Beautifully crafted jewelry - a vehicle for energy that is designed to protect, uplift, and rejuvenate its wearer. These pieces help to encourage the flow of Chi, while protecting against the constant daily bombardment of EMF's, (Electro-Magnetic Fields) present in everything from cell phones to laptops.
Beautifully crafted jewelry – a vehicle for energy that is designed to protect, uplift, and rejuvenate its wearer. These pieces help to encourage the flow of Chi, while protecting against the constant daily bombardment of EMF's, (Electro-Magnetic Fields) present in everything from cell phones to laptops.
Balanced symbolism and naturally-inspired elements, Silver & Sage invites women and men of all ages to connect. Each design is more than an accessory; it becomes a reflection of it's wearer's own story. In addition to a shop in the heart of Scottsdale, Silver & Sage jewelry can be found in yoga studios and boutiques around the US.
Balanced symbolism and naturally-inspired elements, Silver & Sage invites women and men of all ages to connect. Each design is more than an accessory; it becomes a reflection of it's wearer's own story. In addition to a shop in the heart of Scottsdale, Silver & Sage jewelry can be found in yoga studios and boutiques around the US.
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100 Million girls in the developing world fall behind in school, just because of their periods, forcing many of them to eventually drop out.
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We send funds to our partner organization, AFRIpads, which is on the ground in Uganda with 130 employees and four factories.
AFRIpads trains women to sew and sell washable, reusable cloth pads, turning local women into entrepreneurs.
A girl is able to purchase an affordable and sustainable pack of pads, keeping them in school every day of the month.
A socially conscious jewelry company that gives displaced women in Northern Uganda an opportunity to combat poverty through fashion.
Werk hard, look good - stunning leggings that combine quality, performance, and design.
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Apple ITP Introduces Full Third-Party Cookie Blocking in Safari and iOS
Dan Koch March 27, 2020
The latest in Apple's Intelligent Tracking Prevention (ITP) saga has just dropped. It may not seem like a huge update, but make no mistake — it is significant, and, to some, it will be a doozy.
In a new blog post, Apple outlines two changes to ITP that have even more implications for how advertisers track across the web:
Full Third-Party Cookie Blocking
Cookies for cross-site resources are now blocked by default across the board. This is a significant improvement for privacy since it removes any sense of exceptions or "a little bit of cross-site tracking is allowed."
Cookie 7-Day Cap on All Script-Writeable Storage
… Now ITP has aligned the remaining script-writable storage forms with the existing client-side cookie restriction, deleting all of a website's script-writable storage after seven days of Safari use without user interaction on the site.
In a nutshell, this means:
Third-party pixels are now officially, completely dead on iOS devices. They simply will not work in any circumstances, full stop.
The local storage workaround for this is now capped to a 7 day window. (Meaning that if the user goes more than 7 days between when a click puts a user on the site, and them going back to the site, attribution gets snapped at that point.) It means that the max attribution window for mobile web offers is now 7 days.
Luckily, we have always had a workaround for this and future changes to cookie-based tracking: postback tracking. We explain the benefits of postback vs pixel tracking here.
Does this change soften our stance on the JS SDK (our cookieless tracking solution) as the preferred tracking method? Nope. It's still way better than pixels (which just flatly won't work here). The ultimate recommendation is postbacks, but not everyone can support that.
Apple's most recent Intelligent Tracking Prevention updates:
ITP 3.0 (the subject of this post, which some people are calling "ITP 3.0," even though the 3.0 is not part of its official name)
ITP 2.3
While complicated, postback tracking has always been the most reliable, future-proof way of tracking conversions across the internet and mobile apps. Which is why we've recommended postback tracking from the beginning.
We understand that not everyone has the technical resources or grit to implement server-side tracking methods, such as postback tracking. However — and I cannot stress this enough — the time for that reasoning or excuse is quickly changing. Soon, companies and individuals like you will have to make a decision: dedicate yourself to learning server-side tracking, hire somebody who knows how to master postback tracking, or get left behind.
We're covering this topic in a new series soon to be debuted on the TUNE Blog. If you want to keep up with all the latest news, make sure to sign up for our blog digest below.
Dan Koch is TUNE's Chief Technology Officer. Previously, he was TUNE's Director of Marketing Automation, and previous to that the Director of Engineering at Artisan. Artisan is the industry's first mobile experience management (MEM) platform, allowing businesses to analyze, manage and enhance their existing mobile applications in real-time without writing code or resubmitting to app stores. Dan is a graduate of both the University of Pennsylvania and of the Villanova University School of Business, and built systems for Best Buy and the United States Air Force in a previous life. It's been a wild ride. Pester him on LinkedIn!
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The Linx 10 is a compact continuous ink jet printer designed for printing best before dates and batch codes on to slow and medium speed production lines. It prints 2 lines of text, symbols, and numbers with a print quality superior to other entry-level coders.
Designed to support error-free coding with a simple user interface. Quick message creation and selection with a large touch screen. Up to 5-line coding including Data Matrix and QR code printing, with high speed variants for a wide range of applications. Quick, self-service with minimal intervention enables you to maximize your production line efficiencies.


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I just received( from Chess Baron) the enhanced chess pieces for the Novag citrine. They are excellent and make a huge difference in the look and feel of the game. Highly recommended.


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Baby Wants Candy The Completely Improvised Full Band Musical is sure to be on everyone's list of Fringe favorites. A totally different show every time you see it, the cast performs an entirely improvised 60 minute musical based on any title that the audience shouts out.
Immediately I questioned, "Wherever could they go with something like 'A Scotsman in Thailand'?" But the response was just as immediate. The band played an oriental theme and the actors assumed floral positions and spot-on (what they jokingly called) choreography. From then on, there was non-stop laughter (and tears from too much laughter) at the dramatic comedy that ensued.
The six-person ensemble, made up of three women and three men, often played multiple roles and opposite genders yet never once confused the audience. This just made the show even more hilarious. There was never a dull moment as these talented performers sang ridiculous yet catchy songs right off the top of their heads. The band, directed by acclaimed musician and pianist in this production, Jody Shelton, was just as incredible, composing a perfect yet never before heard or rehearsed soundtrack along with the actors' inventions.
Recommended to theatre lovers and mature audiences, Baby Wants Candy The Completely Improvised Full Band Musical is a crowd pleaser that will not disappoint. Although teens will definitely enjoy it, a fair warning goes out to those not interested in vulgarity. Don't miss it!


Update, 2 March 2007: Southmead Hospital no longer offers the prostate HIFU treatment. It is now available at the Nuffield Hospital Bristol, Bristol Royal Infirmary and Tetbury Hospital.
Farmingdale, N.Y., USA & Bristol, England. Southmead Hospital, part of North Bristol NHS Trust in England, will offer the Sonablate 500 for high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) treatment of prostate cancer on a fee-per-use basis.
The Sonablate 500 is a medical device developed by Focus Surgery, Inc. and manufactured and distributed in Europe by Misonix Inc. (Nasdaq: MSON). In the United Kingdom (UK), the device is marketed through Misonix subsidiary UK-HIFU Limited. The fee-per-use program for the Sonablate 500 was launched in early 2006 and is available in forty sites. Previously, the Sonablate 500 had only been available in the UK for capital equipment purchases.
Southmead Hospital's Bristol Urology Unit will use the HIFU device for non-invasive treatment of prostate cancer. Many doctors are showing interest in the device because of its ability to deliver highly targeted treatment which generally do not require a second procedure for transurethral resection of the prostate, a surgical process in which tissue is cut from the prostate using a resectoscope. A different HIFU device available in the UK requires a separate initial procedure because of its limited ability to treat the size of the average prostate gland. Therefore, the patient must undergo two separate procedures which combine for what is estimated to be a lengthier treatment cycle than the single procedure with the Sonablate 500.
According to a story in The Bristol Evening Post, Paul Williams, aged 58, was one of the first people to benefit from the HIFU treatment. "When I first heard I had prostate cancer I was really worried that it would be a long painful treatment," he said. "But the HIFU treatment was no trouble at all... I was also concerned that it would make me impotent, but everything seems to be A-OK in that department. After I had the treatment I was back playing golf by the end of the week."
"We believe health care providers using the Sonablate 500 have selected our device among the other alternatives because of its efficacy and its single-procedure treatment that is both sensitive to the patient's lifestyle as well as ongoing efforts by regulators, insurers and medical practitioners to control the cost of health care," said Michael A. McManus, Jr., President and Chief Executive Officer of Misonix.
"Our device has the ability to destroy the cancerous tissue and at the same time preserve the vital structures around the gland. Using the Sonablate 500's unique visually directed HIFU process, more precise targeting of cancer cells enable the physician to avoid damaging the neurovascular bundle and other delicate surroundings. As a result, patients enjoy relatively normal post-procedure body functions. Results to date indicate that 90% of men treated with the Sonablate 500 are retaining the same level of erectile function post-treatment as their pre-treatment levels and there have been no cases of urinary incontinence lasting more than six months."
"The Sonablate has led to very positive outcomes for the treatment of more than 100 men with prostate cancer in the UK during the last 12 months alone. In recent months, we have been successful in bringing the device to significantly more medical facilities on a fee-per-use basis, thus enabling the treatment of many more men diagnosed with prostate cancer. There are now a total of forty sites in the UK where HIFU prostate cancer treatment with the Sonablate 500 is available on a fee-per-use basis, which is an increase of approximately 20% during the past two months."


Mondo is a new challenger bank in the UK, focussed on making your financial life easier, rather than trying to catch you out with penalty fees and charges.
We're building a current account that lives on your smartphone and gives you control of your money.
An account will come with a debit card, plus access to one-off and recurring payments via Faster Payments and Direct Debit.
How are you different to other banks?
We're fundamentally different because our entire experience is designed around your smartphone. Legacy high street banks have thousands of branches to support and seem to think of mobile banking as an afterthought.
We're also building our core systems from the ground up, based on 21st century technology, rather than simply building a veneer over existing legacy software. This "full stack" approach means we can process enormous amounts of data in real time and send you actionable alerts when they matter, not three days later. All whilst staying secure and reliable.
Finally, we're focussed on making the best current account in the world, rather than trying to sell you mortgages, credit cards or PPI plans. There are loads of great financial products already out there, and you'll be able to access many of them from within your Mondo app. But the final piece is still missing – a great mobile current account.
Sign up to our mailing list and you'll be the first to know. We're currently in early testing with a handful of users, but we'll be expanding our trial to invited users in the next few months.
Are you regulated as a bank?
We're currently going through the authorisation process with the Bank of England with the aim of securing a full UK banking licence.
Thanks to EU single-market rules, we can passport this licence across Europe, although we'll focus on getting the UK right first.
Over the next few weeks and months, we'll use this blog to introduce the team that's building the bank, and give you early access to some of the features we're most excited about.
Mondo – it's time for a new kind of bank.


It's all micellar protein and very little else. In each 33g serve, you get 24g protein, only 1g fat, 3g carbs, and 1g sugar to keep unwanted fat away. Beyond these basics, you are also looking at around 5g of BCAAs and 5g of glutamine and glutamine precursors which are all key amino acids that help you with muscle development and recovery.
24g of protein in just one scoop of 33g, loaded with amino acids like arginine, threonine, methionine and glutamine and precursors. The ultra-filtered, time-release casein ensures that enough protein reaches your target muscle groups while your body is at rest, feeding your muscles with a constant supply of amino acids for over many hours.


Department: Personal cleanliness as well as respectful behaviour towards staff, visitors and fellow students is expected at all times. Hence, hands in pockets, slouching gait, untidiness etc. are considered unbecoming.
School Property: It is forbidden to write or scribble or splash ink on the school or compound walls or in any way disfigure or damage school property. Severe action will be taken against pupils not adhering to this rule. The cost of repairs or replacements will be borne by the parents concerned.
The school is not responsible for lost property. It is not advisable to bring valuable articles like expensive watches, fountain pens, gold ornaments, calculators and stainless steel Tiffin carriers to school.
School Assembly: Students must attend the daily morning Assembly at 9.30 a.m. Students will assemble class wise and maintain absolute silence.
Unsatisfactory Progress: Frequent absence, lack of application to study or failure to make satisfactory progress may lead to exclusion from examinations and make it necessary for the school authorities to demand the student's withdrawal.
Pupils absent from examination will be considered as having failed unless it is established that their absence was due to illness.
No pupil is permitted to engage any of the school teachers as private tutors without the written sanction of the Principal.
Conversation: As English is the medium of instruction, students are expected to speak English at all times.
The Principal may refuse leave to any student without assigning any reason. Pupils are not allowed to leave the school premises without the permission from the Principal. Parents must be strict about their daughters returning home from school immediately after games. If they fail in this connection, the matter should be promptly reported to the Principal.
If, for some valid reason the pupil cannot be present on the reopening day, the Principal should be informed well in advance, failing which his / her name will be removed from the school register.
Phone calls should be made only after 9.30 a.m. a) Maximum precaution will be taken for the safety of every child. However, if any unavoidable accident takes place, the school authorities will not be held responsible. b) No fire works will be allowed inside campus, in connection with any festival or celebration, unless permitted by the Principal. c) Any litigation against the school has to be filed in Mananthavady or Kalpetta Courts.
Classes L.K.G. to V form the private section in the school.
The transfer certificate of students of Stds. I to V will not be Countersigned by the Inspector of Schools.
Students of Stds. I to V are not eligible for Government Scholarships.
Full tuition fees should be paid for the year even if the child leaves before the end of the term.
Tuition fees are to be paid for 12 months of the year.
A caution deposit of Rs. 1000/- (Refundable) is to be paid by all the parents, for each student, at the time of admission.
No students who have been convicted of any offence in a criminal court will be allowed to continue his studies in the school.
Students should abstain from active participation in party or communal politics. Those who indulge in political propaganda or organise fellow-students in political factions in the premises of the school, or who otherwise engage themselves in party politics are li-able to be expelled from the school.
Headmaster and other constituted school authorities shall have full power to inflict the following punishments in the interests of the students or of the institution concerned: Fine, loss of attendance, loss of certificates, suspension and expulsion.
Students should not indulge in any activity leading to the disruption of peace and discipline and dislocation of normal work in the school. Those guilty of violation of this rule will be severely dealt with.
Ragging is strictly forbidden; anyone who is guilty of ragging will be summarily and severely punished.
Students who are guilty of : a: Rude language towards the staff of the school. b: Assault or attempt to assault the staff or fellow students of the school are liable to be expelled from the institution.
If a teacher by speech or otherwise seeks to mislead his / her students into activities, deemed objectionable, he/ she is liable to be punished for dereliction of duty.
Headmaster or other constituted school authorities may frame and issue from time to time disciplinary rules of permanent or temporary character regulating the con¬duct outside the school, necessary to maintain the credit, usefulness and reputation of the school.
Footwear: Black shoes and grey socks. White canvas shoes and white socks.
GIRLS: Ash grey Pleated skirt, Sky Blue shirt (Half Sleeve), Black shoes, Ash Grey Socks, School Tie and Belt (to be provided by the school).
BOYS: Ash Grey long pants, Sky Blue shirt (Half Sleeve). Tie, School Belt, Grey socks and black shoes.
GIRLS: Ash Grey pleated skirt, Sky Blue shirt (Half Sleeve - like boys'). Tie, School Belt, Grey socks and Black shoes.
BOYS: White Pants / Short pants, House T-Shirt, School Belt, White canvas Shoes and white socks.
GIRLS: White pleated skirt, House T-Shirt, School Belt, White Canvas Shoes and white socks.
The school wishes to inform the parents that since every school is basically a democratic institution and observes no protocol or preferential treatment, you may visit the school at appointed times, as parents only, and not as somebody who holds a place of power and authority in the society we wish to get your willing co-operation in this regard.
Parents are requested to bear in mind that the school attaches great importance to building sound character in pupils. There fore, they are expected to co-operate with the school authorities by making their children understand that well ordered and disciplined way of life is as much important at home, as in school, by seeing that they prepare their lessons, and by taking an active interest in the activities of the school.
Parents are requested to sign the Report Card and any other document relating to their children when requested. The school will not be responsible for parents' failure to see the Progress Report of their children.
If a pupil is likely to be ill for a long period of time, the Principal must be informed in writing as early as possible. Children suffering from any infectious disease should not be sent to the school till the danger of infection has passed.
When communicating with the Principal, the parents are requested to mention in their letter the name, class, section and roll number of their wards.
Complaints, if any, should be made only to the Principal and not to the teachers.
Parents are welcome to visit the school. However, parents are not allowed to interview teachers or meet their child / children or take them home during school hours, without the sanction of the Principal. For all such cases parents are requested to make prior appointment with the school office in writing or over the phone. On the last Saturday of every month, (between 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.) the parents are encouraged to come to school and meet the teachers of their choice.
The school diary is an official record. Students must carry the diary to school every day.
A late register will be maintained by the house inchare of discipline.
The parents will be held responsible if their wards come late to school more than twice a month.
House-points will be deducted for late comers.
The prefects will check the class rooms for cleanliness.
The students who come to school in cars must abide by the traffic rules laid down by the school.
Students are permitted to stay back after school hours only if they are involved in extracurricular activities or remedials.
All students are members of the school library.
Students from Class IV onwards can borrow books from the library.
The loan period of a book for all classes, will be of seven days.
If the student exceeds the time limit, he / she will have to pay a fine of one rupee per day for the delay.
Books should be returned to the library in good condition. Any damage caused to the book will be a punishable act. The cost will be duly recovered from the parents.
No reference books will be given on loan.
Library will remain open, after school hours and if necessary on holidays on prior request.
Refined behaviour is expected in the school bus. Misbehaviour of any sort will be seriously dealt with.
It is compulsory for everyone to speak English in the bus.
Disturbance to others by shouting or passing remarks to people outside, throwing of articles in and out of the bus etc. are strictly prohibited.
While waiting for the bus at the boarding point, an exemplary behaviour is expected from the students. While boarding, they must be in queue and should show special consideration for younger and weaker ones.
Miscellaneous Fees is to be paid with the first installment. PTA fund (New admissions) is to be paid with the first installment. If the school fee is not paid before the 30th of the stipulated month, a fine of Rs.20/-will be charged for the first 10 days and Rs.50/-afterwards.
There may be an 10 to 15 Percentage increase increase in the fees every year.
Cheques \ DD will be accepted only if presented at least five workingdays before the last date and made favouring St.Patrick's Hr.Sec. School.
If the school fee is not paid before the 30th of the stipulated month, a fine of Rs.20/-will be charged for the first 10 days and Rs.50/-afterwards.


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Rethinking the Performance Review Cycle
Sue Jones, MBA, SHRM-SCP
If you feel like you're herding cats instead of adults, you most likely have performance management issues. Why is performance management important? It's simple. Happy employees mean happy owners and guests. However, getting to that point is not that simple.
Performance management leads to positive behavioral changes, in all industries. This framework motivates employees to work hard, ideally beyond their specific duties, to contribute to a team or help another employee on a project. Less obvious outcomes are the retention of key contributors, prevention and protection against lawsuits and insights for internal promotions and succession planning.
When reflecting on your performance management process, evaluate the answers to these key questions:
Are your performance reviews driving the behaviors you need for your employees to succeed?
Are your employees meeting and exceeding their goals?
Are you provided with timely and relevant information regarding internal promotions and succession planning?
If your answers are not clear and positive, it's time for a change.
Deloitte conducted an internal case study in 2014 by looking at how much time the company spent on performance reviews. Like many companies, they were setting objectives for each employee at the beginning of the year. After every project, people were rated on how well they met their goals and where they did and didn't excel.
At year's end, managers got together to examine ratings and compare people. After a lot of discussion, they boiled down every employee's contributions for the year into a single performance number. That whole process took a lot of time in which the employees were not privy to discussions or able to make a case for their performance a year ago, six months ago and so forth.
In addition to the process taking too much time, Deloitte's business needs were evolving so quickly that their annual goals couldn't keep up with their needs. Managers found that real-time discussions are much more valuable than year-end conversations about performance and pay.
The study also discovered that skill ratings are not consistent from reviewer to reviewer. In 2000, a comprehensive study showed that ratings reveal more about the people who give them — what they value and how tough they are — than about the people being rated. In other words, ratings are mostly a reflection of the reviewer.
If this scenario sounds familiar, you know why employees often dread the annual review process. Many employees are left feeling frustrated and managers are exhausted. When managers have difficulty relating well to the people they manage, it generally leads to issues with communication, recognition, motivation and morale. Ultimately, productivity and retention are most vulnerable after the annual review process.
As we get closer to the end of a decade, what changes can we expect to see in performance management? The biggest component we're seeing is that it's time to find a better system. It's time to make ratings more consistent and accurate, generate timely, tailored discussions and get everyone focused on fueling future performance instead of assessing the past.
Although I don't have a crystal ball to predict the future, there are a handful of dominant trends that are sticking. Trends that make sense and help businesses find and keep the right people through their performance management system. Here, we combine current workforce and review trends with insight from the Deloitte study to shed light on how vacation rental businesses can build and retain great employees.
Engage Employees
Develop a system to engage employees. The three things that matter most to employees are:
Coworkers' commitment to quality
A mission that inspires employees
The chance to use their strengths every day
What is fascinating is how employee engagement correlates directly to your company's performance results. Gallup's research found that companies with engaged employees experience an increase of 10 percent in customer loyalty, an increase of 21 percent in profitability, an increase of 20 percent in productivity and an improvement of 40 percent in turnover. Engaging employees is a competitive advantage for your business.
Deloitte's executives realized they needed to spend more time helping people use their strengths. To do this effectively, they had to collect better data on performance. With that in mind, they sat down to define three main goals for their new system; those goals were reward performance, see performance and fuel performance.
Reward Good Performance
Not only for vacation rental managers but for all industries, it's important to tie good performance to pay. There are a number of ways to do this both through rewarding high performers with raises and bonuses and ensuring that base pay or wages are fair for the company and fair for the employee. Managers should incorporate and connect performance incentives or bonuses to individual and team performance.
Create recognition programs. A few low-cost recognition programs include peer-to-peer acknowledgments, thank you notes and public recognition. Rewards like gift cards are popular, especially when the card targets something the employee needs or offsets a personal expense like a gas card. Other rewards like lunch with a supervisor, manager or owner provide opportunities to show respect for the employee's work and accomplishments while showing that you care. Consider movie tickets or other fun rewards that give the employee experiences with their family and friends; it also shows that your company believes in life after work.
See Performance
The best judge of an employee's performance is their supervisor or team leader. Nothing trumps direct, daily experience and engagement with an employee to see their performance accurately and factually.
For Deloitte, they needed to do a better job of rewarding performance, and this initiative started with streamlining their process by prioritizing the supervisor or team leader's feedback above all others. In essence, they stopped asking multiple people for feedback on each employee — input from the team leader was enough.
Still concerned about the unique ways that people judged others' skills, Deloitte stopped asking team leaders to assess skills altogether. Instead it focused on something that people tend to judge more accurately: their own feelings and intentions toward an employee. After every project — or once a quarter for longer projects — Deloitte now surveys leaders about what action they would take with each team member. The shift from "What do you think of your employees?" to "What do you do with your employees?" provided more real-time assessments of an employee's skill sets.
To give you an idea of how this works, consider the following example. You just finished implementing a new property management system and are asked to evaluate your team's performance. Ask your leaders to respond to four future-focused statements versus their typical assessment. First, ask your leaders how much they agree with the following statement, "I would award this person the highest possible increase and bonus." This captures views of the employee's overall performance and value. Next, ask your leaders how much they agree with the following statement, "I would always want this person on my team." This gets at an employee's ability to work with others.
Then ask your leaders to answer yes or no to two statements: "This person is at risk for low performance" and "This person is ready for promotion today." One identifies problems that might harm customers or the team, and the other identifies high potential.
The responses to these statements provide a snapshot of the employee's performance at a certain point in time. Each snapshot becomes the starting point for decisions about salary increases and bonuses. Deloitte also factors in how challenging assignments are and the employee's other contributions to the organization.
Fuel Future Performance
You want to do more than just measure and reward performance; you want to improve performance. What do great leaders do? For ideas on how to reach that final objective, Deloitte looked at the practices of its best team leaders. Deloitte found that great leaders hold weekly check-ins with team members about current projects. In these meetings, they set expectations, review priorities, provide feedback on work and give information and coaching.
Why make the check-ins weekly? Frequency matters. Drive accountability by holding employees responsible for initiating the check-ins. Check-ins ensure that coaching stays focused on the near term, not on past performance. Both Deloitte's and Gallup's research shows a direct correlation between the frequency of conversations and the engagement of team members.
Lastly, shift annual feedback to ongoing conversations to give more timely feedback and allow employees to make corrections or ask for help. To support those goals, Deloitte has created new evaluation and coaching rituals. By using frequent, immediate conversations about performance, they shifted from a focus on the past to a focus on the future.
Managers and supervisors in all industries need to be agile. Agility allows you to rethink how you manage performance. It's a slower, organic process that is departing from a planning-based approach governed by rules toward a simpler and faster model driven by feedback from participants — your employees.
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This month, the American public saw what happens when reporters do in-depth profiles of an institution or individual with whom they have a shared history. The results often don't serve journalism very well.
As it happens, both pieces concerned the embattled National Security Agency. In both cases, the reporters in question got unprecedented access because their subjects trusted them and knew they would be treated well.
CBS's 60 Minutes profiled NSA, amping up the agency's positive profile a few megawatts. Viewers got an inside look into the secretive agency, virtually strolled through its hallways, even heard from telegenic young staffers who work there. The cameras also took us inside the office of the NSA head Gen. Keith Alexander. But all this access came at a price — critical journalism that asks the difficult questions and won't settle for the less-than-forthright answers.
It is entirely appropriate to give a subject of a major story the opportunity to make his case, and to make it fully. But what was missing was the opportunity for NSA critics to challenge those assertions. Also missing were tough questions from Miller himself asking why NSA felt obliged to lie to Congress, and whether its contracting procedures needed a little retooling. How in the world did an IT contractor get the access that Snowden had? Did Alexander understand why Americans were so concerned about the capture of so much data? After all, phone numbers alone can be the keys to much more information. Had this virtually unsupervised effort truly saved lives?
I agree with journalist critics, and there are many, that CBS failed to fully inform and instead served as a public relations vehicle for a government agency. If NSA wants to make its case, let it buy full-page ads, place op-eds in The New York Times, make its officials available for interviews on the Sunday talk shows. NSA officials can do cross-country tours and field questions from local reporters. But CBS should never have agreed to such uncritical coverage.
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England dropped Gary Ballance before the third Ashes Test of 2015 after a run of form that wasn't actually all that dreadful with the benefit of hindsight. He had passed 30 once in his last 10 innings and had been bowled five times. People said he struggled against good quick bowlers.
He came back into the side in 2016, played six Tests and was quite brutally dropped again. Then he played two more against South Africa and was dropped again.
The problem, perhaps, is that there wasn't really much of a case for bringing him back that summer. By doing so, England arguably negated the positive effects of dropping him in the first place.
Make no mistake, dropping someone can work
If a player finds himself bumbling along going nowhere in Test cricket, it's no good to anybody. The notion that a big innings is 'just around the corner' starts to fade as the player in question struggles to inch their way towards that corner, let alone round it. Dumped back in county cricket, they have a bit of a cry and then slowly set about making corrections.
In this situation, we generally hear about some technical change or other, but we'd argue that in most cases it's just as important for the change to serve as physical foundations for renewed confidence and certainty.
Batsmen rarely fail because of just one flaw, but "I've made a visible change and it's working," can provide a major mental boost in addition to the (often small) practical one.
It takes a while for physical changes to bed in
But confidence and certainty will often take longer. You get oddities who will master something in the nets and instantly feel like they're back to their best, but most players will need to see a few big numbers next to their name to convince themselves that they're back on an upward curve.
Gary Ballance never got this. His confidence started to slip during the 2015 World Cup and in the English summer that followed, he found himself hanging by his fingertips. Unable to haul him up, team management did the decent thing. They stamped on his fingers and told him to find a way to clamber back up from the bottom. This is what he set about doing.
But he never got to finish
If England are on the tenth floor, Ballance reached the fourth floor before someone was sent down to get him. Often, a player who fights his way back into the team is shot-through with confidence because it's been a real struggle and he's made an unarguable case to return to the side.
Gary Ballance is not such a player. His return was too easy.
As we said about James Taylor in 2014, the optimum moment to select a batsman is not when he thinks he deserves a place in the side; it's when he's completely irritated because he can't quite believe he isn't getting a game.
There's an art to timing a recall. You've got one guy who thinks: "This is a nice surprise – I was only up to the fourth floor," and another guy who's spent God-knows-how-long trying to prise open the tenth floor window. When it's finally opened for him, he says "about bloody time" with a face like thunder. Which would you want in your team?
Long term, bringing Gary Ballance back into the Test team in 2016 did his confidence – and therefore his form – no good at all.
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To coin a phrase from finance/economic gloom mongers, a 'dead cat bounce'?
YGB does look like he might be bouncier than other dropped players, though.
Unforrunately, they snatched him well before the apex of his last bounce.
In other news, Aussies in dropping a bowler because of poor batting, rather than bowling, ability shock…
Call up guy who can't bowl in his place. Hilarity ensues.
Are we going through an era of spin?
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It's a shame, I remember the days of thinking, "At least Ballance is still in." Hoped that'd stay relevant for a bit longer.
Felt like it would.
Hope he proves us wrong or failing that bounces back in gravity-defying fashion.
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If so who's winning?
People keep asking me who's winning.
Who ISN'T winning?
It now seems pretty clear who's winning.
Oh no it doesn't
I like Ballance, I hope he has a long England career. He's the perfect type of player to have in the middle order, the rock who can anchor an innings, although he's not playing like that at the moment. He gives the team a good balance, so to speak, with the flair players around him.
He's not had a great year, but I'm not sure it's as bad as people make out. He played well against Pakistan, better than his scores suggest. He scored some priceless runs which directly affected the series result. Against Bangladesh it's a nightmare scenario to save a career, a low scoring series with batsmen failing everywhere, but his scores stand out more.
His face doesn't fit, a little like Trott in ODI cricket. He's a little ugly in his technique, he's not a crowd puller, any poor run & the vultures circle.
He's a young man, only 26. He's statistically the best young batsman on the county circuit and has been for a long time. His figures, pretty much averaging 50 in FC and List A cricket are very impressive, and let's not forget he did transfer that into test cricket.
If Hameed averages 40 after 20 tests with 4 hundreds we'll give him a knighthood. Ballance deserves more respect. The hatred towards him is unfair.
Don't think anyone hates Ballance, do they? We, and most of our readers, bloody love him.
We just wish he was making a few more runs at the minute because he hasn't produced many this year and hasn't especially looked like doing so either.
Rohan says:
Do England need to permanently call on Jos Buttler to be their test wicket keeper batsman?
There's two types of keeper/batsman. Firstly, the Mark Boucher role. Averaging 30 odd, only four centuries, but who is actually priceless. They can only bat at seven, they wouldn't play as a batsman alone up the order. They specialise in anchoring the lower order, creating vital late partnerships and dictating the pace of the innings.
The other type is the Kumar Sangakkara, a 25+ career century batsman who bats up the order, but somewhere down the line learnt to keep wicket too.
The latter doesn't work. You can't keep wicket & be at your best with the bat.
England have it all wrong at the moment. They have a 25+ career century batsman batting down at seven. These batsmen don't come along very often. Bairstow needs to lose the gloves and do only what he was born to do, bat.
Buttler is a very different type of batsman to Bairstow. He's not a top order 25+ batsman yet he's still one of the most gifted batsmen England has ever produced, as he's proving with the white ball. If England could transfer that talent into red ball cricket, he could be devastating in the 'Boucher' role, and freeing up the top order batsman we currently have stuck at seven.
How would you go about the English keeper conundrum?
Big "If", that penultimate sentence, considering he hasn't looked like doing anything of the sort. Me, I'd keep picking YJB, who has looked like improving substantially with the gloves; keep playing him at 5, where he works; and unless Jos plays some FC and does well, I'd pick someone like Foakes (who is a keeper first) for backup.
Yeah, on recent evidence it doesn't seem a conundrum. Jonny Bairstow has been batting well as a wicketkeeper and keeping pretty well too. Buttler is no specialist keeper, don't forget.
That isn't to say we wouldn't like to see Buttler play Test cricket though – even as a specialist batsman. It's hard to see how he can earn selection, but it might come his way this winter simply by England burning through other squad options.
leftyluke says:
I'm not so sure there is a keeping conundrum. Bairstow is keeping wicket very well and batting very well. Why change it to fit someone in who isn't a better keeper and isn't a better batsman. Doesn't make much sense to me.
Ansari seems to be the hardest word.
What's your say KC?
Buttler averaged over 50 is his first 8 tests, then 13 in his next 7. There's test potential there isn't there
Certainly is test potential. However he was dropped after a poor run of form with bat and gloves and has done nothing to work his way back in the side. Don't shoehorn someone in just because they have talent. They need to prove their talent is test class over an extended period of time in all conditions against good bowling attacks. Something that Jos has failed to do.
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The intense identity aggregation of products like Google and Facebook is pushing users towards anonymous services. Whisper and Secret are both making headlines, each promising an escape from the ruthless scrutiny of mainstream social networks. While these services are great for providing a momentary distraction, they are still doing nothing to address the core problem of online identity.
In real life, there are very few situations where it is useful or even desirable to be anonymous outside of explicitly anti-social or criminal behavior. The standard examples of corporate leaks, personal confessions, honest reviews, etc., do not benefit from true anonymity. Instead, people want to expose some subset of their identity and nothing more.
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It is not about being anonymous or even pretending to be someone else. It is about controlling which subsets of true facets of a person are relevant in different social contexts. This is fundamentally not deceptive but actually enables one to be authentic.
Outside of the Internet, it is extremely difficult to find out information about a person so that we can easily and naturally compartmentalize our experiences. A person can go to a health support group and discuss issues with their diagnosis, and then later they can go to a car show and discuss their love of 60's muscle cars. They don't worry much about someone in the car show reacting poorly to them because they are sick. This person is not a different person in these settings — it is always the same person — but different parts of their identity are relevant.
The Googles and Facebooks (GoogleBooks?) of the world want to aggregate all of these personas into a single identity. They want to do this, not because they think this is good for users or because this is how they think society works, but rather because it helps them monetize user interactions. However, this type of aggregation is a very bad deal for users.
Users' primary experience with this comes in the form of hyper-targeted ads. A perfect example of this is when someone goes to an online health support group to do some searching or posting, and then navigates to the car community. In the car community, that person will receive ads targeting them as a health support group member. This is a scary proposition. Even though users primarily are reacting to this "Google stalking" factor, there is actually a subtle but much more insidious force at work.
These services are making an extremely strong push to get users to sign in everywhere on the Internet with a single ID. This is initially great for those who do not want to remember many passwords. But when this is done, GoogleBook is able to aggregate an identity into their system, and all activity on that new site is mixed with everything else the user has told them before. Most people are not really aware that this is undermining the trust relationships that they have with those new sites.
When a person decides to share information with a service, they make a trust decision that is between them and that other entity. They can decide to purchase things from Amazon knowing that Amazon will retain their purchase history and use that to create an "Amazon Identity." Most people are OK with OpenTable knowing where they go out to eat, and they trust their bank with their account information and they trust their fellow health community members with their personal struggles. For each of these entities, they have made a conscious trust decision.
But when a user signs in through GoogleBook, that trust is tossed out the window. They are implicitly granting GoogleBook the union of all of those trust relationships. Through GoogleBook, they give away their identity to all of GoogleBook's advertisers and other players. So, they are not only suddenly trusting GoogleBook with their Amazon purchase history, they also potentially are trusting OpenTable and Clash of Clans with that information as well. This is a fundamental undermining of these original trust relationships which is certain to lead to very large problems down the road.
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CALGARY, Alberta, Nov. 10, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Parkland Corporation ("Parkland", "we", "our", or "the Company") (TSX:PKI) is pleased to announce that through its wholly owned U.S. subsidiaries (collectively, "Parkland USA"), it has entered into an agreement to acquire all the assets of Sevier Valley Oil Company, Inc. and its related companies (collectively, "SVO").
Based in Richfield, Utah, SVO is a well-established retail and commercial fuel business with annual fuel and petroleum product volume of approximately 350 million litres. SVO's primary operations are in Southwestern Utah along with a presence in Northern Utah and Colorado. The acquisition of SVO adds seven company retail locations and over 20 retail dealers in addition to robust diesel and lubricant distribution capabilities.
"We continue to expand our U.S. footprint and execute on our growth strategy," said Doug Haugh, President of Parkland USA. "This acquisition meaningfully expands our retail presence in rapidly growing Southern Utah and presents a fantastic opportunity to leverage our North American On the Run convenience store brand, enhance our customer proposition and drive incremental value."
"The acquisition strongly complements our existing Rockies Regional Operating Center and positions us for further organic and acquisition growth in neighboring Nevada and Arizona," added Haugh. "We are delighted to welcome Garrett Ekker and the SVO team to Parkland and look forward to the continued growth of our USA business."
This acquisition is at valuation metrics consistent with Parkland's prior U.S. transactions and will be funded out of existing credit facility capacity. SVO's annual fuel and petroleum product volume of approximately 350 million litres is based on the trailing-twelve-month period ending July 2020 and contains a mix of retail, wholesale and commercial volume consistent with our existing USA segment.
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This year's World Press Freedom Day https://www.un.org/en/observances/press-freedom-day will take place with multiple events from April 29 to May 3, and the major events are open to all comers online.
The host country is Namibia, the birthplace of the landmark "Windhoek Declaration" of 30 years ago. On 3 May, 1991, as the apartheid regime in South Africa was crumbling and the Cold War was becoming history in Europe, African journalists met and laid down three key demands – for media freedom, media independence and media pluralism.
Their initiative laid the foundation for the UN to launch a global campaign around the proclamation of May 3 as World Press Freedom Day.
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Maria Ressa is among the celebrated speakers at the extended international conference marking Press Freedom Day. So, for example, is Nick Clegg, the controversial UK politician-turned top executive of Facebook; and Agnes Callamard, the current S-G of Amnesty International; in 2019, in her role as the UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial Killings, Agnes wrote a damning and influential report about judicial failures by Saudi Arabia and Turkey after the murder of Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul the previous year, calling it a "pre-meditated execution".
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Some 40 sessions will be held during the 5-day conference including three thematic discussions on issues currently affecting media viability, the transparency of online platforms, and ways to strengthen media and information literacy.
Hage Geingob, the President of Namibia, and UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay will address the conference on 2 May, alongside senior African government officials and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres (through a video message).
Keynotes and interviews with over 250 world-renowned journalists, media, and tech leaders, experts, policy makers, and activists will be held during the event which be an opportunity for registered participants to network, and interact with speakers, and access an offering of podcasts, films, and artistic contributions on a conference online platform.
Notable speakers will include:
Joseph Stiglitz (USA), Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
Irene Khan, UN Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of the Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression
Agnès Callamard, Secretary General, Amnesty International
Maria Ressa (Philippines), CEO of Rappler
Swe Win, Editor in Chief of Myanmar Now, recognized media outlet for its collaborative and investigative reporting on human rights abuses.
Julie Owono, Member of Facebook's Oversight Board. Executive Director of Internet sans Frontiers
Miranda Johnson, The Economist, Deputy Executive Editor
Stephen Dunbar-Johnson (USA), President, International of The New York Times
Sir Nicholas Clegg, Vice-President for Global Affairs and Communications at Facebook
Notable programme highlights will include
Six Regional Forums on specific, regional aspects of press freedom and ways to tackle current trends and challenges. The Forums build on the regional seminars that followed the UNESCO's first African press freedom seminar in Windhoek in 1991.
A one-on-one dialogue about information as a public good with Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences and Miranda Johnson, Deputy Executive Editor of The Economist.
30 April: Presentation of key findings from UNESCO' global study on online violence against women journalists, a trailblazing research project that assesses the scope and impact of the new frontline of media safety through big data analyses and an in-depth literature review.
29 April: Launch of Recommendations on the sustainability of journalism for a Media 'New Deal', a publication presented by the Forum on Information and Democracy: https://en.unesco.org/themes/safety-journalists/women-journalists
Link for registration here https://wpfc2021.infernoar.com/register/attendees/922718cb-e5c5-469a-78b3-08d90458423f/922718cb-e5c5-469a-78b3-08d90458423f
The digital revolution has weakened business models of most independent media and damaged their viability https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/few-winners-many-losers-covid-19-pandemics-dramatic-and-unequal-impact-independent-news-media. The loss in revenue in 2020 is estimated to total US$30 billion.
Local news 'deserts' https://www.usnewsdeserts.com/ are becoming ever more common as media outlets close, merge, or downsize in many parts of the Global North and South, and political interest groups take control of struggling media outlets. Due to the COVID-19 disruption, two-thirds of staff and freelance journalists worldwide have also suffered pay cuts, lost revenue, job losses, cancelled commissions or worsening working conditions, according to a survey carried out by the International Federation of Journalists IFJ.
A survey https://www.icfj.org/our-work/journalism-and-pandemic-survey by the International Center for Journalists and the Tow Center at Columbia University found that over 40% of surveyed journalists reported losing more than half their income.
The COVID-19 pandemic has seen a steep rise in the in attacks on journalists and a weakening in regulations protecting freedom of expression. UNESCO's forthcoming study on online violence against women journalists shows that 73% of the women journalists surveyed had experienced online violence relating to their work.
Online violence, often in the form of coordinated misogynistic attacks, goes from hateful language to threats of sexual or physical violence. According to the International Press Institute, https://ipi.media/covid19-media-freedom-monitoring/countries have reported more than 400 media freedom violations linked to the COVID-19 crisis, including restrictions on access to information and excessive regulations against alleged fake news, ostensibly meant to address COVID-19 related disinformation.
The role of journalists in producing and sharing factual information is essential to all members of society. Whether exposing corruption, alerting us to conflicts or debunking disinformation on COVID-19, the information they provide must be recognized as a public good.
This year's celebration of World Press Freedom also marks the 30th anniversary of the Windhoek Declaration, https://en.unesco.org/news/30th-anniversary-windhoek-declaration developed by African journalists pressing for a free, independent, and pluralistic African press at a seminar organized by the UN and UNESCO in Windhoek in 1991. The declaration which triggered the proclamation of the 3rd May as World Press Freedom Day by the UN General Assembly. The Award Ceremony of the UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize will take place on 2 May,
The Prize, unique in the UN system, honors a person, organization or institution that has made an outstanding contribution to the defense and, or promotion of press freedom anywhere in the world, especially in the face of danger.
https://en.unesco.org/commemorations/worldpressfreedomday/2021/programme
https://en.unesco.org/commemorations/worldpressfreedomday/2021/faqs
Read the concept note
https://en.unesco.org/sites/default/files/wpfd_2021_concept_note_en.pdf
Visit World Press Freedom Day website
https://en.unesco.org/commemorations/worldpressfreedomday
UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize
https://en.unesco.org/prizes/guillermo-cano
Register your World Press Freedom Day event
https://en.unesco.org/feedback/wpfd-2021-register-your-event
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