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using System;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Drawing.Drawing2D;

namespace Platform.Presentation.Forms
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Graphics helper class.
    /// </summary>
    public sealed class GraphicsHelper
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// Initializes a new instance of the GraphicsHelper class.
        /// </summary>
        private GraphicsHelper()
        {
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Helper to tile fill an unscaled image vertically.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="graphics">Graphics context in which the image is to be tiled.</param>
        /// <param name="image">The image to tile.</param>
        /// <param name="rectangle">The rectangle to fill.</param>
        public static void TileFillUnscaledImageVertically(Graphics graphics, Image image, Rectangle rectangle)
        {
            //	Tile while there is height left to fill.
            int fillWidth = Math.Min(image.Width, rectangle.Width);
            Rectangle imageRectangle = new Rectangle(Point.Empty, image.Size);
            for (int y = rectangle.Y; y < rectangle.Bottom;)
            {
                //	Calculate the fill height for this iteration.
                int fillHeight = Math.Min(image.Height, rectangle.Bottom - y);

                //	Fill the fill height with the image.
                graphics.DrawImage(image,
                                    new Rectangle(rectangle.X, y, fillWidth, fillHeight),
                                    new Rectangle(0, 0, fillWidth, fillHeight),
                                    GraphicsUnit.Pixel);

                //	Adjust the y position for the next loop iteration.
                y += fillHeight;
            }
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Helper to tile fill an unscaled image vertically.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="graphics">Graphics context in which the image is to be tiled.</param>
        /// <param name="image">The image to tile.</param>
        /// <param name="srcRectangle">The source rectangle in the image.</param>
        /// <param name="srcRectangle">The destination rectangle to fill.</param>
        [Obsolete("Slow. Use OpenLiveWriter.CoreServices.UI.BorderPaint instead", false)]
        public static void TileFillUnscaledImageVertically(Graphics graphics, Image image, Rectangle srcRectangle, Rectangle destRectangle)
        {
            //	Tile while there is height left to fill.
            int fillWidth = Math.Min(srcRectangle.Width, destRectangle.Width);
            for (int y = destRectangle.Y; y < destRectangle.Bottom;)
            {
                //	Calculate the fill height for this iteration.
                int fillHeight = Math.Min(srcRectangle.Height, destRectangle.Bottom - y);

                //	Fill the fill height with the image.
                graphics.DrawImage(image,
                                    new Rectangle(destRectangle.X, y, fillWidth, fillHeight),
                                    new Rectangle(srcRectangle.X, srcRectangle.Y, fillWidth, fillHeight),
                                    GraphicsUnit.Pixel);

                //	Adjust the y position for the next loop iteration.
                y += fillHeight;
            }
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Helper to tile fill an unscaled image horizontally.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="graphics">Graphics context in which the image is to be tiled.</param>
        /// <param name="image">The image to tile.</param>
        /// <param name="rectangle">The rectangle to fill.</param>
        public static void TileFillUnscaledImageHorizontally(Graphics graphics, Image image, Rectangle rectangle)
        {
            //	Tile while there is width left to fill.
            int fillHeight = Math.Min(image.Height, rectangle.Height);
            for (int x = rectangle.X; x < rectangle.Right;)
            {
                //	Calculate the fill width for this iteration.
                int fillWidth = Math.Min(image.Width, rectangle.Right - x);

                //	Fill the fill width with the image.
                graphics.DrawImage(image,
                                    new Rectangle(x, rectangle.Y, fillWidth, fillHeight),
                                    new Rectangle(0, 0, fillWidth, fillHeight),
                                    GraphicsUnit.Pixel);

                //	Adjust the x position for the next loop iteration.
                x += fillWidth;
            }
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Helper to tile fill an unscaled image horizontally.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="graphics">Graphics context in which the image is to be tiled.</param>
        /// <param name="image">The image to tile.</param>
        /// <param name="srcRectangle">The source rectangle in the image.</param>
        /// <param name="srcRectangle">The destination rectangle to fill.</param>
        [Obsolete("Slow. Use OpenLiveWriter.CoreServices.UI.BorderPaint instead", false)]
        public static void TileFillUnscaledImageHorizontally(Graphics graphics, Image image, Rectangle srcRectangle, Rectangle destRectangle)
        {
            //	Tile while there is width left to fill.
            int fillHeight = Math.Min(srcRectangle.Height, destRectangle.Height);
            for (int x = destRectangle.X; x < destRectangle.Right;)
            {
                //	Calculate the fill width for this iteration.
                int fillWidth = Math.Min(srcRectangle.Width, destRectangle.Right - x);

                //	Fill the fill width with the image.
                graphics.DrawImage(image,
                                    new Rectangle(x, destRectangle.Y, fillWidth, fillHeight),
                                    new Rectangle(srcRectangle.X, srcRectangle.Y, fillWidth, fillHeight),
                                    GraphicsUnit.Pixel);

                //	Adjust the x position for the next loop iteration.
                x += fillWidth;
            }
        }

        /// <summary>
        ///
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="graphics"></param>
        /// <param name="image"></param>
        /// <param name="rectangle"></param>
        public static void TileFillScaledImageHorizontally(BidiGraphics graphics, Image image, Rectangle rectangle)
        {
            Rectangle imageRectangle = new Rectangle(Point.Empty, image.Size);
            TileFillScaledImageHorizontally(graphics, image, rectangle, imageRectangle);
        }

        private static void TileFillScaledImageHorizontally(BidiGraphics graphics, Image image, Rectangle rectangle, Rectangle srcRectangle)
        {
            for (int x = rectangle.X; x < rectangle.Right; x += srcRectangle.Width)
                graphics.DrawImage(true,
                                    image,
                                       new Rectangle(x, rectangle.Y, Math.Min(srcRectangle.Width, rectangle.Right - x), rectangle.Height),
                                       srcRectangle,
                                       GraphicsUnit.Pixel);
        }

        public static Rectangle[] SliceCompositedImageBorder(Size imgSize, int vert1, int vert2, int horiz1, int horiz2)
        {
            int left = 0, center = vert1, right = vert2, x4 = imgSize.Width;
            int top = 0, middle = horiz1, bottom = horiz2, y4 = imgSize.Height;
            int leftWidth = center, centerWidth = right - center, rightWidth = x4 - right;
            int topHeight = middle, middleHeight = bottom - middle, bottomHeight = y4 - bottom;

            return new Rectangle[]
                {
                    // top left
                    new Rectangle(left, top, leftWidth, topHeight),
                    // top center
                    new Rectangle(center, top, centerWidth, topHeight),
                    // top right
                    new Rectangle(right, top, rightWidth, topHeight),
                    // left
                    new Rectangle(left, middle, leftWidth, middleHeight),
                    // middle
                    new Rectangle(center, middle, centerWidth, middleHeight),
                    // right
                    new Rectangle(right, middle, rightWidth, middleHeight),
                    // bottom left
                    new Rectangle(left, bottom, leftWidth, bottomHeight),
                    // bottom center
                    new Rectangle(center, bottom, centerWidth, bottomHeight),
                    // bottom right
                    new Rectangle(right, bottom, rightWidth, bottomHeight)
                };
        }

        // Slow. Use OpenLiveWriter.CoreServices.UI.BorderPaint if performance matters
        public static void DrawLeftCenterRightImageBorder(
            BidiGraphics graphics,
            Rectangle rectangle,
            Image image,
            Rectangle leftSlice,
            Rectangle centerSlice,
            Rectangle rightSlice)
        {
            GraphicsContainer graphicsContainer = graphics.Graphics.BeginContainer();
            // Have to remove this line because it messes with mirrored images.
            //   Specifically, right-to-left drawing of the hover effect for the context menu dongle
            //   hanging off "Save Draft" doesn't happen at all. Seems like a short-circuit happens
            //   in Graphics when the image's location is outside the clipping area.
            //graphics.Graphics.SetClip(rectangle);
            graphics.Graphics.CompositingMode = CompositingMode.SourceOver;
            graphics.Graphics.CompositingQuality = CompositingQuality.HighQuality;

            graphics.DrawImage(
                true,
                image,
                new Rectangle(rectangle.Left, rectangle.Top, leftSlice.Width, rectangle.Height),
                leftSlice.Left, leftSlice.Top, leftSlice.Width, leftSlice.Height,
                GraphicsUnit.Pixel
                );
            TileFillScaledImageHorizontally(
                graphics,
                image,
                new Rectangle(rectangle.Left + leftSlice.Width, rectangle.Top, Math.Max(0, rectangle.Width - leftSlice.Width - rightSlice.Width), rectangle.Height),
                centerSlice);
            graphics.DrawImage(
                true,
                image,
                new Rectangle(rectangle.Right - rightSlice.Width, rectangle.Top, rightSlice.Width, rectangle.Height),
                rightSlice.Left, rightSlice.Top, rightSlice.Width, rightSlice.Height,
                GraphicsUnit.Pixel
                );

            graphics.Graphics.EndContainer(graphicsContainer);
        }

        [Obsolete("Slow. Use OpenLiveWriter.CoreServices.UI.BorderPaint instead", false)]
        public static void DrawCompositedImageBorder(
            Graphics graphics,
            Rectangle rectangle,
            Image image,
            Rectangle[] slices)
        {
            DrawCompositedImageBorder(graphics, rectangle, image,
                slices[0],
                slices[1],
                slices[2],
                slices[3],
                slices[4],
                slices[5],
                slices[6],
                slices[7]);
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Draws a composited image border.
        /// </summary>
        /// <remarks>
        ///	Note that because it would be too computationally expensive, it is assumed that images
        ///	will fit into the specified rectangle.
        ///	</remarks>
        /// <param name="graphics">A graphics context into which the image-based border is to be drawn.</param>
        /// <param name="rectangle">The rectangle into which the image-based border is to be drawn.</param>
        /// <param name="topLeftRectangle">The top left rectangle.</param>
        /// <param name="topCenterRectangle">The top center (fill) rectangle.</param>
        /// <param name="topRightRectangle">The top right rectangle.</param>
        /// <param name="leftCenterRectangle">The left center (fill) rectangle.</param>
        /// <param name="rightCenterRectangle">The right center (fill) rectangle.</param>
        /// <param name="bottomLeftRectangle">The bottom left rectangle.</param>
        /// <param name="bottomCenterRectangle">The bottom center (fill) rectangle.</param>
        /// <param name="bottomRightRectangle">The bottom right rectangle.</param>
        [Obsolete("Slow. Use OpenLiveWriter.CoreServices.UI.BorderPaint instead", false)]
        public static void DrawCompositedImageBorder
            (
            Graphics graphics,
            Rectangle rectangle,
            Image image,
            Rectangle topLeftRectangle,
            Rectangle topCenterRectangle,
            Rectangle topRightRectangle,
            Rectangle leftCenterRectangle,
            Rectangle rightCenterRectangle,
            Rectangle bottomLeftRectangle,
            Rectangle bottomCenterRectangle,
            Rectangle bottomRightRectangle
            )
        {
            Rectangle fillRectangle;

            //	Save a graphics container with the current state of the graphics object and open
            //	and use a new, clipped graphics container.
            GraphicsContainer graphicsContainer = graphics.BeginContainer();
            graphics.SetClip(rectangle);
            graphics.CompositingMode = CompositingMode.SourceOver;
            graphics.CompositingQuality = CompositingQuality.HighQuality;

            if (HasArea(topLeftRectangle))
            {
                //	Top left.
                graphics.DrawImage(image,
                                       new Rectangle(rectangle.X, rectangle.Y, topLeftRectangle.Width, topLeftRectangle.Height),
                                       topLeftRectangle,
                                       GraphicsUnit.Pixel);
            }

            if (HasArea(topCenterRectangle))
            {
                //	Top center.
                fillRectangle = new Rectangle(rectangle.X + topLeftRectangle.Width,
                                                  rectangle.Y,
                                                  rectangle.Width - (topLeftRectangle.Width + topRightRectangle.Width),
                                                  topCenterRectangle.Height);
                TileFillUnscaledImageHorizontally(graphics, image, topCenterRectangle, fillRectangle);
            }

            if (HasArea(topRightRectangle))
            {
                //	Top right.
                graphics.DrawImage(image,
                                       new Rectangle(rectangle.Right - topRightRectangle.Width, rectangle.Y, topRightRectangle.Width, topRightRectangle.Height),
                                       topRightRectangle,
                                       GraphicsUnit.Pixel);
            }

            if (HasArea(leftCenterRectangle))
            {
                //	Left center.
                fillRectangle = new Rectangle(rectangle.X,
                                                  rectangle.Y + topLeftRectangle.Height,
                                                  leftCenterRectangle.Width,
                                                  rectangle.Height - (topLeftRectangle.Height + bottomLeftRectangle.Height));
                TileFillUnscaledImageVertically(graphics, image, leftCenterRectangle, fillRectangle);
            }

            if (HasArea(rightCenterRectangle))
            {
                //	Right center.
                fillRectangle = new Rectangle(rectangle.Right - rightCenterRectangle.Width,
                                                  rectangle.Y + topRightRectangle.Height,
                                                  rightCenterRectangle.Width,
                                                  rectangle.Height - (topRightRectangle.Height + bottomRightRectangle.Height));
                TileFillUnscaledImageVertically(graphics, image, rightCenterRectangle, fillRectangle);
            }

            if (HasArea(bottomLeftRectangle))
            {
                //	Bottom left.
                graphics.DrawImage(image,
                                       new Rectangle(rectangle.X, rectangle.Bottom - bottomLeftRectangle.Height, bottomLeftRectangle.Width, bottomLeftRectangle.Height),
                                       bottomLeftRectangle,
                                       GraphicsUnit.Pixel);
            }

            if (HasArea(bottomCenterRectangle))
            {
                //	Bottom center.
                fillRectangle = new Rectangle(rectangle.X + bottomLeftRectangle.Width,
                                                  rectangle.Bottom - bottomCenterRectangle.Height,
                                                  rectangle.Width - (bottomLeftRectangle.Width + bottomRightRectangle.Width),
                                                  bottomCenterRectangle.Height);
                TileFillUnscaledImageHorizontally(graphics, image, bottomCenterRectangle, fillRectangle);
            }

            if (HasArea(bottomRightRectangle))
            {
                //	Botom right.
                graphics.DrawImage(image,
                                       new Rectangle(rectangle.Right - bottomRightRectangle.Width, rectangle.Bottom - bottomRightRectangle.Height, bottomRightRectangle.Width, bottomRightRectangle.Height),
                                       bottomRightRectangle,
                                       GraphicsUnit.Pixel);
            }

            //	End the graphics container.
            graphics.EndContainer(graphicsContainer);
        }

        private static bool HasArea(Rectangle rectangle)
        {
            return rectangle.Height > 0 && rectangle.Width > 0;
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Draws a composited image border.  Note that because it would be too computationally
        /// expensive, it is ASSUMED that the rectangle supplied is large enough to draw the border
        /// witout
        /// </summary>
        /// <remarks>
        ///	Note that because it would be too computationally expensive, it is assumed that images
        ///	will fit into the specified rectangle.
        ///	</remarks>
        /// <param name="graphics">A graphics context into which the image-based border is to be drawn.</param>
        /// <param name="rectangle">The rectangle into which the image-based border is to be drawn.</param>
        /// <param name="topLeftImage">The top left image.</param>
        /// <param name="topCenterImage">The top center (fill) image.</param>
        /// <param name="topRightImage">The top right image.</param>
        /// <param name="leftCenterImage">The left center (fill) image.</param>
        /// <param name="rightCenterImage">The right center (fill) image.</param>
        /// <param name="bottomLeftImage">The bottom left image.</param>
        /// <param name="bottomCenterImage">The bottom center (fill) image.</param>
        /// <param name="bottomRightImage">The bottom right image.</param>
        public static void DrawCompositedImageBorder
            (
            Graphics graphics,
            Rectangle rectangle,
            Image topLeftImage,
            Image topCenterImage,
            Image topRightImage,
            Image leftCenterImage,
            Image rightCenterImage,
            Image bottomLeftImage,
            Image bottomCenterImage,
            Image bottomRightImage
            )
        {
            Rectangle fillRectangle;

            //	Save a graphics container with the current state of the graphics object and open
            //	and use a new, clipped graphics container.
            GraphicsContainer graphicsContainer = graphics.BeginContainer();
            graphics.SetClip(rectangle);

            //	Top left.
            graphics.DrawImageUnscaled(topLeftImage, rectangle.X, rectangle.Y);

            //	Top center.
            fillRectangle = new Rectangle(rectangle.X + topLeftImage.Width,
                                            rectangle.Y,
                                            rectangle.Width - (topLeftImage.Width + topRightImage.Width),
                                            topCenterImage.Height);
            TileFillUnscaledImageHorizontally(graphics, topCenterImage, fillRectangle);

            //	Top right.
            graphics.DrawImageUnscaled(topRightImage, rectangle.Right - topRightImage.Width, rectangle.Y);

            //	Left center.
            fillRectangle = new Rectangle(rectangle.X,
                                            rectangle.Y + topLeftImage.Height,
                                            leftCenterImage.Width,
                                            rectangle.Height - (topLeftImage.Height + bottomLeftImage.Height));
            TileFillUnscaledImageVertically(graphics, leftCenterImage, fillRectangle);

            //	Right center.
            fillRectangle = new Rectangle(rectangle.Right - rightCenterImage.Width,
                                            rectangle.Y + topRightImage.Height,
                                            rightCenterImage.Width,
                                            rectangle.Height - (topRightImage.Height + bottomRightImage.Height));
            TileFillUnscaledImageVertically(graphics, rightCenterImage, fillRectangle);

            //	Bottom left.
            graphics.DrawImageUnscaled(bottomLeftImage, rectangle.X, rectangle.Bottom - bottomLeftImage.Height);

            //	Bottom center.
            fillRectangle = new Rectangle(rectangle.X + bottomLeftImage.Width,
                                            rectangle.Bottom - bottomCenterImage.Height,
                                            rectangle.Width - (bottomLeftImage.Width + bottomRightImage.Width),
                                            bottomCenterImage.Height);
            TileFillUnscaledImageHorizontally(graphics, bottomCenterImage, fillRectangle);

            //	Bottom right.
            graphics.DrawImageUnscaled(bottomRightImage, rectangle.Right - bottomRightImage.Width, rectangle.Bottom - bottomRightImage.Height);

            //	End the graphics container.
            graphics.EndContainer(graphicsContainer);
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Converts an opacity percent between 0.0 and 100.0, inclusive, into an alpha component
        /// value between 0 and 255.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="opacity">Opacity percent between 0.0 and 100.0.</param>
        /// <returns>Alpha component value between 0 and 255</returns>
        public static int Opacity(double opacity)
        {
            Debug.Assert(opacity >= 0.0 && opacity <= 100.0, "Invalid opacity specified", "Specify opacity as a value between 0.0 and 100.0, inclusive.");
            if (opacity >= 0.0 && opacity <= 100.0)
                return Convert.ToInt32((255.0 * opacity) / 100.0);
            else
                return 255;
        }

        public static IDisposable Offset(Graphics g, Rectangle dest, Rectangle src)
        {
            Debug.Assert(dest.Size.Equals(src.Size), "Can't offset with rectangles of unequal sizes");
            return Offset(g, dest.Location.X - src.Location.X, dest.Location.Y - src.Location.Y);
        }

        public static IDisposable Offset(Graphics g, int x, int y)
        {
            GraphicsState graphicsState = g.Save();
            g.TranslateTransform(x, y);
            return new GraphicsStateRestorer(g, graphicsState);
        }

        private class GraphicsStateRestorer : IDisposable
        {
            private readonly Graphics graphics;
            private readonly GraphicsState graphicsState;
            private bool disposed = false;

            public GraphicsStateRestorer(Graphics graphics, GraphicsState graphicsState)
            {
                this.graphics = graphics;
                this.graphicsState = graphicsState;
            }

            public void Dispose()
            {
                if (!disposed)
                {
                    disposed = true;
                    graphics.Restore(graphicsState);
                }
            }
        }
    }
}


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Dealing with onion thieves!
Published: December 10, 2019 22:04:42 | Updated: December 12, 2019 22:01:57
Onions came to the news for the umpteenth time. In Sunday's Financial Express, a new trait of thieves concerning the common spice has come to the focus, adding a new item to the crime statistics of the Bangladesh Police. Onions were being stolen from the fields even at their premature stage. Four northern districts in the Barind Tract were mostly affected. The Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) has come forward with what they could do best: suggest farmers to guard their fields at night. They have even built temporary watch huts so that this spice-vegetable was saved. December's first week is too early to pick the produce. Onion, either mature or pre-mature, will ultimately end up in the market for human consumption. It is the extent of human consumption that created the recent brouhaha over onion. And this consumption penchant is drawing the early yield at their premature stage to the market chain. If one adds the existing problems of onion production, the theft of the premature type has added to that unwelcome list. Low-quality seeds and shortage of proper manure are among the present troubles. The Rabi season is the most important for onion farming. The pre-mature clearing of the fields not only takes away the inherent charm of the vegetable-spice, but also threatens future market prices and production, all building up to another crisis like this year's.
Onions are grown all over the country amounting to a total tonnage of nearly two and a half million. With the country's demand overshooting that by a million, there remains a large import portfolio. Neighbouring India meets up a great portion of the shortfall. However, this year bad weather hampered the Indian harvest, leading to an export ban by that country. Now Indian consumers are suffering like the Bangladeshis. It is encouraging that the government has taken drastic steps to open new doors of import, from Egypt, Turkey and Myanmar. Some Commerce Ministry officials are staying abroad for weeks to finalise import deals. Already some of the cargo has arrived and gone to the market. The Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) is to be thanked for its initiative to sell imported onion direct to the consumers.
While the DAE's early steps will be welcome by everybody, other government agencies need to step in. The police with the help of executive magistrates need to patrol the potential spots of pilferage. Local people's representatives can form committees to guard the more vulnerable ones. A new law can be enacted to punish onion up-rooters with more serious punishment than the existing usual degree kept for ordinary theft. It seems the police have to add onion up-rooting as a new item of punishable offence. One problem is that the Bengali palate is not satisfied with imported onion in all food preparations. Housewives prefer home-grown variety for particular types of culinary art. It explains why the home-grown type is costlier than the imported ones. It underlines the need for protecting the Barind crop so that no new crisis crops up in the coming days. Besides, the TCB must be always on its toes after this year's lessons.
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Q: On subgroup structure of the p-group $G\simeq (Z/pZ)^{m}\rtimes(Z/pZ)$ In order to study the subgroup structure of the p-group  $G\simeq
(Z/pZ)^{m}\rtimes(Z/pZ)$, I need to solve the following exercice from
the Book (Dummit & Foote p101):
Exercice:
Let $H$ be a normal subgroup of $G$ of prime index $p$ then for all
$K\leq G$ either

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*$K\leq H$ or

*$G=HK$   and $|K:K\cap H|=p$.

Please refer to any other idea to define the subgroups of $G$.
Any help would be appreciated so much. Thank you all.

A: Suppose that $H$ is a normal subgroup of $G$ of prime index. Moreover, assume that $ K$ is not a subgroup of $H$. Then, recall the following lemma:

If $H \le K \le G$ is a tower of groups. Then, $|G:H| = |G:K||K:H|$.

See Subsubgroups are subgroups of subgroups / Multiplicative Property of the Index for a discussion of this result.
Now, since $H$ is a normal subgroup, $HK$ is a subgroup of $G$. Hence, by the statement above we have that $|G:H| = |G:HK||HK:H|$ which implies that $p = |G:HK||HK:H|$. Since $p$ is prime $p \mid |G:HK|$ or $p | |HK:H|$, but not both. If $|HK:K| = 1$, then $K = HK$ which would mean $K \leq H$, contrary to our assumption. Hence, $|HK:K| = p$ which means that $|G:HK| = 1$, or $G = HK$. Now, apply the second isomorphism theorem to conclude that $|K:K\cap H|  = p$.

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Germany's New Economy Minister Takes Aim At Arms Exports : Parallels The nation is the world's third-largest arms exporter, and many weapons go to countries with questionable human rights records. Sigmar Gabriel wants to change that — but not all Germans are on board.
Many Stories, One World
Germany's New Economy Minister Takes Aim At Arms Exports
Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson
Germany is the world's third-largest exporter of arms, like this bazooka destined for northern Iraq, being packed up at a German military base on Thursday. The country's economy minister has held up hundreds of weapons exports since he took office in December, angering many in the defense industry. Carsten Koall/Getty Images hide caption
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Germany is the world's third-largest exporter of arms, like this bazooka destined for northern Iraq, being packed up at a German military base on Thursday. The country's economy minister has held up hundreds of weapons exports since he took office in December, angering many in the defense industry.
Germany is the world's third-largest arms exporter and Sigmar Gabriel, the country's minister for economic affairs, is determined to move his country farther down that list.
Gabriel argues that exporting billions of dollars in arms annually, much of it to countries with questionable human rights records, such as Saudi Arabia, is at odds with the pacifist identity Germany established after World War II.
2013 German Arms Exports
The top five countries importing the most German military equipment, by value in U.S. dollars:
Algeria: $1.066 billion
Qatar: $870 million
United States: $789 million
Saudi Arabia: $466 million
Indonesia: $382 million
Source: German Ministry of Economics and Technology
In late July, he told German public television broadcaster ZDF, "There are basic rules in Germany for exporting arms, and they've been ignored in the last years. Now we are going to observe them again."
He and his supporters complain that far too often German arms sales are to non-NATO or non-EU countries. That's led the minister to hold up hundreds of weapons exports since he took office in December 2013, while also pressuring German arms manufacturers to merge with other European firms.
But many other members of the ruling government coalition, along with Germany's defense industry and its unions, are seething. They say Gabriel is risking the German defense industry's 80,000 jobs as well as the country's reputation as a leader in high-quality engineering.
"It's of utmost importance ... that we keep our ability to provide our armed forces — the Bundeswehr — with significant German materiel," says German parliament member Roderich Kiesewetter, who is a retired colonel and member of Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union political party.
"And second, it is important that we are able to cooperate with our international partners and friends," he adds.
Kiesewetter says one of the reasons Germany ranks behind only the United States and Russia in exporting arms is because of its transparent, overly inclusive reporting process.
Saudi Arabia's Global Arms Shopping Spree
Japan Relaxes Arms Export Ban
For example, an armored vehicle that can be used for police or military purposes is counted as part of the arms trade numbers even if it's being sold for police use, "which means if you do not calculate all the dual-services goods and devices, then we are about No. 10 or 9," not third, Kiesewetter says.
The parliamentarian adds that if Germany stops producing weapons, other countries will step in and pick up the slack.
That's what many people in the southern German town of Oberndorf fear as well.
The town in the Neckar Valley, with a population of about 13,000, has manufactured weapons for two centuries. There are monuments here to commemorate the 5,000 forced laborers the Nazis brought here from other countries during World War II to manufacture rifles.
Klaus Kirschner, like many Oberndorf natives, worked at one of the local weapons plants when he was younger. The retired lawmaker, who was a member of the economic minister's political party, says people oppose Gabriel's plans because they worry the jobs their families have worked for generations will go to other countries.
Soldiers of the Bundeswehr, the German army, present their Heckler & Koch G36 assault rifles during military exercises in 2013. Heckler & Koch is headquartered in Oberndorf, where many residents worry that their jobs will be at risk if Germany cuts back on arms shipments. Critics, meanwhile, point out that Heckler & Koch weapons are carried by the Taliban as well as by the Bundeswehr. Philipp Guelland/Getty Images hide caption
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Soldiers of the Bundeswehr, the German army, present their Heckler & Koch G36 assault rifles during military exercises in 2013. Heckler & Koch is headquartered in Oberndorf, where many residents worry that their jobs will be at risk if Germany cuts back on arms shipments. Critics, meanwhile, point out that Heckler & Koch weapons are carried by the Taliban as well as by the Bundeswehr.
"What I hear repeatedly is that people are worried about their jobs," Kirschner says. "If we don't deliver these weapons, another country will."
Another problem is that there aren't many places for people to find work locally, especially people with technical skills.
"For 200 years, Oberndorf has been a magnet for highly qualified technicians," says Ulrich Pfaff, a 76-year-old retired Lutheran church official. "My great-grandfather moved here because there were jobs for mechanics like him."
Today, some 600 people work at the Heckler & Koch plant in Oberndorf. The company is a global firearms leader, making a submachine gun that the German media brag was carried by some members of the U.S. Navy SEAL team that killed Osama bin Laden.
Peace activist and author Juergen Graesslin says Germans should reflect on a darker fact — that Heckler & Koch guns are often in the hands of unfriendly armies and terrorists.
"We have the German Bundeswehr in Afghanistan and they have Heckler & Koch G36 rifles, and they fight against the Taliban, which has [Heckler & Koch] G3 rifles," he says. "This is normal on the battlefields of the world."
The company, which declined to be interviewed by NPR, is being investigated by the state prosecutor in nearby Stuttgart over the legality of a weapons deal it made with Mexico.
Graesslin says he goes to the Oberndorf plant several times a year to talk to workers about the 2 million people he says their guns have killed worldwide. On a recent afternoon, a trucker waiting at the main gate agrees to take some flyers from Graesslin.
He asks the trucker what he thinks about Heckler & Koch guns being shipped to Kurdish fighters in their fight against Islamic State militants. But the two men are interrupted by the plant's security guards, who warn Graesslin that he's trespassing and that the police have been called.
A guard and plant executive come out and escort the activist to the end of their property.
Even though he rarely wins converts, Graesslin doesn't think he's wasting his time, given that time and again, polls show most Germans are against their country's booming arms trade. He says Heckler & Koch needs to be reminded of that fact.
But he is not optimistic about Gabriel's plans, and predicts the economy minister will cave to political pressure.
"I fear that Sigmar Gabriel will not stand a long time against weapons industry," he says. "My fear is that it gets worse than before."
Kirschner says Gabriel wouldn't be the first German politician to fail to curb the arms trade. What Kirschner thinks should come first is a national debate.
"I could take this a step further and ask: Where are the ethicists?" he says. "Where are the churches? Where are our intellectuals, who should be starting this discussion?"


So a High Court judge in 2000 has decided that Lloyd's showed staggering incompetence a decade ago. Hands up anyone who can honestly claim their organisation didn't when comparing life ten years ago with their modern administration.
The courts themselves have spent several years letting out a stream of wrongly convicted prisoners showing that the law too has exhibited a staggering incompetence of its own in the past.
One wonders what vitriol the judge would have reserved the for insurance trading in Edward Lloyd's coffee house more than 300 year ago.
Procedures were flawed in Lloyd's ten years ago. Too much was based on word of mouth and too much trust was placed in the historic successes that had made many Lloyd's Names even wealthier over successive years.
The High Court judge has now ruled in favour of Lloyd's and against the disgruntled Names. The Names should accept defeat gracefully and pay up – like everyone else.
It is time to draw a line under the episode.
of the new access rules, which should open the market up to sources outside the traditional broker entrants, demonstrate the market's intention to move on further. Couple that with the investments we are seeing in technology and speeding up trading processes and claims paying, and we will have an unrecognisable organisation in a few years' time.
But change presents dangers. Lloyd's has opted for the untried and untested General Insurance Standards Council as its main regulator for policy sellers. Let's hope that doesn't prove to be another example of staggering incompetence.


Being pregnant is great, in my opinion. Sure, I have been very lucky to date - touch wood - with no sickness or anything really serious to worry about (a bit of heartburn now and again and some soreness in my hips at night). I am certainly getting bigger and things are a little more of a struggle but really, so far so good.
I'm proud of my bump and it is nice to have something to talk about, even with strangers, who are keen to pass on their well wishes and to ask you how you are, do you know what you're having and so on.
But there's often someone missing when it comes to squeals of joy and the Spanish inquisition - the dad-to-be. As a mum-to-be, I am very conscious of including Stephen as much as possible, sharing the feelings I have, telling him when baby moves and discussing decisions together. But when you look at baby magazines, websites and programmes, the dad is often an afterthought.
Two friends of ours have just become parents and the dad said that the day his son was born was the most wonderful and the most traumatic time in his life. He could see what was going on and he felt powerless to help his wife. I can't help but think if the magazines, websites and programmes tried to speak more to dads or to show their side of the pregnancy story a little more, dads, mums and children would all benefit as a result.
Stephen often reads up on things and makes suggestions to me but it must be hard to know where to go for information. This article on handbag.com/babybag was an interesting read for mums-to-be and this book sounds like it would be a good source of information whilst being a fun read for dads too.
Comedian Jason Manford last year wrote a touching blog on the subject of daddyhood, following negative posts he received on Facebook by some idiots. In short, the internet trolls said in response to the best wishes Jason sent to Gary Barlow and his wife when their daughter was sadly stillborn, that 'losing a child who hadn't been born wasn't as tough as losing a child who had lived properly'. Obviously this is a highly sensitive topic but the response Jason posted was beautifully written and hit the nail on the head. As well as covering the devastation of losing a child during pregnancy or otherwise (something my family has unfortunately experienced), Jason portrayed the feelings and emotions that dads go through from the moment they know their partner is expecting and I thoroughly recommend you read his blog as everyone can learn something from his story.


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Twin Peaks: The 7 Scariest Moments
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Considered by many to be one of David Lynch's (Eraserhead) finest works and a golden standard for TV shows, Twin Peaks is well-known for its nebulous amalgamation of drama, police procedural, psychological horror, and comedy genres. As expected, there's also plenty of David Lynch's token strangeness spread throughout the show's three seasons and its movie Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992). For horror fans that may be curious about the series, it doesn't have gratuitous violence or gore, but the tone and eerie atmosphere are unmistakable.
The story follows FBI Agent Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan), who arrives in the sleepy logging town of Twin Peaks, Washington to investigate the murder of the local homecoming queen Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee). The townspeople are largely influenced by the murder of such a vibrant young girl, who was beloved by many. However, it quickly becomes clear that Laura had plenty of demons, and many inhabitants of the town aren't as innocent as they might seem. Not only this, but there are unseen evils at work that Agent Cooper cannot rightly fathom as he drives deeper into his investigation.
David Lynch and Mark Frost (Hill Street Blues) have crafted moments in Twin Peaks that range from slightly disturbing to downright terrifying. This is reflected in the show's influential legacy and its popularity resulting in Twin Peaks: The Return (2017), the series' long-awaited third season. The Return in particular showcases some truly dark and disturbing moments, but those that are curious about Twin Peaks won't be left hanging watching the first two seasons either. Below are some of the most memorable and unsettling scenes in Twin Peaks' storied run.
Ronette's Dream of Laura's Murder ("May the Giant Be With You")
Ronette Pulaski (Phoebe Augustine) was the unfortunate soul who found herself with Laura Palmer on the night she was murdered. Surviving, she is discovered early on in the show, bloody and traumatized by a nearby bridge, and she spends the majority of the first season comatose in a hospital bed. At the beginning of the second season, however, she begins to writhe and moan in bed as she mentally recollects the night of the murder.
A night Ronette expected to be full of sex and cocaine turned into a traumatic and horrific moment in hell. A long-haired man known as BOB (Frank Silva) kidnapped the two girls and took them to a train car, where he murdered Laura. The sequence is one that watchers won't forget easily. The initial establishing shots feature long hallways of Twin Peaks' hospital with almost no audible sound, and one flickering fluorescent light. As Ronette's dream begins, there are quick cuts and fades from one shot into another, featuring BOB screaming and grunting as he kills Laura, whose face is interspersed in the pulsing light.
Laura's screaming and bloodied, pained expression makes this sequence. The final moments of the dream also show BOB howling into the sky with the guttural sound of something inhuman before cutting to the episode's credits. It's a truly spine-chilling endnote to an already eerie episode.
RELATED: Why 'Twin Peaks: The Return' Part 8 Is Still One of the Scariest TV Episodes of All Time
BOB's Appears to Maddy ("Coma")
Maddy Ferguson, Laura Palmer's cousin, also portrayed by Sheryl Lee, arrived in Twin Peaks for her funeral and decided to stay and attempt to investigate Laura's death alongside Laura's lover James Hurley (James Marshall) and best friend Donna Hayward (Lara Flynn Boyle). Early on in the show's run, Maddy's aunt Sarah Palmer (Grace Zabriskie) had already mentioned having visions of a strange man at the end of Laura's bed. Maddy would witness this man soon enough, which would essentially mark her for death.
During a night at Donna's home, Donna, Maddy, and James performed a song, with James on guitar and Maddy and Donna singing in duet. After the song's conclusion, Maddy and James share an intimate glance, upsetting Donna, who had been dating James since Laura's passing. Donna darts from the room and James gives haste to console her. Maddy anxiously stares at a couch opposite her. From off-screen, BOB slowly walks into view and crawls over the couch and furniture. The scene breaks away only after BOB has gotten uncomfortably close to the camera's focus, implying that he was immediately in front of Maddy.
She screams out in terror and James and Donna return to console her, but BOB is nowhere to be found. The "BOB Crawl" as it has been coined by some is more discomforting than truly scary in the sense that one would be uncomfortable with a stranger so incredibly close to them, especially in the safety of their own home.
BOB/Leland's Assault on Laura (Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me)
Fire Walk With Me provides viewers with a more attuned look at Laura Palmer's final moments while also addressing certain story elements that take place after Season 2. This gives the film a hybrid nature of being both a prequel and a sequel and was all Twin Peaks fans had as a chronological endpoint for some time until Twin Peaks: The Return came about in the late 2010s. The film also has several of its own strange and disturbing scenes, and this one is likely the most horrific not only in Fire Walk With Me but in Twin Peaks in general.
After being hounded by BOB for some time, Laura spends a night in her room indulging in her cocaine habit. As she laid about in bed, a ceiling fan in the nearby hallway clicks on, and BOB comes through her window and proceeds to sexually assault her. She cries out and asks who her attacker is, and she, unfortunately, gets her wish. Laura watches as BOB's face twists into that of Leland Palmer (Ray Wise), indicating that BOB is possessing Laura's own father.
It's simply a gut-wrenching scene that starts off bad and then goes off the deep end. With Laura having already been through so much in Fire Walk With Me, this moment in Twin Peaks signifies the bottom falling out.
"Judy/The Experiment's" Emergence and Double Murder (The Return Parts 1-2)
There's a lot of confusing elements at the beginning of Twin Peaks: The Return. One of these early on in the first two episodes follows an unusual setup in New York City. Sam Colby (Benjamin Rosenfield) has been hired to observe a large and empty glass box surrounded by cameras. He is visited twice for deliveries by a girl named Tracey Barberato (Madeline Zima), bringing her into the room after the second delivery. After sipping their coffee for some time, things start to get hot and heavy and the two begin to have sex.
Soon after, a ghoulish creature shimmers and distorts within the glass box, never staying in place. The two sit in confusion as the creature continues to stagger about before slamming into the wall of the box, prompting a scream from Tracey. The creature then crashes through the glass and hacks the two into a bloody, mangled mess.
There is still some speculation as to what this creature is specifically. It is seen during The Return: Part 8 birthing BOB into the world after a nuclear test. Some have speculated that this creature is an iteration of "Judy" or "Jowday," a malicious force of evil that feasted on human suffering and who is seen as a central antagonist in The Return as well as being mentioned in Fire Walk With Me by Phillip Jeffries (David Bowie). Regardless of what the creature, also dubbed "The Experiment," really is. Its visage is eerie and its appearance is a great injection of traditional monster horror Twin Peaks.
How's Annie? ("Beyond Life and Death")
Though Twin Peaks has a large cast of curious and entertaining characters, the show's central characters really boil down to Agent Cooper and Laura Palmer. Throughout the series, Cooper's persistent optimism in the face of the unusual and disturbing makes him something of a paragon, an immovable center in the chaotic surroundings of the small Washington town. David Lynch likely accounted for this, and after Cooper escapes the dark confines of the Black Lodge, Lynch pulls the rug out from under viewers.
After his return into town from the Black Lodge, Coop is visibly shaken and silent due to his recent discoveries. As Cooper takes a trip to the bathroom, all hell breaks loose. Coop slams his head into the bathroom mirror, and with a bloodied visage, turns to the camera and asks "How's Annie?" before cackling, BOB's reflection still visible in the mirror, showing the audience that BOB has possessed a doppelganger of Cooper.
The scene is made more sinister on BOB's behalf due to his reference to "Annie" specifically. This character, portrayed by Heather Graham (Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me), had begun a romantic relationship with Cooper over the course of Season 2. After a harrowing experience in the Black Lodge as a result of being kidnapped, she is found bloody and in shock wearing the same ring that Laura Palmer wore when she was killed. She was whisked away to the hospital in a catatonic state, and after an attempt to commit suicide, was institutionalized in the city of Spokane.
The fact that BOB seemingly used this to taunt the audience is incredibly cruel, especially from Cooper's own body. The biggest significance of this scene, however, is it was the last fans would see of Twin Peaks for 25 years with the exception of Fire Walk With Me releasing shortly thereafter. This dour note wasn't only disturbing, but it was the final scene in many viewers' heads during what they considered the end of the show, which carried its own fear of Twin Peaks' many plot threads remaining unresolved.
Gotta Light? (The Return: Part 8)
Considered by critics and fans alike as one of David Lynch's finest moments as a director, the eighth episode of The Return is a somber and relatively silent while depicting many surreal scenes shot in monochrome. Mark Frost remarks that he and Lynch wanted to examine the origin of the evil at the heart of the world of Twin Peaks, and the episode's reception shows that its abstract horror concepts hit the mark.
The episode's events are placed against the backdrop of the Trinity Nuclear Test, which historically was the first detonation of a nuclear device. The result of The Manhattan Project is on full display as the evils of Twin Peaks' world begin to manifest and take shape. The Experiment is seen giving birth to BOB, bearded woodsmen descend from the sky near the nuclear test site and begin a massacre, killing a young receptionist and crushing the skull of a radio DJ only after relaying an ominous message: "This is the water and this is the well. Drink full and descend. The horse is the white of the eyes, and dark within." The message causes listeners to lose consciousness, including a young girl, who has a repulsive cockroach/toad hybrid crawl into her mouth while she is incapacitated.
There's simply too much to unpack and analyze for a summary, suffice to say the episode evokes a sense of dread and draws from multiple sources to do so. The Return is undoubtedly a much darker tone compared to the previous two seasons of Twin Peaks, and this episode is both incredibly unsettling while also explaining many huge questions about the nature of the forces of good and evil that are always in constant battle throughout the show's tenure.
Laura's Doppelganger in the Red Room ("Beyond Life and Death")
If anybody doesn't consider Sheryl Lee a Scream Queen, this scene should change their tune. Cooper finds himself in the Red Room from his dreams within the Black Lodge, and he has a conversation with Laura Palmer, who simply tells Coop "when you see me again, it won't be me" before saying she'll see him again in 25 years, making a gesture and remarking "meanwhile..."
As Coop attempts to leave the Black Lodge, he is surrounded by flames and is seemingly taunted by a man known as The Arm (Michael J. Anderson) as many of the rooms look alike and the lodge seems almost labyrinthine. Cooper returns to the room he spoke to Laura in, finding The Arm, his eyes glazed over white, who remarks "doppelganger." Coop looks over to Laura, her eyes also whited out, still in the pose from earlier. Laura, or what appears to be Laura, croaks out the word "meanwhile" before growling and climbing over the seating, charging at Cooper and letting out a bloodcurdling screech that continues even after Cooper runs out of the room.
It is abundantly clear that this creature, this doppelganger, is not Laura, but it is familiar enough with her and her demise to release a tremendous amount of anguish and anger all at once. Though much of this may be directed at Cooper, Laura's doppelganger is also geared towards the audience in this iconic and terrifying scene. The strobing coloration of lights alternate between illuminating the doppelganger and utter darkness, not unlike Ronette's dream of BOB killing Laura early in Season 2. The fact that this creature continues to screech in an outpour of anger and dread after the protagonist has fled is undoubtedly meant to leave an impression on watchers, and it is often referenced as the scariest moment (outside of The Return) in all of Twin Peaks.
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The Johannesburg Sightseeing Hop-On-Hop-Off bus tours are a wonderful learning experience for kids and parents alike. Learn about the history of icon buildings and sights in the city and hop off to explore and hop back on when you're ready to move on.
This is a great experience for kids with a fully equipped jungle gym and play park, with a dress up area as well as various arts and crafts to keep the kids entertained and get the creative juices flowing. Serendipity Playpark is also a great birthday party venue to keep in mind.
This urban picnic experience includes great open lawns for kids to run around on while mom and dad enjoy great music, food and cocktails. Also stick around for the evening to come a catch the screening of wonderful movies in the open-air cinema. An all round wonderful family day out.
The theatre is a wonderful opportunity for the kids to experience some of their favourite stories and movies on stage in well crafted plays and pantomimes. For the creative kids there are also drama lessons available. Find out more on their website.
This is a must for all ages and offers a creative and colourful experience to create a masterpiece on your choice of canvas and colours while enjoying a relaxed environment. We highly recommend this activity to all parents.
If you're got a little adrenaline junkie on your hands or older kids this is the perfect place for you. With bumboarding, snowboarding and many other fun activities, a trip to Avalanche will definitely get the blood pumping. They also host birthday parties, if that is something your kids are into.
A trip to the zoo is always fun and educational. Your kids will learn about different animal species and how they are being protected. There is a restaurant and bringing a picnic along to enjoy as a family is welcome. We highly recommend paying the zoo a visit with the kids.
Just 25 kilometres from the city centre, this nature reserve is home to a number of small mammals such as duiker, mountain reedbuck, dassie, mongoose, hedgehog, black-backed jackal, mole rat, gerbil and more. There is a stone amphitheatre with a picnic area and walking trails. A perfect pace for some outdoor fun in nature.
The Liberty Stables are named after an award winning horse named Royal Liberty and equestrian instruction continues in his memory. For animal lovers this is a great place to spend time with horses, learn to care for them, learn to ride and have a fun birthday party.
Cedar Junction has a little something for everyone with rides, a market, water paddling and so much more. This ia wonderful place for kids to spend time outdoors, running about and having fun.
For older kids and daring little ones a quad bike party or just some time on the dirt road, this is the perfect place. Of course there is also some fun for mom and dad with many adult riding opportunities. An all round great day out with the family.
The Blue Crane, situated in the heart of Pretoria next to the Austin Roberts Bird Sanctuary. They offer their famous breakfast and lunch buffet every Sunday, and have a custom built jungle gym for the kids while they experience the beauty of South Africa's national bird, the Blue Crane.
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The attorney for Capitol Hill protest participant Ray Epps, former FBI agent John Blischak, told The Epoch Times on Jan. 12 that his client has been interviewed by federal law enforcers and "unequivocally he is not an FBI informant." Speculation about Epps has gradually built for months, coming to a head when top federal law enforcement officials refused to answer questions about his alleged connections to law enforcement during a Jan. 11 Senate hearing on domestic terrorism. The Democratic-led House committee investigating Jan. 6 released a statement following the hearing, claiming to have interviewed Epps and that he's not a fed—but that prompted further questions and criticism. The Epoch Times was initially unable to reach Epps for comment, but Epps responded to a text message later the night of Jan. 11. "Please refer any questions to our attorney John Blischak," Epps wrote. "He will be happy to answer your questions, as …
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A Strategy for Human Resources in our Current Climate
by Nick Winkler
Essential workers are risking their health working side-by-side with their colleagues. Others are working remotely, but their access to company systems may not be secure. Executive leaders, many of whom have recently traveled internationally, may unknowingly be infected.
The role of a human resources (HR) professional has never been so crucial at such an unclear time. Businesses are turning to their HR teams to ask: How do you protect your people? How do you provide access to systems and ensure they're secure? What should you prioritize?
"I just think in this unprecedented time we don't have a pattern that's happened before that we can mirror, says Steph Corker, Founder and People Consultant at The Corker Collective. "But we are called to be human in a different way."
Here, we provide insight and guidance to help you focus on what matters most and how best to navigate both the pandemic and a post-COVID-19 world.
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Rethinking HR's role
HR is on the corporate frontline in the fight against COVID-19, but many HR professionals aren't prepared. Nearly half of surveyed leaders in Human Resources Director say their HR departments aren't adequately trained to deal with the challenges associated with a global pandemic. Almost 7 in 10 HR leaders cite crisis management or business continuity planning as their top COVID-19 challenge. The other challenges include:
Managing flexible work arrangements (64%)
Managing employee communication (56%)
Addressing employee concerns on workplace policies (53%)
Implementing preventive measures (43%)
Reviewing current welfare policies (25%)
The way this crisis is handled will likely have implications for recruiting and retention for years to come. "People have long memories and they'll remember if you check on them in a caring way," says Heidi Davidson, Co-Founder and CEO at Galvanize Comms. "That human centered approach is really important right now."
Employees will publicly rate HR's performance on sites like Glassdoor based on whether they felt trusted working remotely, whether you provided the right technology and tools for them to do their jobs, and the degree to which you showed empathy to their unique situations.
Why internal crisis communications matters
Words matter more than ever. Not choosing the right ones or—worse yet—going radio silent, can jeopardize your company's future and employees' safety. Despite this, 40% of organizations have still not developed a COVID-19 communications strategy.
Even if you feel overwhelmed by halting recruitment, filing paperwork associated with unemployment benefits, and training distributed teams, making time to communicate during a crisis can have long lasting positive impacts on employee morale and well-being.
"Be calm, consistent, and clear in your communications to make sure you are confident and competent," Davidson says. "Acknowledge that the thing [you're communicating] is difficult but it's necessary because of these reasons. Dive into those reasons and make sure to drive home the journey of this decision. Explain how you're taking care of the people who are being let go, then also explain how you're taking care of the ones who are still remaining in the company."
In particular, there are two key areas of internal communications you should focus on:
#1: Health and safety communications
Part of a robust internal crisis communications plan is ensuring employees receive accurate information. Making sure workers have the information necessary to protect themselves and their families is the priority. Remember: it is also your legal obligation to protect your employees.
Guidance on protecting workers from COVID-19
Guidance on preparing your workplace for COVID-19
Controlling and preventing COVID-19 in the workplace
#2: Business continuity communications
Honest dialogue about employment security is the other crucial component of your internal communications. Nearly 6 in 10 workers surveyed say COVID-19 has them concerned about their job security. Rather than panic employees, be transparent about your business continuity plan (BCP). Your BCP should outline forced layoff and furlough plans, how decisions will be made, as well as the different scenarios you're modeling.
Conversely, well-capitalized companies provide employees more certainty. LinkedIn, American Express, PayPal, and Morgan Stanley have promised no coronavirus layoffs in 2020. If you have recurring revenue or access to capital markets, alleviating job security concerns can result in a more productive workforce.
Guidance on creating a BCP
Guidance on stress-testing financial plans
Guidance on cost-saving measures and the associated legal considerations
Guidance on short-term and longer-term BCPs
A crisis communications framework
Internal crisis communications must be consistent with external communications and company behavior. Nothing kills credibility and employee morale faster than a failure to do what you say and say what you do.
"Consistency is something people forget during a crisis," Davidson says. "You make sure that if you say you'll be communicating with the team at a certain time, you follow that schedule. Because in the absence of information is when people get anxious."
In the U.S., ensure you're up to date on the following:
Emergency Family Medical Leave (EFML)
Emergency Paid Sick Leave (EPSL) and COVID-19-related expansions
New travel policies
The impact on unemployment benefits when a worker declines offered work
Protocol if a co-worker or customer exhibits symptoms
Speak with one voice
Designate a single spokesperson or team (for larger businesses) to communicate regularly. Reiterate policy and employee support resources and employee assistance programs. Leave policies should be flexible and not punitive.
Highlight achievement
Ensure employees understand how their roles fit into the company's broader mission. Point out successes, little victories, or instances in which people went above and beyond for customers. Introduce employee recognition awards. Immediately counter false information.
Balance directives with feedback
Solicit feedback, especially from employees new to remote work. Create mechanisms so employees can share fears, concerns, or stories of co-workers going above and beyond.
Focus on the short term
While it's appropriate to reassure workers and communicate optimism for the long term, don't try to predict the future. Rather than speculate, provide concrete short term plans, guidance, and role-specific actions and expectations. Address employee concerns about their livelihoods by providing transparency around business conditions and performance.
Prioritizing people
You'll have nothing to communicate unless you ensure the continuity of essential functions while simultaneously protecting distributed teams.
"It's nice to ask people how they're doing but think about offering something to people instead, says Corker of The Corker Collective. "Like, "Oh I found this thing online that I thought you might like". It's a beautiful thing to reach out and want nothing in return."
HR professionals can lead in the following areas:
Protecting your essential workers
Repeatedly stress that workers who have had a possible exposure to COVID-19 should not report to work. Here are some guidelines on how to protect your staff who need to be in your office or warehouse:
Minimize face-to-face interaction
Pre-screen employees before they start work by measuring their temperature and assessing their symptoms
Pay non-exempt employees for the time spent undergoing screenings and checks
Provide workers with PPE
Provide training on social distancing measures at work, including inside break rooms
Disinfect and clean commonly trafficked areas and increase air exchange in buildings
Remote work with flexibility
It's anything but remote-work-as-usual these days. Even if you had a remote work policy before the pandemic, it probably wasn't designed to handle each member of your workforce at once. It also likely wasn't built for a time when hospitals and healthcare would be challenging to access, when schools and daycares would be closed, or when employees would be required to work while simultaneously caring for loved ones.
Consider updating or adapting your policy to accommodate workers who find themselves in binds through no fault of their own:
Consider offering different work hours, staggering start times, or allowing people to schedule blocks of work around child care responsibilities. For example, workers may be more productive and happier if they can work prior to children waking up or after they go to bed. Alternatively, consider setting core hours, or time when employees must be available, and allow them to work the rest of their hours when it's convenient for them.
Enabling robust distributed teams also means preparing for the dark side of remote work like virtual layoffs. Remember, virtual meetings can be recorded and posted for the world to see. Helping laid-off workers maintain their dignity while being laid off is not only the right thing to do, but it preserves relationships with people you may soon want to rehire. Rather than mass layoff announcements via Zoom, schedule individual meetings, allow them to ask questions, provide them with the information they need to apply for benefits.
Employee assistance programs
Some companies are covering testing and treatment costs stemming from COVID-19. Others are enabling and eliminating copays for telehealth doctor visits and mental health consultations.
Beyond health insurance, HR departments might also alleviate financial stress by advocating for daily wage pay, company subsidized loans, or free access to financial literacy courses. If there's a desire, HR can also coordinate a paid time off (PTO) bank in which remote employees can donate time to employees required to work on-site.
HR in a post-COVID-19 world
Reopening the economy will present HR professionals with a new set of daunting challenges. Your focus will move beyond immediate health and safety concerns. The new focus will be on the medium and long term impact of COVID-19. Expect a restructuring of the workforce, shifting employee priorities, and new safety protocols:
New workplace designs and protocols
Physically returning to work, whether gradually or all at once, may require new workplace designs and safety protocols. Companies with physical retail footprints may rethink density and prioritize physical distancing. In some industries or locations, Infrared Fever Scanning Systems (IFss) may be adopted as companies attempt to identify vulnerable employees, visitors, and contractors.
Staggered work weeks, start times, and lunch breaks may become the norm. Office door handles may be removed or replaced with hands-free door openers. Employers may opt to equip employees with PPE, make lunch cafeterias cashless, or use nano coatings to reduce surface contamination. Immunity passports may be required before infected workers can re-enter the workforce.
Distributed team permanency impacts commercial office space
Today's version of remote work is not normal. When schools and daycares reopen, employees will have fewer distractions and can focus only on work during work hours. Take the time to appropriately translate existing work rules, expectations, and schedules for this new environment. If you failed to achieve distributed authority with central coordination, make it a priority to implement.
Separately, be prepared to lead your finance team in a discussion regarding the implications a larger remote team has on the need for commercial office space. Corporate square footage reductions may save money in lean times.
Employee priorities shift from pay to wellness
Before COVID-19, the economy was relatively strong, and HR often focused on pay and having the wage conversation. However, fresh off a global pandemic, health and wellness may become as big or a bigger priority for workers than salary. Expect healthcare systems and benefits reforms aimed at preventing pandemic-related hiccups from recurring and expect to spend more time on benefits plans. If employee priorities shift materially, companies may rapidly begin taking a holistic approach by bundling additional mental and emotional well-being benefits with traditional health care.
Virtual talent acquisition and retention
Massive layoffs may result in a reliance on temporary help immediately after the pandemic subsides. Those that treated laid-off employees with respect during the downturn may have an opportunity to bring valued ex-employees back quickly as 1099 contractors or help them sign up with the temp agency with which you partner.
Keeping your talent pipeline full by communicating with ex-employees, or simply checking in because you care, can help you ramp back up more quickly post-COVID-19. If you're now largely remote, consider remote hiring and digital recruiting and onboarding as well.
Digital transformation accelerates
HR is or should be at the heart of an organization's digital transformation. If your systems failed or did not perform as you desired, it's time to act. Digitization entails automating repetitive tasks, maximizing the employee experience, and using time saved to lead your organization strategically. If COVID-19 taught us anything, it's the value of human capital. Unlocking that value means your teams must have the digital and mobile tools necessary to perform optimally.
Organizations of the future will turn to HR to "redesign talent practices, from recruiting to leadership performance management." Self-serve solutions enable employees to do much of what HR used to do so HR departments of tomorrow can lead, enact change across the organization, and be more valuable members of the organization.
HR and leadership
Shortcomings have been exposed. None of us have been left unscathed. But what you're doing matters to your organization and its people. We all could have done better. What matters now, however, is ensuring that next time we will.
Doctoring cultural damage caused by the pandemic is paramount. But triage will soon shift to recovery. Performing a crisis post-mortem can reveal opportunities for improvement. Tomorrow you'll have opportunities to lead, to nurture culture, improve morale, and ensure your organization is vaccinated against many of the ills brought about by COVID-19.
Upcoming webinar: HR and communications strategies to navigate the pandemic
We're eager to see where you lead your tribe, and we also want to help. It's why we've assembled a panel of expert HR professionals to help you navigate this unpredictable moment in time in our upcoming webinar.
Nick Winkler
Nick Winkler is a contributor to the Shopify Plus blog and founder of The Winkler Group, a strategic communications firm that provides content marketing services to the world's best-known brands, businesses, and marketers.
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CARROLLTON – Tom Shafer had already celebrated his 70th birthday before he was first taken out by friendly fire as a member of the Carrollton football chain gang.
"I've only got knocked down once – five or six years ago – I couldn't quite get out of the way over there on that broad jump runway," said Shafer, who abandoned the down marker as instructed but could not avoid contact with a player swerved off course. "I got bumped down real good, but I didn't get hurt."
And his response was Carrollton tough.
"I got right back up," Shafer said. "I was a lot younger when that happened."
Shaffer, 77 and a Carrollton resident since he and his wife Henrietta wed in 1958, has been a mainstay on the visitor's sideline at Hawks football games for parts of five decades.
"I've seen a lot of boys go through Carrollton," Shafer said, "with most of them being pretty good."
But after 41 seasons, Shafer will give up a Friday night ritual that began in 1974 when a friend looked to fill an opening on the Hawks' chain gang.
"Wayne Weber asked me if I'd be interested in helping them out," said Shafer, who grew up on his family's farm in Kane before serving in the air force. "That's how I got started. (Weber) was on it until he died in July of 2001. We had a lot of years together."
Shafer spent five or six seasons – he can't recall the year – 10 yards removed from Weber on the chain before shifting to man in the middle on the box.
"The man who was on the down marker left town and nobody wanted to do the down marker," Shafer recalls. "I said, 'I'll take the down marker.' And I've been on the down marker ever since then."
Shafer has walked the sideline for home games over a stretch that saw Carrollton post a 232-164-1 record with 27 winning seasons. He's been through seven Hawks head coaches in Steve Bystry, Art Newton, Billy Joe Brockhouse, Bill Bandy, Greg Pohlman, Jarod Kiger and Nick Flowers.
Three straight WIVC South titles and a No. 2 state ranking for a 9-0 team in 2014 makes these the glory years for the Hawks. And for that, Shafer salutes Flowers.
"He's a wonderful coach," Shafer said. "They were all good, but Nick has really been good. He's got the little kids in a program, the real little kids, and in the summertime they really come out. That really makes a difference."
Shafer still enjoys the job and the sideline view, but has no regrets about walking away.
"It's been fun, but it's time to get out," said Shafer, a plant worker before 15 years as custodian at Carrollton Grade School preceded retirement. "I think 40 years is enough. My health isn't as good as it has been, but it isn't because of that. I thought about two or three years ago that went 40 years came, that was enough."
Shafer will be on the down marker for Saturday afternoon's Class 1A first-round playoff game with Concord Triopia. He's hoping for two or three more home games in what Shafer and Hawks fans hope is a prolonged postseason run.
"I'm looking forward to it," Shafer said, shrugging off concerns of uncomfortable November weather. "Cold don't bother me, never has. I've been in some snow storms, some ice storms, rain. I hate rain worse than any of it. I'm not thrilled about rainy nights, but I go through it."
He has since 1974, but 2015 will bring a new role for Shafer.
"I told them I just want to watch from here on," Shafer said. "But I'll be there on the sidelines rooting them on."
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After spending two years as creative director at Roberto Cavalli, Paul Surridge has announced he is laying his duties to rest via a post on his Instagram account, saying he is devoting himself to personal projects.
On May 11, 2017, Paul Surridge took over from Peter Dundas as the head of design at Roberto Cavalli. Graduating from Central Saint Martins in London, the designer pushed his skills further at Calvin Klein in the 1990s, followed by a stint at Burberry with Christopher Bailey between 2003 and 2007. He became head menswear designer at Jil Sander while Raf Simons was at the helm, and between 2011 and 2014 was made creative director at Z Zegna. The British designer then collaborated with Acne Studios, acting as a creative advisor for the menswear collections.
The name of his successor is yet to be revealed.