The consultant's office was filled with hand-held spinning lights, noise makers, squeezable balls and lots of books. Clay particularly enjoyed a vibrating "snake" he could hold in his hand or loop around his neck. But nothing was enticing him to sit at the table in front of the electronic keyboard we wanted him to learn how to use. He chose instead to spin in an office chair, explore a desk and computer setup on the other side of the room and make frequent dashes for the steps that led to freedom.
I moved my chair in front of his escape route. My wife sat a few feet away. The consultant and a guy named Mike who was watching Clay a few afternoons each week, sat at the table. We had a couple hours ahead and no plans to leave until Clay engaged in some manner with that keyboard. Clay hadn't used speech to communicate with us directly in five years. Our hope was that he could learn to type instead. We knew his visual processing issues and poor fine motor skills would make it a challenge. The consultant we found was practiced at helping people overcome those barriers.
In the early going of this first session, it looked like her biggest challenge would be luring Clay to the table. We still had no idea what to expect.
Clay spoke in what we thought was a relatively normal manner until he reached second grade. Although when we look back, we know now he was mostly using "scripted phrases" – phrases memorized from books, videos and other conversations. When the instructor pushed him beyond his comfort zone in gymnastics class he would say, "I do not wish to fall." It is admittedly not typical language for a kid, but we took it as his way of saying that he was afraid at that height. It takes a practiced reader of Dr. Seuss to recognize, as we eventually did, an exact quote from The Cat in the Hat. "I do not wish to fall." is what the goldfish says when the cat is juggling him and other items while standing on a ball. Unable to produce his own words, Clay had pulled a phrase out of a book that fit the circumstance exactly and conveyed his message. It takes a smart kid to make that kind of connection. Still, we couldn't deny that his language processing was a major concern, and was only getting worse.
Clay's language became more and more sparse as second grade continued, and over the next few years he stopped using speech to communicate. For awhile, we kept pushing him to speak, insisting, for example, that he couldn't have juice until he said the word. Then one night we found him lying in his bed upside down, his feet up by the pillow. He was crying. Something was wrong. We couldn't figure out what. We calmed him down, and stayed with him until he began to fall asleep. A few minutes later, something in the way he was lying there struck me. I went back in to check on him and sure enough his right foot was stuck between the bed and the wall. He couldn't pull it out, and he couldn't tell us. That was when we stopped trying to push him to speak.
Even though he couldn't use speech to communicate, we never stopped believing that Clay had a lot to say. My wife—Clay's most tenacious advocate—researched the idea of teaching him to communicate with a keyboard.
As Mike reached for one of the books, I looked over to see my wife quietly crying. A lump rose in my throat.
After five years, Clay had presented us with his first sentence. Now we were speechless.
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This made me cry, like Clay's mother. My daughter is almost 8 and autistic. She speaks mostly like you said Clay used to speak, in phrases she has heard, and oddly, one of the very same phrases—she often says "I do not wish to fall" from the same source. Hearing about Clay gives me a lot of hope. Thank you.


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Q: How to open a document in 'current window' in office add-in instead of opening in a new window? I'm working on Office 365 Word Add-in that opens a document.
When we open the document via context.application.createDocument(base64string).open(), it launches a new window instead of opening the document in current browser tab (in case of web Add-in) or current instance of word (in case of windows Add-in).
Here is my use case:

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*Check if there is already an open document and ask the user to save or lose changes.

*Have an API to close the current open document e.g. context.document.close();

*Open a new document via context.application.createDocument(base64string).open(), so that the document is opened in the current window instead of opening in a new instance of word.
Is there any workaround to achieve this?
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Q: Continuously run Sinatra on Apache server Is it possible to ssh into a server, start a Ruby program with Sinatra, and then log out of the ssh session, and still have the Sinatra server run? I have tried this, but it seems that when I log out of the server, the Sinatra server quits. Am I doing something wrong? If I can't do this, how would I run Sinatra continuously?

A: This is usually due to the shell (for example bash) exiting and sending hangup or kill signals to all its child processes. To start the server in the background and shield it from the HUP signal you can use the command nohup:
    nohup - run a command immune to hangups, with output to a non-tty

For example:
nohup ruby sinatra_app.rb &

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nohup
For more robust deployment options you might want to look at something like Nginx   and/or Phusion Passenger:
Robust way to deploy a Rack application (Sinatra)

A: You could also use gnu screen
But nohup is probably the "smallest thing that can possibly work". Screen can help out if you start multiple things and want to handle them differently.


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Allen Steen: Tae Kwon Do
Jhoon Rhee and Allen Steen at the induction of Steen into the Hall of Fame of the U.S. Taekwondo Grandmasters Society in 2012.
Allen Steen was an early student of Tae Kwon Do Grand Master Jhoon Rhee at Southwest Texas State College in San Marcos, Texas. Allen is credited with being Mr. Rhee's first American black belt and he went on to win 30 major titles as well as defeating both Chuck Norris and Joe Louis to win the prestigious Long Beach International Tournament in 1966. Allen also developed a karate business empire including many schools and tournaments.
Allen Steen attended a demonstration put on by master Rhee in late 1959. He was impressed when the master kicked a support beam in the college gym and cracked the plaster from floor to ceiling. Steen signed up for Jhoon Rhee's first Karate class along with 184 other students and soon proved himself to be a dedicated and talented martial artist.
After earning both his black belt, and his college degree, Steen moved to Dallas, Texas and started the first of many Karate schools, "The Jhoon Rhee Institute of Karate," in 1962. This was the beginning of Steen's long and high profile career in the American martial arts. The rigor of his training methods, and the strong emphasis on discipline, combined with the toughness of his texan students resulted in what has come to be known as the "Blood-N-Guts Karate" style that flourished in Texas during the 1960's.
Allen Steen went on to become one of the most famous American martial artists in history, winning many national competitions. He was rated by Black Belt Magazine as one of the top fighters in the U.S. in 1966. His trademark sparring attack was the jump sidekick, delivered so quickly and powerfully, that his opponents were often knocked completely out of the ring.
Steen's many "Texas Karate Institute" schools produced some of the finest black belts in the U.S. At times, his graduates dominated the American Karate scene. In 1963, Steen organized his first "Texas Karate Championships". Characteristically, he entered his own competition and won first place. This tournament was the first to welcome all styles of karate pioneering the now popular, "Open Format."
Some of the many exceptional martial artists who emerged from Steen's schools include: Pat Burleson, Skipper Mullins, Mike Anderson, Fred Wren, and Roy Kurban. Together they established a Texas Karate dynasty that expanded as their own students began to compete. This second generation group includes Walt Bone, James Butin, George Buckner, Phyllis Evetts, Jim Harkins, Demetrius Havanas, Harold Gross, Larry Ritchie, Chuck Loven, Ray McCallum, Jim & Jenice Miller, George Minshew, Rick Vaughn, Jeff Smith, and Pat & John Worley.
Steen created the Southwest Karate Black Belt Association in 1967, but it quickly outgrew it's regional focus and became a national organization. In 1972 the name was changed to the American Karate Black Belt Association which ultimately boasted over 10,000 members. Steen had a vision of uniting all the American Karate organizations under a single banner, the U.S. Karate Association, but he was unsuccessful in this due to the many competing egos involved as well as the variety of differing needs represented.
In 1967 Allen Steen retired from competition, but remained active for many years as a karate businessman as well as a promoter of the sport. Steen was named, "The Father of Texas Karate," by the Texas Martial Arts Hall of Fame and was elected to the Who's Who in the Martial Arts. In April of 2000 Steen hosted the "Allen Steen Event Millennium Karate 20001" one of the largest and most successful Karate events in history.
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The Instagrammable installation opens downtown in September.
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The Museum of Illusions, a tourist attraction with 15 locations across the world, announced that it will open its first Texas museum in Downtown Dallas this September. Known for amusing "reverse rooms" and vortex tunnels, the museum is filled with optical illusions and tricks of math, science and psychology. The interactive concept will make a permanent home in the West End district at 701 Ross Ave. This will be the third location in the U.S. following openings in New York and Kansas City.
The Museum of Illusions isn't all too different from other Instagram-focused venues like Sweet Tooth Hotel, Snap 151, or Candytopia. It's part photo backdrop, part immersive experience. It's family-friendly enough for kids and visually appealing enough for selfie-seeking millennials. Unlike other concepts, though, the MOI is not testing the waters as a pop-up. It'll be interesting to see if the trend lasts as long as the lease.
The Museum of Illusions has been popular since it launched in Croatia in 2015. The New York location opened last year to positive reviews, and the concept even spawned a copy in Los Angeles–another, unrelated Museum of Illusions, which has plans to expand to San Francisco this year.
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  property :id, Serial
  property :name, String
  property :content, Text
  property :created_at, DateTime

  # Generated values are a stored text generated from
  # the relationship with children objects
  property :generated_header, Text, :default => ""
  property :generated_content, Text, :default => ""

  belongs_to :site, :class_name => Webbastic::Site, :child_key => [:site_id]

  has n, :pages, :class_name => Webbastic::Page
  has n, :headers, :class_name => Webbastic::Header

  # Force layout generation on first time
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  # Add :dirty header to rewrite file during next generation
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  def create_defaults
    self.headers.create :name => "extension", :content => "html"
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    # self.headers.create :name => "dirty", :content => true
  end

  # =====
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  def relative_path(options = {})
    File.join(self.site.layout_dir(options), sanitize_filename(self.name))
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    relative_path(:absolute => true)
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  # Write generated page to static file
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      self.generate
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Valiant and BCW Supplies Announce the Bloodshot Stor-Folio
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New York, NY (May 22, 2019) -Valiant Entertainment and BCW Supplies are excited to announce the Bloodshot Stor-Folio, a sturdy and attractive carrying case for your comics transporting needs!
"BCW's line of comics supplies are unrivaled, and we were thrilled by their customized X-O Manowar Stor-Folio and Valiant Short Box," said Russell Brown, Valiant President of Consumer Products, Promotions and Ad Sales. "Many Valiant fans are serious collectors, so they took to these items immediately. We're excited about this new Bloodshot Stor-Folio, especially with the new series and the Sony Pictures film coming up!"
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Q: CAML query with more than multiple AND/OR generates SPException "One or more field types are not installed properly. Go to the list settings page to delete these fields." I need to build a CAML query at runtime based on user input. The CAML query could be as simple as
<Where>
  <Eq>
    <FieldRef Name="Status" />
    <Value Type="Text">Awaiting Completion</Value>
  </Eq>
</Where>

or might include multiple AND and OR like
<Where>
  <Or>
    <Or>
      <Eq>
        <FieldRef Name="Status" />
        <Value Type="Text">Awaiting Completion</Value>
      </Eq>
      <Eq>
        <FieldRef Name="Status" />
        <Value Type="Text">Ongoing</Value>
      </Eq>
    </Or>
    <Eq>
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  </Or>
</Where>

The problem is that as soon as I add a third Status to check as in the query above it generates an SPException

"One or more field types are not
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A quick code snippet to reproduce the problem:
   using (SPSite spSite = new SPSite("http://sp2010"))
            {
                using (SPWeb spWeb = spSite.OpenWeb("/test"))
                {
                    SPQuery spQuery = new SPQuery();
                    spQuery.Query = "<Where><Or><Or><Eq><FieldRef Name=\"Status\" /><Value Type=\"Text\">Awaiting Completion</Value></Eq><Eq><FieldRef Name=\"Status\" /><Value Type=\"Text\">Ongoing</Value></Eq></Or><Eq><FieldRef Name=\"status\" /><Value Type=\"Text\">Postponed</Value></Eq></Or></Where>";
                    SPListItemCollection spListItemCollection = spWeb.Lists["Actions"].GetItems(spQuery);
                    foreach(SPListItem spListItem in spListItemCollection)
                    {
                        Console.WriteLine(spListItem.Title);
                    }
                }
            }

            Console.ReadKey();

Any ideas?

A: Ok, I'm turning my comment into answer.

Onse in a while we all are making a typos - to solve your problem you should use "Status" instead of "status" in 3rd <Eq>.


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Here's Deezer's grand plan to take over the music-streaming world
By Nick Pino 2016-12-21T14:54:22.355Z Audio
We travel to the heart of the music streamer's headquarters to learn its secrets
While the number of Tidal subscribers subsided and Pandora plotted its grand music-on-demand service, there was a team sitting in a grungy (in a good way) Parisian office wondering what kind of music you'd like to listen to to get you excited in the morning.
That company is Deezer, the European streaming music service that has high hopes to crack America's ultra-competitive market while simultaneously expanding to new territories like Asia and South America.
On top of its ambitions in America, it wants to keep up appearances in France, its home country, where it says that half the citizens have had a Deezer account at some point in their lives, and sneak into more homes in neighboring countries like Germany, Austria and the UK.
It's a tall order – and one that seems to get taller every time it turns around.
But it has a secret weapon. OK, it's not that secret.
It's an ever-changing algorithm that will create "your personal soundtrack" called Flow, and it's been around for the last two years. But the company says Flow is going to get even better in the next few months, enough so that Deezer thinks it will be the key factor in closing the gap behind Apple Music and Spotify as one of the world's top streaming services.
It's a bold claim and one we're pretty skeptical of – still, even after spending some serious face time with some of the 10 million-subscriber-strong service's leadership team.
But healthy skepticism doesn't scare them, and neither do Spotify and Apple Music.
Streaming by the numbers
The picture I'm painting of Deezer right now might be one of a bold, brash company that has a one-track mind of doing whatever it takes to usurp the competition. It's not that.
It's a relative newcomer to the international stage and, talking to the company's Chief Marketing and Commercial Officer Golan Shaked, they know it.
But despite the fact that it's only been in the US for four months now, here's the thing Shaked wanted to emphasize – streaming music isn't all that old and that means that nothing is set in stone.
In a population of 7 billion, only about 200 million pay for a music streaming service
Here's some facts, provided by Shaked, that will put the industry in perspective: In a population of 7 billion people, only about 200 million pay for a music streaming service. Apple, one of the market leaders, recently announced that its streaming service has over 20 million paid subscribers and, at last count, Spotify has only around 40 million paid subscribers.
The point Shaked wants to make here is that, with only 2.85% of the world's population paying for a music streaming service at the moment, the race is far from over.
Or, in his words: "Yes," Shaked says, "I think there's room for all of us."
Deezer, he tells me, has about 10 million paying subscribers – a far cry from 40 million, but far ahead of a service like Tidal who only reached the 3 million mark a few months ago.
Deezer operates in 180 countries, more than any other streaming service on the market
Shaked says that Deezer has a few numerical advantages that he's hoping will help the company close the gap, first and foremost of those is that Deezer currently operates in 180 countries, more than any other streaming service on the market.
Second, he points out, Deezer's catalogue includes 43 million tracks – again, more than near anyone else out there. Finally, and this is a big one, seven out of nine of the company's executive leadership team have been working at Deezer for 12 months or less.
"The industry is still young," Shaked says. "We have a plan but, in the end, the decision to subscribe [to Deezer instead of the competition] will come down to the consumer."
The smartest music algorithm ever
But despite some statistical advantages, Deezer's going to have to prove it's different enough to the competition if it wants to succeed where services like Rdio, Napster and others have failed – and that's something it's always struggled with.
Its best shot of succeeding, Shaked and his team say, is an algorithm they've cooked up called Flow that learns your music listening habits, takes into account your location and time of day and then spits out your favorite tunes without you ever having to lift a finger.
Deezer calls Flow a "lean back experience". What that means is that while Spotify and Apple Music want you to slog through playlists and individual songs to find something you really want to listen to, Deezer's hoping that it can figure you out all on its own.
The person in charge of making that happen? Alexander Holland, Deezer's Chief Content and Product Officer. Holland's come up with some pretty creative ways of figuring out what you want to listen to and when.
One of those ways is simple – Flow looks at what you've listened to in the past and, using metadata tags, spits out similar artists and songs that it categorizes as similar to the stuff you already like. This technique isn't unique, obviously, as companies like Pandora, Spotify and others have been doing this for years.
Something Flow does that's slightly more complex is that it takes into account what other people with similar music taste to you are listening to, and throws some of it your way to check out. If you've been listening to Red Hot Chili Peppers, for example, and based on the data it's collected Flow knows that people who like the Chili Peppers also like Nirvana, you can expect that you'll hear some of them soon, too.
Yes, Deezer's music algorithm seriously uses your phone's accelerometer to pick out your next song
But Holland's pièce de résistance is almost certainly Flow's ability to take into account where you are, what you have scheduled on your calendar and how fast you're moving – yes, Deezer's music algorithm seriously uses your phone's accelerometer to pick out your next song. Holland calls this contextual intelligence and it's the one area he's bound and determined to improve over the first half of next year.
Some of the examples Holland provided was that if Deezer could sense you were on the train in the morning on the way to work, you might get some more uplifting music to put you in the right state of mind. Conversely, if Flow caught wind that you were at home vegetating on the couch, it might play something a bit more mellow – like jazz or classical. Finally, if Flow figures you're at the gym thanks to the information it got from your accelerometer, the next song you get might be a high-octane rap or rock anthem to motivate you to go the extra mile.
Flow is certainly Deezer's most promising feature, but on its own it might not be enough to take on Apple Music and Spotify. For that, the team has one last surprise: original content.
Pop on some podcasts
While Deezer could very easily chase down the latest album from artists like Beyonce and Drake, both Holland and Shaked insist that's not the best route for the service's success – licensing exclusive albums is expensive, it turns out, and a real pain when you're trying to negotiate streaming rights for over 180 countries.
What they want to do instead is create new original content that Spotify and Apple Music can't ever get their hands on. Think podcasts, radio shows and curated playlists. The man in charge of this? Deezer's Head of Content and Editorial in the UK, Roman Tagoe.
Tagoe explained that his vision for the burgeoning streaming service is to create "TV-like serialized experiences" (think the award-winning podcast Serial and you'll have the right idea) that have episodes and seasons.
"Deezer wants to create the sort of content that old school radio can't make or is too afraid to"
Roman Tagoe
"Deezer wants to create the sort of content that old school radio can't make or is too afraid to," Tagoe says. "We're not looking at this as a traditional podcast plan either - we're developing a range of creative audio ideas that can range from ongoing, serial documentary formats to short-form daily hits and anything in between."
It's a plan that the company has already started in its home country with a radio documentary following the rise and fall of French rock idols Téléphone called "On the road with Les Insus" that it plans on debuting in January, and "Balls Up" - a five part part comedy podcast around the European Football Championships that it ran over the summer.
But that's just the beginning for Deezer. Tagoe tells us that the service will eventually broaden its scope to include talk shows, more documentaries, commentated playlists and other "disruptive concepts" that he feels will feel right at home on the streaming music service.
"As well as music, we'll have comedy, lifestyle and sports programming that are perhaps not such a natural fit for other streaming services," he says. "We know our audience is interested in a diverse selection of audio content ... and the response to the shows we've already launched has given us great guidance on where to go creatively."
So how's all this content going to fit into Flow? For the time being it won't. But it's something that Tagoe, Holland and Shaked are thinking about extensively for the future.
What I've learned after discussing the future of music streaming with Deezer's executives is that the company exists in a nascent, turbulent industry – one that you can't predict but instead requires you to, pardon the pun, go with the flow.
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Reimbursement Coverage in France for the use of Confocal Laser Endomicroscopy for Barrett's Esophagus
Announcement of the creation of a new specific procedural code to be added to the Common Classification of Medical Procedures (CCAM) published in the Official Journal of French Republic
Mauna Kea Technologies announced the reimbursement coverage of confocal laser endomicroscopy, specifically for Barrett's esophagus, through the creation of a new specific procedural code to be added to the Common Classification of Medical Procedures (CCAM) published in the Official Journal of the French Republic.
In a decision dated April 18th 2019 and published in the Official Journal on June 14th 2019, the French National Association of Health Insurance Funds (UNCAM) created the following procedure, in sub-paragraph "07.01.09.01 - Endoscopy of the salivary glands and digestive tract" of Book II of the Social Security Code: "Esophageal endoscopy with confocal laser endomicroscopy-guided biopsy - Pre-therapeutic esophageal mapping with biopsy guided by confocal laser endomicroscopy"1. The tariffs reimbursed are as follows: 150 euros for the endoscopist (Activity 1) and 69 euros for anesthesia (Activity 4). This UNCAM's decision will take effect 30 days after its publication.
"We are pleased with the decision of the "Union Nationale des Caisses d'Assurance Maladie", or UNCAM, to create a new code dedicated to esophageal procedures with Confocal Laser Endomicroscopy," said Robert L. Gershon, Chief Executive Officer of Mauna Kea Technologies. "This decision confirms the relevance of our technology for patients at risk of esophageal cancer and we look forward to expanding our unique probe-based Confocal Laser Endomicroscopy system, Cellvizio, to the more than 300 hospitals throughout France that specialize in following patients with Barrett's esophagus."
Mr. Gershon continued: "There are more than 45,000 esophagogastroduodenoscopy procedures in France each year that potentially can be performed with Cellvizio going forward. Importantly, now clinicians performing these procedures will all be eligible for reimbursement at an attractive rate. Thanks to the creation of this new procedural code, the French market - a market in which we already enjoy a strong reputation - is finally available to Mauna Kea for broad-commercialization of our Cellvizio technology."
About 4,300 new cases of esophageal cancer2 are diagnosed in France each year, 75% of which occur in men, more frequently beyond the age of 50. Although the epidemiology of Barrett's esophagus is not precisely known, several studies report a prevalence of around 5.6% in the general population3,4. Barrett's esophagus is a well-recognized precursor of esophageal adenocarcinoma (subtype of esophageal cancer). Cellvizio is used to help target biopsies and may also reduce the number of biopsies needed to achieve a diagnosis.
A dossier on probe-based Confocal Laser Endomicroscopy (pCLE) was submitted to the French National Authority for Health (HAS) in 2010 by the French Society of Digestive Endoscopy (SFED). Then, the HAS conducted an assessment of real-time optical endomicroscopy performed during mapping of Barrett's esophagus and issued an opinion in favor of including this new procedure into the List of reimbursed procedures and services on September 17th 20145.
SFED has strongly supported CLE-guided biopsy esophageal mapping procedure throughout the reimbursement process and contributed to the expert panel discussions.
The UNCAM agreed to enlist probe-based confocal laser endomicroscopy on the CCAM list (i.e. French coding system of medical procedures, which concerns any medical procedure performed in an ambulatory setting or within hospital). And in 2019, a reimbursement tariff was fixed for the exam1.
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1. Decision of April 18th 2019 of the National Association of Health Insurance Funds (UNCAM) on the list of procedures and services covered by health insurance, published in the Official Journal of the French Republic. Accessed at https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr on June 14, 2019
2. French National Authority for Health (HAS) and National Cancer Institute (INCa). LDD n°30 - Patient guide: the management of esophageal cancer. January 2012. Accessed at https://www.has-sante.fr or https://www.e-cancer.fr
3. Rex DK, Cummings OW, Shaw M, et al. Screening for Barrett's esophagus in colonoscopy patients with and without heartburn. Gastroenterology. 2003;125(6):1670-1677.
4. Ward EM, Wolfsen HC, Achem SR, et al. Barrett's esophagus is common in older men and women undergoing screening colonoscopy regardless of reflux symptoms. Am. J. Gastroenterol.2006;101(1):12-17.
5. Decision n°2014.0182/DC/SEAP, https://www.has-sante.fr/portail/jcms/c_1731777
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In the cramped kitchen of an east London bar and restaurant, Logan Plant is brewing.
He holds a tube in both hands, from which hot water is pouring into a stainless steel grain-filled vat and there is a sweet smell in the air.
"We've blown a few things up," he quips. "There have been a lot of angry chefs."
You may have heard of his dad - Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant.
"He loves his ale," Logan Plant says. "He's been a big influence on my career."
Duke's Brew & Que restaurant, in Hackney, is the nerve centre of Beavertown brewery, which was set up this year by Mr Plant, 33, originally from the West Midlands, and Byron Knight, 42, from Los Angeles.
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In fact, the capital has more active breweries than at any time since the 1930s. In 2006 there were seven, now there are 30.
UK cask ale sales have increased for the first time in 20 years, according to the Campaign for Real Ale (Camra).
In the pubs and working men's clubs of the 1940s and 50s there were strict customs governing who stood where.
To be invited to sup at the bar was a rite of passage for many young men, and it took years for women to be accepted into these bastions of masculinity.
As the country prospered and foreign travel became widely available, so new drinking habits were introduced as drinkers discovered wine and, even more exotically, cocktails.
People began to drink at home as well as at work, where journalists typified a tradition of the liquid lunch.
Advertising played its part as lager was first sold as a woman's drink and then the drink of choice for young men with a bit of disposable income.
About 2.2m barrels of real ale, about 633 million pints, were sold in 2011 - a 1.6% rise.
Good Beer Guide editor Roger Protz puts this down to "a big sea-change in drinkers' attitudes".
"The British love supporting the underdog and a lot of people would now prefer to support local breweries, rather than big international brewers," he says.
Breweries that have sprung-up over recent years range from east London's Red Church, which produces the light and grassy Shoreditch Blonde, to south London's Meantime, locally famed for its fruity, heady 6.5% London Porter.
Beavertown launched its maiden brew just before Christmas 2011, but Mr Plant was fine-tuning his brewing skills before then.
"I used to homebrew, so whilst we were planning the project, I was constantly in my kitchen knocking out recipes," he said.
Meanwhile, Mr Knight, who says he has "worked in restaurants and bars all my life", devised a food menu that would best complement the beer.
Duke's opened in February 2012 and Mr Knight says since then, things have moved so fast, "every day feels like a year".
After the beer is brewed in the kitchen, the rest of the production and bottling takes place in a garage down the road.
A one-man distribution team then travels around the country "getting to know the owners of all the bars so they can recommend the product", Mr Plant says.
But the hard work seems to be paying off and they now have plans which should please a few of the chefs.
They intend to move brewing from the kitchen, and set up a brew house down the road, in early 2013.
Mr Plant says the secret to success is to "have a clear vision of what you're doing it for". That has meant a few brews have been tipped down the drain for not being up to scratch.
"It's worth taking the hit and keeping your reputation intact," he says.
"We're constantly evolving and doing new stuff so it keeps us inspired."
But all is not looking rosy for the real ale trade.
About 18 pubs are closing across the UK each week, according to latest research by Camra.
The Good Bear Guide's Mr Protz says "big brewers don't sell heavily discounted beer to pubs as they do to supermarkets, which sell beer as a loss-leader".
He says the closure of more than 450 pubs since March is "tragic".
"Pubs are great places to meet up with friends and chat," he says. "If you lose your pub, the community will start to die."
The pub closures may also deter a few aspiring brewers in the making.
Logan Plant has his father to thank for encouraging his interest in ale during his teenage years.
"He really influenced me as a kid because he used to drag me around every pub garden possible," he says.
So what does the Zeppelin singer think of Logan Plant's career sidestep?
"He absolutely loves it," Logan Plant says.


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Government determined to face challenges ahead: Mounir Abdel Nour - Daily News Egypt
Business Government determined to face challenges ahead: Mounir Abdel Nour
Government determined to face challenges ahead: Mounir Abdel Nour
Abdel Nour said despite the difficult circumstances the economy is experiencing, the ministry is committed to realising success in order to reach social justice, stability and restore the confidence of local and foreign investors.
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The current government is determined to address the challenges of the business community, according to Minister of Industry and Foreign Trade Mounir Fakhry Abdel Nour
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The interim government is determined to address the challenges of the business community, Minister of Industry and Foreign Trade Mounir Fakhry Abdel Nour has told a meeting at the Egyptian Union of Investors Association (EUIA).
The meeting, chaired by head of the EUIA, Mohamed Khamis, discussed the the ministry's road map.
As part of the government's plans, Abdel Nour mentioned "supplying lands for industrial projects and developing a new system for land allocation."
Abdel Nour said despite difficult economic circumstances, the ministry is committed to social justice, stability and restoring the confidence of local and foreign investors.
"The economic group within the cabinet is keen to overcome all the obstacles and to develop a new system for the investment climate," he said.
He also stressed the importance of granting opportunities for youth, allowing them to contribute to the implementation of the new development plan.
During the meeting, which also reviewed a number of problems in energy resources, the minister said the industrial sector is not expected to face energy supply problems over the next year due to strong support from Arab countries.
For his part, Khamis announced that the business community will assist the new government in creating job opportunities and improving wages through building factories and increasing production quotas to encourage exports.
"Investors are optimistic about the new government and believe it has a clear vision," Khamis said.
He also demanded that the government takes measures to protect domestic industry, especially with regard to smuggling.
Safwan Thabet, who attended the meeting, requested the new government finalise the draft food safety law.
Thabet added that the law will improve the food industry, which he said was suffering from a "multiplicity of legislation and regulations."
Abdel Nour said the ministry is currently working on finalising an integrated industrial plan. This plan is intended to identify investment opportunities available in provinces and industrial areas
He also added that the ministry is currently studying the introduction of a connected working network with the General Authority for Investment (GAFI) that will help overcome all the obstacles and facilitate industrial procedures.
Furthermore, Abdel Nour indicated that he has formed a committee that aims to help resolve investor complaints
The minister announced the he has extended the current standard measurements in the Supporting Exports programm for three months, adding that new standards will be applied in October.
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TBI MVP Lily Pink (rear, left) and late-game heroine Makenna Jacklin (rear, right) celebrate along with the rest of their Okanagan Mission teammates following championship win over Britannia at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2019. All Rights Reserved)
A SUNDAY READ: Okanagan Mission tops Britannia as a most illuminating TBI 2019 sheds new light on the state of B.C. girls high school hoops
LANGLEY — For the first few days of the 2019 Tsumura Basketball Invitational, Makenna Jacklin did a really good job of convincing herself that she'd lost her jump shooting mojo.
Perhaps it had fallen off the team bus somewhere along the ride down from Kelowna, likely never to be found again?
"But as soon as the ball touched my hands, I said 'This is my moment,'" the 6-foot Grade 11 forward with the Okanagan Mission Huskies explained in the aftermath of championship victory Saturday evening on the floor of the Langley Events Centre. "I said 'I've got to do this for my team.' Then, when the ball left my hands, I knew it was going in. I knew we were winning."
Trailing by a point with 20.3 seconds remaining to East Vancouver's Britannia Bruins in the TBI title tilt, OKM head coach Meghan Faust called for time, then drew up a play to give her coldest three-point shooter a chance to win the game and the tournament.
Who does that?
"She came off the court at one point, looked at me and said 'I'm having a terrible game," relayed Faust of Jacklin. "I had a couple of other shooters available, but I thought Mak was ready. Then she goes in, she hits that big three… she nails it, and it brought her to tears."
Jacklin later rebounded a miss by the Bruins with just 8.7 seconds remaining which likely would have sent the game to overtime, was subsequently fouled, then hit a free throw to cap an 88-85 victory.
And that's not even the whole story.
"That shot is the only three-pointer I made the whole weekend, but that's the one that counted," gushed Jacklin, whose modest eight-point night didn't capture of the full flavour of her contributions which also included big rebounds and shot-altering defence. "I was really feeling down on myself because I wasn't making shots. I was shooting and shooting and it wouldn't fall. So I said to myself 'This is my moment.'"
Britannia's Shemaiah Abatayo led her team in scoring in Saturday's TBI final against Okanagan Mission. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2019. All Rights Reserved)
WRITING A NEW CHAPTER
Without getting too dramatic, it's no stretch to say that TBI 2019 has been one of the most eye-opening moments in recent B.C. girls high school basketball history.
Eight schools from the most recent Quad-A Top 10 rankings were a part of the field, yet none was able to crack the 20-team event's top three.
Let that sink in for a second.
This is certainly not to say that by the time many of the same teams gather here in March for the B.C. championships that those same eight Quad-A teams — the Riverside Rapids, Terry Fox Ravens, Kelowna Owls, Brookswood Bobcats, Heritage Woods Kodiaks, Lord Tweedsmuir Panthers, Walnut Grove Gators and Yale Lions — won't be vastly improved outfits..
Yet by no means did Triple-A No. 1 Okanagan Mission, and the Double-A quartet of No. 1 Langley Christian, No. 3 Britannia and No. 4 St. Thomas More have some kind of monopoly on early-season readiness.
They too, have just as much ceiling for improvement, yet they're already good enough to get in the same line as the aforementioned Quad-A powers, all behind unquestioned No. 1 Semiahmoo which did not take part in TBI.
In fact, based on their track record here at the LEC, it's pretty hard not to call Okanagan Mission and Britannia the Nos. 2 and 3 overall teams in the province at this moment with Langley Christian at No. 4. Triple-A No. 2 Abbotsford, which also did not take part in TBI, is looking the part of a power.
Okanagan Mission's Makenna Jacklin (left) and Tatum Wade put up a brick wall against Britannia's Surprise Munie. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2019. All Rights Reserved)
A SURPRISE FOR SURPRISE?
Coming into Saturday's final, the big question was going to be how the Huskies would go about trying to slow Britannia's explosive senior guard Surprise Munie, who had shown a habit of taking over games when it mattered most as the Bruins knocked off Quad-A foes Riverside, Yale and Kelowna on the way to the final.
While not deploying a traditional junk triangle on the Bruins, OKM did assign Grade 11 forward Lily Pink to guard Munie, and its senior point guard Melaina Corrado to guard Britannia's senior point guard Shemaiah Abatayo.
Although Pink did pick up a second early foul which forced her to leave the game for a spell inbetween the first and second quarters, the move paid off.
Stifled early, Munie didn't get into a groove until the fourth quarter where she scored seven of her team's final 10 points, finishing with a modest 16, but remaining dangerous to the final buzzer.
Same with Abatayo.
She scored a team-high 19 points, yet had but one three-pointer over the final 8:50 of the game.
That's because the Huskies played terrific stretches of defence, including one in which they kept the Bruins from a sinking a shot from the field for a span of 9:40 between the halves.
In the end, with Munie and Abatayo demanding every ounce of their attention, it proved to be just enough.
"I thought they played really good defence," said Britannia head coach Mike Evans of OKM's 14-4 run over that same stretch of play. "I don't know if it was because we were tired or not, but we had so many shots rim out. I have to hand it to (OKM), though, because they scored a bunch of points right at the half to go up by 10 (29-19), and then they scored the first basket of the second half."
Interestingly enough, the last six points of the first half and the that first bucket of the second were all scored by Pink, who made a habit of hitting big shots all night, finished with a game-high 25 points, and was later named Tsumura Basketball's 2019 MVP, joining a pretty exclusive club which most recently includes Sienna Lenz (Abbotsford, 2016), Jessica Wisotzki (Walnut Grove, 2017) and Tavia Rowell (Walnut Grove, 2018).
"I've had her since Grade 9 and she's just developed into an unstoppable force for us," Faust said of Pink, a 5-foot-10 Grade 11 with uncommon stride and balance, and an incredibly soft touch around the glass. "She is our scorer and no matter what, she finds a way."
Pink scored seven of OKM's first nine points for a 9-0 lead, filled it up just before halftime, closed out the third quarter with a brilliant lay-in off a spin-move in the paint, then capped her night with a big lay-in for a 53-47 lead in the fourth quarter.
"I just go out there and play how I play," said Pink. "And I have Melaina to help me out with those great passes. But it also felt good to get the chance on defence to try and stop Surprise. She is a great player and everybody had to help out."
Elana Corrado had seven points, Melaina Corrado six, and Devon Felt five.
Post Lagi Vaa added 10 points for the Bruins, seven of which she scored consecutively late in the third quarter, kickstarting a 19-4 Bruins' run which gave Britannia a 45-44 lead 1:10 into the fourth.
TBI 2019's two central characters in Saturday's plot-filled title final were OKM's Lily Pink (left) and Britannia's Surprise Munie. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2019. All Rights Reserved)
TEARING DOWN THE TIERS
One of the week's more memorable moments came after Okanagan Mission secured its berth in Saturday's finale following a Friday semifinal win over Langley Christian.
"During the game, the refs asked me where Okanagan Mission was," began Huskies' Melaina Corrado. "They didn't even know where we were from. I told them Kelowna. I hope they remember."
It's a theme that in many ways, carries over to the overall TBI weekend just completed.
For far too long, top-end tournaments have based their invitation lists largely by tier, with an accepted 'never the twain shall meet' mentality between the bigger and smaller member schools.
What TBI 2019 drove home in ways no one could have possibly imagined when the event tipped off Wednesday, is that at the very top end of competition in this province, great basketball teams will no longer be determined simply by the quantity of A's in their tiering number.
It's not like small has never beaten big before, but never en masse like this.
After this weekend, that is something we're all sure to remember.
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TBI 2019 Girls: Double-A Langley Christian tops Quad-A Kelowna for third as BC's largest tier denied gold, silver and bronze
B.C. Girls All-Tier Top 20 Power Rankings! So, who are B.C.'s best hoops squads regardless of tier? Here is it, unofficially and in the name of fun!


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Location Scouting in Singapore's Filmic History
The Espionage Training School In Our Backyard.
Location Scouting in "SOE: Arms and The Dragon" (1984)
Title of film: SOE: Arms and The Dragon
Produced by Christopher Riley (BBC)
A BBC documentary about British special ops unit SOE (Special Operations Executive) and its exploits in Southeast Asia. SOE was formed in July 1940 to develop and maintain clandestine networks in enemy occupied territory in the second World War. Its initial objective was Europe, but with the Japanese becoming a threat to the British, Dutch and French colonies in Asia, SOE expanded its operations and established two other missions in the Far East — Delhi-based 'India Mission' and Singapore-based 'Orient Mission'. This documentary, released in 1984, presents interviews with SOE veterans as they recall the various special missions they had conducted and the people they had worked with when they infiltrated back into Malaya and Singapore in 1943 and 1944 — the MPAJA, Malay volunteers and KMT agents.
The Film Locations:
1. Former 101 Special Training School (101 STS), Tanjung Balai, Jurong River.
In 1941, when the Japanese military began its offensive in Southeast Asia, SOE Orient Mission decided to set up 101 Special Training School in Singapore (at Tanjung Balai, at the mouth of Jurong River) to prepare stay-behind teams in parts of the British Empire that might be conquered by the enemy. The school was housed in a large Art-Deco style bungalow, formerly the private estate of an Armenian millionaire. It was in a secluded and relatively inaccessible corner of the Singapore island, thus ideal for a secretive espionage training school.
Those stay-behind teams trained by 101 STS would then be in place across Southeast Asia to begin the work of relaying intelligence to the British armed forces, of executing acts of sabotage, and of recruiting indigenous people willing to take part in operations against the occupying forces. In the final days of the Japanese's offensive in Malaya (December 1941), the school also trained 165 Malayan Chinese communists to prepare them for anti-Japanese guerilla warfare in Malaya. They would later form the nucleus of the Malayan People's Anti-Japanese Army (MPAJA).
When the Japanese conquered Singapore in February 1942, the school was abandoned. After the war, in December 1948, the bungalow became South Winds Hotel. It was later acquired by Mr. Lee Kong Chian, a Hokkien philanthropist and rubber merchant. In 1951, Mr. Lee offered the bungalow for use by the Government. It became the home and rehabilitation centre of the Singapore Anti-Tuberculosis Association for incurable tuberculosis patients in 1954. Subsequently, the centre was closed and the site was taken over by the Government during the development of Jurong Industrial Estate in the 1960s.
Film-still from the documentary. Aerial view of 101 STS in a huge bungalow, situated at Tanjung Balai, a cape at the mouth of the Jurong River.
Film-still from the documentary. The facade of the bungalow facing the sea.
Film-still from the documentary. The interior of the bungalow.
In fact, the three film-stills presented above were cropped copies of photographs that were taken at 101 STS. I found the "un-cropped" versions of the photos in Richard Gough's book "SOE Singapore, 1941-42″(1st published 1985).
The name 'Tanjung Balai' does not exist on maps or street directories of Singapore or Jurong today. ('Tanjung Balai' is more acquainted with a place in the Karimun Islands, Riau, Indonesia.) The terrain of Tanjung Balai still remains today, although the cape is extended further outwards at the mouth of the Jurong River after land reclamation. Today, the cape is part of the Jurong Port and is close to where Jurong Fishery Port and many factories and industrial plants are situated.
I had wanted to visit Tanjung Balai and retrace the grounds of the 101 STS bungalow but there is restricted access to the Jurong Port nowadays. So, I was only able to explore as far as the end of Jalan Tepong and its vicinity (Jalan Tepong could have been the tail end of the original minor road that will lead one from the main Jurong Road to the 101 STS compounds). Here are some photos from the 'expedition':
2. Former Cathay Building
Film-still from the documentary. The SOE Orient Mission functioned out of an office in the former Cathay Building.
3. Downtown Singapore
Other than photographs of places associated with SOE Orient Mission, the documentary also included what are termed as 'B-rolls' — supplemental footage intercut with the main contents and interviews. The 'B-rolls' included shots of downtown Singapore in the 1980s…
Elgin Bridge, Singapore River.
Kampong Glam, near the Sultan's Istana (now the Singapore Malay Heritage Centre). Sultan Mosque in the background.
Probably Kreta Ayer, Chinatown.
Probably one of the back alleys in Chinatown.
The Parliament House Annex Building (formerly a courthouse, now a restaurant).
The Supreme Court (in the future, part of the National Art Gallery).
Besides buildings and places, the B-rolls in the documentary also included intriguing shots of people waiting, resting, smoking, fanning themselves and contemplating. The audience may get the (wrong) impression that Singapore city is laid-back and residents here are unhurried as they go about their daily business….. Well, maybe it was that laid-back in the 80s…
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'Round About Midnight, Bugis Street.
Between Two Funerals – Bidadari Cemetery
Between Two Funerals – Jalan Sultan
An Obsession Over "Woodlands".
To Mount Alvernia Hospital
Raffles Hotel: The Noel Coward and Pretty Polly Connection
Pretty Polly's Ambulatory Gaze in a Former Colonial Town of Her Forebears' Empire.
漂亮宝莉在一九六七年所凝视的新加坡… 与四十六年后。Pretty Polly's Ambulatory Gaze in Singapore, 1967… and Forty-six Years After.
Of Rugged Landscapes, Mysterious Rock Caverns, Slavery and Rehabilitated Granite Quarries.
Where They Confess Their Love For Each Other.
Where Sojourners Make Acquaintance.
Places to frolic in. Chinta…
She took the "Malayan Railway" train at Bukit Timah to evade the adulterer.
Mat Sentul's Neighbourhood in Cathay-Keris Movie Town
Mat Sentul's Dreamland Singapore
Destinations for Banished Beings and A Potential Site for Attempting Suicide.
Places for Leisure, Deceit and Contemplation
Victims of Slander, Police Courts and Speakers' Corner
Victims of Slander, the Outram Prison and Operation Cold Store
Three Times Firewalk and Three Travelogues
Singapore is the MacGuffin
Green Green Riverside Grass
Of lost kampongs, fishnet bondage and remnant tombs in an equatorial hollywood.
Mogok! Strike! 罢工! ஸ்ட்ரைக்!
Location Scouting in "Bring 'Em Back Alive"(1932), "Wild Cargo"(1934), "Fang and Claw"(1935) & "Jungle Cavalcade"(1941)
Location Scouting in archive footage of the immediate events following the Japanese surrender in 1945 (Part 3 – The Decoration Ceremony)
Location Scouting in "David Bowie: Ricochet" (1984)
Location Scouting in "Ulagam Sutrum Vaaliban" (1973)
Location Scouting in archive footage of the immediate events following the Japanese surrender in 1945 (Part 2 – The Parades)
Location Scouting in archive footage of the immediate events following the Japanese surrender in 1945 (Part 1 – The Surrender)
Location Scouting in "Marai no Tora" (or "The Tiger of Malaya") (1943)
Location scouting in Japanese documentaries about their involvement in World War Two
Location Scouting in "Malayan War Record: A Record of the Offensive" (1942) Part 3
Location scouting in archive footage from "Japan's War in Colour" (2005)
Location scouting in archive footage from "Singapore 1942: End of Empire" (2012) – Part 3
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My research, conducted over the period of a year in KwaZulu-Natal province, sought to understand these decisions. My work included interviews and observations with 77 South Africans who were either unemployed, self-employed or earning low wages, as well as owners and managers of 25 businesses.
I found that while pay and profit are not irrelevant in employees' decisions about work, overemphasising monetary factors hid important motivators. Relationships were often a more significant factor than wages for decisions to accept, keep, or quit jobs.
This brings to South Africa questions being asked by researchers in the US, who have found that workers cared less about pay. Often labour legislation is focused on wages, and the means of negotiating wages is often so bureaucratic and impersonal that it breaks down relationships.
These findings lead to a new way of thinking about employment that moves beyond minimum wage adjustments, job creation incentives, and skills training for would-be workers. This is important: a simplistic understanding of worker motivations among South African policymakers can produce policies that rely too much on wage manipulation to shape employment outcomes, and management styles that run counter to what keeps workers engaged.
Of 77 people I interviewed about work, 39 mentioned quitting a job they disliked. Often people did not offer reasons for leaving jobs; of those who did give reasons, the most common involved relationships.
Fifteen people cited poor treatment by an employer, including five mentions of racism and one of sexual assault. Eight mentioned coworker problems, including backstabbing, false accusations, and jealousy. Only three people included too little pay as a reason for leaving.
The factors that job-seekers said influenced their decisions had less to do with wages than with good relationships in the workplace. These factors included their employer's demeanour, workers' inclusion in decision-making and leadership, perceived social distance between employees and employers, and the overall level of trust between employees and employers.
Relationships among coworkers also affected whether employees stayed in jobs. Conflicts often arose because people were promoted to higher positions than others who were seen as having culturally higher status because of age, gender or experience.
For instance, middle-level black managers – especially when young or female – were especially likely to worry about coworker relationships as they navigated a middle place between gaining favour with higher (often white) managers and not "acting above" other employees. Such jealousy and disdain often prompted various forms of mistreatment that could cause people to quit.
Relationships at home were another significant reason affecting employment. The work opportunities available to low-skilled workers often prevented them from spending time with children, partners and parents. This often caused conflict that could lead them to quit.
Relationships at home were often further strained because, as the breadwinner, low wages had to be spread too thinly among dependants. Aside from changing their relationship with relatives, several interviewees spoke of the predicament of needing to earn money while knowing they would keep little of their wages. One interviewee went as far as switching to a lower-paying job because the timing of paydays allowed her to better manage family members' financial requests.
People often focused on the word "respect" (inhlonipho in isiZulu) when describing ideal work relationships – even in low-wage jobs. Respectful relationships were demonstrated through: rotating all workers into leadership roles, paying a portion of the employees' children's school fees, expressing gratitude, having employees at all levels share lunch rooms, offering training and hiring primarily from the families and acquaintances of current employees. In some cases, they created jobs specifically for relatives of employees, signalling trust.
This is not to say that pay doesn't matter. In listing their reasons for starting jobs, employees nearly always cited pay-related reasons, but the reasons were often tied to shifts in relationships – like the loss of a breadwinning relative. But once in a job, when relationships went badly, money was not enough to keep people in jobs.
In a country with a long history of painful employment experiences systematically delineated along racialised lines, black people have long been treated as holding a lower value, not only as workers but as humans. This study has shown how dehumanising treatment defies a relational morality that is central to many black people's work-related decisions.
This is a signal to policymakers that measures to improve relationships must be considered – and often these are too little or no cost. These include; flattening institutional hierarchies, building gratitude into workplace routines, improving policies for handling workplace disputes, and otherwise improving trust and communication between managers and employees.