STOUGHTON — Stoughton schools are looking for a budget increase of 4.5 percent.
Superintendent Marguerite Rizzi presented the school committee's proposed budget of $49,112,430 – an increase of $2,121,724 – at the selectmen's meeting Jan. 15. The final budget has not yet been approved.
"This is a pretty daunting amount of money," said selectmen vice chair Michael Sullivan.
In a side presentation, Rizzi showed the board that the per pupil expenditure is in the middle of the pack with neighboring communities, based upon Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education figures.
Stoughton ranks fourth of eight area towns, Rizzi said, with a per pupil expenditure of $14,466. Easton was the lowest with $12,762, and Sharon the most expensive ($15,587).
Rizzi noted that the cost of the superintendent is expected to go down, as someone will be replacing her when she retires this year. Four candidates are being considered.
There are approximately 307 school employees, compared to 1,066 town government employees.
Schools also must pay out of district costs like special education, which is mandated by the state.
"This number went up eight percent, which is larger than what you would typically see," Rizzi said.
School committee member Anita Hill also explained that teachers' salaries increase in steps and lanes, based on a credit system.
Rizzi addressed the Jones School situation.
"For many years we did not have a principal," she said. "The special education coach was the assistant coordinator (and) was the assistant principal.
He also noted that the police and fire departments also serve the school system.
Selectmen chair Bob O'Regan note the budget didn't mention Blue Hills Regional. Tech.
Muksian added that she has to present a balanced budget on the town side.
"This was an extremely difficult exercise," she said. "It basically meant a hiring freeze except for first responders.
On the municipal side, selectmen proposed cutting four positions to save $254,546 from their budget. However, they voted, 4-1, to use the money from the board of health's revolving fund to appropriate for those positions. Richard Hill voted against the measure via teleconference.
There were two jobs slated to be cut from the youth commission, one in the department of public works, and one in the assessors department.
The vote is submitted as funded subject to approval by Town Meeting.
Gov. Charlie Baker has not yet released the state budget, which may make this move unnecessary depending upon funds allocated to cities and towns.
The municipal budget was approved, 4-1. Hill voted against it.


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Lincoln Police arrested Kevin M. Morse, 24, of Lincoln at 1:47 p.m. Friday on a charge of criminal trespass to property.
Logan County Police arrested Christopher J. Boerma, 44, of Emden at 5:25 p.m. Friday in the 1800 block of Route 121 on a charge of driving while license revoked.
Lincoln Police arrested Michael R. Thompson, 53, of Lincoln at 7:26 p.m. Friday at his residence on a charge of domestic battery.
Lincoln Police arrested Julie A. Landers, 47, of Riverton at 11:13 p.m. Friday on Union at 19th Street on charges of aggravated battery and aggravated reckless driving.
Lincoln Police arrested Walker L. Sturgeon, 19, of Lincoln at 8:44 a.m. Saturday on a Logan County warrant for failure to appear on a charge of criminal damage to property.
Lincoln Police arrested Nick M. Fisher, 37, of Lincoln at 12:40 p.m. Saturday at his residence on a charge of leaving the scene of an accident.
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Farkhunda Zahra Naderi | Afghan Parliamentarian and Women Activist
Farkhunda Zahra Naderi was a member of the High Council for National Reconciliation in Afghanistan until August 2022.
Naderi was nominated by UNDP for its N-Peace Award in 2012 and won the award on behalf of Afghanistan through an electronic voting system. She was the only female representative from Afghanistan who participated in three consecutive unofficial Chantilly Conferences in Paris (2010-2012). In 2015 she participated in an informal Track II with the Taliban in Norway.
Naderi is a former MP and represented Kabul from 2010 to Jun 2015 in the Afghan Parliament. At university, she concentrated on women's role within Afghan power, where she became convinced that the absence of Afghan women in the Supreme Court is the real challenge for the symbolic presence of women in Afghan politics. Therefore, in her parliamentary campaign, Naderi promised to fight for women's participation in the Supreme Court. She succeeded to break the taboo by raising voice in the parliament, working with civil society to political groups from national to international levels. Eventually, for the first time in the history of Afghanistan, a female judge was introduced in the Supreme Court by President Ghani.
On March 26, 2013, Naderi's actions resulted in a change in the role of Afghan Parliamentarians from participatory delegates to politically active players in the Inter Parliamentarian Union (IPU) by being elected as the first Afghan MP to one of the three Standing Committees; the Committee on Democracy and Human Rights. In March 2014, she became the President of the mentioned committee through election.
From 12 Dec 2016 to 04 Nov 2018 Naderi was appointed as the Senior Advisor to the President of Afghanistan on UN Affairs. During her service Naderi expanded her position into a small institution (the senior advisory office) where she with her team with the support of UN counterparts prepared the document of One UN with two attachments of mutual accountability and Action Plans to the President. The document was designed to direct the activities of UN agencies in a more coordinated, effective and sustainable manner. Furthermore, through the senior advisory office, Naderi opened the door of the Arg (Afghan Presidency) to the general public especially to youth by establishing the Arg and Citizen Debate, the Citizen Wall and the Civil Society Dialogue.
Naderi commenced her primary and secondary education in Afghanistan, completed her baccalaureate in 2001 in the UK. In 2007, Naderi graduated with a BA in Legal Studies from Westminster International University in Tashkent.
She was selected as a Young Global Leader 2016 by the World Economic Forum.
Chadari Foundation, established in 2009 by Farkhunda Zahra Naderi works for women's rights in Afghanistan. It focuses on women's education, women in politics, women in the judiciary system, women in business, women in sports, and women's engagement in media and cultural activities.
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Dharmaraksita (Pali: Dhammarakkhita) was one of the missionaries sent by the Mauryan emperor Ashoka to proselytize the Buddhist faith. He is described as being a Greek (Pali: «Yona», lit. «Ionian») in the Mahavamsa, and his activities are indicative of the strength of the Hellenistic Greek involvement during the formative centuries of Buddhism.
Greek communities had been present in neighbouring Bactria and in nortwestern India since the time of the conquests of Alexander the Great around 323 BCE, and developed into the Greco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek kingdoms until the end of the 1st century BCE. Greeks were generally described in ancient times throughout the Classical world as «Yona», «Yonaka», «Yojanas» or «Yavanas», lit. "Ionians».
It seems they were ardent recipients of the Buddhist faith and the example of Dharmaraksita indicates that they even took an active role in spreading Buddhism as leading missionaries.
Dharmaraksita is then described in important Buddhist Pali historial texts, the Dipavamsa and the Mahavamsa, as being a Greek Buddhist missionary, in charge of propagating the faith to the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent.
The thera, MaMdeva he sent to Mahisamandala.
but the thera Maharakkhita he sent into the country of the Yona.
and to Suvambhurni he sent the two theras Sona and Uttara.
The country of Aparantaka has been identified as the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent, and comprises Northern Gujarat, Kathiawar, Kachch, and Sindh, the area where Greek communities were probably concentrated. To this day, a city in Gujarat is named Junagadh, originally «Yonagadh», lit. «City of the Greeks».
In another Pali reference, a Buddhist monk from Sri Lanka named Punabbasukutumbikaputta Tissa Thera is said to have been to India in order to study with «the Yonaka Dhammarakkhita», whereupon he attained the «patisambhida» (analytical knowledge). (VibhA.389, Sammoha-Vinodaní, Vibhanga Commentary).
The Milinda Panha is another famous non-canonical Pali Buddhist text that describes the religious dialogues between the famous Indo-Greek king Menander, whose kingdom was in Sagala in today's Punjab, and a Buddhist monk called Nagasena, around 160 BCE. It is today one of the texts of reference of Theravada Buddhism.
According to the Milinda Panha (I 32-35), the monk Nagasena, before his encounter with Menander, was once a student of Dharmaraksita and learnt Buddhism and reached enlightenment as an arhat under his guidance in Pataliputra.
«Nâgasena went on to the Asoka Park to Dhammarakkhita. And after saluting him, and telling him on what errand he had come, he learnt by heart, from the mouth of the venerable Dhammarakkhita, the whole of the three baskets of the Buddha's word in three months, and after a single recital, so far as the letter (that is, knowing the words by heart) was concerned. And in three months more he mastered the spirit (that is, the deeper meaning of the sense of the words).
This event took place roughly a hundred years after the missionary efforts of Ashoka, and it would suggest that Dharmaraksita was a young man under Ashoka, became a respected elder settled in the Ashokan capital of Pataliputra, and then trained a young Nagasena in the Tripitaka and towards enlightenment, before Nagasena himself met Menander at a venerable age .
The Milinda Panha therefore seems to relate the dialogue between a great Greek king, Menander, with a monk trained in Buddhism by the great Greek Buddhist elder Dharmaraksita, tending to suggest the importance of Greeks during the first formative centuries of Buddhism.


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Amendments being tabled by Labour and Conservative Remainers are due to be voted on next Tuesday, and include measures to force Article 50 to be delayed or revoked, or trigger a second referendum.
The Irish backstop - an insurance policy to avoid the return of a hard border between the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland - is the most contentious element of British Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal which was overwhelmingly rejected by parliament last week.
She also played down expectations the European Union could agree to extend Article 50 to give the United Kingdom more time to negotiate beyond the current divorce date on 29 March, saying: "Where is the added value of the new British suggestion?"
He said Labour would back an amendment next week that would rule out the "disaster" of a no-deal Brexit - and he challenged her to confirm that she would do that if MPs voted for it.
Sammy Wilson, the Brexit spokesman for the Democratic Unionist Party, said: "More belligerent bluffing from the European Union in a desperate attempt to up the ante".
But Mr Corbyn dismissed the talks as "a PR sham", telling MPs: "The Prime Minister must change her red lines, because her current deal is undeliverable".
It is also created to keep on board different wings of the party which back a "Norway-style" Brexit and a second referendum.
"We need bold action", he was quoted as saying.
The Labour leader said he would not take part until a no-deal Brexit was taken off the table, a position also taken by the SNP following an initial meeting between Mrs May and Westminster leader Ian Blackford.
The 650-seat parliament is deeply divided over Brexit, with different factions of lawmakers supporting a wide range of options including leaving without a deal, holding a second referendum and seeking a customs union with the EU. PM May acknowledged that after her Brexit deal failed to pass, the government's approach had to change and has since been working with a variety of political leaders of the House of Commons aiming to gain additional support for a deal.
More amendments may be forthcoming - which could allow lawmakers to insist that the "no deal" option be removed, that a second referendum be held or that the Irish border backstop be time-limited. "It is a bit of a mystery to me what the British government wants to negotiate with Dublin or what sort of an additional agreement it should be", he told German television.
As pressure grew, Tory MP Nadine Dorries last night said her Brexiteer colleagues were realising that they must support Mrs May's plan to avoid "Europhile Kamikaze MPs" taking charge.
She will then "take the conclusions of these discussions back to the EU".
Sir Stephen Laws QC, the Government's former top constitutional lawyer, says he can foresee a situation where Government ministers would ask the Queen to withhold Royal Assent from a bill to prevent it becoming law, a scenario he fears would have "potentially horrific, constitutional consequences". Given that a chaotic countdown to a disastrous "no deal" Brexit - in which the UK crashes out of the EU single market and customs union - would poison UK-EU relations for decades to come, no responsible politician should even entertain the possibility.
"The #GFA is an worldwide peace treaty, lodged with the @UN - it also has a mandate of 94% in Ireland and 71% in Northern Ireland". Downing Street said it was "extremely concerned" by the backbenchers' moves.


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GO-GO Gent Roller Derby is a women's flat track roller derby league based in Ghent, Belgium. Founded in 2008, the league currently consists of an All-star travel team and a B-team which compete against teams from other leagues. GO-GO Gent is a member of the Women's Flat Track Derby Association (WFTDA).

History
GO-GO Gent Roller Girls was the first roller derby league in Belgium, with the Antwerp-based One Love Roller Dolls quickly following their lead. GO-GO Gent was accepted as apprentice members of the Women's Flat Track Derby Association in January 2011, and graduated to full membership in December 2012. In December 2011, GO-GO Gent and One Love were named as the top two Belgian leagues by Het Laatste Nieuws.

Their intraleague home bout in January 2011 was the first ever roller derby event to be organized in Belgium. The Mad Megs beat the Bells of Mayhem and the league instantly gained a fanbase in their hometown.

Bouts
The GO-GO Gent travel team was victorious in their bouts against the Paris Rollergirls and RuhrPott RollerGirls. Other previous opponents include the Stuttgart Valley Rollergirlz, Bear City Roller Derby and Copenhagen Roller Derby. They hosted the Brighton Rockers Roller Derby travel team on their Think Pink! breastcancer awareness themed home bout on 10 March 2012.

WFTDA rankings

References

Sport in Ghent
Roller derby leagues established in 2008
Women's Flat Track Derby Association Division 3
Roller derby leagues in Belgium
2008 establishments in Belgium

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All about "a hard days night mono"
A Hard Day's Night (Stereo - 2009 remaster)
By The Beatles • Official album • Part of the collection "The Beatles • The Original Studio Recordings (2009)"
Apple, EMI
A Hard Day's Night (Mono)
A Hard Day's Night (Stereo)
By The Beatles
This album has been recorded during the following studio sessions
"Komm, gib mir deine Hand / Sie liebt dich" session #1
"A Hard Day's Night" session #1
"A Hard Day's Night" session #10
A Hard Day's Night (2014 reissue)
A Hard Day's Night (Mono - 2014 vinyl)
A Hard Day's Night (Japan - 2014)
Extracts from the Film A Hard Day's Night
Extracts from the Album A Hard Day's Night
A Hard Day's Night - Studio Sessions - Back To Basics
A Hard Day's Night - Studio Sessions - Back To Basics - Vol. 2
The Beatles' mono and stereo remasters announced
Written by Lennon - McCartney
2:33 • Studio version • C2009 • Stereo • 2009 stereo remaster
Paul McCartney :
Bass, Vocals
Ringo Starr :
Bongos, Drums
John Lennon :
Electric and acoustic rhythm guitars, Vocals
George Harrison :
George Martin :
Piano, Producer
Norman Smith :
Guy Massey :
Remastering
Steve Rooke :
Allan Rouse :
Project co-ordinator
Session Recording:
Studio :
EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
Session Mixing:
EMI Studios, Studio One, Abbey Road
I Should Have Known Better
2:43 • Studio version • B2009 • Stereo • 2009 stereo remaster
Acoustic rhythm guitar, Harmonica, Vocals
If I Fell
Acoustic rhythm guitar, Vocals
I'm Happy Just To Dance With You
Backing vocals, Bass
Arabian drum, Drums
Backing vocals, Rhythm guitar
Rhythm guitar, Vocals
Acoustic rhythm guitar
Acoustic lead guitar, Claves
Bass, Harmony vocals
Lead vocals, Rhythm guitar
Harmony vocals, Lead guitar
Geoff Emerick :
Second engineer
Hi-hat, Recording engineer
EMI Pathé Marconi Studios, Boulogne-sur-Seine, France
Any Time At All
Backing vocals, Bass, Piano
I'll Cry Instead
Acoustic rhythm guitar, Tambourine, Vocals
Drums, Tambourine
Acoustic rhythm guitar, Piano
When I Get Home
Backing vocals, Lead vocals, Rhythm guitar
Backing vocals, Lead guitar
You Can't Do That
Backing vocals, Bass, Cowbell
Conga, Drums
Lead guitar, Vocals
12-string rhythm guitar, Backing vocals
Acoustic rhythm guitar, Lead vocals
Harmony vocals, Lead acoustic guitar
The Beatles' third album in less than eighteen months was released on 10th July, 1964 to accompany the arrival in cinemas of their first movie. Filming for A Hard Day's Night had begun just eight days after returning from their first American trip when three appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show had ensured Beatlemania swept the country. In the first week of April, 1964, all Top Five singles in the Billboard Hot 100 were by The Beatles with another seven of their songs listed in the chart. During the early months of 1964, their success spread all around the world and in June they played concerts in Denmark, the Netherlands, Hong Kong, Australia and New Zealand.
The thirteen songs on the British version of A Hard Day's Night were divided so that the seven tracks heard in the film were grouped together on side one and the non-movie material was on side two. Several of the songs feature the characteristic jangle of George Harrison's recently acquired Rickenbacker twelve-string guitar; a distinctive sound that proved very influential. A Hard Day's Night is the only Beatles LP on which every song is credited to Lennon and McCartney. The album reached number one in the UK at the end of July, 1964 and remained there for 21 out of its 38 weeks in the Top Twenty.
The American version of A Hard Day's Night also quickly climbed to number one and stayed at the top for fourteen of the 51 weeks it was listed in the chart. It was released as a film soundtrack album on United Artists, the company that also distributed the movie. It featured only eight performances by the Beatles: seven songs from side one of the British album plus an extended version of side two's 'I'll Cry Instead', which had once been considered for the film. The other four tracks were George Martin's orchestral arrangements of songs from the movie, including 'Ringo's Theme (This Boy)'.
A month later, Capitol Records compiled a new Beatles LP called Something New. It featured four songs from the movie and four from side two of the British album, including 'I'll Cry Instead'. Despite having five tracks in common, for nine weeks Something New was at number two in the American chart while A Hard Day's Night held number one.
Their first film had been planned in late 1963 before any glimmer of Stateside success. Upon its release, it played a significant role in showcasing the group's music and image not only in the USA but throughout the world. At the end of 1964, the group's assimilation of new musical and lyrical ideas was evident in the sound of their next LP Beatles For Sale…
Recording Notes
Produced by George Martin
Principal Engineer: Norman Smith
'Can't Buy Me Love' is the earliest recording on A Hard Day's Night. When the group were in Paris for a three-week season of concerts at the Olympia Theatre, they visited EMI Pathe Marconi Studios to record German language versions of two recent hits—'I Want To Hold Your Hand' and 'She Loves You'—and their next single 'Can't Buy Me Love'. This Beatles session on 29th January, 1964 was the only time the group recorded in a studio outside the UK.
On their return from a two-week promotional tour of the USA, the group quickly recorded songs for their forthcoming film in four days of sessions at Abbey Road between 25th February and 1st March. They had dispensed with the twin-track recording of their previous two albums and were now using four-track tape machines, which allowed much greater flexibility. Although four-track recording had been available at Abbey Road studios since the beginning of the sixties, it had usually been reserved for 'easy listening' sessions with orchestras and featured vocalists. The Beatles first recorded on four-track in October, 1963 and continued to do so until eight-track became available during sessions for The Beatles ('The White Album') in the summer of 1968.
A four-track machine enabled The Beatles and George Martin to expand arrangements and also provided opportunities to repair mistakes in an instrumental or vocal overdub by 'dropping in'. This studio expression describes the process of playing back a tape to the musicians in the studio, close to the point where an overdub went wrong, dropping into record on the selected track and then dropping out of it as soon as the repair is made. This facility also made it possible for vocals and instruments to be recorded on the same track at different places, provided they did not overlap.
The title track was recorded in three hours during the morning of 16th April, 1964 and is a good example of how the four recording tracks were used both efficiently and creatively. The rhythm section of drums, bass and guitar was sent to track one, while John and Paul's vocals were recorded at the same time on track two. After four false starts and five complete performances, take nine was chosen as the master onto which overdubs were made using the two remaining tracks. Bongos, cowbell, acoustic guitar and double-track vocals from John and Paul were added to track three. The final track contained George Martin's piano playing on the opening chord and the solo plus George Harrison's guitar part at the end of the song.
A Hard Day's Night was completed in 65 hours spread across seventeen days—the last on 22nd June, 1964 was a nine-hour mixing session.
This remastered album has been created from the original stereo analogue master tapes.
Remastered by Guy Massey and Steve Rooke
Project Co-ordinator: Allan Rouse
Thanks to Simon Gibson
Historical Notes: Kevin Howlett and Mike Heatley
Recording Notes: Allan Rouse and Kevin Howlett
Project management for EMI Records Ltd: Wendy Day and Guy Hayden
All songs published by Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC.
Digital Remaster ® 2009 The copyright in this sound recording is owned by EMI Records Ltd. © 2009 EMI Records Ltd. This label copy information is the subject of copyright protection. All rights reserved.
Artwork © 2009 Apple Corps Ltd. All photographs © Apple Corps Ltd., except where otherwise stated.
Album Redesign: Drew Lorimer
Photo Retouching: Gavin O'Neill
Photo editing and research: Aaron Bremner and Dorcas Lynn


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This machine previously booted with Haiku, but I had to change out the ide bus manager for ata in order to get through a boot, and then it ran REALLY slowly, like took 10 minutes to boot, and ran like it was at 100% CPU all the time.
Will try the ata bus manager again to see if that yields different results, otherwise see attached serial output.
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New poll: Obama opens substantial leads in OHIO, PENNSYLVANIA AND FLORIDA!
(CBS News) With less than six weeks until Election Day, President Obama has opened up significant leads over Mitt Romney in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Florida, according to a new Quinnipiac University/CBS News/New York Times poll of likely voters.
Mr. Obama holds a 10-point lead in Ohio among those who say they will definitely vote, a lead propelled by a 25-point advantage among women. Romney holds an 8-point lead among men. The president holds a 35-point edge among voters under 35 years old, and a 5-point lead among those ages 35-64; the two candidates are effectively tied among Ohio seniors.
Mr. Obama also holds a huge lead among women in Pennsylvania, where his advantage overall stands at 12 points. The president leads his opponent by 21-points among women, and they are split among men. The two candidates also split the support of whites, but the president holds an 87 percent to 11 percent lead among nonwhites. Romney holds a 5-point lead among Pennsylvania seniors, but that is more than offset by the president's 14-point lead among those ages 35-64 and 34-point lead among those under 35.
In Florida, Mr. Obama's edge over Romney has risen from three points before the political conventions to nine points today. His gains are due to improved performance among women, white voters and seniors ... Two in three Florida likely voters support the DREAM Act policies put in place by the president to allow young illegal immigrants who came to the country as children to obtain work permits and not face deportation.
Here are the overall figures: Mr. Obama leads 53 percent to 43 percent in Ohio. He leads 54 percent to 42 percent in Pennsylvania. And he leads 53 percent to 44 percent in Florida. In all three states, the president is seen as better able to handle the economy. And in all three states, majorities of voters think Romney's policies will favor the rich.


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Virendra Singh is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party and has won the 2019 Indian general elections from the Ballia (Lok Sabha constituency). He is national president of BJP kisan Morcha.

As state president of BJP Kisan Morcha, he started "Gaon Chalo Abhiyaan" to promote awareness among farmers and villagers especially in the field of agriculture.

Early life and education

Virendra Singh was born on 21 October 1956 to Shri Ramnath Singh and Smt. Draupadi Singh. He was born in a village named Dokati, which is located in Ballia district in Uttar Pradesh. Virendra Singh completed his Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) from Banaras Hindu University (B.H.U.). He married Renu Singh on 19 June 1981.

Political career

1988-1989: District President, Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha
1989-1992: District President, Bharatiya Janata Party (B.J.P.)
1991: Elected to 10th Lok Sabha
1996-98: State President, Kisan Morcha (BJP)
1998: Re-elected to 12th Lok Sabha (2nd term)
2000-2004: State Coordinator, Swadeshi Jagran Manch
May, 2014: Re-elected to 16th Lok Sabha (3rd term)
May, 2019: Re-elected to 17th Lok Sabha (4th term)
1 Sep. 2014 onwards: Member, Committee on Papers Laid on the Table; Member, Standing Committee on Agriculture; Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers

References

Living people
India MPs 2014–2019
People from Bhadohi district
Lok Sabha members from Uttar Pradesh
Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Uttar Pradesh
1956 births
India MPs 1991–1996
India MPs 1998–1999
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Hockey India To Restructure Domestic Events, National Championships To Have New Format From Next Year
The national championships will have a new format from next year as the Hockey India has decided to restructure its domestic competitions with an aim to maximise athlete participation and develop the game in states, union territories, institutional units and academies. The decision was taken by the Hockey India (HI) Executive Board recently. The events which will be restructured are sub-junior, junior and senior national championships for both men and women of HI's registered state member units, Public Sector Units/Departmental Units and academy member units respectively.
According to the restructured model, a player will be eligible to represent his or her team in only one of the events.
"Further, an athlete will only be allowed to participate in one of the age-group categories i.e. sub-junior or junior or senior to ensure more athletes are given the opportunity to participate in India's top domestic events," read an HI statement.
"As part of the qualification process for the state member units to participate in the Hockey India National Championships, it will be mandatory for each state member to conduct their state level championships in each category prior to the annual National Championships."
HI president Mohd Mushtaque Ahmad said the previous system of hosting the national championships in A and B division for various age-groups will no longer exist.
"The previous system of A and B division will no longer prevail but instead we have categorised the annual National Championships where all state members units will compete in sub-junior, junior and senior age-groups for men and women," he said.
"All PSUs (Public Sector Undertakings) and departmental units will come under a separate category and compete among each other in junior and senior Category (men and women) and a third category that is exclusively for academy member units will compete in the sub-junior and junior National Championships (men and women)."
Ahmad said the purpose of the restructuring is to encourage more states, union territories, institutional units and academy members to pursue hockey and develop players from their regions.
Tournament policy and guidelines will continue to remain the same and every national championship event will be played on a league-cum-knock out basis, with pools depending on the final numbers of teams participating.
The tournaments will be conducted as per the latest International Hockey Federation (FIH) rules of the game.
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Behold Julia Galef's SK5 Talk Transcript!
Published by Lauren Lane on December 17, 2012 December 17, 2012
What follows is a transcript and video of Julia's talk from SK5, super special thanks to Karou Negisa for typing them up for us!
Presenter: You may know our next speaker from her podcast, "Rationally Speaking" or her blog, "Measure of Doubt", Julia Galef.
[audience applause]
Julia Galef: Hey, everyone. Can you hear me? [Inaudible] Can you hear me now?
Audience: Yes.
Galef: Great. So, my story begins…my story *will* begin…While we're setting up, I'll just tell a little more about myself. I am the host of the podcast "Rationally Speaking," which is sponsored by the New York City Skeptics, but I'm also more recently the president of a new organization called the Center for Applied Rationality, so I'm no longer based in New York, I'm living in Berkley, California running this new organization more than full time. And so I fly back to New York every month and a half to record a bunch of podcast episodes and pass them out.
Alright, I think my story is about to begin. It is! My story begins in Burma on a hot day in the late 1920s where a young British officer named Eric Blair was stationed. Eric received some bad news. A work elephant had broken free of its chains and was on a rampage in the town and he was needed to track it down and if necessary subdue it.
So Eric got his gun, went off in search of the beast, and as he tracked it through the town he amassed a crowd of interested onlookers who were all following him eerily awaiting the confrontation. When he finally found the elephant, it was grazing in a field. And when he saw it he realized two things: first, that the elephant was now calm and posed no danger to anyone, and that he had neither the justification nor the desire to kill it. And second that the crowd of now roughly 2,000 people behind him, waiting and watching, expected him to shoot the elephant, but if he didn't he would look foolish and weak.
Eric shot the elephant in the head. It didn't die, so he shot it again. And again and again, until he finally gave up and left it there to die a slow and painful death. Eric Blair later adopted the pen name George Orwell and he wrote about his experience in an essay entitled, "Shooting the Elephant," and this is the last line of the essay: "I often wondered whether any of the others had any inkling that I had done it solely to avoid looking a fool." [Note: Galef's spoken words are different than the ones projected on the screen]
So, what I think is striking about this story, what I want to highlight, is how clearly we can see these two separate decision-making systems, both wrestling for control of George Orwell's decision.
The first, having been programmed to avoid looking weak in front of your fellow primates, and the second which was able to reason that shooting the elephant would be unnecessary and cruel.
So the first is one of many examples – the system that is afraid of looking foolish – is one of many examples of a decision-making rule or impulse that evolved because it was evolutionarily beneficial to our genes. It helped our genes spread. But which now in modern context gets triggered in ways in which it no longer applies, like being in front of a crowd of people who you don't know and don't need to impress and are never are going to see again.
So in this case, George Orwell, rather than reflecting on his values, deferred to this instinctual, ancient drive which evolved for a separate purpose – that of genetic proliferation – and in a separate time and place. And when we make decisions for our future and the future of our world, it's crucial we don't make the same mistake.
You're probably familiar with some of the ways our brains go awry when they try to make decisions in the modern world, like for example the fact that we're constantly craving fat and sugar, which is a drive that was definitely helpful to our ancestors back on the Savannah when they needed the motivation to get enough calories to survive, but which today in our era of modern abundance produces things like this.
[yummy sound, audience laughs]
So the thing is this happens also with the way that we reason and evaluate claims. So when someone makes a claim to you, anything, "the moon is made of green cheese," "marijuana causes cancer," whatever. There's a lot of questions your brain could ask that would help you ascertain how much trust to put in the claim, how seriously to take it. Like, "Where did this person, who's making the claim get their information?" or "Can I think of any evidence that contradicts this claim?" or "What would the world look like if this claim were true compared to if it were false?"
But those are not the questions that the human brain automatically asks unprompted. Our brains instead prefer to ask hard hitting questions like, "How symmetric are the facial features of the person telling me this?", which I wish was an exaggeration, but it is in fact the case that you will be given the benefit of the doubt more by jurors if you're on trial, by the electorate if you're campaigning, and by parents and teachers if you're a child if you are facially attractive.
What else does our intuitive epistemology find persuasive? Well, personal, vivid anecdotes. So the claim that vaccination is responsible for the rise in the diagnoses of autism has been thoroughly disproven beyond a shred of reasonable doubt by study after large epidemiological study, and yet there are still tens of thousands of parents like celebrity Jenny McCarthy for whom that vast body of scientific research cannot hold a candle in terms of its evidentiary weight to a single emotionally fraught example of a child who developed autism shortly after being vaccinated. Which is why McCarthy likes to dismiss the scientific consensus by saying, "My son is my science."
Another type of question that the human brain seems to unjustifiably put a lot of weight in is, "How do I feel emotionally about this issue that I'm considering?" So, for example, natural foods, people feel warm and positive about, but that's only very loosely connected to the questions that we actually care about, like, "How healthy is it compared to a conventional food?" or "How good is it for the environment as compared to a conventional food?"
And conversely, we have negative associations with nuclear power. It conjures up creepy things like mushroom clouds and Blinky the Fish. And that's totally understandable, but again those emotional reactions are only roughly correlated with the really important question, which is, "How many lives does nuclear power save or cost compared to other sources of energy?"
So using intuitive emotional connections as a cue to—or as a proxy for what the consequences of a decision are going to be, was probably a pretty good heuristic back on the savannah when the issues we were considering were, "Should I run away from the rapidly enlarging spot on the horizon?" or "Should I try to mate with that cavelady with makes me feel happy?" They're just much less reliable proxies for the kind of issues that really matter today. And relying on emotional cues as a heuristic for what to do is especially danger when the questions you're considering involve large scale loss of human life.
So, this is a scene from one of my favorite movies, The Third Man. On the right there is a character named Harry Lime who's played by Orson Wells and he has been profiting in post-war Vienna by selling counterfeit medicine and as a result hundreds of children have died from meningitis because they haven't gotten the medicine they needed. So in this scene he's up in a Ferris wheel with his old friend, Holly, and Holly is taking him to task for his actions.
[button clicks] Oh, that doesn't work. [button clicks] [button clicks] Oh, that didn't work, either. [button clicks] Alright, I will tell you what he says.
So Holly asks him, "Did you ever see one of your victims?" And Harry Lime sort of makes a shrugging expression and he opens the door to the Ferris wheel and gestures to Holly to look down, they're high up now, high up in the sky, and he gestures to look down at the ground and he says, "Look down there at those dots moving around on the ground way below us. Would you really feel very much pity if one of those dots stopped moving forever? If somebody offered you $100,000 for every dot that stopped moving, would you really tell me, old man, to keep my money, or would you calculate how many dots you could afford to spare?"
And hopefully none of us are poised to become the next Harry Lime, but we do share one thing in common with him which is our ability to feel completely emotionless at large scale loss of human life if that information is presented to us in an abstract way, like dots on the ground or like numbers in a newspaper.
So Paul Slovak who is a cognitive psychologist who has done a lot of great work on rationality and cognitive biases , he's also on the board of advisors of my organization, and some of his most striking and disturbing work is on this issue of scope and sensitivity when information is presented abstractly. And he's demonstrated repeatedly that people are more moved and more willing to donate to save a single child than save a large group of children. And this phenomenon way before Orson Wells illustrated it and before Paul Slovak proved it was observed pithily by a writer you might have heard of called [difficult to understand Russian name that this transcriber can't hear very well, but is not Stalin, sorry] who said, "One death, that's a catastrophe. 100,000 dead, that's a statistic."
So a corollary to this phenomenon is that our brains can barely distinguish, emotionally, between vastly different orders of magnitude of human life. I couldn't possibly say this better than Eliezer Yudkowsky, so I'm just going to quote him here, "The human brain cannot release enough neurotransmitters to feel emotion a thousand times as strong as the grief of one funeral. A perspective risk going from 10 million death to 100 million deaths does not multiply by ten the strength of our determination to stop it, it adds one more zero on paper for your eyes to glaze over."
And the decisions we are increasingly faced with today are not the decisions our brains are optimized to make, our brains didn't evolve to make. How should we deal with risks like a warming climate or nuclear proliferation or the risk of a new pandemic emerging? What are the perspective consequences if we pursue technology like nanotechnology or genetic engineering or cloning? What are the expected consequences if we don't, and what are corresponding probabilities on all of those possibilities?
These decisions we've never had to make, decisions like theses, on this scale of complexity and abstraction and over such long-term horizons. And we've never had to make decisions that have had stakes this high: we can't afford to get these wrong. So, that's why I and several of my friends founded the Center for Applied Rationality.
[button clicks] Oops. Founded the Center [button clicks] for Applied Rationality [button clicks] Ok, there we go.
We're an evidence-based non-profit founded to give people more understanding and control over their own decisions. The techniques that we teach are derived from probability theory and decision theory which provide us with models for the ideal way to reason based on evidence and to make decisions based on your goals. Then we combine them with research from cognitive science about how the brain actually reasons and makes decisions and where we tend to go awry. And then we turn these techniques into everyday skills which people can learn in workshops like this, skills like how to make more accurate predictions, how to weigh risks, how to avoid deceiving yourself and how to have productive arguments. So I'm going to share with you today a few principles that we at CFAR believe are crucial to actually making people more rational.
Principle #1: People don't like being told they're not rational. [audience and Galef laugh] I know, we were surprised, too. Who knew?
This is the first panel of a Calvin and Hobbes strip, Calvin's selling "a swift kick in the butt for the low price of $1." This is the rest of the strip. So just replace "a swift kick in the butt" with "rationality" and you'll have some sense of the challenge we're up against here with our project.
But that brings me to principle #2 which is that if you want people to become more rational, you have to teach them how to use rationality on things that they care about. Their relationships, their health, their career choices, their finances, their day-to-day happiness. If people are going to go through the work, and it is work, of learning and practicing rationality, they're going to do it because they expect it to pay off in terms of things that they value.
And it does pay off. It really pays to notice your own cognitive biases. Just to take one example, a student of rationality was offered a job in Silicon Valley that would pay him $70,000 per year more than he was currently earning. He was reluctant to take it because it would mean moving away from his hometown where his friends and his family lived. So he tried a simple trick that we call a reframing. He asked himself, "If I already had this job in Silicon Valley, how would I feel about taking a $70,000 per year pay cut in order to live closer to my friends and family?" And when framed like that, the answer was a much clearer, "Oh, no, I wouldn't be willing to do that." Which was really instructive because it suggested that his initial reluctance to take the job was based, much more than he realized, on what is called the "Status Quo bias" in which we feel an attachment to whatever happens to be the case, regardless of what our actual preferences are.
It also pays to notice the unexamined beliefs that you have kicking around in your head that you might have been actually acting on and making important life decisions on, despite having never consciously asking yourself, "Do I believe this to be the case?" So, I teach a class called "Epistemic Spring Cleaning" in which we go through some of the common sources of unexamined beliefs like our parents, our community, our culture, the fiction we grew up with, and we bring them our into the light and we ask, "Do we have good reason to believe these?"
So, the board after every one of these classes is just filled with cached beliefs that people have in many cases been acting on without ever thinking about, like "Intellectual pursuits are more virtuous," "men don't cry," "you shouldn't try to change people's minds."
And this is not to say that every belief you uncover during epistemic spring cleaning is one you should necessarily reject, just that any belief that is actively shaping your life decisions is one you should be consciously thinking about. So that's another big part of rationality.
And the last thing I'll say about why it's important to teach people rationality on real life domains is— one of the biggest challenges to becoming more rational, and that's called "domain transfer." That term refers to you could abstractly learn and completely understand the principle of rationality in one domain, like the classroom, and then completely fail to see when and how to apply it in real life.
So, I can personally testify to this. When I was an undergraduate I was considering going into academia and I asked a bunch of professors who I knew, "How do you like your jobs? Do you recommend it as a career for a young person like me?" And they were generally very positive [audience laughs], which I took to be a really encouraging sign. And it occurred to me years later that I had only been surveying professors who liked academia enough to stick around and all of the people who knew up front that academia was going to be awful or, you know, who didn't like it and left, were not in the sample of people that I was actually talking to.
This is a textbook example of a basic statistical fallacy called selection bias in which the sample that you're looking at is not representative of the population that you're trying to learn about. And I was a statistics major, so this gives you some sense of the challenge of overcoming domain transfer, which is why we teach on the actual problems that people want to make decisions about—want to make good decisions about.
So, principle #3 of teaching rationality: Community is Key. And this isn't just because it's more fun to learn rationality around people who are your friends or who you're forming bonds with, although it is. There's a more fundamental reason why this is important. The most useful, the most important skill in learning rationality is not learning to overcome selection bias or status quo bias or any of the other biases. It's a more meta skill and it's the skill of actually wanting to figure out the truth more than you want to win a particular argument or more than you want to prove yourself right. And this is a skill that some few people seem to have been born with or seem to have been brought up with, but what about the rest of us?
Well, we're all primates, as we know, and primates are influenced by the primates around them . And so what we at CFAR are doing, in the background of all of the specific classes that we run, teaching people about specific skills and biases, is that we're creating this culture where people are rewarded and applauded for being willing to change their mind when they encounter good arguments or new evidence. This has been one of the most exciting things for me, to see this culture develop. I can't tell you how gratifying it is to be around people who say things to each other like, "Oh, you're right, that's a good point, I'm changing my mind." Or people who treat disagreements as opportunities to work together to figure out the truth, rather than as battles where the goal is to win.
One of my favorite embodiments of this principle comes from Richard Dawkins, it's a story about his time in the Zoology department in Oxford. This is the Golgi apparatus, which is a structure in the cell that distributes macro-molecules around the cell. And when Dawkins was at Oxford, there was an elderly professor in the department who was famous for his claim that the Golgi apparatus was illusory, that it was an artifact of observation, that it didn't actually exist.
So one day a visiting professor from the States came to give a talk at Oxford in which he presented new and compelling evidence that the Golgi apparatus was, in fact, real. So, as you can imagine, throughout the whole talk everyone is glancing over at the elderly professor like, "How's he taking this? What's he going to say?" And at the end of the talk, the elderly professor marches up to the front of the lecture hall and he extends his hand and he says, "My dear fellow, I wish to thank you. I have been wrong these 15 years." And Dawkins describes how the lecture hall erupted in applause and he says, "To this day, the memory of the incident still brings a lump to my throat."
And I'll be honest, it brings a lump to my throat every single time I tell that story. That is the kind of person I want to be, that is the kind of person I want to inspire other people to be, [audience begins applauding] and that's the kind of person I want making important decisions about the future of our world.
There's one more thing about the project of improving human rationality that I find particularly inspiring. This is a scene from one of my other favorite movies, this is Rutger Hauer in Bladerunner, and he's playing Roy, a replicant, which is essentially a sophisticated organic robot, and he was created by human to defend their colonies. So in this scene he's reaching the end of his short, pre-programmed life, and the poignancy of his death scene comes from this contrast between the harsh truth that he recognizes and confronts that he was just a machine created by another species to serve their ends without any particular regard to his needs or desires, contrasts between that and that nevertheless he feels as if his life has significance and meaning, and that for lack of a better word, he has a soul. And to me the scene is really poignant because this is the situation in which we as human beings have found ourselves over the last 80 years.
This is the bitter pill that science has offered us in response to our questions about where we came from and what it all means. Turns out we're survival machines created by our genes to make as many of them as possible. And to make matters creepier, our genes don't particularly care about us or our well-being above and beyond our function as gene-copiers. They don't particularly care if we're healthy after we finish making copies of them. They don't particularly care if we are happy. In fact, it's probably better for the proliferation of our genes if we remain stuck on what's called the "hedonic treadmill" in which we're never satisfied with what we have and are always driven to get more and more but then quickly become dissatisfied with it once we get it. And our genes don't care about strangers on the other side of the world or about the distant future of humanity.
But we care. We as autonomous individuals care. And that's why it's so important to have the ability to install new processes in our brains to replace some of the ones our genes have bestowed upon us, so we can fight for the things that we care about. And that's why I see this process of becoming more rational as a crucial step in our quest for self-determination as a species.
There's a cognitive psychologist named Keith Stanovich who's also on our board of advisors and he's written a book expanding on this theme called The Robots' Rebellion, which I highly recommend and I'm going to close with a quote from Stanovich. "If you don't want to be the captive of your genes, you had better be rational."
We're CFAR. Visit us online at appliedrationality.org and learn more about what we're doing to further the quest of building a rational future. Thank you.
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Q: Change a movie name with PUT method using forEach and IF Im looking for some help to resolve an exercise.. Im learning about the PUT method and how can i change a movie object... I need to use a forEach, an IF, and a req.body.
The initial code is:
let movies = [
{
    id: 1,
    title: 'Spider-Man',
    duration: 129,
    genre: 'Adventure'
},
{
    id: 2,
    title: 'Toy Story 4',
    duration: 100,
    genre: 'Animation'
},
{
    id: 3,
    title: 'X-Men',
    duration: 113,
    genre: 'Action'
}

];
const express = require('express');
const router = express.Router();
Im adding a
router.put('/movies/:id', function(req, res){ }
but i don't know what to put inside the {}

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i don't know what to put inside the {}

Code that contains logic to update the array.
For example:
router.put('/movies/:id', function(req, res, next) {
  try {
    // get id from :id, parse it to an int
    let id = parseInt(req.params.id, 10) || false

    // validate
    if (!id) {
      let err = new Error('Invalid movie id')
      err.status = 422
      throw err
    }

    // find the movie
    let index = movies.findIndex(v => v.id === id)

    if (index === -1) {
      let err = new Error('Movie not found')
      err.status = 404
      throw err
    }

    // seems good, now lets validate body
    let errors = {}

    // id
    if (!req.body.id) {
      errors.id = 'Id is a required field'
    } else if (isNaN(req.body.id)) {
      errors.id = 'Id is invalid, number required'
    }

    //title
    if (!req.body.title) {
      errors.title = 'Title is a required field'
    } else if (req.body.title.length <= 1) {
      errors.title = 'Title too short, enter greater than 1 character'
    } else if (req.body.title.length >= 255) {
      errors.title = 'Title too long, enter less than 255 characters'
    }

    // duration
    if (typeof req.body.duration === 'undefined') {
      errors.duration = 'Duration is a required field'
    } else if (req.body.duration < 0) {
      errors.duration = 'Duration cannot be negative, enter greater than 0 minute'
    } else if (req.body.duration >= 1440) {
      errors.duration = 'Duration too long, enter less than than 1440 minutes (1 day)'
    }

    //genre
    if (!req.body.genre) {
      errors.genre = 'Genre is a required field'
    }

    // has errors
    if (Object.keys(errors).length) {
      let err = new Error('Invlid inputs')
      err.status = 422
      err.errors = errors
      throw err
    }

    //
    movies[index] = {
      id: req.body.id,
      title: req.body.title,
      duration: req.body.duration,
      genre: req.body.genre
    }

    // send success response
    res.json({
      status: 200
    })
  } catch (err) {
    next(err)
  }
})

Error handler to catch what was thrown from middleware
app.use(function(error, req, res, next) {

  // set response header
  res.status(error.status || 500)

  // is xhr/ajax
  if (req.xhr) {
    res.json(error)
  }
  // not ajax
  else {
    res.render('error', error)
  }
})

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The stress-free way to modernise your sales
By Anders Björklund
Mar 8, 2022 | 7 min
Change is a natural part of working life for any sales organisation that wants to stay modern, and with it is the need for substantial change management. If you do not see your need for consistent change, you're likely stagnating. But because it's normal doesn't mean it's less stressful when significant changes come up in your sales organisation or team.
Change requires everyone to adjust, but morale and productivity shouldn't be catastrophic. So here is my advice when you are about to modernise your sales way of working and facilitate smooth transitions:
First, cultivate a culture of change
When a procedural change creates tension, it's occasionally because your sales organisation and sales reps have grown ineffective. To protect your company against this tendency, your managers need to foster an environment where change is expected.
In the hiring process, communicate the need for adaptability.
Variate where your colleagues work and their daily routines.
Experiment with having your team members work under various managers.
Challenge your sales reps to carry out new tasks.
By doing a few things like these, you partly communicate that you and your company is a dynamic organisation that not only rolls with change but thrives because of it.
Keep sales up to date on planned changes
All colleagues understand that change happens, but it's challenging to recover from a lack of internal transparency.
Make sure you are straightforward with your team throughout the transition and change process. Announce purposes, policies, training or any other shift as soon as possible to avoid rumours.
Explain the thought process and its purpose, demonstrate how the sales and customers benefit and show that you consider your colleagues as much as your customers.
Keep your colleagues informed throughout the process, and let them know all significant milestones.
Create a plan for day-to-day activities
Significant changes can leave people feeling on the outside. So to create a detailed plan for how sales and business activities will proceed during the transition and change period. No one should be unsure about their responsibilities and what they need to do. And make the detailed plan accessible for everyone.
For procedural changes, it is helpful to gradually implement the transition and changes. If you foster a workplace where change is the norm, your colleagues will be able to pivot to new processes with relative ease.
Delegate tasks during the transition
Significant changes often mean a heavier workload for all, so everyone should step in to fill in the gaps. However, it shouldn't fall on a couple of people alone, even if they volunteer. While some decision-makers or managers may want to step in and try to do everything themselves, that's a recipe for failure.
You must try to distribute the new workload evenly to maximise the chances to achieve the desired change. However, keep an eye on possibly increased workload ión all individuals or new tasks to make sure that the responsible individuals can handle them.
Check-in with colleagues regularly
Even well-planned changes and transitions will run into hiccups along the way. Therefore, you must ensure that your colleagues are comfortable with the changes by staying in close communication and interacting with them.
During the transition process, managers should be evident to the rest of the sales organisation. In addition, managers must be available to anyone who has concerns.
It's not enough to say that your office door is open or that they can contact you. As a manager, you must be present, proactive and meet with colleagues one-on-one. Ask them for direct feedback on how the process is going, listen to their concerns, and, if necessary, follow up with a plan of action.
Keep in mind that when there's a significant change, most people will be concerned about how they will be affected. So please give them the information they need so they can feel comfortable.
Involve colleagues in the change process
Involve your colleagues in the change management process fosters a sense of ownership over any transition. Instead of being relegated to passive observers, all colleagues can feel valued by sales team members.
You must include colleagues of all levels on the committees making significant decisions; their input can refine and enhance your new process. Additionally, once you implement a significant change, these colleagues will act as ambassadors for the new methodology to their coworkers. Therefore, approach it the same way you would implement a major software program.
During the change, decision-makers should consult colleagues in the planning stages. You do not want them to feel significant changes have been imposed against their will.
Demonstrate appreciation
Everyone will be under some additional strain during significant transitions and changes. Let your sales reps know how much you appreciate them stepping up. People are more willing to take on additional responsibility and work if they feel like their efforts are recognised.
There's no doubt that modernising your sales and the change it takes can be challenging. But by following the above advice as to your change management guidelines, you might turn a potentially damaging initiative into an opportunity to shore up your well-needed modernisation.
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LIFE IN MOUNTAIN RESCUE
A term(/tərm/)- one word to say it all, one word possessing definition from which clarity and insight describe meaning. A unit of time by which an event, series of events, or role is to be executed marked by a beginning and end.
In one particular situation, a "term" is the term of a specific time, a unit of measure by which an interval is defined. Such is the situation presented here as I reflect on my two years as the president of Portland Mountain Rescue. It has been a unique experience by which God has caused me to grow much like a young plant stretching for the sun- to stretch high enough to gain a view of the surrounds and yet still have enough energy remaining for which to lay fruit; still holding onto roots where I remain true to my identity and to true to the Rescuer of my life.
In this case, I sought out to leave the team better than I found it and more capable to accomplish the mission lying before it. Im not convinced that there is an exact "right" person for the right job, but rather God purposes us each to our days and the roles we play. Perhaps, I was the right one for this season of PMR. Certainly, many more capable and greater men than myself have occupied the office. It was not my vision to sit in that seat but sensing that the vacancy would lend the opportunity both to will and work for His pleasure and glory-I made it my own…for a term.
Counting the cost and hoping it would not be more than I could bear, hoping that it would not tear down- but build up, hoping beyond hope that I could make a difference, I J.Pearce Beissinger became president of PMR. Having inherited a season of internal derangement and discord which years later will likely be written off as the normal course of business, I was slightly daunted that I would not be able to negotiate the softer needs of the team. Like many organizations, growth and success do not come without their own burdens. The internal dialogues and purpose driven motives of a mission so often can run over the very people who seek to work alongside you.
The mission of mountain rescue and safety education does not begin to tell the greatness of this amazing team. Now looking back, I am humbled to have held the office and humbled to think that I was going to do it alone. If not for the great encouragement of my wife and family and of those outstanding members in PMR who actively sought its future success, I would be an empty fool having accomplished nothing. My friends of the Board and of various committees making the wheel hub roll smoothly carried me as I sought to serve them. In synchrony, we dutifully executed the mission together. Looking to the horizon and identifying new goals, new vision, new strategy, Im encouraged that the mission will continue forward. Passing the baton couldn't have happened at a better time, nor to a better man.
For me, there are many more mountains to climb. Im encouraged to serve the future of PMR while looking to the momentous and greater summit of investing in my wife and family, to see my children pursue adventures of their own and to help them when the climbing is rough, even offer a belay… Lastly, but not in the least- my heart is drawn to an even greater climb. My mind drifts to Psalm 24: 3-6 "Who shall ascent the hill of the Lord? And who shall stand in his holy place? He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to what is false and does not swear deceitfully. He will receive blessing from the Lord and righteousness from the God of his salvation."
Investing in the one who has poured himself out for me, I boldly approach the throne of His grace not from any work that I have done but because of his great love, and the sacrifice on the Cross, that I may live for His glory and enjoy Him as he carries me up the hill.
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NHLBI expands blood transfusion safety study to include Zika virus
March 17, 2016, 7:00 AM EDT
WHAT: In response to growing concerns over the mosquito-borne Zika virus, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), part of the National Institutes of Health, has expanded a study in Brazil to see if Zika virus poses a threat to the blood supply. This blood safety study -- which originally focused on another emerging mosquito-borne virus, chikungunya virus -- will help determine if Zika virus can be transmitted through transfusion.
The study is part of a larger international research program -- The Recipient Epidemiology and Donor Evaluation Study III (REDS-III) -- aimed at improving blood transfusion benefits and reducing associated risks. Zika virus, once mainly seen in parts of Asia and Africa, has recently been introduced into the Americas and has rapidly spread, particularly in South America infecting hundreds of thousands. The virus has been tentatively linked to birth defects and neurological disease and could continue its spread toward the United States. There is growing concern over the possibility that the Zika virus could be transmitted through blood transfusions. The Zika virus has been identified in blood and people infected with the virus infection may not show any symptoms. There is a risk a person who unknowingly carries the virus could donate blood, which potentially threatens the blood supply. There is currently no blood screening test available to screen the blood supply for the virus.
Within the REDS-III program, Blood Systems Research Institute in San Francisco is working with the Fundação Faculdade de Medicina and Hospital das Clinicas of the Medical School of the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil. This study plans to enroll up to 3,500 hospital patients receiving blood transfusions in April-May of 2016 and January-June of 2017. The study is examining dengue virus, in addition to Zika and chikungunya. A new research test to simultaneously check for Zika, chikungunya, and dengue is being developed in the US and is expected to be ready for research use by this summer. The Brazil study will collect blood samples in recipients before and after transfusions. The blood samples will then be tested for direct evidence of Zika, chikungunya, and dengue virus using the new research test. Participants will also be evaluated for symptoms that could be caused by these viral infections.
WHO: Simone Glynn, Branch Chief, Blood Epidemiology and Clinical Therapeutics Branch, NHLBI, NIH, is available to comment on REDS-III and the study being expanded to include Zika virus.
CONTACT: For more information, to attend or cover the event, or to schedule an interview, please contact the NHLBI Office of Science Policy, Engagement, Education, and Communications at 301-496-4236 or nhlbi_news@nhlbi.nih.gov.
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The cosplayers who wanted to walk to red carpet were (finally) lined up. I was in a hurry to get a spot for pictures, but it was a bit crowded. I squeezed in anyway!
The line went around the building to the front of the building for the grand entrance.
My celebrity was getting interviewed.
These Dragon Ball Z guys were interesting.
After the red carpet, contestants went into the main room for the catwalk and final judging. There were some awesome costumes. The judges looked for workmanship and how much time was devoted to making the costumes.
Bela said this guy made the whole C3PO outfit.
This gal won the top prize. She made the whole thing!


Stripped of its layered percussion and mariachi horns, the song feels far more somber than celebratory, transforming its spirit of over-the-moon infatuation into something more like sadness. The video, lensed by Dan Newman, intersperses shots of Third Man's packed Blue Room with close-ups on a scruffy and serious Misty.
Misty also recently shared an outtake from this very same Third Man performance, in which he cuts "I Love You, Honeybear" short after realizing he's begun his set with the wrong song. The Pure Comedy mastermind continues to tour in support of his magnum opus, sharing numerous live videos from those shows.
Watch Misty's performance below, listen to his 2012 Daytrotter Session in the Paste Cloud player beneath that, and see how "Chateau Lobby #4 (in C for Two Virgins)" stacks up in our ranking of every Father John Misty song right here.