The cathedral for the diocese of Monmouth is dedicated to Gwynllyw. Woolos is an anglicised version of his name. According to legend, Gwynllyw was a warlord who converted to Christianity because of the influence of his wife and son Cadog.
Gwynllyw was told in a dream to build a church, in penitence for the sins of his earlier life, wherever he found a white ox with a black spot on its forehead. He found such a beast at the top of Stow Hill, and built a wooden hermitage there. He died in his son's arms on 29 March 500AD, and his day is still observed on 29 March each year. A symbolic sculpture of the ox, known as the "Bell Carrier", stands in a shopping precinct in the city centre (east of Commercial Street).
He was buried at the site of today's cathedral. The earliest church building here, probably of timber and mud, was replaced several times, possibly where St Mary's Chapel now stands. This was previously a Galilee Chapel, forming an entrance to the nave, and connects the nave to the west tower. Some of its masonry dates from Saxon times, and most from c.1200.
The church was attacked several times – by Irish pirates in 846, Danish Vikings in 875, by the forces of Earl Harold in 1060 and by Owain Glyndŵr's rebellion in the early 15th century. King William II granted the church to St Peter's monastery in Gloucester in 1093. They probably funded construction of most of the current nave, including its Norman arch. This spectacular arch rests on Roman columns which were reputedly taken from the Roman Legionary fort at Caerleon, north of Newport.
It's said that the tower was funded by Jasper Tudor after his nephew was crowned King Henry VII. Jasper was Henry's mentor during the Wars of the Roses, when both were exiles in Brittany and France, and played a key part in Henry's victory at Bosworth in 1485. The lordship of Newport was one of many rewards the new king gave Jasper, who spent some of his large fortune on repairing and improving churches in South Wales.
The church was controlled by the Bishopric of Gloucester from 1540 (after King Henry VIII ordered the dissolution of monasteries) until 1882. In this period many of the decorations were removed as Puritanism took hold in South Wales. A gradual restoration began in 1853. Further expansion of the building followed the creation in 1921 of the diocese of Monmouth, as part of the Church in Wales' disestablishment. In 1949 the former parish church of St Woolos was confirmed as the diocesan cathedral.
In 1839 the bodies of 10 Chartists were buried secretly, in unmarked graves, outside the church. They had been killed while taking part in a pro-democracy protest outside the Westgate Hotel. A plaque in the cathedral churchyard commemorates the Chartists who died.
St Woolos Cathedral has a peal of 13 bells, a number equalled in Wales only by Llandaff Cathedral. They are rung every Sunday morning by a dedicated group of bellringers. One of the church's bellringers, Fred Powles, died in the First World War.


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The Alexandria Noir Column shines a light on Ms. Cathy Riddick-Brown, an avid volunteer, Alexandria resident, and a member of the National Council of Negro Women.
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Alexandria, VA – The January/February edition of the Alexandria Noir Column shines a light on Ms. Cathy Riddick-Brown. Ms. Riddick-Brown is an avid volunteer, Alexandria resident, and a member of the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW). She is serving her second term as 1st Vice President of the Northern Virginia Section. I spoke with Ms. Riddick-Brown to learn about the organization established by Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune in 1935 and how the Northern Virginian Section supports the Alexandria community.
Zebra: In your role as the 1st Vice President of the Northern Virginia Chapter organization, what are your responsibilities?
Ms. Riddick-Brown: As the 1st Vice President, I am responsible for upholding the organization's pillars by volunteering and improving the conditions of my section's community.
Within the Northern Virginia section, various community committees serve Alexandria, Falls Church, Springfield, Arlington, and Fairfax County. Since there was no representative for the Alexandria community committee, I volunteered to become the chair. The section established a budget line for funding to support the Alexandria Black History Museum. One example is when I utilized the community funds to purchase a new bookcase to replace one that was falling down.
Zebra: The National Council of Negro Women's mission is to address local needs while impacting communities through volunteer efforts. How has the Northern Virginia Section contributed to the Alexandria community?
Ms. Riddick-Brown: Currently, our section provides assistance by donating personal items and other essentials to several shelters to include Artemis House Shelter, Katherine Hanley Shelter, and Bailey's Shelters & Supportive Housing, in addition to several other establishments in the NOVA area. We also support the James Lee Community Center, where we hold meetings and provide donations to the center.
My current goal is to expand our outreach to support schools in Alexandria, to replicate what we are currently doing in Arlington County.
Zebra: What do you most enjoy about being a part of the National Council of Negro Women?
Ms. Riddick-Brown: The sisterhood is amazing! I have met some really good sisters who also have a heart for the community and want to make a difference. Also, making a positive impact is rewarding. At the end of the day, we all need something or someone.
Zebra: Can you share one or two stories of individuals whose lives have been changed because of your organization?
Ms. Riddick-Brown: I would like to think that many lives have been impacted by the meals we serve to residents at the Bailey's Shelter & Supportive Housing. Our section serves meals every third Saturday of each month. We also provide gifts to the residents during Black History Month.
Additionally, providing financial support and personal care items to the Artemis House Shelter and the Katherine Hanley Shelter is one of the crowning achievements for the NOVA section.
Zebra: What are your organization's goals for 2021?
Ms. Riddick-Brown: Our goal is always to follow the National Council of Negro Women's "Four for the Future" principles, which are promoting education, encouraging entrepreneurship, financial and economic stability, and educating women about good health.
One of our new initiatives is to assist recent college graduates who are NCNW members to pay their local dues when joining the NOVA NCNW section. We have found that it is a challenge for graduating members to pay their dues when they leave college because of other expenses. This allows them to stay engaged with an organization that helped the graduates succeed during their college careers.
Zebra: What are some of your favorite Alexandria establishments, and why?
Ms. Riddick-Brown: I love the Alexandria Black History Museum because I learn so much just by volunteering. Ms. Lillian Patterson is my heart of hearts, and I also love working with Audrey Davis. I am also a member of Shiloh Baptist Church, and the community love that the church provides is immeasurable.
Harambee Books & Artworks is another one of my favorite places to patronize. I appreciate the abundance of artwork and books focused on the African American culture carried in their store.
Zebra: This interview will run in the January/February issue of the Zebra. Are there any events/programs that will take place during this time?
Ms. Riddick-Brown: We have our 5th Oratorical Scholarship Competition coming up on February 27 that will take place via Zoom: (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-2021-nova-ncnw-oratorical-scholarship-competition-tickets-134517227649?ref=eios).
This competition is for college-bound high school students of African American or African descent. Participants must write no more than 525 words on the theme of Atmospheric Pressure and Social Normality of Today. Winners may receive scholarships of $500, $1000, or $1,500.
The NOVA Section will also be hosting several free line dancing membership drives on January 13 & 27 and February 10 & 24 from 7 PM-8:30 PM on Zoom: (https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83205015868?pwd=TS9HSFUwZ2ZzQTVUOU9nODBBUElzUT09). We encourage everyone to bring a friend and have a good time dancing to the music.
Zebra: How can Zebra readers find out more about the Northern Virginia Section of the National Council of Negro Women?
Ms. Riddick-Brown: You can learn about the National Council of Negro Women on our website at https://www.novancnw.org/. Readers can also follow us on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/NoVASectionNCNW) and Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/novancnwsection/).
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Q: 7zip - Create self-extracting Archive (sfx) with specified Extract path I am trying to get the 7zip SFX archive to create an executable. I am able to get the executable. But when I run it, it give the downloads path for Extract to:. I would like to to change to %AppData%\Roaming by default. Screenshot below will give an idea of what I am trying to do.

There are no setup.exe or anything inside the archive, it has just few files that needs to go to Roaming folder. This is for many of our users, who can get this updates without them specifying a path. (It is always easy when users do not have to specify a path, otherwise, it is my experience that the users can pick most unusual paths!!)
Update
Here is what I have tried so far. my config file content is
;!@Install@!UTF-8!
InstallPath="%AppData%\\Roaming\\Notepad++"
;!@InstallEnd@!

This is the command line call.
copy /b 7zS.sfx + config.txt + Installer.7z myinstaller.exe

Unfortunately it does not work. It gives the following path. It should be %AppData%\\Roaming\\Notepad++.

A: I would like to change the Extract Path to %AppData%\Roaming by default.
You need to download a "modified module" from 7z SFX Builder (sourceforge).
Check the links on the left for documentation (note these links and the text below is from https://web.archive.org/)
In your configuration file:
InstallPath="%AppData%\Roaming"

Configuration file parameters

InstallPath="path_to_extract"
Sets the extraction path. The extraction folder will not be deleted
  after the extraction.
If the InstallPath value is not present in the config file or the
  path was deleted from the interactive extraction dialog, the archive
  will be extracted to a temporary folder. This temporary folder will be
  deleted after the extraction and execution of all commands.
Environment variables are allowed (with the exception of %%T and
  variables defined in SetEnvironment, if %%T is used in any of them).
  You MUST use DOUBLE backslashes in paths. For example:
InstallPath="C:\\Windows\\system32\\test"

or
InstallPath="%PROGRAMFILES%\\test"

Relative paths are allowed. The current folder is the one from which
  the program launching SFX archive was executed. For example,
InstallPath="test"

creates a folder with the name of "test" in the folder from which the
  program launching SFX archive was executed. All files will be
  extracted to the "test" folder. On the other hand,
InstallPath="."

extracts the archive content to the folder from which the program
  launching SFX archive was executed. Also,
InstallPath="%%S"

extracts the archive content to the folder where the SFX is located.
If all you need is to extract the archive content to a certain folder,
  you need to specify a value for InstallPath in the config file.
In
  this case you should not specify RunProgram or ExecuteFile in the
  config file. AutoInstall or AutoInstallX may be specified in the
  config file, but should not be invoked via the command line or with
  the [SHIFT] key.
If you specify RunProgram or ExecuteFile or
  invoke AutoInstall and AutoInstallX, the specified executable will
  be launched after the extraction.

Source Configuration file parameters

A: Try 7z SFX Builder, it's free, supports command line parameters, and also you can specify extraction path on the GUI Main Tab:

A: Just use -y -o<PathToExtract>: Setup.exe -y -oc:\abc

A: (just in case anyone is trying to do this still)
I couldn't figure out how to make a SFX archive extract to a specific location, without also specifying a setup.exe or similar file.
I managed to achieve my goal by using the "-y -oPATH" switches shown here and storing a regular SFX archive inside a batch file (storing a file inside a batch file)
The result is not an EXE, but a CMD file. (but just a CMD file)
Method

*

*create source.exe

*create and edit script.cmd

*create combine.cmd

*execute combine.cmd
combine.cmd as the name suggests, combines script.cmd and source.exe to create output.cmd
output.cmd is the result, when run, it will copy source.exe out of itself to a temp location, run it with the arguments specifying the location, and then delete the temp file.
source.exe
This is a 7z SFX Archive created using the "make sfx archive" option. It contains all the files you want to extract.
script.cmd
you need to replace {target} with your desired location. eg: C:\Example
you must add an empty new line after exit /b before you save this file.
;;;===,,,@echo off
;;;===,,,findstr /v "^;;;===,,," "%-f0" > "%temp%\tempdata.exe"
;;;===,,,start /wait "" "%temp%\tempdata.exe" -y -o"{target}"
;;;===,,,del /f /q "%temp%\tempdata.exe"
;;;===,,,exit /b

combine.cmd
copy /a script.cmd  /b source.exe /b output.cmd

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Poland (The Warsaw Concert)
a Live release
Originally released as a double album in 1984
Reissued in CD format in 1996.
Poland was also issued in a shortened single CD format under the title Extracts from Poland in 1996. The Extracts release does not contain the track Tangent).
Recorded on December 10th, 1983 at the Ice Stadium (Warsaw)
It took the band almost one year to get all the paperwork cleared to enter the then "iron-curtained" Poland. The music which can be heard was recorded under very extreme weather conditions in December 1983.
Added To Proggnosis Database on: 2/27/2006 12:00:00 AM
Entry Last Updated on: 7/31/2012 9:17:00 AM by: DBSilver
Poland (22:36)
Tangent (19:59)
Barbakane (18:04)
Horizon (21:10)
Organ, Synthesizer, Bass, Guitar, Keyboards, Mellophonium, Producer, Mellotron, VCS 3 Synthesizer
Christopher Franke
Synthesizer, Keyboards, Moog Synthesizer, VCS 3 Synthesizer
Johannes Schmoelling
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// Copyright (c) ppy Pty Ltd <contact@ppy.sh>. Licensed under the MIT Licence.
// See the LICENCE file in the repository root for full licence text.

#nullable disable

using osu.Game.Rulesets.Objects.Types;
using System.Threading;
using osu.Game.Beatmaps;
using osu.Game.Beatmaps.ControlPoints;
using osu.Game.Beatmaps.Formats;
using osu.Game.Rulesets.Judgements;
using osu.Game.Rulesets.Objects;
using osu.Game.Rulesets.Scoring;
using osuTK;

namespace osu.Game.Rulesets.Taiko.Objects
{
    public class DrumRoll : TaikoStrongableHitObject, IHasPath
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// Drum roll distance that results in a duration of 1 speed-adjusted beat length.
        /// </summary>
        private const float base_distance = 100;

        public double EndTime
        {
            get => StartTime + Duration;
            set => Duration = value - StartTime;
        }

        public double Duration { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Velocity of this <see cref="DrumRoll"/>.
        /// </summary>
        public double Velocity { get; private set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Numer of ticks per beat length.
        /// </summary>
        public int TickRate = 1;

        /// <summary>
        /// The length (in milliseconds) between ticks of this drumroll.
        /// <para>Half of this value is the hit window of the ticks.</para>
        /// </summary>
        private double tickSpacing = 100;

        protected override void ApplyDefaultsToSelf(ControlPointInfo controlPointInfo, IBeatmapDifficultyInfo difficulty)
        {
            base.ApplyDefaultsToSelf(controlPointInfo, difficulty);

            TimingControlPoint timingPoint = controlPointInfo.TimingPointAt(StartTime);

            double scoringDistance = base_distance * difficulty.SliderMultiplier * DifficultyControlPoint.SliderVelocity;
            Velocity = scoringDistance / timingPoint.BeatLength;

            tickSpacing = timingPoint.BeatLength / TickRate;
        }

        protected override void CreateNestedHitObjects(CancellationToken cancellationToken)
        {
            createTicks(cancellationToken);

            base.CreateNestedHitObjects(cancellationToken);
        }

        private void createTicks(CancellationToken cancellationToken)
        {
            if (tickSpacing == 0)
                return;

            bool first = true;

            for (double t = StartTime; t < EndTime + tickSpacing / 2; t += tickSpacing)
            {
                cancellationToken.ThrowIfCancellationRequested();

                AddNested(new DrumRollTick
                {
                    FirstTick = first,
                    TickSpacing = tickSpacing,
                    StartTime = t,
                    IsStrong = IsStrong
                });

                first = false;
            }
        }

        public override Judgement CreateJudgement() => new IgnoreJudgement();

        protected override HitWindows CreateHitWindows() => HitWindows.Empty;

        protected override StrongNestedHitObject CreateStrongNestedHit(double startTime) => new StrongNestedHit { StartTime = startTime };

        public class StrongNestedHit : StrongNestedHitObject
        {
            // The strong hit of the drum roll doesn't actually provide any score.
            public override Judgement CreateJudgement() => new IgnoreJudgement();
        }

        #region LegacyBeatmapEncoder

        double IHasDistance.Distance => Duration * Velocity;

        SliderPath IHasPath.Path
            => new SliderPath(PathType.Linear, new[] { Vector2.Zero, new Vector2(1) }, ((IHasDistance)this).Distance / LegacyBeatmapEncoder.LEGACY_TAIKO_VELOCITY_MULTIPLIER);

        #endregion
    }
}

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Appartenente ad una famiglia patrizia genovese, figlio del marchese Girolamo, presidente del governo provvisorio della Repubblica di Genova e fratello del senatore Orso, venne nominato membro del Senato del Regno di Sardegna nel 1848 e nel 1860 ne divenne vicepresidente. Fu anche sindaco di Aramengo e consigliere provinciale di Genova.

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Q: How to pass two/mulitple object to a function as parameter I am able to get the fist parameter iAmDog and the first parameter is also accessed by this, how to pass second parameter iAmCat and print them?

var speak = function(iAmDog, iAmCat) {
  console.log(this);

  console.log(iAmDog.love);
  console.log(iAmDog.normal);

  console.log(iAmCat.love);
  console.log(iAmCat.normal);
};

var speakAsDog = {
  normal: "moof",
  love: 'woow'
};
var speakAsCat = {
  normal: "meow",
  love: 'purr'
};

speak.call(speakAsDog, speakAsCat);

A: Your code is just riddled with typos. Also, you don't have to explicitly call the .call() function.

var speak = function (iAmDog, iAmCat) {
  console.log(iAmDog.love);
  console.log(iAmDog.normal);

  console.log(iAmCat.love);
  console.log(iAmCat.normal);
};

var speakAsDog = { normal: "moof", love: 'woow' };
var speakAsCat = { normal: "meow", love: 'purr' };

speak(speakAsDog, speakAsCat);

A: As suggested by FrankerZ you might not need call or apply But in case you need context variable being changed,
You can use call or

var speak = function(iAmCat) {
  var iAmDog = this;
  console.log(iAmDog.love);
  console.log(iAmDog.normal);

  console.log(iAmCat.love);
  console.log(iAmCat.normal);
};

var speakAsDog = {
  normal: "moof",
  love: 'woow'
};
var speakAsCat = {
  normal: "meow",
  love: 'purr'
};

speak.call(speakAsDog, speakAsCat);

use apply or

var speak = function() {
  var iAmDog = this,
    iAmCat = arguments[0];
  console.log(iAmDog.love);
  console.log(iAmDog.normal);

  console.log(iAmCat.love);
  console.log(iAmCat.normal);
};

var speakAsDog = {
  normal: "moof",
  love: 'woow'
};
var speakAsCat = {
  normal: "meow",
  love: 'purr'
};

speak.apply(speakAsDog, [speakAsCat]);

use bind.

var speak = function(iAmCat) {
  var iAmDog = this;
  console.log(iAmDog.love);
  console.log(iAmDog.normal);

  console.log(iAmCat.love);
  console.log(iAmCat.normal);
};

var speakAsDog = {
  normal: "moof",
  love: 'woow'
};
var speakAsCat = {
  normal: "meow",
  love: 'purr'
};
var newFN = speak.bind(speakAsDog);
newFN(speakAsCat);

A: The very first parameter in function.call and function.apply is the thisArg which is available as this value inside function. So if you want to pass any arguments you should start from second. in you case you can send null as thisArg because this is not referenced inside function.

var speak = function(iAmDog, iAmCat) {
  console.log(iAmDog.love);
  console.log(iAmDog.normal);

  console.log(iAmCat.love);
  console.log(iAmCat.normal);
};

var speakAsDog = { normal: "moof", love: 'woow' };
var speakAsCat = { normal: "meow", love: 'purr' };

speak.call(null, speakAsDog, speakAsCat);
speak.apply(null, [speakAsDog, speakAsCat]);


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Prior to the arrival of Europeans, warfare between Mendi tribes and clans was rife. Wooden fighting shields were commonly carried in mass battles, where fighters decorated their bodies with oil, paint, feathers and leaves. The 'wörrumbi' was carried by bowmen in open lines of combat. Carved from a solid piece of hardwood, and slung from the shoulder by a strap threaded through the centre of the shield, the 'wörrumbi' was very effective against bone-tipped arrows and spears.
More recent 'Wörrumbi' shields are noted for their distinctive ridge or 'mesha' (spine), which developed following the introduction of steel axes into the Mendi region. The 'mesha' forms a central axis for pecked, incised and painted forms that symmetrically cover the surface. The designs are believed to represent anthropomorphic figures and they are typically coloured with red ochre and white mineral pigment traded in from the west. This shield also has two small holes at the top to which bird plumes were secured.
Australian anthropologist D'Arcy Ryan, who first undertook research in the Mendi region in 1954, noted that most 'Wörrumbi' shields are covered with incised scoring that are generally coloured red and might indicate skin and body hair.


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Quavo Readies Debut Solo Album Could It Be Released This Month?
Taking to Instagram to share the news, the 27-year-old hitmaker is looking to replicate the success of the chart-topping trio by his lonesome. Fans excited by the report saw that excitement amplified when he revealed the LP will be available much sooner than expected.
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Bouncing Babies is a computer game developed in 1984 by Dave Baskin for MS-DOS. The player is in control of a two man team of fire fighters who rescue babies thrown from the windows of a building in flames into a bouncing stretcher and safely into an ambulance.
A building is on fire and you have to rescue babies jumping (jumping?) from the building. A two man fire fighter team is the only thing between life and certain death for the bouncing babies. Use the fire fighter stretcher/trampoline to bounce the babies safely into the ambulance. The gameplay is based on a Game & Watch game called Fire. Play Bouncing Babies online!
The game has only three keys to play (1, 2, 3) which represents the positions where you can place your fireman team: left, middle, or right. Anticipate where the babies will fall from their jumping angle. Multiple and faster babies will jump off the building as you advance in the game.


A limited edition 45 rpm LP pairing Frank Zappa's "Lumpy Gravy" with "Primordial" will be released April 21st for Record Store Day. The flipside is Zappa's first orchestral-only edit of 1967 Capitol Studios recording sessions, referred to him as a "ballet" and only previously released officially on 2008's posthumous collection Lumpy Money. This release has been mastered from the original 1967 quarter-inch mono master tape. Zappa Records will press 4000 copies on translucent burgundy colored 12″ vinyl as a 'RSD First' Release in a gatefold album sleeve designed by Frank. The album cover, gatefold art and vinyl design are below, followed ny the tracklist.


COLOMBO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Sri Lanka has asked the United Nations refugee agency, UNHCR, for help to resettle scores of mainly Pakistani asylum seekers in another country, saying many are economic migrants and a threat to the security and health of the Indian Ocean island.
According to the UNHCR, at least 88 Pakistanis have been deported since Aug. 1 in what the agency said was a breach of international law. It has called for an end to the deportations and demanded access to 75 detained people awaiting deportation.
Samantha Jayasuriya, a Sri Lankan envoy to the United Nations in Geneva, told the UNHCR the United Nations had not dealt with asylum seekers whose applications had been turned down, leaving them to be a burden on the country.
Over the last two years, Sri Lanka has seen a 700 percent increase in the arrival of asylum seekers, Jayasuriya said in a statement to the UNHCR executive committee late on Thursday.
"Regrettably, the process of resettlement slowed down considerably in 2013/14, resulting in serious law and order, security, as well as health related issues for Sri Lanka," she said.
Jayasuriya called on the UNHCR to speed up the resettlement process and ensure safe houses and funding for asylum seekers while claims were processed. Those whose applications were rejected, should be resettled to a third country, she added.
"At present, once rejected, (the) UNHCR bears no responsibility for the welfare or return of rejected asylum-seekers," she said, adding that Sri Lanka was sheltering refugees even though it is not a signatory to the 1951 UN Refugee Convention.
In September, a Sri Lankan court gave permission to authorities to send back scores of Pakistani asylum seekers, after the government said some were engaged in criminal activities and had brought malaria to the island nation, which was otherwise virtually free of the disease.
Most of the Pakistanis are from the Ahmadiyya Islamic sect. The Ahmadi consider themselves Muslims, but a 1984 Pakistani law declared them non-Muslims and many Pakistanis consider them heretics.
In July, a mob killed an Ahmadi woman and two of her granddaughters in Pakistan after another sect member was accused of posting blasphemous material on Facebook.
According to UNHCR guidelines, members of religious minorities may need protection and require particularly careful examination of their asylum claims.


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Democratic challenger edges further ahead in Arizona Senate race: Reuters/Ipsos poll
Jason Lange | Posted: Oct. 14, 2020, 8:37 a.m. | Updated: Oct. 14, 2020, 7:31 p.m. | 2 Min Read
By Jason Lange
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Mark Kelly pulled further ahead of Arizona Republican incumbent Martha McSally, a Reuters/Ipsos poll showed on Wednesday, ratcheting up the risk to Republicans of losing control of the Senate in the Nov. 3 elections.
There are about 12 competitive U.S. Senate races this year, 10 with vulnerable Republican incumbents and two with vulnerable Democrats. To have a majority in the Senate, Democrats need to pick up three seats if the party wins the White House, which gives the vice president a tie-breaking vote, and four if not.
Here are the latest results on three Senate races on which Reuters/Ipsos is polling:
ARIZONA (Oct. 7-14 poll)
* Voting for Democratic challenger and former astronaut Mark Kelly: 52%
* Voting for Republican Senator Martha McSally: 41%
* Kelly was up 51%-41% in the prior poll.
* 10% say they had already voted.
NORTH CAROLINA (Oct. 7-13 poll)
* Voting for Democratic challenger Cal Cunningham: 46%
* Voting for Republican Senator Thom Tillis: 42%
* Cunningham led Tillis 47%-42% in the prior week.
* 12% said they had already voted.
MICHIGAN (Oct. 7-13 poll)
* Voting for Democratic Senator Gary Peters: 52%
* Voting for Republican challenger John James: 44%
* Peters led James 50%-43% in the prior week.
NOTES: The Reuters/Ipsos poll was conducted online and in English. The Arizona survey included 667 likely voters and had a credibility interval of 4 percentage points. The earlier Michigan poll surveyed 620 likely voters and had a credibility interval of 5 percentage points. North Carolina's surveyed 660 likely voters and had a credibility interval of 4 percentage points.
(Reporting by Jason Lange; Editing by Scott Malone and Peter Cooney)
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Ohio mother charged with raping infant son
An Ohio woman is accused of raping her 10-month-old son, videotaping it and sending it to her Michigan boyfriend.
COLUMBUS, Ohio – An Ohio woman is accused of raping her 10-month-old son, videotaping it and sending it to her Michigan boyfriend.
Ashley N. Jessup, 24, was indicted in Columbus on Thursday on two counts of rape, one count of child endangerment and one count of pandering sexually-oriented material involving a minor.
Franklin County Prosecutor Ron O'Brien says the rape charge could land her life in prison.
O'Brien tells The Columbus Dispatch (http://bit.ly/n2XPEK ) that Jessup emailed the videos to her boyfriend in Battle Creek, Mich., where his ex-girlfriend discovered them and contacted police.
Jessup is being held in the Franklin County Correctional Center in lieu of $1 million bond. Court documents do not list an attorney for Jessup.
The newspaper reported that it wasn't immediately clear who has custody of the child.
Information from: The Columbus Dispatch, http://www.dispatch.com
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Fatah, Hamas Responsible for Civilians in Their Custody
(New York, June 16, 2007) - The two rival Palestinian political factions, Fatah and Hamas, should treat civilians in their custody humanely, and ensure that no further summary executions take place, Human Rights Watch said today.
In the Gaza Strip over the past week fighters linked to Hamas and Fatah have taken people from the other party captive and executed them, often in a public and degrading manner. According to news reports, both groups continue to round up people linked to the rival faction and now hold them in both Gaza and the West Bank.
"Killing people who are in your custody and under your control, no matter what the circumstances, constitutes an extremely grave offense - in fact, a war crime," said Joe Stork, deputy Middle East director for Human Rights Watch. "This is a fundamental humanitarian principle that applies to fighters regardless of whether they are in a regular army or not."
On Thursday evening, armed men reportedly linked with Hamas shot and captured Samih al-Madhun, a leader of the Fatah-linked Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, when he tried to shoot his way past a Hamas checkpoint in Nuseirat Refugee Camp in the Central Gaza Strip. According to information provided to Human Rights Watch, Al-Aqsa television, a Hamas-controlled network, aired footage of the wounded al-Madhun being dragged through the streets and beaten by bystanders before a gunman emptied the magazine of his weapon into him, killing him. Human Rights Watch also received a report of an execution-style killing on Friday in the southern Gaza Strip town of Khan Yunis.
In Nablus, a large city in the northern West Bank, on Thursday night gunmen killed Hamas supporter Anis al-Sallus. Al-Aqsa Brigades subsequently announced on television that they had killed al-Sallus in revenge for the Hamas killings in Gaza. On Friday, Al-Aqsa Brigades in Ramallah reportedly issued a statement threatening to harm Hamas members in the West Bank in reprisal for further killings of Fatah members in Gaza.
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A1077 Richard Dillon (38072) of Sheffield, 23rd (4th Tyneside Scottish) Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers, died 11 February, 1917. Courtesy of Graham Denman.
A1076 Arthur Short (19244), 6th Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment, died 7 June, 1917. Courtesy of Graham Denman.
B890 Henry (Harry) Pate of Bickley, 5th Battalion, Cheshire Regiment, killed 1September, 1917. Courtesy of Dan and Sue Bates.
A1075 Lance Corporal Arthur Warrington, 10th Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment, 28752, son of Ralph and Rose Warrington, died 30 October 1916. Courtesy of Dave Smith.
W315 Ronald Edwin Smith, 31st Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force, and pal, Military Convalescent Hospital, Woodcote Park, Epsom, September 1918. Courtesy of Mark Smith.
A1074 Ronald Edwin Smith 446585, 31st Battalion Canadian Expeditionary Force,c. 1916. Courtesy of Mark Smith.
G1097 Thomas McCormick, 2nd Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, front row first left, Goettingen prisoner of war camp. Courtesy of Thomas McCormick.
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U296 B.E.F. Draft from the School for Wireless Operators, Royal Flying Corps, Aldershot, 31st May 1917, named group. See individual entries. Courtesy of Ian Warburton.
A1073 Lieutenant Michele Amoroso of New Brighton, 96 Brigade, Royal Artillery, died 3 July 1916. Courtesy of Cheshire Remembers.
A1072 Lance Corporal William Alfred Moon of Chester, 11th Battalion, Chester Regiment, executed 21 November 1916, aged 20. Courtesy of Cheshire Remembers.
F459 Army Service Corps lance corporal, wife, and son, Chris, 18 March, 1919, Emberson Studios, South London.
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G1094 Essex Regiment group, with William Harold Keylock (standing third from right, centre row). Courtesy of Frank la Touche.
U295 B Section, London Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps, 1914, Gale and Polden Studio, London.
W314 Cecil F. Whenmouth, Royal Field Artillery, 28 May 1917. His brother Charles, 23rd Battalion, London Regiment, died 26 May 1915.
G1093 Pte. Edward William Parckar (far right), 1/8th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment, whilst billeted in France. Courtesy of Mandie Christie.
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U294 2/3rd West Riding Field Ambulance, December 1915.
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U293 Royal Field Artillery Cadets. Courtesy of Stephen Johnson.
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It's no secret that I love clothes and everything about designing them. The fabrics, technique, and the awesome people I've worked with along the way…it's all very exciting. Despite the hard work and inevitable bumps that are a part of being self-employed, it's the passion for a great garment and a happy wearer that keeps this party going. Whoo hoo!
So, what started this whole love affair with clothing and design? I hope you will enjoy this multi-part blog about how it all began.
I want to tell you about the first time I ever saw a belly dancer.


I have tried all sorts of exercise that would encompass everything I need – conditioning, strength building, stretching, toning, breathing and mind tuning. I am a busy Mum with an active job so I need an exercise that doesn't take up too much time or exhaist me or create a hassle in my day. With Pilates I can escape work for 45 minutes and retirn without having to shower and carry all the shampoosm towels etc.
I know it works becaise I don't get my lower back pain anymore and my mind becomes clear and focused. The Tiaki team is warm and friendly and can incorporate a laigj every npw and then so we don't take it all too seriously. I would totally recommend Tiaki Pilates to anyone. Jane Park Jane Park is one of Harcourts Team Wellington's top agents. Jane has come from a corporate background handling new business, high level negotiations, client service and relationships. Real estate is her passion and her experience in these areas set her apart as one of Harcourt's best.
"Pilates is just fabulous! It has in fact changed my life completely.
After a very bad fall almost 15 years ago I started Pilates to strengthen my core. I could not walk far or stand for very long and thought my dancing days were over. Now not only can I boogie the night away with the best of them but I also belong to a walking group. How's that for a turn-around! I go as often as I can and find my back pain reduces significantly and my muscles are more toned than they have been for years.
I was a regular gym junky but find reformer Pilates re-shapes and tones the body for me far better than anything else. With a stronger core it's funny how you just automatically pick up heavy objects correctly and easier it's like second nature, not to mention the health benefits.


Do You Know All the Functions of Your Mac Photo Editor?
Editing is easy if you know the tricks. Learn how to use the built-in Mac photo editor to achieve more with your photos.
Apple's Mac has divided people for as long as it has been around. Some people love the brand and will use nothing but Mac; others absolutely can't stand it. However, even the opposing team reluctantly agrees that Mac computers have solid performance, especially for tasks like photo and video editing.
Have you ever wondered how to edit photos on Mac? Photo editing software varies from simple to complex and caters to different types of photographers. Think about your needs and choose a program that suits your workflow — but also an image editor Mac users recommend. If you want to become a professional, Photoshop is probably your friend already. Lightroom is another photo editor Mac users have been using for a long time. However, the default Mac photo editor, Photos, is a built-in piece of software that many take for granted even though it's suitable both for beginners and for anyone who needs to quickly fix their photos in an image editor Mac provides for free.
In this article, we'll tell you exactly what you can achieve with Photos, the built-in photo editing software for Mac. If you're looking for a level-up alternative, consider Luminar, which lets you store, rate, organize, and edit photos quickly and efficiently. Click below to check out Luminar and edit photos on your Mac for free during your trial period.
What features should a photo editor for Mac have? Let's look at the Photos image editor and analyze its tools one by one.
A photo editor Mac users love should not only be compatible with the system but also follow the overall minimalist and user-friendly design of all Apple products. Photos lets you store, view, rate, and group images. A great feature that raises brand loyalty is the ability to automatically add photos to your iCloud library. Some people specifically choose Photos so they can sync their edited photographs quickly to all of their devices through iCloud. This way they can view them later on any other Apple device. You can also "like" images in Photos, which automatically adds them to favorites. Not only that, Photos is constantly being improved. Also, it intelligently groups photos based on time and place. It's an image editor Mac users adore because of how easy it is to find all the photos you took in Sri Lanka or on a particular day in May 2016. Another feature of this photo editing software for Mac is face detection, which lets you see all the photos you have of a particular person.
Editing is easy in Photos because the features this Mac photo editor offers are basic and intuitive. For size and overall appearance, you can crop, flip, rotate, and straighten your photos just like in any photo editor for Mac. There are also sliders and tools that let you control color details, from a magic wand to basic color, light, and black and white tweaks and even full granular control over exposure, saturation, and intensity. Photos offers everything you need in basic photo editing software for Mac. Using Photos, it's easy to remove red-eye, touch up blemishes, and make your portrait photos look appealing. To open an image for editing in Photos, double click on the photo and choose "Edit" option in the right top corner of your app window.
Since Photos uses a non-destructive system, you can edit your photos to infinity. Click Compare and see the adjustments that you've made. If you're not satisfied at any point, you can always go back to your original photo or make other adjustments.
Photos is a great Mac image editor also because it allows you to copy and paste your adjustments between images. This makes it easy to edit a batch of images that you want to give the same look and feel. Once you've edited an image, you can copy all your adjustments and paste them to other images. This feature is usually present in a much more advanced photo editors like Luminar, and its addition in this built-in editor is great.
The sliders listed above aren't the only options you have. You can click the Add button to get access to more advanced tools like noise reduction, sharpening, levels, and histogram. As you can see, Photos isn't just another built-in Mac image editor that doesn't give you much control over your photos. Instead, it's something that can actually replace expensive editors provided you don't need something overly advanced.
If you're looking for alternative editors with the same beautiful design and ease of use as Photos, Luminar might be a perfect choice for you if you want to edit photos on Mac.
Luminar 3 is a great photo editor for Mac that lets you store, organize, and edit your photos quickly and easily. There's no need to manually import your images to Luminar. Once you guide Luminar to your default photo folder, you can use Luminar just like Photos; it lets you view your photos in a gallery by date, color code, favorites, and so on. This photo editing software for Mac is perfect both for beginners and professionals because of its intuitive user interface and powerful arsenal of tools. It's a Mac photo editor worth giving a shot.
Luminar is a Mac image editor that lets you quickly edit photos. Add stunning looks and find handy Workspaces to edit any type of photo, from portraits to landscapes, with built-in filters. The editing tools are plentiful, and Luminar has everything you need to make your photos shine. AI sliders automatically analyze problem spots in your photos and edit them with just one slider. Thanks to the layers system, you can edit your photos professionally, creating levitation effects, adding logos and watermarks, adding textures, and more. Not all photo editing software for Mac has these features, so it's extremely wonderful to access them in this Mac image editor that's perfect for professionals and amateurs alike.
If you want to give this Mac photo editor a try and quickly learn how to edit photos on Mac, click the button below to try Luminar for free.


The Palmetto Golf Club is a monument from the dawn of US golf. Thomas Hitchcock founded Palmetto in 1892 and he also laid out a rudimentary four-hole golf course, which was soon extended to nine holes by Herbert Leeds (the architect and early member of the Myopia Hunt Club). Herbert Leeds and James Mackrell, Palmetto's first golf professional, extended the course to 18 holes in 1895. Since then, the hands of numerous architects, including Donald Ross, Alister MacKenzie and, more recently, Rees Jones, have all tweaked and tuned the course that is in play today at Palmetto.
The Chicago Golf Club has the oldest 18-hole golf course in the USA operating on its original site and the Palmetto Golf Club can reasonably claim to have the country's second oldest golf course.
The green complexes at Palmetto are a delight and their current size is the result of Gil Hanse's restoration work, which pushed the putting surfaces outwards utilising the existing mounds to great effect. Additionally the bunkers were reworked under Hanse's stewardship.
Notorious for its excellent two-shot holes on the outward half, Ben Hogan reckoned holes 3, 4 and 5 were the best back-to-back par fours he'd ever played. Additionally Hogan apparently listed Palmetto's 3rd, 5th and 13th in his all-time list of 18 favourite holes.
I played this course during the last US Masters Week and although I have heard/read how good it was, I have to say my impression was even better than expected. It is located not long from Augusta, maybe a 30-40mins car drive which is not bad and while at The Tournament week this is one of the best golf courses you can play in the area together with Sage Valley but really different in what to expect. While Sage is perfection, this is pure golf history and one of the best set of 18 greens I have ever played: fast, sloped, tough to read, tougher to play and really fun, birdies will not come easily!
Club House is a small one, but pretty much the original since it was opened in 1892 y with a charming board of winners with some really big names from the game's history.
As all courses in the area, crew and staff know how special that week is and everybody is set to make your day really special.
And not as many of the proshops of the courses visited, this one is really good with a big variety of stuff and design which will for sure spend some money on it.
Course plays really tough, I tried playing concetrated and focused to post a good score but both approach shots and putting made it extremely tough. Every small mistake was punished with at least a bogey, short game is as demanding as you can expect and this is one of the best features of the course, you HAVE to get all your wedges working and even the bump & run chip will be necessary.
A great test, the touch from Mackenzie in every green and mantained at the highest level even when a small tornado hit the course 2 days before I played it.
Par 3 6th with that small tough green was one of the best ones, very similar to 14th at Los Leones in Santiago de Chile. Par 3 11th downhill was one of the greats as well, were tries hide the wind (as in Amen Corner at Augusta National) and it is tough to get the correct club.
Dog leg 12th over the water is the other great, where the more brave you are with the line of the tee shot, the easier and shorter the approach shot uphill will be.
I've read final 3 holes are "weak" and cannot share that: 16th is a very tough long par 3 where holding ball on green is maybe the toughest hole on the course, 17th is a nice downhill par 4 where again approach shot needs to be extremely precise.
And finally 18th might not be nice from the tee, but you need to be sharp. I went for the green and missed, had a really tough job to get the final par.
If you travel to Augusta and want to play a really good golf course, this is the one. You have everything a golfer will appreciate from an old golf club.
It didn't take very long for me to realise why Clifford Roberts complained to Alister MacKenzie that his members at Augusta National preferred to play MacKenzie's course up in Aiken, SC! Things at Palmetto haven't changed much over the past 100 years since MacKenzie completed the work.
It's truly amazing that this course has never appeared on any Top 100 list as its architectural credentials are simply fabulous. Its greens and visual deceptions are equally as impressive as the site that hosts The Masters.
It started as a 3-hole course in a tri-angular routing, that now play as holes 16-18 on the backside of the clubhouse. This collection of holes is arguably the weakest on the course.
It's not a terribly long course, but it has iconic features recognizable across the world which offer up one of the most enjoyable walks in golf. Short-game aficionados will be tested to the max. As with all of MacKenzie's masterpieces, the player is offered tremendous width off the tee, leading towards an immense challenge around the greens.
I played Palmetto during Masters week, it's under 30 minutes from Augusta and well worth leaving the fun of the Masters for half a day to visit. The course is steeped in history, apparently is the second oldest in the US, and has a really nice feel to it. Everything is laid out very clearly in front of you and what you see is what you get. You can take driver on most tees, although playing the 6,100 members tees means you don't always need to. Having said that the starter said it would be the longest 6,100 we've ever played and that was true. There was no point being short of any green as it was impossible to run a ball in so approach shots need to get to the pin and when you did the greens were slick with a lot of elevation change. Given the time of year we were there the course was just coming out of dormancy so there was a lot of brown around rather than green. The course was far from manicured (greens accepted) which didn't really detract from the experience but I imagine it looks very different in the summer months. It was a course which was possible to score on (I managed 33 points with a few short game disasters) but pay real attention around the greens and walk around every hole to check out the undulations that will be in front of you. Very enjoyable, would love to play it again!


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Competence development is important for individuals and organizations. This article outlines the advantages of interest-focused development which is to structurally engage yourself with and train yourself in what interests you, both in the short and the long term.
An important motivation of people is what psychologists call competence motivation (Elliott & Dweck, 2005). Competence motivation is the tendency of people to make efforts to retain their level of competence and to develop it further. People from all cultures and of all ages have this motivation. The extent to which people feel competent contributes to their well-being and their functioning. Competence development will not come about automatically; it requires an investment. For anyone who wants to become more competent, the question is therefore important how that investment can be made most wisely.
A first strategy is to use a demand focus in which you try to assess for which types of competences there will be a demand in the future. Then, you try to develop these competences. The rationale behind this way of working is: if you try be able to supply that for which there will probably be a demand, you will increase the likelihood that you will be able to make a living from what you will have learned.
A second strategy is to use a strengths focus. This approach means that you assess where your strengths lie and then primarily work to develop these strengths further. The rationale behind this approach is: if you build on what you are already good at you utilize what you already have and you will probably learn faster. Thus you will increase the likelihood that there will be work for you in the future.
While these strategies sound reasonable and can lead to success they can also lead to some practical problems. A demand focus can lead to a motivational problem. That which is in high demand does not necessarily have to be interesting or enjoyable to you. In that case, how will you manage to remain committed to it and to persist your investment? A strengths-focused approach can have as a disadvantage that you may constrain your own development. What you perceive as your strengths is necessarily based on what you have experienced. By allowing yourself to experience new things, regardless of whether you are good at the or not, you may, with effort and persistence, develop new strengths which you may never have considered.
Both demand-focused and strengths-focused development sound logical but are needlessly restrictive. This article argues for a different strategy: interest-focused development. In this approach you mindfully ask yourself what interests you and you primarily focus your attention on this. Interest-focused development can overlap with demand-focused and strengths-focused development but it has different starting point. Also, is has different and bigger advantages, both in the short term and in the long term. Before mentioning these, I will explain what interests are.
The word interest refers to a mental state of curiosity and enjoyment or concern with respect to an activity or a subject which makes you want to engage more in it. Being interested in something thus may mean that it makes you curious, that you enjoy it or that affects or concerns you. The motivation to find things interesting can both come from within us and from our environments. Each person is intrinsically motivated to seek interaction with his or her environment and to explore and learn things. When we do things purely because we find them enjoyable we are intrinsically motivated (Deci & Ryan, 2012) and our motivation comes from within. At the same time our interests can be triggered by our environment. These triggers can be spontaneous events, such as reading an article or hearing a song, but they can also be created by other people, such as parents, teachers and managers. In this case we speak of extrinsic motivation. Many people know that certain external control mechanisms, such as punishment and reward, supervision, grades, controlling language, etc., can have negatives consequences. These control mechanisms can both undermine people's intrinsic motivation and the process of internalizing external expectations, values, norms and rules.
But it is not true that external motivation in itself is a bad thing. These external triggers and external directions (expectations, norms, values, rules, etc.) can, under certain conditions, be fully internalized and integrated by the individual. This process of internalization and integration happens best when the need for autonomy of the individual is supported, when reasons for expectations are clearly explained and when rules and expectations themselves are congruent with people's need for autonomy, competence and relatedness. When this is the case, people tend to perceive external guidance and direction as legitimate and they will voluntarily act in accordance with them. Eventually these external expectations will be fully integrated and they will have become ours. What interests us is thus not only a matter of intrinsic motivation but also of internalized and integrated extrinsic motivation.
We all have different backgrounds, find ourselves in different situations, and undergo different experiences. It is therefore not surprising that we find different things interesting. But, on an abstract level, we can say some general things about which ideas, experiences and things are interesting to people. To be interesting things must meet three requirements: newness, complexity, and understandability (Silvia, 2008). When something is not new we experience it as well-known and perhaps boring and we are less likely to be triggered to give it our full attention. When something is not complex we do not feel challenged by it. And when we experience something as incomprehensible the threshold can be too high for us to start exploring it. When events, ideas or objects are new, complex, and understandable, they offer us the opportunity to develop our abilities. As Carol Dweck, author of Mindset, The New Psychology of Success, put it, "We all have interests that can blossom into abilities." This has to do with a number of psychological mechanisms that operate when we are doing something that interests us.
When we are immersing ourselves into something which interests us we find ourselves in a psychological state of attentive engagement and we experience positive emotions. In this type of circumstances we are able to think clearer, understand things more deeply, and remember things more easily (Murphy Paul, 2013) which enables us to learn better and more efficiently. Also, it is easier to persist in an effort when the thing we are working on interests us. This is because the positive emotions we experience while we are working on interesting things cause a replenishment of our energy and personal resources such as attitudes, strengths, optimism, resilience, helpful beliefs, flexibility, and pro-activity (Thoman, Smith, & Silvia, 2011). While we are putting in an intense effort we are, as it were, at the same time refueling our tank.
Since building expertise requires a great deal of perseverance, this process of resource replenishment is an important advantage of interest-focused development. There is also another important advantage of interest-focused development. Research has shown that when we follow our interests a mechanism kicks in which automatically encourages and refreshes our interest (Silvia, 2008). This mechanism works as follows. When we find a subject interesting and we focus on it we encounter new information about it. Part of this new information will probably fit well with what we already knew about the subject. But another part of the new information is likely to be, to some extent, at odds which what we already knew. This new information thus creates a certain conflict which we will try to solve, or a gap which we will want to bridge. With interest-focused development our interests may be continually renewed and supplemented. We might call this interest-renewal.
Such a focus on interests both has short term and long term advantages. A short term advantage is that people will work with more engagement. Research has shown that work engagement is associated with lots of benefits. For example, engaged workers are more creative and more satisfied with their work and they generally perform better (Bakker & Daniels, 2012). In addition to this, research by Amabile & Kramer (2011) has demonstrated that making progress in meaningful work is one of the most motivating factors in work. What is important, according to Amabile and Kramer, is that you feel that your work is contributing to something which is valuable and important to you. There seems to be an great overlap between the concept of meaningfulness which these authors use and out conceptualization of interest.
In the long term the advantages of interest-focused development may be even greater. Many studies have shown that achieving great expertise or competence in a great range of fields requires many years of hard work (Ericsson, 1996; Ericsson et al., 2006). The key to becoming very good at practically anything is to put in years of deliberate practice into that activity. How one is able to maintain such efforts is thus a key question. The aforementioned advantages (better learning, resource replenishment and interest fenewal) provide answers to this question. Not only is investing in something which interests you less much harder, you may also wonder if it is worth the trouble at all.
Cultivating your own interests is not too difficult. It can be done by asking yourself questions such as: What interests me in this subject? What am I wondering about with respect to this topic? How does this work precisely? What else is known about this? Which things are still unknown about this? What new discoveries have been made? By thinking up these types of questions you may evoke a desire for information which makes it interesting for you to start working and exploring. Also, when you are working and after you have finished your activity you may further cultivate your interest by asking questions like: What did I find interesting about this? What new questions does this raise? What next step might I take?
Parents, teachers, and managers who believe in the power of interest-focused development will naturally be curious about whether (and how) we can provoke and cultivate interests in others. The answer to the question is that we can indeed do this providing we do it in a subtle manner. Three not so subtle approaches which are often applied generally turn out to backfire. First, rewarding people for doing an activity, generally does not strengthen interest in the activity but actually it generally weakens it. This effect which is called the discounting principle has been demonstrated in many experiments (for example, see Kohn, 1993). Second, research has shown that emphasizing the future benefits of the activity, in many cases, does not enhance but undermine the interest in the activity (Durik & Harackiewicz, 2007). Third, using a persuasive tone of voice may backfire. When we feel that someone is trying very hard to convince us of something a defensive mechanism tends to kick in which is called the reactance effect (Brehm & Brehm, 1981). This means that we try to protect our autonomy by resisting against the message of which we are trying to be persuaded.
Ask questions: instead of explaining things and overwhelming the other person with views and answers, asks questions which focus the attention on the gaps in the other person's knowledge. The information gaps usually create a curiosity and interest in the other person.
Demonstrate: demonstrate your own interest for a subject, for example by spontaneous conversations, expressing your own enthusiasm, or by practical demonstration.
Offer support: support the perception of competence of the other person, offer help, encouragement, provide process-focused feedback, etc.
That organizations may also benefit from employees following their interests seems logical if you consider that interested employees will learn more effectively and will persist longer. Yet, there may also be a skeptical response to the idea that interest-focused development is useful for organizations. An obvious question which may be asked is: will interest-focused development not create the risk that employees will only be willing to do enjoyable activities and refuse to do things which are not so enjoyable but which still need to be done? The answer to this question is no. Interest-focused development does not imply that you will never have to do tasks which are somewhat tedious. Any job involves both tasks which are interesting and tasks which are less interesting, such as, perhaps, administrative and repetitive tasks. But the interest-focused approach can still be useful in two ways. First, tasks which at first sight seem somewhat less interesting can often be made more interesting by asking yourself questions such as: How can I make this task a bit more interesting? Which aspects of this task do I find somewhat interesting? How can I execute this task in a way which makes it a bit more interesting for me? Second, you may look at which aspects and parts of your job you find most interesting. By looking at this you may find out in which direction you could develop. By doing this you may gradually sculpt your future job.
A second skeptical question which is also obvious is: If you support people in following their interests will this not create the risk that they will only be willing to do things which are beneficial to them and not to the organization? The answer to this question is also no, for two reasons. The first reason is that most people are actually motivated to do things which are valuable to the organization. For example, research in neuroscience has shown that people have a natural and strong motivation to cooperate and help other people (Lieberman, 2013). Furthermore, most people have adapted to and internalized the norms, values, and interests of their environment (Ryan & Deci, 2011). In most cases people will not tend to make purely egotistical choices in how they will invest in their development. Lieberman says: "For most people in most lines of work, doing something meaningful means helping others." The second reason why people will not disregard organizational goals when they follow their interests is that organizations can set goals, conditions, and performance expectations. They can offer autonomy within certain structures and expectations. A good example of this way of working is progress-focused directing (Visser, 2013) which is a way of setting expectations which creates a certain amount of autonomy for the employee.
Effective managers will both achieve good results for the organization with their employees and contribute to a positive work experience and a good development of employees. Promoting interest-focused development seems like quite a good way to create such benefits.
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