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Professor Beverley Hawkins
Associate Professor of Leadership / Organisation Studies, Associate Academic Dean for Students
Streatham Court, University of Exeter, Rennes Drive, Exeter, EX4 4PU, UK
External engagement and impact
Professor Beverley Hawkins researches and teaches in the field of leadership/management practice, learning and development; her work often focuses on how people 'make things happen'. She is especially interested in the experiences of those leading themselves and others through times of transition, and in experiences of leadership learning and development. Funded by a number of highly competitive funding bodies, Beverley's research projects include:
Clear about Carbon; an award-winning, ESF-funded project that enabled leaders to support low-carbon agendas in their organization.
Sixth Form Transitions: an ESRC-funded initiative to develop leadership skills in students experiencing post-16 education.
Unlimited Value: an Arts Council England funded project that enables leaders of libraries to understand and share the difference their organizations make to local communities.
Leadership Development for Public Service Mutuals: funded by the Higher Education Impact fund, this project has created a leadership development programme for emerging Public Service Mutuals, run in partnership with the Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.
Beverley has published in high-ranking journals in the fields of management and higher education learning, sociology and interdisciplinary management/organization studies. Her doctorate, published in 2009, received an Emerald 'Highly Commended' award in the Human Resource Management category.
Beverley's credentials include:
Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Commerce and Manufactures
Action Learning Facilitator accredited by the Institute of Leadership and Management.
Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Subject Specialist Reviewer for the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education.
Nationality: British
BSc (University of Wales, Swansea), MA (University of Warwick), PhD in Management (University of Keele)
Behaviour, Identity and Decisions
Organisations in Transition
Business, Institutions and Policy
Leadership as a sociomaterial, embodied, relational and politicised effect.
Leading change towards sustainable organisations and societies
Transitions towards and away from leadership positions
Gender and identity work
Control and resistance practices at work
Dr Hawkins undertook a PhD in Management, drawing on poststructuralist feminist theory, to show team members 'do teamwork' by invoking certain ways of thinking, being and doing, which help them to become thought of as 'good team members'. In this way, Dr Hawkins focuses on how 'doing teamwork' is intricately bound up with the way team members regulate their own, and each other's identities. Her published work has also explored how employees and leaders negotiate, identify with, and resist 'corporate culture', which uses metaphors, symbols and specific rituals to encourage identification with the corporate brand. She draws upon notions of leadership as the collaborative, negotiated performance of narratives, embedded in power relations, which open up and foreclose available ways of 'doing organisation'.
More recently Dr Hawkins' work focuses on the embodied, politicised, relational experiences of individuals and communities as they develop, accomplish and even move away from leadership. The idea of transition (between the human and the non-human, towards a more sustainable future in the circular economy, towards new identities and forms of leadership practice) is a central theme running through this focus.
Dr Hawkins has produced a number of research papers which focus on:
the contributions material objects make to leadership performances
the challenges faced by students and educators of Leadership Studies in Higher Education,
the branding of University Business Schools
the implications of the low carbon agenda for organisations
how team members draw upon notions of family and parenting to help organise and process their work activities
how team members negotiate gendered corporate culture narratives.
Dr Hawkins has been involved in 'Clear about Carbon' - an award-winning ESF-funded project, which aims to develop leadership skills for sustainable procurement in Cornwall-based organisations. Other partners in the project are Cornwall Council, Duchy College and the Eden Project.
Dr Hawkins has co-written a textbook on Perspectives on Leadership with Jonathan Gosling, Richard Bolden and Scott Taylor, of the Centre for Leadership Studies.
Tricksters, Sun-gods and Monsters in Leadership Learning (video)
Key publications | Publications by category | Publications by year
Key publications
Edwards G, Hawkins B, Schedlitzki D (2019). Bringing the ugly back: a dialogic exploration of ethics in leadership through an ethno-narrative re-reading of the Enron case. Human Relations, 72(4), 733-754.
Bringing the ugly back: a dialogic exploration of ethics in leadership through an ethno-narrative re-reading of the Enron case
© the Author(s) 2018. In this article, we adopt a dialogic approach to examining narratives on ethics in leadership. We do this through an ethno-narrative re-reading of writing on the Enron case informed by Bakhtin's ideas on dialogue. Employing concepts such as beautyism, aesthetic craving and recent writing around disgust and abjection in organizations helps us to develop a deeper relational interpretation of written accounts of leadership and ethics in organizations. We identify two underlying and interrelated social tensions exemplified in existing narratives on this popular example of 'unethical' leadership practice. Both tensions, we conclude, are linked to denigrating the ugly in favour of the beautiful, and we have labelled them 'suppressing the ugly' and a fetish for 'looking good'. We go on to suggest that these two tensions then combine in the stories about this case to ultimately beautify a toxic masculinized persona. We suggest therefore that our dialogic perspective on ethical leadership narratives helps to uncover how accounts about Enron are developed through an intricate interplay between seeking to 'look good' and the suppression of moral judgment by leaders of the organization.
Abstract. Full text. DOI.
Hawkins BC, Pye A, Correia F (2016). Boundary Objects, Power and Learning:. The matter of developing sustainable practice in organisations. Management Learning, 1-19.
Boundary Objects, Power and Learning:. The matter of developing sustainable practice in organisations.
This article develops an understanding of the agential role of boundary objects in generating and politicizing learning in organizations, as it emerges from the entangled actions of humans and non-humans. We offer two empirical vignettes in which middle managers seek to develop more sustainable ways of working. Informed by Foucault's writing on power, our work highlights how power relations enable and foreclose the affordances, or possibilities for action, associated with boundary objects. Our data demonstrate how this impacts the learning that emerges as boundary objects are configured and unraveled over time. In so doing, we illustrate how boundary objects are not fixed entities, but are mutable, relational, and politicized in nature. Connecting boundary objects to affordances within a Foucauldian perspective on power offers a more nuanced understanding of how 'the material' plays an agential role in consolidating and disrupting understandings in the accomplishment of learning.
Hawkins BC, Edwards G (2014). Managing the Monsters of Doubt: Liminality, Threshold Concepts and Leadership Learning. Management Learning, 46(1), 24-43.
Managing the Monsters of Doubt: Liminality, Threshold Concepts and Leadership Learning
In this article we argue that management and business undergraduate students who are engaged in learning about leadership occupy a liminal space or state of between-ness. Drawing on anthropological conceptualizations of liminality in which those undergoing liminal rituals must grapple with symbolic monsters, we point to the experience of doubt and uncertainty as 'monsters' with which students must come to terms. We link this to scholarship that characterises dealing with uncertainty as a central element of leadership practice. Drawing on notions of 'threshold concepts', we suggest that students experience the monster of doubt as they progress in their learning experience and that there are a number of potential ways students might 'think like a leadership scholar'. We set out some opportunities for leadership educators to engage students with threshold concepts as they seek to become familiar with 'doubt' as central to the study and practice of leadership. Applying a liminality framework to the understanding of threshold concepts helps to identify threshold concepts as crucial to learning, infused with cultural assumptions, and situated within an understanding of the student experience.
Hawkins B (2012). Gendering the Eye of the Norm: Exploring Gendered Concertive Control Processes in Two Self-Managing Teams. Gender, Work & Organization, 20(1), 113-126. Full text. DOI.
Bolden R, Hawkins B, Gosling J, Taylor S (2011). Exploring Leadership: Individual, organizational and societal perspectives. Oxford, Oxford University Press.
Exploring Leadership: Individual, organizational and societal perspectives
Hawkins BC (2008). Double Agents: Gendered Organizational Culture, Control and Resistance. Sociology, 3(42), 418-435.
Double Agents: Gendered Organizational Culture, Control and Resistance
This article presents ethnographic data showing how recruitment consultants negotiate managerial attempts to control workforce culture. I suggest the values which senior managers encourage consultants to embody prioritize so-called`masculine' attributes over `feminine' ones. I attempt to demonstrate the limits of cultural control by outlining three ways in which the consultants engage with this imposed culture: defiance, parody and ritual. These activities contain gendered assumptions similar to those embedded in corporate culture. I discuss the potential such practices have for resisting corporate culture and the gender within it, suggesting that one source of ambiguity within workplace `control' and `resistance' practices is that they employ overlapping cultural resources and assumptions.
Abstract. Author URL. Full text. DOI.
Publications by category
Hawkins BC (2015). Ship-Shape: Materializing Leadership in the British Royal Navy. Human Relations, 68(6), 951-971.
Ship-Shape: Materializing Leadership in the British Royal Navy
In this article I contribute to posthumanist, actor-network influenced theories of leadership, drawing empirically on qualitative data collected at a Royal Navy shore establishment in Great Britain. I demonstrate how a fluid network of hybridized relationships between people and things affords shifting and multiple possibilities for making leadership matter. As configurations of actants evolve these affordances are altered, and the blackboxing processes hiding the material actants co-generating leadership effects are uncovered. A detailed explication of the politicised affordances within actor networks contributes to knowledge about how hybridized relationships co-enable possibilities for action that bring to life, reinforce, and call into question the human-centred, gendered, colonialist web of assumptions and practices through which Royal Naval personnel understand and enact leadership.
Naidoo R, Gosling J, Bolden R, O'Brien A, Hawkins B (2014). Leadership and branding in business schools: a Bourdieusian analysis. Higher Education Research and Development, 33(1), 144-156.
Leadership and branding in business schools: a Bourdieusian analysis
This paper explores the growth of corporate branding in higher education (HE) and its use by academic and professional managers as a mechanism for not only enhancing institutional reputation but also for facilitating internal culture change. It uses Bourdieu's framework of field, capital and habitus to analyse case studies of branding in two English business schools from the perspectives of academics, management and professional staff and students. The findings reveal a number of tensions and inconsistencies between the experiences of these groups that highlight the contested nature of branding in HE. In an era of rankings, metrics and student fees, it is suggested that branding has become an important means through which HE leaders and managers (re)negotiate the perceived value of different forms of capital and their relative positions within the field. Whilst branding operates at a largely ideological level it has a material effect on the allocation of power and resources within institutions. This is an important development in a sector that has typically privileged scientific capital and contributes towards an understanding of the ways in which leadership is 'distributed' within universities. © 2014 © 2014 HERDSA.
Correia F, Howard MB, Pye A, Hawkins B, Lamming R (2013). Low Carbon Procurement: an Emerging Agenda. Journal of Purchasing & Supply Management(19), 58-64.
Hawkins BC, Brannan MJ (2007). London calling: selection as pre-emptive strategy for cultural control. Employee Relations, 2(29), 178-191.
London calling: selection as pre-emptive strategy for cultural control
Abstract: Purpose – This article seeks to explore forms of selection practice, focusing on role-play techniques, which have been introduced in many organizations in an attempt to "objectivize" the selection process by offering a means of assessing task-specific aptitudes.
Design/methodology/approach – This article draws upon an ethnographic study of a call centre in which the researcher underwent the recruitment and selection process to secure work as a precursor to conducting fieldwork within the organization. Whilst there is little precedent for the employment of ethnographic techniques in researching recruitment and selection, we argue such techniques are appropriate to explore the social processes involved in practices such as role-play. The discussion draws upon fieldwork which was conducted at "CallCentreCo", who continuously recruit customer service representatives (CSRs) to work in their call centre. CallCentreCo uses role-playing exercises extensively in the selection of all grades of staff and are argued by CallCentreCo's Human Resource Manager to be essential in the recruitment of CSRs to ensure the selection of suitable candidates and minimize initial attrition rates.
Findings – This article makes two contributions: first it provides empirical evidence to explore the basis of structured interviews by revealing how the view that role-play can "objectivize" the selection process is potentially built upon false assumptions. Second, the article argues that supposedly "objective" practices such as role-play seek to legitimize the overwhelmingly subjective interview process in order that it may serve purposes beyond initial selection: namely the control of future employees before they even enter the organization.
Research limitations/implications – Although we make no attempt to generalize from such a limited case study, this article raises issues that are likely to be relevant to organizations as they increasingly search for more "effective" selection procedures, and to academic endeavors to critically theorize the purpose and effects of selection for the employment relation.
Originality/value – the originality of this approach lies in the ethnographic study of the interview as a social interaction, the richness of which may be lost in the quantitatively dominated approach to analyzing selection.
Abstract. Author URL. DOI.
Searle R, Sealy R, Hawkins B (2019). 'Don't you know that it's different for girls': a dynamic exploration of trust, breach and violation for women en route to the top. In Antoniou A-S, Cooper C, Gatrell C (Eds.) Women, Business & Leadership: Gender and Organisations, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 232-246. Full text.
Hawkins BC (2013). James Bond and Miss Moneypenny: the silhouette of leadership. In Gosling J, Villiers P (Eds.) Fictional Leaders: Heroes, Villains and Absent Friends, Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan.
Hawkins B (2012). The silhouette of leadership: James bond and miss moneypenny. In (Ed) Fictional Leaders: Heroes, Villans and Absent Friends, 125-138.
The silhouette of leadership: James bond and miss moneypenny
Abstract. DOI.
Sealy R, Hawkins B, Searle R (2017). Precarious Selves: Women's leadership identity emergence. British Academy of Management. 5th - 8th Sep 2017.
Precarious Selves: Women's leadership identity emergence
Abstract. Full text.
Correia FML, Hawkins B, Howard M, Lamming R, Pye A (2011). Low Carbon Procurement: an Emerging Agenda. 20th Annual IPSERA Conference (International Purchasing and Supply Education and Research Association. Vision 20/20 - Preparing today for tomorrow's challenges. 10th - 13th Apr 2011.
Low Carbon Procurement: an Emerging Agenda
Dr Hawkins has experience of teaching a diverse student population, from undergraduates to management and leadership practitioners. She has also been involved in teaching distance learning and regular contact courses.
Her teaching commitments currently focus on engaging students with theoretical and practical aspects of leadership studies. She encourages students to reflect on their own leadership experiences during class participation and assessment methods. She aims to show students how to apply theories to their own reflections of leadership reality, and to highlight the complex and emergent nature of leadership challenges using interactive learning techniques.
Dr Hawkins has also acted as a guest lecturer in the Human Resource Management and Organisational Behaviour undergraduate modules, and has been involved in teaching on the MA in Leadership Studies.
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Q: DLL function not exported: Unable to find an entry point named TestFunc I'm busy getting to know a tiny bit of C/C++, and interop with C#.  I've checked several examples of creating a simple Win32 DLL and using this from C#, but when I try and call into my DLL, I get the runtime error: "Unable to find an entry point named TestFunc".  My DLL looks like this, and I created it from a Win32 DLL project, with the empty project option:
Header:
__declspec(dllexport) int TestFunc(char *, char *, char *);

Code file:
#include "stdafx.h"
#include "TestLib.h"

__declspec(dllexport) int TestFunc(char *arg1, char *arg2, char *arg3)
{
  char str1[] = "Brady Kelly";
  char str2[] = "Hello World";
  char str3[] = "1234567890";

  strcpy(arg1, str1);

  return 128;
}

What am I doing wrong?

A: Is your function compiled using C or C++ bindings? You don't specify, but it looks to me like there is a possibility that you are using the C++ compiler - the compiler uses very different name mangling from the C compiler and you will not be able to find the name "TestFunc" as simply as if you were using the C compiler or using C name mangling rules.
To simply tell the C++ compiler to use C name mangling rules, use this in the header file:
extern "C"
{
  __declspec(dllexport) int TestFunc(char *, char *, char *);
}

A: Also, you only need the declspec in front of the function declaration (in the header file), not the definition. A useful tool for examining what is exported from the DLL, and what the DLL depends on is Dependency Walker.

A: Actually since you have tagged this question as C, I'd suggest a minor change from what 1800 INFORMATION's solution:
#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C" {
#endif

#ifdef EXPORT_MODE
#define METHODTYPE __declspec(dllexport)
#else
#define METHODTYPE __declspec(dllimport)
#endif

#ifdef __cplusplus
}
#endif

/*! _The_ method */
METHODTYPE int TestFunc(char *, char *, char *);

This will let you use the same header both in clients' code and your code.
NB: Dependency Walker is no longer bundled with VS2008. You must download it if you are using VS2008.

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The surgeon's log, being impressions of the far east.
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Who's Really Managing Taxpayer's Money?
Yesterday the AP reported:
7 Accused of Bilking $375M from Medicare, Medicaid
A Texas doctor has been charged with running a massive health fraud care scheme with thousands of fraudulent patients and intermediaries allegedly offering cash, food stamps or free groceries, to bilk Medicare and Medicaid of nearly $375 million.
A federal indictment unsealed Tuesday charges Jacques Roy, a doctor who owned Medistat Group Associates in DeSoto, Texas, and six others in an alleged scheme to bill Medicare for home health services that were not properly billed, not medically necessary or not done.
The scheme was the largest dollar amount by a single doctor uncovered by a task force on Medicare fraud, authorities said.
U.S. Attorney Sarah Saldana accused Roy of "selling his signature" to home health agencies that rounded up thousands of patients' names and billed Medicare and Medicaid for five years.
The indictment alleged that from January 2006 through November 2011, Roy or others certified 11,000 Medicare beneficiaries for more than 500 home health service agencies — more patients than any other medical practice in the U.S. More than 75 of those agencies have had their Medicare payments suspended.
Roy, 54, is charged with several counts of health care fraud and conspiracy to commit health care fraud. He faces up to 100 years in prison if convicted on all counts. He appeared briefly in court Tuesday and is scheduled to have a detention hearing Wednesday. Authorities also moved to seize cash in Roy's bank accounts, cars and two sailboats.
His attorney, Patrick McLain, said authorities had contacted Roy months ago. McLain said it was too soon to comment on the case because prosecutors hadn't provided him with most of the evidence yet. Phone messages and emails left with Medistat, located just south of Dallas, were not immediately returned Tuesday.
The attorney for one of the home health agency owners, Cynthia Stiger, alleged to be part of the scheme called the charges and the dollar amounts listed overblown. Stiger pleaded not guilty Tuesday.
"They're not anywhere close to accurate," said Jeffrey Grass, Stiger's attorney.
Investigators for the U.S. Health and Human Services department noticed irregularities with Roy's practice about one year ago, officials said.
Roy had "recruiters" finding people to bill for home health services, said Saldana, the top federal prosecutor in Dallas. Some of those alleged patients, when approached by investigators, were found working on their cars and clearly not in need of home healthcare, she said.
Medicare patients qualify for home health care if they are confined to their homes and need care there, according to the indictment.
Saldana said Roy used the home health agencies as "his soldiers on the ground to go door to door to recruit Medicare beneficiaries."
"He was selling his signature," she said.
For example, authorities allege Charity Eleda, one of the home health agency owners charged in the scheme, visited a Dallas homeless shelter to recruit homeless beneficiaries staying at the facility, paying recruiters $50 for each person they found. A message was left Tuesday at Eleda's Dallas-based company, Charry Home Care Services, Inc.
Others indicted are accused of offering free health care and services such as food stamps to anyone who signed up and offered their Medicare number.
Read full article online: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/accused-bilking-375m-medicare-medicaid-15809657#.T0551vFul5B
Food for thought:
I normally don't post two or more blogs in one day but I couldn't resist sharing this article because it's a perfect caveat to my last comment regarding military defense contractors!!
Cast your vote in 2012, Vote for "A Better America!"
When was the last time you calibrated your moral compass?
As humans, it's often difficult to admit that it doesn't take much to convince us to either agree or disagree with something, especially if someone else or "the masses" convinces us to do so. Like all magnetic fields, the human mind can easily be manipulated to be drawn away from its true north.
Take for example the recent Academy awards. I wonder how many African Americans were hoping that Viola Davis would win the Oscar for "Best Actress" over Meryl Streep or Glenn Close, just because she was black or her performance was in fact deserving of winning the Oscar?
I'm not a typical movie goer and it was a few weeks after the movie "The Help" was released before I found out about it. As a 21st century African American woman quite naturally I objected to the storyline because I didn't want to be reminded of the stories my grandmother once shared about the struggles she endured while raising her family in the "Old South."
When I finally decided to watch the movie, I was immediately drawn to Octavia Spencer's character because she reminded me so much of myself and her performance was well deserving of the award for "best supporting actress."
I was just as attracted to Meryl Streep's role as Margaret Thatcher in the movie "Iron Lady." I'm always inspired by other women of courage who are not afraid to stand-up against adversity, mistreatment, abuse or corruption!
At this year's Academy awards, the roles portrayed by the majority of the nominees were indicative of a series of historical events that modern day Americans can easily relate too. I applaud the writers, producers and directors for being able to get across such powerful messages, to the audience, so tastefully and passionately, as well as helping us to calibrate our moral compass.
Before Americans go to the voting polls to cast their vote for the 2012 primary election, I ask you to calibrate your moral conscience, before checking the box to elect our next President.
Take a much closer look at each candidate before you decide and do your own research on the overall history and moral character of each candidate. Don't let the media, your family or friends or your loyalty to a particular political party convince you to vote for one candidate over the other.
In most cases, a person's past will reveal their true character rather than their recent political performance.
I must admit, when I first voted for President Obama I voted for him primarily because I didn't want Sarah Palin to serve as our Vice President, so the choice was easy, and the secrets of her past has since been revealed to us. This time around, I will vote for President Obama because I feel a kindred connection to the changes he wants for America and if given a second term in office he will be able to effectively implement those changes.
Let's face it; it's extremely difficult to ignore all the media propaganda about the current administration because it's all over the news and the internet. Unless you have the time to lock yourself into a quiet room and read a personal biography, or two, about the background of each candidate, you most likely will be drawn to agree with the masses.
A person's past has a positive or negative way of resurrecting itself into the future.
Take for instance, I left home over 22 years ago and vowed that I would never return back to live in the "Old South." Unfortunately God had other plans for me when my mom suffered a hemorrhagic stroke, brought on by a brain aneurysm. Through God's grace she survived but she is now permanently disabled.
A year later (last year) I lost my father to COPD and have since settled back into my southern roots. Every once in a while you may hear a southern twang in my voice and my devotion to helping others and standing up for righteousness is just as alive in me today as it was over 22 years ago.
Like a friend said on facebook after Meryl Streep won the Oscar, "Meryl Streep is like fine wine in the Iron Lady…. Exquisite"
What does America means to me?
As a military veteran I've traveled to each continent of the world and have been exposed to many ethnic cultures. Each one of them is now a part of who I am. Each time I meet a Korean person I make an effort to greet them in their native language, I frequently shop at Mexican food markets, I hold conversations with Chinese restaurant owners sharing tales of my first experience of eating authentic Chinese food (in China) and climbing the "Great Wall" of China and I talk my hairstylist's ear off with never ending questions about her home country in Africa.
As a young Navy sailor, Hawaii was my first "so called" overseas assignment and I remember always hearing the locals calling it the rainbow state. At first I wasn't sure if it was because of all the beautiful rainbows that appeared after the rain, which was often or because the islands were so multi-cultural.
Isn't that what America is… "multi-cultural?"
As America slowly evolves into the 21st century we are becoming one big melting pot of millions of people from different religious and ethnic backgrounds. We're not going to be able to erase our past or ever change what happened to our ancestors but we can certainly erase our racial differences by coming together to make America a better life for our next generation, which is exactly what I believe President Obama also wants for all Americans, "A Better America" a country that we can all be proud of!
I'm sure President Obama could've easily chosen to pursue a lucrative career to become a high priced corporate lawyer, instead he chose to help bring about change for America through public service, now that's "True Character" that you will never get from a million dollar television ad!
Could this be a Blatant Senate Ethics Violation and Violation of Federal Law?
On February 17, the Washington Exec reported:
Northrop Grumman Corporation announced that former U.S. Navy Admiral Gary Roughead will be joining the company's Board of Directors.
The election of Admiral Roughead brings Northrop Grumman's board members to 13 and 12 of the 13 members are non-employee directors.
"Gary Roughead brings to our board a deep understanding of the global security challenges our nation and its allies are facing," said Northrop Grumman Chairman, CEO and President, Wes Bush. "He possesses outstanding leadership experience and expertise, and is an excellent addition to our board as we continue to advance our performance for our shareholders, customers and employees."
Admiral Roughead Gary Roughead is a retired United States Navy four-star admiral
who last served as the 29th Chief of Naval Operations from September 29, 2007 to September 22, 2011. He previously served as Commander, U.S. Fleet Forces Command, from May 17, 2007, to September 29, 2007.
During his tenure as Chief of Naval Operations, did Admiral Roughead give favor to Northrop Grumman over more competitive defense contracting companies such as General Dynamics?
Was this sweet-heart deal pay-pack for his efforts and to ensure he would lobby to ensure the company is awarded additional contracts and certain programs are not cut, in the wake of the DoD defense budget cuts?
You can read more about Northrop Grumman online: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_Grumman
I ask that you pay particular attention to the section which discusses the companies "Political contributions and governmental ties" and "Scandal."
The revolving door " is the movement of personnel between roles as legislators and regulators and the industries affected by the legislation and regulation and on within lobbying companies. In some cases the roles are performed in sequence but in certain circumstances may be performed at the same time."
Political analysts claim that an unhealthy relationship can develop between the private sector and government, based on the granting of reciprocated privileges to the detriment of the nation and can lead to regulatory capture.
In his farewell address, President Eisenhower warned us of an industrialized military complex.
Lobbying in the United States:
"Under current law, government officials who make contracting decisions must either wait a year before joining a military contractor or, if they want to switch immediately, must start in an affiliate or division unrelated to their government work. "
Admiral Roughead retired in September, less than 5 months ago!
Does federal law only apply to certain individuals and not to others, which explains why I'm the only person in U.S. military history (probably U.S. history) to be selectively prosecuted and sent to prison for "Adultery" as a non-married person!
How ironic, Admiral Roughhead was serving as the Commander, U.S. Fleet Forces Command when his command was in charge of investigating my complaints of fraud and Civil Rights violations.
U.S. Fleet Forces Command is in charge of managing the budget and the Navy's Equal Opportunity program for the entire Atlantic Fleet, including my former command's budget and EO program, Maritime Coastal Warfare Security Group One, located in San Diego.
His successor, Admiral Jonathan Greenert took over the investigation into my EO complaints and IG complaints, but felt it was necessary to ensure I was locked up behind bars so they could ensure their dirty little secrets were kept quiet.
I assume this is why the DoD IG chose not to conduct a re-investigation into my reprisal complaints last year?
After granting me an appeal and falsely leading me to believe I was "next in que" to have my case assigned to the be investigated by the next available IG investigator, a few weeks before Admiral Greenert was sworn in to become the next CNO, I received a certified letter from DoD IG stating my case is CLOSED!!
Federal Law which Prohibits DoD Revolving Practices
PROCUREMENT INTEGRITY ACT RESTRICTIONS
(RULES WHEN YOU ARE LOOKING FOR A NEW JOB
RULES AFFECTING YOUR NEW JOB AFTER LEAVING DOD)
IMPORTANT NOTICE: This information was prepared to assist Department of Defense (DoD) personnel who receive their ethics support from the DoD Standards of Conduct Office (SOCO) and who are planning to leave Government service. It summarizes the restrictions of the Procurement Integrity Act, and the regulations that implement it, on the activities of Government personnel while they are seeking employment and after they leave Government service. Because restrictions are dependent on specific facts, and because this information is a summary of the rules, these DoD personnel should contact SOCO at (703) 695‑3422 or by e‑mail at soco@osdgc.osd.mil to discuss their particular situations. DoD personnel served by other ethics offices should contact their ethics counselors. Of course, if you want, you may also consult with private counsel.
Advice from ethics counselors with respect to these matters is advisory only, and is provided in accordance with 5 C.F.R. 2635.107 and 41 U.S.C. 423 (Procurement Integrity Act). Ethics counselors are acting on behalf of the United States, and not as your personal representative. There is no attorney-client relationship created by the consultation. You may, however, rely, in good faith, on written opinions given under the Procurement Integrity Act.
WARNING: Other restrictions, such as those that apply to all Government employees, may also affect your official activities. Your ethics counselor should explain these rules as well.
Part 1: Restrictions While Seeking Private Employment
(BEFORE You Leave DoD)
1.1 SIMPLIFIED RULE: Once you have started seeking employment with a bidder or offeror, you may not take any official action in a $100,000+ DoD procurement.
1.1.1 RULE: An agency official may not participate personally and substantially in a $100,000+ DoD procurement when seeking employment with a bidder or offeror in the procurement. (28 C.F.R. 3.104-4(c))
1.1.1.1 "$100,000+ DoD procurement" - DoD acquisition, using competitive procedures and appropriated funds, for a contract in excess of the simplified acquisition threshold, currently $100,000.
1.1.1.2 "Personal and substantial" participation - You must be "personally and substantially" involved with the procurement to be disqualified. This means that you are directly participating or that one or more of your subordinates, whom you are actively and directly supervising, is participating. "Personal and substantial participation" means active and significant involvement in ANY of the following activities directly related to the procurement:
-drafting, reviewing, or approving the specification or statement of work; -preparing or developing the solicitation;
-evaluating bids or proposals;
-selecting a source;
-negotiating price or terms and conditions; or
-reviewing and approving the award.
Participation solely in the following activities is NOT "personal and substantial" participation:
-Agency-level boards, panels, or advisory committees that review program milestones or evaluate and recommend alternate technologies or approaches for broad agency-level missions or objectives;
-General, technical, engineering, or scientific effort with broad application;
-Clerical functions;
-A-76 management studies, preparation of in-house cost estimates, preparation of "most efficient organization" analyses, and furnishing data or technical support in developing performance standards, statements of work, or specifications; and
-Reviews conducted solely to determine compliance with regulatory, administrative, or budgetary procedures.
"Personal and substantial" participation for Procurement Integrity Act purposes may be more limited in breadth than "personal and substantial" participation as defined for 18 U.S.C. 208 and 207.
1.1.1.3 "Seeking employment" - If the above definitions apply to your situation, then you may not "seek" employment unless you first disqualify yourself. "Seeking employment" is contacting or being contacted by a bidder or offeror regarding possible non-Federal employment. For DoD purposes, there is an "employment contact" when you are "seeking employment," as discussed in the SOCO synopsis of general employment restrictions. See 5 C.F.R. 2635.601 - 2635.606.
1.1.2 Disqualification: Disqualification is simple — Don't do ANY work on the task! To help you accomplish this, you are required to submit a written notice to the head to the contracting activity (HCA), with copies to the contracting officer, source selection authority, your immediate supervisor, and ethics counselor. The written disqualification must identify the procurement, describe the nature and specific dates of your participation in the procurement, and identify the bidder or offeror and describe its interest.
1.1.3 Resumption of Participation: The HCA has the discretion to authorize, in writing, your resumed participation at a future date only when one of two conditions has been met: the potential employer is no longer a bidder or offeror; or all employment discussions have terminated without an agreement. The HCA must consider all factors that might give rise to an appearance that you may act without complete impartiality and must consult with the ethics official. The HCA may decide not to authorize resumed participation.
1.2 RULE: An agency official must promptly report, in writing, to his or her supervisor and ethics official, an employment contact with a bidder or offeror in a $100,000+ DoD procurement.
1.2.1. This requirement applies even when you promptly reject the employment contact.
Part 2. Employment Restrictions After Leaving DoD
2.1 SIMPLIFIED RULE: For 1 year after a designated date, you may not accept compensation from the concerned contractor on a $10 million+ DoD contract on which you performed designated services.
2.1.1 RULE: For a period of 1 year after a designated date, former Government officials may not accept compensation from the concerned contractor on a $10 million+ DoD competitively awarded or non-competitively awarded contract if the former officials served or acted in any of the following capacities: (48 C.F.R. 3.104-4(d))
A. Procuring contracting officers, source selection authorities, members of source selection evaluation boards, and chiefs of financial or technical evaluation teams
Designated date:
If you served on the date of selection, but not the date of award - Date of selection.
If you served on the date of award - Date of award of the contact.
B. Program managers, deputy program managers, and administrative contracting officers
Designated date: Last date of service in those positions.
For DoD purposes, concerned contractors are prime contractors.
C. Officials who personally made any of the following decisions:
1) to award contracts, subcontracts, or modifications of contracts or subcontracts, or task or delivery orders in excess of $10,000,000,
2) to establish overhead or other rates valued in excess of $10,000,000,
3) to approve issuance of a contract payment in excess of $10,000,000, or
4) to pay or settle a claim in excess of $10,000,000.
Designated date - the date of decision.
2.1.1.2 "Compensation" - any form of compensation provided directly or indirectly for services rendered as an employee, director or consultant.
2.1.1.3 "$10 million+" - determined by the following:
-Contract, including all options - value or estimated value at the time of award
-Indefinite-delivery/indefinite quantity or requirements contract - total estimated value of all orders at the time of award
-Any multiple award schedule contract, unless contracting officer documents a lower estimate
-Basic Ordering Agreement - value of delivery order, task order or order
-Claims - amount paid or to be paid in settlement
-Negotiated overhead or other rates - estimated monetary value, when applied to the Government portion of the applicable allocation base.
2.1.2 EXCEPTION: You may accept compensation from any division or affiliate of the contractor that does not produce the same or similar products or services as the entity responsible for the contract.
2.1.2.1 "same or similar" - It is DoD guidance that a product or service must be "dissimilar enough" from that under the contract to warrant use of the exception. It is not sufficient that the product or service is produced by a division on the commercial, as opposed to the government, side of the contractor. Any amount of the "same or similar" product or service is sufficient to trigger the compensation ban.
2.1.3 If you do not know whether you may accept any compensation, you may make a written (signed and dated) request for advice, prior to accepting any compensation, from your agency ethics official. The ethics official must issue a written opinion within 30 days after receiving complete information as to whether the compensation would be proper or a violation. The ethics official may rely on that information, unless there is reason to believe that the information is fraudulent, misleading, or otherwise incorrect. You and the contractor may make good faith reliance on that written opinion, i.e., that neither you nor the contractor have actual knowledge or reason to believe that the opinion is based on fraudulent, misleading, or otherwise incorrect information.
Part 3: Other Restrictions
3.1 Other restrictions, such as those that apply to all Government employees, may also affect your activities. Your ethics counselor should explain these rules as well. If you believe that these Procurement Integrity restrictions are the only ones that will apply to you, you are mistaken.
Part 4: Administrative Reminders
4.1 QUESTIONS? PLEASE CALL US: If you have questions, even after you leave Government service, please call your ethics counselor or the DoD Standards of Conduct Office: (703) 695-3422. Fax: (703) 697-1640. E-mail: soco@osdgc.osd.mil. We would much rather talk to you before you take action, than read adverse reports about you (from the IG or in the media) after you have taken the action.
4.2 Thank you for your service to your country.
(This guidance was produced by the DoD General Counsel's Office [Standards of Conduct Office], SOCO@OSDGC.OSD.MIL or (703)695-3422).
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Imagine a World Without Free Knowledge
Project on Government Oversight - POGO
recently reported
New Cybersecurity Act Would Undermine FOIA and Whistleblower Protections
By DANA LIEBELSON
With all the uproar over the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA)--both of which promptedwidespread online protests--it was easy to forget that the Senate had another cybersecurity bill in the works. But on Tuesday, a group of Senate committee leaders started rushing passage of the Cybersecurity Act of 2012 (S.2105). Although this cybersecurity bill doesn't include the SOPA/PIPA executive "kill switch"—it still threatens to undermine whistleblowers, FOIA, and open government efforts.
Wikipedia may not be protesting yet, but POGO and its allies are definitely taking action.
Yesterday, we sent a letter to the Senators behind the bill—Joe Lieberman (I-CT), Susan Collins (R-ME), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Jay Rockefeller (D-WV)—pointing out that the Cybersecurity Act of 2012 "creates unnecessary, overbroad and unwise limitations to access of information, including broad exemptions to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), and jeopardizes the rights of whistleblowers."
Firstly, Section 107 of the bill includes an exceedingly broad definition of "critical infrastructure information," which can exempt information from FOIA that is crucial for the public's understanding of public health and safety risks (like the information about the deadly water contamination that occurred at Camp Lejeune.) The bill's proposed exemption also conflicts with Congress' recent "public interest balancing test," which requires the Pentagon to weigh the interests of the public when attempting to withhold critical infrastructure security information.
Secondly, the language in Section 704(d) relating to cybersecurity threat indicators is troublingly broad. We don't know what kind of information will be shared in the newly-created cybersecurity exchanges. With that in mind, it doesn't make sense to blanket all public access to this information before we understand what's covered.
Finally, POGO and allies have concerns that Section 107(e) narrowly defines free speech rights, and doesn't align with current whistleblower protections. This could potentially limit the lawful disclosures of wrongdoing made by whistleblowers.
The Senators behind the bill are claiming that it already has broad congressional and industry support—which is why it's being moved hastily to the Senate floor. But this bill certainly doesn't have support from open and accountable government advocates.
"This legislation is far too complex and its reach far too extensive for fast tracking. The many implications for access to information and whistleblower protections should not have been negotiated behind closed doors," said POGO Director of Public Policy Angela Canterbury. "We hope Majority Leader Reid and the senators advancing the bill will end the rush to pass it to avoid dangerous, unintended consequences."
Why does it seem like we are gradually evolving into a world like in the movie the "Matrix". While the social media is busy feeding us propaganda keeping our minds preoccupied with reality TV shows and other sources of entertainment, Congress is busy wasting our tax money and voting to take away our rights.
The sad thing is, half of America is too busy fighting with one another to even notice!!
WE ALL NEED TO WAKE UP!!
Was this a Political move for the U.S. Navy?
African-American woman makes history as new CO of USS Mitscher
WVEC.COM ABC Channel 13 News
NORFOLK -- History was made Friday as Cmdr. Monika Washington Stoker took command of the Norfolk-based guided-missile destroyer USS Mitscher.
She's the first African-American woman serving as Commanding Officer of an Arleigh Burke-class Aegis guided missile destroyer, the Navy said.
"It says that you do whatever you want to do, whether it's in the military or not and don't let anyone tell you that you can't," Stoker said.
She relieved Cmdr. Brian Sorenson, who served as commanding officer for two years.
Stoker, a native of Greensboro, N.C., served as USS Mitscher's Executive Officer since June 2010.
As "Black History Month" slowly draws to an end, the Navy wanted to go down in history to prove they are still moving at a snail's pace on improving racial and gender equality.
I must admit, the headline of this article did immediately grab my attention.
I was a bit disappointed after reading the last sentence; "CDR Stoker had served as the XO onboard the Mitscher since June 2010."
Having served in the Navy for nearly 20 years, I view this as a slap in the face, not just to women of color, but to all female Surface Warfare officers.
Instead of transferring CDR Stoker to a new ship where she could competitively test and prove her leadership skills, the Navy chose to let her "fleet up" and assume command of a ship she'd served on for over a year in a half.
Is this a fair or unfair advantage?!
The Navy was definitely playing it safe this time; I guess they wanted to avoid another "Holly Graf" incident.
I'm sure we all recall the infamous Holly Graf, nicknamed by journalists, "Horrible Holly".
Captain Graf was the first white female to command an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer, USS Winston Churchill and the first to command a Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser, USS Cowpens.
Unfortunately while in command of both ships the Navy's poster child failed miserably as a leader. In early 2010 the former Commanding Officer of the USS Cowpens was relieved of command after creating an extremely hostile working environment and poisonous atmosphere for her crew.
Her story is one of the worse examples of proven failed Navy leadership, yet one of the best examples of military workplace abuse. Even after numerous allegations of mistreatment of her crew members were substantiated by a Navy IG investigation, next month Captain Graf will be retiring from the Navy with her full pension intact.
She will most likely be offered a handsome defense contracting position, like the rest of her fellow Navy Academy graduates.
And I'm sure there sons and daughters will continue to carry on their family traditions…
Despite the outcome of the Navy's final IG investigation reports, indicating my chain of command did not commit reprisal acts against me, Holly's mistreatment of her crew members will never measure up to what they did to me. I'll save those details for a later blog and further in-depth details are outlined in my memoir.
Nevertheless, I'm still proud of Commander Stoker!
I'm sure she will continue to be an outstanding leader and prove to the Good ol' Boys, " Women don't have to be a tyrant and act like one of them to get the job."
I wish her much success as the new Commanding of the USS Mistcher.
Lawsuit claims Obama can't be president because he's 'mulatto'
By Clutch Magazine
If we thought President Obama silenced all the birthers by releasing his long form birth certificate last year, think again. Apparently, some folks still have doubts and are taking it one step further: to court.
Tuesday, Gordon Warren Epperly filed a lawsuit in Alaska challenging President Obama's inclusion on the 2012 presidential ballot. What's Epperly's beef? Apparently, he feels Negroes and mulattoes can't be president because they aren't really citizens.
His lawsuit states:
Barack Hussein Obama II, a.k.a. Barack Hussein Obama, a.ka. Barack H. Obama has the race status of being a "mulatto." Barack Obama's father (Barack Hussein Obama I) was a full blood Negro being born Nyang'oma Kogelo, Nyanza Province, Kenya and raised in the Colony of Kenya. Barack Obama's mother (Stanley Ann Dunham) was a white Caucasian woman being born in Wichita, Kansas on November 29, 1942 and raised in the state of Washington and in the state of Hawaii.
The petition concludes:
As stated above, for an Individual to be a candidate for the office of president of the United States, the candidate must meet the qualifications set forth in the United States Constitution and one of those qualifications is that the Candidate shall be a "natural born citizen" of the United States. As Barack Hussein Obama II is of the "mulatto" race, his status of citizenship is founded upon the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Before the [purported] ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment, the race of "Negro" or "mulatto" had no standing to be citizens of the United States under the United States Constitution.
Contrary to the argument presented in the pleading, the Fourteenth Amendment defined citizenship and granted both civil and political rights to those born in the United States. Moreover, it made it illegal for any state to deny those rights. Also, the Fourteenth Amendment effectively overturned the Dred Scott decision (of 1857), which found that slaves and their descendants could never be U.S. citizens.
While this case has very little chance of being won in court, it is a stark reminder of the challenges and racist attitudes many of us continue to face.
To quote Rodney King, "Can we all just get along." That's all I have to say about that!


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Blind rivets, frequently referred to as "pop" rivets are used to fasten two materials together without the need to have access to both sides of the material. These large flange dome head steel rivets provide greater holding power and come in a variety of diameter sizes and grip range. The first column below gives the rivet number, the material it is made of, shank diameter, and grip range. Blind rivets are installed using a rivet gun.


Washingtonian needed to bring their signature restaurant and bar reviews to mobile devices.
Scale worked with Washingtonian to design and develop a sleek, easy to use iPhone app to house their restaurant and bar reviews. This free app is supported by CMS-controlled sponsorships and in-app advertising controlled and owned entirely by Washingtonian. The choice to develop custom ad technology for the app allowed Washingtonian to retain 100% of the ad-related revenue for the app.
While this was on the Apple App Store, it sustained an average 5-star review.


Republic Act (RA) 7160 otherwise known as the Local Government Code of the Philippines empowers local governments to legislative revenue measures that will allow them to generate additional revenues which will be added to their Internal Revenue Allotment (IRA) for them to be able to come up with their annual budgets to bankroll their year-round operations. Taxes, both business and real property, among other revenue sources, are considered the lifeblood of the national and local governments for local officials to be able to implement their desired development projects and sustain the delivery of basic services to their constituents.
Further, the Code provides that local governments should update their schedule of market values every three years while their respective business taxes should be updated every five years pursuant to the rules and regulations crafted by the Bureau of Local Government Finance and other finance agencies. In terms of business taxes, local governments are authorized to fix the rates they want to charge those operating businesses in their respective areas of jurisdiction aside from other related fees and charges relative thereto.
The criteria in the distribution of the available IRA from the national government is 50 percent equitable sharing, 25 percent population and 25 percent land area, thus, local governments with bigger land area and population continue to get a lion's share of the available resources of the national government that will be distributed to all local governments. Aside from the over 42,000 barangays nationwide, other local governments that rely on their share from the IRA are the provinces, cities and municipalities. To date, there are 1,486 municipalities, 145 cities and 81 provinces that equitably share from the available IRA for disposal by the national government.
Enactment of local revenue measures is considered the weakness of all elected local officials because they fear that once there will be an increase in the taxes being collected from the people, their political future will be compromised, thus, they are forced to take a stand against the proposal to increase the schedule of market values for their real property taxes and their business taxes to make them appear that they are pro-poor and pro-people. Those who are sponsoring proposals to reasonably increase the revenues of local governments are deemed as anti-poor or anti-people because they want to burden the people with increased taxes supposed to be beneficial to the greater welfare of their constituents as the funds to be generated will be brought back to them in the form of development projects and improvement of the delivery of basic services to the grassroots level.
On the other hand, many individuals have expressed the view that the reason why most owners of big real properties and businesses within the jurisdiction of urban and rural areas is because they just want to wreck in huge income for their own personal aggrandizement. The elite in urban and rural areas even go to the extent of drum beating the opposition to proposed reasonable tax increases because they do not want their huge income to be diminished while they continue to avail of the services being provided by the government to them. Obviously, most politicians take advantage of the weakness of people to advance their own personal and political interests in order to survivor in this highly competitive political arena.
We believe we are not in the right track if we continue to be threatened by the expected negative impact of approving updated revenue measures because we are just coddling tax evaders who want to be known as crusaders but unfortunately, they are not. We are sorry to say that the individuals and corporations who refuse to pay their taxes are the ones who have the nerve to raise their objections to pending reasonable increases in local revenue measures around the region, thus, we can conclude that they are opportunists.
While it is true that the government should provide the people with sufficient services and enough development projects to guarantee available employment opportunities and sustainable sources of livelihood, it should not be used as an excuse for the concerned local governments not to increase their existing revenue measures based on the prevailing trend of the times. Everyone has its obligation to pay to the government the right taxes so that we can take in our conscience to demand for more development projects and improved services for us to be able to decently live in our desired places.
We should be able to decipher if our officials are really upholding their pro-poor and people-oriented positions on issues or they are just taking us for a ride to advance their own personal and political interest. We should not take their positions in various controversial issues by their face value but let us learn to analyze what will be the best for the greater majority of the populace and not what will be their gain from us.


At Kisulo Mukasa Institute students will receive education to improve their lives and uplift community standards, always putting God first in everything we do.
Students master courses that are practical and hands-on, that help the graduate compete in the job market not only in Uganda but anywhere in the world.
Major or Course: Course descriptions may use the word "major" on a diploma course — for instance Accountancy major — while for certificate studies, "course" is always used.
KMI students follow the quarter system. Studies are for approximately 3 months each quarter. There are three quarters each academic year.
Drop us an email at info@kmieducation.org. Any way you use, you will receive our reply very fast.
INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS: International students are welcome. Please click Courses tab, "published courses catalog" link. This will lead you to Institute Course Booklet with detailed information.
Application processing takes time. You are encouraged to apply three months before the Main Admission for new students, and the same three months before the Second Admission, even if UNEB results are not yet out.
Main Admission for new students: March is when studies begin.
Second Admission for new students: June is the month when studies begin.
Study Days: 222 study days an academic year. Days may be increased.
School holidays: 8-10 days a quarter.
SE3 Plan that enables students to pay monthly. All dues must be paid in full within the three months of academic quarter. SE3 requires pre-approval by Institute.
CashPay Plan that requires all dues to be paid before or on the first day of class. This plan is the most recommended and most used by parents and sponsors.
For details, please see Tuition & Fees policy 1.905 in Institute Courses Booklet.
Shs.20,500.00 Identity Card Fee Student ID is valid for 3 years. Only Full-time students are eligible for ID.
Payment Method: All school tuition may only be paid at bank account of the Institute. No Cash Accepted at Institute office. Exception: Application Fee paid by cash at Institute office may be accepted.


MVMSC is proud to offer a tutor coordination service, which we hope will help students work with highly qualified tutors for not only math homework, but also for competitions like AMC 10 and AMC 12.
We will be running a trial period, in which officers of MVMSC will schedule tutoring sessions through the service. Each officer will select a capacity of students to accommodate during a time period in school for certain subjects, and students may view the availability and sign up to meet up with a tutor. Drop-ins are welcome but signups have priority.
This coordination system, run through Google Drive using Apps Script, uses a set of forms and spreadsheets to organize tutor and tutee requests.
2) Register. Register for the coordination service at goo.gl/stKgdu. You will be sent a unique ID (PIN) by email that you will use in the next steps.
3) Find a session. Visit the scheduling calendar at goo.gl/fRNVKd and identify a desirable tutoring session. If there are spaces remaining, you may note down the session ID.
4) Sign up for the session. Fill out the signup form at goo.gl/gHtRtu with your unique ID and ID of the tutoring session. Please note that delays up to ten minutes are expected while Google updates.
5) Attend session. Show up with questions for personalized help from our tutors!
6) Cancellation. If you need to cancel a session, fill out the form at goo.gl/ffbYw8 with the same information.
If any error arises, we ask that you fill out the error reporting form at goo.gl/SXFYa4.
When filling out the forms, please ensure that you use the same email address so that the system processes your submissions correctly. Additionally, store your unique ID (PIN) securely; this will be matched with your email to approve your actions.
There may be delay in update of the sheets and in emails. Once again, if you have any questions or concerns, you may submit them to goo.gl/SXFYa4, which will be manually reviewed.
During your tutoring session, please limit yourselves to 15 minutes at a time if there are other tutees waiting.
In the future, the tutoring coordination system may be expanded to include the ability for tutees to provide feedback through a review form and/or view short biographies that the tutors provide. After the successful trial period, club members may be selectively granted the ability to sign up as a tutor if they want to help with tutoring.
Note that MVMSC runs this coordination service, but tutoring sessions are solely between the tutors and the tutees and are not an official club activity like weekly meetings. MVMSC has full discretion over disqualifying tutors and tutees from this service.


Job description: Driver/fitters are required for the Integrated Community Equipment Service (ICES) to work a 37 hour week across seven days on a rota basis.
The role involves, selecting and picking items for delivery, loading and unloading Council vans and delivering and installing disability equipment in people's homes across the borough of Bolton. There will also be collections of equipment when it is no longer required.


Y'all, sometimes I just want a really, really good sandwich, one that rises above the standard turkey or tuna. I want every element to be flavorful and well-considered, and I definitely want the sum to be more than the parts. If juices run down my hands and arms, that's great. If I use three napkins before finishing the sandwich, that's great too.
On days when a comfort dinner is needed or simply desired, soup often fits the bill. It warms us when we're cold, soothes us when we're sick. It just feels good going down. I've been on a potato tear lately, craving them all the time and in every which way: mashed, roasted...you get my drift. Next step: soup!
This is Mario Batali's recipe. He says, "it would be better to overcook them by 5 minutes than to undercook them by one." In addition to my two small augmentations -adding lemon and mint- I think toasted pine-nuts would be a great touch. Simple, delicious!
I adore sunchokes; they're nutty, earthy, flexible tuber. Here, I've used them in a wonderfully flavorful, robust, rich (but not heavy) winter soup!
Do you love seafood bisques but find yourself wishing for something lighter on occasion? This cream-free bisque is a beautiful marriage of shrimp, brandy and aromatics and uses cooked rice in place of the cream. You'd never know!
This is the best recipe I've found for recreating the wonderful Louisiana staple! I found this online but cannot for the life of me remember where. I've made only a few minor tweaks. Extras freeze well! Keep in mind that your dried beans will need to soak overnight and that once the dish is fully cooked, it's great to let it sit in the fridge overnight as the flavors will come together more fully.
This lobster pasta is a cholesterol bomb but totally delicious and worth it! I used two lobster tails, steamed them, and then made less of the sauces. I did not use or miss the salmon caviar; this is a very rich meal! This dish is not hard but you really have to pay attention and multitask. Have everything ready to go and at arm's length. Do not overcook the pasta before adding it to the skillet or you'll end up with a gummy mass.
Nothing to do with BBQ as you know it, this is an indulgent, delicious way to enjoy good shrimp!
This is an absolutely fabulous compound butter for use on grilled strip steaks and potatoes.
This is an absolutely delicious, decadent yet humble gratin. It makes for a stellar side dish.
These cheesy bread puffs are simple and delicious and a hit at every party at which I've served them. They freeze beautifully too.
Once you get past having to de-leaf a huge number of thyme sprigs, this is beyond fabulous, and you'll be glad you made it! Scrumptious!
This recipe, chickpea cakes topped with caramelized onions and roasted tomatoes, is an absolutely wonderful, refreshing, healthy dish from Yotam Ottolenghi.
This pasta dish is really simple, quick and tasty, an excellent way to use and highlight fresh mushrooms.


Africa's economic performance has improved dramatically since the turn of the century. In the previous two decades, the economies of sub-Saharan Africa grew at average rate of 2.5 percent (1980s) and 2.3 per cent (the 90s). But with population growing at about three per cent, GDP per person was declining in real terms. Since 2001 sub-Saharan Africa has managed an average economic growth rate of over six per cent, while population increases have slowed. Will this very marked improvement be sustained? The international economic downturn is a serious threat. Although the immediate direct effects are not very strong, they may well be a more substantial impact in time.
The IMF is clearly worried. A year ago its growth forecast for the region in 2009 was 6.7 per cent. Now (as of January) it is between three and 3.5 per cent.
To get some perspective on how much difference this makes, suppose the population of the region continues to grow at 2.4 per cent (as it did in 2007). With economic growth of three per cent it would take 118 years to double GDP per capita, which is a very rough indicator of average living standards. But at six per cent economic growth it would take 20 years. At nine percent (the kind of performance China has achieved in recent years) it would take just 11 years.
Commodity Prices: The global downturn has undermined demand for many commodities. Several African countries are major exporters of industrial commodities such as oil (Nigeria and Angola) or copper (Zambia and DRC). Prices have fallen sharply in the last few months. Crude oil is down by about 70 per cent from its peak last July. Copper is down by about two thirds. These developments are however helpful for those countries that are net importers of these commodities.
Exports: Africa is not an exporting region on the scale of Asia, but trade has made an important contribution to the recent acceleration of economic growth. GDP and exports from sub-Saharan African countries (including trade within the region) have both increased by about two thirds since 1999. There's little by way up-to-date hard data, but there are anecdotal reports from individual businesses that suggest that exports may be weakening. Industrial commodity exporters face lower prices and lower sales volumes.
Remittances: A significant source of funds for investment, for SS Africa, 19 billion dollars in 2007, up from eight billion in 2004. They are very important in a few countries –29 per cent of GDP in Lesotho (these are preliminary estimates for 2008). For Africa three quarters of remittances (again 2008) are from Western Europe or the US. There was eight per cent from the Gulf another eight per cent from other high income countries and another ten per cent from other developing countries – which probably explains the high figure for Lesotho – people sending money from South Africa. .
Again little recent hard data, but migrants overseas do look vulnerable to loss of employment in developed economies, especially those that work in construction. Tighter immigration policies may also affect remittances. The IMF expects the figures will show stagnation in the second half of last year (for low income countries overall) and a decline in 2009.
Foreign Direct Investment: FDI in Africa is significant and has increased sharply in recent years. In 2007 (most recent figures) sub-Saharan Africa got 31 billion dollars, 1.7 per cent of the global total, and more than 80 per cent up from two years earlier. It is not far short of what Africa gets in aid – nearly 39 billion dollars, also in 2007.
The downturn could well have an impact on FDI flows. Foreign businesses are making lower profits – or even losing money – so they are less likely to have funds to invest. It is harder to raise new money for investment in financial markets and volatile commodity prices may make them more reluctant to invest in Africa – much FDI is mineral and oil extraction.
Financial Effects: The good news is there is very little exposure among African banks to toxic financial securities and they have good supplies of funds for lending. However, the IMF reports that in countries that have had some degree of access to foreign financing– including Ghana, Nigeria and Uganda – there are signs of problems. And as the negative effects on other businesses rise, bank losses on loans are also likely to increase. More than half of banking business in many African countries is foreign owned. They could face funds being withdrawn by troubled parent companies.
I am not sure if i understand you correctly, please forgive me if i misunderstand you. You say : Africa has managed an average economic growth rate of over six per cent, while population increases have slowed. Will this very marked improvement be sustained?
If you refer to the first law of sustainability, which is based on the laws of nature, population growth and/or growth in the rate of consumption is not sustainable.
C) The research and regulation programs of governmental agencies that are charged with protecting the environment and promoting "sustainability" are, in the long run, irrelevant, unless these programs address vigorously and quantitatively the concept of carrying capacities and unless the programs study in depth the demographic causes and consequences of environmental problems.
H) The term "Sustainable Growth" is an oxymoron.
Why asking if it's sustainable ? of course it's not, it's a law of nature.
You might not know this, because it was never thaught in schools, except maybe in colorado. but i hope that you will take that in serious consideration in your writing. any growth of population or of rate of consumption is not sustainable, the growth will stop. Now we can choose to do it, or nature will choose.
I really hope that you will learn about the laws of nature and sustainability and correct this article.
As per Point E and F, Writers are leaders, and they should not be misleading.


Should we be taking a second look ?
A line from Atul's diary struck a chord – What's so cool about free software ? . Till now all the activity that has been done across the country (the roadshows, the install fests, the demos and the LinuxAsias) have been based on the premise that FLOSS is cool and the devotees will flock to the temple. When we talk about FLOSS in education, perhaps it is worth a second look towards how we go about it ?
Educational institutions are about service delivery. Forgive the crude way of putting it across, but if you strip away all the frills – you get service and the branding that the institutes obtain could be the quality assurance tied in with the delivery of such service. In such a situation, creation of a matrix of FLOSS around the system would be a bit more complex. The current approach revolves around finding a best-fit software tool for the education business process. This includes Institution Management software (school, college, campus), Portal for the institute (along with necessary frills like IM, Single Sign On etc), Laboratory Management Software, Digital Library Information Services Software (Koha for the brave and others for the mere mortals).
This would of course lead to a more streamlined engagement with the developers. Only because we might see the need to develop software in house. Small example, any currently available Learning Management System if deployed directly in an Indian set up would fail to make an impact. Primarily because the course content is not on-line (or even in a state of being able to be ported online) and secondarily because the grading and examination processes are different. Then again we have to consider the need of different education boards in the country.
If you notice carefully, we have travelled down a rocky path till now. We began with the assumption that the current way of providing FLOSS for education is not proper and ended up with the real need to motivate developers to create applications or add functionality to existing applications. For example, a software like DrGeo would do pretty well if advanced mathematics modules aimed at standard 10,11 and 12 are added to it. Using that in conjuction with Octave, R and gnuplot would enable the creation of a complete tool set of educational applications for mathematics. And this is exactly what is lacking right now – the means to create modularised education stacks which can be plugged into a FLOSS based educational application framework. One framework for an entire board with modules being added at will to enable it to be re-used.
Involving developers and academic world leads to another phenomenon – User Driven Innovation. In case of a education stack based on FLOSS, UDI is the only way to get it going. It will pull in developers of various skillsets interacting with maintainers of existing packages as well as ensure that a proper fit software is developed.
I was reading through The Tipping Point again yesterday evening and what struck me was that it is time that community based Indic L10n needs to find its tipping point as soon as it can.
The Tipping Point is an examination of the social epidemics that surround us.
. For a moment forget about the semantics of the word epidemic and concentrate on how little things can coalesce to bring about big changes. Around a year and a half back, Indic L10n was a mish-mash of teams racing against each other and time to achieve complete translation for the various desktop environments. Today it is time to consolidate those efforts into providing one little push that will go a long way in changing the scheme of things.
With the release of the sub 10,000 INR desktop PC preloaded with Linux, the hardware vendors have clearly sent out a message that on the desktop, there are Linux applications which are complete in their own way. What needs to be put in place is an understanding of the most commonly used applications on the desktop and making them available in the currently active Indic Languages. One method of collating the information could be a wiki page on IndLinux. The idea would be to capture the localisation/translation status for applications as well as rendering and other known issues which could hinder their adoption on the desktop.
How long does it take to open a Savings Account ?
6. We were advised that according to existing Reserve Bank of India circular, joint account opening applicants have to fill up a form for Blood Relatives, which curiously states that the Spouse is a blood relative. The original application form however defines a blood relative as father, mother or sibling.
The fun part is that during the entire exercise, I was informed by Investment personnel about the stellar service record of ICICI, credit card executives talked about how ICICI credit card is one of the most popular cards. Wonder when will ICICI get its customer service act together – if this is the way existing account card holders get treated at one of the bigger branches, what will new account holders face ?
Or this could also be why LinuxForYou needs to pull up itself by the bootlaces and get its act together. Time is changing and changing far too rapidly for this magazine to lose focus.
On the fateful 26th (hereinafter known as The Flood), I met Alolita and Robert at the office. Sooner or later as it always happens the smalltalk veered towards LFY and how an uplift and a change of focus would be the order of the day. I had promised them that I will blog about it. Well, one month delay – but blog I did never the less.
LFY appeared at a curious crossroads. PCQ after doing a lot of good for the FLOSS (and especially Linux as an OS) space, suddenly took its focus away from FLOSS to various aspects of the enterprise stack. Additionally, both CHIP and Digit were doing the now-you-see-us and now-you-don't trick. The momentum built up by the LUGs on the back of PCQ needed a magazine that they could talk about in their monthly meetings, distribute. More importantly, they needed a medium which was tangible enough to take home to. LFY was the perfect gift. It had articles that assumed that a lion's share of its readers will be doing Linux for the first time. Instead of trying to be many things to many people, LFY decided to be a single thing to a demanding audience. And it worked.
Here's hoping that the editorial team does take this as a request as soon as they can.
The HT Magazine in a recent issue (21st August 2005) carries a column by Saubhik Chakrabarti on the recent launch of low cost PCs by some of the vendors. The uniqueness of the low cost launch has been that all these sub 10,000 INR PCs/Desktops come preloaded with Linux. Saubhik argues that it is not a bargain and that sub 10K desktops end up costing much more in terms of upkeep and usage.
The problem with the column is that it gets it wrong. Right at the beginning there is this nice blurb that the work you do on a Linux PC may not be transferable to a Windows PC. Around 2 years ago, this would have been readily agreed to. As of today, it is a trifle hard to believe. Given the large volume of desktop deployments, that particular argument will not hold water. The solution proposed is even more laughable. Install Windows on the PC.
When Acer began to ship Linux pre-loaded laptops at very affordable prices, a large volume of the sale was driven by buy the laptop-upgrade the RAM-install Windows cycle. The entire notion of providing a sub 10K PC is to provide a computing environment that is complete. It allows the desktop to be used for SOHO purposes. That means practically allowing it to perform flawlessly through the entire spectrum of office applications, media applications, internet browsing, e-mailing, IM and what not as well as some fun and games. A completely sane installation of any Linux Operating System allows one to do the same.
The column makes the same mistake again when it re-iterates that 128MB of RAM is much too less for Windows. But that is basically the point. Given the current price point of RAMs, spending another 2500 INR would provide the user with a sufficiently responsive desktop. And as the article goes on and on about how the PC will falter if one wants to use it as a home theater, one is inclined to believe that the author has not used (or perhaps even seen) a modern Linux desktop.
Buying an Alto and then analysing why it will fail to carry Qualis kinds of performance is not the right way to review either hardware or software. Perhaps Saubhik would do well to put across his functional needs for a SOHO desktop and have someone demonstrate the same on a Linux machine.
Mi primer PC…. ¡Pero de VERDAD!
Even as we welcome the interest your administration has shown in developing the social program "Mi Primer PC" (My First PC, or MPPC), which aims to put computers within the reach of families with few resources, we feel that it is imperative to let you know of our objections to the terms by which this public-private initiative is being offered to the public.
The LUGs are in demand at the LUG – Fedora Project Wiki. Go ahead sign up your LUG for getting involved.
The Freedom Toaster is a conveniently located, self-contained 'Bring 'n Burn' facility, where users bring their own blank discs and make copies of the open source software they require.


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Fred Meyer boycott ends as union reaches deal
UFCW 555 reaches tentative deal with retailer, ends call for boycott
Michael Browne | Sep 30, 2019
The union representing Fred Meyer workers in Oregon and Washington reached a tentative agreement with the retailer over the weekend, putting an end to a boycott that the union called for a week earlier.
United Food and Commercial Workers Local 555 called for the boycott of Kroger-owned Fred Meyer supermarkets on Sept. 22 amid tense contract negotiations that began more than a year ago.
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The agreement was reached during a two-day session that began between negotiators on Thursday, Sept. 26. That session culminated with the tentative agreement being reached at around 9 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 28.
UFCW 555
UFCW called for a boycott of Fred Meyer stores on Sept. 22. After reaching a tentative agreement Sept. 28, the boycott was lifted.
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Details of the agreement were not released. Union members must ratify the agreement before it becomes official. The union said it will determine ratification meeting dates over the next few days. (Read the full statement from UFCW 555.)
"UFCW Local 555 thanks everyone for their support of our boycott campaign," the union said in a statement. "Our bargaining team is happy to report that we were successful in addressing all of our concerns. Local 555 recognizes that this would not have been possible without the support of our community.
"We are now asking all of our supporters to cease the boycott and resume their normal shopping habits, including shopping at Fred Meyer," the statement added.
Our boycott against Fred Meyer was highly effective, due to your hard work in building relationships with your communities, who stood strong and proud with us! The boycott has ended, effective immediately.
— UFCW Local 555 (@ufcw555) September 28, 2019
In a statement to employees released on its website, Fred Meyer said, "Fred Meyer and the UFCW Local 555 have reached a tentative agreement for a new contract covering the company's more than 10,000 associates working in 54 stores in Oregon and Southwest Washington. The union will share the details in upcoming ratification meetings. Thank you for your patience during this process and your commitment to serving our customers and community."
For more than 15 months, UFCW Local 555 had been trying to negotiate better pay with the region's biggest supermarkets, including Fred Meyer, QFC, Safeway and Albertsons. The union is negotiating on behalf of about 25,000 workers across Oregon and Southwest Washington.
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