is one of our new songs, we're so excited to share it with you guys!'
Cool! What kind of feedback are you guys getting from that?
It actually just reached number 18 on the Alt 18… so an alternative chart. Which is really exciting for us because Alt-Nation has always been a huge supporter of us and we're super grateful that we're even in that circle musically. A lot of our fans, and this is the ideal thing, have responded positively. That's kind of our main thing, is we definitely wanted to give our fans and friends something that was worth waiting for and still kind of had an evolved sound, but still rang true of the Mowgli's vibe.
So when that album does come out, you're kind of entering the festival season all over again and you've already confirmed, I saw, Hangout, Shaky Knees, and BottleRock, so do you think it may be sort of a repeat of the summer of 2013?
Hey, that would be best-case scenario! We really hope so. A lot of festivals haven't booked up yet, and we don't even have a song at radio or anything, but we do really hope that we'll get to experience those festivals again; it's just such a fun experience for us.
Katie and The Mowgli's will be have a co-headlining performance at James Madison University's UPB Presents… FrostFest with X Ambassadors and opener, Grizfolk on February 6th in Wilson Hall on JMU's campus.
Tickets are on sale TODAY for students at jmutickets.com.
$16 for students, $18 for public (available 1/19).**
$22 for students day of show, $24 for public day of show.
Click here for the direct link: http://bit.ly/1o7W0gn
Doors will open at 7:30p and the show will start at 8p. There will be a pit and opportunities to win meet and greets! More information to follow!


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I do LOVE the tree, it could be in a fairy-tail book. But also the Diva tile is beautiful!
Beautiful Beautiful Tree! Fun on the mug and your tile turned out terrific!
Your tree is out of this world and the Molygon tile absolutely gorgeous.
Your coloured tree looks fantastic! And your molygon tile has a perfect balance of black and white, the sedglings looking great with their little white highlights!


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US Supreme Court Blocks Biden's Workplace Vaccine Mandate – BBC News
By Natalie Sherman
Business reporter, New York
Image source, Getty Images
Americans have become intensely divided over Covid-19 vaccine mandates
The US Supreme Court has blocked President Joe Biden's rule requiring workers at large companies to be vaccinated or masked and tested weekly.
The justices at the nation's highest court said the mandate exceeded the Biden administration's authority.
Separately they ruled that a more limited vaccine mandate could stand for staff at government-funded healthcare facilities.
The administration said the mandates would help fight the pandemic
President Biden said he was disappointed by the decision "to block common-sense life-saving requirements for employees at large businesses that were grounded squarely in both science and the law".
"That does not stop me from using my voice as President to advocate for employers to do the right thing to protect Americans' health and economy," he said.
"I call on business leaders to immediately join those who have already stepped up – including one third of Fortune 100 companies – and institute vaccination requirements to protect their workers, customers, and communities."
The administration's workplace vaccine mandate would have required workers to receive a Covid-19 shot, or be masked and tested weekly at their own expense.
It would have applied to workplaces with at least 100 employees and affected some 84 million workers. It was designed to be enforced by employers.
Opponents, including several Republican states and some business groups, said the administration was over-stepping its power with the requirements, which were introduced in November and immediately drew legal challenges.
In a 6-3 decision, the justices agreed with that argument, saying that the workplace safety rule for large employers was too broad to fall under the authority of the Department of Labor's Occupational Health and Safety Administration to regulate workplace safety.
"This is no 'everyday exercise of federal power,'" they wrote. "It is instead a significant encroachment on the lives – and health – of a vast number of employees."
The more limited rule concerning more than 10 million staff at healthcare facilitiesthat receive government funding did not pose the same concern, they decided, by 5-4.
That said imposing conditions on recipients of public money fit "neatly" into the authority of the Secretary of Health and Human Services.
The rulings come as some parts of the policies were due to go into effect this week. The court heard arguments in the case on Friday.
The rulings reflected the political make-up of the court, which now has a majority of justices appointed by Republican presidents.
The court's three liberal justices opposed blocking the vaccine mandate, saying such a decision "stymies the federal government's ability to counter the unparalleled threat that Covid-19 poses to our nation's workers."
Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh, seen as moderates in the conservative majority, joined the liberals in allowing the healthcare rule to stand.
The decision comes as the US experiences another wave of Covid-19 infections, with the Omicron variant spurring record cases and hospitalisation rates.
The Biden administration had estimated that instituting a vaccine requirement at big employers would save 6,500 lives and prevent 250,000 hospital admissions over six months.
More than 60% of Americans are fully vaccinated already. Independent of the government's regulations, some companies, including Google, Citibank and IBM, have started to move forward with their own requirements.
But the National Federation of Independent Businesses, a lobby group that was one of the lead plaintiffs challenging the government's workplace vaccine rule, had charged that it would burden small-business owners with new compliance costs, make it harder to fill positions and lead to lost profits and lost sales.
"Today's decision is welcome relief for America's small businesses, who are still trying to get their business back on track since the beginning of the pandemic," said Karen Harned, executive director of the group's legal arm.
A bridge too far
In the end, Joe Biden's vaccine mandates stood or fell based on judicial interpretations of federal statute, not principles of individual liberty or appeals to the greater good.
According to a majority of the Supreme Court, Mr Biden had the law on his side when ordering healthcare workers to get vaccinated, but using a 51-year-old workplace safety statute to implement a vaccine-or-test requirement on all large employers was a bridge too far.
Once again, the current balance of the Supreme Court comes into sharp relief, with four reliably conservative justices, three reliable liberal ones and two – Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh – at the ideological fulcrum.
This mixed judicial bag is just the latest setback for a presidential Covid-response plan that frequently has seemed a step behind the latest twists in the pandemic. The administration was slow to encourage boosters and caught flat-footed by the Omicron-induced surge in demand for testing.
Now Mr Biden will either have to convince Congress to act on mandates – an unlikely prospect given the brick wall the rest of his agenda keeps hitting in the Senate – or figure out new ways to shepherd the nation out of the pandemic gloom.


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Terrorism, Betrayal, and Resilience
My Story of the 1998 U.S. Embassy Bombings
Prudence Bushnell
29 photographs, index
On August 7, 1998, three years before President George W. Bush declared the War on Terror, the radical Islamist group al-Qaeda bombed the American embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, where Prudence Bushnell was serving as U.S. ambassador. Terrorism, Betrayal, and Resilience is her account of what happened, how it happened, and its impact twenty years later.
When the bombs went off in Kenya and neighboring Tanzania that day, Congress was in recess and the White House, along with the entire country, was focused on the Monica Lewinsky scandal. Congress held no hearings about the bombings, the national security community held no after-action reviews, and the mandatory Accountability Review Board focused on narrow security issues. Then on September 11, 2001, al-Qaeda attacked the U.S. homeland and the East Africa bombings became little more than an historical footnote.
Terrorism, Betrayal, and Resilience is Bushnell's account of her quest to understand how these bombings could have happened given the scrutiny bin Laden and his cell in Nairobi had been getting since 1996 from special groups in the National Security Council, the FBI, the CIA, and the NSA. Bushnell tracks national security strategies and assumptions about terrorism and the Muslim world that failed to keep us safe in 1998 and continue unchallenged today. In this hard-hitting, no-holds-barred account she reveals what led to poor decisions in Washington and demonstrates how diplomacy and leadership going forward will be our country's most potent defense.
Purchase the audio edition.
Prudence Bushnell is an American diplomat who has held a series of leadership positions with the U.S. Department of State, including deputy assistant secretary for African Affairs, ambassador to the republics of Kenya and Guatemala, and dean of the Leadership and Management School at the Foreign Service Institute. She is retired from the Foreign Service and founder of the Levitt Leadership Institute at Hamilton College in New York. She has earned numerous awards for her leadership and diplomacy, including three honorary doctoral degrees. For more information on the author visit prudencebushnell.com.
"[Bushnell] makes a compelling case that good diplomats can make a difference."—Lawrence D. Freedman, Foreign Affairs
"Ambassador Prudence Bushnell's account in this book of her own experience entering, and then rising through the ranks of the Foreign Service exemplifies the challenges faced by women and minorities of that first "post-Palmer" generation trying to break into a traditional, and still "pale male"–dominated club."—James L. Bullock, Cipher Brief
"Who better than the person in charge of an embassy can describe the impact of this embassy being bombed? Absolutely brilliant concept and it has been executed in a way that does the event justice."—Anna Faktorovich, Pennsylvania Literary Journal
"Despite significant recent improvements in the strategy and practice of fighting terrorism, and in the technologies and policies implemented by the Bureau of Diplomatic Security, Bushnell's tough look at the policymaking process reveals areas that still need improvement, and the devastating consequences that can result if they do not. Ultimately, the American people must place increased priority on diplomacy and the personnel who represent them abroad, in order to achieve improved counterterrorism outcomes and to ensure diplomatic safety. Ambassador Bushnell's book provides an impassioned reminder of that reality."—Frances Duffy, American Diplomacy
"[Terrorism, Betrayal, and Resilience] is a call for a shift in leadership philosophy within the government from a managerial mindset to one of active leadership."—Robert Clemm, Strategy Bridge
"A gripping diplomatic thriller that tells the harrowing saga of the 1998 bombing of Embassy Nairobi. Ambassador Bushnell's first-person account provides lessons of leadership, crisis management, and policy acumen. The tale dramatically illustrates the terrorism danger diplomats confront daily."—Ambassador Robert E. Gribbin III (Ret.)
"Ambassador Prudence Bushnell is a true professional with the toughness, grit, courage, and compassion that marks the kind of superb leader you want in charge during a crisis. I witnessed her remarkable composure, even when personally injured, and her take-command leadership style. This book is important for many reasons. It vividly presents a profile in courage; an understanding rarely appreciated about our foreign service men and women working in difficult assignments; a set of valuable lessons learned; and a case study in leadership during crisis. Every American should read this book."—Gen. Anthony C. Zinni, U.S. Marine Corps (Ret.)
"With heroes and villains aplenty, this riveting cold tale of the 1998 bombing of the U.S. embassy in Kenya has startling relevance. As today's State Department struggles to survive a gutting by its own government, Prudence Bushnell reminds us just how important and dangerous the job of diplomacy can be."—Rheta Grimsley Johnson, syndicated columnist and author of Poor Man's Provence: Finding Myself in Cajun Louisiana
"Prudence Bushnell's name is not household familiar—but it should be. She was at the center of one of the most infamous terrorist attacks on American people and property in history. And she was a woman in the highest ranks of the State Department when such a thing was rare. She tells her story with integrity and intelligence—and gives lessons on leadership based on life experience."—Barbara Kellerman, James MacGregor Burns Lecturer in Leadership, Harvard Kennedy School
"For all readers, Ambassador Bushnell's searing account of the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombings provides profound lessons in leadership. She demonstrates time and again her deep commitment to the safety and mission of the people she led. Her willingness to battle paralyzing bureaucracy, both before and after the bombings, exhibits her decency and humanity in the midst of the chaos and evil that the Embassy experienced. She devoted much of her career to improving leadership at the Department of State. She is a role model for future leaders."—Chris Kojm, director of the Leadership, Ethics, & Practice Initiative, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University
Part 1. What Happened?
1. The Bombing
2. The Past as Prologue
3. The Response
4. The Impact
5. The Turning Point
6. The Consequences
Part 2. How Did It Happen?
7. The Proxy War
8. The Blowback
9. The Plots
10. The Plans
11. The Execution
Part 3. So What?
12. The Outcomes
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I have 2 files - one MM (metamodel) as xsd and its M (model) as xml. My purpose is to make ecore files from both MM and M.
Fehler 1: org.eclipse.emf.ecore.xmi.PackageNotFoundException: Package with uri 'XML' not found.
Fehler 2: org.eclipse.emf.ecore.xmi.ClassNotFoundException: Class 'Root' not found.
I also tried to inject some other xml-files always the same 2 errors (see above).
I read then in the ATL-forum that someone faced the same problem.
He solved it then, after installing the "OLD VERSION OF AM3" and after having used the AM3-Injector then.
So, I had to install Eclipse 3.42, then EMF2.4.0, then ATL 2.0 and then at last the old AM3 from sources as described in link "How Install AM3 From SVN".
No ATL2.0 WITHOUT AM3 was found! And the AM3-version going together with ATL 2.0 is (I suppose) the NEW one, not the OLD one, which (the old one) I need to perform the injection right.
1.	Where can I find the ATL 2.0 PURE, without AM3?
2.	Is there any other possibility to solve the problem with AM3 - xml2ecore - injection-Errors?
You can find from http://docatlanmod.emn.fr/Eclipse_Bundles/AMMA_Prototype/AMM APrototypeEclipse.zip a bundle including compatible versions of ATL2.x and AM3.
I just re-tested it and the XML injection is properly working.
There's a solution to convert an xmi to an xml!
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This List of People Banned From a London Pub Is Full of Incredibly English Nicknames
If you need some character names for your British gangster flick, look no further.
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The Half Moon Pub in London's Herne Hill was a historic music venue where everyone from U2 to Frank Sinatra graced the stage. It was also a pub where a dude named One Armed Kieth was banned for life.
The Half Moon shut its doors in 2013, but a recently released list of patrons barred from the bar has just surfaced online, and boy does it make us wish we could still visit this legendary watering hole.
https://twitter.com/djsantero/status/719826823488651264
The barred list reads like the IMDB page of a British gangster flick, filled with impossible-to-understand accents, twisting plots, and that one tall scary dude with the shaved head. We'd cast Vinny Jones to play Mickey Two Suits, of course. And Danny Dyer as The Ex Con Chav Twat.
The list doesn't discriminate—or rather, it discriminates against everyone, including men, women, the disabled, the deaf, and the overweight.
No matter how politically incorrect the language is, the Half Moon sounds like it was the place to be. We just wish that Bono would have been added to the list, but you never know—maybe he was the Staring Pervert.
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American Battlefield Trust's map of the Battle of Gettysburg - The Wheatfield and Peach Orchard
After Kershaw's men advanced, the Mississippi regiments of Gen. William Barksdale moved forward and pushed back the Union infantry and artillery from around the Sherfy, Klingle, and Wentz farms, but Barksdale fell mortally wounded late in the attack. General William T. Wofford's Georgia brigade followed Barksdale and cleared out the remaining III Corps infantry from the Peach Orchard.
Around the Wheatfield, Georgia regiments under Gen. Paul Semmes moved up to support Anderson's fellow Georgians. Semmes was deploying his troops along a small stream when he was mortally wounded. Gen. Joseph Kershaw's men took over the Stony Hill area adjacent to the Rose farm.
Around 6:00 p.m., as the Union position around the Peach Orchard collapsed, the V Corps brigades of Sweitzer and Tilton fell back from the Wheatfield. However, the II Corps division of Gen. John Caldwell soon arrived from Cemetery Ridge to take their place. The brigades of Edward Cross, Patrick Kelly and Samuel Zook deployed left to right across the field and on the stony hill to the west. The brigade of John Brooke was in support. Cross's brigade guided on a stone wall on the east edge of the field, where Cross was killed leading his old 5th New Hampshire regiment. Kelly to his right led the famous Irish Brigade into the fight on the stony hill, and Zook was shot from his horse leading his brigade forward. Zook died at a field hospital the next day, one of four Union generals killed during the battle.
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St. Anthony Abbott
Name: St. Anthony Abbott
Saint Anthony was born in the year 251, in Upper Egypt. Hearing at Mass the words, "If youwould be perfect, go, sell what you have and give to the poor," he gave away all his vastpossessions — staying only to see that his sister's education was completed — and retired intothe desert. He then begged an aged hermit to teach him the spiritual life, and he also visitedvarious solitaries, undertaking to copy the principal virtue of each.
To serve God more perfectly, Anthony immured himself in a ruin, building up the door so thatnone could enter. Here the devils assaulted him furiously, appearing as various monsters, and evenwounding him severely; but his courage never failed, and he overcame them all by confidence inGod and by the sign of the cross. One night, while Anthony was in his solitude, many devilsscourged him so terribly that he lay as if dead. A friend found him in this condition, and believinghim dead carried him home. But when Anthony came to himself he persuaded his friend to takehim back, in spite of his wounds, to his solitude. Here, prostrate from weakness, he defied thedevils, saying, "I fear you not; you cannot separate me from the love of Christ." After more vainassaults the devils fled, and Christ appeared to Anthony in His glory.
Saint Anthony's only food was bread and water, which he never tasted before sunset, andsometimes only once in two, three, or four days. He wore sackcloth and sheepskin, and he oftenknelt in prayer from sunset to sunrise.
His admirers became so many and so insistent that he was eventually persuaded to found twomonasteries for them and to give them a rule of life. These were the first monasteries ever to befounded, and Saint Anthony is, therefore, the father of cenobites of monks. In 311 he went toAlexandria to take part in the Arian controversy and to comfort those who were being persecutedby Maximinus. This visit lasted for a few days only, after which he retired into a solitude evenmore remote so that he might cut himself off completely from his admirers. When he was overninety, he was commanded by God in a vision to search the desert for Saint Paul the Hermit. Heis said to have survived until the age of a hundred and five, when he died peacefully in a cave onMount Kolzim near the Red Sea. Saint Athanasius, his biographer, says that the mere knowledgeof how Saint Anthony lived is a good guide to virtue.


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Brett Favre Says Aaron Rodgers Is Worth $134 Mil Deal, He's A Top 5 Player All-Time!
Posted on 08/31/2018 In Entertainment, Hollywood & Entertainment
Brett Favre Aaron Rodgers Worth $134 Mil Deal He's A Top 5 Player Ever!
8/31/2018 12:50 AM PDT
Brett Favre tells TMZ Sports if there's one player in the NFL who deserves the biggest deal in league history — it's Aaron Rodgers … 'cause Favre says he's already one of the greatest to ever play!!
"I think when it's all said and done, he's a top 5 player, all time — regardless of position," Favre says. "Quite frankly, he could be there right now."
And, get this — remember all those reports of tension between Brett and Aaron back in the day? Favre tells us the two are actually FRIENDS, and Rodgers even came to visit him in Mississippi this summer.
"We were actually talking about how much of this contract he was going to give to me," Favre joked.
In reality, Rodgers was there to pick Favre's brain for a "Life of Aaron Rodgers" project he was doing … and that's when Brett shoveled some serious compliments on the Packer QB.
"He made a comment while he was here, 'Hey, I'm just trying to fill your shoes,'" Favre says.
"I said, 'I appreciate that, but you've kind of paved your own way and continue to pave it.'"
As for Brett … he's still traveling the world and getting recognized by fans — EVEN IN IRELAND!!
Read on The Source


Are you confused? Frustrated with the growing imbalance of power in the customer buying process? According to a 2016 Auto Trader study, customers are doing over 14 hours of online research before contacting a dealership. Within those hours there is a multitude of intent-driven micro-moments. In a digital age where the empowered consumer is bringing knowledge into the dealership, it's imperative that you're leveraging digital communication tools.
So sit back, buckle up and read on to explore tools you can find in your dealership and how they can be used to bring harmony back to the car-buying journey.
The importance in understanding all digital forms of communication that are available to you in the dealership cannot be stressed enough. A quick inventory of digital resources can set you ahead and bring focus to how you leverage communication with the customer.
Okay, they exist but how can they be effective?
Knowing they exist means you're one step closer to the customer. Remember those micro-moments? A recent article from Google looks into each "auto shopping moment". During these moments of need, customers are turning to resources like online videos and reviews to help answer decision-making questions. It's here in these moments that dealerships have the opportunity to be there for the customer.
Support the customer before they enter the dealership.
– Many leads are funneled through the manufacturer site for follow-up by email. Ensure you are answering and engaging the customer as quickly as possible.
– From your dealership site you can offer a quick video walkaround of the vehicles on your lot, allowing your potential customer a more in depth view of the vehicle they inquired about.
Support the customer during their purchase decision.
– After searching for vehicles that meet their needs, the next moment in the car-buying journey is pricing. Whether they email you or use a chat box on the dealer website, it's important to first acknowledge and thank the customer for contacting you.
– A crucial next step is getting the customer the information they've requested. This will help build trust and credibility with your dealership during their car-buying journey.
– Once contact has been made, you can suggest a test drive or even additional walkthroughs of a particular unit through video chat apps, like FaceTime.
Support the customer after the sale.
– Utilize your dealership CRM, track and segment customers that are coming up for a policy renewal, overdue for an oil change, recently had a claim approved etc. You can target your customer with offers or information that would be relevant to them. This form of highly targeted and personalized communication shows your customer that you know their needs and habits and value their loyalty.
Click to watch as Scott Wilson, LGM Regional Trainer, walks us through leveraging email as a communication tool inside the dealership.
Dealers – If you've successfully connected with your customer then, congratulations! By seizing the opportunity to be there in these moments with the customer, you're ensuring you achieve your goal in making sure they are getting the best car for them.


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I have a lot of friends who work for marketing agencies, and I've started noticing something– there's a huge overlap in their personal and professional lives. They don't just work together, they play together. Happy hours, team building, whatever.
As such, their social media pages are filled with their work– job postings, pictures, thinkpieces, information about the work they're doing. These employees are the best advertisements a company could ask for. Look, another cool piece finished for a client! Look, another fun outing with my team! Et cetera, et cetera. And all of this accomplishes a few things: one, it makes you want to work there; two, you remember the agency; and three, if you ever need an agency…well, that particular agency has been drilled into your brain (but in a fun, non-pushy way!).
Here's what I'm getting at. Like it or not, as the workforce becomes increasingly younger, this is the wave of the future. It's not email marketing–it's Medium, iTunes podcasts, LinkedIn posts. The younger generation isn't checking their email, as evidenced by the 59,000 unread emails I just saw on someone's phone the other day. That person was 24.
Your employees must be aligned with your personal brand–that is to say, their personal brands need to align with the company's. Your marketing team must be able to support social media efforts, but frankly, most of this should be happening organically if your company fosters that kind of atmosphere. Tag them in company photos! Tweet at them when they're at a conference! Teach them to interact with your company, and they'll learn.
This isn't exclusive to marketing agencies, though it may seem that way since they're inundated with young, tech-savvy people. I'm seeing it everywhere– from nurses to law firms. So, are your employees brand ambassadors? And if so, why not…and how can you fix it?
Because I hate clicking through things on Slideshare, and because some of these tips were obvious/stupid/bad, here are the ones I personally need to think about.
Write whatever you want. Then take out the first paragraph and the last paragraph. Another way of putting this is, as Henry James would say, "kill your darlings." If you're so in love with a word or a sentence or a paragraph, kill it. For most people, myself included, those "darlings" include the first and last paragraph.
Write a lot. Practice makes you…a little better than you were before.
Write with the same voice you talk in.
Deliver value with every sentence. Even in a Tweet. Else, be quiet.
Use a lot of periods. Forget commas and semicolons. BUT I LOVE SEMICOLONS.
Be honest. Tell people the stuff they all think but nobody ever says. This is one of those obvious tips, but it's the hardest one to follow.
Make people cry. Make them feel the potent moments. Again, obvious. This is every writer's goal, right? All I want to do is reduce someone to tears!
Write every day. Writing is spiritual practice. You are diving inside yourself and cleaning out the toxins.
Bleed in the first line. Make it human.
Don't write if you're upset at someone. Then the person you are upset at becomes your audience.
Risk. Don't stop writing until you're afraid to hit publish.
Time heals all wounds. Write about the hard stuff from the past. I don't think that time heals all wounds (re: the Dixie Chicks, "They say time heals everything, but I'm still waiting"). But I don't think the best time to write is after you healed. It's when the wound is still raw. Though I guess I would argue for anyone in the creative field, wounds stay raw forever.
Don't ask for permission. You don't need anyone's permission to tell the truth/your truth.
The last line needs to go boom! UGH. But at least last lines are easier for me than first lines.
A phrase I hear around the office a lot is "reactive marketing." What does this mean? Well, to me, it means that it's marketing without a plan–marketing that does what's asked, but lacks strategy.
Example: Department X needs a flier. Marketing makes the flier. Done!
Example: Company B just released a YouTube video. WE NEED A YOUTUBE VIDEO RIGHT NOWWWWWW!
Proactive marketing, of course, is easier said than done. It's led by marketing, not by other departments or individuals, and requires marketing managers to look in advance–ideally a year or more–to plan the department's needs…and, most importantly, anticipate the needs of other departments.
Depending on the overall goal, proactive marketing can look vastly different between organizations. Too often, marketing is lumped together as simply communicating what the organization does– we create flyers, advertisements, press releases, etc with the mindset of conveying information. That will always be a necessity, but it shouldn't be the majority of what you do. Define your audience and goal, then work from there. I like to use a monthly calendar that maps out any events/conferences/trade shows, and let that inform my marketing materials and PR. Just pick a starting point!
It's all too easy to let the economy or competitors lead you into the realm of reactive marketing, unfortunately. And even the best laid plans can go awry, as we all know. Just because your competitor does something doesn't mean you have to copy it, though human nature tells us otherwise. Though your first few stabs at a truly proactive marketing plan may need reworked, I would encourage you to make marketing a more involved aspect in other departments via your proactive plan.
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Watch the First Trailer for Disney's Live-Action 'Cinderella'
by Paul Merced Nov 19, 2014 Movies and TV
Take a look at the first trailer for Disney's live-action retelling of 'Cinderella', coming out March 2015. The latest adaptation of this classic fairy tale stars Downton Abbey's Lilly James as Cinderella, Helena Bonham Carter as her Fairy Godmother, and Cate Blanchett as the wicked stepmother.
You can also see Cinderella make an appearance in Into the Woods, coming to theaters December 25th.
What fairy tale would you or your family like to see made into a live-action movie? Let us know in the comments below.
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Paul Merced is design editor of Learning Liftoff. His passion and style for illustrating, photography, and design is a great blend for the educational field. With a BA in digital art from George Mason University, Paul is working on illustrating a children's book that will be released in the next few years. As a former bookseller, Paul loves reading his large collection of books and graphic novels.
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