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JESSE EPSTEIN. PHOTO BY: RICHARD KOEK
Jesse Epstein
Jesse Epstein remembers exactly when her life changed. "It was before my grandmother died," Epstein recalls. "She said, 'Look, you could either inherit $500, or I can spend it now and get you a camera.' It totally changed everything."
For most of her life Epstein has been fascinated by the perception of beauty. Growing up in Boston, she moved to Mozambique for two years, where full-figured looks are celebrated. Moving back to the U.S., where the media promotes a punishing standard of beauty on women, Epstein enrolled in NYU Film School and decided to explore different issues surrounding body image.
For Wet Dreams and False Images, Epstein's thesis, which went on to win the Sundance Online Jury Award in '04, she filmed men in a Brooklyn barbershop who adore the glossy magazine pinups of J. Lo and Beyoncé hanging on their walls. But in a clever twist Epstein takes the same images to a touch-up artist who reveals their heavy amount of airbrushing and tweaking. Next came The Guarantee, a funny look at a male ballet dancer's decision to have plastic surgery told through the drawings of a sketch artist, and, this past year, 34x25x36, a visit to a company that makes unrealistically perfect mannequins. "What I love about short films is you can get in there, raise some questions, tell a little story and get out, leaving it all open for discussion," Epstein says.
With financing from the Chicken and Egg Fund, she's currently compiling the shorts into a feature film about body image. There will be one more short comparing a California girl who tans with a girl in India who bleaches her skin. "Body image is such a huge topic," Epstein says, "and I'm trying to raise the discussion through different styles and different cultural definitions of what's attractive."
Before getting financing, Epstein found money to make her shorts through being an instructor at Sundance's Reel Stories youth program for three years, as well as working in the art department, acting and being a cinematographer (she shot Astra Taylor's Zizek!) on other independent features. She's also involved in the filmmakers network Shooting People. Though Epstein is working on a narrative feature, she still loves to just pick up her camera and shoot everyday people. "A lot of times people come up with something that I could never think of," she says. "I love the exchange between the person being filmed and the filmmaker — the camera makes them feel special." — Jason Guerrasio
Contact: jesse'àt'shootingpeople.org;
newday.com/filmmakers/jesse_epstein.html
ANDREW OKPEAHA MACLEAN. PHOTO BY: ROB MEYER
Andrew Okpeaha MacLean
Growing up in Barrow, Alaska, Andrew Okpeaha MacLean imagined the frozen Arctic Ocean outside his window as his own Wild West. But instead of riding on horseback he rode on dog sleds, and instead of a wearing a cowboy hat he wore a hood.
Now McLean's imagination has come to life with Sikumi, which was awarded Best Short at Sundance '08. Beautifully shot by 25 New Faces alum Cary Fukunaga, the story is set atop the frozen Arctic Ocean where Apuna, an Inuit hunter, finds himself witness to a murder between two people he knows and is then faced with the difficult decision of whether to honor his dead friend or protect the fate of the other. "A lot of what Westerns are about is morality," McLean says. "People who are faced with these choices outside the bounds of society. So I went with that as inspiration and really tried to examine the choices these individuals are making, but in the culture as Inupiat men."
In making the first film ever told in the Inupiat language, MacLean, 36, felt a duty to shoot in his homeland. He also couldn't resist filming where a beautiful sunset can last through most of the film. Shot in the time of year when there's sunlight for close to a day, he says a pinkish horizon can literally last for hours. But there were also negatives. Over the five-day shoot the temperature would range between -5 and -20 degrees and though the ice was too thick for anyone to worry about falling through, there was always the fear of polar bears. MacLean admits he wasn't too concerned about bodily harm — he just hoped his footage would survive the weather. "We shot on 35mm with anamorphic lenses and the biggest thing was to let the film warm up to room temperature really, really slowly when the day was over in order to keep water from condensing onto it," he says. "We would put it out near the entrance of the garage and through time gradually brought it inside."
Now Sikumi is playing the festival circuit and MacLean is in the works on a feature script loosely based on the short. Currently living in New York City, he returns to Alaska a couple of times a year where he's cofounder of the Inupiat Theatre in Barrow, something that keeps him in touch with his heritage. "We are the first generation not to learn to speak the Inupiat language so we put on shows that are translated from English to Inupiat. It's a big hole in our lives and something we feel responsible to correct." You can include his films as part of that healing. — J.G.
Contact: Craig Kestel at William Morris: (310) 859-4580
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TARIQ TAPA. PHOTO BY: WINSTON CUTSHALL
Tariq Tapa
"Everything I used to make this movie, from soup to nuts, fit in one little backpack," says Tariq Tapa, whose Zero Bridge, a neorealist tale of unexpected friendship and moral complication set in the Indian-occupied city of Srinagar, Kashmir, is set to explode on the festival circuit this year. Tapa, who not only directed this first feature but shot, edited and recorded sound for it, says he wish he'd had one extra crew member, but "financial and logistically, it wasn't possible. Also, I didn't know what would come up in [Kashmir], and I didn't want anything to happen [to the crew member] and have it on my conscience."
Tapa was born in New York City to a Kashmiri Muslim father and American Jewish mother. "I spent every summer and extended vacations [in Kashmir] with my father's side of the family," he says. "But when the war began in '89, I didn't see them in a decade. When I went back in 2002, my cousins and I had grown apart. I thought it would be interesting to make a movie because no one knows about daily life in Kashmir, and it was also a way for me to reconnect with my family and heritage."
The L.A.-based Tapa, who graduated from CalArts and whose short films have screened at the Centre Pompidou and the Museum of Modern Art, received a Fulbright Scholarship to travel to Kashmir and make Zero Bridge. The film tells the story of a teenage pickpocket, Dilawar, who plans to escape from both Kashmir and his strict uncle but whose plans are complicated when he forms a bond with a woman whose passport he has stolen. Tapa says that his first job when arriving in Srinagar was to convince the community there that he "was on their side." He says, "Tempers could flare very quickly because of cultural and political issues [having to do with] traditional and conservative Muslim. We were often mistaken for doing something illicit. Or, they didn't understand the kind of movie we were making. They'd say, 'Where are all the tiger and the dancing women?' I'd say, 'Well, it's a story about people's lives,' but the concept of this kind of movie doesn't exist over there." In order to teach the community, including the non-actors who star in the film, about his kind of filmmaking, Tapa showed them DVDs of such movies as Tree of Wooden Clogs, The Bicycle Thief, and Il Posto.
After surviving production — "We were constantly getting interrupted; there'd be a car bomb, or a policeman nearby would get shot," he remembers — and a lengthy postproduction process that included 93 separate cuts, Tapa, who also attended the IFP Rough Cut Lab in 2008, now expects to premiere his film at one of this season's top festivals. He's also preparing two more features: Young Offender, which he'll shoot in Texas, and then, in 2010, another picture to be shot in Srinagar. He says he will "absolutely preserve the same level of intimacy in production [as the no-crew Zero Bridge]... but I would really like to bring along one or two other crew members." — Scott Macaulay
Contact: tariq_tapa'àt'zerobridgefilm.com
JOSHUA SAFDIE. PHOTO BY: RICHARD KOEK
Joshua Safdie
For Joshua Safdie, the roots of his filmmaking lie in his childhood, but not in the way that you'd expect. He says he doesn't remember much before the age of 10, let alone movies, but lately he's been reacquainting himself with those years. His dad, who raised him and his brother in both Paris and New York City, was a compulsive home moviemaker. "He bought this camera and filmed my brother and me all the time," says Safdie. "He just gave me some of [these films] for the first time, and they are really beautiful. For example, he'd be filming our birthday party and he'd move the camera to follow this girl who is looking sad and holding a balloon. He would film my brother and I sleeping a lot — all these mundane moments — and we'd wonder, 'Why are you filming this?' That's where filmmaking comes from for me — it's a place to learn from and a place to escape to. It's become a place of introspection for my father and now for me."
The whiff of rituals remembered from childhood — car rides, trips to the zoo, an afternoon in the park — become peculiarly resonant moments in Safdie's filmmaking. The young director has been steadily crafting a unique voice in shorts like We're Going to the Zoo and I Think I'm Missing Parts, but with his first feature, The Pleasure of Being Robbed, "accidentally" made when his 40-page script clocked in at 72 minutes, Safdie has been discovered. The film premiered at SXSW and then traveled to Cannes where it was the closing night film of the Director's Fortnight.
The Pleasure of Being Robbed is the lithe and lovely tale of Eleonore (played by the hypnotic Eleonore Hendricks), a young woman who lives life entirely in the moment, viewing the world around her as if it's a toy shop full of the most curious playthings. We watch as she absconds with all matter of objects — a purse, a set of keys, a bag of kittens, a car — and uses them to kick-start a series of experiential explorations that include a romance with a smitten young man played by Safdie himself.
"The whole idea of using film to recreate an emotion you once felt, almost like a documentary, is really interesting to me," says Safdie. The Pleasure of Being Robbed will be released by IFC this October. That's around the time Safdie will go to work on his new film, which he'll co-direct with his brother Benny and which will star Frownland director Ronald Bronstein as a single dad. — S.M.
Contact: redbucketfilms.com
RYAN BILSBORROW-KOO & ZACHARY LIEBERMAN. PHOTO BY: RICHARD KOEK
Ryan Bilsborrow-Koo & Zachary Lieberman
The first shot of the first episode of The West Side perfectly sums up the aesthetic of this striking Web serial. It's a wide shot of the exterior of a city funeral home, and as the wind whistles on the soundtrack, a plastic bag — a piece of urban detritus — dances like a tumbleweed across the screen. Called an "urban Western" by its creators, Ryan Bilsborrow-Koo and Zachary Lieberman, The West Side is ingenious low-budget independent filmmaking that just happens to be viewable only on the Web. Set in an alternate universe where a traditional tale of frontier justice plays out against a depopulated urban landscape (one that looks an awful lot like the rougher neighborhoods of New York City), The West Side recently won a Webby Award for Best Drama Series of 2008 and seems poised to bring greater attention to its resourceful and talented creators.
Of their decision to create a work for the Web, Bilsborrow-Koo says, "Zach and I had some student films play at festivals, and the audiences weren't large. Once the Internet came along we realized it was a way to very easily get eyeballs on our stuff." The director says that the idea of grafting a literal Western, complete with bad guys in dusters, onto an urban setting sprang from a college thesis paper. "Zach and I saw similarities between the Western film and the hip-hop of today," he says. "We thought, 'What if we combined the two genres and set it in an alternate universe?'" Continues Lieberman, "The urban part of it was almost a necessity — we knew we wouldn't be able to build sets." Indeed, the desolate urban backdrop, in which wide avenues are devoid of passers-by, is one of The West Side's most eye-popping elements. "We spend a lot of time location scouting," Bilsborrow-Koo admits, noting that the duo only received official shooting permits for their most recent episode. "And as we have had the need for larger set pieces and wider shots, we have moved from Harlem to industrial neighborhoods in Brooklyn. We also use visual effects to erase people and signs in the background. We hope it looks effortless, but it hasn't been easy."
Bilsborrow-Koo and Lieberman shoot The West Side with a DVX100 24p high-definition camera with a 35mm adapter and old SLR lenses, giving it a polished, stylized look that does indeed set it apart from most other Web video. The other thing that distinguishes it is its deliberate production schedule. There are 12 scripted episodes, of which just four have been finished in about 15 months. The filmmakers have resisted the urge to "go viral" and have controlled the viewing experience by making The West Side available only on their own site. Explains Lieberman, "Ryan and I both work 40-hour weeks at MTV [where Lieberman is a producer and Bilsborrow-Koo a graphic designer]. So, we are doing this on nights and weekends. From the very beginning, we told our audience on our blog that we aren't going for the most views, we're just trying to create a quality story. And if we are going to take eight weeks [to complete an episode], we may as well take 10 to get it right." — S.M.
Contact: info'àt'exitstrategy.tv;
Jon Zimelis at UTA: (310)-776-8223
thewestside.tv
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Bernardus Blok, né le  à Makassar et mort le  à Alkmaar, est un homme politique néerlandais.

Biographie
Blok est issu d'une famille régente de Hollande ; son père était gouverneur de la colonie néerlandaise de Sulawesi puis bourgmestre d'Enkhuizen, en Hollande. Bernardus Blok devient avocat à Enkhuizen en 1775. Il participe à la Révolution batave et devient secrétaire de la commission des finances de la Hollande du nord à Hoorn en . Le , il intègre le comité patriote d'Amsterdam, avec Pieter Paulus et huit autres personnes. Son domicile à Hoorn est saccagé le  lors d'une révolte orangiste le . Lors de la répression prussienne en , Blok s'enfuit à Bruxelles avec  puisé dans les  dont il avait la charge.

Banni de Hollande, Zélande et Frise occidentale, il s'exile ensuite à Gravelines où il monte une entreprise de pêche au hareng qui emploie de nombreux patriotes exilés dans le nord de la France. Il s'y montre un partisan de Johan Valckenaer.

Le , il accompagne l'armée française commandée par Dumouriez qui occupe Bréda et anime le comité révolutionnaire de la ville. Toutefois, les Français sont peu après contraints d'évacuer Bréda après la défaite de Dumouriez à Neerwinden ; Block rentre alors en France. Les patriotes De Kock, Van Hooff, Schilge, Probsteg et Blok sont accusés d'être liés à la trahison de Dumouriez, le  par le Comité de salut public. De Kock est guillotiné avec les hébertistes le . Blok est jeté en prison et y reste jusqu'à la fin de 1794.

Blok rentre en Hollande en , après la mise en place de la République batave. Il siège aux assemblées provisoires de Enkhuizen et de Hollande. Il est élu député d'Enkhuizen à la première assemblée nationale batave le . Unitariste modéré, il s'est parfois opposés aux propositions radicales de Pieter Vreede ou Johan Valckenaer. À l'assemblée, qu'il préside du 17 au , il siège au comité des Colonies ; il a notamment proposé l'abolition de l'esclavage mais la proposition a été rejetée. Après le rejet du projet constitutionnel par référendum le , Blok n'est pas réélu à l'assemblée.

Il se retire à Enkhuizen et devient commissaire des douanes à Hoorn. En 1805, il est envoyé à Curaçao comme agent des impôts. En 1808, il devient secrétaire de Daendels nommé gouverneur général de Batavia. Il rentre en Europe en 1811 et devient juge au tribunal d'Alkmaar.

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Député de l'Assemblée nationale batave
Naissance en avril 1753
Décès en juillet 1818
Décès à 65 ans
Décès à Alkmaar
Naissance à Célèbes

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There's no better stock front brake setup than what's found on the KTM and Husqvarna motocross line-up.
The 4CS forks have some setup issues, but they are a big improvement over the last decade's WP bladder forks.
2015 Yamaha YZ450F's phenomenal 58. 22 horsepower.
Q: WHAT CHANGES DID THE MXA WRECKING CREW MAKE TO THE 2015 HUSQVARNA FC450?
A: Here is a list of things that we changed.
Airbox cover. We Swiss-cheesed it.
Preload ring. When we eventually have the shock oil changed, we will install a metal preload ring.
Shift lever. We placed the Husqvarna shift lever in a bench press and bowed the middle of the shift lever to raise the tip.
Air-filter cage. Never install the air filter without double-checking to make sure that the back side is sealed.
Radiator cap. We run the radiator cap from the Husqvarna two-stroke (you can recognize it from its brass center). It is bulletproof; the four-stroke cap not so much.
Steering-stem nut. We run a Works Connection nut because it has a hole in the center that allows the gas-cap vent hose to spin freely.
Rear sprocket bolts. Never ride your Husqvarna or KTM without checking the rear sprocket bolts.
Spokes. Always check the spoke next to the rear rim lock; there is a 50/50 chance that it will be loose.
(1) All the things above. We don't hate them with a passion, but we hate them enough to change them.
( 2) Seat cover. It looks grippy, but it's really slippy.
( 3) Fork guards. We loved the old wraparound fork guards. They were a hassle to remove, but they protected the back of the fork legs from rock dings. The new fork guards look cool but aren't as functional.
( 4) Rear fender. Do not, under any circumstances, pick the Husqvarna FC450 up by its rear fender. It will break if you do. Use the built-in handholds.
(1) Tires. The FC450 is spec'ed with Dunlop's new MX52 tire combo. Even though MXA typically runs Dunlop MX32s on intermediate terrain, the hard-pack MX52 is a good OEM tire choice.
( 2) 4CS forks. Okay, they aren't the greatest forks on the track in 2015, but we admire KTM for upping its game.
( 3) Fork adjusters. No need for a screwdriver or to kneel in the dirt to adjust the damping. The clickers are right in front of you.
( 4) Electric starting. Kick no more.
( 5) Hydraulic clutch. This is the longest-lasting clutch in motocross.
( 6) Brakes. Honda and Kawasaki tried to close the gap by going bigger in 2015, but the KTM/Husky Brembo combination is still the best.
( 7) Shifting. The best-shifting transmission in motocross. No missed shifts. No false neutrals. No mystery shifts, and no refusing to budge at high rpm.


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Q: How often the WSDL URL should be read? Just once to get the address location and use it forever?
Every time a call is made?
Or some time in between?

A: *

*The only purpose of the WSDL URL is to return the WSDL that describes the current service.

*The only reason to ever read it is if the reader does not have the WSDL that describes the current service.

*The only time a reader would need to read it is if they never had the WSDL that described the service, or if the service has changed.

Some downlevel clients are pretty stupid and need to download the WSDL before each call. Avoid them.

A: It depends what you are trying to do.  If you're calling or referencing the Web Service...you will need to re-reference it when the Web Service interface changes.  If the Web Service interface won't change,  then you only need to reference it once

A: I agree with John and would add that in most cases you don't need the WSDL to be hosted on a URL at all. Unless you have a public web service that anyone can sign up and use you're probably better off to keep the wsdl to yourself and only fork it out to specific users as needed.

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until SunLabs came around. Its like this company thought of everything! I loved their tanning products so I knew this was going to be amazing as well.
This is the complete set that they sent me.
It comes with everything you need before and after a self tanner.
As I have said in my tanning reviews/tutorials…you need to exfoliate!
I love the size of the beach bag and the fact that its plastic.
The large scrubber is for the entire body (neck down), (from left to right) Sponge head is for your face. I compare it to a cosmetic sponge. The pumice stone is perfect for the feet, elbows, and knees. Small scrubber could be for the face but I wouldn't recommend it. I fell like its not soft enough for sensitive skin such as our face.
The kit also comes with a lofa, but that's not as interesting as the rest of the products. I would use the lofa the most because this device is a little more time consuming, but worth the effort.
As stated in my video, I was so jazzed about the sent. Its Juniper, which brings me back to High School. It was that really fresh but sweet smell that made me feel like a woman. I love it. Its the same sent with all three products: Lotion, Exfoliant, and the Cleansing Gel.
The lotion is very hydrating without the greasy film. The exfoliant was perfect. It wasn't too harsh where you can almost hear your skin scream "OUCH", it was like I said perfect. The cleansing gel was just as expected and noting out of the ordinary.
YES, this was a sponsored product, but like other posts or videos…this is my honest opinion. It wasn't a diss, but it obviously wasn't a "OMG THIS IS FROM HEAVEN" either.
The product is great, and is the reason I am even bothering you with this info.
YouTube has blessed me with a voice. To let you know what to stay clear from and what I think you would love.
Like always, thank you all for your support.
Hey if we all unsubscribed to gurus for a sponsored video, we would be watching tv.
Its what you make of it. Don't stress the small things.
I'm fine with sponsored videos. ONCE IN A WHILE. But when its all you;re doing lately, I'm not going to watch. To some of the subscribers its really hard to trust gurus when we know they're getting compensated. We're not getting 100% of the truth. Wish things would go back to when we could watch a real video. not a commercial.
Sorry Honey but I have to agree. I'm a "grown up" subscriber of yours. I understand why you're doing what you're doing ($$$) but for those of us who know how these companies work, sponsored videos become unattractive and hard to believe. I prefer your makeup videos. Its why I watch, so I usually skip through these types of vids and blogs but I just thought I'd let you know where some of your subbies are coming from. And NO, I'm not hating, You need to know that lots of little ones are watching you and integrity is (sadly) a quality thats quickly fading. Try and keep it real girl.
these products looks really nice. I have the self tanner set from sun lab and im very happy about it.
Really wish my favorite brands could sponsor me, that would me amazing.
How about more info then? Like, what does the set cost? Packaging?
I don't recall you saying or showing how well or not the remover system works?
Its I want to know in a review sponsored or not.
Does product actually do what company states if does?
Sonia, I'm not hating on you, I just would love a full well rounded opinion. I not asking for this from just you but anyone and everyone giving a review on a product, sponsored or not.
I like the way you do your sponsored videos.. like the one for the baby bliss you actually showed great it works.. Now I really enjoy your videos and your blog so out of respect I have to tell you.. PLEASE check your grammar on your blog. You are a smart latina and that does not do you justice ( example " it's the same sent" It's SCENT " ) Hope this does not offend you.. if it did please accept my apologies.
How does it stand next to clarisonic?


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New charity shop for South Molton
Published: 4:35 PM July 18, 2009 Updated: 3:59 PM November 7, 2020
SOUTH Molton s newest charity shop is set to be opened on Thursday by the town s Rotary Club. The official opening will take place at 9am, with local business man Mervyn Way will be cutting the ribbon. Rotary members in the town have grabbed an opport
SOUTH Molton's newest charity shop is set to be opened on Thursday by the town's Rotary Club.
The official opening will take place at 9am, with local business man Mervyn Way will be cutting the ribbon.
Rotary members in the town have grabbed an opportunity to set up the shop in East Street and support local good causes. Long time Rotarian Helen Macintosh has offered her support by providing the shop base and a number of volunteers.
Club president Barrie Lewis-Ranwell is very enthusiastic about the project and said: "We are so pleased to have this opportunity to raise money to support the needs of our local community. I know it will be a lot of work for our club and the volunteers, but I am confident it will be a success.
"We have been really fortunate to have the help of Helen Macintosh and Debbie Pateman, from Secrets in Queen Street, who both bring a wealth of retail and charity experience to this venture."
It is a huge challenge for the club and members are determined to make it work. The shop will be open for business on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays from 9am until 1.30pm. Donations of good quality clothing, toys and household goods, but not electrical items, are very much appreciated and can be delivered to the shop during opening hours.
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more than I expected !
Best viewings need a direction.
Let's applause for a digital signage board.
Oh Yes ! there's plenty in store for us.
And we've only just arrived !
With options of visual and audio-visual presentations, you can present your Hotel's logo, brand name & offerings on the digital screen effectively.
A playlist of your Hotel services enables a schedule ( or prioritisation) of the different types of visuals which the digital screen will play one by one for your customers. Hence, you may first wish to highlight the hotel's room amenities, followed by the bar & restaurant, and then showcase the popular poolside – all at select intervals, and the digital screen will showcase the same to your customers.
Digital Signage boards generally project a dynamic business. In the case of hotels and resorts, digital signage presents the name – the brand value - the reputation of the property apart from advertising its services, facilities & amenities. For these businesses, Signmenu provides an unique digital software solution for the hotel owner, whereby the hotel owner can access and monitor his digital advertising without even being present on the premises.
Multi-location hotels and resorts normally present the numerous facilities / amenities which may be variable ie, a hotel on a sea beach may have a different set of facility offerings than a hotel of the same chain housed on a hill station. A marvel of digital software technology today is that the digital advertising of these multi location properties can be monitored by a single admin . Just one computer, is all a hotel owner needs to monitor and update content onto the digital screens of the hotels in different geographical locations. This is the unique 'Cloud Based Programme' initiated by Sign Menu.
The best part of digital signage technology is that it obviates the need for hardware. Or rather, it entails the use of minimum hardware – only by way of a digital signage screen or a smart tv. A hotel owner can coordinate his entire digital advertising inputs and outputs through only a computer . Even the use of a media player is optional.
For a hotel or a resort, it's name determines it's brand value and reputation. Hence, it is imperative for hotel owners to advertise the name of it's hotel at all times. Today, digital signage technology entails essentially a computer and a digital screen. If for any reason the internet service blanks out temporarily, the digital screen will keep running and can be monitored by the computer. Alternatively, a pen drive or a memory stick can also light up the digital screen with as much glittering effect.


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Biden delivers on promise to cancel Keystone XL permit; TC Energy halts project
CALGARY — Newly inaugurated U.S. President Joe Biden carried out his campaign promise to tear up the presidential permit keeping the Keystone XL expansion alive on Wednesday, hours after the pipeline owner said it would halt work on the project.
Calgary-based TC Energy Corp. said Biden's action would overturn extensive regulatory reviews that found the pipeline would transport needed energy in an environmentally responsible way and bolster North American energy security.
It also warned the move will lead to the layoffs of thousands of union workers and comes despite its commitments to use renewable energy to power the pipeline and forge equity partnerships with Indigenous communities.
The company remains committed to growing earnings and dividends through its investments in critical energy infrastructure even without Keystone XL, said Francois Poirier, who took over as TC Energy CEO at the beginning of the year.
Meanwhile, environmental groups applauded Biden's move.
"Killing the Keystone XL pipeline once and for all is a clear indication that climate action is a priority for the White House," said Dale Marshall, national climate program manager for Canada's Environmental Defence.
"We should take heed when the biggest customer for Canada's oil kills a pipeline that is already under construction. The Keystone XL pipeline never made sense for either the U.S. or Canada."
In contrast, Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe said it's "incredibly troubling" that TC Energy has suspended work on Keystone XL.
"Now is the time for our nations to strengthen our trading relationship, not erect further barriers to collaborative and sustainable development," he said in a statement.
The Progressive Contractors Association of Canada said in a news release it is disappointed that Biden is "putting politics before reason."
"Pulling the plug on a major project, hours after taking office, is a rocky starting point for re-setting Canada/U.S. relations," said PCAC president Paul de Jong.
The association, whose member companies employ thousands of Alberta and B.C. construction workers, said the pipeline would have generated as many as 60,000 direct and indirect jobs in Canada and the United States.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said he will continue to press Biden to allow Keystone XL to proceed.
Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole called the cancellation of the permit "devastating."
"We need to get as many people back to work, in every part of Canada, in every sector, as quickly as possible. The loss of this important project only makes that harder," he said.
TC Energy approved spending US$8 billion in the spring of 2020 to complete Keystone XL after the Alberta government agreed to invest about US$1.1 billion (C$1.5 billion) as equity and guarantee a US$4.2-billion project loan.
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney has said the province has about $1 billion at risk if the project is killed.
The 1,947-kilometre pipeline is designed to carry 830,000 barrels a day of crude oil from Hardisty, Alta., to Steele City, Neb. From there it would connect with the company's existing facilities to reach the U.S. Gulf Coast — one of the world's biggest oil refining hubs.
TC Energy announced a plan Sunday for the Keystone XL project to achieve net zero emissions by spurring an investment of over US$1.7 billion in communities along the Keystone XL footprint to create about 1.6 gigawatts of renewable electric capacity.
The Calgary-based company has also struck a deal with four labour unions to build the pipeline and has an agreement in place with five Indigenous tribes to take an ownership stake.
Some 200 kilometres of pipe have already been installed for the expansion, including across the Canada-U.S. border, and construction has begun on pump stations in Alberta and several U.S. states.
TC Energy said it will stop capitalizing costs, including interest during construction, effective Wednesday, and will evaluate the carrying value of its investment in the pipeline, net of project recoveries.
It says this will likely result in "substantive" mostly non-cash writedowns in its first-quarter financial results.
"Our base business continues to perform very well and, aside from Keystone XL, we are advancing $25 billion of secured capital projects along with a robust portfolio of other similarly high-quality opportunities under development," Poirier said in a statement.
Biden was vice-president in 2015 when Barack Obama rejected Keystone XL for fear it would worsen climate change.
Then-U.S. president Trump approved it again in March 2019.
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Dan Healing, The Canadian Press
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While claiming to have the same knowledge as God himself may have a calm quieting effect on individuals, it surpasses the ability of every created being on this planet. All of the "I will's…" quoted above from the prophet Isaiah demonstrate how much the rebel angel Lucifer thought of himself and what he thought he was capable of accomplishing all by himself. When this lofty position of pride and arrogance is thought to have been attained by created beings as well, realize then it is but a short step to become like Lucifer who became Satan the devil, and likewise want to possess creative powers like God, and to even take God's place on the throne of the Universe. Sadly, Lucifer's pride and self-confidant attitude caused him to be ejected from heaven.
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By Mogotsi D Baloyi
Why did God send the Flood? The Bible specifies in the very next verse that: "And GOD saw that the wickedness of man [was] great in the earth, and [that] every imagination of the thoughts of his heart [was] only evil continually.
And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them. Gen 6:5-7.
These giants (Nephilim) were called "men" in Genesis 6:4. God was so grieved by the wickedness of men, which can refer to giants (Nephilim) as well, that God decided to destroy mankind. We know today that demons are evil spirits, and they oppress people with many negative things.
They apparently were wicked back then also, back when they had their own mortal bodies, as were all men. It was because of the wickedness of all men, giant (Nephilim) or not (though they were included in this accounting), that God chose to destroy the world. It should be noted that the wickedness of all men was the reason for the Flood, and the stated reason was not the intermixing itself.
If intermixing happened as described above, it may have to do with why God spared Noah. This ties back to the prophecy of Ezekiel 31, which describes a giant tree so tall, and with so many high branches, and boughs, that it outgrew everything else. These giants (Nephilim) are called "men" by the Bible, and so their children were all "men" also.
Their bodies would have been human, and so God considered them human. But if you were to take a snapshot picture of the spirits of all the people who looked human living on the earth at that time, and look at it, what would you see? It could be that the vast majority of the population had immortal spirits originally begat of these angels who fathered the giants (Nephilim), while only a small minority of people had the mortal human spirits which were begat originally by Adam.
Those with immortal spirits would not sleep in death, but would become what we know today as demons. Looking at the symbolism of Ezekiel 31, it seems possible that humanity was spiritually being out-bred and becoming like an endangered species, though not out-bred physically. Physically there were many who had human bodies, everyone had a human body, but spiritually only a few had human spirits begotten originally from Adam. "But Noah found favor in the eyes of the LORD.
These [are] the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man [and] perfect in his generations, [and] Noah walked with God." Genesis 6:8-9. Noah had a perfect lineage tracing back to Adam, as is recorded in Genesis. Part of why Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord was because he was a just man.
But the other reason that Noah found favor with God was because his spirit was human, and traced back to Adam. One has to wonder just how much pure humanity was left in the world by the time of Noah. God did say that "all flesh" had corrupted His way, and there was violence cause of them.
"And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth. And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth…
And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein [is] the breath of life, from under heaven; [and] every thing that [is] in the earth shall die." Genesis 6:12-13,17. And so God sent a worldwide Flood, which destroyed all people except for Noah and his family.
"Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water" 1 Peter 3:20. We can know that Noah was "perfect in his generations" and therefore had a human spirit, seeing his lineage that traced back to Adam.
Therefore, his three sons also had human spirits, and so all of humanity that was to follow after the flood would have human spirits also. But apparently while Noah was perfect in his generations, either his wife or daughter-in-laws were not perfect in their generations.
The eight souls on the Ark were all human, including Noah's wife and daughters-in-law. Yet the fact that humanity dropped to having 120 year life-spans several generations after the flood, and gigantism showed up in their descendents, shows that not everyone on the Ark was "perfect in their generations". Only Noah was specified to be. Many people have thought that the change of shortened life-spans after the flood was due to atmospheric changes.
But in fact one Christian creation scientist, Dr. Carl Wieland, has theorized that the loss of longevity could have been caused by genetics. "…All positions which attempt to explain the 'lifespan drop' in environmental terms have another bit of data to explain, and that is the temporary persistence of longevity after the Flood. Noah was 600 at the time of the Flood, but lived another 350 years afterwards, in the post-flood atmosphere! Even in pre-Flood terms, Noah was already of moderately advanced age.
One would presume that, if the post-Flood atmosphere/environment has such devastating effects on us now, then because Noah would have been instantly exposed to these same effects, it should have cut his life short much more rapidly. Actually, only Methuselah and Jared lived longer than Noah"… "Even though the post-Flood decline is obvious, we see that eight generations after the Flood, people are still living more than twice as long as is common today.
It would seem much easier to explain the situation if the change occurred within the makeup of humans, rather than external to them. If our longevity is genetically pre-programmed, then that can explain why Noah still lived for a considerable time after the Flood, regardless of any change in radiation or atmospheric pressure. In other words, he was fulfilling his genetic potential as far as lifespan was concerned (in the absence of accidental death or disease)."… "I suggest that our ancestors simply possessed genes for greater longevity which caused this 'genetic limit' to human ages to be set at a higher level in the past"…
"If this suggestion has merit as the major (if not the sole) cause of greater pre-Flood ages, then the obvious question is how some of these longevity genes were lost. The human population went through a severe genetic bottleneck at the time of the Flood—only eight individuals.
The phenomenon of 'genetic drift' is well-known to be able to account for 'random' selectively neutral changes in gene frequencies (including the loss or 'extinction' of genes from a population) which may be quite rapid. Also, loss of genes is far more likely in a small population."… "This brief essay is meant solely as a stimulus to further thought, not as a precise model of events.
However, it would seem that an explanation along these lines would be feasible, especially if several genes contributed to such longevity. For this scenario to work Noah's sons and their wives would have to have significant heterozygosity at the relevant gene loci. That this could well have been so is suggested by the age of Shem at death – 600, considerably less than that of his father.
'Short-lived' alleles of the relevant genes may always have been present, which would mean that in the pre-Flood world, there would have always been some individuals (homozygous for such alleles) living drastically less than the ages recorded for the patriarchs."
The idea is that before the flood there were people with genes for longevity, and those with genes for a shorter lifespan. The small population size which survived the flood could have resulted in the gene for longevity being lost, and the gene for a shorter lifespan coming to exclusively dominate the gene pool.
If in fact the giants (Nephilim) and their descendents had genes for 120-year life-spans, and these genes were carried on the ark by one of the human women, this would line up perfectly. Noah "was perfect in his generations" and had a human spirit, as would all his descendents, and he had genes for longevity.
But it is possible one of the women on the ark had genes for a shortened lifespan, because she, though human, was descended from a son of Adam and a daughter of the giants (Nephilim). And through such a bottleneck effect as proposed above, the shorter-lifespan genes came to dominate the population universally.
This is in contrast to the rarer and more recessive genes that cause gigantism, which seem to have cropped up in only a minority of the population after the flood. It is very important to note that because Noah had a human spirit, so did all of his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and of their descendants.
All the people after the flood were therefore human, having human spirits that would sleep in death, and human bodies, even if those bodies had genes that were corrupted by the messenger angel insurgence before the flood.
All of the people living after the flood were human, even though eventually all people came to live no more than 120 years, and even though a minority of people after the flood developed gigantism. However, if this entire theory about how spiritual/physical reproduction and lineage works through multiplication is incorrect, then what does the Bible teach?
Then the Bible simply describes these giants (Nephilim) as being "men", and there is no Biblical argument to be made (that I have found) which explains what the demons are and where they came from. As such, in the absence of any such Biblical argument, the only thing to assume about the giants (Nephilim) is that they were "men" in every way. And then one would have to conclude that spiritually they were no different than any other human people, despite their angel fathers.
One can only make the argument that the giants (Nephilim) became demons with Biblical backing and from Biblical argument if one accepts that the spirit of the child is multiplied from the parents, and at that, begat solely from the child's father. But if one accepts that the spirit of the child is begat solely by the father of the child, then this also means that if the giants (Nephilim) had daughters (which the bodies of "men" can produce daughters) which a human man could have had a human-spirited child with.
Even though such a daughter of a human father and Nephilim-daughter mother would have genetic corruption producing shortened lifespan and/or gigantism, that child would be human spiritually.
And if such a female child was on the Ark, this could have led to shortened life-spans and gigantism in humanity after the flood. One cannot pick and choose which parts of the ramifications of this theory to accept, without ignoring the simple logical implications of the theory.
If the Bible teaches that we can know the giants (Nephilim) became demons, based on the spirit of the child coming from the father of the child, then by the same teaching it must be accepted that a human man could have human-spirited human children with a daughter of such giants (Nephilim). Assuming this theory about multiplication and begetting is wrong then all I could say the Bible, God-breathed Holy Scripture, teaches is:
1. The giants (Nephilim) are called "men" and must be assumed to be have been human in every way, including their spirits, and as such (had they known Christ) would have been redeemable, and could have theoretically been saved by faith in Jesus Christ like any other human.
2. The Bible does not specify where the demons came from, these evil spirits who have no physical body and are not seen in a physical form, but seem to want to get in the bodies of people and animals. It is therefore a great mystery as to when God created the demons and where they came from.
Other teachings are out there which conclude that the demons came from the giants (Nephilim) but these teachings are based upon extra-biblical texts, and not the Bible. But the above two points are the only things that can be found in the Bible, or argued from the Bible, unless this theory about the spirit of the child being multiplied and begat by the spirit of the father, etc. is accepted as correct.
The BNF and the October Revolution (Part I)
We must value compassion
Bokani Lisa Motsu
"One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It's simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we've been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back." Carl Sagan
Corruption is a heavy price to pay. The clean ones pay and suffer at the mercy of people who cannot have enough. They always want to eat and eat so selfishly like a bunch of ugly masked shrews. I hope God forgives me for ridiculing his creatures, but that mammal is so greedy. But corruption is not the new kid on the block, because it has always been everywhere.
This of course begs the question, why that is so? The common answer was and still is – abuse and misuse of power by those in power and weak institutions, disempowered to control the leaders. In 1996, the then President of The World Bank, James D. Wolfensohn named the 'C-Word' for the first time during an annual meeting of the Bretton Woods Institutions. A global fight against corruption started. Transparency International began its work. Internal and external audits mushroomed; commissions of inquiry followed and ever convoluted public tender procedures have become a bureaucratic nightmare to the private sector, trying to fight red tape.
The result is sobering corruption today is worse than it was 25 years ago. There is no denying that strong institutions help, but how does it come that in the annual Transparency International Ranking the same group of countries tend to be on the top while another group of countries, many African among them, tend to be on the bottom? Before one jumps to simple and seductive conclusions let us step back a moment.
Wolfensohn called corruption a cancer that destroys economies like a cancer destroys a body. A cancer is, simplified, good cells in a body gone bad, taking control of more and more good cells until the entire body is contaminated and eventually dies. So, let us look at the good cells of society first: they are family ties, clan and tribe affiliation, group cohesion, loyalty, empathy, reciprocity.
Most ordinary people like the reader of these lines or myself would claim to share such values. Once we ordinary people must make decisions, these good cells kick in: why should I hire a Mrs. Unknown, if I can hire my niece whose strengths and weaknesses I know? If I hire the niece, she will owe me and support my objectives.
Why should I purchase office furniture from that unknown company if I know that my friend's business has good quality stuff? If I buy from him, he will make an extra effort to deliver his best and provide quality after sales service? So, why go through a convoluted tender process with uncertain outcome? In the unlikely case my friend does not perform as expected, I have many informal means to make him deliver, rather than going through a lengthy legal proceeding?
This sounds like common sense and natural and our private lives do work mostly that way and mostly quite well.
The problem is scale. Scale of power, scale of potential gains, scale of temptations, scale of risk. And who among us could throw the first stone were we in positions of power and claim not to succumb to the temptations of scale? Like in a body, cancer cells start growing out of proportion.
So, before we call out for new leaders – experience shows they are rarely better than the old ones – we need to look at ourselves first. But how easy is that? If I were the niece who gets the job through nepotism, why should I be overly critical? If I got a big furniture contract from a friend, why should I spill the beans? What right do I have to assume that, if I were a president or a minister or a corporate chief procurement officer I would not be tempted?
This is where we need to learn. What is useful, quick, efficient, and effective within a family or within a clan or a small community can become counterproductive and costly and destructive at larger corporate or national scale. Our empathy with small scale reciprocity easily permeates into complacency and complicity with large scale corruption and into an acquiescence with weak institutions to control it.
Our institutions can only be as strong as we wish them to be.
I was probably around ten years old and have always been that keen enthusiastic child that also liked to sing the favourite line of, 'the world will become a better place.' I would literally stand in front of a mirror and use my mom's torch as a mic and sing along Michael Jackson's hit song, 'We are the world.'
Despite my horrible voice, I still believed in the message. Few years later, my annoyance towards the world's corrupt system wonders whether I was just too naïve. Few years later and I am still in doubt so as to whether I should go on blabbing that same old boring line. 'The world is going to be a better place.' The question is, when?
The answer is – as always: now.
This is pessimistic if not fatalistic – I challenge Sagan's outlook with a paraphrased adage of unknown origin: Some people can be bamboozled all of the time, all people can be bamboozled some of the time, but never will all people be bamboozled all of the time.
We, the people are the only ones who can heal society from the cancer of corruption. We need to understand the temptation of scale and address it. We need to stop seeing ourselves just a victim of a disease that sleeps in all of us. We need to give power to the institutions that we have put in place to control corruption: parliaments, separation of power, the press, the ballot box. And sometimes we need to say as a niece – no, I do not want that job as a favour, I want it because I have proven to be better than other contenders.
It is going to be a struggle, because it will mean sacrifices, but sacrifices that we have chosen, not those imposed on us.
Let us start today.
*Bokani Lisa Motsu is a student at University of Botswana
Parliament, the second arm of State through its parliamentary committees are one of Botswana's most powerful mechanisms to ensure that government is held accountable at all times. The Accounting Officers are mostly Permanent Secretaries across government Ministries and Chief Executive Officers, Director Generals, Managing Directors of parastatals, state owned enterprises and Civil Society.
So parliament plays its oversight authority via the legislators sitting on a parliamentary committee and Accounting Officers sitting in the hot chair. When left with no proper checks and balances, the Executive is prone to abuse the arrangement and so systematic oversight of the executive is usually carried out by parliamentary committees. They track the work of various government departments and ministries, and conduct scrutiny into important aspects of their policy, direction and administration.
It is not rocket science that effective oversight requires that committees be totally independent and able to set their own agendas and have the power to summon ministers and top civil servants to appear and answer questions. Naturally, Accounting Officers are the highest ranking officials in the government hierarchy apart from cabinet Ministers and as such wield much power and influence in the performance of government. To illustrate further, government performance is largely owed to the strategic and policy direction of top technocrats in various Ministries.
It is disheartening to point out that the recent parliament committees — as has been the case all over the years — has laid bare the incompetency, inadequacy and ineptitude of people bestowed with great responsibilities in public offices. To say that they are ineffective and inefficient sounds as an understatement. Some appear useless and hopeless when it comes to running the government despite the huge responsibility they possess.
If we were uncertain about the degree at which the Accounting Officers are incompetent, the ongoing parliament committees provide a glaring answer. It is not an exaggeration to say that ordinary people on the streets have been held ransom by these technocrats who enjoy their air conditioned offices and relish being chauffeured around in luxurious BX SUV's while the rest of the citizenry continue to suffer. Because of such high life the Accounting Officers seem to have, with time, they have gotten out of touch with the people they are supposed to serve.
An example; when appearing before the recent Public Accounts Committee (PAC), Office of the President Permanent Secretary, Thuso Ramodimoosi, looked reluctant to admit misuse of public funds. Although it is clear funds were misused, he looked unbothered when committee members grilled him over the P80 million Orapa House building that has since morphed into a white elephant for close to 10 successive years. To him, it seems it did not matter much and PAC members were worried for nothing.
On a separate day, another Accounting officer, Director of Public Service Management (DPSM), Naledi Mosalakatane, was not shy to reveal to PAC upon cross-examination that there exist more than 6 000 vacancies in government. Whatever reasons she gave as an excuse, they were not convincing and the committee looked sceptical too. She was faltering and seemed not to have a sense of urgency over the matter no matter how critical it is to the populace.
Botswana's unemployment rate hoovers around 18 percent in a country where majority of the population is the youth, and the most affected by unemployment. It is still unclear why DPSM could underplay such a critical matter that may threaten the peace and stability of the country.
Accounting Officers clearly appear out of touch with the reality out there – if the PAC examinations are anything to go by.
Ideally the DPSM Director could be dropping the vacancy post digits while sourcing funds and setting timelines for the spaces to be filled as a matter of urgency so that the citizens get employed to feed their families and get out of unemployment and poverty ravaging the country.
The country should thank parliamentary committees such as PAC to expose these abnormalities and the behaviour of our leaders when in public office. How can a full Accounting Officer downplay the magnitude of the landless problem in Botswana and fail to come with direct solutions tailor made to provide Batswana with the land they desperately need?
Land is a life and death matter for some citizens, as we would know.
When Bonolo Khumotaka, the Accounting Officer in the Ministry of Land Management, Water and Sanitation Services, whom as a top official probably with a lucrative pay too appears to be lacking sense of urgency as she is failing on her key mandate of working around the clock to award the citizens with land especially those who need it most like the marginalised. If government purports they need P94 billion to service land to address the land crisis what is plan B for government? Are we going to accept it the way it is?
Government should wake up from its slumber and intervene to avoid the 30 years unnecessary waiting period in State land and 13 years in Tribal land. Accounting Officers are custodians of government policy, they should ensure it is effective and serve its purpose. What we have been doing over the years, has proved that it is not effective, and clearly there is a need for change of direction.
THABO MAJOLA
His Excellency Dr Mokgweetsi EK Masisi, the President of the Republic of Botswana found it appropriate to invoke Section 17 (1) of the Constitution of the Republic of Botswana, using the powers vested in him to declare a State of Public Emergency starting from the 2nd April 2020 at midnight.
The constitutional provision under Section 17 (2b) only provided that such a declaration could be up to a maximum of 21 days. His Excellency further invoked Section 93 (1) to convene an extra- ordinary meeting of Parliament to have the opportunity to consult members of parliament on measures that have been put in place to address the spread and transmission of the virus. At this meeting Members of Parliament passed a resolution on the legal instruments and regulations governing the period of the state of emergency, and extended its duration by six (6) months.
The passing of the State of Emergency is considered as a very crucial step in fighting the near apocalyptic potential of the Novel COVID-19 virus. One of the interesting initiatives that was developed and extended to the business community was a 3-month wage subsidy that came with a condition that no businesses would retrench for the duration of the State of Public Emergency. This has potentially saved many people's jobs as most companies would have been extremely quick to reduce expenses by downsizing. Self-preservation as some would call it.
Most organisations would have tried to reduce costs by letting go of people, retreated and tried their best to live long enough to fight another day. In my view there is silver lining that we need to look at and consider. The fact that organisations are not allowed to retrench has forced certain companies to look at the people with a long-term view.
Most leaders have probably had to wonder how they are going to ensure that their people are resilient. Do they have team members who innovate and add value to the organisation during these testing times? Do they even have resilient people or are they just waiting for the inevitable end? Can they really train people and make them resilient? How can your team members be part of your recovery plan? What can they do to avoid losing the capabilities they need to operate meaningfully for the duration of the State of Public Emergency and beyond?
The above questions have forced companies to reimagine the future of work. The truth is that no organisation can operate to its full potential without resilient people. In the normal business cycle, new teams come on board; new business streams open, operations or production sites launch or close; new markets develop, and technology is introduced. All of this provides fresh opportunities – and risks.
The best analogy I have seen of people-focused resilience planning reframes employees as your organisation's immune system, ready and prepared to anticipate risks and ensure they can tackle challenges, fend off illness and bounce back more quickly. So, how do you supercharge your organizational immune system to become resilient?
COVID-19 has helped many organisations realize they were not as prepared as they believed themselves to be. Now is the time to take stock and reset for the future. All the strategies and plans prior to COVID-19 arriving in Botswana need to be thrown out of the window and you need to develop a new plan today. There is no room for tweaking or reframing. Botswana has been disrupted and we need to accept and embrace the change. What we initially anticipated as a disease that would take a short term is turning out to be something we are going to have to live with for a much longer time. It is going to be a marathon and therefore businesses need to have a plan to complete this marathon.
Start planning. Planning for change can help reduce employee stress, anxiety, and overall fear, boosting the confidence of staff and stakeholders. Think about conducting and then regularly refreshing a strategic business impact analysis, look at your employee engagement scores, dig into your customer metrics and explore the way people work alongside your behaviours and culture. This research will help to identify what you really want to protect, the risks that you need to plan for and what you need to survive during disruption. Don't forget to ask your team members for their input. In many cases they are closest to critical business areas and already have ideas to make processes and systems more robust.
Revisit your organisational purpose. Purpose, values and principles are powerful tools. By putting your organisation's purpose and values front and center, you provide clear decision-making guidelines for yourself and your organisation. There are very tough and interesting decisions to make which have to be made fast; so having guiding principles on which the business believes in will help and assist all decision makers with sanity checking the choices that are in front of them. One noticeable characteristic of companies that adapt well during change is that they have a strong sense of identity. Leaders and employees have a shared sense of purpose and a common performance culture; they know what the company stands for beyond shareholder value and how to get things done right.
Revisit your purpose and values. Understand if they have been internalised and are proving useful. If so, find ways to increase their use. If not, adapt them as necessities, to help inspire and guide people while immunizing yourself against future disruption. Design your employee experience. The most resilient, adaptive and high performing companies are made up of people who know each other, like each other, and support each other.
Adaptability requires us to teach other, speak up and discuss problems, and have a collective sense of belonging. Listening to your team members is a powerful and disruptive thing to do. It has the potential to transform the way you manage your organisation. Enlisting employees to help shape employee experience, motivates better performance, increases employee retention and helps you spot issues and risks sooner. More importantly, it gives employees a voice so you can get active and constructive suggestions to make your business more robust by adopting an inclusive approach.
Leaders need to show they care. If you want to build resilience, you must build on a basis of trust. And this means leaders should listen, care, and respond. It's time to build the entire business model around trust and empathy. Many of the employees will be working under extreme pressure due to the looming question around what will happen when companies have to retrench. As a leader of a company transparency and open communication are the most critical aspects that need to be illustrated.
Take your team member into confidence because if you do have to go through the dreaded excise of retrenchment you have to remember that those people the company retains will judge you based on the process you follow. If you illustrate that the business or organization has no regard for loyalty and commitment, they will never commit to the long-term plans of the organisation which will leave you worse off in the end. Its an absolutely delicate balance but it must all be done in good faith. Hopefully, your organization will avoid this!
This is the best time to revisit your identify and train your people to encourage qualities that build strong, empathetic leadership; self-awareness and control, communication, kindness and psychological safety. Resilience is the glue that binds functional silos and integrates partners, improves communications, helps you prepare, listen and understand. Most importantly, people-focused resilience helps individuals and teams to think collectively and with empathy – helping you respond and recover faster.
Article written by Thabo Majola, a brand communications expert with a wealth of experience in the field and is Managing Director of Incepta Communications.


text:
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Grimm's Fairy Tales
by Grimm Brothers
The Blue Light
Source: Edwardes, M., Taylor, E., trans. (1905). Grimm's Fairy Tales. New York: Maynard, Merrill, & Co.
Readability:
Flesch–Kincaid Level: 6.3
Genre: Fairy Tale/Folk Tale
Keywords: evil, fairy tales, good
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There was once upon a time a soldier who for many years had served the king faithfully, but when the war came to an end could serve no longer because of the many wounds which he had received. The king said to him: 'You may return to your home, I need you no longer, and you will not receive any more money, for he only receives wages who renders me service for them.' Then the soldier did not know how to earn a living, went away greatly troubled, and walked the whole day, until in the evening he entered a forest. When darkness came on, he saw a light, which he went up to, and came to a house wherein lived a witch. 'Do give me one night's lodging, and a little to eat and drink,' said he to her, 'or I shall starve.' 'Oho!' she answered, 'who gives anything to a run-away soldier? Yet will I be compassionate, and take you in, if you will do what I wish.' 'What do you wish?' said the soldier. 'That you should dig all round my garden for me, tomorrow.' The soldier consented, and next day laboured with all his strength, but could not finish it by the evening. 'I see well enough,' said the witch, 'that you can do no more today, but I will keep you yet another night, in payment for which you must tomorrow chop me a load of wood, and chop it small.' The soldier spent the whole day in doing it, and in the evening the witch proposed that he should stay one night more. 'Tomorrow, you shall only do me a very trifling piece of work. Behind my house, there is an old dry well, into which my light has fallen, it burns blue, and never goes out, and you shall bring it up again.' Next day the old woman took him to the well, and let him down in a basket. He found the blue light, and made her a signal to draw him up again. She did draw him up, but when he came near the edge, she stretched down her hand and wanted to take the blue light away from him. 'No,' said he, perceiving her evil intention, 'I will not give you the light until I am standing with both feet upon the ground.' The witch fell into a passion, let him fall again into the well, and went away.
The poor soldier fell without injury on the moist ground, and the blue light went on burning, but of what use was that to him? He saw very well that he could not escape death. He sat for a while very sorrowfully, then suddenly he felt in his pocket and found his tobacco pipe, which was still half full. 'This shall be my last pleasure,' thought he, pulled it out, lit it at the blue light and began to smoke. When the smoke had circled about the cavern, suddenly a little black dwarf stood before him, and said: 'Lord, what are your commands?' 'What my commands are?' replied the soldier, quite astonished. 'I must do everything you bid me,' said the little man. 'Good,' said the soldier; 'then in the first place help me out of this well.' The little man took him by the hand, and led him through an underground passage, but he did not forget to take the blue light with him. On the way the dwarf showed him the treasures which the witch had collected and hidden there, and the soldier took as much gold as he could carry. When he was above, he said to the little man: 'Now go and bind the old witch, and carry her before the judge.' In a short time she came by like the wind, riding on a wild tom-cat and screaming frightfully. Nor was it long before the little man reappeared. 'It is all done,' said he, 'and the witch is already hanging on the gallows. What further commands has my lord?' inquired the dwarf. 'At this moment, none,' answered the soldier; 'you can return home, only be at hand immediately, if I summon you.' 'Nothing more is needed than that you should light your pipe at the blue light, and I will appear before you at once.' Thereupon he vanished from his sight.
The soldier returned to the town from which he come. He went to the best inn, ordered himself handsome clothes, and then bade the landlord furnish him a room as handsome as possible. When it was ready and the soldier had taken possession of it, he summoned the little black manikin and said: 'I have served the king faithfully, but he has dismissed me, and left me to hunger, and now I want to take my revenge.' 'What am I to do?' asked the little man. 'Late at night, when the king's daughter is in bed, bring her here in her sleep, she shall do servant's work for me.' The manikin said: 'That is an easy thing for me to do, but a very dangerous thing for you, for if it is discovered, you will fare ill.' When twelve o'clock had struck, the door sprang open, and the manikin carried in the princess. 'Aha! are you there?' cried the soldier, 'get to your work at once! Fetch the broom and sweep the chamber.' When she had done this, he ordered her to come to his chair, and then he stretched out his feet and said: 'Pull off my boots,' and then he threw them in her face, and made her pick them up again, and clean and brighten them. She, however, did everything he bade her, without opposition, silently and with half- shut eyes. When the first cock crowed, the manikin carried her back to the royal palace, and laid her in her bed.
Next morning when the princess arose she went to her father, and told him that she had had a very strange dream. 'I was carried through the streets with the rapidity of lightning,' said she, 'and taken into a soldier's room, and I had to wait upon him like a servant, sweep his room, clean his boots, and do all kinds of menial work. It was only a dream, and yet I am just as tired as if I really had done everything.' 'The dream may have been true,' said the king. 'I will give you a piece of advice. Fill your pocket full of peas, and make a small hole in the pocket, and then if you are carried away again, they will fall out and leave a track in the streets.' But unseen by the king, the manikin was standing beside him when he said that, and heard all. At night when the sleeping princess was again carried through the streets, some peas certainly did fall out of her pocket, but they made no track, for the crafty manikin had just before scattered peas in every street there was. And again the princess was compelled to do servant's work until cock-crow.
Next morning the king sent his people out to seek the track, but it was all in vain, for in every street poor children were sitting, picking up peas, and saying: 'It must have rained peas, last night.' 'We must think of something else,' said the king; 'keep your shoes on when you go to bed, and before you come back from the place where you are taken, hide one of them there, I will soon contrive to find it.' The black manikin heard this plot, and at night when the soldier again ordered him to bring the princess, revealed it to him, and told him that he knew of no expedient to counteract this stratagem, and that if the shoe were found in the soldier's house it would go badly with him. 'Do what I bid you,' replied the soldier, and again this third night the princess was obliged to work like a servant, but before she went away, she hid her shoe under the bed.
Next morning the king had the entire town searched for his daughter's shoe. It was found at the soldier's, and the soldier himself, who at the entreaty of the dwarf had gone outside the gate, was soon brought back, and thrown into prison. In his flight he had forgotten the most valuable things he had, the blue light and the gold, and had only one ducat in his pocket. And now loaded with chains, he was standing at the window of his dungeon, when he chanced to see one of his comrades passing by. The soldier tapped at the pane of glass, and when this man came up, said to him: 'Be so kind as to fetch me the small bundle I have left lying in the inn, and I will give you a ducat for doing it.' His comrade ran thither and brought him what he wanted. As soon as the soldier was alone again, he lighted his pipe and summoned the black manikin. 'Have no fear,' said the latter to his master. 'Go wheresoever they take you, and let them do what they will, only take the blue light with you.' Next day the soldier was tried, and though he had done nothing wicked, the judge condemned him to death. When he was led forth to die, he begged a last favour of the king. 'What is it?' asked the king. 'That I may smoke one more pipe on my way.' 'You may smoke three,' answered the king, 'but do not imagine that I will spare your life.' Then the soldier pulled out his pipe and lighted it at the blue light, and as soon as a few wreaths of smoke had ascended, the manikin was there with a small cudgel in his hand, and said: 'What does my lord command?' 'Strike down to earth that false judge there, and his constable, and spare not the king who has treated me so ill.' Then the manikin fell on them like lightning, darting this way and that way, and whosoever was so much as touched by his cudgel fell to earth, and did not venture to stir again. The king was terrified; he threw himself on the soldier's mercy, and merely to be allowed to live at all, gave him his kingdom for his own, and his daughter to wife.
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