Fall In Love, Love Deeply - A Beautiful Mess

Lately I've had love on my mind a lot. I think we all do, no? For me, right now I'm thinking a lot about marriage and what that will mean. I just got engaged last week, in case you hadn't heard. :) So yes, I'm thinking a lot about the wedding, how to decorate, what to wear, what to serve, the list goes on and on it seems (!!!!!!!). But I've also been reflecting a lot on Trey's and my relationship and how things have played out. We are one of those couples who nearly didn't get together. We almost didn't start dating, because I was very closed off to the idea. We dated in college, and it had not turned into a positive relationship in my life. I held onto that for years. So this time around I wasn't open to falling in love. But then I took a chance. And, thankfully, it paid off in a big way.

Of course, love isn't always about romance. We all receive and give love in so many different ways to so many different people in our lives. And I think we can all agree we all need love. It's absolutely necessary to having a happy life. Since I have love on the brain these days, I thought today we could discuss a few thoughts on the subject. Here are a few things I feel strongly about, and I'd love to hear your thoughts as well.1. First, you have to love yourself.

We all come from different backgrounds. Some of us grew up in a loving and encouraging family, and some of us didn't. We've probably all had some kind of relationship in our lives that has left us feeling hurt. You can't control your outside circumstances. I wish we could. What you can control is your own choices. It can be hard to love when you feel broken. If you don't come to any relationship (romantic, friendship, family) whole, you end up (1) asking others to fill in the broken pieces or (2) shutting them out completely. You first have to love yourself. Then, you can offer relationships your strengths rather than looking to them to fix your weaknesses. We all have the power to make this decision no matter what hand life has dealt us.

2. Be someone you would love.

It is always easier to blame others. Always. What's hard is looking to yourself and realizing that maybe it's you who needs to change. Before you have amazing relationships you have to be someone you would love. Be the mother you would want. Be the girlfriend you would fall in love with. This is a lifelong process the important people in your life will help you with if you are open to it. Stop focusing on others' shortcomings so much and instead work on yourself.

3. Love deeply.

Don't hold back. Don't hold grudges. Go all in. We've probably all been hurt before, and I'm not saying we should ignore those situations. But. Don't let past hurts prevent you from making new relationships or falling in love. This almost happened to me. I was hurt and felt justified in my unwillingness to forgive even though my circumstances had changed. And this attitude nearly prevented me from meeting my future husband. Don't be afraid to love deeply. It can be scary to depend on anyone. Be open. Be brave.

4. Choose your important relationships.

I truly believe that we should love everyone. An attitude of love to your fellow citizens is a great way to live your life. Can you imagine what the world would be like if everyone did this? However, this does not mean that you should open yourself up to being hurt over and over again. Choose the people who you cultivate important relationships with. If someone has continually been a negative influence in your life, or doesn't treat you the way you deserve, then they should not receive the privilege of being one of your close relationships. Focus on the positive influences in your life. Love them deeply (see point 3).

5. Love is work.

Every important relationship in your life requires attention in order for it to grow. I am so guilty of being that friend who doesn't call back. It is SO easy to get busy with your life, with work or school or whatever you are passionate about and not focus on cultivating the love in your life. I should get dinner with my parents more often. I should get coffee with my sister more (work meetings don't count!). I should find ways to show Trey I love him more often. If you neglect any relationship it will decline over time. I've had many friends over the years that I've sort of drifted apart from simply because I didn't make time for them. Being a giving and loving person takes a lot of intential effort. And that's something that I'm working on this year.

What about you? Any thoughts on love you'd like to share? xo. Emma

Source: http://www.abeautifulmess.com/2013/01/a-life-full-of-love.html

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The Founders' Finance, and Ours | Online Library of Law and Liberty

Jan 3, 2013

by Michael S. Greve / 2 Comments

Filed Under: Gallatin, Hamilton, Thomas McCraw

My recent blogging hiatus was caused by a splendid family vacation in Key West, rendered yet more enjoyable by a chance encounter with our dear friends, Nick and Mary Eberstadt. Our temporary abodes were separated by a single block of Duval Street, occupied by a liquor store, a wonderful French bakery, and a raucous transvestite bar. (Mrs. Eberstadt professed to ?resent these people. Their nail polish is so much better than mine.?) A good time was had by all.

In an approximation of work, I zipped through Thomas K. McCraw?s The Founders and Finance, a magnificent, just-published book on ?How Hamilton, Gallatin, and Other Immigrants Forged a New Economy.? Familiar ground to be sure, but McCraw?arguably the country?s finest business historian?covers it elegantly, judiciously, and with a keen eye for the telling detail. His big detail is the amazing extent to which the nation?s young economy and institutions were shaped by immigrants?Hamilton and Gallatin, but also many others (Robert Morris). The recent arrivals lacked a connection to any particular state; thus, they were predisposed to think on a national, continental scale. And they lacked any deep connection to land and the peculiar institution that in many states went along with it; thus, they were anti-slavery, and they understood the ism in capitalism and its lifeblood, credit. As McCraw acknowledges, you can find non-immigrant Founders with those sensibilities (Gouverneur Morris is a fine example). But the basic point stands, and it?s worth pondering.

McCraw?s Hamilton comes across as the genius that he was. His Jefferson, by contrast, looks like the Joe Biden of his day: a blowhard and false friend of the people who managed to get it wrong on every single question of moment. (McCraw tries to soften the blow: finance, he says, was Hamilton?s strongest suit and Jefferson?s weakest. Well, yes. But then, Jefferson the statesman? fought the Barbary pirates with Hamilton?s Navy, and he bought Louisiana on Hamilton?s constitutional theory and on the credit Hamilton had established.) Beyond that, McCraw?s masterful account reminds one of a few points of current salience:

• To build a financial system meant building institutions (foremost, the Bank), and that in turn meant constitutional construction. Everyone on all sides eagerly mobilized the ?original public meaning? of the Constitution, only to discover that it would carry only so far. Those arguments, moreover, were part of a vituperative, sharply polarized and, over long stretches, closely divided debate. (McCraw records the often razor-thin margins on votes on the Bank, the debt, and internal improvements.) The stuff that we now take for granted and cite, reverently and/or precedentially, as constitutional wisdom easily could have come out the other way. In our current confused debate, it?s good to hold on to all of that at the same time: the Constitution as a lode star; the limits of mere interpretation and the impossibility of a Constitution beyond all politics; and the recognition that the Constitution can survive and, in a real sense, rests on political strife.

• Hamilton?s Bank of the United States was in a sense the forerunner of the Federal Reserve, but McCraw?s account illustrates how far we?ve come, or rather fallen. For starters, the Bank was mostly a private institution. While it operated under a federal charter, Congress supplied a mere twenty percent of its initial capital. Better yet, Hamilton?s initial plan provided that the Bank could lend no more than $50,000 to the federal government. That did not quite hold: in an ingenious swap, the Bank eventually started with $2 million of the bonds with which Hamilton restructured the desolate debt markets. Still, the basic impulse is unmistakable: the Founders wanted the Bank (and by extension the economy) to be run by creditors?including, remarkably, foreign creditors who for long stretches sat on the Bank?s Board. Put differently, they wanted the Bank to perform its useful functions?allow money transfers across the continent, supply liquidity, check state banks through what we now call open market transactions?without having it doing what politically controlled institutions will do: wreck the currency, and finance Congress?s profligate consumption with cheap money. All things considered, that sounds like a good plan.

• McCraw supplies much-needed context and notes several little-known features of Hamilton?s famous?and famously successful?plan to assume the states? debts on top of the feds? and to restructure both. First, Hamilton did an inventory of all the outstanding state and federal debts?no small undertaking, since no one had any idea what junk had been floated here, there, and yonder in the course of the war. (Hamilton came up with about $29 million in debt and $11.4 million in unpaid interest for the feds, and something like $79 for all state and federal debts at par. The actual number may have been closer to $74 million, against less than $2 million in federal revenue at the time.) Hamilton then segregated the foreign debt (about $12 million) and managed to restructure it promptly. And over time, his scheme allowed the country not only to service the debt but to reduce its burden on the economy and the budget. In 1790, Hamilton was staring at a debt-to-revenue ratio of 46:1. By 1794, he had cut it to 15:1; by 1800, the end of the Federalist era, it was something like 8.6. How come? Enhanced federal tax capacity (revenues more than tripled from 1790 to 1794); monstrous chunks of the federal budget (over 80 percent) devoted to debt payments; and above all stupendous economic growth, unleashed by a set of institutions that allowed the country to get to work. Hamilton bet on that, as did the foreign investors. Their huge gamble proved right.

It?s a different world now, in many ways. Still, just as a thought experiment, do the Hamiltonian thing. First, add up all the public debts?not just the ?headline? debt of $16.4 trillion but also intergovernmental debts, agency debts (like Fannie and Freddie), unfunded obligations (which we can always renege on but then, no one forced the great Hamilton to redeem the bad debts at par), and state debts of various kinds: you end up north of $90 trillion, as against less than $3 trillion in federal revenues. (The exact numbers don?t matter; the order of magnitude does.) Not quite Hamilton land yet, but we?re getting there.

Federal receipts are now a much bigger piece of the economy than they were back when, and enhanced federal tax capacity?beyond nickeling and diming ?billionaires??isn?t on the agenda. Little of the cash is available for servicing the debt (forget reducing it): some 40 million Americans insist on their inalienable right to play bingo and visit doctors on someone else?s nickel from age 65 to eternity, and keeping them in shoes consumes more than 40 percent of the budget. That leaves growth as the only means of debt management. Where, pray tell, is it going to come from? And who is going to bet on it?

Maybe we should hand the country over to immigrants, or the IMF.

Source: http://libertylawsite.org/2013/01/03/the-founders-finance-and-ours/

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ICE arrests 245 alleged pedophiles, rescues 44 children

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents announced today they have rescued 44 children from sexual abuse as part of a child pornography investigation that netted 245 arrests over five weeks late last year.

Agents have identified an additional 79 individuals who have been abused as children including 24 victims who now may be adults and are seeking the public's help to identify individuals who are alleged to be sexually abusing young children, with the images posted on the Internet.

"Many times, our investigations into people who possess and trade child pornography reveal new material that points to the ongoing sexual abuse of children. In these cases, our primary objective is to rescue the victim from their horrific situation. And our next step is to arrest and seek prosecution for their abusers," said ICE Director John Morton in a statement.

See photos of the pedophile suspects being sought.

Among those arrested: Bradley Vaine from Fresno, Calif., who was allegedly abusing a 7-year-old girl who suffered from mental disabilities. Also arrested was Samuel Gueydan from Clovis, Calif., who allegedly had over 1.2 million images and 7,000 videos of child pornography on his computer, ICE said.

The investigation was dubbed "Operation Sunflower" to commemorate the anniversary of a case where agents discovered evidence that a child was in imminent danger of being raped by a relative. According to ICE, the tip initially came from Dutch investigators who found Internet postings suggesting the girl was in imminent danger.

Investigators turned up an image of the girl taken in a moving vehicle. The image held a critical clue -- a road sign in the background containing an image of a sunflower. A sharp-eyed agent discovered the sunflower emblem was unique to road signs in Kansas. ICE agents spent several days combing Kansas highways to find the exact spot where the photo was taken. Eventually they traced the location, which led them to the girl, sparing her from being further victimized, the agency said.

As part of "Operation Sunflower" agents have sought a Jane and John Doe warrant for an unknown man and woman who are depicted in a video sexually abusing a young girl who appears to be 13 years old. Agents, who believe the video is about 11 years old, said they want to solve the case to identify the abusers. Jane Doe is believed to be 35 to 45 years old in the video, which depicts her with several tattoos including a butterfly on her right hip and a blade tattoo on her right shoulder along with a curled up cat. Based on forensic analysis, agents believe the abuse occurred in the Los Angeles area, ICE said.

Agents said they are also seeking an unidentified white male with gray and white hair, a full beard and wearing wire-framed eyeglasses, who was sexually abusing a toddler in Internet images. A second suspect being sought by Homeland Security Investigations agents out of Portland, Ore., is a white male with a tattoo on his right tricep who was allegedly sexually abusing a young male child.

ICE's efforts in recent months to identify unknown abusers led to agents arresting two suspects who were allegedly molesting young girls on the internet. Last September, Michael Serapis Freeman and Michelle Lee Freeman turned themselves in to local police in Oregon after a media campaign resulted in tips identifying Michelle Freeman as the Jane Doe suspect.

Last month Corrine Danielle Motley of Okaloosa County, Fla., was arrested and charged with the production and distribution of child pornography. Motley, 25, was arrested by the Northwest Florida Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force members and Homeland Security Investigations special agents.

Calls to the suspects named in this story and emails to their lawyers weren't immediately returned.

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/agents-arrests-245-alleged-pedophiles-163831855--abc-news-topstories.html

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Search Challenge: What?s the Connection Between These Two Places?

I was walking down one of the charming streets of San Francisco last week, I came across an extraordinary building. It was so astonishing, I took this picture.

As you can see in the above image on the left, it's obviously a building of Victorian vintage, but with a rather unexpected set of roof-top ornaments! I was struck by how curious and out-of-place it seemed with its domes and crennelation.

So I took the picture, got online and looked it up. Ah ha! Once I realized what it was, I remembered another picture I had in my files?an archival photo of another famous location here in the Valley with a rather different kind of dome.

Today's question is another simple one. (It is the beginning of the year after all?next week we'll get a little more difficult.)

What is the connection between these two buildings?

(And it's NOT that they both have domes. There's a much more interesting fact that links these buildings.)

For extra credit, can you find the lat/long of the Ashram?

As usual, let us know how long it took you to find out what the connection is, and what path you followed to find it!

Search on!

Wednesday search challenge (1/2/13): What's the connection between these two places? | SearchReSearch

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Daniel M. Russell studies the way people search and research?an anthropologist of search, if you will. You can read more from Russell on his SearchReSearch blog, and stay tuned for his weekly challenges (and answers) here on Lifehacker.

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Befriending the boss a lucrative move | Stuff.co.nz

They are the 1 per cent - but how do you join them?

A new study of how the world's best-paid elite at investment banks, law practices and consulting firms hire new employees has found it is often not the best qualified candidates who get the job.

Instead bosses at elite American firms - when confronted with a dizzying array of candidates from the top universities with the best marks - choose someone they would like to form a friendship with.

Lauren Rivera, from Northwestern University's school of management, found that these elite firms hire people like them.

"Employers sought candidates who were not only competent but also culturally similar to themselves in terms of leisure pursuits, experiences and self-presentation styles," Professor Rivera's research, published in December in the?American Sociological Review, found.

The research, she wrote, was the first systematic and empirical investigation of whether shared culture between employers and job candidates was crucial when hiring.

Professor Rivera conducted 120 detailed interviews with people involved in hiring at top-tier law, consulting and banking firms that pay exceptionally well - with typical law firm entry level salaries ranging from US$175,000 ($209,885) to US$330,000.

She found, after three years of research, that "similarity was the most common mechanism employers used to assess applicants at the job interview stage". One law firm partner told her the company was, when hiring new entry-level associates, "looking for cultural compatibility. Someone who will fit in".

More than half of the 120 people Professor Rivera interviewed rated the candidate's ability to fit in culturally above analytical thinking and communication skills.

Because of the long hours these workers spent on the job, Professor Rivera wrote, "evaluators ... reported wanting to hire individuals who would not only be competent colleagues, but also held the potential to be playmates or even friends".

Evaluators in these high-paying firms also perceived their work was "not rocket science", given the extensive training given to new employees.

The importance of personal interests appeared crucial to elite firms choosing employees.

"Whether someone rock climbs, plays the cello, or enjoys film noir may seem trivial to outsiders, but these leisure pursuits were crucial for assessing whether someone was a cultural fit," Professor Rivera wrote; with so many candidates from prestigious universities, firms needed distinctions to compile interview pools.

One law firm manager said they would be unlikely to hire a graduate who listed lacrosse and squash on their resume, because they wouldn't fit in; another said they could select candidates for interview on those same activities.

Another law firm said they wanted people who lacked personality.

"When I see people who have a lot of activities on their resume?s, or if they seem to have a really strong passion for something outside of work, I'll usually take a pass because it's not going to be a good fit,"' one lawyer said.

- ? Fairfax NZ News

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Source: http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/money/8139773/Befriending-the-boss-a-lucrative-move

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Unpakt Is A Kayak-Style Marketplace For Moving Companies, And Now It?s Launching In 15 Cities

With Unpakt, moving out of your house or apartment doesn't have to be a nightmare. Unpakt lets you browse reputable moving companies, compare prices, and book online. Now it's launching in 15 cities with 100 movers after starting in NYC. Like Kayak plus Yelp, Unpakt could earn juicy referral fees, bring transparency to an industry laden with hidden rates, and make moving easy as booking a flight.

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Hemisphere GPS Board appoints former area resident Rick Heiniger ...

Hemisphere GPS Board appoints former area resident Rick Heiniger as president, CEO

Posted by sabethaherald on Wednesday, January 2, 2013 ? Leave a Comment?

Rick Heiniger stands at the helm of Eliana while underway, navigating the Inside Passage enroute to Glacier Bay, Alaska. Photo courtesy or Rick Heiniger

On Sept. 5, 2012, The Board of Directors of Hemisphere GPS Inc. announced that Rick Heiniger, formerly of the Bern and Fairview areas, would resign his position as Vice Chairman of the Board to accept the appointment as President and Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately.

Heiniger was appointed to lead the thrust to a more profitable, focused, streamlined and market-driven innovation company.

?In November, soon after my appointment was announced, Hemisphere GPS, which is headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, announced a company restructuring that includes moving the headquarters to Hiawatha,? Heiniger said. ?This will result in quite a few immediate jobs for the area, plus we anticipate continued growth. Hemisphere GPS does business worldwide and specializes in many facets of precision agriculture, including positioning, automatic steering, machine automation and cloud based data services.?

With 30 years in senior leadership positions, Heiniger is a high-caliber executive whose strategic, technical and operational skills are complemented by his proven track-record of leadership with successful agricultural technology companies, Hemisphere GPS Chairman Michael Lang said.

?Rick knows the business, the industry and the Company well,? Lang said. ?Rick and our Board are aligned on a clear path forward. We are encouraged that under Rick?s leadership, Hemisphere GPS can return to profitability and provide increased shareholder value.?

?I believe Hemisphere GPS can return to profitability by focusing on three priorities: our core agricultural business, streamlining and simplifying our business, and market-driven innovation for our customers,? Heiniger said. ?We intend to leverage our industry-leading technology and service capabilities to provide our customers with best-in-class solutions, building on the valuable Hemisphere GPS platform. I look forward to working with Hemisphere GPS? strong leadership team and talented employees.?

?The agricultural industry is entering a period of exceptional opportunity,? Heiniger said of the restructuring mandate. ?We?re in the early stages of transformational adoption of high definition production practices. We are a data-driven society, and agriculture is no different. Agronomic specialized data-management and cloud information services, combined with a new generation of connected devices and machines, will not only enable emerging technologies, but will simplify existing workflows and deliver productivity gains for the industry.?

Hemisphere is perfectly positioned to provide advanced technology services to agricultural customers, Heiniger noted.

?To that end, we have launched a new corporate strategy, building on our world-class positioning, guidance and steering solutions to provide seamless integration with cloud computing and information services,? he said. ?This integration will break the barriers that have long challenged the mainstream adoption of precision agriculture. We will be wholly focused on the essential core technologies while at the same time assisting the industry in its adoption.?

Upon high school graduation in 1971, Heiniger attended Kansas State University, where he earned his bachelor of science degree in agricultural technologies management, with a minor in agronomy.

?To this day I haven?t changed my vocational devotion to agriculture,? he said. ?The journey from then until now is a long one of many twists and turns. But to make sense of what is going on now, I should explain that in 2000 we started a division called Outback Guidance focused entirely on precise positioning and driving guidance in the field. Soon, guidance gave way to automated steering, which then led to more machine automation.?

Heiniger, 59, has deep roots in the agricultural industry, both in production services and machinery. Under his leadership, Hemisphere GPS successfully completed the integration of the Outback Guidance?, Satloc and DEL NORTE acquisitions, making Hemisphere GPS a world leader in agricultural positioning guidance and steering. He has been an active board member of Hemisphere GPS since 2005.

?In 2005, I founded Hemisphere GPS by combining Hiawatha-based Outback Guidance with three other entities, Satloc, Precision Products and Del Norte,? Heiniger said. ?Once established, I retired in order to allow professional management to take the reins. Then for six years, my wife Debbie and I pursued a life at sea aboard our boat, Eliana. I wrote a widely followed blog during those years named ?Eliana?s Journal,? which is found at www.eliana76.com.?

?While our life on the water was incredible, I found it impossible to resist returning to the industry I have been a part of for so many years,? Heiniger added. ?When the call came to return, it didn?t take much persuasion, and I started work at the present company headquarters in Calgary. Debbie and I will be moving back to the area soon as the transition happens.?

Heiniger replaced outgoing CEO Steven Koles, who resigned his position from the Board of Directors.

Heiniger is the inventor or co-inventor of more than 20 patents, all leading to greater precision in agriculture. He is a past President of the North American-wide Farm Equipment Manufacturers Association, and is the founder and principal of Bestway Inc., a leading specialty agricultural equipment manufacturer and marketer in the U.S.

Heiniger grew up about six miles south of Bern. The year he was a junior in high school, the family moved from Bern to Fairview, and he graduated from Powhattan in 1971.

?There were five kids in our family. Howard was the oldest, 18 months ahead of me. Then me, my sister Becky, Cliff and the youngest was Lisa,? Heiniger said. ?My father, Wayne Heiniger, and grandfather William were huge inspirations. None of us had to look far to learn the work ethic, because most families around us were the same way. I loved the crops, livestock, dairy and everything else about the farm.?

Heiniger is a Charter Board Director of the GO Project, a not-for-profit organization that is a global orphan ministry that provides holistic care for 3,500 vulnerable children in 13 countries.

Story by Patty Locher, staff writer for The Sabetha Herald

Source: http://sabethaherald.com/2013/01/02/hemisphere-gps-board-appoints-former-area-resident-rick-heiniger-as-president-ceo/

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