If you're
out of practice when it comes to writing, revisit some old tips from high school in this blog post.
Although you're a pro when it comes to stocking up on new clothes and school supplies, you may be a little bit
out of practice when it comes to getting everyone out of the door and off to school in an orderly fashion.
Not exact matches
Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles
of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion
of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke
of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow
of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack
of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number
of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations
of allegations by former members concerning the
practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership
of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic
of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record
of far more serious transgressions; a look at the
practices and values
of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent
when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy
of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots
of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many
of America's public schools; an early exploration
of deceptive
practices by the credit card industry; a study
of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one
of the world's last substantial rain forests.
There are lots
of ways to
practice gratitude, from keeping a journal
of things you're grateful for, sharing three good things that happen each day with a friend or your partner, and going
out of your way to show gratitude
when others help you.
Without a bit
of practice, you could flounder or leave
out important details
when you give your pitch for real.
But as I watched these professionals on stage pouring
out a performance that had hundreds
of hours
of practice behind it, I began to think about who they might have been
when they were little, and the thought
of dancing for a career entered their heart.
But an odd thing that may have informed US Dietary Guidelines
when these recommendations came
out is the strange
practice of studying cholesterol in rabbits, which are — surprise!
When speaking with my own clients who are aspiring or
practicing content creators, I always help them boil down their niche as a creator by having them fill
out the following statement: «I want to become the go - to authority on [insert your niche here] on [insert your social media platforms
of choice here].»
As Jerry Brown, associate partner in PricewaterhouseCooper's consulting
practice, recalls, «I saw a presentation given by one
of the major studios where they pointed
out that
when they sold a [game] for a console they expected to collect $ 50 per consumer and that was it.
«
When we first started Open Book we failed to meet or beat the financial plan for the period more than once, so the team started
out failing,» says John Fischer, founder
of StickerGiant, a company that
practices Open Book Management.
Spending upwards
of $ 800 on shoes that improve with age, can easily be revived
when normal wear and tear occurs and will never go
out style isn't merely sensible — it's good business
practice.
It also eliminates the liability and unexpected expense
of paying
out accrued and unused vacation days
when employees leave (if you're among the companies that follow this
practice).
«These
practices would stand in stark contrast to forced performance distributions that demand pre-set percentages
of «worst employees» and up - or -
out promotion systems that require employees to be fired even
when the team is functioning well,» they wrote.
[01:10] Introduction [02:45] James welcomes Tony to the podcast [03:35] Tony's leap year birthday [04:15] Unshakeable delivers the specific facts you need to know [04:45] What James learned from Unshakeable [05:25] Most people panic
when the stock market drops [05:45] Getting rid
of your fear
of investing [06:15] Last January was the worst opening, but it was a correction [06:45] You are losing money
when you sell on corrections [06:55] Bear markets come every 5 years on average [07:10] The greatest opportunity for a millennial [07:40] Waiting for corrections to invest [08:05] Warren Buffet's advice for investors [08:55] If you miss the top 10 trading days a year... [09:25] Three different investor scenarios over a 20 year period [10:40] The best trading days come after the worst [11:45] Investing in the current world [12:05] What Clinton and Bush think
of the current situation [12:45] The office is far bigger than the occupant [13:35] Information helps reduce fear [14:25] James's story
of the billionaire upset over another's wealth [14:45] What money really is [15:05] The story
of Adolphe Merkle [16:05] The story
of Chuck Feeney [16:55] The importance
of the right mindset [17:15] What fuels Tony [19:15] Find something you care about more than yourself [20:25] Make your mission to surround yourself with the right people [21:25] Suffering made Tony hungry for more [23:25] By feeding his mind, Tony found strength [24:15] Great ideas don't interrupt you, you have to pursue them [25:05] Never - ending hunger is what matters [25:25] Richard Branson is the epitome
of hunger and drive [25:40] Hunger is the common denominator [26:30] What you can do starting right now [26:55] Success leaves clues [28:10] What it means to take massive action [28:30] Taking action commits you to following through [29:40] If you do nothing you'll learn nothing [30:20] There must be an emotional purpose behind what you're doing [30:40] How does Tony ignite creativity in his own life [32:00] «How is not as important as «why» [32:40] What and why unleash the psyche [33:25] Breaking the habit
of focusing on «how» [35:50] Deep
Practice [35:10] Your desired outcome will determine your action [36:00] The difference between «what» and «why» [37:00] Learning how to chunk and group [37:40] Don't mistake movement for achievement [38:30] Tony doesn't negotiate with his mind [39:30] Change your thoughts and change your biochemistry [40:00] The bad habit
of being stressed [40:40] Beautiful and suffering states [41:50] The most important decision is to live in a beautiful state no matter what [42:40] Consciously decide to take yourself
out of suffering [43:40] Focus on appreciation, joy and love [44:30] Step
out of suffering and find the solution [45:00] Dealing with mercury poisoning [45:40] Tony's process for stepping
out of suffering [46:10] Stop identifying with thoughts — they aren't yours [47:40] Trade your expectations for appreciation [50:00] The key to life — gratitude [51:40] What is freedom for you?
While there is a tremendous amount
of link building strategies and ideas
out there for webmasters and marketers to learn and
practice, I find that the management and documentation
of your link building initiatives is just as important
when crafting a complete SEO strategy.
Similar disputes often arise
when healthcare organizations attempt to scrutinize the security
practices of their vendors, some security experts point
out.
14 %
of respondents believe that insider trading
practices in the alternative investment industry have become less prevalent since the FBI arrested Raj Rajaratnam and scared the bejeezus
out of everyone, a noticeable drop from January 2016
when 25 %
of respondents felt this way; 37 %
of respondents think the news
of arrests and convictions there has had little impact on insider trading because those who engage in such
practices think they are smarter than everyone else and will never get caught, compared with 39 %
of respondents in 2016; and 49 %
of respondents believe the influx
of money into funds in recent years and the explosion in the number
of hedge fund firms has put enough pressure on fund managers that there will always be a few desperate enough to try anything, including insider trading, a significant increase from the 36 %
of respondents who felt this way in the Roundtable's previous survey on this topic.
Well it is true that some people seek sorcerers to implement Jinn that are satanic demons into mankind or his house or his business to finish him or make his life miserable or to stop flow
of his business income... In such case it is either you are religious enough and say your prayers often then it becomes hard for this to harm you or otherwise you need to find some one who
practice exorcism to remove this evil... But many are just pretending to be good at it and help you not but squeeze money
out of you with tales and stories... There is another type
of possessions and that is not through a sorcerer but directly by coincidence what man is at his weakest moments and those weakest moments for a possessions are
when you come through a great fear or
when cry or laugh loudly in hysteria, or during a certain moment
of mating... or even
when sneezing loudly... That's why there are prayers to be said on daily basis to guard you from such things and specially if passing haunted places such as deserted houses but most evil ones are residents
of public toilets and market places... Some
of them even would claim that you have made a wrong action by which you have killed a dear one to them and for that they have possessed you and that is mostly night time such as throwing a cigaret butt to a dark place or stepping killing an insect or even an animal at night which could have been one
of them or possessed by one
of them... So this is true thing happening to many who suffer unexplainable illnesses or sufferings which could look like mental illness that comes and goes as pleased...
Spin it how you will, religion constantly gets a free pass in this country and
when its ever called
out for its discriminatory
practices and beliefs it claims religion has the right to discriminate based on those beliefs... but everybody else doesn't have the right to even make the accusation that religion is getting all kinds
of special rights allowing them to justify their own discrimination.
People have the right to leave church and organized religion, they have a right to question an institution that will do anything to save face even if it means letting children be harmed (and trust me, there are Priests that have issues with girls - my mom
when to an all girls» Catholic school in the 60s and talks about how many
of the priests used to «hang
out» with the young girls
out and girls have been abused), churches that are not
practicing social justice.
(With our son, I was glad for this
practice: we had a particular name that we intended for him but
when he was born, we took one look at him and knew that he didn't belong with that name: his name was Joe as surely as if he had come
out of the womb with a nametag and that was that.)
When the
practicing Christian talks to modern man about the «Law
of God,» the «Teaching
of the Church,» or invokes the authority
of Holy Scripture, he is to his own mind bringing
out the heaviest weapons in his armory.
When we see that the gospel contains a whole host
of truths and doctrines to believe and teach and also a broad spectrum
of behaviors to
practice and obey, those who believe Christians should be listening to more sermons and attending more Bible studies can nod and smile toward those who prefer to be
out feeding the poor and tending the sick, and vice versa.
When Joseph decided to apply the law in this way, it was a fragile act
of interpretation and one that would not be easy to carry
out in
practice, since «secrets will
out.»
Even
when I was a believing and
practicing Christian, I realized that regardless
of their beliefs, doctors still saved lives, made discoveries, scientists still learned more about the world we live in... the idea that all knowledge has to be attached to the «creator» or it is somehow tainted or suspect, just doesn't pan
out when you look at it logically.
This
practice ended in the 1950s
when they ran
out of copies.
Then,
when we actually moved to the South, we experienced the cognitive dissonance
of being assumed to be part
of the irresistible evangelical mainstream while
practicing a form
of Baptist life that eventually got our church kicked
out of the denomination.
I do not think I am exaggerating
when I say that nine
out of ten
practicing Christians feel that man's work is always at the level
of a «spiritual encumbrance.»
The start
of the Passover holiday was then,
when the Jews came
out of Egypt, as they had to bake bread which turned into matza and other
practices which began exactly at that time, and continued each year thereafter, with the parents telling their children about
when they came
out of Egypt.
23
When my angel goes in front
of you, and brings you to the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, and I blot them
out, 24you shall not bow down to their gods, or worship them, or follow their
practices, but you shall utterly demolish them and break their pillars in pieces.
James A. Sherer points
out that the Nairobi Assembly met at a time
when the Churches
of Africa, the Orthodox theologians, the Evangelical world and the Roman bishops were all giving attention to the meaning and
practice of evangelism.
The process
of draining logic and meaning from everything came to full fruition in the 1960s and 1970s,
when it began to be felt profoundly in the daily lives
of many Americans, with such things as the proliferation
of «alternative lifestyles,» the diluting or jettisoning
of academic standards at every level, the increasing inability
of the legal system to make in
practice sufficient or consistent distinctions between victim and victimizer — among many others too familiar to all
of us to need spelling
out.
When everyone presents a respectful uniform appearance it prevents anyone from being singled
out as atheists or followers
of religions less
practiced in America.
Reach
out to LGBTQ at your place
of worship and extend the hand
of fellowship, letting them know that they are bound for glory
when they unequivocally reject gay coitus and
practice celibacy.
Though it may not appear that this is what you are doing, it is what you are doing
when you keep Kosher, the commandments, and
practice all the ins and
outs of your faith.
In the face
of potentially contentious and disrupting cultural differences, theorists and practitioners adopted inclusive accommodation as a strategy to neutralize the likelihood
of conflict, since
when put into
practice, cultural inclusion means that no one's interests are neglected, no one is left
out, and, therefore, no one is slighted, snubbed, or offended.
When Christians» worship is understood in this fashion as a «
practice» (in the somewhat technical sense
of «
practice» we have adopted), then James Hopewell's description
of a congregation turns
out to be unusually fruitful: «A congregation is a group that possesses a special name and recognized members who assemble regularly to celebrate a more universally
practiced worship but who communicate with each other sufficiently to develop intrinsic patterns
of conduct, outlook, and story.»
When here and there in draft decrees
of the Council stress was laid on this role
of conscience as irreplaceable even in
practice, anxious voices could be heard in the aula, pointing
out in alarm that in earlier days the Church used to lay down clear and unmistakable norms, whereas now even at the Council appeal was being made to the individual conscience, so running the risk
of slipping down into an arbitrary, subjective situation ethics.
But
when I proposed that there may be many unchurched people
out there who are unwilling or afraid to enter a church building because
of unfamiliar
practices and forms
of worship, the students sat up and took notice.
The problem arises
when religious
practices and doctrines that are intended to bring life and health to the spirit and community become barriers to reaching
out to others with the love, justice and mercy
of God — or
when «human traditions» are substituted for «the commandment
of God.»
Abandonment is destructive and
when we resort to such a
practice we're
out of step with the Spirit (Gal 5:16 - 26).
But it can be helpful to reintroduce these disciplines into your life
when you're ready,
when they can be
practiced out of love and commitment to Christ rather than guilt.
Americans fell
out of the
practice of donating money
when the economy was at its lowest ebb, and they failed to pick it back up.
When push comes to shove, is this debate really about the symbolic denigration
of a religious
practice, or is the worry that once some parents find
out about the risks, they'll reject received dogma and discard the
practice?
I am inclined to believe also that some
of the Christians who condone and
practice ultraviolence do so
out of frustration;
when faced by ultraviolent opponents, they see no possible response other than ultraviolence.
I agree these shouldn't need gums, and really like your «trick»
of adding a little extra egg — I added guar gum to mine
out of habit, but I really need to get into the
practice of only adding it
when I know it is necessary.
By and large, the popular opinion is that though the theory
of salt drawing
out moisture and creating a steaming effect
when added prior to roasting sounds reasonable, most feel that in
practice the outcome doesn't justify the concern.
When I spoke with Matthew the next morning discussing the best fire practices for our living space, what to do, when to stop and get out of there, etc that he said «You should do a post about this&raq
When I spoke with Matthew the next morning discussing the best fire
practices for our living space, what to do,
when to stop and get out of there, etc that he said «You should do a post about this&raq
when to stop and get
out of there, etc that he said «You should do a post about this».
When I'm in a funk, I find
practicing gratitude is the best way to get
out of it.
Tim Hortons» announcement comes at a time
when the Canadian pork industry is reviewing and revising its Codes
of Practice and considering a nationwide phase -
out of gestation crates.