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Kolkata: Wife didn't bring dowry, man pours boiling water on her
Doctors treating Rehana Biwi said she has suffered around 70 per cent burns and that her condition was critical.
By Express News Service |Kolkata | Updated: May 15, 2016 6:00:19 am
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A 21-year-old woman suffered serious burns after her husband and in-laws allegedly poured a pot of boiling water on her for failing to get Rs 50,000 in dowry. The incident took place in Old Malda police station area Friday.
Rehana's family alleged that her husband, 34-years-old Azad Sheikh, a resident of Moulpur village in Malda, and in-laws had been harassing her for days for dowry. "Since her marriage, her husband and in-laws would routinely torture her, they'd beat her and demand that she bring money. At the time of the marriage, she had been given Rs 15,000, gold ornaments and other valuables. But Azad demanded more," said her brother Arajul Sheikh.
Police said, Rehana was cooking Friday morning when another altercation over dowry broke out between her and Azad. "The husband began beating her. In a fit of rage, he took a pot of boiling water and poured it on to his wife," they said.
Neighbours rushed Rehana to the Malda Medical College and Hospital, police said. Rehana, a resident of Jotepur village in Old Malda had got married to Azad five years ago. The couple have a three-year-old daughter and a nine-month-old son. Police said that a complaint has been filed at Old Malda police station against Azad, his father and another member of the family.
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Sayed Walkar Raja, the superintendent of police, Malda said that a probe has been started and the police are presently "in search of the husband and his family".
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Cuomo details hospital-focused COVID strategy as cases rise, warns of potential 'pause'
By Denis Slattery and Jon Skolnik
Gov. Cuomo unveiled a revamped strategy to deal with New York's surging coronavirus cases on Monday with a focus on avoiding an overwhelmed health care system.
More than 3,500 people are currently hospitalized with COVID-19 in the state, a growing number that the governor warned could lead to renewed shutdowns on a scale not seen since the spring.
"We are now worried about overwhelming the hospital system...you will see serious stress on the hospital system," Cuomo said during a press briefing in Manhattan.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (Don Pollard/Office of the Governor)
Likening the state's efforts to war, the governor said part of the new strategy is to focus on hospitalizations and hospital capacity.
Hospital systems will need to identify retired doctors and nurses that could be tapped to help alleviate overburdened staff and come up with a plan to shift patients to avoid overcrowding. They must also plan to add 50% capacity and ensure personal protective equipment stockpiles are available.
"This is a mandate from the state Department of Health: You must distribute patients across your system,'' Cuomo said.
Hospitals could face malpractice charges if they don't comply.
Elective surgeries are being halted in upstate Erie County as of Friday, with similar actions possible elsewhere as infections rise post-Thanksgiving, Cuomo said.
FILE - In this Oct. 28 photo, medical personnel don PPE while attending to a patient who is not infected with COVID-19, in a section of New York's Bellevue Hospital outfitted to care for COVID-19 patients. (Seth Wenig/AP)
Several county executives, health care industry leaders and Mayor de Blasio praised the governor's plan as they joined the presser via video.
Since the summer, the state has been relying on the number of reported positive coronavirus cases in geographic areas to impose limited restrictions meant to curb the spread.
New metrics including hospitalization rates, death rates, and hospital capacity will be used to tweak the state's current color-coded microcluster strategy. Parts of the city, including much of Staten Island where an emergency field hospital recently reopened, are already designated as "orange" and "yellow" zones.
The state reported the results of 148,974 tests on Sunday with 6,819, or 4.57%, new coming back positive.
There are currently 3,532 people hospitalized and 681 in ICU across the state. Another 54 New Yorkers died from the virus, according to state data.
Despite his warning that wider shutdowns are likely coming, Cuomo said he wants to keep schools open, particularly kindergarten through eighth grade and applauded the city for coming up with a plan to reopen school buildings after closing two weeks ago.
FILE - In this May 29 photo, letters of thanks from students adorn the walls of a break room that was set up for workers to decompress from the stresses of caring for COVID-19 patients at Elmhurst Hospital, in New York. (Robert Bumsted/AP)
The governor again repeated that small gatherings and the holidays pose the biggest risk in the coming weeks.
"The small gathering spread is now the number one spreader, about 65% of all cases. This is a dramatic shift," he said. "Part of it is the holidays. it's what happens during holidays. Part of it is reduced social options. I can't go to the bar and hang out. I can't go to the restaurant and hang out. I can't go to the movie theater and hang out. Come over to my house and we'll hang out. It's just an adaptation of social behavior to the circumstances."
New York has limited gatherings to 10 people in their homes, a rule that has been widely criticized.
The governor defended the measure, noting that several other states have similar mandates in place, and said the state will roll out a new public education campaign to drive home the message.
"This is where the spread is coming from," Cuomo said. "We have to communicate this now to people the way we communicated masks. Seemingly the safest place, my home, my table, my family. Yeah, even that place is not safe.
"This is not government being overly dramatic. These are just facts," he added.
Coronavirus in New York: The state continues to face the impact from the pandemic
The state expects an uptick in cases in the weeks following Thanksgiving as millions traveled to see family despite warning from state and federal officials against get-togethers.
The governor said that while it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas, he's not only concerned about a post-Thanksgiving surge, but the entire holiday season as family and social gatherings increase.
"COVID is the Grinch. Think of it that way. The COVID Grinch is an opportunist, and the COVID Grinch sees this as the season of viral transmission," he said after humming along with Christmas carols played as part of a PowerPoint presentation.
Cuomo said the state learned lessons from the spring outbreak that saw New York become the epicenter of the pandemic in the U.S., and with a vaccine likely to gain federal approval soon, the governor is confident the coming months will be manageable.
However, he warned that the distribution of inoculations still poses a problem and it could be a while before the general public is able to rely on a vaccine.
"The vaccine will end the war, but the vaccine will not be available for distribution in the time frame you think it is."

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Killing the cdrommon process fixes the problem until the next reboot. It has a nasty side effect of making virtual machine migration impossible. If you aren't using a pool, this may not be an issue for you.
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Online Focus Groups Simplify the Morass
Carolyn Koch January 15, 2021 Focus Groups, Mock Trials/Focus Groups/Trial Strategy
Take Advantage of the Pause
While the Covid pandemic has presented unique challenges for trial lawyers and their clients, the pause on jury trials has given proactive lawyers the time and space to conduct on-line research for their most challenging cases. When jury trials resume, instead of scrambling for answers on the eve of trial, these lawyers are ready, armed with knowledge that their opponents don't have.
Testing out Hot Issues
One such client desperately needed to simplify the morass in a scorched-earth, never-will-be-settled case. This plaintiff's lawyer was concerned not only because her client was accused of sexual harassment in the midst of #MeToo, but because so many credible-seeming defense witnesses would testify against him.
Creating Order Over Chaos
The lawyer was so up to her eyeballs in discovery that she was losing sight of her case: Was it as powerful as she had originally believed or was she misjudging it? The evidence was so voluminous that she knew she was in jeopardy of presenting a cluttered and confusing case. She knew needed an online focus group so she could instead present a clean, tight story.
She was, however, too busy to put the case materials together herself. She gave us a mountain of documents, a pile of videotaped depositions, and a 75-page summary of case highlights. She relied on us to pull it all together so laypersons could digest it. We reduced the mountain to a 12-page time line of events, which also linked to a chronology of documents and excerpts of videotaped depositions so mock jurors could easily understand how one event led to the next.
Videotaped Depositions Reveal the Warts
When the case materials were reviewed by the mock jurors (on their own time, in their own homes), their reactions were striking: In the timeline, they saw a conspiracy among defense witnesses to destroy the plaintiff's career. In the documents, they saw how the conspiracy unfolded. From the videos, they had the pleasure of watching important people with esteemed jobs lie under oath. As one juror put it, these witnesses never imagined they would have to someday explain themselves!
Imagine defending a case where all of your witnesses are well-spoken, educated, and gainfully employed. You might not feel like you need any feedback on their credibility. I'm betting that the defendant in this case thinks just that, especially since they've taken a no-settle position. Then imagine learning before trial that these "star" witnesses were viewed by mock jurors as:
"I don't know if he is actually incompetent, an idiot, or someone who felt the need to stay in line with what the [defendant employer] wanted.
"Such a weak, easily manipulated, low-character leader."
"He told the truth even when it made him look like a complete idiot who didn't know how to do his job. He happily participated in something very wicked.
You might just say, "well jurors didn't like this guy. Let's see what they think of the next one." The next witness did even worse, making the mock jurors feel actual anger:
"A dishonest man with an agenda to hurt [plaintiff]. His arrogance is disgusting."
"He spoke as if he was unwilling to be any level of cooperative. He clearly did not think he should have to answer questions."
"Contradiction and condescension, accompanied by evasive body language, does not earn you credibility."
Now you might say, "maybe jurors will like my female witness better. Maybe she'll pack a greater punch in a sexual harassment case." But that didn't happen:
"She makes obvious dishonest statements. She looks embarrassed that she has to cover up what she has written."
"The inconsistencies in her stories portray her to be very dishonest."
What about the plaintiff? He was the alleged wrongdoer, accused of sexual harassment in the age of Me Too and I Believe Her.
Mock jurors did not approve of what the plaintiff did or said, but importantly, the plaintiff still made a positive impression. Mock jurors said:
"His lack of awareness is almost refreshing. A rare innocence about political correctness."
"He seemed genuine and forthcoming."
"I did not notice any inconsistencies in his testimony. I feel he has an honest manner about him."
There's No Substitute for a Mock Jury's Insights
Defendants think the strength of their case is that they had the plaintiff dead-to-rights. The plaintiff did what the defendant said he had done. But mock jurors expected more egregious misconduct to satisfy the heavy label of "sexual harassment." They expected to see a wrongdoer abusing others for his own sexual gratification. Instead, they saw the defendant as the greater wrongdoer because it set out to destroy the plaintiff's career and reputation.
The plaintiff's lawyer now knows that her client's biggest detractors had no credibility in the eyes of each layperson who passed judgment on this case. She also has a powerful timeline that simplifies her case and makes it almost impossible for the defendant to explain away its smoking-gun documents and mistreatment of the plaintiff. She's ready for trial.


What good is it to reduce waste and variation if it doesn't make a financial impact? Any time invested to make such "improvements" that can't be measured financially is yielding a negative return on investment (ROI).
Many people (including experts) will state that the purpose of Lean is to reduce waste and the purpose of Six Sigma is to reduce variation. But I think that's like saying the purpose of a hammer is to hit a nail. While that is technically true, the real purpose of the hammer is to accomplish the purpose of the carpenter, which could be to build a house. I think this confuses the "what" with the "why" where the "what" is hitting the nail, which in and of itself is meaningless without the "why", i.e., building the house.
In the same way, reducing waste for Lean and variation for Six Sigma are merely the "what". They define the technical purpose without correlating them to the ideal purpose of the one using them. They are merely tools which, like a hammer to a skilled carpenter, are only as effective as the one using those tools. Until we make that clear distinction, we'll never fully succeed in accomplishing the "why".
What is the "Why" for Lean Six Sigma?
The ultimate purpose for Lean Six Sigma is to make the business successful primarily by improving its financial performance. Yes, it primarily comes down to money. Every organization, including non-profit organizations, must have money to survive. It doesn't matter how altruistic an organization's products, services or goals are, how satisfied their customers are, nor how beloved they are in the marketplace (all other Level 1 CTQs in the CTQ Drilldown) - without a positive financial value (e.g., cash, assets, etc.) the organization will not be able to survive very long.
So how does the "what" of Lean Six Sigma fit into this? By reducing waste in a process, Lean can help a business be more efficient which is typically measured by improved flow and productivity (for people, machines, or equipment). This kind of improvement can often be realized through reduced payroll which helps to improve the financial performance of the business.
Likewise, by reducing variation in the output from a process, Six Sigma can help a business be more effective which is typically measured by improved quality and accuracy to meet a customer's requirements and less product scrap or waste. These kinds of improvements can be realized through more revenue, less returns, and reduced cost from scrapped materials which help to improve the financial performance of the business.
Lean Six Sigma will fail if we don't focus on the "why"
I believe every Lean Six Sigma effort must be focused on improving the Level 1 CTQs of the business, especially financial performance. If you cannot tie a Lean Six Sigma project to a financial improvement in the business, then I believe that project is a failure.
That's right. It's a failure. Otherwise why would we spend our own time and resources to work a project that doesn't yield any measurable improvement back to the organization? Was it just for fun? Was it just for trying to grow the personal or political control for ourselves or our business leaders? If so, then please do the rest of us a favor and don't apply the "Lean Six Sigma" label to it; it's counter-productive to it's true intent and only gives a bad name to it and those who practice it as such.
Matt is a Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt who has led and consulted on hundreds of process improvement initiatives for 20 years across several industries such as Government (Dept. of Defense), Insurance, Telecommunications, and Transportation. He has developed and led an enterprise Lean Six Sigma Training and Mentoring Program as well as a one-day crash course on "Dangerous Analytics" using the most critical Lean and Six Sigma tools and concepts. The savings from the projects he has led well exceed $100 Million.
For more details about Matt's experience, you can check out his profile and connect with him on LinkedIn. If you'd like to use Matt for consulting or speaking engagements, please contact him here.


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We Have Strategies to Address Gender-Based Violence — It's Time to Implement Them
A global increase in gender-based violence is exacerbating conflict and insecurity. We need coordinated and sustained funding to reverse the trend.
Monday, December 5, 2022 / By: Negar Ashtari Abay, Ph.D.
Gender-based violence against women and girls is the most pervasive breach of human rights worldwide and a tactical weapon that is fueling violent conflict. In just the last year, we have witnessed an increase in targeted attacks on women leaders, push back against women's rights, shrinking of civil society space, virulent online harassment, and conflict-related sexual violence all in conjunction with the strengthening of authoritarianism and state aggression. This unparalleled trend is evident in many countries, including Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Iran, Myanmar and Russian-occupied Ukraine.
A woman sits at a school being used to house several thousand people displaced by fighting in Mekelle in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region. June 27, 2021. (Finbarr O'Reilly/The New York Times)
This curtailment of rights and the reinforcement of rigid gender roles is a documented outcome of, and contributor to, violent conflict. The connection between gender inequality and violence is further evidenced in the face of heightened state fragility and global shocks, such as the COVID pandemic and climate change. That the security of women is a strong indicator of the security of a nation is now a well-established link, and increasingly acknowledged at the level of discourse.
Yet, coordinated and sustained action — even in the face of rising violence — is lagging, if not regressing. U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres noted the consequences of this trend in his 2022 report on women, peace and security, saying: "Today, the world is experiencing a reversal of generational gains in women's rights while violent conflicts, military expenditures, military coups, displacements and hunger continue to increase."
There are strategies ready to be put into action, however. Over the last two decades, civil society actors have generated a wealth of evidence and expertise on how to uproot gender-based violence at all levels — from the home, the workplace, in the community, on the battlefield and in the international arena.
With evidence and calls to action mounting, governments and international actors should seize this moment. Right now, the annual 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence global campaign is currently in full swing. The critical links between this campaign and the Women, Peace and Security agenda highlight that this is the time to work hand in hand with civil society, in particular women peacebuilders and the coalitions they lead, to take up effective action against gender-based violence across sectors.
There have recently been some welcome responses on the U.S. policy front. On November 28, President Biden issued a presidential memorandum to promote accountability for conflict-related sexual violence, firmly acknowledging that sexual violence is not an inevitable outcome of armed conflict. On December 12, the U.S. government will also release its 2022 U.S. Strategy to Prevent and Respond to Gender-Based Violence Globally, with a stronger focus on security and accountability.
The 3 "P's" of the Women, Peace and Security Agenda
As these and other policy efforts around the world advance, it is critical that prevention, protection and participation — key pillars of the Women, Peace and Security agenda — are pursued together and receive adequate investment to make gender-based violence a cross-cutting policy priority.
Successful design and implementation, moreover, require substantive, ongoing and innovative partnership with civil society — as demonstrated by some of USIP's longest-standing efforts in this area, such as the U.S. Civil Society Working Group on Women, Peace and Security; the Women Preventing Violent Extremism project; and the Missing Peace Initiative to Prevent Conflict-Related Sexual Violence.
As Alice Wairimu Nderitu, the under-secretary-general and U.N. special advisor on the prevention of genocide, noted at a recent USIP event: It is not easy to quantify what has been prevented. And what is not quantified is often neglected, particularly in policy implementation.
However, we need to invest in prevention because it makes the best-case scenario possible — a scenario where the least harm and burden falls on individuals and societies, with far-reaching positive implications.
Better documentation of gender-based violence is critical in this regard. The ability to track reductions in prevalence can be used to evaluate the efficacy of prevention efforts, while increases in gender-based violence are often an early warning indicator of a possible violent outbreak — from mass shootings to mass atrocities.
This requires investment in better data collection tools and models that include gender and intersecting identities. The failure to collect gender-relevant and disaggregated data in the past, resulting in data gaps, cannot be used as an excuse for exclusion in the present. Documentation of gender-based violence is critical, furthermore, to advancing accountability processes that can act as a deterrent and a useful prevention mechanism.
Additionally, if violence against women and girls remains a "women's issue," prevention efforts will continue to be limited. Not only do men also experience gender-based violence, the solution to the issue does not lie with women and girls alone.
Violent masculine norms and male trauma feed into gender-based violence and societal conflict. Such norms are built on the normalization of violence as a response to conflict. When state and other actors reinforce these norms and link them with perceived roles and rights of men to secure order, protect their family and homeland, and safeguard national glory through forceful means, the vulnerability of women and girls (and all marginalized people) is heightened. While there is still much to learn about effective policy and programing to counter violent masculine norms, there is a growing knowledge base that has been generated over recent years by organizations like Equimundo and MenEngage Alliance.
The call to strengthen mechanisms for protecting women and girls from violence and discrimination has been made repeatedly over the years. Prevention, of course, is the best protection, and the failure to invest in prevention and equitable access to protection in peacetime has heightened risks for women and girls in the face of conflict.
But the response to the gender-based violence that does occur — particularly in conflict settings — has too often been nonexistent, slow, selective or ineffectual. There is urgent need for greater collective commitment and investment to protect women and girls, particularly those taking risks for the benefit of others.
One form of protection is the provision of rapid and flexible funding that allows local civil society organizations that are already working to prevent gender-based violence to take autonomous action to protect those at risk in response to rising threats and violence.
Another opportunity to strengthen protection is to build on advances in legal thought and collective commitment with respect to atrocity prevention and response. Russia's invasion of Ukraine has increased receptivity to consolidating a "mutually reinforcing web of accountability," including coordinated responses to conflict-related sexual violence. More generally, overcoming existing policy siloes to ensure gender-based violence is addressed across emerging strategies — such as the U.S. Strategy to Anticipate, Prevent and Respond to Atrocities, the Global Fragility Act strategy, and climate action frameworks — will be important to ensure timely responses and adequate funding.
Particularly given the upsurge in violence, protection is a requisite for women's participation in all aspects of public life. The importance of such participation is increasingly recognized but, as the head of U.N. Women Sima Sami Bahous has stated, "Violence silences women, renders them invisible, pushes them from public space."
Not all women, however, are equally subject to such violence, making it critical to consider which women have been targeted and why. Such an intersectional perspective is important as international actors seek to amplify women's voices and promote women and girls' leadership.
It is also vital that policies address the perpetuation of structural violence, which renders invisible the actions and concerns of local women and civil society. To this end, international support in the form of long-term, sustainable and flexible funding for homegrown solutions to gender inequality is needed. It is also worth reiterating that while women's participation is now regularly included as a key solution to emerging crises like climate change, gender-based violence cannot be addressed primarily by women and girls.
The sustained efforts of civil society actors around the world have helped to significantly raise awareness of gender-based violence and its linkages to wider conflict and insecurity. Thanks in large part to their efforts, many of the solutions are also well-known. We now need the collective commitment to fully fund and act on them.
Gender Conflict Analysis & Prevention Human Rights
Negar Ashtari Abay, Ph.D.
Program Officer, Gender Policy and Strategy
Can the Taliban's Brazen Assault on Afghan Women Be Stopped?
By: Belquis Ahmadi; Kate Bateman; Andrew Watkins; Scott Worden
The Taliban marked the New Year by doubling down on their severe, ever-growing restrictions on women's rights. On December 20, they banned women from all universities — adding to their prior ban on girls attending middle and high school. Then the Taliban announced on December 24 that women cannot work for NGOs, including humanitarian organizations that are providing vital food and basic health services to the population that is now projected at 90 percent below the poverty rate. Western and regional governments have responded with uncommonly unified outrage and many humanitarian organizations have suspended their operations until women are allowed to return to their jobs.
Gender; Human Rights
The Latest @ USIP: Women's Role in the South Sudan Peace Process
By: Rita Lopidia
When South Sudan achieved independence in 2011, many South Sudanese women hoped it would lead to improvements on gender and security issues. In the years since, recurring civil conflict has unfortunately delayed these aspirations — but as with the independence movement, women have been at the forefront of the country's resurgent peace process. Rita Lopidia, executive director of the Eve Organization for Women Development and the 2020 recipient of USIP's Women Building Peace Award, discusses how South Sudan's national action plan on women, peace and security helped guide women's involvement in the revitalized peace agreement as well as how her organization is working with both men and women on gender and peacebuilding issues.
Gender; Peace Processes
By: Sabrine Laribi; Tahani Yaghshi
Gender; Mediation, Negotiation & Dialogue
The Role of Women in Myanmar's Evolving Security Institutions
By: Hkawn Htoi; Gabriela Sagun
Myanmar's women have assumed an unprecedented leadership role in the pro-democracy resistance since the 2021 coup. From nonviolent protest movements to fighting in People's Defense Forces (PDF) to the National Unity Government (NUG), women have been instrumental in the fight against the ruling junta's brutality and oppression. But as Myanmar's network of resistance groups slowly weakens the junta's grip, resistance leaders are now faced with a daunting task: How do you re-establish security and stability in a country long plagued by civil conflict?
Conflict Analysis & Prevention; Gender; Justice, Security & Rule of Law


Lamborghini has announced a new, limited-edition variant of its Huracán Super Trofeo Evo customer race car on the opening day of the Total 24 Hours of Spa. Ten of these cars will be made to celebrate 10 years of Lamborghini Squadra Corse's Super Trofeo one-make racing series.
The Huracán Super Trofeo Evo 10th Edition features a unique matte gray Roger Dubuis livery with glossy mantis green accents that highlight the car's aerodynamic bodykit, as well as a tri-colored arrow that runs from the hood to the rear wing. To appease collectors even more, each car features a plaque reading "One of Ten" and a certificate of origin signed by Lamborghini's Chairman and CEO Stephano Domenicali, Chief Technical Officer Maurizio Reggiani, and Head of Motorsport Giorgio Sanna.
A new tweak to the Engine Control Unit bumps the Super Trofeo Evo's power output from 620 to 630 horsepower, but that's it as far as performance upgrades are concerned. Every 10th Edition receives the same options as the regular Evo, including an Alcantara-wrapped dashboard, Motec Traction Control, Bosch Motorsport ABS, Pirelli P Zero DHD2 tires, and an X-Trac six-speed sequential transmission.
"The Huracán Super Trofeo Evo 10th Edition is a tribute to our tradition, a new manifestation of the synergy between Squadra Corse and the R&D Department, two entities linked by a continuous osmosis process: motorsport allows us to perfect the product, which in turn is the basis of the racing cars of the future," explained Maurizio Reggiani. "They are two spirals that intertwine indissolubly to form the Lamborghini DNA."
Lamborghini first dipped its feet into international customer racing in 2009 (celebrating a little early, aren't we?) with the Gallardo LP560-4 Super Trofeo. Since then, the Italian supercar company has bred a generation of talented racing drivers via its Squadra Corse program and boasts its very own motorsport series that spans three continents.
A price for the the 10th Edition hasn't been revealed, but if you really have to ask how much a collector's edition of a $295,000 Italian race car is, you probably can't afford it.
Further proof that Lamborghini makes some of the best-sounding GT race cars.
The 641-horsepower Urus is ready to shepherd a pack of race-spec Huracans around the track.
Lamborghini confirmed the 6:44.97 rumors to be true, making the Aventador SVJ the fastest road-legal production car to lap the Nürburgring.


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This is the first talk, but not the last, given by Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin at the Lindau meetings. Six years after her Nobel Prize in Chemistry, she is still occupied with the crystal structure of insulin, a project she started in Oxford in 1934, more than 35 years earlier! She had then just spent two years with J.D. Bernal in Cambridge, learning the basics of crystallography of biological molecules. The choice of the special protein insulin was made because it plays such an important role in the body. In the story Hodgkin tells here, there are also many remarks as to the appearance and function of insulin in the body. But mostly, the story unravels some of the difficult technical steps involved in understanding the crystal structure of insulin. Since the lecture was given with many slides, this is not the right place to learn all the details, but the general story clearly comes through. One question treated is the molecular weight of the insulin molecule. Chemistry Nobel laureate The Svedberg had used his invention the ultracentrifuge and answered 36 000 units, but it turned out that he had measured particles of insulin, not molecules. Frederick Sanger, another chemist who also received the chemistry Nobel Prize, managed to determine the chemical structure of insulin by cracking it into its pieces. (He told his story at Lindau in 1960.) Insulin turned out to have molecular weight around 6 000 units, much smaller than Svedberg believed, but still big enough to give rise to many difficulties. One such was the need to insert heavy atoms in the crystals, a general method employed to get more information out of the thousands of X-ray diffraction pictures taken and inspected. At the National Portrait Gallery in London there is a wonderful painting of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin working with her tables of crystallographic data using no less than four (!) hands.


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Q: how to work with std::thread on freeRTOS? I'm using freeRTOS on an stm32f407 with keil ide and arm compiler version 6 and g++17 and I don't like to work with freeRTOS threading APIs. instead, I want to work with std::thread c++ native library. but when I include #include <thread>, keil throws this error: error: <thread> is not supported on this single threaded system.
what is the problem?
when I have freeRTOS it means my platform is not single-threaded, so why keil throws this error?

A: It's not really about C++17 itself, it's all about the compiler/STL feature support for e.g. FreeRTOS platform. You know, someone has to implement the gory, low level details for a certain OS platform to provide a compliant  std::thread interface. The same applies to std::mutex and other related features which all require OS support. So you'd have to ask your (cross)compiler provider to build one with e.g. std::thread support for FreeRTOS.

A: Many of us just roll our own C++ wrappers for FreeRTOS APIs, or incorporated the FreeRTOS calls into classes where they're hidden from most of the application. You might want to have a look at this, which does mostly what you're looking for: https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/1278513/Cplusplus11-FreeRTOS-GCC

A: Keil throws that error because you are linking your application against a library that does not support the  API.
There's a freeRTOS POSIX threading wrapper you can possibly evaluate to use, or you could create another abstraction layer on top of CMSIS OS API.
There is also a C++ wrappers project, freeRTOS-addons, that provides a convenient set of classes/APIs, but it has been inactive for years now.
Before going for a wrapper, one must evaluate why using an RTOS at all if its features of determinism and tasks priority mechanisms will not be used as equal priority tasks will share CPU time. Yet, of course, there are other benefits.

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Students have lunches provided at the centre they attend. There is a set meal each day and this is provided by external catering services in each area.
Some students would rather bring a packed lunch and this is perfectly fine, but we ask that they bring healthy lunches, and do not bring in energy drinks or large packs of sweets, as these will be confiscated.


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Rakhimova is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Ibodat Rakhimova, Soviet-Tajikistani politician
Kamilla Rakhimova (born 2001), Russian female tennis player
Sevinch Rakhimova, Uzbekistani karateka

Surnames of Uzbekistani origin
Azerbaijani-language surnames
Kazakh-language surnames
Kyrgyz-language surnames
Russian-language surnames
Tajik-language surnames
Turkmen-language surnames
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and NOT Get That Job.
We know you want to stay in that boring job. Who really wants to develop new skills, meet new people and expand their career anyway? We have collated our best tips for being the worst candidate in the world to make sure you don't get that dream job!
Make sure you have big unexplained gaps in your CV and lots of them. If you happened to have gone overseas, taken parental leave, or have a valid reason to take a break, just let your prospective employer guess what you have been doing. You don't need to explain what you have been up to. It's really none of their business what you have been doing in your life.
If you're thinking about making the employer feel special by tailoring your CV to that particular organisation? Don't! Try to be as general as possible when you write your resume, so you can hand them out to as many places as possible and save some of that sweet time of yours. They are receiving 100s of applications anyway so they probably won't read it and it's better to blend into the crowd and not stand out!
If you can't afford to go to a psychologist, the next best thing is to go to a job interview. If your previous boss has been a pain, let your new employer know so they can learn from your previous employer's mistakes – we wouldn't want history to repeat itself now, would we? It´s the perfect two birds one stone scenario´- you get to vent and they get a valuable life lesson.
Don´t stress too much about trying to tell them why you're the ideal person for the job etc… time will tell!
Me, myself and I. That's the attitude you should have at an interview. The interview is about you, only you. Take that opportunity because it's not often you are put in a situation where you get to be arrogant without anyone holding it against you. Talk as much as possible about yourself… this is not the time to ask questions.
If they ask you to bring some so-called ´required´ documents such as referee details, do yourself a favour by only bringing them if you really want to. They have no valid reasons to call your former employer to ask questions about you. Who do they think they are? Your parents?
By sticking up for yourself like this you'll show them that you have integrity – which they will respect highly!
After an interview, it's common that the employer does some stalker work to see who you are outside of work. If they have some concerns (which is very unlikely if you follow all the great tips in this article) this is your last chance to show them that you're amazing. So how should you present yourself on social media?
First of all, it's important to have an Instagram account that is open to the public.
Second of all, make sure to put up plenty of pictures of you partying! That is the key here because that will show your new employer that you're not all about work – you're fun too!
Your LinkedIn profile doesn't need to match your resume either… don't delete your old dodgy Facebook photos, they really help in giving a lasting impression.
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package com.klarna.hiverunner.sql.cli.hive;

import static org.hamcrest.CoreMatchers.is;
import static org.hamcrest.MatcherAssert.assertThat;

import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;

public class HiveCliEmulatorTest {
    @Test
    public void testFullLineCommentAndSetStatementHiveCli() {
        String hiveSql = "-- hello\nset x=1;";
        assertThat(HiveCliEmulator.INSTANCE.preProcessor().statement(hiveSql), is("set x=1;"));
    }

    @Test
    public void testFullLineCommentStatementHiveCli() {
        String hiveSql = "-- hello";
        assertThat(HiveCliEmulator.INSTANCE.preProcessor().statement(hiveSql), is(""));
    }

    @Test
    public void testFullLineCommentAndSetScriptHiveCli() {
        String hiveSql = "-- hello\nset x=1;";
        assertThat(HiveCliEmulator.INSTANCE.preProcessor().script(hiveSql), is("set x=1;"));
    }

    @Test
    public void testFullLineCommentScriptHiveCli() {
        String hiveSql = "-- hello";
        assertThat(HiveCliEmulator.INSTANCE.preProcessor().script(hiveSql), is(""));
    }

}

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Q: Greek letters passed by argparse to matplotlib I am using matplotlib to plot some data, however labels for plots are send via argparse. The problem is - I want some of the labels to contain greek letters. Which "greek letter code" type should I use to handle it?

A: I've used argparse to read in command line arguments for my legends for matplotlib. It translates Greek characters just fine when I specify something like '$\Delta G$' as an input argument (output as ΔG).


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Home Vaping News Nicotine Expert: Vaping is Unlikely to Cause Seizures
Nicotine Expert: Vaping is Unlikely to Cause Seizures
Early last spring, on his way out the door at FDA, then-commissioner Scott Gottlieb spent some of his remaining credibility to warn America that vaping might cause seizures. He based his alert on 35 self-reported incidents over a 10-year-period from FDA's Safety Reporting Portal.
Yes, you read that right: 35 events in 10 years.
"We want to be clear that we don't yet know if there's a direct relationship between the use of e-cigarettes and a risk of seizure," Gottlieb admitted in a joint statement with FDA Deputy Commissioner Amy Abernathy. "We can't yet say for certain that e-cigarettes are causing these seizures."
"Seizures or convulsions are known potential side effects of nicotine poisoning and have been reported in scientific literature in relation to intentional or accidental swallowing of nicotine-containing e-liquids," explained the commissioner, probably while awaiting confirmation that his post-FDA position at pharmaceutical giant Pfizer was secured.
Vapers weren't very happy about FDA's decision to use these implausible seizure events to pour fuel on the already raging panic over teenage vaping.
There is little chance that anyone could vape (or smoke) enough nicotine quickly enough to cause actual nicotine poisoning. The little nicotine buzz some teenagers chase with their JUULs isn't even in the same league as an actual overdose, which involves a whole series of escalating symptoms before reaching the seizure stage.
Seizures are temporary electrical disturbances in the brain, and they usually indicate an underlying neurological condition like epilepsy. More than three million Americans—about one percent of the population—have epilepsy. It would hardly be a stretch for a few dozen vapers (out of more than 10 million) to have an epileptic disorder totally unrelated to vaping.
Gottlieb's helpful going-away present to the vaping community earned a lot of news coverage. But its real benefit (for people trying to kill vaping) was encouraging many more adverse reports to pour in during the weeks and months following Gottlieb's press release.
In August the agency followed up on the seizure "problem," adding 100 new reports to the original group. Many were from people who said they filed a report after seeing news stories about Gottlieb's April announcement. As before, they weren't vetted by medical professionals or nicotine experts, but just tossed to the news media in a press release that featured acting FDA commissioner Ned Sharpless encouraging the public to please send more reports. Apparently 100 in four months was a letdown for the temp FDA boss.
"It is imperative that health care professionals, consumers, parents, teachers and other concerned adults, as well as youth and young adult users, report detailed information about any past or future incidents of seizures following e-cigarette use to the FDA," said Sharpless.
"Severe nicotine poisoning is expected to cause nausea, vomiting, pallor, sweating, abdominal pain, salivation, lacrimation, muscle weakness, confusion, and lethargy before one experiences seizures"
Vapers weren't very happy about FDA's decision to use these implausible seizure events to pour fuel on the already raging panic over teenage vaping. That's not how vaping works, they said. In fact, that's not how nicotine works either. If nicotine causes seizures, why aren't cigarette smokers experiencing similar effects? Where are the experts to debunk this nonsense? they asked, shaking their fists at the sky in impotent rage. At least that's what I did.
Now, much too late to reverse the damage done by the FDA—but still appreciated—nicotine expert Neal Benowitz has chimed in on the fake controversy in a new article in the Journal of Adolescent Health. Benowitz is not exactly a fan of vaping, but he does recognize its value as harm reduction for smokers. What he is a fan of is telling the whole truth about nicotine's properties and risks.
Benowitz's article is a response to another paper in the same issue of the journal by a group of FDA Center for Tobacco Products scientists. The FDA authors examined the seizure self-reports described above, and conclude that there is an "association" between vaping and seizures. "Additional information will help to clarify the relationship between ENDS use and seizures and to understand how product attributes such as nicotine content, formulation, quantity, and other ingredients or contaminants may contribute to seizures," they write.
But Benowitz isn't buying it. "Analysis of the case reports in [the FDA authors' paper] raises many questions about the nature of the seizures and other events and whether there is a causal link to nicotine vaping," he writes. "A formal causation analysis, which has not yet been done, would likely indicate possible causation at most."
"As mentioned before, the effects of nicotine are relatively brief and cannot explain recurrent seizures at a later time. Most likely, these individuals have a seizure disorder."
Benowitz is an M.D. and medical professor at the University of California-San Francisco, and Chief of the Division of Clinical Pharmacology at San Francisco General Hospital. He has authored more than 500 publications, mostly about nicotine and tobacco. He is recognized as one of the world's foremost experts on the pharmacology of nicotine, and probably the foremost.
"Severe nicotine poisoning is expected to cause nausea, vomiting, pallor, sweating, abdominal pain, salivation, lacrimation, muscle weakness, confusion, and lethargy before one experiences seizures," Benowitz writes. "These symptoms have been reported after oral or dermal exposure; it is possible that inhalation of a high dose of nicotine may produce a different syndrome, but it seems unlikely that seizures would appear without other manifestations of systemic toxicity."
In other words, it's not the nicotine in a vape causing those symptoms. Benowitz is cautious enough to say a high dose of inhaled nicotine might cause "a different syndrome," but it's clearly nothing he's ever encountered in decades of studying (and writing) the available science on nicotine. And he really doubts the idea that a vaper could bypass all of the lesser effects along the nicotine overdose symptom ladder and advance directly to seizures.
As for people vaping, then having seizures at some later time, Benowitz suspects those people have a seizure disorder. He isn't certain vaping is unable to trigger a seizure in someone who already has a disorder, but he doesn't believe nicotine could be the source of the disorder. After all, he points out, cigarette smoking doesn't cause seizures.
There is little chance that anyone could vape (or smoke) enough nicotine quickly enough to cause actual nicotine poisoning.
"Another biological plausibility issue relates to several spontaneous reports of recurrent seizures in the absence of vaping," he says. "As mentioned before, the effects of nicotine are relatively brief and cannot explain recurrent seizures at a later time. Most likely, these individuals have a seizure disorder. Whether nicotine can trigger a seizure in a person with an underlying seizure disorder is unclear."
Unable to find a plausible mechanism by which vaping nicotine could cause a seizure, Benowitz reminds readers of the harm reduction value of vaping for smokers. "At this point in time, I would not consider seizures to be a potential adverse effect that should influence the decision of an adult smoker to use e-cigarettes to try to stop smoking conventional cigarettes," he writes
Benowitz ends his discussion of seizures and vaping by addressing the tendency of anti-nicotine public health officials and politicians to jump directly to prohibition as a remedy for youth vaping. He lives in San Francisco, which has banned all vaping products (unless they're approved by the FDA). And he works at the same university as noted prohibitionist Stanton Glantz, who cheered that ban—and cheers every other ban, tax, and restriction on vaping, no matter where it occurs.
"Some public health authorities and politicians have urged banning the sale of e-cigarettes completely to reduce e-cigarette use in youth," he writes. "The public health cost of such a policy would be to deny adult smokers the availability of a cessation aid that may be lifesaving."
Smokers created vaping without any help from the tobacco industry or anti-smoking crusaders, and vapers have the right to keep innovating to help themselves. My goal is to provide clear, honest information about the challenges vaping faces from lawmakers, regulators, and brokers of disinformation. I recently joined the CASAA board, but my opinions aren't necessarily CASAA's, and vice versa. You can find me on Twitter @whycherrywhy
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Aussie Software Company's Quiver Full of Qubits
• July 17, 2020
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Quantum software needs to develop in order to push the hardware already at a workable stage. And there are software firms around already servicing this demand
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Unix To Tiny BASIC
Software will be key if quantum computers are ever to reach their potential. Early software like Unix and Tiny BASIC changed the game for the hardware it was designed for.
In many ways, just like in those salad days of computer science, we are at a similar point in 2020.
Software/cloud-based efforts Qiskit (IBM) and Azure Quantum (Microsoft) by the big hitters go hand-in-hand with the offerings from smaller startups: Software solutions Quasar by Beit, HQS's QAD CLOUDbeta, QUBO by Jij Inc, Black Opal, Q-CTRL's QC software package, Quantastica's Qubit Toaster (ha-ha), Deltaflow.OS by Riverlane, and SoftwareQ's Quantum++. These are just a handful of the dozens already out there. Many are still at the beta stages of development; a few, already providing technical solutions for their customers.
Opacity, an Australian startup based in Sydney and founded this year, is another to add to the growing list. Its software solution, called Quiver, 'maps errors across a quantum computer as a whole, not just individual components.'
Tim Evans, founder of Opacity, and his team believe that:
'Quantum computers will change everything, giving us answers to unsolvable questions.'
Physics, Not fidelities
The key to all this is Opacity's philosophy: 'physics, not fidelities'. To succeed the startup sees this stance as a way to solve some of the problems of marrying quantum hardware with the applications. Opacity will achieve this by engineering Hamiltonians.
But what the heck is a Hamiltonian?
According to a Quora post by Shreevant Tiwari, a senior software engineer at Bloomberg LP with a Ph.D. in materials science and engineering from Georgia Tech, a Hamiltonian is: '[…] a mathematical convenience that helps us solve a large class of problems in physics […]'.
Now, that's simplifying it a little, but it gives you some sort of idea of what it does.
The startup's Quiver software stack has a few clear objectives:
— to enable noise mitigation at the software level
— to inform future iterations of hardware design
— to characterize and mitigate errors, not only at the qubit level but across firmware, circuits and near-term algorithms
CEO Evans, an electrical engineer, applied mathematician and physicist, is a Ph.D. candidate in physics at the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems (EQUS). His research encompasses theory and experiment as he works on Noisy Intermediate Scale Quantum (NISQ) devices. His specialties include ML, Quantum information/computation, Bayesian inference, and mathematics.
Opacity's team is made up of a highly qualified cadre of a CSO, a CTO and COO, with expertise in quantum devices and condensed matter systems, product delivery and packaging tools designed specifically for quantum engineers and project management.
We are in the early days of software in the QC field, but it will be startups like Opacity that will lead the charge in developing viable products for the nascent market. Let's hope they can achieve what they set out to do.
Azure Quantum, Opacity, qiskit, quantum computing, quantum computing software, Quiver, startup, Tim Evans


I was tinking it would be fun to update good ol' Stumper to better fit with the current edition. so here's a go at it.
Special rules: Inflitrate, Stealth, Trick Shot, Killer shot, Sharpshooter.
Sharpshooter: Stumper may choose his targets in the same manner as a vindicare assassin.
Trick Shot: Stumper may fire d3 shots this turn. In addition each of these shots may be at a different target. Targets must be declared before rolling to hit.
Killer Shot: Instead of multiple shots, Stumper may instead fire a single shot with incredible accuracy. He may re-roll both to hit and to wound and his shot will Rend on a 5-6.
Man I miss Stumper! Those rules look sweet as by the way. 35p seems right too.
I would say that Stumper is the reason I like running ratlings as much as I do. Fantastic Character! You'll have to let me know if you try out these rules in a game!


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Get to Know Your Government: Introducing SGB
(Pictured left to right) SGB President Maggie Kennedy, Rajaab Nadeem, Jessa Chong and Cory Stillman. (Photo courtesy of Horizon)
Most students can't speak one-on-one with administration to discuss issues most important to them or muster up enough support from the student body to get administration's attention. This is where the Student Government Board comes in to help.
From pressuring Pennsylvania's elected officials to pass a state budget to garnering up administrative backing to reduce textbooks costs, last year's board showed what student representatives can do when they band together.
The Student Government Board — or, SGB — is the student government at Pitt that aims to "promote the concerns, interests, needs, and welfare of the student body of the University of Pittsburgh," according to its website. SGB is led by a board of nine elected members each year, including one president and eight board members. The president is decided in an annual campus-wide election while the board members campaign in a separate election for their positions. The board member who receives the most votes in the SGB election automatically becomes the executive vice president while the president then appoints two of the remaining board members as vice presidents — one of whom will also serve as chief of finance and the other as chief of cabinet.
SGB has direct power over allocating a portion of the student activity fund, which comes from the $80 student activity fee per semester, to student organizations and club sports. SGB can also pass bills editing their own code and procedures. Indirectly, SGB can pass resolutions urging University or government officials to take action in a certain direction at their public meetings every Tuesday at 8:45 p.m. in Nordy's Place, located on the ground floor of the William Pitt Union.
Apart from the board, SGB is made up of three standing — or permanent — committees, including the Election Committee, the Judicial Committee and the Allocations Committee. The Cabinet of Committees is the SGB body that oversees a number of other committees, including the Wellness Committee, the Academic Affairs Committee, the Community and Governmental Relations Committee, the Diversity and Inclusion Committee and the Facilities, Technology and Transportation Committee.
The executive vice president also is the speaker of SGB's lower legislative body, The assembly, made up of one representative from each of the 15 student-affairs-affiliated organizations at Pitt. The assembly presents an opportunity for student leaders to have an open dialogue with SGB the first and third Wednesday of each month at 8 p.m.
SGB also runs a First Year Council to which first-semester students can apply. Selected students, "who demonstrate early potential for campus leadership," will help the board by researching for ongoing projects.
After the spring elections concluded — with Maggie Kennedy as next year's SGB president — the Board started planning for the upcoming year. Here are some of next year's new SGB members and what they have in store for their terms.
Executive Vice President Jahari Mercer
Mercer is a senior industrial engineering major and was the president for the Pitt Students for Social Justice last year. He was also the Pitt National Society of Black Engineers corporate liaison chair and ran for an SGB board position on the Neighbors slate.
He campaigned on expanding student's ability to use their meal plans, adding diversity and inclusion to the new student orientation and helping departments find ways to help their students de-stress.
"My biggest goals for the upcoming semester include to give students more freedom with their meal plan so that they can have more options of what to eat with their swipes, continue to stress and promote the need for diversity and inclusion on campus and to make SGB an organization that students feel comfortable communicating with and can use as a resource here on campus," Mercer said.
Vice President and Chief of Finance Cory Stillman
Stillman is a junior film studies major who was the allocations chair last year. He is involved with WPTS Radio and is a member of the Beta Theta Phi fraternity. He ran as and SGB board candidate on the Horizon slate.
He campaigned on helping students better understand the allocations process, allowing non-sport competitive clubs to get more funding in return for their fundraising successes, an initiative to expand the Office of Career Development and Placement Assistance for creative arts students and creating an on-campus LGBTQ+ center.
"[Diversity] is educational, it will teach you just as much as you learn in the classroom," Stillman said. "So to enter the world after college and take it head on, experience with diversity is really invaluable for any student here at Pitt."
Board Member Albert Tanjaya
Tanjaya is a junior computer science major and was previously the recording secretary for the SGB assembly. He was the Asian Student Alliance advocacy chair, involved with Jumpstart and ran his candidacy on the 582 Bridges slate.
He campaigned on expanding the electronic room booking service to include more buildings and floors on campus, adding more trash and recycling bins and finding a better way for students to track the status of SGB projects.
"Without student government, there would be such an overhaul of chaos and communication going back and forth [between administration and students] whereas student government is a centralized place for all of these communications," Tanjaya said.
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Q&A with Dr Darnelle Pretorius, SCC College Principal
Dr Pretorius was born in Pretoria, one of South Africa's largest cities. She has held senior positions at St Stephen's School in Duncraig for the majority of twenty years, has led an international school in Mauritius, and has numerous degrees and qualifications.
However, her 'spiritual home' is much farther from the bright lights of the big city, with the small farming town of Malalane capturing the essence of her memories of South Africa.
"My husband grew up there, I was a teacher in the local government school and then headed up the lower private school. It's a forty-five-minute drive to Mozambique, on the tip of the Kruger National Park and it is a wonderful place to live."
Comfortable as a pastor's wife in rural Africa or mixing it with the brightest minds in education in Australia – there are many facets to SCEA's newest leader.
This week, we asked the hard questions that every staffer wants to know but daren't ask!
On her fascination with flight and futuristic transport:
My dad was an airline pilot. At nine years of age, I was raised in the cockpit of planes. I would sit in the 'jump-seat' [just behind the pilot] as a child and fly places. It was fascinating and it gave me an insight into life above the ground.
Flight has always been a fascinating thing for me. I can't wait for UberAir! It's just around the corner.
Some people say 'I will never get in a pilotless vehicle'. They do it with large trucks already in the state's north, operating from an office near Perth Airport!
I will climb into an UberAir tomorrow when it's available – I can't wait!
I love the whole idea of Tesla cars and that pursuit of the future.
The Christian world talks about 'telos' and where we are going and what Jesus is bringing us to.
I look forward to the future and I'm excited about things moving forward.
God has designed us to know so much and it's only our fallen nature that stops us from knowing how the universe operates.
On her personal faith and how to deal with competing theological positions with staff and parents:
For me, God is bigger than everything.
As such, even when there may be 'faith fatigue' in life for Christians, we ask ourselves the question: 'God answers prayer, so why would we ever give up?'
I'm overt with my faith, but I don't believe that raising issues that may be seen as controversial is helpful in our context. It invites contentious conversations around theological perspectives – and that has no value to it.
I talk to people about where they are at, the fact that they are loved and that God has a purpose for you.
On sharing that faith in a school context:
I speak to students about their purpose in life.
Ultimately, they will realise that there is a future for them because God has created you for a purpose. Don't invest everything in the current here-and-now, invest in the future – your future. That's my message to them.
On the many facets of Swan Christian College (Trade Centre, Online Learning, K-12, etc.) and how they will work together:
Each area has its place. When you look at it strategically, you don't want to micro-manage, you want to enable it.
What do we need to do to enable it to thrive?
Each one has a very well-versed leader and so, how do you help that leader thrive to make their area succeed?
We need to find new ways of reaching the same goals that we have always set out to achieve with our students.
On the next twelve months at Swan Christian College and the greatest challenge for her at this time:
Wherever you go, the goal is to build trust.
Simon Sinek speaks about 'leadership being about the little things, every day, building up trust with the people around you.'
If you get that right, you can do almost anything. Because if your staff and the people you work with trust you, and you know that you have got their back and you know what you're doing, your messaging is authentic.
Time proves authenticity.
It doesn't happen in three weeks or three months.
It takes a long while of being consistent and being there and being a servant.
When you're a servant leader, you just get in there, hands and all. You don't do it from a distance.
I think I am an enabler. But you can only do that through a trusting relationship.