Adept was founded in 2004 and in their first year, they self-released their first demo, Hopeless Illusions. This was followed a year later by their first EP, When the Sun Gave Up the Sky, also self-released, and again in 2006 by another EP, The Rose Will Decay. The band soon gained prominence and was signed by the Panic & Action label. Gustav Lithammer and Filip Brandelius both left their other post-hardcore band (Saving Joshua) to join Adept in 2010 and 2012 respectively.
Satterfield is president and COO of Firestorm Solutions, which helps companies assess and identify potential disasters and/or deal with their aftermath. In 2009, after four years of strong growth, Firestorm began looking for new ways to expand. That's when Satterfield met Hutch Hodgson, founder of Heavenly Ham, which had 216 units before being sold in 2002 to HoneyBaked Ham.
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Crisis management may seem an unlikely service to franchise, but Hodgson's instincts were right: With the proper training, franchisees can become as adept at managing catastrophes as Olivia Pope on Scandal, though Satterfield's aim is to help companies avert disaster in the first place.
While Firestorm works with major colleges and Fortune 500 companies, franchisees tend to focus on mid-market businesses. "According to stats by the federal government, 40 percent of businesses struck by a disaster don't reopen. Of those that do, 25 percent fail within two years," Satterfield says. "Disasters are unthinkable, but they are real. According to the Red Cross, there are 70,000 disasters in the U.S. per year, about 200 per day. Add to that 2 million episodes of workplace violence, plus communicable diseases, and we have business disasters happening multiple times every day."
The tax bill required Murkowski, from her perch as chair of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, to craft policy to generate $1 billion in federal revenue over 10 years. On top of the ANWR language, Murkowski, an adept policymaker and fierce defender of the Alaskan fossil-fuel industry, tacked language onto the tax legislation to authorize $600 million in crude-oil sales from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
The last evening in Singapore is worthy of mention, when at a party at the Tanglin swimming-pool Stewart divulged that he was an elder of the Mormon Church. This was a crowning discovery. I had learnt something of the Mormon history whilst in America, of their ousting from one place after another all across the States till they made their last stand in the deserts of Utah and turned these into habitable country. Here amongst us was a descendant of two families prominent in this history, here was Stewart with a hundred and thirty-four first cousins and a grandfather who went to Mexico rather than give up his four wives. America now rather esteemed these law-abiding citizens, but Stewart in a life of roaming appeared to have violated most of the Mormon abstentions. It was now a supreme jest that in his early years he had gone on the foreign mission that establishes an elder. Nevertheless in five months I had time to discover that this often exasperating companion was truly Christian.[4]
Parsons's warm portrait of Stewart as a zestful charmer and open-handed traveler is filled out and supported by an autobiographical account that he dictated to another one of his lovers, a young Australian named Nancy Grasby, just a year before he met Parsons. Entitled "Journey of a Psychologist," this unpublished manuscript recounts his adventures between 1932 and 1934. It begins with his musings after he was fired from his job at a Utah state school for mentally retarded children. Perhaps he lost his job because he kept alcohol in his room, he wrote, which was against the rules. Or maybe it was because he had attempted an unauthorized experiment in curing bedwetting with a mild electroshock device. Or maybe it was both. Stewart could not decide.
Moreover, the Senoi dreams were collected in different ways from different age groups. Children's dreams were collected by asking parents what their children had dreamed about, which is in fact a totally worthless method. The dreams of teenagers and young adults were collected by asking them to report recent dreams. In the case of the older men, still another procedure was used. They were asked to recall all those dreams that they believed to be significant in bringing them to the status of adept or shaman. This is an invitation to storytelling and fabrication.[45]
The paper also greatly exaggerates the amount of time Stewart spent studying the Senoi. The two or three months that he claims in his 1936 autobiography for the first trip (probably 16 days in reality), and the seven to eight weeks that Parsons documents for the second trip, were said to be ten months in the dissertation. In the paper, the ten months become a year, and the two months in England with Noone become another year: "From a year's experience with these people working as a research psychologist, and another year with Noone in England integrating his seven years of anthropological research with my own findings, I am able to make the following formulations of the principles of Senoi psychology."[50]
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