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Saudi Arabia is the regime that has done more to incite Islamic extremism around the world than any other, and "a modicum of civilized behavior" cannot be expected from such a state.
There is a far deeper issue involved in America's most disastrous alliance than human rights violations, one that is widely skirted by the press: Saudi Arabia is the regime that has done more to incite extremism around the world than any other, and "a modicum of civilized behavior" cannot be expected from such a state.
Here's a sobering fact: Even after the destruction of the Islamic State's territorial caliphate in Iraq and Syria, there are today more terrorism fighting in more countries than there were on Sept. 11, 2001. The harsh reality is that despite the United States' successes in killing terrorists on the battlefield and preventing another 9/11-scale attack, the problem of terrorism is not shrinking. On the contrary, it has steadily morphed and metastasized. After nearly 18 years, and enormous expenditures and loss of life, the United States still has no proven strategy for reducing the number of young persons around the world susceptible to religous extremism.
It's been clear to U.S. policymakers for years that hard power alone—military action to kill terrorists and disrupt terrorist plots—is not by itself a winning formula. While necessary for long-term success, hard power on its own is simply insufficient. Also essential is a strategy for combating the extremist ideology that serves as the central building block of Wahhabi extremism—the totalitarian, intolerant, ultraconservative interpretations of Islam that systematically dehumanize all those holding different beliefs, both Muslim and non-Muslim alike. Killing terrorists has proven a relatively straightforward task. Killing the state of mind—the idea that helps radicalize and then, in far too many instances, weaponize terrorists to kill nonbelievers—has been a vastly more difficult undertaking.
Since 9/11, successive U.S. presidents have acknowledged the centrality of the ideological war. On his first foreign trip as president, Trump went to Saudi Arabia, the beating heart of Wahhabism—the harsh, absolutist religious creed that helped seed the worldviews of al Qaeda and the Islamic State—and publicly demanded that the Saudis and other leaders of Muslim-majority countries "Drive [the extremists] out. Drive them out of your places of worship. Drive them out of your communities. Drive them out of your holy land, and drive them out of this earth."
Important and necessary words, for sure. But by themselves, just words. Each of the post-9/11 U.S. administrations made earnest attempts to establish policies and programs to weaken and undermine terrorist ideologies. But as the number of recruits signing up for Wahabbi jihadism's global insurgency has steadily expanded, the inadequacy of these efforts is apparent. By nearly all accounts, the U.S. approach has been a jumble: disjointed, inconsistent, underfunded, and lacking leadership, coordination, and sustained high-level political support. In a 2019 study commissioned by the Department of Homeland Security, the Rand Corp. pointed to a conclusion about U.S. efforts to prevent domestic terrorism that applies equally well to its counter extremism efforts worldwide: "more talk than action."
One important example concerns what Trump discussed in Riyadh back in 2017: the need for America's Muslim partners to take the lead in defeating the ideology of religous extremism. Or more importantly, the need for a handful of states, first and foremost Saudi Arabia, to get out of the business of exporting supremacist versions of the faith around the world. Yet you'd be hard-pressed to find Trump ever speaking publicly about the issue again. Instead, his demands of the Saudis rapidly shifted to shorter-term, more transactional issues like buying ever-greater quantities of U.S. weapons, keeping oil prices low, and supporting what in all likelihood will be a stillborn plan for Middle East peace.
Holding the kingdom's feet to the fire when it comes to unraveling the catastrophic damage that Wahhabism's export has systematically inflicted on Muslim communities globally for at least two generations—the ideological tinder, if you will, for the jihadi fire that the United States has been battling for 20 years—has largely fallen by the wayside as a U.S. priority. That's particularly unfortunate, because Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has himself claimed since late 2017 that Riyadh is now determined to destroy the extremist ideology that it did so much, for so long, to promote. To the crown prince's credit, it hasn't all been lip service. At home, he's reeled in the kingdom's once all-powerful religious police and locked up some extremist clerics. Abroad, the Muslim World League, once the tip of the Saudi spear for exporting Wahhabism, surrendered its lease to the Grand Mosque of Brussels after Belgian authorities charged it with propagating extremism. And the league's head, Mohammed al-Issa, a cleric and former justice minister, has made a series of remarkable statements in what appears to be a sincere one-man campaign to promote moderation. But Wahhabism's trail of wreckage runs deep and wide. It will take much more than a few op-eds by a single Saudi cleric to make a dent in the damage that's been done.
A small band of U.S. officials within the State Department's Counterterrorism Bureau and the National Security Council's counterterrorism directorate have sought to refocus U.S. policy on combating extremist proselytization by foreign states, however, relegating such a critical effort to narrow counterterrorism channels would be woefully inadequate to the scope of the challenge. The failure to prioritize the ideological war has been the perennial Achilles' heel of U.S. strategy.
A talking point on ending the export of extremism needs to be a standard feature, not simply of intermittent counter terrorism exchanges among midlevel officials, but of every U.S. diplomatic interaction with the Saudis, starting with the president and extending downward through his cabinet across the entire U.S. government. An even better mark of seriousness would be for Trump to put Mohammed bin Salman's bona fides to the test by establishing a high-level U.S.-Saudi working group to put into practice the crown prince's professed commitment to moderation.
Getting serious about stopping the export of extremism means making it an intelligence priority as well. Remarkably, if Trump were to ask the vast U.S. intelligence community to provide him with a comprehensive list of all Saudi-affiliated mosques, schools, madrassas, universities, and community centers around the world, he'd largely be met with blank stares. Ditto if he wanted a list of radical preachers worldwide who were on the Saudi payroll. Or a chart showing how many versions of the Quran containing "hate-filled Wahhabi commentaries" were still being exported around the world by Saudi publishing houses.
Even more worrisome is that the same gap in granular knowledge almost certainly extends to Saudi-related proselytization within the United States as well. Nearly eighteen years after 15 of the kingdom's nationals helped perpetrate the murder of nearly 3,000 people on U.S. soil, the lack of this kind of hard data that U.S. diplomats could use to confront the Saudis, hold them to account, and measure progress over time is almost inexcusable.
Getting Saudi Arabia and other countries out of the business of exporting extremism once and for all is an odd issue: While nearly everyone has agreed for nearly 20 years that the problem directly threatens U.S. national security, no one ever seems to really do anything about it. Lots of rhetoric. Very little action. As the United States prepares to enter the third decade of its ongoing campaign against terrorism, that failed approach should finally change—especially with a de facto leader in Riyadh who, despite his many well-known shortcomings, has openly declared a commitment to put the propagation of religious radicalism in the kingdom's rearview mirror.
For their part, U.S. policymakers should seize upon this as an open invitation for high-level diplomatic engagement to hold the crown prince to account while helping him achieve his stated goals. Especially at a time when Trump and Congress have repeatedly been at loggerheads over policy toward Saudi Arabia, the opportunity to work together to get the kingdom on the right side of this all-important ideological war should not go to waste.
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Diet, Including Eating Less Beef, Dropped Americans' Carbon Emissions by 9%
A decline in carbon-intensive foods like beef and orange juice has shrunk individuals' carbon footprints between 2005 and 2014.
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The carbon footprint of the average American's diet has shrunk by about 9 percent, largely because people are eating less beef, according to a new report.
Changes in the American diet—lower consumption of not only beef, but orange juice, pork, whole milk and chicken—meant that the average American's diet-related greenhouse gas emissions dropped from 1,932 kilograms in 2005 to 1,762 in 2014.
The analysis "just shows that small changes in our diets have impacts," said Sujatha Bergen, a food specialist at the Natural Resources Defense Council. "There's a very concrete association between reduced red meat consumption and reduced emissions."
The biggest contributor to the reduction was a decline in beef consumption of about 19 percent over the course of the decade, adding up to a cumulative reduction of 185 million tons of climate change pollution. Total emissions cuts from dietary changes were 271 million tons. During that time, overall U.S. greenhouse gas emissions averaged more than 6 billion tons a year.
Despite the improvement, the dietary changes pale by comparison to overall American emissions from a wealthy lifestyle. The average American has a carbon footprint of about 16 tons and the average U.S. car accounts for roughly 5 tons of emissions per year. China is the world leader in total carbon pollution, but the average Chinese citizen is responsible for less than half the contribution of the average American.
Americans eat more beef per capita than any other country except Argentina and Uruguay, and beef still contributed more than a third of the United States' diet-related climate emissions — about 34 percent in 2014.
The beef industry, which has been long criticized for its outsized carbon footprint, said Wednesday that NRDC's consumption calculations failed to factor in beef exports, which surged over that timeframe. The industry points to data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which says beef production in the U.S. has remained relatively stable, from about 25 billion pounds in 2005 to 24 billion in 2014.
"It's not fair to link consumption numbers domestically to production numbers domestically," said Hillary Makens, a spokesperson for the National Cattlemen's Beef Association.
Sara Place, a research director at the association, said that cattle-related emissions dropped only 6 percent over that time period and only because of a decline in the number of cattle.
"One of the major things that's happened in the beef industry is we're producing more beef with fewer animals," Place explained. "From 1975 to today, it takes a third fewer beef cattle to produce the same amount of beef."
NRDC also looked at food that increased diet-related greenhouse gas emissions. Americans ate more dairy products, including cheese, yogurt and butter, between 2005 and 2014. Like beef, production of dairy products is resource intensive.
Products from livestock, whether beef or dairy, have come under increasing scrutiny in recent years for their emissions. Raising cattle requires large amounts of land and feed, mostly corn and soy, which is heavily fertilized. Processing and applying fertilizer releases nitrous oxide, a gas with nearly 300 times the warming potential of carbon dioxide. Meanwhile, methane is emitted from cattle through their digestive systems and from manure disposal and it has at least 25 times the warming potential of carbon dioxide over a 100-year period.
Bergen warned against drawing any nutritional conclusions from the study, but noted that nutritionists and federal dietary guidelines have long encouraged more consumption of vegetables and less saturated fat.
"We do know that red meat and dairy happen to be high in saturated fats," Bergen said, "and there's a very high correlation between health benefits and environmental benefits."
Georgina Gustin is a Washington-based reporter who has covered food policy, farming and the environment for more than a decade. She started her journalism career at The Day in New London, Conn., then moved to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, where she launched the "food beat," covering agriculture, biotech giant Monsanto and the growing "good food" movement. At CQ Roll Call, she covered food, farm and drug policy and the intersections between federal regulatory agencies and Congress. Her work has also appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post and National Geographic's The Plate, among others.
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United Nations' scientists join climate change chorus
Earth 28 February 2007
By Catherine Brahic
As of now, only coal power stations that can accommodate facilities to capture and store their carbon dioxide emissions should be built, scientists advised on Tuesday.
Declaring the global warming debate over, the UN-backed team urged the world's nations on to act now to keep climate change from creating a worldwide catastrophe.
The group said that in order to avoid "intolerable impacts" of climate change, global CO2 emissions must peak at not much above their current level, no later than 2020, and by 2100, they must have declined to about one-third of that value.
Their statement, entitled Confronting Climate Change, was issued by the UN Foundation and the Sigma Xi scientific research society on 27 February.
Policy considerations
The report follows the 2 February release of a much-heralded document by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in Paris, France, which stated that global warming is real and human activities caused much of it over the past half-century.
The earlier report's remit was to assess the status of climate science and so did not make policy recommendations. The current one centres on just such recommendations.
Its conclusions, however, are not new. It states that:
• Global average temperature rises of more than 2°C to 2°5C above 1750 pre-industrial temperatures will lead to "sharply increasing risk of intolerable impacts"
• Avoiding such a rise will require the capping of atmospheric concentrations at the equivalent of no more than 450-500 parts per million of CO2 (compared to about 380 ppm CO2 today)
The report says that addressing this will require:
• A two-pronged strategy: "avoiding the unmanageable" (limiting greenhouse gas emissions) and "managing the unavoidable" (adapting to the unavoidable effects of climate change)
• Increased efficiency in the transportation sector
• Better design and efficiency of commercial and residential buildings
• Incentives for a greater use of biofuels
• Better preparation for the effects of climate change in poor countries
• Slowing and eventually reversing deforestation, a major source of greenhouse gas emissions
• A tripling or quadrupling of global investment in advanced energy technology
Growing consensus
The scientists considered nuclear power as a carbon-free option, but said this energy source must address the problem of disposal of radioactive waste and break the link between nuclear technology and weapons proliferation.
Many of these points reinforce those recently advocated. For example, the European Union's energy strategy released in January 2007, and a statement released by the Global Roundtable on Climate Change in February 2007.
The agreement between all of these statements and reports – including this latest which is the result of two years of work – indicates a growing consensus among scientists, policymakers and business leaders worldwide.
"We make the argument that it is essential that we get started now: not next year, not next decade, but now," says John Holdren, a professor of environmental policy at Harvard University in Boston Massachusetts, US, and member of the scientific panel that crafted the report.
Substantial package
And while the recommendations are global, certain specific items are sure to affect the US, Holdren says. For example, the US, which emits about 25% of the world's CO2, relies heavily on coal-fired power plants.
US House of Representatives speaker Nancy Pelosi said that she hoped to see a "substantial package" of US global warming legislation by 1 June 2007.
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Remains and threats give them the creeps. As the gang settles in and tries to sleep. The morning of day two brings a new task and fight. But will the guys be able to last and will they have the might? Tune in to find out!


Grimy Grant is back with another album review for DCHeavyMetal.com. This time he's reviewing the new EP by Northern Virginia death metal band Grethor. Give it a read and be sure to give a listen to one of the songs at the bottom of this post.
Back in college, I took a survey course in Science Fiction. The professor, being an admittedly avid weirdo and Sci-Fi geek, demonstrated how you can split the genre of Sci-Fi into two groups: Star Wars-esque Sci-Fi and Star Trek-esque Sci-Fi. Star Wars refers to all the campy, unbelievable stories that hold only a little grip on reality (Think Predator, Stargate, or any SyFy channel original movie). Star Trek, on the other hand, was a show dedicated to "real" science, even if it meant fringe science. In other words, everything in "hard" Sci-Fi can be defended or explained by your physicist friends. Hard Sci-Fi, then, can be understood to worship logical reasoning above everything else.
This is soon followed by the sounds of a spaceship crashing and exploding followed by the roars of some futuristic animal ready to tear us apart. It felt as if Grethor wanted me to learn a bit about the importance of physics and then leave me in the bleak yet gorgeous void as shown on the album art.
That sense of being lost didn't last long. The first song, "Anomoly X", set the tone and the message for the rest of the album in my mind. After a slow intro, singer Marcus Lawrence preaches the word of astronomy: "We look to the skies; Inward we look for the vastness of connection". Marcus begs us to give up the hope of "false exhalations" that mankind comes from godhood. We are simple creatures making vague notions of what is real until we "choose the gift of enlightenment" and become truly free in knowing our part in the universe. It's definitely a humbling message that repeats back the quote from the intro.
The point that comes across here in the lyrics is black and white. That Grethor is talking about how "The inferiority of self" coming from learning about the cosmos – or anything bigger than us – causes some in society to take devastating action – even if it's against the actual greater good. Or as it is poetically growled in the song: "Men arrogantly justify killing one/Who seeks truth, and they call it heresy".
Guitarists Robert Lute, Andy McComas, and bassist Nick Rothe don't flex a lot of guitar muscle in this album. Instead, they allow the sound to swell and compress over and over again – going from a black metal-style harmony to crushing, quickened riffs. "Anomoly X" starts with a beautiful and steady rhythm that then dissolves into a slow guitar melody. It made me think back to the cover art featuring the nebula and stars colliding together. Everything in the song "Anomoly X" crashes yet seemingly blends together, which was hard to get into at first but gets me more and more hooked after each listen. "Tenebrous" and "Hypatia" feature elements that I love about the album: symphonic harmony that starts after the end of the song and provides a kind of psychotic break. It serves as a strange pause between "Tenebrous" and the pounding rhythm of "Hypatia".
Galaxia does suffer from it's technical issues. It's mentioned in the liner notes that come with the album that all parts of the album except the last song were mixed in Maryland, while the final song, "Alternate Lexicon," was done in Virginia. However it happened, the mix on "Anomoly X" as well as "Tenebrous", seems way too rough. At some points in "Anomoly X" the guitars almost seem to be coming from the back of the room whilst Lawrence is jamming his voice straight into the mic. I'm still able to get into the song but the levels and rough edges of the mix tend to get in the way of really enjoying it sometimes. The mix gets significantly better in "Hypatia", where the vocals mix well with the rest of the band, coming to the fore right at the moment of the breakdown. As a finale "Alternate Lexicon" weaves together some beautiful guitar work with amazing drums from Anthony Rouse, despite the difference in moving locations for recording. Maybe this all is a result of something that happened organically in the sound mixing booth, but the final product is rough at the beginning which could turn some people off from listening to the rest.
Science fiction is about the fear not only of our future but our present. Galaxia Infinitum dazzles with moments of echoing guitars, drums, and robot voices – all things both future and present. The digital album came with a lyrics sheet of the liner notes, which is something I appreciated. Grethor's lyrics in this album create a world beyond the expansive noise – something that is better read sometimes than heard. Despite the rough edges, and there are some rough parts, there is a lot of story and great points brought out. Interestingly, I could say the same for Star Trek: rough around the edges but chock full of deadly surprises and decent science worship. But there is no living long and prospering in Galaxia Infinitum; just sharp, precise death metal that chills the soul.


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August 2022 USDA Food Distribution
Tribal staff working with Specialist Ronald Buckman exchange information while fulfilling recipients distributions.
Just one of the many boxes being loaded for later deliveries in the coming days.
The amount of food that was not picked up slated for delivery in the following days as schedules permit.
Tribal Land, Tribal Offices, Avenida Central, La Grange, Ca.
The California Valley Miwok Tribe held this month's USDA Food Distribution on Tuesday, August 16th, 2022.
It was one of the hottest days of the season but by late afternoon it had cooled off and a slight breeze made for a comfortable distribution.
The tribe again will add additional Co-vid supplies as needed to the various distributions until the tribe's Covid reserves run out. At that time and if a resurgence comes to pass the tribe will once again resource with the applicable agencies to readdress the needs of those who depend upon us for assistance within our service area.
On the home front there are current lawsuits pending and more to come in addressing the tribe's right to remain sovereign and govern its own people in defiance to the Bureau of Indian Affairs constant meddling in an attempt to help casino backed non-members take over the tribe all for the sole purpose of building a, (BAY AREA MEGA CASINO).
The BIA's legendary interference into the sovereign rights of not only this tribe, but all tribe's has hindered the tribe's ability to address all the needs by the tribe's citizen's and local native American's of which we serve but when has the BIA ever cared about native people's.
Nevertheless we are here, we shall stay and we will continue to represent and protect all those who have come to depend upon us against the continuing injustices wrought against us by bought and paid for bureaucrats of the BIA who are in the back pockets of casino developers.
At this time, we would like to thank the real friends of the Native American community who address the needs of local native peoples through the
tribe.
The United States Department of Agriculture, The Tule River Tribe, The Tule River Food Distribution Department, Ronald Buckman who makes sure
that deliveries are always met and recipients needs are addressed, The Federal Emergency Management Agency and California Office of Emergency
The California Valley Miwok Tribe
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Family - Little Connection - Matthew Little
Matthew Little
(26 Jan 1827 - 7 Nov 1902)
The narrative that follows is transcribed from Alexander (Sandy) Waddell's invaluable summary in his biographical documentation of the Little and Martin families.
Summary transcript
Born 26 Jan 1827. Joined his brother John Martin Little in Singapore about 1850, becoming a partner of John Little and Co in 1852. He married first Isabella McNair Black in 1859. Their two children were born in Singapore, Robert Little (b 1860) and Anne Maxwell Little (b 1862).
He gave evidence, representing John Little and Coat a meeting in the Town Hall (11 Dec 1863) called to discuss the implications of transfer of the administration of Singapore from the East India Company to the Colonial Office, London. His brother Dr Robert Little was appointed to the investigating Committee which reported (9 Jan 1864) with statistics proving there was an excess of receipts over expenses of the Settlement. Matthew Little does not appear otherwise in the various records of Singapore.
Isabella died in Glasgow (1 May 1868), possibly her home town, there being no record of cause. He married second Harriet Agnes Lawrence (23 Jun 1873), daughter of Capt Alexander Lawrence of the Merchant Marine. Of their 8 children, four survived infancy: Harriet Agnes Little and Miriam Anne Little, twins born in Singapore 23 Jul 1875, Hilda Maxwell Little (b 12 Dec 1878) and Harry Martin Little (b 12 May 1883), both born in Hampstead whither Matthew had retired in 1877, to "Applegarth", No 5, Lyndhurst Gardens, Hampstead. He died there 7 Nov 1902.
Harriet lived on until 16 Apr 1929.


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The KSCB also produce a Key Messages document, for regualr sharing of partner messages. Click here to go to that section.
Featuring KSCB move, Guidance Documents, PCC Newsletter, Elective Home Education, Notification of Child Death, A good News Story and New Training Run by CGL.
Featuring Ofsted Update on Children's Services Improvements, CCG evening and weekend appointments, What Works Survey, @KirkleesLSCB followers and upcoming KSCB training.
Featuring articles: Kirklees Safeguarding Week, Section 11 Self-Assessment Audit, New Schools Safeguarding Officer, Oz Khan leaving, The Base & PCC newsletters and upcoming training courses.
Featuring articles: Enable Audit, E-Learning, KSCB Key messages, Children Services Update, KSCB Staff update, Thank you and Farewells, Bitesize Briefings, Training.
Featuring articles: Safer Internet Day 2017, Kayleigh's Love Story, KSCB Key Messages, Learning from Serious Case Reviews, West Yorkshire Police and Crime Plan, Risk Sensible Implementation, Childrens Services Updates and KSCB Training.
Kirklees Safeguarding Week: Stonger together working for a safe and healthy Kirklees.
Featuring articles: Safeguarding Week 2016, KSCB Board Highlights, MAR Guidance and MAR Form, Continuum of Need Response Framework, For your information and training, dates, times and venues.
Featured articles: Safeguarding CSE Learning Disabilities Conference, Safeguarding Roadshow, KSCB Board Meeting Highlights, Continuum of Need Resonse Framework Consultation-Key Findings, Safer Communities Fund Awards.
Issue 15 - April 2016 Featured articles: Operation Bull Finch, Forced Marriage, The Goddard Enquiry, Bruises Burns and Scolds, CDOP Annual Report, KSCB Annual Report, KSCB Training Plan, Safeguarding Briefings 2016, Additional KSCB Training, National Campaigns , Twitter and Safeguarding Week.
The newsletter covers the latest Safeguarding Chiildren Board meeting which took place on 18 Decemebr 2015.
Some of the highlights from the meeting included CSE Audit, Multi-Agency Dataset, Board Priority Settings, Neglect Audit Group Exercise, Peer Challenge Review and the Learning & Disability Protocol.
The newsletter covers a conference that KSCB held which focussed on 'Learning from Serious Case Reviews'. The conference aimed to disseminate lessons from recent local and national Serious Case Reviews and encourage practice development in response to the lessons learnt and to identify the barriers to learning in practice.
Feature articles: Multi-agency Training and Evaluation; The Role of Advocacy and Young People's Contribution to the Conference; Review of the New Approach; View of a Conference Chair; Training.
Feature articles: Learning & Improvement Framework; Threshold - Continuum of help and support; Current KSCB E-learning; New E-learning opportunities - Launched February 2014; E-learning coming soon; Ideas for future courses and external training courses.
Feature articles: KSCB Annual Report 2012-2013; Changes to Child Protection Conferences; Safeguarding Teenagers Conference 2013; Voluntary, Community & Faith sector Safeguarding Children Conference; An introduction to Kirklees Safeguarding Children Board workstreams; Kirklees Safeguarding Children Board says goodbye to Jean Selbie; KSCB Staff Member interview; New & Free E-Learning courses and Safeguarding briefings (Autumn 2013).
Feature articles: Integrated Domestic Abuse Team; The Pennine Domestic Violence Group; This is Abuse government website; Working Together to Safeguard Children 2013 guidance; Barnardo's Turnaround Service; The Strengthening Families Approach to Child Protection; Interviews with a KSCB Board Member and a Staff Team Member and the Child Sexual Exploitation Campaign.
Feature articles: Practice/Reflective Learning Reviews, KSCB Mulit-Agency training plan, Developing links with Faith Organisations; Early Intervention and Targeted Support Service update; Disclosure and Barring; Juvenile Referral Scheme Audit; KSCB Board Member and KSCB Board Manager interviews; Safeguarding in the Voluntary, Community and Faith Sector Conference 25 July 2013.
Feature articles: Safeguarding Teenagers Work; Child Sexual Exploitation; Safeguarding Teenagers Conference; Neglect - Overview of Work; Lessons from Audits & Reviews - CAF; Lesson from Serious Case Review; Child Death Overview Panel; New Board Members; New Unit members; Agency Updates; Overview of KSCB unit; What to do if worried about a child.
Feature articles: Voluntary and Community Sector; Female genital mutilation; Forced marriage; Government response to Munro; Common assessment framework (CAF); Serious case reviews - messages from national research; Supervision in child protection work; Joint visits guidance; Local Authority Designated Officer (LADO).
Feature articles: New KSCB workstreams; Neglect workshops; Audit of pre-birth assessments; Support for the Voluntary Sector; Protecting children at risk of sexual exploitation; Road safety mosque broadcast; Young people Road Safety Champions; Family Nurse Partnership; Dangers of window cord blinds.


The effects of surface topography on bacterial distribution across a surface are of extreme importance when designing novel, hygienic or antimicrobial surface coatings. The majority of methods that are deployed to describe the pattern of cell dispersion, density and clustering across surfaces are currently qualitative. This paper presents a novel application of multifractal analysis to quantitatively measure these factors using medically relevant microorganisms (Staphylococcus aureus or Staphylococcus epidermidis). Surfaces (medical grade 316 stainless steel) and coatings (Ti–ZrN, Ti–ZrN/6.0%Ag, Ti–ZrN/15.6%Ag, TiZrN/24.7%Ag) were used in microbiological retention assays. Results demonstrated that S. aureus displayed a more heterogeneous cell dispersion (∆αAS < 1) whilst the dispersion of S. epidermidis was more symmetric and homogeneous (∆αAS ≥ 1). Further, although the surface topography and chemistry had an effect on cell dispersion, density and clustering, the type of bonding that occurred at the surface interface was also important. Both types of cells were influenced by both surface topographical and chemical effects; however, S. aureus was influenced marginally more by surface chemistry whilst S. epidermidis cells was influenced marginally more by surface topography. Thus, this effect was bacterially species specific. The results demonstrate that multifractal analysis is a method that can be used to quantitatively analyse the cell dispersion, density and clustering of retained microorganisms on surfaces. Using quantitative descriptors has the potential to aid the understanding the effect of surface properties on the production of hygienic and antimicrobial coatings.
This is an Author Final Copy of a paper accepted for publication in Journal of Microbiological Methods, published by and copyright Elsevier BV.
Wickens, D and Lynch, S and West, G and Kelly, P and Verran, J and Whitehead, Kathryn A.


Hatchlings dash towards the ocean as soon as they emerge from their nest. They run a gauntlet of predators not only on the shore, but in the water, in hopes of one day returning to the breeding grounds and producing their own offspring [Wikimedia Commons].
Sea turtles have a rough start in life. Their first mission is to dig out of over a foot of wet sand (with a pair of tiny flippers, no less) and dash for the ocean. Once in the water, the hatchings swim as fast as they can out to sea, where they remain until they are large enough to breed. To make matters worse, they have to do all this with only the energy contained in their egg yolk, since hatchlings do not begin feeding until they are well out to sea.
It's no surprise that this "post-hatching dispersal phase" is a critical time in the life of a sea turtle.
But hatchlings have one possible advantage – they don't need to dig themselves out alone.
Synchronous digging activity in sea turtle hatchings has been proposed as an example of social facilitation. Social facilitation is the concept that one animal's performance of a certain behaviour (e.g. a deer bolts when it hears a noise) increases the probability of other animals to either engage in or increase the intensity of the same behaviour (e.g. the other deer in the herd also bolt, even if they did not hear the dog).
Because all eggs within a nest (called a "clutch") experience similar temperatures, they tend to hatch at about the same time. Since turtle hatchlings do not dig take long rest periods between bouts of intense digging activity, social facilitation may help co-ordinate clutch digging (e.g. one turtle's digging causes the ones nearby to also start digging).
Researchers out of the University of Queensland and Universiti Malaysia Terengganu investigated how the size of the clutch influenced the time and energy needed for green sea turtle hatchlings to escape the nest. They hypothesized that due to the combined effort of more individuals, larger clutches would allow hatchlings to reach the surface more quickly, and using less energy, than smaller clutches.
To estimate energy use during nest escape, the researchers used a technique called "open-flow respirometry" to measure the oxygen consumption rate of a digging clutch of eggs. By comparing the difference in oxygen content of the air going into a sealed chamber, and the air coming out of the chamber, the team was able to calculate the amount of oxygen consumed by the nest. Since oxygen is involved in converting energy in useable form, oxygen consumption rate is a good indicator of its metabolic rate.
The oxygen consumption rate was measured in buried egg clutches as the turtles hatched and dug their way to the surface. By varying the number of eggs in each clutch, the researchers were able to test the hypothesis that larger clutches would reduce the energetic demands placed on each individual hatchling as they made their way to the surface.
The group also estimated the overall energy content of some freshly laid eggs and of a small subset of hatchlings using ballistic bomb calorimetry (sounds awesome, right?), which essentially measures how much heat is given off when the substance (an egg's yolk, a hatchling's carcass) is burned. The researchers then calculated how much energy was used during development and hatching, and how much was available for nest escape and dispersal into the sea.
As hypothesized, it seems that many flippers make light work. The more eggs in a clutch, the faster the hatchlings were able to dig their way through 40 cm of sand. Since the total energetic cost of nest escape increased with each extra day the turtles spent digging, hatchlings that reached the surface faster also tended to have lower average metabolic rates during the digging period.
The researchers calculated that the average energetic cost of escaping through the sand barrier ranged from 4.4 kJ to 28.3 kJ per individual turtle, and the cost deceased as the number of individuals in the clutch increased. This means hatchlings spent 11 to 68% of their remaining energy stores on digging out from the nest!
Being born into a large family has its benefits! It can result in as much as a 4-fold reduction in an individual's energetic cost of nest escape. This can make a huge difference, as energy saved during the initial dig out can be re-allocated to swimming away from shore or fending off starvation, giving the hatchings a better chance of surviving until they are big enough to defend themselves.
Aside from making it easier to reach the surface, hatching with a bunch of brothers and sisters has other advantages. Predators can easily pick off one or two hatchlings on their own, but can be overwhelmed by large numbers of turtles emerging simultaneously, ensuring at least some hatchlings make it into the surf. It has been suggested that social facilitation also applies in this circumstance as well, and that hatchlings tend to make their dash towards the waterline in large groups.
Confirmation that hatchlings from large clutches have better energy reserves when entering the sea also challenges the wisdom of some active conservation efforts, and underscores the importance of basic research when designing a species-specific conservation program. In places like Malaysia, where portions of this study were conducted, a common strategy is to split natural clutches when relocating them to hatcheries. Hatchlings from these smaller split clutches may emerge with reduced energy reserves, and be at a disadvantage when they are returned to the wild.


(2008 Vintage) Argentina may be renowned for its Malbec; however, to my delight, after tasting the 2005 and now the 2007 vintage, I am praying they do not pull up any Cabernet vines! Maipe also makes excellent Malbec and Bonarda, but their Cabernet is one of those rare finds in the wine world - try a bottle and then stock up with a case. This red has everything you'd find in a $20 California offering. Plush, fruit-forward, but with fresh herbs, licorice and vanilla adding to the complexity - really mind-boggling how Maipe can produce such depth in a wine at this price point.


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Key West Recipe: Smoked Fish Dip
by Island Genn December 26, 2017 Key West Dining
Smoked fish dip is a favorite appetizer in the Florida Keys.
Found at almost every local restaurant and grocery store, and each one tastes completely different. I like to make my own smoked fish dip as well from time to time when my husband, Capt. Steven Lamp of Dream Catcher Charters, goes kingfishing offshore in the winter months and brings me home a king mackerel.
As you probably already caught on from reading the above, I like using fresh kingfish for my smoked fish dip, but you can use another fish that you have access to. And if in a pinch, you can probably even find smoked fish such as trout at your local grocery store; that would cut out your need to actually brine and smoke the fish prior to making the dip. But nothing beats fresh fish in my opinion!
Here is my recipe, with tips about how to smoke your fish too!
2 pounds of kingfish fillets (skin on)
For the Brine:
1 gallon water
1 cup salt
For the Dip:
½ cup mayonnaise (I like Helmann's or Dukes)
½ cup cream cheese, softened (I love Philadelphia or Breakstones)
1-2 fresh jalapeño, finely chopped (Don't forget to remove the seeds!)
¼ cup fresh onion, finely chopped (Vidalia or red onions would both do well!)
¼ cup fresh flat leaf parsley, finely chopped (alternatively, you can use fresh cilantro)
1-2 stalks of celery, finely chopped
½ teaspoon white pepper
1 tablespoon of hot sauce (optional)
First, you will want to soak your fish in a brine so make it really flavorful. In a large bowl or baking dish, mix the water, 1 cup salt and 1 cup sugar, stirring until dissolved. Submerge the fish in the brine mixture and place into the refrigerator for 30 – 40 minutes. Remove the fish from the brine and lightly rinse it under cold water. Place the fish on a rack, skin side down, and allow it to air dry until the flesh is dry. The fish is now ready to smoke or grill.
If you have a smoker and are used to smoking meats, I am guessing that you know what to do once you get your fresh fish. But if you are like me and don't have a smoker, that is no problem. All you need is a grill, a smoker box, and some wood chips. I like a more mild smoke flavor, so I usually use apple wood or cherry wood, which are both great for smoking fish as they won't overpower the delicate fish taste.
So, once you have assembled all of your smoking equipment, you will have to soak your wood chips for about 20 – 30 minutes in a bowl with water. Give them a few stirs to make sure that all of the wood chips are soaked. Then go ahead and load them into the smoker box. Place the smoker box on one side of the grill and only turn on the burner directly underneath the smoker box. Let the grill warm up for about 15 minutes. Then you can set the fish, skin side down, on the opposite side of the grill. This is called indirect heating, and it will cook the fish without drying it out. Smoke for about 2 to 3 hours. At this point the fish should have a nice, golden color to it. When the fish is done, remove from the grill and let cool.
Next, peel off the skin and place the fish in a food processor and pulse about 3 – 5 times to break it up a bit. Now you can add the remaining ingredients into the food processor and pulse until smooth. You can eat it right away (I am usually guilty of doing this because I am horrible at waiting!). But if you refrigerate it and eat it the next day, I promise you that it will taste even better as all of the flavors will have time to marry.
When ready to eat, garnish the fish dip with diced red onions, sliced pickled jalapeños, and chopped tomatoes. Serve with crackers or corn chips. Traditionally, you would be given saltines at a restaurant, but I love using seeded flat bread crackers or pita chips. To die for!
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There has been a lot of observations and comments on the effect of computer as it relates to the accounting profession in Nigeria. According to professor Longe "Computers are being used to assist in the management of major areas of the computers are under utilized and in several areas the uses are yet rudimentary". In the accounting yet rudimentary" story is the same. It has, therefore becomes necessary to know the effect of computer on the accounting profession, to determine whether computer does have effect on the accounting professional and perform task with maximum speed and accuracy which will make the job of the account staff a lot easier or they are under utilized, despite the immense benefits derivable from their optimum utilization.
With the advent of computer-based accounting system, accountants have to cope with the resulting complexity of the flow of information through the accounting systems. Traditional accounting procedures did not accommodate the sophisticated processing devices that came with the computer-based accounting system. As the design of the computer based accounting system advanced from simple clerical automation to complicated integrated information systems, the accountant could no longer perform his duties around the computer but found it necessary to develop procedures to cope with the new challenges.
Furthermore, the traditional accountant was not trained in the special languages and devices used in the computer based system. Accordingly, a chartered accountant and professional organizations to educate the accountant to functions effecting in a computer based accounting system. Therefore in the course of the study. Efforts will be made to establish the effect of computer on the accounting profession. Finally, that the efforts expended in this study will be a worthwhile investment. This is further strengthened by the fact that this study will serve a springboard and basis for further studies on the relationship between the computer and the accounting profession and other related topics in the future.
Manual data processing has existed as long as man has walked this planet. It continuous to exist today in every organization and is major form of data processing for many small business firms. The earliest methods of manual data processing included the use of fingers, stones and stick for counting and knots on a string, scratches on a rock or notches in a stick as record keeping devices. The Babylonians wrote on clay tablets with a sharp stick, while the ancient Egyptians developed written records on papyrus using a sharp pointed reed a pen and organic dyes for ink.
The earliest form of manual calculating device was the Abacus. The use of pebbles or ords laid out on a lined or grooved board were early forms of the Abacus and were utilized for thousands of years in many civilizations. The abacus in it present form originated in china and still a widely calculator. Manual data processing techniques contributed ot progress over the centuries due to developments such as Arabic numerals, the decimal system, the manufacture of paper, the printing press, the slide rule and double –entry book keeping to name a few. Manual data processing systems of today employ tools and materials that have been used for several hundred years such as pencil, pens, rulers paper record keeping, forms, folders and filing cabinets. More recent development which have been tools and materials such as multiple copy forms, carbon paper, accounting pegboards and notched cards.
The information system of any organization can include manual data processing systems if information, requirement become more complex and the volume of data increases, mechanical data processing systems become more efficient and economical. In manual data processing transactions can be recorded easily in a human-readable form and changes and correction to such systems can easily be made. Manual data processing is also quite in expensive at low volumes. The major limitation of manufacture data processing include its inability to handle large volume of work and its reliance on many cumber-some and tedious methods. It is also more susceptible to error and slower them other data processing methods because it depends on human effort for most data processing operations.
Accounting procedures are naturally complex and are becoming increasingly more sophisticated and so it becomes more necessary wanting to know how computerization has helped in resolving this complexity and also to get to know of it holds any greater promise for the future in the field of accounting. There is the need also to know if it hold any risk of aiding perpetrators of frauds in order to weigh its against benefit. It also seeks to identify how the personnel conduct their activities in an accounts department without computers and how it is different when computers are introduced. " I am quite sure that many people would have been amazed the way computer process millions of inputes at a very short time.
For instances an IBM system 370/145 model II computer can process a company's journal, Asset register, balance sheet, trial balance, profit and loss Account, Departmental statements, age receivable and customers account receivable approximately in 10 minute, 24 seconds every month". This recent development in the practicing accountant which has let him to hiring the services of a computer expert for audit purposes. Does the computer displace the accountant with a computer scientist? Sometimes the auditor looks frustrated watching the computer as a fast beas perform the job of an accountant and selfishly stores them on magnetic tapes as invisible magnetized spots.
In addition to this problems, the electronic accounting systems are usually designed by systems analyst and programs who are in most cases non accounts. This makes the accountant a stranger to the system he is to audit, unlike in a manual system. Furthermore, the accounting information processing procedures are stated in computer programs which are written in special computer languages and stored on machine-sensible medium. Where on-line integrated systems are in use, audit trail may not be in existence, these make the auditor to be lost in the mist of computer processed data. How can all these problems of the computer be surrounded so as to return accountants and make them offer more qualitative job to the firm and the public in general instead of the computer scientists or economists with computer knowledge. These are the problems the study shall be focused at.
1. Highlight the importance of computer and it relevance accountants.
3. In pursuance of his duties, the auditor may come across accounting statements prepared by a computer, especially by large business organization.
Thus, the auditor also needs to lean about computer programming.
1. To provide a guide for organization that need to understand the benefit of computers.
5. Highlight the unexplored potentials of the computer necessary for the efficient and smooth operation of the commercial banks as far as customer services are concerned.
This study "Effect of computer on the accounting profession ( A case of the Asaba Aluminium company, Delta state) will educate the entire public how computer aids the accounting profession. The world is fast turning into a global village with the rise of satellite communication, the internet and specialized software in very competitive financial environment. This study is significant in that it mains at increasing the awareness of our leverage on computerization. If the company's financial market must be further opened and stay competitive and profitably so, the computer technology might just hold the key. In recent times, there has been increased demand in the knowledge and application of the computer for processing data. This has become necessary in the face of unique position that computer occupies today in organizations with which most calculations and data processing are handled. Such a lot of the accounting boarder-some processing large volumes of data, there is need therefore, to find out in the study the various benefits associated with the use of computers in accounting.
The study will not seek to justify the huge amount invested in computer, but also try to show the reward and meaningful development or improvements in terms of times saved, less clerical and laborious manual entries from the use of computers than any other mechanical automated machines. As immediate and future computer users in this company, accountant need a basic understanding of computers and how they can be applied to the management and operations of a business enterprise. Therefore, they need to be introduced to the fundamentals of computers and electronic data processing, wide range of hard-ware and soft-ware that process of computer programming and the "high level programming languages that are utilized by the computer-using business firms. However, and more importantly they need the basis concept.
Behind all these storage and manipulation of data is the need to communicate ideas to produce a certain image in the mind of a person, or to inspire a person to act in a certain way. For instance, a banker could decide to approve a loan simply on the basis of a credit report produces by a computer.
1. TIME: Time limit set for the compute completion of the work. That is this study is carried out under a limited time. Having to cope with assignments to lectures here and there, course work and examination was not an easy task especially having to measure up with the high standard of the department in particular, there by reducing, the physical and mental contributions which I would have wished to put into the study.
2. FINANCE: This constant was the most serious of all. It restricted the number of journeys made to my research centre to collect data which led to narrowness of the scope of the study.
3. INADEQUATE FACILITIES IN THE LIBRARY: inadequate facilities in the library such as modern textbooks, journals, news magazines and other materials almost thwarted the effort of the researcher. These materials are supposed to be a pre-requisite for successful project work.
1. What is the effect of computer on the accounting profession in Asaba Aluminium Company?
2. Has the inventions of computers led to job creation or job displacement of accountants?
Ho: There is no effect of computer in the accounting profession in Asaba Aluminium company.
Hi: There is effect of computer in the accounting profession in Asaba Aluminium company.
(J) ON-LINE: These refer to the peripheral devices or equipment that are in direct communication with the central processing unit of the computer. It is the opposite of off line.
8. THE ROLE OF AN ACCOUNTANT IN THE POVERTY ALLEVIATION PROGRAMME OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT (A CASE STUDY OF ENUGU NORTH LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA).


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By Chris Carpineti
Dusting the cobwebs from gaming history and taking a deep dive into the myths, monsters, and mysteries of all things Tomb Raider and Lara Croft!
15: The Science of Tomb Raider
In this special episode, I chat with astrophysicist, gamer, (and husband!) Dr. Carpineti about Lara's cosmically-entangled adventures. Inspired by the upcoming eclipse visible from parts of South America, we chat about the science behind how outer space is presented across the Tomb Raider games and films. Follow Alfredo on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/drcarpineti Check out our other podcast 'The Astroholic Explains': https://anchor.fm/theastroholicexplains ------------------------------------------- Like Raidercast? Check out the merch! https://linktr.ee/raidercastmerch Follow along: https://twitter.com/RaidercastPod https://facebook.com/Raidercast https://instagram.com/Raidercast https://twitter.com/illucifer
14: Rebooting Lara Croft - An Interview With Rhianna Pratchett
Five years ago Rise of the Tomb Raider was released, and to celebrate the occasion I chatted with the wonderful narrative designer and writer Rhianna Pratchett! Check out some TR-tees! http://www.linktr.ee/raidercastmerch Follow along at: http://twitter.com/raidercastpod http://twitter.com/illucifer http://instagram.com/raidercast http://instagram.com/illucifer
13: The Monster Manual Vol. 2
Monster Manual Vol 2 invites returning special guest Sacha Coward to tell us more about the real-world myths behind some of Tomb Raider's cursed critters. Follow Sacha on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/sacha_coward Like Raidercast? Check out the merch! https://linktr.ee/raidercastmerch Follow along: https://twitter.com/RaidercastPod https://facebook.com/Raidercast https://instagram.com/Raidercast https://twitter.com/illucifer
12: The Horror of Tomb Raider - Halloween Special
We're going down a spooky path for Halloween! Special guest, author, and artist, Claire Waller talks about her journey with Lara, and we discuss our top three moments of horror in Tomb Raider! Follow Claire on twitter @adarkwhimsy.
11: An Interview With Jonell Elliott
Welcome back to Raidercast! For the premiere of Season 2, I sat down for a world-first interview with the one and only Jonell Elliot, the voice of Lara Croft 1999-2003!
10: Letters to Lara
The S1 finale of Raidercast is for the community, by the community. A love letter to Tomb Raider and Lara Croft across the ages, with personal stories of the impact they've had on our lives. This is why the series is still important!
09: The Journal of Richard Croft
What if Lara Croft wasn't the star? In the Survivor timeline, Lara's father is massively important to the story. We investigate her 'daddy's issues', and ask what if we had a Tomb Raider game where he was the main character instead, and how would it work?
08: Lara's Legacy ft Melonie Mac
Our special guest in this episode is known for her Tomb Raider Twitch livestreams, cosplay, and fan art. We go on a journey to Lara's roots and examine how her character and motivations grew, evolved, and even outright changed over time. Melonie's channels can be found in the following places: http://twitch.tv/meloniemac http://youtube.com/meloniemac
07: Lara's Inferno and Demonology
How does Tomb Raider's depiction of demons and demonology compare to our real-world myths? This episode strayed into some pretty dark territory. I don't expect it'll actually give anyone nightmares, but some parts are chilling! Just don't listen in the dark, and don't go wandering off into any lakes if you think you can hear a baby crying, ok?
06 - Pyramids and Sand
Venture back to the myths of ancient Egypt with a special guest, and behold the war of Horus and Set!
05 - Endgame
In this episode I'm going to blow the lid off an in-game conspiracy that was hidden in plain sight since the very beginning. Join me as I investigate the artefacts of Tomb Raider, the race behind them, and a grand unifying theory that ties everything together.
04 - The Monster Manual Vol. 1
In this episode, Sacha Coward and I investigate some of the Tomb Raider series' monsters and the myths they're based on.
03 - The Cataclysm of Atlantis
In this episode, I delve into Lara's debut adventure and investigate an unearthly civilisation from the dawn of time.
02 - Calling Ms. Croft: An Interview With Shelley Blond
In this episode, I'm joined on the phone by my first special guest: Lara Croft's original voice actress, Shelley Blond, for a conversation about globetrotting, and Lara's relevance in 2020.
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It was a proud moment for all of us at Market Simplified, to be addressed by the British Deputy High Commissioner, His Excellency, Bharat Joshi. He was just 39 years of age when he joined as the British Ambassador. He is also the first Indian National to be the Ambassador for a foreign country. He is the person responsible for diplomatic missions in Southern India, which includes the states of Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and the union territory of Puducherry.
He spoke to us on 'Leadership and its principles' and also made the session interactive by answering a few questions asked by our employees, in the end.
Usually, these are some of the words that come to our mind when we think of a leader- selfless, open-minded, a role model and a good-listener. Being a leader is an incredible task. It requires clarity of thought and ability to take quick yet effective decisions.
He believes that a leader needs to have, what he calls, the 4 Cs-Character, Conviction, Courage, and Culture.
CHARACTER A leader must have excellent character and the ability to inspire his followers. Having excellent character does not mean, being righteous and preachy. In this context, the character refers to being original and unique, which is why he said "Management is about having our own distinct style. Always be yourself." In today's context, an ideal leader always makes the working atmosphere relaxed and fun for his team members.
CONVICTION is otherwise referred to as 'clarity of thought'. A leader must have full faith in the path he has chosen and should be able to see his destination clearly. He must also have complete awareness of the surroundings and should be willing to listen and take suggestions.
COURAGE According to him, a leader should be able to stand up for himself and for his team. He needs to have the courage to protect his staff and to take informed decisions after getting the opinions and criticisms of his team members. A good leader is always a good listener!
CULTURE is mainly to create an environment in the organization that makes working fun. This responsibility also lies with the leader. He should ensure that the members are not under stressful situations. The quality of work automatically improves when the work environment is stress-free.
This was followed by a brief Q &A. Some of the interesting questions that were asked are below.
For this, he said that, during a crisis everyone needs direction. The leader needs to be quick in taking decisions and must try to exercise control over the situation, though there is very little control. He gave us an anecdote of the bombing of the British Consulate General, Istanbul in 2003 and shared the strategies that were taken to overcome the situation.
In the words of His Excellency, "Leadership is a muscle. A lot of it is about self-belief. Anybody can be a leader." Until we try to lead and take ownership, we will never learn to lead. That first step 'to own' is very crucial to be a leader. Leaders are self-made in most cases except in a few circumstances.
The session was very interesting and I am sure we will greatly benefit from this. We thank His Excellency, Bharat Joshi for sparing his valuable time and sharing his thoughts.
About the author: Girijashankar is a Classical Carnatic Vocalist and teacher who loves to perform. He is also a voracious reader and prefers to read books on crime and mystery. He is currently working as a Pre-sales Business Executive in Market Simplified.


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Keeping Faith and Restoring Hope
We at Kinship United have been over a year in lockdown with many staff still working remotely. It is our hope that with each passing day we are getting closer to the proverbial "light at the end of the tunnel" and ask that you remember us in your prayers as we continue to ensure as many children as possible have a safe and nurturing home.
As we shared with you last year, Covid-19 caused unforeseen circumstances, such as violence erupting in certain countries enforcing social distancing guidelines that were designed to protect people. Social distancing requirements also meant girls could not walk within groups, their typical safety measure. Sadly, economic hardships heightened women and girls' vulnerability to violence and exploitation outside their homes. People in areas we serve were not able to make a living, causing chaos that included robberies and lootings.
It is true that many emergency food and medicine supply lines have been restored, but children and widows still face perils, vulnerable not only to contracting Covid-19 but susceptible to natural elements, abuse, trafficking, and health conditions such as malaria and bacterial infections.
But every challenge is another opportunity and Kinship United staff around the world have risen each day believing, as Philippians 4:13 says, they can "do all things through Him who strengthens me."
One of our goals in 2021 is to serve even more orphans and widows. We will continue to seek out and rescue children like Bishara, whose neighbors alerted us that she was being abused by her parents during the Covid-19 lockdown. We are now taking care of Bishara as well as other children who need protection from violence during these trying times.
Please know that as a cherished supporter of Kinship United you truly are a hero, and we cannot thank you enough for partnering with us to serve orphans and widows around the globe.
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