12th March - GERMANY INVADED AUSTRIA.
24th August - DEFENCE ACT.
In fear of Hitler's military build up the Defence Act was passed by Parliament enabling protective measures.
6th September - GAS MASKS ISSUED.
In response to the fear of poison gas attacks, Gas masks were issued to the public and law passed penalising failure to carry them with you.
By 1940 Air Raid Wardens were checking only that a person possessed one.
29th September - MUNICH PEACE AGREEMENT.
Hitler and Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement.
Gas masks issued to everyone.
November - AIR RAID PRECAUTIONS - BOMB SHELTERS.
Sir John Anderson was put in charge of Air Raid Precautions.
Between now and the start of the War people could obtain an "Anderson" shelter, a six feet by four, steel plated box.
This was for home construction and used in the garden, covered with earth.
More substantial shelters were built of brick and covered with re-inforced concrete.
Stanghow Lane Secondary Modern School had one in each of the play-yards.
"There were two long shelters at the bottom end of the school in the girls' playground.
We used to sit in them and tell stories, as we couldn't have a light on to read.
It was gloomy and damp with the general smell of the great unwashed.
And of course those poor souls who couldn't get out to the toilet."
We had an Indoor Shelter at 153 High St, Skelton, example shown below.
I was just an infant during the War, but I remember splitting my head open on the corner of the metal top, which we used as a "dining" table. Never been the same since.
Many warning leaflets were issued in 1938/9. Air Raid Precaution Warden with Gas Mask.
12th December - Death of William Henry Anthony Wharton, age 79 at Skelton Castle. He was buried in the family plot near the old church.
He was succeeded by Margaret Winsome Wharton. She married Captain Christopher Hilyard Ringrose, who changed his name to Ringrose-Wharton in 1939 as a condition of Margaret inheriting the Estate.
Margaret Winsome Wharton of Skelton Castle.
Manager of Longacres and North Skelton Mines.
Thomas E Slater played a large part in the affairs of this area.
He was a native of Alnwick and did his mine training in the coal mines of Durham, before being appointed a Manager in South Wales and spending some time in Eire.
He was first the Mine Manager of Eston and in December 1933 was appointed at North Skelton.
He retired from North Skelton in December 1952 after nearly 40 years management.
He was a local Magistrate from 1943 and virtually died in that job. Shortly after taking his seat on Loftus Bench he complained of feeling ill and died a few minutes after arriving back at his home, The Anchorage, Port Mulgrave, Hinderwell.
Date of death not presently known.
He was responsible for introducing safety features at N Skelton and formed the Mines Ambulance Association. Under his guidance the Mine had 10 competitive ambulance teams and a fully trained team for every 72 men.
The under-manager at North Skelton was H Garbutt. There were only 82 miners below ground with 9 on the surface.
Ruins of Skelton Park Pit, where mining ceased in 1938. The managers of North Skelton mine were T E Slater and F Weels.
There were 541 men employed below and 110 on the surface.
In November - an explosion of gas at N Skelton mine caused the death of one man and injured four others.
It was closed down until the following March for testing and improvements to ventilation.
The under-manager at Skelton Park was M Readman and 172 men were employed below with 69 on the surface.
The manager at South Skelton was J Clement. The under-manager was J Crombie. 498 men worked below ground and 109 on the surface.
The closure of Skelton Park Mine and Skelton Shaft.
At the time of the closure the manager of both mines was J Clement.
The under-manager at Shaft was J Forbes and there were only 67 men working underground and 14 on the surface.
Skelton Park Pit as it was in 1904.
Some of the leaflets issued to householders in 1938/9.


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From writer-director Omar Zuniga, The Strong Ones tells the romantic saga of a fisherman and an architect in the beautiful landscape of Southern Chile as they find love at the edge of the world.
Lucas (Samuel Gonzalez) travels to visit his sister who lives in a remote town in Southern Chile. Beside the ocean shrouded in the wintery mist he meets Antonio (Antonio Altamirano), a boatswain on a local fishing boat. When an intense romance blossoms between them, their strength, independence, and adulthood become immovable, just like the ebb and flow of the tide.
A confidently-crafted festival favorite, The Strong Ones took home both the Audience Award and Grand Jury Prize at Outfest this year. It's a heartwarming romance you won't want to miss.
Watch the trailer for The Strong Ones below and click here to pre-order your copy. The film is coming to DVD and VOD in January.

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Q: If statement condition is met, but contents not executed? I've got an two if() statements, for which the conditions are both met with the default values in the <select> and <input> form fields I've tested this by assigning the values to a variable and writing the variable. (0 and Url).
However, it seems that neither if() statement's contents execute properly.
Here's a link to my JSFiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/cfRAk/2/
Any edits/answers as to why this is happening would be greatly appreciated!

A: Change this line:
var geo_select_val = $('select[name=g_country\\[1\\]]').val();

To this:
var geo_select_val = parseInt($('select[name=g_country\\[1\\]]').val());

The thing is geo_select_val is actually "0" and not 0. Converting a string to boolean will only result in false if string is empty. "0" is not empty, so it was being evaluated as true. Since you are going !geo_select_val, it never goes in.
Caveat: this fix will only work if you make sure all values are numbers. If that's not the case, check for equality with "0"

A: Here's the code you're asking about:
$('#post-form').click( function() {
    var geo_select_val = $('select[name=g_country\\[1\\]]').val();
    if(!geo_select_val) {
        var geo_url_val = $('input[name=g_url\\[1\\]]').val();
        if(geo_url_val != "http://google.com") {
            $('#notification').html("You need to enter a valid url");
        }
    }
});

When I set a breakpoint in this click function and then click on the Post Form div, geo_select_val comes back as "0" which means that if(!geo_select_val) will fail because geo_select_val does have a value so the first if condition will never be executed.
Perhaps you want the first if condition to be:
if (geo_select_val != "0") {

which will tell you if some other value besides the default has been selected (assuming you add other options to that select tag with different values).

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Water is a chemical substance (H20) composed of hydrogen and oxygen that is considered essential for the survival of all known forms of life. Water refers to the liquid form of the element but it can be solid as ice or gaseous as in steam and water vapour. Water covers 71% of the earth's surface, found mostly in oceans, lakes and other bodies. The saltwater oceans hold 97% of surface water, glaciers and polar ice caps around 2.4% (now decreasing) and other land surface water such as rivers, lakes and ponds 0.6%.
Clean, fresh drinking water is essential to life; however some experts estimate that by 2025 more than half of the global population will face water shortages. As water plays a vital role in the world economy with agriculture consuming around 70% of our freshwater, we should not take it for granted but use it very efficiently.
It's been well-known in the western world for a long time that in countries like some of those in Africa people struggle to find sanitary drinking water. Sometimes they have to walk miles each day to a well or stream; sometimes charity drives build wells in villages for families. All too often, though, children die because the water is not safe for them to drink. Meanwhile in the west people complain during a hot, dry spell because of the hosepipe ban or the rising cost of water.
Water is a global necessity, but it is also a global problem. A reconnection to nature, and specifically the power of water, is necessary if humanity is going to ride out the next few decades. Take the watermill, for example. This large wooden structure used to be built over a river, letting the power of the flowing water turn it, which would in turn cause a set of millstones to rotate, grinding wheat into flour. It was, like the windmill, an essential aspect of the agricultural process.
Today, after decades and decades of coal power and electricity, there is a demand to return to using natural resources like water to power many of humanity's needs. It's easy to picture the terrifying power of an angry sea; imagine if we could harness that energy. And the best thing is, it's an infinite resource: the sea will always rage and waves will always crash.
Water is life-giving, but it can also be a dangerous element. Recently, as part of the process of global warming, we have experienced more extreme changes in weather conditions. Flash floods have become more common, and not only do they take lives, but the destruction they leave in their wake costs millions to clean up and repair. For centuries man has wanted to tame the seas, but this arrogance has been rebutted time and again; and below the surface of the sea, it is estimated, there is still so much to be discovered if only we have the suitable equipment.
Water is also a beautiful, fascinating element. Waterfalls around the world – Victoria Falls (Zambia/Zimbabwe), Angel Falls (Venezuela) and Niagara Falls (Canada/United States) to name just a few – draw hundreds of thousands of tourists each year, and it's easy to see why. The noise and the power is enough to take your breath away.


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New European Fuel labeling comes into force in October 2018
Directive 2014/94 from the council of the European Parliament comes into effect on October 12, 2018, creating a new fuel labeling system that will help drivers choose the fuel that is most compatible with their vehicles.
The standard requires both EU member and EEA (European Economic Area) states to provide a fuel identification label by the fuel cap of all new cars, motorcycles, and heavy vehicles as well as at fuel pumps in retail stations. The format of these labels has been standardized to ensure clear identification of the various types of fuel available across the European market.
From October this year, old labeling will disappear from retail stations and 13 new symbols will appear:
B7, B10, and XTL in a square format for diesel fuel
E5, E10, and E85 in a circle format for gasoline
H2 for hydrogen
CNG for compressed natural gas
LPG for liquefied petroleum gas
LNG for liquefied natural gas
The gaseous fuel category is particularly important as it constitutes "alternative fuels", which means it serves as a substitute for fossil oil sources in the energy supply to transport and has the potential to contribute to improvement in CO2 emissions, thereby enhancing the environmental performance of the transport sector.
To help consumers, operators of vehicle dealerships and retail stations fully understand these new labels, detailed information can be found at fuel-identifiers.eu.
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Dramatickers dot com is an unofficial English-language fan site for the Japanese band Clammbon. We aim to act as a resource for fans who don't speak Japanese natively, and to evangelize the band around this little planet.
The site began as "Clamm-bon Eigo-ban" in 2003, when I had returned from a year in Tokyo and wanted a way to keep in touch with the music I loved so much. With the gracious permission of Clammbon staff, I began a labor of love — translating song lyrics, documenting releases, sharing news, and even subtitling films. Anything to help spread the word about this uniquely creative trio. In the process I've learned so much about building sites and about Japanese language, and I've made so many friends from around the world. The site has been built and rebuilt on several platforms: hand-coded HTML and CSS, Movable Type, and WordPress. In 2015, to celebrate the band's 20th anniversary, the site was relaunched once again, this time with its new name and address.
In 2002 I had the rare opportunity to see Clammbon play live at Liquid Room in Shinjuku. A freak water leak at home almost prevented me from getting to attend, but I made it and caught half of the set. At the merchandise table, they were selling shirts from the previous year's Dramatickers Tour. It took some courage to talk to the sales staff, but I got me one of those shirts and it became one of my most prized possessions. It seemed so cool that this Clammbon shirt didn't even say "Clammbon" on it. Just "Dramatickers". Like a label for us fans, who live by the dramatic sounds of this group. For a few years I thought I'd lost the shirt, but it turned up in my friend's attic. The shirt itself came to symbolize the fleeting minutes I'd gotten to spend at a Clammbon show, and the hope that I would be back for a proper full show someday. I wore it only on the most special of occasions. In 2013 I finally did time a trip back to Tokyo specifically to see Clammbon, and of course I wore it to those shows. I don't know if the word was ever really meant to be a label for fans to identify with, or just a fun play on the album title Dramatic. But I have always liked the idea that a Clammbon fan is a Dramaticker. Someone who looks for the heart and the drama and the joy in the world.
Find site updates and general Clammbon enthusiasm on Twitter — @drmtckrs.
Email correspondence to contact at dramatickers dot com.
This site is mainly by William Van Hecke. You can find me on Twitter as @fet.
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Judy Atkins has been an occupational therapist at Riley Hospital for Children since 1968. She has been the threshold to a whole new world for countless children.
The little girl came up to her mother. She needed some coins. There was a vending machine just down the hospital hallway and she wanted to go buy herself a soda.
She'd never been able to do that before. This little girl had cerebral palsy. She was completely dependent on others to move, to do anything at all – even to buy a soda out of a machine.
But occupational therapist Judy Atkins had just gotten the girl into a power wheelchair at Riley Hospital for Children. And the girl's mother just happened to have some quarters.
And as that mom watched her little girl do such a tiny, simple thing, tears poured down her face. One wheelchair and everything had changed. That girl's life would never be the same.
"Thank you, Miss Judy," she said.
Miss Judy Atkins has been at Riley for innumerable little miracles just like that, for nearly 50 years of wonder. She came fresh out of college as an occupational therapist to Riley in 1968. And she never left.
Through the years, Atkins has helped untold numbers of patients be able to do things just like other children, has helped them feel like they really fit in.
Through her nearly-49-year career at Riley, plenty of patients have thanked Atkins. And plenty have fallen in love with Miss Judy. There was even a 5-year-old boy, an amputee, who Atkins trained to use his prosthetic. He didn't just fall in love.
"His mother told me, 'I just want you to know, Judy, that he thinks when he grows up, he is going to marry you,'" Atkins said.
She'd never heard sweeter words.
Raised on a dairy farm in Milton, Ind., Atkins was one of six children. Her family had more than 100 cows and it was Atkins' and her sister's job to milk those cows every morning before school and to milk them every evening after.
That was just fine with Atkins, hanging with the animals. She was extremely shy. In high school, she showed cattle in 4-H, was in the National Honor Society and was valedictorian of her class.
As Atkins flipped through it, she saw a description for an occupational therapist. It caught her eye and she started thinking. That could be a really interesting career.
In July of 1968, a month after graduating from Indiana University with a degree in occupational therapy, Atkins accepted a position at Riley.
At the time, she figured she would work a year or so at Riley and then head off to another hospital. But she could never drag herself away.
The greatest, she says, are those kids.
There was the little girl, whose arm was amputated below the elbow. Her parents brought her in because she couldn't get the hang of tying her shoes with one hand.
Within one session with Atkins, the girl had it down. Atkins had figured out that the problem wasn't the little girl. It was her shoe laces. They were too short for anyone to tie. She needed longer laces.
It was that simple. And Atkins learned quickly in her job, kids are smarter than you think. They are also incredibly honest.
There was the boy in the burn unit about 12 or 13. He had been severely burned, so badly that even his ear was a prosthetic. Atkins had become close to that boy. He talked to her about how kids at school gave him a hard time.
In particular, there was a girl who wouldn't stop. He told Atkins his plan.
Sure enough, the boy followed through.
It's the little things that sometimes go unnoticed that Atkins has always tried to keep an eye on.
There were popsicles they used to make at Riley for kids with cleft lips and palates. One little boy who had just had a cleft repair had arm restraints. Doctors were worried he would pick at the lip and injure himself.
Problem was, when the popsicles were brought around, one had been put in his hand. Atkins walked by and saw him sitting there watching the popsicle melt because he couldn't get his hand to his mouth.
She took that popsicle and sat there with that boy, working on charts, holding his popsicle to his mouth.
Patients at Riley have been so lucky to have Atkins' eyes on them all these years.
She doesn't have one. It's that farm work ethic, she swears. All those years toiling as a child and into her teens, milking cows every day, taught her a lot.
She might work another 10 years, maybe 20. Life is better when you're busy, she said. Life is better when you feel accomplished. When you're helping others.
And Atkins has thousands of wonderful little miracles under her belt.


a sudden, sharp pain, especially in the intercostal muscles: a stitch in the side.
to work upon, join, mend, or fasten with or as if with stitches; sew (often followed by together): to stitch together flour sacks to make curtains; a plan that was barely stitched together.
Old English stice "a prick, puncture," from Proto-Germanic *stikiz, from the root of stick (v.). The sense of "sudden, stabbing pain in the side" was in late Old English. Senses in sewing and shoemaking first recorded late 13c.; meaning "bit of clothing one is (or isn't) wearing" is from c.1500. Meaning "a stroke of work" (of any kind) is attested from 1580s. Surgical sense first recorded 1520s. Sense of "amusing person or thing" is 1968, from notion of laughing so much one gets stitches of pain (cf. verbal expression to have (someone) in stitches, 1935).
early 13c., "to stab, pierce," also "to fasten or adorn with stitches;" see stitch (n.). Related: Stitched; stitching.
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Laughing uncontrollably, as in Joke after joke had me in stitches. Although the precise idiom dates only from about 1930, Shakespeare had a similar expression in Twelfth Night (3:2): "If you desire the spleen, and will laugh yourselves into stitches, follow me." Stitches here refers to the sharp local pain (known as a stitch in the side) that can make one double over, much as a fit of laughter can.


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A Lebanese newspaper reported a secret visit by the commander of the Quds Force in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, General Ismail Ghaani, to Lebanon on Monday to meet with the leader of Hezbollah, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.
The French-language Lebanese newspaper L'Orient Le Jour reported, "The commander of the Quds Force in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, Ismail Ghaani, asked the Secretary-General of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, not to provoke Israel."
According to the newspaper, the reasoning for the visit was to not give Israel an excuse to launch any attack on Lebanese territory, which would prompt a response from Hezbollah.
It should be noted that neither Hezbollah nor Iran has commented on these claims from L'Orient Le Jour.
These developments come after Iran, on Monday, held the funeral procession for the late Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, who was assassinated last Friday, after his car was targeted near the capital, Tehran.
Iran accused Israel of playing a part in the assassination; however, the latter has yet to respond to the allegations.
For its part, the Iranian parliament approved the draft law on "strategic measures to abolish sanctions," which includes raising uranium enrichment to 20 percent, while the head of the parliament's energy committee, Faridoun Abbasi, announced that he would personally work to remove all IAEA inspectors and end cooperation with the agency.
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House Fiyero are the secondary antagonistic faction in the Marvel cosmic storyline Annihilation. They are a guild of corrupt aristocratic merchants of the Kree empire and they serve as the villains of Ronan the Accuser's subplot.
The House of Fiyero was a Kree commercial guild that took power on Hala after betraying the Supreme Intelligence by putting it in a comatose state and considering Ronan and his Accuser Corps an impediment to the maintenance of their power they fabricated false evidence against him dropping on him charges of treason.
Later, they seemingly joined Richard Rider's United Front against the threat of the Annihilation Wave, sending many poorly organized Kree soldiers on the frontline as an expendable distraction for the Wave as they secretely made a deal with Annihilus to spare them in exchange for sabotaging the United Front.
However, Ronan took command of the military forces of the Front and saved the soldiers from the slaughter with his strategic prowess. After finding out that House Fiyero is responsible for his exile, Ronan teams up with Kl'rt the Super Skrull and they go together to Hala to capture the leaders of House Fiyero.
The leaders of House Fiyero enlisted the help of Ravenous, the right hand man of Annihilus, to protect them from Ronan and Super Skrull. After a duel, Ronan manages to defeat Ravenous and then proceed to judge and execute the leaders for crimes against the Kree empire.
Later, Ronan gives a mercy killing to the comatose Supreme Intelligence and becomes the ruler of the empire.


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The downstairs master bedroom includes a queen size bed, mounted television and DVD player, desk, and private full bathroom. The second bedroom is located on the second story with a full bed, vanity, and dresser. The third bedroom is ideal for kids, with two twin trundle beds, so it sleeps up to four people (trundle can be raised to make a full size bed, if desired). The third bedroom also includes dresser, vanity, and small balcony with view of the ocean. The second full bathroom is located on the second story. It was added to the home recently, so it includes new floors, fixtures, and plumbing. Living room couch pulls out easily into a full bed. The new kids loft includes futon cushions for extra sleeping, games, television, and game console. House sleeps up to 12 people.
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FUTURE SHOCK: The Census Bureau reported that in at least 10 states - Mississippi, Georgia, Maryland, Florida, Arizona, Nevada, Texas, California, New Mexico and Hawaii - children who are minorities surpassed 50 percent. That's double the number of states in 2000, and it's likely more will join them. The Associated Press reported that in the last decade many of the biggest jumps in Hispanics came in the South, including Alabama, Louisiana and North Carolina, where immigrants made large inroads.
WE'VE BEEN HERE BEFORE: The latest census figures are sure to push nativists even deeper off the deep end. But we've been through this before. If you want to see their fear and folly, read about the reaction of nativists to the Irish Catholic immigration of the 1820-40s, and the wave of immigrants from southern and eastern Europe in the last decade of the 19th century and first two decades of the 20th century. It's obvious that the immigrants had a better grasp of what it meant to be an American than the nativists who were born here. You can probably say the same about today's immigrants and those who fear them.
MISERY INDEX: If misery loves company, Pitt Panthers' fans are in a fairly crowded place when it comes to the NCAA men's basketball championship. The No. 1 seed Panthers lost in the first round, a cruel disappointment to Pitt fans. But Pitt wasn't alone. The other three No. 1 seeds failed to make it to the finals. In fact, no No. 2 seeds made it that far, either. The Final Four teams are No. 3 seed Connecticut, No. 4 seed Kentucky, No 8 seed Butler and No. 11 seed Virginia Commonwealth, which had to play in the so-called "First Four" to make the final field of 64. But that's why they play the game.


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Last week, a team of TXRX staff members and volunteers installed and operated a miniature makerspace at the STEAM Summit at The Village School. The STEAM Summit was a gathering of educators investigating the role of science, technology, engineering, arts, and math in learning.
TXRX setup a miniature makerspace to demonstrate the dynamics of TXRX Labs and allow visitors to see the potential of makerspaces. The mini makerspace featured 7 stations including a 3D scanner, 3D printers, a laser cutter, a CNC mill, electronics, screen printing, and ceramics. The 3D scanner allowed attendees to have their upper body scanned and then 3D printed. At the electronics station, attendees were instructed on soldering basics and made a pin with LED lights. The laser cutter was used to engrave personalized messages and designs into anodized aluminum keychains. At the screen printing station, participants printed tote bags and at the ceramics station people tried out the pottery wheel or painted ceramic pendants.
TXRX was glad to expose students, teachers, and presenters to the possibilities of makerspaces. We tried to include representation from each area of TXRX, so that a range of offerings could be experienced. Thanks to the Village School for hosting this event!!


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Q: How does :nth-child(n+4):nth-child(-n+8) select a range of elements? According to http://nthmaster.com/, when styling a range of elements by nth-child, we must do this:
:nth-child(n+4):nth-child(-n+8)

If we use only one :nth-child(), then we see that it styles all elements by that formula.
How does each of these two :nth-child() selectors cancel the other's influence on elements which are out of the range?

A: Combining simple selectors in this way simply means you're looking for elements that match all of the given conditions simultaneously. Combining pseudo-classes is no different from combining other kinds of simple selector, for example div.example or input[type="checkbox"]:checked.
So :nth-child(n+4):nth-child(-n+8) just means any element that is both :nth-child(n+4) and :nth-child(-n+8). This can only be a subset of the matches of either selector when used alone.
And that is how you get a range of elements.
How do you tell which elements will be matched? Simple: look at the B in each An+B expression:

*

*:nth-child(n+4) matches children starting from the 4th (inclusive)

*:nth-child(-n+8) matches children up to and including the 8th

How this all works is already illustrated in the website that you link to, but the preceding examples use :nth-child(n+6) and :nth-child(-n+9) separately, which may be a little confusing. Here's a more consistent example to illustrate how the two selectors combine (ignore the ::before/::after/content bits in the CSS — just focus on the output):

li::before {
  content: 'li';
}

li:nth-child(n+4)::before {
  content: 'li:nth-child(n+4)';
}

li:nth-child(-n+8)::after {
  content: ':nth-child(-n+8)';
}


I attended one of these workshops a couple years ago and it was great. Happy to chat if you want more info. Details below!
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We've all seen the TV renov shows where opening up the walls or floors reveals a horror story that just isn't accounted for in the budget. Glacier Media caught up with the hosts of one such show, HGTV Canada's Worst to First, between filming sets, to ask their advice for potential buyers of fixer-uppers.
Professional renovators Sebastian Sevallo and Mickey Fabbiano are the best-friend duo who host the show, which takes the worst house on the block and guides its new owners through a radical renovation process. The guys are also set to offer more advice from the 2019 B.C. Home + Garden Show at B.C. Place Stadium in Vancouver, which runs from Wednesday February 20 through Sunday February 24.
Mickey:But remember that before purchase, a contractor can't put any holes in walls, or look into something specific like removing a load-bearing wall, so there's still risk. But a good contractor can be like a detective, they can go into the house, and you have the blueprints, and you have the age, and so on. But pre-purchase, you can only make educated guesses, and figure out the worst-case scenario, best-case scenario, and make sure you're ready for either of those.
Q: So I guess that makes it a less advantageous market for those looking to do a flip, and sell the home once it's renovated?
Mickey Fabbiano and Sebastian Sevallo will be hitting the B.C. Home + Garden Show's TELUS Main Stage on Saturday, February 23 at 3pm and again on Sunday, February 24 at 12pm. More show information and tickets here.


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Moaning Soham killer Ian Huntley describes day he murdered schoolgirls as the worst day of HIS life in prison letter to daughter
Samantha Bryan, 19, wrote to Huntley behind bars asking him why he committed his heinous crimes but got a self-pitying response
Jon Lockett
0:16, 22 Apr 2018
Updated: 9:38, 22 Apr 2018
SELF-PITYING Soham killer Ian Huntley moaned the day he murdered Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman was the worst day of HIS life - his daughter has revealed.
Tormented Samantha Bryan, 19, wrote to Huntley in prison for an explanation but all he did was complain about how his crimes had affected him.
Desperate Samantha Bryan, 19, wrote to Huntley in prison for an explanationCredit: Rex Features
Ian Huntley's daughter reveals how she found out he was her dad at school
The teenager is the daughter of the Soham murderer's ex Katie Bryan, who was groomed and abused by evil Huntley when she was just 15.
The mum told her young daughter she had a dad who was a "nasty man", but never revealed the whole story until she produced a box of clippings on Samantha's 18th birthday.
The teenager later wrote to her killer dad in prison begging: "I need you to help me understand why you did it." But the child killer only replied it was: "It was the worst day of MY life."
Now Samantha has vowed never to contact the Soham killer again despite him begging for her to visit him in prison.
The child killer replied 'It was the worst day of my life'Credit: AFP - Getty
"I hoped for remorse, but instead I got evasion. I could never forgive him for what he did, but I did think he might do the right thing and say what he did and how he feels about his terrible crime," she told the Mirror.
"My mum warned me against contacting him and said he'd be too much of a coward to give me a straight answer.
"I thought perhaps he would do something decent now he's had 15 years in prison to think about what he's done. But she was right. I was naive.
"He said he wants me to meet him one day, but I'll never, ever agree to see him now."
Holly and Jessica, both 10, were murdered by Huntley at his house in SohamCredit: PA:Press Association
Friends Holly and Jessica, both 10, were murdered by the school caretaker at his house in Soham, Cambridgeshire, in August 2002. They went missing after leaving a family barbecue to buy sweets and their bodies were found two weeks later 12 miles away near an RAF base on August 17.
Huntley was arrested and he was eventually convicted in 2003 of the girls' murder and sentenced to two terms of life imprisonment.
Huntley, 44, denied their murder and has never given a full account of what happened. After his conviction it was revealed he had been investigated in the past for sexual offences.
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Q: Не сохраняется содержимое массива, при добавлении в вектор C++ У меня есть функция которая добавляет массив wchar_t в глобальный вектор  vector. Но при выходе из функции добавленное значение меняется на "мусор".
vector<wchar_t*> vectorValues;

void function()
{
    wchar_t* pwszItem1 = L"А";
    wstring wsItem1(pwszItem1);

    wchar_t* pwszItem2 = L"Б";
    wstring wsItem2(pwszItem2);

    wchar_t* pwszItem3 = L"В";
    wstring wsItem3(pwszItem3);

    wstring wsItems;
    wsItems += wsItem1;
    wsItems += wsItem2;
    wsItems += wsItem3;

    vectorValues.push_back(const_cast<wchar_t*>(wsItems.c_str()));
}

A: Переменная wsItems, объявленная в функции как
wstring wsItems;

является локальной переменной этой функции, а, следовательно, по завершению работы функции она перестает существовать. В результате указатель, возвращаемый функцией-членом класса c_str становится не действительным за пределами функции.
Вам следует либо использовать вектор типа std::vector<std::wstring>, либо каждый раз динамически выделять память для очередной строки, переписывать туда строку и указатель заносить в вектор. В этом случае вам следует не забывать освобождать память под выделенную строку, когда какой-то элемент из вектора удаляется. То есть второе решение является не эффективным по сравнению с первым решением.


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ZTE Axon M – The Dual Screen Phone: Hands-On Review
ZTE Axon M - The Dual Screen Phone: Hands-On Review
Shaheer Salman
Smartphones are progressing at a very rapid pace, the manufacturers are always coming up with new and sometimes weird ideas for their next flagship smartphones. Recently, a Chinese multinational telecommunication company announced a dual-screen smartphone the "ZTE Axon M" which fairly acts on the phrase: 'two is better than one'.
At first glance, the phone looks like a thick piece of a glass slab, but then you unfold the heavy and thick Axon M unveiling two 5.2 inches full HD 1080p display to give you one big 6.8 inches tablet sized screen with a big hinge at the middle. When unfolded, the device kind of looks like a cross between Nintendo 3DS and a smartphone.
It is the first dual-screen foldable Android smartphone with modern specs put up to compete against Apple and Samsung latest technology innovations.
The phone is packing some decent specs under the hood, it is powered by the last year's Snapdragon 821 CPU with 4 Gigs of RAM and 64 Gigs of onboard storage. The operating system is also old, the phone runs on Android Nougat 7.1.2 instead of Oreo.
If you keep the on-paper specs aside, the phone actually performs pretty well even though it has two screens to power.
Now let's talk about what you can do with the dual display on this phone, there are three different modes that the phone offers to take the full advantage of both the displays. You can switch between these modes using the on screen 'M' button placed on the navigation bar along with the usual Android software buttons.
The first mode is called the 'dual mode' and as its name suggests it runs two apps side by side, one on each screen, making multitasking even more efficient. The mode works flawlessly in both portrait as well as landscape mode. This feature is actually very useful like you can watch a YouTube video on one screen and can reply to your email on the other screen without disturbing the other. There are also set of software hotkeys assigned to each app which will help you navigate easily. If you play videos on both the display the audio will only come from the screen you are actively interacting with.
The ZTE Axon M also performs really well in more power demanding tasks like gaming while watching videos etc.
Image by PCWorld
The next mode is called the 'extended mode' this mode offers you to run a single app extended on both screens for a tablet-like experience. The company has optimized nearly 200 most popular apps available on Google Play Store like Facebook, YouTube, Gmail etc to run in extended mode. For other apps, you will manually need to force it to run in full screen using a universal toggle available in the phone's setting.
Watching videos on 'extended mode' might not be a great choice as you get a tad bit extra display because of the standard 16:9 video ratio. You will also get annoyed by the hinge in the middle.
Other than videos, the apps take better advantage of the dual-screen display like if you run YouTube in the extended mode you can watch video on one display while browse for the next video to watch on the other display.
You can also get a big virtual keyboard on one display if you're typing in some app. This all is just basic and I think you can do much more with this technology like view an e-book or a PDF with a page on each screen to get a real book like experience, or while gaming one screen can be used as a virtual controller.
Image by Scroll Today
The last mode 'mirror mode' is the simplest mode which allows you to view same content on both the screens allowing you to fold the phone in a tent-like position so you can share what you're watching with your friend sitting on the other side of the table in a hotel while waiting for the order. The phone can be controlled from either side of the display.
There are also various gestures to switch between modes or to send an app from one screen to the other or to view it in full extended mode across both the displays.
This dual-display is also going to help you capture some really high quality selfies as it only has one 20 megapixel sensor which with just a click of a button switches between the screens allowing you to capture both front and the back with just a single sensor.
The build quality and the design is not good compared to other smartphones of 2017, the phone has huge bezels on the top and at the bottom but these bezels help to pack in Dolby Atmos stereo speakers.
The battery life on this device is really great considering the dual-screen display, the 3180 easily lasts for a day with 15 percent juice left at the end.
Overall the ZTE Axon M is the wildcard smartphone of 2017 and is the first smartphone to actually execute the idea of dual-screen. It is a very good step on the technical level but for now, it is probably worth sticking to a single screen as you can get other great smartphones with better specs, build quality and edge to edge display in the same price. The ZTE Axon M is planned to release this holiday in the United States with a starting price $725.
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Q: Flutter: You uploaded an APK or Android App Bundle that is signed with an upload certificate that is not yet valid because it has been recently reset I'm trying to upload my Flutter App's appBundle file to PlayStore and creating a release for it.
I have set automatic zone and Clock for my PC and it would give a warning saying that the time stamp and current times don't match but it created the app bundle file for me anyway. then when i upload it to PlayStore it gives me this error
You uploaded an APK or Android App Bundle that is signed with an upload certificate that is not yet valid because it has been recently reset. You will be able to upload APKs or Android App Bundles again from UTC

Then i tried to match my local PC date and time to the time stamp and the warning of them not matching stopped appearing while creating the bundle, but on playstore it still gives me the same message.
what did i do wrong/ how long should i wait?

A: It just worked after 14+ hours

A: When you reset your upload key, you always have to wait a certain amount of time before you can upload an APK or App Bundle again.


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BROADCASTERS CHARGED ON CONTENT PRODUCTION
President Muhammadu Buhari has charged African Broadcasters on the need to focus on content production, as the continent joins the rest of the world in transiting from analogue to Digital broadcasting.
The President, who was represented by the Honourable Minister of Information and Culture - Alhaji Lai Mohammed, spoke at the Opening ceremony of the 9th General Assembly of the African Union of Broadcasting (AUB), held in Abuja, Nigeria, recently.
He stated that the major challenge facing African Broadcasters today was the issue of content, noting that for them to take back their rightful place and be the catalyst to growth, broadcasters must face these challenges squarely.
"Broadcasting is not just about achievement, and technology is not an end in itself, but a means to an end. There is, therefore the need for African broadcasters in Africa to put more importance on content and use the power of their reach to invest in good quality content for the viewers."
The Honourable Minister pointed out that it was the creation of content and world class production that would create jobs, provide revenue for Government, and create entertainment capable of increasing the broadcasters' share of the advertising pie. He expressed appreciation to AUB for the choice of Nigeria and the timing of the event and promised African broadcasters that Nigeria was willing to share her experiences with the AUB members' countries.
Alhaji Lai Mohammed urged AUB member states to explore the commercial viability of the services of Nigerian Communication Satellite Limited, (NICOMSAT), for the Socio-Economic benefits of Africa and the world at large where the services are presently outsourced from Europe.
In his presentation, "Digitization in Africa: The Journey so far," which was the theme of the conference, the Director General, NBC, Mr. Emeka Mba, reminded broadcasters that the singular journey that has made broadcasters assemble in Abuja for the event was borne out of the desire to ensure that Africa develops the best broadcasting standards for entrenching peace, unity and deepening good democratic governance.
He acknowledged that digital broadcasting would transform how the people watch television; create a lot of benefits for all stakeholders and accelerate development, not only in the broadcasting industry but in the entire initiative industries including, but not limited to film, music, fashion, tourism, movies etc.
"Africa will benefit from opportunities to increase economic growth that will be brought about by the transition to digital broadcasting. Substantial investments will come into the broadcasting and related sectors, a wide range of support services will emerge to cater to the sector and these will result in significant levels of job creation for our unemployed youths and significantly reduce unemployment."
Mr. Mba noted that information in Africa was not just about entertainment, but about access to health and education and often makes the difference between life and death, which was why the Commission views DSO as an opportunity to rethink, re-imagine and remake broadcasting to serve the societal needs more efficiently in order to secure a more developed and socially cohesive country.
Other speakers at the occasion included, Mr. Tewfik Khelladi - President of AUB; Mr. Lawrence Atiase - CEO, AUB; DG, FRCN - Muhammad Ladan Salihu, who is also the Chairman, Administrative, Legal, and Finance Commission of AUB; the DG, NTA - Mr. Sola Omole; MD, NIGCOMSAT - Mrs. Abimbola Alale and a host of other dignitaries. 42 Countries participated in the conference which has turned out to be the largest gathering of African media and Broadcast Managers. The AUB started as URTNA in 1962 and in 2006 in Abuja, metamorphosed into the African Union of Broadcasters.
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Bill Maher and the Mother Load of Lies
Posted by Waleed Ahmed under Uncategorized
Bill Maher is once again on his tirade against Muslims. For a standup comedian who's made a living out of mocking all things sacred, it's hard to understand why anyone would believe the misinformation he spreads. His vitriol against Muslims and Islam are well-known; he has declared quite openly that he's alarmed with a growing Muslim population in the West and fears a 'take over by Islam'.
Maher pretends that he's labeled as a racist for being a simple critic of Islam. Any honest observer, however, would recognize that he has a clear track record of launching baseless attacks on Muslims. He does this repeatedly by misconstruing facts, making unsubstantiated claims and cherry picking radical interpretations that support his pre-conceived notions of the faith. Couple this with his condescending attitude and vile speech and you've got yourself a text book case of bigotry.
Take for example, his recent claim that 'vast numbers of Muslims around the world believe that humans deserve to die for merely holding a different idea, or drawing a cartoon, or writing a book, or eloping with the wrong person'. Maher makes these profoundly inaccurate and unsupported statements and passes them as facts on national television with no consequences. This isn't mere criticism – it is a clear attempt to incite xenophobic sentiment with the intended goal of demonizing Muslims.
Maher often states there are 'polls' and 'research' to support his view that large swaths of Muslims are a violent and intolerant people – it's not just a few bad apples he argues. Actual research, however, has repeatedly shown that Muslims overwhelmingly reject violence; in fact they are more likely to oppose violence than other religious groups. As for religious freedom, Muslims yet again show near perfect support for it.
Another example of Maher's flagrant misconstruction of facts was on the recent flare up with Ben Affleck on his show. He again tries to give us the impression that Muslims are largely an uncivilized people by quoting a Pew poll which supposedly states that 90% of Egyptians support the death penalty for leaving Islam. The Pew poll he's referring to is most likely the 2013 edition- and he forgot to mention one important piece of information: the poll offers no direct statistics on Muslims who support capital punishment for apostasy.
Instead, the poll offers statistics on people who support such apostasy laws as a percentage of those who support the adoption of Shariah as the official law of their country. It excludes Muslims who prefer to restrict the Shariah to the private sphere, who are opposed to the idea of a theocratic state or those that don't have strong views on the subject. As a result, the numbers are misleading since the sample population for the survey doesn't represent the total population. When this is taken to account through extrapolation, the poll actually indicates that as a whole, most Muslims oppose penal codes for apostasy – something Ben Affleck deduced from common sense.
Bill Maher quotes the disproportionally high numbers for Egypt that stand out from the survey – as if the country represents the entire Muslims world. In fact, the numbers he mentions are completely wrong since the poll never offers figures for the country's complete population. Even if they were to be extrapolated (which introduces an error), the support would be at 64% – not the 90% he so forcefully claimed. Maher also fails to mention the significant disparity Egypt has with other Muslim majority countries on this issue: Indonesia (13%), Lebanon (13%), Tunisia (16%) and Turkey (2%). Why single out Egypt and not mention the world's largest Muslims country, Indonesia? Clearly, Bill has an agenda to make overarching simplifications about Muslims that are rooted in nothing but misinformation.
As an aside, an important question to consider is that why it's only Muslims who seemed to be polled on such controversial questions? What would the stats be if similar question were posed to Israeli Jews, Christian Arabs, Indian Hindu's, Catholic Filipino's and American evangelicals? If you ask questions outlandish enough to any population, there's bound to be support for it from a particular segment. More importantly, to what extent can we use polls to understand a population on such matters? These are important questions to consider.
Despite the contextualization I've offered to Bill Maher's lunacy, one would argue that sizable Muslim minorities still support apostasy laws and this doesn't explain the main grievance. I think that's a fair point and agree that the contentious issue of these penal codes still needs addressing by Muslim scholarship. How is traditional Muslim governance to adapt to the modern nation-state? What is the relevance of exacting classical penal codes when they are unable to uphold justice and their implementation leads to more harm than good?
Muslims are working through these issues and these need to be addressed from within; Tariq Ramadan's moratorium call is an example of this. There's no denying that the Muslims world is facing a multitude of problems, but mocking these from a Hollywood studio is not going to get us anywhere unfortunately.
Bill Maher has no interest in actually understanding problems or offering solutions – he's an entertainer, and bashing Islam makes for very good entertainment. His formula is to take problems from one part of the Islamic world (or concoct them), exaggerate them greatly and then use it to dehumanize the global Muslim population. He caricatures an entire people with brush strokes of prejudice, using the ink of intolerance and his canvass of hypocrisy.
And his solution to problems of the Muslim world: abandon your faith, adopt sexual promiscuity and you'll be liberated. Clearly, Maher a professional jester – it's a good trade for him, and he should stick with it.
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Q: How to get number from captcha with php I want to get number from captcha on http://control.ozsub.com/Account/Login.aspx
It looks like using CURL in php to get the input captcha image and get the result number on the image
Here's a picture of the captcha:
captcha image
Can anyone provide a solution.
Thank you

A: hahaha since there are less than 10,000 valid answers and minor mutation, you can probably create an imagemagick compare based approach that saves each new captcha that is too unlike every other captcha saved so far, let that run for a day and you should have one of all unique answers, then just solve those 9999 captchas manually once, and from there on solve them by cross-referencing the captcha with the known images with imagmagick compare, the image which is most similar to one of the known-solved images is your answer :P
this ofc requires that you're willing to solve 9999 of those captchas once manually. check https://imagemagick.org/script/compare.php
fwiw that's a really weak home-made captcha


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Further documentation for the current version of Kdenlive can be found [[Special:myLanguage/Kdenlive/Manual | the full manual]].
Open Kdenlive and create a new project (File -> New).
Now that the project is ready, let's start adding some clips (i.e. the ones you downloaded). This works via the Project Tree widget; a click on the Add Clip icon directly opens the file dialog, a click on the small arrow shows a list of additional clip types that can be added as well. Video clips, audio clips, images, and other Kdenlive projects can be added via the default Add Clip dialog.
Let's save the work via File -> Save. This saves our project, i.e. where we placed the clips on the timeline, which effects we applied, and so on. It can not be played. The process of creating the final video is called Rendering.
Now that the clips overlap, the transition can be added. This is done either by right-clicking on the upper clip and choosing Add Transition or, easier, by clicking the green triangle that appears when you hover the mouse over the lower right corner of the Spoon clip. The latter, by default, adds a dissolve transition, which is in this case the best idea anyway since the Spoon is not required for playing.
The Piano can be colourized by adding an effect to it. Select the piano clip, then double-click the RGB Adjustment effect in the Effect List. If it is not visible, you can get it via View -> Effect List.
Once the effect has been added, its name will be added to the timeline clip. It will also be shown in the Effect Stack widget.
The values in the effect stack widget can be changed by using the slider (middle mouse button resets it to the default value), or by entering a value directly by double-clicking the number to the right of the slider.
Effects can also be added with the Add new effect icon (framed in the image on the left) in the Effect Stack; It always refers to the timeline clip that is currently selected. By unchecking the checkbox they are temporarily disabled (the settings remain though), this is e.g. useful for effects that require a lot of computing power, so they can be disabled when editing and enabled again for rendering.
After clicking the keyframe icon (the clock icon framed in the previous image), the Effect Stack widget will re-arrange. By default there will be two keyframes, one at the beginning of the timeline clip and one at the end. Move the timeline cursor to the end of the timeline clip, such that the project monitor actually shows the new colours when changing the parameters of the keyframe at the end.
Make sure the last keyframe is selected in the Effect Stack's list. Then you are ready to flood the piano with a deep blue.
The audio clip can be resized on the timeline the same way as video clips are. The cursor will snap in at the end of the project automatically. To add a fade out effect at the end of the audio clip (except if you found a file with exactly the right length) you can hover the top right (or left) edge of the timeline clip and drag the green disc to the position where fading out should start.
A few minutes left, and the project is finished! Click the Render button (or go to Project -> Render, or press Ctrl + Enter) to get the dialog shown on the left. Select the desired output file for our new video with all effects and transitions, choose MPEG4 (works nearly everywhere) and a bitrate of 2000k (the higher the bitrate, the larger the output file and the better the quality – but since the bitrate for the input clips was 2000k already, using a higher one would not improve quality and is therefore unnecessary), and press the Render to File button.
Further documentation for the current version of Kdenlive can be found the full manual.
↑ This green disc is a shorthand for adding the effect Fade -> Fade out. Both ways lead to the same result.


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Truck driver blown off bridge; dies after helicopter rescue
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) — Authorities say a Navy helicopter plucked a driver from the roof of a tractor-trailer after it was swept off the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel by high winds and began floating in the water. The driver later died.
Bridge and tunnel deputy director Thomas Anderson says the unidentified driver died after his rescue Thursday.
U.S. Coast Guard Petty Officer Corinne Zilnicki says the tractor-trailer was blown off the bridge shortly before 12:30 p.m. and the driver was rescued a little after 1.
Winds on the bridge-tunnel were about 40 mph Thursday, although Anderson says they had been much higher earlier in the day.
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Fact Friday · Jul 31, 2015
Fact Friday 7 - CLT Skyline
Quick poll. When you think of the uptown Charlotte skyline, which buildings immediately come to mind?
For me, its the Bank of America (BofA) Corporate Center, which dominates the Square (the intersection of Trade and Tryon St.) and the Duke Energy Center, with its unique exterior and nightly illumination that can be seen for miles.
But before these became the major players uptown, there were other big boys on the block. Did you know that the building known today as the Bank of America Plaza building (with the "II Grande Disco" sculpture out front) was the tallest building not just in the city, but in all of North Carolina, from 1974 to 1988? At the time, NationsBank was at the helm. It wasn't until what is known today as One Wells Fargo Center was constructed in 1988 less than a third of mile to the southwest did the Plaza building meet its match. Due to its uncanny resemblance, the structure, initially called One First Union Center and later One Wachovia Center, was affectionately referred to as the "juke box" by locals and was the tallest building in the city from 1988 to 1992 when the BofA Corporate Center became king.
Check out some the stats on these and other buildings in uptown here. The skyline continues to evolve and expand. It's only a matter of time before there's a new #1! Until next week, stay cool Charlotte!
~ Chris.
*Bank of America Plaza Building (credit: Trinity Partners)
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As a Human Resource professional, you will come across many such instances where you will have to let go of some really talented employees. While some of them may leave for valid reasons, with some of them you will have a hard time figuring out their abrupt decision to quit!
One of the reasons behind the sudden increase in the attrition rate of your company could be the negativity employees associate with the workplace. It is possible that your organisation is now tagged as a 'bad place to work at'!
Given the prevalence of social media, it is easy for employees to make or break the reputation of an organisation. All it would take is a single post or tweet to tarnish your image… enough to be judged by people who don't even work for you!
Let's look at some telltale signs that you may be 'perceived' as a toxic workplace and how to get it back on track.
Signs You Are Tagged As A 'Bad Place to Work At'!
Here are some of the signs that might give your company the reputation of being a toxic workplace!
If your company is always on the hunt for the same important roles in management or leadership every six months, you might earn a bad reputation. It suggests that the leadership is fickle and unable to decide upon the qualities and competencies they are looking for in a candidate.
It could also be owing to bad internal culture, making retention impossible, no matter how talented the employees are. Additionally, owing to the flighty nature of the top management, your company may come across as one that doesn't deliver on its promises!
Your email is jam-packed almost every day with employees asking for casual leaves or are frequently calling in sick. This is a clear indication of them feeling overburdened. Spending 40 hours or more at the office can take a severe toll on your employees mental and physical well-being.
According to Optum, a leading provider of employee assistance programmes to corporates, around 46% of the workforce in Indian organisations suffer from some or the other kind of stress.
Most of these employees cited overwhelming productivity demands and extreme work pressure as the reasons behind their stress. It is cruel to deny an optimum work-life balance and instead set unrealistic expectations from your team; this, in turn, will only lead to increased employee absenteeism and a toxic environment.
Now, imagine these employees meeting their social circles and talking about it…. The person they meet may not work for you, but now they already have a perception of your organisation!
If people often come asking for resolutions to a problem that majority of them face, which means there is an absence of clear communication.
There are cases of frustration amongst employees as they are often reprimanded for not meeting deadlines or goals, not because of a loophole at their end, but because their superior failed to properly communicate what he/she expects out of them.
If such instances repeat often, it is a major red flag and an indication for you to have a one-on-one discussion with the leaders to reach a solution.
Gender disparity at workplaces is a serious concern in India.
According to World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap index, India ranks 108, behind neighbours China and Bangladesh, primarily due to less participation of women in the economy and low wages.
Your organisation should be one of the flag bearers of women empowerment and equal treatment of women. However, if there is a falling female to male ratio or fewer women applying for open positions at your workplace, chances are you have an 'unsafe environment' for women to work at.
A toxic workplace makes everyone feel lethargic and unproductive and even affects the way the HR department functions.
You might feel frustrated with the pressure to fill an open position and the failure to find a suitable fit for the same most of the time.
Even after conducting interviews, you might not feel the need to send a rejection email informing them why he/she is not the right candidate for your organisation.
This puts you in a bad light for the probable candidate who has never worked with you. While we agree that it is their need for a job which led them to apply to your organisation; you cannot negate the fact that they did invest their time, effort and resources to try to be apt for your organisation. The least you could do is send them an email informing they didn't make the cut.
A great team is at the core of every organisation.
Lack of team spirit in an organisation does much more than bring down team morale – it can make people around feel dull and depressed. If your employees are not excited about working together and do not share same beliefs, there is a possibility of absence of good team spirit.
There is a sense of discontentment among the employees. There is constant gossip about the inefficiency of management in handling critical matters of bad conduct.
If the employees have no clue about any significant action being taken or the conduct of the person questioned doesn't improve, then some may expect the conduct is viewed as acceptable by the organisation.
Employees are not on the same page as the company and do not feel aligned with the company goals, mission, vision. Employee engagement is a vital part of the company culture and disengaged employees are directly related to a toxic workplace.
How To 'Detox' & Rebuild Your Reputation As A Great Place To Work At!
It is certainly a downer to notice all of the above going on at your office, but fret not! There are ways to tackle it positively and feature on the list of irresistibly great workplaces! Read on to avoid being tagged as a toxic workplace!
People look up to leaders who lead and not command. Get people working with able leaders who mentor them and understand their needs. This will help them see the bright side even if they are feeling let down, for starters.
Your employees will never grow if they are scared to make mistakes, which can be devastating for company's growth as there will be no innovation, but only the performance of routine tasks.
People are not afraid of failure, they're afraid of blame.
Great organizations believe it's okay to make mistakes and looking for perfection in everything can hinder the mental wellness of its people.
This, of course, doesn't mean encouraging a culture with lack of accountability. Make employees accountable for their tasks, by giving them autonomy in attaining them. If they have the freedom to execute and try things, without worrying about failures… chances are they will work with care and accountability.
Talking about autonomy and accountability… Isn't that just the best way to work? Stay out of their way and give your employees exactly what they need to work! Autonomy is a great asset and employees attach a lot of importance to it. When you start doing so, you would be surprised at the great results!
Hide nothing at all from your team. There should be complete transparency and employees should be able to feel it around them. You become credible and gain the confidence of your employees by doing so, which is very important.
Upper management should be aware of their communication methods with the employees. Offering specific feedback about their work helps them stay connected with their superiors and there is lack of confusion.
Also, employees feel valued when they are given positive reinforcement and shown how their work directly contributes towards the success of the company.
An HR manager has to constantly strike a balance between different variables for an organisation to function effectively. From workload to diversity, to power dynamics and schedule. You have to juggle it all and bring out the best of the existing resources.
A great employee recognition program works wonders to boost employee morale and productivity! There isn't a better sign of a great place to work at, than happy and engaged employees!
Some of the best workplaces around the world have reached there because they follow some great policies. These policies are for the benefit of its people who in turn make an office a 'Great place to work at'! Make sure your Employees feel the same every day they walk in to work!
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Where is President Goodluck Jonathan? By DeleMomodu
Date: January 30, 2016Author: IkonAllah 0 Comments
Fellow Nigerians, I'm surprised that no one has asked about the wellbeing, welfare and whereabouts of our dear former President, Dr Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan. Are we so wicked and uncaring that we have forgotten the gentleman who brought us fresh air so soon? Do we truly suffer from "collective amnesia" (apologies Wole Soyinka) that no one is coming up in defence of the man who brought FaceBook to Africa's biggest nation? Where are all those acolytes who were falling all over themselves this time last year during the Presidential campaigns? Where are the royal fathers from different parts of Nigeria who were decorating our President with all kinds of esoteric Chieftaincy titles?
Where are the experts who were churning out endless statistics about how God had blessed us with the greatest President Nigeria ever knew? What happened to all the economic magicians who claimed that former President Jonathan had propelled us to the pinnacle of the temple and proclaimed that in consequence we were Africa's numero uno economy? Where are the priests, pastors, alfas, Imams, marabouts, traditional worshippers, and all manner of religious personages who trumpeted that Ebele Goodluck Jonathan was the anointed of God at the 2015 Presidential elections? Where are the 14 million farmers who were connected by mobile phones in our season of unprecedented Agricultural Revolution? Where are the plentiful loaves of cassava bread and the myriad of rice pyramids that we were told littered everywhere? Where are the ultra-modern air-conditioned trains that we were told travelled from Lagos to Kafanchan, to Kano and Enugu? Where is the second Niger Bridge; and the strategic East-West road?
I have too many questions begging for answers but I will limit myself to only that relating to former President Goodluck Jonathan. I'm just trying to imagine the state of his mind at this terrible moment. I'm not a psychologist but I can attempt to play the role of one by doing some psychoanalysis of the man who left power under one year ago only to witness that things have literally fallen apart with his legacy completely obliterated in the twinkle of an eye. In case you think I'm mucking around and mocking our former President, please perish the thought. I'm more of a sympathiser who would wish to draw sumptuous lessons from the tragedy that befell our former leader. From what I can see so far, President Jonathan as a person is a good man who was fortunate to have been able to effortlessly navigate and meander his way through the murky waters of Nigerian politics to arrive at the topmost position in Nigeria. He was obviously ill-prepared for power and governance and when it landed on his laps he hardly knew what to do with it. He was like a student who was too favoured and over-pampered by his lecturers until he had to write external exams and get exposed to the real world.
I'm certain, President Jonathan could not have bargained for the hurricane that has hit him. When he conceded and congratulated the then President-elect, Major General Muhammadu Buhari, he must have looked forward to a life of bliss in retirement. But what is happening now is the worst nightmare for a man who had been compared to Mahatma Ghandi, Lee Kuan Yew and Nelson Mandela.
I don't know how this cacophony of allegations and babel of counter-allegations would end or subside but I am convinced President Goodluck Jonathan would have to speak up sooner than later. The reason is simple. I expect his embattled foot-soldiers to put all the blame on him as the one who authorised the disbursement of our common wealth by the most generous government in human history. As to the sharing of the bazaar, let's be fair, how many people are there who would have been paid those stupendous sums and would reject the money or ask where it was coming from.
At the end of the day, the former President would have to bear his own cross and come out clean and accept the blame. As the saying goes the buck stops at number one! I'm not sure apologies would suffice at the stage things have reached especially if the Buhari government is determined and ready to take its pound of flesh. In my view, it would be difficult to jail the messengers and let the master who sent them on irrational errands go scot free. That is the dilemma President Buhari would have to grapple with in the not too distant future. Would Buhari in good conscience be able to jail a former Nigerian President if indeed there was an agreement not to probe and punish the man? Will he be able to ignore the fact that this was a man who, uncharacteristically, voluntarily relinquished power after losing an election and was heralded by the whole world as an apostle of peaceful and democratic change in Africa? It is a tough question that only President Buhari can answer.
The other poser is, how much of the wasted or looted funds can be recovered? I think from the experience of the past, it may not amount to much after all. The litigations are going to go on ad infinitum and some of the alleged culprits may actually escape punishment on technical and other grounds. The EFCC under the energetic and passionate Mallam Nuhu Ribadu was faced with such frustration. There is no other way to punish anyone under the law without going to court. That is the democratic way. It is the democratic way that former President Jonathan embraced, leading him to loosen his hold on power. And it is the democratic way that brought this our new President Buhari to power. There is thus no other way but to follow the judicial process and the principles of natural justice that flow therefrom. Those campaigning for extra-judicial prosecution and conviction may soon reach a cul-de-sac. You can keep the guys indefinitely in detention but how will that bring back the money. The truth is that the worst form of corruption is abuse of office and the impunity that it begets. That was the basis of the unbridled corruption that enveloped the Jonathan administration. If it remains unchecked, it will not be long before this present government also succumbs and becomes engulfed by the corruption it is professing to fight. Then we would have come full circle without anything to show for it, not even a wee part of our plundered wealth.
I think the biggest mistake of this government was the policy of saying people should not pay foreign currencies into their accounts. This has deprived the government of springing a surprise on those who would have kept their loot in Nigeria. It is now too late to expect those people to pay these foreign currencies into their accounts because of the policy reversal apparently foisted upon us by the visit of the IMF team. I am certain most of those monies have escaped our shores and no matter the anti- money laundering agreements we sign, those foreign countries are not likely to repatriate the funds at a time the world economy is almost comatose. This is another example of the need by all spheres of government to think through policies before they are announced. There have been too many policy somersaults by our apex financial regulatory bodies in recent time to augur well for our ailing economy. Negative signals have been sent by government to investors and citizens both at home and abroad and this has further increased the pain and burden of Nigerians.
My personal advice is for government to work harder at getting back most of the money that has been stolen or misappropriated, as a matter of top priority. President Buhari may have to enter into unpleasant compromises to achieve this, but such is life. There is no point wasting the little resources now available to us on prosecuting and jailing criminals without getting something substantial out of the exercise.
I pray and wish that President Goodluck Jonathan can redeem his erstwhile government a bit by appealing to his men and women and convincing them to return the atrocious sums of money which they stole without the fear of God. He should save Nigeria from this unnecessary ordeal of trying to compel refund of the filthy lucre and allow this government to settle down and concentrate on the serious business of governance.
THANK YOU, LT. GENERAL T. Y. DANJUMA
I know this would come as a surprise to one of Nigeria's most respected and respectable retired army Generals but I believe we must always show gratitude to those who touch our lives hoping that others would emulate such acts of selflessness. Let me go straight to my gist.
I had called Senator Mrs Daisy Danjuma sometime last year seeking an appointment with her husband, Lt. General Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma. My mission was simple but not seemingly so easy to achieve. I wanted "General" as we all call him to write a foreword to my forthcoming book titled PENDULUM: A Book of Prophecies. "Aunty Daisy" as we call the amiable Senator told me the General was in Abuja but should be back the following day. I promised to drop one of the special draft copies for the General. Indeed, I had presented one copy to President Muhammadu Buhari when he invited me to the Presidential villa in Abuja.
I went to the Danjumas hoping to drop the book and run but Aunty Daisy said the General just returned from Abuja and would like to see me briefly before retiring upstairs. I entered the house and personally handed him my book. He told me it might take him a few months to read and then decide whether he would pen the foreword or not. The General has never been known to hide words under the tongue; he is very blunt and straight-forward. I told him I would wait patiently for his decision. He said he had many books to read and that he had just bought President Olusegun Obasanjo's latest books to add to his reading list, that very day. I saw a man who relished knowledge and reading and I knew I had come to the right person.
I had good reason to choose the General. I had previously identified him as an intellectual and avid reader of my column. He had surprised me on one occasion when I attended his annual birthday celebration on December 9, in Victoria Island, Lagos. In the middle of the merriment, General pulled me aside and said: "I'm a great fan of your column because you write so well and logically… I think I missed the last two and I've just told my wife to make sure she gets it from you…" I was deeply touched by the compliment.
I have been a family friend of the Danjumas for about 15 years and Senator Danjuma has become my big sister to the extent that I am invited to and welcomed in their homes in Abuja, Lagos, Surrey and Marbella at any time. It has been a privilege knowing the man of few words who retired from the military with a glowing record and high esteem. Since then, he has taken to the boardroom with consummate ease and has remained one of the most astute financial players in Africa. What is more, the General has committed a substantial chunk of his immense fortune acquired from his numerous businesses to charity. He is a man of impeccable taste and academic nobility. He reads voraciously and his libraries are well-stocked. His selection, and collection, of world music is amazing. He carries himself with so much grace and panache.
My patience in relation to the foreword to my book eventually paid off two weeks ago when I suddenly got a call from Senator Daisy Danjuma after I had almost given up. She said the General would like to speak with me and put him on the line. The General told me that he had read the book and he had found it so "fantastic" that he had agreed to author the foreword. There was only one word he wants me to change.
I was very grateful and excited. I have since picked up the work from his Lagos home and, by the grace of God, the book should be ready for publication and circulation shortly. There are a few other books that are almost ready and we should celebrate a festival of books from me this year.
Exciting times are coming.
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The observation that a projector projects the process of its own creation goes beyond a purely conceptual statement. This project is simultaneously an ode to craftsmanship and to how that changed radically over the course of the 20th century. The precise type of projector, the Iskra NP-21, also calls a complete history to mind, as Iskra was as omnipresent in Tito's post-war Yugoslavia as Bosch and Miele in the West. In this manner, what is perhaps the very last, ultimate 35mm projector simultaneously becomes the first fully-fledged monument to a culturally supremely important device.
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For decades, animator Rob Niosi has concentrated on a single hobby: making a perfect replica of the time machine in George Pal's film from 1960. Likewise, physicist Ronald Mallet has obsessively searched his whole life for a scientific model to grasp the fourth dimension. In this documentary, their quest even promises some results.


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Property owner fined for failing to obtain a building permit
Wellington Shire Council would like to remind residents that there are heavy penalties for failing to obtain a Building Permit.
In Sales Magistrates Court on Wednesday 26 January 2017, a property owner from Robertsons Beach was found guilty and fined $4,000 plus $2,250 in costs, for failing to comply with a Building Order issued by Council's Municipal Building Surveyor.
The Building Order was issued to the property owner for failing to obtain a Building Permit for the location of two portable buildings on the site and occupying the buildings without an Occupancy Permit.
The property owner was also ordered to vacate the buildings and remove them from site within 30 days.
Wellington Shire Council General Manager Development, John Websdale, said: "A Building Permit ensures that the proposed structure complies with the necessary rules and regulations prior to works being undertaken.
"Failure to obtain a Building Permit is a very serious offence, as this property owner has discovered.
"I would urge anyone wanting to undertake any building work to be aware of the rules and regulations and seek the advice and services of a Building Surveyor, who are responsible for issuing a Building Permit."
The Building Act 1993 and the Regulations state that building work must not be commenced prior to the issue of a Building Permit.
Further information on Building Permits can be found at www.wellington.vic.gov.au/buildingpermits or contact Council on 1300 366 244.