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Current: Adria L. Scharf
Adria L. Scharf
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Nonprofit Studies
Peacemaker Award, Interfaith Coalition of Greater Richmond
Human Rights Award, Church Women United, Inc.
Living the Dream Award (RPEC)
Racial Justice Award, Virginia Organizing (RPEC)
Style Weekly "40 under 40"
Beyster Fellow and Project Director (2019-Present)
Curriculum Library for Employee Ownership, Rutgers University School of Management and Labor Relations, Piscataway, N.J.
Executive Director (2005-2019)
Richmond Peace Education Center, Richmond
Co-Editor (2002-2005)
Economic Affairs Bureau, Boston, Mass.
Grant Writing Certificate, University of Richmond
Drago, B. (2005). Striking a balance: Gender, work and family (A. Scharf et al., Eds.). Economic Affairs Bureau.
Collins, C., Fireside, D., Gluckman, A., Leondar-Wright, B., Lui, M., McBride, J., Offner, A., Rao, S., & Scharf, A. (Eds.). (2004). The wealth inequality reader. Economic Affairs Bureau.
Scharf, A., & Bhagat, R. (2007). Arts and peace education: The Richmond Youth Peace Project. Harvard Educational Review, 77(3), 379-382. https://doi.org/10.17763/haer.77.3.f73t755p4v738x8q
Buchele, R., Kruse, D. L., Rodgers, L., & Scharf, A. (2010). Show me the money: Does shared capitalism share the wealth? In D. L. Kruse, R. B. Freeman & J. R. Blasi (Eds.), Shared capitalism at work: Employee ownership, profit and gain sharing, and broad-based stock options (pp. 351-375). University of Chicago Press.
"Pulling Together," Style Weekly, April 21, 2020 (with co-author Thad Williamson)
"Path to Peace," Richmond Magazine, December 2017
"15 Years After 9/11, It's Past Time to Rethink America's New Normal," Style Weekly, September 6, 2016.
"Facing—and Teaching—Our Racial History," Richmond Times Dispatch, March 13, 2016.
"Our Best Self-Defense," Richmond Times Dispatch, February 4, 2013.
"Bulding a Peace Economy," Richmond Times Dispatch, September 12, 2012.
ascharf@richmond.edu
B.A., Swarthmore College - 1994
M.A., University of Washington - 1998
Ph.D., University of Washington - 2006


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Indianola es una ciudad ubicada en el condado de Red Willow en el estado estadounidense de Nebraska. En el Censo de 2010 tenía una población de 584 habitantes y una densidad poblacional de 180,68 personas por km².

Geografía
Indianola se encuentra ubicada en las coordenadas . Según la Oficina del Censo de los Estados Unidos, Indianola tiene una superficie total de 3.23 km², de la cual 3.23 km² corresponden a tierra firme y (0%) 0 km² es agua.

Demografía
Según el censo de 2010, había 584 personas residiendo en Indianola. La densidad de población era de 180,68 hab./km². De los 584 habitantes, Indianola estaba compuesto por el 98.12% blancos, el 0% eran afroamericanos, el 0.34% eran amerindios, el 0.17% eran asiáticos, el 0% eran isleños del Pacífico, el 0.51% eran de otras razas y el 0.86% pertenecían a dos o más razas. Del total de la población el 1.54% eran hispanos o latinos de cualquier raza.

Referencias

Enlaces externos

Ciudades de Nebraska
Localidades del condado de Red Willow

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Q: Keep centered a cropped jpeg image into circular tikz node This is a follow up to this question.
Once I positioned the node that crops the image relative to another node, the cropped image is not centered any more inside the circle.
How to fix it?
I want the letter "A" of the example-image-A to be centered.
\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{backgrounds}
\usetikzlibrary{positioning}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}[every node/.append style={draw=blue,line width=1pt},background rectangle/.style={fill=olive!25}, show background rectangle]

\node [text width=0.5\textwidth,font={\large\bfseries\sffamily},align=center] at (0,0) (A) {%
John Doe
};
\node[above= 1 ex of A,circle,draw,minimum size=0.3\textwidth,
           path picture={
               \node at (path picture bounding box.center){
                   \includegraphics[width=0.4\textwidth]{example-image-a.png}
               };
           }] (B) {};
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}

A: What's happening?
Your inner node (the one inside the path picture) inherits all options of its parent node (and also the every node style, of course). Importantly, it does inherit anchor=south that is implicitly set by above=….
You need anchor=center at the path picture node to reset this.
Alternative to \node
If you don't actually need all the bells and whistle of a node and just want to insert a picture (or text) in the path picture, you might better be off using the \pgftext macro.

Since the path picture's center of an otherwise empty node is always at its origin, we can actually leave the at part out in both cases.
Code
\documentclass[tikz]{standalone}
\usetikzlibrary{backgrounds,positioning}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}[
  every node/.append style={draw=blue, line width=1pt},
  background rectangle/.style={fill=olive!25},
  show background rectangle]
\node[
  text width=0.5\textwidth, font=\large\bfseries\sffamily,
  align=center] at (0,0) (A) {John Doe};
\node[above=1ex of A, circle, minimum size=0.3\textwidth, path picture={
    \node[anchor=center, draw=none, rectangle]
%        at (path picture bounding box.center)
      {\includegraphics[width=0.4\textwidth]{example-image-a.pdf}};}] (B) {};
\end{tikzpicture}
\begin{tikzpicture}[
  every node/.append style={draw=blue, line width=1pt},
  background rectangle/.style={fill=olive!25},
  show background rectangle]
\node[
  text width=0.5\textwidth, font=\large\bfseries\sffamily,
  align=center] at (0,0) (A) {John Doe};
\node[above=1ex of A, circle, minimum size=0.3\textwidth, path picture={
    \pgftext[
%      at=\pgfpointanchor{path picture bounding box}{center}
    ]{\includegraphics[width=0.4\textwidth]{example-image-a.pdf}};}] (B) {};
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}

Even better: The tikzfill package.
That said, there seems to be a tikzfill package that already solves all your problems, maybe?
Here, I'm using the fill overzoom image that stretches a given image so that it fully covers the path picture.
Code
\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{backgrounds}
\usetikzlibrary{positioning}
\usetikzlibrary{fill.image}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}[
  every node/.append style={
    draw=blue,
    line width=1pt},
  background rectangle/.style={
    fill=olive!25},
  show background rectangle]

\node[
  text width=0.5\textwidth,
  font=\large\bfseries\sffamily,
  align=center] at (0,0) (A) {John Doe};

\node[above=1ex of A, circle, minimum size=0.3\textwidth,
  fill overzoom image={example-image-a.pdf}
  ] (B) {};
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}

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Where Were You When You First Found Out Adam Brody and Rachel Bilson Broke Up?
Joan Summers
Were you the sort of person who'd cut Rachel Bilson photos out of copies of Teen Vogue and paste her on your collage moldboards, or the sort who'd plaster your walls with pictures of Adam Brody? I'm somewhat ashamed to admit I was much more the latter. When my mom would ask me why, I'd explain that I thought he was a "really good actor." What I left unsaid, of course, was that one day we'd ride around on a motorcycle and get married on the beach. Looking back, I now realize the truth—I'd much rather have had a farm wedding instead!
Anyway, when Rachel Bilson and Adam Brody broke up in 2006, it was maybe the worst day in many people's lives. This was before anyone learned about object permanence, and that television characters are not real people, of course. Rachel Bilson, thankfully, has spent the greater part of her career apologizing to people for splitting with Brody, who's since moved on with legendary Gossip Girl actress Leighton Meester. (Blair and Dan forever!) Take this In Style post on Instagram, which shared one writer's story of heartbreak and deception post-breakup. Instead of cruelly ignoring a fan's pain, Bilson responded: "I'm sorry! He fared really well."
Ironically, everyone soon learned just how terrible The O.C. really was after Bilson and Brody split, and moved on to sunnier prospects over with the Gossip Girl cast. (I still have my 8th grade binder with Blair cutouts behind the plastic cover.) Brody, of course, soon followed, and has been married to Meester since 2014.
Do you think there's an alternate universe where Bilson and Brody found their way back to each other, and Meester was the one apologizing for breaking the poor dude's heart? Probably. But in that universe, Meester likely never released her widely known and adored hit song "Heartstrings." Seems like Meester and the rest of us are living in the best possible timeline!
Would I read Meghan Markle's blog? She seems to think so—and I'd probably agree with her. Multiple sources have informed Us Weekly that she is planning to relaunch some variation of The Tig, her defunct lifestyle site that shuttered after her engagement to Prince Harry. It also appears she will be writing a cookbook, and maybe even "developing a kitchenware line." Sure!
Sources also claim she is looking to have another child, which seems obvious. According to Us Weekly, "Meghan has heaps of projects in the works." I believe it! But about that cookbook—what exactly would her angle be? Cooking like a royal? California girl in big ol' Britain? Wholesome vegan fair for good skin and healthy living? I feel like it's some combination of the three, but again, the lady hasn't even given an interview in the entire time she's been back stateside. Who the hell knows what's going on in that big, scheming brain of hers? Probably quite a bit, and I'm sure she'll make heaps of money no matter what she does. Godspeed, Meghan! [Us Weekly]
Sex bench owners Cara Delevingne and Ashley Benson are fostering some dogs.
Here's what Jenny Slate's new man is up to.
Oh, and let's not forget to check in on the good sis Britney Spears.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARIAH CAREY, FROM ME AND PATTI LABELLE TO YOU!
Remember Evangeline Lilly? Well, she's very super sorry. [ET]
Betty White is chilling. [TMZ]
Troye Sivan got catfished by Russian trolls pretending to be Greta Thunberg. [Just Jared]

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Mazda is bringing home more awards, including a recent accolade from the Consumer Guide 2017 Best Buys list. Four models were named top in their class, including the Mazda3, Mazda6, Mazda CX-3, and Mazda MX-5 Miata. If you're looking for a truly award-winning ride, check out the latest from Mazda's 2017 lineup.
According to Mazda, the Consumer Guide list is based on a range of attributes, especially value. In other words, the company is looking for the highest quality, affordability, and features. Mazda vehicles come with high scores in each of these categories, making them great buying options for virtually any driver. The Mazda3 took home the gold in the Compact Class, the Mazda6 in Midsize Car, the CX-3 in Subcompact Crossover, and the Miata in Sporty/Performance Class.
Mazda also recently won several other awards, including one from Wards for the turbocharged Skyactiv-G 2.5T engine and from Autoweek for the "Motorsports Constructor of the Year." Nothing tops Mazda vehicles, and the 2017 model year is proving just how great this brand truly is.


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Medicine and Public Policy |1 March 1978
National Study of Internal Medicine Manpower: I. Residency Training 1976-1977
ALVIN R. TARLOV, M.D., F.A.C.P.; PETER A. WEIL, Ph.D.; MARY KAY SCHLEITER, M.A.; William P. Deiss Jr., M.D.; Edward W. Hook, M.D.; Joseph E. Johnson III, M.D.; Arnold S. Relman, M.D.; Joseph C. Shipp, M.D.; Scott N. Swisher Jr., M.D.; Alvin R. Tarlov, M.D., Chairman; The Association of Professors of Medicine Task Force on Manpower
ALVIN R. TARLOV, M.D., F.A.C.P.
PETER A. WEIL, Ph.D.
MARY KAY SCHLEITER, M.A.
William P. Deiss Jr., M.D.
Edward W. Hook, M.D.
Joseph E. Johnson III, M.D.
Arnold S. Relman, M.D.
Joseph C. Shipp, M.D.
Scott N. Swisher Jr., M.D.
Alvin R. Tarlov, M.D., Chairman
The Association of Professors of Medicine Task Force on Manpower
© 1978 American College of Physicians
Grant support: by the Federated Council for Internal Medicine (American Board of Internal Medicine, American College of Physicians, American Society of Internal Medicine, and Association of Professors of Medicine); and in part by contract No. HRA-231-76-00-59, Bureau of Health Manpower, Health Resources Administration, U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.
▸Requests for reprints should be addressed to Alvin R. Tarlov, M.D., Box 273, University of Chicago Hospitals, 950 E. 59th St., Chicago, IL 60637.
The National Study of Internal Medicine Manpower was undertaken to collect data on the supply of newly trained internists. The questionnaire data returned by 98% of the 418 internal medicine residency training program directors showed that there were more than 15 000 residents in training in internal medicine in 1976-1977. Twenty-five percent of the first-year positions were held by physicians destined for specialties other than internal medicine. Over a third of each medical school graduating class opts for a full year of internal medicine for their first residency year; an additional third of all medical school graduates rotate for a variable number of months on internal medicine teaching services. More than half of the practicing internists participate in the training of residents. Hospital revenue (for example, Medicare and third-party payers) provides the bulk of financial support for residents and teaching staff. Local, state, and federal governments, by direct appropriation, provide 25% of residents' stipends and teaching staff salaries.
TARLOV AR, WEIL PA, SCHLEITER MK, et al, The Association of Professors of Medicine Task Force on Manpower. National Study of Internal Medicine Manpower: I. Residency Training 1976-1977. Ann Intern Med. 1978;88:413–420. doi: https://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-88-3-413
Published: Ann Intern Med. 1978;88(3):413-420.
DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-88-3-413
What Procedures Should Internists Do?
Research during Internal Medicine Residency Training: Meeting the Challenge of the Residency Review Committee
The National Study of Internal Medicine Manpower: XX. The Changing Demographics of Internal Medicine Residency Training Programs
The In-Training Examination in Internal Medicine
In ICUs, 24-, 16-, and 12-hour overnight resident duty schedules did not differ for patient adverse events
Annals of Internal Medicine; 163 (2): JC12
Education and Training.
An extensible software platform for interdisciplinary cardiovascular imaging research.
Comput Methods Programs Biomed 2019;
Vancomycin and creatinine determination in dried blood spots: Analytical validation and clinical assessment.
J Chromatogr B Analyt Technol Biomed Life Sci 2019;


This research was concerned with dye extraction from the leaves of eucalyptus and with the application of this dye for silk and wool fabric dyeing by the exhaustion process. Optimal results were achieved when dyeing at 90 degrees C for 40 minutes and at pH 4. Silk and wool fabrics dyed in a solution composed of eucalyptus extract from leaves in combination with a mordant compound showed a shade of yellowish-brown. An exception was when the fabrics were dyed with FeSO4 mordant, resulting in a shade of dark grayish-brown. The colour fastness to light and rubbing after dyeing the silk and wool fabrics treated with the mordant was investigated, the results of which showed fair to good fastness, whereas the colour fastness to washing was at a good to very good level. The results confirmed that natural dyes from eucalyptus leaf extract have potential applications for fabric dyeing and producing ultraviolet (UV) protective silk and wool fabrics.


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The minutes from the November meeting were read ad approved as submitted.
The Health Officer's report for November and December were presented. There were no comments or concerns with the November inspections. Concerning the December report, President Them questioned Mesquite Bar B Que's continued cleanliness issues. We read the Officers report on this establishment and will keep a close eye on future inspections.
1. Farmer's market: President Them distributed the ordinance that will before council at their February business meeting. It will go before council and if no concerns, they will motion to advertise for enactment at their February 20th general meeting.
1. Doyle's Deli: Their ansul system was out of date per the Officer's 11/07 report. Fire Marshal Black reported to Secretary Riffert that this was repaired and is in compliance.
2. Regency Caf—: The Officer's report of 12/07 stated that their extinguishers were out of date/not mounted properly. Fire Marshall Black reported to Secretary Riffert that this concern was addressed and they are in compliance.
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Free Fire's huge audience consumes a significant portion of different forms of gaming-related content. Abhiyuday Mishra, also known as Skylord is a well-known Indian YouTuber who hopes to make use of his videos to make a positive impact on Free Fire's community. Free Fire community.
He has built a huge following , as his subscriber count has exceeded 1.39 million. The count of views has reached 135 million and he has just released one hundred and a half videos.
What are Skylord's ID and stats within Free Fire?
Skylord's Free Fire ID is 77985476. His daily and ranked stats are as the following:
Lifetime statistics
Skylord has been a part of the squad for 15454 games and turned the results of 7682 and has maintained a win rate of 49.70 percent. Additionally the 52643 kills, while registering the K/D ratio at 6.77.
In total, he has won 181 out of 733 duo games, which equates to a winning percentage of 24.69 percent. He has scored 2235 defeats and has earned the player with a kill-to death ratio of 4.05.
In individual games, Skylord has participated in 759 matches however, he's only been able to win 128 times which is a win-per-win ratio of 16.86 percent. Skylord has been eliminated in 2467 matches, which is equivalent to an K/D ratio of 3.91.
Ranked stats
Skylord has played in his 96 team matches and won 43 of them, which gives him his win percentage at 44.79 percent. Skylord has scored 311 kills which adds up to a K/D rate of 5.87.
In addition, he's shown on the field in a duo match this season , but hasn't achieved first position. YouTuber Youtuber has only managed to score one kill in an K/D ratio of just one.
Skylord is yet to play in any games that are ranked solo this season.
Note Skylord's Free Fire stats will change as he takes part in additional games.
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2) HELLO ANKUSH || SKYLORD (1.7 million)
3) INSPIRATION RUOK FF || GARENA FREE FIRE (1.6 million)
Note: Views have been the sole criteria for deciding the most popular video.
Skylord has been uploading regularly Free Fire videos since mid-2020 and has built up an audience of 1.39 million followers, granting the gamer with a rank of 698. Skylord has a total of 180 videos that have earned 135 million views.


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Q: Excel VBA DoubleClick: Replace number with symbol I have an Excel worksheet called "Overall". In there, a total of 4 numbers is listed at A13, B13, C13 and D14. The numbers are now set to be 0, 1, 3 and 4.
How do I use VBA to doubleclick one of the numbers and replace them with a symbol? If I for example click the number 0 positioned at A13, I want the number to be replaced with the symbol having the code "24EA". That symbol is a 0 with a circle around it. I then want it to be possible to click the number and then turn it in to a normal 0 without a circle.
Private Sub Worksheet_BeforeDoubleClick(ByVal Target As Range, Cancel As Boolean)

If Intersect(Target, Range("A13:D13")) Is Nothing Then Exit Sub

If Target.Value = "0" Then
    ActiveCell.FormulaR1C1 = ChrW(&H24EA)
    With Selection.Font
       .Name = "Calibri"
       .Size = 16
    End With
ElseIf ActiveCell.FormulaR1C1 = ChrW(&H24EA) Then
    Target = "0"
    With Selection.Font
        .Name = "Calibri"
        .Size = 9
    End With
End If

Is it even possible - and if so how can it be made?

A: Add something similar to this into the VBA-module of your Worksheet
Private Sub Worksheet_BeforeDoubleClick(ByVal Target As Range, Cancel As Boolean)
    With ActiveCell
        Select Case .Value
            Case "0": .Value = ChrW("&H24EA")
            Case ChrW("&H24EA"): .Value = 0 ' untested
            ' ...
        End Select
    End With
End Sub


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Festive Summer atmosphere on Saturday June 16 organized by our local neighbourhood ( Baby Point Gates BIA) whereby neighbourhood shops aim to make the day Xtra-special. Read here for + details.
At Maison-Basque, we have invited two partners in crime to present their line during the day. Delighted to host Locus Vie ( Locusvie.ca) and their line of high qualify vinyl floor mats made in Barcelona by Hidraulik. Next, Barcelona Collective and their cool washable shoes, some with STRIPES (:)) will be with us between 11 & 4PM. The bond between the 3 of us: a passion for strong design and quality and the shared spirit of entrepreneurship.
We will have our own end-of-the collection table set up from Maison-Basque. A craft table will be set outside between 12.30 and 2.30PM to make it easier for parents to browse inside our showroom.
Hope to see many of you on June 16 Summer Fest!


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Raising a need for a risk assessment of bromoform transferred from feed to food
By Dr. Rozita Spirovska Vaskoska (FoodLegal Scientist)
© Lawmedia Pty Ltd, June 2021
The risk of an adverse health effect from feed transferring a hazardous substance into the food chain is one of the lessons learned from the disastrous consequences for the UK beef industry that followed from the BSE outbreak. Thus, assuring safe food also means assuring safe feed for animals.
In recent years, Australian scientists have led international efforts to create animal feed supplements that have the effect of reducing methane emissions from cattle (both beef and dairy). Governments and corporations in Australia have invested heavily in the commercial application of this technology. Bromoform is the active substance in the formulation of the feed supplements sourced from seawater algae.
While the World Health Organization (WHO) has not done so, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) has assessed bromoform as a probable human carcinogen based on evidence in animal studies.
Thus, two important questions arise from the expanded commercial use of feed supplements containing bromoform: 1) Is bromoform likely to end up in the food chain?; 2) Could there be a carcinogenic risk in humans through consumption of milk and meat if bromoform gets transferred from the supplemented feed to the milk or meat?
The importance of reducing methane emissions for the environment
The food chain is considered to contribute to an estimated 8% (UK) - 31 % (EU) of greenhouse emissions [1,2], with meat and dairy contributing half of these emissions to an overall estimate of 18 % [2]. Methods of calculation of calculation of emissions contributors vary, as do percentages calculated for different countries. It has been estimated that methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (NO2) are the dominant emissions in the livestock industry in the UK, followed by carbon dioxide (CO2). Methane comes from enteric fermentation and manure management, while nitrous oxide comes from soils and manures [3].
Using seaweed feed supplements to reduce methane emissions
Several groups of scientists, including leading Australian researchers, found that there was scope for some seaweed-based feed additives to reduce methane production by the animal by interfering with the process of methanogenesis. In particular, these supplements are able to be derived from two types of seaweed being: Asparagopsis taxiformis and Asparagopsis armata. The benefit of adding these seaweed supplements to ruminant diet have been shown to include: the reduction of methane production reaching over 80 % in in vivo studies and 99% in in vitro studies [4]. Their methanogenesis reduction ability is due to the active compounds, the most important being bromoform. Bromoform is stored in gland cells of the seaweed. The mechanism of action of bromoform in methane reduction is reacting with reduced vitamin B12 and inhibition of the B12 dependent methyl- transferase step of methanogenesis [5].
Is bromoform likely to end up in the food chain?
To date, there are five studies that have looked at the transfer and retention of bromoform to milk and meat of cattle. Two of those studies did not detect bromoform in meat despite the high intake [4,6]. Two studies found similar levels in the milk of the control and the fed animals [7,8]. One study found bromoform transfer in the milk [9]. However, the levels were inconsistent: they found positive samples at 3 of the 18 tested time/level points and not in all cows [9].
Metabolic and toxicological studies for bromoform
Bromoform has been found in a case of an accidental human intoxication in the liver, kidney, brain, lungs and stomach/ intestines [10]. Animal studies have also shown its immediate presence in the blood and adipose tissue, but also showed bromoform has a quick metabolism, particularly in the liver [10]. Animal studies have shown excretion though the urine and lungs [10].
Bromoform belongs to a group of compounds known as halogens, which include bromoform and chloroform. Halogens have elements with large negative electron affinity that combine with other compounds to reach stability. The chemical similarity of bromoform to chloroform, which is a known carcinogen, has triggered scientific assessments of bromoform for its safety.
Animal studies of its safety have shown that bromoform can enlarge tumours in the large intestine and cause some developmental toxicity [10]. Results on genotoxicity of bromoform have been inconsistent [10].
Classification and guideline levels for bromoform globally and in Australia
Different evaluating bodies have approached classification of bromoform differently. Guideline levels have been established for bromoform or their chemical group (trihalomethanes) in Australia and globally in relation to drinking water.
The International Agency for Research on Cancer has placed bromoform in group 3, which means not classifiable as to its carcinogenicity to humans.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has set up a guideline value of 100 µg/L (0.1 mg/L) of bromoform as a disinfection by-product in drinking water [11].
The Tolerable Daily Intake (TDI) for bromoform has been set up at 17.9 µg/kg body weight and has been explained by the WHO as "based on the absence of histopathological lesions in the liver in a well-conducted and well documented 90-day study in rats, using an uncertainty factor of 1000 (100 for intraspecies and interspecies variation and 10 for possible carcinogenicity and short duration of exposure)".
The Australian Drinking Water Guidelines establish a level of 250 µg/L (0.25 mg/L) for all trihalomethanes together and does not set up a specific guideline level for bromoform. The explanation is that these compounds are metabolized similarly in the human body [12]. The newest Australian guidelines (updated this year - 2021) mention the need to aim for a lower level of trihalomethanes, but also mention the valuable need of water disinfection by chlorine which prevents other safety risks [12].
By contrast to the WHO, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) has categorized bromoform as a B2 Probable human carcinogen based on sufficient evidence of carcinogenicity in animals. The US EPA has set up the following guideline levels [14]:
Non cancer Reference Dose for Oral Exposure (RfD) 20 µg/kg- day (0.02 mg/kg- day) for hepatic lesions
In the USA, the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has stated that bromoform is not found in food [13].
However, whilst this might have been the case in the CDC study, this might no longer be the case if it has been shown that bromoform is able to be transferred to food through feed.
The importance of instigating regulatory assessment and monitoring immediately
In Australia there are two licensed producers of seaweed feed supplements for methane reduction, and the products are patented. Expansion in seaweed commercialization will accelerate a greater uptake by farmers seeking to improve sustainable cattle feeding practices. At the same time there are global initiatives in relation to ensuring the safety of seaweed products. In early 2021, a Safe Seaweed Coalition [14] was established at an international level to address consumer safety in relation to seaweed usage.
One of the recent studies that did not find any retention in meat nevertheless raised the need for close monitoring of the situation with the following statement: "Due diligence requires continued monitoring if inclusion periods are extended and the cumulative intake levels are increased which may be the case in some dairy systems"[6].
Clearly, if exposure to bromoform is likely to increase, it is important for Australian regulators to assess safety and to set regulatory levels regulatory levels for exposure in foods and that ongoing monitoring be mandatory.
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4. Roque, B.M., et al., Red seaweed (Asparagopsis taxiformis) supplementation reduces enteric methane by over 80 percent in beef steers. Plos One, 2021. 16(3): p. e0247820.
5. Honan, M., et al., Feed additives as a strategic approach to reduce enteric methane production in cattle: Modes of action, effectiveness and safety. Animal Production Science, 2021.
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7. Roque, B.M., et al., Inclusion of Asparagopsis armata in lactating dairy cows' diet reduces enteric methane emission by over 50 percent. Journal of Cleaner Production, 2019. 234: p. 132-138.
8. Stefenoni, H., et al., Effects of the macroalga Asparagopsis taxiformis and oregano leaves on methane emission, rumen fermentation, and lactational performance of dairy cows. Journal of Dairy Science, 2021. 104(4): p. 4157-4173.
9. Muizelaar, W., et al., Safety and transfer study: Transfer of bromoform present in asparagopsis taxiformis to milk and urine of lactating dairy cows. Foods, 2021. 10(3): p. 584.
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14. Coalition, S.S.; Available from: https://www.safeseaweedcoalition.org/.
This is general information rather than legal advice and is current as of 2 Dec 2021. We therefore recommend you seek legal advice for your particular circumstances if you want to rely on advice or information to be a basis for any commercial decision-making by you or your business.


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Phil Simon
This is what life after email looks like
07 Mar 2022 | Collaboration Technology
Email has dominated digital collaboration for more than two decades. Only in the last few years have we seen a mainstream willingness to acknowledge that we might need new tools.
Phil Simon has been writing about digital collaboration for a long time and knows way more than anyone should know about platforms like Zoom and Slack.
Why we need to dethrone email
In case you are still on the fence about email, Phil makes it clear that we need to move on.
The average worker gets too many emails, they check their inboxes too often, they are hard to interpret, they can come from anyone and are often received with little to no context.
There are many people out there who are email wizards and have elaborate folders and filters set up in Outlook to help them manage the chaos, but overall, we need to move on.
Isn't Slack just Email 2.0?
Phil and I got into a great discussion about if Slack (and similar products) is really the right next king of digital collaboration.
Many of the complaints about email can be levied against Slack too. Slack's main advantage is it happens in a closed environment, and there's often some initial context if the message is put in a dedicated channel.
Phil talked about the idea of a collaboration hub and what should be at the heart of it. We discussed what happens if you put something more structured like project management as the hub instead of a chat tool.
We also talked about what the single units of collaboration are. Is it a message? An event? A task? There's a lot of options out there, but most platforms only prioritize one.
Phil's website
Reimagining Collaboration
Welcome back to The Digital Workplace podcast. Today our very special guest is Phil Simon. Phil is the award winning author of "Reimagining Collaboration." Hey, Phil. How's it going today?
Neil, thanks for having me.
It's great to connect with you. We got connected and within about three minutes of a phone call of all things I realized this is a brother. This is somebody who thinks deeply about this stuff, and we want to hear from you. So I'm so excited to have you on the show and to learn more about you.
Too high for me, man, in just getting to the point, say this guy's average or mediocre and then, oh, you know what? He's actually better than anticipated. You don't want a par the first two holes on a golf course, you'll get nowhere to go but down.
Alright, alright, fine. You may hate this podcast. That's all right. But first, Phil, we got to always check. I don't like talking to robots on the show. So we got to check. Are you a real life human? Your CAPTCHA question is I want you to share with us your favorite Wordle starting word.
System error. I'm kidding. I am human. I have switched over to crane, but I used to start with atone. Because as an avid scrabble person, I know that you are knocking off a lot of them. I didn't like adieu. I know a lot of people went there. I like to be systematic about it. But then I think sometimes that's boring. So I've been going with crane. And I think today when we recorded I think I nailed it on the fourth turn.
By your Twitter feed, that's correct, the fourth turn.
Someone follows me on the Twitter, lookout stalker.
Well, cool. Alright, that qualifies. My word is teams. I like that, of all things.
Fun fact, not to criticize, but evidently, the way it's programmed, from what I've read, nothing ends in S. Steam might be a better one. But they wouldn't have words four letters plus an S because I think it just expands it too much. So you may want to try steam. But there may be a benefit to doing that. I don't want to be too technical about it because I like the serendipity. But that's a good choice.
I'm switching. Steam is the new one.
That was easy. A lot easier than getting us together, man.
It's true. It's true. For all the listeners out there, this took too long and too many mistakes on my side. Being in the real world, I didn't estimate on travel times and stuff. I got to stick to digital places. It's much easier.
Plus I filled out the form on the website. Was it six months ago and it went to your spam or something?
So there's that. This better be good, man. There's been a lot of build up to this. You've got to bring your A game, Neil.
So speaking of the build up, you wrote a book. You wrote many books. Tell us about "Reimagining Collaboration," how you got there, and why you wrote it.
Sure. I was writing "Zoom for Dummies" in a furious pace to meet an aggressive deadline. I was able to bang through that 400-page book pretty quickly because it actually had a lot in common with Slack. And then I started using Microsoft Teams with my publisher. So there was this new breed of powerful collaboration tools that obviated a great deal of email and back and forth. But most people would look at Zoom as Skype 2.0 or Slack or Teams as email 2.0. I understand it. Many companies don't invest in training. It wasn't necessarily someone's job to write a 400-page book about Slack or Microsoft Teams or Zoom. But they were much more powerful than people had realized. I want to say that it was Toni Morrison who said if the book you want to read doesn't exist, then you have to be the one to write it. So far be it for me to argue with OG Toni Morrison, but I did.
Excellent. I read the book, listened to the book, actually. But it was fascinating. And I feel like there's a lot of good things about it. We're going to unpack a lot of things all about collaboration, how we're doing it. Let's go back to what I'll call the beginning of this digital influence. We're going to with email. So tell me your thoughts about the role that email played circa 1990 in organizations.
We go back three decades that it played an indispensable role. Internal, external, I mean, I'm old enough to remember sending letters to friends, not that there's anything wrong with that today, kind of miss it, nostalgic or internally going back to the I wasn't around for the 60s. I'm not that old. But I have watched Mad Men so you'd get intra office memos that could get lost.
In the envelope, right? The manila.
Yeah, the envelopes. In fact, in the mid 90s, for one of my internships, there was email, you would type out a letter and printer. Then WordPerfect, that was the big deal. I remember printing something out and it wasn't WYSIWYG, gosh, I'm dating myself, in 1993 and being so frustrated that what I thought I was getting on the screen wasn't what ultimately came out of the printer. So, yeah, email remains an essential tool. But I keep using golf analogies. Let's use a different one. If you only have a hammer, you think everything's a nail. So particularly for internal communication, I've been ranting about email for years, even in 2015, I wrote a book called "Message Not Received" about why business communication fails and TLDR, as the kids say, way too much jargon, way too much email. So if you're going to replace email with another tool, the question becomes what and then the tools, back when I wrote that book, are nothing compared to the contemporary, what I'll call internal collaboration hubs that exist today.
Let's break down. Where does email fail? I think most of the people that are listening to this understand the issues of email, but let's just make sure everyone's on the same page of why, internally, email is a bad system. And we'll get into more of how you should use email. But first, what's your case? Quick, why should we stop using email internally?
We get too many of them. Back in 2015, I discovered that the average corporate employer received about 120 emails per day, and the rate was growing at around 15% per year. So that would effectively double in four and a half years. People check their inboxes something like every seven or eight minutes, and even when they get the message, they don't necessarily understand it. There was an interesting study I cited in that book from a guy named Nicholas Epsy. I believe he was out of University of Illinois, about how when you send someone a message, only 46% of the time could you detect if the person was using humor. That's an interesting stat.
I remember around that time, one of my favorite bands, they're very obscure, they're called Marillion. I've gotten to know some of the members of them and see them in concert and even went on a run once with the keyboardist Mark Kelly. When I was interviewing him for Huffington Post, he said, "Could we talk about your book for a minute?" I said, "You guys are 1000 times more interesting, but twist my arm, sure." And he explained the story about how, and this band's been together since the early 80s, going on four decades now, there was this misunderstanding with the drummer over email, and they finally got him in a room and said, "Dude, what's wrong?" And he goes, "What are you talking about?" So if you've been working with people for over 30 years, and you misunderstand each other, what does that say about people who have been working with each other for 30 days or 30 months?
Apart from that, and this is where the collaboration hubs that are discussed in "Reimagining Collaboration" really shine, Neil, your inbox and all the content in it effectively dies the minute that you leave a company. So let's say that you are the head of marketing, and you leave for greener pastures. You move your family, whatever. Well, all of the communication, all the knowledge, all the documents, all the decisions go poof. Now, occasionally, yes, an IT person can resurrect a key message because it contains a file or whatever. But there's a lot of friction in that. So if we use, say, Slack, which is my favorite internal collaboration hub, then I'm deactivated, but all my information is still there. So if I made an interesting comment, or sent a document and posted it there, then if you're the new head of marketing, you can see, oh, yeah, this is what Phil had created, that starting point versus trying to recreate it.
Or subsequent to my new book coming out, I saw the Asana Anatomy of Work index dropped in April of 2021, and something like in the United States, employees spend around 31% of their day on what they call work about work. In other words, scheduling, which you and I know well. I'm trying to find a document or recreating a different document or just doing frustrating administrative stuff. Well, I'm not saying that if something is in Slack, you'll find it instantly. But there are much more powerful tools. Plus, there's a permanence to it. Plus, we can segment conversations. Again, I can use Outlook and Gmail rules for folders and tags and all that and that's all fine and dandy, but let's just say, and then there are companies that do this. I'm a big music fan. There is a dedicated channel to just riff on music. Could you imagine getting an email from someone, Neil, going, Hey, I like this band. Why are you bothering me? Go away.
But if you're in a channel, it's a lot more informal. In fact, Marshall McLuhan famously said, the medium is the message. So the minute that you get an email from your boss you tense up. Now you could still be tense if you get that DM in Slack, or someone posts a message in a channel in Microsoft Teams. But there's more transparency as well, I can, if I join a company, see what's going on in the company at my own speed. If I join an organization and HR sends me 72 emails with forms, have to fill out, immediately I'm overwhelmed and tense.
Other than that, though, I'm not anti-email. You and I initially connected over email, but again, with our scheduling issues today, I sent you a note going, dude, call me, and then we were able to work it out a lot quicker. So I'm not anti-email. I'm anti-inefficiency. And this notion that Slack or Teams or Zoom is just email or Skype is absurd. It's like saying my Lexus convertible is a coffee cup holder. Well, it'll do that. I don't have a Lexus convertible. But that's a joke from Gary Gulman. Your car actually does a few more things than hold your coffee mug.
Yeah, I find that a lot of people who push back against the email, one, it's just the familiarity. That's just what they're used to. You also have those people who are the email wizards out there. They have 60 filters set up that everything goes through and they say, "Hey, I've spent years of my life getting this the way I wanted to. It works for me. I want to keep it that way." Then you have the other people who say, "Yeah, I've tried Slack. It's just like email just faster. And it's all the same. We still have misunderstandings. We still get too many messages that come through. I still didn't getting training on it. It's like the worst thing." So how do you take those into account and address those issues?
I mean, people hate change. The management theorist Peter Singer famously said, "People hate change unless it's their idea." So I would counter that even though you may be good at something, you're not only emailing yourself. In fact, why would you really do that? You can, but why would you? You're communicating or collaborating with others. In Chapter 2 of "Reimagining Collaboration," I thought that it was essential for me to define collaboration against a number of adjacent terms, because we typically conflate them. If I'm communicating, I'm making something common. That's all communication is. If I'm collaborating, I'm working with someone to get something done. That's different than productivity. I could be productive by myself. It's different than project management. It's different than coordination.
So I'd say that it's essential for people to think more broadly. It's not just about you and works for you. If you don't like that, then guess what? Sometimes you have to make changes. The workplace isn't a democracy. I was just reading a fascinating protocol article about how I guess some designer signed up to work for a company. He parenthetically asked, "What do you guys use internally for collaboration?" And they said Microsoft Teams. The guy said, "You know what? I can't take the job. I'm a Slack person." I think we actually may wind up seeing more than that, because if the organization only communicates exclusively by email, and more and more folks are using these tools, will they want to revert? I mean, Microsoft announced that there were 300 million active monthly Teams users. Slack had peaked at 15 million. I think that that pretty much stayed still. But this notion that I need to be constantly in my inbox, getting a message from anyone in the world about anything at any time, just doesn't hold up anymore. It is much easier. You're a Slack fan, right?
Yeah, I mean, I use Slack, but I will say I like Slack for a specific purpose. I actually like Slack more outside of work for communities that I'm a part of. Whether that be my neighborhood or a group of people I like to connect with, I find it to be most useful for that. I've actually found that I don't like Slack as a communication hub, which let's get into this term, because you used this idea of you need a hub for all the collaboration that happens, and then you have spokes run that. Flush that out, just in a quick two minute explanation.
Yeah. Again, many people equate Slack or Teams to email 2.0, or Zoom to Skype 2.0. Then there's Google Workspace and Facebook/Meta's, what do they call it? Workplace, it's so hard to keep them all on track. So in the book, I argue that all of your communication and collaboration only take place there. Period. That's tremendously valuable because it solves all the problems that email causes. But then hubs really become powerful when you connect them with these third party apps. You can use Slack to the fullest extent possible. Slack is not an enterprise resource planning system, like Workday. It's not a document signature tool, like Docusign. It's not a productivity tool per se, like Microsoft Office or Google Docs. So you can connect those third party apps, or what I call spokes, to the main hubs and create this single Gestalt. So I can consolidate all of my notifications in one place. If someone updates a ticket in Zendesk, I don't have to go to my email, or launch a separate Zendesk app or webpage. It lets me know there.
Now, again, Slack or Teams or any of the other hubs will not make third party apps unnecessary. But if you can connect them in a more cohesive way, then you're not multitasking as much. You're not frustrated by all these notifications from different applications. You don't have to be terribly technical to do it. If you can install an app on your phone, you can install the Google Docs or Google Drive or Workspace, whatever they're calling it these days, app for Slack. So when I'm collaborating with someone in a Google Doc and someone comments, I don't get an email. I get a notification in Slack. I've got that context. I could see that comment right then and there. So there are ways. I still get email. That's how we connected. So email becomes less frequent, less universal, and hopefully, you're getting fewer of them and they mean more. But we are just scratching the surface when it comes to what these hubs can do. Again, to my knowledge, there was no book out there that explored them. So I do feel like in the sea of books on the future of work and hybrid and remote work, I like to think that I've written a reasonably interesting and distinct text that contributes to this important body of work.
Yeah. So let's break this down a little bit. The hub is, by your definition, I'm saying it's where you basically get your notifications. It's where everything circles back to, right? There's one thing in the center. Is that fair?
Notifications, but you can also post documents, you could run polls. I mean, again, Slack is so much more than just email. But even in Zoom, you can install third party apps on Zoom. So let's say that we were brainstorming on something, we want to dial up a whiteboard. We don't have to go to a separate app. We can do that right in Zoom. If I'm managing a project, if I'm taking notes, if I'm checking off things to do in a productivity app, like Todoist, you can all use those things independently or you could use them through the hub. So imagine a place that you go for almost your digital headquarters. That's what Stewart Butterfield of Slack has termed the tool. But whether you're using Slack or Zoom or Teams or some of the other tools that I mentioned, you're using it in a much more cohesive way than just, oh, this is where I send messages. This is where you could upload files. You can conduct polls. You can even, I hate the term workflow, but Slack has this tool called workflow builder. I could effectively launch a ticket. If I am in Slack is an IT channel, I say my computer doesn't work. That, within Slack, you could start a ticket off that goes to their ticket management system. So again, it's not just for communication and collaboration. It can do so much more. So that's what I think about with a hub. It's more general use than just this is a messaging tool. It's not WhatsApp or Snap or whatever else the kids are using these days.
So in, let's just say, the '90s or so, email became that hub. It became the thing that everyone was plugged into. Now, I do agree that Slack is a better hub than that. I feel like we pushed email too far. We tried to make it do too many things. We tried to make it come on, and it failed on that. Like you said, it's a great tool for third party, like I don't know this person, but let me send them an email type conversations. My question for you is, looking towards the future, is, let's just take Slack, we'll just pick on Slack. We can be talking about anything. But is Slack still going to be something we're going to be proud that we put in the center? Or do we need to think before we make that the hub and not the spoke itself?
To say, for me, let me explain. Chat is great. But chat is often contextless. When somebody sends you a message, it could be about anything, as opposed to a project management tool. If you get a notification about something, you know it's assigned to a task, it's assigned to a bigger project that's going to be there. So the problems I've had with having Slack as a hub in my experience is that it's a similar feel to email where I don't, I mean, at least it's in the work world. It's not email, it could be about anything, at least it's work. That's great. I like that. But it could still be about anything. I find if I'm having that as my center, that it's still distracting. It still feels like a lot of chaos. It still feels like a lot of things going on. It makes me want to put something else in the center and make chat a spoke and make something else the hub. What do you think about that?
It is conceivable that you could use a tool in a way that I don't think is necessarily optimal, but there's no way to guarantee that someone is providing the right context. Going back to that music channel example, if I want by accident or by design posted, hey, Neil, you need to do this right now. Slack isn't going to kick that out right now. Maybe down the road, when there's more AI and machine learning built in, go, well, dude, you might want to actually move this to a more appropriate place because the music channel might be something that people visit infrequently, or when they want to kill some time, as opposed to a more important one regarding things that you want to do.
Yeah, I mean, look, they're complements. They're not substitutes. I don't believe that Slack or Teams or Zoom will ever be a proper project management application. But if I'm using Asana, if I'm using Trello, if I'm using Basecamp, I can have all those notifications filtered in plus there are limited things that I can do within them. So if someone assigns me a task in Trello, I might mark it as completed without having to go to Trello. I just can do something through a shortcode or something in Slack. So I mean, no tool is perfect. People use them. I could fax you an inappropriate photo. I could send you in the mail. Use your imagination. We like to demonize the tools because the tools can't yell at us back. It's very, I think, facile to blame tech. I think many organizations are hoping that employees will pick this up on their own time.
I mean, I've even had people complain about my Slack and Zoom for Dummies books, saying, dude, how do you write a 400-page book about this? Well, if you're only using 2% of the functionality, then yeah, it's going to seem like overkill. But I'd also argue you should be, if you're going to be buying the book, you should be willing to learn. And many times people aren't. So I guess that I'm a contrarian. I mean, even smart cookies like Cal Newport, I'm sure you've heard of him.
Yeah, of course.
Yeah. He's a smart guy. I read "Deep Work," but in his new book, "A World Without Email," he effectively equates Slack to email. And it's because, due respect, he doesn't understand it. I can customize my notifications by channel, by person, by time, by date, by application, by keyword. Can email do that?
Yeah, I would say Slack is better than email. But I feel like Slack will have the same problems that email will in the sense of, like I said, we pushed email so far that it ended up breaking. We saw all the cracks in it, and it went through that. I feel like we're going to do the same to Slack. We're going to push it so far. We're going to say, I want to do this, I'm going to do this, I'm going to do this, and we're just going to keep asking for more out of it. Then eventually, you'll start seeing those cracks and it'll break. I'm not saying that there's a better solution. Maybe it's just, and it's not Slack's fault. Maybe it's how we're approaching it.
Yeah, I think where we may differ is that I don't look for a single solution. I mean, I'm a big believer in, as I said, picking up the phone, because you and I were having a hard time with the scheduling. Now, that's a microcosm. If we were to work together on a regular basis, we'd figure out a way to do it. When people say I don't want to use Slack or Teams or whatever, I say, at any given point, I have five of these things open because different people have got different communication skills. Now that happens to work for me because I'm an independent. But if I worked at a company, the company really should pick a lane and stick in it. It doesn't scale particularly well if an organization uses seven hubs. Now there are tools like Mio that can stitch them together.
But it's, going back to my analogy before with a hammer and a nail, I don't think that one tool can do everything. There is a time and place for us to talk or to get together, if that's possible barring lockdown. It's a lot harder to excoriate someone after you've had broken bread with them. If I played a round of golf with you or went to a concert, oh, yeah, he's a cool guy, versus he's a Slack or Microsoft Team's avatar. Who is this guy? I mean, look, I have had people in my consulting days tear me a new one on email who are sitting in a cubicle next to me. I'd stand up and go, "Dude, you just copied the entire world calling me a such and such. What is it?"
So any tool is only as good as the culture. I mean, in "Reimagining Collaboration," I tell the story of a way the direct-to-consumer luggage company and their CEO, I forget her name, but I think she's actually married to Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield, used to use the tool as a cudgel. You need to respond at 2 in the morning. I don't want any private messages sent or private channels. And was quite frankly, very difficult. I can think of a few other words, but I won't use them. You can be rude or inappropriate using any tool. But no, no tool, including Slack or any of the other ones I discuss in the book, doesn't prevent someone from being, I'll just say, a jerk.
Sure. Do you feel like, when it comes to collaboration especially, you did a good job of defining the different, like you said, the umbrella of terms that comes under these things. A message, let's just talk about one unit of work. So one unit of work is a message. I'll send you a thing. It comes to you. A notification could be another unit of work. But then we also have things like an event. So a moment in time is also a part of work. A task is a unit of work. As you look towards the future of collaboration, do you think, and this is like, we do reviews of products, we looked at some project management tools that try to treat everything in the world as a task. That breaks down after a while. Same with, I feel like Slack would, not consciously, but it seems like everything is treated as a ping or a message or a unit of text that's there. When you look at the future of collaboration and how things will be built out, what are some of these other units of work that need to be accounted for as we think about a really better collaboration system?
Yeah, well, I think you make an important distinction, Neil. You've got regular, what I'll call, continuing work versus more project work. And yes, to your point, projects can break down into phases, or for using Agile methods like Scrum into Sprint's Fibonacci numbers or if you use lean methods. So work is a general term. I'm with you. At a high level, though, I'd argue that there are two types. So let's say that you work in customer relations and you answer phones all day. You're not really working on a project. I should know because I spent a year at Sony Electronics after college having people scream at me on the phone because their camcorders, and if your listeners don't know what a camcorder is, look it up. It's before iPhones. Didn't work and it was their daughter's third birthday, and how dare I not have a replacement ready for them tomorrow. And I'm trying to explain what's going on. It was an interesting year. But that's not a project. I wasn't really in any, I think I was in two meetings at Sony in a year. I never worked on a project.
Now, if COVID happens, and I take my calls at home, while I might have an English bulldog barking in the background, or a child running around, or the neighbors doing landscaping, but I can do my job in theory anywhere with internet connection, because it's really not a project. You can still do projects remotely. Automattic, the company behind WordPress, Basecamp, GitLab. Darren Murph has actually been in my own podcast, absolute rockstar, love that guy. You are talking about building something. That, I think, underscores the importance of hybrid work. I know a lot of people like to dunk on hybrid work as a bandaid. But I don't think of hybrid work as a binary. You might need to get together to kick off a project or for employee orientation or to just get together in bond. So the office is already starting to change. The idea, though, that you never see your employees, I think would be difficult in any circumstance, particularly if you're doing something new and we haven't established the rules of engagement.
I mean, even, I'm no expert on Scrum, but I've managed projects using it, and I used to be a college professor teaching it, you've got objectivity involved. People skills, still — I'm sorry, subjectivity involved. You still have judgment calls to make. Well, I think this project is going to take two weeks or this user story or this task. So I don't know if we can be as black and white as saying everything ultimately breaks down into a task, because then you have subtasks, and meetings about tasks. But I do think that these tools can help alleviate a lot of the problems that have plagued us. We were never particularly good at project management or completing tasks in the real world. Then COVID happens, and all of a sudden, you have a hard time finding a common place to meet or you misunderstand something because I don't pick up on the body language, even in Zoom, it's not 100% clear, or your Wi Fi goes down or whatever.
So yeah, I mean, the world of work is a complicated one. But I would argue that let's start by maybe distinguishing what we're trying to accomplish because of routine tasks. And they can be challenging as well. It's fundamentally different than following a new process to build something new, especially if you're dealing with new employees and uncertainty and you haven't met them before. So these tools can help, but again, they're not a panacea.
Definitely. There's so much to unpack here. Phil, you're the kind of guy I want to come to whenever I have a problem. And it's like, I don't…
Oh, gosh. Heaven help you.
And I don't expect you to solve it. I expect you to make it just more gray almost, like to see, yeah, there's this side and there's this side. So I really appreciate what you've done. The book is amazing. If people want to check it out, where should they go?
Pretty much anywhere. It's, I'm sure, in certain bookstores, but it's easiest to purchase on bookshop.org or Amazon or whatever, Kobo, Apple Books, Google Books, whatever.
All the places, it's there. Excellent. Phil, it's been great to have you on. We look forward to collaborating again in the future. Thanks for being flexible with scheduling and everything else. We look forward to connecting with you again.
Thank you, Neil. I enjoyed it. Thank you.
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The MacGregor Family: No more medicine!
On Friday, Jackson officially finished his antibiotics. He was on one for 5 days before the doctor switched him to another for an extra 10 days. So, in total, it was 15 days. He cried nearly every dose (two times per day) for the first 13 days. Then, he stopped. I'm sure he'll forgot antibiotics aren't the enemy before it's time to take more... Here are some pictures of a happy boy finished with his medicine and excited about hitting the road to San Antonio to see the Reynolds!


Last week's quiz had a couple of tough questions, especially Temple of the Dog. Congratulations to the 1990s kids (mostly), J., Geoff, StevefortheDeaf, 2loud2old, Tony, and Murphy's Law, who all scored 100%. It looks like Murphy's Law scored the fastest time.
I think last week's quiz was easier for the generation who grew up with Chris Cornell and Dolores O'Riordan, so let's go back in time for this week's.
As you probably know, this week marked the 60th anniversary of the plane crash that killed Richie Valens, Buddy Holly, and The Big Bopper.
This week's challenge is to identify songs recorded by each artist. I like the songs of Buddy Holly but barely know the other two beyond their signature song (and I even got one of those wrong….) so I resorted to a lot of guess work.
I scraped my way to 23/30. Can you beat my score?
OMG. That was freakin' tough. I know 50's stuff and I didn't know half of those. Good guessing got me – at best- to 21/30 with 0.54 left. Good luck on this one, folks.
I knew about a quarter, so I must have been very lucky with my guessing.
Bob Dylan says that I was so much older then but I'm younger than that now.
Well now I can't argue with that.
I'm a huge Buddy Holly fan (I highly recommend the 6-CD "Not Fade Away" box set which was released in 2009), a casual Ritchie Valens fan and have a cursory knowledge of The Big Bopper. I probably should have taken a deep breath and really thought about a couple of the song titles but decided to go through it quickly and ended up with 26/30 with 1:31 left on the clock. At least I got all of the Holly songs right.
Good effort. I wonder if anyone will get 30 this week. I've never really looked at box sets much, apart from stuff like Nuggets which catalogues otherwise unreleased songs. I didn't realise Holly recorded so much stuff (in such a short time).
I got 27/30 not familiar with the Big Bopper but just guessed when I saw an crazy title that it was his. Buddy Holly Lives!! Indeed.
I had a system like that – if it sounded Latino I went for Valens, if it sounded old fashioned I went for Big Bopper.
I knew the Holly ones- I am with you on Valens and the Bopper!
I don't even know Donna!
Thinking B was for Buddy killed me before I started. 1/30 before I gave up.
I think in that scenario, it's legit to bin it and start from scratch.
18/30. Fun but nearly impossible for me. I only know one Bopper tune and two Valens tunes.
More than I know, so I must have guessed luckily!
Oooft. After last week, that one was a real challenge! 17 for me.
21/30 with a lot of guessing – that quiz requires a specialized area of expertise.
Yeah, I often avoid specific artist ones, but I thought three specific artists was OK.
We tied again! And I'm coming in from a similar angle, know & like Buddy Holly, fortunate guessing on most of the others.
Now if it were lyrics to 'Buddy Holly' by =w=eezer, this 90s kid would be back in business!
Yes, us 1990s kids knew Temple of the Dog last week, but not so up on The Big Bopper.
Do they have negative scores?? I just stopped it was so bad. I got about 5 right.
I don't think they do!


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Student loan agency skips payment
JEFFERSON CITY (AP) - Financial strains have prompted Missouri's student loan agency to again delay a planned payment to Gov. Matt Blunt's college construction program.
The board of the Missouri Higher Education Loan Authority was scheduled to make a $5 million quarterly payment by the end of June as part of a requirement to transfer $350 million to the state over six years.
The board decided yesterday that it could not afford to make the June payment. But it did vote to pay about $850,000 to the state to satisfy the remainder of its missed March quarterly payment, said MOHELA's executive director, Raymond Bayer Jr.
The student loan agency's payments are mandated under a 2007 law backed by Blunt and Republican legislative leaders as a way to finance new or improved buildings at public colleges and universities.
Since that law passed, however, Missouri's loan authority has run into financial troubles along with many of the rest of the nation's student lenders. A federal law also passed in 2007 cut the subsidies available to student lenders, and a cautious credit market has made it more difficult for student lenders to package and sell their loans for profit.
Bayer had recommended that the MOHELA board not pay any money toward either its missed March installment or its June payment.
By not paying anything on the June installment, the loan authority will owe $10 million by the time of the September installment. But additional interest earned over the next three months could be used to reduce that.


2 If you end up singing the lifeless sign blues, look to the SureCall Fusion2Go three.zero to get you again into the fray.
Could also be too expensive for some.
Should get permission to make use of system from service.
If you end up singing the lifeless sign blues, look to the SureCall Fusion2Go three.zero to get you again into the fray.
All of us have our issues; some of those could also be first world issues and others not so first world points. Regardless, with sufficient ingenuity, with sufficient elbow grease and in my case, with sufficient bandwidth to navigate the web and YouTube, an answer is usually attainable. One in every of my households favourite actions is to spend time collectively whereas tenting. Despite the fact that my two boys and I take pleasure in primitive tent tenting with our Cub Scout Pack, my spouse and daughter choose just a little extra civilization. Thus, once we camp as a household, we take pleasure in our class C motor house and all the facilities of a home-on-the-go. Some might say that this doesn't rely as tenting and lots of of them can be proper. To make use of a standard portmanteau, we take pleasure in glamping.
Whether or not we have been tenting at Land Between the Lakes State Park, quite a few parks inside Gatlinburg, Tennessee, the KOA at Gulf Shores, Alabama, Cherokee, North Carolina or some other KOA campgrounds, we skilled points with the reception inside our motorhome. Whereas driving and sitting inside the cab, we have been typically in a position to make use of navigation, stream music and make telephone calls. Nevertheless, we generally discovered areas of low mobile sign, which restricted knowledge and calls even within the cab. I had examine cell sign boosters, and I used to be excited once I heard concerning the Fusion2Go system from SureCall. I assumed that this gadget would improve our tenting expertise and I used to be very happy with the outcomes.
The Fusion2Go three.zero from SureCall arrived in an eight 1/four inches lengthy by 7 5/eight broad by three 5/eight inches thick retail field. The white-colored cowl was enhanced by a three 5/eight inches tall by 7 half inches large inexperienced rectangle alongside the middle and a 1 7/eight inches extensive by 1-inch tall rectangle alongside the highest left. I beloved the alternating background/font coloration, utilizing the white-on-green colour scheme. The duvet did an awesome job of detailing what to anticipate from the product. Apparently, they offered the knowledge in each English and French with out muddle. In daring black font, they detailed that the gadget was designed to "Increase Cell Sign." Inside the inexperienced rectangle, we have been supplied with 4 icons with descriptions: "Much more miles of uninterrupted protection, decreases dropped calls, Boosts 4G knowledge, Works with North American Carriers, and Extends system battery life." Towards my proper, I used to be capable of see a three inches tall by three inches large picture of the Fusion2Go hardware. Flipping the packaging over onto the duvet, I instantly observed the side-view define of a hatchback coupe detailing the straightforward setup. To make the most of this package, place the surface magnetic antennae onto your car, set up the within patch antennae, set up the booster after which join energy twine into your 12V accent port (cigarette lighter port). Inside the decrease inexperienced border, the corporate offered an inventory of the included contents. Once more, this info was conveniently offered in each English and French. In the event you look towards the highest proper, you will notice a yellow post-it notice detailing a free magnetic telephone holder.
The proper aspect panel detailed the SureCall gadget although 5 bullet factors. The outer antennae will seize the sign from the cell tower and can ship the sign to the booster, which amplifies the sign. The amplified sign is shipped to the within antennae, which then re-broadcasts the sign inside the car. This course of works then works in reverse to get the sign again to the cell tower. The left panel detailed a bilingual origin story and historical past of SureCall. The cluttered backside panel offered the corporate identify, product identify, serial quantity and in much-too-small writing, a warning that's backed by the FCC to register the gadget together with your wi-fi supplier earlier than utilizing it. I've included a replica of a Verizon Wi-fi letter detailing the blanket approval by Verizon Wi-fi, however you'll nonetheless have to register the Booster. Alongside the underside left of the panel, you can see the product serial quantity and FCC ID. This course of sounded overwhelming and dear however proved to be fairly straightforward and free. Navigate to Verizon Wi-fi, choose "Register/Handle Sign Booster" on the webpage. The web site will take you to a second web page, which allowed me to decide on between "My Verizon" and "My Enterprise/VEC." I tapped "My Verizon," and the location directed me to a Shopper Sign Booster Registration web page. I entered my handle, metropolis, state, zip, and Verizon wi-fi telephone quantity after which one other web page loaded. I needed to enter the date of booster set up, nickname, producer, Mannequin quantity, FCCID, and serial quantity. Fortunately, all of this info was seen on the sticker alongside the underside of the packaging. Once you enter all the required info, you'll get a affirmation web page to print on your data.
Lifting the lid, I discovered the bilingual instruction guide. Just like the directions on the outer package deal, step one was to put the magnetic antenna on the highest of your car. The directions really helpful putting the gadget close to the again of the car to permit optimum placement of the interior antenna. It was then beneficial to put the antenna close to the dashboard, the place you'll relaxation your telephone. Add the booster to a well-ventilated space (underneath the seat), join the cables, after which plug within the DC energy adaptor. When prepared to make use of the system, flip the facility change to the on place and when finished, change it off to preserve your automotive's battery. Inside the field, the corporate packaged every of the elements inside the form-fit black foam. The highest layer housed the three 7/eight inches vast by 6 5/eight inches lengthy by 1 three/eight inches thick booster, vent clip and metallic again plate with 3M tape and the outside antennae with 119 inches lengthy cable. The booster had six LED with labels, which give details about LTE-A, LTE-V, Mobile, PCS, AWS, and Energy. The highest finish had a connection level for the surface antenna, and the underside finish had a connection level for the interior antennae. The serial quantity was listed alongside the aspect of the booster, and the FCC ID was listed alongside the underside, together with the www.surecall.com web site handle, 1-888-365-6283 contact quantity and the FCC shopper gadget label additionally included on the underside of the packaging.
The decrease tray contained the 12V adaptor with a really beneficiant 143 inches lengthy energy cable. The again of the facility adaptor had a conveniently positioned toggle change, which allowed me to activate/off the system with out having to maneuver cables/wires. To the aspect of the facility adaptor, I discovered the within antennae with 119 inches lengthy energy cable. The again of the interior antennae had a three 1/four inches lengthy by 1 5/eight inches extensive 3M velcro tape. Inside the final of the compartments, I discovered a mounting hardware again containing 4 drywall anchors, 4 inch lengthy screws and two 1 1/four inches by 2 three/eight inches sticky-sided velcro strips. Lastly, there was a bag of serial quantity stickers.
To make the most of this gadget, I positioned the surface antennae on the hood of the motorhome and ran the cable by way of the window into the cab part. I positioned the booster beneath the passenger aspect seat and related the cable to the suitable finish of the booster. I plugged the interior antennae into the booster, the facility cable into the booster and ran the system as much as the sprint. The half that I appreciated most was the beneficiant lengths of cable. I might transfer the antennae again to the eating space and a lot of the means in the direction of the again of my motorhome. The precise testing of the system turned extra of a subjective course of than an goal one. We have been capable of make telephone calls when the gadget was lively and when the system was turned off, I misplaced the power to make cellphone calls. It is very important word that the packaging, instruction guide, and FCC observe that the e911 options turn out to be inaccurate when utilizing a cell booster. We should weigh the advantages versus dangers of a much less correct e911 function versus an lack of ability to name for assist in the primary place. I might personally err on the aspect of warning. My spouse favored that the gadget allowed her to renew texting, elevated her knowledge velocity for fb and allowed her to make/obtain calls, from inside the motorhome. Much more, the antennae amplified the sign in an space that had a weak/unusable sign. I appreciated that the gadget didn't require difficult set up procedures and allowed for a fast tender set up.
It was not till I received again from trip that I noticed that there was a hidden area check mode. Because of osxdaily.com, I discovered that you possibly can sort in *3001#12345#* into an iPhone, press the decision button, and a hidden iOS App turned accessible. Faucet "Serving Cell Meas" after which search for "rsrp0," which supposedly represents the first connection tower. The extra unfavourable the quantity, the more severe the sign. Based mostly on the OSXdaily web site, alerts of -80 or higher present nice service and alerts nearer to -130 present horrible service. To simplify this additional, the bigger the quantity, the extra possible you'll have a dropped name or knowledge points. Inside the motorhome, I discovered the sign to be at roughly -110 to -120 on the campsite and round -100 on the town. Once I powered on the system, the values dropped to -89 and -81 respectively. In case you are on the fence about this gadget, don't take my phrase for it alone. I discovered a pleasant comparability between the WeBoost and the SureCall gadget at https://www.signalbooster.com. Do not be stunned once you understand how properly this technique boosts the sign.
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Packers rout Vikings 37-10 in cold to take NFC's No. 1 seed
Posted: Jan 2, 2022 10:33 PM CST
By STEVE MEGARGEE AP Sports Writer
GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Aaron Rodgers threw two touchdown passes, A.J. Dillon ran for two more scores and the Green Bay Packers routed the Minnesota Vikings 37-10 on Sunday night to wrap up the NFC's No. 1 playoff seed.
Green Bay's victory, coupled with Philadelphia's 20-16 triumph at Washington earlier in the day, dropped the Vikings (7-9) from postseason contention and gave the Eagles a playoff berth.
The Vikings were playing without quarterback Kirk Cousins after he was placed on the reserve/COVID-19 list Friday.
The Packers (13-3) are the lone NFL team with an unbeaten home record and have a chance to reach the Super Bowl without leaving Lambeau Field, where the temperature was 11 degrees with a wind chill of 1 just before kickoff.
MVP chants as Aaron Rodgers walks off the field. pic.twitter.com/UCH7E95x7j
— Scott Grodsky (@ScottGrodsky) January 3, 2022
No. 1 seed: SECURED ✅ #GoPackGo pic.twitter.com/twPGyxQNVa
— Green Bay Packers (@packers) January 3, 2022
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