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Energy-saving Opportunities for Pig Farmers
Efficiently run livestock housing is key to productivity, health, welfare and, ultimately, the success of the industry. Proficiently balancing inputs and outputs places some businesses ahead of others and creates more resilience in navigating through the uncertainty of the future while we live through these unprecedented times.
In 2019, English pig producers were asked about their predicted investment into new buildings and technologies. Half of producers surveyed said they are likely to be capping investment into buildings at £50,000, mostly because of the known return in investment and the previously mentioned uncertainty of the industry. Producers do want to invest long term, with more than half keen to build a healthy and sustainable farm business to pass on to the next generation. For producers to have the confidence to invest and drive business improvement, they need reassurance that their investments will increase production efficiency, while also providing welfare and environmental improvements.
Making savings in running costs and inputs is not a new theory in business management plans, but is increasingly at the forefront of investment considerations, not only to streamline production and reduce running costs, but also to support the UK Government's requirement to reduce all greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050. GrowSave, a collaboration between AHDB and NFU Energy, is a knowledge exchange programme helping both farmers and growers save energy. Until recently, the programme has been focused solely on horticulture, but as energy saving
and management is clearly critical across wider AHDB sectors, the programme has now been expanded into the cereals, dairy, pork and potato sectors. To date, the programme has helped horticultural businesses save energy and reduce their environmental impact, which, due to the volatility of energy prices over the last five years, coupled with the increased demand for year-round produce, have been significant drivers for businesses to carefully manage their energy consumption. Pig producers have similar pressures to meet consumer needs, with running costs, in particular electricity, driving the need for overall efficiency improvements.
GrowSave has already helped businesses recognise areas in which energy savings can be made. A market review and gap analysis have identified current practices and highlighted where changes could be implemented, either now, or in the future, to improve business performance and energy efficiencies, while reducing carbon emissions.
Discussions with pig producers and industry representatives dominated by the themes of slurry treatment, including cooling, LED lighting, automation, and data acquisition. Other themes that people are thinking about include the use and improvement of heating systems or climate control techniques, and the application of renewable energy, such as heat pumps, solar photovoltaics, or anaerobic digestion.
The technique of cooling slurry before it leaves the pig shed brings two principal benefits: ammonia suppression (most producers achieve reductions of 30–50%), and heat recovery. Which of these has the upper hand depends on the individual system. Installation of this technology is most efficient in new buildings but can be retrofitted.
Other slurry treatments, such as plasma reactors producing ammonium nitrate liquid fertiliser, are under development.
Now that energy-efficient LED lighting is widespread, specialist products with tailored spectral output are emerging. One supplier of such lighting, Unilight UK, claims that Danish studies on pigs recorded growth increase of 3–5%, or about a week, under LED lighting. In addition, sow lactation improves, piglets grow quicker, and weaning weight increases.
Data is commonly used to benchmark farm operations and often energy consumption as well. When looking to improve energy efficiency, this data should not be limited to the obvious areas such as energy consumption, temperature, on/off times, etc. To get the best value from data, it should be gathered and reported against all sensible metrics, such as feed requirements, fertility, weight gains, mortality, etc. By doing so, the full impacts of the changes that are made can be assessed and the right decisions made to gain maximum efficiencies in all aspects of production, together with using predictive analytics.
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Telus International acquires US mobile app company for $1 billion | Techy Kings
In its biggest deal to date, Telus International Inc. is acquiring U.S. mobile apps and technology company WillowTree for $1.2 billion as the digital services provider bids to expand its customer base.
Vancouver-based Telus International, which is controlled by Telus Corp., is paying $1 billion for WillowTree, including $125 million. USD will be settled in Telus International shares. The remainder of the acquisition will be paid in cash. The company will also assume additional 210 mln. US dollar debts.
Some members of WillowTree's management team agreed to reinvest a total of $160 million in shares. can be cashed out if the company meets certain performance targets.
While the acquisition didn't come cheap, WillowTree's expertise in mobile technology will help fill a gap in Telus International's expertise and add a variety of high-profile clients and new industries to its portfolio, analysts say. But some observers have expressed concern about the leverage the company has taken.
WillowTree, founded in 2008 Based in Charlottesville, Washington, it presents itself as a full-service digital product consultancy offering software, design and marketing tools to businesses expanding their online presence. The company employs more than 1,000 people in Canada, South America and Europe. According to data provided by Telus International, in 2021 WillowTree's revenue was approximately $140 million. US dollars, which is 50 percent more than last year.
Majority shareholder Insignia Capital Group will sell its WillowTree stake after the 2018 IPO.
The transaction is in line with Telus International's long-term strategy to develop full-service technology consulting offerings. CEO Jeff Puritt told The Globe that the acquisition will help position the company as a top technology consulting firm at a time when businesses developing their digital strategies are struggling with inflation, supply chain issues and the ongoing recession. .
"I think it's more important than ever to have the capability to address and mitigate … those fears, those concerns and deliver on time as promised," Puritt said.
He said the acquisition will help the company grow its business especially in the health, agriculture and consumer goods sectors.
In a note to investors, Desjardins analyst Jerome Dubreuil said that despite the high price given the depressed valuations of many companies in the tech sector, the deal's rationale was nonetheless strong, noting that WillowTree's expertise will help expand Telus' mobile applications . was not one of the main competencies of the company until now.
WillowTree will also bring a Fortune 500 client list, including PepsiCo. Inc., Fox Corp., Marriott International Inc. and the CBC.
Nevertheless, the markets reacted negatively, with shares of Telus International down a percentage point on the day
Credit rating agency Moody's Investors Service said in a note to investors that the acquisition is credit negative, meaning the added debt has pushed the company's bond into an overleveraged position. However, Moody's maintained the company's bond rating at Baa1, this means that bonds are subject to average credit risk.
"The outlook for Telus is currently negative as we question management's willingness and ability to reduce debt without spending proceeds from stock or asset sales used to reduce debt," analysts Peter Adu and Paresh Chari wrote in a note.
The deal is expected to close in 2023. month of January. and it must be approved by legislation.
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Helen A Woldemichael is born and raised in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Where she started serving the Seventh-day Adventist Church as a music director prior to moving to U.S. in 2008.
Helen joined the Maplewood Academy team in the fall of 2017. She is conductor of the general Choir, Choraliers (selected group), and Maplewood Bell Choir. She holds Master of Music in Choral conducting degree from Andrews University and Bachelor of Arts in Music Degree from Addis Ababa University Yared School of Music. She has several years of musical experience as a Conductor, music educator, and Performer. In her music endeavors, her main aim is to glorify God through excellence in music and worship.
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By Sam Dansie June 14, 2011 9:30am
Updated: June 14, 2011 11:24am
Armstrong accused of intimidating potential witness Tyler Hamilton in Aspen restaurant
Fallout from CBS programme '60 Minutes'
Armstrong leads Hamilton in the 2003 Tour de France
Lance Armstrong threatened to make Tyler Hamilton's life a "living hell" in the law courts when the two met unexpectedly in a restaurant last weekend, ESPN's Bonnie Ford has reported. And Hamilton's lawyers who alleged the 'aggressive contact' at the impromptu meeting, reported the incident to federal authorities who will decide if it constitutes 'witness tampering'.
Tyler Hamilton's letter of confession
Hamilton alleges Armstrong EPO positive cover-up on 60 Minutes
UCI rejects Hamilton's accusations of 2001 Armstrong cover-up
Armstrong attorneys said to have suggested joint defence with Hamilton
Saugy said to have reported Armstrong samples to FDA
Millar calls for closure in Armstrong and Contador investigations
If the authorities agree, and Armstrong is eventually hauled before court to face charges he was at the centre of a systematic doping operation on the US Postal Service squad between 1999 and 2004, it could mean that prosecutors can include evidence in the case against the Texan right up to the present day. Armstrong has always denied doping.
According to ESPN which reported the story, Hamilton's lawyer, Chris Manderson, said because Hamilton had testified to a federal grand jury investigating fraud and cheating on US Postal, Hamilton could be a crucial witness. Any contact between defendant and witness – especially if it was aggressive – had to be reported to the authorities he said.
Manderson said: "Lance Armstrong is a possible defendant in an investigation that's been widely reported, and Tyler is a probable witness. When there's any contact, especially aggressive contact, we as lawyers have a duty to inform the authorities. ... What they will do with it, I don't know."
The unexpected meeting happened three weeks after Hamilton appeared on the CBS programme '60 Minutes' on May 22, in which he went public with allegations he saw Armstrong inject EPO and try to cover up a failed dope test at the Tour de Suisse in 2001.
According to Hamilton's version of events at the restaurant, Armstrong repeatedly asked Hamilton how much he had been paid to appear on '60 Minutes' and that the Texan's legal team will "(expletive) destroy you," "tear you apart on the witness stand," and "make your life a living (expletive) hell."
According to former federal prosecutor, Richard J. Cutler, if the incident was reported accurately, the altercation could be a 'game-changer' and could allow the federal prosecuting authorities to extend the deadline for investigating the US Postal case.
Cutler said "If I were the prosecutor, my investigator would be going to talk to Hamilton. This, to me, is a game-changer," adding that witness tampering could adjust the statute of limitations issues prosecutors might be facing by extending the timeline forward to the present day.
However co-owner of the upmarket Cache Cache restaurant where the run-in happened and a friend of Armstrong, Jodi Larner, had a different version of events. She said the impromptu meeting was very placid.
"It was not combative. It was not hostile... There were no threats. There were very few words exchanged. There was no scene made," she said.
Armstrong's lawyer spokesman Mark Fabiani declined to comment to ESPN.
US Federal authorities led By Jeff Novitzky are currently investigating whether public funds were used to finance systematic doping in the Armstrong's US Postal Service team and Hamilton could be a key witness in any trial
The complete text of letter sent to family and friends
Hamilton states UCI is complicit in cover-up at 2001 Tour de Suisse
Allegation that American tested positive for EPO at Tour de Suisse
Hamilton's lawyer details history of grand jury and 60 Minutes
Sources claim Swiss lab director knew who the samples were from
Scot criticises Armstrong for not doing enough against doping


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Desecration Chapter 4
Read the previous chapter, Chapter 3, here first.
Chapter 4 of Desecration, London Psychic #1. Click here for buy links to the full book.
Leaving Missinghall to return and process what they had so far, Jamie rode slowly through the streets of Rotherhithe towards the City Farm, where Jenna Neville had shared a flat. It was a strange suburb, a bleak, cornered world with houses crowded together, densely populated but seemingly empty. The area had missed out on the recent revival of the East End of London. Whereas the north side of the Thames had caught the imagination of the public and was now culture and party-central, this little corner of South London was concrete and unwelcoming.
Jamie parked the bike and walked to the end of Vaughn Street, looking out across the river towards Canary Wharf, the heart of London's modern financial district, and famed for obscenities of wealth. Some people lived in this area for the ease of commuting by ferry across the water but others, perhaps like Jenna, were here to protest against the high-rises and cocktail bars, six-figure bonuses and hedonism that thrived on the bank opposite. For a second, Jamie thought of Polly's impossible future, what she could have achieved in this city of potential. Feeling tears well, she sighed and pushed the thoughts away. She couldn't let her emotions leak into this investigation.
Turning back, Jamie walked down to number 15, knocking on the door of the little terraced house, unremarkable in a sea of similar properties. The door opened and Jamie showed her warrant card.
"Miss McConnell?"
Elsa McConnell was petite with a tousled head of ginger curls that she wore tied up with a lavender checked headband. Her face was clean of makeup, a few freckles were scattered across her nose and cheeks, and her blue eyes were red and raw.
"Yes, Detective. The police said you would be coming over … Please come in, and call me Elsa. Excuse me, I'm just so …"
She broke off to blow her nose as tears started to flow again. Jamie contrasted her genuine emotion with the strange stunted response of Jenna's parents.
"I know this is hard for you, Elsa, but I wanted to ask you some questions and have a look at Jenna's room, if that's OK."
Elsa nodded, stepping back into the hallway and turning towards the small kitchen. As Jamie followed her in, she caught sight of the back of her neck, crosshatched in a complicated geometric tattoo that wound beneath her clothes.
The flat was brightly lit, with all of the main lights and side-lamps turned on, almost blinding with intensity.
"I can't stand the shadows right now," Elsa whispered almost apologetically.
Jamie nodded, her eyes scanning the place for indications of Jenna's life. There were People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals posters on the walls and eclectic Indian throws over the furniture. The young women were clearly not into mass-produced goods, for the apartment was furnished with artisan products, all recycled and hand made.
"So, how did you and Jenna meet?" Jamie asked, while Elsa put the kettle on and pulled out organic peppermint tea from a cupboard.
"I've worked at the Surrey Docks City Farm for four years now, and about 18 months ago, Jenna started working there as a volunteer some weekends. She's a lawyer – I mean, she was a lawyer." Elsa wiped her eyes, sniffing. "She was so passionate about animal rights, as well as human rights. She wanted to learn more about the way animals could live within a city, and how the farm could benefit the community."
"And when did you move into together?"
"Pretty soon after we met. Before that she'd been living at her parent's London home." Elsa's voice became a sneer and Jamie sensed the undercurrent of resentment. "You must know of the Nevilles' place in Chelsea. But Jenna had become increasingly angry about the family business and just couldn't live under the same roof as her parents any longer."
Elsa passed Jamie a mug of steaming herbal tea. Jamie took it, then placed it back down on the counter top as she pulled out her notebook.
"Did she tell you any specific details of her work?"
"I know she was looking into the treatment of experimental subjects and tissue usage at the Neville labs." Elsa paused, looking a little guilty. "To be honest, I didn't pay too much attention to the detail. I'm not as – technical – as Jenna, so much of what she told me went over my head."
Jamie nodded. "Did she have a partner?"
A brief flash of anger passed over Elsa's face before she recomposed it into that of the grieving friend. Jamie noted that with interest.
"Rowan Day-Conti," Elsa said. "I guess he's her boyfriend right now. He was actually a friend of mine from way back, we were at Uni together, but he and Jenna have been seeing each other for almost a year now. They're a funny couple though, since he's so mod and she is – was – pretty vanilla." Jamie raised an eyebrow, her look clearly confused as Elsa continued. "You'll know what I mean when you meet Rowan. He indulges in body modification and believes in the use of the body for expression and pleasure. He says it's the ultimate canvas for art. Jenna, on the other hand, was pretty squeamish, despite the detailed investigations she had going into animal experimentation. I know he wanted her to start experimenting more but she wasn't keen. In fact, they had a huge argument only a few nights ago, lots of screaming and banging doors."
Jamie noted that down. "I'll be visiting Mr Day-Conti later today. Is it OK if I see Jenna's room?"
"Of course," Elsa nodded. "I haven't been in there … I was waiting for her mother actually. I thought she might come for Jenna's stuff."
"Were they close, Jenna and her mother?"
Elsa shook her head.
"Not at all. But I thought she'd come since the bitch would want to make sure there was nothing left of the Jenna she disapproved of. You know they do animal experiments at the Nevilles' lab, right?"
"I'd heard something about it," Jamie replied and added a visit to the lab to her list.
Elsa pointed to the stairwell. "Her room's the one on the right at the top of the stairs. I'll let you go up alone if that's OK. Here, take your tea, it's soothing."
Jamie took the pungent brew, and carried it carefully up the stairs. There was a bathroom directly at the top and then two rooms, one to the right and one to the left in a compact, modern design. Jamie ducked into the bathroom and poured most of the tea away, hating the hippy stuff. Give me black coffee any day, she thought, especially on days like these.
Going back out to the hallway, she opened the plain wooden door into Jenna's room, immediately noting the stark poverty of the place, despite the girl's wealthy background. Jenna evidently hadn't brought much with her, and clearly hadn't purchased much since moving in. There was a double futon with a plain white duvet and pillow, neatly made, and a white lampshade on the floor next to the bed. The dominant piece of furniture was an old wooden desk, but not the type of elegant antique you'd expect to find in the bedroom of an heiress. It looked like it had been discarded from a school and left, unwanted, at the back of a charity shop. On it, Jenna's diary and some papers were scattered haphazardly, in contrast to the neatness of the room.
Jamie put on her sterile gloves and opened the diary. It was a slender Filofax, nothing flash, something you could buy in any high street store. She flicked through the pages, but nothing immediately stood out. In fact, it contained very little for a woman who Jamie would have expected to be far more socially active. Perhaps she kept another diary at work or details were on her smart phone, which Missinghall would be processing along with the other evidence. Jamie checked the time and her stomach rumbled on cue. He should be getting back to her with something shortly.
She continued checking the papers, taking some pictures with her smart phone of the pages directly before and after the date of death. The only thing that looked strangely out of place was the word 'Lyceum' occurring this Saturday, in just a few days' time, at 11pm. Jamie wrote it down for follow-up, for there were several Lyceum theaters in London, and the word meant school in Latin, but 11pm was late for either of those possibilities.
Moving the diary, Jamie looked at the papers underneath, finding a sheaf of large artistic photos, beautiful but highly disturbing. A woman's naked torso was displayed in alabaster white, her breasts perfectly shaped, but under the right breast the body had been dissected away to show the internal organs. It was unclear whether the body was an artwork or in fact a real dissection. Jamie shuffled through the pictures and it became clear that Jenna was the model for the work. There was a photo of her lying naked on the futon here in this room, her arms provocatively held above her head. She was beautiful, her body perfectly formed and her smile was that of a lover, her eyes inviting. The digital date in the corner of the shot was only a few months ago, so perhaps the photo had been taken by her boyfriend, Rowan Day-Conti. Jamie snapped a photo of the image and wondered how Jenna had felt about artwork that had been modeled on her body, then turned into a partially anatomized torso instead of the live, warm flesh of a beloved. Was this the source of the couple's recent argument?
Turning back to the room, Jamie went over to the freestanding clothes rack which served as a wardrobe, covered with an opaque plastic sheet to keep the dust off. She unzipped the front and pulled it back to reveal a small selection of clothes. Here was evidence of the heiress who couldn't quite leave it all behind, for there were several designer dresses and jackets in gorgeous fabrics. Jamie felt a tiny pang of longing for dresses like these, that she could dance in like a goddess, but she could never afford them on a police salary.
There was a shopping bag at the bottom of the makeshift wardrobe. Jamie opened it and pulled out a shimmering blue satin sheath dress. It was gorgeous, barely there and yet would hang like a gossamer dream on a body like Jenna's. The price tag was still on it. £2400. Clearly Jenna was still taking an allowance from her parents, Jamie thought, while at the same time becoming an activist against their company. For where else would this kind of money come from?
Next to the bed was a shoebox, simple, plain white. Jamie knelt down to open it. Inside were folic acid supplements, most often taken by women planning on being pregnant or in the early stages of pregnancy. The lab results were still outstanding but this might explain why Jenna's uterus had been removed, Jamie thought. So who was the father? Day-Conti, or someone else? Jamie looked around the room again. Why was the place so empty? Did Jenna really reject everything in favor of this simple life, or was there somewhere else where she kept her personal items? This didn't look like the room of a girl who had lived here for eighteen months, a professional lawyer, an activist, the heiress to a substantial fortune.
Jamie left the room, stopping on the stairs to look down into the living area. Elsa was curled up in a big chair, staring out of the window, her eyes fixed on something outside, her face a picture of Pre-Raphaelite beauty. She looked up as Jamie came down, and there was a hint of flirtation in her eyes, a suggestion of an invitation.
"Did you know Jenna was pregnant?" Jamie asked Elsa, watching for surprise. There was none.
"I wondered, to be honest, because she'd stopped drinking last month. Said she was over the drunken nights, but then she had actually been physically sick as well. Morning sickness, I guess. But she wouldn't talk about it. I did ask her, Detective, but we lived quite separate lives most of the time."
Jamie nodded slowly. "Was she seeing anyone else apart from Day-Conti?"
Elsa looked up, her eyes piercing, showing a level of hurt that was unexpected in a mere flatmate.
"Since we're being honest here, I think she was banging her boss at work, you know, that law firm. Perhaps you should ask him about it."
Jamie came down the stairs completely and knelt by Elsa's chair, intimately close, wanting to elicit her more personal thoughts.
"You loved Jenna, and that hurt you. Am I right?"
Tears welled up in Elsa's eyes, spilling over to run down her cheeks. She nodded.
"When she first moved in here, there was chemistry between us. I know she was bisexual, I've watched her with women at the clubs, and yes, I guess I was dazzled by her perfection. But she was also principled – about the things that matter." She indicated the PETA poster behind her. "We campaigned together, we worked on the farm together, and then she chose Rowan and I would have to listen to them fucking, when it should have been me with her." Her eyes narrowed. "She deserved more than that bastard. All he was interested in was her body, corrupting that perfection into some kind of perverted art. That's all he cares about." She looked down into Jamie's eyes. "You're going to him next, aren't you? Because he was always violent. It turns him on."
Jamie saw the shadows in her eyes. "Did you have a relationship with Day-Conti too?"
Elsa paused, then shrugged.
"Sure, at Uni, years ago but it was a web of intrigue back then and we all fucked each other. It didn't mean much, but he was darker psychologically than the others, he took everything to an extreme. That's when we all started playing with body mod and I got this tattoo." Her hand drifted to the back of her neck. "But Rowan took it much further because he has such a high tolerance for pain and expects others to enjoy it too. You'll know what I mean when you meet him."
Jamie stood, and handed Elsa her card.
"Thank you for your time, and please will you let me know if you think of anything else? That's my mobile number. Call me anytime, really, I want to find who did this to Jenna."
Elsa took the card and brushed Jamie's fingers gently.
"And you know where to find me, Detective, anytime."
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The largest collection of fossil human skeletons ever found in a site has given new information about the origin and evolution of Neanderthals, different species of early humans.
The collection includes seventeen skulls from the Sima de los Huesos cave (Pit of Bones) in northern Spain. Described in the journal Science, a group of early fossil Neanderthal species from last year's 430 thousand or 100 thousand years earlier than previously reported.
The fossil skull shows a face and teeth of Neanderthal man, but not his skull. The combination of these features usually associated with more primitive hominid species.
Examples of fossil skulls support the theory that evolutionary changes arise at different times and not all at once. Research suggests modifications to the face, especially with regard to chewing function, is the first stage in the evolution of Neanderthals.
Juan-Luis Arsuago, lead author and a professor of paleontology at the Complutense University of Madrid was surprised to see the similarities of different individuals. "Other fossils from the same geological period was different and did not fit with the pattern found in the caves of Sima," said Arsuago.


Located in the Jackson Heights Historic District, this large attached house required upgrades and modernization on the interior to create a more fluid open ground floor as well as an updated master bedroom and bathroom suite. The master plan for the house includes work on all three floors as well as minor exterior enhancements. The main goal is to open up the rear of the house to create a large kitchen / dining area for social gatherings and everyday family time and cooking. By removing the existing wall between the kitchen and dining room and placing the kitchen on the opposite side, a very long, elegant unobstructed kitchen counter with appliances will exist along the window wall and be expressed as furniture floating in the space. A new powder room will be added as well as a pantry and desk area. The project will be completed in phases with Phase I scheduled to begin this summer.


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George Eliot's Daniel Deronda and the Graham Handley's description of it
April 7, 2011 By Jake Seliger in Books, Briefly Noted, Critics, Fiction Tags: Daniel Deronda, Fiction, George Eliot, Graham Handley, Literature, Victorian literature Leave a comment
In his introduction to George Eliot's Daniel Deronda, Graham Handley writes:
Yet if all the research and criticism of Daniel Deronda, including scholarly articles of the type which discover but do not evaluate, were put together, a consensus would doubtless reveal that it is generally thought of either as a remarkable failure, a flawed success, or even an aberration unredeemed by incisive insights or distinguished writing. The character of Gwendolen is always praised; those of Mirah, Mordecai, and Daniel are often denigrated.
It is my opinion, as someone who regularly miscegenates evaluation and discovery, that the critical consensus is correct. I particularly like the description of the novel as an "aberration unredeemed by incisive insights or distinguished writing." I'm also still amused that Handley would announce this in the introduction, as if inviting us to agree with the consensus and not his defense.
Reading Handley's defense, it's hard not to like the critical consensus more:
It is my contention that Daniel Deronda needs no apology. [. . .] Its greatness consists in its artistic integrity, its moral and imaginative cohesion, its subtle and consistent presentation of a character with psychological integration as its particular strength, together with what Colvin called the 'sense of universal interests and outside forces.'
Most of those words and phrases don't mean anything on their own. What is "moral and imaginative cohesion?" Do you get it or them with glue and spackle? And how does the "subtle and consistent presentation of a character" work? Those sound like code words for "nothing happens," other than that characters talk to each other about who's going to boff who after they get married or, if we're lucky, before.
The introduction goes on:
The form is fluid and vital, not static and diagrammatic, and the sophisticated and studied use of image and symbol is tremulous with life, with the feelings, responses, and pressures of the individual moral and spiritual experience of fictional character registering with the factual reader.
Spare me "sophisticated and studied use of image and symbol" when they aren't deployed to tell much of a story. "Moral and spiritual experience" sounds remarkable tedious. Once again, with accolades like these, who needs haters?
I will say, however, that Daniel Deronda makes me feel incredibly virtuous for having read it, or at least parts of it. This is more or less true of every novel I've read whose title consists solely of a name.
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The growth of cities in our world are ideal for commerce, culture, productivity, and science. However, they also bring about challenges such as declining infrastructure, pollution, and lack of basic services for many citizens.
SDG #11 aims to create sustainable cities and communities around the globe.


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Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Scott Keller and Mary Meaney for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out other resources, learn more about the firm, obtain subscription information, and register to receive email alerts, please click here.
In the book Leading Organizations, McKinsey senior partners Scott Keller and Mary Meaney address the ten most basic issues facing leaders: attracting and retaining talent, developing the talent you have, managing performance, creating leadership teams, making decisions, reorganizing to capture value quickly, reducing overhead costs for the long term, making culture a competitive advantage, leading transformational change, and transitioning to new leadership roles. This article, drawn from the book's opening chapter, speaks to the first of these topics. Future articles will deal with reorganizing to capture maximum value quickly and with successfully transitioning to new leadership roles.
It's remarkable how much of a productivity kicker an organization gets from top talent. A recent study of more than 600,000 researchers, entertainers, politicians, and athletes found that high performers are 400 percent more productive than average ones. Studies of businesses not only show similar results but also reveal that the gap rises with a job's complexity. In highly complex occupations—the information- and interaction-intensive work of managers, software developers, and the like—high performers are an astounding 800 percent more productive (See Exhibit 1).
You get even more remarkable results comparing the productivity of the top and bottom 1 percent. For unskilled and semiskilled jobs, the top 1 percent are three times more productive; for jobs of middling complexity (say, technicians and supervisors), 12 times more. One person in the top 1 percent is worth 12 in the bottom 1 percent. For high-complexity jobs, the differential is so big it can't be quantified.
The term "war for talent" was coined by McKinsey's Steven Hankin in 1997 and popularized by the book of that name in 2001. It refers to the increasingly fierce competition to attract and retain employees at a time when too few workers are available to replace the baby boomers now departing the workforce in advanced economies.
It was harder to get entry-level work there than to be accepted by Harvard: 2.6 percent of Walmart applicants made it through, as opposed to 6.1 percent for the Ivy League university.
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That some truTV shows are not reality TV but scripted nonsense is no surprise to anyone who has watched them or has heard what the network's executives think about the reality of their programs. But the network has actually admitted that the Jennifer Lopez-produced show South Beach Tow stages scenes–after the production of one of those staged scenes was captured on video.
Radar reports on fascinating video that shows a crew prepping for a scene, including applying a wig to a man who gets it knocked off during a fight. Best of all is someone calling "3, 2, 1" before the action starts, as if this was a scripted show. Oh wait, it is. A few moments later, cameras stop rolling and the guy who was "beaten up" pats the guy who attacked him on the back.
The series, which has aired two seasons so far, is executive produced by Lopez and Bodega Pictures' Joshua Ackerman, who long ago was a member of The New Mickey Mouse Club cast, and Ben Nurick, who worked on MTV's True Life and was previously an actor.


Makurdi – Barely 22 days to the conduct of the Presidential and National Assembly elections in the country, the PDP in Benue has taken its presidential rallies to the villages.
The Coordinator of the Jonathan/Sambo Campaign in the state, Mr Sam Odeh, made this known in an interview in Makurdi on Friday.
Odey said that the essence of the grassroots campaign was to drum support for President Goodluck Jonathan in the election.
He said the campaign organisation was leaving nothing to chance in its efforts to achieve maximum support for the president in his re-election bid in March.
Odeh, a former Minister of state for the Niger Delta, said the party had concluded arrangements for the commencement of its campaign in Katsina-ala, in Benue North-East Senatorial district on Friday.
The coordinator said the rallies would be held in all the senatorial districts of the state before March 28 dateline for the polls.
He appealed to the people of the state to turn out enmasse for the rallies slated in their zones, explaining that party leaders would educate them on the imperative of re-electing the president.
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Some alarmism about alarmism
Posted on December 7, 2015 by biglychee
Are people in danger of freaking out too much about too little?
To take an example: Greenpeace in Hong Kong have a track record of hyped-up scare tactics. In one publicity stunt years back, their activists emerged from a supermarket in full hazmat spacesuits holding a pack of cookies with tongs. The cookies were made with genetically modified soybean – as is half the stuff on the shelves that you've been eating for years. Such theatrics can reduce credibility. The NGO's recent finding of 2-6 nanograms per litre of PFCs in local reservoirs attracted only brief attention and created zero panic. The problem is that if Greenpeace ever discover a genuine imminent danger to public health, no-one will listen.
Which brings us to two supposed present threats to Hong Kong's freedoms: copyright amendment legislation, and the stationing of Chinese border-control facilities within the city.
The 'Internet Article 23' copyright amendment sounds like it's being pushed by the Chinese Communist Party, but the main driving force is the US and its entertainment industry. The intention is not to silence anti-government voices but to protect Hollywood's profits; that said, the law could in theory be used selectively for political reasons. Moderate pro-democrats, mostly lawyers who are respectful of both copyright and the US, are in an awkward position but have pushed for 'fair use' safeguards (thus 'singing a celebrity's song seriously with no hilarious or news critique purposes and uploading it to YouTube may be illegal'). Radicals, on the other hand, spy an opportunity for a filibuster as an end in itself.
Around 10 years ago, everyone had to start filling in forms and keeping count of how often they photocopied extracts from books and newspapers. Within weeks, the obsessive compliance silliness came to an end (maybe they still do it in universities), but no-one told the Intellectual Property lobby, and that was the end of that. This looks similar, especially in terms of enforceability.
A real threat to Hong Kong would be any sort of move towards Mainland-style Internet-filtering. This copyright amendment may be worth opposing for whatever anarcho-libertarian or anti-Mouse reasons, but portraying it as the Big Internet Clampdown is misleading.
Similarly, the location of Mainland immigration on the Hong Kong side of the border (at the high-speed rail terminus) is not in and of itself worth too much mouth-frothing. I've been through US immigration while departing airports in Montreal, Nassau and Bermuda, and anyone on the Eurostar to Paris goes through French immigration at the station in London. It just makes sense in terms of positioning the facilities.
This doesn't mean the high-speed rail is a worthwhile project; it remains a humungous waste of public funds. Nor does it mean that Justice Secretary Rimsky Yuen should be believed the other 99% of the time. There is probably a nuanced thin-end-of-wedge argument against the border-control plan; Beijing would no doubt relish the symbolism of it (which seems to be the whole point of the rail link). And anything that complicates the white-elephant monstrosity can't be all bad. But to claim that this specific proposal means jack-booted militia patrolling the streets is misleading.
In both cases, it's about proportion and priorities and not getting distracted or blinded by the obvious untrustworthiness of the government. The more you freak out about these sideshows – copyright and immigration minutiae – the less capacity you will have to alarm and alert people when a genuinely/more-serious menace to Hong Kong's freedom comes along. And you can be sure it will. Meanwhile, here's Tammy Tam panicking that a particular method of blacklisting job-applicants for insufficient loyalty to the Communists might backfire.
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Greenpeace, like similar charities, relies on a never-ending stream of donations to keep their outfit going. So every now and then they have to "make headlines" to let their benefactors know that they are still alive and relevant. When they send a boatload of unattractive wimmin and cardigan hippies to the Arctic to protest against baby seals, somebody has to foot the bill. In Hong Kong we have something called 'Vision First'. It sounds like an optical shop but they too are a 'charity', supporting 'refugees' from Pakistan and such. Like you, I can't think of a better way to spend my money. But what you are really paying for is the office rent, the salary and the mortgage of the guy who runs this little scam (I think his name is Cosmo Beatson). So keep giving.
Enid Fenby says:
We need genetically-modified taxi drivers.
CY Leung makes me alarmist and I can only hope that we get to hear "for the sake of my family" speech early 2017 – they all seem barking anyway. So the Pro-Dem's are right to be vigilant. However scrapping amongst themselves and further splintering is only going to cause the loss of the legislative veto and the inevitable nightmare of Prefect Carrie's democracy masterpiece being dusted off. On the face of it joint border crossings and internet copyright tweaks seem harmless but then so did the MPF and Raphael Hui.
dimuendo says:
Why cannot (joint ) immigration facilities be at the mainland end?
In part am sure will influence liability etc. Thus if there is an accident/incident on the train while still in HK but after passengers have gone though mainland immigration in HK then mainland will claim jurisdiction. Am sometimes jaundiced about HK courts but much better than mainland.
PCC says:
Like all right-minded people, I'm also against baby seals.
Spud says:
Here is a story for those who like irony. You see all these spam posters everywhere advertising some sort of HK Intellectual Property exchange? I know a guy who pitched the idea to the HK Gov/TDC who promptly turned him down only to copy the idea and launch their own platform.
@dimuendo: Because there is only one station in HK. Makes sense that everybody goes through Chinese and HK immigration in Kowloon instead of building border facilities at every stop on the Chinese side.
LRE says:
The very fact you need to pass immigration gives the lie to the whole "one country, two systems" nonsense.
Hemmers points out he's "been through US immigration while departing airports in Montreal, Nassau and Bermuda". But has he ever been through US immigration while flying from one US city to another in the US? I'm guessing not.
De facto, it is "two countries, one system" and the "one system" bit is looking rather more shaky as this rather different reality dawns on more and more people.
FOARP says:
The Tammy Tam article truly is sickening: it's like she believes the fact that black-listing of people from gainful employment turning folk against the government is a mere wrinkle in an otherwise-perfect system. No Tammy! Bad shill! It's the entire nature of the system! If you black-list people based on their political views, you're already way past the point of caring about back-lash and into dictatorship-territory.
tim hamlett says:
It is true that you can go through American immigration in overseas airports, French immigration in St Pancras station, etc. Similarly there would be no problem if people going to China went through Chinese Immigration in Kowloon. The only power which the Chinese officials would then exercise would be the right to prevent people from getting on the train. The problem arises with people coming in the other direction. Once they cross the boundary they are in Hong Kong. What then happens if the Chinese Immigration people decide that they should not be allowed to leave China? Are said Chinese officials allowed to arrest the would-be migrant and force him back onto a train — with a special custodial carriage for this purpose, perhaps? The right to board a cross-border train is a small thing. The right not to be bundled off to a territory where you can be tortured, detained without trial or tried without basic protections, is another matter. Do we want to have that happening in Hong Kong? This is surely not a trivial question
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Being the superhero fan that I am, this summer's blockbusters are exciting and fun surges of imagination and pure exhilaration.
I've always admired the complexity of each character as they show the many sides of their strengths and weaknesses, whether they are operating as masked vigilantes or as their alter ego. My interests in bold heroes that save the world started at a very young age. I can still remember sitting in my first-grade class and having little Tommy (not his real name) tell me I wasn't allowed to watch Spider-Man, Voltron or He-Man because I was a girl. Needless to say, the conversation did not end well for Tommy. I can also tell you my son has inherited this love affair with superheroes. I watch him leap off of furniture and dive fearlessly into the abyss of toys in his room as if the only thing that matters is saving his favorite toy, and I love it.
This is the ability to detect danger as it begins to close in on the project. Team members who possess this power are highly vigilant and sensitive to the project environment. These project members have a heightened sensitivity to their department or project positions needs, and provide information that allows the project manager to adjust the projects control levels. Finance and accounting team members often possess this power and are able to foresee budget stress/conflicts before they hit the project.
This is the ability to see global organization needs clearly when departments are "in the dark" or unable to see their individual needs. Team members who possess this power see beyond the current state of a department/organization, and see what will help the organization in progressing and supporting the new project initiative. Information Technology (IT) team members tend to possess this power and are able to suggest technology that will support infrastructure that will grow and sustain programs.
As the title sounds, this is the ability to travel back in time (I have yet to find a team member who can travel to the future and tell us the outcome). Team members who possess this power have been in the organization for a number of years and have a great understanding of culture, leadership and previous projects. All of which is extremely valuable to any current project. They bring an immense amount of knowledge, skepticism (not always a bad thing), experience and often persuasion as well.
This ability in the project world isn't about mind control, but rather the ability to assist in marketing the project with leadership and amongst the team. These team members rally behind the project and bring enthusiasm, passion and positivity. This is a valuable power because let's face it, projects often bring change, and change is rarely easy to execute.
This is the ability to devote large quantities of time and multiple talents to the project. Team members who possess this power are skilled in many areas and can step up during times of project duress, or when other team members are pulled away from the project due to multiple conflicting project responsibilities. They can be thought of as "floaters" at times because they can be placed in many positions on the team and have the skills and strength to perform at a very high level.
The above of course is not an exhaustive list of project superpowers, but they are great ones to keep in mind when building your team. What's your project superpower?


In this interview we speak to the current uklibchat team (minus Siobhan McGuinness). The interview includes background info on the team, their proudest achievements and recommendations of other networks/groups/sites/podcasts that might be of interest to new professionals.
Can you tell us a bit about your background? How did you first become involved in the library and information profession?
Ellie Downes: I really went in what seems to be the classic route into the library and information professions; after completing a BA in English Literature, I didn't know what to do, and panic-applied to everything under the sun, including a Graduate Traineeship in my university's Information Services team.
Gaby Koenig: I went to libraries every week as a child and at the end of primary school I was a prefect librarian! At secondary school the school library was my haven from bullying and other sad teen stuff. I didn't really think about libraries as a career till I'd finished uni, pottered about doing temping in offices and failed at teacher training. Once I got the idea I was all in! Job in a public library, and Masters at UCL!
Annie Gleeson: I did a music degree at Nottingham University and took a job in the department library to earn a bit of money while I was a student. I discovered that I loved helping people find what they needed, so applied for library graduate trainee positions when I left university. I ended up at the University of Cambridge where I've worked at a variety of libraries over the last 7 years.
David Bennett: After volunteering and working at Hereford Sixth Form College, I found myself regularly helping my fellow students find information access resources at University, where the Science Library became my second home. After graduating, I worked briefly at Hereford Sixth Form College before completing a graduate traineeship at the hybrid HE/NHS Oxford University Health Care Libraries, completing a Masters degree at Loughborough University, returning home to temp again, this time at Worcester College of Technology, before finally settling in at the University of Portsmouth.
Tell us about your network, who is it aimed at and what is its purpose?
GK: #uklibchat is for anyone who works in libraries or information services, and people are also welcome to participate if they are just interested in libraries too. People can participate at any point in their career from students through to experienced workers post retirement if they wish! Our aim is to create a platform where LIS people can interact with each other, share ideas and learn from each other.
DB: #uklibchat brings together library, information and knowledge management experts from around the world to share insights, contacts, knowledge, experience and resources. Participants and observers also benefit from the wisdom of crowds, as possible future directions for library leadership and problem solving are mulled over in a shared egalitarian platform.
What prompted you to create/join the network?
GK: I joined in with my first #uklibchat because of an article in CILIPs magazine I think, and, after a while I just kind of thought it would be good to get involved in the group!
DB: I was looking for an opportunity to broaden my professional portfolio and identified chairing #uklibchat and drawing together sometimes passionate and wide-ranging debates over a remote, text based medium as being very far from anything I had ever done before, while still offering me an opportunity to apply my design skills and marketing mindset in a new environment.
ED: I'm the latest member of the team, and I had taken part in a few chats before the call went out for new members. I find Twitter a really easy way to communicate, and thought it would be a good CPD activity for me to go into, especially as I'm fairly new to the profession.
What are your proudest achievements connected to the network?
DB: My most satisfying moment was during the joint chat with CILIP. I proposed CILIP might certify or even commission open access MOOCs from library schools to offer a structured online pathway to academic training and assessment, one that could work alongside workplace apprenticeships as an alternative to existing CILIP qualifications. The idea was embraced by CILIP and taken away for further consideration.
AG: I still can hardly believe that we've been running for 7 years! A highlight for me was the #uklibchat session about LIS qualifications that we hosted at Library Camp London in 2013. This was a combined offline & online discussion – we were live-tweeting from the session so that people could participate from all over the UK, and we had our Twitter feed up on a big screen so that people at the event could see the discussion that was simultaneously taking place online. It was a lot of fun.
What do you hope to achieve in the future/what are your plans for the future?
ED: We're experimenting with timings of chats, some of our feedback has been that people would like chats during the day, as well as evening chats so that people with commitments in the evening, or would prefer to keep their CPD activities in working hours, can participate.
GK: We would like to grow our team – we're quite small in number, and to do a few more lunch time chats since our first one went so well!
DB: As Gaby says, we want to expand the team and collaborate more often and more widely with any groups and organisations crazy enough to jump into the Twitter stream and splash around with us!
How has the network helped with your professional development?
DB: Chairing meetings taught me to combine diplomacy and assertiveness. I can also now reliably proofread content at near speed reading speeds, reply to comments appropriately from different Twitter accounts, and keep an online chat on topic as Chair. Some chats also gave me eye-opening insights into topics I knew little about, and I have discovered a few role models to whose terrifying capacity and productivity levels I now aspire!
GK: I tend to switch off from work after my hours are over for the day and #uklibchat got me involved with other LIS types, I learn a lot from any chat I participate in and increase my understanding of what people are doing.
ED: It's been really great, I'm a bit awkward when first meeting people but I've now met a few people in person after having spoken on Twitter, and it's made it a lot easier for me to network. It's also helped me gain a wider perspective of the profession, once you work in one sector it's quite easy to get tunnel vision, but we get people chatting across the sectors, Public Libraries, HE, FE, Health Libraries, etc, so that's been really valuable.
What advice would you give to new professionals?
GK: It can be a tough market out there, look at what interests you and think wider than the traditional places like Higher Ed and Public Libraries. You can find libraries in Law Firms, Charities and large businesses. There can be libraries connected to museums, sometimes the army and more. Plus there's a wide range of Info Pro work that could be anywhere.
DB: Do what you are good at and enjoy. Every job in librarianship is pretty much what you make of it, so you might as well make it your own and make something good happen that gives you satisfaction.
The information profession is diverse and has no clear career structure. It rewards those who create opportunities for themselves and keep their ongoing development plans in mind, who are prepared to embark on projects that extend their role and gain new competencies or change role to experience something new. Your role should not define you: you should redefine your role and extend your skill set and knowledge base to achieve whatever you believe is needed. Changing job, sector and even career trajectory when opportunity knocks is not to be feared.
AG: Apply for bursaries and small grants funds! There are often far fewer applicants for these than you might think.
Lastly, can you recommend any other networks/groups/sites/podcasts that might be of interest to new professionals?
ED: Personally I really enjoy the Librarians with Lives podcast by Jo Wood, it's quite easy listening but still makes you think and shares a wide range of experience, and can inform you on sectors of librarianship.
GK: There are some great Special Interest Groups available from CILIP. It's worth keeping an eye on what your local groups are up to. I still love www.teenlibrarian.co.uk even though I don't work as much with Teens. It's a great resource and it has a monthly newsletter!
DB: For new professionals, the CILIP Career Development Group, New Professionals Group, and Library and Information Research Group are the most directly relevant. Each sector has specialist groups that you might consider joining depending on what interests you. If you are interested in anything even vaguely intranet or web related, you should seriously consider joining the CILIP UKeiG and ILIG special interest groups. Both offer a variety of affordable courses covering topics relevant to just about everyone in the profession. For anyone interested in the organisation and management of information, ISKO, the UDC Consortium, and the CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group (famed for their fantastic conferences) offer invaluable resources and professional networks spanning all levels of the profession. If teaching is your passion, the LILAC Conference is second to none.
AG: Look out for any local groups you can get involved in – for those in the South East I can recommend the London Information and Knowledge Exchange, Cambridge Library Group and CILIP East.
This entry was posted on March 11, 2019 by NLPN in Network/group/podcast interview series and tagged #uklibchat, CILIP, co-founders, CPD, founder, new professionals.