An Executive Member and the Central regional chairman for the Conference of Private Second Cycle Schools (CHOPSS), Mr. Fred Asare is insisting that, government must expand the coverage of the free senior high school to cover them as well.
Speaking in an interview with Kwame Tutu on Rainbow Radio 87.5Fm, he said government should rather allocate the funds for the free SHS to the beneficiaries so they will choose between the private and public schools.
He told the host, if that was done, the challenges encountered with the placement would have been prevented. He lamented why government has neglected the private schools despite their collaborations in the past.
He gave the hint that private second cycle schools will have no option than to lay off graduate teachers in their schools should government fail to address their concerns.
Mr. Asare said, CHOPSS has engaged with the Ministry of Education and government on the implementation of the policy ''and so we are surprised that we have been neglected. When asked why private schools charge exorbitant fees as compared to public schools, he explained, we have different private schools.
We have those that charge in dollars because they write foreign exams. We also have the main stream private schools with moderate fees because we all write WASSCE just any other public school.
Our fees are moderate,'' he stressed. He also suggested that government can subsidize the fees charged by CHOPSS. At a press conference yesterday [Wednesday], CHOPSS expressed its disappointment with the effect the policy is having on admissions in private schools, with reports that enrollment of first-years has dropped significantly.
National Secretary of CHOPSS, Joseph Dzamesi, said the free SHS policy has rendered them jobless. "What is to happen to the millions of Ghana cedis that have been invested into our schools. What is to happen to 10,000 plus Ghanaian workers who are employed in our schools," he questioned.
"Our schools should be tagged private and the parents should be informed that when a private school is selected, the students would have to pay the school fees," Mr. Dzamesi stated.


Leading journalism groups are weighing in to support Florida Atlantic University students facing pressure for their refusal to cut ties with their popular journalism adviser after the school discharged him.
The Society of Professional Journalists, the nation's most broad-based journalism organization, sent a letter to the new president of FAU expressing concern and disapproval about the university's encroachment on student First Amendment rights. FAU officials are attempting to keep the student newspaper editor from consulting with the former adviser, Michael Koretzky. Koretzky, who was fired last month, has continued to stay on as a volunteer adviser—at the request of his students.
The university's attempts to prevent Koretzky from assisting the editors with the newspaper production include claims that Karla Bowsher, editor-in-chief of the University Press, is violating university policy by consulting with him, even off-campus. Bowsher has said she fears being brought up on disciplinary charges if she remains in contact with Koretzky.
Koretzky, who had served as the adviser for 12 years, has extensive writing and editing experience at newspapers and magazines. In addition to being greatly popular with his students and those who attend his journalism teaching workshops, he is also known as being outspoken and willing to go against the grain. The latest edition of the University Press contained several hard-hitting stories about the college, including one questioning the new president's decision to meet behind closed doors with the Board of Trustees of the Boca Raton college.
Student Press Law Center Executive Director Frank LoMonte also sent a letter June 8 that disputes the university's contention that the students are "employees" of the university and are subject to being disciplined if they disobey orders from the director of student media. He said FAU has misclassified editors as college employees, an uncommon policy at any university.


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Karaahmed v. Bulgaria: The (In)Visible Racial and Religious Motivation of Violence
By Lourdes Peroni
Karaahmed v. Bulgaria, a case recently decided at Strasbourg, concerned incidents arising from a demonstration by followers of "Ataka," a political party known for its views against Islam and its adherents. The place of the demonstration: in front of the Banya Bashi Mosque in Sofia. The time: during Friday prayers. The manner: carrying flags featuring slogans such as "Let's get Bulgaria back;" shouting insults at the worshippers such as "Turkish stooges", "filthy terrorists," "scum" and "Your feet stink! That is why you wash them!;" pelting them with eggs and stones; cutting a Turkish fez with a pocket knife while saying "Can you hear me? We shall now show you what will happen to each one of you!" and setting fire to prayer rugs.
The Court declared the Article 3 complaint, either alone or in conjunction with Article 14, inadmissible but found a violation of Article 9. In this post, I offer some preliminary thoughts on the inability of the Article 9 analysis to make visible what the events were really about at their heart.
Summary of the Facts
At around noon of Friday, 20 May 2011, worshippers, including the applicant, began to gather in and around the Banya Bashi Mosque in Sofia for the regular prayer. At the same time, over a hundred members and supporters of Ataka gathered in front of the mosque to protest against what they called the "howling" from the loudspeakers on the mosque.[1] The group of demonstrators included a Member of Parliament for the party and a Member of the European Parliament for the party.
Video recordings of the event show most demonstrators wearing black t-shirts and many carrying flags featuring inscriptions such as "Let's get Bulgaria back." The recordings also show the demonstrators shouting insults at the worshippers, including "Turkish stooges", "filthy terrorists", "scum", "janissaries", "cut-offs" and "Islamists". One of them can be seen cutting a Turkish fez with a pocket knife, saying, "Can you hear me? We shall now show you what will happen to each one of you!" At some point, once the prayer had started, several demonstrators climbed onto the mosque – some carrying wooden flagpoles and metal pipes – and hit the worshippers. Some of the worshippers hit back. Demonstrators also pelted worshippers with eggs and stones. The incidents ended at around 1.55 p.m., when the demonstrators left the scene. Before leaving, however, four of them piled some of the worshippers' prayer rugs and set fire to them.
Two sets of investigations followed. The first series of investigations was carried out by the police, one of them into the violence towards the worshippers. In the course of this investigation, seven people were charged with aggravated hooliganism but no information was given on whether they had been prosecuted. The other investigation was opened by the Sofia City Prosecutor's Office under the Criminal Code provision prohibiting hate speech motivated by religion. However, no charges have been brought against any person.
The Judgment in Short
Article 3 (alone or together with Article 14): Inadmissible
The Court found that the Article 3 threshold had not been met. As a result, it declared the complaint about the state's failure to comply with its positive obligations manifestly ill founded. The Court accepted that the demonstrators' actions had been premeditated and public: "their intentions were to mock publicly and debase the worshippers and their religion" (para. 75). However, it found that these actions were not so severe as to cause the kind of fear, anguish and feelings of inferiority required by Article 3. For the Court, the case did not involve prolonged actions that could have resulted in considerable mental suffering but a one-off event that lasted an hour and a half. The Court next differentiated this case from two cases of violence against Jehovah's Witnesses in Georgia: Begheluri and Others v. Georgia and Members of the Gldani Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses and Others v. Georgia. It noted that these two cases involved severe beatings, forced searches, and humiliating acts designed to force the applicants to act against their conscience, and took place in a national climate of religious intolerance at the material time. Finally, and since Article 14 has no independent existence, the Court also declared the Karaahmed applicant's complaint under Article 14 together with Article 3 manifestly ill founded.
Article 9: Violation
The Court framed the case as one concerning the exercise of two sets of competing rights protected by the Convention: "the rights of Ataka and its supporters to freedom of expression and to peaceful assembly and the rights of the applicant and the other worshippers at the Banya Bashi mosque to pray peacefully in community together without undue interference" (para. 91). The Court noted that, given that Ataka's views on Islam and its adherents were a matter of public record, it should have been clear to the domestic authorities that the demonstration outside the mosque coinciding with Friday prayers carried an "inherent risk of tension between the demonstrators and the worshippers at the mosque" (para. 100). The Court found that the domestic authorities had not given proper consideration as to how the competing rights could be fairly balanced, pointing to some steps that the authorities could have taken before and during the demonstration. The Court held that the result of the police's response was that the demonstrators "enjoyed a virtually unfettered right to protest at the mosque that day, while the applicant and the other worshippers had their prayers entirely disrupted" (para. 107). Moreover, in examining the ensuing investigations into the incident, the Court found that the state failed to respond to the events properly. It thus concluded that the state failed to comply with its positive obligations under Article 9.
Article 9 Alone: The (In)Visible Harms
The examination under Article 9 alone does not fully capture what in my view was the crux of this case: the racial and religious motives at the root of the disruption of religious worship and abuse against the Muslim worshippers. These motives are evidenced by several of the slogans, shouts and acts carried by the demonstrators. They included, most disturbingly, insults such as "Turkish stooges", "filthy terrorists" and "scum," the cutting of a fez with a knife while threatening, "Can you hear me? We shall now show you what will happen to each one of you!" and the burning of some of the worshippers' prayer rugs.
To be sure, the Court recognizes that the demonstration was not just about the loudness of the speakers at the mosque. The Court therefore does not buy the state's contention that the reason for the demonstration was "the refusal of the mosque to comply with directions from the municipality as to noise level of the loudspeakers" (para. 86). The Court emphasizes that, even if not apparent before the demonstration began, the need to take steps became clear once the demonstration started. The Court says:
It understates the nature of this demonstration to say that it was only about the volume of the Friday call to prayer … These were acts which were not designed to express discontent at noise levels or even to express opposition to Islam but were clearly calculated to cause maximum disruption to the worshipper's prayers and to provoke violence (para. 102).
While the Court does identify maximum disruption of religious worship and provocation of violence as the real intentions of the demonstrators, the motives at the root of such disruption and provocation are not made fully visible. The Court comes close when it acknowledges that the slogans shouted by the demonstrators were "anti-Turkish" and "anti-Islam" and that some of these slogans were "malicious and vulgar" (para. 102). Yet this is not quite the same as addressing whether the prayers were disrupted and violence provoked on account of the worshippers' ethnic origin and religion.
As a result, the Court finds that the state failed to strike a proper balance in the steps taken to ensure the effective exercise of two rights: the rights of demonstrators to protest and the rights of the applicant and his fellow worshippers to pray together. The Court also finds that the state failed to comply with its duty to effectively investigate the interference with the religious rights of the worshippers caused by the demonstrators. Yet the state's compliance with one significant positive obligation is not explicit: the procedural duty to investigate the religious and racial motives behind the violent disruption of religious worship.
Article 9 and Article 14? Making the Source of Violent Disruption of Religious Worship More Visible
Having found a violation of Article 9, the Court did not find necessary to examine the applicant's complaint under Article 9 taken in conjunction with Article 14 (para. 112). It is not immediately clear what the applicant's arguments and the state's response were under these provisions. However, it flows from the applicant's arguments under other ECHR provisions that he believed that he and the other worshippers endured such behavior at the hands of the demonstrators because of their religion and their belonging to a religious minority (see e.g. para. 69).[2]
In Begheluri and Others v. Georgia, concerning violence against Jehovah's Witnesses, the Court recalled in its analysis under Article 14, in conjunction with Articles 3 and 9, the following principle:
The Court also reiterates that an obligation to unmask a possible discriminatory motive behind violent incidents is implied in the responsibilities under Article 14 of the Convention … The foregoing is also necessarily true in cases where the treatment contrary to Article 3 of the Convention is inflicted by private individuals. (para. 173).
Though Article 3 was out of the picture in Karaahmed, in principle I do not see why the duty to take reasonable steps to unmask any racial/religious motives would not apply in the context of Article 9 and Article 14. This broader framework of analysis would allow in circumstances such as those of Karaahmed (i) to capture more fully the real nature of the demonstration and (ii) to assess more explicitly the state's compliance with its obligation to effectively investigate the role that discriminatory motives played in the disruption of religious worship.
At a time when the climate is one of growing hostility toward Muslims in Europe,[3] a more explicit analysis – or at least more explicit language under Article 9 – making the motives underlying the attack more visible would have sent a stronger message against racial and religious intolerance.
[1] Some more background information taken from the judgment: Ataka had led a campaign and organized a rally against the "howling" coming from the loudspeakers on the Banya Bashi Mosque during the call for prayers. Prior to the incident examined in the case, supporters of Ataka had on two occasions mounted loudspeakers on cars and played recordings of church bells and Christian chants during the Friday prayers in order to counter the "noise terror" emanating from the mosque – in the words of one of Ataka's Members of Parliament (see paras. 7-10).
[2] Moreover, the applicant attempted to participate in the investigations opened by the Sofia Prosecutor's Office under the criminal law provision prohibiting hate speech motivated by religion (paras. 31-39).
[3] See T Hammarberg, Human Rights in Europe: No Grounds for Complacency (Council of Europe 2011) 36–39 and 47–48; Group of Eminent Persons of the Council of Europe, "Living Together: Combining Diversity and Freedom in 21st-century Europe" (Council of Europe 2011) 15–16; Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), Resolution 1743 "Islam, Islamism and Islamophobia in Europe" (Council of Europe 2010) 1.
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Nominations for the awards are due by July 30, 2014 and must highlight an effort that was produced between January 2012 and June 2014. Winning campaigns will be honored at NAFSMA's 2014 Annual Meeting in Boston, MA, on Thursday, October 16. All nominations will be highlighted in a presentation and compiled on a DVD that will be shared with other local, regional, state, and federal agencies throughout the country.
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Athletes With Disabilities Eye College Competition
BERKELEY, Calif. — Growing up blind, the closest Ann Kwong came to a competitive sport, even in P.E., was a marshmallow-eating contest. Judith Lung never learned how to throw a ball.
"I never knew what it was like to block a ball and take one for the team," said Kwong, a senior psychology major at the University of California, Berkeley.
Now she does. And it happens to be a nearly 3-pound rubber ball with bells inside that she can hear only as it comes bouncing and jingling toward her at as fast as 30 mph.
College sports teams are all but off-limits to those with disabilities, but UC Berkeley hopes to pry open the door with goalball, a bruising and sometimes bloody sport in which sightless players rely on sound, touch, communication and grit to hurl a sphere roughly the size of a basketball across an 18-meter court, past three opponents and into their goal.
Last fall, Cal became the first in the nation to establish a competitive collegiate goalball team, less than two years after teaching students, both blind and sighted, how to play.
Its advocates hope the coming years will lead to the kinds of inroads for those with disabilities that the Title IX anti-gender-discrimination law did for women — who, as late as the 1960s, were relegated to half-court basketball.
"I would argue that this is one of the civil rights issues of the 21st century," said Derek Van Rheenen, goalball's faculty sponsor, who directs UC Berkeley's Cultural Studies of Sport in Education in the Graduate School of Education.
Between 35 and 50 students who are blind attend the university, said Matt Grigorieff, a graduate student who founded Cal's Athletics for All to include people with disabilities in recreational and competitive sports.
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It's over 2 months into the new year but trends are already developing.
Stocks have staged a big rally off their December 2018 lows, and while growth stocks mostly led the rally, the value stocks have followed along and are now no longer cheap.
Even Warren Buffett admits there aren't many deals to be had right now.
Investors might be able to find a company with a cheap PEG or PE, but it's harder than ever to find one with both.
A classic value stock is one that has all four of the value fundamentals: a low Price-to-sales ratio, a low price-to-book ratio, a low PEG and a low forward P/E.
The initial screen looked for a P/S ratio under 1.0, a P/B ratio under 3, a PEG under 1 and a P/E under 15.
There was no Zacks Rank included initially.
That screen returned 144 stocks.
But, of course, you want to add the Zacks Rank so that you get rising earnings estimates.
With a Zacks Rank of #1 (Strong Buy) or #2 (Buy) added, the screen returned 24 stocks.
Here are 5 classic value stocks with great Zacks Ranks to include on your short list.
1. America's Car-Mart (CRMT - Free Report)	is a small cap auto retailer which posted strong fiscal third quarter results. Earnings are expected to rise 73% for fiscal 2019. It is both cheap and has growth as it has a PEG ratio of just 0.7.
2. General Motors (GM - Free Report)	is still expected to see falling earnings into 2020 but it's dirt cheap with a forward P/E of just 6. Investors also get a nice dividend, currently yielding 3.9%, for their patience.
3. JetBlue Airways (JBLU - Free Report)	is a mid-cap with strong earnings growth. This US airlines is expected to grow earnings by 32% in 2019 and 17.7% in 2020. It has a forward P/E of just 8.
4. PVH (PVH - Free Report)	hasn't reported earnings yet. This global retailer, which owns the brands Tommy Hilfiger and Calvin Klein remains cheap even though it's expected to grow earnings in fiscal 2019 by 19.7%. It has a P/S ratio of just 0.9.
5. J. Jill (JILL - Free Report)	is a woman's specialty retailer of apparel and accessories. It just reported fourth quarter results and saw cleaner and leaner inventories. Gross margins also rose to 63.1% from 62.2%. Wall Street is doubtful, however, as it trades with a forward P/E of just 7.8.
Why are these stocks so cheap?
Remember, stocks become values because Wall Street is running away or ignoring them for some reason. Investors should drill down into the story.
What else should value investors be looking for with classic value stocks in 2019?


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A number of businesses in the US harbor fears that the information stored on their databases is unsecure.
The results of the Small Merchant Data Security Survey, sponsored by First Data Corporation and the National Retail Federation found that while 79 per cent of businesses believe their data was secure, 21 per cent were unsure about their security.
"People are bad about gauging risk," Robert McMillon, director of solution development for security solutions provider, told DM News.
"We tend to prioritize things that are big and spectacular, and we underestimate risks that are more mundane."
Mr McMillon added that businesses believe data theft can't happen to them.
According to the results of the survey, a total of 31 per cent of respondents also performed background checks on employees who handle customer card data.
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It's the Golden Age in Hollywood and everyone has a talent—everyone, it seems, but Gray Studebaker. The closest the teenage ruffian ever gets to fame and fortune are the movie star maps he peddles on the street for his lousy orphanage. But during a rash of celebrity kidnappings in late 1939, Gray discovers the stars on his map are hiding talents—supernatural talents—for which they are being abducted. When Gray tries to solve the crimes on his own, he finds himself caught up in a battle for power that stretches back to the beginnings of humanity.
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Flâneur (pronounced ), from the French noun flâneur, means "stroller", "lounger", "saunterer", or "loafer". Flânerie is the act of strolling, with all of its accompanying associations. A near-synonym is boulevardier.
The flâneur was, first of all, a literary type from 19th-century France, essential to any picture of the streets of Paris. The word carried a set of rich associations: the man of leisure, the idler, the urban explorer, the connoisseur of the street. It was Walter Benjamin, drawing on the poetry of Charles Baudelaire, who made this figure the object of scholarly interest in the 20th century, as an emblematic archetype of urban, modern experience. Following Benjamin, the flâneur has become an important symbol for scholars, artists and writers. Recent scholarship has also proposed the flâneuse, a female equivalent to the flâneur.
Flâneur in English is via French from the Old Norse verb flana "to wander with no purpose".
The terms of flânerie date to the 16th or 17th century, denoting strolling, idling, often with the connotation of wasting time. But it was in the 19th century that a rich set of meanings and definitions surrounding the flâneur took shape.
The flâneur was defined in a long article in Larousse's Grand dictionnaire universel du XIXe siècle (in the 8th volume, from 1872). It described the flâneur in ambivalent terms, equal parts curiosity and laziness and presented a taxonomy of flânerie—flâneurs of the boulevards, of parks, of the arcades, of cafés, mindless flâneurs and intelligent flâneurs.
By then, the term had already developed a rich set of associations. Sainte-Beuve wrote that to flâne "is the very opposite of doing nothing". Honoré de Balzac described flânerie as "the gastronomy of the eye". Anaïs Bazin wrote that "the only, the true sovereign of Paris is the flâneur". Victor Fournel, in Ce qu'on voit dans les rues de Paris (What One Sees in the Streets of Paris, 1867), devoted a chapter to "the art of flânerie". For Fournel, there was nothing lazy in flânerie. It was, rather, a way of understanding the rich variety of the city landscape. It was a moving photograph ("un daguerréotype mobile et passioné") of urban experience.
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Physical Oil Prices Seen Catching Up With Surging Futures Market
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May 1, 2018 May 11, 2018 Category:
The end of some of the weakest physical crude prices in years could be in sight.
While oil futures prices are at their highest since 2014 amid geopolitical risks — including the possibility of renewed U.S. sanctions on Iran — physical prices in some corners of the oil market have been depressed. Russian Urals and Caspian CPC crudes have recently traded at multi-year lows, and West African crude flows to Asia have slumped to the lowest since 2015.
The weakness is on the brink of reversing as refiners ramp up purchases as they complete yearly maintenance that had cut their processing rates, according to at least five traders directly involved in the market.
"The mismatch will correct through physical markets coming up rather than futures coming down," said Richard Mallinson, a geopolitical analyst at Energy Aspects Ltd. in London. "Global balances look constructive in the second half of the year, after refinery maintenance is over."
In the meantime, European refiners may be set for a summer windfall with a host of cheap grades to cherry pick from as they ramp up throughput. A flood of U.S. crude exports, lackluster demand for imports in China, a surfeit of Russian shipments and the lingering effects of refinery maintenance season across the globe have combined to curb prices for some grades in the world where barrels of oil are actually bought and sold — even amid a rising trend in futures contracts.
"Brent that is trading now is two months ahead, so it is pricing in July when refiners are back from maintenance," Mallinson said. The current weakness in the market for Russian grades is a reflection of U.S. crude imports coming "at the wrong time, when refinery maintenance was at its peak."
Russian Urals crude sunk to its lowest price in more than seven years on May 1, trading at a discount of $3.95/bbl to its benchmark. Caspian CPC on May 2 sank to $2.90/bbl less than the benchmark, the largest discount since June 2012. Loadings of CPC are scheduled to be 1.32 MMbpd this month, near the highest on record.
Offline refinery capacity in Russia is set to drop to 556,000 bpd this month, down from 763,000 in April, which was the highest for the year, according to data from the Russian Energy Ministry. In Europe, planned refinery outages are set to drop to 54,000 bpd in July, from 1.16 million this month, Energy Aspects said in a late-April report.
U.S. crude exports climbed to 2.331 MMbpd — the highest on record — in the week ending April 20 and remained high the following week, data from the U.S. Department of Energy show. As the U.S. pumps more oil than ever before, WTI's discount to global benchmark Brent has deepened, spurring shipments to Europe this month, according to traders.
China purchases
The West African crude market has been hit by a drop in Chinese buying, with the nation set to import the lowest amount of Angolan crude in at least seven years. Chinese refineries have reduced purchases this year with a change to a tax rule particularly constraining buying by independent refineries in the world's largest importer of oil.
"The Chinese are not really strong buyers and probably won't be for a month or two," said Torbjorn Kjus, chief oil analyst at DNB Bank ASA in Oslo. "You should see a large upward crude demand moving into July and August on a global scale."
Futures markets are awaiting U.S. President Donald Trump's decision later Tuesday on whether he'll pull out of a 2015 deal between Iran and world powers that eased sanctions on the producer in return for curbs on its nuclear program. It's the latest geopolitical factor to support futures prices, following U.S-led military strikes on Syria in April and region tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran-backed rebels in Yemen.
The lack of a sell-off following the air strikes in Syria "shows there is very little appetite for people to go short, and the position is justified by uncertainty over Iran," Energy Aspects' Mallinson said.
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Sánchez, Antonio, 1971- (Composer, Performer). Blake, Seamus. (Performer). Escreet, John. (Performer). Brewer, Matt. (Performer). Alexa, Thana. (Performer). Rogers, Adam (Guitarist) (Performer).
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Q: Openpyxl missing 'jdcal' I tried to install the openpyxl module, but during the installation it showed some errors with JDcall. When I then try to import it, I get this error:
 Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Andrzej\workspace\sandbox\sandbox.py", line 7, in <module>
    import openpyxl

  File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\openpyxl-2.0.5-py3.4.egg\openpyxl\__init__.py", line 29, in <module>
    from openpyxl.workbook import Workbook

  File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\openpyxl-2.0.5-py3.4.egg\openpyxl\workbook\__init__.py", line 25, in <module>
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I get this same problem for Python 3.4 and 3.3, how can I solve it?

A: You should install jdcal separately. After this, install Openpyxl. I faced the same issue - after doing this, it got resolved

A: After I downloaded the jdcal-x.x.x.tar.gz from https://pypi.org/project/jdcal/#files and extracted it in \path\to\pythonxx\Lib\site-packages\ I had to copy the jdcal.py file from \path\to\pythonxx\Lib\site-packages\jdcal-1.4.1\ to \path\to\pythonxx\Lib\site-packages\ in order to work.

A: jdcal is a library required by openpyxl but should be installed automatically. How are you installing openpyxl?

A: I managed to get openpyxl to work by uninstalling openpyxl, jdcall and et-xmlfile, then reinstalling all three, then upgrading all three.
Not sure why it works, and the error messages are still there, but I was able to successfully import openpyxl and create a workbook.


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In my past streams YouTube would freeze or the app would close in the middle of the stream. What can I do to resolve this issue?
Ensure you are in a strong signal area.
Clear cache and and data for YouTube. You'll need to log into YouTube again. Settings/Apps/ YouTube/Storage/Clear cache and or data/storage. You might be able to long press on YouTube from the app drawer. If so, select app info from there.
Use something else. I like CamOn Live Streaming, which I use, and Streamlabs. I have also tried CamerFi Live and YouStream.
If you still have issues, reduce the resolution and/or quality of the stream and try again. I don't think the YouTube app will allow this.
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The following new books are available at the Marion Public Library.
"A God in Ruins" by Kate Atkinson
This companion novel to Atkinson's bestseller Life After Life looks at life through the eyes of Ursula Todd's younger brother, Teddy, and his experiences during and after World War II.
"Jack of Spades" by Joyce Carol Oates
In this cerebrally complex thriller that explores the oft-murky gray areas between genius and madness, a respected author also secretly writes dark, lurid novels under a pen name — until a plagiarism suit threatens to reveal his identity.
"Tiffany Girl" by Deeanne Gist
A budding young artist, handpicked by Louis Tiffany himself, struggles with her boarding house mates while racing to complete the Tiffany chapel for the 1893 World's Fair in this historical novel about a progressive "New Woman."
"American Wife: A Memoir of Love, War, Faith and Renewal" by Taya Kyle
The widow of "American Sniper" Chris Kyle shares her grit and determination, her grief and resolve, and her tragedies and triumphs; in this moving and affecting portrait of a military wife.
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Meetic Likely to Pay New Big Tech Tax in France
Written by Scott Harvey
15th July 2019 15th July 2019
The French Senate has approved a new 3% tax on large tech companies. If implemented, it will impact the Match Group dating brand Meetic.
To cross the threshold for payment, companies must bring in revenues of over €25 million in France and €750 million worldwide.
"Les GAFA", named after Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple, will affect 30 companies in total. Airbnb and personalized retargeting company Criteo will be hit, as well as a number of social media giants.
Payments will amount to some €400 million in 2019. In 2020, it is expected to bring the state over €600 million.
Bruno Le Maire, French Minister of Economy and Finance, told the Senate: "We are merely re-establishing fiscal justice. We want to create taxation for the 21st century that is fair and efficient.
"(…) We want to impose on these new business models the same rules that apply to all other economic activities."
The Office of the United States Trade Representative said in a statement: "The United States is very concerned that the digital services tax which is expected to pass the French Senate tomorrow unfairly targets American companies."
Italy, Spain and Poland are among the countries discussing similar measures.
Author Scott Harvey
Scott is the Editor of Global Dating Insights. Raised in Dorset, he holds a BA from The University of Nottingham and an MSc from Lund University School of Economics and Management. Previously he has written about politics, economics and technology for various online publications.


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New Scratchers in Kingdom Age, just in time for the holidays!
And now you can get them for free every three hours!
Could I know when is the scratchers ended? Date and time. Thanks.
Don't you think it's about time to revise the scratchers?
has anyone actually won the grand prize from the scratchers you get for free???
I saw a guy who raided me have one. According to his comments he won it for free.
We have had several members of our guild get HUGE monsters from the scratchers. We were just talking about them earlier today. The scratchers have been very popular.
I love the new scratchers! Please keep it going. But Christmas has been gone for @ 5 weeks now. We need some new units. Maybe with a Valentines theme for February. An Easter theme for March and April. A summertime theme for May to August. Well, you get the idea now.
It also seems harder to win anything good lately. Did you change the odds?
Love the units but can we change the Christmas theme?
it looks like they finally rolled out the new scratchers today. unfortunately they reduced the A/D of the the units you receive for matching 4 and 5 of a kind. the only upside is that the A/D of the "Grand Prize" has been increased but considering i never got the grand prize with the old scratchers, the probability of getting the new ones will be even lower.
From the last few quest, this look like the new trend of KA. Only the final unit is worth and good stat. Whatever you get on the way are not very fantastic and some probably will not even get into your 1500 units.


Check out the early decision acceptance rates of some of the United States' top universities, including all eight Ivy Leagues.
Stanford University has decided it will not release early admissions data this December.
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import userDataService from './userData.service'
import sinon from 'sinon';

describe('userData service', () => {
  let service, makeController,userDataApi;

  let data = {
    demo:'data'
  };

  beforeEach(inject(() => {

    userDataApi = {
      getUserData:    sinon.stub().resolves(true),
      updateUserData: sinon.stub().resolves(true),
      getUserImg:  sinon.stub().resolves(true),
      userRegister:  sinon.stub().resolves(true),
      userLogin:  sinon.stub().resolves(true),
      getUserOptionalMatch:  sinon.stub().resolves(true),
      updateUserExtraData:  sinon.stub().resolves(true)
    };

    makeController = () => {
      return new userDataService(userDataApi);
    };
    service = makeController();

  }));

  describe('Init', () => {

    it('Should call getUserData', () => {
      let controller = makeController();
      controller.getUserData();
      expect(userDataApi.getUserData).to.be.called;
    });

    it('Should call updateUserData', () => {
      let controller = makeController();
      controller.updateUserData(data);
      expect(userDataApi.updateUserData.calledWith(data)).to.be.equal(true);
    });

    it('Should call getUserImg', () => {
      let controller = makeController();
      controller.getUserImg();
      expect(userDataApi.getUserImg).to.be.called;
    });

    it('Should call userRegister', () => {
      let controller = makeController();
      controller.userRegister(data);
      expect(userDataApi.userRegister.calledWith(data)).to.be.equal(true);
    });

    it('Should call userLogin', () => {
      let controller = makeController();
      controller.userLogin(data);
      expect(userDataApi.userLogin.calledWith(data)).to.be.equal(true);
    });

    it('Should call getUserOptionalMatch', () => {
      let controller = makeController();
      controller.getUserOptionalMatch(data);
      expect(userDataApi.getUserOptionalMatch).to.be.called;
    });

    it('Should call updateUserExtraData', () => {
      let controller = makeController();
      controller.updateUserExtraData(data);
      expect(userDataApi.updateUserExtraData.calledWith(data)).to.be.equal(true);
    });

  });
});


To celebrate 90 years of innovation, Publicis Groupe will provide 90 projects or start-ups with the support and funding they need to get off the ground.
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Изучение взаимосвязей социокультурного контекста, отношения к здоровью и психологического благополучия
Бушина Е. В.
Keywords: культураздоровьекросс-культурное исследование
Publication based on the results of: The Socio-Cultural and Psychological Factors of Economic Activity and Psychological Well-Being(2012)
Экономическая психология: актуальные теоретические и прикладные проблемы. Материалы тринадцатой международной научно-практической конференции, 2012
Иркутск: Репроцентр А1, 2012.
Культура и отношение к инновациям в России и Китае
Лебедева Н. М., Лю К. В кн.: Психологические проблемы современного бизнеса. М.: Издательский дом НИУ ВШЭ, 2011. С. 245-267.
Rainer Maria Rilke und Russland: Erfahrung der Kulturuebersetzung
Vasilyev G. V. In bk.: Ueber(ge)setzt. Spuren zur Oesterreichischen Literatur im fremdsprachigen Kontext. Wien: Praesens Verlag, 2010. P. 47-54.
The experience of the "translation of the culture" was based with Rilke on the one hand on western book springs, on the other hand, on his short-term travelling to Russia. The sharp Rilkes translations from Russian is "Das Igorlied" and the writer preserved the structural elements from his poetic language. Rilkes "translation of the culture" has promoted not only the horizon enlargement of the German-speaking audience, but also has enriched his poetic creating and his cultural experience.
Added: Jun 20, 2012
Петр Струве: Великая Россия, или Утопия, так и не ставшая реальностью
Кантор В. К. Вестник Русской христианской гуманитарной академии. 2010. Т. 11. № 4. С. 161-178.
О зависимости статуса дисциплин от культурно-регионального контекста (на примере стенографии)
Левинсон К. А. Гуманитарные исследования. WP6. Высшая школа экономики, 2011. № 05.
Теоретические проблемы этнической и кросс-культурной психологии: Материалы Второй международной научной конференции 26-27 мая 2010 г. Том 1
Edited by: В. В. Гриценко Т. 1. Смоленск: Универсум, 2010.
Предметная характеристика медицинской деятельности как основа ее уголовно-правовой охраны (опыт России, США, Франции)
Нагорная И. И. Право и политика. 2012. № 5. С. 887-896.
Added: Aug 3, 2012
Does Culture Matter? The Impact of Tolerance on Economic Modernization in a Comparative Perspective
Shcherbak A. Sociology. SOC. Высшая школа экономики, 2012. No. 05.
Is tolerance important for modernization? What can one say about the relationship and causality between tolerance and modernization? It is assumed that an increase in tolerance, expressed as a tolerant attitude towards homosexuality, gender equality, and a decrease in xenophobia, has a significant impact on modernization. Here modernization is understood in a ―narrow‖ sense, referring to economic and technological modernization. The author uses the ―cultural modernization‖ approaches of R.Inglehart and the ―creative class‖ concept of R.Florida. Based on data from 55 countries, the author concludes that tolerance does have a significant impact on modernization, with gender equality being the most predictive factor and proving to be important in three groups of compared models (Index of Modernization, Innovation Index, and Investment Index). A tolerant attitude towards homosexuals and a decrease in xenophobia play a less significant role. Gender equality is an important predictor for modernization because women are in the majority – not the minority – and lowering entry barriers for women leads to their inclusion in a post-industrial economy. The results show that this is extremely important for economic modernization. Two distinct patterns of modernization are revealed: A tolerant model and a catching-up model. The former model focuses on innovation, high levels of tolerance, and strong institutions, while the latter focuses on investment, a lower-level of tolerance, and weak political institutions. Institutions do matter – they seem to be a causal mechanism in the relationship between tolerance and modernization. Institutions play a significant role in the tolerant model, where a post-industrial economy is associated with a post-industrial society. However, some countries try to build a post-industrial economy without building a post-industrial society, putting the main emphasis not on innovation, but on higher investment rates.
Язык как система ориентиров в социальном пространстве
Никитина Е. Б. В кн.: Информационно-коммуникационное пространство и человек (Материалы II международной научно-практической конференции 15-16 апреля 2012 г.). Пенза; М.; Витебск: Научно-издательский центр "Социосфера", 2012. С. 32-36.
The following article is an account of the author's opinion of the role of language within the framework of society. The paramount idea is that language should not be viewed simply as a means of communication. The author suggests a more profound understanding of language as a medium between society and the culture against the background of which it manifests itself. The aforementioned conception of language provides the author with the opportunity to assert that language constitutes a system of guidelines without which society would lose its identity.
Обществознание. Глобальный мир в XXI веке. 11 класс. Методическое пособие
Поляков Л. В., Иоффе А. Н. М.: Просвещение, 2008.
Added: Sep 13, 2012
University Archivists as Corporate Memory Agents in Nineteenth-Century Russia
Ilina K. A., Vishlenkova E. A. Humanities. HUM. Basic Research Programme, 2012. No. 12.
This article examines the role of archivists in shaping the capacity and the structure of a university's memory. Drawing on sources such as laws and ministerial instructions, the authors analyze the government's archive policy with regard to universities and how professors and archivists were taking part in its implementation. Their participation included sorting documents and attributing them to individual 'cases', destroying some of the 'unnecessary' documents and preserving others that were designated for destruction. Based on information from service records and university reports, the article tracks changes in the corporate status of university archivists in nineteenth-century Russia.
Лингвострановедение (французский язык)
Нежина Л. А. М.: АПК и ППРО, 2009.
Culture, Democracy and the Child's Right to Express his/her Views (Russian perspective)
Kravchuk N. V. Irish Review of Community Economic Development Law and Policy. 2012. Vol. 1. No. 2. P. 63-82.
The main focus of this paper is the relation between the realisation of the right of the child to express his/her views and democracy in Russia. With this in view, I will study the interconnection between the right to express the views and the right to participate. Further, I will give an overview of the specifics of democracy in Russia, how they influence political participation, and what could be done to prevent the further infantilisation of citizens in Russia. Finally, I will explore traditional perceptions with regard to children's participation in Russia and the legal framework and practice of the implementation of the child's right to social and political participation.


The notification for the recruitment of 338 Sub-Inspector of School has been released by, Public Service Commission, West Bengal (PSCWB). The last date to apply to submit the application form of PSCWB Recruitment for Sub-Inspector of Schools is August 06, 2018. Read below for the more details about the recruitment of Sub-Inspector of Schools.
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Outkast & The Neptunes Nominated For 2020 Songwriters Hall Of Fame
by Kai Fujiruma | Nov 8, 2019 | Epic Concerts, HipHop news |
Legendary Hip Hop group Outkast — Big Boi and André 3000 — and super producers TheNeptunes — Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo — have been nominated for the 2020 Songwriters Hall of Fame.
Even though both duos have been relatively dormant in Hip Hop music in recent years, their contributions to Hip Hop could place them amongst the inductees for next year's ceremony.
They're on and running!
Announcing the list of 2020 Songwriters Hall of Fame Nominees! #SHOF2020https://t.co/3qeJstyCr7 pic.twitter.com/dmAog3CKbD
— SongHall (@SongwritersHOF) November 6, 2019
Outkast was placed in the Performing Songwriters category alongside Mariah Carey and the Isley Brothers. The Neptunes were placed in the Songwriter category along with Motown's William "Mickey" Stevenson. The induction ceremony has been set for June 11, 2020.
If both duos became inductees, they would join Hip Hop luminaries JAY-Z, Jermaine Dupri, Dallas Austin and Missy Elliott.
Over the past few years, both groups have experienced a resurgence within Hip Hop and mainstream culture. The Neptunes released their latest N.E.R.D. album No One Really Ever Dies in 2017 while producing for the likes of The Carters, Ariana Grande and Nas.
The Neptunes recently saw the worldwide release of Kelis's 2001 album Wanderland while being sampled by up-and-coming rapper Rubi Rose.
Outkast has performed sporadically over the years since releasing 2005's Idlewild. The duo recently made headlines again due to an Atlanta mural paying homage to their legacy.
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We, as former Wildcats who played on the Blankenship grass all the way back to the 1940s, would like to express our heartfelt thanks for allowing some of us to have pieces of sod as they were being removed to make way for the new turf field for the 2019 season.
We, as former Wildcats who played on the Blankenship grass all the way back to the 1940s, would like to express our heartfelt thanks for allowing some of us to have pieces of sod as they were being removed to make way for the new turf field for the 2019 season. This means a lot for players like Jackie Pope and others, who played in many great and historic games on this field. Thank you all very much.


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National Space Centre Visit
A group of Year 8 Blackburn Central High School students spent a fantastic day at the National Space Centre in Leicester last week.
The National Space Centre is a museum and educational resource covering the fields of space science and astronomy, along with a space research programme in partnership with the University of Leicester.
Our students got to see one of only three Soyuz spacecraft in the West; a Russian manned space vehicle that flew between 1967 and 1971, designed to carry three cosmonauts into low Earth orbit.
They also saw the Blue Streak and PGM-17 Thor rockets, on permanent display in a specially designed rocket tower.
The centre has six interactive galleries of exhibits and visitor activities covering space flight, astronomy and cosmology.
The attraction also includes a Digistar 3 dome cinema and planetarium, the largest in the UK; where our students had a breath taking experience – transported inside the human body and then into outer space to get a feeling of what it's like to work on a space station.
During a Mars Rover workshop BCHS students programmed a robot to land on the surface of Mars, navigate terrain and collect scientific evidence. Our students were crowned the champions of the programming workshop after beating other schools to first place.
Finally the students tried out some of the exciting ride simulators before they had to head home for the day.


Four of the areas schools are ready to compete for the John Radford Trophy title, when they face off in this seasons grand final at the RH Academy tomorrow night.
Mapplewells, Greenwood and Holly have all progressed but they'll face tough competition from current holders Samuel Barlow, who also romped through to this season's final, determined to retain the trophy for a third time.
Community Manager Gary Shaw said "This years competition has been well received so far, with the new format and venue enabling us to invite more schools and for youngsters to get more game time which is imperative for the youngsters.
Designed for boys and girls from years four and five, the John Radford Trophy is now in its sixth season having been previously won by Abbey School (2013/14), Samuel Barlow (2014/15, 2017/18), Peafield Lane (2015/16) and Farnsfield St Michaels (2016/17).
This season's final will be played in a winner takes all league format where all teams will face each other twice in games of ten minutes straight through. In the event of a tie for first place, the team who has the superior goal difference will be crowned champions – should goal difference also be tied, a penalty shootout will be staged to decide a winner.
Going into this season's final it's all to play for, in Group A Holly who topped the group won two and drew two of their matches, twice beating fellow qualifiers Mapplewells, whose victories over King Edwin were enough for them to progress.
Group B was a much tighter affair with Greenwood finishing with three wins and a draw alongside Peafield – however Greenwood squeezed through via goal difference, having scored just one more than second placed Peafield.
Current holders Samuel Barlow showed their intent to retain the title with a dominant display over four straight victories, four clean sheets and a whopping seventeen goals scored.


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Andre Greipel Doubles Up in Crash-Hit Tour Down Under Stage 1
Nips Petacchi in photo finish after late crash mars stage
By justin davis/afp
Andre Greipel (front left centre) of Germany and team Lotto-Belisol finishes the race first in a photo finish with Alessandro Petacchi (far right) of Italy and team Lampre-ISD during Stage 1 of the 2012 Tour Down Under on January 17, 2012 in Adelaide, Australia. (Photo by Morne de Klerk/Getty)
ADELAIDE, January 17, 2012 (AFP) — Two-time race champion Andre Greipel of Germany took the leader's ocher jersey at the Tour Down Under Tuesday in a crash-marred start to the season's opening WorldTour race. Lotto sprinter Greipel, who won the pre-race criterium on Sunday, won a photo-finish decision from veteran Italian sprinter Alessandro Petacchi of Lampre to set out his stall for a third overall win.
"I'm lucky that I won today," Greipel said. "There was a massive crash with 800 meters to go. My pedal got touched, and I lost positions from about fifth to 20th but managed to bridge the gap."
Now a WorldTour event, the Tour Down Under offers ranking points to individual riders and their teams. And some believe that led to some erratic behavior in the lead-up to a dramatic bunch finish. As several teams jostled in a bid to put their main sprinters in a winning position ahead of the home straight, one rider's mistake caused a whole bunch to hit the deck.
Yet some later claimed that wasn't the main reason around 15 riders crashed just under a kilometer from the finish line of the 149km ride from Prospect to Clare, during which temperatures were said to have reached 51 degrees Celsius (124 degrees Fahrenheit). Australian Matt Goss, hoping to score a first win for his new Australian team GreenEdge, said he saw some questionable tactics.
(Photo Courtesy Santos Tour Down Under)
"There were no doubt some idiots fighting for position who were going to do nothing at the finish anyway," said Goss, the Milan–San Remo champion who finished runner-up here in 2011. "Some guys have no care for what happens to themselves or what happens to everyone else."
Briton Adam Blythe also complained of suspect tactics. "Two Vacansoleil riders caused the crash," he told AFP. "To have two teammates causing a crash when they're not fighting against each other is just stupid. Under-eights racing don't do that—it's just ridiculous. They're not riding with their eyes closed."
One of the Vacansoleil riders in question, Kenny Van Hummel, took skin off his left arm, buttocks, and legs after hitting the tarmac. After his team claimed its two riders had been brought down by another, unidentified cyclist, Van Hummel said: "Someone came from the left and the right, I couldn't react and someone rode me off the bike. "It was unbelievable."
Van Hummel said the WorldTour status of the race had perhaps been a factor. "It's the first WorldTour race so everybody's trying to score points, and everybody wants to show his level and we're all motivated, but that means people are taking risks," he added. "Some people are trying for the sprint and they don't yet have the level for it."
Veteran Frenchman Frederic Guesdon, who was caught up in the crash, was left with a fractured hip, which could signal the end of his career according to his FDJ-BigMat team manager Yvon Madiot. A former Paris-Roubaix winner, Guesdon was scheduled to hang up his bike for good after the famous French classic in April, but Madiot said it was now unlikely he would be able to take part as planned.
1. Andre Greipel (GER) Lotto-Belisol 4hr 33min 40sec, 2. Alessandro Petacchi (ITA/LAM) same time, 3. Yauheni Hutarovich (BLR/FDJ) s.t., 4. Fabio Sabatini (ITA/LIQ) s.t., 5. Daniele Bennati (ITA/RSH) s.t., 6. Chris Sutton (AUS/SKY) s.t., 7. Jonathan Cantwell (AUS/SAX) s.t., 8. Xavier Florencio (ESP/KAT) s.t., 9. Mark Renshaw (AUS/RAB) s.t., 10. Manuel Belletti (ITA/ALM) s.t., 11. Tom Palmer (AUS/UNI) s.t., 12. Michael Matthews (AUS/RAB) s.t., 13. William Bonnet (FRA/FDJ) s.t., 14. Romain Lemarchand (FRA/ALM) s.t., 15. Geraint Thomas (GBR/SKY) s.t.
Selected: 19. Romain Sicard (FRA/EUS) s.t., 31. Romain Feillu (FRA/VCD) s.t.
General classification
1. Andre Greipel (GER) Lotto-Belisol 4hr 33min 30sec, 2. Alessandro Petacchi (ITA/LAM) at 04secs, 3. Martin Kohler (SUI/BMC) same time, 4. Yauheni Hutarovich (BLR/FDJ) s.t., 5. Rohan Dennis (AUS/UNI) 7, 6. Eduard Vorganov (RUS/KAT) 8, 7. Marcello Pavarin (ITA/VCD) 9, 8. Fabio Sabatini (ITA/LIQ) 10, 9. Daniele Bennati (ITA/RSH) s.t., 10. Chris Sutton (AUS/SKY) s.t., 11. Jonathan Cantwell (AUS/SAX) s.t., 12. Xavier Florencio (ESP/KAT) s.t., 13. Mark Renshaw (AUS/RAB) s.t., 14. Manuel Belletti (ITA/ALM) s.t., 15. Tom Palmer (AUS/UNI) s.t.
17. William Bonnet (FRA/FDJ) s.t., 18. Romain Lemarchand (FRA/ALM) s.t., 19. Geraint Thomas (GBR/SKY) s.t., 23. Romain Sicard (FRA/EUS) s.t., 28. Blel Khadri (FRA/ALM) s.t., 39. Simon Gerrans (AUS/GEC) s.t.
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A little KonMari-style tidying will enhance diversity, spark joy, and make your network more effective.
The phenomenon caused by organizer extraordinaire Marie Kondo has swept the country with millions of people emptying out their closets, delicately folding their favorite outfits, and tossing (while mindfully thanking) the items that don't "spark joy." I'm one of those people, having bought both of her books, binge-watched her Netflix series, and raised eyebrows from my husband at the bags of stuff I've emptied out of our home. And while homes around the world including mine are benefiting from Kondo's Shinto-inspired decluttering strategy, the same methods can be taken to somewhere a bit more unexpected: your professional network.
Like a home, your professional network needs attention and a bit of cleaning up every now and then. Just like your home accumulates objects and trinkets over the years, your professional network expands as you move from role to role (or in some cases even change industries). While many professionals might think having a larger network always opens more doors, "downsizing" your LinkedIn network can actually have tremendous benefits if you're ever looking for a new role, exploring different companies, or looking for a career shift entirely, and want to tap into your network for help. That said, let's get started on rethinking your LinkedIn network, the Marie Kondo way!
The first thing is to visualize the professional life you want in the coming year, so you have a clear idea and a vision. If you have a clear goal, you have an idea of where you want to be and what you want to attain at the end of the process. Whether you're looking to join a larger company, making the transition from one industry to another, or simply looking to meet people who are interested in having a thoughtful discussion with, knowing what you want out of your professional network is critical.
From there, the motivation that comes with starting the KonMari method helps to build out your all new, perfectly curated professional network. You'll find out that, in the end, a more defined LinkedIn network will give you a better overall experience–from a more relevant LinkedIn feed to a much more concise roster of contacts to potentially tap into.
You'll undoubtedly run into people who don't fit this criteria and when that happens, you have a couple of options. If you don't remember someone, I suggest to disconnect, meaning you take them out of your network entirely. This may seem harsh, but if you're unlikely to tap each other for help on your professional journey anyway, then it's better for both of you to declutter your network, feed, and LinkedIn experience. Plus, they won't be notified that you disconnected. The second is to unfollow, which leaves you both connected but their updates are kept out of your feed. For more passive connections that you still feel might be valuable, I recommend the latter.
Much in the same way that decluttering your house can make it easier to access your clothes and kitchen utensils, having a thoughtful professional network makes it easier to stay up to date with your connections and manage your networking efforts. The more thoughtful your network, the more relevant the content on your feed will be, the more likely your conversations will be productive and fruitful, and the easier it will be to focus on the people who are part of your career journey.
• Colleagues (past and present): Look at past companies you've either worked at or organizations you've been involved in and make sure folks you previously connected with are still relevant. Note, this might also be a good opportunity to triple check that you are connected to current colleagues.
• Alumni: You can search by both universities and high schools.
• Location: Have you moved around a lot? It might be helpful to look at people you connected with in your last hometown.
Just like the sweater your grandma knitted you for the holidays 10 years ago, connections that you've had for years yet don't (or won't) ever interact with aren't those you should keep in your LinkedIn network just because. There's no need to hang onto past connections simply because of nostalgia or politeness; if you don't interact with them, you're not doing each other any good. It's not about getting rid of connections, it's about making your network actionable!
Pro tip: Marie Kondo says it's always a good idea to keep small change in your pocket so that you actually spend it. Within the context of your network, "small change" could be anyone who's direct influence you've yet to feel but could in the future. Think carefully about this group of people before releasing them from your LinkedIn network.
Now that you've KonMari'd your network, what happens next?
Embrace your refreshed LinkedIn network! In reviewing your connections there were probably a few folks you realized spark joy, but that you haven't touched base with in some time. Take this opportunity to reach out to your now tidy network and start a conversation, ask for help, or offer to give someone career advice. Your LinkedIn network is meant to be an active one so go ahead and get a jump start on the next phase in your career! You've earned it.
Lizabeth Li is a director of product management at LinkedIn.


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