On May 18th we began our summer workshop tour in Nashville, TN at the incredible Shameless Singing Studio, home of "Be A Singing Teacher!" specialist Lisa Haupert, and her team. After enjoying some down home hospitality, we connected with a Wednesday morning group of vocal professionals from middle school choir teachers, to church choir directors, private studio instructors, college faculty, singers, and even a Nashville studio producer.
Participants explaining harmonics to one another at the end of Part 1.
Their intentions coming into the workshop ranged from acquiring "Better language for explaining scientific concepts practically to my clients and teachers," to "More information as to how to connect the scientific information directly to a choral rehearsal," "More of a knowledge of the science behind the voice," and "Just a refresher on vocal knowledge." We worked them through the concepts of nurturing self-observing learners, anatomy, and vocal acoustics from simple to complex, connecting scientific principals with practical application tools. Their experience and insights kept the conversation interesting and applicable.
The workshop really inspired me to learn more about the intricacies of how the voice works. I think by continuing to study this information, a lot of unanswered questions would be answered!
Honestly everything was AMAZING and super applicable to my job. Your explanations of the anatomy, harmonics, and formants were EXTREMELY helpful. The way you simplified them was really special, and you put it into a form that I can now explain to clients.
I just loved how you wrapped the intersection between formants and harmonics up in a little bow for me. I've been working with those concepts for a while, but just didn't have it all tied together. I really appreciated the information and the way you presented it.
You make complex concepts perfectly understandable, interesting, and (most importantly) applicable and practical to singing right now! I will be using what I learned in just one workshop in the singing teacher classes I teach and with my individual voice clients.
I really loved learning about adjusting vowel shapes, learning exercises, and having Laurel demonstrate things with her voice.
A week later in Salt Lake City we had the distinct pleasure of presenting "Acoustic Strategies and Stylistic Variance Translated to the Choral Rehearsal" at the Acoustic Society of America's annual convention. Our presentation outlined the primary acoustic information that we've found useful for singers, and how we help singers acquire and habituate this information in order to facilitate stylistic discovery.
We also heard presentations on microphone techniques and acoustic manipulation options, vocal fry, applying bel canto techniques in choral rehearsals, impacts of choral configurations on an ensemble's potential dynamic range, the filter's potential to destabilize the source, intrinsic vowel pitch, the impact of external loudness on singer's tuning, and perceived brightness in Japanese singers. Reconnecting with many of our PAVA colleagues over dinner, we were reminded of how important it is to share and brainstorm with others who care about the voice and have the courage to ask more questions. Thanks to Ingo Titze, Matt Edwards, Laurier Fagnan, John Nix, Mackenzie Parrott, Karen Titze Cox, Lynn Maxfield, and Megan Walker for all of the fun! The big questions we wrestled with all revolve around continuing to build deeper bonds within the vocal community, and how to break down barriers that keep us apart.
Sharing is the center of our experience, and the past two weeks have affirmed that sharing is indeed a two-way street.
On to connect with the Denver community!


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Collectively Negotiated and Promulgated Agreements
TMA149 and its parent unions CFM and AFM spend the largest portion of their time and resources negotiating, promulgating and defending agreements with producers, venues, and engagers in the live and recorded music and the general entertainment and media sphere. When a TMA149 member works at, or for, a producer, venue or engager that is a signatory to an agreement with TMA149, CFM or AFM that member will receive the minimum fees and benefits negotiated with that producer, venue or engager. Minimum scales are just that – minimums. Members may negotiate above scale, but in many areas these minimum fees are above what non-signatory producers would provide.
Benefits that are often if not always negotiated include:
Minimum fees for performing, recording, arranging, copying
Minimum fees for performing or recording on more than one instrument (doubling)
Minimum fees for performing or recording electronic instruments
Minimum fees for the re-use and new use of recorded material
Pension Payments
Health & Safety Provisions
Anti-Discrimination and Anti-Harassment Measures
To see all TMA149 negotiated and promulgated agreements please go to:
TMA Tariff of Fees, Agreements and Contracts
To see all CFM negotiated and promulgated agreements please go to:
CFM Agreements & Contracts
To see all AFM negotiated and promulgated agreements please go to:
AFM Sound Recording Agreements & Scales
AFM Film & Television Agreements & Scales
Legal & Contract Defense
When a TMA149 member performs under a TMA149 or CFM/AFM negotiated agreement or when they use a TMA149 Live Performance Contract for Canada the Local has the responsibility to defend the member's interest when that contract is breached, such as when payment is not made. Further, in many cases the collective Contract Defence Fund will pay basic fees in lieu of the amount not paid until the breach's resolution.
Professional musicians know there's nothing like getting paid for a gig. The American Federation of Musicians and its Locals have negotiated collective bargaining agreements with a wide variety of employers, such as the major recording companies, symphony orchestra managements, and others, to insure that musicians get paid for playing those types of jobs.
But not all gigs fall under those categories. Many performances, like those in clubs, stage shows, and for private parties, etc., are negotiated directly between the musician and the purchaser. Unfortunately, some professionals risk their wages by not filing signed contract forms – and without a contract on file with the Local where the performance is taking place, there's little your Local or the Federation can do to get you your hard-earned money in case you get stiffed. Standard AFM contract forms are easy to complete, requiring only such information as the date(s) of the engagement, the number of musicians playing the job, the name, address and telephone number of both the signatory musician and the purchaser, the type of engagement, the compensation agreed upon, and the signatures of both parties.
It's also smart to include language in the contract that determines how disputes over the terms and conditions of employment will be resolved. (Using most standard AFM contracts takes care of this for you.) This gives both you and the purchaser greater security because if for some reason the contracted engagement doesn't meet everyone's satisfaction an equitable mechanism for resolving the problem is already in place. In addition, the AFM recommends that whenever possible, members get a 50 percent, non-refundable deposit. Under current consumer law, all deposits must be returned to the purchaser in the event of a dispute, unless it has been previously stipulated that the deposit is non-refundable. Once completed and filed, the contract has the force of law and the AFM behind it. If for some reason the purchaser fails to meet the terms agreed to in the contract, the AFM or the Local will make every effort possible to pursue monies owed to its members, including taking the purchaser to court, in certain circumstances.
Musicians' Pension Fund of Canada
When a musician uses a TMA149 or CFM/AFM negotiated agreement or when they use a TMA149 Live Performance Contract for Canada the purchaser or engager is compelled, in addition to their fees, to contribute to their pension fund. Musicians can be vested in as little as two years with regular contract work.
Contact the Pension Fund to find if you already have contributions in your name, or to set up your file:
200 Yorkland Blvd, Ste 605, Toronto, ON M2J 5C1
Email: info@mpfcanada.ca
FUND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: Jill Giustino
About The Pension Fund
Read about the Musicians' Pension Fund of Canada – Visit the website: http://www.mpfcanada.ca
How to make MPF Canada Pension contributions:
Use the LPCC (Live Performance Contract for Canada).
Fill in the accompanying LPCC-Pen and have the Purchaser/Employer sign to enable you to make a pension contribution on her/his behalf. Registered Canada Pension plans are "Employer" Plans, requiring employers to make contributions on behalf of employees. However, The LPCC-Pen allows you to make pension contributions on behalf of your employer.
Submit both contracts to the AFM local office with a cheque for your contribution (up to 12% of scale).
These are the files you will need if you plan to contribute to your pension fund:
Live Performance Contract for Canada
P2 Work Permits for Performing in the U.S.A and Other Immigration Support
The Canadian Office of the CFM / AFM, TMA149's parent union, is a recognized petitioner for P2 Visas and offers other immigration support.
Please visit the following link for work permit information and to download VISA applications.
http://www.cfmusicians.org/services/work-permits

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So my sister found an article on Video Game Music Academy - a site which, in of itself, seems to have a lot of interesting articles an video game music composition and techniques. She found an article on one of the more interesting songs in Undertale and the techniques used in it.
I'd go into more detail, but I'm trying to avoid spoilers. XD (I disagree with the author's assessment that the video shown has minor spoilers.) However, at the same time, this really is a particularly interesting piece, and I think it's probably going to be worth a read, particularly to composers, and/or fans of music theory.
True Pacifist. Namely, if you get back to the castle after... taking a detour. Where you don't just go from the fourth major boss to the castle.
The name/URL of the article itself gives an idea on what it's about, so... yeah. XD You might be able to stay spoiler-light if you listen to the music clips without watching the video. Up to you.
I'm totally going to watch this article. After I get around to Undertale. Eventually. But it will totally happen!


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02 July 2018 by Marion Trumier - Corporate
Cléon, a historical plant paving the way to the future
Renault is celebrating its 120th birthday this year, and the Cléon plant is turning 60. Since 1958, the site has built a solid reputation which, today, has made it a central actor in the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance that is focused on the future.
Tags: cléon Connected Plant Factory of the future future Manufacturing plant
06 April 2017 by Caroline De Beaumont - Innovation
R.S. 2027 Vision concept car: Renault's vision of F1 in 2027
Shanghai Motor Show, 19 April 2017. At the Shanghai Show, Renault will be unveiling its R.S. 2027 Vision concept car, an enthralling stylistic opinion on the shape of Formula 1 to come, informed by forty years' winning experience in the sport. What will Formula 1 look like in 2027?
Tags: formula 1 future groupe renault innovation renault renault sport f1 shanghai
01 February 2013 by Groupe Renault - Event
Vienna R20 conference: The energy mix of the future
I was part at Vienna R20 conference, of a panel on the energy mix of the future, alongside Kandeh Yumkella, UNIDO Director General, Arnold Schwarzenegger, R20 Founding Chair and R20 President, Michèle Sabban. Developing sustainable energy for all is a clear commitment for the Alliance, as demonstrated by our CEO membership to the high level group set up by UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon in November 2011.
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Will Technology Render Your Doctor Obsolete?
One of the most established rituals in medicine, the annual checkup, may soon be a memory. Within ten years, the United States will have a shortage of primary care physicians numbering in the tens of thousands, and the problem is set to increase. In advance of a visit to Zócalo by David Lawrence, former CEO of Kaiser Foundation Health Plan and Hospitals, we asked some authorities in the field of medicine to reflect on whether the problem might be alleviated, even made outmoded, by technology. Will technology render the primary care physician obsolete?
Dr. Jason Hwang is an internal medicine physician and executive director of healthcare at Innosight Institute.
Technology won't make doctors obsolete, but it will require them to change in order to provide the best care to their patients. Those that don't learn to make effective use of these tools may be unable to provide the care patients expect.
The core of what primary care physicians do is diagnose, treat, and coordinate with other clinicians and service providers. Computers can't diagnose, or do it badly, because they bet on the most likely diagnosis. They can get it right only 90 or 95 percent of the time, and that's not good enough.
On the other hand, while well-trained physicians can bring more sophistication to the process of diagnosis, using that training requires keeping all the possible causes of the presenting symptoms in mind, all the information needed from the history, physical and basic lab tests to assess each cause, and a systematic way of assessing each possible cause using the data from the history, physical and tests. This is beyond the capacity of the human mind, House notwithstanding. With the right computerized tools, however, collecting the right information and analyzing against all known causes of the patient's symptoms might become routine. Computers are not ordinarily used in this manner today, but models of how they might be are already in use.
For some conditions, treatment is straightforward. There's one way to proceed. For others, treatment choices can be complex, and decisions must draw on past experience (does the patient have an allergy to a specific drug, for example) and patient preferences. Computers can assist in making better treatment decisions by making relevant sections of the patient's history known and by serving as a platform for educating patients and sharing the experience of other patients so treatment choices are well-informed. The expansion of electronic health records may make the integration of patient's history easier. While there are examples of effective use of computers to improve patient decision-making, this area is still in its infancy.
The most widespread use of computers today is in coordinating care. Orders for tests and prescriptions can be sent electronically and clinicians can communicate electronically and share information. The principal obstacles to more widespread use of these methods are lack of training, cost, limited numbers of user-friendly apps, and payment systems that don't support this type of coordination. All these can be changed.
Computers and new monitoring technology offer the prospect of routine monitoring of patients away from the physician's office or hospital, distant diagnosis using monitoring and video technology, and real-time consultation with specialists and other experts. Here, too, changing payment to allow the routine use of such technologies will be critical to their adoption.
Dr. Jack Needleman is professor of health services at UCLA School of Public Health. His research focuses on the impact of changing markets and public policy on quality and access to care.
No way. The primary care physician will still be the critical point of care for the patient. Technology helps, but it cannot replace the doctor when it comes to managing complex chronic illnesses, which more and more Americans are developing as we age ("old parts wear out") and as we continue with behaviors of overeating, leading sedentary lifestyles (the two leading to obesity), suffering chronic stress, and (among 20 percent of us) smoking. Coordinating the care of these patients is critical for quality, safety and control of expenditures.
We are blessed with enormous innovation and creativity in the medical arena. There is an ongoing revolution as a result of genomics; a promise for the future in stem cells for regenerative medicine; multiple new vaccines on the drawing boards not only for infections but also for chronic illnesses such as atherosclerosis, Alzheimer's and cancer; multiple new medical devices that are smaller and smaller yet more powerful (witness pacemakers for heart failure, stents and now catheter-based technologies to replace or repair damaged heart valves (wow!); imaging devices that show internal anatomy better than an artist can with a dissection plus imaging devices that can increasingly observe metabolic changes in real time.
These technologic advances are creating five medical megatrends: personalized or custom-tailored medicine; better preventive care; an expanding ability to repair, restore or replace damaged tissues or organs; digital information available anytime, anyplace; and much safer and higher-quality care.
Sounds great–and it is. But the use of these technologies all revolve around the primary care physician, who knows his or her patient and family well, can make the correct choices (in consultation with the patient), and can then direct or coordinate the patient's care as he moves through various specialists, testing and procedures. This is especially critical for the increasing number of patients with one or more chronic illness such as heart failure, diabetes or cancer who will need a team of care givers, multiple specialists, many diagnostic tests, a myriad of drugs and frequent procedures over many years. These are all potentially expensive and should be used only as truly necessary so as to improve the quality of the patient's care without excessive expense. It is only a well educated, well trained and committed physician who can do this level of coordination.
Dr. Stephen C. Schimpff is an internist, professor of medicine and public policy, former CEO of the University of Maryland Medical Center and consults for the U.S. Army, medical startups and Fortune 500 companies. He is the author of The Future of Medicine – Megatrends in Healthcare.
One of the very first 'expert systems' was designed at Stanford University and designed to mimic an expert in infectious diseases. It was called Mycin. When given the right information about a patient's symptoms, physical findings and lab tests, Mycin performed very well when compared to human doctors. Designed in the 1970's, it was a rule-driven system, where the available data was run through a set of preprogrammed rules to arrive at a conclusion.
Today's versions of expert systems have become familiar to us as we interact with commercial systems–like Amazon, Netflix and the Apple's iTunes "Genius"–which recommend books, movies and music to us based on our prior purchases and those like us in their massive customer databases. So-called pattern-detection systems are also used to detect credit card fraud and stock trends.
These newer systems rely on 'smart' algorithms and the availability of electronic data in large enough quantities that we can reliably identify patterns that predict which books we'd like, anomalous credit card use or medical conditions of interest. These are data-driven pattern recognition systems, and they're likely to have a dramatic influence on medical care by helping us diagnose patients, identify patients at risk for bad outcomes like readmission, and determine which medical practice patterns are the most effective and cost-efficient. In fact, IBM's Jeopardy-playing supercomputer, Watson, will soon begin to work on health care information to do just this.
Electronic tools are proliferating rapidly in medical care. New electronic medical record and order entry systems allow us to collect data in machine analyzable formats, making data analysis much easier and more immediate. Surgical robots and telemedicine are possible only because of technological advances. New medical buildings will have sensors built into the walls to detect patient movement and track providers.
But while all of this might suggest that the doctor will soon become obsolete, that is not the case. As in other highly automated industries, like aviation, manufacturing and finance, the best medical care in the future will rely on a marriage of human and mechanical capabilities where each complements the other, making the whole greater than the sum of the parts.
Dr. C. William Hanson is professor of anesthesiology and critical care and chief medical information officer at the University of Pennsylvania Health System. He is also the author of the book Smart Medicine.
I could give you great advice about choosing a physician.
I don't necessarily take it myself.
I understand our country needs to shake loose from the fragmented, disorganized, expensive, proceduralist-oriented, fee-for-service health care system. We need primary-care-focused systems in which we reward doctors for working together to coordinate our care, not just for prescribing more and more stuff. Technology will be important. But it's a tool, not an end in itself.
I would tell you to find a doctor who is part of a larger health care organization–a medical home in the making, a budding ACO, a multi-specialty physician group. Find someone who is excited, not frightened, by coming changes in health care .
I would recommend a physician who has installed and mastered health information technology, not only to streamline paperwork but also to understand, monitor and coordinate health. Health IT is not a panacea, but it sure would be nice to have all those records and MRIs in one place–and have that place not be a dusty shelf in my bedroom closet.
Yet both of my docs are solo practitioners without health IT. I chose the primary care doctor when I moved to D.C. in 1994 by looking on a list–paper back then–for a female physician near a Metro stop who had gone to a good med school. I found my OB/GYN through a friend.
I stuck with my primary care doctor after she had found a minor thyroid problem and I asked whether fixing it would mean I wasn't going to be tired anymore. She asked how old my son–then six–was. "You'll be tired for 12 more years," she replied.
I stayed with my OB–even after she stopped taking insurance–because she saved the life of my second son during a high-risk and utterly miserable pregnancy.
I assume both of these physicians will, over time, migrate to more technology, and both will adapt to change. In the meantime, they provide me with something that a machine can't provide and that our system needs more of. They listen. And they care.
Joanne Kenen is a journalist and author who has covered health policy in and out of Congress since 1994. She was the senior writer for New America Foundation's Health Policy program from 2007 through 2010.


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Reluctant sale of my fantastic Alfa.
It has a problem with the turbo. It might need a new turbo or it might just be a sensor or a leaking hose. It is down on power and makes a whistling noise but is still driveable and useable.
Has been used every day as the family car and makes a fantastic tourer. Easily gets 60mpg on long journeys and 50mpg round town. The interior is very clean with just a little wear on the driver"s seat where you get in and out. The exterior is pretty good for the age. There"s a little bit of rust on the wheel arches a slight dent in the boot lid and a larger dent in the nearside rear door.
It had 3 new tyres for the MOT in September, just had an oil change and has a full service history. Lots of bills and receipts.


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On Saving a Nation.
The story is told of a man who traveled from a developing country to a more economically advanced one in search of a better life. Upon arrival, the man was shocked to find that no one managed the local milk shop. Customers would take what they needed from the refrigerator, leave the exact amount of money for their purchase, and be on their way. Neither the milk nor the money was under lock and key. This would never happen in my country, he thought.
The only thing that surprised the man more than the honor system of the unmanned milk dispensary was the price of the product. The milk was cheaper here, even though his country had more milking cows than people—and in turn produced more milk. How could this be? Then it finally hit him. The higher price at home included the additional costs of dishonesty and thievery.
In his country, locks would be purchased for the refrigerator and money box. A worker would be hired to conduct the transactions. Another person or two would be hired as security, in addition to needing expensive CCTV cameras. This is not to mention the added logistical and utility costs from inefficient or unreliable systems. It all adds up, reflected in the price of a single bottle of milk.
What the society of the man's home country lacked in cultural values, it paid dearly in economic value—in other words, a higher cost of living than a country with a higher standard of living.
The commercial cost of values
What makes a nation great and strong, ultimately, is its people and their values. Societal values determine what people consider good or important, and this informs how they act. If we consider present-day Ghana in this context, we are likely to be disappointed.
Money and material possessions. Greed and selfishness. These values permeate our society. So I thought it wise to speak to the issue of values in terms of commercial costs. My hope is that even those who place money and materialism and personal gain above all else—including the common societal values espoused in our national anthem and pledge—will realize that real values, such as service and integrity, still affect their bottom line. They will make more money with them, than without.
Consider that Warren Buffet, one of the world's richest men and most successful investors, advises leaders to look for three things when assessing job candidates: intelligence, initiative, and integrity—but to weigh integrity above all else. If a worker lacks the latter trait, Buffet says, "the first two will kill you. Because if you're going to get someone without integrity, you want them lazy and dumb."
It is with near-total trust that we poke an opaque tin of milk and pour out its content without a second thought. We've got to trust the regulator, trust the manufacturer, and trust the entire supply chain. A friend and former senior manager in a company that produces perishables once told me that the company would destroy whole batches of product at the slightest hint of compromised quality, because the negative cost of their brand being brought into disrepute would be much greater in the long run than the temporary loss of the thousands of dollars flushed down the drain by an honest act.
Values at the core of a nation
Little drops of values at the individual, family, organization, and sector levels of a society eventually coalesce to make a mighty nation. This is how I have long thought of Ghana. As a mighty nation, rich in social and cultural values to emulate.
I grew up in the early 1990s, when neighboring countries like Liberia and Sierra Leone were decimated by war. Hordes of refugees made their way into Ghana. As a World Vision Youth Ambassador, I toured refugee sites in the country with donors, and the tentative nature of life in tents made me tear up. I have always been grateful to God that Ghana in my life has been an island of peace in a sea of strife.
But bombs and bullets are not the only way to destroy a country. Rather than exploding in external violence, a society can implode through internal valuelessness. I fear Ghana is on this path. I see it all around. We have swung from one extreme to another in a few generations. My grandfather cared little about money or material possessions. He was not alone. How often can we say such things now?
Too often, money and materialism seem to the motivation for the world around us, even at the peril of our lives and at the cost of future generations. Look no further than the dastardly acts of inordinate illegal mining (galamsey), stinky corruption in politics and public service, brazen cheating in exams, rampant illegal practices which combine modern internet-based fraud with African traditionalist rituals (sakawa), food sellers using dirty (waste) water to cook, changing expiry dates on expired medicine or outrightly selling fake medicine… need I go on?
Building the Ghana we want, rooted in values that matter
I worry that in our hurry to catch up with the rest of the industrialized world, we are focusing on infrastructure, industry, and education without a values-based foundation. For instance, STEM education is being touted as the panacea for the challenges we face. But what use is STEM without roots? STEM or any other body of knowledge must grow from a deeply rooted network of shared social and cultural values and norms. Otherwise, patients needlessly die, shoddy infrastructure inadvertently collapses, common funds are looted, and justice is denied.
Ghana is at a crossroads, not just economically, but also culturally. There is a commercial cost to values that must be recognized and incorporated into the policies needed to set Ghana on a more prosperous economic course. Thankfully, influential Ghanaians are talking about it.
Earlier this year, the African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET), which is based in Accra and was founded by Dr. K.Y. Amoako, a Ghanaian, organized a retreat at at the Peduase Valley Resort for more than 50 people representing various civic and political stakeholder groups and organizations in Ghana. The topic of conversation was a new initiative that is set to launch officially in the coming days: the Compact for Ghana's Political and Economic Transformation.
A roadmap for a stronger democracy and lasting economic prosperity, the Compact is a hopeful approach because it is rooted in strengthening our common values. I attended the Peduase Valley retreat, and values featured heavily in the discussion. It was stressed that the quest for Ghana's economic and political transformation is meaningless unless it is underpinned by a radical shift in our mindset and values.
Indeed, the discussion focused on identifying values we can glean from the national anthem, the pledge, and the lyrics of "Yɛn Ara Asaase Ni," written almost a century ago by Dr. Ephraim Amu, one of the fathers of our nation. From the conversation, values such as honesty, selflessness, hard work, and loyalty stood out.
Such discussions must continue in Ghana. Particularly, the all-binding value of integrity needs to be ingrained in every stratum and segment of our national life if we are to realize a greater Ghana, rooted in values that matter rather than tarnished by ones that do not.
Although less dramatic, a definite way to destroy Ghana without bombs or bullets is by eroding the very values that birthed the nation, slowly but surely. "Whether or not this nation prospers," goes the resounding anthem from Dr. Amu, "clearly depends on the character of the citizens of the nation."
Dr. Yaw Perbi has practiced medicine in both his home country, Ghana, and with the United Nations Operation in Cote d'Ivoire as a U.N. peacekeeper. He is the founder and Global CEO of The HuD Group, inspiring holistic emerging leadership development in 25 countries on all continents. He is co-founder of PerbiCubs, an edtech company impacting over 8,000 children in Ghana. Yaw is a Fellow of the Africa Leadership Initiative as well as the Aspen Global Leadership Network.
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Meet Patrick Lencioni, the Workplace Guru.
There's no one I enjoy hearing about teams, meetings and workplace dynamics like Patrick Lencioni. Patrick is an American author of books on business management, particularly in relation to team management. He is best known as the author of The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, a popular business fable that explores work team dynamics and offers solutions to help teams perform better. On a recent trip to southern and eastern Africa, his cautionary tale to CEOs published in a book by the title The Motive, was my jolting companion. It brought me back to my senses as CEO of a few enterprises.
Lencioni is Founder and President of The Table Group, a management consulting firm specializing in executive team development and organizational health. As a consultant and keynote speaker, he has worked with senior executives and executive teams in organizations ranging from Fortune 500s and high tech start-ups to universities and non-profits. He also gives talks on leadership, organizational change, teamwork and corporate culture. He is frequently interviewed for national media including features in the Wall Street Journal and USA Today.
SIX TYPES OF WORKING GENIUS
At the annual John Maxwell Live2Lead conference last week–the Ghana site hosted nearly 600 leaders LIVE! with thousands more to benefit through rebroadcasts–we heard from Patrick Lencioni about his groundbreaking new model that provides a deeper understanding into our workplace and team dynamics.
The six types of working geniuses together form the word WIDGET, symbolized by six gears working perfectly synergistically well together. W is the genius of Wonder, I the genius of Invention, D the genius of Discernment, G the genius of Galvanizing, E the genius of Enablement and T the genius of Tenacity. In the near future we shall provide a fuller blog delving into further details about these six geniuses. In the mean time hear Pat the sage, "If you want to be successful and fulfilled in your work, you must tap into your gifts. That can't happen if you don't know what those gifts are."
THINGS DON'T HAVE TO BE THIS WAY
Pat explained how people don't understand their personal areas of working genius, which impacts their ability to identify work opportunities that would be most meaningful to them, as well as disallowing organizations, teams, and families to help individuals tap into their true working genius, resulting in a failure to reach one's true potential. But things don't have to be this way. This tragedy is avoidable, as Pat shared how you can identify your working genius and understanding which one of the six geniuses both you and your teammates are. Contact us, the Live2Lead team, if you and your team would want to test your genius to become all you really could be. There are no dumb or lazy people on the planet or on your team; only geniuses who are yet to find and fire up what makes them tick!
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Meet Uncle Ebo, the People's Uncle.
Everyone calls him "Uncle" without even thinking twice about it. Whether young enough to be their son or old enough to be their grandpa, "Uncle" is everyone's uncle. A voice of reason, counsel in season, James Ebo Whyte, affectionately known nationwide as "Uncle Ebo" is the people's uncle, hands down.
Mr. James Ebo Whyte is the CEO, heart and brain behind Roverman Productions. He is nationally acknowledged as an accomplished, award-winning playwright and highly sought-after motivational speaker. James Ebo Whyte constantly challenges Ghanaians to think more about the world they live in and the contribution they make to it. Just the day before the October 7, 2022 Live2Lead conference at which he was speaking, he unveiled to his drama troupe his 51st play in fourteen years! A hearty congratulations to the prolific playwright.
INTEGRITY IN THE ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY
At Live2Lead 2022, Uncle Ebo was the only gentleman among three distinguished leading ladies from the corporate and entrepreneurship spaces as well as the public sector. Their first job was to respond to the submissions on "Leading with Integrity for the Common Good" made in the earlier hour by Patrick Awuah, founder and president of Ashesi University. Uncle Ebo held our attention as he raised issues of integrity in the arts & entertainment segment of Ghanaian society that he had with intentionality decided to counter, like giving kickbacks from corporate sponsorship. He uttered with conviction, "there are sponsorships we know we'll never get for our plays because of this." And he's fine with it, as he knows that integrity comes at a cost.
One of the most amazing feats of Roverman Productions has been putting up a new play every quarter for the last decade-and-a-half and resolving to always start on time, also a matter of integrity. In fact, one of the participants at Live2Lead, a corporate governance expert, interjected that one reason she chooses to go and see Ebo Whyte's plays is that she can guarantee they would commence on time. Again, Roverman has gone against the tide by ensuring pristine toilet facilities at their play venues and three levels of security at events to ensure patrons have a heavenly experience and leave with no bitter taste in their mouths. To the people's uncle, excellence in these areas is a matter of integrity.
OF TEENAGE FOLLY AND GAMBLING
We intentionally wanted to leave the Live2Lead conferees on a note of hope, especially hope in Ghana, and Uncle Ebo did not disappoint. While admitting we have mega challenges in the nation he reminds us that we've not only been in worse times but also that in the annals of nation building globally, at 60 years Ghana is only a teenager. The national happenings that leave us in consternation are akin to teenage tantrums and this too shall pass. We do have quite a degree of national folly though, which we need to be cured of, he confesses.
Uncle Ebo's belief in Ghana is so solid that his parting words were the following: "Whoever bets against Ghana will lose." For a full buffet of this scintillating conversation look out for a recording of the hitherto livestreamed video (currently only available to paid participants) or invite Live2Lead to rebroadcast in your context (company, community, church etc). You don't want to miss Live2Lead 2023 on October 6, next year, Deo volonte. Pinned on the first Friday of each October, National Leader Day after National Leader Day, building a leader at a time and one centre of excellence at a time, we shall surely get to the Ghana we want. And who knows? Perhaps sooner than other nations have.
Yaw PerbiOctober 4, 2022BusinessCase StudiesEntrepreneurshipExistentialismLeader DevelopmentLeadershipLeadingManagementNational DevelopmentPersonal LeadershipPublic LeadershipSignificanceStrategySuccessTrainingTrendy
Meet Eric Thomas, a Fireball to Light a Fire Under You!
Eric Thomas, Ph.D., is a critically acclaimed author, world-renowned speaker, educator, pastor, and audible.com Audie Awards finalist. ET, as he is better known and affectionately called, has taken the world by storm, with his creative, common-sense approach to living a successful, satisfying professional and personal life. Through a significant social media presence and regular domestic and international tours, "ET, The Hip Hop Preacher" has become a global phenomenon!
As CEO of his Consulting Firm, ETA LLC., Dr. Eric Thomas has led his team through the doors of dozens of hugely successful organizations and Fortune 500 companies such as General Electric, Quicken Loans, AT&T, Nike, Under Armour, New Balance, and UPS and continues to consult for major league sports franchises within the MLB, NBA, NFL, MLS (various United States sports leagues).
YOU OWE YOU
That's Eric's philosophy of life, and his topic at Live2Lead on October 7: You Owe You: Ignite Your Power, Your Purpose, and Your Why. Come learn the key principles of how to turn a mentality of struggle into strength, resulting in enduring success. Eric Thomas shares his urgent message to stop waiting for inspiration to strike and take control of your life, using stories of his past and lessons learned as examples.
He will help identify how you can rewrite your life's script and capture the attention of all kinds of people in a multitude of different environments. Sharing these critical first steps will help you with understanding yourself and the world around you, finding your why, accepting that you may have to give up something good for something great, and constantly stretching toward your potential.
Pump up your personal, professional and leadership game at this year's Live2Lead conference. Register now through this link. Nag your organization until they join this rising movement of learning leaders that will transform society by becoming a Patron of Live2Lead. A Patron company is one that sends at least 10 leaders to Live2Lead, and this year they range from mining companies like Goldfields to banking greats like Stanchart. There's no way we can have at least 100 such Patron organizations and companies in Ghana and not transform the nation, one leader at a time, one centre of excellence at a time. Together we can change our country and continent for the better! Let's do this! Register here, and NOW.
Yaw PerbiOctober 1, 2022BusinessCase StudiesCorporate CultureEntrepreneurshipGlobal DiversityGrowthLeader DevelopmentLeadershipLeadingManagementMentoringNational DevelopmentOrganizational DynamicsPublic LeadershipStrategySuccessTrainingYouth empowerment
Meet Tim Elmore, Intergenerational Leader of Leaders.
Dr. Tim Elmore's passion for leader development began in 1983 when he worked alongside and was mentored by best-selling author, Dr. John C. Maxwell. Since then, he's emerged as an author, leadership expert, and keynote speaker who's trained more than 500,000 leaders in hundreds of organizations worldwide. Speaking of intergenerational leadership, he's also the Founder and CEO of Growing Leaders, a non-profit team that equips students and young professionals around the world to become life-giving leaders. Tim has developed young leaders on every continent and has spoken in 50 countries including India, Russia, China, Brazil and throughout the Middle East.
Dr. Elmore has advised corporations such as Chick-fil-A, Cox Communications, the Home Depot, Cici's Pizza, Delta Global, Coca-Cola Consolidated, and more. He's spoken at top-tier universities such as Stanford, Texas, Duke, Ohio State, Georgia Tech, U.C. Berkeley and more. And he's presented to executives and world-class athletes with the Kansas City Royals, New York Giants, Houston Rockets, and San Francisco Giants. His blog is read by over 100,000 people weekly.
THE INTERGENERATIONAL WORKPLACE OF THE 21ST CENTURY
At Live2Lead on October 7, come hear how Tim brings his decades of research and leadership experience to bear on what might be the biggest, most dramatic, and most disruptive shift the workforce has ever seen: the vast diversity of several generations living—and working—together. Tim Elmore explores the fact that for the first time in history, up to five generations find themselves working alongside each other in a typical company. The result? There can be division. Interactions between people from different generations can resemble a cross-cultural relationship. Both usually possess different values and customs. At times, each generation is literally speaking a different language!
How can we hope to work together when we can't even understand each other? Tim will provide the tools to:
Get the most out of the strengths of each age group on your team.
Foster effective communication instead of isolation among people.
Build bridges rather than walls so that loneliness becomes connectedness.
Connect people to learn how both veterans and rookies can mentor each other.
ADD VALUE TO YOU AND YOURS
At YAW PERBI Executive Leadership Education all our offerings are to the end that leaders grow personally, succeed professionally and become significant societally. Join Dr. Tim Elmore and the other stellar faculty Dr. John Maxwell has put together for this year's Live2Lead conference and tune up your leadership game. Register now through this link. Impress upon your organization to join the movement that will transform society by becoming a Patron of Live2Lead. A Patron company or individual is one that sends at least 10 leaders to Live2Lead. Together we can change our world for the better!
Register HERE, NOW.
Yaw PerbiSeptember 29, 2022BusinessCase StudiesCorporate CultureCultureEntrepreneurshipGrowthIntegrityLeader DevelopmentLeadershipLeadership--CharacterLeadingManagementMentoringNational DevelopmentPublic LeadershipSignificanceSuccessTrainingTrendy
Meet Gwyneth Gyimah Addo, a Sight for Sore Eyes.
Gwyneth Gyimah Addo, often affectionately called Gwen, is a wife, mother, author, philanthropist, business leader, motivational speaker, marketing strategist and the CEO of Ghana's leading human hair company, The Hair Senta.
After graduating from the University of Ghana, Gwen joined Standard Chartered Bank Ghana for six years. She holds an MBA in entrepreneurship and innovation from the China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) as well as an Executive Management qualification from Harvard Business School. Gwen was recently featured in a Forbes Africa interview on the global market boom of hair extensions and wigs. Her many awards include CEIBS Global Impact Award, CEIBS Most Promising Female Entrepreneur Award, and the 40 Under 40 Sales and Marketing Award.
Gwen founded the mega HIBS AFRICA global event to project the beauty industry on the continent and the Leading Senta Foundation which focuses on mentoring youth. Her first book, DIRECTION, is already creating impact in the lives of many young and adult readers. Her love, commitment, reliance and trust in the Lord is unquestionably the pivot around which her business success revolves.
It is hard not to like Gwen. She is absolutely winsome and authentic–what you see is what you get. This largely accounts for her over 100,000 following on Instagram, the social media platform on which she has virtually built her business. Finding high level leaders in Ghana who embody this year's Live2Lead theme of "Leading with Integrity for the Common Good" has not been easy. Many crowd-pulling speakers did not seem to fit the bill, if we were going to be serious about walking the talk. It has been heartwarming to get to know Gwen personally, upon high recommendation from my network, and to find her a leader of integrity. The icing on the cake, for me, was to expressly read from her new book, DIRECTION, how integrity is a non-negotiable for her and the multi-million dollar business she heads.
On October 7 this year, Gwen will share her views on leadership and integrity and how she manages to remain authentic in a cut-throat society. Mrs. Gwyneth Gyimah Addo is a sight for sore eyes, literally and figuratively. Friends, we are going nowhere without integrity. For in the words of Zig Ziglar, "It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one."
Tune up your personal, professional and leadership game at this year's Live2Lead conference. Register now through this link. Nag your organization until they join this rising movement of learning leaders that will transform society by becoming a Patron of Live2Lead. A Patron company or individual is one that sends at least 10 leaders to Live2Lead. There's no way we can have at least 100 such Patron organizations and companies in Ghana and not transform it, one centre of excellence at a time. Together we can change our country and continent for the better! Let's do this! Register here, NOW.
Yaw PerbiSeptember 26, 2022BusinessCase StudiesCorporate CultureCultureEducationEntrepreneurshipEthicsIntegrityLeader DevelopmentLeadershipManagementNational DevelopmentOrganizational DynamicsPersonal LeadershipPoliticsPublic LeadershipSignificanceStrategyTrendy
Meet Patrick Awuah, Trailblazer in International Education Brewed in an African Pot
Last Friday, I spent some time with friend, mentor and fellow African Leadership Initiative/Aspen Global Leadership Network Fellow, Patrick Awuah Jr. It was a joy to see and hear afresh his commitment to the cause of leadership development on the continent of Africa. And this personal pledge is to the extent that he will be excusing himself from a crucial Ashesi University board meeting to address the leaders virtually gathered at Live2Lead and then dive right back into the governance matters of this leading African establishment.
Patrick Awuah is a Ghanaian engineer, educator, and entrepreneur. Patrick founded Ashesi University in 2002. Dr. Awuah, with three honorary doctorates (Swarthmore College 2004, Babson College 2013, University of Waterloo 2018) to his name, has won numerous other awards as an individual and as the founder of Ashesi University. He was presented with the Order of the Volta Award to recognize his contribution to tertiary education in Ghana in 2007. In 2009, Awuah won the John P. McNulty Prize. In 2010, Awuah was awarded 87th most creative businessperson by Fast Company. In 2014, he received The Elise and Walter A. Haas International Award, which honours UC Berkeley alumni with distinguished records of service to their native country. In the same year, he was named best social entrepreneur by the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship. In 2015, Awuah was listed by Fortune as number 40 in world's 50 greatest leaders and was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. In 2017, Awuah was awarded the World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) prize, a major global education award.
INTEGRITY IN LEADERSHIP FOR THE COMMON GOOD
"INTEGRITY" is an often-used but little understood (and even less practiced) word in Ghana today. Patrick will be the keynote speaker on the theme for this year's Live2Lead, "Leading with Integrity for the Common Good." Ashesi has a fascinating story about an honour code and how its implementation nearly jeopardized Ashesi's accreditation process. This tale has everything to do with instilling integrity, and for those of you who are not privy to the terrific tale, we shall be impressing upon Patrick to share "from the horse's own mouth."
Patrick will address what integrity actually means and share practical examples where he's led with integrity and times his integrity has been challenged. Dr. Awuah will practically tip all and sundry on how integrity is taken off the wall and printed in hearts and minds on four levels: (1) personally (2) as teams (3) organisation-wide and (4) nationally.
You don't want to miss Patrick Awuah's fireside chat session at Live2Lead Ghana 2022. Grab your seat right here right now.
Yaw PerbiSeptember 22, 2022BusinessCorporate CultureEntrepreneurshipGrowthLeader DevelopmentLeadershipLeadingManagementMentoringNational DevelopmentOrganizational DynamicsPersonal LeadershipPublic LeadershipSignificanceStrategySuccessTrainingTrendyYouth empowerment
Meet John Maxwell, Mentor Emeritus
No single individual has influenced my leadership paradigm and praxis like Dr. John C. Maxwell. I started reading and understudying John in the late 1990s and have been teaching his materials ever since, both as a bonafide EQUIP trainer and a certified Maxwell coach/speaker/trainer on the John Maxwell Team (JMT).
Meet John Maxwell–my mentor emeritus–the #1 New York Times bestselling author, coach, and speaker who has sold more than 30 million books. John has been identified as the #1 leader in business by the American Management Association® and the world's most influential leadership expert by Business Insider and Inc. magazines.
Dr. Maxwell has also received the Horatio Alger Award, as well as the Mother Teresa Prize for Global Peace and Leadership from the Luminary Leadership Network. His organizations—The John Maxwell Company, The John Maxwell Team, EQUIP, and the John Maxwell Leadership Foundation—have trained millions of leaders from every nation in the world.
The annual Live2Lead conference is John's brainchild, and he always opens and closes, with other phenomenal faculty sandwiched in between. I have been privileged to host it on both sides of the Atlantic, in Montreal, Canada as well as Accra, Ghana.
LAWS OF COMMUNICATION AND LIMITS-BLOWING CONTENT
At Live2Lead this year, John C. Maxwell will be sharing new content from his upcoming book on the 16 Laws of Communication. Maxwell explains how to identify, grow, and apply your critical capacities. Once you've blow the "cap" of your capacities, you'll find yourself more successful in your daily life.
We are absolutely convinced at YAW PERBI Executive Leadership Education that leadership (including communication) is taught; not just caught. Join John and the stellar faculty he's put together for this year's Live2Lead conference and up your leadership game. Register now through this link. Impress upon your organization to join the movement that will transform society by becoming a Patron of Live2Lead. A Patron company or individual is one that sends at least 10 leaders to Live2Lead. Together we can change our world for the better!
Yaw PerbiJanuary 31, 2022Case StudiesEntrepreneurshipExistentialismFaithGrowthLeader DevelopmentLeadership--CharacterNewsPersonal LeadershipStrategySuccessTrendy
PANDEMIC OR NO PANDEMIC, POSITIVENESS IS STILL A FUEL FOR SUCCESS
The following is a snap peak of the preface to the third edition of Dr. Yaw Perbi's third book, 'Positiveness: a fuel for success', first published in 2003 to commemorate his silver jubilee.
It took a global pandemic to make this third edition of Positiveness: A Fuel for Success, possible. I have been trying to republish this book for nearly a decade now. The revised manuscript was done in 2012, and I had nearly completed the back-and-forth with a publishing company. All was ready to go, or so I thought. Then life happened and I put this on the backburner. Until now. It took the lockdowns of the Coronavirus pandemic of 2020 to get this going again.
I have changed a lot since I turned 25 and first launched this book and so have many things too. We didn't even have smartphones back then, and the internet was still a novelty. But some things have remained the same. After thousands of copies sold and many countries reached, "through all the changing scenes of life, in trouble and joy," what hasn't changed is the fact that positiveness is still fuel for success.
In the past two decades, I have lived and worked for a year or more in three countries on two continents. In doing so, I have needed a whole lot of positiveness, especially in those times when I was geographically separated from my family. I have formally had various occupations and preoccupations ranging from being a medical doctor in Ghana, a military captain with the United Nations in Cote d'Ivoire, a leadership consultant and speaker around the world, pastor of a Chinese congregation in the French city of Montreal, a financial security advisor and investment consultant, to being president of a couple of Canadian and global charities. Positiveness is still fuel for success no matter the field of endeavour.
You see, this book was only my third book and, back in 2003, I wrote and self-published it with a white cover and silver inscriptions to celebrate my twenty-fifth birthday (silver jubilee). At the time, I was a struggling medical student in Ghana attempting to do 'what Napoleon couldn't do'. I was trying to straddle the world of medicine and human development. In May 2003, together with a group of friends, while still in med school, I founded The HuD Group to inspire and empower young people to reach their full potential. Now I am a full-fledged medical doctor who has hung up his stethoscope— after four years of clinical practice—to focus on human development, especially holistic leadership development, because I sincerely believe, like my mentor John C. Maxwell, that "everything rises and falls on leadership."
The HuD Group began in Ghana but, at the time of writing this, I am feverishly coordinating our global operations in two dozen countries on all continents of the world and currently domiciled in Montreal, Canada. If I thought I needed a daily prescription of positiveness back in 2003, then I might need a thrice daily prescription now. The two-year battle with the Canada Revenue Agency alone to get charitable status for The HuD Group warrants a book on its own. I'll save that for another day, but it took positiveness to fuel my success.
When I was much younger and naïve, I dreamed of working with the United Nations. And unlike many for whom that is still a dream, I achieved it. I did that, for a year, in La Cote d'Ivoire. Even while already enjoying that success, I still needed positiveness as fuel when I got car-wrecked on July 21, 2008 and lost two of the military colleagues I was travelling with. It was positiveness that got me back on the road to recovery. My commanding officer, out of rare soldier-sympathy, wanted me to return home (to Accra, Ghana) and recuperate but cheers to positiveness, I was convinced to stay put and serve with grace. I prevailed. Positiveness prevailed.
So yes, life has changed—a whole lot— and so have I since 2003. Now married to my dear wife, Anyele, and a father to seven amazing children, I certainly have a broader and deeper perspective on life today. But if anything, these changes have only affirmed and confirmed the principles that were penned in this book nearly two decades ago. Positiveness is fuel for growth, success, and significance in any and every endeavour, and at whatever age and stage in life, that hasn't changed.
Yaw PerbiSeptember 21, 2021BusinessCase StudiesEntrepreneurshipGrowthLeader DevelopmentSignificanceStrategySuccessTrainingTrendy
WANTED: Intrapreneurs!
A YP presentation to the two dozen Perbi Cubs staff gathered for orientation and training at a hotel in Accra.
Have you ever come across a 'WANTED' notice? Have you ever been on one? People can be wanted for good and bad reasons. Today, I'm here to share a WANTED notice with you on behalf of several business owners I get to coach and on my own behalf as a serial entrepreneur, WANTED: INTRAPRENEURS!
This was my passionate call during the final day of a whole week's orientation and training of two dozen staff of Perbi Cubs Library Services, an evidence-based, cost-effective, literacy-promoting endeavour co-founded by my wife Anyele Perbi and I. This social enterprise has grown to serve 2,000 children in 200 schools and is set to scale some 10 times in the coming new school season (Deo volente) as a result of an innovative digital online library solution we're partnering with various leading schools to roll out. The 'problem' of Covid-19 presented this entrepreneurial opportunity. I challenged our employees to become intrepreneurs. Here's why.
First of all who is an entrepreneur? An entrepreneur is simply a person who sets up a business or businesses, taking on financial risks in the hope of profit. Investopedia offers an expanded definition of this as follows: "An entrepreneur is an individual who creates a new business, bearing most of the risks and enjoying most of the rewards. The process of setting up a business is known as entrepreneurship. The entrepreneur is commonly seen as an innovator, a source of new ideas, goods, services, and business/or procedures." My definition is as simple as this: an entrepreneur is a problem-solver for profit.
Entrepreneurship is certainly not a job, it's not even a profession or career; it's a mindset and lifestyle. It is a mindset and lifestyle of taking ownership and risk to innovatively solve problems for profit. Hence employees who think and act like entrepreneurs are called intrapreneurs.
Intrapreneurs are employees who behave like Entrepreneurs. They have a work attitude and style that integrates response-ability, risk-taking, ownership, innovation (ROI). I like the acronym ROI because intrapreneurs really provide the best Return on Investment for their employers, business owners and indeed all stakeholders. The first written use of the term 'intrapreneur' appeared in a 1978 paper by Gifford and Elizabeth Pinchot entitled Intra-Corporate Entrepreneurship but prior to that the poster child for intrapreneurship had been Art Fry of the 3M company, four years before (I shall summarize his story shortly). The Pinchots' first book, Intrapreneuring: Why You Don't Have to Leave the Corporation to Become an Entrepreneur (1985), presented an expansion of the intrapreneurship concept where they defined intrapreneurs as "dreamers who do. Those who take responsibility for creating an innovation of any kind within an organization."
Here's a more elaborate definition of Intrapreneurs by Jordan Daykin in Forbes magazine: "A team of competitive, confident individuals who are committed to innovation, passionate about work and producing higher value for their employer [indeed, all stakeholders]. They will need to have an entrepreneurial spirit, be activators of ideas and have a willingness to take calculated risks. In return for their desire to help the growth of the company over financial reward, they will receive support and resources to help make their ideas a reality."
ART FRY THE INTRAPRENEURSHIP POSTER CHILD
Today, it's hard to avoid 3M products, especially those sticky notes of theirs. The company is worth $5 billion with a recurring spot on the enviable Fortune 500 list but what most people don't know is that its success is largely one of the power of intrapreneurship. In 1968, a 3M engineering employee called Art Fry attended a seminar given by another 3M scientist, Spencer Silver, on a unique adhesive the latter had developed. This innovation had an unusual molecular structure that gave it the unique characteristic of being strong enough to cling to objects but weak enough to allow for only a temporary, non-damaging bond. It is reported that the scientific community didn't take Silver seriously and he himself was still searching for a marketable use of his invention.
As the legend goes, Fry sang in his church choir on nights, and he used slips of paper to mark the pages of his workbook. When the book was opened, however, the makeshift bookmarks often moved around or fell out altogether defeating the whole point. On a Sunday in 1973, it occurred to him that Dr. Silver's adhesive could be put to use in creating a better bookmark. If it could be coated on paper, Silver's adhesive would hold a bookmark in place without damaging the page on which it was placed. Being the intrapreneur that he was, the next day, Fry requested a sample of the adhesive and began experimenting with it, coating only one edge of the paper so that the portion extending from a book would not be sticky. Fry experimented with writing notes to his boss, which broadened his original concept into the innovative Post-it Note product.
In 1978, 3M marketed the sticky notes under the name "Press 'n Peel." Two years later, after sampling in 11 states across the country, 3M officially released the first Post-it Notes. They were a massive success right away, resulting in over $2 million in sales after only a year on the marketplace.
IF YOU DO GOOD…
The company 3M isn't the sole beneficiary of Fry's intrapreneurship. Time and space wouldn't allow me to list all the accolades and achievements of Art Fry as a result of his intrapreneurship. As the saying goes, "If you do good, you do it for yourself, really." Things have a way of coming back to us, don't they? What we sow, we reap. In return for their desire to help the growth of the company over financial reward, not only do entrepreneurs "receive support and resources to help make their ideas a reality" (as Daykin says above and the Fry-3M story shows), they also obtain skills for their own concurrent or future enterprises, they can expect that others would treat them and their businesses the way they treated another's. Intrapreneurs are singled out for extraordinary opportunities (I've done that for several people) and can always come back for referrals and recommendations from their managers/leaders/business owners. Above all, if you do good, you do it not only for yourself but also for your God. Then His kingdom will come more fully on earth as it is in Heaven.
"THIS IS MY FATHER'S WORLD"
The Good Book exhorts all and sundry, "Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters." That is more than stewardship, I think. That is ownership right there. Taking ownership of the work one does not because they are owner per se, but because their Father in Heaven owns all things. "For everything comes from him and exists by his power and is intended for his glory. All glory to him forever! Amen."
Sadly, I've heard people in Ghana who should know better, questioning a diligent and passionate worker taking risk and ownership and being innovative, an intrapreneur, as follows: "Adɛn? Adwuma no ɛyɛ wo papa dea?" To wit, "Why this hard work? Is this enterprise/organization your father's?" The answer is supposed to be an apparent "no" but what if everyone of us who calls God "Father" responds, "Ampa! ɛyɛ me papa dea!" Meaning, "Yes! Of course! It is my Father's. This is my Father's world."
I wish everyone was an entrepreneur like my wife and me since there are enough problems to be solved in our world and profit to be made as a reward. Besides, I encourage people to separate their profession from their business, meaning, the fact that they have some employment or career does not exclude them from owning a side business for multiple streams of income (as long as you're doing excellently well in your regular job and not robbing Peter to pay Paul). But the reality is that not everyone will be a business owner. Indeed, everyone doesn't have to be an entrepreneur but everyone can (and must) be entrepreneurial, especially as an intrapreneur.


Family Pirate Party on pirate ship Galija with Solaris animation team and old Solaris pirate crew. Pirate adventure on the boat is completed with party for kids, facepainting, dancing with Solaris animation team and Solaris mascot welcoming guests while entering the boat.
Solaris mascot is welcoming guests while entering to Galija boat. Departure with Galija and panoramic boat ride around Šibenik islands with pirate crew and animation team. Animatiors on boat dance with children mini disco music and do a facepainting with pirate symbols to each little pirate.
Departure with Galija boat from pier in front of hotel Ivan, panoramic boat ride around Šibenik islands duration 2,5 h with pirate crew and animation team.


The RoboRangers are about to kick off their second season. Here's a little video to get the team psyched up!
Are you ready??? from Susan Lynch on Vimeo.
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Good Luck to everyone on the team this year!


Chicken, noodles and tortilla chips are layered with sauce and cheese in a flavorful casserole. This is a dish I came up with due to boredom. It's fun, easy, and best of all the leftovers taste better than the original prepared dish!
Place chicken in a large saucepan with enough water to cover by at least 2 inches. Mix in the seasoning packets from the ramen noodles. Bring to a boil, and cook until chicken is no longer pink in the center. Remove chicken and set aside to cool. Add the ramen noodles to the boiling chicken water. Cook until tender, about 2 minutes. Drain. Chop chicken into bite sized pieces when it is cool enough to handle.
In a medium bowl, stir together the cream of mushroom soup, sour cream and milk. Grease a 9x13 inch baking dish, and begin layering the ingredients as follows. 1/3 of the tortilla chips, 1/2 of the noodles, 1/2 of the chicken, 1/2 of the broccoli, 1/3 of the cheese, and 1/2 of the soup mixture. Repeat layers a second time, then top with remaining tortilla chips and cheese.
Bake for 30 minutes in the preheated oven, until heated through and bubbly.


Do recent scientific theories and discoveries take God right out of the equation? Or maybe, somehow, God can be found at the intersection of faith and science. This seven-part series, created in partnership with the Adler Planetarium in Chicago and the Clergy Letter Project, explores the amazing ways that science can help us re-imagine the universe and our place within it.


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Q: codility GenomicRangeQuery algorithm comparsion speed Java vs Swift I rewrited code that solves GenomicRangeQuery task from Java to Swift. The code in Jave gets 100/100 score but the code in Swift fails all performance tests. I'm trying to understand why because logic in code is the same. I'w wondering why Swift code is executing so long. Do I using some very slow parts in my swift code that I'm not aware of. Please take a look at this Java code copied from here.
class Solution {
  public int[] solveGenomicRange(String S, int[] P, int[] Q) {
    //used jagged array to hold the prefix sums of each A, C and G genoms
    //we don't need to get prefix sums of T, you will see why.
    int[][] genoms = new int[3][S.length()+1];
    //if the char is found in the index i, then we set it to be 1 else they are 0
    // 3 short values are needed for this reason
    short a, c, g;
    for (int i=0; i<S.length(); i++) {
      a = 0; c = 0; g = 0;
      if ('A' == (S.charAt(i))) {
        a=1;
      }
      if ('C' == (S.charAt(i))) {
        c=1;
      }
      if ('G' == (S.charAt(i))) {
        g=1;
      }
      //here we calculate prefix sums. To learn what's prefix sums look at here https://codility.com/media/train/3-PrefixSums.pdf
      genoms[0][i+1] = genoms[0][i] + a;
      genoms[1][i+1] = genoms[1][i] + c;
      genoms[2][i+1] = genoms[2][i] + g;
    }

    int[] result = new int[P.length];
    //here we go through the provided P[] and Q[] arrays as intervals
    for (int i=0; i<P.length; i++) {
      int fromIndex = P[i];
      //we need to add 1 to Q[i],
      //because our genoms[0][0], genoms[1][0] and genoms[2][0]
      //have 0 values by default, look above genoms[0][i+1] = genoms[0][i] + a;
      int toIndex = Q[i]+1;
      if (genoms[0][toIndex] - genoms[0][fromIndex] > 0) {
        result[i] = 1;
      } else if (genoms[1][toIndex] - genoms[1][fromIndex] > 0) {
        result[i] = 2;
      } else if (genoms[2][toIndex] - genoms[2][fromIndex] > 0) {
        result[i] = 3;
      } else {
        result[i] = 4;
      }
    }
    return result;
  }
}

And here the same code rewritten to Swift 2.1
public func solution(inout S:String, inout _ P:[Int], inout _ Q:[Int]) -> [Int] {
  let len = S.characters.count

  //used jagged array to hold the prefix sums of each A, C and G genoms
  //we don't need to get prefix sums of T, you will see why.
  var genoms = [[Int]](count: 3, repeatedValue: [Int](count: len+1, repeatedValue: 0))

  //if the char is found in the index i, then we set it to be 1 else they are 0
  // 3 short values are needed for this reason
  var a,c,g:Int
  for i in 0..<len {
    a=0; c=0; g=0
    let char = S[S.startIndex.advancedBy(i)]
    switch char {
    case "A": a=1;
    case "C": c=1;
    case "G": g=1;
    default: ()
    }

    //here we calculate prefix sums. To learn what's prefix sums look at here https://codility.com/media/train/3-PrefixSums.pdf
    genoms[0][i+1] = genoms[0][i] + a
    genoms[1][i+1] = genoms[1][i] + c
    genoms[2][i+1] = genoms[2][i] + g

  }

  var result: [Int] = [Int](count: P.count, repeatedValue: 0)
  //here we go through the provided P[] and Q[] arrays as intervals
  for i in 0..<P.count {
    let fromIndex = P[i]
    //we need to add 1 to Q[i],
    //because our genoms[0][0], genoms[1][0] and genoms[2][0]
    //have 0 values by default, look above genoms[0][i+1] = genoms[0][i] + a;
    let toIndex = Q[i] + 1

    if (genoms[0][toIndex] - genoms[0][fromIndex] > 0) {
      result[i] = 1;
    } else if (genoms[1][toIndex] - genoms[1][fromIndex] > 0) {
      result[i] = 2;
    } else if (genoms[2][toIndex] - genoms[2][fromIndex] > 0) {
      result[i] = 3;
    } else {
      result[i] = 4;
    }
  }
  return result
}

Does anybody know why this Swift code fails all performance tests when Java code passes all tests? I suppose I'm touching some sensitive bottleneck in Swift but I'm not aware where.
If someone is not aware of codility this is the link to the task.

A: This Java code for the GenomicRangeQuery problem scored 100% at codility.
It uses 4 simple Arrays to do the prefix sums.
I post it here as an alternative approach.
Time Complexity is O(n+m)
public int[] solution4(String S, int[] P, int[] Q){

    char[]chars=S.toCharArray();
    int n=chars.length;

    int[]contaA=new int[n+1];
    int[]contaC=new int[n+1];
    int[]contaG=new int[n+1];
    int[]contaT=new int[n+1];

    for (int i=1;i<n+1;i++){
        contaA[i]=contaA[i-1];
        contaC[i]=contaC[i-1];
        contaG[i]=contaG[i-1];
        contaT[i]=contaT[i-1];
        if (chars[i-1]=='A')contaA[i]+=1;
        if (chars[i-1]=='C')contaC[i]+=1;
        if (chars[i-1]=='G')contaG[i]+=1;
        if (chars[i-1]=='T')contaT[i]+=1;
    }

    int[] arrayContadores=new int[P.length];

    for (int i=0;i<P.length;i++){
        int primeiro=P[i];
        int ultimo=Q[i];

        int A=contaFatia(contaA,primeiro,ultimo);
        int C=contaFatia(contaC,primeiro,ultimo);
        int G=contaFatia(contaG,primeiro,ultimo);
        int T=contaFatia(contaT,primeiro,ultimo);

        if (A>0){arrayContadores[i]=1;
        }else if (C>0) {
            arrayContadores[i] = 2;
        }else if(G>0){
            arrayContadores[i]=3;
        }else if (T>0){
            arrayContadores[i]=4;
        }

    }
    return arrayContadores;
}

public int contaFatia(int[]P,int x,int y){
    return P[y+1]-P[x];
}

A: public func solution(_ S : inout String, _ P : inout [Int], _ Q : inout [Int]) -> [Int] {

   var retArr = [Int]()
   var chrArr = [Character]()

   for chr in S {
       chrArr.append(chr)
   }

   for i in 0..<P.count {

       var minFactor = 4

       if P[i] - Q[i] == 0 {
           if chrArr[P[i]] == "A"{
               minFactor = 1
           }else if chrArr[P[i]] == "C"{
               minFactor = 2
           }else if chrArr[P[i]] == "G"{
               minFactor = 3
           }
       }else {
           for j in P[i]...Q[i] {

               if chrArr[j] == "A"{
                   minFactor = 1
                       break
               }else if chrArr[j] == "C"{
                       minFactor = 2
               }else if chrArr[j] == "G"{
                       if minFactor > 2 {
                           minFactor = 3
                           }
                   }
               }
       }

       retArr.append(minFactor)
   }

   return retArr
}

A: I have been playing with things in Swift for a while trying to come up with the right solution. This is the closest I have come.
public func solution(_ S : inout String, _ P : inout [Int], _ Q : inout [Int]) -> [Int] {
    let N = S.count + 1
    var outerImpacts: ContiguousArray<ContiguousArray<Int>> = []
    outerImpacts.reserveCapacity(N)
    for i in 0..<N {
        if i > 0 {
            var innerImpacts = outerImpacts[i - 1]
            switch S[S.index(S.startIndex, offsetBy: i - 1)] {
            case "A":
                innerImpacts[0] += 1
            case "C":
                innerImpacts[1] += 1
            case "G":
                innerImpacts[2] += 1
            case "T":
                innerImpacts[3] += 1
            default:
                break
            }
            outerImpacts.append(innerImpacts)
        } else {
            outerImpacts.append(ContiguousArray<Int>(repeating: 0, count: 4))
        }
    }

    let M: Int = P.count
    var minimalImpacts: [Int] = []
    minimalImpacts.reserveCapacity(M)
    for i in 0..<M {
        for j in 0..<4 where (outerImpacts[Q[i] + 1][j] - outerImpacts[P[i]][j]) > 0 {
            minimalImpacts.append(j + 1)
            break
        }
    }

    return minimalImpacts
}

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LA JOLLA, Calif. (KGTV) - Students in a UC San Diego computer science course are still trying to understand why someone put a racial slur in their study guide dozens of times.
The CSE 134B midterm study guide was a collaborative effort among the students. Only those in the class had access to it and could edit it anonymously.
The night before the exam, students like Raymond Arevalo were shocked to see the n-word in it 85 times.
"I got on the study guide and saw the instance of the n-word, and then I noticed another instance," said Arevalo. "I was really shocked and kind of mad because this wasn't the first time this has happened before in other classes I've been."
Arevalo says he has experienced a negative culture in the computer science program at the school. He says far too often minorities and women are targeted in the male-dominated field.
He shared images of the defaced midterm online, hoping to raise awareness of the problems he believes exist.
"People continue to do these things knowing that they won't get in trouble, and it's like a small joke to them, if the person were to get in trouble that would be nice," said Arevalo.
The story was first reported in The Triton , an independent, student-run news source. There they posted the version of the study guide with racial slurs .
"We're here to learn and get educated, not make others feel ashamed or threatened for just being them," said Olivia Thomsen, a UCSD student.
10News called and emailed the class professor for comment but did not hear back.
10News also reached out to university officials, they did not comment and referred us to their Principles of Community .


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TV providers tell CRTC to reject bids for mandatory carriage
Monday April 29th 2013
GATINEAU, QUE. – Some of the country's largest cable and satellite TV providers are urging the federal telecommunications regulator to reject a number of channels that are vying for guaranteed spots on the dial.
Shaw Communications and Rogers Communications oppose what is known as mandatory carriage, which would force them to include the channels on their basic cable and satellite packages.
They say costs would increase if the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission forces them to add channels to their basic cable and satellite packages.
The CRTC is holding eight days of hearings in Gatineau, Que., to examine 22 applications for mandatory carriage from new and existing channels, as well as channels that want to renew their mandatory distribution status.
Perhaps the most notable applicant is Sun News, the Quebecor-owned network thats arguing for a guaranteed spot because it produces 96 hours a week of Canadian, conservative-minded content.
The network says it needs mandatory carriage to help offset its losses, which were $17 million in 2012 – a situation that Quebecor calls "clearly unsustainable."
Also vying for mandatory carriage is the Starlight channel for Canadian movies, in a bid supported by producer Robert Lantos, director David Cronenberg and actor-director Paul Gross.
Source: Toronto Star


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Home BTCC Rory Butcher believes he 'definitely has the right package' after maiden win
Rory Butcher believes he 'definitely has the right package' after maiden win
By Michael Haffenden -
AmD Tuning's Rory Butcher believes he "has the right package" for more success in the 2019 British Touring Car Championship after he inherited his maiden series win by virtue of Tom Chilton's time penalty.
Butcher, who had scored a previous career-best result of second in race three, was then promoted to the win as Motorbase's Chilton received a five-second time penalty for contact with Matt Neal at Clarke Curve.
The Scot qualified 11th and struggled in race one after opting for the wet tyre, but was one of the fastest on the worn wet rubber and came home 10th.
"We made the wrong choice this morning by going on the wets. Despite being one of the quickest runners on the wets, we just should have gone for slicks," Butcher told TouringCars.Net.
"It was a shame. But the strategy was then just to score points throughout the rest of the day and make progress."
Butcher again progressed in the second race, coming home eighth, before the reverse-grid draw saw him line up fourth for the final encounter.
After a strong start, he stuck with the leaders and capitalised on contact between Stephen Jelly and Matt Neal, with Butcher sliding through at Clark Curve when Jelley was giving the position back to Neal.
He then followed winner-on-the-road Chilton home to finish second, but took victory by three seconds once the result was amended.
"We put ourselves in the position, starting P4 for the reverse-grid, and I just knew we had the chance of getting a podium," he said.
"So it wasn't an easy race but once I got past Ingram, Matt Neal and Jelley, I got some clear air, it was just about bringing it home, it was great."
With the first victory now in the books, Butcher believes he has a great overall package to continue success for the remainder of the season.
"We've definitely got the right package, we're in a good place in the series," he said.
"So we've just got to keep the same mentality and same strategy going forward."
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Indian Craftsman, The (1909-10)
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The superintendent of the school described improvements of school buildings, as well as an increase in attendance. Next, appeared a history of the Flathead Indians, accompanied by images from the Flathead Reservation in Montana. F. Shoemaker, M.D. detailed how tuberculosis infections were handled at the school. The following section, "Legend…
Comanche, Flathead
Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
In the opening article, Superintendent Friedman wrote on the success of public and special school in the United States. Next, Glenn S. "Pop" Warner discussed athletics at the school. He addressed questions of recruitment and policy. In the "Legend, Stories, and Customs" sections Carlisle Students told legends and histories of their nations.…
Iroquois, Cayuse, Nez Perce, Pottawatomi
The opening article praised the work of Francis E. Leupp, Commissioner of Indian Affairs. The following article, pulled from the Philadelphia Ledger, featured two Carlisle students. Thomas Saul (Wanyeya) and Reuben Charles (Gwee-yeh-is) were awarded the Gillespie Scholarship and were being trained in the arts. Next, C. J. Crandall…
Caddo, Shawnee, Pueblo
This issue, which commemorates the Commencement Exercises of the Class of 1909, featured speeches highlighting the success of Indian education. Francis E. Leupp, in his address, among many things spoke on the success of the arts at Carlisle. He was followed by Moses E. Clapp, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affiars. Clapp shared "…
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package suite_test

import (
	. "github.com/cloudfoundry/bosh-utils/internal/github.com/onsi/ginkgo"
	. "github.com/cloudfoundry/bosh-utils/internal/github.com/onsi/gomega"

	"testing"
)

func Test(t *testing.T) {
	RegisterFailHandler(Fail)
	RunSpecs(t, "Suite")
}

var numBeforeSuiteRuns = 0
var numAfterSuiteRuns = 0

var _ = BeforeSuite(func() {
	numBeforeSuiteRuns++
})

var _ = AfterSuite(func() {
	numAfterSuiteRuns++
	Ω(numBeforeSuiteRuns).Should(Equal(1))
	Ω(numAfterSuiteRuns).Should(Equal(1))
})

//Fakes
type fakeTestingT struct {
	didFail bool
}

func (fakeT *fakeTestingT) Fail() {
	fakeT.didFail = true
}

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Home > Theses and Dissertations > 170
Theses, Dissertations and Capstones
The Use of Aesthetics in a Comprehensive Art Curriculum
Michelle Lynn LoudermilkFollow
Susan Power
Jean Miller
This study focuses on using aesthetics in the art education curriculum. It also suggests a variety of approaches through which art educators may implement aesthetics in the classroom. Discussions of aesthetics were found in writings of Plato and Aristotle and continue to this day. Philosophers have defined aesthetics as a theory of the beautiful. Educators took this idea a step further in developing curricula and methods of educating that include aesthetics. It has been said in art education literature that aesthetics gives those who practice it a more complete understanding of art. To show the extent of benefits that aesthetics can have in art education, examples of aesthetic experiences are reviewed and discussed. The aesthetics as a philosophy of art has developed into methods used in education. These methods will be discussed. Using the knowledge that aesthetics reveals will demonstrate the importance of art through comparative analysis and historical variation. Aesthetics provide important knowledge about art that can give a classroom teacher motivational dialogue and stimulating ideas in teaching art. Helping students to understand the connection between art and aesthetics allows students to know more about and better understand the importance of each.
Aesthetics.
Art - Study and teaching.
Loudermilk, Michelle Lynn, "The Use of Aesthetics in a Comprehensive Art Curriculum" (2002). Theses, Dissertations and Capstones. 170.
https://mds.marshall.edu/etd/170
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Amy Crofters Band entertains Honiton pensioners
Katy Griffin
Published: 12:34 PM September 2, 2011 Updated: 11:15 AM November 7, 2020
Specially reserved seats ensure no one's enjoyment is denied.
THE Amycrofters folk band entertained Honiton pensioners last Saturday - and ensured no one's enjoyment was denied by providing specially reserved seats.
The band had previously performed outside St Paul's Church as part of Honiton Town Council's programme of street entertainment. However, one pensioner's enjoyment was marred by lack of seats.
So, this time, there were plenty of seats, complete with special labels, for pensioners to enjoy the talents of the husband and wife duo. The music also proved a treat for the ears of stallholders and passers-by.
The Amycrofters' stock of percussion instruments were in much demand on the day and a new coloured drum proved to be a particular favourite for the band's young fans as they helped perform The Wheels on the Bus.
Another new attraction was Sam, the dancing doll, which delighted audiences.
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HomeSchoolsPrimaryBarely one in 20 fathers led home schooling during the first lockdown, says survey
Barely one in 20 fathers led home schooling during the first lockdown, says survey
PlanBee's poll found that 78% of mothers undertook most or all of the home schooling, with 12% of households sharing the responsibility
Julian Owen
Barely one in 20 fathers took the lead on home schooling their children during the first lockdown, according to a new survey.
When lesson resource providers, PlanBee, questioned "hundreds" of parents of primary school-aged children, just 6.7% of households reported that dads were doing most or all of the home school teaching.
By comparison, 78.2% of mums were taking the lead, with 11.8% of homes reporting an even splitting of the responsibility.
"The vast majority of primary school workforce are women, but we still find it surprising that, when it comes to home teaching, dads appear to be doing so little," said PlanBee senior resource creator, Oli Ryan.
"If it's a sign that teaching young children is considered to be 'women's work', it's pretty alarming."
PlanBee's survey might be limited in number, but it nevertheless chimes with last year's Global Consumer Trends: Economy Edition report. In a poll of more than 9,000 people, it found that women take on the bulk of responsibility for remote learning around the world.
You may also like: BT's 'Lockdown Learning' initiative launched to support home education
Fitting in home schooling around other commitments was cited as the top challenge by the survey's respondents (35.3%), followed by keeping their children engaged (31%).
A third of parents said that the experience had changed their attitudes to teaching and teachers.
"Trying to get children engaged to learn is very hard," said one parent.
"I know it's a challenging time, but my year 4 [child] struggles to engage if he doesn't like the subject and I can see how that would translate in the classroom. Hats off to all teachers!"
Although the latest lockdown came too late to be included in the survey, PlanBee reports that the breadth of home schooling lessons prepared by schools is altogether wider than in March. Back then, with little time to prepare, the number of teaching subjects was extremely restricted; while more than 90% of parents received lesson plans for maths and English, the third placed subject – science – was made available to only 38.3%.
In a figure a number of households will surely find a little on the high side, 11% of survey respondents said they were "loving" home schooling their children.
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Staurogram
Yigal Ben Efraim
The staurogram, also monogrammatic cross or tau-rho, is a ligature composed of a superposition of the letters tau (Τ) and rho (Ρ).
The staurogram was first used to abbreviate stauros (σταυρός), the Greek word for cross in very early New Testament manuscripts such as P66, P45 and P75, almost like a nomen sacrum, and may visually have represented Jesus on the cross.
The Tau-Rho as a Christian symbol outside its function as nomen sacrum in biblical manuscripts appears from c. the 4th century, used as a monogramma Christi alongside the Chi-Rho and other variants, spreading to Western Europe in the 5th and 6th centuries.
Ephrem the Syrian (4th century) discusses a Christian symbol, apparently combining the Tau-Rho with Alpha and Omega placed under the left and right horizontal arms of the Tau. Ephrem says that the Tau represents the cross of Jesus (prefigured by the outstretched hands of Moses in Exodus 17:11), the Alpha and Omega signify that the crucified Christ is "the beginning and end", and the Rho, finally, signifies "Help" (βοήθια [sic]; classical spelling: βοήθεια), because of the numerological value of the Greek word being 100, represented by Rho as a Greek numeral.
The two letters tau and rho can be found separately (not in ligature) as symbols already on early Christian ossuaries.Tertullian (Contra Marcionem 3.22) explains the Tau as a symbol of salvation by identification with the sign which in Ezekiel 9:4 was marked on the forehead of the saved ones. The rho by itself can refer to Christ as Messiah because Abraham, taken as symbol of the Messiah, generated Isaac according to a promise made by God when he was one hundred years old, and 100 is the value of rho.[5]:158
The staurogram is encoded by Unicode in the Coptic block, at U+2CE8 Coptic Symbol Tau Ro, and as of Unicode 7.0 (2014) also in the Ancient Symbols block, at U+101A0 greek symbol tau rho. The Coptic block has a ligature of the full word σταυρός, where the τρ is represented by the staurogram, and two lunate sigmas are attached to either side of the tau's horizontal bar, at U+2CE7 Coptic symbol Stauros.
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Mosquitoes are included in the trip. It's really impossible to ask your tour operator or guide to make them go away, they will be really happy to see you but there are some tips to get rid off or kill them.
You will learn an ancient native technique so you don't have to worry about them.
Don't panic and enjoy your trip.
You will love this easy ancient technique, it's not difficult and don't need any fast movement. Mosquitoes are really smart and specially the one's from the Amazon, they are little Einsteins.
Never kill a mosquito with your spread hand. It will produce wind, mosquitoes will get alert and fly away.
Kill a mosquito with your finger, that way you wont produce wind and have a 80% chance.
It's really simple and a kid's can do it. The next time you come to the Amazon, they won't bother you anymore. In some ancient natives, they will eat them to show other mosquitoes humans are on top of the food chain so mosquitoes go away.
The jungle provides different bug repellents, one of the most useful are the "Arrieras Ants", they have a delicious and weird odor. If you are on the jungle, ask where is an Arriera Ant panal and do the procedure that is shown in the next video.
how do yanomami deal with mosquitos?


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Written by Adrienne Currie Published January 24, 2017
Funding awards for vasculitis support groups in Scotland.
It has been an exciting start to 2017 for The Lauren Currie Twilight Foundation. We are delighted to announce that we have received funding awards from LloydsTSB Foundation for Scotland and The Roberston Trust. Both awards will contribute to running our support groups around Scotland this year.
As you may know, LCTF run quarterly support groups in Aberdeen, Edinburgh, and Glasgow as part of the Vasculitis Scotland support network. We also had our first group meeting in Inverness in late 2016 and are planning a group in Dundee later this year. There is also funding available for a series of 'Away days' support groups throughout the year.
These awards are gratefully received and will go a long way to continue the support services we provide for people affected by vasculitis in Scotland and the UK.
If you have attended any of our support groups and have any suggestions for new themes or speakers, or how we could improve them, please get in touch.
For more information on our support groups in 2017, visit www.vasculitis-scotland.org


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THE TRTA traffic officer, Mr. W. S. Clark, will represent the Association on a working party on loading and unloading facilities which has been set up by the freight group of the Transport Co-ordination Council for London.