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BlindsSelf-confidence and preparedness against Disasters in Sudan
Why things are only getting worse and the papers are filled with stories of gloom and doom in Sudan?
By Mahmoud A. Suleiman
The answer to the previous questions needs to know the reasons first, as the saying goes, "if the cause is known, the wonder will be removed"! Having said the foregoing let us leaf through the possible underlying causes. The few of them out of many are the following:
•	The lack of credible infrastructure to suit all seasonal climates
•	Lack of planning appropriately ahead of the possibility of disasters happening
•	Lack of putting into consideration the issues of Global Climate Change Declared by the United Nations
•	Overconfidence, self-assurance and arrogance of the Sudanese people that reiterates boringly the syndrome of we are the best
•	Lack of taking the lessons from the past event by the successive regimes
•	Raising the Awareness of the Sudanese people about the dangers facing them will remain the duty of the Glorious December Revolution
The Current Flood Disaster:
In Sudan, the images of the catastrophe circulating over the past days of the unprecedented floods seemed extremely frightening, amid recognition by the government of the scale of the disaster. A hundred dead and 46 injured, and the total or partial destruction of tens of thousands of housing in 11 Sudanese states, are some of the losses that resulted from the recent floods in Sudan, which are included in a statement issued by the Sudanese Security and Defense Council, at dawn on Saturday 5 September, which is The statement that declared Sudan as a whole a natural disaster zone, in what Sudanese observers see, in recognition of its inability to address the repercussions of the floods, and that it implies a request for support from brothers, neighbours and the international community to deal with the situation. And the Sudanese Minister of Labour and Social Development, Lina Al-Sheikh, said that more than half a million Sudanese were affected by the floods that included most of the states, noting that they caused the total or partial collapse of more than 100 thousand homes. And international media including the BBC say that, within a month, devastating floods rolled over two Arab countries, Yemen and Sudan, which are suffering from deteriorating conditions, in services and infrastructure, and one of them has been suffering from a devastating war, for more than five years.
https://www.bbc.com/arabic/interactivity-54049309
Illusory superiority is a type of psychological defence mechanism. Moreover, the causes of excessive self-confidence, in general, do not go beyond being human nature subject to psychological characteristics, and external influences and psychologists describe it as a false projection of what we do on the environment. Bearing in mind that projection in itself a psychological defence mechanism.
Dr. Mahmoud A. Suleiman is an author, columnist and a blogger. His blog is http://thussudan.wordpress.com/

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A recently published article in the European Heart Journal shows that the presence of sticky, aggregation-prone LDL in circulation is an independent predictor of cardiovascular death. This novel finding indicates that in addition to LDL-cholesterol levels, the quality of the cholesterol-carrying LDL particles also needs to be considered when estimating the cardiovascular risk of a person.
Scientists at the Wihuri Research Institute and the University of Helsinki, Finland, developed a method that can be used to monitor the quality of circulating LDL particles by measuring the susceptibility of the LDL particles to aggregate. The LDL aggregates have a tendency to accumulate in the arterial wall, where they induce the formation of cholesterol-rich plaques. LDL aggregates can also induce local inflammation in the plaques. An inflamed plaque can then rupture and cause myocardial infarction.
The scientists found that LDL isolated from patients with known cardiovascular disease was more aggregation-prone than LDL isolated from healthy individuals. The most aggregation-prone LDL was found in those patients who later died from cardiovascular disease.
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Reference: Ruuth Maija, Katariina Öörni & al. Susceptibility of LDL particles to aggregate depends on particle lipidome, is modifiable, and associates with future cardiovascular deaths. European Heart Journal 04 July 2018. (https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehy319)
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"John Witte's Second Nature explores the human ability to find contentment in a pained world. The book, organized in five sections roughly corresponding to the arc of a life, is calm, wise, cheered – yet not naïve. In "Grace," from the book's moving second section, about fatherhood, Witte describes his toddler crawling on a newspaper: "she kisses / the baby bundled in rags the father grieving." The irony is not lost on the poet, for whom "grace" is the sense of reprieve: he, thankfully, is not the "father grieving." The third section is comprised of portraits, semi-mythical personages who manage the extraordinary despite personal setback, like Johnny Appleseed, who is "barefoot ridiculous unhinged." In their strangely visionary lives, these figures, too, discover a humble grace. The focus remains not on the success or failure of the vision, but on our ability to find contentment within it. Like the astronaut of "Home," we return to gravity – but not, Witte insists, simply to darkness: "The earth / has darkness and then light."
Much of Second Nature is written in minimally punctuated, heavily enjambed three-line stanzas, in which each successive line lengthens. The form demands that we follow syntax closely, keeping us awake to language. It also allows Witte great freedom to switch topic and location. Juxtapositions go unannounced; phrases and images simply run together. Witte counts on us to experience the friction." —Benjamin S. Grossberg, The Antioch Review
"John Witte's third collection of poems, Second Nature, is rich, ample, wide-ranging, mature work, showing this probing, watchful poet at peak strength. Carefully wrought, evocative, Witte's mysterious work is notable for its simultaneous depth of feeling and depth of thought. Both lyric and meditative, Witte is a poet wide-open to the world, making art out of the place where memory and immediate sensation come together, the trigger-point of consciousness, as when he sees a plum tree's white petals loosening in wind and suddenly remembers himself as a boy cleaning a fish, the "sparkly scales leaping behind the knife." This is a place where readers are most likely to see themselves as well, making Witte's poetry at once highly personal and powerfully accessible.
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I know you can use the following in the query:
USE databasename
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or
just select the right database in the dropdownbox,
and all will be well, but sometimes if I want to run a quick query and skip(forget) those steps it refers to the 'master' and the query fails.
Is there a way?

A: Have you looked at your users's default database ?
in SQL Server's users, you can set your user default database.
In SSMS once you are connected to the server:

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*Under Security/Logins you should see your User or Windows groups

*Right click on the User and select properties.

*Under the General page select your default database (see image below):

*Click Save

A: If you expand the databases section in object explorer, select the one you want to query and then click the New Query button, it will automatically set the database to the one that you selected.
However, if you right click an object in object explorer and do a select top 1000 etc, it will automatically use the master database and refer back to the database you are using via the 3 part name, which can be a bit irritating.

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Solving the Renewable Energy Grid's Inertia Problem
Spinning generators act as a shock absorber for the grid. The rise of renewables presents challenges — and possible solutions.
by Jeff St. John
One of the most complicated challenges of a 100 percent renewable power grid is how to replace the inertial stability provided by the spinning generators that the modern grid is built to serve.
The kinetic energy of these massive rotating machines works like a shock absorber to keep grid frequency from dropping too fast when demand exceeds supply or rising too fast when supply exceeds demand. Without this stabilizing force, power grids could face a greater risk of frequency excursions that could force generators offline or cause cascading outages like the 2003 blackout that affected about 50 million people across the Northeast U.S. and Canada's Ontario province.
Solar panels, wind turbines and batteries, by contrast, use inverters and power electronics to convert direct current (DC) output to alternating current (AC) at the frequency of the grid they're connected to, either 60 hertz or 50 hertz. While these inverters can react nearly instantaneously to alter grid frequency, they lack the inertial connection to grid power that makes spinning generators so valuable as stabilizers.
Setting up inverters to augment or mimic that inertial stability is a highly technical challenge. "We've designed and controlled the system to take advantage of the characteristics of synchronous generators," explained Daniel Brooks, vice president of integrated grid and energy systems at the Electric Power Research Institute.
"When you start to displace those synchronous generators with power electronics-based, inverter-based resources, now you've got a problem with the way you control the grid for reliability reasons, because the inverters have an entirely different set of characteristics and capabilities."
Hitting the 100 percent renewable goals now in place in many states and countries will force utilities, grid operators and regulators to solve this problem eventually. But many wind-power-rich transmission grids are starting to face the problem already — and coming up with solutions.
Primary frequency response and "synthetic inertia"
Advanced inverter capabilities are already serving essential grid reliability needs on the wind and solar-rich transmission system of Texas grid operator ERCOT, for example. "ERCOT recognized that the amount of wind coming onto its system was displacing central station synchronous generators, and became concerned about frequency stability," Brooks said. In worst-case contingencies like several power plants being forced to go offline simultaneously, that could put the entire system at risk.
So in 2012, ERCOT started requiring all new interconnecting generators, including wind and solar farms, to be able to provide "primary frequency response," or be able to increase or decrease real power output immediately to stabilize frequency. "If you have energy behind the inverter, it will inject instantaneously into the system. That's not the same as inertia…but it has the same effect of balancing the supply-demand imbalance."
The result, according to this 2018 ERCOT presentation, has been a major improvement in its primary frequency capability, as well as reduced need for "secondary" frequency regulation services provided by batteries or fast-responding demand-side resources.
Canadian grid operator Hydro-Québec TransÉnergie has taken a similar approach to managing its wind-rich system, but it uses the term "synthetic inertia" to describe how it has required wind farms to respond to frequency fluctuations since 2010. "They basically modeled the requirements to mimic what a synchronous generator could do," Brooks said, albeit through the same fundamental action of increasing power output to stabilize under-frequency events that ERCOT demands of its generators.
A 2015 transformer failure that forced offline about 1,600 megawatts of generation on Hydro-Québec's 40,000-megawatt grid showed that this synthetic inertia capability was able to stabilize grid frequency as well as synchronous generators could be expected to do. But it also revealed the potential for a "double-dip" in frequency from wind farms recovering from this instant energy injection, leading to revisions to its requirements.
From synthetic to "virtual" inertia: The "grid-forming" inverter
All of these approaches are designed around a power grid that's still having its primary frequency set by synchronous generators. But what happens when inverter-based generators are providing the majority of grid power?
At the theoretical endpoint of this transition, inverter-based generators can shift from "grid-following" systems that match their operations to frequencies created by spinning generators to "grid-forming" systems that actively create the frequency of the networks they're serving.
That's how global grid giant Hitachi ABB Power Grids approached the challenge it faced at the Dalrymple ESCRI (Energy Storage for Commercial Renewable Integration) project in South Australia. The 30-megawatt/8-megawatt-hour battery system sits at a substation serving several towns on a peninsula that also hosts about 90 megawatts of wind farms, with only a single connection to the mainland. The battery allows transmission grid operator ElectraNet to provide grid stability and prevent outages in case of lightning strikes or other disruptions to the line.
The ESCRI project can also provide its services to the greater South Australia grid, which suffered a massive blackout in 2017 after storm-caused faults led to wind farms shutting down, driving grid operator AEMO to require wind turbines to alter their control settings to ride through similar situations in the future. Since then the region has seen some of the world's largest battery projects, including Tesla's Hornsdale project and General Electric's Solar River system, come online to provide frequency support for the remote and wind and solar-rich grid.
But unlike those grid-following battery systems, ESCRI "had to take an approach that wasn't in line with how the larger interconnected bulk power systems work," Stephen Sproul, a senior engineer at Hitachi ABB Power Grids, explained. Because the average 5 megawatts of demand from the peninsula is so much smaller than the 90 megawatts of wind serving it, "when we isolate from the grid, we have to drop off about half the wind farm instantaneously," he said.
"To transition from the grid to this islanded formation, we had to operate it in something we call grid-forming mode," he said. The ESCRI battery's inverter and Hitachi ABB Power Grids' "virtual synchronous machine" control system sets the frequency and voltage for the peninsula's grid. Unlike the fast frequency response being provided in Texas and Quebec, this type of grid-forming capability requires inverters to act more quickly than measurement devices are capable of recognizing and responding to grid conditions, as the graphic below indicates.
In this sense, the ESCRI system is acting much like an low-voltage microgrid using its own inverter-based generators. Hitachi ABB Power Grids has multiple remote microgrids operating around the world, and the ESCRI project "is a good example of how we've applied some off-grid lessons to an on-grid project," Sproul said.
There are significant technical challenges to integrating grid-forming inverter operations into a larger power grid, he noted. "It's a tradeoff. if it's too desensitized, it's not fast enough to form the grid, but if it's too sensitized, it's always fighting the grid." But the ESCRI project does demonstrate that grid-forming qualities could aid in renewable integration.
Some early-stage uses could be replacing synchronous condensers, which are essentially unpowered motors linked to the grid to provide voltage stability for renewable projects seeking interconnection to power grids to ride through faults. "That's an old technology being used in a new application, but it's a large sunk cost," he said. A battery connected to a grid-forming inverter, by contrast, could also use its stored power for various grid-serving, revenue-generating services, much as the Dalrymple system has done: "ESCRI has almost paid itself off in a couple of years."
Grid-forming inverters at transmission and distribution scale
Just how to define "grid-forming" versus "grid-following" inverter operations is a subject of much debate among power systems engineers, EPRI's Brooks said.
At a high level, the difference can be boiled down to, "does the inverter resource depend on a strong grid in order to be able to provide its services? Or is it able…to be a voltage and frequency source even when there's a disturbance that causes the grid voltage to drop very low?"
Creating the modeling and control architecture to put "grid-forming" inverters to use in the broader grid control systems that manage multiple power plants and other grid-stabilizing resources is a technically challenging proposition, he said. But it could be very helpful in "weak grid" conditions, such as those faced by grid operators in sections of their transmission systems where renewable energy outweighs that provided by traditional generators.
Over the past two years, EPRI has been working with ERCOT and the Southwest Power Pool, the grid operator operating in the U.S. Midwest from South Dakota to Oklahoma and the Texas panhandle, and transmission owner American Electric Power, on ways to determine how the region's growing wind farms could help set frequency and voltage on stressed portions of the grid.
"There are places in the system where if you interconnect an inverter-based resource, that resources is going to have the potential to cause instability," because "they're not able to set grid frequency and voltage when there's a problem." One solution "is to re-tune the programmed response of those inverters to support those systems, rather than to cause a problem."
In a nod to Hitachi ABB Power Grids' work on microgrids, Brooks highlighted similar efforts to enlist inverters to stabilize low-voltage distribution grids. EPRI is working on an Energy Department-funded project called "Solar Critical Infrastructure Energization system," or Solace, built around the concept of a grid-forming solar PV inverter.
Partners including the University of Texas Austin, utility Austin Energy, nonprofit Pecan Street, inverter maker Yaskawa Solectria Solar and grid technology giant Schneider Electric will collaborate on the project, which will eventually target the rooftop solar and battery-equipped Mueller neighborhood in Austin, Texas as a test bed.
"The project is basically looking at how you can use distributed resources, primarily inverter-based resources, to provide an increased resiliency to critical infrastructure on the system," Brooks said. In essence, it's an attempt to replicate a stand-along microgrid across utility-controlled distribution circuits, using grid-forming inverters to provide the source of frequency and voltage to keep the system energized during wider outages.
The same system could be used to help restart the grid, he noted. A similar project by U.K. grid operator National Grid is exploring the potential for distributed energy resources to assist in what are termed "black-start" operations. Of course, this interaction brings the "added complication of making certain that the provision of that service up to the bulk system doesn't result in an operating problem on the distribution system," such as a burst of transmission system frequency-stabilizing power overloading low-voltage circuits.
But from a conceptual standpoint, the megawatt-scale inverter operating the ESCRI system and the much smaller inverters connecting rooftop solar systems to the distribution grid aren't that different, he noted.
"When you're talking about a microgrid or an islanded portion of the system…those distributed resources end up looking like bulk system resources."
Jeff St. John
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Q: Preview and upload two separate images in the same component in react js I have added two input fields to get profile image and cover photo in the same component. First I upload and preview cover photo. Thereafter I upload profile image. When uploading this profile image cover photo will render again. As I'm going to preview both these images, when uploading one image after the other it will disappear both images for a while and then load both together.
I know that this is happened as it renders the both element when calling onChange method in uploading one image. How can I avoid this disappearing problem(rendering both elements when uploading one image)?
Here is the code.
import React, { Component } from "react";
import "./UserProfile.css";
import img from "../../assets/img/3.jpg";

class ProfileImages extends Component {
  constructor(props) {
    super(props);
    this.state = {
      isLoading: true,
      profileImage: null,
      coverImage: null,
      uploading: false
    };
  }

  handleOnChangeImage = event => {
    event.preventDefault();
    this.setState(
      {
        profileImage: event.target.files[0]
      },
      () => {
        console.log("wwwwww", this.state.profileImage);
      }
    );
  };

  handleOnChangeCoverImage = event => {
    event.preventDefault();
    this.setState({
      coverImage: event.target.files[0]
    });
  };

  render() {
      console.log("profileImage")
    return (

 this.fileInput.click()}
                className="card card-body responsive profileImg"
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"Each time you call window.URL.createObjectURL(), a unique object URL is created even if   you've created an object URL for that file already."

This is the reason for repeated re-rendering. The already uploaded picture URL changes each time, so react re-renders it.
If you store the created URLs in the state instead of the file name, it will not re-render every time the other image changes:
handleOnChangeImage = event => {
  event.preventDefault();
  this.setState({
    profileImage: URL.createObjectURL(event.target.files[0])

...

handleOnChangeCoverImage = event => {
  event.preventDefault();
  this.setState({
    coverImage: URL.createObjectURL(event.target.files[0])
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};


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Fundamental and Applied Biogeography Research Group
From Pole to Pole: Team Member Hannah Wauchope's Background in Conservation
New to our team this year is Hannah Wauchope, a post-doc conservationist who joins us in Cornwall to study the effects of warming on species in the past with the aim of improving understanding of range shifts and species' movements in the future. This week at FABio's Lab Lunch Hannah spoke to us about the work she's done so far and how it led her here.
Hannah completed her undergrad with Honours at the University of Queensland, where her passion for polar conservation led her to work with Prof Richard Fuller exploring climate-driven changes in habitats of Arctic breeding shorebirds and the consequences of the associated species range-shifts. Many migratory birds breed in the high arctic, an area with a rate of warming at least three times higher than the global average. With climate change driving species out of their ancestral ranges and into new areas, the general expected trend is that species ranges will shift towards the poles to escape the more extreme heat. For species already at the northernmost reaches of our planet however, there is nowhere left for them to go. Hannah's research predicts a loss in suitable breeding habitat for most Arctic breeding shorebirds under several climate models.
The team also investigated changes in suitability of breeding habitat within the flyways that these species use to migrate to and from their northern breeding grounds. They found that the greatest habitat loss was predicted in those flyways with breeding regions in mainland Russia and Alaska. Conversely, flyways either side of the Atlantic are predicted to gain proportionally more suitable habitat than they currently hold for many species. It is possible then that the migratory shorebirds studied could show population declines or potentially switch migratory routes, and that establishing protected areas is vital for both of these outcomes.
Changes in suitable habitat for Arctic-breeding migratory shorebirds across major global flyways. (Wauchope et al., 2016)
All of the predictions made by Hannah and her team were more severe under climate models in which there is no mitigation of our current global warming output. Her work here therefore demonstrates the absolute importance of reducing greenhouse gas emissions as an approach for protecting these birds and their habitats. Read the full article here.
Hannah has also spent time with the Australian Antarctic Division and The Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research investigating the effectiveness of protected areas for preserving biodiversity in Antarctica. Species in the far south that need protecting include not only the charismatic vertebrates that fill our television screens, but also plant and invertebrate species residing in the ice-free areas of the continent where their long-term isolation has led to some unique genetic lineages found nowhere else on the planet. Plants in these habitats are also particularly vulnerable, as regeneration after any damage or trampling is especially slow in these very-cold growing conditions, even for the hardiest of plants.
Part of Hannah's work was to create the infographic pictured below, summarising their research. Some notable findings include the discovery that 56% of all Antarctic species are afforded no protection, and that what protection there is is spatially uneven, with a quarter of all Antarctic biogeographic regions containing no Antarctic Specially Protected Areas (ASPAs). Read the full article here.
Hannah then went on to complete a PhD at the University of Cambridge, continuing to scrutinise the effectiveness of protected areas but this time in waterbirds. Hannah and her colleagues were interested in whether or not protected areas have a positive impact on waterbird populations not only by actively increasing the population but potentially where management has lessened the intensity of a decline or stabilised a previously declining population. This work is nearly finished, with final results still being analysed. The team are hoping to submit the paper early next year but before then you can read more about the team's pre-analysis plan here.
Currently Hannah's research focus is on how species have shifted in range in response to past climate change, to help predict future range shifts. This will involve matching climatically derived Species Distribution Models (SDMs) with actual occurrences. She plans to investigate this by modelling range shifts of species and by discovering how species have moved in response to climate change since the last glacial maximum. Hannah is also interested in how shifts occur if and when barriers are encountered (e.g. mountain ranges or limited connectivity between suitable habitats).
Stay tuned for updates to Hannah's research or read more about her previous work by visiting her website: https://hannahwauchope.com/
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Why Hamilton's Spanish GP victory was one of his finest lights-to-flag wins
Former F1 driver
Jolyon Palmer's Analysis
It might have looked routine from the outside, but Lewis Hamilton's win in the Spanish Grand Prix was actually one of his most impressive victories, says Jolyon Palmer...
Qualifying at Catalunya is very important. It's a difficult circuit to pass on as we've seen over the years, really there is only one conventional overtaking place - into Turn 1.
On Saturday Hamilton did just enough to edge out Valtteri Bottas to pole, and actually it was all thanks to a great final sector. Through two thirds of the lap Bottas was up on Hamilton, but the final sector in Barcelona is critical for lap time and that's where Hamilton made it up.
WATCH: Onboard with Lewis Hamilton for his pole lap at the Spanish GP
Crucially for Hamilton, Bottas was unable to improve on his final qualifying lap - agonisingly clocking a second lap within a tenth of Hamilton - because Hamilton himself had a scrappy last lap too. Fortunately that final sector on his first Q3 attempt was sufficient for pole.
The next critical moment in Spain is the race start. Not only because it's tough to pass at this particular circuit, but more because it's actually relatively easy to pass at the start, because Barcelona combines a long run to the first corner which helps cars behind to slipstream and a reasonable braking zone when the drivers get there.
Spanish Grand Prix: Watch the race start at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya
Once again Hamilton excelled here though. A start like he made at Silverstone for the British Grand Prix might have seen him swamped by fast starting drivers behind, who can tuck immediately into the slipstream and have a great run down to Turn 1.
When the start mattered more in Spain, Hamilton was able to deliver with a great getaway, unlike his Mercedes teammate.
READ MORE: The Winners and Losers of the 2020 Spanish Grand Prix
Bottas' start wasn't poor by any means, but because Verstappen's was better, it was the Red Bull man that could tuck into Hamilton's slipstream down to the first corner and pinch second, meanwhile Lance Stroll had a flying start (which you can see below) and a double slipstream from both the Dutchman and Hamilton, which he used to leap ahead of Bottas at the start as well.
Bottas was slightly earlier than both Verstappen and Stroll on the brakes at Turn 1, but it's a difficult place to be sandwiched between two cars. We've seen incidents in the past where three cars try to get through the corner together, notably in 2017 where Bottas himself tangled with Raikkonen and Verstappen.
Spanish Grand Prix: Stroll overtakes Bottas with amazing start
In this instance Bottas' caution was probably sensible, but it also briefly cost him a place to Sergio Perez, who he managed to sweep back past around the outside of Turn 3.
It took a few laps for the Finn to get back past Stroll though and that enabled Verstappen to bridge a gap to Bottas early on, and from there the Mercedes man never really looked like he'd pass Verstappen for second.
With track position being so important at Barcelona, it was surprising that Mercedes pitted Bottas again at the end of the race, rather than attempting a one stopper.
When Bottas pitted for a second time, his medium tyres seemed to be hanging on ok and the gap to Verstappen was a full 17 seconds with only 18 laps remaining.
It was surprising to see Mercedes pit Bottas late in the race
Sergio Perez has always been a driver who is kind on his tyres, but he pitted just six laps later than Bottas did earlier on and comfortably made the finish on a one stop. For Mercedes' second driver this seemed a better approach to try and beat Red Bull, rather than relying on an on track pass for second place.
READ MORE: Could Verstappen have won in Spain had Red Bull repeated their Silverstone tyre gamble?
Out front though Hamilton's race was stunning. It's become difficult at times to rate Hamilton in these races, because he makes them look so routine, but Bottas' performance shows that it wasn't purely down to the car.
Of course the Mercedes was the car to beat in Barcelona, but the manner in which Hamilton controlled and then won the race emphasised his superiority on Sunday.
He said after the race that he was in such a zone that he didn't even realise it was the final lap, and it showed in his performance, finishing 24 seconds ahead of Verstappen. The fact that Verstappen was under no pressure from Bottas in the other Mercedes once again backs up thoughts that was one of Hamilton's finest lights-to-flag wins.
It might have looked routine, but this was one of Hamilton's finest wins
From the moment Hamilton started pushing on lap 10, there were only 14 laps of the remaining 62 (not including his in or out laps) that he wasn't the fastest man on track, including other drivers pitting for new tyres, or Hamilton having to lap traffic.
That also shows the unbelievable rhythm that he found himself in, churning out fast laps at ease and walking away with the race.
While doing this, he also had the spare mental capacity to call a late strategy to avoid the soft tyre, which Mercedes had perhaps erroneously pitted Bottas onto, and that seemed to work for Hamilton as well, as he completed an extra lap before switching to mediums to coax it home.
Hamilton has the ability to make these sort of wins seem routine, but this one was most definitely a standout.
READ MORE: Spanish GP Facts & Stats - Hamilton sets new, all-time podium record
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Vin Diesel has promised to reveal all about his beef with The Rock
Carl Anka
Fast 8 is sure to be one of the must see films of 2017, but what we really want to hear about right now is the behind-the-scenes action...
It appears The Rock and Vin Diesel have been at each others throats throughout the filming of Fast 8, so much so that earlier in the week the former wrestler took to Facebook to take a cryptic swipe at his male co star.
"Some conduct themselves as stand up men and true professionals, while others don't. The ones that don't are too chicken shit to do anything about it anyway. Candy asses. When you watch this movie next April and it seems like I'm not acting in some of these scenes and my blood is legit boiling - you're right."
Jumanji 4 starring Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart looks set to arrive sooner than we thought
A follow-up post from later in the week suggests the pair have ended their quarrel, thanks to a few secret talks, man-to man.
The Rock has delivered his piece on how he feels a lot happier about the situation, and now Vin Diesel has delivered his own cryptic message, promising to tell fans "everything" about what looks to have been a exhausting shoot.
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Diesel never directly addresses The Rock's comments, but instead talks about the job of being back home with his family and infant daughter Pauline, (named after the late Fast and Furious actor, Paul Walker)
Dwayne Johnson reveals he wants to play the next James Bond
"When I heard her say 'happy,' I just lit up in ways I can't even describe."
Diesel then paused, adding, "So give me a second and I will tell you everything. Everything."
Strong foreboding words.
Although as one wrestling fan pointed out...
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Region 16 AHA
BYLAWS & STANDING RULES
ENDURANCE & TRAIL RIDES
REGIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP
QUALIFYING SHOWS
SCHOOLING SHOWS
PAST SHOW RESULTS
ABOUT ARABIAN HORSES
FIND A BARN NEAR YOU
AMATEUR & YOUTH
Welcome to Region 16!
Connecticut – Maine – Massachusetts
New Hampshire – New York – Rhode Island – Vermont
Find a Club Near You
Promoting and coordinating Arabian horse shows, trail rides, and more throughout Region 16, including the Arabian and Half-Arabian Regional Championships
Formulating publicity, educational programs, and other activities in the interest of Arabian horse owners, clubs and enthusiasts
Promoting, encouraging and stimulating popular interest in the outstanding qualities of the Arabian Horse
Our Region in Numbers
January 22: Empire Celebration Dinner
March 20: Leprechaun Leap AVS
March 27: Region 16 Spring Meeting
April 1: Regional Youth Team Tournament Entries Due
April 23: AERC Endurance Ride
Greetings to all Region 16 Members and Arabian horse enthusiasts,
As I personally reflect on the 2021 year, many of our members have endured significant change, loss, joy and success. One thing we all have in common is the bond we share in our love of the Arabian Horse.
Resilience was the theme of the 2021 year in the Arabian industry and I couldn't agree more. We are unique, strong individuals that always find a way and I am proud to be your Region 16 Director.
In 2021, our region remained strong with well attended Arabian competitions, strong participation at the Community Outreach/Local level with parades, Meet the Arabian Horse open barns, the return of Arabian Horses to Equine Affaire after a hiatus, robust Youth participation locally and nationally, coordinated trail rides and the list goes on and on.
When thinking of a theme for this year for Region 16 to embody the letter "V" comes to mind. We are Visionaries. We are Vivacious. We are Valuable. We are Versatile. And, most of all, Volunteers are Valuable! No matter how you enjoy or love your Arabian horse, I encourage all to join a club in Region 16 and become involved.
As we move into 2022, Arabian horses will be represented today in the annual televised Tournament of Roses Parade. Watch for them early in the program as the first horses to be featured – WOW, what a start to 2022!
Here in Region 16 there is much to look forward to in the year ahead. Some dormant events will be back on the agenda, local Region 16 shows are abundant with some exciting changes, and our Youth group is active and on the rise.
Excitement is building around the Region 16 Championship Show with a stellar judging panel announced, attendance commitments rolling in, and exciting new events planned for the week in conjunction with the Region 15 Championship Show at the Virginia Horse Center from July 4-9. Watch for updates on social media, our website and www.Region15and16Championship.com.
There will undoubtedly be hurdles to cross in the year ahead, but I believe that if we remain bonded, we will succeed in creating a Vibrant Arabian Horse community.
Wishing you a very Happy, Healthy New Year!
Cheryl Lane-Caron
Region 16 Director
October 15, 2021:
Greetings Region 16 AHA members and exhibitors,
The Region 16 AHA Regional Championship Show Committee met on the evening of October 14, and voted in favor of joining forces with Region 15 AHA to run the first-ever dual Regional Championship shows at the Virginia Horse Center in Lexington, VA, from July 4-9, 2022.
To be clear: this will be two separate shows with their own unique judging panels, and concurrent classes mid-week. We will not lose our identity as Region 16 AHA, and we will continue to celebrate our region throughout the show. Our intention is to have a Region 16 representative on site to address exhibitors needs throughout the show along with the show manager and Region 15 staff.
What does this look like for exhibitors?
Two high-quality, competitive AHA Regional Championship shows in one beautiful location
Venue with recent upgrades, such as new footing, Big Ass fans, LED lighting, rubber matted walkways, 24/7 on-site stable office and security, etc.
One stall fee for both shows
One hauling fee
Reduced class fees
Reduced use of exhibitor vacation time
Exhibitor special discount thru Choice Hotels
Open dates on either end to travel, show ends Saturday night
Expanded class offerings, including hunter over fences, reining, ranch riding and upper level dressage
Two sets of judges and awards
Main Ring, Dressage, Western Dressage, and Sport Horse Under Saddle classes will run twice – once under each set of judges
The individually scored events (Sport Horse In Hand, Reining, Trail, Ranch Riding, & Hunter over Fences) will run concurrently. Both sets of judges will score each go, and will pin Top 5, Reserve & Champion for each region
Family-friendly destination with historic sites, scenic parkways, and a downtown charm
Plus plenty of dining venues, craft breweries, wineries, and more!
Fall Meeting Discussion
At the Region 16 AHA Fall Meeting held on October 9, there was much discussion regarding the venue and date options for the 2022 Region 16 AHA Championship Show. As there hadn't been an option agreed upon by the show committee prior to the meeting, it was brought for discussion amongst the delegates and meeting attendees. Ahead of the meeting, the committee had discussed two options, as there were previously no viable dates available at the venue in Syracuse:
The Eastern States Exposition in West Springfield, MA, to be held August 4-7 (overlapping dates with East Coast Championships)
A dual Regional Championship show with Region 15 AHA in Lexington, VA, to be held July 4-9
However, during the Fall Meeting, it was brought to the committee's attention that a possible date had recently opened up in Syracuse, NY, which was clearly an option to consider. As a result, the decision was made to postpone the vote on location and dates for the 2022 show pending a survey of Region 16 AHA members and past show participants, as well as a review of additional financial information on the venue options. The survey was sent out on October 9, and closed at noon on October 14. Updated prices from the Syracuse venue were reviewed alongside the survey results by the Region 16 Championship Show Committee on the evening of October 14.
Regional Championship Show Survey
We sincerely appreciate everyone who took time to complete the Region 16 Championship Show survey. Each and every response was taken into consideration and a data analysis was presented to the show committee (see attached survey data).
The show committee reconvened on October 14 to review the survey data and financials for each venue. At this time, the 2022 price list for the New York State Fairgrounds, under new management, was presented to the show committee. It indicated significant price increases, upwards of 50% for some of the amenities used to host our show. In all, the cost for our region to utilize this venue in 2022 would more than double. Despite the survey preference for this venue and the show committee's willingness to entertain Syracuse as an option, it was determined that the increased financial expense is not something the region, and our exhibitors, would be able to absorb.
Based on projected expenditures and revenue for a combined show, it is anticipated that both Region 16 and Region 15 AHAs will be able to financially position themselves in a way that allows them both to continue hosting high quality competitions in the future. Careful consideration of the financials for each venue was a large factor in the final selection to move forward with a co-located show.
Venue Rotation Standing Rule
Many are familiar with our region's standing rule, which called for a rotation of the regional show location. Based on that 2022 was the year for Springfield, MA. Unfortunately, the only available venue dates fell upon the same dates as the East Coast Championships. As the landscape of the show industry continues to evolve, this standing rule was changed in Spring 2021 to allow the show committee to select a venue outside of the rotation when necessary. This proved to be an instance where that was appropriate.
Committee Vote
Though the survey results suggested that the Syracuse option was the most desirable venue, the substantial increase in fees was deemed to be far too significant for us to take on. As such, the committee voted 8-0-2 in favor of hosting a dual championship show with Region 15 AHA. This is a bold move, but necessary for Region 16 AHA to thrive.
Change isn't easy, we understand that. However, change often brings opportunity. Now is the time to be innovative, forward thinking, and engage in new partnerships and ventures.
We hope you will join us for this exciting ride and look forward to seeing you in Lexington!
If you have questions or comments, please reach out to your club delegate, or to a member of the regional championship show committee listed on the Region 16 Committee page.
Region 16 clubs are encouraged to submit news to be featured here and/or in the AHA Regional Insider by the 20th of month. Please send to region16web@gmail.com with the subject line "News."
Region 16 AHA, A WordPress.com Website.


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Children's & Teenage
The aloof and enigmatic Constance Schuyler lives alone in Manhattan. At a literary party she meets Sidney Klein, a professor of poetry twenty years her senior. Intoxicated by her chilly beauty, Sidney pursues the young woman with restless determination and soon proposes marriage. Constance accepts, and with some misgivings moves into his dark, book-filled apartment. But Constance is a haunted woman. When her father, a doctor, makes a devastating revelation, she is forced to revisit the childhood she spent with her dissipated sister Iris in a broken-down house on the Hudson River. Meanwhile Iris's lover, Eddie, who plays piano in a cocktail lounge, threatens Constance's already shaky marriage, and before long her world begins to fall apart. Her only consolation is the friendship of Sidney's boy Howard, a strange, delicate child, not unlike Constance herself... 3.9 out of 5 based on 7 reviews
Omniscore:
Classification Fiction
Genre General Fiction
Date of Publication May 2013
Publisher Bloomsbury Circus
The aloof and enigmatic Constance Schuyler lives alone in Manhattan. At a literary party she meets Sidney Klein, a professor of poetry twenty years her senior. Intoxicated by her chilly beauty, Sidney pursues the young woman with restless determination and soon proposes marriage. Constance accepts, and with some misgivings moves into his dark, book-filled apartment. But Constance is a haunted woman. When her father, a doctor, makes a devastating revelation, she is forced to revisit the childhood she spent with her dissipated sister Iris in a broken-down house on the Hudson River. Meanwhile Iris's lover, Eddie, who plays piano in a cocktail lounge, threatens Constance's already shaky marriage, and before long her world begins to fall apart. Her only consolation is the friendship of Sidney's boy Howard, a strange, delicate child, not unlike Constance herself...
John Harding
"Patrick McGrath's engrossing, suspenseful, psychological novel grips like a thriller, but has a soft and tender heart. It's a tale of the damage each generation is capable of inflicting upon the next, a harrowing story of betrayal and rancour that filters down the years, that yet somehow manages to find a resolution that is life endorsing and tentatively optimistic."
Julie Myerson
"McGrath's narrative device of relating events second- or even thirdhand is original and risky, but it also has the inevitable effect of pushing us away. He's far too skillfully in control of his prose to do this accidentally, so you have to conclude that he intends both this distance and the mystifyingly dislocated, arm's-length experience it forces on the reader. And he does seem to be onto something: the novel's effects are oddly, cumulatively hypnotic. As a piece of monomaniacal writing, McGrath's strange narrative never fails to grip and startle. But as a study of emotional and sexual anesthesia, of marital numbness, of the ways in which family obsession and love — or the lack of it — can wreak havoc on a person's psychological and sexual development, it's a tour de force."
Phil Baker
"By the end there are flickers of lightning, and black clouds pouring a deluge over New York's old tenements. The human story is meanwhile looking like a tea party in a morgue, so it's interesting to see how McGrath manages to steer it round to a redemptive ending. How do people ever escape from the crypts of the mind? Ultimately less bleak than some of McGrath's other work, Constance confirms him as a masterful writer not just of gothic but of complex relationships in crisis."
George Pendle
"Constance is a beautifully wrought creation who stands at the book's centre like a cool column of marble. Yet the longer one spends with her, the more cracks one sees. The New York location, not to mention Constance's neurotic flights, may put one in mind of Esther Greenwood in Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar. McGrath has long been a great writer of modern Gothic – the low-wattage shadow, the radio hiss, the coffin-like claustrophobia of the car ride – but there is something about this book that suggests he is deliberately pitching the old Gothic directly against the new, as if to see which is more terrifying."
"There's a whiff of Hitchcock's Marnie in the heroine of this elegant psychological thriller set in 1960s America. "
Rachel Cooke
"The psychology – Daddy hated me; I want you to be my Daddy – felt a touch Freud by numbers to me. And while Sidney's voice, pompous and self-regarding, is beautifully done, it's Constance who gets the greater share of the narratorial burden, and she feels only half-formed: a mystery not only to herself and to Sidney but also to the reader. You put the book down with the treacherous thought that her husband is rather long-suffering, for all that he's apt to boast about the quality of his panama hat. He should have quit the chat and quietly slipped a Valium into her breakfast coffee instead."
"McGrath excels in his descriptions of the city. Sidney's and Constance's preoccupation with the now fabled 1963 demolition of Penn Station is at the fatalistic heart of the book: "Sidney said we were being forced to eat Penn Station as punishment for letting it die". Yet despite this compelling symbol, a lack of suspense, stilted dialogue and wild unevenness confound the novel's intention."
©2013 The Omnivore


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Your company/brand should keep a constant lookout for opportunities to make it worthy for consumers and brand advocates to opt for your services/products.
Does your audience want to purchase your products online? How often do they need the help of your customer care team? Are consumers keen tSo connect with you offline or in the retail locations? PR agencies that vouch for brand advocacy feel that every business enterprise should find out when their audience wants to purchase from them and choose interactive engagements and make the process fun!
Brand advocacy can do wonders for any business as consumers choose to share their feedback via social media to inform other prospects or existing customers.
Since consumers are for whom businesses are conducted, creating a brand advocacy program is the best foot forward, say the PR practitioners. This program will come in handy and allow consumers to communicate with brand advocates.
Choose those consumers as brand advocates who have already made their presence felt by referring a friend, or shared their opinion about a product or services. It is essential for businesses to boost transparency and advocacy to leverage its full potential.
Being thankful adds to the warmth in every relationship. So it does between you and your consumers. Thank the brand advocates when they speak in your favour. Businesses can also leverage technology to track and manage every brand advocate's activity to appreciate and reward whenever these "friends of your brand" do something for you.
Usually, big conglomerates and MNCs keep a tab on the brand advocates activity in real time to ensure long-term association.
Show your appreciation to the brand advocates by listening to what they say about your offerings/services. Sometimes they may go overboard with criticism but understand that in their critical stings lie the opportunity for you to better yourself and raise the bar. It is key for businesses to bag insightful data with growth in brand advocacy.
When a business makes a genuine effort to listen to brand advocates, loyalty and engagement get enhanced, definitely a win-win situation.
Leveraging these popular tactics can ensure loyalty, higher productivity and ROI growth.


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Usher's Herpes Accuser Quantasia Sharpton's Mother Claims She Is Lying – R&B Crooner Says He Did Not Have Sexual Relations With That Woman
Dylan Fisher Aug 10, 2017 3:01 AM PDT
Credit: Instagram
Grace Miguel is helping Usher dig himself out of the herpes scandal that is currently ruining his legendary musical career.
On Monday, power attorney Lisa Bloom confirmed the claims made in a bombshell report that the singer and dancer had exposed at least three of his sexual partners to the STI.
One of Usher's accusers, Quantasia Sharpton, also known as Angel Valentino, spoke at a press conference and said she met the star at one of his concerts.
The crooner allegedly invited her to his luxury hotel room, and they had a one-night stand.
Sharpton said she found out the star had the disease via social media like the rest of the world.
The 21-year-old mother of one confessed: "I feel like my rights were violated, I decided to join the lawsuit against Usher, so he does not do this to anyone else. You need to warn your sex partners… so they can make their own decisions."
Bloom said a total of three people, two women and one man, contacted her after having sexual contact with the former "Voice" coach and they plan to sue him.
This is where the story takes a bizarre turn.
According to media platform Fameolous, Sharpton's mother firmly believes that she is lying and never had intercourse with Usher.
The mother wrote in an email: "I'm sorry I started to talk about my daughter, but this has just been a little to [sic] much for me."
She added: "I want to say to Mr. Usher how sorry I am and if there [is] anything I could tell him to help him I will b glad to. I know my child and know what she about and a liner [sic] is one of them."
A close friend to Miguel spoke to TMZ and said they have hired an army of lawyers that will prove that Usher is healthy and never had sex with Sharpton.
Via social media, Miguel posted an uplifting quote that read: "Imagine if you took care of yourself The way you do a new love interest. If you listened to yourself with loving ears. Worked hard to solve your own problems with a great attitude. If you started every day saying something beautiful that you love about yourself. If you made sure that the best of everything was around you. Wanted to impress yourself with new adventures and exciting things to do. If you were determined to prove to yourself how amazing you are. If you were dating that person would you be looking for someone else?"
Maybe Sharpton's mother will appear in a press conference with Usher.
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Mskeepzitreal
Aug 10, 2017 5:16 AM PDT at 5:16 AM PDT
Why does someones personal life always supercede their accomplishments??? Because Usher is SUPPOSEDLY have KNOWINGLY passed on this thing it's being said his music career is over, ppl not listening to his music. Etc etc etc. Even if he came out with new music what because this SCANDAL has surfaced his music won't be brought!?!??


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October 20 marked nine months since our new president took office. The news, popular culture, and political observers have either labeled him fascist and authoritarian, destructive and impulsive, or strong and bold. These responses typically speak to a political style or personality, rather than a leadership mindset. Exploring mindsets provides a comprehensive view of the assumptions, attitudes, and perspectives that shape leadership capacity, and focus management decisions, which account for multiple styles.
To engage this assessment into Donald Trump's leadership mindset, I have considered his business history, behavior, actions, several biographies, and public statements.
Stages of Development
Mindsets grow out of each stage of development. Carol Dweck's research distinguished growth and fixed mindsets, addressing what keeps us in fixed mindsets, as detailed in a previous blog. When expanding, each mindset evolves directionally toward greater inclusion, complexity, and freedom.
Theoretically, stage development combines several learning and cognitive theories such as Erik Erikson's (psychosocial), Jean Piaget's (cognitive), Lawrence Kohlberg's (moral), and Carol Gilligan's (ethics-relationship). I also consulted Bill Torbert's (action-logics) and Jane Loevinger's/Susanne Cook-Greuter's (ego-identity integration), along with Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey's leadership development (adult development) theory of Harvard. Finally, Ken Wilber's integral model combines these theories and work by Don Beck and Clare Graves in a comprehensive framework.
Generally, there are three large (macro) stages of development based on ego integration: 1) Pre-Rational/Conventional, 2) Rational/Conventional, and 3) Post-Rational/Conventional. The following grid outlines the stages by theorist Ken Wilber, integrating research by Susanne Cook-Greuter and models by Bill Torbert.
Below, I describe these three macro stages (and mindsets). Exploring these macro stages with mindsets in parenthesis, we can see what is apparent: Trump is located in the Pre-Conventional Stage — or earliest stage of development.
Pre-Conventional/Rational – "Cares about winning and power"
This stage is defined by the pre-rational self, erratic and juvenile behavior that defies rules or norms. At 5% of the population, this earliest stage is akin to the desires of a toddler or adolescent and typically includes two leadership/management mindsets: the Impulsive Self (level 2) and Opportunist Self (level 2/3). In this stage, the center of focus is "self-centric."
Demanding loyalty, these leaders are most inefficient, hampered by impulsive needs and self-inflicted crises. Their effectiveness relies on using force, making deals, or issuing threats to accomplish goals.
Communication usually involves simplistic notions, black-and-white (all or nothing/us-against-them) thinking, debating or defending positions to seek compliance. These leaders tend to favor absolutes, resulting in ultimatums or brinkmanship.
Trump has remained at this stage; his "transactional" language was highlighted in a previous blog.
This recent piece, "McMaster Wants to Save the Iran Deal by Hiding It From Trump," illustrates how others must manage those at this stage more like toddlers than colleagues: According to a congressional Democratic aide, National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster conveyed, "[Trump] wants this out of sight and out of mind."
Conventional/Rational – "Cares about achieving results and knowledge"
Defined by the rational self, this stage employs rule-focused, data-driven, evidence-based decision-making, leading to a strategic focus from a larger purpose. This stage includes roughly three mindsets evolving from the Conformist–Diplomatic Self (level 3), to the Expert Self (level 3/4), and then the Achiever Self (level 4).
These leaders shift loyalty from personality to competency of rules, skills, and knowledge, operating at a level of independence sufficient to produce consistent results. They demonstrate efficiency as reliable taskmasters through various competencies and are effective by marshaling facts to persuade others and prioritizing goals in a strategic manner.
Communication is marked by active listening with primacy on the accuracy of facts and knowledge to achieve desired outcomes.
Post-Conventional/Rational – "Cares about relating and mutual understanding"
At 15% of the population, this stage is defined by the relative self, highlighted by empathy, appreciating pluralism, and driven by continuous learning and self-actualizing to serve a larger good. Three mindsets in this stage include the Individualist Self (level 4/5), Autonomous-Strategist Self (level 5), and the Alchemist Self (5/6) marked by expanded levels of interdependence.
These leaders reach beyond effective and efficient, collaborating to fulfill higher ideals and purpose to scale efforts. They grow from mistakes, seeking out feedback to expand. This level of leadership is most complex, integrating many perspectives, ideas, and assumptions — usually operating from a systems thinking view.
Communication is marked by empathy and appreciation for differing points of view. These leaders seek out multiple perspectives to develop greater understanding and a larger view of an issue. Marked by nuanced and subtle communications, they avoid black-and-white assertions or binary thinking.
Not ideal for elective office — where power and strength are often conflated with brute force or cleverness — these mindsets are sought out in professional or expert fields, governmental services, or large-scale enterprises.
What is Presidential?
Exploring presidential begins with acknowledging that most higher elective offices typically require a balance of capacities, skills, and experiences that begin evolving in the Conventional/Rational stage.
A search on the term "presidential" retrieved a consensus on the definition of "befitting the dignity and character of the presidency." As far back as George Washington, "presidential" was being used in reference to character rather than power, as detailed in this letter to George Washington, from the Mickve Israel congregation (published in the Providence Gazette, July 3, 1790):
"We have long been anxious to congratulate you on your appointment, by unanimous approbation, to the Presidential dignity of this country, and of testifying our unbounded confidence in your integrity and unblemished virtue."
"Presidential" attributes can be found beginning in Conventional Stage mindsets. At 80% of the population, the mindsets at this stage encompass most public servants, politicians, and government professionals.
Much of the concern about Trump's disposition or temperament pointed to his failure to meet these minimum characteristics — to defer to reason in a coherent manner — as emphasized by mindsets in the Conventional Stage. Recent presidents and candidates Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Mitt Romney, and John McCain belong somewhere in this stage.
Obama operated from the Post-Conventional Stage, as demonstrated by his restraint, humility, and empathy, combined with his inclination for ambiguity and complexity. This confused and frustrated those who failed to appreciate his nuanced views or readiness to compromise. Antagonists preferred absolutes, moral clarity, and simplistic solutions to complex issues.
Leadership Mindsets
Each mindset contains our worldviews, frames of reference, assumptions, attitudes, viewpoints, and affective selves. Our mindset shapes what we view, focus on, and listen to: which concerns capture our attention and inform our communications for taking action.
In general, we operate between mindsets, forming a center of gravity — usually within the same stage —depending on our perceived threats or level of workability.
Mindsets develop in three ways:
Vertical Development includes expanding and integrating awareness to evolve to the next mindset.
Horizontal Development involves expansion and translation in the same mindset, through new skills and more knowledge.
Downward Reversion results from temporary or permanent regression to a previous mindset.
To further distinguish mindsets, Barrett Brown's white paper for Conscious Capitalism (fn-1) classifies seven mindsets, using Cook-Grueter's research and Torbert's model. The grid below aligns these mindsets with the stages of Pre-Conventional (pink), Conventional (blue), and Post-Conventional (orange).
Trump has displayed qualities that reveal him to be self-obsessed with his own egoic concerns: money, wealth, intelligence, size of everything, image, winning, denying mistakes, self-defensiveness, and self-aggrandizing, along with the inability to receive or seek feedback and hypersensitivity to dissent.
During the two-plus years marked by his campaign and time in office, Trump has demonstrated a lack of discipline, rule-based logic, or rational mindset — guided by facts, evidence, or scientific truths — placing him in one of the two mindsets in the Pre-Conventional/Rational Stage.
Trump the Opportunist
As a leader, Trump has ridiculed his Attorney General and party leaders and undermined his CIA, FBI, and Sec. of State. A GOP senator questioned his stability, labeling the White House as an "adult day care center," while Trump's Sec. of State reportedly called him a "moron." To date, regardless of policies, positions, or partisanship, just 16% say they like the way he conducts himself as president.
Trump voter, Mary Maddox from Texas, voices these concerns, "I get so disgusted," she said … "He is like a 13-year-old girl, tweeting … I just want him to act his age and be nice to people and bring the country together."
A recent response by Trump to his conduct on Twitter reveals his attitude/mindset and focus: "They [tweets] are well crafted. I was always a good student, I am like a person that does well with that kind of thing," — preferring 140-character spectacles to adult self-control.
Trump is best viewed in the Opportunist Mindset. Consider this mindset's characteristics, established by researcher Bill Torbert in a 2005 piece published in the Harvard Business Review:
"Opportunists tend to regard their bad behavior as legitimate in the cut and thrust of an eye-for-an-eye world. They reject feedback, externalize blame, and retaliate harshly. One can see this action logic in the early work of Larry Ellison (now CEO of Oracle). Ellison describes his managerial style at the start of his career as 'management by ridicule.' 'You've got to be good at intellectual intimidation and rhetorical bullying,' he once told Matthew Symonds of the Economist. 'I'd excuse my behavior by telling myself I was just having 'an open and honest debate. The fact is, I just didn't know any better.'
Few Opportunists remain managers for long, unless they transform to more effective [mindset] (as Ellison has done). Their constant firefighting, their style of self-aggrandizement, and their frequent rule breaking is the antithesis of the kind of leader people want to work with for the long term."
Do these observations sound familiar?
Evolving Mindsets
Mindsets often, but not always, evolve with age. Any break with identity encourages learners to grow into new assumptions and views of reality. Most evolve to a degree by learning from mistakes, questioning assumptions, and seeking out new ideas and challenges.
The only fixed mindset is one that resists change. Trump doesn't believe there's anything he needs to learn. He's never had to grow or be held accountable by society and shuns public norms. As such, his center of gravity has not grown much beyond the Opportunist Mindset. Trump's resistance to learning dismisses expertise, knowledge, and wisdom. He refuses to accept responsibility for errors, acknowledge mistakes, or seek out feedback while ignoring new perspectives required to cultivate mindsets.
Developmentally, each mindset is necessary to develop the skills, views, and capacity to evolve the next mindset. This grid below (by Barrett Brown, Ph.D.) illustrates Warren Buffett's journey over his lifespan, having learned from each stage to evolve through these seven mindsets.
Opportunist is the only mindset that falls outside presidential expectations and attributes "befitting the dignity and character of the presidency." Its impulsive and juvenile nature in circumventing accountability is not a match for the immense responsibility of the office. Typically, nascent, emerging leaders outgrow this mindset. Most are challenged, or held accountable, by family, peers, and colleagues, and learn from mistakes.
Adult leaders remaining at the Opportunist stage, often surround themselves with those at later mindsets (conformist-diplomatic or expert) – like military generals, and former CEOs – to bring order and consistency to an enterprise.
Without the willingness to learn and grow from continued questioning, no amount of knowledge, procedure, study, or policy can account for, or alter, the power of mindset, which governs attitude, affect, and focus.
1– The direction of development for action logics goes from the Opportunist to the Ironist (and potentially beyond). Sample size for U.S. population percentages: n = 4,510. Table compiled from these sources, with permissions: Cook-Greuter, S. R. (1999); Cook-Greuter, S. R. (2004); Ingersoll, E. R., & Cook-Greuter, S. R. (2007); Rooke, D., & Torbert, W. R. (2005); Torbert, W. R. (1987); Torbert, W. R. & Kelly, E. J., (2013).
30– Kelly, E. J. (2011). Kelly, E. J. & Torbert, W. (2013).
Tony Zampella is the learning specialist at Zampella Group, which serves Learning & Development Professionals. As an instructor, researcher, and designer of learning programs and contemplative practices, his work develops mindsets for growing a culture of servant leaders.
His studies include the work of Martin Heidegger and ontological inquiry, Ken Wilber, and Integral theory, and Zen Buddhism and contemplative practices.
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By Tony Zampella| 2018-03-18T18:49:37-04:00	October 23rd, 2017|Blog|1 Comment
Roberta Putnam November 4, 2017 at 10:18 pm - Reply
This is fascinating and I had no problem finding Trump as a cat 1 emotionally destructive human Well anyway Happy Birthday and I will revisit your site in the future


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Q: WPF Changing the size of my textbox when i cover it with my cursor In my program i have various textboxes which are too small for the text the user will want to write in, so i want to change the size of my Textbox when i hover my cursor over it.
As soon as i leave the Textbox with my mouse it should go back to the normal size.
maybe with the MouseEnter Event.
MouseEnter="Protokolbox1_MouseEnter"
Thank you for your help.

A: Try the following example, you can change the width/height...
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After protracted delays, the government finally rolled out the new generation e-Passports in September 2017. These new digital passports bear an electronic chip making them more secure.
In adition to this, the passport bears the East African Community title on the front face of the booklet and will have a new passport number.
Initially, the government had ambitiously set to have all the old passport holders upgrade to the new e-passport in two years (i.e. August 2019). However, this deadline has been pushed to 2020 after a directive by the Deputy President citing the fact that only a fraction of Kenyans had acquired the new passport.
If you're yet to upgrade or wish to renew your expired passport to the new type, here's how to go about it.
2. Once you're logged in, open the Department of Immigration Services page by clicking the Get Service button.
3. Click on the Make Application button then on the next page expand the KENYAN PASSPORT section and select Passport Application for Adult.
4. On the next page scroll down below the instructions and click the APPLY NOW button.
5. Next fill the online form carefully with accurate details. On Step 2 select your Application type as Replacement.
6. At the end of the form select your mode of payment and pay the required fees.The passport charges are determined by the type of passport.
7. After paying, download your application form and the invoice (receipt). Print the form and 3 copies of the invoice.
During the submission carry with you the requirements below.
Senior citizens above the age of 60 are exempt from the birth certificate requirement.
A recommender can be a religious leader, a legal practitioner such as a lawyer, an established civil servant or bank official that knows the applicant but is not an immediate relative.
The passport photos are listed as a requirement but digital photos are captured during submission along with the taking of fingerprints.
The official statements from the immigration department indicate that it takes 5 working days for passport replacements.
The 5 days duration however has proved to be unrealistic and many applicants indicate the waiting period for replacement takes on average between 2 to 4 weeks.
To avoid longer waiting periods ensure the details filled in the application form are correct.
Those in diaspora are to apply for the new passports at embassies or consulates nearest them. At the time of this writing this seems yet to be functional in all embassies and some have been forced to travel in back into the country to get replacements.