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If the church were Christian

If the church were Christian, Jesus would be a model for living, rather than an object of worship.
If the church were Christian, affirming our potential would be more important than condemning our brokenness.
If the church were Christian, reconciliation would be valued over judgment.

Virtual Driving in Virginia

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I'm sitting inside in Fairfax, Virginia, with a hot cup of tea staring at over two feet of snow on the ground.  The snow is falling as fast as ever during this snowstorm, no end in sight.  A snow plow came by at 4:30 this morning and one Chevy 4WD pickup went by an hour ago.

Contributions of $10,000 or more to the McDonnell Inauguration

Be careful where you click

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Haiti - the Love of God

Response to the earthquake ranges from a wave of compassion to Pat Robertson's theological argument that a comparison of the fortunes of the Domincan Republic and Haiti can be explained by a voudou ceremony 200 years ago. Pat has made similar arguments before and it is all too easy to dismiss his rants. In fact, Pat is emblematic of the Prosperity Gospel heard every Sunday in thousands of Christian churches. Can both be right?

Tarvid Engaged to Enhance Functionality and Security of Social Networking Site

In mid-December, I took over responsibility for the social networking site Crossleft.org. After three weeks of frantic activity, the site is approaching some acceptable level of sanity and security.

Tarvid Completes Analysis on Price Elasticity of Health Services

Starting with 30+ monthly reports from 300+ NGO clinics in Bangladesh, I extracted 250,000+ price/quantity observations including 3000 prices changes and almost as many estimates of price elasticity.

This isn't Walmart

Thanks to Joe Green, the people of Spain and our own Mary Lily Nuckolls.

Surprise!

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I had the urge to upgrade to Drupal 6 before Drupal 7 showed up. Also had the urge to get to a minimal, yet functional installation. This is the first cut.

Tarvid Completes Analytical Assistance on Price Elasticity of Health Care Services in Bangladesh

PHP, MySQL, SPSS

Bad computer days - Clonezilla

Most computers come with "recovery" CDs or partitions (separate areas on your hard disk). Often, you can press a "function key" during the "boot" (power up) process and restore your computer to the state when it came out of the box. That is all well and good but all your "personal" data is, dreadful sorry, lost and gone forever. Obviously the first step is to backup your "personal" data.

Personal data can (and should) be stored outside your computer. Fortunately, there are lots of options. Probably the least expensive method is to create DVDs and CDs. The media is cheap and upgrading your computer, inexpensive. Most recent computers come with a CD or DVD burner. If you don't have one, you can buy one on-line for around $30. Installation is not difficult and professional installs cost about $35.

Knowing what to back up requires some thought. The best way of identifying what to back up is to take note of what you use and what you would like to have if you were setting up a new computer. Most computers accumulate lots of "trash" you can live without. It is a judgment call and you are the best person to make that decision.

One popular alternative to burning CDs and DVDs is the USB memory stick or flash drive. 16 gigabyte (9 zeros) devices can be bought on-line from Hong Kong or Taiwan for less than $20. 8 gigabyte devices can be bought in your local "big box" store for about the same price.  If you have a lot of stuff to back up, external terabyte (12 zeros)  drives can be bought for around $100.

Once you are comfortable with the notion of getting back in production on a new (or different) computer, you can (and should) consider what you can do if your computer becomes dysfunctional. Note that you should do this while your computer is still fully functional. Most of the computers we see are far beyond this point. For them, the repair cost is an object lesson. Confident that my readers are provident, I will plunge into a discourse on "partition imaging".

Our hard drives are single physical units. Our operating systems view drives as one or more "logical" units called partitions. The raw physical drive is carved up and each piece is formatted or organized into smaller units that contain our data and programs. Hard disks can be "imaged", but those images can only be restored on the same size or larger hard disk. Partitions are more malleable. They can be de-fragmented and resized (shrunk) such that they can be restored to any partition of adequate size.

De-fragmentation touches areas on your hard disk that would otherwise lie dormant. The goal of any defrag program is to rearrange storage units on a "live" operating system. That means it may run into damaged areas and in the worst case fail leaving your hard disk unusable. Another reason that back up should be your first priority.  Fortunately there is a free defrag tool, Defraggler, available from filehippo.com.

Resizing partitions is no less problematic. Normally the system is "booted" from a "live" CD which leaves the regular hard disk quiescent. Several CD images are available free including SystemRescueCD which has extensive documentation which you will need. Don't forget that Google is your friend - some wisdom can be found here.

If you have made it this far, the final step is Clonezilla. Clonezilla was developed at the National Center for High-Performance Computing in Taiwan. The fancier aspects are intended for use in computer laboratories such as those found in schools and libraries. For most end user applications the live version is adequate. The download is not huge but dial up users may want to prevail on their ISP to provide them a copy. Once you have the "iso", you can burn it to CD with ImgBurn, a free application from filehippo. Step by step instructions are provided.

I spent much of two days making mistakes using the software but I think I am now over the hump. I've imaged two machines and restored one successfully. I now know that partition images are preferable to disk images and how to make my Windows machines talk to Samba on Ubuntu. My wife can now browse her backups in Firefox and Internet Explorer. Best of all, it was all done with "free" Open Source Software..

So why would anybody make this sort of intellectual investment? Simple. The next time someone fouls up your machine, you can restore it in 10 minutes or less absolutely free. No need to fear infections picked by an aggressive surfer (that might be you) and the bill from having us repair your system..

Virginia Websites Down

You have to read through the comments at http://www2.timesdispatch.com/rtd/Business/local/article/DMVV21_20091120... to understand the extent of the problem.

 

Went to renew my registration at http://www.dmv.state.va.us/ and Firefox says - Firefox can't find the server at www.dmv.state.va.us. Now that could be anybody along the chain and I can get that by:

root@helen:~# tracepath 206.113.143.4
1:  208.94.92.222 (208.94.92.222)                          0.207ms pmtu 1500
1:  208.94.92.221 http://www.radford.edu/(208.94.92.221)                         10.470ms
1:  208.94.92.221 (208.94.92.221)                         10.430ms
2:  ge-7-3-204.car2.Atlanta1.Level3.net (4.71.22.157)     35.340ms
3:  ae-1-51.edge4.Atlanta2.Level3.net (4.68.103.14)       35.267ms asymm  4
4:  4.68.62.18 (4.68.62.18)                               36.081ms asymm  5
5:  0.ge-2-2-0.XT2.ATL4.ALTER.NET (152.63.82.106)         35.580ms asymm  6
6:  0.so-7-0-0.CL2.RIC2.ALTER.NET (152.63.32.30)          59.319ms asymm 10
7:  POS7-0.GW2.RIC2.ALTER.NET (152.63.37.229)             56.793ms asymm 10
8:  gw1-covanetmci-oc12.customer.alter.net (157.130.57.78)  57.567ms asymm 12
9:  206.113.135.22 (206.113.135.22)                       59.640ms !H
     Resume: pmtu 1500

I can ask for the IP address:

root@helen:~# dig www.dmv.state.va.us
;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.dmv.state.va.us. 172800 IN A 206.113.143.4

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
state.va.us.  69173 IN NS cnsa.vita.virginia.gov.
state.va.us.  69173 IN NS cnsb.vita.virginia.gov.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
cnsa.vita.virginia.gov. 69178 IN A 166.67.65.169
cnsb.vita.virginia.gov. 69178 IN A 166.67.65.170

And then "ping":

root@helen:~# ping -c1 www.dmv.state.va.us
PING www.dmv.state.va.us (206.113.143.4) 56(84) bytes of data.

--- www.dmv.state.va.us ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 0ms

The tracepath gets close but the question remains "how close?" To shed more light we head over to http://www.robtex.com/ and enter the domain name "dmv.state.va.us".

Chasing the "as" link to http://www.robtex.com/as/as17373.html#graph we find their sole upstream provider is MCI. Radford University - http://www.radford.edu/ is a "peer" but Radford university is "dual homed" meaning that either route should work.

I suspect there is a way of doing this in Microsoft Windows. I'll come up with some sort of prize if anyone posts a workable comment.

Hope they fix it by Monday or Fred will become an illegal vehicle.

Eid al-Adha - عيد الأضحى

"Fear and Trembling" is a meditation on Genesis 22 - the Binding of Issac. "And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of." An old man hears God telling him he wants him to sacrifice his only son simply because God wants it. I found the story creepy then and no less creepy today. But today I understand how profoundly this story plays out today.

Isaac was not Abraham's only son. Abraham had sex with his wife Sarah's mistress Hagar and she gave birth to Ishmael (Genesis 16). Sarah tolerated the relationship until she gave birth to Isaac at which point "all Hell broke loose" and Abraham decided to get rid of his problem (on the advice of God) and took Hagar and Ishmael into the Arabian desert with a few days food, built a small shack and left them to fend for themselves. Legend has it that Hagar ran back and forth in despair. Ishmael stomped his foot upon the ground and water gushed forth. That spring was to be named the Zamzam well. The site of Issac's aborted sacrifice is the Temple Mount. The site of Hagar's exile became Mecca. The Shack became the Kaaba - the site of the Hajj.

16 years ago this day by the Islamic calendar, I was in Dhaka. I was trying to persist in spite of a nasty intestinal infection. My colleague and I gathered a small fund to help the staff at our guest house return home for the celebration. Tens of thousands of live animals had been driven into the city. My closest Bangladeshi friend had just returned from the Hajj and looked at me with a glare that shouted "Infidel!" At the appointed time, every one of the animals was slaughtered. Time to go home.

Religion is at its worst when it divides us. I say to my Muslim friends - Eid Mubarak - عيد مبارك

Marriage - People, Church and State

Marriage is an institution between natural people (humans) hopefully without coercion and with mutual consent. People marry each other. A person who performs a marriage ceremony hopefully also does so without coercion and with the intent of solemnifying the event. The relation between the person performing the ceremony and his "Church" is another matter.

Among other things, law is instituted to provide remedy when promises are broken. To do that, law must have an understanding of how promises are made. That is aided by a "civil contract" between people which the government has some limited interest in regulating.

We have understood the first to be a matter of religion and the second, a matter of state. We have further understood that collusion between church and state is contrary to human welfare but beloved by many. Christians especially should understand the danger. Like Jesus at Nazareth, it is time for Mr. Stupak Chuck Colson to close the book, shut up and sit down.

 

A Walk on Wolf Hill

Several of us have opted for satellite (HughesNet). At $70 per month and up, we look with envy to the ads for DSL at $19.95. LSNet has been participating in the rollout of The Wired Road but there are no access points (APs) around Independence and some of us are constantly searching the horizon for potential sites. One such point is Wolf Hill. There is one tower on Wolf Hill now owned by Verizon and there is hope of EVDO broadband at $60 per month for some of us.

One of LSNet's customers prodded me into looking into what it would take to provide his home with wireless. His neighbor, Cody Wingate, has a HughesNet dish and coincidentally, his family owns the South slope of Wolf Hill up to the ridge line. They also own the sites for the cell tower on Buck Mountain. Cody graciously offered me a tour of his side of Wolf Hill.

One sunny fall morning, Cody drops an invite into my Inbox and a couple of hours later I found myself in the passenger seat of a 1948 Willys heading up the hill behind the Wingate's family home place. It is pretty steep. There are two other routes to the top but the Willys makes it with relative ease.

For people who identify with Independence, the view is significant. West Independence is wide open. Much of Central and Eastern Independence is obscured by trees. In addition to the Wingate family, we would need the cooperation of two adjoining land owners to remove the foliage. The view to the South reveals perhaps 15 homesteads that would have a decent shot.That does not include my location which is another story.

To the North is a clear view of the Big Ridge and possibly the tower at Neuman's Ridge on the western end of Elk Creek Valley. The Eastern horizon if full of possibilities but I don't know that geography yet. North Carolina mountains are visible to the South.

Carrier grade APs and back hauls are expensive. The dream of wireless for everyone depends on lower cost infrastructure. LSNet is exploring Open Mesh and is planning a test in Elk Creek (which does have Wired Road APs). We have several units which are compatible with their ROBIN firmware.

This is going to take many eyes and hands. If you are one of the high speed challenged, you might sign up for an account on this website (approval can take a few hours) and tell us your situation.

Soy, Property and Nathan Bedford Forrest

Those who cling to "the good old days" have little to say of the merits of tenant farming. The property chains of the landlords can be traced to land grants and the "divine right of kings". The tenants were little more than slaves and many had been emancipated only a few generations before. Still the tenants cultivated the land and produced food for millions. They did so with methods which were relatively benign to the land compared with those that replaced them.

With the Civil Rights Movement, the formerly chastened tenant farmers and laborers wanted more of the pie. Now that they had the right to vote and were beginning to use it, their presence in sleepy agricultural communities became a threat to the "establishment".

Coincidentally (but perhaps not accidentally), the US Government participated in the development of mechanized, chemicalized and agribusiness friendly methods. The Mississippi Agricultural Experiment Station was one of those ventures. They came up with species which could be cultivated by machine. Labor was replaced by diesel tractors, fossil fuels and corporate agriculture.

As I walked down the display isles I came across tables of soybean seeds whose species they had developed. The first bin bore the label "Nathan", the second "Bedford" and the third "Forrest" - neither coincidence nor accident.

Ubuntu Karmic Upgrades

There is a natural tension between staying with "old" tested versions with known bugs and limitations and moving on to "new" versions with different bugs and new horizons to probe. There is a further bifurcation in that we use Ubuntu both on our workstations and our servers. Another is the choice to backup and do a fresh install or upgrade the existing installation. We have moved on from our former "bleeding edge syndrome" where we would try out "beta" versions routinely. Now we wait for "released" versions unless pushed by an acute condition. So we upgrade workstations first and test for a few days. Then we upgrade the backup server and watch for another few days. Finally the time comes to upgrade the front line servers. That may happen this week.

I dutifully burned "Karmic" install CDs and inserted the appropriate desktop version. The amd64 version works for most recent AMD machines, the i386 version works for the rest but if you have installed the amd64 version you must upgrade with the amd64 version. Loading the CD on a "Jaunty" machine loads the "package-manager". A smarter choice would be the "upgrade-manager". I ran "upgrade-manager -d" and it seemed to register the CD as a package source but when I clicked "Upgrade", it did it all over the Internet. The moral is don't do that over dialup.

The installation went smoothly with a few nagging "options" where the default was always the best choice. Even on a fast connection, it took a couple of hours to finish the upgrade. LSNet dialup users are welcome to bring in their box and borrow ours.

Most applcations behaved well enough with two notable exceptions. The default audio mixer does not  know how to manage external sources (line in). That can be fixed by installing "gnome-alsamixer".  Gnumeric crashes on print to file. I fixed this problem with 13 "deb" files from Debian Sid.

You can pick up free CDs at the office. Desktop CDs have a "live" option so you can take a drive without wiping out your hard disk. Neat thing about Ubuntu and Open Source Software is that you can give it away to your friends.

China Flag Training Network

A copy of my email to the IT department at Peace University whose mail server relayed the SPAM to me.

The headers suggest this really came from your mail server. It is not particularly objectionable, in fact, it provides some insight about Chinese business methods.

70,257,924 if no relevant information, please reply back fixed-mail: 21.52.26.64

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【Introduction】 Lecturer
Liao Teacher
Flag Training Network in Advanced Training Division, in-country training teachers training and training management authority of the experts, American Society for Training and Development Association (ASTD) Senior Council
Members, STT, founder of the professional problem-solving techniques, PTT pairs of Certified International Professional Trainer, "Harvard Business Review," South China Club Distinguished
Consultants, Tsinghua University, Zhongshan University Visiting Professor, former Advisory Senior Consultant Ding, Qiao Xin Institute of Education, Principal Consultant. Teacher Li Liao
Either state-owned, joint ventures, private enterprise market manager, product manager, IT director, training manager, person in charge of strategic planning, corporate general manager of
And other staff with rich experience in business management and operations with a keen business sense. Liao teachers into the management training industry in the past eight years, has been in the United States
Chinese capital and management consulting firm in charge of training for system planning and construction, training, quality assessment, curriculum development, instructor training and so on, the main
Guided and participated in the localization of a number of overseas courses work in practical teacher training, curriculum development and training on the ownership of valuable field experience.
Liao good teacher site-specific cases and the daily work practice analysis and guidance, using a variety of training methods, rapid mobilization of participation of trainees
And sexual and motivation, training, on-site satisfaction has remained at over 95%. In addition, internal training, he also proposed "that the learning-use
That bear fruit, "quality requirements, the training can do for each student satisfaction with memories on the spot bear fruit!

Liao is currently a teacher served companies are: China Telecom, China Netcom, China Unicom, Tianjin FAW Toyota, Honda, Shandong Electric
Power Group, Norway, Austria force, a good wife Group, Gold Hong Ye Paper, Coca-Cola, the United States Elsevier, Guangzhou Iron and Steel gas, pump power seeking, snow
Wright shares, the United States Elsevier, honesty Nuopi tools, Tianchuang shoes, JVJ Electronics, BBK Electronics, TCL Corporation, Ling Chin optoelectronics,
Guanhua light printing, enterprise source of science and technology, wide joint digital, vast information, purple more science and technology, dynamic network pioneer, Singapore Sinpo chemistry, Yuxing Group,
Crystal Group, Zhongtian Construction Group, Aidimengtuo, Shang Yi chains, a good many supermarket chains, rugby-Ju Group, Nypro plastics hardware system
Products, the German Nande technology services company, EPCOS electronic components, Tokai Rubber, open source groups, Huatai Heavy Industries, Octavia wallpaper,
Snow in economy, trade, Tengshun insurance, at the present vertical and horizontal communication, Hunan Marketing Association, Huayang General Electric, the new state logistics, ViewSonic Group,
Shenghua information, Golden Jubilee information, force constant communication technology, leisurely Group, Guangzhou Metro, Guangzhou Transportation Group, the benefits of high sanitary, Changxing white horse,
Hua, data, green apple data, Dunhua online, Cathay Life Insurance, metal-rich industry, plastics, Prudential International, Garley Holdings, Century Tiancheng casting
Financing, Lite-plastic, Yong-Jin lighting, pop-US chain, Qian grass Square, beauty, may be resistant to the U.S. biotechnology, Sea King bio-engineering, Yunnan Baiyao
, Ke-li far the new energy shares, Fangsheng pharmaceutical, Jinyue Xuan, seven streets fitness beauty club, the East-lin diamonds, Guangdong Hotel, the Olympic
Grand Hotel, Chun Chi textiles, the Sino-British life, flower world automation equipment, Jinan Railway Bureau, Toshiba electronics, rock springs in Jinan, China Branch of biological,
Light Chemical Industry Group, Huatai Insurance, Founder Technology, tiger color group, Noel Group, Standard Life Heng, Dong Jia Group, Shandong, on the other side
Power, three Long intelligence, Ctrip, sub-hing investment, on the river property, Xiang Yin, real estate, Canton Aluminum Group, Guangzhou, construction supervision,
Shenzhen Gas Group, e-commerce Logistics Group, Willis Group, Carrefour, Esquel Group, the elite group, the Yangtze River Company, Shenzhen nuclear material
Industry, Shajiao power plant, Zhi Gao air-conditioning, Reddy tailor, river smelting technology shares, small and medium enterprises in Guangdong Province Bureau, Liuzhou Economic Commission, and other hundreds of companies.

Students witness
◎ Zhongtian Construction Group Wuzong: Liao teacher training courses frequently, Comment in place, in just two days time to learn that I gain a lot of Pei
   Training Division applied the tools to achieve a rapid improvement targets! !
◎ Jinyue Yin Xuan Restaurant Group Total: Liao teacher for us to manage the backbone opens the door to rapid access to trainers, and courses targeted
   , Teaching the direct vivid, and we will send more staff to pursue further studies to upgrade! !
◎ Shang Yi Zhang Chain Total: STT course I combed the past system of professional knowledge, and inspired me to have the steps there are ways to do things, I will
   Good way to bring us these internal staff, thank a teacher Liao! !
◎ Da-kang, director of marketing psychology schools, Mr Pang: Liao teacher's curriculum is great, attention to problem solving, goal-oriented, focusing on
   Training effect, is an excellent trainer coach!
◎ Nippon Paint Training Ms Wu: A Practical! Efficient! ! Not only to the concepts and methods and give a specific tool, pay attention to apply their knowledge
   And on-site training to enable trainees to master! The training division of the compulsory courses!
◎ Ms. Li Lin Group: Liao teacher-house training courses for our teachers to establish a stronger system of reference for meaning, we can no longer
   Do not worry the market is not tailor-made for our teachers, and very grateful! !
◎ days Training Manager Miss Shi-qi clothing: I have learned courseware design methods and techniques, go back and be able to use. And let me grasp the enterprise
   The industry into a commercial training in-house training skills. Easy and practical curriculum, teachers typhoon sound, very good! !
◎ Japan is spring-security manager Mr. Yu: I know the development through the STT courses, courseware framework and transformation methods, Liao teacher gave us
   The real opportunity is very large, Comments are very apt right to correct their shortcomings of great help!
◎ Rugby Manager Li Ju Group: Liao, lively style of the teacher teach, strengthen performance indicators for our program evaluation and design to bring a standard
   And process!
◎ good home training for a century, Mr. Joe: Liao teacher's sense of responsibility is very strong! STT also a tool for practical and effective, so I was able to clear
   Analysis of curriculum ideas, is a pretty unique training courses!
◎ ÍøÏÈ person in charge of human resources, Ms. Tu: Liao teacher professionalism, pro-and sharply tell the substance of the course curriculum real simple
   With easy to master.
◎ Department of Trade Miss Mao-cheng: STT courses practical, easy-to-effective, Liao teachers to teach specialized, humorous responsible! !

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2010版STT企业培训师快速提升训练(TTT实战加强版)

主办单位:中旗培训网

时间地点:2009年10月24-25日  深圳      2009年10月31日 -11月1日  长沙
         2009年11月07-08日  成都      2009年11月21-22日        广州
         2009年12月05-06日  武汉

课程费用:2800元/人(含授课费、资料费、会务费、午餐费)

咨询电话:86-27-87941930    报名传真: 86-27-87517106   联系人: 宋先生  王小姐

培训对象:专兼职培训师(咨询师)、培训管理人员、职业经理人、持有企业急需储备的专
         业技术相关骨干、需要对下属实施系统培训的中高层管理人员、其他希望迅速成长为
         企业内部培训师的人员。
====================================================================================

【前 言】
培训师 “速成”,很多人不敢想,STT想了;很多人想了,STT做到了……
STT是一门极具挑战性的培训师培训课程, 4.0版不仅带给学员一种全新的培训观念,还会给个
人成长、生活和工作带来巨大的启迪,立刻拓宽思路,让你获得无限的发展可能。基于STT这样
一个强有力的工具,即使你是一个完全没有培训经验的骨干员工,我们也将在2天内将你变成合
格的内部培训师。

在STT现场,你将现场亲眼目睹、亲身体验职业水准的大纲、课件、PPT是如何在你手上变成现实
的,全面了解国际级大师课程的研发过程,亲身感受培训效率远超过TTT的超级训练方式。两天
时间内,老师将与你共同突破一切障碍,充裕的现场演练机会,深刻的点评,使你成为能够轻松
演讲、自如控场、生动表达、完整总结、深刻点评的培训师!

【学员收益】
       ◇ 轻松掌握培训师必备的现场演绎技巧和控场能力
       ◇ 能够比以往任何时候都更犀利、更准确的识别培训需求;
       ◇ 完全颠覆以往拖泥带水的培训设计思路,直指问题核心,引爆解决方案;
       ◇ 能够快速完成课件开发,只占用极少甚至不占用工作时间
       ◇ 培训能力、授课技巧、培训师的系统知识得到快速地提升;
       ◇ 开发的课程能与企业情况紧密结合,培训能出工具指引实际工作,能出绩效;
       ◇ 借助自己的培训技能获得职业生涯的高速成长

【增值服务】
       现场掌握多套实用培训技能提升工具,课后还可免费下载海量素材与课件
       加入STT同学圈子,参加定期举办的STT分享会,获得比以往更多的学习机会
       加入《STT培训师蜕变计划》,获得大量的实操培训机会,享受长期持续的后续服务
       国内唯一一家提供终身免费复训的品牌培训师培训,紧跟培训师培训研究的最前沿成果,
       深入学习STT每个新版本的课程!

【其他事项】
零风险保障:STT郑重承诺,课程现场一小时内对授课不满意,无条件退款! 
培训认证费用:中级600元/人;高级800元/人(不参加认证考试的学员无须交纳)) 
参加认证考试的学员可获得双证书:国际职业认证标准联合会颁发的企业培训师职业资格证书和
中国企业培训管理研究学院颁发的培训师证书; 
备注:  
1.凡参加认证的学员,在培训结束参加考试合格者由lt;lt;国际职业认证标准联合会 颁发 企业
  培训师 ;国际国内中英文版双职业资格证书,(国际国内认证/全球通行/雇主认可/官方网
  上查询;
2.凡参加认证的学员须另外提交本人身份证号码及大一寸数码照片; 
3.课程结束后15个工作日内将证书快递寄给学员; 
4.可申请中国国家人才网入库备案。 
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【课程大纲】
一、拨开迷雾:窥见培训师快速成长捷径
1、      击破传统培训师培训的六大桎梏
2、      热身:现场获得超强培训自信力!
3、      培训大师自如表达的根本原因
4、      鉴别自己和他人培训能力的实用方法
5、      感受STT威力!半天内完成TTT三天内容!!
6、      培训师风采PK赛:一分钟发掘你的呈现天赋!
本节将提供工具:《STT内部培训师呈现能力评估表》

二、曾经沧海:培训课程鉴赏力大突破
1、      实战课程评价:《中层干部管理技能提升》
2、      3分钟观点PK:我们有评估标准吗?
3、      培训效果是如何受到各种因素影响的?
4、      炼就从大纲看穿课程的真功夫!
5、      火眼金睛:科特勒《行动销售》为什么会获得成功?
本节将提供工具:《STT三线评判图》、《培训效果初审量表》

三、擒贼擒王:精准确定培训主题
1、      关键问题分析:哪个是“贼”?哪个是“王”?
2、      3分钟实战分享:《高效会议技巧》
3、      怎样选定培训主题容易获得领导和职能部门认可?
4、      “心智地图”带来的需求理解差异
5、      自选课题分析与3分钟陈述
本节将提供工具:《STT因果线制图法》

四、一针见血:直指问题核心,引爆解决方案
1、      经验背后的故事:向老师傅学习培训内容规划
2、      行为证据:有效果比有道理更重要!
3、      选择行为证据的基本依据和标准
4、      经验回溯高级技巧:STT标准行为证据法
本节将提供工具:《STT标准行为证据法》

五、去莠存精:保障培训效果持续有效的工具方法
1、      从W. Chan Kim之《蓝海战略》透视培训效果
2、      保障培训效果持续有效的重要手段:简单和快速复制
3、      改善成人经验存储模式:经验框架 (Experience Frame)
4、      3分钟成果展示:STT实战经验框架研发法
5、      STT经验框架研发法的扩展应用
6、      经验传承中可能遇到的经验风险与应对
本节将提供工具:《STT经验框架研发法》

六、豁然开朗:确保培训落地且实现绩效的培训方法
1、      思考:为什么演讲家永远不能让培训落地?
2、      培训失效的罪魁祸首:学员与培训师间的四重隔膜
3、      四重隔膜的衍生现象
气氛沉闷、课堂混乱、学员挑衅、权威丧失……
4、      一招化解四重隔膜:STT指导模式
5、      OJT——影响绩效实现的第五重隔膜
6、      如何通过跨部门沟通实现培训的真正价值:盈利能力!
本节将提供工具:《STT指导模式》、《STT培训绩效沟通技巧》

七、渐入佳境:轻松生成职业级别培训大纲
1、      一花开五叶:一个主题,五种演绎!
2、      完全掌控培训进程的必备工具:STT情绪线分析法
3、      结果自然成:培训大纲编制两大利器
4、      培训目标设置与管理精粹——让培训成为盈利核心!
5、      现场辅导与实操:自选课题培训大纲研发
6、      5分钟成果展示:我们的课程最优秀!!
本节将提供工具:《STT情绪线分析法》、《STT大纲四步成型》、《STT培训标准目标用词表》

八、绽放美丽: 内部培训师课件快速成型
1、      控制PPT,不要被PPT控制!
2、      观念动一动,世界就不同——彻底颠覆你的PPT风格
3、      好PPT不一定费时间:内部培训PPT开发速成技法
4、      彻底解决培训师的时间控制问题
5、      内部培训师课件的扩展形式:PPT + 讲师手册 + 学员手册
6、      现学现卖:运用STT方法设计讲师手册与学员手册
本节将提供工具:《内部培训PPT开发速成技法》、《PPT资源搜索辅助工具》

九、雄关漫道真如铁,而今迈步从头越
1、      阻碍企业培训体系建设的两大难点问题
2、      案例分享:STT是如何营造学习氛围的?
3、      如何运用STT加快企业培训体系建设与发展
4、      通过STT完成培训体系与人力资源其他五大模块的对接

【读万卷书不如行万里路;行万里路不如阅人无数;阅人无数不如明师指路。课后将提供
 《STT培训师蜕变计划》,帮助每位学员从优秀到卓越,实现个人与企业的成长与双赢!】

【讲师介绍】
廖老师
中旗培训网高级培训师,国内培训师培训与培训管理权威专家,美国培训与发展协会(ASTD)高级会
员,STT专业问题解决技术创始人,PTT双认证国际职业培训师,《哈佛商业评论》华南俱乐部特聘
顾问,清华大学、中山大学客座教授,鼎原咨询资深顾问师、侨鑫教育学院首席顾问。廖老师历
任国有、合资、民营企业市场经理、产品经理、IT总监、培训经理、战略规划负责人、企业总经理
等职,拥有丰富企业管理和运作经验与敏锐的商业触觉。廖老师进入管理培训业八年来,一直在美
资及中资管理咨询公司主管培训体系规划与建设、培训质量评估、课程研发、讲师培养等工作,主
导并参与了多个海外课程的本土化工作,在实用型课程开发和培训师训练上拥有宝贵的实战经验。
廖老师擅长针对现场个案及日常工作实务进行分析与指导,运用多种培训方法,快速调动学员的参
与性和积极性,培训现场满意度一直保持在95%以上。此外,他还对企业内部培训提出了“即学即用
即见效”的质量要求,每次培训都能做到学员满意、记忆深刻、当场见效!

目前廖老师服务过的企业有:中国电信、中国网通、中国联通、天津一汽丰田、本田汽车、山东电
力集团、挪威奥力、好太太集团、金红叶纸业、可口可乐、美国艾斯维尔、广钢气体、搏力谋、雪
莱特股份、美国艾斯维尔、诚诺皮具、天创鞋业、杰威迅电子、步步高电子、TCL公司、菱展光电、
冠华轻印刷、企源科技、宽联数码、浩瀚资讯、紫越科技、动网先锋、新加坡新浦化学、裕兴集团、
晶苑集团、中天建设集团、埃迪蒙托、尚艺连锁、好好多连锁超市、榄菊集团、耐普罗塑胶五金制
品、德国南德技术服务公司、爱普科斯电子元器件、东海橡塑、开源集团、华泰重工、欧雅壁纸、
中诺经贸、腾顺保险、今朝纵横通信、湖南市场营销协会、华阳通用电子、新邦物流、优派集团、
盛华信息、金禧信息、力恒通信技术、利海集团、广州地铁、广州交通集团、益高卫浴、长兴白马、
华启数据、青苹果数据、敦化在线、国泰人寿、富业五金塑胶、恒丰国际、嘉利控股、世纪天成投
资、建兴塑胶、永晋灯饰、流行美连锁、仟草坊美容、可耐美生物科技、海王生物工程、云南白药
、科力远新能源股份、方盛制药、金悦轩、七街健身美容俱乐部、东麟钻石、广东大厦、奥林匹克
大酒店、骏驰纺织、中英人寿、花世自动化设备、济南铁路局、东芝电子、济南岩涌泉、中科生物、
圣光化工集团、华泰保险、方正科技、虎彩集团、诺尔集团、恒安标准人寿、东佳集团、山东彼岸
电力、三龙智能、携程网、亚兴置业、上河物业、湘银房地产、广铝集团、广州建筑工程监理、
深圳燃气集团、网丰物流集团、韦莱集团、家乐福、溢达集团、名流集团、长江企业、深圳核电物
业、沙角电厂、志高空调、雷迪洋服、河冶科技股份、广东省中小企业局、柳州市经委等数百家企业。  

学员见证 
◎ 中天建设集团吴总:廖老师的课程演练频繁,点评到位,在短短两天时间学习中我收获了不少培
  训师所应用的工具,达到了快速提升的目标!!    
◎ 金悦轩餐饮集团殷总:廖老师为我们管理骨干开启了快速通往培训师的大门,而且课程针对性强
  ,讲授直接生动,我们会派更多的人员来进修提升!!
◎ 尚艺连锁张总:STT课程让我系统梳理了过往的专业知识,并启发我做事要有步骤有方法,我会
  将这些好的方法带给我们企业内部的员工,谢谢廖老师!!   
◎ 大康心理学校市场总监彭先生:廖老师的课程非常棒,关注问题的解决,以目标为导向,注重
  培训效果,是培训师的优秀教练! 
◎ 立邦涂料培训部胡女士:实用!高效!!不仅给理念和方法,还给了具体的工具,注重学以致用
  和现场演练,让学员掌握!是培训师必修的课程!
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Is your church a water carrier for Bob McDonnell?

Some local churches acting as water carriers for the Family Foundation, handed out carefully constructed political propaganda this Sunday claiming to be the "2009 Official Virginia Voter Guide".

The Family Foundation is chaired by Ken Newsome, president of AMF Bakery Systems of Richmond Virginia. Ken donated $2300 to Jim Gilmore's Senatorial race last year and $2200 to the American Baker Political Action Committee headed by Steva Avera of Flowers Food of Thomasville, Georgia which contributed most of the money it raised to Republican congressional candidates.

The President of the Family Foundation, Victoria Cobb is an ally of James Dobson of Focus on the Family. Her husband worked for Bob McDonnell until Bob resigned to run as the Republican candidate for governor. She gave Bob McDonnell the "Legislator of the Year" award on behalf of the Family Foundation.

So we know who they are and what they want. What we don't know is why churches distribute their propaganda. It is hard to keep up with Jesus carrying water for politicians.

10% is enough!

A Rabbi, an Imam and a Priest Walk into a Bank

They hand the banker their respective religious traditions' positions on usury. The banker's "friends"  in the managing council of the rabbi's synagogue rake him over the coals and the rabbi resigns.

The rabbi is Natan (Nathan if you must) Asmoucha, his colleagues are unidentified. They are all participants in London Citizens, an umbrella group for trade unionists, voluntary organisations and religious groups.

The issue is usury. "10% is enough!" "Take thou no usury of him, or increase: but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee."

The lot of a prophet - speaking truth to power - is never easy.  "And they were offended in him. But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house."

We can't have preachers bringing "Good News to the Poor" or we face the prospect of Amos. "But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream."

Can we?

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