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Failing to Succeed
Martin Coates
Your views on failure may dictate your chances of ultimate success in achieving important goals. Do you see failure as an end, or as a means to an end?
How we think about and respond to failure may determine not only how well we cope when things go wrong but also the chances of our pushing on to achieve success.
It's helpful, then, to question our preconceptions and identify our mindset on this most pervasive life experience. We all fail, from the toddler learning to walk and falling down, to the entrepreneur filing for bankruptcy. Do we learn from our mistakes, or do we keep repeating them? Does the fear of failure limit us, or does it enable us?
In their contribution to David Hillson's The Failure Files, Robert Morrall and Kirsty Patterson argue that, in our modern society, failure is taboo and that although many publications and programs highlight the keys to success, there is little on how to cope with failure. Talking about failure is akin to washing your dirty laundry in public—best out of sight and out of mind. Being labeled a failure by our peers or by the media is a damning indictment, something to be avoided at all costs.
Paradoxically, trying to avoid failure is more likely to ensure it. Innovation, creativity, resourcefulness and determination are all sidelined if we choose to play it safe. Morrall and Patterson offer another perspective: "Failure offers both the individual and, indeed, society the opportunity to 'draw a line in the sand', to learn from the mistakes made and to open new doors for the future. Failure can be a positive turning point in an individual's life. It should be viewed not as something that holds the individual back but as an opportunity to follow a new path in life."
Yes, under certain circumstances failure can have catastrophic results, such as in medical care or aviation, so it is not to be viewed lightly. Lessons must be learned and changes made. But this is all the more likely when failure is considered a helpful tool, something to be embraced, analyzed and used as a spur to achieving success. This outlook is essential if we hope to overcome and move forward as individuals and as a society.
A Whirlwind of Failures
Let's consider the example of someone who has a positive attitude toward failing and the benefit derived from that mindset. Sir James Dyson is an iconic British inventor and industrial designer. Founder of Dyson Ltd., his most famous invention to date is the bagless vacuum cleaner based on cyclonic vacuum technology. His company has since gone on to produce a range of other innovative products including hand dryers, hair dryers, fans and task lighting.
The Dyson website says: "In 1978, James Dyson became frustrated with his vacuum cleaner's diminishing performance. Taking it apart, he discovered that its bag was clogging with dust, causing suction to drop. He'd recently built an industrial cyclone tower for his factory that separated paint particles from the air using centrifugal force. But could the same principle work in a vacuum cleaner?"
Columnist Matthew Syed of The Times of London interviewed Dyson for his 2015 book Black Box Thinking. In it he refers to the failure of vacuum-cleaner technology as an opportunity to reimagine vacuuming. He told Syed: "It always starts with a problem. I hated vacuum cleaners for twenty years. . . . If they had worked perfectly, I would have had no motivation to come up with a new solution. . . . Failures feed the imagination. You cannot have one without the other."
Of course, producing a workable and saleable product was not straightforward. Dyson developed numerous iterations before he came up with a product that worked as he wanted. Like Thomas Edison and the well-known story of his many attempts at a workable incandescent light bulb, Dyson produced 5,127 prototypes before he was satisfied with the result. Looked at another way, he had to endure a lot of failure before achieving success.
Failure may be inevitable in life, but as long as we keep trying, it is only part of the process, not the endpoint. We can stay with broken technology and methodology and remain in a rut of our own devising, or we can consider failure a positive force for change. We can reimagine how we do things—from high-tech gadgets to the way we live our lives and structure our societies. Succeeding is not about avoiding failure but about learning from our mistakes and moving forward.
Syed argues that attaining success is, counterintuitively, facilitated by how well we cope and deal with failure. Do we see failure as a threat or an opportunity? British author and philosopher Bryan Magee puts it this way: "No one can possibly give us more service than by showing us what is wrong with what we think or do. . . . The man who welcomes and acts on criticism will prize it almost above friendship: the man who fights it out of concern to maintain his position is clinging to non-growth."
"Critical comment from others, far from being resented, is an invaluable aid to be insisted on and welcomed."
Bryan Magee, Philosophy and the Real World
So what does it take to develop this mindset? Remaining teachable is key, which in turn requires humility. In his book Failing Forward: Turning Mistakes Into Stepping Stones for Success, leadership expert John Maxwell advocates remaining open to learning from mistakes. He advises that this "can help you turn adversity into advantage." A teachable attitude helps us to learn all we possibly can from what has gone wrong. It's similar to the practice of pressing and repressing olives: there is more to be gleaned than just the initial stream of oil. Some of the lessons to be learned are harder to come by and need us to focus, in a systematic way, on the what, why and when of a negative outcome. Remaining teachable helps us to fully engage in the learning process and squeeze every last drop of benefit from a situation that we might naturally want to run from and put behind us as soon as possible. Staying with it and giving our full attention to an error isn't the same as dwelling on the mistake and rehearsing our shortcomings until we become paralyzed into inaction. Rather, it helps us move on and put the failure behind us in a positive way. It also lessens the likelihood that we'll make the same mistake again.
To take advantage of our failings and learn from them, we do need to overcome the fear of failure. This can be difficult when the news media trumpet failures of every description and often seek someone to publicly blame. For example, when a high-profile public-works project goes well over budget and isn't completed on time, it's considered newsworthy. On the other hand, stories about projects completed on schedule and within budget don't seem to generate as much interest. After all, good news is no news. With this pervasive culture it can be all too easy to react negatively to failure. Does the fear of failure drive us to apportion blame when things go wrong, look for a scapegoat and seek to cover up or airbrush our mistakes? Or do we take ownership of our shortcomings and try to turn things around?
Fear of failure can lead to paralysis. This is especially the case if we have experienced failure and negative consequences previously. Maxwell describes the Fear Cycle, where fear of failure leads to inaction, which in turn results in a lack of experience and competence, which further drives fear of failure.
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Morrall and Patterson discuss psychologist Martin Seligman's work on learned helplessness, where repeated negative exposure to failure leads to pessimism. Typically people respond by giving up, unable to see any way forward, dismissing other options and believing they have no control over what's happening. This has implications at a societal level: how we bring up our children and educate them, how we run offenders institutes, the business culture we engender, etc. At the individual level, breaking this cycle demands action; there is no easy way around it. It requires resilience in the face of inevitable setbacks. We can think of this as the ability to pick oneself up, dust oneself off and start again.
Maxwell contends that "it doesn't matter what has stopped you or how long you have been inactive. The only way to break the cycle is to face your fear and take action, even though it may seem small or insignificant."
Of course, "pulling yourself up by your bootstraps" may be beyond what some of us can manage, in which case we may need counseling and external support to help kick-start a positive cycle, where we face failure and deal with it constructively.
All of this assumes that our struggle is with facing up to and overcoming acknowledged failures. But what if we have yet to admit that we have failed? The human mind is adept at fooling itself into believing all is well. As Syed asks, "how can one learn from failure if one has convinced oneself—through the endlessly subtle means of self-justification, narrative manipulation and . . . dissonance-reduction—that a failure didn't actually occur?"
"Lying to oneself destroys the very possibility of learning."
Matthew Syed, Black Box Thinking
Do we find ourselves saying things like "It was unavoidable," "It was a one-off," "I had no choice," "Anyone would have done the same"? If so, our mind may be stuck in a closed loop where learning from what went wrong is impossible. We've probably heard experts explain away why their predictions for the economy, an election result, or the outcome of a sports match didn't come true, self-justifying through statistics and the selective use of facts. How often do we hear a politician say, "I got that wrong, but this is what I learned from it, and here's what I'm going to do about it"? Instead they usually put time and effort into spinning a positive backstory and outcome, or laying the blame at someone else's door.
Social psychologist Leon Festinger's theory of cognitive dissonance (1957) also comes into play: when our theories, belief systems and behaviors are challenged by evidence, we try to maintain cognitive consistency. For example, when we find out that eating too much processed food may reduce our life expectancy, does it prompt us to change our lifestyle? Or do we react instead by saying, "Life is too short to worry about it," or "I have to go sometime, so I might as well enjoy life." If we do the latter, dissonance has been reduced by mental sleight of hand, and the opportunity to learn and change is lost.
Linked to this is confirmation bias, whereby we try to back up what we hold dear. For example, if we believe bad things come in threes, and two bad things have already happened, we will often look for a third in order to validate the belief, even undergoing mental contortions to make it so and overlooking the times when it clearly doesn't hold true. The tendency is easy to spot in others; we need to be aware of it in ourselves.
Overcoming mind games, facing our failures and seeing them as learning opportunities are all positive steps, but ultimately they'll be of little use if the process doesn't produce a change in behavior. Will it take a heart attack before we change our diet or take up exercise? Rarely do such experiences come out of the blue; the warning signs, the failures, were there to be seen—golden opportunities to prompt us to change. All too often though, the tendency is to find out more and more about our problems but do little to solve them. It's one reason why diet and exercise magazines, books and websites are so popular, especially at the turn of each year. But how many of us use the information they contain for more than a few weeks, persevering until failure turns to success?
"Learning is defined as a change in behavior. You haven't learned a thing until you can take action and use it."
Don Shula and Ken Blanchard, Everyone's a Coach
So as individuals, where do our failings lie? Can we look at our lives and see a pattern—maybe of failed relationships, unfulfilled life goals, or opportunities missed, combined with a feeling of helplessness and being trapped in a negative loop?
On a broader scale, have our institutions, laws and methods of governance produced lasting peace, universal health care, sufficient clean water and nourishing food for all people, an end to the sexual abuse and exploitation of children, to name but a few of our collective failings? We have so much knowledge readily at our fingertips, but have we used it to promote change that leads to positive outcomes, or do we continue to plough the same old furrow with the same results?
Several thousand years of recorded history tell a consistent story of humanity's failings. Yet we have at our disposal a source of information that challenges us to see things differently, to reimagine how we live as individuals and as a society, and to use this as a catalyst to turn failure into success. The Bible offers timeless advice for all, which, if heeded, will result in a change of heart. David, one of the kings of Israel, declared, "Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good; blessed is the man who trusts in Him!" (Psalm 34:8).
Are we willing to put that theory to the test, or will we refuse, because of cognitive dissonance and confirmation bias, to take a fresh look at how and why we have failed? Will we continue to follow our own way of doing things? David's son, King Solomon, had something to say about that: "There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death" (Proverbs 14:12; 16:25).
The warning signs are there, if only we would recognize them. The apostle Paul composed a list of traits that would characterize a future time, and it sounds eerily familiar: "Understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God" (2 Timothy 3:1–4, English Standard Version).
Will we heed these signs of the times, confront our failings and take steps to change? Paul went on to identify an invaluable source of help: "All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness" (verse 16).
The words of Bryan Magee bear repeating: "No one can possibly give us more service than by showing us what is wrong with what we think or do. . . ."
Are we willing to think outside the box and consider that our Creator is trying to tell us that very thing?
Neel Burton, The Art of Failure: The Anti Self-Help Guide (2010).
David Hillson (editor), The Failure Files: Perspectives on Failure (2011).
Bryan Magee, Philosophy and the Real World: An Introduction to Karl Popper (1985).
John C. Maxwell, Failing Forward: Turning Mistakes Into Stepping Stones for Success (2000).
Don Shula and Ken Blanchard, Everyone's a Coach (1995).
Matthew Syed, Black Box Thinking (2015).
Doing Well Versus Feeling Good: The Self-Esteem Debate
Scripture quotations are from the New King James Version (©1988 by Thomas Nelson, Inc.) unless otherwise noted. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
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Many exciting things happened at Creating Change this year in Philadelphia.
Here are a few highlights from The Bisexuality Hospitality Suite.
Lots of fun activities including Decorate your own cupcakes!
And yes The BiCast hung around too!
There were many great workshops focused on non-monosexuality this year.
And a wonderful Day Long Institute focused on intersectionality.


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Is Bob's Red Mill Whole Grain Oat Flour acceptable for stage 2 of the diet?
You really shouldn't eat anything that's called "whole grain." Bob's Red Mill Organic Oat Bran is alright and can also be used to make bread. Bob's coconut flour and teff flour are also acceptable.
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Case Study: How to Drive Leads for Content Marketing Success
By Sarah Hopfinger
"Show us the leads that came from your content marketing."
It's a tough request to hear from your boss. But you're hardly alone if you can't answer with confidence. According to HubSpot's content marketing trends report, one of the biggest challenges for marketers is creating content that produces direct, trackable leads.
However, it's important not to give up leveraging content to create avenues to bring leads into your sales funnel. After all, any content — from blog posts and whitepapers to one-pagers and guest-contributed articles — can have "lead adjacent" value. When used in pay-per-click campaigns, emails, or other marketing vehicles, your content can provide education, nurturing, and so much more.
Still, you won't be able to confidently show the content-lead connection until you take two steps. To start, you'll have to have a solid content management system in place so you can analyze and track the performance of your content. Then, you'll need to lean into the power of gated content. Believe me when I say that this is a simple recipe for lead generation tracking magic. Just ask the professionals at StarCompliance (Star), a leading provider of financial compliance software.
How StarCompliance Generated Leads With Content
Our team worked with Star to generate and deploy a variety of content assets to promote its robust STAR Platform. Part of our content marketing strategy included an update of its "Surfing the Tsunami of Regulation" e-book.
The e-book was a hit for the Star team because it gives the audience an overview of the most up-to-date financial regulations in multiple markets: the United States, the European Union, the United Kingdom, and more. For people involved in the world of financial compliance, having "Surfing the Tsunami of Regulation" as a go-to resource from trusted experts is important. In fact, it's so important that Star decided to make it free.
Once completed, the e-book was uploaded as a piece of gated content on Star's website. Visitors were referred to one of two unique landing pages through a number of search engine-optimized pathways. Once on the landing page, readers were asked to complete a simple submission form in exchange for a downloadable copy of the e-book.
Want to use gated content to generate leads for your own business?
For eight months, we evaluated analytics in HubSpot for the two landing pages. The outcomes were not only appealing, but also easy to report:
353 total form submissions
57 new leads
6 new customers
By gating this e-book, Star was able to report the ROI of one of its most vital content resources to key stakeholders. Due to the sophistication of its CRM, the marketing team was able to collect key data on prospects, as well as see what other content the landing page visitors viewed.
Utilizing Content to Power Your Lead Generation Machine
Hearing about Star's success and how you can turn your assets into lead generation tools, you might be tempted to start gating every piece of your content. But forcing your audience to share their information for any and all content on your site is not a reasonable way to produce content marketing results. Instead, follow this advice to begin driving and monitoring leads:
1. Gate only your most enticing content.
A 300-word blog post won't cut it as a gated content piece. However, other resources like longer whitepapers, helpful one-pagers and checklists, and one-of-a-kind e-books can be perfect for gating.
As you're developing upcoming lead generation initiatives, identify which content belongs behind a locked door. Be sure that your contact capture forms ask for just the basic information that your salespeople need. Downloading gated content shouldn't feel like signing a contract for your visitors — they'll bounce if you ask for too much information.
2. Construct a buyer's journey for prospects.
If someone who downloads your content doesn't turn into a lead right away, don't give up hope. Some sales cycles can last up to a year or more, and the person who downloaded your content instead of calling your sales team right away might just be in the awareness or consideration stage.
Never underestimate how profitable it can be to play it cool and not be overly eager to sell to someone who's just not ready. Using lead nurturing strategies and tools, keep sending these people pertinent, helpful content (that's not gated — you already have their information), and I'll bet many will convert down the road.
3. Use a content management system.
The only way to measure and monitor your content's lead generation capabilities is with a CMS. Using one (like HubSpot) gives you all the data you need to monitor, analyze, and share progress toward your goals. Having this information at your fingertips ensures you'll have a succinct, data-driven response the next time your boss asks you to show them the leads that have been generated from your content marketing efforts.
One last thing before I leave you: When reviewing analytics in your CMS, take notice of the other ungated pieces of content your gated content readers have engaged with on your site. If that content exhibits healthy engagement rates (time on page, bounce rate, etc.), then you've found fodder for your next great gated resource.
So how's your content performing from a lead generation perspective? To keep a pulse on your content strategy's effectiveness, download your free checklist below!
About Sarah Hopfinger
I'm a digital marketing strategist who firmly believes that every decision should be data-driven and that education should be lifelong. When I'm not optimizing content for search visibility or reporting on KPIs, you'll likely find me at a local trivia night with an IPA in my hand.

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Державна зразкова капела бандуристів — музичний колектив, що існував з березня 1935 по червень 1941. Базувався в Києві.

Історія

У березні 1935 року на основі залишків колишньої Київської капели, капели при Філармонії та Полтавської капели був створений об'єднаний колектив — «Державна зразкова капела бандуристів». Художнім керівником об'єднаної капели став Микола Михайлів, випускник Київської консерваторії, за походженням грек. Данило Піка став його заступником. Адміністратором нового колективу став Захарій Аронський.

Під керівництцва Миколи Михайліва капела записала в Москві декілька платівок у 1935 і 1937 роках. Після смерті Миколи Михайліва при загадкових обставинах, мистецьке керівництво часто змінювалося. Деякі керівники працювали з колективом тільки по два тижні, до арешту. Мистецькими керівниками були Данило Піка, Дмитро Балацький, а після його арешту в 1938 році й до війни колективом знову керував Данило Піка.

У 1939, після приєднання Західної України до Радянського Союзу, капела під керівництва Данила Піки об'їхала всю Західну Україну з концертами «Слово Тараса», відзначаючи 125 ліття народження великого кобзаря.

Після початку 22 червня 1941 Німецько-радянської війни, колектив, який на той час був на гастролях у Кропивницькому, був розформований, а учасники були відразу мобілізовані на фронт.

Згодом, на основі артистів Державної зразкової капели бандуристів, які залишилися в окупації, у 1941 в Києві була створена Капела бандуристів імені Тараса Шевченка. Тепер цей колектив має назву «Українська капела бандуристів імені Тараса Шевченка», з 1949 має осідок в місті Детройт, США.

З «Державною зразковою капелою бандуристів» також пов'язує свою історію Державна капела бандуристів УРСР, утворена в Києві в 1949, теперішня назва «Національна заслужена капела бандуристів України імені Георгія Майбороди».

Учасники капели

Диригенти та мистецькі керівники
 Микола Михайлов (1935—1936)
 Данило Піка (1936)
 Дмитро Балацький (1936—1937)
 Микола Опришко (1937)
 Данило Піка (1937—1941)

Неповний список артистів

 Увага, у списку можуть бути музиканти, які були лише в Київській капелі бандуристів і не потрапили до об'єднаної капели.

Довоєнна

 Базилевський Ераст, (1935 — * Юрій Барташевський — заступник диригента
 І. Борець, ПКБ, (1927—1937) розстріляний
 О. Булдовський, ПКБ, (1925-
 Г. Войцех, (1936-) заарештований
 С. Гнилоквас, (1936-) заарештований
 Ф. Діброва, (1918—1919) розстріляний
 П. Діброва, (1918—1919) розстріляний
 О. Дзюбенко, КФ (1931—1945)
 Ф. Дорошко, (1918—1938) розстріляний
 Кабачок Володимир Андрійович, ПКБ, (1925-) Заарештований
 Й. Кашуба, (1918—1938) розстріляний в червні 1934р,
 Китастий Григорій — (1935-
 І. Китастий, (1936-
 Я. Кладовий, ПКБ, (1925-
 Колесників, Юрій ПКБ, (1925-35-
 Комаренко Григорій Іванович, (1918-
 А. Кононенко, ПКБ, (1925-)
 Я. Копан, (Копань) (1918—1938) розстріляний
 О. Костецький, КФ, (1931 -)
 Т. Медведів, ПКБ, (1935—1942) згинув на фронті
 М. Михайлів, КФ, (1931—1936) згинув на гастролі
 П. Міняйло, ПКБ, (1925-)
 С. Міняйло, ПКБ, (1925-)
 Г. Назаренко ПКБ, концертмейстер, (1925-)
 І. Недоля — 1935, адміністратор
 Опришко Микола (1931—1942) згинув на фронті
 Й. Панасенко ПКБ, соліст, (1925-)
 М. Панченко,
 Ф. Панченко,
 Т. Пивко, КФ, (1931-)
 Д. Піка, ПКБ, (1925—1942) згинув на фронті
 О. Пономаренко, (1936
 В. Похил, КФ, (1931-5
 Я. Протопопів, ПКБ, (1925—1944)
 О. Рибалка, (1931-35
 В. Савченко, (1935-
 Й. Сніжний, (1925—1928) заарештований
 С. Сотниченко, (1918—1919) розстріляний
 І. Фількенбург соліст, (1939
 Г. Цебренко, (1922-
 Цибулів Іван, КФ, (1931-5-
 Чарівнй В. (1935
 Федько Андрій, КФ, (1931-5-
 О. Шлеюк, КФ (1931-5)
 О. С. Яценко, (1919—1935) розстріляний

Повоєнна
 В. І. Войт, з 1967
 Константинівський К. П. концертмейстер

Див. також
 Київська капела бандуристів (1923—1934)
 Полтавська капела бандуристів
 Українська капела бандуристів імені Тараса Шевченка
 Національна заслужена капела бандуристів України імені Георгія Майбороди

Посилання
 http://www.istpravda.com.ua/articles/2013/11/18/139612/

Кобзарські колективи

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Black Sash, others call for extension of Covid-19 grant to basic income guarantee
Social development minister Lindiwe Zulu has asked National Treasury to extend the grant
The Black Sash has called for the R350 Covid-19 grant to be extended until it is turned into a basic income guarantee. File photo.
Image: South African Government via Twitter
The Black Sash says there is no rationale for the special Covid-19 social relief of distress (SRD) grant of R350 to be terminated.
"Many people have relied on the grant which kept them from starvation," Black Sash national advocacy manager Hoodah Abrahams-Fayker said on Thursday.
She was addressing a media briefing on the eve of the termination of the SRD grants, which are set to expire on Friday.
Black Sash and #PaytheGrants campaign seek to urge government to extend the grant until it is turned into a basic income guarantee and increase the SRD grant to the food poverty line, now at R585.
The campaign also seeks to expand the grant to unemployed adults receiving the child support grant on behalf of children.
Abrahams-Fayker said she only heard the news on Thursday morning that social development minister Lindiwe Zulu has asked National Treasury to extend the grant.
She said the organisation had hand-delivered a letter to the department of social development and the South African Social Security Agency demanding answers about the impending termination of the grant.
The human rights organisation said it only received a response to its letter on Wednesday, where the director-general acknowledged receipt and said government was considering the issue.
Abrahams-Fayker said the response shed very little light on how government would address the plight of people who would no longer receive these grants.
Bishop Victor Phalana of the Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference said he supported Black Sash's call for the extension of the SRD grant during this time and its extension into a universal basic income guarantee.
"I have been much aware of the situation of the poor, the underemployed, the unemployed. We are aware of what this Covid-19 relief grant has done for many."
A number of organisations supported the campaign by Black Sash. They include the SA Domestic Service and Alliance Workers Union, the Muslim Judicial Council, Women on Farms Project, the SA Informal Traders Alliance, and trade union federations Cosatu and Saftu.
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Cash-Handling Procedures for Support Groups
All support groups with accounts maintained by the University or the Campus Foundation shall comply with the Policy for Handling Cash and Cash Equivalents (BUS 49).
Each support group that maintains an account with any form of financial intermediary (i.e., an account other than a University- or Campus Foundation-managed agency account) shall conform to the following provisions:
Maintain written evidence of approval from the Chancellor (or designee) to hold a specific account.
Obtain and maintain its own taxpayer identification number.
For non-tax-exempt organizations using an outside bank account, establish only a single demand-deposit (i.e., checking) account.
For tax-exempt organizations, limit outside bank accounts to two demand-deposit (i.e., checking) accounts at a single financial institution, one exclusively for membership dues transactions, if appropriate; the second for receipt of gifts and non-membership related transactions. Savings, money market or equivalent accounts in the same institution are permissible so long as:
the principal is not put at risk (e.g., an account must be insured); and
the funds are not invested for a fixed duration that would interfere with meeting the transfer requirements. Gift funds must be transferred to the University or to the Campus Foundation according to the schedule set out in the Administrative Guidelines for Support Groups (Sections IV.A.4 and IV.A.9).
Maintain a written record of authorized check signers. Such authorizations shall be approved by the governing board (if any), and any changes to the list of authorized signers shall be made on a timely basis.
Assure that bank statements are delivered directly by the bank to an identified individual who is not an authorized check signer or who does not prepare checks for signature, and who is responsible for promptly reconciling the account each month.
Assure that the monthly bank reconciliation statement is reviewed on a timely basis by an individual who accepts ultimate responsibility for the organization's funds.
Establish written cash receipting and depositing procedures.
Require two signatures on all checks in excess of $1,000.
Establish a mechanism to recognize in a timely manner when accumulated cash meets the requirement for transfer to the University.


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De-Gaming and Saving Democracy
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WHENCE WE CAME, WHITHER WE GO
By Richard John Stapleton
Earthians are in a Catch-22 damned if they do and damned if they don't situation; caught between a rock and a hard spot, or the devil and the deep blue sea; up the creek without a paddle; caught behind the eight ball; enmeshed more than ever in a Gordian Knot of rising obscene income and wealth inequality, financial manipulation, environmental destruction, global warming, military hatred, and social misery; sorely in need of rational and benevolent political leadership; being generally ruled at the highest levels by thugs, bullies, and ruffians who have taken over political playgrounds.
Thanks to unbridled sexual urges humans continue to breed children at a geometric rate, adding more and more humans to an already overpopulated Earth, requiring more and more production of goods for humans to consume, requiring the destruction of more and more natural resources, creating more and more pollution of Earth's atmosphere, creating more and more global warming, which seems to be accelerating more than experts thought it would, creating more and more competition among people and nations for diminishing resources, creating more and more fear and hatred among people and nations, causing more and more production of war materials and military expenditures for military hardware and troops, leading to more and more military tensions around Earth, increasing the probability a madman will shoot off a big nuclear bomb that lands on a big city, setting off a catastrophe that could lead to human extinction.
If nuclear weapons don't bring on a catastrophe global warming will, as sea levels rise and Earth gets so hot food cannot be grown in most places, assuming significant reductions in atmospheric carbon dioxide and methane do not happen, as seems likely, as humans continue to irresponsibly produce too many new hungry mouths to feed caused by their unrestrained sexual appetites, even assuming abortions are not made illegal by moral extremists in more and more countries, thereby precluding peacefully reducing the human population aboard Spaceship Earth through attrition, natural deaths exceeding births over time, to eliminate the need to destroy more and more natural resources and burn more and more fossil fuel, and on and on, thereby exacerbating and accelerating dangerous global processes and trends causing the Doomsday Clock to tell the time it does.
I have used the word Earthian since encountering it in the 1970s in Buckminster Fuller's book Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth. It is my understanding that Fuller invented the word Earthian, and the appellation Spaceship Earth, implying Earth is something that has to be preserved by humans monitoring regular interdependent physical processes in the infinity of airless time and space—such as, for example, trees and other plants emitting oxygen that humans and other animals breath; with humans, other animals, and various processes emitting carbon dioxide that plants ingest, to make new oxygen in hopefully never ending interdependent closed systems. Such systems have to remain in synchronous interdependent regularities, requiring not cutting down and burning too many trees, and not putting too much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere burning fossil fuels, as humans should know by now given what they have heard, seen, and read in various media about global warming, evidenced first-hand by anyone merely walking outside these days in broad daylight, feeling the heat coming down as if emitted from a heat lamp three feet away—and by daily posts on the Internet about heat and wildfires burning anything that will burn on various spots of terra firma around Spaceship Earth.
What is an Earthian? The term includes more than humans: it includes all species of fauna and flora around Earth.
I made a decision in June of 2018 to encourage the formation of De-Gaming Democracy groups around Spaceship Earth to facilitate relevant face-to-face discussions about ecological, economic, social, religious, and political affairs to hopefully co-construct consensual answers for seemingly intractable problems. It seems to me isolated human individuals spending eight or so hours per day on average looking at TV, computer, and cell phone screens to see, hear, and read fake news, faces, music, stories, gossip, movies, video games, sports, and even some truthful news has not resulted in economic and political progress. Something new needs to be tried.
To paraphrase Albert Einstein, it seems to me it's insane to do the same thing over and over while saying you want a given result, such as better ecological, economic, and political conditions, and never getting them, which is happening in most organizations and groups, including families, schools, colleges, universities, churches, legislatures, congresses, militaries, and countries, who in reality are only concerned with preserving their status quos and protecting their vested interests, who, like any addict, depend on highs produced by life-threatening economic, political, religious, and military processes and substances they cannot give up.
Supposed experts and power people in organizations and groups often get together in committees or cliques to decide what kind of information, excuse me, party line dogma and doctrine to inflict on their subordinates down the chain of command, usually via the lecture method of teaching with victims, excuse me, subordinates sitting in seats, chairs, and desks in neat rows and columns obediently trying or pretending to memorize what is laid on them for some sort of test or task. Most people enjoy lecturing others standing rigidly erect pointing with their index fingers with a stern look on their faces. Even five-year-old kids can sometimes be seen taking pleasure lecturing other kids.
What I recommend in "De-Gaming and Saving Democracy" is not doing this, but, rather, having learners and teachers of different persuasions sit in circles using a spinner to randomly select a leader of the day to diagnose problems and opportunities, create alternatives, and make recommendations for change, which are then democratically discussed by all group members. This entails everyone being equally ok and having an equal chance to be a leader, which is the essence of democracy. The ancient Greeks used this process, called sortition.
I took my own advice and tried to set up a De-Gaming democracy group in Statesboro three months ago as explained here. I invited 153 people on my Internet list, told them I was hosting a forum in our Stapleton Learning Company offices, what I called the Ogeechee Economic Forum, using principles outlined in "De-Gaming and Saving Democracy," and announced the time and how to get there.
One person showed up, not enough to democratically de-Game anything, but the discussion was randomly started nevertheless. Something in the person's mind showing up caused the person to bring up the problem discussed during the assigned hour of the forum, namely the sad state of affairs now bedeviling Georgia Southern University in Statesboro and Armstrong State University in Savannah caused by the University System of Georgia secretly deciding in top down fashion to merge the two universities. It was an interesting discussion and made interesting content for this article.
So, as my experiment during July showed (one person showing up), it will not be easy to set up De-Gaming Democracy groups for bottom-up democratic discussions around Spaceship Earth, the most likely explanation being that many, if not most, humans are afraid of face-to-face democracy. Strange as it might seem, a good case can be built that most people actually prefer being told what to believe and do in authoritarian top-down systems, on TV, on their cell phones, in schools, in homes, in churches, at workplaces, in militaries, etc.
But we should keep trying to foster good democracy, however futile it might be. Otherwise present trends will continue.
I am now teaching a business planning course pro bono, at no cost to participants, at the BIG Building, the Business Innovation Center, at the Georgia Southern University City Campus in downtown Statesboro, Georgia, USA lasting ten weeks, meeting once a week from 7-9 p.m. on Mondays, in which I use a de-Gamed case method process. I furnish free copies of my book Business Voyages to serve as the course bible. The course is conducted much like a Sunday School Class, no tests, no grades, and no teacher evaluations. I have now taught three sessions of the planned ten sessions. Four people showed up the first night, five the second, and three for the third session.
I suggest certain passages from various pages in Business Voyages non-sequentially at various times during the course sessions for group consideration. Most of the time however is consumed by participants talking about their own cases, relating their fact-based cases to passages they find relevant anywhere in Business Voyages, much like a preacher would relate a passage in his/her bible to the topic of her/his sermon on a particular day, except the cases in this business planning course will be discussed by all participants on the spot to help group members make money or achieve other business goals in the here and now. If we add a few more participants I will use a Classroom De-Gamer™ from time to time to randomly select leaders.
Participants may bring up any business planning issue they happen to have on their minds during a class session, personal, local, national, or international in scope.
To get a better idea of what is going on in the course get yourself a free Business Voyages Kindall Unlimited ebook and randomly access its pages.
According to philosopher Karl Popper, it's possible for humans to know about phenomena in three worlds, as recorded on page 100 of Business Voyages:
"World 1 includes hydrogen and helium, the heavier elements, liquids and crystals, and living organisms; World 2 includes consciousness of self and of death, and sentience or animal consciousness; and World 3 includes works of art and science and technology, human language, and theories of self and of death."
No one knows right answers for problems that require significant knowledge from all three of Popper's Worlds. The best hope is to develop consensual answers in democratic discussions that work better than others.
One can build a plausible case that provably true "right" answers do not exist in social, economic, and political affairs.
The problem in most organizations and groups, families included, is that parents and parent-like people—supervisors, CEOs, cops, politicians, prison wardens, FBI directors, managers, preachers, teachers, coaches, sergeants, generals, etc.—enjoy being the boss, and they hog all the power they can get their hands on by precluding one way or another others from participating in democratic discussions, and if this goes on over and over again enough underdogs begin to enjoy it and feel good about it, and begin to withdraw from any sort of dialectical face to face human contact and communication; and if everybody does this a stagnant society will ensue, a society that is only concerned about preserving its status quo, which is about where humans are now around Spaceship Earth, despite mounting evidence significant unplanned changes will soon happen.
As any transactional analyst knows, the most significant human learning is natural script-based authoritarianism. Parents program children before the age of eight to adopt psychologically and socially a unique family life script that lays out the do's and don't's for living their lives.
As recorded on page 159 of Business Voyages, most parents at the social verbal spoken level from their Parent ego states communicate to the Parent ego states of their children over and over helpful things such as:
"Wash behind your ears," "Clean those fingernails," " Study hard," "Work hard," "Get along," "Make something of yourself", and "Go to church, temple, or mosque."
As recorded on page 160 of Business Voyages, children are also exposed to psychological ulterior unspoken messages that are frustrating, debilitating, and enfeebling, called injunctions, transmitted from the Child ego states of parents to the Child ego states of children using positive and negative body language signals as children feel, think, and do as events happen:
"Don't Be, Don't Be You (the sex you are); Don't Be a Child; Don't Grow; Don't Make It; Don't; Don't Be Important; Don't Be Close; Don't Belong; Don't Be Well (or sane); Don't Think About X (forbidden subject); Don't Think What You Think, Think What I Think; Don't Feel; Don't Feel X, Mad, Sad, Glad, Scared; Don't Feel What You Feel, Feel What I Feel."
Some families are relatively free of injunctions and others are relatively contaminated with them, but probably all families produce and experience some of them. Injunctions preclude or forbid feelings, thoughts, and behaviors; what most people need to live fully healthy, productive, and satisfying lives is psychological permission to violate injunctions accidentally and inevitably laid on them psychologically by their parents. Unfortunately most people are unaware of the injunctions they harbor and transmit.
Parent and Child authoritarian messages and injunctions in various combinations stay much the same generation after generation within families as parents pass them down to children like runners passing a baton in a relay track race, while allowing and creating significant differentiation through time between families.
Certain family scripts derived from Parent and Child messages and injunctions fit various kinds of organizational scripts better than others. People with the same kinds of family scripts tend to populate the same kinds of organizations and groups at various levels generation after generation, including political parties and religions, whether liberal, conservative, right wing, left wing, or Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, or Buddhist, of various denominations and sects.
This early script-based teaching in families before humans are eight years old is difficult to change, almost impossible some say, making it even more difficult to change national scripts derived from family scripts. For a succinct explanation of Parent, Adult, and Child ego states and life scripts as they affect organizational learning, development, and praxis, see my book Born to Learn: A Transactional Analysis of Human Learning.
According to Eric Berne, MD, a psychiatrist, and the euhemerous of transactional analysis, script messages transmitted to children in families generally produce three kinds of life outcomes: winner, loser, and non-winner, or banal. In my opinion, the process is grossly unfair for humans not scripted to be winners. It's an unfair process for which no human can be blamed or praised, caused by an unbroken infinite regression and progression of ineluctable inevitable accidental cause-effect chains, in the infinity of time and space. According to Berne, these scripted outcomes occur in recurrent proportions generation after generation in any society, regardless of the political system, religions, or socio-economic conditions in the society as a whole.
Here is a passage on human scripts I wrote on page 157 of Business Voyages:
"As Shakespeare pointed out, the world is a stage and everyone must play a part. While it is theoretically possible not to act out a part or script in life by autonomously making decisions based on the facts of actual cases using Adult ego states in the here and now, it would be difficult to prove whether anyone has ever actually accomplished such a feat. According to Berne, a script is an on-going life plan decided upon by a child before the age of eight—which includes such basic decisions as the life position of the person (whether I'm OK—You're OK, I'm OK—You're Not OK, I'm Not OK—You're OK, I'm Not OK—You're Not OK), what type of person to marry, how many children to have, the nature of role in life, the nature of life outcome, whether winner, loser, or non-winner, and who will be around when life ends (Berne, 1970). The early influence and programming of parents and the commitment of a child to the influence and programming determine life scripts. Once the child decides to accept the influence and programming it becomes a part of a script that is acted out on the stage of life. In this sense a child less than eight years old determines most lives. Some scripts work out well and some do not. Criminals, entrepreneurs, saints, and sinners are generally what they are because of scripts, not autonomous feelings, thinking, and doing in the here and now. Therefore they are not to blame or praise. People do in the present what they decided to do in the past regarding important matters. According to Berne, only trivial matters are decided by reason in the here and now."
It seems to me the best approach for dealing with script-based feeling, thinking, and behaving in a society is by getting people with disparate scripts together in Game-free democratic dialectical discussions that enable participants to experience their script messages in relation to the script messages of others in relation to specific problems and opportunities confronting everyone in the shared environment, so as to construct consensual answers that are acceptable for everyone.
This is hard to do, impossible some say, because "birds of a feather flock together," and humans generally only associate with their own kind, hearing the same authoritarian messages over and over from their elders, leaders, friends, family members, and managers, preaching to their own choirs, creating a psychological security blanket for group members, which, however comforting, causes feelings, thoughts, and behaviors that will, if similarly caused for humans in all organizations and groups, sooner or later paradoxically cause all organizations and groups to become less secure, probably enemies, since differentiated inbred dogmas and doctrines within organizations and groups through time sooner or later clash with those of different organizations and groups, leading to competition and war instead of cooperation and peace.
In addition to this pernicious chickens-coming-home-to-roost organizational process, as organizations become more powerful and successful through time, power-hoggers at the highest levels in political parties and governments, in the US, UK, India, France, Germany, Russia, China, Syria, Japan, Indonesia, Bulgaria, Ireland, Venezuela, South Africa, Brazil, Argentina, Canada, Cuba, Chile, Mexico, Holland, Iran, Turkey, or wherever, and in multinational corporations of any national origin, having no Game-free democratic open dialectical discussions among peers generating consensual answers for problems in shared environments have now brought Spaceship Earth to its most dangerous state of affairs in Earthian history, caused by hogged power being greatly magnified, relative to that of analogous hogged power of the past, caused by the collective cumulated learning of humans through time in Worlds 1, 2, and 3 that enabled humans to learn how to generate electricity to power countless devices, and power automobiles, tractors, airplanes, tanks and other mobile instruments by extracting and burning fossil fuel; learn how to detonate nuclear bombs to kill people in wars; learn how to use two digits, zeros and ones, to create words, numbers, pictures, and sounds in computers and cell phones; learn how to use zeros and ones to create data bases, money, and computer programs capable of controlling almost anything that moves; and learn how to do almost anything but cause ordinary humans to communicate and live together in harmony, peace, tranquility, and satisfaction.
Power hoggers at the top of countries around Spaceship Earth don't cause ordinary humans to live in harmony, peace, tranquility, and satisfaction in their countries because they need underdogs to polarize in their organizations and groups and agitate against one another, thereby weakening one another, so the power hoggers at the top can continue to hog their power, and the money and wealth their hogged power enables them to take for themselves. Yes, the international behavioral system of trade, commerce, finance and war at the highest power level around Spaceship Earth is a system of unregulated expropriation—all countries' top power hoggers taking and raking off whatever they can lay their hands on from underdogs in their own countries and from underdogs in other countries, ostensibly for the good of underdogs in their own countries. To think these power hoggers earn or merit their money and wealth by producing through hard and skillful work large quantities of something excellent is ludicrous and absurd.
International laws and courts are almost useless for controlling top power hoggers, as is the case to a lesser degree with national supreme courts, especially the US Supreme Court today, where important decisions are split among nine judges along ideological party lines, insuring inbred biases and prejudices determine decisions and rulings, not the facts of cases based on logic, reason, and fair and just legal precedents. Today's US Supreme Court is not powerless since it still has police power to enforce its decisions within the US, however illogical, inhumane, and unfair they might be. International courts in contrast are powerless because there is no international police force to enforce their rulings, which is why Earthians need some sort of international Game-free democratic government with real power. The United Nations is almost powerless, and it's ludicrous to think the world's greatest superpower, the US, would impartially and fairly enforce the legal rulings of a Spaceship Earth Supreme Court.
Human behavior around Earth is largely an existential matter of topdog/underdog struggles for power and domination, wherein topdog power hoggers continue to apply the time-honored and successful strategy of divide and conquer to exploit underdogs in their countries, bribing, paying, and rewarding favored lackeys to satisfy, muzzle, and corral underdogs down the chain of command under their control, much like kings and barons did to underdog knaves and serfs during the Middle Ages, making sure underdogs stay chained in their places, talking only to one another at their level about local gossip, daily chores, illnesses, sports, movies, video games, children, parents, friends, and what have you, maintaining a banal status quo and moral equilibrium at the lowest level that gets so boring that thousands of local underdogs actually look forward to joining military organizations that will enable them to travel around Spaceship Earth, to possibly fight in wars that can cause them to be killed or maimed, but probably not, and maybe come home a hero, with financial benefits.
General Mad Dog Mattis, who now works in the top power hogger headquarters of the US, the White House, presumably as President Donald J. Trump's underdog, told his underdog troops before they invaded Afghanistan in 2005 that: "Actually it's quite fun to fight them, you know. It's a hell of a hoot. It's fun to shoot some people. I'll be right up there with you. I like brawling."
Figuring out how to eradicate power hogging, the most virulent, vicious, ubiquitous, insidious, pain-causing, lethal, possibly fatal mental illness contaminating the human species, is the best strategy for insuring indefinite life aboard Spaceship Earth, or so it seems to me today.
Like Don Quixote charging windmills I experience irrational satisfaction giving moral support to Earthians in their battles for survival, jousting like a rikety deranged medieval knight in my blogs for noble causes, having survived countless threats and skirmishes in my seventy-eight years of life, having been retired from college teaching since 2005. I got bored with hunting, fishing, playing golf, and traveling some time ago, especially after being forced to kowtow to TSA agents and put up with their arrogant demeanor, attitudes, rules, threats, indignities, and stress to board commercial airliners, thanks to Bush II's nitwit quixotic decision to fight a "War on Terror" started in 2003, a so-called war that did irreparable psychological harm to the cultural fabric of the US, not to mention the incomparably greater irreparable psychological and physical harm inflicted on millions of humans and other Earthians in Iraq and Afghanistan.
And the harm did not stop there. It continues with operations occurring in whatever it is Obama and Trump are now calling their wars and military adventures, primarily in the Middle East and North Africa, but essentially all around Spaceship Earth, from eight hundred military bases in seventy countries, providing shelter for US troops and flying objects that can shoot on the ground and drop and shoot bombs, missiles, and bullets from the sky, sometimes aimed with precision to hit targets on the ground by expert shooters staring at computer screens in the US, clicking a mouse instead of pulling a trigger to "shoot some people," as if playing a video game.
Here is an article I published, "Attacks also Assaults on Global Business," Savannah Morning News, September 23, 2001, The Business Exchange, p. 7, in which I wrote about my thoughts and feelings regarding 9/11 one week after it happened.
Like most people I believed three towers at the World Trade Center had been knocked down by some amateur Arab pilots who had surreptitiously entered the US who had taken private pilot lessons in the US using piper cubs to learn how to fly in who high-jacked four large commercial airliners and flew two of them into two World Trade Center towers and one into the Pentagon, while crash landing one in a cornfield in Ohio.
I no longer believe this story, having by now read and seen dozens of articles and videos by conscientious ethical authors and presenters including expert testimony by commercial airline pilots, architects, engineers, and scientists who unequivocally assert amateur pilots flying nothing but piper cubs could not have developed the piloting skill necessary to fly airliners into two WTC towers and one into the Pentagon at the speeds and angles at which the airliners were flown; and even if they had developed this piloting skill there is no way the two airliners striking the two twin towers could have generated enough heat to cause three twin towers to collapse in free falls. On top of this, there is now a reputable recorded telephone call from firemen who reached the 78th floor of one of the towers who indicated fires they had observed could be put out by two firefighting companies, shortly before the building collapsed. And there is more reputable evidence from observers on the scene who said they heard multiple explosions. And common sense would tell you Building Seven, assuming you believe the airliners did it, not hit by an airliner, would somehow magically fall in free fall just like the two towers hit by airliners; and common sense would tell you an amateur pilot could not fly an airliner into the Pentagon horizontally in such a way as to knock out a side wall while disappearing inside.
Most likely the so-called War on Terror would not have happened had 9/11 not happened. In my Savannah Morning News article I wrote about my feelings for the brave citizens of the US who would take the 9/11 tragedy in stride and overcome the evil forces that made it happen. Now I am not so sure. The country has become increasingly polarized and dysfunctional. For sure 9/11 did not cause it all, but it is a factor. One can also build a case 9/11 was a major factor in causing the military and political changes, and increasing hatred and conflict, since then in the Middle East and North Africa, and elsewhere, regime changes, population disruptions and dislocations, and widespread human, personal property, and infrastructure destruction, pretty much along the lines of what General Wesley Clark outlined in this video.
See my article "Toward the Creation of Spaceship Earth Incorporated," published in MWC News (Media With Conscience) for some cheering views on how humans might pull Spaceship Earth out of its nosedive into catastrophe.
Richard John Stapleton, PhD, CTA is a founder, owner, and operator of Effective Learning Company, a profit-making small business, at www.effectivelearning.net.
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Unraveling the 'strange beast' that is the mid-core gamer: PlayMesh's Shawn Foust reveals all
'It's an aberration; a Frankenstein creation'
Quark Games
December 4th, 2012 - 02:00pm
Shawn Foust is a VP at PlayMesh, handling a mix of business development, lore writing, and game design.
Back in my day (approximately three years ago), we had two buckets: hardcore and casual.
One could generally determine which bucket a game fell into by measuring the frequency of showers among the players. This number could then be cross referenced with the preponderance of caffeinated beverages in the household.
Of course, both measurements were merely proxies for the amount of time it took to fully engage in these games, but they were accurate enough. These were simpler times. Better times.
Nowadays, things are a changin'. It's not longer binary. There's a new, murky entrant into the dialogue: mid-core. It is a strange beast, and I don't much understand it.
A tale of casual, mid-core and hardcore
I'm inclined to continue the snark, but I expect someone will want me to get to the point sooner or later.
So here goes: mid-core isn't a type of game. It's an aberration; a Frankenstein creation that is one part casual, one part hardcore and all parts lame.
Games claiming the mid-core mantle are simply a casual experience in a hardcore setting. These games lack the defining element of a hardcore game: the depth of personal investment required to fully understand and participate in the experience.
For example, a hardcore game like League of Legends takes an inordinate amount of time to understand and grasp. You're looking at a 2 week investment just to get the point where you aren't getting reported for losing your lane.
And Final Fantasy is a game defined by multiple layers of experience and variety - battle systems, hidden bosses, character customisation, etc..
Conversely, casual games are easy to understand and progress in. Any time investment is more a product of monetisation strategy around gated progression rather than design depth.
A casual game seeks to deliver a linear, but potentially enjoyable, experience while a hardcore game seeks to complicate the matter significantly through the introduction of numerous variable - skill trees, loot variety, strategic options.
A mid-core game is an awkward hybrid. It skimps on the depth, instead favouring accessibility and audience expanders like 'virality.'
The goal is to get a wide base of diverse players beyond the typical core market. I don't blame folks for going down this path. Cost per install ain't pretty and money doesn't grow on trees. Expanding the addressable market is extremely enticing, but I can't help but wonder if it's an optimal strategy.
Mythical mid-core
So there are two ways to look at what a mid-core game is trying to do. Either discover a new type of gamer, and/or build bridges between two very different types of gamers. Let's address each in turn.
I suppose the new mid-core gamer is a person that isn't satisfied by a casual experience but isn't really ready to commit to the gamer lifestyle. The thinking goes that this theoretical person wants a slightly deep game they can get their friends into.
Choices and sophistication should be present, but kept at a minimum so as to not alienate those unwilling to acquire the requisite knowledge to unravel these quirks.
Ideally, these newly discovered users will happily consume this hybrid between soup and stew and monetise to eternity - or until the content runs out.
Now, let's say this mid-core gamer is busy riding a unicorn (we might as well, since neither one exists) and so mid-core games instead adopt a strategy of trying to bridge the gap between hardcore and casual gamers.
Under this theory, the games will be offering elements of a casual experience while still retaining enough depth to intrigue the hardcore gamer. Sounds great as a talking point, but it's a bit more questionable when distilled to actual game design.
The simple fact is that the things a hardcore gamer values (sophistication, diversity, emotional range) are generally anathema to the things a casual gamer enjoys (ease of entry, constant progression, positive reinforcement).
Designing for both of these groups is unlikely to pay the sort of dividends that you want to see in terms of expanded audience.
The more likely scenario is that this is a bridge to nowhere, with casual players becoming alienated by the glancing interactions with hardcore savages, and hardcore gamers being frustrated by the inability to fully express themselves in the game.
Cool story bro. So why are mid-core games so popular?
Honestly? A combination of extensive marketing and a lack of meaningful hardcore alternatives.
Despite the hundreds of thousands of applications, hardcore gamers are actually an underserved market. Developers are so concerned they can't hit some magical viral threshold point that they're unwilling to just say "frak it" and double down on the hardcore niche.
Folks are off searching for the mythical 'scaleable' opportunity. Why settle for 5,000 users when you can have 50,000,000 million? I'd love to wallpaper our offices with Ferraris as well, but sometimes content needs to fit an audience and not an aspiration.
Luckily, the hardcore audience is huge on mobile. They're just wondering why no one is making games for them.
Folks that assumed handheld gaming died are silly. It's alive and awaiting development on the mobile side. What we see now are the cautious sprouts of what will be an enormous industry dedicated to diehard gamers on the go.
People that once took a day off to play the expansion to World of Warcraft will now have the option to neglect work directly in office due the constant access to high quality hardcore games.
It's just going to take some time for developers to stop chasing fairy tales and satisfy themselves with a burgeoning multi-billion dollar hardcore mobile market.
Talk is cheap. What are you doing about it?
As I mentioned previously, I came on to lead Valor with a mission to push it affirmatively down the hardcore path. When I inherited the game, it was prancing about on the line between mid-core and hardcore.
Our soon to be released revamp (Valor: Trial by Sword, same great app, new destruction) is going to make things real vicious, real fast. We've designed things so the slow ramp up period is radically reduced and people are thrown into a bloodbath almost immediately.
It's… um… fun.
Anyways, we're making a big bet that wallowing in the viscera of fallen players is our key to success. Valor is an old dog - around two years on the App Store - but we're going to teach it some new tricks. We're differentiating the game from others by stripping out mid-core sensibilities and throwing down the gauntlet.
Of course, we're running some risks as a result. New players are going to be a bit shell shocked by the environment. Folks used to tapping away with nary a concern are going to be in for some unpleasant surprises.
We're okay with that. We figure if we can get the most hardcore veteran players excited and invigorated, they can train up the noobs on the hostile environment. We can define our community concretely and build upon it rather than drift about afraid of offending people.
And you know what? If it all fails that's okay too. At least I have a number of people I know I can rely upon in the event of a zombie apocalypse. Valorians are dependable like that.
To find out more about PlayMesh and Valor, take a look at the company's website. For moment-to-moment updates on everything Shawn Foust, you can follow him on Twitter.
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Q: Python: How can I check between two strings that have repeating letters if string 1 is contained within string 2? def can_spell_with(target_word, letter_word):
    valid = True
    target_word1 = [x.lower() for x in target_word]
    letter_word1 = [x.lower() for x in letter_word]
    for c in target_word1:
        if c not in letter_word1:
            valid = False
        else:
            valid = True
    return valid
print(can_spell_with('elL','HEllo'))
# True
print(can_spell_with('ell','helo'))
# False

In the code above: I am trying to figure out how to return True if the letter_word contains the target_word.
So 'ell' in 'helo' would return False
But 'ell' in  'hello' would return True

A: Try to use in:
def can_spell_with(a, b):
     return (a.upper() in b.upper())
print(can_spell_with('Ell','HEllo'))
>>>True
print(can_spell_with('ell','helo'))
>>>False

A: You can use in but you first have to make the cases the same:
def can_spell_with(target_word, letter_word):
    return target_word.lower() in letter_word.lower()

A: You're doing a case-insensitive search. No need to do a list comprehension. Just use lower() or upper() to convert all characters to lower or uppercase and use in:
def can_spell_with(target_word, letter_word):
    return target_word.lower() in letter_word.lower()

Alternatively you could do a case insensitive regex search:
import re

def can_spell_with(target_word, letter_word):
    return re.search(target_word, letter_word, re.IGNORECASE) is not None

A: target_word = target_word.lower()
letter_word = letter_word.lower()

lenn = len(target_word)
valid = False

for i in range(len(letter_word)-lenn):
    if letter_word[i:i+lenn] == target_word:
        valid = True
return valid

A: this will check the whether word1 in word2 irrespective of lowercase or uppercase
def func(word1, word2):
    first_char = word1[0]
    for index, char in enumerate(word2):
        if char==first_char:
            if word2[index:len(word1)+1]==word1:
                return True
    return False

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Sticking with a healthy heart plan
Cutline below
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Remember that New Year's resolution to diet and exercise?
You can increase your odds of sticking to your weight-control plan by surrounding yourself with supportive people, setting realistic goals and logging your activities, a University of Florida expert says.
February is American Heart Month, a good time to learn more about cardiovascular diseases and how to stick with a weight-loss program. One in six people who try to fight the fat actually stay with their plans over a sustained period, said Anne Mathews, a UF/IFAS assistant professor in food science and human nutrition and a registered dietician.
But there's hope.
"Making any changes can be beneficial," Mathews said. "Making changes can also be difficult. So if you're thinking about making a change in your health behaviors, some of the things we know will help are to get help from a registered dietitian or a doctor, get help from the people around you ─ asking them to help keep you more active. Keep track of what you're doing, such as how often you drink water and eat fruits and vegetables. Plan ahead and problem-solve any foreseen challenges such as a change in schedule. And recognize your successes."
Exercise and diet can help people avoid cardiovascular disease including hypertension – or chronically high blood pressure ─ strokes, atherosclerosis and heart attacks.
"We are all at risk for cardiovascular disease," Mathews said.
Aging is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease. It doesn't help if you're inactive or otherwise gain weight, she said.
About a third of adults die of cardiovascular disease, Mathews said. Men develop such diseases at earlier age than women, but after age 60, the chances are equal. Estrogen protects women until menopause. Then women's chances increase.
Women should be careful about heart attack signs. They might think they have heartburn or acid reflux when they're really having a heart attack, Mathews said. Men are more likely to experience a sharp chest pain and shortness of breath.
Mathews endorses the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension – or DASH diet – developed at to help combat high blood pressure. The diet encourages consuming at least seven servings of fruits and vegetables a day, two to three servings of low-fat dairy foods and plenty of nuts and fish.
"That pattern has been shown to be very effective at reducing blood pressure," she said.
Mathews also strongly cautions people not to smoke as it increases your chances for cardiovascular diseases.
Cardiovascular diseases not only limit Americans' lifespans, they cost a lot of money: Mathews quoted a projected figure published in 2013 in the journal Circulation that estimates the US will spend $900 billion in 2015 in direct and indirect costs for treating cardiovascular diseases.
For more information, visit http://solutionsforyourlife.ufl.edu/hot_topics/families_and_consumers/heart_health.html and https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/he695.
Cutline: Thirty minutes of exercise daily is a key to maintaining a healthy heart, said Anne Mathews, an assistant professor of food science and human nutrition and a registered dietitian at UF/IFAS. Eating plenty of fruits and vegetables is another key.
Credit: UF/IFAS file photo
By Brad Buck, 352-294-3303, bradbuck@ufl.edu
Source: Anne Mathews, 352-392-1991, anne.mathews@ufl.edu
by Brad Buck
Posted: February 6, 2015
Category: Health & Nutrition, UF/IFAS, WORK & LIFE
Tags: Food Science and Human Nutrition
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A senior public relations specialist for UF/IFAS Communications, Brad is a huge Gator fan. He grew up in Gainesville, loves movies, sports and finding great stories to tell.
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Q: Rolle's theorem, such that $f'(c)=2c$ We have that the function $f: \mathbb R \xrightarrow{}\mathbb R$ is differentiable and satisfies $f(0)=0$ and $f(1)=1$.
I need to use Rolle's Theorem to show that there exits $c\in(0,1)$ such that $f'(c)=2c$.
I am unsure how to proceed considering we do not have $f(a)=f(b)$.

A: Consider $g(x)=f(x)-x^2$. We know that $g(0)=g(1)$ and the question is now equivalent to finding $x$ such that $$f'(c)=2c\iff g'(c)=0,$$ which is of course just Rolle's.

A: Let $$g(x)=f(x)-x^2 \implies g(0)=0, g(1)=0$$
Apply, Rolle's Th. on $g(x)$ this means $g'(c)=f'(c)-2c=0$ where $c\in(0,1).$


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Lai Ming Wong, 81, of Honolulu died. She was born in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China. She is survived by sons Alan and Eric, daughter Winnie and four grandchildren. Visitation: 10:30 a.m.-noon Monday at Nuuanu Memorial Park & Mortuary. Private burial.


A friend of mine gave me one stem to try to see if I liked them, because I never used shrooms before.
A friend of mine gave me one stem to try to see if I liked them, because I never used shrooms before. So one day after typing a paper for class, I ate the stem at like 11 a.m. After about 10 to 15 minutes, I began to feel weird. My body felt like there were waves going through it. So, I went back to the computer lab to e-mail a friend when I began to smile uncontrollably and to giggle to myself. After I got off the computer, I proceeded to turn in my paper to my professor. It was so funny. I was laughing when I went to her office and could not keep a straight face. She asked me if I was okay and I giggled and handed her the paper and left. Lucky for me it was the end of the semester. -The trip was very light. I could see the ground moving slowly, it's hard to explain. It was really windy that day so it felt as if I was just rolling down the street. It was a great glimpse of what a trip would be like.


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First floor apartments have own small land plots. Balconies and terraces to the South side. Staircase area, living area and storage rooms located in the northern part of the building. Cost per parking space: 20,000 euros. Apartments are offered for sale without finishing ("grey" finishing).
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Spaghetti Bolognese is all up for side projects. A few months back I met Kyrstie from A Fresh Legacy at a blogging community event. We started talking about our blogs (naturally), and I was fascinated by her vegetable garden and the fresh produce she grows with her own hands, and she in my bolognese concept.
I ate and rated her spag bol. My review has been posted on her blog – find out what I scored it here.
A big thank you to Kyrstie for allowing Spaghetti Blogenese to review and critique her food and post it on her blog.
Note: This was not a restaurant review, rather a guest blogging project on Kyrstie's blog, therefore it is not in the running for Melbourne's best spag bol. However, Kyrstie will be handing in her spag bol for the home taste-testing competition on April 21st. Find out how you can submit yours too here.
Thanks for visiting A Fresh Legacy! It was an honor to have you do a guest post, and of course taste and review my family recipe. It was a little nerve wracking to have someone judge my cooking, but lots of fun.
I am going to be practicing, practicing, practicing and doing a tiny bit of tweaking of my recipe for the home made taste-test competition In April.