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Construction work and the mobility imperative: changing rhythms along uncertain paths
Applied Mobilities 6(2):1-16
Lachlan B. Barber
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This article considers experiences of rhythmic change related to employment-related geographical mobilities in parts of the Canadian construction industry. Drawing on Lefebvrian rhythmanalysis and aspects of time-geography, we consider how workers and their loved ones negotiate changes in space-time patterns across careers in industrial construction, especially work at projects tied to resource development and extraction. Data are derived from in-depth career history interviews conducted with workers in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador between 2014 and 2018. Three "career path" cases illustrate mobile rhythms of differently positioned workers from their entry into construction to their career stage at the point of the interview, ranging from apprenticeship through mid-career journeyed to retirement. These workers pursue training and jobs involving variable mobilities between home and work across shifting locations. We contribute to recent efforts to highlight the compatibility of rhythmanalysis with an expanded, feminist, biographical approach to time-geography, and the applicability of such an approach for the applied study of mobilities. We also respond to recent calls to study experiences of rhythmic change in the lives of mobile and migrant workers. Findings reveal that changes in mobile rhythms may be small and incremental, as in the case of schedule or rotation adjustments, or sweeping and large scale, as in the case of shifts from working locally to working in distant locations amidst the disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Experiences of disruption and responses to change are personal and familial, conditioned by social positions and subjectivities.
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Introduction to Special Issue - Quilting points and cracking points: Engaging rhythmanalysis in critiques of precarious work-related mobilities
Emily R Reid-Musson
Occupational Health and Safety and the Mobile Workforce: Insights From a Canadian Research Program
Katherine Lippel
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Travel Time as Work Time? Nature and Scope of Canadian Labor Law's Protections for Mobile Workers
Dalia Gesualdi-Fecteau
Delphine Nakache
Laurence Matte Guilmain
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Sara Dorow
Shingirai Mandizadza
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Tim Edensor
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T I BRIT GEOGR
Silvia Marcu
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Tim Cresswell
Sharon R. Roseman
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On waiting, work-time and imagined futures: Theorising temporal precariousness among Chinese chefs in Sweden's restaurant industry
GEOFORUM
Linn Axelsson
Bo Malmberg
Qian Zhang
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Introduction: Thinking about Rhythm and Space
Markets, bodies, and rhythms: A rhythmanalysis of financial markets from open-outcry trading to high-frequency trading
Christian Borch
Kristian Bondo Hansen
Ann-Christina Lange
This article explores the relationship between bodily rhythms and market rhythms in two distinctly different financial market configurations, namely the open-outcry pit (prevalent especially in the early 20th century) and present-day high-frequency trading. Drawing on Henri Lefebvre's rhythmanalysis, we show how traders seek to calibrate their bodily rhythms to those of the market. We argue that, in the case of early-20th-century open-outcry trading pits, traders tried to enact a total merger of bodily and market rhythms. We also demonstrate how, in the 1920s and '30s, market observers began to respond to a widely perceived problem, namely that market rhythms might be contagious and that some form of separation of bodily and market rhythms might therefore be needed. Finally, we show how current high-frequency trading, despite being purely algorithmic, does not render the traders' bodies irrelevant. Yet high-frequency trading does change the role of the body rather than seeking to attune their bodies to the markets, high-frequency traders seek to calibrate their bodies to their algorithms. While the article demonstrates the usefulness of deploying Lefebvre's rhythmanalysis in analyses of financial markets, it also suggests that high-frequency trading in particular might produce new types of market rhythms that, contra Lefebvre, do not revolve around traders' bodies.
Corporate Mobilities Regimes. Mobility, Power and the Socio-geographical Structurations of Mobile Work
Sven Kesselring
This article introduces the concept of mobility regimes and points out three discursive dimensions: the normalization, rationalization and time-space-compression of mobility. It concentrates on corporate mobility, business travel and mobile work, and gives a focused overview on current developments in research. Sociology has largely neglected the topic of spatial mobility. Dealings with distance and travel, however, are driving forces for the modernization of modern societies. Economic activity is based on mobility and companies deploy sophisticated mobility regimes to be present in markets. The increase in mobile work brings new issues centre stage such as the control of mobile workers, social cohesion and the spatial complexity of corporate activities. The author theorizes mobile work and business travel as signifiers for social change in the organization of work. He presents theoretical reflections based on empirical work conducted among mobile workers in the IT, mechanical and the chemical industries.
Polanyi in the Pilbara
Jamie Peck
This paper outlines a 'substantivist' approach to the regional economy of the Pilbara in Western Australia, inspired by a constructive reinterpretation of Karl Polanyi's methodological legacy. Beyond the metaphor of embeddedness, it makes the case for a more wide-ranging methodological engagement with Polanyi's brand of substantivist socioeconomics, in dialogue with the empirical investigation of actually existing and variegated socioeconomic formations. A Polanyian optic, amongst other things, calls attention to enduring sources of heterogeneity in this distinctive regional-economic formation, even under the hegemonies extractive capitalism and neoliberal developmentalism.
Towards a Politics of Mobility
This paper proposes an approach to mobility that takes both historical mobilities and forms of immobility seriously. It is argued that is important for the development of a politics of mobility. To do this it suggests that mobility can be thought of as an entanglement of movement, representation, and practice. Following this it argues for a more finely developed politics of mobility that thinks below the level of mobility and immobility in terms of motive force, speed, rhythm, route, experience, and friction. Finally, it outlines a notion of constellations of mobility that entails considering the historical existence of fragile senses of movement, meaning, and practice marked by distinct forms of mobile politics and regulation.
Gender Differences in Space-Time Constraints
Mei-Po Kwan
Summary This study explores gender differences in space-time constraints and their impact on women's and men's activity-travel patterns from a time-geographic perspective. Using a travel diary data set collected in Columbus, Ohio (USA), the time-budget and fixity constraints of three population subgroups are examined. This paper concludes that space-time constraints have a significant impact on individual's activity-travel patterns.
Rhythmanalysis: Space, Time and Everyday Life
Henri Lefebvre
Borders of time: the temporalities of academic mobility
Judith Enriquez
This article challenges the claim that highly skilled international academics who have obtained advanced degrees and transnational identities are offered almost seamless mobility. The state border or territory is not the only line that highly skilled academics must cross as international subjects of mobility. Their high academic status is reduced to a precariat and confronted with epistemic injustices due to their immigration status. These include, but are not limited to, the waiting and processing times associated with immigration rules and visa requirements, which could also temporarily suspend mobility rights. The notion of a temporal border is enacted to explore the "time-bound" realities that highly skilled academics face. Border crossing for highly skilled migrants is not just a matter of entry passing through territorial lines of nation-states. The border has a "thickness" that stretches through time. Simply put, it takes time to cross borders.
"Wherever I can work I've got to go": Negotiating mobilities in the context of volatility in the Canadian construction industry
Samantha Breslin
This article considers how construction workers based in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) negotiate the need to be mobile for work at different scales and with what effects. It tackles the seldom considered question of how travel becomes normalized as a facet of work in construction, an employ-ment sector characterized by volatility. Specifically, we explore the experiences of workers and their families negotiating the shift from having extensive employment options in different places during a time of high labour demand, to limited and constrained options that may require significant changes (for instance, relocation, more time apart from family, or lower pay) in a period of economic contraction. How workers respond to these conditions contributes to conceptualizations of agency and mobility in construction work-place cultures. The article draws on 73 semi-structured interviews with workers, employers and industry and community stakeholders conducted between 2014 and 2018, and data from project employ-ment reports and field observations. The article reveals how long commutes and extended periods away from home are understood to be inevitable aspects of construction work that shape the field of expectations of workers and their families, and what this dominant discourse means on the ground in lived experience.
Routes and roots: factors that drive labour mobility in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
Joshua Barrett
In theory and practice, it has been noted that the length of daily commutes range from under 15 minutes to over one hour each way, often involving distances greater than 50 km. Both rural and urban residents make the decision to engage in extended daily commutes rather than relocate closer to their place of work. Using the Newfoundland and Labrador nickel processing sector as a case study, this paper identifies the factors that influence them to commute extended periods on a daily basis, including economic considerations, amenities, sense of belonging, and the nature of the commute. Mobile workers are more inclined to travel greater distances for work if the salary is an improvement from their current employment and if there are no opportunities available for work for their spouse. Further, an individual's source community, or the community where they permanent reside, provides greater accessibility to location-based capital while off work. These factors influence the worker to engage in extended daily commuting despite the stress and the longer workdays associated with labour mobility.
Automobility and masculinities between home and work: trucks as the 'new normal' in Newfoundland and Labrador
Automobiles are ubiquitous objects of private consumption and their meaning and use are shaped by different aspects of identity, including gender. The gender dimensions of automobility associated with particular types of vehicles have not been extensively researched. This article studies pickup trucks and masculinities in relation to home and work in the industrial construction sector in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. There, like in much of North America, trucks have become the most commonly purchased new vehicles over the last decade. Their widespread popular appeal contrasts with their historical development for manual labour gendered as masculine, such as farming and fishing, in rural places and environments conducive to such labour. Drawing on interviews with construction industry actors and workers, the article shows how new, expensive trucks have come to reflect the hegemonic masculinity at male-dominated industrial construction projects, while also showing how the meanings and uses of trucks are complex and contested. Trucks are understood to be functional for work and driving, but they are also status symbols, often used only sparingly for commuting, masculinized domestic work and leisure activities. The article unpacks the new and expanding popularity of the truck and its positioning in practice in relation to masculinities, work, and to the landscape in a place-based gender regime. In doing so, it contributes to efforts to contextualize masculinities in place, while also revealing how they are related to gender constructs in other places and at other scales.
Fragile synchronicities: diverse, disruptive and constraining rhythms of employment-related geographical mobility, paid and unpaid work in the Canadian context
Kathleen Anne Fitzpatrick
Elise Thorburn
Household, journey-to-work, and workplace dynamics intersect and are diverse and changing. These intersections contribute to gendered, classed, and racialized divisions of labour at home, at work, and on the road. Research on journeys-to-work has generally focused on journeys that happen daily, follow similar routes, at similar times, and involve travel to a single, fixed workplace. Time geography has shared some of this focus in its attention to fixity and constraints that shape these kinds of movements in time and space. However, change and disruption in home lives, journeys-to-work and in the location and scheduling of work are widespread. Feminist intersectional rhythmanalysis may be better equipped to address these. This article draws on insights from a body of Canadian research captured here in the form of 5 vignettes that describe intersecting home, work, environmental and employment-related geographical mobility (E-RGM) rhythms and some of their consequences across diverse groups, sectors and contexts. The vignettes are derived from research among trucking, construction, seafood processing, homecare, and precariously employed urban immigrant workers. We focus on groups engaging in complex, extended and often changing E-RGM to and within work. The vignettes highlight ways diverse gendered, classed and some racialized spatio-temporal rhythms of work, E-RGM, weather and seasons, and household lives intersect to disrupt and, as we move through the vignettes, increasingly constrain the capacity of these diverse groups of workers and their households to achieve even fragile synchronicities, reflecting the extension of coercion beyond the workplace into life at home and work-related mobilities.
Feminism and Geography: The Limits of Geographical Knowledge
Eleonore Kofman
Gillian Rose
Re-working mobilities: Emergent geographies of employment-related mobility
Over the last decade, an increasing number of geographers and other social science researchers have deployed the insights of the new mobilities paradigm to study work, labour, and employment. These insights include attention to the meanings, practices, and politics of work-related movement as well as to multiple spatial and temporal scales and types of im/mobility for and at work. In a review of this literature, we find five different vantage points on "re-working" mobility: articulations of labour migration with other forms of mobility; geometries of power in the daily journey to work; embodiment and affect in work-related movement; mobility and labour across the life course; and co-mobilities of workers, ideas, and things. We argue that on whole, a mobility lens offers a "critical phenomenology" of the dynamic relations between the everyday lifeworlds and broader political, social, and economic contexts of both paid and unpaid work. This is especially important as work involves ever more complex patterns and experiences of mobility and is more deeply entwined with the mobilities of other domains of social life. We conclude by considering the rich implications of "re-working mobilities" for methodological diversity and for animating both mobilities studies and labour studies as critical geographical endeavors.
Fractures and Alliances: Labour Relations and Worker Experiences in Construction
Lab Travail
Suzanne Mills
Construction is important by virtue of its prevalence in Canada; it is one of the most common types of employment held by men,1 employing approximately 1.4 million people.2 Its ubiquity, in addition to its connection to growth in other sectors, has meant that the construction sector is closely followed by governments, who often view construction employment as both an indicator of growth and a source of economic stimulus. Despite this, however, labour scholars have paid less attention to construction than to other sectors of employment. Though there is a sizable literature on health and safety and on gender in the construction trades, research about contemporary labour relations is notably sparse. Undeniably, conducting research on construction workers and unions is challenging. The mobile and fragmented character of the construction industry makes recruiting interview participants difficult, and labour unions are often secretive and reluctant to share information with researchers. Unions in the sector also have a mixed history, on the one hand giving voice to workers' concerns and providing for worker protection, while on the other hand supporting right-leaning governments, creating divisions. In 2016, the construction sector employed 7.7 per cent of the total labour force and 12.9 per cent of the male labour force in Canada. Tensions between unionized workers and non-unionized, unskilled workers, and promoting business unionism. Understanding the complexity of the industry, both its organized and its unorganized elements, is thus a demanding research endeavour.
Precarious Employment and Difficult Daily Commutes
Stephanie Premji
Precarious employment is on the rise in Canada, increasing by nearly 50% in the last two decades. However, little is known about the mechanisms by which it can impact upon geographical mobility. Employment-related geographical mobility refers to mobility to, from and between workplaces, as well as mobility as part of work. We report on a qualitative study conducted among 27 immigrant men and women in Toronto that investigates the relationship between precarious employment and daily commutes while exploring the ways in which gender, class and migration structure this relationship. Interview data reveal that participants were largely unable to work where they lived or live where they worked. Their precarious jobs were characterized by conditions that resulted in long, complex, unfamiliar, unsafe and expensive commutes. These commuting difficulties, in turn, resulted in participants having to refuse or quit jobs, including desirable jobs, or being unable to engage in labour market strategies that could improve their employment conditions (e.g. taking courses, volunteering, etc.). Participants' commuting difficulties were amplified by the delays, infrequency, unavailability and high cost of public transportation. These dynamics disproportionately and/or differentially impacted certain groups of workers. Precarious work has led to workers having to absorb an ever-growing share of the costs associated with their employment, underscored in our study as time, effort and money spent travelling to and from work. We discuss the forces that underlie the spatial patterning of work and workers in Toronto, namely the growing income gap and the increased polarization among neighbourhoods that has resulted in low-income immigrants increasingly moving from the centre to the edges of the city. We propose policy recommendations for public transportation, employment, housing and child care that can help alleviate some of the difficulties described.
"They all have a different vibe": A rhythmanalysis of climbing mobilities and the Red River Gorge as place
Jillian Rickly
This paper integrates a mobilities perspective and Lefebvre's notion of rhythmanalysis as a means interrogate place as an entanglement of mobilities, moorings, and rhythms. By investigating one popular rock climbing destination, this paper demonstrates that mobilities invite encounters with and enactments of place such that travel rhythms, everyday rhythms, and natural rhythms coalesce, interrupt, and even emerge anew. Focusing on lifestyle rock climbers (a particular type of lifestyle mobility dedicated to the pursuit of climbing) and events provides evidence for the ways informational and physical mobilities contribute to and even regiment rock climbing travel rhythms, while the everyday rhythms of place illustrate embodiment as crucial to the enfolding of rhythm and mobilities. Building from Lefebvre's theory of rhythm and Edensor and Holloway's (2008) re-articulation of its potential for mobilities studies, this paper emphasizes the ongoing relationality of embodied mobilities and bodily rhythms, seasonal rhythms and informational mobilities, collective mobilities and institutional rhythms.
What about people in regional science[J]
T. Hagerstrand
Human Resource Management in Construction Projects: Strategic and Operational Approaches
Martin Loosemore
Andrew Dainty
Helen Lingard
Although construction is one of the most labour-intensive industries, people management issues are given inadequate attention. Furthermore, the focus of attention with regards to HR has been on the strategic aspects of HRM function - yet most problems and operational issues arise on projects. To help redress these problems, this book takes a broad view of HRM, examining the strategic and operational aspects of managing people within the construction sector. The book is aimed at project managers and students of project management who, until now, have been handed the responsibility for human resource management without adequate knowledge or training. The issues addressed in this book are internationally relevant, and are of fundamental concern to both students and practitioners involved in the management of construction projects. The text draws on the authors' experience of working with a range of large construction companies in improving their HRM operational activities at both strategic and operational levels, and is well illustrated with case studies of projects and organizations. © 2003 Martin Loosemore, Andrew Dainty and Helen Lingard. All rights reserved.
Rhythmic Island: Latvian Migrants in Guernsey and their Enfolded Patterns of Space-Time Mobility
Aija Lulle
Rather than a marginal activity, visiting friends and relatives (VFR) is a fundamental part of the migrant experience. We illustrate this assertion by an in-depth study of Latvian labour migration to Guernsey. Since the 1990s, low incomes and high unemployment in post-Soviet Latvia combine with niche-specific labour demands in Guernsey to create migratory flows of mainly female workers. The small-scale nature of this circular migration system allows a deeper theorisation of the many linkages between migration and VFR. In particular we deploy time-geography and rhythmanalysis to explore the various ways that migration and VFR are enfolded within each other, within the life-courses of the protagonists, and within the capitalist rhythms of temporary labour migration. Empirical evidence comes from interviews with 90 Latvian migrants in Guernsey and with 16 employers. VFR mobilities are space-time events of co-presence which can take place either in Latvia or in Guernsey. Both directions of visits can involve touristic functions, and VFR to Guernsey can also carry the potential to stimulate further migration. Further research could pay more attention to gender aspects and to prospects for permanent return migration to Latvia. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
A Choreography of Existence—Comments On Hägerstrand's Time-Geography and Its Usefulness
Allan Pred
The need for human geography to turn inward with respect to the definition of research problems and the use of conceptual structures is pointed to, and it is suggested that Hagerstrand's time-geography is especially appropriate for this purpose. The contents and intents of Hagerstrand's time-geography are briefly presented. The planning applications of time-geography are sketched, and the possible applications of the framework to traditional themes in human geography are discussed. Other possible uses for the time-geography framework are also considered. Finally, the challenge posed by Hagerstrand's time-geography is summarized.
Together and Apart: Affective Ambiences and Negotiation in Families' Everyday Life and Mobility
Mimi Sheller
Simon Wind
This article addresses the affective, emotional, and familial dimensions of urban everyday mobility. Drawing on theoretical inspiration from phenomenology, non-representational theory, and mobilities research on the relational mobilities of children and families, the paper explores the everyday mobility of 11 households with children in the multi-modal context of Copenhagen, Denmark. Following the conceptualization of everyday mobility practices as heterogeneous 'negotiation in motion', the empirical analysis investigates how the strong relational dynamics between household members are organized around affect, care, familial bonding, and the rhythms of everyday life, which shape spatial patterns of moving together and apart. A new qualitative method combining GPS tracking, mapping, and household interviews is explored to show how everyday patterns of relational mobility are filtered through spatial affordances, affective ambience, and the temporalities of the lifecourse to influence transport alternatives of route and modal choices.
Looking through Hägerstrand's Dual Vistas: Towards a Unifying Framework for Time Geography
J TRANSP GEOGR
Daniel Sui
Re-Reading Time-Geography from a Gender Perspective: Examples from Gendered mobility
TIJDSCHR ECON SOC GE
Christina Lindkvist
Tora Friberg
Annika Sandén
This paper is based on qualitative research on commuting and women's everyday lives. In the project 'Re-reading time-geography from a feminist perspective', labour force mobility is an important way of analysing women's time-space use and identifying the constraints experienced when organising everyday life. We claim that time-geography provides a useful set of analytical tools that successfully collaborate with social science theory such as gender studies. Time-geography has been questioned by feminists as well as others. However, we argue that time-geography could provide gender studies with a close, empathic and micro-levelled interventional approach that makes obstacles and constraints due to spatio-temporal conditions visible and thereby changeable. In this paper we use results from previous research to prove that time-geography is an approach with several sets of useful concepts that describe and analyse women's everyday struggles and possibilities in an era in which mobility and transport have become undisputed factors of everyday life. In order to do this, time-geography needs to be read from a gendered standpoint. Although we are still in the formative stages of this re-reading of original texts and the formation of additional sets of concepts, the indications are that this work is worth pursuing and expanding.
Space, Time, and Renegotiating Motherhood: An Exploration of the Domestic Workplace
Isabel Dyck
Recent discussion in human geography has heightened awareness of the problems and possibilities of the use of social theory in empirical research. This paper is concerned with showing how insights from feminist theory and Giddens's theory of structuration informed a study focusing on women's mothering practices in a Canadian suburb. In concert these approaches cast attention to the implications of recognizing subjects as knowledgeable human agents in analyses of social and economic change. These include a renewed emphasis on the "everyday' and its links with general processes, an interest in methods appropriate for investigating the generation of meanings central to our social and spatial worlds, and the need to incorporate women's experiences in the construction of theoretical knowledge. Included in a new research agenda within feminist geography are questions concerning the active construction of gender identities through practices which vary over time and space. The meaning of the domestic workplace to mothers of young children was explored. It is shown how the notion of motherhood and the sets of practices making up mothering work were interpreted and negotiated as women responded to social and economic structuring in a particular place. The paper includes a concluding discussion on the links between the theoretical underpinnings of the study and its empirical findings. -Author
J AM HIST
Acknowledgements. 1. Feminism and Geography: An Introduction. 2. Women and Everyday Spaces. 3. No Place for Women?. 4. The Geographical Imagination: Knowledge and Critique. 5. Looking at Landscape: The Uneasy Pleasures of Power. 6. Spatial Divisions and Other Spaces: Production, Reproduction and Beyond. 7. A Politics of Paradoxical Space. Notes to Chapters.
If Mobility is Everything Then it is Nothing: Towards a Relational Politics of (Im)mobilities
Mobilities
Peter Adey
This paper is concerned with conceptions of mobility and immobility. Although I argue that practically everything is mobile, for mobility to be analytically useful as a term we must focus on the contingent relations between movements. Building upon theories of mobility from geography, sociology, cultural studies and, in particular, Urry's 'mobility/moorings dialectic', the paper draws these ideas out using examples from the airport terminal.
Paths in transnational time-space: Representing mobility biographies of Young Swedes
GEOGR ANN B
Lotta Frändberg
This article sets out to capture and describe individual transnational mobility from a long-term, biographical perspective. The purpose is to discuss the use of a time-geographical form of notation to represent people's transnational mobility as paths in time and space, and to demonstrate how such representations can contribute to explaining some of the dynamics of longdistance mobility. An advantage of using time-space paths is that several aspects of an individual's travel biography can be represented in a single image: intensity and extensity are immediately evident, and the temporal and spatial relationships between the various mobility actions are made visible. Using data describing all transnational trips taken during childhood and adolescence by sixty-two Swedish youth with different backgrounds, three aspects of how trajectories develop over time are discussed in more detail. The first concerns overall change in travel pattern with time. A dominant pattern of increase in travel with increasing age is observed, indicating the importance of further investigating how travel behaviour is related to experience and life-course transitions. Second, sequential relationships between migration and temporary mobility are examined. In spite of the relatively small number of respondents, a wide range of such relationships are disclosed in the material. Third, regularity and repetition in long-distance travel patterns is discussed as an increasingly important aspect of contemporary transnational mobility. Among these young people, highly regular travel is often motivated by enduring long-distance social relationships, but is also generated by leisure or holiday travel alone.
Non-Standard hours, Work-Family Balance and the Gendered Division of Care in Australian households
Lyn Craig
Abigail Powell
What effect do non-standard work schedules have on how parents of young children can meet the combined and growing demands of work and family? This article uses the Australian Bureau of Statistics Time Use Survey 2006 to explore the relationship between parents' non-standard work hours, and the time they and their spouse spend in paid work, housework, childcare (subdivided into routine tasks and talk-based interaction) and in their children's company. Parents who work non-standard hours spend significantly longer in paid work and less time on housework and childcare than those who work standard hours. Spouses' schedules impact much more on mothers' than on fathers' time. When fathers work non-standard hours, mothers do more housework and routine childcare, so the gendered division of household labour intensifies. Mothers' non-standard hours allow them to schedule their own paid work and family responsibilities around each other, with little effect upon fathers' unpaid work.
Exploring the Juggling of Responsibilities with Space-Time Accessibility Analysis
URBAN GEOGR
Tim Schwanen
Tom de Jong
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LGBT rights defenders attacked in Tomsk, Russia
On October 30th five LGBT activists were attacked by a group of 8 people in the city of Tomsk, Russia shortly after they started a peaceful awareness-raising action against homophobia. The action was organised in the afternoon at one of the city's central squares.
The attackers' faces were hidden under white-and-green scarves which are typical for the fans of a local football club. Out of 5 participants of the action (4 young men and a young woman) only the woman was not injured. The others were kicked to the ground and beaten by the feet with shouts "beat the faggots!". After one of the activists managed to escape and run towards a post of the police (situated 20 meters away from the place of incident), the attackers disappeared from the scene. The police did not intervene into the incident, they only called the ambulance.
As a result of the incident three activists got brain concussion and numerous injuries of the body. One of them is still in the hospital in a grave condition: he hardly speaks and has grave injuries of the face.
The same evening two of the victims reported the incident to the police. The third can't do this due to his physical condition. The criminal case was not opened yet, but the police interviewed the victims and a witness, who stated that he saw the attackers coming to the square before the scheduled time of the action.
All the victims are activists of the regional branch of the Russian LGBT network (http://lgbtnet.ru) and for more than a year openly act against human rights violations of LGBT people in the Tomsk region. One of them is also individual correspondent of the Youth Human Rights Movement (http://yhrm.org).
The action on October 30th was entitled "Ribbon of friendship" and supposed disseminating leaflets with quotations of the famous people about homophobia and rainbow ribbons to pedestrians. It was announced mainly to LGBT audience via the social network VKontakte.ru and the regional LGBT web-portal GayTomsk.ru.
We consider this attack not only as an obvious hate incident, but also as an act of intimidation of activists carrying out legitimate human rights activities. The law enforcement bodies should carry out an effective investigation of this incident, as well as ensure physical safety of the victims who now risk being further targeted. The inaction of the police officers present near the place of the incident should also be scrutinized.
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By JAE CHOI | October 24, 2019
Public Domain The Friedberg Concert Hall is home to various Peabody ensembles.
This past Sunday, the Young People's String Program (YPSP) of the Hopkins Peabody Preparatory put on its 33rd annual Halloween concert. The performance took place in the Miriam A. Friedberg Concert Hall, and the entire venue was full to the brim.
Although I'd seen several concerts in this hall before, seeing children on stage instead of adults made for a very unique and delightful kind of listening experience.
Children in the YPSP program receive individual and group instruction from faculty at the Peabody Institute through a combination of traditional and modern pedagogical philosophies. One of the philosophies that YPSP promotes is the Suzuki method, which emphasizes listening, repetition, parental involvement and encouragement. The Peabody Preparatory, of which YPSP is part, is well known and has produced famous musicians and composers such as Philip Glass, Tori Amos and Hilary Hahn.
Having been taught violin under the Suzuki method myself, I thought back on my early experiences practicing and playing music — all my gripes about practicing, all the times I tried to skirt by with minimal effort, all the times that I had to be coaxed by my parents to keep playing. Yet I remember enjoying it enough to keep at it, and playing music in large orchestras as I entered middle school and high school turned out to become some of my most formative and meaningful experiences. So while finding my seat and looking out at the young faces onstage, it was easy for me to imagine myself in their shoes and speculate about the kinds of half-nervous, half-excited emotions they must have been feeling.
The first thing I noticed coming into the concert hall was the relaxed atmosphere. Peabody concerts aren't exactly relaxing. The music at these concerts can be heavy, and loudly coughing or talking during a performance, as with most classical performances, is seen as an unspeakable act of insolence. But since attendees at the YPSP performance included young children, as well as the parents trying to quiet them, it definitely took the edge off of the tension that I sometimes feel at classical concerts.
All of the string performers and the faculty directing the ensembles were dressed up in fun Halloween costumes, which further eased the tension. I saw costumes for characters like Spider-Man, Waldo, Elsa and even what looked like a Cards Against Humanity card. It was impressive that some of them were able to play their instruments at all given some of the complicated costumes they were wearing.
The first half of the concert featured a large cello ensemble, and the second half featured a large group of violins and violas. The pieces they played were surprisingly diverse and extensive. The selections ranged from arrangements of classical pieces and folk melodies to arrangements of songs like Danny Elfman's "Nightmare Before Christmas" from the soundtrack of the same name.
The children found many ways of making the performance novel; for instance, they spun their cellos during "C String Boogie" and chanted and shouted for their performance of "Nightmare Before Christmas." These extra details are part of what made the performance not just cute but also entertaining and unique.
String instruments can be difficult to play because they require uncomfortable postures and many hours of practice before sonorous sounds become possible. Given this inherent difficulty, the skill level of these performers was impressive for their age — they had correct posture and their playing was rarely out of tune. The last two pieces they played, "Gavotte in G minor" by Johann Sebastian Bach and "Theme from Witches' Dance" by Niccolò Paganini were especially stirring showcases of their talent and attention to detail.
Attending the YPSP concert was a nice reminder about the crucial role that music can play in the formation of children's identities and early experiences. Music is supposed to be a community-driven endeavor that depends on mutual listening and non-competitive cooperation, and the young performers exemplified this in the way that they played with each other.
And it wasn't just the performers — you could even see it in the way that the parents interacted too, striking up conversations with each other and introducing themselves and their kids. There were smiles all around, and that was probably my favorite part of the concert and the small intermissions that filled up the spaces between the music.
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To make the best of your vacation make sure to stop by the following top 10 places to visit in West Yorkshire.
Grand Theatre, Leeds
For those who enjoy classical theatre, music and dance, the 'Leeds Grand Theatre' is bound to have something to offer, be it operas, musicals or ballet performances. A famous symbol of Victorian architecture, the 'Grand Theatre' hosts performances by globally acclaimed companies, "Opera North" and "Northern Ballet Theatre".
Tropical World, Leeds
Tropical World in Leeds is home to many exotic animals from across the world, from baby 'Meerkats' to 'Water Dragons' to 'Mexican Morelet Crocodiles', and even to an exceedingly rare 'Burmese Albino Python'. This sanctuary offers many specimens of interest to wildlife enthusiasts, not forgetting a visit to the 'Yellow Anaconda' curled up at the 'Creature Corner', for a complete tropical experience.
The Royal Armouries Museum, Leeds Dock
Six themed galleries house UK's national collection of arms and armour. This museum offers 75,000 exhibits to view, acquired from countries worldwide. Witness the evolution of armour starting from the medieval era, and if knights in shining armour seem too mundane, be sure to drop by the Japanese Shogun display.
The Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
A renowned Institute for the art of sculpture, the 'Henry Moore Institute' was founded by sculptor 'Henry Moore' in 1977. On display at this institute is a collection of his works. For budding artists interested in this avenue, the institute serves as a research site and sculpture archive.
The Bronte Parsonage Museum, Haworth
Grab that copy of 'Jane Eyre' and stroll through the corridors of the 'Bronte Parsonage Museum', the home of three gifted literary figures, the Bronte sisters. The Museum provides firsthand insight into the atmosphere in which the sisters grew up and came to write novels which became masterpieces of the Victorian era.
National Coal Mining Museum, Wakefield
Experience the rare opportunity to dive 450ft underground into one of the oldest functioning mines in the UK. Take a tour with ex-miners guiding visitors through the history of coal mining, partaking in interactive displays.
A Georgian mansion built during the 18th century, 'Harewood House', along with its fascinating architecture, offers an interesting collection of Renaissance paintings for viewing. The 'Bird Garden' would thrill any bird lover sheltering over 90 species of exotic and local birds.
Ilkley Toy Museum, Ilkley, West Yorkshire
A walk through childhood, 'Ilkley Toy Museum', is the dwelling place of toys from 350BC onwards. Some of these conserved toys are miracles of perfect craftsmanship.
Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield
This park is an outdoor exhibition of works by famous local and international artists, such as 'Barbara Hepworth', and aptly demonstrates the harmony between nature and art.
Impressions Gallery, Bradford
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U.S. Cannabis Spot Index down 1.1% to $1,091 per pound.
The simple average (non-volume weighted) price decreased by $32 to $1,224 per pound, with 68% of transactions (one standard deviation) in the $480 to $1,968 per pound range. The average deal size decreased 6.8% to 4.1 pounds from 4.4 pounds last week. In grams, the Spot price was $2.40, and the simple average price was $2.70.
The relative frequency of trades for greenhouse flower increased this week, by less than 2%, while that for deals involving indoor product contracted by the same proportion and the relative frequency of transactions for outdoor flower was flat. Greenhouse product's share of the total reported weight moved was stable week-over-week. Meanwhile, the relative volume of warehouse flower grew by 1% compared to last week, while that for outdoor product decreased by the same proportion.
The U.S. Spot Index declined by 1.1% this week to settle at $1,091 per pound. This despite three of the four major Western markets – Colorado, Oregon, and Washington State – seeing increases in their composite prices. However, the total volume of trading reported in Oregon was smaller than usual, lessening the influence of that state's Spot Index on the national average. The U.S. Spot averaged $1,075 per pound for November, virtually identical, but down marginally, compared to October's monthly mean price of $1,076 per pound. In 2017, the national composite rates's monthly average ticked downward by 0.6% from October to November, from $1,421 to $1,412 per pound.
The trend line of the U.S. Spot Index continued its upward momentum this week, but its rate of increase was tempered slightly by the decline in the national weekly volume-weighted average. The Trailing 4-Week Average of Colorado's composite price is now displaying clear positive movement after very a very modest upturn last week. Despite significant regulatory uncertainty, the trend line of Michigan's Spot Index continues to sink gradually, behavior that commenced in mid-October. The downward trend in wholesale prices in Michigan may be due to a significant reduction in wholesale buyers, which we note in the Forward Curve commentary. While outdoor growing is permitted under Nevada's rules, such product has not been reported as part of the state's supply mix at this time and the Trailing 4-Week Average of the Silver State's Spot Index has climbed upward through this month.
December 2018 Forward closes up $25 to $1,100 per pound.
The average reported forward deal declined nominally to 56.5 pounds. The proportion of forward deals for outdoor, greenhouse, and indoor-grown flower was 54%, 30%, and 16% of forward arrangements, respectively. The average forward deal size for monthly delivery for outdoor, greenhouse, and indoor-grown flower was 67.5 pounds, 44 pounds, and 43 pounds, respectively.
At $1,100 per pound, the December Forward represents a premium of 0.8% relative to the current U.S. Spot Price of $1,091 per pound. The premium or discount for each Forward price, relative to the U.S. Spot Index, is illustrated in the table below.
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Q: Find all words that have all characters of a given word I am creating a word game. I have a list of all the words in the english dictionary in a text file. I choose a random word in this list. Once I have the random word then I need to choose all the words that have all the characters in the choosen random word.
I need a strategy to do this. Also, shall i place the word list in a text file or a database. What is the best strategy to do this?
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Match examples:

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*"The" matches he, he, eh, te    NOT -> Thee, Tee

*"foil" matches oil, of, if   NOT -> fill, fool, off,

As you can see in the above examples the random word must not match words that have more characters or characters that have more of a single character then the random word
For example:

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*e  must not match ee

*el must not match eel

*lot must not match loot

A: For words in languages that use latin alphabet, you can calculate word's 26-bit "signature" by setting bit #i to one only when the word contains letter #i of the alphabet:
var signature = 0;
foreach (var c in word.ToUpperCase()) {
    signature |= (1<<(c-'A'));
}

You can then store the signature along with its word and the word's length in the database. Once you get the word you need to match, calculate its signature, and query the database for all words that match the signature and the target words's length. For each candidate word with matching length and signature, convert the word to upper case, sort its letters, and compare the sorted result to sorted target. If the target matches, add the word to the list of answers.

A: If I understand you correctly, then if the random word was "cat" then the words, "tack", "taco", "actor", etc, would be matched.
You can use LINQ approach for this:
Random random = new Random();
string[] words = File.ReadAllLines("words.txt");
string word = words[random.Next(words.Length)];

var matches = words.Where(
    str =>
    {
        foreach (char ch in word)
        {
            if (str.IndexOf(ch) == -1)
                return false; // the word is missing a character(s)
        }

        // the word contains all characters
        return true;
    });

And from the above code you can see that I chose a file instead of a database. It's easier.

A: You should clarify the question:
If "asdffffff" is the chosen random word, does "asdf" have all of the characters of the chosen random word?
If the answer is yes, you can create a hash set for each word.  Then use a set library to check whether chosen random word's set is contained within a candidate word's set.
If the answer is no, I would suggest building a hash map for each word.  The hash map for "asdffffff" would look like:
{
a: 1
s: 1
d: 1
f: 6
}
Then, you would have to walk through the collection of hash-maps, comparing the chosen word's hash map against the others.
As for the database question, I would suggest reading from a flat file until you get a performance problem, or have some other reason to start using a database.

A: I think the best way is store words in DB with two tables: words – table with words and ConnectedWords – table with two foreign key where 1st – fk for primary words and 2nd – fk to words that match for the primary words. So you can get list of matches words very fast by simple SQL query
For fill this table you can use such algorithm:

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*sort the characters of every word into alphabetical order and store it field key

*match words – words that have the same key or key that we can get by removing 1 character from primary word key

e.g.
The – eht – random word
he – eh – match (by removing 1 symbol)
eh – eh – match (by removing 1 symbol)
Thee - eeht – don't match
Tee - eet – don't match
P.S. words with the same key has very similar list of matches words (difference in 1 word)

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Kuwaiti Trans Woman Sentenced to Prison for Online Activities
Posted on October 14, 2021 by Melanie Nathan
As reported by Human Rights Watch: A Kuwaiti court has sentenced a transgender woman to prison for "imitating the opposite sex" online. Such laws violate the rights to free expression, privacy, and nondiscrimination under Kuwait's constitution and international law.
The authorities should immediately release her and quash the conviction.
The court on October 3, 2021, sentenced Maha al-Mutairi, 40, to two years in prison and a fine of 1,000 Kuwaiti dinars (USD 3,315) for "misusing phone communication" by "imitating the opposite sex" online under article 70 of the telecommunication law and article 198 of the penal code. She has been arrested multiple times since 2019 for her transgender identity, but the current conviction is apparently based on her online activities in 2021.
"The Kuwaiti government's monitoring, repeated arrests, and imprisonment of Maha al-Mutairi for her trans identity is a blatant violation of her basic rights," said Rasha Younes, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights researcher at Human Rights Watch. "Kuwaiti authorities should immediately reverse her conviction and allow her to live safely as a woman."
Al-Mutairi told Human Rights Watch in a phone interview on October 8 that after receiving news of her conviction she went into hiding. But the police arrested her on October 11 at the hotel where she was staying. She is being held in Kuwait Central Prison, a men's prison, in a solitary cell designated for transgender detainees.
Ibtissam al-Enezi, al-Mutairi's lawyer, told Human Rights Watch that the court used al-Mutairi's social media videos as evidence to convict her on grounds that she was wearing makeup, speaking about her transgender identity, allegedly making "sexual advances," and criticizing the Kuwaiti government. Her appeals hearing is scheduled for October 31.
Al-Enezi said the prison officials have not mistreated al-Mutairi and that police had allowed her to call her lawyer. Al-Mutairi told Human Rights Watch that this was the sixth time she has been arrested due to her transgender identity and that before her current arrest she had been barred from traveling outside the country because of the cases against her.
On June 5, 2020, the authorities summoned al-Mutairi for "imitating women" – the fourth time she had faced the charge that year – after she posted a video online saying that the police had raped and beaten her while she was detained in a male prison for seven months in 2019 for "imitating the opposite sex." The authorities released al-Mutairi on bail on June 8, 2020, without charge. She told Human Rights Watch that the police abused her during those three days in detention, including by spitting on her, verbally abusing her, and sexually assaulting her by taking turns touching her breasts.
A 2007 Kuwaiti law amended article 198 of the penal code, criminalizing "imitating the opposite sex." Under article 70 of the telecommunication law, a person who "misuses" telephone communication may be imprisoned for up to a year and fined up to 2,000 Kuwaiti dinars (USD 7,091).
In 2012, Human Rights Watch documented the negative effects of article 198 on the lives of transgender women, who reported multiple forms of abuse at the hands of the police while in detention. They described degrading and humiliating treatment such as being forced to strip and parade around police stations, being forced to dance for officers, sexual humiliation, verbal taunts and intimidation, solitary confinement, and emotional and physical abuse that could amount to torture.
The Kuwaiti National Assembly should repeal the 2007 amendment to article 198, and Kuwaiti authorities should investigate all allegations of police brutality including sexual violence, hold officers accountable for misconduct, and protect transgender people from violence, Human Rights Watch said. Kuwaiti authorities should also amend article 70 of the telecommunication law to remove imprisonment as a punishment for speech violations that amount to defamation as defined by law.
Article 36 of Kuwait's constitution guarantees freedom of opinion and expression. The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), which Kuwait has ratified, also guarantees the right to freedom of expression and requires that any restrictions "must be constructed with care," ensure that they do not stifle freedom of expression in practice and should not provide for "excessively punitive measures and penalties."
The United Nations Human Rights Committee, which monitors compliance with the ICCPR, has made clear that the covenant prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation in upholding any of the rights protected by the treaty. As a state party to the ICCPR and the Arab Charter on Human Rights, Kuwait is required to protect the rights to freedom of opinion and expression, including for transgender people.
"Al-Mutairi's story is one of many horrific accounts by transgender Kuwaitis whose only crime is expressing themselves publicly," Younes said. "Kuwait should immediately release al-Mutairi, investigate her allegations of sexual violence in detention, and end its criminalization and harassment of transgender people."
By Melanie Nathan
African Human Rights Coalition
(nathan@africanHRC.org)
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On May 26, 2023, at 8:00 AM, the Rev. Dr. A.W. Watkins Scholarship Foundation will host its 16th Annual Rev. Dr. A.W. Watkins Charity Golf Tournament at the Robert Trent Jones Golf Course in Prattville, Alabama. The mission of the Foundation is to provide scholarships to graduating high school seniors from the Central Alabama area and sophomores or juniors enrolled in the Bible and Pastoral Ministry from Selma University. Through the generosity from companies like yours and many individuals' donations, the Foundation has awarded $209,100.00 in scholarships to 200 students throughout the Central Alabama area. All foundation events will follow COVID-19 guidelines issued by the Center for Disease Control and local authorities.
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There are many sponsorship opportunities available with levels starting at $160.00. Listed on the tournament flyer are the details of the sponsorship and participation opportunities for the 16th Annual Rev. Dr. A. W. Watkins Charity Golf Tournament. Your support will help facilitate unity to our local city as well as to the surrounding cities and states. Our mission is to spread love by any means necessary and we have chosen the beloved game of golf.
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Nicolas Schmit (ur. 10 grudnia 1953 w Differdange) – luksemburski polityk, dyplomata i ekonomista, deputowany, działacz Luksemburskiej Socjalistycznej Partii Robotniczej, minister w kilku rządach, poseł do Parlamentu Europejskiego IX kadencji, od 2019 członek Komisji Europejskiej.

Życiorys
Absolwent studiów ekonomicznych w Institut d'études politiques d'Aix-en-Provence, uzyskał również dyplom DEA w zakresie stosunków międzynarodowych. Pod koniec lat 70. pracował na Université d'Aix-Marseille III. W 1979 został zatrudniony w luksemburskiej administracji państwowej, początkowo w biurze premiera, w 1983 przeszedł do służby dyplomatycznej. W 1984 objął stanowisko szefa gabinetu politycznego ministra spraw zagranicznych Jacques'a Poosa.

W 1989 został sekretarzem parlamentarnym Luksemburskiej Socjalistycznej Partii Robotniczej, a rok później radcą w stałym przedstawicielstwie Luksemburga przy Wspólnotach Europejskich w Brukseli. Od 1992 do 1998 kierował w MSZ departamentem zajmującym się międzynarodowymi stosunkami gospodarczymi i kooperacją. W 1998 został ambasadorem Luksemburga przy Unii Europejskiej, jako zastępca członka brał udział w pracach Konwentu Europejskiej.

W 2004 wszedł w skład rządu Jeana-Claude'a Junckera jako minister delegowany w resorcie spraw zagranicznych, odpowiadając także za kwestie imigracji. W 2009, 2013 i 2018 był wybierany na posła do Izby Deputowanych.

W 2009 został ministrem pracy, zatrudnienia i imigracji w kolejnym gabinecie Jeana-Claude'a Junckera. W 2013 u Xaviera Bettela powierzono mu funkcję ministra pracy. Zakończył urzędowanie w 2018. W 2019 został wybrany na eurodeputowanego IX kadencji.

W tym samym roku dołączył do Komisji Europejskiej kierowanej przez Ursulę von der Leyen (z kadencją od 1 grudnia 2019) jako komisarz do spraw miejsc pracy i praw socjalnych.

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Luksemburscy parlamentarzyści
Luksemburscy posłowie do Parlamentu Europejskiego
Politycy Luksemburskiej Socjalistycznej Partii Robotniczej
Ludzie urodzeni w Differdange
Urodzeni w 1953
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A study conducted by weCAN, a network of independent communication agencies in Central and Eastern Europe, found that among the 14 countries in the region, only Hungary had its government appear in the top 10 list of spenders on advertising across various media in 2016. In fact, Hungary's Office of the Prime Minister spent the second-highest amount on advertising in the country after mobile provider Telekom.
The unusually high expenditures on advertising by the state can likely be explained by costly national consultations and countrywide propaganda campaigns disseminated in print, radio, television and on billboards, all of which fell under the competence of the Prime Minister's Office and "propaganda minister" Antal Rogán - pictured on the left.
The study also found that Hungary leads the region in registered users of Facebook over the age of 14 with 63 percent.


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Kings XI Punjab IPL 2020 Sunrisers Hyderabad
BornMay 18, 1993
Height5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)
NationalityIndian
RoleBowler/Right-arm fast medium, Right-handed Batsman
Relation(s)Tasha (Fiance), Balwinder Sharma (Father), Naina Wati (Mother), Shatrughan Sharma, Ranjeet Sharma, Jagdeep Sharma (Brothers)
MOST RECENT MATCHES
J + K vs PNJB 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 36 0 9.00 0
PNJB vs RLYS 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 9 1 3.00 0
KNTKA vs PNJB 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 25 0 6.25 0
PNJB vs UP 0 0 0 0 0.00 4 0 18 1 4.50 0
DC vs SRH 2 4 0 0 50.00 4 0 30 1 7.50 0
T20Is 2 1 1 1 1 100.00 0 0 1* 0 0 0 0
T20s 135 35 92 105 28 13.14 87.61 0 0 13* 7 0 26 0
LISTAs 44 21 131 179 13 16.37 73.18 0 0 18* 10 1 15 0
FIRSTCLASS 44 60 559 1404 9 10.96 39.81 0 1 51 72 0 11 0
5Ws
10Ws
T20Is 2 2 7 73 1 73.00 10.42 1/39 0 0
T20s 135 134 492.4 3673 153 24.00 7.45 4/8 0 0
LISTAs 44 44 372.3 1724 77 22.38 4.62 7/19 3 0
FIRSTCLASS 44 76 1515.3 4366 167 26.14 2.88 10/82 9 1
Sandeep Sharma is a prodigious young talent in the same category of master swing bowlers that India has produced in the last few years as Praveen Kumar and Bhuvneshwar Kumar. The right-arm medium-fast bowler from Punjab has the capability to bowl both inswingers and outswingers on will. He has had the number of top-cricketers like Virat Kohli, Chris Gayle and AB de Villiers amongst others in the IPL.
Domestic career
Sandeep Sharma fist shot into limelight when he was selected for the 2010 U-19 World Cup in New Zealand, however, he really came to the party two years later again on the same stage but playing for Unmukt Chand this time. The prodigious Punjab talent having the ability to viciously swing the Kookaburra both ways helped Unmukt Chand's team win the junior world cup in Australia by claiming four wickets in the final against the hosts and finishing as our joint-best bowler with 12 wickets.
Sandeep didn't rest much on his laurels and carried the momentum into the 2012-13 Ranji Trophy, where he gobbled up the most wickets for Punjab and finished the season as the fifth-highest wicket-taker overall with 42 scalps from 9 matches at 19.41 including three five-fors and one 10-fer. The good form continued in the Vijay Hazare Trophy where he again finished as highest wicket-taker for Punjab with 10 wickets from six matches at 20.60. So far Sandeep has played First-Class matches and took wickets at an impressive average of 26.14.
IPL Career
Riding high on his domestic success, Sandeep earned a contract with the Kings XI Punjab ahead of IPL 2013. It didn't take much time for Sandeep to become KXIP's strike bowler as he routinely picked up the wickets upfront. In the 2014 season, Sandeep played 11 matches for his franchise and took an impressive 18 wickets and on several occasions donned the purple cap before it went to Chennai Super Kings' Mohit Sharma. He picked up 17 wickets in the 2017 edition for KXIP with best bowling figures of 4/20, but he was let go by the franchise.
In 2018, Sandeep was snaffled by the Surisers Hyderabad and so far in the two seasons played, he has taken 24 wickets in 23 matches.
T20I Career
Sandeep Sharma made his debut in International cricket against Zimbabwe in 2015 after impressing the selectors while playing for KXIP. However, he failed to take any wicket in the first T20I which India won. In the match that followed, Sandeep managed to take a wicket but the Indian side lost that match. So, he went unnoticed by the selectors and was dropped. Since then Sandeep has been looking to make inroads in the national team but the tough competition has eluded him that spot.
Sandeep Singh was born on 18 May 1993 in Patiala, Punjab to Balwinder Sharma and Naina Wati. Legend has it that Singh was a batsman in his initial days as a cricketer but turned to bowling when one of his coaches advised him to do so.
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A hand engraved keyring with a coin form the year you moved into your home.
The perfect way to celebrate this exciting new chapter.
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We celebrate diversity. This is a sentence echoed from nearly every Evangelical pastor in America. Yet it is so difficult to find a diverse church on Sunday. Why does Sunday morning continue to be the most segregated time of the week in America? There are a number of different factors that contribute to lack of diversity. I would argue that one of the number one reasons is that few churches are willing to have healthy conversations about race in their sanctuaries and their boardrooms. Talking about race IRL can twist your stomach in knots and put a lump in your throat because it's not a popular discussion. If you've ever wondered why your church hasn't talked about it, I have some ideas.
When I wrote my first blog post about how white evangelical churches struggled to make room at their leadership table for POC, there were some pastors who brought up location. They raised an issue I've heard several times in my life about white suburbia. "We just don't have many people of color in our community." I understand the tension that creates. Most of the people we are trying to reach are white, and we have a responsibility to present the gospel in a way that reaches the people in our community. Church planters are trained to plant in a demographic area that best fits who they are. The logic is sound, and it's tough to argue with it. However, if the homogeneous community is why a church chooses to opt out of addressing the issue of race and racism, that should signal a red flag.
The idea that a churches' community is predominantly white means they are exempt from talking about race suggests that racism is not their issue, but someone else's. Failing to talk about racism also deprives the white people in that community of the opportunity to recognize their own bias and repenting for the racism that has laid dormant in their hearts because it has never been brought to light. Pastors in such communities fail their attendees and send an implicit message that racism is an evil the suburbs can abide.
I've written about this principle in previous blogs. When you have a room full of republicans, democrats, libertarians, librarians, barbarians, and communists, you have to be careful not to alienate any of them. The best way to do that is by not saying or doing anything from the stage that can be divisive in nature or make people uncomfortable. I once heard a white pastor suggest that an emotive, black female worship leader should tone it down because the largely white audience couldn't identify with her. The idea being that large churches stay large by avoiding polarization. Pastors and leaders have to exercise wisdom in how they use the platform.
The question I have is, is the church's ultimate goal to stay large or to speak the truth? Are those two ideas mutually exclusive? If so, which one is the churches ultimate responsibility? When something is true but has the potential to make half the room uncomfortable should churches avoid talking about them? Race is one of those issues. With the inception of identity politics, race has become an issue that primarily concerns people with a progressive or left-leaning political posture. It seems that by reflex those who are on the other side of the aisle politically and perhaps literally would balk at the very idea of talking about race in church. Their political stance is that it's a non-issue, and bringing it up in a church at all is taking a side. Churches have a moral obligation to talk about barriers to righteousness. Racism is one of those barriers. When a moral issue is hijacked by politics it's the job of the church to get it back and help their people rightly approach the issue justly.
Great churches stay on mission. There are a ton of good things churches could be doing, but no church can do everything. Many churches, like any other organization, close their doors because they fail to stay on mission. Dealing with racism is viewed by many white evangelical leaders as a worthy cause, but not the fundamental mission of the church. It's one of many good causes in the world. There are issues like human trafficking, world hunger or clean water projects that are also on the list of good deeds the church can do for the world. Racism often gets buried beneath that pile of worthy causes the church should focus on. Casting the issue of race with those world problems seems appropriate. Unfortunately, I've found that many times this line of reasoning is just a smoke screen to allow the church to avoid the awkwardness of challenging the white people in the room to look inwardly at racism.
Most churches don't hesitate to address human trafficking, clean water and world hunger among many other issues. I would be willing to wager that there are more people in the congregation who have personally felt the effects of racism within the past two weeks than there are people who have ever been trafficked, lacked clean water or been starving. Please understand that I'm not advocating for efforts going toward ridding the world of the evils of those three should be diverted to address racism. I'm simply pointing out the flaw in the argument that racism belongs in the category with other missions projects. It's an issue that affects human beings sitting in the seats, singing the songs, and hearing the messages.
It feels good to write a check to get clean water to a thirsty family in Africa. What doesn't feel good is to confront the belief that my family is superior to theirs. Sending money to help people who live in Africa doesn't absolve me of racism toward the African decedents who live in my community.
There are many churches that are adamant that they don't do topical messages. They aren't trying to make a point the Bible doesn't make. They preach and teach only what the Bible says. Anything else is outside of the scope of what the church should be about. Exegetical churches pride themselves on teaching from what the Bible says and making applications from that rather than having a pre-conceived topic and finding scriptures that speak to that topic. It's certainly an admirable approach to leading a church. It's great for helping people know what the Bible says, and helping congregates be Biblically literate. Many pastors and church leaders believe the topic of race is outside of the scope of Biblical teaching.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. Teaching on racism is not disconnected from scripture. There are a number of different instances where Jesus himself subtly touches on the issue of race. The woman at the well and the story of the Good Samaritan come to mind. The book of Acts is primarily about how Jewish men made room for Gentile men and women to come to faith. Churches that struggle to find Biblical references to refute racism are likely reading from the WNV (white nationalist version).
If you find yourself at a church where the subject of race isn't addressed or you have questions about how it's been addressed. Talk to someone in leadership. If any of the above comes up. Ask some hard questions. Not to cause division or to be malicious, but from a place of honest inquiry.


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What's a nice idea like yours doing in a place like this?
Nano-based weapon
Neenerbots
Nerf-style Tear Gas Delivery System
Nunchuk disco
Phalanx Invasion Shield
'Phantom' x-ray weapon
Photon Torpedo
Plug a thug
product:weapon
Smack things real hard with the guts of a MIRV
The ICBMs remaining from the Cold War are impressive pieces of hardware, but the fact is, they are largely useless. Aside from the threat of retaliation, there are few countries in the world that ICBM possessing countries need to nuke. My idea is this: Strip the nukes out of MIRVs, and replace them with the guidance system used on laser guided bombs or JDAMs. The result is a depleted Uranium meteor, providing a substantial yet nonnuclear punch anywhere on Earth at a moment's notice.
Since HalfBaked ideas are supposed to be somewhat absurd, consider giving control of this weapon to troops on the ground. Consider the fun that ensues as a three story tall missile is launched, and travels halfway around the world to smack one guy on a camel in the head. I still wouldn't consider that a waste of money; the ICBMs as they are right now are worthless so this would be an improvement.
— Madcat, Mar 22 2003
(?) MIRV? http://www.mirv.com/
[my face your, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]
Don't waste them! We need them for Mars! http://www.halfbake...om/idea/Nuke_20Mars
[bungston, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]
And I thought you were going to fill the war heads with money--a clever turn on beating swords into plowshares.
— roby, Mar 22 2003
In case anyone doesn't know:
ICBM: Intercontinental Ballistic Missile
MIRV: multiple, independently targetable, re-entry vehicles.
JDAM: Joint Direct Attack Munition
I didn't. To be honest, I still don't really know what constitutes a MI(T)RV or a JDAM.
— my face your, Mar 22 2003
A MIRV is a multi-warhead ballistic missle
JDAM is a guidance system that can be attached to 'dumb' bombs to turn them into 'smart' bombs.
In response to the idea, I think "providing a substantial yet nonnuclear punch anywhere on Earth at a moment's notice" is something I don't want anyone to be able to do.
— phoenix, Mar 22 2003
So it's not a copper wh/st/opper?
— thumbwax, Mar 23 2003
Wouldn't the other nuclear powers freak out and trigger a nuclear war?
— ootleman, Mar 23 2003
That's not as definate as you might think. Russia doesn't really have the money to tell if we launch on them right now, and China probably doesn't have the expertise yet. Even if they did, the issue could be avoided by telling them what we are doing. It's not like we're going to war with either of them any time soon.
Also consider the goodwill we'd get for disarming those missiles in the first place.
//Since HalfBaked ideas are supposed to be somewhat absurd//
says who?
— st3f, Mar 25 2003
Russia at least has the experience and years of wisdom from playing the long cold war game before. I'm more worried about Pakistan, India, and North Korea.
— RayfordSteele, Mar 25 2003
ICBM + JDAM = Oxymoron. Gonna have to think up a new name for it…
— Shz, Mar 25 2003