Use simple vases, fairy lights, and flowers to give a minimalist yet budget-friendly makeover to your decor

MetroPlus speaks to artists who make ornaments, flowers, candles, figurines, coasters and more for the season.

Design principles and precautionary measures for a resilient home

I bet you’re wondering why I’ve taken you to the softly-lit terrace of this 5-star restaurant at sunset, and hired this string quartet to play while we eat… With this Annual Hosting Plan, you’ll get a free .com domain, and a free webmail account. Plus, you’ll get the best hosting support you’ve ever experienced, and […]

Halloween is still more than a month away, but it’s never too early to start getting ready for the spooky season. If you’re in the mood for some new DIY projects, Aurelie Erikson’s Instagram page is a great source of inspiration, and she’ll help you get ready for the spookiest holiday of the year. Erikson […]

It feels like just yesterday Google announced its plan to phase out the third-party cookie and sent the entire advertising industry into a tailspin.

Frederica Mathewes-Green shares reflections about the Annunciation on the weekend of the Feast of the Holy Cross.

Rita Madden encourages us to prepare our lives for the journey of Great Lent by working for the healing of the whole earth.

On this Sunday of Zacchaeus, Fr. Andrew connects the entrance of Christ into Zacchaeus's house with His visitation in the tradition of home blessings.

Fr. Anthony interviews Fr. Geoffrey about the Orthodox School of Theology at Trinity College (trinityorthodox.ca) and how it trains Orthodox Christian clergy, theologians, teachers, and other co-workers of God to serve. Because of its relationship with the University of Toronto, other local seminaries, and Holy Myrrhbearers Orthodox Mission, it is able to combine serious academic, theological, and practical education. Fr. Geoffrey has a wonderful perspective on ministry that I am sure you will love. Enjoy the show!

Many clergy report an increase in people visiting our parishes. This wave is unique in Church history because these inquirers have primarily, perhaps even exclusively, learned about Orthodoxy on the internet. The growing number of internet evangelists can be a great blessing if that work leads people to immerse themselves in the life of an Orthodox parish. But we need to be ready and able to serve these inquirers well. Are we? In this episode, Steve Christoforou describes how a healthy parish can build upon the work internet evangelists have done while making up for the deficiencies of the on-line experience. As a veteran internet evangelist (e.g. through Be the Bee, We Are Orthodoxy, Pop Culture Coffee Hour) and the Director of Youth & Young Adult Ministries (Y2AM), Steven brings a wealth of insight to this critical and often misunderstood topic. In the episode, Steve shares the five needs of young people which are further explored in Y2AM’s online ministry training course, Effective Christian Ministry. Listers can use the code GGWB at checkout to register for 50% off. EffectiveChristianMinistry.org Enjoy the show!

This week, the guys read the 2011 novel Ready Player One. The book, itself an homage to video games and the 80s, prompted discussions of human personhood, the journey of the spiritual life, and how love can pierce through our obsession with the illusory. They close with their Top 5 Classic Video Games.

Fr. Ted reminds us that Christ comes to those who are in the direst need and at the most humble moment of their lives.

Fr. Gregory speaks about the feast of the Entry of the Theotokos into the Temple.

Deacon Emmanuel Kahn is the preacher today and says "Great Lent doesn’t begin for another three weeks until Sunday evening, February 22nd. However, I think the tax collector in the Gospel we have just heard from Chapter 18 of St. Luke has some important advice for each of us, whatever our ages, about how we can prepare for Great Lent."

Fr. Gregory Hallam - Sunday, December 16, 2018.

Bobby Maddex interviews Dn. Gregory Ealy, the music director at St. Mary’s Orthodox Cathedral in Minneapolis, Minnesota, about a new CD by the cathedral choir titled Make Ready, O Bethlehem: Orthodox Hymns for Christmas. Dn. Gregory also talks about an upcoming benefit concert for St. Vladimir's Seminary.

While imprisoned in Caesarea, St. Paul, influenced by the medical expertise of his companion Luke, contemplates the armor of the soldier guarding him.

Preaching from Romans 13, Fr. Pat looks at what Paul has to say about the political, social, and economic life of the Christian in the world.

A cloud IVR (interactive voice response) system is a call center solution that combines automated voice prompts with integrated features like payment systems and access to live agents. As cloud computing has moved from niche to mainstream, most IVR operations have followed suit by migrating from on-premises to cloud-based solutions.  […]

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Oban Elliott is ready to realise his lifelong dream of fighting at Madison Square Garden at UFC 309

Mack Hansen says Ireland will ignore "outside noise" in the build-up facing Argentina after their defeat to the All Blacks

Project work forms a large part in work undertaken by graduates when they enter the workforce, so projects are used in higher education to prepare students for their working lives and to enable students to apply creativity in their studies as they present a solution to a problem, using technical skills they have learned in different units of study. Projects, both at work and in higher education, may be completed in teams, thus providing experience and the opportunity to develop team working skills. The team projects presented in this paper have been provided by external organisations, so that students work in a team on a real life problem, but with the support of their tutors, in the university setting. In this way the projects more closely resemble the sorts of problems they might encounter in the workplace, giving an experience that cannot be gained by working on tutor devised problems, because the teams have to communicate with an external client to analyse and solve an authentic problem. Over the three years that the Live Projects have been running, feedback indicates that the students gain employability skills from the projects, and the organisations involved develop links with the university and benefit from output from the projects. A number of suggestions for improving the administration of the Live Projects were suggested, such as providing clients with information on timescales and providing students with more guidance on managing the projects.

Drawing on expectancy violation theory, we explore the effects of anticipatory impression management in the context of acquisitions. We introduce impression offsetting, an anticipatory impression management technique organizational leaders employ when they expect a focal event will negatively violate the expectations of external stakeholders. Accordingly, in these situations, organizational leaders will announce the focal event contemporaneously with positive, but unrelated information. We predict impression offsetting will generally occur in the context of acquisitions, but also more frequently for specific acquiring firms and acquisitions that are more likely to lead to an expectancy violation. We also posit that offsetting will effectively inhibit observers' perceptions of events as negative expectancy violations by positively influencing shareholder reactions to acquisition announcements. Consistent with our hypotheses, in a sample of publicly traded acquisition targets, we find evidence for impression offsetting, in which characteristics of both acquirers and their announced acquisitions predict its frequency of use. We also find evidence that impression offsetting is efficacious; on average, it reduces the negative market reaction to acquisition announcements by over 40 percent, which translates into approximately $246 million in market capitalization.

Both flirt with a problematic undercurrent - one that glosses over, if not romanticises, domestic violence

Tommy Hilfiger set sail on a decommissioned ferry and delivered a show that was all style and swagger!

Around 40 mobile chatbot robots offering support in 25 different languages are being prepared for the IDEAS exhibition

The movie seems like an intense, gripping thriller with a determined female protagonist

People Get Ready is part of our Top New Christian Music Library.

Ratings were dismal, and nothing Shertenlieb did with the program since launching in May suggested it was going to get better.

The post The reasons for Rich Shertenlieb’s show already getting the axe at WZLX are not complicated appeared first on Boston.com.

The Boston Red Sox have lost two of their three catchers to free agency this offseason. Reese McGuire and Danny Jansen will hit the market, and the Red Sox aren't expected to sign them back because the organization can do better. Boston's top catching prospect, Kyle Teel, may not be major-league-ready out of spring training. Like Jansen and McGuire, the Red Sox also need to hit the catching market.

Brexit remains steeped in uncertainty as the clock runs down. Emily Burt explores the practical steps charity leaders can take to support and prepare their EU staff

Associated Builders and Contractors participated on Sept. 18 in a White House-sponsored roundtable discussion, “Recovery in the Workplace: Investing to Build the Workforce of Tomorrow,” which convened more than a dozen leading corporations, business groups and government leaders at the White House in Washington, D.C., to highlight the importance of recovery-ready and recovery-friendly workplaces and share best practices.

Minneapolis — The Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry has published a template, instructions and checklist guidelines for a COVID-19 preparedness plan – a requirement for nonessential businesses that intend to reopen during the pandemic.

New York — Fewer than 3 out of 10 employees who are working remotely amid the COVID-19 pandemic expect to return to their physical workplace by the end of the year, and some groups feel more pressure than others to do so, results of a recent survey suggest.

Washington — OSHA has released a draft of its proposed rule on heat illness prevention.

Today, DMP released its new line of alarm communication radios that are FirstNet Ready and approved for use on FirstNet.

DMP has released its XT30 and XT50 alarm panels that are approved FirstNet Ready. 

In recent years, open standards have been instrumental in helping manufacturers innovate, reduce costs and improve quality in a highly competitive international marketplace.

AVS-01 standardizes a classification metric for unauthorized human activity detected by alarm systems, helping law enforcement allocate resources and response prioritization. 

Washington — Although still navigating the federal onboarding process since her Dec. 13 Senate confirmation, Chemical Safety Board member-in-waiting Catherine J.K. Sandoval spoke during the agency’s Jan. 26 public business meeting.

Washington — The 10th annual National Safety Stand-Down to Prevent Falls in Construction is fast approaching, and employers nationwide are being encouraged to host an event.

While physical security departments understand the need to manage and protect their IP-based devices, they often face a number of challenges.