Dear Friends and Supporters of the LA Wireless Golf Open,
On behalf of the Board of Directors and Officers of the LA Wireless Association (LWA), we appreciate your constant support and interest in our organization and projects. We’ve tried to represent a unified voice for the members of the LA wireless industry. We also have hosted the annual LA Wireless Golf Open to foster relationships within our membership as well as with local communities, but we are sorry to report some disappointing news. After careful consideration of the local damage caused by the recent floods, we have decided to postpone the 21st Annual LA Wireless Golf Open until November 2022. We will announce the exact date at a later time. This also includes our other outdoor events we have planned. We will continue to monitor the status of the flooding, and we hope to host some social events later in the year if possible. Thank you again for your continued support and understanding of this very unfortunate situation. We wish all of you the best of health.
The day of my first exam came. After I had completed the test, I left the class feeling worried not knowing if I had passed or failed it. I went back to my dorm room to review my notes to see if I had the right answers to the questions that I could remember from the test. I couldn’t sit still or calm my mind, but at some point, I decided to just wait until I received my grade. About two days later, my science professor handed out our graded exams so we could go over them. I sat there very anxious as he made his way to my desk and flipped my graded exam face down. I slowly turned it over to see my result. A seventy-six was circled, in red ink, in the upper right hand corner of my exam. I felt the world had just been lifted off my shoulders. This score may have been disappointing news to most students, but it was exciting news to me. I could feel a surge of joy within me convincing me that I could do it. I could make it in college as long as I stay focused and prepared.
New business model ideas are most likely to be found in unusual places and by unusual suspects. The best ideas and value-creating opportunities are in the gray areas between silos, disciplines, and sectors. It is essential to get out more. Stop going to all the usual trade shows where you will only hear the same ideas from the same industry participants year after year. Start hanging out at the edge, going to events that gather the unusual suspects from industries and sectors that you would not normally interact with. You might learn something new there. You might collide with someone who is in a completely different environment but trying something new that may just be the idea that will spark an entirely new business model approach. One of the most important business innovation activities is to take the organization out to the edges to explore new sources of knowledge and experience that can trigger ideas that would not have come through interacting with just the usual suspects.
In academic writing it is extremely important that one is able to “strike just the right tone”—writers who are too assertive when interpreting their own research results can be seen as arrogant. But not being assertive enough does not help the marketing of the research. Young beginner writers in particular will need some guidance in selecting the right value level for their messages. They must be taught how to move smoothly and in a contextually appropriate way from subjective to objective meaning making in both spoken and written texts. Language editors and revisers must be trained to see modal verbs and adverbs as grammatical realizations of interpersonal meaning potential that can systematically be used to shape the text—sometimes more intensively, coloring it fully, sometimes merely touching with “the paint brush of probability”.
* modal verb 조동사
→ stating the text’s message in a strong and confident manner
Unfortunately, the compartmentalization of our postindustrial society has tempted many of us into thinking that our minds are similarly compartmentalized. If we want to convey some knowledge, we offer our children facts. If we want to teach loving, we simply say “I love you” or hug. Just as most of us run into a store to purchase a shirt and no longer remember how to grow the flax, pick it, spin it into thread, weave it into linen fabric, and then sew it into a piece of clothing, we’ve forgotten that building a creative, healthy mind in our children isn’t a process of one-stop shopping for supercharged “educational” experiences. Just as the linen shirt on your back has its roots in a flax seed planted in the soil, so does your child’s personality grow out of the nurturing matrix of your interactions with him.
* compartmentalization 구획화 ** flax 아마(亞麻) *** matrix 모체, 기반
Certainty, like permanence and immortality, is one of those conditions we long for despite a great deal of evidence to the contrary. Certainty often confers control. And we badly want control in this strange cosmos we find ourselves in. In his classic study The Golden Bough, anthropologist James George Frazer discusses how primitive people developed magic so that they could control a world filled with the uncertainties of lightning and storms and vicious animals. The Bantus in Botswana burn the stomach of an ox in the evening because they think the black smoke will gather the clouds and cause the rain to come. Certainty offers us safety, stability, reliability, predictability, rules for behavior. If I am completely certain that it is unethical to harm other people’s careers in order to advance my own, that certainty provides a clear and constant guide for how to conduct my professional life. Augustine’s absolute certainty about theological and ethical matters may well have been an extension of a psychological and physical desire for certainty.
A mirror—a very hard, shiny material object, sharp enough to cut your fingers if shattered—is probably the first object purposely made for image capture. Its surface is made smooth and shiny so that it could reflect as well as clear still water does, and yet be more portable and convenient. The use of mirrors allowed images to be distorted and manipulated in significant ways, and is well known to us as a tool of deception. This is similar to the ‘smoke and mirrors’ effects that a magician conjures up to mislead his audience and fool them into paying attention to the things he wants them to notice, as opposed to those things he wants to sneak past them unnoticed. It could be argued that mirrors created the first virtual reality—a reality flattened into two dimensions but changeable, shifting with the quality of the light and reflecting back something which resembles the real but is not itself real.
Formerly known as the sparrow hawk, the kestrel is the most common of Arizona raptors. Some kestrels make year-round homes in Arizona; others are only visitors. Females have first choice on wintering territory; the smaller male takes what’s left! The residents lay 3 to 5 spotted white eggs in a hole in a tree. This amazing bird can hover by beating its wings extremely fast. Distinguished by its pretty black and white facial pattern, with a black mustache, black marks behind its ears and a black strip on its tail, the kestrel has buff underparts. Its back, tail and crown are reddish-brown and darker on the female than the male. The male’s wings are gray-blue. This lover of prairie, desert, and farmland exists on a diet of grasshoppers, snakes and frogs.
The graph above shows Americans’ adaptability to teleworking after the coronavirus outbreak. A majority (86%) of teleworkers say, since the coronavirus outbreak started, it has been easy for them to have the technology/equipment they need to do their job. When it comes to their ability to meet deadlines and complete projects on time, most teleworkers say this has been easy for them, with 43% saying this has been very easy and 37% saying it has been somewhat easy. Having an adequate workspace has also been easy for most teleworkers—47% of teleworkers say this has been very easy, and 31% say it has been somewhat easy. While more than 65% of teleworkers say it has been very or somewhat easy for them to be able to get their work done without interruptions, less than a third say this has been difficult. Similarly, while more than six-in-ten teleworkers say it has been very or somewhat easy for them to feel motivated to do their work, more than three-in-ten say this has been difficult for them.