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The remains of an Interlachen security guard were found Thursday in a wooded area of Marion County.
Major Crimes Unit Detectives with the Putnam County Sheriff's Office and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement Scene Unit recovered the body of who they believe is Floyd Anderson "Andy" Parrish, according to a release from the Putnam County Sheriff's Office.
The remains have been sent to the District Five Medical Examiner's Office for positive identification and to determine the cause of death.
Parrish, 46, was last seen by family members in Athens, Ga., on Jan. 2.
Family members told deputies they were worried his phone had been turned off and he might be selling a collection of about 100 firearms, according to The Times-Union.
Detectives have ruled the investigation a homicide. While no one has been charged with Parrish's murder, the Putnam County Sheriff's Office has located two persons of interest.
On Wednesday, Richard Gertler, 52, was charged with auto theft and armed burglary. He was wanted for questioning and was identified as Parrish's house sitter, according to the Times-Union.
He was charged with stealing Parrish's Ford Explorer and taking it to Jacksonville with another man when the SUV was found abandoned near Baldwin. However, Gertler told detectives he had only moved it out of the way so he could leave Parrish's Interlachen home.
In an interview with detectives, Gertler said he saw Parrish at about 7 p.m. Jan. 2 and gave him $12,800.
That was about two hours after Parrish told his family he was in Gainesville, heading home.
Neighbors told detectives there were vehicles and men at Parrish's home between 10 p.m. and midnight on Jan. 2.
The Putnam County Sheriff's Office also interviewed another man who said Gertler called him to Parrish's house.
The two men drove the Ford Explorer to Jacksonville and left it there.
Investigators found the Explorer Saturday when a Clifford Lane resident called the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office after seeing one person drop off the SUV and get into a truck with another person and drive off.
Gertler is being held in the Putnam County jail without bail.
The investigation is ongoing, authorities said.

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For its train ride from london to dublin ireland , departing from London Euston station, from there go to the Welsh coast of Gwynedd to reach the port of Holyhead to take the ferry that connects Wales with Ireland in Irishferrys. You can use the fast train from London Euston to Holyhead which lasts approximately 4 hours and makes a transfer in Chester.
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Ms. Kacey B
Cultural Unawareness of the Law – An Untenable and Inexcusable Defense
"Ignorance of the law by a person who commits an offence is not an excuse for committing that offence",<1> is a statement that is cited in our Criminal Code, iterated by individuals of authority, and even proliferated in pop culture. It seems to be safe to contend that most individuals living in Canada are fully aware that ignorance will play no defense to a criminal offence. Yet apparently, Judge Robert Smith found it appropriate to allow ignorance of the law to affect the court's assessment of alleged mens rea in a sexual assault case.
R v H.E. illustrated a disturbing trend in the legal system: how sexual assault cases seem to constantly be held to different standards than other assault cases. In 2017 there was a shocking outcome to what should have been a clear sexual assault case before the courts. Judge Smith heard the case where 'Z' claimed to have been sexually assaulted by her then-husband in 2002. Z had married her husband, the accused, in an arranged marriage in 1992.<2> In 2013, after speaking with a police officer, she was informed that a wife could withdraw consent from sexual relations with her husband.
This was contrary to what Z had grown up knowing. She had believed that the wife was the property of the husband and that consent was irrelevant. The incident in question occurred in 2002 where Z testified that she had asked the accused to cease having sexual relations with her three times, and each time he ignored her and continued the sexual assault to completion. Judge Smith in hearing the facts noted that the accused seemed to lack credility and commended Z stating that her evidence was credible and honest. Yet the accused was acquitted of all charges.
What happened? In a one-paragraph summation of his judgment, Judge Smith makes a ruling that seems contrary to the earlier evidence. Judge Smith states that the Crown had not met the burden of proof beyond a reasonable doubt that the accused possessed the mens rea to have committed sexual assault in 2002.<3> This comes shortly after Judge Smith made the comment that "the accused was argumentative and evasive when cross-examined and often did not answer the question posed. I find that his evidence was not believable and did not raise a reasonable doubt."4 These comments appear to contradict the final judgement. Judge Smith concludes that because Z lived in Canada since 1989 and continued to have sex with the accused from 2002 to 2013 there was reasonable doubt for the accusation of sexual assault.
Many disturbing questions come to mind when reading this outcome:
Could Judge Smith truly think of no situation where Z may have felt fearful of the accused and had sexual relations with him for the safety of her children or herself?
Has Judge Smith concluded that because Z had sexual relations with her husband after the 2002 incident that her consent is irrelevant in this case?
Could it possibly be that this one circumstance in 2002, Z had not consented to sexual intercourse but on other occasions had?
Is Judge Smith implying that if you have sex with someone multiple times that your consent is no longer held to the same standard than if you had never had sexual relations with that person before?
Most concerning: has Judge Smith now considered ignorance of the law of consent to become a defense in sexual assault cases?
Following the logic laid out in R v H.E., a defendant can claim that because they were unaware of a law due to their cultural background they did not have the mens rea to commit the crime. It is difficult to imagine any other situation other than in a sexual assault that this defense would ever be tolerated in a court of law, and why is it that it is allowed in sexual assault cases? Judge Smith appears to be joining the ranks of previous judges such as Judge Gregory Lenehan <5> and Judge Robin Camp who do not seem to fully appreciate the concept of consent in their rulings and comments and the effects this can have on the greater society. A proliferation of such a defence seems unlikely, but its existence in the H.E. case demonstrates the ease with which rape myths inculcate judicial thinking far too often.
It has been with great effort that society has managed to slowly start empowering sexual assault victims. By encouraging victims to have a voice in the legal system, society may see more than a mere 6% of sexual assault victims come forward and report their attacks. It is crucial that the law mirrors the shifts seen in society and not be an archaic device that is outdated. With the recent introduction of Bill C-51, which contains a number of progressive provisions in respect of sexual assault trials, and cases such as R v Ewanchuck and R v J.A., which have strengthened the role of victims in consent law, the legal system is slowly adapting closer towards meeting the needs of victims. There is a clear shift in both general society and the legal system on the value and importance of a system which values sexual assault survivors. However, all these efforts and successes are undermined when Judges give explicit effect to rape myths. R v H.E. is a disappointing step back from the goals of society, and has allowed ignorance of the law to play as a valid defense in sexual assault cases. A successful appeal would go some distance towards limiting a gross injustice.
1 Criminal Code, RSC 1985, c C-46, s 19.
2 R v HE, 2017 ONSC 4277, 2017 CarswellOnt 16019 at para 4.
3 Ibid at para 17.
5"Read the Full Decision from the Judge Who Said 'Clearly a Drunk can Consent'", CBC News (3 March 2017), online: <http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/halifax-cab-driver-sex-assault-acquittal-judge-decision-transcript-1.4008375>


.....and the resort of Southwold.
Formerly a Village Inn the property has been converted by it's present owners, John and Margaret Benson, to include three comfortable ground floor en-suite bedrooms.
The Brampton Dog, built circ 1800, was a familiar landmark in the district and was the sole public house in the village. At one time owned by the lord of the manor, the premises were acquired in 1928 by Adnams & Company, the Southwold brewers. White's Directory notes that the landlord in 1844 was John Cleveland. He must have provided a very useful service as his occupations were given as being both victualler and veterinary surgeon.
The Gardens at Brampton Dog.
Guests are accommodated in their own ground floor double or twin en-suite bedroom with tea and coffee making facilities. The rooms are also equipped with television and hair dryer.
Breakfast is served in the breakfast room in the main building and the snug bar has been retained as a bar/lounge for the use of guests.
The conservatory, adjacent to the breakfast room.
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A "Bucket Brigade" to benefit the 26 artists whose studios were burned out in last month's Clipper Mill Industrial Park fire will be a feature of tonight's First Thursday activities.
Buckets will be placed on pedestals in the downtown galleries, at the Decker and Meyerhoff galleries of the Maryland Institute, College of Art, at the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Walters Art Gallery, the Charles Theater and elsewhere.
Contributions placed in the buckets will go directly to the Clipper Park Artists Relief Fund.


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Volume 3, Issue 1 – Spring 2011
Rippling Circles
Bipolar disorder (formerly known as manic depression) is a serious and enduring illness that can have devastating consequences for those who suffer from it. Such people experience states of intense mania, with symptoms that can include thoughts racing at incredible speed, extreme irritability, inflated confidence, inability to relate to others, decreased need for sleep and food. However, such heightened states will never last; every bipolar sufferer will come down eventually with depression. (See also "What goes up must come down" in: Therapy Today, volume 21, issue 10). Bipolar sufferers move between mania and depression, sometimes fast, sometimes after periods that are symptom-free. Their most important taskis to manage the triggers that take them up or down; this involves careful management of stresses associated both with work and with emotions, maintaining regular sleep patterns and eating properly as well as taking regular exercise. Psychotherapy can most usefully help to cope with depression; once mania kicks in psychotherapy usually becomes ineffective because sufferers often lose the capacity for self-reflection – this is where medication can help.
There is a fallacy around that suggests a bipolar disorder leads to exceptional creativity. Numerous claims to that effect are circled on the web. Yet what is more realistic is to consider that one can be creative despite a bipolar illness. Every sufferer has a different story to tell about his or her struggle and life with bipolar disorder. You can find a number of short multimedia presentations about the bipolar experience of several bipolar sufferers in the New York Times.
Geert Kliphuis has been living with a bipolar disorder. In this edition of Contemporary Psychotherapy, he writes about his personal experience and of his way of trying to make sense of it by using cosmological concepts created by ancient Middle Eastern scholars.
A Perspective on living with Bipolar Disorder
Geert Kliphuis
(In gratitude to 'Claudia'and Roshdi Rashed)
"…Himmelhoch jauchzend, zum Tode betrübt"…Clärchen to her mother – Goethe, Egmont, Third Act, Scene Two
This is a description of an unusual attempt to handle manic depression. The method I developed has helped me to deal with my own disorder in a more objective, and thus more reliable manner. So far, it is rather successful. That may not last; the method requires constant application, which is not always easy. It appears to work, even though for a few months, I have been taking less medication. I reduced the drugs (mirtazapine, lithium and venlafaxine) to an acceptable minimum because their physiological side effects added to my feelings of depression. The method may perhaps be of help for other patients.
1.1. Islamic sources from the early Middle Ages
For my work as a novelist, I began reading about the history of medicine in Islam's Golden Age (± 850 – late 15th century), and discovered the terrific progress made in psychotherapy by physicians like Razi, Ibn Sina (Avicenna), Al-Farabi and Al-Bahlki; and in paediatrics, Al-Tabari, the latter having written the world's first medical encyclopaedia. Muhammad ud-din Najab (Iraq, 11th century), followed by categorizing and describing the groundbreaking work of his colleagues and predecessors in his psychiatric compendium, The Classification of Mental Disorders. In this work, Najab defined the probable causes and effects of, among others, agitated depression, neurosis, priapism, impotence (nafkhai malikholia), psychosis (kutrib) and mania (dhual-kulb).
In Najab's days, mental disorders were mostly viewed from a psychosomatic angle and, remarkably modern, from a sociological perspective. As to their psychosomatic causes, the predominant views in Najab's days were very much in line with the work of Abu Zayd Al-Bahlki who had introduced the concepts of mental health and mental hygiene:
"Human existence cannot be healthy without the ishtibak (interweaving) of body and soul."
Social causes that catalysed mental illnesses were explained in Nasr Al-Farabi's treatises, Social Psychology and Model City. Going one step further, in his revolutionary Meanings of the Intellect, Al-Farabi explored music as a therapy and a personal healing experience. At the end of the 10th century, music and mosaics gradually became established therapies in Middle Eastern hospitals. However, the plastic arts in the world of Islam were subject to 'aniconism'; with respect to the concept of 'Unity of Islam'; Muhammad, the founder of the religion, had discouraged – but not prohibited – the depiction of living creatures, and thus artists and decorators began to create complex geometrical figures. (Perhaps medieval Islamic mathematics would not have reached such a level of sophistication without aniconism…)
At the same time, Ibn al-Haytham, an influential scientist, began to consider mathematics as an intuitive art (Rashed, 1996, cited in Gould and Cohen, 2000). Al-Haytham had, of course, knowledge of the work of Muhammad Al-Khwarizmi, who had made mathematics accessible with his Compendious Book of Calculations and Balancing, the first comprehensive book on algebra that also had an educational purpose.
Being someone who finds harmony in mathematics, I began to wonder if the beauty of Arabic geometry, and especially spherical trigonometry, might help to make mental disorders bearable. I found that in Muslim Spain, progress was made in spherical trigonometry while Najab's Baghdad, in those days the scientific and intellectual centre of the world, offered a breakthrough in optics. Therefore, these two disciplines seemed plausible options to explore.
1.2. Spherical trigonometry in Spain
The foundation of spherical trigonometry lay, as in all constructive geometry, in the circle. The Christians said about the circle that "the heart of man is the centre, heaven the circumference." For the Arabs the circle was not only a spiritual concept but also the core of a mathematical approach to the world around them. The term zero, in western mathematics symbolized by a circle, is a contracted Italianization via zefiro of the Arabic çifr, which means by itself nothing or void. Where Christians considered the circumference a protection against the unknown, the Arabs saw the void as a geometrical, astronomical or even spiritual adventure.
Muslim-Jewish Spain had never really excelled in exact sciences, except medicine (Ibn Rushd aka Averrôes, Maimonides, and, most of all, Al-Zahwari). Andalusia meant philosophy, poetry and translations, especially from Greek and Hebrew. Yet, in the early 11th century, Allah Muhammad ibn Muad, the local judge of Jaén, published his Book of Unknown Arcs of a Sphere. Not since Menelaos of Alexandria, a thousand years previously, had the sphere been the subject of such profound study. Ibn Muad's book set new standards for the definition of the sphere and introduced methods that freed spherical trigonometry from its astronomical context to become a mathematical discipline in its own right.
Given the 'planetary' figure below, one understands why Ibn Muad's findings in his Book of Unknown Arcs of a Sphere preceded a thesis about the exact height of the atmosphere (On the Dawn or the Twilight and the Rising of the Clouds).
This is a modern version of one of Ibn Muad's trigonometric figures. It must have been his aim to rotate the sphere in order to displace its north pole on a slightly south-east axis in order to show the dynamics of the sphere, instead of showing it symmetrically, as if on a flat plane.
Ibn Muad made it possible to define the sphere, which, despite being freed from astronomical contexts, reflected for me a physical universe in miniature. The judge, reputedly a man of great wisdom, must have been aware of verses in the Qur'an that were interpreted as an order to help the ill. Verse 5 in the fourth Surah, Nisa ('Women') reminds the believer of his responsibilities in both their material and spiritual sense towards people with, what I call, 'soul pain':
Do not give away your property which Allah has made for you a means of support for the weak of understanding.Maintain them with the profits of it, and clothe them and speak to them words of honest advice.
Yet, Ibn Muad, a devout Muslim, never applied his revolution in spherical trigonometry to the spherical perception some people had of their world.
Neither could he know that the basic structure of his 'planetary' sphere, shown above, represents, for some people suffering from manic depression, a system of wheels, which is in slow, constant rotation. (Such is the case for 'Claudia', a former fellow patient at a clinic in Tienen, Belgium, and myself.) However, to understand this, we must first see what happens when the world does not rotate but comes to a stop.
1.3. The immobile phase in manic depression
I believe that the euphemistic term 'bipolar' describes manic depression only as a roller-coaster experience; it appears inadequate when it concerns the processes of inflation and deflation of the patient's worldview. A personal example: I find that in a depressed and immobile phase, the world deflates to such an extent that preparing a craved cup of coffee becomes an impossible endeavour. I am unable to perform even the slightest function that may help lift the ban of my immobility. Yet I know that it should be possible. However, the sphere of my existence has deflated to such an extent that the coffee machine seems to be isolated in a parallel sphere, which cannot be accessed. In this deadlock, there are two solutions: either I force my way into the parallel sphere in an act of determination, or I gently inflate my sphere until it touches the sphere of the coffee machine. The first option, when successful, may lead to doubtful satisfaction: I may think indignantly, 'Okay, but do I need so much effort to make my coffee?' The second option is more harmonious: I think: 'Yes, when I do it slowly, I can overcome my immobility and make my coffee.' Both avenues lead to the same result. However, it seems likely that the patient who uses the first option perceives the coffee as a reward for his determination; the patient who uses the second option will actually appreciate the coffee for its taste. Maybe the latter is important: manic depressed people are in dire need of a good quality of life. The competition with themselves does not contribute necessarily to that feeling; constructive acts of kindness to themselves may well. Self-competing is a constant in their disorder and saps mental energy. With the second option, failing to make your coffee is less frustrating because the mental effort takes less energy: it is easier to try it again.
'Zenith' and 'Nadir' are the Arabic terms used, mainly in astronomy, for the 'point above' and the 'point below' in relation to the horizon.
If we assume that the physical universe is a sphere, then we may assume that we live with a spherical perception of the world around us. This sphere has a stable appearance because it is perceived as horizontally ellipsoid (supposedly the shape of the physical universe): our view sweeps a wider distance from east to west than from zenith to nadir.
However, Claudia, the patient at the Tienen clinic, and I perceive the universe as made up from full circles: zenith and nadir lie, geometrically speaking, at equal distances from the centre as the polarities of the horizon, and lack the broad diameter of the ellipse. Claudia told me: 'When I'm balanced, I'm sitting in the middle of a system of wheels.' (She added: 'When I'm not, I'm tied to a wheel.' We'll come to that later).
For a 'normal' person, this circle seems perfectly stable but Claudia feels that her circular worldview is subject to arbitrary influences. The diameters in the circle rotate, touching all the points between maniacal zenith and depressed nadir. Claudia's worldview may topple over slowly, leaving zenith, and grind down towards nadir; after a phase of depression it rotates and rises towards the east-west axis for a short span of exhausted balance. Then it spins her to maniacal zenith. That was what she meant by, 'I'm tied to a wheel.' To which she had added:
"[The wheel is like] that Hindu-thing, the wheel of Samsara. I'm wrecked and reborn. And every rebirth spells danger. Have you seen that film, Contact, with Jodie Foster? They build a machine to travel to the stars. It consists of three spinning wheels that create an electro-magnetic field. I live in that machine. The vertical wheel is that Hindu wheel. The first time I saw that film, I ran from the theatre."
Now I understood why her image of 'I'm in the middle of a system of wheels' was also reflected in Contact. This is what we have seen earlier, in Figure 2, in which the added vertical circle represents her 'Hindu wheel'. Still, Claudia is lucky. She is able to identify elements in her disorder and give them a comparative and comprehensible description, and that makes it easier for people to understand her. She gives, what I call, indicators.
Claudia's indignation at her spherical existence is very much like mine. We both lack that broad base of an ellipsoid worldview. To her, our system of wheels represents all the danger and euphoria of even the metal sphere itself, launched by the system of wheels in Contact to take Jodie Foster to the stars. Typically, all things spherical that were, in her opinion, only superficially understood by others, became the object of her scorn. She once blew her stack at an elderly Belgian man, apparently someone with Buddhist convictions, who had tea in a bar:
"Could you please stop juggling those Yin-Yang balls of yours? They scare me. Man in woman, woman in man, light in darkness, darkness in light. You're so wrong, my friend! It's one or the other!"
After my stay at the clinic, I still had no idea how to accept the circle, until a man from a distant past, adherent of a religion quite the opposite of Hinduism or Buddhism, showed me a sphere from a different point of view. I sent one of his drawings to Claudia. She was delighted, in spite – or because – of the sphere being cut in two.
2 Living with the sphere
2.1. Optics in Iraq: Sa'd ibn Sahl
In CE 984 – which approximates to the Hijri (Islamic) year 374 – Sa'd ibn Sahl, a physicist in Iraq, made a diagram of the first law of light refraction, which is the triangular figure, shown top left. (A modern interpretation of Ibn Sahl's Law of Refraction: If the ratio of lengths L1/L2 is kept equal to N1/N2, then the rays satisfy the law of sines). Then he applied his findings to an anaclastic lens, that is, a perfect lens without optical aberrations (the demi-sphere – Ibn Sahl's plano-convex lens, below right). Almost a thousand years later these drawings were discovered in the Millî Library in Tehran by the Egyptian historian of science, Professor Roshdi Rashed, who published the result in 1990.
Claudia and I were thrilled by the drawing of the lens because it shows Ibn Sahl's correct calculations of the path of a ray of light. In the diagram, the ray is the tiny slanted line, marked – by the letter Sa'd – in the demi-sphere which should, of course, be traced from right to left. It touched us because Ibn Sahl had shown a way into, through, and out of the demi-sphere. In this scientific drawing, Ibn Sahl's technique touched the spiritual: the fine lines that make up the demi-sphere are drawn by a scientist who becomes an artist, awed by the solution of the mystery. His explanation is written in wonderfully stable and individual handwriting.
For Claudia and myself this is a work of beauty: it frees the sphere from the claustrophobic context in which our circles rotate. Claudia made Ibn Sahl's drawing a full sphere; she wrote to me: "Hey, I drew the other half myself!" By doing so, she took one more step towards accepting the sphere, and thus gaining control over it.
When I copied the diagram, I realized that my computer could change the demi-sphere, be it irreverently, into a dynamic ellipsoid form:
Now the horizontal axis, from Ibn Sahl's Point 'Ayn on the right to Point Alif on the left, identified the broad base of the ellipsoid worldview I mentioned earlier. Taking Ibn Sahl's demi-sphere as a lead, and doubling it, like Claudia, I thought I should project this shape around me, positioning myself at Point 'Ayn. But how?
2.2. A technique for 'mental naval aviation'
A few weeks later, I saw our neighbour's cat in our garden; he sat on the edge of the bird-pool, staring at the water. Then, fast as only cats can, he struck with his paw at the surface, and cocked his head intently, watching the water ripple. What I experienced, watching him, is called in German an 'Aha!-Erlebnis' (a blast of realization): the cat made ever widening circles. Imitating him, I began to create ripples by dropping pebbles into water and tested them, lowering my head to just above the point of impact on the surface, seeing them expand. I contacted Claudia and, separately, we went to work. After a few months, we compared notes: we were both able to project those ripples in our minds, seeing them flow away gently from our heads, along Ibn Sahl's 'Ayn to Alif axis, widening our horizon and inflating our spheres. These days, as soon as we wake up, we set them in motion, creating the broad horizon we need to position ourselves. In order to give our life a symbol, which relates to techniques of navigation, I made a proposal to Claudia calling it 'the aircraft carrier': when we are in a stable phase, we navigate steadily, the horizon and the level of our worldviews coinciding. In this phase, there is no need for inflation or deflation of our sphere. When the ship is sucked into the maelstrom of depression and we meet, as Claudia says, 'the Cerberus in my soul', the horizon is there, diagonally above us, as a reminder of the level we came from and where we will, inevitably, return. In this phase, we may need to inflate our sphere, widening the ripples. When we fly up from our aircraft carrier, like 'Icarus' (dixit Claudia), into the high winds of mania, the horizon is still there, diagonally below us, reminding us of the euphoric dangers that we must reduce, for example, by deflating the sphere, limiting the ripples.
In naval aviation, like in any form of flying, a pilot has one particularly important meter on his instrument panel. The official term is 'artificial horizon'; it is also called the attitude meter, 'attitude' meaning 'position of the body'. Navigating through the rippling circles, with the horizon as our reference, we may just be holding our body – and soul – in the right position. And we can do it, with an intent curiosity, similar to that of our neighbour's cat.
Geert Kliphuis aka Jay Conrad (b. Netherlands, 1955) is the author of The Mirror City, a novel about Madrid, and composer and performer of Sobre una cama helada, a forthcoming album in Spanish, based on the poetry of Raquel Lanseros.
Rashed, R (1996) Analysis and Synthesis According To Ibn al-Haytham, in C. C. Gould and R. S. Cohen (eds.), (2000) Artifacts, Representations and Social Practice, 121-140, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers
Rashed, R (1990) A Pioneer in Anaclastics, Ibn Sahl on Burning Mirrors and Lenses. ISIS, University of Chicago Press
Al-Farabi, Abu Nasr: (Lat. Alpharabius, Iran-Syria-Egypt, c. 872– c. 950) Muslim polymath and one of the greatest scientists of his day. Cosmologist, logician, musician, psychologist and sociologist. An influence on Leo Strauss, the 20th century US-German political philosopher.
Al-Khwarizmi, Abu Ja'far Muhammad ibn Musa: (Baghdad, c. 780–c. 850) Mathematician and astronomer. One of the Banu Musa (sons of Moses, actually three brothers) at the House of Wisdom in Baghdad, founded by the liberal Khalîf, Al-Mamoun. The treatise Al-Kitab al-mukhtasar fi hisab al-jabr w'al-muqabala (The Compendious Book on Calculation and Balancing) was his greatest work and gave the West the word algebra. It was the first book on the subject.
Al-Zahwari, Khalaf ibn Abbas: (Lat. Abulcasis, 910–1013) the court physician of the Spanish Khalîf Al-Haqam II. In the 10th century, Al-Zahwari was considered to be the greatest surgeon in the world. His contribution to modern medicine is impossible to evaluate.
Ibn al-Haytham, Abu Ali al-Hasan: (Lat. Alhazen, Basra 965–Cairo 1040) generally acknowledged to be the founder of modern science. He devoted his life to mathematics, medicine, astronomy and physics. His fabulous Kitab al-Manazir (Book of Optics), which was used by Bacon, Kepler and Da Vinci, was written during his house arrest in Cairo (1010–1021). In 1997, Oxford mathematician Peter M. Neumann finally found an algebraic solution for the notorious Alhacen Problem, from Book V of Kitab al-Manazir. Al-Haytham worked for a long time at Cairo's Al-Ahzar University (founded 970).
Ibn Muad, Abu Abd Allah Muhammad: (aka al-Jayyani, 'the man from Jaén', 989–1079) little is known about this judge (cadi) and confusion exists as to whether the scholar Al-Jayyani may have been the same person. Ibn Muad reportedly also wrote a treatise on machines.
Ibn Rushd, Muhammad ibn Ahmad: (Lat. Averroês, 1126–1198) Spanish-Arab philosopher, expert on the works of Aristotle, which earned him the reputation of 'The Commentator'. Ibn Rushd wrote a comprehensive encyclopaedia of medicine, and extensively researched smallpox and eye diseases.
Ibn Sahl, Abu Sa'd al-'Ala: (c. 940–c. 1000) Iraqi optics engineer, closely associated with the court of the Abbasids. Credited by the Egyptian historian of science, Prof. Roshdi Rashed, in 1990 for developing the first law of refraction, also known as Snell's Law, after the 17th century Dutch scientist.
Ibn Sahl al-Balki, Ahmed: 10th century Iraqi pioneer of psychophysiology, and founder of psychosomatic medicine.
Ibn Sahl Rabban al-Tabari, Ali: (838–870) Persian-Jewish (converted to Islam) physician, the world's first specialist in paediatrics and child development. Wrote the Firdous al-Hikmah ('Paradise of Wisdom') or Al-Kunnash, the first encyclopaedia of medicine.
Ibn Sina, Abu Ali al-Hussein: (Lat. Avicenna, 980–1037) the Great Harmonizer. Persian physician, psychiatrist and philosopher, who worked at the astoundingly modern general hospital (see: Razi) at Baghdad. His summary of medical literature in his Al-Qanun was authoritative until after the Renaissance. He also wrote on astronomy, philosophy, mathematics, physics, chemistry, geology and music.
Maimonides: Greek name for Mosheh ben Maimon (1135–1204), or in Arabic, Musa ibn Maimoun; Córdoban rabbi, physician, theologian and philosopher. His most important philosophical treatise is the huge Guide of the Perplexed. Maimonides was a close friend of Ibn Rushd.
Menelaos of Alexandria: (c. 70–140) Greek mathematician and astronomer.
Razi, Muhammad ibn Zakariyah: (Lat. Rhazes, 865–925) Persian physician, specialized in neurosurgery, paediatrics, allergies, immunology and psychotherapy. Was founder – and director, as later was Ibn Sina – of Baghdad's general hospital, where he had his chemical laboratory to test the faculties of petroleum.
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Wow. I can't believe that tomorrow is December 1st. November was an awesome month, even if it did go by quickly.
Yoga. Unfortunately, I only made it to one yoga class. Hey, I ended up traveling and then Thanksgiving. No excuse, right?
Running. Um, yeah. Didn't kick this one into gear until the 21st. So hard to get motivated when the weather is inbetween. I hate overheating during runs. I have some really great cold weather clothing, but nothing for the inbetween. Since I'm only running around 3 miles at a time, I'm suffering through any bouts of overheating. But I don't like it. I should get a pair of capri running tights. Like these over at Lululemon. *sigh* I love that store. I keep telling myself that I'll buy more clothes from there when I get skinnier. Been saying that for a year now. Moving right along….
Eating clean. Clean! I'm committed, much more than before when I was marathon training. Lots of fresh fruit and salads. Good quality lean meats. Not a lot of grains. Not a lot of sugar.
Work. Is just that. Work. We're super busy right up through February. I could complain about the workload, but truthfully, I love being busy.
Sewing. I did not finish (or even start) my pay it forward projects. But I did get done with these….
Wow. It seems like I did so much more this month than that list. Just a little discouraging, but I learned something with each project.
I've got some ideas in store for December. A few WIPs that I'm just about to wrap up. And some other projects that I might just take apart. A race or two. Squeeze all that in between work and family. Wish me luck!
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La rivière Kharkiv (en ) ou Kharkov (en ) est un cours d'eau qui prend sa source dans l'oblast de Belgorod, en Russie, et arrose la ville de Kharkiv, en Ukraine. C'est un affluent de la rivière Lopan, dans le bassin du Don

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La rivière Kharkiv est longue de  et draine un bassin de . Elle prend sa  source à l'est de la commune urbaine d'Oktiabrski, dans l'oblast de Belgorod, à une altitude de . Elle s'écoule d'abord selon une direction générale nord-sud, pénètre en Ukraine et prend finalement une direction sud-ouest dans la ville de Kharkiv, au centre de laquelle elle se jette dans la Lopan.

À  de sa source, peu après la frontière ukrainienne, ses eaux se jettent dans le réservoir Travianske (en , Trav'ianske vodoskhovychtche), long de  et large de plus de .

Notes et références

4Kharkiv (rivière)
Cours d'eau dans l'oblast de Belgorod
Cours d'eau en Ukraine

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Why is it that most people set new year's resolutions every January, but few stick with them?
From what I found, when creating new years resolutions, many people don't address the underlying issue to their unhappiness or root of their problem. Therefore, they are setting themselves up for failure. For example, people say they want to lose weight. They'll start exercising, but they won't change their diet. As a result, they most likely will not reach their goals; leaving them feeling frustrated and wanting to give up. However, what they fail to realize is that you can't out exercise a bad diet. So unless you're willing to look at all aspects of your life and how you live, you most likely will be setting yourself up for failure. It's also like saying you want to run a marathon; you sign up for the race, you run a few miles, but you never truly train. What happens? Maybe you get injured and can't finish the race. Unless you're willing to make changes in all aspects of your life (ie. what you eat, how much you sleep, drink, workout, etc…) and put in the work you won't achieve what you had hoped to.
To start, analyze your life. Rather than thinking about symptoms of your dissatisfaction, try to find things that make you feel good and happy. Then if there are things you want to change, start to create a plan of action. Goals are your new resolutions. What is it you're hoping to accomplish and what will it take to get there? Write them down, talk about, and start doing the steps needed to accomplish your goals. Sharing your plans and putting them out into the universe will help them to manifest in your life and come true.
Each January, roughly one in three Americans resolve to better themselves in some way, but a much smaller percentage of people actually meet their resolutions. Studies have shown that about 75% of people stick to their goals for at least a week, 46% of people are still on target six months later, and only about 8% of people achieve their New Year's Resolution.


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In the midst of holiday home renovations, Lucy Stone accidentally unwraps a murder mystery decades in the making when she discovers an old Christmas card with a nasty message belonging to one of her farmhouse's previous residents. The case may be colder than a New England Christmas, but Lucy's determined to sort it out before Santa comes to town.
Death of a Christmas Carol by Lee Hollis
The Island Times Christmas soiree gets off to a scroogey start when Hayley Powell, Mona Barnes, and Rosana Moretti receive a Christmas card from the town flirt, Carol Waterman, who threatens to run off with one of their husbands! The ladies chalk it up to an imprudent prank...until they find Carol mistletoe-up under her tree...
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Slay bells ring when the body of Arborville High School's beloved art teacher (and annual Christmas card designer), Karma Karling, is discovered on the first day of the Holiday Craft Fair. Now, Pamela Paterson and the Knit and Nibble crew must swap swatching for sleuthing in order to put a Christmas killer on ice.
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Navy Commissions Littoral Combat Ship USS Milwaukee
Sailors assigned to the Freedom-variant littoral combat ship USS Milwaukee (LCS 5) man the ship during the commissioning ceremony in snowy Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Nov. 21. Milwaukee will proceed to her homeport in San Diego in next year. Photo credit: Lockheed Martin.
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MILWAUKEE, Wis., Nov. 21, 2015 – The U.S. Navy commissioned the nation's fifth Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) – USS Milwaukee (LCS 5) – in Milwaukee today, officially placing the ship designed and constructed by a Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT)-led industry team into active service.
Milwaukee, the third Freedom-variant in the LCS class, successfully passed Acceptance Trials in September and was delivered to the U.S. Navy on October 16.
"The USS Milwaukee is a warship with capabilities unlike any others," said Stephanie C. Hill, vice president of Ship & Aviation Systems for Lockheed Martin Mission Systems and Training business. "The entire Lockheed Martin-led LCS industry team is proud to deliver USS Milwaukee to the crew who will bring this great ship to life to participate in the defense of our great nation."
The fifth U.S. Navy vessel bearing the name, Milwaukee will transit to its homeport in San Diego, California, where it will be integrated into the fleet and the industry-Navy team will conduct additional program testing and crew training.
The Lockheed Martin-led industry team, which includes shipbuilder Fincantieri Marinette Marine and naval architect Gibbs & Cox, has already delivered two Freedom-variant littoral combat ships to the U.S. Navy. USS Freedom conducted a successful deployment to Southeast Asia in 2013 and is currently operating out of her homeport in San Diego. USS Fort Worth is currently deployed in Southeast Asia, serving in the U.S. 7th Fleet.
Detroit (LCS 7) is scheduled to be delivered in early 2016. Sioux City (LCS 11), Wichita (LCS 13), Billings (LCS 15), and Indianapolis (LCS 17) are in construction. St. Louis (LCS 19) and Minneapolis/St. Paul (LCS 21) are in long-lead material procurement.
The commissioning is the final act that marks entrance of a ship into the naval forces of her nation. It is the final of three events that bring a ship to life: keel laying, launching and christening, and commissioning.
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Why is Fuckface Fred such a ****face? Dive in to his subconscious to see just how a ****face thinks, and see for yourself.
When I was a kid my mom would always give me a dollar a day to take out the trash.
One day I realized that the trash bags mom had been giving me were filled with rotting corpses.
After that, I had a new friend everyday of the week.


Small business owners struggle with burnout when they try to do too much and for too many hours in a day.
NEW YORK — Small business owners can struggle with burnout when they try to do too much by themselves and for too many hours in a day. Those who have found themselves burned out have developed strategies aimed at preventing a recurrence.


Again, lets take a look at small categories and their functors.
If we consider groups as categories, what would be their functors? A functor must preserve unit morphism and composition. Hence, a functor is just a group homomorphism.
Any order-preserving (a.k.a. monotonous) function between two partially ordered sets is a functor.
Take a pair of oriented graphs and a ma that preserve edges. We can extend this map to a function that maps path from one graph to paths of another graph. This function, by definition, preserves concatenation and empty paths, thus it is a functor from one graph-generated category to another.


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Richard Filce joined Lowrey & Fortner's 40 years of excellence in 2002.
He had just moved back to Hattiesburg and knew very little about the firm.
Little did he know that he would join one of the most successful firms in South, Mississippi.
Something Richard admires about the firm is his ability to run his practice based off his strengths and talents.
According to Richard, Erik respects each individual attorney's ability to judge whether a particular case is one in which he or she should get involved.
Richard's practice includes both plaintiff and defense in all of the civil litigation jurisdictions in Mississippi – Chancery, Circuit, County Court, Court of Appeals, and the Supreme Court of Mississippi.
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Personal injury and wrongful death: including guardianships for personal injury cases involving minors; uninsured motorist insurance
Contested wills and estates: interpretation of wills, contest or challenge of invalid wills, undue influence and lack of capacity
Appeals to the Supreme Court of Mississippi and Mississippi Court of Appeals
Drafting and Review of Contracts
Small business formation: Limited Liability Company (LLC, PLLC), Corporation
As he continues to grow his practice, he relies on advice and guidance from Erik that proves invaluable to his work and the overall success of the firm.
"I now feel comfortable about the types of cases I handle," Richard said. "The firm structure lets each attorney make important strategy decisions on his or her own cases. I think this adds to a lawyer's confidence."
Richard also respects that Erik not only gives him freedom to grow as an attorney, but respects that his attorneys need a healthy work-life balance. This is something not every lawyer can say they have.
"I would say Erik is the example of not letting the work fill your free time," Richard said. "We all need our evenings and weekends to re-charge."
As the firm continues to provide excellence in legal services for South Mississippi, Richard says the confidence he has gained through Lowrey & Fortner has made staying an easy decision.
He is committed to growing the firm's success with Erik for many years to come.
"As long as we keep a group of people together that like each other and don't mind working hard, I can see the firm continuing to be a leader in the area for a long time," Richard said.


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Signed by ANDY KUBERT - 1st Edition (Green Cover) - 1st printing. Collects Marvel 1602 (2003) #1-8. Written by NEIL GAIMAN. Art by ANDY KUBERT. Cover by SCOTT McKOWEN. All's not well in the Marvel Universe in the year 1602 as strange storms are brewing and strange new powers are emerging! Comics-writing legend and New York Times best-selling author Neil Gaiman (Sandman, American Gods), along with the art team of the best-selling ORIGIN, Andy Kubert and Richard Isanove, brings to life a rich new vision of the Marvel Universe. Spider-Man, the X-Men, Nick Fury, Dr. Strange, Daredevil, Dr. Doom, Black Widow, Captain America and more appear in the waning days of the reign of Queen Elizabeth. As the world begins to change and enter into a new age, Gaiman weaves a thrilling mystery. How and why are these Marvel stars appearing nearly 400 years before they're supposed to? Hardcover, 7 1/2-in. x 11-in., 248 pages, full color. NOTE: Limited to 299 copies. Includes Dynamic Forces Certificate of Authenticity. Cover price $24.99.
3rd Edition - 2nd and later printings. Collects Marvel 1602 (2003) #1-8. Written by Neil Gaiman. Art by Andy Kubert and Richard Isanove. The year is 1602, and strange things are stirring in England. In the service of Queen Elizabeth, court magician Dr. Stephen Strange senses that the bizarre weather plaguing the skies above is not of natural origin. Her majesty's premier spy, Sir Nicholas Fury, fends off an assassination attempt on the Queen by winged warriors rumored to be in service to a mad despot named Doom. News is spreading of "witchbreed" sightings - young men bearing fantastic superhuman powers and abilities. And in the center of the rising chaos is Virginia Dare, a young girl newly arrived from the New World, guarded by a towering Indian warrior. Can Fury and his allies find a connection to these unusual happenings before the whole world ends? In MARVEL 1602, award-winning writer Neil Gaiman presents a unique vision of the Marvel Universe set four hundred years in the past. Classic Marvel icons such as the X-Men, Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four and Daredevil appear in this intriguing world of 17th- century science and sorcery, instantly familiar to readers, yet subtly different in this new time. MARVEL 1602 combines classic Marvel action and adventure with the historically accurate setting of Queen Elizabeth's reign to create a unique series unlike any other published by Marvel Comics. Softcover, 224 pages, full color. Cover price $19.99.
Published Nov 2016 by Eaglemoss Publications.
#87 Spider-Man 2099 - (White Rook) - The Marvel Chess Collection is a weekly series featuring some of the greatest Marvel characters. The all-new Amazing Spider-Man set continues with the Amazing Spider-Man, Scorpion, Spider-Girl, Black Cat, and Spider-Man 2099! Slick card-stock cover, 16 pages, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., full color.
Note: Due to packaging, condition of magazine may vary. Near-Mint Grade refers to the fact that the figurine is undamaged. Cover price $17.00.
1st printing. Collects Marvel Knights 2099 Black Panther #1, Marvel Knights 2099 Daredevil #1, Marvel Knights 2099 Inhumans #1, Marvel Knights 2099 Punisher #1, and Marvel Knights 2099 Mutant #1.
Written by Robert Kirkman. Art by Karl Moline, Kyle Hotz, Cliff Rathburn, Pop Mahn, and Kary Randolph.
Marvel Knights - founded in 1999 - has been a symbol of cutting-edge quality not just for Marvel, but also for the entire industry. Now, on the fifth anniversary of this imprint, Marvel is shooting 100 years from the start date for a special event - Marvel Knights 2099. The five stories contained in this volume are set in a familiar time for longtime Marvel fans, but will turn the future upside down, just as Knights did for classic characters during the past five years.
Softcover, 120 pages, full color. Cover price $13.99.
Published Aug 1987 by Marvel/New Universe.
"Drums for Damballah!" Story by Roy and Dan Thomas. Art by Mark Bagley and Tony DeZuniga. In order to help a friend, Nightmask must enter the very jaws of the beast. Plus, who is the mysterious new woman in Keith's life? Cover price $0.75.
Limited Treasured Signed Edition. Signed by Tom Morgan. Limited to 5,750 copies and includes a numbered certificate of authenticity from Limited Treasured Editions. Foil stamped cover. Deadly Genesis, script by Pat Mills and Tony Skinner, art by Tom Morgan and Jimmy Palmiotti; After his family is murdered by the serial killer Kron Stone, Jake Gallows is outraged when Kron is set free with little more then a slap on the wrist due to his social status; Jake is disillusioned by the legal system of his era and then uses the War Journal of Frank Castle as his inspiration, taking up the mantle of The Punisher. 36 pgs., full color. $1.75. See also Punisher War Journal #50. Cover price $1.75.


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Hybrid Long Term Care Insurance Policies
Planning for Long Term Care has evolved over the years. What was once a rite of passage for family has now been mostly outsourced to licensed professionals - caring for our elderly. While most Long Term Care is actually funded via state welfare assistance programs, anyone with assets should be planning for the very real possibility of needing Long Term Care (about 1 in 2 once you live to age 65) and how this will be funded.
After government programs, self pay is the second largest payer of Long Term Care services, followed by insurance. It's obvious that "most" people have chosen to self insure rather than transfer their personal risk of needing Long Term Care over to an insurance company through the purchase of Long Term Care Insurance.
The Problem: People Forego LTC Insurance
With odds of using a policy much higher than a house fire or car wreck, which most still buy insurance for, why haven't consumers jumped in to LTC insurance in higher proportions? One impediment for many people is the fact that they may buy a Long Term Care plan and never make a claim - effectively making them feel as if they've wasted the premiums paid.
A Solution: Hybrid Policies with Guaranteed Payout
Insurance actuaries determined that they could help people plan for the risk of a catastrophic need for Long Term Care while still guaranteeing a return of premium by combining Life insurance, which often has a linked cash value, with Long Term Care Insurance. The hybrid was born, and is now found in several permutations offered by major insurance companies like John Hancock, One America, Nationwide, Lincoln National, and Pacific Life.
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You can opt to pay for these hybrid policies in multiple ways. When doing Long Term Care planning, it's important to weigh the differences and pros and cons of some of the various payment methods. For some, a single premium is convenient and do-able. For most, an annual premium is more manageable.
Single Pay. A single premium payment option is available for those with assets parked in non-performing investments such as CDs or even IRAs. By transferring money from this asset class to a LTC hybrid insurance policy, you may be able to better put that money to work with the promise of a full return of premium should you decide to go another direction in the future.
Standard Annual Pay. Most of the hybrid policies sold opt for a more "traditional" annual premium that provides a combination life and Long Term Care benefit. Should you die without needing the LTC benefit, a death benefit may go to your named beneficiary. By paying for this type of policy annually, you are not having to tie up a large sum of money in this insurance vehicle.
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COURT REJECTS BENEFITS CLAIM BY DUPONT CONTRACT WORKERS
Posted On: Jan. 19, 1997 12:00 AM CST
RICHMOND, Va.-Attorneys and benefit consultants differ over whether the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeal's ruling that a leased employee is ineligible for benefits conflicts with a 9th Circuit ruling that found temporary workers eligible for benefits.
Some observers say the Jan. 9 decision in Ann Navey Clark vs. E.I. DuPont De Nemours & Co. Inc. is in such disagreement with the 9th Circuit's decision in Donna Vizcaino etc. vs. Microsoft Corp. that the U.S. Supreme Court ultimately will have to resolve the issue. But others say the factual backgrounds of the two cases are different, and there is in fact no inherent clash between the rulings.
In the Microsoft decision, the appellate panel found that Microsoft was liable to pay its long-term independent contractors benefits (BI, Oct. 21, 1996). Justice Stephen Reinhardt said that based on the Internal Revenue Service finding that these contractors were employees and Microsoft's plan language, these workers were eligible for benefits. Microsoft is seeking a rehearing of the case.
No decision has been made yet as to whether to appeal the Clark decision, said John Bertram Mann of Richmond-based law firm Levitt & Mann. The original plaintiff, Andrew J. Clark Jr., has died, and Mr. Mann now represents his widow, Anne Navey Clark.
Mr. Clark was employed directly by DuPont from 1962 until 1970 and subsequently continued to work at DuPont, primarily as an employee a particular employee leasing firm.
After DuPont terminated its contract with that firm, Mr. Clark applied for coverage under various DuPont employee plans, asserting he remained a DuPont employee after 1970 while nominally working for various contracting organizations.
In dismissing Mr. Clark's claim, the appellate court in Richmond, Va., said he "was not a 'participant' because he was not eligible to receive benefits under the plain language of the plans." No reference was made to the Microsoft case in the decision, although it had been discussed in oral argument.
"Both cases turn on questions of plan interpretation," said James P. McElligott Jr., an attorney with McGuire, Woods, Battle & Boothe in Richmond, who represented DuPont.
"If the Microsoft decision as written stands in the 9th Circuit, then I believe ultimately the Supreme Court will need to decide whether the 9th Circuit or the 4th Circuit has identified the proper standard for interpreting what these plans mean," Mr. McElligott said.
However, Bill Sweetnam, an attorney and consultant with Towers Perrin in Valhalla, N.Y., finds no disagreement in the rulings. In the Microsoft decision, the plan administrator had denied benefits because the workers had contractually waived any rights to them. The denial was not on the basis of the plan language, which was the case with the DuPont decision, Mr. Sweetnam said.
"I don't think there's any inherent difference in the law in the different circuits, because really the facts are just different," he said.
Anne Navey Clark, executrix of the estate of Andrew J. Clark Jr., deceased, plaintiff-appellant, vs. E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Co. Inc., as plan administrator et al. No. 95-2845, 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.


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Employee burnout, that state in which individuals feel overwhelmed, at their wits' end, and unsure where to turn, is becoming a serious issue for organizations. According to Aptitude Research Partners' Study, organizations that have above average rates of employee burnout are 66% more likely to lose top performers than their competitors.
An organization's success depends on retaining an engaged, skilled, and productive workforce. But with so many variables that can influence engagement efforts and retention rates, how do you know where to focus your energy?
Organizations should rethink how Workforce Management (WFM) and Human Capital Management (HCM) processes and tools impact employees and give them choices that help avoid burnout before it's too late.
Q1: When thinking about employee burnout, what is the first thing that comes to mind?
Q2: 81% of US salaried employees work outside their standard work hours. Is the 40-hour work week a thing of the past? Why?
Q3: A 2015 @Glassdoor survey found that US employees only use 51% of their eligible paid vacation time. Why do you think that is?
Q4: 75% perceive employee absences as impacting productivity/revenue. How do absences impact burnout?
Q5: Technology is changing our workplace. How can it help us in terms of employee fatigue/burnout?
Q6: Data is crucial in helping to ID issues. What data do you find most helpful in aiding to prevent employee fatigue/burnout?
Q7: How and how much do you think burnout affects retention?
Q8: How can organizations create a culture of awareness around employee burnout and promote work/life balance?
Q9: Why is preventing employee burnout good for business?
Q10: What are some effective ways to prevent employees from burning out?


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