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Structure.Deliver User's Guide
Working with Structure.Deliver
Current: Predictive Cumulative Flow Diagram
Predictive Cumulative Flow Diagram
Most of the information leadership wants to see can be found on the Predictive Cumulative Flow Diagram (PCFD). The PCFD provides a visual interpretation of past work, predicted future work, and estimated completion dates for each team.
The following section provides a guide to the different elements of the PCFD.
1 Issue Count
The vertical axis of the PCFD shows the number of issues in the delivery. The total issues are a combination of the actual issues in the source structure plus the issues Structure.Deliver predicts each team will generate in the future as part of their Agile grooming process.
The horizontal axis of the PCFD shows the predicted timeline for the delivery. The timeline is broken into two section, divided at the Today line: the section on the left represents historical data, while the section to the right of the Today line offers a prediction of how issues will be added and moved through the workflow until the delivery is completed.
See Today Line for more information.
3 Cumulative Flow
This area of the PCFD shows issues in three status sets:
todo - the red section of the chart represents those issues that have been added to the delivery but have not yet been worked on
in progress - the blue section of the chart represents issues that are actively being developed
done - the green section represents issues that have been completed
Quality tracking
Each status area on the graph has a darker color that represents quality-related issues (such as bugs), based your settings. Any issues that are configured as related to quality will be shown in a darker color in all graph status areas. This makes it possible to track when a backlog of quality work is accumulating in todo, when the team is focused on quality work or not, how much quality work is getting done, and when in the timeline all this activity occurred.
Deliver does not differentiate between feature work and quality work when making predictions. For example, if Structure.Deliver predicts ten additional issues will be required for the delivery, they could be any proportion of bugs to features. Structure.Deliver is designed to predict future work based on all sources of historical work.
4 Today Line
The Today line indicates when the graph transitions from a historical record to a predictive simulation.
Historical CFD
The section of the chart to left of the Today line represents a traditional cumulative flow diagram:
Total issue counts and workflow data is based on historical data available in Jira.
Team markers on the left side of the chart indicate the date each team completed their scope for the delivery.
Predictive CFD
The section to the right of the Today line represents Deliver's predictive simulation for the remainder of the delivery:
You will often notice a large increase in "todo" items (the blue section) at the Today line. This is where Structure.Deliver adds all the new issues it predicts will be created between today and the end of the project.
Transitions through the workflow are based on calculations of each team's past performances.
Team markers on the right side of the chart indicate the date Structure.Deliver predicts each team will complete their scope.
5 Completed Teams
When a team completes all their scope for a delivery, a marker is placed on the PCFD at the date they completed their last issue. Structure.Deliver no longer performs any predictive analytics for completed teams. If a completed team adds additional scope, either in their backlog or by editing their metrics, the team marker will be replaced at the date Structure.Deliver predicts they will complete this new scope.
6 Working Teams
A marker is placed on the PCFD at the date each team is predicted to complete its last issue for the delivery. The area around the marker is shaded to indicate the predicted window for completion. Some teams are highly predictable, while others less so. The shaded area will be larger for teams when Structure.Deliver detects high levels of variance in their work cadence.
7 Trending Line
The trending line indicates when the last team is predicted to complete its last issue – the trending date for the delivery. If all team trending dates are before the target date, the labels for trending will be green. If any team's trending date is beyond the target date, the trending label will be red. A grace period can be set in the Delivery settings that will allow a team to trend a little late without triggering a red flag.


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It provides an index map of existing service facilities.
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The parties concerned can submit any questions or remarks regarding shore power, waste collection and drinking water facilities.
It is directed at anyone looking for information about the services provided.
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A Slowly Evolving Landscape
International educators discuss testimony-based education
A conversation with Werner Dreier, Alice Herscovitch, and Karen Polak
By Kori Street
Initiated by Sweden's then–Prime Minister Göran Persson in 1998, the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA)—formerly known as the Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance, and Research—is an intergovernmental body whose purpose is to place political and social leaders' support behind the need for Holocaust education, remembrance, and research both nationally and internationally. There are currently 31 member states. (www.holocaustremembrance.com)
The USC Shoah Foundation's Director of Education, Kori Street, invited three leaders from the IHRA's Education Working Group to comment on the changing landscape in the field with respect to the use of testimony. Their answers to the questions posed by our director of education suggest that there are as many questions as answers when it comes to utilizing testimony effectively in international programming. There is clearly a lack of agreement on the best practices, as well as a need for further exploration of how to use a currently underutilized resource in the field. Their thoughts contribute to an ongoing dialogue that the Institute has been engaged in for many years and indicate a need to continue our work integrating testimony into education.
Kori Street: How would you describe the current state of play in the field of Holocaust education (broadly defined) with respect to using testimony?
Alice Herscovitch: Despite efforts over the decades to record oral histories, they remain largely underutilized. However, the determination of survivors to tell their stories and to assure that they be used as tools to communicate the human consequences and to combat Holocaust denial has ensured the use of some of these oral histories in museums, exhibitions, and in pedagogical tools for teaching about the Holocaust. We are at the beginning of reflections on future use and access.
Karen Polak: Generally teachers are still too often using fictional films about the Holocaust during lesson time and not aware of the availability and possible impact of the use of testimonies. Teachers often feel that to invite an eyewitness into the classroom is "the real thing" and using video testimony is second best and therefore not considered, even when inviting someone in person is not viable.
It is still a small group of teachers that has the chance to go to seminars to get to know about DVDs and online resources that make testimonies available for classroom use. And few of them get to feel comfortable to work with testimony. It is (far) more demanding of a teacher to select appropriate testimony and to embed it in his/her lessons than it is to show a film.
Too often, using testimony is seen as edutainment (entertainment with an educational aspect) that will appeal to students—the idea being that students will only be interested if the story is exciting and visually compelling. Students are often underestimated. However, to choose age-appropriate and relevant testimony to use in class is not an easy matter, and a wider international exchange on successful approaches will be welcomed.
Werner Dreier: To the best of my knowledge the main challenge is to develop an integrative history of the Holocaust, which includes testimonies, diaries, letters, photos, etc. (personal, "subjective" sources) with academic research, thus bridging the dichotomy of personal recollection and history writing. All these aspects and sources must be dealt with in a critical way, allowing the learners to approach the subject with her/his own questions.
Herscovitch: Historians continue to debate the place of oral history and witness testimony as a valid component of history education. Discussions continue on memory versus fact, remembrance versus education. These interpretations of the construction of history are not either/or, and the strengths of each could and should be utilized.
We are far from having defined how these testimonies can best be used to achieve these goals, and full-length testimonies, with few exceptions, are not in themselves likely to appeal to broad audiences, nor are they pedagogical in nature. However, they offer enormous potential for education and remembrance work.
Polak: A very positive development of the last decade is that memorial sites now are including testimonies on a larger scale in their educational work—providing visiting school classes with testimony to work with before making their visit.
Street: What are the greatest opportunities and challenges facing the field today and in the immediate future, and how does visual history testimony affect them?
Dreier: The biggest challenge is that the Holocaust and the years of mass violence in Europe become a history that is often referred to but that is not really known.
Visual history testimony opens a window of interest that might lead to deeper learning processes—the opportunity. Survivors' narratives open questions, instigate an interest, and might bring along critical appraisals of history.
Herscovitch: In terms of challenges, if we wish to record new testimonies, the time is now. There are questions to be answered regarding accessibility and use. The documentation and cataloguing of recorded testimonies are challenges for most organizations. The development of appropriate tools from long testimonies, the extraction of themes, the link with contemporary messages are all challenges. The stated expectation often heard is that recorded testimony will replace survivor in-class or live testimony. They cannot be equated. It is up to educational institutions to use video testimony, as well as archival documents and artifacts to relate the human story of the Holocaust.
The links to other genocides and contemporary crimes against humanity, universal messages related to anti-racism and anti-discrimination or citizenship education, and comparative approaches remain challenging for educators. Centers need to find means to facilitate their work, based on training, support, and tools.
Polak: Survivors born after 1932, and certainly those born after 1942, will still be able to speak to audiences for another decade. Those who have no direct memories of the war years but who can speak clearly of the impact of the Holocaust on their lives should be encouraged to do so. Programs that facilitate the matching of schools/teachers to speakers should be supported, and professional assistance should be available.
Second-generation speakers should be part of professionally developed programs that give support and make clear what is and what is not educationally sound. Combining first-generation testimony with reflections of later generations on the testimony is an interesting new field to consider. A (grand) child reflecting on (parts) of the testimony of his/her (grand) parent can bring to life the relevance of "remembering for the future."
Making testimony available online (well structured, with advice on how to work with it educationally) is becoming more common and more easily applicable in the classroom. However, there is still a multitude of educational and practical challenges (schools with few facilities, the lack of availability of testimony online in some languages).
Herscovitch: There has been evolution, in a positive way, in the collection of video testimony, which has broadened knowledge about and understanding of the Holocaust. With time, hidden children and noncamp experiences have gained legitimacy. The actions of righteous individuals have also been documented, and country-specific history has been shared. This is due, in part to the passage of time, but also to the power of recording human voices and stories, which lends credibility to the scope of the Holocaust and nonetheless breaks it down to its smallest but essential component, impact on human lives.
The emotional charge, the passion that can be inspired by oral history cannot be duplicated by any other means. The USC Shoah Foundation Collection and those of Holocaust institutions around the world offer an enormous wealth of human history, which is unprecedented. For students, understanding history from the perspective of those who lived through it is a unique experience. Oral-history collections offer a breadth of experiences, tell stories of life before the Holocaust, and promote understanding regarding the diversity of Jewish life and experience. They also underscore the importance of understanding antisemitism as a historical phenomenon, and help humanize, contemporize, and universalize understanding of the Holocaust.
The world is small. Remarkable technological advances have created a potential that did not exist 10 years ago. The web and social media outlets offer great opportunities for reducing distance, both geographical and historical. As an example, a school in Togo created a theatrical reading of letters written during the Holocaust from the Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre's collection, discovered on our website in the teachers section.
Street: What questions are we not asking or answering about the changes in the educational environment? What questions do we need to think about when using testimony to address those changes (or not)?
Herscovitch: We need to be clearer about what Holocaust education can and cannot do. We are not sufficiently responding to the rapid change in technology and expectations of students to learn through new media. Through efforts to assure that the historical method is respected, and that students gain an understanding of history, we sometimes fall short in the area of making links to the present, where relevant, and having students reflect on contemporary issues.
Additionally, although some would disagree, testimonies have an underutilized potential to inspire action. The current North American educational environment is focused on knowledge and reinvestment. We need to help educators better understand the links and distinctions to be made between Holocaust education, anti-racist education, and human rights education.
Dreier: Testimonies need a historical context. For an educational environment this asks for integration of testimonies into "ordinary" teaching—to combine them with schoolbooks or other learning programs. This also leads to the issue of mainstreaming. Dealing with Holocaust and survivors' testimonies should be part of regular teaching.
Polak: We need to address the relevance of learning about the past in relation to the present. We can contribute to this by making testimony available in which survivors themselves reflect on this topic. Their voices can be relevant and effective. We need to look for relevant links between the threat of human rights today and the history of the early years of persecution of Jews, Roma and other victim groups (1930s). In several European countries anti-Gypsyism is a very serious threat to the lives of Roma minorities, and their human rights are not being protected by the responsible governments. Other ills and tensions in society, such as antisemitism, a general atmosphere of increased intolerance, and anti-immigrant or anti-refugee attitudes all influence teaching about the Holocaust. We need to consider how we can contribute to the deeper understanding of human rights issues by letting students reflect on this after watching testimonies that speak to these questions.
Dreier: Diversity in school classes [also] needs to be acknowledged—pinpointing specific groups (for example, "Muslims") is more a strategy of avoidance of the pertinent questions and of dealing with diversity than it is helpful.
Street: What is the most important issue facing educators internationally? And how do you think we need to answer it?
Polak: Teachers have often not been given the opportunity to develop the skills they need to introduce complex and sensitive topics into the classroom. Too often students are considered "a problem," lacking in interest or respect for lessons on the Holocaust. The answer to the challenge of making the history of the Holocaust interesting and relevant to students worldwide lies in developing the intercultural skills of teachers and the notion of teaching through human rights, alongside a good understanding of the history of the Holocaust and how to use a variety of sources (including testimonies) and methods in their teaching. Teachers all over the world, with students from many different backgrounds, have engaged their students in meaningful studies of the Holocaust. We need to create a better method of sharing good practices, above all, with the teacher-training institutes.
Alice Herscovitch: I am not certain that this is a question that is best answered on an international level. The Holocaust, as all other issues, is understood according to local and regional history and culture, contemporary issues and their interpretation, and national identity. Education is directly linked to these understandings. "Perpetrator" nations in themselves have adopted a wide variety of understandings of their roles and face varying challenges. Some former Soviet bloc countries are equating Jewish victims of the Holocaust with victims of totalitarian oppression, or in rare cases, assessing Jews as Soviet collaborators. "Bystander" nations reflect another broad range of understanding of their role and of Holocaust education (absent, state-mandated, voluntary). Teacher training on this subject is far from consistent, even within a given country.
If international reflection on the use of recorded testimony is to advance, there need to be discussion forums, conferences, and debate to advance on questions regarding what is available, how to make it available, pedagogical questions, and how it can be used in different country contexts. We should consider brief guidelines (international with country-specific adaptations) on the use of recorded testimony, just as many Holocaust centers have developed them on the use of survivor testimony in classrooms.
This interview appears in the Summer 2013 issue of the Institute's digest, PastForward.
Werner Dreier is the founding director of _erinnern.at_, an institution for teacher training and development of learning material on behalf of the Austrian Ministry of Education. Dreier is a past chair and current member of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's Education Working Group.
Alice Herscovitch is the executive director of the Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre. She has been a member of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's Education Working Group since 2005 and became its chair in 2013.
Karen Polak works for the International Department of the Anne Frank House as a senior staff member. She was International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's Education Working Group chair in 2004-2005 and has been the chair of the Working Group on the Genocide of the Roma since 2006.
Kori Street is the USC Shoah Foundation's director of education. She came to the Institute in 2011 from Mount Royal University, where she was an associate professor and served as chair of entrepreneurship, nonprofit studies, international business and aviation in the Bissett School of Business. After completing a master's in the History of Education and Gender/Feminism at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education/University of Toronto, Dr. Street received her PhD in history from the University of Victoria in 2001. Dr. Street's current work is focused on the preservation and educational use of Holocaust survivor testimonies.
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Who is most responsible for high abortion rates? The religious right.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 13th January 2016
Here is the fact that everyone debating abortion should know. There is no association between its legality and its incidence. In other words, banning abortion does not stop the practice; it merely makes it more dangerous.
The abortion debate is presented as a conflict between the rights of embryos and the rights of women. Enhance one, both sides sometimes appear to agree, and you suppress the other. But once you grasp the fact that legalising women's reproductive rights does not raise the incidence of induced abortions, only one issue remains to be debated. Should they be legal and safe or illegal and dangerous? Hmmm, tough question.
There might be no causal relationship between reproductive choice and the incidence of abortion, but there is a strong correlation: an inverse one. As the Lancet's most recent survey of global rates and trends notes, "The abortion rate was lower … where more women live under liberal abortion laws."
Why? Because laws restricting abortion tend to be most prevalent in places where contraception and comprehensive sex education are hard to obtain, and in which sex and childbirth outside marriage are anathematised. Young people have sex, whatever their elders say; they always have and always will. Those with the least information and the least access to birth control are the most likely to suffer unintended pregnancies. And what greater incentive could there be for terminating a pregnancy than a culture in which reproduction out of wedlock is a mortal sin?
How many more centuries of misery, mutilation and mortality are required before we understand that women – young or middle aged, within marriage or without – who do not want a child may go to almost any lengths to terminate an unwanted pregnancy? How much more evidence do we need that, in the absence of legal, safe procedures, such sophisticated surgical instruments as wire coathangers, knitting needles, bleach and turpentine will be deployed instead? How many more poisonings, punctured guts and burst wombs are required before we recognise that prohibition and moral suasion will not trounce women's need to own their lives?
The most recent meta-analysis of global trends, published in 2012, discovered that the abortion rate, after a sharp decline between 1995 and 2003, scarcely changed over the following five years. But the proportion that were unsafe (which, broadly speaking, means illegal), rose from 44% to 49%.
Most of this change was due to a sharp rise in unsafe abortions in West Asia (which includes the Middle East), where Islamic conservatism is resurgent. In the regions in which Christian doctrine exerts the strongest influence over legislation – west and middle Africa and central and south America – there was no rise. But that's only because the proportion of abortions that were illegal and unsafe already stood at 100%.
As for the overall induced abortion rate, the figures tell an interesting story. Western Europe has the world's lowest termination rate: 12 per year for every 1000 women of reproductive age. The more godly North America aborts 19 embryos for every 1000 women. In South America, where (when the figures were collected) the practice was banned everywhere, the rate was 32. In eastern Africa, where ferocious laws and powerful religious injunctions should – according to conservative theory – have stamped out the practice long ago, it was 38.
The weird outlier is eastern Europe, which has the world's highest abortion rate: 43 per 1000. Under communism, abortion was the only available form of medical birth control. The rate has fallen from 90 since 1995, as contraception has become easier to obtain, but there's still a long way to go.
Facts, who needs 'em? Across the red states of the US, legislators have been merrily passing laws that make abortion clinics impossible to run, while denying children effective sex education. In Texas, thanks to restrictive new statutes, over half the clinics have closed since 2013. But women are still obliged to visit three times before receiving treatment: in some cases this means travelling 1000 miles or more. Unsurprisingly, 7% of those seeking medical help have already attempted their own solutions.
The only reason why this has not caused an epidemic of abdominal trauma is the widespread availability, through unlicensed sales, of abortion drugs such as misoprostol and mifepristone. They're unsafe when used without professional advice, but not as unsafe as coathangers and household chemicals.
In June, the US Supreme Court will rule on the constitutionality of the latest Texan assault on legal terminations, the statute known as HB2. If the state of Texas wins, this means, in effect, the end of Roe v Wade, the decision that deemed abortion a fundamental right in the United States.
In Northern Ireland the new first minister, Arlene Foster, who took office on Monday, has vowed to ensure that the 1967 abortion act, which covers the rest of the United Kingdom, will not apply to her country. Women there will continue to buy pills (and run the risk of confiscation as the police rifle their post) or travel to England, at some expense and trauma. Never mind the finding of a High Court judge: "there is no evidence before this court that the law in Northern Ireland has resulted in any reduction in the number of abortions". It just warms the heart to see Protestant and Catholic fundamentalists setting aside their differences to ensure that women's bodies remain the property of the state.
Like them, I see human life as precious. Like them, I want to see a reduction in abortions. So I urge states to do the opposite of what they prescribe. If you want fewer induced abortions, you should support education that encourages children to talk about sex without embarrassment or secrecy; contraception that's freely available to everyone; an end to the stigma surrounding sex and birth before marriage.
The religious conservatives who oppose these measures have blood on their hands. They are responsible for high abortion rates; they are responsible for the injury and death of women. And they have the flaming cheek to talk about the sanctity of life.
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Q: How to find convergence of conditionally convergent series obtained while calculating the electrostatic potential energy of a NaCl crystal? I was reading Electricity and Magnetism by E M Purcell and there in the first chapter there is an attempt to estimate the electrostatic potential energy of the crystal lattice of a NaCl crystal.
During the calculation we obtain an infinite series which is conditionally convergent. Now, this reminded me of the Riemann Theorem regarding conditionally convergent sequences which says that a rearrangement of such a sequence can be made  to diverge or converge to any real number.
Now, we know that the order in which we are calculating the potential energy should not matter. But here, there is crude way described by the author to calculate the energy, and I'm unable to understand the exact reason behind the method employed.

It is clear, incidentally, that this series does not converge absolutely; if we were so foolish as to try to sum all the positive terms first, that sum would diverge.To evaluate such a sum, we should arrange it so that as we proceed
  outward, including ever more distant ions, we include them in groups
  that represent nearly neutral shells of material. Then if the sum is broken
  off, the more remote ions that have been neglected will be such an
  even mixture of positive and negative charges that we can be confident
  their contribution would have been small. This is a crude way to describe
  what is actually a somewhat more delicate computational problem. The
  numerical evaluation of such a series is easily accomplished with a computer.

I suspect that the method employed is justified in a sense that the assumption that it is an infinite series is wrong and hence the series will converge to a unique finite number. But, I'm not very sure and hence asking this question to know about others' views regarding this.
Thanks in advance.

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Now, this reminded me of the Riemann Theorem regarding conditionally convergent sequences which says that a rearrangement of such a sequence can be made to diverge or converge to any real number.

You are right. Just rearranging the order of summation on can get every real number or $ \pm \infty$ or even no limit at all. However it is false that the order in which we are calculating the potential energy should not matter. That is true for finite sums. Series are a different story. However series are unavoidable if one needs to say something about thermodynamic limit, i.e. if we need the energy per particle of the infinite system.
Although rarely cited, the real reason behind the conditional convergence of the Coulomb series is that for Coulomb point-like charges the boundary effects matter, they depend on the shape and charge of the surface  and do not vanish relatively to the bulk contribution with increasing the size of the sample, as it happens for short-range potentials. Therefore, there is a clear physical origin of the conditional convergence of the sum. The  only way to get a unique result is to decide which, among all possible boundary effects has to be chosen. It turns out that the choice of finite size cells which make vanishing the highest multipoles over the whole summation procedure  is a wise choice because it allows to get a unique result and energy per particle of different structures which are comparable without need of taking into account the pesence of surface terms.
Only after fixing the physical ambiguity of the problem, mathematics re-enter the game with special techniques (like Ewald summation or others) to speed up the convergence of a series made well behaving on the basis of a physical requirement.
A couple of relevant references are:

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*Roy, S. K. (1954). On the evaluation of certain lattice series. Canadian Journal of Physics, 32(8), 509-514.

*Hajj, F. Y. (1979). A simple method for the potential in ionic crystals. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 70(9), 4369-4375.


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Gods and Monsters (1998)
Directed by: Bill Condon
Starring: Brendan Fraser, Ian McKellen, Lolita Davidovich, Lynn Redgrave
Genres: Biography, Drama
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Gods and Monsters mistakes
Continuity mistake: Whale commits suicide by drowning himself in the pool. When Clayton pulls him out the color of Whale's suit changes from black to brownish, and vice versa when Clayton throws him back in. Varying degrees of wetness should not be the reason as he should be drenched too while he is lying at the poolside. (01:33:40)
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Clayton Boone: I am not... your monster.
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Hire To Win
The way that most entrepreneurs hire people is challenging. It's usually a family friend or an acquaintance or someone who knows somebody else. Here's the reality for entrepreneurs. Hiring decisions should be difficult and you should hire to win. In this episode of the Momentum Podcast, Alex is going to share with you the process that we use to build a life changing team, to get the right people in place and get them into momentum so we can move our business forward fast. I hope you enjoy.
The way that most entrepreneurs hire people is challenging. It's usually a family friend or an acquaintance or someone who knows somebody. If I'm honest, this is how I used to hire people with very little success.
When I realized that hiring decisions should be difficult, and you should have a hard time choosing the winning candidate, everything got better. Building a team can be life-changing when you get the right people on the team the momentum you can create is unimaginable.
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Speaker 2:	The way that most entrepreneurs hire people is challenging. It's usually a family friend or an acquaintance or someone who knows somebody else. Here's the reality for entrepreneurs. Hiring decisions should be difficult and you should hire to win. In this episode of the Momentum Podcast, Alex is going to share with you the process that we use to build a life changing team, to get the right people in place and get them into momentum so we can move our business forward fast. I hope you enjoy.
Alex Charfen:	I'm Alex Charfen and this is the Momentum Podcast, made for empire builders, game changers, trailblazers, shot takers, record breakers, world makers and creators of all kinds. Those among us who can't turn it off and don't know why anyone would want to. We challenge complacency, destroy apathy and we are obsessed with creating momentum so we can roll over bureaucracy and make our greatest contribution. Sure, we pay attention to their rules, but only so that we can bend them, break them, then rewrite them around our own will. We don't accept our destiny. We define it. We don't understand defeat because you only lose if you stop and we don't know how. While the rest of the world strives for average and clings desperately to the status quo, we are the minority, the few who are willing to hallucinate there could be a better future. And instead of just daydreaming of what could be, we endure the vulnerability and exposure it takes to make it real. We are the evolutionary hunters. Clearly the most important people in the world because entrepreneurs are the only source of consistent, positive human evolution. And we always will be.
I'm excited to share this with you today. Today, I had three final interviews for a new operations assistant in our company. We're growing, we're hiring, that's super exciting for me. And whenever we hire, whenever we bring people on, it brings up all kinds of memories for me of when I used to hire in absolutely the wrong way. And when I used to hire how most entrepreneurs hire, like try this on for size, see if you've ever done something like this, you have an open position and somebody has a friend or an acquaintance, or you know someone or someone knows someone who might be good for the position. You talk to them, you bring them in, you'll hire them. And then three to six months later, you're trying to figure out what happened. That happened to me over and over again Because I didn't really understand that hiring should be a process, that hiring should be a system, that hiring is something that is crucial and critical enough that you should put some time into it.
And so I wanted to share what that looks like in our company when we hire and what it looks like and how you can do it so that you have the highest likelihood of hiring success. Like that's the key. If you're going to go out and bring people onto your team, I want you to have the highest likelihood of hiring success. And here's what I know. Hiring the friend, the acquaintance, the person who knows someone is not the highest likelihood of success. Now I always have people ask me, but what if I want to hire a friend or an acquaintance or somebody I know, I'll tell you in just a second how you can do that in a way that's safe. But first I want to help you understand how to hire in a way that's going to improve your chances of success, bring the right people on your team and make things exciting.
So here's the punchline. So when we're showing people how to hire, there is a whole preparation process we go through to get to the interview process. But today I just want to talk about interviewing and what conditions should be present when you're interviewing. So the way I talked to our members about this, my team about this is a simple phrase, hiring decisions should be difficult. They should be hard. They should feel a little challenging. Here's what I mean by that. That when you are hiring someone, the best way to hire with that highest chance of success is to interview three people in the process and compare all three. You want to have three candidates, and here's how we explain it to our members, here's how I explain it to my team.
We want three candidates where any one of the three could do the job, you'd be excited about working with them and they would be a good candidate. And if you go through your hiring process and you interview enough, you talk to enough people and you bring in enough people where you have three and that's what Haley did today. So Haley's our director of operations. She's incredible at recruiting. And I had three half hour interviews today. And at the end of the three, I was like, Haley, you've got to tell me. This is a really hard decision. In fact, we're going to we're driving towards the decision, but we haven't made it yet because she's made it so difficult. Here's what I know when a hiring decision is hard. Here's what I know.
I know that three conditions are present. One, we have a ton of perspective. Let me explain what I mean by that. When you're hiring for a position, if you talk to one person and it's somebody friend of a friend and it looks like they'll do the job, you're not going to gain very much perspective on what's available, what type of person could fill the role, what type of people are out there for the role. Now, if you have three candidates where the hiring decision is hard, where any one of the three can do the role, you can make the assumption that there is a ton of perspective in the hiring process. Because when you're talking to enough people that you can whittle it down to three strong candidates, you get perspective as to what is the candidate pool, what kind of people are out there, who could potentially do this job, who could potentially help your company move forward. Perspective is so crucial in a hiring decision. If you only talked to one or two people who are available, who somebody raises their hand and says, hey, I might be able to do that job, you're not going to create any perspective and you're not really understanding what you could have in the position. So one, perspective is huge. It changes how you hire.
Now, two. This is a big one. If you have three people who all could fill the position, I know there's a high level of understanding of two things. One, what we're looking for. And two, what the position is. See, here's what happens in a lot of entrepreneurial hiring. Somebody comes up with an idea for a position, the next day, they tell somebody, the person says they have somebody available, they go grab that person, they bring them in and they start working with them. Well, if you're going through a hiring process and you have three really amazing candidates, here's what I know. There's been some forging there, there's been some changing there, there's been some formation of opinions, reinforcement of opinions, reinforcement of beliefs. You have a high level of understanding of what's available because you've gone through the process. And going through the process of interviewing multiple people actually does two things.
It refines your impression of what you want, but it also refines your impression of what the position is. So as those two things get better, as those two things clarify, as those two things get stronger, you actually do better and better at recruiting for that position. So when I'm sitting down and I have three strong candidates like I did today, I know there's perspective. Like I just said, I know there's understanding.
Now here's the third thing. This is big. This might be the most important out of all three. But before I tell you, I want to tell you why. When we're hiring people and when we're bringing people onto a team, here's what I can tell you with like 90% of people in the first six weeks, you're going to have a snag. You're going to have a challenge. There's going to be a disruption. There's going to be some confusion. They're going to miss something, make a mistake, have a challenge somewhere. And if you've gone through a hiring process where you've talked to enough people that you've driven it to a candidate pool of three strong candidates that could fill the role and you chose your candidate in that first six week period, when there's a stumble or a hiccup or a challenge, your commitment to that person is going to be very high. Consciously or unconsciously, it's not like you haven't even have to think about it. Because you've gone through the process, your commitment to that person is going to be very high.
Now here's the challenge. If you hire the friend of the friend or the person who's available and you hit that snag in the first six weeks, what do you have to fall back on that tells you, you made the right decision? When the answer is really not a lot and your commitment won't be there. And so when you hire, when there's only one person, here's what will happen. I've got somebody calling me while I'm live. Sorry. I just had somebody try and call me live. So here's what will happen when you hire ... Jeez, leave me alone. When you hire a person who you don't have the commitment to, who you haven't put the time and effort into having three different candidates where you haven't gone through the process and you haven't created the commitment. Here's what happens.
You will end up in a place where, when there's a snag, when there's an issue, when there's a challenge, it's very difficult to overcome because you haven't gone through the process, there's not a commitment to that person, that human being. And like I said, this is either conscious or unconscious. If you go through the process, however, then your commitment to that person goes up. When you hit a snag, you coach them through it. It'll be easier to get them through it. If you don't go through the process, when that person's working with you, whenever there's a challenge or an issue or something happens, you are going to have massive doubts.
Now, all of this being said, driving to three candidates, making sure they're all good. That gives you perspective. That gives you understand. That gives you a commitment. I always get the question. Well, Alex, what if I want to hire a friend, a family member, an acquaintance? How do I do that? Well, I'm one of those coaches that I actually support hiring friends, family members, acquaintances. I mean, I've done it in my company. I think amazing people know amazing people. So often we get a friend of one of our team members. Sometimes we even get a family member of one of our team members. Here's how we ensure that we should hire them if we make the decision to do it. We put them through this process. It's that easy.
If you have a friend or a family member or somebody who is the acquaintance, like if somebody comes to you in that way and you want to have a high level of commitment to them, put them into your interview process, do your initial interview with them, bring it down to the last three candidates. If they make it to that three candidate pool, interview them on final interviews. And if they're the right one, hire them, even though they're a friend, family member or acquaintance. But here's what will happen. Consciously, subconsciously or less than consciously, you've gone through the process, you've created a high level of commitment. And here's what's interesting. That high level of commitment will actually protect them. If it's a friend, family member or an acquaintance, I think this process is infinitely more important.
Because if you put a friend, family member or acquaintance through the process and they are the winning candidate and you hire them, here's what you will know. You'll know you interviewed enough to get to three people. You would have taken any one of the three. This person really did stand above the rest and you hired them because they were the right person, because of merit, not because of your relationship. And then in that first four to six week period where you hit the snag and you're going to hit it again and again, your commitment level will be high, you'll coach, you'll push through and you'll be able to make it work.
So the punchline is hiring decisions should be difficult. And if you are going to hire people, hire to win. Make sure that you have three candidates that are amazing. You would take any one of the three. And then you know you are going to make a strong hire. And you know you've gone through enough to get perspective on the position, understand what you really want and be fully and totally committed to the person you hire. It's a game changer if you go through this process, when you're building your team.
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Q: Build Jquery or CSS based chart from values of Divs on page Is it possible to build a Jquery or CSS chart based on the values in a set of Divs on a page?
i.e. on my page I have the following
Value One =
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Then from that I want to build a bar chart with value one 21 and value two 40.
Is this possible?

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A: You can use jquery to do that:
http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/css/top-jquery-chart-libraries-interactive-charts/

A: You're better off giving them the same class, so you can loop through them as an array in jQuery:

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Then:
var bars = $('.bar') - this gives you your collection
You need to determine which one is the biggest:
var maxBar = 0
for(var x=0;x<bars.length;x++) {
    if(parseInt($(bars[x]).text())>maxBar) {
       maxBar = parseInt($(bars[x]).text())
    }
}

From here, adjust the size of the bars in proportion to the largest:
for(var x=0;x<bars.length;x++) {
    mySize = parseInt($(bars[x]).text())
    $(bars[x]).css('width', parseInt(mySize/maxBar)*100)+'%')
}

Wrap your bars in a DIV and give it a width as desired.


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Home » News » Poet awaits arbitration in $33 million ethanol dispute
Poet awaits arbitration in $33 million ethanol dispute
Source: By Jonathan Ellis, Argus Leader • Posted: Tuesday, March 6, 2018
Ethanol giant Poet has dismissed a federal lawsuit it filed last year and will instead arbitrate more than $33 million in damages against a company hired to design a system to convert biomass into ethanol.
The decision comes after Andritz Inc. argued in court filings and a separate arbitration hearing that Poet's contract required that disputes be settled in arbitration rather than litigation. Andritz has also asserted counterclaims against Poet worth $7 million.
Poet first hired Andritz, an international engineering company, to design a system for its Emmetsburg, Iowa plant to convert corn stalks, husks, leaves and cobs into ethanol. In a second contract in 2012, Andritz won the rights to supply and construct the system, which Poet dubbed Project Liberty.
Supporters of cellulosic ethanol hope that biomass can provide a reliable source of the alternative fuel, but that goal has proven to be elusive. The $250 million Emmetsburg plant opened in 2014 but almost immediately ran into trouble.
In its filings, Poet alleges that Andritz's treatment system for biomass could not operate at a scale to make it commercially viable. Poet says it put the company on notice in 2014 and gave it multiple opportunities to get the system up to expectations.
But Andritz has argued that Poet failed to meet design and performance obligations it was required to make before Andritz was required to meet performance guarantees spelled out in the contract.
"Poet completely failed to satisfy these conditions precedent," Andritz asserted in a court filing. "Andritz incurred millions of dollars in costs attempting to achieve the performance guarantees despite Poet never satisfying its contractual preconditions."
Matt Merritt, Poet's director of public relations, said in an emailed statement that Poet voluntarily dismissed its federal lawsuit without prejudice, meaning it can be refiled at a later date. The dismissal will allow Poet to pursue its claims in the related American Arbitration Association proceeding.
"Poet intends to vigorously pursue its claims – including claims for breach of contract, misrepresentation and fraud – in the context of the AAA arbitration," Merritt said. "As the matter remains in active litigation, Poet does not have any further comment at this time."
An arbitration hearing scheduled for April was canceled. A new hearing date has not been scheduled.


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 *
 * This would return: `bob---` as it has padded it out to 6 characters, using the `-` on the right.
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 * You can also use it to pad numbers (they are always returned as strings):
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 * `pad(512, 6, '0', 1)`
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 * If you don't specify a direction it'll pad to both sides:
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namespace Wasm
{
    class WasmReaderBase
    {
    public:
        virtual void SeekToFunctionBody(class WasmFunctionInfo* funcInfo) = 0;
        virtual bool IsCurrentFunctionCompleted() const = 0;
        virtual WasmOp ReadExpr() = 0;
        virtual void FunctionEnd() = 0;
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} // namespace Wasm
#endif // ENABLE_WASM


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Birchall's Cliff: "If you seek his memorial, look around you".
Read online at https://workersliberty.org/node/17352
Submitted by Matthew on 7 September, 2011 - 12:54
Paul Hampton reviews Tony Cliff: A Marxist for His Time by Ian Birchall (2011)
Tony Cliff: "Si monumentum requiris, circumspice"
"Si monumentum requiris, circumspice" [If you seek his memorial, look around you] — plaque on the grave of Christopher Wren, architect, in St. Paul's Cathedral
Ian Birchall was once derided for writing a loyalist history of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP), tragically entitled The smallest mass party in the world. His new biography of the SWP's founder and inspirer, Tony Cliff is equally farcical.
Cliff was born Ygael Gluckstein in 1917. He grew up in the British mandate of Palestine. After briefly flirting with Stalinism in 1933, he became a left Zionist and then a Trotskyist. He was imprisoned for anti-war activity in 1939-40. More information on that early part of his story would be interesting. But after Gluckstein moved to Britain in 1946 and became Tony Cliff, much of what he did was destructive of building a healthy revolutionary left.
The standard "Cliffite" line on Cliff is that he contributed three theories vital to re-arming the left after 1945: state capitalism (in the USSR), "permanent arms economy" and "deflected permanent revolution".
Instead of the celebrated troika, Birchall attempts to elevate Cliff's importance in other areas: first his writing on the Middle East; second his contributions on the class struggle in Britain; third and most importantly, his efforts to build the SWP.
In fact, Cliff's "lost" book on the Middle East (written in 1946), merely indicated his break from his relatively sane early writings (as L. Rock) and his embrace of what would become left anti-semitism on the question of Israel. Thus Cliff came to oppose Jewish immigration into Palestine just as the extent of the Holocaust became clear.
Cliff wrote off the Jewish working class as well as the possibility that Palestinian Arabs could win on their own. With no progressive force in the conflict, Cliff laid the basis for other substitutes — intellectually prefiguring the SWP's flirtation with Hamas and other Islamists. Though Cliff would acknowledge in the early 1960s that "what's done is done — the state of Israel existed and history could not be rolled back", he drew no conclusions from this assessment and soon lurched into "destroy Israel" mode. Israeli Jews were treated as an exception from every other nation. Cliff's mature legacy on the Middle East is thoroughly rotten.
Cliff's writing on the British class struggle in the 1960s produced some snappy descriptions of "do-it-yourself reformism". It was far harder to break militant workers from the grip of Labourism, the trade union bureaucracy and Stalinism. In all this, Cliff lurched from an extreme voluntarism to the most arid pessimism by the end of the 1970s. While trade union militancy did abate from the late 1970s, it was still vibrant, uneven and capable of victories. The worst element of Cliff's "downturn" perspective was not the attempt to assess the strength of working class forces, although even in that he was prematurely defeatist. Rather it was the political conclusions — principally that revolutionaries should walk away from trade union structures and from efforts to build an unofficial, rank-and-file organisation that could fight back.
The nadir of this period in the SWP's history came during the miners' strike. It virtually wrote off the struggle from the beginning and denounced those who backed the miners' support groups as "left-wing Oxfam". It offered no strategy beyond more picketing. Persisting with pessimism, the SWP initially denounced the poll tax non-payment campaign that emerged in 1988-89, then chased after Militant in the wake of their growth.
The ultimate measure of Cliff's legacy is the organisation he spent 50 years building — the SWP. A fair chunk of the biography consists of vignettes of various people who met Cliff and remain transfixed. Many are still nominally members of the "party". For those like Birchall who have endured every twist and turn, none of it accounted for, the review of Cliff's life begs the question: what's left?
Politics is not in command in the SWP. What's left is whatever the current central committee says it is. There is no coherent and consistent politics behind it. Cliff's legacy is that the organisation comes above the politics and before the ideological front of the class struggle.
Cliff's version of "Leninism" downgraded the need to work out a clear, consistent Marxist view of the world and instead substituted machine politics, where "tactics contradict principles", where anything — any twist, turn, zigzag — is acceptable if it appears to build the SWP.
Hence the SWP model fillets "Leninism" — little internal democracy, no sharp ideological demarcation, little fight for clarity, no political accounting with earlier and other politics. Hence Cliff's decisive 1971 shift on the European Community (to oppose it) to avoid isolation from the nationalist left. Hence the SWP's promotion of anti-fascist "festivals" over the active anti-fascist defence of black and Asian communities. Hence Cliff could characterise the Muslim Brotherhood as clerical fascists, and the SWP could form alliances with them.
The SWP's rationalisations — most of them worked out when Cliff was in charge — were not justifiable changes because reality had changed. They were manoeuvres in the hope of building the SWP — irrespective of what was being built.
The SWP is a machine for mangling militants. It despoils the British left. It ruins promising initiatives, it offers no concrete strategies in struggles and it instead substitutes stripped-down banality in place of socialist answers. Cliff built the SWP into the locust of the left it is today.
Cliff had an almost-Maoist way with catch-phrases. He often said that post-Trotsky Trotskyism was like trying to find your way around the Paris metro with a map of the London Tube. But Cliff's "Marxism" burned the map and instead navigated using his own astrology.
The three great theories?
The Cliffite mythology held that he explained the expansion of Stalinism with his theory of state capitalism, explained the revival of capitalism with his permanent arms economy (PAE) theory, and understood third world developments with his theory of "deflected permanent revolution". The AWL has long argued that this Cliff-fable does not withstand scrutiny. Remarkably Birchall concedes these weaknesses.
The theory of "deflected permanent revolution" amounted to one scrappy, obscure article. It treated "the revolution" in the third world as a semi-automatic process much like other "orthodox" post-Trotsky Trotskyists did, allowing middle class intellectuals and other strata to substitute for working class leadership, with only a disagreement about the outcome (almost inevitably a form of state capitalism). Nowhere did Cliff anticipate the rise of industrial working classes and labour movements in places such as Iraq, Indonesia, South Korea, Brazil and South Africa, which could lead the fight for democracy and potentially for socialism.
Birchall concedes that Cliff borrowed the permanent arms economy without attribution from Shachtman's tendency. He acknowledges that the idea of arms production propping up capitalism was commonplace. And it explained neither the long boom nor the slump that followed after 1973. What really defined Cliff's group in the CND period (early and mid 60s), when it talked most about PAE, was its belief in the stability of capitalism. Despite Chris Harman's efforts to breathe life into the PAE corpse, the SWP have largely discarded it.
As for Cliff's "state capitalism", his 1948 analysis treats Russia as one big factory. But "capital" which doesn't compete with other capitals is not capital in the Marxist sense. Cliff thought he could neutralise this objection by postulating international use-value competition in the form of armaments. This was certainly an innovation, but not one consistent with Marx's political economy, where capitals compete for a share of the surplus value pumped out of waged workers. Originally Cliff admitted that Soviet labour power was not a commodity. His "theory" was actually a description of a bureaucratic collectivist state, with "state capitalism" an arbitrary label.
The downfall of the USSR showed the paucity of Cliff's assessment. He had defined state capitalism as a higher stage of development than Western capitalism. In 1948 he had referred to the USSR as "the extreme theoretical limit which capitalism can reach" and a transition stage to socialism. However when the Soviet Union reached its structural impasse, Cliff's supporters simply floundered. As late as 1987, The SWP's Russia "expert", Mike Haynes, criticised those who believed that the crisis of Soviet society was terminal. Harman argued in 1990 that after rapid industrialisation from the 1930s to the 1960s walled off from the world market, the USSR had suffered a "normal accumulation crisis" which forced the bureaucracy "to try to change its ways".
It is possible to define Russia as "state capitalist" in Cliff's sense only by reasoning with dubious analogies: i) In capitalism of type X, Y occurred; ii) Y occurred in the Soviet Union; iii) therefore, the Soviet Union is capitalist. Cliff's "theory" of state capitalism never succeeded in being both Marxist and consistent with the facts.
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Make the switch to Jekyll in only 37 easy steps!
Today marks this site's official switch over from Wordpress, a CMS I've utilized for almost 12 years, to a more light-weight and agile platform, Jekyll. I'm looking forward to a long a fruitful relationship with something a little leaner and meaner than Wordpress, and hosting things on a personal Github repository via Github Pages is a welcomed solution, but I'll be damned if getting things off the ground wasn't the slightest bit confusing and frustruating.
For you see, almost every tutorial available for setting up Github Pages with Jekyll also acts as a supplimental lesson in how to get started with Git and initialize/synchronize your first Github project. Not such a bad thing in and of itself, a refresher is always nice, but these popular guides take a very gentle handholding approach which barely scratch the surface of what Jekyll is doing under the hood, not to mention they all unload the heavy lifting of configuring your instance and instead instruct you to branch the gh-pages repo. Little did I realize that these guides were taking me through the exact opposite approach I wanted to follow for my own site.
As you can probably tell from my recent Github history, I made many attempts at getting Jekyll up and running via Github Pages, approaching each install from a slightly different angle while following these tutorials (initializing my repo locally, initializing my repo on Github, not branching gh-pages, branching gh-pages, throwing my laptop across the room, not throwing my laptop across the room). No matter what I did, things didn't seem to work correctly. The overall theme seemed to be that initializing my repo and installing my instance locally lead to build errors when I'd sync to Github. Additionally, though gh-pages adds some bells and whistles to make your first-time Jekyll experience painless (as if there's any pain in working with Jekyll in the first place), this repo is not essential to getting your Github Pages site off the ground. In fact, you don't even need to install Jekyll locally in order to get your Github Pages site running, a detail that would have been useful at the onset.
Nirvana came to me in the form of an alternate tutorial courtesy of Johnathan McGlone titled "Creating and Hosting a Personal Site on GitHub". Not only does Johnathan take you through the basics of what Git and Github are all about, he instructs you in crafting and serving basic HTML via Github Pages before helping you build the skeleton of your Jekyll instance, taking you through the necessity of each directory and file involved in the process. This not only helped me get a better sense of where Jekyll expects specific files to be, but it helped me understand some of the tags and variables I'll be encountering in my site build. By the end of the tutorial I was left with a minimal web template that I could start slicing, dicing, and customizing as well as some direction on next steps for adding nifty features to my site. I have to hand it to Johnathan, his tutorial was easy to follow and didn't rely on branching someone else's work, code which I have no context nor need for, and left me with the one thing I was looking forward to throughout this process: a minimal base of a Jekyll site from which I can start to modify and build out my own template.
This site isn't much as of today, I've got a little more work ahead of me than simply building out the design of this template (more to follow in another post), but hey, it works.


In the field of developmental psychology we tend to hear the term readiness. When our cognitive, emotional, and physical development syncs we have a certain ability ,or readiness, to grow and further develop. This concept can apply to our client's psychosocial development, too. With each session we assess how our clients are functioning in their lives, as well as, what demands their lives are putting on them. The studies of eustress and distress indicate that those people who are able to meet the needs and demands of their life, also, experience less distress. These studies also point out that the way we perceive life stressors can change the effect those stressors have on our mental and physical health. As mental health providers we may ask ourselves, How ready is this client to meet the demands of their life? Or perhaps, How ready is this client to look at life stressors in a different way? In more expressive modalities readiness may not be so important of a factor, as we acknowledge and accept that an individual learns what they need to learn, and will move in the direction that they need to move for the healing that they need in this moment. However, for most of us using insight oriented therapy or talk-therapy, we need to be aware of client readiness. Staying with the client, until they are ready, can be hard when we see the answer so clearly. Well-timed and thoughtful observations can plant seeds that need further development. The term readiness implies that not only is our client prepared for further growth, but also that they are willing. This type of readiness can be delicate, like pulling on a fishing line in a steady even-handed manner. To pull too quickly or forcefully can damage the relationship and even provoke further resistance. So much of what we do is subtle, even graceful, as we are dealing with the fragility of those we care for. Finding the line, and using our inner grace to guide our steady service, we can be there when even the most vulnerable of clients, has the readiness for change.


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Report: NEC to Pull out of European PC Market
By Martyn Williams
IDG News Service |
NEC is planning to withdraw from the European enterprise PC market in the middle of this year as part of its attempts to stem losses, Japan's Nikkei newspaper reported on Friday.
The company will end PC production at its NEC Computer SAS subsidiary in France then reduce operations at the factory and switch to server-related items, the newspaper said quoting "company sources." NEC has already started negotiations with the unit's 420 staff, according to the report.
The move will mean a pull-back from the entire EMEA region and reduce NEC's PC business to only Japan, the newspaper said.
NEC declined to comment on the report.
Last week NEC sharply revised down its financial outlook for the current fiscal year and said it plans to cut 20,000 workers worldwide. Around 60 percent of the layoffs will be outside Japan.
In the year to the end of March it expects net losses of ¥290 billion against a previously anticipated profit of ¥15 billion. Sales are expected to be ¥4.2 trillion, which if realized would be a 9 percent drop on actual sales in the previous year.
Fujitsu, NEC's biggest competitor in the Japanese PC market, is also shaking up its European PC operations. In November it announced plans to pay approximately €450 million (US$575 million) for the 50 percent stake it doesn't own in Fujitsu Siemens Computers. The deal is scheduled to close on April 1.