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Streamline Progress Management with Workflow
2022-12-26 2022-12-26 / Staff Blog / Task Request
Hi there, this is Hayashi from the Marketing Department
Progress management is an essential part of production-related work. As the name implies, this position manages the progress of work, and is necessary for everything from the production of flyers in small areas to national-scale projects in larger areas.
No matter what type of business you are in, the person in charge of progress management is responsible for keeping track of the progress of the work and adjusting schedules and other details as needed. To put it bluntly, it is a tough job. At least, everyone I have seen in charge of progress management has had a hard time.
So this time, we have come up with a way to streamline the work of such progress managers with workflow.
What is the Function of Progress Management?
I have never worked in progress management. However, I have had many opportunities to work with progress managers in my work as a writer and editor, and I have seen what they do up close.
I have often written about this, but I used to work as a copywriter for a mail-order manufacturer, and although it was about 15 years ago and things may have improved since then, I found the catalog production progress management work there to be truly grueling.
To begin with, the schedule rarely goes as planned at these production sites. For example, it is an everyday occurrence that product samples do not arrive, product photos cannot be taken, and designs cannot be created. Each time this happened, the production manager would revise the schedule created in Excel, print it out, and distribute it to the team.
Even so, the director would yell at them and ask what was going on, the sales staff would look at me disapprovingly when I made a request, and the writers and designers would fail to meet deadlines. For this reason, the company I worked for did not attract any personnel to the position of progress control.
Save the Progress Manager with Workflow!
It is true that not all progress management in the world is as demanding as described above. However, a friend of mine who worked at a game app production company as a progress manager also used to come home late at night and stay overnight at the company before a deadline, so it is not unusual for progress management to be overburdened with excessive workload. It is a fact that at least in the company I worked for, there were inefficient parts of the business in need of progress management.
We have selected workflow templates that may be useful in improving the efficiency of workflow management operations from the free workflow templates that Questetra has made available to the public, using catalog production as an example. We hope that these workflows will help the frustrated progress managers all over the country, if only a little!
Workflow #1: Work Request Flow
The process of requesting work is fundamental to workflow.
This "Work Request Flow" is a simple but effective workflow that allows the project manager to communicate with various people inside and outside the team.
Workflow Sample of the Work Request Flow
This flow not only allows the work to proceed automatically, but also allows the person receiving the request to ask questions of the requester and to send the request back to the requester if there are any deficiencies in the content. This will at least greatly reduce the burden of email and telephone communication.
Also, if the director uses this workflow, it may save the time and effort of the progress manager in coordinating between the two.
※ Click here for a description and download of the Work Request Flow.
Workflow #2: Progress Report Process
The Progress Report Process is a workflow that designates one to four reporters and requests progress reports as of a specified date.
Progress Reporting Process workflow sample
If you require designers, writers, photographers, etc. to report in, you can check early on whether the work is progressing according to schedule. If there are many people, it is also a good idea to require chiefs and leaders to complete reports.
After receiving the report the reported values are also tabulated, which is useful in understanding the overall progress of the project.
※ Click here for an explanation and download of the Progress Report Process.
Workflow #3: Manga Production Flow
The Manga Production Flow is a template that can be used for more than just making manga.
Manga Production Flow Workflow Sample
In this flow, the process progresses through repeated exchanges of production, submission, and confirmation. As the work progresses, the status is automatically updated and displayed on the input screen, such as "Meeting completed," "Rough draft being checked," and "Draft completed".
This template may be more suitable for directors, but if the progress manager has permission to view the flow, it will be easier to keep track of the progress.
※ Click here for an explanation and download of the Manga Production Flow.
Workflow No. 4: Entrusted-Delivery Flow
The key point of the "Entrusted-Delivery Flow" is that it is linked to Google Calendar, and once the leader confirms the delivery date, that date is automatically written into the calendar.
Entrusted-Delivery Workflow sample
For example, in catalog production, different pages or roles may have different deadlines. In such cases, all deadlines for each can be listed on a single calendar.
Today, many companies share their schedules on Google Calendar. This flow goes one step further and automates the posting of events to the calendar. Although some modifications to the wording of the processes in the flow are necessary, this flow is rather straightforward and will help reduce the workload of progress managers.
※ Click here for a description and download of Entrusted-Delivery Flow.
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As well as the workflows introduced in the section above, Questetra BPM Suite is good at highlighting
At what stage of completion a process is
Who is currently dealing with a task
…amongst other things.
If everyone on the team uses the same flow and Questetra BPM Suite makes it paperless and automated, the progress manager will have a lot less to do.
Nowadays, remote work is commonplace. There are many cases where progress managers work outside of the office. Questetra BPM Suite is a cloud-based system, which allows you to access the same system as in the office and proceed with your work from anywhere where there is an internet environment.
Another advantage of the cloud-based system is that you can start immediately without any troublesome procedures after applying. Please feel free to start with a free trial!
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If you were looking for in-depth film breakdown www.thecoltsfootballauthentic.com , or one of my opponent scouting reports, or even a Colts-centric article, you've arrived at the wrong article. Welcome to the weekly conspiracy report where I, Chris Shepherd, will examine nefarious plots around the league and expose them for what they are. Now sure, I won't be able to provide you any "proof" and no, I don't have any sources (that you know of). What follows should be treated purely as entertainment that includes plausible (and not so plausible) scenarios that no one employed by NFL teams would ever admit to and I accept no responsibility for anything you do with the information I'm about to give you. In fact I accept no responsibility for anything you're about to read here.In this week seven expos茅 of NFL conspiratorial glory, we're going to take a look at Bill Belichick and his obvious involvement and eventual insertion by the CIA. If you go back to the late 90's and you look at what was happening with the New England Patriots, it goes something like this; Bill Parcells takes the Patriots to the Super Bowl in 1996 and makes the decision in the off season to leave the team to become head coach of the New York Jets. After Parcells left, the Patriots hired Pete Carroll to be the next head coach. From 1996 to 1999 Carroll went 27-24. Carroll was fired after his third year which saw the team go 8-8 and miss the playoffs for the first time in his tenure. During the 1999 off season, the Patriots hired Bill Belichick, who had recently been promoted to head coach of the New York Jets, a team he had been with as their defensive coordinator since 1997. That should just about catch you up. If you think that seems like a wild 5 year span, you're right it was. The Patriots had two surefire hall of fame head coaches and three super bowl winning head coaches in that time. It was wild for sure but a lot of it doesn't make much sense. Why would Parcells leave after taking his team to the Super Bowl? If you listen to Parcells he'll tell you that he was stubborn and butted heads with Robert Craft, but the thing is they were winning. We all know that winning fixes everything Indianapolis Colts T-Shirt , and at a minimum that makes it possible to overlook a lot. In the end, Parcells left the Pats to go coach the Jets, which makes sense because he willingly left the AFC champion for the 1-15 Jets... oh wait... that actually doesn't make any sense at all. What coach in his right mind would do that? This just doesn't make sense.Why would the Pats hire a head coach in Pete Carroll, have him take them to the playoffs twice and then fire him after an 8-8 season? That seems rash, it seems unreasonable, it seems like a move the Browns would make. We're talking about Robert Kraft, it seems obvious at this point that he wants to win, with that said he isn't unreasonable. After all in Belichick's first year with the Patriots he went 5-11, the teams worst record since 1993. If winning were that important to Kraft, he would have fired Belichick. Instead Carroll got the boot despite never having a losing season with the Patriots. Why would a coach accept a head coaching job with a team that has employed him as a coordinator for the past three seasons and then resign a day later? That's exactly what Bill Belichick did. But why? He knew the team, he had been there for three years, long enough to establish a routine and build the start of a life. If you've never moved more than a few hours from where you've lived most of your life, there may be some things you take for granted; right now you have your favorite pizza place, you might have a place you like to get coffee, if you needed to take something to the cleaners you probably know where you would take it Indianapolis Colts Hats , maybe you have a plumber or handyman that you know and trust, you might have your favorite bar, you have "your" gas station, you have "your" grocery store, you have the place you take your car to have maintenance done. When you move hours away, you lose all of that. Fans tend to lose sight of the fact that NFL coaches and players are people. They have their favorite places just like you and me and Bill Belichick willingly gave that up to go and coach an 8-8 team despite already being the head coach of an 8-8 team, to work for an owner who just fired a guy for going 8-8. That doesn't make any sense at all. So why did any of this happen?The most likely answer seems to be something that may not be obvious to most. Depending on who you talk to and where they happen to be located in the world, you will hear different stories about presidents and prime ministers of small, often unstable nations and how those leaders came to power. The official story, as told by the US government and US media is always that through a democratic election, a small nation has elected a new promising leader. Except if you listen to the people and media of the nations that often border these nations, they will tell you that the US government, specifically the CIA, were the ones who orchestrated the overthrow of the old government and the election of the new leader. A prominent US politician infamously bragged about their ability to do exactly what those people all around the world have suggested. So if the CIA really does have the ability to overthrow entire governments and put leaders in place they believe will be beneficial to them in the future, do we really think they couldn't do the same with an NFL franchise?I know what you're probably thinking; "Well of course they could Indianapolis Colts Womens Hoodie , but why would they want to?" You mean why would they want to control an NFL franchise? There are a lot of reasons, to start, the NFL was well on its way to becoming the most popular sport in America. Having control over the most popular sport in America seems like something the CIA would be interested in, so how could they do something like that without it becoming front page news?To start, if they wanted to have real, imperceptible, control over the NFL, they would have to create the most successful team in NFL history but they would need to strike a balance between creating a highly successful team and a team who would just win 15 championships in a row because no one is going to watch that and the CIA's investment would be wasted. So without making it painfully obvious and letting as few people know their plan, they would need to put a leader in place of an NFL team who had the mental makeup to sustain that type of success, someone they could trust to never give anything away to the media or anyone around him. They needed someone who they had been preparing since he was a boy, growing up a short drive from CIA headquarters in Annapolis, Maryland spending much of his youth at the United States Naval Academy.That man was Bill Belichick. Now it seems obvious that the CIA made Bill Belichick what he is and the CIA believed they could use Bill Belichick, well hidden cheating and a seemingly unlimited "back budget" doing who knows what, behind the scenes, to create a dominant juggernaut that they could then control Womens Customized Indianapolis Colts Jerseys , or at the very least impact the outcome of nearly every NFL season for two decades, and therefore control a multi-billion dollar entity that tens of millions of Americans spend the months of September through January watching religiously week after week. If the CIA could control the most popular sport in America in that way, the question isn't "why would they want to do that" instead it's "why wouldn't they want to do that?" And I don't have the answer to that question.*Once again, please note this article is purely meant for entertainment and the conversation it can create. Chris Shepherd may or may not actually believe anything above. By looking at current events through alternative viewpoints we hope to come away with a better understanding of what we're seeing by considering something we've never considered. Worst case? We have a lot of fun with conspiracy theories and turn on old episodes of the X-Files while wearing our tin-foil hats.Links to the previous weeks conspiracies:Week 6: Roger Goodell part IIWeek 5: Sean McDermottWeek 4: Le'Veon Bell Week 3: Roger GoodellWeek 2: Jon GrudenWeek 1: Colts Defense Colts first-round pick Quenton Nelson's play has helped the Colts offensive line turn in much improved play this season and a block on Jaguars safety Barry Church from last Sunday's game displays the rookie guard's ability to open up a hole.Nelson barrels through Church on the play and a video of the block posted on Twitter by the Colts went viral the last couple of days. In addition to showing Nelson leveling Church, the video also featured audio of what appeared to be Nelson screaming as he lowered the boom on his opponent.It only appeared to be Nelson screaming because the scream was actually spliced in from another play. Nelson said he did scream on a different play and the Colts acknowledged using it with the unrelated video."I saw it got pretty viral on the internet, which was cool," Nelson said, via ESPN.com. " … Yeah, I wasn't yelling, not on that play. I don't know how it got amped up like that."The Colts have fielded accusations that they've pumped in fake crowd noise in the past, but, unlike this audio sweetening, none of those claims were substantiated.


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The Wynn Palace in Macau
The blissful luxury Wynn Palace in NEVADA, Nevada, has over 1700 hotel rooms. The property's restaurants and non-gaming options are plentiful, and the 24-hour front desk offers concierge services. Located on the Cotai Strip, the Wynn Palace is really a quick walk from the town of Dreams. The hotel also offers a health club and a fitness center, as well as an indoor theater.
The Wynn Palace has over nine thousand square metres of luxury retail space. It boasts five restaurants, a barber shop, and a salon, and over 106,000 square feet of renowned luxury retail. Furthermore, the casino space is approximately four million square feet, rendering it probably the most expansive gaming facilities on earth. The hotel can be found between Taipa and Coloane, making it a popular destination for tourists and locals.
The Wynn Palace's tower houses guestrooms and suites. The tower was designed by LEO A DALY, who had previously completed high-rise projects in China. Along with overseeing the construction process, the firm worked closely with the client's in-house design team to attain the desired look. The hotel's interior is largely floral in nature, apart from the pool and spa.
Apart from 블랙 잭 룰 its impressive architecture, the Wynn Palace also has an extensive assortment of rare art. The Retail Esplanade features world-class designer brands, and a luxury spa and gym. The upscale hotel also includes a 106,000 square-foot shopping mall and 37,000 square feet of meeting space. It really is among the largest in Asia. This is one of the most impressive hotels on earth, and a must-see destination in Macau.
With regards to size and design, Wynn Palace is Macau's biggest hotel. It has more than 1,706 rooms with the most luxurious furnishings. The property also has an extraordinary performing lake, a podium building, and a performing lake. It is a huge complex that will make one feel like royalty. It's the epitome of luxury in a little Chinese city. In the wake of 26 straight months of gaming revenue declines, the massive Wynn Palace reopened to the general public.
The brand new casino in Macau is worth $4.1 billion and may be the largest in the world. It is currently undergoing a major expansion, and is likely to open in August. It is also home to the world's largest casino. Despite its immense size, the Wynn Palace's opening has been welcomed by Macau's residents. While the building's construction floor area 's almost 450,000 square meters, it's likely to grow to over 270,000 square feet once it's finished.
The construction of the hotel is currently complete, however the delay has caused the construction of some of the surrounding areas to be delayed. The Wynn Palace is located near to the Hard Rock Casino and the Sands Cotai Central. The Fortune Diamond and Cotai are both within walking distance of the hotel. This resort is known as to be one of the most luxurious in the world. There's even a helipad on the top of the house.
The Wynn Palace has a lot more than 350 gaming tables. Compared to other Cotai casinos, Wynn Palace includes a higher concentration of VIP guests. Compared to other Macau casinos, the Wynn Palace has more than five hundred gaming tables. However, Wynn Macau has fewer VIP tables in comparison to its rival. The new casino is also bigger, with a larger space and an increased ceiling than the previous one.
The resort is a popular destination for tourists. The Bellagio was the world's priciest hotel at the time, and it's now among the largest in the world. The Palace of Dreams happens to be the most expensive resort in Macau, and it is being built on the outskirts of the town. It has been a hot spot for tourists for decades, and the casino is now home to the world's most luxurious luxury hotels.
In July, Wynn sued the Nevada Independent and the Las Vegas Review-Journal for defamation. The lawsuit was filed after a whistleblower named Angelica Limcaco came forward with claims that her former bosses were secretly spying on her. She has also sued the media outlet CNBC for defamation once they wrote articles about her lawsuit. The lawsuit was filed in the NEVADA Review-Journal, the Nevada Independent, and CNBC.
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#Arctic Sea Ice update
June 2, 2019 March 8, 2018 by Dave
Arctic sea ice extent for February 2018 was 13.95 million square kilometers (5.39 million square miles). The magenta line shows the 1981 to 2010 average extent for that month. Credit: National Snow and Ice Data Center
The National Snow and Ice Data Centre have issued their early March update for Arctic sea ice news. The content is not exactly a surprise. Below I've laid out some of the details.
Temperatures over the Arctic have been unseasonably high and have been approaching melting point – in February – a time when the grip of winter should be holding fast
Arctic sea ice extent has hit record lows again. This has been true for both the Atlantic and also the Pacific sides of the Arctic. Areas of open water expanded rapidly in the Bering Sea during the later half of the month.
An oil tanker has traversed the Arctic Northern Sea route for the very first time in History – in February.
Record Breaking Sea Ice extent lows for February
The last time there was a record low in February was last year, and now February 2018 has hit another record low.
Arctic sea ice extent for February 2018 averaged 13.95 million square kilometers (5.39 million square miles). This is the lowest monthly average recorded for February, 1.35 million square kilometers (521,000 square miles) below the 1981 to 2010 average and 160,000 square kilometers (62,000) below the previous record low monthly average in 2017.
This is all part of an ongoing ever present downwards trend. The linear rate of decline for February is 47,000 square kilometers per year (18,000 square miles per year), or 3.1 percent per decade.
New Shipping Routes
The idea of being able to sail across the Arctic in summer is old news. What is new is the idea of being able to do this in winter.
Most of the new commercial shipping traffic has been during summer, primarily through the Northern Sea Route along the coast of Siberia. However, this February a commercial tanker, the Eduard Toll, made the first crossing of the Northern Sea Route in winter.
This is the first time a tanker has crossed the #Arctic in winter unassisted https://t.co/Zof7fbrOM0 #environment pic.twitter.com/CyLg4SjkHl
— World Economic Forum (@wef) March 7, 2018
One important clarification is required here, this is not simply about less sea ice. Improvements in ship-building and the development of ice-strengthened hull technology was also a major factor in enabling winter access. Previous ice-strengthened ships could only navigate safely through 0.5 meter thick ice, compared to the 1.8 meter thick ice that the Eduard Toll cruised through.
But less sea ice is part of this story …
This figure shows the distribution of Arctic sea ice according to stage of development, , as of February 22, 2018. Pink shows new ice; purple shows young ice; blue shows first year thin ice; orange shows first year medium ice, red shows first year thick ice, brown shows old ice, and while shows glacial ice.
Sea Ice extent did also play a very decisive role in this story.
While the Northern Sea Route has tended to be dominated by first-year ice, which typically reaches a maximum of around 2 meters, the thicker (3- to 4-meter) multi-year ice would be a hazard even to the newer, stronger ships. According to analysis by the U.S. National Ice Center, this year's old ice (multi-year ice – marked Brown in the above diagram) has pulled completely away from the coast and the Northern Sea Route is dominated by first-year medium (0.7- to 1.2-meter) or first-year thick (1.2- to 2-meter) ice. This, in conjunction with improvements in ship-construction, is what has made the Northern Sea route possible for the first time in the depths of the Arctic winter.
Now that this has been proven to be viable, a fleet of six ships with similar technology is being constructed by a South Korean shipbuilder.
Winter Warming Trends
This figure shows differences from average temperature in degrees Celsius, and wind conditions for the period February 22 to 26, 2018. In addition, the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) index is shown in the lower left. This is a measure of the strength of the westerly winds in the North Atlantic. When the index is negative, the flow is wavier, which increases the probability of transport of warm air to Greenland from the south. Credit: European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) IFS forecast model
This is the third winter in a row in which extreme heat waves have been recorded over the Arctic Ocean. A study published last year by Robert Graham from the Norwegian Polar Institute showed that recent warm winters represent a trend towards increased duration and intensity of winter warming events within the central Arctic.
Increasing frequency and duration of Arctic winter warming events. Geophysical Research Letters 44: 6974–6983.
DOI:10.1002/2017GL073395
While the Arctic has been relatively warm for this time of year, northern Europe was hit by extreme cold conditions at the end of February.
What has been happening?
Pacific side
Low pressure centered just east of the Kamchatka Peninsula and high pressure centered over Alaska and the Yukon during February set up southerly winds that brought warm air and warm ocean waters into the Pacific side of the Arctic Ocean, impeding southward ice growth. This helps to explain the rapid loss of ice extent in the Bering Sea and the ice-free regions within the Chukchi Sea during the month. The warm air intrusion is evident in the 925 mb air temperatures, with monthly temperatures 10 to 12 degrees Celsius (18 to 22 degrees Fahrenheit) above average in the Chukchi and Bering Sea.
Atlantic Side
On the Atlantic side, low pressure off the southeast coast of Greenland and high pressure over northern Eurasia helped to funnel warm winds into the region and may have also enhanced the northward transport of oceanic heat. At the end of the month, this atmospheric circulation pattern was particularly strong, associated with a remarkable inflow of warm air from the south, raising the temperatures near the North Pole to above freezing, around 20 to 30 degrees Celsius (36 to 54 degrees Fahrenheit) above average. Air temperatures at Cape Morris Jesup in northern Greenland (83°37'N, 33°22'W) exceeded 0 degrees Celsius for several hours and open water formed to the north of Greenland at the end of the month.
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Q: Stateless : How to define the initial substate of a state? I am using stateless to implement logic of a state machine in our application.We have an AcceptedFile state that has other inner (sub)states.The problem is I don't know how should I indicate initial inner state in my code so that when a machine transit to AccptedFile state it would also automatically transit to its initial inner state.Here's what I did to simulate this behavior :
 machine.Configure(State.AcceptedFile)
                    .OnEntry(() => machine.Fire(Trigger.MakeReadyForAdvertising))
                    .Permit(Trigger.MakeReadyForAdvertising,State.ReadyForAdvertising)

here ReadyForAdvertising is an inner state of AcceptedFile.This works fine in most of the scenarios but whenever I set the initial state of my state machine to AcceptedFile like this :
var statemachine=new StateMachine<State,Trigger>(State.AcceptedFile)
...

The automatic transition would not happen thus machine will be in AcceptedFile state instead of ReadyForAdvertising.
Is there a better way to implement this behavior ?

A: The documentation in StateMachine.cs states:

Substates inherit the allowed transitions of their superstate.  When entering directly into a substate from outside of the superstate, entry actions for the superstate are executed.  Likewise when leaving from the substate to outside the superstate, exit actions for the superstate will execute.

So if ReadyForAdvertising is your default inner state, just set the initial state to ReadyForAdvertising (or transition to it when the appropriate trigger is received)
var statemachine=new StateMachine<State,Trigger>(State.ReadyForAdvertising)

This will execute the entry actions for AcceptedFile & ReadyForAdvertising and make your current state ReadyForAdvertising.

A: That seems to be the designed way. OnExit is the safest place to handle it, given its stateless nature.

A: This is now possible with Stateless. You can configure the initial state of your substates, like so:
machine.Configure(State.AcceptedFile)
    .InitialTransition(State.ReadyForAdvertising);

Link: https://github.com/dotnet-state-machine/stateless#initial-state-transitions

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Engineer wins Glo house in Festival of Joy Promo in PH
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A Port Harcourt-based Mechanical Engineer, Ola Owonifari Joseph, has emerged as the winner of the second house in the ongoing Glo Festival of Joy promo.
The 49-year-old Joseph on Friday received the keys to his new apartment from the Speaker of Rivers State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Ikuinyi O. Ibani, supported by Globacom officials.
An overly elated Joseph, declared, "it's a miracle and I still can't believe it. Glo is our family network; we communicate all the time and even with our family friends on Glo lines. I remember loading credit and data recently when the last subscription expired and after that, I opted in to join the promo. I was not expecting anything soon but yesterday morning I got a call from a Glo officer, who after a series of questions told me that I won a house. I was shocked."
Prodded to speak further, the Ekiti indigene explained: "I was just planning on how to develop my plot of land gradually, and lo and behold, Glo showed up and made me a house owner. This prize is for me and my family and we are moving in immediately. God bless the owner, the management, and the staff of Globacom. They will continue to grow from strength to strength. I am overwhelmed with joy".
The Speaker of Rivers State House of Assembly, Hon. Ikuinyi O. Ibani lauded Globacom for bringing joy and happiness to Nigerians through the Festival of Joy promo. He said, " Globacom is giving a home to the homeless and this is one of the best things you can do to help anyone in life", adding that, "what Globacom has done today deserves commendation and is worthy of emulation, especially by other telecom companies in Nigeria".
The Regional Manager of Globacom in Port Harcourt, Mr. Augustine Mamuro, noted that the company was glad to see the joy on the faces of lucky winners as they receive amazing prizes across the country.
"From the Garden City of Port Harcourt, the festival of Joy promo train will move to other cities including Lagos, Lokoja, Yola, Calabar, Kano, Enugu, and Makurdi where prizes will be presented to winners in these locations. A total of 20 houses, 24 brand new cars, 100 generators, 200 sewing machines, and 1,000 rechargeable fans will be given out in the promo", Mamuro explained.
He urged Glo subscribers to dial the dedicated short code *611# to opt into the promo and keep recharging (voice and data during the promo period) to be eligible to win the prizes on offer.
The event, which had the representative of National Lottery Regulatory Commission (NLRC), Port Harcourt office, Mr. Walson Dambo present, also had in attendance the Chief Whip of Rivers State House of Assembly, Hon Evans Bipi, Deputy Chairman of Okrika Local Government, Hon. Obed Tamuno, and Nollywood icons such as Victor Osuagwu and Francis Duru.


Why Does Each Child Matter?
Children get only one childhood. Make it memorable.
Yes! Of course each child matters. People always thought of children as simple as little adults. The modern psychology has destroyed that theory. Every child goes through many stages of social development. A child may play alone happily. A child wanders onto the scene; He/she may be physically pushed of the way by the other. But a child will not remember you, only on what you do.
Children must be taught of ''How to think'' not what to think about. Encourage them with simple ways to create their beautiful childhood. And children must need to learn to take responsibility for their actions so that they will not become adults believing nothing is ever their fault.
This is about overcoming socio-economic in life disadvantages to achieve their full potential that everything will be possible as they tried their very best in life.
By achieving these five, a child will have a better confidence on his or her self and will have a better grip in understanding one's existence and purpose. A child may have a hard time in understanding these things for the mean time but at least, they have a depth foundation in understanding it in the near future.
For every child, education is the way to develop and understand more of their being and also to develop themselves more and more. Learning through simple things is the first step until they become the one who is responsible for everything in their life. It may lead them to have a better life and a successful one. Thus, this is why every child matters.


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Rose Hill Elementary School
Rose Hill Elementary School opened on September 3, 1957. Our school originally had 20 classrooms and an opening enrollment of 482 students. Rose Hill was built on land that was formerly part of a farm. When our school opened the Rose Hill neighborhood was only a few years old. There was no John Marshall Library next door and there were no houses across the street.
Rose Hill Elementary School, 1958
Rose Hill Elementary School's first principal was Rose S. Rogers. During the 1950s, there were no school counselors, physical education teachers, or music teachers. Physical education was taught by classroom teachers in their rooms or through structured play outside. Music instruction was held in a small activity room that also doubled as a storage space for physical education equipment.
Pictured at center is Rose Hill's first principal, Rose S. Rogers (1957-60), on the occasion of our school's 20th anniversary celebration in May 1978. To the right is Rose Hill's fourth principal, Joseph B. Hucks (1965-78), and on the left is William J. "Jack" Burkholder who was the Superintendent of FCPS from 1982-85.
The Baby Boom
Rose Hill Elementary School opened during the post-World War II period known as the baby boom. In September 1952, there were 20,200 students enrolled in Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) at 42 schools. By December 1959, that number would climb to 54,100 students at 84 schools. FCPS administrators had been projecting record enrollment growth for several years, but were unprepared when actual growth far exceeded their expectations. From September 1957 to September 1960, enrollment at Rose Hill skyrocketed from 482 to 672 students. Enrollment peaked at 766 students in June 1963, then gradually fell to around 600 during the late 1960s.
Field Day at Rose Hill Elementary, 1970s
During the decade of the 1960s several major changes happened in the public schools of Fairfax County. In 1960, FCPS opened its first intermediate schools. Prior to this time, elementary schools educated children in grades 1-7, and high school consisted of grades 8-12. Seventh graders from Rose Hill were assigned to the newly built Mark Twain Intermediate School.
Mark Twain Intermediate School, Opened 1960
When Rose Hill opened, public schools in Virginia were segregated by race. In the early 1960s, FCPS began a slow process of desegregation, culminating at the end of the 1965-66 school year. Prior to this time, African-American children living in our area were bused to Drew-Smith Elementary School, an all-African-American school located at Gum Springs on Route 1.
Drew-Smith Elementary School closed in 1965 and was converted into a special education center. Courtesy of the Virginia Room, Fairfax County Public Library.
In 1965, almost every former all-African-American FCPS elementary school ceased operation (one notable exception is Louise Archer Elementary School in Vienna). These schools were located in predominantly African-American enclaves, necessitating the busing of students out of these neighborhoods to formerly all-white schools. In 1968, the Fair Housing Law was passed, eliminating racial barriers to homeownership. Rose Hill's student body remained largely Caucasian until the 1970s, by which time the effects of the passage of the Fair Housing Law began to be evident in Fairfax County's suburbs.
Rose Hill Elementary, Grade 4 Class Photograph, 1973-74
Did you know that when Rose Hill opened there were no kindergarteners in our school? A kindergarten program was piloted in several schools in 1967 and proved so successful that one year later FCPS implemented kindergarten county-wide. FCPS enrolled approximately 8,000 children in kindergarten in September 1968.
Rose Hill Elementary School Yearbook Cover Photograph, 1982-83
Rose Hill Elementary School was designed in 1955 by the architecture firm of Willgoos and Chase. Our school originally had 20 classrooms, a library, administrative offices, a clinic, and a cafeteria. Rose Hill was built by the Reid Construction Company at a cost of $507,150. The first addition to our school was built from 1970-71 by the White Construction Company. A gymnasium, music room, and seven classrooms were added at a cost of $521,720, increasing the building capacity from 600 to 810 students. Rose Hill received its first building-wide renewal from 1992-93, and a second addition was constructed in 1999-00.
Prior to the 1993 building renewal, Rose Hill Elementary School had no central air conditioning. This photograph was taken shortly after the renewal began. Window-mounted air conditioning units are still visible on some of the classrooms.
This photograph, from our 1993 to 1994 yearbook, shows the renovated exterior of our school. Note the significant changes to the classroom windows and exterior facade.
Virginia Hills Elementary School
From the mid-1970s into the early 1980s, student enrollment began a gradual decline resulting in the closure of several schools in the eastern part of Fairfax County. The closures affected neighborhoods that saw the earliest growth post-World War II. The children in these neighborhoods were graduating high school, and there were fewer families in the area with young children. By May 1978, enrollment at Rose Hill had fallen to 365 students. In January 1982, the School Board voted to close nearby Virginia Hills Elementary School permanently and consolidate its student body into Rose Hill beginning in September 1982.
Virginia Hills Elementary School, 1972
After Virginia Hills closed, the building was designated the FCPS Area I Office. Our library maintains a small selection of Virginia Hills memorabilia, such as school yearbooks, photographs, newspaper clippings, and a history of the school written by its P.T.A.
The gentleman pictured at center is Virginia Hills Elementary School's first principal, Emmett Milton Day. On the right is the cover of Virginia Hills' 1971-72 yearbook.
Swim and Stay Fit
In the late 1960s, Rose Hill Elementary School students began receiving swimming and water safety instruction as part of their regular physical education program. Principal Joseph Hucks, Jean Medford (a Red Cross swimming instructor), Gladys Thomas and Mike Wells (physical education teachers), and Meadowview Pool partnered to introduce the "Swim and Stay Fit Program" at Rose Hill. The program made it possible for every child to learn basic swimming skills, and encouraged children to improve their physical fitness through swimming.
The swimming program was also described by the Red Cross as a "drown-proofing" measure to teach children about water safety.
The Virginia Wright Library
Our library is named for Rose Hill Elementary School's first librarian, Virginia Wright. Miss Wright retired in 1976, and in May of that year the Fairfax County School Board passed a resolution naming our library in her honor. The School Board praised Miss Wright for her years of faithful and loyal service to Rose Hill and for her dedication to inspiring children to read and enjoy good books and other forms of literature as an aid to their educational development.
Rose Hill Elementary Students, Circa 1980
Do you know why our school is named Rose Hill? Learn about the origin of our school's name in this video produced for Fairfax County Public Schools' cable television channel Red Apple 21.
Our Principals
Between 1957 and 2018, Rose Hill Elementary School had 12 principals, most of whom are pictured below in the slideshow. We have been unable to find photographs of two principals: Carlene D. March (1960-64) and Walter L. Sickles (1964-65).
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A Stanford University study of 7,804 students from middle school through college found that some 82 percent of them cannot distinguish between an ad labeled "sponsored content" and a real news story on a website. These findings present a real risk when visiting websites you're not familiar with; and, not just for students, for everyone. How can you know if what you're reading online is telling the truth or trying to scam you either directly—such as by trying to sell you something, or get your personal information—or indirectly, by spreading lies, or by sowing doubt?
In this article, we offer a few tips to help you sort the wheat from the chaff on the Internet. These tips will help you determine if an online article is real, fake or a scam.
Couple of quick comments … we at Safenetting and UGNN were tracking questionable news since the early 2000s. It's NOT a new phenomena, and certainly NOT new to the Clinton/Trump race.
Your point on "trusted" news outlets should be accurate, but it's not. We caught all of those media outlets you mention in direct false news in the Bush and Obama elections, as well as issues like the Swift-boat debacle against Bush. (I was actually an expert witness!) And you note that issue was quickly swept under the carpet. So just because it's the Wall Street Journal or New York Times does not mean they don't twist, spin or even fake the news. They have political agendas too.
You should stress to your readers the importance of patronizing web sites with true, full WhoIS entries. Since GDPR, all the shady sites have removed their info from the WhoIS or they have brokered through any of the off-shore WhoIS masking firms to evade detection. We've tracked seemingly legitimate memes graphics and entries on social media to the Pacific Rim, Eastern Europe, the middle East and South America. There are many other troll bots other than Russian!
For me, the WhoIS is the best test for honesty. But alas, not always. Sad to say, people these days have become absent of any scruples what so ever. They'll say anything and do anything for a click.
The best test is common sense. IF it doesn't ring true, it probably isn't. Always ignore the hysteria in social media. 99% of that are knee-jerk reactions and fake news.


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La chiesa di Nostra Signora di Corte è un edificio di culto situato nella campagna del comune di Sindia, provincia di Nuoro, in località Cabu abbas (o Caput aquae, così chiamato per la presenza nel posto di diverse fonti). L'edificio si trova lungo la strada statale 129 bis nel tratto in direzione di Macomer e nelle immediate vicinanze della linea ferroviaria Macomer-Bosa.

La chiesa sorge al di sopra di un complesso preesistente composto da un'abbazia ed un monastero, secondo il Libellus Judicum Turritanorum edificati e consacrati nell'anno 1149 ad opera di una comunità cistercense inviata in Sardegna dall'abate Bernardo di Chiaravalle, fondatore dell'ordine (così considerato, pur non essendolo, in virtù dell'impulso e al nuovo vigore che lui dette all'Ordine) su richiesta del giudice turritano Gonnario Comita de Lacon-Gunale (da qui l'appellativo "de Corte").

Già nel 1458 i due edifici risultavano in stato di grave abbandono; negli anni a venire vennero quasi totalmente smantellati ed i materiali costruttivi vennero riutilizzati «per formare altre chiese dentro il villaggio di Sindia» (Giovanni Spano). Dell'abbazia restano soltanto il coro quadrangolare e la parte meridionale del transetto comunicante con il monastero, dove peraltro si possono ammirare grandi monofore a doppio strombo ed un oculo circolare, eseguiti con pietre magistralmente sagomate e combinate.

La chiesa tuttora presente venne edificata intorno al 1600.

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Bibliografia
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 G. Spano, Sindia, e Santa Maria di Corte, ovvero di Cabu Abbas, in Bullettino Archeologico Sardo, X, 1864, pp. 43–47;
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A.M. Romanini, Le abbazie fondate da San Bernardo in Italia e l'architettura cistercense "primitiva", in Studi su S. Bernardo di Chiaravalle nell'ottavo centenario della sua canonizzazione, Roma, 1978, pp. 282–303;
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 A. Casula, Testimonianze dell'architettura cistercense nella Sardegna settentrionale, in I Cistercensi in Sardegna. Aspetti e problemi di un Ordine monastico benedettino nella Sardegna medioevale, a cura di G. Spiga, Nuoro, Amministrazione provinciale di Nuoro, 1990, pp. 224–226;
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Main » 2014 » July » 13 » Cochrane Collaboration Confirms Superiority of Oscillating-Rotating Power Brush Technology over Manual Brushing
Cochrane Collaboration Confirms Superiority of Oscillating-Rotating Power Brush Technology over Manual Brushing
Systematic, independent reviews validate the efficacy and safety of oscillating-rotating power brush technology
GENEVA - Thursday, July 10th 2014 [ME NewsWire]
(BUSINESS WIRE)-- For the third consecutive time, the independent, not-for-profit Cochrane Collaboration has concluded that oscillating-rotating technology – used in Oral-B power toothbrushes – is the only type of power brush consistently proven to reduce more plaque and gingivitis versus manual brushing in the short and long term. This outcome was derived from a larger study that concluded power brushes outperform manual toothbrushing.
"This is an important conclusion that will help consumers and professionals make better oral care choices," said Dr. Paul Warren, vice president, Professional and Scientific Relations at Procter & Gamble. "Consumers and some professionals may be skeptical about the benefits and safety of power brushes. An independent confirmation of the effectiveness of Power and specifically oscillating-rotating brushes adds to Oral-B's own evidence that consumers can benefit by shifting from a manual to an oscillating-rotating power brush."
The conclusions of this most recent report, published in June 2014, were derived from reviews of 56 studies published from 1964 to 2011 and included no less than seven types of power brush technologies, based on brush head movement. Over 50 percent of the studies reviewed, focused on oscillating-rotating technology, reinforcing the robustness of Oral-B's body of scientific evidence versus other power brushing technologies.
Additional findings from the report demonstrated that none of the six other power brush technologies considered, consistently show significant effects across both outcomes and points in time. Interestingly, the authors concluded that side-to-side power brushes (typically marketed as 'Sonic' by manufacturers, of which Phillips Sonicare is most prevalent) demonstrated "no significant difference versus manual brushing on plaque or gingivitis reduction in the short or long term." These results echoed those in the 2003 and 2005 reviews, which reveal that oscillating-rotating power toothbrushes, like those produced by Oral-B, are the only ones proven to consistently outperform manual toothbrushes in reducing plaque and gingivitis.
The authors also considered evidence regarding the safety of power toothbrushes and found no apparent relationship between the use of power toothbrushes and soft tissue trauma. "Oral-B is always trying to find the best solutions to meet patients' needs," said Dr. Paul Warren. "The results of these studies provide dental professionals and patients the highest level of evidence to make informed decisions about selecting the appropriate toothbrush to maintain good oral health."
The Cochrane Collaboration is an international, independent, not-for-profit organization staffed by a volunteer network of health practitioners, researchers, patient advocates and others. It produces high-quality, relevant and up-to-date synthesized research evidence that is free from commercial sponsorship and other conflicts of interest to assist in the educated decisions patients and professionals make on product purchasing and promotion. Its work is internationally recognized as the benchmark for high quality information about the effectiveness of health care.
About Oral-B Oral-B is the worldwide leader in the over $5 billion brushing market. Part of The Procter & Gamble Company, the brand includes manual and electric toothbrushes for children and adults, oral irrigators and interdental products, such as dental floss. Oral-B manual toothbrushes are used by more dentists than any other brand in the U.S. and many international markets.
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Partnership and Leadership; What Makes For a Successful Grant
The Partnering Movement is a Community of Giving and Receiving where all are equal at the foot of the cross. Funders will ask: What is your idea? What is your track record? Are you committed to your vision? Are you working with others – are you connecting at the level of vision?
REACT Services
Book: When Money Goes on Mission
Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability
Book: The Cost of Discipleship
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Rob: I'm here today with Brian O'Connell of REACT Services and we're continuing our conversation about partnership, fundraising for partnership, fundraising for mission, the purpose of partnership and mission, a lot of things that go into partnership.
One of the things is the characteristics of leadership.
Brian: Oh, without a doubt.
Rob: And how does that work.
Four Characteristics That Lead to Successful Grants
Rob: And so in the years that I've worked in philanthropy, I developed kind of a model and I explored this, and when money goes on mission.
A model of the characteristics I look for in what made for a successful grant, so this is based on the grants that my board actually paid attention to and funded, that I brought to them.
What were the things that made those grants successful in terms of how we looked at the leaders?
And there were four major characteristics that came into play.
1. Purpose/Vision
Rob: The first was in the explanation of vision, how did they see vision?
This was the answer to the three questions that I raise in the book about what is God showing you as a leader, what's he telling you to do about that, that he has shown you, and how will you know you've done it.
These questions are deceptively simple. They've been used by literally--
Brian: Many of us.
Rob: Thousands of people now but hundreds that I've worked directly with on this.
And the challenge is always, is how do I communicate vision?
And so that's why I broke it down into these three questions.
That first question of, what is God showing me? Is, I believe, that if God has called you to do something, he will show you the pathologies of that thing that he wants you to do.
Brian: That's right.
Rob: He will show you the challenges and the difficulties, and you won't be able to let go of it.
Yet, it's just everywhere you look. It's in your dreams, it's in your thoughts. You're just locked down on that thing and you begin to notice it everywhere.
And in all circumstances, you think about it all the time, because God is calling you and he is helping your attention get focused on the pathologies that he wants you specifically to work it.
So then you take that and you say, okay, God, I see this, what am I supposed to do about it? And we all at that point bring our strategies.
So at the rescue mission, way back in the beginning at the book, I talk about how I came to the answer to that question, for us at the rescue mission, 'cause we saw the homeless, we saw the disabled veterans, we saw the veterans struggling from PTSD at the conclusion of the Vietnam War.
We saw the beginning of the bag lady phenomenon, when the mental institutions closed and people were given psychotropic drugs that they didn't take in a state disability insurance check.
Brian: They still don't take it.
Rob: Which they either didn't cash or had that money stolen from them soon after.
And we saw the roots of the homeless problem and we saw it and what was our reaction? At the mission, we provided housing.
Actually, one of the most important things we did was we gave people an address. Turns out, if you don't have an address, you're not a person.
Brian: Hard to get a job.
Rob: No, you're not a person, you can't even get your social security check.
You need an address. And so, we provided an address.
There were 201 South, 2nd Avenue in Santa Ana, there had to be 600-700 people at one point that had that address.
Brian: I'll keep that in mind, actually.
Rob: And the social services knew it, but that wasn't really what we were about.
Brian: No.
Rob: We were evangelists to the poor. That's how we answered the second question.
Now, back then I didn't understand integrated mission, I didn't understand holistic mission in how to define it as a concept, we just knew you can't preach the gospel to a hungry man, yet, the best way out of the gutter was with the help of the Holy Spirit.
Brian: Well, and the relational outreach that most of those--
Rob: So, the answer to the second question is what is your calling? What is your purpose?
And then, the third question is how will you know if you're doing it?
This is in that, gross sense is that people are actually coming up out of the street, that they're actually getting a new life, that they're actually hearing the gospel, they're actually understanding,
Brian: And responding to it.
Rob: That the God that created the universe actually cares about them.
Brian: Indeed.
Rob: And cares about their every day needs.
Brian: He does.
Rob: So that all forms purpose. And it's at purpose where we connect.
So, I either communicate vision to you, that you may or may not have, you either respond to that vision or don't.
But as a funder, I wanna know your vision, because we have a vision for where we wanna put the money to work.
Rob: And so if there's a connection there, then we move to the next one. If we matched at vision, then I immediately went to your character.
And this is, what kind of person are you? Do you tell the truth? Are you afraid of failure?
Do you embrace failure? Do you study failure? Do you question success? Are you willing to discuss that?
Brian: Holistic integrity, I think.
Rob: Holistic integrity, good word.
Brian: Yeah.
Rob: And so what do others say about you?
What is the nature of your leadership, because we're gonna be offering you trust at the end of the day, and are you a trustworthy person?
3. Idea
Rob: If that test kind of gets passed or we connect at that path, at that thing, then the next thing I'll look at, is the thing you're actually asking the funds for.
Is what's your idea--
Brian: Is what you're looking at.
Rob: Does it make sense within the context of your purpose?
So at the mission, our idea might be that we wanna start a new life program and we need some funds to hire the staff and put together the extra bedrooms and dormitories that we might need for the flood of people that are coming in.
But all of that only makes sense in terms of our purpose and our characteristics.
4. Track Record
Rob: And then the last thing we looked at was, okay, so we've got a check mark on all three of these, then the fourth was your track record.
And if you were new at it, that my influence the size of the grant.
Brian: Yeah, usually.
Rob: And are you a truth teller? And also, do you have partnership? Are you working with others?
Brian: We usually say when I do a lot of mentoring to especially younger people, who are mostly doing startup kinds of ministry.
And so they have no track record to show. and so the encouragement that I always say is, look, you've got to feel strongly about your calling.
You can't question your calling, 'cause if you're questioning your calling, you'll never make it.
Rob: Let's stop there for a second. The value of knowing your purpose is because you are going to hit brick walls.
Brian: And this is my point --
Rob: And when you hit that brick wall, is it God saying, don't go there, or is it a brick wall that says, get over this wall, figure out how to surmount it, go around it, go under it, or knock it down.
So, you have to have this sense of your purpose, so that you can get through those questions, because you are going to have opposition and it could come from your humanness, or it could come from the enemy.
Leaders Build Partnering Movements
Brian: One of my early mentors, his name was Paul McCoinn.
Now, I know you know, who has subsequently passed, he always said to me early on in my ministry, He who calls, also enables.
And so, if you believe in your calling enough, the enablement will come. It may not come in the way you think. It may not come how you think, or anyway, but it will come.
And your last point, is one that I think, too many groups, many of them do have those ideas, okay, what's the calling?
What's the idea? What's the character? What's the track record?
Very few ask that final question, which in my world I say, how well do they play with others? In other words, are they partnering-friendly?
Are the organizations have a DNA, that lends itself to partnering friendliness. Is there staff understanding that that's who we are as an organization.
Does the CEO lead that? Because he can't make all the decisions. A good CEO tend to, at least half, if not more, on financial development.
And so the idea building, partnering DNA into an organizational structure is something we work strongly on, with the leadership, especially as we're trying to build a movement, a partnering movement.
We need to see new leaders. We definitely need to see new leaders.
Rob: Right, in the book, I call it, the Communion of giving or receiving, it has many different aspects, but this idea of communion, where we are equals at the cross.
No underdog, no overdog, no strong versus weak, no rich versus poor, at the cross we're all equals.
Brian: Too right.
Rob: And, so, let's look at the challenge of funding partnership.
Leaders Show Vulnerability
Brian: Final point on the leadership before we move that, because I think it's critical for us, as we've looked at building a movement.
What kind of leaders do we look for? And all of your points in the book, lend itself to exactly that.
I was at a conference in 1990 with John Wenbirk. It was in England, Spring Harvest, if you're familiar with that gathering.
And I had been asked to do, a small little group gathering for youth, and of course, John was the big main speaker in the big tent. But we were all in the green room together.
So, John and I had the opportunity to talk, and this was just to the point where John had kind of looked to the global expansion of the vineyard. And there was so much interest. And especially in the U.K. and in Europe and other places.
And so, I was asking him, you know, it must be a pretty big challenge for you?
And he's, "Oh, it's an amazing new challenge, "I'm excited, God's in it."
And I said, so, how do you determine what leaders, you have to have more leaders in this movement, how do you determine which leaders that you're gonna choose?
There's a lot of ability out there, how do you narrow that list?
"Oh, so, that's easy!" It's typical John. "Simple, two things we look for: do they walk with a limp? And did they smell like smoke from the fire they had to walk through?"
And I never forgot that. Because the idea of vulnerability as a leader.
So, the concept, as he was describing it, as walking with a limp, means you see the fact they have a wound.
You see that vulnerability. You see that ability to share.
That credibility that you talked about: What's your track record? Well, you smell like smoke, 'cause you've had to walk through a lot of fires.
You've had to save people from a lot of fires. You've had to be saved from a few fires. And you have those marks on you as a leader.
And I think, too often, especially in 21st century, celebrity culture in the leadership arena, that it's just not, for us in the partnering movement anyway, that is just not the kind of leader we need.
We need a leader who is vulnerable, we need a leader who isn't worried about who gets the credit, who isn't worried about how they look, necessarily.
It's all about how can we make others successful. And I think that directly relates to the way in which it's sometimes a challenged to fund.
Because the celebrity person, the person who has high platform and who has high ability and charisma and all of that, sometimes can draw resources to them.
And I'm not saying that's bad. A lot of them are doing fantastic work. But in the partnering movement, we're oftentimes--
Rob: Or the partnering idea.
Brian: We're oftentimes behind the scenes.
We're oftentimes trying to point to other things that are happening, other initiatives that are going on, other opportunities for collaboration to take place.
And it isn't about us as a leader, or as an entity, as an organization. It's all about how can we release the Holy Spirit into these movements.
Leaders Demonstrate Accountability
Rob: This brings up these idea of corruption.
Brian: Huh!
Rob: Let's go into that for a moment.
Brian: You're saying there are a few corrupt leaders out there?
Rob: Well, yes.
Brian: Yes, there are.
Rob: More than a few wolves wandering around the sheep fold.
And quite often how you know that they are a wolf, is they use the word partnering.
They'll use this idea of, come join what we're doing, be our partner, which means come and, what's the old joke about two wolves and a sheep are debating on where to go for a lunch or what to have for lunch.
Brian: Yeah, we know where that ends--
Rob: We kinda know where this ends.
Brian: Lamb stew.
Rob: I mean, when you look at one of the great collaborative efforts here in the United States, it's got a very difficult name, that doesn't travel well.
It's: Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability.
Brian: The acronym travels well.
Rob: ECFA. But it is, at its root, a partnering movement.
It is a peer accountability movement, in which we all, who take that seal, join to the ideas of partnership in these ways.
Brian: And that relates to the vulnerability. You've got to be vulnerable in your accounting too.
Rob: That's right.
Brian: You've got to be transparent.
And it's one of those issues, globally, that really presents problems.
The Problem with the Prosperity Gospel
Brian: In my opinion, one of the, two or three, but one of the biggest challenges facing the church right now is the prosperity gospel.
And it's kind of ebbed and flowed over the years, and now it's definitely flowing. And I think we've got to promote this idea of accountability, not just on the financial side of things, but on the theological side of things.
What does it mean to be following Jesus?
And, you know, one of my all-time foundational books was a book called, The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
And within the many circles of the prosperity gospel, there's not cost, there's benefits, all benefits. All is benefits.
That's not the cross of Jesus that we're called to. And that relates to a whole host of issues related to how, not only are we working together cross and multi-culturally, but how do we help each other?
When we do fall, 'cause we will, fall into these pits and these things, it just happens to all of us. We need to be sometimes firm, but sometimes we need to be gentle and offer that hand up and say--
Rob: Well, ECFA and the Global Trust Partners, which is the international version--
Brian: The global version of it, yeah, yeah.
Rob: Which you can find a series of podcasts elsewhere on this website with Doctor Gary Hoag, who is the executive director of the Global Trust Partnership, the generosity monk, beautiful man.
Brian: Oh my gosh!
Rob: I've got three wonderful podcasts with him--
Brian: Oh, fantastic.
Rob: Up on the website about this.
This global trust partnering movement, one of the indicators of why it's needed is there is an expectation, this came out of a recent Lausanne Occasional Paper, of 50 billion dollars in corruption, that is misuse of Christian gifts.
Brian: I think that's an underestimation.
Rob: Gifts that are given and I think it is. I can think of four prosperity preachers just in the United States that make up one billion of it.
Brian: There you go.
Rob: But generally, if you wanna see somebody with an issue, is start with how independent are they, and how kingdom-minded are they rather than--
Brian: Well, that was the original reason for why denominations were established.
It's so that we could have credibility in knowing that this church is associated with this group, and this group believe this, so there's theological accountability.
There's also financial accountability to it as well.
Rob: Right.
Brian: And I'm not saying that denominations that kind of been in mostly, the whole movement is in decline, I'm not saying that's necessarily good or bad, I'm just saying its a reality.
That's lent itself, I think, to this age where there is little accountability.
These independent groups and churches and entities are doing stuff without any attention to them.
So, the Global Trust is a fantastic example of a new partnership working.
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Gas prices statewide have risen by about 5 cents per gallon in the past week, AAA Michigan said.
The average price for self-serve regular unleaded gasoline was about $2.40 per gallon, the Dearborn-based auto club said late Sunday. That's about 14 cents more than at the same point last year.
The lowest average price was about $2.36 per gallon in the Benton Harbor area, AAA said. The highest was about $2.43 in the Jackson area. It was the third week in a row that the Benton Harbor area had the lowest price and Jackson had the highest.
The Detroit-area's average rose about 1 cent from a week ago to $2.39 per gallon.


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Q: How can I trigger a method after a variable in a dependency is updated? How can I trigger a method after a variable in a dependency is updated in Swift?
My groupViewModel initializes a user repository that gets the list of users in the group, using the following flow:
init(groupRepository: GroupStoreType, groupUserRepository: GroupUserStoreType, group accountabilityGroup: AccountabilityGroup) {
    self.groupRepository = groupRepository
    self.groupUserRepository = groupUserRepository
    self.group = accountabilityGroup

    // Setting this in the repository triggers the loadUsers
    // method in the repository
    self.groupUserRepository.groupId = self.group.id

    // I want to run a method that does a sanity check on all the users
    // that verifies their data matches the group after the repository completes
    // it's method, but before I run loadActiveMembers() and loadPendingMembers() below.

    loadActiveMembers()
    loadPendingMembers()
}

Then in my user repository, setting the groupId to something other than nil will trigger the function that loads users matching that group:
var groupId: String? {
    didSet {
        if groupId != nil && groupId != oldValue {
            self.loadByGroupId()
        }
    }
}

That loading function will either listen to a cloud Firestore collection or subscribe to a static list of users (for my mocked version for unit testing).
I want to run a verifyUsersMatchGroup method in the ViewModel after the repository loads the users, but before the ViewModel runs the loadActiveMembers and loadPendingMembers methods. Any ideas on good ways to accomplish this?
I thought about having a usersLoaded Bool var in the repository, and having that published to a similar variable in the ViewModel, then triggering my method in the didSet of that, but I'm wondering if there are simpler ways to accomplish this. (This app is currently not yet set for iOS 15.)

A: As mentioned a combine pipeline would be a perfect use case for this I've assumed you would want to return a Bool - If you don't need to return specific data type back from verifyUsersMatchGroup you could replace Bool with Void and pass () on the promise success. Then when you sink the you can remove the if. You could do this all on the viewModel too. Don't forget to import Combine ;)
func verifyUsersMatchGroup() -> AnyPublisher<Bool, Never> {
    Future { promise in
        // Put the internal workings of the method here once you
        // Don't forget to call promise(.success(boolValue))
    }
    .eraseToAnyPublisher()
}

Then use the verifyUsersMatchGroup function like so:
var cancellables = Set<AnyCancellable>()

verifyUsersMatchGroup()
    .sink {
        if $0 {
            // Users match
        } else {
            // Users don't match
        }
    }
    .store(in: &cancellables)


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Asante Kotoko/Heart Of Lions Share Spoils In Friendly
Kumasi Asante Kotoko and Kpando Heart of Lions drew 1-1 in their interclub friendly match played at the Accra sports stadium on Sunday afternoon.
Parading almost their regular faces, both teams did not take the match lightly as they made their intensions known right from the blast of the referee's whistle.
Several goal scoring chances were missed by both teams in the first 20 minutes of the game, which received a reasonable amount of spectatorship, especially from the fans of Kotoko who thronged the Accra sports stadium in their droves.
Ivorian striker Ahmed Toure broke the deadlock in the 35th minute to send the supporters of the Porcupine Warriors in ecstasy.
After the goal both teams failed to make any meaningful impact into the game till the end of the half.
Back from recess, Head coach of Heart of Lions made a few changes to his team, an action that yielded the required dividends as Kwame Awuah eventually drilled home the equalizer.
Both teams did all they could to grab the winner but good defensive showing on the part of both sets of defenders proved enough to end the game 1-1.
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With many modern pop groups assembled by talent show contests, teenage heart-throbs Why Don't We broke the trend by being united through social media in 2016 and were quickly being billed as the heirs to One Direction's boyband crown.
Each member had individually started out on their music careers in their own different ways, but it was Daniel Seavey who was best known, having made it to the final ten of TV show 'American Idol' in 2015 when he was only 15. Jonah Marais and Corbyn Besson also had large followings thanks to their performances on live streaming service YouNow, and Zach Herron and Jack Avery had both scored popular viral clips on YouTube, before they all met in person while performing at shows organised by social media companies. They all agreed to meet up in Los Angeles to further explore marketing and collaborative ideas, but when they began jamming together and exchanging harmonies, they asked themselves the question: "Why don't we form a band?". Within a year they had signed to Atlantic Records and released five EPs including 'Something Different', 'Why Don't We Just' and 'Invitation' and they reached a wider audience when social media star Logan Paul became a fan featuring them in his vlogs and directing their videos.
They released the track 'The Fall of Jake Paul' with Paul and made appearances on national and international TV shows, while singles 'These Girls' and 'Trust Fund Baby', written by Ed Sheeran, helped them notch up audio streams of more than 85 million. Their first sold-out North American headline tour followed in 2018, before their debut album '8 Letters'.


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For the release of the seventh album "Whiteout Conditions", we talked with A.C. Newman over the phone. With his answers, he told us about different aspects of how this band works and lives.
I would like to talk about the end of "Play Money", because you just repeat the words "the song, the song, the song..." almost exactly how you did in "Letter From An Occupant" a lot of years ago. So, I don't know if it was a tribute to your past or something like that.
It was sort of accidental, but then when we realized, we said "oh, that works". It seems like a little, happy accident. The reason we did that was because earlier, in the song, I think in the third verse, we repeated the same words for just three times, it goes "how you got it for a song, a song, a song". I thought that was sort of cool, so why not loop it back at the end. The core progression of the songa t the end, we had that there, and it was just instrumental, and we said "why don't we just have that, that loop" and we started to harmonize it. Even if it has the word "song" in it, to me it just seems like an instrumental section, like we were just using the word "song" like we might use an instrument, or in the same way we might go "pa pa pa" or "sha la la".
So it's something different from that other song, when you sing "the song, the song, the song that's shaking me".
Yeah, but I like the tagging back. Always like when bands do that, when Paul McCartney starts singing "She Loves You" at the end of "All You Need Is Love" for example. Always loved self referential stuff.
While we're speaking about "Play Money", lyrics are about being able to make a living with your music, which is something that usually the audience thinks is much easier than it actually is. There are bands and labels that people who listens to a lot of music think that can easily make a living with their music or their releases because they seem to be popular, instead it's ofetn much harder than how it looks from outside.
That's true, I think a lot of people don't know how that is, I think that when you grow up looking at musicians, you think of musicians as rock stars, you know. When you're a kid, the idea of somebody in a rock band just being middle classi seems very weird to you. Then, when you start playing music, you realize the weird reality. When we played on TV a bunch of times, people you went at high school with think you're super famous, because you're on TV. And it's hard to explain that yes, it's great to be on TV, but it doesn't mean, you don't get paid a million dollars when you play on TV. But, when I say "I only play for money", I'm not really being serious, but I think I'm just acknowledging that it's become my job, and it's a strange thing when what you love becomes your job.
Yes, for example I'm not a professional journalist, so I do it because I love it but I'm not paid to do that, so I can understand, it would be strange if this becomes my actual job.
It changes the dynamic, you know, because at one point, like, if the first record had sold nothing, I wouldn't have cared that much, because I didn't expect it to, but it's strange when it becomes something you depend on, it changes the dynamic.
You were born as a band, and I think you are currently a band, made of people who have other musical projects. I just wanted to ask you, apart from the specific case of this album where Daniel (Bejar, aka Destroyer) is absent for scheduling problems, but in general, how hard is to match all the agendas and scheduling of everyone to record an album?
It's always been difficult, since the very beginning. We had troubles meeting when we lived in the same town, and now we have a hard time, because we have to fly to each other. As people become more famous or more popular, it doens't really change the dynamic in the band, when we get togther it's still the same people. The difficulty of booking people is been there for like 15 years, it's just something that never changes and I just accepted ita s a part of my life.
What about the songwriting? Are you the only songwriter in the band or are there contributions from someone else?
Aside from the songs that Dan wrote, he wrote 3 songs on every record, I'm the songwriter. Other people write songs, but, for this band, I think it's just been agreed that I'm the songwriter. All the band contributes with a lot of ideas to the arrangements, and all of that, but ultimately, there isn't anyboby in the band who's fighting to get their songs on the album, there's just an agreement upon that I'm the guy who writes the songs.
So, this is the first album written entirely by you, because Daniel is absent this time.
Yes, that's a difference, but in a way it's not that different, because, if Dan was on this record, it would be the same album plus 3 more songs, so, in that sense, writing songs for an album where there are Dan's songs or there are not is not really any different for me.
As a band, how do you come to a decision about how a record has to sound? Do you work with an artistic producer, do you talk collectively as a band and make a decision, how does it work?
I have an idea on what I want to do, like "Play Money" was one of the first songs that came together, and I had this idea that it would be this sort of bubblegum kraut rock record, and I carried on from there. When "Play Money" came together, I thought "I like the vibe, I like the way I moved and I like the tempo", and so, we agreed that all of the album should have had that vibe. At the beginning of an album, it's just a tiny idea, then we figured out how we go.
Do you think it's OK to say that this is your most keyboards driven album?
Yeah, definitely, it definitely is! There's a lot of keyboards on the last record too, but I think on this one we went a little crazy on keyboards. I love playing keys, it's very funny, it's fun to manipulate sounds, and it happens more often with keyboards. Sometimes it's fun to manipulate guitars and vocals too, but at some point, I started to get sick of guitars, I know there's still lot of guitars in our sound, but I just wanted to move to a different sound.
I listened again to your previous album after listening to this one, and I found that the song "Champions Of Red Wine" would perfectly fit on this album too. Probably it's the only one which is very similar to the new songs.
Yeah, I think "Champions Of Red Wine" is one of my favourite songs on "Brill Bruisers" because there's a lot of crazy synthetizers on it. For this record, we thought "let's go further down that road". "You Tell Me Where", the last song on "Brill Bruisers" is another song that has a similar vibe, but "Champions Of Red Wine" I think is definitley the jumping up point into this record.
About the tracklist of this album, I have the feeling that you just wanted to group the songs with similar melodic style. The first four songs have the most immediate and catchy melodies, and then you just do some different things melodically when the album goes on.
Yes, definitley! I think the first four songs are definitley like the pop songs of the record, and then it gets a little bit more prog after that. I think that it's a common way to sequence a record, trying to hook the people with the most immediate songs and then going weirder.
About the lyrics of the album, do you think you can describe them in a general way, or do you think that any song has its own topic, and there is not a general concept that can be related to the whole album? For example, I read you said that "High Ticket Attraction" is about the impact of the election of Donald Trump.
I didn't mean to write a political song, but it was hard to escape the anxiety of America. I think that shows up in different songs, not in a very conscious way, but I think there's a sort of anxiety that goes thrgough a lot of the songs. I also think in a lot of our songs there's always been a defined hope, like there's anxiety and sadness, but the songs are fighting back against those feelings, and I think that's a theme that goes through a lot of our music.
My last question is about your live shows, you're touring America and then you're coming to Europe, unfortunately not in Italy, and I don't think you ever played in Italy, but if one day we'll be lucky to see you in our country, what can we expect from your live shows?
I never know how to answer that. We want our shows to be fun, to be the most joyous occasion, we're not a shoegaze band. I don't know why we never go to Italy, I'd love to, I went to Rome 10 days with my wife and I loved it, I'd love to get back there.
La quinta raccolta di gioiellini power pop della superband canadese, capitanata da A.C. Newman, Dan Bejar ..
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