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Who will be the failed state, Iraq or Kurdistan?
The future of Kurdistan
by Rachel Avraham | on July 18th, 2017 | 0 comments
Contrary to certain claims, any objective analysis comparing former Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki to Kurdish Prime Minister Nichervan Barzani illustrates that Kurdistan is not destined to be a failed state.
An article published in Newsweek claimed that an independent Kurdistan would be a failed state, stressing that disputes over water, borders and the existence of militias hinder the success of an independent Kurdistan. While I don't try to minimize the difficulties that the Kurds face in solving water and border disputes as well as the obstacles posed by Turkish and Iranian opposition to Kurdish independence, the fact that they have these problems does not predetermine that Kurdistan will be a failed state. Indeed, the reality of life in Iraq under former Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki versus life in Iraqi Kurdistan under Prime Minister Nichervan Barzani proves who truly will be the failed state.
Under the rule of former Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki, Sunnis were tortured, raped, abused and even ethnically cleansed. Baghdad went from being 45% Sunni in 2003 to 25% Sunni at the end of 2007. As a result, former Baathists launched a bloody insurgency that included suicide bombings, car bombings, kidnappings and other terror attacks. This led to a civil war that left tens of thousands of innocent Iraqis dead. In an American attempt at damage control, the US sought to have the Awakening Movement, which consisted of Sunni insurgents, to point their guns at Al Qaeda instead of US troops. However, Maliki did not deliver on his promises to them, which left them bitter, unemployed and susceptible to further radicalization. As a result, the Iraqi Army became a largely Shia militia and this worked to undermine Iraqi unity.
After Obama became US President and vowed to end US involvement in Iraq, Maliki began a systematic campaign to destroy the Iraqi state and to replace it with his own personal political party. Professional generals were sacked and replaced with party loyalists. Corruption was also rampant. According to the New Yorker, almost 220 billion dollars had been allocated for some 6,000 projects yet little or no work was done on them. About 70 billion dollars were handed out in government loans that have as of yet to be repaid. In 2010, the Iraqi people were fed up with Maliki's corruption and he lost the elections to a moderate, pro-western coalition encompassing all of Iraq's major ethnic groups.
However, even though he no longer had the largest party in parliament, the Obama administration supported him staying in power in violation of the Iraqi Constitution. To make matters worse, Iran offered to start backing Maliki in exchange for control over several government ministries and this sealed him staying in power. As a result, Maliki was given the first shot at forming a coalition, got American forces to leave Iraq on unfavorable terms and remained in power until 2014, which had devastating consequences.
As a result of the 2010 elections, Sunni Arabs, who joined in a coalition together with Christians, Turkmen, Shia Arabs disgruntled with Maliki and Kurds, were outraged that after they had fought against Al Qaeda and won the elections, they could not have a Sunni Prime Minister. And when US forces withdrew and stopped reigning in on Maliki's excesses, Iran filled the void and Maliki ordered the arrest of Sunni Vice President Tariq Al Hashemi, which alienated Sunnis even more. Hashemi was forced to flee the country and was sentenced to death in absentia. He is in exile to date.
But Hashemi was not the only victim for in no time at all, Maliki was using his security forces in order to go after all of his rivals. Tens of thousands of Sunnis were rounded up and were held in prison for years without a trial. According to Human Rights Watch, some of the Sunni prisoners were even massacred. It is indisputable that the US backing Maliki staying in power even after his electoral defeat significantly contributed to the rise of ISIS in Iraq for the Sunnis felt persecuted and lost hope in the political process. This led to their radicalization. Thanks to Maliki, Iraq is truly a failed state today and will remain so despite the eviction of ISIS from Mosul for the sectarian conflict and corruption Maliki nourished still have of yet to be resolved.
In contrast, the Kurdistan Regional Government was thriving during the same period of time. Kurdistan's Prime Minister Nicharvan Barzani is the man who made the export of Kurdish oil to Turkey and Kurdish-Turkish rapprochement possible. In the beginning, when Barzani stated that he not only wanted to export Kurdish oil but to do it via Turkey, numerous people thought it was an unrealistic dream. But today, Iraqi Kurdistan is a major exporter of oil via Turkey and Barzani has a good working relationship with the Turks. Under his leadership, trade between Turkey and Iraqi Kurdistan amounted to $8 billion and a former foe of the Kurds was transformed into a business partner.
This happened for a number of reasons. For starters, Barzani prudently decided that he seeks to establish a state only in Iraqi Kurdistan. He does not seek Turkish territory. This helped to calm down the Turks. Secondly, Iraqi Kurdistan under his rule has much to offer the Turks. For example, the Kurdish oil industry has been so successful that numerous major companies like Exxon-Mobile and Chevron prefer to operate from the relatively safe Iraqi Kurdistan, even if it means they won't be able to operate in Iraq. The fact that Barzani was able to ensure that his region of Iraq would remain the safest and would be free of sectarian strife helped to enable confidence in foreign investors including the Turks. And like everyone else, the Turks need oil and they prefer to obtain it by not operating in an area in the midst of a civil war.
In addition, Barzani's development projects enriched the entire region and helped to build the foundations of a state, which the Kurds hope will be established after the referendum this fall. Barzani is also working in order to bring corruption to a halt and to bring back money that was wasted by the government. With the help of the UK, Germany and the US, he reformed the Peshmerga and is working to have a strong united army to protect the new state.
By building alliances, turning foes into business partners, ensuring safety for all, protecting minorities, avoiding sectarian strife, developing the region, fighting against corruption and uniting the Peshmerga, Barzani has demonstrated true leadership abilities. These qualities all demonstrate the marks of a statesman who knows how to deal with problems. If he has the will, determination and the skills, there is no reason why he won't succeed, even if he faces numerous obstacles, such as Iran seeking to sabotage Kurdish independence, Turkish concerns over the referendum, border disputes, water issues, existence of militias, etc. So thus in conclusion, I think we should encourage the Kurds to continue to work hard to build a second Israel in the Middle East, who respects human rights, minority rights, women's rights and gay rights. We should not predetermine that they will fail merely because they face real struggles.
Rachel Avraham
Rachel Avraham is the CEO of the Dona Gracia Center for Diplomacy and the editor of the Economic Peace Center, which was established by Ayoob Kara, who served as Israel's Communication, Cyber and Satellite Minister. For close to a decade, she has been an Israel-based journalist, specializing in radical Islam, abuses of human rights and minority rights, counter-terrorism, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Azerbaijan, Syria, Iran, and other issues of importance. Avraham is the author of "Women and Jihad: Debating Palestinian Female Suicide Bombings in the American, Israeli and Arab Media," a ground-breaking book endorsed by Former Israel Consul General Yitzchak Ben Gad and Israeli Communications Minister Ayoob Kara that discusses how the media exploits the life stories of Palestinian female terrorists in order to justify wanton acts of violence. Avraham has an MA in Middle Eastern Studies from Ben-Gurion University. She received her BA in Government and Politics with minors in Jewish Studies and Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Maryland at College Park.
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We are going to cover different ways of tracking progress using Microsoft Project. I only have one PowerPoint slide which you can see on the screen. I already created some tasks, from task 1 to task 9 and I've also created resources that are 100% assigned to those tasks. I'm not only going to show you which tracking progress options are available in MS Project but I'm going to show you which ones to use when and why you'd use them. Before I start, I want to mention one important thing: whichever way you choose to track the progress, be aware you're dealing with accurate data. So, for example, if you're going to say one task is 50% completed, be aware that it IS 50% completed. MS Project is only a tool. Powerful tool but a tool. When you say something is 50% complete, it must be 50% completed so be aware of this accurate data. Of course you can track task progress from many different ways, from the most simple to the most complicated and I'm going to cover all of them during this session.
First of all, we have two possibilities. We can track percentage of complete and track percentage of work complete. What is the difference? The difference is, when you say something is 50% complete, it means that 50% of time is consumed. And if you say 50% of the work is complete, it means that 50% of estimated effort is complete and I'll show that to you later. You don't have any effort until you do not assign resources to those tasks. Let me start with the simple one. Here you can see task 1 which has 4 days estimation of duration. Let's say the task is 50% finished, or 25% or 75% or 100%…those tasks are shown here on the schedule part of task tab and you can see that it's 0, 25, 50, 75 and 100%. So, if I say for example that task 1 is 50% completed, in that case I say to MS Project, my task 1 here started as it was planned. All resources spent 50% of the time, task is 50% done. So it means that 2 days out of 4 are completed and you can see here, this is 50%. This is the easiest way of using task [?] progress. By the way, this will be the only way in which you can be able to use for the task in which you will not have a resource assigned [this sentence needs to be reworked]. Why? Because as I told you previously, if you don't have assigned resources on the task, you don't have the work as an effort and if you don't, you cannot track work or effort, whichever you prefer, don't track. Let me show you one specific example. Let's say that this is task 10, no resources. Now, you will see that I make it 4 days and you'll see that I can put 50% here but this task has no resources assigned and I'll show you the difference between this task and task 1 a little bit later. So, let me show you another thing. What if I don't want to say the task is 25% or 50% completed but 40% completed? In that case, I can't use this shortcut but in most cases. On the task tab, I'll use Mark on Task then update task. When I go to update task, I see a lot of things here. First of all, I'll see current situation. The current situation is that duration is 4 days and the current start and finish dates are the 21st to 24th of January. Now, here, in percentage of complete, I can put any percentage that I want. For example, I'll put 13% and click okay but…I strongly don't recommend this way of updating a task. Why? How can you say that task 4, which should last 4 days, is 13% or 16% complete? It's hard to measure those strange numbers so I would advise you use 10%, 20%, 30%, 40% or whichever percentage of completeness you are aware of which you are sure that's accurate. For example, I can put here 40%. When I put 40% here, 50% or any number, it says that my task example is 40% completed but it started as it was planned (21st of January) and it is only completed 40%. Now, let's give another example. I have another task and I'm going to show you percentage complete on that task but I'm going to show you here something a little different. I have George and Suzanne, those are my resources. I'm going to switch to resource sheet view and I'm going to you, for example, Suzanne, in Project, in changing working time, Suzanne is going to be on vacation from the 23rd to the 23rd so Suzanne is on her vacation today. So she's not able to perform anything on that task today. On the other hand, George, is available because there are no exceptions here so he's available to work on that task today. Now, let's go back to the Gantt chart. Let me show you how this task is shown in another view which is task usage view. In task usage view, I think you already know, you can see the hours which are going to be spent or planned to be spent per task, per day, per resources. So, here you can see that George, because…first of all, it's estimated 4 days duration. George is going to work Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Suzanne is going to perform those 4 days on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday because she's not available to work Wednesday. I'm going to show actual work here is because I'll need it a little bit later. I'm going to show you one thing which I've already shown you in the Gantt chart. My task number 10, a task with no resources, no work here and you're not going to be able to put it here because you don't have resources. If you want to see accurate data task usage view, be aware that you should assign resources on a particular task. Otherwise, task usage view is useless for you because here you can see how many hours is going to be spent per task and these other tasks, with these particular resources, for example in task 9…I hope that this is clear and now let's go see what happens in task 2, which has different calendars, if it's 50% finished. If I start 50% finished, you will see that Suzanne and George were working on the task first day, second day and for half of the third day, only George was working on it. Suzanne didn't work at all because she was on her vacation which leads us to one major point here. You can see the actual percentage of complete and actual work complete are not the same thing. Because I put 50% duration, it means that 50% for task 2 duration was spent. It's 2 and a half days. But on the other hand, the total hours which were spent are 16 hours on Monday because George and Suzanne were working. 16 hours Tuesday and only 8 hours Wednesday because only George worked while Suzanne was on holiday. And Thursday, Friday, no one worked. This leads us to 56% of work complete. Why? Because the total of work was 64 hours and the total of work completed is…let me count here, 32. And this is 32, 36…and if you divide 36 with 64, you will get to this number of 56%.
Okay, the second thing you should be aware of when you're putting in percentage of complete. Now let's go to a more complicated task and this is a task where you also have percentage of complete, with duration of percentage of complete but you can update something else. Let's say that you don't know percentage of completeness or you don't care about it. You can see here, actual duration and remaining duration. If you put here that actual duration is 1 day and you don't touch anything else, even the remaining duration, and you hit okay…what will happen? MS Project will calculate that one day is [?] duration and remaining duration will be 3 days. When I click okay and go back to that task, you will see that percentage of complete is now 25% because I previously put 1 day of [?] duration and the remaining duration is 3 days which is more accurate than percentage of complete. In this case, I know exactly that I already spent 1 day, all resources spent 1 day for that task and 3 days are calculated as remaining duration. Now let me put that nothing happened and now I'm going to go back. I can say, for example, of course I already spent 1 day on this job duration but I need, for example, 7 days. It means that, now, you can see that the previous plan duration was 4 days. Now, let's say, on the task, all resources, already spent 1 day but I need 8 days. If I now click on okay, you will see that these tasks will be spread and the finish date will be changed but also that the whole duration of the task will be 8 days. Which comes from actual duration which is always "how many days did I spend?" and remaining duration is "how many days are going to be spent on that task?" I'm going to click okay. You'll see that the duration is 8 days now. So I put, how many days I spent on that task but on the other hand, I put how many more days I estimated that I need for that task. If I put actual and remaining, it still means here that for my task it started when it was planned.
Now I'm going to show you a more complicated way. Let's say that I make this task 4 days needed, that's it not started. We have to reset the previous date and I'm going to select update task. Let's say we already spent a day, 1 day for this task and yes, we need 7 days but for some cases, we didn't start with that task as it was planned on the 21st of January but maybe earlier or later. Let's say that we didn't start the 21st but we started on the 22nd. Now, what'll happen is that this task will have actual duration for 1 day. The core duration will be 8 days which you're going to see here but the start date will be moved on the actual task start date. It means, in that case, that we spent 1 day and we need another 7 days but we started later, on the 21st of January. When I hit okay, you'll see that here's the 21st of January and we're going to be finished at the end of the month, 31st of January, that we need 8 hours and if you look here, that we spent 13%. Why? Because 13% is calculated by MS Project. Okay, I've now shown you how you can track task progress when you put actual duration, remaining duration and even start date but be aware of that.
I'm going to switch to the next task with start and finish date. If you put start date here, let's say a start date of Tuesday, you can put any number you want here. 8 days and 2 for remaining days. But if you put the 25th of January in finish date, then these numbers which are entered here are not going to be taken into consideration. MS Project will focus primarily on the start and finish date. Remember this: when you put finish date, the task is always 100% complete because when you enter it, it means the task is finished at that date. So when I put 22nd of January as the start date and 25th of January as the end date or finish date, no matter what I put in percentage of complete, actual duration or remaining duration, I will have the 22nd of January as the start date, 25th of January as the end date…you can see here that the task was 100% completed not matter what I put here. Those two fields, they precede us on any other fields in this form so, no matter, no matter what I put here, 80%, 75%, here I can put 1,000 days, 10,000 days in remaining duration but if I put 21st here for example and 25th of January, actual duration will be calculated on those 2 days. Remaining duration will be 0. Why? Because I put the finish date and when I put that, no work is left because the task is finished and percentage of complete will be 100%. And those are the easiest ways when you track according to duration.
We have another way in which we want to track our task and those tasks can also be tracked with how much work is completed. If I go here and I put update task, I'm not able to track through this form. What I can do is switch from Gantt chart, for example, to task usage. Okay, now, in task usage, I have task 5. And I have Jim and Jane. You can see that Jim and Jane are going to work 32 hours each because task duration is 4 days and they're going to work 8 hours per day on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Okay, I'm going to show you how to track how much work Jim has completed, Jane has completed and what if there's a difference? If I double-click on Jim, I'll have this form and I switch to tracking. If I track that, I'll see fields similar to duration. I have work, I have percentage of work complete, I have actual work, remaining work…actual start and actual finish. So let's say this task is planned to start the 21st of January and is planned to be finished on the 21st of January. I'll double-click on Jim, go to tracking and type that he has completed 25% of his work. What does that mean? It can be calculated that actual work is 25% of this work or let's say for easier calculation, 50% of 32 hours is the actual work so 16 hours and remaining work will be 16 hours. So I'm going to put in 50% and click on Jim. You'll see that Jim already completed 8 hours on Monday, 8 hours on Tuesday but Jane didn't work at all. Why? Because Jim is the only one I gave work to. Of course, I can say another thing. I can say, for example, that my actual work…I'll give my previous example with duration, is let's say 16 hours but I need 24 hours more. So it means that even though [?] was 32 hours, I put 16 hours as the actual work. It means that Jim has worked on that task 16 hours, he's already spent 16 hours but he has to work another 24 hours and I will click okay. You can see those 16 hours are here but since I need another 8 hours because I put instead of 16 remaining hours of work, 8 hours remaining of work, he is assigned with 8 hours of work on Friday. Now, this also means that, I put 16 hours and 24 hours here without touching actual start and that Jim has actually started as he planned, but let's say that he's started one day later. I can leave those 16 and 24 hours, what will happen? You'll see that this work will be moved. So here it says Jim didn't work on Monday at all because he started Tuesday. He already spent 16 hours…which 16 hours? 8 on Tuesday, 8 on Wednesday. And since he needs the remaining 24 hours, he's going to work 8 hours on Thursday, 8 hours on Friday and another 8 hours on Monday. And that's okay. Now, the same thing can be done with Jane. Let's say for example that Jane has 24 actual hours of work but let's say as an example that remaining work is 0. If I put remaining work 0 and hit okay, what I'm saying to MS Project…even when we planned that Jane has to work 24 hours for this task, actual work, performed work, spent work is 24 hours, Jane…she doesn't have to work anymore. This work will be completed and you can see here from…those 32 hours here in the front, she spent 24 hours and remaining work is 0, Jane has nothing to do on that task on Thursday. Of course, I could put that another way. I can say Jane started, with that task, on Tuesday, she finished it on Wednesday. What will happen now? Now, the work which was needed for Jane to work on that task will decrease from 24 hours to 16 hours because she started to work on the 22nd of January which is Tuesday and she finished on the 23rd which is Wednesday. Now you can see that exactly what I told you would happen actually happened. She started work Tuesday and everything is complete Wednesday.
Now, this is the second complicated way. Let's say I have a task usage view and resource usage view. When I go here, I can go to task usage view and resource usage view and do the most complicated way of tracking work. Now I'll show you exactly how it can be done. I hope you know that the work is calculated by a magic formula which is work is duration [?]. Let's say Nenad and Paula work on this task. I'm going to switch on task usage view. You can see that since I planned 4 days of work, I put Paula and Nenad on to the task. Paula, 100% and then 100% available. I assign us as 100% available. You can see that here in task 8, we are assigned to 8 hours per day so it's 32 hours for me. 4 days, 8 hours per day and 8 hours per day multiplied by 100% means that I'm going to work 8 hours per day and Paula as well. But if I want to say to MS Project, that I know I finished 16 hours and Paula finished 10 hours but I know how many hours were spent per day on the task, this is the most complicated way and you should be aware of one very important thing: if you're going to track your task in that way then you're breaking the formula. Because work is duration multiplied by units means that it has spread it evenly. But you will see, if I say, for example Paula has worked 4 hours Monday…what will happen? Since I have 32 hours of work which Paula should complete, if I put 4 hours here, you will see that remaining 4 hours from Monday will be put here on Friday. So Paula worked on Monday for 4 hours and since she needs to complete her hours, she needs 32 hours, she's going to work Friday for 4 hours. If I put, for example, 10 hours here, then it means that it means that Paula had worked 10 hours on Tuesday. So these 4 hours are now going to be 2 hours. Why? Because those 32 hours are 4 hours on Monday [?] Paula, 10 hours for Tuesday and remaining work is 32 hours minus completed work which is 14 hours and this becomes 18 hours. So Paula should work 8 hours Wednesday, 8 hours Tuesday and 2 hours Friday. So if I hear, say, that Paula didn't work Wednesday at all, those 8 hours are going to be Monday. The remaining work will spread so Paula has to work 8 hours Thursday, 8 hours Friday and the remaining 2 hours on Monday. But let's say Paula has worked hard and Thursday, she fulfilled all the tasks so let's say she worked the 18 hours. What will happen? Everything will go up from the right [?]. Let me show you once again. You should see that Paula should work 8 hours on Thursday, 8 hours on Friday and 2 hours Monday. I can say, okay she's finished those 18 hours and if I hit the enter button, it means that those 18 hours [?] and no work is left. This is how to work a day by day basis. Of course, I can do the same thing for myself. I can say for example, 32 hours. I worked 16 hours Monday and let's say 24 hours Tuesday. The whole day. What will happen? Nothing. The task will be finished, it will be 100% finished but the actual work will be increased. Why? Let me do this example step-by-step. I was assigned for 32 hours. I said I worked 16 hours on Monday. What does it mean? It means the remaining 16 hours will be fulfilled Tuesday and Wednesday. Let's say I worked 18 hours instead of 24 on Tuesday, then I have 16 hours left but I worked 18 hours. It means I worked more than 16 hours but I'm completed with my task. Unless I say here that I did 2 more hours. I can say okay, I worked but I need 2 more hours here and 6 more hours here. Well, I can do whatever I want for so for example I can say I worked 4 hours here but I also worked 6 hours here so you see, I can do whatever I want. Here, you'll see one specific…in information column, an assignment work has been added. So it was not edited by a machine or Microsoft Logic, it was edited by you. Be aware of that. If you go that way, you should be 100% sure that everything you put here is accurate because you're going to lose the magic formula which is work is duration multiplied by unit. Now this is day by day.
Let me show you one specific example here. Let's say that here we have 25 days of duration, not 4. Let's say, for this case here, I'm going to assign one resource. Let's say Peter. Peter is over allocated, he's assigned on another task but it shouldn't concern us here because this is just an example, what can I do? If I go to task usage view and I have Peter and he has to work 200 hours. What can I do? I can put day by day how many hours he's completed. I'll put 0% here because in my previous example, when I started this webinar, I already put that it was let's say 8% of the actual work was calculated but now, let's start from the beginning. Maybe I don't want to put day by day, maybe I want to put week by week. I'm going to right-click on the right part of this task usage. I'm going to go to timescale and in the middle tier, will be, let's say, month. But bottom tier is going to be week. Now, I can see that Peter has to work 40 hours which started on the 21st of January, 40 hours on the second week which started on the 28th, etc. I can put here, for example, that Peter was working 32 hours that week. Okay, everything is great and you will see that Peter has to work the remaining 8 hours which are fulfilled here because it was 40 hours (which started the 25th of February). But how many hours did Peter spend per day? I'm going to return to timescale. I'm going to switch from weeks to days and I can see that it was spread evenly. So I put the amount of hours and those are divided by working days. It was calculated that Peter was working 6.4 hours Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. So it can be done this way. Of course you can put month, you can put whatever you want in the timescale but be aware that you have accurate data. This is what I planned to show you with task usage view. Of course, you can have resource usage view. Let's say, for example, if I go to resource usage view, here I have a similar situation. But what is the difference between resource usage view and task usage view? By the way, I use both of them. Task usage view is something which says I have a task and those are resources that are going to perform that task. Task usage view is very useful when you're using task view when you're concerned about tasks. I want to see who is going to work on that particular task. But let's say that you want to how your resources are occupied. Then you would look at resource usage view because in the resource usage view, you will see each…for example, Peter. Peter is going to work on task 9 and task 10. Task 10 I edited just a few minutes ago. Here I can do the same thing for Peter. You can see that I can go to task and I can see here…put the same thing for Peter. You can see here, if I go to resource usage, I will have resource information. I will not be able to…when I double-click on Peter, actual work, I have to choose who task I want Peter to work on. I'm going to show you actual work. I can see here Peter has worked 6.4 hours previously on task 9. Now I'm going to double-click on task 9 here. For example, let's Peter started on the 21st of January and he did all the jobs on the 21st. It will be 100% completed. Peter is done with his work so that is another way I can track progress of the task in resource usage view. Of course there are many different ways which you can use…for example, you can go to details. You can go to work and you can put here actual work and remaining work as you move from task to task. Let's say here, I can put actual work, remaining work per user if I'm using task form. Right-click on this task form, go to schedule, I can see how much work should be performed by Barbara and Christine on this task. But if you want to use this task form, I suggest that you use work and here you can put actual work and remaining work. You can't put actual start and finish as well.
You can choose different ways of tracking task in your project. You don't have to use one approach for the whole project or task. For example, you can track task 1 by percentage, for task 2, track it by actual work and remaining work and task 3, I'm going to put actual day-by-day or week by week or whatever you want. So this is up to you but whichever approach you'll take, be 100% aware of one thing: get the accurate data because you shouldn't have inaccurate data.
I hope that you learned something new, I hope that this was successful for you and thank you very much for listening.


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No matter how kooky the woke culture idea is, there are some who abandon all rational thought to apply the idea.
This surrender of intellect to the crazy culture must be a compelling emotional need, as there is no other explanation for such foolishness.
This susceptibility has led to some respectable institutions and individuals becoming a laughingstock, dropping their institution and themselves into the land of the absurd where no sane person wants to follow. Examples of this peculiarity include:
The Toronto District School Board (TDSB), Canada's largest school board has established specialty schools for talented children, whether in dance, music, filmmaking, advanced mathematics, science, athletics, or writing, etc. This model was implemented to encourage talented children to develop expertise in their chosen field. To gain admission to the specialized schools, the student had to audition, write a test, or indicate their particular talent in some specific way to demonstrate their potential.
The woke culture, however, has now decreed that this system is a haven of elitism and privilege for students and discriminates against students who are less talented.
Consequently, the TDSB has decided to permit all students to have a chance to be admitted to special schools providing that they "express an interest" in a subject. If so, their names will be placed in a lottery to be chosen at random – regardless of aptitude, experience, or skill. The talented violinist or oboist, athlete, dancer, mathematician, etc., whose name is not pulled in the lottery will languish at home, with a less talented student replacing him/her in these specialty schools.
Military Chaplains to Cease being Religious
The military life is hard on families. They are uprooted to new assignments so regularly that they cannot put down roots in any community. They are frequently separated for long periods of time when usually the father is ordered away on extended duty, leaving the mother to hold the family together by herself. A soldier dying on the battlefield wants the comfort and solace of a chaplain of his own faith kneeling beside him in his agonizing last moments. This is why military chaplains are so vital in military life. They are needed to provide pastoral and spiritual care to members of the armed forces and their families.
However, an advisory panel, established by the Department of National Defence, has recommended that Roman Catholic and other armed forces chaplains be replaced by those of other faiths.
The Department of National Defense set up the advisory panel, called Systemic Racism and Discrimination Panel, which released its report in January 2022. To describe this panel's recommendation on chaplains as idiotic is to be unduly polite. Lunacy would be a more accurate description.
Section 6 of the report, titled "Re-defining Chaplaincy", states that for some Canadians, "religion can be a source of suffering and generational trauma because the faith of some chaplains do not subscribe to diversity by excluding women from the priesthood because of sexist notions in their dogmas". Further, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and two-spirit, as well as Indigenous peoples have suffered "generational trauma" at the hands of Christian religious leaders and must be protected from these chaplains. Presumably, these chaplains include Roman Catholic, Orthodox Jew, Muslim or Evangelical chaplains. The panel's solution was to recommend the rejection of chaplaincy applications whose "values" are not aligned with those of the National Defence. Who knew these individuals had the talent to assess the "values" of members of the armed service, let alone assess and replace Judeo-Christian and other traditions with their own moronic tinkering and misunderstanding of religion?
Fortunately, the office of the Minister of National Defence issued a statement that military chaplains from many faiths will continue as part of the Canadian armed forces. Somebody in the DND seems to have some common sense.
Universities in Kindergarten
Universities in Canada are so woke and immature that they can now fit very comfortably in kindergarten classes. Certainly, intellectual maturity has eluded them. They seem to be happy to play to the hilt the children's game "Simon Says", which kindergarten children love to play, whereby they imitate what the leader does and says. Great fun is had by all.
University of Waterloo, Ontario
The University of Waterloo has restricted three top tier research positions to exclude white, heterosexual males, and will employ in these positions only those who are Indigenous, female, (and those of course, who self-identify as such), or transgender, non-binary, or two-spirit.
One of the engineering positions is open only to First Nations, Metis, Inuit, and those from other indigenous communities across Turtle Island, which is what Indigenous people call Canada.
Universities seem to have assumed the false notion that discrimination can be good. It cannot. One's colour or group affiliation is the least important characteristic, no more important that the colour of one's shoes! Jews were excluded from universities in Canada until the 1930s. Here we go again.
It is an indisputable fact that when characteristics, such as colour, become the bar by which someone is offered a job, unfortunately, too often, one is going to hire people who are not the best qualified. It also suggests that the person hired could not make it on his/her own merit, which is the height of bigotry.
Laval University, Quebec City
Laval University policy specifies that only women, Indigenous people, people with disabilities, and visible minorities will be considered for employment.
A job offer, however, should be open to all candidates. According to Quebec's Minister of Indigenous Affairs, Ian Lafreniere, "it's borderline insulting for a candidate to be selected because of their gender or skin colour".
Bluntly stated, this policy prevents an individual with a certain profile from being evaluated on the merits of their skills. This is clearly discrimination.
Mount Royal University, Calgary, Alberta
Professor Frances Widdowson, a tenured professor at Mount Royal University since 2008 (fourteen years), was dismissed from her position in the Department of Economics. She, alas, had the temerity to say out loud that residential schools had educational benefits and was also critical of Black Lives Matter. Such unthinkable opinions openly stated, in university conversations, are not permitted. Intellectual exchanges are off limits at universities. It is rare for a tenured professor to be dismissed for political views, but that is what has occurred at Mount Royal University.
Professor Widdowson, however, is not quivering in fear over her firing, but has appealed the decision. She has dared to breach the 'Simon Says" rules required at universities. In the woke culture, universities are reduced to the level of kindergarten children.
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Optiz C syndrome (OCS) is an ultra-rare condition whose symptoms are often mistaken for Bohring-Optiz syndrome, Kabuki syndrome, or Kleefstra syndrome. The disease affects patients physical and intellectual abilities however the severity of symptoms vary significantly between patients. These symptoms include trigonocephaly and psychomotor retardation among others.
OCS is so rare that there are only a handful of patients diagnosed across the globe. It was first described by John M. Optiz in 1969. Our lack of knowledge surrounding this condition is still so extreme that prenatal diagnosis, genetic counseling, and treatment as a whole, are currently inaccessible.
Many are living with incorrect or incomplete diagnoses purely because of the lack of knowledge surrounding this condition.
OCS is so difficult to diagnose because it has a heterogenous genetic base not shared among patients. In other words, although patients share many clinical signs of disease, their genetic base is different. Additionally, the hereditary transmission of this condition is still not well understood.
Researchers from the Group on Human Molecular Genetics are working to broaden our understanding of the genetic basis of this disease. This group is composed of scientists from the University of Barcelona as well as the Rare Diseases Networking Biomedical Research Centre (CIBERER).
Researchers explain that especially for ultra-rare conditions, we need to utilize new technology that has the capacity to complete whole-exome sequencing. This, they believe, will allow them to determine the exact molecular diagnosis of patients. Once the diagnosis is known to be accurate, they can work more efficiently at developing the most appropriate approach for treating it.
In order to accomplish these goals, they contend that international collaboration will be necessary. As more researchers have become involved in the study of OCS we have learned more and more about its manifestation. Slowly but surely we are making progress in developing an effective treatment for this patient population.
You can read more about the ongoing research in OCS here.


It's time for some sensory play peeps! Not only do sensory activities encourage kids to explore new textures and materials, they can also help children develop new skills. Play-Doh, sensory bins, bubbles and water beads are just a few examples of activities that give kids the opportunity for sensory exploration. The key to making sensory activities successful is to make them fun and easy (plus easy to clean up!). Here are three sensory activities you can try with your children on the Play Mat.
Foam: Kids love playing with the squish-able and squash-able properties of foam. I love using it in therapy, but it was always such a pain to cleanup! Now I use it on the Play Mat, and cleanup has become ezpz - the foam clumps together on the silicone mat! I also find that kids are drawn to the way I separate the foam colors in the flower compartments, which makes it an organization activity for both individual and group play. I use foam for reinforcement, sensory breaks, color matching, managing behaviors, improving fine motor skills, creative play and improving speech and language skills. In my experience, kids open up and talk when playing with foam, which I use to my advantage in a therapy session. If you are hesitant about buying foam for your kids because of the mess, try using it on the Play Mat!
Manipulatives: Manipulatives are found in large quantities in classrooms, homes and therapy centers, but what are manipulatives? In the context of teaching, manipulatives are items that children use to support hands-on learning through play. Legos, crayons and blocks are a few examples that are great for teaching skills like counting, sequencing, colors and prepositions. To avoid stepping on that dreaded Lego, try using the Play Mat to keep toys and crafts on the mat, instead of on the floor. Placing manipulatives in the flower compartments also keeps the task clutter-free while improving a child's attention to the activity.
Slime: You can make homemade slime with glue, dish soap, laundry detergent, borax or liquid starch. I prefer to opt for less toxic ingredients when working with sensory kiddos that might lick their hands or accidentally eat the slime. Here is my ezpz sensory slime recipe.
Have your kids put the corn starch into a clear bowl and add some water. Ask them to slowly mix the ingredients with a spoon. Continue to add small amounts of water until it reaches the consistency your child prefers (some children like a runny texture and others like a more solid consistency). Pick a color and add a few drops of food coloring. Continue to stir the slime until the color is completely mixed in. Then, have your child knead the slime with their hands to make sure it is the perfect texture. That's it; now start having slimy fun!
How do you use slime and other sensory games with your kids? What is your favorite homemade slime recipe?


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The Suny Adirondack baseball team is headed to Nationals in Iowa after winning the Northeast District Championship.
The Suny Adirondack baseball team is headed to the National junior college Athletic Association Division III World Series
The team is made up of student athletes from all over the country.
They have worked hard all season and are excited to represent Suny Adirondack at the World Series
The team will be playing against some of the best junior college teams in the country.
They are prepared and ready to take on the challenge.
The Suny Adirondack community is behind them all the way.
Go Sundogs!
The team's first game is on May 27th.
Follow their progress at the National Junior College Athletic Association Division III World Series website.
Check back here for updates from the Suny Adirondack Baseball team
The Suny Adirondack baseball team has qualified for the NJCAA National Championship tournament for the first time in program history. The team finished the regular season with a record of 32-12 and earned the number one seed in Region III.
The Suny Adirondack baseball team is headed to Nationals! This is the first time in the school's history that they have qualified for the National Junior College Athletic Association Division III World Series The team earned their spot by winning the regional tournament and defeating nationally ranked Erie Community College in the process.
The team's success is due in large part to their strong pitching staff. Their ace, sophomore left-hander Tyler Hill has been nearly untouchable all season long In 14 starts, he has an ERA of 1.32 and has struck out 106 batters in just 101 innings pitched His dominance has helped lead the team to a 29-10 record overall.
The team will now head to Grand Junction Colorado to take on Clarkson University in the first round of the double-elimination tournament. The game will be broadcast live on ESPN3 and is scheduled for Friday, May 25th at 3:00pm EST.
The Suny Adirondack Baseball Team is headed to the National Junior College Athletic Association Division III World Series after defeating Genesee Community College 5-4, in the Region III Championship game on Sunday.
It is the first time in school history that the team has qualified for the World Series which will be held from May 27-June 2 at Lewisberry, Pennsylvania.
Suny Adirondack will be one of eight teams competing in the double-elimination tournament.
The Suny Adirondack Baseball team has qualified for the NJCAA Division III World Series for the first time in school history.
The Suny Adirondack baseball team is headed to Nationals after an amazing season. The team has worked hard all year and their dedication has paid off. We wish them the best of luck as they represent Suny Adirondack and the Northeast Region at the National Tournament
The SUNY Adirondack Generals baseball team is headed to the National Junior College Athletic Association Division III World Series after winning the NJCAARegion III tournament on Sunday.
The Generals, who are the top seed in the eight-team National Tournament will open play on Saturday, May 27, against fourth-seeded Rowan College at 12:30 p.m. EDT at David Allen Memorial Ballpark in Tyler, Texas.
SUNY Adirondack (34-12) won the region title with a 9-1 victory over second-seeded Herkimer County Community College
The Suny Adirondack Baseball Team is headed to the National Junior College Athletic Association Division III World Series after winning the Region III tournament on Sunday.
The team, which is made up of mostly local Community College students, entered the double-elimination tournament as the sixth seed. But they went on to upset third-seeded Herkimer County Community College second-seeded Mohawk Valley Community College and top-seeded Onondaga Community College to punch their ticket to Iowa for the national tournament.
"It's an unbelievable feeling," said Suny Adirondack Head Coach Steve Movies. "To come from where we did and to win four games against quality opponents, it's just a great feeling for our guys."
Suny Adirondack will now face Fort Scott Community College in the Opening Round of the national tournament on May 27.
The Suny Adirondack baseball team is headed to Nationals after an amazing season! We talked to Coach Tom about what it takes to be a great team, and here's what he had to say:
"Our team has incredible talent and dedication. They've worked hard all season long and it's really paid off. I'm so proud of them and I know they're going to do great things at Nationals."
We wish the Suny Adirondack Baseball team the best of luck at Nationals!
The Suny Adirondack Baseball Team has qualified for the National Junior College Athletic Association Division III World Series for the first time in program history.
The team, which is made up of mostly local talent, earned its spot in the 10-team national tournament by winning the Region III title on Sunday.
The team will now head to Greeneville, Tenn., where they will play their first game on Saturday, May 25, against Tyler Junior College out of Texas.
The SUNY Adirondack Baseball Team is headed to the National Junior College Athletic Association Division III World Series The team, which is made up of players from New York, Vermont, Massachusetts and Rhode Island will play its first game against Tyler junior college on May 31 at 1 p.m. in Grand Junction, Colorado.
The team's head coach Nateece admissions counselor Mike Gallo, said the team is excited to be headed to the World Series "Our guys have worked hard all season and they deserve this opportunity," he said. "We're looking forward to representing SUNY Adirondack and the Northeast region well."
The team's trip to the World Series is the first for a SUNY Adirondack athletic team in school history.
The SUNY Adirondack Baseball Team is headed to the NJCAA Division III National Championship Tournament after winning the Region III title. The team is made up of student athletes from all over the country, including New York, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Connecticut and Florida.
The Suny Adirondack Baseball team is headed to the World Series! They have worked hard all season and are excited to represent Suny Adirondack at the national level. This is a huge accomplishment for the team and the school, and we wish them all the best of luck in the upcoming games.
The Suny Adirondack Baseball Team is headed to the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) Division III World Series! The team will be playing against some of the best junior college teams in the country. This is a huge accomplishment for the team and the school. We wish them the best of luck!
The SUNY Adirondack baseball team had an amazing season this year, and they are now headed to the National Junior College Athletic Association Division III World Series The team is understandably excited about this incredible accomplishment, and they are prepared and ready to take on the challenge.
The team has worked hard all season to get to this point, and they are determined to give it their all at the World Series They have shown great teamwork and resilience throughout the season, and they are confident that they can continue this success at the World Series
The SUNY Adirondack Baseball Team is a force to be reckoned with, and we wish them all the best of luck at the World Series
The Suny Adirondack community is behind them all the way. The team has worked hard all season and their success is a testimony to their dedication and commitment. We wish them all the best as they compete at the national level.
The SUNY Adirondack Baseball team has qualified for the National Junior College Athletic Association Division III World Series!
The Sundogs will head to Grand Junction, Colorado, to take on Southern Maine in the opening round of the double-elimination tournament.
This is the first time in SUNY Adirondack history that the baseball team has qualified for the NJCAA Division III World Series
We wish the Sundogs all the best of luck as they represent SUNY Adirondack and New York State at the NJCAA Division III World Series!
The Suny Adirondack baseball team has qualified for the NJCAA Division III National Championship Tournament. The team's first game is on May 27th.
The Suny Adirondack Baseball Team is headed to the National Junior College Athletic Association Division III World Series in Greeneville, Tennessee. Follow their progress at the National Junior College Athletic Association Division III World Series website.
The Suny Adirondack Baseball team is headed to NJCAA Division III national championship! Check back here for updates from the team.
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Celebrating Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month with NCLR Staff
by Bri Ozalas | May 27, 2021
At the end of April 2021, President Joe Biden released a proclamation declaring May as Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) Heritage Month. AANHPI Heritage Month is a time in which our country can honor and recognize the contributions and influence of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders on the United States' history, culture, and accomplishments. This recognition is especially significant currently, as many AANHPI communities face heightened fear and instances of anti-Asian biases during the time of the COVID-19 global pandemic. For AANHPI Heritage Month 2021, NCLR is spotlighting the voices of our AANHPI staff members about their experiences in the field of advocacy and social justice.
Cathy Sakimura
NCLR Deputy Director and Family Law Director
"This feels like a scary time but it's always been a scary time to be AANHPI in the U.S. Our communities have overcome so much. A shared value we have is supporting our families and communities, and we can do this by showing up for other people of color experiencing violence and oppression."
Cathy Sakimura, NCLR Deputy Director and Family Law Director
As NCLR's Deputy Director and Family Law Director, Cathy Sakimura (she/her) oversees NCLR's family law work and serves on the organization's senior management team. She recognizes that NCLR's social justice and advocacy work – through litigation and public education, from immigration to family, to employment – benefits AANHPI folks.
Sakimura notes that "NCLR's commitment to supporting native sovereignty whenever our work touches on native or tribal rights" has, from her perspective, always been a significant aspect of NCLR's work. Sakimura explains that she chose her area of work and advocacy because she has always been interested in keeping families together and how families with children are supported. Sakimura explains, "I get to work with truly amazing people – my incredibly strong clients and passionate colleagues," and that is what makes her job at NCLR fulfilling.
"Being Japanese American, our history in this country is that our grandparents and great grandparents were stripped of all their property and held in concentration camps," Sakimura explains. "But now are seen as a 'model minority' and we do experience privilege from proximity to whiteness. It's a short time for such a shift so both of these experiences are part of what it means to be Japanese American now."
Ming Wong
NCLR Supervising Helpline Attorney
"Dream big and share your most expansive vision for yourself, your communities, and the world! Don't get discouraged by skepticism or hate. You are more powerful than you know."
Ming Wong, NCLR Supervising Helpline Attorney
As NCLR's Supervising Helpline Attorney, Ming Wong's (he/him) work entails managing NCLR's helpline and the organization's student law clerk program, representing asylum-seekers through NCLR's Immigration Project, overseeing NCLR's Rural Pride program and Legal Aid training project, as well as maintaining the National LGBT Legal Aid Forum listserv.
"I'm very proud of NCLR's commitment to expanding the availability of culturally competent legal services to low-income LGBTQ people," Wong explains. He also notes that LGBTQ people of color, especially transgender and bisexual people of color, are particularly economically marginalized and more likely to qualify for free legal aid.
Wong explains that the work NCLR has been doing for decades includes representing asylum seekers, and more recently, DACA applicants and survivors of serious crimes in the U.S. These clients are overwhelmingly from countries that experience colonization and economic exploitation, contributing to political instability or corruption which ultimately enables violent homophobia and transphobia.
"To be honest, I'm just trying to live my life as my Asian self every month of the year!" Wong explains. "This is a reminder, though, for me to learn more about other AANHPI people's lives and what our peoples have faced and are struggling with today, including what lessons we can learn from our histories."
Regarding AANHPI Heritage Month, both Sakimura and Wong explain that 'AANHPI' encompasses such an incredibly varied group of people.
Sakimura notes that a large aspect of AANHPI Heritage Month is "understanding that there are so many different identities within these groups with different values and experiences" and that these different experiences shape and influence the different issues AANHPI people face every day. Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander people have faced colonization, assimilation, and erasure as native people, while East Asian, South East Asian, and South Asian people in the United States face different kinds of discrimination and have different immigration stories, Sakimura elaborates.
Wong explains that, globally, AANHPI people make up more than half of the world's people, though are a minority in the United States:
"I think for many of us, as a minority group in this country, visibility has positive and negative aspects," Wong states. "For me, it is positive when visibility means representations of AANHPI people as fully human – with interesting, passionate, funny, and often messy lives. It is negative when visibility means flat characterizations of us as merely terrorists, vectors of disease, sexually available and/or sexually inept (a particularly gendered depiction), or even 'good' stereotypes like being a 'model minority,' or dispensers of exotic ancient wisdom."
These stereotypes are used to justify harm and violence to AANHPI communities, such as hate attacks and hate speech, anti-immigrant policies, and even unlawful detention and torture. Even some of the "good" stereotypes are used to divide AANHPI folks from other people and communities of color, which overall undermines efforts to move the United States toward racial justice.
As Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month comes to a close, NCLR encourages you to continue to honor and value the voices and experiences of AANHPI folks not only this month, but year round, as well as advocate for AANHPI folks and speak out against anti-Asian hate in our country.


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In episode three we give a detailed overview of the NES' sound capabilities. Enduring some technical difficulties with the recording process, thank you for your patience!
Patrick and Steve discuss Konami's Wai Wai World soundtracks, a couple of Famicom titles that include a variety of covers/ rearrangements of other Konami tunes.
Patrick Todd and Steve Lakawicz host Retro Game Audio, a podcast dedicated to exploring the sound design used in classic video game music and examining the parameters of vintage sound hardware.
Join Patrick and Steve as they analyze video game music and discuss its history!


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Deputy kills two bicyclists
by tom • March 10, 2008 • 2 Comments
EDIT: Here's the latest from mercurynews.com.
Most of you have probably heard about this by now, but if not: Yesterday a Santa Clara County sheriff's deputy veered across Stevens Canyon Road in the hills west of Cupertino and rammed a group of road cyclists out on a training run. One died at the scene, the second died hours later. A third was critically injured but survived. From this morning's Mercury News:
Coming around a bend near a straightaway, the deputy accidentally crossed the center line and struck the group, Morrissey said. He called for help and immediately began CPR on one of the fallen cyclists, Morrissey said.
The sheriff's office did not release the names of the victims. But friends and bicycling Web sites identified the dead cyclists as Matt Peterson, 30, of San Francisco, and Kristy Gough, 31, of Oakland. Peterson died at the scene of the crash and Gough died several hours later after she was airlifted to Stanford University Hospital. Before and after she died, dozens of cyclists gathered at the hospital.
A 20-year-old man, identified by friends as Christopher Knapp of Germany, was seriously injured and was listed in stable condition Sunday night at Stanford University Hospital. The fourth rider was not hurt, CHP officer Todd Thibodeau said.
Eyewitnesses told local TV stations they overheard the deputy saying he had fallen asleep at the wheel. Mind you this is fourth hand by the time you're getting it from me, so take that with a gain of salt.
The article at the Chron's page generated over 180 comments at last look, most of them the usual empty speculation blaming whoever they assume to be blameworthy based on knowing none of the facts at hand.
This thread at bikeforums.com is a bit more sane, though they do get a bit preoccupied with the initial news reports — which are always based on tiny scraps of known facts — that don't square with their way of seeing things.
We'd all be best served at times like these to think of the friends, families, teammates and co-workers of the deceased. We're not going to be able to ease their pain but we can, at the very least, not make it worse.
UPDATE: Another interesting thread at Mountain Bike Review
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This story has freaked me since I first heard it, I used to ride my bike up there regularly. At the time, my biggest fear was the trucks going to and from the quarry. They were always going too fast. I never liked going around that particular bend. I hugged the shoulder and got off the road as soon as possible (the park entrance is about 100 yards up). Very sad for everyone involved.
I hate to say that I have been going through a bit of grief myself over the last week. My next door neighbor was killed a week and a half ago riding his bike on Los Gatos Blvd while making a left hand turn onto Blossom Hill. He and his wife had only been my next door neighbors for about a year and in that time he became a really good friend, helping me with my photography along with great advice on all manner of problems one encounters around the house. He was trained in photography and added the final touches to the Henry Coe picture of mine 10 rows down on this page and really made a difference in it: http://www.cynscapes.com/html/henrycoe.html
He was the nicest guy, forever cheerful, and loved by so many of the neighbors, just a pure joy to be around and his wife is the same way. Just wonderful and the best neighbors you could ever have. We were planning to do a photographic hike into Henry Coe later this month to look for wild flowers and then this happens and suddenly the neighborhood feels empty and lonely. It is a real punch in the guts for me and I can only imagine how his wife and daughters must feel. And so hearing of this new accident little more than a week later feels freaky in such a horrilbe way. I can only offer sympathy to all those involved as no words of mine could ever suffice. It is painful.


Awesome. So nice to hear. Thank you, Jonathan!
Thank you, Vicki! I'm so happy that it's helpful.
Thank you Andrea. The word "PLATEAU" immediately caught me. Some years back one of my mysore teacher brought this word to me when I experienced deep deep plateau in one of my poses. I recalled those painful times, both mentally and physically. Still I brought myself to the mat everyday without fail. I began to feel peace within whenever that plateau pose arrived. Before I can even remember, one day this plateau was behind me. I know this is certainly not the last one. The plateau simply makes my mind and body stronger. I love your podcast, thank you for sharing.
Thanks Andrea for this awe-inspiring talk. It helps me a lot!


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Bio-Miracle Bokutte Upa Famicom retrospective: Grade-A classic Konami | NES Works Gaiden #03
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By request of David Morton, a look at a game that wouldn't normally have come up in Good Nintentions: Konami's Bio-Miracle Bokutte Upa. A charming little platformer, the most fascinating thing about it may be the way it deftly combines elements from games that had come before it while also including mechanics and aesthetics of classics that would show up months or even years after its debut. Not bad! Definitely worth tracking down on Wii Virtual Console.


I'm sure many of you, like myself, use Google Chrome as your main browser. Chrome was built from scratch, with the exception of its engine (which was WebKit at the time), to be for the modern web. The internet is no longer a series of text-only pages with images, and Chrome was built with modern web applications and security in mind.
If you don't know, a rendering engine is the part of a web browser that displays content. Chrome and Opera use Blink, Safari uses WebKit, and so on. Firefox's engine, called Gecko, has been around for ages. In fact, it was originally developed for Netscape Navigator all the way back in 1997 to replace their existing rendering engine. Obviously Gecko has evolved a lot since then, but I'm willing to bet it still has a fair amount of legacy code.
While Mozilla has been working to make Firefox faster, recently with improvements like Electrolysis, the company is eager to keep improving the browser. Enter Project Quantum.
Quantum is Mozilla's attempt to replace components of Gecko with code from the relatively-new Servo engine. Servo development is actually sponsored by Mozilla, but due to Servo being very far from a complete engine, Quantum will bring some of Servo's best features to Gecko. In essence, it is a holdover until Servo becomes usable enough to replace Gecko altogether.
Now before you go and say "why don't they just use a faster engine instead of using Gecko," Servo is crazy fast. A benchmark from March showed Servo rendering a graphics-heavy page at 60FPS, with a nightly WebKit build at 5FPS and Chrome Canary at 15FPS. Servo's graphics backend is scheduled to arrive in Firefox as part of Project Quantum, and that's just one component.
Mozilla expects some of Quantum's improvements to hit Firefox users by the end of 2017. Project Quantum's improvements, when they are ready, will ship in all versions of Firefox - including the Android app.


Well equipped, versatile and environmentally responsible, this vehicle proves that compacts can be innovative and comfortable! Turbocharger technology provides forced air induction, enhancing performance while preserving fuel economy. Top features include front bucket seats, adjustable headrests in all seating positions, speed sensitive wipers, and remote keyless entry. Ford made sure to keep road-handling and sportiness at the top of it's priority list. It features an automatic transmission, rear-wheel drive, and a 2.3 liter 4 cylinder engine.


I thought I'd talk about what signs to look out for when your cat is sick. Cats can be quite elusive when they are sick and the signs they show can be quite subtle so it's easy to overlook sickness in cats.
Cats tend to go off and hide somewhere when they are sick don't they?
They can certainly become quite lethargic and spend most of the day sleeping somewhere in private. Cats normally sleep for 16 to 18 hrs a day but most of this is catnapping and they quickly become alert again when someone walks into the room. If your cat seems more sleepy than usual when you approach it then it may be sick.
Do cats always become lethargic and sleepy when they are sick.
No there are some illnesses that actually make the cat more active or hyperactive. An overactive thyroid gland can do that. Sick cats can also become quite aggressive as they are either in pain or just want to be left alone as they feel vulnerable.
So a change in normal activity or behaviour can indicate illness?
Thats right. Also a change in toileting habits is something to look out for. A sick cat is more likely to toilet inside either because there is an increased urgency to toilet or simply because they don't feel up to the effort of going outside.
What about appetite, That must be an important thing to look out for?
Absolutely. Again you need to look for a change in appetite rather than just a decreased appetite as some diseases cause cats to have a ravenous appetite.
Yes again it is a change in water consumption to look out for. A lethargic cat may drink less but a cat with diabetes or kidney problems will drink a huge amount.
Do sick cats lose weight?
Sometimes. Weight loss is always a concern and even if the cat appears to be normal in other ways they should always be taken to the vet for a check up. There is usually an underlying reason for the weight loss. There are also diseases that can make cats gain weight too so again it is a change in body weight to look out for.
What other things should people look out for?
A change in grooming habits. Cats should keep their own coat in good condition. If they start to get a matted or scurfy coat there may something going on. It may be too painful for the cat to groom itself. Also sometimes cats will start to overgroom and make themselves bald. This is often a sign of skin disease.
Do cats make a lot of noise when they are sick?
Sometimes cats will start howling for no apparent reason but it can be due to a variety of things from pain to an increase in blood pressure affecting the brain. Sometimes they will howl if they have suddenly become blind.
Is there anything else we should look out for?
Bad breath is something that people often notice about their cats. That can be due to bad teeth or gum disease but more commonly its due to a sore throat.
Would the cat be coughing if it had a sore throat?
No they often don't cough. They may be off their food a little but often the only sign is the bad breath and people sometimes ignore this.
So basically if there is any change in your cats normal behaviour or appearance you should take them to see the vet.
Yes thats what it boils down to. There is usually an underlying reason for any changes you might notice. What I've talked about today are some of the more subtle things to look out for but don't forget to look out for the more obvious things too like vomiting, diarrhoea, weepy eyes and noses, sneezing, fight wounds, lameness.


Hi and welcome to our Road Trip USA week on Kentucky!
Kentucky is the 26th state and known for it's finest thoroughbred race horses. It is also known as "The Bluegrass State" due to the vast expanses of Bluegrass across part of the state. They also have underground deposits of limestone which make the bluegrass in Kentucky famous! Also located in Kentucky is the Louisville Slugger Museum where you can go see the world's largest baseball bat and glove!
Read our National Geographic Atlas and located Frankfort, KY using the map coordinates.
U.S. President: Abraham Lincoln the 16th President of the U.S.
Each week we read through our National Geographic Atlas, then take turns finding the capital city as well as other fun things in the state using our excellent mapping skills that we've gained through our trip.
We also add our state to the Trend USA Wall Poster. I purchased two, then cut one up and put velcro dots on each state so it is easy to add them as we go through our trip.
As I read through our state facts the kids color in their state worksheet. This helps them to remember what they're learning as well as keep busy while we're reading through the information. It's a great way to get a visual imprint of each states fun facts as well as good for a quick review.
One of our favorite parts is adding our state animals to our classification wall. We have to take turns on these since they're hot items!
We also add our newly found state to our bulletin display.
At the end of our trip we always add our state flag to our travel journal before moving on to the next state!
Since it was a review week, we played games and added Louisiana and Kentucky mini-books to our southeast notebook page.
And that wraps up our Kentucky study! If you'd like to come along with us on our Road Trip USA journey, click the image below to learn more!
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Top 10 Cloud Cost Management Tools for 2021
What are the best cloud cost management & optimization (CCMO) tools to keep cloud spending under control? Here are 10 options to note.
by Joe Panettieri • Nov 1, 2020
There's booming demand for cloud services, but partners and customers that don't carefully manage those cloud workloads could face runaway costs for IaaS, PaaS and SaaS services.
To keep those as-a-service costs in check, partners can adopt cloud cost management and optimization (CCMO) tools and services. Indeed, demand for multi-cloud cost management and optimization tools has been surging — with cloud billing management tools alone expected to generate $9.34 billion in annual revenue by 2022, according to an IndustryARC report.
But which CCMO tools are the best?
Some clues emerge in the Forrester Wave: Cloud Cost Management And Optimization, Q4 2020 report. We're not at liberty to publish the complete report findings. But we can mention the vendors covered — while offering our views on recent developments at each vendor, coupled with a look at their respective partner program initiatives.
Here's a look at each company featured in the Forrester report– sorted alphabetically — plus ChannelE2E's perspectives.
1. Apptio Cloudability: Apptio acquired Cloudability in May 2019. At the time of the deal, Cloudability's Financial Operations (FinOps) Platform managed more than $9 billion in enterprise cloud spending across Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform. Fast forward to present day, and Apptio's partner ecosystem spans technology companies, resellers, and managed service providers. Those partners manage more than $100 billion in cloud customer spending, Apptio asserts.
2. CloudCheckr: The company claims to help partners and customers save 30 percent on public cloud costs while managing the risks of cloud security and regulatory compliance. Most importantly: CloudCheckr focuses aggressively on the MSP partner ecosystem. True believers include Cass Information Systems, which embraced CloudCheckr for Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) management services in 2018.
3. Densify: The company released its Cloud Cost Intelligence product to help customers manage their cloud services spending in August 2019. Densify was previously known as Cirba. The company rebranded in 2017 to reflect "the company's strategic value proposition to reduce cloud and infrastructure costs while also improving application performance." Although Densify has announced individual partner relationships and alliances, we haven't seen a major partner program push from the company. Still, the Densify partner ecosystem includes integrators and MSPs.
4. Flexera Optima: Flexera has acquired multiple cloud cost management, optimization and analytics tools in recent years. Example deals include Flexera acquiring RISC Networks (2019), RightScale (2018), MetaSaaS (2018) and BrainWare Group (2018). Take a closer look, and Flexera Optima is based on the RightScale acquisition. Flexera has more than 200 partners and solution providers worldwide, though we haven't heard much of an MSP partner push.
5. Nutanix Xi Beam: Nutanix, backed by private equity firm Bain Capital, has been evolving its HCI (hyper converged infrastructure) business from hardware to software and subscription services. The journey includes acquisitions. For example, Nutanix acquired Minjar in 2018, then relaunched Minjar's intelligent cloud optimization tool as Nutanix Xi Beam. Nutanix claims Xi Beam can save partners and customer 35 percent on cloud spending, and the company certainly is a partner friendly business.
6. Replex: The startup company in May 2019 raised $2.45 million in seed funding and $4.15 million since the company launched. Replex's platform allows business owners, finance managers and IT managers to see who spends what on cloud services within an organization. From there, the user can manage cloud chargebacks to specific departments or users for various cloud services, Replex says. We have not seen a formal partner push from the company.
7. Turbonomic: Turbonomic acquired ParkMyCloud in May 2019, uniting two firms that specialize in application performance management, cloud application migrations, along with cloud cost management tools. Turbonomic was founded in 2009 as VMTurbo and then rebranded under its current name in August 2017. Around the same time, there were rumors that Cisco was interested in buying the Boston-based firm. Turbonomic partner program details are here. Key adopters in the MSP and IT consulting sectors include AHEAD, Presidio and World Wide Technology (WWT).
8. VMware CloudHealth: VMware acquired CloudHealth in 2018. Ahead of the deal, CloudHealth had raised roughly $86 million in investment capital, including a $46 million Series D round led by Kleiner Perkins. CloudHealth touts its technology as enabling organizations to manage cloud cost, usage, security and performance from a single interface. And of course, VMware has a massive partner ecosystem.
Cloud Cost Management: Two More to Know
Admittedly, the Forrester Wave report on cloud cost management and optimization (CCMO) tools only covered eight companies. But ChannelE2E has at least two more CCMO offerings for partners to keep in mind. They include:
9. Kaseya Unigma: Kaseya acquired Unigma in 2017. Fast forward to present day, and Kaseya continues to support Unigma as a stand-alone product and it continues to perform well, according to Taunia Kipp, executive VP and chief marketing officer at Kaseya. Also, a significant amount of Unigma technology is now built into Kaseya VSA as part of the latest RMM (remote monitoring and management) software release, she adds. The result: VSA now includes public cloud management as a part of the core product.
10. Public Cloud Providers: Check in with the major public cloud service providers and you'll see that each of them now offers cloud cost management-related tools. One example involves Microsoft's own Azure Cost Management + Billing capabilities. Those features are based on Microsoft's acquisition of Cloudyn in 2017, ChannelE2E believes. Meanwhile, Google Cloud Cost Management and AWS Cloud Financial Management tools are available directly from those vendors, respectively.
More Top 10 Lists from ChannelE2E


30 years ago, Lyn Williams founded a single choir for young voices.
Since then, that original ensemble of 30 children has grown into the world-renowned Gondwana Choirs, reaching almost 1,000 young people from every corner of Australia every year through the Sydney Children's Choir program, our renowned national ensembles and Gondwana Indigenous Children's Choir.
To celebrate our 30th Anniversary, our choral friends from across Australia and around the world are joining us for the inaugural Gondwana World Choral Festival – the greatest gathering of choirs in Australia this century.
This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to hear the world's best youth ensembles right here in Australia and we need your help to make it possible.
Gondwana Choirs invites you to become a festival patron in 2019.
As a patron, you will receive access to exclusive events, acknowledgement throughout our 30th Anniversary year and ensure these magnificent young voices soar together.
Thank you to all those who have supported the Gondwana World Choral Festival.


It's been a month since 2012 began–did you keep your get-fit resolution? For those who kept their eye on the prize (a hot bod, of course) or or for those who are ready to get back on course, here are a few "skinny" cocktails from the Valley's Z'Tejas and RA Sushi restaurants.
Fill shaker with ice. Cut lemon in half, squeeze juice from both halves into the tin, and place one half of the lemon in the tin as well. Add remaining ingredients (Chambord Vodka, Chambord, Herradura agave nectar, soda water). Shake well. Pour into a raspberry-sugared 14 oz. big stick glass.
Muddle the blueberries, blackberries and agave nectar. Pour in Bacardi and lemon juice and shake with ice. Pour in martini glass and top with FOMZ Wildberry topping or another low calorie topping.
In a shaker, combine first four ingredients with ice. Shake and strain into chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with a lychee.
In a mixing glass, muddle half of the shiso leaf with agave. Add all ingredients except soda and shake with ice. Strain into ice filled glass, top with soda, and garnish with remaining shiso leaf and lemon.
In a mixing glass, muddle strawberry and ginger with agave. Add all ingredients except soda and shake with ice. Strain into an ice filled glass, and garnish with a strawberry and lemon twist.


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JULIE TIXIER
Demain, le Post-Humain?
Extraordinary Conceptions
Neuronal Bronx
Metamorflosses
Synthetic Mutations
Transflossification
New Species
Julie Tixier is a French photographer whose practice explores the way human nature is changing under the influence of emerging techno-sciences. She reflects on how these contemporary advances increasingly question the borders of humanity by altering and redefining our human species and its future evolution. Through her photographs, the artist reinvents the scientific language with non-scientific materials to tackle the experimental conditions of contemporary scientific research. She interlaces scientific methodology and unbridled imagination, blurring the boundaries between the organic and the synthetic, the human and the non-human. Somewhere between reality and fiction, the artist draws attention to complex issues in a satirical and playful language.
Julie Tixier currently works between London and Paris.
© 2019 Julie Tixier - All rights reserved.
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
. Artrooms Fair London, Meliá White House, London, UK (11-13 January 2019)
. Infinite Potentials, New York Hall of Science, New York, USA (September 8, 2018 - January 22, 2019)
. Infinite Potentials, ArtCell Gallery, Cambridge, UK (June 14 - July 14, 2018)
. Transflossification, Three-fold, BUILTIFOU gallery, Hangzhou, China
. Transflossification,Three-fold, Final Show MA Photography, Ugly Duck Gallery, London, UK
. Synthetic Imaginaries, Collision, Collaboration and the Future of Artsci, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
. Demain, le Post-Humain ?, Offprint Art Publishing Fair, Tate Modern, London, UK
. Trans-species, Selected project for Saatchi Screen, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
. Extraordinary Conceptions, Interim Show MA Photography, LCC, London, UK
. Demain, le Post-Humain ?, DSAA Final Show, ENSAAMA, Paris, FR
. Let us make history together, show organized for Krug, Guerlain, Gien and Yves Delorme in partnership with the Comité Colbert and Central Saint Martins, ENSAAMA, Paris, FR
. Images pages: from idea to book, curated by Arnaud Baumann, International Photography Festival, Arles, FR
SELECTED PRESS & PUBLICATIONS
. Maize Magazine, Relentless Evolution, Issue #9, 2020
. E-Squared Magazine, Issue #5, 2019
. ACS Magazine, Artrooms London Fair 2019 issue
. InVisible Culture, Issue 27: Speculative Visions, November 2017
. Pigeons & Peacocks Magazine, October 2017
. STOP. Magazine, First Issue, Spring 2017
. Sound Project, Collaboration with Anna Toussaint, 2017
. ZIMA Magazine (fka Russian Gap), Issue 9: The Future, Spring 2017
. Three-fold, LCC MA Photography, Group Exhibition Catalogue, 2016
. NEON Magazine, Issue 30, 2014
. Étapes Magazine, Julie Tixier by Hanja Anoukian, Issue 222, 2014
. Belfast Photo Festival, Shortlisted, 2017
. MEAD Fellowship UAL, Shortlisted, 2017
2015—2016: Master Degree of Photography from University of the Arts London, UK
2012—2014: Master Degree of Graphic Design, Creator-Designer, from ENSAAMA, Paris, FR
2010—2012: Bachelor Degree of Visual and Audiovisual Communication (Publishing, Graphic Design & Advertising) from J-P Vernant, Sèvres, FR
Please get in touch for any collaboration, prints or other enquiries.
info@julietixier.com
'Synthetic Mutations' uses an algorithm that selects, replicates and distorts to the point that it generates unpredictable changes. This digital algorithm becomes a morphogenetic process that simulates the way genetic mutations happen. Scientific colours are twisted and pushed to their extreme artificiality. From algorithmic growth to colour scheme, the work magnifies the infinitely small and the obsessional repetition of an inhuman scale. The surrounding proliferation highlights the gigantic and out of control repercussions that genetic mutations could give birth to.


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Myanmar elections under junta will fuel violence: UN
Myanmar has been in turmoil since the military toppled democratically elected State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi and her civilian government almost two years ago, alleging massive fraud during elections her party won in 2020.
Peru declares state of emergency amid deadly protests
New government declares a 30-day state of emergency amid deadly protests against the ouster of ex-president Pedro Castillo.
Jamaica reimposes state of emergency to combat gangs
PM Andrew Holness says measures reimposed in many parishes are in response to a wave of gang violence on the island, brushing off his critics, saying he is concerned about saving lives.
Italy declares state of emergency after landslide as death toll increases
The Italian government released the first tranche of two million dollars in relief funds following a deadly landslide in the south of the country, where rescuers are still searching for a dozen missing people.
Honduras under state of emergency over spike in gang extortions
President Xiomara Castro imposes emergency after hundreds of bus and taxi drivers protested in capital Tegucigalpa to demand the country take steps to stop gangs from extorting a "war tax" from them.
Florida declares emergency as Tropical Storm Ian strengthens
Authorities urge residents to prepare for Ian that is forecast to become a major hurricane within days as it tracks toward the US state.
Myanmar junta curbs political parties meeting foreigners
The junta extended a state of emergency by six months saying elections could only take place when the conflict-wracked country is "stable and peaceful".
Myanmar extends state of emergency for six months
The junta first declared a state of emergency after seizing power from the government of Aung San Suu Kyi in a coup in February last year.
Sri Lankan protesters storm PM's office after president flees country
Protesters defy tear gas, water cannon and a state of emergency to storm the prime minister's office after the president fled overseas, with the crowd demanding both men step down amid an economic crisis.
Ecuador declares force majeure for oil, state of exception over protests
The move followed president's decision to declare a state of exception in three provinces, in a bid to calm protests called by Indigenous groups rejecting the government's economic policies.
Sudan's military lifts state of emergency imposed since coup
Military leader, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, issues decree lifting a state of emergency that he imposed after seizing control in a military coup on October 25 last year.
Sri Lanka declares state of emergency for second time in five weeks
Sri Lanka's President Gotabaya Rajapaksa invokes the tough laws to "ensure public order" after a nationwide strike brought the South Asian island nation of 22 million people to a standstill amid weeks of unrest.