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Laurence (“Larry”) Smith is a long-time advocate of quality and systems-thinking-based management of U.S. businesses. In the early 1980s, while he was leading a chamber of commerce in northeastern Massachusetts, Smith recognized “the need for a transformation of American management,” he told me recently. A learning experience that inspired him to appreciate a holistic, systems view of business leadership and management was a four-day workshop his chamber sponsored in his community by the late Dr. W. Edwards Deming. “I learned to think of quality as a 360-degree process that includes quality of life,” Smith recalled recently.
Bryan County News Americana Corner: The Bill of Rights: The Third Amendment
The Third Amendment: No soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.
This little-known amendment centered on a very important matter to our Founding Fathers, that of the people being forced against their will to house and feed soldiers and bear the costs. While this matter may seem trivial to us today, it was viewed quite differently in 1776.
Requiring citizens to quarter British soldiers in private homes without the owner’s consent had been illegal in England since the English Bill of Rights was enacted in 1689. Since Parliament had never stationed large bodies of troops in America, it was never an issue here.
Man accused of barricading himself in apartment, threatening officers after assault in Massachusetts town taken into custody, police say
Updated Jan 13, 2021;
A man accused of assaulting someone in a Massachusetts town and threatening police while barricading himself in his home was arrested Tuesday evening, authorities said.
Officers in Wakefield were called to an apartment complex at 41 Richardson Ave. around 3 p.m. for a report of a man who authorities said assaulted another person and then barricaded himself in his apartment, according to a statement from the town’s police department.
The 31-year-old man, who is also accused of making threats toward law enforcement, was taken into custody without incident around 6:30 p.m., the statement said. Nobody was injured.
Why Christianity remains an in-person religion, even in a pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has been a reminder for many Christians that their worship is an in-person experience at its core. Socially distanced congregants attend a service at Holy Comforter Episcopal Church in Tallahassee, Florida, on Dec. 13, 2020. Video screengrab
December 24, 2020
(RNS) On Christmas Eve, members of Holy Comforter Episcopal Church in Tallahassee, Florida, will gather in the parking lot for a service that’s part tailgate, part worship and part family reunion.
Holy Comforter has been hosting indoor worship with strict limits on attendance since the beginning of the pandemic. But at this time in the liturgical calendar and this time in the pandemic, said the Rev. Jerry Smith, rector of Holy Comforter, people need to be together.