There are eighteen methods of murder that defy detection.
A scientific detective, identified with national and international law enforcement agencies, is authority for the statement that there are at least eighteen methods of murder that practically defy detection. Yet the record shows that there are very few murders committed in any one of the eighteen ways that go unpunished. In other words the old adage, "Murder Will Out," is true according to the record in about ninety percent of all felonious killings.
To commit a murder in any one of the mentioned eighteen ways it would be necessary for the murderer to be a reasonably advanced scientist. Few possess the technical knowledge necessary to destroy their fellow beings by these methods. Nevertheless, all eighteen of the methods mentioned have been tried from time to time with varying success in escaping conviction.
It would appear that persons of scientific attainment could be counted upon not to attempt murder. This is not true. Education is not a one-hundred percent deterrent to crime. Educated persons have only a slightly less average as potential murderers than the illiterate. Not even motives differ except in cases of murder for robbery. Considering robbery as greed this difference is removed. Jealousy figures as a motive in a large number of murders and among the educated murderers it is paramount.
Considering murder — for that matter all forms of crime — as an art it would seem likely that the criminals of education or scientific attainment would excel as master craftsmen. This isn't true either. Just the opposite prevails. In practically all crimes attempted by scientists they bungle their jobs completely. The record proves positively that as criminals scientists are flunkies without a single recorded exception.
Where a murder is committed by a method that destroys its own evidence or fails to leave what might be called a "trace" or clue detectives are hampered but not necessarily baffled. In these cases, almost without exception, it is circumstances that bring the criminal to punishment. While a jury might refuse to convict on circumstantial evidence a detective is not so deterred. The scientific detective turns science against the scientific murderer. He batters the suspect with circumstantial evidence until in nine out of ten cases the scientific suspect weakens and acknowledges his crime. Circumstantial evidence backed by a confession that checks on all angles is about all any jury needs to be convinced of guilt.
When your correspondent began to dig into this subject of artistic or scientific murder Government detectives — themselves master scientists — made a request. They asked that we be ''a little vague" in the use of proper names and in description of the eighteen murder methods most difficult of detection. So, we will name no chemicals or poisons but confine ourselves to effects and processes.
The commonest method is the complete destruction of the corpse — the corpus delicti. Cremation is the usual means resorted to. The body is burned in a furnace or on a pyre. Effort is sometimes made to make identification impossible by burning the body or parts of it in gasoline flames. The scientist has no edge on his uneducated fellow in this type of murder case. He practically never is able to remain with the burning corpse long enough to do a perfect job.
In many cases complete dissolution of the corpse is attempted by immersion in acids. There are acids that completely dissolve bone tissue and even clothing but circumstances usually reveal these crimes. Accessibility to such chemicals and procurement of such chemicals usually lead to a search. The search usually leads to the finding of bone fragments, identifiable by means of buttons, bits of jewelry, metallic dentistry and other bits of evidence which escapes or lather resists the acid effects.
And now we get into some deep scientific water. It is actually possible by the exact and accurate dosage of a certain poison, over a long period, to produce death "by typhoid fever." This poison, a common and easily available one shows up like an electric sign when not scientifically administered. But when given in frequent and exact small quantities it produces every symptom of typhoid. Quite often the corpse is buried as a typhoid victim.
In most of these "typhoid" cases the motive is insurance and the murderer encouraged by success in one case attempts others. Sometimes there are a score of victims. In practically all cases the murderer is convicted in the long run. The circumstances that usually bring about detection are doctors and nurses and neighbors. They will remember that the murderer was always quite enthusiastic about insurance. A nurse will remember that the murderer insisted on preparing the victim's food. Sometimes a druggist will remember selling some poison to kill a dog or as an insecticide.
There is, too, a gas that administered in exactly correct quantities will produce ''tuberculosis." This gas kills instantly unless scientifically administered. A small quantity will cause the lungs to "rot" gradually bringing death in from five to thirty days with all the symptoms of rapid or "galloping" consumption. Doctors have so diagnosed such cases but circumstances usually bring the crime to light. First among these is that the gas is rare, "ordinarily. It can be home-made but only by a chemist with a well-grounded knowledge.
It would appear that, among poisons, the most powerful would be the hardest to detect. This because a small dose would leave less trace than a large one. It follows only in some cases. One very powerful poison absolutely defies detection. Another, and the most deadly poison known to man reveals itself instantly. This second poison perfumes the corpse and leaves it smelling with a fruity odor. Any doctor or chemist can identify it instantly regardless of how small the dose might have been.
In the event of the first named powerful poison — the one that defies detection — there is no odor or other discernible indication of any nature. When scientifically administered the fatal dose is less than one billionth the weight of an ordinary human body. Thus, to trace it, the autopsy doctors would have to find, separate or segregate x billionth bit of the mass under observation. The body completely absorbs the fatal chemical and so — .
This poison has its uses but is rare and impossible to obtain even by most chemists. There are few dispensing druggists who have scales sensitive enough to weigh the dosage of the chemical. Even for doctors to obtain it is an undertaking involving considerable red tape. But it has been used by murderers — scientific murderers. Circumstances in these cases have proven that the murderer possessed the drug and had a motive to use it. Confession has followed circumstantial evidence in some cases and in others conviction has been obtained on expert testimony backed by positive circumstantial conditions, such as the presence of the corpse and proof of the ante-mortem possession of the fatal drug by the suspected murderer.
A fiction story of the football grid, some years ago, involved the use of a solution to produce a fatal gas under conditions of bodily heat produced by violent exercise. This was authentic so far as action and effects were concerned. In the football story the victim's sweater was soaked in a deadly solution. Under the heat of the exercise during the football game the victim's body generated the gas which he inhaled. The gas stimulated his heart action to the point where a blood vessel was ruptured causing death.
The actual case from which this fiction story was borrowed involved a man, a wife, and the wife's clandestine violinist lover. The wife knitted the sweater for her admirer. Her husband dipped it in chemical solution and dried it while his wife was absent. When she returned she expressed the sweater to her admirer. He wore it under his shirt. His body heat produced the gas which was inhaled by the violinist in sufficient quantities to cause death.
The hypodermic needle is a weapon of death which has caused autopsy physicians trouble since its invention. Murder by the hypodermic needle, no doubt, would escape detection often enough were it not for circumstances. Such circumstances of death are ever in the mind of autopsy doctors. Where evidence warrants it corpses are subjected to microscopic and meticulous search to locate a hypodermic puncture. And they can be located even when hidden back of an eyelid as was the in one instance that of an infant. The suspected murderer, in this case, a colored mother, died in an insane asylum.
In cases such as have been described here readers might wonder why names, dates and places are not revealed. They might ask why scientific detectives desire the text to be vague. The reason is quite simple and understandable once it is explained. Even where conviction is obtained in such cases it is only after the most laborious and expensive processes and investigations. Living relatives of the accused in each case might be moved to bring suit on any of many grounds. This would result in more long, laborious and expensive litigation — to the Government, the writer, the publisher, doctors, detectives and what not?
This thing has been going on for centuries. As far back as history records mysterious poisons have been a common means of murder. There are thousands of poisons. Some of these, products of the jungles held secret by savage tribes, are still little known to or understood by scientists. Poisons are given up by the earth, secreted by plants and, by animals. They are produced by combining chemicals and by chemical reactions. In nature they are begotten by elemental distillation, by the action of the sun's rays, by the excrement of animals including the fishes, by the promulgation of minute organisms, and in a myriad of mysterious ways.
"Such research is valuable not only in the matter of law enforcement but might prove of inestimable value in other fields. It might lead to a discovery that would end cancer or one that would end war."


I thought I'd talk about one of Microsoft's big exclusives coming this here in the form of Crackdown 3. Already known about for several years and with at least one delay under its belt, can this game release to a resounding reception or will it launch but with a mere whimper? There is a lot riding on this game for Microsoft and the Xbox and I for one am all on board in wanting this game to succeed and have a large population.
Having played the first Crackdown game only a few years ago I found the game very fun with a great sense of freedom but I wouldn't say it grabbed me like my favourite games. I enjoyed the movement in the game and the sense of power you as the player had. The story was average but the gameplay and action kept me coming back until I moved onto other, newer games on the current generation of consoles. But with Crackdown 3 Microsoft is aiming to go far beyond what the first game, and especially the average at best second game in the series which didn't bring anything new to the franchise.
For gamers and fans, we haven't seen this game since E3 2017 and even then it wasn't what we really wanted to see. The single player component looked fun, the graphics stylish and vibrant, and the pace of the game was hectic and explosive. But where was the multiplayer? Where was this cloud based multiplayer game changer that we had only seen in pre-Alpha footage two years prior to this in 2015? This is what fans and sceptics wanted to see. The massively destructive world where players could topple whole buildings which could then fall and impact and destroy other buildings and parts of the environment. Permanent destruction in a massively multiplayer online world. A level of destruction not possible on a single console but needing the power of cloud computing to process all the calculations which were taking place.
Where was this and how come we haven't seen it again? This would require time to implement and with the delay of the game from last year, I can only assume it simply needed more time. With the barrage of complaints and negative talk surrounding Microsoft's lack of exclusives lately on the Xbox, its in their interests to delay the game and talks the backlash than to release the game either broken or as merely a shell of an idea of what was shown and promised. I have confidence that Microsoft can deliver on the promise and they need to show the wait is worth. I'm hoping the cloud computing works great and is a showcase for what gamers can expect to be playing in the future especially in regards to multiplayer games.
I'm happy to wait for a final product that lives up to expectations and to play something very different. I do understand the concerns many gamers do have though as nothing has been shown of it for years and little to no new information has been given to satisfy people's concerns. Perhaps we'll see a huge amount of content at E3 with a release date soon after. I for one cannot wait to see what this game could do on a technical level on the Xbox One X and with cloud computing.
If Microsoft can nail it, then we could be seeing something on a level of detail and interactivity that we haven't seen before. It's a great time to be a gamer.


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Without doubts, biologically realized cognitive intelligence is the most complex property of human mind and can be perceived only by itself.
Our problem is what we call or may call cognitive intelligence. From the formal, computational perspective, cognitive intelligence is always one of ill defined concepts. Its definitions are immersed in numerous scientific contexts and mirror their own historical evolutions, as well as, different "interests" of researchers involved. Its weakness is usually based on its abstract multi-faces image and, on the other hand, an universal utility character..
Thinking on Cognitive Intelligence: many "cognitive intelligence" definitions, as this one below, are based on another ill defined concepts and are vague and insufficient for cognitivists and AI professionals today.
think rationally, apply knowledge and solve problems."
to successfully cope with life situations."
seems to be the best, but "intelligence" here depends on available physical tools and specific life experience (individual hidden knowledge, preferences and access to information), therefore it is not enough selective to be measured, compared or... designed.
In general, cognitive intelligence is/(should be) a human-like intelligence. Unfortunately there are many opinions what human-like intelligence means ( see below).
Cognitive intelligence uses a human mental introspective experience for the modeling of intelligent system thinking.
Cognitive intelligence may use brain models to extract brain's intelligence property (function).
A not cognitive intelligence could be considered as an intelligence being developed using not human analogies, ...for instance, it is possible to construct very different models of flying objects starting from the observation of storks, balloons, beetles or clouds - maybe this observation can be useful.
The difference between human and artificial intelligence theories is similar to the difference between the birds theory of fly and the airplanes fly theory, the both can lead to a more general theory of fly but this last needs a goal-oriented and a higher abstraction level of the conceptualization/ontology.
A problem, theory or a model is computational if it is formalized in such way that can be transformed to the form of a computer program. Computationality is the serious research problem of humanistic, social and psychological sciences, for example, modern systemics, cognitive and socio-cognitive approaches develop different attempts to a computational specification of their "soft" knowledge.
information, knowledge, preferences, intelligence and emotions.
is useful and reasonable. If properly defined, these concepts can be independently identified, designed (see structural intelligence, personoids), and together, may model a.computational cognitive information processing.
Such kind of semantic modularity enables to construct: "emotional intelligence", "social intelligence", "skill intelligence", "organizational intelligence", and many other "X-intelligences", where X denotes a type of knowledge, preferences or an intelligence carrier system involved.
emotional intelligence is the applications of cognitive intelligence to the (conscious or not conscious) management of human emotions (not conscious) constrains/requirements and "biological requests".
- In the above context, an 'abstract intelligent agent' * (== synthetic intelligent agent) can be considered as the functional kernel of any natural or artificial intelligent system.
search: "cognitive intelligence" - it also illustrates mishmash and numerous buzzwords in this research domain.
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Why the U.K. Sucks in Gender Diversity at Work
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Because gender-based discrimination can be tenacious.
By Gemma Tetlow
The Daily Dose FEB 28 2018
The Equality and Human Rights Commission, the public body charged with enforcing laws that protect people's rights in the United Kingdom, released figures recently from a survey by pollster YouGov of managers' attitudes toward pregnancy and maternity discrimination. The poll of 1,106 business decision-makers, conducted last autumn, suggested that many employers were "living in the dark ages," the commission said.
More than one-third of private sector employers in the UK believe it is acceptable to ask female job candidates about their plans to have children, even though the practice has been illegal since 1975.
"We should all know very well that it is against the law not to appoint a woman because she is pregnant or might become pregnant," says Rebecca Hilsenrath, chief executive of the EHRC. "Yet we also know women routinely get asked questions around family planning in interviews. It's clear that many employers need more support to better understand the basics of discrimination law and the rights of pregnant women and new mothers."
Women have been protected by law from discrimination at work because of pregnancy or maternity for more than 40 years. But research by the government's business department and the EHRC in 2015 found the number of women reporting this kind of discrimination increased between 2005 and 2015. That led to renewed calls for the government to do more to help employers understand their responsibilities and protect pregnant women and new mothers in the workplace.
Half of managers 55 and older thought women who had more than one pregnancy while in the same job "can be a burden to their team" …
The latest survey just published by the EHRC suggests a significant minority of employers still view pregnant women and new mothers negatively. Two-fifths of employers said pregnancy in the workplace puts "an unnecessary cost burden" on the organization. Just over half of employers said that other employees in their company feel resentful toward women who are pregnant or on maternity leave.
The survey found more negative attitudes toward pregnant women and new mothers among small- and medium-size employers (SME) — those with fewer than 250 employees — than large employers. Just over a third of large employers thought it was reasonable to ask women during the recruitment process if they had young children, compared with more than half of SMEs.
Male respondents were also more likely to exhibit negative attitudes. For example, 35 percent of male respondents said pregnant women and new mothers were generally less interested in their careers than their colleagues, compared with 22 percent of female respondents.
Older respondents were also more likely to report negative attitudes than younger managers, with those ages 35 to 44 being the least likely to display a discriminatory attitude. Half of managers 55 and older thought women who had more than one pregnancy while in the same job "can be a burden to their team," compared with 38 percent of managers ages 35 to 44.
Despite the prevalence of a variety of beliefs that are in breach of equalities legislation, 76 percent of employers agreed with the premise that "supporting pregnant women and those on maternity leave is in the best interests of the organization."
"There are still far too many employers who don't understand or respect employment law as it relates to pregnant women and new mothers," says Ben Willmott, head of public policy at the London-based Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, the professional body for human resources and people development. "Investment in manager capability is essential to challenge unlawful, shortsighted and unethical practice."
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Star Wars: TFA 1/6th scale First Order Heavy Gunner Stormtrooper, TFA: 1/6th scale collectible figures set & TFA 1/6th scale First Order Stormtroopers
Star Wars fans worldwide are anxiously waiting for the release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the latest installment of the epic space saga! Set 30 years after the events of Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi, the upcoming movie will feature brand new characters and also some familiar faces!
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- Seven (7) pieces of interchangeable gloved palms including:
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- Figure Painted by Lok Ho
- Figure Art Directed by JC. Hong
Release date: Q4, 2015 – Q1, 2016
**Prototype shown, final product may be slightly different
**Product details could be subjected to change without further notice
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Although the Galactic Empire has fallen after the Battle of Endor, a new organization called the First Order has come to power and this new military junta employs the use of Stormtroopers to execute its orders and bring terror across the galaxy. These faceless enforcers are now armed with new armor, weapons and equipment to accomplish their goal.
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- One (1) blaster rifle
© 2015 Hot Toys Limited. All Rights Reserved.
Star Wars fans worldwide are anxiously waiting for the release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the newest entry to the epic space saga! Set 30 years after the events of Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi, the upcoming movie will feature brand new characters and also some familiar faces!
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Today, Hot Toys is excited to officially introduce the 1/6th scale collectible figure of the new streamline designed First Order Stormtrooper from Star Wars: The Force Awakens!
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Crossing Empires: Taking U.S. History into Transimperial Terrain
Weaving U.S. history into the larger fabric of world history, the contributors to Crossing Empires de-exceptionalize the American empire, placing it in a global transimperial context. They draw attention to the breadth of U.S. entanglements with other empires to illuminate the scope and nature of American global power as it reached from the Bering Sea to Australia and East Africa to the Caribbean. With case studies ranging from the 1830s to the late twentieth century, the contributors address topics including diplomacy, governance, anticolonialism, labor, immigration, medicine, religion, and race. Their transimperial approach—whether exemplified in examinations of U.S. steel corporations partnering with British imperialists to build the Ugandan railway or the U.S. reliance on other empires in its governance of the Philippines—transcends histories of interimperial rivalries and conflicts. In so doing, the contributors illuminate the power dynamics of seemingly transnational histories and the imperial origins of contemporary globality.
"Crossing Empires makes a compelling case that a transimperial history is necessary if we are to lay bare the power dynamics structuring transnationalism and globalization. The essays present rich empirical case studies that show how transimperial connections buttressed imperial rule and sustained colonial violence and exploitation while they simultaneously integrated the world into tighter global circuits of capital, culture, technology, and power. A welcome addition to the scholarship on U.S. imperialism and comparative empires." —Kornel Chang, author of Pacific Connections: The Making of the U.S.-Canadian Borderlands
"This excellent, accessible, and carefully curated collection recenters United States history in the most powerful of ways. Superbly deploying the concept of the transimperial in an astonishing array of case studies, this volume offers vital new understandings of imperial formations and will help scholars identify important new directions and questions in the study of global empires." —Daniel E. Bender, coeditor of Making the Empire Work: Labor and United States Imperialism
Duke University Press, January 2020
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VALIANT Partners with Brazil's HQM EDITORA for Foreign Language Publishing
Posted on April 16, 2013 by The Valiant Voice
Valiant is proud to announce a partnership with HQM Editora, Brazil's premier publisher of Portuguese language comic books and graphic novels, to bring the Valiant Universe to a new generation of fans in South America.
Beginning this May, HQM Editora will launch a new, dedicated line of Valiant releases with the first serialized translations of three of Valiant's best-selling ongoing series in the pages of X-O Manowar Magazine – an oversized monthly anthology re-presenting X-O Manowar by Robert Venditti and Cary Nord; Harbinger by Joshua Dysart and Khari Evans; and Bloodshot by Duane Swierczynski and Manuel Garcia.
Compiling one issue of each series together in HQM's oversized format, the release of X-O Manowar Magazine #1 will mark the first time Valiant's monthly titles have been published in a foreign language since the publisher's much acclaimed relaunch.
After the conclusion of each series' first story arc, Harbinger and Bloodshot will spin-off into a second monthly title, Universo Valiant Apresenta (Valiant Universe Presents), spotlighting the lead-up to Valiant's first crossover event, Harbinger Wars. Trade paperback collections of each translated series are slated for release later in 2013.
"The Valiant team and HQM have been working very closely since we started planning the line. We love the idea of helping Valiant spread worldwide," said Carlos Costa, HQM Editora's Founder and Editor-in-Chief. "Valiant is hot, the type of thing HQM looks for when searching for comics to publish. They're perfect for a new audience and also offer something different for super-hero fans."
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A Chelsea stadium in Battersea Power Station is the best idea yet. Don't listen to Lister
10 May, 2012By Christine Murray
Lister and Johnson should open the door to Chelsea FC's vision for Battersea
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It was shocking to hear Edward Lister, London deputy mayor for planning, pooh-pooh the new Chelsea football stadium plan for Battersea Power Station. This is the most thrilling and plausible vision for the regeneration of the beleaguered building yet.
The exclusive early concept sketch by KPF (published in the AJ 10.05.12), who is working with Rafael Viñoly on the bid, shows a design that both maintains the integrity of the original building, while giving this stunning white elephant a brilliant legacy. If built, it could join FC Braga by Eduardo Souto de Moura as one of the most architecturally atmospheric stadia in the world.
Who would not want to see a match or live concert in this iconic venue? It feels exactly right, evoking the kind of old-meets-new mash-up that Britain does best, transforming masterpieces of Victorian industry into fun palaces, from Liverpool's Albert Dock to Manchester's G-Mex, London's Tate Modern to Newcastle's Baltic.
If it had been completed in time to host the London Olympics, the Battersea stadium would have stolen the show. You can already imagine it on film, jump-cutting from Big Ben, to the Gherkin, to the London Eye, to Battersea stadium.
And it would certainly do for the surrounding area what the Olympics have done for East London – the Blues, owned by Roman Abramovich, have already offered to contribute towards the £900 million cost of a Northern Line spur to Battersea, and the footfall of 60,000 fans, creating opportunity and dynamism for local businesses and people, is not to be sniffed at.
Which makes Lister's comments, made after Boris Johnson was re-elected mayor of London, appear nonsensical. 'I don't think the site is suitable for Chelsea, and nor do a lot of people. It's not a goer,' he said, claiming the infrastructure was not 'geared up' for a football club. The plans will need the mayor's backing to go ahead.
Lister's stance is rich considering he presided over Wandsworth Council for nearly two decades and accomplished nothing but further decay of the Grade II*-listed structure. If it's traffic he's worried about, Lister should not have backed previous plans for a conference centre, 3,700 homes, offices, shops and restaurants in 2009. The daily throng of commuters would have placed far more pressure on the local transport infrastructure.
Lister's nearly two decades on Wandsworth Council accomplished nothing but further decay of the Grade II*-listed structure
And if it's the profile of the prototypical football fan that he objects to, he should understand that Chelsea hosts just 30 games or less a year. Which means 335 days a year, Battersea would be a nice, quiet, iconic landmark. Compare that to the previous housing scheme, and a football stadium looks like a very good neighbour – or indeed, the very best kind of flatmate, who pays all the bills, and is rarely home.
Let's hope Lister reconsiders his knee-jerk reaction to Battersea in light of the punishing vote against the Conservatives at the polls last week. Voters want investment and vision. This latest plan for Battersea sounds like a real opportunity knocking. Lister and Johnson should open the door.
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Chris Medland11 May, 2012 8:33 am
In the hope that LB Wandsworth or the directors of St George or even Boris Johnson read the AJ and at the risk of being boring we would reiterate this point - the best use for Battersea Power Station is as a power station. With a huge area of south facing roof, 4 vast wind swept chimneys, a vast volume open to solar gain and its immediate proximity to a tidal river with a 7m tidal difference there must be viable options for a mixed mode approach to sustainable energy production on an industrial scale. The UK has made a large commitment to meeting renewable energy targets, why not have a real working power station that could supply energy to the Nine Elms development and act as a showcase in the heart of London. It could be managed by an Energy Company for profit, house a swimming pool and/or an 'Eden project like' botanical gardens growing fruits etc. utilising any excess heat gain. It would become a visitor attraction in it own right and demonstrate at a national and international level that the UK is serious about renewables.
Chris Bown12 May, 2012 11:22 am
Absolutely agree. As I said last week on my blog (planninginlondon.wordpress.com) this is a great opportunity to build a stadium, and then create the infrastructure (tube station, pedestrian routes, roads, parking) to work well with it. Then, just like Wembley stadium, you can craft the other buildings around it so the whole works together.
mario Sua Kay15 May, 2012 9:55 am
I am repeating myself here as I have made my comments in the digital AJ. The Braga stadium has no seating behind the goals which has led to some criticism by visisting and club fans. If this model is used you could actually fit the football pitch within the four chimneys at Battersea. However I don´t think British fans would very much appreciate this kind of arrangement and that seems to be the reason why KPF are placing their proposal on one side of the power station.
Michael Hoare18 May, 2012 9:29 am
I think this is a great idea. Far too often no one comes up with a plausible use for these redundant buildings. And the following research is maybe worth taking note of:
'In general, house prices in the areas that are home to many of the our major football venues have strengthened significantly over the past decade, reflecting in part the amenities commonly found in such locations, including good transport links,' said Suren Thiru, housing economist at the Halifax.
http://www.propertywire.com/news/europe/uk-property-football-stadium-201108155451.html
Mark Bradbury31 May, 2012 1:59 pm
Whilst I agree and have stated elsewhere before that there is excellent potential for the future use of Battersea as a power station, I disagree with Chris Medland that this is incompatable with it's use as a football stadium. I also disagree with his choice of renewable energies. That is not to say that any development should not embrace solar power and even a few wind turbine but more immediately viable and likely to service a greater proportion of the development's energy needs is Energy from Waste. Two of the principle concerns surrounding planning applications for EfW facilities in urban areas are the need for stacks/chimneys and the movement of waste. Clearly their are 4 chimneys to chose from here. The site is also immediately adjacent to the Cringle Dock Waste transfer Station so local residents are already used to much of Hammersmith and Fulham, Kensington and Chelsea, Lambeth and Wandsworth's waste being transported to the site. Rather than shipping this waste to Bexley for incineration why not use gasification technology to convert it locally to power and heat for the new development. Modern technology could easily be accommodated under one of the stands.
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When I was working, I would often get up early or save the workouts for the evenings, and guess what? Not much has changed since being home with the kids. But, there have been some times that I "try" to work out when Emmy, my toddler, is with me. That, my friends, is quite the sight to see. My main motivation to work out is for "me" time and for a stress/anxiety reliever. Having lil' miss sitting on my back, head, or stomach is not exactly a stress-free work out environment. But, if I miss a morning workout or the evening is too crazy, I try and make an Emmy workout happen. We go outside and hit the pavement! Here are some tips to make a workout happen with your little one!
We usually go to a local park with a walking trail or cruise around the good ol' neighborhood. I aim for 30 minutes of workout time when Emmy is involved :) Find the best place for you! One nearby trail has a park/playground too so we frequent that one often! The playground is a nice reward for lil miss letting me exercise. Look in your area to see if there is such a place for your toddler workout!
You know your little one best! Close to nap or bedtime may not result in the most stress-free workout. Try after breakfast or maybe in the evening after dinner. If we go in the evening, we stay close to home and walk/run around the 'hood.
I don't have the best jogging stroller on the market. In fact, there may or may not be some duct tape patching up a few tire holes. But, hey, we make it happen. I make sure Em has her favorite drink and snacks as well play music she likes too (she's a Bruno fan - sister can sing some Uptown Funk).
We start with a 5 minute brisk walk. After the 5 minutes is up, I stop and do the following exercises - one set at at time (example: after the first 5 minutes of walking, stop and do 10 push-ups; after another 5 minutes of walking/running, stop and do 10 lunges, and so on for the squats and dips).
You can walk and/or run for your 5 minute bursts of cardio - whatever you feel like you can handle! Repeat until your walk/run is over or your child demands freedom (with Emmy, it's usually 30 minutes. She is not a fan of being confined)!
And there you have it - a strong workout with the babe. I do prefer to be alone while working out, but sometimes life and babies happen. You just have to make it work! And I promise you will feel so much better after you move - your family will thank you for it!
Stay tuned...I'll share what I do when it's too HOT to hit the road!


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The more things change: voters send a message in Croatia's local elections
June 8, 2021 /in Croatia, Democracy, Elections /by Goran Šaravanja
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As much as it was out with the old and in with the new, Croatia's May local elections whose second round ended on May 30 was a repeat of previous elections. Voters again sent a clear message they are willing to back credible alternatives to incumbents. Despite this, the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) which forms the backbone of the national government, is still in a dominant position.
Voters want results
For all intents and purposes, these local elections essentially saw the Croatian Peasants' Party (HSS) and Croatian Peoples' Party (HNS) disappear from the political scene. The biggest surprise was that the hegemon of Istria, the Istrian Democratic Assembly (IDS) lost the mayoralty of the Istrian county capital Pazin and, more importantly that of the largest city Pula to the Social Democrats (SDP) and an independent candidate respectively. The party's leading figure also barely managed to hang onto the role of County prefect by a mere 54 votes. In addition, across the country the careers of many big names ended as voters found fresher, more credible candidates to support.
Thus, a longstanding Croatian tradition of giving new parties a chance remains in place.
Split and Zagreb under new management…
The races for mayor of Zagreb and Split, the two largest cities, received most attention. Understandably so, given the sudden death of long-serving Zagreb mayor Milan Bandić at the end of February and the retirement of the incumbent from the HDZ in Split due to health reasons. In Zagreb, the green/left option Možemo fell one seat short of an absolute majority in the city assembly. Its mayoral candidate Tomislav Tomašević won almost two thirds of the vote in the run-off. Expectations are high, but so are the challenges, after Bandić's lengthy stay in office.
Split has historically been more willing to change its mayor and this time opted for Ivica Puljak, of the newly formed Centar party. Although politically active since 2015 with his previous party Pametno, Puljak faces a more challenging task in securing and maintaining a majority in the Split City Assembly compared to Možemo.
…and facing difference challenges
Možemo began as an activist, green grouping focussed on Zagreb and last year began transforming into a political party, when they entered parliament. In May's local elections they ran candidates in eight cities and apart from Zagreb achieved notable results in Istria and Dubrovnik. Here it is important to note that in all these places, left of centre options traditionally do well – Andro Vlahušić, for example, was mayor of Dubrovnik at the time when the HNS was a left of centre party.
Thus, Croatia's two largest cities will be run by political groupings which are almost entirely new. Both results represent a shift to the left relative to the previous administrations. The main question is whether Možemo and Centar can develop into properly structured political parties with clear policies and values. This is far from a trivial matter. The experience of the conservative party MOST is instructive here. Twice a member of ruling coalitions at national level, MOST was unable either time to deal with the requirement of politics to seek common ground and determine why and where to compromise. Both their spells in government lasted less than half a term.
Can Možemo and Centar build on electoral success?
Možemo and Centar are in different positions but will still need to produce results. Should they succeed, they will face the challenge of scaling up their activities. Success would bring more members, each with expectations. How to manage those expectations and develop an infrastructure to form the basis of a larger political party will determine whether Možemo and Centar develop into longer-term, credible political actors or go the way of the HSS, HNS and before them HSLS, HSP (various incarnations), the green party OraH, Laburisti, Demokratski centar and others into minor roles or political oblivion.
Only that way will they be able to attract and develop a diverse core of political talent necessary to convince voters there is a viable alternative to drive policy and strategic debate in the country. For all the excitement various candidates created, welcome as that is, the bedrock of a democracy is the political party.
HDZ remains the dominant political party
Of all of Croatia's political parties HDZ has had the most success in adapting as Croatia has changed. The party today is closer to the centre, as demonstrated by the collection of parties to its right, many of whose leading lights were once in the HDZ. As the largest party it also has a deeper pool of talent. This, and the infrastructure associated with larger parties is why when we look at the results of the local elections, the HDZ won far more mandates than even its nearest rival.
Therein lies the main risk medium and longer term for Croatia's political scene. One party, essentially not facing genuine, organised, focussed opposition is never an ideal characteristic for a democratic political system.
Looking for the holy grail on the left
For 30 years the holy grail of Croatian politics has been to construct a credible political force left of centre as a counter to the HDZ's dominant position right of centre. On the left that has never been one party, always more of them. The main issue is whether the Social Democrats remain the core left of centre party, or someone replaces them, as The Social Liberals (HSLS) of centre-left persuasion did in the 1990s. And, while HDZ has traditionally performed well in local and regional elections compared to the SDP, elections at national level are different.
Green parties, a relatively new concept here, stand to profit from current trends in Europe. In any event Možemo currently appears better placed than Centar. That said, it will have to decide at some point whether it will pursue a realpolitik course closer to that of the German Greens or opt for a more radical left approach like Greece's Syriza. Time will tell which factions within Možemo prevail. Either way, the Social Democrats have two underappreciated strengthens. – their relative size (they are the second largest party in the country) and their settled party organisation/structure, something all parties seeking to displace HDZ or SDP lack to the same degree. Those, in the longer-term are their collective weak points.
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Q: Grammar of a present perfect continuous sentence
She has been feeling much better since she left the hospital last week.

This is the good construction of the sentence, present perfect continuous.
However, I thought you couldn't use a specific time expression with the present perfect tenses.
I would have said "She is feeling much better since she left the hospital last week." as we can use the continuous tense to talk about an extended period of time.

A: You probably don't want to use the present perfect to describe an event that happened at a specific time. For example, this would be wrong:

She has felt better when she left the hospital last week.

However, in your sentence the "feeling" does not happen at a specific time; it has been happening continuously since an event last week. Here is another example of a similar usage:

I have visited Chicago three times since 2005.

Even though a specific time is mentioned, that is not the time of the "visiting". Therefore, the present perfect is fine.
Also, note that the present perfect is used for action that began earlier and continues into the present time. It is therefore appropriate for your sentence for that reason, too.

A: The simple answer is that "since last week" is not a specific time.
A specific time would be a sentence like "she has been feeling much better at 2pm", and is not recommended because the present perfect, being a mash-up of present tense and perfect aspect, involves two times - the time of some past event, and its continuing relevance in the present. As present perfect needs two times involved, tying it all to one specific time such as 2pm cannot work.
However, tying down the time of only the past event by saying something like "since last week" doesn't cause any conflict as we still have two times. The event last week, and the present relevance.


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How we know all life shares a common origin
August 3, 2011 Jason Thibeaultabiogenesis, emergence, evidence, knowledge, privilege, science1 Comment
According to Anthony McCarthy over at Greg's blog, extrapolating from this information to determine something about how life began on this planet is purely ideological mythmaking. Never mind that every species on the planet shares the same metabolism, by the same enzymes, which must be coded for by the same combinations of chemicals, and these chemicals must come into being by the same chemical processes. Or that as you work your way backward you can determine the lipids and amino acids that must have been how this particular origin of life happened, and that you can replicate in a laboratory the spontaneous generation of these lipids and amino acids from the pure chemicals in varying environments that are similar to, if not identical to, the best models we have of the composition of the early Earth. Meaning we have pretty much every step in the chain replicated plausibly, so even if we don't know the exact events, we can with a fairly high degree of confidence claim that we actually know a good deal about how life probably emerged here.
Oh, he also doesn't believe in emergence, meaning he's never seen a fractal or snowflake under a microscope. And loves to scoff at the idea that we're skeptics, just because we're convinced by the evidence presented. I've given up on him, now that he's decided to "copy [my words] as the most irrational series of assertions by the self-identified champions of science and reason [he's] had the dubious privilege of reading."
CRTC: a pawn in Harper's larger game?
March 6, 2011 Jason ThibeaultCanada, election, emergence, evidence, gender, NDP3 Comments
In reading news about the CRTC of late, I can't help but notice a few converging threads. I legitimately feel that I am above conspiracy theory, and I like to say that without evidence, our understanding of reality is potentially unreliable. Therefore, I write this post tentatively, knowing I may be drawing incorrect conclusions.
Pictured: the CRTC.
But if they are correct, they are damning conclusions indeed.
The Tory government appears to have a greater strategy of discrediting and generally casting as an anacronism the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunication Council for at least the last year. Harper's government — not to be confused with The Harper Government, which you can protest such use by signing this petition — overturned the CRTC's decision last year to disallow Globalive from entering our wireless market due to regulations requiring telecom companies to be locally owned. On this point, I agree with Michael Geist, that content, not ownership, preserves Canadian culture. The overturning of this decision, while well-founded, undercut the CRTC's ability to make a second ruling — as they so often have done, given the fullness of time and understanding of the public and experts' opinion in such matters — with the overturning coming so shortly after the original decision. The problem with this is the impression left of the CRTC as an impotent body that cannot make regulations that under any circumstances contradict what the ruling party happens to believe.
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RCimT: Playing scientific catch-up
February 26, 2011 Jason Thibeaultclimate change, emergence, evidence, knowledge, religion, science
Day 3 of my attempt at clearing out old links from my queue of stuff to blog about. Sadly, this one I can't fit into a coherent narrative, except to say that science rocks.
ClimateCrocks posted a trailer for the movie Carbon Nation, touted as a "climate change movie for people who don't believe in climate change". It's like the movie form of this comic. Frankly, whether you think climate is changing or not, people MUST see that the progress we can make by weaning ourselves off this addiction to hydrocarbons far outweighs any potential economic risks, even if you don't believe there's any threat.
There's some interesting early results from a study regarding public archiving of scientific data — it by all appearances increases scientific contribution by more than a third. Open access to information and data removes one of the larger barriers to scientific contribution, as I have long suspected in other areas of human endeavour.
On a related note, unpublished scientific data may hide the "decline effect", a noted scientific phenomenon where initial publications show greater effect than subsequent trials. Also unsurprising — if the data "picked" for the first few trials was picked from a superset of data that doesn't show as great an effect, or if the data in subsequent trials was intentionally skewed against the initial results in an attempt to disprove them, showing all the data would certainly discover both scenarios.
This water flea has more genes than humans — 31,000 genes to 23,000. It is interesting to me that the number of genes it takes to make so complex a creature as a human being is in fact lower than the number of genes to create so tiny a creature as a water flea, but it rings true with the idea that everything in this universe operates like fractals – simplicity can give rise to great complexity, in some cases, accidentally and without inherent design.
Scientists have made a great breakthrough with regard to influenza vaccines — they have discovered a way to vaccinate against a protein common to them all. This could eventually lead to a single vaccine to eradicate influenza in much the same way as we have eradicated polio and smallpox. That is, until some pseudoscientific celebrity gains popular traction against the vaccine and it resurges as a result.
Good news for depression patients — we may soon be able to put things in your brain to make you better. Sounds like sci-fi, sounds like "playing god", but deep brain electrostimulation may actually significantly improve chronic depression sufferers' quality of life.
Steven Novella takes on the odd but prevalent belief that scientists are withholding the cure for cancer. Fact is, cancer is a class of diseases or issues, not a single monolithic thing that can be cured. We can cure many of them, such as Hodgkins Lymphoma, but not all of them. Interestingly, we may soon be able to tell which cancers will spread and which will never metastasize at all.
Apparently humankind's proposed emergence as a modern-LOOKING people first, then a modern-ACTING people second, is less than accurate. We've discovered some evidence that the earliest peoples developed both language and ritual, two of the main intellectual hallmarks of our species.
Toxicologists and experts states apart have confirmed that despite the government's assurances, Gulf seafood is tainted with oil. And/or dispersants, which is just as bad. Take care where your seafood comes from, folks. Though you really should take care as it stands, to eat seafood from sources that are sustainable.
Scientists have for the first time observed the formation of a planet in a protoplanetary ring of dust and debris. I love that this far into our knowledge of stellar and planetary evolution, we keep seeing "firsts" that scientists can collect data on and confirm existing theories.
Meanwhile, science continues apace in its other charge — knocking theories down. Or less so theories as common knowledge — Ben Goldacre covers the revelation that "sniffer" dogs may actually be responding to subtle cues from their masters rather than to any scent of drug or explosives they really learned to seek out. In this way, they may be something like the horse that could do arithmetic. In a funny bit of confluence, I learned just today of a new invention: the Wasp Hound. Wasps can evidently be trained to pick up scents better than any dogs.
That's everything I had saved up in my Science post-fodder hopper. Perhaps I shall unload my Religion tabs tomorrow. Seems a fitting day for it.


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Q: Dailymotion url shows adds before starting video I am using dailymotion partner program also uploaded video form my application but its showing advertisement before actual video starts.
 Is there any way to avoid it? I avoid info by info=0.
Also autoplay=1 not playing video automatically on some android devices?
here is my url for video.
http://www.dailymotion.com/embed/video/k5I37tfOYjxdgub0Oyu?related=0&logo=0&info=0
this url avoid related video and video information but most important to avoid advertisement.
Thanks for any help.

A: It is not possible to remove advertisement from a dailymotion video. Dailymotion, like other video sharing platforms, has the need to cover its expenditure in order to offer this service to you. This is why advertisments are automatically displayed with videos.
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Resort towns rely on visitors as their economic lifeblood, but as the new coronavirus pandemic rages, many are asking nonresidents to stay away.
More than 12,000 residents of Cape Cod, Mass., signed a petition this week asking authorities to turn away visitors and nonresident homeowners from the two bridges that are the only roads in to the Boston-area summertime playland.
"It's a stay-at-home order for a reason," said Beth Hickman of South Yarmouth, who started the petition, in a local talk-radio interview Thursday. "It's not about going to your second home because it's a vacation."
From Sedona, Ariz., to the Florida Keys, tourist spots across the country are trying to figure out ways to keep outsiders from bringing the new coronavirus with them. In some cases, that means taking aggressive steps like banning people who own second homes from their own property. In other cases, it means shutting down key access points. Full-time residents in these communities say their health-care systems weren't built to handle pandemics and shutting out visitors is the only way to avoid disaster.
Pamela Wilkes, a retired health-care executive who lives in Albany, N.Y., but who owns a second home on the Cape, said the petition is outrageous. "My thought is I'm a taxpayer of Massachusetts," she said. "I substantially support local business."
But other nonresident homeowners say they understand and plan to stay away.
"There are 70- and 80-year-old retirees down there that are sort of our best friends," said Tom Chamberlain, an insurance agent in Bridgewater, Mass., whose family has had a home on the Cape since the 1960s. "I think people shouldn't be going down there to use up the resources and also infect them."
Massachusetts officials said in a statement that they have no plans to set up roadblocks on the bridges for now. Visitors from out of state are asked via electronic signs all over the Cape to self-quarantine for 14 days.
The Island of North Haven, Maine, adopted a resolution last month strongly urging outsiders except those providing essential services not to come to the island in Penobscot Bay, reversing what had been a ban on outsiders coming to the island of 355 permanent residents. The island has a clinic, but no hospital.
Tourist boards and mayors of South Lake Tahoe, Calif.; Sedona, Ariz.; and Moab, Utah, are all discouraging visitors and asking or even ordering hotels and short-term rentals to stop booking.
The Florida Keys last week banned visitors but not property owners from the chain of islands. The Outer Banks of North Carolina banned both visitors and nonresident homeowners as of mid-March. Both areas have set up roadblocks to enforce the bans.
Dorothy Hester, public information officer for Dare County, which includes the Outer Banks, said law enforcement is sticking to the restrictions despite homeowners trying to gain access.
The county of 36,000 permanent residents has just one hospital with 24 beds and no intensive-care unit, she said. In the summer, when the population swells to 300,000, "they see things like a fish hook in the finger," she said. More serious cases are transported by helicopter to trauma centers that can be hours away by car.
Dare County officials on Thursday reported three cases of Covid-19, the illness caused by the new coronavirus.
The right to travel isn't explicit in the Constitution, but judges have invoked it to strike down laws like those passed in California to stop migration during the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, said Rick Su, a law professor at the University of North Carolina School of Law in Chapel Hill. The rights are more limited in a time of emergency. It is unlikely that a court would have time to rule on any challenge since the situation is so fluid and fast-moving, he said.
Cape Cod has 214,000 permanent residents and about twice as many in the summer, according to the local Chamber of Commerce. The hook-shaped cape, which is technically a man-made island because of a canal, has two hospitals with 354 beds and capacity to ramp up to 500, according to Cape Cod Healthcare. The system has 116 ICU beds and 80 ventilators, a spokeswoman said.
The state is reporting 283 cases of Covid-19 in Barnstable County, which includes the Cape.
Cape Cod's Ms. Hickman, who didn't respond to a request for comment, said in her radio interview that she decided to start the petition when she saw New York license plates at the grocery store or the beach. Normally, visitors and nonresident property owners don't arrive on the island for another month or so, she said.
"I think it's a fear response," said Olaf Valli, who owns a surf shop in Wellfleet and grew up on the Cape but spends part of each week with his family in New Jersey. "We're fighting a microscopic thing that we don't have much understanding of. It's easy to point the finger and blame anything that's not familiar."
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Using only the rolling Appalachian Mountain foothills as a canvas, Bob Cupp, along with Hubert Green and Fuzzy Zoeller, designed the Preserve Course. Featuring wide fairways and careful bunker placement, the Preserve Course provides golfers a more relaxing - and forgiving - layout that can be enjoyed by golfers of all experience levels.
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10 Most Important Leadership Skills for Team Success
Kayleigh Fisher February 10, 2022
Leadership within a business is having people that can greatly influence and inspire a team's success, a companies performance, and an individual's personal development.
The responsibility of being a leader requires a particular set of qualities, some learnt, and some natural character traits, which combined, gives employees trust in a leader guiding and representing them.
Why is leadership important?
Leadership is fundamental to building a sustainable and profitable business. Over 79% of employees will quit their job due to a lack of appreciation from leaders. Having strong leaders within your teams will ensure productivity, accountability and progress.
Good leaders empower employees to do their best work, grow and push boundaries - all of which creates a positive work environment and long tenures within roles which ultimately improve the bottom line.
What is the difference between leadership and management?
Management is a little more logistically driven than leadership, it consists of overseeing a team to accomplish a goal. However, leadership draws on soft skills and individuals ability to influence, motivate and enable staff to contribute to businesses overall success.
Strong leadership secures a progressive company culture.
Top Ten Leadership Skills For Team Success
1. Goal orientated
Leaders are responsible for driving their team towards specific objectives set out by the overarching business vision. A leader must hold that wider objective in their mind and then identify how their team and its members will contribute to that.
Once the team's contributions are identified, leaders need to effectively communicate this with them, setting clear goals and expectations of what is to be delivered, how and by when (SMART goals). Creating this guidance for employees offers them a sense of purpose and the opportunity to also be goal-oriented in their work.
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From time to time, employees will be needed to go the extra mile for their company, perhaps work extra hours or pick up a colleagues work whilst they're on holiday. Being motivational is how a leader inspires staff to step up when this is required.
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Asking for input or providing rewards
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Giving frequent, high-quality feedback builds employees skillsets, confidence in their role and offers greater autonomy. Employees will respect leaders who encourage them to develop within their profession and actively help them to progress into leadership positions of their own.
4. Strategic thinking
Strategic thinking is regarded as one of the most important leadership skills. This is because employees value leaders who aren't stuck in the day to day, 'firefighting' so to speak, but those who are looking to the future, acting as chief navigators on their behalf.
Leaders always consider the bigger picture, are planning ahead and deciding what needs to be done tomorrow, next week and next year to reach goals. This creates a sense of authority and trust within the team, maintaining the feeling of being a part of something bigger, and in safe hands getting there.
5. Creativity
As a leader, there is not always going to be a clear or correct answer to questions. Creative thinking allows leaders to be confident when facing the unknown and be open to the outcome.
Regardless of what industry a leader works in, creative thinking skills such as curiosity, imaginativeness, open-mindedness, foresight and sound judgement are highly valuable. Employees are likely to be inspired by a leader who thinks outside the box and isn't afraid to try something new to solve a problem.
6. Ability to delegate
A leader who doesn't delegate becomes unproductive and a bit of a nuisance. By identifying the strengths of each team member and delegating tasks out to them accordingly provides trust and free's up leaders time to focus on other areas of their role. Rather than delivery, leaders should be focused on strategising and goal setting, evaluating employee performance and giving feedback, training and mentorship, and team planning.
It's worth remembering, good leadership isn't about 'doing it all' it's about surrounding yourself with the best people to get the job done and enabling them to do it.
7. Conflict management
Naturally, when working with people, there is likely to be conflict. A difference of opinion, mismanaged expectations, a poorly phrased email or misalignment in values are all scenarios where a leader may have to step in and resolve grievances of staff members.
It's a leaders responsibility to put clear boundaries in place before opening up dialogue around the conflict, guiding it to a resolution. Leaders must show excellent and authoritative communication skills, be unbiased and open-minded to effectively and fairly manage conflicts.
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By focussing on the positives, having fun and keeping the energy in the office light, leaders create an enjoyable work environment that employees actually want to be a part of.
Being optimistic creates a sense of possibility, so regardless of where a team is against their goals, feeling part of an uplifted team, and having this notion that anything is possible will encourage team members to continue trying and put in the extra effort when occasionally needed.
Mistakes happen, and so do last-minute changes. The higher up the leadership ladder you are, the more you will know this. What makes a good leader is being able to move with this, improvise and adapt. Employees value a leader who is able to take these moments in their stride and creatively problem solve.
An element of being a flexible leader is listening to staff feedback and finding a way to make them more content in their role or working environment, employees will appreciate feeling listened to and acknowledged.
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Empathy is a vital leadership skill. Working to support and inspire people day in, and day out has its challenges. Remembering we're all human with lives outside of the office and unique skillsets that need fostering will make for an approachable and impactful leader.
Making staff feel safe and understood on a personal level in the workplace brings a whole host of benefits to the wider company as well. These include an increase in employee productivity, innovative thinking flourishing and an improvement in staff retention - which creates happy and stable teams.
How do you build a successful leadership team?
A successful leadership team requires individuals who have a balance of the soft skills we've just discussed, who are able to make strong decisions and have an appetite to drive a business forward.
Having leadership in a team is integral to any businesses success as they inspire and guide employees to achieve goals. Great leaders might already be hidden within teams, and fostering the signs of natural leadership will strengthen a team from the ground up.
To be sure you've identified the right candidates for a leadership position, you can test for leadership skills using a leadership test as well as other specific soft skills tests such as interpersonal skills tests.
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