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Paul Halverson
ESOP Consulting
Ownership Advisory
FINRA Series 24, 63, and 79 Licenses
B.A., Finance, University of St. Thomas
Paul began his career providing independent business valuation services to privately-held companies and their shareholders. He founded Chartwell in 1995 and has grown the firm into a leading national financial advisory serving the middle market.
He engaged with his first ESOP-owned company in 1987 and has dedicated 30+ years to providing unrivalled guidance on all financial aspects an organization may encounter during the lifecycle of ESOP ownership.
Paul has led Chartwell's development from a single location valuation firm into a multifaceted financial advisory firm offering unmatched consulting, corporate finance, and valuation expertise. He devotes the majority of his client focus to advising companies, boards of directors, ESOP trustees, and business owners on long-range ownership and capital planning matters.
Paul is an active member of The ESOP Association and the National Center for Employee Ownership, where he has been a frequent speaker and thought leader for both organizations.
Paul is a registered representative with Chartwell affiliate, CCS Transactions, LLC and holds FINRA Series 24, 63, and 79 licenses.
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How to Teach an Apprentice?
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How an Apprenticeship Model Engaged Students and Turned a School Around
During a search for examples of deeper learning in American high schools, Jal Mehta, a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and then-doctoral candidate Sarah Fine discovered that highly effective teachers frequently allow students to learn by working in real-world contexts, such as through apprenticeships. According to the authors of the 2019 book In Search of Deeper Learning: The Quest to Remake the American High School, this approach encourages students to think of themselves as experts capable of harnessing their own creativity and using their knowledge and skills to develop mastery through application of their knowledge and skills.
For young people, it is also a particularly compelling approach, as evidenced by the following: Professor and New York Times bestselling author Alison Gopnik told us in 2016 that "one of the things that people often observe is that kids are much more involved in sports and music than they are in, for example, math or science or writing." The reason, I believe, is that sports and music are two of the few areas in which we actually teach older children using this apprenticeship model. " It is the stage at which you actually learn how to do something actively while receiving feedback. That model has sparked a lot of interest among children. In my opinion, there is absolutely no reason why we shouldn't teach writing in the same way that we teach science or any other of those types of activities."
During the 2008 school year at Maplewood Richmond Heights High School in the St. Louis suburb, an emphasis on the apprenticeship model was implemented in response to years of underperformance that had brought the school to the brink of a government-mandated closure. Today, teachers look for ways to connect lessons to real-world people, places, and opportunities in every class they instruct. Students working in the print shop, for example, receive orders from teachers to design posters and brochures for classroom use, and they are also in charge of creating the school's student ID cards. In a service learning course, students practise teaching the four cornerstones of the school to middle school students—leadership, stewardship, scholarship, and citizenship—in order to gain a better understanding of the teaching profession and to gain practical experience. Local architects, nurses, engineers, and graphic designers are invited into classrooms to talk with students about their professions, and students are connected to job-shadowing and internship opportunities in the community as a result of their participation.
Schools That Produce Results
Maplewood Richmond Heights High School is a public urban school with grades 9-12 in Maplewood, Missouri.
What distinguishes this as a SCHOOL THAT WORKS
Maplewood Richmond Heights High School is a comprehensive high school in the St. Louis suburb of Richmond Heights with a student body of 370 students. When MRH High School was identified as a potential target for state takeover in the 1990s, the school has worked tirelessly for the past two decades to transform itself into a high-quality institution that serves as an anchor for a revitalised neighbourhood and school district. Teachers now create their own curriculum using the Understanding by Design framework; there is a strong emphasis on building deep relationships with students and their families through home visits; and in all classes, teachers treat students as apprentices and look for ways to empower students and connect lessons to real-world people, places, and opportunities.
In 2018, the Missouri Department of Education's Annual Performance Report, which measures college and career readiness, test scores, attendance rates, and graduation rates, the school received a score of 98.4 percent, the highest possible.
Received a National Excellence in Urban Education Award, making it the only school in the United States to receive a gold level award in 2015.
The National Association of Secondary School Principals recognised the school as a Breakthrough School in 2014 and 2017.
To continue to raise the bar on student work, the outstanding work of former students who have achieved mastery is regularly archived and then used to inspire current students in an effort to raise the overall standard of student work. As a result, educators from the high school—and the surrounding district—visit all incoming students at their homes in an effort to build trust and form deep, long-lasting relationships "in which [teachers, parents, and guardians] can take the time to share dreams, expectations, experiences, and tools regarding the student's academ" in an effort to improve the local educational experience in 2014.
VISITS TO THE RESIDENCE
Beginning in 2008, home visits to all incoming students were implemented, and the district reported a 45 percent reduction in discipline referrals after one year. Summer training is provided to administrators, teachers, and counsellors in order to better prepare them for the school visits that they will be making. Home visits, according to research, help to build trust and understanding between students and their families, which in turn helps them achieve academic success. In the words of Kevin Grawer, principal at Maplewood Richmond Heights High School, "Until we started doing [home visits], all of the programmes and all of the talk didn't matter." "We needed to demonstrate to them that we were there for them. We were there to serve the community, not ourselves. That it is about improving the lives of our children and providing them with opportunities."
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DESIGNING YOUR OWN UNDERSTANDING
Understanding by Design (UbD) is a framework that teachers at MRH High School use to plan lessons. With UbD curriculum planning, teachers design curriculum, plan lessons and assessments by first envisioning the end result in their minds and then working backwards from that point of view. "What do you want your students to take away from this experience?" teachers ask themselves. and "What are the major concepts that students should grasp during the course of the unit?"
EXAMPLES OF OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE
Teachers at MRH High School use a practise known as Models of Excellence to demonstrate to students what is expected of them when working on a project or assignment as part of their apprenticeship philosophy. The exposure to high-quality work completed by other students in previous years helps students understand what good work looks like and that it is within their reach as they progress through the grades. Adults can improve their skills in the real world by observing the work of more experienced colleagues, which happens to be one of the ways in which they can do so.
OBJECTIVES FOR TEACHER APPRENTICESHIP
Additionally, teachers at MRH High connect students with internships and other real-world work opportunities, and they plan their curriculum to be as authentic as possible and grounded in the real world as much as possible. Teachers must identify two to three goals for each lesson they create that connect the curriculum to real-world experiences or make the content applicable in the real world. As they develop lessons, teachers must keep these goals in mind. These objectives could include inviting a guest speaker, going on field trips, or inviting experts to evaluate student work, among other things.
In accordance with the guiding philosophy of "school as apprenticeship," educators attempt to expose students to some semblance of what their working lives will be like once they graduate from high school in every class. "The goal is to [provide students with] a diverse breadth of experiences while also allowing them to begin to narrow in on what they really want to do," says Grawer, the school's principal. "I've had kids tell me, 'I'm not sure what I want to do,' and that's okay. 'It's all right,' I say. You're seventeen years old. A lot of people are unsure of [what they want to do when they turn 17]. However, you've gotten a head start on the process and are further along than you would have been if you hadn't been in this location. And that's something to be valued."
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How are cinnamon sticks made?
Ceylon cinnamon sticks are made like cigars – fine layers dried and rolled together. It comes as a surprise to many, but cinnamon is made from the inner bark of a cinnamon tree. So the craft in the producing the spice doesn't just come from successfully cultivating it, there is also skilled preparation, drying and grading to go through before the cinnamon sticks are ready for the market.
We found a great little documentary that takes you from harvesting the crop through to making cinnamon sticks.
It sounds like a challenge, but growing your own cinnamon can be possible in a green house. Cinnamon's leaves look beautiful too as the fade from green to riper pinks. We've also seen seedlings available for sale on eBay. The seedlings are sent straight from Sri Lanka and saves the most challenging part of growing a plant, germination.
Cinnamon is generally harvested from branches that are at least 2 years old… doesn't sound too long at all for the patient among us.
So much goes into the making of Ceylon cinnamon that you can see why it's such a premium spice. It's also got a fantastic history and full with incredible benefits.
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Coca-Cola leaders give shareowners view of company's next chapter
By: Jay Moye | 4 May 2017
CEO James Quincey (left) and Chairman Muhtar Kent at the company's 2017 shareowners meeting. Quincey succeeded Kent as CEO on May 1, 2017.
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ATLANTA – The Coca-Cola Company shareowners gathered today in a space where their company's rich heritage lives on, and left with a glimpse into its future.
For the second consecutive year, The Coca-Cola Company hosted its annual shareowners meeting at the World of Coca-Cola in downtown Atlanta's Pemberton Place – located just a few blocks from where the first Coca-Cola was poured nearly 131 years ago. And while the company's flagship brand remains its biggest, the business is evolving in line with shifting consumer tastes and shopping trends.
"The Coca-Cola Company – your company – will become bigger than the world's best and most-loved brand," James Quincey, who will become Coke's CEO on May 1, told a crowd of 300 shareowners. "In very simple terms, The Coca-Cola Company will be about beverages for life."
Shareowners applaud during the 2017 annual meeting at the World of Coca-Cola in downtown Atlanta.
Current CEO Muhtar Kent, who will remain chairman of the company's board of directors, reiterated a theme covered during the 2016 meeting: the company's enduring commitment to long-term value creation.
"We're beginning a new chapter in our story of sustainable growth and long-term value creation," he said.
Kent highlighted the ongoing evolution of the company's portfolio, which today includes 3,900 products and more than 500 brands. Daily servings of the company's still beverages have increased over the last two decades from roughly 70 million to 500 million.
"And at the same time, sparkling has grown," Kent added. "So it's not an either/or question… we will do both as we have done. Because at the end of the day, we have to be the best at delivering the beverages people want. That's the name of the game going forward."
"James is the right leader at the right time. He knows our business, our customers and our consumers. And he has a compelling vision to make your company a total beverage company," Muhtar Kent told shareowners.
The company's next chapter, Quincey explained, will be powered by a consumer-centric growth model focused on providing more beverage choices in more categories.
"We have a vision of where to go next and how to build on the foundation of Muhtar's tenure and more than 130 years of this great enterprise," Quincey said, laying out a set of priorities to build strong brands and empower a global bottling system.
The company is moving from a two-pronged focus on sparkling and still beverages, Quincey explained, to a "category cluster" approach focused on sparkling soft drinks; energy; juices, dairy- and plant-based drinks; water, enhanced water and sports drinks; and tea and coffee.
"It has been a real honor and true pleasure to serve as your CEO over the last nine years," Kent said. "I appreciate very much the trust and faith you've placed in me," said Kent, who stepped down as CEO on May 1 but will remain chairman.
The Coca-Cola Company currently has more than half of the global value share of sparkling soft drinks, but only 10 to 15 percent of the other aforementioned categories. "As we start to get more granular by category and country, we see tremendous opportunity," Quincey said. "It's allowing us to be more targeted about how to be expansive in our portfolio and continue to engage consumers all day long."
The average person around the world consumes eight 8-oz. drinks every day of their life, Quincey explained, noting that Coke currently accounts for a fraction of those globally.
"We have decades of growth ahead of us," Quincey told the audience of shareowners.
"We have decades of growth ahead of us," he concluded. "We can legitimately aspire – with one portfolio – to not only satisfy, engage and deliver great taste for a whole day's worth of drinks but do so within a healthy, balanced diet. This is a path that's possible to a larger scale for this company and more profitability."
During the business portion of the meeting, shareowners supported the election of all directors and other management proposals. Listen to an audio recording of the meeting here.
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New five story building addition and renovations totaling 440,000 SF and $250 million cost of construction.
Program includes Trauma Center, expanded Outpatient Services, NICU, Pediatric Center, OB beds, Cardiac Cath Labs, Laboratory space and will add 136 new patient beds to bring the campus total to 550 beds.
Mechanical and electrical systems include development of a new central energy plant with new chillers, boilers, 4 MW of emergency generators and 4 MW of co(tri)generation.
The Master Planning effort was driven by the concern for the adequacy of the existing systems to maintain service while developing expanded capacity to serve future expansions. The results of the plan concluded to move forward with the $250 Million expansion and the design and installation of a new central energy plant to serve the existing facility and new expansion.
The Strategic Energy Planning effort investigated alternative energy sources, centralized vs. decentralized energy plants, and revival of existing energy systems on the campus, along with the study of applying emerging technologies. The life cycle cost evaluations resulting in a new central campus energy plant (hub interconnected with other plants), refurbishment and reutilization of selected plants and equipment, and 100% outside air for new patient space for air cleanliness and contamination reduction.
The "Transforming Care" project was designated a "Pebble Project" by the The Center for Health Design in order to examine and document evidence-based design concepts and their effects on financial performance and patient care quality.


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A pop-up vaccine clinic stopped by Harrison Hot Springs in September. (Adam Louis/Agassiz-Harrison Observer)
Another 580 COVID-19 cases in B.C. Thursday, 9 deaths
Now 378 people in hospital as northern restrictions added
B.C. public health teams reported another 580 confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Thursday, and nine additional deaths as further restrictions were placed on areas of the Northern Health region where hospitals are at capacity.
There are 378 people in hospital with active COVID-19 infections as of Oct. 14, up four in the past 24 hours and 153 in intensive care, the same as Wednesday. Of the nine deaths, five were in Interior Health, two in Island Health and one in Northern Health.
There have been no new outbreaks declared in the health care system, with 19 active outbreaks in senior care and acute care facilities in the province.
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From Oct. 6-12, people not fully vaccinated accounted for 66.9% of cases. From Sept. 29-Oct. 12, they accounted for 75.0% of hospitalizations.
As of Oct. 14, 89.0% (4,123,354) of eligible people 12 and older in B.C. have received their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine and 82.9% (3,842,247) have received their second dose.
B.C. health authorities continue to operate scheduled appointment and walk-in COVID-19 vaccination clinics around the province. A full list of clinic locations and hours by region can be found here. Registration and booking appointments in B.C. can be done here, or by calling 1-833-838-2323 between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. seven days a week.
New and active cases for Oct. 14 by region:
• 246 new cases in Fraser Health, 2,449 active
• 104 new cases in Interior Health, 831 active
• 129 new cases in Northern Health, 677 active
Police watchdog recommends charges against RCMP in chase, arrest of man in Williams Lake
Trudeau to unveil new cabinet Oct. 26, Parliament to return Nov. 22


BELONG // NEW GROUPS ARE HERE!
CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP! We are now in Week 2 of our Spring Groups! In addition to our 4 Local Groups, which are always up and running, we have started 4 new Connection Groups (including a Moms' Group, opportunities for building community with local college students, and a group for bi-monthly men's events!) as well as 5 Workshop Groups (including the return of Theology on Tap, No Kids Allowed!, and a new book study led by Ivy Connelly!). It's going to be a really exciting season, and we can't stress enough how important being a part of a Group is for finding belonging and being challenged towards growth here at Revolution. Sign ups are HERE, and stay tuned to The Loop for more info!
Three weeks ago, Kenny challenged everyone who was at church to write down their name and email address on a slip of paper and then put it in a fish bowl. Last week, the people who participated were connected with their partners and given their assignment: share a meal together. The big idea is that if we want to truly be a church that values "belonging," we need to take more intentional steps towards that value than simply saying it on Sunday mornings! If you haven't done so already, make sure to introduce yourself to your partner(s) this week! We are excited to hear more about your time together, and if you have stories or pictures to share, please make sure to email Meredith Camacho after you meet at meredith@revolutionannapolis.com.


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Training is essential for you to get the most with CS Optimizer. Our software is customized to your facility, and we customize the training to your staff. We rely on web-based training tools to get your team up to speed quickly. Using high-speed internet, we employ desktop sharing, web conferencing, online chatting, and session recording. We also offer a detailed implementation guide.
If you feel your staff needs individualized attention, we also offer customized training on-site. Our training experts will provide a mobile computer lab to conduct hands-on training at your facility. Whether we conduct training online or on-site, our goal is the same. We'll equip your staff to use CS Optimizer with confidence for the results you expect.


Why join as a member of Reform Jersey?
Reform Jersey is led by its membership. No other political organisation in Jersey is as inclusive or democratic as Reform Jersey.
Islanders who join the party are entitled to attend our party meetings to help set our political agenda. Members can also put themselves forward to stand for election.
We regularly consult with our members and take votes on what our policies should be. This has often culminated with one of our elected members taking a proposition to the States Assembly to have our policies implemented. This is how you can directly influence what happens in Jersey politics.
We also host a series of social events and fundraisers throughout the year, where members can come and enjoy themselves with like-minded people.
Members below the age of 18 can join the party for free and are automatically members of the Reform Jersey Youth Committee, which has permanent membership on our leading Management Committee, to ensure that there is always a youth voice present when we are making our decisions.


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Q: Import custom css webpack loader I want to include a custom .css in the main.tsx file I have. This is the error I get:
ERROR in ./src/assets/style.css 1:20
Module parse failed: Unexpected token (1:20)
You may need an appropriate loader to handle this file type.

The custom .css file I use has this content:
input[type="number"]::-webkit-outer-spin-button,
input[type="number"]::-webkit-inner-spin-button {
  -webkit-appearance: none;
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}

input[type="number"] {
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And here is the module of my webpack file:
module: {
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      use: [
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        'css-loader'
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I tried also adding style-loader and get the same error. The webpack version is 4.16.5.

A: It's choking on the pseudo-element. It could be that it doesn't support the double-colon syntax. It may be a red herring, but try single colons: input[type="number"]:-webkit-outer-spin-button,
input[type="number"]:-webkit-inner-spin-button.

A: You can use style-loader with minimize-loader and use can do something like below:
module: {
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{
  test: /\.css$/,
  include: /node_modules/,
  use: [
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}

And even not working then add postcss-loader as well.

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Ce safari est un excellent choix si vous n'avez pas beaucoup de temps à explorer le parc national d'Etosha. Le safari commencera et se terminera à Windhoek. Vous aurez 2 jours d'opportunités de visionnage de jeu avec votre guide. L'hébergement sera le camping participant. Vous aurez besoin de dresser votre propre tente, mais la nourriture sera préparée par votre guide et assistant, sous les étoiles. Si vous avez du mal à monter une tente, ne vous inquiétez pas, votre guide sera là pour vous aider.
Les safaris et l'observation de la faune dans le parc national d'Etosha.
Vous pouvez vous attendre à voir la plupart des 5 grands sur ce safari. L'observation des oiseaux est également géniale.
Votre maison d'hôtes / hôtel a à être à Windhoek. Sinon, vous devrez réserver un transfert à partir de nos bureaux, pour votre propre compte.
Is there anywhere to do laundry?
Whilst we hope that your trip will be chore free and totally relaxing, we understand that you may want to wash one or two items of clothing while out on safari! If you're on one of our scheduled, camping trips there will be laundry facilities (with washing machines) in the bigger towns such as Swakopmund and Windhoek. While out on the road, we recommend that you pack a bar or tube of laundry detergent that you'll be able to use for smaller items of clothing at your campsite. With Namibia's dry climate, items normally dry quite quickly overnight. If you're staying in lodges on your safari, the majority (but not all) will offer a laundry service. This will depend on the specific lodge / hotel. We suggest checking directly with your lodge or getting in touch with us if you have any specific questions.
Most of the safaris will use our Toyota Dyna 14 seater vehicles with pop-tops, like the one below. The vehicles have modified seating for more leg room and there are large windows for game viewing, while the pop-tops are great for photographing game.
What food will I eat in Namibia?
Namibia offers a wide variety of local and international dishes and you can be assured that your taste-buds will be well looked after on a Wild Dog safari! While travelling with us on our scheduled tours, typical dishes include tasty stews, spaghetti bolognaise, steak, the traditional 'braai' (bbq), fresh salads, sandwiches and hotdogs. Vegetarians will also be catered for with dishes such as Lentil and Couscous Salad, Inca-style stuffed squash, Basmati and wild rice with chickpeas, Vegetable Kebabs with sweet chilli sauce and more … You'll be able to visit some of our country's fantastic restaurants before and/or after joining a tour, and some of our trips include an evening meal in Swakopmund, where you will find a great variety of delicious, local seafood such as lobster, cob and Walvis Bay oysters. Elsewhere, most restaurants offer a good variety on their a la carte menus, ranging from everyday favourites such as hamburgers and pizza, to some of the best steaks in the world. A popular choice for game steak is oryx, kudu or springbok, and all are highly recommended, especially when washed down with a local beer or some of the fantastic wine that's imported from South Africa!
What is the climate of Namibia?
The climate is typically semi-desert with hot days and cool nights. Midsummer temperatures may rise to over 40 degrees Celsius. Winter days are warm, but dawn temperatures may drop to freezing. Along the coast it is cool with low rainfall and fog prevails from late afternoon until mid-morning. The rainy season lasts from October to April. The rest of the year is dry and cloudless. Namibia averages 300 days of sunshine a year.
Notre visite de trois jours à Sossusvlei a été conçue pour vous donner un aperçu rapide des paysages emblématiques de la Namibie. Vous visiterez les dunes de sable les plus élevées du monde et vous marcherez dans le plus vieux désert du monde à Sesriem & Sossusvlei.


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Sodexo named in Top 50 Employe...
Sodexo named in Top 50 Employers for Women for second year
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Sodexo has been recognised for the second consecutive year for its commitment to gender balance as one of The Times Top 50 Employers for Women.
Published today (22 April) as a supplement in The Times, the top 50 recognises the leading UK organisations which ensure their workplaces provide women with the opportunity to achieve their full potential.
The Times Top 50 Employers for Women is compiled though a partnership between The Times and Opportunity Now, the gender campaign within Business in the Community.
Since Sodexo's inclusion in the 2014 list, the company has announced a public pledge to publish a detailed breakdown of gender pay variances and rectify discrepancies across its 34,000 UK and Irish employees, the first company of its size and scope to report this level of detail.
Sodexo's Gender Pay Pledge was launched alongside the announcement of the results of its Gender Balance Study, which gathered data from 52,000 Sodexo managers working in some 100 entities across its global footprint. The study has shown better performance across all the performance indicators measured, including employee engagement, brand image, consumer satisfaction, retention, organic growth and profits in parts of the business where there is gender balanced management (between 40-60 of managers are women).
The Sodexo Women's International forum for talent (SWIFt) drives the organisation's gender diversity approach across the globe. SWIFt is co-chaired by Sophie Bellon, the daughter of Sodexo's founder Pierre Bellon, who is due to succeed him as chair of the company in 2016.
Made up of 35 members, including two executive sponsors and nine alumni members of top female and male executives from around the world, SWIFt UK and Ireland members include chief executive Debbie White (a SWIFt founder), Sodexo Education managing director Jane Bristow and Sodexo Justice Services deputy managing director Janine McDowell.
Debbie White, chief executive for Sodexo UK & Ireland, said: "Driving gender equality throughout business is not only the right thing to do; it also drives better business outcomes. I'm therefore thrilled that Sodexo has been recognised in The Times Top 50 Employers for Women list for the second consecutive year. This accolade is testament to the outstanding work throughout our business and supported by our diversity and inclusion team and our gender workstream, which is helping us work towards our goal of having gender balanced teams at every level of the business."


Blurb Description: The Mughal Viceroy of Bengal in 1685, Lord Shayista Khan, was an indomitable warrior who knew no fear. Under is governance Bengal has become the centre of commerce and culture, a veritable treasure chest for greedy enemies: Maratha Warriors, Arakan Rajas, Hindu Zamindars and even the East India Company. Among all this opulence, there is only one possession that Shayista holds dear: a dark diamond knows as the Kalinoor.
Kalinoor is cursed however, and Shayista is fated to suffer the torments it brings - including, perhaps, the ruin of Bengal. With a French beauty, a Portuguese Pirate, and a Bengali dancer as his allies, Shayista must find a way to save his Enlightened Empire from his enemies - and to keep the Dark Diamond out of the hands of a diabolical Pir who wants nothing more than to bring Bengal into darkness once again.
I started reading this book quite a long while ago, and for some reason I couldn't quite get into it.
I finally picked it up again yesterday, and then proceeded to devour it in just one sitting! Dark Diamond is filled with romance, tragedy, greed, pirates, magic and is an adventure you'll never forget.
Mughal India, the late 1600's. The British East India Company is making its first footholds in India, establishing trade and forming relationships, waiting patiently to take over.
Lord Shayista Khan rules Bengal not with his heard, but with fear. A rumoured Wizard who does not age, a supposed brutish and uncaring man, he is also in possession of the rarest diamond from the mines of Kollur – the Kalinoor; the Dark Diamond.
Inside, Lord Shayista Khan is Talib, a man who has suffered the tragedy of living when all those he loves have died; died because he wasn't enough to save them.
Champa was never one to settle down and marry like custom, and her father, dictates she should. She spends her time helping her grandfather, the local Pir (a Mughal magician and healer) and teaching the young girls in her locality dance and music among other things. Her grandfather's life work has been searching for the diamond Shayista has hidden somewhere.
Madeline, a French Fugitive, is on a mission to find the diamond mines of Kollur to barter for social standing and a rich enough husband. She enlists the help of a pirate to take her to Bengal.
In the quest for the possession of the rarest diamond on the world, we are transported into the minds of very different people, learning what makes them tick, their fears and sources of greatest joy. In the search of a cursed object, we see Bengal, and India, in its finest – luxury, culture and trade at its pinnacle, along with the death, closed mindedness and damnation.
The only thing about this novel that I didn't like was a certain someone being alive after all at the ending. It seemed unrealistic, too unreal in a real novel and I wish it hadn't happened.
Dark Diamond is unlike any adventure you've ever experienced before, so buckle in and get ready to fall in love.
Shazia Omar is a Bangladeshi novelist. Her debut novel, Like a Diamond in the Sky was published by Penguin India and Zubaan in 2009. She studied at Dartmouth College and the London School of Economics. She currently lives in Bangladesh.
What is your favourite adventure novel? Have you read any adventure novels based in India? What do you think of a cursed black diamond?


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Around 88 per cent Indian consumers use mobile devices for online payment, according to a joint report by PayPal and IPSOS.IANS | November 22, 2019, 18:33 IST
New Delhi, Around 88 per cent Indian consumers use mobile devices for online payment, according to a joint report by PayPal and IPSOS.
The report further said that bill payments and fashion are the key sectors where app purchases take place and over half the volume of online sales is made through in-app purchases. Around 51 per cent of online sales volume has been made via in-app purchases, it added.
"88 per cent of the surveyed Indians use a mobile device to make payments, way above the global average of 71 per cent," the report said on Friday.
The report is part of a global survey carried out during 23 July and 25 August, 2019.
'PayPal the IPSOS mCommerce Report' also said that 81 per cent of the merchants in India are optimised to accept mobile payments to meet the growing demand and responding to consumer preferences, against the the global average of 63 per cent merchants.
As per the report, social commerce adoption has been increasing in India with about 57 per cent of the consumers having made purchased through this channel in the past six months, with over half of them doing so weekly.
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Britain is engaged in secret negotiations with Pakistan to swap a terrorist suspect who is wanted for questioning over the alleged plot to blow up transatlantic airlines last summer, the Guardian has learned.
In increasingly tense discussions, the British government is demanding the return of Rashid Rauf, a 26-year-old who is held in a high security prison in Pakistan. But ministers in Pakistan have responded by asking for something in return. In a proposed swap, they are calling for the extradition of up to eight people living in the UK who they claim are involved in an uprising in the western oil-rich province of Baluchistan.
Lawyers from the Crown Prosecution Service flew to Islamabad last month to try to speed up the process and help the authorities prepare extradition papers for the eight, according to sources in the Pakistani capital. But human rights groups have condemned any attempt to "barter" individuals, and warned both governments that the due process of the law must be followed.
Mr Rauf, originally from Birmingham, was arrested by Pakistani police last August. He has been charged in Pakistan with possession of 29 bottles of hydrogen peroxide - a key ingredient used in the past by al-Qaida in the manufacture of bombs - and the possession of fake South African identity papers.
Anti-terrorist sources in the UK claim Mr Rauf is a "very important" suspect in the network of British-based Islamist terrorists. His arrest by Pakistan's security services, the ISI, last August sparked a series of raids in Britain in connection with what counter-terrorism officials said was an attempt to blow up transatlantic airliners. Fifteen people have been charged with terrorism offences in connection with the alleged plot.
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Pakistani sources claim Mr Marri is the kingpin of the rebel Baluchistan Liberation Army, which was added to the Home Office list of proscribed organisations in a surprise move last summer, just as negotiations over the extradition of Mr Rauf were about to begin.
Mr Marri's friends say he was arrested in Dubai last March at the request of the Pakistan authorities, but released four months later because they were unable to present any evidence. He remains at liberty.
Mr Baluch, 33, who lives in London, is the chairman of the Baluchistan Rights Movement. He has lived in the UK for more than 20 years, has a British passport and speaks regularly at United Nations conferences on the human rights of the Baluchi population in the region where 73 of the 99 abductions registered by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan took place last year.
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"What offences have I committed? I am standing up for human rights, I am speaking out against the disappearances going on Baluchistan.
"I would like to tell the British they need to understand the Baluchi perspective and the whole story. They should not just see this from a Pakistani point of view. They are lying. Pakistan is committing human rights abuses in Baluchistan. My job primarily is to speak out against this. I address issues of human rights, especially the disappearances." The CPS refused to discuss whether lawyers had been sent to Pakistan to help with Islamabad's extradition requests for Mr Baluch, Mr Marri and up to six others.
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Ali Hasan, south Asia researcher for Human Rights Watch, said: "There isn't a problem with the British exploring the legal options. What there is a problem with is the clandestine nature of this. The British want this individual and must follow due process of the law to get that individual across from Pakistan."


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Copper is a 100 percent recyclable material. According to the Copper Development Association, copper's recycling rate is higher than that of any other engineering metal. Every year in the United States, nearly as much copper is recycled as is mined. Excluding wire production, almost 75 percent of U.S. copper used comes from recycled copper scrap. There are so many advantages to recycling copper that the value of scrap is approximately 85 to 95 percent the price of newly mined ore.
The refining process for copper releases toxic gases and dust into the air. Recycling reduces the emissions related to the mining and smelting. According to KME, the Bureau of International Recycling reports that recycling copper saves 85 percent of the energy needed to produce new copper. The amount of solid waste left over from the smelting process is also eliminated, reducing a need for disposal.
Recycling of copper eliminates the product from taking up space in landfills, according to "Waste and Recycling" by Janine Amos. Copper is found in many different products; household electrical items, computers, cars and electrical wire can all include copper. Many buildings include copper in their construction, with the average home containing 400 pounds of copper, according to the Northwest Mining Association. Even small pieces of copper can be recycled and reused.
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The Decadent West is Back in Propaganda
Posted on March, 2018 by MwBp	7 Comments
The decadent West is back as the regime's propaganda tool. We have seen it in the 1970s.
The West had been declining for as long as anyone can remember – but people still don't flock into eastern autocracies. (Image: Goodbye Lenin)
The West had been declining for as long as anyone can remember – but people still don't flock into eastern autocracies. If Oswald Spengler was a woman, people would cry for evidence-based theories instead.
The Fidesz election campaign of 2018 is heavily built on the government propaganda of 2015-17. It is migrant-bashing and West-bashing – and what combines the tow better than horror stories about migrants trashing western cities? And thus the genre 'decadent West' has made it to the TV news again.
One doesn't have to go far back in history to remember a time when the declining West was the theme of TV news: The countries stuck in the Russian sphere of influence after WW2 had all seen propaganda like this.
Fake propaganda news being recorded (From the movie Goodbye Lenin)
Propaganda media
The word 'migrant' features 13 times on the front page of origo.hu, a news portal taken over by a crony. All headlines but one are about the horrors of refugees in Western European capitals.
Hungarian members of the government are also busy roaming the streets of Western Europe, reporting of what they find as unlivable cities.
Austrian politicians were trying hard to dismiss Lázár's infamous Vienna video. I have no idea how they managed. Maybe they said something like: just a racist minister of a foreign country coming to our capital and trashing us – nothing to see here. But then Orbán repeated the racist message and made them look like pussies.
Then came the trashing of Sweden, where migrants allegedly caused so much chaos, Hungarians have to flee back for safety. One of them even gave an interview about her Stockholm ordeals. To the public broadcaster, no less.
We have also learned (also from the Fidesz-controlled media) that Finnish children are so high on liberalism, they are burning down cathedrals and murdering parents.
Then came Belgium. A Fidesz MEP repeated Lázár's Fear and loathing video – this time from the streets of Brussels.
And don't forget Germany and France. Two, big no-go zones.
Fear and loathing in Vienna
After the shock defeat in Lázár's constituency in February this year, Fidesz and the entire government-controlled media was in a shock. For a day or so, they even said they went too far with the Soros-bashing, the voters found it too much. Anti-Soros Fidesz adverts disappeared from newspapers, news sites and government portals overnight. And for the next two days everyone was writing about that. It was amusing to see how bona fide racists and the most bloodthirsty Orbánist columnists started parroting the new mantra.
I almost wrote about it because it was so unusual after two years of constant and ear-shattering migrant-bashing, fearmongering and anti-Soros propaganda. But my delight proved to be too early. Because the slowing down only lasted for two days. And then the decision had been made: crank up the racism.
The last few weeks have been busy in Orbán's life. Despite his well-known disdain for local politics (he feels better playing with the big boys, plotting global games) he had been visiting struggling candidates (always unannounced to avoid media, protesters or any uncontrolled publicity in general). Local Fidesz candidates are suddenly struggling not because Fidesz is so weak in general, but because they lack any authentic support. It has been Orbán's policy to carefully hand-pick his MP candidates, based on their personal loyalty to him, and not their popular support. In fact, it was even better of the local candidates were weak and not embedded locally. It made them more loyal to the chief.
"They could run a horse in Fidesz' colors and it would get elected."
This strategy was perfect to colonize the party and then all public institutions – but proving to be a liability when elections results are no longer certain.
So Orbán went on the road and visited the industrial rust belt – where he compared gypsies to migrants and discussed in details how it is impossible to live with them when they move to your town.
"People of Miskolc know what immigration means. Once there was a mass immigration into this town. 〈Referring to the state-sponsored resettlement of Gypsies into Miskolc a few years prior.〉 You could see what happened…. Even though those people came to Miskolc from the territory of Hungary. Now imagine what it is like when people who are different in their culture, customs and views of life arrive from outside of our borders."
–PM Viktor Orbán, March 2018
Then on another stop on his tour Orbán compared migrants to toothpaste
"If we want to defend Hungary and don't want to become an immigrant country, we have to stick together and fight this battle together. … We don't just want to avoid becoming an immigrant country because it would bring terror, crime and our wives and daughters will not be safe anymore, but because our cultural identity will … also slowly evaporate… Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, no man can put it back in."
But he wasn't the only one openly performing a mating dance to lure in more Jobbik voters. Lázár, the minister who fell out of royal favour, was dispatched to make a fool of himself in Vienna.
The short clip is showing the minister talking on a Vienna street, warning of the horrors of immigration. He says things like "we can see what Budapest might look like in twenty years if the political opposition admits immigrants" "There are a number of schools in Vienna where there are no longer any white Viennese, only the children of immigrants attend…. The streets are visibly more dirty, and the neighborhood is visibly poorer, and there is a lot more crime."
Austrian government forgave – Orbán made a fool out of them
Naturally, Austrian politicians had to react. It was amusing to watch how local right wingers were scrambling to write off the video as irrelevant – just to be able to avoid diplomatic conflict with a populist ally. After all, Vienna regularly tops the charts of most livable city on the planet – but even if it wasn't the best place to live on the planet, even if Lázár went to, say, Bucharest, this video would have sparked a diplomatic scandal. In normal times, that is.
But a video that would have been casus belli had merely triggered an unwilling press conference because the Austrian government felt and unpleasant obligation to react. Pumping the same nationalist populism at home, they found it hard to react the way governments normally do. (Opposition politicians weren't so forgiving, but they don't regard Orbán as an ally.) So on the highest levels, Hungary was forgiven.
But then Orbán couldn't resist and delivered another punch. After all, he didn't need the Austrians' forgiveness. Vienna IS a no-go zone!
"…security have been discussed a lot. We can see what's going on in the cities of Western Europa and the Viennese video of János Lázár had painted and accurate picture of the situation there."
–Viktor Orbán, 9 March 2018, Várpalotai Hírcentrum Televízió
When Steve Bannon called Orbán a "hero" and "the most significant guy on the 〈European alt-right〉 scene right now" this is what he meant.
There, Austrian politicians! You tried to dismiss the racism of the Hungarian government as irrelevant, as sovereign business of a government, or as a slightly lamentable offence by a government that is currently rendered irresponsible due to campaign psychosis. (Who doesn't turn into a bloodthirsty racist int the heat of the campaign? Come on, people, that's just politics…) But Orbán won't let you get away with it. He will still call you pussies.
The Austrians thus got their lesson about ethno-populism not being a solid basis for an international alliances. Anti-foreigner chest-thumping might be something all right wing populists share – but nationalism and economic protectionism will always put them on a collision course with one another. By definition. This is why Orbán's anti-Soros drive didn't succeed in enticing Trump, and this is why Western European populists should think twice before embracing Orbán – on the sole basis of his border fence.
As of ordinary Austrians, a pissed off Viennese citizen had taken things into his or her hands and distributed this message on the windshield of cars with Hungarian number plates parking on Viennese streets.
"Question: If OUR Vienna is so dirty, unsafe and criminal, why don't you stay in YOUR great Hungary?" Photo: 444.hu
Fear and loathing in Stockholm
The public broadcaster, in the meantime, started running reports and interviews with people who had to escape migrant-ridden Western capitals. Berlin, Brussels, Stockholm are all hellholes, apparently.
This lady, for instance, claimed to have escaped from Stockholm because police didn't protect her from nasty migrants – in a half-hour report on the public broadcaster.
The Swedish-Hungarian woman claimed to have had to escape Stockholm for safety reasons (read: migrants). But her story didn't add up and she was ridiculed.
Five minutes of fact checking from the independent media resulted in hilarity. Not only was she herself a daughter of classic (Russian and Hungarian) refugees who met in an Italian refugee camp in the 50s, she also had long criminal record in Sweden. Mostly minor spats and fraudulent claims of being a public official, psychiatrist, etc. Not an actual aristocrat and never legally lived in Stockholm, least of all during the refugee crisis, when she was already back in Budapest. Where she also failed to live up to the basic rules of society, having failed to pay her landlord. After the obvious facts were (to her surprise) unearthed, she went back to Sweden, where she gave another interview to Aftonbladet, claiming that she had to flee Hungary for the hatred she experienced after having bad press. You can't make this woman up.
Having no reputation to hurt, the public broadcaster didn't stop there. Not only did they fail to apologize, they doubled down on Stockholm-bashing and invited new individuals who testified that migrants ruined their lives in Stockholm, whereas it was paradise in Budapest. An old fellow claimed that in Budapest "street gangs parted in front of me" out of respect. (Although he clearly hasn't visited Budapest since the 70s, based on his choice of words.)
But the decadent West is everywhere. I have no doubt that the refugee situation poses huge challenges and integration is not a cakewalk, but I have just googled the terms 'Stockholm' and 'migration' and received the following headlines in Hungarians – from 2017-18:
"Migrant criminals beheaded a woman in Stockholm"
"Riots broke out in Stockholm's migrant district"
"Ever more no-go zones in Sweden"
"Migrants waging war on authorities in Sweden"
"Rape epidemic in Sweden"
"Military intervention against migrants is contemplated in Sweden"
I am not going to bother you with any more examples. Let's just say that there's nothing else going on on Fidesz-controlled media. Nothing. And France, Paris, Brussels and Berlin also get the propaganda treatment – possibly because their governments are not friendly to Orbán (France and Germany) or because we are at a propaganda war against Brussels. If you think that two years of this propaganda tsunami would not affect you – you are more vulnerable to it that you'd like to believe. I remember a friend telling me about the 1980s: "We knew that official propaganda about the decadent West is all bullshit – but I was still surprised when I finally made it to New York and no one was shooting on the streets."
The decadent-West propaganda is back in Hungarian media. Someone tell Fidesz that communism is over.
Someone please make communism go away. This time for real.
While I wrote this, another couple of thousand Hungarians left for countries such as Sweden. The campaign is meant to distract from them. We can only hope that their integration will be less violent.
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THE SERBIAN PARLIAMENT IS HIDING THE NAME OF THE CANDIDATE FOR THE COMMISSIONER FOR THE PROTECTION OF EQUALITY
The Open Parliament wishes to draw the public's attention to the fact that the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, by quietly convening a session of the Committee on Constitutional and Legislative Issues, without revealing the names of the candidates, plans to outline a proposal for a new Commissioner for Equality on Monday, November 23rd. Judging by the agenda of the upcoming session, which was published on the website of the Assembly, only one name will be presented before the Committee, at the proposal of an unknown number of parliamentary groups.
The Open Parliament wishes to remind that the position of the Commissioner for the Protection of Equality has been vacant for more than six months, since the mandate of Brankica Janković expired in May this year. Instead of electing a new Commissioner by the end of August at the latest, in accordance with the Law on the Prohibition of Discrimination, the election was first prevented by a several-month-long unreasonable postponement of the ruling majority to constitute the Assembly.
The procedure was then initiated overnight, without announcing the name of the candidate and the parliamentary group that proposed them, by which the Parliament closed the door to consultations and to the public's involvement in the debate on the decisions it makes. The non-transparent conduct of the Parliament in the process of electing a new Commissioner for the Protection of Equality casts a shadow of doubt on the integrity of the process. On the other hand, this is another in a series of negative examples of Parliament's attitude towards independent institutions, whose effective, professional and independent work should be one of the key pillars of the National Assembly in overseeing the executive branch.
We remind you that the Commissioner for the Protection of Equality has the role of preventing all forms of discrimination and to protect and promote the equal position of every individual in all areas of society.
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I wanted to do something different for the Blacksmith Feature and discuss not one particular scenario, but the works of one of my favourite designers, Crasher. Crasher was a past member of the now inactive Dragon Gaming Design Network (or DGDN for short) and was active from around the early to mid-2000s. Few designers during this time had the mind to combine atmosphere, map design and storytelling all into one complimentary blend, but Crasher was not only able to achieve this skilfully but in a way that was meditative and soulful too. His story writing drew upon a layer of depth I had not seen in many other scenarios before, while his fantasy-based designs were inspired and highly-entertaining. If there is any mark to put to his designing, it was that it often lacked the extra ingredient or layer of polish that would have seen it achieve higher acclaim. Perhaps it was more to do with his style of alternative over grand epics, or that he never truly built into a major scenario, seemingly preferring side projects such as contest entries and cut-scenes instead. Nevertheless, his best work presented well-crafted maps enriched with atmosphere and designed to a level of detail that generally brought out the best of what the editor had to offer at the time.
Crasher's Pretty Town Contest entries, A Lost World and my personal favourite A Different World, were seemingly years ahead of their time both in aesthetic appeal and craft. They each conveyed the mood and atmosphere of desolate island communities in a way that left a lasting impression with the haunting soundtracks and well-written prose to match. These are a must view for any map design enthusiast.
Then there's the fan favourite Attack at Dawn, which is a relatively modest yet immensely enjoyable classic B&D scenario with an RPG twist. Slangam, a powerful warlord from the north, is invading the valley and the small village of Akuror stands in its way. Led by three able warriors, you must prepare to make your stand. Being one of the first scenarios I ever downloaded, Attack at Dawn gripped me from the very start with its fantasy-inspired world and intriguing map design that invites you to go exploring.
Perhaps you have a taste for the theatrical? Then Immortal Prey will not only intrigue you but whet your appetite with its multi-layered story of mystery and betrayal. This cinematic scenario was in fact a prelude to a larger campaign that was never released, although having talked to crasher over the last year he still swears he'll finish it one day! It does however provide a worthwhile 15 minutes of entertainment in what is undoubtedly one of the best cinematic scenarios at the Blacksmith.
Good work mash, quite a nice read Would have loved to see what crasher would do with off grid placement!
Great write-up, Mash! "A Different World" is one of my all time favourites.
Thanks, Mash! Very interesting read!
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Yes, agreed to that! I always felt he was someone hugely-talented but never quite pushed to get the most out of himself.
Great write-up, and loving the new approach that you took. It's a nice way to do a tribute to the larger corpus of work and to the designer himself rather than to any individual creation.
I think particularly with Crasher, having designed just the five scenarios, it makes sense to showcase all his work as they each fit neatly into what is a very telling visual and atmospheric style. They've probably had the most influence on my designing!
Indeed, if your two PTC entries are anything to go by, although you've taken that idea to an entirely new level!
Nice article, thanks for the memories. It's a shame he never completed his campaign, but I think it may have been part of that time in scenario design where creators became increasingly ambitious and set higher standards, but were perhaps too ambitious to realise their largest projects. Luke is another clear example of that.
every time someone talks about how many minutes or seconds something will take in a film set in the middle ages, it's an anachronism.
Intriguing. I can easily see how that would have been the case for times of day. But what did people say instead when they wanted to say that something would take a particular short amount of time? Surely people would have wanted to differentiate between approximately 2 minutes and approximately 45 minutes.
It's not something I had really thought about myself until reading Robert Bartlett's The Hanged Man, a study of contemporary witness accounts of a 13th century 'miracle' in south Wales that were originally compiled to see if it was a miracle or not (a hanged man who had supposedly died later came back to life). In the book, these witness accounts are used to see how people in this particular society thought about or used to describe various things (a bit like Le Roy Ladurie's famous study Montaillou).
There's one chapter about how people described time and space, and it's really insightful. The people who were originally interviewed described how long various things had taken - how long the man had been hanging on the gallows for instance, or even very general things, like how old they were, or how long ago the miracle had occurred and on which day. It turns out that people back then were simply far less concerned with time than today - they often didn't know their own age (including the nobility) and because they didn't keep calendars, years and days could be in dispute, too (although days less so - they could be more easily remembered if they were the day of a particular saint, for instance). Accurate time keeping was more an academic undertaking.
When people said when something had happened within a day, it was often related to the canonical hours (ie 'shortly after vespers'). Weirdly enough, when it came to describing how long something had taken, people used measures of space rather than time to describe them: something took 'for such space as he estimates a man could have gone a quarter mile' or 'the length of time it takes to go one German mile'. Even though the concepts of hours and minutes were already in existence at the time, academically speaking, they were apparently not invoked by any of the witnesses in this particular case. Which is not that surprising, since pretty much no one would have had a clock to teach them how long that measure of time takes. This presumably only changed in the course of the 14th century and onwards, when mechanical town clocks became increasingly common and started to regulate working hours.
Very interesting read. I always felt crasher's use of "six fifty in the morning" was odd and should have simply been "dawn", although I never thought about it further than that.


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This week, we started our lesson by talking about rules. We all agreed that, at times, rules are annoying because we can't do what we want, but, they help to keep us and others safe. We went through our Sunday School rules and talked about how each one keeps us or others safe and what the natural consequences would be if we broke a specific rule as well as the punishment that might be dished out by teachers if one continues to break the rules.
We didn't get to play our "Obey the Signs" game as we left it until the end of the lesson and ran out of time! (Note for next year: play a short game at the START of lesson!) However, it is a fantastic game for helping kiddos to understand the importance of obeying rules.
Once the game is finished, ask the children some questions, such as: How can you tell who wins? Quite evidently, the person who followed the rules AND got to the teacher first. What are the consequences of not playing by the rules? Going back to the starting point and possibly giving up your chances of winning!
We then talked about the man God had created – Adam. God made a beautiful garden for Adam called Eden and his job was to look after the plants and animals. However, Adam felt lonely because he didn't have a friend. So God, made a woman and Adam named her Eve! She was the perfect friend for Adam. They both lived in the beautiful garden and were very happy. God told them to eat the fruit from any tree in the garden EXCEPT the one that was in the middle of the garden. God gave them a rule.
To help with the retelling of what happened in the garden, I made a a story box. The clip art I used is available for purchase from Kari Bolt's store.
I asked my kiddos what they thought: would Adam and Eve listen to God's rule? I guess they must all be familiar with this Bible Story because they all thought that they would NOT listen to God's rule.
I continued to tell them the rest of the story.
Once finished, we all agreed that the ending was very sad. We talked about the natural consequence of Adam and Eve's sin – that they began to age – and the punishment handed out by God – that they were no longer allowed in the garden. How sad that they could no longer talk to God like they used to!
Of course, I didn't want to leave my kiddos feeling sad about what had happened to Adam and Eve, so I told them about God's plan to help them and all the other people that had been born after them by sending His Son, Jesus, to earth.
We made an Eve puppet to help us remember all that we had learnt about this week.
And then handed out a take-home page for everyone.
Lavina, it is a lovely idea to have the kids to do some craft for the story, it is a very helpful way to help kids to learn with fun, and it will help them memorize the story better with visual aid.
Thanks for sharing — we're having our Preschoolers do a puppet show this upcoming week and these looked great for them to use.
Thank you, Lavinia, for having this for free. I love your illustrations and your crafts!
This a hard lesson for 2-3 year olds. But I liked the words you chose about rules. the illustrations are great. thanks.
I started teaching kids between 1.5 and 3 years old at our church since last Jan. With the age gap, it's been challenging so I looked everywhere to find a short and interactive activities/sources so I can get their attention for minutes.
I love your work and explantion how it really went with the kiddos.
Thank you soso much I am bringing your Noah's ark worksheet to kids today and so excited!
Thank you, Lavinia, for sharing. God bless you.
I can't wait to share this with the children on Sunday!
Thanks for the freebies! God is using you to help others in His ministry! Take care and have a super God-created day!
I was trying to get your awesome Sunday school lessons to work on with my daughter just so we had some fun ways of discussing some of the stories from the bible. Especially as she preps for her first communion. But I cannot seem to download your Adam and Eve lesson. Every time I click on it it says it was put in the bin and won't go any further…… can you help please…..


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Is there a visual way to map out the relationships among chords similar to the Tonnetz lattice of Neo-Riemannian analysis but for atonal music?
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Elements of a horror musical song?
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Parallel Fifth in a Symphony Orchestral?
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Is GbM7 to DbM7/F also a chromatic movement?
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Can one measure the "distance" between chords? If so, how?
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Did Bach ever use melodic minor keys in chorales?
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Guide-lines for creating a simple chord-progression?
I am working on a computer program that generates a simple melody, based on a simple chord progression of four chords taken from the 7 triads of the C Major scale. The program is also supposed to... more
How to modulate from minor to parallel major?
I'm trying to find a good modulation from Dm to D. I know that I could use Dm-A7-D but it feels a bit to unsophisticated. I thought that I maybe could do something like Dm-X-C-X-Em-X-D where X is... more
How do I use the Omnibus Progression to Modulate from I to iv?
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Composing a song in Cm with major chord substitutes?
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Are chord progressions used in classical music?
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Are there scales and chord progressions particularly used in Rag music?
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How can you tell the chords of a piece of music if you can only hear bass and melody?
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What are the different ways of adding non-diatonic chords?
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Parallel chord substitutions?
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When to use different scales or modes over chord progressions?
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My son is a creature of habit or traditions I might say. He has liked his routines since birth. He likes certainty and having his expectations met on an ordinary day. I, on the other hand, growing up with few family traditions, didn't think much of any of this before noticing the value my son puts on these simple traditions we create as a family. He instilled the value of traditions in me and this makes me inclined to turn some of the rituals into traditions.
My daughter is not as particular about her routines however, I observe that both my kids get extremely excited when we are about to embark on one of our traditions, even as simple as our weekly Friday Pizza nights. I love it when they fondly reminisce every detail of a previous gatherings or visit of an annual tradition and I notice how vivid their memory is.
These traditions make up the DNA of a family. It's our identity and signature. It helps our kids feel that they belong and our family is valued. These are the things I hope my kids will remember about their childhood with warmth in their heart when they are grown up.
Traditions provide certainty and comfort for kids. Especially if you have a child who loves their routines, traditions will make them even happier.
Traditions give children something to look forward to. Is it Friday yet? Where is my snow day hot chocolate?
Traditions make the times you spend together as a family more memorable. You might feel like you are repeating the same thing every Thursday or every first Sunday of the month or every road trip, but for children, it etches the memories even deeper in their hearts.
Morning hugs/snuggles: What's better way than starting your day with big, warm bear hugs? Long weekend snuggles in parents' bed are also our favorite. Unless kids declare that they want to get back to reading a page-turner as soon as possible, we try to get as many hugs and kisses as possible.
Family mealtime: I inherited this from my mom. She wants everyone to sit and eat at the table at the same time. No one gets a pass to eat alone in their room or in front of the tv. We gather at the table at the same time, talk about our day, try to answer kids' riddles. Even if there are housework or homework to get back to mealtime is marked as busy for a family time.
Mealtime thanks/blessings: Mealtime thanks is one of my favorite gratitude practices. We have a quick poem-like thanks that one of the kids repeat.
Bedtime books: I take special delight in reading books to my kids. Still to this day I try to make sure we have enough time to read a picture book before bedtime. Our current routine is my daughter reading a book while I brush and braid her hair so that it doesn't get tangled.
Bedtime Stories: If you have a greater imagination like my husband, you can choose to make up your own personalized stories which kids love and look forward wondering what will their parent come up with this time? In our experience, the sillier, the better.
Special family dinner on a specific day: One of our longest established traditions is Friday family pizza nights. I make pizza from scratch and bake fresh. It's a big part of my parent point earnings. If you have a favorite recipe or meal, make a day of the week a special meal day. It also takes a burden off of deciding what to cook that night.
Special breakfast on a weekend: I remember our Sunday mornings when I was a kid very well because of our simple tradition. A big special breakfast followed by my favorite cartoon on TV. Well, in my time there weren't too many options at the time, and that made it even more special. As a grown-up, we might have not one too many cartoon options but we still look forward to it not only because of all the fun we will have but also for a special breakfast. You can make a special breakfast with special frittata, pancake or waffle. You can prep with by making your own homemade pre-packed waffle and pancake mix and not spend your whole morning scrambling for ingredients.
Movie Night: If you love movies, why not make an afternoon or a night a family movie night, complete with popcorns. Our favorites are children's movies of our childhood.
Game Night: I don't always play with my kids, but when I do it's board games. Setting a day for a game night is definitely a sure way to have amazing family time. Our favorites are Rummikub, Beat the Parents and Clue.
First Day of School: I admit this is more for my of enjoyment and memories. Even though they whine and groan when I tell them to stand at the same place I take their photos every year, they love it when I put together their photos I've taken since Pre-K.
Last Day of School: Last day of school tradition can include special treats such as ice cream, a group trip to a nearby park or the beach if weather allows or water balloon fight. Thank the teachers and kick off to a great summer break.
Friday after school: We would like to kick off our weekends with a treat. After school on Fridays, we stop by our favorite café with friends and get our "usual", which marks the beginning of the weekend.
Summer Camping: I am grateful we can afford to go on vacations where we can stay at hotels but nothing can beat the memories of summer camping with long sweaty hikes, chilly mornings in the sleeping bags, grilled hot dogs and s'mores.
Road trips: Day long or weekend road trips, getaways with bikes or nearby adventures accompanied by meal stops at a favorite restaurant (ours is Cracker & Barrel) are only a few ideas you can come up with. Possibilities are endless.
Family visits: If your family lives far away, family visits during holidays with overnights at grand families or cousins are the best memory makers. strong>Souvenirs: Some bring back the same type of souvenir from each destination they visit, such as a bottle of sand from a tropic destination, a mug, a fridge magnet etc. Every time you look of on your fridge you can remember "that time when you went to….".
Any holiday is an excuse to turn in into a family tradition.
Easter Egg Hunt: Easter egg hunt in the neighborhood on Easter Sunday.
Halloween: You can turn Halloween into a family affair by dressing up in matching outfits.
Thanksgiving: For us, Thanksgiving is a potluck. Everyone has their assigned dishes and our family and friends gets together, eats. Cousins and friends play.
Turkey Trot: Weather allowing, we try to attend our neighborhood Turkey trot 5k run as a family. It's a great tradition and once in a while, we get to bring home a Turkey or a pie as a bonus.
Holiday Cookies: Our favorite holiday tradition is baking "gingerbread martial arts people cookies". Cookies and gingerbread houses are delightful options. Having a traditional family recipe is even better.
New Year's Traditions: New years games, reading notes from good things, great times jar, letting kids stay up, counting down to the new year, staying in our pajamas on the first day of the year all day are some of our favorite traditions.
Eid Celebration: Waking up on the morning of el-Eid, dressing up, celebrating Eid of elder ones and getting gifts are great ways to remember Eid celebrations for kids.
Birthdays: A special date with the birthday kid, special cake on the day of the birthday, special present opening, interview with the birthday child are only a few of many ideas you can make this day even more special.
Mother's / Father's Day: Letting the parent sleep in, special breakfast for mom or dad in bed, family get together at a favorite restaurant, interview with the parent can make this day special for the family.
I wouldn't really call it bright but we were definitely early for Kilbourn Park Organic plant sale. This year, I've been a terrible slacker in the garden. At least I have tomatoes, peppers and eggplants now.
Snow Day: If the schools are closed on a snow day, why not turn it into a family tradition to build a snowman, have a snow fight and drink hot chocolate with marshmallows. Just expect your kids to pray for more snow days and get disappointed if it barely snows during winter.
Rainy Day: When kids were younger we would go out with our raincoats and rain boots and splash away in the puddles under the rain. This is not favored as much anymore.
Summer Garden start day: It's always a family affair to till the soil, set up the garden and put in the seeds and seedlings on the first warm day after the last frost. Chickens scratch and peck around for worms, kids dig holes, fill with water and get muddy. It's the blessing of all the fruits, vegetables and flowers that'll grow in the garden that summer.
Date with Grandma/Grandpa: If you are one of the lucky ones to have grandmas and grandpas nearby, monthly or quarterly dates with them are a great way to make lasting connections. Kids will be spoiled as much as they want while you and your loved one can have a date to yourself.
Time Lapse photo: I'm in charge of photography and photos in our family. I make albums and photo books. Keeping memories through photos is really important to me. Kids love to go through albums, remember the places we visited, old friends etc. We have been taking a candid selfie of four of us every year since my daughter is 6 months old. We don't dress up or prepare. Taking a family photo every year to create time-lapse photography is a fun way to make a lasting memory.
Do you have a favorite family tradition that you remember from your childhood? Do you continue that with your own children?


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OK Happy Friday and long weekend ahead. I'll keep this short and sweet!!
I am in love with this top you guys…you can't really tell, but it is actually a sweatshirt! It's so comfy and perfect to dress up or down. I've worn this a ton already and have paired it with leggings and black sneakers as well as jeans and mules.
Every now and again I like to mix my prints…Stripes and leopard are my favorite combo and so easy to mix together, it's kind of like a given!
Thank you so much for stopping by! I hope you enjoy your long weekend!
This is the cutest peplum I've seen!!!
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