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How to maximise profits by better production planning
Despite the logical link between planning and the profitability of a business, it is not uncommon for businesses to neglect planning. There are several reasons for this, not least of which is that put forward by Sir John Harvey Jones. "Planning is an unnatural process; it is much more fun to do something. The nicest thing about not planning is that failure comes as a complete surprise rather than being preceded by a period of worry and depression."
This document provides an understanding of the general principles of operational planning in businesses which generate value by using limited resources to produce products or services.
These principles apply equally to businesses that make money from products and to those who provide services, so references to products in this white paper can also be interpreted as services.
What is Operational Planning
The two most important concepts in operations planning are Capacity and Demand:
Capacity is a measure of a business's ability to produce products. In general capacity is defined in terms of the Resource used to generate products. A resource can be one of a wide range of business assets. Very often they are machines in a factory which have very specific capability. However, they could also be people with specific skills or assets not directly associated with the production process such as test facilities or specialised storage.
Demand is a measure of the total requirement from all customers for all products and services produced by the business. In general businesses do not expect or aim to satisfy all demand. So, for the purposes of this discussion, we will define Demand as a measure of the targeted requirement from all customers for all products produced by the business
Essentially the planning process involves balancing Capacity and Demand
Why Plan?
The reason it is so important to plan by maintaining a balance between capacity and demand is that it is one of the main ways to maximise profit in a business. If the balance is such that Demand exceeds Capacity the business will not have sufficient resource to meet the demand in the timescales promised to the customer. In turn this will mean the business will be lost and profits will be reduced as a result.
If Capacity exceeds Demand then the additional capacity is not adding value to the business and will effectively be an additional cost thereby reducing overall profit from its potential.
In practice it is not desirable to aim to match capacity exactly with demand. It is desirable to allow some excess capacity in order to account for unplanned performance, reduction in resources or short term fluctuations in demand.
Barriers to the Planning Process
Responsibility for Capacity and Demand are normally managed by two quite separate elements of the business – often Operations manage capacity and Sales or Sales & Marketing manage demand.
In many businesses they have quite different objectives:
Operations are responsible for managing the resources within the business and have an objective of maximising efficiency of those resources. Excess capacity is seen as inefficient and they will therefore aim to reduce it to the minimum required.
Sales are responsible for maximising revenue coming into the business and achieving targets set for them by the executive team. Very often their targets are achieved without consideration of whether the business has the capacity to produce the orders or indeed if it is profitable to do so.
So, unless there is a concerted effort for these two departments to communicate and agree on the balance between capacity and demand profitability will be put at risk.
The planning process needs to start well in advance of resources being used to produce products. As indicated in the diagram below the flexibility to adjust the balance between capacity and demand reduces significantly the closer you are to the point at which the products need to be produced.
This is partly due to the length of time it takes to change the capacity of the business. Most businesses have key resources which give them a competitive advantage. Such resources are often not readily available on a short lead time. Changing the capacity involving this resource therefore needs to be planned well in advance.
Similarly increasing the demand in a business may take a significant amount of time as it may involve marketing new products to make customers aware of their availability.
Planning Horizons
Operational planning needs to start well in advance of a customer order being received. Once an order has been received the ability to adjust demand is reduced almost to zero. Similarly at that point the ability to amend the capacity is limited to facilities such as overtime and outsourcing.
Planning ahead of orders being received inevitably means that demand has to be based on a forecast. Being able to forecast accurately is not an easy task and requires a considerable amount of effort to achieve.
At this point it is useful to highlight the difference between planning and scheduling, terms which are often used interchangeable but which have quite different functions.
As we have discussed, planning is the process of adjusting capacity and demand to ensure that they are in balance. Scheduling is the process of determining the sequence in which orders will be produced in order to maximise the efficiency with which confirmed orders can be produced on time within the constraints of the available resources.
The time horizon used for planning in a business will vary depending on the nature of the resources and demand. For a business in the food industry the horizon might be of the order of 6-12 months because within that time frame it is possible to increase or reduce the resources required to produce their products and increase or reduce demand as required. Whereas an aerospace or defence manufacturer, where specialised capital equipment is used, the horizon may need to be longer.
Using Consistent Units
It's important that both capacity and demand are expressed in the same terms e.g. for a business producing cars it is no use saying there is a demand for 500 cars per month and there is a capacity of 80 hours per week. We need to say there is a demand of 500 cars per month and there is a capacity to produce 600 cars per month.
Most businesses produce a range of products and the amount of resource required to produce different products will vary. In the example of a business producing cars there might be a standard model and a deluxe model. The deluxe model might take 20% more resource to produce than the standard model. So it is no longer practical to discuss capacity in terms of cars because the capacity will vary depending on the mix of models in the demand.
It is therefore normal to convert both sides of the equation to units of time. Capacity in terms of the time available and Demand in terms of the time required to produce a known quantity of a product.
It is also necessary to define the time period which the defined demand and capacity relates. It is useful to consider these time periods as 'buckets' of time because a bucket has a defined capacity which it is not possible to exceed. You cannot put 10 litres in an 8 litre bucket. In the same way you can't produce products which require 200 hours of a resource time in a period which only has 160 hours of resource time.
As with the planning horizon the period of the planning buckets will depend on the nature of the business. In particular it will depend on the rate at which change can occur. In a business where demand can change significantly from one week to the next, for example due to sales promotions, it would be inappropriate to use monthly buckets. Using monthly buckets could mask the fact that in one week demand significantly exceeded the available capacity.
In a business with relatively long lead times and slow process times, monthly buckets will provide sufficient granularity for effective planning.
Planning buckets can be defined and visualised as shown in the diagram below.
The red line indicates the available capacity for each time period. As shown capacity can vary over time. It is important to model capacity as accurately as possible.
So far it has been assumed that defining capacity is a simple matter of calculating the number of hours a particular resource is available. However, in most businesses several resources will be required to produce products. A simple approach in this situation would be to assume the capacity is the total amount of time available on all resources. The demand would then be the total amount of time required to produce a product. However, this approach can lead to an optimistic model of capacity as described below.
The example represents a facility with 3 resources and production starts on resource A, then passes to Resource B and is then finished on resource C. Let's assume that each capacity bucket represents a month with a capacity of 250 hours. We will also assume that the product produced by this business has a capacity requirement of 100 hours on each of Resources A and C and 150 on Resource B.
If we analyse the loading based on the business as a whole we would assume that the total capacity available is 750 hours and the total capacity requirement is 350 hours. This would give a loading of 46.7% and we can assume that it would be possible to produce two products a month.
However, consider what would actually happen if we launched 4 products one after the other, as indicated in the diagram below.
Two products would be available in month 2 but only one would be available in month 3. Taking the capacity of the business as a whole we have over-estimated the true capacity. This is because resource B is not capable of producing 2 products a month. It is the constraint in the process.
In reality the loading of the business is 60% (150/250). It is therefore important that in considering the capacity of a business it is the capacity of the constraint resource which is used.
If you would like more information about any of these planning issues please contact us or have a look through our website.

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THIS is the final PNG Report newsletter for the year.
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PNG Report wishes all of its readers and subscribers a happy and peaceful Christmas and every good wish for a successful 2019!


I notice that people will use the Bible to pick one scripture here and there and make it fit for anything. So they will use God's brand and put it on Satan's product. What I mean is, people will accept the scripture if they can fit it into a different belief system. God's scripture does reflect God's word, you can't change it or twist it to make it fit, it has to be Truth.
Many days I feel like I'm in a loosing battle. To every 1 encouragement I can provide, 100 negative flood that person. I know that without Christ in people's hearts they are also fighting a hopeless battle. What keeps me going is that God is above all and his word never goes out void. I've read the end of the Book, I know how it ends.
The question was presented to me yesterday, "do you write to make money, or do you write because it's your passion" ?
People need to know their worth. They need to start believing in themselves. They can't always look through the world through the negative lenses, because eventually they will believe it.
My answer to the question above is simple. It's my passion. There is no money in the world that can give me the feeling I get when I can encourage someone. I've heard too many people come to Christ to express the freedom they have, the burdens that have been lifted, the joy it gives to share anything else but HOPE in His Word.


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Girls Enjoy Spanish Day
Junior Girls Enjoy Spanish Day
Pupils at Hesketh House, Bolton School's Junior Girls' School, have enjoyed a day dedicated to all things Spanish.
Mrs Labbe, who helped Mrs Hornby organise the day, said: "Each year we fully absorb the girls in a foreign country, in recent times we have had Italian, Belgian, German and Spanish days. The girls engage with a wide range of cultural aspects relating to that country including art, music, dance and the language. Girls study Spanish at Hesketh House from Years 3 to 5 and days like this really bring on their language skills; it also helps give them an understanding of other cultures. Many will go on to study Spanish at Senior School."
Each of the four year groups took turns at a different activity, which included producing their own Picasso-inspired artwork. The girls considered the work of the Spanish artist, particularly his musically-inspired pieces, and then produced their own simple Cubist representations. Throughout the day there was also an opportunity to learn some dance steps and enjoy Spanish music. These skills were put to the test during lunch when Catering Manager, Mr Scialpi-Sullivan, provided some Spanish guitar music for the girls to dance to.
Younger girls produced a Spanish map collage and older girls, in teams, were tasked with producing a pitch to the Head, Mrs Brierley, which would persuade her to visit the town they were promoting. Girls used their imagination, producing PowerPoint presentations, raps, iMovies and pamphlets.
The girls, who were allowed to wear something red for the day, were energised by a Spanish-themed lunch which included Pollo al Chilindron and Cazuela con Verduras with maiz and a dessert of Crumble de manzana y caramelo con Helado.
Girls and staff enjoyed an impromptu lunch time flamenco!
The day produced some stunning Picasso-inspired artwork
Catering staff provided a Spanish-themed lunch
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What Lucas did was interesting. When he made the first Star Wars movie, he knew it wasn't right and he needed help with it, so he had his other director friends screen the movie. They came up with a list of suggestions to fix it. I remember reading somewhere that his then wife perfected the movie in the editing room and so, as they say, the rest was history.


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Pulse carrots, onion, and garlic in a food processor until finely chopped. Heat oil in a 6-quart stockpot or Dutch oven over medium, then add vegetables; season with 1 tsp. salt and 1/2 tsp. pepper, stirring to coat. Cook, stirring occasionally, until vegetables begin to look juicy, about 3 minutes. Partially cover with a lid, reduce heat to medium-low, and cook, stirring occasionally, until vegetables are completely tender but have not taken on any color, 10–12 minutes.
Add wheat berries, coriander, turmeric, and bay leaves and stir to combine. Cook until bottom of pot is just starting to brown, about 2 minutes. Add 10 cups water and bring to a boil over medium-high heat. Season with 1 1/2 tsp. salt, then reduce heat to medium-low and bring to a simmer. Cook, uncovered and stirring occasionally, until grains show signs of softening but are nowhere near done, about 15 minutes. Add lentils and kale and stir well to combine. Kale should be submerged; add another cup of water if needed. Partially cover pot and cook, stirring occasionally, until lentils and grains are tender and kale is very silky, 40–45 minutes more. Pluck out bay leaves. Taste and season with more salt and pepper if needed.
Divide soup among bowls. Serve with Parmesan for sprinkling over and bread for dunking.
Delicious! Watch the added salt if you use canned broth. I added some sliced carrots near the end, mostly for the color.
This soup is great! I took the one reviewers advice and I doubled the spices. So glad I did because it was so flavorful, I think if I hadn't it would have been a bit bland. I used the wheat berries which was a first for me and was worried that they were not cooking but realized that they are supposed to have a "bite" to them and that the texture is really nice in the final product. Defiantly use the veggie stock, again helps to add some great flavor to the soup and make sure you use actual coriander seed. Will be making this recipe again and again. Thank you!
I cook a lot and was surprised that this turned out to be just not good. I may have made some mistakes, I subbed black rice instead of wheat berries (should not change the flavor), powdered coriander for coriander seeds (this could have done it) and took the advice of another reviewer and doubled the spices and used her stock to water ratio. Maybe the stock I bought just had an overpowering flavor but this was plain bad.
Perfect for frigid winter evenings. I used 5 cups stock and maybe 2 cups water max to make more of a stew than a soup. Doubled the spices. Served with lime wedges. Will make again with rye berries.


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Mountain Girl in the City
Make strides toward racial justice from where you are
Clock your walking, running or cycling miles to make a difference
The diversity of backgrounds, colors and lifestyles is what defines the human race and when individuals are targeted, injured and killed because of the color of their skin, it really does feel like an apocalypse. It feels like something is deeply, horribly amiss. How can this be happening in 2020 in America? How can existence in what is supposed to be one of the world's most progressive countries be so vastly different for some people than it is for others?
The appalling killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery dismantle not only the nation but the very essence of humanity. Racial injustices of some level strike every day in every community. In idyllic Colorado mountain towns, populated and visited mostly by white people, it's easy to turn a blind eye. It's easy to feel there is not much one can do to make a difference. If only running or pedaling up a mountain could help. Thanks to the Civil Rights Race Series, it can.
The Civil Rights Race Series conducts running and cycling competitions in historic locations in Alabama and Tennessee with the goal of educating the public on events that took place there and how they were instrumental in driving change during the civil rights movement. In response to the recent turmoil and these senseless deaths, the Civil Rights Race Series is hosting 1 Million Miles for Justice, a virtual event in which anyone, anywhere can make strides toward racial equality. Wherever you are, your weekly jog, your daily walk around the block, your hike, your bike ride can play a positive part in providing equal opportunities and paving the road toward a better life for someone whose every day experience doesn't consist of the qualities many of us take for granted, for someone whose every day experience feels far from equal and never feels safe.
Registration for the event is $25 and you can choose to walk, run or ride however many miles you want. Nearly all proceeds benefit the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Here's a chance to make that positive experience – those positive strides – go even farther.
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5 Reasons Why More Women Should Mountain Bike
I recently attended a women's Diamondback mountain bike press clinic in Breckenridge and realized that more women really do need to learn to ride. While there are way more females of all ages out on the trails now than there were 20 years ago when I initially fell head over heels with the sport (and consequently went heels over head a few times during the intensive learning process), mountain biking is unquestionably still a male-dominated sport.
However, with vastly improved bike technology, clothing and protective accessories, not to mention a dire need for a testosterone balance on the trails, there is no better time for women to experience the incomparable thrill that comes with saddling up on a set of fat tires.
Here's why …
1. Mountain biking is not as scary as you think. For starters, it's much safer than road biking. You're moving at considerably slower speeds, there are no cars around you and there is at least some hope for a soft(er) landing if you crash.
2. New bike technology makes it much easier to learn and excel. Unlike 20 years ago when fat tires weren't that fat, frames were heavy and loaded up with unnecessary chain rings and full suspension amounted to just a few millimeters of spring back, trail bikes these days feel like easy-to-maneuver armchairs. Take for example, the high-end ride we demoed at the clinic: Diamondback's Release 5C carbon. With super burly tires, wide handlebars, an efficient 1x12-speed drive train, a surprisingly light frame (considering its burliness), precise and responsive brakes, well over 5 inches of adjustable travel and most importantly, a drop seat, even the most intimidating aspects of mountain biking (sharp switchbacks, steeps descents, rock drops, etc.) can be conquered seamlessly.
Photo courtesy of Backbone Media.
3. Women's clothing and accessories are more comfortable and functional than they used to be. Guess what? There is no need for tight Lycra out here (but if you prefer it, have at it. Mountain bikers are not a judgmental crowd … just don't ride in jean shorts). While there is often a concern that baggy shorts might get caught on the saddle or somehow in the way, go-to cycling brands like Pearl Izumi offer extensive lines of cute but functional and comfortable "baggy" shorts made of stretch material, plus endless offerings of tops and jackets with gear-holding back pockets (order a size larger than you normally would as Pearl Izumi runs small) that allow for backpack-free riding. Long-standing Norwegian brand Norrøna specializes in longer, lightweight shorts with adjustable waist straps and cuts designed for optimal saddle compatibility and also sells an 18-liter pack that is so lightweight and comfortable even those of us who hate riding with backpacks can almost forget it's there. Also, to literally pad the learning curve, POC makes stretchy neoprene knee and elbow protectors (VPD) that are comfortable and flexible but still stay in place even when you're hammering.
4. The trails need you. We all need you. As mentioned above, mountain bikers are generally cool folks. But there are sometimes, occasionally, those token D-Bags that blow down the trail totally disregarding the prescribed etiquette (yield to uphill traffic, stay in control, say hello, etc.) or feel the need to increase their speed all of a sudden to ride on your ass or not let you by when you're faster. And, let's be honest … they're almost always dudes. More women on the trails mean a more comfortable space for all of us. Get out there. Please.
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Pace yourself.
Don't fixate on the obstacles.
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Take one obstacle at a time.
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Don't slam on the brakes.
Enjoy the view at the top.
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Autumn mountain bike trail spotlight: Snowmass loop
Fall colors don't last forever. At high elevations especially, an overnight snowstorm or a strong wind can wipe them instantly away. Thus, we mountain bikers are often on a frantic jag this time of year to forest bathe in yellows and oranges. There's nothing quite like crunching over a cushy carpet of said-colored leaves in a tunnel of twinkling aspens.
A favorite fall ride hub where you can find such a thing … Aspen. Or Snowmass, rather. Home to a brand new bike park (which is lift-served on weekends through the end of September), Snowmass offers both uphill and downhill trails (for those of us who like to go against gravity before we earn our DH treat) that pretty much cover the mountain biking gold standard spectrum ... especially true when you're surrounded by golden leaves.
Where: Snowmass Village
What: Village Bound/Cross Mountain/French Press loop
Length: 8 miles
Elevation: 1,668 climbing
Start at Elk Camp gondola base and ride the dirt service road about a quarter mile before taking a left on Village Bound.
Village Bound uphill: a smooth, wide and flow-y singletrack (also used for downhill) on which you can activate your G-Force superpowers by hammering into some of the switchbacks. Village Bound connects to Cross Mountain after about 3 miles of switch-backing up the slopes through pine forests and clusters of aspens.
Cross Mountain: This is a classic, rolling cross-country singletrack complete with techie sections of rocks, steep punches over thick roots and even a stream crossing. Take this up/across the slopes for about a mile before taking a left on French Press.
French Press descent: This is a swinging, super fast and fun downhill trail complete with huge bank turns, whoopties for small airs and wooden bridge and plank features to make you feel like you're a DH badass (but nothing we uphill sloggers/careful descenders can't handle). It's new to the Snowmass bike park and in primo, buffed out condition.
Oh yes, another thing ... you pretty much have the place to yourself. Go hit it before the snow does!
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How about locking down gun sales rather than schools?
Schools across Colorado, including my own high school – world-famous (all over again) Columbine –were shut down today. The reason? An 18-year-old woman from Florida who was reportedly obsessed with the 1999 Columbine High School shooting had made some threats, flown to Colorado, bought a gun and was on the loose. She's dead now (shot herself), but I have so many questions …
Why, after 20 years (riddled with copycat incidents and countless school shootings), are people still obsessed with Columbine?
Why must we relive the nightmare we experienced here 20 years ago because America refuses to ramp up gun control?
And the most pressing question … HOW is it possible with all of this gun violence that disturbed teenagers - or ANYONE for that matter – can STILL roll into a store and buy a shotgun as easily as buying a Slurpee?
I was attending Colorado State University when two student gunmen walked into Columbine High School and shot the place up, killing 12 students, one teacher and themselves.
My siblings and I had already graduated from Columbine. We were not there. Nobody close to me was injured or killed, but I knew many involved. One of the students killed was the younger sister of a quiet kid I'd known since elementary school. The teacher – Dave Sanders – one time ordered me to go outside and simmer down when I was bawling out another teacher for altering my goth poetry. The older brother of one of the gunmen - who I recall as sweet and polite - routinely carpooled to football practice with my brother. I never met his brother, but of the many thoughts swimming through my head as I watched the CNN newsreel display a string of students walk across the school lawn with their hands on their heads after finally escaping from a choir room where they'd been hiding for hours during the shooting, was that I would have probably been friendly with guys like him and the other gunman when I was in high school.
I was a sad, angry teenager who wore black lipstick and a trench coat. I listened to dark music and was fascinated with violent movies (Pulp Fiction and Natural Born Killers were two of my favorites at the time). I relished time alone. It wouldn't be a stretch to have classified me as an outcast.
On April 20, 1999, when I learned about the Columbine shooting, I was overwhelmed with horror. A heavy, sinking sensation that actually felt like a bag of rocks in my gut stayed with me for days. At the same time, a part of me was not incredibly surprised.
A few years earlier, when I was still at Columbine, there was – as I'm sure was the case in many suburban high schools and probably still is – palpable tension among social groups. While I frequently ditched class to go smoke clove cigarettes at Clement Park with a pack of other misfits, I also played lacrosse (although it was considered a renegade sport at the time and was not sanctioned by the school). I experienced misgivings from peers in each of these groups. "Why are you so goth?" my teammates would ask. "Why are you such a jock?" my goth/punk friends wanted to know.
I remember sitting in the park smoking cloves one day and talking to an acquaintance – not a friend, but a dude with whom I'd occasionally chat, who could easily have been one of the shooters had it been a couple of years later. On this particular day, this guy started telling me about how he spent the weekend killing a cat. As a life-long animal lover who kept a photo of my own cat in a pendant I wore daily, I was disgusted. I told him how twisted and fucked up that was and asked what could possibly compel him to want to do something like that. He couldn't really explain himself and I remember getting up and storming away, saying something like how I hoped someone would come after him with a baseball bat some day. It occurred to me that if this kid had a gun rather than a baseball bat, he would have really done some damage to innocent beings in his way. All he had to do was save up some money, walk into a store and buy one.
This kid and this conversation rushed through my mind amid the brutal cascade of emotion I experienced on April 20, 1999, and found myself experiencing again today, as so many schools were closed while a statewide manhunt took place. I still love dark music. I embrace my goth side. I've had a hard time watching violent movies for the last 20 years. I have trouble sleeping.
Immediately after Columbine, the nation came up with numerous scapegoats. Trench coats were to blame. Goth kids were to blame. Violent movies were to blame. Goth music was to blame. Marilyn Manson (clearly to blame) had an upcoming concert scheduled at Red Rocks. It was canceled.
Less than two weeks later, the NRA still hosted its annual meeting in Denver with thousands of firearms enthusiasts.
Instead of instilling all of this fear, closing down schools across Colorado, investing time and energy into a manhunt, how about, at the very least, making it harder for a kid to walk into a store and buy a gun?
Colorado's "red flag" law, which seeks to temporarily take guns away from individuals deemed unfit to have them, is a step in the right direction. But how about not allowing them such easy access in the first place?
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Lindsey Vonn's retirement marks the end of a great era for me, too
Lindsey Vonn's retirement not only means the closing of what was unquestionably one of the most exciting chapters in the entire history of alpine skiing, but also the end of a significant cycle of my own career.
My first interview with Lindsey was 15 years ago when she, at 20 years old, landed her first World Cup victory at the Lake Louise downhill. Her description of the race is priceless (my Vail Daily story is here), particularly when she mentions how incredulous she was at the finish when Austrian champion Renate Goetschl crossed the line so far behind her. When she commented, "Gosh … what did I do?" little did she know at the time that she would go on to do a whole lot more … that she would handily usurp Goetschl's record and become the world's most successful female skier of all time or win so many races at Lake Louise that they'd start calling the place "Lake Lindsey."
She also had no idea of the profound test of resilience the universe would throw at her when she pummeled back-first into the ground in a horrific crash during a downhill training run at the 2006 Olympics in Torino, Italy. At 21 years old, Lindsey was the only U.S. woman competing in all five alpine events. I was there covering the Games for the Swift News network and was staying in San Sicario, site of the ghastly crash. My knees literally buckled when I saw her go down. As she was airlifted off-course, I was actually crying, struck by a profound sadness that here was this promising young athlete who would probably never race again. Little did I know at the time … that this was one of the most irrepressible human beings to ever walk the earth.
In spite of splintering her plastic back protector and being in the unfathomable pain that comes from hitting a rock solid surface backwards at 60 mph (which she went on to personally fathom countless times), she did not suffer any major injuries and managed, a few days later, to limp to the starting line of the downhill race. She ended up eighth (Story here) and then took seventh in the super G after yet another crash during the combined event. (My recap of her 2006 Olympic performance is here). I recall being utterly mystified at her toughness, thinking, holy shit, how is this girl even still standing?
Years later, as a FIS media correspondent covering the women's World Cup tour, I was standing next to Lindsey after she'd won one of many races in Val d'Isere, France. We were watching the men's race on TV while Lindsey was waiting for her press conference. When she bent down to loosen her boots, she suddenly jerked up with pain. She started laughing at how stiff her back was, calling herself an old lady and saying how if she stood in one place for a minute or two, she required several uncomfortable seconds before loosening up enough to so much as take a step. At the time I reflected back on that Olympic crash – and many others that followed (with the worst yet to come) – and again marveled at her bionic strength.
I was at almost every race throughout those colossal years. It was an electrifying time, documenting her unprecedented reign of dominance, one victory and/or comeback after another, made that much more rewarding by the compassionate side of Lindsey of which I was both first-hand witness and recipient. I got to see a side of America's greatest skier that not everyone got to see. I've written stories about her kindness and big heart – how she'd drop everything to sign the bib of an adoring young racer or wait for an hour in the finish area to cheer on her teammates – but on a personal level, she's always treated me with generosity and genuine warmth that I will never forget.
As cool as my job was traveling through beautiful European venues covering the World Cup tour, it got lonely at times. I spent hours and even days by myself. When I wasn't eating alone, I'd often have dinner with a bunch of men holding conversations in German that I was not a part of. On more than one occasion, Lindsey was sitting at a nearby table and, upon witnessing my alienation, invited me to dine with her and her sister. Regardless of whatever record she'd just broken or internationally heralded feat she'd just accomplished, she was always down to earth and easy to talk to. At one point, I'd fractured a couple of ribs following an ill-fated January bike ride on my day off and when Lindsey found out I was back on skis a couple of days later, she launched into a motherly scolding about how I needed time to heal (yes, this came out of her mouth).
Another time, races were canceled in Sestriere, Italy, after snow began falling in blinding, fluffy sheets (I took this foggy video while everyone was waiting out the storm). All the teams and tour officials were staying at the same lodging facility, where the front desk held onto your passport when you checked in, and everyone left in a mass exodus when the event was canceled. I didn't have anywhere to go, however, and was out in the blizzard making glorious powder turns, when my phone started ringing. I didn't recognize the number and tried to let it go to voicemail, but it kept ringing, so finally I answered. It was Lindsey. As part of the mass exodus, she'd believed she was the last to leave the resort and upon learning that my passport was still at the front desk, she thought I'd left without it and earnestly began tracking down my number (calling a former coach to get it). When I told her I was still there, sticking around to ski powder, she said she'd see me at the next stop and to be careful where I skied because Sestriere (like so many European ski areas), was speckled with unmarked obstacles (or, in some cases, unmarked cliffs with 2,000-foot drops) that were especially hard to see during whiteouts. I appreciated her advice but stupidly did not heed it, proceeding to plummet unwittingly over an 8-foot retaining wall (but luckily landing softly in the powder) in the middle of the slope. I was afraid to fill her in on that incident.
On another occasion, I was sitting alone having a late breakfast – somewhere in Austria, I think – and Lindsey walked into the otherwise empty dining hall. She was taking the day off from training in order to nurse a concussion. A staff member asked if she wanted a private table and she told him no, she'd sit with me. We both drank lots of coffee and chatted for a long while. Somehow we got on the topic of fathers. I knew that her relationship with her dad was quite tenuous at the time. While I told her about my own estranged relationship with my dad and how grateful I was that he and I had begun reconnecting before his unexpected death, she listened intently (and she, too, ended up reconnecting with her father). At the end of this conversation, she asked me what I planned to do that day. I told her I wanted to ski but didn't have a lift ticket yet, so was planning on skinning up the mountain. She pulled a lift ticket out of her pocket and handed it to me, telling me to have at it.
As her global fame grew exponentially over the years, Lindsey has, like any public figure, also dealt with a certain degree of meanness and hatred. I don't need to dredge up any examples of this, but along with her immutable fearlessness on the race track, Lindsey's never been afraid to say exactly what she feels or to stand up for what she believes in regardless of the emotional blows she's been dealt. I've always admired her for this. Her mental fortitude has always been at least as stalwart as her physical resilience.
The night after her hard-earned Olympic gold medal in 2010, after numerous glasses of gold flake-infused champagne, I sat with Lindsey and the late, great Hank McKee of Ski Racing in a far corner of her victory party in Vancouver. Although my memory is hazy, I recall countless strangers accosting Lindsey for selfies and mindless banter and sensed that the Olympic champion, while overjoyed, might have been a bit overwhelmed. I couldn't help but feeling privileged that she was hiding out in the back with me and Hank.
Sadly, my online written coverage of her 2010 Olympic success has disappeared from the FIS and Ski Racing Websites, but there is some janky footage out there in cyberspace – this silly video I made during a car ride in Cortina d'Ampezzo just before the Games and this video with her mom the night before she landed gold.
It was thrilling to be in the thick of it when Lindsey overtook Goetchl's record in 2011, landing her 47th victory (that would become 82 before it was all said and done), also for the first World Cup giant slalom victory of her career that same year, after which I got to interview her on live TV (captured here at Universal Sports).
My FIS World Cup job ended after 2012, but I continued to document Lindsey's struggles and triumphs. Every time we've crossed paths, even when months or years had passed and I'd wondered if she'd remember me, Lindsey's started off the conversation with a big hug. I was there for her bittersweet comeback on home snow at the 2015 World Championships in Beaver Creek after missing the previous Olympic season, her return at the 2017 World Championships and the charitable foundation she launched to help young girls fulfill their own personal dreams. We met up last November as she outlined her (yet to be foiled) plans for her final season and I provided an instructional guide to the last race of her career, in which she, impossibly, on the heels of yet another devastating crash, managed once again to triumph, winning one final medal.
While it felt truly amiss to not be on site to witness this final performance, it was heartwarming to see her end things on such a joyful note. She seems genuinely happy … and I can't think of anyone who deserves it more.
It's been a true honor covering the career of this great champion. Lindsey's talent, work ethic and heart are truly unparalleled. I hope I get to stand next to her again sometime, somewhere. There is no doubt in my mind that her next step, painful as it may be, will be extraordinary. Because that's how she rolls.
The best of Copenhagen and Stockholm
(Highlights of our two-week trip in Denmark and Sweden)
During the longest ride day of our self-guided bike tour, we were sitting down to an afternoon "reward" beer in the Swedish harbor town of Hoganas, chatting with the young server, who was a native of the area. She said, "which do you like better, Denmark or Sweden?"
At this early point in the trip, neither of us had to ruminate much before answering, "Sweden." She said she preferred Copenhagen to Stockholm because it was "more cultural" and Stockholm was "more uptight." Both Danes and Swedes have an amazing grasp of English. They seamlessly use words like "uptight" in native speaking fashion. The only Swedish or Danish words I now know are the easy greeting of "hey" or "hi," as well as "tak" (thanks) and "ol" (beer).
I stand by my assessment from the whirlwind trip to Sweden in March that Swedes are by far the friendliest Europeans I've come across. Also, Sweden, though expensive, has nothing on Denmark. Perhaps the worst surprise of the trip was how insanely pricey things were in Copenhagen and surrounding towns (we went to Helsingor, Hillerod and Roskilde). From $22 cocktails to $30 basic dinners (per person), Copenhagen in particular is on par with Zurich, which is often ranked as the priciest city in Europe (we spent a couple of hours there on the return – took a quick train to the city center to stroll by the lake).
Besides that, the food was a little better in Sweden, though the standard Danish lunch item – smorresbrod, a pile of small shrimp and fried fish on a piece of rye bread drowning in mayonnaise (they love to drown things in mayonnaise) – was pretty tasty.
All told, it was a fantastic trip, and by the time we had more time in Copenhagen, we absorbed its many charms. The service in restaurants and in the hotel was generally a little brusque, but Danes overall were extremely helpful, as there were at least three instances in which we were accosted by strangers on the street asking if they could help find the way when we were obviously struggling. They also have fantastic beer, as we discovered by taste testing about 300 varieties.
Compared to other European bike tours we've been on, Ruby Rejser was definitely lacking – particularly in the way there was no initial orientation before the start or any human contact whatsoever to welcome us. On the outset, the entire group of about 40 strangers had to find our individual bikes in the pile of rentals left outside of the hotel in free-for-all fashion. We were given a basic list of instructions. The turn-by-turn tour directions were also more than a little off, dead wrong on some turns/features. Our bikes, though decent, were in pretty bad shape, with gears that wouldn't shift well, seats that fell continuously, brakes that squeaked and lights that didn't work. But it took only one second of observing the free spirited, don't-give-a-fuck, tutto bene! attitude among the pack of Italians on the trip to keep our attitudes in check.
This mindset also aligns with the national MO in Denmark, which is, of course, "hygge." It essentially advises that one be present, have fun and soak up the good. We clung to this motto by drinking a lot, eating a lot, swimming in the Danish Riviera, the Roskilde Fjord and in the Islands Brygge harbor in Copenhagen with a ton of locals also soaking up the sun.
Best meal: Saffron fish soup at 22 Matgatan in Stockholm. I discovered this place during my half-day whirlwind tour of the city in freezing March and returned twice on this trip. The soup is steaming hot, piled with fish, carrots and fresh basil on top. Maybe the best soup ever.
Best drink: That reward beer in Hoganas was pretty amazing (we had two each, as it turned out, pedaling the final 22 km back to the ferry to return to Denmark with a pretty good buzz). It was long-awaited, because it being our longest day of pedaling (about 95 km), we didn't realize the climax (left out of the tour details) took us literally to the top of the land – about 1,200 feet up to the lighthouse at the high point of the cliffs (Kullenberg) on the southern tip of Sweden. It was spectacular. We'd planned to celebrate upon descending back to the nearest town – Molle – but ended up continuing to the picturesque harbor in Hoganas, where we'd had lunch, and ended up discovering a delicious local IPA – Four Strokes. A close second (or tied for first), was the generous Aperol Spritz I got in a to-go cup to sip while watching the passers by in Nyhaven and listening to a talented accordionist play swoony Frank Sinatra.
Most memorable encounter: The guy who worked at the bike shop in Copenhagen's Norrebro neighborhood, where we stopped to purchase a bell. Upon leaving, we were plotting our bike route to the next stop and he asked if he could help. As we chatted, he told us about how he bikes 3,000 km a year just to commute to work and is so proud to be from a place where bicycling is so accessible and embraced. Dude embodied hygge.
Friendliest person: The manager at Cafe Vitus in the small harbor town Snekkersten. After chatting with him for a while and our tasty meal of smorresbrod, we went to get ice cream from him (dude did everything – poured beer, plated meals, ran the register and scooped ice cream) and he gave it to us on the house.
Most memorable night: The night that there was no night. Mid Summer's Eve in Stockholm – aka, summer solstice. The sky only darkened for a couple of hours –between about midnight and 2 a.m. It's a huge national holiday celebrated by hordes of people dancing around a maypole, singing songs every single Swede knows by heart along with communal dance moves (as witnessed at the urban version of the tradition in Stockholm's Skansen). We joined in for a cheesy (but endearing) number about frogs jumping.
Most impressive structure: Frederiksborg Castle in Hillerod, Denmark. Truly fairytale, situated in a massive green expanse with tube-shaped trees on the ridge, surrounded by a moat with stone bridges leading into vast courtyards and the town located across a lake.
Frederiksborg Castle
Best scene: Reffen Street Food market – a bunch of food booths housed in shipping containers by the navy shipyard in Copenhagen.
Coolest cultural stop: The Vassa museum in Stockholm. The closest you'll ever get to feeling what it must have been like to be a Viking 400 years ago.
Most scenic spot: our swim in the warm and crystal clear "Danish Riviera" in Holbaek.
Best hygge: jumping off the docks into the harbor water while sunning and drinking like all the locals ... with our tiny towels and grocery store mimosas.


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package org.elasticsearch.index.mapper;

import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableList;
import com.google.common.collect.UnmodifiableIterator;
import org.apache.lucene.analysis.Analyzer;
import org.elasticsearch.common.collect.ImmutableOpenMap;
import org.elasticsearch.index.analysis.FieldNameAnalyzer;

import java.util.Set;

/**
 *
 */
public class DocumentFieldMappers implements Iterable<FieldMapper> {

    private final DocumentMapper docMapper;
    private final FieldMappersLookup fieldMappers;

    private volatile FieldNameAnalyzer indexAnalyzer;
    private volatile FieldNameAnalyzer searchAnalyzer;
    private volatile FieldNameAnalyzer searchQuoteAnalyzer;

    public DocumentFieldMappers(DocumentMapper docMapper) {
        this.docMapper = docMapper;
        this.fieldMappers = new FieldMappersLookup();
        this.indexAnalyzer = new FieldNameAnalyzer(ImmutableOpenMap.<String, Analyzer>of(), docMapper.indexAnalyzer());
        this.searchAnalyzer = new FieldNameAnalyzer(ImmutableOpenMap.<String, Analyzer>of(), docMapper.searchAnalyzer());
        this.searchQuoteAnalyzer = new FieldNameAnalyzer(ImmutableOpenMap.<String, Analyzer>of(), docMapper.searchQuotedAnalyzer());
    }

    public void addNewMappers(Iterable<FieldMapper> newMappers) {
        fieldMappers.addNewMappers(newMappers);

        final ImmutableOpenMap.Builder<String, Analyzer> indexAnalyzers = ImmutableOpenMap.builder(this.indexAnalyzer.analyzers());
        final ImmutableOpenMap.Builder<String, Analyzer> searchAnalyzers = ImmutableOpenMap.builder(this.searchAnalyzer.analyzers());
        final ImmutableOpenMap.Builder<String, Analyzer> searchQuoteAnalyzers = ImmutableOpenMap.builder(this.searchQuoteAnalyzer.analyzers());

        for (FieldMapper fieldMapper : newMappers) {
            if (fieldMapper.indexAnalyzer() != null) {
                indexAnalyzers.put(fieldMapper.names().indexName(), fieldMapper.indexAnalyzer());
            }
            if (fieldMapper.searchAnalyzer() != null) {
                searchAnalyzers.put(fieldMapper.names().indexName(), fieldMapper.searchAnalyzer());
            }
            if (fieldMapper.searchQuoteAnalyzer() != null) {
                searchQuoteAnalyzers.put(fieldMapper.names().indexName(), fieldMapper.searchQuoteAnalyzer());
            }
        }

        this.indexAnalyzer = new FieldNameAnalyzer(indexAnalyzers.build(), docMapper.indexAnalyzer());
        this.searchAnalyzer = new FieldNameAnalyzer(searchAnalyzers.build(), docMapper.searchAnalyzer());
        this.searchQuoteAnalyzer = new FieldNameAnalyzer(searchQuoteAnalyzers.build(), docMapper.searchQuotedAnalyzer());
    }

    @Override
    public UnmodifiableIterator<FieldMapper> iterator() {
        return fieldMappers.iterator();
    }

    public ImmutableList<FieldMapper> mappers() {
        return this.fieldMappers.mappers();
    }

    public boolean hasMapper(FieldMapper fieldMapper) {
        return fieldMappers.mappers().contains(fieldMapper);
    }

    public FieldMappers name(String name) {
        return fieldMappers.name(name);
    }

    public FieldMappers indexName(String indexName) {
        return fieldMappers.indexName(indexName);
    }

    public FieldMappers fullName(String fullName) {
        return fieldMappers.fullName(fullName);
    }

    public Set<String> simpleMatchToIndexNames(String pattern) {
        return fieldMappers.simpleMatchToIndexNames(pattern);
    }

    public Set<String> simpleMatchToFullName(String pattern) {
        return fieldMappers.simpleMatchToFullName(pattern);
    }

    /**
     * Tries to find first based on {@link #fullName(String)}, then by {@link #indexName(String)}, and last
     * by {@link #name(String)}.
     */
    public FieldMappers smartName(String name) {
        return fieldMappers.smartName(name);
    }

    public FieldMapper smartNameFieldMapper(String name) {
        return fieldMappers.smartNameFieldMapper(name);
    }

    /**
     * A smart analyzer used for indexing that takes into account specific analyzers configured
     * per {@link FieldMapper}.
     */
    public Analyzer indexAnalyzer() {
        return this.indexAnalyzer;
    }

    /**
     * A smart analyzer used for indexing that takes into account specific analyzers configured
     * per {@link FieldMapper} with a custom default analyzer for no explicit field analyzer.
     */
    public Analyzer indexAnalyzer(Analyzer defaultAnalyzer) {
        return new FieldNameAnalyzer(indexAnalyzer.analyzers(), defaultAnalyzer);
    }

    /**
     * A smart analyzer used for searching that takes into account specific analyzers configured
     * per {@link FieldMapper}.
     */
    public Analyzer searchAnalyzer() {
        return this.searchAnalyzer;
    }

    public Analyzer searchQuoteAnalyzer() {
        return this.searchQuoteAnalyzer;
    }
}

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Citizen Advisory Committee
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Frontier Elementary, which is near full capacity.
NEW JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL - $90 million for a new junior high school to accommodate expected growth while bringing the student count at the current junior high down at a cost of $90 million.
CLASSROOM FURNITURE - the purchase of $9.5 million of new furniture for all elementary school campuses for grades 2-5 to provide equity across the district and better support small group, individual and large group learning activities.
IMPROVEMENTS - $12 million for current elementary and junior high school improvements, including carpet replacement, playground repair and other necessary improvements where needed to address academic and general facility needs..
DEMOLITIONS - $9 million in demolition, removal and renovation to outdated buildings and facilities, including demolishing and removing the old transportation bus yard, repairing the Marshall Memorial, renovating the Marshall building, and renovating usable parts of the Old Junior High then demolishing and removing areas that are no longer useful.
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Disha Patani Biography – Age, Height, Sister, Images & More
December 29, 2018 June 12, 2019 - by admin - 1 Comment
Hot and attractive Disha Patni, no doubt, is a style icon for the young generation. Bollywood Diva made every possible effort to reach to this level. Before entering the acting field, she tried her luck in modeling and received due attention. Telegu movie "Loafer" marks the beginning of her film career.
Well, the girl hails from Brailey (Uttar Pradesh) and her birthday falls on 13 June 1992.
Talking about her family, Disha is a part of the upper-middle class Khastriya (Rajput) family. Sh Jagdish Singh Patani, her dad, is DSP in UP Police while her mom is a house maker. She has one elder sister named Khusbhoo Patani who is captain in Indian army. Disha admires her and considers as her idol. Suryansh Patani is her younger bro.
Although, her birthplace is Bareily she feels connected to Tanakpur, Uttrakhand.
She joined Amity University, Lucknow for her graduation degree. But left her studies of Electronic Engineering midway (in 2nd year) due to her passion for modeling.
The talented girl started receiving modeling offers when she was in the first year of college. She then decided to left the college and participated in "Femina Miss India Indore 2013". There, she stood second in the contest. Next, she gave audition for movie "Heropanti", but unfortunately, she was not selected.
She made starting with Telegu movie "Loafer" in the year 2015. Here, she worked with actor Varun Tej. Her character name in the movie was Mouni, the girl who runs from her marriage. However, the movie didn't perform as per expectation.
In 2016, she was seen in the movie "MS Dhoni: The Untold Story". It was a biopic based on the life of well-known cricketer Mahender Singh Dhoni. Here, she played the character of Priyanka Jha (Dhoni's ex-girlfriend) who died in an accident. For the movie, she also learned the Asuri language. Sushant Singh Rajput and Kiara Advani also acted in the movie and it earned huge earning of around of ₹ 2.16 Billion. She got an appreciation for her role and never looked back.
Next year i.e in 2017, the rising star got the opportunity to show her talent in Indo-Chinese movie "Kung Fu Yoga". Disha shared the screen with renowned personality Jackie Chan. To give her the best in the movie, she also took training for marshal arts. Indian actor Sonu Sood was also a part of this multi-lingual comedic action adventure film.
She played a Cameo role in "Welcome to New York" in 2018. The same year in "Baaghi 2", she was seen with Tiger Sherof. Portraying the role of Neha, it was a big blockbuster hit. Well, the movie was a sequel of its first part "Baaghi".
This year also (2019), she performed in Ali Abbas Zafar's movie "Bharat". She played a trapeze artist and worked with Salman Khan. Even she did a small role in the movie but gained attention with famous track 'Slow Motion'. Mohit Suri's "Malang" is Disha's upcoming project.
Awards and Accolades:
BIG Zee Entertainment Awards for 'Most Entertaining Actor (Film) Debut Female' – "M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story" (2017)
Star Screen Award for category 'Best Female Debut' – "M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story" (2017)
Stardust Award for category 'Best Acting Debut (Female)' – "M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story" (2017)
International Indian Film Academy Award for category 'Best Female Debut' – "M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story" (2017)
She was also nominated for Lux Golden Rose Award for category 'Lux Golden Rose Breakthrough Beauty Of The Year' – Baaghi 2 (2018)
The girl was in a relationship with actor Parth Samthaan. The boy acted in the movie "Kaisi Yeh Yaariyan". But all this ended after sometime. Coming to her current status, she is dating actor Tiger Shroff.
Disha wins everybody's praise for her elegant and captivating personality. She has a height of 5 feet 7 inches. With dark brown eyes and black hairs, she really looks adorable. 34-25-34 are her body measurements.
What Does She Like The Most?
She admires Ranbir Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra, Madhuri Dixit, Katrina Kaif, Akshay Kumar, Varun Dhawan from Bollywood and Leonardo DiCaprio, Jim Carrey from Hollywood.
Jalebi, Rabari, Emarthi are among her favorite dessert.
Goku and Johny Bravo are her favorite cartoon characters.
She loves spending holidays in the Maldives.
She likes Puma for her footwear collection.
Pulse and Parley Kisme are favorite candies of this actress.
Ritu Kumar is her favorite fashion designer.
The superhero that she likes the most is Hulk.
She is fond of freak shakes, dumplings, wok combos, cookies, Indian and Chinese dishes.
She likes White and Pink color.
She loves music of AR Rehman.
Dancing, doing gymnastics, reading are her hobbies.
Unknown Facts About Disha Patani:
She has expertise in dance forms like Salsa, Hip-Hop, and Breakdance.
During her childhood days, she wished to become an air force pilot.
Nora Fatehi, a participant of the reality show "Big Boss 9" is her good friend.
She is a big animal lover and has two dogs Goku and Bella. Disha has also one cat named Jasmine.
Earlier, she was approached for Sabbir Khan's movie "Baaghi: A Rebel for Love". But later on, the role moved to actress Sharadha Kapoor.
Director Karan Johar signed her for a sex comedy movie, "No Sex Please: We are Indians". However, the project was called off due to some reasons.
As per Disha, behind the screen and in her real life, she is a big introvert person.
The fans criticized Disha for her dog's name Goku. As it was a fictional character in the Dragon Ball series.
Disha and Tiger Shroff demanded Rs. 5 crore fees from the oil company who asked them to endorse their product.
The girl learned hard work, discipline, and determination from her beloved parents and always thanks them for this.
Disha and Tiger were shown in Bhushan Kumar and Kishan Kumar's music video "Befikra". It was composed by Meet Bros under T-Series.
The fashionable and stylish Disha has good dressing sense and keeps her wardrobe up to date with trendy clothes.
Fitness freak girl loves living a healthy lifestyle.
Jackie Chan gifted Disha the jacket with his name written on it. He was highly impressed with her passion for fitness and acrobatics.
She did advertisements for brands like Reliance Trends, Cadbury, Imperial Blue, Pond's Pure White Deep Cleansing Facial Foam, Gionee Elife, Garnier Fructis, Aircel, etc.
Once in an interview, she told Priyanka Chopra as her idol.
This year, she also acted in the music video "Har Ghoont Mein Swag" by Badshah.
Her net worth is approx Rs. 55 crore as per the year 2018.
She avoids smoking and drinking alcohol.
The actress has a large number of followers on social media platforms like Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook.
She did modeling for a clothing brand when she was just 17.
She is one of the most searched Bollywood celebs on the Internet since 2016.
Disha Patani walked for designers like Ritu Kumar, Manav Gangwani, Jayanti Reddy.
There is a controversy with Disha's age. In a 2012 video, she described her age as 13 June 1992. But in 2016, she told 27 July 1995 as her birth date.
Most happening star Disha also endorses Calvin & Klein lingerie. This high-end fashion label brand has its popularity throughout the world. Stars like Justin Bieber, Myla Dalbesio, Kendall Jenner, Mark Wahlberg, Jamie Dornan, Kate Moss were also a part of CK collection.
She uploads her hot bikini pics on social media.
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It's not very often that all of Team OLL gets to meet up outside of the Resonance FM studio, so when we do you know it's going to be memorable. Except that Ste apparently forgot everything that happened at Ann's birthday party over the weekend. Listen to this week's show to hear him slowly piece together the unbelievable chain of events.
Oh, but we do meet together every Third Thursday of the month to do Marioke, and the main enabler of this was this week's SSSG. We had James from the Loading bar in to go through our yearly Marioke appraisal. He also talked about the development of the Loading Bar, his favourite cocktail and made a request for a new Marioke song (that might have already been written between the show going out and this podcast being uploaded).
Sega Badawi was the only contributor this week so we had to rely on Simon telling us how he single handedly got Nintendo back into profit, Ste telling us about how KP will single handedly bring England cricket back to the top and Ann telling us what makes a cake not a cake. The answer to the latter point is when it's a jar, obv.


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City Modern punctuates the Brush Park as a groundbreaking community development, honoring the innovation, style and diversity of this historic neighborhood. Located in Midtown just minutes from downtown Detroit, City Modern offers options for individuals and families of all sizes, including flats, duplettes, carriage homes, townhomes and historic homes.
As one of Detroit's premier mixed-use development, City Modern is a walkable, high-density community that complements historic mansions with award-winning contemporary architecture. It's just a few blocks from the QLINE Streetcar and serves as an active link between the Central Business District, Midtown and the Arena District. City Modern will support the needs of existing and future residents of Brush Park with 32,400 square feet of ground-level space for retail, commercial or restaurant use.


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How the World's Best Workplaces Create a Great Global Culture
Political and economic upheaval in Latin America. Pressures to work 70-hour work weeks in Asia. Concerns about rights and responsibilities in Europe. Frequent corporate restructurings in the United States and Canada. An ever-faster pace of business affecting virtually every industry in every corner of the globe.
Against this backdrop, employees around the world all want the same thing in a workplace: trust. They define a great workplace as one where leaders demonstrate credibility, respect and fairness. At the same time regional differences can influence what makes a workplace great.
In the largest-ever study of workplace culture, research and analytics firm Great Place to Work surveyed 3.4 million employees across 90 countries and discovered that a sense of community is vital in the United States and Canada, psychological safety is key in Latin America, fairness is at the forefront in Europe and sustainability in work and life is central in Asia.
These findings build on Great Place to Work's 30 year foundation examining the employee experience and recognizing Best Workplaces across the globe. From a historical perspective, there's good news and bad news for the world's workers and organizations.
First the good news. At Best Workplaces across the world, employees are thriving. Roughly nine in 10 people in these companies are having a great experience. And these organizations are enjoying business benefits in the form of increased loyalty and retention, higher productivity and a greater cooperative spirit.
The good news is amplified at the 2019 World's Best Workplaces. Great Place to Work just released this list with our partner Fortune. These 25 global organizations, led by No. 1-ranked Cisco Systems, are not only are providing a great workplace culture for 300,000 people, but as a group are getting better. Employee ratings of the World's Best have increased five percent since Great Place to Work first produced this ranking nine years ago.
Now the bad news. Roughly half of employees worldwide don't have a great workplace experience. The result is unhappiness, lower business performance and wasted human potential on a planetary scale.
But there's hope. You find it in the 2019 World's Best Workplaces as well in the Best Workplaces recognized by Great Place to Work in 60 countries. With those organizations as beacons and based on our data analysis, there is more good news: Every organization in every region can advance in ways that are better for business results, better for the people working there and better for our world.
For more on these findings, read the report Defining the World's Best Workplaces.
Highlights from three globally great companies
Technology giant Cisco Systems, more than any other company in the world today, shows how a high-trust culture is better all around. Consider how the company has unified its people around a sense of community service in recent years under CEO Chuck Robbins.
Robbins took the reins of the 75,000-employee company four years ago. About two years ago, he had a vivid and disturbing dream. In it, Robbins visited a homeless encampment and while there he saw the faces of his pastor and his father. When he woke up, he knew he had to take action on the homelessness that plagues San Jose, Calif.—the Silicon Valley city that Cisco calls home.
"The next day, I called the mayor," he recalls. "I said, 'I wanted to get involved in solving this problem.'"
What's happened since then is a surge of social responsibility at Cisco. For starters, the company made a $50 million, 5-year donation to Destination: Home, a non-profit group devoted to ending homelessness in the San Jose region. And Robbins' commitment to giving back proved contagious. Or to hear him tell it, his visibility on homelessness simply prompted "Cisconians" throughout the world to share what they were already doing to serve their communities—and to increase their efforts.
The do-good work ranges from Cisco employees in Italy volunteering to teach data networking classes to prisoners, to a South African employee who started an orphanage in Rwanda, to an Indian employee who feeds victims of flooding in the country of India. Closer to Cisco's headquarters in California, a Cisco staffer started an organization to help victims of sex trafficking in Oakland. She has since left the company to focus on her non-profit—but Cisco continues to support her with grant money.
"There's this immense desire to give back," Robbins says. "We just made it okay. People have embraced it. It's blown me away."
Robbins and Cisco are part of a global push to elevate social responsibility as a business priority. Robbins is a member of the U.S. Business Roundtable, a group of CEOs who recently declared "a fundamental commitment to all of our stakeholders"—not just shareholders.
Delivering with a heart
DHL Express, No. 4 on the World's Best Workplaces list, also has made philanthropy central to its global culture. The parcel delivery company, one of the world's most international firms, with operations in 220 countries and territories, has a program dubbed DHL's Got Heart. The initiative recognizes employees for their charitable work outside of their jobs, with ceremonies at the country and regional level. DHL's global head of HR, Regine Buettner, says the program aligns perfectly with the company's overarching purpose of "Connecting People and Improving Lives" and speaks to the way employees and customers today want to do business with mission-driven organizations.
Some of Buettner's proudest moments have been at the awards events for DHL's Got Heart winners, who are given roughly $27,000 to donate to their favorite philanthropy. "The look on their faces is priceless," she says. "I can see their minds already working out what they can do with this money, how many families will it feed or how many children can go to school with this money."
DHL's secret to a great global culture isn't just philanthropy. It's also an intentionally simple business strategy, supported by well-trained leaders, says CEO John Pearson. That formula has allowed the organization to rebound from losses in 2010 to profits today. In 2018, DHL Express reported earnings before interest and taxes of roughly $2.36 billion.
"We are strong believers in simplicity – keeping the main thing the main thing, as we like to say," Pearson says. "We believe that motivated people drive excellent service quality, which in turn creates loyal customers and a profitable network."
Best Workplaces around the world also are leading the way into the future of work. Many are practicing Innovation By All, an approach to generating new products, services and processes that involves tapping the passions and intelligence of everyone in the organization no matter who they are or what they do for the company. This typically means encouraging professional development throughout the organization, rather than focusing on a limited number of "high-potential" employees.
You can see such a company-wide commitment to individuals' growth at Brazil-based cosmetics company Natura, No. 22 on this year's World's Best Workplaces ranking (Natura's parent firm, Natura & Co, also owns personal care brands The Body Shop and Aesop and is in the process of acquiring the iconic cosmetics company Avon.). Three years ago, Natura's financial performance was slipping. The company's response was to double down on the power of its people—some 6,400 employees across nine countries. Natura scrapped a traditional annual performance evaluation for employees, which included individual performance bonuses. In its place, managers now have "development dialogs" on at least a quarterly basis, says Flavio Pesiguelo, vice president for people and culture at Natura. And to align the whole team to the company's overall performance, all employees now have bonuses tied to country-level and company-wide performance, among other factors.
Pesiguelo says the initiative has paid off in the form of higher revenues, as well as improved employee engagement levels, increased internal hiring rates and decreased staff turnover.
Natura also is reshaping the structure of work. A year and a half ago it experimented with a novel, agile approach to developing products for one of its main brands of cosmetics, "Tododia." This meant creating a cross-functional team with employees at different job levels and giving the group authority to make decisions based on interactions with customers. The result? Reduced time to market on product launches as well as energized employees, Pesiguelo says.
Based on those successes, Natura is rolling out this decentralized way of working across the company.
"It is a less-hierarchical structure with more autonomy," Pesiguelo says of the new approach. "We started a kind of revolution."
Developing a great workplace globally
Imagine how revolutionary it would be if all the world's workplaces were as great as Natura, DHL and Cisco. Sadly, hundreds of millions of people across the globe go to work each day in organizations that are less than great. At these low-trust workplaces, human potential is being wasted. And business results are lagging.
But the Best Workplaces are showing a better way. And our research shows what matters most in every region—community, safety, fairness or sustainability.
With the Best Workplaces as role models and through data-driven strategies, a better future is in sight. Organizations that take time to understand the employee experience and address what matters can improve in ways that are better for business, better for people and better for the world.
See the full list of the 25 World's Best Workplaces, and download Great Place to Work's largest-ever global study of workplace culture Defining the World's Best Workplaces.
Ed Frauenheim is senior director of content at Great Place to Work and the co-author of A Great Place to Work For All.
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The winning Forret rink with the Falkland Kettle.
Forret Curling Club were on cloud nine after coming our on top on the rink recently.
At the annual bonspiel for the Falkland Kettle, Forret drew Glenrothes.
Good curling from Katie Duncan, Craig Lindsay, Linda Mould and Peter Lang earned plus 13 in the shots up format and first place in the overall competition.
The handsome trophy was awarded to Forret for only the fourth time since it was first presented in 1888.


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I Tried Wearing Omorpho's Weighted Vest During a HIIT Workout, and It Majorly Cranked Up the Volume
Tennis player Ajla Tomljanovic used to hate training in a weighted vest. They were bulky and uncomfortable, and though they added a weight challenge, they impeded her from actually practicing her tennis moves.
But today, she partially attributes training in a sleek new weighted vest from the Nike exec-founded company Omorpho with helping to give her the edge she needed to achieve the feat she's become best known for: beating Serena Williams in the final match of her career at the U.S. Open.
The new Omorpho G-vest+ launched on Monday at an event in West Hollywood which featured Tomljanovic and other athletes on a panel, where they shared their experience with it. The G-vest+ was specifically designed for women (though there is also a men's style). It has a zip-up front, adjustable shoulder straps, and bungees on the sides so you can ensure it fits snugly and cinches at the waist. It also comes with a companion app that gives you workouts to do in the vest–with the app open, you just tap your phone to the vest and your workout will surface.
If you haven't seen Omorpho gear, they are the weighted activewear company that actually makes adding extra pounds to your bottoms and tops look cool. They distribute the weight across the clothing in small beads covered with fabric in a design they call "microloading." Wearing the gear, you sort of look like a dragon. The women's vest microloads five pounds of weight, while the men's adds 10 pounds.
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That means when you squat, lunge, push up, or just walk around the block, you're adding a strength training element to your workout. For athletes, that's important because once they take off the gear, they're able to run faster, or hit harder, since they're no longer wearing the added weight. But for people just looking to get some exercise, it's a hell of a way to turn up the heat on your workout.
I got to try a 20-minute HIIT class wearing the Omorpho vest. That may sound like a pretty short workout. But wearing the vest, my legs were fully gassed by the end.
I worked with an Omorpho rep to make sure the vest was fitted just right. As a curvy 5-foot-1 woman, I wore a size large to make room for my chest, while we shortened the shoulder straps and tightened the waist to fit it to the rest of my smaller frame. I noticed that my vest went down closer to my lower back, while on taller folks it came to around their waist. But that didn't make it uncomfortable. My only complaint was that my chest was a bit smushed (even after sizing up), and that I had to make a more conscious effort to stand up straight.
The workout began with some jumping jacks, and right away, I felt a difference. But wearing a weighted vest plays tricks with your mind. You notice the added challenge, but since you're not actually holding anything (like dumbbells), you move your body with the same vigor you would with just bodyweight. That means you're doing the same exercise, with more impact.
This dynamic has its pros and cons. It definitely resulted in an intense workout. You don't usually hold weights while jumping, so the vest added a new dimension to plyometric moves like burpees and jump squats. By the end of my third set of plyometric split squats, I could barely lunge down anymore, and my quads, glutes, and hamstrings were quaking. Push-ups and planks also brought the sweat dripping.
When I'm holding something like hand weights or a medicine ball, I usually go slower than I would with a bodyweight move, taking care to maintain good form. I tend to sway my lower back if I don't keep my abs tight during strength training. But adding a weighted vest to a HIIT class–even when it's just five pounds–kind of makes you lose sight of that necessity, and I found I ended up sacrificing form for speed. After that 20-minute class, I felt a twinge in my lower back that bothered me. That's on me for not using good form, but it's also because I was less conscious of doing so because the weight was attached to my torso, not something I was holding.
The Omorpho G-Vest+ added a challenge that was satisfying and efficient. With more practice, I think I would adjust to carrying the load so that it wouldn't affect my form. Since it's only five to 10 pounds, it's not a replacement for strength training. But it's a fun way to make bodyweight training or cardio extra challenging on days when you're feeling up for it. And you'll look pretty cool, too.
Whether you're adding weight or not, try this HIIT workout to bring the heat.
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Glaxo Plans Expansion in India and China
By Jeanne Whalen
March 10, 2009 11:59 pm ET
GlaxoSmithKline PLC is preparing to launch its smoking-cessation products in as many as 20 new emerging markets, another sign of the British drug maker's desire to build sales in the developing world.
Glaxo is planning a big marketing push in new countries including China, India and Russia, where the company doesn't yet sell its smoking-cessation lozenges and patches.
The products sell under various brand names, including NicoDerm CQ, Commit, NiQuitin and Nicabate.
Glaxo aims to make its products available to 85% of the world's smokers within five years, up from about 20% today, Clive Addison, vice president of smoking-control products, said in an interview. The global market for smoking-cessation gums and patches today is about $2 billion, he said. Glaxo currently has about one-third of the market and is aiming to boost its share to about 42% within five years, he said.
Most of the world's smokers live in emerging markets, but those countries haven't been a focus for Glaxo in the past because they haven't previously embraced antismoking campaigns, Mr. Addison said. That is now beginning to change. India recently passed a ban on smoking in enclosed public spaces, and other countries such as Brazil are opening new clinics to help people quit smoking. These new efforts make it a good time to launch Glaxo's products, he said.