A collection of my golf thoughts reviewing the culmination of two tour plus the local feature and a look ahead to this weekend's team event in Melbourne, Australia.
Two season-ending events and Australia's pinnacle tournament highlighted a great array of golf on the weekend which saw playoffs in both Sydney and Georgia, USA. Two-time major winner Jordan Spieth saw off rising Australia star Cameron Smith and world number 903 Ashley Hall to secure his second Stonehaven Cup on the same weekend English duo Charley Hull and Matt Fitzpatrick won their respective season-ending events on the LPGA and European Tour. Mackenzie Hughes won a five-way playoff to notch up his maiden PGA Tour trophy.
At Royal Sydney in Rose Bay, Spieth came from two shots off the lead prior to the final round to join Smith and Hall in extra holes. I say holes but Spieth needed only one with a putt just under three metres after a fine approach on the 18th set up the putt for the win. The American joins Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player as overseas players who are among the multiple winners of the tournament. Former US Open champion Geoff Ogilvy will be disappointed he squandered his third-round lead ultimately signing for a one over round of 73. Playoff protagonists Hall and Smith plus fellow Australia Aaron Baddeley (who finished T4) all gained a spot in the British Open next year.
In Florida England's Hull won her first LPGA title, and only her second professional crown, in the most convincing win of the weekend when she triumphed by two strokes over South Korea's So Yeon Ryu in the CME Group Tour Championship. Hull, 20, came into the event ranked 29th in the world and has fired some quality rounds this season but rarely combined them for the win – this weekend was the exception with a bogey-free final two rounds which included 12 birdies. Thailand's Ariya Jutanugarn won the LPGA season crown after completing the tournament in a tie for fourth.
Monday morning, or very early Tuesday morning depending on your time-zone, saw Hughes won the RSM Classic in Georgia after the 25 year-old from Ontario and three other players returned to conclude the tournament having finished the regulation 72 holes tied at 17 under at Sea Island. Camilo Villegas, Henrik Norlander, Blayne Barber, Billy Horschel and Hughes featured in the first five-player playoff since German Alex Cejka prevailed in March last year in Puerto Rico. Horschel was eliminated on Sunday before the four remaining players squared things up on the second hole prior to the event getting suspended due to the fading light. When play resumed on Monday Canadian Hughes wasted no time chipping in from off the green on the par three 17th, after he was wasteful off the tee, as Barber, Norlander and Villegas missed with their close putts and all made bogey on the par three. A great result after he scrapped into the top tier a few months ago. Hughes was the first tour rookie to lead an event from start to finish in over 20 years.
Players I'm interested in to see how they go with notes that interest me and/or are related to capital investment if that's your thing. We turn our attention to Kingston Heath in Melbourne for the World Cup of Golf. The event in 2013 was won by the Australian pairing of Jason Day and Adam Scott by an astonishing 10-shots when it was held in the Victorian capital but at Royal Melbourne. The format is a mix of four-ball and foursomes (alternate shot) with the combined lowest score over the four days the winner. With 28 two-man teams we will have three picks.
Under 5: Australia (Adam Scott/Marc Leishman) Sometimes one shouldn't over complicate things. Scott won this event with Jason Day three years ago and Leishman beat Jordan Spieth in a singles match in the 2015 Presidents Cup so has solid experience in team golf.
5-10: Japan (Hideki Matsuyama/Roy Ishikawa) Whilst team golf form is important with such a quick turnaround to this event and players coming from everywhere individual player form is key also. Matsuyama has won his home Open recently and they are one of only two teams this weekend with a top ten player and the other player ranked inside the top 100.
10-20: Sweden (Alex Noren/David Lingmerth) The other duo who are both ranked in the top hundred with at least one player in the top 10* and Alex Noren has won four times this year.
*It should be noted the USA team of Rickie Fowler (12) and Jimmy Walker (19) only just fail to meet this criteria but are a big chance.
Quality events with exciting finishes in Australia and the USA in the men's game could have actually been more so on the weekend with players who could feature at either/both events turning out in Japan for the Dunlop Phoenix tournament. Ryder Cupper Brooks Koepka won the event by a stroke from local Yuta Ikeda. The tournament featured four other PGA tour winners from the last year and a host of rising stars from Asia. I understand the commercial aspect but spreading thin the three playing groups in that top 50 tier seems daft. And that's before you consider the European Tour denouement was going on at the same time. Could the event in Miyazaki be before the Australian key events or after it as players head back to the states?
In a fact that may amuse only me it's perhaps ironic to note in the two US PGA Tour events to date since Donald Trump was elected president of the USA the tournaments have been won by a bloke with a Mexican grandparent and a Canadian. At this rate 'the Donald' might fold the tour come late January when he is inaugurated. Jokes aside, the future sites of tournaments at his venues would seem assured which isn't good for a sport attempting to promote a more inclusive environment. It's difficult to see those involved (players and officials) rocking the boat. The only significant dissenting voice in sport was the mayor of the Los Angeles, Eric Garcetti, who raised concerns, before the election, about the impact a Trump presidency would have on the 2024 Olympic bid. But the organisers are spoilt for choice in SoCal in terms of golf courses so even if Trump doesn't back the bid and they get over the line it's not as if they need to use his courses. But can you imagine Trump opening an Olympic games anyway. Possible one of his final major acts as a second-term president… Shudder.
Golf has filled far more of my attention (on screen and on course) than the gnashing and wailing over cricket.
The European Tour has got most of my attention due to the evening time zone here in Perth. The final big tournament in Dubai was gripping over the last 9 holes (lets face it golf is pretty boring as a spectacle except for aficionados until the final stages). Bit like the Tour de France – we watch the scenery until the final sprint/climb.
Three young players fought out the finish with all showing pressure reduces even the best to my standard (but briefly not permanently). I particularly empathised with Wiesberger's 4 putt on 15 – missing two 3 footers! Fitzpatrick's duck hook on 16 got a lucky bounce off a tree for him to salvage par. Hatton thinned approaches on 16 and 17 that could have ended up in the water. Then he succeeded in finding water off the 18th tee. I felt right at home.
Not sure that I like course designs with hazards in the middle of the fairways like 16 and 18. Its a Norman design and I think the compromise is the wide fairways of a resort course mean its hard to find meaningful hazards for the pros.
Caught some of the early days of the Australian Open and Royal Sydney is gorgeous to look at. Not sure that we can ever find a time for our "big" tournaments to get a space on the world golf calendar. Spieth comes because the tight fairways and tough bunkering of Australian courses helps him hone his game.
The money and points on offer in even modest tournaments in the US and Europe will always dwarf our direct rewards.
Looking forward to Kingston Heath and the top players for the World Cup. We are only getting a 2nd XI of world golf, but its still a cut above last week.
Enjoy your work. Thanks Hamish.


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Product Managers and Project Managers are often mistaken one for the other, even in industries that employ both of them. Although their titles may sound similar, their responsibilities differ and require different skills as well as tools. So what exactly do they do?
Product managers drive the development of products. They prioritize initiatives and make strategic decisions about what gets built. Their primary focus is the customer's needs, which is an external objective.
Project managers, on the other hand, often oversee the execution of plans that have already been developed and approved. Their primary focus is tactical to the company, which is an internal objective.
Project Managers are ultimately responsible for the successful delivery of a project within a predetermined time frame and budget. The role of a project manager has a start date and end date as he/she works towards the defined result/goal. Project managers are responsible for managing the scope of the project to ensure that it meets the objectives by balancing the cost, time, quality and people, and even managing risks and issues within the set boundaries.
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Of emergent systems and transformation
May 29, 2015 by Justin Long in Blog
An old story makes the rounds in mission circles. A British soldier is asked, "if the Queen gave the army a message to deliver to the world, how long would it take?" The length of time given in reply varies according to the storyteller, but it's usually a few months or a few years. Why, then, has it taken us so long to deliver the Gospel, which is the message of the King of Kings to the World? Zing! Zing back. This is the Communication Fallacy of Missions. It falsely reduces our task to simply sharing a message, which is an incomplete view of what we were commanded to do. Jesus said, "Make disciples." (With additional things added in, like loving each other, loving neighbors, etc.) The more complete task is far more difficult than simple communication.
A better version of the parable might be: A British soldier is asked, "If the Queen gave the army a command to recruit new British citizens from the nations around the world–who would keep Britain's laws, promote the United Kingdom, participate in its economy, etc.–until all the world was finally part of the United Kingdom: how long would it take?"
A rather different question, isn't it?
Sharing a message is straightforward (if sometimes expensive): (1) gather an audience and (2) deliver the message in a way that is (a) linguistically understandable and (b) ideally culturally acceptable and relatable. But this only spreads the Kingdom in an industrial, manufactured way: it is not organic, sustainable and reliable. If this is the only way the message is spread, when a problem is encountered that is beyond the scope of the original message, the message will likely be abandoned in favor of a new solution. The Gospel becomes a paradigm rather than a truth. When an unresolvable problem is encountered the paradigm will be shifted rather than an adaptive solution found within the Body.
The goal is not communication. The goal is "making disciples," and one of the methods is communication. The goal is to see the church planted, the Kingdom spread, the world transformed.
"Okay, okay, we'll focus on making disciples," you say. But it's not that simple.
Who is to be discipled? The answer would seem obvious: people. Let's ask the question in a different way. If the result of discipleship is lives transformed–we used to behave in that way, but now we behave in this–let's ask: who is to be transformed?
This may be the biggest challenge when talking about swarms and emergence: getting people to understand it's not about the individual but the whole. Whether we are sharing or discipling, we are in the "mass" mindset. We look at a group and think in terms of the thousands of individual people who individually need to be transformed. In reality, the system, too, must be transformed. Simply changing the people will not change the system, and unless the system is changed, the people won't. To understand why, we need to understand emergent systems.
You know behavior is shaped partly by genetics (what we're born with) and partly by environment (how people around us act). You've probably argued the "nature vs. nurture" debate; here, let's just acknowledge that both are powerful influencers. On the nurture side, the social environment includes loved ones, extended family, friends, fellow worshippers, teachers, business partners, business clients, suppliers, governmental leaders, media influences, celebrity idols, and so on.
Within this environment we are influenced. It's a simple process to describe in the quaint proverb, "monkey see, monkey do." We see behavior and we, for whatever reason, decide to emulate it. Others see us, and for whatever reason, decide to emulate our behavior. There's many reasons why: sibling influence, advertising, business dynamics, desire for coolness, seeking a vote, wanting our patronage. Everyone both aligns with others and tries to influence others. Alignments happen in small and large ways. Most influence is through tens of thousands of tiny alignments which combine in a complex mess.
Out of it a system emerges.
An emergent system is any relatively large population–from, say, a village on up to a people group, an urban agglomeration, a fad, a social network, whatever–which:
is new and unique, with features not found elsewhere: student protesters in Egypt connected by Facebook.
endures. It has "coherence": not a fad that falls apart in a season (like the toy-of-the-month purchasers).
has a greater wholeness in which the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, and influences individual choices.
changes and adapts, responding to the environment (both threats and opportunities) around it
can be seen. Not attitudes: networks of people who interact and do things in a certain way.
An emergent system begins as the sum of actions who are trying to create something new–a new social network, a new platform, a new business, whatever–but if it survives long enough it becomes a standard, a platform. It becomes The Way. When that happens, rather than creative decisions about what The Way Is, people make creative decisions about other things based on The Way. They stop optimizing the system and start optimizing themselves to the way the system is.
When that happens, if you don't change the system, you won't change the people. But transforming an emergent system is hard.
Emergent systems are complex. You can't just "tweak one thing" and change it. Facebook helped the rise of the Arab Spring, but eliminating Facebook might not prevented it. Poverty is an emergent system: simply giving people jobs or money won't necessarily break the culture. When "to be Fulani is to be Muslim," a Christian Fulani is a paradox: it demands that the whole idea of what being a Fulani is, must change.
What's more, many societies are made up of multiple emergent systems which interrelate with each other, compete with each other, and feed off each other. Try to count up how many emergent societies are in Cairo alone, in the midst of the Arab Spring. The military council, the Muslim Brotherhood, the Salafists, the secularists, the Coptic Christians, the underground church, the typical business owner on the street, the families of the martyrs… and more, of course, that we can't see at arms length!
You can't just change a single emergent system bit by bit. That would be rather like trying to change a blue carpet into a purple one, pulling out one strand at a time and replacing it–but the carpet is alive, can sense what you are doing, and will react angrily. No: you have to convince the individual strands to change their color on their own, in place. It sounds impossible, but it's not: just 10% can change the default opinion of an emergent system about a topic.
You have to create tiny, new emergent systems within the existing ones, support them with an environment, and grow them to a size large enough to compete in the marketplace of ideas. Conflict within emergent systems is less about the battle of weapons and more about the battle of ideas and economics. Consider:
The miraculous healing of a deathly ill child can open the door to a quiet belief on the part of a woman.
Her quiet belief can lead to a quiet change in her attitudes and behavior toward her husband.
The change in her behavior can lead to uncertainty and questioning on the part of the man, who comes to belief as well.
But he may not be willing to become public with a faith that he is more open to–because to do so would cut him off from business relationships he needs for his family to survive.
How can you support the growth of an emergent system of believers within an oppressive area? It's less about standing up for their rights and more about establishing a quiet, unremarked-upon space for faith to thrive and spread from person to person, through social and business networks.
Part of the genius of the early Strategy Coordinator and NRM strategies was in this area: they envisioned a multichannel distribution of the Gospel that gets the ideas of the Kingdom into every facet of life: media, business, politics, friendships, books, education, health, etc. In "The Rise of Christianity," Rodney Stark illustrates how this happened to the early church. It's a lesson well worth looking to see how it can be repeated in modern cultures.
My goal is not to tell you what's happened in the world–you can get to Google News for that. My goal is to place events within larger narratives, particularly at the regional level (e.g. East Africa, North Africa, East Asia, etc).
By doing this, I will show you what the events mean and what we can expect. More than that, by placing events in the context of narratives, I am hoping we will learn how to better do this together. I want you to use the same processes to identify the events-in-narratives within the emergent systems (people groups, cities, etc.) you are focused on. I can't follow everything, but if I can't follow the place you're interested in, you can–and you can contribute to the greater community.
Together, we can then learn how to influence emergent systems by building narratives and environments for new systems-within-systems: Gospel systems, the salt-and-yeast inside, the redemptive light, the city-on-a-hill. That's the ultimate goal: to unleash redemptive processes led by the redeemed, that in turn don't just transform individuals but societies.
I hope it's clear by now: Societal transformation is key. You cannot easily sustain the church without it; indeed, based on Genesis 12 you can argue a church that does not transform the society around it is not a Biblical church and will not be blessed by God. Even simple demographics, though, can illustrate the reason. Eventually the church will grow to 90% or more of a society. At that point there is only one way for the church to be sustained–through new babies! (Because there is no one left to convert.) If an emergent system is incapable of helping believers marry believers and raise believing children, then the church will again enter a period of decline.
Already, in a sense, you can see this in recent articles about Wikipedia. This crowdsourced encyclopedia is threatened with decline, because "old" editors are falling off–no longer interested, busy in other things, or even dying. But "new" editors are not being brought in. The editors are not reproducing themselves. As a result the emergent system of Wikipedia is decaying, atrophying. And as less and less is done, fewer and fewer want to participate: it's a downward spiral.
I could argue that in the West, one of the primary issues is that we shifted into information transmission–into sharing a message, rather than making disciples–and thus we got to a point where a huge number of people have been redeemed, but the emergent system in which we live no longer is. And that is bad news for the long-term future.
May 29, 2015 /Justin Long

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With the likes of Camila Cabello topping the charts, Havana has never been more part of pop culture, and the Spanish influenced tunes that are still the soundtrack to the summer give you just a little window into the soul of a city governed by music, culture and history. Like the rest of the country Havana's stunning Spanish architecture is being painstakingly restored, but the city has a spirit that is utterly unique.
Like many others I'd dreamed of seeing the 1950's cars, still up and running and racing round the streets of Havana, feeling like something out of Grease. But this beautiful old coastal capital is a lot more modern than you might expect.
As most trips to Cuba will start in Havana, Jose Marti Airport is where your plane is most likely to land. If you aren't staying in the city you must spend at least 24 hours here.
This is what you should see… (Try not to do this on a Sunday/Monday as most museums will be closed).
DO: Vintage car tour of Havana. You can't do Havana without doing a vintage car tour. With a guide and a driver live those movie dreams in the back of some of the most sensational pieces of motoring you have ever seen. The drivers are proud of their vehicles and it shows. While of course they make for great tourist attractions there really is a lot of love for their cars, with some of them being the last remaining of their kind in the world.
The vintage car tour will cover both old and newer parts of Havana. From pit stopping at Che Guevara Square, still a highly significant political platform as well as a popular concert venue, and John Lennon Park, to driving down where Fast and Furious filmed a 10 minute high speed car chase scene (a personal favourite). Your guide will have an amazing amount of knowledge of both historical and current affairs to help you get to know Havana. Once you have zipped around the city like a movie star, hop out for a walking tour of Old Havana. See the old city with its narrow streets and beautiful squares surrounded by bars and restaurants, most of which will have live music during busy periods. There are also fortune tellers in the squares – but remember, if you want to take their picture negotiate a price first. A couple of CUC (the tourist currency) should suffice.
Visit: There are dozens of museums in Havana that are worth a visit. Our top ones include, The Museum of the Revolution, The Museum of Fine Arts and of course, the little known and rather hidden, Havana Club Rum Museum – I thought that might perk you up a bit (ask your tour operator for details).
in Havana where he is said to have spent a significant amount of time writing. The La Bodeguita bar, where you can still today write on the wall and leave your calling card, is said to be the place where Hemingway wrote on to the wall of the bar, "My mojito in La Bodeguita, My daiquiri in El Floridita." Floridita has a statue of Hemingway propping up the bar in homage to the writer. If you want to continue in this vein you can also visit Hemingway's old room – Room 511 at the Hotel Ambos Mundos which is in Old Havana, part way between the two bars.
there is no city better to have your dancing shoes ready than Havana. Of course, there is also the infamous Buena Vista Social Club that plays nightly, where you can watch the show with dinner and soak up the atmosphere.
Stay: Hotel Nacional de Cuba is one of the most historic hotels in Havana. Located along the Malecon this art deco hotel has had many famous guests including Winston Churchill, Jimmy Carter, Marlon Brando and Alexander Fleming, to name just a few. It also has a strong historical connection to The Mob and was dramatised in The Godfather 2.
Souvenirs: Buy your souvenirs at the Almacenes San Jose. A mix of flea market, art market and stalls of tourist trinkets. Don't be afraid to barter here. Many of the stalls sell the same products so don't be afraid to walk away and try other stands. There are also a great number of paintings and prints that make for the perfect souvenir here too. Once you've loaded up on gifts, pop next door and enjoy a beer on the docks made by Old Havana New Port Avenue Brewery in a big airy warehouse, just a stone's throw from the market; this is a great meeting spot to go through your purchases.
There is only one thing that is guaranteed though, you will definitely want to come back.


Friday, 28 September 2012, 3 p.m.
The Acting President: I have great pleasure in welcoming His Excellency Mr. Patrice Emery Trovoada, Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Principe, and inviting him to address the General Assembly.
The massacres in Syria must cease, the integrity and security of the State of Israel must be effectively guaranteed, the Palestinian people must have their own State, the embargo against Cuba must end, countries, including Iran, must have the right to civil nuclear technology and must scrupulously observe the commitments that that entails, and polluters must be the principal payers. It must be our ambition, and not a mere hope, to ensure that we return here next year with an agenda that includes fewer of these troublesome issues, many of which are recurring.
The Acting President: The Assembly will now hear an address by His Royal Highness Prince Moulay Rachid, Prince of the Kingdom of Morocco.
The rapid developments in the Arab region must not distract us from the fundamental, longstanding challenge of resolving the Palestinian issue. In that regard, the Kingdom of Morocco calls for the mobilization of international support to back the steps taken by the Palestinian National Authority to secure non-member State status. At the same time, my country is of the view that negotiations are the best way for the Palestinian people to regain their legitimate national rights and to set up an independent, fully viable and geographically contiguous Palestinian State, living side by side with Israel, in peace and security. I therefore look forward to seeing the international community change its approach to resolving that crisis by reconsidering its intervention mechanisms and work methods in order to ensure that direct negotiations are resumed very soon and in the best possible circumstances, under the auspices and with the commitment of the inf luential Powers.
That cannot be achieved if the fait accompli policy is allowed to continue. In that regard and in my capacity as Chair of the Al-Quds Committee, I have strongly condemned the Israeli plan for the Judaization of occupied East Jerusalem, as well as the Israeli plans to wipe out the city's spiritual and cultural identity and change its demographic and urban features. Let me reaffirm, in that regard, that there can be no peace without East Jerusalem as the capital of an independent Palestinian State.
The Acting President: I now give the floor to His Excellency Mr. Eamon Gilmore, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade of the State of Ireland.
fair and balanced resolution to that end, and we look forward to the forthcoming consultations.
We know of course that such steps will not alter the situation on the ground. Israel must stop expanding settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, which only impede the prospect of achieving Israel's own stated desire for a Palestinian State. The peace and security of the people of Israel, to which they are entitled, gain nothing from denying the basic rights of the people of Gaza, who are subjected to an unjust and counterproductive blockade.
There is no alternative to serious negotiations between the two sides aimed at a comprehensive settlement. I would like to see President Abbas and Prime Minister Netanyahu commit themselves to achieving a comprehensive peace agreement within a specified timescale. That will not be easy and will require painful compromises on both sides. But if both leaders are willing to embark on that path they will have the unstinting support of the entire international community, including Ireland.
The Acting President: I now give the floor to Mr. Michael Spindelegger, Vice-Chancellor and Federal Minister for European and International Affairs of Austria.
The still unresolved Israeli-Palestinian conflict continues to gravely destabilize the Middle East. The terms of a negotiated and sustainable solution — two States with secure and mutually recognized borders — have been discussed over and over again and are broadly supported by the people and the international community, and yet we experienced a complete lack of progress in the last year. We therefore call on the leadership on both sides to finally assume their responsibilities and enable a lasting peace and security to be established for their children and future generations.
The Acting President: I now call on His Excellency Mr. Samuel Santos López, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Nicaragua.
Mr. Bale (Congo), Vice-President, took the Chair.
The Acting President (spoke in French): I now call on His Excellency Mr. Sergey Lavrov, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.
The changes taking place in the Middle East should not marginalize the Palestinian problem. The achievement of a comprehensive, just and lasting Arab- Israeli settlement, which should lead, among other results, to the establishment of an independent, viable and contiguous Palestinian State, coexisting in peace and security with Israel, would be a major contribution to the normalization of the overall regional situation. The Arab Peace Initiative fully retains its relevance, and we support the efforts of the League of Arab States to move it forward.
The Acting President (spoke in French): I now call on His Royal Highness Prince Abdulaziz bin Abdullah, Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
The Palestinian issue, which is at the core of the Arab-Israeli conflict, has been a constant challenge for the United Nations since its inception more than 60 years ago. The cause of the stalemate is Israel's attitude. We all know how intransigent Israel has been in its positions, which have undermined negotiations and have emptied all discussions of any meaning. Moreover, Israel has taken unilateral actions that could lead to more complications in the occupied Palestinian territories and to undermining the efforts of Arab countries and others in the international community to reach a just, comprehensive and lasting solution by establishing an independent, viable and contiguous Palestinian State, with Jerusalem as its capital.
The situation requires that the international community, as represented by the United Nations, move quickly in order to put an end to the calamity that the situation represents for the Palestinian people and provide all manner of support and assistance for the Palestinian Authority. My country finds that Palestine must receive full membership in the United Nations, as that is its natural and legitimate right, and we should all help the Palestinians to achieve that objective. For its part, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is sparing no effort in fulfilling its commitment to the peace process with respect to our Palestinian brethren by providing various types of support and assistance.


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An Indian Muslim leader's call for India's PM to resign is not new
India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been accused of having an "inappropriate" relationship with Muslims, and a new article from a prominent Muslim leader in the Indian state of Gujarat says the country's leader has not shown leadership that is acceptable to all the people of India. The article in the Gujarat Tribune, which has been
How to deal with a rape victim in Saudi Arabia
The case of a Saudi woman who was raped and tortured at knifepoint in her own home, is being investigated by Saudi authorities, a lawyer representing her said.Sister of victim, Saima Al-Sami, speaks during a news conference in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, March 26, 2019.(Abduljabbar Zeknafe)Saudi authorities said on Monday that they are investigating the case
Which of the three will be the next president of the United States?
By Naila ArjumalaThe Lad Bible, a Lad religious newspaper, has published a piece on the election results, with the title Which one of the two contenders will be president of India?The Lad is an umbrella group for Lad followers that is led by the influential Mahabharata author Ramanujan, and has a long-standing interest in the


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The Faculty of Journalism, Lomonosov Moscow State University has a long legacy of academic excellence, and we continue to build on that legacy in ways that prepare students to succeed as media professionals in a rapidly changing world. We are happy to have an excellent faculty body consisting of highly professional teachers, researchers and mentors. The Faculty of Journalism is proud of its innovative teaching methods, longstanding connections with media practitioners, who share their unique experiences and success stories with the students, its study programs, many of which were recognized nationally, and its broad international outreach.
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The 2021 Moscow Readings conference dedicated to the topic of 'Mediating Digital Society and Individuals: Journalism and Communication in the Times of Uncertainty' was held on November 18–19 at the Faculty of Journalism, Lomonosov Moscow State University. The conference featured two plenary sessions, 28 thematic sessions and nine special panel sessions. The academic event was supported by eight professional organizations. читать польностью
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Authorities in Puerto Rico are monitoring two dense-beaked whales that got free and are swimming off the U.S. territory's northwest coast after they became stranded on the island along with one that died.
Natural Resources Secretary Carmen Guerrero says it is rare to see Blainville's beaked whales strand themselves on the island.
The third whale was an 8-foot (2.4-meter) calf that stranded itself Friday in Aguadilla. Guerrero says biologists transported it to a nearby zoo, but there was no way to artificially feed that type of calf and the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ordered it euthanized.


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WHAT IS HAUNTED VOICES?
The words "Haunted Voices" were founded by Todd Bates in 2002. Todd Bates was curious and wanted to learn more about Electronic Voice Phenomenon, so he constructed a online center for EVP research called Haunted Voices. Originally just a large forum, Todd needed to reach more people and purchased a radio server to reach them globally with his new idea called Haunted Voices Radio.
Haunted Voices Radio launched a frenzy in the paranormal community and Todd was completly humbled. Todd decided to broadcast his knowledge to an international audience in November of 2004 and Haunted Voices radio and taught prople EVP research techniques to its listeners.
With today's popular television programs, the need for this knowledge is in great demand. Todd has taken a unique approach to today's paranormal views and enjoys putting a comic twist on these views to entertain the audience. Let's face it, the paranormal topics can be quite depressing at times. With a one of a kind style from Todd, it becomes unique entertainment.
Althogh Todd Bates is now retired from EVP and Paranormal Field research, he truly enjoys sharing his experinces with his beloved and loyal audience. He gains just as much knowledge as others as he interviews top paranormal researchers and authors in the field.
Bringing paranormal to the world since 2004, the longtime running, well known and trusted show Haunted Voices Radio with Host Todd Bates, comes your way LIVE every Wednesday night 9e/8c/6p. Do you enjoy the strange and unusual, the absurdly bizarre and hilarious, or maybe just some straightforward paranormal education? Tune in Tuesday nights 9/8c when Todd once again hits the digital airwaves...right here on www.wltkdb.com
The program covers just a few of the topics listed below:
Ghosts,Haunted Locations,Unidentified Flying Objects, Alien Abductions,Conspiracy Theories,Cryptozoology,Psychic Phenomenon,Paranormal Research Equipment, Paranormal investigation protocols, Electronic Voice Phenomenon, Instramental Trans-Communication, and much more!
STATION OWNER & RADIO HOST TODD BATES
Chances are you would have found him in a mysterious abandoned home, walls yellowed by age and doors teetering precariously on their hinges. Maybe a murder occurred or perhaps a fire. Whatever the case, Todd Bates was on the scene for a singular task: listening for voices of the dead. Now retired from the filed, Todd Bates takes his knowledge gained and shares it with his amazing audience.
Todd's Passion is and forever will be EVP. Electronic Voice Phenomenon (commonly referred to as "EVP") is spirit voices captured on a digital or analog recording device that were not heard with the naked ear at the time of their recording. For Todd, collecting this specialized evidence of paranormal origin is a life calling. After years of personally investigating the mysteries of EVP and studying under a pioneering figure in the field, Sarah Estep, he took his passion to the internet. Now in its 17th year, Haunted Voices has quickly grown to be one of the oldest paranormal talk shows on the internet today.
Todd Bates now owns and operates WLTK-DB Let's Talk , a paranormal talk digital radio station, and brodcasts live and origial programming to its ever-growing audience.
Television: Advisor for "A Haunting" on the Discovery Channel ("Sallies House" episode); WTHI TV (CBS affiliate) "The Ashmore Experiment" 2 day event. Appeared on WTWO (NBC Affiliate).
Radio: A broadcasting school graduate, Todd currently has 17 years of broadcasting experience under the Haunted Voices Radio brand and enjoys discussing all things paranormal with his guests and audience. Todd's radio hosting career began with Dr. Ed Craft of Magick Mind Radio (An IBC Network Program). He was offered a co-host spot with Dr. Jimmy Lowery of "Alabama Para Spiritual Radio" (APSR Radio) and was then given the opportunity to host his own live show on the BBS Radio Network where he discussed all topics paranormal. He has since appeared on The Man Cow Show, WTAY FM, WTYE AM Crawford County, IL, WZPL 99.5 Indianapolis, IN, X-zone Radio, Voice of America, and The Jeff Rense Show. Each has been a valuable experience to share his vast knowledge of the paranormal.
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František Gornický (28. října 1935 Streda nad Bodrogom – 6. listopadu 1992) byl slovenský fotbalový útočník.

Fotbalová kariéra
V československé lize hrál za Jednotu Košice. V lize nastoupil ve 23 utkáních a dal 2 góly. Ve druhé nejvyšší soutěži hrál za Jiskru Otrokovice.

Ligová bilance

Odkazy

Reference

Literatura
 Luboš Jeřábek: Československý fotbal v číslech a faktech – Olympia 1991
 Jindřich Horák, Lubomír Král: Encyklopedie našeho fotbalu – Libri 1997
 MAGDA, Eugen: Storočnica košického futbalu (1903–2003) − Eugen Magda 2003
 Radovan Jelínek, Miloslav Jenšík a kol.: Atlas českého fotbalu – Radovan Jelínek 2006

Externí odkazy
 Najkrajšie roky v žlto-modrých farbách

Českoslovenští fotbalisté
Slovenští fotbalisté
Fotbalisté FC VSS Košice
Fotbalisté Jiskry Otrokovice
Narození 28. října
Narození v roce 1935
Úmrtí 6. listopadu
Úmrtí v roce 1992
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With aging—as with cooking or any other creative pursuit—we need to master the basics before we can play around. Hooray for us. At 40 and 50+, we are masters!
If we keep singing or writing about something—and hoping for the truth in our words—then we can make them true. Love is the seventh wave, I say love.
When learning new tricks, remember this: The simpler the task, the bigger the R.O.I. And there are few things more timeless or cool than the ukulele.
Our rush to respond—to be answer-ready at all times—is habitual. And we don't even know we are doing it.
Whether we make art, or simply notice how light lands on surface, what matters most is where we place our frame.
These days ahead are known as the Days of Awe. Because it's awesome to do the right thing. Maybe even all year long.
I thought I was a solopreneur, but that's not true. I think I'm a peoplepreneur.
As a professional teller of stories of impact and purpose, my only job is to empathize with the teller's emotions.
The rule I live by—Always Be Opening—is my own. We do not have to fight over a finite number of good leads.
Having left full-time employment to consult and write, I get to bake the time pie. And I get to slice it up.
Like the Greek nymph Echo, who loved the sound of her own voice, a storyteller who merely self promotes is destined to be ignored.
Mar 22 The flamingo ate my baby!
Like the wild dingo dog that snatched an innocent baby in the Australian outback, I wondered if a pink Flamingo beast has somehow made off with my kid.
Typically, contestants prepare and rehearse, but I put my name in the hat anyway. The theme of the night was "Tests," and I was going in cold.
Mar 15 Happy (scary) downtime!
Downtime—because it's so utterly unfamiliar, can be excruciatingly uncomfortable. It can create stress. But it's also a great gift.
Improv—with its cardinal rule of YES, AND..."—provides the safest-possible stage. Then, if no one is judging, why is it so hard to go boldly into a scene?
We win. We lose. We root for the underdog. And if we're lucky, we might even nail the landing.
We tell ourselves honest lies all the time. Don't we all—especially we artists and writers—need to believe in the relevance of our work? And don't we ache to be heard?


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Fish (singer) has had a variety of different haircuts in the past decade. He became famous as an excellent singer-songwriter, actor, singer, composer, poet and writer. However, the Scottish singer, lyricist and occasional actor is especially known for his unique public appearances and his adorable character. Rumors and gossip about the 64-year old's haircut are persistently a focus of attention of celebrity magazines and tabloids. Check out Fish (singer)'s famous hairstyles right here:
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Born in Russia at Yasnaya Polyana in 1884, Alexandra Tolstoy, the youngest daughter of Leo Tolstoy, was permitted to leave Soviet Russia in 1929 after five arrests and a prison sentence for supporting the right of free speech and assembly. She settled in the United States in 1931 where she engaged in farming and lectured widely in schools, universities, and clubs. She made friends quickly and learned to love and admire the United States.
In l941, Eleanor Roosevelt wrote the following words describing her first meeting with Alexandra Tolstoy: "Countess Tolstoy came to see me at my apartment in New York City. She is no longer very young, but she climbed the three flights of stairs with less puffing than most of us. Her interest in her mission was so great that I think she scarcely gave a thought to her exertions...Countess Tolstoy, by her enthusiasm and devotion, inspires you greatly with a desire to be helpful to this group of harassed human beings."
Alexandra Tolstoy was a consistent beacon of light to the aged, to the young, to the sick, to the distressed and the forgotten at home and abroad. People were saying about her that "no one came to her despondent without solace. No one came in despair without receiving encouragement."
Energetic all her life, with a remarkable calmness of spirit, Alexandra Tolstoy lived at the TF Center in Valley Cottage, New York. She was active as the Foundation's President and served as a fundraiser, a lecturer, and a writer until l976. She died in 1979 at age 96.


I've heard of a few interesting ways authors here in Northern California are promoting their books. For example Robert Digitale made arrangements with our "local" bookstores where he donates $1 from each sale of his first book in The Horse Stalker series to a local school program and that $1 is matched by the bookstore. A doubled up donation for the kids when his book is purchased!
win a $50 gift card to Amazon or Barnes & Noble, winner's choice.
What are your innovative ways to promote your books?
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I'm just taking it all in, so that when my Journey To Anderswelt comes out I'll have some ideas. Those examples are all good ones, and your blog is another great example. Now, Robin, when's your darling girl-wants-a-horse book, Addie's Wish, coming out?
My book? Probably when I'm done with the Redwood Writer editor job.


The firmament shows his handiwork (Psalm 19:1, NKJV).
Along with the written Word of God, the Bible, another great "book" is provided to us: the "book" of Nature. As Psalm 19 says, "the heavens declare the glory of God." This is true! Taking a real look at the creation of God can do much to fill your heart with gladness and to and drive you to your knees in praise, adoration, and gratitude. This is good for your soul.
Now, simply reading the book of Nature without ever looking at the Bible would be a mistake. It is quite possible to elevate the goodness of God's creation to the level of worship-worthiness; doing this is certainly not good for your soul.
The rest sit 'round it and pluck blackberries.
Do you see? Do you see goodness and grace of God in the everyday beauty that surrounds you? All Creation sings the praises of the Creator!
Perhaps today you would benefit from stepping outside and considering the glorious testimony to God's goodness provided by His creation.
If you aren't seeing that all of creation proclaims the praises of the Creator, I urge you to make space in your life to look again. Spend time considering the wonders of creation. Allow the order and beauty of the natural world to stun you. Let it sink deeply into your soul. For the same God who created all this beauty still reigns.
Beautiful Earth Day post - All Creation sings...yes!
May your week be filled with God-sightings in nature.


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My Slow-Motion Catholic School Epiphany
By Evan Coughenour
I am not Catholic and I have never worked in a Catholic school. I'd always known there are urban Catholic schools with a mission very similar to Bellwether's, but the schools themselves were somewhat of a black box to me. I haven't been for or against Catholic schools — just indifferent (or agnostic?). Knowing that Catholic schools are by far the largest group of private schools in the world, this felt like a miss.
However, I've been on a sort of Catholic school pilgrimage over the past two years. I've built a close relationship with Bellwether client Partnership Schools (PNYC), a nonprofit organization (somewhat akin to a CMO) that manages seven New York City Catholic schools in Harlem and the South Bronx. I've also worked with EdChoice and Brilla Public Charter Schools, and collaborated with colleagues who've written a whole lot about Catholic schools.
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As I learned more, a few things immediately surprised me about Catholic schools in general and PNYC's schools in particular:
Many (sometimes most) kids who attend PNYC schools aren't actually Catholic! The primary goal of urban Catholic schools isn't to create little Catholics — it's to serve those in need. As one PNYC team member put it (echoing what others have said): "We teach our kids because we are Catholic, not because they are."
While connected to a massive international church (and sometimes an operator like PNYC), Catholic schools are strongly committed to local control because of the Catholic principle of subsidiarity, which suggests that decisions be made by the smallest, lowest, or least-centralized competent authority.
While PNYC schools are tuition-based, many of their students receive scholarships that significantly reduce or even eliminate the cost of attendance.
Few PNYC teachers are nuns (or have any formal connection to the church). Most teach for reasons similar to other teachers — a belief in the transformative power of education, a desire to serve, and a love of children. The key addition in the case of PNYC is the faith-based motivation that inspires many to choose Catholic schools over their charter or district-run peers.
PNYC's teachers are unionized. While this is rare in the private school sector, there are actually a few different Catholic educator associations operating nationwide.
This entry was posted in Politics of Education, School Leadership, Talent and tagged Catholic education, Catholic schools, character education, Facilities, New York City, Partnership Schools, School Culture on December 19, 2019 by Evan Coughenour.
School Culture Is More Than Fragmented Strategies — It's Four Cohesive Elements
By Tresha Ward
Culture can make or break a school's success. It can propel academics forward or drag learning down into an unrecoverable spiral where kids lose precious time and teachers quickly burn out.
When I started my career as a teacher through the time I became a school leader, I pulled ideas about school culture and classroom management from a number of educators and resources. My inspirations included Lisa Delpit and Gloria Ladson-Billings, and books like Yardsticks, Power of our Words, Teaching with Love and Logic, and Teach Like a Champion. I also relied heavily on the experiences of my own upbringing as a black, West Indian woman in the 80's and 90's in New York City, with teachers and parents who let me know I was cared for but also "did not play" (in other words, they were strict). My guiding belief became, and remains, an unwavering faith in the limitless potential of each child, and the approach that followed was fueled by a lot of love, usually the tough kind.
My approach wasn't foolproof. But this fundamental mindset was what I looked for in teachers that I hired. As a school team, we refined our approach to culture over time and adjusted the systems and practices that supported it. Building the culture of our school was a process we had to figure out through trial and error, which led to lost instructional time, frustrated teammates, or broken relationships with students when we didn't get it right.
Unfortunately, too many principals don't learn how to build the kind of school culture where teachers feel successful and capable of teaching for many years and where students — especially students of color — thrive. Many of the existing resources on the topic tend to reduce advice down to ambiguous ideas, a few fragmented strategies, or case studies about charismatic leaders. They never demystify the elements necessary for a healthy culture or offer clear guidance on how to implement them.
School culture can be a touchy subject, particularly when leaders and teachers have different philosophies, approaches, and beliefs. While I have my own point of view on these topics, I unequivocally believe that consistency and alignment are the most important features of an effective school culture. A cohesive school culture isn't built through a patchwork of random techniques, curricula, or professional development sessions. Instead, school culture is comprised of a thoughtfully defined cascade of four elements, described below in further detail:
This entry was posted in School Leadership, Talent, Teacher Effectiveness and tagged School Culture on February 19, 2019 by Tresha Ward.
Looking at Leadership to Combat Teacher Turnover and Sustain School Improvement
By Bonnie O'Keefe
This is the third in a series of blog posts and resources to offer lessons and reflections for school leaders, district officials, and education policymakers using data and stories from the McKnight Foundation Pathway Schools Initiative. The series is supported by a grant from the McKnight Foundation.
Photo by Eric E. Castro via Flickr
In recent blog posts, I've been looking at the impact of teacher turnover on school improvement efforts and ways schools, states, and districts can address this challenge. But what about turnover in leaders, such as principals, district leaders, and superintendents? Leaders can have a huge impact on the culture, priorities, and strategies of their schools and districts. Recent studies have found that principals had a significant effect on teachers' overall job satisfaction, and that the quality of administrative support could strongly influence teachers' decisions to leave or stay. Given this reality, efforts to address teacher turnover should not overlook leaders.
Despite the demonstrated importance of strong, stable leadership, leaders in urban schools and districts continue to turn over at high rates. Leadership turnover can be caused by some of the same factors as teacher turnover, such as retirement, performance issues, or competitive offers elsewhere. A single change in leadership can reverberate through a school or district, for better or worse.
Principals in the Pathway Schools Initiative were fairly stable over the course of the Initiative. Of seven schools participating in the Initiative, three retained the same principal throughout all five years of the initiative, and two experienced only one change in principal leadership. This is unusual for high-poverty, urban schools, where principals turn over even faster than teachers. Nationally, 22 percent of public school principals and 27 percent of principals in high-poverty public schools leave annually. Two schools in the initiative, however, experienced more frequent leadership transitions — including one elementary school that had a new principal almost every year of the initiative.
Even when principals stayed the same, changes in district leadership had an impact on schools. All three of the traditional school districts in the Initiative changed superintendents and reorganized district leadership at least once. This is not surprising based on national trends: The average urban superintendent lasts barely three years, and the role of an urban superintendent is increasingly high pressure and politicized. These people were key liaisons between the Initiative partners, schools, and districts, and every time a district leader changed, it took time for their successors to build working relationships and learn about the Initiative.
Churn in district leadership is also frequently accompanied by changes in district strategies, and teachers and principals in Pathway Schools reported to SRI International evaluators that this sometimes hindered progress at the schools. Especially in the larger districts involved in the Initiative, Pathway Schools had to negotiate for the flexibility to pursue their goals differently from what other elementary schools in their districts were doing. With changes in leadership and accompanying changes in district strategies, this process had to be repeated, creating potential uncertainty and mixed messages for principals and teachers.
A change is leadership isn't necessarily a bad thing for a district or a school — like teachers, leaders change for all kinds of reasons. Still, districts should take every possible step to retain high-performing and high-potential leaders where they can, and to simultaneously plan for succession and create a pipeline of new leaders from within their staff. Potential solutions to consider include: building a complete district framework for principal talent management, instituting school leader residencies to create effective new leaders, and facilitating smooth transitions with extra support for new leaders. Schools and students shouldn't start from scratch when leadership changes occur.
This entry was posted in Accountability, Education Policy, School Governance, School Leadership, Talent and tagged Education equity, Leadership, minnesota, principals, School Culture, school leadership, state education policy, superintendent, SupportingMNEducators, Talent education data, Teacher Attrition, Teacher Retention, teacher salary, Teacher Turnover on October 10, 2017 by Bonnie O'Keefe.
Local Turnover Challenges Require Locally Tailored Solutions
This is second in a series of blog posts and resources to offer lessons and reflections for school leaders, district officials, and education policymakers using data and stories from the McKnight Foundation Pathway Schools Initiative. The series is supported by a grant from the McKnight Foundation.
Evidence show that high teacher turnover is hurting long-term improvement efforts in many urban schools, and yet the problem remains. To ensure improvement efforts actually take hold, education leaders at the state, district, and school levels must pay closer attention to teacher turnover, examine its causes within their own local context, and develop strategies that will keep highly effective teachers in schools where they are needed most.
Developing effective strategies to retain great teachers in high-need schools first requires confronting some common misconceptions about teacher turnover. First, there is not a nationwide, generalized teacher shortage, and the profession is not shrinking. In fact, the teaching workforce grew by 13 percent over the past four years, while the student population grew by only two percent. Instead, there are acute teacher shortages in specific geographic areas, districts, and subject areas. Second, while turnover tends to be highest in urban, high-poverty schools, not all high-poverty schools have high turnover, which means this challenge can be overcome. Third, higher turnover rates in high-poverty schools are not primarily because of students' needs. Teachers who leave their jobs because of dissatisfaction often rank organizational factors in schools — such as administrative support, salaries, lack of time, and lack of faculty influence in school decisions — higher than student factors when explaining their decision to leave.
A local program in Minnesota's Twin Cities is an interesting case study for turnover variation. Minnesota's teacher workforce is growing overall, though not as much as national trends: Minnesota teachers grew by 5.8 percent in the past seven years, compared with 3.2 percent growth in the number of students. But, like national trends, in many geographic areas and teaching specialty areas, hiring and retaining effective teachers can be extremely difficult. In the first post in this series, I looked at a subset of elementary schools in Minnesota's Twin Cities that participated in the McKnight Foundation Pathway Schools Initiative. These schools' populations included high concentrations of students who are low-income (89%), students of color (91%), and dual language learners (50%). As I summarized, teacher turnover varied from year to year and between schools. Even within the small sample of the Pathway schools, some schools had little to no turnover some years, or turnover on par with state averages. The relationship between teacher turnover and student achievement was inconsistent, nevertheless, turnover affected school improvement efforts.
The chart below, from the Minnesota Department of Education Teacher Supply/Demand report, can give some very broad ideas of why teachers leave the teaching profession or move to another school district in Minnesota, but it provides a limited picture because it does not include teachers who change schools within their districts or change roles within their schools. Moreover, teachers' reasons for leaving likely look very different in the high-poverty, urban elementary schools in the Pathway Schools Initiative than they do statewide.
Data from Minnesota Teacher Supply/Demand Report, 2017
Some of the most common reasons for leaving, according to the data available here, are personal reasons, retirement, and interdistrict competition. 40 percent of teachers leave for "personal," or "unknown" reasons. National data suggest common "personal reasons" could include things like caring for one's own children or dissatisfaction with school leaders and school culture. Not all these challenges can be solved completely at the school or district level, but some can. Some promising solutions, drawn mostly from national examples, and inspired by conversations with stakeholders involved in the Initiative, are:
District Policy Incentives: It's important for larger districts to consider how their staffing policies can impact teacher assignment and transfers, especially for high-need schools. Teacher contracts and district policies can sometimes encourage teachers to transfer schools within a district, prioritize transfers and placements based on seniority with no input from principals, or set up incentives for effective teachers to transfer away from high-poverty schools. Different district policies and contracts could account for some of the turnover differences among the Pathway schools.
School Strategy, Culture, and Leadership: School culture, school strategy, and school leadership are huge contributors to teachers' job satisfaction in any school. District and school leaders need strategies and tools to track the experiences that teachers and students have in schools and identify implications for turnover, student achievement, and improvement efforts. Taking surveys of school climate or culture offer one way to uncover problems before they cause turnover. The Initiative required participating districts to use the 5Essentials school culture survey across all their schools — and these revealed a wide range of teacher satisfaction and experiences. These results could open up a dialogue that gets to the heart of some stubborn turnover challenges.
Targeted Incentives: 16 percent of Minnesota teachers leave their jobs for a teaching job in another school district. Minnesota district hiring leaders say salaries and a competitive teacher job market are their top barriers to teacher retention. To address this challenge, other district leaders could consider various kinds of performance-based pay structures and targeted incentives to retain high-performing teachers in high-need schools and subjects. Action is especially needed to recruit and retain highly effective teachers in hard-to-staff roles, like special education teachers and specialists in teaching English language learners.
Hiring and Induction Supports: Hiring and induction supports can be key to breaking cycles of high turnover. Evidence from other school districts suggests that induction supports for newly hired teachers can increase student achievement and improve retention, and in recent years many large districts have reformed their hiring practices to put more decision-making power at the school level.
There won't be just one solution for teacher turnover in the Pathway Schools, or other schools struggling with teacher retention. But, to move forward, school and district leaders must better understand reasons for turnover and target appropriate solutions, including, but not limited to, targeted incentives; hiring supports; district policies; and school strategy, culture, and leadership, with a strong grounding in school-by-school data.
This entry was posted in Education Policy, School Leadership, State Education Policy, Talent and tagged education data, Education equity, minnesota, School Culture, school leadership, SupportingMNEducators, Teacher Attrition, Teacher Retention, teacher salary, Teacher Turnover on October 5, 2017 by Bonnie O'Keefe.
The Day I Was Reminded LGBTQ Students Still Don't Feel Safe in Schools
By Andrew Rayner
Recently, I co-facilitated a session with Lora Cover at a conference for school leaders of color, where we focused on creating more diverse, equitable, and inclusive education institutions. In the session, we conducted an activity (one which our Talent Advising team created in partnership with Erin Trent Johnson and Xiomara Padamsee) where we asked participants to name times in their lives when parts of their identities were either on the mainstream — seen as "normal" — or in the margins — seen as "other" — and to explore when and where certain identities potentially shifted between the two.
Then we listed some demographic identifiers that could describe a member of their school community — a teacher, parent, student, or even a school leader — and asked participants to physically place themselves on a spectrum from "IN" on one side of the room to "OUT" on the opposite side of the room depending on how that person might feel in the context of their school and work environment.
Most prompts yielded relatively balanced spreads across the "IN" or "OUT" spectrum, indicating a fairly evenly split between those that were struggling and succeeding in creating inclusive environments for different types of students, family members, and staff. However, when we came to "a student who identifies as LGBTQ," every individual in the room with the exception of two non-school based leaders went to the "OUT" side of the room. The striking implication: not one school leader in that room felt as though their school was inclusive for LGBTQ youth.
I was heartbroken. As both a person who identifies as LGBTQ and a former teacher, to see a room full of school leaders all express that their school environments were non-inclusive for students who identify as LGBTQ was horrifying. However, it painted what I believe to be an accurate picture of the majority of schools in America. Despite the fact that gay marriage is legal across the country and that there is increased visibility and representation for LGBTQ people in the public sphere, individuals who identify as LGBTQ — particularly our children — do not feel protected, safe, or like they belong. They are not able to live as their full selves.
I have distinct memories of not feeling safe in high school as a closeted teenager. I never felt I could act as my "full" self. I pretended to like all the things the other boys liked, including girls. For a while, I was incredibly unhappy. When I finally came out in my early twenties, I felt as though a burden had been lifted. Even still, as a teacher, I never came out to my students for fear of causing some kids discomfort, backlash from parents, and even potentially losing my job. This is the greatest regret of my professional career thus far. I frequently think to myself: "When is the next time my black and brown students are going to have a gay man of color in front of them to show them that that we do exist, that we do have value, and that we can be proud of who we are?"
Unfortunately, recent data underscore that things have not gotten better in our schools for young people who identify as LGBTQ.
This entry was posted in Education Policy, School Leadership, Student Data and tagged LGBTQ, School Culture on March 9, 2017 by Andrew Rayner.


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JFrog Pipelines: Easier, Unified Software Delivery
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A blog post that then-Shippable CEO and founder Avi Cavale wrote two years ago seems prescient after the company's acquisition and integrations with the technology of DevOps tool provider JFrog:
" … teams have a variety of tools they can use to automate their activities, but the end-to-end connected CI/CD [continuous integration/continuous delivery] workflow across the organization has taken a back seat to silo-ed automation. Most organizations are thus left with 'Islands of Automation.' "
That's a problem JFrog aimed to correct by its debut this week of Pipelines. Pipelines, a technology preview in its JFrog Enterprise+ package of development tools, can be used to automate every phase of development — from build time to production deployment. The package is a unified platform consisting of the Shippable technology and its core products, including Artifactory, a repository for managing software binaries; the Xray security scanning and compliance tool; Bintray, which supports scalability as a native repository for update distribution; and the dashboard Mission Control; Insight and Distribution.
At its annual swampUP user conference this week in San Francisco, JFrog Chief Technology Officer Yoav Landman announced a beta version of a new unified experience between its products, which includes unified permissions; a metadata microservice delivering package and security data in one place, and more.
It has made the platform more cloud native — it joined the Continuous Delivery Foundation — created a service mesh to communicate between services and master node Artifactory HA is optional now. To beef up security, in partnership with Risk-Based Security, announced earlier this year, its XRay tool includes integration with the VulnDB vulnerability database at no added cost.
"We went searching for the best CD engine, and that ended up being Shippable," Landman said during Tuesday's keynotes at the conference.
'Native Steps'
Though JFrog already could be integrated with many continuous delivery platforms, the company wanted greater consistency between its products and to provide consistent visibility into internal JFrog processes.
A lot of that work already was in progress when it acquired Shippable earlier this year. Integrating Shippable between the March 1 acquisition close and swampUP posed a huge challenge, with a code close date by mid-May, Cavale explained.
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With more than 5,000 customers and millions of users worldwide, JFrog strives to change the way software artifacts are managed, released and updated. JFrog has become the "Database of DevOps" and de-facto standard in release and update management.
JFrog had multiple, completely different products, and administration of them he called "a nightmare."
"A lot of that foundational stuff was moving. We came in as an acquisition and had to work with that. It was a challenge to find a stable thing you could build on," he said.
"So we've gotten those things worked out and will have a GA launch in a couple of months. Getting all the scale, the stress testing, we're getting all that taken care of. We know the technology works, but we just want to make sure it scales and there are no bottlenecks" for enterprises, he said.
Before the acquisition, Shippable had started working on what it called "native steps" in continuous delivery.
"Companies are writing a lot of automation code to try to streamline their software delivery. … [but] you end up reaching this tipping point where the amount of automation you code becomes the bottleneck for you being able to innovate," he said. "It's just software, right? You start accumulating technical debt, you start having challenges with maintaining it. There's a lot of tribal knowledge, whether you can reuse it.
"We realized we don't understand why people have to do the same code again and again and again. Deploying to Kubernetes has been standardized, and we don't understand why 10 different teams have to write automation code to deploy to Kubernetes 10 different ways. So we started building these native steps."
He said that with Artifactory, JFrog had control valves. What it didn't have was the plumbing of those control valves and was relying on customers to be able to plumb everything together.
"So we took the concepts we had developed as part of Shippable — we had a platform that was scaling to enterprise-grade and volume — and we added a bunch of native steps that are focused on the JFrog platform — package, bundle, distribute, promote, all of these things… That immediately caused a lot of excitement with customers because they realized they had been doing it bespoke and we were giving it to them out-of-the-box. It's part of the platform, so they can just plug and play all these things and it's just part of the CD workflows," he said.
He described native steps in terms of Lego blocks.
"With the JFrog CLI, can do Docker build, Mavin build, Gradle build — a lot of build tools. We allow JFrog CLI to abstract those things and allow you to use Artifactory as the backbone. What we've done is made it declarative, so they don't need to write any code, just say "configure" the build package, and we are doing all the heavy lifting," he said.
"It's the same thing with the release bundle. We expect people to do a lot of querying and stuff like that to build a release bundle, which we use to annotate and find it. Then we use that same release bundle to release to edge nodes.
'Super DevOps'
There are benefits for developers beyond being freed from writing the same code over and over. He pointed to, co-founder and CEO Shlomi Ben Haim's keynote on the concept of "super DevOps."
"Ten years ago, you could find a person who would say, 'I'm a Java developer' or 'I'm a .NET developer.' These days, you can't just be a Java developer. You've got to be a full-stack developer. You've got to know the networking stack. You've got to know the virtualization stack. Everything is getting into the hands of the developer in terms of how they configure… Before they'd just build an app and how to run it was somebody else's problem," Cavale said.
"What that means is that a lot of developers are doing things that they're not as passionate about as building features. So what we're doing is enabling them to simplify all the plumbing they have to do, so they can spend more time on the features that they're actually passionate about building."
"Super DevOps" involves a small team in an enterprise focused on building the pipeline, not the application or its features. Once it's created, the rest of the organization can leverage it, he said. Another concept is for a native steps development kit — how to extend the platform beyond what JFrog has built.
JFrog will be working with about 16 large enterprises in a beta program over the next few months on feedback for the GA.
The company also is focused on collecting metadata on its processes in an effort to provide insights to customers, using machine learning and analytics, in areas such as developer velocity, potential hot areas within your source code where a patch might cause other interruptions, he said.
Platforms that offer "end-to-end" capabilities for a particular business function, such as DevOps, can be extremely valuable, noted Paige Bartley, senior analyst – Data, AI & Analytics at 451 Research.
They provide a collaborative ecosystem where all tasks related to that function can be carried out, managed, and monitored in one place without toggling between loosely-integrated products or applications: an especially valuable quality for business needs such as data governance and security. JFrog's announcements of a unified UI experience and unified metadata collection and management further centralize control and management of the DevOps process, allowing developers to work faster and rapidly deliver business value, she said.
But as platforms expand and become more multi-functional, there are challenges as well, not unique to JFrog. There's a greater likelihood of overlapping functionality with existing IT and software investments. Expanded platform functionality also has the tendency to encroach on the capabilities of the software provider's existing technology partners, potentially creating "frenemy" situations.
"So for JFrog, the challenge is now to demonstrate the value of their platform as more than the sum of its parts, and to ensure enterprise adoption beyond the flagship JFrog Artifactory offering while still allowing flexibility for integration with other tools," she said.
Jeffrey Hammond, vice president and principal analyst at Forrester Research, who attended the conference, called pipelines a "hot thing" in the industry.
"I've seen a few DevOps vendors working to improve automation and integration of delivery, and it sure beats having to build all that infrastructure from scratch like we used to when I was running dev teams," he said.
Shippable, more than any of JFrog's other acquisitions have moved the company off its traditional strength as an artifact repository and provided a broader value to clients, he said.
"That's good for JFrog and the clients, but it does come with some risk of increased 'coopetition' with some of their partners, so it will be interesting to see how the evolves over time."
And there are still important pieces of the continuous delivery pipeline that require that integration and partnering approach, he said, like test execution.
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Drishtis are visual focus points employed during Ashtanga practice. For every breath, every vinyasa, and every asana, there is a specified place to focus the eyes. Drishti center the mind and promote focus and awareness.


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Andersonia West
A Key Habitat Corridor Along Mendocino's Lost Coast, Protected
Donors to the League's Forever Forest Campaign are providing support to this project. Learn more
Andersonia West is a critical wildlife corridor, providing stream habitat for coho salmon and steelhead trout. Photo by Alex Herr, NCRM Inc.
A Legacy Reimagined
For more than a century, Andersonia West and the surrounding areas were almost entirely controlled by industrial timberland owners. Intermittent logging had occurred on the property since the late 1800s. In 1903, Henry Neff "Pap" Anderson acquired the land, where he dreamed of creating a model mill town. He imagined a community for loggers, mill workers, and their families, complete with a modern mill, gardens, and orchards. While Pap's dream was cut short by a fatal accident, his progeny would usher in new hopes for the property.
In 2006, Pap's great-grandson Harold "Hap" Anderson made initial contact with Save the Redwoods League to inquire about protecting this land forever. Today, that new vision for this forest has been realized: After years of talks with the Anderson family, the League was able to secure funding to acquire and protect the property.
Protecting Old-Growth Habitat
While logging ceased on the property 50 years ago, this acquisition permanently protects significant patches of remnant old-growth redwoods throughout the forest. An approximately 183-acre old-growth stand was one of the largest left unprotected. Some of the old trees are more than 8 feet in diameter.
There are also many large second-growth trees that are already exhibiting late-seral characteristics, including complex crowns and furrowed bark, meaning they are on their way to becoming healthy old-growth trees. This is a testament to the inherent resilience of coast redwoods and how their protection can help heal and restore whole landscapes.
One-and-a-half miles of Anderson Creek, which feeds the South Fork Eel River, is also safeguarded by this acquisition, preventing habitat loss and fragmentation. The property provides important habitat for Endangered Species Act–listed coho salmon, steelhead trout, marbled murrelets, and northern spotted owls.
Andersonia West is the latest piece of the puzzle in protecting Mendocino County's redwood forests. South of the property, the League owns and stewards the 957-acre Shady Dell and 401-acre Cape Vizcaino properties. In 2012, the League donated the 164-acre Four Corners property, between Sinkyone Wilderness State Park and the headwaters of the Mattole River, to the InterTribal Sinkyone Wilderness Council. The Council granted the League a conservation easement to permanently protect the property from development and natural resource extraction.
The 523-acre Andersonia West property contains 183 acres of old-growth coast redwoods and imperiled species habitat. Photo by Alex Herr, NCRM Inc.
A Creative Funding Strategy
The Anderson family has made a land value donation of $510,000 to the League, bringing the purchase price for Andersonia West down from the fair market value of $4.06 million to $3.55 million.
The League has successfully secured funding for this acquisition through a Habitat Acquisition and Management Agreement developed to meet Pacific Gas & Electric Company's (PG&E) 30-year conservation goal for the northern spotted owl and the marbled murrelet. In PG&E's Multiple Region Habitat Conservation Plan issued by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the company voluntarily agreed to develop conservation projects before conducting certain activities that are part of its ongoing operations and maintenance of gas and electric infrastructure.
Planning mitigation based on a 30-year projection enables larger and more meaningful conservation impacts to establish connected habitat, as is the case with Andersonia West. The property is a key acquisition for permanently protecting habitat on the North Coast for a variety of species, and it will provide future offsets for PG&E operations where similar habitat could be impacted.
In addition to acquisition funding, PG&E's commitment includes an endowment, to be held by the League, for the perpetual management and stewardship of the property. The League is required to protect the property with a conservation easement, also funded by PG&E through the agreement. We are currently exploring opportunities to transfer this property to a permanent steward and hold the conservation easement, forever protecting the forest as a redwoods reserve.


Chasing Chaos — Jessica Alexander's new memoir — offers an insider's look at the contradictions of relief work.
International aid work can sound exhilerating.
What idealistic 20-something can't see the allure in being posted to far-flung corners of the world, touching down after natural disasters and the outbreak of war, being among the few who lend a hand to those in greatest need?
But relief worker Jessica Alexander explores a different side of the humanitarian aid job: the confusion, the loneliness, the fear.
In her new memoir Chasing Chaos: My Decade In and Out of Humanitarian Aid, Alexander describes the stress of everyday life in the field, and the moral and ethical dilemmas relief workers face.
She doesn't set out to "name and shame." So Alexander doesn't list the aid groups that employed her in locales from Rwanda to Darfur, Sierra Leone and post-tsunami Sri Lanka.
But she does describe some questionable practices, like the mayhem that enused after Haiti's 2010 earthquake when aid groups — many amateurish — overwhelmed the island nation.
"There were thousands of NGOs that came down to Haiti. Everything from Vegan Relief to more established UN organizations and NGOs. It created a huge mess because there were so many actors there doing their own little side projects," Alexander says. "So you may go to a camp, and you see a bunch of people who are there for a week with Frisbees and taking photos of people in a camp, when you're trying to do a nutritional program for children."
She also describes the difficulties of working in such varied, stressful locales.
"Part of my mental unraveling had to do with leaving and the jolt of going to a completely different culture," Alexander says.
Back in the US she found it hard to share with friends and family what she'd been through overseas.
"People say, 'Oh my gosh, how was it?' There are so many things running through your head and you just say, 'Um, it was fine, I guess,'" Alexander explains. "It's really difficult to try to distill some of these experiences into party appropriate stories."