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4-Day Work Week Schedule Examples: 5 Options
In Four Day Week
If you're looking to introduce a new, four-day work week schedule for your company, there are really only three existing, practiced options: 32 hours over four days, 40 hours over four days (also known as the 4-10 or compressed schedule), or a seasonal four-day work week (Fridays off in the summer).
But since I'm guessing you might be looking for something like the four-day work week to choose from, I've included two other schedule templates to consider: the 9-80 work schedule and the 9-72 schedule.
These are the five common work schedule templates that include four days of work either every week or every other week. Under each schedule template, you'll see a description and examples of companies using the schedule currently.
4-day work week (32-hour schedule)
4-10 schedule (compressed work week)
9-80 work schedule (5-4/9 schedule)
9-72 work schedule (every other Friday off)
Summer Friday policy
4-Day Work Week Schedule Templates
What is the 4-day work week schedule?
The company has four working days per week rather than five and each day consists of the normal eight-hour work day. That makes for a 32-hour work week (and a three-day weekend) for the full-time employees at that company.
When people talk about the four-day work week, they are typically referring to this schedule. In most cases, companies would remove Friday from the work week. Here's a common format:
Which companies do the 4-day work week?
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See: Every Company Doing A 4-Day Work Week
Read: 32-Hour Work Week: The Complete Guide
4-10 work schedule (compressed work week)
What is the 4-10, compressed schedule?
The full-time employees at a company work four days per week with 10-hour work days. This compresses a typical 40-hour work week from five days into four, giving the company the same amount of hours but in fewer days.
Here's a common format:
Which companies do a 4-10 schedule?
Think Productive
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"Since November 2011, our UK team have worked to a 4 Day Week (4DW). At that time, we were one of only a handful of companies in the world to consciously ditch the 5-day work week in favour of a permanent 3-day weekend."
City of Redding, CA
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"The purpose of the Modified Work Schedule Policy is to enable City employees the flexibility of working a modified schedule rather than the traditional work week (8 am to 5 PM - 5 days per week)."
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"Lockheed Martin Aeronautics adopted a 4/10 schedule allowing employees to have every Friday off and flex time during the work week to attend to personal business. Employees spend time during their three-day weekends with family and friends, finding new hobbies and interests and having more personal time without using vacation."
Search Toshiba jobs
"Technology group Toshiba will begin a four-day workweek in June for employees on the plant floor, giving them one more day in exchange for longer hours while on site, maintaining the annual work hours."
City Of Morgantown, WV (City)
For the next year a large majority of workers employed by the City of Morgantown will be working four days a week.
The work week is Monday through Thursday from 7 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., according to interim Morgantown City Manager Emily Muzzarelli.
'Employees will work their 40 hours in four days or four 10-hour days,' she said."
"Morrisons is reportedly set to shake-up its head office working practices by introducing four day weeks – although staff will still be required to work one Saturday a month.
The changes include a reduction of weekly hours from 40 to 37.5 – working nine instead of eight hours a day over four days, plus a six-hour day one Saturday per month."
Elephant Ventures
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"The software and data engineering company is testing out a compressed four-day workweek starting this week. Employees will have 10-hour days, Monday through Thursday," Kathryn Vasel wrote for CNN Business.
Procurify
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"Procurify values its people and allows for a fully remote four-day workweek. Team members have the flexibility to work a four-day workweek like Ko or to spread their tasks over five days."
Iloilo, Philippines (City)
"We need to adjust because of rising costs of fuel. This will mean savings on electricity and less traffic. As an added value, this will also allow our officials and employees to have quality time with their families for three days — Friday, Saturday and Sunday," said Mayor Jerry Treñas. City Hall targets to open from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday to Thursday, to cover the required 40-hour work week.
Keller, Texas (City)
"The Keller Town Hall, Municipal Service Center and the records department of the Keller Police Department will begin a trial of the "compressed work schedule" for employees beginning on May 28, according to a post by the City of Keller."
Read: 4-10 Work Schedule: Complete Guide
What is the 9-80 (also known as the 5-4/9) schedule?
A 9-80 work schedule isn't technically a four-day work week since every other week has four working days. But this is a common, alternative schedule that companies consider to mix up the standard work week.
Over a two-week period, the full-time employees work a normal 80 hours. But instead of working 10 business days, the company works nine. Like the 4-10 schedule, the 9-80 schedule compresses the same amount of hours into fewer days. Typically, the company would give every other Friday off and then spread those eight hours that were missed over the other nine days. Here's a common format:
What are some organizations that offer the 9-80 work schedule?
Search BAE Systems jobs
"BAE Systems, a global defense and aerospace company, offers a work schedule called 9/80, where employees work 9-hour days for 9 days and everyone in the group has every other Friday off. They introduced the schedule in 1996 to attract and retain employees during the dot-com boom."
Search Chevron jobs
"To accommodate the '9/80' work schedule, the work week will be redefined with every other Friday as a non-work day. The work week will begin after 4 hours (half way through the work day) on the Friday worked."
City of Corona, CA
"For employees who work a 9/80 flex schedule, please note the following regarding how to report your regular time and overtime (OT):
The term "Flex Day" means the day you work every other week (either on Friday or Monday, depending upon the schedule you have selected)"
Roth Staffing Companies
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"The slam dunk is our flexible 9-80 schedule. The majority of our competitors average 12-13 hours per day. While they make a great living, they don't have a great like without the balance."
Search City of Redding, CA jobs
City of Coronado, CA
"The CITY and the UNION acknowledge the implementation of the 9/80 work schedule for employees in the Public Services Department. The CITY will review, and, if feasible, implement a 9/80 work schedule proposal from the UNION for the Golf Course Operations Department."
Lockheed Martin jobs
Work-life balance at Lockheed Martin is very opportune because we have a 9-80 schedule, so we get every other Friday off."
Search Twitter jobs
"Twitter announced support for a 9/80 schedule (1 day off every other week) but none of my reports were comfortable taking it until we announced that myself & team leads would be taking it. If you're a people manager, you have a responsibility to normalize actually using the perks."
Search Denbury jobs
Listed under the company's time off policy:
"9/80 Flexible Work Schedule for Employees in Plano"
Search General Dynamics jobs
"How flexible? Most employees are on a 9/80 schedule working 8, 9-hour days and 1, 8-hour day over a two-week period, getting every other Friday off. We also offer Holiday Leave, Paid Time Off and My Time – time off that doesn't need to be accrued."
Search SAIC jobs
"Optional work program providing the choice of having every other Friday off at most work locations. This flexible work program allows you to work 80 hours over 9 days and have an additional day off during a two-week pay period."
Textron Systems
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"At Textron Systems, we have a variety of Compressed Work Week schedules for our employees. Depending on job function and location, we offer a 9/80 schedule (every other Friday off), a 4/10 schedule (every Friday off), or a combination of the two."
Aera Energy
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"You start with four weeks of paid vacation each year, 10 paid holidays each year and a 9/80 work schedule that gives you every other Friday off."
Leonardo DNS
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"We understand there is more to life than work. That's why we believe it is important to offer such programs like our flexible work schedule with our 9/80 Program..."
Search Fluidra jobs
"Our alternate work week (9/80) offers most employees every other Friday off."
Search UCLA jobs
"A full-time work schedule that consists of 40 hours in one designated workweek, or 80 hours in two consecutive workweeks. On our campus, alternate work schedules consist of flextime and compressed workweeks."
Hunt Consolidated
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"A 9/80 work schedule allows our employees the flexibility to better meet their personal needs while also considering the needs of the office. Under this schedule, employees work 9 hours a day from Monday to Thursday; work 8 hours on every other Friday; and have the alternate Friday off."
Search Los Alamos National Laboratory jobs
"The most popular work schedule is the '9/80'—employees work 80 hours over a nine-workday (two-week) period, with a Friday off every other week.
Talk to your manager about available options and how to select the option that is right for you."
Search Headspace jobs
"Here at Headspace Inc. we have a 4-day week every other week and our 5-day week has a no-meetings Friday. The Friday on our 4-day week is called a "MindDay" all employees are actively encouraged to take the day off for their mind."
Fifth Tribe
"We initially said it would be a two-month program during July and August. The way it worked was that we would look at all of the client accounts and split the company in half. This way, the clients wouldn't experience any breakage in services."
Search Calibre jobs
"As the pandemic and restrictions were taking a toll on mental health and wellbeing, Ben, Calibre's CEO, decided to switch to a four day (32 hours) work week, every two weeks, effective immediately."
Search University of Colorado jobs
"As is required for the University worksite, the supervisor will establish the employee's remote work schedule; supervisors have discretion to require the employee to track time worked and record hours not worked with the appropriate leave designation (annual, sick, comp time, leave without pay, etc.) and, if eligible for overtime, must receive supervisor authorization prior to working overtime."
Search City of Seattle jobs
"The City's normal hours of operation are from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. each day from
Monday through Friday, except on days designated as City holidays. The appointing
authority may establish employee work schedules that vary from the statutory schedule as
long as business operations continue as required by municipal law."
Search San Bernardino County jobs
"The County offers the 9/80 Work Schedule in order to provide a valuable employee benefit, support the County's Commute
Trip Reduction Program, and improve County operations by providing work schedule flexibility and enhancing employee
morale"
What is the 9-72 schedule?
This is where employees have a normal five-day, 40-hour week followed by a four-day, 32-hour week. In other words, every other Friday is off with normal work days outside of that. If you have positions that are required to be on during normal work hours (like client work or support), you could have half of your team on each Friday for coverage.
What's an example company that takes off every other Friday?
See Also: 20 Creative Twists On The 40-Hour Work Week or Working 60 Hours Per Week
Seasonal 4-day work week (Summer Friday policy)
What is a summer Friday schedule?
During the summer months only, a company will offer some form of Fridays off. It's a seasonal change to the work week schedule. This could be offered in the form of a seasonal 4-10, 9-80, 9-72, or by simply cutting Fridays from the schedule during the summer months.
Which companies offer Summer Fridays?
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Q: How do I get the benefits of async python? I have read through the docs and the RealPython article for the asyncio package in the python standard library.
When you call an async function you are returned a python co-routine. So my question is do I have to manually run the co-routine, using the create_task() function from asyncio, to get performance benefits?
I have done some quick experimenting and here are my findings:
If I have four functions (1 sync and 3 async) as described below:
def syncFunc():
    start_time = time.time()
    time.sleep(3)
    end_time = time.time()
    print("difference between start and end on sync is: ", end_time - start_time)

async def asyncSleeper():
    await asyncio.sleep(1) #this could be awaiting a db call or another time consuming method

async def asyncCallerWithoutTasks():
    start_time = time.time()
    await asyncSleeper()
    await asyncSleeper()
    await asyncSleeper()
    end_time = time.time()
    print("difference between start and end on async without tasks is: ", end_time - start_time)

async def asyncCallerWithTasks():
    task1 = asyncio.create_task(asyncSleeper())
    task2 = asyncio.create_task(asyncSleeper())
    task3 = asyncio.create_task(asyncSleeper())
    start_time = time.time()
    await task1
    await task2
    await task3
    end_time = time.time()
    print("difference between start and end on async with tasks is: ", end_time - start_time)

Then I can run these using:
syncFunc()
asyncio.run(asyncCallerWithTasks())
asyncio.run(asyncCallerWithoutTasks())

And I get the following output

difference between start and end on sync is:  3.003000259399414

difference between start and end on async with tasks is:  1.0009641647338867

difference between start and end on async without tasks is:  3.0032503604888916

It seems to me that I have to manually set the co-routine to run to get the performance benefits. Is this the correct conclusion or am I doing something stupid here? If yes, is this something async frameworks such as starlette and fastAPI do in the background?
Thanks.

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Craig Levein lead Hearts to a 3-0 win over Inverness at Hampden Park
Craig Levein has called on Hearts to use their Scottish Cup semi-final win over Inverness as inspiration to beat Rangers at Tynecastle on Saturday.
Hearts, who last won the trophy in 2012, booked their place in the Scottish Cup final against Celtic with a 3-0 win over Championship side Inverness at Hampden Park last weekend.
Next up for Levein's men is a difficult test at home to Steven Gerrard's side, who have beaten Hearts in their last three Scottish Premiership meetings and sit second in the table.
Speaking to Sky Sports News, the Hearts boss said: "Getting to the final can only be good for the squad, the boys did a professional job at the weekend.
"It means the season lasts a week longer and we are all happy about that.
"There are a lot of good things going on at the club right now, behind the scenes it's ticking over nicely.
"Every now and then you have to have moments like the cup final to prove that things are progressing.
Sean Clare made it 3-0 to Hearts with a late penalty against Inverness
"Our games against Rangers have been frustrating this season because we have shot ourselves in the foot in nearly all of them by giving away early goals.
"My main thing will be that we need to not do anything silly and we are at Tynecastle which always makes me feel good.
"I am confident because the players got a big boost from the game against Inverness.
"We will try to take the game to Rangers and win.
"We have had a bit of a frustrating season, we are in sixth place and I would like us to climb one or two places at least if possible and that requires a fair amount of focus and effort from myself and all the players.
"We want to win every game from now until the cup final."
Levein is refusing to take a gamble on Steven Naismith's fitness
Hearts striker Steven Naismith, who has been sidelined with a knee injury since February, is desperate to face Celtic in the showpiece final, but Levein is refusing to take a gamble on his long-term fitness.
He added: "If there is anybody who will make it then it will be Steven, but we have to be careful as well in that we don't bring him back too early and damage his chances for next season.
"We have to be very careful but he's desperate to play."
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Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Land Management, and Climate Change: A Comprehensive Approach to Land Management and Conservation in the Japu Community Territory
Posted by Qinyu Li on June 20, 2017 June 20, 2017
Name: Japu Indigenous Community
Type of organization: Indigenous group or organization
The Japu Community has always had a vision of the landscape that considers the complex systems of resources and interactions that foster the territory's incredible biodiversity, remarkable ecosystem services, and natural climate resilience. This innovative initiative combines legal and scientific tools with the community's traditional knowledge and practices to protect habitat and support sustainable livelihoods across the territory's altitudinal gradient. A dual approach of traditional knowledge and biological data has proven to be highly successful, especially in the tropical Andes, where the effects of climate change are profound and increasingly dire as the landscape changes faster than local people are able to adapt to it.
As the impacts of climate change become increasingly profound, adapted traditional management practices for the territory's altitudinal gradient have the potential to strengthen the community's resilience to changes in the climate. The first step of this process started with years of work leading to the official declaration of the Ukumari Llaqta Private Conservation Area in 2012, which offers strict protection for over 50% of the community's territory. In 2016, with support from ACA, the community began to expand their adaptive management in highland wetlands to control overgrazing and mitigate climate change that threatened the health of this important and fragile ecosystem. These efforts are guided by the community's holistic vision for its land.
Forests / Mountains / Wetlands / Wildlife
Protection / Sustainable use / Access and benefit sharing
Jobs and livelihoods / Food security / Water security / Climate action
The Japu community territory is part of a conservation landscape that stretches from the Ausangate glacier, through the cloud forest adjacent to world-renowned Manu National Park, and deep into the lush Amazon lowlands. Climate change poses a direct threat to bofedales and cloud forest ecosystems. In addition to supporting camelid livestock, bofedales provide many wild animals with water, food, and sites for nesting. As a result of climate change and overgrazing, bofedales are shrinking in size and drying. The cloud forest of Ukumari Llaqta protects an exceptional number of endemic and endangered species that might otherwise face significant habitat loss due to logging, uncontrolled fires, and climate change. Holistic, landscape-scale sustainable management strengthens the resilience of Japu's ecosystems in the face of climate change, preserving the shrinking sites of bofedales, protecting standing forest, and allowing the community to continue practicing their traditional livelihoods.
Land-use management implemented through this initiative will improve the Japu community's ability to raise camelid livestock on their land and improve their crops' resistance to disease. These actions will ensure long-term sustainability of the community's subsistence activities, and may improve the quality of the products that provide the community's livelihoods and income. These impacts align with the Jobs and Livelihoods, Food Security, and Water Security thematic tags, as well as UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) #15 for Sustainably Managed Forests. Adaptive management to mitigate the impacts of climate change falls under SDG #13 for Climate Action, as do the benefits of carbon storage provided by both bofedales and cloud forest ecosystems. This project also addresses SDG #3 for Health and Wellbeing through improved health of community resources, #5 for Gender Equality, as detailed above, and #4 for Education through knowledge transfer and participatory scientific research.
The declaration of a private conservation area within a community territory has enormous potential for implementation on a national scale. This fairly straightforward and accessible legal process provides strict protection for community land while providing additional opportunities for income from research and ecotourism. When integrated with landscape-scale management across the highland—tropical forest altitudinal gradients that are typical of Andean communities like Japu, this initiative promotes a readily scalable model for a climate-smart conservation mosaic based in traditional practices and reinforced by national legal mechanisms. Similarly, the initiative includes research for a pilot case of a Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) strategy for conservation of bofedales. Given the carbon storage capacity of bofedales, a PES strategy could be expanded to a national scale, especially given likely support from the Peruvian government, to protect bofedales throughout the country.
The goal of this initiative is to develop a model for sustainable land management in the highland wetlands and forest ecosystems of the Japu community territory that takes into account local ecological knowledge and complements it with scientific knowledge through a participatory process that is applicable to local communities across the highlands. Once the model has been established and implemented with success in the Japu community territory, we hope to expand the model to the entire Q'eros Nation, which is comprised of Japu and two additional community territories in Peru's Andes-Amazon region. We also hope to replicate this project within the communities surrounding the Ausangate glacier, whose territories also contain large and intact bofedales ecosystems.


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Q: Constructor execution order in C++ #include <cstdio>

struct A {
  int a;
  A() {
    a = 2;
    printf("Default\n");
  }
  A(int b_) {
    a = 1;
    if(b_ == 10) {
      A();
    }
  }
};

int main(int argc, char **argv) {
  A a(10);
  printf("a=%d\n", a.a);
  A b(11);
  printf("b=%d\n", b.a);
  return 0;
}

This prints:
Default
a=1
b=1

That is, it enters the Default constructor when b_ == 10, but not when it's not.  But it doesn't change the value in a.a, even though it enters the Default constructor.
Why?

A: You aren't calling the constructor. You're just creating a temporary A then destroying it immediately. You can't call other constructors from a constructor in the current standard (C++03), and even in C++0x, you can only call other constructors from the initialisation list.

A: Most answers so far say that you're not calling a constructor. You're seeing the output of the constructor call. So just disregard those answers that are denying reality by over-simplifying.

The code snippet
if(b_ == 10) {
  A();
}

creates and destroys a temporary object of class A.
As part of the creation the A default constructor is called to initialize the object.

The C++98 rules are designed to ensure that unless you use very low level functionality to impose your contrary will, every creation of an object of type T corresponds to exactly one T constructor call on that object. And vice versa, if you call a T constructor (which is another valid view of the above code) then, in C++98, you're creating a T object. You can call that the C++ constructor call guarantee: creation = constructor call.
The constructor call guarantee means, among other things, that a constructor call failure is an object creation failure: if a constructor fails, then you don't have an object.
Which simplifies things a lot.
For example, it says that if you do new A, and the A default constructor fails, then you don't have an object. So the memory that was allocated to hold that object, is automatically deallocated. And so that expression does not leak memory even if the object construction fails -- instead of an object, you just get an exception.
It's almost beautiful. :-)

A: A(); doesn't do what you think it does. (e.g. call the default constructor)
It creates a temporary object, which then is discarded.

A: A(); creates a new (temporary) instance of A, calling its default constructor.
You cannot call another constructor from a constructor.

If you have a lot of initializing to do, you could create a private method and call it in both constructors.

A: In this code:
if(b_ == 10) {
  A();
}

You're putting a temporary A() on the stack, not calling the default constructor of A.
To do what you intend, you'll need to factor out the code in the default constructor into a helper function, then call that function from here and the default constructor.

A: With A() (in A(int b)), you are creating a new, different object.
Googlr says this: Can I call a constructor from another constructor (do constructor chaining) in C++?


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'We're giving it a crack': Music festival organisers dreaming of summer
August 7, 2021 — 5.15pm
Queenscliff Music festival organiser Andrew Orvis has a grim laugh when asked this week about his sanguine move of announcing the event's line-up for late November.
"We're giving it a crack," he says of the program, which features John Butler, Julia Stone, Archie Roach, Client Liaison and The Bamboos.
Queenscliff Festival organiser Andrew Orvis hopes his event can go ahead in November.
"All the hoops, we're jumping through every one … We're hoping for the best. Is it a 100 per cent sure thing? No, but nothing is at the moment."
The festival industry, which directly and indirectly employs thousands of Victorians and pumps millions into regional towns, has been on its knees since COVID struck 18 months ago – the most brutal example nationally being Byron Bay Blues Festival, cancelled a day before it was set to go ahead.
But images of crowds at festivals in Europe and the US – most notably Lollapalooza in Chicago, that hosted about 100,000 people a day over four days – have organisers hoping the warm weather and higher vaccination rates later this year might offer hope for a summer of fun.
Overseas festivals have been going ahead under conditions of punters providing proof of vaccination or showing that they have had a negative COVID test prior to entry, including through rapid turnaround anti-gen tests that deliver a result within 30 minutes.
Festival-goers in Chicago on day one of Lollapalooza last month. Credit: AP
Hamish Skermer, the organiser of Victoria's Folk, Rhythm and Life festival, arrived in London to set up composting toilets at festivals on July 13 and has been run off his feet ever since.
"As soon as the weather was striding there were events popping up all over the place – it's going crazy," he says.
Hamish Skermer has worked at music festivals in the UK this northern summer.
"I had three major events cancel in the first week an a half, then I've had a bunch of little ones spring up. The first weekend I had six events."
Skermer says patrons had to prove they had been fully vaccinated or take a COVID test as a condition of entry and that once inside there was a "bubble attitude".
He plans to proceed with Folk, Rhythm and Life this year on a site near Beechworth on the first weekend of December and prioritise his ticket sales of up to 3000 to those who are vaccinated. "We're absolutely planning on going ahead," he says.
"We are going to prioritise vaccinated people. The first ticket batch is going to vaccinated people. There's children who are not vaccinated who come to our festival and they need to be protected.
"If the government's not going to make it [mandatory], I'm up for businesses doing it.
"[The unvaccinated] will be the ones staying at home, we're the ones going out and going to the party. If you want to come to the party, get a vaccination."
Orvis, who usually hosts 10,000 punters but will run at significantly reduced capacity, and admits to wanting to "bang [his] head against the desk repeatedly at the moment", is also supportive of attendees providing proof of vaccination or a COVID-negative test.
"If that is a mechanism that gives government more confidence that our events can be safe, as an industry … a good majority would be supportive of that push.
"[But] we're 20 per cent vaccinated a the moment. That means 20 per cent of ticket-holders can come. Until we get to higher rates it's going to be tough."
Julia Robinson, general manager of the Australian Festival Association, says the unpredictability of lockdowns means the most immediate problem is organisers can't get insurance.
"We've seen really heart-breaking cancellations, when everything is up and running, ready to go … all that money goes down the drain," she says.
The association is part of a group of industry organisations that on Friday called for a government-backed event insurance scheme similar to that announced this week by the UK government, in which the government guarantees policies issued by commercial insurers for events including festivals.
Robinson says if that certainty is in place organisers can get planning. "If [insurance] was there we'd have a whole lot of events on sale," she says.
"This industry are a real hopeful bunch, they're problem-solvers if nothing else … If they can open up, they'll always find a way."
Robinson also believes a health pass and masks indoors will be mandatory for large events later this year and that Victorians reeling from Lockdown 6.0 will need to let their hair down.
"It's where the community comes together. For the last 18 months a lot of musicians and artists have been creating, they're going to have some special creations to share. It will be a great recovery when it happens."
Orvis agrees that Victorians need something to look forward to and that when festivals can get going again, and we can once again gather en masse, it will be the ultimate antidote to lockdown angst.
"Apart from all of the massive economic benefits for everyone involved, the local cafes, the petrol stations, accommodations, the people going, some of us have had 18 months or a couple of years of no live music, no social gatherings. I've grown up going to festivals and it's part of the fabric of people's beings."
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Patrick O'Neil is Sunday Age deputy editor.Connect via email.


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Published by Member Samantha Peters on 30 May 2020
It is safe to say that the UK is no longer at the pandemic or epidemic levels of COVID-19.
As the virus is on the decline, now may be a sensible time to review the policies implemented by the UK Government and to ask how well prepared the UK is for a state of emergency, should such a situation arise again.
Was lockdown necessary?
It appears that the UK Government followed the advice of Imperial College and Professor Neil Ferguson who predicted that without suppression of the virus, deaths would reach an estimated high of 250,000. It is now common knowledge that the implementation of Imperial Colleges recommendations was based on the formulation and implementation of a code. it is no great secret within the academic community that the quality of most computer codes used is very poor. Professor Neil Ferguson's group at Imperial have now published their code which by standards of most academics is incomprehensible and confusing, to say the least. It was the primary reason for Professor Ferguson predicting such a vast number of deaths when the death rate resulted in 320000 deaths worldwide.
Scientists across the world have advised on the implementation of such measures where there has been a less severe restriction on freedom such as Sweden and Japan. Despite there being no lockdown implemented, Sweden's death rate figures are extremely close to that of the UK's. Furthermore, if we look at who has died from the disease, the UK's policy to implement such drastic measures can be questioned further. It would appear that the majority of individuals who have died have had serious underlying health conditions that have been serious enough to be a cause of death, putting COVID-19 to aside. Other individuals have been over the age of 80 with a third of the deaths occurring in care homes.
Even if we were to take all deaths where COVID-19 is mentioned on the death certificate disregarding age or serious underlying health conditions, approximately 43,000 deaths are less than 2018's excess winter deaths and would count as a bad year but by no means a remarkable figure.
Having discussed the above, the question to ask is what impact have the Government's drastic measures had on the population of the UK?
• It is arguable beyond doubt that the measures taken by the UK Government have caused more harm than good and have had unimaginable effects on the population of the UK. The hysteria caused by the implementation of lockdown has led to fear beyond controllable measures. Before lock down was implemented, the Government should have comprehensively thought about long term effects on the health and psychological implications on individuals. Statistics show that Accident & Emergency cardiac admissions have reduced by 50%. This means approximately 5000 people per month have not attended hospital who have suffered symptoms of a heart attack. It is a well known fact that only one in ten individuals survive a heart attack outside of the hospital. A similar pattern was followed by stroke sufferers and cancer patients. Since lockdown, there have been over 13000 non-COVID-19 deaths. The question to ask is how does the Government justify such figures?
• Numerous mishaps have occurred as a direct consequence of the Government negligence. This has emanated from lack of PPE for frontline workers to their misguided perception until 12 March that it was highly unlikely that residents of care homes would get infected with COVID-19. However, the Government still admitted patients from hospitals into care homes until mid- April. In addition, the political actions of Government Advisers and the affirmation of such actions by the Prime Minister have raised numerous issues regarding the credibility of the present Government and its stance in condoning the actions of individuals who have broken lockdown measures, in particular Dominic Cummings. This further casts doubt on the Government's impulsive strategy and has raised doubt as to whether this approach should have been adopted from the outset. It also questions the plausibility of the Government stance on lockdown measures as key individuals would not have put themselves at risk by not abiding with lockdown rules.
• Damage to the UK economy is immeasurable. If lockdown measures are not alleviated, then the UK economy will never be able to recover from such a hard blow. This, in turn, will result in millions becoming unemployed. A question that is being asked by cabinet ministers is why is the UK Government not encouraging individuals to return to work sooner and implementing a common sense approach to ensure their safety as surely 'stay alert' can be interpreted to mean exercise caution.
•	The Government has condoned the reporting of COVID-19 by the media in a manner that has caused significant hysteria and panic. It has failed to implement measures to restrict reporting methods and exaggeration of figures, facts, and circumstances.
•	Is the UK prepared for another Pandemic?
•	The UK Government must establish a 'growth mindset' is preparing itself for a global emergency and acknowledge where it has failed and where it needs to establish defences which ae ready to resist a similar pandemic in the following ways:
•	Preparation of the Nightingales so that they are ready at a moment's notice at the inevitable time to reduce stress and pressure on the NHS.
•	Annual training for the NHS Volunteers to accommodate and provide help and support in the additional Nightingale Hospitals.
•	Organise and source sufficient PPE to deal with such an emergency. Prepare equipment that may be vital to saving the lives of individuals such as ventilators beforehand.
•	Incorporate and adopt strategies such as contact tracing well in advance so that such measures are ready to be incorporated immediately if a pandemic that required such intervention was to occur.
•	Call for an independent investigation into the policies adopted by The World Organisation given the discrepancies in its advice. Recently, Italy has provided evidence from an autopsy of a patient who died from COVID- 19 which shows that it is not actually a virus but a bacterium that causes blood clots that prevent the blood from flowing normally and carrying oxygen to the main organs in the body. This was carried out by Italy by disregarding the protocol enacted by WHO. WHO advised Countries against carrying out autopsies on COVID-19 patients. This casts doubt on the advice given by the organisation.
•	It is abundantly clear that scientific evidence shows that the majority of infections are emanating from hospitals and care homes. Even then it is arguable they are swiftly on the decline.
•	We must as a society, stand together to regress from lockdown as soon as possible so that harm to society is significantly reduced and a transition to 'normality' is made as soon as possible.
This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Samantha Peters .
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Smriti Irani's close aide shot dead in Amethi
Amethi: A former village head was allegedly shot dead by two unidentified men in Uttar Pradesh's Amethi district, police said on Sunday.
Additional Superintendent of Police Daya Ram said Surendra Singh, 50, the former head of Baraulia village was shot at around 11.30 pm Saturday.
He was referred to Lucknow in a serious condition and he succumbed to his injuries during treatment, the police officer said, adding two people have been detained in connection with the incident and further investigation was underway.
Baraulia village was in news during campaigning in the recently concluded Lok Sabha elections, as Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra had accused Smriti Irani of distributing shoes to the residents in order to insult Rahul Gandhi.
Locals claim that Surendra Singh was considered close to Irani and he was involved in the distribution of footwear.
In the general elections, the Congress suffered a major embarrassment with Rahul Gandhi losing the party's stronghold Amethi to BJP's Smriti Irani by 55,120 votes.
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Patriots Draft Pick Review: Tavon Wilson
Tavon Wilson had a solid rookie season in New England. (Photo: US Presswire)
NEPD Staff Writer: Tony Santorsa
In probably the most interesting draft selections that the New England Patriots made in the 2012 NFL draft was selecting Tavon Wilson out of Illinois with the 48th overall pick.
For starters, I did not like this selection at all—but Wilson sure impressed me in his rookie season.
In my pre-draft rankings, I did not foresee Wilson going in the second round—in fact, I had him listed in the fourth and fifth rounds.
If you ask me, this selection was a steal.
Wilson played in all 16 games for the Patriots this year and became a reliable part in New England's secondary. Granted, Wilson had his share of mental lapses early on on the season and was one of the key factors to New England's defense giving up so many big plays, but really settled in as a solid defender.
As the season went on, we saw Wilson giving the responsibilities of covering the opposing team's tight ends. In one of Wilson's most impressive performances, he held tight end Owen Daniels to nine receptions on 15 total targets and holding him to 81 yards and no touchdowns in New England's playoff victory over the Houston Texans.
I foresee Wilson taking on the role that we expected Patrick Chung to take on when he was in the earlier part of his career.
All in all, there were a lot of positives in Wilson's debut season but certainly has plenty of work to do in understanding Bill Belichick's defensive philosophy.
2012 Stats: 16 games played, 41 tackles, four interceptions for 87 yards and six pass deflections
Letter Grade: B
Tags: 2012 NFL Draft, Patriots Draft Picks Review, Tavon Wilson
9 Responses to "Patriots Draft Pick Review: Tavon Wilson"
MaineMan says:
As much as people want to think that Wilson would definitely have been available long after #48, it turns out that wasn't likely. Later reports discovered that six teams had worked-out Wilson in the week or so before the draft – including San Diego who picked at #49.
We groundlings didn't know about that because Kiper, Mayock, Schefter et al didn't know about it because, well, such guys don't really do nearly as much homework on non-glamor prospects as they lead us to believe they do. And, during the final week before the draft, they're all much too busy blathering on network TV and tweaking their own exclusive first round projections to do any further research.
It's good for Pats fans, though, that BB keeps doing his homework right through Draft Day (and beyond) on all the prospects and on what other teams have interest.
Russell Easterbrooks says:
I don't feel Wilson was worth the 48 pick, when you could have gotten him at 90, but remember Bill see's things (entangables) that many people don't see in players. Once targeted he's going to do his best to get the guy he wants. Ebner is the biggest head scratcher, I have ever seen Bill draft in may years of following Patriot drafts!! With Limited playing time, the Entangables were/ had to be, very important on Ebner.
This years draft will be the Same, DT Joe Vellano, some where in the Patriot's draft.
acm says:
Wouldn't call Wilson "a steal" and would have been happier if he had been a 3rd or a 4th round pick but the guy has performed well for a rookie and would like to see him above Chung/Gregory in the safety depth chart next year. Would love to see BB sign Ed Reed, imagine how much he would help Wilson's and DMac's development.
Going back and doing the whole retrospective draft critiquing is easy and unfair so I'm not going to do that. All we can do is judge how the picks do once they're here like this article does, but I am not buying the "B" grade on Wilson or that he was a steal. I'm definitely not buying that Cunningham was a good pick either.
dslave says:
WHO WAS PICKED AROUND HIM THAT WAS BETTER? Dunlap compared to cunningham doesn't make any sense. Cunningham is a hold the point off attackplayer while Dunlap just rushes the qb. That player has no disclipline. sacks are overrated.pressure and holding the edge is what the pats do.
mjp says:
Am I the only who thought this review was something of a spoof? A steal?
No. Casey Hayward was a steal, I had a 2nd round grade on him and he went in the 3rd, DROY candidate, top slot CB in the league pretty much.
Richard Sherman, 3rd round grade, goes in the 5th if I recall, that's a steal.
Wilson was NOT a steal.
Casey went in the second round, with the pick we traded to the Packers.
Hindsight is always 20/20, but would rather BB had traded down from 48, as it would have avoided having to settle for a rubbish deal from Green Bay.
Would have been even happier if Janoris Jenkins fell to 48, that was what I was hoping for at the time.
BB gets the man he wants for the teams future. His draft moves are very well thought out, and he looks to the future with his moves. He like's the entangables that some players have.
No way was Wilson worth the 48th pick. BB should trade up, not back as he is NOT a good picker of talent: middle of the pack at best. He focuses too much on " coach ability" preferring team captain types versus talent…case in point: Cunningham versus Dunlop…


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Bengt Johan Jörnstedt, född 1 juli 1946, var en framgångsrik kappseglare både nationellt och internationellt framför allt på slutet av 1960-talet och 1970-talet. Han var bland annat med och seglade Peter Norlins nykonstruerade Scampi till internationella topplaceringar i USA. Denna dynamiska och experimentella tid har han skrivit om i sin bok En seglares äventyr. I över 20 år, till 2005, var han sedan chefredaktör för tidskriften Segling, där han fortfarande deltar med artiklar.

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Rena linjer, ren segling: Peter Norlin och hans båtar, Nautiska förlaget, Stockholm 2007,
En seglares äventyr – om stormar, skottlossning, atlantseglingar, internationella regattor, segelmakeri, kampen om Segling, Gotland runt, skärgård - och skeppstaxen Sigge, Acqua Perla, Saltsjöbaden 1989,

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Home / February 20, 2023 | 19:00 (Mon) - Rusalka
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February 20, 2023 | 19:00 (Mon)
Dvořák´s Rusalka is a true gem of Czech opera
Czech original version with English surtitles
The composer's ardent melodies, both tender and dramatically extreme, his masterful work with musical motifs and full-blooded orchestration, together with Jaroslav Kvapil's fairy-tale libretto, make Rusalka a work of fascinating beauty addressing audiences of all ages.
There is no doubt that the fantastic story and the characters of the nymphs, water goblin or the witch are of a fairy-tale nature, yet in its fairy-tale scenes, Dvořák's paramount operatic work bears a profound message about the fundamental order of powers, elements, energies and passions in the natural, therefore also human, world.
Performing:
Soloists of the National Theatre Opera
National Theatre Orchestra
National Theatre Chorus
Ballet of the National Theatre Opera
The opera has two 20-minute intermissions.
Národní 2, Praha 1
The National Theatre is the most important and representative theatre of the Czech Republic
The Prague National Theatre was built from the desire of the Czech people for national independence. Its building was financed from the collections on which participated broad masses of people as well as important donators (including the nobility and the emperor himself). The theatre foundation ceremonial on 16th May 1868 became a national celebration.
The theatre was opened in 1881. In the same year the theatre burned down, and this tragic event caused a huge wave of new collections to support the restoration of the theatre. The Prague National Theatre was re-opened in 1883 by the opera Libuše by Bedřich Smetana and since then it has been serving as a place of Czech national identity and as a flagship of the Czech culture to these days.
Accessibility by Prague public transport:
metro B (yellow line) - Národni třída station
tram Nos. 2, 9, 17, 18, 22, 23 - Národní divadlo stop
The underground car park of the National Theatre is closed due to reconstruction.
You can park in:
Kotva department store (Revoluční 1/655, Prague 1)
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Serena C. | September 26, 2022 | 12:28 (Mon)
This is our first exposure to Czech opera and we love every bit of it. It is also such an affordable setting and I hope it will be encourage everyone to give it try.
nicolas F. | April 13, 2022 | 17:32 (Wed)
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Jon R. | February 04, 2022 | 22:50 (Fri)
It was a gift for my daughter and son in law who were visiting Prague from Canada, and they said it was a most magical evening in every aspect.
Iman T. | January 12, 2022 | 05:32 (Wed)
Highlight of my trip to Prague.
BERNARD C. | December 31, 2021 | 15:02 (Fri)
Bravo au chef et à l'orchestre. Bonne distribution, avec une mention pour la basse. Mise en scène intéressante surtout pour les deux premiers actes.
Aart G. | October 28, 2021 | 18:50 (Thu)
Stunning performance.
Opera by Charles Gounod
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Labour MPs condemn decision to expel Alastair Campbell for voting Liberal Democrat
MPs Tom Watson, Jess Phillips and Steve McCabe urge Labour to listen to members who backed other parties rather than punishing them
Jonathan WalkerPolitical Editor
Labour deputy leader Tom Watson said it is "spiteful" to expel people from the Labour Party because they did not feel able to vote for it during last week's European elections.
The Black Country MP said that Labour "should be listening to members rather than punishing them."
He is one of a number of West Midlands Labour politicians to defend members who voted for anti-Brexit parties in last week's poll.
His comments came after Alastair Campbell, former Labour Prime Minister's Tony Blair's ex-spin doctor, was kicked out of the Labour Party for admitting on television he voted for the Liberal Democrats.
It's provoked anger and frustration from some Labour MPs, who say that Labour should look at the reasons why some members refused to vote for it and attempt to win back their support.
While the Brexit Party got the most votes and the most seats in the European elections, the anti-Brexit Liberal Democrats came second. It appears that Labour lost votes to the Lib Dems and the Greens, who both support holding a second Brexit referendum.
Alastair Campbell speaks to the media outside his home in north London after he was expelled from the Labour Party for admitting he voted for the Liberal Democrats in the European elections.
Mr Watson, Labour MP for West Bromwich East, said: "It is very clear that many thousands of Labour Party members voted for other parties last week.
"They were disappointed with the position on Brexit that a small number of people on the NEC inserted into our manifesto. They were sending the NEC a message that our position lacked clarity, and they were right.
Boris Johnson summoned to appear in court over '£350 million-a-week' Brexit claim
"It is spiteful to resort to expulsions when the NEC should be listening to members.
"The politics of intolerance holds no future for the Labour Party. A broad church party requires pluralism and tolerance to survive.
"There should be an amnesty for members who voted a different way last week.
Steve McCabe, MP for Birmingham Selly Oak (Image: Birmingham Mail)
Similar concerns were expressed by Steve McCabe, Labour MP for Birmingham Selly Oak.
He said on Twitter: "This is ridiculous, won't help with confirmatory vote and will do nothing to deter members and voters who are already leaving Labour in large numbers.
"Suggest it would be smart for the small, spiteful person or persons who made this decision to unmake it urgently."
Birmingham Yardley MP Jess Phillips said: "He was expelled quicker than a man who threatened to kill me, quicker than a man in my Constituency Labour Party who denied the Holocaust, both are only still suspended."
Bob Ainsworth
Former Coventry MP Bob Ainsworth, a former Defence Secretary in a previous Labour government, revealed he voted Green in the European elections.
Labour MPs in other parts of the country were also angry.
Brighton MP Peter Kyle said: "I'm stunned at the stupidity of expelling people who just voted for other parties."
He said Labour would lose half its membership if everyone was honest .
Bristol MP and Shadow Minister Karyn Smith said: "Today was a day for humility & reflection on why voters turned from UK Labour in droves. Instead we spend the day on an internal row on our rules."
Labour MP Richard Burden urges party to be 'straight with people' and say it backs a second Brexit referendum
Ogmore Labour MP Chris Elmore said he did not believe Mr Campbell had broken any rules.
Charles Clarke, the former Labour home secretary and party chairman, said he also voted Liberal Democrat in the election.
Despite taking action against Mr Campbell, it's reported that Labour is set to respond to the election result by coming out firmly in support of a second Brexit referendum.
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Human beings are meaning-makers — adapting, changing, and building understandings through knowledge-making discourses.
The Innovative Learning Centre (ILC) brings students, educators, and community members together from across disciplines and interests to co-create learning experiences invested in this elemental and formative nature of knowledge. Thus, innovation is not characterized as a distinct quality in self, others, and situations that is rare and special but, instead, turns to innovation's roots of innovare, to renew, for insights into its elemental and catalytic roles within teaching/learning experiences of all kinds.
Multiple opportunities to revisit understandings through varied traditions, perspectives, and methodologies are understood as key to enlarging and deepening thinking. Documenting and analyzing the lived individual/collective curricular, programmatic, contextual, and ethical consequences for students, educators, and communities, articulating the innovative significances and implications for learners and learning, forms the ongoing tasks of the ILC.
In alignment with UBC Strategic Plan (2019), Shaping UBC's Next Century, three themes of inclusion, collaboration and innovation represent key opportunities for transformational change:
To design and develop inclusive places-spaces for exploration, creation, and experiential innovations focusing on pedagogical excellence.
To foster collaborative possibilities for innovative connections across practitioners and researchers.
To further innovative scholarship, research and community engagement locally, provincially, nationally, and globally.
Innovative, Collaborative, Inclusive Programming: Okanagan School of Education (OSE), Faculty of Education, UBC
The OSE is comprised of the undergraduate, professional development, summer institute, and graduate programs of study. A shared conception forming the heart of all our programs is an educator identity characterized by the notion of a scholar-practitioner. We understand a scholar-practitioner to be a student of learning — always renewing understandings. Thus, investing in the formative nature of professional knowledge is an educator's task throughout all phases of one's career. Our programs of study deliberately foster many opportunities for theory/practice intersections articulating:
Needed curricular conditions, supports, and student and educator sensibilities.
Exemplars, making visible the entrusting of learning to educators and their students as generative springboards for others to gain access to possibilities for the particulars of their contexts.
Shared language to articulate the learner/learning intents for all involved.
Research and scholarly activities documenting, disseminating, and mobilizing the long-term significances.
Innovative Collaborations: The Small Secondary School Think Tank
The Small Secondary School Think Tank was created in 2013 as a result of the Rural Education Advisory expressing a need for an annual event where educators from across the province could come together in an effort to share ideas and collaborate on the unique challenges faced by small schools in British Columbia.
The Think Tank, hosted by the Okanagan School of Education, takes place in the Innovative Learning Centre (ILC) Learning Lab, located in the Engineering, Management and Education (EME 1123) Building on UBC's Okanagan campus annually.
Each year one case study school is chosen. During the two-day think tank, educators discuss the case school and the unique challenges faced by the school community. Educators also participate in a Design Challenge. This is a process where educators creatively identify problems, and then solutions, using design thinking, a philosophy supported by the ILC.
Review the most recent case studies below.
Case Study: Lillooet Secondary School 2019
Located on the traditional territory of the St'at'imc peoples and Lillooet Secondary School serves the communities of Zwisten, Sekw'el'was, Xaxli'p, Ts'kw'aylaxw, Tsal'ath, T'it'q'et and Lillooet.
There are 210 students between Grades 8 and 12, with 67 per cent declaring Indigenous ancestry.
A 2016 survey of Indigenous learners showed:
Lack of connection to adults in school
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Feelings of inequity in the way the school served students
From there the school embarked on an action plan for learning to creative a culturally safe space for all learners.
Lillooet Think Tank Presentation
Case Study: Pemberton Secondary School 2018
Pemberton Secondary School (PSS) is located in Pemberton BC. The total population is approximately 5,000, which includes the town of Pemberton, the rural outlying areas, and Mt Currie. Pemberton is located 30 minutes north of Whistler, BC.
Pemberton Secondary School is a diverse and unique school comprised of 40 per cent Aboriginal students (non-status First Nations, Metis and Stl'atl'imx Nation – N'Quatqua, Lil'wat, Samahquam, Skatin, and Xa'xtsa7 Bands). It has an active student population, students with diverse artistic interests, a growing international program, children of long-time Pemberton residents, and students that are new to the area. Specialized programs currently offered at PSS are:
Outdoor Education Program for Grade 10
Ski, Snowboard & Bike Academy (SBBA) for Grades 11 and 12
French immersion Grades 8 – 12
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Osoyoos Secondary has a very positive school culture characterized by strong relationships between teachers and parents support and has strong connections to the community. A significant number of O.S.S. graduates return to Osoyoos to live, work, raise families, and send their children to school in here.
Declining enrolment made it challenging for the school to offer a strong complement of elective courses to students. Over time, students in the Grad Programs had fewer options to choose from and thus had little ability to create a Grade 10 – 12 graduation plan that was personalized to their needs and goals. At the end of the 2014/15 school year staff agreed to enter into a process of exploration and research in order to find ways to increase choice for students.
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Baseline survey reveals challenges faced by vocational students in Mozambique
Survey of final-year students in vocational education in Mozambique suggests that despite recent reforms, students continue to face challenges related to teaching and equipment quality, costs, and appropriate guidance on future career and income expectations. The follow-up survey and analysis, which will be carried out during 2020, will provide relevant, high-quality evidence for decisions that support further education policy reform and youth employment in Mozambique.
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A baseline survey carried out by the Inclusive growth in Mozambique – scaling up research and capacity programme, in collaboration with the Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Security of Mozambique, examined the experiences and expectations of over 1,600 final-year students as they prepared to move from technical-vocational education to the job market in late 2019. The survey will continue until December 2020 and includes four survey rounds with the same students, tracking their transition from school to the job market in detail.
The survey provides first-of-its-kind data on technical and vocational education and training (TVET) in Mozambique, including on student family background, student experience, opportunities for gaining work experience, and employment expectations.
Sam Jones, lead author of the study and research fellow at UNU-WIDER, said: 'Technical-vocational education is of major relevance to the Mozambican job market given both the general shortage of technical skills and expected future growth in demand for these skills, partly related to foreign investment projects. Despite recent reforms, it is not known whether the existing TVET system is able to supply students with the kinds of skills currently needed by firms. For example, teaching quality, access to equipment, and access to work experience may all have a significant impact on future career outcomes. As such, the information gathered by our study will provide the evidence needed to improve the quality, relevance, and responsiveness of the TVET system to the real labour market needs.'
Some key findings from the baseline survey:
Overall, students were satisfied with their chosen studies and institutions. On average, over 90% of students would choose the same course again, and 72% said they would choose the same school. Students attending private and community schools expressed lower satisfaction with their institutions than those attending less costly public schools.
76% of students stated that their school needed to investment in equipment, and one in three respondents identified poor teacher motivation and technical knowledge as severe obstacles to learning. Students in agriculture were most likely to report severe obstacles in their studies.
Men accounted for the majority of students in industry (80%) and agriculture (57%), while women (60%) outnumbered men in courses in the services sector.
Work experience may enhance student employability after graduation. While on average over 73% of surveyed students completed some form of work experience, we found gender and regional differences. For example, across all fields of study, over 80% of men were graduating with work experience, compared to 60% of women, while students in Maputo City were less likely than their peers in other provinces to have completed work experience during their studies, suggesting a saturation of opportunities in this location.
In general, there was a notable entrepreneurial streak among students who intended to work after graduation: 83% stated they were open to working for themselves, either informally or by starting their own business.
Students were uncertain about how long it would take to find a job but had relatively high expectations regarding future earnings. Their teachers, on the other hand, tended to predict lower wages for their students and expected about one in five graduates to be unemployed one year after graduation.
The survey on school-to-work transitions of vocational training and education graduates in Mozambique is part of the sectoral policy and labour market inquiry carried out under the Inclusive growth in Mozambique – scaling up research and capacity programme. The programme is implemented jointly by the Directorate of Economic and Financial Studies (DEEF) of the Ministry of Economy and Finance of Mozambique, the Centre for Economic and Management Studies (CEEG) at the University of Eduardo Mondlane, the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), and the Development Economics Research Group (DERG) of the University of Copenhagen.
Together with the study of school-to-work transitions of university graduates completed in 2019, this research aims to contribute to the analysis of the links between labour markets and higher education in Mozambique and to enable far-reaching, inclusive and evidence-based policy-making across all sectors.
1,639 final-year students from 20 institutions across the provinces of Cabo Delgado, Nampula, Tete, Maputo Province and Maputo City participated in the baseline survey conducted between October and November 2019. Follow-up interviews of the same students will be carried out during 2020 to see how their circumstances and expectations changed during the 12 months after graduation, also considering the COVID-19 pandemic. The final results and analysis will be published in early 2021.
Visit the Inclusive growth in Mozambique – scaling up research and capacity programme website.
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Directorate of Economic and Financial Studies, Ministry of Economics and Finance
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There are times when I do question why do I continue to blog. I do not have a wide audience and really, this is more of a way for me to record down the recipes that I enjoy creating and thoughts of reflection. Then it became a routine and I simply just enjoy penning down some thoughts without the usual rules and boundaries of report writing!
Perhaps that is why my posts are shorter and shorter. It doesn't mean I stop creating food though. Far for it! I am just finding it harder to find time to write, preferring to spend time with Asher and hubby instead. Still, I find it relaxing and will probably continue to do so. I just have to find the right balance and not feel that I need to put rules on myself in writing a post.
I'm finding it hard to write about the sort of main meals we have- it's really easy and simple these days. We love a good salad and I made this dressing the other night and thought…hey, that's really nice! Asher is really enjoying dipping things now and he really liked dipping blanched vegetables in this "sauce". It's a simple salad to whip up on hot days!
Everything in a mason jar. Give it a shake- dance is optional. Serve!
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Barthélemy: The Serf, the Knight, and the Historian
Barthélemy, Dominique. The Serf, the Knight, and the Historian. Trans. Graham Robert Edwards. Cornell, NY: Cornell University Press, 2009.
Reviewed by Elizabeth S. Leet (esl8ck@virginia.edu)
In the ten years after the original publication of Mutation de l'an mil, a-t-elle eu lieu? (Fayard, 1997), the combative argumentation and vehement assertions that characterize Dominique Barthélemy's monograph continue to echo throughout medieval scholarship surrounding the social, political, and military climates of the post-Carolingian period. By opposing the "reductionist and unbalanced" caricatures of both feudal society and, in particular, the so-called pivotal shifts between 930 and 1070 after which feudal society came into being, Barthélemy revisits the evidence that leads others to false conclusions. By dissecting texts and their respective contexts, he demonstrates the more complete understanding we may gain by reconsidering the evidence without anticipating the monolithic conclusions scholars have sometimes drawn.
Now, with the publication of Graham Robert Edwards' The Serf, the Knight, and the Historian (Cornell University Press, 2009), Anglophone readers have the long-desired translation of Barthélemy's influential monograph. With its new preface and concluding chapter, revisions to chapter one that include extensive summaries of such leaders in the field as Georges Duby, Marc Bloch, and Pierre Bonnassie, as well as an updated bibliography, this recent version has brought its heated debate to new audiences and has encouraged new participants in the ever-relevant discussion of the pivotal year 1000 A.D. Over the course of its nine individual essays exploring such topics as the rise of serfdom, the role of monasteries as centers of document production, and the different roles expected of the knightly class, The Serf, the Knight, and the Historian presents a comprehensive reevaluation of documentary evidence that has often led scholars to false conclusions.
In chapter one, "Revisiting the 'Feudal Revolution' of the Year 1000," Barthélemy both acknowledges the contributions made by Georges Duby but also accuses him quite pointedly of making sweeping generalizations and using all-or-nothing reasoning. Duby postulated a deterioration in socio-political organization between 980 and 1030 that led to the rise of feudalism and its concomitant martial unrest. Barthélemy, therefore, contests any such totalizing perspective on what he argues was a gradual progression rather than a sudden change. This newly-revised chapter announces the author's project of comparing recent historians who posit a "feudalization of the year 1000" with previous scholars who did not identify such a drastic and rapid shift. From this point forward, the book juxtaposes these two popular perspectives on post-Carolingian Western Europe and demonstrates how reevaluations of lexicon, categorical evaluations of socio-political organization, the contexts in which documents appeared and circulated, and the role of millenarianism can inform and enhance our understanding of the period.
Barthélemy moves to another case study, this time regarding the serf, a figure often cited and exploited by scholars to argue in favor of reductionist models of a sociopolitical crisis leading immediately to feudalism. In his second chapter "From Charters to Notices: The Example of Saint-Aubin, Angers," Barthélemy identifies Olivier Guillot and Alain de Boüard as two proponents of "an 'undeniable' crisis in law and diplomatics." (12) They claim that the proliferation of notices is a sign of crisis – despite an inability to define precisely what constitutes a notice. Barthélemy structures this chapter – and the monograph as a whole – around the disparity between crisis and gradual progression, discussing the terminological differences – both assumed and supported – between notices and charters, the case for documentary diversification instead of a total rupture with previous styles and forms of legal treatises, the legitimization of the autographic cross, and finally the detailed narrative and discursive additions to evidential legal documents. The previous examples of legal documentation support Barthélemy's claim: scholars have tended to draw distinctions between notices and charters on the basis of their respective "objective" and "subjective" natures, just as they have also differentiated between the years preceding and following the year 1000 as though they, too, illustrate markedly different systems. (14) The case-study approach reduces the evidence to few examples, though thorough notes point to other instances and wider trends in documentation.
Barthélemy's evidence demonstrates at each turn not that official documents employed radically new stylistic or formalistic modes, but rather that new types of documents joined the old. Furthermore, these documents often demonstrated little more than the particular tension between monastic orders and the surrounding communities. In other words, "The pattern is not so extraordinary: a recently founded or reformed monastery rubs up against its social environment, generating a host of charters and notices, transfers of property, and occasionally some friction, which the historian is then tempted to describe and model more or less as a sort of 'feudal transformation.'" (27) Typifying his characteristically aggressive yet lucid tone, Barthélemy explains the faulty logic that espouses monolithic generalizations and demonstrates the limitations of scholarship that leads to such conclusions, described by Barthélemy as flimsy and spurious. The evidence points to texts that exercise a "narrative deposition of importance" instead of a total change in socio-political, legal, or juridical forms, the evidence supporting Barthélemy's description of a world increasingly focused on the written record rather than having undergone a drastic transformation. (28)
The third chapter, "Voluntary Serfdom at Marmoutier in Touraine," illustrates the unexpected frequency with which "free" people assumed the state of a serf and the problematic term servitude, "having dealt […] too hard a blow," leading scholars to assumptions about what constituted such a life. (39) By examining the narrative development in acts of self-enserfment from the late eleventh century, Barthélemy illustrates the limitations of contemporary definitions of servitude and disproves two misconceptions hailing from the nineteenth century: first, that serfdom is a form of "monstrous traffic in men and women," and second, that manumission undermined serfdom. (43) The gesture of a would-be serf to place a rope about his neck during the rite of self-enserfment would certainly seem to confirm these fears. Yet Barthélemy asserts that this rite insinuates the central relationship of a sinner to God, rather than a commodity surrendered to a new owner. Though he, too, acknowledges the resemblance between this image and an imagery of slavery, he identifies multiple referents that inform these rites and the interpretation thereof.
He concludes this chapter by discussing the contingent distinctions between serf and free person. The dependency of self-enserfment reflects yet further its similarity to vassalage as opposed to slavery, blurring the lines between serf, slave, and free person on the basis of their contractual or status-linked basis. These discrepancies appear also in the practices of chevage, or head tax, as well as marriage and inheritance taxes. In sum, the inclusion of adult members in this ritual of serfdom represents, as Barthélemy puts it, "entry into adulthood or to a stage, a new departure, in a career." (58) As such, the stakes of serfdom fall within a social category more aptly named "servile status," for despite the frequent use of property ownership to dominate the serf, he still, "[b]y gaining an indisputable foothold in property, […] had fundamentally emancipated himself in a way that the slave had not; on it he established a family." (65)
Chapter four provides both a wealth of insight and a fair number of challenges. Entitled "Serfdom and its Rites," the chapter covers an immense amount of ground, beginning by announcing the erroneous assumption made by Pierre Bonnassie that, around the year 1000, institutional Antique slavery gave way to the characteristic serfdom of feudal society. Barthélemy cites the misconception of medieval serfdom as legally rather than socially constructed, as well as the frequent terminological misconceptions that have often led scholars to equate servus with slave or serf and incurring the subsequent penalties of such a lexical leap. The fact that eleventh century servitude included diverse social and political stations, as well as the ownership of property and a juridical provision that allowed serfs to testify on behalf of their superiors is also particularly revealing. In sum, Barthélemy addresses existing evidence and unearths new texts that cover a wide historiographical territory, making this chapter equally illuminating and unwieldy.
The greatest strength of his fourth chapter is the nineteenth century scholarship that prefigures his own description of several overlapping versions of servitude, slavery, and serfdom. Initial insight into Guérard – whose theory that the three coexisting but distinct conditions of slavery, servitude, and serfdom set the tone for future historical studies of proportionality between such states of servitude – structures the evidence and allows the reader to trace the same thread throughout the chapter. Barthélemy cites Bloch's theory that chevage, mainmorte, and formariage, while levying heavy financial obligations on the serf, also reflected the serf's possession of a "genuine patrimony" and reinforced the distinction between life in servitude and servile status. (76) The chapter goes on to engage with popular presumptions about emancipation and manumission in the tenth and eleventh centuries, the mediation of negative associations with servitude by suggesting the only true servitude was to sin, thus rendering its feudal variety sufferable, and even the relationship between kinship-driven nobility and the possible telescoping of qualities of servitude within one noble person. By complicating the supposed dichotomy between noble and serf, Barthélemy destabilizes reader expectations yet further by describing the ministeriales (mayors or provosts) who, while technically serfs, challenge the modern assumptions that serfs were exclusively agrarian laborers.
In chapters five and six, Barthélemy moves from a discussion of serfdom to the other end of the chivalric spectrum – the knightly class. In chapter five, "The Word miles and the History of Knighthood," he charts the terminological rise of miles (knights) in the tenth century from the previous caballius (horseman) and vassus (vassal). This medieval caste, beginning with the values of "perfect fidelity and military art," soon grew into complex cultural rites like dubbing, tournaments, courtly rituals, and crusading. (144) Barthélemy argues for a knighthood "symbolized by arms and horses" and indistinguishable from the "public ethos" of the knight's sword as royal weapon serving the public interest. (156) As such, he asserts that knighthood predates the "transformation of the year 1000" and moves into chapter six, "Carolingian Knighthood." Here, Barthélemy disputes the theory that a militarized, Christian knighthood developed in the post-Carolingian period when evidence supports the existence of such a class in the ninth century. Though preceding the elaborate rituals that characterized high medieval chivalry, the ninth century knight bore the only crucial symbols of his status: arms and a horse. The "warrior beauty" (164) embodied by these "protochivalric" Carolingian knights demonstrates what Barthélemy argues convincingly, that the feudal system developed gradually over the course of a century rather than suddenly around the year 1000. (162)
The shift towards the secular and the political continues throughout chapter seven, "Knighthood and Nobility around the year 1000." By charting the continuity of knightly roles, as well as their contribution to the surprising legal stability of this period often assumed to be rife with intertribal and intercastellan fighting. Furthermore, the relationship between hereditary nobility and earned knighthood, as well as the complex rites that solidified both – from marriage to a wealthy woman or the dubbing procedure – complicates what scholars have often argued about the nature of feudal aristocracy. Arguments illuminating the real relationship between the Church and the practices of knighthood – one that was tenuous at best – lead to Barthélemy's exploration of the Peace of God and millenarianist movements around the year 1000 in his chapter eight. After all, violent knightly intervention might just as often serve the Church's needs as violate its mores and Christian pacifism. The rise of the Crusades and the power wielded by the Templars belie any reticence with which Church authorities may have blessed the knights. Barthélemy explains, "[t]he Church was understandably wary of overvalidating the lay powers with whom it had such an ambivalent relationship or of providing advance cover for the sort of 'blunders' that sword fighters were bound to make." (213) Even the sword and horse that defined a knight evoked luxury and "barbaric splendor" (221) such that constituted a problematic disparity between these two poles of power in the high Middle Ages – between the Christian ecclesiastical authority and the military might of the growing knightly classes.
The penultimate chapter, "The Peace of God in the Days of the Millennium," discusses the supposed apocalyptic fervor around 1000 A.D. Moving from analysis of the relationship to the relatively secular power of the knights and nobility in chapter seven, Barthélemy demonstrates here the limited millenarian sentiment in the period and dispels the assertion that Peace of God initiatives were a popular effort to curtail the growing power, autonomy, and violence of knights. He insists, "The model narrative of the 'feudal revolution' uses the Peace of God twice over: as witness to the violence and as reaction to it. Is that not once too often?" (264) Barthélemy again challenges his reader to assume a healthy skepticism when reviewing the oft cited foundational studies of the period.
Added for the Cornell edition of Barthélemy's Mutation de l'an mil, a-t-elle eu lieu?, the final chapter synthesizes the responses of the scholarly community to the arguments of his previous three hundred pages. After ten years of debate and controversy, he details the ground gained by the anti-transformation camp, while still admitting his role in solidifying a sort of loyal opposition to the dominant critical predisposition towards transformationism. Barthélemy even concedes that, while often the object of his critique due to a tendency towards "literal" terminological interpretation, the "transformationists" do land close to certain realities of the year 1000, despite a tendency towards "overschematization." (305) Most interestingly, though, Barthélemy delineates his continued study of the Peace of God and its antiseigneurial reactions to the changes in the feudal aristocracy between the late ninth century and the mid twelfth century most broadly. Then, ending abruptly by mentioning the distinction between the exercise of knightly pastimes and occupations and a morally-inflected English notion of "chivalry," the chapter – and the book itself – comes to a close.
Overall, Barthélemy presents a study both thorough and bold. By tilting at scholarly giants – challenging and correcting them, as he sees fit – the project is a quick and engaging read. Declarative sentences, exclamation points, and series of rhetorical questions lead the reader directly to Barthélemy's frustration with and corrections to more than 150 years of medieval historical scholarship. Regardless of each particular reader's scholarly perspective or critical bent, the passion of the text, its distinctive authorial perspective, and its faithful translation by Graham Robert Edwards combine to present an exciting and energizing read that remains just as relevant today as upon its original appearance.
Elizabeth S. Leet
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What sleeping equipment do I need for a DofE expedition?
A good night's sleep always helps on expedition so it's important to have a sleeping bag designed to give you comfort at the lowest minimum temperature. There's plenty of choice, so it pays to look around and work out what's right for your adventure.
Check the temperature range for which the sleeping bag can offer you comfort and safety. Remember, there's no need for a heavy 4-season bag if you're sleeping in a warm location in summer.
An outdoor sleeping bag is usually made of synthetic or down material.
Synthetic is cheaper and heavier, and offers more insulation when wet. Down is light, compact and very warm – but more expensive and only insulates when dry.
All Duke of Edinburgh's Award recommended sleeping bags are snug 'mummy' shape for outdoor use, with compression sacks to pack small. A 3-season bag should be fine for any Award level.
Sleeping mats give you extra insulation and comfort when camping. Use standard padded mats, or self-inflating mats for that extra level of comfort.
A yoga or pilates mat isn't suitable for sleeping outdoors. You may only need a three-quarter length mat to keep your shoulders and waist comfy.
Don't spend loads on a 4-season sleeping bag if you're only going for a short trip in a warm climate.
Use a silk or cotton liner in your sleeping bag to cheaply add an extra season – these are also suitable if you are borrowing someone else's bag.
Borrowing someone's sleeping mat is fine and can be a real cost-saver.
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Keep your sleeping bag dry! Pack it inside your rucksack in a waterproof bag.
If water comes into your tent, use your survival bag to keep your sleeping bag dry.
If the night is very cold, wear extra layers and put your fleece in the bottom of the bag to keep your feet warm.
Use the elastic straps provided to roll your mat – not string which can damage it.
Don't store tent poles inside your rolled-up mat – if you lose them, you'll have nowhere to sleep.