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A'ja Wilson named MVP of 2020 WNBA Season
By Alex AzziSep 17, 2020, 3:36 PM EDT
Earlier today, A'ja Wilson of the Las Vegas Aces was named the WNBA's Most Valuable Player for the 2020 season. She was previously named Rookie of the Year in 2018 and was an All-Star selection in both 2018 and 2019.
Wilson received 43 of the 47 first-place votes. Seattle Storm forward Breanna Stewart, who was previously named league MVP in 2018, finished in second place.
Here's a look at Wilson's season so far:
Averaged 20.5 points per game during the 22-game regular season
Scored at least 20 points in 15 of 22 games
Led the league in blocks (averaged 2.0/game)
Recorded seven double-doubles (points-rebounds)
Led the league in free throws made (118) and attempted (151)
Helped the Aces clinch the top seed in the WNBA playoffs with a 18-4 record
The WNBA Playoffs got underway on Tuesday and continue tonight with the second round. Wilson and the Aces have a double bye until the semifinal round, which begins on Sunday.
The WNBA posted a video of the moment when Wilson found out she had been named league MVP:
🗣 Hear from the first-time MVP @_ajawilson22! pic.twitter.com/V624nqfTGD
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Touchgrind BMX is an interesting simulator of extreme races. This is another program from Studio Illusion Labs, which has previously created a few impressive games for fans of the genre. If earlier players were asked to stand on a skateboard and move it to different locations, now the player chooses a bike or scooter as the vehicle.
You are waited for by well thought-out levels, which are so various that precisely it is not necessary to miss. You are on your two-wheeled transport and will dodge obstacles, overcome jumps and ramps, cope with the railing. Do not worry if you can not cope with the implementation of dizzying stunts the first time – practice will certainly help you.
The game attracts not only a variety of levels but also the design – there are great graphics with bright textures, worked out to the last detail. Beautifully decorated locations will be a real gift.
In the very early stages of the game, you will need to perform several small missions: perform ten classic feints and perform five smooth jumps without falling. The game also has the opportunity to take a basic BMX management course.
In the process of passing and improving your opportunities, you will be able to discover new places and bicycles and, accordingly, learn everything new. Flip, barspins, 360s, tailwhips are just a small list of what you will learn to do in this application. Enjoy stunning 3D graphics, realistic control physics, and simple gameplay.


I have observed more than 50,000 leaders from around the world as they participated in a fascinating experiential exercise, in which I ask participants to play two roles.
In one role, they provide "FeedForward": They give another participant suggestions and as much as they can help with a specific issue. In the second role, they accept FeedForward: They listen to suggestions from another participant and learn as much as they can.
– Pick one behavior they would like to change. Change in this behavior should make a significant, positive difference in their lives.
– Ask for FeedForward that might help them achieve a positive change in their behavior. If participants have worked together in the past, they are not allowed to give any feedback about the past. They are only allowed to give ideas for the future.
– Thank the other participants for their suggestions.
– Ask fellow participants what they would like to change about themselves.
– Provide FeedForward – two suggestions for helping the other person change.
– Find another participant and keep repeating the process until the exercise is stopped.
What is the last word most of us think of to describe the experience of receiving feedback, coaching, and developmental ideas? Fun!
I ask participants why this exercise is fun and helpful as opposed to painful, embarrassing, or uncomfortable. Their answers offer a great explanation of why FeedForward can often be more useful than feedback as a developmental tool.
1. We can change the future. We can't change the past. FeedForward helps people envision and focus on a positive future, not a failed past. Race-car drivers are taught to look at the road ahead, not at the wall. By giving people ideas on how they can be even more successful, we can increase their chances of achieving this success in the future.
2. FeedForward can come from people we have never even met. It does not require personal experience. One very common positive reaction to the exercise is that participants are amazed by how much they can learn from people they don't know. For example, if you want to be a better listener, almost any fellow human can give you ideas. They don't have to know you.
3. Face it! Most of us hate getting negative feedback, and we don't like to give it. I have reviewed summary 360-degree feedback reports for more than 50 companies. The items "provides developmental feedback in a timely manner" and "encourages and accepts constructive criticism" almost always score near the bottom on co-worker satisfaction with leaders. Traditional training does not seem to make a great deal of difference. If leaders got better at providing feedback every time the performance appraisal forms were "improved," most would be perfect by now!
4. FeedForward can cover almost all of the same material feedback can. Imagine you have just made a terrible presentation in front of the executive committee. Your manager is in the room. Rather than make you relive this humiliating experience by detailing what went wrong, your manager might help you by offering suggestions for future presentations. These suggestions can be very specific and still delivered in a positive way – without making you feel even more humiliated.
5. FeedForward tends to be much faster and more efficient than feedback. An excellent technique for giving ideas to successful people is to say: "Here is an idea for the future. Please accept it in the positive spirit in which it is offered. If you can use it, great! If not, just ignore it." With this approach almost no time is wasted judging the quality of the ideas or trying to refute the suggestions. This kind of debate is usually negative, wastes time, and often counterproductive. By eliminating judgment of the ideas, the process becomes much more positive for the sender, as well as the receiver.
6. FeedForward can be a useful tool with managers, peers, and team members. Rightly or wrongly, feedback is associated with judgment. This can lead to very negative – even career-limiting – consequences when given to managers or peers. FeedForward does not imply superiority of judgment. It is more focused on being a helpful colleague than an expert. As such, it can be easier to hear from a person who isn't in a position of power or authority.
The intent of this column is not to imply that leaders should never give feedback or that performance appraisals should be abandoned. The intent is to show how FeedForward can often be preferable to feedback in day-to-day interactions. Aside from its effectiveness and efficiency, FeedForward can make life a lot more enjoyable. When I ask manager how they felt the last time they received feedback, the most common responses are negative. When managers are asked how they felt after receiving FeedForward, they reply that FeedForward was not only useful, it was also fun.


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KEY BENEFITS OF SALESPAD
Simplifies Dynamics GP usage
Provides a high degree of accuracy when fulfilling orders
Ensures the warehouse never runs out of product
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National Band Saw Company, based in Lancaster, CA, has been in business since 1953. Starting out as a service company in Los Angeles, the company soon discovered they needed to manufacture the replacement parts themselves to provide the best service possible — so many parts, in fact, that they couldn't use them all and decided to sell their extras.
One thing led to another, and today the company runs a 21,000-square-foot warehouse dedicated to manufacturing and distributing heavy duty kitchen machinery parts. They are now the largest independent manufacturer and supplier of replacement parts for the food machinery service industry, with a product line that includes over 2,600 parts for various brands of machines.
Anyone who's had exposure to Microsoft Dynamics GP's user interface can attest to its complexity. As Harley Frank, President and CEO of National Band Saw, put it, "Great Plains is designed, almost exclusively, it seems, for tech people."
Microsoft's flagship business software is designed to be incredibly powerful and capable of handling a wide variety of business needs, but it's not necessarily user-friendly.
In addition, National Band Saw does a good amount of drop shipping for other companies, which can be a complicated process and requires a lot of coordination between the sales and shipping departments.
National Band Saw was in the market for a software that was easy to work with, could handle complex shipping demands, and didn't compromise on power or scope.
SALESPAD DESKTOP. After observing that GP seemed geared toward the more technically-minded user, Harley continued with, "SalesPad is designed for the rest of us."
For Jason Jasperson, Vice President at National Band Saw, "You can't have GP without SalesPad. The two go hand in hand."
Just as SalesPad requires GP to function, companies need SalesPad to use GP simply and efficiently, while still keeping costs down, Jason says.
"We've been on it for seven years now, and I can't imagine not having it. And as we go forward, SalesPad will be one of the main staples that we keep for our company," he noted.
No two companies operate the same way, and SalesPad Desktop is designed to adapt around businesses, rather than force them to change their processes and operations. Flexibility and adaptability are some of the main selling points for companies like National Band Saw, who have taken full advantage of these features.
ShipTo. The combination of SalesPad Desktop and ShipTo streamlined National Band Saw's processes and allowed the company to increase the number of orders they fulfill on a daily basis, simply due to the automation rules and workflow the two systems provided, says Jason.
"We have twelve or thirteen different customized fields that are tied to both our sales order entry screen and the customer card, along with ShipTo," Jason says.
Those customized fields eliminated many of the manual steps that previously slowed them down, ensuring that everything now ships out correctly in the shipping department.
ShipTo takes the headache out of drop shipping for National Band Saw. They've customized their process to the point where the software does nearly all the work for them — labels are printed correctly, addresses are copied accurately, packaging notes are recorded for each order, and shipments are sent out on time, every time.
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"We've been able to increase sales, increase our productivity, keep the same exact business model that we had before, all while still keeping costs down," Jason said. "It allows our two guys that process anywhere from 60 to 100 orders a day
to do that with about 98% accuracy on a daily basis."
"National Band Saw seeks to treat everyone like friends and family," continued Jason. "We have vendors we've been doing business with for over twenty years, and customers that have been with us for over thirty-five years."
National Band Saw's goal is to know each and every one of their customers by first name, offer them the best customer service, and provide them with the best quality parts and service in the most economically efficient way possible.
"SalesPad helps us bring those values to life by giving us better access, especially on the customer service side of it, to the data we need," Jason said.
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"It is much easier to keep track of items that are going close to backorder, or items that need to be replenished, how many of this we have, what we're using, and how fast we're using it," Harley says. "It is infinitely easier than GP … just one touch, you get your answer."
Harley is particularly fond of SalesPad's ability to help him create an appropriate restock plan, as inventory storage and movement is so important to a manufacturing company like National Band Saw.
"SalesPad allows us to facilitate growth," he added, "and it helps us make projections as we plan out the future of our company. It improved our ability to function just dramatically."
"Before we started using SalesPad," Jason says, "we were using the Assembly module in GP, and the visibility for inventory management was very limited. There were a lot of clicks and a lot of steps. It was frustrating because we couldn't see everything we wanted to on the front end. SalesPad has opened up the scope of things that we can see and made it much easier to see critical inventory information."
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On the subject of executive insight into the health and status of his company, Harley observed that SalesPad's reporting functions help him to monitor sales trends on both a per-customer and per-item basis, which is extremely useful to him as he makes strategic decisions on how to advance the company.
"The main way that SalesPad helps a business owner or manager get a good look at the day-to-day happenings in their business is through the Sales Monitor [a module in SalesPad]. It's by far one of the best tools that we can use," says Jason. "With the workflow aspect of it, we can see where things are and where they're going, and we can refresh that information as often as we want to.
"We've also created a couple of Quick Reports that allow us to see what our sales are year to date, month to date, or on the previous day. Then, using the Sales Monitor, we can calculate out to see where we're at and determine what we need to do to meet our monthly goals."
Now, every department within National Band Saw utilizes SalesPad Desktop in one way or another, and each of their employees knows how to use it within the context of their particular job.
The fact that SalesPad Desktop is able to be customized on a per-user basis (for example, someone in the shipping department has access to certain layouts and fields within SalesPad Desktop, while a customer service rep has access to different ones) makes everyone's job even easier.
For Jason, working with the SalesPad support team has allowed National Band Saw to really take advantage of what SalesPad can do for their company. By learning how to customize the layouts and gain access to historical company data (even data that was inputted before National Band Saw began using SalesPad) they've turned their business software into a tool that helps them do more business and experience more success as a company.
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"We do a lot of special pricing and promotions for customers based on their buying history, and SalesPad makes it very easy. You can't do that with GP," says Jason.
SalesPad Desktop has an entire module dedicated to customer-specific promotions. National Band Saw takes full advantage of SalesPad Desktop's customer class categorizations and uses those, in combination with the Customer Promotions module, to help them set up special promotions for customers who fit a set of criteria.
"SalesPad has saved us an unquantifiable amount," concludes Jason, "simply because the access to all that information, from something as simple as a tracking number to any number of quick reports, and the fact that we've been able to customize it so much, has just been priceless, and it's been a huge factor in our growth as a company."
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The global initiative to eradicate polio by the end of 2000 has become the largest public health initiative in history, and is spearheaded by WHO, Rotary International, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and UNICEF. During 1999, extraordinary progress continued with the number of polio-endemic countries declining from 50 in 1998 to 30 in 1999. Of	the three types of poliovirus, type 2 poliovirus reached the verge of extinction with the only known remaining foci existing in northern India. Polio incidence declined to the lowest levels ever in 1999, although reported cases increased slightly to 7 012 due to improvements in surveillance and polio outbreaks in Angola and Iraq. Existing challenges to the initiative included maintaining high-quality activities, gaining access to children in conflict affected countries, and ensuring political and financial support until certification is achieved in 2005. An additional challenge, ensuring sufficient oral polio vaccine, emerged during 1999 as a result of marked acceleration of immunization activities. The public-private sector partnership supporting the initiative expanded in 1999 to include the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Mr. Ted Turner's United Nations Foundation, the World Bank, Aventis Pasteur, and De Beers.	WHO/polio/00.03
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The Global Polio Eradication Initiative, the largest public health initiative in history, is on track to certify the world polio-free in 2005. Polio cases have declined by 99% since the launch of the Initiative in 1988, from 350 000 to less than 3500...
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Q: android.view.InflateException: Binary XML file line #2: I'm fairly new at coding. In my project, I created a settings menu which should display setting by which the user should be able to search different news stories. The problem I'm having is after clicking on the settingsActivity, my app crashes.
this is my settingsactivity class
package com.example.android.newsapp;

import android.content.SharedPreferences;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.preference.ListPreference;
import android.preference.Preference;
import android.preference.PreferenceFragment;
import android.preference.PreferenceManager;

import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;

public class SettingsActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.settings_activity);
}

public static class NewsPreferenceFragment extends PreferenceFragment
        implements Preference.OnPreferenceChangeListener {

    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        addPreferencesFromResource(R.xml.settings_main);

        Preference topicSearch =
findPreference(getString(R.string.settings_topic_search_key));

        bindPreferenceSummaryToValue(topicSearch);
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onPreferenceChange(Preference preference, Object
value) {
        String stringValue = value.toString();
        if (preference instanceof ListPreference) {
            ListPreference listPreference = (ListPreference)
preference;
            int prefIndex =
listPreference.findIndexOfValue(stringValue);
            if (prefIndex>= 0) {
                CharSequence[] lables = listPreference.getEntries();
                preference.setSummary(lables[prefIndex]);
            }
        }
        else {
            preference.setSummary(stringValue);
        }
        return true;
    }

    private void bindPreferenceSummaryToValue(Preference preference) {
        preference.setOnPreferenceChangeListener(this);
        SharedPreferences preferences =
PreferenceManager.getDefaultSharedPreferences(preference.getContext());
        String preferenceString =
preferences.getString(preference.getKey(), "");
        onPreferenceChange(preference, preferenceString);
    }

}
}

my settingsactivity xml
<fragment
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:name="com.example.android.newsapp.SettingsActivity$NewsPreferenceFragment"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:id="@+id/fragment">

</fragment>

and the error
01-09 22:34:16.602 1899-1899/com.example.android.newsapp E/AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: main
java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{com.example.android.newsapp/com.example.android.newsapp.SettingsActivity}: android.view.InflateException: Binary XML file line #2: Error inflating class fragment
    at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2059)
    at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2084)
    at android.app.ActivityThread.access$600(ActivityThread.java:130)
    at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1195)
    at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
    at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137)
    at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4745)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511)
    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:786)
    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:553)
    at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
 Caused by: android.view.InflateException: Binary XML file line #2: Error inflating class fragment
    at android.view.LayoutInflater.createViewFromTag(LayoutInflater.java:704)
    at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:466)
    at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:396)
    at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:352)
    at android.support.v7.app.AppCompatDelegateImplV9.setContentView(AppCompatDelegateImplV9.java:287)
    at android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity.setContentView(AppCompatActivity.java:139)
    at com.example.android.newsapp.SettingsActivity.onCreate(SettingsActivity.java:17)
    at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:5008)
    at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1079)
    at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2023)
    at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2084)
    at android.app.ActivityThread.access$600(ActivityThread.java:130)
    at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1195)
    at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
    at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137)
    at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4745)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511)
    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:786)
    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:553)
    at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
 Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
    at com.example.android.newsapp.SettingsActivity$NewsPreferenceFragment.bindPreferenceSummaryToValue(SettingsActivity.java:51)
    at com.example.android.newsapp.SettingsActivity$NewsPreferenceFragment.onCreate(SettingsActivity.java:30)
    at android.app.FragmentManagerImpl.moveToState(FragmentManager.java:796)
    at android.app.FragmentManagerImpl.moveToState(FragmentManager.java:1013)
    at android.app.FragmentManagerImpl.addFragment(FragmentManager.java:1112)
    at android.app.Activity.onCreateView(Activity.java:4664)
    at android.support.v4.app.BaseFragmentActivityApi14.onCreateView(BaseFragmentActivityApi14.java:41)
    at android.support.v4.app.FragmentActivity.onCreateView(FragmentActivity.java:67)
    at android.view.LayoutInflater.createViewFromTag(LayoutInflater.java:680)
    at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:466)
    at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:396)
    at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:352)
    at android.support.v7.app.AppCompatDelegateImplV9.setContentView(AppCompatDelegateImplV9.java:287)
    at android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity.setContentView(AppCompatActivity.java:139)
    at com.example.android.newsapp.SettingsActivity.onCreate(SettingsActivity.java:17)
    at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:5008)
    at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1079)
    at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2023)
    at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2084)
    at android.app.ActivityThread.access$600(ActivityThread.java:130)
    at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1195)
    at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
    at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137)
    at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4745)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)

A: Change this line from:
android:name="com.example.android.newsapp.SettingsActivity$NewsPreferenceFragment"

To
android:name="com.example.android.newsapp.SettingsActivity.NewsPreferenceFragment"

Its probably a long time I have switched from Android , but I think this will work.
Let me know if you are still facing some issues.
Thanks

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Best ambergris fragrances for men
By Adrian Clark, Robert Johnston, Sophie Clark 7 September 2020
We break down where ambergris comes from, what it smells like and which scents showcase it best
One might think that the ingredients used in the fragrance industry are all delicate and pretty, but not everything is rosy in the perfume garden. Natural ambergris, which is one of the most valuable raw materials in perfumery, actually comes from sperm whale vomit. Mind you, if you find that disgusting we wouldn't recommend you look too closely into how civet is harvested…
While its nature is not fully understood – the dull grey or blackish waxy lumps largely consist of undigested squid beaks (the sperm whale's main prey is giant squid) and it is thought that it might help the mammal pass sharp objects through its intestine. It may float in the ocean for as long as 30 years before being washed-up. As it floats, a white coating forms on the outside as it oxidises in the salt water. In general, lighter-coloured pieces have a lighter, sweeter fragrance and have been at sea for a longer time.
Ambergris is used as a fixative to help scents last longer, and its perfume can be best described as marine, animal and sweet. It is incredibly rare and expensive. In 2006, a couple walking on the beach in Australia found a chunk of ambergris weighing over 14kg, which netted them £186,500. It has been prized since the time of the Ancient Egyptians, who would burn it as incense.
Although ambergris is not harvested from whales, many countries ban its trade as part of a more general edict against the hunting and exploitation of whales though, as a waste product, it isn't covered by the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites). It is found on beaches around the world but most commercially collected ambergris comes from the Bahamas.
Today, thanks to it scarcity and price, however, it has largely been replaced by synthetics. Here's a selection of some of the very best men's fragrances containing ambergris available right now. Want guide to all the very best scents available right now? Check out our pick of men's aftershaves and eau de parfums.
Creed Green Irish Tweed eau de parfum
A classic fougère. Herbaceous, green and fern-like in identity, this precedent-setting fragrance from Creed, created by Olivier Creed in 1985, has a big, bold, powerful character and still remains the epitome of masculine elegance. A signature scent of the house (Creed has been making fine fragrance since 1760 and is still a family business incidentally) and with a huge celebrity following (George Clooney and Cary Grant being fans allegedly), it is like a walk through the Irish countryside; inspired by the lush greenery of the Emerald Isle, its landed gentry and wild flowers and herbs warmed by a coastal breeze. Featuring Calabrian bergamot, Sicilian lemon and pink peppercorn as its opening gambit, with pepper, iris, Bulgarian rose and peppermint at its heart and sandalwood, vetiver, patchouli and ambergris in the dry-down. £230 for 100ml. creedfragrances.co.uk
Yves Saint Laurent L'Homme parfum intense
There have been several spin-offs, including Cologne Gingembre, Libre and La Nuit, since the original YSL L'Homme fragrance first made its play for space on our bathroom shelves, back in 2006, with the parfum intense concentration (in our opinion) being the most sensual and bewitching of all of them. Warmer and more intense (the clue is in the name), it is the ultimate evening fragrance – rich and exotic but not overbearing. Formulated in partnership by Dominique Ropion and Anne Flipo, this combo of citruses, spices, woods and floral notes opens with a punchy dose of lemon, bergamot and black pepper, calming down and softened around the edges with orange blossom and artemisia. Woody accords and ambergris build a luxurious foundation for its dry-down. £60 for 60ml. At John Lewis. johnlewis.com
Paco Rabanne Black XS eau de toilette
Black XS has a dark, rock'n'roll heart. Warming notes of cinnamon, patchouli and ambergris form an oriental, woody base that has a radical charm once spritzed on skin. Top notes of sage and lemon add an energy-giving freshness to this fragrance – it's the ultimate neck coater to get you revved up and ready to go. You've got this. £50 for 50ml. At The Perfume Shop. theperfumeshop.com
Burberry Mr Burberry Element eau de toilette
The newest fragrance to join the Mr Burberry family, Mr Burberry Element has a freshness that takes its inspirational cues from the great British countryside. With notes of ambergris fused with a powerful base of mineral oak moss, this scent is a new spin on a classic, woody aroma. Top notes of green almond are contrasted with a spicy, juniper heart for a sensual spritz with a hint of intrigue. It's both bitter and sharp with a playful nature. £74 for 100ml. At John Lewis. johnlewis.com
Laboratory Perfumes Amber eau de toilette
Created by British scent specialist Laboratory Perfumes, this scent is an olfactory mood enhancer. In fact, the fragrance itself is inspired by how our moods shift and progress throughout the day. Notes of spice and greenery, layered with balmy ambergris and earthy wood, evolves on the skin, slowly shifting as you wear it. It's got the zesty punchiness of the morning energy from citrus notes through to the leathery, dry tobacco base notes to mellow into the evening hours. £75 for 100ml. At Liberty London. libertylondon.com
This dark fragrance has a richness dominated by ginger, cardamom and sandalwood, all complemented by waxy ambergris and water lily. With a spicy balsamic edge and sweet powdery middle notes of jasmine, orchid and fiery pink pepper, this scent is ready to take you on an aromatic journey. £122 for 100ml. At John Lewis. johnlewis.com
Le Labo Another 13 eau de parfum
This scent has cult status. Notes of jasmine, moss and ambrette seeds blended with ambergris make for a heady, aromatic cocktail that blends with your natural pheromones to create a unique scent that smells like you but better. Be warned, this olfactory offering is addictive. Its musky allure gives it an edge and together with its earthy, moss undertone, Le Labo's Another 13 ticks all the boxes for a sophisticated signature scent. £127 for 50ml. At Selfridges. selfridges.com
Min New York Plush eau de parfum
Plush does what it says on the tin: it's an unashamed brush with luxury. Using some of the most indulgent ingredients in a perfumer's armoury, such as clove bud, jasmine, almond, iris, vanilla bean, orange blossom and, of course, ambergris, it is an appreciation of all things lush and gives you the same air of smug confidence achieved when wearing nice clothes in sumptuous fabrics. It also has a bit of a reputation of being a ladies' man, described by many as uncompromisingly seductive. £220 for 75ml. At Harrods. harrods.com
Acqua Di Parma Signatures Of The Sun Ambra eau de parfum
Relaunched at the tail end of 2019 as part of the Signatures Of The Sun collection of ADP fragrances. It's a range that celebrates the art of perfume-making by reinterpreting its quintessentially Italian, signature scent, Colonia, marrying it off with a complementary note (leather and oud are two examples) to give it a completely new and more progressive identity. The golden-fruit of Colonia forms the starting point for this Ambra elixir, contrasted against the supporting act of ambergris. The age-old ingredient, originally finding its way down the silk road and into the hands of Venice's master perfumers, gives the usually clear and light scent a salty, musky, damp-earth flavour, which is both exotic and animalistic. Housed in a black glass deco-inspired bottle, symbolic of its intensive and assertive composition, it opens with orange essential oil, bergamot, petitgrain, followed by an abundance of woods like cedar and sandalwood, with delicate rose trailing off to a headier cocktail of patchouli, ambergris, musk and vanilla. £179 for 100ml. At John Lewis. johnlewis.com
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Roja Dove Danger parfum cologne
Created in 2011, Dove's original, Danger, was (and still is) a stellar and statement-making evening fragrance. Fast-forward to today and the formula has been given a make-under, in the guise of one of the reformulations of its classic masculine scents; part of the new, brighter, lighter, fresher parfum cologne concentration. Aromatic lemon, lavender and tarragon are present at first spritz, with jasmine, violet and lily of the valley at its floral-based centre. Sensual aphrodisiacs (ambergris was considered an aphrodisiac when introduced to nobility by Marco Polo) lurk in the shadows; headed up by Ambergris, combined with vanilla, cedarwood, leather, tonka bean and patchouli. Oriental, rich, soft and sensual – don't be fooled by its lighter concentration, it still packs a mighty punch, just with added freshness. £225 for 100ml. At Harrods. harrods.com
Ormande Jayne Montabaco Intensivo eau de parfum
Ormonde Jayne's founder, Linda Pilkington, literally travelled the world to inspire her Four Corners Of The Earth collection (2012) of premium fragrances, using indigenous flora from the farthest-flung reaches. Very aromatic in personality, Montabaco celebrates the hot, steamy, passionate flava of Latin America, with its abundance of leather, wood, suede and tobacco leaf. Opening with orange absolute, bergamot, juniper, cardamom and clary sage, a heart of jasmine, magnolia, hedione, rose, violet and tea notes, this wonderfully decadent scent, created by perfumer Geza Schoen, it drys down softly on a bed of tobacco leaf, suede, sandalwood, moss, tonka and ambergris. All Ormonde Jayne fragrances are incidentally hand-poured in the brand's London lab. £345 for 120ml. At Harrods. harrods.com
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Tom Ford Private Blend Oud Minerale eau de parfum
This addition to Ford's iconic Private Blend Collection of premium scents, first joining the line-up in 2017, is a very unique and unexpected contrast of the resinous, smoky oud ingredient and the salted oceanic qualities of ambergris; essentially two of the most expensive ingredients in the fine-perfumer's armoury. Described as woody/aromatic, it is one of the easier-to-wear interpretations in the TF oud world (which includes Oud Wood, Tobacco Oud and Oud Fleur) and therefore perfectly appropriate to wear in the office. Created by perfumer Shyamala Maisondeau, it opens with salty, marine, aromatic and balsamic highlights, including seaweed, sea salt and pink pepper, followed by notes of agarwood (oud), styrax, balsam fir, ambergris and pepperwood. Like a cosy evening with friends under the stars and around a fire pit on the beach. £240 for 100ml. At John Lewis. johnlewis.com
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Bulgari Man Wood Essence eau de parfum
This fragrance can be best described as a big bold clout of alpha-masculinity. An intensely virile scent for the urban woodsman! Renowned Spanish perfumer, Alberto Morillas (the man behind the crowd pleasing ckOne) wanted to celebrate the great outdoors and man's connection to it by using three blends of wood; two unique distillations of cedar and cypress wood with complimentary essences of Ambergris accords, coriander, Tahitian vetiver, citrus zest and smoky benzoin Siam. When it comes to sense of occasion, this is a great all-rounder. £59 for 60ml. selfridges.com
Maison Francis Kukdjian Baccarat Rouge 540 eau de parfum
Originally launched back in 2014 as a collaborative project between Maison Francis Kurkdjian and Baccarat, and limited to only 250 bottles in numbered ruby coloured crystal bottles, this fragrance has now made its way into the MFK stable of permanent fixtures… all be it and less fancy flagons. Expect (as the name would suggest) a wealth of jasmine, combined with radiant saffron, ambergris mineral notes, fir balsam and freshly cut cedar. Despite its posh beginnings I'd put it up there as one of the great 'every-day' fragrances out there. £215 for 70ml. selfridges.com
Diptyque Fleur de Peau eau de parfum
Launched in 2018, in celebration of Diptyque's 50th birthday, Fleur de Peau in an intriguing scent, with one of those distinctively familiar aromas that you can't quite put your finger on. Translated as 'skin flower' it pays some tribute to its psychedelic '1968' liberatarian roots but perhaps more interestingly, it smells of skin, in a good way. Animalistic musks are used in combination with aldehydes, mandarin orange, bergamot and a dash of pink peppercorn. As with most Diptyque fragrances its extremely easy to wear and never overpowering. £120 for 75ml. At John Lewis. johnlewis.com
Atkinsons Scilly Neroli eau de parfum
Founded in 1799 and established as the official perfumer to the Royal Court of England, Atkinsons is recognised as the UK's oldest fragrance house. Taking inspiration from the British Isles by using many indigenous ingredients for its formulations, it prides itself on looking forward in favour of resting on these credentials. This scent, from its edgy, Contemporary Collection celebrates the essence of Neroli by wrapping its traditionally Mediterranean flavour with mineral and aquatic notes before trailing off into a vaporous ambergris accord. It's the British seaside (minus the smell of battered fish), in a bottle.
£130 for 100ml. harrods.com
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Ten Innovative Technology Companies Support Thune's NEW GIG Act
"The gig economy is continuing to grow at an increasingly quick pace, and I think it's important for Congress do its part to keep up and ensure our laws don't prevent or stifle future growth."
U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), a member of the tax-writing Senate Finance Committee, today welcomed the support from 10 innovative technology companies for his New Economy Works to Guarantee Independence and Growth (NEW GIG) Act of 2017 (S. 1549), legislation that addresses the classification of workers – independent contractors versus employees – and creates a safe harbor for those who meet a set of objective tests that would qualify them as an independent contractor, both for income and employment tax purposes. This legislation, which was introduced on July 13, 2017, is important for traditional independent contractor arrangements, like computer consultants, freelance writers, and delivery drivers, as well as all of those individuals who participate in the gig economy and provide a rapidly growing range of services.
"The gig economy is continuing to grow at an increasingly quick pace, and I think it's important for Congress do its part to keep up and ensure our laws keep don't prevent or stifle future growth," said Thune. "I welcome the support of these technology leaders who represent companies that are changing the way families throughout the country receive goods and services. I look forward to building additional support for this bill and working with my colleagues in Congress to see that the NEW GIG Act is included in the Senate's tax reform bill."
Leaders of Uber, DoorDash, Instacart, Glam Squad, Postmates, Grubhub, Saucey, Handy, Shipt, and Hyr recently wrote to Thune to express their strong support for his "leadership on this critical issue," and they urged "Congress to include S. 1549 in tax reform legislation." The company leaders also indicated that Thune's NEW GIG Act "will enable continued growth and innovation in the 'on-demand' economy by clarifying the tax treatment of independent contractors who work in this important sector."
Summary of the NEW GIG Act:
The bill would create a safe harbor based on objective tests, which if satisfied, would ensure that the service provider (worker) would be treated as an independent contractor, not an employee, and the service recipient (customer) would not be treated as the employer. In the context of the gig economy where an internet platform or app facilitates the transactions and payments, that third party would also not be treated as the employer.
Click here for additional summary information on the NEW GIG Act.
Permalink: https://www.thune.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2017/8/ten-innovative-technology-companies-support-thune-s-new-gig-act


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The League of Gentlemen: Series 1
Set in a fictitious village in the north of England called Royston Vasey, which may look like every bleak provincial town you've ever seen, but it's the locals you have to worry about... There's over sixty depressing characters, and all are played by Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith, who also write the scripts (along with Jeremy Dyson) as The League of Gentlemen. Characters include; Tubbs and Edward - The pig-nosed proprietors of the Local Shop who don't like change, in fact, they don't even give change; Geoff, Mike and Brian - They are local businessmen and best friends, although Geoff hates Mike. He also hates Brian; and Les McQueen - He's never got over the golden days of his band Creme Brulee - when he could walk into a urinal and heads would turn. BAFTA Award Winner for Best Comedy Series 2000.
Genre: TV Comedy, Television Shows
Director: Steve Bendelack
Starring: Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith
Rating: M
Location in store: Comedy (TV)
The League of Gentlemen: Series 2 (1999)
Welcome back to Royston Vasey. The town is in the grip of a mysterious epidemic and everyone is at r...
The third series of the BAFTA Award-winning comedy sees coincidence, a red bag and a bizarre acciden...
The League of Gentlemen: Christmas Special (1999)
It's Christmas Eve in Royston Vasey and the Reverend Bernice receives an unexpected guest. Charlie H...
Little Britain: Series 1 (2003)
Take a journey round Little Britain and meet all your favourite characters including juvenile delinq...
The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse (2005)
The freakish and bizarre inhabitants of Royston Vasey are unleashed on an unsuspecting world in this...
Series Two of this cult favourite that began life on Radio 4. The bizarre musings on England's extra...
Sergeant Ruawai Maaka of the Wellington Police enlists the aid of Officers Minogue and O'Leary to ta...
Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi's What We Do In The Shadows spinoff, Wellington Paranormal, sees O...
The Assassination Bureau (1969)
A woman causes a group of assassins to face their greatest challenge.


Getting any sort of enjoyment from workouts takes a lot of time and effort. The transition from couch potato (or desk chair potato) to an active and balanced human being is a time of pure pain, frustration, and withdrawal.
After all, consistently getting out and exercising is hard enough without your mind and body screaming out about limits and limited time only tacos. That's the time when distractions and incentives are desperately needed. Incentives that don't include calories, that is.
Music can be a great distraction and may also provide the temporary motivation needed to persevere through a workout. However, I've found it difficult to maintain the distraction long enough to feel truly accomplished.
So before your next run or gym session, find an audiobook to keep your mind engaged and off your workout.
When I first began my own weight loss journey, I found that listening to books that stimulated deep thinking helped make a difference. I stopped worrying about how long I had been going or how much I was sweating and simply lost myself in the book.
Your selection will depend upon taste and interests, but I started out listening to non-fiction. I'd like to tell you I was listening to Michael Lewis's The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, which examines the stock market crash of 2008. But I was interested in other things at the time and began with The Masters of Doom, which tells the story of the founders of id Software, developer of video game series Doom.
You may find yourself listening to a Steve Jobs biography or George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series; all that matters is you find something that will hold your interest and distract your thoughts during workouts.
Looking to form good habits? HackCollege's Robbie Williford has a list of apps that will help you do just that.


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Community Awareness
Examination Result
Education Policies
Online University Courses
Papua New Guinea (PNG) Universities
Papua New Guinea Education Department SDG 4
Sustanable Development in Papua New Guinea
PNG INSIGHT
CONSTITUTION AND EDUCATION
PNG Constitution – 'self-reliant effort'
Vision 2050 – 'Free and Universal Basic Education'
Papua New Guinea Education Department Plans
HDI Trend and Inference
National Education Plan 2015 – 2019
Universal Basic Education (UBE) Plan 2010 – 2019
Papua New Guinea Education Department POLICY-DECISIONS
Tuition Fee-Free Policy
Structural Changes – Papua New Guinea Education Department
Online Selection and Online School Leavers Form
GOVERNANCE, MONITORING AND COLLABORATION
Right to Education Act
Education Monitoring Reports
Inspection Vital for Up-holding Standards
Sharing Data and Information
The Papua New Guinea Education Department and Government have made attempts to address the country's development plans relating to education development. The attempts on implementing TFF policy and changing the school structure and curriculum are short-term and reactionary measures to addressing high accessibility rate. Using technology and enacting Right to Education Act is fundamental to ensuring sustainable quality education and promoting lifelong learning opportunities for the children now and in the future.
In 2011, Papua New Guinea (PNG) ranked 153 out of 187 countries. However, PNG's rank in the recent Human Development Report (2016) indicated a grim trend where the country's position has, in fact, declined to 154 out of 188 countries. The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) adopted the Sustainable Development Goal 4–Education 2030 in 2016, building on the progress of Millennium Development Goals 2 (MDG 2) which relate to Universal Primary Education (UPE). Unlike the MDG 2, which had taken a top-down approach to education development and had a limited number of targets, the SDG4-Education 2030 has 10 targets and 11 indicators.
As PNG approaches 2020 – the year for Vision 2050 review – the demand for meeting Agenda 2050 becomes urgent. In regard to education, access to secondary schools is 20% of the total student's enrolment (NEP 2015 – 2019). As the school population increase due to the Tuition-Fee Free (TFF) policy (National, 2017) and expansion of primary schools, there is a need to capture the 80% of students who have not made it to secondary schools. This essay argues that the educational policy shifts such as the free education policy and changing the structure and curriculum could have negative implications on achieving inclusive and equitable quality secondary education.
• Promote – refers to action plans and policies for stimulating learning
• Monitoring – the act of careful observation, critiquing and taking measured action aimed at meeting SDG 4–Education 2030 targets.
• Primary Schools – specifically refers to Upper Primary (Grade 8) going onto Lower Secondary (Grade 9) students ages 14 and 15 years old.
• SDG4–Education 2030 – Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.
• Secondary Schools – specifically refers to Lower Secondary to Upper Secondary students ages 15 and 18 years old.
• Strategy – education development policies (or plans) for a period of either 5 or 10 years.
The founding fathers of PNG placed education highly among the National Goals and Directive Principals of the national Constitution. Vision 2050 also places education at the top of the agenda for 2050. The Constitution emphasizes the need for strong national participation and independence and Vision 2050 compares the country's present achievements to an international standard, the Human Development Index (HDI).
Of the five National Goals and Directive Principals enshrined in the Constitution, integral human development (IHD) is the first goal and calls for:
'…education to be based on mutual respect and dialogue, and to promote awareness of our human potential and motivation to achieve our National Goals through self-reliant effort.' (P.N.G. Const. Amend. 22)
The foresight was that education plays an important role in achieving the IHD. But the development must be realised through 'self-reliant effort' (p.5). However, in the last two decades the pace of education development in PNG is described as either stagnant or regressing (NRI Report, 2010). The NRI report on PNG Development Performance revealed that there was progress made on the HDI rank in the mid-1970s, stagnated in the mid-1990 and declined in 2015. Although efforts have been made to improve the quality of education in PNG, the indicators for improvement have been contrary.
It is, perhaps, reasonable to suggest that the education planners revisit the fifth goal in the Constitution, and facilitate a strategic shift from measuring PNG against the Very High Human Development countries, and instead refocus the 'institutions of […] education […] towards Papua New Guinean forms of participation, consultation, and consensus, and a continuous renewal of the responsiveness of [education] institutions to the needs and attitudes of the People (P.N.G., Const, Amend. 22).
In perspective, the Constitution directly addresses SDG 4-Education 2030 (target 4.1) which is about providing the teenagers with lifelong learning opportunities which are fundamental to living a meaningful life.
The 40-year strategic plan was established in 2010 by the Somare (National Alliance) government with the mission to lift PNG from a very low human development country to a very high human development country. Like the Constitution, the vision recognized education as the 'key' driver for achieving other goals and made it the number one pillar among the Seven Pillars of Vision 2050.
The emphasis was placed on Free and Universal Basic Education for all school-age children from Elementary 1 to Grade 12 (PNG Vision 2050, p. 5).
In 2011, the O'Neill (People's National Congress) government replaced the NA-led government and made free education its key policy, thus the inception Tuition Fee-Free (TFF) policy in 2012. Certainly, PNG's Constitution and Vision 2050 are indications of governments, past and present, giving prominence to education; and recognizing it as the number one driver for social, political and economic improvements.
However, the Constitution emphases that citizens must work – 'self-reliant effort' – to achieve IHD, not 'free' without effort to realize development. This raises the question to the sustainability, and hence the constitutionality, of the free education policy and first education goal of Vision 2050. So, is the free education sustainable after the PNC government? This question is addressed in section 5.1.
This section compares data relevant to PNG's development. Firstly, it analyses the Human Development Index (HDI) during the early years of Independence. Secondly, it identifies 3 influential strategic plans needed updating before 2020: Vision 2050, National Education Plan (NEP) 2015 – 2019 and Universal Basic Education (UBE) 2010 – 2019.
Progress in social, political and economic developments was promising after the Independence. Indicatively, the first 20 years delivered improved education. However, there was a steady drop in the 3 key areas of human development after 1995, followed by a slight increase from 2005 to 2015. Furthermore, the Human Development Report (2016) showed that PNG's overall HDI ranking declined from 153 to 154. PNG never 'broke-out' of the 0.55 HDI value.
An extrapolation of the trend line from 1995 to 2015, using the baseline development pattern of 1975 to 1995, positioned PNG above an HDI value of 0.6. In fact, that would mean that if PNG's development paced at the same rate after independence for the second 20 years (1995 – 2015), the country would have ranked among the Medium Human Development countries.
The Papua New Guinea Education Department condensed the 2015 – 2019 was, actually, a 10-year plan to a 5-year plan so that it coincides with Vision 2050 review in 2020. Unlike NEP 2005 – 2014, the NEP 2015 – 2019 provided some interesting statistics relating to primary and secondary education.
Indicatively, 45% of teenagers who enrolled at Grade 8 and 53% at Grade 10 in 2014 did not continue to Grade 9 and Grade 11, respectively. The major cause of Grade 8 and 10 students exiting formal education is examinations. Despite that, it is a concern why many students are also leaving school in Grade 9 (18%) and Grade 11 (21%).
The shortage of school fees nor examination can be recognized as reasons when these are non-exam grades and 1994 was a tuition-free year. The education planners may have to find out why a large number of students were exiting formal education, even when they have already passed the examinations and enrolled at school during a free education year.
The MDG 2 and UBE were the foundation of education plans in the last 10 years. The PNGMDG Report (2010) indicated universal primary education (UPE) should be achieved in 2015. Despite the popularity, there were instances of quick adjustments with the application of UBE model.
In his contribution to UBE Policy Research Framework, Kukari (2012) defined MDG 2 as the 'basic education' inclusive of lower secondary education – the first 9 years of schooling. This was revised to 12 years of basic education in Vision 2050 and consistent with the recent SDG4–Education 2030. In practice, UBE in the PNG context is inclusive of secondary education, not just up to the primary level as implied in MDG 2.
Another rushed policy adjustment was witnessed during the implementation of the TFF education policy. In its inception in 2012, the TFF policy covers Elementary to Grade 10 (TFF Manual, 2012). The policy, however, changed after two years to include Grades 11 and 12. Though the government may have seen both 'adjustments' as improvements, the adjustments are reactions to solving 'unintended' problems (G. Walton et.al, 2017) rather than meeting a pre-defined need.
Having discussed the strategic plans of the NDoE, some important setbacks needed to be considered. Since 2012 many changes in the education system have brought about unintended consequences.
Four governments with the assistance of Papua New Guinea Education Department have attempted the free education policy: Chan People's Progress Party government (1981), Wingti People's Democratic Movement government (1993), Morauta PDM Government (2002) and O'Neill People's National Congress government (2012).
The previous three attempts lasted less than 18 months whereas the recent free education policy also referred to as the Tuition Fee-Free (TFF) policy, continued for over 6.5 years. The PNG government considered TFF policy its commitment to improving access to education (NEP 2015-2019).
A survey by the Australian National University (ANU), titled Financing and the Tuition Fee-Free Policy (ANU, 2012), described the impacts of TFFE policy on the education system. The research paper used the term 'big bang' to describe the huge increase in TFF funding. For example, the research stated that 'a big bang approach can cause "access shock", whereby a sudden rise in student numbers puts pressure on educational quality (p. 5). The research revealed that there was strong growth in enrolment at an average of 15 percent in the first year, 2012. They concluded that
'the increase in enrolments between 2011 and 2012 is a clear indication that the policy has substantially increased access to schooling for children across the country' (p.14).
Furthermore, a discussion paper on TFF policy titled 'The challenges of providing free education in Papua New Guinea' found out that the number of children getting primary education, including girls, since 2012 has increased (G. Walton et.al, 2017). The drawback is that the data released by the NDoE indicated that over 80% of students enrolling at primary school (orange) in 2012 did not make it to secondary schools (red).
Outcome-Based Education (OBE), also referred to as Outcome Based Curriculum (OBC) and was introduced into the education system in 1992. After 33 years, many stakeholders blamed OBE/OBC for low levels of literacy and numeracy attainment among children in PNG. Sinebare (2014) described the impact on OBE/OBC as destructive 'tsunami'. And, further explained that many students who have been educated under the OBE cannot perform simple arithmetic or read and write in good English.
An education officer further stated that the curriculum is not relevant to PNG (EMTV, 2015) and called for a change to improve the standard of education in the country. N. Kuman (2014), in his ministerial statement further reiterated that
'One of the main causes of the OBE being a failure was due to the concept was conceived by outside experiences and was difficult to use and manage the system at the national and sub-national level[s]' (National, 2014).
A working committee formed in 2011, reviewed OBE and gradually introduce Standard Based Education, (SBE), also called Standard Based Curriculum (SBE), in 2015. A further drawback is that after 33 years, stakeholders realized that the 1992 curriculum change was a mistake.
The structure is important for stability and policy implementation at national, provincial and local levels. In fact, one change in structure could undo past developments in not done properly. However, the NDoE and Ministry of Education inferred that the changing of structure 'is to improve the quality of education and accessibility' (Kuman, 2017). Some of the changes were announced but have not taken effect. The current structure is 3-6-4. The NDoE plans to implement the 1-6-6 structure, starting with select schools in the National Capital District in 2018 and, gradually, introduced nationwide. Following are some of the perspectives on the unpopular structural adjustments (National, 2017 & NDoE, 2016).
• 1975-1992 (6-4-2 Structure): Primary School Grades 1 – 6, High School 7 – 10, National High School 11 – 12). A total of 12 years of schooling based SBC.
• Post-1992 – Current (3-6-4 Structure): Preparatory, Elementary 1 and 2, Primary School Grades 3 – 8, Secondary school Grades 9 – 12. The current structure with curriculum changes from SBC to OBE in 1993 and OBE to SBC in 2015.
• 2015 (2-6-6 Structure): Elementary 1 and 2, Primary School Grades 1 – 6 and Secondary School Grades 7 – 12. This was supposed to have taken effect in 2016 but did not eventuate.
• 2017 (1-6-6 Structure): Elementary 1, Primary School Grades 1 – 6, Secondary School Grades 7 – 12. This change would result in primary schools taking on Grades 1 -2 and the secondary schools taking in Grades 7 – 8.
The change in school structure from the current 3-6-4 to 1-6-6 can place a strain on existing infrastructure and resources at secondary schools when the 7th and 8th Grades from primary schools are absorbed into and housed at secondary schools around the country. To put into perspective, in 2014 there were 900, 000 primary school students and 150, 000 secondary school students (Figure 2, p.5). The main disadvantage is that there are not enough spaces at secondary schools to sustain the high number of primary school students.
The most recent Principals' Rating Conference jointly hosted by the Department of Higher Education, Research Science and Technology (DHERST) and Measurement Services Division (MSD) in Port Moresby on the 18th – 23rd June 2018, discussed the importance of Grade 12 online selections and completion of online School Leavers Forms. Use of technology in education is an example of meeting the needs of a growing population and raising up to meet the challenges posed to the education system. In addition, the Global Monitoring Report on Education 2017/8 emphasized that it 'is vital to collect data on learning outcomes, to shed light on factors that drive inequality in education.' (UNESCO, 2017, p. 4). The recent conference is a clear example of two educational bodies working together to capture and use data for the benefit of schools, educational bodies, students and other stakeholders. Though several education changes may not have clearly addressed the consequences of the increased number of students at primary and secondary schools, DHERST attempt to take school selections online is a sustainable approach.
Both the Constitution and Vision 2050 broadly identify human development as the main driver for other developments (Vision 2050, p.4). However, there are two missing links. Firstly, the education projections outlined in the UBE 2010-2019 and NEP 2015 – 2019 are unrealistic or set too high. Secondly, there is either an absence or complete ignorance of the inspection mechanism to enable transparency at the school level.
T. Ambang (2012) explained that lack of monitoring capacity and good governance at national to oversee the provincial and ward functions could be the barrier to improving quality of education. Moreover, a recent report (UNESCO, 2017) indicated that there are no check-and-balance mechanisms in the country. In fact, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) sponsored report, Global Education Monitoring Report 2017/8 (GEMR 2017/8), identified two key considerations for PNG government and NDoE: inclusion of Rights to Education in the Constitution, and National Education Monitoring Report (p. 446).
Right to education is a 'basic human right' recognized in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights by many international conventions. However, there is no clear provision of the Right to Education in either the Constitution or the Education Act 1983. GEMR 2017/8 stated that
'Regulations need to be in place before allowing new or fast expansion of education diversification, and equity considerations need to be kept in mind' (UNESCO, 2017, p.69).
The argument here is that there is no provision in the existing legislative instruments nor an Act of Parliament that states, 'Every Child in PNG has the Right to Free and Basic Education'. PNG Education Act 2003 clauses 2 (a), 2(c) and 4 (b) only relate to the parents' right or authority's right to make sure children are educated.
To address this issue, the PNG government must enact a specific Act, like India's Right to Education Act 2009. And, recognize children's Right to Education so that any government can be held to account for any policy-decisions contrary to the Act.
In the last 20 years, the country has relied heavily on reports from the external organization like the UNDP to track developments in education. Understandably, development plans like the MDGs and SDGs are influential on policy-decision making in a low human development country like PNG.
There are capacity or funding issues where national organizations such as the National Statistics Office cannot provide current and valuable data on education (Loop PNG, 2017). One way to address policy issues, within NDoE is to build a strong governance and management team aimed at improving collaboration among national education officers in various divisions of the department.
An example is the Papua New Guinea Education Department's establishment TFF Secretariat (NDoE level) on TFF policy which is responsible for scrutinizing the implementation of and reports on TFF education policy from the District Education Implementation Committee (Provincial/District level). The downside was that this check-and-balance mechanism was established in 2016, nearly 5 years after the inception of the TFF policy.
The School Inspectors, also called Standard Officers, do play an important role in promoting quality of teaching and learning at schools' levels. The inspectors are national officers working at provincial/regional areas – they are the eyes and ears of NDoE directly reporting to the Education Secretary. Indicatively, their insights on current developments can shape learning.
In his doctoral thesis, Apelis (2008) concluded that inspection is instrumental for teachers' professionalism and for improving the quality of teaching in the classroom. However, the Inspection Division has struggled to meet the increasing number of schools and number of students and teachers (E. Apelis, 2008).
The education minister, Nick Kuman, admitted that school inspections are rarely carried out in parts of the country because of lack of funds (Loop PNG, 2016). To ensure inclusive and sustainable learning for every child, the School Inspectorate Division of the education department must be resourced to carry out their responsibilities.
The Papua New Guinea Education Department (NDoD), through its Data Branch and Measurement Services Division, and DHERST collect and keep vital school data needed for education planning, certification and selection. Firstly, the Data Branch collects school data from School Learning Improvement Plans (SLIP) – the annual operational plans usually developed by principals.
The SLIP contains development plans, budget, school populations and other yearly plans. This is vital for the distribution of TFF funds and other educational grants. Secondly, MSD also collects data from schools to help with the administration of national assessments for Grades 8, 10 and 12 and Certifications.
Furthermore, DHERST requests and uses the data from the branch/division of NDoE for the purpose of the online selection of students to tertiary institutions. In fact, the data NDoE has with its 'cousin' branches can be used to effectively promote research and development, and address policy issues.
The Constitution, Vision 2050, UBE 2010 – 2019 and NEP 2015 – 2019 have embraced education and the number one driver for social, political and economic development in the country. The two later plans are up for review in 2020 in line with Vision 2050 review which is an ideal time to evaluate the progress made in the last decade. The online SLF and Grade 12 selections are DHERST's initiative to meet the challenges of dealing with the high number of students. However, since 2012 several unintended drawbacks have surfaced.
The 2015 Vision mission is an ambitious plan and an unrealistic expectation. The 40-year trend since 1975 showed that PNG would have comfortably ranked in the Medium Human Development countries if the country development paced at the same rate since Independence.
High numbers of students are also leaving school at Grades 9 (10% in 2014) and 11 (21% in 2014). School fee problem and examinations were not the causes.
Based on 2014, data over 80% of Grade 8 student do not make to secondary school – Grade 9. The high number of students is, also, unsustainable at secondary schools.
The absence of the Right to Education Act and National Monitoring Report on Education for measuring attainments and challenges of SDG 2-Education 2030 indicators.
Lack of school inspection and collaboration within the NDoE and its 'sister' offices at national provincial and ward levels. Improving school inspections and collaboration within the education department is key for improving learning in classrooms and identifying development opportunities.
Finally, the Papua New Guinea Education Department has made attempts to address the plans relating to education development. The attempts on implementing TFF policy, changing the school structure and curriculum are short-term and reactionary measures to addressing high accessibility rate.
The writer this article believes that using technology and enacting Right to Education Act is fundamental to ensuring sustainable quality education and promoting lifelong learning opportunities for the children now and in the future.
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Government of Manitoba, From the Past Into the Future: Manitoba Métis Policy (September 2010).
"Annexation, Our Manifest Destiny," Pioneer/ New Nation (1 December 1869; 7 January 1870): 2. See also "Red River Peculiarities," Nor'-Wester (1 July 1861), 2 columns 3-4.
[Louis Riel, quoted by A.G.B. Bannatyne, in Canada, Parliament, House of Commons, Debates of the House of Commons of the Dominion of Canada, 3d session, 3d parliament, 1876, ed. A.M. Burgess (Ottawa: McLean, Roger & Co., 1876), 804.
Click image to link to a brief and preliminary historical overview of the formation and accomplishments of the Legislative Assembly of Assiniboia devised for The Legislative Assembly of Assiniboia History Project, 2010.
This entire site is under construction in that I am in the process of writing and editing entries and doing so online. Thus content is being sorted and refined 'right before your eyes.' The ever-expanding sidebar to the right is the most up-to-date indication of what is currently available at this site.
The issue of what form of government the people of Assiniboia would have after union with Canada was fundamental to the Resistance.
Norma J. Hall, A Casualty of Colonialism: Red River Métis Farming, 1810–1870 (2015).
Norma J. Hall, Red River Settlement Cookbook (ongoing).
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Thank you for your amazing resource. I am a descendant of a previously "unidentified" (photograph) of St.Clements Lisgar family published in "East Side of the Red" – Centennial Project and in your Women of the Red River slideshow. I would like to formalize my identification of my ancestors for the public record. It is my great great grandfather, William Robert Swain, wife Sara Ann Omand (and family). I look forward to your email reply.
Good to hear from you and many thanks for sharing the information Anne-Marie — I have updated the page. If you would like to leave additional information on the family, please feel free to add it to the comments on the 'Slideshow: Women of Red River' page.


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COBO: Working Towards a Sustainable Future
COBO has consolidated its presence globally with its Electronic Control Systems to manage movement and safety of Construction Equipment, and will now focus on further developments to support the OEMs in India, informs Mitesh Chitkara, Business Head - India Region.
What are the grey areas that the CE fraternity and government should find solutions to make India's construction at par with world standards and become the 2nd largest CE industry in the world by 2030?
India has all the credentials to become the second largest CE industry in the world by 2030. Such a position brings with it a lot of responsibilities towards all the stakeholders and for making it sustainable it's time to reflect on the grey areas of the industry so that we all are well prepared in the years to come.
Safety is among one of the most important grey areas wherein the CE fraternity and the government needs to work on from the perspective of the global safety standards and regulations. Innovation is another area where the government needs to provide the right ecosystem (with some incentives) so that more and more domestic as well as global companies start investing in R&D to develop state-of-the-art technologies.
What steps should be taken to incentivize and support MSMEs in the CE industry to enable ease of doing business?
In most of the cases, the CE industry of India is managed through a vendor base of automotive components, unlike other developed economies. But the CE industry is quite challenging when it comes to performance, environmental and safety standards. The time has come when the Government needs to bring some Production Linked Incentive (PLI) schemes to attract global players in the CE component industry to set up local manufacturing in India. At the same time, the Government can incentivize the MSMEs in India to encourage them to invest more in these specialized domains.
What growth do you see in India's CE Industry in 2023-24 in view of the ongoing and upcoming big ticket infra projects?
Last year, an old-time record was set in the global construction equipment market when more than 1.28 million machines were sold. In fact, the 2021 sales might have been even higher if the industry would have catered to the demand, which was impacted by the shortage in components and the bottlenecks in logistics and other issues brought about by the pandemic lockdowns. In 2022, the industry is unlikely to see another such growth.
As far as India is concerned, there is a lot of potential due to the country's own consumption. In the last decade, the Indian CE industry has witnessed a decent growth doing >90 thousand units, up from 50 thousand in 2014. There is a clear focus of the government on infrastructure development projects. So, the Indian CE industry is likely to grow at 8-10% y-o-y, in line with its vision of becoming the second largest CE industry in the world by 2030.
What solutions is COBO offering to help customers become more productive and efficient while serving their clients?
The COBO Group has a global footprint across many continents for more than 70 years. It is serving a base of >4000 clients in more than 70 countries with a wide product portfolio of Electromechanical, Mechanical, Electronic, Systems, Instrument Clusters, Connectivity and Power Electronics.
As per our slogan 'The Future In The Tradition', we keep evolving and bringing new value-added features in our products with newer solutions. Moreover, we are investing 5-8% of our revenue every year in R&D to innovate, design, and develop global solutions for enhancing comfort, safety, reliability, and customer service.
We are handling all new developments and customizations for India locally, supported by a team of experienced engineers and professionals. We offer a lot of flexibility and handholding to all our clients in India, especially when it comes to new technology adoption when migrating to new regulations. After the successful migration of Stage IV norms in India, a stronger trust factor has been established with our strategic clients and we are now in the process of contributing several more solutions that are readily available for Stage V norms to be implemented in the CE industry by 2024.
In recent years, Aerial Work Platform market in India is evolving into manufacturing with participation from global and local players. For a very long time, this area was largely serviced through trade. We have seen a very strong double-digit growth in this industry worldwide, where China has been doing extremely well, with many of its companies gaining top ranking globally in the last few years. We strongly believe that there is a huge potential in India too, from warehouse management to maintenance of airports, construction work at job sites, and many other applications.
COBO has already consolidated its presence globally with its Electronic Control Systems to manage movement and safety of Boom Lifts, Scissors, Stock Pickers, and Truck Mounted Platforms, and it will now focus on further developments to support the OEMs in India.
Please elaborate on your new ECO HE Instrument Cluster.
ECO HE Instrument cluster is one of our flagship product evolving from our ECO cluster family. It has been recently developed and carries lot of value added features coming from our "Own Experience" & "Voice of the Customer". It's feature list includes but not limited to 32 bit microcontroller, 3.5" colored TFT display with improved resolution, daylight visibility and viewing angle.
There is an overwhelming response with lot of developments for ECO HE cluster from our existing and target customers globally, including India.
What technology disruptions in machines is leading to a more sustainable eco-friendly environment?
A lot of technology disruptions are happening all around the world with regard to alternate fuels for zero emissions. We are seeing a lot of success stories in the automotive industry and there is no doubt that the CE industry across the world has to move in the same direction. Many global companies are already working in the area of electrification of construction equipment.
As a responsible and technology player in the industry, we are also contributing towards an eco-friendly environment with our Power Electronic product line of Inverters, Choppers, DC-DC Converters, Electronic Foot Throttle, etc.
What efforts are being made towards waste management and reducing CO2 emissions at COBO?
In the current times of climate emergency, all businesses need to contribute towards minimizing CO2 emissions and safeguarding the environment. Some of the initiatives already in place in the COBO Group include recycling waste and using recyclable resources in marketing gadgets and in several consumables been used in the industry. We also source from suppliers complying with ISO14001. We encourage our employees for eco-friendly practices such as limiting physical movements by switching to online meetings and events, and supports car sharing for business trips (wherever possible) to reduce the company's carbon emissions.
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Biografia
Giovanni Damian è nato il 9 gennaio 2003 a Vicenza ed è cresciuto a Grumolo delle Abbadesse. È il terzo e ultimo figlio di Pierluigi e Lidia Guerra. Ha frequentato il liceo Don Giuseppe Fogazzaro di Vicenza, lasciandolo al quarto anno per partecipare ad Amici di Maria De Filippi. Si è avvicinato al mondo della musica a sedici anni, età in cui ha iniziato a scrivere i primi brani. Ha scelto di utilizzare lo pseudonimo Sangiovanni, ottenuto semplicemente anteponendo "san", troncamento di santo, al suo nome di battesimo, in quanto in molti gli hanno detto che "non aveva la faccia di un santo".

Ha pubblicato i primi tre singoli Paranoia, Non + e Guccy Bag nel corso del 2020 per l'etichetta discografica Sugar, facendosi poi conoscere con la partecipazione alla fase iniziale della ventesima edizione del talent show Amici di Maria De Filippi alla fine dello stesso anno. Ha ottenuto l'accesso alla fase serale del programma entrando a far parte della squadra capitanata da Rudy Zerbi e Alessandra Celentano. Nel maggio 2021 ha raggiunto la finale, trionfando nella categoria cantanti e piazzandosi secondo nella classifica generale e primo nella categoria canto.

Durante la partecipazione ad Amici ha pubblicato i singoli Lady, Tutta la notte e Hype, che insieme ai brani dell'anno precedente hanno scalato la classifica italiana. Quello di maggior successo è stato Lady, certificato quadruplo disco di platino dalla Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana. Il 14 maggio 2021 è uscito per Sugar Music il primo EP omonimo, salito direttamente in vetta alla classifica italiana degli album, con il quale in due settimane il cantante ha ottenuto il suo primo disco di platino, a cui se ne è aggiunto un secondo nel successivo luglio, un terzo a settembre, e un quarto nel maggio successivo per le oltre  unità di vendita totalizzate a livello nazionale. L'EP ha inoltre fatto il suo ingresso nella classifica svizzera al 34º posto. Nella settimana di uscita Sangiovanni ha ottenuto il suo primo singolo numero uno grazie a Malibu. Quest'ultimo è risultato il brano di maggior successo del 2021 secondo la FIMI, nonché il brano più ascoltato in Italia sia su Spotify sia su Apple Music e il video più visto dell'anno su VEVO.

Successivamente ha pubblicato i singoli Raggi gamma e Perso nel buio, quest'ultimo in collaborazione con Madame, inclusi nella riedizione digitale del suo EP. Il cantante promuoverà la sua musica attraverso il Sangio Live Tour, la sua prima tournée nazionale, con nove date fissate per maggio 2022. Ai SEAT Music Awards 2021 riceve quattro premi per i successi ottenuti nel corso dell'anno.

Ha partecipato al Festival di Sanremo 2022 con il brano Farfalle, con cui è arrivato al 5º posto nella classifica finale e di cui ha pubblicato una versione in lingua spagnola, in collaborazione con Aitana, dal titolo Mariposas.

Il singolo successivo, Cielo dammi la Luna, è uscito nel marzo 2022 per anticipare il primo album in studio, Cadere volare. Nel 2022 Sangiovanni è comparso con la canzone Dance Floor nell'album del cantante della Dark Polo Gang Wayne Santana, e ha collaborato al singolo Tilt con Mecna e CoCo. Nel maggio 2022 è tornato ad Amici come ospite durante la fase serale della ventunesima edizione, dove ha cantato Cielo dammi la Luna e Cortocircuito; ha inoltre pubblicato il brano Scossa come unico singolo estratto dalla riedizione digitale di Cadere volare e terzo in totale estratto dall'album, utilizzato nella serie televisiva Summertime. Il disco ha raggiunto la 2ª posizione della classifica italiana e ha ottenuto un disco d'oro a due mesi dall'uscita per le  unità vendute. Nell'estate successiva Sangiovanni è stato ospite a vari concerti e trasmissioni televisive tra cui l'RDS Summer Festival 2022, il Jova Beach Party di Jovanotti e i programmi televisivi TIM Summer Hits e Battiti Live. Ai TIM Music Awards ha ricevuto quattro premi per i successi ottenuti nel corso dell'anno. Il 7 ottobre ha pubblicato il singolo Fluo, che successivamente presenterà alla ventiduesima edizione di Amici di Maria De Filippi. Nell'autunno del 2022 Sangiovanni ha intrapreso il suo primo tour nelle arene italiane, esibendosi al Palazzetto dello Sport di Roma il 19 ottobre e al Mediolanum Forum di Assago il 23 ottobre.

Vita privata
Dal dicembre 2020 è sentimentalmente legato a Giulia Stabile, ballerina e vincitrice della ventesima edizione di Amici di Maria De Filippi, apparsa nel videoclip della canzone Malibu.

Discografia

Album in studio
 2022 – Cadere volare

EP
 2021 – Sangiovanni

Singoli
 2020 – Paranoia
 2020 – Non +
 2020 – Guccy Bag
 2021 – Lady
 2021 – Tutta la notte
 2021 – Hype
 2021 – Malibu (solo e con Trevor Daniel)
 2021 – Raggi gamma
 2021 – Perso nel buio (con Madame)
 2022 – Farfalle/Mariposas (solo e con Aitana)
 2022 – Cielo dammi la Luna
 2022 – Scossa
 2022 – Fluo
 2022 – Mon amie freestyle

Come featuring
 2022 – Tilt (Mecna e CoCo feat. Sangiovanni)
 2023 – Fatti rimandare dalla mamma a prendere il latte (Gianni Morandi feat. Sangiovanni)

Programmi televisivi
 Amici di Maria De Filippi (Canale 5, Italia 1, 2020-2021) – concorrente
 Festival di Sanremo 2022 (Rai 1, 2022) – concorrente
 Festival di Sanremo 2023 (Rai 1, 2023) – ospite

Tournée
 2021 – Sangiovanni Summer Tour
 2022 – Mondo Sangio Live Tour
 2022 – Cadere volare Live Tour
 2022 – Sangiovanni Live

Riconoscimenti
 2021
 SEAT Music Awards per il disco Sangiovanni e i singoli Malibu, Lady e Tutta la notte
 2022
 TIM Music Awards per il disco Cadere volare e il singolo Farfalle

Note

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Artisti alla posizione numero 1 della classifica singoli italiana
Gruppi e musicisti del Veneto
Partecipanti al Festival di Sanremo

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Teachers sue Oxford University in excess of 'Uberisation' of educating contracts
Two teachers are suing Oxford College for using them as gig financial system staff in a situation which draws on the landmark ruling that gave Uber drivers the appropriate to paid out holiday seasons and a pension.
The two lecturers were being employed on mounted-term "personal services" contracts to teach on Oxford's imaginative composing training course for 15 yrs, but these were being not renewed in 2022.
The pair, Alice Jolly and Rebecca Abrams, declare the character of their work means they must be regarded as staff members and their misclassification intended they missed out on a number of essential office legal rights.
"We are bringing this action on behalf of hundreds of Oxford University tutors who, like us, are employed on lawfully questionable informal contracts. Oxford is a single of the worst offenders when it arrives to the Uberisation of bigger schooling teaching, with approximately 70% of its team on precarious contracts. This is bad for lecturers and lousy for learners," said Abrams.
Jolly extra that universities use writers' CVs to industry their creative writing programs, but usually they "will only give zero-hrs contracts which offer no work stability and sometimes fork out as small as £25 an hour" – which doesn't aspect in preparation time.
Ryan Bradshaw, a solicitor at Leigh Day, is representing the two lecturers applying arguments equivalent to people he efficiently applied versus Goldsmiths University, which draw on a landmark 2021 supreme court docket ruling. That circumstance was a watershed second for the gig financial system, ruling Uber drivers were utilized by Uber, not self-utilized, and granting them better work problems.
According to Leigh Working day, Oxford claimed it would offer you more acceptable contracts to the lecturers in a letter to the Modern society of Authors in April 2022, but two months afterwards Jolly and Abrams's contracts had been not renewed. The pair believe that their four decades of trade union campaigning may well have contributed to this determination, major them to assert unfair dismissal.
They are also arguing that the University of Oxford has failed to spend them sufficiently for vacations, considering the fact that underneath the terms of their deal they did not obtain getaway pay back.
The scenario is backed by the litigation fund Law for Adjust, which money lawsuits with social implications. Its co-founder, David Graham, reported: "The continuing erosion of lecturers' employment rights in bigger instruction institutions is an area we are as a fund notably concerned about," and that he hoped the case would support other lecturers maintain their companies to account.
A assert was filed with Watford work tribunal on 16 November, and the university's response is envisioned in January, with resolution hoped to just take put in the summer.
"This is the gig financial state, at Oxford University. It's pure precarity and it indicates the imbalance of ability marriage in between employer and personnel is enormous and can guide to all kinds of abuses," said Bradshaw.
"These are folks who would ordinarily be perceived as white-collar, privileged employees – they're really educated, definitely respected authors and writers, and they're staying compelled to accept phrases and problems that undermine their lawful rights. It's astonishing – it displays the extent to which businesses will look for to exploit workers wherever they can. You just do not assume to see it in this natural environment, but right here it is."
Bradshaw said the Goldsmiths situation, and the Oxford lawsuit if it is prosperous, could pave the way for countless numbers of university personnel on insecure contracts to file related statements, however he explained they really should purpose to settle disputes by way of their union in the initial instance to cut down expenses.
He extra that universities are just one of the major sectors that work a gig financial state, and he believed it was due to the fact of their "increased financialisation and marketisation", which had resulted in their turning into financial gain-searching for companies operate by prime-down management.
Lecturers have participated in a sequence of strikes over insecure contracts and lower fork out and situations in current a long time. In November, the College and Higher education Union (UCU) explained that document numbers of its customers took portion in picket strains at much more than 150 better education and learning establishments.
Oxford explained it would not comment on the unique situation when it is pending.