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By Vicki Robin, Pat McCabe, originally published by Resilience.org
Pat McCabe (Weyakpa Najin Win, Woman Stands Shining) is a Diné (Navajo) mother, grandmother, activist, artist, writer, ceremonial leader, and international speaker. She is a voice for global peace, and her paintings are created as tools for individual, earth, and global healing. She draws upon the Indigenous sciences of Thriving Life to reframe questions about sustainability and balance, and she is devoted to supporting the next generations, Women's Nation and Men's Nation, in being functional members of the "Hoop of Life" and upholding the honor of being human.
She addresses the question of "What Could Possibly Go Right?" with thoughts including:
The exploration of the "perfect design for thriving life as human being here"
The responsibility to understand the consequences of humanity's actions on our interconnected world
The realization that the "modern world paradigm is a choice"
The co-witnessing of today's issues and retelling of our old stories can "change the trajectory into the future"
The reconciliation between the masculine and feminine, and that "men are not the patriarchy; the paradigm is the patriarchy"
Connect with Pat McCabe
Website: www.patmccabe.net
Facebook: facebook.com/womanstandsshining
Hi, Vicki Robin here, host of What Could Possibly Go Right? a project of the Post Carbon Institute in which we interview cultural scouts, people who see far and serve the common good, asking them all our one impertinent question. With all that seems to be going awry, what could possibly go right? Our guest today is Pat McCabe, also known as Woman Stands Shining. She is a Diné (Navajo) mother, grandmother, activist, artist, writer, ceremonial leader and international speaker. She is a voice for global peace, and her paintings are created as tools for individual, earth and global healing. She draws on the Indigenous sciences of Thriving Life, to reframe questions about sustainability and balance, and she is devoted to supporting the next generations, Women's Nation and Men's Nation in being functional members of the hoop of life and upholding the honor of being human. Her primary work at this moment is the reconciliation between the masculine and feminine, Men's Nation and Women's Nation, remembering, recreating or creating a new narrative for the sacred masculine and addressing the archetypal wounding that occurred in our understanding and abuse of technology in prayer ceremony, and science. I enjoyed this conversation immensely and I believe you will, too. There's a presence about Pat, there's something about what she says that had me settle into a deeper place in myself than I ordinarily operate, and so I allowed to go a bit longer. I think you'll see why.
Welcome, Pat McCabe and thank you so much for joining me on What Could Possibly Go Right?, a project of the Post Carbon Institute. You are extremely generous with your time, I believe, because you carry important messages from your nation for Western nations in this time of conflict, climate heating and coming apart everywhere. So in the past interviews, I've posed our one question, "What could possibly go right?" to wise and farseeing people from around the world. After 60 such conversations, even with important clues, I now see the solutionary mind behind my question, a mind that seeks with great dedication and love, answers. I have one of those minds and I've done all in my power for 40 years to find the keys to our demise, and open channels for change. Sincere as this inquiry has been, I now see it as a binary frame; if there is a wrong we can name and a right we can enact. But I now see that that's sort of reinforcing a mental approach to what seems to be a worldview embedded in all of us, and that we all create from and if we seek other voices, if they have solutions, we're still holding firm to a problems have solutions mindset.
And some problems do have solutions, material problems, like a leaking roof or a sputtering car. But we are constrained now I believe by a mindset or belief system or worldview, illness embedded in all of our governance and economic structures. And I think you travel and speak to offer humbly and without judgement that I can tell a window into another way of seeing and being. You aren't glorifying and reifying indigenous ways, you speak from what you've been taught and what has been a North Star for your nation and indigenous peoples around the world. So with all of that and with that opening, which may or may not spark something in you, I will turn this over to you with this question, but I'm paraphrasing it. With all that seems to be going awry, what are we not seeing that could guide us to a better way for humans to inhabit this earth?
Pat McCabe
Thank you so much, Vicki, and thanks for having me. This was something that came up on a panel, I was the only Indigenous person on a panel, and this was relative to COP26. And I just had to name I said, this might sound shocking, but it really shouldn't, if you think about it at all. I've been rooting for the collapse of the modern world paradigm for a long time. So I would just have us, as you say, here note that for indigenous peoples, in general, that the modern world paradigm is what caused us to believe that it had the right to overcome all other paradigms, and attempted to do so and still attempts to do so by force. Sometimes it looks more like economic force or other kinds of force, but that was the experience of indigenous peoples all over this earth. And so I think it is important to take a moment to look at it from that perspective and say, Why wouldn't I be rooting for the collapse of that mentality and just that destructive force, not only on peoples but on places on waters, etc.
So, there's some young people that I spoke with who go so far as to say that the apocalypse is a colonial construct. So we'll just put that out there to to stew a little bit, to marinate just a little bit here at the very start of this conversation. Now, that's not to say that I don't understand that there is an enormous amount of suffering that has already gone on as, as the collapse has begun. Or, for some people, it's been going on for quite a long time. The holy people, my spirit helpers have told me that by the time this change, this transformation or this collapse, hits first world nations we're going to be very, very far into it. And so I don't think it's quite registered with first nations yet. I don't mean First Nations Indigenous; I mean, first world is the word I'm looking for. First world societies. But that is only because I think it's being kind of well hidden. There's still a great shell game going on, in the financial markets, even with food. We're starting to watch what's happening, it's starting to register that we might not get our Christmas presents on one level, and then there's those who are giving heart and soul at COP 26 and they're definitely getting it, right? Those who are protesting outside and those who are holding conversations, the actual conversations that need to be had around our humanity's relationship to planet, to Mother Earth.
So I guess some of what you said provokes that in me to say out loud here what are we maybe missing here? From my culture's perspective… Well, I didn't start out with my own introduction about my culture, so I'll say a little bit there. I was born into, by blood I'm Diné. Born into Diné nation, and so I'll say <in Indigenous language>. And so I'm telling you about my mother's clans, and then I was also adopted into the Lakota spiritual way of life and in that way, I was given the name <in Indigenous language> and that translates maybe roughly in English to Woman Stands Shining, or as I've been saying lately, Woman Standing Shining, because I see myself now as this catalys, as this energetic, as this female of our kind. I can have a sacred influence on all that I encounter. So I really want to acknowledge that for us in general, but also for myself as to be led in that way, and to really bring to bear that medicine for all of us.
I'll stick with Diné cosmology, my clan grandfather spoke many times about how we have already travelled through worlds. You may hear different indigenous peoples talk about maybe this is the Fifth World or the Sixth World. That's not something that's really held in the modern world paradigm or the Western science paradigm exactly. Or not in the same way, for sure. And so that means we have already lost worlds, we have already had to begin again. We have stories about how humanity came to survive some of these losing of worlds. So we have our allies in our stories about who helped us be able to begin again, right?
And so from that perspective, I will also say that, my clan grandfather told me that, that we even know the reason for at least one of the worlds that we lost in the flood. He says that we lost that world because men and women believe they could live without each other. So there even seems to me almost like a little bit of a more moral cause and effect that is named, at least by some of my elders about why we're losing these worlds. And here we are at the brink of a possible another loss. And I want to reiterate in this disposable society that I don't intend to say that, these worlds are lost, no big deal. It's a pretty big deal. Very big deal. And so, but, but it helps me to have that context and that framework, as I look at our situation.
And so what I see is that, I often use this symbol here. This, some people know it as the Medicine Wheel, I often refer to it as the Sacred Hoop of life. And this, this medicine wheel can describe, that every single living being on this Mother Earth gets to have a seat on this Sacred Hoop. And every single member has some kind of perfect design to uphold, they're part of that Sacred Hoop. And somehow, we, the five fingered ones get to have a seat on that Sacred Hoop amongst all of our relations, which is, to me an incredible, incredible, miraculous, gift. And, and place of honor to to have a seat on that Sacred Hoop of life. And so, I'm going to say that somehow we must also have a perfect design for thriving life. And the question is, do we do we know what it is? So this has been, a big part of my scientific inquiry is, who am I? What do I know? How can I know? And what do I know about my perfect design for thriving life as a human being here? And what specifically is my part as the female of our kind to uphold humanity's part of the Sacred Hoop?
So that's been a deep exploration for me for quite a while now. What this implies is how interrelated, how interconnected we are. We are interbeing. And I love that word, we are interbeing here. And what that is saying is that I think this is the lesson of these worlds, is that we get to have, we get to do whatever we want to do here. I mean, look around, look at what's happening on this Mother Earth right now. Especially in well, pretty much only in regards to humanity. We are doing anything that we can dream up to do. We just do it. Now, we've been sort of getting away with that. Not exactly because the consequences have been building and now they're snowball and avalanche size, but we have been feeling that was our place to do that. And, and we've been allowed to do that.
But we're running up against a natural boundary, if you will, and that is we might get to do whatever we can dream up to do but we might not then get to live on this earth. So that's a heck of a boundary right? But what I also want to say is, every single thing that we do in such a system is this, even our water system. Science calls it a closed water system, it's always circulating, it's always been the same water, right? And this also speaks to how interrelated we are, everything that we put in that water is going to come around back to us, we can't send it away somewhere. And we and not only that, we have to be able to use this water again, to live and for every living thing to live. And so this interbeing is saying that every single action we take affects every other being. Every action we take affects every other being sooner or later. So it's, it's a heck of a setup, if you think about it to be here on this Mother Earth, and to be given absolute freewill. And then having to notice, and this is kind of a juvenile in my, from where I said, it's a juvenile thing to have to be taught, and to notice that your actions affect others.
But this does seem to be like the spiritual arena almost, for us to, to grapple with and to reckon with at this time. So we're really being asked over and over all these questions, I feel like around climate, around science, around government. around economics, everything is asking, Can we fully allow in the truth that everything we do affects every other? And can we fully allow in the truth that if anybody suffering, we're going to suffer? Can we really allow in the truth that I can't be well if you're not well? Then when I look at indigenous perspective, and teachings from the elders, that is what is embedded deeply in so much of our spiritual practice and societal structure and relationship with earth and water is, is these have been the bumpers that have been guiding where we, as human beings can travel and live in a good way, and, and cause everything to live in a good way.
So again, I've been saying it's not that we weren't smart enough to build a nuclear weapon, we are. And it's not that we didn't have the smarts to do all these things that are going on, that's why people have mistakenly looked at us and said, Oh, these primitive people. But that's not it. It's that indigenous peoples or certain factions of humanity, have been guided by this principle that whatever I do affects everything. And that's a responsibility that I want to take seriously. And in a situation that we find ourselves in now that might feel daunting or restrictive. But when I look at the way my my ancestors lived, and how those traditions are still carried forward, to harmonize like to really use all of your ingenuity, and all of your intelligence and all of your curiosity and creativity and all of these things that are so inherent to human beings, my clan grandfather used to say, here we are, holy earth surface walkers dazzled by creation coming upon temptation.
So, I mean, he was talking pre-colonization, right? Human beings have had this temptation and this curiosity thing going right, that's inherent in us. But to use all of those faculties to harmonize, and where all of that human impulse, I guess I'll say, and maybe instinct too, gets channelled into beauty, into celebration, into praise. into spiritual life into just really deep and beautiful ways to love and acknowledge each other. Animals, plants, everything around. So it really led us into as human beings on this earth into some really extraordinarily beautiful places. And this is what I feel like modern society, modern world paradigm doesn't have much experience with and it's it's devastating. I think it's devastating. And as I watch young people, I really feel for them. And I always want to say to them and I want I say that everybody, this is such a magical and mysterious, fantastical creation that we have been set in, if we only knew, if we could only open all of our capacities to participate in ways that are not harmful to anybody or anything, what an amazing gift of life. We could have. And some of us have known and are and are attempting to carry forward, even in the face of a paradigm that sees things from a very, very different way.
So much in what you just said. And I really thank you for the evocation. There are words and there's symbols. But there's something behind all of this that that I can feel, and I, one of the things that I've learned through doing What Could Possibly Go Right is my little quip, you can't heal the world if you can't feel the world. I think what you're saying is that, that we with a modern worldview are not yet feeling the consequences of our actions, and so we're not responding in an appropriate way. So that's a piece of what I'm hearing.
Another piece of what I'm hearing is, is basic, the set basic truth of the golden rule. It's in other language, do unto others, as you would have others do unto you and others is everything, the trees and the grass, etc. And I'm also hearing from what you're saying that, this question of who are we as humans, what is our role if everywhere we step where we seem to be squashing something, if we feel like this, these giants in the land that just don't even understand what's under our feet. I hear you saying that. Now, I'm just I'm saying this to check myself that Creator in some way has given us this free will to find our rightful place, that there's this creativity, this praise this awe and wonder, this, like saying back to all of life, how beautiful you are, how beautiful you are.
That feels like I mean, I'm sort of listening for Okay, fine, what's the solution? What did Creator tells us to do? But it feels like that's, that's something of what you're indicating. It's an attitude of praise, and wonder and respect. And we can still have all the fun we have as creative humans with that attitude, and that's not punitive. That's not saying, oh, naughty western mind. It's sort of more saying, there's an opportunity here that you are totally missing. And some people have said, Western civilization is a bunch of toddlers. We don't even know our power, we just sort of like flailing around trying to prove ourselves. But that, that, I feel like you're saying, there is something on the other side of this collapse, and even through it, that has the seeds of finding our rightful place on that hoop.
In other words, it's sort of like you have to be taken by the ear. Don't just sit down, and listen, and listen, just, I don't think we're going to get anywhere by solving this. I think it's listening. It's like, we've had a listen, maybe for several generations. So these are some of the things I'm taking away, I call this what we're living in is the era of consequences. We're just, you were just reaping the whirlwind. I've said, in my own work, we are free to have do and be anything we want. But we are not free of consequences. And I think that's a bit what you're saying. And there's another term, Armageddon is another term that used like in Christianity, which is the apocalypse, which actually is sort of like the falling away of illusion, the seeing behind the screen. It's the great revealing that's what it is, it's the revealing and so, we're enduring revealing the consequences of our mindset. So can you offer some words about like, as you say, there's so much suffering that's, that's with us now and coming, and how do we live through this time? How do people of goodwill, maybe still toddlers crashing about? How do we live through this time?
Well, I have this saying that, that through this time, what I want to keep my eye on is I want to uphold the honour of being human being to the very best of my ability. So I continue my study into what, I guess, this paradigm for me is about who we are, where we are, how it is. And, and so if I, I want to continue to walk forward with a sense of truly the deep honour and gift that this life is, that has been given to me and to us. And so I want to keep expressing, expressing gratitude that way. And I want to keep expressing honour and respect for all of the other living beings around me. And, and I guess I will say that, I feel like, people always want to know, what do we do? What's the point ABCD. And, and I don't know, I don't even know what to say to that, if really pressed there.
But I just feel like for us to begin to reorient, to understand the story that we have, that we have accepted and been embedded in, and to realize that it's a story. And that my spirit helpers told me always, you guys can have it any way you want it, that you're in a free world construct, you can have it any way you want it. And right now, you're saying you want it like this, and there's this really succinct meme out and it says something like that you guys can have it any way you want it. And right now, you're saying you want white supremacy and credit scores? Like that's what you want to reduce this whole planet down to? White supremacy and credit scores, like, out of all the options, this is it? And we'd call ourselves like the pinnacle of the evolution Um, yeah, no.
So I guess what I feel to do, rather than try to name the specifics, which some people get frustrated with me, and other indigenous people get frustrated with me about. But I want to say, first let's, let's realize that the paradigm, the modern world paradigm is a choice. And let's notice, that all of the way it has been from its foundation to all of its evolution in the last 5000 years, all the human systems of governance, economics, health, education, the biggies that way, they were all created without thinking about putting life at the centre. And they were all created as though we could not understand this concept here, this interbeing. That was nowhere in their construct. They were created with the idea that everything is for human beings. And as it turns out, we actually need some other beings in order to even be ourselves.
So part of the task, then, for me, it seems, is to begin to notice how my identity is tied into the systems. And, so this is where I feel like I have this enormous privilege, it has sometimes been very, very painful, and didn't feel like a privilege at all, but to actually operate out of two different paradigms, two different understandings of how to be human on Earth, is actually a huge privilege. Because if I had only been born into modern world paradigm, and if I had only witnessed that and only been presented with that multi-generationally, why would I think there's anything else I would just be like, well, Wall Street, that's how Earth is. This is just how she is, and, or pharmaceuticals. That's just how she is.
So this is what I feel like my role is a lot of the time is to try to say, well, they're here's these other humans and here's how they think about it. And they're in the exact same circumstance exact same sky exact same water, exact same mothers, fathers, children aunts uncles, the dilemma of eating food, the dilemma of ageing, and they're choosing to go about this in a really different way. What can we notice about that? What does that say to you about what is possible? I do feel that at this time.
Well, one of the things that happened at a gathering, I was at the New Story Summit, in which all these people have been gathered from all parts of the earth. This was in 2014, Findhorn in Scotland. And all of these different peoples had been gathered. And we thought, well, if we get this really amazing cross section of humanity, perhaps we can tell, begin to create a new story. Because we're always operating out of a story, we're story based beings as human beings. So narratives are very important, which of course, media is very aware of, advertising is very aware of, we are totally geared towards stories.
So the idea was, well, the story we're in now is leading to death. So perhaps we can come up with a new story, or at least the beginnings of the elements of what is the new story that we would want to be in. And it was complete chaos, and totally wild and absolutely necessary and amazing. But there was one moment where things had broken down into chaos. So I went outside, and I was sitting in the dunes. And, and my spirit helpers came to me and they said, rather than try to tell a new story, from this point forward, you would be better off retelling the old story. And if you go back and retell the old story, you will automatically change your trajectory into the future. So rather than try to tell a new story, from this point forward, you'd be better off retelling the old story. And if you go back and retell the old story, you will automatically change the trajectory into the future. Well, so that, that sat in my bones, right, that rang true in my body, but I thought, What in the world am I going to do with it? So but I will say that I've been kind of living out of that council since 2014. Not that long, but I really gear much of my work my efforts of being human being towards that.
And, and so I'm learning what does it mean to retell the old story? Well, there are stories that are being retold to us right now. In many different ways. So one thing that I noticed that's arising is, is what I'm calling co-witnessing. And co-witnessing is, for instance, here in the United States, when George Floyd was murdered, in broad daylight on the street by a police officer. It wasn't that black people didn't understand that this had been going on or that this was possible to happen. No, they understood, they were very clear that this was a danger to their lives, such that they would have to have talks with their children, about what to expect when they left the house, and how to try to preserve themselves in such a situation. So they were very clear on it. But what was really amazing was all of a sudden, there's this outcry from all over from all factions about, oh, my God, how could this happen? How could this happen that this black man that a police officer could kneel on this black man's neck and press the life out of him for 10 minutes on camera in broad daylight? So there was all of a sudden this like, well, I just call it co-witnessing, because it's like a denial dropped somehow. And, and people's eyes are on it, people's hearts are in it, they hear the story. And they're wondering, and so all of a sudden, that narrative, that has only been held by one part of the population is being held across many parts of the population. That's an interesting phenomenon to me. I don't know why it didn't happen before. I don't know why it's happening now. But it is.
And I will say the same for the residential boarding schools, for Indigenous children. It was law that children would be taken away from their parents and sent to these residential boarding schools and the purpose of those residential boarding schools was, absolutely, I mean, it was written on the walls, it wasn't some kind of secret that we want to make their own cultures so repulsive to them, that they will never return to them. So this was like, the deepest assimilation project, right. And, and so all these little kids were taken away from their families, by law and brought into these residential boarding schools. And so now all of a sudden, we're finding these mass graves of these small children on the grounds of the Catholic boarding schools in Canada. And there's a call for an investigation to go on here in the United States. That's one thing we could do. Press your political people to say, yes, we do want to see that happen. That's something I would call for. Because I think that we're ready for that kind of co-witnessing in this nation, about really what it took to build this nation, to superimpose this nation upon a humanity that had civilizations that had risen and fallen for millennia on this continent.
So what am I saying? I'm saying that, there's something about this co-witnessing that is retelling the stories for us, and giving us some more information, giving us impetus to take bigger risks, I'm going to say bigger risks in relationship, bigger risks of generosity. That's what I think is happening with this co-witnessing. So that's just one aspect of retelling the old story, there are so many that I'm learning about, and that my work has been based on. Even just to talk about modern world paradigm is a retelling of the story, because that's been the only game in town. Right? But now there's this cracking open of people wanting to understand, like, how can I begin to grapple with with what's happening and, and so I feel like retelling the old story by saying this is just one way of being human. Whereas that has not been welcomed. My ancestors could have said that a long time ago, my great grandparents, they wouldn't have been heard, nor would my grandparents. Nor were my parents. So it's my generation where I get to sit on your show here. And honestly, I'm podcasting, summiting, webinars going like crazy right now. It's kind of a miracle that my generation's voice is the one that is ready to be heard.
Yeah, I love that. I think so beautiful. And it seems like that relates back to the upon the idea of the Apocalypse, the co-witnessing, or even personal work about shadow work. You don't go like to a weekend workshop and go like, I'm going to go to shadow workshop. And I'm just going to get all that sucker out. And that is what has been hidden, that needs to be revealed for us for our wholeness. And in a way we're so spiritually weakened, by not knowing these stories, the old stories not having access to another story or other stories. And so I'm just, I'm profoundly grateful. I have do have one other question. And I know we only have a couple minutes. I heard you say today, and I've heard you say other times, that it's about an imbalance between men and women, that the separation of men and women is one of the lost worlds. That's what happened. And I've heard you say that. You went to indigenous people, I believe in South America. And there was a call that went out and only women appeared. And they thought deeply, and they said, this is significant. And so could you just say a little bit about the the healing, whether it's between men and women, masculine and feminine patterns of relationship? Is there something that you could share about that?
I think the quickest way to say what I like to say the most about it is to say that in ceremony, I was told this thing that has changed everything and that was that the spirit guide said to me, you think you know what masculine is but you don't and you think you know what feminine is but you don't all you know is how those two energetics behave when you plug them into a power over paradigm. But if you plug them into a different paradigm, they behave in a completely different way. So for me, now, there's a retelling of the old story quite succinctly because it's the spirits talking, they have a great way with talk, it was saying what needs to be said in a short space. But so what I feel like that does is one, I've been saying this thing lately, and I just feel like one of the greatest untapped human rights sources. I mean, I don't even know I'm trying to work on my language that's such an extractive language. But, but but let's just say for the moment, one of the greatest untapped human resources that we have yet to see come to our aid is the sacred masculine. And that is, I believe, because, one, in the power over paradigm, I say might makes right. You have to overcome another in order to have what you need. So it's highly highly competitive, it's not conducive to cooperation, collaboration, and men will dominate in such a system where brute force is really the currency there. We make it polite in different ways. But ultimately, it's brute force. And so therefore, it is inherently violent, I will say, and so as long as that was the only playing field that humanity thought they had to, to enact being human, and the men have been going for it, they've been doing what they can to at least, somebody's got to win in this in order to be able to live, somebody's gonna win at that game. And so, so we equate that paradigm with men.
But I myself say men are not the patriarchy, the paradigm is the patriarchy. And, and so we don't even know who men are. Because we, many of us, including myself, have been pointing our fingers at the men and saying patriarchy, you're the patriarchy, you're the problem, you're the one. And, and it sure does look that way, in many instances, but I'm gonna say that if we can have the willingness to separate the men from the paradigm, then we have element x here, or maybe it's element y, I forget. But anyway, and we don't know what they're capable of, we don't know what happens when they step into their perfect design for thriving life as holy surface Walker. And so I'm very excited at this prospect.
But I can tell you, one thing that will happen is when they step into that place, there is going to be a level of safety that we have not known for some time, because they're stepping out of the violent paradigm, which means we're gonna have to create something that has an opportunity to not be violent that way. When you put that sexuality and masculine Eros in a power over paradigm, well, you get what we have. It's frightening, right? And so men themselves are afraid of their own Eros. And yet, I have to say, because it's such a prominent part of their way in general, that's kind of a generalization I guess, I have to believe it's part of their perfect design for thriving life contribution, and therefore it should be honoured and respected by all of us.
How do we get to that point, I don't know. But once that happens, I feel like this safety factor is one, going to open up the feminine Eros in a way that we have not seen for thousands of years, when she can really be freed, to do what she knows how to do, what she was made to do. And many cultures have really benefited from the medicine of her sexual and sensuous travels, basically, to travel to other dimensions to travel to even off planet to bless, huge. Bless the whole planet at once. But also to receive insight and information, it can be kind of a vision quest in sexuality for a woman. But that has not been able to be present. And so I also asked, and maybe we can end here is what how will the earth respond to such safety from our kind of the masculine stepping fully into sacred masculine, we don't even know how she would respond. Right now, I would imagine she has, she also has to have something of a defensive posture. So all possibilities still humming in the air as far as I'm concerned.
What could possibly go right? All possibilities humming in the air, the liberation of our minds and hearts and lives from a paradigm that produces what we've seen in this world, the destruction we've seen. I love the potency and the non-answer, the non-solution of this. Thank you so much, Pat McCabe. I feel very privileged to have received the teachings that you've offered today.
Thank you very much. My honor.
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[Jamia Millia Islamia Alumni Association - Riyadh, Saudi Arabia panel discussion on the approach of Jamia's founders towards the all-round development of Jamiaites; July 23, 2015 (Photo courtesy JMIAA-Riyadh)]
Alumni Call for Formal Syllabus to Instill into Students the Idea of Jamia
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The Riyadh chapter of Jamia Millia Islamia Alumni Association held a panel discussion on the approach of Jamia's founders towards the all-round development of Jamiaites, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on July 23, 2015.
In the process of the transformation of Jamia from a humble beginning to a leading central university (playing multifaceted roles, and also having the uniqueness of having schools under its wings), have we compromised with the focus on values and all-round development envisaged by Jamia's founding fathers?
Jamiaites in Riyadh discussed this important question in an atmosphere of informality on the occasion of Eid Milan program.
Panelists for the discussion were: Ghizal Mahdi, President Of JMIAA-Riyadh; Dr. Shafaatullah Khan, Founding Member, JMIAA-Riyadh; Salman Azmi, Founding Member- JMIAA-Riyadh; Zafar Bari, Ex-General Secretary, JMIAA-Riyadh; Ghufran Ahmad, senior JMI alumnus; Laique Ahmed, Ex-Vice President-JMIAA-Riyadh; and Rashid Hasan, journalist. The discussion was moderated by Ghizal Mahdi.
Introducing the topic, Ghizal Mahdi said that Jamia, being a product of the Indian freedom struggle, had set out to inculcate values of freedom, integrity, empathy and excellence. Jamia was the first institution in India to apply the three-language (seh-lesaani) formula, wherein the school education was to be imparted through mother tongue; in addition, Hindi and English were taught for better national and international communication. The aim of the founders was to create socially aware, dynamic and responsive citizens; and Jamia demonstrated its social responsibility by working for the development of the local community as well as rehabilitation of riot victims (during partition and later as well). Mahdi proposed that, in order to develop awareness about the idea of Jamia among Jamia students, a syllabus – encapsulating the history and the culture of Jamia, with emphasis on the values it stood for – be developed and made compulsory at all levels of education in Jamia.
Zafar Bari said that the function of education is to bring about cultural change in students. Education should bring about desirable change and development in knowledge, skills, and attitudes of learners. He said that without the Jamia school experience, the students are disadvantaged in terms of imbibing the culture of Jamia. Bari urged that students should actively participate in co-curricular activities like cultural and literary societies, personality development workshops and other such activities. Weight should be given to these activities in the statement of marks. In the functions organized by Jamia, organizers should talk about the Jamia's history, culture and values as envisaged by its founders.
Rashid Hasan informed the audience that Jamia Millia Islamia was a pioneer in the field of developing the indigenous education system in India which was independent of the existing British education system. Jamia alumni should represent enlightenment and empowerment for which Jamia stood. Hasan said that Jamia has a special character. To fulfill that role, Jamia should work towards the educational development of the underprivileged.
Ghufran Ahmad pointed out that those pursuing professional courses like engineering miss the opportunity to acquaint themselves with the values and culture of Jamia.
Salman Azmi, who graduated from Jamia's school in the 1970s, recalled the approach to education in the school in those days. He said that the focus was on the all-round development of students. He said that students used to organize "aek din ka madarsah" (One Day School) in which students showcased their organizing skills.
Dr. Shafaatullah Khan, who has had long association with Jamia as a student and staff member, impressed upon the need to adopt values like punctuality, grooming, good manners and proper dress sense and develop other soft skills in order to become effective individuals. He urged Jamiaites to show basic courtesies like responding to emails, phone calls and messages.
Among the audience, Sabahuddin supported the idea of teaching Urdu to students of professional courses to improve their pronunciation.
Haroon Quasmi emphasized that since Islam is in the name of Jamia, Islamic values like honesty, integrity, justice and moral values should be inculcated in students.
Anayatullah, a recent graduate from Leh shared his life-changing and enriching experience at Jamia. He talked about how Jamia changed his world view and expanded his horizons in terms of thought and action.
Mohammad Rahbar, Shabbir Nadwi, and Ali Mohtashim also expressed their views on the occasion.
The program began with a recitation from the Holy Quran by JMIAA Riyadh Treasurer Abdul Rahman. Before sumptuous dinner was served, some members demonstrated their taste in Urdu poetry. Prominent participants were Haroon Qasmi, Abdul Rahman, Shabbir Nadwi, Rashid Hasan, Mohammed Nisar, Sabahuddin, Izhar Hussain, Imdad Alam, Saba Arif, Javed Akhtar, Mohammed Rahbar and Zabeehullah.
Ghizal Mahdi introduced 26 new Jamiaites who recently arrived in Riyadh and joined the Alumni Association. Najeeb Qasmi, a senior Jamiaite, presented Association's Eid-gifts to children.
[This is a JMIAA-Riyadh Chapter Press Release dated July 23, 2015]

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Born to Play
Is all the world a stage? Professor of Theatre for Development, Tim Prentki, discusses his thoughts in this captivating blog.
I believe that our defining characteristic as humans is that we must play; that we only exist through play with actual or virtual others. This is not conjecture but the consequence of recent discoveries by neuroscientists of the relationship between motor and mirror neurons in the human brain (Bråten, 2007). These discoveries indicate that we not only respond in action and feeling to the verbal and non-verbal signals given off others – we empathise with them – but that, through the operation of mirror neurons, we, like an audience in a theatre, are predisposed to emotional arousal. We live our lives simultaneously as actors, characters and spectators.
Neuroscience requires that we undertake a fundamental overhaul of the philosophical and psychological understanding of human development. The conventional assumptions of Descartes and Leibniz that we are isolated, self-contained subjects are wrong. The pre-linguistic, even pre-natal, capacity of an infant for interpersonal communion and learning has demonstrated the fallacy of Piaget's notion of the asocial, egocentric child.
The boundaries between the actor and the audience, as well as the distance between the actor and its role, become flexible and permeable and sometimes they vanish entirely. Each of us is actor, audience and character at the same time, and the narrations become scenarios for improvising in a relentless process of creation and representation. (Pitruzzella, 2017)
As the study of interactions between new-born babies and mothers has shown, the urge to communicate is enabled by the empathic capacity with which all humans are endowed (unless it is reduced or destroyed as a result of neglectful or violent social interventions or is lacking through disability caused by a brain being differently wired). Though this capacity is strengthened by social relations, it is not dependent upon responding to others because our most basic dialogue takes place with the virtual other within us. Imagination is the channel through which empathy flows. When we are attuned to another's emotional state, we can respond telepathically; for example, completing a person's sentence. The emotional grip fostered by imagination is so powerful that we can grieve over the death of a fictitious character while the actual death of a person unknown to us is registered as a statistic.
Clubs Are Trumps
The system by which we live today, neoliberal capitalism, perverts our attempts to fulfil ourselves according to our biological make-up. The relationships of neoliberalism are limited to those involved in buying and selling: the individual entrepreneur as salesperson; the private individual as consumer. Where once there were passengers, students and patients, there are now just customers. Homo sapiens has morphed into homo oeconomicus, even as value has been transformed into cost. We are familiar with the cost of living but alienated from the value of living. While this model of globalization has promoted extremes of inequality across the world, the perpetual assertion of individualism has hampered, if not destroyed, the possibility of collective resistance. Decades of identity politics have resulted in retreats into ever tighter circles of mono-identities unwilling or unable to break free from the tags, imposed or sought, that enroll us into gangs: LGBTQ, Muslim, extremist, left behind, populist, liberal, etc. Like all gangs they offer the security of group-think. Like all gangs they are exclusive; pulling up the drawbridge to shut out the dangerous other. The default stance of most of the world's political leaders is to block whatever is offered if it emanates from outside their club.
Donald Trump may be the most egregious symptom of the phenomenon of empathy deficit but he is not the cause. The cause is capitalism: a system incompatible with justice and unable to permit the vast majority of the species to realise its humanitarian potential.
A Shakespearean Curriculum
My proposal for addressing this contradiction is that drama, far from being a peripheral option clinging to the cliff-edge of the state school curriculum, should provide the informing concept that frames the whole process of education. In other words, drama is not a subject confined to a disciplinary box, but the means or process through which learning occurs. Young people need opportunities to try out the thoughts, feelings and actions of others; to discover themselves in the other and the other in themselves. That opportunity is drama and the competence explored is that of being human.
When Jaques declares in As You Like It that 'All the world's a stage/ And all the men and women merely players' he is not down-grading the value of existence, rather he is affirming, according to the Elizabethan meaning of 'merely', that men and women are nothing but players. That being the case, education needs to start from play: play time, making plays, and understanding that our identities are never fixed but always in play, always in flux, always subject to change.
Professor Tim Prentki will expand on these ideas at his upcoming talk, Born to Play: Acting on the World Stage, which is part of the University of Winchester Faculty of Arts Tavern Talks series. Find out more about this free and interactive event by clicking here.
Bråten, S. (Ed.). (2007). Advances in consciousness research: Vol. 68. On being moved: From mirror neurons to empathy.Amsterdam, Netherlands: John Benjamins Publishing Company. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/aicr.68
Pitruzzella, S. (2017). Drama, creativity and intersubjectivity: The roots of change in dramatherapy. New York, NY, US: Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group.
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Filmmaker Gautham Vasudev Menon, who met with an accident, says he is fine and waiting to start filming. Menon's car was reportedly involved in a crash with a lorry on Thursday on the East Coast Road here. Later at night, he tweeted: "Humbled by the concern and the wishes. A life altering experience. I'm fine and waiting to start filming. Thank you, especially to Gopalkrishnan from HCL whose kindness last night to me reinstated my faith in people."
The filmmaker is known for movies like "Kaakha Kaakha", "Vaaranam Aayiram" and "Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa". Menon, who is fondly called GVM, has also helmed Bollywood films such as "Rehnaa Hai Terre Dil Mein" and "Ekk Deewana Tha".


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West Indies vs Australia T20I series 2021 – 3rd T20I
July 12, 2021 - by Darshak Mehta
West Indies vs Australia T20I series 2021
Third T20I of the series of 5 T20I matches between West Indies and Australia is going to be played at Daren Sammy Cricket Ground, Gros Islet, St. Lucia on July 12th 2021. This is going to be the first T20I series between the teams containing more than 2 matches.
West Indies vs Australia History:
This is going to be the fifth bilateral series between the teams, The host won the series twice. Whereas the opponent won once, with 1 drawn series.
The longest streak without a draw between the teams is 2 series in a span of 3 years, between 2008 to 2011-12, where the West Indies team won once and Australia team also won once.
The most consecutive winning streak for West Indies against Australia was 1 series in 2008 and 2012-13.
The longest unbeaten streak for West Indies against Australia was 2 series from 2011-12 to present.
The most consecutive winning streak for Australia against West Indies was 1 series in 2009-10.
The longest unbeaten streak for Australia against West Indies was 2 series from 2009-10 to 2012-13.
Last 5 (completed) series results of West Indies against Australia are WDLW -.
The most consecutive winning streak for West Indies against Australia was 5 T20I from 2012 to present.
The longest unbeaten streak for West Indies against Australia was 5 T20I from 2012 to present.
The most consecutive winning streak for Australia against West Indies was 4 T20Is from 2010 to 2012.
The longest unbeaten streak for Australia against West Indies was 4 T20Is from 2010 to 2012.
Last 5 (completed) match results of West Indies against Australia are WWWWW.
West Indies Backyard:
When touring West Indies by Australia, the teams met to play bilateral series just twice, in which, the home side won once and the second one concluded as a draw, the visiting team is still searching for the first series win.
The longest streak without a draw between the teams is 1 series in 2008.
The most consecutive winning streak for West Indies against Australia was 1 series in 2008.
The longest unbeaten streak for West Indies against Australia was 2 series from 2008 to present.
The most consecutive winning streak for Australia against West Indies was 0 series, till date.
The longest unbeaten streak for Australia against West Indies was 1 series from 2011-12 to present.
Last 5 (completed) series results of West Indies against Australia in West Indies are DW – – -.
On the soil of West Indies, the teams faced each other 6 times. Out of them, West Indies won 4 times and lost twice.
The most consecutive winning streak for West Indies against Australia was 3 T20Is from 2012 to present.
The longest unbeaten streak for West Indies against Australia was 3 T20Is from 2012 to present.
Last 5 (completed) match results of West Indies against Australia in West Indies are WWWLL.
West Indies vs Australia T20I series 2021 – 2nd T20I
The series is the comparison between the eighth rank (West Indies) and fifth rank (Australia) team. The host is 20 points behind the visitors.
Last 5 (completed) match results of West Indies are WWLWL.
Last 5 (completed) match results of Australia are LLLWW.
The result of the match will impact the team's points, as if the result will go in favor of the host then both the team will earn 3 points and stay in the eighth position, whereas the opponent will lose 2 points without impacting the position. On the other hand, in case of a reverse result, the visitors will gain 1 point and no improvement in rankings, and the host will lose 1 point without impact in the position.
Weather forecast of St. Lucia shows the weather would be partly cloudy throughout the match. There is a very less chance of rain, as the precipitation percentage would be between 5% to 23%. The temperature would be 27 Celsius. The wind would be between 28 – 30 km/h. The wind would decrease gradually and the temperature would steady throughout the match.
Team preferred to bat first after winning the toss in 9 games out of 14 played games, and the selection didn't favor the team, as the teams won 4 times and lost 5 times.
Last 5 (completed) match results at the venue, when the team chose to bat first, are LWLLL.
On the other hand, the teams, who chose to field first, won thrice and lost thrice, as well.
Last 5 (completed) match results at the venue, when the team chose to field first, are LLWWL.
Last 5 (completed) match results at the venue, while winning the toss, are LLWLW.
Particularly, for West Indies, the team won the toss thrice in 6 games and the team won once and lost twice.
Last 5 (completed) match results of West Indies at the venue, while winning the toss, are LWL – -.
Last 5 (completed) match results of West Indies at the venue, while losing the toss, are WWL – -.
The first batting team won the match 7 times. Whereas, the teams, who batted second, won the match 8 times.
Last 5 (completed) match results at the venue, while the team bat first, are WWLLW.
The first innings lowest total was 105 runs in 2010 and the highest total was 196 runs in 2021. For the second innings, the lowest total was 127 runs (completed innings) in 2021 and the highest was 197 runs in 2010.
Both the teams faced each other 4 times at the venue. The home side won twice and the visiting team won twice, as well.
Last 5 (completed) match results of West Indies against Australia at the venue are WWLL -.
The home side has an average record at the venue, and the team won thrice and lost also thrice. Whereas, the visiting team has an extremely good record, as the team won 4 encounters and lost twice.
Last 5 (completed) match results of West Indies at the venue are WWLLW.
Last 5 (completed) match results of Australia at the venue are LLWWW.
The home side may go with a (1) forced change of F. Edwards and O. McCoy may get the place.
West Indies Eleven: L. Simmons, A. Fletcher, C. Gayle, S. Hetmyer, D. Bravo, A. Russell, N. Pooran, F. Allen, O. McCoy, S. Cottrell, H. Walsh
The visiting team may go with J. Behrendorff in place of M. Starc and A. Turner in place of B. McDermott.
Australia Eleven: A. Finch, M. Wade, M. Marsh, M. Henriques, A. Turner, J. Philippe, D. Christian, A. Agar, J. Behrendorff, A. Zampa, J. Hazlewood
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#define FPP_PPB_TCP_SOCKET_H

#include <ppapi/c/private/ppb_tcp_socket_private.h>

PP_Resource
ppb_tcp_socket_create(PP_Instance instance);

PP_Bool
ppb_tcp_socket_is_tcp_socket(PP_Resource resource);

int32_t
ppb_tcp_socket_connect(PP_Resource tcp_socket, const char *host, uint16_t port,
                       struct PP_CompletionCallback callback);

int32_t
ppb_tcp_socket_connect_with_net_address(PP_Resource tcp_socket,
                                        const struct PP_NetAddress_Private *addr,
                                        struct PP_CompletionCallback callback);

PP_Bool
ppb_tcp_socket_get_local_address(PP_Resource tcp_socket,
                                 struct PP_NetAddress_Private *local_addr);

PP_Bool
ppb_tcp_socket_get_remote_address(PP_Resource tcp_socket,
                                  struct PP_NetAddress_Private *remote_addr);

int32_t
ppb_tcp_socket_ssl_handshake(PP_Resource tcp_socket, const char *server_name, uint16_t server_port,
                             struct PP_CompletionCallback callback);

PP_Resource
ppb_tcp_socket_get_server_certificate(PP_Resource tcp_socket);

PP_Bool
ppb_tcp_socket_add_chain_building_certificate(PP_Resource tcp_socket, PP_Resource certificate,
                                              PP_Bool is_trusted);

int32_t
ppb_tcp_socket_read(PP_Resource tcp_socket, char *buffer, int32_t bytes_to_read,
                    struct PP_CompletionCallback callback);

int32_t
ppb_tcp_socket_write(PP_Resource tcp_socket, const char *buffer, int32_t bytes_to_write,
                     struct PP_CompletionCallback callback);

void
ppb_tcp_socket_disconnect(PP_Resource tcp_socket);

int32_t
ppb_tcp_socket_set_option(PP_Resource tcp_socket, PP_TCPSocketOption_Private name,
                          struct PP_Var value, struct PP_CompletionCallback callback);

#endif // FPP_PPB_TCP_SOCKET_H

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Solicitor to therapist to online course creator
Kate Thorpe
Line of Work
Therapist specialising in treating anxiety and depression
katethorpe.com
Kate's Gifts
I help you beat stress and anxiety for life! I support you therapeutically, experientially, and practically to stop feelings of overwhelm, fear, and lack of confidence, so you can regain control over your life. I offer bespoke 121 talking therapy, life-transforming programmes like "Beat Stress For Life" for groups or individuals, or DIY self-help programmes like "Sleep Well for Life" to help you with a specific issue.
Key outcomes
Kate no longer feels held up by other people's timetables. If she has an idea, whether it be for an online course or something as simple as a new email signup, she has the knowledge and tools to implement those ideas immediately, herself, on her site.
With a more complete understanding of what it takes to build a new offering and market it using her website as the foundation, Kate sees limitless possibilities in her business. She has the freedom and flexibility to respond to the needs of her clients and the confidence to follow through on new ideas.
Now that she can implement her ideas on the site with ease, Kate is building new income streams. She is creating courses that will help many more clients than she could possibly see one-on-one, all the while generating income for her business. Kate is thrilled by the possibility of being able to help even more people this way. The tools she learned and the site she built with Vicky are the centerpiece of every new offering she creates.
"I met Vicky online through a coaching program and I found her advice and help really spot on. I'm a technophobe, so it really helped to have someone who was patient and kind, and who could explain things in words of one syllable and demo things for me as well, taking me through step-by-step.
Vicky has been a part of my journey really almost since I began it."
When I started there was a great emotional feeling of, 'Oh my gosh, I can't do this.' I had a lot of fear and self-doubt because I'm not naturally gifted with technology. But that was overcome because of the way Vicky works.
She breaks things down so easily into bite sized chunks. You're not overwhelmed, you do it bit by bit, and she anticipates your questions, which is really helpful.
She knows what troubles you're likely to have because she has worked with so many people and has done this for such a long time. She's really intuitive in that way. That was so helpful for me in overcoming those challenges, because for me they were huge."
After working as a corporate solicitor for 20 years, Kate is in her fifth year as a therapist specialising in treating anxiety and depression.
When she became self-employed, she realised there was so much she didn't know.
Fortunately, she has been working with Vicky for almost the entire time she has been running her own business.
When Kate started her therapy practice, she hired someone to build a website that suited the needs of her business at the time.
However, it did not take long for her business to evolve and she became frustrated by how quickly the site was out of date.
She wished she had more direct control over maintaining and editing the website, as the developers who built it did not educate her on how to add text or create new pages.
In fact, when she contacted the developers to make updates, she was given numerous reasons why the site couldn't be changed.
Kate, a self-described "control-freak", wanted something different. She wanted the freedom to have her website, her cyber-expression, reflect who she is today, not who she was two years ago.
With a business that's constantly growing and changing, Kate needed to learn how to do this herself.
Kate also realised there was so much she didn't know about attracting clients and building a business.
She was looking for more than help building a website, she needed someone who understood how the website fit into the larger picture of building a new business.
Having worked with Vicky before, it was a no brainer for Kate to sign up to Vicky's course.
She knew she would have lots of questions and wanted to work with someone who could simplify the technical concepts.
She also already knew that Vicky was endlessly patient and warm, which was the kind of mentor Kate needed to feel comfortable with topics that felt out of her league.
It was important to Kate to have control over her website, and the technical understanding to keep it fresh and updated as her business grew.
She also wanted a professional looking website that would invite prospective clients to click around and learn more about her many offerings. After completing Rock That Website, Kate had both.
During the course, Kate also learned how to express herself engagingly in a way that felt natural, not spammy or overly slick.
Her newfound technical prowess and increased ability to communicate authentically in her website copy gave Kate confidence in her business and herself that she hadn't felt before.
It felt like Everest at first, but now I look back and think 'I got to climb that'."
Rock That Website is for anyone who does not feel confident with technology and needs an accessible way to learn it.
If you want to build a dynamic, living, breathing website that really reflects who you are and what your business does day to day, and need to find an inviting place to learn without feeling like you're asking too much, this is the course for you.
If you want to accelerate your own website journey, side-step all the tech meltdowns, and create your own client-attracting website from scratch, join my Rock That Website. You'll get a proven step-by-step roadmap to build your own successful site with confidence.


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by Tony Khing / San Jose Sharks
In professional sports, there are two kinds of teams – those who wish for things to happen and those who make things happen.
While the 2010-11 season for the San Jose Sharks ended with a dose of bad luck in the form of a crazy carom off the glass and a bouncing puck with eyes, that moment in Game 5 of the Western Conference Final vs. Vancouver won't discount what the Sharks accomplished.
Especially in how they reached the conference final for the second straight year and won their fourth consecutive Pacific Division Championship. The Sharks maintained their stature as one of the National Hockey League's elite teams the old-fashioned way: they earned it.
Over the previous two seasons, the Sharks would start by being one of the League's dominant clubs. In their first 45 games of 2008-09, they were 34-6-5 and went on to capture the Presidents' Trophy for having the best overall regular season record, but were eliminated in the quarterfinals. In 2009-10, the Sharks were 28-10-7 after the first 45. They'd finish first in the Western Conference and reach the conference final.
But this year, the situation was different. After that benchmark game No. 45, the Sharks were 21-19-5 and had lost their season-low sixth straight at home to Edmonton, a team that hadn't been in the Stanley Cup Playoffs for five years.
Vancouver Canucks' Alex Burrows, center, tries to get a shot past San Jose Sharks' goaltender Antti Niemi, of Finland, and Dan Boyle during the second period of Game 5 of NHL hockey Stanley Cup playoffs Western Conference finals Tuesday, May 24, 2011, in Vancouver, British Columbia. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Jonathan Hayward)
"It's not pretty when you watch the board and you're out of the playoffs," defenseman Dan Boyle said around that time.
But two days later, on Jan. 15, the Sharks started a run that would see them win nine of their next 10 games. From mid-January to the end of the season, San Jose went 27-6-4. Along the way, the Sharks would tell the hockey world that this Sharks club wouldn't be like their predecessors of the previous two seasons.
The road to San Jose's second straight Western Conference Final really began the day after the Edmonton loss. On Jan. 14, the Sharks had a practice at their training facility. Instead of beginning the session with the basic shooting, passing and skating drills, Coach Todd McLellan used the first 45 minutes to go over their system, first on a white board in front of the player benches and then at center ice.
"We walked through a lot of things, what we believe we do well and what we believe we have to do well to be successful," McLellan said after that grease board/ice session. "I thought it was therapeutic and healthy for our club."
"It was really just talking about our game, redefining our game. What do we do, what do we do well, what do we need to do to succeed," Douglas Murray said then, "so there's no gray areas or question marks any more."
Obviously what was said worked. So what happened?
For starters, improved defense. Look at some of the plus/minus numbers. For instance, Patrick Marleau "led" the Sharks with a minus-19. Not too far behind him were Joe Thornton (minus-14), Boyle and Devin Setoguchi each had a minus-13, Joe Pavelski and Niclas Wallin were each minus-12 and Marc-Edouard Vlasic was a minus-8.
By the end of the season, Marleau whittled his number to a minus-3. Boyle (plus-2), Setoguchi (minus-2), Pavelski (plus-10), Wallin (even) and Vlasic (whose plus-14 led the Sharks) made significant improvements.
San Jose Sharks' Dan Boyle, right, celebrates a goal with teammates Joe Thornton, center, and Devin Setoguchi, left, against the Vancouver Canucks during the second period of Game 5 of NHL hockey Stanley Cup playoffs Western Conference finals Tuesday, May 24, 2011, in Vancouver, British Columbia. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Jonathan Hayward)
Yet one of the biggest changes came from Thornton. He ended the season with a plus-4, but an even more impressive number was his takeaways. The man known more for being among the NHL leaders in assists and points paced the League with 114.
"It's the best I've ever seen Joe Thornton play," Sharks Executive Vice President and General Manager Doug Wilson said before the playoffs began. "And all of our top players have committed in similar fashion."
"The forwards have done a great job of being more responsible defensively," Boyle said in late January. "That's also created a little more offensively."
The commitment to defense was reflective in the play of goaltender Antti Niemi, who was signed as a free agent after leading Chicago to last year's Stanley Cup Championship.
After the loss to Edmonton, Niemi was 9-13-2, had two shutouts, a save percentage of .907 and a goals-against average of 2.85. But from that point on, Niemi was spectacular. He started 34 consecutive games from Jan. 15 through April 4, in part because of his play and due to an injury to Antero Niittymaki, who had been splitting the netminding duties with Niemi. Over those games, Niemi was 25-4-4 (with one no-decision) with a GAA of 2.05, recorded four shutouts and a save percentage of .929.
Vancouver Canucks' Kevin Bieksa skates past San Jose Sharks' goaltender Antti Niemi, of Finland, after scoring the game winning goal during the second overtime period of game 5 of NHL Western Conference final Stanley Cup playoff hockey action Tuesday, May 24, 2011, in Vancouver, British Columbia. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Jonathan Hayward)
Niemi's performance earned him honors as the Sharks Foundation "Sharks Player of the Year" as well as a four-year contract extension.
"You can do two things as a team," McLellan said after Niemi signed his extension. "You can play with a goaltender or for a goaltender. This is a goalie who a team plays for."
Another reason was making some prudent acquisitions. As the Sharks were in their slide, player trade rumors were flying throughout the hockey world. "If we hadn't started going in the right direction," Wilson said, "we might have been more active and not for the right reasons."
But as the Sharks started to trend upwards, Wilson thought the best thing was just to add to the team's depth. On Jan. 18, as the team was starting its winning ways, San Jose acquired left wing Ben Eager from Atlanta and signed center Kyle Wellwood off waivers from St. Louis.
Eager was Niemi's teammate on Chicago's 2010 Stanley Cup Champion team. His acquisition brought more grit and experience to San Jose's fourth line. Wellwood became part of the Sharks No. 3 line with Torrey Mitchell and Pavelski. His passing skills and on-ice sense resulted in key goals for the Sharks.
San Jose also got a big boost with the play of Calder Memorial Trophy finalist Logan Couture. The 22-year-old center was second amongst rookies in goals (32) and points (56). Couture's play earned him a spot on the No. 2 line with veterans Ryane Clowe and Dany Heatley.
Those two acquisitions and Couture bolstered the forward lines. Besides, how many teams could say that a 20-goal scorer and an Olympian (Pavelski) was centering the third line?
"Up front," Clowe said, "this is the deepest team we've had."
The third acquisition filled a void that had been missing since defenseman Rob Blake retired. On Feb. 18, Ian White came to San Jose from Carolina. White, who started the season with Calgary, has probably found a home with the Sharks. His puck handling and offensive skills took a load off Boyle, who had been the team's primary offensive defenseman.
White's value showed in the first two rounds of this year's playoffs. He ended his postseason tied for third in scoring amongst defensemen with nine points (eight assists).
Yet perhaps the biggest thing to come out of the 2010-11 season for the San Jose Sharks wasn't the improved defense, Thornton's League-leading takeaway numbers, Niemi's stellar second-half performance or the minor tweaks on the roster. It's probably knowing that there's more to winning which has to be practiced daily through hard work and perseverance.
"Because of our talent level, over the years we've won too easily in the regular season," Murray said. "We got away playing only 20 minutes and winning. But this year, we couldn't do that. The best thing that happened for us this year is the fact we had to earn victories a lot more."
And the Sharks will take that lesson into the offseason as they get ready to make things happen in 2011-12.
Sharks players have today off. They will meet one last time tomorrow at Sharks Ice at San Jose. Please visit sjsharks.com for news and interviews coming out of tomorrow's final meeting.
STATS AND THINGS FROM 2010-11
OVERALL RECORD: 48-25-9, first in Pacific Division, second in Western Conference
GOALS: Patrick Marleau, 37
ASSISTS: Joe Thornton, 49
POINTS: Patrick Marleau, 73
PIM: Jamal Mayers, 124
POWER PLAY GOALS: Marleau and Dany Heatley, 11
SHORTHANDED GOALS: Thornton and Marleau, 2
GAME-WINNING GOALS: Marleau, 9
PLUS/MINUS: Jason Demers, plus-19
SHOTS: Joe Pavelski, 282
GAMES PLAYED: Antti Niemi, 60
MINUTES: Niemi, 3,524
WINS: Niemi, 35
SHUTOUTS, Niemi, 6
GOALS-AGAINST AVERAGE: Niemi, 2.38
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Hospitals at Risk: Delivering Value in a Changing Landscape
What has to happen is to bring staff into a conversation about efficiency and cost savings.
Blog Healthcare
It bears repeating: community hospitals matter. Whether it is delivering babies, dealing with acute illness or serving on the front lines of public health surveillance, community hospitals are there for millions of people in the US. Community hospitals are also the engines of local economies, providing quality employment in the communities they serve.
But we know that this mission is at risk. When the hospital payment system changed to diagnosis-related groups (or DRGs) in the 1980's, hundreds of hospitals were not able to survive and closed their doors. And now, with Medicare reimbursements declining as the number of Medicare beneficiaries increases, hundreds of more hospitals are now at risk today.
Big or small, all hospitals are required to do more with less. Economies of scale may favor the largest hospitals and systems, but all are looking at the primary drivers of cost: labor and supplies. Immediate initiatives often include staff reductions and alliances with Group Purchasing Organizations (GPOs). After that, a close look at pharmacy costs is warranted and eventually, there is a close review of all supplier contracts as opportunities to simplify and maximize value come into play.
After all that is complete, profitability is still in the single digits and remains on a downward trajectory as reimbursements decline. As we have all heard, "no margin, no mission." And all of that must be done by ensuring high-quality clinical care and good patient experience.
Click on the image to download a full-size infographic on the risk to community hospitals
That's not a job that can be owned by consultants. It requires the commitment of the hospital team, unified to meet the mission to the community. After optimization of staffing levels, renegotiation and scrutinization of contracts, the hospital team has to be united and engaged in creating a high performing system. The front-line staff knows where improvements can be made and will have visibility and perspective into the business that leadership can only see the faint outlines of.
In many hospitals, most of the obvious cost cuts have already been made and in many cases, staff can feel overwhelmed and less engaged. What has to happen is to bring staff into a conversation about efficiency and cost savings. Done with care, the potential value is unlocked, and employees are re-energized at the same time.
And when operations are optimized, hospitals and systems can start to focus on the next part of the journey: new models of care, value-based contracts, and a shift to a more rewarding approach to care for patients, payers and providers.
Sense Corp has been a partner to all stakeholders in this journey for 20 years. From aligning data to aligning teams, we're here to see your organization succeed in the future.


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Q: Python SQL like query in Python dictionary, WHERE clause I am wondering if we can use where clause to query Python dictionary, an example as below:
myDict={"tradeId": (123,456,789,988,765,432),
"side":("B","S","B","S","S","S"),
"price": (100,123,111,222,333,444)}

I want to know the price of tradeId 432 which should return 444
I know we can do this is pandas data frame.

A: You can do it this way, but a dict is entirely the wrong data structure.
This looks for 432 in the value of key "tradeId" and fetches the corresponding element of the value of key "price":
>>> myDict["price"][myDict["tradeId"].index(432)]
444

A: You can't make SQL like queries out of the box.
But what you showed us can basically be written as a table.
Use pandas to transform it to a DataFrame then query the line.
*Note that you have one price more than tradeids and sides which makes the following not working. I removed the first price.
import pandas as pd

myDict={"tradeId": (123,456,789,988,765,432),
"side":("B","S","B","S","S","S"),
"price": (123,111,222,333,444,555)}

df = pd.DataFrame(myDict)

price = int(df[df["tradeId"] == 432]["price"])

price will be 555 and your dataframe df looks like this:
   price    side    tradeId
0   123     B   123
1   111     S   456
2   222     B   789
3   333     S   988
4   444     S   765
5   555     S   432

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