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Russia Issues Emergency Warning: "Huge Global Storm Is Starting"
By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers
A classified at the highest level "Of Special Importance" new Security Council (SC) report circulating in the Kremlin today is truly foreboding because Security Council Members in this transcript authorized top Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov to immediately issue the dire emergency warning to all humanity: "Most likely, a huge global storm is starting…In many ways, there are objective reasons for that, but there are also subjective reasons for this beginning storm, which are linked to absolutely illogical and often absurd decisions and actions of the authorities in the United States, Europe, the European Union and individual European countries".
According to the very limited portions of this highly classified transcript permitted to be openly discussed among various ministries, it first notes President Putin stating about the "Special De-Nazification Operation" to liberate Ukraine: "This tragedy is the result of the actions of the nationalist, neo-Nazi regime, which seized power in Ukraine by force in 2014 and then launched hostilities in Donbass…It conducted two major military operations in Donbass using artillery, aviation, heavy equipment, and so on…And this is what is still happening there".
This transcript next sees Security Council Members discussing the attempted assassination of Argentina Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and a mass shooting in Buffalo-New York that killed ten Black people—are two crimes connected by their perpetrators both having confirmed links to the "Black Sun" symbol of Nazism used by the Western colonial powers supported Azov Battalion in Ukraine—and this transcript notes the Russian Embassy in the United States having just issued a statement to the socialist Biden Regime stating: "We have taken note of the condemnation by the US State Department of violence and hate 'everywhere' with regard to the assassination attempt on Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner…However, it's obvious that American diplomats intentionally turn a blind eye to the extreme beliefs of the alleged criminal, his 'Black Sun' neo-Nazi tattoos typical of the Azov battalion…Our American counterparts also forget that the shooter, accused of killing 10 people at a Buffalo supermarket in May 2022, had the same tattoos".
Security Council Members in this transcript next have a lengthy redacted discussion about the German troops that began arriving in Lithuania yesterday, then note Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev stating: "Germany has imposed sanctions against Russia and its citizens…Berlin also supplies Ukraine with lethal arms used against our armed forces…Such actions amount to nothing less than a hybrid war".
An unredacted portion of this transcript notes former French presidential candidate Segolene Royal accusing Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky of using war propaganda as a tool to obstruct the peace process, then notes former Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl of Austria revealing: "Unfortunately, the European Union position has been formulated as of March…Decisions will be done on the battlefield and not at the negotiating table, which for me was quite a surprise, an irritating one, because the way I perceived the European Union, the way the common foreign and security policy has been formulated, it was always about a priority for diplomacy".
This transcript next notes that British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss was chosen today to lead the Conservative Party and become the new prime minister, and it contains the British government document "Ukraine: Foreign Secretary's Statement To Parliament, 28 March 2022", wherein she called for the complete and total Western colonial powers defeat of Russia.
In an at first perplexing redacted portion of this classified at the highest level transcript, Security Council Members discuss the 1995 comedy film "Peculiarities of the National Hunt", whose main theme is "expectations vs. reality" as its main character from the West is met with disappointment when his attempt at a "Hunt" with Russians goes in a glaringly different direction than its historical predecessors.
As to why Security Council Members were discussing this comedy film becomes apparent because they begin discussing top Kremlin media advisor Victoria Nikiforova, who references this film in her just released chilling open letter "Americans Want To Open A Second Ukrainian Front", wherein she asserts "The real problem is that Russia's special operation ruined Washington's plans for a large-scale provocation against China", then assesses:
A year ago, the American establishment was openly discussing its plans to "contain" Russia and China. "Will America Pull a War on Two Fronts?" the expert community asked – and answered itself: no, it won't work.
Then a multi-way was invented. A multi-move with just two steps to save American hegemony.
First, the Americans unleash a conflict with Russia through the hands of their proxy Ukrainians. Russia quickly loses, pays and repents.
In the second move, the Americans set their Taiwanese proxies against China. Beijing also loses, pays and repents.
Washington is feasting, its vassals, frozen in horror, look into its mouth, the defeated powers bring money, glory, oil, gas, semiconductors, and their nuclear weapons to the heap, so that no one will ever dare to encroach on the shining city on a hill.
All of a sudden, things didn't go according to plan.
By the summer, the Americans realized that the multi-move did not work. Russia cannot be defeated, even though you bring all the weapons from NATO countries to Ukraine.
Start a military confrontation with China in this situation? It looks crazy, of course, but what to do?
"The skeptics are wrong: the United States can confront China and Russia at the same time", The Washington Post immediately changed her shoes on the flight. The treasured multi-move has shrunk to a single position. "Despite the Americans' deep skepticism about foreign interventions", the newspaper notes, "the US will confront both of today's major nuclear powers at the same time".
The strategy, of course, is in the style of "dementia and courage". It would be nice if there were some contradictions between these powers. Then maybe they could play. But Russia and China are on the best terms in their history. And these are not only trade and political interactions, but also regular joint exercises, including in such potentially hot spots as the Sea of Japan .
There is no need to talk about the combined military potential of China and Russia. Especially considering that our resources and technologies, plus Chinese industrial production, allow us to replenish it almost endlessly, which cannot be said about the NATO bloc.
From a military point of view, Washington's global adventure simply does not fit into the head. How is it even possible to stretch the American army and navy literally all over the world, from Philadelphia to the Bosphorus , from the Black Sea to Taiwan? Wouldn't the American armed forces in such a position resemble a cow in an airplane from Rogozhkin's immortal film "Peculiarities of the National Hunt"?
The American "hawks" are quite capable of concocting another provocation in our Far East from this informational artillery preparation. We remember history. During the Crimean War, British and French warships also actively climbed into Petropavlovsk.
There is a wonderful poem by Konstantin Simonov about this forgotten episode of hostilities, called "Lieutenant". At the same time, one of the Kuril Islands was captured by the British, they held it for several months.
The idea to fight against Russia on several fronts at once sits right in the subcortex of our partners.
What awaits us today in the Far East? First, the information war. The Anglo-Saxon media will broadcast from every iron that Russia is invading somewhere in the Pacific region, threatening something there and generally behaving badly. This booming chorus will accompany all military exercises of our and Chinese fleets. Information support for American sabotage and provocations will proceed in their usual vein: "It is Russia who is to blame for everything".
Secondly, the Americans will climb into the Taiwan Strait, provoke the Chinese comrades and activate their Taiwanese proxies. The State Department has just approved the supply of American weapons to Taiwan. The amount of the transaction is more than a billion dollars. Plus there are American radars. Plus partisans. Everything is ready to set fire to a new hot spot.
And finally, the Americans can arrange large-scale exercises in the immediate vicinity of our borders. The same Seth Cropsey has already painted a whole plan. For a start, it would be good to arrange in the Sea of Okhotsk, not far from the bases of our submarines equipped with nuclear weapons, large-scale anti-submarine exercises with the participation of American and Japanese warships.
Not only that, "Washington could even use one of its expeditionary strike groups in these exercises, simulating amphibious attacks on Russian positions on Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands", Cropsey continues: "So the United States will demonstrate the ability to put pressure on Russian by means of a second nuclear strike. This will force Russia to redeploy military forces to the Far East and reduce its combat power in Ukraine".
In general, the US military urgently needs to open a second Ukrainian front – preferably closer to Taiwan, so as not to get up twice, as they say.
There is no doubt that they will lose there just as incompetently as in the first.
[Note: Some words and/or phrases appearing in quotes in this report are English language approximations of Russian words/phrases having no exact counterpart.]
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\section{ Introduction}

It is quite well known that the scattering amplitude describing the scattering of particles with a long-range interaction, such as the Coulomb one, composed of  a slowly varying amplitude and a possibly  rapidly varying phase. This results in a quantal cross section which is devoid of oscillations and which exactly coincides with the corresponding classical cross section. The reason for this is understood semi-classically, in the sense that in the evaluation of the quantal amplitude using the stationary phase method, one finds only one dominant contribution. The absence of oscillations in the scattering of non-identical particles with long range interaction, is changed when dealing with identical particles as the scattering amplitude in this case has to be symmetrized (bosons) or anti-symmetrized (fermions). In these cases one encounters rather strong oscillations in the cross section arising from the interference of the amplitude evaluated at an angle $\theta$ and the one at $\pi - \theta$. The resulting, Mott, cross section is oscillatory and can be used to assess the importance of other weaker interactions which may be present. This idea has been explored by several authors in the case of heavy-ion scattering, where the long range interaction is the Coulomb one and the weaker interactions, can be long-ranged, such as multipole polarizability \cite{lynch1982,lynch1982B}, relativistic effects \cite{hussein1984}, color van der Waals force \cite{hussein1990, villari1993}, or short-ranged, such as the nuclear interaction \cite{hussein1984,hussein1984B}. In this contribution we demonstrate that the Mott cross section in the absence of the weaker forces (pure Coulomb) can become structureless at a certain value of the Sommerfeld parameter \cite{canto2001}. This surprising effect can be explored to pin down the properties of the short-range nuclear interaction at energies well below the Coulomb barrier. In the next sections we give the details of our recent investigation \cite{canto2013,canto2014}.

\section{Mott oscillations and their disappearance: Transverse Isotropy}
We consider the scattering of two charged particles (nuclei) with charges $Z_p$ and $Z_t$. The interaction is  predominantly Coulomb. with a small nuclear contribution.  The unsymmetrized scattering amplitude is given by,
\begin{equation}
f_{\rm \scriptscriptstyle{c}}(\theta)=-\frac{a}{2}\  e^{2i\sigma_{0}}\ \
\frac{e^{-i\eta\ln(\sin^{2}\theta/2)}}{\sin^{2}(\theta/2)} = A_{\rm C}(E,\theta) e^{i\Delta_{\rm C} (E,\theta)},
\label{fc}
\end{equation}
\noindent
where the amplitude, $A_{\rm C}(E, \theta)$ and the phase, $\Delta_{\rm C}(E, \theta)$ are defined in Eq.~(\ref{fc})
\begin{equation}
A_{\rm C}(E, \theta) = - \frac{a}{2\sin^{2}(\theta/2)}
\end{equation}
\begin{equation}
\Delta_{\rm C}(E, \theta) = 2\sigma_{0} -\eta\ln(\sin^{2}\theta/2)
\end{equation}

\noindent
and where $\eta$ and $a$ are respectively the Sommerfeld parameter, and half the distance of closest approach in a head-on collision (zero impact parameter), given by
\begin{equation}
\eta = \frac{Z_p Z_{t}e^2}{\hbar v},\qquad a=\frac{Z_p Z_{t}e^2}{2E_{\rm c.m.}}.
\end{equation}
Above, $v$ is the relative velocity, and $\sigma_{0}$ is the s-wave Coulomb phase shift
\begin{equation}
\sigma_{0}=\arg \big\{ \Gamma(1+i\eta) \big\},
\label{sig0}
\end{equation}

\noindent where $\Gamma$ stands for the usual Gamma-function.

An excellent approximation for $\sigma_0$ was obtained in \cite{barata2011},

\begin{equation}
\sigma_{0} = \frac{1}{2}\tan^{-1}\left( \eta \right)
+ \eta\bigg( \ln\left(\sqrt{ 1 + \eta^2 }\right) -1\bigg)
- \frac{\eta} {12\,\left(1+\eta^2\right)} .
\label{sig1}
\end{equation}

The Coulomb amplitude, Eq.~(\ref{fc}), must be symmetrized in the case of the scattering of identical bosonic charged particles, which for spin zero, $f(\theta) = f_{\rm C}(\theta) + f_{\rm C}(\pi - \theta)$. The resulting Mott cross section, $\sigma_{\rm M} (\theta)$ contains an incoherent, classical, piece, $\sigma_{\rm inc}(\theta)$, plus an interference one, $\sigma_{\rm int}(\theta)$, viz,

\begin{equation}
\sigma_{\rm M}(\theta) = \sigma_{\rm inc}(\theta) + \sigma_{\rm int}(\theta),
\label{inc-int}
\end{equation}
where $\sigma_{\rm inc}(\theta)$ is the incoherent sum of contributions from the two amplitudes, $f_{\rm C}(\theta)$, and $f_{\rm C}(180^{\rm o} - \theta)$,
\begin{equation}
\sigma_{\rm inc}(\theta) = \big| f_{\rm C}(\theta)\big|^2+\big|f_{\rm C}\left( 180^{\rm o}-\theta \right)  \big|^2,
\label{sig_inc}
\end{equation}
and $\sigma_{\rm int}(\theta)$ is the interference term,
\begin{equation}
\sigma_{\rm int}(\theta) = 2\,{\rm Re}\Big\{ f_{\rm C}^\ast (\theta)\,\times f_{\rm C} \left(180^{\rm o}-\theta \right) \Big\}.
\end{equation}
Note that the incoherent part of the cross section is positive-definite, whereas the interference term
may assume positive or negative values.\\

It was found in Ref. \cite{canto2001} that the full Mott cross section becomes flat at a critical value, $\eta_c = \sqrt{2}$, of the Sommerfeld parameter. This feature was coined $\textit{Transverse Isotropy}$, TI.This was accomplished by demanding that the second derivative of the cross section with respect to $\theta$ to be zero at $\theta = 90^{\rm o}$. Of all the heavy-ion systems which were considered, the best case for studying the TI was found to be the elastic scattering of two $^{4}$He nuclei, for which the condition $\eta_c =\sqrt{2}$ implies a center of mass energy of $E_{\rm c.m.} $= 0.397 MeV, well below the height of the Coulomb barrier, $V_{ B}$ = 0.87 MeV. This guarantees that, for all practical purposes, the scattering is purely Coulomb. Our calculation also indicated that at an energy below $E_c$ the cross section at $90^{\rm o}$ exhibits a maximum, while above the critical energy it exhibits a minimum. In 2006, Abdullah et al.  \cite{abdullah2006} published elastic data for the $\alpha + \alpha$ system at several energies starting from around the Coulomb barrier. In Fig.~(\ref{abdullah}) we show their results,

\begin{figure}[th]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=12 cm]{fig_abdullah.pdf}
\caption{(Color online) The experimental angular distributions for the $^4$He+$^4$He system at several
 collision energies. The figure was taken from Abdullah {\it et al.}~\cite{abdullah2006}. For details see the text.}
\label{abdullah}
\end{figure}

We see two flat regions followed by the usual oscillatory behavior. The first flat region is at $E_{\rm c.m.}$ = 1.0 MeV, and the second at $E_{\rm c.m.}$ = 1.5 MeV. Our calculation for a pure Coulomb potential Mott scattering predicts one flat region at $E_{\rm c.m.} \approx$ 0.4 MeV. This clearly indicates the influence of the short range nuclear interaction.

\section{Inclusion of the nuclear interaction}
In this section we investigate the influence of the nuclear interaction on the TI. We do this by adding this potential to the Coulomb one and solve the scattering problem. From the analytical point of view the determination of regions of the TI is more difficult here, but the calculation of the second derivative can be easily done numerically. First we give the salient feature of the symmetrized cross section in the presence of the nuclear interaction.\\

Using as a guide the form of the Rutherford cross section, Eq. (\ref{fc}), we can write the symmetrized cross section as

\begin{equation}
\frac{d\sigma}{d\Omega} = \sigma_{\rm inc} + \sigma_{int}
\end{equation}
\noindent
with the incoherent part $\sigma_{\rm inc}$, affected only very little by the short range nuclear interaction at sub-barrier energies,

\begin{equation}
\sigma_{\rm inc} = \frac{a^2}{4}\left[\frac{1}{\sin^4{(\theta/2)}} + \frac{1}{\cos^4{(\theta/2)}}\right]
\end{equation}
\noindent
and the coherent, interference, part $\sigma_{\rm int}$,
\begin{equation}
\sigma_{\rm int} = 2\sqrt{\sigma_{\rm C}(\theta)\sigma_{\rm C}(180^{\rm o} -\theta)}\cos{\Bigg([\Delta_{\rm C}(\theta) + \Delta_{\rm N}(\theta)] -  [\Delta_{\rm C}(180^{\rm o} - \theta) + \Delta_{\rm N}(180^{\rm o} - \theta)] \Bigg)}
\end{equation}
\noindent
which gives, with the help of Eq.~(\ref{fc}),
\begin{equation}
\sigma_{inc}(\theta) =  \frac{a^2}{2}\frac{1}{\sin^2{(\theta/2)}\cos^2{(\theta/2)}} \cos{\left(2\eta\ln\tan\frac{\theta}{2} + [\Delta_{\rm N}(\theta) - \Delta_{\rm N}(180^{\rm o} - \theta)]\right)}
\end{equation}
The second derivative of the full cross section at $\theta = 90^{\rm o}$ is evaluated for a nuclear interaction used in Ref.~\cite{abdullah2006}. They employed the following nuclear force,
\begin{equation}
 V_{\rm N}(r) = - V_A e^{-(r/R_A)^2} + V_R e^{-(r/R_R)^2}
 \label{nucl-pot}
 \end{equation}
\noindent
where, $V_A$ = 122.62 MeV, $R_A$ = 2.132 fm, $V_R$ = 3.0 MeV, and $R_R$ = 2.0 fm, and a Coulomb interaction behaving as $4e^2/r$ for $r > R_C$, with $R_C$ = 5.8 fm and for $r < R_C$,

 \begin{equation}
 V_C(r) = \frac{4e^2}{2R_C}\left[3 - \left(\frac{r}{R_C}\right)^2\right]
 \label{could-pot2}
 \end{equation}

\noindent
The above potentials, $V_{\rm N}(r)$, $V_{\rm C}(r)$, and $V_{\rm N}(r) + V_{\rm C}(r)$ are shown in Fig. (\ref{potentialAbdullah}).

\begin{figure}[th]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=8 cm]{pot_alpha-alpha_BMFC-barrier.pdf}
\caption{(Color online) The $\alpha + \alpha$ potential of Ref. \cite{abdullah2006}. The nuclear potential is the sum of two Gaussians, Eq.(\ref{nucl-pot}). The Coulomb potential is taken as $V_{\rm C}(r) = \frac{4e^2}{r}\Theta(r -R_C) + \frac{4e^2}{2R_C}[3 - (r/R_C)^2]\Theta(R_C - r)$, where $\Theta(x)$ is the step function.}
\label{potentialAbdullah}
\end{figure}

The nuclear phase is directly related to the nuclear potential and, to first order, is given by,

 \begin{equation}
 \Delta_{\rm N} = - \sqrt{\frac{2\mu}{\hbar^2}}\int_{r_0}^{\infty}\frac{V_{\rm N}(r)}{\sqrt{E - V_{\rm C}(r) - \frac{\hbar^2 l(l + 1)}{2\mu r^2}}}dr
\end{equation}
\noindent
where $r_0 = 2a$ is the distance of closest approach for head-on collision.

The above formulae can be used to assess the importance of the nuclear interaction on the Mott scattering. In fact, this procedure, based on perturbation theory, was used in Refs.~ \cite{hussein1990, villari1993,hussein1984,hussein1984B}. It would be instructive to perform the calculation of the second derivative of the cross section and demands that it be zero at $\theta$ = 0.0, to find the nuclear modified critical Sommerfeld parameter, which would be $\eta_c = \sqrt{2} + \delta\eta(E)$. We leave this exercise for a future work. In the following, however, we perform the calculation exactly, by solving the scattering Schr\"{o}dinger equation (optical model calculation)

The result of the optical model calculation of the second derivative of the symmetrized cross section at $\theta = 90^{\rm o}$ is given in Fig.(\ref{dersecGauss}). We see two clear crossings of the horizontal axis at 0.5 MeV and at 2.5 MeV. These crossing points correspond to TI . Between these two points, at $E_{\rm c.m.} \approx$ 1.4 MeV, the second derivative attains a very small value, very close to zero. We may take this point as a third TI. It is interesting to note that the TI at the lowest energy, $E_{\rm c.m.}$ = 0.4 MeV, is shifted by the nuclear interaction to $E_{\rm c.m.}$ = 0.5 MeV, indicating a slightly smaller value of $\eta_c$ than $\sqrt{2}$. The data of Ref.~\cite{abdullah2006} exhibit two TI's, one at $E_{\rm c.m.}$ = 1.0 MeV, and the other one at 1.5 MeV. Had the authors of Ref.~\cite{abdullah2006} extended their measurement to energies, below the barrier, they would probably have encountered the TI at around (0.4 - 0.5) MeV. It would therefore  be quite interesting to perform measurements of the elastic scattering of $\alpha + \alpha$ at around $E_{\rm c.m.} \approx$ 0.4 MeV and verify our findings.\\

\begin{figure}[th]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=8 cm]{secder_BFWC_4He-4He}
\caption{(Color online) Second derivative of the Mott cross section at $\theta = 90^{\rm o}$ for the BFWC potential of Fig. (\ref{potentialAbdullah}). The dotted line is the usual Mott (only Coulomb) result, while the solid line takes
into account both the Coulomb and the Nuclear potentials.}
\label{dersecGauss}
\end{figure}

\section{Conclusions}
In this work, we summarized our research on the phenomenon of Transverse Isotropy, predicted to occur in the low energy scattering of identical charged particles. At a critical value of the Sommerfeld parameter $\eta = \sqrt{2}$, the cross section becomes quite flat. The c.m. energy corresponding to this value of $\eta$, is found to be below the height of Coulomb barrier only for a very few systems. We considered the system $\alpha + \alpha$ at sub-barrier energies and compared our findings to the experimental data of \cite{abdullah2006}. We found that whereas our calculation exhibits only one flat region, the data, taken at energies above the barrier, show two flat regions. The region we have predicted at $E_{\rm c.m.}$ = 0.4 MeV was not accessed by the experimental group. The difference in the results of our calculation and the data is attributed to the importance of the nuclear interaction even sub-barrier energies. By including the nuclear interaction in our calculation, we accounted reasonably well for several features of the data. This clearly indicates that the study of TI could shed light on the nuclear interaction at very low energies. \\

\section*{Acknowledgments}
This work was supported by the CNPq, FAPESP, CAPES/ITA, FAPERJ and UFF.

\section*{References}

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[UPDATED] 2 shot dead in St Augustine; 40 homicides in 24 days – More murders than days
5 days ago ·3 min read
Twopeople including 16-year-old Darshan Ramnauth were shot dead at Freeman Road St Augustine. Photo by Sureash Cholai
MERE days away from his 17th birthday, a St Augustine schoolboy was gunned down while going to check on his grandmother on Tuesday afternoon, after hearing gunshots outside their home.
Police said gunmen in a grey Toyota Corolla drove to Freeman Street, St Augustine at around 2.20 pm and shot a man known only as Geno, killing him instantly and wounding two others, one of whom is a visually impaired man.
As the gunshots rang out, 16-year-old Darshan Ramnauth ran out of his house to check on his grandmother Soorajie Mahabir, who lives nearby.
As he walked on to the street, Ramnauth was spotted by the gunmen who turned their weapons on him. As the frightened teen turned and ran off, he was chased. Gunshots rang out once again and the youth collapsed on the road. The killers got back into their car and drove off.
Caption: Darshan Ramnauth, 16, was shot and killed near his Freeman Road, St Augustine, home on Tuesday afternoon.
A report was made to police and while the wounded men were taken away to hospital for treatment, screams rent the air as Ramnauth's relatives including his grandmother stared at his body.
The district medical officer arrived later and ordered both bodies removed to the Forensic Science Centre in St James for autopsies.
Less than an hour after the double-murder, police from the North Central Division arrested three men in Five Rivers, Arouca and seized three pistols and an AK-47 assault rifle. One of the pistols was outfitted with an extended magazine. Police could not say if these three were Ramnauth's killers.
The double-murder, plus another murder on Tuesday in El Socorro, meant that there were 40 murders up to January 24.
When Newsday visited the scene on Tuesday afternoon, crime scene investigators and police from the Homicide Bureau of Investigations Region II were still continuing enquiries, taking statements and photographing the area.
Ramnauth's mother, Dhanmatie Ramnauth said she got a call while at her Mt Hope workplace from a relative telling her that Darshan was killed.
She said Darshan was a form five student of St Augustine Secondary School and was expected to write CSEC examinations later this year.
Ramnauth said her son wanted to go to Tobago for his birthday on February 1, and worked part-time as a straightener and painter for an auto body show to make money. She said he stayed at home on Monday and Tuesday to finish working on a car.
CRIME SCENE: An officer processes the scene in Freeman Street, St Augustine after a double-murder on Tuesday which claimed the lives of a man and a 16-year-old schoolboy. Photo by Sureash Cholai
"He was waiting on the boy (co-worker) to pick him up to go in St Joseph, that's where they do the straightening and painting. His sister said he just finished eating and went to use the washroom.
"When he came outside, he heard the gunshots. He thought the car with the gunmen left already, that's when he ran across the road to see if his grandmother was okay. She was cooking at the time.
"When he went outside, the gunmen saw him, chased him and shot him down," Ramnauth said. Police said they did not believe the teen was the target of the gunmen.
Ramnauth said innocent people, including children, are being killed in this country for simply being in the wrong place at the wrong time. "It's the innocent who are getting killed, that is the worst part." Darshan's father, Kishore Ramnauth, died before he was born.
Nearby, the teen's grandmother sat on a chair and sobbed. She was consoled by a policewoman who gently sapped her head with a liquid lotion. The elderly woman was too overcome with grief to speak with Newsday.
Gunman killed during murder attempt identified
Ramnauth said her son had dreams of migrating to Colorado, USA after he wrote his exams, to live and work with relatives.
Recalling her last interaction with her son, Ramnauth said she spoke with him on Monday night to ask if he wanted anything to eat before going to bed. She did not get the chance to speak with him on Tuesday morning as he was still asleep when she left for work.
Editor's Note: This story is an update for an earlier story published online, which can be read below:
A 16-YEAR-OLD schoolboy was one of two people gunned down in St Augustine on Tuesday afternoon.
Police said a dark-coloured car drove into Freeman Road at around 2.20 pm.
Gunmen shot at a man identified only as Geno, killing him.
Police said the man was not from the area.
As the shooting was taking place, schoolboy Darshan Ramnauth got out of his house to check on his grandmother who was outside. The killers saw the teen and chased him down, shooting him several times. He died at the scene.
Two other people who were also wounded in the attack, were taken to hospital.
Newsday visited the area as crime scene investigators and officers of the Homicide Bureau of Investigations Region II conducted their enquiries.

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A  is a single person who lives with their parents beyond their late 20s or early 30s to enjoy a more carefree and comfortable life. In Japanese culture, the term is especially used when negatively describing young unmarried women.

Etymology
The expression parasaito shinguru was first used by Professor Masahiro Yamada of Tokyo Gakugei University in his bestselling book , published in October 1999. The catchy phrase quickly found its way into the media and is now a well-known expression in Japan.

Professor Yamada subsequently coined the related term parasite couple to refer to married children living with the parents of one partner. However, this situation occurs less frequently and the term parasite couples is less well known. This is a traditional Japanese living arrangement, though its prevalence has decreased in recent years.

Dynamics
This situation allows the children to live in considerable comfort, and while many save money, others spend all their income on luxury items, traveling, and other non-essential expenses. Many children wish to live with their parents until they marry.

The parents, for their part, often enjoy living with their children. Many parents want to protect their children and offer them the best possible start in life. Parents also enjoy the company and the social interaction and try to maintain the relationship. The additional expenses for the parents due to the additional household member are usually small, as the fixed costs such as rent must be paid regardless, and the additional cost for food and other consumables is sometimes negligible. Many parents also see this as an investment in their future, as the children will be more obliged to take care of their parents in their old age (in Japan, it is traditional that children care for their elderly and disabled parents).

Japanese women
A growing number of young women are remaining unmarried in Japan today, a development often viewed as a rebellion against the traditional confines of women's restrictive roles as wives and mothers. The percent of Japanese women still single in their twenties was 30.6% in 1985 and 54% in 2004.

Young women's lifestyles instead center on friends, work, and spending disposable income; unmarried Japanese adults typically live with their parents, thus saving on household expenses and increasing the amount of money available to spend on their own entertainment. Sociologist Masahiro Yamada gave these young adults the label "parasitic singles." Some young women reacted by creating business cards with their names and the title "Parasite Single" on them. Japanese media has given heavy coverage to the decline in Japan's birthrate, but the trend continues.

Causes
There is a sense of community to sharing a home with other people in general. Life in modern societies has become more physically isolated. Japan is at the extreme of this spectrum, with much of life revolving around workplace interactions. The multi-generation home living arrangement is only considered unusual relative to the standards of the late 20th century and early 21st century. Many view this as a result of consumer-economics stigma which favors economic competition above personal enrichment, enjoyment and appreciation of life. The aspect of young people not working  mirrors other things that are often considered economic parasitism in some ways.  People who make a distinction between this and the types of things often labeled as economic parasitism point out that in Japan and the United States, the older generations currently dominate the mid and high level work positions. Supporters of this view argue that the phenomenon as the inevitable result of a rebellion in reaction to a rapidly changing world in which the powerful forces of society simultaneously condemn young people for lacking ambition, while seeking to limit their freedom them without much prospect for fulfilling, balanced lives, nor even physical security in the intermediate future.

The housing costs in Japan are notoriously high, especially in or near large cities. A parasite single who chose to live independently would, on average, lose 2/3 of their disposable income. Furthermore, they would also have to do cleaning and cooking for themselves. Finally, establishing a household has a large up-front cost for durable items, e.g. a refrigerator, furniture, washing machine, and other items. The security deposit, traditional monetary gift for the landlord ("key money"), and the housing agent fee can also easily reach six months' rent; this is non-refundable and must be paid in advance. In summary, becoming independent involves large expenses, work, and a significant drop in living standard. Furthermore, as the vast majority of the Japanese population is concentrated in cities, all the employment and entertainment options desired are within reach from the parental home.

The economic advantages are enjoyed by all types of parasite singles, although there are different subgroups. Career oriented young salarymen, career women, and office ladies could afford to live on their own, but prefer the financial benefits, and perhaps the company and security, of living at home.

Often, they can only find part-time and low-paid jobs, turning into underemployed, so-called freeters, who cannot afford to live independently, regardless of whether they would like to or not. Finally, some do not want to face the competition of the outside world at all, and so, do not seek work, and, in extreme situations, try to not even leave their parents' house. These people are referred to as hikikomori (people who withdraw from society, literally to "withdraw into seclusion").

Genda Yuji, associate Professor of the Institute of Social Science (University of Tokyo), widened the perspective from the rise of so-called "parasite singles" through proposing a socioeconomic-driven view, strongly connected to the collapse of bubble economy, and the inability of the country's employment system to react after the crisis:

Social impact

One possible side-effect of the parasite single phenomenon is the increase of the average age of the first marriage (though this is also attributable to other factors, such as career prospects and education). While in 1970, Japanese women married on average at age 24 and men at age 27, by 2002, this had increased to 27.4 years for women and 29 years for men. This has also resulted in women having children later in life, and fewer children overall due to the decline in fertility after age 30. Subsequently, while in 1983 there were on average 1.8 children born to every woman over her lifetime, this has decreased to 1.22 children per woman in 2008.

Similar arrangements outside Japan
These lifestyles are not confined to Japanese society; similar arrangements can also be found in other cultures. In Italy, parasite singles were offensively called bamboccioni ("grown-up big spoiled babies") in 2007 by former minister Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, voluntarily ignoring the situation of a considerable part of the 20- to 30-year-old population. In post-communist Central Europe, the phenomenon is more accepted, possibly due to socio-economic reasons and soaring housing prices. In English-speaking nations, the term "basement dweller" has connotations that imply a person lives with their parents because they do not have enough money to move out, and if they had enough money would be living on their own.

A different concept of parasite single is found in Brazil, where some individuals are said to have a Paitrocínio (a wordplay between the words pai/father and patrocínio/sponsorship). This word is used not for the ones living in their parents' homes, but for the ones who did leave home, but still rely solely, or majorly, on their parents' financial support. The reasons for leaving home before achieving financial independence vary, but mostly it is due to college or to start a career with small or uncertain initial incomes, such as in arts and sports.

See also
Japanese social phenomena:
 The Anatomy of Dependence, Japanese book
 Family policy in Japan
 herbivore men
 hikikomori
 Japanese family
 Marriage in Japan
 Working women in Japan

General:
 Boomerang Generation
 incel
 NEET
 singleton (lifestyle)
 sub-replacement fertility

References

External links
In the UK: Adult kids 'fail to leave home'
Unable or Unwilling to Leave the Nest? – Discussion paper by Mariko Tran in the electronic journal of contemporary japanese studies
Parasites in Prêt-à-Porter

Society of Japan
Japanese family structure
Economy of Japan
Demographics
Demographics of Japan
Poverty in Japan
1999 neologisms
Pejorative terms for people

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Tracing the History of the Bolshoi
Simon Morrison:
"Bolshoi Confidential"
512 pages, b/w illustrations
W.W. Norton & Company, October 2016
Prompted by the abominable acid attack on Sergei Filin in early 2013, Nick Read and Mark Franchetti put the spotlight on what was going on behind the scenes of the Bolshoi Ballet. Their film "Bolshoi Babylon" was followed by a substantial book this October: "Bolshoi Confidential", penned by Simon Morrison, professor of music at Princeton University focusing mainly on Russian and Soviet music. Morrison is an assiduous writer and the author of a number of books, two of them about Sergey Prokofiev. As it was for Read and Franchetti, the assault on Filin is also Morrison's springboard. Yet he considerably widens the perspective on his subject.
The history of the Bolshoi, initially called Petrovsky Theatre, began in 1776, when Catherine the Great granted the Russian Prince Urusov exclusive rights for theatrical presentations. Urusov teamed up with the Englishman Michael Maddox, "either a mathematician or tightrope walker during his youth", but financial straits forced him to surrender the reins to Maddox. Morrison takes us from there through almost 250 years of meandering, tumultuous evolution.
A stupendous amount of details and anecdotes illustrates how the Bolshoi overcame Napoleon's invasion, then artistically prospered under imperial reign before being massively restricted in its artistic vitality by the Russian Bolsheviks. Three times destroyed by fire, the theater building has always been reconstructed on nearly the same place. It became bigger, more imposing and, though slowly, was equipped with the technical innovations of the time. Since 1825 it was commonly called the Bolshoi – meaning "Grand" – Theatre. (more…)
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John Neumeier's "A Streetcar named Desire", based on Tennessee Williams's drama of the same title, is probably not a piece one would be eager to see several times in a row. Unless one is hard-boiled. Calling it disturbing is too lenient. Its dense, oppressive atmosphere and brutal physicality that finally seals the mental destruction of its main character, Blanche DuBois, devours one. As food for thought, a single dose of this ballet brings along with it more than enough indigestion.
Neumeier has woven a masterful psychological drama, whose intensity might even surpass the stage play. What the dancers' bodies express is more direct than any spoken word. Stuttgart Ballet has now again revived the two-act piece which Neumeier had created for the Baden-Wuerttemberg company in 1983. Back then the forty-six year old Marcia Haydée and Richard Cragun danced the leading characters, Blanche and Stanley.
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Scholars agree that oracles existed and even flourished in ancient times. The presence of the oracle is generally credited with beginning at approximately 800 B.C. Apollo's oracle at Delphi prevailed for over one thousand years. The ancient Greeks, when faced with a perplexing decision to be made, consulted oracles. These consultations with the oracle were of prime importance to the Greeks and the event was so meaningful and serious that it was treated in a ritualistic manner.
The belief that it's possible to make contact with the dead found in many cultures dating back to biblical times - peaked during the Spiritualist movement in the latter half of the 19th Century, when adherents included biologist Alfred Russell Wallace and author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Mediums such as Ruth Montgomery, and Arthur Ford, have been offering grieving contact with the spirit world for decades.
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His psychic readings constitute one of the largest and most impressive records of intuitive information to emanate from a single individual. For many years the information dealt mainly with medical problems. Eventually the scope of his readings expanded to include such topics as meditation, dreams, reincarnation, and prophecy.
Today, psychics and mediums have become more accepted and respected as a viable professional service. The interest in psychics and mediums are booming, as measured by the sale of books, newspapers, magazines, radio and television appearances, and the demand for psychic and mediums' services.
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Energy is omnipresent where there is no real past, present or future. In this place of non-time I can connect with what some might term past lives. Information gleaned from these other life times seem to help with concerns, decisions, and blockages in present time. I also read the energy field that permeates and surrounds the body, picking up information about dramatic childhood experiences, behavior patterns, even beliefs, all of which have bearing on the person's physical health.
As a medium I have the ability to connect with energies of people who have crossed over, which means their soul left the physical body, and the survival of consciousness communicates with me. Communication comes through telepathic communication. There's three different ways that they can communicate to me: One is clairvoyance, which translates into "clear seeing"; clairaudience, which is "clear hearing"; and clairsentience, which is "clear feeling." Information can a come in a symbolic language or as a metaphor. The spirits have no bodies, so mostly, they communicate in series of symbols, images and letters, that they select out of my own frame of reference.
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The way I praised her took a little effort on my part. If I hadn't known better, I might have just said, "Clever girl!" (Or even "Here, let me help you with that.") What's so bad about that? Read on.
What creates these beliefs in our kids? The type of praise we give them–even starting at age 1.
Resilience is defined as an ability to recover from, or adjust easily to, misfortune or change.
In 1896, Francis Galton published "Heredity Genius" his landmark investigation into the factors underlying achievement. He found that success wasn't simply a matter of intelligence or talent. Instead, Galton concluded that eminent achievement was only possible when "ability was combined with zeal and the capacity for hard labour." Lewis-Terman, the inventor of the Stanford-Binet IQ test came to the same conclusion. Whilst the most accomplished people did have slightly higher scores, he found that other traits such as 'perseverance' were much more pertinent.
How we help our children approach misfortune or change will have a significant say in the people they will eventually become. A resilient child is able to adapt when faced with adversity and feels competent when solving new problems. They view obstacles as challenges to rise to, instead of stressors to avoid.
How can we as parents help? Well, we need to model resilient behaviours and help promote resilience through words, actions and the environment in which our children are being raised. Praise our children for having a go, for their effort & resourcefulness, as Carol Dweck has talked about in her research.
A sense of optimism – the ability to believe things will work out, in spite of evidence to the contrary. This doesn't mean burying our head in the sand but does mean being a glass half full not half empty person, and taking responsibility for choosing how to act and feel.
Physical exercise – a commitment to physical health & activity, no matter what. There is so much research to show that physical exercise and mental health go hand in hand.
Problem solving capability – the creative capacity to work through a challenge in various ways. Having a growth mindset and believing our contribution can make a difference to an outcome. Remembering the importance of praising the effort not the achievement, the journey not the destination.
Social connection – having a network of resources & support via friends, family and other relationships. It's not healthy to have just one or two best friends but to have a wide circle of friends. We need people to talk to and confide in when something worries us.
Flexibility – the ability to adapt to unexpected scenarios. Helping children to understand that things don't always go as planned. Being flexible and able to change is an important characteristic of resilience. When a child is going through a life transition or big change, this can be a great learning opportunity to show how change can be dealt with and perceived in a positive way.
Being able to express emotions – the honest identification & communication of emotions without habitual negativity. It's OK to say we're nervous, or frightened, or disappointed, or proud, or sad.


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The McRib sandwich at McDonald's is back, and while I'm no fast food junkie, news of its return sparked my curiosity. I'm not planning on running out to my local Mickey D's and picking up a ribless rib sandwich; in fact, last time I even was in a McDonald's, it was merely to quench my thirst with an iced tea.
What caught my interest about the McRib is the marketing strategy around it. After 16 years of being off the menu (aside from in Germany), and only sporadically available at a few select McDonald's locations in the U.S. at any given time, McRib came back nationally in 2010 for a three-week stint, and it's back on the menu again this year for a similar run, until November 14.
For this boneless barbecue pork sandwich on a toasted bun with onions, pickles and barbecue sauce, it seems the old saying about absence making the heart grow fonder is true. There is a cult-like following for this sandwich and even a McRib Locator for fans to report McRib sightings and find their closest sandwich.
For those in McNeed of McRib, the "McRib Locator" will help you find the closer McDonald's that is offering the barbeque delight.
Is the popularity of the McRib a result of the culinary greatness of the sandwich, or might it have something to do with its limited availability? This "get it while you can", limited time offer ploy is a long-time strategy of marketers everywhere; you see it with TV offers all the time—"Call in the next ten minutes and we'll throw in (insert snazzy promotional product here) with your purchase!" It's the supply and demand model in practice.
And it's not just the "As Seen on TV" crowd using this strategy. Disney has been limiting the availability of its at home movies for years with the Disney Vault, rereleasing movies to a new generation for a limited time after years of being locked away.
Disney used a similar practice last month with a limited running of The Lion King 3D in theaters before its Blu-Ray release. Even though it was a reissue, the movie earned the top spot in U.S. box office. It goes to show you that sometimes, taking something away, or limiting the availability of it, does make it more desirable and people will rush out to get it.
It is probably this success that has driven Warner Bros. to adopt a similar model with the Harry Potter films. After the release of the final film on DVD and Blu-Ray next month, Warner Bros. will stop shipping all of the movies, starting on December 29, creating an air of exclusivity around the film due to the limited supply.
This strategy works with brands like Disney, Harry Potter and McDonald's because they have generated the loyal fan base (which I wrote about in my last blog post) with the emotional tie-in to these products (perhaps fond memories of watching The Little Mermaid while enjoying a McRib?). They have the enthusiasts who are willing to wait and clamor to the stores or restaurants to get their hands on an elusive DVD or sandwich, and it's likely that if these products were available all the time, there would be no specialness to them and no buzz and excitement—the McRib would be just another Big Mac.
So, are you lovin' it? Do you eagerly await the return of McRib, Starbucks's seasonal beverages, etc. or are you annoyed you can't get these things year-round, whenever you want them? Do you think these would be successful year-round or is it the exclusivity that makes them popular? Share your comments below—for a limited time only.
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Season 1 Episode 8 features an interview with Natasha Johnson: activist, artist, advocate, academic, attorney, yoga instructor and the founder of Globalizing Gender. In this week's episode we discuss female genital mutilation and cutting - what it is, why and how it happens, how it impacts sexual and reproductive health (including pregnancy and childbirth), and how it shows up in New York City.
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Natasha has been an educator for 21 years and an attorney for 15 years. In 2015 she founded Globalizing Gender (GG) where she educates, prevents, and reforms Gender-Based Violence (GBV) through capacity building, rule of law, governance, and awareness. Natasha organized NYC's inaugural march to end FGM/C in the United States and is currently co-authoring NYC's first holistic FGM/C legislation. As an artist she curates public forums and creates editorial-styled work that critiques and raises awareness of GBV. Natasha earned her Juris Doctorate from CUNY School of Law, her yoga certification from Breathe for Change, and her Bachelor's Degree from Columbia University.
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a. Analyse the effectiveness of a range of strategies which an organization could use to improve engagement with its employees.
b. Using an organization of your knowledge comment on how the company has implemented employee engagement techniques.
a. Explain each element of Porters Five Forces Analysis.
b. Apply each element of Porter's Five Forces Analysis to an organisation of your choice.
a. Explain how the effective use of the communicaiton process model can improve communications within a business organization.
b. Outline two communications skills which could be used by senders to improve their interpersonal communication skills and two communication skills which can be used by receivers to improve their interpersonal communication skills.
Discuss the view that some leaders are born to be great (trait theory), whilst others become leaders by developing their leadership skills.
c. Evaluate the appropriatness of the use of verbal and non-verbal communications within a business organisation.
Physical - In this process the staffs exert the right kind of energy to accomplish the task that has been assigned to the members.
Emotional – It is related to the efforts that have been put in by the staffs to perform the task.
Cognitive – In this method, the staffs perform the job, without worrying about anything.
The process for communicating the strategy (Attridge, 2009).
Drafting policies for engaging the engagement strategy over the period of time.
It increases the sense of belongingness towards the company, which is required for carrying out the tasks.
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Rivalry: Competitive rivalry is important to identify the particular industry. The important key is to assess the competitors and to offer the resources. The rivalry will be high if there is low differentiation between the products sold by the competitors. Competitors are also of the same size of each other. The strategies depend on the competitors' actions and the tools as well as resources. Rivalry intensifies that there is low cost of switching and the competitors are dissatisfied with the market position.
Supplier's power: Suppliers are vital for success of an organization and it offers business with the resources that requires dealing with the products and services. Suppliers are those organizations that offer important factors in the industry to conduct the business. The suppliers play a powerful and vital role. In the market, suppliers try to increase the profits. It will increase the prices to as high a point as the market can afford. The higher the prices, the stronger will be the profits.
Buyer's power: Customers can exert influence and control over an industry in certain situations. There is less differentiation over the products and customers can easily found the substitutes. Price fluctuations create high sensitivity to customers and customers can switch the product which is less costly to them. Customers always wish to reduce the price they pay and it has a great effect on the price determination.
Substitutes: Competition not only comes from within the own market but from similar markets. It concentrates on products outside the direct market and substitutes contain capital, amount and satisfaction.
New entrants: Competitors can rush into the market because of high profits. There are barriers of entry in terms of high economies of scale, capital needs, easy accessibility of channels etc.
Entry barriers: Companies such as Maruti, Hero Honda are present in market from many years and it is not easy to avail huge benefits from economies of scale due to higher competition from the current players. Customer in this industry has high cost of switching and this is the major barrier in the industry. There is a huge distribution network.
Substitute's threat: There are two major substitutes known as airlines and railways. For every customer, these will not know as substitutes and within the automobile industry, it is a great advantage to Tata as two wheeler customers can also opt for cars after the successful launch of Nano car.
Supplier's power: While talking about steel, major inputs for the automobile industry in India is the demand of steel and it is more than its supply and most of the steel is imported from abroad. Thus, in this scenario also, automobile industry is lacking. When we talk about other inputs such as seat covers, plastics etc, the switching cost is zero and this way, there is a low bargaining power of suppliers.
Buyer's power: There will have low power of bargaining for the customers because it will affect the customers directly and the produced good also add values to the product. Company need to maintain strong relationship with suppliers to enjoy the advantages of discounted prices so there is a need of long term relationship with the suppliers. Thus there is high power of bargaining. When the power of buyer is strong, the buyer is the one who fixed the price in the market. Price sensitive customers were the major factors that determine the limit the influence of buyers in the industry.
Rivalry: The firm must produce high capacity to deal with the lowest costs. The firm must sell the high volume of product and high level of production that could attain the fight for market share and this result in high rivalry. It requires strong investment and the presence of many players leads to little differentiation between competitors. High would be the competition, there will have low profits.
Communication style is quite an important factor that contributes towards the successful business operational activities. In this method, the goals of the company have to be analysed as this will help in selecting the best communicating model.
Empowerment - In this method, the innovative strategies and the steps for creativity are evaluated. It means that the staffs of the company are provided with more power to develop and implement better ideas. This is required for improving the quality of services that is being provided to the clients. It basically involves two way communications, which is quite essential for the business development (Gonrig, 2008).
Controlled - In this process, the managers of the company adopts typical communication method for top-down and controlled task. The work environment is quite essential and the knowledge that is required to be shared with the members has to be interacted in the right manner. In this process, every line managers are entrusted with certain responsibilities.
Branding – Here, the companies stress a lot on the creation of the brand image, which is required for the successful business operational activities. In this method, the management of the company focus on different advertising and packaging materials that is been adopted by the company. Promotional activities are one of the best methods to interact with the clients and the potential buyers.
Direct marketing - In this method the company adopts effective steps through which the changes can be made by the management of the organization. Through this method, the company directly interacts with the clients and talk about the features of the product and services that has been rendered to the potential buyers (Maslach et al., 2001).
The type of communication skills that is being adopted by the company matters a lot when it is related to interacting with the employees. In this process, the method that is selected by the company has to be effective and tested for its reliability.
Listening skills is one of the prime requirements for implementing an effective communication skills. In this process, the managers ensure that the right steps are taken to communicate the information with the staffs and managers in the right manner. For this, a smooth and uninterrupted method for communication has to be adopted and implemented by the managers. This will ensure that the message is being communicated with the concerned members in the right manner. For this, the method that has been adopted is done in an acceptable manner (May et al., 2004).
In the second method, verbal communication method is adopted and implemented in a precise manner. This has been done to ensure that the right message has been passed on to the members. Apart from this, the quality of conversation that is being adopted by the managers and the staffs of the company have to be reliable. Also, for this the essential steps have to be taken to ensure that the message is understood in the right manner by the clients.
Verbal and non-verbal methods for communication are considered to be quite important for the successful operational activities of the business. In this case, an effort has to be made to ensure that the quality of communication between the members is clear and there is no confusion between the members. This is one of the reasons the verbal and non-verbal methods have to be adopted and implemented in the right manner. The process for communication between the managers and the non-managers staffs of the company has to be precise, and this can be done by presenting clear and accurate information to the recipients. Also, the step that needs to be followed for non-verbal method for communication has to be precise and up to the mark. In this case, the challenges that are related to the process of analysing the details or the contents that are mentioned on the communication method has to be checked upon. This will improve the quality of communication and ensure that there is no interruption in the process. It is quite important from the from the business communication point of view. Apart from this, the limitations that are involved in the process of verbal and non-verbal communication method have to be analysed. This will be helpful in adopting and implementing the right steps through which the chances can be implemented for increasing the quality of communication between the managers and others (Organisational Effectiveness, 2001).
Leaders are made by themselves and this leads to a person to take participation to provide the solution for the problems. The initiator is the leaders. Leader lives deep inside everyone and in terms of moving forward, the individual is required to focus on desires and leads to success. Leaders carry the process with respect to the knowledge and skills of leadership and it influences high group of individuals. This helps to attain the goals. This way, it inspires the workers into higher level of team work. It helps to improve the skills of leadership and it is a process of social influence. Thus it is to get accomplished. Leaders require others and it is to get accomplished.
As per the research, the factors such as personality traits are lived for long and are durable. Traits such as intelligence factors, physical attractiveness, and extraversion factors are the major traits that work as followers in a leader. It attains other attributes and other characteristics such as values, business and ethics. This way, an honest understanding of leader's trust is dependent on confidence. It is important to focus on emotions and motivation. Thus it leads to two way communication and communicates the strong relationship with employees.
Their main goal is to deal with movements and establish the direction through vision and motivation as well as inspiration. This way, trust and leadership generates huge satisfaction among employees and it also helps to understand the employee's goals and objectives with respect to the business objectives. It also helps in exchange of information and they reflect the concerns of organization with respect to employees, customers as well as investors. This way, the relationship is determined by the roles and responsibilities. It integrates to deal with the new task and strong relationship develops accordingly. These are the road to great success and leadership.
If there is desire and willpower, then they become an effective leader. Good leaders develop through an unending process of self-study, training and experience. This will help in the process. To motivate the employees into higher levels of team work, there are the requirements for continuous work and study. Effective leaders are working continuously to improve the skills and capacities of leadership.
Leader has an honest understanding of who you are, what you know and what you can do. They are the followers and not the leaders. If they do not trust or lack the confidence in their leader, it will not be uninspired. Different people need different styles of leadership and the person who lacks motivation and encouragement needs important approach. They lead through two-way communication and this way, it will gain interest and the sense of direction could be gained by strong vision in the future.
Leaders can be trusted in terms of trust and respect. The big five personality factors are called as openness, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism and extraversion. This aid to develop each factor and conscientiousness can be defined as the individual's tendency that needs to be organized, controlled and remain dependable. Agreeableness leads to trust, confirm and it is associated with leadership. Neuroticism is to be anxious, hostile and vulnerable. Openness is referred with respect to experience and extraversion is the personality factor that is strongly associated with respect to leadership.
Intelligence: Intelligence consistently in a wide pattern relates to positive leadership and the intellectual ability is not dissimilar from followers. It has a wide variety to leadership in terms of expression of ideas in terms of followers.
Self-confidence: With respect to high self-esteem, there is ability to lead the people and to influence others.
Determination: Leaders are often hard to understand and there is a great deal of understanding the adversity. Leaders show skills and abilities that constitute the motivational energy and it includes success.
Sociability: It is known as strong desire of leadership with respect to high quality. Leaders demonstrate the skills to be friendly and courteous. They have strong interpersonal skills with respect to communication. This way, it maintains social harmony.
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Spirit is the essence of Life and Being
Mind as we know it, as well as Matter and Energy, is held by the highest occult teachers to be but an appearance and a relativity of something far more fundamental and enduring, and we are compelled to fall back upon that old term which wise men have used in order to describe that Something Else that lies back of, and under, Matter, Energy and Mind–and that word is "Spirit."
We cannot tell just what is meant by the word "Spirit," for we have nothing with which to describe it. But we can think of it as meaning the "essence" of Life and Being–the Reality underlying Universal Life.
Of course no name can be given to this One, that will fitly describe it. But we have used the term "The Absolute" in our previous lessons, and consider it advisable to continue its use, although the student may substitute any other name that appeals to him more strongly. We do not use the word God (except occasionally in order to bring out a shade of meaning) not because we object to it, but because by doing so we would run the risk of identifying The Absolute with some idea of a personal god with certain theological attributes.
Nor does the word "Principle" appeal to us, for it seems to imply a cold, unfeeling, abstract thing, while we conceive the Absolute Spirit or Being to be a warm, vital, living, acting, feeling Reality. We do not use the word Nature, which many prefer, because of its materialistic meaning to the minds of many, although the word is very dear to us when referring to the outward manifestation of the Absolute Life. Of the real nature of The Absolute, of course, we can know practically nothing, because it transcends all human experience and Man has nothing with which he can measure the Infinite. Spinoza was right when he said that "to define God is to deny him," for any attempt to define, is, of course an attempt to limit or make finite the Infinite. To define a thing is to identify it with something else–and where is the something else with which to identify the Infinite? The Absolute cannot be described in terms of the Relative. It is not Something, although it contains within itself the reality underlying Everything. It cannot be said to have the qualities of any of its apparently separated parts, for it is the ALL. It is all that really IS.
It is beyond Matter, Force, or Mind as we know it, and yet these things emanate from it, and must be within its nature. For what is in the manifested must be in the manifestor–no stream can rise higher than its source–the effect cannot be greater than the cause–you cannot get something out of nothing.
But it is hard for the human mind to take hold of That which is beyond its experience–many philosophers consider it impossible–and so we must think of the Absolute in the concepts and terms of its highest manifestation. We find Mind higher in the scale than Matter or Energy, and so we are justified in using the terms of Mind in speaking of the Absolute, rather than the terms of Matter or Energy–so let us try to think of an Infinite Mind, whose powers and capacities are raised to an infinite degree–a Mind of which Herbert Spencer said that it was "a mode of being as much transcending intelligence and will, as these transcend mere mechanical motion."
While it is true (as all occultists know) that the best information regarding the Absolute come from regions of the Self higher than Intellect, yet we are in duty bound to examine the reports of the Intellect concerning its information regarding the One. The Intellect has been developed in us for use–for the purpose of examining, considering, thinking–and it behooves us to employ it. By turning it to this purpose, we not only strengthen and unfold it, but we also get certain information that can reach us by no other channel. And moreover, by such use of the Intellect we are able to discover many fallacies and errors that have crept into our minds from the opinions and dogmas of others–as Kant said: "The chief, and perhaps the only, use of a philosophy of pure reason is a negative one. It is not an organon for extending, but a discipline for limiting! Instead of discovering truth, its modest function is to guard against error." Let us then listen to the report of the Intellect, as well as of the higher fields of mentation.
One of the first reports of the Intellect, concerning the Absolute, is that it must have existed forever, and must continue to exist forever. There is no escape from this conclusion, whether one view the matter from the viewpoint of the materialist, philosopher, occultist, or theologian. The Absolute could not have sprung from Nothing, and there was no other cause outside of itself from which it could have emanated. And there can be no cause outside of itself which can terminate its being. And we cannot conceive of Infinite Life, or Absolute Life, dying. So the Absolute must be Eternal–such is the report of the Intellect.
This idea of the Eternal is practically unthinkable to the human mind, although it is forced to believe that it must be a quality of the Absolute. The trouble arises from the fact that the Intellect is compelled to see everything through the veil of Time, and Cause and Effect. Now, Cause and Effect, and Time, are merely phenomena or appearances of the relative world, and have no place in the Absolute and Real.
Let us see if we can understand this.
Reflection will show you that the only reason that you are unable to think of or picture a Causeless Cause, is because everything that you have experienced in this relative world of the senses has had a cause–something from which it sprung. You have seen Cause and Effect in full operation all about you, and quite naturally your Intellect has taken it for granted that there can be nothing uncaused–nothing without a preceding cause. And the Intellect is perfectly right, so far as Things are concerned, for all Things are relative and are therefore caused. But back of the caused things must lie THAT which is the Great Causer of Things, and which, not being a Thing itself, cannot have been caused–cannot be the effect of a cause. Your minds reel when you try to form a mental image of That which has had no cause, because you have had no experience in the sense world of such a thing, and there fail to form the image. It is out of your experience, and you cannot form the mental picture. But yet your mind is compelled to believe that there must have been an Original One, that can have had no cause. This is a hard task for the Intellect, but in time it comes to see just where the trouble lies, and ceases to interpose objections to the voice of the higher regions of the self.
And, the Intellect experiences a similar difficulty when it tries to think of an Eternal–a That which is above and outside of Time. We see Time in operation everywhere, and take it for granted that Time is a reality–an actual thing. But this is a mistake of the senses. There is no such thing as Time, in reality. Time exists solely in our minds. It is merely a form of perception by which we express our consciousness of the Change in Things.
We cannot think of Time except in connection with a succession of changes of things in our consciousness–either things of the outer world, or the passing of thought-things through our mind. A day is merely the consciousness of the passing of the sun–an hour or minute merely the subdivision of the day, or else the consciousness of the movement of the hands of the clock–merely the consciousness of the movement of Things–the symbols of changes in Things. In a world without changes in Things, there would be no such thing as Time. Time is but a mental invention. Such is the report of the Intellect.
And, besides the conclusions of pure abstract reasoning about Time, we may see many instances of the relativity of Time in our everyday experiences. We all know that when we are interested Time seems to pass rapidly, and when we are bored it drags along in a shameful manner. We know that when we are happy, Time develops the speed of a meteor, while when we are unhappy it crawls like a tortoise. When we are interested or happy our attention is largely diverted from the changes occurring in things–because we do not notice the Things so closely. And while we are miserable or bored, we notice the details in Things, and their changes, until the length of time seems interminable. A tiny insect mite may, and does, live a lifetime of birth, growth, marriage, reproduction, old age, and death, in a few minutes, and no doubt its life seems as full as does that of the elephant with his hundred years. Why? Because so many things haze happened! When we are conscious of many things happening, we get the impression and sensation of the length of time. The greater the consciousness of things, the greater the sensation of Time. When we are so interested in talking to a loved one that we forget all that is occurring about us, then the hours fly by unheeded, while the same hours seem like days to one in the same place who is not interested or occupied with some task.
Men have nodded, and in the second before awakening they have dreamed of events that seemed to have required the passage of years. Many of you have had experiences of this kind, and many such cases have been recorded by science. On the other hand, one may fall asleep and remain unconscious, but without dreams, for hours, and upon awakening will insist that he has merely nodded. Time belongs to the relative mind, and has no place in the Eternal or Absolute.
Next, the Intellect informs us that it must think of the Absolute as Infinite in Space–present everywhere–Omnipresent. It cannot be limited, for there is nothing outside of itself to limit it. There is no such place as Nowhere. Every place is in the Everywhere. And Everywhere is filled with the All–the Infinite Reality–the Absolute.
And, just as was the case with the idea of Time, we find it most difficult–if not indeed impossible–to form an idea of an Omnipresent–of That which occupies Infinite Space. This because everything that our minds have experienced has had dimensions and limits. The secret lies in the fact that Space, like Time, has no real existence outside of our perception of consciousness of the relative position of Things–material objects. We see this thing here, and that thing there. Between them is Nothingness. We take another object, say a yard-stick, and measure off this Nothingness between the two objects, and we call this measure of Nothingness by the term Distance. And yet we cannot have measured Nothingness–that is impossible. What have we really done? Simply this, determined how many lengths of yard-stick could be laid between the other two objects.
We call this process measuring Space, but Space is Nothing, and we have merely determined the relative position of objects. To "measure Space" we must have three Things or objects, i.e.,
(l) The object from which we start the measure;
(2) The object with which we measure; and
(3) The object with which we end our measurement.
We are unable to conceive of Infinite Space, because we lack the third object in the measuring process–the ending object. We may use ourselves as a starting point, and the mental yard-stick is always at hand, but where is the object at the other side of Infinity of Space by which the measurement may be ended? It is not there, and we cannot think of the end without it.
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So I've inherited this database with some invalid xml data in one table.
The statement fails with message: "XML parser error: character: 603, line:1, column:603 Illegal control character SQLCODE=-888, ODBC 3 State="HY000"
Looks like Volker's suggestion to first update the BLA_COLUMN to a Null value then to update to a valid XML, replacing char(26) with char (32), provides a workaround. Thanks Volker!
Do you have a support contract with SAP - it's beginning to look like you may need to open a case.
But in the meantime: The docs say: You can cast between the XML data type and any other data type that can be cast to or from a string. Note that there is no checking that the string is well-formed when it is cast to XML.
So it's looking a bit like you can write in anything, but can only read out well formed XML.
To check this can you try just selecting the XML into a string without trying to write anything back - I'm just wondering if there is more than one illegal character which is why Breck's method fails.
and see if you can then read what is in mytext.
Is the same true if you try to set the column to null (which would look like the previous contents is parsed, too)...?
Setting the column to Null first, then updating it with a valid XML (ie char 26 replaced with char 32) seems to do the trick.
I had a go reproducing the problem (on 10.0.1 and 16.0) but couldn't - I could select and update the bad XML without an issue - so I was wondering what was causing the problem. Anyway, you have a work around so that's great.
12.0.1.4085 shows the same success.
SQL Anywhere only validates XML when parsing it (for example, using OPENXML). It is not validated when inserting or updating a value, or casting to the XML type. I wonder if the original database has a trigger, computed column, or check constraint that ends up parsing the XML.
You guys are right. Having looked more carefully at the table, I've notice the presence of a trigger that indeed does some parsing on update (disabling the trigger allowed the updates of fixing the xml just fine). Can't believe that didn't cross my mind! So there you go, case closed. Thank you!
I think you need to convert the xml data to something that SQLA doesn't try to interpret.
not fast, but quicker than typing!
Is Breck's method allowed to work without the parser complaining?