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Donald Lawrence & The Tri-City – 'Deliver Me' ft. Le'Andria Johnson
SON January 8, 2019
Grammy Award-winning artist Donald Lawrence releases new single with The Tri-City Singers, "Deliver Me (This Is My Exodus)" featuring Le'Andria Johnson.
Produced by Donald Lawrence, the liberating new anthem is a declaration of faith to break away from past binds. The song is inspired by the Biblical exodus of the Israelites from Egypt via God's hands.
"Some people's actions are NOT because they are bad people but due hurt,abuse,molestation,depression LIFE has left a "hole" in their soul" said Donald. "Let's enter 2019 knowing God is a restorer of souls, He's come to heal the hole in your souls. No longer will YOU be held captive by the shadows of your past, Lawrence wrote on Instagram has he introduced the single"
Deliver Me (This Is My Exodus) is the latest release from Lawrence's upcoming new album Goshen, which also hails his reunion with the original Tri-City Singers. Available now to stream/download all digital outlets worldwide.
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The Donnell's decision to remodel their Belleville, IL home was motivated by the need to open the kitchen to the breakfast room and living room, creating an open floorplan. The first challenge of this project was the wall that the family wanted to remove, to open the space, was load bearing so the weight from the roof needed to be redistributed, with additional framing in the attic. Design features for the kitchen included replacing the current island with a slightly larger one, which was custom made to include a built-in microwave cabinet with lower drawer, deco end panels, and two tapered, elegant legs. The design also used Aristokraft Van Wyke cabinetry, Cambria Berwyn Quartz countertops, and flooring to match the existing hard woods. Another feature of the kitchen is a custom built-in hutch with glass doors and LED interior lighting. Electrical upgrades included a new Breakfast room light fixture, under cabinet lights controlled by a dimmer wall switch, and eleven recessed can lights. Other features that set this kitchen apart were the white tile backsplash laid in a brick pattern, crown molding on the ceiling, and a free-hanging decorative stainless-steel range hood. The light-colored cabinetry, backsplash, and countertop produce an open feel to the space and create a relaxing atmosphere in the heart of the Donnell's home.


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Ravens hold off Bills, clinch playoff berth
Baltimore extends its winning streak to nine and moves closer to earning the No. 1 seed in the AFC playoffs.
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — Coach John Harbaugh happily discovered it's going to take more than clinching a second consecutive playoff berth to impress Lamar Jackson and the Baltimore Ravens.
Whether it's the sign of a team stinging from the memories of last year's AFC wild-card playoff loss to the Los Angeles Chargers, or simply the fact that there are three games left in the season, Harbaugh didn't see many signs of celebration after the Ravens became the conference's first team to secure a postseason berth following a 24-17 win over the Buffalo Bills on Sunday.
"I tried to make a big deal out of it in the locker room, and the guys kind of gave me a smattering of applause," said Harbaugh, who led Baltimore to its eighth playoff berth in his 12 seasons. "They've expected that and I think they earned the right to expect that."
Jackson wasn't all too impressed with the accomplishment, calling it "pretty cool," and yet he appreciated the playoff-like test the Bills presented in a matchup of winning teams.
"Both teams coming out and trying to prove themselves and (the Bills) did that," said Jackson. "But we ended up coming out on top."
Baltimore extended its franchise-best winning streak to nine straight and improved to 11-2, its best record through 13 games in team history.
Buffalo (9-4) had a three-game winning streak snapped. Despite the loss, the Bills are still in control of their playoff future as they continue to hold down the first of the AFC's two wild-card spots.
"I'm frustrated by the loss," rookie defensive tackle Ed Oliver sad. "Forget hanging with the team. If we wanted to just hang with the team, we could lose every game. But ultimately, we're here to win and that's the most frustrating part."
Jackson finished 16 of 25 for 145 yards passing with three touchdowns and an interception in a game when the Ravens' bulldozing offense was mostly held in check. Baltimore was held to a season-low 257 yards.
With 40 yards rushing, Jackson upped his total to 1,017, which is 23 short of breaking the single-season record for quarterbacks set by Michael Vick in 2006.
What defined Jackson was his ability to overcome the Bills blanketing his favorite target, rookie Marquise Brown, who was held to three catches for minus-2 yards.
Jackson creatively found other targets to counter Buffalo's otherwise swarming defense.
With his running lane to the end zone blocked on third-and-goal from the 3, Jackson pulled up and lobbed a pass over a defender to tight end Nick Boyle to put Baltimore up 10-0.
Three plays into the third quarter, Jackson found tight end Hayden Hurst breaking free past safety Jordan Poyer for a 61-yard catch and run. And Jackson appeared to break the game open 5 1/2 minutes into the fourth quarter in putting Baltimore up 24-9 by sprinting to his right and then throwing across his body to hit Willie Snead for a 2-yard touchdown.
"I though Lamar played with great poise," Harbaugh said. "He just has so much self-awareness to extend the play and find an open player."
The Bills otherwise shut down an offense that entered the game threatening to become the NFL's first to finish a season averaging 200 yards rushing and passing.
Buffalo's Josh Allen-led offense didn't wilt after showing signs of developing an identity in attempting to win 10 games in a season for the first time since 1999.
With his team trailing 24-9, Allen showed resolve in mounting a seven-play, 78-yard touchdown drive, capped by his 3-yard pass to Cole Beasley, who dived inside the left pylon. The same two then hooked up on a 2-point conversion.
And yet the Bills lacked finish in settling for three field goals and a punt on four consecutive drives into Baltimore territory spanning halftime.
Buffalo also fell short with a chance to at least force overtime, despite benefiting from two personal fouls and a pass interference penalty called against Baltimore on the Bills' final drive.
Facing fourth-and-8 at the Baltimore 16, Allen stood in the pocket and sent a pass over the middle intended for John Brown, only to have cornerback Marcus Peters break it up at the goal line.
"I have to make more plays. I should've made that last play," Brown said.
Allen finished 17 of 39 for 146 yards with a lost fumble and was sacked a season-high six times.
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During one Sunday night near Christmas 1917, a new arrival to the Home caused a quite a commotion. Upon entering the Home, the new resident immediately flew upstairs and hid in the chimney place. Eventually they coaxed the trouble-maker out, only to find that it was not a child but the cat they had asked for to keep the mice down!
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Putting Black history into the mainstream of society
LSE alumna Dawn Hill CBE
Dawn Hill CBE (DSA Social Policy & Administration 1973, DPM Industrial Relations 1974), Senior Registered Nurse, and Chartered MCIPD, has a long career in industrial relations, organisational development and human resource management within the health, education and charity sectors. She became the Chair of the Black Cultural Archives in 2012, an organisation she has been championing since the 1980s. Dawn received a Points of Light award for her voluntary work in 2017 and a CBE in the 2018 New Year's Honours for services to Culture.
My early career as a nurse
"My aunt and uncle sent me from Jamaica to the UK in September 1956, aged 17, as a recruit to the pre-nursing Cadet Scheme at Leicester General Hospital. I attended Leicester College – now DeMontfort University – for a year, and then went on to the hospital nursing school. I qualified as a State Registered Nurse in December 1960.
I loved working in the operating theatres, an interest that directed the rest of my nursing career. I worked as a theatre nurse in various London hospitals during the 60s, including London Chest Hospital and at the famous National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery. In 1968, I joined the Wittington Hospital North London as Superintendent of the Neurosurgical theatres but left within two years after lodging a grievance about the grading of my post. This was the first time I experienced "a clash with the powers". My last post as Senior Theatre Sister in Neurosurgery was at the Brook General Hospital.
Many nurses were leaving at the time because of the introduction of the Salmon Senior Nursing Staff Structure, which caused considerable controversy and debate. I loved the work I chose to do as a nurse in the NHS. However, after the poor treatment experienced over my grading, I felt I had to do something to change the way staff were treated, and how pay grades in hospitals were determined. That is what led me to LSE."
Dawn Hill in her nursing uniform during the 1960s
LSE and me
"Many well-known people from Jamaica, like former Prime Minister Michael Manley (BSc Government 1949), had been students at LSE. The School had a great reputation, so I decided to apply.
I joined LSE in 1971 as a mature student of Social Administration and Policy under Professor Abel Smith, and in 1974 I took a postgraduate course in Personnel Management under the inimitable Baroness Lady Nancy Sear.
It took less than a day for LSE to change my life. That first morning at Freshers' Week a young man with fair Afro hair came and sat beside me. We joined the African Society and became friends. He later became my husband in 1974 for 40 years, sadly now deceased.
LSE students in the 70s were known to be radical, and demonstrated about many social and political issues. The Bloody Sunday incident in January 1972 sparked such a protest that I got arrested in the Strand for disobeying police orders.Thankfully LSE paid my fine.
One of my most memorable moments at the School was attending Professor Richard Titmuss's final lecture, on his book The Gift Relationship – everyone was crying at the end. I still have my copy of his book. His theories on who benefits from the raft of social policies governments impose on society still reverberate today.
My years at LSE were very interesting, I had a great time, and I loved the many social interactions that being a student in London afforded. It has shaped my career professionally and the voluntary work I have undertaken over more than four decades since."
Students working in a social administration study room during 1973
Serving local communities
"While still at LSE, I took a summer placement with the brief to put in order a Youth Centre in Liverpool Road, London, which was mainly used by the poorer families in the neighbourhood. What I found was alarming. Every afternoon babies and toddlers would be brought in by their older siblings, as there was nowhere else for them to go but the Youth Centre. So, I did some research into the families' needs, launched a consultation, got supporters together and looked for funding.
As a result, we founded Rainbow Community Nursery in Hackney in 1973. The nursery opened from 8am-6.30pm to provide wrap-around nursery care for working parents. This was a clear example of putting Social Administration and Policy into practice to serve the needs of the community. And it remains the flagship not-for-profit nursery in Hackney to this day.
I've always been committed to volunteering for the community. I've been a Non-Executive Director at Guy's and St. Thomas's Hospital Trust, a Governor at the Evelina London Children's Hospital School, and a Trustee of the Mary Seacole Memorial Statue Appeal. I am immensely proud of the Statue of Mary Seacole erected at St Thomas' Hospital, the first statue of a named black woman in the UK. In 1989 I co-founded Blackliners – the first HIV Aids organisation for Black people. And I am now President of the Mary Seacole Trust and Chair of Black Cultural Archives."
Celebrating Black contributions to society
"After graduating from LSE, I worked as a Senior Personnel Officer in Hackney Hospitals. I was the only qualified Black woman working in HR that I knew of, and I had a rough time. At my first board meeting I was the only woman, and the first Black woman to attend at that level.
I had to implement the 1971 Industrial Relations Act, which was repealed by the Trade Union and Labour Relations Act 1974. This was an arduous task, but I did manage to put many Black nursing staff back on the right pay scale. I also established new staff policies and managed personnel matters attached to the closure of four hospitals.
I have been involved with Black Cultural Archives (BCA) since its origins, working in the early years with co-founder and activist Len Garrison. BCA based in an iconic building at 1 Windrush Square Brixton, it is the home of British Black history and culture, the only such repository in the UK. Our mission is to promote, educate and celebrate the living experience of people of African and Caribbean communities in the UK, and their tremendous contributions to society. Putting it simply, the history of Black people in Britain is British history, and we seek to bring that history into the mainstream of society for the benefit of all British people.
We're living through exciting times. Black Lives Matter is a welcome movement and I do believe that change is happening. We should all look forward to the day when the history of Black people in Britain is widely known, and a source of great pride and inspiration for everyone, regardless of their background."
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Pepsi stock or Coke stock: Which soda should you invest in?
Ramon Laguarta will replace Pepsi CEO Indra Nooyi on Oct. 3, 2018.
Pepsi increased its revenue under Nooyi, though Coke was paying out more dividends as of April 2017.
Both companies might be affected by a decline in soda consumption.
Pepsi and Coke have both been providing sugary sweet beverages to consumers for over a century while drawing battle lines at the soda fountain. But the Coke vs. Pepsi debate doesn't just apply to the supermarket — the brands are also rivals in the stock market. Coke stock — and the beverage itself — might be a favorite of investing wunderkind Warren Buffett — Berkshire Hathaway held a 9.4 percent stake in the Coca-Cola Company, The Motley Fool reported in March 2017 — but Pepsi is the bigger company.
PepsiCo announced on Aug. 6, 2018 that Pepsi CEO Indra Nooyi will step down from her position after 24 years with the company, and after being its first woman CEO. She will be replaced by Ramon Laguarta, who has overseen global operations and public policy for the company. How will this shake-up affect Pepsi stock, and what does that mean for its rival? Read on to get an overview of what investing in either company might mean for your portfolio.
All information on 52-week range is accurate as of Aug. 6, 2018.
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One of the most reliable gauges for what a company is really worth is market capitalization, or market cap for short. The market cap is the value of all of the company's stock combined, giving you a sense of what value investors are placing on the company based on the price it is trading at.
Although market cap gives you a clear sense of what the market values a company at, it's based entirely on market sentiment — essentially reflecting the ever-changing opinions of investors — and it changes from hour to hour. The GOBankingRates Evaluation, however, calculates a company's net worth based solely on measurable figures like assets and revenue. It's a more conservative valuation taking into account only full-year profits and revenue from the last three years and the company's assets and debts.
Based solely on both companies' revenue and profits from the last three years, Pepsi is worth around $70 billion, whereas Coke is worth just over $2 billion.
Pepsi has flourished under Nooyi's leadership. Net revenue between 2006 to 2017 has increased from $35 billion to $63.5 billion, a compound growth rate of 5.5 percent per year. For shareholders, this means dividends have almost tripled from $1.16 to $3.17 between 2006 and 2017. Nooyi was also responsible for Pepsi's foray into the world of snacks, which has helped expand the company's portfolio. PepsiCo stock price has been trending upward since 2014, despite a sharp drop in mid-2018 that has since been correcting itself.
Coca-Cola enjoys the backing of Warren Buffett, and has enjoyed a compound annual growth of 3.7 percent over the last decade. Coke appears to be less of a diverse investment than Pepsi, which also has the snack market covered under Frito-Lay. This might present a problem for the beverage giant, as soda consumption fell between 2003 and 2014, according to a November 2017 press release from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. On the other hand, Coke was paying out more dividends than Pepsi, The Motley Fool reported in April 2017. Also, while the decline of pop will likely affect both companies and Coca-Cola stock, Pepsi is generating more revenue money-wise. Pepsi profits actually decreased by about $1.47 billion between 2016 and 2017. With Coke poised to raise its soda prices, however, time will tell if personal health beats out market expectations.
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Methodology: The GOBankingRates Evaluation assesses a company's net worth based on the company's total assets, total liabilities, and revenue and net income from the last three years. Base value is established by subtracting total liabilities from total assets from the company's last full fiscal year. Income value is established by taking the average of the revenue from the last three full fiscal years, 10 times the average of the net profits from the last three full fiscal years, and then calculating the average of those two figures. The final GOBankingRates Evaluation number is the sum of the base value and the income value.
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Delhiites wake up to pleasant weather as cool winds bring respite from heat, light rains likely
Several parts of the country continued to struggle under intense heatwave conditions with Patna recording its highest maximum temperature in 10 years.
Delhi weather turns pleasant
Delhi woke up to a pleasant weather Sunday morning as cool winds brought down the mercury and provided relief from the scorching heat. Light rains are predicted at most places in the national capital.
The minimum temperature on Sunday settled at 28 degrees Celsius, normal for the season. The heat was lessened due to a trace rain reported in the last 24 hours, accompanied by a strong breeze in the morning, a Meteorological (MeT) department officer said.
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Sweltering heat persisted in Delhi on Saturday with the city experienced a maximum temperature of 43.4 degrees Celsius, four notches above the season's average. The meteorological department had, however, forecast dust storm and very light rains in the national capital on Sunday.
Several parts of the country continued to struggle under intense heatwave conditions with Patna recording its highest maximum temperature in 10 years, though there may be some respite in the northern states by Sunday evening as dust storms and rains have been forecast.
Some places in Rajasthan received light rain, bringing respite from the sweltering heat, even as Churu recorded the state's highest maximum temperature of 45.8 degrees Celsius.
Sri Ganganagar recorded a high of 44.5 degrees Celsius, followed by Bikaner (42.6 degrees) and Jaisalmer (42 degrees). The weather department has predicted light to moderate rainfall in isolated places of the desert state till Sunday.
The maximum temperature in Uttar Pradesh's Allahabad was 47.4 degrees Celsius, followed by Sultanpur at 46.4 degrees, nine notches above normal.
The Bihar government has ordered the closure of said all schools in Patna till Wednesday in view of the heatwave conditions for the past several days. The state capital on Saturday recorded its highest maximum temperature in 10 years at 45.8 degrees Celsius, nine degrees above normal.
Sweltering heat continued unabated in Odisha too, with the temperature soaring above the 40-degree mark in at least eight places. Titlagarh and Malkangiri were the hottest places in the state with the mercury touching 43 degrees Celsius.
Meanwhile in Gujarat, a weakened Cyclone Vayu is likely to reach coastal Saurashtra and Kutch as a depression by Monday evening, the India Meteorological Department said.
The entire state received scattered rainfall Saturday due to the cyclone, with Sutrapada taluka of Gir Somnath receiving 108 mm of rain till Saturday morning, while Talala in the same district getting 102 mm of rain.
At 43.4 degrees Celsius, Una continued to be the hottest place in Himachal Pradesh, where the weatherman has forecast thunderstorm accompanied with hailstorm in several parts of the state for the next three days.
Bhiwani in Haryana recorded a maximum temperature of 44.1 degrees Celsius, followed by Hisar at 44 degrees Celsius.
Chandigarh recorded a maximum of 42.6 degrees Celsius, four notches above normal.
The maximum temperature in Punjab's Amritsar was 42.3 degrees Celsius, while Patiala and Ludhiana recorded 43.9 degrees and 43.3 degrees Celsius, respectively.
The weather department has forecast dust storm accompanied by lightening at isolated places in both the states in the next 24 hours.
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The Façade Improvement Grant Program was developed to enhance the historic character of our downtown district through awarding grants to projects that improve and preserve the exteriors of existing historic buildings within the DDA district. Properties located within the legal boundary of Alpena's downtown district engaging in retail, commercial, entertainment or office services shall be deemed eligible for grant requests. Projects must be approved by the DDA Design Committee.
The DDA façade grants programs will award grants under the program in any amount requested from a minimum award of $500.00 up to a maximum award of $ 5,000.00. Applicants for a grant must provide a matching amount to their grant request based on a dollar for dollar basis. An applicant's proposed improvement project total can exceed $ 10,000.00; however the DDA's participation will still be limited to a maximum amount of $5,000.00.
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Thomasville woman survives after being hit by Amtrak train
Published 12:00 am Tuesday, November 12, 2013
THOMASVILLE (AP) — Police in Thomasville say a woman has survived being struck by an Amtrak train traveling through town.
A statement from police says Tilwanna Sherri Moss, 42, was taken to High Point Regional UNC Health Care Tuesday for a fractured leg.
According to police, witnesses saw a woman attempting to cross the railroad tracks just after 2 p.m. even as the light signals were flashing and the crossing gates were lowered.
Paramedics found the woman conscious and alert sitting in the street. Police said it appears the train barely brushed the woman as she was trying cross the tracks.
The Amtrak train was traveling at almost 80 mph as it passed through the intersection on it way to Raleigh from Charlotte.


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Gunman Who Barricaded Himself In Phoenix Hospital Now In Custody
By Alan
December 9, 2013 9:10 am - NewsBehavingBadly.com
Our gun culture once again brings a story unfit for a civilized society. Police negotiated Monday morning with a gunman who is locked inside a Phoenix hospital who is now in custody.
Phoenix Police Sgt. Trent Crump said the suspect was contained in a bathroom inside Phoenix Baptist Hospital's emergency room early Monday morning. He was taken into custody following negotiations with a SWAT team.
Crump said the man, who is believed to be in his 40s, entered the hospital around 2 a.m. local time, Fox 10 News reports.
Crump said the suspect brandished a knife as police approached him. Authorities were able to remove the knife from the man, but he then pulled out a gun. The man ran into a bathroom inside the hospital's emergency room and locked himself in.
All emergency room workers were evacuated and there were no patients there when the man entered the area, CBS 5 reports. Police told the station that the man was acting strangely when he entered the building.


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Infosys is crowdsourcing employee feedback to improve its managers
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Watching each other.
By Ananya Bhattacharya
Tech reporter
Published November 13, 2018 This article is more than 2 years old.
The work culture at India's large corporates, especially in the technology industry, has often been criticised for being toxic and demoralising.
It's particularly hard for the junior employees, whose concerns often go unheard. "They lack vision, will throw you under the bus if things go south, lack mentorship skills and are (sic) will preach BS philosophies that will take you nowhere," one Amazon employee said about Indian managers on Blind, an anonymous social network for professionals.
But times are changing.
In recent years, Indian firms have taken a "360-degree" approach to gathering feedback on employees. This means that instead of the age-old practice of seniors reviewing juniors, now even subordinates are encouraged to give feedback on their managers.
Already, companies like electronics major Havells, the consumer goods major Hindustan Unilever, and the State Bank of India have adopted such systems. Now, India's $150 billion IT outsourcing industry is starting to take a leaf out of their book, and even taking the practice a notch higher.
For instance, the country's second-largest IT services company, Infosys, has developed a digital crowdsourcing platform called Manager Quotient (MaQ) to collect feedback on managers in order to hold them more accountable and make life smoother for lower-level staff.
Using an online platform betters the "frequency, ease, and measurement of this feedback," said Kamal Dutta, managing director, India, for the US-based online learning platform Skillsoft.
The brainchild of Nandini S, senior vice president and group head of organisation development, human resources, at Infosys, MaQ helps managers self-evaluate on an on-going basis.
The MaQ dashboard
The MaQ dashboard crowdsources a team's feedback on a manager across various competencies: how they inspire their team, coach teammates, connect with them, innovate, and execute their project. The data points for the various metrics are gathered from employee engagement surveys as well as exit interviews conducted during the year.
"Managers play a very important role. We needed a way to make them play their role in a much more focused way," Krish Shankar, group head of human resources at Infosys, told Quartz.
The aim is to help manager-level employees recognise their strengths and weaknesses. The assessments indicate which areas they are doing well in, highlighted in green, as well as which ones need to be improved, demarcated in red. Tips and fixes are also suggested by the platform.
MaQ was rolled out across Infosys as a pilot a year ago. For the last nine months, it has been fully deployed for the company's around 18,000 managers, across the globe. Around 60% of them have utilised the platform and believe it has helped them improve, Shankar said.
"A lot of companies today are collating peer feedback, feedback from subordinates and also from reporting managers. Like we have a system of rating products we buy on Flipkart and Amazon through a star-rating system, such platforms are a unique way of assessing employees," said N Shivakumar, business head of recruitment process outsourcing at Teamlease Services.
Another Bengaluru-based IT firm, Mindtree, has also been gathering feedback about its managers. The company worked with both non-anonymous feedback collection methods as well as anonymised, digitised ones. Both yielded drastically different results.
"The real issues wouldn't come up in a non-anonymous feedback because employees were afraid of being judged or ridiculed," said Anish Philip, assistant vice president for people function at Mindtree. "(Where) feedback is anonymous, employees are much more inclined to share valuable information and give actionable observations. What makes the data even more valuable is that we correlate it with moods and we track the reasons registered (so) managers get a detailed report of how their team is feeling and why, along with useful, anonymous feedback."
But such systems aren't without flaws.
All is not well
An attempt to get a 360-degree feedback can get derailed if the evaluation criteria are not laid out specifically.
"Any gap in framing the right questionnaire for the feedback survey could have serious implications and derail the whole programme," said Tonmoy Shinghal, co-founder and COO of talent assessment firm Mettl. "No matter how brilliant a tool is, if the questionnaire is not well curated, the programme will be a failure."
"No matter how brilliant a tool is, if the questionnaire is not well curated, the programme will be a failure."
With anonymous feedback collection, there's also a danger that employees may offer critical or negative feedback for reasons that are personal in nature. On the other hand, employees may shy away from saying anything negative about colleagues they consider friends, as per Debra Steele, director of marketing and communications at the Council for Adult and Experiential Learning (CAEL), a Chicago-based non-profit working towards adult learning and workforce development.
There's also a chance that some people don't use the platform at all. Mindtree's Philip admits that their feedback methods don't clock 100% participation. "Low response rates could be one downside of such online tools but even that is being solved through easy-to-use, highly engaging, and gamified platforms," said Singhal.
Consequently, such review systems may tilt in favour of the most popular employees rather than the most competent ones.


The beauty of Chinese numbers is that they are consistent. You learn the rules, and they just work. Even if you try to get flippant and say 一十 for "10" instead of just regular old 十, no one's going to get upset.
The consistent beauty of Chinese numbers is made all the more obvious by the relative skankiness of numbers in English. I noticed this because my daughter (now somewhere between 2½ and 3 years old) has pretty much mastered all the numbers to 100 in Chinese, but the teens in English continue to stump her. She can count to 20 no problem, but if you ask her to read a random two-digit number that starts with "1" in English, that's where the trouble starts. If she's speaking Chinese, she can read either Arabic numerals or Chinese characters all the way to 100, but doing it in English trips her up especially for the range 11-20. She's actually much better in the 60-90 range, because they're regular.
Somehow I missed it my whole life, but one of the things that makes the names of the teens so bizarre (aside from the inexplicable "eleven" and "twelve"), is that the digits are represented backwards, only for these 7 numbers. When you see "36" and read it "thirty-six," the "thirty" corresponds to the 3 on the left, and the 6 to the "six" on the right. So you're reading the number, digit by digit, left to right. But for numbers like 14, 15, and 16, not only do they sound like 40, 50, and 60, but the order of the syllables better matches 40, 50, and 60 as well. And both the "-ty" and the "-teen" from those numbers originally represented "10," right? These pairs are essentially pronounced as if they were the same numbers! Confusing as hell. I feel for my daughter.
Fortunately kids don't realize they have good reason to be frustrated, and just jeep on truckin'.
This post is leading up to another longer post on how the Chinese write numbers. I don't mean the Chinese character numbers (一、二、三、四、etc.); I'm talking about the numbers we call Arabic numerals. In China, they can occasionally be written pretty differently from what an American like me is used to.
I won't post my own observations in this blog post. Feel free to contribute your own interpretations in the comments (and tell us where you're from), and, more importantly, ask your Chinese friends to do it and post those results too.
I've done this little experiment with a number of people, Chinese and non-, and have gotten surprisingly varied replies (but with some identifiable patterns).
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Humans are such creatures of habit. Take, for example, the matter of salary. In the States it's always a yearly figure. I have a good idea of how an American can live in $50k a year, or $75k a year, or $100k a year, etc. Likewise, salaries in China are always given per month. I have a good idea what it means to live in China on RMB 1k per month, RMB 5k per month, RMB 10k per month, etc. However, if an American asks me about Chinese yearly salaries, or a Chinese person asks me about American monthly salaries, I am thrown for a loop every time. I have to do the calculations. I don't have a "sense" for it because I'm not in the habit of thinking about the figures that way. It's really quite annoying.
The chart also reveals a shortcut that the non-mathematicians among us may not have been aware of: if you increase the RMB monthly salary by 50%, you get very close to the annual dollar salary. Conversely, if you decrease the annual dollar salary by one third, you get close to the monthly RMB salary. (This would work more precisely if the conversion were still 8 RMB to the US dollar.) Anyway, this might be useful to some people. I should have noticed this long ago.
If you've studied Chinese characters, you know that each number has its own Chinese character. As a joke, many Chinese-illiterate foreigners boast that they know three Chinese characters: 一 二 三 (1, 2, 3). After 3, though, the characters start getting a little harder to remember.
Or do they? Recently I discovered this little-known character: 亖. It means 4. I didn't find a similar one for 5, though.
Still, there's a lot more to Chinese number characters below the surface. One set of "standard variants" are the 大写 ("capital") characters used on checks and other transactions. Banks require their use on forms. Each digit 0-9, as well as 10, 100, and 1000 has a "capital" form, much more difficult to alter than a 一.
In the following chart, the first column is European numerals (that's right, I didn't say Arabic numerals, and I did it on purpose), the second column is the standard Chinese character, and the third column is the "capital" Chinese character.
Still, there are a lot more variants than the official "capital" forms. Check out the following ones. Standard non-capital forms are in bold.
How many more can there be? I don't know. I'd be interested to learn, though.
Note: The European number system is used everywhere in China and has been for some time. Traditional Chinese numbers are sometimes used as well, however.
Update: Thanks to zhwj for his additions to the list.


Followed you over from your thread at Skeptic's forum, sorry about the bad reception you got - too many folks operating solely on reflex I guess.
Anyhow, I've seen photos from the same time period that show ears of corn the size of a bus, grasshoppers as big as sheep and the capture of a live hodag. Finding a photo of a giant human skeleton from the same folks won't impress me.
On the other hand I did work with a young woman years ago who did have a complete double set of teeth. Caused her all sorts of trouble and it was costing her family a fortune to correct. Its not a useful condition.
Keep up the articles, I'm enjoying them.
Thanks for the comment. Yeah . . . I'm not sure when "skeptic" became the same thing as "rude," but it seemed like that board wasn't going to be a good use of time for me. Oh well.
I will also be suspicious (and surprised) if photos materialize that appear to show skeletons of spectacular size. I don't think the 1911 accounts are describing anything other than individuals with body sizes within the normal range of human variation, and the 1912 accounts don't even mention size (as they were geared toward inserting the Delavan skeletons into the ongoing search for human ancestors). We shall see.
Sorry to say But I am not going to hand over a plate glass negative for $502.00 or a print for that matter. If you are serious purchase the plate negative for $800.000.00 or more. Good luck in finding anyone else who has one !
Seriously, not even a print? $800k is an awful lot for a 100+ year old hoaxed glass print and as long as it hasn't been confirmed as legit that's what I consider it.
I'm holding firm at $2. I cannot afford $800. Or $800,000. Both are out of my price range.
I too spend a considerable amount of time researching "the rest of the story". Don't let the negative comments get to you. Skeptics are logical but I can see how some may confuse that with rudeness. I wish we had more skeptics in this world personally. Thank you for your work.


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Poll: New Yorkers evenly split on online sports betting
Updated Feb 12, 2019; Posted Feb 12, 2019
New York residents are evenly divided on whether the state should allow online sports betting.AP
By Don Cazentre | dcazentre@nyup.com
In betting lingo, it's called a push: New York voters are split right down the middle on whether the state should legalize online betting on sports events, through smartphone apps and computer servers, according to a new Siena College poll.
The poll found 44 percent of New Yorkers support online sports bets, while 44 percent are opposed. Another 12 percent said they didn't know or had no opinion. Broken down by region, Upstate voters were more likely to oppose the idea, while those in New York City or its suburbs were more likely to be in favor.
Poll: New Yorkers support tax breaks for Amazon headquarters
Voters approve of $3 billion in government incentives to bring 25,000 Amazon jobs to New York City.
The poll, conducted by phone Feb.4 to 7, did not ask whether those responding favored or opposed legal sports betting in general. Legal sports bets in New York -- made in person, at authorized casino-based lounges -- seem destined to be approved this year.
The future of digital wagering is less clear.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo last month officially proposed legalizing sports betting in New York -- but for now that would only apply at four new private casinos and about half dozen Indian nation-operated casinos in Upstate New York. Online betting could be delayed at least three years because the Cuomo administration believes allowing bets outside the authorized casinos would require amending the state constitution.
Some lawmakers, notably Sen. Joseph Addabbo, the Queens Democrat who chairs the Senate's gaming committee, disagree. Addabbo believes the legislature may have the power to authorize online gaming without an amendment.
So the question of online sports betting is still up for debate.
Online sports betting could leave New York surrounded
Mobile betting may be delayed in New York because of state constitution questions.
"Voters, aware that the state is expected to soon allow sports betting at the four upstate commercial casinos, are evenly divided on broadening the sports betting law to allow for online betting," said Siena College Research Institute director, Don Levy.
Breaking down the results, the poll found:
-- Democrats were slightly opposed to online betting, with 45 percent against, 43 percent for and 12 percent undecided. Republicans favor the idea 45 to 42 percent, with 12 percent undecided. For independents, the results were 47 percent in favor, 46 percent opposed and 6 percent unsure.
-- Upstate voters oppose the idea of online sports betting 46 percent to 42 percent, with 12 percent undecided. New York City voters were split, 44 percent to 44 percent, with 12 percent undecided, while voters in the New York City suburbs favor the idea, 48 percent to 41 percent, with 11 percent unsure.
-- Men were more likely to support online sports betting (53 to 35 percent for), while women were opposed (51 to 37 percent against).
-- Those with household incomes less than $50,000 a year opposed online betting (50 to 36 percent against), while those with incomes above $100,000 per year favored the idea (54 to 38 percent for). Those in households earning between $50,000 and $100,000 support the idea, 48 percent to 41 percent.
The poll asked 778 registered voters in New York their opinions during telephone interviews between Feb. 4 and Feb. 7, 2019. The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.3 percentage points.
New York state has an existing law, passed in 2013, that allows sports betting on a limited basis at the authorized casinos. As written, the 2013 law only allows sports betting on site at Resorts World Catskills in Sullivan County; del Lago Resort & Casino near Waterloo in the Finger Lakes; Tioga Downs west of Binghamton in the Southern Tier, and Rivers Casino & Resort in Schenectady. The existing law does not allow online or off-site betting, and prohibits wagers on New York college teams and collegiate events that take place in the state.
The Oneida Indian Nation, which operates the Turning Stone, Yellow Brick Road and Point Place casinos in Central New York, has said it will start to open its sports books in those locations as soon as the state authorizes them at the private casinos. The Senecas, who have three casinos in Western New York, have not made their intentions public, but likely would do the same. The Indian nations say their gaming compacts with the state allow them to offer any games that are allowed at the private, full-service casinos.
NY sports bets: At casinos first, online perhaps later
Expanding bets beyond selected full-service casinos could require amending the state constitution, some state officials say.
Don Cazentre writes about Upstate New York casinos for NYup.com, syracuse.com and The Post-Standard. Reach him atdcazentre@nyup.com, or follow him at NYup.com, on TwitterorFacebook.


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I am not much of a person who collects a lot of things or who cannot throw anything away. Somehow I have collected quite a load of flyers over the years though. For a while I wanted to scan some of those so I can post them, but this is (of course) quite a bit of work. In the end I did a 'quick and dirty' scanjob and give you here a gallery with 'classical flyers', forgotten bands or just scans of flyers to show what these things looked like.
Did you know that at some point Cold Meat Industry actually had a baseball/footbal kind of collectors cards? You know, these cards that you wanted to get all? I never did, here are the ones that I did get. The cards have texts on the back, but my scanner did not like the tiny letters, so just the fronts for your enjoyment.


The children thing could possibly be fixed, but dating a woman who is separated being in love with her cant, so just end it already.
Men with kids will understand your schedule, lifestyle, priorities and responsibilities—because they will have a similar life experience.
So, whether you are flying solo like me and acquire a beautiful built-in family or you are a single Mom yourself and create your very own Brady Bunch, you are gaining a experience by dating a divorced man who brings a lot to your table.
I really hope that one day with someone, will find an ever lasting true happiness but in the mean time I have decided to live for today and enjoy my happiness when I am with him.Kids provide men with a sense of responsibility, and therefore tend to make them grow up almost instantly.There's no doubt that interacting with your new partner's ex is pretty stressful.I understood and respected the fact that most men wanted children.I did this once and, let me tell you, I learned my lesson.


This soap was created for all you hippies out there and, so far, it's been well received. As a twist, I've added musk oil to mellow out the patchouli for a more soothing scent. This soap is another best seller!
Patchouli seems to be an all-purpose plant. In addition to being a great insect repellent, it has properties of an antidepressant, antiseptic, aphrodisiac, astringent, deodorant, diuretic, fungicide, sedative and tonic substance. In 2016, I started growing it as an annual in my garden and its dried leaves will be added to this recipe.


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News article created on 19 September 2017
New refugee bee hive project (The Buzz Project) launched at Standedge visitor centre
A new bee hive project organised by a Syrian refugee and Sanctuary Kirklees is set to get visitors buzzing at our Standedge Tunnel Visitor Centre, near Marsden, West Yorkshire.
Standedge bee hive project group
Dr Ryad Alsous, a world renowned bee-keeping expert and former professor of agriculture at Damascus University, has been invited to use our land to establish his new Buzz Project, aimed at helping local refugees and job seekers to find a place and purpose in the community by keeping bees.
Historic waterways attraction Standedge Tunnel Visitor Centre is providing a free home for up to 10 bee hives as well as storage space, meeting facilities and space for honey extraction.
Sanctuary Kirklees was awarded a grant from the West Yorkshire Police Commissioner's Safer Communities Fund, plus a donation from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, to kick start The Buzz Project.
Dr Ryad Alsous BSc, MA, PhD, now living in Huddersfield, is a world-renowned expert on beekeeping and is responsible for setting up The Buzz Project, initially supported by Kirklees Council and now managed by Sanctuary Kirklees.
He said: "I am enormously grateful to everyone who has helped us with this project and in particular to the generosity and goodwill of the Canal & River Trust, the Safer Communities Fund, Sanctuary Kirklees and Kirklees Council who have given us this wonderful chance. As a refugee myself, I understand the issues and problems affecting the everyday life of people who have been displaced and who often carry emotional tensions and feeling of isolation arising from their experiences and memories.
"Many in this situation have had high level careers and so have an enormous amount to offer and contribute. This opportunity allows them to make a useful contribution and gain skills and expertise that will help them to fully integrate into the community."
Standedge Tunnel is run by us and is the country's highest, longest and deepest canal tunnel. Duty Manager Sam Christopher said: "Standedge Visitor Centre is set in a secluded valley amidst the spectacular scenery of West Yorkshire. We know people are happier and healthier near water so I can't think of a more beautiful, peaceful place to keep bees and forget about the trauma of being exiled from your own country.
"Not many places are big enough to safely accommodate bees but our site is perfect. We hope our contribution will make a difference at a time of real need. We will enjoy telling the beekeepers all about our rich industrial history and in doing so help them feel part of our community.
"In time, we hope to be able to sell the honey in our shop and use it in food served at our waterside café. Everything starts with small steps and our own history shows that a good idea allied to hard work and innovation can be the start of something big."
Standedge Tunnel was opened in 1811 and the construction of the tunnel represented industrial heritage at its finest, showing unprecedented technical ingenuity. There is no charge to enter the site, park or visit the exhibition centre. Visitors can also enjoy guided boat trips into Standedge Tunnel at weekends and selected days during the week.
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Burning the Books: RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK
by Richard Ovenden
A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020
'Burning the Books is fascinating, thought-provoking and very timely. No one should keep quiet about this library history' IAN HISLOP
Opening with the notorious bonfires of 'un-German' and Jewish literature in 1933 that offered such a clear signal of Nazi intentions, Burning the Books takes us on a 3000-year journey through the destruction of knowledge and the fight against all the odds to preserve it.
Richard Ovenden, director of the world-famous Bodleian Library, explains how attacks on libraries and archives have been a feature of history since ancient times but have increased in frequency and intensity during the modern era. Libraries are far more than stores of literature, through preserving the legal documents such as Magna Carta and records of citizenship, they also support the rule of law and the rights of citizens. Today, the knowledge they hold on behalf of society is under attack as never before. In this fascinating book, he explores everything from what really happened to the Great Library of Alexandria to the Windrush papers, from Donald Trump's deleting embarrassing tweets to John Murray's burning of Byron's memoirs in the name of censorship.
At once a powerful history of civilisation and a manifesto for the vital importance of physical libraries in our increasingly digital age, Burning the Books is also a very human story animated by an unlikely cast of adventurers, self-taught archaeologists, poets, freedom-fighters — and, of course, librarians and the heroic lengths they will go to preserve and rescue knowledge, ensuring that civilisation survives. From the rediscovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in the desert, hidden from the Romans and lost for almost 2000 years to the medieval manuscript that inspired William Morris, the knowledge of the past still has so many valuable lessons to teach us and we ignore it at our peril.
Genre: Humanities / History
On Sale: 3rd September 2020
A galvanising manifesto for the importance of physical libraries in our increasingly digital age
A magnificent book - timely, vital and full of the most incredible tales, a manifesto for our humanity and its archives
PHILIPPE SANDS
'Dangerous souvenirs' is what Richard Ovenden calls the books salvaged by ex-monks under the nose of Henry VIII. Now as then, books need friends. This fascinating book will help to find them.
Both timely and authoritative...The subject of archives and libraries is one of permanent importance in the understanding a nation has of itself, and touches not only high politics but also life-and-death drama. I can think of no-one better qualified to write about it than Richard Ovenden. I enjoyed Burning the Books immensely.
A stark and important warning about the value of knowledge and the dangers that come from the destruction of books. Vital reading for this day and age.
PETER FRANKOPAN
Like an epic film-maker, Richard Ovenden unfolds vivid scenes from three millennia of turbulent history, to mount passionate arguments for the need to preserve the records of the past - and of the present. This urgent, lucid book calls out to us all to recognise and defend one of our most precious public goods - libraries and archives.
BURNING THE BOOKS is fascinating, thought-provoking and very timely. No one should keep quiet about this library history.
IAN HISLOP
If there's anyone you might want to read your love letters after your death, it's Richard Ovenden; as Burning the Books reveals on every page, not only is he careful, diligent and wise, he also knows what to leave out and what to keep in and it's this quality that, above all, makes his book so remarkable. Francis Bacon described the creation of the Bodleian in the 1590s as 'an ark to save learning from the deluge' -- the deluge in question being the Reformation. Ovenden's ark, also written at a time of huge political and economic strife, attempts to save the concept of the library itself...something it achieves not through polemic but by telling stories. Rich, meticulous and impressive... Its sweep is quite astonishing.
Rachel Cooke, OBSERVER
Passionate and illuminating... this splendid book reveals how, in today's world of fake news and alternative facts, libraries stand defiant as guardians of truth.
Gerard deGroot, THE TIMES
Intriguing...Unforgettable
Christopher Hart, SUNDAY TIMES
As director of the Bodleian Library Ovenden is well-placed to deliver this devastating take on the erosion of knowledge and the importance of libraries as a physical space
75 of the best books for autumn, Independent
Ovenden moves effortlessly through the centuries and around the world . . . it is hard not to see him and his fellow librarians as warriors and freedom fighters, the unsung heroes of the high streets
Frances Wilson, Standpoint
This book should stir us to thinking and to action - against censorship, against careless loss, and for the preservation of the memory of where we came from and of our right to be where we are
Michael Skapinker, Financial Times
Fascinating and rewarding . . . Ovenden's finest achievement in Burning the Books is to demonstrate the importance and enduring power of preserved knowledge . . . [his] professional expertise and personal passion are evident on every page
Timothy W Ryback, Literary Review
[Ovenden] brings us on an erudite, frightening and often exhilarating journey . . . a fascinating, often entertaining and surprising, incredibl well-researched and beautifully written book. It is an important book, now more than ever
Engaging and timely . . . Ovenden stays true to his calling, reminding us that libraries nad librarians are the keepers of humankind's memories: without them, we don't know who we are
Jonathan Freedland, Guardian
A passionate defence of the sanctity of knowledge . . . the author's passion and authority come across on every page . . . Reading Burning the Books is, by turns, a distressing and illuminating experience. It is distressing because Ovenden shows humanity at its philistine worst throughout history . . . But it is also illuminating because of his partisan celebration of those figures like Bodley who have prized the written word and its preservation as being a civilised end in itself
Excellent . . . both gripping and horrifying in equal measure
Lucidly and engagingly written . . . powerful
Rhodri Lewis, Prospect Magazine
Richard Ovenden, the Bodleian Librarian, is admirably obsessed with that destruction: the stuff lost for ever . . . This book might easily have turned into a cumbersome diatribe. It is instead a compendium of intriguing stories that collectively deliver a stark warning: "The truth itself is under attack."
The Times (Saturday Review), Philosophy and Ideas Book of the Year 2020
You expect librarians to have plenty of good stories, but perhaps not to be burning with passion. This erudite, urgent book is full of both
Sunday Times (Culture)


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Saleem Ali (politician)
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Mohamed Saleem Ali (މުހަންމަދު ސަލީމް އަލީ ) (died 25 December 2007), commonly referred to in the Maldives as Sto, Saleem, was a Parliament member of the Maldivian Democratic Party, elected for president in Huvadhu Atoll with high popularity. Due to his criticism of the dictator Gayoom, over the years he was arrested and sentenced several times.
Saleem, best known for organizing protests against President Gayoom's visits to the MDP heartlands in the south of the country, was a prominent figure within the Maldives' main opposition party. "Mr. Saleem Ali's passing away causes deep sorrow to all who knew him," said a party statement. "A tireless campaigner for reform [Mr Saleem] will be indelible in the party's records as well as the country's history."[citation needed] His son Ghassan Saleem, at the age of 14, was handcuffed and detained for several hours whilst he was walking to his school while Saleem was in jail for investigation for 10 November activity.[citation needed]
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