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Kristy Battista | 16 May 2022
It was fantastic to be involved in the Energy Transition Summit in Sydney, Australia last week, which focused on the critical need to transition to sustainable energy systems, the very real challenges ahead and the collaboration across sectors that will be required on a scale that has never been seen before.
It was both a sobering day, being reminded that we have less than nine years to achieve net zero, and a day full of opportunity, highlighted by inspiring talks and reminders about this country's potential, including for example that Australia receives approximately 10,000 times its energy consumption needs in solar radiation each year.
How Allume is supporting the transition to clean energy
I spoke from the perspective of a growing business using technological innovation to solve a very real market need. For those of you that do not know Allume's history, we were born out of a Melbourne based start-up accelerator in 2015, and today we are a rapidly growing international business with product installed in Australia, the US and the UK.
Allume's vision is a world where everyone can access clean and affordable energy from the sun. Specifically, we are making rooftop solar accessible to multi-dwelling buildings through a world first technology called the SolShare.
In the session, evolving with the market, our panel spoke about the evolution of environmental, social and governance issues, aka ESG, being propelled to the top of the corporate agenda.
The SolShare makes solar power accessible where it's needed most
Allume was founded on very strong ESG principles. In particular the E, the reduction of carbon emissions, and the S, energy equity for all in particular social or community housing which is a key market for Allume in Australia, the US and the UK.
The real estate sector is a big carbon emitter and therefore presents a great opportunity for impact. As a business working at the coal face of providing solutions, we have born witness to the increased ESG focus from the real estate sector over the last five years. In particular, there has been a palpable acceleration in focus on ESG metrics over the past two years.
Why this much needed shift?
1. An evolution of community expectations and social drivers, which is feeding into investors' expectations shifting from pure profit maximization to sustainable value creation. Many pension and superannuation funds are demanding ESG benchmarks for investment which is translating to a focus on ESG in the real estate space.
2. A generational shift as millennials start to take positions of power in industry.
3. Companies linking executive remuneration directly to ESG performance. According to industry reports released last year ~20% of S&P 500 companies in the US, ~45% FTSE 100 companies in London, and 81% of ASX 100 companies in Australia link remuneration of executives to ESG outcomes.
Allume can help organisations around the world meet ESG targets
For Allume historically the return on investment drove the sale of the SolShare. But now the drivers that lead to a sale are increasingly around ESG and sustainability metrics.
For example, In Australia the SolShare helps commercial and apartment buildings meet the new National Building Energy Rating Scheme standards for on-site renewable energy generation.
California has a 'solar mandate' requiring all new multifamily buildings up to three-stories in height have solar.
And in the UK, the SolShare, improves an apartment building's performance against the Energy Performance Certificate for brownfield sites and the Sustainability Assessment Procedure for greenfield apartments.
Using technology to make buildings more efficient and environmentally friendly
People are starting to think about real estate differently. Historically a building was a stagnant piece of infrastructure but now there is an opportunity for technology to provide insights into a building, whether that be energy efficiency, waste, or patterns of use by those that live and/or work in that building.
What you do not measure you do not know about and therefore you cannot change. Recently I heard of a large commercial building in a major city centre that had a significant water leak for years that went undetected until technology starting measuring and reporting on consumption metrics.
It's almost like the buildings will start to come alive and be contributors to the community around them.
In addition to the commitment of industry and cleantech companies such as Allume, we need clear guidance and support of government at the state and federal level. Because what was abundantly clear from the energy transition summit is that we are going to need all hands-on deck to face the massive challenge of a sustainable future for Australia and the world.


Maja Squinado Spider Crab in the shell is served with plenty of garlic shrimp. This master piece from Portugal is a seafood lovers dream. You will find it in all of the best gourmet restaurants in Lisbon, Portugal. If there is a Portuguese gourmet favorite, Maja Squinado Spider Crab is in the running. It is a dream come true for those who love seafood.
In the surrounding area around the Sanxiantai Dragon Bridge there is a local fish dish which had its origins with the indigenous peoples living in the area of the bridge. This area has been one of the historical fishing spots for generations. Out of this lifestyle of fishing and cooking what was caught, came a delightful delicacy that is delicious. If you go to any of the eateries in the area of the bridge this will be the featured gourmet special. It is with great pride that this is cooked and served just like it has always been done for centuries.
Hot and Spicy Crab is a Taiwanese masterpiece that is cooked in a soup made from over 100 mushrooms. It is often served with a generous amount of fried mud clams in a very spicy sauce. Then it is followed by a large pot of soup. The soup is generally made with crab legs, mushrooms, and lots of local spices and sauces. Nothing says Taiwan more than Hot and Spicy Crab.
There are over 2200 species of fish in the waters that surround the Philippine Islands and the Filipino Chefs know how to prepare them all. The Philippines is made up of 700 Islands and fish is a stable food in the Filipino diet. You may be surprised at how many different fish dishes you encounter while traveling through The Philippines.
The freshly pressed Mullet Roe is most often prepared with garlic and scallions. Most Taiwanese restaurants suggest pairing it with a high quality Taiwanese Beer. When the Mullet fish are running, every part of the fish is used. It is considered a small fish and every part of the fish is used for food. The Mullet fish are quite expensive and nothing is left for waste.
Chili crab is a delightful seafood specialty straight from Singapore. This Singaporean seafood dish is so loved in Asia, that it has made it's way into the mainstream specialties of several other Asian countries. Mud crabs are very plentiful and are commonly stir-fried in a thick savory sauce. The sauce is tomato based with chili and has a sweet tang to it. Even though it is called Chili Crab, it is a very mild tasting dish from Singapore.
While traveling The Inside Passage In Northern Alaska this is one of the first of several feasts you will be offered. There is nothing like fresh King Crab and add the fresh baked Salmon and this is a match made in heaven. Often times it is served with a creamy Smoked Salmon Chowder. Smoking Wild Salmon has been an Alaskan Native tradition passed on from generation to generation throughout Alaska. This is a favorite among both locals and visitors.You are likely to find different variations of this gourmet favorite at most high quality restaurants.
The Eel is a saltwater fish found abundantly in the seas surrounding both Japan and Taiwan. This has always been a Japanese favorite and was prepared raw. Due to health concerns, raw fish is seldom served and the Eel is deliciously cooked. Because non-Asians often consider the Eel to look more like a snake, many have not tried this delicious Seafood Treasure. But rest assured that the Eel is indeed a Saltwater fish and is quite tasty. If you are in either Taiwan or Japan, be sure to order this seafood treat.
In San Diego, you will find Crab Cakes everywhere from the local beach food shack to the elite dinner houses on the San Diego Bay. Crab Cakes are prepared with fresh crab and fried. They are usually paired with a generous amount of fresh steamed vegetables.
Sour dough is a type of leavening where a starter is made and allowed to bubble and sour to form a fresh yeast. This starter is then always used, except for the last cup. A cup of flour is added and the new starter is put back in the starter jar and the lid put on tight. Each time it is used, it is always replenished. It is quite common for restaurants and country homes to each have their own starters. The bread that is made is called "Sourdough" and it extremely tasty.
Both Razor and Butter Clams are plentiful in the Pacific North West. Because these are so plentiful and fresh, they are usually used for making fresh Clam Chowder. The West Coast has around 500 varieties of clams, though only about 50 of them are well known. Each local area has it's own secret chowder recipe, and it's own favorite clam. Some like the broth thick and others thin. Those wanting a thick soup use a cream to make the soup broth, instead of straight milk. If traveling on the Pacific Coast, take time to stop in several different areas and taste some of the different recipes. We are sure you will be pleasantly surprised.
This is just a few of our well loved sea food delights from around the world. When traveling to coastal areas and island nations, take time to discover some of the local fish delicacies of the area. Each area or country will have it's own signature dishes and you will want to try as many as you can. There is nothing that fills in the stories of a people, more than the special dishes that only they are known for. Enjoy your food adventure. Pack your bag, grab your passport, and enjoy traveling around the world.


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* Overheard in the Store:
"I have done things with ladders that make bystanders shriek with horror."
"The last person not bleeding wins."
<shouting at repetitive busker outside> "Hey Joey Ramone! Pretty PLEASE learn another chord!"
"In general, I try not to microwave sour cream."
"Sometimes we bear seemingly unbearable things, because the alternative is so much worse."
"Does anything ever get described as a 'low-octane thriller'?"
"The fact that it's tactless doesn't make it untrue."
"I'd be a really Casual Assassin, like 'You're gonna die, no doubt about that, but meantime would you like a coffee or a soda?'"
"Someone had an Emotional Support chicken on the bus today."
"What I really thought was that I had ordered a goat when I was drunk and forgot."
"Trust me, absolutely nothing good starts with burned garlic."
"Thanks, Car Insurance Company. There couldn't possibly be more perfect hold music than an endless instrumental loop of 'Danger Zone'."
"I don't remember what I ate for lunch, but I remember the plot to every one of these books."
* R.I.P. to Vonda N. McIntyre, who passed away on April 1st from pancreatic cancer. McIntyre was a multiple award winner, brilliant author, one of the founders of the Clarion West Writers Workshop, founder of Book View Cafe, and the person who gave Hikaru Sulu his first name, among many other accomplishments. She managed to finish her final novel a few weeks before her death. https://www.geekwire.com/2019/vonda-n-mcintyre-1948-2019-seattle-science-fiction-star-dies-cancer/
* Freethink Media created an awesome video on Borderlands' and Mission Comics and Arts' respective sponsorship programs and our survival models for unconventional retail! https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=mQD1y2yORPQ
* Wow, so, we're not sure how we managed to miss linking to this months ago when it came out, but we did -- Alan was interviewed for "The Muni Diaries" podcast, and he tells the story of the "The Secret in the Basement of the Store" (actually the basement of the Cafe, but it's an interesting story either way) https://www.munidiaries.com/2018/10/30/the-secret-about-the-basement-at-borderlands-books/! Also check out "The Muni Diaries" talk with Pete Mulvihill, owner of Green Apple Books: https://www.munidiaries.com/?s=green+apple+books
* How can you NOT want to watch the opening credits to "Game of Thrones" re-created with a couple thousand Oreo cookies?! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmf-6TYjGuQ
* Congratulations to Seanan McGuire! Her series Wayward Children is going to be coming to TV. More details here: https://www.tor.com/2019/03/18/seanan-mcguires-wayward-children-series-coming-to-television/
* Ohmigosh does the trailer for "Good Omens" look awesome! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUJoR4vlIIs
* San Francisco literary icon Lawrence Ferlinghetti is celebrating his 100th birthday, and the NY Times did a retrospective on old San Francisco, and they mention Borderlands to boot! https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/11/travel/lawrence-ferlinghettis-enduring-san-francisco.html This article from Medium contains alternate photos to illustrate the Times article, including one quite old one taken at Borderlands Cafe! https://medium.com/@mark_20745/lawrence-ferlinghettis-enduring-san-francisco-696caa078a0b
* According to some (probably pretty dubious) Yelp statistics, Borderlands is number 35 on the list of America's top 50 bookstores: https://hoodline.com/2018/10/bibliophiles-take-heed-here-are-america-s-50-favorite-bookstores
* Local author Nick Mamatas is teaching another Fabulist Fiction course at WeWork starting May 4th. Details and sign up here: https://sfwriting.institute/portfolio/fabulist_fiction/
* As fans of speculative fiction we tend to obsess over worlds, big and small. Well here are some worlds that fit in old pocket watches. https://mymodernmet.com/miniature-worlds-antique-jewelry-gregory-grozos/
* An extremely rare discovery of fossils that were the direct victims of the KT extinction event will keep scientists busy for decades. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/04/08/the-day-the-dinosaurs-died
* When people think of Cyptids, they tend to go to Bigfoot, Chupacabra, or the Loch Ness Monster, but the fact is there are rumors about unusual creatures all around the world, from dogmen to frogmen to extinct species, some known only to locals. Here are 24 of those lesser known ones: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/great-local-cryptids
* Self-publishing has helped a lot of marginalized authors find their audience, but there's a dark side of plagiarism, book-stuffing, and scammers on the rise, making sometimes as much as $100K a month. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/mar/28/plagiarism-book-stuffing-clickfarms-the-rotten-side-of-self-publishing
* An article on how the end of "Game of Thrones" (the television series) should not be the end of our respect for fantasy as a vehicle for story telling. https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-game-of-thrones-fantasy-20190403-story.html
* "The Twilight Zone" is returning for the third time, and as Jordan Peele's take on the classic franchise premieres, it's a great time to look back at the history of the series. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-twilight-zone-rod-serling-jordan-peele/
* Thrillist has a list of their favorite SF/F shows of 2019 so far, some of which have gotten universal acclaim, some of which are a little more controversial in their inclusion. https://www.thrillist.com/entertainment/nation/best-sci-fi-shows-2019
* One of the Hugo nominees this year is a fan fiction archive; Samantha Cole over at Motherboard talked to some of the authors who have fiction on AO3. https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/vbw9eb/internet-fan-fiction-archive-ao3-hugo-award
* On the political bent of much of current science fiction, and how the writers are trying to create a path back to normality. https://www.wired.com/2019/03/geeks-guide-sci-fi-future/
* It might be time to get cautiously excited about the new "Dune" film -- (hyped is probably pushing it). https://www.superherohype.com/movies/441631-5-reasons-to-get-hyped-about-the-dune-remake
* Apple has released the line-up for their Apple Plus TV service and quite a few of the original programs are of interest to science-fiction and fantasy fans, including "Amazing Stories". https://www.polygon.com/2019/3/25/18277261/apple-tv-plus-streaming-shows-movies
* "The Matrix" came out 20 years ago (!), and while some people continue to discover and enjoy the film (the first more than the second or third,) there are many who look back and don't think the film series has gotten better with age. http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20190319-the-matrixs-male-power-fantasy-has-dated-badly
* An opinion piece on "What tech hasn't learned from science fiction": https://www.ft.com/content/1b8ef552-554b-11e9-91f9-b6515a54c5b1
* When science fiction does come true? It's not necessarily a good thing. For every good use of a development, there can be a much darker application. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/12/books/review/namwali-serpell.html
* For example! The search for a death ray and all the other inventions that have come out of this goal. https://slate.com/technology/2019/04/death-ray-history-jeff-hecht-excerpt.html
* The upcoming "Godzilla: King of Monsters" has promised us a slew of monsters and a line in the new trailer says they've found 17 creatures and counting. We might not see all of them in the film, but fingers crossed. https://sciencefiction.com/2019/04/03/monarch-has-found-17-and-counting-titans-in-godzilla-king-of-the-monsters/
* Sometimes all you need to hear is the title of something to know you're going to be interested. Two words: "Warrior Nun." https://sciencefiction.com/2019/04/03/netflixs-warrior-nun-gains-sylvia-de-fanti-as-mother-superior/
Award News
* In sad news, after a decade the Gemmell Awards have announced that they are being disbanded. Check out the full statement here: http://www.gemmellawards.com/
* The finalists for the 2019 Hugo Awards have been announced and it's a pretty great list. https://bookriot.com/2019/04/03/2019-hugo-award-finalists/
* Check out the winners of Spectrum 26 over on the Spectrum Awards blog.
http://spectrumfantasticart.com/blog/2019/03/31/spectrum-26-awards-recipients/
* The International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts Awards have been announced as well. Check out the list of winners at Locus: https://locusmag.com/2019/03/iafa-awards-winners/
* Gabriela Damian Miravete has won the 2018 Tiptree Award for the short story "They Will Dream In the Garden". You can both read the announcement and find a link to the story here: https://tiptree.org/2019/03/gabriela-damian-miravete-wins-2018-tiptree-award-honor-and-long-list-announced
* Uncanny Magazine has released the results of their Reader's Poll - check out the list and read the winners here: https://uncannymagazine.com/uncanny-magazine-2018-favorite-fiction-reader-poll-results/
* Check out the short list for the 2018 Sara Douglass Series Award - especially if you don't like to start series until they finish. https://aurealisawards.org/2019/03/03/2018-sara-douglass-book-series-award-shortlist/
* And finally, Locus Magazine has the short list for this year's Sturgeon Award. https://locusmag.com/2019/03/sturgeon-finalists-announced/
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Buying a residential plot in the cultural capital of Karnataka i.e., Mysore is many's dream, Mysore Urban Development Authority is helping such dream come true as it has issued notification for 530 sites of various dimensions at various places in Mysore district, filled in application with enclosures will be issued and received between 01.08.2017 to 16.08.2017, check this article to get who are eligible to apply, how to apply and where to apply for Mysore Urban Development Authority sites.
Candidates who fulfills the prerequisites mentioned above required to apply as per the terms mentioned below.
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Candidates who wish to apply for Mysore Urban Development Authority sites at Lalithadri Nagar required to follow below mentioned procedures.
Are you looking for information on the BDA lottery application for Bangalore flats? The Bangalore Development Authority has advertised for 1, 2, 3 bedroom flats in various areas in Bangalore, the complete information of which are provided in this article. You will also get details of the application process.


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title: Produce winning RFPs faster
contexts: office365,microsoft365
copyright: Microsoft
translations: en
tools: Delve,OneDrive,Outlook,Skype for Business,Yammer
areas: Operations,Sales
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Accelerate responses to requests for proposals (RFPs) by getting input from topic experts faster and by uncovering relevant content and reusable components of existing RFPs to iterate faster and win more business.

## Uncover existing templates

When you're beginning a new draft RFP, you can discover previous RFPs and RFP templates that might be helpful through your **Delve** network. Delve helps you discover relevant information through the power of Office Graph, which automatically populates Delve with activities you already do every day, such as which documents you share, which people you meet with, and which documents you read. Delve shows you a mix of content from across Office 365; you'll see both your own documents, and documents your colleagues are working on. Find potentially helpful templates by searching for RFPs. Delve never changes any permissions, so you'll only see documents that you already have access to.

[View Training](https://support.office.com/en-US/article/What-is-Office-Delve-1315665a-c6af-4409-a28d-49f8916878ca)

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## Reach out to colleagues for customer insights

Leverage the expertise of your coworkers to customize the RFP with information relevant to the customer. You can identify colleagues familiar with your customer through **Yammer** Group conversations. Yammer is an enterprise social network where coworkers share information across teams, and organize around projects. When you create a new Group, you can choose to make it public and engage with coworkers across your organization, or private, to communicate just with your team.

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## Quickly obtain feedback from topic experts

When you need immediate input, you can connect with available colleagues to draw on their experience with **Skype for Business**. Skype for Business is instant messaging (IM), calling, video calling, sharing, and collaboration in one tool. You can tell whether a colleague is available for an IM chat or call by the presence indicator next to his or her name. Green means go!

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## Circulate the draft RFP for feedback

When you're happy with your draft, you can solicit feedback on your RFP from offline and external colleagues with **Outlook** Modern Attachments. With Outlook Modern Attachments, you'll see a list of recently accessed doccuments so that you can easily find and share what you've been working on. Recipients can access the attachment from virtually any device. As you're sending, choose whether to allow your colleagues edit or just read-only permission on the draft RFP.

When you send an attachment that's saved to the cloud, such as in your **OneDrive,** you ensure everyone is viewing the same copy of the document. OneDrive gives you full control of who can access, view, and edit your files. When you share the RFP with editing permissions, you are automatically ready to coauthor. You can also use the version history feature of OneDrive to restore or review older versions of the RFP.

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Eighteen Bridges
Stories that connect
Fiction and poetry
Memory Cabin: Getting Lost in Newfoundland
A visit to an abandoned community in Newfoundland finds that perhaps you can go home again
by Craille Maguire Gillies
on Friday, November 29th, 2013
in Culture, Profiles
A view of Wareham, near Centreville. Photograph: Centreville-Wareham-Trinity
The town of Centreville sits on the northeast arm of Newfoundland, and is not near the centre of anywhere at all. To get there, I exited the Trans-Canada Highway and headed ninety minutes down a two-lane road studded with small towns. The speed limit most of the way was forty kilometres an hour, which Newfoundlanders appeared to universally obey. Eventually, the driver in the car ahead pulled over to let me pass.
I arrived in Centreville by late morning, but the town was so inconspicuous that I was in the neighbouring village before I realized I'd missed it. I did a U-turn in my rental car, headed past the town hall and the blueberry factory, and a few moments later arrived at the home of Esther and Stu Rogers.
Esther greeted me at the back door, clasping my hand warmly and leading me past two coolers by the back door, packed with a picnic lunch. Stu was out buying fuel for the boat. They kept a cabin in Round Harbour, a twenty minute boat ride away, and were taking me over for a visit, not only as a gesture of Newfoundland hospitality, but also to give me a glimpse of what life was like for traditional outport communities before people were forced to resettle. I'd seen photos of saltbox homes being towed across the water to new communities during the government's long, emotional relocation program, but could only imagine the places they had come from.
Esther and Stu are both in their late seventies. They have lived in Centreville since 1961, when everyone from their outport communities—she is from Fair Island, he is from Round Harbour, just across the way—packed up and sailed all their worldly goods to the mainland. They abandoned their homes during Premier Joey Smallwood's resettlement programs of the 1950s to 1970s. Smallwood believed that fishermen were living an impoverished, third-world life. Modernization through new fish processing plants to feed the burgeoning frozen fish market, hydroelectric plants, and paper mills would bring prosperity and secure their future. "This shining shovel, a symbol of new life and economic development for the province," the premier said, posing at a construction site in an archival film, "is ready to turn sod anew in another step in the growth of Newfoundland."
The propaganda of the time cast an eye toward a gleaming new future: 'Yes, today and tomorrow Newfoundland is truly on the march,' proclaimed a black-and-white promotional film.
When Smallwood became premier, approximately 300,000 people lived in a province one-third the size of England. "For some years past, there has been a lot of talk about the way the population of Newfoundland are scattered into so many hundreds of settlements along so many thousands of miles of coastline," he said in 1957. "It has long been felt by thoughtful people that the terribly scattered nature of our population has made it very expensive for the Government to provide public services to all the people."
It was time for Newfoundlanders to stop hanging on to the "old traditional ways," a brochure from the 1960s reported. Relocation was the only way to prepare "the next generation" for life in a modern, urban society. The propaganda of the time cast an eye toward a gleaming new future: "Yes, today and tomorrow Newfoundland is truly on the march," proclaimed a black-and-white promotional film.
"One thing we will not do is force anyone to move. That would be dictatorship," Joey Smallwood said. He told fishermen to burn their boats, and he promised new jobs. He spoke of "reception centres" and "growth areas."
Centreville was one such growth area, a manufactured town forged from the adrenaline of collective desperation and the autocratic ambitions of a man who had called himself "the latest father of Confederation."
At the harbour, Stu steadied their three-person skiff, and Esther and I handed down the coolers and jugs of water. "This was nothing, just an open space," he said, as we made our way to the wharf. It was cloudy and the air smelled of wood smoke. We passed hills covered with the green tips of young spruce and fir trees. When the people of Fair Island, Round Harbour and the other tiny islands decided to hang up their fishing nets, they ran their schooners aground and moved to Centreville to work in forestry. Families all across Newfoundland floated their homes to similar "growth centres" or loaded them on a government resettlement barge because they couldn't afford to leave them behind.
The year following the move from Fair Island a fire destroyed the area around Centreville. (Rumours were that it started at a lobster cookout in Gambo.) "The last two houses were hardly in the water when the fire came through," said Esther.
"See that opening?" said Esther, looking toward the near distance between two islands. "If you went over there you could go all the way across the Atlantic."
Stu pointed the skiff toward the open water. "There was a time when you saw more boats on the water than cars on the road," he said.
We passed Yellow Fox Island and Silver Fox Island, Partridgeberry Island and Sydney Cove. A smooth granite rock that arched into the air was known as Whale's Back. After ten minutes, we reached the dock at Fair Island, which was settled in 1780 and had a population of 750 when it was abandoned two centuries later. Despite the government's directive to never return, many people built new cabins on the plots where their families once lived. Esther and I climbed ashore and Stu hung back in the boat, agreeing to pick us up at the other end of the island to save Esther a walk back.
We headed toward a short rocky hill covered with crackerberries. "I'm only going that far and then I'll stop," Esther announced, as much to herself as to me. She has arthritis in her hips, but was compelled to keep walking. "I used to run up this hill," she said. She knew what was on the other side, but wanted to have a look anyway. To our right was an old cemetery with white stone markers; to the left, a slope of rocks she and her friends played on. This was how they spent their evenings on Fair Island as children, walking and running over the rocks, ice skating in winter on a frozen bog.
Down among the cabins were white signs where the town store and a church and other establishments had been. In 1946 there were three churches on Fair Island. People from Pork Island, Sydney Cove, Round Harbour and the other smaller islands—the "people across the tickle"—came to Fair Island to shop. The island had a government wharf and a one-legged postmaster who would stump out to the point and raise a flag to tell someone on the next island over that they had a telegram waiting for them. (At the Resettlers Museum, across from the Rogers's house, I saw the postmaster's wooden leg. It was a kind of puppet, with ropes to manipulate the limb and a socket for the knee.)
The people of Fair Island and Round Harbour were isolated, but there was no time to be bored. Women woke at four a.m. to make breakfast for the men, and their days were filled with "making" fish, doing laundry, tending the garden and children. They kept vinegar plants to treat fevers and headaches, and drained myrrh bladders from fir trees to tend wounds. Before bed, Stu said, they readied the dough for the next day's bread.
As in other parts of Newfoundland, the men were often away, cutting trees in winter and travelling to Labrador to fish in late spring. When they returned, the entire family was busy curing the catch.
Stu followed us slowly in the boat as we walked along Fair Island. We passed a small green cabin that belonged to her family. It hadn't been kept up and looked as hospitable as a garden shed. A hundred metres or so down the shoreline, we climbed aboard the boat and steamed over to Round Harbour, where Stu and Esther came each summer. We hauled the coolers and water to the cabin, which had two serviceable bedrooms, a new boathouse the size of a double-car garage and a freshly built dock, and Stu made a fire in a small stove in the corner of the living room.
"I don't think you put enough wood in the stove. I'm cold," Esther said to Stu, as she set out a lunch of cold roast chicken, macaroni salad, slabs of sourdough bread and a spinach salad. Esther seemed embarrassed she hadn't made the food herself, but said she had been too busy; the previous day she'd had to drive all the way to Gander for a doctor's appointment.
When they moved to the mainland, they lost their gardens and boats. They lost access to the water. 'Moving,' Esther said, 'probably tore the soul right out of you.'
Stu pointed out the spot at the end of Round Harbour where fishermen ran three schooners ashore when the fishery collapsed. It was a small beach, buffered by shrubs and trees. Logs lay across the sand, but there was no trace of those schooners. He glanced around the perimeter of Round Harbour, his eyes following the route he used to take from his house on the other side, through the trees to the school. He ran this four times a day, coming home for a hot lunch. The trees were thick and green, and there hardly looked to be space for a trail let alone houses.
Little more than fifty years earlier, people would have sat around the kitchen table of their tiny cabins eating chicken they raised themselves, or fish they caught. When they moved to the mainland and started working for a large logging company it was not merely their trade that would have changed. They lost their gardens and boats. They lost access to the water, so they had to buy more food. They had to buy land and perhaps take out a mortgage to build a house. "Moving," Esther said, "probably tore the soul right out of you." It was hardest for the older people, like her parents.
After lunch, I asked her if people are nostalgic about the place and forget how hard it was to live on Fair Island. She stopped loading up the cooler, turned and said, "Yes." She paused, but didn't elaborate. Then she went back to her packing.
We closed up the cabin, loaded up the skiff and unfastened it from the wharf. As we rounded the corner and Round Harbour passed out of view, Esther said, as if to the wind, "Yeah, that's our cabin. I call it our memory cabin."
The rain pelted our faces as we made our way back to Centreville. With no cover, Stu squinted and steeled himself against the weather. He liked to slow the boat and point out various sights—there's Little Sugar Loaf, he said of a nubby rock poking out of the water—but Esther was getting cold.
"It's beginning to rain harder, dear. Bring us home."
This article was supported by an Access Copyright Foundation research grant.
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Lovely read, thoroughly enjoyed it.. I have lived in Centreville all my life and know Esther and Stu quite well. Wonderful people.
I would like to point out however, that the picture is not of Centreville. Sorry, I don't know where it is either.
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Convicted killer Jodi Arias will be allowed to represent herself in the sentencing phase of her capital murder trial.
On June 4, 2008, Arias attacked her boyfriend Travis Alexander, and ended up stabbing him repeatedly, slitting his throat and shooting him in the forehead at his Mesa, Arizona home.
Admitted killer Arias, 34, claimed she was acting in self-defense, but prosecutors were successful in convincing a jury that it was premeditated murder, brought on by a jealous rage after Alexander tried to end the affair.
The murder received extensive media coverage, and there are hours of court proceedings, commentaries, interviews and other various detritus available surrounding the lurid case. Arias has clashed with her legal team throughout her trial, and her lawyers were denied after asking Judge Sherry Stephens to be dismissed from the case.
Arias, who received her GED in prison, will have her lawyers on hand in an advisory capacity, to help her traverse whatever ideas and concepts she might conjure in time for what will surely be a virtuoso performance as she takes the stand.
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Arias also set up the JAA Appellate Fund website, which accepts donations to pay for her appeals.
The sentencing trial is scheduled to begin Sept. 8. If the second jury is unable to make a unanimous decision, the death penalty would be off the table. The judge would then sentence Arias to life imprisonment, or to be eligible for release after 25 years.


It would appear that Qualcomm have a lot riding on the Snapdragon 820 after the predecessor device, the Snapdragon 810, caught the imagination of industry pundits all over the world as "the Snapdragon that overheated." In Qualcomm's eyes, far too many pixels have been inconvenienced through discussion about the 810's heat issue and the business wants to move on. Yesterday, Qualcomm unearthed their new champion chipset, the Snapdragon 820 and today they have been showing off the chipset and what it is capable of. Qualcomm's press release talked about how their new mobile chipset "is engineered to create immersive experiences for your next new smartphone ... has been holistically designed around enriching visual quality and audio clarity, as well as developing more intuitive ways to interact with devices, to generate deeply immersive experiences." But what does this all mean? Let's take a look under the public relations gloss.
Qualcomm have made much of the visual processing abilities of the Snapdragon 820, which they say is able to generate photorealistic graphics when processing imaging files, using a mix of the integrated Adreno 530 GPU and the custom Kyro application cores. The Snapdragon 820 features the latest version of Epic's Unreal Engine, UE4, which includes the ability to generate screen space reflections, dynamic reflections that move relative to the viewing angle, High Dynamic Range Rendering (HDRR), enhanced contrast, realistic color and lighting and temporal anti-aliasing. QUalcomm use the heterogeneous core processing technologies and the Zeroth neural processing platform in a product called Qualcomm Snapdragon Scene Detect, which is "designed to automatically and quickly (within fractions of a second) analyze and classify recognizable image types and categories." These images may be organized into a photo gallery and used to build a new image. Qualcomm's deep learning technology is integrated into Snapdragon Scene Detect so the processor can be trained to recognize different devices or remove parts of an image that do not correspond to the desired results. The Snapdragon 820 also includes Snapdragon Low Light Vision (LLV), which is a combination of adaptive brightness and noise reduction technologies. LLV is able to adapt for movement when taking HDR (High Dynamic Range) shots and motion artifacts, to remove much of the noise present in low light photographs.
Qualcomm have given the Snapdragon 820 Immersive Audio, which when paired up with dual front facing speakers, can produce "a center of sound that's faithfully sharp and immersive, unmatched on other audio platforms" and how "music can now sound like it's flowing from multi-channel headphones, using nothing more than the device in your hand."
Qualcomm also explained how for the Snapdragon 820, their engineers took a fresh look at the processor and optimized each individual IP block, so as to improve the chipset's performance and power consumption with today's always-on applications and operating systems in mind. The chipset includes the X12 LTE (600 Mbps download speed) modem complete with enhanced LTE-U and WiFi calling functionality, the Hexagon 680 DSP and 14-bit Spectra ISP (two dedicated specialist cores designed to assist the 64-bit customer Kryo application cores), Qualcomm Snapdragon Smart Protect and the deep learning system, Qualcomm Zeroth.
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Why take the risk? Syracuse football players, some with coronavirus concerns, could soon get an exit ramp
Updated Aug 19, 2020; Posted Aug 19, 2020
The Syracuse football during 2019 training camp.
By Nate Mink | nmink@syracuse.com
Syracuse, N.Y. — Airon Servais read about the link between Covid-19 and a rare heart condition that sounded the alarm among college administrators deciding whether to press on with fall sports.
He sought out cardiologists to figure out his health risks in contracting myocarditis, an inflammation of the heart muscle, if he were to play football this fall and what recovery might look like.
He left those conversations feeling comfortable about playing, but the added risks, both known and unknown, of a new virus have complicated for some players the bargain they're willing to take to play the physical game they love.
Now, an enticing exit ramp approaches for players still on the fence about playing. The NCAA by the end of Friday is expected to preserve or tack on an extra year of eligibility for those who opt out, based on a working proposal still in need of final approval.
That would give players extraordinary control over their future at a time they are grappling with an immensely complicated and personal decision. In choosing to play or sit, players must factor in any underlying health conditions, family history and, perhaps most worrisome, any potential known and unknown health issues that may arise by coming in contact with a novel virus scientists are still studying.
Their decision also could buck a long-standing philosophy in sport: The team comes first.
It would also force coaches to remain nimble with the roster, both this season and in the future. It's not difficult to imagine players taking advantage of the unusual opt-out option during the season, if the team plays poorly or they don't feel comfortable with the health risks by continuing to play into October or November.
For the ones pursuing a career in pro football, like Servais, a fifth-year senior offensive lineman for the Orange, the risk in compromising their athletic abilities before they ever get a chance to earn a paycheck is another looming factor. Before the coronavirus, knee, neck, concussion and spinal issues were commonly considered potential career-ending injuries. This virus, and the early links to heart and lung complications some studies have found, presents a new set of risks confronting players.
"When we as physicians talk about illness, we talk about mortality, but we also talk about morbidity, which is the burden of illness, short of death," said Gretchen Snoeyenbos Newman, an infectious disease expert at Wayne State University in Ohio.
"When we talk about elite athletes and coronavirus, the burden of illness, short of death, is significant.
"If you have a young football player, very promising, who gets severely ill with coronavirus, there is evidence of long-lasting lung damage, evidence of long-lasting cardiac complications. Even if they recover, they will have lost weeks to months of training, and long-lasting damage may be career-altering or career-ending."
For the rest of us, a 2-5% reduction in lung capacity is hardly recognizable, Snoeyenbos Newman said.
"For someone who is operating as an elite athlete, pushing the limits of what their body can do, that 2-5 percent can be career-ending," she said.
It begs an easy question: Why take the risk if the NCAA will provide an easy out?
"I've done a lot of research and looked at a lot of scientific literature, and when you look at our demographic, we are one of those groups of ages that are certainly at less of a risk," Servais said. "That gives me a little more comfort knowing, generally, in our age group, most cases are asymptomatic and the people who are symptomatic generally don't have severe side effects."
Said sophomore tight end Luke Benson: "The virus, when you're out in the world, it doesn't stop. It doesn't get any worse for anybody on the football field or it doesn't pick and choose or have any bias."
The coaching staff, which includes men who have survived bouts with cancer and those with children attending school, can choose to opt out, too. NCAA rules are in place for lower-level staffers to step in if a staff member needs to quarantine.
Syracuse head coach Dino Babers, who turned 59 in July and is part of an age group with different risk factors to assess, will continue coaching his team.
"I'm a military kid, I'm a military brat. I grew up on military bases, went to school with little kids whose dads were MIA and POWs," he said.
"I'm doing exactly what I love. I love what I'm doing. I wouldn't leave these young men behind to do it by themselves or these assistant coaches or this institution. And whatever happens, I'm at one of those ages where something bad could happen, it's not my will it's His will and whatever He wants to do can be done.
"I will not leave my wingmen. I will be right there for them all the way down the stretch."
Not all of his players are as sure, and practices have been halted to address concerns on the team. The looming eligibility answer from the NCAA could prove to be another tipping point for some once they are armed with more knowledge about their future options.
"They have to weigh that thing in their heart — they're not wrong in whatever they decide — and determine what's best and what they want to do," Babers said.
"This is different … it's just different. It's hard to act the way you've always acted before 2020. I just think this is a totally different year. If you look around the country, everything has been different in 2020."
Junior defensive back Trill Williams, lauded earlier this summer for freakish athletic traits, chuckled when the question was raised on why he's comfortable taking on added risks that could compromise his future.
"That's a great question," he said.
"I feel comfortable, you know, I got my brothers with me. As long as I got them with me, we're going to ride 'til the wheels fall off."
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From Schmidt's perspective, it's nothing more than a numbers game. More Android users = more potential customers = more attractive platform for developers. That, however, is an overly simplistic view of mobile development resting on the erroneous assumption that all mobile users, across all platforms, are one and the same.
The reality is much more nuanced and can be boiled down to a simple precept – not all smartphone users are created equal.
Read the interesting survey and analysis HERE to know more about the reasons highlighted above and the conclusion.


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February 6, 2017 6 minute readby Laura Larsen
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Editor's Note: This post is the eighth in the "Seeds: New Research in Environmental History" series cosponsored by NiCHE and Edge Effects, highlighting the work of members of the American Society for Environmental History (ASEH) Graduate Student Caucus. This series serves to highlight new work being done in the field of environmental history and connect this research to other fields and contemporary issues. Graduate caucus members were asked to respond to the following questions: ""How does your work push at the boundaries of current literature and add to existing discussions of the environment/environmental history? What forces drive your research?"
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Farmers on the Canadian prairies like to say that their grain feeds the world but, in 2014, this claim stumbled when grain movement ground to a halt. At times, an unheard of fifty-seven ships waited on the west coast for grain to arrive while prairie farmers found themselves unable to deliver to inland elevators.[1] With only two major railways in Canada to move grain the federal government passed legislation designed to compel the railways to focus on moving grain by setting financial penalties for failing to meet railcar movement targets.[2] At the same time, a strike of Canadian National Railway employees threatened to delay grain movement even longer.[3] As a settlement was reached and the weather warmed, grain movement increased but the customer relations problems created by the slowed movement continued. The overwhelming question that year in the agricultural community was: how could the Canadian grain handling and transportation system be fixed to ensure grain movement would not experience difficulties again?
Watching the problems of grain movement unfold along with the accompanying calls for a task force to investigate the cause of the problem brought with it a feeling uncomfortably close to déjà vu for me since my own work examines another time when the Canadian grain handling and transportation system was characterized as being at a crisis point. In 1975, the federal government appointed Justice Emmet Hall, already publically well known for chairing a 1961 Royal Commission on Health Services, to investigate the structure of the western Canadian grain handling system. In the previous seven years, the system was plagued by problems ranging from slow delivery of grain to port terminals to dock workers' strikes that made it difficult to fulfil delivery contracts for Canadian grain. In 1969, frustrated farmers descended on the recently elected Pierre Trudeau, during his first official trip west as Prime Minister, to demand the federal government solve the problems of grain movement and low grain prices.
By this time, the prairies had a large network of country elevators built up from the early settlement period. Almost every small town and village in the prairies had its own elevator, which combined to create a network of 4,959 delivery points by 1969.[4] In Saskatchewan, the most common elevators were the red and yellow painted ones owned by the farmers of the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool. Each elevator had the name of the town it served emblazoned on its sides. This highly decentralized system was what farmers, grain companies, and railways were looking at in the 1970s as grain movement seemed to reach a crisis point. At its core the system was essentially unchanged from the same basic structure of the 1910s so it appeared to be a prime target for the 1970s verve for modernization and efficiency.
A direct result of the attempt to modernize the grain handling and transportation system was a 61% decrease in the number of delivery points so that by 1985, there were only 1,925 points distributed unevenly across the three Prairie Provinces.[5] The number of primary elevators continued to decline into the 1990s. Watching the "sentinels of the prairies" vanishing made me want to study why they had disappeared.
Two pool Elevators fine Co-op Oil Business, Kinistino, Saskatchewan, September 1, 1942. Source: Everett Baker Slides, Saskatchewan History and Folklore Society
The centralization of the grain handling and transportation system had many repercussions including increasing the distance farmers had to move their grain by truck to an elevator on a rail line. In my own work I am interested in how the discussion of modernizing the grain handling and transportation system prioritized truck transport over rail transport to the point where the possible associated costs of truck transport, including the increased deterioration of roads subjected to increased traffic volumes of heavy trucks, were downplayed.
At the same time the Crowsnest Pass Freight Rate Agreement, which set the rate for grain movement, came under scrutiny as the two railways argued that the Crow Rate did not allow them to recoup their costs for moving grain. As part of the modernization of the grain handling and transportation system the Crow Rate, which had been first negotiated in 1897, was also changed.
Between the changes to the Crow Rate and the need to move their grain longer distances truck farmers experienced increased costs while the farm-gate price for grain did not increase. This meant that farmers had to recoup their trucking costs from some other source. Many turned to the new crop on the prairies – canola.
Canola was developed from an older oilseed called rapeseed to have low saturated fat and low erucic acid content making it an acceptable oil for human consumption. The price per bushel for canola was on par with wheat, the dominant crop on the prairies at the time, which raises the question in my work: Did farmers add it to their crop rotations to help deal with their increased costs? From an environmental perspective, canola is not easy on soils. It takes significant nitrogen to produce a single well-yielding crop as well as other soil nutrients. Adding canola into the crop rotation cycle of prairie farming added another crop, which drains soils of nutrients thus requiring farmers to add more fertilizer, with its associated environment effects, to their agricultural practices. As part of my project, I am mapping the deliveries of wheat and canola to the primary elevators in the grain handling system. I want to know if canola deliveries increased in areas where the number of delivery points declined compared to areas where the grain handling system remained more decentralized.
Since export grain is still central to the economy of the Canadian prairies, the question of how to improve the handling and transportation system for it remains important. This research hopes to show the progression of ideas around the modernization of the grain handling and transportation system as well as the initial consequences of those ideas to the agricultural environment of the Prairie Provinces.
[1] Kelsey Johnson, "Grain Jam: Five Reasons why the grain crisis matters to you,' ipolitics.ca 19 February 2014. http://ipolitics.ca/2014/02/19/grain-jam-five-reasons-why-the-grain-crisis-matters-to-you/
[2] Terry Pedwell, "Canada's international reputation as a reliable grain producer is on the line," The Star, 24 March 2014. https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2014/03/24/canadas_international_reputation_as_a_reliable_grain_producer_is_on_the_line.html; Allan Dawson, "Mixed reviews for new rail legislation to improve grain shipping," Manitoba Cooperator, 8 April 2014. http://www.manitobacooperator.ca/news-opinion/news/mixed-reviews-for-new-rail-legislation-to-improve-grain-shipping/
[3] Vanessa Lu, "Union and CN Rail research tentative deal averting weekend strike threat," The Star 5 February 2014. https://www.thestar.com/business/economy/2014/02/05/cn_railway_workers_could_strike_on_saturday.html
[4] Calculated using Canada Grain Commission, "Primary Elevator historical summaries by crop year, 1962-1963 to 2016-2017," Grain Elevators in Canada historical summaries by elevator type, Canada Grain Commission, 2017. https://www.grainscanada.gc.ca/wa-aw/geic-sgc/summary1-sommaire1-eng.asp
Laura Larsen
Laura Larsen is a PhD Candidate in the Department of History at the University of Saskatchewan. Her dissertation explores rail rationalization and agricultural policy under the Pierre Trudeau Liberal government.
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Running the Rails: The Perennial Question of Prairie Grain Handling - February 6, 2017
Raising Cattle, Losing People: Tracking soil nitrogen in Wise Creek, Saskatchewan - January 13, 2017
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Will Chabun	 3 years ago	 /Reply
I draw your attention to the fact that Regina-based Alliance Grain Traders has picked up several short-line railroads in central Saskatchewan to feed oil seeds and pulse crops into its processing system. It realizes, to its credit, that it's cheaper to collect them via rail than via truck.
Alliance is run by some very clever people and deserves close scrutiny.
A political turning point might have been the 1982 Saskatchewan general election, when the incumbent NDP government talked openly about running a campaign based around fighting all changes to the rail transportation system.
Long story short, voters weren't interested or, at the very least, were not interested in this particular issue, and the door was opened to even more consolidation.
By the way, I believe those red and yellow elevators belong to Pioneer, not to the wheat pool, whose house colours long were a kind of maroon purple-red.
Laura Larsen	 3 years ago	 /Reply
Hi Will,
Thanks for your comment. AGT is certainly an interesting company. My current project is historical and I do not intend it to look much past 1985 so AGT is a bit too current to fit into my present work. I do agree that both AGT and short line railways deserve more attention.
The Pool elevators went through several different paint jobs over the course of the company's existence but the ones in the period I'm focused on tended to be a red shade. I'd hesitate to describe that red as a maroon purple-red but then people see colour shades differently. The red-painted Pool elevators were definitely similar to today's Pioneer elevators. Here is an interesting collection of photos of Saskatchewan elevators which show some of the paint jobs including the Pool's red elevators with yellow letting: http://www.pbase.com/grainelev/image/112157903
I agree with you that the 1982 Saskatchewan provincial election is an important point in the changes to prairie grain handling and transportation. It is something that I intend to examine in more detail.
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Law schools teach lawyers how to come up with creative arguments when representing their clients. However, they rarely teach lawyers how to collaborate and innovate to improve the practice of law, or to improve their work environment. Innovation can help foster new ideas on how to improve work-life balance, how to work less and bill more, how to market the law firm and how to improve client satisfaction. New ideas benefit both lawyers and their clients alike.
If you share your overall firm goals with the entire team, including staff, everyone becomes a part of the equation and can see the impact their work makes to the overall goal. They can see the value of their contribution and will be more inclined to innovate and contribute to its overall success.
According to Dr. Bastiaan Heemsbergen, Organizational Psychologist at Queens University in Canada, transparency is the recipe for innovation. If you have a transparent company, the ideas and innovation will flow.
You probably know someone who has a "virtual office" or works remotely from time to time. While many sectors and industries have made remote work possible and even profitable, law firm infrastructure makes it difficult to implement remote collaboration in a legal setting. For years, even being able to access documents and case files from outside the office has been a challenge for many firms. Luckily, new and emerging legal software systems have thwarted this issue, making it not only possible, but easy to collaborate with your associates, staff and partners - no matter where you are.
Here at Merus, we're constantly trying to find new ways to build upon our product and optimize our clients' experiences. We release new features and updates routinely, and we want to keep you informed of the changes we're making.


Within my career, I've had the fortune of managing hundreds of sales professionals. And one thing that you're constantly going through when you manage a team of people is how stressful sales can be: it's stressful on the manager, and it's stressful on the reps. As you continue to grow in your sales career, and want to continue to be successful, you're going to have to work on ways to manage and deal with stress.
Specifically in a sales role, stress comes in a variety of different ways. One way is "hero to zero," where you have a really strong quarter or month, and all of a sudden you start back at zero, and feel the pressure to repeat your performance. The second way is that you could be missing numbers, and/or not performing at your fullest potential. Lastly, it could be a conflict between yourself and a peer or manager.
The point is, any profession and any job will be stressful...and sales is no different. This week, I wanted to give you some tips on how to manage stress that's going to be present within your sales career.
Number 1: You have to talk about it.
Find a mentor, or better yet, have an open and transparent relationship with your manager to where you feel like you can get things off your chest. That is hands down the most impactful way to relieve any work-related stress issue.
Number 2: Understand the root cause of where your stress may be coming from.
A lot of times, it's tough to understand where the stress is coming from...especially knowing that it can come from a few different variables. Take the time to reflect on your stress, and understand what's truly having the negative impact on you. Doing so will help you leaps and bounds.
Number 3: Put a plan in place to improve it.
No matter how much you feel like things are outside of your control to overcome whatever is bothering you or stressing you out, take ownership over what it may be. Then, put one thing in place to improve it: whether it's a skill you're hoping to develop, or a new process you're going to try and make better, take ownership over it. In turn, you'll feel a lot better about solving that issue.
Sales is by far one of the best careers out there, and I just wrote an awesome article on why that is. But, it's going to come with some stress and challenges along the way. That's why it's important that you know how to deal with it, especially as you progress in your career.


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HomescienceWhy have aliens never visited Earth? Scientists have a disturbing answer
Why have aliens never visited Earth? Scientists have a disturbing answer
Advanced civilizations can be destined for extinction or stagnation.
Why, to our knowledge, have aliens never visited Earth? Scientists have been baffled by this mystery for many years, but two researchers have proposed an unsettling theory: It's possible that advanced civilizations are destined to either stagnate or perish before they get a chance.
According to the new theory, space-faring civilizations ultimately reach a crisis point when scientific advancement can no longer keep up with the need for energy as they expand in size and technical sophistication. The next step is collapse. The only other option, according to the researchers, is to reject a concept of "unyielding expansion" in favor of preserving equilibrium, but this comes at the expense of a civilization's capacity to spread across the stars.
The argument seeks to resolve the Fermi Paradox and was published on May 4 in the journal Royal Society Open Science. The paradox highlights the discrepancy between the vast scope and age of the universe, two factors that suggest the universe should be teeming with advanced alien life, and the lack of evidence that extraterrestrials exist anywhere in sight. It takes its name from the casual lunchtime musings of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Enrico Fermi. "So, where are you all?" It is believed that Fermi said.
The authors of the current study claim to have the solution.
Astrobiologists Michael Wong of the Carnegie Institution for Science and Stuart Bartlett of the California Institute of Technology wrote in the study that civilizations are difficult to detect remotely because they either collapse from burnout or refocus on prioritizing homeostasis(opens in new tab), a state where cosmic expansion is no longer a goal. The apparent lack of [galactic-wide] civilizations would be compatible with either conclusion, homeostatic awakening or civilization collapse.
The two looked into studies of cities' "superlinear" expansion to arrive at their theory. According to these research, cities grow exponentially in size and energy demand as their people rise, ultimately reaching crisis points known as singularities that induce sharp drops in growth before an even more abrupt, perhaps civilization-ending collapse.
"We believe that a planetary society would encounter a 'asymptotic burnout,' an ultimate crisis where the singularity-interval time scale becomes smaller than the time scale of innovation,' once it evolves into a state that can be defined as one virtually connected global city," they said.
According to the researchers, it would be simple for mankind to identify these near-collapse civilizations since they would be wasting a lot of energy in "wildly unsustainable" ways. This raises the prospect that many of humanity's early finds of alien life may be of the clever but unwise variety, according to the researchers.
According to the researchers, civilizations might experience a "homeostatic awakening" that would refocus their production away from unrestricted progress across the stars and toward development that emphasizes social well-being, equitable, sustainable growth, and harmony with the environment. While such civilizations would not entirely give up on space travel, they wouldn't grow to a point where contact with Earth would be likely.
The researchers mention a few of humanity's "mini-awakenings" that addressed global crises on Earth, including the 1982 international whaling moratorium, the reduction of the world's nuclear arsenal from 70,000 warheads to under 14,000, and the outlawing of chlorofluorocarbon emissions, which stopped the once-expanding hole in the ozone layer.
The researchers emphasize that their proposal is only a hypothesis and that it is meant to "provoke discussion, reflection, and future investigation." It is based on the observation of principles that appear to regulate life on Earth.
Their hypothesis joins a plethora of other scientific and popular hypotheses on why we haven't established direct contact with extraterrestrial visitors. These include the enormous practical difficulties posed by interstellar travel, the possibility that extraterrestrials are in fact paying a covert visit, or the possibility that extraterrestrials arrived on Earth too early (or humans too early) in the history of the cosmos for direct contact.
Another theory suggests that it could take as long as 400,000 years for a signal sent by one advanced species to be received by another, a timescale that is much longer than the short time humans have been able to scan the skies. This theory was published on April 4 in The Astrophysics Journal.


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Christie Blatchford wanted to bear witness – at home and abroad
In 2006, Christie Blatchford and I set out to show Canadians what the Afghan mission really looked like – and she showed me what she was truly made of
Louie Palu, left, takes a picture of Christie Blatchford, second from right, and other Canadian journalists in Afghanistan's Helmand province on April 2, 2006. Mr. Palu and Ms. Blatchford were reporting on the Afghan mission for The Globe and Mail.Photography by Louie Palu/The Globe and Mail/The Globe and Mail
Louie Palu is a documentary photographer and filmmaker.
It's hard to believe Christie Blatchford has left us. I'd think death would have been afraid of the Christie I knew.
On our way to Afghanistan in 2006, we got stuck in the New Delhi airport on what was a more-than-10-hour layover between flights. There was no WiFi back then to kill time, so you just stared at the floor. It was mind-numbing. Exhausted and fuming, Christie began lashing out at whoever was responsible for booking our flight. That day she broke the letter-F key on her phone. Adding to her misery, she came back from the restroom holding a dripping passport, which had fallen from her back pocket when she tried to sit on the toilet. That made her laugh again.
The quotable Christie Blatchford: Snapshots from her decades-long career in journalism
Veteran journalist Christie Blatchford was known for her work ethic and wit
We arrived in Kabul and hit the ground running. Everyday she wept over the extreme poverty of the children, her face buried in her hands. She nearly gave away all our money meant for reporting to children on the street. When our local guide, or "fixer," suggested that she had to cover up and wear a burka, her response was, "Fuck off, I am not wearing that." In the end, she compromised by wearing a blanket over her shoulders, which she stopped using after just one day. Everyday we were confronted by hellish scenes – maimed children missing limbs, poverty and tragedy beyond what almost everyone reading this, including her critics, would be willing to witness in person or could even imagine.
Ms. Blatchford and Mr. Palu stand beside Moh Asef, an armed guard at the lodge where they stayed in Kabul in 2006.
It was then I experienced one of the defining moments of my life with her. We were in Kandahar when a suicide bombing took place. The only way we could cover it was to leave the safety of the military unit in which we were embedded and travel in the city on our own. It's very difficult to put in words what this experience was like.
There were body parts everywhere, and Christie whispered in my ear she had never seen anything like it. Having been there, I can tell you the things you see and smell last inside you for a lifetime. There are not very many people who remain focused on the scene, go back and file a story, wake up the next day and do it all over again. Or go to a hospital – with the smell of rotting and burned flesh from wounded children – then pack your backpack weighing nearly 100 pounds for a three-day patrol into an insurgent-held mountain range.
Which makes me wonder how Christie managed and processed all the tragedy she covered over her career. I guess we'll never know. I can say from experience that there are critics who push invented theories about covering war, and then there is the reality on the ground.
Christie was the reality on the ground. Some of it was ugly. She faced those realities better than anyone. It doesn't matter if you liked her reporting; you knew what was going on in the darkest places around the world because of journalists like her.
After she died, everyone called me, sharing stories about her love of the troops. Yes, she did really love soldiers. But when we planned all our reporting in the field, she made sure there was equal time set aside for covering Afghan civilians, because it was important to her to know why we were there. That was Christie. She wanted to show – and help readers understand – the world, in all its complicated beauty.
Our Afghan mission: A visual guide
Chaman-e-Hzari playing field, Kabul, March 10: Boys play soccer next to a stadium where the Taliban once held executions. Ms. Blatchford remarked on the soccer game, and others like it, in her first dispatch from Afghanistan.
There must have been a hundred different, impromptu football (soccer, we call it) games under way yesterday in the warm spring sun. ... In other words, a good number of the many ordinary pleasures the Taliban deemed sins – their number was legion – were being indulged a hair's breadth away from the place where people were stoned to death five years ago for doing the same things.
Kandahar Air Field, March 31: Soldiers stand outside their tents in the dark after scrambling out of bed in response to loud explosions, believed to be mortar or rocket attacks. It was the second such attack by militants that week.
Mir Bazaar school, Kandahar, March 27: Sisters Salda, 11, and Yalda, 13, talk with The Globe about their education at a private co-educational English school. Both told Ms. Blatchford they planned to be doctors, like their mother.
Southern Afghanistan, March 18: Private Chad Baitley and Corporal Lance Hopps of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (PPCLI) 1st Battalion patrol through rugged terrain on the first day of Operation Sola Kowel, or 'peacemaker' in Pashto.
Those formidable hills have an endearing playful aspect to them. It's as though, centuries ago, a call went out for all the rocks, stones and pebbles of the planet to gather in this part of Afghanistan, and here they continue to strike poses and giggle at the sight of the awkward humans who come to best them.
Kandahar Air Field, March 13: Michel Desilets cuts Corporal Shawn Crowder's hair in a shipping container converted into a barbershop. A native of Shawinigan, Que., Mr. Desilets was on his second rotation as a civilian barber with the Afghan mission. 'I appreciate my life," he told Ms. Blatchford, 'but this is one of the best gifts I've ever had.'
Highway 1, Helmand province, April 2: Mr. Palu relaxes on the road surrounded by members of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry C Company. There were minefields on each side of the road.
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Christie Blatchford was a complex force in the world of sports writing


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When and how will footy, netball return?
posted by Sentinel-Times June 4, 2021 Sport
Leagues and clubs within Gippsland are still unsure how their respective seasons will look when play returns.
FOOTY and netball has been called off in Gippsland for the second week in a row, leaving clubs and leagues scrambling to get their seasons back on track.
But AFL Gippsland has assured they will be doing everything to make sure the seasons return as best as possible for everyone.
The option to play under 18s and 16s was available this weekend, but the logistical headaches around draws and the lack of time to prepare saw all leagues choose to wait another week before returning.
Currently AFL Gippsland's return to play plan is at the mercy of the Victorian government, but discussions are being held about what that return may look like.
The Sentinel-Times spoke to AFL Gippsland regional manager Nic Fogarty about what the future holds for our local leagues.
* West Gippsland FNC
THE West Gippsland Football Netball Competition sits in an extremely difficult situation compared to most other leagues in Gippsland.
Dalyston, Inverloch-Kongwak, Kilcunda Bass, Korumburra Bena, Phillip Island and the Warragul Industrials are all classed as regional Victoria.
But Bunyip, Cora Lynn, Garfield, Koo Wee Rup, Nar Nar Goon and Tooradin Dalmore are all in the greater Melbourne area.
As it stands, the six regional clubs can only train, but they are hoping by next week, round 10, they'll be able to return playing matches.
But if greater Melbourne follows a similar return to play timeline as regional Victoria, those six clubs may only be able to train come next Saturday.
Which means the league would miss a third round in a row.
It would also mean that even if regional clubs were allowed to play, they would be without their Melbourne players.
Melbournians make up a significant amount of many West Gippsland regional clubs' senior lists, so they would likely not want to return to play until those players are available.
AFL Gippsland regional manager Nic Fogarty said the league hadn't received any clarity from the state government on whether senior football could commence next week.
"We can't even assume that anyone will be playing on Queen's Birthday Weekend (round 10)," Fogarty said.
"We're hopeful but we can't assume anything."
"If metro comes out of lockdown, they may not be approved to play senior football so there could be a further delay."
But AFL Gippsland said they would consider anything when it came to re-fixturing the West Gippsland competition.
"There's nothing off the table; we'll look at all options."
Luckily for West Gippsland, the league has a bye weekend scheduled for July 3 and AFL Gippsland said that could be utilised to make up for a lost round.
They also said there was a possibility the finals were pushed back one week, to allow another round to slot in at the end of the home and away season.
Making sure clubs have equitable opportunities in terms of opponents is a concern, but AFL Gippsland is also trying to make sure all clubs get equal revenue opportunities.
"We need to make sure that all clubs are given an equal number of opportunities to raise revenue by having home games," Fogarty said.
"In the first few rounds there were a couple of clubs that couldn't have home games because of renovations at their ground, so we don't want to penalise them either."
"There's a lot to consider."
But at the moment they're predominantly looking at return to play precautions, so as soon as they get a concrete date on the return of matches, they can start to focus on the rest of the season.
* Gippsland League
UNLIKE the West Gippsland competition, all clubs in the Gippsland League are in regional Victoria, so they're hoping for the season to resume on Queen's Birthday weekend.
But, once again, if Melbourne follows a similar pathway out of lockdown it may mean some Gippsland Clubs would be without their Melbourne players.
According to AFL Gippsland, about 70 Gippsland League players reside in Greater Melbourne.
"That's something we've got to definitely consider and assume is going to be a reality," Fogarty said.
With rescheduling the season, the Gippsland League is also helped by the July 10 bye round that can be used to make up a round.
It was previously suggested that pushing the finals back a week to open up another round would be unachievable as it would mean the AFL grand final would fall on the same day.
However, AFL Gippsland has discussed the possibility of playing the Gippsland League grand finals on the public holiday (Friday) before the AFL grand final.
"That's not off the table, it's been discussed in office if that's something that clubs want to consider," Fogarty said.
They have also discussed the possibility of making it a night grand final.
"It's pretty nice weather that time of year so that could be a feature."
But the final decision will only come once all clubs have been consulted.
"I'm not sure how many clubs would want to be playing a grand final that weekend," Fogarty said.
"But again, we'll go through the consultative period where we'll ask clubs for feedback and consider anything that they put on the table before the final decision is made."
The Gippsland League also had the option to play Under 18s and Under 16s this weekend, but 7/10 clubs voted against it.
* Mid Gippsland FNL
MID Gippsland clubs are hoping they can return to play on Queen's Birthday weekend, but they also have a tough challenge when rescheduling the missed games.
There is no bye weekend in Mid Gippsland, instead each round features a bye for one club.
They could decide to abandon the rounds altogether or wait until later in the year to speak about stretching out the season.
* Ellinbank and District FNL
LIKE West Gippsland, some Ellinbank clubs are within the Greater Melbourne borders.
So, they will also have to wait and see how Melbourne eases out of restrictions before determining how its season will look.
They also do not have a bye round so there will be further logistical issues when it comes to fixing the fixture.
* Chance the seasons are abandoned?
SOME Gippslanders have been concerned there is a possibility the seasons may be called off altogether, but AFL Gippsland is assuring that will not be the case.
"We're doing everything we can to promote participation and to get people playing footy again," Fogarty said.
"It's just a matter of when, that's the biggest question for us at the moment."


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Q: MYSQL from the 20th row to the last row Is there a way to say from the 20th row to the last row? Instead of saying 9999999999, I would like to replace it with something like the last row. Is that possible?
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